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Former Bangladesh Cricket Board president Saber Hossain Chowdhury has termed the changes made to the board's constitution "undemocratic and unethical" and has questioned the procedures followed by the board for making the amendments.
One of the main issues under the latest amendments made by the National Sports Council, the regulatory body for all sports federations in Bangladesh, is that the BCB president will be elected by the directors instead of the councilors (members of various clubs, districts, divisions, certain institutions and former players who hold voting rights in BCB elections). The change is a complete U-turn from the March amendment in which the BCB had given voting rights to the councilors after an ICC directive had asked for lesser government interference.
Secondly, the NSC increased the number of councilorships from the top six Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League clubs from one to two to justify the amount of money spent by the clubs during the league. This would make the BCB more Dhaka-centric rather than decentralised as it would give even more power to the clubs from the capital.
The third major change was at the district and division level where anyone, even from outside the district or divisional sports association's executive committee, can now become a councilor. Previously, a district councilor needed a minimum of three years experience in the executive body of his/her district.
On December 13, the Dhaka High Court gave a stay order of three months on the amended BCB constitution, which means the board has to be run under the 2008 charter.
Chowdhury was a pivotal figure in the country's cricket between 1996 and 2001 when Bangladesh won the ICC Trophy, were given ODI and Test status and held a global event and his criticism is a sign of major unease about the conflict-ridden BCB that is now run by an adhoc committee instead of an elected body.
"It is a matter of concern to see such divisions in Bangladesh cricket," Chowdhury said. "I don't want to pick any of these sides, be it districts, clubs or players. We should be speaking on behalf of cricket.
"First of all, it is not clear what recommendations were considered when these changes to constitution were made. Secondly, we also have to know what process was used. When a higher body makes such amendments, it cannot just be made for the sake of it. The amendment has to come through a reference point. What I'm trying to understand is whether these changes were sought by the BCB or the NSC.
"From what I know of the NSC Act, it contradicts to how the amendments were made. As far as I know, the BCB adhoc committee hasn't discussed these changes."
Over the past weekend, the club representatives and those from the districts as well as the players' body have all commented on the amended constitution in a series of press briefings in Dhaka. The BCB has remained quiet about the matter. Chowdhury criticised this silence and asked the BCB to take the lead in correcting the wrongs.
"The cricket board has to take a stance, say whether they support the changes that have been made to the constitution. It is important to know their position because the BCB is the governing body.
"Everyone who will be affected by these changes are speaking about it, whether that be criticism or appreciation. But the BCB is quiet," he said.
He also pointed out the lack of clarity when it comes to following a modus operandi of running the BCB. "Ever since we wrote up the model constitution in 1998, it has been like a pendulum where we are swinging from a board of directors to an executive committee system and back to the board of directors."
Chowdhury said that the BCB should not have governmental intervention because it's a strong enough body, especially through its wealth. "The changes are establishing political influence in cricket. If the government had helped the BCB financially, it would have had a say.
"But the BCB has more money in the bank than the NSC probably, so I don't see a reason for the government to have an influence. I am not a believer of making these changes because the ICC has said so. I want political influence out because it is the right thing to do."
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Martin Heisig, Senior Vice President of Cloud and Infrastructure Delivery at SAP SE, is responsible for SAP's global IT infrastructure including the operation of SAP's external cloud offerings.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today, Martin. Before discussing SAP cloud delivery and data center solutions in greater detail and the upcoming FORECAST 2014 please tell us about your background.
Martin Heisig: I am the head of SAP's Infrastructure Services Organization and responsible for SAP's global IT infrastructure including the operation of SAP's external cloud offerings. The SAP Cloud offering includes for example Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions (Success Factors, ARIBA, HANA Cloud Platform) as well as comprehensive cloud infrastructure combined with managed services for global enterprise customers (SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud).
This role combines also responsibility for SAPs office and workplace equipment, backend systems, data centers, network and WAN infrastructure as well as SAP system management for SAP's business, development and training & demo environment.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: May we have an overview of the key trends and highlights SAP will be discussing at FORECAST 2014?
