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Everyone knows that summertime BBQ's can bust anyone's healthy eating habits! Before you know it, instead of skinny dippin, you're chubba tubbin!
Not with this yummy, healthy Carne Asada Taco recipe, perfect for ANY BBQ! Topped with NEW Wholly Red Pepper Mango Salsa, it gives this dish a sweet and spicy kick!
Cheers to health and happiness! - Tania
1/4 cup chili powder
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 pkg Mission Whole Wheat Tortillas
1 lb. flank steak
1 cup black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cup corn (canned is fine however I prefer fresh off the cob and grilled)
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
1 chopped jalapeno (scrape out seeds to reduce heat if feeding kiddos!)
1 avocado cut evenly into slices
1 container Wholly Salsa, Red Pepper Mango
1. Prepare grill for the flank steak.
2. Mix the chili powder and vegetable oil together until well blended and then rub onto flank steak, grill meat for about 3 minutes on each side until medium/rare. Slice diagonally to place into tortillas.
3. Mix beans, corn, onion, cilantro, and jalapeno until well blended and spread onto warmed tortillas. I warm mine in the oven, however some folks are partial to the microwave ;)
4. Add the steak to each taco, place a slice of avocado on top of the steak and top with Wholly Salsa! Delicious!! Even better, you can still wear your bikini after eating this dish!
Serves 6-8 depending on the size of your tortillas, serve hot and enjoy!
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I won't bore you with details, but our weekend consisted of happy hour, a 10 mile run, naps on the couch, Aggie game watching party, football watching/reading/relaxing time and of course, my Sunday afternoon step class. Here's a look at the pics :)
|one. Char and I at happy hour Friday night!
two. Cheers to Friday!
three. Tired puppies
four. Proof that I napped post run Saturday morning! Can you find Moose?
|one. Desserts and veggies for Aggie football!
two. Mashed potato waffles made by Ashley!
three. Aggie woozie! So glad the Ags pulled through last minute!
four. Spinach balls also made by Ashley!
Yup, those are the only pictures I took :) It was amazing.
Don't forget to enter my Avitae Caffeinated Water giveaway! You have until Thursday to enter and win! Just think, with the holidays around the corner now is the time to give up sodas and shed a few post summer pounds! Avitae will help give you a caffeine boost while hydrating you at the same time. Take a look at some other fun facts and benefits about Avitae and enter to win!
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Crafting for a cause
Can crafting help raise awareness of causes? On London Southbank a few years ago, I came across the incredible Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef , which included a Toxic Reef made of wool and the plastic materials we so easily discard.
Yup, those ARE tampons. Well, hey, they end up flushed into the sea, don't they?
What about the Plastiki, sailing through the great pacific garbage patch? The making process gives crafters an inherent sense of materials, waste and production: we know the cost and the time it takes, we understand the qualities of different materials and we re-use them to economise.


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Trick or Treat ?
My husband & I were invited to a Halloween Party .
I'm in charge of bringing the treats ........
My 1st treat ~ Candy Corn popcorn .
( Gluten Free too!)
Ingredients :
- Popcorn : Fresh popped or store bought popcorn of choice (This recipe I used Kettle corn )
- 3 Tbsp Earth Balance butter spread
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 t vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup candy corn (1 small bag)
- 1/4 t sea salt
- Sprinkle Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Chips that are dairy- , soy- and gluten-free and sprinkle flavored candy corn . I used Caramel apple candy corn.
If you are not using store bought popcorn then
the 1st step would be is to start popping the popcorn and set aside.Heat a medium-sized pot over medium heat
and add the Earth Balanced butter spread.
Add the candy corn,
to the butter and stir to combine as it melts.
Add sea salt to the butter & candy corn mixture.
Add brown sugar & stir ...
Add vanilla
and stir until all is combined .
Put the popcorn in a large mixing bowl.
Pour the liquid candy corn mixture on top of popcorn.
Spray your spoon (I prefer a wooden spoon)
with non-stick spray and your baking pan.
Pour the coated popcorn onto the greased baking pan
Spread out the candy corn popcorn
and allow to cool for 30 minutes or until set.
After it cools I'm using a small spatula
to break up the popcorn into pieces.
Sprinkle in the caramel apple candy corn.
Sprinkle in the chocolate chips.
Scrape the popcorn off the baking pan
Into your decorative Halloween serving container.


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Stuart Lancaster will today hand David Strettle an England recall - and put two rugby league converts on stand-by.
Red Rose boss Lancaster is not about to rest on his laurels following last month's momentous win over world champions New Zealand.
The autumn campaign showed he is short of a specialist on the left wing - despite the excellent job full-back Mike Brown did at No.11 against the All Blacks.
So Strettle, capped 12 times since 2007, gets another chance - and the 29-year-old is not the only northern-born player to receive good news.
Joel Tomkins and Kyle Eastmond, league stars at Wigan and St Helens respectively before switching codes just over a year ago, are named in England's Saxons (shadow) squad.
The pair will be joined by Wasps No.8 Billy Vunipola, older brother of Saracens prop Mako, who won his first four caps in the autumn.
Eastmond, billed as the 'next Jason Robinson', has caught the eye at Bath, while Tomkins, older brother of England RL star Sam, has been a fixture in Saracens' midfield.
"From the first day he joined us, Joel has worked exceptionally hard on his transition to rugby union," said Sarries boss Mark McCall.
"He came to us with excellent core skills and that, added to his work ethic and willingness to learn, means he has quickly adapted to union and his performances are improving every week."
Neither will feature in the upcoming Six Nations but Strettle might, when England kick off their campaign at home to Scotland in three weeks.
With England full-back Alex Goode a major injury doubt, Lancaster must decide whether to continue his two full-back selection policy at 11 and 15.
If he does Brown and Ben Foden will play, but if he opts to revert to two strike wingers, Strettle will likely team up with fellow Saracens wing Chris Ashton.
Saracens, ironically, have scored the fewest tries in this season's Premiership - 13 in 13 matches.
Lancaster unveils his 33-man elite senior squad in Leeds today and will include Joe Launchbury, Tom Youngs, Freddie Burns and Mako Vunipola as reward for fine autumn contributions.
Forwards (18):
Props - Cole, Corbisiero, Marler, M Vunipola, Wilson.
Hookers - Hartley, T Youngs.
