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Happy 20th Birthday Second Realityby Ryan Smith on 8/1/2013 6:00 PM EST
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makerofthegames - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkWatching this, for the first time, twenty years after its time, I'm still impressed.
Yeah, most of those effects are trivial - I could do the same, or better, on a modern system with minimal effort. But doing that on a 486?
I write code that has to work with a system that, to this day, runs on a 486 (despite the processor being discontinued in 2007, the box I got last year runs a 486 - knowing the general quality of their product and the attitude of their management, I expect they bought a hundred thousand of them as they were being discontinued, enough to keep them from needing to hire an engineer for at least another few years). While none of *my* code runs on it, from testing I know just how painfully slow even a "modern" 486 is. Doing this sort of stuff, on an early 486? Very impressive. I couldn't do it, that's for sure.
Hmm.. maybe I'll try to get this demo running on that 486 system. Reply
Sertis - Monday, August 05, 2013 - linkI also remember how amazingly compact the executable was. While most of my games came on several floppies, this was tiny. I think it was under 200k. Comparable to a single image on many web pages today, this was some high density coolness. Reply
wumpus - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkWrite in C with fairly standard libraries, and use libraries from that era (Linux .9x should be available). Write a fair chunk of code in assembler. Think in terms of handling kilobytes of data (not gigabytes, if you need that you are sunk).
If you were around at the time it should come back to you. You just first have to narrow the scope of the problem to something that is possible with a 486. Doing Java calls to gigabyte (or really any sized) SQL backends just isn't going to happen. Likewise, trying to do OpenGL calls to handle 3D graphics via software isn't going to happen either (look at how DOOM worked for inspiration). Reply
BillyONeal - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkTypo -> "The Future Crew, Second Reality pulled off effects previously only scene on the Amiga".
"scene" should be "seen" Reply
bobbozzo - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkand "Biyboys" should be BitBoys Reply
gobaers - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI think my first jaw-dropping moment came at a friend's house watching Wing Commander on a VGA monitor for the first time. Being used to the usual CGA (4 color) displays and my EGA (16 colors!) display, seeing something in 256 colors, photorealistic animation for the first time with high fidelity sound just blew me away. The gameplay was nothing to scoff at, either.
I'm trying to recall what type of hardware this would have been. I'm thinking 386 at 40MHz or possibly a 486. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkWing Commander was what got me to upgrade from a perfectly good and only a few months old 286 12MHz (with a whopping 2MB RAM and 40MB HDD!) to the new hotness known as the 386 -- 33MHz, 4MB RAM, 80MB HDD, and lovely EMS (Expanded Memory) to help with all of the graphics. I still remember being severely pissed at the marketing people, though: the box had high quality artwork with a sticker claiming "actual screen shots!" Not a chance, Origin, considering the game was only running at 320x200 and the box artwork looks like it was rendered at 120dpi minimum. Reply
floppyrom - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkDid you guys see the C64 version of Second Reality? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiWbKQ_gUKQ Reply
GTForce - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkYes, I did, and on my C64, too :) Reply
opy - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkHardware audio acceleration, 256 shades of red, green and blue... each! There was no such thing as a 3D card (hardly 2D acceleration either but the Trident ET400 comes to mind). You really need to crank a game from 1993 to understand the milestone of this project. This 'demo' left many dreaming of a video game of this graphical calibre.
The kids of today don't know how well they have it. Reply
Wolfpup - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI really appreciate this being shared. I have to say I somehow missed it.
I'm not sure though...is this actually impressive for 1993? Nothing here looks better than what a SNES can do with an FX chip (and mostly worse). I saw better stuff on SegaCD around this period too. Doom looked better to me. Hmm...maybe I'm just mixing things up a bit since the PSX, Duke 3D, Quake etc. are so close in time to this, but still I don't THINK this would have blown me away back then?
Actually Jurassic Park on the SNES without any upgrade chip is more impressive to me, soooo I don't know. Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkThe SNES SuperFX chip was quite an interesting beast, but it still would have come up short running Second Reality. The 3D in SR is more advanced both in terms of the number of polygons and in the shading, since Gouraud shading is used in places. The real time raytracing and voxels are also unlike anything else. Though the SNES (even without SuperFX) could pull off some of the rotozoom effects with its sprite capabilities.
As for other PC elements, this would have predated any of them. Doom didn't hit until December, and while it was John Carmack clever in its own ways it of course wasn't a multi-faceted technical demo like this.
I think that had you seen this in August of 1993, you would have been blown away.=) Reply
Arbee - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkSNES could rotozoom one background; sprites could not be scaled or rotated. Yoshi's Island required the SuperFX2 simply to scale and rotate the sprites. Reply
Arbee - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkYes, yes, a million times yes. This was *huge* on PCs in 1993. Amiga partisans at Assembly 93 were alleged to be openly weeping after this played. (That may be exaggerated).
And it's not just the quality of the technical trickery, it's how everything flows together and syncs with the music just right. The demoscene didn't get that good again until 2007's LifeForce, by the Greek group ASD. (Unlike SR, LifeForce will run on any modern PC - it was coded on a GeForce 5900 and so even low-end recent cards will play it at full framerate). Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, August 02, 2013 - link"The demoscene didn't get that good again until 2007's LifeForce, by the Greek group ASD"
Oh I don't know. I'd consider 2005's Iconoclast to be a modern classic; in fact I'd put it ahead of Lifeforce. Reply
GTForce - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkWhat a timing! Just last Tuesday, I posted to our Facebook group of friends, who are all around 40 years old, that it's been 20 years since we watched this Demo, drooling. To this day, I still crave watching it every so often. Exquisite piece of work. Reply
GTForce - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkAs for YouTube not doing justice to the demo, these guys went out of their way to do their best:
I have the first one of the series, which contains Second Reality, as well as Unreal which was the prelude from The Future Crew to Second Reality. Reply
Ryan Smith - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkSpeaking of Mindcandy, I didn't want to link it in the article and give Trixter an unexpected crush on his FTP server, but he did put together an even better capture of Second Reality that was intended for Blu-Ray.
SecondRealityHD.ts was captured in 720p with aspect ratio correction (for 320x200 and other non-square resolutions) and is based on a slightly modified version of Second Reality that retimes the 70Hz sections to 60Hz. It's by far the definitive capture of Second Reality, though because YouTube doesn't do 60fps it gets mauled just like any other upload. Reply
uop - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI am not an atomic playboy! Reply
enkov - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkI have found this video - Making of the Second reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIBRr31DIU Reply
Arnulf - Friday, August 02, 2013 - link"opy - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - link
Hardware audio acceleration, 256 shades of red, green and blue... each! There was no such thing as a 3D card (hardly 2D acceleration either but the Trident ET400 comes to mind). You really need to crank a game from 1993 to understand the milestone of this project. This 'demo' left many dreaming of a video game of this graphical calibre.
The kids of today don't know how well they have it."
