Martes, Mayo 10, 2011
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Acid splasher now a stalker
KUALA LUMPUR: Police are concerned as a serial acid splasher who is believed to be responsible for more than 20 attacks on women and children in the city has begun to strike at night.
All of the earlier attacks which started early this year had occurred in the day.
However, on Friday, three women were attacked 30 minutes apart at around 9pm in the city area.
In the first case, two women who were walking along Jalan Pudu Lama were splashed with acid by a man on a motorcycle leaving one of them with severe burns that almost blinded her left eye.
Half an hour later, another woman had acid splashed on her at a parking lot, believed to be by the same man.
On Saturday, a woman and her year-old baby were attacked at their home in Persiaran Titiwangsa.
City police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said a task force, formed since the beginning of the initial attacks, was examining the facts of the latest attacks to determine if they were the work of the same man.
Meanwhile, the father of the woman who was severely burned in the eye, Mohammad Salleh, said his daughter was responding well to treatment when met at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital intensive care unit yesterday.
“Doctors believe they may be able to save her left eye. But she also suffered 5% burns on her face and chest,” he said.
The other victims had reacted quickly by washing their faces with water, resulting in little or no lasting injuries.
Sources, however, pointed out that despite the sudden change in the time of the suspect’s attacks, he still primarily targeted women and children.
DCP Zulkifli was reported earlier as saying the police were taking the matter very seriously as the attacks were beginning to cause panic among city folks.
The only lead police have on the identity of the suspect is that he is of dark complexion and rides either a Honda EX5 or Yamaha motorcycle
Can Multitasking Make You Fat?
Juggling lots of unrelated responsibilities can ruin self-discipline in the areas of your life. As a result, you may find it harder to control the temper, withstand fattening meals, or stick to your exercise routine, suggests a new study published in Firm Behavior and Human Determination Processes. Chalk it down to mental overload, due to brain empty from abnormal multi-tasking at home or on the job.
Compulsively checking your Blackberry as you help young kids do their own homework, as well as frequently moving between various tasks on the job can tire out the “executive function” from the brain. The researchers, a crew of marketing professors from Emory’s Goizueta Company School and other universities, have concluded that our mind are only sent to change mental equipment a limited amount of times prior to the intellectual sources required for personal control are usually exhausted, leaving people prone to such behavior as emotional outbursts as well as cheating on the diet. The study involved several experiments about 300 members who were questioned to complete different tasks, employing different methods, as their self-control was measured. Here???s a closer look on the study conclusions:
How does multi-tasking challenge healthy eating? In one research, the volunteers had been asked to believe abstractly about 1 topic, believe in more concrete floor or technical terms about yet another, or mix the two kinds of thought. Later on, the volunteers had been offered the bitter-flavored beverage and told of their health benefits. Those who switched forward and backward between concrete and fuzy thought drank one-third the amount of the actual bitter drink than did volunteers who were simply asked to make use of one type of imagined, thus displaying less self-control within healthy eating than would non-multi-taskers, the study discovered. This discovering could also connect with sticking to any weight-loss diet, that requires every day self-discipline, the researchers point out. Also, multi-tasking can make you more victim to the lure of distracted eating, a typical problem when folks are consumed with stress by an overly hectic, juggling lifestyle.
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