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- Written by Fred Swan
- Tuesday, 06 March 2012 00:29
Don't believe the catch-phrases in some mainstream media publications and blogs this week. You can be a good wine taster, despite what they say. Almost everybody can. You wouldn't know it by the dumbed-down, overly general leads the publications used in coverage of a new study.
American Journal of Enology and Viticulture published "Wine Expertise Predicts Taste Phenotype" by John Hayes and Gary Pickering in the March 2012 edition. The research surveyed 331 wine drinkers. It also tested their taste sensitivity to proplythiouracil, a bitter chemical used to identify "supertasters." The study concluded "that wine experts are more likely to be medium-tasters or supertasters than other wine consumers may suggest a possible discordance in judgments of quality and value between the two groups."
Put simply, a greater percentage of the study's wine experts had naturally high tasting acuity than did its random selection of non-professional wine drinkers. The researchers suggest that may lead to disagreements between the experts and consumers about what is and is not "good" wine. I have no basis for disputing their claim. But some mainstream publications broaden and simplify these conclusions to the point of inaccuracy. They discourage consumers from trying to become better tasters, something that is easily within anyone's grasp.
Huffington Post translated the conclusion this way, "Average folks have little use for expert wine commentary." Futurity.org proclaimed "Consumers can't taste what wine buffs sense." The Telegraph proposed that "Wine experts' recommendations are of no use to most drinkers because their palates are not sophisticated enough to appreciate the subtle flavors." These statements feed off of, and into, the reverse snobbery and celebration of non-thinkers that is so popular today.
Even when The Telegraph defends wine commentary, they do it in a negative light. "apparently eccentric descriptions of wine by critics such as Jilly Goolden as having the taste of "pear drops," "liquorice" [sic] or even "rubber" may not be wrong just because ordinary people cannot taste them." So the wine wizards aren't making things up, they just have powers you can't understand. Ignore them, muggle.
Here's the thing. If you can taste licorice when you bite into the candy, you can taste licorice when it is prominent in wine. If you find raspberries flavorful, you can find that flavor in some wines. Really.
Very few people are "supertasters," those who are especially sensitive to bitterness, sourness, astringency and high levels of alcohol owing to a well-above average number of taste buds. That's okay. Being highly attuned to those things isn't necessarily pleasant anyway. And you don't need a crowded tongue to be a good taster.
Here is what you do need to become a good wine taster: practice. That's all. It helps to have a partner or two with more experience, but it's not a requirement. Neither are classes nor a beagle-like nose. [I wrote recently about the difficulty of putting words to aromas, but it isn't impossible. Practice really helps.]
How To Become a Good Wine Taster
Be mindful when you smell and taste everything. Everything. Don't just focus on wine. You can't identify black cherry in a wine unless you remember what black cherries taste like. Eat some and concentrate while you do. Close your eyes. Be the flavor.
Taste and smell a lot of things. Start with the basics: various fruits and berries. You can go further though. Open up your cupboard. Sniff things. Taste them. Learn the difference between allspice and nutmeg, white and black pepper, milk chocolate and dark chocolate, almonds and hazelnuts. You may become a better cook!
Go outside and smell individual flowers and trees. Learn their names. Smell the grass. Smell the dirt. Stop and smell the roses.
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Taste a lot of wine. Taste, not drink. Swirl it in the glass and smell it. Don't think too hard about it. What aromas come to your mind almost unconsciously? (Identifying flavors and aromas can be like hitting a golf ball. The more you try to kill it, the less successful you'll be.) Focus on the second sniff, but don't work too hard at it.
Try wine that critics like. It doesn't have to be expensive. But it shouldn't be $5 wine. Those wines are blended and manipulated to the point that they have few remaining natural flavors. Like Kool-Aid, they may be pleasant to drink, but even expert tasters can have a hard time identifying genuine flavors in them. If you think "wine just tastes like purple," the problem may be your wine.
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Read a wine's review while you taste a wine. Can you perceive many of the same things the writer did? I'll bet you can.
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Your confusion is understandable. The situation is a bit counter-intuiti ve. The particular tastes that supertasters are more sensitive too are related to bitterness. A little bit of bitter goes a long way. Some foods that most people find to have just the right amount are over the top for supertasters.
The situation is similar to that of people who have highly sensitive and well-trained ears (for music) and noses (for analysis of wine or perfume). That sensitivity can be a real drag when faced with grating sounds or unpleasant aromas. Those things are easier for the non-trained person to tune out.


