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Rio Ferdinand gives verdict on Wayne Rooney's chances of becoming Man Utd boss
Wayne Rooney will join Championship outfit Derby as a player-coach from January
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Rio Ferdinand reckons Wayne Rooney has taken his first steps into coaching with a long-term goal of managing Manchester United .
Rooney, the former England and United captain, will join Championship outfit Derby as a player-coach from January.
The 33-year-old former England international has signed an 18-month contract and will switch to the Pride Park side after he sees out the remainder of the 2019 Major League Soccer season with DC United.
And Ferdinand, who played alongside Rooney for both club and country, can understand why his former team-mate has made the shock move.
Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand together during their Manchester United days (Image: Matthew Peters)
The former defender, now a BT Sport pundit, said: "His end game is managing Manchester United, 100 per cent. It's a fact.
"If he tells you any different, he's lying! He will want to do that.
"Only time will tell if he's going to be the man to be able to do that. There's obviously a lot of work to be done before that.
Rooney will join Derby as a player-coach in January (Image: Derby County FC/PA Images)
"But Frank's gone to the place he will have desired more than anywhere else at Chelsea . Can that happen for Wayne? We'll see.
"I'm not surprised Wayne has done this because I know that's the way he wants to go, from speaking to him. It will be a great opportunity."
During his playing days at United, Rooney regularly met team-mates for late-night Texas Hold'Em sessions and Ferdinand says he has the unpredictability to succeed as a boss.
The former England captain was all smiles as he spoke to the media (Image: Action Images via Reuters)
Ferdinand added: "He was good at poker, wasn't he? Having that element of unpredictability. When he speaks and you think: 'I didn't realise he sees it like that.' Having that element is good.
"You don't want to be predictable, for your players to read you so much. It keeps people on their toes. For instance, Sir Alex Ferguson would change players.
"Is it Nani this week or is it Ryan Giggs? Is Cristiano Ronaldo playing through the middle or on the left? You need that in your teams. I feel Wayne will have that element to him.
The striker is currently starring in the MLS with DC United (Image: SIPA USA/PA Images)
"He's not scared of sharing his opinion, which is a good thing. He can be direct. He can be hard to read sometimes. He's still connected to the younger generation. He talks their language.
"He's been very lucky. Not many people get to play under the managers he has, managers who have achieved so much. Ferguson, Van Gaal, Mourinho, Capello.
"Some big names who have achieved huge thinks at huge clubs. Over the years he will have taken elements from their coaching styles. He's going into it with his eyes wide open."
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20 YEARS ON – GEORGE HARRISON REMEMBERED
It was 20 years ago today (November 29th, 2001) that George Harrison died after a long battle with cancer, at age 58. Harrison, the first of the Beatles to embrace Eastern philosophies and culture, will also be remembered for his humanitarian efforts, such as his 1971 Concert For Bangladesh for famine relief. November 29th also marks the 19th anniversary of the all star Royal Albert Hall tribute show for Harrison, The Concert For George. The concert, which was organized by Eric Clapton, featured heartfelt performances by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne, and Billy Preston, among many others.
Over 51 years since All Things Must Pass took the rock world by storm, its golden anniversary expanded reissue is reminding people of the power of George Harrison's post-Beatles debut. Harrison's All Things Must Pass "50th Anniversary Edition" has been released in a newly revamped set that pairs the main album with assorted session outtakes and jams. In addition to the original album, the new collection features 42 previously unreleased demos and outtakes.
The 50th anniversary edition of All Things Must Pass has topped the Billboard Top Rock Albums, Catalog Albums, and Tastemakers charts; hit Number Two on the magazine's Top Album Sales and Vinyl Albums charts, and peaked at Number Seven on the all-important Billboard 200 albums chart. As with all the Harrison reissues, son Dhani Harrison, supervised the recent box set.
The All Things Must Pass reissue also hit Number One on Britain's Top Vinyl Chart and Number Six on the Top Album Chart. The album hit Number One on Sweden's Physical & Vinyl Chart; France's Catalog Chart; and the Netherlands' Physical Chart.
In 2012, the Martin Scorsese HBO documentary George Harrison: Living In The Material World snagged two awards at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony held at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre. The critically acclaimed doc won the prizes for Outstanding Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming.
Following George Harrison's death, an obviously distraught Paul McCartney met the press outside his Sussex, England home and spoke lovingly about his original friend in the Beatles: "He was a lovely man, I love him dearly. I grew up with him and I like to remember all the great times we had together in Liverpool and with the Beatles and ever since, really. Great sense of humor — I was lucky enough to see him a couple of weeks ago and he was still laughing and joking. Very brave man, and I'm just privileged to have known him, and I love him like he's my brother. It's a very sad day for me and for a lot of people, but I think he would have wanted us to get on and be loving and remember him as the great man he was."
After the Beatles split in 1970, Harrison's solo career kicked off with the Number One hit "My Sweet Lord" and the Number One album All Things Must Pass. He was also responsible for organizing 1971's The Concert For Bangladesh, which was the first major rock fundraiser, which paved the way for countless other music-supported benefits over the years.
Harrison wrote such Beatles classics as "Don't Bother Me," "I Need You," "You Like Me Too Much," "Think For Yourself," "If I Needed Someone," "Taxman," "I Want To Tell You," "Love You To," "Within You, Without You," "Blue Jay Way," "It's Only A Northern Song," "It's All Too Much," "The Inner Light," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Piggies" "Long, Long, Long," "Savoy Truffle," "I Me Mine," "For You Blue," "Old Brown Shoe," "Something," and "Here Comes The Sun," among others.
Other solo hits included "What Is Life," "Bangla Desh," "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)," "Dark Horse," "You," "This Song," "Crackerbox Palace," "Blow Away," "All Those Years Ago," and his 1987 comeback single "Got My Mind Set On You," which is the last solo Number One single by any former Beatle to date.
In 1971, Harrison produced Ringo Starr's initial solo singles "It Don't Come Easy" and "Back Off Boogaloo," as well also co-writing Starr's first Number One hit "Photograph" with him in 1973.
Shortly after his return to the spotlight in 1987, Harrison co-founded the supergroup the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. In 1991 he undertook a brief tour of Japan with Eric Clapton and his band.
His widow Olivia Harrison has led a successful reissue campaign of the Harrison solo catalogue, including a recent box set of the Traveling Wilburys material. An upcoming collection featuring highlights of Harrison's sole North American solo tour from 1974 is said to be in the works for the near future. Olivia also served as the executive producer for the Living In The Material World documentary.
HARRISON ON HARRISON
George Harrison admitted that he felt that it was all downhill for the Beatles as a band following their early Hamburg days: "In the Beatles, I think the sad bit came when we got famous. Because before that, we played all them clubs, little clubs all over the place and in — particularly in Germany, we played months and months in these nightclubs. We played eight hours a night. Then it was good, cause you were just. . . everybody was just dancing and drinking, the band was up there just drinking and playing and, y'know, there was no big emphasis on how groovy you were."
Although Harrison was thought to be a bit of a hermit during his post-Beatles years, he explained that nothing could be further from the truth: "I just didn't go places where the press hang out and there was no point doing interviews because there was nothing really to say. That's how I got that Howard Hughes sort of image, because they just thought, 'Oh, well, he never goes out.' They said, 'He never goes out' — but I go out all the time. I just don't go out and hang out in the nightclubs or wherever the press go."
Harrison was so turned off by the critical slamming he received for his lone solo North American tour in 1974, that he didn't hit the road again until 1991. Harrison shed some light on the back-story to the legendary trek: "I hadn't finished my album, with the rehearsal, my voice was going — you pick up a guitar and start singing eight to 10 hours a day. . . It was tough, I was, like, getting behind myself, and that's just the way it happened. But it was still brilliant because that band was unbelievable. And I've got live stuff of that and I play it to people and they say, "Ah, that's great!'"
Harrison chose to sit out a substantial part of the '80s, letting half a decade lapse between 1982's Gone Troppo and 1987's Cloud Nine. He admitted that for the most part, the sounds of the new decade turned him off: "There's certain music and sounds and music which I like and there are certain things I can't stand. I can't just tell you what it is that I hate, but there's a lot of clatter going on. We call 'clattering and banging' that's been going on musically, y'know, for a while."
Upon his return to the charts in 1987 Harrison revealed why he had abandoned recording for a five-year-stretch: "Y'know, the record business goes through all kind of different stages, and last time I made an album, they were so busy getting opinions from people on the side of the street on what's supposed to be a hit song. Y'know, that's what they tell me: 'A hit single is love lost or gained between 13 and 21-year-olds.' Now, what kind of chance does that give me? So I, y'know, I'll just go gardening for a bit."
Harrison explained that the late-'80s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys came to be almost by accident — with help from Jeff Lynne — when his record label demanded a new B-side for his latest single: "I was in Los Angeles and he was producing Roy Orbison and we were having dinner one night and I said, 'I'm gonna have to write a song and just do it',' y'know? And we were saying 'Where can we get a studio?' And he said, 'Well, maybe Bob' — 'cause he's got this little studio in his garage. And it was that instant, y'know, we just went back to his house, phoned up Bob, he said 'Sure, come on over.' Tom Petty had my guitar and said, when I went to pick it up, he said, 'Ah, I was wondering what I was gonna do tomorrow,' and Roy said, 'Well give us a call tomorrow if you're gonna do anything, 'I'd love to come along.'"
After his 1999 stabbing by a delusional assailant from which he suffered a collapsed lung, among other injuries, in this clip featured in the new Living In The Material World documentary, Harrison spoke candidly about facing his own mortality: "I had an experience, where, y'know, if you have something happen to you physically, then people can go in hospital or have something wrong with them, or have a shock or something like that, and then you think, 'Wow, yeah, I could be dying now.' Now if I was dying now, what would I think? What would I miss? If I had to leave my body, y'know, in an hour's time — what is it that I would miss? I think, 'I've got a son who needs a father, I have to stick around for him as long as I can.' But other than that, I can't think of much reason to be here (laughs)."
FAMILY & FRIENDS REMEMBER GEORGE
We asked Olivia Harrison if George ever felt hurt by some of the negative reviews his solo work garnered due to much of it dealing with God and religion: "I don't know. I don't think he cared. He wrote what he felt, what he wanted to write. And recently I heard an interview (and) he said, 'Y'know, sometimes you mention God, or you mention the word 'Lord' and it makes people's hair curl.' And he said, 'Maybe I served some useful purpose (laughs).'"
We asked Olivia how she thought George would have made sense of the post-9/11 world: "Y'know he died in 2001, in November, and you know what events took prior to that, and he was pretty horrified and very sad. And I think his solution to everything was to go inside and be part of the solution. And he used to say, 'For a forest to be green each tree must be green.' And I think he'd really taken to keeping his own house in order."
The Harrisons' son, 40-year-old Dhani, is now a musician in his own right and has also teamed up with singer/songwriters Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur to form the "emo" supergroup, Fistful Of Mercy. He also fronts his own band thenewno2 (PRONOUNCED: "The New Number Two"), and has recently released his first proper studio set, titled In Parallel. Dhani has gone on to become the only "Beatle kid" to take an active interest in the Beatles' company Apple by spearheading the production of the recent Beatles: Rock Band game. He told us that he doesn't feel being the son of a Beatle is in any way a burden, and that his father influenced the way he feels about most things — especially music: "I wouldn't change my life for anything, I love being who I am. And I feel a lot of my dad, the way I sound now to myself, the way I whine on about stuff and bang on about the music industry, and this that and the other — I sound just like my dad. And now I know why he was so bitter about (laughs). . . because having seen what my dad showed me, he was just so not impressed by anything (or) anyone that was anything but real."
In 2007, Harrison's first wife Pattie Boyd published her memoir on her marriages to Harrison and Eric Clapton titled Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton And Me. Boyd was amazed at what a loving and supportive family Harrison had away from the madness of "Beatlemania": "They were so warm as a family and really were most inviting and kind to me, and I was very fond of them. And I'm still in touch with Harry, George's eldest brother. And so I had spent a lot of time with him and his wife Irene, and with (his brother) Pete and his wife and their children. So. . . we all grew up together."
Boyd says that Harrison's infatuation with Hinduism, spiritual topics, and Indian music was his attempt to seek out the "bigger picture": "He had a bit of difficulty understanding why he — this little boy from Liverpool — had been selected to be so famous. And he didn't understand the fame and he thought that maybe Eastern philosophy could give him some sort of idea or clue as to why he had been chosen."
Boyd explained to us that she needed to write an honest warts and all portrayal of her marriage to Harrison: "I couldn't actually write a book and pretend I wasn't married to George — or, also pretend that things were so wonderful in our lives you would wonder why we split up. I don't think I've been cruel, I think I've been realistic. We were under 30, y'know, we were really young. And also the pressure of George's fame and beauty; all these things came into our lives and it was difficult. Y'know, it was difficult for him, difficult for me to sustain this original fun that we used to have together."
It was at John Lennon's urging that George Harrison receive his first original Beatles A-side with 1969's "Something" — which shared double A-side status with Lennon's own Abbey Road classic "Come Together." Prior to the album's release in September 1969, Lennon was full of praise for "Something": "I think we'll probably put 'Something' out as a single out there (in the U.S.) I think that's about the best track on the album, actually — George's track. And they had it. . . Y'know how they always get our records before they're out over there, somehow, and they were playing 'Something' so much. They had an advance thing of it. They're red hot for it over there, so we'll probably release it over there as a single. I don't know what'll happen here."
Badfinger's Joey Molland spoke of what a solid contributor Harrison was in the studio when producing the band's 1971 Straight Up album — and their Top 10 hit, "Day After Day": "Y'know, the ideas he had were ideas that we liked, so it wasn't difficult to get in line with him. He wasn't afraid to pick up the guitar, George, and work on it himself, y'know — right with you, right there in the studio."
Longtime Beatles confidante and solo session bassist Klaus Voormann says that he was never more proud of Harrison than when he took charge of The Concert For Bangladesh concert at the urging of friend Ravi Shankar: "I really appreciated in later days that he actually went in front of that audience on the Bangladesh concert, because he did it for his friends. That he actually went up there and talked to an audience. I think it must've been about the first time that he's ever done this. Y'see, a few things in English, or a few things in German on a stage where it didn't matter is a big difference than to an audience where he knew it's going to be filmed and it's going to be used to talk to an audience."
One of Harrison's closest friends, Eric Clapton, was on hand to witness the birth of one of Harrison's greatest Beatles-era classics: "It was one of those beautiful spring mornings, and I think it was April, and we were just walking through the (laughs) garden with our guitars — and that, I don't do that! Y'know, I only ever do. . . This is what George brought to the situation. He was just a magical guy and he would show up with his guitar, get out of the car with the guitar, and come in and you'd start playing. And we walked around the garden and sat down at the bottom of the garden, looking out and the sun was shining and it was a beautiful morning and he started to sing 'Here Comes The Sun.' The opening lines, y'know?"
Clapton said that it might have taken Harrison's death to show people just how great he really was: "The best thing that came out of his passing was that we all got to remember exactly what he'd contributed, y'know, as much as any of the other guys — and maybe more so, because it was an individual achievement. Y'know, Lennon and McCartney's one thing and Paul's one thing and John's — I think George, in my opinion, I found his work the most accessible and strongest for me to tune into."
Around the time of the Wilburys' debut set, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison talked about how the album's closer "End Of The Line" came about: (Jeff Lynne): "George actually came up with the idea for it, like, the main chord sequence and we all contributed words to it. Little bits were put in by other people, like Tom (Petty) and Bob (Dylan) put a few of the chords in, as well. But George came in with the original idea of it." (George Harrison): "Just the (sings) 'jing-jingy-jing' — I mean, back to my roots, skiffle, really (laughs). But, also, I mean, I was trying to think of. . . well, that's the good thing when there's other people in a group. And I was trying to think of the song that would feel a bit like something of a Bob Dylan tune, so naturally, I got on 'D'– the chord 'D' — all the guitar players know will know that, and you go (sings) 'jing-jinga-jing'"
Not long before his recent death, Tom Petty credited George Harrison for teaching him how to play the ukulele during the 1988 sessions for the first Traveling Wilburys album: "Yeah, he taught me to play and gave me a ukulele years ago. And, of course, we were close friends for a lot of years, and we did a lot of ukulele playing. It was kinda fun. They're really fun little things, which I, I never would've known if it weren't for George. I'm still grateful that he taught me how to play it."
Toto guitarist Steve Lukather recalled developing a dream-come-true friendship with Harrison in the 1990's while out in California: "He started calling me all the time, like every time he was in L.A. He played me 'Free As A Bird' way before it came out, and he would tell me stories of all the Beatles stuff from his point of. . . As a matter of fact he signed a thing for me, he signed all the Beatles names, he goes, 'That's what we all used to do.' So a lot of the Beatles' signatures are all one guy doing everybody's signatures — they all learned how to do everybody's signature because back in the early days that had to sign thousands and thousands of things."
Olivia Harrison told us that George learned to balance his often hectic and surreal life through spirituality: "Y'know, he was a wild guy too. He was spiritual and he was living in the material world too. And whether he was bad or good or crabby or happy — whatever he was, he always tried to do it with a consciousness that would keep him safe."
Ringo Starr spoke about his final meeting with Harrison only weeks before his death: "The last weeks of George's life, he was in Switzerland and I went to see him — and he was very ill. Y'know, he could only lay down. And while he was being ill and I'd come to see him, I was going to Boston, 'cause my daughter had a brain tumor. And I said, 'Well, I've got to go, I've got to go to Boston,' and he goes (laughs, holds back tears) — it's the last words I heard him say, actually, and he said, 'Do you me to come with ya?' (Laughs tearfully) I thought, 'God.' So, that's the incredible side of George."
Olivia Harrison spoke about the ultimate moment of George's passing: "There was a profound experience that happened when he left his body. It was visible. Let's just say, you wouldn't need to light the room if you were trying to film it. He just. . . he just lit the room."

