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The Hands of the Seer: The Cardston Seminary Pageant

Rebecca Johnson, blonde and 17, checked off a long list. Everything was nearly ready for the seminary pageant in Cardston, Alberta, Canada: the sets, the props, the music, the costumes, the actors—well, almost all of the actors. Rebecca winced when she looked down at the cast list. Tracy Watson, who played the lead female role of Lucy Mack Smith, was sick. The pageant was scheduled to open the following night, and there wasn’t time for a replacement to learn Tracy’s part.

“When I walked in that night,” Tracy later explained, “Brother Wilcox took one look at me and asked what was wrong.

“I was really sick. I told him I felt weak, that I was drained. He asked if I was going to make it through the pageant. I just didn’t know.

“‘You might just have to find a new Lucy Mack,’ I said.”

Tracy paused in telling the story, her eyes moist.

“Then Brother Wilcox and another Melchizedek Priesthood holder gave me a blessing.

“During the blessing I had a good feeling come over me. It’s hard to explain. I didn’t feel weak anymore. I felt strong.”

The following night the pageant opened its first performance that year in the Cardston Second and Third wards’ cultural hall. After months of work, preparation, and study, the cast and crew of over 100 seminary students were ready, including Tracy.

An opening prayer was said. The house lights dimmed. From high up on scaffolds light crews flooded a corner of the hall with bright spots. A piano started playing softly in the background. Two narrators, playing checkers, introduced the audience to the story.

“Why that’s an old revival song! Those camp meetings, remember those days?”

“Yes, that’s how it was when the Church got started, wasn’t it?”

One of the narrators rose, picked up a coat and an old Bible, moved toward a camp scene on the stage, and sat in the congregation.

“As I recall,” the narrator said, “it was in about 1820 in upper New York State when it all began.”

The preacher in front of the congregation came suddenly to life, bringing his fist down hard on the pulpit, and began to preach a fiery sermon. The Smith family was in the congregation.

It was the prelude to Joseph Smith’s first vision and the beginning of the Restoration. The pageant dramatized early Church history, moving from the First Vision, to the publishing of the Book of Mormon, to the Kirtland period, and finally to Carthage Jail, and was centered around the life of Joseph Smith.

Don Schiedler, who played the role of Brigham Young, later explained the purpose of the pageant and its dramatization of Church history. “We take what we learn in seminary and put it into action in the pageant,” he said. “When you put history or the scriptures into a play, it brings it to life. Portraying just a small part of what Brigham Young did is something I’ll remember all of my life.”

Besides studying the historical background for the pageant in seminary classes, the members of the cast were asked to do outside research on the characters they played. This extra involvement in the characterization of great men in Church history had a strong effect on several of the students.

After a performance Marlin Hogg talked of his role as Hyrum Smith. “It’s a good feeling,” he said, “to put yourself in the place of such a great man.”

Marlin stopped and loosened his tie that had been styled after one popular during the 1800s.

“I never realized until the pageant that the things Hyrum and Joseph endured together were incredible. While playing Hyrum’s part I tried to feel some of the courage and faith he had to have to endure the jails and persecution—what he must have gone through. I had to build myself up to reach his stature, even just a part of it. You can’t try to feel what he felt and be what he was and not be changed by it.”

Jack Stone, who was in charge of the first seminary pageant several years ago in Cardston, told of another student who had been changed by the annual event.

“One student,” Brother Stone said, “who had become inactive and dropped out of seminary, asked to be in the pageant at the last minute. We had a few extra costumes and there were several crowd scenes, so we put him in those. That year the pageant was on the Book of Mormon. As we sang the finale, the entire cast came down on the stage. It was the part in the Book of Mormon where Christ visits the people in America after his resurrection. We sang ‘I Know That My Redeemer Lives.’ It was a touching scene. I remember looking over at the boy and seeing tears stream down his cheeks. He’d been changed because of his involvement.”

Members of the cast and crew are not the only ones affected by the pageant. The students involved this year created enough interest in Church history for a special adult class to be held in the seminary, and the pageant played to a full house at all three of its performances.

Rod Brandham, Porter Rockwell in the pageant, told of this year’s pageant’s effect on him and on the audiences it played to.

“The pageant is centered around the Prophet Joseph Smith and the sacrifices he made for the gospel. When you’re on the stage during the scenes where he is persecuted and jailed, and especially after his death at Carthage, you can hear some of the audience crying and it almost makes you cry. You have to fight hard to hold it inside until the performance is over, until the final song.”

Rod hesitated, clearing his throat.

“I love that man for what he did.”

At the end of every performance, the entire cast came on stage and sang “Praise to the Man” as a tribute to the man whose greatness and courage some of the students had discovered or rediscovered in the pageant. After the second verse, the audience joined in the singing, and there were few dry eyes.

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tagBDSMThe Pumpkin Patch

The Pumpkin Patch

"Damn, tonight just sucked," I said to myself kicking over some pumpkin remains laying in my path as I walked along the moonlit dirt road. I hadn't been laid in almost two months now and my cock wanted relief. The locals were getting old and I was just begging for new pussy, any pussy really.