The chip was called ET4000 and was made by Tseng Labs. Trident never made anything but crap if I disregard their RAMDAC integration (which everybody did at some point). Reply
RootWyrm - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkOh, thank GODS you noticed that Arnulf. I was about to go all hulk on calling a Tseng a Trident. You don't diss ET4k. Not now, not ever.
Almost never saw ET4k as a native ISA though - it was VLB and PCI (Diamond Stealth32? ET4k.) Only ISA version I ever saw was an ET4000AX Orchid. I did own a number of Cirrus Logic CL-GD family including the 5426.
And yes, this means what you think it does: I owned a genuine GD420 and a GD5421. ;) Reply
noeldillabough - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkI was in the demo scene and remember this stuff fondly, I never did anything this impressive of course but I still hold my head high, the techniques with limited memory and memory modeled code, so fun! Props to the modders too, that distinctive MOD music was a big part of it all. Reply
lcpitkan - Saturday, August 03, 2013 - linkFuture Crew and the making of Second Reality also feature heavily in episodes 2 and 3 of the Demoscene documentary made by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) and freely available on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/demoscenedoc . Includes plenty of interviews with the group members. In Finnish, but with English subtitling.
You guys should really visit us at Assembly (Summer) sometime. I'm sure Abyss will be happy to chat and can probably get some of the other guys to come. Skaven and Purple Motion are frequent visitors at least. Reply
NewBro - Sunday, August 04, 2013 - linkI remember walking in the mall one day when i was like 9 or 10 and caught a glimpse of DOOM playing on a computer.... man I was literately blown away. I am just glad I can enjoy all the cool techs in this generation. Reply
hammerv2 - Tuesday, August 06, 2013 - linkI remember watching second reality and completely ignoring the graphic masterpiece unfolding before me.
For me it was all about the music. How did they fit the music on one disk? How come it sounded so good? My computer only goes "beep"..WTF?!...HOW DID SKAVEN DO THIS?!
I hit the books and what little of the internet existed and found out. 20 years later I make music on the PC for a living, thanks in no small part to Second Reality.
Pictus - Saturday, September 14, 2013 - linkHammerv2,
You can get the demo music at http://www.mediafire.com/?ivqceqtd3bwmbnp Reply


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Astros tie it on Pena's late homer, then fall to A's
Cruz allows go-ahead triple; Peacock sharp early, but exits in fifth
OAKLAND -- Brad Peacock's start showed he is both ready to pitch in prime time and may still need a few dress rehearsals. But then, he's a rookie and susceptible to such occurrences.
Houston manager Bo Porter, for one, thinks Peacock will continue to pitch like he did in the early part of Tuesday night's game.
Carlos Pena hit a two-out home run in the eighth inning to tie it, but the Athletics came back to score in the bottom of the inning, grabbing a 4-3 victory over the Astros.
Jose Altuve had two hits for the Astros, who lost their fourth straight despite effective efforts from Peacock and reliever Dallas Keuchel.
Peacock retired the first eight hitters he faced, then ran into trouble and didn't get out of the fifth. Getting a no-decision was a good deal for him.
"The first couple of innings, I was getting the ball down and then I did the opposite," Peacock said. "I'll have to remember that and take it to my next start. I felt like I had some of my best stuff tonight."
Peacock allowed three runs on four hits in 4 1/3 innings. He walked three and struck out seven.
"He's going to be fine," Porter said. "He learned something. He was efficient early and then not as efficient. As we move forward, I have a lot of confidence in Brad Peacock. He belongs up here and he will continue to pitch at a high level."
Pena is another Peacock fan.
"I love the way he pitches," said the first baseman. "I love his demeanor. He's good on the hill. If he keeps coming out and pitching like that, he will have his share of wins."
Keuchel gave up three hits in three innings, striking out one. Rhiner Cruz took the loss, allowing an RBI triple to Josh Donaldson in the bottom of the eighth.
"Keuchel did a tremendous job keeping the game at bay," Porter said. "Those were big innings in the middle of the game."
Cruz, meanwhile, pitched for the fifth time in six games and was a pitch away from getting out of trouble in the eighth.
"It was one of those nights where I kept fouling fastballs away," Donaldson said. "My mindset, obviously I'm going to go in there and compete. Once I got to two strikes, I was saying, 'They're not going to beat me on a fastball away.'"
Marwin Gonzalez doubled to open the third and spark the Astros, who took a 2-0 lead. Altuve and Justin Maxwell each singled, with Gonzalez scoring on Maxwell's hit. One out later, Chris Carter singled in another run.
Rick Ankiel drilled a line drive that somehow found its way into first baseman Shane Peterson's glove to deny Houston a big inning.
"This is all part of baseball," Porter said. "We could very well have won that game. We had people on base, but could not string the hits together. We're going to start finding ways to win these games."
Pena, who has hit 15 home runs in Oakland, third behind only Detroit and Tampa Bay, knew he hit his home run ball well.
"The ball seems to carry a lot better in the day here, so I was pleased to see it go out," Pena said. "I knew I hit it well, but I didn't know it was out until I was almost at second. I just took off running."
