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Today is Constitution Day, as set in federal law. I didn't know that — I didn't know we had such a day — until reading the column in honor of the day by Professor Wilfred McClay, published here in the Oklahoman over the weekend. Professor James Ceaser also observes the day in "Celebrating Madison in Jefferson country." As befits a historian, Professor McClay stepped back to explain the designation of September 17 as Constitution day in federal law in a 2011 USA Today column.
Like Professors McClay and Ceaser, I venerate our Constitution. Drawing on what Publius referred to as discoveries and improvements in "the new science of politics," the founders created a frame of government designed to limit the powers of the government by the system of checks and balances with which we are all familiar, at least by reputation. For our freedom we are indebted to it.
The founders were profound students of history as well as political philosophy. As students of history, they warned against the tyranny of the majority. They knew that unconstrained majorities were the bane of liberty. Up through their time, history had shown all known democracies to be "incompatible with personal security or the rights of property." They formulated the Constitution to protect the rights of citizens against the tyranny of the majority. Publius put it this way in Federalist 10:
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
The Founders had in mind the kind of man who presents himself as a tribune of the people — somebody who talks this way to the graduating students of Ohio State University.
Where is the Constitution today? By that I mean, where is the Constitution that established a government of limited powers? Has it survived? Or are calls for lamentation and reform in order? Neither Professor McClay nor Professor Ceaser pauses to consider the fate of the Constitution under the assault waged by progressives/liberals over the past 100 years.
The assault gave us the sixteenth (authorizing the income tax) and seventeenth (providing for the direct election of United States Senators) amendments to the Constitution. I'm inclined to think we would be better off without either. When it comes to the damage done to the original Constitution by the progressives, I would like to call for rollback versus containment (to use the old Cold War foreign policy terms).
But the real issue is the depredation of limited government by the administrative state. As Professor Jean Yarbrough stated here on Power Line recently:
One of the things that truly alarms me is how little our fellow citizens, even moderately well educated ones, know about the parallel universe of the bureaucratic world. The DeMuth and Callanan essays provide a primer in what is going on with the executive and the regulatory agencies.
We need an updated online primer in American government and political thought. We all learn about the separation of powers and federalism, but don't understand that these restraints do not operate in the administrative universe. Indeed, the administrative state was designed to overcome these obstacles. Our mission should be to educate Americans on the real effects of this turn toward administrative regulations and rules.
Citing the Wall Street Journal column "What happens when a man takes on the feds" as well as stories on the harassment of Catherine Engelbrecht by the IRS reported by Jillian Kay Melchior (NRO) and Sharyl Attkisson (CBS), and you have, Professor Yarbrough held, "not soft despotism, but hidden and rather hard despotism for those who fall into the maw of the administrative state."
Over at First Things Carl Scott expanded on Professor Yarbrough's call for an updated primer in American government and political thought in "Our bullying bureaucracy and our need for a real science of American politics." Please check it out.
How did we get here? The Supreme Court held off the coming of the administrative state in the New Deal for a while, but it quickly gave way. Since then the Court has more or less facilitated the growth of the monstrosity confronting us now.
In the world of respectable academic opinion, legal historian Edward White assessed the Supreme Court's confrontation with the New Deal in The Constitution and the New Deal. Professor White consciously sought to challenge the conventional narrative involving the triumph of the New Deal in the face of the unreasonable obstinacy of the Court. Somewhat to his own surprise, after reviewing the record, White begged to disagree (somewhat gingerly) with the conventional narrative. Professor Richard Morgan took a look at what White had wrought in the Claremont Review of Books.
What area of our lives is insulated from the reach of the administrative state today? Think hard. As Professor Yarbrough suggests, we not only need to recall the founders' new science of politics, we need to update it. We need to update it to understand the damage that has been done and to undo it.
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Today's Minneapolis Star Tribune features a page-one story by Jim Ragsdale opposing the proposed Minnesota constitutional amendment requiring photo identification for voting. The story's genre is a familiar one. It's the genre mocked by the parodic New York Times headline: "World to end tomorrow: Women, minorities hardest hit."
The story is illustrative of the Star Tribune's pathetic coverage of the photo identification amendment. The Star Tribune has served as the public relations arm of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchi, an avowed opponent of the amendment. When Ritchie carried his opposition to the amendment over to giving it a ballot title designed to undermine support, the Minnesota Supreme Court slapped Ritchie down for overstepping the bounds of his authority. He is not exactly a paragon of wisdom or virtue on the subject.
Yet here is Ragsdale basing his story on the party line: "[A] strict ID requirement, such as is being proposed in a constitutional amendment this November, can be a significant barrier for anyone who lives off the ID grid. According to the Minnesota secretary of state's office, that number could run as high as 84,000."
Hmmm. The ID grid — never heard of that before. What is the ID grid? How does one live off the ID grid? Living off the ID grid — sounds like a crisis calling for a some kind of government program.
A skeptical reader might be pardoned for thinking that illegal voters are also living "off the ID grid," and that the amendment would prevent them from voting. But the thought appears not to have crossed Ragsdale's mind:
Those affected could be people like Evelyn Collier, 79, and her fellow residents at the Camden Care Center nursing home in north Minneapolis, many of whom had long since let their state IDs lapse. When they needed travel documents for a Caribbean cruise two years ago, the staff spent months trying to round up birth and marriage certificates and other documents needed for a photo ID.
Most of the documents eventually came in, but Collier, an African-American woman born on a farm in Mississippi in 1932, missed the trip for lack of an official birth certificate.
Or 63-year-old Greg Jackson — that is the name he has used as long as he can remember — who arrived in Minnesota seven years ago with an Illinois ID and failing eyesight. When he sent home for his birth certificate, he was surprised to learn that his legal name was different from the name he had always used, and which was on his Illinois ID.
Several document requests, assistance by volunteers from Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly, and a $320 legal name change followed before Jackson obtained his Minnesota ID.
"If it was that hard for me to get my ID, with my impediments, what about all the impediments other people have?" said Jackson, of St. Paul.
Ragsdale elicits this quote from former Minnesota Secretary of State/current state Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer:
Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake, the amendment sponsor, said the government would offer free IDs, and that the availability of waivers for those without underlying documents and adaptations of current law by the Legislature could address problems without disenfranchising anyone. The general language of the amendment, if it passes, would be fleshed out by the 2013 Legislature.
But the end of the world is nigh: "[T]he uncertainty worries advocates for the elderly and poor, as well as students who try to get their fellow students to go to the polls. They fear that the no-brainer for the many will become a barrier for the few — just enough of a hurdle to keep a significant subset of eligible people home." The Star Tribune, of course, doesn't mention illegal voting or vote fraud. The Democrats protect illegal voters as if they are a core constituency, and they seem to know what they are doing.

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OCEAN CITY – Martinsdale, Mont. (population 1,001) sits miles off Highway 12. Situated in almost the dead center of the state, this small ranching town has also recently been at the center of a headline-making court case that highlights some critical issues about trusts and fiduciary duty.
The case involves a family museum in the town, named for early oil and mining entrepreneur. It's located in the former home of his daughter, who during her lifetime amassed a significant collection of Native American artifacts and works of art from all over the world. Before her death in 1993, the daughter established a trust to honor her father with a museum bearing his name. The story is all pretty straightforward so far.
However, the board of advisors later decided the museum's attendance and costs did not merit keeping it open, so between 2002 and 2005 it was shuttered. The trust agreement provided for a board of advisors, the majority of which was controlled by the trustee. During that period, the value of the art collection, which was included in the trust, rose by an estimated 40 percent. In April of this year, Montana's Supreme Court determined that in failing to protect, maintain and improve the museum with the trust's principal and income, the museum's board of advisors had breached its fiduciary duty. In a dramatic move, the court dismissed the entire board.
