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Income tax: relief from the effects of failing to substantiate
Sufficient evidence for exercising the Commissioner's discretion to grant relief
Reasonable expectation that substantiation would not be required
If documents are lost or destroyed
Commissioner's discretion to grant relief where it is unreasonable to expect written evidence to be obtained
Commissioner's discretion to grant relief
Reasonable expectation
Lost/destroyed documents
This Ruling, to the extent that it is capable of being a 'public ruling' in terms of Part IVAAA of the Taxation Administration Act 1953, is a public ruling for the purposes of that Part. Taxation Ruling TR 92/1 explains when a Ruling is a public ruling and how it is binding on the Commissioner.
[Note: This is a consolidated version of this document. Refer to the Tax Office Legal Database (http://law.ato.gov.au) to check its currency and to view the details of all changes.]
1. The Tax Law Improvement Project is restructuring, renumbering and rewriting the income tax law in plain language. The Parliament is amending the income tax law progressively to reflect these aims. As new laws come into effect, Taxation Rulings about old laws are being brought into line with them.
2. This Ruling explains the operation of Subdivision 900-H of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ('the Act'). It also explains the other provisions that may grant relief from the effects of a failure to substantiate expenses (hereafter referred to as 'relief').
3. This Ruling provides guidance on the three circumstances in which Subdivision 900-H of the Act may apply to grant relief where expenses have not been substantiated. These are:
where there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the taxpayer has incurred the expense and is entitled to a deduction;
where the only reason for the failure to substantiate was a reasonable expectation that substantiation would not be needed; or
where documents have been lost or destroyed despite the taxpayer taking reasonable precautions.
4. This Ruling applies to income tax deductions for expenses subject to the substantiation provisions where they are incurred in the 1997 and subsequent income years. These expenses are:
work expenses;
car expenses calculated under the 'one third of actual expenses' method;
car expenses calculated under the 'log book' method; and
business travel expenses.
5. It does not apply to car expense deductions calculated under the 'cents per kilometre' method or the '12% of original value' method.
6. This Ruling applies to individuals and partnerships that include at least one individual. It does not apply to an individual as trustee or any other entity.
7. The general conditions for the deductibility of expenses are not discussed in detail in this Ruling.
8. [Omitted]
9. This Ruling applies from 1 July 1997.
10. This Ruling does not apply to taxpayers to the extent that it conflicts with the terms of a settlement of a dispute agreed to before the date of issue of the Ruling (see paragraphs 21 and 22 of Taxation Ruling TR 92/20).
Previous Rulings
11. [Omitted]
Sufficient evidence for the exercising of the Commissioner's discretion to grant relief from the effects of a failure to substantiate
12. Section 900-195 of the Act provides the Commissioner with the discretion to grant relief in particular circumstances. For this discretion to apply, the nature and quality of the evidence available to substantiate an expense must satisfy the Commissioner that a taxpayer incurred the expense and there is an entitlement to deduct the amount claimed under another provision of the Act. It is a question of fact and degree as to whether the evidence available satisfies these criteria.
13. It is the Commissioner's view that relief is not available where there is no supporting documentation or factual material evidencing the expense. It follows that a taxpayer's estimate of an expense supported only by an assertion that the estimate is reasonable does not constitute evidence of a nature and quality to satisfy the Commissioner to exercise the discretion. (See paragraphs 30 to 45 for further information.)
14. The Commissioner may exercise the discretion before an assessment is made or on review. Where an assessment is subject to review, the taxpayer may supply relevant information and seek the application of this discretion. Conversely, the Commissioner, on reviewing an assessment, can initiate a request for relevant information and consider applying relief. A taxpayer may apply for a private ruling requesting the Commissioner to exercise this discretion before an assessment is made. Full details should be provided of the supporting evidence held and the circumstances surrounding the failure to substantiate an expense.
15. Section 900-200 of the Act provides relief where the only reason for a taxpayer's failure to observe the substantiation requirements was a reasonable expectation that the substantiation requirements would not need to be met. A taxpayer needs to demonstrate that the only reason for the failure was a genuine belief that those requirements did not need to be met and that this belief was reasonable in all the circumstances. An entitlement to claim a deduction must exist under another provision of the Act.
16. This may occur where the taxpayer had a reasonable expectation at the time of incurring the expenses that they would not need to be substantiated because one of the exception categories applied, e.g., work expenses less than $300; reasonable travel allowance expenses; reasonable award overtime meal allowance expenses; award transport payment expenses; laundry expenses of $150 or less. Section 900-200 of the Act provides relief and any right to deduct those expenses is not affected. (See paragraphs 48 to 52 for further information.)
17. An expectation that the substantiation requirements would not apply based on a lack of knowledge of the law does not attract the operation of this provision. There is an expectation that taxpayers have a knowledge of the operation of the law. There are a number of generally available sources of information, including TaxPack, to provide assistance to taxpayers. The section may operate if a reasonable expectation that substantiation is not required is created by the advice or conduct of the Australian Taxation Office ('the ATO'). This section does not grant relief where a taxpayer has carelessly or recklessly disregarded whether an exception to the substantiation requirements would apply.
18. Section 900-205 of the Act provides for relief, subject to certain conditions, if documents are lost or destroyed. The conditions for relief depend on whether the lost or destroyed document is written evidence of an expense under Subdivision 900-E of the Act. An entitlement to claim a deduction must exist under another provision of the Act.
19. The conditions for relief are as follows:
if a taxpayer has a complete copy of a document that is lost or destroyed during the retention period, it is treated as the original from the time of loss or destruction.
if a taxpayer does not have such a copy, any entitlement to claim a deduction is not affected if the Commissioner is satisfied that the taxpayer took reasonable precautions to prevent the loss or destruction and, if the document was written evidence, it is not reasonably possible to obtain a substitute document.
20. A copy or substitute document is treated as the original document if it is:
a complete copy of the document (subsection 900-205(1)); or
a substitute that meets all the original requirements for substantiation (subsection 900-205(5)).
21. However, if such a copy or substitute is not obtained, the granting of relief is subject to the following conditions:
the Commissioner must be satisfied that reasonable precautions were taken to prevent loss or destruction (subsection 900-205(2)); and
where the document was written evidence of an expense, it needs to be shown that it is not reasonably possible for the taxpayer to get a substitute document (subsections 900-205 (4) and (7)).
22. It is necessary for the taxpayer to show that reasonable precautions were taken to protect documents. What might be 'reasonable precautions' depend upon the facts of each case. However, relief is not granted if the circumstances indicate that the loss or destruction resulted from the taxpayer's carelessness or recklessness.
23. What might be 'reasonably possible' in obtaining a substitute document also depends upon the facts of each case. A taxpayer needs to show that a bona fide attempt had been made to obtain a substitute document; or there were reasonable grounds for believing that such efforts would not be successful. (See paragraphs 55 to 60 for further information.)
24. Relief is also available where the Commissioner considers it unreasonable to expect a taxpayer to have obtained written evidence of an expense in any other way permitted by Subdivision 900E of the Act. In these circumstances section 900-130 of the Act allows a taxpayer to make a record of the expense. These expenses can be recorded using the method specified in section 900-125. In such cases the taxpayer is required to make a record of those expenses instead of getting a document from the supplier. For example, a taxpayer can record the details in a diary or on a travel itinerary. The record must be made as soon as possible after the expense is incurred and contain all the details required on a receipt. Such an expense may be more than $10 and does not count towards the $200 limit for small expenses recorded by a taxpayer under section 900-125 of the Act.
25. Examples of where the Commissioner exercises this discretion include toll bridge fees, parking meter fees, cash payments made by police officers to informants and entrance fees to shows where the entry ticket must be handed in on entry. An entitlement to claim a deduction must exist under another provision of the Act.
26. The substantiation provisions of Division 900 of the Act require that certain written evidence be maintained in respect of work expenses, car expenses and business travel expenses. Consistent with the self-assessment environment, taxpayers are not required to furnish written evidence when lodging their income tax returns. A taxpayer must supply it to the Commissioner when called upon to do so. If the required written evidence is not available, generally the expenses cannot be claimed as deductions under the other provisions of the Act.
27. However, in three limited sets of circumstances, subdivision 900-H of the Act provides relief from the effects of a failure to observe strictly the substantiation requirements. For the purposes of subdivision 900-H, subsection 28-150(6) of the Act states that not doing something required by Division 28 of the Act in calculating deductions for car expenses, e.g., keeping a log book or retaining a log book, is treated in the same way as not doing something necessary to follow the rules in Division 900 of the Act.
28. The three sections of the Act that may grant relief are:
Section 900-195 which provides a discretion to grant relief provided the nature and quality of the evidence available to substantiate a claim satisfies the Commissioner that a taxpayer incurred the expense and that there is an entitlement to deduct the claimed amount.
Section 900-200 which grants relief where the only reason for the failure to substantiate an expense was a reasonable expectation that this would not be needed in order to deduct that amount.
Section 900-205 which grants relief where documents have been lost or destroyed despite a taxpayer taking reasonable precautions to prevent loss or destruction.
29. Subdivision 900-H of the Act does not diminish the general operation of the substantiation provisions, but does specify particular exceptional circumstances where relief may be granted. While the circumstances used in the examples included in this Ruling provide general guidance, they do not replace the need for decisions on the granting of relief to be based on all the relevant facts. Rarely is the presence of one factor determinative.
30. Following the introduction of the substantiation provisions in 1986 it was found that those provisions may, in some circumstances, produce an unreasonably harsh result. Accordingly, section 82KZAA was added to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (the 1936 Act) by an amendment in the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (No 4) 1990. That amendment was introduced by the Government in the Senate. When the Bill, as amended, was debated and agreed to in the Senate, it was stated in the second reading speech that '[t]here will be no relaxation of the substantiation requirements in anything other than exceptional individual circumstances' and 'the Government is concerned to ensure that the integrity of the substantiation provisions [is] not threatened'.
31. The discretion in section 82KZAA was enacted to counter specific concerns that unreasonable hardship might otherwise arise. The discretion in the rewritten law reflects similar policy considerations. This discretion allows a common sense approach to the administration of the substantiation provisions. It provides for a balancing of the need for the just and equitable treatment of taxpayers confronted with exceptional circumstances, and the maintenance of an effective regime to only allow taxpayers deductions for expenses they have actually incurred. It supplements the general operation of Division 900 of the Act that requires taxpayers to retain specified documents, as a prerequisite to the allowance of a deduction in respect of that expense under another provision of the Act.
Administrative Appeals Tribunal decisions on section 82KZAA
32. Decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ('the AAT') have provided guidance on the operation of the substantiation provisions. In Case 7/93 93 ATC 135; AAT Case 8590 (1993) 25 ATR 1066, the AAT considered that the purpose and design of the substantiation provisions were to end the practice of making an estimate of deductible expenses without getting receipts or other evidence. The general requirement of the legislation is that if a deduction is sought, the substantiation requirements must be met. In that case the AAT, based on the nature and quality of the evidence, decided not to exercise the discretion under section 82KZAA.
33. In Case 1/93 93 ATC 101; AAT Case 8378 (1992) 24 ATR 1175, a truck driver produced a diary that the AAT concluded was a sham and it was decided there were no special circumstances to warrant exercising the discretion under section 82KZAA.
34. In Case 2/95 95 ATC 107; AAT Case 9918 (1994) 30 ATR 1041, relief from substantiation requirements was granted by the AAT to a truck driver who, based on advice from the ATO, relied on log book entries to support his claim for travel expenses. On the basis of evidence given by the taxpayer and the nature of his employment, it was accepted by the AAT that the expenses had been incurred. It was also accepted that the taxpayer had a reasonable expectation, because of the advice given by the ATO, that the evidence kept was sufficient to substantiate his claims. The deduction allowed by the AAT was less than the daily rate the ATO considered 'reasonable'.
35. Similarly, in Case 9/96 96 ATC 186; AAT Case 10666 (1996) 31 ATR 1349, a truck driver produced a diary that did not strictly comply with the substantiation requirements. The diary format had been accepted by the ATO on a previous occasion. While the case was decided against the taxpayer on the basis of insufficient evidence to establish deductibility under subsection 51(1) of the 1936 Act, the AAT would have exercised the discretion under section 82KZAA to provide relief from the effects of failing to substantiate those expenses. The AAT formed the views that the amounts claimed were incurred by the taxpayer, that he had substantially complied with the substantiation provisions, and that he also had a reasonable belief his diary was acceptable to the ATO based on previous acceptance of a similar record.
Rewrite of the substantiation discretion
36. Section 8-1 of Schedule 2B of the 1936 Act replaced section 82KZAA with effect from 1 July 1994 as a result of the Tax Law Improvement (Substantiation) Act 1995. Section 8-1 of Schedule 2B no longer required the Commissioner to consider the extent to which a taxpayer attempted to comply with the substantiation provisions and whether any failure to do so was deliberate. It also removed the requirement that the discretion could only be considered on review. However, the requirement that the Commissioner take into account the nature and quality of the evidence a taxpayer provides was retained. Consequently, decisions reached by the AAT on the nature and quality of evidence required in order to attract the application of the previous discretion in section 82KZAA are still relevant to the application of the rewritten law in section 900-195.
37. Schedule 2B also introduced a number of practical changes that have made it easier for taxpayers to meet their substantiation obligations. These changes include the removal of the need to sign diary entries; a description of goods and services provided could be recorded by the taxpayer on a receipt or document; amounts shown on a group certificate could be evidence of payment; and bank statements could be used to show when a payment was made. Accordingly, a number of situations which previously may have required consideration of the Commissioner's discretion under the 1936 Act have been eliminated. From 1 July 1997, section 8-1 of Schedule 2B of the 1936 Act was incorporated as section 900-195 of the Act.
New Act
38. Section 900-195 of the Act gives the Commissioner discretion to grant relief where the nature and quality of the evidence available to substantiate a taxpayer's claim satisfies the Commissioner that:
the expense was actually incurred by the taxpayer; and
the taxpayer is entitled to deduct the amount claimed.
39. In reaching this decision, the Commissioner is directed to have regard to the nature and quality of the evidence that the taxpayer has available to substantiate the claim. It is consistent with the terms of the law that no relief is available in respect of a claim where there is no supporting documentation or factual material evidencing the expense.
Sufficient evidence
40. The central issue in deciding whether this discretion ought to be exercised is whether the evidence available:
satisfactorily quantifies the amount of the expense; and
establishes the extent to which the taxpayer is entitled to claim a deduction.
41. It is not possible to specify the nature and quality of supporting evidence that satisfies the Commissioner in all circumstances. Each case must be considered on its own merits and a common sense approach applied.
42. When deciding whether to exercise this discretion, the Commissioner is not limited to considering documentary evidence. A wide variety of factual information can be relevant. For example, in deciding whether the Commissioner is satisfied that car expenses have been incurred and are deductible to the extent claimed, a relevant piece of evidence might be that a particular motor vehicle is used in operating a driving school rather than merely occasionally in producing assessable income.
43. A bona fide attempt to comply with the substantiation requirements is likely to assist taxpayers in relation to the nature and quality of the evidence they hold.
44. If a taxpayer has made little or no attempt to comply with the substantiation requirements, the nature and quality of supporting evidence available is likely to be poor. It is the clear intention of the substantiation provisions that deductions are generally not allowed where there is no supporting documentation or factual material evidencing the expense.
45. In cases where there has been a failure to comply with the substantiation requirements, the taxpayer may face practical difficulties in satisfying the Commissioner that the claimed amount of an expense has been incurred and is deductible. Such cases frequently involve estimates by the taxpayer of expenses incurred. An unsupported statement by a taxpayer as to the amount of an expense incurred does not, of itself, constitute evidence of a nature and quality to satisfy the Commissioner that the discretion should be exercised.
46. Tom, a truck driver, has been requested to substantiate his meal expense claim of $4,000 made in respect of the 1995 income year. He was not paid any allowance in respect of these meals which were incurred when required to sleep away from home while on work trips. Tom maintained a log book that shows he was required to sleep away from home on 100 occasions during the year. Tom has a combination of receipts and diary entries to support the amount of meal expenses for 95 of the 100 work trips he was required to sleep away from home. However, for five nights the diary entries did not record all required information, but Tom states that the cost of meals was similar to other trips. His diary entries show that he spent at least $40 a day on food and drink when required to sleep away from home and this is supported by the receipts he has available. In respect of the five trips where diary entries were not fully completed, his receipts, log book and diary support the fact that he spent at least $40 a day on meals on similar trips to those destinations.
47. Tom requests the Commissioner to exercise the discretion to accept that $200 was incurred for work-related meals on the five trips where diary entries were not fully completed. He claims he is entitled to this deduction in addition to the amount of $3,800 that has been substantiated. Since Tom can show that on similar trips he continued to spend $40 a day, in light of the nature and quality of the evidence available by way of log book entries, diary entries, receipts and the taxpayer's statements, it would be appropriate to apply the discretion to grant relief from the effects of the failure to substantiate expenses.
48. Section 900-200 of the Act allows for relief where the only reason a taxpayer did not obtain or retain documents or written evidence was a reasonable expectation that they would not need to do so, in order to claim a deduction. A taxpayer needs to demonstrate that the only reason for the failure to meet the substantiation requirements was a genuine belief those requirements did not need to be met and that this belief was reasonable in all the circumstances.
49. This may occur where the taxpayer had a reasonable expectation that expenses did not need to be substantiated because they were in one of the exception categories, e.g., work expenses of $300 or less; reasonable travel allowance expenses; reasonable award overtime meal allowance expenses; award transport payment expenses; laundry expenses of $150 or less. This section operates where, due to unforeseen circumstances, the taxpayer is unable to rely upon the exception to the substantiation requirements. In this situation, it must have been reasonable for the taxpayer to believe, at the time the expense was incurred, that circumstances existed allowing the exception to apply.
50. An expectation that the substantiation requirements would not apply, based on a lack of knowledge of the law, is not sufficient to attract the operation of this provision. For example, if a taxpayer failed to substantiate work expenses because of a mistaken belief that only individual expenses over $300 needed to be substantiated, this does not form the basis of a reasonable expectation that substantiation of expenses was not required. There is an expectation that taxpayers have a knowledge of the operation of the law and ignorance of the law is no excuse. There are a number of generally available sources of information, including TaxPack, that provide assistance to taxpayers.
51. Where the advice or conduct of the ATO has created a mistaken belief by a taxpayer that particular records are not required, the belief can form the basis of a reasonable expectation attracting the application of this section. If it is claimed that the failure to substantiate expenses was caused by the advice or conduct of the ATO, full details are to be supplied.
52. This section does not grant relief where a taxpayer has carelessly or recklessly disregarded whether an exception to the substantiation requirements would apply. For example, if a taxpayer failed to retain required documents and had no reasonable basis for believing that work expenses would be below $300, relief would not be available.
53. Joe, an employed mechanic, was requested to provide receipts and other documentary evidence for $500 claimed as a deduction for work expenses in the 1996 income year. These expenses comprised $350 for replacement tools and $150 for laundry expenses. Joe has only had to replace approximately $100 worth of tools annually due to wear and tear, as shown in working papers used to prepare his income tax returns for previous years. Late in the financial year the workshop was broken into and $250 worth of Joe's tools stolen. He has a letter from the police about the theft. Joe replaced those tools and while he has a receipt for that expense he does not have any receipts for earlier expenses of $100 spent on replacement tools because he believed, based on his expenses in previous years, that his work expenses would not exceed the threshold of $ 300 below which work expenses need not be substantiated.
54. On the basis of his expenses in past years, Joe had a reasonable expectation that the substantiation provisions would not apply, i.e., that his work expenses would be less than $300, but this was not the case as a result of an unforeseen loss due to theft. In these circumstances, section 900-200 operates to provide relief from the effects of failing to substantiate those expenses and the right to deduct the amount of $100 claimed for the unsubstantiated work expenses other than laundry expenses is not affected. As laundry expenses do not exceed $150, Joe does not require written evidence to substantiate those expenses.
55. Section 900-205 of the Act allows relief if documents are lost or destroyed, subject to certain conditions. If a taxpayer has a complete copy of a document that is lost or destroyed during the retention period, it is treated as the original from the time of loss or destruction.
56. If a taxpayer does not have such a copy, and the Commissioner is satisfied that the taxpayer took reasonable precautions to prevent the loss or destruction, the following rules apply:
if the lost or destroyed document was a travel record, log book or other document that is not written evidence of an expense under Subdivision 900-E of the Act, there is no need to replace it and any entitlement to a deduction is not affected by the failure to retain or produce the document;
if the lost or destroyed document was written evidence of an expense under Subdivision 900-E, an attempt should be made to get a substitute document meeting all the requirements applying to the original document, except for the time limit for getting that evidence:
if a substitute document is obtained, it is treated as the original from the time of the loss or destruction. Any entitlement to a deduction is not affected by the failure to retain or produce the original document;
if it is not reasonably possible to obtain a substitute document, any entitlement to a deduction is not affected by the failure to retain or produce the document;
if it is reasonably possible to get a substitute document, but it is not obtained, this section provides no protection from the consequences of failing to retain or produce the original.
57. The taxpayer is expected to have evidence available to show that the loss or destruction has occurred and that reasonable precautions were taken to protect the documents, e.g., evidence that the taxpayer's home was burgled or burnt or that a locked car containing written evidence was stolen.
58. It is not possible to define what may be 'reasonable precautions' to prevent the loss or destruction of documents. However, if the circumstances of a particular case indicate that the loss or destruction of a document resulted from the taxpayer's carelessness or recklessness, this section does not apply to provide relief where the taxpayer does not have a complete copy of the lost or destroyed document.
59. It is also not possible to define what may be 'reasonably possible' in all circumstances in relation to trying to obtain a substitute document if the lost or destroyed document was written evidence under Subdivision 900-E of the Act. However, it is expected that a taxpayer show a bona fide attempt has been made to obtain a substitute document or, alternatively, that there were reasonable grounds for believing that such efforts would have been unsuccessful, e.g., if a supplier who provided the original written evidence has ceased trading and the whereabouts of staff and records are unknown.
60. In deciding whether a taxpayer has taken 'reasonable precautions' to prevent the loss or destruction of a document, or whether it was 'reasonably possible' to obtain a substitute document, each case must be considered on its merits. A common sense approach must be applied.
61. Mary changed her address and, while packing and moving, she decided to dispose of old records. She cannot locate her receipts for claimed tax deductions and thinks they may have been thrown out by mistake with some private receipts and paid bills. She cannot get copies of the documents as she is unsure of the names of the suppliers.
62. In these circumstances, it is not appropriate to apply this discretion as the taxpayer is not able to satisfy the Commissioner that she has taken reasonable precautions to prevent the loss or destruction of the documents. Depending on the facts, relief may be available under sections 900-195 or 900-200.
Previously released in draft form as TR 97/D3
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Commissioner's discretion
substantiation
- ITAA97 28
- ITAA97 28-150(6)
- ITAA97 900
- ITAA97 900-E
- ITAA97 900-H
- ITAA97 900-125
- ITAA97 900-205(1)
- ITAA36 82KZA(5)
- ITAA36 82KZA(6A)
- ITAA36 82KZAA
- ITAA36 82KZBB
- ITAA36 82KU(10)
- ITAA36 8-1 of Sch 2B
Case 7/93
AAT Case 8590
(1993) 25 ATR 1066
AAT Case 10666
TR 97/24 history
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Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
Saadia Faruqi
At a time when we are all asking questions about identity, grief, and how to stand up for what is right, this book by the author of A Thousand Questions will hit home with young readers who love Hena Khan and Varian Johnson—or anyone struggling to understand recent U.S. history and how it still affects us today.
Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas—and nearly that long waiting for the chance to participate in the regional robotics competition, which he just knows he can win.
Only, this year is going to be more difficult than he thought. Because this year is the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an anniversary that has everyone in his Muslim community on edge.
With "Never Forget" banners everywhere and a hostile group of townspeople protesting the new mosque, Yusuf realizes that the country's anger from two decades ago hasn't gone away. Can he hold onto his joy—and his friendships—in the face of heartache and prejudice?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 30 AUG 2021
Quiet, bespectacled, robot-loving Pakistani American Yusuf Azeem, who is almost 12, is excited to start the sixth grade until a series of ominous notes appears in his locker. Yusuf's family is one of 11 Muslim families in the small town of Frey, Tex., and the Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism the family has faced have only intensified in the weeks leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Ethan Grant is Yusuf's nemesis: he's a vicious bully and the son of a white nationalist who opposes the construction of a town mosque. Yusuf tries to keep his head down, but when Ethan accuses him of carrying a bomb in his backpack actually a micro:bit "virtual cat" and Yusuf suffers repercussions, he gathers his friends to take on Ethan and his hateful father. Faruqi (A Thousand Questions) effectively intersperses Yusuf's narrative with his maternal uncle's journal entries from 2001; these epistolary interludes, written when Yusuf's uncle was 12, are particularly powerful, capturing the raw emotions of American Muslims at the time and serving to reinforce the importance of learning unwhitewashed histories in this timely, hopeful middle grade novel. Ages 8 12. Agent: Kari Sutherland, Bradford Literary.
Quill Tree Books
More Books by Saadia Faruqi
The Wonders We Seek: Thirty Incredible Muslims Who Helped Shape the World
A Thousand Questions

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How succesful were the predictions for 2009?
Discussion in 'Personal' started by tafkam, Dec 20, 2009.
The annual review of last year's predictions, and an opportunity to make some afresh.
A 100% success rate I'd say.
Almost spot on - baby not yet born, but on the way.
Don't hold up much hope for Winehouse in the next couple of weeks!
So, what are folks offerings for predictions in 2010?
2. General election in May 2010.
3. Alex Ferguson finally retires.
Very spooky predictions from pleugh & cq.
Good point - should have mentioned for those who have not been kicking around this place for donkeys years, that tradition requires 3 predictions for the forthcoming 12 months.
Well, I might as well make mine all political.
1) The Liberal democrats by surprise will get the 2nd most votes but form a coalition with Labour to take control, simply to keep the Tories out.
2) The Queen and/or Margaret Thatcher will die.
3) UK is found to still be in a recession having dire consequences.
1. England will lose in the semi finals of the world cup, but the nation will be sooooo proud.
2. The recession will continue and strikes will increase and the conservatives will win the election and they will make striking illegal for jobs which offer important services.
3. 2010 will see the coldest January on record with harsh snow, putting the global warming theory in doubt.
3. There will be a scientific breakthrough with the potential to make a huge and positive impact globally.
1. The UK will come out of recession in the next quarter, based on miniscule growth, barely measurable above 0.
3. The BBC will come up with a new alternative version of X-factor to try to compete for ratings, but it will be a complete flop.
This is totally in bad taste.
It is disgusting to make predictions of this nature.
I hope you are not a teacher.
That's spooky about kate and peter divorcing. I'm pretty sure that poor old patrick Swayze had already been given a poor prognosis for his cancer, so predicting his death wasn't that hard (and perhaps a bit ghoulish, if you ask me).
I am a bit dim here - who was the high profile person who committed suicide?
There was a link somewhere on the last thread to some German businessman I have never heard off who took his life early in January.
Katie and Peter divorcing isn't that surprising really.
How fabulously highbrow of you.
I thought I read today in the 'paper' - could have been anything below the Mail in quality - that they were getting married again for the sake of the children??
Joe McElderry will disappear into obscurity. Not hard to predict that one.
Who is Joe McElderry? He is already obscure.


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How did Naruto become the Seventh Hokage? His ascent explained
December 1, 2021 by Mabel Whitehead
Naruto's goal from his youth was to become the next Hokage, and his ambition reflected his mysterious ancestry, as well as the desire for attention and approval from a village that hated him. Let's take a look at Naruto's life and how the complicated path he went through helped mold him into the Seventh Hokage.
Naruto Uzumaki was the son of Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze, the latter known as "The Yellow Lightning of Konoha" and the Fourth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village, while Kushina was the host of the nine-tailed fox, but unfortunately during the childbirth she was captured and the Nine-Tails was released from her body, something that caused serious havoc in the village (via CBR).
In the chaos that followed this, both of Naruto's parents died, with Minato sacrificing his life and soul to seal half of the nine tails in Naruto, something that left the boy orphaned and without the privileges he would receive from his parents. In this way his birth was kept secret from the public and he was given his mother's maiden name to continue the deception that he was not the son of the Fourth Hokage.
But eventually all this became public and the village learned that Naruto had within him the destructive Nine-Tails, which made everyone look down on them, treating him like a plague or a demon, so he managed to survive on what little he had. It gave him something similar to a village welfare system.
The hardest part of the matter is that Naruto did not know who his parents were or why the villagers rejected him, this because Hiruzen Sarutobi forbade anyone to mention the creature in an attempt that children of Naruto's age did not. They would hate the way their parents did, but this idea fell through as they rejected it anyway.
So being rejected by his people, Naruto began to resort to practical jokes to get people's attention, and as he grew older he developed the desire to become the next Hokage of his village considering that it was the greatest recognition he could get. Obviously many scoffed at that dream, although the simple attention it received for this seemed satisfying to the young man who longed to be considered by others.
This wish also included a resentment towards Hiruzen Sarutobi as he again assumed the role of Hokage after the death of Naruto's father, and the young man blamed him for not putting a stop to the treatment he received from others and for not intervening when he had problems to survive with little help from the government. Still Naruto respected the old man and despite all resentment he became a kind of older brother to Konohamaru.
So all the harsh treatment Naruto received from the villagers only made him more tolerant and compassionate towards others, as even some of those who looked down on him later were his friends, and with all of this he was more determined to become the Hokage. , finally achieving his goal at the end of the series.
Naruto became a righteous and powerful leader with a perspective on life that was shaped by his complicated childhood and adolescence, although this position also meant that he was not as much with his family as he would have liked.
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As stated earlier, the WAG-12 class electric locomotives will boast of a horse-power of 12,000 and will be able to haul up to 6,000 tonnes.
Alstom claims that the Madhepura project will help create more than 10,000 jobs in India - both direct and indirect. These jobs will be created in the states of Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
As part of the joint venture with Indian Railways, Alstom will also maintain the super-powered double section locomotives for a period of 11 years.
Said to be one of the "largest integrated greenfield facilities", the Madhepura railway locomotive factory is spread over 250 acres. The factory and facility also has a testing track for the locomotives.
According to Alstom, the factory has a production capacity of 120 electric locomotives per annum.
Alstom claims that as many as over 300 engineers from both India and France were involved in designing and engineering the electric locomotive for Indian Railways.
Under the project, the first few car body shells for the locomotives are being imported into India. Eventually, these will be made at the factory in Madhepura.
Alstom is also setting up depots in Nagpur (Maharashtra) and Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) that will be used for preventive and corrective maintenance of the locomotives.
The all-mechanised depots will have paint shops, bogie wash, smart warehousing, under floor wheel lathe etc. There will also be a training center with simulator for training of loco pilots.
These new electric locomotives will be used for freight trains, and will eventually haul trains on the Dedicated Freight Corridors.
The "green" locomotive makes use of eco-friendly LED lighting and also has low voltage cables. The IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors)-based propulsion technology that the locomotive is equipped with helps save energy as it allows for regenerative braking.
The electric locomotives will be able to attain speeds as high as 120 kmph - a fact that will greatly facilitate in faster movement of freight.
In an earlier interaction, Alstom India's Managing Director Alain Spohr had told FE Online that the French major hopes to eventually be able to export electric locomotives out of India.
The 800 electric locomotives for Indian Railways will mean that freight trains on the railway network will be able to travel at faster speeds and carry heavier tonnage.


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Marinos tipped to land rugby CEO's position
By Zoe Samios
SANZAAR boss Andy Marinos is in the box seat to become the next chief executive of Rugby Australia as the search for a full-time successor to Raelene Castle nears completion.
Multiple industry sources familiar with the recruitment process said Marinos, who has led SANZAAR since 2015, was the leading candidate for the top job, which was left vacant when Castle departed after a falling-out with the board in April. Rob Clarke has filled the CEO's role on an interim basis since then.
SANZAAR boss Andy Marinos is expected to become the next chief executive of Rugby Australia. Credit:Getty
RA chairman Hamish McLennan is nearing a decision on a permanent replacement. He is expected to seek approval from the board to sign off on the new chief executive before the end of the year.
Marinos was one of several candidates in the running and fits the profile McLennan and his board have been searching for – an executive with experience in the sport and who understands how to manage relationships with broadcasters.
Other candidates in the mix included former NRL chief Todd Greenberg, former Cricket NSW CEO Andrew Jones, and Chris White, the boss of sport branding and sponsorship company International Quarterback.
The sources stressed that no deal had been signed and there were still other candidates in the mix but said Marinos was in a final round of meetings with key stakeholders.
Marinos has spent his career working in rugby in Australia and South Africa and has experience leading a commercial and marketing division – an area former advertising executives McLennan and Clarke consider hugely important for growing the code's fanbase.
He also worked closely with Clarke during rugby's broadcast rights negotiations this year. Rugby sources indicated that new broadcast partners Nine Entertainment Co (owner of this masthead) and subscription service Stan were impressed by his efforts.
Nine and Stan signed a three-year $100 million deal with RA in early November.
The appointment of a CEO to Rugby Australia would mark an end to a difficult but significant year for the rugby union.
The retirement of chairman Paul McLean, the abrupt departure of Castle and the end to a two decade long relationship with Foxtel are among the major changes for the sport, which is also under a lot of financial pressure.
Zoe Samios
Zoe Samios is a media and telecommunications reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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Q: MVC: Returning Multiple Rows of data to controller I have a table with several rows of data that I need to return to the controller. In my view, I initially load the table by selection of a time period and clicking a button. The table loads all my relevant records but one of my table cells contains a dropdown list. So I should be able make a selection in the dropdown click "update" and my controller saves the changes.
So everything works until I try and save. The model that is sent to the controller is completely null. The list property I have tied to the table cells returns to the controller null.
 @ModelType SuperViewModel
 //We need this a view model in order to store a List of the models in the table

 @Using (Html.BeginForm())
 @For Each i in Model.CompleteList
    Dim currentItem = i //MVC auto-generated extra declarations. Seems redundant to me but it works.
 @

 @Html.DisplayFor(function(Model)currentItem.Name)
 @Html.DisplayFor(function(Model)currentItem.SampleTime)
 @Html.DropDownListFor(function(Model)currentItem.WorkTime, ViewBag.WorkTimeList)

 Next

 <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Update"/>
 End Using

 //Controller
 <HttpPost()>
 function Save(vmodel as SuperViewModel, submit as String) as ActionResult //NOTE: submit parameter is used because we have two submit buttons but its not relevant here
      if submit = "Update"
            db.Entry(vmodel.CompleteList).State = EntityState.Modified//Here the exception is throw because our list is null at this point even tho its tied to the model in the view.
            db.SaveChanges()
      end if
 End Function

NOTE: This is written in VB.NET but C# help is welcome. I am familiar with both languages in MVC.

A: you need to use a for iterator and have the view use the indexed element for the HTML element. I don't know the VB.NET syntax, c# example is below. This allows the model binder to correctly determine the element in the view model so that it can repopulate the view model on postback.

 @For(var i = 0; i < Model.CompleteList.Count; i++)
{

 @Html.DisplayFor(Model.CompleteList[i].Name)
 @Html.DisplayFor(Model.CompleteList[i]..SampleTime)
 @Html.DropDownListFor(Model.CompleteList[i]..WorkTime, ViewBag.WorkTimeList)

}

Your post method should then work fine.

A: It might be returning null due to some conflicts in the parameter name (the parameter names used must be used some where else as well). Try this
<input name="subButton" type="submit" value="Update"/>

and change
function Save(vm as SuperViewModel, subButton as String) as ActionResult

A: I would need to see the names in the markup generated by the DropDownListFor, but I suspect it is because with currentItem you are binding against the CompleteList type, but your controller method is expecting the full SuperViewModel type. There is nowhere in the code you have shown that I see you binding to the SuperViewModel type.
Try changing your controller method to:
<HttpPost()>
 function Save(currentItem as CompleteList, submit as String) as ActionResult //NOTE: submit parameter is used because we have two submit buttons but its not relevant here
      if submit = "Update"
            db.Entry(vmodel).State = EntityState.Modified//Here the exception is throw because our list is null at this point even tho its tied to the model in the view.
            db.SaveChanges()
      end if
 End Function

The WorkTime property should be populated with the selected value from the DropDownList.
Edit: changed the parameter name to match the binding name.

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Gottlieb Siegfried (ou Théophile Sigefroy) Bayer est un antiquaire et orientaliste prussien, né à Königsberg (duché de Prusse) en 1694 et mort à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1738.

Biographie
Il fut professeur d'antiquités grecques et romaines à Saint-Pétersbourg. Il est le premier à avoir théorisé le normannisme sur l'origine de Varègues avec la création de la Rus' de Kiev.

Œuvres
 Auszug der älteren Staatsgeschichte, 1728, Saint-Pétersbourg
 Museum sinicum, Pétersbourg, 1730 ;
 Historia osrhoena et edessena nummis illustrata, 1734 ;
 Historia regni Graecorum Bactriani, 1738
 Origines Russicae, 1741.
 De origine et priscis sedibus Scytharum
 De Scythiae situ, qualis fuit sub aetate Herodoti
 De Cimmerus
 De Varagis
 De Russorum prima expeditione Constantinopolitana
 De Venedis et Eridano fluvio
 Geographia Russiae … ex Constantino porphyrogenneta
 Geographia Russiae ex scriptoribus septentrionalibus
 De Hyperboreis

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Isabelle Jouteur et Michel Mervaud, Les origines de la Russie, de Gottlieb Bayer (1741), Numéro hors série de Slavica Occitania, Specimina Slavica Tolosana IX, Toulouse, 2004.

 Franz Babinger: Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer (1694–1738). Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der morgenländischen Studien im 18. Jahrhundert. Schön, München 1915.

 Knud Lundbaek: T.S. Bayer (1694–1738). Pioneer Sinologist. Curzon Press, London/Malmö 1986  (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series. Bd. 54).

Liens externes

Archéologue allemand du XVIIIe siècle
Naissance en janvier 1694
Naissance à Königsberg
Naissance dans le duché de Prusse
Décès en février 1738
Décès à Saint-Pétersbourg
Décès à 44 ans
Antiquaire du XVIIIe siècle

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The Courage and Civility Award is an annual award distributed by Jeff Bezos since 2021.

The award is accompanied by $100 million for the receiver of the award, to distribute to other non-profit organizations.  Each award comes with a ten-year window in which the funds have to be distributed.

Winners

References

External links

 Bezos, Jeff (2021-07-20). , First Human Flight Post-Flight Press Conference

Awards established in 2021


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2000 AD The Ultimate Collection #19 Nemesis The Warlock Volume One (Hachette, 2017)
ultimate collection #19 ©Rebellion A/S
Series: Nemesis The Warlock
Publisher: Hachette
ISBN/print: 9-772399-777023-05 newsstand fortnightly collection (issue #5)
Size/binding: hardcover (25 x 19 cm)/#19 on the spine
Cover: Kevin O'Neill (from 2000 AD #335)
Title: Nemesis The Warlock Volume One
Artists: Kevin O'Neill, Jesus Redondo
Terror Tube (a Comic Rock strip) (2000 AD #167, July 5 1980)
Killer Watt part 1 (a Comic Rock strip) (2000 AD #178, September 20 1980)
The Sword Sinister (2000 AD Sci Fi Special 1981, June 1st 1981)
The World of Termight part 1 (2000 AD #222, July 25 1981)
The World of Termight part 2 (2000 AD #223, August 1st 1981)
The World of Termight part 3 (2000 AD #224, August 8 1981)
The World of Termight part 4 (2000 AD #225, August 15 1981)
The World of Termight part 7 (2000 AD #228, September 5 1981)
The World of Termight part 8 (2000 AD #229, September 12 1981)
The World of Termight part 10 (2000 AD #231, September 26 1981)
The World of Termight part 11 (2000 AD #232, October 3rd 1981)
The World of Termight part 12 (2000 AD #233, October 10 1981)
The World of Termight part 13 (2000 AD #238, November 14 1981)
The World of Termight part 16 (2000 AD #243, December 19 1981)
The Secret Life of the Blitzpear (2000 AD Annual 1983, August 1st 1982)
The Alien Alliance part 1 (2000 AD #246, January 9 1982)
The Alien Alliance part 2 (2000 AD #247, January 16 1982)
The Alien Alliance part 5 (2000 AD #250, February 6 1982)
The Alien Alliance part 6 (2000 AD #251, February 13 1982)
The Alien Alliance part 9 (2000 AD #254, March 6 1982)
The Alien Alliance part 10 (2000 AD #255, March 13 1982)
The World of Nemesis part 1 (2000 AD #335, September 24 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 2 (2000 AD #336, October 1st 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 3 (2000 AD #337, October 8 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 4 (2000 AD #338, October 15 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 7 (2000 AD #341, November 5 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 8 (2000 AD #342, November 12 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 10 (2000 AD #344, November 26 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 11 (2000 AD #345, December 3rd 1983)
The World of Nemesis part 12 (2000 AD #346, December 10 1983)
If this book features the #19 on its spine, it is the 5th issue to hit the newsstands.
This book also features:
a one page introduction written by Matt Smith
12 editorial pages by Matt Smith "the alienation effect" including cover from prog #167, 223, 230, 238, 239, 246, 252, 257, 337, 340 (in its wraparound form), 343, 349, and 2000 AD star pin-up from prog #287. Notice that the text is an extract from Nemesis The Warlock: A Monography (coming soon from Rebellion)


Alona Vida Beach Resort is located in the center of the popular Alona Beach that boasts a long stretch of powdery white sand and crystal clear waters. This two-storey resort is situated in a tropical garden with 8 Deluxe rooms fully equipped with air-conditioning and ceiling fans, cable TV, bathrooms with hot and cold shower, and outside seating area. Alona Vida has also a freshwater swimming pool. The resort prides itself on its sumptuous European and Filipino dishes along with a vast variety of exotic cocktail drinks at their in-house bar and restaurant, Coco Vida.


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Wolfram de Marco (* 25. Juni 1966 in Ansbach) ist ein deutscher Komponist.

Leben
Wolfram de Marco begann im Alter von sechs Jahren mit dem Erlernen der Violine. Mit 14 erlernte er die Gitarre und gewann später mehrere Auszeichnungen bei dem bundesweiten Musikwettbewerb Jugend musiziert. Nach seinem Abitur studierte er Klavier und Klassische Gitarre an der Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Bereits während seines Studiums arbeitete er als Studiomusiker. Nach seinem Diplom 1992 war er als Komponist und Produzent für die Gerryland Studios tätig.

Von 1994 bis 1999 lebte er in Frankfurt am Main, wo er als Komponist die Musik zu Fernseh-, Werbe- und Imagespots schrieb. Sein Debüt als Filmkomponist gab er mit der 1998 ausgestrahlten und von Wilhelm Engelhardt inszenierten Fernsehkomödie Walli, die Eisfrau. Er konnte sich als Filmkomponist etablieren und schrieb die Musik zu Kurz- und Fernsehfilmen sowie mit Gangs und den Fünf-Freunde-Filmen auch zu Kinofilmen.

Seit 1999 lebt de Marco in Los Angeles und seit dem 27. Juli 2002 ist er mit der US-amerikanischen Schauspielerin Marie-Alise Recasner verheiratet. Dadurch ist er der Schwiegersohn von Ron Recasner und Stiefvater des Schauspielers Kirk Podell geworden.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1998: Walli, die Eisfrau
 2005: Die Bluthochzeit
 2008: Loft – Tödliche Affären (Loft)
 2008: Das Papst-Attentat
 2008: Die Jahrhundertlawine
 2008: Die Zeit, die man Leben nennt
 2009: Eine Frage des Vertrauens
 2009: Unter anderen Umständen – Auf Liebe und Tod
 2009: Gangs
 2010: Unter anderen Umständen – Tod im Kloster
 2011: Visus – Expedition Arche Noah
 2011: Zimmer 205
 2012: Das Kindermädchen
 2012: Fünf Freunde
 2013: Fünf Freunde 2
 2013: Unter anderen Umständen – Der Mörder unter uns
 2013: Eine verhängnisvolle Nacht
 2014: Fünf Freunde 3
 2014: Die Flut ist pünktlich
 2015: Fünf Freunde 4
 2016: Verrückt nach Fixi
 2016: Helen Dorn – Die falsche Zeugin
 2017: In Wahrheit: Mord am Engelsgraben
 2017: Helen Dorn – Gnadenlos
 2017: Helen Dorn – Verlorene Mädchen
 2018: Helen Dorn – Schatten der Vergangenheit
 2018: Helen Dorn – Prager Botschaft
 2018: Fünf Freunde und das Tal der Dinosaurier
 2018: Der Mordanschlag
 2019: In Wahrheit: Still ruht der See
 2022: Der junge Häuptling Winnetou

Weblinks

 Offizielle Internetpräsenz

Komponist (Deutschland)
Filmkomponist
Deutscher
Geboren 1966
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Biografia

Nata Lena Copeland Baskette, figlia di Gladys Rosenberg e di Frank Baskette, il proprietario di un negozio. All'età di nove anni, girò il primo di una lunga serie di film: durante le riprese di Shoes, diretto da Lois Weber, uno dei suoi primi film, suo padre si suicidò. Una morte che, come ricorda l'attrice nella sua autobiografia, la segnò profondamente. Dal successivo matrimonio della madre con il coreografo Ernest Belcher nacque una sorellastra, Marge, che sarebbe diventata famosa come coreografa e ballerina con il nome di Marge Champion. Insieme a lei, la piccola Lena cominciò a studiare danza. Tra il 1916 e il 1922, si affermò come una delle più attive attrici bambine del periodo.

Nel 1923, recatasi a New York con la madre, Lena danzò per John Murray Anderson che cambiò il suo nome in Basquette. A cambiarle il nome di Lena in Lina, fu invece il produttore Charles Dillingham. Ziegfeld la volle per i suoi spettacoli e la sedicenne Lina danzò alle Ziegfeld Follies di New York insieme a Louise Brooks. La grande Anna Pavlova, che l'aveva conosciuta quando aveva interpretato il suo unico film, The Dumb Girl of Portici, dopo averla rivista a New York, le propose di diventare sua allieva e sua erede, incontrando però il rifiuto della madre con suo grande dispiacere poiché la giovane attrice aveva come sogno il balletto classico.

Chiamata ufficialmente "America's Prima Ballerina", Lina continuò la sua carriera con Ziegfeld.

Il 4 luglio 1925, si sposò con Sam Warner (della Warner Bros.), incoraggiata anche dalla madre, che immaginava che il giovane Warner fosse ricco come la gran parte dei produttori di Hollywood. A diciannove anni era già madre e a venti vedova, dopo la morte di Sam causata da un ascesso al cervello complicato da una polmonite.

Nel 1928, il suo nome venne inserito nell'elenco delle WAMPAS Baby Stars, le giovani stelle emergenti dello spettacolo. L'anno seguente, girò un film diretta da Frank Capra.

Nel 1929, è la protagonista di Donna pagana, un ruolo per cui ancora oggi è ricordata e che ha dato spunto al titolo della sua autobiografia, Lina: DeMille's Godless Girl. Il film, girato nel momento in cui il cinema stava passando dal muto al sonoro, racconta la storia di una ragazza atea che si scontra ideologicamente con le idee cristiane di un giovane di cui si innamora. Mentre girava il film di DeMille, Lina cominciò una relazione con il direttore della fotografia J. Peverell Marley che sposò nel 1928.

Nella sua carriera, durata fino al 1943, girò una cinquantina di pellicole, compreso un film del 1991, Paradise Park, ritorno sullo schermo a 84 anni, nel ruolo di una nonna. Nella sua autobiografia, Basquette racconta della tumultuosa relazione che ebbe con il pugile Jack Dempsey e dei suoi numerosi mariti. Del tentativo di suicidio per la depressione che l'aveva colpita dopo che le era stata sottratta la figlia e dello stupro che aveva subìto, aggredita in casa.

Lina Basquette è morta di cancro nel 1994, all'età di 87 anni.

