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A Christian school in Texas is facing a lawsuit for firing a teacher who became pregnant out of wedlock.
Heritage Christian Academy in Rockwall, Texas, requires teachers and other employees to agree to a biblically based code of conduct upon hiring. School leaders say former teacher Cathy Samford violated that code.
"We all have different views and interpretations," Samford said. "It's not necessarily the Christian thing to do to throw somebody aside because of those."
School officials said, however, she could not remain as a teacher because her behavior sets a bad example for students.
Samford's attorney, Colin Walsh, said the case comes down to laws about pregnancy.
"You can't discriminate against someone who's pregnant or has a pregnancy-related medical condition. That is both state and federal law," Walsh said.
Liberty Institute's Jeff Mateer, who is representing Heritage Christian Academy, said this case is really about religious liberty.
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For much of the past 20 years, architect and engineer Aziza Chaouni has been battling to restore the Fez River, which winds through the city's medina – Fez's historic medieval center and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Heavily contaminated and covered over with concrete to contain the smell, the Fez River had been all but forgotten in recent decades. Not anymore: Chaouni has succeeded in uncovering the river, by working with the city's water department since 2007, and she is now restoring and reconnecting the riverbanks with the rest of the city, while creating open, green public spaces, allowing the medina to breathe again. At TED2014, we asked her to tell the story of this extraordinary task.
How did you begin the task of uncovering the Fez River?
The whole story actually started as my thesis at Harvard. My thesis advisor told me to do something "that you feel passionate about and that could make a difference." For years, I'd seen the river in my hometown being desecrated, polluted and filled up with trash and rats. It had become an open sewer and a massive trash yard at the core of the city.
The Fez medina has about 250,000 inhabitants, and all their untreated sewage went straight into the narrow river that runs through it. The river was also heavily contaminated by nearby crafts workshops and tanneries — with chemicals such as chromium 3, which is lethal. People working in the tanneries were getting skin cancer, and some of them were dying. It was terrible. Obviously the river started to stink, so people started building walls to block the view. Then, because it became a health hazard, they covered it with concrete starting in 2002. And because it was covered, people began using that open space as trash yard.
Actually, the first covering began in 1952, when Morocco was still a French protectorate, but it was for political reasons — so that French colonial power could easily enter the medina and control the population. Then, as the population grew and Morocco became independent, covering happened because of the stench.
In your Fellows talk at TED2014, you showed how the water feeds into both public fountains and those in private courtyards. Do people actually use that water? Were they getting sick?
Of course they were, especially from the toxic chemicals dumped in the river by craftsmen. It became dangerous to drink from a running fountain. Besides, a series of droughts and excessive extraction from the water table left little water available for the medina water network. By the 1980s, most of the fountains had become defunct, yet they had been central to its urban fabric. Imagine if Rome had no more running fountains! Can you imagine La Seine or the Thames being suddenly covered? The Fez River is smaller in scale, but the effect is similar: a central part of the city was amputated. When I witnessed all this, I was in college at Columbia University in New York at the time. I would have been 19. I was outraged; I wrote an article in the newspaper and I received hate mail, because of course it made the city look bad. At the time, I was an aspiring engineer. But due to my age and lack of experience, I was not taken seriously.
Contaminated water will also have been entering your food supply, your groundwater. Of course! Yes! Yes and yes and repeatedly yes. It would pollute the water table, which feeds the most fertile agricultural basin of Morocco. But this didn't upset anyone. Environmental protection is almost seen as a luxury in developing countries: economic development, health and education are understandably bigger priorities. It's a different mentality in Morocco. I heard many times: "Look, we're eating the food and we're fine, hence nothing's wrong!"
Many people are eating food exported from Morocco.
I know. And of course it's not just Morocco — in so many emerging countries, you have high levels of environmental pollution, but you just don't know about it as there is not much control or accountability. But the point is that if you uncover such a large-scale environmental hazard, even as an architect, you feel outraged and want to do something about it. So I decided, for my thesis, to propose re-envisioning the medina if the river were to be cleaned and uncovered.
My thesis took a slightly different approach to what I'm doing now. You see, the medina of Fez used to boast one of the oldest universities in North Africa, the Quarawiyine, but after Morocco's independence in 1956, the government established an American style campus outside the city, which symbolized modernity. The university's move caused the entire cultural life of the city to fade away. In my thesis, I proposed building a university in the medina, with the various departments to occupy the urban voids along the river. These voids had been created when the river was covered: houses were destroyed to make way for the heavy machinery required. My vision was that, once uncovered, the river would serve as a pleasant green feature, and its banks would be used as a circulation system linking the departments. Classrooms would be located in nearby abandoned buildings. The university model was unusual and innovative: it would be one of a heterogeneous network of buildings embedded within the medina's urban fabric.
For me, bringing back the water and the university represented a double win. The university idea hasn't happened yet, but working on this thesis allowed me to start thinking about the potential of the river for the city and its inhabitants. Many ideas I developed back then became a solid departure point for the actual project, which I started in 2007 in collaboration with my then-partner Takako Tajima.
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Doha: Members of Hamad Medical Corporation's (HMC) nursing community gathered across its network of hospitals and clinics to celebrate GCC Nursing Day. Intended to promote the nursing profession as an honourable career and to pay tribute to nursing pioneer Rufaida Al Aslamiya, this is the fifth year HMC has been celebrating the occasion.
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Dr Badriya Al Lenjawi, Chair of the organising committee for the GCC Nursing Day events, who also leads the professional development of HMC's nursing workforce, expressed her gratitude towards the nurses who organised hospital-level celebrations. Stating that GCC Nursing Day provides HMC with an opportunity to inspire its nurses in the values of dedicated service, professionalism and appreciation of unseen acts of caring, Dr Al Lenjawi also spoke about the positive changes being implemented across HMC's Nursing Service through the Leadership for Change Program.