As beneficial as trusts can be, the responsibilities and obligations they entail can also be substantial, a point that often escapes the parties typically involved — the grantor, beneficiaries and trustees. It's important to see to it that trustees with good intentions do not become tangled in investing, tax and administrative issues that prove to be more complex than first anticipated. To avoid problems of this sort, it's essential that the trustees share or, as appropriate, delegate fiduciary responsibility.
A trustee is fundamentally obligated to carry out the terms of the trust agreement, administer the trust in the best interest of the beneficiaries, avoid conflicts of interest, invest its funds prudently and — perhaps the greatest challenge — act with impartiality among the beneficiaries. These legal obligations can complicate administrative decisions, especially if the appointed trustee is unfamiliar with the responsibilities associated with trust administration. In addition to these obligations, the trustee must be familiar with federal and state regulations and law, as they could affect the trust and its beneficiaries.
One common error trustees make is failing to balance the needs of all involved parties. This is particularly a problem when trustees are also beneficiaries. Moreover, as the case of the Montana museum illustrates, being too "conservative" with a trust's funds can be just as inappropriate as an overly aggressive approach.
Regulations and laws can vary substantially from one state to another. Trustees must also be able to distinguish the trust's income from its principal for accounting purposes — a task that's not as intuitive as it might seem. This is particularly important where mandatory income distributions determine the taxability and treatment of the trust.
Given the complexities of trust administration, many trustees find it helpful to engage assistance with these concerns. While trustees are obligated to personally execute their duties, they may delegate certain responsibilities to a trust company, lawyer or accountant. However, the trustee will still ultimately be held responsible for the decisions made, as well as ongoing supervision.
Additional outside perspectives —those of a financial advisor, lawyer or accountant — make it easier to sort through options as a trustee, beneficiary or grantor. In particular, your financial advisor, who is already familiar with your circumstances and financial approach, can help you identify the areas of greatest concern and assist with solutions.
Perhaps you want to create a trust that will benefit your spouse and children, but also want to ensure that your appointed trustee can manage your family's dynamics — seeking agreement among siblings who are at odds with one another, or balancing the current needs of a spouse from a recent marriage with a desire to provide for children from a former marriage. Or you may be concerned that as a trustee-beneficiary, you've inherited a concentrated position as part of the trust's assets and need help diversifying the risk associated with that position. It's also common for a beneficiary who is concerned about a trust's ability to provide adequate income to initiate a review of the way his or her trust is handled.
One of the solutions your financial advisor might propose is working with a trust company. Sharing the responsibility of trust management may provide a trustee with the freedom to truly carry out the intent of a trust — and to keep the honor of a grantor's faith from becoming a tangle of liability and paperwork.
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The seventh of nine children, Laura was born in Polk County, Minnesota to Norwegian immigrants Ole S. Basgaard and Severine (Larson). Her mother, Severine Theresa, was the eldest sibling of my great grandmother, Malla (Larson) Johnson. As an adult, Laura became the wife of Albert C. Corliss, a street car conductor in Fargo, North Dakota.
Laura Corliss. Social Security Death Index: 502-26-3501; Issue State: North Dakota;Issue Date: Before 1951.
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Editor's note: CNN spoke to commercial ballooning consultant Phil Dunnington -- a commercial balloon pilot whose projects have included providing advice on the infrastructure and safety aspects of tourist ballooning in Egypt. More information was provided by Jean-Claude Weber, the president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale's Ballooning Commission, which deals with non-commercial ballooning.
London (CNN) -- Around the world, hot air balloons are used to give tourists a spectacular view of the landscape, as well as for sport and private recreation. But, with 19 people dead after a hot air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt, just how safe are they?
What are the basics of ballooning?
Essentially a balloon is a nylon bag -- known as an envelope -- filled with hot air, which is created by burning liquid propane in a steel burner. More heat makes the balloon rise, less makes it descend. Balloons fly in the direction of the wind. Dunnington described hot air ballooning as "man's first form of flight." The French invented it in 1793 and since then it has been developed for sport and tourist rides. Balloons have also been used by the military.
How safe is hot air ballooning?
Until Tuesday's incident, the deadliest accident in recent memory happened in 1989, when 13 people were killed as two hot air balloons collided in Australia.
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Weber said while every activity had its risks, ballooning was "one of the safest means of flying in existence."
"You are floating in the air like a feather. You put some heat into the envelope to get you up and then you float with the atmosphere, there is no speed involved."
If the fuel ran out, a balloon could still be landed safely, he said. "It's not like an airline crash. It's like a huge parachute. If you do it [descend] wisely and if you do it in a controlled way you can come down with cold air in the envelope but it's still inflated -- it's still a big balloon."
Weber added that a fire on board was the most dangerous situation for a pilot because the only way to escape it was by jumping overboard. "If passengers are jumping the balloon is getting lighter -- it's climbing again. It's getting in a more dangerous situation because the higher you go the more dangerous it is to jump out."
Dunnington also said fire resulting from contact with power lines was probably the biggest risk for hot air balloonists. "If you've hit a power line there isn't a fire extinguisher made that can put that out."
He pointed to a 2012 accident in New Zealand, in which 11 people died.
"New Zealand was a wire contact and it had fatal results and that's certainly the balloonist's biggest worry," he said.
So what was the cause of the crash in Egypt?
State-run EgyNews reported that a gas explosion caused the crash but Egypt's government said a committee from the Ministry of Civil Aviation would investigate.
The government said the balloon was "flying at 300m [about 900feet] when it caught fire and exploded."
How safe is hot air ballooning in Egypt?
The last hot air balloon accident in Luxor happened in 2009, when 16 foreign tourists were injured after a balloon struck a cell phone transmission tower.
Dunnington described Egypt as having "a rather chequered history" when it came to ballooning. The country had probably had more accidents than some others, he said, but on the other hand probably made more flights.
"They've probably had half a dozen serious accidents in the last five years. If that had happened in the UK there would be a big hoo-ha about it."
But Weber said Egyptian operators carried a lot of passengers and flew on a daily basis and the Luxor crash was "quite exceptional."
How is hot air ballooning regulated?
There is no body dealing with air ballooning regulations globally. Around the world, 191 countries are members of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations body that issues advice on aviation standards and regulations.
But Dunnington said there was no legal obligation to comply with the ICAO's Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS).
The ICAO's recommendations were "sufficiently broad to always need local interpretation," he said, adding that this was where "things get difficult."
"The regulations are pretty similar in every country. The question in each different country is to what extent are those regulations enforced," Dunnington said. "The Egyptian civil aviation authority is in ultimate charge of what goes on in anything to do with civil aviation in Egypt."
Dunnington said in Britain, for example, pilots had to sit regular medical tests and assessments and balloons were checked after every 100 hours of flight. He said Egypt had a similar system but that it was "somewhat less independently supervised."
How have Egyptian authorities reacted to the crash?
Egypt's Civil Aviation Agency has stopped all ballooning in the country since Tuesday's accident. But Dunnington said a blanket ban didn't solve the problem.
"That kind of knee jerk reaction is symptomatic of the way such problems are approached," he said. In Britain, he added, the authorities would look at a particular set of circumstances rather than shutting down everything.
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Financial penalties for re-admitting certain patients soon after discharge and growing pressure to keep patients with chronic illness from being admitted in the first place. WSJ's Laura Landro and Academy of Home Care Physicians president Bruce Leff join Lunch Break. Photo: Rubén E. Reyes for The Wall Street Journal.