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Annual to tree, vine. Leaf: generally opposite (whorled), entire; stipules generally fused to stem, adjacent pairs occasionally fused, or occasionally leaf-like and appearing like whorled leaves. Inflorescence: cyme, panicle, spike, cluster, or flower 1, generally terminal and ± axillary. Flower: generally bisexual; calyx ± 4(5)-lobed, occasionally 0 (Galium, Crucianella) or 6 (Sherardia); corolla generally radial, 4(5)-lobed; stamens epipetalous, alternate corolla lobes, generally included; ovary generally inferior, chambers generally 2 or 4, style 1(2). Fruit: drupe, berry, or 2 or 4 nutlets [capsule].
± 500 genera, 6000 species: worldwide, especially tropics; many cultivated, including Coffea, coffee; Cinchona, quinine; many ornamental. [Robbrecht & Manen 2006 Syst & Geogr Plant 76:85–146] Diodia teres Walter doubtfully in California. —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Unabridged references: [Dempster 1979 Fl California 4(2):1–47]
Annual, perennial herb, occasionally ± shrubby, glabrous to hairy, generally scabrous; dioecious, bisexual, or flowers unisexual and bisexual. Stem: 4-angled, occasionally ridged lengthwise. Leaf: generally in whorls of >= 4, including leaf-like stipules. Inflorescence: panicles, axillary clusters (cymes), or occasionally 1 in axils. Flower: bisexual, or unisexual with sterile stamens or pistils; calyx 0; corolla generally rotate, occasionally ± bell-shaped, generally ± green, yellow to white, occasionally pink or red, lobes generally 4; ovary 2-lobed, styles 2, bases ± fused. Fruit: 2 nutlets or berry.Key to Galium
± 650 species: worldwide, especially temperate. (Greek: milk, from use of some species for curdling) [Dempster 1978 Univ Calif Publ Bot 73:1–33; Soza & Olmstead 2010 Amer J Bot 97:1630–1646] Ovary and fruit generally ± equally hairy on a plant; staminate plants generally identified by vestigial ovaries, pistillate plants generally by vestigial anthers. Galium saxatile L., Galium schultesii Vest, and Galium verum L. are lawn weeds in California.
Unabridged references: [Dempster 1973 Univ Calif Publ Bot 64:1–36; Dempster & Ehrendorfer 1965 Brittonia 17:289–334; Dempster & Stebbins 1968 Univ Calif Publ Bot 46:1–52; Dempster & Stebbins 1971 Madroño 21:71–95]
Perennial herb, low, tufted or stems elongate, glabrous to hairy, at least base woody; dioecious. Stem: 6–100 cm. Leaf: in whorls of 4, ± strap-shaped, 3-veined. Inflorescence: panicle of few- to many-flowered clusters. Flower: corolla rotate, generally red to yellow. Fruit: nutlets, generally > pedicel; hairs dense, long, straight, spreading. [Online Interchange]
Previous taxon: Galium andrewsii subsp. intermedium
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Citation for this treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] 2012. Galium, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=26300, accessed on Mar 7 2014
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Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship
Album Reviews
Label: Secretly Canadian
Released: 7th May 2012
Reviewer: Kosta Lucas
After listening to 'A Different Ship' you might think, "wow, this really reminds me of Radiohead for some reason." Little wonder then that the band have brought in Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for their latest offering. However, this is to their credit as Here We Go Magic share Radiohead's adeptness at carrying beautiful and genuinely moving melodies, and instrumentals which become warped with electronic embellishments. Even singer, Luke Temple, sounds pretty similar to Thom Yorke when he opts for that cracked falsetto of his (check out 'Alone But Moving' in particular). There is quite a painful melancholy that permeates 'A Different Ship', so Godrich seems like a perfect fit with the band on their third outing.Highly recommended.
Label: Secretly Canadian
Released: 7th May 2012
Reviewer: Kosta Lucas
However, unlike Radiohead, nothing on this album approaches that dirge-like quality, which excessively fatigues you emotionally despite the sadness of the lyrical content. Fantastic songs like 'Make Up Your Mind' and 'I Believe In Action' hurtle along with an unashamedly indie shuffle that which eventually evolve into blissful trances. Their respective refrains become mantras that benefit from repetition rather than annoy. Other tracks like 'Over The Ocean' wallow alone in circles in of vast and stunning musical ether. Even more interestingly, the mid-tempo and poppier sounding cuts like 'Hard To Be Close' and 'Made To Be Old' hook you in with an accessible tune, which that deviates into darker territory ambience and noise.