Martin Heisig: The mega trends real-time platforms - Big Data, cloud, enterprise mobility as well as social media - continue to enable completely new business scenarios. In a tectonic shift, we witness how our most innovative customers reinvent their business models and processes by using in-memory technology, like SAP HANA. The world goes real-time across entire industries and in the private space.
As head of the HANA Enterprise cloud delivery function, I foresee that more and more companies will move to the cloud, and that we will see a leap in software, infrastructure and platform as services. Customers have existing environments and want to add cloud solutions to that. So, the reality for most of these companies is a hybrid cloud environment. Or they move their enterprise systems into private clouds, for example the HANA Enterprise Cloud. Security and process integration will continue to be big issues, and this is something at which SAP excels. Whatever the strategy, CIOs have to address both agility for the business and cost. The Cloud is a major factor in this equation.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: One will read on SAP.com that, "SAP HANA converges database and application platform capabilities in-memory to transform transactions, analytics, text analysis, predictive and spatial processing so businesses can operate in real-time". Please give us an overview of the HANA and do you use it internally, too?
Martin Heisig: The SAP HANA database is an in-memory database that combines transactional data processing, analytical data processing, and application logic processing functionality in memory. This new architecture enables converged OLTP and OLAP data processing within a single in-memory column-based data store, while eliminating data redundancy and latency. With SAP HANA our customers can leverage the power of in-memory technology to address growing data volume concerns and new business opportunities. It provides a modern platform for real-time applications and real-time analytics, while simplifying existing IT landscapes.
SAP, like all companies, must stay ahead of potentially disruptive technologies to remain at the top of its market. As one of the largest customers of SAP worldwide, SAP's own global IT organization has a strong focus on innovation and is on the leading edge of many new business and technology trends. Therefore new technology at SAP is first tested and used by internal users. The practice goes by many names: eating your own dog food, drinking your own champagne, or in our case "SAP Runs SAP." By using software internally both before and after making it available to customers, employees are not only able to alert developers to potential problems in an application and make suggestions for improvement, they are also the first to enjoy the benefits too.
The first company in the world to use the SAP's in-memory technology - SAP HANA, back in 2010, was none other than the global software enterprise that created it. At SAP, we run all of our mission critical systems on HANA. In 2013, we implemented ERP on HANA across all Lines of Business and regions. CRM and our Corporate Business Warehouse run in-memory. Some examples of immediate benefits are faster financial reporting and higher quality analysis as well as significant improvements in the IT landscape. Transactions and Analytics come together in a single system. And the batch job is dead.
While nowadays cloud computing becomes an even more important topic, SAP recognized this trend and reacted early by moving their core applications into their own cloud environment powered by SAP HANA.
Customers now have the opportunity to accelerate the deployment of their SAP HANA projects within the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, where infrastructure is combined with managed services tailored for the customers' individual needs. This enables the customers- including SAP as its own and first customer - to access further advantages by getting access and benefit from SAP's latest innovation and application technologies as well as having a huge increase of implementation speed, and with this reach a better time-to-value.
As of 2014, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud operates the largest HANA systems worldwide, including SAP's own single global SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (67,000 users), SAP Customer Relationship Management (15,000 Users), and SAP NetWeaver BW (4,500 users) applications.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: What is your perspective Martin regarding the major benefits of HANA?
Martin Heisig: I believe that significant competitive advantage awaits early adopters. Let me start with where I think the biggest potential lies for customers who want to make breakthrough improvements. If you sit back and really think about your business model and core processes - and where the next disruption can come from whether you lead it or others pose be threat - you will see that real-time computing, collaborative commerce and harvesting the vast amounts of data have a huge potential. A lot of industries have been transformed via massive disruption, and it often starts with innovators finding innovative approaches to capitalize on their data, moving to digital products and services and creating totally new experiences. I believe that SAP is addressing the most important and critical needs of these companies. We help customers achieve these breakthroughs, and this should be the focus.
