My illness: Emphysema

What Is Emphysema? Emphysema is a degenerative disease that usually develops after many years of assault on lung tissues from cigarette smoke or other toxins that pollute the air. These toxins destroy the small air sacs in the lungs, called alveoli, that stretch as they transport oxygen from the air to the blood and then shrink as they force out carbon dioxide. As a result, the lungs lose their elasticity, and exhaling becomes difficult as the damaged lungs trap air and cannot effectively exchange it with fresh air. As the damage progresses, the effort needed to breathe increases and, ultimately, each breath becomes labored. (Illustration provided by the American Medical Association.) Emphysema is one of a group of lung diseases referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that can interfere with normal breathing. Other diseases that come under COPD include asthma and chronic bronchitis. According to the American Lung Association (ALA), nearly 16 million Americans are estimated to suffer from some form of COPD, and COPD is the fourth-ranking cause of death just behind heart ailments, cancers, and stroke.

Thursday, 7 January 2010

Time to get creative

Well for those who know that I have quite a bit of a creative side, I one more time have to develop for someone on imvu (as requested) by recreating an item I made some time ago, but with a slight difference, as I created an animated fire ring, which now has been requested to be made as an animated fire necklace.

Meanwhile, Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 has seen me creating a story in create a storyline.
The inspiration for this story came to me after seeing the Million Dollar Man and after seeing the Donald Trump buys Raw off of Vince McMahon storyline in the WWE.
My create a storyline would be based around the Million Dollar Man who offers Vince McMahan alot of money to buy Raw.
Although Vince is saddened to part with Raw, he couldn't refuse because of the price that was offered by The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase.
However, The Million Dollar Man takes advantage over Vince being distracted by his family problems, as Vince forgot to read the small print when signing the agreement.
The Million Dollar Man points this out to Vince that he took advantage, but he DID give him the correct money, for he doesn't own Raw, he owns a part of it, as The Million Dollar Man now owns half of the WWE.
With Vince feel distraught and outraged, Vince offers to pay the Million Dollar Man back the money he paid, Dibiase refuses, then Vince offers double, Dibiase refuses yet again and then points out that he considers this as a major investment and would like to buy Vince's half of the WWE.
Vince refuses the offer, so it seems that both men are not willing to sell their half of the company.
Later, The Million Dollar Man issues to every WWE superstar an opportunity of a life time, by working for him, under his payroll, and forming a new coperate faction.
My wrestler (Omega) mentions to Vince that he'll be bringing a new world order to the WWE, the nWo that will be rebuilt and renewed with brand new members who oppose against the Million Dollar Man despite that some superstars will choose to fight alone.

About Mugen...

Mugen is a fighting game for the PC where you can download & add ANY fighters you want, whether they're from Streetfighter, Mortal Kombat, Marvel, DC, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Dragon Ball Z and various Anime's and more, you can even add stages and theme music for that stage.I currently have a tool that allows me to edit colours of any character I want, I also know how to change the character's name's and the sizes of the characters, I also have a tool that'll let me create my own Mugen character which I hope to do at some point, what you'll need is the Mugen Character Maker, a sprite sheet for the character you want to create and sounds for the moves they do (like "HADOUKEN/SHO-RYU-KEN" for Ryu/Ken for instance).

Many people have made their own Mugen's available to download so you can either choose to make your own from scratch or download a pre-made one by someone else.
You can find several pre-made Mugen's at www.caiman.us

pYzam-a-sketch