As reported earlier, this fountain has not been moved after all. But they have removed the surrounding basin and low wall. Doesn’t it look nice with the tiled mound?
If I weren’t such a nice person, I’d say they did that so the Turks can’t sit on the edge any longer.
In Erlangen:
The famous parking spaces of Dr. Foerster und Partner in Fürth (great photos of staff). These blocked the building of Saturn (electronics store) until it changed the plans:
Thanks to ck, who saw this at Las Palmas airport.
Here’s a severance clause (severability clause, saving clause) from Mark Anderson, A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses:
If any provision of this agreement is prohibited by law or judged by a court to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, the provision shall, to the extent required, be severed from this agreement and rendered ineffective as far as possible without modifying the remaining provisions of this agreement, and shall not in any way affect any other circumstances of or the validity or enforcement of this agreement.
Plenty of other examples can be found online for harvesting elements to translate a German salvatorische Klausel.
The courts won’t always accept the clause, but it might help, for instance, where an employment contract has a clause in restraint of trade governing post-termination work.
I found salvatorische Klausel in the small Langenscheidt-Alpmann dictionary but not otherwise. Maybe that’s why DE>EN translators are always asking what it is.
At all events, the weblog verbraucherrechtliches … is looking at some inadmissible general terms and conditions and has an entry on salvatorische Klauseln.
Some clauses add nothing to the provisions of the Civil Code, but are harmless.
But this:
Anstelle der unwirksamen Bestimmungen gilt eine angemessene zulässige Regelung, die den angestrebten wirtschaftlichen Zweck weitgehend erreichen.
is apparently known as geltungserhaltende Reduktion and is NO GOOD. Consequences here.
Of course, this doesn’t relieve us from translating them into English.
You may not recognize him, but hes been looking out for you.
Habeas Corpus has never had a very high profile, but for more than 700 years this quiet hero has stood watch over some basic principles of fairness and human dignity. When the Constitution was written, he was there. Since 1215, in fact, hes been a humble, but unflagging, champion of justice and due process of law. …
Something happened last year, and now Habeas Corpus is missing.
Some time on the morning of October 17, 2006, Habeas disappeared. Eyewitness accounts say he was last seen in Washington, D.C., walking down the Capitol steps in something of a daze. But where he went from there, or where he is now, is anyones guess.
The one thing we know for certain is why he went missing. October 17 was the day that Congress let the president declare Habeas Corpus and other parts of the U.S. Constitution null-and-void for certain individuals.
No, I don’t think I’ve seen him either. More from the ACLU here.
(Via Boingboing)
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence:
Rathaus, Fürth:
