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The authors experience over years shows how the transience of shifting contexts and the desire to rush into new information structures can easily lead to failure. In one instance, midlevel managers understood the value and possibilities of structuring information to serve end users, but they were overridden by executives who insisted on developing a portal, the current trend, at the expense of a public facing website. Strategic decisions made without full understanding of the problem are doomed. Information architects must take an active role helping clients navigate the structure of information. They must communicate the importance of asking strategic questions to understand the audience, purpose and context of a website under development and then clarify the priorities and necessary actions to achieve the goal.
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On What Assumptions Do You Base Your Thinking? Contextual Challenges and Strategic Possibilities
by Thom Haller, associate editor for Information Architecture
In the mid-90s I spent time with two professional organizations, the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and a group now known as the International Society for Performance and Instruction (ISPI). STC provided me with the skills to develop usable communication products. ISPI encouraged me to think about individual and organizational performance. They reminded me that organizations often went looking for solutions (We need training) when they might do better by taking advantage of an alternative (We now benefit from better instructions).
At about the same time, I was becoming quite interested in the visual display of information and cognitive thinking. I thought I might stop calling myself a technical writer and begin calling myself a data stylist. Instead, I ran into a colleague at the 1995 STC conference who suggested that I call myself an information architect. He directed me to the work of Richard Saul Wurman, who proposed strategies for making the complex clear. I embraced the new label and the opportunities it presented.
Meanwhile, the Internet reshaped our lives, our jobs and our communication products. How wonderful, I thought. Now that we have more ways to present information, stakeholders will place more value on reducing complexity.
Maybe not. Lets just get something up there, business leaders cried. They wanted home pages. They wanted features, often based on the technology of the time. And they wanted portals.
Look. Its a Portal!
During the first decade of online engagement, World Wide Web structure was typically scattered and siloed. Content emerged haphazardly; it was often program-specific, seldom reader-focused.
My teaching placed me inside an organization where mid-level managers heard my call about possibilities inherent in user-focused structure. They embraced the opportunity to improve the organizations public-facing website, and together we reviewed content, interviewed specialists and identified core topics that were central to the organizations mission.
The mid-level employees felt they were accomplishing great success until senior stakeholders announced they would spend no money on the website and instead would invest in a portal. They envisioned an entirely new online environment where members could congregate, connect and advance the ideas of the organization. They attended to what technology could offer them and purchased the most complete set of capabilities and a best-of-breed solution while delivering a scalable, unified platform to handle traffic that is expected to grow exponentially in the months and years ahead.
It didnt work. Their public-facing web presence floundered for years. And the URL for their portal is now available for sale from GoDaddy.
What Happened?
Did these executives make a strategic business decision? History suggests they did not. Instead of collecting research that supported strategic decision-making, the executive team selected a product based on an imagined information structure. The tool didnt support the tasks its visitors needed to accomplish. Nor did it provide clear pathways to the information they wanted. Ultimately, the tool failed.
The failure was, in part, contextual. The executives placed tremendous faith in a systematic solution without fully understanding the problem. Mid-level managers who better understood the problem didnt articulate their belief in user-focused structure in such a way that mattered to decision-makers.
No strategic conversation took place.
Our Role in Strategic Decision-Making
As professional communicators, we are called on to develop strategies to help humans find their way through information structure. Whether or not we work on the user interface, we all work with others in mind. We know we need to fully understand our users perspective and translate it to and for others.
How do we translate this knowledge to stakeholders? The questions we ask are valuable to the entire organization. Consider the following:
We ask strategic questions about audience:
- Who are we addressing?
- What do they need to know and do?
- What do they know now?
- How do we want them to respond?
We ask strategic questions about purpose:
- What do our audiences want to do with our content?
- What value do they get from our content?
- Whats in it for them? Why should we matter to them?
We ask strategic questions about context:
- How do our readers respond to our mission and value proposition?
- What assumptions guide us?
- How do our audiences feel about our assumptions?
- What barriers do our audiences face that could preclude them from understanding or responding to what we offer?
We ask strategic questions about priorities and actions:
- What results do we seek?
- What are the priorities?
- What actions must we take?
- What are timelines and responsibilities?
Organizations have been managing online communication now for 15 years. But the culture and context of business continues to thwart whats possible for our audiences. Ask yourself Is your business motivated by the desire to just get something up there? Or is it interested in enabling people to get their jobs done?
Put on your strategist hat. Help your organization think clearly about audience, purpose, context and priorities. Help your colleagues understand how content is a critical asset. Enable them to see why good structure makes strategic sense.
What is YOUR Context?
- Is your business motivated by the desire to just get something up there as opposed to the challenge of enabling people who read content to get their jobs done?
- Are your bosses and organization motivated by preference (Lets develop a cool site) as opposed to creating an online environment that supports audiences and meets an organizational mission?
- Does your boss/organization expect a perfect communication product that solves a host of problems? Or do you work toward progressive success in meeting organization goals?
- Does your organization present itself as an expert (the company that wrote the book on repair parts) or as a client-focused servant (provider of communication products that enable people to make many choices themselves)?
- Do your own perceptions of document design and construction come from intuitive models (as writers, we are gifted with the ability to present information in clever ways that will get the attention of our peers) as opposed to coming from a systematic understanding of our audience and a reliance on feedback models to better understand users?
- Do your content and structure choices reflect an organization that is unsure about how it wants to present itself to its audiences or as one that provides focused and purposeful content?
Thom Haller teacher, speaker, writer and user advocate teaches principles of performance-based information architecture and usability. Since 1998, Thom has taught classes on architecting usable web/Intranet sites. As a teacher, Thom enables students to structure information so people can find it, use it and appreciate the experience. He can be reached at thom<at>thomhaller.com
Articles in this Issue
Taxonomies in Practice Introduction
Evaluating Classification Schema and Classification Decisions
Case Study: Developing the PLOS Thesaurus
Building User Experiences: Synchronizing User Experience Design and the Supporting Metadata and Taxonomy Infrastructure
Indexing Electronic Medical Records Using a Taxonomy
Building a Taxonomy for Auto-classification
Building Controlled Vocabularies for Metadata Harmonization
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South African learners offer insight into benefits of animal welfare theatre production
Following a successful five-day run of "A Dog's Life," staged by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Jungle Theatre Company for nearly 800 children in Cape Town, South Africa, we wanted to know:
What did the children think?
We have received an armful of drawings and thank you letters from some as young as seven years old. So many expressed that they learned how important it is to always feed and look after one's dog, one of the main messages of "A Dog's Life. Others thanked us simply for the opportunity to see the show at all.
My favourite part was when everyone went with terry on the stage we had lots of fun. I also enjoyed the show. Angel was a very good dog and don't forget I liked the song…I learnt you must give your dog respect give it love water shelter and food if you want your dog to survive. – Isla, 8
The best part of it was when Angel met John. – Jethro, 8
Jethro's response may be short, but for me it speaks volumes, for Jethro knew that when Angel met John, Angel wasn't lonely anymore. Another young student wrote that "A Dog's Life" is "a very nice show because the man does not leave the dog."
My favourite part is when the dog went to the Animal well fair and they started a place for Animals to clean them and to get them medicine" – Connor, 9
My favourite part of "A Dog's Life" was at the end where everybody decided to look after Angel and they opened a shop called A Dog's Life and they used the shop to help take care of dogs. – Layla, 9
These great responses highlight how successful educational theatre is as a medium for humane education.
Monitoring and evaluation, undertaking research and surveys, and encouraging feedback are all important tools in efforts to ascertain the level of impact a project or initiative is having on one's targeted audience. But when you rely too much on educators, who are already overburdened with meeting curricula targets, administrative deadlines, etc., you don't necessarily get the honest responses the children provide.
