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UMES advances to title match
Vanderbilt, FDU to square off in rolloff to reach final
WICKLIFFE, Ohio -- After Friday's four Baker-style match-play sessions, we know that Maryland-Eastern Shore will be in Saturday night's final match trying to be the first team to win back-to-back titles since Nebraska in 2004-05.
Who the Hawks' opponent will be Saturday night remains very much in doubt.
That's because top-seeded Vanderbilt defeated Arkansas State in the losers' bracket Friday, then defeated winners' bracket foe Fairleigh Dickinson 4-0. Therefore, Vanderbilt and FDU will square off Saturday at 12:40 p.m. ET to determine who will face UMES for the championship.
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|Day 1: Vanderbilt earns early lead
UMES head coach Kristina Frahm knows one thing -- she's happy to have her team in the final.
"I'm really proud of the girls. They worked hard all day. They came back from our struggles yesterday. We're going to relax the rest of [Friday] and all day [Saturday] and come in here Saturday night ready to roll."
The Hawks struggled through Thursday's qualifying, earning a modest No. 5 seed. Friday was a completely different story. After getting by Sacred Heart 4-3, the defending national champions defeated Vanderbilt 4.5-1.5, then got the 4-1 win against Nebraska.
Frahm, who was a competitor on UMES' title team of a year ago, said a small change in lane conditions proved huge for her team.
"We could play the gutter today," she said. "We could start a little further outside and then make small moves in. [On Thursday] we were in a little bit deeper. I think we were a little bit better on the [lane condition] transition today and we made better shots."
UMES got into the final out of the winners' bracket by defeating one-loss Nebraska 4-1. The Cornhuskers, who started Thursday qualifying round with four consecutive wins, went 2-5 since that block.
"Every day the tournament starts over," Nebraska head coach Bill Straub said. "Every day they start the tournament over. The scores are thrown out. The wins and losses are thrown out. When you start the tournament over every day, it's hard to predict what's going to happen."
Vanderbilt had a tough match with Arkansas State, winning in six games (235-212-, 226-219, 212-194, 176-214, 193-199, 203-189) to advance to face FDU on Friday afternoon. In that match, it was all Commodores, as the closest game between the two schools was the deciding game, which the Commodores won 199-192.
"Days like today never really get old," Vanderbilt coach John Williamson said. "They're stressful and they can be exciting and invigorating all at once. We bowled like we were capable of in the afternoon, so that was good to see."
What was amazing to see was the performance of junior Sarah O' Brien, who at one point Friday strung 13 consecutive strikes.
"She was just lights out for the majority of the afternoon," Williamson said.
O'Brien's feat is made even more amazing by the fact that she's done very little bowling since December after having to two hip operations.
"It's only been about five weeks since she's been cleared to compete, so what she did was really amazing."
Heading into Saturday afternoon's showdown, despite the fact they come into the match from vastly different perspectives, both head coaches say they'll give their teams very similar speeches before they head into battle.
"We'll talk a little bit about tomorrow, but our mindset is that we go out and try to win four games and see if we can do something special," Williamson said. "Our goal in every tournament is to make it to the last day with a chance to win. We've got that."
Fairleigh Dickinson coach Mike LoPresti said the trick for him is to get his team off the emotional roller coaster it was on Friday after coming back from 3-0 down to beat Nebraska early Friday, then getting swept to end the day.
"We do well in this tournament," LoPresti said. "We've made the semifinals in this tournament every time we've come here. We just need to win one match at a time and execute. Our fill-frame percentage has been excellent, but we have a couple of players right now that are spooked."
So in LoPresti's mind, the key is to minimize the pressure whenever possible.
"It's one match, best of seven against Vanderbilt – a team we've played many times all year long, so we're going to try and downplay this match as best we can and treat it just like a regular-season match," LoPresti said.
"Hopefully we get a good night's sleep and things will change."


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Seminole State College of Florida students are making a difference for elementary school children through a service-learning project taking place primarily at Pine Crest Elementary School.
During the Spring Term, about 70 Seminole State psychology students logged about 600 hours of service assisting classes at Pine Crest. The program is part of Schools and Communities: Together for Tomorrow, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships and the Corporation for National and Community Service. The program seeks to support low-performing schools through volunteerism.
In Central Florida, the program is coordinated by Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) through the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorp program, in collaboration with the Heart of Florida United Way (HFUW).
Since the College's partnership with Together for Tomorrow began in 2012, more than 160 Seminole State students have logged more than 1,600 hours as mentors, tutors and classroom assistants at Pine Crest. Psychology Professors Doreen Collins-McHugh and John Cardenas provide the program with many of its mentors via class requirements or extra credit opportunities.
"Service learning has dramatically improved the quality of my course curriculum and has given the Together for Tomorrow program and schools more volunteers," Collins-McHugh says.
Pine Crest students benefit greatly from the school's partnership with Seminole State, she says.
Moreover, Seminole State students often find the work emotionally fulfilling. More than just a volunteer opportunity, the Together for Tomorrow program is a unique and rewarding chance to become a positive influence in a child's life, according to the mentors.
"I view service learning as a transformational learning opportunity for students," Collins-McHugh says. "Following a model of experiential learning, students get real-life application of the concepts and theories they are learning in the course."
Student volunteers typically spend eight hours per week helping in classrooms each semester. Some volunteers find the experience so rewarding that they continue to work with students on their own time.
"I worked with a student in kindergarten who had trouble speaking and wouldn't even try to talk," says nursing student Nicole Shea, 19, of Longwood. "I worked with the student for two semesters, mainly visiting during lunchtime and recess – we would play games, hang out and have conversations."
The student had to pass a verbal test to be promoted to the first grade, and Shea was able to help her build the confidence she needed to pass.
"She's still pretty shy, but she has opened up a lot, and it's great to be a part of that," Shea says.
Professor Cardenas says service learning is a great growth experience for his students.
"It opens up an empathic part of the mind and helps to change their point of view," Cardenas says. "Working with underprivileged kids helps them get a new perspective on how good their lives are."
Collins-McHugh says she is looking to expand service-learning opportunities at the College this fall and has reached out to faculty to make service learning part of their curricula.
Seminole State's Center for Global Engagement promotes service learning by encouraging students and faculty to engage in projects that affect positive change in the community. To learn more about developing or participating in a service-learning project at Seminole State, email Kevin Konecny or call 407.708.2907.
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Transcript – Health expectancies
Slide 1
This is a short video by the Office for National Statistics, looking at health expectancies for countries in the UK.
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Life Expectancy tells us about longevity, and is defined as the average number of years left to live, from a given age.
For example, for males in the UK born between 2008 and 2010, life expectancy approached 80 years, whilst men aged 65 could expect to live for around another 18 years.
Associated with Life Expectancy, are Health Expectancies. These tell us about the quality of life, showing how much longer a population can expect to spend in a given state of health.
Two measures of health expectancy are produced by ONS. Firstly, healthy life expectancy, appearing as a blue line, tells us how long a population can expect to live in good health. For males at birth in the UK, again according to 2008-10 data, healthy life expectancy was 63 years – a little over 80 per cent of life with good health. At age 65, healthy life expectancy was around 10 years - almost 60 per cent of remaining life with good health.
Secondly, disability free life expectancy, appearing as an orange line, tells us how long a population can expect to live without a limiting chronic illness or disability.
For males in the UK, this measure produces very similar results to healthy life expectancy. For other populations - females in Wales for example - more variation is seen between them.
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Here, we will look at national estimates for the 2008-10 period. Focusing on males at birth, and zooming in firstly on England, life expectancy was 78 years, whilst healthy life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy both approached 65 years.