With Big Data, in my opinion, the problem of ever-increasing complexity has not commonly been addressed. With our SAP HANA technology we strive for exactly this missing element of simplification in how we bring structured, unstructured and event related big data into a single, coherent view to allow to derive the right decisions at the right time - in realtime. This is the real game changer.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Are there new features and solutions you would like to discuss?
Martin Heisig: We have recently introduced SAP Simple Finance, a set of solutions to bring the simplicity of SAP Cloud powered by SAP HANA to finance departments worldwide. Simple Finance doesn't displace the existing Business Suite finance apps but we simplify and modernize key workflows, introduce new interfaces, and strip out antiquated code. It takes full advantage of the in-memory SAP HANA platform with new finance capabilities, offers a new and beautiful user experience for easy access, all deployed in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud under a full subscription model, making it easy for finance departments to adopt these solutions.
And of course, we were the first to implement it. Today, we have simplified our code, dramatically reduced our data footprint and have significant performance gains. For example, all materialized aggregates are replaced by SQL statements on the fly and database indices are dropped. Our data footprint will be reduced dramatically to less than 500GB for our whole ERP data. With better financial insights and inherent reconciliation we enabled our Finance executives to make better decisions and operate more effectively.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Can we discuss Cloud and security for a moment...we all know the benefits of being online...in seconds with our various devices we can pay a bill, send a gift, make a dinner reservation, and in growing numbers, control the HVAC and security systems in our home. But, what about businesses, are they more vulnerable to the bad guys out there? Your thoughts, Martin?
Martin Heisig: Security concerns in a cloud model are similar to those for the application service provider model: whether people will steal information, or that leaks will compromise confidential data. The top security concerns for the cloud model focus on identity management, data storage location, system operations, and data transmission and flow controls.
A seasoned team of industry experts from SAP who specialize in creating secure and reliable cloud environments help businesses safeguard critical applications and data during the implementation and keep business operations intact. Our comprehensive approach - at the physical, database, middleware, application, and network and communication layers - literally builds security into every aspect of a business.
For example, SAP operates its own data centers, and we partner with local leaders in colocation hosting centers to provide secure, environmentally controlled facilities that offer an integrated security management system. On-site security measures include electronic photo-ID badging, cardholder access control, biometrics, recorded digital video surveillance, and alarm monitoring. All SAP data centers comply with the latest telecommunications industry standards, such as ANSI/TIA/EIA-942 Tier III or higher.
We also implemented a so called security monitoring center to immediately react to all kind of security risks no matter that applies to applications, infrastructure or even global crisis situations.
I believe it is a challenge for companies - especially for smaller companies - to implement such comprehensive security models on their own. More and more companies will realize that it is time to re-focus on their core business and that the cloud can help them to do so.
SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thanks again for joining us today, Martin. Are there any other subjects you would like to discuss?
Martin Heisig: Let me finally elaborate shortly on a new role of CIOs. IT purchasing power moves more to the lines of businesses (LoBs). The new role of the CIO is changing from a functional to a more strategic innovation and business enabler, the "Chief Innovation Officer." The new CIO has to stay ahead of the trends and make sure that employees can take advantage of new technology quickly. IT leaders are expected to find ways to come up with new ways of using technology to create new business opportunities and how IT contributes to the bottom line.
Cloud presents a huge opportunity for IT to drive innovation, but it also poses a challenge because the business can partner with external sources and run applications. A CIO can only be successful if there's a strong partnership and collaboration with the business. It's important for CIOs to embrace the cloud and IT's role as an integrator. This being said IT organizations need to change their mindset and the way how they operate.
I think, it's clear, that we have no option here. The cloud is a reality that one might ignore for a while but in the end this will only set you back in the transition that will anyhow happen. So, I rather like to address it heads-on and be first - and thus turn it into an advantage over competition. Nobody likes chasing up with others because of a missed advantage of a good start in the first place.
This interview originally appeared in SecuritySolutionsWatch.com. Republished with permission.
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"Steve" reads this column in Arkansas. He had an upbringing that left deep emotional scars because of being born with cleft lip and cleft palate, which came about when his lip and mouth didn't form properly before his birth.