Watch the video below, a sampling of the "Twinning Project," a key part of IFAW's Animal Action Education programme activities. This unique initiative brings together youngsters from different socio-economic backgrounds to learn about animal welfare-related issues.


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The Old Timer of Royal Oak, Mich., was a regular contributor to H&P years before we ever even heard of the internet. But most of his advice is just as ueful — and interesting — today.
So rather than leave his wisdom printed on pages archived in our storage room, I pulled out issues from the late 1980s and early 1990s and have been reproducing relevant entries in this blog. Here is my eighth entry, which was originally published in the April 1988 issue:
High pressure isn't always the answer
When hot weather arrived, one of our shops had so much difficulty meeting its compressed air demand that we had to rent a couple portable compressors and tie their output into the shop's air system. Our investigation revealed that the main cause of the air shortage was the number or blow-off stations — for sand, water, dust, chips, or drying — that had been added since the original compressed air system was installed. It was easy to tap into the plant air network for these nuisance jobs, but now the compressor room couldn't meet the summer demand.
How could we provide these extra air requirements without using the central system? One of our guys had a flash of inspiration. He stopped at a hardware store and picked up a couple electric leaf blowers, made a detour to a vacuum cleaner shop to purchase a selection of nozzles, then started experimenting in our shop. In many of the blow-off applications, these portable low-horsepower/high-volume blowers did a better job than the plant's air blowers.
But some jobs — drying, for example — needed more volume. We remembered seeing some used multi-stage industrial blowers in a nearby storage warehouse. We purchased one for trial (at about 10 cents on the dollar), and connected a drive motor and rigged an inlet filter and 60-in. outlet header feeding 4-in drop lines. We put it to work on a flow-through conveyor where just-washed parts have to be blown off and dried before they are painted. The industrial blower handled this project perfectly.
Consequently, we bought up the rest of the blowers and applied them all over the plant complex. We were eventually able to eliminate all our outside mobile compressors.
So when you think of blow-offs, think low-pressure/high-volume. Remember, it's the mass volume that does the work on these jobs—and the low-pressure devices are much safer.


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I was standing on the sidelines on a brisk October afternoon watching my three kids play soccer. Although I was getting progressively colder, and wishing I had chosen more comfortable footwear, the players were gradually shedding layers. My middle son, who had worn crocs for the occasion, lost a shoe more than once while kicking the ball.
By coincidence, this year as the Jewish High Holidays approached I have been reading "Dead Man Walking," Sister Helen Prejean's personal witness against the death penalty. Her account of her journey into the lives of death row inmates and their victims' families is riveting. She quotes philosophers and criminal justice experts, cites statistics and Catholic doctrine to support her arguments for opposing the death penalty. But for me what is most timely and moving is her unrelenting focus on forgiveness, in Hebrew selichot.
One of my great pleasures is to go exploring the back roads whenever I have to drive here to there in Vermont. Time permitting, and if the kids are up for it, we leave the state highways behind on trips from Middlebury or Rutland or Shoreham and turn onto dirt roads instead. I haul out my trusty atlas of Vermont, having long since learned that my car's navigational system likes to insist that I am on an "unverified route" once I get off the main-traveled roadways.
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Green Government Jobs and Applicable Studies Breakdown
Kurt T. Preston, PhD., Esq.
1. Approach.
This analysis examines "Blueprint for Change", President elect Obama's Plan for America. In particular, this is an examination of proposed "Green" jobs initiative. The goal is to identify academic majors and job types likely to be in high demand if, and to the extent, that the blueprint is executed.
2. Context.
'Blueprint for Change" calls for a manufacturing sector investment and creation of five million new jobs. One investment would be made through "a Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) working with manufacturers across the country to improve efficiency, implement new technology, and strengthen company growth." In another effort, the administration would "invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial scale renewable energy, invest in low emissions coal plants, and begin transition to a new digital electricity grid. A principal focus of this fund will be devoted to ensuring that technologies that are developed in the U.S. are rapidly commercialized in the U.S. and deployed around the globe." The blueprint also calls for the creation of an energy-focused youth jobs program to invest in disconnected and disadvantaged youth and seeks to double federal funding for basic research over 10 years.
Department of Energy
- Mission: Advance the national, economic, and energy security of the U.S.
- Employees: 85,000+
- USDE Agency Overview
Specific envisioned results from creating the millions of new "green" jobs include the following :
• Ensure 10 percent of Our Electricity Comes from Renewable Sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
• Deploy the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Energy Source – Energy Efficiency: Obama and Biden will set an aggressive energy efficiency goal—to reduce electricity demand 15 percent from projected levels by 2020.
• Weatherize One Million Homes Annually: Obama and Biden will make a national commitment to weatherize at least one million low-income homes each year for the next decade, which can reduce energy usage across the economy and help moderate energy prices for all.
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• Prioritize the Construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline: As president, Obama will work with the Canadian government, state of Alaska, oil and gas producers, and other stakeholders to facilitate construction of the pipeline. Not only is this pipeline critical to our energy security, it will create thousands of new jobs.


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Nzonzi red card overturned
Stoke midfielder Steven Nzonzi has successfully appealed against a red card issued to him in Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with Southampton.
Nzonzi was dismissed by referee Mark Clattenburg in the 3-3 draw at the Britannia Stadium for what appeared to be a stamp on Jack Cork.
At the time the decision angered Stoke manager Tony Pulis who felt Cork had over-reacted. Pulis said: "Whether the reaction of Cork, who is a good player and a good lad, has influenced Mark, I'm not sure, but Steven certainly doesn't stamp on the player."
Pulis added: "There was no intent. He's actually planted his leg between his legs, which was quite clever."
The Potters launched an immediate appeal, and upon review by the Independent Regulatory Commission, a claim of wrongful dismissal has been upheld.
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The eighth-seeded Minnesota Wild will try to build off their first playoff win in five years when they host the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 4 of the Western Conference quarterfinals.
The Wild ended a four-year playoff drought this spring, returning to the postseason tournament for the first time since 2008. But, Minnesota lost the first two games of the best-of-seven series in Chicago before breaking through with Sunday's Game 3 overtime win at Xcel Energy Center.
It was the first playoff victory for the Wild since beating the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of the Western Conference quarterfinals on April 14, 2008. The Avalanche claimed the next three games to win that series in six.
Minnesota lost a 2-1 overtime decision to the Blackhawks in Game 1 before dropping a 5-2 decision on Friday at the United Center to fall behind 2-0 in the series. The Wild finally got on the board in the series on Sunday, however, earning a 3-2 overtime decision on Jason Zucker's tally 2:15 into the extra session.
Zucker, who hit the crossbar in a Game 1 overtime loss, fired a loose puck home from along the goal line to the left of the Chicago net for his first career playoff marker. Matt Cullen did most of the work prior to the score, battling a Blackhawks defender behind the cage and slipping the puck in front while falling to the ice.
"(I wanted to) jump into the glass," Zucker said when asked what his initial reaction was following the end of the game.
Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Zach Parise also lit the lamp for the Wild, while Josh Harding made 25 stops to earn his first career playoff victory.
Harding has been forced into a starting role in this series since netminder Niklas Backstrom was injured in warmups prior to Game 1. Backstrom returned to skating on Friday, but his undisclosed injury kept him from even suiting up as the backup in either Game 2 or 3. Darcy Kuemper has been serving as Harding's backup instead and that could be the scenario again tonight.
However, with Harding posting a solid 2.41 goals-against average and terrific .928 save percentage in the first three games of this series, it's unlikely head coach Mike Yeo would make the switch to Backstrom even if he was ready to go for Game 4.
Johnny Oduya and Duncan Keith scored for the Blackhawks, with Keith's tally tying the score at 2-2 with just 2:46 remaining in regulation. Patrick Kane assisted on both goals and Corey Crawford posted 34 saves in defeat.
"They played like they had to win, and we didn't," said Chicago head coach Joel Quenneville.
The top-seeded Blackhawks, who went 18-4-2 as the visiting team in 2013 to help them claim the Presidents' Trophy, will try to rebound with a win in Game 4. A victory tonight would set up a potential series-clinching contest when the conference quarterfinal battle returns to Chicago for Game 5 on Thursday.
The Wild were 14-8-2 on home ice during the regular season.
Although the Blackhawks and Minnesota North Stars faced off six times in the playoffs over a 10-year stretch from 1982-91, this is the first postseason encounter between Chicago and the Wild.
The Blackhawks won two of three meetings against Minnesota during the season series and Chicago also gained a point in its only loss, a 3-2 shootout setback in St. Paul on Jan. 30.


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The following was issued by WWE on Wednesday.
WWE(R) "Tribute to the Troops" Holiday TV Special to Air Saturday, December 28 at 8pm on NBC
STAMFORD, Conn., Dec 04, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Multi-platinum recording artist and four-time Grammy nominee, Daughtry joins WWE Superstars to honor the United States Armed Forces with the 11th annual WWE Tribute to the Troops holiday celebration that will air as a one-hour television special on Saturday, December 28 at 8/7C on NBC.
WWE Tribute to the Troops is considered the most patriotic show on television. In the grand tradition of Bob Hope, WWE has been entertaining American military personnel both overseas and in the U.S. for more than a decade. In recognition of these efforts, WWE received the first-ever Legacy of Hope Award, named after Bob Hope, in 2004. This year, the holiday tradition will be hosted by Access Hollywood's Michelle Beadle and will include special messages from some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Will Ferrell, Bruce Willis, Ryan Seacrest, Christina Applegate and Stephen Colbert. Additionally, comedian Jeff Dunham will perform live for troops and their families.
The event will emanate from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA, which is the largest operational base in the world and houses more than 100,000 civilians, troops and family members from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. This celebration at Joint Base Lewis-McChord will be the first time WWE has partnered with the United States Air Force for its annual holiday celebration. WWE worked closely with Washington State Governor Jay Inslee in selecting the joint base for this show.
"We are very proud to welcome WWE to Washington state, home of WWE greats like Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine and Daniel Bryan," said Governor Jay Inslee. "The men and women in the military, and their families, serve our state and our nation with admirable dedication. I know they are looking forward to Tribute to the Troops, and we are looking forward to saying thanks for all they do."
"It's a great honor for Joint Base Lewis-McChord to host WWE's annual Tribute to the Troops show," said Colonel H. Charles Hodges, Jr., JBLM Joint Base Commander. "This is a unique opportunity for our Service members and their families to be a part of something special. Many of our troops are passionate WWE fans, and the excitement is already building."
"Tribute to the Troops is WWE's way of thanking those who have sacrificed so much for our country as well as those who continue to defend our freedom today," said WWE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Vince McMahon. "We are proud to continue this annual tradition with our partners at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Governor Inslee."
As a part of the annual celebration, WWE Superstars and Divas will spend the day at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and nearby Naval Base Kitsap, hosting Be a STAR (Show Tolerance And Respect) anti-bullying rallies and reading celebrations as well as making hospital visits.
WWE Tribute to the Troops will also chronicle WWE's goodwill visit to our troops overseas. WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, WWE Superstars Big Show(R) and R-Truth(R) and WWE Divas Eva Marie and Alicia Fox will travel overseas to spread some much needed holiday cheer to the men and women serving our country far from home during the holiday season.
Daughtry has won four American Music Awards, sold millions of albums and singles around the world, and continues to give back to the military by performing at deployment locations as well as sold out arenas around the world. Daughtry recently released the album "Baptized" featuring the single "Waiting For Superman," which has garnered critical acclaim.
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WWE has been a strong supporter of the U.S. military through programs that boost morale for soldiers, offer free entertainment for active servicemen and servicewomen and provide workforce assistance for veterans. In 2004, the USO of Metropolitan Washington presented WWE with the first ever "Legacy of Hope" award (named after Bob Hope) for the company's extensive support of troops and the USO's Operation Care Package Program. In 2012, WWE celebrated the 10th anniversary of its annual holiday special event, Tribute to the Troops, which has taken place on active military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as joint operating bases here in the U.S. Also in 2012, WWE established a partnership with Hire Heroes USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping veterans find employment. WWE supports Hire Heroes USA through financial contributions and by utilizing all its assets, including TV broadcasts, live events, and digital and social media to generate awareness and raise funds. In addition, Hire Heroes is helping WWE implement a veterans hiring initiative and to enhance its military hiring practices.
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Goal Setting
Goal setting is one of the foundational building blocks of a successful psychological skills training program. In fact, coaches and athletes can utilize the goal setting principles that I'll discuss in the next two months of eteamz articles, with each of the four pillars of sport we have previously discussed: namely, the technical, tactical, psychological and physiological areas. To understand goal setting better, and more specifically, how you can utilize its powerful effects to your competitive advantage, it's important to define what goals are.
Goals are a specific standard of proficiency achieved in a specific area of performance within a specified time. For example, an athlete could set a goal to improve their free throw shooting ability by taking 30 extra shots every day immediately after practice. All of the criteria listed in that definition must be met (along with several other important standards) in order for behavior to be considered a goal. The two key questions to determine if goal setting is successfully being implemented are: Can I measure it? Can I see it? Goals are more than wishes, hopes and dreams. Dreaming is important in sport and in life, but dreams lack an essential ingredient inherent in effective goal setting, and that is the observable, measurable behaviors required for achieving the end result. For example, I might wish that I was an Olympic performer and I might dream about making an Olympic team, but when I goal set, much more is required of me in order to reach my goal standard.
Types of goals
There are three types of goals. Each will be defined and a sport-related example will be provided for clarification.
1. Performance Goals: Performance goals are goals in which participants focus on process-oriented standards relative to ones own best performance capabilities. They emphasize the PROCESS by which a given outcome is achieved. Another key component of process goals is that the participant has much more control on the achievement potential and successful outcome of these types of goals.
Examples of process goals are increasing the number of tennis serves taken in order to improve ones' first service percentage, committing to a consistent pattern of three strength training sessions per week in order to increase the amount of weight lifted for a one-rep max, and engaging in first person imagery training two days per week for the next month of practice.
2. Outcome Goals: Outcome goals are goals in which participants focus on the end result, the outcome, or a PRODUCT-type measurement as the standard of comparison. These are the most often recited and typically utilized types of goals among coaches and athletes. While participants "think" they have control over outcome goals, the facts indicate that athletes and coaches have only partial control (at best), or little to no control over the ultimate successful achievement of outcome goals.
Examples of outcome goals are: to become a starting member of the team this season, to win the league championship, or to achieve the school scoring record before graduating.
3. Do Your Best Goals: Do your best goals are obvious from the title itself. The focus is not on specific standards of proficiency, process or outcome other than asking the participants to "give it their best shot", try hard and "do your best".
Examples of this third type of goal would be saying, "I'll try my best to play well in today's game," "We'll try our best to play good defense," or "I'll try to be a better coach this season." What is clear in these examples, is that do your best goals lack the specificity and detail that are so apparent in the first two types.
While it may be easier and more convenient to set outcome goals in sport, experts recommend and the sport psychology literature clearly indicates, that the most favorable results in performance occur when athletes and coaches set performance goals. In fact, process goals will allow you to achieve greater success, if they are correctly and consistently utilized, than either outcome or do your best goals.
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14 Things to Avoid in 2014
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2014 is here! Everyone's making their lists of resolutions and impossible goals. For those that are going to attempt to make it through the year sacrificing your true nature so you can trick your brain into thinking your martyrdom makes you a better person, stay gold! For the rest of us, here's a list of more attainable challenges in 2014. Many of them are interrelated so the good news is, you can feel more productive by crossing multiple things off your list for the price of one.
And now, here are 14 things to avoid in 2014:
1. Using Facebook. It's time we admit that Facebook doesn't have the luster it once had. It used to be so fun to "connect" with old friends, minor celebrities and random people that loosely share our interests or that have "mutual friends" in common. It's time we all admit that it's a mostly just a bunch of bullshit. We don't really care what these acquaintances are up to. Some people (myself included) tend to have 'diarrhea of the status update' and post stuff all day long. [Note: in my defense, the majority of stuff I post is for humorous purposes, despite the fact that most people completely miss the point.] Using your online voice has become a warzone of negativity, complaining, being politically discreet (which I will get to in a minute) and knowing too much about the mundane activities of people you actually don't really care all that much for. Studies are coming to light that show that people that are heavy Facebook users are typically unhappy people because they are upset they are not getting some kind of reaction, be it too many or too little interactions or "likes," which cannot be exchanged for any monetary value, I might add! As a result, people are going out of their way to do things for online attention. For some reason, nobody wants to admit it, but it's a bubble that is getting ready to burst. Let's also not forget that Facebook ads have ruined the experience by either filling your news feed with advertising or if you are sharing something, the majority of your "friends/followers" won't even see your post unless you fork over cash to Facebook. If the phoniness of social media is a new concept to you, I recommend this article.
2. Being politically correct. As I said in my 2006 book "Sketches of Verbal Alchemy," "Being politically correct or discreet is lying." Everyone needs to relax! For some reason, we seem to be treating the actions of people that lived hundreds of years ago like these offenses just happened. As a result this group of people hates that group of people and it's making the world have to collectively walk on egg shells so as not to upset some other group. It's bullshit. I had nothing to do with wars that happened thousands of years ago. It sucks that they happened, but do not blame me for those things. NEITHER of us were there, so let's learn from the mistakes of the past and start over! You are allowed not to like someone, just try not to be hateful about it. Do not blame an entire group for the actions of one person. Why then are people shocked when someone says something crappy about another person (or group of people) and then immediately has to issue the apology press release?! Guess what the person is really sorry for? They are sorry for having been told their opinion pisses people off. I'm not saying you should go out of your way to be racist, sexist or anything of that nature. What I am saying is if someone says something idiotic, don't keep their hatred alive by constantly rehashing it on the news or social media. Ignore them and their hatred will also be ignored.
3.Endorsing hateful companies/people. This goes in tandem with 'resolution' number 2. If a group of "humanitarians" that sell fast food chicken feels the need to publicly utter hatred towards homosexuals and that really bothers you, DO NOT BUY THEIR PRODUCT! Bam. If zero people support a company that goes out of their way to be haters, simple mathematics tells you that 1,000,000 customers that spend zero money = $0. If you say you are going to boycott and then don't, what you are doing is enabling and encouraging bad behavior.
4. Participating in celebrity gossip. With the advent of reality TV (which is as fake as fake can be), the entire world is clamoring for their 15 minutes of fame. Braggarts who've got nothing better to do than flaunt their bling or your lack thereof, people that are severely rich and people with such low opinions of themselves they need to resort to having major plastic surgery in order to feel accepted are becoming megastars. And why? Because, we as a society are enabling this bad behavior. Being famous and having a creative skill that nobody else has used to be what turned us on about celebrity and now becoming an irresponsible teen mom can make you a star. With the immediacy of the internet, we are being subject to hear about the comings and goings of these uninteresting people. Also with paparazzi stopping at nothing to get photos to sell to every gossip site (and the internet is being flooded with these sites that are all reporting the same stuff), people are eventually going to get hurt. Sure it will probably happen infrequently, but if we have to go through all the airport security with the infrequency of accidents that do happen, we shouldn't have to put up with having to be subjected to all this gossip. Stop making stupid people famous!
5. Using kitschy language/hashtag abuse. I might lose my mind if I hear any of these phrases in 2014: "This gives me life," "LOL" (when people aren't actually laughing), "Wow…. Just wow," "I have no words" (and yet, those ARE words), "Realness," abbreviating the shit out of everything for the simplicity of a 'txt msg' and the overuse of hashtags. Thank you for captioning a photo of your lunch with things such as #lunch #bun #burger #person #human #photo #delicious #tomato #hamburger, but when I see a lot of hashtags in a photo caption, my first inclination is to #unfollow #your #ass.
6. Using our mobile devices so much. People have forgotten to live in the moment because for some reason they think every moment is worth documenting. Why stop to smell the flowers when you can stop to Instagram the flowers? People have forgotten how to interact in social situations because of these devices that are supposed to give us the illusion of feeling closer via "social media." It's more like anti-social media. It's annoying to go to a concert to watch the entire crowd viewing the show through their phone (and not caring that their selfishness in holding up their phones is causing a chain reaction of everyone blocking each others view) and that spills out into other areas such as people stopping to send a message and being completely thoughtless in moving out of the way to do their personal business. It's annoying to catch up with an old friend to find that they'd rather be texting or handing you their phone every 5 seconds so they can show you photos of what they are up to. Unless lives are at stake, we need to all get over the fact that none of us are really all that important and replying to emails/texts/social media can wait. LIVE IN THE MOMENT! The moment is fleeting.
7. Getting caught up in the hype. Have we not all learned by now that advertising is filled with subliminal messages that are the equivalent of a hypnotist convincing you that you are getting sleepy. The hype machine tells you to endorse lackluster product so you won't look like an uncultured idiot when you are at the water-cooler on Monday. How many movies/books/TV programs that are utterly atrocious become #1 and therefore you feel the need to see what all the buzz is about only to actually have your faith in humanity shaken that people can be so stupid? Be an original and make up your own mind. Go with your gut. If something looks unappealing to you, chances are your gut instinct was correct. It takes a stronger person to say NO than to say YES!
8. Listening to the news. Do you ever hear of anything good that happens on the news? Rarely. Instead, you are being scared into submission with the news of robberies, murders, bad weather, massive cutbacks, world atrocities and with our "trusted" reporters offering no solution. Not to mention at any given time, some group of people are spewing hatred about another group and instead of snuffing it out, it's being reported over and over ad-nauseum giving legs to a brief event such as the infamous "Janet Jackson Superbowl wardrobe malfunction" that in actually lasted for less than 10 seconds and was repeated over and over again for years. We should be hearing about what our politicians are doing with the money that our tax dollars are being spent on, so that if they are squandering our resources, they could be fired. If you worked for a company and you were up to shady activities or were being secretive about how you spend your time, you'd be fired. Why doesn't that seem to apply to politicians? Why doesn't anyone question this? Too busy being distracted by shiny objects?
9. Nostalgia. Let's face it, The Smiths are not going to reunite. They had an impressive run of good albums in the 1980s, but it's over. It's 30 years later and for lots of reasons, they feel no need to tour around the world rehashing their old material. It's far more interesting to see what a person becomes other than constantly revisiting what they once were. This also applies to remakes, sequels and bands reuniting. People want the familiarity of seeing new life in their precious characters, but rarely is the original bested. Leave it alone and quit trying to cheapen a beloved product for the sake of making money. Take a risk and come up with a new idea instead. What a concept!
10. Not swearing. As George Carlin so rightly pointed out once (and I am paraphrasing here), "There are over 5 million words in the English language and 7 of them are bad." We've reached a point in our society where the word "fuck" is not just a verb any more. It's also an adjective that has very little potency these days. And really, what's the big fucking deal? It's just a word, that is far less offensive than inflicting something bad on people (such as "hate," "kill" or "murder.") It might not be too much of a stretch to say that if more people spent more time "fucking," there'd be less time for "hating." Many of these "bad" words are in reference to body parts or body excretions and since the majority of the world either have these parts or do these actions, people need to quit being so sensitive and GET THE FUCK OVER IT! What is right or wrong to you might not be how I feel on the subject so quit trying to force your belief system on me. "Swearing" works for me so leave me the fuck alone about it!
