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The Trouper è un film muto del 1922 diretto da Harry B. Harris.

Trama

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

Distribuzione
Il copyright del film, richiesto dalla Universal Film Manufacturing Co., fu registrato l'8 luglio 1922 con il numero LP18038.
Distribuito dalla Universal Film Manufacturing Company, il film uscì nelle sale degli Stati Uniti il 23 luglio 1922, presentato in prima a New York presumibilmente il 17 luglio.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film commedia drammatica

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Q: multiplicación de cantidades Estoy tratando de multiplicar cantidades en este caso importe es el precio que se multiplica si tiene cambios pero cantidad no se multiplica quiza sea problema de mi logica quisiera que me ayuden por favor.
Nbatida es el numero que multiplica a cantidad y a importe.
el importe es igual ala cantidad por el precio.
la cantidad es igual Nbatida(el que multiplica) por la cantidad.
con cantidad tengo el problema que no hace el cambio de los valores que mando a guardar pero si reconoce el cambio internamente ya que el importe si lleva los valores correctos.
function setNbatida(event, obj, idx){
    event.preventDefault();
    detalles[idx].Nbatida = parseInt(obj.value);
    recalcular(idx);
}
function recalcular(idx){
    console.log(detalles[idx].Nbatida);
    console.log((detalles[idx].Nbatida * detalles[idx].cantidad * detalles[idx].precio));
    console.log((detalles[idx].Nbatida * detalles[idx].cantidad));
    let cantidad = detalles[idx].cantidad * detalles[idx].Nbatida;
    let importe = cantidad * detalles[idx].precio;
    let cantidadReal  = cantidad;

    $('#importe'+idx).html(detalles[idx].moneda + ' ' + importe);
    $('#cantidad'+idx).html(cantidad);

    detalles[idx].importe = importe;

    detalles[idx].cantidadReal = cantidad;

    calcularTotales();
}

function calcularTotales(){
    let subtotal = 0;
    let total = 0;
    let subtotalFinal = 0;
    let totalFinal = 0;
    for(var i=0; i<detalles.length; i++){
        if(detalles[i].estado == 1){

            subtotal += detalles[i].importe;
        }
    }
    $('#subtotal').html(detalles[i].moneda + ' ' + subtotal);
    $('#subtotal_Batida').html(detalles[i].moneda + ' ' + subtotal);
    totalFinal = Math.round(subtotal);
    $('#total').html(detalles[i].moneda + ' ' + totalFinal);
    $('#total_Batida').html(detalles[i].moneda + ' ' + totalFinal);
}

estos datos están multiplicados por 20 el dato de subtotal tiene el resultado bien pero en el caso de la cantidad no ha cambiado el dato aun que si ha tomado ese valor para poder multiplicar subtotal

A: Debe parsear directamente cuando extraiga el objeto:
let cantidad = parseInt(detalles[idx].cantidad) * parseInt(detalles[idx].Nbatida);

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MUSIC MINISTRY WRITES A NEW SONG
IN LIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC, CHURCH CHOIRS WORLDWIDE HAVE HAD TO ADAPT. CHRIST CATHEDRAL IS NO EXCEPTION
By STAFF 9/2/2020
LAUREN MCCAUL, CHRIST CATHEDRAL'S MUSIC ADMINISTRATOR, LEADS FROM THE AMBO IN CHRIST CATHEDRAL. / PHOTO: COURTESY DIOCESE OF ORANGE
Church choirs everywhere have been told to stop singing. The COVID-19 virus is more easily spread, particularly among choir members, as a result of the deep inhaling and exhaling that occurs when singing. Today, only the cantor sings, with strict instructions not to prompt the congregation to join.
OC Catholic asked Lauren McCaul to share how Christ Cathedral has adjusted to the restrictions on its music program. McCaul has served as Christ Cathedral's music administrator for the past 4 years, and before that at St. Timothy's in Laguna Niguel for 12 years. Prior to that, she served at a number of different locations including Holy Family Cathedral, St. Boniface, Our Lady Queen of Angels, St. John the Baptist, Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano, Christ our Savior Cathedral, St. Edward's, Mater Dei High School & Holy Trinity.
HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC CHANGED THE MUSIC MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH ON A UNIVERSAL LEVEL, AS WELL AS A LOCAL LEVEL?
The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been the strangest period of time I have lived through. The only comparison I can make is when 9/11 happened. It was the same sort of feeling that something fundamental had changed and there was a lot of unknown, both of which are true in this case. With this pandemic, however, both the Church in general and specifically the music ministry have been greatly impacted. With churches having to close to public worship, and so much yet to be learned about the way the virus spreads, music ministry as we have come to know it – with choirs and ensembles filled with joyful singers – has been temporarily altered. Out of an abundance of caution, choirs and other groups have been put on hold. Our music ministries throughout the diocese are scaling back and keeping it simple, while we are still learning more about how the virus spreads.
SPECIFICALLY REGARDING CHRIST CATHEDRAL'S MUSIC MINISTRY, WHAT IMMEDIATE ACTION WAS TAKEN WHEN THE CHURCHES FIRST CLOSED?
Before COVID-19, I would have been hard-pressed to imagine anything that would have closed the doors of our churches. Anyone who works in music ministry knew immediately that we had to find a way to continue to feed the faithful. At Christ Cathedral we are so blessed to have had in place the equipment necessary to livestream Masses. We had already been livestreaming for over a year, so when the pandemic hit, we were, in that sense, well prepared. Like every other parish in the diocese, we had to evaluate our means of communication with parishioners. Suddenly, e-blasts and websites became so much more important in communicating up-to-the-minute changes with our people, and also enabling them to continue their generous support of our parishes through online donations. The first weeks that our churches were closing were right as we entered Holy Week. For obvious reasons, it was just devastating! Holy Week is the most important week of the liturgical year, and our choirs had been preparing for months! It was also our first Holy Week in the newly dedicated Christ Cathedral, and we were so looking forward to celebrating these beautiful liturgies. Every single day in the week leading up to Holy Week we were being updated with new rules and recommendations regarding the liturgies themselves, the number of singers we were allowed to have, how far apart everyone needed to be, who was going to be allowed in the Cathedral… our music team must have planned and re-planned our Holy Week 20 times in the span of 10 days. We scaled our music ministry back to a quartet of singers plus a cantor and organist. After Holy Week, we scaled back even further to one cantor and organist at each Mass. This was both because of the contagious nature of the virus as well as a financial decision, with our weekly collections down.
HAS THE ROLE OF THE CANTOR CHANGED?
My role as cantor is something that has been on the forefront of my mind ever since the pandemic began. As cantors we are called to "animate" the assembly, we lead our congregations in sung worship. When public Masses ceased and everything moved to livestream with churches that were empty, it was very surreal. Just as I know my fellow cantors throughout the world had done, I had to rethink my role. On one hand, the building was empty, silent… animating an assembly you cannot see is essentially impossible.  On the other hand, our livestream was now reaching thousands more than it ever had, and for those watching and participating from home, we were a lifeline. I switched my focus to leading them… and not just in song, but as a result of having no congregation present, I also became the voice of the people quite literally!
WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES MOVING FORWARD?
My hope is that we can work our way back to a bit more normalcy. We love our music program at Christ Cathedral and have brought together wonderful singers from not just the Cathedral parish, but from all over, with our Diocesan Adult and Children's Choirs. I hope that as we learn more about COVID-19 and eventually have a vaccine, we can begin to bring our singers back safely and return to the work of filling our liturgies with beautiful music. As we await those days, we will continue to serve those who are coming to Mass and those who are watching from home.

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The game had a very big importance for second-ranked Marlins as it allowed them to take a leadership position. Marlins defeated bottom-ranked E.C. Windbreakers in Kwazulu 65-51. Marlins have a solid four-game winning streak. As mentioned above they are at the top of the standings, which they share with W.C. Mountaineers. E.C. Windbreakers at the other side still closes the standings with five games lost. They share the position with N.C. Zebras.
Bottom-ranked E.C. Windbreakers (0-5) is still winless. But it was rather predictable considering how strong their opponent was. This time they could not use their home court advantage losing their fifth consecutive match to top-ranked Marlins (5-0) 64-50. Marlins have a solid four-game winning streak. They keep a position of league leader, which they share with W.C. Mountaineers. E.C. Windbreakers at the other side still closes the standings with five games lost. They share the position with N.C. Zebras.
Bottom-ranked N.C. Zebras (0-5) is still winless. But it was rather predictable considering how strong their opponent was. This time they lost on the road their fifth consecutive match to top-ranked Mountaineers (5-0) 68-49 on Friday evening. Mountaineers have a solid four-game winning streak. They keep a position of league leader, which they share with Kwazulu Marlins. Loser N.C. Zebras still closes the standings with five games lost. They share the position with E.C. Windbreakers.
Bottom-ranked N.C. Zebras (0-5) is still winless. But it was rather predictable considering how strong their opponent was. This time they could not use their home court advantage losing their fifth consecutive match to top-ranked Mountaineers (5-0) 93-77. Mountaineers have a solid four-game winning streak. They keep a position of league leader, which they share with Kwazulu Marlins. N.C. Zebras at the other side still closes the standings with five games lost.
Top-ranked Mountaineers blasted bottom-ranked N.C. Zebras (0-5) in Cape 84-61 on Saturday evening keeping the perfect record after 4 rounds. N.C. Zebras is still unable to win any game. Mountaineers have a solid four-game winning streak. They keep a position of league leader, which they share with Kwazulu Marlins. Loser N.C. Zebras still closes the standings with five games lost.
In the last game of round 4 winless E.C. Windbreakers lost to undefeated Kwazulu Marlins on the opponent's court 54-69.
Very expected game in Kwazulu where bottom-ranked E.C. Windbreakers (0-5) were defeated by top-ranked Marlins (5-0) 69-54 on Friday. Marlins have a solid four-game winning streak. They keep a position of league leader, which they share with W.C. Mountaineers. Loser E.C. Windbreakers still closes the standings with five games lost.


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UN Threatens ICP's Accreditation For Photo Op Periscope, Pro-Cameroon SG Adviser Diagne
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, October 20 – The UN delivered a threat to Inner City Press to "review" it accreditation on Friday afternoon at 5 pm. The UN official who signed the letter, when Inner City Press went to ask about the undefined violation of live-streaming Periscope video at a photo op by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, had already left, minutes after sending the threat. What to make of the letter's vague statement, "filming and recording on the 38th floor are limited to official photo opportunities, and recording conversations of others in the room is not permitted. It has been brought to our attention that you breached that rule recently"? It's not only vague as to when, but absurd: once a Periscope is authorized to start streaming, it is impossible to not record someone who speaks loudly at the photo op. This comes two days after Inner City Press asked Guterres about the UN inaction on threatened genocide in Cameroon, and the UN claimed Guterres hadn't heard the 15-second long question. Recently at a photo op, Guterres' adviser on Cameroon Khassim Diagne spoke loudly. Inner City Press later reported, based on sourcing, that Diagne who was previously the representative to Cameroon for UNHCR, the UN refugee agency Guterres ran, speaks in favor of Cameroon's government. Is this letter a response to the reporting? Is it retaliation? Is it intimidation to stop reporting on this threatened genocide? We can't ask the complainant, Maher Nasser: after the threat was delivered, he blocked Inner City Pres on Twitter, here.
It also comes after Alison Smale the head of the Department of Public Information which would "review" Inner City Press' accreditation has ignored three separate petitions from Inner City Press in the six weeks she has been in the job, urging her to remove restrictions on Inner City Press' reporting which hinder its coverage of the UN's performance in such crises as Yemen, Kenya, Myanmar, and the Central African Republic where Guterres travels next week, with Smale's DPI saying its coverage of the trip will be a test of its public relations ability. But the UN official who triggered the complaint is Maher Nasser, who filled in for Smale before she arrived.
UN's Letter Threatening to Review Inner City Press' Accreditation for Audio Report While Staking Out on Cam... by Matthew Russell Lee on Scribd
His complaint is that audio of what he said to Inner City Press as it staked out the elevators in the UN lobby openly recording, as it has for example with Cameroon's Ambassador Tommo Monthe, here, was similarly published.
A UN "Public Information" official is complaining about an article, and abusing his position to threaten to review Inner City Press' accreditation. The UN has previously been called out for targeting Inner City Press, and for having no rules or due process. But the UN is entirely UNaccountable, impunity on censorship as, bigger picture, on the cholera it brought to Haiti. And, it seems, Antonio Guterres has not reformed or reversed anything. This threat is from an official involved in the last round of retaliation who told Inner City Press on Twitter to be less "negative" about the UN - amid inaction on the mass killing in Cameroon - and who allowed pro-UN hecking of Inner City Press' questions about the cholera the UN brought to Haiti and the Ng Lap Seng /John Ashe UN bribery scandal which resulted in six guilty verdicts. We'll have more on this.
Past (and future?) UN Office: S-303, UN, NY 10017 USA
For now: Box 20047, Dag Hammarskjold Station NY NY 10017


3) Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Depreciate every so-called obstacle. Minimize them. Difficulties must be studied and efficiently dealt with to be eliminated, but they must be seen for only what they are. They must not be inflated by fear thoughts.


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Posted February 24, 2014 by admin & filed under Galva Auto Repair.
Read your owner's manual – Every manufacturer includes a schedule of recommended maintenance for the vehicle, so check your manual for the proper maintenance intervals for your vehicle. Even if it doesn't seem necessary, following this schedule can help to avoid bigger issues that stem from delaying these services. It is also a necessity for maintaining your manufacturer's warranty.
Check your oil and fluids – Most fluid or oil tanks have gauges or dipsticks to let you easily check the levels inside. If you are running low frequently, this could mean that your vehicle has a leak. Leaks mean that contaminants can get into your oil, which can cause bigger problems down the road if you keep topping off your fluids instead of getting the repair completed. It is best to leave changing your oil to the professionals, but you should make a habit to check the levels so you can stay ahead of any problems that stem from low levels. If your fluids are regularly low, bring it to your local auto repair shop immediately so they can check for and repair any leak!
Check your tires – Make sure your tires have enough tread. Visually check that the tread is wearing evenly and there are no bare patches. If there is too little tread, your tires are stripped and more prone to flats or leaks. Check the air pressure in your tires with an air pressure gauge (your user manual should indicate the ideal air pressure level for your tires). Have your tires rotated and balanced and get your alignment checked periodically. These steps will help your tires wear evenly, extend the life of your tires, increase your MPG, and ensure your car drives smoothly.
Check your battery – A battery tester is an easy, inexpensive option for checking the voltage level of your car battery to make sure it is charging properly. Visually inspect the battery for anything out of the ordinary, like leaks or residue, and clean any buildup from the contacts. Car batteries typically don't require a lot of maintenance, but having them checked periodically can help prevent small problems from turning into big ones.
Replace your wipers – If your view is getting streaky, this is an easy, inexpensive fix! Windshield wipers are simple to change and fresh ones make for a more pleasant driving experience. Plus, being able to see clearly will make you a safer driver! Make sure to buy the right wiper blade for your vehicle. Check your manual or bring your car to our shop to make sure you're getting the correct wipers.
Replace your air filters – Both your cabin air filter and engine air filter need to be replaced periodically. If these filters are dirty, make sure you bring your vehicle to our ASE-certified technicians to have them replaced. A clean engine filter will help your car run better, and a clean cabin air filter will ensure a comfortable atmosphere in your vehicle.
Visual Inspection – While you are checking the parts listed above, do a quick look over the rest of your vehicle. Have your spark plugs, belts, and other components inspected for unusual buildup, leaks, or worn down areas. If anything is out of the ordinary, don't ignore it! Schedule an appointment with your auto repair shop to address the issue right away.
Preventative maintenance is an easy way to show your car a little love and save money by avoiding the big issues. Let our experts work with you to develop a maintenance plan for your vehicle today! Don't hesitate to give us a call at (620) 654-3445.


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Happy 25th Birthday to the Internet
Last week the Internet turned a quarter of a century old. On March 12, 1989, a British computer scientist named Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed what he called an "information management" system that allowed already linked computers to share data. Before that, there was the APRANET, which stood for Advanced Research Project Agency Network. It originated in the 1960s out of the Department of Defense and was largely a Cold War initiative that allowed communication between educational and research facilities across the country. Like that system, Berners-Lee's information system was primarily text based. It wasn't until Web browsers emerged in the 1990s, allowing users to view graphics online, that adoption of the technology skyrocketed.
A precursor to the interwebs. Wurts Bros. (New York, N.Y.) National City Bank. Tube system, central exchange. ca. 1910. Museum of the City of New York. X2010.7.1.1070
The Pew Research Internet Project recently released data about the impact of the Internet on the daily lives of Americans. Some of the most striking facts:
87% of adults in the USA use the Internet, up from 14% in 1995.
90% of users believe the Internet is a positive force in their lives; 76% believe it is positive for society in general.
58% of American adults own a smartphone, up from 35% just three years ago.
The rise of the Internet has had a profound effect on cultural heritage institutions and how they approach providing access to their collections. Not long ago, visitors had to travel to a museum or an archive in order to get a glimpse of art, manuscripts, or artifacts. Now, those precious objects are just a URL away.
Wurts Bros. (New York, N.Y.). [Columns of Pennsylvania Station.] ca. 1940. Museum of the City of New York. X2010.7.1.16802
The Museum of the City of New York holds more than three quarters of a million objects in its collections: photographs, negatives, prints, maps, manuscripts, ephemera, costumes, furniture, paintings, drawings, and all kinds of other items relating to New York City, its history, and its inhabitants. In 2008 the City Museum received a grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to begin digitizing its collection of Wurts Bros. negatives. In the six years since then, we've made more and more of the Museum's collections accessible to users across the globe. We've been helped along the way by too many people and organizations to name, but some of the ones to whom we're grateful include Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Charina Endowment Fund, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, Orange Logic, Analogous, Michael Ulsaker, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. They've all provided funding and / or services that helped us get collections online.
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Broadway to the Battery, May 4, 1938. Museum of the City of New York. 40.140.16
The Museum began by digitizing the photography collections that were the most popular and in-demand: works by Berenice Abbott, the Byron Company, Samuel H. Gottscho, Jacob Riis, and the Wurts Bros. In December 2010 we launched on online Collections Portal with around 30,000 of these photographs. Since then, we built our own in-house state of the art digital lab where we're able to photograph a wide variety of object types. There are now more than 135,000 images online, including our Martin Wong Graffiti Collection, part of which is also on view at the Museum in the exhibition City as Canvas; paintings from our marine and portrait paintings collections; garments made by couturiers Charles Worth and Mainbocher; photographs taken by a teenaged Stanley Kubrick for LOOK Magazine; and much, much more. We have one of the most extensive collections anywhere of imagery of New York City's streets; many New Yorkers are able to see what the block where they live looked like in the past and use the magnifying glass tool to examine the minutest details, such as signs in shop windows. (If you find the building or the street where you live, let us know in the comment section!)
Edmund V. Gillon.
[Looking east on Broadway from Bedford Avenue and South 6th Street.] ca. 1975. Museum of the City of New York. 2013.3.1.262
To date, more than half a million visitors from nearly every country in the world (a shout out to our users from Malawi, Liberia, Greenland, and St. Vincent & Grenadines) have come to the Collections Portal, collectively viewing nearly 6 million pages.
Our digital team is currently made up of two catalogers, two photographers, and one IT manager. They take the pictures, create the metadata that allows users to find what they're looking for, and look after nearly 200 terabytes of digital image files. An entire department of archivists, curators, and collection specialists care for the objects before they ever even make it to the lab for photography. Neither this blog nor the Collections Portal would be possible without the fine work of all these people. And we wouldn't be able to bring all of it together on the Web without the Internet, so many happy returns of the day!
Copy stand and camera in the City Museum's onsite, state-of-the-art digital photograph studio. Photo by Mia Moffett.
This entry was posted on March 18, 2014 by Lacy Schutz in Digital Project, Photo Archive, Photography Collection, Portrait Archive, Uncategorized and tagged digital access, digital preservation, digitization, museums and the Web.
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package co.com.buga.buga.fragmentos;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.FilterQueryProvider;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;

import co.com.buga.buga.Componentes;
import co.com.buga.buga.R;
import co.com.buga.buga.datos.adaptadores.Contactos;
import co.com.buga.buga.datos.estructuras.Contacto;
import co.com.buga.buga.datos.estructuras.Publicacion;

/**
 * Created by Alexis on 2015-01-12.
 */
public class Comercio extends Fragment {
	/**
	 * The fragment argument representing the section number for this
	 * fragment.
	 */
	private static final String ARG_SECTION_NUMBER = "section_number";
	private NavigationDrawerCallbacks mCallbacks;
	private ActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle;
	private DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout;
	private ListView listado;
	private Contactos Contactos;
	private SimpleCursorAdapter dataAdapter;

	public Comercio () {
	}

	/**
	 * Returns a new instance of this fragment for the given section
	 * number.
	 */
	public static Comercio newInstance (int seleccion) {
		Comercio fragment = new Comercio ();
		Bundle args = new Bundle ();
		args.putInt (ARG_SECTION_NUMBER, seleccion);
		fragment.setArguments (args);
		return (fragment);
	}

	@Override
	public View onCreateView (LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		int layout = R.layout.fragment_comercio;
		View vista = inflater.inflate (layout, container, false);
		Context gtc = getActionBar ().getThemedContext ();
		/************************************************/
		Contactos = new Contactos (gtc);
		Contactos.open ();
		//Contactos.Demo_Erradicar ();
		//Contactos.Demo_Insercion ();
		Cursor cursor = Contactos.Consultar();
		// The desired columns to be bound
		String[] columnas = new String[]{Contacto.CAMPO_NOMBRE,Contacto.CAMPO_DIRECCION,Contacto.CAMPO_TELEFONO};
		int[] to = new int[]{R.id.tv_Nombre,R.id.tv_Direccion,R.id.tv_Telefonos};
		/**
		 * Crear el adaptador utilizando el Cursor así como la información del diseño
		 * relativelayout_publicacion.xml y asignar el adaptador a la vista del listado (listView)
		 */
		int rlp = R.layout.relativelayout_contacto;
		dataAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter (gtc, rlp, cursor, columnas, to, 0);
		ListView listView = (ListView) vista.findViewById (R.id.lvContactos);
		listView.setAdapter (dataAdapter);

		listView.setOnItemClickListener (new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener () {
			@Override
			public void onItemClick (AdapterView<?> listView, View view, int position, long id) {
				// Get the cursor, positioned to the corresponding row in the result set
				Cursor cursor = (Cursor) listView.getItemAtPosition (position);
				// Get the state's capital from this row in the database.
				String countryCode = cursor.getString (cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow ("publicacion"));
			}
		});

		EditText myFilter = (EditText) vista.findViewById (R.id.myFilter);
		myFilter.addTextChangedListener (new TextWatcher () {

			public void afterTextChanged (Editable s) {
			}

			public void beforeTextChanged (CharSequence s, int start,
			                               int count, int after) {
			}

			public void onTextChanged (CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
				dataAdapter.getFilter ().filter (s.toString ());
			}
		});

		dataAdapter.setFilterQueryProvider (new FilterQueryProvider () {
			public Cursor runQuery (CharSequence constraint) {
				return (Contactos.Filtro(constraint.toString ()));
			}
		});

		/***********************************************/

		return (vista);
	}

	@Override
	public void onAttach (Activity activity) {
		super.onAttach (activity);
		((Componentes) activity).onSectionAttached (
				                                           getArguments ().getInt (ARG_SECTION_NUMBER));
	}

	private ActionBar getActionBar () {
		return ((ActionBarActivity) getActivity ()).getSupportActionBar ();
	}

	private void selectItem (int position) {
		/**
		 mCurrentSelectedPosition = position;
		 if (listado != null) {
		 listado.setItemChecked (position, true);
		 }
		 if (mDrawerLayout != null) {
		 mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer (mFragmentContainerView);
		 }
		 if (mCallbacks != null) {
		 mCallbacks.onNavigationDrawerItemSelected (position);
		 }
		 **/
	}

	public static interface NavigationDrawerCallbacks {
		/**
		 * Called when an item in the navigation drawer is selected.
		 */
		void onNavigationDrawerItemSelected (int position);
	}

}

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Google Chrome is, as you hopefully know, a very popular browser for desktops, laptops, and Chromebooks alike, as well as for Android devices. And you may also know that Google released an app for Android, Chrome Remote Desktop, that allowed you to access your computer from your Android phone or tablet, and control it from there, no direct interface required.
Well, today, Google released an update to Chrome Remote Desktop, v36, and it adds something that many of the users of this useful app have been asking for since its release: immersive mode. Yes, if you have Kit Kat, Android version 4.4 or higher on your device, you can now use the whole screen of your device to control your computer. Once connected, all you need to do is tap the little icon with four arrows pointing out to each corner, and it expands, hiding the status bar, navigation bar (if your device has one), in both portrait and landscape mode, to be able to bring them back with the typical 'swipe down from the tope' along with a little white down arrow in the top right corner, that does the same, but no swiping required.
This update makes it so much more intuitive to use your smartphone or tablet to help a friend on their computer, give a presentation from across the room, show off to friends, or mess with roommates that think it's okay to use your computer. It also functions as a tool for parents that want to monitor their online browsing from out of the room or out of the house. Point being, the Chrome Remote Desktop app's latest update, beginning the roll-out to users today, is makes it even more pleasant to use, regardless of why you want to.
To set this genius tool up from scratch on your computer, open Google Chrome, type 'chrome://apps' into the URL bar, hit enter, click 'Web Store' in the bottom right corner, search the store for 'Chrome Remote Desktop', and you should find the first app, which should be from chrome.google.com (just to make sure it's the real deal), then click the + Free blue button. Add it, it should auto open the apps drawer, showing the Remote Desktop icon (the two blue screens with black borders with a Chrome icon in the front one), click on it, click 'continue' to authorize external access to your computer. Choose the Google account (if you have more than one logged in) you want to use, click the blue accept button. Click get started in the 'My Computers' section. Set up a name for your current computer, and (highly recommended) set up a PIN (6-digit minimum) to secure the connection when connecting the phone or tablet. Move to your phone or tablet, which has the Chrome Remote Desktop application installed. Connect to a Wi-Fi or data network, launch it, refresh (arrows in a circle in top right) list of available computers, (make sure to choose the right account from the drop-down menu in the top left) and tap the name of the computer you just set up. Enter the PIN (if you set one up) and tap continue (or check the box to not ask for the PIN again if you don't want to have to type in the PIN anymore. If you have Kit Kat on your device, then click the expand icon, and enjoy your remote browsing! Be sure to download the latest APK from here and install it, so no need to wait for Google, if you're that type of adventurous.