Locks: Botha, Launchbury, Lawes, Parling.
Back row: Croft, T Johnson/Clark, Haskell, Morgan, Robshaw (capt), Waldrom, Wood.
Backs (15):
Scrum-halves: Care, L Dickson, B Youngs.
Fly-halves: Burns, Farrell, Flood.
Centres: Barritt, Joseph, Tuilagi, Twelvetrees.
Back three: Ashton, Brown, Foden, Goode, Strettle.


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I love getting to photograph outside whenever I can. So...I really appreciate it when families are willing to brave the cold to get some great shots. It amazes me how well the kids can do in this situation too.
Here are a few from a great family session. I got to photograph the littlest one when she was a newborn. It's hard to believe she is six months old now. These two adorable little girls are going to be breaking hearts when they get to be teens.


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Monday, December 10
Marshmallow Madness
Marshmallows are one of those things that NEVER would have occured to me to make. I don't know why. I just always thought they came out of a machine. Ignorant, perhaps, but that was my thinking.
Well, my curiosity was peaked. I knew then and there that I HAD to make marshmallows. Really, just to say to someone: 'Oh, I made a batch of MARSHMALLOWS the other day!'
Before we go further, I just want to post a warning here. Marshmallows are part of that group of foods I like to refer to as 'diabetic disasters'. Here at the beautiful diabetic, I try to post recipes that are good for diabetics, that are well balanced and will even out your bloodsugar over some hours. This is NOT one of those recipes!
Where there are marshmallows, there's trouble.
So, without further ado, marshmallows:
Martha Stewart's Marshmallows (of course SHE would have a marshmallow recipe)
2 1/2 tablespoons unflavored gelatin
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
Confectioners' sugar (for dusting)
Combine gelatin and 1/2 cup cold water in the bowl of an electric mixer with whisk attachment. Let it stand 30 minutes:
Combine granulated sugar, corn syrup, salt and 1/2 cup of water in a small heavy saucepan; place over low heat and stir until sugar has dissolved. Wash down sides of pan with a wet pastry brush to dissolve sugar crystals.
Clip on a candy thermometer; raise heat to high. Cook syrup without stirring until it reaches 244 degrees (firm-ball stage). Immediately remove pan from heat.
(Ok, it got tricky here. I don't have CANDY thermometers lying around. I have a normal thermometer and a doggy thermometer. So, I interpreted the directions to read 'Bring it to a hard boil and remove it from the heat' Seemed to work just fine):
With mixer on low speed, slowly and carefully pour syrup into the softened gelatin. Increase speed to high:
beat until mixture is very thick and white and has almost tripled in volume, about 15minutes. Add vanilla; beat to incorporate.
This is the MOST exciting part about making marshmallows so far! Look at how GORGEOUS that is:
Generously dust an 8 x 12-inch glass baking pan with confectioners' sugar. Pour marshmallow mixture into pan. Dust with confectioners' sugar; let stand overnight, uncovered, to dry out.
Ok. So I did all of that. I kept uncovering them to look at them. I wish you could see them in person. They are SNOW white and have vanilla bean specks in them. I couldn't wait to get home from work today so we could take them out of the pan and turn them into proper marshmallows. Now, suprisingly, Martha really dropped the ball here on the instructions. How does one, A) get the marshmallow slab OUT of the pan and B) once said marshmallows are out, how does one cut them up?
Christopher and I debated about these things and eventually found out that A)Just work a knife around the edges of the pan and lift it out and, B) the best way to cut them was using a pair of household scissors. So, I cut the slab into long strips and then the strips into cubes, and Christopher rolled them in powedered sugar as they dropped to the counter. Covered in powdered sugar we took a moment to absorb the absolute GLORY of the moment. We had MADE marshmallows:
And to make things even MORE perfect, a few years ago, I had bought an antique marshmallow tin:
You have to smile when you read their slogan.
'The Original FOOD'
11 comments:
- In Search Of Balance said...
That is so cool! I always loved the home made marshmallows that come in hot chocolate from City Bakery (NYC). You're such a marshmallow rockstar! And I love the tin :)
- Donna said...
How cool! I'm impressed.
- Everyday Yogini said...
I can hardly believe that you made MARSHMALLOWS!!
Now what are you going to do with all of them??? :)
- Mindy said...
Awesome! I read an article in like Redbook or Good Housekeeping or something about a woman's quest to save money and she experimented with making her own marshmallows and found it was cheaper to buy them. I don't know what the heck she was doing to need so many marshmallows that she would think it might be better to MAKE them but anywho I'm impressed you tried them. They look yummy!
- Kathryn said...
Hey everyone!
thanks for your comments...I love the term Marshmallow Rockstar! I think I will make Rocky Road brownies out of them. I have only eaten one. I'm just not a big sweets person! Luckily.
Mindy, here in Norway, a bag of marshmallows is about 8 dollars. They are considered VERY american and imported. So, for me, the cost of making my own was less!
- Allison said...
Kathryn- I'm new to your blog, but love your recipes and the pictures of them! The marshmallows look so good!
:o) Allison
- Amylia said...
That is so cool.
I am so impressed!
Love the tin, too!
- ALadyInGeorgia said...
First off I'm not diabetic, but my neighbors are. And I found your site and was amazed with it. I have used Stevia for years. Its very sweet and No calories no carbs. But I buy it at a place in Marietta, Ga called Life Groceries. The stevia brand is SweetLeaf and its called Stevia Clear. You can use it instead of sugar and it tastes great no after taste at all. They do make a brand in the reg grocery dept stores but ya know...They always have to mess with things that are fine just the way God made it. Have fun with it!! And take care!
- Mari said...
Hi kathryn!!!
this is exactly what i needed today! jeg bor i bergen, men jeg er fra usa ogsaa! and i wanted to make a friends famous marshmallow gooey chocolate fudge and well i cant find marshmallows anywhere....so this post was great because i can see what brand ingredients to buy to make my own marshmallows!!! thanks so much!
- Burgh Bakes - The Journey said...
For anyone that's interested I make Gourmet Marshmallows and post them out. Please check them out at www.themarshmallowlady.com :-) I do very different and unique flavours using real ingredients and they're delicious!! x
- Fredericka Wilson-Sutter said...
I don't have a glass pan, can I use a metal pan? Thanx!!