Riconoscimenti
 WAMPAS Baby Stars (1928)
 Hollywood Walk of Fame (Star of Motion Pictures; 1529 Vine Street; February 8, 1960)
 Young Hollywood Hall of Fame (1908-1919)

Filmografia

 The Dumb Girl of Portici, regia di Phillips Smalley e Lois Weber (1916)
 The Dance of Love, regia di Phillips Smalley e Lois Weber - cortometraggio (1916)
 Brother Jim - cortometraggio  (1916)
 The Grip of Crime, regia di George Cochrane - cortometraggio  (1916)
 Shoes, regia di Lois Weber (1916)
 The Human Cactus, regia di Rupert Julian - cortometraggio  (1916)
 The Caravan, regia di Raymond Wells - cortometraggio  (1916)
 Polly Put the Kettle On, regia di Douglas Gerrard  (1917)
 His Wife's Relatives, regia di Louis Chaudet - cortometraggio  (1917)
 The Gates of Doom, regia di Charles Swickard (1917)
The Star Witness, regia di Henry MacRae - cortometraggio  (1917)
 A Dream of Egypt, regia di Marshall Stedman - cortometraggio  (1917)
 A Romany Rose, regia di Marshall Stedman - cortometraggio  (1917)
 A Prince for a Day, regia di Marshall Stedman - cortometraggio  (1917)
 Little Mariana's Triumph, regia di Marshall Stedman - cortometraggio  (1917)
 The Weaker Vessel, regia di Paul Powell (1919)
 Penrod, regia di Marshall Neilan (1922)
 Ranger of the North, regia di Jerome Storm (1927)
 Serenade, regia di Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast (1927)
 The Noose, regia di John Francis Dillon (1928)
 Wheel of Chance, regia di Alfred Santell (1928)
 Donna pagana (The Godless Girl), regia di Cecil B. DeMille (1928)
 Celebrity, regia di Tay Garnett (1928)
 Show Folks, regia di Paul L. Stein (1928)
 La nuova generazione (The Younger Generation), regia di Frank Capra (1929)
 Come Across, regia di Ray Taylor (1929)
 The Dude Wrangler, regia di Richard Thorpe (1930)
 Goldie, regia di Benjamin Stoloff (1931)
 Pleasure, regia di Otto Brower (1931)
 Arizona Terror, regia di Phil Rosen (1931)
 The Hard Hombre, regia di Otto Brower (1931)
 Morals for Women, regia di Mort Blumenstock (1931)
 Trapped, regia di Kurt Neumann - cortometraggio  (1931)
 Mounted Fury, regia di Stuart Paton (1931)
 Arm of the Law, regia di Louis King (1931)
 Madre (The Midnight Lady), regia di Richard Thorpe (1932)
 Hello Trouble, regia di Lambert Hillyer (1932)
 Il lampo (The Phantom Express), regia di Emory Johnson  (1932)
 The Chump - cortometraggio  (1934)
 Giustizia! (The Final Hour), regia di D. Ross Lederman (1936)
 Anime sul mare (Soul at Sea), regia di Henry Hathaway (1937)
 L'isola delle perle (Bassa marea) (Ebb Tide), regia di James P. Hogan (1937)
 I filibustieri (The Buccaneer), regia di Cecil B. DeMille (1937)
 La rosa di Rio Grande (Rose of the Rio Grande), regia di William Nigh (1938)
 Il giuramento dei quattro (Four Men and a Prayer), regia di John Ford (1938)
 Who Calls - cortometraggio  (1942)
 A Night for Crime, regia di Alexis Thurn-Taxis (1943)
 Paradise Park, regia di Daniel Boyd (1991)

Film, documentari o apparizioni tv dove appare Lina Basquette
 Juvenile Dancer - documentario, cortometraggio (1916)
 The Voice of Hollywood No. 15 - cortometraggio (1930)
 Fashion News - documentario, cortometraggio (1930)
 Screen Snapshots - documentario, cortometraggio (1932)
 The Mike Douglas Show - serie tv (1970)
 Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul - documentario (1993)
 The Brothers Warner - documentario tv, materiali d'archivio (2007)

Teatro
 Jack and Jill (Globe Theatre, Broadway, 1923)
 Nifties of 1923 (Fulton Theatre, Broadway, 1923)
 Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 (New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, 1924)
 Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 (New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, 1925)
 Rufus LeMaire's Affairs (Majestic Theatre, Broadway, 1927)

Note

Bibliografia
  Lina Basquette, Lina: Demille's Godless Girl, Denlingers Pub Ltd, 1990.
  Richard e Paulette Ziegfeld The Ziegfeld Touch: the life and times of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated (New York, 1993) ISBN 0-8109-3966-5 Pag. 284-285
  Anthony Slide, Silent Players. A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses, Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 2002, pp. 15-17.

Voci correlate
Celebrità della Hollywood Walk of Fame

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 The Independent, Necrologio, 7 ottobre 1994