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Research InterestsExamining the effects of a physically active lifestyle on the prevention and management of chronic disease. Efforts are primarily directed toward promotion of skeletal health across the lifespan and prevention of childhood obesity. Settings include schools, family child care homes, and communities. Examples of current work include 1.) Examination of early childhood exercise training potential to positively enhance skeletal health; 2.) Development, dissemination, and evaluation of community-based fall and fracture prevention programs; 3.) Use of community-based participatory research strategies to support healthy eating and physical activity in rural areas; 4.) Promotion of physical activity and healthful eating in child care settings to improve children's health.
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Kathy Gunter, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Biological and Population Health Sciences in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. Dr. Gunter has a majority appointment in Health Extension, and is a member of the Exercise and Sport Science program faculty. She serves as Director of the Healthy Lifestyles and Obesity Prevention Research Core at the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. Her research focuses on developing, implementing and evaluating physical activity programs. She has directed these efforts toward individuals, families, childcare environments, schools, and more recently, rural populations.
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In the past couple of years, with the liberals in charge, there has been an all-out push to take lawful firearms from the public and to prevent further sales of the same. The reason most sited to ignore, reinvent or remove the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, is gun violence. Even though most of these events are inflicted upon the public by mentally unstable persons, mental health is politically incorrect to address because those persons cannot help themselves and everybody has to be treated as equals and left to run amok in society and not institutionalized for fear that it might hurt their feelings.
Now we are reading of numerous stabbing attacks. Recently, two girls stabbed a friend nine times to emulate and imitate fictionally online characters. A teen stabbed several roommates before going on a shooting spree, indicating that a blade was his first choice of weapons. A man went on a stabbing spree in California three weeks ago at a children's playground. The list goes on and on.
So my question is, "Where are all the soapbox celebrities to outlaw knives?" There are thousands upon thousands of knives to every firearm in this country, so where is the CAKE (Celebrities Against Knives Entity), the MAC (Moms Against Cutlery) and the KAFS (Knives Are For Steaks)? Fewer people are killed with firearms than bladed weapons because they are more accessible than firearms and don't have to be reloaded.
Also, knives can legally be banned. There is no amendment regarding a person's right to bare blades. I have read the Constitution several times and there is no mention of, or amendment pertaining to, knives or bladed weapons. The real opposition to such a tirade by the liberals would be the customers to cheap steakhouses and moms fixing supper. Have you ever tried peeling a potato with a spoon? It's not easy.


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One hundred and fifty turkeys were given out in the Parramore neighborhood on Monday morning.
The event took place at Sunlife Grocery from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer was at the event.
Also on Monday, new freezers were donated to the same store. The freezers were donated by the Orlando City Soccer Club.
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Presidential hopefuls are already being vetted for their stances on LGBT issues. And so are the corporations funding them. Companies that have pro-LGBT policies, including Target, have come under fire in the past for donating to anti-LGBT candidates.
This interview with Daniel Duty, now Vice President of Global Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility at Target, took place ofter one of the largest such firestorms. It originally ran on February 15, 2011. In 1992, Duty was appointed by Target's CEO as a cosponsor of the company's LGBT business council. Duty provides an insider's perspective on being gay at Target and how the company overcame public and media backlash for supporting a candidate that opposed gay rights.
dot429: What is it like to be gay at Target? What is the general attitude towards LGBT people?
Daniel Duty: It's funny that you ask that question. I couldn't imagine working anywhere else as a gay person. I've had a fantastic career here for the last 10 years. I started many, many pay grades below where I am today. Target has been nothing but supportive of me and my career. As an out gay man who has been advocating very intentionally both inside and outside the company for inclusiveness, the only things that I've gotten back from Target are praise, reward, and support. And you could hear that story from people across this company, because I talk to them all the time.
It's really a great place to work. You can be out, you can be open, and most people are. We have several top executives in the company who are openly gay. The fact that we are such a community-oriented company feels good, because Target is spending lots of money on GLBT issues and organizations. The company is supporting us every day, as employees, to go out in the community and be volunteers for gay organizations and causes. We have celebrations here in the headquarter buildings. In some ways, we don't think about it all that much, because it is so easy. You don't have to pretend to be anyone else—you are who you are, and that's widely accepted throughout this organization, from the top down.
dot429: Did the company turn to you during the public and media backlash against Target? Did the company seek the advice of the LGBT business council?
DD: Yes, actually, I think I got one of the first calls when that news broke. Really, the great thing about the business councils and how they are used here at Target is that the company does rely on them. They really respect their opinions on how to handle different issues. So, not only did it feel good, but it was natural for our top executives at Target to call the GLBT business council in that situation and say, "This happened, it wasn't our intent, but help us think this through—how do we handle this?"
dot429: What was your immediate advice?
DD: My immediate advice was to understand what had happened and what the facts were. A lot of what we talked about was to continue to do what we already do so well, which was showing the community that Target is not only a huge supporter of not only its GLBT team members, but also a huge supporter of our community and the issues that are important to us. We talked a lot about how to continue down that path and even enhance it where we thought there was opportunity.
dot429: What was the insider response from the LGBT employees at Target? Did you come together to work through this?
DD: We definitely came together to work through it. I think there was a lot of surprise, quite frankly, because we know internally what a great place Target is to work at. It was hard for us to fathom that all these people on the outside were saying that Target had done something terribly wrong, that it was not supportive of the GLBT community when, in fact, we knew very differently. So, the response internally, from both the GLBT team members and straight members in the company, was one of a little bit of surprise and "How can we make this right? How can we assure people that we are the company that we say we are and the company we've been living day-to-day?"