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All the snacks have been prepared and the cookies are now OUT of the oven! Can't wait to start reading! 15 minutes to go.
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?
I think my TBR is quite exciting so I can't choose one book but The Girl from Everywhere, The School for Good and Evil and Carry On are definitely on the top!
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?
My chocolate chip cookies and strawberries!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself!
I usually fail miserably when it comes to this readathon - let's change that today!
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what's one thing you'll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?
Well, I've prepared all the snacks ahead of time and I sent my boyfriend to his friends instead of letting him stay home - he always interrupts me! I also have a ton of snacks and I've made a great TBR!
So, the readathon ended 3 hours ago and I'm now doing my wrap up post! I feel a bit behind..
Nevertheless. I had quite a relaxing readathon! I stayed away from all social media - which unfortunately means that I forgot to make updates - so I didn't feel pressured and I just read.
I began with The School for Good and Evil because I've been wanting to read it for a while! A magic school and fairy tales - that's basically everything I want in a book. Unfortunately I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I'd hoped to and even though it is a middle grade it was tough to get through. I'm still debating whether I should write a review or not!
I then picked up Black Box in the final hours before midnight (the 10-11 hour) and I was surprised! It was so intriguing and hard to put down! It's written in second person and it's some sort of spy log. Definitely a great read for a readathon.
I then went to bed and I picked up The Girl from Everywhere the moment my eyes opened. I also found this one hard to put down! It's so different from anything else I've ever read and I just love it! Nix can navigate through time using maps! LOVED IT!
That adds up to a total of 933 pages and I also listened to half an hour - 45 minutes of Flawed as an audiobook!
How did your readathon go?


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NEW YORK — Southwest Airlines plans to buy Muse Air Corp., the two Dallas-based rivals announced Monday, but the deal quickly drew antitrust opposition from a third competitor, Continental Airlines.
Industry observers estimated that the deal, a combination of cash and stock, is worth about $60 million, although officials of the carriers declined to reveal the price.
Southwest, a highly successful airline with a philosophy of no-frills, frequent service, low fares and aggressive marketing, said it would operate its financially ailing rival under its current name. Muse will continue with its primary marketing concept of reserved-seat, no-smoking flights.
'More Artillery'
Timothy Pettee, an analyst with the New York City brokerage firm of L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, lauded the consolidation.
"It gives Southwest more artillery. It can now use Muse to its benefit. In the past, the two were working against each other in pricing and marketing. They won't compete with each other in a manner harmful to either."


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Well let's be honest, this is what it is all about. So many fans spend so many months trying to predict the winner of the contest. We have our favourites, we have our least favourites, and then we have the songs which we know will do well regardless of our own personal tastes. This year I've struggled yet again with the popularity of the Italian entrant, Emma Marrone grunting out 'La Mia Citta' isn't to my personal taste. Another country which has been favourited by fans is Israel and Mei Finegold's 'Same Heart', and once again, I struggle to enjoy the Israeli entrant just as much as my fellow fans. However, one of my personal favourites has been Malta with 'Coming Home' - whereas people have criticised the female vocalist in Firelight, I found her addition to the song quite nice. And then there's France and Denmark and so on. But for once I am loving the United Kingdom popularity! We have just been declared outright winner of the ESC Nation poll, and I'm yet to see us fair badly in any poll or anyone's personal choices. Whether people like it, I haven't seen anyone deny that this will do top 10. PLEASE EUROPE I BEG YOU! The Hump didn't deserve it, Blue sounded awful live, god knows what Pete Waterman wrote for Josh Dubovie, and Bonnie could've bored the pants off someone on an acid trip last year...but this year, we have a great song, a great vocalist, and undoubtedly our best entrant since Katrina and the Waves. Good Luck Molly! I'm hoping you bring it home!
Below is my personal poll of 2014. I've conducted a survey of various online fan polls, fan predictors, I've included an odds scoring system, as well as marks for staging and vocals, and then there's the bonus marks for countries like Azerbaijan who could enter cats drowning and still finish top 10 (no criticism there, I've actually liked all Azeri entries apart from 2008, and the top 5 placings are thoroughly deserved, but let's be honest, what I just said is kinda true). There is NO bias what-so-ever, my own personal favourites weren't given more marks for staging for example, I was brutal with most contestants, but like most other surveys, don't take too much to heart.
First up, here's my prediction of the 10 qualifiers from each semi final:
Semi Final 1
San Marino/Netherlands (I went with the Netherlands)
Semi Final 2
#2 Sweden - 95.3
#3 Hungary - 93.4
#4 Armenia - 90.15
#5 Greece - 83.85
#6 Austria - 81.15
#7 Norway - 79.65
#8 Denmark - 78.3
#9 Azerbaijan - 75.96
#10 Ukraine - 73.51
#11 Spain - 72.7
#12 Romania - 70.64
#13 Italy - 70.56
#14 Israel - 69.35
#15 Netherlands - 68.75
#16 Montenegro - 64.9
#17 Ireland - 63.3
#18 France - 62.1
#19 Germany - 59.45
#20 Finland - 59.09
#21 Malta - 57.6
#22 Estonia - 55.3
#23 Poland - 54.8
#24 Russia - 45.5
#25 Moldova - 36.94
#26 Lithuania - 28.65
Now taking a step back from that - if Lithuania do qualify as I think they will, will they finish bottom? I doubt it. Knowing Lithuania they'll probably end up finishing top half of the board. And there is going to be a shock, there always is. Nobody saw Malta finishing as high as they did last year, or Germany finishing as low as they did. So whose up for predicting the big shocks? I think saying Lithuania will qualify qualifies as predicting a "shock", but next to that I'm staking it out on Georgia. I don't think San Marino will qualify, but good luck Valentina Monetta! From laughing stock to serious contender to heartbroken fans, MAYBE this is your year Valentina!
Good Luck to all those competing at Eurovision 2014! May the singing commence.


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Dangerous Precedent Set With Today's Censure
Wednesday, May 10, 2017, Juneau, Alaska - House Republicans continue to condemn the offensive comments made by Representative David Eastman to a media outlet last week. The comments are without factual backing and target women from rural parts of the state.