Rick Eymer is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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The ONLY moisturizer with SPF that I can wear!Just a note: this is known as "Olay Pro X Age Protection Lotion w/ SPF 30 in Canada. Not sure why two different names but I double checked and the product I have is identical in ingredients to "age repair lotion" This is the FIRST sunscreen I've ever been able to wear that doesn't sting, break me out, cause a rash or bumps or otherwise torment my skin!! This is HUGE for me!! I've tried literally...read more dozens of ss products over the years all with the same bad results. It was purely by accident I ended up with this and I fully expected it to be like every other moisturizer with sunscreen I'd tried. I was shocked when instead of the usual mess my skin ends up in after coming into contact with anything SPF, that instead I was left with soft, radiant and calm, protected skin! If your like me and react at the very word SPF then try this! I also use the Pro X eye restoration complex (awesome!), wrinkle smoothing cream (good but the jar needs to go!) , skin tightening serum (great!) and use the little clarisonic-type cleaning tool and cleanser..(love love love that!) so I'm already a fan of Olay but this moisturizer with SPF 30 surpassed all my expectations. It's a great formula that's packaged to keep fresh. Highly recommend this product! I'm finally able to wear a sunscreen product and will feel better knowing I'm protecting my skin from sun damage, especially important to me since I use vitamin c, glycolic acid and retinol products. Before this I simply tried to avoid the sun by wearing hats etc. not very effective. Thank you Olay for yet another great product! I only wish I'd tried it much sooner. I did try another line of Olays moisturizer with ss a few years ago, but had bad results. I'm soooo happy that this formula works for me! I don't know how they did it, but they made a moisturizer with ss that doesn't ruin my skin. Couldn't be happier with it! — 3 years, 10 months agoMoonshyne | 2 reviews
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Wasted Time on this productHave used this product along with other Pro X for a year now. This one was a total waste of time. I guess it was ok for a day time moisturizer and I told myself it did have sunscreen in it but... for the price just skip it. I gave it a 4 rating as it did not break me out or clog pores. — 5 years, 7 months agonave | 6 reviews
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It Surprisingly WorksWhen I first tried this lotion for several days I thought I wasted $40. I stopped using it and after several weeks went by, I realized that I didn't want to go through the hassle of getting it refunded by Olay (e.g. sending back the bottle, paying for S&H, going to the post office, etc), Eventually I decided to get my money's worth and just use up the bottle for kicks. I literally couldn't belie...read moreve my eyes the very next day I started to use it again. I had no more fine lines and my pores literally decreased in size! I'm 27 with skin that is starting to slowly show signs of aging. Maybe I didn't pay much attention to the change when I first starting using the lotion, but the 2nd time around I really did see the results. I would definitely spend the $40 again. I love how it's also very lightweight and goes well under my makeup. My only con is that since it is so lightweight, sweating or wearing sunglasses (that touch your cheeks or nose) all day in the sun would definitely rub it off. — 6 years, 7 months agomalady0912 | 3 reviews
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PRO-X age repair lotion-SPF-30 (not the best for Oily skin)I've been using it since 5-13-2010. It's now 5-30-2010, so about 2 weeks. LIving in CO you would think such a creamy moisturizer would be great. Not so much! I have more oily skin, rosacea, and usually use Neutrogena 45 spf with "helioplex" as a moisturizer as recommended by my dermatologist. After using for 2+ weeks, does leave a certain "glow" to my skin, definitely needs a...read moret least 20 min. to soak in for MY skin type. Have noticed a "minimal" lightening of a brown spot, but not sure as yet about the "wrinkle" reduction. I'm not that wrinkles for 49 yrs., since I have oilier skin than most. I paid $41.97 @ Walmart. The 30 spf is nice, thought the lotion for my face feels a bit tacky, takes longer to soak in, and NOT good on the eyelids prior toputting on eyeshadow. Will cause eyeshadow to crease. I'm going to continue looking for other non-invasive methods. — 7 years, 2 months agovetham | 1 reviews
Oil of Olay Original Skin Lotion BetterOil of Olay's Original Skin Lotion is better by far -- and cheaper too! — 7 years, 5 months agoSusanHill | 1 reviews
Not impressedAfter trying Aveeno's daily moisturizer with 30 SPF and breaking out in a huge rash from it, I wanted to find another daily moisturizer with 30 SPF. Most of Olay's products I've been fairly pleased with so I was excited to give this a try. Meh.. That's my reaction.. That's it. And with the price that was attached to this you'd think it should be "WOW". It doesn't seem to absorb int...read moreo my skin as well as other daily moisturizers with lower SPFs and comparable (or even lower) price tags, it doesn't seem to moisturize as well as other daily moisturizers with lower SPF and comparable (or even lower) price tags, and there certainly has been NO "age repair" as promised right on the bottle. The one nice feature is that the scent doesn't seem to be AS heavy in this Olay product as some of their others. I won't be purchasing this again. — 7 years, 8 months agoMosaicMommy | 20 reviews
pro x undecidedi recently tried pro x, and it if far different from the regeneriest line. it is thicker, little tackier, and made me peel a little. i never had that problem with the others. however, it is stronger therefore i am going to have to wait a bit longer before giving a true review. first impression- culture shock. wow very different, but different can be good. especially if it works as well as the other olay products. — 7 years, 9 months agotashatv28 | 2 reviews
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What is the difference between STRONG and BOLD tag?
The  tag is a "logical" tag. This means that it is used when you want to add emphasis to particular words or phrases. Some screen readers may use a different inflection when they come across this tag to communicate the emphasis. The  tag is primarily for visual effect on a page when designing layout.
 applies the typographical convention of making the text content bold. It has no effect on the content where it is presented in any other way other than as written text. You would use it when there is a typographical convention that gives some significance to the text being bold - which is very rarely the case. Most typographical conventions use italic rather than bold text to indicate whatever it is they are trying to indicate - book name, ship name, foreign language etc.
If you are trying to apply emphasis to particular words then  and  are the appropriate tags to use as they apply regardless of how the content is presented - written, spoken etc.
Check the example I put in this thread:
It explains the differences between B, I, STRONG and EM very well. If you aren't stressing the point by emphasizing a section of text, that's when B and I are more appropriate than STRONG and EM. When you say a name or book title you aren't emphasizing them, you're just making them bold due to typographical conventions. As I've said many times here on Sitepoint, <q>Do NOT use tags that add emphasis on elements that are simply bold or italic for other reasons!</q>
Strong is used as bold text, and  as italics. There is no difference between  and  and  and .
I'm sorry, but that's just wrong. Deathshadow and Felgall have both explained the difference quite clearly, and you should be able to work it out from the tag names themselves.  is for bold text and  is for italic text. These are purely presentational.  is for emphasised text and  for strongly-emphasised text, irrespective of how that text is presented. The default rendering in most browsers may be bold and italic, but that is not what the tags themselves mean.
Both tags are approximately same and use for highlighting the text on a web page.
no, that's wrong, sorry
highlighting?? sheesh!!
please try and keep up
Don't waste time arguing with the one post wonder ******, they're probably just spammers posting nonsense to up their post counts...
I mean really, 15 day bump by posters who obviously have no clue what they're talking about? Fishy. You look at the rest of both of those users posts and... well...
Willing to bet they wouldn't even have been allowed to join if you folks were running something like stopforumspam.com -- which is frankly WAY overdue here.
Though I could just be kneejerking into paranoid mode just because I 'get that way' whenever dealing with people who choose their markup based on the tags default appearance -- as always if you choose a tag based on what it looks like, you're probably choosing the wrong tag.
Where people get confused, and where I had gotten confused in the past, until I started reading about this, here and elsewhere, is that  and <bold> can LOOK the same, depending on the style, but semantically are different. It just so happens that the browsers default both elements as bold, so people who don't know just think it's another element for bold, or that it replaces it. Both tags can be whatever you want it to be if you override the browser's default. But from what I understand, bold defines the weight of the text, and strong defines the intention of the designer to stress a certain piece of content over another.
Here is my question, even though I know  is not depreciated, if you are concerned with separation of presentation and content, isn't  presentational? I mean, shouldn't we be defining our presentation in the CSS sheet and not in the markup? It seems to me that  should replace  for that reason.
B, is a font style although not deprecated, its use is discouraged in favour of style sheets. Within the XHTML 1.1 family it is consider part of the Presentation Module whereas the EM and STRONG are text containers. CSS 'bolder' would most likely be the nearest visual substitute for B thus being akin to; b {font-weight: bolder;} .
Not only that I have actually found that when you use  for your text, each browser renders that differently because it is not using a specially designed alternate bold typeface as in the print industry. You are leaving the browser to interpret bold with it's own trickery. It's actually faux bold. This might be a small issue for most applications of it, but I have actually found that because the  was smaller in some browsers than others, I was actually having problems when the size difference caused alignment issues of a few pixels that made a huge visual difference in the end.