"Why the fuck couldn't I find a quick lay tonight?" I thought as I continued walking home. "Sure there were a few cute chicks down at Bugger Tavern all decked out in the spirit of Halloween. The gal dressed in the cat suit had pussy written all over her. She might have at least sucked my cock for a bit if I had been sober enough to talk to her. This is just all shit."

As I walked the long country road back home I began to regret the last few beers I had downed before leaving the small redneck bar. That all too familiar urge to piss would not subside so I veered off into a field to finally take a much-deserved leak. Little orbs lay shining in the moonlight, I had apparently come across a pumpkin patch. I picked one up, ripping it off of its dried stalk and dropped kicked it further into the field. As I kicked over a few more pumpkins, one was so rotted it squished open in my hands, spewing warm pulp between my fingers. I thought, what the hell I'd just piss right on it. Kind of like a big fuck you to Halloween in general. I fished in my jeans for my cock and upon retrieving it I let out a long steady stream of hot piss.

"Ahhhhhhh, man that feels great," I said out loud to the empty field as steam began to rise from the orange mush at my feet.

"What do you think you're doing in my field," a feminine voice growled at me mid flow. I turned abruptly still holding my pissing cock and faced a ghostly figure. She had long brown hair that glistened in the moonlight and a sheer white nightie draping the ground. I blinked; thinking to myself this woman could not be real.

"I don't know who you think you are Mister, but you have no right coming onto my land and pissing on my pumpkins." "I..... Ummm, well I needed to take a piss Ma'am," I managed to stutter still utterly shocked by her presence in the field.

"You'll have to pay now," she said sternly placing her hands on her hips. "I don't take vandalism lightly and I expect compensation for such violation to my property."

"Well yes Ma'am I'm sure I could pay for this," I mumbled as I noticed I still had my member pointed out toward her. I reacted by taking my penis and putting it back in my pants so I could fish out my wallet.

"Leave your puny dick out, I'm not looking for money. You'll have to make restitution in another form." She said this with an almost sinister smirk on her face. Her eyes glowed through me as if she had some devious idea forming.

"Miss, I'm sorry but if you don't want money how am I going to repay you?" I questioned with slightly slurred speech as the alcohol continued to work its magic on me.

"Silence bitch," she barked at me. "Now get on your hands and knees."

"What Ma'am? I don't believe I understand what you mean."

"On your knees now," She yelled as she came forward and pushed me to the ground so that I could grovel at her feet. "You do not have the right to question me bitch. You'll be free to go as soon as you pay your dues."

I really didn't have it in me to protest so I obliged but skeptically. While on my knees I looked up at this woman and began to take her beauty in. Wavy hair feel all-round her shoulders and down her back in a nice flowing cascade. Her gown, practically see through, was eerily glowing in the night. When she positioned herself in front of me I could make out the full tear drop shape of her breasts as the light from the moon passed through her garment. Those nipples were taut underneath the fabric, as they swayed with her movements.

"Don't look at me you fucking bitch," she said as she walked around my kneeling body inspecting her prey. "You have not earned that privileged yet. Now get on all fours and stick out your ass."

"What........" I began to question, which was met by her forceful hands pushing my body to the ground and smashing my face into the dirt.

"I told you to silence yourself, you did not listen. If you do not obey me you will be made to suffer more." She continued to hold my head down to be certain I got the point that she was in charge.

"I'm sorry Ma'am," I said as I spit pieces of dirt out of my mouth. "I'll obey you." The thought of my submission began to excite me and I began to feel my cock stirring. When she released my head I assumed the doggy position and held it while she once again inspected me, her victim. She positioned herself behind me and I could only faintly hear her movements. Her hand collided hard against my upturned ass. The sharp jab of pain bolted through my body and awakened all my senses. Next came an even harder blow. I whimpered under such force.

I turned to block the third smack to my ass and caught her hand in mid swing. Again my slightly inebriated state hindered me and I could not hold her grasp.

"You bastard," she howled at me and this time flung me completely face down into the ground and stood on my back to pin me. "I am not pleased with you at all." As punishment she walked up and down my body, each step piercing my flesh with her small pointed heels. I cringed from the pain, but did not attempt to stop her.

"Forgive me," I cried allowed, "I'll do better to please you Ma'am. Please forgive me."

With that she got off my back and stood over me. "Look at me," she said "get up you worm and strip. Do not tempt my anger with resistance." Her eyes flared with fire as the temper she had began to surface.

I stood up and slowly removed my soiled shirt. My shoes were the next to go, followed by my pants. As I stripped of my jeans she ordered me to toss them over to her. I then removed my boxers and stood before this vixen stark naked. My balls clenched tight because of their loss of warmth. I felt so humiliated just standing there being scrutinized by her eyes.

"Pathetic," she said as she circled around my naked body. "What the fuck can you do with that sick thing." She growled after taking my dick between her fingers in disgust. From my pants she removed my leather belt, an act that sent fear surging through my body. Would she be so cruel as to use that on me?