'A Different Ship' is a fantastic effort because it genuinely blurs the genres that so many others claim they already do, but don't really do particularly well. In an age where a person's exposure to different types of music has increased exponentially, the artistic challenge of being innovative and achieving timelessness has also increased. With 'A Different Ship', Here We Go Magic seem well up to this task. Highly recommended.
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listening to this album i cant help picturing king diamond on top of a mountain during a thunderstorm wailing away
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yeah still gotta check this. Melissa is amazing
Album Rating: 4.5indeed it is. King Diamond rules, need to check his solo stuff too
Album Rating: 4.0This is a great album, almost a 4. Nevertheless, I prefer Melissa.Digging: Dio - At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
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better than a 3.5 though damn well i mean i'd imagine
Album Rating: 4.0yeah, I had it at 4.5 but lately I've been listening a lot to Melissa and I like it much more. Maybe I need to listen to this album again. Nuns Have No Fun is also great.
dude listen again hard trust me you will realize your blasphemy and yeah nuns have no fun is incredible
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Winners vs. Losers In 2009's Budget
In the end, Reading First went with barely a whimper, as the controversial reading program was zeroed out in the $410 billion fiscal 2009 federal spending measure signed by President Barack Obama last week.
Reading First was among a handful of high-profile education items in the long-overdue budget for the current fiscal year, which also provides modest boosts for Title I grants to districts and spending for students in special education, while taking aim at the District of Columbia voucher program.
The spending measure will hike the U.S. Department of Education's budget to $66.5 billion, up from just over $62 billion in fiscal 2008, a 7 percent increase.
The measure, which covers the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, includes $14.5 billion in Title I grants to districts for the education of disadvantaged students, a 4.3 percent increase. And it includes $11.5 billion for special education state grants, a 5.5 percent boost.
That's on top of the $10 billion and $11.7 billion, respectively, that Title I and special education state grants received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—the recently passed economic-stimulus package.
It's unclear whether the new administration and Congress will conceive a program to replace Reading First, which, at its height, received $1 billion annually.
Reports by the Education Department's inspector general in 2006 and 2007 suggested some federal officials and contractors involved in implementing the program had conflicts of interest.
Jon Schnur, a consultant to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, said last week that there will be "a real commitment to early reading" in Mr. Obama's fiscal 2010 budget, to be released in detail next month.
The 2009 budget measure could also spell the beginning of the end for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program. A provision states that this will be the last year for its funding, unless Congress reuthorizes it.
Chances of renewal by that the Democratically-controlled Congress are seen as slim.
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The much-anticipated grand opening of U.K. clothing retailer Topshop took Manhattan by storm in April, and nail techs Julia Werman, Mika Ogawa, and Maki Sakamoto (all of New York City nail salon Valley) were there to do mini-manicures on the customers. The techs polished the women's fingernails with China Glaze's Simply Stunning (a bronze), Recycle (gray), and Shocking Pink (hot pink).
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A nail tech for 21 years, Bonnie Rios still gets excited about the nail industry. "I am constantly intrigued at the advances that occur over 10 little digits," she says. But what really gets her excited is the art. "The ability to make each nail into a tiny self-expression that you can change at a whim is a great outlet for my creative side. And the bonus is I get paid to do it!"