When I changed  to  it went away. I am not sure why since it was still faux bold, but it worked. However, I even recommend finding a free typeface online with multiple variations specially designed, using Font Squirrel to convert it, and defining bold and strong that way. The fact that we are able to do this on the web brings friggin tears to my eyes. It's a miracle! Wow, finally real professionally designed bold and italic type variations. Who'd have thought.
Even though I know browsers still interpret fonts differently, I have found the difference to be very small.
I'm amazed that there is any rendering difference between  and , even if you're using fonts that don't have a bold style built in. Have you got any examples or screenshots of this difference?
No, that was a while ago. It might be that I had styled  via CSS as a font weight of bold, but again, that shouldn't make a difference, I know.
B and I DO NOT MEAN presentational style!!! Many words and phrases GRAMMATICALLY should be bold or italic in print. Book Titles, names of ships, etc... When TBL made HTML many of the output devices couldn't make bold... Do bold text on a daisy wheel printer... do Bold text in 80x25 MDA or a 132 column serial terminal... The bold tag does NOT ACTUALLY MEAN THE USER AGENT NEEDS TO RENDER IT AS BOLD... "grammatically as print it would be bold". Does not mean on your page it has to be; just so long as you indicate the text is different from what's around it... See how on many non-graphical browsers underscores are put around bold text, and tilde's are put ~around~ italic text.
The actual presentation being entirely up to the discretion of the user agent -- like EVERY OTHER original HTML 2 tag.
Just as horizontal rule does not actually MEAN a bar across the screen, but a change in topic... just as P means a grammatical paragraph, not a typographical one... (or worse, "but it's text")
Again why if you're choosing tags based on it's default appearance, you're probably choosing the wrong tags.
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I'm sorry to disagree, but  seems pretty clearly presentational. The reason is that is is not describing WHAT the content is but what it LOOKS LIKE. It would be as bad as having <helvetica></helvetica>. Sure I could style that to be Tahoma, but then I have semantic problems. If you take the  tag which semantically means "bold" and you define it as italic, then you have a tag that means "bold" in your markup but presents as "italic." That's like having this
 and then defining it as blue. Or worse yet, . To me that last one is the same as using .
A horizontal rule DOES mean a "rule" that runs "horizontally." Semantically that is what it actually means. A NON presentational would be if you created a class like "topicChange" and then define a horizontal line with a border style because you have left all your styling to your CSS so now you are not stuck with "horizontal" or "rule" but you can make it be whatever you want.
So if you had a book title, rather than do this  Grapes of Wrath , you do Grapes of Wrath . Now you define it as bold, or italic, or red, or blue, or uppercase or whatever. You aren't stuck with "b" for "bold" if your title isn't bold anymore.
I think that may vary by location. I was taught at school that, grammatically, book titles and the like should be contained in inverted commas. (The fact that I was taught grammar and punctuation at all probably says something about my age.)
However, in this context, I was looking at the W3C meaning. In the [HTML4 specs,  and  are regarded as styling elements and therefore presentational. But "The HTML5 specification redefines b and i elements to have some semantic function, rather than being purely presentational", says the [URL="http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags"]HTML5 resource](http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/graphics.html#edef-B).
So, it looks as if, on this occasion, ds60 and HTML5 are in complete agreement. He will be pleased...:stir:
That's a distinctly UK thing... Oxford English... Which wasn't established as a standard until the early part of the last century... as opposed to US English which was standardized and taught from that standard from the 18th century onward... Funny that, until sometime around 1900 the limeys had no official standard/specification for their language.
Sorry, worked at a living history museum that recreates the 17th century for a number of years, tend to pick up a few things.
HTML 4's.... definitions of tags are ... bad. It's actually something that for all the pissing on HTML 3.2 we do for it's presentational crap like CENTER and FONT, it does a better job of when it comes to certain elements like P and H1.... at the same time the definition of B and I has sucked ever since 3 came along.
You go back to 2...http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.7.2
For the link shy:
Typical renderings for idiomatic elements may vary between user agents. If a specific rendering is necessary -- for example, when referring to a specific text attribute as in "The italic parts are mandatory" -- a typographic element can be used to ensure that the intended typography is used where possible.
(21) Bold: B
The B element indicates bold text. Where bold typography is unavailable, an alternative representation may be used.
In this case they are using the word typographical to mean grammatically, while they seem to be using the word typographic to mean presentation -- which is a piss poor choice of words and the root cause of all the confusion down the pipe. As such, you have to reason out the rest of what it says to put those words in context. (treading into the same area as empty elements -- where an empty element in HTML means an element that cannot have child nodes (not even text) -- NOT elements that have no child nodes.

 is not an empty element which is why
 is invalid XHTML!)
That it can be rendered as something other than bold (as said many times in every html spec) is proof it means when text would be bold, not must be bold -- which is the difference between meaning and appearance.
Which is why the HTML Specifications (all of 'em) are filled to the gills with "typicallly", "would", "could" and "may" and damned scarce on "must" or even "should"... It's how it should be as the entire original point of HTML was to be able to structure a document in a manner that the user agent could customize to the device capabilities; So saying BOLD was NOT to say "this must be shown as bold" but "this typically is shown as bold, do what you can".
But again, with the needlessly vague and cryptic wording of every specification -- it's a miracle the bloody thing works at all. Makes you want to scream at them Samuel L. Jackson style Englisc, mōdor wyrter! Gedōn ēow cweþan hit!?!
There are at least some attempts to clean up the meanings of the existing tags in HTML 5... it's one of the few things I have positive things to say about -- 99% of my problems lie with the new redundant pointless idiotic tags that serve no good purpose apart from making pages a billion times more complex than need be, and the loosening of the structural rules to the point it sets coding practices back a decade... Again, carefully crafted for the people who just vomit up HTML 3.2 and slap a 4 transitional doctype on it -- now instead of slapping a tranny on it they give it 5 lip service, net improvement zero. Either way you look at it, it's Admiral Ackbar territory.
According to W3C:
Which is probably why they also say: "You should not use b and i tags if there is a more descriptive and relevant tag available. If you do use them, it is usually better to add class attributes that describe the intended meaning of the markup, so that you can distinguish one use from another."
In the case of all their examples above, here are better, and more meaningful semantic markups:
That way you don't have to be STUCK with BOLD, if you decide to change your keywords to something, say like italic instead? Span is completely neutral, while bold is descriptive of the presentation of the text. That's why when you set up your styles in CSS, you have "font-weight" with available values like: 300, 400, 600, and ...... bold! I have a general rule that if it can be done through a CSS value, I probably should keep it out of my markup. So just like I wouldn't use <400>, or <#F00>, or <uppercase> if they were available, I don't use  either, even if it is a technically valid holdout from ancient past.
Obviously W3C is lightly discouraging the use of  and  for pretty good reasons.
I want to bring up some points.
Some screen readers may use a different inflection when they come across this tag to communicate the emphasis.
