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Most bands are lucky to have one career go-round. The Muffs—L.A.'s longtime purveyors of pugilistic power pop—are going on like their fourth. Singer/guitarist Kim Shattuck, having survived the day-glo garage gal-gang, the Pandoras at the end of the '80s, started the Muffs around 1992, had some slight lineup changes, and once the classic lineup of Shattuck, bassist Ronnie Barnett and drummer Roy McDonald (also on/off with Redd Kross over the years) was fixed, the trio settled into an amazing five-year groove on Warner Bros.
The dust of the alternative rock boom eventually settled, but not before the Muffs had their share of success, though they never fully got their due for producing some of the best guitar pop tunes of that decade. After a tiny breather, the band continued on with more garage goodness via various labels, until around 2006 where everyone sort of flitted around, living life. But the Muffs never stopped doing occasional gigs around the two coasts, keeping their chops honed and Shattuck's infamous scream intact. And last year the Pixies' noticed Shattuck's expert ability to scream and play guitar at the same time, bringing her on tour for a fleeting moment that ended abruptly. That was good news to lovers of bashed-up bubblegum rock, because that just meant the Muffs got back into action and have a brand new album, Whoop Dee Doo, out today on Burger Records.
I was going to ask you guys for a Top 10 list of favorite onstage fights you've ever seen. Instead, I'll make it easier—what are your Top Five Best Onstage Fights Between Muffs Members?
Ronnie Barnett: Even though any fight that has occurred onstage in our band has included me and Kim, I honestly can't remember any of them. I think I've just blocked it out at this point. And though one hasn't happened in at least the last 18 years, there's still always someone who approaches me and says it's what they remember most about seeing us. Sometimes that person has been Rick Nielsen!
Kim Shattuck: I can only think of one. We were playing at some stupid place with stair steps leading up to the stage. Ronnie kept standing right in front of my microphone. He was doing it just to bug me. So after a while I finally pushed hard on him with my legs to his torso. And down he went. Ass over tea kettle. I believe he kept playing but his glasses were askew. I'm not proud of fighting Ronnie onstage. Just putting it out there. It was completely immature and sad.
Roy McDonald: I can only think of one but it's a good one. Back in '95 we played a place called Club Babyhead in Providence, RI. As soon as we rolled in for soundcheck, I realized that I had played this same room in '87 with Redd Kross (when it was called The Rocket). The reason my otherwise faulty memory was so clear was that Steve and Jeff McDonald had a huge onstage fight that night. The club's stage has a notorious bass rumble and it caused a punch-up between the brothers…something along the lines of, "Steve, your bass is too loud!" "No it isn't Jeff! It's the stage!" "Turn it down, Steve!" "No, I'm not turning down!" "Fuck you!" "Fuck you!" (punch, punch). I warned Kim and Ronnie about the bass rumble and told them the whole story about the fight, which of course they thought was hilarious. Soundcheck was pretty awful, but we got through it…and then came showtime. "Ronnie, your bass is way too loud!" "No it isn't Kim! It's the stage! Don't you remember Roy telling us about what happened with Jeff and Steve?" "I don't care. It's all I can hear! Turn it down now!" "No, I'm not turning down! Fuck you!" "Fuck you!" (punch, punch).
Ten years since your last record? Why now?
Shattuck: Because it was done.
Barnett: Didn't plan it this way. If we had worked with a deadline and didn't have the business contract stuff to work out it could have been out three years ago. At this point we're on no fixed schedule in our career.
McDonald: The whole 10 years thing kind of crept up on us. We pushed the last album for about a year and then took a couple of years off, mostly to recharge our batteries. After that we started playing live again both in the U.S. and abroad which inspired Kim to write a bunch of new songs. Once we had enough money to make a record we started recording this one. Since we didn't have a label breathing down our necks we worked on it at a leisurely pace. Then I got busy touring behind the Redd Kross record and Kim joined the Pixies, so that affected things as well.
How did Burger Records come into the picture?
Shattuck: They wanted to put out our record, and we fell in love with their work ethic and cool vibe. So we said fuck yeah!
Barnett: I was a fan of Burger. I'd been to the store and actually bought a ton of their stuff.
McDonald: I met Lee Rickard through Steve McDonald. Burger released Researching The Blues and a reissue of Born Innocent on cassette, and then Redd Kross did some touring with Lee in the old Burger van. I hit it off with Lee immediately. In the meantime Ronnie had also gotten to know Lee so it just made sense to start talking to him about releasing the record on Burger. On one late night ride during the Redd Kross Burger Van tour I played him some of the record and the rest is history.
Burger is all hot and everything, but how much did you guys know about that label, that scene, etc.?
McDonald: It was Steve McDonald who turned me on to the Burger scene. I was extremely impressed that they created this whole super cool scene, but once I got to know Sean (Bohrman) and Lee, it's not really surprising. They live and breathe Burger. Their enthusiasm is genuine and contagious. Those guys are in it for all the right reasons.
Barnett: A few years ago I went out on a Valentine's double-date with a girl I was seeing who was best friends with a girl Lee was seeing. Me and Lee were introduced, and basically me and him talked the whole night! We bonded over our mutual love of power pop, Emitt Rhodes, etc. I mail-ordered some stuff from them and Lee wrote me a message on the package. I called him up and we were "reunited." Shortly after that Lee went on tour with Redd Kross & told him to wear Lee down & get Burger to put out our record…er, cassette. It worked!
Be honest—what do you think of the cassette trend Burger helped ignite?
Shattuck: Hilarious. Kinda like putting our record out on wax disc or whatever Thomas Edison first used. I'd really like to put it out on a breakable 78.
Barnett: I LOVE cassettes and am both proud and ashamed to be the only member of our band with a cassette player!
How far back did the plans for Whoop Dee Doo go? Was the idea hatched before or after Kim's stint with the Pixies? Speaking of which, Kim, can you finally lay to rest any questions about your Pixies stint—like how do you look at the experience overall?
Shattuck: Mr. Charles Thompson totally handed us the name Whoop Dee Doo when he went on record saying what he said about firing me. I loved the experience of playing with the Pixies because of their AUDIENCE. Playing the shows to those rabid Pixies fanatics was super fun.
Where did you make the album, and how'd it go?
Shattuck: We did basic tracks with Steve Holroyd. He is the coolest dude. He assisted engineered under Glyn Johns way back when. Learned some cool mic techniques from him as well. So we recorded to two-inch tape like the olden days. Then we bounced it to Pro Tools like the nowadays. Then I engineered everything else.
Barnett: We worked on this thing for a long time. It was actually "in the can" before that Pixies business.
Of course you guys still do a fair amount of live gigs, if not long tours. Any good recent live gig stories?
Shattuck: I'm thinking it's been really smooth lately. Everybody has been super nice recently. I guess it's because we're old.