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Later I traveled for a long time on kayaks (probably I could not go anywhere books of Mikhail Pogarsky are strange, there are always pages ("stranonly this summer because of the birth of the baby). Probably all of that af- nicy"). Literally there are sheets of paper, a surface of sand of tree with fected somehow my life philosophy. For example, I lose my heart to the marked sign, even tablets with the letters. Sheets and leaves. Words and principle of Japanese art "Mono no avare" where hidden charm of things is shown." 2 The wanderer takes care of information. Someone collects, its own special text. Sometimes the text is encoded; sometimes it is rolled botanizes. The other writes down the impressions. Mikhail Pogarsky pho- up, concentrated in the sum of associations, as in a plate with text "Bust tographs. Photo in his projects plays an important role. And it is better to in line" (by-word "Wink at nothing") with the bit of bass. The existing of this call on the author again: 2 "There is no doubt, that the camera is one of the plate and of a bit of bass is the book itself, to be more exact it is the cover most remarkable instruments given to the artist by progress. As, because you know, the world is filled with poetry, it is necessary to learn to find it out game, palindromes is the necessary part of many projects of Mikhail Pogand to choose. But if I can take and bring home a roll of bark, I cannot do arsky and Gunel Yuran. The book of verses of Velimir Khlebnikov "Perethat with the old crane on the river or with neglected steam locomotives, verten'" ("Palindrome") became the kaleidoscope where linesin this way the camera will help. It is very curiously, when you travel to- palindromes are multiplied. The book "As Pushkin Chaj-Ka" ("Ace Pushkin.
gether with the other artists, many photo-godsends strike everybody's Tea-seagull") (2009) hints not only at flight, speaks ironically of Pushkin's eyes and we aim at some fanciful shade, reflection or crack on the asphalt initials, turned him into pilot-ace, but also justifies the occurrence of a tea like Japanese tourists all together getting cameras to take pictures of Peter bag ("Chaj" in Russian means "tea"). The name "Odds of the Aphorism" or the Cathedral of the Redeemer. It seems that Walter Benjamin had no- (2009) generates the situation of "self-playing" words in spirit of new wordformation of Khlebnikov. 2 Of course we are interested what the beginticed that the invention of the camera has essentially shaken a paradigm of art from the process of making to the process of vision. That is now much more important not how and what was made by the artist, but how from Nizhny Novgorod (we studied at one school in Murom city, this is my Installation – "Poem between stones". Bank of Volga, made something like art-space around it. We both have come to the art in the Central House of the Artist, in the Museum of L.N. Tolstoy in Yasnaya from science. (Eugene finished radio department in Nizhny Novgorod, I fin- Polyana, at the International Festival of experimental art in St.-Petersburg, ished mechanical-mathematical department of Moscow State University). on the Sicily Island in Italy. It was very instructive experience of participaCertainly, we knew practically nobody from art world. And when we began tion in the collective art project, of mutual respect and of choice of own to prepare the first issue, we decided to invite some rather known writers. creative concept for my students from Polygraphic University. And we had That time we both like Andrew Bitov (I've found him in such a primitive way books of sand, of Moon, of futurism and of water. And they were good as for 20 kopecks through the informational bureau). We arranged for meeting and obtained big interview (we spoke for more than 6 hours!). And a litThe second border. Artist's book as the way of existence tle later Bitov introduced us to his old friend Rezo Gabriadze, than Rezo acquainted us with Leonid Tishkov. And just Tishkov showed me the world of the modern Artist's Book. He has a splendid collection in his studio on poet" in 1998 in Nizhny Novgorod." It is not enough to see author's book and to read its title. It is necessary to view it from every quarter. Each author has absolutely unique borders of their books. I thought that those mentioned above are the most important for Mikhail Pogarsky. May be there are more of them. For this moment this borders are shows by themselves like the borders of celestial sphere in the book-polyhedron "Eight celestial spheres". The first border. Artist's book as the collective project.
I'm attracted at first by commutability and amicability of Mikhail Pogarsky about edition of what he makes in one of author's catalogues of Pogarsky.
and secondly by his continuous availability for collaboration. And even It is one, sometimes two, three or five copies and only some of his books more he respects "sovereignty" of his co-authors. 2 Because there are have tens or hundreds copies. It is M. Pogarsky and Ania Gogoleva take part in performance Bruno Niver, at the Prospero's Library opening day. Central House of Artist, educational books and supposes that then work and attention of the other book, which suddenly was seen and made by the author. It's photo lanpeople such as proofreaders, technologists, printers will be applied. 2 guage. 2 "I never make books for the sake of the form; each of them has Each text has subtext and context. Fiction is represented to me as a hybrid some message. Certainly when the consciousnesses are similar, people of exact science language and attempt to catch ephemerality of emotion need just some reference or hint to compare notes. But it is difficult to that is almost impossible to measure. Or rather it is possible but you need solve some questions in such manner, in my opinion there is art language the other balances and scales. Probably comprehension of such thin mat- to answer such questions. I'm attracted by possibility of message in comters which are difficult to be explained with the words has influenced a plex language in the artist's book, when verbal and visual component inchoice and inclusion of the other languages. 2 For example, gesture lan- corporate and give not sum but product (production) and if it is possible to of the exhibitions-festivals organized by Mikhail Pogarsky is represented by the theatre of verse of Bruno Niver and by dramatics of word of Evelina Schatz. 2 The other language is tactile, the language of textures and maThe fourth border. It is not even a border but the door and opening gates terials. Everything exists in unity of a certain place as it is in nature, everyinto the artist's space.
thing generates the image of this place, and the same is in the books of Pogarsky: there is a set of details creating the new book-essence or bookMikhail's comment: 2 "I wanted to get out of a sheet plate, to take the text landscape each time. 2 The third language is the language of combinainto three-space, to lose touch with the paginal linearity. Those years I tion of subjects having certain sign sense. There is writing table of the poet which seems to be in the air as it has only two supports: one leg is table leg and the other is chair leg. Imponderability of this strange object is undodecahedron which designated Universe according to Greek symbolic.
ing-paper belongs to light and air. The combination of a cut of a tree with clock mainsprings and gears projects an image of "Time Mechanisms".
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Pedro Cuyeo -llamado también Callén, Cuieo, Cuyeu, Cuyén y Cuyeri- () fue un arquitecto español, activo en Aragón durante la segunda mitad del .