In Wales these figures were lower. Life expectancy was 77 and a half years, with both healthy life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy below 64 years. Figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland were the lowest in the UK, with health expectancies of around 60 years.
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Now if we look at the situation for females, again starting with England, life and health expectancies were greater than in any other UK country; life expectancy was 82 years, whilst healthy and disability free life expectancy were 66 and 65 and a half years respectively. Scotland showed the next highest health and disability-free life expectancies, both just over 64 years.
Comparing females with males, life and health expectancies tend to be higher, but the gap between both types of measure tends to be greater, which means that females spend less of their lives in favourable health than males.
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Life expectancy has long been on the rise. Vital to communities and government is the question of whether we are spending a greater proportion of life in good or poor health.
Looking at trends in health expectancies over time can help us to answer this question.
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First we'll look at how estimates of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy have changed for males born between 2005-7 and 2008-10. Here you can see that life expectancy has increased over time by almost a year. Healthy life expectancy has also risen over this period by a little over 2 years.
As healthy life expectancy has outpaced life expectancy over time, males born between 2008 and 2010 can therefore expect to live longer, and spend a greater proportion of their lives in good health compared to males born between 2005 and 2007.
Looking at the same comparison for females, we can see that the same thing is happening. Life expectancy has risen by over half a year, and during the same time, healthy life expectancy has increased by 2.8 years.
So, from birth, life and healthy life expectancy are converging, so there is evidence for the compression of morbidity over time; males and females are staying healthy for longer.
To find more on health expectancies, including the latest data, please visit www.ons.gov.uk
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Mayan Art
The Maya did a lot more than make circular calendars and predict the end of the world. They also had an alphabet based on a group of pictures that scientists today call glyphs. These glyphs formed one of the most complicated systems of writing anywhere in the world. Some of the images stand for words or ideas; others represent syllables. Together they not only form a writing system but an elaborate and beautiful expression of stone-carved art. With a handful of craft supplies, your fourth grader can capture some of that artistic magic for his own room.
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- To start, your child is going to need some inspiration. Don't just tell him about Mayan art -- show him! Help him research online or take a trip to the local library. (The glyph featured in the photo above is called Kimi.)
- Have your young artist use a pencil to draw her glyph of choice on the piece of cardboard.
- Which parts of your young artist's glyph will be thin raised lines? And which parts will be larger raised areas like the circles and the oval framing the Kimi glyph? When she has figured this out, she can lay down the thin lines. Do this by laying down a bead of glue along one of these areas.
- Working carefully, she should use the twine to trace this line of glue. Help her cut the twine when she reaches the end of this line.
- Glue and lay twine until all of the thin lines are done.
- Now have her pick out the areas that she wants to look like raised blocks of stone. Put down a thin layer of glue. Using coils or single lines of twine, fill these areas.
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Authorities said a second person has died from a single-engine plane crash in suburban Chicago.
The flight originated from the Georgetown-Scott County Airport and was trying to land at Clow Airport in Bolingbrook.
Police said the small plane crashed into a tree and a light pole, then hit several vehicles, when it crashed into a parking lot outside a bank.
Authorities said a woman was killed and a man was taken to Loyola University Medical Center with burns.
Bolingbrook Police Lieutenant Michael Rompa says the man died shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday.
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By Michael Weigand, PGA, ICG
The PGA Tour comes back across the pond this week for yet another open championship -- the RBC Canadian Open.
Though the Canadian Open garners far less attention than last week's British Open, Canada's open championship is one of the oldest annually held tournaments in golf. And, its history and list of former champions is just as impressive as the other more famous championships.
Walter Hagen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino (three times) and Tom Weiskopf (twice) all make the list of former champions.
Over the past 30 years, Greg Norman (twice), Curtis Strange, Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk (twice) have all hoisted the champion's trophy. The tournament returns to Hamilton Golf and Country Club in Ancaster, Ontario for this year's edition of the event.
The last time the tournament was held at Hamilton, Jim Furyk grabbed the first of his two Canadian Open titles. Furyk figures to be in the mix for this year's event, as well.