"You have insulted me by resisting my punishment. Therefor I demand harsher payment." She said this with a slight hint of mocking laughter in her voice. "I am going to give you 50 lashes with your own belt. And you Mister," she said grabbing my face so that we stared eye to eye, "you are going to count them out loud. Do you fucking understand me bitch!?!"

She walked to my backside and ran her bare hand over my ass, caressing it as if she cared. She couldn't be serious about all this, I thought to myself. But then the first blow struck my unprepared ass. It tore through my flesh, coursing pain throughout my body.

"Fuck," I yelled but she yanked my head back.

"What number was that?" she barked into my ear.

"One," I said through gritted teeth.

"Very good, you can be taught." The next blow shuttered up from my ass shaking my whole body.

"Ah, you are getting better." She said with delight in striking my body again and again. With each lash the leather bit into my skin. Massive heat began to swell from my body and I could no longer shut out the pain. By blow 38 my body fell to the ground from such ruthless beating. She was unrelenting still continuing to strike me, as I continued the count.

"Fifty," I counted as the last lick ripped across my swollen ass. I had somehow made it through the ordeal.

"Ok, you bitch," she said, "you have made it through the first part of payment."

"First part?" I thought, "this was just the first part? No fucking way." I wanted to run, free myself from such evil grasp. The beating had taken so much out of me I could not even move to flee.

Then she did something I had not expected. She dropped the belt and bent to kiss my ass. I felt her lips moving from cheek to cheek, kissing the throbbing pain away. Her touch felt so inviting and loving. I could not believe that someone like this could have possibly beaten me just moments before.

"You withstood my wrath," she said with gentleness in her voice, "I am greatly pleased."

She tenderly rolled me over onto my back so that I could gaze up at her soft face. I watched as she stood again over me now with me between her legs. She brought her white gown up over her head revealing her curved body. I was breathless and felt my member coming to life from such display of beauty and my still stinging ass. The blood pulsed into my dick and stiffened, yearning to find the warm place between that small mound of hair.

While still standing I watched as she wet her hand with her tongue. The moistened fingers moved down her body and lingered on her lips before she spread them apart and smeared the wetness between them. She fingered herself momentarily, giving me such a heavenly view of her pussy. Then she straddled me and guided my hardened cock to her warm lips.

My cock begged entrance to such a small opening. I wanted to squeeze inside her lovely cunt as it juiced my seed from my body. She held this position for some time, making me wonder if she ever did intend on bidding me admittance to her warm pussy. My desire for her swelled and my cock stiffened even more. Feeling that the teasing had finally run its course she pressed herself firmly down onto my hips and my cock slid deep inside her tiny hole.

"Oh fuck," she smiled as I filled up her pussy, "You feel so hot inside me. Stretch me open!"

I felt her vagina spreading to accommodate my swelling cock. In no time she found a hard fucking rhythm and mashed herself harder and harder onto me. Her nipples jumped up and down with each bounce. I thrust upwards not wanting to ever be free from this powerful grasp. The juice from her body ran down my cock and onto my balls.

She tensed around my cock and I could tell she was about to climax. I plunged myself deeper into her body to be met by her jerking motion. As she threw her head back she screamed out into the night her cumming. She gripped my shoulders, digging her nails into my skin to prolong her orgasm, and my body began to pump its load into her pulsing twat. She rode me so powerfully as each spurt of cum spilled out into her body.

I must have passed out from such a fuck because the next thing I remembered was waking up to a strange sensation on my hips. Something wet was pressing against my cock. "Someone's ready for round two?" I asked smiling from the memory of last night.

My eyes hadn't adjusted to the morning sun and my head was swimming from the beer the night before. That didn't prevent my cock from thickening inside such a slippery hole. The fit was so tight and exciting, I began to thrust upward. I tried to make out what was holding my cock so firmly in place.

"Was this her mouth or pussy?" I thought to myself.

Squinting, I detected an orange color and the faint smell of freshly carved pumpkins. I sat up in shock as I realized that a large pumpkin sat on my stomach with my hard dick squashed inside. Dried cum had formed around the opening in the pumpkin and my balls were completely smeared in its pulp. Still, I did not remove my cock.

"What the fuck," I thought, "ready for round two?"

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tagLoving WivesValerie the Magnificent Ch. 02

Valerie the Magnificent Ch. 02

byval wrangler©

You'll need to have read Val the Magnificent to understand where this story is coming from. By the way, if you don't like this sort of story, don't read it and certainly don't send me nasty e-mails. I have no interest in reading them. There's room for everything on this site!

Oddly, our ride home from Robbie's was much the same as it had been so many months before, and I thought it might be for the same reason. Val was very quiet and spent most of the time turned away while she looked out the side window.

Deciding that I didn't want our lines of communication to go back to the way they used to be, I took the bull by the horns. "Look, Val, obviously something's bothering you. What are you thinking? Is there anything I don't know that you need to tell me?"

My beautiful wife sighed heavily. "You're right. To answer your question, no, I didn't do anything I didn't tell you about. That isn't going to happen again. It's just..."

"Just what?"