Destacó en sus obras en Zaragoza, donde consta como miembro de la Cofradía de albañiles desde 1662. De su labor en esta ciudad destaca la ejecución, durante el arzobispado de Antonio Ibáñez de la Riva Herrera, de la Torre de la Seo junto a Gaspar Serrano y Jaime Busiñac, la Iglesia de la Mantería, el trasagrario del Convento de San Agustín y la participación en las obras del Convento de Santa Inés, así como del templo de San Miguel de los Navarros. Planteó, igualmente, los errores que se estaban produciendo en la cimentación de El Pilar de Zaragoza.

Del resto de su actividad en Aragón, destaca la construcción de la Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor (Alcorisa), en Teruel.

Referencias
Arquitectos en Aragón: Diccionario histórico / Jesús Martínez Verón; prólogo de José Laborda Yneva. — Zaragoza: Institución «Fernando el Católico», 2000. ISBN 84-7820-581-0

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Q: py2exe while using anaconda Using anaconda 3.5/jupyter/spyder.
I have installed Py2exe 0.9.2.2 which supports Python 3.3 and above.
I am interested in creating an executable file from python script.
The code py -3.4 -m py2exe.build_exe myscript.py does not work in jupyter notebook and anaconda prompt.
i see python.exe file located in the folder:

C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda2

Thanks in advance for the help.

A: @Jeronimo answer worked right.

Wherever you took that from, but it looks like a command line. Or maybe there's an IPython magic command "%py" that I dont know of. Anyways, try opening a command line in your Anaconda folder, and do python.exe -m py2exe.build_exe C:/full/path/to/myscript.py.

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Mylagaulidae — семейство вымерших млекопитающих из отряда грызунов. Известны из неогена Северной Америки и Китая. Самый древний представитель —  Trilaccogaulus montanensis из верхнего олигоцена (около 29 млн лет назад), а самый молодой — Ceratogaulus hatcheri, был найден в плиоценовых отложениях (5 млн назад).

Классификация
Признаны 3 подсемейства:
 Подсемейство Promylagaulinae
 Crucimys
 Promylagaulus
 Trilaccogaulus
 Simpligaulus
 Подсемейство Mesogaulinae
 Mesogaulus
 Подсемейство Mylagaulinae
 Alphagaulus (парафилетический)
 Ceratogaulus
Hesperogaulus
 Mylagaulus
 Pterogaulus
 Umbogaulus
 Род incertae sedis
 Galbreathia — возможно, базальный для Mylagaulinae, но не имеет характерных апоморфий.

Примечания

Литература

Вымершие грызуны
Млекопитающие олигоцена
Млекопитающие плейстоцена


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Zdzisław Dados (ur. 1 stycznia 1942 roku w Kostopolu na Wołyniu) – polski fotograf, twórca tekstów teoretycznych nt. fotografii.

Od 1944 do 1981 roku mieszkał w Lublinie. Studiował na wydziale historii sztuki KUL jako wolny słuchacz. W latach 1962–1968 był członkiem lubelskiego foto-klubu ZAMEK pełniąc funkcję członka zarządu. Od 1979 jest członkiem ZPAF. W czasie pobytu w Stanach Zjednoczonych (od 1982 do 1987) pracował jako fotograf reklamowy. Następnie zamieszkał we Wrocławiu.

Twórczość fotograficzna
Uczestniczył w ponad 150 wystawach zbiorowych polskich i zagranicznych. Ważniejsze z nich to:

 III Ogólnopolska Wystawa Fotografii (wyróżnienie) – Lublin 1964,
 Ogólnopolska Wystawa Fotografii FSF w Polsce – Warszawa 1966,
 Ogólnopolska Wystawa Fotografii "Reportaż" – Płock 1968, 1969,
 II Salon Portretu Artystycznego – Gdańsk 1967,
 I Ogólnopolska Wystawa Krajobrazu – Kielce 1968,
 Ogólnopolska Wystawa "wieś i folklor" (dyplom) – Olsztyn 1968,
 III Salon Portretu Artystycznego (nagroda GTF) – Gdańsk 1970,
 Homo 68, Homo 69 – Legnica,
 Międzynarodowa Wystawa Fotografii – Belgrad 1968,
 Międzynarodowa Wystawa Fotografii – Birmingham 1969,
 Międzynarodowa Wystawa Fotografii – Singapur 1969,
 Wystawa Fotografii "Den XVII" – Dania 1969,
 Wystawa Fotografii "Fotomundi" – Holandia 1969,
 Międzynarodowa Wystawa Fotografii – Katowice 1969,
 Międzynarodowe Wystawy "Fotoforum" – Słowacja 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972,
 Venus 70 (brązowy medal) – Kraków 1970,
 Ogólnopolskie Wystawy "Konfrontacje" 73, 74, 77(dyplom) – Lublin,
 Wystawa Fotografii "Continuum" – Wrocław 1989,
 Wystawa 40-lecia ZPAFu – Warszawa "Zachęta" 1987,
 Festiwal Fotografii SPEKTRUM – Wrocław 1997,
 Wystawa Fotografii Wrocławskiej 1945 – 1998 "Berűhrungen" – Wrocław 1999,
 Wystawa Okręgu Dolnośląskiego ZPAF "Foto 2003" – Wrocław 2003,
 "Śląskie Klimaty" – Wałbrzych 2003,
 Wystawa poplenerowa "Sokołowsko 2003" – Wrocław, Dania,
 "Ekologia w obiektywie" pokonkursowa firmy Bayer (główna nagroda w kategorii przyroda) – Warszawa, Gdańsk 2005.

