The ten most profitable publicly-listed British companies that made it to the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below.
All the firms noted above are also part of the FTSE 100 index. The oil giant BP plc (BP) is the most profitable British company. The current yield on the BP ADR is 7.54%. After the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico BP's stock has taken a hit falling from over $60 to $43.86 today. Oil and Gas company BG Group plc (BRGYY) and Rolls Royce Group (RYCEY) trade on the OTC markets.The three banking stocks in the list can be avoided now due to many uncertainties in that sector.
Drug firms AstraZeneca (AZN) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are excellent long term high yield plays. Currently they pay 8.34% and 5.52% dividends respectively due in part to lower stock prices. British American Tobacco(BTI) revenue totaled about $23B last year. Similar to US tobacco giant Altria Group (MO), BTI also offers a high dividend yield that currently stands at 7.66%. Telecom services provider Vodafone (VOD) has a strong presence in many emerging markets.


– What's shown is grooming done monthly after a dog's shower.
– What's more important but is not shown is intermediate grooming between showers, which include combing, de-ticking/de-fleaing, ear cleaning etc.
Enjoy, and don't forget to give it a thumbs up!
*EDIT: Arrow was suffering a bad ear infection, which explains the dark substance in his ear at the ear-cleaning section (3:30), which would clog up his ear in a few days. It was actually an event that got me thinking about making this video in the first place, and I have definitely taken steps to try and prevent it from occurring. I seem to be gravitating toward using an oil-based ear cleaning solution than a water-based one (the one shown in the video is water-based that the vet prescribed for his ear infection) that I suspect could explain the ear infection. The oil based product I currently use is just below under the dog-grooming kit list. Arrow hasn't had another infection since I switched.
Every dog owner should groom their dog/dogs effectively, responsibly and skillfully. This ensures a dog's health is well taken care of also prevents pain and suffering that they might otherwise experience without it. Potential dog owners who are unprepared for such a responsibility should avoid adopting once, not to even mention adopting a Cocker Spaniel (high-grooming needs!).
4. They have long ears, hence are most susceptible to ear problems.
p.s. these are truly my personal recommendations and they are not advertisements on behalf of any company.
Golden Retriever doing some Hydrotherapy.


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Social Media and Account Manager, Carla Hale
We are proud to announce that Social Media Manager Carla Hale has been awarded several accolades in early 2013.
Carla was recognized by Women in Business Networking (WiBN) as one of the "Top Women to Watch" in 2012 around the Dayton area receiving her award recently at the 2013 ceremony and dinner. Candidates are nominated by former recipients of the WiBN community. Nominees for the recognition are chosen from a variety of industries including: finance, politics, law, arts, education, science, entrepreneurs and nonprofits.
In June 2013, Carla was recognized at the Mercury Awards as a runnerup in the "Best Social Media Rep" category. The Mercury Awards are the American Advertising Federation Dayton's award program that honors advertising professionals in sales and support including ad specialists, media types, educators and vendors.
Carla led two projects that won Silver Hermes in 2013 for Wright State University. The first award came in the "Elements of Advertising" category for digital creative technology. The second in "Digital Advertising" category for advertising and promotion. The Hermes Creative Awards are an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies.
Carla helped found the C3 Group in 2010 and has been a large part of the company's success. In an everchanging social media field, she invests a significant amount of her time to stay atop the latest trends in both macro and micro markets. This information can then be utilized as part of a client's marketing strategy to help grow their brand in the digital marketplace.
In addition to her responsibilities developing and executing social media strategies for the C3 Group's clientele, Carla also CoFounded CultureMASH, an organization of young leaders, in all facets of marketing, including new media, that uses their talents and skill sets to give something back to the community. A well known speaker in the social media field in Southwest Ohio, Hale has spoken and taught groups from the University of Dayton, Wright State University, The School of Advertising Art, Cincinnati State, and Sinclair Workforce Development. She is currently on the advisory board for the School of Advertising Art and the board of directors for American Advertising Federation in Dayton.
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Brad has spent over 20 years in marketing, with much of that time as the COO and partner of the Eastpoint Group. Over his career, Brad has been involved in the marketing efforts of firms like The Longaberger Company, Wright State University, Dayton Dragons, Lexis Nexis, The Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Company, The United States Air Force Museum and many others. The C-3 Group was initially founded in 2008 with the vision to build an advertising and marketing firm based on results--driven in part by the integration of traditional marketing and new technologies. In March 2010, C-3 began to expand and ultimately hired a number of new key personnel and moved to its current location. Brad and The C-3 team bring a wealth of experience in marketing research and strategy, web development and marketing, graphic design, audio/video production, public relations and other marketing disciplines. Email: bcullman@c-3group.com
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20 April 2014 11:54	Posted in: SOCIETY Source : RIA"Dagestan"
Makhachkala, April 20, 2014. A piece of Holy Fire has been delivered to Makhachkala from Jerusalem. A plane with the piece of fire from the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem taken on April 19, landed at the Makhachkala airport at 12 o'clock.
Half an hour later, the Holy Fire was taken to the Holy Dormition Cathedral - the main and the only Orthodox church in Makhachkala. Here, at the door of the temple, the clergy and parishioners met the fire brought in a special oil-lamp like those used to transport the Olympic flame.
Everyone could get a piece of the Holy Fire. It quickly lit the candles and lamps of participants of the sacred procession. It's been 8 years since the Holy Fire was first brought to Daghestan.
According to the source, the fire will be delivered to all other Daghestan Orthodox churches from Makhachkala.