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... I ... welcome to lunch break I'm Kelli Grant to keep nations out of the hospital in costs in check health care providers are bringing back the house call here with deatails is WSJ's Laura Landro and was slapped Johns Hopkins University professor thank you both so much for being here ... so now what to lead Falcon is bringing back of the house call I thought this was something that we left behind in the days of ... this well the exactly um why is this something that the hospitals are trying to bring back but two things at work and wind it Avici hostels are very important things to receive care at the prom is ... you have so many patients I think it's something like the fifth of Medicare beneficiaries going back into hospital again and again and again ... think of all these readmissions its cost intrinsically not here ... when you have a lot of frail elderly patients he patience lots of problems ... who are really high risk and costly for the possible infections and soars ... all the things that you can actually and that coming at a hospital worsening ... and this is something that could actually be cheaper to why did the so the idea is if its positions on the screen making house calls its ... teams of clinicians doctors nurses all kinds of time pharmacists people who can come in even if it's just for one didn't want to be discharged to chime in on the path to make you taking a medication to take your caregiver understands whats going on ... didn't get to as quickly as possible and on that ... and routine in a regimen that will prevent you from being readmitted a week later or two weeks later ... I respect him is that possible a home program with every year leading to the hospital in ... your home and doctors Comair Anderson's come ... online as priests of appetite has increased the tube ... pioneered this hospital tome can tell me about how that works ... sure so ... this notion interpreting acute ... hospital care ... homes a full substitute for getting him into the hospital and ... energy geriatrician we started working on this about eighteen eighteen years ago because we found a lot of our older patients ... may be admitted to hospital had bad experiences there are no complications ... or bar ... if we needed to the ... hospital may have bad experiences before they were to refuse to go to the hospital ... so we found over years of development and try to get this right to make it safe and high quality that ... we can do this and provide very high quality care at all ... reduce the occurrence of and work obligations especially for older people ... and is that the ... added cost savings ... Nomar you mentioned one in your story a particular patient and Verne is the highest models helped him ... well in this case this is a discharge planning situation where after discharge from hospital someone has been readmitted one or two or three or four times ... they will appear that they can transition is this is at mercy Health in the Cincinnati area ... and I had a really tough time he had COPD which is a really bad lung disease he had seizures he suffered from chronic pain ... gets herbal Auto Expo is eleven that left him in payments to dislike him crushed pelvis things like that ... soapy had one problem after another he actually said to him severance was the nurse who was sent to come and instead into his house call ... I feel I was considered to like dynamite as well you know he was that discouraged about ... his repeated help ... hospitalizations ... the idea is for ... for someone like Hamed was the snow ... Kansas and care nurse to just come in and help him get settled get organized come quick smoking and a quick smoking sit like this worked out pretty well worked out well he's not


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Former employee sued her old company for subjecting her to a sexually hostile workplace and for firing her after she reported it. She claimed that she had never looked at pornography before she saw some on the computers at work. During discovery in the lawsuit, the company requested that employee turn over her home computer so that the company's "forensic computer examiner" could inspect them.
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The film (aka. The Conformist) is based on the 1951 book of the same name, by Alberto Moravia. The story is set in the 30s when Fascists had tightened their control over Italy. The central character is Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), one who desperately needs to belong. For him marriage is a normal life. 'I'm going to build a life that's normal. I'm marrying a petty bourgeoise'.
Bertolucci has given for his need to conform a motive, in his latent homosexuality. Thus marriage is a means to conform, a smokescreen to hide his innermost fears. Hence the title.
The film opens with Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) hurrying to save Anna the wife of his former college professor, Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio). It is 1938. A series of flashbacks delve into his past in order to show the kind of mentality that Fascism fed upon.
He is planning to marry a woman who is sensual but silly. He characterises her as 'mediocre' and his casual approach to confession shocks the confessor. What is she? A mound of petty ideas. Full of petty ambitions. 'She's all bed and kitchen'. Such an attitude to his future wife and the family he intends to raise necessarily invite comparison with his mother, a morphine-addict stuck in a decrepit villa while his mad father is commited to an asylum.
He has known another kind of isolation, that family wealth brought to him as a boy. He was sexually bullied by his schoolmates until he is rescued by chauffeur Lino (Pierre Clémenti). Lino offers to show him a pistol and then makes sexual advances towards Marcello. To this he responds by grabbing the pistol and shooting wildly all around and Lino is felled by one of the bullets. He thinks he has killed him.
As a man in fascist Italy, Marcello finds himself a cog in a great bureaucratic machine that keeps Italy going. Even for such religion must mean surely something in Italy? Marcello knows whatever be the crime or sin of the flesh confession will make amends. Marcello the conformist tells his confessor, ' I want to be excused by society. Yes. I want to confess today the sin I'll commit tomorrow. One sin atones for another. It is the price I must pay society. And I shall pay it'. With such a moral mindset he has no uneasy conscience when he is asked to assassinate his former mentor who is an enemy to fascism. He accepts the order.
His botched attempt to do the job at a big party brings more operatives and the professor and wife are killed. This scene is beautifully orchestrated visually as well as aurally that it will linger in the mind of the viewer long after watching the film. The crucial moment is when he,unable to respond to the plea of Anna but digs deeper inside the car brings shock and despair to his once lover. She and her husband had in their Paris apartment hosted him knowing well he could be there only with criminal intentions. She succumbs to his passion,-mind you during his honeymoon, and she pleads, 'don't hurt us, marcello.'
After overthrow of Mussolini in 1943 Marcello is advised to escape.
Giulia: What are you going to do now?
Marcello: The same as everyone else who thought like me. When there are so many of us, there's no risk.
Ideologies like caravans move on and those who wanted to ride the baggage train of Nazism or Fascism find themselves left out. It is what happenes to Marcello. He denounces all those on whom the charges may stick. He recognizes Lino his former chauffeur as a homosexual, fascist, and of participating in the murder of professor Quadri and his wife. He also accuses his only friend Italo from the former times. In the end, Marcello is alone, unaccepted by the people of the new partisan political movement. He sits near a small fire and looks behind him through a metal grate, mulling over Plato. Dry as dust matter for one who has lost his best part, his integrity.
Only one flaw I could think of and it is very serious one. It is the casting of Clierci. Tritingnant has a very strong personality ,-and is heroic, that while watching him we tend to accept him even when he behaves so abominably as required of the part. It seems to undermine the purpose of the film.
'In addition to its strong storyline, the film is critically revered for the astonishing production design by Nedo Azzini, which, together with Vittorio Storaro's camerawork, recreates the atmosphere of Fascist Italy with some of the most complex visual compositions ever seen on film, filled with highly stylized uses of angles, shapes, and shadows. The Conformist was cut by five crucial minutes when first released in the US; those missing moments were restored in the 1994 reissue'.(Hal Erickson-all movie)
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The Damned (1969, Luchino Visconti)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, Vittorio De Sica)
Hanussen (1988, István Szabó)
The Night Porter (1974, Liliana Cavani)
La Strategia del Ragno (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Gli Occhiali d'Oro (1987, Giuliano Montaldo)
Movies with the Same Personnel
1900 (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Partner (1968, Bernardo Bertolucci)
La Tragedia di un Uomo Ridicolo (1981, Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Sheltering Sky (1990, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Sans Mobile Apparent (1971, Philippe Labro)
La Commare Secca (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Last Emperor (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Bertolucci's cinematic style synthesizes expressionism and "fascist" film aesthetics. Its style can be compared with classic German films of the thirties, such as in Leni Riefenstahl's The Triumph of the Will and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.[5]
The drama was influential to other filmmakers: the image of blowing leaves in The Conformist, for example, influenced a very similar scene in The Godfather, Part II by Francis Ford Coppola (1974).[6]
Filming locations
The filming locations included: Gare d'Orsay and Paris, France; Sant' Angelo Bridge and the Colosseum, both in Rome.[7]
* Jean-Louis Trintignant as Marcello Clerici
* Stefania Sandrelli as Giulia
* Gastone Moschin as Manganiello
* Enzo Tarascio as Professor Quadri
* Fosco Giachetti as Il colonnello
* José Quaglio as Italo
* Dominique Sanda as Anna Quadri
* Pierre Clémenti as Lino
* Yvonne Sanson as Madre di Giulia
* Giuseppe Addobbati as Padre di Marcello
* Christian Aligny as Raoul
* Carlo Gaddi as Hired Killer
* Umberto Silvestri as Hired Killer
* Furio Pellerani as Hired Killer
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Produced by Giovanni Bertolucci
Maurizio Lodi-Fe
Written by Bernardo Bertolucci
Alberto Moravia
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant
Stefania Sandrelli
Music by Georges Delerue
Cinematography Vittorio Storaro
Editing by Franco Arcalli
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) October 22, 1970
(USA and Italy)
Running time 107 minutes
111 minutes
(Director's Cut)
Country Italy
West Germany
Language Italian
memorable quotes:
[denies a rumor regarding his father]
Marcello: You see, the origin of my father's mental illness isn't venereal. That can be medically confirmed.
Giulia's Mother: By the way, my little girl has had the mumps, scarlet fever, and German measles.
Marcello: They're all very moral maladies.
Marcello: I'm going to build a life that's normal. I'm marrying a petty bourgeoise.
Confessor: Then she must be a fine girl.
Giulia: Speak out. Go ahead.
Marcello: Mediocre. A mound of petty ideas. Full of petty ambitions. She's all bed and kitchen.
Confessor: The one thing you have to do is repent and humbly ask His pardon today.
Marcello: I've already repented. I want to be excused by society. Yes. I want to confess today the sin I'll commit tomorrow. One sin atones for another. It is the price I must pay society. And I shall pay it.
Italo: A normal man? For me, a normal man is one who turns his head to see a beautiful woman's bottom. The point is not just to turn your head. There are five or six reasons. And he is glad to find people who are like him, his equals. That's why he likes crowded beaches, football, the bar downtown…
Marcello: At Piazza Venice.
Italo: He likes people similar to himself and does not trust those who are different. That's why a normal man is a true brother, a true citizen, a true patriot…
Marcello: A true fascist.
Giulia: He'll be a typical intellectual, disagreeable and impotent.
Professor Quadri: Clerici, you had me convinced you were the typical new Italian.
Marcello: No such type exists yet, but we're creating him.
Anna: Through repression?
Marcello: No, through example.
Anna: Giving him castor oil? Throwing him into prison? By torturing them? Blackmailing?
Professor Quadri: Anna, please, dear, calm down. Clerici is a fascist. I'm an anti-fascist. We both knew. And we decided to have supper together all the same.
[after overthrow of Mussolini]
Giulia: What are you going to do now?
Marcello: The same as everyone else who thought like me. When there are so many of us, there's no risk.
Giulia: Marcello, don't go out. They could hurt you.
Marcello: I won't be in danger. After all, what have I done? My duty.
Giulia: But why do you want to go?
Marcello: I want to see how a dictatorship falls.
Giulia: [sexually aroused while kissing Marcello on a couch] If you want… want to…
Marcello: If I want to…?
Giulia: Yes, right here… on the floor… on the carpet… Want to?
Marcello: Better think about the priest. He may not grant absolution.
Giulia: They grant everyone absolution.
Giulia: Oh, hunchbacks bring good luck.
Giulia: [somewhat inebriated] Shopping is only for women. Husbands pay!
Giulia: What was Marcello like as a student?
Professor Quadri: Serious. Too serious!
Giulia: But you can't be too serious.
Professor Quadri: Really serious people are never serious.
Anna: [to Marcello] You're only a worm. You revolt me. You're disgusting!
Manganiello: [disgusted by Marcello's inability to act and leaving their car] How disgusting! I've always said so. Make me work in the shit – sure, but not with a coward! It's up to me! Cowards, homosexuals, Jews – they're all the same thing! If it were up to me, I'd stand them all against a wall!
[he blows on his fingers in the stinging cold]
Manganiello: Better yet – eliminate them when they're born!
# The Latin phrase recited by Clerici on his way to kill the Quadris was "Animula, vagula, blandula, hospes comesque corporis", the first line of a poem attributed to the Roman emperor Hadrian.
# When Clerici asks the operator to connect him with Prof. Quadri, the telephone number he gives is the (one-time) telephone number of Bertolucci's idol Jean-Luc Godard. When Quadri answers the phone, Clerici recalls one of his lectures in which Quadri said "The time for reflection is over. Now is the time for action." This is the opening line in Godard's film Le Petit Soldat.
# Bertolucci proposed the film adaptation of the novel to Paramount, without ever reading it himself. Within a month, he started the screenplay.
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Dear Lifehacker,
I have a giant pile of important looking documents sitting in front of me, and I have no idea what to do with them. Some of them look pointless, but could be important. Which ones should I hold on to, and which ones should I shred?
What's this Garbage
Blast from the past is a weekly feature at Lifehacker in which we revive old, but still relevant, posts for your reading and hacking pleasure. Now that tax day has come and gone, we figured it was time for a good refresher on what to shred and what to keep.
Dear WG,
We all get a ton of junk in the mail—whether it's credit card applications, insurance packets, or a 60-page retirement fund report from a job you had 10 years ago. Thankfully, deciding what to keep is simple, and once you do you can shred pretty much everything else.
The Important Documents You Need to Keep
Depending what type of documents you're dealing with, you need to store some of them for certain periods of time, others you can digitize, and others you can throw away. Let's start with the documents you need to keep physical copies of forever:
- Birth and death certificates
- Social security cards
- Pension plan documents
- ID cards and passports
- Marriage license
- Business license
- Any insurance policy (good to keep even if they have a digital copy in case problems come up)
- Wills, living wills, and powers of attorney
- Vehicle titles and loan documents
- House deeds and mortgage documents
In general, you want to keep physical copies of anything related to state or federal matters, including certifications, licenses, or deeds. The reason is twofold: you want to have easy access to these in case you need them, and they're also a pain to replace because you typically need to make a direct request to the government agency, which takes a lot of time.
If you're unsure what to do with these important documents, we recommend keeping an "in case of emergency kit" so you always know where they are. You can also use a webapp like Get Your Sh*t Together to gather everything you need to keep for the long term.
The second subset of documents to hold onto relates to documents you need to keep for a little while. With these, you can follow our guide to going paperless and scan them in if you like, or just store these documents in a safe place:
- Tax records and receipts (keep for seven years)
- Pay stubs and bank statements (keep for a year)
- Home purchase, sale, or improvement documents (keep for at least six years after you sell)
- Medical records and bills (keep at least a year after payment in case of disputes)
- Warranty documents and receipts (keep as long as you own them)
Finally, the last subset is the documents you need to keep the most recent version of:
- Social security statements
- Annual insurance policy statements
- Retirement plan statements (401(k), 529, IRA, etc)
That's pretty much it. Once you know what to keep, organize them in a filing cabinet and you're all set. A good rule of thumb to think about when you're deciding what to keep is to think about how hard that document is to replace. If you need to venture down to a government office, wait in line at a hospital, or sit on the phone for an hour, then it's likely best to hold onto it. If you can easily pop online and see a document, then you likely don't need to keep a physical copy. Photo by Vegansoldier.
Shred Everything Else
Everything else you have you can safely shred or throw away. You should shred anything that has personal information like your name, address, phone number, social security number, or bank account information.
This might include a few documents you don't initially think about, including ATM receipts, credit card receipts, bills, and even used airline tickets. You should also immediately shred expired credit cards, visas, passports, and IDs. The best way to shred documents is with a good cross cut shredder like this one. Photo by Clive Darra.
