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How to Catch Creation is a Unique Story About Finding What Makes You Shine and How We're All Connected
Feature Image: Jonathan Bangs and Lindsay Smiling. All photos by Paola Nogueras
A bare bones set of a few couches, desks, glasses of wine, books. This is all that's needed to tell the stories of Stokes and Riley, Griffin and Tami, Natalie and G.K.; and their various interactions.
How to Catch Creation, written by Christina Anderson and directed by Nataki Garrett is simply fascinating. The play follows these six creative souls as they try to maintain- or find- what makes them shine.
Stokes and Riley are a young couple living in San Francisco. Stokes can't understand why he is constantly being rejected from art colleges. Riley just wants to see him succeed, yet puts her own career on the back burner as a result. Griffin is a middle-aged man recently released from prison after spending nearly half his life there for a crime he did not commit. Tami, an artist and academic at a local college, is his only true friend. She's pessimistic, yet honest. Both Griffin and Stokes have read and are inspired by author G.K. Marche. We see G.K., mostly in flashback scenes as she finishes her first book and struggles to survive a relationship with another woman, Natalie, in the '60s. In present day, we also see the struggles of surviving a relationship- a platonic one, a same sex one, and a male/female one. Each character has stand-out moments that make you think he or she is the core of the story. There's no right answer as each one is as important as the next.
Shayna Small and Stephanie Weeks
It's hard to talk about everything that draws these characters together without giving away some of the show's secrets. Though some of the coincidences seem stretched, they are also real in a "you can't make this stuff up" type of way. The world is small and we really are all connected, sometimes just like the ways we witness in How to Catch Creation.
The rotating set is perfect for the story and helps weave the characters and plot together. It was designed by Jason Sherwood who most recently worked on the set for RENT Live on FOX. In some scenes, we see all of the characters at once, as they revolved around one another in a literal and physical sense. Each character or couple goes about their lives independently, yet still somehow everyone flows together.
How to Catch Creation really is unlike anything you have ever seen before or will see again. It's so relatable and unique at the same time. We are all trying to create something- love, inspiration, life, a connection, a legacy. It's the how that makes us all different…but still connected. Though it's a new show and is set in 2014, it has a timeless feel. These characters, plots, and their struggles could have taken place at anytime, in any decade. I look forward to seeing it again many years from now to see how much remains the same or even what small details may have been changed to reflect the word we'll be living in by then.
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The Philadelphia Theatre Company's commitment to producing female, trans, and non-binary voices each year began this season with How to Catch Creation, which is also their final show of the season. Each season, PTC plans to produce a show from the Kilroys, a group of playwrights and producers in Los Angeles who are taking action to end underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in American theater." The yearly Kilroys List recommends unproduced shows as a tool for theatre's to use when looking for new works
For more information on How to Catch Creation and to purchase tickets, visit the Philadelphia Theatre Company's website. The show will be at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Broad Street until April 14th before heading to Baltimore. Next season's Kilroys List section is The Wolves. You can see the lineup for Philadelphia Theatre Company's 19-20 season and read more about each show here.
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Over the years, Troop 175 received much recognition. The Troop often wins he best Troop in the District(Our of 30) We also routinely provide the most service hours of any Troop.
For the fifteenth year in a row, the Troop also won Gold Status (Highest) for Troop Excellence from BSA National.
On the National level, the Troop's 2012 and 2019 Kilimanjaro Climbs appeared in over 400 major metropolitan newspapers. In March 2013, the National Geographic Series "Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout" aired for six weeks. Keegan Rice, from Troop 175, was the only Scout to compete in every show (other than the original pilot) and became one of the shows stars.
In April 2013, the Troop was asked to come to New York to appear on the National Broadcast of Fox and Friends to demonstrate its capabilities and teach the Fox On Air Anchors how to start a Flint and Steel Fire.
In May 2013, Scoutmaster Mead and his wife were honored to be flown to BSA Headquarters in Dallas, Texas to receive the Outstanding Scoutmaster Troop Award awarded to 54 Scoutmasters (out of 44,000) in the Country. (The only one in Connecticut and one of four in all of New England). All the recipients got to spend three days with BSA National to talk about their ideas on how to build the Scouting Program in America.
In 2014, Ethan Meskill was awarded Eagle Scout of the Year in the Mattianuck District. Ethan earned his Eagle Scout Award in October, 2014.
Scoutmaster Brad Mead was awarded the Silver Beaver Award in May 2017. This is the highest award given by the Council for service to Scouting.

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Patriots-Chiefs: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell "will finish pregame duties...before the majority of Patriots fans are inside the stadium"
He's running away!
By Rich Hill@PP_Rich_Hill Sep 7, 2017, 3:00pm EDT
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Edit: An NFL spokesperson has confirmed that Goodell will stay at Gillette Stadium for the game.
During Super Bowl week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that he would attend the season opener of the New England Patriots if he's invited. The Patriots called his bluff and Robert Kraft immediately invited Goodell to the game. It turns out that Goodell's attendance will be nothing more than ceremonial and he'll leave the field before fans arrive.
"In an effort to mitigate the negative reaction from fans in Foxborough, Goodell will finish up his pregame duties on the field early and will be off the field before the majority of Patriots fans are inside the stadium," Sports Illustrated's Kalyn Kahler reports. "The Patriots will not flash to any shots of the commissioner during the game on the video screens inside the stadium, and Goodell will not be sitting in Patriots owner Robert Kraft's suite."
Patriots fans are expected to wave tens of thousands of turquoise towels emblazoned with Goodell's face wearing a clown nose. Apparently Goodell doesn't want to be around for those festivities.
Perhaps Goodell will stick around in a secret room in the stadium, or something, since the report is that he won't be on the field or in Kraft's suite. He clearly doesn't want to be seen. Goodell didn't attend the Patriots opener after New England won Super Bowl XLIX, either. This shouldn't be a surprise.