Ważniejsze wystawy indywidualne:
 Wystawa Fotografii – Lublin Zamek 1967,
 Majdanek w Fotografii – Lublin 1968,
 Wystawa Fotografii Subiektywnej Grupy Trzech – Lublin, Łódź 1969,
 Wystawa "Krajobrazy" – Lublin 1973,
 "Bogdanka – Lubelski Węgiel" – Lublin 1976,
 "Kamieniarze znad Wisły" – Lublin, Kazimierz Dolny 1978,
 "Portret absolutny" – Lublin BWA 1981,
 "Stan trwania" – Wrocław 1988,
 "Inna przestrzeń" – Lublin BWA, Wałbrzych – Książ 1989,
 "Przestrzeń emocjonalna" – Łódź Galeria FF, Katowice Galeria ZPAF 1990,
 "Powrót do Kansas City" – Wrocław BWA 2003,
 "Fotografia emocjonalna" – Wrocław 2003,
 "Dyptyki" – Wrocław Baszta 2003,
 "Pejzaż mentalny" – Oborniki Śląskie, Wrocław 2004,
 "Impresje z Rodos" – Wrocław 2006 Galeria ZPAF, Galeria CENTRUM, Grudziądz 2006
 "W kolorze ochry" – Wrocław 2007 Galeria ZPAF
 "Duch Egiptu" – Wrocław 2008 Galeria ZPAF
 "Skały Pamięci" – Wrocław 2008, Galeria Entropia
"Petra - miasto zaklęte...fotografie", 10.02-27.03.2011, Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu
"Zdzisław Dados, Synaj - legenda i majestat", 7.01- 10.02.2013, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu
"Dualizm fotografii", 6.05-15.06.2016, wystawa zbiorowa Okręgu Dolnośląskiego ZPAF, Muzeum Przyrodnicze, Jelenia Góra
"Entropia", 22.06-20.07.2018, kurator Łukasz Rusznica, Galeria Miejsce przy Miejscu organizator Miejsce przy Miejscu i Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych we Wrocławiu
"Entropia", 19.06-13.09.2019, Mała Galeria Fotografii Kontrast, Obornicki Ośrodek Kultury, Oborniki Śląskie
"Realizm Iluzji 2019", 4.09- 11.10.2020 - wystawa zbiorowa Okręgu Dolnośląskiego ZPAF, Centrum Kultury Śląskiej, Nakło Śląskie
"Przestrzeń - Interpretacje", 11.09-10.10.2020, kurator Stanisław Kulawiak, wystawa zbiorowa Okręgu Dolnośląskiego ZPAF, galeria FOTO-GEN, organizator OKiS
"Chaos" – 2020-2021, Galeria domowa artysty

Prace fotograficzne
Zdzisława Dadosa znajdują się w wielu zbiorach prywatnych oraz w Muzeum Narodowym we Wrocławiu. Były też publikowane w periodykach fotograficznych w Polsce i za granicą oraz książkach i wydawnictwach albumowych. Wydany został również album autorski pt. "Pojezierze łęczyńsko-włodawskie" w latach 80.

Tematem jego artystycznej wypowiedzi w fotografii jest głównie pejzaż, początkowo realistyczny, by z biegiem lat ulec przeobrażeniu. Dzięki różnym zabiegom technicznym obrazy ulegają deformacji zgodnie z intencją autora. Ponadto od roku 1996 do 2004 był on nauczycielem fotografii w Prywatnym Studiu Reklamy we Wrocławiu.

Przypisy

Członkowie Związku Polskich Artystów Fotografików
Ludzie urodzeni w Kostopolu
Urodzeni w 1942
Ludzie związani z Lublinem


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Q: Setting Default Shell in VSCode on MacOS When I open a new terminal (via iTerm.app)
| => echo $SHELL
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash

When I open the Visual Studio Code app I get an error message right away:
Unable to resolve your shell environment: A system error occurred (spawn /usr/local/bin/bash ENOENT)

When I open a terminal in VSCode:
| => echo $SHELL
/usr/local/bin/bash

In my settings.json file I have the following:
    "terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app",
    "terminal.integrated.profiles.osx": {
        "homebrew bash": { // profile name
            "path": "/opt/homebrew/bin/bash",
            "args": []
        }
    },
    "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.osx": "homebrew bash",

I have a feeling VSCode is using the wrong shell when executing scripts from extensions. How can I fix this?

A: Inspected /usr/local/bin/bash and it wasn't even there. Created a symbolic link, ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash, and now everything works again.


Army University and the Fort Leavenworth Garrison hosted a Summer Transition Town Hall for spouses Jan. 17 in Eisenhower Auditorium at the Lewis and Clark Center.
The town hall briefed spouses on the best transition procedures for those who will go through a permanent change of station move this summer.
Because Fort Leavenworth is home to the Command and General Staff College, more people are both arriving and leaving post at the same time than at other installations. During peak season — May through July — Fort Leavenworth will manage 3,500 shipments; 560 houses will change occupancy; 1,080 students will leave, with 20 percent going overseas; and 1,116 students will arrive at Fort Leavenworth for the Command and General Staff Officer Course and the School of Advanced Military Studies, with 65 percent living in on-post housing.
Because of the number of people trying to move at the same time, the spouses were advised to follow a specific step-by-step process to help make things as seamless as possible.
The process begins when a soldier receives his or her request for orders.
After plans are made, soldiers who will PCS to outside the contiguous United States, which includes Alaska and Hawaii, need to complete the online levy brief accessible at https://home.army.mil/leavenworth/index.php/my-fort/all-services/reassignments-levy-brief.
The levy brief allows soldiers to print off several forms needed for transfer including all medical and Exceptional Family Member Program paperwork, a levy certificate and a questionnaire.
For families staying in the United States, Salas said he and his team will be able to cut the orders right away.
For more information, contact Salas at 684-1697 or e-mail mark.h.salas.civ@mail.mil.
For those who will PCS OCONUS, Munson Army Health Center will contact the soldier to set up an overseas screening and an EFMP coordination meeting for all family members.
Certain documents are required to complete the overseas screening. Soldiers are required to have a signed Department of the Army Form 5888, Family Member Deployment Screening Sheet; a completed DA Form 7246, EFMP screening questionnaire; off-post medical records and any documents proving that each family member has received a physical within a year of the PCS report date. Each family member must be listed on the DA Form 5888. Every family member listed on the form must be present for the final screening appointment.
Page 2 of 3 - Sailors, airmen and Marines do not need a signed DA Form 5888. Sailors and Marines require web orders and immunization records.
For more information, contact John Sprecher, EFMP coordinator, at 684-6250 or e-mail john.j.sprecher.civ@mail.mil.
Once the above steps are completed, visit www.move.mil to register with the Defense Personal Property System.
The DPS counseling registration will also ask about whether or not the family is moving any professional gear — which includes instruments, tools, equipment or any other items specific to a person's profession — uniforms and reference materials not readily supplied at the next duty station.
For those interested in shipping a personal vehicle, visit www.pcsmypov.com for more information.
If passports are needed for traveling OCONUS, call 684-4078. Ford recommended starting the process early.
For more information, contact Rita Newbell-Wright, chief of the Transportation Division, at 684-5656 or e-mail rita.a.newbell-wright.civ@mail.mil.
Once DPS gives a packing and moving date, soldiers living in on-post housing must visit the Fort Leavenworth Frontier Heritage Communities office to schedule move-out and inspection dates giving at least 30 days' notice. Orders are required by the final move-out date if they have not yet been received.
Families will be given a handout with cleaning tips and possible charges for damage. FLFHC will also help families compute any pro-rated rent that will be due by the final move-out date.
Upon the final move-out date, FLFHC will have any final utility charges, assess the home for cleanliness and damage, and ensure the home is ready for the family to hand over the keys.
Any final charges can be paid at the FLFHC office.
For more information, contact Deb Healy, FLFHC director, at (913) 682-6300 or e-mail dhealy@tmo.com. For all necessary documents, visit www.ftleavenworthfamilyhousing.com.
When preparing to PCS, soldiers need to keep three things in mind — advance pay requests, travel advance requests and the Basic Allowance for Housing secretarial waiver.
For more information, contact William French, Defense Military Pay Office director, at 684-5710 or e-mail william.v.french.civ@mail.mil.
For students preparing to PCS, the process should be done through the Staff Group Adjutant. For more information, students can contact Terrell Bruner at 684-7321 or e-mail terrell.w.bruner2.civ@mail.mil.
Those who are not CGSC students and are preparing to PCS should go through their unit S1.
It is important to note that moving out early is an option to avoid the rush and help the process go smoother for incoming students.


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Q: prevent negative numbers but accept decimals? HTML Is there's a way to prevent negative numbers but accept decimals? I'm using PHP and HTML

<input type="number" min="0" id="Student" name="course[]" value="<?php  echo $_POST['course'][3]; ?>"/></p>

A: Your code theoretically works. It prevents negative numbers and accepts decimals.
I think what you're really asking is this: Is there a float input type in HTML5?
to which the top answer suggests that you would write:
<input type="number" min="0" step="0.01" name="course[]">

The thing that matters the most though is not client-side validation, but server-side validation. In the PHP code that accepts this input, you have to validate that the input is valid as follows:
if(is_numeric($_POST['course'][3]) && floatval($_POST['course'][3]) >= 0) {
    // The rest of your code.
}

To do this for all the courses, you would most likely write:
foreach($_POST['course'] as $k => $v) {
    if(!(is_numeric($v) && floatval($v) >= 0)) {
        echo "Input needs to be a number.";
        break;
    }
    // Process the course $_POST['course'][$k] here.
}

The main reason you have to check if it's a number in server-side too is that someone with certain knowledge about browsers can just open the browser console and edit the attributes of the input removing the type="number", allowing him to send you virtually any text.
Someone with even more knowledge can send you cURL requests.