Happy shredding,
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| Yancy
ルリ Ruri
Xtransceiver sprite from
Black 2 and White 2
|Eye color
|Cornflower blue
|Hair color
| Unnamed father, unnamed brother,
unnamed sister
|Black 2 and White 2
Yancy (Japanese: ルリ Ruri), otherwise known under the screen name Nancy (Japanese: ルッコ Rukko), is a character that appears in Black 2 and White 2 if the player's gender is male. She is the female counterpart to Curtis.
In the games
Yancy is first encountered after the male player picks up the Dropped Item (Xtransceiver) in Nimbasa City. Upon obtaining the item, Yancy calls it from an old phone and identifies herself as the owner of the lost Xtransceiver. However, she is busy at work and is unable to retrieve it at the time, so she asks the male player to hold onto it until she is free from work.
Yancy will call her Xtransceiver when the male player is in specific locations around Unova. Yancy will slowly learn about the player through her initial nine calls. What she learns about him is based on what the player answered in the Passerby Analytics HQ surveys in Castelia City. At the tenth call, Yancy would inform the player that she is finally free from work and would like to retrieve her Xtransceiver back in Nimbasa City. It is here that Yancy meets the male player for the first time as her initial calls were audio only so neither knew what each other looked like. She gratefully takes her Xtransceiver back and exchanges numbers with the male player as she wishes to talk to him more.
After returning her Xtransceiver, the game will randomly select one of the 15 areas that she calls him initially and the male player can call her from anywhere in that area. The area will change every subsequent time she is called or the game is loaded, whether she is talked to or not, but sometimes, the male player can even call multiple times while in the same area. From the 11th through 19th calls, Yancy tells the male player more about herself. Calls twenty through twenty-nine, Yancy will ask the male player for advice or opinions about things. After the 30th call, Yancy will ask the player to ride at the Rondez-View Ferris Wheel with her. After the first call of every next day, Yancy will ask the player for a Ferris Wheel ride, and if the player has entered the Hall of Fame, she will offer to trade Pokémon after the ride. Pokémon traded from her have Hidden Abilities, are at level 50, and have no predetermined nature, gender, or individual values. It is possible to receive multiples of the same species.
From the 31st through 49th calls (except the Ferris-Wheel-ride calls), Yancy will say any of a variety of things. On the 50th call, she will accidentally pick up the phone while at work, revealing Yancy in her working outfit. During the 51st call, she will apologize about the previous call being cut off, lying to the player that the one who answered was her coworker.
Yancy, as Nancy, appears in various television shows as a celebrity idol, regardless of the player's gender.
| Yancy's overworld sprite from
Black 2 and White 2
| Xtransceiver sprite from
Black 2 and White 2
| Xtransceiver sprite from
Black 2 and White 2
Contact areas
Yancy will automatically call the player on any one of fifteen specific spots. They can only be triggered once. Each spot is only located at one specific tile.
- Nimbasa City (behind the Battle Institute)
- Driftveil City (on top of the northern hill, below the Worker guarding the Clay Tunnel entrance)
- Lentimas Town (on the path behind the northern house towards the hill with the Fire Stone)
- Mistralton City (on the southern half of the runway, in the center of the lane)
- Undella Town (southwest corner, up the stairs and between the two boulders)
- Lacunosa Town (under the bridge in the center of town)
- Route 5 (on the other side of the southern fence, towards the Hyper Potion)
- Route 6 (just above the two shortcut ledges on the south end of the route, east side of the stream)
- Route 7 (on the path between the Pokémon Breeder and the southern house)
- Route 9 (at the left of Shopping Mall Nine, near the L-shaped bush)
- Route 11 (in front of the truck, between it and the stream)
- Route 12 (on the highest hill, lower-leftmost square)
- Route 13 (on the south beach, between the running Ace Trainer and the Fisherman on a sandy corner by the water's edge)
- Route 14 (towards the Abundant Shrine, on top of the waterfall with a small square of land on the right, west of the Backpacker)
- Route 16 (west side of the route, south of the Depot Agent and north of the male Cyclist, middle of the road)
Traded to the player
Yancy will trade the male player a different Pokémon each day in this order, if the previous one has already been traded. Black Kyurem, White Kyurem, and Eggs cannot be traded to Yancy.
|Black 2 and White 2
Initial call
- "Um... hello?
- "Yes. That's right. I'm the owner of that Xtransceiver. I'm using an old Xtransceiver right now, so it's audio only. Sorry."
- "Thank you for finding it. Truth is, I want to come pick it up right away, but... Right now I'm very busy with work, and I'm not in a place where I can stop and come get it. If you don't mind, could you hang on to it for a little bit?"
- "Really? You don't mind? Thank you so much. My name's Na... Er... sorry... Yancy. And you are?"
- "<Player>? OK. When work calms down, I'll come pick it up, so please take care of it for me! Also... I'm sure you'll want to keep in touch until I can pick up my Xtransceiver. So I'll call your Xtransceiver often. Bye, then. Thanks again."
First Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Wow, so you're a boy, <player>? It's a little annoying that we can't see each other, right? Just so you know... I'm a girl. Tee hee. Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Second Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? <selected hobby> is your hobby, <player>? I see. That sounds kind of fun. Maybe I should take it up, too. Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Third Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Really? So you like <selected type> Pokémon? Many of them are cute aren't they? Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Fourth Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Really? So you listen to music often, <player>? <Selected music>, did you say? I like music, too. It makes me smile just listening to it. Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Fifth Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Really? <selected Pokémon kind> Pokémon are your favorite, <player>? <Selected Pokémon Kind> Pokémon are quite popular among many of my friends, too! Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Sixth Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Really? <Selected activity> is your way of spending the holiday? I wouldn't have guessed that, <player>. Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Seventh Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Really? <Selected choice>? Do you do those often? Can we do that when we have a chance to? <Selected choice>? Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Eighth Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Really? <Selected choice> is what you want to become, <player>? I think it's wonderful for anyone to have a dream. I must work hard, too. Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Ninth Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? Great, <player>! You have <number of current badges>, you are a tough trainer, aren't you? Oops! My colleague is calling me. I have to get back to work! Talk to you again. Good-bye."
Tenth Call
- "Hi... Is this <player>? I am off today, so I was thinking I could pick up my Xtransceiver. The one you've been keeping for me... Are you busy, <player>? Really? You aren't? Good. Can we meet at the Ferris wheel in Nimbasa City? I'm looking forward to seeing you there, <player>. Good-bye."
Nimbasa City
- "No! I'm not who you think!"
- "...What? You're <player>? I'm so sorry! I thought you were someone else. Well, uh...It's nice to meet you. I'm Yancy! You were different than I imagined, so I was a little surprised. Ah ha ha... ..."
- "I suppose so! We can just talk normally! Hee hee! <Xtransceiver returned to her>. Thank you, <player>. I'm sorry I couldn't find the time to pick it up earlier. But I really enjoyed talking with you, so maybe I was a little lucky! Ah ha ha..."
- "Um... If you don't mind can I still call you sometime? ... Phew. I was really scared you might say no. <Yancy's Reregistered in Xtransceiver>. Can I ask you one more thing? I called you on the Xtransceiver too often, and Ma... I mean one of my coworkers... Got really mad at me... So, <player>, could you call me? ..."
- "What? Really? Thanks... <player>, you're really nice. Hee hee..."
- "I'm usually at work, and sometimes I have trouble picking up a signal... But I'd like it if you check your Xtransceiver often and give me a call... Ah ha ha! Well, I'll be heading home! Good-bye, <player>!"
Whenever the male player calls her
- "Ah, <player>! Yeah I can talk right now. You know..."