McDonald: Things got very sexual at our last show just this past Saturday night. There was a couple in front of Ronnie that were practically fucking each other. I was going to say, "Get a room!" but then I remembered that it was the weekend of ComicCon, and rooms were very hard to come by.
I always loved how your songs are so catchy, poppy, etc., but live, Kim could get really vicious (in a funny way), and the band always played with loads of energy. And because of some of the labels you were on (Sympathy, Telstar, etc.), I assume you might have some stories of being on bills with quite violent punk or garage bands—any good stories of telling some vociferous audience members to go fuck themselves?
Shattuck: I once kicked a photographer in the face for sticking his camera under my dress and snapping pictures of my crotch. I guess he worked for a top magazine, but so what. What a dick.
Barnett: We played a benefit at the Palace in Hollywood in Christmastime, 1995. Jeffery Lee Pierce did a guest spot on the bill and was on the side of the stage heckling us during our set. At one point he crawled on his hands and knees behind Kim and lifted her dress. We laid into him verbally something good, I remember calling him a "Sam Kinison-looking motherfucker." That was his last time onstage. He died three months later. I'm a big fan and I'm sorry he's not around anymore, but that night, he was an asshole.
McDonald: One of my first shows with the Muffs was at some weird club in Ventura. Super hardcore crowd, lots of stagediving. At one point a guy lingered on the stage a little too long, and Ronnie promptly kicked him in the ass and sent him on his way. After the show Ronnie is surrounded by several questionable looking gentlemen who inform him that the young man he threw off the stage was a junior officer of an organization called the "Ventura Skins," of which they were also charter members. To this day I don't know how he got out of there alive.
You once told me the Muffs spent $50,000 on the making of a music video. This is the kind of thing that drops the jaws of any rock'n'roll band with members under the age of 27. Could you please 1) describe the music biz mileau that existed that would toss that kind of dough around; and 2) any memories of making that video?
Shattuck: I showed up to the video shoot in my pajamas holding my teddy bear. I was shocked at the big deal of it all. Cops everywhere. Blocked off streets. It was overkill. I think Warner/Reprise just liked to spend money. It didn't make anything better or worse. It just allowed us to eat giant meals with a ton of people who wanted a free meal with the Muffs in the studio. It was fun. Little did I know that we paid for it all.
McDonald: I've blocked all that out. The only thing I remember was the catering, which was pretty good!
Barnett: Eric, you're wrong. That video actually cost $60,000. That was the way it was back then. We recorded in studios next door to Eric Clapton and Earth, Wind & Fire, and made expensive videos. The way the business was set up, it's not money you're going to pocket anyway. Budgets were set aside for use for certain things. We'd be lucky to skim off some salaries. Unless you're selling large amounts of records there would be no way to recoup. So the way I looked at it, we may as well spend their money and have some good tales to tell! And we do.
So any good tales about cheesy '90s A&R guys promising the world? These stories will soon take on the air of dragon-slaying myths.
Shattuck: Nobody promised the world. They wanted us to do well, but they didn't say we were going to be the new Nirvana or anything. I don't think the stereotype A&R jerk thing applies here. Rob Cavallo and David Katznelson were our A&R guys, and we used to hang out with them as friends.
Barnett: Warner Brothers/Reprise, for better or worse, left us alone and let us do what we wanted to do for three albums. We have none of those horror stories about dudes saying, "Record more demos" or "We don't hear any hits." They were actually great to us and all of the albums are, surprisingly, still in print. I don't think the Fluid's album on Hollywood is. [Ed. Note: It's not.]
Well, you had that Fruitopia TV commercial. And you've mentioned that you guys had to pay for the gold record you got for the Clueless soundtrack, and that it was a gold spray-painted record. Where is that record today?
Shattuck: We didn't buy it. We found out we would have to pay some huge amount for it and it was Ronnie who wanted it anyway. I didn't care. I don't want tacky stuff like that around my house. It would seem like bragging. And honestly I didn't write the song so it wasn't something I was proud of.
Barnett: I want that fucking gold record! We earned it!


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The first question you have to consider is, were you exercising when you got pregnant or are you looking to start a program now that you are pregnant? Either scenario is fine, but different precautions and plans should be followed based on your situation.
If you were exercising before you got pregnant, it is advisable to continue. Be sure to communicate this with your physician so that together you can determine appropriate frequency, duration and intensity. There are many advantages to exercising prior to getting pregnant but, in my opinion, the number one advantage is that you know how to listen to your body. During pregnancy, you are naturally sensitive to your body's changes. Mainly because there are so many! If you are in tune with your body already, some of these changes can be welcomed with little alarm. However, if you do not already have that built in awareness, every little change could potentially cause you to worry. The last thing you need right now is stress (save that for the sleepless nights the first few weeks).
If you were not exercising before you got pregnant but want to start now, no worries. Your timing is just fine. The key is to take it slow. As with experienced exercisers, be sure to discuss your plans with your physician. And as with all exercise programs, start out slow and build into a routine of longer and more frequent workouts. If you are totally new to exercise, I would advise you to seek out a fitness specialist who can give advice on proper programs and techniques. The last thing you want to do is injure yourself! There is a great deal of information out there on the subject of exercise and pregnancy. Just keep in mind that this is written for the general public. That is why it is important to discuss your intentions with your physician and possibly a fitness specialist who can tailor your needs based on your situation.
Once the baby is born, it seems like our number one goal (aside from taking care of Junior) is losing that baby weight. Just think how much easier that can potentially be if you exercised and ate well during your pregnancy! During both of my pregnancies, I exercised all the way through. Swimming was my main focus. The one thing no one told me was how hard it was to get back into the swing of things six to eight weeks after the babies were born. I was so ready to start back, but when I actually went out to walk, run or swim – things felt different. I had stop and remember what my body had just been through. I took it slow and eased back into my workouts. I definitely could not just jump back in like I imagined and that was a little frustrating. I am so glad that I did work out during my pregnancy because if I did not and felt the way I did after each of my babies was born I probably never would have started exercising!
Jen is the mother of two children: Sarah, age 3 ½, and Connor, age 9 months.

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Tell us about your childhood in Afghanistan. Where did you live?
Khaled Hosseini: I was born and raised in Kabul. We lived in a neighborhood called Wazir Akbar Khan, which was one of the up-and-coming neighborhoods in Kabul. My father was a diplomat. He worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, and my mother taught Farsi and history at a very large high school for girls. So I grew up in Kabul. I lived in Kabul until I was about five or six, lived in Tehran a couple of years -- kind of the diplomat family moving around. Came back to Kabul and left just before the communist -- a couple of years before the communist coup -- in 1976.
You were one of five?
