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track listing1. Feast in the Time of Plague2. Unpacking My Suitcase3. Dimples4. Rips in the Fabric5. Society Sue6. My New Life7. Dick Cheney8. Worst Friend9. Sewing Machine
descriptionOnly a few months after releasing his sophomore collaboration with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra, At the Cut, Vic Chesnutt has emerged with his second album of 2009, Skitter on Take-Off, and the two projects could hardly sound more different. While Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra summoned a grand and gloriously idiosyncratic barrage of sound to accompany Chesnutt's songs, Skitter on Take-Off is a spare and minimal affair; Jonathan Richman and his longtime drummer Tommy Larkin produced these sessions, and though they offer understated support on a few songs (most audibly on the upbeat "Society Sue"), for the most part this is just Chesnutt's voice and acoustic guitar, cut live in the studio with a touch so light that at times it seems as if the microphones are eavesdropping on Chesnutt as much as capturing a performance. Chesnutt is an artist who is best served by emotionally direct performances, and the stark intimacy of Skitter on Take-Off largely works in his favor; the venomous whisper of "Dick Cheney" is all the more powerful for the fact there's so little to obscure it, and two lengthy tracks, "Rips in the Fabric" and "Worst Friend," give Chesnutt all the space he needs to spin his curious but compelling tales in all their richly detailed glory. Richman and Larkin are smart enough to know that Chesnutt is a one-of-a-kind songwriter and performer who doesn't need to have his work fussed with to work in the studio, but sometimes, Skitter on Take-Off feels rather too stripped down; the arrangements (or lack of them) give the songs an audio verite feel that's not unflattering, but the occasional interplay between Chesnutt, Richman, and Larkin is strong enough that it seems a lost opportunity that they didn't investigate it further. Skitter on Take-Off isn't perfect, but it ably documents just how remarkable Vic Chesnutt can sound essentially by his lonesome, and few artists could make two albums so different and so impressive within the space of a year truth to tell, most couldn't do it with five years at their disposal.
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TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. 200 S. Stone Ave. 792-9958. Valentine's Pop-Up Cards meets from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, February 13. Valentine's Bracelets meets from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday, February 14. Admission is $5, $4 for seniors and $3 for children. The museum is offering parent and child winter weekend art and environment classes in February and March. Contact Bill Spalding at 792-9985, ext. 107 for more information by February 6.
BUILD-A-BIKE. BICAS Youth Underground Build-A-Bike program is an eight-session program for adults and kids, offering extensive hands-on training for basic bicycle mechanics. In addition to learning new skills, you'll also be helping your community by fixing up old bikes and getting them back on the streets. Students are required to complete a 25-hour apprenticeship and final exam to earn their first bicycle. Classes are from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, and from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Class tuition is based on a sliding-scale. Call 628-7950 for registration and information.
YOUTH CENTER. 35 E. Toole Ave. The Pima Prevention Partnership and T/PAC sponsor the new Toole Avenue Youth Center, housing programs such as ArtWORKS at Toole, Pima County Teen Court, and the Full Court Press Youth Center. Call Dian Magie (624-0595, ext. 11), or Harry Kressler (791-0771), for information on Youth Center programs.
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PARENTS WITHOUT PARTNERS. Parents Without Partners, Inc., is an international, nonprofit organization dedicated to the entire single parent family. They offer Saturday night dances, camp-outs, picnics, skating, meetings, potlucks, games, house parties, movies, hikes, volunteer and community service opportunities, and much more. Orientation for new members meets the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. Call 622-8120 for information.
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Finally, I'm sitting over from Montreal post-punk outfit Ought - four young, well-dressed men, all with a beer or cigarette in hand. I was meant to have met them a few days ago, on their 2015 return to London to play Shoreditch's Village Underground - a packed sweat-box of a venue - and the 'right' place to hear their muscular, glowering music played out. Instead, we're sat along a picnic table under the boughs of an enormous beech tree, cubbied behind End of the Road's Forest Stage. It's sunny, serene, and behind the band is a view of the rest of this Wiltshire woodland.
It feels more like home than the rest of the UK tour thus far, reflects Ben Sidworthy, bassist. "We came from a lot of sun, then we flew into England. We played some amazing shows but just didn't see the sun for a while and were feeling quite tired." It's understandable: the boys have been touring for six months, a journey that's seen them loop around North America, European festivals and – once they're done here – more shows on the back of the release of LP number two, Sun Coming Down.
It's also a common complaint about touring in the UK, for sure, and a feeling that came to a head in Birmingham, a city the band only knew through its "dated reputation" as passed on by some friends in Manchester. "It was a really nice time, though, and a very fun show", Matt May, keyboards, quickly says. "We definitely didn't see enough of the place. And Ben got some pants there!"
Sensing a Tom Jones tale of discarded underwear and screaming teenage girls, I ask for the juicy details, forgetting for a second the transatlantic pants/pants divide. "Well, I spent some time going around vintage shops in Birmingham, and found some good pants…" Sidworthy explains sheepishly. Said trousers were similar in style to the very fashionably-cut, three quarter-length numbers he's currently sporting, but unhemmed and too straight in the leg. "But in the shop there was this guy who was a friend of the owner, and he was like 'I'm a tailor, and I want to come to the show, how about I bring these in, hem them, and I'll come to the show and give you them there?'"
The other three, smiles wide, start poking fun. "Were you presented with them on stage?" I ask, but no, it was a backstage transaction afterwards. "He didn't wear pants on stage just so he could put them on while playing," says Tim Keen – drums, violin. "Very Red Hot Chilis."
This lengthy tour hasn't killed off any sense of ease or good humour between the four – to cope, they've "changed members a few times" jokes May – despite some pretty alarming troubles at home. He and Keen, who live together in Montreal, lost their apartment to a fire in dodgy circumstances, the latter explains. "We live in an area which is mostly controlled by the Mafia – they run four in five businesses on our block, and the only one that isn't was below our house." A fire was set at about 1 am, says Keen wearily, then spread into this uncontrolled building and the rest of the block. "All as my landlord watched with a cigar," he imagines.
Despite having to field some worried calls from parents and friends, the two roomies are pretty upbeat about it. Part of that seems to be down to the tight community the band are part of in Montreal, a city that seems to me attracts hundreds of disproportionately talented musicians from elsewhere. Ought themselves are three-quarters USA transplants and one Australian, meeting at college when May, Keen and Tim Darcy, their as-yet quiet lead singer, shared an apartment-cum-practice space. Since then, they've become synonymous with the DIY, artsy community that's set up in the city's Mile End district, all small labels, loft-space recording studios and home-brew collaborations. A collective called Loose-fit, which booked easy going, pay-what-you-can shows in a bar called the Brasserie Beuabien, was one early and formative influence, as were a number of bands like the Femmaggots.
The band themselves still have their musical fingers in a number of pies: May and Keen run a cassette-based label which puts out "amazing stuff that's made by folks in our friend group", explains Darcy. "There are lots of interesting pockets of stuff around – and pretty much everybody is in other bands or has other projects that we pick up when we can."
"I guess in that sense it's like a lot of times that bands or scenes set up," says May. "A lot of our friends are finishing up university and are mixing in with other scenes, or acts." And, crucially, there doesn't seem to be any sign of a hipster influx any time soon. "Even though the rent's quite cheap, there's a brutal winter that lasts 8 months," he continues. "You maybe would move if you go to school there, maybe if you live in another part of Canada, but I don't think it's at risk of having a massive influx and becoming a 'cool city', you know?"
"It's also a challenging city to get a job in if you don't speak French, which puts a natural limit on the speed of gentrification if you have to become a Francophone to even start to get by," Keen adds. "In other cities it's different, even Berlin, you can move there and realistically do well just speaking English. That being said, it's definitely picking up the pace. There are lot of condos going up."