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City of Bristol recovered from a slow start to beat Manchester Hawks 17-8 in men's Championship 2, completing the opening weekend with a perfect record from three matches. The bulk of the goals came from two of their most experienced players, Matt Thresher (6) and GB Olympic captain Craig Figes (4).
Watford are the other 100 per cent team, also from three matches. They were 4-6 down at one stage to Otter but recovered to win 14-9. Petar Djordijc scored four and there were three more goals for ex-Croatian star Miho Boskovic (Photo: Trevor Hyde).
George Wood scored four as Worthing beat Southampton 10-6. Six-goal Bence Kadar led Penguin to a 15-12 victory over Croydon Amphibians after the teams were level at 10-10 in the third period.


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Jan 7, 2013 Faculty & Staff
NAU assistant football coach dies in Phoenix
Northern Arizona University assistant football coach Jeff Lewis, a former Lumberjack quarterback who is member of the NAU's Athletics Hall of Fame, died Saturday in Phoenix. The cause of death has not yet been determined.
"Today is very sad day for the Lumberjack football family," said head coach Jerome Souers. "Jeff was one of the best Lumberjacks of all time and a valuable member of our program."
Lewis served on the NAU football staff during the 2012 season as the wide receivers coach.
"This loss is felt throughout NAU Athletics, where Jeff's impact as a player, a coach and an outstanding person will always be remembered," said Lisa Campos, vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics. "We were deeply grateful for his return to the football program and wish our time together could have been longer. Our thoughts go out to his family at this difficult time."
Lewis had a standout career as quarterback for the Lumberjacks from 1992-95, and was inducted in the NAU Hall of Fame in 2003. He played in the NFL for the Denver Broncos, Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints from 1996-2002 after being a fourth-round selection of the Broncos in the 1996 Draft. He was part of two Super Bowl teams during his career, including the Broncos' Super Bowl XXXII championship team.
Lewis finished his career at NAU ranked second on the school's all-time lists for passing yards (9,639), touchdowns (67), completions (785) and attempts (1,315). He earned third-team All-American and second-team All-Big Sky honors as a junior in 1994.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Christ Church of the Valley, 19030 N. Pima Road in Scottsdale.
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"I think this is true for all international institutions with the concerns about what's happening with world cooperation with multilateralism," Gopinath told Xinhua in a recent interview on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the World Bank and the IMF in Washington.
"The retreat from globalization, the rise in protectionism is clearly one of the major trends of our times, which is a reversal from the past," Gopinath said, adding that "this is a matter of great concern" for this year's spring meetings.
The IMF chief economist underscored the need for countries to continue engaging with each other in the pursuit for cooperative solutions "to make this a better multilateralism."
"I don't see an alternative to a multilateral work," she said, noting that many important issues, such as trade, climate change, cyber security and international taxation, all require that countries cooperate and come up with joint solutions.
"The second half of 2018 was particularly weak for many parts of the world economy and that weakness carries over into the first half of 2019," Gopinath said, expecting some recovery of the global economy in the second half of 2019 and a further rebound in 2020.
"The recovery (of the global economy) will come from recovery in emerging and developing economies" such as Argentina and Turkey, she said, adding such recovery remains "somewhat precarious" with serious downside risks.
While there has been an improvement in U.S.-China trade talks over the last few months, trade tensions remain the biggest downside risk to the global economic expansion, said Gopinath.
"We might see tensions in other sectors, the auto sector, and that would then start affecting many more countries in the world and a bigger part of the global supply chain," she said. "That is a very important risk for us going forward."
In February, the U.S. Commerce Department submitted a report to the White House on whether to impose tariffs on imported cars and auto parts on national security grounds, drawing backlash from auto makers, suppliers and industry groups.
U.S. President Donald Trump has 90 days to decide whether to adopt the Commerce Department's recommendations and introduce tariffs on imported vehicles and auto parts.
Speaking of China, Gopinath praised what the Chinese government has been doing to pivot away from high-speed growth to high-quality growth, noting that such a shift would require moving away from credit-driven, investment-driven growth toward more consumption-driven growth.
The IMF chief economist suggested China continue well-contained deleveraging in the process so that the economy slows down at a proper pace.
China has used a combination of monetary policy tools and fiscal stimulus in the wake of the economic slowdown, and there have been signs of recovery, Gopinath said. She cited the rise of the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) in March as an example.
The IMF revised up the 2019 growth projection for China to 6.3 percent, up 0.1 percentage point from its previous estimation in January, according to the WEO.
In Gopinath's view, the international use of the Chinese currency renminbi (RMB) or yuan will rise over time as the Chinese economy becomes larger.
"As countries get larger and become more prominent in the world economy, they start seeing more of a global currency role," she said.
However, there is still a long way to go before the RMB becomes a dominant global reserve currency, she said, adding that this would require very sound financial institutions, a predictable policy on the monetary side, as well as RMB-denominated assets that the world views as safe assets.
"The solutions for that are the same as what's required to try to continue to grow and become an even larger economy," said the IMF chief economist, suggesting China focus more on pivoting toward markets and improving macro policy frameworks.


Intel's quick pace in advancing desktop CPUs continues, with recent announcements that many Core 2 processors will be discontinued soon. That includes several quad core and dual core processors, including some Extreme Edition processors. The quad core CPUs saying goodbye to their days of manufacture include the QX6800, QX6850, QX9770, and QX9650.
Even more dual core units are being discontinued, including some non-core products like the Pentium E2180, E2160 and the Celeron E1200. The units will still be available until towards the end of the year, but most retailers will be shuffling stock to newer model CPUs including 45nm parts.
The shelf-life for processors these days is pretty short. Most of the above mentioned quad-core units were originally released from just over a year ago to a year and a half ago.


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Q: HDf5 Data Dimenssion change from (512,1080) to (512,1080,1) Hello i have a question about hdf5 . i have a data with dimension like (512,1080) but i need to convert it into (512,1080,1) ,1 represent the channel color how can i do that ? after convert this .it should be in same format like hdf5 not in numpy array

A: You could redimension your dataset (from 512x1080 to 512x1080x1) with HDFql as follows (assume that the dataset is named dset of 32 bit integer data type, and it is stored in an HDF5 file named test.h5):
import HDFql

HDFql.execute("USE FILE test.h5")  # open file "test.h5"

HDFql.execute("SELECT FROM dset")  # read data from dataset "dset" into HDFql cursor

HDFql.execute("CREATE TRUNCATE DATASET dset AS INT(512, 1080, 1)")  # re-create dataset "dset" with dimensions 512x1080x1

HDFql.execute("INSERT INTO dset")  # write data from HDFql cursor into dataset "dset"


