Even after crushing and capturing Arcturia, the Redvonian King was still longing for more castles to crush. Rumor has it that King Blutias has built sturdier castles in his cluster of islands known as Crushtania the Redvonian King wants them crushed. The King has sent you, his Seige Master, and Halgrim his finest mason, to assemble the greatest minds in the land to destroy Blutias’s empire.
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26-year old Claudia Mitchell - First Ever Bionic Women
The first time Claudia Mitchell peeled a banana one-handed, she cried.
It was several months after she lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorcycle accident. She used her feet to hold the banana and peeled it with her right hand. She felt like a monkey.
“It was not a good day,” Mitchell, 26, recalled this week. “Although I accomplished the mission, emotionally it was something to be reckoned with.”
Now, Mitchell can peel a banana in a less simian posture. All she has to do is place her prosthetic left arm next to the banana and think about grabbing it. The mechanical hand closes around the fruit and she’s ready to peel.
Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic” arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone. The device, designed by physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her now-missing limb.
Mitchell and the first person to get a bionic arm — a power-line technician who lost both arms to a severe electric shock — will demonstrate their prostheses today at a news event in Washington. The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is part of a multi-lab effort, funded with nearly $50 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to create more useful and natural artificial limbs for amputees.
As of July, 411 members of the military serving in Iraq, and 37 in Afghanistan, have suffered wounds requiring amputation of at least one limb. (How many involved losing arms could not be immediately learned.) Mitchell spent four years in the Marine Corps but did not lose her arm during military service.
Someday she hopes to upgrade to a prosthesis, still under development, that will allow her also to “feel” with an artificial hand. She is ready for it now.
Last summer, surgeons took the first step by rewiring the skin above her left breast so that when the area is stimulated by impulses from the bionic arm, the skin sends a message to the region of her brain that feels “hand.”
Future arms will also be able to perform more complicated motions. She recently spent time at the Chicago hospital trying out a prototype with six motors, not just the three of her current prosthesis. It will theoretically allow her to reach for things over her head.
But even the first-generation device “has changed my life dramatically,” she said. “I use it to help with cooking, for holding a laundry basket, for folding clothes — all kinds of daily tasks.”
For Todd A. Kuiken, 46, a physician and biomedical engineer, this is the latest step in his 20-year effort to make a better artificial arm. Over that time, his laboratory has spent about $3 million on research and development, with more than $2 million provided by the National Institutes of Health.
Everyone knows that Math function is very important in programming especially for simulation and flash games.
Ever wondered how to create a floating object or swimming fish like animation using action script?
This tutorial shows you how can you create a simple floation animation using Math.Sin function in flash actionscript 2.
Draw any shape and convert that to MovieClip using Modify->Convert to symbol option.
Now select the movieclip that you’ve created and open the properties panel. then set the Instance Name to “mc”
Okay, now select the first frame on your flash document and open the actions panel (Window->Actions) or by pressing F9 key.
and copy and paste this coding, you are done.. press the CTRL + Enter to preview your movie.
It will move a bit and de-accelerate and then move again.
var acc_counter = 0;
var acc_speed = 6; // acceleration speed
var acc = 0;
var speed = 1; // normal speed
_root.onEnterFrame = function()
{
acc_counter += acc_speed;
acc = 4*Math.sin(acc_counter*Math.PI/180) // here the number 4 is the distance per move
if(acc >= 4) // we are stopping it at 4 to make it stop for a while and continue again
{
acc = 4;
}
else if(acc <= 0)
{
acc = 0;
}
mc._y += speed+acc; // we are moving the movieclip in the _y position ,instead you may try to use _rotation or _alpha ,etc
}try this, some elasticity added. we are not resetting the ‘ac’ variable here ..
var acc_counter = 0;
var acc_speed = 6; // acceleration speed
var acc = 0;
var speed = 1; // normal speed
_root.onEnterFrame = function()
{
acc_counter += acc_speed;
acc = 4*Math.sin(acc_counter*Math.PI/180) // here the number 4 is the distance per move
mc._y = mc._y+speed+acc; // we are moving the movieclip in the _y position ,instead you may try to use _rotation or _alpha ,etc
}Try this to.. it can be useful for creating a boat floating on water animation
var acc_counter = 0;
var acc_speed = 6; // acceleration speed
var acc = 0;
var speed = 1; // normal speed
_root.onEnterFrame = function()
{
acc_counter += acc_speed;
acc = 35*Math.sin(acc_counter*Math.PI/180)
mc._y = 250+speed+acc;
}Also you can use Math.Sin and Math.Cos to move the MovieClip in a circular motion.
var acc_counter = 0;
var acc_speed = 6;
var acc = 0;
var acc2 = 0;
var speed = 1;
_root.onEnterFrame = function()
{
acc_counter += acc_speed;
acc = 35*Math.sin(acc_counter*Math.PI/180)
acc2 = 35*Math.cos(acc_counter*Math.PI/180)
mc._x = 250+speed+acc;
mc._y = 250+speed+acc2;
}Hope this is useful for some beginners, Thank you.