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Mann Talk – Let's hope Anderson Silva is dreadfully boring
August 5, 2010 by Richard Anderson Mann
I'll admit hoping Anderson Silva goofs around in the cage against Chael Sonnen is a bit wacky. A lot of people might think that I am crazy. Perhaps I should cut back to only eight cups of coffee per day.
However, I am willing to sit through 25 minutes of boring fighting in order to improve the landscape of the MMA world.
After Silva's record-breaking win over Demian Maia in Abu Dhabi, Dana White said, "If he ever acts like that again in the ring, I will cut him. I don't care if he's the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, I don't care if he is the middleweight champion. I will cut him, absolutely."
Where did White say this? He said it on an interview on "Jim Rome is Burning" on ESPN, the flagship of sports coverage. Anderson Silva's actions were truly bizarre, but why did Rome pick up the phone and invite White onto the show? Wouldn't Silva himself or Ed Soares be a much better guest?
When Terrell Owens or Randy Moss drops a crucial pass in an important game is there a line of reporters outside Roger Goodell's office?
UFC President Dana White holds a really unprecedented position in sports. If any journalist has a question about combat sports all they need to do is ask Dana. Is Strikeforce a good promotion? Why does Anderson Silva do the things he does? Was Frank Mir wrong for saying he was going to kill Brock Lesnar? Is Lesnar really going to mount his wife tonight? All of these questions can be easily answered by asking Dana White. I'm surprised "What Would White Say?" bracelets are not in production as we speak.
On top of that, White's answers are often shilling, pushing an agenda or downright false. You can't blame him, because, after all, he is a promoter. He wants people to pay $49.95 for a few hours of television and buy UFC-logo lunch boxes.
After Paul Daley took an extremely late swing at Josh Koscheck, White stepped up and cut Daley from the promotion. To support the release, he referred to a previous situation involving a hospital brawl between Nick Diaz and Joe Riggs. He said, "I cut Nick Diaz after he was fighting at the hospital. People are sick and dying you can't be in the hospital fighting. I cut the guy even though I know he's a very good fighter."
In reality, Diaz was never cut. After the hospital incident, he fought for the UFC three more times including a bout with Sean Sherk two months after his fight with Riggs. Despite this, no one questioned White. Kevin Iole even used the quotation as justification for cutting Daley in an article for Yahoo! Sports.
The mainstream media outlets covering the sport are truly uninformed and rely on White for information. The MMA-niche media are impaired by a crippling fear of losing press credentials and getting blacklisted.
White's well-publicized declaration that he will cut Silva has created an opportunity. If Silva jukes and jives his way to a boring decision win over Sonnen, there is no chance that White will actually cut him. He will have once again affirmed his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and set a potentially untouchable record of seven-consecutive title defenses.
If Silva is boring and White fails to cut him, the assembled news media will have no choice but to question the colorful executive. In the end, it could lead to realistic coverage of the sport. Of course, I wouldn't mind seeing an exciting title fight either.
Watch Dana White keep it a bit too real on "Jim Rome in Burning"
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Q: How to display RelativeLayout (MapView) with perfectly rounded I'm using mapview on main Relative Layout
I want to mapView to be completely rounded.
I searched it for in internet get answer saying that I should make new drawable xml and add it to Layout that I want to make it rounded by setBackgorund(R.drawable.xxxx).
so, I made layout_bg.xml in drawable folder.
layout_bg.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <!-- solid background -->
        <solid android:color="#ffffba54"/>
        <!-- border-->
        <stroke
            android:color="#ffff206a"
            android:width="2dp"
            />
        <corners android:radius="25dp"/>
        <!-- different corners with different radius-->
        <!--corners
            android:bottomLeftRadius="5dp"
            android:topLeftRadius="10dp"
            android:topRightRadius="15dp"
            android:bottomRightRadius="20dp"
            /-->
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</item>

but It's not working at all.
so, I tried to do it in programmatically.
MainActivity.java
 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
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    ViewGroup mapViewContainer = (ViewGroup)
    findViewById(R.id.map_view);
    mapViewContainer.setBackgroundDrawable(R.drawable.layout_bg);
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    Log.e("mp","mapView2");
    mapViewContainer.addView(mapView);

activity_main.xml
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="11dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="11dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="85dp"
        android:text="aaaaaaaa" />

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/map_view"
        android:layout_width="200dp"
        android:layout_height="200dp"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        />

</RelativeLayout>

A: Use (MainActivity.this).getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.layout_bg) then you wont get the error.. !!

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Motorola announces on its Facebook page that an Android 2.1 update will be rolled out to the Droid this week.
Just last week, the Motorola Droid gotpartial multitouch support with Google Maps 3.4, but that was little consolation for Droid customers who still had to look on in jealously as Nexus One owners got to enjoy multitouch in the browser and photo gallery as well as Google Goggles support. Well, retract your claws Droid owners because it now looks you're getting the whole shebang too.
On Monday, Motorola announced on its Facebook page that the Android 2.1 update will start to roll out this week. According to Engadget Mobile, the update won't bring live wallpaper or the grid app icon, but the Droid will get the new weather and news widget featured on the Nexus One.
Also of interest is the mention of upcoming announcements for Moto's other Android devices. The company's full Facebook post reads, "Hi all--we know you are frustrated with the lack of details regarding Android software upgrades and we sincerely apologize for not being able to share info sooner. We're happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to DROID will start to roll out this week, and we will have more information to share on other device upgrades later this week as well. Thanks for your patience and continued support."
Perhaps Motorola Cliq owners will finally see the Android 2.0 update that Moto CEO Sanjay Jha mentioned at CES 2010. The fragmentation of the Android platform among various devices has been a sticking point with many, and it seems Moto feels the frustration too, so kudos to it for getting the info out there.


Click New on the Quick Access Toolbar, as shown in the following image.
In the New dialog box, select Procedure, and click OK, as shown in the following image.
The Procedure View panel opens.
Click New from the Application menu, as shown in the following image.
In the New dialog box, select Procedure, and then click OK, as shown in the following image.
Right-click an application folder or project in the Environments Tree panel, point to New, and then click Procedure, as shown in the following image.
After creating your procedure, the Procedure View panel and Procedure canvas open, as shown in the following image. The first component of every procedure file is a comment component. You can close this canvas and create your procedure or leave it open.
To create new components, in the Procedure View panel, right-click the comment or the procedure folder, point to New, and click the component type you want to create. The component will be added to the procedure after the component that you right-clicked. For example, right-click on the comment file, point to New, and click Report.
If a component of the procedure is open, a green arrow is shown next to the component icon, as shown in the following image.
When multiple components are open at the same time, they are categorized underneath the procedure tab. The following image shows a chart component, report component, and comment component, all open under the Procedure5.fex tab.
This functionality allows you to switch between canvases quickly. You can close the components when you are done editing, and leave the components that you are still working on open. You can open and close these components as you develop your procedure.
The following image shows a multi-component procedure in the Procedure View panel, with Comment, Join, Set, and Report components. The Comment, Join, and Report components are open. Notice that the Report canvas is currently active.