Greetings Cat Lovers, it's me, Pita cat! I'm pleased to bring you our Love Cats Digest, fourth ezine!
We sincerely appreciate your support in making this website a great community for cat lovers. We also would like to thank our guest writers for their wonderful contribution!
We, at MustLoveCats.net, are very excited about sharing the fourth issue with you!
(1) What's New Pita Cat?
(4) Is Your Cat Alone All Day?
Well, as you may noticed, we were not able to publish our ezine since last January (things been crazy busy over here). Not to worry, our 2014 ezines are scheduled to be delivered on time!
This past few months, our muse, Pita cat was pretty busy developing new relationships with communities, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Blogger, Blogster, Pinterest, and more.
Last August, we were invited to express our opinion on In The Know, The Hill's gossip blog. Read the full article "Feline lovers to Obama: Time to get a cat."
We recently partner with an online marketing company - Revamp Strategies, to gain more exposure among pet communities and social media. Our goal is to share our passion and information about cats with cat lovers everywhere!
We got invited to join the 2014 Kitten Bowl! Pita certainly is not a kitten anymore, and quite honestly, she is a little out of shape. However, she will be cheering for all the great felines that entered to the game!
This inaugural three-hour special event, in Association with North Shore Animal League America, will be hosted by TV personality and activist Beth Stern, and emceed by John Sterling, the legendary radio voice of the New York Yankees.
A couple of our readers asked us if giving treats to their cats could make them sick. Well, giving your cat a little something special from time to time is not going to do him any harm. However, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.
•	Everything in moderation. Treats, whether purchased from pet stores, or homemade can't be the only source of food for your pet. Also, if you are giving your cat too many treats between meals, this certainly will contribute to overweight. We love to give our cats treats, this is a wonderful way to bond, train and reward. For a healthy cat, make sure the majority of his/her food is of high quality, complete, and balanced.
•	Be aware of foods that can harm your cat. There are several human foods, other pets' food, and plants that can harm your cat's health.
Read more about cats and harmful substances.
•	More information about cat treats and homemade cat treats.
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Revealing a Forgotten History in Haiti
Port-au-Prince—For many people around the world, the earthquake that struck Haiti last January was a catalyst that spurred donations and an interest in learning more about the world's "first black republic." But for California couple Bill and Harrier Mohr, news of the earthquake stirred up more unusual feelings.
"We were watching the television and we saw an Israeli medical team setting up in Haiti.," Harriet Mohr recalled. "We looked at each other and said, 'Isn't it amazing, Haiti was there for the Jews in 1930s and 40s to save them from the concentration camps and now the Israelis are arriving to save the lives of the Haitians.
"There seemed to be an incredible completing of the circle."
The Mohrs had more than just a passing interest in the history of Jews in Haiti: Bill and his family arrived in Port-au-Prince in 1939, refugees from the Holocaust in Germany. The family stayed for just 10 months, until they acquired U.S. immigration papers, but the Mohrs are sure that Bill was saved by the generosity of the Haitian government, which let them into the country when many others around the world had closed their doors.
"The Haiti earthquake cast a spotlight on Haiti," said Harriet Mohr. "So we began to be talking about Jews in Haiti—it all of a sudden had new meaning."
There has been a Jewish presence in Haiti since colonial times, beginning with a few Jewish members of Christopher Columbus' crew, and continuing to the present-day—a handful of Jewish families still live in Haiti, many of whom are prominent business owners.
This past spring, a Haitian medical student, Joseph Bernard, Jr., who has Jewish ancestors, published a history of Jews and Arabs in Haiti ("Histoire des colonies arabe et juive d'Haïti," 2010). Bernard's book touched briefly on the Jewish presence during World War II.
But when the Mohrs began looking more deeply into the history of Jews in Haiti during the war period, they were surprised at the lack of information available.
"We called a few people on different campuses who should have known and they said they didn't know what we were talking about," said Harriet Mohr. "We were always getting the same response: 'Jews, Haiti, Shoah—we don't know what you're talking about.'"
According to historians, Haiti had originally offered to allow as many as 50,000 Jews to take refuge within its borders after the 1938 Evian Conference.
Historian Dr. Matthew Smith, a senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, says pressure from the U.S. likely forced the Haitian government to scrap that idea. The Haitian president at the time, Elie Lescot, was heavily dependent on U.S. support. But even Dr. Smith, an expert in 20th century Haitian history, says he isn't aware of much research about Jews in Haiti during the war.
The Mohrs have set out to make sure this aspect of Haitian and Jewish history isn't forgotten, especially in a time of such need for Haiti.
They've set up a blog, the Haiti Holocaust Survivors project, to collect histories and stories from people around the world. They've already collected several personal histories of Jews who lived in or were helped by Haiti. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington D.C., has also helped with some of the research, and has found information about at least two Holocaust survivors who passed through Haiti.
"The main way that we helped is that we have a survivors' registry, which is a voluntary registry, and we facilitated contact with a few survivors who were in Haiti," said Steven Vitto, a researcher at the museum who helped the Mohrs with their research.
Vitto said he had come across references to survivors in Haiti during his research previously, on a limited scale.
According to Vitto and the Mohrs, some Holocaust refugees also escaped from Europe by being issued Haitian passports even when their owners had never been to Haiti or planned to go. The passports facilitated their passage to other countries during the war years.
"There's an oral history project run by the Visual History Foundation, run by Steven Spielberg," said Vitto. "They have two people who were issued those [Haitian] passports."
A key turning point in the Mohrs' research came a few months ago when they began talking to the Joint Relief Distribution Committee, a Jewish organization that helped refugees around the world during World War II. The Committee had records that showed it sent aid to between 100 and 300 Jews in Haiti during the war era.
"They estimate between one and three hundred," said Harriet Mohr. "The numbers were always changing, because people were waiting for their number to be called by the United States and we're not sure if they went to other places" such as other Latin American countries.
"Not everybody left," Bill Mohr added. At least two families that the Mohrs know of stayed for a few decades after coming during World War II.
After just a few months of research and spreading the word, the Mohrs have already caught the attention of some professors at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which this fall plans to inaugurate a new research center, the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies. Professors there, too, are eager to learn more about an almost-forgotten angle of Holocaust history.
The new Center will host an exhibit of the Mohrs' findings so far—an event the couple hopes will inspire even more Jews who received aid from Haiti, or their descendants, to come forward.
They also hope it will keep Haiti on the minds of people around the world as the country struggles to get back on its feet.
At least one Haitian-American leader has also taken note. Rodneyse Bichotte is a candidate for district leader in the 42nd Assembly district in Brooklyn, a heavily Haitian area that also has a significant Jewish population. Bichotte wants to use the story of Haitians and Jews helping each other to build more bridges in the local community.
"These are communities that for whatever reason see themselves as very separate," said Boris Noble, a volunteer with Bichotte's campaign. "This way, they can see they also have a history together."
Building bridges and rekindling memories of Jews and Haitians alike is exactly the goal the Mohrs have been working to achieve, starting with Bill's family but continually expanding.
"It's a wonderful merging of the past and the present," said Harriet Mohr.

Revealing a Forgotten History in Haiti

by The Haitian Times, The Haitian Times
May 5, 2012

Port-au-Prince—For many people around the world, the earthquake that struck Haiti last January was a catalyst that spurred donations and an interest in learning more about the world's "first black republic." But for California couple Bill and Harrier Mohr, news of the earthquake stirred up more unusual feelings.

"We were watching the television and we saw an Israeli medical team setting up in Haiti.," Harriet Mohr recalled. "We looked at each other and said, 'Isn't it amazing, Haiti was there for the Jews in 1930s and 40s to save them from the concentration camps and now the Israelis are arriving to save the lives of the Haitians.

"There seemed to be an incredible completing of the circle."

The Mohrs had more than just a passing interest in the history of Jews in Haiti: Bill and his family arrived in Port-au-Prince in 1939, refugees from the Holocaust in Germany. The family stayed for just 10 months, until they acquired U.S. immigration papers, but the Mohrs are sure that Bill was saved by the generosity of the Haitian government, which let them into the country when many others around the world had closed their doors.

"The Haiti earthquake cast a spotlight on Haiti," said Harriet Mohr. "So we began to be talking about Jews in Haiti—it all of a sudden had new meaning."

There has been a Jewish presence in Haiti since colonial times, beginning with a few Jewish members of Christopher Columbus' crew, and continuing to the present-day—a handful of Jewish families still live in Haiti, many of whom are prominent business owners.

This past spring, a Haitian medical student, Joseph Bernard, Jr., who has Jewish ancestors, published a history of Jews and Arabs in Haiti ("Histoire des colonies arabe et juive d'Haïti," 2010). Bernard's book touched briefly on the Jewish presence during World War II.

But when the Mohrs began looking more deeply into the history of Jews in Haiti during the war period, they were surprised at the lack of information available.

"We called a few people on different campuses who should have known and they said they didn't know what we were talking about," said Harriet Mohr. "We were always getting the same response: 'Jews, Haiti, Shoah—we don't know what you're talking about.'"

According to historians, Haiti had originally offered to allow as many as 50,000 Jews to take refuge within its borders after the 1938 Evian Conference.

Historian Dr. Matthew Smith, a senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, says pressure from the U.S. likely forced the Haitian government to scrap that idea. The Haitian president at the time, Elie Lescot, was heavily dependent on U.S. support. But even Dr. Smith, an expert in 20th century Haitian history, says he isn't aware of much research about Jews in Haiti during the war.

The Mohrs have set out to make sure this aspect of Haitian and Jewish history isn't forgotten, especially in a time of such need for Haiti.

They've set up a blog, the Haiti Holocaust Survivors project, to collect histories and stories from people around the world. They've already collected several personal histories of Jews who lived in or were helped by Haiti. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington D.C., has also helped with some of the research, and has found information about at least two Holocaust survivors who passed through Haiti.

"The main way that we helped is that we have a survivors' registry, which is a voluntary registry, and we facilitated contact with a few survivors who were in Haiti," said Steven Vitto, a researcher at the museum who helped the Mohrs with their research.

Vitto said he had come across references to survivors in Haiti during his research previously, on a limited scale.

According to Vitto and the Mohrs, some Holocaust refugees also escaped from Europe by being issued Haitian passports even when their owners had never been to Haiti or planned to go. The passports facilitated their passage to other countries during the war years.

"There's an oral history project run by the Visual History Foundation, run by Steven Spielberg," said Vitto. "They have two people who were issued those [Haitian] passports."

A key turning point in the Mohrs' research came a few months ago when they began talking to the Joint Relief Distribution Committee, a Jewish organization that helped refugees around the world during World War II. The Committee had records that showed it sent aid to between 100 and 300 Jews in Haiti during the war era.

"They estimate between one and three hundred," said Harriet Mohr. "The numbers were always changing, because people were waiting for their number to be called by the United States and we're not sure if they went to other places" such as other Latin American countries.

"Not everybody left," Bill Mohr added. At least two families that the Mohrs know of stayed for a few decades after coming during World War II.

After just a few months of research and spreading the word, the Mohrs have already caught the attention of some professors at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which this fall plans to inaugurate a new research center, the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies. Professors there, too, are eager to learn more about an almost-forgotten angle of Holocaust history.

The new Center will host an exhibit of the Mohrs' findings so far—an event the couple hopes will inspire even more Jews who received aid from Haiti, or their descendants, to come forward.

They also hope it will keep Haiti on the minds of people around the world as the country struggles to get back on its feet.

At least one Haitian-American leader has also taken note. Rodneyse Bichotte is a candidate for district leader in the 42nd Assembly district in Brooklyn, a heavily Haitian area that also has a significant Jewish population. Bichotte wants to use the story of Haitians and Jews helping each other to build more bridges in the local community.

"These are communities that for whatever reason see themselves as very separate," said Boris Noble, a volunteer with Bichotte's campaign. "This way, they can see they also have a history together."

Building bridges and rekindling memories of Jews and Haitians alike is exactly the goal the Mohrs have been working to achieve, starting with Bill's family but continually expanding.

 "It's a wonderful merging of the past and the present," said Harriet Mohr.