Dharshan
2Leep Logo
What is 2leep ?
To make it simple to say its a traffic exchange program, After joining 2Leep link exchange and placing one small ticker (banner) with links on your website, your blog post previews (images plus links) will start appearing on hundreds of some of the most interesting blogs and websites. That means your blog post previews will appear instantly before an audience of curently 3,000,000 unique daily blog readers. The 2leep system carefully tracks that every participant gets more traffic than he gives, bringing back 170% to 250% more visitors to your posts. In general, all partners get a 20% increase to their daily traffic stats.
And the 2leep system is more than just a link exchange. Each day you can send your best blog post links to 2leep, just as you can to Digg or Reddit. The ones chosen by 2leep staff go on the front page, making them visible to thousands of 2leep daily visitors. That’s a totally free way for participants to get a lot of quality traffic daily.
Does it really works ?
I’ve tried 2leep for a while on my other site Free Online Games – Ezzal and I can say yes, it works great , but you need some interesting and good contents on your site and a decent amount of visitors to get started !
Whenever I post a new unique post on my site I just add it on my 2leep account and one of their staff would approve it. And after few minutes you can see it on 2leep.com homepage. And imagine how much traffic you will instantly get..
They have a Alexa traffic rank of #1587 now.
But they allow you to add only 1-2 posts per day, but that is no problem at all.
Here is the last week stats of my site Ezzal.com on 2Leep.
The Sent columns shows how many visitors I sent from my site Ezzal.com using their widgets and Received shows the amount of visitors I got from 2leep homepage and their widgets from other 2Leep participants.
2leep
Their referral program
They even have a referral program and all people joining 2leep under your link would send you 5% of their traffic.
Doesn’t this sound cool ?
Do you have a great blog or website ? Try to apply and get started.
You can use this link to join under my referral : http://2leep.com/webmaster/apply/457/
Hope your site will get accepted.
Thank you.
The domain Londoninfotech.net was blocked in Digg.com – The social bookmarking site a while ago. The reason was I did submit a lot of links from same domains often.
After the site content and script updated I tried to contact them and asked to Un-Block the domain and whooa ! I got the reply within 24 hours !
Hello ezzalgames,
Thanks for contacting Digg Support regarding your domain.
We have removed the domain block. Go ahead and try resubmitting the URL using this link:
Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you have any further questions.
Thank you,
Digg Support Team
Check out http://digg.com/faq for more information about Digg.
Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/digg_community
I didn’t like Digg as much as I like Reddit, Stubmelupon because they didn’t give much user support and It was damn hard to get in homepage ! But now it looks like they are more active. good to see.
Take care,
Happy Digging.
Digg.com – XOXOXO
The Flood Runner 2 Game
The Flood Runner 2 is a new game that I’ve published on Ezzal.com and I really like it.
Its a interesting and funny run-and-jump type skill game.
You need to press Space or Mouse Button to Jump, Double Jump and use Wings, Run, jump and don’t get caught by the flood. Pick score bonuses, and double your score by flying high.
It gets more faster and addicting by each level.
I really like the game style and concept because its good for playing on a hurry. a good time waster ! similar to canobalt game which got a millions of play in very short amount of time.
The game has been sponsored by clockworkmonster.com which is a decent site with less ads , also the site have some great games to play.
Click here to Play Flood Runner 2 Game on Ezzal and post your comments here.
Thank you.
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create a URL shortening service, such as Bit.Ly or TinyURL.com.
The way our code will work is rather simple. The user creates a short URL. This short URL is placed in a database. Each time a 404 (Not Found) error occurs, we will look in the database and see if the link exists. If it does, we will forward the user to the destination site.
First of all, we must create the MySQL table. Execute this SQL statment through phpMyAdmin:
CREATE TABLE `shorturls` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `shorturl` varchar(100) NOT NULL, `longurl` varchar(1000) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=29 ;
After executing that statment, you will have the database setup to store the short and long URLs.
plete! You can add formatting code to make it look nicer.
I think this is the best funny drunk talk ever !
Hi there,
For a long time I got really busy with my other websites such as Ezzal Games .
You can see that the last post I made on this site is on February 28th, 2008
and just today I got some time to update the site. From now will be posting new interesting articles often.
Not just that, But I’ve upgraded the website backend software wordpress to the latest and cool version WordPress 3.0 Thelonious.
And I’ve cleaned the site by deleting old spam comments and user registrations,etc
So, expect some cool and interesting posts soon check back often for updates.
Take care, Have a nice day.
- Dharshan
I always wondered where all those dead Marios go when you die and fall under the screen. Now I know. They go nowhere. They just pile up and rot away like a smashed Koopa Troopa. I couldn’t find an artist to go with this art, so if you made this, please shoot me an email and I’ll throw up your credit.
Where does mario go when he dies