Sex toy testers wanted

With the recession and global financial crisis summer jobs can be hard to come by, but gainful unemployment can still be had – product testing a new sex toy.

No payment was involved but successful applicants for the 100 “sexexcutive” jobs would receive a free vibrating sex toy, worth about $25, to trial.

It was the dream job in a country where people were “quite willing to discuss their sexual antics”, Durex New Zealand country manager David Rae said.

The company has run similar campaigns with condom testing.

Product testing helps generate product development and generates interest, Mr Rae told NZPA.

Applicants, who must be at least 16, could apply online until January 21.

Source: http://www.3news.co.nz/News/BusinessNews/Sex-toy-testers-wanted/tabid/421/articleID/83680/cat/52/Default.aspx

‘Santa Bob’ admits he grew wacky weed and ‘shrooms

TOWSON, Md. (AP) – A Harford County man who sells Christmas trees on his farm and poses as Santa for the children of his patrons has pleaded guilty to two counts of growing and possessing marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Prosecutors are seeking at least six months in jail for 62-year-old Robert Chance of Darlington, also known as “Santa Bob.”

Scientists develop software that can map dreams

The secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep.

A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.

While researchers have so far only created technology that can reproduce simple images from the brain, the discovery paves the way for the ability to unlock people’s dreams and other brain processes.

A spokesman at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories said: “It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity.

“By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams.” The scientists, lead by chief researcher Yukiyaso Kamitani, focused on the image recognition procedures in the retina of the human eye.

It is while looking at an object that the eye’s retina is able to recognize an image, which is subsequently converted into electrical signals sent into the brain’s visual cortex.

The research investigated how electrical signals are captured and reconstructed into images, according to the study, which will be published in the US journal Neuron.

As part of the experiment, researchers showed testers the six letters of the word “neuron”, before using the technology to measure their brain activity and subsequently reconstruct the letters on a computer screen.

Since Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams over a century ago, the workings of the sleeping human mind have been the source of extensive analysis by scientists keen to unlock its mysteries.

Dreams were the focus of a scientific survey conducted by the Telegraph last year in which it was concluded that dreams were more likely to be shaped by events of the past week than childhood traumas.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/3705790/Scientists-develop-software-that-can-map-dreams.html

Confrontational Therapy Works If You Work It Correctly

BULLSHIT!!!! Where do you druggie ingrates get off????!!!???? LAMBASTING A PROVEN, EFFECTIVE,THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE!!!!! When I read that article written by those quacks, I was nauseated that someone would have the temerity to endanger our kids by trying to discredit and eliminate the one technique that has proven effective at dealing with no-good druggie adolescents and getting them STRAIGHT!!!! No wonder you all are on the road to JAILS, INSTITUTIONS, AND DEATH!!!!! If you spent a quarter of the effort working your program as you do trying to undermine it, you would be doing well. Instead, you keep pointing the finger and playing the blame game. You know you did the NECESSARY THINGS wind up on front row, so don’t give me any of that namby-pamby, crybaby BULLSHIT!Now…..

LET’S HAVE A SONG!!!!!!!!