"Early on, I didn't know I had cleft palate and lip or that there was something different about me," said 59-year-old Steve. "I had a normal life until high school, and that's when my troubles began. People started teasing my appearance. They called me "bunny" and "rabbit" because I looked like a rabbit to them. The cleft lip exposed my teeth."
Following a recommendation from his father, Steve tried stuffing his feelings, but that only heightened his emotional pain. Eventually, school personnel referred him to a psychologist, which didn't help. Kids bullied him.
He said, "I really didn't have many friends. I was shy and too introverted to reach out. I kind of isolated myself from everyone. Except for band, I never felt like I fit into any group. At one point I lashed out at the people teasing me, but that only egged them on."
Cleft palate affected his eating to the extent he couldn't chew with his mouth closed. He couldn't breath through his nose. (He still can't.) At age 18, he had a corrective operation, which somewhat improved his confidence in social situations. Before the operation, he was using a denture fitted with a false tooth to hide the cleft. Afterward, a dentist would permanently attach a false tooth directly into his jawbone at the cleft.
Though gaining self-confidence socially, he still would carry a number of emotional scars with him throughout life. For example, at 59, Steve fights mental illness and still cringes when walking by groups of laughing teenagers because he thinks they're laughing at him.
Only two of his high school classmates over the years ever apologized. Steve said, "One was a girl who apologized in the graduation line at high school. I was putting away my trombone and she came up to give me a hug and say she was sorry everyone had given me a hard time. It was a heartfelt apology. The other was a guy who had teased me quite a lot. He said he was sorry during our last high school reunion that he had given me such a hard time in science class."
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Malaysia the Most Wonderful Tourist Destinations to Explore
Malaysia has become the most fantastic destinations while in the entire Southern Asia which in turn. Speckled with large varieties and ranges with tourist attractions as well as destinations really this country is among the most spread destinations in the entire world. This beautiful place is truly incredibly welcoming, idyllic and culturally abundant country the place that the vacationers through every size and width of the world go here for a unique vacation. America offers the traveller the superb combination culture along with truly because visiting the united states one offers the feel plus aroma with entire Asia.
This beautiful country is really one of the most sought-after destination which in turn invites targeted traffic from just about every nook and also corner on the planet. The vibrant and assorted culture, abundant traditions, different forms of martial arts styles and the decorative fairs along with festivals effortlessly will allure the holidaymakers throughout the year. With the natural points of interest to the brilliant of man created which include busy malls, imposing buildings, skyscraper ads and many more simply entice the couples from all of over the earth.
Some of the intriguing attractions, spots and splendid sightseeing spots which are pretty worth to visit and check out are stated as beneath:
Kuala Lumpur
This can be a capital city connected with Malaysia and is also deemed as the newest city from the entire Southeast Asia. This astounding metropolis is self contained city which enjoys the modern facility and better quality of life. This bustling metropolitan city as well as cultural situations easily attract the holidaymakers from all over the globe. This bustling feeling, warm hospitality and the amazing tourist attractions easily lure a vacationers pertaining to wonderful holidays. Some of the major tourist attractions and destinations that happen to be worth for more information on are just like Aquaria KLCC, Petrosains Discovery Middle, Zoo Negara and also National Zoo, National Library and Kl Bird Park your car. No, Malaysia bundles are considered as very really worth one before fascinating capital of scotland- Kuala Lumpur explored.
Penang is one of the key tourist destinations while on your . Penang Tropical isle is truly the most popular places which are quite worth to check out and discover. This lovely island is full of life and also truly can be speckled with fascinating beaches, abundant greeneries; warm seas thus provide this wonderful is name as -Pearl of Orient'. The administrative centre city of maui is Georgetown also is the most wonderful tourist destinations in the earth.
Beautiful Georgetown known as as one of the a lot of wonderful attractions in the full Malaysia and this exceptional site is additionally listed towards UNESCO World Traditions Sites. The particular excellence sightseeing opportunities like Straits northeastern architecture, China traditional temples and buildings easily bring in the tourists which really is actual wonder and also truly well worth to explore. A number of the major sightseeing attractions and vacation spots which are very worth to arrive at in Henry Town along with any tend to be such as Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, City Hall, Fort Cornwallis, Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi along with Penang Islamic Museum.