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'There are so many things to work on - but we won' - Mark Warburton reflects on Nottingham Forest's opening victory
The Reds claimed three points against Millwall at the City Ground, despite an up and down performance - but boss Warburton takes solace from the fact they won, even without being at their best
As the Nottingham Forest players gathered in the dressing room after the final whistle, Mark Warburton admits there was a slightly curious atmosphere.
The Reds had marked their return to Championship action with three precious points – but not with the kind of performance they are capable of.
To put it bluntly, Forest had ridden their luck harder than a Grand National winning jockey.
Had Millwall applied the finishing touch to any of their numerous chances – and had Jordan Smith not pulled off three big saves – the Lions would have returned to London with a deserved win.
But such is life in the Championship. If you have the quality to put away your chances, there is always the possibility of snatching victory.
WATCH Paul Taylor's verdict after Nottingham Forest beat Millwall 1-0
And, in Barrie McKay, Forest had a player who proved himself capable of conjuring up that moment of quality, as he drifted in from the left side, towards the edge of the box, before sending an unstoppable shot inside the post, for the game's only goal.
"There were so many things to work on after tonight. David Weir went into the dressing room after the game and kind of summed things up when he said to them 'Boys, I don't know where to start'," said a brutally honest Warburton as he assessed things in the technical area.
Forest manager Mark Warburton (Image: Dan Westwell)
"The boys are a very talented group of players they have shown that many times and they will do so again. This was the first game, it is out of the way now and I hope the fans will understand what I mean when I say that. Their backing was magnificent.
"But this is a football arena and we did not give them the kind of football we want to give them. This is still a learning curve. This is a young team, we are still building something together. But it was very important to get that first game out of the way.
"We can be better defensively, absolutely. Just don't give the ball away as a team. If you give the ball away against any side, they will apply pressure. Particularly if they are a direct side."
Millwall deserved something admits relieved Nottingham Forest boss Mark Warburton
The important thing, of course, is that – whether it was deserved or not – Forest emerged with three points.
And Warburton says it is not hard to find solace in having won, despite not being at your best as a side.
"We mentioned about when Brentford played Charlton in the first game back in the Championship, when we were there. There was all this expectation, because we had enjoyed a good pre-season. In the end, we hung on and scrambled an equaliser in the 93 minute," he said.
"Then at Rangers, last year, we had gone back into the Premier League and we had been flying. We were playing in front of a packed Ibrox – but we had to hang on for a draw with Hamilton.
"This time, it was similar – but we got three points. We had to hang in there too many times and all credit to Millwall for that – but we managed to get three points.
Transfer market 'gone crazy' thanks to Nottingham Forest selling Britt Assombalonga for £15m to Middlesbrough
"We are a good squad and we will look to build on that again on Tuesday (against Shrewsbury in the EFL Cup). The crowd were superb again and we want to get as many people as we can into the City Ground.
"We want them to enjoy their football, we want them to enjoy what they are seeing. That is what we are aiming for."
Barrie McKay celebrates making it 1-0 (Image: Dan Westwell)
Following that Cup game against Shrewsbury, Forest head to familiar territory for Warburton, in the form of a trip to Griffin Park to face Brentford.
It will be a completely different challenge to the one posed by Millwall, with the Bees another side that like to play good football and rely on their technically gifted players.
But Warburton still wants to see his players learn to cope with physical opposition more efficiently than they did against Millwall.
"It will possibly be different when we come up against sides who play a little bit more football. But we have to deal with that physicality," said Warburton.
Relief for Nottingham Forest as Barrie McKay secures win against Millwall in Championship opener
"When we were defending corners we were asking 'who picks up the big man' and we needed seven different players to do that.
"But that is not a criticism because Millwall do what they do well and we have to do what we do well. We have to play that one and two touch football, we have to be clever and bright. We have to take risks in the right areas of the park.
"We did not do that well - and they did very well at utilising their strengths."
Kieran Dowell holds off James Meredith (Image: Dan Westwell)
Forest, in midfield in particular, are not exactly a team full of giants. But Warburton does not believe they are a side that lacks the physical presence to compete in the Championship.
"Tonight was an exception in some ways. They really are an exceptional team, because they are 6ft 3in, 6ft 4in and 6ft 5in all over the park," said Warburton.
"From our point of view, we had Matt Mills on the park by the end, we had Joe Worrall and Michael Mancienne. And Armand Traore and Daryl Murphy add that physicality in the squad as well.
"This was about trying to stop the direct balls into the box; stopping the crosses and stopping the supply.
"And we did not do that well enough."
Billy Davies' adviser at Nottingham Forest, Jim Price, struck off for professional misconduct
Warburton does hint that it will be a different team that faces League One Shrewsbury in the first round of the EFL Cup on Tuesday.
"We have a squad and I could have played a completely different team against Millwall. I could have played 10 different players and not had any concerns – and that is where we want to be as a squad," he said.
"Everyone is pushing for a place. If you have a situation where shirts are a given, you have a problem. We will put out a very strong team on Tuesday, with a real desire to win a game of football.
"The whole squad has been outstanding in pre-seaaon, they know what we think of them. They are an honest group of players and we work as a group.
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"Tendayi (Darikwa) in his first home league game, showed his physicality and cleverness at times. David Vaughan, as an old head, did very well, so we did have some good points. He just did what David Vaughan does best, in front of the back-four.
"But we know very well, among ourselves, that we were way below our normal level.
"This wasn't us. It is fair to say that. But there was a lot of expectation there. We had a good pre-season and we had been playing with a good shape. That first game is out of the way now and to get three points was critically important for us.
"Winning when we have not been at our best can be a massive boost."
In the two games coming up over the next week, Warburton will hope for more wins, but also for some much improved performances.


