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Parliament angry with Minister Palm
WILLEMSTAD - Stanley Palm Minister of Economic Affairs was the notable absentee during treatment of the budget for his ministry in parliament. Even his own party was not to talk about his absence. Palm is in Miami this week. According to friends of the minister, he is on a short break. President of Parliament, Mike Franco defended his party colleague. The budget debate was delayed. The debate conflicted with his agenda, Franco said.
The budget debate is the most important debate in parliament for a Minister. It is where the Minister can defend her or her policies for the coming year. According to the members of Parliament, the Minister should have been there. One of the reasons is the economic and financial problems of the island. The MP's wanted to hear from the Minister what his plans are to attract more investors to the island.
Minister of Justice, Nelson Navarro answered questions for Minister Palm.
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What is the Block Protocol?
The Block Protocol Þ is an open standard originally developed by HASH. It allows frontend components built once to be used in many different contexts, and from within any application that supports the protocol.
The Þ works by standardizing the way information is described, with things captured as entities and the relationships between them as links. Links and entities have types, and as of version 0.3 of the Þ an entity can have multiple types.
The Þ 0.3 release also introduces a rich set of primitives for relating schemas that describe entities and links to one another, allowing anybody to extend an existing public schema with their own additional information, without sacrificing the ability to semantically link back to the original definition and benefit from blocks built to work with data of that type.
But more than that, the Þ specifies the actual methods by which frontend components can operate on data.
Yet another standard?
aka. "How does the Block Protocol compare to ________?"
While existing technologies like Storybook Controls and Custom Element Manifests standardize how events and callbacks are described, there's no standardization of what those events actually are. This means that, generally speaking, you often need to know the details of how of a specific element operates in order to implement it.
The goal of the Þ is to make it so that new blocks can be added to an application without any configuration or special required knowledge about how data is handled, and the protocol leverages existing standards such as JSON Schema.
The Block Protocol combines a number of different concepts in a core specification, alongside several additional service specs. One way the core spec enables the zero-knowledge integration of blocks and apps is by defining a standard set of messages that blocks and apps can exchange, each with an explicitly defined purpose (e.g. to update a piece of data).
Related to this are the Þ's data model and type system, which specify that entities should be linked together in a graph. Each entity is described by a type which defines its schema. While technologies such as the Custom Element Manifest describe the schema of a given component, these schemas are isolated and unrelated to a wider pool of data. The Þ aims to provide a means for blocks to be used interchangably between applications to allow both reading and creating complex, interlinked data.
Aligning incentives around interoperability
Previous attempts to create a more interoperable, open web have typically tried to tackle just a few parts of the problem in a piecemeal fashion, without clear handover to other standards or the developer utilities required to make them useful in practice.
Incentive misalignment has also meant that-if anything-the number of walled gardens has increased over time, with semantic web tech facing resistance to adoption when confronted with the real-world.
On 28th February 2023 we'll be releasing the Þ version 0.3, alongside the ability to extend WordPress with the Block Protocol, and use any Þ block in WordPress, the world's most-used CMS, which powers 43% of the public web, and our own HASH entity store and knowledge management app.
What Þ 0.3 contains
An ecosystem of blocks on the Þ Hub: frontend components which can be used in any protocol-supporting environment, without either block or app requiring any special knowledge of one another
The Core Specification: a technical document which outlines the standardized method of block <-> app communication at the heart of the ecosystem
The Graph Service: a common data model for describing information. This allows information created in one application to be used within another, through user-authored types, also hosted and discoverable on the Þ Hub
All this in a completely open-source framework. The Þ specification is free and open, and all of the core technology is available under the Apache 2.0 or MIT license
How the Block Protocol aligns incentives
Easier, not harder to use semantic types
For people who actually want to make their data and sites semantically meaningful on the web, it's not a great user experience today. To make your data widely machine-readable, you'll have a look to see what published schemas already exist (e.g. on schema.org) and try to find something that matches what you're looking to represent.
It's unlikely you'll find a type definition (aka. 'schema') that exactly represent the data you have in the format you've collected it, and published schemas generally capture the "lowest common denominator" properties of entities only, in a "one size fits all" fashion at that.
Even then, some of the most used schemas might store information in ways you regard as bad practice (e.g. the schema.org/Person entity has familyName and givenName properties, rather than legalName and preferredName ones which tend to both generalize better in international/non-US contexts, and provide more useful information in most cases).
So what do you do? Most likely, you give up, and store your data as it makes most sense to you. Unfortunately, your data now makes no sense to any machine out there (unless it's doing some funky AI inference), and isn't really contributing to a democratized semantic web.
How does the Þ change this? Rather than at this stage give up, with the Þ you can find an existing entity type that mostly matches what you're looking for and do two things. Current RFCs propose enabling users to:
extend an existing type with additional properties. We call this type extension. Properties can be created from scratch, or any previously used property can be re-used. For example, you may want to track the location of a Person entity on a map. You might find that a property called "Geolocation" already exists, and rather than create it yourself, use this. Because properties can have data types associated with them which describe the possibility space of valid, accepted inputs, leveraging well-built existing properties is generally preferable to creating your own, providing you with free validation and additional semantic context, helping connect your information to a whole world of linked open data.
fork types, to introduce changes, but retain a conceptual link back. Whereas type extension enables adding individual properties to an existing type, forking allows for a type that is semantically or conceptually "the same thing as" another to represent properties differently. In such cases, users will be able to specify machine-resolvable rules and mappings between entity type definitions that refer to the same thing (e.g. "Person") but have conflicting views on how their properties should be represented. Even in this case, starting with an existing entity type that you don't like which happens to represent the same entity type has benefits, allowing applications that use the Block Protocol to more successfully render your arbitrary data in the appropriate types of blocks.
Our belief is that a free-market of types will emerge, with some more centrally connected than others, and the vast majority of widely-used schemas cross-walked to form a single large machine navigable graph. In this ontology of sorts, different people's understanding of the same concepts can be distinctly captured, with common ground between these and existing expressions preserved.
Unconstrained by the pace at which formal, centralized schema-defining organizations can adapt, and liberated in the depth to which they can model their domains, we expect a new, open global ontology to emerge in which all types are versioned, allowing for their evolution and interconnection over time.
This graph is multi-tenant and in contrast to historical approaches is emphatically not centrally maintained.
Improved data portability
While a lot of attention has been given to user ownership of data (e.g. allowing users to "bring [their] own backend/database"), apps typically don't want to give up control of their datastores. This means that great technologies like Solid remain relatively under-adopted, while traditional owned and operated databases continue to grow.
The Þ is ambivalent about where the data apps interact with is stored. It also doesn't demand that applications expose the data they contain to users in a way that does let them move it off-platform. However, the Þ does ensure that data is stored in accordance with the common model laid out in the protocol, enabling information from one app to port across neatly inside another should that be made possible by the application itself. Increasingly regulators are demanding this of large actors (e.g. the EU's new Digital Markets Act contains much language to this effect).
In this way adopting the Þ makes compliance easy, ensuring data is accessible in a portable format intelligible by others, while preserving a platform developer's ability to choose how and when they expose this to users or other services
More useful applications, without the headache
A plugin ecosystem for apps without their own plugin architectures. A growing community of useful components that extend the functionality of an application, providing utility to users. The ability to access powerful new features that appear in lots of applications at the same time, without being left behind.
Applications that support the Þ will be able to offer their users more. And those users will be able to access new features faster, benefiting from a community of developers building new utilities all the time.
TL;DR we have a plan
As a developer, you get a lot for free by using the Þ. It improves your ability to model information well, and lets you leverage an open-source community of blocks in your application, offering your users far more.
The Þ core team include a behavioral economist, a number of outstanding software engineers, and the creator of Stack Overflow. Our first angel check was from the founder and former CEO of Kaggle, the world's largest data science community. Between us, we believe we have a strong understanding of the incentive structures that need to exist for software engineers to adopt the Block Protocol, and a pragmatic plan to get there. If you'd like to join us, or if you think we're missing something, let us know on the Þ Discord.
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State universities v private universities in Turkey
By BARÇIN YİNANÇ barcin.yinanc@hurriyet.com.tr
This year, 2.5 million students have entered university exams. One million are high school students who are entering the exams for the first time; the rest are those trying their chance for the second time: they either failed to pass the exam the first time or are unhappy with the university and the department they qualified to enter.
This week, nearly 900,000 students who passed university exams will start their registrations according to their preferences and the scores they have earned. One of them is an acquaintance of mine who qualified to enter the engineering department of Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ).
İTÜ is Turkey's oldest and therefore one of the best technical universities. Turkey's former presidents; the late Süleyman Demirel, Turgut Özal and the country's last prime minister,Binali Yıldırım; are İTÜ graduates.
As my young friend got a high score that qualified her to enter one of Turkey's top state universities, she was also offered a scholarship from Koç University, one of Turkey's first private universities. She was confused and undecided as to which one to choose.
When Turkey's first private university - Bilkent University - was founded in 1984 in Ankara, it was viewed for at least a decade as the college for the rich kids who had failed university exams.
So when my young friend asked me for advice, my first instinct was to opt for the state university even though I had become familiar in the course of the past decade with Koç University's high performance. When she and I started to consult those knowledgeable on the issue, almost all of them advised her to go to Koç.
Can we conclude that state universities are lagging behind foundation universities? Can we say that private universities are attracting potentially the best students in Turkey?
An academic who also worked as a rector of a private university for years told me the comparison between state and private universities would amount to comparing apples with oranges.
Currently, there are 206 universities, 126 of which are state universities. "There are some good state universities and bad ones just as there are good foundation universities as bad ones," he told me.
Private universities still cover a tiny portion of the higher education system. While more than 6.5 million students study in state universities, a little more than half a million students are enrolled with private universities. State universities, especially old ones, have tens of thousands of students in their campuses, while a private university's campus can consist of only a seven-floor building.
Having said that, some of the private universities have registered tremendous progress especially in the course of the past two decades and become among the top best universities in Turkey. No state university would have accomplished such fast progress in the span of such a short time. And this has happened on an uneven playing field; in other words, foundation universities do not get any support from the state.
What makes a good university is its academic cadre, another academician, who is currently the rector of a private university, told me. Indeed, some of Turkey's private universities have recruited internationally-renowned scholars. This was the case especially in the first half of the 2000s. There was an exodus from state universities to private ones while the latter were also able to recruit foreign academics. Initially, academicians preferred private universities for economic reasons, but with the improvement in salaries during the premiership of Ahmet Davutoğlu (an academic himself), the academic environment started to become the key criteria.
But ever since the bombings started in 2015, making a peak with the attack on Atatürk airport in 2016, followed by the imprisonment of academics who signed a petition about the conflict in the country's southeast and finally, the coup attempt; Turkish universities are having a hard time to recruit academics from countries west of Turkey. "Not even Turkish academics working in foreign universities are willing to come. As to foreigners, only the ones from countries east of Turkey apply," two members of academia told me.
There is no doubt that some of the best state universities no longer enjoy their former reputation while some private universities have caught up with them. Everyone agrees that there is an overall erosion in the quality of the universities: the good private universities do not compensate for this erosion, while the bad private universities further speed up the erosion. So when you take apart the few of the very best ones, which are around a dozen, the rest of the universities produce graduates who keep adding to the army of the unemployed.
There is almost a consensus in society about the need for a better education system. Ironically, each minister for education tries to improve the system while adding to the mess. Yet there is no minister for higher education, and it has been years that this issue has not had a proper debate with all the stakeholders.
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This week in library fourth grade conducted research on famous scientists. Each student had a scientist that they were researching. They used books as well as online databases to conduct their research. They will use the information that they have gathered to create a timeline of their scientist's life on the computer, complete a writing assignment, and make a presentation to their class.


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Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander, född den 22 mars 1799, död den 17 februari 1875 i Bonn, var en preussisk astronom.

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Argelander var född i Memel, nuvarande Litauen, där hans far, som härstammade från Finland, var grosshandlare. Efter studier i Königsberg fick 1823 anställning som astronomie observator i Åbo samt blev 1828 professor i Helsingfors. År 1836 kallades Argelander, till en del med anledning av sin nära personliga bekantskap med den preussiska kungafamiljen, till professor i Bonn.

Argelander lyckades vinna den på sin tid säkraste bestämningen för riktningen av solsystemets rörelse. Bland hans övriga arbeten märks bland annat Uranometria nova (1843) och den stora stjärnkatalogen Bonner durchmusterung (1857–1863), som omfattar orter för 324 198 stjärnor från nordpolen till 2° sydlig deklination, samtliga då kända stjärnor ned till 9:e och många av 10:e storleken. Argelander var ledamot av flera akademier och lärda samfund, bland annat kungliga vetenskapsakademien i Stockholm.

Nedslagskratern Argelander på månen och asteroiden 1551 Argelander är uppkallad efter honom.

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Phil Smith who is President of The Shubert Organization claims that he is a private person and that his wife who is suing for divorce has embarrassed him beyond all reasonable terms.
His mate who is an actress decided to attack Smith on YouTube and then, tried to explain rants in a New York court this week.
Smith, 76, is suing his wife, British actress Tricia Walsh Smith, 49, for divorce on the grounds that the videos, which have were seen by millions, constitute spousal abuse. The couple is childless and thus no child support or custoday issues have arisen.
Smith had no experience with YouTube and was mortified by the way his private life was exposed on the medium.
The Broadway Producer said that he felt like he was violated in a very serious way.
If you or a family member is involved in a divorce proceeding, a New York Family Lawyer is essential for you. Given your circumstances a gag order can be requested by your Divorce Lawyer and can be issued by the judge to stop this from happening to you.
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Tomorrow is the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Fall Assembly, featuring a panel discussion on alternatives to incarceration in Dane County and around the state. Following is an assembly and awards ceremony, along with a meal. This is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. This is tomorrow from 1 to 7pm at Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ, 1501 Gilbert Road. For more info, visit wnpj.org.
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Intestinal Diseases
Bacterial Overgrowth Syndrome
How to Cite This Chapter: Balart MT, Pinto-Sanchez MI, Szajewska H. Bacterial Overgrowth Syndrome. McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine. Kraków: Medycyna Praktyczna. https://empendium.com/mcmtextbook/chapter/B31.II.4.12. Accessed January 18, 2022.
Last Reviewed: March 28, 2019
Section Editors: Paul Moayyedi, John K. Marshall
Authors: Maria Teresa Balart, Maria Ines Pinto-Sanchez
Section Editors: Witold Bartnik†, Małgorzata Szczepanek
Authors: Hanna Szajewska
Chen B, Kim JJ, Zhang Y, Du L, Dai N. Prevalence and predictors of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Gastroenterol. 2018 Jul;53(7):807-818. doi: 10.1007/s00535-018-1476-9. Epub 2018 May 14. Review. PubMed PMID: 29761234.
Rezaie A, Buresi M, Lembo A, et al. Hydrogen and Methane-Based Breath Testing in Gastrointestinal Disorders: The North American Consensus. Am J Gastroenterol. 2017 May;112(5):775-784. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2017.46. Epub 2017 Mar 21. PubMed PMID: 28323273; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5418558.
Zhong C, Qu C, Wang B, Liang S, Zeng B. Probiotics for Preventing and Treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Current Evidence. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2017 Apr;51(4):300-311. doi: 10.1097/MCG.0000000000000814. Review. PubMed PMID: 28267052.
Gatta L, Scarpignato C. Systematic review with meta-analysis: rifaximin is effective and safe for the treatment of small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Mar;45(5):604-616. doi: 10.1111/apt.13928. Epub 2017 Jan 12. Review. PubMed PMID: 28078798; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5299503.
Ponziani FR, Gerardi V, Gasbarrini A. Diagnosis and treatment of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2016;10(2):215-27. doi: 10.1586/17474124.2016.1110017. Epub 2015 Dec 4. Review. PubMed PMID: 26636484.
Gabrielli M, D'Angelo G, Di Rienzo T, Scarpellini E, Ojetti V. Diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in the clinical practice. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2013;17 Suppl 2:30-5. Review. PubMed PMID: 24443065.
Definition, Etiology, PathogenesisTop
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a condition in which the small bowel is colonized by excessive numbers of aerobic and anaerobic microbes that normally colonize the colon.
The prevalence of SIBO in the general population is unknown. It is often associated to other disorders and therefore frequently underdiagnosed.
Etiology and pathogenesis: There are several mechanisms that prevent bacterial colonization of the small intestine, such as low gastric pH, gastrointestinal (GI) motility, enzymes in pancreatic and biliary secretions, integrity of the intestinal mucosa, direct effects of commensal bacteria, decreased secretion of IgA, and the ileocecal valve. When any of these mechanisms is altered, the risk for SIBO increases:
1) Alteration of the GI tract: Duodenal or jejunal diverticulosis, fistulas, strictures, inflammatory bowel disease, gastric resection or bypass, blind loop syndrome, resection of ileocecal valve.
2) Decreased gastric acid: Hypochlorhydria or achlorhydria, gastrectomy, vagotomy, inhibitors of acid secretion or acid blockers.
3) Altered GI motility: Gastroparesis, pseudo-obstruction, connective tissue diseases (scleroderma, polymyositis, lupus), medications (opiates, anticholinergics, tricyclic antidepressants), radiation enteropathy, muscular dystrophy, amyloidosis.
4) Decreased pancreatic enzymes or biliary secretion: Chronic pancreatitis, cirrhosis.
Intestinal motility disorders and chronic pancreatitis are estimated to account for approximately 90% of cases of SIBO.
Consequences: Bacterial overgrowth leads to:
1) Deconjugation of bile salts and impaired digestion of fats, with consequent steatorrhea and malabsorption of fat-soluble vitamins (specifically vitamins A, D, and E, but not vitamin K, as it is produced by luminal bacteria).
2) Depletion of vitamin B12, leading to megaloblastic anemia. Vitamin B12 is used by anaerobic bacteria to produce inactive cobamides, which in turn decrease vitamin B12 absorption in the ileum by competing for its binding sites.