Khaled Hosseini: Yeah, I was the oldest of five. I have three brothers and a sister and the enumerable cousins and second cousins and whatnot and people that I consider cousins, who are not really actually related to me at all. The whole concept of family in Kabul is very loose, so I just had a very extended rich social life.
One gets that impression from The Kite Runner of a very close-knit community, even in the United States.
Khaled Hosseini: We came to the U.S. in 1980, this was a few months after the Soviets invaded, right around the time that President Reagan was elected, just before. And there was a seed of Afghan communities in the East Coast and the West Coast. We were one of the early families that came to the U.S. in Northern California. We lived in San José, my family still lives there. And there were a number of families there already. Some of them we knew, some we got to know. And then over the ensuing decade or two, we watched that community explode, and more and more families came, you know, people brought their brothers and their sisters and their cousins. And the next thing you knew, you had the genesis of an actual community, both in Virginia, near Fairfax, Arlington, D.C. area, and also in Northern California in the East Bay, around the cities of Fremont, San José. Now that community is about, I would say, maybe 80,000, 90,000 people, maybe more. And there is Afghan businesses and people interacting and Afghan social clubs and organizations and so on and so forth.
Khaled Hosseini: Afghanistan was a monarchy for over 200 years. We had King Zahir Shah who passed away within the last year. King Zahir Shah had been on the throne since 1933. In 1963, a couple of years before I was born, he instituted a constitutional monarchy, and that was in effect for about ten years. My memory of that era, it was very peaceful and quiet. But in retrospect, it was an interesting time politically, a time of polarization, and to some extent, people were disillusioned with sort of the reforms and promises that had been made through the constitutional monarchy that never really panned out. And that was the circumstance under which the king was overthrown in 1973. He was away in Italy getting medical treatment. His first cousin overthrew him in a bloodless coup and took over, and Afghanistan's era of monarchy was over and it became a republic.
I actually remember the night that the king was overthrown. I was in Kabul, my parents were at the hospital where my mother was giving birth to my youngest brother that night, and we heard the gunshots, and we heard the tanks rolling in and all of the rumbling. I was home with my grandmother, and I said, "What is that noise?" And she said, "Oh, they hunt ducks at night. Don't worry about it, they're just hunting ducks." I wake up in the morning, and there's a couple of buildings have been damaged and so on, but otherwise there was not much violence. We woke up to a whole new country. So that was the reality, the political reality at that time. And then again, there were economic reforms and more promises and so on made. I left in 1973 when the president, Daoud Khan, was still in power, and it was from Paris where my father was working for the Afghan Embassy that we watched everything unravel, first with the Soviet, the communist coups of April '78, and subsequently the invasion in December '79 by the Soviet Union.
What a surreal experience that must have been to watch it from afar.
Khaled Hosseini: Yeah, surreal and very difficult in a way, because at that time, people didn't have any real reason to leave Afghanistan. So...
We had a lot of family and friends in Kabul. And the communist coup, as opposed to the coup that happened in '73, was actually very violent. A lot of people rounded up and executed, a lot of people were imprisoned. Virtually anybody that was affiliated or associated with the previous regime or the royal family was persecuted, imprisoned, killed, rounded up, or disappeared. And so we would hear news of friends and acquaintances and occasionally family members to whom that had happened, that were either in prison or worse, had just disappeared and nobody knew where they were, and some of them never turned up. My wife's uncle was a very famous singer and composer in Kabul who had been quite vocal about his dislike for the communists and so on and he disappeared. And to this day, we have no idea what happened to him. So that sort of thing, we began to hear news over in Europe of mass executions and really just horror stories. So it was surreal, and it also really kind of hit home in a very real way.
Going back to your childhood, were you a serious student in school?
Khaled Hosseini: I was a very serious student in school. My parents were both -- they weren't intensely involved with our studies, but they were involved in a very global fashion in the sense that they told us that education is really important, you have to do your homework, you have to study and you have to do well. And those were the principles in the house. That was our job, to study and do well. So I was a good student, all of my siblings were good students. We were all pretty sensible kids. Homework and school always came first. And so I did well when I was in school in Kabul in all of my subjects, and those were kind of a lesson and principles that served me well when I came over to the U.S. in 1980. I had already developed the habits of being a good student and being very diligent, and so I did very well in high school here and through college and so on. So I always was a pretty good student.
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Did you like to read as a kid?
Khaled Hosseini: I loved to read as a kid. In fact, I was raised in a household where classic Persian literature and poetry was revered and prized. Both of my folks were really into it and they got us into it. In fact as a kid, I grew up around the likes of Saadi and Hafez and Omar Khayyam and Rumi and people like that. And I really discovered the novels at a little bookshop in Kabul, because there is not a great tradition of novel writing in Persian literature, certainly not in Afghanistan. There is a great tradition, an ancient tradition of poetry, but not of prose novel. So I discovered Western novels, though translated into Farsi, at a local little bookshop in Kabul, and it was there that I read my first novels. I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and I was in wonderland. I think they had these condensed young adult editions of classics like Don Quixote and Ivanhoe and Treasure Island, and I remember reading all of those and just falling in love with the format. And then they also had serialized novels that they would publish in magazines, and I was really a sucker for those as well. So I really fell in love with prose at that time and I began writing my first short stories at that age. I was probably eight or nine years old when I began writing. I really loved it, and I was really passionate about it. I felt so in my element when I was writing. And pretty much since then, I haven't stopped writing. It is really kind of when my history of writing began.
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You mentioned the Farsi language. Could you explain for us what languages are spoken in Afghanistan and which ones you grew up with?
Khaled Hosseini: Afghanistan is a kaleidoscope of different ethnicities, tribes, sub-tribes, families and so on. Every region has its own dialect and its own local culture. So there are many, many different dialects, but there are two main languages. One is Farsi, or Dari, which is probably the more correct way of saying it. We speak the same language as in Iran -- they call it Persian or Farsi. In Afghanistan it's called Dari. It's a slightly different dialect, closer to the roots of the actual language and has a different accent. Kind of like English being spoken in Texas and maybe in Ireland. Same language, just some words are different and some of the accent. The other main language is Pashtun, which was spoken in various parts of the country. It was spoken in Kabul as well, but I largely grew up in a Dari-speaking environment. Both of my parents were from Herat, which is a Dari-speaking city. So I grew up with Dari. I learned Pashtun in school. It was mandatory to learn Pashtun in school, but I never ever spoke it at home, and I have forgotten all of my Pashtun at this point.
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This is my favorite purse pattern, I've made it several times. I went out to the Simplicity website to get a picture of the pattern for you, but it must be out of print. I like that it has all these panels, and that you can mix or match fabrics to get the look you want.