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FYE: Your best bets for Fall's new shows
By Elena Hilton
August 6, 2014 | 3:00am EDT
Photo by Photo Courtesy of FOX Networks | The Independent Florida Alligator
Summer is nearly over, which means that fall TV season is almost here. Before you fill up your DVR schedule with all your favorite shows, keep in mind that there are some great new series being rolled out for your binge-watching enjoyment.
Here are my picks for which new TV shows to check out this fall:
The live-action prequel to Batman will focus on Det. Gordon (Ben McKenzie of The O.C. fame) as he tries to protect a young Bruce Wayne from the younger versions of his future enemies, such as the Joker or Poison Ivy. This is easily the show with the most hype because it will either be a smashing success full of dark anti-heroes, or a gimmicky disaster that fails to bridge the gap between DC Comics fans and regular viewers. Either way, you'll get to see McKenzie in all his post-Ryan Atwood glory.
Premieres Sept. 22 on FOX at 8 p.m.
This is another show that could either go horribly right or horribly wrong. Even decades since The Cosby Show debuted, it's still rare to see a well-off, successful African-American family on network television. Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson as a successful black man with a great family, whose children are out of touch with their cultural roots. Jokes about bro-mitzvahs and Andy instead of Andre ensue. If the show is done right, it could be major turning point for the way the entertainment world discusses race.
Premieres Sept. 24on ABC at 9:30 p.m.
Shonda Rhimes, queen of television, is already making history with this one by having THREE of her shows blocked together on one network. The legal drama starring Viola Davis will undoubtedly be filled with plenty of romance, scandals and OMG moments. People are already complaining about the long title because it will make it hard to tweet about. Also, it'll probably lead to some questionable Google search histories, but that's beside the point.
Premieres Sept. 25 on ABC at 10 p.m.
John Mulaney is a gifted comedian who gave us the Stefon character on SNL and the near-perfect stand-up special New in Town. With SNL's Lorne Michaels producing the sitcom and SNL-alum Nasim Pedrad co-starring, what could go wrong? Actually, multiple things could go wrong- it looks like it borrows the Seinfeld shtick of stand-up comedy leading in each episode and it has a laugh track, which is almost always a death sentence in modern television. However, I trust John Mulaney's writing and I'm hopeful it'll be a sharp show if given the chance.
Premiers Oct. 5 on Fox at 9:30 p.m.
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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Not Rated | 45min | Documentary, History, War | 13 April 1944 (USA)
A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
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Title: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Which of these airplane pilots would you hire?
Stanley Wray ... Self - Group Commander (as Col. Stanley Wray)
Robert Morgan ... Self - Pilot (as Capt. Robert Morgan)
James A. Verinis ... Self - Co-Pilot (as Capt. Jim Verinis)
Robert J. Hanson ... Self - Radio Operator (as Sgt. Bob Hanson)
Charles B. Leighton ... Self - Navigator (as Capt. Chuck Leighton)
Harold P. Loch ... Self - Engineer and Top Turret Gunner (as Sgt. Harold Loch)
John P. Quinlan ... Self - Tail Gunner (as Sgt. John Quinlan)
Cecil H. Scott ... Self - Turret Gunner (as Sgt. Cecil Scott)
Vince Evans ... Self - Bombardier (as Captain Vincent Evans)
Clarence E. Winchell ... Self - Waist Gunner (as Sergeant Bill Winchell)
Casimer A. Nastal ... Self - Waist Gunner (as Sergeant Tony Nastal)
Haywood Hansell ... Self - USAAF (as Brigadier General Hansell)
King George VI ... Self - Congratulates Crew of Memphis Belle
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother ... Self - Congratulates Crew of Memphis Belle
Ira C. Eaker ... Self - Commander: 8th Air Force (as General Eaker)
Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the "Memphis Belle". The "Memphis Belle" took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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Fly and Fight with the Crew on an Actual Bombing Mission Over Germany!
While the film purportedly chronicles the first American heavy bomber to complete 25 missions in WWII, that distinction actually belongs to the B-24 Liberator nicknamed "Hot Stuff." It completed its 25th mission on 2/7/43. The first B-17 to complete 25 missions was "Delta Rebel II" on 5/1/43. "Memphis Belle" completed its 25th mission on 5/19/43, nearly 3-1/2 months after "Hot Stuff." See more »
The narrator claims that Britain was last conquered more than a thousand years ago. The latest conquest of Britain was in 1066, 878 years before the film was released. See more »
All aerial combat film was exposed during air battles over enemy territory See more »
Featured in John Huston War Stories (1999) See more »
A Cool Inside Look at World War II
22 January 2016 | by gavin6942 – See all my reviews
Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the "Memphis Belle". The "Memphis Belle" took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. On their way they encountered heavy AA fire and interceptors.
The 16 mm color film used did not include sound, and this was added later in Hollywood. The original crew, during their war bonds drive in the United States, made typical appropriate comments to each other while watching the silent movie in a studio. The result was difficult to distinguish from real combat recordings.
Regarding Wilhelmshaven, two thirds of the town's buildings were destroyed during bombing by the Allies of World War II. That is pretty devastating. How much of that can be attributed to the Memphis Belle? While there is plenty of footage of World War II, this is an inside look that is rather atypical. A real crew in a real plane on a real mission. I find it especially interesting because one of the crew was from Green Bay, which is my general neighborhood.
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PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award Longlist Announced
Announcing the longlist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
We are thrilled to announce the longlist of books for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried literary prize. The longlist includes the following ten titles:
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World)
Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason (HarperCollins)
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses (Little A)
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe (Alfred A. Knopf)
Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman (Scribner)
Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry (Custom House)
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans (Riverhead)
Scattered Lights by Steve Wiegenstein (Cornerpost)
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (West Virginia University Press)
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Alfred A. Knopf)
"These extraordinary times have called forth extraordinary art," said PEN/Faulkner's Awards Committee Chair, Louis Bayard, "and the ten titles chosen for our longlist are a powerful reminder that fiction is as essential as ever."
In selecting the longlist, this year's judges – Charles Finch, Bernice L. McFadden, and Alexi Zentner – considered 419 eligible novels and short story collections by American authors published in the US during the 2020 calendar year. Submissions came from 170 publishing houses, including small and academic presses. From this longlist, the judges will select five distinguished finalists for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Those finalists will be announced in early March. The winning book – the "first among equals," selected from among the five finalists – will be announced in April. Read more at the PEN/Faulkner web site.


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It's not just blue-collar workers who have seen jobs go overseas
Clinton must address the fears that Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn all understand
David WilliamsonPolitical Editor
Hillary Clinton has struggled to seal the deal with her party, never mind her country, while Bernie Sanders has tapped into deep frustration with the economy and society
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This day next week Hillary Clinton is expected to clinch the Democratic nomination in the race for the White House.
Her Democrat challenger, Bernie Sanders, is likely to keep on fighting all the way to July 25 when the party gathers in Philadelphia for its convention.
He might cling to hopes that – due to the bizarre system under which some delegates can vote any way they like – he may yet be anointed as the man to stop Donald Trump winning the White House.
Ms Clinton will long for the day when Mr Sanders stops attacking her from the left and she is free to target all her firepower at Mr Trump – but her two opponents are tapping into a similar sense of deep indignation. If she wants to succeed Barack Obama at the White House she will need to address the conviction that something has gone badly sour in the United States.
Bernie Sanders (left) and Donald Trump are radically different candidates but they are both address a sense that something is badly wrong in America
The supporters, many of them young, who flock to Mr Sanders' rallies and keep his campaign afloat with small donations want to see an America in which Wall St does not decide what is politically possible. They are excited by his attacks on corporate power, his commitment to free higher education and his condemnation of in-work poverty.
Likewise, Mr Trump channels the anger and hurt felt by Americans who have seen factories closed and moved overseas. A key pillar of his campaign is setting out a new relationship with China.
His website states: "We need smart negotiators who will serve the interests of American workers – not Wall St insiders that want to move US manufacturing and investment offshore."
Trump v Wall St
Wall St, once the engine room of the western economy, now faces critics on both the left and the right
There are many astonishing aspects to Mr Trump's campaign but one of the most noteworthy is that here we have a Republican candidate setting himself up as the foe of Wall St.
Both Mr Sanders and Mr Trump have refused to accept that the forces of globalisation cannot be challenged.
Back in 2001, Tony Blair insisted that "globalisation is a fact" but the issue was how to "use the power of community to combine it with justice".
Again, in 2005, he said: "I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer."
Tony Blair delivers his 2005 Labour conference speech
As PM, Mr Blair understood that the rise of China and India as full players in the international economy would have a revolutionary impact on the job market in the UK. He might have hoped he could devote his premiership to ensuring Britain adapted to this challenge but the events of September 11 and the invasion of Iraq forced his attention elsewhere.
Mr Trump and Mr Sanders demonstrate that in the US there are millions of people who do not want to accept globalisation as a "fact". In Britain, the landslide election of Jeremy Corbyn to the helm of the Labour party is proof of a similar yearning for reform.
Jeremy Corbyn won a four-way leadership battle with nearly 60% of the vote (Image: Steve Parsons/PA Wire)
Who has the power?
This is about much more than a desire for protectionism. There is a sense that citizens have lost the power to elect representatives who can make laws and set policies that will define their lives. Do decisions taken in boardrooms now trump those made in national legislatures?
The desire to reclaim sovereignty has found expression in the UK in the push for either withdrawal from the European Union or sweeping reform of it. Just as Brexiteers see Brussels as the home of unelected bureaucrats who make decisions that should be the responsibility of politicians in a national parliament, many Americans glare at Wall St and worry that its Titans issue directives to politicians rather than the other way around.
Speaking for whom?
This is why Mr Sanders can tarnish Ms Clinton each time he demands she releases the transcripts of speeches she gave at Goldman Sachs.
The Clintons have grown wealthy since leaving office (Image: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
According to the Washington Post: "Since the Clintons left the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been paid more than $150m from speeches alone."
Both Tony Blair and Bill Clinton had a genius for wooing entrepreneurs and executives as they made the case that economic growth and the expansion of social justice were not mutually exclusive. This resonated with the wider electorate who were much more interested in rising incomes than in the introduction of radical left-wing policies.
As the battle for the White House enters its closing act, Ms Clinton will need to find a new tune. The electorate has not embraced Swedish-style socialism in the last four years but the optimism that buzzed among the middle classes on both sides of the Atlantic has taken a beating.
Middle class dreams dying
The escalating cost of higher education means that graduates start their working lives saddled with levels of debt that previous generations would have considered foolish if not immoral.
It is not just factory work that can be moved overseas. Increasingly, businesses in emerging economies successfully bid to provide white-collar services, with automation eliminating many traditional roles.
Young workers increasingly have to gravitate to cities for employment but affordable housing and childcare is often elusive. Meanwhile, public services – like pensions – seem destined for contraction, spurring deep concerns about how to care for beloved but infirm parents who may live far away.
Mr Trump has exploited blue-collar rage at globalisation and the fading of the American Dream but if professionals also feel like serfs an explosive and angry energy will be unleashed at the heart of the world's biggest economy.
Just as Mr Corbyn's election was a repudiation of Mr Blair's embrace of big business, Mr Trump will ruthlessly work to portray the Clintons as responsible for the erosion of security and prosperity for families across America. Her challenge is to show she can lay new foundations which will allow the citizens of a weary superpower to look to the future once again with hope.