"Now that I've done it, now that the heat's died down, I'm not liking what I did. You're probably going to laugh at me, but I feel cheap. I let you down, and I haven't been a very good wife these past few months, and certainly not this weekend. What I've been going through isn't about us, it's about me, my self-indulgence."

I nodded my head. "I was afraid this would happen."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"The guilt. Didn't you enjoy it?"

"That's not the point! What I did this weekend goes against everything I was brought up to believe. To be honest, I feel like a tramp." She sighed. "It's like since our first visit to Robbie I've been addicted to the thought of his penis. This wasn't about him. I have no feelings for Robbie. As a matter of fact, I think he's a bastard for coming on to me. At the same time, I know I'm no better than he is. Everything I've believed about myself has gone right out the window -- all because of a big penis!"

We talked long and hard for the rest of the trip. Val finally admitted that it had been "very enlightening" to experience another man's cock, but it was not something she wanted to ever do again. She also got me to admit that I hadn't been very comfortable about several things that had happened, either. We both felt that she'd been careening out of control.

Trouble was, sex with her up until she'd had her romp with Robbie had been so amazing.

Over the next few weeks, we slipped back into our old habits. Val stopped asking me for sex, pouncing on me as soon as I got in the door at night, and while we still made love a few times a week (usually at my instigation), she told me she didn't want me to talk about Robbie and what had happened anymore. Val also stopped using her toys as far as I could tell and didn't want to use them when we made love. She also went back to dressing to hide her body, not enhance it.

One thing didn't change, though. Val continued to exercise at an almost furious rate, and I got the distinct feeling that she was trying to sublimate her carnal urges. Talk about a hard body! Even though she'd gone back to her baggier-style clothes, she still turned a lot of heads when we went out.

As her birthday approached in April, I began thinking that maybe we could do something that would enable her to feel better about the sexual passion Robbie had brought out in her. I considered a weekend away, taking her dining and dancing. Val told me the thing she really wanted was a quiet night at home, her favorite things for dinner (lobster and champagne), "And then maybe some nice, gentle loving afterwards."

A year ago, her request would have sounded pretty darn good, but what I lusted after was the return of the "wild" Val, the one who required A LOT of loving and needed it fast and hard.

I wanted to try to bring that out again. This time, though, I resolved that we would take it slower, not make her feel like she was losing control and turning into a slut. I wanted her to feel good about her sexuality.

I eventually decided on a plan of action, something that might draw her out of the shell she'd retreated back into...

With the help of the Internet, I came up with several options. I had no idea how Val would take to what I was planning, and as my ideas were all rather expensive, I'd be going out on a limb if I couldn't draw her out. All the time, though, I was thinking that the hot woman revealed earlier in the year still had to be there waiting for another chance. Because of her bad feelings over what she'd done, though, Val had banished her to some dark corner in her mind.

I didn't have a lot of time to work with, but the manufacturer did an excellent job with shipping and Val's present was delivered in time to my workplace – fortunately in an unmarked box! Managing to get it home while Val was at work, I opened it to check that everything was at it should be and familiarized myself with the way it operated. So far so good.

Our two kids would be coming over on the weekend to celebrate with us, so the night was clear. After shopping for two big lobsters and all the fixings, I came home, did some cooking and wrapped Val's present. I wanted everything to be ready when she got home.

When she walked in the door, I had a bottle of white wine in a cooler on the coffee table. Right next to it was the big box containing her present. I have to admit that I was pretty nervous. What would Val's reaction be when she saw the machine?

Val sat down, took off her shoes and rubbed her feet tiredly. "Man oh man, what a day!"

I poured her a glass and handed it to her. "Would you like me to massage your feet?"

"That would be wonderful," she sighed, then leaned over to kiss me.

I went to the bedroom and got some massage oil and spent 15 or 20 minutes working the kinks out of her feet while she drank a couple of glasses of wine and relaxed.

"Is this huge box all for me?" she asked. "What is it?"

"Do you want me to just tell you or do you want to unwrap it?"

Val smiled. "I was just teasing. I am curious, though; it's awfully heavy."

"Oh," I said as I slipped an oily hand up her smooth leg, "so you were hefting it while I was out of the room. Just for that, maybe I shouldn't let you open it tonight."

Val opened her legs a little bit more. "I would be willing to, ah, make you an offer you couldn't refuse..."

She wanted to read my card first, though. It was not my usual silly sort of birthday greeting, but one that I'd spent a lot of time looking for. I thought she was going to start crying as she finished it. I thought it stated quite well how much and for what things I really loved her. She spent the next few minutes kissing me tenderly.

Finally she picked up her wine glass again. "Now for this huge present! I'm dying to know what it is."

I guess because she was a bit tipsy, she tore the wrapping paper off the box, throwing it all over the living room, rather than her usual habit of opening a present carefully so that the paper could be used again.

"A case of toilet paper?" she shrieked with laughter at my little dodge. "You bastard!"

"Keep opening it, honey," I answered calmly. "All is not what it seems."

When she finally pried the box open, she sat back on her heels. "What the heck is this?"