None that I know of. Similarly, they all (at least the big names) seem to ignore aural stylesheets entirely. When the specs were written, there was hope that strong and em would be pronounced differently, but if you give a good listen to speech synthesizers, they mostly suck already. You're lucky to get them to bring the tone down at the end of a sentence (mine do it in the middle of a sentence if it's the end of a line!) or speak capital letters out in a higher pitch... getting them to speak like a human with emphasis is just asking too much. Except from VoiceOver, that synth is pretty good and would be the first one I'd expect to even try making strong and em sound differently. At least for English. The Dutch is... hilarious to say the least. Feeeerfox and weeeebdesigners, lawlz.
Not only that I have actually found that when you use  for your text, each browser renders that differently because it is not using a specially designed alternate bold typeface as in the print industry. You are leaving the browser to interpret bold with it's own trickery. It's actually faux bold.
This isn't true for any of my browsers, but I could believe this to be true on a Mac. Specifically Safari was one of the few browsers who actually understood the different font-weights (100, 400, 700, etc) and Macs were possibly the only OSes equipped with actually different weights of at least some fonts.
What my (Linux) browsers do: if the font they are rendering has a bold version, they just throw that in there. Nothing more. Once I downloaded a "free" Tahoma (somehow it was supposedly around the licensing restrictions???) for Linux. It did not come with a bold or an italic or an oblique, only "normal". B and strong tags were not rendered bold when this font was applied, because I simply did not have it.
Italics, however... IE especially was known for making faux italics by tilting the letters, which I believe lead to the overflow bug known in IE6. I'm sure IE wasn't the only browser to tilt letters instead of using the italic version of the chosen font. Also explains why it looked like pants. : )
However, in this context, I was looking at the W3C meaning. In the HTML4 specs,  and  are regarded as styling elements and therefore presentational. But "The HTML5 specification redefines b and i elements to have some semantic function, rather than being purely presentational", says the HTML5 resource.
Yeah the HTML5 guys have been trying to figure out how to make non-semantic (typographic) tags mean something.Guess what they did with the u tags? Yeah, they're back. Specifically for Chinese proper nouns though. And of course WYSIWYGs; unfortunate that the HTML5 spec considers real-world use, even if terrible, to be reason enough to state that's how we should do things. Bleh.
I was taught at school that, grammatically, book titles and the like should be contained in inverted commas.
I was taught in school that ship names, the first time a name of an interviewee was presented in an article, and bibliographies needed to be bold. I was taught that book/magazine/article titles were to be underlined. However, in practice, we underlined everything (or, that was allowed) because most of us didn't have computers with word processors, but electric typewriters. Bold was possible (go back every letter and re-hit it several times) but underlining was just easier to do and easier to see. This is partially why some styleguides say bold and others say underline for the same thing: only a typesetter could do bold or italic, while regular people were stuck with underlining.
That's why when you set up your styles in CSS, you have "font-weight" with available values like: 300, 400, 600, and ...... bold!
You have "bold" because not all fonts (I'd maybe dare say MOST fonts) don't have all those weights at all. Bold == anything 400 and up. However some of the older font absolutely have a 100 weight, a 400 weight, a 600 weight... so CSS was designed to deal with that, but in the real world, means little. But you type one less character so I'm all for it.
Personally I set strong { font-weight: bold;}andem { font-style: italic;}in my stylesheets most of the time because, as you've noted, it's not a hard and fast rule how they are rendered, just that most user agents currently tend to display those tags that way.
But since no machines can see the difference, the semantics I write with strong and em are just for kicks, shts, giggles, and to stroke my ego as "semantics warrior". I kinda believe something can't be "semantic" (have meaning) if nobody actually bothers to read the meaning into the tag. HTML5 is like that currently: there are all these supposed future benefits of "semantic tags" but they don't mean zip to any machine or program out there.
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 in current user agents, including screen readers (who are one of the big reasons championed for more semantic tags really).In the glorious future, though, they will have meaning and we'll finally get our damned flying cars. Only been waitin 50 years for those...


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Good Hair
Well it's about time somebody seriously and critically addressed the issues about hair in the Black community. And suprisingly enough, it was Chris Rock who did it. The documentary film was inspired by a question Rock's young daughter asked him: "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" Unsure about how to answer her question, Rock decided to explore historical and contemporary sources to shed light on "the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people". Featuring interviews with Ice T, Maya Angelo, Kerry Washington, Al Sharpton and Nia Long to name a few. I can't wait to see how he tackles this subject.


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For most people, a fall is not a good thing.
But for singer-songwriter Audrey Assad, who decided to leave her record label to work as an independent artist, it is fortunate.
Assad, who performed in Lafayette last week, is on tour promoting her latest project, "Fortunate Fall," which was financed by her supporters on Kickstarter.
"This new record, 'Fortunate Fall,' displays what I would say are my two sides, which are Catholic and charismatic," she said.
The record's curious name comes from her attention to the liturgy.
"Fortunate fall is an alternate translation of a phrase in the Easter vigil prayer 'The Exsultet,'" she said. "That is the prayer the deacon or sometimes the priest sings, and it's got the whole history of the church and Abraham and Isaac and all through the history of man.
"So there's a phrase in there that says 'Oh happy fault, oh necessary sin of Adam, that gained for us so great and glorious a redeemer.'
"'Fortunate fall' is just an alternate translation of 'happy fault,'" she said.
That idea led her to the idea from St. Augustine, "That God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to never permit evil to exist in the first place. And that's the mystery of Christ becoming man and entering our world and that we even needed a savior and how beautiful that relationship is."
Assad said the entire record is a meditation on that idea in general and specific themes.
Psalm 23 and the idea of God as our shepherd is one of those specific themes.
Assad said that as she wrote, one of the biggest themes that jumped out was the idea that Christ "is God, but he is humble. He humbles himself to not only take on the form of man, but to take on the role of shepherd, which to me almost feels like a baby sitter sometimes.
The mission
Assad said her mission in life is to "build bridges in the church 'cause I was raised Protestant. I'm now Catholic. I have a lot of experience in both worlds. There is nothing that fires me up more, in a good way, than having those conversations with people and seeking that understanding and building real bridges between the two."
She adds that her music allows her to "have that conversation on a level that I might not be able to if I didn't do what I do.
"And I do believe that when Jesus prayed for unity in John 17 it was not just an idea in his mind but in fact something we could actively work toward as the church as long as we are on this earth."
She said her music is less about saying something specific than about providing a space to hold the conversations. "I do have that conversation with a lot of individuals. At my merch (merchandise) table, on my Facebook, Twitter. ... Ecumenism is a big part of why I do what I do."
That conversation led to a very successful Kickstarter campaign.
Assad said she went with the crowd-sourcing site when she left her label because it would give "a chance to really connect with the people I have been giving music to for years. I wanted to know who those people are a little better. I wanted them to feel more connected to what my mission is and my vision."
The project started on March 16 with a goal of $40,000. Assad listed all of the things that money was to pay for and said that was "actually a small number relatively. But it sounded like a lot, so I was really nervous.