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British Columbia's Second City
Major downtown development projects are helping to make Surrey into its own urban center.
Once rightfully thought of as a bedroom community of Vancouver, Surrey, in British Columbia, has steadily climbed its way into the world of cityness. It's now the 12th largest city in Canada, and the second largest in B.C., but both of those rankings are likely to be short-lived. The city is expected to keep growing and is likely to overtake Vancouver as the province's most populous city within the next 10 or 15 years, becoming one of the top ten in Canada. Considering the pace it's growing now, it could happen even sooner.
Surrey's population grew by about 47,000 people between 2001 and 2006, and by more than 75,000 people between 2006 and 2011, according to the latest census figures. Now home to about 468,000 people, it's still got a ways to go before it meets Vancouver's current mark of 603,000. But at a regional scale, Surrey is growing at a much faster rate. Surrey's population increase accounted for about 37 percent of the growth in the metro Vancouver region between 2006 and 2011. Vancouver city, by comparison, only contributed about 12 percent.
"Surrey will be the sort of second downtown."
With nearly three times the land mass of Vancouver, it's not especially surprising that Surrey would be able to see that much more growth, says Christina DeMarco, a regional planner at Metro Vancouver, the region's association of governments.
"Surrey is the area that has the most developable land supply, both for residential and for industrial. A really important part of the industrial land supply in the region, something like 40 percent of the available land, is in Surrey," DeMarco says.
Much of the area's industrial land hasn't yet been developed, but a lot of the city's residential land has or will be shortly. Housing is fueling growth in the city. Recognizing its increasingly fast transition from suburb to big city, the leadership in Surrey has embarked on a major building effort to create a jobs- and housing-rich downtown in a place that for so long didn't really have a center.
"We're building a city from the ground up," Mayor Dianne Watts told a crowd at the recent Vancouver Cities Summit. "We have opportunities that a city that is doing infill redevelopment doesn't have."
In the past few years, the city has set out on an ambitious building spree to create a central core in the city. New civic buildings and public amenities are being added to the landscape, as are major institutional buildings. More than $3 billion worth of infrastructure is being added to the city's new downtown, according to Elizabeth Model, executive director of the Downtown Surrey Business Improvement District.
"We're a fairly young city, and we're building a brand new downtown within an existing city. Where else does that happen? It's a chance for new and revitalized thinking," Model says.
The emerging downtown of Surrey will be home to a new civic center, which will include a city hall, a 1,600-seat performing arts center, a studio theater and the recently completed City Center Library, designed by architect Bing Thom. Adjacent to all this is a new $12 million expansion of Simon Fraser University, a $240 million surgery and outpatient care center, a shopping mall and a station for the region's SkyTrain transit system.
A large emergency hospital and critical care tower are being built now, a roughly $600 million project, according to Model. And more is on the way. A number of developers are building new condo and office towers in the area, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are planning to build a nearly $1 billion complex to serve as its division headquarters.
Surrey is not only creating a new core for itself, but is positioning its core as a new downtown for the entire region, especially the similarly growing suburban communities to the south of Vancouver.
"That is part of the reason why we're building a downtown core that services everything south of the Fraser [River], because we do recognize that this is where the growth potential is, this is where it's going," says Model.
It's also in line with regional goals to spread out employment to different places within the region, beyond Vancouver.
"Vancouver represents 30 percent of the population in the region and 40 percent of the regional economic production, but that's starting to distribute more widely in certain sectors," says Lee Malleau, CEO of the Vancouver Economic Commission. She says that much of Surrey's growth has been in population, not necessarily in jobs or economic output.
But that's starting to change, and the development of the downtown is part of making the city attractive to businesses, which has been a key goal of the mayor's administration, and of the region in general.
"What we're trying to do, both individually as cities and collectively as a region, is build population and employment centers where there's actually a relationship between population and employment," Malleau says. "So for Surrey, it's really important for them to continue to do that."
"Vancouver can only support or sustain so much population growth. And so we need to look at some of the communities outside of Vancouver to share in accommodating that population growth," says Malleau. "It makes a lot of sense for people to look at Surrey."
To handle these shifts in population, much emphasis has been placed on concentrating higher density housing in jobs-rich areas like Surrey's emerging downtown. As a result, the housing stock in the city has undergone a dramatic change.
"Something like 75 percent of the units are attached, either townhouses or apartments, and 25 percent are single detached," says DeMarco. "That's very different from 20, 25 years ago when those two numbers would have been flipped for sure."
As Surrey continues to grow, it's likely to become denser and home to more of the region's jobs. And even though many predict that it will overtake Vancouver to become the biggest city in B.C., few expect Surrey to replace Vancouver as the urban center of the region.
"The metropolitan core will remain the downtown for the province," says DeMarco. "Surrey, to me, will be the sort of second downtown."
The Cities Refugees Saved
In the cities where the most refugees per capita were settled since 2005, the newcomers helped stem or reverse population loss.
Tanvi Misra