I'd purchased the most expensive self-pleasuring device on the market. It's shaped like a padded half-barrel and has a very powerful vibrator built into the top as well as an armature that causes various attachments you can put on it to move in circles. I'd bought every attachment, dildos of various sizes, a double thing (one for the woman's vagina and one for her butt) and even this bulb thing that was supposed to be heavenly for G spot stimulation. It also came with an instructional video that was a pretty hot show in itself.

"It's called a Sybian."

"That tells me a lot! What's it supposed to do?"

"It, um... Well you sit on it and it, um..."

This wasn't going the way I'd planned. "It's a machine for a woman to use to pleasure herself."

"Why would I need to do that? I have you."

"Well, maybe you could use it when I'm not around. You know, like you used to."

Val frowned. "Oh, so that's it. What if I'm not interested? We've talked about this stuff before, Mike. You know how I feel."

"No, I don't!" I said more harshly than I wanted to.

"I see."

Val rose to her feet and went upstairs to change out of her work clothes without saying any more. I went off to the kitchen to get the dinner on the table in the hopes that I might salvage something of the evening.

When I announced that dinner was served, Val came in from the living room and sat down across from me. I poured the champagne and we toasted her birthday, both trying to ease the tension from earlier.

"At the risk of incurring your feminine wrath, I'd like to say that it's hard to believe that you're actually 45," I said. "You look younger than you did a year ago!"

She smiled wistfully. "Thank you -- even if you are blinded by love."

"No, I'm not. I overheard some guys at the supermarket last week. They both thought you were maybe 35. I know how hard you've been working out. I just want you to know that it's been worth the effort. The guys said they thought you had the nicest butt they've ever seen."

Val blushed and took another sip of champagne.

We did make love that night and it was slow and gentle and Val even took me in her mouth bringing me almost to the brink several times before finally letting me cum. Then after getting me hard again, she slid her luscious pussy down onto my cock and rode me to a huge climax. I couldn't manage to cum again, but seeing her so into it for a change made the whole experience very worthwhile.

I got the feeling, though, that she was trying to show me that she didn't need toys anymore. The Sybian wasn't brought up. As soon as she fell asleep, I went downstairs and took the box into the basement, putting it into a far corner where the kids or their friends wouldn't accidentally discover it. I went back upstairs feeling pretty low about the outcome of my big plans for the evening.

I didn't notice at the time that the instructional video wasn't in the box.

A week or two went by and nothing much changed. We made love and Val again seemed rather unengaged and distant. I was getting more unhappy about the situation and I could sense she was, too. I decided that another course of action was in order.

After one particularly hard day at her job, I ran a hot bath, added her favorite oil, lit about a dozen candles and put some white wine on to chill. After undressing her slowly (with no touching! How did I manage that?), Val put up her long black hair and slid down into the water.

"This is heaven!" she told me as I handed her a glass of wine.

I put on one of her favorite albums and sat down on the edge of the tub. We began to talk, nothing much at first, just the sort of chatter you make with someone you know well.

As the water began to get a bit cold, I asked her if she'd like to "roll around on the bed for awhile tonight?"

"When I came home, I would have given you a flat out 'no', but after this soothing bath and a bit of wine... Sure! Why not?"

She stood up, and as the water drained away, I dried her carefully with a big soft towel. Val walked into the bedroom and I followed with the candles then proceeded to take my clothes off while she watched, sprawled on the bed, looking like a goddess.

I started things off by rubbing her back while she lay next to me, stopping every now and then to kiss her, my hands gradually drifting lower until they were sliding over the smooth mounds of her butt.

"Mmmm. That feels so good, Mike. You're making me very horny, you know."

Shifting her body a bit, her legs moved a little apart, giving me access to the space between her legs. I resisted temptation and continued moving slowly, sometimes going as low as the sensitive spot behind her knees, other times concentrating on her back, but never going between her legs. As my hands would pass over her rear, Val started flexing her ass muscles -- a clear sign of her mounting arousal. The muscle definition was amazing. It reminded me of those gymnasts you see in the Olympics and made my cock harder than ever. I moved closer behind her and began kissing her neck.

She moved again as I pressed against her back and I now had access to her breasts. Val's whole areola swells when she's sexually excited, and that night they were very swollen indeed, each topped with an incredibly hard nipple. When I finally gave her left one a fairly hard squeeze and pull, she moaned and shifted again to reach back for my cock. I began talking into her ear as I continued playing with her gorgeous nipples.

"You're very horny tonight."

She sighed, "You've made me that way."

"No, you are that way. I'm just helping you let it happen. You like feeling like this, don't you?"

"Mmmm, sometimes. But when I feel like this I can do bad things and I don't like that."

"Why not? Doesn't it feel good?"

"Yes, but I get out of control. I don't know when to stop."

"Stop what?"

"You know...things."

I slid my hand down the muscles in her stomach. Her legs opened a little as she rolled over onto her back.

"You mean things like playing with yourself?"

"But doesn't it feel good?" I asked as I cupped her pussy with my hand, feeling the wetness.

"Yes, but then I feel guilty afterwards."

"But what if it wasn't your fault?"

She didn't say anything for a moment, but her breathing quickened. "What do you mean?"