I would say there was a huge coming together of not only the business council team members, but also other executives throughout the company. They were saying to us, "How can we help? What can we do? This is not Target." I think we felt really good about the company response. And what Target did so well, and I think what made us feel so good, was that the first thing Target was concerned about was the team members. The first concern wasn't "How do we send a message to the outside world?" It was "How do we ensure our own people feel good about us and that we are going to live up to the inclusive environment that we always talk about?"
dot429: What are the biggest issues on the table right now for the LGBT business council at Target?
DD: We put together a strategic plan every year for issues we want to focus on. We divide that plan into two aspects: one is workplace issues and the other is marketplace issues.
The workplace piece of our plan is helping the company think about how to be one of the best places for GLBT team members to work. When you walk into Target there is a huge sign on the wall that talks about our inclusive culture—that is our core value here at Target. What we do, as a business council, is help advise the company on how to continue to drive that inclusive culture, especially with regard to GLBT team members. One of the issues we talk about is benefits. Target has pretty comprehensive domestic partnership benefits, but there are always new things that we are discovering and thinking about that we bring to the company's attention. We work with them to make sure we are really getting true inclusiveness for all of our GLBT team members.
The other piece is our marketplace plan, which helps the company understand the GLBT consumer. What is he/she looking for? What motivates him/her? What kind of marketing messages might be important to that community? We really act as an advisory board to the company on thinking about that GLBT consumer segment.
dot429: Do you have any suggestions for people trying to get an LGBT organization started within their company?
DD: The first step is you have to find each other. Get together and really talk about what it is that you want to achieve as an ERG or business council. How do you align your goals and objectives as an ERG with the company's strategies, goals, and objectives? What I have found very powerful, here at Target, is that where we have been able to align our goals with the company's goals, we got to make progress faster. Talk to the company about how your goals are the same as the company's.
The second piece that I think is important is that it's important to build allies throughout the company. We have many, many allies in this company, gay and straight, who are supportive of us. Using them to help spread our message and objectives has been very useful in making things happen. Having those allies, especially in the executive ranks, is important.
dot429: Do you think that the backlash against Target ignited the company to do more for the LGBT community?
DD: I don't know if it sparked us to do more because we were already doing so much. We would have pushed the organization to enhance what they were doing no matter what happened. I feel that the difference between today and yesterday is that we are starting to talk about what we are doing more publicly so that people understand all the great things we've always been doing.
At the end of the day, Target has always been highly invested in the GLBT community.
Originally published on February 15, 2011.


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> I have an AIX queue setup that points to an w2k print server. The
> queue there is setup as PCL and point to a Xerox Workcentre Pro 265.
> When jobs are submitted from Win, they can orient as portrait or
> landscape. When I submit from AIX, I always get portrait. How can I
> control the orientation when submitting the job from AIX?
> This is AIX 5.1. The qconfig entry looks like this.
> cptest2:
> device = @acnprint1
> up = TRUE
> host = acnprint1
> s_statfilter = /usr/lib/lpd/bsdshort
> l_statfilter = /usr/lib/lpd/bsdlong
> rq = ANWP-X265-L2IS
> @acnprint1:
> backend = /usr/lib/lpd/rembak
the entry looks like you have set up your AIX queue as a remote print
queue without "local filtering". If doing so to my knowledge you got no
control on any print option.
You need to set up a print queue using local filtering (with AIX
"printer driver" and "piobe" backend). This will result in having a full
customizable AIX virtual printer (lsvirprt -qcptest2 -d@acnprint1)
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Puma Knives are synonymous with quality and structural integrity. The German Puma knives are still made in house at their shop in Solingen, Germany.
The Puma company has a long history. Puma-werk, Lauterjung & Sohn, has maintained family ownership for nearly 200 years. Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung had his first trademark entered into Solingen Maser Cutlers Guild as long ago as 1769. This is before the French Revolution and the invention of the steam engine.
In the earliest years the shop was located on the banks of the Wupper River where many of the early grinding mills settled. The use of water as a power source was the main reason to locate their. The grinding at that time was done on large natural stones.
The job was not easy or safe. These stones had a nasty habit of shattering without warning and many cutlers lost their life or were disabled by them. They also produced a powder that was inhaled and after many years led to a type of black Lung disease.
The invention of the steam engine changed the face of the cutlery industry. Although the steam engine was invented in the early 18th Century many of the Cottons (small workshop "cottages") still existed until the turn of the century or later. Nathanael Lauterjungen, great grandson of the founder, moved the company to Solingen during this time. The advent of the "modern" steam engine allowed the power source to be portable and the cutlers no longer depended on the Wupper River.
The small company made a variety of goods including razors, scissors, pocket knives, stilettos, hunting knives and sabers. After WWI Eugene and Franze Lauterjunge dedicated themselves to the business side of the company and decided to emphasize export as a mainstay of Puma.
After WWII the company would make another major change. Until the 1940s Puma still made a lot of scissors and razors and other metal wares. But in the late 1940s Olswald Von Frankenberg Und Ludwigsdorf reorganized the company. An avid hunter and Sportsman Olswald Von Frankenberg Und Ludwigsdorf changed the production over to the production of hunting, fishing and outdoors knives. This moved proved to define the company that the world now knows simply as Puma. The full name is Puma-werk, Laughterjunger & Sohn.
Puma knives are still primarily made by hand in Solingen, Germany much as they have been for 200 years. Although the power source has developed from water to steam to electricity, the basic method of production is still a human being and a grinding wheel.
Puma has two ranges of knives that they produce now. The Puma brand knives are still made in Solingen, Germany. The Puma IP line is made in Spain and Asia under the strict control of Puma Germany.
The following is from a pamphlet produced by Puma in 1967:
PUMA-WERK, Lauterjung & Sohn, currently employing about 100 highly qualified staff members, has remained in family ownership since its foundation over 200 years ago. Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung had his first trade mark entered into the renouwned Solingen Maser Cutlers Guild register as long as 1769, before the French Revolution and the invention of the steam engine.