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Anne Perry published her first novel in 1979 and has since written more than 50 bestselling books of historical detective fiction in several series, most recently a new Thomas Pitt novel, Dorchester Terrace, and Blood Red Rose, the latest in her Timepiece series for young adults. Perry joins us this year to discuss her new novel, A Sunless Sea, and a sanctioned biography in which she talks about a notorious crime she committed in her youth.
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As you can see, I've totally succumbed to this season's obsession with colored jeans.
Picked these puppies up in Miami, which at least partially explains this temporary foray into trend territory; surely no rough 'n' tough New Yorker buys this sort of stuff—at least not in New York. Right?!
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Domitilla Mukantaganzwa, secretary of the National Service of Gacaca Jurisdictions, said the trials, to be conducted in traditional village courts, could start next month in a few areas but will not get under way throughout the country until next year.
The new estimate of 1 million indicates the vast scale of the task of bringing to justice those suspected of participating in the killings of 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda between April and June 1994.
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New Central Belt Home for Common Thread Group - Common Thread to open new house in East Lothian
Common Thread Group will be expanding with a new care home in East Lothian, early this summer. This Dumfriesshire based company are extremely well respected for their work with young people in crisis. They have identified a need for high quality care in the Central Belt of Scotland.
Common Thread's expansion into East Lothian will mean new recruitment opportunities for their care home. They will be looking for house managers and both day and night care staff to join this thriving company.
Common Thread provides specialist residential child-care and education services to young people who have experienced significant trauma, abuse and neglect during their childhood. These young people enjoy very high levels of care and supervision from experienced, trained and registered care workers as their primary concern is for their safety and welfare.
Common Thread have also recently opened a new house in the Highlands. Julie Joseph, Managing Director of the Common Thread Group, is thrilled to be able expand the important work they do and offer first class facilities for children in crisis. Julie Joseph said "Our recent expansion into the Central Belt and the Highlands demonstrates the need there is for quality child care at a local level"
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Glossolepis pseudoincisus [Lake Ifaten] (male+female) - photo© Buddy Jonkers
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From October 1954 until May 1955, an expedition was made in Dutch New Guinea (West Papua) by the "Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie" in Leiden. The ichthyologist of the museum, Marinus Boeseman, was the leader of the expedition. His task was to provide a thorough knowledge of the fish fauna by intensively surveying as many rivers and lakes as possible in West Papua. This task was taken to heart and in a relatively short period many localities were visited, resulting in a rich collection for the museum in Leiden. This collection included many rainbowfishes, but a thorough study of this material and descriptions of all the new species was never made by Boeseman.
As part of his preparation for the revision of the rainbowfish family, Gerald Allen studied the Dutch collection of 1954-55 at the end of the seventies. He discovered no less than 4 new rainbowfish species, which he described in 1980 together with Norbert Cross. These species were Melanotaenia boesemani, Melanotaenia ajamaruensis, Melanotaenia japenensis and Glossolepis pseudoincisus. Glossolepis pseudoincisus was named pseudoincisus with references to its similar appearance and geographic proximity to Glossolepis incisus.
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Specimens of G. pseudoincisus were collected by Boeseman in November, 1954 in an ox-bow lake of the Tami River, about 30 kilometres to the east of Lake Sentani. They are also known from Lake Ifaten, Lake Iwom and Lake Yaniruk.
Glossolepis pseudoincisus [Lake Ifaten] - photo© Gunther Schmida
In January 2001, Heiko Bleher collected a new Glossolepis rainbowfish from Lake Ifaten, an isolated crater lake situated in the mountains near Lake Sentani in West Papua. Lake Ifaten is about 300 metres above sea level. The lake has a diameter of around 250 metres. Water temperature 28°C, pH 9.0.
The fish look similar to Glossolepis incisus, but the scales are different (they're smaller and differently aligned). The new species is not as big as Glossolepis incisus; the body shape is more compact; the red coloration is more intense and the fin marking and shape is more pronounced. Also the Lake Ifaten Rainbowfish shows colour after three month of age - Glossolepis incisus needs nearly a year before they show proper colours.
The Lake Ifaten Rainbowfish has a very typical Glossolepis head. Very prominent at an age of one year, are the marks on the gill plate. A unique pattern of red lines that - so it appears - are drifting criss-cross. The females of the Lake Ifaten Rainbowfish are differently coloured. They have strong horizontal zigzagging yellow stripe colouration across the whole body. They also remain small - up to 6 cm total length.
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Greenville gets grant for work on Fred Meijer Flat River Trail
GREENVILLE — The city of Greenville was awarded an $8,000 grant last week from the Greenville Area Community Foundation for maintenance work along the Fred Meijer Flat River Trail.
The grant will help fund the recoating of railings along the boardwalk near Greenville Tool & Die on the south end of Greenville.
City Manager George Bosanic said the current powder coating along the railing is peeling off. He said keeping the trails, which have become immensely popular, in pristine condition is important.
However, the process of removing the pipes, sandblasting them and then re-installing them isn't a simple one.
"The 2-inch pipe is threaded through those 6-by-6, and, I believe, also few 2-by-4s, they are at staggered lengths to increase strength," Bosanic said. "It's a real project to have to take those apart and we would have to put up temporary fencing in their absence, thus we would have to have poles and pipe taken away and sandblasted. So that's going to cost a bit of money and it needs to be done."
So city officials applied for grant funding through the foundation's Fred and Lena Meijer fund and were notified late last month it was awarded the $8,000. The Greenville City Council accepted the funds Tuesday.
Bosanic said the money should go a long way in completely recoating a portion of the boardwalk.
"We are going to see how far $8,000 gets us, We're hopeful we can get it all done, but we don't know because this is the first since building the thing we're actually doing it," he said. "We're optimistic we'll get it all done, if not we'll have to put some off for next year."
The goal of the Fred and Lena Meijer fund is to support the trails bearing the Meijer name, so this project was perfect for the grant.
"Fortunately, the grant to the city of Greenville to recoat portions of the pipe railing along the Fred Meijer Flat River Trail is just one of the many projects the GACF has been able to support with the Lena and Fred Meijer Fund throughout the years," said Amy O'Brien, director of grants and communications at the Greenville Area Community Foundation. "The purpose of the Meijer fund is to support trails that are named in recognition of Fred Meijer within Montcalm County. We're happy that the Meijers had the foresight to designate a fund to help maintain such a beautiful community asset."
The Fred Meijer Flat River Trail circles Greenville and connects to the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail, which runs from Greenville through Sidney, Stanton, McBride and Edmore, where it turns east and leads through Cedar Lake and Vestaburg, entering Gratiot County. The trail then heads through Riverdale, Elwell and ends in downtown Alma.
The hope is the trail network will eventually be extended from Greenville, through Belding, to Lowell, connecting to the Fred Meijer Grand Valley Trail, which goes from Lowell to Ionia. The trail will then connect to the Clinton-Ionia-Shiawassee (CIS) Trail, which is scheduled to be completed this summer. The CIS Trail will link Ionia to St. Johns in Clinton County and go on to Owosso in Shiawassee County.