11.Keeping fair-weather friends. Also in tandem with point #1, our society has tried convince you of the importance of keeping your numbers up. You may have 5,000 Facebook friends but are all those people REALLY your friends? Can you really count on that 5,000 if you are in a bind? You may have 100,000 Twitter followers, but are those people REALLY paying attention to your message? These days, you can buy followers/friends for as little as $5 US, so I advise you to choose quality over quantity.
12. Memes and Listicles. I am really over seeing a famous image captioned with the new phrase of the current millisecond. Come up with your own image if you think you are so clever! Also, there is really no need to point out '15 things I should have learned' from something as mundane as a TV show that was on the night before. It's become apparent that people are so bored in life, they need something to try and fill the boredom, but there has to be a better way! How about coming up with a list of 15 things we should be doing instead of wasting our lives on the internet?
13. Binge Watching. Put down the remote control and say yes to real life experiences.
14. Being so serious. We pretend we know what life is all about and that we are in control to avoid the actuality that we pretty much have no idea what we are doing. It also doesn't help that every human is only inhabiting this planet for approximately 110 years or less and deep down that totally freaks us out. Therefore, it is imperative to RELAX, LIGHTEN UP, STOP BEING SO SERIOUS and ENJOY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
May 2014 be your best year yet!
Roberta Thorn said,
is RIGHT ON!!


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Brent crude oil futures rose more than $1 per barrel on Tuesday and settled 1.2 percent higher, fueled by tighter global supplies and as U.S. lawmakers voiced support for military action against Syria, upholding fears of oil supply disruptions in the broader Middle East.
U.S. President Barack Obama urged quick congressional action authorizing the use of military force against Syria and won support of leaders from both parties in the U.S. House of Representatives for limited strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
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U.S. oil prices hit their highest level this year on Aug. 28, while Brent prices were at their highest since February.
Syria is not a major oil producer but investors feared a military strike against the nation could spread across the Middle East, which pumps a third of the world's oil.
There's a roughly $10 per barrel geopolitical risk premium built into the price, said Gene McGillian, analyst with Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut.
"You'll see the geopolitical risk deflated as time goes by if we don't see any real supply disruptions," he said.
The recent rally in crude oil prices has brought Mexico into the market to execute its 2014 oil hedging program, trade sources said.
As well, speculative traders hiked bullish bets on crude oil prices for the first time in five weeks, taking them to the second-highest level on record.
Brent crude oil settled $1.35 per barrel higher at $115.68. Front-month U.S. crude oil prices settled 89 cents per barrel higher at $108.54. Due to the Labor Day holiday, the U.S. oil market did not issue a settlement price on Monday.
Supply disruptions elsewhere in the market underpinned prices. Some North Sea cargoes have been delayed into October.
Libyan exports are already running at below 10 percent of export capacity, according to a Reuters estimate, as armed groups tighten their grip on the sector.
Outages in Libya, South Sudan, Iraq and Nigeria amounted to 3.15 millions of barrels per day (bpd), about 3.5 percent of daily world oil demand of 90 million bpd.
On Tuesday, Sudan lifted a threat to block oil exports from South Sudan, though that amounts to only around 150,000 barrels per day.
Last week Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, said it would pump a record 10.5 million bpd of crude on average throughout the third quarter in a bid to help balance the market, U.S. energy consultancy PIRA said.
U.S. crude got an early boost from reports showing demand picked up in the U.S. manufacturing sector and steady growth in China's services sector, adding to other positive signals from the world's two largest oil consumers.
Investors were also waiting on U.S. jobs data to be released on Friday as a gauge of economic recovery, and a clearer indication from the Federal Reserve as to when it may rollback in its monetary stimulus program, largely seen as supporting commodities prices.
(By Jeanine Prezioso; Additional reporting by Anna Sussman in New York and Simon Falush in London; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, David Gregorio and James Dalgleish)


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The Walt Disney Family Museum
The Schultheis Notebook
Project Group
DateOctober 2009
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Exhibit DesignRockwell Group
Other Media
Visitors can browse, magnify and examine the pages of a remarkable notebook that comprehensively documents of the making of Fantasia and reveals its many special effects techniques.
Throughout the development of the animated masterpiece Fantasia, a member of Disney's camera effects department—Herman Schultheis—kept a meticulous record of the effects he and others pioneered in meticulous detail. His notebook was filled with drawings, behind-the-scenes photographs, film snippets, charts and written descriptions that reveal many of the techniques that were used to create this and other films also in production. The materials in the book describe the technical engineering, the preliminary art and motion inspiration, and the materials and processes that made many effects possible. The magical yet minimal interface in this interactive touch screen lets visitors page through the entire book, jump from one part to the next, and zoom into every detail. In the interface alongside many of the spreads in the notebook are inviting stills from Fantasia, Bambi and Dumbo that correspond to the material Schultheis documented on that page; as a visitor explores the book they can touch the still to play a clip from the movie that shows the final result.
Press & AwardsThemed Entertainment Association Annual Thea Award, OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, November 2010"High-tech Exhibits Shine at Walt Disney Museum," CNet, Daniel Terdiman, October 22, 2010
Another interesting digital device accompanies a notebook of visual effects in films like "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," and others. But the book itself is too fragile for the public to personally inspect. So visitors are treated to a digital tabletop display where they can use their fingers to change pages, zoom in and zoom out, and so on."Inside the Walt Disney Family Museum," Imprint, John Canemaker, October 2010
One particular example of the thoroughness with which the museum has been designed is the Herman Schultheis Notebook...Although it is an item of special interest to film historians and students of special effects, the notebook is now easily accessible to everyone, thanks to the museum's interactive digital installation that allows visitors to study each page, zoom in on photos, drawings and text, and view related film excerpts."Exploring the Man Behind the Animation," The New York Times, Edward Rothstein, September 30, 2009
One of the most fascinating objects here is an enormous notebook created by Herman Schultheis, a technician in the camera-effects department in the late '30s, in which he documented how images were produced in "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia." Next to it, an animated display of the book responds to touch, so you can almost feel the creators' imagination at work as they transmute real objects into fantastical washes of color."New Museum Reveals the Man Behind the Mouse," Silicon Valley Mercury News, Chuck Barney, September 28, 2009
Every gallery is crammed with touch screens and interactive exhibits designed to bring static drawings and documents to life."Spotlight: Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco," SF Film Industry Examiner , Moira Sullivan, September 28, 2009
In Gallery 5 spectators can interact with the film and documentation of Fantasia in a "Shultheis Notebook"."Disney Family Museum puts focus on Walt," The San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Hartlaub, September 25, 2009
If that sounds boring, don't worry...there are 21st century touches everywhere...Touch-screen monitors allow users to browse through relic documents that would normally be kept under glass.
Part of SapientRazorfish /© 2019 Second Story, Inc.