3) Protein malabsorption.
4) Damage to the enterocytes of the intestinal villi and disturbance of disaccharide digestion with lactose intolerance, which contributes to diarrhea.
5) Increased absorption of bacterial antigens into the bloodstream.
SIBO can be asymptomatic or can present with nonspecific symptoms, such as bloating, flatulence, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, or abdominal pain. These symptoms may mimic irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In fact, a recent meta-analysis showed that one-third of patients with IBS may test positive for SIBO.Evidence 1Low Quality of Evidence (low confidence that we know true effects of the intervention). Quality of Evidence lowered due to inconsistency, indirectness, and publication bias. Chen B, Kim JJ, Zhang Y, Du L, Dai N. Prevalence and predictors of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Gastroenterol. 2018 Jul;53(7):807-818. doi: 10.1007/s00535-018-1476-9. Epub 2018 May 14. Review. PubMed PMID: 29761234.
Patients with SIBO may develop chronic fatty diarrhea and megaloblastic anemia as well as weight loss and malnutrition. They may have symptoms of vitamin A and D deficiencies (osteomalacia and osteoporosis, tetany, trophic epithelial lesions, night blindness), symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency (ataxia and peripheral neuropathy), erythema nodosum, and maculopapular rash.
Patients with SIBO may also present glomerulonephritis, hepatitis or hepatic steatosis, and arthritis.
Although there is no perfect test for the diagnosis of SIBO, the current gold standard involves measurement of bacterial concentrations and culture of jejunal aspirate samples taken endoscopically. Because this test is invasive, hydrogen breath testing (HBT) with substrates such as glucose or lactulose has become a widely accepted alternative.
If available, HBT using glucose as the substrate should be considered, with additional measurement of methane concentration to improve the sensitivity of the test. If HBT is not available, culture of small bowel aspirate should be attempted. If clinical suspicion is high and no test is available, empiric antibiotic therapy seems appropriate.
1. Microbiology of intestinal contents: Quantitative and qualitative microbiological examination of samples collected via a nasogastric tube or during endoscopy from jejunal aspirate. This is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of bacterial overgrowth syndrome; however, the examination is invasive, expensive, and flawed by false-positive results due to contamination with oral and esophageal flora as well as false-negative results due to inability to reach the middle and distal sections of the small bowel. There is a lack of consensus regarding the definition of a positive test. While some studies suggest >103 colony-forming units (CFU)/mL are required to define SIBO, for others >107 CFU/mL are needed. However, most experts have accepted a bacterial count of >103 CFU/mL for the diagnosis of SIBO.
2. HBT: Hydrogen and methane are gas productions from colonic anaerobic bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates used in this test as the substrate for fermentation (eg, glucose or lactulose). These gases can then be measured in exhaled breath using gas chromatography. In patients with SIBO bacteria present in the small intestine produce a premature rise in the concentration of hydrogen, methane, or both following the intake of glucose or lactulose.
Breath testing to measure hydrogen and methane concentrations after the intake of glucose or lactulose as substrates is a noninvasive and relatively inexpensive tool to diagnose SIBO. There is, however, a lack of standardization regarding indications and methodology for testing as well as interpretation of results. A recent North American consensus has proposed a rise ≥20 ppm from baseline in hydrogen concentration and ≥10 ppm in methane concentration using a glucose or lactulose substrate for the diagnosis of SIBO, although the characteristics of these tests are unclear and likely poor.Evidence 2Low Quality of Evidence (low confidence that we know true effects of the intervention). Quality of Evidence lowered due to inconsistency, indirectness, and publication bias. Rezaie A, Buresi M, Lembo A, et al. Hydrogen and Methane-Based Breath Testing in Gastrointestinal Disorders: The North American Consensus. Am J Gastroenterol. 2017 May;112(5):775-784. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2017.46. Epub 2017 Mar 21. PubMed PMID: 28323273; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5418558. The sensitivity and specificity of HBT is variable, with studies reporting a sensitivity range from 31% to 68% and a specificity range from 44% to 100%. When using glucose as a substrate, HBT is more specific but not as sensitive, as glucose is absorbed mainly in the proximal bowel and can therefore miss distal SIBO. On the other hand, the lactulose breath test is more sensitive than specific, but lactulose is an osmotic laxative, which accelerates transit and may lead to false-positive results and overtreatment.
3. Laboratory tests: There is no specific laboratory test to diagnose SIBO. Indirect findings may be macrocytic anemia, hypoalbuminemia, and other abnormalities depending on clinical manifestations and target organ damage.
4. Radiography of the GI tract: Radiographs may reveal impaired intestinal passage or anatomical defects (eg, diverticulum, duplication, "blind loop," intestinal stricture).
5. Stool fat analysis: Microscopic examination of a freshly prepared stool specimen stained with a 1% solution of Sudan III may reveal an increased number of fat droplets in the stool.
Other causes of chronic diarrhea (see Diarrhea).
SIBO often presents with other concomitant conditions, such as celiac disease or IBS, or after a GI surgery. Concomitant celiac disease and SIBO commonly manifest as a lack of an adequate response to a gluten-free diet. In patients with other underlying diseases, like Crohn disease or pancreatitis, SIBO may present as unexplained clinical deterioration.
1. Treatment of the underlying diseases or correcting factors promoting bacterial overgrowth: This is the most important part of SIBO treatment. However, because it is not always possible to completely control the underlying condition, the risk of recurrence remains high.
2. Nutritional management:
1) Formulas containing medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) may facilitate the absorption of fats.
2) In the case of disaccharide intolerance, dietary lactose restriction may contribute to better symptom control.
3) Supplementation of vitamins A, D, E, and, B12 in patients with deficiencies.
4) A diet low in fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols (FODMAPs) may improve clinical symptoms.
3. Antimicrobial treatment: Wide-spectrum antimicrobial drugs against gram-negative aerobic and anaerobic bacteria may be used. The most commonly used antibiotics and doses:
1) Amoxicillin/clavulanate 500/125 mg tid.