Instant messaging (IM) has emerged as the communicative tool of choice for high school and college students. We report findings from an on-going research project that uses an IM bot as an intelligent, language reference agent to provide learners with translation equivalents, examples of contextual language use, level-appropriate readings, and vocabulary quizzes. All queries, quiz results, and interactions with the IM bot are logged and combined with self-report data to generate learner models and chart vocabulary development over time.
While much research has focused on the role of the learner during CMC, little research has been done on the teacher's role, particularly in the physical environment. In this multiple-case study three classes taught by two different teachers were investigated to identify teacher moves in both the physical and in the virtual environment. It was found that each teacher had a different style in each of the environments. Students' attitudes in response to the styles were also measured through surveys and classroom observations. The differences in teachers' styles resulted only in minimal differences in student attitudes.
Recently, students started wondering why the Humanities Learning Resource Center at Brigham Young University could not stay open 24 hours a day. After all, they reasoned, other labs on campus were open beyond our 9 pm closing, and they can visit websites anytime they wish. For us to not accommodate their desires, so they said, would be tantamount to grade sabotage, as ours are the only labs on campus to have foreign-language-enabled word processing and CALL courseware that their professors require them to use. Our solution? Anytime access to the HLRC through machine virtualization.
Wikis are gaining popularity among foreign language educators due to the degree to which they promote collaboration and their ease of use. In order to take advantage of these benefits, the presenters joined four methodology classes from three different universities to create a wiki community on foreign language learning topics. We report on an end of the semester survey and an analysis of the conversations that took place on the discussion boards to show if and how groups planned the task, negotiated roles and responsibilities, and formed a community.
While educational podcasts are becoming increasingly popular, there is little empirical investigation into how they can be used with language learners to help foster language acquisition. This paper presents the findings of a primarily qualitative investigation into the integration and impact of podcasts in a university-level ESL listening course.
The focal point of this session will be a detailed demonstration of TeLL me More®, as well as the tools that come with it, demonstrating the pedagogical values of the solution. Participants will benefit from the presenter's expertise in the field of language-learning technology. At the conclusion of the presentation, each participant will receive free trial access to the solution in order to properly evaluate how well TeLL me More® would work in each individual's academic environment.
The Rice Language Resource Center created a language blog site where students, faculty, and staff of the Rice community can express themselves in a language other than English. Rice students abroad are especially encouraged to contribute. The language blogs are open to the public to read and comment on, but only members of the Rice community can post. All languages taught at Rice are supported including non-Western languages. The blogs include podcasting using a variety of audio recording programs such as Wimba or Audacity. We will present these blogs, discuss their usage, and technical requirements.
Which features of language should a computer-assisted writing assessment (CAWA) system be designed to measure? In many past automated essay scoring projects (e.g., Elliot, 2003; Page, 2003), specific linguistic features were selected primarily because they were statistically significant predictors of scores assigned by human raters, rather than because they had a strong theoretical connection to a construct of writing ability. In contrast, the current system is being designed to measure features that were identified as important for chemistry writing by chemistry faculty (Stoller, Horn, Grabe, & Robinson, 2005). Implications of this approach to CAWA system design will be discussed.
This study aimed to report the implementation of a ubiquitous hospitality English learning platform (U-HELP), which incorporates technology to enrich the instructional variety, promote interaction among the students, and to investigate students' attitudes toward the process-oriented activities conducted in U-HELP in National Kaohsiung Hospitality College in Taiwan. U-HELP provides teachers with an easy-to-use system, and the learning processes recorded can assist teachers in conducting in-depth research. In addition, an online survey is used to collect the data. Hopefully, such a new model of a standardized instructional platform will shed new light on alternative applications of web-based instruction.
In order to enhance the teacher development process, instructors in the LCTLs program at Wesleyan University have started using a web-based Electronic Teaching Portfolio. Instructors are given a professionally designed web template and, in collaboration with their supervisor, develop content and receive technical help to produce supporting materials such as video clips of their teaching. This presentation will briefly describe the background of the LCTLs program at Wesleyan University and demonstrate the Electronic Teaching Portfolio while discussing the development process as well as the results of its implementation. This presentation is applicable to the LCTLs or other language programs.
The main objective of this presentation is to present a model for implementing a comprehensive authentic video program across intermediate and advanced college level German courses. Specifically, this model advocates the use of the popular TV series "Berlin Berlin" as a medium for conveying peer-group perspectives of contemporary German culture. The approach relies on DVD technology not simply as a device for presenting multisensory input but rather on its capacity for making such input more comprehensible. The use of authentic video has been found to promote incidental vocabulary learning, listening comprehension skills, language-learning motivation, and cultural knowledge.
This presentation describes the preliminary results of a study which investigated the development of the sociolinguistic competence of non-native speakers of French interacting through electronic discussions with native speakers of French. It has been suggested that this competence develops through face-to-face interactions with native speakers. This study suggested a pedagogical approach that uses computer-mediated communication (CMC) as an alternative to face-to-face interaction to develop the learners' sociolinguistic competence.
ESL writing teachers traditionally use pen and paper and oral feedback. However, Microsoft Word offers electronic options like "insert comments" and "insert audio" feedback types to writing classrooms. The presenter discusses these and other feedback options, including the pros and cons of each, based on classroom research conducted in Introduction to Academic Writing course.
This presentation will start with a brief overview of the key features of XClass, a virtual listening lab system or computer lab management system. Next will be classroom observations and analysis of the survey responses from instructors who have used XClass for foreign language instruction, testing, and research data collection. The analysis results will show which features are more important and more frequently used, as well as which features are less frequently used in classroom teaching and learning activities. The instructors' feedback may help both trainers to organize and plan training and developers to improve the product.
We will present research results that tested the effectiveness of Korean GLOSS lessons. SCORM-conformant GLOSS learning objects, developed by the Defense Language Institute (DLI), were taught to two graduating classes at DLI in two waves, with each class serving alternately as a control group for each series of 2-week modules on different topics. During the first wave, one class was taught the lessons of the module while the other was left as a control group, and, during the second wave, the roles were reversed. Summative unit test scores for each module and tracking records of behaviors are then compared.
Oral communication ability has become increasingly important. Several commercial CALL programs claim that they can provide high-quality pronunciation training with the help of automatic speech recognition technologies. Although these commercial programs can be useful, many EFL students cannot afford these expensive programs. In this paper, we introduce how we can make good use of Microsoft Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK), a free but very powerful tool, to develop a pronunciation training website. This website offers six different types of online exercises which allow EFL students to practice their English pronunciation and obtain immediate feedback on their performance.
This presentation highlights efforts to utilize video iPods as a standard tool for delivering listening materials to students in our school's Pashto and Persian intensive language programs involving over 200 students and approximately 30 teachers. We will discuss what steps we have taken to train teachers and students, what features of the iPod and iTunes we have found to be most useful, and the challenges we have encountered in the process. We will also share information gathered from surveys and personal interviews conducted with teachers and students as a means of monitoring the implementation process.
Innovative Internet-based technologies have opened the door for exploring culture-rich language-learning materials, practicing receptive and productive language abilities and promoting frequent language uses in two-way communication. Rushby (2005) observes that a new paradigm of various uses of Internet-based learning technologies and environments is rising. The NCKU Internet-based English Learning & Testing Project (http://english.ncku.edu.tw) has been in use since 2006 to improve the English ability of all university students, adopting a bilingual (English and Chinese) learning platform, a system of English standardized testing, and online multimedia interactive lessons. Proficiency in English and information technology helps raise students' international competitiveness and self-learning.
As a foreign language educator who uses computers generally, I can postulate that personal computers provide powerful tools for students to learn languages and appreciate cultures, only if used correctly. This paper looks beyond the system and offers a solution within the notion of interfacing. I show how an interface of technology and pedagogy, converging Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligence (MI) and CALL, along with specific pedagogical goals, can promote what Laurence M. Dryden calls, "the individualization of learning and the promotion of education for deep understanding" (p. 61). I believe that identifying the students' various abilities and developing a theory that supports the many factors of intelligence, interface design, and CALL would be a significant contribution to the field.
The needs for successful technology projects are often discussed: curriculur integration, faculty incentives, release time, technical support, and so on. This presentation examines a project which seems to have failed even though all these needs were addressed. Why are the faculty involved in the project so dissatisfied? What did the project designers fail to consider? What makes a project successful? Most important, can this project be saved? To explore these questions, the presenter will contrast this project with several smaller ones that, despite obstacles, have become integral parts of the language curriculum.
This paper introduces e-Portfolio as an assessment tool in autonomous language learning settings for less commonly taught languages. The author is interested in how electronic portfolios might be useful for a professional development for autonomous language learners.
In the case of project-based language learning supported by a VLE, students' actions are mediated by a variety of technologies presenting different affordances and constraints and, most important, by language itself. Starting from a sociocultural perspective, this presentation examines a small corpus of learner language produced in the context of a collaborative project supported by a VLE. Following a presentation of the taxonomy of errors used to encode the texts, error types are compared between text genres produced by students using different technologies available through the VLE. Implications for student assessment and the provision of feedback are then discussed.
How to put adult language learners in the driver's seat? Eclectic strategies along with some easy-to-use technology tools were employed in a 6-week intensive Chinese refresher course for seven nonheritage Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners. This course provided the learners with ample opportunities to use the language creatively in all four modalities (previewing, reviewing, concept/skill reinforcing, and writing) with the help of several software applications. The pre/post gain scores clearly show that all seven CFL learners mastered the course materials presented. More important, the course went beyond the scope of the textbook in several major ways, in terms of the learners actively raising their global language proficiency. A live demo on the use of technology, along with the eclectic strategies and some learners' sample works, will be part of the presentation.
Does My Learning Style Influence My Vision of Second Language Teaching and Learning?
Student teachers (N = 18) had to reflect on their vision of learning and teaching a language and create a concept map to illustrate this vision. Our analysis examined the degree of complexity of concept maps created by student teachers and the link with their learning styles. Our conclusion will demonstrate how students with different learning styles view teaching and learning a language very differently.
I will summarize the progression of tandem language learning (TLL) projects using CMC that I have used in the past and present our most recent project using synchronous voice chats between my Spanish students and students of English in Argentina. With each project an increasing amount of asynchronous and synchronous communication was added to the basic e-mail exchange. For some projects, data were analyzed, and these data plus additional information from the learners' self-report questionnaires indicated that the tandem projects were beneficial to language learning. Each project had advantages and disadvantages, which will be presented along with advice for those who wish to implement them in class.
Cell phones, iPods, and MP3-players enable on-demand portability for language learning at affordable rates with considerable memory capacity and connectivity. Given web access to language resources, we face challenges for good instructional use of mobile devices. This session addresses (a) the conspicuous need for pedagogical tools to customize digital media for learning and (b) compatible format conversion/use of resources for these devices. A QuickTime-based tool for customizing/repurposing video soundtracks, language subtitles, transcriptions, and chapter interactivity will be demonstrated. Procedures for converting digital media to mobile formats with Bluetooth, iTunes, and RSS will be shown with Blog, Moodle, and Podcasting examples.
Our analysis of lexical errors in an FSL learner corpus (s = ~50,000 w.) reveals serious problems with collocations, namely with the selection of collocates for given bases. Indeed, over 500 lexical errors related to collocations were found in our FSL learner corpus. FSL learners are underexposed to collocations and CALL resources are lacking which focus on French collocations. In our presentation, we will look at the erroneous uses of collocations by FSL learners, review some existing CALL resources focusing on French collocations, and present a CALL tutorial we are currently developing which exploits French collocations through a set of lexical functions.
With their realistic animation and interactivity, computer simulation games can provide context-rich, cognitively engaging environments for language learning. However, simulation games designed for L2 learners are in short supply. Could mass market games be supplemented with support materials to allow learners to enter and explore these cyber worlds? This paper describes two studies that investigated whether the best selling game, The SIMs, could be made accessible for L2 learning by means of supplementary materials designed to meet Chapelle's (2001) criteria for CALL task appropriateness. The studies evaluated vocabulary gains and learners' attitudes toward the game as a tool for learning.
Language pedagogues are becoming increasingly aware of the advantages of using e-portfolios for assessment purposes. A particularly attractive feature of e-portfolios in this context is their ability to contain audio and video files in addition to written documents to gauge students' progress. Using examples from university-level Spanish classes, the presenters will address the rationale behind and implementation of e-Portfolios in the language classroom. They will also evaluate the use of three different environments for hosting these portfolios: a simple template-based html web page, a PowerPoint-based e-Portfolio, and an Open Source Portfolio (OSP) online portfolio hosted on a Sakai course management system.
This presentation reports on the use of video iPods in an advanced undergraduate course on German political satire. An integral part of the course design, iPods were used both to immerse students in the course content–satirical images, songs, and commentary–and to promote student interaction with the content, with the target language, and with each other. After outlining the design and implementation of the course, the presenter will show examples of the iPod-based activities and address student and faculty assessment of the iPod project. She will conclude with notes on the possible expansion of this pilot project.
There is a growing need for enriched annotations in corpora for CALL. Text normalization based on XML standards can augment corpus structure and thus enhance linguistic analysis and text rendition. Corpora very often lack the structure necessary for efficient exploration. The use of text formats in compliance with XML standards will produce more flexibly structured texts and form the basis for creating derived products useful for depicting corpus samples from different angles. In this talk we will illustrate the possible advantages of an XML-structured parallel corpus in the context of a CALL application. Samples are taken from DPC (Dutch Parallel Corpus), a multilingual corpus project which has recently been started and which aims at compiling a parallel corpus of English, French, and Dutch translated texts.
In the 2006 spring semester, we conducted a study with 50 learners of German to investigate the use of a new measure (Cárdenas-Claros, 2005) for research in the field of independent-dependent (FI/D) cognitive style and CALL use. After the measure was administered, students worked on a CALL program for German that logs interaction. We will report the reliability and item analysis of the FI/D-CALL measure in addition to its relationship with learners' behaviors in the CALL program. With the goal of understanding how FI/D intersects with satisfaction and success in learning through CALL, we will suggest areas for future development of the measure.
The Curriculum Development Division of DLIFLC has been involved in developing a web-based formative assessment system called Online Diagnostic Assessment (ODA). ODA enables learners to evaluate and manage their foreign language learning. ODA aims to provide the learners with individualized feedback on their accomplishments and needs in their chosen foreign language. This feedback will be based upon a systematic sampling of their abilities across a variety of levels and specific linguistic features. The presenters will briefly review the ODA development process, methodology, technological architecture, and showcase sample tests and the diagnostic profile generated by the system.
This presentation reports on a study of peer-to-peer synchronous CMC to foster focus-on-form procedures delivered to 30 college students. The study aimed to examine the effectiveness of feedback negotiation through collaborative scaffolding in the novice-expert apprenticeship. Findings drawn from chat logs, questionnaires, and final oral interviews relate to form-focused feedback on lexical and syntactical errors including expert's role, L1 use, self-repair, and take type. The findings suggest that CMC has great potential to bring a balanced approach to L2 instruction whereby communication is the primary focus while target forms are reinforced through a process of collaborative interaction in a social setting.
We are extending our work from CALICO 2006 with a pilot study that evaluates a real-time implementation of a fluency checker. The new work includes disfluency modeling of Korean student speech. The fluency checker will be implemented in the Python programming language using a Tkinter GUI, the SNACK audio and speech processing package, and HTK for speech recognition.
Computer-based multimedia environments provide second language input in print, sound, and video modes. Few studies have focused upon the differing processing strategies these media require. The present research reports on nine students, native speakers of English, who were presented with written, aural, and video texts in French. Students were asked to "think aloud" as they attempted to understand the texts. They also filled out a questionnaire, completed immediate recall protocol tasks, and participated in an exit interview. This presentation reports on an analysis of the learners' think aloud protocols and includes video-based segments of their reported strategy use.
French Online is a web-based hybrid course in use and continuing development at Carnegie Mellon University since 2000. Currently under redevelopment with NSF and Hewlett Foundation funding, the new course includes new exercise templates based on the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools, extensive logging, tracking and modeling, gated interactive progression, new communicative video shot in Nantes, and synthetic activities based on authentic materials. Unique challenges include sharing a proprietary delivery system with nonlanguage courses. This presentation will combine an outline of design principles and institutional context, a description of the technical infrastructure of the course, and a brief demonstration.
Facilitated by software, reading Chinese e-texts may be easier than reading printed texts because the software divides word boundaries and provides meaning of words in English if the cursor is put under characters. Twenty-two intermediate and advanced learners read an e-text in Chinese facilitated by the software, wrote down a summary in English, and then answered questions concerning the reading of the text. The author tried to identify strategies students used in the reading process, gauge the effectiveness of the software in aiding reading comprehension, and summarize students' reactions to reading e-texts with the help of the software. Based on the findings, the author gives suggestions on the pedagogical use of e-texts and the software.
Only recently has research focused on the challenges of automatic holistic scoring of ESL essays. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of using statistical measures of linguistic maturity to predict holistic scores for ESL essays. Using customized algorithms based on multivariable regression analysis as well as memory-based machine learning, holistic scores were predicted from selected linguistic attributes on test essays within ±1.0 of the scoring level of human judges' scores over 90% of the time. This level of prediction is an improvement over the 66% prediction level attained from a previous study.
Although computer technologies offer a plethora of possibilities for developing second language listening proficiency, little has been done at the methodological level to produce and refine procedures for teachers and learners to use the affordances of these innovations effectively. This paper offers a first pass at a descriptive framework for CALL listening aimed at encouraging greater exploration in this domain. It recognizes the central role of the computer in enhancing listening through the foundational processes of transferring, transforming, archiving, indexing, and linking and delineates forms of developer, teacher, and learner control over a range of audio, video, and text parameters.