Using this trade mark a long fruitful period of hardworking craftmanship followed for the founder working together with his son, Johann Wilhelm Lauterjung (1755-1820), and the grandson Nathanael Lauterjung (1784-1839), in a cottage alongside the Wupper river. Solingen's craftsmen had very early learned to harness the water power of the Wupper to drive their grinding stones.
In the Lauterjung workshop the first famous knives were, at that time, ground on heavy natural stones. At the beginning of the nineteenth century thre were still 93 grinding cottages and six drophammer forging shops in operation, for cutlery products, along the Wupper and its seven tributary streams. The invention of the steam engine also led to structural changes within the cutlery industry.
More and more firms moved into the centre of the, then still small, town of Solingen. Thus Nathanael Lauterjung (1815-1865), a great-grandson of the founder, also moved his company to Solingen. This workship rapidly expanded so that Ernest Otto Lauterjung (1855-1931) was able to set up the company's first small factory.
At that time special care was taken to manufacture various items of cutlery of particularly high quality. The programme included razors, but also "cold arms", such as stillettos, hunting knives and sabres. Valuable handpainted catalogues still convey an impression of this varied range of cutlery.
The next generation, Eugen Lauterjung (1883-1969) and Franz Lauterjung (1888-1976), entered the company after the First World War. They were the first members of the family to be "just" businessmen.
Under their influence, the sales emphasis turned increasingly to export, making considerable increases in production necessary. The two directors adopted various measures in order to cope effectively with this demand. A large building was erected which still serves as the main factory building even today.
From then on the PUMA-WERK in Solingen had two places of production. Both were equipped with efficient machines to provide the necessary assistance for those processes carried out by hand in order to cioe with the increasing production of fine cutlery.
Apart from that, the company abandoned the, then still, common practice of home labour in the cottages of the surrounding district and changed the whole production to craftsmen within their own factory.
This move was a sensation at the time in Solingen. The transition to a more progressive method of working immedieately showed in an improvement in quality. Iat was now possible to control all stages of production directly within the factory.
After the Second World War a fundamental change took place in the PUMA-WERK. With the entry of Oswald von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf into the company, the production programme was reorganized completely. As an experience hunter, well-aquainted with the special needs of hunting all over the world, Oswald von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf systematically switched over production to specialize in the manugacture of knives for hunting, fishing and sport outdoors.
Production of razors and haircutting scissors was reduced. In close cooperation with Walter Frevert, a well known senior forest ranger (among other things he was in charge of the state-owned forest range of Roninten and was for many years president of the International Bloodhoung Association), Patented hunting knives were produced which, without exception, are adapted to the customs in specific hunting areas in the world.
On the basis of a carefully planned range of products, and by still continuing to employ tradition production methods, it soonb prove possible for the PUMA-WERK Lauterjung & Sohn company to make a break through in the international market. Today the company occupies a deading position in the hunting, fishing and sporting knives sector.
In 1967 Mrs. Renate Von Frankenberg took over the company as a general partner from her father Franz Lauterjung. This means that the PUMA-WERK is now in the sixth generation of family ownership, with the Lauterjung family also directly responsible for the company's running right from its inception.
The company has also in the meantime expanded for the fifth time with a further new building. Production conditions have been so arranged that the highly skilled workers have modern and friendly working facilities at their disposal. However, PUMA still takes great care to cultivate tradition.
High quality cuttlery goods are produced in the factory in exactly the same way as 200 years ago, with moder technology to assist the skills of craftmanship. It is thsu little wonder that the knives from the PUMA company are undisputedly considered as being among the leading products of their kind in the world, both with regard to their craftsmanship and finish, and also their uselfulness.
Whether this is with regard to the wide range of hunting knives, or knives for use on expedition, for mountain climbing or for camping, or just special nives for sport fishing, sailing and diving, each individual knive is characterized by its superb quality.
First class handwork and well-selected material have formed the image of the PUMA trademark all over the world, as the following small selection from the range of knives show.
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Hunting nives from PUMA-WERK have long since become a hallmark for quality for the hunter and the forester as an indispensable requisite for daily use.
It has been shown that these knives have been developed on the basis of practical experience and that, apart from high quality, they also quarantee advantages with regard to their application techniques and their longevity.
In view of their robust construction and their manifold field of application, PUMA hunting knives are also extremely popular among nature lovers, gardeners, farmers, mountain climbers, etc. Even the "man in the street" appreciates these special knife models, not least on account of the high prestige attached to a knife with the PUMA emblem.
There are essentially three types of knives which come into consideration for practical hunting purposes: The folding hunting knife, then the fixed-blade group of hunting knives, and finally the cold weapons and matchetes.
A well-tested model is, for instance, the "Original PUMA Waidblatt", developed in cooperation with Senior Forest Ranger Frevert. The broad, heavy-duty blade with its weight well towards the point is the most important feature for a heavy hunting knife, which is also suitable for dressing and gutting game.
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"There's a lot more romance with my character and even with Nick's character," Joe Jonas told PEOPLE about the highly anticipated film airing next summer. "The romance, the singing and dancing – everything is bigger and better."
In the sequel, the film follows Mitchie (played by Lovato) and Shane (played by Joe Jonas) as they return to Camp Rock for another summer of music and fun. Their love blossoms as they battle against a new state-of-the-art music camp called Camp Star that has opened across the lake.
"The romance between Shane and Mitchie is still there and it continues to grow," Jonas says. "They want to spend more time together but [finding time is a bit] difficult for them to do, because she is trying to help out the camp as much as she can."
Revisiting her breakout role was "exciting," says Lovato, 17, and starring with the Jonas Brothers again was a job that guaranteed a good time. "They are so easy to work with and we just hangout and have fun," Lovato tells PEOPLE. "They are like my brothers and they are my best friends. They always make me laugh."