Adjacent to these there are several wide ranges of sightseeing attractions and vacation spots which increase the beauty of Malaysia tourist.
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Lyon made the original chromes in 1966 using a Rollieflex. Because the slow speed of the film and low light levels many were time exposures. Lyon spent New Year's Eve of 1966 riding the subway with his Rollie. These are on large 4 by 5 foot light boxes and will be displayed for one year inside the Atlantic Ave Station in Brooklyn.
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The Great Climate March
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a less than exciting name also. No one could say it. No one could remember it. But the SNCC has gone down in history as one of our great moments, and one of the great grass routes organizing groups in history. So when the Great Climate Marchers (firstname.lastname@example.com) arrived … Continue reading
Considering Ethics
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The Guardian of London review's "Like A Thief's Dream"
Sean O'Hagan of the Guardian in London and written a fine piece on "Like A Thief's Dream", which of course has been way under anyone's radar in Amerika. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/11/danny-lyon-thiefs-dream-texas O'Hagan did this in January of 2011 after a friend handed him the book at a party. Since the book was dumped by the original publishers (as was … Continue reading
Utube video of Julian Bond and Danny Lyon
This is the NG edit of a portion of Lyon's and Bond's discussion at the National Geographic. I was edited to show sections of their discussion of Lyon's work for the SNCC when in 1963 Lyon and Bond worked in the same Atlanta SNCC office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjXHTMdjt9M
Lyon imagines how he would edit the National Geographic Magazine
What follows is the transcript of the talk delivered to a standing room audience of six hundred photographers, journalists and editors on January 9, 2014 at the National Geographic in Washington DC. Lyon and Julian Bond then shared the stage while sixty images were shown. "I wanted to talk a bit about Norman Mailer, … Continue reading
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Young Mike and his friend Savannah figured out the simple scam" ….
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On Thursday January 9, Danny Lyon will appear with Julian Bond and speak at the National Geographic Magazine in Washington DC. He will also show his new 9 minute Digital Video, two years in the making,"Nothing". On Saturday, January 11, Lyon will open a show of murals and new work at the Edwynn Houk Gallery … Continue reading
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Martin Luther King – Life without Parole John Lewis – Three life sentences Julian Bond – Thirty years, isolation unit Malcolm X – Death James Forman – Fifty years, Conspiracy Diane Nash – Life Fannie Lou Hammer – Twenty-Five years Bradley Manning – Forty years, isolation Edward Snowden – Death, changed to Life without Parole, … Continue reading


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Neechi Commons to improve quality of life in North End
After several years of unexpected construction delays and cost overruns, the Neechi Commons Community Business Complex on Main Street is almost ready to open its doors.
"We're sure of a January opening," project manager Russ Rothney said in an interview, adding Neechi Foods Co-op Ltd. officials are shooting for a "soft" opening in the first or second week of the month and a grand opening for late January or early February.
Rothney said the construction work is pretty well done. All that's needed now is final approval from the project's mechanical engineer and an occupancy permit from the city.
Rothney said the co-op expects to receive the occupancy permit this week. Then the newly hired management team can start hiring and training employees and making sure all of the equipment is working properly.
"We're just so excited to finally be able to focus on running the business and not on the construction," he added.
The Neechi Commons complex, which is located at the corner of Main and Euclid Avenue, will include a neighbourhood supermarket, a produce courtyard, a farmers market, a cafeteria-style restaurant, a bakery, an aboriginal art centre, a fish market and specialty boutiques.
Rothney said about 70 people, mostly younger and mostly from the surrounding neighbourhoods, will be employed at the complex. He said a job fair held in October attracted over 500 applicants, so they don't expect any difficulty filling the positions.