After Ought's first few EPs, they were invited to record with Constellation, the big dogs of Montreal's indie label scene and one time home of bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Do Make Say Think. The product was 2014's More Than Any Other Day, a record characterised by its slow-build, bubbling anger and fiery, cathartic releases which garnered critical and popular attention. The next round in the salvo, record number two, is slated for release just about a week after we speak. I ask: what are they most proud of on their sophomore effort?
There's a moment of silence. For a second, all that's audible is the washed-out sounds of Natalie Prass as they filter around and under the stage, her set underway just a few meters away. Keen is first to speak. "For me, I think as a record there's more attention to specific tone and tone character over different songs. And more attention to the way in which we use the studio, rather than using it for granted or as a recording device," he explains. "It's not a dramatic difference, it's quite subtle, but there's more attention paid to the effect that recording the music has had on it. I like that."
The album was also recorded straight to tape – "which was fun", Keen adds – as well as played to a click track. This is particularly interesting for Ought, who play and stretch time signatures and shift in feel so often during a song, let alone over an album. "The intention isn't just to get everything in time, there's an artistic reason for doing it," Keen adds, pre-empting my question. "I think that acknowledging you're in a studio is important, it's like taking the elements of that environment and working out how they make your music sound different."
At the time of speaking, the first few teases from Sun Coming Down had been put up on Spotify. 'Beautiful Blue Sky', the centrepiece of the album, is a drawn-out, spacious farewell list to the trappings of a cossetted, 21st-century existence, punctuated by the worst kind of empty conversation – "How's the family?/How's your health been?'/Fancy seeing you here!" Darcy sardonically intones. 'Men for Miles', on the other hand, is a far more tightly energetic number, all speed-strummed guitars and swirling sounds, sounding something like Sonic Youth meeting Joy Division in Mark E Smith's grimy living room. For a band that takes such care in the packaging – both physically and in terms of sound – of their art, does this kind of track-teasing spoil anything of what they're trying to achieve?
No, is the resounding answer. "I don't give a shit," says Keen. "I don't listen to vinyl or have a record player, I don't necessarily think that's the 'proper' way to listen to music, and I think artists who care about them are still putting out albums."
"Pop has always been single oriented anyway," May agrees. "Now it seems more interesting to think of a Taylor Swift album as being successful as an album rather than a collection of singles, Beyoncé, people like that. I don't think it's a destructive force. The compensation side of things is definitely problematic" – the rest of the band nod their heads sagely – "but I don't think it's culturally doing any harm."
On the other hand, says Darcy, there's something being lost when you have a physical, whole album, with artwork and everything else, even if the work itself might be a collection of singles. "I like that I can come to music through friends, or serendipitously, sometimes and then I actually have it, and can form a relationship with it," he adds. "But that's a subjective thing."
That strikes me as maybe what Ought really give a shit about – forming meaningful relationships with not only their listeners, but their fellow music makers and artists. It's fitting, then, that Darcy asks ever-so-politely if they can be excused to see the end of Natalie's set, and in a second we high-tail it around the iron fence to sneak into the front of the crowd. Whether it's her spellbinding set, the last, warm breaths of an English summer afternoon or the effects of tour fatigue, the men of Ought stand and watch in complete rapture.
'Sun Coming Down' is now available to stream, download and buy, via Constellation Records
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Winger Chris Ashton is determined to regain his place in the England squad after being handed a 13-week ban last week for biting an opponent.
The 29-year-old Saracens back, who has won 39 international caps, was found guilty of biting Northampton prop Alex Waller during a Premiership match.
Ashton, who has not represented his country since 2014, is free to play again from December 19.
"My clear ambition is first to regain my place in the Saracens team and then to regain my place in the England side, Ashton said in a statement.
"It may seem a long journey back from the despair of last week's judgement but I will do everything in my power to get back to where, in my heart, I feel I belong."
Ashton was handed a 10-week suspension earlier this year for making contact with the eye of an opponent during a Champions Cup match, crushing his hopes of a recall to the England squad for this year's Six Nations.
The former rugby league player maintains his innocence in both incidents.
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90's, in Poll: A Good Life Amid Old Ills
By MICHAEL R. KAGAY
Published: January 1, 1990
As Americans look to the year 2000, most of them anticipate a better life for themselves, but at the same time they foresee a worsening of many of the nation's social and economic problems, according to a new Gallup Poll.
Seventy-seven percent of the 1,234 adults polled said they expected the overall quality of their own life to be better by 2000. Similarly, 77 percent anticipated that their family life would be better in 10 years' time. Seventy-four percent said their financial situation would be better. Eighty-two percent of employed adults also predicted their job situation would improve in 10 years.
Somewhat smaller majorities of Americans also anticipated that by 2000 people would be spending more time on leisure and recreation (68 percent), and more time with their families (58 percent). A minority said people would be spending more time on jobs (38 percent) or household chores (13 percent).
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The poll, conducted by telephone Nov. 16-19, had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.
The participants' optimism about their own lives was accompanied by a more pessimistic outlook on many current social and economic problems. Large majorities expected by 2000 to see increases in the rate of inflation (74 percent), the crime rate (71 percent), poverty (67 percent), homelessness (62 percent), and environmental pollution (62 percent).
Slightly smaller majorities anticipated a worsening of the unemployment rate (59 percent), alcohol and drug abuse problems (58 percent), and the divorce rate (58 percent). Race Relations: A Better Age? One bright spot concerned race relations. Fifty-two percent of the public expected tensions between racial and ethnic groups to decrease in the 1990's, while 39 percent said such tensions would increase.
There was optimism over health. Sixty-seven percent anticipated a cure for AIDS by 2000 and 56 percent foresaw a cure for cancer by 2000.
In international affairs, the responses were mixed. On the one hand, 68 percent of Americans expected the Soviet Union and the West to be living peacefully together in 10 years. Thirty-two percent even expected Soviet Communism to have vanished by then (The poll was conducted shortly after the opening of the Berlin Wall).
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On the other hand, the public was divided over whether other international problems were likely to ease or worsen. Fifty percent expected international terrorism to increase in the 1990's, and 40 percent anticipated a decrease. The public was evenly split on whether United States forces would be drawn into military conflict in Central America, 50 percent saying it would happen, 50 percent disagreeing.
Only 8 percent foresaw a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States by 2000, but 33 percent expected a nuclear war to be started by a country other than the superpowers. Just 28 percent anticipated peace between the Israelis and the Arabs in 10 years.
As for the outlook for energy, the public also had mixed expectations. Approximately two-thirds anticipated that a new, clean energy source would be developed (65 percent) during the 1990s', but nearly the same proportion expected an energy crisis (64 percent). Easier or Harder Life? The public seemed to view ecological disaster as more likely than economic crisis in the decade. The 34 percent that expected a world economic depression were outnumbered by the 61 percent who said they thought a major change in the earth's climate would come about by 2000.
The underlying contrast between personal optimism and social pessimism was evident in the public's judgment about aspects of life that would become easier or harder by 2000. Fifty-three percent expected the l990's to be a decade in which life would get easier; 38 percent expected life to get harder for them, personally.
But, on problems facing people more generally, large majorities saw increasing difficulties for many Americans. The public expected it to become harder for parents to afford college for their children (89 percent), harder for people to buy a house (81 percent) and harder for people to afford retirement (79 percent) and medical care (79 percent). Sixty-four percent expected it to become harder for young people to find jobs in the 1990's.
chart of U.S. population for '80 and '89, by state (Source: AP)


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By: Megan Wanless, Senior Community Animator
Poverty is a complex issue. It's an issue that cannot be approached in isolation or solved by a select few – it effects everyone, is experienced by people in different ways, and involves a significant number of interrelated elements and stakeholders. We know this. We know that when working on complex problems, such as poverty, finding comprehensive solutions requires communities to come together to leverage and better understand their assets – knowledge, experience, skills and resources – to truly see and act on the issue from all angles.