2) Ciprofloxacin 250 to 500 mg bid.
3) Doxycycline 100 mg bid.
4) Metronidazole 250 mg bid or tid.
5) Neomycin 500 mg bid.
6) Norfloxacin 400 mg bid.
7) Rifaximin 550 mg bid or tid.
8) Tetracycline 250 to 500 mg bid or qid.
9) Sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim 800/160 mg bid.
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Rifaximin is the most studied antimicrobial drug for SIBO. It has been preferred over other antibiotics because of its limited absorption and systemic effects. Furthermore, it is probably the only antibiotic capable of achieving a long-term favorable clinical effect in patients with IBS and SIBO.Evidence 3Low Quality of Evidence (low confidence that we know true effects of the intervention). Quality of Evidence lowered due to severe inconsistency, indirectness, and imprecision. Gatta L, Scarpignato C. Systematic review with meta-analysis: rifaximin is effective and safe for the treatment of small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Mar;45(5):604-616. doi: 10.1111/apt.13928. Epub 2017 Jan 12. Review. PubMed PMID: 28078798; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5299503. However, the drug is expensive and not widely available.
4. Probiotics for SIBO: Different probiotic strains have shown benefits in reducing abdominal pain as well as decreasing hydrogen concentration and may help to restore microbial balance in patients with SIBO. However, they do not seem effective in preventing SIBO.Evidence 4Low Quality of Evidence (low confidence that we know true effects of the intervention). Quality of Evidence lowered due to inconsistency, indirectness, imprecision. Zhong C, Qu C, Wang B, Liang S, Zeng B. Probiotics for Preventing and Treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Current Evidence. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2017 Apr;51(4):300-311. doi: 10.1097/MCG.0000000000000814. Review. PubMed PMID: 28267052.
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What should happen is a timeout should occur, an error should be raised to the calling application (the CMS service), the service should halt, and then when the Windows server comes back up and the CMS service on Linux reattempts to access the path, Samba should reattempt to build the link and either succeed or fail.
That was Fedora v3. Now were' using RHEL 5, and meanwhile I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 at home on my laptop. I'm expecting a much smoother Samba experience now. But unfortunately, we cannot even seem to get our Samba links to even work, much less behave correctly (i.e. drop) when the Windows server goes down. Now I'm having all kinds of different issues.
The first issue is on my laptop at home, when I use the Network browser in Nautilus to browse my shared folders on my home machines, everything goes erratic. It sees everything really fast one minute, then it locks up for five minutes the next. I click on a folder, it becomes a file. I hit refresh, it can't "see" anything. I go up the tree a couple branches, it finally starts seeing things. I go back into the branch I was in, and it displays it pretty quickly. I copy a folder to the clipboard, and paste to /home/jon, and nothing happens.
Essentially, once the Linux user writes to the Samba share, the share becomes "owned" by root and the user can't do diddly squat. This essentially breaks our publishing plans, rendering the Samba link useless.
Fortunately, Microsoft was kind enough to implement NFS support in Windows Server 2003 R2, and R2 is the build we just erected for the new environment. I'll try that next. But it still makes me wonder, what on earth happened to Samba?? It's only been around for, like, a decade!
The Mono Project over at http://www.mono-project.org/ really needs help, mainly with quality control and distribution maintenance.
For a long time, I have been very glad for Mono, always smiling when I see it mentioned in the press such as SD Times articles or in announcements and Internet buzzes like the one about Moonlight, the Silverlight-to-Mono port project. It has always annoyed me when people would dis the Mono project as being nothing but an intellectual tinkering, something or other, because I thrive in .NET and as much as I admire Linux I need a transitional environment before I can embrace it. I have full confidence in the Mono team's ability to write excellent .NET-compatible code that runs on Linux.
But there are some painful quality control issues going on with Mono, and personally I think it just needs one or two people to jump in and help out, if the team is willing to embrace another helping hand. Otherwise, they need to get their own act together.
The biggest issues I believe are with GTK# and with the Mono-Develop IDE. While the Mono team would likely argue that an IDE does not make up a programming SDK like .NET, one must appreciate the fact that in the Windows world, .NET and Visual Studio are like peanut butter and jelly--they can be eaten on bread alone but the experience is incomplete unless they are together.
I have no problem with Mono or MonoDevelop being incomplete. My issue is with the broken installation process. The whole idea of .NET on the Microsoft front was to eliminate "DLL hell" by allowing folks to both install multiple versions of DLL side-by-side and GAC them, as well as to enable and even encourage software developers to distribute non-GAC'd distributions of libraries that can execute revised functionality for objects being called by an application that expects an older version.
The MonoDevelop solution, or at least the one that is disributed by the Fedora project's Extras repository (yum install monodevelop), installs all of the dependencies, but with incompatible versions of GTK# (et al). So when you fire up MonoDevelop, in addition to getting an error about MonoQuery.addin (not sure what that one's about), if you start a new GTK# project, despite GTKSharp clearly showing up in the References, you get a compile error saying that the Gtk namespace cannot be found.
I have installed Fedora at least five times in the last week or two, in VMWare, trying different yum / rpm installation sequences, trying to figure out where I went wrong. I have reached the conclusion that I wasn't going wrong--the MonoDevelop and/or Mono teams are the ones who did wrong.
One might argue that it's Fedora's problem since they were doing the distro. Wrong again; the Mono project's web site's download links are distribution-targeted, such as for SuSE and Fedora, but the Fedora links are for Fedora 5 (that's TWO major releases old), and are strongly versioned for Fedora 5 when installed. When I use the noarch installer, at the end of installation you get an error message, "it appears that some graphics applications might not run correctly, please install those libraries individually", and MonoDevelop still doesn't "automagically" fix itself.
GAC is overrated. Backward compatibility support for future-versioned libraries inherent in the CLR is as key to Mono's success as side-by-side version installations. This is a fundamental problem with using RPM technology with Mono. You cannot install an older version of GTK# when a newer version is already installed. You can do a force install, but at what cost? What breaks?
I'm still trying to get this stupid thing going. But be sure, I would rather drop Mono than drop Fedora 7 for Fedora 5 or for SuSE (which I also have installed on a VM, and I'm unimpressed with it).