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Iraq Legislation Reveals A Rare Rebuke Of A Major War
Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 7:23 am
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Anti-war legislation on the way to President Bush for his promised veto represents a rare rebuke by Congress of a large and ongoing ground conflict, even eclipsing challenges made during the Vietnam War.
While a bill ordering troops home from an ongoing military mission is not unprecedented _ legislation aimed at conflicts in Somalia and Haiti are other examples _ the Iraq bill is an unusually swift feat by a Congress forcefully challenging a war involving thousands of U.S. troops.
``Congress is not shy usually about attempting to create problems for a president when a war becomes unpopular,'' said Julian Zelizer, a congressional historian and professor at Boston University. ``But I think the significance here is that in a big war, they were able to at least get the legislation to the president's desk pretty early from a historical perspective.''
Congress' role in Iraq policy has dominated Capitol Hill since Democrats regained the majority in January, a change in party control due in large part to voter frustration with the war. The campaign is in its fifth year, with more than 3,300 troops dead and tens of thousands more wounded.
Last week, Democrats said they were acting on a mandate by voters when they passed the legislation, which calls for troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1. Lawmakers are expected to fall short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a Bush veto.
Nevertheless, said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who heads a House subcommittee that controls defense spending, a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is inevitable.
``The American people want them out. The Iraqis want them out. The world wants us out of Iraq, and it's going to happen,'' Murtha told NBC's ``Today'' show Tuesday. ``The president better plan for redeployment or he's going to have the kind of chaos he's predicting.''
The passage of the legislation in many ways surpasses congressional efforts to end the Vietnam War, a longer and far deadlier war for U.S. forces. Congress went years before it was able to agree on legislation significantly challenging presidential war policy, holding some 94 roll call votes on the war between 1966 and 1972, according to data provided by the Senate Historian office.
By the time legislation cutting off funds for the war went into effect in 1973, the U.S. military mission was already over.
Republicans have stood by Bush in denouncing a timetable on Iraq, although their opposition to setting an end date to an ongoing war hasn't always been the case.
In 1993, Sen. John McCain led an effort to cut off funds immediately for military operations in Somalia after a firefight in Mogadishu killed 18 U.S. troops. The former prisoner of war in Vietnam brought a hush to the chamber floor when he asked what would happen if Congress failed to act and more Americans died.
``On whose hands rest the blood of American troops? Ask yourself this question,'' said McCain, R-Ariz.
Congress ultimately agreed to back President Clinton's request to give him until March 1994 to get troops out, with funding denied after that date. In 1999, Congress passed similar legislation prohibiting money spent to keep U.S. troops in Haiti after May 2000.
``When Americans are imperiled, ultimately the president has to bear that responsibility,'' Clinton said at the time of the Somalia vote.
Now, McCain _ a GOP presidential contender for 2008 _ says setting a date certain on the war in Iraq is like sending a ``memo to our enemies to let them know when they can operate again.''
Matt David, McCain's campaign spokesman, said it is ``intellectually dishonest'' to compare Iraq to Haiti and Somalia because of the volatility now in the Middle East and terrorist threat.
``Haitians and Somalians do not want to follow us home and attack us on American soil,'' David said in a statement.
William Howell, a war powers expert and associate professor at the University of Chicago, said whatever the historical significance of last week's vote, Democrats have gained considerable traction in opposing a wartime president because of the war's unpopularity.
``It establishes this marker so that not now, but six months from now ... Democrats can have the momentum to (override) a presidential veto'' if the war is still going badly, Howell said. ``Just because it doesn't pass doesn't mean it's not of consequence.''
Zelizer agreed, adding that an anti-war vote is no easy task when U.S. troops are fighting abroad.
``It's harder to extricate yourself from a big war, not just strategically but politically,'' Zelizer said. ``It's that first vote that's sometimes the hardest.''
News On 6 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Anti-war legislation on the way to President Bush for his promised veto represents a rare rebuke by Congress of a large and ongoing ground conflict, even eclipsing challenges made during