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"I just wasn't fast enough," said Nguyen, a 23-year-old engineer from Pennsylvania. Asked how it felt to take second place, he was clearly disappointed: "I just got beaten by a teenage girl, but you know." Tirosh, who said she practiced with her friend and trainer Amy, who threw out random words or symbols and even motivational Buddhist quotes, admitted to feeling a certain pressure due to the home side advantage. Wearing a satin boxing robe before her championship bout against Pozgar, she said success would come down to who could marry lightning speed and accuracy. "It's about balance." She said she owed her success to relaxation and deep breathing. So dedicated is she to the art that Tirosh apparently unwittingly uses abbreviations such as BTW (by the way), TTYL (talk to you later) and LOL (laughing out loud) in her normal speech. In a tense championship final, Tirosh seemed to have won only for judges to rule she had made a 15,000-dollar error....

Whatever it is that girl put a spell on me..!!

Q1. The XXX effect is the ability of an activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention to begin overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game XXX. People who play XXX for a long time might then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street. In this sense, the XXX effect is a form of habit. They might also see images of XXX shapes at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes. In this sense, the XXX effect is a form of hallucination. They might also dream about XXX shapes when drifting off to sleep. In this sense, the effect is a form of hypnagogic imagery.What effect?? Q2. "TTT" is a famous Irish traditional song about a highwayman (usually in the Cork and Kerry mountains), who is betrayed by his wife or lover. The song has been recorded by folk groups such as The Dubliners, The Pogues, Pet...