"We did hit that goal, in 50 hours. ... I really thought it would take the whole 30 days to do. ... We ended up at $79,000, which enabled us to do a live record which is coming out later this year. We did more video content because of that extra."
Assad said, "It is a really huge gift when someone trusts an artist enough to give someone the money for the record before they even know what it is gonna sound like or what it is gonna say.
"That support was and is a big honor for me, and I really felt like it confirmed in my mind that I am doing the right thing doing this independently. I have some amazing fans out there who are really wanting to be part of a community and a tribe and not just consume but actually really be a part of things that I believe in too. So that really really encouraged me, and I got a fresh shot of energy."


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Bernard Quilty entered the service 20 Feb. 1942 in New York, his Home State of Residence. . . . at 314 Highland Avenue, E. Syracuse, NY. He reported to FT Niagra, Youngstown, NY, still single but already a Locomotive Fireman. He qualified for the AAC and was assigned to learning to be a Bombardier. He then was assigned to the 321st Bomb Group, the 447th Bomb Squad (I believe married his Sweetheart- Catharine in here somewhere) Bernie went over to Africa on the USS Stanton, flew 50 Combat Missions mostly with Capt. Bob Spikes, Capt. Jim Bugbee and Lt DeMoss. Combat Missions were especially hard on the Bombardiers as they were sittiong up in the nose with not much for protection but the plexi-glass ! The B-25 Mitchell Medium Bomber was one durable-amazing ship, she could (and DID) fly straight through FLAK and still return home regardless of getting there withOUT some very important parts and hundreds of holes. One Mission required an emergency landing (Flares up, first down) and when he got out and removed his helmet, there was a large hole in it and the still-warm piece of FLAK was imbedded in the glove he placed there for padding ! The Sky-Pilot was with them that day ! (Thank YOU Lord !) -B
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This article was published 21/12/2008 (3165 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The details of the atrocities inflicted on the little girl during her short life were almost too much for any compassionate human being to handle -- a nightmare made even worse by the fact they were repeated over and over again in press coverage of the criminal trial of her killers; two people who were supposed to have protected her.
There is no denying Phoenix suffered before she died and suffered badly. Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to this case over the past several months knows it.
But now the trial is over, and those of us who did pay attention need to figure out how to deal with our anger and our outrage.
For what it's worth, I offer this: While her parents and the system (and indeed, all of us, as members of a supposedly caring society) failed Phoenix miserably, the tragedy of her death will inspire change -- and from that change, another little girl's life will be saved.
It might not provide a lot of comfort in the here and now, but it's the truth and it's something positive on to which we can hold.
Do you remember Tracia Owen?
In August 2005 -- two months after Phoenix was left to die on a basement floor -- Tracia hanged herself in an abandoned Winnipeg garage. She was 14 years old. She was also addicted to drugs and had been repeatedly sexually exploited on our city's streets by men who had deluded themselves into thinking that what they were paying to do to her was something other than child abuse.
Like Phoenix, Tracia had been dealt a rough hand in life. Born into a dysfunctional, alcoholic family that loved her but was incapable of properly caring for her, she was shuffled from foster home to foster home, returned to her parents by child welfare authorities 17 times by the time she was 12.
Tracia's death was a suicide. But the horrors she endured until she just couldn't endure them any longer outraged Manitoba's chief medical examiner -- so much so, he ordered a provincial inquest in an effort to draw attention to the circumstances that led Tracia to end her life. The hope was that it might prevent others from following in her footsteps.
I bring up Tracia because the details that emerged during that inquest were appalling. Judge John Guy certainly thought so. In his final report, he called the sexual exploitation of youth "a serious problem in our city" and wrote: "Let there be no mistake -- these are not twenty something year old sex trade workers being solicited on the streets by johns. These are children being exploited by men who drive around our streets looking for these young girls believing they can engage in this kind of activity with impunity.
This must change."
I bring up Tracia for another reason, too. The change Guy referred to is starting to happen.
Earlier this month, the provincial government announced the second phase of a sexual exploitation strategy it launched in 2002 -- a $2.4 million, 26-point plan that includes a new team of street outreach workers, a safe rural healing lodge, funding for mentorship and prevention programs, and a commitment to increasing public awareness and targeting offenders.
The front-line workers I spoke to called it, among other things, "innovative," "comprehensive," "well-rounded" and "awesome."
Gord Mackintosh, Manitoba's minister of family services and housing, told me that "it's really important that people know -- that children know -- that there's a lot of people who care about this."
The new strategy is named Tracia's Trust, in honour of the girl who didn't survive her own personal nightmare, but whose death will end up saving others.
Phoenix Sinclair's murder has already sparked several reviews of Manitoba's child welfare system. Over 200 recommendations for operational changes have already been made.
Once all potential appeals have been heard, a provincial inquest into her death will be held. Undoubtedly, more changes will come as a result.
Rest in peace, Phoenix. Your suffering is over. Your legacy is just beginning.
Marlo Campbell writes for Uptown Magazine.


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I will parent naturally and joyfully. I will not parent out of fear. I wish I had understood this from the start. I wish I had known not to worry and to take each day as one adventurous, emotional, joyful, difficult day at a time.
This is what I want to pass on to new parents everywhere who are embarking on the life-changing journey of becoming a mum and dad.
When you have a new baby do not worry about...
-Getting dressed; dressing gowns and nightwear will more than suffice there will be time for getting dressed in the future when your baby is not brand new. Now is the time to get to know each other as a family in whatever clothes are most comfortable and easy.
-What anyone else's baby is doing; every baby is different; every baby is unique. You are your own family and you know your baby better than anyone. Trust your instincts and follow your baby's lead.
-How much cake you eat! This is not a 'I'm eating way too much cake' sort of a time. It is a time when convenience food can be helpful and you may need to consume calories quickly and easily.
-Meeting other people's schedules; you have a new baby so your family comes first. Other people may just have to jiggle their diaries around a bit to meet your and your babies needs.
-Getting household jobs done. They can wait, or better still one of your visitors can do them
-Asking for help and then asking for some more help and then some more. Breastfeeding, caring for a new baby, the postnatal recovery; it all takes time and most women needs lots of support in the early days. This is normal so please keep asking.
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Pronounced: boo-ten-EER de-FORM-uh-tee of finger
Boutonnière deformity (BD) prevents you from straightening your finger. The disorder affects the finger's system of tendons. The tendons allow you to flex and straighten your finger.
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In BD, the tendon on the top of the finger (called the central slip) is torn or cut from the other tendons. This creates a tear that resembles a buttonhole (or boutonnière in French). The first finger joint is forced down and the fingertip bends back at the second joint. The tendons on this part of the finger are flat and thin. They are prone to injury. If you have BD in the thumb, it affects a joint called the metacarpophalangeal (MCP).