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Using nothing but their voices and innovative live-looping techniques, genre-bending FreePlay takes you from the concert halls of Europe, to the jazz clubs of Manhattan, to the temples of India, and back to their native Toronto, Canada… all without leaving your seat. From Bach to Bird to the Beatles to Bollywood, Dylan and Suba effortlessly cross musical boundaries, continually combining and recombining sounds to create a concert of endless variety, with the intimate delivery of two people. Imagine Simon and Garfunkel crossed with a Bach 2-part invention… or an acrobatic jazz melody combined with ancient Indian beats… or an 8-part vocal arrangement created by two singers… and you'll get a glimpse of what FreePlay has to offer.
Dylan and Suba first met in Toronto in 1993, singing in a jazz choir at York University called "Wibijazz'n'": soon after, they started directing the choir together. At their year-end concert, Dylan and Suba performed an a cappella "director's duet", and FreePlay was born. What started as a typical voice-and-piano jazz duo began to evolve: more instruments were added, and more musical styles explored, to create a duo unique in its musical depth and variety. In 2007, FreePlay created the uniquely innovative, all-a cappella live looping performance style that has earned them international recognition.
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Mid-Week Menu: Marzano Sold, Paisan Chef to Open Longbranch Saloon, and a Waffle-Centric Wine Bar in Alameda
By Luke Tsai
Welcome to the Mid-Week Menu, our roundup of East Bay food news.
1) Marzano (4214 Park Blvd.), the Italian standby in Oakland's Glenview neighborhood, has been sold, Inside Scoop reports. Owners Justin Hafen and John Hurley, who also own Garibaldi's in San Francisco, have decided to close Marzano this summer in order to focus on the residential design business that they own in Napa, where the couple recently moved. The yet-unnamed new owners of the restaurant will reopen it as The Growler's Arms, which will reportedly be a gastropub in a similar vein as New York's Spotted Pig.
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2) Inside Scoop has more details about Longbranch Saloon (2512 San Pablo Ave.), the new restaurant and bar opening in the former Sea Salt space in West Berkeley. It turns out that the chef and co-owner is David Stevenson, who is also the chef at Paisan (2514 San Pablo Ave.) right next door. Details about the Longbranch Saloon's menu concept are pretty sketchy at this point — Stevenson only noted that it'll be the kind of place where you can get either a $9 burger or a $30 steak — but live music and late-night hours (until midnight) are currently part of the plan. Look for a July 1 opening.
3) The Golden Bull (412 14th St.), the downtown Oakland bar whose reopening we noted earlier, is holding an official grand opening party this Friday, May 2, from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Happy hour prices will be in effect all night — $3 well drinks, $4 shots, and so forth.
4) Uptown Oakland might soon get its first "full-service," seven-day-a-week gay bar, The Chronicle reports. Next Wednesday, May 7, the city's planning commission will vote on whether to grant a permit to the proprietors of The Port Bar. If approved, the bar would open this summer in an empty building at 2021 Broadway, next door to the Paramount Theatre.
5) A watchful Chowhound poster has noted the opening of Wine & Waffles (1505 Park St.) in Alameda, in the space next door to Ole's Waffle House. The location isn't incidental: According to a preview in Alameda Magazine, co-owner Vickie Monize's family has owned Ole's for over forty years, and the wine bar will serve waffle dishes from Ole's (and other bar-snacky items) that can be paired with the wine bar's collection of hard-to-find "niche" wines — a novel combination if ever there was one.
6) A couple of coffee-related items: A new coffee roaster called Supersonic Coffee is coming to 2322 Fifth Avenue in Berkeley, Sprudge reports. The project is headed by John Laird (formerly of Verve), who has put together a team of coffee-world all stars; a Supersonic cafe in Oakland is in the works for later this.
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Meanwhile, Coffee Conscious (1312 Gilman St.) softly opened about a month ago in West Berkeley. Pepples Donuts proprietor Josh Levine purchased and revamped the longtime bulk coffee-and-tea shop, adding drip coffee and espresso service, plus Pepples' full line of doughnuts and other vegan pastries.
7) J Weekly reports that the Montclair neighborhood's kosher-vegetarian restaurant Amba Restaurant (6464 Moraga Ave., Oakland) has started to sell kosher-supervised meat dishes like beef kabobs and chicken shwarma — this despite the fact that the owner and his family are ethical vegans. According to owner Jonathan Wornick, the decision was business-motivated, and motivated by a desire to serve kosher meat eaters, who don't have any other restaurant options in the East Bay.
8) Allen Hemberger, a Pixar visual effects artist who lives in Oakland, has launched a crowdfunding campaign in order to create a book that documents his five-year journey of cooking through The Alinea Cookbook (and blogging about the experience along the way), Eater reports. "Over the course of the project," Hemberger writes in his Kickstarter pitch, "I've built precisely-controllable heating chambers for warming chocolate, learned how to import super-fresh fish from the Tsukiji fish market in Japan and washed more dishes than I could possibly keep count of." Hemberger has already hit his funding target, but if you think you might like a copy of the book — the photos look awfully pretty — check out the campaign here.
9) Call it the Great Fast-Food Burger Hoax of 2014: In-N-Out doesn't have any immediate plans to come to Berkeley, California Golden Blogs reports. So, the official-looking In-N-Out banner outside a boarded-up storefront at 2333 Telegraph Avenue — a photo of which went mildly viral on Twitter the other day? Probably the work of a particularly heartless prankster. (Hat tip: Berkeleyside Nosh.)
10) ICYMI, the San Francisco-based Senegalese restaurant Bissap Baobab is opening a new location in downtown Oakland, and I give a rundown of five desserts to check out now that strawberry season is in full swing.
Got tips or suggestions? Email me at Luke (dot) Tsai (at) EastBayExpress (dot) com. Otherwise, keep in touch by following me on Twitter @theluketsai, or simply by posting a comment. I'll read 'em all.