Momentum around the importance of bringing everyone to the table to combat complex issues has been growing over the years, particularly with the introduction of collective impact in 2011 (See: Kania and Kramer, 2011). Over the last 15 years Vibrant Communities Canada (a division of the Tamarack Institute) has been building a network of cities committed to working collaboratively to reduce poverty. Cities Reducing Poverty is a collective impact movement of 57 member cities or regions who together aim to reduce poverty through local interventions at the individual and household levels and through policy and systems changes. These local, multi-sector initiatives are bolstered by provincial and territorial poverty reduction strategies and by the federal government's recent mandate to develop a Canadian poverty reduction strategy. Together, we are in the midst of a country-wide movement to overcome poverty.


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German Legends of the Brothers Grimm
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German Legends of the Brothers Grimm
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first published German Legends in 1816 and 1818, in two volumes. The first volume was regional, the second historical and mythical.
Wilhelm's son Herman produced later editions in 1865 and 1891. He worked added material into the text from hand-written notes of the brothers.
The Brothers Grimm published 585 legends in all from German-speaking regions, including Alpine countries.
German legends have features in common with Scandinavian and British folklore, and reflect similar blends of influences, in part from old Germanic ideas of gods similar to gods in Norse mythology in modified forms as time went by. There are, likewise, magical characters, and regional legends focused on nature parts like mountains, lakes, springs, streams, towns and slopes, and many famous persons of the past.
Here are the legends we have compiled for you ...
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The Nixies of Magdeburg
There is a spot on the Elbe River in Magdeburg where nixies often have been seen while they drag swimmers into the depths. Once an accomplished swimmer struck out across the river on a wager for money. When he got near a certain spot, however, he disappeared under the surface.
The water from the wells of this region is hard to boil, but the water from the river is of a better quality. Therefore the city fathers decided to build a water pipeline from the river to the city. They began the project by driving great piles into the river floor, but suddenly a naked man rose up in the stream, forcefully pulled out all the piles that had been driven and hurled them in all directions, so the construction plans for the pipeline had to be given up.
The Dream of the Treasure at a Bridge
A long time ago, a man in Regensburg had a dream that if he went to the bridge in that city he would become rich. Therefore he went to the Regensburg bridge every day.
After fourteen days, a rich merchant saw him and asked what he was doing on the bridge every day, and what he sought there. He answered, "I dreamt I should go to the Regensburg bridge and find my fortune there."
"Oh," said the merchant, "what is all this nonsense? Dreams are flimsy. I too had a dream - that there was a kettle of gold buried beneath that large tree," and he pointed to the tree. "But I paid it no heed."
The other went at once to the tree and began digging beneath it. There he found a great treasure that made him very rich. Thus, his dream was confirmed.
The Three Maidens from the Lake
In the town of Epfenbach near Sinsheim, three lovely maidens dressed in white used to come every evening to the village spinning room. They always brought new songs and melodies with them, and they told marvellous tales and taught many new games. Their spindles and bobbins were special, and no other woman of the village could spin so fine and nimbly as they. However, every evening at the stroke of eleven they rose, gathered up their distaffs, and left. No one knew where they came from or where they went.The village youths liked to see them and they fell in love with them, especially the son of the schoolmaster. He never tired of listening to them and speaking with them. Nothing saddened him more than to see them leave so early every evening. Then he got the idea of setting the village clock back an hour to make them stay a bit longer. No one noticed it, but when the clock struck eleven it was actually midnight.
Then the three maidens got up, folded their distaffs, and left.But the next morning, people walking along the lake heard whimpering noises and saw three bloody spots on the surface of the water. From that time on the sisters did not return to the spinning room, and the son of the schoolmaster began to pine away. Shortly afterwards he died.
The Farmer and His Kobold
A farmer had a little kobold sprite who was always up to mischief. And no matter what the farmer did, he could not get rid of him. At last the farmer was advised to burn down the barn, since the kobold had his home there. First, the farmer carted all the straw out of the barn. Then, after carrying out the last load, he locked the spirit inside and set the barn afire.
When the whole barn was burning, the farmer glanced around - and here was the kobold sitting on the back of the cart, saying again and again,
"It's about time we got out of there!
It's about time we got out of there!"
The farmer understood that he had been ill advised, returned to the house and could not get rid of his kobold.
The Snake Queen
A shepherd's daughter was wandering along a trail through some cliffs when she came upon a mortally ill serpent that seemed near death. Out of pity, she gave it her milk pitcher, and the snake drank the milk eagerly. After a while the snake was able to crawl on. The girl then left the snake..
Soon afterwards it came to pass that the one she loved, began to court her. But he was too poor for her proud, wealthy father. He rejected the youth with much mockery, telling him to come back only when he had as many herds as he himself.
From that time on, the old shepherd met nothing but misfortune. People claimed they had seen a fiery dragon above his grazing lands at night and soon all his property had been laid waste.During this same period, however, the poor youth prospered and became quite wealthy.
He once again courted the girl, and this time she was granted to him.
On the day of the wedding, a large serpent came into the room, and riding on the snake was a splendid maiden. She said, "Once when I lay helpless and starving, almost dead, the shepherd girl gave me milk so that I could recover."
Out of gratitude she took a dazzling crown from her head and laid it in the bride's lap. She then disappeared.
Thereafter, the young couple was blessed with great fortune and increase in their flocks, and they soon became very wealthy.
The Three Miners in the Kutten Mine
Three miners once worked the Kutten Mine in Bohemia. They toiled faithfully for many long years, earning honest bread for their wives and children. Each morning when they left home for the mine they took three things with them: their lamps, enough oil for one day, and their day's bread. They knew of the dangers of the mine, yet went to work diligently.
One day, just as they were finishing their work, the whole face of the mountain caved in and buried the entrance to the mine. Realising they were trapped, they exclaimed: "This is it! We're done for!"
They prepared to die. But their lamps kept burning, and the small piece of bread that they ate daily, was never totally exhausted. Time went on, they could see, for their beards grew very long. In the meantime their wives, were convinced their husbands were dead, and considered remarrying.
About that time one of the three trapped miners wished from the bottom of his heart. He said, "If I could only see the light of day once more, I would die happily."
The second miner said, "If I could only sit with my wife once more at my table and eat with her, I would happily die!"
And the third one said, "Oh, if I could only live one more year peacefully and happily with my wife, I would be happy to die."No sooner had they uttered this than the mountain thundered and split asunder. The first miner ran to where the mountain had opened, looked up and saw the blue sky again. Overwhelmed by the beauty of the light of day, he sank to the ground and was dead.Then the mountain gave another roar and opened wider. The other two miners began digging stairs into the side of the mountain, and could crawl out at last.
They went in great haste to their village.
But when they came home, their wives did not recognize them. "Our husbands have been dead for seven years, buried in the Kutten Mine!" they said.The second miner then said to his wife, "I am your husband." But she did not believe him because his long beard made him look quite different than she remembered. He then said, "Fetch me the razor high in the wall cabinet, and bring me a piece of soap." Then he shaved off his beard and washed and combed his hair. When he had finished, his wife recognised her husband. She was overjoyed and brought food and drink to the table, and they sat down together and enjoyed their meal. The man ate his fill. But as he was swallowing the last bit of bread, he fell over dead.The third miner lived a whole year in peace and joy with his wife. But one year to the hour and day that he had crawled from the mine, he and his wife both sank to the floor dead.