Here now, the iCHOOSEGOLF Fantasy Five for the RBC Canadian Open.
Kyle Stanley: We haven't talked much about Kyle lately after giving him a lot of "ink" in the opening months of the season. After a gut-wrenching meltdown and eventual playoff loss at the Farmers Insurance Open in January, Stanley rebounded with a win the following week at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. He followed that with two more top-25s at the end of February. Unfortunately, Kyle posted seven MCs and only one top-50 finish in the following four months. Things appear to be on the rise now, however. Stanley finished T22 at the AT&T National, T19 at the John Deere and posted a solid first three days at the British Open last week. The key to Stanley's game seems to be in the putter. The good news: that putter seems to be heating up after posting six rounds in the 60s in his last three events. Look for Kyle to keep the hot hand rolling this week in Canada.
Brandt Snedeker: File this pick under the "redemption" category. The selection might also fall into the "hacked off and looking to prove something" section. Snedeker led the British Open after 36 holes last week and looked in prime condition to grab his first major championship. A weekend of 73 - 74 however, left Brandt in a tie for third and feeling a bit like he let an opportunity slip through his fingers. Expect that scenario to be a huge motivation for this week. Snedeker is ranked 5th in Strokes Gained Putting, 9th in Birdie Average and 24th in Scoring. He's a great player and should be looking to prove something this week. That's a great combination for fantasy golf owners.
Hunter Mahan: Hunter appeared to be a solid pick for last week's British Open but couldn't quite get anything going. Mahan finished T19 after four consistent, if unspectacular, rounds. Conditions (and pressure levels) should be different this week and Mahan will be looking to "fire" things up. Hunter is currently ranked 3rd on the tour in Greens In Regulation, 9th in Driving Accuracy and 16th in Scoring. With stats like these, Mahan is always a good pick. Smart fantasy golf players won't overthink things this week and won't overlook Mahan when making their roster selections.
Jim Furyk: It's usually a good idea to at least consider former champions when making fantasy golf predictions. "Horses for courses" is more than just a catchy rhyme, after all. Furyk won the Canadian Open the last time it was held at Hamilton G&CC so it's clear he's comfortable with the layout. Furyk is also looking like a guy who is ready to win again. He came close at the Transitions Championship in March (lost in a playoff) and the Crowne Plaza in May (finished 4th). If not for one bad hole late in the U.S. Open, Jim would have likely hoisted his second major championship trophy. Furyk is currently ranked 4th on tour in Scoring thanks in large part to a no. 29 rank in Strokes Gained Putting. He's also 5th in Driving Accuracy which should help Jim to a deep run this week.
Matt Kuchar: Lost amid the Adam Scott collapse and subsequent Ernie Els coronation last week was yet another strong finish for Matt Kuchar. Matt finished T9 at Royal Lytham to give him two top-10s in his last two events. Kuchar hasn't missed a cut this season and has finished outside the top-30 only twice in 15 events. Matt is ranked 19th in GIR, 35th in Driving Accuracy, 21st in Birdie Average and 2nd in Scoring. Often, fantasy golf success isn't about rocket science. And it doesn't take a PhD to know that Matt Kuchar is a smart choice for this week.
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Bob Knight, appearing on ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike" Tuesday morning, said "It's as though [the NBA] raped college basketball," when discussing one-and-done players.
Here is the full quote, which came in response to a question about the readiness of players like Jabari Parker and Andrew Wiggins, who both struggled in their final NCAA Tournament games:
"If I were involved with the NBA I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid, to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid. On top of it all, the NBA does a tremendous, gigantic disservice to college basketball. It's as though they've raped college basketball in my opinion.
"Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA."
No follow-up question was asked regarding Knight's comment.
This isn't Knight's first run-in with casually using the word rape. In a 1988 interview, Knight, when asked how to handle stress, told Connie Chung, "I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it."