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Gloucestershire Constabulary's Quedgeley headquarters and a file image of a police officer (Image: Google Maps)
A Gloucestershire police constable faces a misconduct hearing after allegedly giving a false account of an investigation to a victim of a road traffic collision.
Jonathon Ilife, PC 252149, will face the hearing at 9.30am on Monday, March 1, at Gloucestershire Constabulary's headquarters in Quedgeley.
In addition to the alleged false report to a victim, he has also been accused of providing a 'misleading update' on the investigation to the constabulary's Traffic Evidential Review Officer.
In a statement on their website, Gloucestershire Constabulary said: "Details of Alleged Breach:
"Allegation 1 - It is alleged the officer emailed the victim of a road traffic collision with an untruthful account of how the investigation had concluded.
"Allegation 2 - It is alleged that the officer provided a misleading update on the investigation to the Constabulary's Traffic Evidential Review Officer.
"If proven these allegation has been assessed as being sufficiently serious so to as amount individually and cumulatively to gross misconduct."
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Kyle Barraclough pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save in six chances. He has not allowed a run over his last 14 games and a career-best 13 2/3 innings.
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Riddle�s two-run double gave him his first multi-RBI game of the season and eighth of his career.
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Marlins: LHP Caleb Smith (5-6, 3.70) is 5-4 with a 2.70 ERA over his last nine starts.


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Braindead's Mordor Site - Return to Mordor: The Depths Of Dejenol > Mordor XP: The Demise Of Dejenol > The Public forum
Reviving Mordor XP, Developing Mordor XP around a crowdsourcing principle
Einherje
referrer:Google
This post is aimed at all the regulars on this forum, especially Braindead.
I work in software development and would like to revive this project, if it has truly, as the lack of activity suggests, been abandoned. Keep in mind, that this is not an attempt at coup d'etat, but rather a wish from a fan to see the project realized.
For this I would need the following:
The blessing of Braindead and the development team
Access to assets from the former project
The work and dedication of a handful of Mordor veterans who know the mechanics of David Allen's original Mordor intimately
I intend to build the game from scratch around the following principles:
The game will be written in C#. The client might be done in Unity, while a server application will be written as a windows service.
I will design an XSD-based data model which allows for easy data entry from the community in plain XML. A designated community member will be responsible for maintaining and extending the model as the need arises. I will update my model classes automatically by means of XSD.EXE as the data model grows.
Business logic pertaining to all game related flow, like combat, will be designed by the community. A designated panel of community members will collect and consolidate inputs and formalize documentation hereof for me to implement.
Development will be Scrum based, featuring small, self-contained, playable increments. I will design and maintain a roadmap with clear milestones. It will have a time schedule for the s.
This post has been edited by Einherje: Oct 22 2017, 09:07 AM
Danjen
Group: Mordor MP Prog
referrer:Decklin's Domain
I happened to peek in over here while visiting another unrelated forum.
The dev forum categories have posts ranging from 2010 to Mar 2016 at the latest. Last activity was ~ 2 years ago.
BLauritson
Lord Fnorgle
From: Bristol, England
referrer:Let's see.. I can't remember now, it was too long ago.
I appreciate this topic is over a year old now and for all intents and purposes likely forgotten or abandoned by the OP, but...
As a former member of the Mordor XP development team who's recently returned to activity on this forum, for what it's worth, such a concept has my blessing
EDIT: To clarify, technically I'm still a member of the development team but as rightly pointed out by Danjen, there hasn't been any activity in the dev forums since 2016 unfortunately. Still, if any other members of the team ever stumble upon this, perhaps there could one day be a revival? You never know
Lord Fnorgle's Domain
Wyldstylist
Jan 6 2019, 04:06 AM
Group: Members Plus
referrer:searched on mordor played it alot as a kid
QUOTE (BLauritson @ Dec 25 2018, 09:55 PM)
Kingsway is kinda like mordor .
The magic of mordor is that it used windows 95 dialogs thats how it should look like nothing heavy on graphics card just run it as a program and set any resolutions u like The main problem is the goons behind mordor xp did not opensource their stuff if they did we would be playing now. Just release a beta of the mordor xp work already
Jan 7 2019, 09:22 PM
The original Mordor and its source code is still privately owned as intellectual property, so there are restrictions on what can be done with the Mordor XP source code.
Releasing the source code to Mordor XP isn't permitted for that reason. Not that I have access to it even if we could.
znork
Feb 7 2019, 10:55 AM
referrer:Old Mordor forum.
QUOTE (BLauritson @ Jan 7 2019, 09:22 PM)
There are no copyright laws that prevent someone from reimplementing a game and releasing the source code. The original source code is copyrighted, the original binaries are copyrighted. A reimplementation where there was no access to the original source code is without question copyrighted the new developer and they can do whatever they please with it.
I haven't heard that the Mordor XP developers used the original source in any way though. If they had access to it, and the new source code is using parts of the original source without permission, that is a violation of copyright even if the source code is not released. If permission has been granted for use only in closed source, derived parts needs to be removed before releasing it as open source.
There can be copyright issues involved in copying art, game design and/or mechanics (e.g. the Tetris company suing clones using the same types of pieces and the same playing field size), but that has nothing to do with open source or not. There could have been a trademark issue over the name, but the trademark has been abandoned for ages.
Edit: I wrote about this in 2010 too: http://dejenol.com/forum/index.php?showtop...ost&p=47993
This post has been edited by znork: Feb 7 2019, 11:09 AM
korexus
Feb 7 2019, 08:45 PM
From: Reading
referrer:Google Search
QUOTE (znork @ Feb 7 2019, 10:55 AM)
I haven't seen any of the paperwork, but Decklin has previously said:
QUOTE (Decklin @ Jan 7 2011, 09:46 PM)
Braindead has a written agreement which can be voided if the terms are breached by revealing ANY of the algorithms etc
That sounds to me like the "permission granted for use in closed source" case.
Removing the copyrighted parts could be quite tricky, especially given how blurry the line can be on what is or is not derrived work can be in software. It would not surprise me if it was easier simply to start again without looking at anything that's copyrighted.