- Designer
- Martin Linde
- Technology Director
- Thomas Wester
- Developers
- Matt Arnold, Matt Gitchell
- Producer
- Jennifer Guibord
- Video Editors
- Tim Kviz, David Waingarten
- Design Assistant
- Nina Pavlich
- Production Artist
- Rebecca Rosen
- Production/QA Assistants
- Elizabeth Bourke, Rebecca Rosen
- Content Development
- Walt Disney Family Foundation
- A/V Media Design
- Batwin & Robin
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|Rugby players Shamus and Ryan are at the club house working out, while Shamus' girlfriend Hazel and her friends wait for them in the bar. It's a chance for the two lads to work out their sexual frustration and for the girls to have a good gossip over a bottle of wine. But the boastful lads go too far in their bragging about women - not realising that Hazel has overheard every word. The girls decide it's time for a taste of their own medicine: the lads are summarily stripped, their penises compared and are fucked senseless with strap-ons.
|Private Eye Jane Frost and her assistant Danika are investigating hunky rugby player Scotty Eastwood when the man himself barges into their office demanding the return of some compromising photographs. Seeing an opportunity for blackmail the two cunning women strip him completely and cause him to get an erection. They now have his naked body to play with and they are very imaginative when it comes to their games.
|Sporty young lad Declan is happy and carefree. That is until the fateful day he brings a letter home from the headmistress. It starts off with his scheming sister and her friends spying on him in the shower. They cannot resist grabbing him and whipping off his towel to measure his penis. And things only get worse when his mother marches him to the school to find out just what he's been getting up to in the school toilets.
|Young athletes Ed and Dennis are pumped up on testosterone from their long run around the playing field. The friends head to the changing rooms to shower having no idea that they've been overseen by the school governor who caught the lads absentmindedly pissing on the school grounds. Furious at the boys' discourteous behavior, the governor and teacher Ms Stern march to the locker rooms where the boys are showering naked. But keen reporter Hazel has beaten them to it...
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|British Ambassador Rose Edwards knows just what her demanding guests will want before they even know it themselves. Her handsome upper-class assistant James has been briefed to indulge their every whim - regardless of how uncomfortable it makes him. Having failed to engage them with casual chit-chat he's following Rose's instructions - to strip off and offer up his naked body for the delectation of the high-powered political ladies.
|Cocky Russian businessman Yosef Belozerchev is stopped at random by the female customs officers of Border Squad. He is patted-down and stripped out in the open. He stands stark naked and helpless with other passengers ogling him as they pass by. The women don't care about him missing his important meeting and take as much time as they like carefully examining this hunky man's masculine body.
|The girls are ready to relax after their exertion in the pool while the naked pair of men massage their tired muscles. They are thrilled at being treated like queens and having such a prolonged view of the men's cocks and arses. The teacher quickly decides they should practice massage on the naked men themselves and spread them out to really get familiar with their bare muscular bodies.
|At St Dunstans the students sit down to take their exam and are left unsupervised by their teacher. The girls are fed up with pig-headed boy David so teach him a lesson stripping him down naked and writing insults on his dick and arse despite his feeble protesting. When teacher returns she's shocked to discover the embarrassed lad is totally starkers! She presents his cock and arse to everyone in the class to discover who wrote on his privates.
|Sexy rich college boy Geraint is seeking membership into the school's elite secret society. To be accepted he has to undergo a thoroughly humiliating initiation. Blindfolded and taken to a rough part of town by two strapping lads, the privileged young toff is instructed to remove his clothing and present his naked body for inspection by a group of common cleaning women. But the older lads have their own problems to deal with when a gang of cocky council estate girls turn up.
|The guests staying at the expensive boutique Hotel Crystal never get to see what goes on behind the scenes. The imposing female managers want to make sure that 18 year old Jordan Edgar is fitted for his bellboy outfit properly so strip the lad off, inspect his body and help him into his clothes - much to the naive boy's embarrassment.
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|Aspiring young Olympic swimmer Steve is hindered by anxiety and swimming cramps. His hunky coach is very concerned so takes him to a sports therapy specialist. The cute young swimmer is stripped and intimately examined by the thorough and commanding female therapist. All the while the coach is watching on and orders his swimmer to do whatever she says.
Sold at the St. Dunstans' slave auction, school jock Neil is tied to a bed by his new female owner Dorothy. She keeps him completely
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her female friends to enjoy. At their mercy, the young lad
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|Mr. Turner brings his bad boy son Barry into the school's parents' evening. The arrogant lad flicks his nose at authority so his teachers and his father show him who is in charge - stripping him down and disciplining him. The proud boy is deeply embarrassed as his body is examined and he's told off for his tattoos and uncontrollable sex drive.
|Sexy farmer George gets a very intimate physical examination when the good doctor Latitia has her captive patient's arse up on her exam table. After a sound spanking, what George needs is to have his asshole fingered. She spends some time spreading his cheeks and correcting his posture so his hole is well displayed. Then she inserts her finger, taking advantage of her power over this man to work out her pervy desires...
|John Naylor is a top swimming athlete - called to meet with athlete official Gaby and the women from a top sportswear brand who are sponsoring him. The sportsman has been caught wearing another brand's clothing. This is unacceptable considering the fortune they pay him to promote their product. John is quickly stripped of the offending clothing leaving the agile young hunk buck naked with his smooth swimmer's body totally exposed in front of the women.
|Posh schoolboy Joel leads a privileged life and sees little point in applying himself at school. At the parents' evening his mother and his teachers think it's time to implement some discipline to bring this lad down to earth. They strip him off driving home that he is still under their control and must obey their every command. No matter how humiliating...
|The college's top athletes have to strip down one by one giving lots of time for the commanding Swedish instructor to inspect the young men's physiques. Soon there is a line of prominent bulges and pert muscular asses on show. Ms Lindstrom has a very strict physical regime planned for the men to test their strength and drive to win.
|Popular French Pierre is up to some saucy tricks! The women have ordered the exchange student and two other guys to strip. They are then instructed to entertain the rest of the household by playing naked leapfrog in front of them. It's so cute seeing Pierre's slightly hairy bottom bounding over the naked bodies of the other boys. The boys get very sweaty and excited in the competition to see who can leap the highest while the girls laugh and cheer.
|Executives Edward and Leonard are looking forward to picking up girls and exploiting their expense accounts at a sales conference. With all the hotels booked, their only option is a rundown hostel where they have to share the dorm with two strangers. As they strip naked to shower, they have no idea who their roommates are. But they are about to get a huge surprise when their privacy is invaded by a couple of excited European girls with their inhibited foreign ways.
|His first day in a new job and young Ryan is dressed to impress. But hard work and good manners are not all it takes to get by in an office full of powerful women, all of whom have their own ideas on how the new recruit should be treated.
|Sexy football manager Alan is about to get a full (and unorthodox) medical exam. The team's medical specialist leaves no crack or crevice unchecked. This includes receiving a cock measurement and having his hairy ass examined with a magnifying lens. This female doctor really knows how to totally expose her captive man!
A cautionary tale. Why men should always be on their best behaviour at office parties, especially if they are the office stud, or the 'snitch'.
|When 3 sexy footballers enter a bar looking to get laid - they encounter a group of dirty air stewardesses who give them more than they bargained for. In a hotel room the girls trick the stupid athletes into getting naked. They restrain them and take out strap-ons to fuck the sportsmen's tight arses right next to each other. This is one ordeal the arrogant lads won't forget for the rest of their lives!
|It's not easy being the new kid in class. Arrogant lad Jason thinks the best way to impress the other boys is by hurling insults at two shy girls from St Catherine's. But his plan seriously backfires when he finds himself tricked and trapped - totally naked - in a cubicle in the girls' toilets! With a group of female students angrily banging on the door, the poor lad quakes with fear. What will they do to him when they get their hands on him?
|The lads of the St. Dunstans' swim team are off to France! The young men are bursting with excitement to find out if all the stories they've heard about exotic French women are true. But this is going to be one school trip where the boys learn about a lot more than the Entente Cordiale.
|Investigative journalist Charlotte is about to embark on the biggest story of her life. But before she goes, there's just time to have a little fun with her husband Neil. The hunky man must be taught how to behave and correctly display his naked body for the confident woman's pleasure. She takes him in hand and dries him off, taking plenty of time to towel his uncut cock, full balls and tender arse. She wants to be able to leave knowing her man is fully trained and totally obedient.
|The footballers of Hartsmere College have won a triumphant game and are celebrating - naked or just in their jock straps in the locker room. But for some of the team members, the fun is about to come to an abrupt end. First the team masseurs, then a group of female psychology students decide it's time to teach these macho men a lesson.
|The tough female officers put Private Sam to the test in an Interrogation. The army recruit has been captured, but he refuses to give up any information no matter how much the women sexually humiliate the big tough stud. They tease him into growing a big fat erection and then push him against a table so his muscular arse can be beaten until it's rosy. Even with a stick being shoved up his hole, he refuses to give in...