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Kansas Gambling News Brief
Harrahs pulls out of casino project
Wichita Bisuiness Journal, Monday, November 17, 2008 at 9:24:20 PM
Harrah's Gaming says it won't build its planned $500 million casino and resort near Mulvane, the Kansas Lottery said Monday.
In a news release, the lottery says a representative from the casino development company informed the agency of its decision this afternoon in a letter.
Jeffrey Ungerer, of Sumner Gaming Joint Venture, wrote: "We truly regret that we must withdraw our gaming application as a result of circumstances beyond our control that do not permit us to meet the proposed schedule for the project. In the event the financial climate improves, we may be interested in reapplying for a gaming license should the process in the South Central zone be reopened for bids."
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"Orange Business Services is a leader in the global enterprise market for IP telephony and UC services because it has the global resources, portfolio and customer support organization to deliver these solutions across regions," said Cindy Whelan, Current Analysis Research Director, Business Network and IT Services.
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I read the personal diaries of slave-owing white women during the U.S. Civil War because I want to learn how it was to live their lives, especially the linchpin experience of an enslaver: to live comfortable, thoughtful days believing herself a good person while helping to make a murderous, racist slave regime. I look to diaries to shed light on how this worked in a woman's daily life.
A diary isn't a simple piece of writing, though it might seem so. It's a sleepy text, wandering and slow to focus, a kind of on-going rough draft of a life. The diarist is not scamming anyone or preening herself for us. She has not a thought for us, or for consistency, and her urge to tell things is not an urge to have readers. Often she just drops a scene onto the page, impulsive or careless. Even from the pen of a long-dead slave-owning woman, such frank moments invite curiosity.
Reading, I realized that there were grounds for empathy with these diarists. Not sympathy—closeness and caring—for these are very unsympathetic women. Empathy turns on difference, not likeness. Openings for empathy are a way into a foreign, even alienating, frame of mind. It's a touchy move to make because you have to spend a lot of time with people you don't like. But I wanted some ground cleared between the women and me where I could understand their world as they lived it. Understanding follows from empathy, not the other way around.
Where is the ground for empathy with the women who kept diaries? One patch of it is that both the diarist and I are writers, and we both want to write the Civil War. We both struggle with language and time, and we take pleasure in putting the world into words. I came to see, too, what it might mean to write your "good" life and then have your life blow up. I'm glad their world is gone, but I understood from them—and am watchful about—how likely it is that I blindly trust my own "good" life.
Where is the ground for empathy with the women who kept diaries? One patch of it is that both the diarist and I are writers, and we both want to write the Civil War. We both struggle with language and time, and we take pleasure in putting the world into words. I came to see, too, what it might mean to write your "good" life and then have your life blow up. I'm glad their world is gone, but I understood from them—and am watchful about—how likely it is that I blindly trust my own "good" life. A further ground for empathy: both the diarist and I are white. Diarists wrote arrogantly and patronizingly about African Americans in ways all too familiar. But they also wrote in quieter ways that the diary is especially good at catching, ways that inscribed the diarist as a white person free to choose what to say or not say. A person who can write her daily thoughts, casually or intensely, knowing that she can always come back to re-think. Or she can turn away and leave. These are a diarist's moves, ordinary and open-faced. In a white woman's diary they speak of the subtle ways she worked the privileges of her race into her "good" life.
A small example of what I mean. Late in the war, the diarist Lucy Breckinridge wrote an unprecedented scene that she never mentioned again: she had just witnessed her young nephew beating Preston, a slave boy his age, with a stick, encouraged by his mother, Breckinridge's sister. Looking on with "suppressed rage" was Preston's mother, Viola. Breckinridge was moved to tears and wrote that she felt deeply for Viola, and she criticized her sister and her "wicked" nephew. It's a harrowing encounter with heated words from a young diarist who almost never mentioned black people or slavery. Then she wrapped up the scene. She resolved that her future children would never do such a thing with her future slaves. She was proud that she had been raised to respect "servants". With this, she moved on. But what does the diary keep? A moment from slavery's deep well of violence suddenly flowing into Breckinridge's pages. She wrote it in sharp detail, and then she turned away from it to a look at herself, her exceptional self, and made herself a haven where she was free to go. I think this is how it worked.