Eleventh Call
- "Thank you for the other day! I was surprised you were my age! I was guessing you would be older by than me from your voice. It made me a little nervous on the Xtransceiver, you know? I'm kind of relieved that I can relax from now on when we talk. I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Twelfth Call
- "My hobby is cooking. When I hear about good food, I go and check it out for myself."
- "Lately the Casteliacones in Castelia City are getting quite popular, so I've been wanting to try one..."
- "But there is a long line every time I go there, so I haven't tried it yet."
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Thirteenth Call
- "I like Normal-type Pokémon a lot! They can become whatever they want to be if they work hard."
- "Don't you agree they have that kind of charm? Besides, there are so many cute Pokémon among them!"
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Fourteenth Call
- "I love music. I listen to pop often, I think. Listening to music makes you smile, doesn't it?"
- "I may not look it, but I'm pretty good at singing and that stuff. I'd like you to listen to me sing when we have the opportunity, if you don't mind."
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Fifteenth Call
- "<Player>, have you participated in the Pokémon Musical?"
- "I've been wanting to play Dress Up with my Pokémon. I'll make it cute and have it participate in a musical."
- "When my Pokémon would receive fan letters, they'd help keep it motivated."
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Sixteenth Call
- "I usually go for a walk on my days off. Walking at my own pace, seeing different things alone is a good change of pace."
- "I went to Nimbasa City for a walk that day and dropped my Xtransceiver. I can say my walking let us meet, <player>."
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Seventeenth Call
- "I trade Pokémon often. My job requires me to go to various regions, so I trade with people there for the memories."
- "I'd love to trade Pokémon with you someday, you know, <player>!"
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Eighteenth Call
- "I want to become someone cool. I don't mean someone who appears cool. I'm talking about substance. I have a long way to go...
- "But I believe I'll one day become someone with cool substance by working hard at my job. I hope...you'd support me."
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Nineteenth Call
- "My dad and brother were having a Pokémon battle the other day. They were having so much fun!
- "Then my sister started crying, saying she wants a Pokémon, too. Took us some time to calm her down."
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Twentieth Call
- "Time flies when I talk to you, <player>. I must really be having a really good time! Ahaha!"
- "Calls from you are always welcome, you know."
- "Think I should get back to work now. Talk to you later, <player>. Bye!"
Twenty-First Call
- "Um...I hope you can help me with this."
- " Have you seen what they call Dark Tall Grass?"
- "I see...So high-level Pokémon may jump out at you..."
- "I knew it was a dangerous kind of tall grass. I should tell my brother and sister to be careful, then."
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Second Call
- "Um...I hope you can help me with this."
- "I want to give my sister a Pokémon."
- "I guess you're right. You think her first Pokémon should be of <Player's Starter Pokémon's type>?"
- "I'll go catch one with my sister soon!"
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Third Call
- "Um...I hope you can help me with this. I just made a mistake at work."
- "Yeah...I feel better talking to you, <player>. I'll keep in mind not to make the same mistake twice."
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Fourth Call
- "Um...I hope you can help me with this."
- "Have you heard of Medal Rally?"
- "...Really? Sounds like a fun event! I had no idea."
- "This strange man caught me off guard by giving me these Medals..."
- "I'll start collecting them since you are."
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Fifth Call
- "Um...I hope you can help me with this."
- "I have trouble battling against my brother's Leavanny."
- "Of course! I'm glad I asked you. I'll have a Fire-type battle him next time."
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Sixth Call
- "Um...I hope you can help me with this."
- "I had an argument with my dad about my job yesterday."
- "Yeah...I feel better talking to you, <player>."
- "I'll go and apologize to my dad. I'll stay calm and be sincere."
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Seventh Call
- "Um...I hope you can help me with this."
- "Somebody gave me a Dowsing Machine the other day and..."
- "Oh, I see! The Dowsing Machine can be used in so many places. I'll use mine often now."
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Eighth Call
- "Umm..I hope you can help me with this..."
- "How do I...How do I look with this hat?"
- "Ahaha! I'm glad I asked you."
- "Hey, you are making me blush!"
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Twenty-Ninth Call
- "Umm...I hope you can help me with this. "
- "I have this person who's really good at what we do at our workplace, and I can't help but feel so competitive."
- "Yeah! I feel better talking to you, <player>. I guess it's not him but my own self that I must overcome. "
- "Thanks, <player>. Talk to you later."
Thirtieth Call
- "Er...Umm...I am off today, so can we meet somewhere? You've been helping me a lot recently, so I'd love to thank you face-to-face!"
- "Really? You can? Great! Can we meet each other at the Ferris wheel? "
- "I'm...so looking forward to it, <player>! See you later."
Nimbasa City (after the Thirtieth Call)
- "Oh, <player>! You came! I'm so glad."
- "What? N-no! I haven't been waiting. I just got here a minute ago. A ha ha! Hey if you don't mind, do you want to ride the Ferris wheel? Nimbasa City's Ferris wheel is really famous for having a beautiful view."
- "Really? You don't mind? Great! I've been wanting to ride this Ferris wheel for a long time! But...Only two people can ride it, so I've held out this whole time! I'm so happy, I'm all worked up! Let's hurry up and ride, <player>!"
- "Ah. Um...I'm a little nervous for some reason."
- "It's strange...Talking with you makes me feel so happy..."
- "That's why I wanted to meet you in person...and say thank you."
- "...A ha ha! I'm so thankful for everything you've done for me. I feel like I can work so hard at this job thanks to you, <player>. I'd like it if we could keep talking from time to time..."
- "Okay. I'm going to get going...Today was a lot of fun! See you later, <player>!"
Trade Call
- "Ah, <player>! I'm...glad we can talk face-to-face. Ahaha!"
- "...What? You want to see me now? Hold...Hold on a sec..."
- "Yep! I think I can make it. How about meeting up at the Ferris wheel in Nimbasa City? I'm sooo looking forward to it, <player>! See you later."
Nimbasa City (after calling to meet)
- "Oh, <player>! A ha ha! I couldn't wait, so I hurried here. I'm happy to see you! Hey, would you like to ride the Ferris wheel with me? I've taken a shine to it."
- "Really? That's great! Why did I get so excited all of the sudden? Let's hurry and ride, <player>!"
- "I never get tired of this view."
- "Is it because I'm with you?"
- "Aww... It's over already..."
- "Hey, <player>. When I was in a different region for work, I caught a <Pokémon>... Will you trade me one of your Pokémon? I'll take any Pokémon. I just want to trade!"
- No: "Oh. That's too bad. If we ever have another opportunity let's trade Pokémon, OK?"
- Yes: "Thank you! <Pokémon> also looks happy!"
- "... Thanks for coming today. I was really happy you invited me. Being with you again has given me a lot of energy! A ha ha! Now I have energy for work! If you don't mind, I'd like it if you invite me again! Well, I'd better get going! See you, <player>!"
Whenever the male player calls her (after the thirtieth call except for the fiftieth call)
- "Ah, <player>! I'm...glad we can talk face-to-face. Ahaha!"
Thirty-first Call
- "Oh! Sorry, <player>. It's almost time for work... I have to hang up... So sorry... Talk to you soon."
Thirty-second Call
- "Stop that! Hey! Sigh... Sorry... That was my sister and brother bothering me... They seem to get jealous when I talk to you, <player>. Ahaha! They are usually bratty, but I guess they can be cute sometimes. Arg! Hey, I said 'stop'! Sigh... Sorry, <player>. It seems that I have to spend time with them today... Talk to you soon."
Thirty-third Call
- "I found this shop that bakes really good cakes the other day. They bake things that taste mysterious. I've never tasted anything like them. Maybe we could go there together sometime soon... Oops! I have to get back to work. Talk to you soon."