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i underwent septorhinoplasty to fix a hook/beaked nose, it was done really well with what i believe he shortened the septum and sort of compressed the tip making it more pointy, could that be right? anyway id like to know is if my septum can be lengthened to downturn the tip to how it was prior to surgery so its hooked from profile exactly like it was, is this possible? if so whats the difficulty of procedure and risks?, and should i use the same surgeon or look for a specialist, thanks
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The nose can be lengthened with cartilage grafts. I need to see pictures to determine if you can really create a hook but I have to ask why you would want to do this. Hopefully you selected a specialist for the first procedure; if so, consult with that surgeon.
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Mom found me this morning curled up in my little box and thought I was just asleep until she noticed my tail was stiff. "Oh, no!" she said. I really looked like I was asleep.
She always tried to let me know I was a good cat; I lived with them for less than a year.
They've been giving me water under the skin, and today I had to go to the vet to get my staples removed; I cried out when he took one of them out--not so rough, okay? They still don't know how long I have, and I'm operating with only one kidney, but Mom is happy to see I'm doing so much better.
I just took a swipe at Mom now when she tried to put me in the carrying bag; she sees I'm getting my strength back! Nobody calls me "pussy"!
I'm at the vet right now; Meowmie had to leave me for observation (they're going to do a "biopsy," whatever that is) because he felt a mass in my abdomen.
I'm scared; of course they think it's cancer, and considering that I've been eating and eating and haven't gained any weight (at 7 pounds I'm the same weight as my runty little brother--and waaay underweight) it seems pretty obvious. They brought me in today when I stopped eating and couldn't even jump up to my perch.
Mom says she'll do whatever she can, but it doesn't look good. I just want to be able to eat again--and go home; it's scary here!
Update: I'm home now, and the news wasn't good. Not only do I have a cancerous mass, my kidney function is waaay down. The vet said I'm much older than 2 (a lady never tells her age!)
They'll get the results from the biopsy sometime this week, and they're hydrating me twice a day, in hopes of keeping my kidney function going. Nobody knows how long I have, and Mom's main consolation is that for the past few months she gave me a real home.
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We are a local group of Christ followers and are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. We have a blended Worship service, which means we like the old time Hymns and the contemporary Praise and Worship. We believe in strong preaching based on God's Word alone. Our purpose statement is that: We love God and love people. Mark 12:30-31 Our responsibility in loving God is to worship and obey Him. Our plan to love people is to develop relationships through small groups and Sunday Bible Study classes.
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Hehe, I was betting on the red shirt...
I'm sorry you lost your grandma.
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Hehe, I was betting on the red shirt...
I'm sorry you lost your grandma.
thank you maksi. she said that grandad was ready for her. she had a wonderful 92 years and taught me so much. i still feel like she is watching me.
Glad you ask Esq. I've been wondering the same thing. Now I'm satisfied. Great family photo!!
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Hey luv - As well you should be!! You look like a terrific bunch!! I too am sorry about your grandma. We were just talking tonight about how special grandparents are. I'm thrilled beyond words that my kids are so close to their grandparents and that they see each other often (we live about 8 miles apart). It's great for them!!
I couldn't resist doing one more.....
and I must admit, I'm thrilled with how it came out. I pieced the block normally (rotary cut the pieces then sewed them together) and it came out perfectly.
Then I appliqued the diamonds (which are not quite as diamondly as I'd hoped, but never mind!)
I believe that our beloved family members watch us all the time. They are our gardian angels. :)Originally Posted by luvmortherest
BlueChicken your block is stunning. Talk about right on point and without paper piecing. I haven't look at the DJ since I finished the swap. I have to clean my plate before January so the DJ will have my full attention. The work done by memebers of this board is such inspirtation for me. It certainly gives me something to aim for.
Love the colors - notice how fond Miss Jane was of appliqueing diamonds and leaves (mandorlas/pointed ovals) to her blocks for embellishments?
It was almost like she couldn't stand to have big empty spaces after she did the "first" one in an apparent series.


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Avoiding Lead Exposure from Gardening
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Saturday, March 2, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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Location: Garden for the Environment, 7th Ave at Lawton Street, San Francisco
Cost: $5 (Sponsored by the SF Department of Public Health)
Human and childhood exposure to lead is a well-documented and preventable environmental health problem. In the context of urban gardens, exposure to lead is most likely to come from contaminated soil. In this accessible and practical 2-hour class you will learn how to reduce the health risks for you and your family from exposure to lead through from urban gardening. (Image: BayCitizen)
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DALLAS, Texas — A nightstick, a revolver, and a smartphone to check in on Foursquare.
That's the necessary gear of the future beat cop, as envisioned at the SMILE Conference — aka Social Media, the Internet, and Law Enforcement — held over three scorching September days in downtown Dallas. The site was the incongruously trendy Aloft Hotel, where the generally beefy and buzz-cut crowd learned the ins and outs of tweeting while surrounded by tasteful splatter art, concrete-slab walls, and white leather sofa cubes.
In their Web savvy, the hundred-plus police officers and other law-enforcement pros in attendance ranged from social-media pioneers like Toronto constable Scott Mills, who checks into Foursquare and Facebook as he walks the beat, all the way down to decrepit veterans who, in the words of one attendee, "are still figuring out solar calculators." For the latter group, early morning sessions helped to teach basics: Day 1, setting up a Twitter account; Day 2, setting up a Facebook account (with the right privacy settings); Day 3, using TweetDeck and — a last-minute addition, said the conference organizer — Google+.
Then later each day, from the podium, speakers delved into some more advanced material. Capt. Mike Parker, who runs public information for the Los Angeles Country Sheriff's Department, explained the magic of Google Alerts (to monitor chatter about your department) and YouSendIt (to get large video files to the media). The one commonality: Almost all the recommended tech was free, since most police departments have minuscule budgets for software or services. When a rep from a social-media monitoring firm mentioned his starting price—$500 per month—a few attendees snickered audibly from the back.
So, how should the police use the Web? Here were some of the takeaways:
Manage the news media… Parker gave a helpful primer on what makes news, explaining to his pupils about the "11 C's," which run from "catastrophe" and "conflict" to "celebrity" and "critters" (i.e., animals). The one eyebrow-raiser in Parker's presentation was his assurance that "Photoshop is your friend." He showed a photo of a helicopter rescue and bragged about how his department had changed the officers' blue pants to green, since green was the official departmental color. He also showed off the picture in this news release. "The only thing Photoshopped in is the beam of light," he said — i.e., the image's single most prominent feature.