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Matthew McConaughey, Actor: Dallas Buyers Club. American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is of Irish, Scottish, German, English, and Swedish ...
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American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is of Irish, Scottish, English, German, and Swedish descent. Matthew grew up in Longview, Texas, where he graduated from the local High School (1988). Showing little interest in his father's oil business, which his two brothers later joined, Matthew was longing for a change of scenery, and spent a year in Australia, washing dishes and shoveling chicken manure. Back to the States, he attended the University of Texas in Austin, originally wishing to be a lawyer. But, when he discovered an inspirational Og Mandino book \\"The Greatest Salesman in the World\\" before one of his final exams, he suddenly knew he had to change his major from law to film.
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He began his acting career in 1991, appearing in student films and commercials in Texas and directed short films as Chicano Chariots (1992). Once, in his hotel bar in Austin, he met the casting director and producer Don Phillips, who introduced him to director Richard Linklater for his next project. At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too handsome to play the role of a guy chasing high school girls in his coming-of-age drama Dazed and Confused (1993), but cast him after Matthew grew out his hair and mustache. His character was initially in three scenes but the role grew to more than 300 lines as Linklater encouraged him to do some improvisations. In 1995, he starred in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), playing a mad bloodthirsty sadistic killer, opposite Renée Zellweger. In the 2000s, he became known for starring in romantic comedies, such as The Wedding Planner (2001), opposite Jennifer Lopez, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), in which he co-starred with Kate Hudson. He played Denton Van Zan, an American warrior and dragons hunter in the futuristic thriller Reign of Fire (2002), where he co-starred with Christian Bale. In 2006, he starred in the romantic comedy Failure to Launch (2006), and later as head coach Jack Lengyel in We Are Marshall (2006), along with Matthew Fox. In 2008, he played treasure hunter Benjamin \\"Finn\\" Finnegan in Fool's Gold (2008), again with Kate Hudson. After playing Connor Mead in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), co-starring with Jennifer Garner, McConaughey took a two year hiatus to open different opportunities in his career. Since 2010, he has moved away from romantic comedies. That change came in 2011, in his first movie after that pause, when he portrayed criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller in The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), that operates mostly from the back seat of his Lincoln car. After this performance that was considered one of his best until then, Matthew played other iconic characters as district attorney Danny Buck Davidson in Bernie (2011), the wild private detective \\"Killer\\" Joe Cooper in Killer Joe (2011), Mud in Mud (2012), reporter Ward Jensen in The Paperboy (2012), male stripper club owner Dallas in Magic Mike (2012), starring Channing Tatum. McConaughey's career certainly reached it's prime, when he played HIV carrier Ron Woodroof in the biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), shot in less than a month. For his portrayal of Ron, Matthew won the Best Actor in the 86th Academy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, among other awards and nominations. The same year, he also appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). In 2014, he starred in HBO's True Detective (2014), as detective Rustin Cohle, whose job is to investigate with his partner Martin Hart, played by Woody Harrelson, a gruesome murder that happened in his little town in Louisiana. The series was highly acclaimed by critics winning 4 of the 7 categories it was nominated at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards; he also won a Critics' Choice Award for the role. Also in 2014, Matthew starred in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film Interstellar (2014), playing Cooper, a former NASA pilot.
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'Contact' and 'Amistad' Making the cover of Vanity Fair in 1996, McConaughey was seen as a rising star in Hollywood, and he had several dramatic projects that helped further establish his talents as an actor.
'EdTV' Returning to his comedic roots, McConaughey starred in 1999's EdTV as a lowly clerk who becomes the star of his own reality show. The film was both a critical and commercial disappointment.
'The Wedding Planner' and 'Failure to Launch' Bouncing back, McConaughey emerged as a king of romantic comedies. He starred in The Wedding Planner (2001) with Jennifer Lopez and then in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) with Kate Hudson.
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Subject: 25.4159, Review: Applied Ling; Translation: Tsagari, Floros (2013)
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:35:04
From: Arnaldo Robles [arobles at albany.edu]
Subject: Translation in Language Teaching and Assessment
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EDITOR: Dina  Tsagari
EDITOR: Georgios  Floros
TITLE: Translation in Language Teaching and Assessment
REVIEWER: Arnaldo Robles, University at Albany - SUNY
Review's Editor: Anthony Aristar
Inside this volume, "Translation in Language Teaching and Assessment", edited
by Dina  Tsagari and Georgios Floros, readers can find 12 chapters written by
experts in their field. As its name suggests, this is a volume that provides
different, innovative ground-breaking methods and contexts to use translation
as an approach to language teaching. It examines ways of informing other
domains of language-related activity.  The volume in its entirety, is composed
of two parts. The first part is about the application of translation into
language classrooms and its implementation in learning. Light is shed on new
perspectives as how translation can serve for teaching core language skills.
The second part focuses on using translation in the field of assessment to
accommodate diverse learners. The book also includes a List of Contributors, a
Preface, Works Cited, and Table of Contents.
In Chapter 1, "Incorporating Translation into the Language Classroom and its
Potential Impacts upon L2 Learners", Tszu-yi Lee highlights the eminent
tendency for English teachers to often neglect or discard translation in
classrooms, and how translation is, actually, still a valuable component in
reading comprehension. Translation seems to serve as an urgency for students
to read more carefully, improving comprehension of passage readings among
students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Chapter 2, "Teaching Grammar
through Translation", Melita Koletnik Korošec calls for attention at
re-examining the role of translation in Foreign Language Teaching (FLT). The
necessity to move from implicit to explicit teaching (translation, which
serves as a norm at most universities) of grammar. This is marked with
positive results as students are motivated to be engaged, thus creating a
skill that is transferrable to other domains of instruction. In, Chapter 3,
"Audio Description as a Tool to Improve Lexical and Phraseological Competence
in Foreign Language Learning", Ana Ibáñez Moreno and Anna Veremulen
operationalize Audio Description (AD), and also introduce the role it plays in
the development process. The researchers detail how it serves as a central
function to further lexical and phraseological competence, and how it allows
students to perceive the significance of choosing the utmost colloquial
expressions.
Chapter 4, "Translation Techniques in the Spanish for Heritage Learners'
Classroom: Promoting Lexical Development", Flavia Belpoliti and Amira
Plascencia-Vela describe concepts of ambiguous terms within idiomatic
expressions, along with representations of false cognates. Ultimately
suggesting translation as a type of pedagogy inside language classrooms of
Spanish. Chapter 5, "An Optimality Translation Proposal for the Foreign
Language Class, Christine Calfoglou investigates if the faithfulness
constraint found in the Optimality Theory maintains its relevance in the
translation process of output. Like in the previous chapter, this chapter
highlights the ability for bilinguals to employ methodologies when translating
or interpreting, which marks the importance of taking learner's first language
(L1) into account. Also introduced in this chapter are the components of the
Grammar Translation method, and frameworks such as the Bilingual Reform.
Furthermore, in Chapter 6, "The Engaging Nature of Translation: A Nexus
Analysis of Student-Teacher Interaction", Marie Källkvist investigates the
impact of student-teacher interaction in a translation and composition task.
Subsequently, Chapter 7, "Resurrecting Translation in SLT: A Focus on Young
Learners", Silva Bratož  and Alenka Kockbek target essential questions
regarding theory and practice in translation. Interestingly, we learn that the
translation of vocabulary is still the fastest and effective way of explaining
the meaning of L2 words and expressions. The chapter also provides an overview
of the underlying origin and objective-language taken into account as a caveat
for researchers of translation. The chapter concludes by introducing
translation as a tool in beginning levels of Second Language (L2) teaching.
Chapter 8, "From Intercultural Speaker to Intercultural Writer: Towards a New
Understanding of Translation in Foreign Language Teaching, Raphaël Beecroft
investigates the issues of inter and transcultural communication and
responsibility that is placed upon the translator. Here, Beecroft points to
re-introducing written translation into the English as a Second Language (ESL)
classrooms. The researcher suggests that translation can be used to promote
Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) among students, along with how
translation tasks may also contribute to the learner's gain in becoming
intercultural writers. The author places demand on the need for new
task-oriented language learning formats to assure prosperous communication
methods. Finally, Chapter 9, "The Didactic Use of Translation in Foreign
Language Teaching: A Practical Example", Anna Kokkinidou and Kyriaki Spanou
give matter-of-fact recommendations on issues that range from literary
translation drills for contrastive analysis (CA) to advice on the
text-linguistic process.
While Part 1 introduces some attributes of antecedent and prevailing
translation in teaching, the smaller section of the volume, Part II,
investigates translation within language assessment. Chapter 10, "Test
Adaptation and Translation: The Language Dimension", Samira ElAtia provides
descriptions on back-translations, while in Chapter 11, "Using Translation as
a Test Accommodation with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners",
Sultan Turkan, Maria Elena Oliveri, and Julio Cabrera focus on diverse
learners who are English Language Learners (ELLs), along Culturally and
Linguistically Diverse students (CLDs) around the world. Moreover, Chapter 12,
"Assessing Second/Foreign Language Competence Using Translation: The Case of
the College English Test in China" by Youyi Sun and Liying Cheng, is the
concluding chapter of the book, where Sun and Cheng delve into the College
English Test (CET), for learners of English as a Foreign Language (FL), and
different types of innovative approaches to teaching. The chapter concludes by
calling for future researchers to investigate student´s perceptions, and
strategies involved in the completion of translation tasks.
In this book, each decisive theory of translation research is evident and
distinctly explained. Each chapter begins with imperative literature discussed
early-on in each chapter that delves into the essential focus and main ideas.
In doing so, each chapter serves as a building for the succeeding one, and the
reader is fitted and qualified for what is next. The experiment descriptions
and methodological sections, in each chapter, after the Introduction, gives a
holistic perspicacity, along with matter-of-fact data, concerning the
principal analysis. These methodological procedures construct the places where
we feel the greatest handle of the authors as researchers. The researchers
write frankly about Translation Studies within the discipline with precision
and expertise. We see this aspect from the start, for example, in Tsagari and
Floros' preface about the volume of high-quality original submissions from a
theoretical, and empirical point of view, in addition to how the idea for the
book developed for a long time and across various educational contexts and
countries. Throughout the volume, we also see the authors offer admonishments,
often regarding circumstances in translation research. In Chapter 5, for
example, the authors draw attention to the difference between the Bilingual
Reform framework and the framework for screening language outputs. In other
words, there exists universal constraints which come ranked on a
language-particular basis.
The widespread tone of the book signifies the importance of this work in
language translation research. When the authors provide a concise literature
review of the field, they resolutely spot gaps and impressions in
aforementioned research. In Chapter 7, for instance, Bratož and Kocbek point
to the fact that the use of translation for Second Language Teaching (SLT)
purposes has been negatively affected by its association to the
Grammar-Translation Method. This is, again, the chapter where the authors call
for a fine-grained approach of a pedagogical tool or strategy aimed at
increasing the effectiveness of other successful SLT approaches. The
researchers elaborate on these strategies throughout the chapter, just like
the many other chapters in which researchers thoroughly review and explain.
Consistency remains evident, where almost all the chapters include an analysis
in their empirical studies regarding the topic being measured.
One of the shortcomings of the volume, or lack of, is its content. The Preface
only functions as an extended index, where summaries of each chapters are
given and no more- It doesn't set the tone upon the reader, indicating where
it is that the latest research in translation, as a whole, left off.  Instead,
the tone is distinctly created upon each different author in each of the
chapters. Furthermore, there is no concluding chapter that summarizes the
findings holistically. There is no trajectory made by the editors, as to
indicate where the research in translation currently stands, and what are the
gaps that still need to be filled further on. Rather, each chapter indicates
their own gaps, depending in the area of translation they touched upon. There
are no synthesized results that bring everything together. The volume is
simply a compilation of studies.
Despite some of the criticism, this is a volume compiled of recent theoretical
and empirical studies about language translation research and methodology,
which overall has much to offer. It can be an invaluable resource for graduate
level students, looking to find methodological procedures, along with
translation tasks. The volume also serves as a good reference for researchers
studying pedagogical approaches through translation. Professors teaching the
subject in their classes can use it as an additional resource, and people with
a special interest in translation theories can simply read it for further
knowledge enhancement. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone
interested in translation, or as a reference for Second Language Acquisition
(SLA)/ Education courses.
ABOUT THE REVIEWER
Arnaldo Robles is a lecturer of Spanish in the department of Foreign
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the State University of New York at
Albany where he currently stands as ABD (All But Dissertation) in the Ph.D.
program, specializing in second language acquisition (SLA). He previously
obtained his Master's degree from Illinois State University where he
concentrated in Spanish Linguistics with a subsequent focus in Pedagogy. His
recent research interests include partnering heritage and second language (L2)
learners of Spanish for learning opportunities in L2 pronunciation, and
testing corrective feedback (CF), in L2 learners through computer mediated
communication (CMC), for modified output.