❋ Be careful about what you wish for - it may be too little.
The Hooded One Deep in the Harz Mountains
There were once two miners who always worked as a team. One day when they came to the shaft that they worked in, they noticed that they lacked lamp oil to last them the whole day in the mine.
"What can we do?" they asked one another. "If we run out of oil deep in the mine, we'll be in serious trouble in the dangerous shaft. But if we run home for more oil, the foreman will enjoy punishing us, for he doesn't like us."
As they stood there wondering what to do, they saw a light coming toward them from deep down in the shaft. It was a tall figure, crouched over, who made his way up the shaft toward them. He wore a large hood and carried a large miner's lamp in his hand.
The two men stood frozen with fear until he straightened up and said, "Have no fear.
I won't harm you, but do you good." He then poured oil from his lamp into theirs.
He grabbed their tools and began to work the mine. In one hour he had mined more ore than they could have done in a week. Then he said, "Tell no one that you have seen me here," and disappeared.
However, the oil he had poured into their lamps, remained and never diminished. This gave the two men quite an advantage in their work. One Saturday night, however, the two of them were drinking with their friends in the tavern and having a good time, and told about the figure and the oil. Monday morning, as they prepared for work, they saw there was no more oil in their lamps. From then on they had to fill up their lamps every day, like other miners.
Mother Holla Can Be Made Happy
At Christmastime Mother Holla begins to roam the countryside. At this time all village maidens wind new flax or tow onto the distaffs on their spinning wheels and let them stand over night. Mother Holla rejoices when she sees such things, and exclaims: "Many good years will be!"
She continues her nightly wanderings until six days into the New Year, when she must return to her home in Horsel Mountain. If at this time she should find a distaff with flax on it she becomes angry, saying: "Bad years will be!"
For she expects all girls to keep the spinning tidy and carefully remove the flax from their distaffs after a day's work. Best of all is when they manage to spin all the flax from the distaff before their day's work is done.
The gnomes are only about twenty-five centimetres tall. They look like old men with long beards, dress like miners and carry lanterns, picks, and hammers, and are also called the Little People.
They never harm miners. And even when they occasionally throw rocks, it's rare that anyone gets hurt – unless the little people have been angered by cursing and swearing.
They ever like to appear in shafts rich in ore or where the prospects for making a strike are good. Because of this the miners are not afraid of gnomes. Rather, they believe it is a good omen when they appear. Miners get happier and work harder on seeing them.
The little creatures like to roam through mine chambers and shafts and tease the miners. Gnomes seem to work very hard, but they never do anything at all.
Sometimes miners think that gnomes are tunneling out a new shaft or a vein; at other times gnomes seem to be filling their buckets with ore or working the lift as though they want to send something to the surface. But they are only teasing and distracting the miners. Now and then they will also call out from one of the chambers, but when one goes to investigate, no one is there. No one.
By Lake Mummel
High in the mountains of the Black Forest, not far from Baden, lies a deep, deep lake. If one casts stones into the lake, a great storm will arise with gale-force winds and hail. And all stones cast into these depths are carefully carried back to shore by the mermen who live there.
Once some cowherds were tending their cattle on the shores when a brown bull came out of the lake and began to graze with the other cattle. Then a man came out of the lake to drive the bull into the water. When it did not obey, he began cursing at it till it went back into the lake with him.Late one evening a dwarf came to a farm not far from there and asked the farmer for lodgings for the night. The farmer did not have enough beds, so he offered the dwarf the window seat in his living room, or the hayrick in the barn. But the dwarf only asked to be allowed to sleep in the basin where hemp was being soaked.
"It's all right with me," answered the farmer.
The dwarf then dove into the basin and went to rest as if he were lying in hay and warming himself. Early next morning he came out of the water with his clothes completely dry. The farmer was amazed to see this.
The dwarf soon became trusting of the farmer, and told him that he was a merman who had lost his wife. He meant to look for her in Lake Mummel, and asked for directions so that he could find the lake. On the way to the lake the dwarf recounted to the farmer how he had sought his lost wife in many lakes already but had not found her.At the shores of Lake Mummel, the dwarf asked the farmer to wait until he returned or sent him a signal. After waiting for some hours the farmers saw a number of shoes springing from the water of the lake and into the air, and assumed that this was his signal.
Kobold Glimpses
In some villages nearly every farm has a kobold who performs all kinds of domestic chores. He carries water into the kitchen, chops wood, fetches beer from the cellar, cooks, brushes the horses in the stable, clears the manure out of the stalls and the like. When a kobold lives on the farm, the cattle increase in number and the whole farm is successful and prospers. Even today, when a maidservant succeeds in her work very well, a proverb is recited: "She has a kobold." But whoever vexes the kobold had best take care!
If a cook has accepted a kobold as a secret helper, she must put a dish full of good food in a chosen place every day at the same time and then go back to her chores. If she does so, then she can be lazy, go to bed early, and still find that all her work has been done for her by early morning. But if she once forgets to put out the food, then she must not only do all the work herself in the future, she also finds she has got a most unlucky hand - it gets burned in hot water, drops pitchers and dishes, and spills food. Thus, she will constantly be reprimanded by her employers. When this happens, the kobold is often heard snickering and giggling.
If the servants of the house should change, the kobold will remain. But the leaving maidservant must recommend him to the new servant and make sure that the new servant will continue to set out his food. If the new servant will not, she will have constant misfortune until the day she decides to go elsewhere.
Sometimes the maidservant is curious to see her little helper. If she persists, the spirit will finally tell where she will be able to see him. He also instructs her to bring a bucket of cold water with her, for she risks being so frightened by the sight of him that she faints. Then the kobold jumps up and dumps the bucket of cold water over her so she comes to again.
The Farmer and His Kobold
A farmer had a kobold who was always up to mischief. And no matter what the farmer did, he could not get rid of him. At last the farmer was advised to burn down the barn, since the kobold had his home there. First, the farmer carted all the straw out of the barn. Then, after carrying out the last load, he locked the spirit inside and set the barn afire.
When the whole barn was burning, the farmer glanced around - and here was the kobold sitting on the back of the cart, saying again and again,
"It's about time we got out of there!
It's about time we got out of there!"
The farmer understood that he had been ill advised, returned to the house and could not get rid of his kobold.
By Lake Mummel
High in the mountains of the Black Forest, not far from Baden, lies a deep, deep lake. If one casts stones into the lake, a great storm will arise with gale-force winds and hail. And all stones cast into these depths are carefully carried back to shore by the mermen who live there.
Once some cowherds were tending their cattle on the shores when a brown bull came out of the lake and began to graze with the other cattle. Then a man came out of the lake to drive the bull into the water. When it did not obey, he began cursing at it till it went back into the lake with him.
Late one evening a dwarf came to a farm not far from there and asked the farmer for lodgings for the night. The farmer did not have enough beds, so he offered the dwarf the window seat in his living room, or the hayrick in the barn.
But the dwarf only asked to be allowed to sleep in the basin where hemp was being soaked.
"It's all right with me," answered the farmer.
The dwarf then dove into the basin and went to rest as if he were lying in hay and warming himself.
Early next morning he came out of the water with his clothes completely dry. The farmer was amazed to see this.
The dwarf soon became trusting of the farmer, and told him that he was a merman who had lost his wife.
He meant to look for her in Lake Mummel, and asked for directions so that he could find the lake. On the way to the lake the dwarf recounted to the farmer how he had sought his lost wife in many lakes already but had not found her.
At the shores of Lake Mummel, the dwarf asked the farmer to wait until he returned or sent him a signal. After waiting for some hours the farmers saw a number of shoes springing from the water of the lake and into the air, and assumed that this was his signal.