BD can be caused by:
Factors that may increase your risk of developing BD include:
Symptoms may include:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done, paying close attention to:
An x-ray may be done to see if you have a fracture.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment options include the following:
Your doctor may recommend the following medications:
For milder cases, the treatment is nonsurgical and may involve:
If your finger does not improve, you may need surgery.
Surgery is needed in severe cases. For example, when the tendon is cut or when the deformity has lasted a long time. Surgery generally does not return your finger to the way it was working before the injury. But, you may have some improvement. After surgery, you will have to do exercises to strengthen the finger.
National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
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Canadian Physiotherapy Association
Boutonniere deformity of the finger. Orthogate website. Available at: http://www.orthogate.org/patient-education/hand/boutonniere-deformity-of-the-finger.html. Updated July 27, 2006. Accessed August 10, 2015.
Dupuytren disease. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T114104/Dupuytren-disease. Updated April 19, 2016. Accessed September 29, 2016.
To P, Watson JT. Boutonniere deformity. J Hand Surg Am. 2011 Jan; 36(1):139-42.
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Steelers' Pouncey makes All-Pro Second Team
Published: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 12:16 a.m.
Pittsburgh Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey was named to the All-Pro Second Team on Saturday.
The former first-round selection out of Florida has been an All-Pro player since his rookie season in 2010 when he was also voted on to the Second Team. He continued the trend, making the All-Pro First Team following the 2011 season.
Pouncey has also made the AFC Pro Bowl roster in all three of his seasons in the NFL.
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Hi, I'm having a glitch when testing the compatibility of my site in IE10. It works just fine in FF, safari and chrome on my macs, iPad and windows laptop. But my jquery navigation menu and fancybox image gallery just don't work.
My site is under development and seems to be just dandy on all browsers except for IE10.:
For some reason the menu bar and photo gallery, which are both powered by Jquery just dont work.
Here is my code:
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Anyone got a clue why this aint working in IE????
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Looks to be working fine in IE10. I tested it in IE10 on Windows 8 Pro and it works fine
Same here. Everything works as expected for me on IE10 in Win8
Thanks guys. I've noticed on my ie browser that the menu works on the other pages of my site, ie the about, work, play etc. I've removed the fancybox script from those pages and the site performs as it does on all other browsers. Could it be a problem within the browser that I am testing the compatibility on?
This would be the most likely explanation.What document mode are you in? It is possible to use the IE10 browser mode with (for example) the IE5 quirks document mode, in which case your menus won't work.
Yes that was it, browser was defaulting to IE7 in document mode, have added code in head to default to most up to date browser... Sorted. Many thanks
I'm glad you got it sorted, but AFAIK you shouldn't have to add any extra code to the page to make it render in standards mode.I believe it was doing that for me and jaagare anyway.
If someone knows better, please correct me.
Can you please let us know what kind of code change you made? Because even without that it was rendering fine. I think you must have had your browser set up to render in compatibility mode which might have caused the error, but still if you could let us know what code change you made, it might be helpful and also kindly let us know the OS you were running the site on.


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Kuwait: End Police Abuses Against Transgender Women
(Kuwait City) – Kuwaiti police have tortured and sexually abused transgender women using a discriminatory law, passed in 2007, which arbitrarily criminalizes "imitating the opposite sex," Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government of Kuwait should repeal the law, article 198 as amended in 2007, and hold police officers accountable for misconduct.
The 63-page report, "They Hunt us Down for Fun": Discrimination and Police Violence Against Transgender Women in Kuwait, documents the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and persecution that transgender women – individuals who are born male, but identify as female – have faced at the hands of police. The report also documents the discrimination that transgender women have faced on a daily basis – including by members of the public – as a result of the law, an amendment to penal code article 198. Based on interviews with 40 transgender women, as well as with ministry of interior officials, lawyers, doctors, and members of Kuwaiti civil society, the report found that the arbitrary, ill-defined provisions of the law has allowed for numerous abuses to take place.
Police have free rein to determine whether a person's appearance constitutes "imitating the opposite sex" without any specific criteria being laid down for the offense. Transgender women reported being arrested even when they were wearing male clothes and then later being forced by police to dress in women's clothing, and the claim made that they arrested them in that attire. In some cases documented by Human Rights Watch, transgender women said police arrested them because they had a "soft voice" or "smooth skin."
"No one – regardless of his or her gender identity – deserves to be arrested on the basis of a vague, arbitrary law and then abused and tortured by police," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "The Kuwaiti government has a duty to protect all of its residents, including groups who face popular disapproval, from brutal police behavior and the application of an unfair law."
Transgender women reported suffering multiple forms of abuse at the hands of the police while in detention, including degrading and humiliating treatment, such as being forced to strip and being paraded around the police station, being forced to dance for officers, sexual humiliation, verbal taunts and intimidation, solitary confinement, and emotional and physical abuse that could amount to torture. Redress for these violations is difficult, as few said they reported incidents of police misconduct because of threats of retribution and re-arrest.
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This article was published 2/5/2013 (1573 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
If your glass of ice-cold Red River water is perpetually half full, the announcement of 50 new high-tech jobs coming to the heart of downtown is exciting enough to make you actually drink the murky stuff.
But if your glass is half empty, the sobering notion each one of those gigs comes with $24,000 worth of government incentives may drive you to consider quaffing something a little stronger.
On Thursday, Canadian Tire announced it will create 50 new jobs in Winnipeg when it opens up a "cloud computing centre" in the Air Canada building on Portage Avenue. The positions in question are precisely the sort of jobs this city and province absolutely must create in order to retain young, creative workers.
The knock against Winnipeg over the past few decades is its economy just hasn't offered enough in the way of opportunity to recent university graduates with the ambition to work at the razor's edge of their respective fields.
The belief, sometimes but not always borne out by statistics, is that young, university-educated Winnipeggers are more likely to flee this city than their counterparts in, say, Toronto, Vancouver or Calgary, where there are more cutting-edge jobs due to the presence of corporate headquarters, the film business and the oil industry, respectively.
Of course, not all the jobs younger workers find involve new technology. This notion, popularized by fetishistic business-press coverage of high-tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and Apple, portrays all 20-something workers (and even those in their 30s) as spoiled little babies who want espresso machines on every floor, a row of vintage video games against every wall and office hours so flexible no boss will ever care when they come and go.
In reality, most young people just want a job that pays well, keeps them interested and simply does not suck. So, if you're a Winnipeg university graduate who happens to be one of the 50 people qualified to work in Canadian Tire's new "advanced cloud computing centre," you may just be able to stick around the Manitoba capital long enough to complain about a few more winters and the lack of Canadian Football League championships.
The price of this centre to the public purse, as revealed on Thursday at a press conference, is at least $1.2 million in government incentives.
That includes $900,000 to $1 million worth of provincial tax incentives that will allow Canadian Tire to purchase equipment, provided Canadian Tire makes a minimum $10-million investment, Premier Greg Selinger said.
It also includes up to $300,000 from the city as part of what Winnipeg property director Barry Thorgrimson described as an "economic development incentive package" that will be presented to city council later this month.