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Effect of Local Anesthetic Lidocaine on Electrostatic Properties of a Lipid Bilayer Biophysical Journal, Volume 94, Issue 2, 15 January 2008, Pages 525-531 Carl-Johan Högberg and Alexander P. Lyubartsev Abstract The influence of the local anesthetic lidocaine on electrostatic properties of a lipid membrane bilayer was studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The electrostatic dipole potential, charge densities, and orientations of the headgroup angle have been examined in the presence of different amounts of charged or uncharged forms of lidocaine. Important changes in the membrane properties caused by the presence of both forms of lidocaine are presented and discussed. Our simulations have shown that both charged and uncharged lidocaine cause almost the same increase in the electrostatic potential in the middle of the membrane, although for different reasons. The increase, ∼90mV for 9mol % of lidocaine and 220mV for 28mol % of lidocaine, is of a size that may affect the functioning of voltage-gated ion channels. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (502 kb) |
Isoform-Specific Lidocaine Block of Sodium Channels Explained by Differences in Gating Biophysical Journal, Volume 78, Issue 1, 1 January 2000, Pages 200-210 H. Bradley Nuss, Nicholas G. Kambouris, Eduardo Marbán, Gordon F. Tomaselli and Jeffrey R. Balser Abstract When depolarized from typical resting membrane potentials (Vrest ∼ −90mV), cardiac sodium (Na) currents are more sensitive to local anesthetics than brain or skeletal muscle Na currents. When expressed in Xenopus oocytes, lidocaine block of hH1 (human cardiac) Na current greatly exceeded that of μ1 (rat skeletal muscle) at membrane potentials near Vrest, whereas hyperpolarization to −140mV equalized block of the two isoforms. Because the isoform-specific tonic block roughly parallels the drug-free voltage dependence of channel availability, isoform differences in the voltage dependence of fast inactivation could underlie the differences in block. However, after a brief (50ms) depolarizing pulse, recovery from lidocaine block is similar for the two isoforms despite marked kinetic differences in drug-free recovery, suggesting that differences in fast inactivation cannot entirely explain the isoform difference in lidocaine action. Given the strong coupling between fast inactivation and other gating processes linked to depolarization (activation, slow inactivation), we considered the possibility that isoform differences in lidocaine block are explained by differences in these other gating processes. In whole-cell recordings from HEK-293 cells, the voltage dependence of hH1 current activation was ∼20mV more negative than that of μ1. Because activation and closed-state inactivation are positively coupled, these differences in activation were sufficient to shift hH1 availability to more negative membrane potentials. A mutant channel with enhanced closed-state inactivation gating (μ1-R1441C) exhibited increased lidocaine sensitivity, emphasizing the importance of closed-state inactivation in lidocaine action. Moreover, when the depolarization was prolonged to 1s, recovery from a "slow" inactivated state with intermediate kinetics (IM) was fourfold longer in hH1 than in μ1, and recovery from lidocaine block in hH1 was similarly delayed relative to μ1. We propose that gating processes coupled to fast inactivation (activation and slow inactivation) are the key determinants of isoform-specific local anesthetic action. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (217 kb) |
Block of Wild-Type and Inactivation-Deficient Cardiac Sodium Channels IFM/QQQ Stably Expressed in Mammalian Cells Biophysical Journal, Volume 79, Issue 6, 1 December 2000, Pages 3019-3035 Augustus O. Grant, Rashmi Chandra, Christopher Keller, Michael Carboni and C. Frank Starmer Abstract The role of inactivation as a central mechanism in blockade of the cardiac Na+ channel by antiarrhythmic drugs remains uncertain. We have used whole-cell and single channel recordings to examine the block of wild-type and inactivation-deficient mutant cardiac Na+ channels, IFM/QQQ, stably expressed in HEK-293 cells. We studied the open-channel blockers disopyramide and flecainide, and the lidocaine derivative RAD-243. All three drugs blocked the wild-type Na+ channel in a use-dependent manner. There was no use-dependent block of IFM/QQQ mutant channels with trains of 20 40-ms pulses at 150-ms interpulse intervals during disopyramide exposure. Flecainide and RAD-243 retained their use-dependent blocking action and accelerated macroscopic current relaxation. All three drugs reduced the mean open time of single channels and increased the probability of their failure to open. From the abbreviation of the mean open times, we estimated association rates of ∼106/M/s for the three drugs. Reducing the burst duration contributed to the acceleration of macroscopic current relaxation during exposure to flecainide and RAD-243. The qualitative differences in use-dependent block appear to be the result of differences in drug dissociation rate. The inactivation gate may play a trapping role during exposure to some sodium channel blocking drugs. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (309 kb) |
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 55, Issue 6, 1261-1266, 1 June 1989
Research Article
T.V. McDonald, K.R. Courtney and W.T. Clusin
Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305.
Single sodium channel openings have been recorded from cell-attached patches of isolated guinea pig ventricular myocytes. A paired pulse protocol was used to test the hypothesis that channel openings are required for lidocaine block. While the averaged ensemble current during the test pulse was much reduced, there was no correlation between the appearance of channel openings during the conditioning pulse and the subsequent test pulse. Analysis of single channel records demonstrated that the unit conductance of open channels was not changed by lidocaine. The block of ensemble INa was explained by roughly equal reductions in number of open channel events, and in the average duration of opening for each event. These results suggest that lidocaine binding to Na+ channels is dependent upon voltage, but may occur before channel opening. A lidocaine-modified channel can still open, but will be less likely to remain open than a drug-free channel. These results are consistent with block of a pre-open state of the channel.