A Family Affair
This time around Kevin Jonas and brother Nick Jonas will have their own storylines (including a love interest for Nick!) along with the youngest Jonas brother, Frankie, who joins the onscreen action.
"It's fun," said Nick about his character falling for the daughter of the owner of the rival camp, played by Chloe Bridges. "It's good when you feel comfortable with the person and we're friends."
And any nerves about kissing? "No, we hadn't had to do that but it's been good."
With all the onscreen relationships, Kevin is the odd man out as a camp counselor with no love interest. But the newlywed told PEOPLE that's fine with him: "I've got my own love interest in my real life so I'm good!"
For a full sneak peek of the film, tune into Disney Channel's New Year Star Showdown on Dec. 31.
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Ambassador Argüello says Argentina will not pay the price of the 'North's financial irrationality'
Argentina's Ambassador to the United States, Jorge Argüello, assured on Monday that "Argentina will not pay the price for the financial irrationality of the North, and under no circumstances will tolerate the vulture funds' blackmailing."
The diplomat also stated that "Argentina has been following the rules of the international financial system. We've been paying with no delays to all our creditors of the 2001 defaulted debt."
"We will not tolerate the blackmails of NML Capital "vulture" fund, which rejected a debt restructure twice" underlined the ambassador.
The harsh words of the Argentine diplomat came in response to an editorial comment published by The Chicago Tribune in which the government of Cristina Fernández is accused of conducting "populist economic policies" that see "a country of such great economic promise swerving off the road to prosperity again."
Straight to the point the US newspaper bashed Cristina Fernández: "She restricted international trade, violated contracts and pumped out phoney data to disguise the soaring inflation her policies brought about. All the while she scored cheap political points by blasting the rich countries of the north for their supposed economic imperialism".
The controversy takes place when Argentina goes to an appeals court in New York to challenge the ruling of US Judge Thomas Griesa, who last week issued a decision that raised the spectre of a technical default.
A decade after committing the biggest sovereign default in history, Argentina faces another crisis after a US court ordered it to pay 1.3 billion dollars by December 15 to holders of defaulted bonds.
Last Wednesday Judge Griesa ordered Argentina to pay the holdouts. Rather than trying to chip away at the edges of Griesa's order, Argentina's lawyers plan to challenge this Monday the whole opinion in the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
About 93 percent of Argentine bondholders agreed in 2005 and 2010 to swap defaulted debt from the 2002 default for new paper at a steep discount. So-called "holdout" creditors who rejected the swaps continue to battle in the courts for full repayment.
The argument to be put forth by Argentina "is simple and compelling," said an article published in Página/12, a local daily newspaper with close ties to the Kirchner government.
"If the court accepts Griesa's view, no country will be able to successfully restructure debt, as Argentina did, with a significant reduction in interest and an extension of payment schedules," the story said.
"None of the owners of defaulted bonds would enter the exchange pending a court ruling that allows recovery of the whole of their claims," it said.
Griesa's decision on November 21 cited an appeals court ruling that said Argentina had discriminated against the holdouts. Now the Second Circuit Court of Appeals will decide if Griesa's order should be carried out, considering the ramifications to the financial system.
At stake for all exchange bondholders is a potential technical default on approximately 24 billion dollars worth of debt issued in the 2005 and 2010 exchanges. Principal and interest payments due to those bondholders next month total more than 3 billion.


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The Philadelphia murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell ended its second week Thursday with a city medical examiner defending his decision to change the cause on the death certificate of a Gosnell patient from accidental to homicide.
Gosnell defense attorney Jack McMahon questioned Assistant Medical Examiner Gary Collins at length about his decision to change the death certificate of Karnamaya Mongar, 41, of Virginia, who died Nov. 19, 2009, while undergoing an abortion at Gosnell's West Philadelphia clinic.
Collins testified that toxicology tests from Mongar's autopsy showed she died of an overdose of Demerol, the sedative Gosnell regularly used during abortions.


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A grant from the Japanese government expected to provide an award up to $3,746,618
(JPY 292,180,000) for the next 4 to 5 years will benefit St. Edward's University students who have their sights set on doing business in Japan and learning more about Southeast Asian religion, society and culture.
St. Edward's in cooperation with its international grant partner - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University - has created educational programs that will allow Asian and American students to develop intercultural understanding by studying and traveling together while in pursuit of an undergraduate degree.
"The programs made possible through this grant will provide Asian and American students with an immersive educational experience that promotes critical thinking, cultural understanding and social consciousness," said George E. Martin, President of St. Edward's University. "Students will be challenged to navigate different and demanding environments, but will be supported by experienced faculty who will help them grow intellectually and personally. We are grateful to our grant partner – Asia Pacific University, and also to the Catholic University of Korea – for working with us to create this global educational experience."
This is the latest in a series of international programs and partnerships called for in the St. Edward's
5-year strategic plan.
This custom-designed, collaborative program includes four components:
These types of international, educational experiences are critical for today's students as they prepare to compete for jobs in which employers look for candidates who have an understanding of the global context in which business is done. The Association of American Colleges and Universities states that among things employers look for in new college graduates, a global perspective, the ability to work well in teams, and a strong sense of ethics and integrity, are key factors to long-term professional success.
The grant, provided through Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology (MEXT) was awarded to only 7 out of 49 programs who applied. Programs and partner universities were selected based on their ability to expand international education and develop joint programs with collaborative instruction methods using both American and Asian faculty members.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The coldest, most dangerous blast of polar air in decades gripped the Midwest and pushed toward the East and South yesterday, closing schools and day care centers, grounding flights and forcing people to pull their hoods and scarves tight to protect exposed skin from nearly instant frostbite.
Many across the nation's midsection went into virtual hibernation, while others dared to venture out in temperatures that plunged well below zero.
"I'm going to try to make it two blocks without turning into crying man," said Brooks Grace, who was bundling up to do some banking and shopping in downtown Minneapolis, where temperatures reached 23 below, with wind chills of minus 48. "It's not cold — it's painful."