More than 25 years later, Knight still doesn't seem to grasp the seriousness of that word.
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A Corner Hall Tree for Small Entry Way Storage
If you're lacking coat closet space, how about adding a corner hall tree for small entry way storage? It offers much more than a basic bench. It also provides much more than mini models. It takes advantage of valuable space that would otherwise go unused. Most narrow units offer just two or three double hooks. If you have an empty corner that's at least 23.8″ wide at the base, you have room for the following unit. It has a charming built-in appearance, and it's ideal when seeking storage solutions for a small foyer. Guest's outerwear doesn't belong on a doorknob or a bed. With a beautiful corner hallway rack, they can easily hang their coat and hat on a hook. It also offers a small bench with a shoe rack. It's perfect for a small entrance or mudroom.
Consider a Belham Living Richland Hall Tree
When seeking a hall tree for a small space, consider Richland by Belham Living. It's a corner hall tree for small entry way storage, but it offers many more features than others of the same size. It's a four-hook model with an upper shelf and two lower shelves for shoes. It's a great solution for those lacking square footage. It can transform a tiny foyer into a more functional and stylish space. The entrance is the first area seen by guests, and it should look as great as it functions. It can with the following stylish hall rack. It would coordinate beautifully in a home with painted white woodwork.
Features and Details of a Belham Corner Hall Tree for Small Entry Way Storage
- 70″H x 23.8″W x 23.8″D
- Crafted from MDF engineered wood, solid pine, bead board, and birch veneer
- Antique white finish
- Four bronze double hooks
- Two shelves for footwear storage
- Built-in corner bench
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Outfit the Upper Shelf with a Basket
If you need an entry way storage option for gloves, mittens, hats, scarves and other outdoor gear, make use of the upper shelf on the aforementioned corner hall tree. Use a woven basket of the appropriate size. It's a great way to add storage space to an open unit. It will look like it belongs on the shelf. Choose a basket with a fabric liner or go with rattique to avoid snags. Choose lidded basketry to prevent dust when storing the contents longterm. They're available in countless styles.
Garden Stools Add Color, Style, and More
Basketry is a phenomenal storage solution with open shelving in any location. To highlight the basketry, how about adding a garden stool with a woven design? Place it next to the hall tree or any other available area in the entyway. They take up very little room. It will provide another place to sit, or it could be used as a stylish plant stand. It's a very versatile entryway furnishing that can be used elsewhere in the home when it's time for a change.
Safavieh Castle is a Lovely Choice
The above Safavieh Castle Gardens Collection Lattice Ceramic Garden Stool is a lovely choice. It's available in white, robin's egg blue, and light blue. Place it alongside the a corner hall tree for small entry way storage. As previously mentioned, it can serve double-duty as a plant stand or as another place to sit to put on or take off shoes. It will also enhance the function, color, and style of your entrance. The hall tree above is displayed with an upholstered chair. A garden stool or two will take up less room while improving the function and style of the entrance. If space allows, one on each side of the Belham Hall Tree would look phenomenal.
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As The Foursquare Church gathered in Anaheim, Calif., for Foursquare Connection 2015, pastors and church leaders from 43 nations came together under the theme "Sent" to establish new relationships, strengthen old ones and prepare for the continuation of our Great Commission work, till all have heard.
Alongside challenging messages, passionate worship and powerful times of prayer, the ongoing Reimagine Foursquare initiative was covered in the business sessions. Great achievements were celebrated in the Five Stakes as we see more resources returned to the local mission of the local church.
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I just bought a book called Under the Cherry Blossom Tree [or Once under the cherry blossom tree], it's an old Japanese tale retold by Allen Say and I bought it because I really liked the illustrations and sound of the story even though it's classed as a children's book, [I wish they'd done a bilingual version!].
I'd like to see it in Japanese even though I won't be able to read it!
I know that sounds ridiculous
Does anyone know the story's Japanese name? Is it available online?