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This project, icculus.org/quake3 (sometimes referred to ioquake3, or ioq3 for short) aims to build upon id Software's Quake 3 source code release. The source code was released on August 20, 2005 under the GPL. Since then, we have been cleaning up, fixing bugs, and adding features. Our permanent goal is to create the open source Quake 3 distribution upon which people base their games and projects. We also seek to have the perfect version of the engine for playing Quake 3: Arena, Team Arena, and all popular mods. This distribution of the engine has been ported to many new platforms and has had a slew of new features added, along with massive bug extermination. WWW: http://ioquake3.org/
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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/games/ioquake3/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install games/ioquake3
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===> The following configuration options are available for ioquake3-1.36_13: CURL=on: Data transfer support via cURL DEBUG=off: Install debug symbols GAMELIBS=on: Build game libraries MUMBLE=on: Enable Mumble support (no dependencies) OPENAL=on: OpenAL support SERVER=on: Install dedicated server TOOLS=on: Enable modding tools VORBIS=on: Ogg Vorbis audio codec support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
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Convert g* to USES=zip
Convert the tree to USES=openal Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
games/ioquake3: respect CC - Respect CC PR: ports/182755 Submitted by: Dominic Fandrey <email@example.com> (maintainer)
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat: games)
games/ioquake3 and slaves: Fix options Every touched port was build-tested and passed. PR: ports/180675 Submitted by: Dominic Fandrey (maintainer) Tested on: FreeBSD 9.1/amd64 with poudriere
- Remove MAKE_JOBS_SAFE variable Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery)
- Update to 7.31.0 - Bump PORTREVISION for ftp/curl shlib change - Add TEST_DEPENDS - Convert to new options framework - Adjust options: - Add COOKIES - Add CYASSL, NSS, POLARSSL, THREADED_RESOLVER, TLS_SRP [1] - Add GSSAPI and SPNEGO [2] - Remove KERBEROS4 - Rename LIBIDN to IDN - Remove TRACKMEMORY [1] - Sort option handler - Add SLAVEDIRS: ftp/curl-hiphop - Cosmetic change - Cleanup Makefile header - While I'm here, fix typo (PORTREVSION) in x11-wm/ede/Makefile Changes: http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html PR: ports/172325 (-exp run), ports/177369 (based on) [1] Submitted by: Hirohisa Yamaguchi <email@example.com> [1], hrs (via email) [2] Exp run by: miwi
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Convert g* to USES=pkgconfig
Bump PORTREVISION after DESKTOP_ENTRIES update
- Update DESKTOP_ENTRIES: * rephrase Comment field or use port ${COMMENT} if appropriate * adjust Icon field according to the Desktop Entry Specification * update Categories field: remove deprecated category Application; set main category if missing - Remove indefinite article from COMMENT Approved by: maintainers
new devel/pkgconf added to replace devel/pkg-config. new version of pkg-config are no more self hosting so we are stuck with 0.25 version while pkgconf provide the same set of features as 0.27 and a compatible frontend. A symlink to pkg-config has been added for convenience and compatibility This also introduces a new macro to use pkgconf in your ports: USE_PKGCONFIG it can take the following arguments: - yes (meaning build only dep) - build (meaning build only dep) - run (meaning run only dep) - both (meaning run and build dep) From now USE_GNOME= pkgconfig is deprecated in favour of USE_PKGCONFIG The old gnome macro has been modified to use pkgconf but still the sameway: run and build dep to avoid large breakage. While here fix some ports relying on pkg-config but not specifying it, fix some ports broken because testing wrong .pc files, and fix ports using pkg-config --version to determine pkg-config version instead of pkg-config --modversion pkg-config like recommanded by pkg-config With Hat: portmgr Exp-runs by: bapt (pointhat-west), beat (pointyhat)
libogg.so.8: Bump PORTREVISION for ports that depend on libogg, directly or indirectly (via libvorbis, libtheora).