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import (
	"errors"
	"strings"

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	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configtls"
)

const (
	// 8Kb
	saslMaxInitFrameSizeOverride = 8000
)

var (
	errMissingAuthDetails     = errors.New("authentication details are required, either for plain user name password or XOAUTH2 or client certificate")
	errMissingQueueName       = errors.New("queue definition is required, queue definition has format queue://<queuename>")
	errMissingPlainTextParams = errors.New("missing plain text auth params: Username, Password")
	errMissingXauth2Params    = errors.New("missing xauth2 text auth params: Username, Bearer")
)

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type Config struct {
	config.ReceiverSettings `mapstructure:",squash"` // squash ensures fields are correctly decoded in embedded struct
	// The list of solace brokers (default localhost:5671)
	Broker []string `mapstructure:"broker"`

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	Queue string `mapstructure:"queue"`

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}

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func (cfg *Config) Validate() error {
	if cfg.Auth.PlainText == nil && cfg.Auth.External == nil && cfg.Auth.XAuth2 == nil {
		return errMissingAuthDetails
	}
	if len(strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Queue)) == 0 {
		return errMissingQueueName
	}
	return nil
}

// Authentication defines authentication strategies.
type Authentication struct {
	PlainText *SaslPlainTextConfig `mapstructure:"sasl_plain"`
	XAuth2    *SaslXAuth2Config    `mapstructure:"sasl_xauth2"`
	External  *SaslExternalConfig  `mapstructure:"sasl_external"`
}

// SaslPlainTextConfig defines SASL PLAIN authentication.
type SaslPlainTextConfig struct {
	Username string `mapstructure:"username"`
	Password string `mapstructure:"password"`
}

// SaslXAuth2Config defines the configuration for the SASL XAUTH2 authentication.
type SaslXAuth2Config struct {
	Username string `mapstructure:"username"`
	Bearer   string `mapstructure:"bearer"`
}