I've tried Google [and a quick forum search], but have only come up with the book I bought and a dodgy looking film that's apparently a Japanese ghost story
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=87Vm ... &q&f=false
The books says it's a folktale, and inside it says:
In joke houses (yose) throughout Japan, countless generations of audiences have been entertained by joke tales called rakugo, which means dropped words or punch line. A performer, whose success is largely determined by his individual style of telling, always begins with a short tale - called a pillow (makura) - intended to set the mood for the longer stories to follow. Under the Cherry Blossom Tree, one of the most popular and ancient makura, is a classic example of this distinctive tradition of humor.


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As an individual who loves coaching, developing and supporting pastors in their pursuit of ministerial excellence, the Rev. Jamaal Nelson is well-suited to his role as director of American Baptist Home Mission Societies' "In Support of Excellence" program.
"I am deeply invested in this work because I believe that faith-based leadership can change the world for the better," Nelson says.
Its pilot launched in late 2016, "In Support of Excellence" is a Lilly Endowment-supported financial-literacy program that seeks to equip American Baptist pastors and lay leaders with the knowledge, skills and tangible resources to help ameliorate financial burdens and catalyze emerging leaders to drive transformative impact in churches and communities. The program offers financial-management best practices, leadership coaching, self-care strategies, targeted relief from economic distress and seed funds to incubate new ministry models.
"I hope to equip and inspire the next generation of pastoral leaders in their pursuit of ministerial excellence," he says.
Nelson has five years of experience as a church planter and more than 10 years of experience as a nonprofit executive, managing large teams and multimillion-dollar budgets.
In his free time, he enjoys watching movies and spending time with his family and young children.
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- B.S., Vanderbilt University, Nashville
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|Draft Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (The United States of America) Order 2002 and Draft Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Lithuania) Order 2002
Dr. Vincent Cable (Twickenham): I apologise to the Minister for missing her introductory comments. She made a couple of remarks in responses that I want to follow up. I do not want to make any preamble, but I fully support the principle behind the measure, which seems eminently sensible. I worked in international business before becoming a Member of Parliament and I can see the point in clarity, simplicity and avoiding regulation. I can also see the advantage to Governments of preventing companies from playing one Government off against another. That is important.
I have two questions. The first arose from an exchange involving the hon. Member for Orpington. I do not understand why it is necessary to have very large numbers of agreements—I think that the Minister gave the figure of 106—or why we attach such value to that. On that basis, all the other OECD countries presumably have the same number, so we are probably talking about 1,000 bilateral tax treaties, generating an enormous amount of subsidiary litigation. I know very little about international taxation and tax law, but I know a little about international trade negotiation, where the principle of multilateral agreements is established.
It seems an obvious way forward for the OECD pro forma agreement to be elevated to the status of a treaty, under the OECD or the World Trade Organisation, and for individual countries to ratify it. I do not know whether the Government have suggested that or are even pressing for that. It would mean that, instead of hundreds or thousands of treaties, there would be one unified treaty that did not have discrimination or treaty shopping built into
Column Number: 22it. That would be much simpler. There may be a simple answer to that question, but I pose it to the Minister.
Mr. O'Brien: I dare say that the Minister might have other reasons for doing so, but I hope that she agrees with me that the primary concern is that the arrangements are strictly bilateral and need to be negotiated bilaterally. I certainly support that, as does my party. To cede that to a supranational body would possibly lay open to confusion the need to raise tax at local jurisdictional level, rather than to consider it as something at a common level. The model of the OECD is there to be followed, but to tailor-make it to each bilateral arrangement is critical to the arrangements.
Dr. Cable: The hon. Gentleman misunderstood the point. The purpose of multilateral trade agreements is not to create a supranational body that sets every individual country's trade policy but to create a set of rules by which the system is governed. Multilateral agreements on tax would have precisely the same effect and would be beneficial, but I should be interested to hear the Minister's answer.