It hit me suddenly where this conversation seemed to be heading and my dick started throbbing. "What if you couldn't stop it? What if you couldn't prevent it from happening?"

I drew my middle finger up Val's slit. At the top I found her clit very erect, hot and throbbing. She groaned as I barely touched it and moved away again.

"Don't keep toying with me, Mike. I want to cum!"

"Oh you do? What if I made you wait?"

Her hand drifted down to join mine between her legs. "Then I'd have to take care of it myself."

"Ah, but what if you couldn't?"

"What do you mean?" she repeated, as I moved her hand away.

"I'll show you," I answered, getting up from the bed. "Close your eyes and let me surprise you."

Val did as I asked and I went to the closet and got out a few of my silk ties. Coming back to the bed, I took one of her wrists and started to knot one of the ties around it.

"What are you going to do?" she asked, looking up at me . Her face was flushed and her breathing rapid. She guessed what was coming and I got the strong feeling it was turning her on.

It was only a few moment's work to fasten her wrists to the wooden lattice of our bed's headboard. We have built-in drawers under the bed and I used the handles on the middle ones to tie her ankles so that they were pulled back and out, causing her legs to spread apart and her sex to open up. Val had a far away expression as she watched me work.

"There!" I said standing up. "Now you're stuck, aren't you? You couldn't stop me from doing anything I wanted."

"No...but you wouldn't, would you?"

"The point is you have no way of stopping me and nothing to feel guilty about afterwards because it would be all my fault, wouldn't it?"

Val looked a little apprehensive at that, but she didn't say a word, and I noticed the flush in her cheeks spreading down to her chest.

"Do you you want me to untie you?"

"Good, girl."

I lay down next to her and spent the next half hour kissing her, starting with her face, then her lips, moving down to her neck (a big turn-on for her) and eventually to her breasts, all the while stroking her soft skin.

It didn't take long for Val to be writhing on the bed, pulling on her bonds and very turned on.

"Do you want to cum now?"

"Yes, please! Make me cum!"

"Maybe later," I said nonchalantly as I went to the foot of the bed and began sucking on her toes, something that always drives Val nuts.

"Mike, don't tease. I want you inside me. Now!"

"No, love. Not yet. There are a few things I want to do first."

By the time I worked my way to the top of her long legs, Val was thrusting her hips up trying to get my mouth onto her gloriously dripping pussy. For the first time in a long time, my demure wife was on fire -- just the way I liked her.

I got up off the bed.

"Mike! Where are you going? You can't leave me here like this!"

Going to the closet, I found the shoe box where Val's dildos had once again been banished. I came out with the biggest one.

Val's eyes got big. "You're not going to make me be bad, are you?"

"Using this on you would be bad?"

She nodded her head, but I could also detect the tiniest of smiles.

I got back on the bed between her spread legs. "Well, you won't be able to do a thing to stop it. Maybe I won't have to punish you, either."

Lying down, I began blowing warm air on her swollen and dripping pussy, giving it the occasional swipe of my tongue as I watched (and felt) my wife get even more aroused. Before long she was begging me to lick her, suck on her swollen clit, anything to bring her off.

I brought her to the brink several times, until she was writhing and shaking uncontrollably, humping her hips against my mouth every time I got close to her clit. Finally, I felt she'd taken enough, and sucking her clit between my lips, I rolled my tongue over its tip.

Val came harder than I'd ever seen as she writhed and gasped and moaned for a good thirty seconds. As her orgasm subsided, I grabbed the dildo, turned it on to its highest setting, and with one smooth movement, shoved it in to the hilt.

"Don't make me do this, Mike," she moaned. "I don't want to be bad. I don't want you to have to punish me."

"You don't? Do you want me to stop, then?"

Silence except for the creaking of the bed as she struggled against her bonds.

I started moving the dildo in and out with the rolling motion that turns her on so much. It wasn't long before Val was moaning and gasping again, her whole body shaking and shining with sweat as her passion built to an even greater peak than before.

When she came for a second time, her body went rigid as the orgasm ripped through it. I didn't miss a beat and kept up the onslaught, sawing in and out of her pussy until she orgasmed again. By the time I brought her to her last orgasm Val was so out of her mind with lust that she was screaming at me to keep fucking her with it, telling me how much she loved the way it filled her up and made her feel.

After her fourth mind-bending orgasm, I put aside the toy and mounted her myself. My cock was nearly purple it was throbbing so hard as I plunged it in. Val's pussy was pretty loose from the girth of the dildo by this time but I was too close to coming almost immediately as she continued to writhe beneath me.

Pulling out, I untied her legs but not her arms and then slipped into her again. She seemed to be in a sexual haze, her eyes heavily lidded, but as soon as I started moving, she wrapped her legs around mine and thrust against me in total abandon. Her face was strained in concentration as she tried tightening her inner muscles to grip my cock more firmly.

"I love the way you fuck me, Mike!" she moaned, looking up.

"And I love when you get so hot."

"Fuck me hard!" she demanded as I began thrusting faster. "Make me cum once more!"