… but counter misinformation. Superintendent Mark Payne, from the West Midlands Police in the UK, talked about his experiences tweeting during this past summer's riots. His town of Wolverhampton did get hit hard by looters, but meanwhile there were rumors about violence (burning shopping malls, police shootings) that hadn't happened at all. He was an operational commander on the streets during the violence, so his time to tweet was limited. But he felt like it was best spent in knocking down rumors, which could become self-fulfilling prophecies if left unchecked. Payne also stresses that it's important that all police staff are kept informed about rumors, and their truth or falsity, so that they don't unwittingly spread lies: Because they're associated with the police, their friends and family trust their word.
In investigations, think ahead. Johann Ortega, detective at the Dallas Police Department, said to keep copies of everything important. If a suspect has posted a YouTube video that might be used as evidence against him, you should save a copy to your hard drive through a free video-downloading service. Also, you should print the YouTube page: Without that, you might not be able to definitely link the video to the suspect's account. Ortega also stressed the importance of using different browsers for investigations, to keep separate accounts separate. Otherwise, cookies can trip you up, causing posts to be sent from the wrong account.
Virtualize your beat. When Mills, the constable in Toronto, is assigned to the city's club district, he stops into venues and checks in on Foursquare. First, he says, that acts as a deterrent: A police officer in the list of attendees is the virtual equivalent of a uniform in a crowd. Second, if anything goes wrong, he figures that his check-in can help with the investigation. That's because, whenever possible, he makes what might seem like a chilling move to some Foursquare users: he saves a screenshot of all the other attendees after he checks in, so that he has a ready-made list of potential witnesses in the event of a crime.
Mills and the other evangelists at SMILE were aware that those kinds of tactics make some privacy advocates squeamish. (Why track a kid, just because he checks into a club?) But to Mills, patrolling Foursquare or Twitter or public activity on Facebook is no different from walking around in a physical place.
Also, as Mills points out, the trust issue cuts both ways: Cops, in order to win trust online, also have to post frequently (and informally) on social networks themselves, opening their own words and actions to scrutiny. At a Thursday-night open-bar roundtable, some SMILE attendees expressed shock that Payne's force, in the West Midlands, allowed all police to tweet in an official capacity. No smart corporation would allow that, the dissenters pointed out. At the very least, they wouldn't encourage it.
But Mills — an intense, well-built young officer who spent most of the conference running Google Hangouts on a laptop, so cops from all around could watch the sessions — responded to this line of argument with passion. Trained correctly, he said, officers can learn to be just as responsible in their online personae as they are offline. And once trained, these social-media cops can do enormous good.
"Late at night," he said, "you do more good walking a beat in a cyber neighborhood than walking a beat on the street."
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Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Jim rushes out into the night toward the police headquarters, looking for someone who will talk and listen to him. On the front steps of the police station, he passes by and is noticed by some of Buzz's fellow gang members. He asks the indifferent, pre-occupied desk sergeant for Ray, the juvenile hall police officer that had been sensitive to him when he was first brought in - but Ray is out on call [symbolic of a father who is often unavailable when most needed]. The vengeful gang members assume that Jim is there to squeal to the police about the chickie-run tragedy.
Jim is given a rude brush-off by the policeman on duty. He calls Judy from a pay phone at the station but the call is intercepted by Judy's father. Judy overhears how her father rudely hangs up on him. Jim returns home where he finds Judy waiting for him next to his driveway. Wrapped tightly in a pink coat to keep warm, she greets him affectionately with the name she was taught by Plato:
Judy: Hello, Jamie.
Jim: Jamie? Jamie? Where'd you get that? (He smiles and softly laughs.) Huh?
Judy: How long have you known Plato?
Jim: This morning. (They hear a dedication "from the boys down at Anna's Pizza Paradise" on Jim's car radio from Buzz to Jim. The announcer states: "Jim, this is dedicated to you, from Buzz.") (Judy starts to take a lit cigarette from Jim, but then hesitates - this repeats the same gesture that Buzz made with Jim earlier at cliff's edge.) (Jim turns off the radio, reaching in with his left hand, but in close-up, it's his right hand!)
Judy (warning): They'll be looking for you.
Jim: I didn't chicken. You saw where I jumped. What do I have to do? Kill myself?
Judy: It doesn't matter to them.
Jim: Well, I guess you're still pretty upset, huh?
Judy: I'm just numb.
Jim: You know something? I woke up this morning, you know. And the sun was shining and it was nice and all that type of stuff. And the first thing - I saw you. And, uh, I said, 'Boy, this is gonna be one terrific day, so you better live it up, 'cause tomorrow you'll be nothin'.' See? And I almost was.
Judy apologizes for her earlier behavior that morning and the way she bowed to peer pressure:
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I treated you mean today. You shouldn't believe what I say when I'm with the rest of the kids. Nobody, nobody acts sincere.
And then, under a moonlit sky, he kisses her for the first time, sweetly on the side of her forehead.
Judy: Why did you do that?
Jim: I felt like it.
Judy: Your lips are soft.
They begin to fall in love. Not wishing to return to the "zoos" that are their homes, they decide to spend the night in a new home - in the "old deserted mansion" near the planetarium that Plato often visits. He assures her: "You can trust me, Judy."
Meanwhile, Buzz's gang attacks Plato to discover Jim's whereabouts, wishing to silence him and take revenge on Buzz's death. They seize him as he returns home and find Jim's home location in Plato's address book. [There are only boys names listed in Plato's address book.] After the attack, Plato - in his upstairs bedroom - opens an envelope from his father that contains a check for almost $700, bluntly designated by a typewritten memo to be "FOR SUPPORT OF SON." Feeling totally deserted and unloved because his parents have replaced love with child-support cash and a maid, Plato runs from his home - armed with his father's gun (hidden under a pillow) for protection, telling his maid: "I have to warn him."
Buzz's gang confronts Jim's timid father at his home, nailing and hanging a live chicken upside down at the front door. The gang members are not able to learn where Jim is. Plato, knowing Buzz's friends are plotting against Jim, has an idea that they have gone to the mansion and rushes there to join them at the hide-away.
Each of the adolescents have had a troubling falling-out with parents, and have been left adrift to work out their common problems. And each set of parents notify the police of the three missing teenagers. Soon, the trio will be joined together, all having left home following arguments and misunderstandings.
At the deserted estate, Jim and Judy engage in make-believe games that playfully assume adult roles, imagining themselves as rich newlyweds looking to rent or buy the home. Plato assumes the part of a real estate agent leading them through the run-down Gothic property with a lighted candelabra:
Plato: Well, what do you think of my castle?
Jim and Judy: Wow, Shoo, Gee, Wow.
Jim: Well, now, there, then, uh, I think we'll take it for the summer.
Plato: Right this way.