The project, which involved the redevelopment of two 100-plus-year-old buildings, ran into a number of unforeseen problems that contributed to the project delays and cost overruns. They included having to replace the entire brick facade on the Main Street side of the buildings, replacing a rear annex that had mould growing inside the walls and removing an old underground structure beneath the gravel parking lot.
Rothney said the project ended up costing about $8 million by the time they added in the extra carrying costs on their loans and the cost of upgrades to the old Neechi Co-op building on Dufferin Avenue. The co-op plans to continue operating a catering and wholesale food-services operation out of that building, as well as a small convenience store and lunch counter for neighbourhood residents who can't get to the new complex.
He said the final tab is at least $1.5 million higher than anticipated. Although the cost figure being bandied about in 2010 was $5 million, Rothney said later that didn't include the cost of acquiring the property and the equipment for the new complex.
About $5.5 million has already been raised for the project, including $2.3 million from the province, $1.3 million from the federal government, and $400,000 from co-op members.
Now the co-op is trying to raise an additional $2 million. It hopes to raise at least half of that through an ongoing public investment-share offering, and another $1 million in capital grants or donations from outside foundations, organizations and individuals.
Early last summer, the worker-owned co-op also asked the City of Winnipeg for an $850,000 tax-increment financing grant. The grant would be an advance on future property taxes that will flow from the redeveloped site.
"I'm pretty confident the city will come through with something," Rothney said. "But I have no idea what the exact amount will be."
A city spokesperson said the matter is expected to come before city council early in the new year.
Rothney said the co-op had sold $338,000 worth of Class A and B shares as of late Monday.
The Class A shares are priced at $100. Buyers are eligible to receive a 30 per cent provincial tax credit on purchases of up to $30,000, as well as a projected three per cent annual dividend after the second year and a projected five per cent dividend after five years.
The Class B shares are priced at $1,000 and are aimed at organizations and individuals who do not quality for the provincial tax credit. They offer to pay a projected annual dividend of five per cent beginning in the first year.
Rothney noted buyers of Class A shares who want to claim their tax credit for this year need to purchase their shares before the end of the month.
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How old is my dog or cat in human years?
12 May 2014 [13:40] -
The old "dog years" formula (one year of a dog's life is equal to seven years of human life) never really worked for any dog, based on a comparison of the general lifespan of humans vs. dogs. Cats age at a more predictable rate than dogs do, mostly because we don't see the range of size and body types we do in dogs, but the 1-to-7 formula doesn't work for them either.
How Old Is My Dog?
Consider two 10-year-old dogs, a Great Dane and a Chihuahua. Under the 1-equals-7 formula, they'd both be considered the equivalent of a 70-year-old person. And while that's probably not too far off the mark for the Great Dane (10 years for a Dane is indeed near the outer edge of life expectancy), the Chihuahua is likely still acting middle-aged.
But even the Great Dane didn't match the old formula when he was young. In the first year of his life, he would have attained most of his height, something no human 7-year-old ever does.
It's more accurate to think of the first year of a dog's life getting him just over the first big jump of adolescence, with the second year bringing him close to full adult maturity physically, although as in humans, mental maturity may still be on the horizon. From there, it really does depend on the kind of dog in question. I think it's more important to focus on the individual dog, with the knowledge that size and breeding matter when it comes to aging. Roughly put, you can consider your dog to be a senior citizen at 7 if he's that Great Dane, but not until 11-plus if he's the Chihuahua.
Your actions can influence your dog's aging process, by the way. In particular, dogs who spend their lives overweight or obese will experience chronic pain and illness earlier than active and healthy dogs of normal weight. So while you're taking precautions to keep yourself young, do the same for your dog, by watching his diet and encouraging him to get plenty of exercise.
How Old Is My Cat?
What about cats? We all love easy answers, so after the idea of "dog years" became popular, we started seeing the same methodology applied to cats: Take the lifespan of a cat, compare it to a person, then get your formula, which is why you may frequently hear that 1 cat year equals 4 human years.
You're ahead of me already, I bet: A 1-year-old cat is far more mature than a 4-year-old child, and a 2-year-old cat is fully mature, which can never be said of a human 8-year-old.