Bull Creek
There is a creek that runs through a valley in the Suren Alps. It is fed from Lake Suren up in the mountains. There is a legend that is told by the people of Uri and by those from Engelsberg, how the creek came to be called Bull Creek.
Several centuries ago, an Alpine shepherd lived in the area. In his flock he had a lamb that he was especially proud of and devoted to, so much that he decided to have it baptised and to give it a Christian name.
What happened? The heavens felt annoyed and changed the lamb into a spectre that roamed the fertile Alpine pastures day and night, grazing away all the grass and herbs, until the Engelsberg farmers could no longer use the pastures for their own sheep and cattle.
One day, a wandering student came to Uri. He told the people how to get rid of the monstrous animal.
They should raise a bull calf for nine years on pure milk alone - the first year with the milk from one cow, the second with the milk of two cows, the third of three cows, and so on. After nine years, the bull that had been raised on milk should be led over the pastures by a maiden.
The farmers from Uri hoped to get a reward from the farmers of Engelsberg, and so they raised such a bull in the pasture of Waldnacht.
When the bull had been raised on the milk for nine years, a lovely maiden led it across the high ridge of a cliff and then let him run loose.
As soon as the bull saw that he was free, he took off after the specter, and they engaged in a fierce struggle.
The bull won, but the fight had been so wild and furious that he was exhausted and covered with sweat.
He then raced for the stream rushing nearby, plunged in, and drank so much water that he dropped dead on the spot.
Ever since, the stream has had the name of Bull Creek. Those who live in the area can also point to the imprints in the rock where the bull dug himself in for the valiant struggle.
The Wolf and the Pine Cone
A crack runs across one of the great brass doors of the cathedral in Aachen, and next to the door stand the statues of a wolf and a pine cone, both cast in fine metal. A legend is told about these figures.
Many decades ago when the cathedral was being built, construction had to be halted before the church was finished because the city ran out of money.
The desolate construction site stood there for some time until the devil reportedly appeared before the city fathers and offered them the money they needed.
But he added a condition - he would take the first soul to enter the church during the dedication ceremonies. The council thought about it and hesitated for a long time. But they finally decided to accept the offer, and they all agreed to keep the deal a secret.
With the money the devil gave them, they could complete the cathedral. In the meantime, however, rumours of their secret deal with the devil spread around the city, and no one wanted to be first to enter the cathedral. Finally, someone thought of a trick. Some men went out in the forest, trapped a wolf, and brought it back to the main entrance of the church.On the day of the dedication when the bells began to peal, the wolf was set loose and chased into the church. The devil then swooped down like a tornado, roared through the church doors, and seized what belonged to him by the terms of the agreement. But as soon as he realised he'd been tricked, that only the soul of a wolf had been delivered to him, he flew into a rage and slammed the brass door shut with such force that a crack developed in it, and the crack remains to this day.
To commemorate this event, statues of the wolf and his soul, which resembles a pine cone, were cast.
Hackelnberg's Dream
Hans von Hackelnberg was chief hunting master and an accomplished huntsman. One night at Harz Castle he had a bad dream. He seemed to be engaged in battle with a terrible wild boar that finally defeated him after a long struggle.
He was not able to forget this dream and a short time later, while he was in the foothills of the Harz Mountains, he actually met a wild boar similar to the one in his dream. It attacked him, and for a long time the outcome was doubtful.
But in the end, Hans triumphed and laid his opponent out on the ground. Overjoyed as he viewed him stretched out at his feet, Hans kicked at the terrible tusks of the boar and cried, "You shall not do me in after all!"
However, Hackelnberg had kicked the boar with such force that a sharp tusk had penetrated his boot, wounding his foot.
At first he paid little heed to the wound and continued the chase. But by the time he returned home the foot had become so swollen that the boot had to be cut away. He then hastened back to Wolfenbattel, but the effect of the shaking carriage was so damaging that he was barely alive when they reached the hospital in Wulprode, near Homburg. Shortly after he died.
The Three Old Men
In the Angeln region of the Duchy of Schleswig there are people still living who remember hearing the following story told by the late Pastor Oest, a man well known for several learned works he had published. However, no one can now recall whether the story was about the pastor himself or a minister from a neighboring town.It all took place back in the middle of the 1700s when the new pastor set out on horseback to ride the borders of his diocese to get to know his territory. In a remote area he found a lonesome farm along the road. On a bench in front of the house sat an old man with snow-white hair. He was crying bitterly.The pastor wished him a good evening and asked him what was wrong. "Alas," replied the old man, "my father has given me beating." Astonished, the pastor tied up his horse and entered the house. In the hall he met a man who was even older than the manoutside, and he was beside himself with rage.
The pastor addressed him politely and asked what had made him so angry. The old man answered, "Oh, that boy. He let my father fall." He then opened the door to the living room, and the pastor, speechless with amazement, saw an ancient man, withered with age but still active, sitting in an armchair behind the oven.
The Giant's Toy
Next to a waterfall on a high mountain in Alsace stands Nideck Castle. In early times the knights who inhabited this castle were giants.
One day a giant maiden, who decided to see what life was like down in the valley, walked down the mountain almost as far as Haslach.
Hard by the forest she came to a field just being plowed by some farmers. Her eyes filled with wonderment as she stopped to look at the plow, the horses, and the men. The whole tableau was quite new to her.
"Oh," she said as she approached, "I'm going to take it all home with me."
She knelt down, spread out her apron, and stroked her arm along the ground, sweeping everything into her apron. She then made her way happily back to the castle, leaping up the steep cliffs.
Near the summit, where the face of the mountain is so sheer a man could scale it only with great difficulty, the giant maiden gave a single bound and was at the top.
The giant knight was sitting at the table when she entered the castle. "Ah, my child," he said, "what have you there? You can't hide the joy in your eyes."
She quickly opened her apron and let her father look in."What are those wiggly things you have there?"
"Oh, father, it's such a marvelous toy! I have never had anything like it in my whole life."
She then removed each item one by one - the plow, the farmers, the horses - and set them on the table. Then she ran to the other side to look at her display. When the little creatures began moving back and forth she clapped her hands together and laughed with great joy.
However, her father spoke sharply to her, "Child, that is not a toy. Quickly now, carry them back down to the valley."
The maiden began to weep, but to no avail. "For me, child, the farmer is not a toy," said the knight grimly, "and I will have no more of your whimpering! Pack all these things gently into your apron and return them to the exact place from which you took them. If the farmer cannot plow his fields we giants up here in our mountain nest will have nothing to eat."
❋ Without enough and suitable food even giants succumb. Nobility too depends more on food than glitter.
Mother Holla's Pond
Many landmarks in the Meissen Mountains of Hesse are said to be very old. Of all such places, the strangest is Mother Holla's Pond. It lies in one corner of a swampy meadow and is only about forty or fifty feet across. The entire meadow is encircled by a stone wall that has sunk halfway into the marshy ground. It happens from time to time that a horse ventures beyond the wall and sinks out of sight.
The people tell many things about Mother Holla, the patroness of that pond, both good and bad. Women who visit it the pond climbing into the spring, become healthy and fertile. She has flowers, fruits, and cakes in her underground realm. She distributes these and the produce from her fantastic gardens to those she meets - if she likes them.
Mother Holla is very tidy and keeps a neat household.
When it snows in man's world, it is Mother Holla shaking out her feather beds till the flakes drift around in the wind.She punishes girls who are lazy at the spinning wheel by soiling their linens, tangling their yarn, even setting fire to their flax. However, she rewards hard-working girls by giving them with new spindles and by doing their spinning for them at night.