This article first appeared on The Haitian Times and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter VII
CHAPTER VII — The White Chucks Society
She'd come to notice that there were two Elliots—the one from after work, who wore impeccable white dress shirts and a tie she had no idea how he tied, who had a crease between his eyebrows 70% of the time and looked absolutely deadly. And there was the casual Elliot, and honestly, the only difference between the two of them were the Chucks.
"I love your shoes," she'd told him once.
Elliot looked down, as if to check what shoes he was wearing. "I must have had them for a decade."
And she had to check again. There was no way that pair of Chucks was even over a year old. It looked like it had just left the box, white as if it'd never seen anything even remotely close to mud. And yeah, maybe it hadn't. Maybe it hadn't even met the floor, maybe he'd never even walked on those shoes. Again, it made her wonder just how long he'd been paralyzed—and honestly, she was starting to feel like someone in a Game of Thrones forum, making up theories about the next season, scraping for details. She wouldn't ask, though.
Because his shoes had become some sort of internal joke to her—and because Marie Kondo's tidying up show on Netflix made her feel guilty—, Alex decided to go down her closet and dust off her retired pair of high top Chuck Taylors converse. It'd once been white, you could just barely tell, and it was covered in paint smudges. When had she stopped wearing those altogether? Was it when she retired the bandana? She had a boring hairband now.
Alex decided she'd make the effort to clean them and when she left for volleyball practise on Friday, she looked between the reliable trainers and the Chucks and opted for the latter.
"Are you painting again?" Callie asked after they'd left the locker room and lingered their usual fifteen minutes to catch a glimpse of the guys' team.
Alex snorted, surprised both by the question ans the absurdity of it. "No."
Callie shrugged. Alex's phone buzzed in her hand with a message from Elliot.
>Hey
>You still at the gym?
>yup.
>Are u finshd?,
When they first met and would text for hours uninterruptedly, he took forever to type short sentences and he never made any spelling mistakes. He even used commas. As they grew closer, however, and messages got less demanding, for practical reasons, he abbreviated whenever he could, making his texts much faster and their exchanges more fluid. He'd still rather call her, though; whenever they couldn't have lunch together, which had become their regular thing, they'd stay in the phone after she'd gone to bed—sometimes for hours. Sometimes even when they had met for lunch.
Yep, she texted back.
>Driving?
>Callie's taxi service.
>Thn Im pickng u up
>Movie theater.
>Ok?
"Elliot is coming." Alex told Callie as she texted Ok back.
"Oh, I'm finally meeting Mr. Perfect?"
"He's just picking me up."
"Then I'm meeting him."
"He's not going through all the trouble of getting out of the car just to meet you." Callie eyed her suspiciously. Maybe Alex should've toned down her voice, but she got nervous about them meeting without her being prepared. "Look, I'll just set up a dinner or something. Soon."
"Double date?"
"Who'd you bring?"
Her friend stuck out her tongue.
"I don't know, maybe… Max?"
"Max?" Alex snorted. "That's more like a police interrogatory than a double date."
>Im almst there.
Alex swung her bag over her shoulder and took her cold water bottle, killing Callie's cheek. "I'll wait outside."
"I'm gonna wait until one of these guys call me out on a date." She winks. "It's been long enough."
•°•°•
As she waited outside, Alex was so lost in thoughts—of her and Elliot, Callie and Elliot meeting— that she didn't even notice the car until it honked twice. Elliot lowered the window and her heart jumped merrily inside her chest, like it did every single time she set eyes on him.
"Hey there, beautiful." He lowered the window and poked an elbow out. "Waiting for someone?"
"I really shouldn't be talking to strangers." She batted her eyelashes.
"Yeah, I bet your boyfriend wouldn't like it." He had this mischievous gleam in his eyes, the way it wrinkled at the corners behind his glasses.
Alex jumped the curb and gave a few steps toward the car, leaning over the window to kiss him. They were both smiling when she playfully bit his lower lip. Boyfriend.
"No, he wouldn't."
She circled the car and hopped inside, stopping for a proper kiss before buckling herself onto the seat.
"Alexandra Harrington!" Alex separated quickly from Elliot when she heard Callie's voice, standing right beside his window with a wide grin. "You forgot your water bottle."
Alex narrowed her eyes and raised the bottle she was holding. "Did I?"
"Whoops. My mistake." Callie shrugged, not at all apologetic. "I'm Alex's best friend. And you must be Mr. Perfect."
Heat crept up her face and she rolled her eyes, staring between her best friend and a mildly confused, widely amused Elliot. Callie's smug look was the one of a true machiavellian. I've put you in a spot, haven't I?
"Elliot, this is Callie." Alex gave in, unable to do anything else.
"Tinder Date Girl." He smiled, raising his fist for a bump, which didn't seem to put her back as a strange greeting gesture at all. Alex wondered if she could see the parts of his wheelchair in the backseat. "How did it go with Tinder Date Guy? Alex never told me."
Callie grimaced, "More like Underaged Tinder Date Guy."
"I'm sorry about that." He chuckled.
"Yeah." She quickly recovered. "Oh well. I'm glad to finally meet the guy who has got Alex painting again."
Elliot looked back at her with an expression of a newfound pleasure. Alex raised her hands in the air, pleading not guilty before the wolves came for her. "I'm not."
"Your shoes don't lie." Callie shrugged. "Anyways, Alex has been so secretive about you, I was starting to think you had some hideous facial abnormalities. But no, here you are, Clark-Freaking-Kent. Just perfect."
Elliot smiled and Alex made the mistake of thinking he hadn't noticed the hint in Callie's last words—but the look he quickly shot her sideways, hiding his hands in his lap almost instinctively, something among the lines of surprise, disappointment and annoyance, made her throat close with something she couldn't identify. Like some sort of anafilaktik shock.
"Thanks." He rubbed his knuckles against the back of his neck, and if it was out of tension or distress, she didn't know. Both.
"You even drive the same goddamn car. If it wasn't for the…"
"Cross?" Elliot said, a throwback to their first date that would've been a fun private joke but felt more like an accusation right now as he eyed Alex. Betrayal? She wished she could hide somewhere and just never ever get out.
I'm killing you, Callioppe. I swear I am.
"Yes." Callie smiled charmingly. If Alex didn't know her any better, she'd say it was a flirty smile. "By the way, I have a party coming up this Sunday-"
And as she talked, Alex felt sicker and sicker.
"Well, actually more like my sister's party, but I'm in charge of everything and I'm inviting you." She pretended to whisper the last part. "You can bring Alex if you want, but I personally wouldn't. She's a pain."
"I'll think about it." He offered Callie a polite smile, placing one hand in the black lever next to the steering wheel. "Nice to meet you, Tinder Date Girl."
She took the cue out and stepped away from the car. "See you two on Sunday."
He started the car. Neither of them said anything. Alex didn't avert her eyes from the window, but felt a little worm eating her from the inside out. The air around them felt tense, wrapping them in a bubble about to burst, so she didn't make any sudden movements. Staring out the window, she noticed with a pang to her chest where he was driving her.
"Are you taking me home?" She asked with a startle.
The rear lights of the car in front of them was just barely enough for her to make out a simple nod—maybe his jaw was too tightly closed for him to mutter anything back. Alex pursed her lips and tightened her grip around her water bottle.
"I thought we were going to the movie theater."
He didn't look at her. "Maybe another day."
"Elliot-" She tried.
"I'm tired," He interrupted with a sudden burst, his words harsh. Maybe trying to soften his tone, but instead only making her feel like a reprimanded child, he added: "...Alex."
She backed off and looked down at her lap. There were two ways she could possibly handle this—she could let her pride win, and Lord, did she want to let it take control of her, that red little beast that told her she didn't have to take shit from anyone, anywhere. It was vengeful, ready to fight whatever, whomever, before it could hurt her. You think you can bark? I can bark louder. But she couldn't let her pride win over this one; she knew he was at least a little bit hurt and it was all her fault. So she swallowed hard and tried to work on solving the conflict. Admittedly, not something she was very good at.
"Elliot." She insisted once again. "What's wrong?" He braked milliseconds before running over the red sign. Alex held onto the headboard; she felt the storm coming and knew she would have to face it. "Jesus." She heaved.
Elliot lowered his head until it almost touched the steering wheel, hid between his outstretched arms.
"Sorry," he said after what seemed to be the longest two seconds she'd ever experienced. "I'm sorry."
The only indication she had she was even alive was how loudly her heartbeat was in her ears. Alex reached for his shoulder even though her first instinct was to go for his thigh, but she knew the gesture would possibly go unnoticed, so she tried to stick to the parts he could feel. When his shoulders sagged, her first thought was that he was crying.. Then she noticed, a fraction of second later, that he was actually laughing.
"What's so funny?" She retreated her hand.
"It's just..." He brushed his eyes with the back of his hand. "It's stupid."
"I keep forgetting..."
"Forgetting..?" Alex bit her tongue.
"Nothing," he shook his head.
"What?" She insisted.
"That I couldn't be farther from Callie's Mr. Perfect."
He said it with a jokingly smile, with the self deprecating kind of humor she could appreciate given a certain playful context. But this was different—those words felt like a knife, cutting everything from her belly button to her heart. She wanted to scream, you aren't! But all she could do was lean forward, against the seatbelt, placing a hand against his chest and pressing her lips against his. She hoped that kiss could tell him everything she couldn't physically bring herself to.
"Yeah, that is stupid." She said once their lips parted, just in time for the light overhead turn green.
She hadn't been to the movie theater with a boy in ages. It was funny that she thought of Elliot as a boy in that particular context, because really, she had never been to the movie theater with a man. Aunt Elida was her standard companion—she never got tired of 3D and she talked through the whole movie, but Alex didn't mind. Usually they sat two rows from the back, right in the chairs of the middle, but that simply wasn't an option now.
"Stadium seats are the bane of my existence." Elliot complained as they entered the room.
"Why?" Alex asked absentmindedly.
He didn't bother to answer. Soon it became pretty clear why; they were confined to one of the two only wheelchair spaces, and the seats in the back, thanks to the stairs Alex only really noticed the times she tripped over herself in the dark and made a mess with the popcorn, were absolutely out of reach. She liked stadium seats because it was far more comfortable, but hadn't thought about the downsides of it accessibility-wise, which made her slightly disappointed in herself.