The mercury also dropped into negative territory in Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago, which set a record for the date at minus 16. Wind chills across the region were 40 below and colder. Records also fell in Oklahoma, Texas and Indiana.
Forecasters said some 187 million people in all could feel the effects of the "polar vortex" by the time it spread across the country last night and today.
Record lows were possible in the East and South, with highs in the single digits expected in Georgia and Alabama. Subzero wind chills were forecast up and down the coast, including minus 10 in Atlanta and minus 12 in Baltimore.
From the Dakotas to Maryland, schools and day care centers shut down.
Several deaths were blamed on the snow, ice and cold, including the death of a 1-year-old boy who was in a car that went out of control and collided with a snowplow in Missouri.
It took authorities using 10-ton military vehicles known as "wreckers" until early yesterday to clear all the chain-reaction accidents caused when several semis jackknifed along snowy interestates in southern Illinois. The crash stranded about 375 vehicles, but there were no fatalities or injuries, largely because motorists either stayed with their cars or were rescued and taken to nearby warming centers if they were low on gas or didn't have enough coats or blankets. Others got stuck in the snowdrifts, including the Southern Illinois men's basketball team, which had to spend the night in a church.
In the eastern United States, temperatures in the 40s and 50s yesterday helped melt piles of snow from a storm last week, raising the risk that roads would freeze over as the cold air moved in, said Bob Oravec from the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md. The snap was set to be dramatic; Springfield, Mass., enjoyed 56 degrees yesterday morning but faced an overnight low of 6.
More than 3,700 flights were canceled by late yesterday afternoon, following a weekend of travel disruption across the U.S. Airline officials said de-icing fluid was freezing, fuel was pumping sluggishly, and ramp workers were having difficulty loading and unloading luggage. JetBlue Airways stopped all scheduled flights to and from New York and Boston.


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mike wrote:
> I'm trying to put a CtreeView in a splitter window (MFC).
> According to a book I have I do this, in the MainFrm class OnCreateClient() ...
> if(!m_SplitWin.CreateStatic(this,1,2) || // n rows m cols of splitter panes
> !m_SplitWin.CreateView(0,0,RUNTIME_CLASS(CTreeView ), // tree part
> CSize(512,0), pContext) ||
> !m_SplitWin.CreateView(0,1,RUNTIME_CLASS(CRichEdit View), // text part
> CSize(0,0),pContext))
> return FALSE;
> This works in that I get a split window ok, but I don't know how to
> access the CTreeView object (which doesn't yet exist does it?).
Yes, it does exist after CreateView returns.
It is a child window of the splitter. To access it from the mainframe
you could do this...
CTreeView* pTree = (CTreeView*)m_SplitWin.GetPane(0,0);
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Utilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach, in conjunction with the American Water Works Association, welcomes "Drinking Water Week 2011," an annual celebration of our most precious natural resource.
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Mass of Christian Burial for Yolanda Gerbec Dacar, age 95, of Fairview, Alabama, a former long time resident of New Smyrna Beach, who died Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Hanceville Nursing Home in Alabama, will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday, June 10 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, New Smyrna Beach, with burial following in Edgewater-New Smyrna Cemetery. Calling hours will be 5:00-7:00 p.m. Wednesday at Settle-Wilder's New Smyrna Beach Chapel.


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Police: Man drank 4 to 5 beers before home invasion
Officers use stun gun twice on suspect, police say
UPDATED 4:32 PM EST Mar 01, 2013
West York police have charged a man who they said forced his way into a woman's home.
David Anuszewski forced his way into the home through a rear door on West Poplar Street, police said. The victim ran out the front door.
Police said when they arrived, they ordered Anuszewski to get on the ground.
He told police to go ahead and shoot him.
Police said they used a stun gun on Anuszewski twice but he continued to resist officers.
Investigators said he later told them he had just snorted heroin and drank four to five beers.
The house Anuszewski broke into was not the one he intended to enter, police said.
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Farewell Address by Secretary of State Warren Christopher
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Boston, Massachusetts January 15, 1997
A central part of our global strategy has been to ensure that weapons
of mass destruction do not threaten the American people. That is why
we worked so hard to extend indefinitely the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty and to secure the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. It is why we
have a program in place to keep nuclear weapons in the former Soviet
Union from falling in the hands of terrorists or rogue states. It is
why we acted to freeze and eventually eliminate the North Korean
nuclear program. It is why we have been determined to shut down Iraq's
biological weapons program and it is why, over the next several
months, the President will press hard for ratification of the Chemical
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Saturday's Erie region forecast: Rain, snow possible
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Temperatures could reach a high near 35 and a low around 25.
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ICAO Journal Reviews Environmental Progress Made at 37th Assembly
10 January 2011: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has released its latest journal issue, focusing on the outcomes of ICAO's 37th Assembly.
The journal opens with a statement from ICAO Council President Roberto Kobeh González on progress made at the Assembly on carbon dioxide emissions goals and standards, market-based measures, financial assistance and efficiency targets in difficult times for regulators globally. The journal continues with a piece outlining major decisions taken at the 37th session of the ICAO Assembly, followed by a summary of a pre-Assembly event titled "What Route to $ustainability?" which discussed the future economic and environmental sustainability of the aviation industry. [The Journal]


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We believe we offer one of the finest instructor training programs available in not only in North Queensland but Australia. Our IDC provides a professional learning experience in which you will learn how to teach diving using the most successful program in existence. Not only will you learn how to teach in the classroom, pool and open water environments, you will also learn how to effectively use all PADI's teaching aids, support materials and the most modern technology to deliver your presentation in a way far superior to those taught elsewhere.
As Townsville's only PADI 5 Star Instructor Development or Program is "Candidate Centred".