I did the best I could and just managed to hold off until she came one last time, and even if it wasn't a violent as the others, it was still a nice way to end. I came harder than I had in months and for several moments afterwards felt lightheaded.

After cleaning up a bit, we got back into bed and cuddled.

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A Tranquil, Luxury Hideaway in Virginia Wine Country

Lansdowne Resort • Lansdowne, VA

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At this AAA Four Diamond luxury resort in Virginia Wine Country, guests are treated to fine dining at five restaurants, 45 holes of championship golf, and a decadent spa.

The Digs
Steal away to the AAA Four Diamond Award-winning Lansdowne Resort, situated in the heart of Virginia Wine Country. This expansive 500-acre retreat is home to an indoor/outdoor aquatic complex, 45 holes of championship golf designed by Robert Trent Jones, II and Greg Norman, and scenic trails that wind along the scenic Potomac River. After exploring your Deluxe or Corner accommodations—featuring warm country décor, a 37-inch flat-screen TV, and lovely views of the grounds—surrender to rest and relaxation at the serene 12,000-square-foot Spa Minérale. Later, savor the finest fare at four on-site dining options that offer everything from casual pub fare to haute cuisine—all given rave reviews by past guests.

The Destination
Less than an hour outside of the nation's capital, Leesburg has become synonymous with Virginia Wine Country. These rolling hills in the Piedmont Region are sprinkled with quaint shops, boutique restaurants, and tranquil vineyards. "Hard as it can be to believe," says Fodor's, "the exurban capital of Virginia, where urbanites have fled the stress of nearby DC politics to kick back in a slower paradise of locally grown food and Shenandoah breezes, is fast becoming a wine region to stand up to some of the West Coast's finest."

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  • Lansdowne Resort was absolutely amazing. The atmosphere, the location, the people, the food were all to write home about. The pools were great and clean and the rooms were comfortable and spacious. Perfect weekend getaway!

  • Staying at this four star hotel is a vacation in and of itself, considering there's the tranquil Spa Minérale, a fitness center and a rolling golf course on the premises. The resort's four on-site dining venues also receive high praise from recent guests.

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  • Voucher includes a bottle of local wine upon arrival, $50 resort credit, and waived resort fee
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As model driven software development (MDSD) is being applied more and more in the safety critical (SC) and dependable system development processes there is an increasing need for verified model transformations to guarantee certain semantic properties to hold after their execution. For instance, when transforming UML models into Petri nets, the results of a formal analysis can be invalidated by erroneous model transformationswhen the system developer cannot easily distinguish whether an error is in the design or in the transformation. In this paper we introduce our vision for verifying property preservation of graph transformation systems with a two layered approach.