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type SaslExternalConfig struct {
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By Editor | September 14, 2018 | 0
Week Two of Valley high school football was a good one for the seven teams from the Mission, Sharyland and La Joya school districts. That's because the Big 7 teams went 5-2 on the week. And with one of the games being a head-to-head match-up between two Big 7 teams, it was a given that one of those teams would lose. In other words, 6-1 was the best possible record that the seven teams could post last week, so 5-2 was just one loss worse than the best possible record. And with that one loss being the 5A Sharyland Rattlers' overtime loss to the 6A powerhouse McAllen Memorial Mustangs, the Big 7 really couldn't have had a much better week than it did.
Of those five wins, the biggest were the Veterans Memorial Patriots' and the Palmview Lobos' District 16-5A-1 season-opening wins. That's right in only Week Two, the Patriots and the Lobos are already playing district games. That's because as a result of the University Interscholastic League's (UIL's) most recent realignment, the Patriots and the Lobos are now members of the newly formed District 16-5A-1, a ten team district. And as a result, they each have nine district opponents which results in a 10 game schedule made up of one non-district game and nine district games.
With three of the Big 7 teams having played their Week Three games last night, the Pioneer Diamondbacks at the Mission Eagles and the Juarez-Lincoln Huskies vs the Edinburg Bobcats, there are only three games featuring Big 7 teams on tonight's schedule. And with the La Joya Coyotes at Sharyland Rattlers game being our Game of the Week, which is being previewed separately, let's take a look at the other two Big 7 games being played under the Friday night lights.
Should any of tonight's games be rescheduled, relocated or cancelled due to inclement weather, we will post updates on our Progress Times and Sharyland Times Facebook pages.
Brownsville Veterans Chargers at Mission Veterans Patriots
It didn't take the Mission Veterans Patriots long to shake off their 24-12 Week One loss to the Mission Eagles in the Battle of Conway. That's because they bounced right back in Week Two with a 41-10 blowout of the PSJA Memorial Wolverines.
Patriots' senior quarterback Landry Gilpin played a major role in that victory. With 303 passing yards, a .684 completion percentage, three touchdown passes and no interceptions, Gilpin's passer rating was a near perfect 150.8 against the Wolverines. As if that wasn't impressive enough, Gilpin carried the ball eight times for 139 yards and three additional touchdowns. In total, Gilpin accounted for 442 yards and six touchdowns on the night.
Tonight, the Gilpin-led Patriots will be hosting the 2-0 Brownsville Veterans Chargers in a District 16-5A-1 matchup between two of last year's district champions; the Patriots in 31-5A and the Chargers in 32-5A. The Chargers, who are coming off a 32-12 win over Brownsville Lopez, went two rounds deep into the playoffs last year. They defeated Laredo Nixon by a score of 34-10 in the bi-district round but fell to Corpus Christi Veterans Memorial in the Area round by a score of 55-41.
Even though it is early in the season, tonight's game will almost certainly go a long way towards determining the eventual District 16-5A-1 championship. Whichever team emerges victorious, will not only have a one game lead over the other in the standings, but will also have the advantage if and when it comes down to any head-to-head tie-breakers.
This should be a very competitive game between two teams that are not only brand new district rivals, but are two of the top varsity teams in the Valley.
Brownsville Porter Cowboys at Palmview Lobos
Like the Patriots, the Palmview Lobos shook off a Week One loss to a sister school and bounced back in Week Two with a District 16-5A-1 victory; the loss coming at the hands of the La Joya Coyotes by a score of 39-19 and the win being over the Rio Grande City Rattlers by a score of 37-29.
Coming off last year's winless District 30-6A season, the Lobos have certainly gotten their inaugural 16-5A-1 season off to a much better start. However, if they are going to continue their winning ways and go 2-0 in district play, it will have to be against the 1-1 Brownsville Porter Cowboys tonight at La Joya ISD Pack Stadium.
After opening their season with a 14-3 non-district win over the Port Isabel Tarpons, the Cowboys lost their district opener to Brownsville Pace by a score of 34-14. Like the Lobos, the Cowboys went winless in district play last season. However, unlike the Lobos, who won two of their non-district games, the Cowboys went 0-10 on the season.
So while tonight's matchup may not have eventual district championship ramifications like the Patriots/Chargers game does, both teams will be going all-out to chalk up a district win in hopes of remaining in playoff contention as deep into the season as possible.
This game represents a very good opportunity for the Lobos to go 2-0 in district play. After posting a 0-6 district record last season that would not only be quite a turnaround, but it could be a sign of good things to come.


Reports from practice were that our kicking was very inconsistent.
Considering the time left, if we did get the first down, BYU wouldn't have had time to get 2 drives in and so we would have effectively won the game.
I'm fine with going for it. If we get that first down the game is over. And our defense was lockdown. The probability of BYU getting a TD, a 2 point conversion, covering an onside kick, and then scoring a TD was pretty minimal.
Yes, but if they score a 2 point conversion, the field just got a lot shorter because they only need a field goal. Coaches go for points. Also that tine left also included an interception, running a set of downs and a punt, so I'm not buying the argument about effectively wining the game either.
Does that mean we giving up on field goal beyond the length of extra points?
I was down going for it, and I think the decision was not made by lack of confidence in the kicking game. As mentioned, Cal was moving the ball well, and if converted, the time in the game gets drained, or you get a TD which would have put the game away.
I've only been watching Cal Football for a little over five years, but here's what I think the deal is: We can have EITHER a good offense and a lousy defense, OR a good defense and a lousy offense, but not both. Whoever's Head Coach gets to pick which one.
I think he just got outplayed. Both Garbers and McIlwain looked better tonight than Bowers did the last half of the season.
Not sure what you're getting at. Coaches always sandbag the media, so what? They gave all three QBs a chance to play in Week 1 and Bowers played himself off the field. The staff wanted to see how the players responded to live game play. I have no objection to that.
Also, a missed FG means the ball is spotted closer to your own goal line. Miss on 4th down and it's left at the original spot (unless it's a sack or something). Makes sense if you don't have great confidence in the kicker.
It's unconventional but it seems to me the staff is acknowledging nobody has taken the QB job and ran with it, and they are going to play the people that earn it and sit those who don't. It's the anti-Tedford...and when I think of it that way it seems better. Bowers had a full season to prove himself. Obviously they feel like he isn't getting it done.
Bowers is really horrible at reading pressure and so he gets sacked too often.
I don't see that so much with the other guys.
Bowers might be a better passer than the other two.
But he usually 3rd and long because he gets sacked on 2nd down.
A missed FG is spotted at the line of scrimmage in College. NFL spots it where the kick took place.
The line of scrimmage for the field goal would have been the Utah 20. Instead they started on the 18 or 19.
If they thought Garbers was close, why so few reps and in particular first string reps? He would be better prepared at this point.
The refs were from another conference hanky, Big 12 I think.
Except they were Big 12 refs.
Ah ok. I thought it was the same for both. Point withdrawn!
Not having been at practice, I cannot answer that.
Nah, a missed FG means the ball is spotted at the original spot. A turnover on downs would have been nearly identical. But I agreed with the call, as I think you do.
Anyway, returning to this. I agree with the logic to go for the first down. It was 4th and 2, very makeable yardage. I think the stats say you should pretty much always go for it at that distance. It would not have been an easy chip-shot field goal.
I just didn't care for the play call, with McIlwain retreating from the line. Obviously they hoped to fool BYU and get someone wide open. Didn't happen.
And here I thought we were playing BYU. My bad.
But, to be serious, I thought they should have kicked. It's a what, 37 yard field goal attempt? If the coaches don't have confidence we can make that pretty consistently, we've got trouble.
We'll get our answer soon if a reporter will manage to ask the right question.
If we are in the third quarter, I agree. But it was starting to get late in the 4th with a lead, and JW was going jugular. I support the call in that situation. A first down there burns more clock making it much more difficult for BYU to come back, even if we ultimately have to settle or a FG try. A TD probably puts the game away. And they were doing nothing against our defense.
28?! Did I miss some games where he threw the other 10 TDs? I think Browning is the returning passer by most measures. But I get your point.
Especially since we won anyway. Still, I'd like to see Garbers and McIlwain get entire series instead of switching back and forth within series. They both can run and they both can throw, right now it is too much of a tell when McIllwain is in (though now he should fake the run up the middle, then roll out).