When these girls wake in the morning, they often find their spools full of newly spun yarn. But she also visits the lazy girls at night. She pulls the covers off their beds, carries them out into the night, and places them on cold, hard cobblestones where they wake up freezing.Mother Holla also rewards hard-working maidens who at dawn fetch water from the wells in finely polished pails, by placing silver coins in their buckets. She likes to lure children into her pond - the good ones she rewards with success and fortune; the evil ones become changelings.
Each year Mother Holla wanders around the countryside bestowing fertility on the fields. However, she can also strike terror into the hearts of the people when she roars through the forests, leading raging hordes.
Sometimes she appears as a beautiful White Woman, floating or hovering above the surface of her pond. At other times, though, she is invisible. Then one hears only the pealing of her bells and other dark rumblings from deep beneath the surface.
❋ Success is through hard work, tidiness and care - that is the message, loud and clear.
Hackelberg, the Wild Huntsman
Many years ago in the lands of Brunswick there lived a master huntsman by the name of Hackelberg. He was said to have been so fond of hunting that when he lay on his deathbed he begged God to allow him to exchange his place in Heaven for permission to hunt in Soiling Forest until Judgment Day, whenever that day would come. He also asked to be buried in the wilderness of Soiling, and all he had asked for was granted.
Four times every night the terrifying echo of his hunting signals a chase - and baying hounds can be heard in the wilderness. One time the threatening sounds ring out from here, another time from there.
I myself, I believe in 1558, was riding through Solling on the way from Einbeck to Uglar when I became lost and chanced upon Hackelberg's grave in a clearing. It was like a meadow, but was covered with a wild growth and with reeds.
It measured about an acre and was somewhat longer than it was wide. Though the area was surrounded by trees, no trees grew on this clearing. One end of the field slanted slightly upwards toward sunrise, and at the other end there was a raised, flat red stone about eight or nine feet long, and about five feet wide, I think. One end of the stone pointed south and the other north.
I was told by locals afterwards that one could not find this grave by asking around and searching for it. But if someone should chance upon the site, he would find a pack of frightful black dogs next to it. I saw no such spooky dogs there. If I had, the few hairs I have on my head would surely have stood on end.


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Things you can do in the home
Things you can do in the garden
- E. Knight
In the Wellington region we use over 1000 million litres of water in an average week. According to the Greater Wellington Regional Council this amount would fill the Wellington Regional Stadium right to the brim. Roughly 60% of this water is used at home.
Wellington's water supply has relatively little storage capacity; we rely on there being enough water each day in our rivers and aquifers to meet the day's water use. The more water we use, the more water has to come from our natural environment to meet our needs and the more water that has to be treated using electricity and chemicals to make it safe to drink. Thus the more water we use, the greater impact we have on the environment.
What's more, during periods of less rainfall there is less water available. Reducing summertime demand for water, helps avoid the need for tougher watering restrictions.
In summer the key is careful watering in the garden, but there are also things that can be done around the home to reduce water use.
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Bittersweet / Geoffrey Morris, guitar.
This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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Duration: 51 min.
Contents note: Kaleidoscope / Clarence Barlow -- aus dem Dunkel / Anton Höger -- Sweet talk (guitar and violoncello) / Lesleigh Thompson -- Spell (guitar duo) / Mark Finsterer -- Kissed by the sun (guitar and flute) / Mark Pollard -- Ninazu (guitar and voice) / David Young -- bittersüà / Gerhard Stäbler -- Out of Voronezh (guitar and viola) / Felix Werder -- Conversations / Itamar Erez -- Vermutungen über ein rotes Haus / Volker Heyn.
Performers: Geoffrey Morris (guitar) ; Ken Murray (guitar: Finsterer) ; Rosanne Hunt (violoncello: Thompson) ; Elizabeth Barcan (flute: Pollard) ; Deborah Kayser (voice: Young) ; Deirdre Dowling (viola: Werder).
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Capture session: Recorded at Iwaki Hall, ABC Southbank, Melbourne, May 2002.
Includes all works in the compilation book 'Guitar Plus One' published by Red House Editions.
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I wonder what we're doing today...
"So...we gotta go out and go grocery shopping..." he said swaying me back and forth. I felt eyebrows ascend slightly, and a little grin came to my face.
"Funny thing, I was just thinking that we needed to get more groceries. I asked. He chuckled and ruffled my hair, and led me out the kitchen.
"Because New Years is coming up!" he sang and swung me around. He pulled me close to him and nuzzled my neck, planting light kisses up towards my lips till we were facing each other.
"And I'm more than happy to have you here with us for New Years..." he said softly. I giggled and pecked him on the lips.
"Who's gonna be here?" I asked, slightly concerned. I wasn't sure if it would be a big party or just something that was like christmas where it was just the people that knew about Ray and I. Hopefully it would just be like that, but it might be nice to have a big bash. I just wasn't sure how things would go is all. I wasn't even sure how I would react if alcohol was present....
"Well the usual people of course...and then some." he said and shrugged. I knitted my eyebrows together and tried to not express my worry, but it was clear that he could see it. He pursed his lips, and I turned away feeling a little guilty that he could see that I was worried.
"Baby, don't worry alright? I promise that these will be people that you'll love." he said rubbing my shoulders. I glanced up at his face and fixed my attention back to our feet again. I was thinking parties, drinking, breaking...bad things that weren't suppose to be thought ever yet I still thought about them. I heard him sigh and he picked me up and settled on the sectional with me in his lap. He kissed my cheek and rubbed my back in attempt to soothe me. It helped me some but I felt a mass of anxiety rising in my mind. Stop it Levi...don't be such a buzzkill...
And then I heard it again....
It creased back it's thin twisted lips into a malevolent smile filled with long crooked teeth.
"Don't be such a burden..."
And I snapped out of it. I shook my head and gritted my teeth. I won't listen to it. It's locked away. It can't hurt me...it can't hurt me...
"Levi?" he said softly. I turned to him and managed a tight smile. He pulled me into his chest and slowly ran his hand up and down my back, hushing me and slowing my heartbeat. I had to realize that not all people were bad. I had to realize that the presence of alcohol does not always serve as the harbringer of pain and destruction. I had to realize a lot of things in order to move on. I had to realize that I couldn't always run and hide from the things that I didn't want to see.
"Don't worry alright? It's just a little party is all, nothing big and wild." he said with a grin. I nodded and he ruffled my hair. "You gotta stop worrying so much about these things Levi. Trust me, I wouldn't put you in any danger."
"Well you did throw me in the pool that one time..." I joked. He rolled his eyes.
"Babe, really. Come on. I could save you with my foot."
"I'm not that light!" I shot at him. He grinned and lifted me in the air above him.
"Yes you are." he chuckled. He carried me up the stairs and into his room and laid me down. I caught a gleam of the watch and a small smile crept to my lips. It made me happy to see him still wearing it.
"Arent't we suppose to be going somewhere?" I asked as he nuzzled my neck.
"Shh, shut up. I just wanna lay down with you." he mumbled. I scowled and batted him on the head with the palm of my hand.
"I swear I'm going to have to invest in a squirt bottle with you." I teased.
"You already have one baby," he said and winked. I blushed and yanked his nose.
"Was that suppose to hurt?" he asked raising an eyebrow. I narrowed my eyes and wiggled under him.
"Damn it Ray! You're so condescending sometimes!" I groaned. He pinned my arms down on the bed and gave me a tender kiss.
"Only because you're so small and cute. I can't help but say these things to you baby." he chuckled. I stopped moving and stared up at his massive frame. Oh how I wanted him to take me at that moment. How much I wanted to feel him. When would I be able to accept him into my body? When would the time come where I allowed the most intimate moment between us to finally occur? So many questions, but so few answers. All I can do is be patient, but my patience was already being tested.