Never in the history of the Alaska House of Representatives has there been censure of a member. Censure is reserved for conduct that is damaging and disruptive to the legislative process or implicates a criminal act or ethical violation. Reprimanding a legislator for words spoken sets a dangerous precedent and infringes on freedom of speech.
House Republicans continue to stand firmly opposed to the comments and sentiments expressed by Representative Eastman. Discrimination will not be tolerated by House Republicans. We will continue to embrace the diversity and spirit that makes our state stronger.
The vote to censure Representative Eastman passed the house in a 25 to 14 vote. The House Republican caucus is non-binding and members are encouraged to vote their conscience and the will of their constituents.
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Antique Sea Chart of South Devon by Capt. Greenville Collins
Title: 'To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of Pembrooke and Montgomery Baron Herbert S. Herland etc. Primier Commisfs for Executing the Office of L. High Admiral of England etc. And one of their Ma'ties mos Honourable Privy Council. This is most Humbly Dedicated & prefented by Capt. Greenville Collins'
Publication: The British Coasting Pilot
Date: c.1693
Description: An 18th century Chart of South Devon by Captain Greenville Collins. Featuring a highly decorative title cartouche which depicts an event contemporary to the survey, the 'Landing of King William, Nov. 5th 1688' in Torbay.
Condition: Good paper, bold imprint,folding copy as published. Later hand colouring. Possibly first edition.
Image size: 460 x 572mm, 18 x 22.5 " approx.
Order No. 3113
Capt. Greenville Collins
In 1676 Collins was commissioned by Charles II, and appointed by Samuel Pepys (who was then Secretary to the Admiralty), to chart the coasts of Great Britain and he produced his Great Britain's Coasting Pilot in 1693, this was the first original sea atlas to be produced by an Englishman.
Collins engaged the services of various engravers to cut the plates including Herman Moll, Harris, Moxon and Lamb, final publication was twelve years after the initial commission.


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Defence at the quarter pole
Facts, stats, and observations about the Oilers defence corps 20 games in.
Scoring **** GP, G-A-P PPP P/GP
Souray ***** 19, 7-8-15(7) 0.79
Visnovsky ** 20, 4-8-12(7) 0.60
Gilbert **** 20, 2-9-11(5) 0.55
Grebeshkov * 17, 1-7-8 (3) 0.47
Strudwick ** 17, 0-3-3 (0) 0.18
Staios ***** 18, 1-1-2 (0) 0.11
Smid ******** 9, 0-2-2 (0) 0.22
The Oilers rely more heavily on scoring from the back end than almost any other NHL squad. Oilers currently (thru Monday's games) feature 3 of the top 25 defence scorers in the NHL (Souray 9th, Visnovsky 19th, Gilbert 25th). All 3 rank among Oilers' top 5 scorers; only Nashville and San Jose even have 2 D in their top 5, all other teams 1 or 0. Similarly, Oilers are the only team with 4 defencemen in their top 8.
Sheldon Souray leads the Oilers in goals with 7, while no forward has managed more than 5. The other 29 NHL teams have a forward as their leading goal scorer, although in Nashville there is a tie between a D (Shea Weber) and a F (Jason Arnott).
Tom Gilbert's splits:
as of Nov 1: 10 GP, 0-1-1, -6
since Nov 1: 10 GP, 2-8-10, +3
Dennis Grebeshkov's splits:
Oct 12-Oct 18: 4 GP, 0-4-4, +3
Oct 22-Nov 9: 7 GP, 1-0-1, -8
Nov 10-Nov 20: 6 GP, 0-3-3, +3
Time on ice: Visnovsky is leaned on heavily at evens, 18:35 per game. The rest of the big four all come in right around 16 minutes, Staios 14, Strudwick and Smid 12. Visnovsky also leads the PP at a shade under 5 minutes a game, but ranks a distant 6th among penalty killers at under 1:00 per. Souray makes huge contributions to both special teams (4:45 and 3:55) and thus joins Visnovsky with 24+ minutes of total ice time. The PP has been divided 70/30 between Visnovsky/Souray and Gilbert/Grebeshkov, which is tough to argue with given both of the big money guys have earned a good reputation as a power player. It'll be interesting to see how this morphs as MacT tinkers with the pairings. It's also tough to argue with no other defenceman on the team averaging more than 0:10 PP TOI/G. Meanwhile, Staios and Souray anchor the PK, with Strudwick, Gilbert and to a lesser extent Grebs contributing appreciable time (if not results).
Special teams: On the PP so far, Souray has been The Man. He has been on the ice for 12 of the 15 5v4 goals, with an impressive +8.21/60. Visnovsky, Grebs, and Gilbert are all between 5 and 5.5. The PP is only +2.94 when Souray is OFF the ice, whereas the other guys all see the PP improve from the low +5s to +7 or 8 when they leave the ice. On the PK, Strudwick impressed until the most recent game, and still leads the way with a modest -3.03/60. Gilbert and Souray are semi-respectable around -7, but the other guys are in minus double digits per 60 which is flat out terrible. Visnovsky trails at worse than -14 ... egads.
Corsi numbers of Oilers D (even strength):
Visnovsky +21, Souray +16, Grebeshkov +10, Gilbert -6, Smid -6, Staios -67, Strudwick -82.
ZoneShift of Oilers D (even strength):
Grebeshkov +16, Souray +12, Visnovsky +10, Gilbert +1, Smid -6, Strudwick -22, Staios -28.
From these last sets of numbers it is clear that our third pairing is getting killed out there at evens. Despite the fact Strudwick has started exactly the same number plays in the offensive and defensive zones (52 each), Oilers have been outshot a staggering 134-69 with him on the ice. Staios actually has started more shifts in the offensive zone (73-64), yet the shots against are nearly as bad at 150-93. This has begun to show up on the scoreboard in recent games.
Steve Staios' splits:
First 9 games: +5
Next 9 games: -4
Jason Strudwick's splits:
First 10 games +3:
Last 7 games: -4
On the other hand, there's this from the same source (timeonice.com):
Sv% ON: Smid .983 (in limited minutes), Strudwick .948, Staios .947, Visnovsky .941, Souray .932, Gilbert .906, Grebeshkov .904
... which suggests that perhaps the two veterans are limiting the quality of the shots they allow even as they are getting clobbered in the territorial play. The next two on the list are also veterans who have the decided advantage of creating stuff in the other end. Meanwhile Gilbert and especially Grebeshkov have been doing well in driving the play judging from the above Corsi and ZoneShift numbers, yet both are minus players because … their goalies stink? they've been giving up ten bell chances? The Dice Are Rattling? Yet more grist for the Corsi/shots/shot quality debate that has been a recurring – and fascinating – theme of the Oilogosphere since I've been around and before. At this point I have concluded nothing more than the answer lies somewhere in the middle between quantity and quality, and neither can be trusted on their own to tell the whole story.