Attori bambini statunitensi
Cinema muto statunitense
Ziegfeld girls


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DUBBEST 'Gold Fever' album review
November 30, 2019 Alexia Johnson Comments 0 Reggae
If you have not taken a moment to listen to one of reggae hottest upcoming bands, DUBBEST, you are seriously missing out on a musical experience reminiscent of true roots reggae. DUBBEST members, originally from Boston, are now residing in San Diego and have worked their way up through the ranks, currently finishing up a west coast run to promote the new album, Gold Fever.
The album dropped on November 1st and can now be found on all major streaming platforms. The full album features 12 tracks in total. With such a lofty rundown, we decided to review our three favorite tracks: "Better With Words", "Daydream" and "Minute Longer".
"Better with Words" is my favorite track on this album…
"Better with Words" is my favorite track on this album, so much so that I wanted to review it first even though it's the 6th song on the album. It has a light, breezy reggae tone, reminiscent of 1970s Don Carlos. The song is about how sometimes our thoughts get ahead of our mouths and we aren't able to articulate exactly how we are feeling or what we are thinking. We can feel stuck, like others around us are indeed better with their words. One of my favorite lyrics in the track is, "I tried to keep my composure // Feel me losing it over and over // Tried to speak, but I wish I was better with words." How many times in your life have you experienced feeling like you just can't get out what you want to say? That is what this song is about. "Every second of worry // Yeah, is just blown away // And to think I was so unsure // And, now, it's all okay."
We all were fortunate to get a chance to preview "Daydream", the opening track off the album, when it was recorded as a Sugar Shack session a couple months back. This track just makes you want to dance on a beach in the middle of the night with a black sky full of bright stars above you. The opening keys really set the tone for the song. The lyrics feature loving phrases like, "Baby, can I take you to the dance tonight? // I want to rock you through the night // Can I treat you like you're my woman? // And will you love me like I am your man?" This song is about waiting for your special someone to realize that you were the right choice all along and will get you dancing and singing.
Sometimes a moment is so sweet, we want it to last a lifetime… or at least a minute longer.
"Minute Longer" is a love song that reminds me of 1960s doo-wop, similar to Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. This song is the story of a night long ago spent with your partner in the rain and taking advantage of a moment to express those feelings of longing to that person. "Standing in the rain // Hoping it never dries // The feeling is alright." Sometimes a moment is so sweet, we want it to last a lifetime… or at least a minute longer.
DUBBEST just finished up their fall tour, looking ahead to 2020 with performances scheduled at major reggae festivals like AZ Roots and Reggae Rise Up Florida. For more information on DUBBEST, visit the links below!
Purchase or stream 'Gold Fever' album:
Terra Fermata
What If I
Hot Sand
Better with Words
Bed of Thorns
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The 2015 Acura TLX SH-AWD is (spoiler alert) not a track car
Will you wonder how you got passed by something that looks like an Accord?
By Jack Baruth
"Acura"
Acura wasn't just the original Japanese luxury brand. It was also the only one of the four contenders (what? You forgot Amati, the upscale Mazda that ended being sold at regular dealerships as the Millennia? It's okay, so did everybody else who hadn't bought land for an Amati dealership) to have the courage to give its cars actual names. Like, you know, Legend. Luckily for Honda, the car lived up to the hype in both generations. Unluckily for Acura, its management decided long ago to follow the safe road of meaningless alphanumerics.
In his recent road test of the new-for-2015 TLX, which replaces both the wide-body Accord derivative TL and the narrow-body Accord derivative TSX, our very own Jason Cammisa has suggested that Acura could have called it the Legend. Strictly speaking, the RLX is the Legend's direct descendant, but the TLX occupies a Legend-ary footprint and continues that car's tradition of offering every technological advance known to Honda.
Although Acura was once the sportiest entrant in the Lexus/Acura/Infiniti triad, in the past decade that crown has definitely passed to Infiniti and it's G35/G37/Q50 family of aggressive entry-luxury sedans. Today, Acura finds itself occupying an uncomfortable middle ground between Infiniti, with their "Director of Performance" Sebastian Vettel appearing in various TV ads to the utter befuddlement of the average American viewer, and Lexus, who just plain own the territory that once belonged to cars like the Cadillac deVille and Lincoln Continental. (The Lexus IS350 and RC F are two notable exceptions. - Ed.) Yet if their marketing materials can be believed, the TLX is capable of meeting the dynamic superstars of its segment on equal terms.
Does the brand that once took the fight to Ferrari with an all-aluminum supercar still have sporting credibility? To find out, we took the most powerful and technologically impressive TLX, the V6-powered SH-AWD Advance model, to the diverse and challenging Shenandoah circuit in Summit Point, WV, covering well over a thousand miles of freeways, rural highways, and twisty two-lanes along the way.
As someone who daily-drives a 2014 Honda Accord V6 six-speed manual coupe, I couldn't help but sigh when I opened the driver's door of the TLX and saw a rather wacky-looking pushbutton selector between the seats instead of a proper H-pattern. This car costs half again as much as an Accord V6 but makes no more power; the SAE rating difference between the two can be easily explained by the recommendation on the TLX's capless filler to use premium fuel. It weighs a nontrivial amount more than the Accord and it's further burdened by the SH-AWD system. Having the manual gearbox as an option, as it was on the outgoing TL SH-AWD, would be a nice touch.
No such luck, but there are compensations: in a straight fuel-economy challenge on an identical 180-mile mixed-road drive the TLX reported 35.3mpg against the Accord's 30.7. Credit the nine-speed automatic which reaches for the most efficient gear at all times but still manages to provide a rapid downshift for progress when it's wanted.
Driving overnight to Summit Point meant that we encountered the most enthusiastic part of the drive, a sixty-mile stretch of Nurburgring-like dip-and-turn two-lane, at about five in the morning. Pitch black on a mostly unmarked road, with blind corners occurring every two minutes or so and with a definite need to hurry lest we miss the drivers' meeting? Here the TLX shone, both figuratively and literally. In unfamiliar corners the SH-AWD really does work to turn the car, particularly if you're asking for power at the same time. You can be a little sloppy in this car in a way that really doesn't work with a V6 front-driver, particularly in the mid-corner.
The TLX's full suite of lane-keeping and radar-following technologies make highway time a breeze but on a narrow asphalt lane the warning vibration of the wheel in the middle of a fast sweeper is anything but reassuring. Best to turn it off and focus on doing the lane-keeping yourself.
A few hours later, I found myself exiting pit lane in the TLX, surrounded by some pretty heavy-duty hardware ranging from a V8-powered E92 M3 to several examples of the C5 Corvette Z06. I knew that I'd be short on ammunition in the back-straight drag race, but I hoped to use the Acura's trick drivetrain and close-ratio automatic to even the score a bit around Shenandoah's more complex sections.
I was right—about being blown away on the straights. Forget the M3; this TLX isn't capable of hanging with cars like the Lexus IS350 in a full-throttle face-off, particularly not once the speedometer climbs past the 100-mph mark. The same V6 that animates the Accord so well feels overmatched here. Which is fine, because the brakes could also use an upgrade. The 2008-era TL Type-S offered Brembo six-pot calipers and they'd be a welcome addition here because the standard sliding-caliper offerings just don't cut the mustard.
Tires, too, are a problem; these Goodyears give up early and often. It doesn't help that the SH-AWD is willing to overload the outside rear, causing a neutral slide to the exit of the corner that looks pretty cool from the perspective of anyone chasing you but which is hell on tire temperature. The rear-wheel-drive competition is simply better at doing this sort of thing. An Integra Type R this is not.
Although it's easy to discern the four different available drive modes, and the Sport+ mode in particular really steps up the aggressiveness of the shifting, the paddles are slow to respond when the car is under heavy g-load and gearchanges often arrive a full two seconds after they're requested. The good news is that the TLX shifts accurately and quickly by itself at the redline.
The stability control cannot be completely deactivated and it proved to be very unhappy with the unique cornering loads imposed by Shenandoah's Karussel turn, which mimics those found on the Nordschleife. To be fair, however, this is not a problem limited to the TLX; even some Porsches complain and emergency-activate stability control in that corner.
I was able to use the Acura's remarkable exit traction and good transitional response between corners to take a few scalps from drivers in nominally more capable automobiles, especially in the slow sections, but the TLX just isn't very comfortable on a racetrack. It was a bit of a relief to point it back to Ann Arbor and return to enjoying everything from the air-conditioned seats to the remarkably good ELS audio system.
Still, there are a few BMW drivers out there who are probably still wondering how they got passed by something that looks a lot like an Accord. Maybe they'll tell the story over beers in the future: how a muted-grey sedan with a muted-silver beak snuck up behind them on the run up to the Corkscrew. Who knows? If they tell it long and often enough, it might do what the TLX can't quite do: namely, become a Legend.
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The Qantas lockout: What is it with Leaders of Airlines?
With no prior warnings to passengers, the long-running dispute at Qantas erupted into a world-wide lock out over the weekend [Oct 29-30th 2011]. All flights were grounded, leaving many international passengers stranded.
As the fury of employees and stranded passengers grew, CEO Alan Joyce defended the need for the action as a response to a protracted industrial dispute with its employees. Hopes for an early return to the air rested with an industrial tribunal hearing at Fair Work Australia (FWA). Richard Woodwood, Vice President of the Australian & International Pilots' Union, described the decision to lockout all pilots as insane and arrogant.
On the surface of things, the [FWA] ruling looks like a humiliation for Qantas CEO Alan Joyce as his airline is ordered back into the skies – having been unilaterally grounded by the airline's management. But it could in fact be a strategic victory [for Mr Joyce]. Having failed to get the main unions at Qantas (baggage handlers, engineers and pilots) to engage in meaningful talks since a massive restructuring plan was announced in August, Qantas's warring sides have now been ordered by the FWA tribunal to do exactly that.
FWA has in effect locked the company and its unions in until such time as they come up with a long term solution to their awful industrial relations record. While it may be a strategic victory, it certainly won't be a financial one for Qantas. Each day that the planes were grounded cost it £13m. That's on top of the £48m that the strikes since August have cost. But the reputation damage inflicted by this dispute on Qantas could be very profound and way more expensive.
The strategic direction of Qantas remains towards East Asia. Its wholly owned subsidiary Jetstar, based in Vietnam and Singapore, is the model for future growth. Jetstar is more profitable per customer than Qantas.
In leadership style there are similarities with dramas played out at British Airways which Leaders we deserve posts have tracked. These also involved industrial disputes and confrontation between CEO Willie Walsh and the company's unions.
Commentators have labelled the troubles at BA and Qantas as Legacy difficulties. Older State airlines such as BA and Qantas have been unable to restructure and negotiate with employees in a way that retained competitiveness against younger market entries such as Emirates.
'Tough' leadership has tended to be the strategy of choice. Willie Walsh was brought in to BA to apply just such an approach based on his previous track record. The dilemma facing such leaders appears to be one which requires such a leadership style to avert economic ruin from continuing with an uneconomic business model. Incidentally, there are more similarities between the backgrounds of the two leaders, both of whom have Irish roots, and cvs showing links with the Irish airline industry. It takes only a leap of imaginatiuon to presume that Willie Walsh may have been directly or indirectly approached during the head-hunting prior to the appointment of AlanJoyce.
According to game theory, the leaders of Qantas and of its employee unions seem to be locked in, not out, to a mutual destruction strategy.
Leadership theorists point to the dangers of such 'either-or' thinking, and by implication the need for more creative behaviours.
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2 Responses to The Qantas lockout: What is it with Leaders of Airlines?
I agree. Legacy carriers like BA/Qantas/Air India are stuck with many labour issues. I wonder if their employees are able to step out of their companies and look at others in the industry and come to realise that their very survival depends on their airline restructuring inorder to survive.
The airline industry needs to get more young people to join – by creating good training and prospects : similar to what the financial industry has done. Then the dependence on the older employees ( who are the ones stuck in legacy demands) will have to change themselves when they see they can be put out. The industry needs to invest in itself to bring more talent into it, only then will legacy issue dissipate.