Posted Apr 30th, 2011 10:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO—This Mother’s Day, Mom can get what she really wants by taking a trip to Good Vibrations’ Mommy Playdates, a fun, after-hours mixer for mothers who want to learn how to put the spice back in their sex lives. Moms can enjoy a “Mommi-tini” cocktail with a personalized store tour and a one-on-one consultation with Good Vibrations’ staff sexologist and renowned author/expert, Dr. Carol Queen.

In honor of Mother’s Day, which officially falls on May 8, Good Vibrations will be hosting the next Mommy Playdate on Tuesday, May 3 at their new downtown San Francisco at 899 Mission Street. Until then, moms can visit GoodVibesSexyMama.com for tips on how to support a sex life when kids enter the picture, information about Mommy Playdates, and special shopping guides and discounts for moms who want to put the spice back in their sex lives. Good Vibrations Sexy Mama blog posts include such relevant issues as how to talk to your kids about sex, how to make time to feel sexy, how to nourish yourself, as well as fun, personal pieces from a variety of bloggers about sex and motherhood. 

Can’t make the Playdate? Good Vibrations is offering all shoppers a special 15 percent discount throughout the month of May when they come in with a mom. The company wisely figures: when Mom is happy, everyone’s happy! 

Many moms put their needs at the bottom of the list and sex and sexual health can be easily forgotten. Most wonder when their sex lives will ever get back to normal after the baby comes home and are completely unprepared for the physical and emotional roller coaster ride that comes in the months following the baby’s arrival. This can also be true as baby becomes toddler and toddler becomes pre-schooler, and intimacy takes second place as parents try and meet the demands of their child and make sense of their role as a parent. This is not just for women who have recently given birth—adoptive moms and moms who have children of various ages are welcome too.

 “Understanding how the arrival of a baby can affect sex and intimacy is exactly why we decided to launch the Mommy Playdates,” said Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen. “Good Vibrations has nurtured our female customers through many lifecycles—from the ‘first time’ experiences to menopause. Why not help guide them through this period of their lives as well?”

Good Vibrations is the legendary San Francisco-based retailer that takes pride in providing accurate information on sexuality and toys for grown-ups.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a report critical of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s ability to address threats to national security posed by cyber intrusions. The two main objectives of the audit were to evaluate FBI efforts in developing and operating the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTC) to address the national security cyber threat, and to assess the capability of FBI field offices to investigate national security cyber cases.

“These objectives focused mainly on the FBI’s highest cyber priority, counterterrorism and counterintelligence intrusions,” the highly-redacted report said.

In light of those priorities, it is no wonder the report is critical of the Bureau’s capabilities over the past few years. According to statistics compiled during field work conducted for the report—at the FBI’s Washington, D.C. offices as well as at 10 of the Bureau’s 56 field offices—in 2009, the FBI “used 19 percent of its cyber agents on national security intrusion investigations, 31 percent to address criminal-based intrusions, and 41 percent to investigate online child pornography matters.”

The authors of the report also tested 36 FBI cyber agents to assess their qualifications to investigate national security cyber intrusions, and found that 23 (64 percent) had the necessary skills. However, 36 percent of the 36 agents had never heard of NCIJTC, which is the centerpiece of the FBI’s national security cyber intrusion operations. Five of the agents interviewed actually admitted that they lacked the technical skills necessary to investigate cyber intrusions.

The report also found that information sharing among the 18 federal agencies that have a role in NCIJTC was insufficient to provide the level of interagency coordination necessary to protect the country’s cyber infrastructure.

According to IT World, the lax coordination and investigative focus is a big problem in a world in which “years-long cyberattacks launched by the Chinese military had netted 'terabytes' of sensitive data ranging from names and passwords that would give access to State Department computers, to the design of major weapons systems.”

Those and other cyber attacks by the Russians and other foreign powers “represent a new state of cyberwar the U.S. is not yet prepared to fight,” said IT World, which quotes Stewart Baker, a former senior cyber-security official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency, as warning that the attacks have been so successful “we have given up on the idea we can keep our networks pristine.”

The focus has shifted from maintaining defensible networks to more sophisticated efforts to detect and counter intrusions as they're made, reported the site, which concluded, “Unfortunately, those are exactly the kinds of skills the FBI cyber squads lack and the kind of crime they don't have the time or resources to investigate.”

For IT World, the decision to put valuable human resources into the fight against online child pornography rather than cyber intrusions is something worth reevaluating, despite the fact that child pornography and non-national security related cyber crimes need to be investigated.

“When you're losing terabytes of sensitive data to foreign governments who can walk freely through your most secure computer systems, however, maybe it's time to reconsider your priorities,” the websites opined. “Maybe shift a few agents away from the wankers and point them toward the enemy?”

The DOJ report on the FBI's abiliity to address the national security cyber intrusion threat can be read here.

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LOS ANGELES—NBC4 LA is reporting on an incident involving two uniformed Los Angeles Department of Transportation officers accused of taking part in a porn flick while on duty. The station also is reporting that the head of the city’s parking enforcement division, Jimmy Price, has known about the incident for two months but failed to discipline the officers. The LADOT has now opened an investigation that was prompted, says NBC4 LA, by its exposé.

A full report will air on NBC4 LA at 11 p.m., and there will be video, but it will probably not be an unedited version of the one you want to see.

That video, which is available on a popular adult subscription website the URL of which we do not have yet, "tracks the interactions of a porn actress as she approaches men in a range of work environments,” NBC LA reported on its website. “Various men in the film appear to grope her and perform a range of sex acts with her. In one scene, the actress jumps into the arms of an L.A. traffic officer, who spanks her and then fondles her bare breasts. A second traffic officer takes a few spankings from the woman, [and] then allows her to get into his official city car, where she performs lewd acts on herself.”

When questioned by NBC4 LA, Price said the men's behavior rose to an unacceptable level. "In my mind, and legally, yes, that's misconduct," the parking enforcement honcho admitted.

The television station also had gotten ahold of an internal LADOT memo that indicated Price knew about the incident two months ago, but failed to discipline the officers. When asked why, he said he had only seen photos, and not the full video. “We were not able to positively identify the individuals as employees," he said.

But NBC4 LA is reporting that the unnamed LADOT parking enforcement employees who provided the station with a copy of the sex video dispute that account, saying Price has seen it and was fully aware of the identities of the officers.

Amir Sedadi, the general manager of LADOT, was shown the video by NBC4 LA and responded viscerally. "It's absolutely disgusting," he said, flustered to the point of grammatical incoherence. "Immediately, we will conduct a full investigation. This is not acceptable to me.”

NBC4 LA also tracked down one of the officers who allegedly appears in the video.

"I don't know what you're talking about," the veteran officer said, and then jumped into his city car and sped off.

That dramatic encounter will probably be part of the 11 p.m. television news report. AVN is trying to find out the name of the website on which the video is alleged to appear.

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