My second question concerns the Minister's response to the question raised in a slightly bantering way about devolved Governments and the Liberal Democrats' enthusiasm for local income tax. Her reply brought out the much more important point that the American states do not accept federal jurisdiction over large areas of taxation. She will remember that, a few years ago, the state of California, whose economy is the size of the UK's if not bigger, repudiated the whole idea that the United States Government could fix tax regimes for multinational companies.
I should like an assessment of what the cumulative impact of all the various state exemptions will be on the flow of capital between the United States and us. At first sight, given that the states have a key role in income taxation and company taxation, it is probably a substantial part of the overall set of tax arrangements, but perhaps the Minister could clarify that.
5.48 pm
Dawn Primarolo: On the question of a bilateral or multilateral approach, there is a multilateral approach in the sense that the OECD now recommends a model treaty, which we and the United States follow, to try to standardise the types of agreement. The hon. Member for Eddisbury made a point about the rights of taxation or another reason why there are, or need to be, bilateral arrangements. The most obvious answer is that countries tax in different ways. Their economies are different, they respond in different ways, their trading relationships are different, they specialise in different areas, and it is patently obvious that the world is very complex, especially with ever-expanding globalisation. The OECD offers the framework—the model taxation treaty is the multilateral approach—but the bilateral agreements are still necessary because states are, rightly, in charge of their own tax decisions, and all the relationships are different.
The United Kingdom has a huge network that reflects our long-standing status as a trading nation. Not every country has double taxation agreements, let
Column Number: 23alone many of them. However, the world and its economies are becoming more interrelated, and that is why the OECD has considered having a model tax treaty. We use such a treaty, but not every country does, and the purpose of many of sittings of our Committees is so that I may explain why there are exceptions. The OECD recommends that there should be no article on teachers in standard treaties, and the United Kingdom and the United States also take that view. However, both countries have been persuaded that there are particular benefits to having such an article, and the protocol has restored it to the treaty. The protocol therefore allows for finessing and for the nuances and major differences.
I must say that it is not for me to account for state exemptions in the United States. I have enough problems being required to account for the tax system of the United Kingdom, varied as it is. We do our best with our treaties and treaty partners to have meaningful agreements that take account of all developments. However, as I told the hon. Member for Eddisbury, a tax treaty does not remove the United Kingdom's ability to use other parts of its tax legislation to deal with a situation in which it believed that it was losing revenue. In fact, Finance Bills tend to be substantially passed, whether through our controlled foreign company legislation or by taking away offshore pooling and bringing it onshore as they do in the US.
This is a very complicated area, and neither the United Kingdom nor the United States can get it 100 per cent. right. However, both countries believe that this is a good, sound treaty, which enables them to facilitate their businesses and the movement of people between them without subjecting those people to double taxation. It does not mean that there will not be problems in the future. I am sure that there will be problems—there always are—but this is the best way forward. I am sure that the hon. Member for Twickenham will know only too well from the experience he gained outside the House of Commons before he was elected how the tax treaties are crucial in particular industries.
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Mr. O'Brien: I thank the Minister for her extensive replies to my extensive questions. I shall not crave the indulgence of the Chairman or the other members of
Column Number: 24the Committee by taking any more time at this stage. However, to conclude what has been proper scrutiny of this very important treaty with the United States and an equally important, in its own relative terms, treaty with Lithuania, it is critical that business has the opportunity to take note of these proceedings as it looks to chart what are always uncertain commercial waters with as much certainty about the taxation system as possible.
The Minister helpfully said that she will write to the Committee with a list of benefits. I dare say that members of the Committee, like me, are already holding their breath for that letter. Given my willingness, which I hope that I have demonstrated, to agree that the whole process is desirable and the right way to take us forward, I would be more than happy for Her Majesty's official Opposition to co-sign the letter, if the Minister wished us to, rather than her running any risk of being accused of using it as possible Government propaganda. I place on record my gratitude for everything that she has done.