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Title  :   Program and Construction Management Services related to the Wastewater System Priority Projects
Opening Date  : 6/28/2013
Opening Time  : 03:30 PM
Announcement  Info  :   The County Mayor, Miami-Dade County (County), pursuant to Section 287.055, Florida Statutes, Sections 2-8.1 and 2-10.4 of the County Code, Implementing Order 3-34, and Administrative Order (A.O.) 3-39, announces that professional engineering services will be required for the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) for program and construction management services related to the wastewater system priority projects. PARTICIPATION RESTRICTIONS: Proposers are advised that the selected Program and Construction Management professional and its subconsultants will be precluded from participating as a prime consultant or subconsultant at any tier on any of the following Projects listed below: o Design Services for Wastewater Collection & Transmission System, Project Number E13-WASD-04 o Design Services for Wastewater Treatment Plant, Project Number E13-WASD-05 o Engineering Services for Capacity, Management, Operation & Maintenance Program (CMOM), Project Number E13-WASD-06 Proposers are hereby directed to the NTPC for more specific information. The restriction above is not intended to affect any of the work currently under contract. The Miami-Dade County’s Water and Sewer Department (WASD) is the primary provider of water and wastewater services to Miami-Dade County serving a population of almost 2.3 million, making it among the largest water/wastewater utilities in the United States. At the May 21, 2013, Board of County Commissioners meeting, the Board approved the Consent Decree (CD) negotiated with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). The CD outlines the activities to be undertaken to reduce Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO’s), exceedances of treated effluent limitations, and to ensure proper management, operation and maintenance practices. All capital improvement projects must be completed on or before fifteen (15) years from the date of lodging of the CD with the United States District Court. Many program requirements are required to be delivered within a certain time after the CD’s “effective date” which is defined as the date the court enters the CD or six (6) months after the date of lodging whichever occurs first. 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This includes identifying and recommending mitigation options to deal with future sea level rise and storm surge. d) Advise and provide, strategic, and day-to-day oversight and direction to the Program. e) Prepare and maintain, together with WASD’s staff, a Program Management Plan for use by the Program Team. This includes establishing communication protocols, design and process standards. f) Coordinate and assist WASD with Wastewater Facilities Master Planning as required to ensure comprehensive and long term viability of the Consent Decree Capital Improvements. g) Provide wastewater hydraulic computer modeling services required by the Consent Decree that is currently under negotiation, including model updates and calibration, and as required in support of the Pump Station Improvement Program using the WASD Infoworks CS model. This requires the consultant to have license(s) of Infoworks CS Hydraulics Software, latest version and be proficient with its use on large wastewater transmission and gravity networks. h) Establish standards and guidelines for cost-estimating. The Consultant shall work with WASD staff to ensure that all project cost estimates meet the cost estimating standards, including those in planning, preliminary engineering, and detail design. The Consultant shall review cost estimates generated for consistency with the standards and guidelines and to ensure that cost estimates performed at various stages in the design process adequately and appropriately incorporate factors to account for project risk elements. i) Develop and manage the program master schedule and task schedules, and provide budget/cost oversight of all program elements and resources. j) Develop monthly progress reports that include accomplishments during the most recent reporting period, upcoming activities for the next reporting period, tracking of issues and action items identified, other related information, and contract status. Monthly reports shall be reviewed as part of monthly status meetings with the WASD Program Team. These reports may be used to prepare reports submitted to EPA as part of the CD requirements. k) Work with WASD to establish and implement both a physical and an electronic central CD documents library. All documents associated with the CD, including reports, meeting agendas/minutes, transmittals, design drawings and specifications, technical memorandums, schedules, e-mails etc. shall be managed and organized in the library. The Consultant may be requested to provide assistance to WASD in the development and management of a public website that contains information related to the execution of the Program. The Consultant shall develop templates for documents and reports to ensure consistency throughout the CD Program. l) Support WASD with public outreach of the CD Program which may include responding to inquiries and complaints. m) Participate in update meetings with regulatory agencies and contractors and develop required materials for each meeting. n) Assist WASD in the preparation of all reports that are required by the CD to be submitted to EPA or any other regulatory authority. o) Perform value engineering. This includes establishing when value engineering shall occur, the format/schedule for value engineering efforts, and establishing a standard value engineering report format and templates. p) Provide assistance to WASD, as-needed, with permits, regulatory and environmental review. The Consultant shall review permit and environmental review work to ensure consistency with the overall Program. q) Assist WASD in the review of design documents including constructability reviews and assist WASD and/or design consultant with bid phase services as needed. r) Oversee and support the design and construction management phases of the capital program as needed. s) Support CMOM implementation as requested. Assist in drafting specifications and assessing contractors’ bids. t) Provide construction managers, construction coordinators, construction engineers, start-up specialists, inspectors, safety officers and administrative personnel for the successful execution of the Consent Decree WWTP and WCTS capital program. u) Perform daily inspections, prepare daily logs, provide detailed review of contractor’s updated and revised schedules, document daily progress and quality of construction work, review shop drawings, prepare recommendations for approval, review schedule of values, provide contract interpretations and clarifications, process and authorize progress payments including allowance account and change orders, review operation and maintenance manuals, respond to requests for information, and certify completion of the capital improvements. v) Aid in the integration of consultant staff with WASD staff. County’s Intent to Award and Term of Agreement One (1) non-exclusive Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with a five (5) year term with two (2) five (5) year options-to-renew at the County’s sole discretion will be awarded under this solicitation. The total amount of compensation will be negotiated with the selected consultant. No minimum amount of work or compensation will be assured to the retained consultant. The County reserves the right to re-use the work products of the retained consultant and to retain other consultants to provide the same or similar services at its sole discretion. Experience and Qualifications: The Prime Consultant must demonstrate the following experience: 1. A Prime consultant submitting should be an engineering firm experienced in all phases of wastewater engineering, including master planning, design, permitting, construction, and operation and maintenance of wastewater collection, transmission, treatment and disposal systems. 2. The Prime consultant should also demonstrate their successful experience with Program Management Services related to the above activities, as well as planning, implementing and managing CMOM program of similar scope of complexity within the last ten years from the date of this solicitation. The Prime Consultant should provide descriptions of at least one (1) Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) CD Programs and CMOM in which the Prime Consultant has served as the Program Manager within the past ten (10) years from the date of solicitation. The Respondent shall provide the name and contact information for a key official with the Utility they served as Program Manager who can confirm their role as Program Manager. The descriptions shall include the client (i.e., municipality or agency), key project staff, the project name, percent of project completed to date, a summary of the work performed, the contract amount, the schedule (to include start and completion dates), the specific role of the prime firm, the Program achievements (e.g., projects delivered on schedule, dollars saved, SSO reduction, lessons learned, any fines/penalties incurred, Information System Integration, etc.), and a client reference and contact information. The proposer shall provide the same information for Construction Management Services. 3. The Subconsultants should provide a description of at least one (1) program or project that is relevant to this Scope of Work within the past ten (10) years from the solicitation date specific to their proposed responsibilities for each proposed subconsultant. 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basicly glNurbsSurface appears to not be sampling the last two spans.

their is nothing wrong with the importer... everything checks out. the control points are all their and in proper order, even though the file format seems to transpose them (i remapped that).

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i just extended the knot vector and padded the knots with the first and last knots... i guess this is what is expected.

the surface came out periodic with the first knot set to -1 like in the file format... i haven't looked to see though if control points overlap on the period border or not.


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