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Post by Luco El Loco on Apr 6, 2006 12:22:42 GMT
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Post by Luco El Loco on Apr 20, 2006 12:00:10 GMT
Brain StudyDuke Nukem sheds light on brain
Time spent in bed could make you a better gamer
Studies of the brain using the video game Duke Nukem have shown how sleep affects long-term memory.
The Belgian team used MRI scans to see how volunteers stored spatial information from the game.
Sleep-deprived gamers recalled information from a different part of the brain to those who slept.
Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the team said its work also shed light on how we navigate in the real world.
"If you move to a new town, you have to think about where you are going," said Pierre Orban of Liege University in Belgium, one of the authors on the paper.
"But with time, once you know the city, you don't have to think about your route anymore."
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Post by Luco El Loco on May 8, 2006 14:53:28 GMT
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Post by Luco El Loco on Jun 4, 2006 11:52:58 GMT
Nadal chokes on banana Saturday June 3, 09:44 PM By Pritha Sarkar
PARIS (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal choked at the French Open on Saturday. Luckily for the defending champion it was only on a piece of banana.
"I took a little bit of a banana. It slipped through the mouth sideways. I don't know what happened but it suddenly stayed stuck halfway through," a bemused Nadal said pointing to his neck following a 5-7 6-4 6-4 6-4 third round win over French hope Paul-Henri Mathieu.
Nadal was serving for the third set at 5-4, 15-all when he suddenly sprinted to the sidelines and pointed to his throat as a trainer tried to assess the problem.
The move drew loud whistles and jeers from the crowd but Nadal was not about to let a piece of fruit scupper his quest to chalk up a 56th consecutive victory on clay.
"I played one point. At 15-love, I started being a little bit frightened," said the second seed.
"But I didn't want to stop in the middle of the game. I didn't think it would look very good but I then lost the next point.
"I was now paying more attention to my throat than to tennis. It was an important game, so I started getting nervous.
"It's not that I couldn't breathe but I did feel a very strange sensation.
"I thought, I've got to stop because I don't want anything serious to happen. Never mind if I don't look good. (It was) not my fault."
Nadal, still, went on to hold serve to establish a two sets to one lead.
Buoyed by the roaring support, Mathieu tried his best to ruin Nadal's 20th birthday celebrations but in the end, he did not have the energy or will to quell the Spaniard.
After almost five hours of high drama, Nadal finally booked a fourth round showdown with former Australian world number one Lleyton Hewitt.
"This was a fabulous match," said Nadal. "I knew this was going to be extremely difficult. Of course, he was playing at home.
"Apart from the pressure from playing at home, there was no pressure on his side.
"I was theoretically the favourite. He was liberated in his game. He was also playing very well.
"But I had prepared for this and the crowd wasn't a problem at any moment.
"I was very focussed at all times and I tried to keep the right attitude, tried to think about staying calm and think about the final victory. I think that's the important point."
I took that from Yahoo.
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Post by Luco El Loco on Jun 12, 2006 21:16:00 GMT
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Post by skuttyb on Jun 12, 2006 23:07:10 GMT
i read that too earlier, thats harsh. youd think they could all them to get a bit excited at least
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Post by Luco El Loco on Jul 3, 2006 14:02:52 GMT
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Post by Graham on Jul 4, 2006 23:22:30 GMT
Agreed - was there a need for it to be at 3am?  |
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Post by static anonymity on Jul 24, 2006 5:28:29 GMT
Agreed - was there a need for it to be at 3am? Maybe he'd just heard about when Murray's next match was to be, and he knew that he'd be busy earlier, so the nice mister Connery called. Hell, if he called me I wouldn't be pondering/complaining over the time!  |
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Post by Luco El Loco on Oct 14, 2006 19:12:00 GMT
From Yahoo
Lady and Lord of the Dance married Saturday October 14, 06:51 PM
Lord of the Dance Michael Flatley married his leading lady, Niamh O'Brien. After a whirlwind romance the couple exchanged vows in front of family and friends in Fermoy, Co Cork.
The multi-millionaire dance star and his bride were swamped by photographers and hundreds of fans as they arrived at the church separately. The dancer drove himself to the ceremony in a soft-top Mercedes.
Ms O'Brien, from Co Kildare, arrived at the church with her father Thomas in a black and silver Rolls Royce Phantom, specially purchased by the bridegroom for the occasion.
The bride wore an ivory gown, reported to have cost 100,000 euros (£67,000). She was accompanied by six bridesmaids, including her two sisters Aoibheann and Derval, who wore black floor-length dresses.
Northern Ireland peace campaigner Fr Aidan Troy conducted the ceremony with local parish administrator, Fr Anthony O'Brien.
Mr Flatley's family members who jetted in from Chicago included his younger brother and best man Patrick, his father Michael senior, mother Elizabeth, sisters Liza and Annie and other brother Thomas.
Friends, family, colleagues and locals who have become friendly with Mr Flatley later attended a reception at his home, Castlehyde.
Mr Flatley, 48, shot to fame in the Riverdance and Lord of the Dance stage shows. Ms O'Brien, 32, is a member of the Celtic Tiger dance troupe.
The couple first met on the set of Riverdance in 1993, but only became an item earlier this year.
Mr Flatley, who split with fiancee Lisa Murphy earlier this year, has been married before. In 1986 he wed Polish beauty Beata Dziaba in a register office in Copenhagen. The couple divorced in 1997.
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Post by Luco El Loco on Nov 4, 2006 19:49:39 GMT
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Post by Luco El Loco on Nov 5, 2006 19:54:43 GMT
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Post by Luco El Loco on Dec 11, 2006 23:05:44 GMT
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