- split out -server part from ioquake3-based ports: - games/ioquake3-devel-server added - games/ioquake3-server added - games/iourbanterror-server - games/openarena-server added - update games/ioquake3-devel to svn revision 2244 - update games/openarena to 0.8.8 - update games/openarena-data to 0.8.8 Doing this in single commit since all this ports are tightly interconnected. PR: ports/165842 Submitted by: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen dot de> (maintainer)
- Update devel/sdl12 to 1.2.15 - Update audio/sdl_mixer to 1.2.15 - Update graphics/sdl_image to 1.2.12 - Update graphics/sdl_ttf to 2.0.11 - Update graphics/sdl_gfx to 2.0.23 - Update net/sdl_net to 1.2.8 - Bump PORTREVISIONs on ports that depend on one or more packages due to ABI and shared library version changes - Update Mk/bsd.sdl.mk accordingly for the new shared library versions Tested by: exp-run by pav
ioquake3: - Allow slave ports to turn off some options - Add modular renderer support for slaves - Add WITH_DEBUG support - Always check against non-default options so that they can be overridden (e.g. for BATCH mode) - Add pkg-config build dependency ioquake3-devel, iourbanterror, openarena: - Fix CURL support - Link libraries instead of using dlopen ioquake3-devel, iourbanterror: - Update SVN snapshot r2064 to r2194 - Improved UDP download speed
games/ioquake3 - Add DESKTOP_ENTRIES if the client is installed - Get rid of MD5 distinfo - Backport fix for FreeBSD/i386 with PAE kernel, provided by Nerius Landys games/ioquake3-devel - Update to SVN snapshot 1803, contains a number of fixes including the PAE patch by Nerius Landis - Make the port capable of being a master port games/openarena - Update to the latest source release - Add PAE fix games/openarena-oax
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games/ioquake3: OPTIONS+= CURL "Enable cURL for http/ftp download" on \ OPENAL "Enable OpenAL audio output" on \ MUMBLE "Enable Mumble support (no dependencies)" on \ VORBIS "Enable Ogg Vorbis support" on games/ioquake3-devel: Update to r1771 PR: ports/142712 Submitted by: Dominic Fandrey <email@example.com> (maintainer)
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- Bump PORTREVISION. - Remove FreeBSD 4.x support (USE_GCC=3.4+ and files/extra-patch-*). - Add USE_XLIB when using USE_GL, since it doesn't imply it anymore. - Use ~/.ioquake3 for writing instead of original ~/.q3a, because the new configuration files have more variables, and would be removed if overwriten by another engine. Note it in pkg-message. - Install README.
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- Update to version 1.33 (SVN rev 797). - Add pkg-message about how to fix SDL sound problems.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack today while covering the conflict in Syria. One of the most celebrated journalists covering the Middle East, Shadid, 43, had been a guest on Democracy Now! several times over the past decade reporting on Libya, Tunisia, Iraq and Lebanon.Feb 16, 2012 | Web Exclusive
NATO has admitted for the first time Libyan civilians were killed and injured during its seven-month bombing campaign that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The acknowledgment came after a New York Times investigation revealed at least 40 civilians, and perhaps more than 70, were killed by NATO air strikes, including at least 29 women or children. Others were killed when NATO warplanes bombed ambulance crews and civilians...Dec 22, 2011 | Story
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I feel exactly the same way. My mom gave me an e-book reader and I hate it! Books are awesome and I hope they never die.
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TRAINERS at Taunton's UK Hydrographic Office have been passing on their expertise to hydrographers from Algeria, Bulgaria, Solomon Islands, Sri-Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Japan during a 15-week course.
The students picked up fundamental skills and knowledge to compile and maintain digital and paper navigational charts to the standard required for safety of sea-going navigation as part of the NIPPON Foundation-sponsored initiative.
Lynton Greatwood, UKHO's cartographic training and development manager, said: "At UKHO we continue to support the development of the capability of sister hydrographic organisations around the world and we are very proud to be associated with this project."
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Allegiant Travel Company 8360 South Durango Drive Las Vegas, NV 89113 United States - Map Phone: 702-851-7300 Website: http://www.allegiantair.com
Allegiant Travel Company, through its subsidiaries, operates as a leisure travel company in the United States. It provides scheduled air transportation on limited frequency nonstop flights between small city markets and leisure destinations, including Las Vegas, Nevada, Orlando, Florida, Phoenix, Arizona, Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg, Los Angeles, California, Ft. Lauderdale, San Francisco Bay Area, Punta Gorda, Honolulu, Maui, Hawaii, Fargo, and San Diego. As of February 1, 2013, the company operated a fleet of 58 MD-80 aircrafts and 6 Boeing 757-200 aircrafts, which provided services on 191 routes to 85 cities, including 13 leisure destinations and 72 small cities. The company also provides air-related services and products in conjunction with air transportation, including use of its call center for purchases, baggage fees, advance seat assignment, travel protection products, change fees, priority boarding, food and beverage purchases on board, and other air-related services. In addition, it offers third party travel products, such as hotel rooms, ground transportation, and attractions. Further, the company provides air transportation through fixed fee agreements and charter service on a seasonal and ad-hoc basis. Allegiant Travel Company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.