Thirty-fourth Call
- "I bought a Soda Pop from this vending machine the other day. Guess what! I got an extra as a bonus. It's great, isn't it? Have you got a bonus before, <player>? I would have shared it with you, had we been together then.. Oops! I have to get back to work. Talk to you soon."
Thirty-fifth Call
- "Cough, cough. Sorry... I got a cold, it seems... Yeah... I'm really sorry. Cough... I guess so. I'll stay home and rest for now. But... Seeing your face should help me recover sooner, <player>. Ahaha! Talk to you soon."
Thirty-sixth Call
- "The stars last night were so beautiful... Did you see them by any chance, <player>? I saw lots of shooting stars, too. It really was a pretty night. I saw so many that I made many wishes. What? Ahaha! I can't tell you what I wished for... Oops! I better get back to work! Talk to you soon."
Thirty-seventh Call
- "I was using the Dowsing Machine the other day and got something really awesome. I gave it to my dad, and he was really pleased. I'm glad you told me about the Dowsing Machine a while ago, <player>! ...Oops! I better get back to work! Talk to you soon."
Thirty-eighth Call
- (same as thirty-fourth call)
Thirty-ninth Call
- "I went to the Battle Institute in Nimbasa City to take the Battle Test. I did a little better than the last time! I'll keep trying to get better results! I'd appreciate it if you could tell me about Pokémon battles, please? ...Oops! I better get back to work! Talk to you soon.
Whenever the male player calls her (only for the fortieth call)
- "Oh, sorry I've kept you waiting! Ahaha!"
Fortieth Call
- "I'm on my break right now. Couldn't help answering 'cause I wanted to talk to you! It's voice only, sorry! Ahaha! ...My job keeps me busy, and I was just about to collapse... But hearing your voice is giving me energy, <player>! Oops! My break is over. I have to get back to work. Next time, I want to be looking at your face when we talk. Talk to you soon."
Fiftieth Call
- (in her working outfit) "Oh, sorry I've kept you wai... Uh oh."
Fifty-first Call
- "Ah, <player>!"
- "I'm... glad we can talk face-to-face."
- "Ahaha! Sorry about last time! This person from work answered my Xtransceiver by mistake... Sorry I wasn't there to answer you when you took your time to reach me... I guess taking a break when you aren't supposed to gets you sooner or later. Huh? Oh, I was just talking to myself. Ahaha! Oops! Time's up. I have to get back to work. Talk to you soon."
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Yancy first appears in Pokémon Adventures with her boyfriend, Blake. Blake breaks up with her as they both feel that their relationship is interfering with Yancy's career as an idol. Later, it is revealed that Blake was dating her in order to find out whether or not she was a member of the previously defeated Team Plasma. After coming to a conclusion that she wasn't, Blake crosses out both Yancy's name as well as her stage name, Nancy.
| Spinda is Yancy's only known Pokémon. It was first seen with its Trainer when she was breaking up with Blake. Afterward, it left with Yancy while she said her tearful goodbyes.
None of Spinda's moves are known.
|The Transfer Student
- Starting with the thirtieth call, Yancy's sprite will begin to blush when talking on the Xtransceiver, implying she has developed feelings for the male player, just like her male counterpart, Curtis, has for the female player.
- Yancy will occasionally talk about the other regions, which she's been to on business trips: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh.
- She will say something about the region, such as, "I went on a business trip to the Hoenn region the other day. They have many unique towns and cities. They really surprised me! Their famous Lava Cookie was really good too!"
- She mentions an item with each region, which will be held by her Pokémon from that region during trade.
| ルリ Ruri
ルッコ Rukko
| Possibly 瑠璃 ruri, lapis lazuli
Similar to her real name. May also be from ルッコラ rucola, rocket plant.
| Yancy
|Rhymes with fancy.
| Brenda
| Sabine
| Lilì
| Belinda
Belén Guaraz
| Contains the word linda, Spanish for pretty.
Contains the word lengua, Spanish for tongue.
| 루리 Ruri
루루 Lulu
| Transliteration of her Japanese name.
Repetition of the first character of her real name
|Chinese (Mandarin)
| 琉璃 Liúlí
琉子 Liúzi
| From 琉璃 liúlí, archaic word for glass
Similar to her real name
| Ruri
|Same as Japanese.
|This game character article is part of Project CharacterDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each character found in the Pokémon games.


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"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."
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"The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."
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Hank Williams Jr. and ESPN Part Ways for Good
While both sides claim they ousted the other, the end result is the same. Hank Williams Jr. will no longer be featured in the iconic opening to ESPN's 'Monday Night Football' following the comments he made Monday morning on 'Fox and Friends.'
"We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr," the sports network said in a statement. "We appreciate his contributions over the past years. The success of 'Monday Night Football' has always been about the games and that will continue."
On his official website, Williams told his side of the story. "After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision," he wrote. "By pulling my opening Oct. 3, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run."
The introduction to Monday night's game was yanked after Williams used an analogy involving Adolf Hitler and President Obama on 'Fox and Friends.' The singer commented on Obama's round of golf with House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican. Williams said, "It'd be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."
After attempting to explain himself on Monday, Williams admitted he made a dumb statement on Tuesday, adding, "I am very sorry if it offended anyone." It's not clear if any amount of contrition would have allowed the network to continue using the song and his likeness.
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Cracked Corn and Snow Ice Cream: A Family Almanac
All Ages
By Nancy Willard
Illustrated by Jane Dyer
64 pages
Harcourt Brace & Company
Out of print
An almanac is defined as an annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information. Readers may be familiar with The Old Farmers Almanac. Published annually, it contains—among other things—weather forecasts, planting charts, astronomical data, and recipes for the coming year. As a child I was fascinated by it. It seemed to be able to predict weather for specific days, and general weather patterns for whole seasons with remarkable accuracy. Looking through its pages always made me feel as though I were living in a different time, yet it was full of information pertaining to the future. It was like a book of magic.
This family almanac, created by Nancy Willard and Jane Dyer, is also a book of magic. Willard gathered stories from her grandmother's family, of life on a farm in the Midwest, at the turn of the century. When Dyer heard the stories, she was reminded of her own family's past and their roots in Kansas.
Though a snapshot of a different time, there's helpful advice that can be used today. It's temperature, not light, that helps to ripen tomatoes; a slice of lemon rubbed on your hands will help rid them of stains. While some of the information is not relevant to current, daily life—like reminders to cut your ice and tips for storing it properly—it's still deeply engrossing.
Nancy Willard won the Newbery Award in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers. (That same year Beverly Cleary's Ramona Quimby, Age 8 won a Newbery Honor.) Willard is a poet, a novelist and a picture book writer. Her writing is beautiful and full of energy, immediately drawing readers into the life of the characters.
Jane Dyer has illustrated several books, including Time for Bed, written by Mem Fox, one of my favorite books for babies. Her art in this book is superb. It's delicate and vibrant and imbues the text with nostalgia.
Each month spans four pages and contains several sections. "Dates and Festivals" features fixed holidays, birthdays of notable figures and important dates in history. "Variable Feast Days and Holidays" highlights celebrations that fall on varying days each year.
The "Farmer's Calendar" offers planting information, tips for the care of livestock and tips relating to nature. "Worth Knowing" and "Worth Cooking" contain facts and recipes respectively.
Each month closes with "The Voices," direct quotes from Willard's family members giving readers a personal glimpse into life on a farm in the early 1900s. Photographs of the people speaking in "The Voices" are featured in double page spreads, which separate the seasons, leaving a more lasting impression of times past.
There's a section that appears in a few of the months labeled "Cow Facts" where readers learn that thirty-three cows fit in an average classroom! And when milking a cow by hand, a gallon of milk contains 340 squirts.