Athletic young Carl wants to increase his exercise routine at the local swimming baths. When his swimming trunks are lost he finds himself at the mercy of a water aerobics class full of women! The excited women get very hands on swimming in the pool with the terrified naked stud.
|It's no ordinary day for young mechanic Callum. Lured into a desolate warehouse by two demanding women he is about to become the latest victim of their sadistic games. Tied-up and mistreated there is nothing he can do to prevent them from using him to satisfy their insatiable perverted desires.
|Things are getting interesting down on the farm. Confident Miss Murphy has found an unwitting subject to use for a practical demonstration of the sperm collecting device. The eager girls crowd round to witness his humiliation as the big dumb farmhand feels the full power of her cattle prod.
|The Countess
Chapter 19
The Countess throws the very best parties for refined ladies. Naked men are made to serve the discerning women and have to satisfy their every whim. Any disobedience is dealt with swiftly and harshly.
|The Claim
Manual worker Henry thought he could get rich quick. But his manipulative female lawyer connives with the doctor to strip the hunky man - firstly of his clothes, then of his dignity. Made to crawl around on all fours the gullible fool's examination ends up with him ejaculating - much to the delight of laughing women.
|Footballer's Physical
Macho footballer Les Ainsworth is undergoing the most gruelling physical imaginable. The cunning female doctor has quickly relieved him of his clothes and is enjoying exploring his muscled body at her leisure. Meanwhile the pretty young nurse captures every moment of this angry young man's humiliation on camera.
|Breakdown Part II
Chapter 2
A male juvenile delinquent learns the hard way what happens when you cross tough female officers. Abusive behaviour will not be tolerated and their retribution will be swift and merciless. Cocky young lads are soon brought to their knees before the superior women.
|Airport 2010 Politics
The female airport security guards love their job. They have the right to stop, strip and search anyone they choose. When hapless businessman Duncan sets off the alarm, he soon suffers the most invasive examination possible. All in front of the entire airport!
Young Alex has an embarrassing little problem - one his domineering auntie is determined to have seen to. The poor lad ends up stark naked in front of the female doctor, nurse, his auntie AND his cousin Amber!
A moment of stolen pleasure in his empty office turns into the most mind-blowing surprise birthday party of his life when Jim's surreptitious wank is interrupted by his female colleagues. The women eagerly use their presents on their stark naked workmate.
|Men who use women to advance their careers beware! When the office women confront and take revenge on their arrogant male colleague they don't do things by halves. Stark naked and groveling at their feet, his pleas for mercy are only answered with mocking female laughter.
|A summer CFNM adventure! Exposed to the wilds of nature on a field trip, the students let their instincts take over. The intrepid schoolgirls strip the class jocks and use them like cattle for their own perverted pleasure in some of the most intense CFNM scenes ever seen.
Love rat Simon learns his lesson at the hands of a group of dominant women who strip him naked in the toilets of a posh night-club. He soon learns that Hell has no fury like a woman scorned...
|Schoolgirls take the opportunity of an overnight stay at St Dunstans to explore the male body and test out new things they learned from their handsome biology teacher. Naked young men are brought to their knees by demanding girls in their school uniforms.
|The rich and pampered men of Barkwith Mansion have ruled the estate for centuries - until women forcibly take control of the household. First rule:
men must serve naked!
|Mixed Swimming II
The naive schoolboys meet exotic girls on their team's trip to France. The French school mistress insists on swimming the way it is supposed to be!
"Boys must remove everything while the girls swim in their smart swimsuits."
|Famous footballer's naked examination
The captain of the England team has failed the female directors of the Football Authority. Now the commanding ladies have to evaluate his physical abilities before deciding whether or not to put him out to stud.
|He came to fix their TV...
...but innocent hotel worker James is mistaken for a hired stripper by the Hen party in room 107.
Now he has to pretend to be a horny naked dancer or he's FIRED!
Hope you're good James!
|The Faulty Jockstrap
Young Bobby is dragged to the underwear shop so his Auntie can buy him a new jockstrap, but only after he is measured properly by the shopkeeper and her daughter Veronica - one of Bobby's school friends.
|Under Her Thumb
A smug hotel concierge is made to model naked for a seminar on 'Female Empowerment' and finds cum control, relentless teasing and other delicious humiliations part of the fun...for the ladies.
|Country Doctor
A young female doctor finds a novel use for a milking machine on all the athletic farmers in her village, and their sons!
|Boxers are strictly denied any sexual release while training.
Watch a sexy TV reporter wander through the dressing room and interview the naked boxers as they shower. She wickedly teases their cum-filled balls until they can't help but ejaculate right in front of everyone.
|Justice at last!
It was only a matter of time before the law caught up with the women of cfnm.
Stripping men naked and then humiliating them is a serious offence. Sadly for the red-faced male 'victim' his day in court begins with a deeply embarrassing and totally naked physical inspection by the female court doctor...and rapidly gets worse
|Nicola's Birthday Party
What better way to celebrate a girl's 21st Birthday than to invite her closest girlfriends to a party where they can strip her brother and his best mate naked and race them around the furniture.
Giddee up horsey!
|"Humiliated For Money"
The notorious HFM sessions.
The most startling real life male ejaculations ever recorded. Men like this tough car mechanic. Watch him stripped, bound, beaten and milked. A truly life changing experience for this blue-collar hardman.
|Dean's CFNM Audition
He's never been stripped naked in front of fully clothed women before. His obvious anxiety and vulnerability is as beautiful to see as his stunningly fit rugby player's arse. Shot just before he joins the military.
|Jocks' Trainer
College wrestling, baseball, football and swimming stars are put through a tough and deeply embarrassing workout by a female instructor dedicated to the benefits of CFNM for male development.
All right in front of the laughing female cheerleaders!
|Office Discipline
Things get worse for Billy as he is discovered manipulating his sales figures. His boss Sian, the wicked head of personnel and a young secretary show him the error of his ways.
|Laura's Leaving Party
Episode 13
The office snitch gets his comeuppance for trying to stab his female boss in the back. Stripped naked and savagely humiliated in front of ALL his colleagues at a crowded wine-bar.
|Laura's Leaving Party
A cautionary tale. Why men should always be on their best behaviour at office parties, especially if they are the office stud,
or the 'snitch'.
|School Slave Auction - Episode 76
Miss Warburton enters into the spirit of the fundraising evening by selling off the school jocks, naked and gagged, to the eager sex starved soccer-moms. The women excitedly use and play with their new purchases.
|Slave Auction
The schoolgirls come up with a fantastic way of fundraising for the school - a 'fun' slave auction for the Mums! With the hunkiest male teachers and schoolboys going to the highest bidder.
To raise money for the school 2 boys offer to wash cars but wind up stark naked, embarrassed and spanked by a horrible old witch and a crowd of older ladies right there in the street.
Then the naked boys are turned into human dogs by girls from their school!
A straight-laced rugby captain has to undergo a VERY strict medical. But are the female doctor and nurse really who they say they are? And do they have his best interests at heart?
A stunning footballer approached us wanting to do some modelling on the side. The startled lad goes red with embarrassment when he's thrown straight into a room full of women who strip him naked and abuse him.
|CFNM Auditions - Tony
A 20 year old professional footballer begged us to let him experience CFNM for the first time. We made him a totally naked waiter for the day...who has to 'come' when he's told.
|Motor Maintenance
A load of sexist mechanics have their clothes confiscated by the new lady boss and are then systematically mistreated in front of all the young female customers.
|East Mids Rugby Club Summer BBQ
Raw real life CFNM. The best CFNM happens when you least expect it. Photos from a rugby club's Summer barbecue where the girlfriends and Mums strip the boys totally naked on stage and oil them up.