The Oilers' current group makes an interesting case study towards this discussion which I will continue to follow with interest.
9 comments:
- Jonathan said...
Good job italicizing the suggests and perhaps in reference to EV SV%, but it won't save you Bruce, it really won't.
I think Staios/Strudwick have been pretty lucky, and their EV SV% in part is a result of playing mostly crap forwards. I also think that if this continues, they're just going to get killed in the stats department, because that kind of Corsi number is just mind-boggling.
- 26/11/08 17:34
- Bruce said...
they're just going to get killed in the stats department, because that kind of Corsi number is just mind-boggling
Jonathan: I agree they're "going to" get killed, starting two weeks ago. Those high high Sv% are unsustainable. I do think there's something to differing shot quality for different style players, but ~.950 is above and beyond and will surely fall somewhat toward (if not to) the mean.
As for facing crap forwards, there is nothing to the QualComp data at this point (they're all 7 in a very tight cluster between +0.03 and -0.01). I share your observation that 24-43 are playing with and against lesser players, in the manner that Greene and Smid did last year. I'd frankly much rather see Smid there this year as well.
If Staios and Struds were "steady" on the PK we could maybe shield them a little more 5v5 and use them to advantage, but as things stand, recently they've been killing us. I think any sane reading of those faceoff numbers and shots data has to conclude that. Surely the second part of their respective +/- splits listed in my post is closer to representative of the flow of play while they're out there.
it won't save you Bruce, it really won't.
On the whole shot quality v. quantity thing, I don't need saving, thank you. I consider myself very open-minded on the issue, although no doubt I am seen to have taken one side (against what I consider to be a fairly extreme and uncompromising position). I have learned lots from this discussion, and my own position is moderating as I come to more fully appreciate the merits of some of the new stats such as those collected at BehindtheNet and TimeonIce. They provide important details even as they don't tell the whole story either.
As I ponder the matter I will continue to turn over statistical rocks to see the little corsis scurrying beneath. The Oilers' group which we observe closely on an ongoing basis will make an interesting case study. As I mentioned during a recent chapter of this debate, the whole point of noticing early "tendencies" in any study is to later see if there's anything to them. There's a very large gulf between hypothesis and Theory, and I'm still very much in the realm of the former.
- 26/11/08 18:41
- Jonathan said...
On the whole shot quality v. quantity thing, I don't need saving, thank you.
I was kidding, Bruce. I'm one of those guys who doesn't view statistical interpretations as show-no-quarter warfare. I just liked how diplomatically you tried to put it.
- 26/11/08 19:37
- slipper said...
The QualComp thing is probably more valuable as the season wears on. Somewhere on the internet VF did a decent job showing it's value by taking comparing players who ranked high in Qualcomp to the minutes they played against "known superstars".
The one thing that bothers me is how it's adjusted on a team by team basis using GF-GA/ON-OFF. So right now the Red Wings are playing stellar from the bottom of their roster up, and those who play against Zetterberg are registering "soft minutes".
@Bruce: Tell me how you are determining the quality of chances through a goaltender's save percentage. This was what I was alluding to over at LT's. As far as I can see all that can be derived from an EV SvPCT of .950 is that the goaltender is stopping 95 out of 100 hundred shots. Is there a model or method you are using to gauge shot quality that I am missing?
- 26/11/08 20:00
- dstaples said...
I can tell you one thing, Visnovsky has played well overall, as his Corsi attests, but he's been on the ice for some whopper shots against, mainly because he made some horrendous neutral zone mistakes that directly resulted in goals against.
This is what Corsi and even scoring chances doesn't measure, the quality of that scoring chance, and Visnovsky, in the first 15 games, may well have directed play in a positive direction, overall, but his horrendous goal-causing errors cost points in the standings.
Was this bad luck on his part?
Was it because he has such a high range factor -- as the baseball guys put it -- and that kind of guy is prone to making more errors, since he gets to more balls. That's an interesting notion.
Anyway, I don't know why he made so many errors, but I do know he made them, far more than any other Oilers d-man.
- 26/11/08 21:41
- Bruce said...
The QualComp thing is probably more valuable as the season wears on.
Slipper: Agree entirely. Last year I had a reasonable amount of confidence in both QualComp and QualTeam indices, but this early season I notice they're all over the map. Presumably confidence will rise with sample size. Nonetheless, your point about performance only within team context is bang on, and to my mind a weakness in BtN's method. Not all teams add up to 100%.
Tell me how you are determining the quality of chances through a goaltender's save percentage.
I'm not "determining" anything, it's a passive observation. As the sample size mounts, the goalie's performance on this shot or that shot should become less of a variable. Assuming (perhaps dangerously) that over time he will mostly "stop the shots he should stop", a player's Sv% ON should begin to reflect the true quality of opportunity that is happening when he is on the ice. At least, that's the hypothesis.
- 26/11/08 21:43
- Matt said...
At this point I have concluded nothing more than the answer lies somewhere in the middle between quantity and quality, and neither can be trusted on their own to tell the whole story.
There will certainly be disagreement as to where in the middle, but anyone who objects to this conclusion you have drawn is nutty.
There are a few things we can be pretty confident about. No player "earns" a .950SV% behind him (or an .850%) over any reasonably long stretch. Conversely, every player has *some* effect on the sum quality of scoring chances against while he's on the ice, which over time will probably be reflected in the SV% behind him.
I would suggest that a player who is prone to giving up 5-bell chances will see that show up in the Shots/Corsi data, however (having thought it through for not very long). IMO, a lot of examples of great scoring chances against are plays that, if they had been "properly" defended, are not shots/scoring chances at all, as distinct from being a 1- or 2-bell chance.
Mishandling the puck at the opposing blueline, leading to an odd-man rush coming back. Failing to cover an open man in the high slot. Picking the wrong direction to chase somebody behind the net. Etc. The difference is between great chance/No chance, no great chance and good chance.