"Babe, you alright?" He asked. I snapped out of my train of thought and nodded. He kissed me on the cheek and rolled off.
"Come on, lets get dressed." He said over his shoulder. I followed him into the closet and went to the small section where I hung my clothes. I took my shirt and pants off, and I felt him come up from me from behind.
"I love you." he said softly. I lowered my eyes to the ground and felt a flutter in my stomach.
"I love you too Ray." I asked softly. We stayed that way for a while. During that time I felt as though something was wrong but I didn't qustion it. I felt like he wouldn't have told me regardless of what I asked. IF there was something wrong, He wouldn't always let me know as to what he usually told me. There was a secret that he didn't want me to know. I wasn't sure whether or not I was ok with it but once again patience was important in this case. That was all I could ever do. Just wait.
While was deciding what to wear I heard his cellphone chirp and he picked it up immediately.
"Hey Rosaline, what's up?" He inquired. I mindlessly shift back and forth through shirts and waited while he finished up his phone call outside the closet. When he came back in I felt him behind me again. This time I felt his hardening cock pressed against my butt, causing a similar reaction for myself.
"Baby..." he sang in my ear and gently bit down on it. I blushed and pushed my butt back against his cock without thinking.
"What?" I whimpered.
"Looks like we don't have to do shopping, meaning you and I have all day to ourselves..." he breathed and kissed his way down my neck. I felt myself turning red when he swiveled me around and blew out a whistle while eyeing me up and down.
"You have no idea how cute you look right now." he crooned and licked my nipple. I cried out and held his head while he circled each of them and rubbed my bulge and hole with his hands.
"Ray...stop..." I moaned. He rose up and kissed me against the wall.
"Trust me baby, this is me being on my best behavior." he said lowering his briefs and exposing his massive dick. I reached down and stroked it, receiving a palmfull of precum in the process.
"Shit babe....that feels really good..." he groaned. I kept stroking him, twisting my hand around the shaft while lowering myself to my knees. I rubbed his cock against my face and smeared his precum on my cheek. He grabbed my head and took control of his dick, rubbing it across my lips stroking it fast. I stuck my tongue out and flicked the slit, tasting the sweet sticky substance.
"Fuck baby, I'mg really close..." he moaned. I rolled his balls in my hand and took over. I rubbed my finger tips over the head and pushed my thumb against the slit. Suddenly he grabbed my hand with a firm and almost painful grip, and I looked up to see his face red and his jaw clenched with all the power that those powerful muscles had. He yanked me up and threw me on the bed and pounced on top of me, shedding any clothes on the both of us that remained. He grabbed my oozing cock and pumped it with his fist and he bit down on my neck. I cried out and he shoved his tongue in my mouth and played with my nipples. I squirmed underhim as I felt my climax reaching fast. I didn't want this to stop. I felt my hormones raging throughout me everytime I kissed him back.
"...fuck Ray I'm getting close..." I whimpered. His lips curved into a wicked smile and as fast as it started, it all stopped. He lowered himself on top of me and kissed me tenderly. The thick and heavy atmosphere disappeared and was replaced with something much lighter. He pulled away and chuckled.
"God, how have I not cum because of your quick little hands?"
"Because you stop me everytime you get close!"
"I want the first time we cum together to be special," he reasoned nuzzling my neck. I stroked his head and I felt his hand slide down in between my legs where my hole was. He applied some pressure and I felt a jolt of pleasure shoot through me and my mouth responded according to it. He blew out a sigh and turned us onto our side. He spooned me and he rested his chin on top of my head.
"Hunh...new years...I really didn't expect this...." he said lost in thought.
"What do you mean?" I asked him. There was a pause of silence, and I heard him inhale.
"I didn't expect to spend it with you. I didn't even expect to be home. Usually I go over to Patty's or I celebrate with friends at school because I can't handle being home sometimes. This isn't the first time that they didn't decide to show..."
He gave me a squeeze.
"They weren't around much. So home was the last place I wanted to be when it came to family holidays. Sometimes they would get so lost in work or whatever they were doing that they would even forget to call home. If I could, I would've went with them just so I could see them. They didn't allow that though. I guess they thought I would get in the way."
He sighed and raised himself on an elbow and ran his hand along my smooth torso.
"At least now I have a reason to stay home and enjoy it." He grinned. I turned over and looked up at him. His form was large and broad, something that may bring intimidation to some but all I saw was a gentle giant that wanted to protect and love me. Someone who never wanted to see me cry. Someone who wanted to show me what it was like to have a home. I got up and hugged him, and he hugged me back. It felt so good to be hugged. It felt good to be loved back. So many years I spent reaching for something I thought I could never have, and now I do. What a funny thing. Sometimes I felt so desperate for affection that I thought if I went one moment without it, my world would fall apart. I admit it's dramatic to think like that but could one blame me? Could someone actually find fault in me when I yearned for something that was practically essential to one's mental wellbeing? I hope not...but sometimes I wondered what would happen if Ray stopped showing me so much affection. Would I receive it well, or would I become unhappy and pester him?I hope it never comes to that.
"We could watch a movie if you want..." he suggested softly. I felt my eyes blink from the randomness of that.
"Well...we don't have to," he shrugged. I smiled softly and nodded.
"Sure, I wouldn't mind that." He leapt off the bed with grace that one wouldn't expect from someone so rough and muscular. He went over to his large entertainment center set in his room and rifled through the large collection of DVD's that he had on the shelves. Eventually he pulled out a copy Wall-E and flashed it at me. I raised an eyebrow at him and he smiled sheepishly.
"What? It's cute..." he said. I smiled and he slid it into the DVD player and clicked on the T.V. He hopped onto the bed and wrapped an arm around my shoulder and we just laid there and watched. I had only saw this movie once and watching it again I smiled thinking of back then when I would sit in my room watching random movies to pass the time. When it came to the part where the cute little robot showed his want for someone's hand to hold, I felt Ray reach over and hold my own hand. I looked up at him and met his gaze.
"I'm sure you always wanted to hold someone's hand..." he said softly. I felt tears suddenly well up in my eyes. I did. I wanted to hold my father's hand when I was younger, but he never let me. I wanted to hold someone's hand when I felt lonely, but no one was there. There was never anyone there.
"Hey, come on..." he said and kissed my cheek, "You can hold my hand anytime you want." He said and winked. I leaned into him and wiped my eyes. He gave my hand a squeeze and we watched the story unfold before us. When the movie was finally over, he clicked off the T.V. And laid me down under him. I looked up at him and he gave me a tender kiss. He then reached down and searched for my hand, grasped it, and held it up in front of him and kissed my delicate hand laced within his.
"Anytime Levi, I promise. You will never be alone as long as I'm around." he breathed. I felt my face crumple and I cried and launched myself at him. He held me tight and rubbed my back.
"You're never alone..." he whispered. I cried hard and held him as tight as my body could, I just wanted to be with him for as long as could. I couldn't even bear the thought of ever leaving his side. Loneliness was something I knew all too well, and I never wanted to feel it's frigid entanglements ever again. It was so unbearable sometimes that I would curl up under the covers and hug my pillow in attempt to warm the coldness that gripped my soul. It ate away at me. The isolation. The solitude. The imprisonment within myself. I had no idea how to quell the thirst for affection because at the time there was no source that I could turn to. I just wanted a kiss. A hug. Even a friendly touch. Anything that someone that had any worth to me could provide. Now that I had it, I didn't want to ever go without it. The desire for it ran as heavy as the tears that I would cry daily. The deprivation drove me to the point of screaming. The most basic neccessity for someone so young wasn't given and it took it's toll.
He pulled away and looked at my glistening face before pulling me back into his chest. I felt his heartbeat pounding away at his chest.