Dawn Primarolo: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind suggestion that he would like to co-sign the letter. He will understand that at this stage I shall have to decline his offer because our current parliamentary majority does not require it. I hope that it never will.
Mr. O'Brien: I hope that that was not too churlish of the Minister. I want it placed on record that we fully support the perceived benefits. What matters is to create the maximum amount of certainty and I hope that our proceedings will have assisted with that.
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Netflix's new true-crime show Making a Murderer condenses three decades' worth of legal drama into ten episodes, meaning there's a lot pertaining to the case of Steven Avery that gets left out. But the prosecutor who convicted Avery of a murder Avery claims he did not commit is now accusing the directors of omitting crucial evidence pointing to Avery's guilt. Ken Kratz, speaking to People, says that records of Teresa Halbach's fear of Avery were not shown, and that not all crime-scene evidence was mentioned. "You don't want to muddy up a perfectly good conspiracy movie with what actually happened," he says, "and certainly not provide the audience with the evidence the jury considered to reject that claim."
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Public Opinion Strategies also lists the Missouri GOP as one of its clients on its website, though a spokesperson for Public Opinion Strategies told Catanese that the company "has not done any work for the Missouri GOP in years."
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When Wes Craven, one of my all time favourite horror directors, sadly passed away in August 2015, aged 76, I felt really sad. Although all we horror fans can no longer look forward to a new Craven production, we can of course always savour and revisit the wonderful legacy he left with such classic franchises as A Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream.
Wesley Earl Craven was born on 2nd August 1939. He was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, by a strict baptist family, who did not approve of his watching the more extreme kinds of movies for which he was later to become so famous. However, they didn't mind him watching more innocent, family oriented films like the Disney ones.
Craven graduated with an Honours Degree in Psychology and English, later attaining a Master's Degree in Philosophy and Writing. He then went into teaching, and while he was in this profession he made a short action feature with a student film club in Potsdam, New York. Much to Craven's surprise, this film actually made a fair amount of money for him, and this undoubtedly encouraged him to pursue film making seriously.
Craven's first major feature film was the notorious horror The Last House On The Left (1972), on which he collaborated with Sean Cunningham. This movie, about two travelling teenage girls who are viciously attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of psycho killers, shocked audiences all over America, and even made the video nasties list. And the movie's notorious reputation was only exacerbated by the fact that it came out just a few years after the horrific Charles Manson murders at Sharon Tate's home.
In 1977, Craven directed his second horror masterpiece: The Hills Have Eyes. This movie centred on a group of tourists who fall victim to a group of dysfunctional cannibal killers in the vast desert. Craven, apparently, got the inspiration for this movie from the 16th century story of the notorious Sawney Bean Clan, who were said to have committed similar atrocities along the costal pathways of Ballantrae, Ayrshire.
When Craven made A Nightmare On Elm Street in 1984, he certainly brought something outstandingly different to overdone slasher genre in the form of the hideously disfigured dream killer, Freddy Krueger. The Elm Street series of movies – although becoming a bit too facetious for some horror fans with all those Freddy wisecracks – went on to become one of the largest, lucrative franchises in American cinema history.
In 1988, Craven temporarily departed from the slasher genre to make The Serpent and The Rainbow. This was a voodoo/zombie movie reminiscent of the kind of films made so famous by such directors as George A. Romero and Lucio Fulci.
Twelve years later, Craven repeated the success of his Elm Street franchise when he made Scream. The creepy white mask that the black-hooded killer wore in this movie, and in all the sequels, became so synonymous with the Scream franchise, and has even become a popular item to wear with Halloween trick-or-treaters.
Aside from all the aforementioned movies, Craven did make some pretty good lesser-known films like Deadly Friend (1985), Cursed (2004), Dracula 2000 (2000), My Soul To Take (2010), and many more.
The tenth episode of the Scream TV series was dedicated to Wes Craven's memory.
Alan Toner


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