The odds are, if someone has high SA totals (setting aside QCOMP/QTEAM effects), they are allowing some good scoring chances, even if their SV% is impressive. How good? Like you say, the answer is certainly somewhere in the middle.
- 27/11/08 13:04
- Traktor said...
"Staios actually has started more shifts in the offensive zone (73-64), yet the shots against are nearly as bad at 150-93"
I usually don't put much stock into this kinda stuff but this stat is just alarming.
Nice to see that "our bright shiny object" has been carrying the team.
- 28/11/08 12:58
- PerformanceOil said...
Assuming (perhaps dangerously) that over time he will mostly "stop the shots he should stop", a player's Sv% ON should begin to reflect the true quality of opportunity that is happening when he is on the ice. At least, that's the hypothesis.
I think it is a reasonable one, thought the question is, how to test it?
Great look at the defence corps. In general though, if the forwards were getting the job done (incl. the PK), I think the defence would look a hell of a lot better overall.
Then again, maybe crappy defencemen are leading to crappy transitions chances, but I tend to disfavour this idea (purely subjective) since we know at least three of our defencemen have skill sets suited for that job (and even Souray, whose passes are often ugly, seems to be moving the puck to open skaters at the very least).
A bit off topic, but the one thing I have been struck by is how slow the Oilers have looked this season. I believe this is a reflection of the system they are playing (either in execution or formulation), since we KNOW we've got jets on this team.
What really disturbs me though, is that at the beginning of the year, execution and team-play were clearly problems. Yet, individual skill was still obvious. Now, I feel like I'm watching an AHL caliber team (and when AHL call-ups don't look a lot worse than anyone else, I'm not dissuaded from this view).
Arguments about just how good of a team (on paper) the Oilers are is beside the point. They should be good enough to compete, and so far, they haven't. And based on the limited view you've presented, it's the forwards dragging the team down, not the defence.
Hopefully an answer is found soon, because this is getting painful to watch.
- 29/11/08 00:15


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Well, OK, that's a lie. I do know what happens next, but I'm having a hard time explicating it in prose. It's similar to writer's block, but it's more existential. Or, y'know, not… >.>
Anyway. Anubai chapter 8 has been posted, and chapter 9… has one line so far. So, my best guess of when I'll have it done is "maybe sometime this week?" which doesn't really satisfy even me, so I can accept some skeptical looks.
As to what's been holding me back (setting aside ennui) I just picked up Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel for my PSVita. And I've been having fun. So yeah, slow on the writing front. On the other hand, I have effectively dropped a third to half of the novels I was previously reading every day, so there's that. Eventually, I'll get something done. 😛
Well, I did write one short piece, but… it's the introduction to another series, supposedly. I'm saying it doesn't stand well on its own, but… when I went to write the first actual chapter, I pretty much blanked. So, no release for that in the near future either… 😐
…Is it just me, or is this a list of things that I failed to accomplish this week? Enough of that.
Here's a picture of a wheel loader to improve the mood.
Well, it improves my mood, anyway. 😉
I actually committed a huge error when I was putting this together, to the point where I would actually be unable to complete the last step, because a certain piece was flipped the wrong way. I had to carefully unbend a bunch of tabs, with… mixed results. 😦
Still, it came together in the end. And thanks to where the mistake was located, you have to look very closely to see the damage I did repairing it. You can't see it in the picture, for example. 😉
Anyway, that's four out of five in the CAT line of models. Next in queue, I have a merry-go-round (as a sort of palate cleanser from the difficult models), followed by a Humvee. Oh, and I have to start that train model at some point — it looks like a fun build too. 😉
Thanks for visiting, and I'll be posting something on Wednesday. Not sure what, yet, but I'll find something… 😀


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Ashland High School band and chorus students proved that with trips last month to two national music competitions and festivals.
The full concert band landed a superior rating from judges at the National Adjudicators Invitational in the Windy City, also earning the second highest score of 14 groups and first place in their division.
The chamber chorus and concert choir combined for a five-day trip to the national Festivals of Music in Toronto and earned an excellent rating and second place in the competition.
"It was just a fun trip all around," said junior Alex Alden, who went on the chorus trip. "We bonded a lot."
David Gresko, director of bands, and Lynne Hammond, chairwoman of the high school's Unified Arts Department, said students have reason to be very proud. "We're a small school and we stood up OK against those other groups," Gresko said.
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Students also participated in music clinics at both festivals. Plenty of fundraising went into both trips.
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Students took the performance in stride and came away proud of their work. "I felt fully prepared," Hamblen said.
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If you were to walk into Downsize Fitness, a new gym in Dallas, you would notice that things are a little ... different.
There are no mirrors, the windows are frosted and the people are, well, large.
That's because Downsize Fitness is meant specifically for overweight customers. If you're not at least 50 pounds overweight, you can't even join the gym.
"When you're on my side of the scale, it's not inspirational to look at other people in half-uniforms, showing off their bodies, showing off their abs," one member at Downsize Fitness told WTKR in Dallas. "And I'm sure you don't want to see me in a half uniform. Showing off what abs you can find."
Even some of the trainers used to be overweight. Krisanne Hale said she's lost 115 pounds in the past year, and she can sympathize with her trainees.
Once members reach their goal weight, however, there's no need to worry that they'll get kicked out. Michael Stout, the manager of the Dallas "Downsize Fitness," told the PostGame that the gym encourages people to stick around to serve as motivation to others.
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The owners of the gym, which also has locations in Chicago and Las Vegas, chose Dallas because there is a significant percentage of the local population that is obese. Stout says more than 50 people have joined the gym since it opened in late August.
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Don't have time to fix it myself, but will send a couple of bug reports to the mailing list. Meanwhile, what is your favorite qemu version?
Update: meanwhile (7/Feb/2012) SCSI and Leon3 issues are fixed, thanks to Thomas Higdon and Fabien Chouteau.
I'd have to say 0.90 was a favoite as it could run Nextstep... lol
that being said, 1.0 feels like a giant step backwards, plenty of things don't work on windows... I think its glib but I haven't bothered to try to debug it...
and for some reason the default disk access methods are SLOW ...
And I recall the MIPS being kind of weird in 1.0 crashing way too easily as well...