"I'm always here," he mumbled. I coughed and shook, digging my fingers into him. His warm hand stroked the back of my head and he increased the pressure of his hand on my head. I heard a faint sob come from him, and we sat there in each other's embrace. Two people that craved for affection now had it, and both never wanted to let go. Our emotions ran so thick through our relationship that sometimes it shocked me knowing that things ran much deeper than they are now. Especially when it came to him.
"Don't ever feel Alone...please..." he breathed and kissed the top of my head. I slowly calmed down till all I could do was whimper. I was so tired from crying so much that I felt my eyes starting to droop leaning against him. My breathing receded to an even pace, and he laxed his arms around me. I pulled away and he grinned and wiped my face. He lowered his face to mine and planter a kiss.
"You're such a mess..." he chuckled. I managed a timid smile and he kissed my forehead.
"A cute mess nonetheless..." he said and lead me into the bathroom. We washed our faces and dried them off, and he lead me back to the bed and laid me down next to him. He threw a leg over and spooned me, which in reality was like covering me considering how much bigger he was than me. Before I finally fell asleep, and whispered in my ear.
"I'll love you, and that will never change."
I woke up and the sunlight that drifted in indicated that it was late in the afternoon, close to sunset. I did my best to sit up, and Ray pushed me back down.
"Don't my little space heater..." he purred. I nestled into his chest gently bit him.
"Hey, you're not suppose to do that," he chuckled and got on top of me. He pushed my face to the side and he gently bit down on my neck. He took small nips and then kissed his way down till he was at my nipple. He flicked at it with his tongue and I let out a soft moan.
"You bite me anymore and I'm gonna tease the shit out of your body..." he growled. I blushed and sat up, and he stretched.
"I'm hungry." he stated. I rolled my eyes.
"Eat, sleep, have sex, repeat. That's how your life goes." I told him. He shrugged.
"We haven't had sex yet..." he said rubbing the back of his neck. I crawled out of the bed and planted my feet on the floor.
"But you like to play with me though I said and took a step. He switftly closed the gap between us and his rockhard dick was pressed against my back.
"Trust me babe, I wanna do more than just play with you..." he hissed and nibbled on my ear. I growned and pushed back against his dick.
"I wanna suck your dick, I wanna tasted that sweet hole, I just wanna fuck..." he said and pushed his dick against my ass, "the shit..." another push," out of your sweet..." push,"tight...." push,"hole!" he gorwled and pinched my nipple. I cried out and he pushed me down on the bed and kissed me wildly. He pushed his tongue in my mouth and reached under me and roughly grabbed my ass.
"It's going to be so hard to be gentle with you..." he sighed.
"What if I don't want you to be gentle?" I panted. He stared into my eyes and pecked me on the lips.
"Babe, you're gonna want me to be gentle." he chuckled. I glanced at the clock and groaned.
"man, I sleep too much."
"Levi, I'm sure you were exhausted after that." He said getting up.
"Well....true. But We waste so much time sleeping." I protested. He looked over at me and sat down.
"Levi, It's never a wasted of time. I'm happy just being with you." he said and stroked my cheek, "Plus, I'm sure you're just catching up on peaceful rest that you never really had." he said softly. I bit my lower lip and choked back a ball of emotions. He couldn't be more right than anything.
"Come on, lets go sit in the hot tub." he said and grinned.
"It's freaking cold out there!" I cried out and crawled further into the bed.
"That's the point of a hot tub!" He shot back.
"You'll never take me alive!!!!" I yelled clinging to the sheets.
"Jesus you're like a freaking cat!" he yelled back dragging me along with the sheets.
"I just wanna stay warm!"
"He lifted me upside down by my feet and pried the sheets out of my hand.
"Really?" I said scowling at his upside down face.
"You're not that heavy babe." he frowned. He flipped me around and stood me on my feet and peeled off my clothes.
"That's better he grinned. I rolled my eyes and followed him downstairs till me were at the door.
"Cold..." I pouted. He pinched my cheek and hugged me close to him before stepping outside and hurrying into the tub. Once lowered into the water, I sighed with relief.
"Was that so bad?" He chuckled. I furrowed my eyebrows and shook my head.
"No..." I sighed. He draped an arm over my shoulder and looked up at the night sky.
"The sun sets pretty quickly." I said looking up at the stars.
"Yeah..." he said, seeming to be long in though.
"Reminds me of something..." I said.
"Our first date?" He replied.
"Yeah." I sighed and leaned against him.
"You know Levi, sometimes I wonder what the future holds when it comes to us. Whether or not we're going to make it. Whether or not we'll ever feel what we're feeling right now ever again. I wonder a lot of things." he said softly. I looked up at him and stroked his chest.
"Hey now. I'm sure we will..." I said said looking down at the water. I felt my mood drop at the mention of the possibility that our relationship could come to an end.
"You don't think you'll get tired of me?..." He asked.
"Of course not. You make life interesting at every turn, no matter what..." I giggled and leaned against him. I kept my eyes fixated on the sky and he did the same while pressing my head against the chest. I could hear his heart pounding against the walls of his chest again.
"I'm scared..." he whispered.
"Me too..." I whispered back.
"Is it too late for a new year's resolution?" He inquired. I laughed softly.
"Maybe a little...just wait." I said and lifted my head. "How about we just sit here, and just enjoy here and now?" He smiled and kissed the tip of my nose.
"I'd like nothing more." he replied, and we sat there, staring up at the night sky, hearts pounding, relishing the moment where we could just sit and reminisce about good times, and look towards the future for even better times. A new year was approaching, and surely there would be ample amounts of time to make more happy memories.


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Hard.Point places you in control of an adaptable battle tank that use pieces from destroyed enemy vehicles to gain new abilities in a mission to search and destroy 3 super machines.
6 type of enemy vehicles, 3 bosses and 7 type of devices to install on tank.
This is a hard game and will require strategical thinking in choosing and hunting the right equipment to each step of the mission.
This game started at 28º Ludum Dare (48 hours game creation) competition. After that its development took place from 01/2014 to 03/2014.
Move tank with WASD keys, target cannon with mouse and shoot with left mouse button. When you get a device from an enemy you can switch to this device with right mouse button. Full instructions at game intro.
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Conditional formatting for multiple drop down listsAsked by noli414 on September 05, 2014 at 01:01 AM
I have 10 distributors who submit multiple stores data and placement photos. I have created a form that has multiple fields where they can use a drop down, pick their store and upload an image for that store. I am using page breaks, considering collapsibles and am now interested in Conditional Formatting.
Each distributor has between 50-300 stores. In the past, for another reason, I created a separate form for each distributor with their own set of stores. I'd prefer not to have to create a new form for each person. Can I create a rule that depending on which distributor name they chose, the drop down list field would only reflect their stores?
So far I've only created one distributors drop down list of stores. If I create multiple drop down store lists for other distributors where would I put it in the form?
Also, I created several fields for this multi upload form. Can I create a rule that when the distributor answers how many stores he will be submitting only that amount of fields will appear on the form?
One more question. What would be the best way for the distributor to add, remove or update stores?I was thinking of asking, "Do you need to add a new store", if the answer is yes, then a text field/fields would appear where they can enter the data. I would guess they could do the same for remove or update. And, what if there were several that needed changing? If they say no, then nothing happens and they continue to submit button.
Any help, alternative ideas, workarounds is appreciated!
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If I understand your requirement correctly, you want to display the list of stores based on the selection of the distributor. Is that correct?
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There is another way also to achieve your requirement. You can add "Dynamic Dropdowns" widget in your form which will display the child dropdown based on the selection of the main dropdown options. Please take a look at it here: http://widgets.jotform.com/widget/dynamic_dropdowns
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