Our IDC is intense, fun, demanding and exciting all at the same time, ending in rewarding results and extreme confidence leading in to your Instructor Examination.
The IDC is two distinct programs combined into one rewarding course. The first 4 days are set towards becoming a PADI Assistant Instructor (AI). This is then followed by another 6 days of tuition working toward completing your Open Water Scuba Instruction (OWSI) program and preparing you for the PADI Instructor Exam (IE). Together the two courses combine to encompass the entire IDC and must be completed before attending the PADI IE. The major thrust of the course involves learning and polishing one's instructional technique. However, the extensive curriculum is extremely varied, consisting of lectures, workshops and candidate teaching presentations in the classroom, pool and open water.
The topics come under 3 main headings
1. Instructional Technique: Much of the program is spent developing a candidates teaching abilities in the classroom, pool and open water. This is a three step process that starts with staff presentations on how to teach, followed by staff teaching demonstrations and culminating in a number of candidate presentations. This experience not only polishes a candidate's teaching ability but also gives them the confidence needed to run a course.
2. The PADI System: A number of staff presentations focus on how to effectively use the PADI System of Diver Education. As a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, you are qualified to teach not only the Open Water Course, but also a wide range of continuing education courses that include the Adventure Diver Program, the Rescue Diver Course and the Divemaster Course. These presentations will familiarise candidates with the structure, standards, conduct and scheduling of these courses.
3. Business of Diving: This component of the IDC establishes basic business philosophies that apply to teaching diving and acquaints candidates with the size, direction and trends currently facing the recreational dive industry. It also provides a starting point for candidates in how to deal with the legal aspects of dive instruction
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Each segment can be scheduled as a stand-alone course or completed all at one time. You have several training options and flexibility for reaching your professional goals depending on your current certification level, experience level, time restraints, etc. Options include:
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- You may attend the full IDC and, upon successful completion, go on to the IE (as long as all other IE prerequisites are met).
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- Because we are a PADI 5 Star Career Development Center you may attend the full IDC and provided you have been certified 6 months, have logged 60 dives and upon successful completion, go on to the IE (as long as all other IE prerequisites are met). You must also be certified as an Assistant Instructor. However your paperwork will not be processed until you meet the 100-logged dives and you will be certified once your graduation registration packets and IE forms have been processed.
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Our IDC Pre-Study and Preparation Workshop is optional but highly recommended for everyone. Preparation is the key to your success. Please see our separate document on How to prepare for the IDC.
The IDC curriculum emphasis is focused on development, not tests or stress. This makes learning easier, more relaxed and there for increases retention. Fully supported by all of our friendly staff our professional programs are easily some of the best you will find on this big blue planet.
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- Have been a certified diver for at least six months and have completed and logged at least 60 open water scuba dives (as documented in the individual's log book) and have documentation of experience in deep, night and navigation diving.
- Submit proof of CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months.
- Submit documentation of any qualifying certification for entry level, advanced, rescue and leadership-level issued by another recreational diver training organization. (PADI Members whohave these records on file at PADI do not need to resubmit.)
- If not a PADI Divemaster, successfully complete the PADI Divemaster course diver rescue skills assessment.
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When asked directly how her relationship with Brown, 19, is going during a recent visit to New York's Power 105.1's The Ed Lover Show, Rihanna, 20, replied: "We are great actually. We have been friends for three years now."
Not satisfied with the friendship remark, Lover further pressed Rihanna who is touring with Kanye West, on the topic. "Friends? But there are pictures of you kissy kiss," he said, which prompted Rihanna to respond: "We are very good friends."
Lover then asked the Barbados-born chanteuse about photos of the two songbirds canoodling in a pool in Jamaica earlier this year. Trying to deflect the questions, Rihanna was at a loss for words when she started "fiddling with the cord and blushing," said Lover's producer, Lady O, who described the singer's behavior while on air.
The pair, who recently spent time together in New York City, have made headlines with their intimate European and Caribbean outings. But Rihanna understands privacy is hard to come by.
"People always want to know what it is and what it isn't. People think they know. They try to guess," Rihanna said. "Sometimes you just need your privacy. But it comes with the territory. There's no privacy when you are out in the public."
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According to Steve Zipay at Newsday, Henrik Lundqvist is doubtful for tonight's game in Detriot, meaning Cam Talbot will make his second straight start
Backup Jason Missiaen traveled with the Rangers to Detroit.
…so when do we start panicking about Lundqvist? Missing Monday's home opener should just about do it for me.
…Talbot playing well against a struggling Flyers offense is one thing, but facing Zetterberg, Datsyuk and Alfredsson is a whole other animal.
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- No. 4
A Stepfather Admits to Child Molestation-and the Victim Spends a Week in a Cell
During the same week that ABC's breakthrough incest drama, Something About Amelia, attracted an estimated 60 million viewers, Amy's real-life trauma outraged the nation. The Kafkaesque legal fiasco—the system punishing the child it was designed to protect—raised questions about the law itself.
It was last summer when Amy, who had been unusually angry and withdrawn for a month, admitted to her mother that her stepfather had been sexually fondling her. From that day onward, recalls her mother, life in her family became "a nightmare." Confronted by the mother, the stepfather—a well-respected doctor in a community of 48,000 people 50 miles from San Francisco—confessed, moved out of the house and immediately sought help from a therapist. He was aware at the time that California, like all states, requires therapists to report all child-abuse cases to child welfare agencies. But he did not realize that California, under a 1980 "report" law also requires the agencies to turn over all such information to law enforcement authorities. A week after voluntarily signing a confession at the Vacaville, Calif. police station, he was charged with committing "a lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14," punishable by eight years in prison.