I was never on the Mordor XP team, but I am a bit sick of hearing people complain about them. Yes what they hoped to produce sounded awesome, yes it looks like it will never happen, yes that is sad. But it can be said of plenty of games, open and closed source, free and comercial. It's not as though anyone has invested money in Mordor XP (except possibly some of the devs, who aren't the ones complaining).
If you want a successor, make one*, don't just complain about how no one else is doing it, and don't use Mordor XP as an excuse not to do it. - I haven't seen the MXP source, but I guarantee that for a new person taking on the project starting afresh would be easier than trying to pick that up after the time it's spent languishing.
korexus.
* This is not just words. I am doing exactly this. I've been working on it on and off for about 15 years now. It will probably never be finished, and it is not open source, but it is available to try out for free online. If people do that and come back with bugs or suggestions I'll even try to work on them, but time is scarce and making a good game is hard.
Hey, nice link. Really cool to see that discussion with David Allen and Decklin.
I'm absolutely not complaining about anyone, I just think it's important to spread the knowledge of what copyright allows you to do. Copyright is a balancing act with trade-offs between protecting earlier creators and creating an environment where new works can still be created.
So it's important that it's clear to creators that it's not against any copyright laws to remake a game and open source the code even when "the original [game] and its source code is still privately owned as intellectual property".
Anyway, since Braindead has entered into a contract with Decklin, we're not talking about copyright law anymore. I agree that he should not do anything that would breach the spirit of that contract, even if it could actually be legal if you looked close enough. Or perhaps Decklin himself would give permission at this point, the last update I see on Decklin's Domain is three years old, five years ago for anything in the Mordor/Demise categories and the forums are down.
I'm just stopping by here because I'm always reminded of this project when I think of a friend who died young, and I think about the choices we take regarding our limited time here.
QUOTE (korexus @ Feb 7 2019, 03:45 PM)
Good idea. This is what I'm going to do as well. I'm only still in the planning stages, but I'm going to write a new game in the style of Mordor, but a little different as well. I'm not really interested in the code of Mordor or Mordor XP and plan to code from scratch. I am thinking Java would be good to write it all in (anyone think that's a bad idea for any reason I'd like to hear your reasons why for consideration). Non-code assets, however, are a different matter. Things like artwork/sounds/music, etc. For that utilizing the assets of Mordor XP wouldn't be such a bad idea. Seems like they were stockpiling a lot of assets. Anyway, if anyone artists from the Mordor XP team wants to contribute to my project, let me know. I'm planning on open source for the code, but other assets can be protected however you want.
Another possibility could be utilizing assets from Mordor, but not actually including them. In other words, you'll have to have Mordor installed on your system and them tell this new game where it's located and it links in those assets. This may be legal since you aren't actually distributing copyrighted material in your program. I remember this back in the days when Doom was hot. I seem to remember that map editors were allowed (no legal opposition) so long as a user owned the full game of Doom, and not just the shareware version. I had code to check this and not work if it detected just the shareware version. Decklin would likely be ok with this sort of arrangement since it would likely increase sales of Mordor, which right now I imagine isn't a big income earner anymore.
I'm sure Java would be a perfectly sound language to write your own project in
With regards to the assets in Mordor XP, I'm not 100% certain on this but from what I've read on some historic threads it looks like the online repository where the assets were stored is sadly no more, so unless any of the former contributors still have their artwork stored somewhere then likely it's gone for good.
Good luck with it all though, I'm sure you'll find some way forward for the non-code assets.
Java. Ugh.
It's a personal choice though. A language you know, or something you want to learn makes sense for this sort of project. The game's unlikely to get to the point where choice of language is your biggest problem.
For images, check out https://opengameart.org/ . It's very varied, but a lot of it is very good, and available under permissive licenses. For audio I'm not sure. I remember someone mentioned making some new music a little while ago, I think it was rb10c, but I can't seem to search his posts to check. There is probably something out there that can be used for free/sheap, but it may take more hunting.
Mordion
referrer:The Super Seer
The most important thing is to use a language you know. Java is great if you're making a windowed game like M1. If you want to do 3D, then use Unity or Unreal. You don't want to have to learn OpenGL while simultaneously developing a game. If you try to learn a new language + new 3D API + make a game simultaneously you have a roughly 0% chance of succeeding.
Windowed game with clip art is the way to go. Mordor is a content heavy game with hundreds of monsters and items. Just typing all that in Excel is a lot of work and that doesn't include the game engine.
QUOTE (Mordion @ May 1 2019, 02:02 AM)
Ooo look - I've just remembered about this site!
Was having a reminisce on route to work today, and wanted to get back to Mordor.
The choice of language is a huge factor when programming.
I'm a professional C++ developer, while the Mordor MP was written in [I think] VB6 - been a while since I was able to work on it, and as such I am unable to work at my fullest with this source code.
I'm considering re-grabbing the source and trying to convert it to C++ / Java / C#, which of course is not exactly a quick task.
"Unfortunately" I'm still a full time developer, with a family, which means after a full days coding, coming home to the family doesn't leave too much time/desire to code at home as well.
QUOTE (korexus @ Apr 30 2019, 02:33 PM)
QUOTE (Mordion @ Apr 30 2019, 08:02 PM)
Agreed. Java isn't too bad. I have more experience with C/C++ but java probably comes in second. For something like this project, java makes the most sense I think. I wouldn't be utilizing 3D graphics for this. From people who have been posting on here, it seems there are some who like the fact that is isn't graphic or resource intensive (original Mordor), so I'd probably want to design my project to be similar. Just more modern and open source. I mean, look at this old game, and how much it's still loved and how much people want a remake. It's not fancy 3D graphics and such that makes it so loved.
I'm going to mostly focus on coding and not worry as much about assets. As it comes along, I'm sure others will want to help out with that stuff for me and could probably handle it better. I'll stick to what I'm best at. I am already aware of opengameart.org but thanks.
QUOTE (Wabbit @ May 1 2019, 03:10 AM)
Ya, I understand. I have family to contend with as well. It can be hard to find time for personal projects. And ya, Mordor was written in Visual Basic. Quite the interesting choice for a game like that but I guess it worked out alright, mostly.
Good to see such interest and quick replies.
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