My favorite is 0.11.1. It is the last one which could run HelenOS/ppc32.
Jakub, have you reported this to the qemu-devel@? I think Andreas Färber really cares about ppc-prep. It might be a good test case for him. At least HelenOS used to be a good test case for sparc64.
To boot HelenOS under 0.11.1, do you use OpenBIOS or OpenHackware?
I reported this once, but no one gave a damn about it.
It's OpenBIOS v1.0 built on July 5, 2009.
We are tracking this using HelenOS ticket #407:
Note that it's not clear whether this is a HelenOS, Qemu or OpenBIOS bug. It is possible to use this older version of OpenBIOS with some newer versions of Qemu. Unfortunately, 0.12.* has some other problems with loading HelenOS. The newer versions can boot HelenOS with an old OpenBIOS but crash shortly after boot.
I had reported a couple of months ago that I had had some success with Solaris 8. Unfortunately, I spoke too soon. My success had been with Qemu during the April-May 2011 time frame. When I started to try to work with Qemu again in January, I found Qemu much less usable. I went back and tried various old combinations of Qemu and Bios's to see if I could replicate my earlier success. Here are notes about my attempts to run the VM booting Solaris 8 from qcow2 disk image. If it is of any interest.
0.9.1 - Would not compile (under Ubuntu)
0.10.6 - Would not boot (could not find boot program)
0.11.1 - Would not boot (could not find boot program)
0.12.5 - Would not boot (spurious interrupt at process level 10 ... repeating ad infinitum)
0.13.0 - Boots Ok. But hangs during init processing after enabling networks.
0.14.[01] - Boots Ok. Oracle 7.3.1 dies with ORA-00600.
0.15.[01] - Fails during initialization of Solaris with a Qemu segmentation fault.
1.0.[01] - Boots Ok. Oracle crashes. Syslog only works sporadically.
So, you are running Oracle under emulated Solaris? This is interesting. Out of curiosity, why not just take the Linux version?
The pre-0.13 results are not really surprising, these versions lack my patches. The 0.15 must be the consequence of the new shiny memory-api...
But 1.[01] regression is unexpected. Gonna take a look into it, but not very soon. Right now I'm playing with the SPARC bleeding edge - the sun4v emulation.
P.S. Has your company changed its mind about using emulation, is qemu your hobby now, or are you not the bearcat I think you are?
Same bearcat.
No, sorry they've not changed their mind about how to address the obsolescence issue with the product.
Yes, just a hobby.
The workstation used with the product in question is part of a medical device. It requires a lot of paperwork, cost, time, to get approval from the multitude of country regulatory agencies around the world to sell the device. As such we had been looking for a way to replace the obsolete hardware that would not require much in the way of software / application updates.
A very old version of Oracle (7.3) is part of that medical device. There was no version of the DB that was an option for other OSs (at that time, for example, NT was not as reliable as needed - a requirement to reboot daily just did not cut it), there was no Linux version.
So, for now as part of my hobby, I'm just evaluating VM maturity with those applications that I am familiar with (and which I know highlight issues with the current VM).
On looking back at my notes, I realize that I did not keep track of the OpenBIOS versions used which would have been useful.
Also, I did not add it to my notes from 0.14 and later that the spurious syslog issue did exist. I thought that might be a useful troubleshooting path to follow. But, with the current questionable stability of Sparc32, I've held off.
I've noticed your comments about Sparc64. Does that mean I should try that? Or is your success contingent upon inclusion of your own patches (proprietary?)?
Correct. I haven't submitted the sparc64 patches upstream.
Right now I consider submitting upstream a subset which would allow running Linux. I think that would make sense: free version to run the free OS and a paid version to run a proprietary OS.
Here is some more detail about which version to use. There are two tables, one for Qemu in VirtualBox Ubuntu machine, another for Qemu in native Ubuntu machine.
Rows are Openbios version. Column is Qemu version. All are Sparc32, Solaris 8.
Notes are for booting of Solaris to the login prompt (unless otherwise noted).
X of Y means the boot was Ok X times out of Y attempts. The number (n) is a note about what happened during the unsuccessful boot.
When things seemed to be doing very will I did 10 attempts instead of 5.
Hmm, I tried to put this in a table using html "table", "tr" etc, but blogger.com did not like it. I guess it is not too readable.
Ubuntu inside VirtualBox
| 0.14.1 | 0.15.1 | 1.0.1 | 1.1rc1 (0511)
1047 | 3 of 5 (1), (2) | 0 of 5 (1) | 2 of 5 (2) | 8 of 10 (2)
1057(less 1056) | 3 of 5 (2) | 0 of 5 (1) | 3 of 5 (2) | 9 of 10 (2)
Native Ubuntu
| 0.14.1 | 0.15.1 | 1.0.1 | 1.1rc1 (0514)
1047 | 3 of 5 (2) | 4 of 5 (3) | 1 of 5 (2) | 3 of 5 (2), (3)
1057(less 1056) | 8 of 9 (3) | 4 of 5 (2) | 0 of 5 (2) | 3 of 5 (2), (4)
(1) Qemu Segmentation Fault
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Arches Theatre Festival
- Kirstin Innes
- 27 March 2008
Sound Stage
As the carnivalesque riot of the Arches Theatre Festival rolls around again, Kirstin Innes previews some of the genre-defying acts on offer, including David Leddy's new work Pater Noster
'Well, it's kind of hard to describe. I'm sorry, I just have to meet the person whose party this is . . . Hello! I'm back. There are two dressing rooms which are used for musicians, and there's a room next to it with washing machines in it, and then there's that tiny room between the two. And we're in that tiny room. It's going to be completely blacked out . . .'
David Leddy is in Delhi, at a garden party for the 'frighteningly, crazily rich,' struggling to think himself back to Glasgow to explain exactly which part of the Arches his new work, Pater Noster, will take place in. Typically, for a festival which tries to cram as much into one labyrinthine building and a week-and-a-half as possible, the venue is essentially a glorified cupboard. However, this is exactly the sort of effect the playwright, currently best known for 2007's intensely moving Home Hindrance, was looking for.
Pater Noster is the latest in the playwright's interconnected Auricula Series, a chain of site-specific, short and brilliantly crafted audio works listened to on headphones, which Leddy describes as 'part radio play, part avant-garde sonic art'. The glorified cupboard is working for him because Pater Noster is set in an elevator – Arches Theatre Festival audiences will only be able to go in one at a time.