Elliot positioned himself in the blue wheelchair symbol and Alex took the chair next to him. The last time she was in the movie theater with a guy, they used their tickets as an excuse to kiss during the entire session. Back then things like that were excusable, but now she was a grown up. They weren't going to use the movie theater to make out… right? She looked at Elliot next to her and gave him a nervous smile.
"My aunt is dying to watch this movie." She told him during the initial trailers.
"Maybe next time we'll bring her." He said, with a wink and a playful smile, but an implicit threat still hovered over her head.
First Max, then Callie, now Aunt Elida… Next time she'd be leading him to her father's grave. She tried to flip the arm support up, but it didn't move. Ugh. She leaned over it slightly, only enough so that she could easily reach him—y'know, in case they did decide to make out.
"Popcorn?" She offered him, even though he'd paid for it.
He eyed her lap but was quick to shake his head. "Nah."
How he pulled his hands to his lap didn't go unnoticed. That was one of the many times she saw him do exactly that, as if putting his hands away or simply hiding them, an unconscious gesture she was already quite familiar with. She felt something tug at her insides; did he want popcorn? Was it a purely practical choice, an aesthetic one or did he simply didn't like popcorn? She fiddled with the straw of her soda—he hadn't gotten himself one of those either. Maybe it had something to do with drinking too much and having to go to the bathroom, and therefore he knew eating salty things was a bad choice. Maybe he thought she'd be put off by how it looked go have popcorn when you had no grip, maybe the butter made wheeling a fucking pain and maybe it was a little bit of everything. Whatever it was, it only made Alex realize how much thought went into doing something as simple as popcorn.
"Is this the movie or the trailer?" He asked into her ear. She shrugged.
Alex entwined her fingers with Elliot's as the lights around them dimmed and the movie started. Somehow, the darkness made her bold. She laid her head over his shoulder and took a handful of popcorn from the bag, ate some and then lifted it to him. She could feel him looking at her, perhaps trying to figure it out just as much as she'd been just a few seconds before. Alex hoped he could interpret the act as a natural thing a couple, any couple, might do. And thank God, he accepted it.
Surprisingly, they didn't make out. At some point and he laid his own head over hers. At some point, she fell asleep—not that the movie was particularly bad, she just felt that exterior force pulling her eyelids down until she didn't fight anymore and felt her consciousness vanishing into the dark.
She did dream, though. The kind of dreaming that felt so vivid at the time she never once questioned if it was real or not. She was having sex with Richard. Wild, pinned-to-the-wall kind of sex. They were at her apartment, which felt slightly out of place even in the dream, considering that wasn't his usual scenario. He hobbled with her glued to his waist to the granite countertop. When Alex opened her eyes, Richard was no longer Richard, but into Elliot—and the biggest discrepancy, so big that it threatened to wake her up, was that he was standing in front of her. When he leaned over her and grabbed her hand, she noticed, they were his hands, with the curled fingers and deep creases where there weren't any muscles anymore. He moved his free hand, the one he'd told her he couldn't feel—and for some reason she was so aware of that at the time—, between her legs and caressed her clitoris with his bony knuckles. In the dream, oh my God, she exploded.
Had she been a man, it would've been so much harder to mask what kind of dream she'd just had. Her head rolled off his shoulder and she sat up straight like an arrow in her seat, managing to knock Elliot's jaw in the way with the top of her head in full force.
"Ow, fuck."
"I'm sorry!" She grabbed his shoulder, "I'm so, so sorry!"
Elliot was leaning forward, massaging his face. "Ouch," he heaved. "Ouch."
The people moving toward the exit and the credits on the screen told her she'd woken up just in time to leave. Maybe Elliot had called her, startling her awake instead of the embarrassing wet dream. Alex kneeled in front of him and leaned over his legs to meet his face.
"I'm sorry." She pleaded, kissing his chin.
Still pressing the place she'd knocked her head, his face still twisted into a half-grimace, with a chuckle, he said: "That… gives the word headstrong a whole new meaning."
Despiste herself, Alex chuckled. "I guess it does."
Elliot tested his jaw, opening and closing his mouth. He pushed his glasses up his nose with his wrist and kissed her lightly on the lips. "Let's go."
As they left, Alex right beside him and with a hand over his shoulder, she could feel the quick looks he attracted. She supposed he was immune to it by now, but she wasn't. And surprisingly, it wasn't anger she felt, or anything in that spectrum—Alex felt butterflies. She kept her head raised high and didn't hesitate to display enough affection that showed she was neither a sister or a nurse, as if shouting loud and clear, to the people who were wondering about her status and to the people who couldn't care less, he's my boyfriend!
As he wheeled to the car, Alex noticed how his strokes were slower, more deliberate. He wheelie-d through a sidewalk imperfection and as soon as he set the caster wheels in the pavement again, both of his legs started shaking. She heard a muffled sound coming from him, maybe holding back a curse, and stopped by the car parked in the handicapped space. He tried rearranging his legs in the footplate, and that usually got rid of them but not now. He pressed his fists down his thighs and the pressure seemed to quiet them down, but as soon as he moved his hands back to the wheels, the spasms were back.
"Shit." He said under his breath when his right hand began spasming too, moving his wrist back and forth uncontrollably.
"Is everything okay?" She asked, walking reluctantly in his direction.
He looked up at her, his lips pressed into a thin line.
"Y...eah. Jus...t," he heaved a sigh, his breath getting caught by a hiccup-like sound, like he was fighting his own diaphragm.
He didn't finish the sentence and instead leaned over his own legs, his right arm pressed between his chest and thighs. It didn't take long before he pushed against his knees and sat back again, though his legs still bounced. He let out a frustrated sigh, pressing his eyes closed.
"This fucking sucks," Elliot said under his breath.
Alex gave a few hesitant steps in his direction after deciding she wouldn't just get in the car and pretend it wasn't happening, that she didn't see it. She touched his hair, making his stare up at her above his glasses and swung a leg across his lap and sat down facing him. Elliot frowned, his lips pressed into a thin line and his jaw set. Alex tousled his hair, soft between her fingers, and felt his legs calming down with her weight.
He finally wrapped his arms around her waist and dropped his head to her chest and leaned into her. He inhaled and exhaled deeply as she caressed his head and they stayed like that for a while before Alex held his face and lifted it until he he was looking at her. She adjusted his glasses and smiled encouraging at him. Their kiss was slow and sweet instead of deep and hungry, full of tenderness.
Elliot pecked her cheek playfully and his stubble tickled her skin, she wondered when he'd last shaved. At least a couple of days. She rather liked that look and was rather surprised at how light his facial hair seemed to be—was his hair actually dark blond instead of brown? She'd pay attention to that the next time.
"Better?" Alex asked, her hands over his chest.
He nodded and brushed a strand off her face, the corners of his eyes wrinkled with a faint smile.
"I like your shoes." He chuckled, looking down at her feet at the sides of his chair. Alex had long legs, enough so that when she straddled him like that, the tip of her toes touched the ground. "Though a tiny bit dirty."
"I've had them for over a decade now." Alex said playfully. "Don't judge."
His eyes longed there before he looked back at her, and when he did, his face didn't hold a single trace of joke.
"I've had mine for seven years."
When he says it, Alex knows. She knows he isn't talking just about converse shoes, so she nods acknowledgingly and doesn't say anything else. She kissed him, this time longingly, deeply, until he pulled back by gently placing one hand against her neck and sitting back.
With their foreheads and noses touching, his eyes were cryptic and she couldn't seem to decypher whatever message there was behind those blue irises.
"Just tell her." He asked, his voice so low had she not been already so close, she wouldn't be able to hear. "Okay?"
Posted by Johanna at 3:39 PM
Labels: He's Not Mr. Perfect
Made me so happy to read this morning, wonderful chapter! So tender. Can't wait to find out what happened. And how Alex will tell him.... Thank you!
Johanna February 23, 2019 at 3:31 AM
I'm really glad you like it! Definitely some drama coming up soon...
Ohhhhhh thank you! Beautiful chapter, I enjoyed every word and have fallen in love with this couple.
Thank you! I'm definitely in love with them, too.
So tender. Those guys are lucky to have each other. I forget they are fictional. Thanks. This chapter is so beautiful.
I too forget they're fictional sometimes, it's so vivid in my head, haha I'm glad it comes across as a tender chapter. I'm glad you like it, too! Thanks for commenting!
Wow. Thanks.
And thanks for writing and hope you feel better soon.
Can anyone please remind me: Callie doesn't know about Elliot's disability..right? Or does she?
Because Alex didn't want to tell her she is dating another disabled guy?
And Richard..when are we going to find out about him? Would love to hate him. Let the disabled guy win..yessss.
Exactly! Callie doesn't know because Alex thinks she'll give away her dev self. Well, let's see how this will work out.
And Richard... Yeah, he's making his comeback pretty soon, haha
#Let the disabled guy win.
Oh my gosh I absolutely love this story Great imagery! Elliot is going to fall so hard for her if she keeps this up. I can't wait to read more Thank you!! Continuing thoughts with you on your fertility journey
I'm glad you like it! And yeah, he is definitely falling really hard for her, I guess just as much as she is falling for him. I really love this couple *sighs*.
And thank you very much for the support. It really means a lot :)
Chandelier February 18, 2019 at 11:53 PM
So nice that you are continuing the story. It's a really good piece of writing.
Thank you, Chandelier! It means a lot.
Thanks for keeping up with this story, I missed Alex & Elliot.
I missed them too, haha. Thanks for commenting!
Pepper March 2, 2019 at 9:15 PM
Delicious story! I love it.
lu5 March 9, 2019 at 8:05 PM
Excited for the next chapter!
He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter I
He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter II
He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter III
He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter IV
He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter V
He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter VI
He's Not Mr Perfect — Chapter VIII
He's Not Mr. Perfect - Chapter IX
He's Not Mr. Perfect — Chapter X
In/Exhale Continues - The Aftermath
In/Exhale - Kai's Hearing Test
Footsteps Chapter Thirteen is Up!
A Christmas Miracle
Three's A Crowd Chapter 48 - The End
In/Exhale Continues - Jon Takes His Turn
Sorry - no "Three's A Crowd" this week
In/Exhale Continues - Father/Son Bonding