Amongst all these features are poems, spells, old sayings, birthstone information, etymology of the names of the months, old wives tales, and myriad other tidbits. Dyer's amazing art is sprinkled throughout—covering a quarter page and accompanying a poem, or as a small detail along side a special date. She's also created colorful and ornate hand-lettering to break up the traditional black type.
Use this book as a template to create your own family almanac, as a lesson on life in a different era, or as a reference for wonderful old-world recipes. Break it out at the beginning of each month to discuss upcoming holidays, or to aid in your planting schedules. Or just read through it and marvel at a lifestyle of not so very long ago, but far removed from our current way of life. However read, Cracked Corn and Snow Ice Cream is a treasure for the whole family to share.
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PILATTI, Miguel Angel; DE ORELLANA, Jorge; DEL CARMEN IMHOFF, Silva y PIRES DA SILVA, Álvaro. Review of the critical limits of the optimal hydric interval. Cienc. suelo [online]. 2012, vol.30, n.1, pp.09-21. ISSN 1850-2067.
The Optimal Hydric Interval (IHO) is the interval of easily available soil water for the crops, during which soil resistance and aeration do not limit root growth. In this paper, the upper and lower limits of the IHO are discussed. The upper limit is èCC (soil water content at field capacity) when air capacity (èa) is not restrictive for root respiration; otherwise, the limit is èa. The lower limit is determined by the variable of greater value between èRP (soil water content at which soil resistance reduces root elongation) and èFU (soil water easily available by crops below which water stress begins). The validity of the limits is analyzed, and methodological problems for their determination are discussed. Values of the IHO obtained by other authors with different critical limits are compared with those obtained using the values proposed in this study. Each agronomic situation (soil, climate, crops) requires specific values of the IHO that should be calculated for each region. For the northern Pampean Region (Argentina) and the usual crops, the following critical values are proposed: èCC = soil water content at -10 kPa, èa = 15%; èRP = 2,5 to 6 MPa (according to the clay content) and èFU = -0,17 MPa.
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Maine communities try help to prescription drug addicts
New programs focus on education, treatment
One county in Maine is attempting a new method to stop the problem of prescription drug addiction.
Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty said his office is having luck ending the cycle of addiction and incarceration with its Criminogenic Addiction and Recovery Acadamy, also known as CARA.
"If we just arrest them and throw them in jail, they're released to the same addiction problems and the problem continues. The cycle continues," Liberty said.
It's a six-week-long treatment program for inmates.
"Once they're arrested and in a correctional facility, that's the time when we literally have a captive audience. We literally give them incentives to go through the program," Liberty said.
For many recovering addicts, the path to sobriety included run-ins with the law. It's something that happens frequently to people trying to pay for their prescription drug addictions.
"It pretty much destroyed everything I had that was important or meaningful in my life," recovering addict Dave Burden said.
There are also options available for people who feel themselves going down the dangerous path of addiction but haven't gone so far as to break the law to feed their habits.
Darren Ripley is the coordinator for the Maine Alliance for Addiction Recovery. He helps people find treatment and recovery options.
Many people find ways to pay for treatment programs, but there are plenty of addicts who simply can't afford the help and find themselves out of options something Ripley said shouldn't happen.
"We can't turn them away. That's the time to get them right there. If they're turned away, we may never get them back," Ripley said.
Ripley also trains people to be peer-to-peer recovery coaches, so that addicts who've gone through treatment have a coach who understands what they're going through.
"The more that we push for that, the more success we're going to see in this state," Ripley said.
The MAAR coordinator also said another hurdle is to get communities to understand that addiction is a community problem that needs community solutions.
Ripley said he's working with municipalities to make sure they are more open and supportive of people who are trying to turn their lives around.


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Here in South Town you'll find one of the most interesting mixes of neighborhoods and people, business establishments, and gathering places in Kalamazoo. Like a spicy gumbo, it has a little of this and a little of that. Once the city's most populated neighborhood, in some ways it still holds onto its roots as a solid working-class neighborhood.
Kalamazoo's reputation as The Celery City had a lot to do with the celery farms on the district's edge in the beginning. But like so much in Central City, South Town is defined as much by what it has become as what it was. To prove a point, take a midday stroll through South Town. After taking in the surroundings, you could plan an evening around dinner and a show, just minutes from each venue. You might even run into the self-appointed Mayor of South Town. At his shoe store he can steer you to anything from a hair stylist to a tax specialist. Or help you find your way back to the elegant new campus of Bronson Methodist Hospital.
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(Janesville, WI) Gazette Editorial
Good economic news keeps surfacing in and around Janesville and Rock County. It's good, that is, if you consider the lack of available industrial buildings—other than that empty albatross formerly known as the General Motors plant—in the Janesville market.
Few would have bet back in 2008, when GM closed and cynics suggested the last one to leave the city should turn out the lights, that Janesville would face a space shortage so soon. As Jim Leute reported Aug. 18, Janesville's industrial building vacancy rate has fallen sharply since 2010. Available space is almost nonexistent.
For example, Jeff Helgesen invested millions to make over his building at 2929 Venture Drive—former home of GM suppliers. Miniature Precision Components and John Deere Central Consolidated fill it today. Across Beloit Avenue, Cummins Emissions Solutions employs about 60 while leasing space in another Helgesen building and wants more room. Helgesen plans to expand 2929 Venture Drive, but Cummins will shift work to still another Helgesen building that could expand to meet its needs.
James Otterstein, the county's economic development manager, says potential projects are in the pipeline and might encourage developers to construct buildings on speculation.
That story was one of many detailing positive developments in recent weeks.
-- GOEX started work on a $13 million, 190,000-square-foot building off Highway 14 at Newville Road. The manufacturer's sister corporation, Prent, will take over the GOEX plant on Foster Avenue. GOEX employs 130, expects to open the new plant next July with 10 more workers and hopes to add 10 percent to its workforce annually.
-- Milton's city council agreed to buy 23 acres for $600,000 and annex 158 more acres to expand the city's business park along the Highway 26/59 corridor.
-- Restaurant supplier Golden State Foods opened a 45,810-square-foot expansion in Whitewater, just northeast of Rock County.
-- The Blackhawk Technical College Board approved $2.09 million to renovate the former ANGI Energy Systems building in Milton as part of the college's plans to open an Advanced Manufacturing Training Center.
-- Melster Candies, which moved from Cambridge to Whitney Street in Janesville in 2011, needs more space and will lease a building on Kettering Street. In turn, Kenco Logistic Services will move from the Kettering building to a larger one on Barberry Drive.
-- Stoughton-based Universal Acoustic & Emission Technologies will lease 106,000 square feet of Beloit's Ironworks campus with an option for 67,000 more. The company hopes to add 50 jobs within 2½ years, but that could double. Its expansion will serve as the catalyst for a $40 million renovation of the Ironworks.
Nothing will happen to the 4.1-million-square-foot former GM facility on Janesville's south side as long as the automaker keeps it on standby status and tied to a union contract that doesn't expire until 2015.
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Lego, 15.99
Hot Wheels, 5.00
Power Rangers, 6.49
And what I would like is my application to read the contents of the file and store the toy names in a list component. And then I want to be able to select a toy name from the list and add it
to a shopping cart that is a list component as well. I want to the application to have menu items and buttons to allow me to remove items from the shopping cart, clear the shopping cart of all
selections, and check out. When I check out, the application should calculate and display the subtotal of all the toy names in the shopping cart, the sales tax (which can just be 8 percent of
the subtotal), and the total.
Please help create this simple application example I've just made up, and I'm going to add and use this example to create a bigger application myself. I truly appreciate it. Thank you!