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One for the team
Alan O'Connor
By Jeffrey M. Barker
Photo By Larry Dalton
Long before the River Cats called a capital-city diamond home, the Sacramento Solons went to bat for this town's baseball fans. And before the Solons, the Senators. And before them, the Gilt Edge and the Altas. Sacramento, it turns out, has a rich baseball history. And Alan O'Connor is an expert. The local historian is writing a book on professional baseball's Sacramento roots. He also collects memorabilia, much of which is on display at the Discovery Museum's Gold Rush History Center in Old Sacramento through January 1. Recently, O'Connor took SN&R on a tour of his cigarette cards, bats, uniforms and game programs.
So, how far back can Sacramento trace its professional-baseball roots?
The very first club is the Altas. It's not Atlas; it's Altas. Alta California. … In 1886 we joined the California League. We played two teams in San Francisco and one in Oakland. That was the league. … Back in the 1880s, L.A. was too small, too far away. Baseball was Northern California.
And then we had a team briefly; they were the Senators in the early 1890s.
The late 1890s—1898, 1899 and 1900—the Gilt Edge won the California League three years in a row—a threepeat!
People kind of think now there's the River Cats, and that's the history of our baseball. It's not. Baseball goes back to the—you know, there's an article, I think it was in the 1869 Union, that talks about a championship game being played at the state fair. It wasn't professional, but the guys were really passionate about it. So, it's been here since it came over with the gold rush.
What's Gilt Edge mean?
It was a local brewery's beer. The Gilt Edge. See that glass there? See the edge of the glass? It's gilt. That was a damn fine glass of beer. You know, they spoke different back then.
If you read in the papers in those days, they'd say the Gilt Edge won, or lost, and they'd call 'em the Brewers. We had one of the original Brewers here. That's why I put in some of the beer products, like the bottle and the glass and the label off the beer.
Then, what is a Solon?
Well, in those days, you also called any legislator a solon. If you look back in the Bee … even as late as the '60s—I do a lot of paper searching for information, but I have to pass the political section. "Solons pass law to dam river." A solon is a term for a legislator. In the Greek, it originally means "wise person." So, I'm not too sure how that works today.
When you'd read the papers back then, they'd say, "Senators win." Well, guys just, they don't want to write 'Senators' all the time, so they'd say Solons. So, they started becoming the Solons, from about—earliest record, I'd say, is about 1911 up to '35, they interchangeably said Solon and Senators.
Why did you begin collecting this stuff?
You know where Target is? The area south of there? Hollywood Park, Land Park? I grew up there. And a lot of the ballplayers, I went to school with—I was good friends with two of the ballplayers' sons. I used to go get into games. It wasn't too far.
I had a few things, and then I just started. I had accumulated things. When the River Cats came back in 2000—and there was that Ken Burns documentary Baseball—I kind of exploded.
Did you ever play baseball?
Nah. I wish I had. My dad wouldn't let me. It was the Little League syndrome. Yeah, my dad wouldn't let me. He let me wrestle and play rugby, though. … He thought Little League parents were not a good thing. Go to a game, they yell at the kids—that whole syndrome of the parents being too involved. It existed even then.
Do you have a favorite item?
The championship ring. On eBay, this ring came up on eBay. … Another friend of mine from Oakland calls me and says that ring's on there. … He says it's got Herschel's name inside of it. We both know Herschel [Walker]. So, he calls Herschel and goes, "Your ring's on eBay. Is it stolen or something?" Hercshel goes, "My ring's on my hand; it's not on eBay. You guys bid on it. You go ahead." So, and there's one other ring up in Seattle of another player, so that would be the three rings that exist: the one on eBay, the one on Herschel's hand and the one up in Seattle. So, I got this one … well, this one had never been worn. … So I went to the Coast League reunion in May. … He shows up. … So, we swapped rings, and he says, "My name is on that ring." "But it's not on your ring." He says, "Well, shit, they gave me the wrong ring." You know, they always have one sample made. They gave him the wrong ring.
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Q: GroupBox autosize Take a GroupBox, put let say Label inside and then set AutoSizeMode = GrowAndShrink and AutoSize = true.
Two problems will arise:

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*There is a huge gap between Label and bottom of GroupBox (almost enough to fit another Label lol);

*AutoSize doesn't respect the GroupBox.Text property.

Question is how to make GroupBox.AutoSize working properly? Properly means: minimum Width should be enough to fit GroupBox.Text, there should be no gaps below for unknown reason (it's not Margin, nor Padding and it looks pretty ugly).

I've tried to measure string length in OnPaint and setting MinimumSize right there. It works, but I have doubts about this, as if I would want to actually set MinimumSize later - it will be lost after repaint.

Update, here is screenshot:

A: You can get rid of the unwanted yellow space at the bottom by deriving a new class from GroupBox that adjusts the bottom edge a bit. In VB something like ...
Public Class BetterGroupBox
    Inherits GroupBox

    Public Overrides Function GetPreferredSize(ByVal proposedSize As Size) As Size
        Dim ns = MyBase.GetPreferredSize(proposedSize)
        Return New Size(ns.Width, ns.Height - 15)
    End Function

End Class

A: It's simple that the location of your Label is fixed at some point other than (0,0), try this:
label1.Location = Point.Empty;

You may also want to try setting the Padding of your GroupBox to 0 for all (default is 3):
groupBox1.Padding = new Padding(0);

A: It seems as though the GroupBox control has a predefined padding of sorts when growing the control if AutoSize = true.  That is, once a control (inside the GroupBox) gets within 20 pixels or so of the bottom of the GroupBox, the GroupBox starts growing.  This causes a 20 pixel or so padding from the bottom of the bottom-most control to the bottom of the GroupBox (as highlighted in yellow by @Sinatr's attached image).
Based on my observations, the padding seems to be less when growing the Width of the GroupBox.
At any rate, you can do something like the following "get around" the issue:
    public void MyFunction()
    {
        groupBox1.AutoSize = true;

        // Do stuff (e.g., add controls to GroupBox)...