That works out to $24,000 in government spending for each of the 50 jobs, though more may follow if the Canadian Tire venture is successful.
It's not clear how much of those incentives will be recouped in the form of business and property taxes that will be levied against the new high-technology office. The city package, as yet unveiled to the public, may simply involve tax breaks.
Downtown will also benefit by filling up 28,000 square feet of vacant office space with people who should have more earning and purchasing power than call-centre employees.
Nonetheless, it's still hard to escape the unfortunate message: Every nice thing we get in Winnipeg comes at the cost of a public subsidy.
Nonetheless, Selinger and Mayor Sam Katz are not concerned about the optics of this particular piece of public spending.
"Why would you, if you're getting this kind of investment and you're getting 50 quality jobs coming into our downtown?" Katz asked.
Selinger said the new centre will add to a critical mass of new-media business in Winnipeg. "The new-media sector has been doing very well," he said. "The products we're creating here have the ability to attract investment."
That may very well be true. But this city will only be considered a success story when it can attract investment without spending cash to bring it here.
You know what's even better than 50 interesting jobs? A day when a great, new business can set up shop in Winnipeg without making the mayor and premier feel compelled to attend the press conference.


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This article was published 15/3/2013 (1621 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Students at Warren Collegiate are among the first participants in a pilot project to launch a national book club to use Twitter to share their thoughts on a memoir by a Toronto Holocaust survivor.
Students at five schools across the country will read and discuss Zuzana Sermer's memoir Survival Kit in the one-month project, supported by the Azraeli Foundation.
Sermer's story tells of her struggle to survive as a teenager in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, meeting her future husband in Hungary, surviving the 1945 siege of Budapest and her later life in Communist Czechoslovakia, up to the 1968 Soviet invasion.
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Life of Pi(e) could be a winner. The Edible Woman might have a chance. And given this year's European meat-packing scandal, All the Pretty Horses could be a tender contender.
The Winnipeg Public Library is inviting book lovers, foodies, chefs and artists to create book and food-related displays, using edible materials, as part of its Books 2 Eat event.
Prizes will be given out for most creative and book-oriented projects submitted by kids, adults and professionals or culinary school students. Entries will be displayed April 6, from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Millennium Library. There will also be literary goodies at the event.
Information on the event is available at the Winnipeg Public Library website. Register by April 1 to submit an entry.
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One of the most popular innovations at this year's Oscars was the use of the ominous shark-attack music from Jaws to tell award winners to quit reciting their laundry-list thank-yous.
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg might have saved herself some embarrassment if she'd cued up that music when she was writing the seven-page acknowledgement section to her new memoir/manifesto Lean In.
Sandberg was cited recently in The New Republic as the latest, and perhaps most egregious, example of name-dropping and fulsome gratitude for thanking some 140 people by name, including Arianna Huffington, Gloria Steinem and Oprah Winfrey.
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The Manitoba Writers' Guild's monthly In Dialogue series of readings takes a novel turn for the final two events of the season
Saskatchewan novelist and playwright Dianne Warren, winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel Cool Water and a runner-up in 1992 in the drama category, joins Winnipeg novelist Joan Thomas March 25.
Thomas, author of the evolutionary drama Curiosity, is currently working on a third novel, tentatively titled Help Island, while serving as Winnipeg Public Library writer-in-residence.
On April 8, the final event of the season will celebrate the annual Manitoba Book Awards with readings by two of last year's winners. Sue Sorensen, who won the Eileen McTavish Sykes first book prize for her comic novel A Large Harmonium, will be joined by Esmé Claire Keith, whose dark satire Not Being on a Boat won the McNally Robinson book of the year award last year.
Both events start at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Press Café. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door or by calling the Guild at 944-8013.


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Welcome to Thursday's The Crap We Missed where at first glance you might be thinking this is a pic of Mike Tyson just before he explodes into homicidal rage, but then you realize he's just out shopping with his wife, and now you're certain of it. We've also got Tyler the Creator (whoever the fuck that is) making a grab for those sweet maple dollas, and the Snooki "holy-cow-doesn't-it-look-like-I'm-blowing-this-almost-dick-shaped-food" pic that isn't at all realistic because they're aren't four more sandwiches and she's awake.
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Meatless Monday is a global movement, a way of life. It's not a campaign to turn everyone in the world vegetarian or vegan; in fact, many involved are meat-lovers. Eating less meat has been proven to reduce the risk of disease, curb obesity and has important environmental impacts, too. Will you join us in giving up meat, just for one day a week?
Chili-anything is usually loaded with meat. Chili dogs, chili-cheese fries and the chili that comes with nachos at a restaurant — always beefy. If you want to start a big fight, tell a chili enthusiast that vegetarian chili is legit. True chili traditionalists believe that chili is made with meat, or it's not chili at all.
Rachael Ray's Roasted Squash Chili Mac is an exception to the everything-chili-is-made-with-meat rule. It's made with roasted butternut squash and chili spices like chili powder, cumin and oregano, plus cinnamon and nutmeg which pair well with the squash. It's creamy and cheesy like mac and cheese should be, but there's nary a beef clump in sight.
Bonus: You can assemble the casserole ahead of time and bake it before you're ready to eat.
Rachael Ray's Roasted Squash Chili Mac
Serves: 6
4 tablespoons butter, plus more for the casserole dish
1 pound butternut squash, peeled and diced (or look for diced raw butternut squash in the produce department)
EVOO, for drizzling
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
Freshly grated nutmeg
1 pound rigatoni, penne or macaroni with ridges
2 tablespoons chili powder, such as Gebhardt's, or a blend of ancho or chipotle
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 cloves garlic, made into a paste
1 fresh chile pepper, such as Fresno or jalapeno, finely chopped
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups milk
2 cups shredded sharp yellow Cheddar
1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
One 14-ounce can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup shredded pepper jack or other hot-pepper melting cheese
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Lightly butter a casserole dish.
Put the squash on a rimmed baking sheet, drizzle with EVOO and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Toss to combine. Roast until the edges are browned, 17 to 20 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 400 degrees F.
Cook the pasta in boiling salted water to just shy of al dente, 7 minutes. Drain.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the chili powder, oregano, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, garlic and chile pepper and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add the flour and cook, stirring, then whisk in the milk. Bring to a simmer and cook until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon. Add the Cheddar and Parmigiano-Reggiano and stir until melted.
Combine the squash, chili-cheese sauce and beans, then transfer to the prepared casserole dish. Top with the pepper jack cheese. Cover and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until the top is browned, 15 to 20 minutes more.
More Amped-Up Mac and Cheese Recipes:
Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
White Truffle Mac and Cheese
Jalapeno Popper Orzo Mac and Cheese
Broccoli and Cauliflower Gratin Macaroni and Cheese
Macaroni and Cheese, Indian-Style
Creamy, Dreamy Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Macaroni and Cheese
Pesto Mac and Goat Cheese
Poblano Mac and Manchego With Corn and Mushrooms
Thai Red Curry Mac and Cheese