I kid you not!
|Mixed Swimming - Part 2
The schoolboys begin to understand how natural it is for them to swim nude while the girls wear their smart swimsuits.
Next its the inter-school swimming competition!
|Exam Day - Part 13
The school jock has been two-timing his girlfriend. She tricks him into stripping, steals his clothes and then thrashes the naked athlete in front of everyone before blackmailing him into humiliating himself with a public wank show!
|Exam Day
It's the most nerve-wracking day of the year for the school boys and girls. To make matters worse the school bullies are making hell for the boys as they are stripped, blackmailed and tricked into getting naked and abusing themselves in front of all the girls and female teacher.
|"In Search of CFNM 2"
More exclusive coverage of men naked in public attracting the attention of female reporters and eager crowds of girl onlookers.
3 cocky professional footballers find out what it's like to be on the wrong end of a hole-stretching roasting session when they fall into the clutches of a gang of malicious air stewardesses who love nothing more than penetrating and invading a struggling virgin bitch-boy!
|Humiliated For Money - Gino
In a new series of HFM, footballer Gino is desperate for cash so we send him to Carla and Roxy. They take full advantage of his plight by taking away all the stud's clothes, rope-tying him to a stool, subjecting him to a severe bare-arsed beating and then draining his balls.
Over 26,324 extra pics, 33,916 archived messages,
|"Just Do It" - Real life CFNM
We follow a teenage boy who's never heard of CFNM but just feels compelled to get naked in public. We have pictures of him stranded naked for hours without any clothes in the middle of a crowded nightclub and groped by all the women there.
19 year old Carl visits his new girlfriend's family and is amazed to discover they live a permanent CFNM lifestyle. Mom not only keeps hubby naked 24/7 but Anya's kid brother too! Carl begins to understand the 'pleasure' of CFNM when he is stripped naked and cock teased by Anya and then spies on her father & brother having to masturbate openly to entertain her sister's college friends.
|"The Apprentice Boys"
Two fit lads are interviewed for a modeling job. Sadly for them there is only one job and the most accommodating candidate will be hired. As neither boy wants to break first it's the perfect excuse for the 2 female managers to wickedly test the boys' tolerance for rather more bizarre modeling assignment.
|"Dare You Enter"
Candid camera was never like this! Young men looking for work are told to go to a certain address at a certain time for an 'interview'. When they arrive they instead end up appearing in outrageous CFNM fantasies.
e.g. Made to strip at all-female parties, punished in front of a girls' school and more...
|"Was I Pissed Last Night?"
3 boys hope that a spin-the-bottle party will get the girls naked and persuade them to put on a lesbian show. Unfortunately the girls have other ideas when the boys lose, get nude and find that THEY are the ones who have to put on a humiliating show for the girls.
|"The New Boy"
New kid in the school Jason makes the mistake of insulting two girls. Their friends Sheila and Tracy vow to embarrass him and concoct a fiendish scheme to trap him naked in the girls' toilet. The tearful lad is then discovered and mistreated by all the girls.
Young men trying out for the new series of "Popstars" find the all female judging panel have ways of using them even if they can't sing. They rip the suckers' clothes off and then take out their frustrations on them.
|In Search of CFNM - The documentary
We send a group of male CFNM fans out with a camera. They dare each other to strip naked in crowded public places to see if women really like nude men. Well what do you think?
|Evening Herald
Reconstruction of a true story. The headmistress of a boys' school begins to supervise the rugby team showers and can't resist giving extra lessons at her home after hours.
|BareASS TV
A music TV station creates it's own shocking CFNM version of Jackass. The female personnel execs test the limits of the cocky boys who want to appear.
|CFNM Auditions - Rob and Andy
Army boy Rob and footballer Andy are desperate for some extra cash so the CFNM girls made them oil wrestle naked in a kid's paddling pool with the winner given the honour of wanking in front of fully clothed girls!
|The Field Trip
The boys of St. Dunstan's boys' school have a trying time on a field trip with the girls from St. Catherine's girls' school. The journey begins with one poor lad being jumped on and stripped by the girls on the back seat of the bus and rapidly worsens as one by one the girls find ways of fixing it so the boys, and a male teacher, wind up naked and humiliated.
|The Biology Lesson
Schoolboy Philip is punished by his female teacher for misbehaving in class by being stripped naked and made to become a nude model for the girls' biology lesson. The tearful lad quickly finds it is too late for apologies as every part of him is intimately examined and worse in front of the mischievous students from the girls' school.
|Mixed Swimming
Boys from an old fashioned private school are made to swim with the girls. The girls have to keep their dignity and so wear formal bathing suits, while the boys swim naked.
|Wedding Day
A bridegroom's "little" secret becomes a cause for public humiliation as he is locked out of his hotel room naked on his wedding night.
Rich businesswoman Margaret Travis has a surprise visitor. The spinster takes a firm but fair hand to her "nephew" beginning with administering a bath before she has to entertain her friends.
|Dynamic Tension
An idiot bodybuilder is stripped naked and humiliated in public by his physical trainer - who also uses teasing his penis then denying him orgasm to get the results she wants. All in the name of fitness you understand!
|CFNM Auditions
Ever wanted to know where we find the males for this site?
...and ever seen a deer caught in headlights?
Total novice boys thrown into the CFNM deep-end!
|How Much Would You Pay For This Man ?
Brazilian star footballer Garai is due to sign to a new club for millions. His agent Karen insists on attending the statutory physical to make sure nothing hinders the deal. Garai must be on his best behavior as he has no choice but to strip and be intimately examined in front of her by the female doctor.
|Emma's Kickboxing Basics
Emma and Kelly are self-defense enthusiasts whose kickboxing skills are improving every week. The only thing they are lacking is the opportunity to try out their techniques on a real-life subject...until a desperate young thug tries to mug them in a town-centre car park.
|There're worse places than jail
Young offender Darren is desperate to make it in his first real job. His naive desire to please is cruelly taken advantage of by 2 gorgeous vixens who strip him naked before fulfilling their own extreme CFNM fantasies.
Dominic's evening at the pub with his mates goes horribly wrong when he loses a bet and is found naked and lost by 4 hot babes down a cold, dark alley.
|Artschool Girls Take Charge
Jock Shaun needs an extra credit in art to get his football scholarship. The girls need a model for their end of term project.
|In the boys' lockeroom
A female reporter takes charge of a locker-room full of naked athletes
|Charlotte's Surprise
It is early '90s South Africa. Charlotte's birthday present is an erotic strip by her 3 gardeners.
|Steven & Kirsty
Steven discovers an interest in CFNM when his new girlfriend takes him to meet her mother.
|College Jocks Erection Ordeal
2 hard up students agree to be guinea pigs for 2 medical trials. The sexy female doctors and nurses who administer them are more concerned about their success than the boys' comfort.
|The Boss
Arrogant boss Richard is taken down several pegs by members of his staff and an enraged client.
"Here is your life"
Roger White gets the "Here is your life" treatment at a book signing.
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The Polar Remote Interactive Marine Observatory (PRIMO), scheduled to be deployed off Antarctica in 2006, will be the first cabled observatory capable of remaining under the ice for a year. It receives power from and sends data back through an electro-optical cable to Palmer Station in Antarctica. A winch system drives an instrument platform up and down between surface waters and the seafloor. It is equipped with instruments that measure salinity, temperature, depth, oxygen, water motion, sound, water turbulence and clarity, light, nutrients, chlorophyll, organic matter, the amount and types of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and larger animals present, along with the platform?s own orientation?all to help reveal the complex interactions and dynamics of the fertile ecosystem in the Southern Ocean.
PRIMO is a collaborative project, led by Vernon Asper of the University of Southern Mississippi and Scott Gallager of WHOI. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)