One side of the story.
Story:
With all ghost hunting shows, there are only two possible outcomes; either a ghost is found, or not (so really one possible outcome). Producers have to prepare for either scenario.
http://www.cracked.com/funny-3039-ghost-tv/
Category: Interesting and funny
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Ghosts-Are they real? A view.
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Florida Man Gets Stuck in Supermarket Air Vent in Alleged Burglary Attempt.
Stupid or Unlucky?
Story:
A Florida man who recently had finished a stint in jail for burglarizing a supermarket was caught allegedly trying to break into the same store — this time getting stuck in the supermarket’s ventilation system, MyFoxOrlando.com reported.Police found Randy Eugene Cliett, 49, in the roof’s ventilation system after the owner of La Placita Mexico Supermarket reported hearing screams for help while opening the business early Tuesday morning.
The Haines City Fire Department pulled Cliett from the vent, and he was charged with burglary to an unoccupied structure causing damage over $1,000 dollars, possession of burglary tools and felony criminal mischief, MyFoxOrlando.com reported.
Cliett had been released from Florida State Prison on Sept. 14 after a sentence for breaking into the same business on April 13, 2004.
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Is Multitasking Limited by a Mental Bottleneck?
Some people in India perform many tasks simultaneously.Depending upon the number of tasks they perform, they are called ‘Ashtavadani( performs eight tasks simultaneosly,Dasa vadani(performs ten tasks)’.
These acts relate various disciplines, Maths,Vedic hymns, answering questions on music, performing one act with one hand and another with the other hand,Astrology,playing music, and many more.
Testing them would have yielded more insight.
Story:
Next to the many amazing feats our brain pulls off daily, its inferior ability to juggle a few simple tasks sticks out like a sore thumb. Now research from Vanderbilt University suggests that these limits on multitasking arise from slow processing in the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s central executive. Although the area has been known to be involved in multitasking, its exact role is a matter of debate.Using functional MRI, the researchers found that when people were juggling two assignments, their prefrontal cortex appeared to deal with the tasks one by one—creating that familiar mental bottleneck—instead of processing them in parallel as do sensory and motor parts of the brain. With training the prefrontal activation time became shorter, cranking up the speed of the mental conveyor belt by about 10 times. Unfor tunately, the researchers note, the benefits of training might not apply to tasks other than those specifically practiced. “It’s not like you become able to multitask [with drills]; it’s just that you become able to do each task very quickly,” says cognitive neuroscientist Paul Dux, now at the University of Queensland in Australia, who conducted the experiment.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mental-bottleneck
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Bike Riding Manual,93 pages,issued byBritish Police.
This is what British bureaucracy is about.
Story:BRITISH police chiefs have come under fire for a 93-page guide telling officers how to ride their bikes, including how to brake and how to balance to avoid falling off.
The Police Cycle Training Doctrine also warns policemen not to try to tackle suspected criminals while still “engaged with the cycle” – on the bike – and gives a diagram on “deployment into a junction” – turning left or right.
The guide was produced by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), which insisted it had not been fully approved for publication after the document was reported in the Sun newspaper.
Other advice includes to wear padded shorts for “in-saddle comfort,” while officers must always remember to “rear-scan” – look over their shoulders.
Undercover police are advised that they may have to cycle without a protective helmet to avoid being found out.
But, underlining the importance of sometimes-criticised health and safely laws, it warned: “This lack of protection must be noted and a full risk assessment of the required role … be undertaken.”
The Sun – which noted that the original US constitution ran to only four pages, and the Bible takes less than a page to recount God’s creation of the universe – said the guide had cost thousands of pounds.
Critics said it was a waste of money.
“I am sure it is of great value… but I think you can do this kind of thing much, much more cheaply,” said London mayor Boris Johnson, a keen cyclist who has sought to boost bike use since taking office last year.
“This is an absurd waste of police time and thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money,” added Mark Wallace, head of the Taxpayers’ Alliance lobby group which campaigns against misuse of public money.
But Dave Holladay of the National Cycling Organisation rejected the charge that the guide was too long, and defended its contents.
“I would quite expect a manual on police cycling to tell police officers how to turn corners correctly,” he said, adding: “The advice of getting off the bike is actually included in most police bike training.”
“Police cyclists have to be exemplars,” he told the BBC.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26343385-5013016,00.html
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