The stepfather went to a preliminary hearing on Dec. 30. Deputy District Attorney Kenneth Kobrin, 31, demanded that Amy testify as the key prosecution witness. She refused, and continued to do so on her five subsequent trips to court. "She was embarrassed," explains the girl's natural father (who punched the stepfather, bruising his face, outside the courthouse). "She just didn't want to talk about the bad things that had happened to her." According to another account, Amy, who had spent the six weeks before the trial in the custody of her maternal grandparents, was also hoping that by her silence she could restore a semblance of unity to her shattered family.
But neither D.A. Kobrin nor conservative Judge John DeRonde, 61, were impressed. "We had a doctor we knew had molested a child," explains Kobrin. "This physician was going to continue giving intimate examinations to young children in private. We had a confession, but the only independent evidence we had was the testimony. Under the circumstances, it [locking her up] was the only thing we could do."
At Prosecutor Kobrin's urging, Judge DeRonde charged Amy with civil contempt and remanded her to the juvenile hall, an institution housing 70 troubled 13-to 17-year-old children. After four days he barred the girl's mother from further visits there when a D.A. staff member told Kobrin that the mother was pressuring the child into refusing to testify. The mother told Amy that "a conviction would result in their losing the house and losing the furniture," says Kobrin. "They would have to move away. She also told her that when it was all over she would get a new brass bed and new wooden furniture." (Amy's mother admits promising her a new bed, but claims it was merely to cheer her up, not to dissuade her from testifying.) On Jan. 7, eight days after Amy was incarcerated, a California Superior Court judge ordered her released to a foster home. Two days later, faced with a firestorm of public criticism and the child's continued refusal, Judge DeRonde dismissed the case. Amy went home.
The debate over the tactics of Judge DeRonde and D.A. Kobrin, however, continues. Some argue that the prosecutor's determination to imprison a child-molesting doctor justified the brutal means employed. Most observers, however, including townspeople and child welfare officials, were horrified by what they perceived to be Amy's insensitive treatment at the hands of a prosecutor and a judge who had lost sight of their primary mission: protection of the child. "Amy felt more a victim of the courts than of the molestation itself," says her first attorney, Anthony Finkas. Experts such as Carole Shauffer, an attorney at San Francisco's Youth Law Center, believe the chief culprit is the inflexible 1980 statute, which brings the police into what are often, she feels, family problems better dealt with in therapy.
There are others who believe that child molesting is an escalating compulsion that cannot be dealt with by therapy alone. That view is shared by former State Senator Omer Rains, sponsor of the 1980 reporting bill. He contends that the law "has saved the physical and psychological lives of thousands of children" by taking responsibility out of the hands of well-meaning but naive professionals who otherwise would not report abuses. "We have here an overzealous district attorney and judge who didn't exercise the best judgment," he concedes. "But I think it would be absolutely tragic to repeal the law based on this one case."
Meanwhile, Amy and her family struggle to mend their lives. "This is a small town," says Amy's mother. "You just can't hide. When I go to a grocery store and see people standing around whispering, I wonder whether they're talking about me." Nevertheless, the family has resolved to stay on in the community. Amy's stepfather, who is continuing his therapy and has been barred from seeing his stepdaughter indefinitely, is "devastated" by the ordeal, according to his attorney. He is living in an apartment in the town. Despite support from some of his colleagues, his professional future may be in doubt, says one associate. He remains consumed by guilt, according to his wife of four years. "He feels so terrible about what has happened," she says. "Nobody can punish him more than he punishes himself." Despite his wife's anger and hurt, she says, the couple talks on the phone. "We say we love each other. We try to keep each other's spirits up." Amy herself is seeing a therapist but still has not returned to school. Emotionally, she "goes back and forth," says her mother. "She feels love, hate, anger and sorrow. She needs some time to sort things out."
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PGY-6 Fellowship in Rhinology & Endoscopic Sinus/Skull Base Surgery
The Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina has offered a one year fellowship in Rhinology & Sinus Surgery under the mentorship of Rodney J. Schlosser, M.D., since 2006. This fellowship is designed to offer comprehensive training in all aspects of medical and surgical treatment of primary and revision inflammatory sinusitis, anterior and central skull base neoplasms, orbital and optic nerve pathology, and otolaryngic allergy and prepare the fellow for practice as a tertiary rhinologist. Fellows have graduated responsibility, both in the OR and in clinic, with the opportunity for increasing independence throughout the year. This is a PGY6 position with commensurate salary and benefits.
Our former fellows have gone on to academic practices at Emory University, Washington University, Harvard University, Sydney Australia, and Cork Ireland. In addition we have had international research fellows who work in our Rhinology Lab and observe in the operating room and clinics. Our goal is to train individuals who will become future leaders around the world in rhinology.
Clinical Component
Surgical caseload (approximately 250 cases per year) currently includes approximately 25-30% sinonasal and skull base tumors, 10-15% non-inflammatory rhinology (CSF leaks/encephaloceles, HHT, orbital surgery, etc.), and 60% inflammatory sinus disease (90% revision/frontal cases). Depending upon the interests of the fellow, additional surgical experience is available in open skull base approaches, rhinoplasties, and oculoplastic procedures with fellowship-trained subspecialists in each of those areas. Fellows will spend approximately 2 days per week in the OR, 1 day per week in the clinic with Dr. Schlosser, and ½ day per week in their own clinic. Experience in otolaryngic allergy is also available and attendance at courses sponsored by the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy is supported.
Research Component
One day per week is reserved for research. Laboratory space and funding are provided for basic science research investigating the immunologic response of chronic sinusitis. Additional material is available for clinical research. Fellows are expected to write 2 manuscripts and give national/regional presentations of their research during the year.
Educational Component
The fellow is expected to attend Sinus Conference twice monthly and give 3-4 conferences per year. In addition, the fellow will serve as a faculty member for the Annual MUSC Sinus Course, a conference which draws physicians from across the country. An eleven station Sinus Laboratory is fully outfitted with video equipment, powered instrumentation, and image-guided system for self-paced dissection, research, and resident education.