Because cats have less size diversity than dogs do, however, in this case we actually can make the formula work, if we start calculating at a cat's second birthday. The first year takes a cat to late adolescence, and the second into young adulthood. You can then start counting in fours: Figure a 2-year-old cat at 24 "human years." and add four years for every one thereafter, making a 4-year-old cat the equivalent of a 32-year-old person. That makes a 9-year-old cat about 52 in human terms, and 16-year-old cat about 80.
But, as we love to say about ourselves, age is only a number. With cats and dogs (and people!), proactive, preventive wellness care with proper diet and exercise is the best way not only to achieve a longer life but also to have it be a happy, healthy one.
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The forums have occasionally touched on the rules for using a long-s or an eszet, but I don't recall having seen a treatment of the rules -- or lack thereof -- for the archaic "r" in such blackletter texts as the Great Bible.
I came across this glyph when I sought out Cranmer's Preface to the Great Bible, wherein the more familiar "r" glyph and the less familiar one seem to be mingled without a predictable rationale. Have my powers of inference failed me, or did typesetters use whatever came out of the font?
the half r follows "round" characters such as b, p & o.
This is what John Smith said in his Printer's Grammar (London, 1755).
If you were being picky you might object that in this kind of textura black letter lower case letters like b and d do not round off behind, but if the type maker says they do why should we make trouble? In more rounded gothic types the ragged r does in fact fit rather neatly behind these letters.
The "round-r" was used after the letter o (or) but later after letters with a "round" right side too. e.g. o,b,p But it's not a very hard rule. Also used on rr-combination and on abbreviations.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundes_r German wiki article
You will get a lot of hits for "rundes r". How its called in English?
Thank you all (especially James, for introducing the contemporary testimony) -- that's one I would not have divined without your guidance.
(Double post caused by hyperactive Bluetooth mouse)
But erroneous entry redeemed for usefulness by follow-up question:
I've been reading through Smith's Printer's Grammar, and have not found anything therein about another typographical gesture with which I'd been unfamiliar before reading the "Preface" -- namely, the diacritical use of a tilde to abbreviate a vowel-m or vowel-n construction. Was this solely a convenient abbreviation? Does it occur more often at some points than others? Why would such a conventional typographical device eventually die out?
In English it's generally called an R-rotunda, at least, this is how I've always heard it refered to as.
As for the tilde, yes, in Spanish, at least, it was just an abbreviation. Instead of using a hyphen, if they only needed a letter or two to fit everything on a line, then an, en, in, on, un, am, em, im, om, and um could be replaced by their respective vowel + ~. As well, q+tilde could be used for the very common construction que. For example in this sonnet, note the only two lines with tildes are the ones that extend to all the way to the right margin. "en" appears in the first line, but has a tilde on the second (and vos veo loses some of its spacing too). Ditto for "que" appearing in full on the 7th. If you look at the italic script on some of the other pages, you'll notice the tilde looked more like an breve when it was italicised.
Since nn was relatively common, it also got the tilde treatment. Although I'm not as familiar with the Portuguese practice, I presume it to be relatively similar, and as time went on for both languages, the use for the tilde wasn't quite as great. So in modern Spanish publishing it's never used, although in handwriting you'll occasionally see q's and c's using it for que and con respectively (although it's more likely to look the same as what's used for the acute, as this is how the n-tilde is writ by most Spanish-speakers I know). The n-tilde stuck around because it came to be viewed not as much as an abbreviation, but as a separate letter since it had a completely different sound than before. Presumably, for this reason the tilde is still used in Portuguese, where in a word that Spanish and Portuguese once shared like capitanes, the n was no longer pronounced in Portuguese and instead affected the vowel by causing nasality. So, it's now writ capitães and represents a more unique sound. Why it's not as used on the u or i, when those can still be nasalised, I don't know.
In any case, yet another use of the tilde was an all purpose abbreviator:
El exclntmº señor Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Where /------/ is one big long tilde. I recall Cyrillic having a similarly formed, if not same semantically-speaking, character.
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