        // Once all controls have been added to the GroupBox...
        groupBox1.AutoSize = false;

        // Add optional padding here if desired.
        groupBox1.Height = myBottomMostControl.Bottom;
    }


Pav Bhaji Masala is a popular street food of Mumbai. Mumbai Pav Bhaji Street Style is a spicy mix of veggies served with buttery pavs. Full of flavours, Pav Bhaji Masala recipe is a simple and filling dish, easy to cook.
Buttered pavs or buns with spiced mixed vegetable bhaji or curry is a quick and easy snack straight from the bustling streets of Mumbai. Relish piping hot dinner rolls or pavs served with a spicy mish-mash of vegetables, Mumbai style.
Pav Bhaji Masala – a spiced vegetables mix, cooked with fresh tomatoes and consumed with pan-fried buttery bread. Pav is a small bun and the Bhaji is mixed vegetables dish. Indian Pav Bhaji Chaat is a popular vegetarian street food and an all time family-favorite.
1. For this easy Pav Bhaji vegetarian recipe, wash and cut cauliflower, potatoes, beans, carrots, tomatoes, capsicum and onions into small pieces. Chop the coriander leaves. Make a paste of ginger, garlic and chillies.
2. Heat water in a deep pan and boil beans, cauliflower, potatoes, peas, and carrots till cooked. Strain out the vegetables and mash them lightly.
3. Heat about 2 tbsp oil in a kadai and drop in the chopped onions. Fry till the onions turn pink. Add the ground ginger-garlic-chilli paste and sauté for a couple of minutes.
4. Add the tomatoes, mix well and cook till they turn pulpy. Put in the chopped capsicums and stir for a minute.
5. Add the boiled veggies and combine well. Simmer on low heat for a couple of minutes. Lightly press the veggies with the back of a spoon.
6. Add the spice powders – turmeric, black salt, red chilli powder, pav bhaji masala powder and salt. Pour a cup of water, mix well and simmer for 4-5 minutes.
7. Sprinkle some lemon juice and coriander leaves and remove the bhajee masala.
8. Cut the Pavs into two. Apply butter and lightly toast the Pavs on a pan.
9. Enjoy delicious Pav Bhaji Masala Mumbai style.
If you are looking for more Indian street food recipes, do try out Aloo Chana Chaat and Ghugni Chaat.
Pav Bhaji Mumbai style is a colorful and flavourful Mumbai street food. Learn how to make Pav Bhaji with this easy recipe.
Peel and cube the potatoes. Finely chop the cauliflower, beans, tomatoes, capsicum, carrots, onions and coriander leaves.
Boil potatoes, beans, cauliflower, peas,and carrots till tender. Drain the water and lightly mash the vegetables with the back of a spoon.
Grind ginger, garlic and green chillies.
Heat oil in a pan. Add chopped onions and sauté till they turn a light brown.
Add the ginger-garlic-chilli paste and fry for 1-2 minutes.
Tip in the chopped tomatoes, stir well and cook covered for 2-3 minutes till they turn soft and oil starts leaving the sides. Add the chopped capsicums and sauté for 1 minute.
Add the boiled and lightly mashed vegetables to the tomato mixture. Combine well and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes. Press with back of a spoon to mash vegetables.
Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, black salt, pav bhaji masala and salt and mix well. Add a cup of water and cook for 4-5 minutes till all the masalas are well blended.
Remove and sprinkle lemon juice and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
Slice the pavs into 2 horizontally. Apply butter to each side and pan fry the pavs until golden brown.
Serve toasted Pavs with hot Bhaji topped with chopped onions and coriander.


Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs on May 30, 2015. Weir attended the school as a sophomore in 1962-63, where he met John Perry Barlow, who became a close friend and Grateful Dead lyricist.
Deadheads love to compare notes on their live recordings of the Bay Area band they idolize. Not sure where Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir's May 30 renditions of "Me And My Uncle," "Shakedown Street" and "One More Saturday Night" from Fountain Valley High School is going to fit in the pantheon, though.
Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir Performs "Shakedown Street" during his 50th class reunion at Fountain Valley High School in Colorado Springs.
It turns out that Weir attended the Colorado Springs school for sophomore year, 1962-63. He played football there, too, and in the process he met the team's waterboy, a guy named John Perry Barlow who later became one of the Dead's lyricists.
Bob Weir performs "One More Saturday Night" at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs.
Popular lore is that Weir got booted from Fountain Valley for smoking weed; school officials say it was really a case of general unruly behavior, according to the Colorado Springs Independent. Either way, he recently showed up for his class's 50th reunion -- and picked up a guitar for some surprise performances.
There's more on Weir's visit at The Independent here, and more videos on YouTube here.


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How Currency Hedging Can Reduce Risk
Hedging against currency moves reduces risk in the long-term, but it is a more expensive option for fund investors
Daniel Sotiroff 15/11/18
Funds that hedge their currency risk can be an effective long-term strategy for investors, but achieving this lower volatility can create additional costs.
When investors purchase a foreign investment, they must first convert their home currency to foreign currency. Thus, after completing a transaction, they are exposed not only to the risks of the foreign asset, but also to changes in the value of the foreign currency. This increases overall risk, and these two risks aren't simply additive.
The relationship between exchange rates and local market returns plays an important role in the behaviour of foreign assets. Most of the time, currency movements and returns are positively correlated, so currency risk usually adds to volatility.
For example, the exchange rate between the US dollar and British pound had a positive correlation with the MSCI United Kingdom Index denominated in pounds over the 10-year period through December 2017.
Thus, the volatility of this index denominated in dollars was higher compared with the index denominated in pounds. The opposite scenario is less typical but has played out in Japan over this period. The correlation between the MSCI Japan Index denominated in yen had a negative correlation with the dollar-yen exchange rate. Therefore, the returns of Japanese stocks in dollars were less volatile than those denominated in yen.
Locking in a Future Exchange Rate
Most currency-hedged funds use forward contracts to hedge currency risk. These contracts simply lock in a future exchange rate, and thus eliminate any uncertainty regarding where the currency of interest will trade in the future.
The volatility caused by currency fluctuations is relatively similar across foreign stock and bond indices, with small differences stemming from different currency exposures in each index. But bonds are less volatile than stocks on an absolute basis. Therefore, hedging currency risk from bonds leads to a greater reduction in total volatility as compared with stocks.
Expense ratios are the most explicit cost associated with an investment. In the context of currency hedged funds, expenses for funds that are diversified across a range of countries, currencies, sectors, and stocks are higher than the low-cost alternatives.
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Daniel Sotiroff
Daniel Sotiroff is an Analyst, Passive Strategies Research, for Morningstar.