'The thing that really set this one going was the sound of the lift in my building – it's quite a musical lift! The sound rumbles and rises as you get higher, so that was my starting point, really, that I wanted to make something with the sound of a lift in the background.'
A 'paternoster' is actually a kind of door-less lift, often used in Eastern Europe, but Leddy has chosen a loaded term for his title. 'Pater Noster' is also the Latin translation of 'Our Father', it can also refer to a rosary, a string of glacial lakes, a town in South Africa and a type of pasta. The piece may prove equally hard to categorise. Once in the 'lift', the single audience member will experience a text which, Leddy says, is best described as 'like David Lynch – I thought of him because of that strange sense of abstraction you get in his work – whispering in one ear and Bob Dylan in the other. I thought of Dylan because of the way that his lyrics will move you from one place to another, from one line to another, very rapidly, changing ideas.
'The text itself, which moves around between lots of different locations, is much more abstract than a lot of the other works that I've made, so I wanted to make it something that you experience very swiftly and intensely, which is one of the reasons why it's in the dark. Each audience member is going to be totally immersed in the sound and text, in that tiny blacked out room.'
Leddy is in India on a writer's retreat, putting the finishing touches to his next play, Sub Rosa, which opens in January. The site-specific piece also ferrets out odd spaces around a theatre; this one will take the audience around the warren of disused corridors and bars at the Citz.
'Sub Rosa is set in Victorian times, and it's very strange to be writing it here: there are lots of parallels between Victorian Britain and contemporary Delhi, the huge wealth and huge poverty. This garden party I'm at is frankly obscene – everyone has servants and they treat them all terribly. It's all feeding into the next play. Strange to think that I'll be sitting in the heat, itching and writing it, while people five–and–half hour's time difference away are experiencing Pater Noster – listening to my voice whispering in their ears in a dank basement in Glasgow!'
Pater Noster runs from Thu 10–Sat 19 Apr, every 15 minutes between 6pm and 10.15pm.
From refugee memorials to muddy-footed performance art, naked fairytales and musical trampolines, we round up a few other examples of the sublime and the ridiculous on show during the Festival
Graeme Miller is, variously, a visual artist, a composer and a theatre-maker – exactly the sort of genre-hopping, visionary type the Arches likes to cultivate. His contribution to the Festival is actually an installation, exhibited previously and to huge acclaim at Theatre Workshop during the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Beheld consists of ten delicate glass bowls, each of them attached to an image and a recorded sound taken from a particular geographic location – a suburban garden in Paris, a Homebase carpark in Richmond, a field near the Black Forest – where the body of a refugee stowed away in the wheel cavity of an aeroplane has fallen to earth. Like the talking rings in HG Wells' The Time Machine, each of these bowls, activated when held in the viewer's hands, functions as a memorial and a looking-glass into another kind of world.
Thu 10–Sat 19 Apr.
In past years, the Theatre Festival line-up has featured international big hitters like Derevo and the Riot Group. Filling that slot this year is Russian-born, Czech-based company Teatr Novogo Fronta, bringing a new touring production of their 2004 Fringe First-winning physical theatre piece back to Scotland. Dias de las Noches is set among the Soviet Union's refugee artistic community in Buenos Aires, on a swelteringly hot night in 1974. It's a dark, dream-like mixture of narrative, dance, circus movement and the kind of visual imagery that scorches itself onto the retina, and is thoroughly recommended.
Thu 10 & Fri 11 Apr.
It's 1989. Seattle's mighty Sub-Pop label dominates the grunge scene, Dido can't get hold of her dealer, and tonight Jeremy's band have totally got a gig supporting the Lemonheads. Madi Distefano's one woman show, the sort of performance that the over-used phrase 'tour de force' no longer has the power to describe, was a sleeper hit at last year's Fringe. It's probably one of the straighter pieces of theatre in a programme packed out with multi-genre experimentalism, but don't mistake its minimal production values for lack of punch.
Wed 15 & Thu 16 Apr.
The Arches have been handing out this prize annually for seven years now, offering Scotland's best young directors the chance to stage a fully-funded and mentored production at both the Arches and the Traverse. Past winners have included Cora Bissett, Neil Doherty and Davey Anderson. This year the winners are Rob Drummond (better known as one of Glasgow's most promising young actors) with Sixteen, a sinister piece about a 15-year-old girl counting down the minutes until she can legally have sex with her much older boyfriend, and Daljinder Singh, who has previously worked with Akur Productions, TAG and the National Theatre of Scotland, with the atmospheric The Severed Head of Comrade Bukhari.
Tue 8–Sat 12 Apr, then touring to the Traverse, Edinburgh.
Yes, it's a woman wearing a tent as a ballgown and hanging from the ceiling by her hair. Award-winning German dancer and sculptor Maren Strack invites her audience to get muddy, literally, as they join her on a camping trip, and metaphorically, as she revisits the hipsters and scenesters of New York's Mudd Club, teetering on the brink of the 1980s.
Tue 15 & Wed 16 Apr.
. . . Last year's surprise hit, Ann Liv Young, taking on Snow White (mostly) naked, Art Raid, a 'happening' where the audience are politely invited to a gallery and then encouraged to nick the paintings, an orchestra of musical trampolines in the appropriately-titled Trampoline Orchestra, the return of Tim Crouch's 2006 Fringe smash An Oak Tree, and outgoing artistic director Andy Arnold in his final-ever Arches performance, as part of Scratch Night.
Arches Theatre Festival runs from Tue 8–Sat 19 Apr. Visit www.thearches.co.uk. Tickets start at £3, or £35 for an all-inclusive Festival pass. View our listings.


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An approved Save as You Earn (SAYE) Plan is savings related and allows an employee or director to acquire an option to buy a certain number of shares at a fixed price at a particular time. All employees and directors, whether full or part-time, are eligible to participate although a company can specify a qualifying period of up to five years employment before participation.
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No NICs liability, or income tax charge, arises when the proceeds of the savings are used to buy shares. However, an income tax charge does arise if the option is exercised within three years because of takeover or the business unit in which the employee works is sold. No NICs liability arises because the shares cannot be said to be readily convertible assets.
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