Jim (to Judy): Oh, uh, uh. Would you like to rent it, or are you more in the mood to buy, dear?
Judy: You decide, darling.
Jim: Oh yes, yes. (Both with affected accents.)
Judy: Remember our budget.
Plato: Oh, don't give it a thought. It's, uh, only three million dollars a month.
Jim: What?
Judy: Oh, we can manage that. I'll scrimp and I'll save and I'll work my fingers to the bone.
Jim: You see, we're newlyweds.
Judy. Yes. Oh there's just one thing. What about...
Plato (finishing her sentence): ...children? Right this way.
Judy: Yes.
Plato: See, we really don't encourage them. They're so noisy and troublesome, don't you agree?
Mimicking their parents' feelings about children, Judy thinks children are annoying when they cry. Jim responds with a solution to crying children, with a Mr. Magoo-like voice: "Eh, drown 'em like puppies, eh." Plato leads them to the empty swimming pool where they climb down into the "sunken nursery" - according to Jim.
Plato: This is a wonderful arrangement. They can carry on and you'll never even notice.
Jim: Oh, a sunken nursery.
Plato: In fact, if you lock them in, you'll never have to see them again. Much less talk to them.
Judy: Talk to them. Heavens!
Jim: Nobody talks to children.
Judy: No, they just tell them.
After playing around for a while and having fun, their happiest time together in the film, the trio settle down. Plato remembers how he often came to the deserted house, but never had fun before when alone:
Oh, I came here a lot of times before, but I never had fun...'cause I was alone.
Like a surrogate family, Jim lies with his head in Judy's lap, with Plato, the 'child' at their feet. Plato shares how he really has no mom and dad and has often run away from a troubled home. Jim catches Plato telling a concocted lie that his father is dead:
Plato: I used to lie in my crib at night and I'd listen to them fight.
Jim: Can you remember back that far? I can't remember what happened yesterday. (He laughs) I can't. How do you do it?
Plato: Oh, I had to go to a head-shrinker. Boy, he made me remember.
Jim: Did he?
Plato: Then my mother said it cost too much so she went to Hawaii instead.
Jim: Well, what's your problem?
Plato: Oh, I don't know. But-but I'm happy now, here. Oh, I wish we could stay here.
Judy: Plato, where's your father now?
Plato: Oh, he's dead. He was a hero in the China Sea.
Jim: (chuckling) You told me he was a big wheel in New York.
Plato: I did?
According to Plato, whether he's literally dead or alive makes little difference: "Aw, what's the difference. He might as well be dead anyway." Judy rubs Plato's head, comforting him: "It's all right." And she hums a lullaby to him, lulling him to sleep. Disenchanted with their own families and removed from the real world, the three teenagers act the part of their own warm, peaceful, idealized family. Plato views Jim and Judy as his chosen, substitute parents to replace his uncaring home situation - and he idolizes Jim in particular.
The young, Romeo and Juliet couple wish to explore the mansion further to discover the number of rooms: "Wanna explore?" Before they leave Plato, they put a coat over him, as if putting him to bed. They notice Plato's red and blue mismatched socks and laugh: "Must have been a nervous day..." But instead of judging or mocking Plato, they identify with his confusion. Jim asks Judy: "I've done that, though. Haven't you?" They lead their way carrying candles into the dark recesses of the house.
Settling down in another part of the mansion, Judy opens her heart to Jim, in a very intimate sequence, confessing her reasons for falling in love with him. To her, Jim is a man who is very different from her irresponsible and unloving father. She transfers her love for her father to a new heroic man and ideal partner - Jim. He has the traits of a man who is brave and strong (and won't run away or abandon her), caring, responsible, gentle and sweet with peaceful instincts:
Judy: Is this what it's like to love somebody?
Jim: I don't know.
Judy: What kind of a person do you think a girl wants?
Jim: A man.
Judy: Yes. But a man who can be gentle and sweet...
Jim: Yeah...
Judy: ...like you are...and someone who doesn't run away when you want them. Like being Plato's friend when nobody else liked him. That's being strong.
Jim: Oh, wow...We're not gonna be lonely anymore. Ever, ever. Not you or me.
Judy (nuzzling closer): I love somebody. All the time I've been, I've been looking for someone to love me. And now I love somebody. And it's so easy. Why is it easy now?
Jim: I don't know. It is for me too.
Judy: I love you, Jim. I really mean it.
Jim: Well, I'm glad. (Their lips draw together as they seal their love with a passionate kiss.)
Her affirming and approving love validates Jim's gentle, non-aggressive masculinity, and he no longer feels compelled to rebel with violence. In him, she finds someone who will never abandon her physically or emotionally.
Buzz's gang members break into the mansion, find Plato alone, wake him up, and terrorize him. Startled, Plato flees and is chased through the dark and gloomy mansion. Feeling deserted and betrayed by his 'parents' Jim and Judy, Plato goes crazy [just as Jim felt betrayed by his father] - but he also feels compelled to defend his surrogate family. He manages to shoot and wound one of his pursuers - on the staircase! Jim hears the shots and attempts to stop Plato and protectively wrestles Plato down to subdue him. Plato mistakens Jim for someone else and shoots at him, and then voices his objection to being left alone:
Why did you run out on me? Why did you leave me alone?...Let go! You're not my father...
Police have been alerted by the gunshots, and they approach the scene. Plato flees from everyone through the underbrush surrounding the home. Judy catches up to Jim, who is bravely attempting to get to the crazed and armed Plato before the police. During their search, Jim and Judy recount how Plato had Jim in his thinking when he was referring to his father:
Judy: Did he hit you?
Jim: No, I'm all right.
Judy: We have to go back.
Jim: Go back? I'm stayin'.
Judy: After he tried to shoot you, Jim!
Jim: ...He didn't mean it. We shouldn't have left him in the first place. He needs us.
Judy: He needed you maybe, but so do I, Jim.
Jim: He needs you, too. (Jim kisses her to reassure her.) You okay?
Judy: (She nods affirmatively) Yes. You should have heard him earlier tonight. He was talking about you. Like - like you were the hero in the China Sea.
Jim: Yeah, you know what he wanted?
Judy: What?
Jim: He tried to make us his family. I guess he just wanted us to be like his ---
Fleeing from gang members and the police, Plato reaches the dark, womb-like protection of the nearby planetarium, breaks in, and threatens the police from inside with his gun. With sirens blaring, police cars surround the building and attempt to get Plato to surrender. Jim and Judy rush inside the planetarium to persuade and convince him to come out. Once Jim has found that Plato is hiding inside the darkened observatory, Jim turns on the lights, sets the planetarium show going (the show about the inconsequential value of humanity), and supportively talks to Plato while he hides. Their conversation is a symbolic omen of Plato's senseless "end" and life of suffering, endured in an immense, uncaring, black world reminiscent of the earlier planetarium show:
Plato: Jim, do you think the end of the world will come at nighttime?
