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.”
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.
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!!!!!!!!
I have definitely experienced the emotional detachment that you are describing after my experience with Mount Bachelor Academy. Poker face to the max, I realized after the first few days that I couldn’t trust a single person I talked to in there. I saw people who were really good friends betraying each other right off the bat. That’s the kind of rifts that attack therapy creates in people in a residential setting. There was always an unspoken understanding that we may be friends now, but in group it’s another story. You’re on your fucking own. I primarily watched my own back. I had a huge advantage going into it however, and that is my acting experience. I am as a result of my acting experience a good public speaker and fast on my feet.
After a few months it got to the point where I understood the the dynamics of how group worked so well that I was able to avoid trouble, mostly. It’s really a very simple system. Someone is going to have the barrel of the attack gun pointed at them. If no one brings any requests to group, they can usually just harass someone on a self-study or who has bans or who is new. When that person gets defensive, yell at him until he or she agrees with the group. It’s preferable if they start crying. If they are crying, inform them of their punishment and then when they get angry, yell at them some more. When emotions are running high, shift the target to someone else who will with the help of a few cues from the facilitator become the new object of all of the group malice that has been artificially created by this process. A good way to connect the two is by turning to the next victim and saying something like “And you! Aren’t you his friend? Why haven’t you been holding him accountable? You’re supposed to be your brother’s keeper. I think you’re negative and underground.” That would do it for just about anyone.
Phil and Olly / UK / 2008 A sleep-deprived office worker accidentally discovers a black hole – and then greed gets the better of him…
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