Jim: Mm, mm [meaning no]. At dawn.
Jim's answer foreshadows the tragic events soon to follow in the darkness of early dawn. Eventually Jim coaxes Plato to come out of hiding. But Plato wants an explanation for their desertion and abandonment (a recurring nightmare from his early childhood in a crib): "Why did you run out on me?" Jim assures Plato that they didn't run out on him at the mansion - they were planning to come right back.
Because it is cold, Jim gives Plato his warm red windbreaker jacket - a final gesture of paternal friendship. This time, Plato accepts, but is unsure whether he will be permitted to keep the jacket. To reassure him and to create an opportunity to remove the deadly bullets from the gun's chamber, Jim easily assents: "Well, what do you think?" Finally trusting Jim, Plato reluctantly hands his gun over. As Plato puts on the red jacket, Jim quickly disarms the gun and then as promised, hands the weapon back to keep Plato's respect: "Friends always keep their promises." Jim fixes it so that the police back off and turn out their lights, allowing Plato to surrender peacefully. A panicky Plato is fearful of the bright searchlights and police cars outside: "Those are not my friends. Make them go away."
A nervous and frightened Plato emerges and the police see the gun in his hand. The boy turns skittish when the police searchlights are redirected on him. With the empty gun in his hand, he attempts to flee, but is shot down by gunfire from the police cordon. Jim angrily cries out to the police to extinguish the lights, but to no avail: "No, don't turn on the lights. Don't. It's too bright. Plato doesn't...Turn out the lights! (Plato is shot dead. The camera tilts sharply.) I've got the bullets! Look!" Jim's father initially believes that the red-jacketed victim is his son - both father and son have been forced to re-examine their own failed roles.
Anguished by the senseless killing and his failure to avert violence with his utmost effort, Jim kneels and crawls next to his friend's body, mourning over the death of his surrogate 'son' who was unable to reach the adult world. He asks Plato: "Hey jerk-pot. What did ya do that for?" His mis-guided, yet well-meaning struggle to care for Plato has ended in disaster - a mini-lesson on the tremendous responsibilities and problems inherent in parents raising another human being.
By peacefully attempting to avoid confrontation and coming to an identification with his father, Jim finally becomes more adult-like and accepting of both himself and his parents. For the first time, Jim's father assumes responsibility - he assures his son that they will face things together and he will stand by him - and most importantly that "he did everything a man could":
Jim's father: You can't help it, son. You did everything a man could...(Jim laughs at the sight of Plato's mismatched socks and then breaks down into hysterical weeping. He grabs onto his father's legs.)
Jim: Help me.
Jim's father: Look Jim. You can depend on me. Trust me. Whatever comes, we'll, we'll fix it together. I swear it. Now Jim, stand up. I'll stand up with you. I'll try and be as strong as you want me to be. Come on.
Plato's death leads to both Jim's reconciliation (with his father) and an unchallenged heterosexual relationship (with Judy), signified by an exchange of jackets (his old red jacket is traded away for Mr. Stark's sports-coat/jacket). Standing up together, Jim and his empowered father embrace. Plato dies wearing Jim's red jacket. Plato's distraught housekeeper delivers his epitaph: "This poor baby got nobody. Just nobody." As Jim zips up the red jacket on his friend's corpse [symbolic of his old life of rebellion and teenage psychosexual confusion], he tells ambulance workers: "He was always cold." Jim and Judy also embrace and then Jim's father covers his son's shoulders in his 'adult' sportscoat - signifying that he has already become an adult man. Assertively - as a strong male figure, Jim introduces Judy to his parents: "This is Judy. She's my friend." Both are now accepted as newly-initiated adults. Jim's parents smile and take them away from the tragic scene in their car.
The film is marked in the ending shot with the darkness of pre-dawn hours and the sound of a police siren, symmetrically uniting it closely with the film's opening shot. As cars pull away, an enigmatic, mute figure with a briefcase [unidentified, but actually director Nicholas Ray in a Hitchcock-like cameo] walks toward the front steps of the planetarium, appearing beneath the end title.


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By Joseph Yeh ,The China Post Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 12:09 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- An exhibition featuring artifacts on loan from Taiwan's National Palace Museum (NPM) will open to the public today in Japan as planned as the Tokyo National Museum yesterday apologized over a naming row whereby Taiwan's sovereignty was not properly recognized.
At a press conference in Tokyo to make public the artifacts that will go on display at the exhibition, Masami Zeniya, executive director of Tokyo National Museum, apologized to the Taiwanese people over the row.
"Our museum has done our best in correcting the mistakes. I would like to express our apology to Taiwan over the incident," he noted.
He also expressed sincere welcome to the exhibition entitled "Treasured Masterpieces from the NPM," saying that the rare display of these national treasures is a major event worth celebrating.
Speaking during the same press conference, NPM head Feng Ming-chu (馮明珠) accepted the apology on behalf of Taiwan. She noted that the apology is expected to help to restore Taiwanese people's trust and fondness for Japan.
The exhibition is scheduled to be held starting today through Sept. 15, after which it will move to the Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, where it will run from Oct. 7 until Nov. 30.
The NPM has selected 231 pieces of its collection for the exhibition in Tokyo, including the "Jadeite Cabbage," one of the NPM's most famous artifacts.
However, a naming row forced Taiwan to issue a threat to cancel the unprecedented exhibition last week because some adverting materials, including posters, billboards and museum tickets, were found listing the NPM's name in Japanese as the "Palace Museum, Taipei" instead of the NPM's official name.
The move was an apparent violation of an agreement between Taiwan and Japan that the museum's full name must be used in all publicity materials and is seen by Taiwan as a move that downgraded the nation's sovereignty status.
According to the Tokyo museum, the advertising materials in question were prepared by a group of media sponsors from major media outlets.
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In response, Taiwan issued an ultimatum to the Japanese museum last Friday, calling the latter to amend the error or face the cancellation of the event.
First lady Chow Mei-ching (周美青), who was originally scheduled to visit Japan to attend the exhibitions, also announced plans to postpone her trip because of the naming row.
A press event to unveil the artifacts in Tokyo was cancelled at the last minute on Friday as well.
Under strong pressure from Taiwan, the Tokyo museum has managed to remove and replace the advertising materials in question that were spotted at train stations and parks in Tokyo over the past three days.
The Tokyo museum had also disposed of all unsold problematic tickets that refer to the Taiwan museum without using the word "national" and will recall those tickets that have been sold to replace them with corrected ones, according to the NPM.
Sensing the Tokyo museum's sincerity in correcting the mistakes, Feng announced yesterday morning that the exhibition will be staged as planned before she led a delegation to fly to Tokyo to attend the press conference.
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