It is easy to imagine that we live in a unique era where human beings face challenges and opportunities that no previous generation experienced. The tendency to focus on, and sometimes celebrate, our position in history is reinforced by rapid advances in technology that actually have changed the human experience in important ways. At the same time, we face terrifying risks to the continued existence of civilization that few people living even a century ago would have contemplated.
Intuitively, it seems almost certain that the lives we lead today have very little in common with the experience of a person living a century ago and almost nothing in common with someone living a few thousand years ago. This is true of certain practical aspects of our day-to-day existence but we must remind ourselves that even a few thousand years is almost nothing in the context of human evolution. From a psychological perspective, have we really changed very much at all? Or do we face many of the same problems and suffer from the same biases and human misjudgments as our ancestors?
And as an essayist, I am not judged by other writers, book editors, and book reviewers, but by readers. Readers? maybe, but wait a minute… not today's readers. Only those of tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. So, my only real judge being time, hence future readers; it is the stability and robustness of the readership that counts. And as a risk taker, only time counts –for I could fool my accountant with steady earnings with a lot of risk, but time will eventually reveal the properties.
The essence of the Lindy Effect is that short term success can be due to a variety of factors, many of which have little to do with the long term value of what has been produced. But for something to survive over centuries, it must provide actual value. If not, it will be relegated to the ash heap of history, both literally as physical manifestations of an idea deteriorate, and literally as the idea retreats from human consciousness and is never discussed again.
The dwindling number of people who still browse physical bookstores are well aware of the large number of shelves devoted to "self help" books of various types. These books seek to present new and interesting perspectives that "speak to" modern human beings and address our very unique problems and challenges. How many of these books will be in print in five years? How many will be stacked on portable shelves placed outside used bookstores and sold for $5 or less as they physically deteriorate while exposed to the elements? It is safe to assume that the vast majority of these books will not survive the next few decades, let alone be read by people in a few hundred years. Some will fail due to a lack of merit and others might just have gone unnoticed. But all will be subject to the Lindy Effect.
Approaching the category of books known as "classics" can be quite an intimidating experience, especially for those of us who were educated in systems that did not make it a priority to expose students to these works at a relatively early age. However, one of the many benefits of reading what are known as the Great Books is that we begin to gain an appreciation for the fact that the underlying elements of human nature have not necessarily changed very much over the centuries. Many of the fundamental problems we face today were encountered by people living thousands of years ago and they struggled then just as we do today. Rather than be intimidated by the classics, it is best to jump in and start reading. Of course, we have a limited amount of time to read and many seek practical knowledge they can apply right away. If the dual goal is to learn from the classics and obtain practical knowledge, one could hardly do worse than to start by reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Marcus Aurelius was born in 121 A.D. and was the Roman Emperor from 161 until his death in 180. The story of his childhood and the sequence of events that led him to become the heir apparent gives us a sense of the type of person he was, which was obviously far removed from the experience of ordinary people at the time. The introduction to Meditations by Gregory Hays provides the background a modern reader needs to put the book into context. As an adherent of stoicism, Marcus adopted a philosophy of life that was already centuries old at the time — meaning that Marcus himself looked to the classics of his day as he formulated his world view. Stoic philosophy was not merely an academic discipline to be studied but a blueprint for living one's life. Central to this world view is the concept that the world is organized in a rational and coherent way, as must be our interactions with the world.
Although he is probably best known for Meditations, it is interesting to note that Marcus never intended to write a book for publication, let alone put forth a philosophy of life that others would try to emulate thousands of years later. The book we have today was written as a compilation of personal reflections with references that sometimes would only make sense to its author. Mr. Hays characterizes the book not as a personal diary but as a personal self help book, one that Marcus himself could refer to in the midst of the stress and demands of his everyday life as Emperor.
The Hays translation is modern enough to be very intelligible to today's reader while, in places, retaining the ambiguity one would expect from a 1,800 year old set of personal reflections. The topics Marcus addresses are wide ranging, with the most profound relating to matters of life and death, and in particular the manner in which human beings should view their place in the world and the unjustifiable anxiety surrounding death. Most of these topics, although very worthwhile to read, fall outside the scope of our concern in this article where we instead focus on Marcus's views regarding topics that have contemporary applications to business, investing, and human psychology. We aim to take selected excerpts from Meditations and relate them to contemporary life.
"Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time — even when hard at work. " — Book 2, Section 7.
It is, of course, easy to relate to the first sentence. External factors distract us all the time, whether it involves coworkers, family members, television, the internet, or increasingly, the phone in our pocket. This could have been written by a self help author last week or discussed on a morning talk show today. As investors, we face distractions all the time. Many of us have televisions tuned to CNBC all day, every day. Marcus is encouraging us to turn off these distractions and focus on something "worthwhile". However, we must be sure that what we are focusing on is actually worthwhile rather than busy work that serves no real purpose. We can feel busy all day but accomplish little, even when not distracted.
"Remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn't use them. At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return." — Book 2, Section 4.
That's a pretty intense statement that goes beyond what we're likely to read today. It is even a little bit "judgmental", which would be considered a sin in today's "no judgment" self help culture. Do not procrastinate because we're working with a very limited amount of time on this earth and should make it count. If we don't make the time assigned to us count, we will never get it back. That's something to consider the next time we decide between watching a financial news entertainer and finishing up a 10-K. If you waste your time, you will never get it back. And if we choose to be entertained, maybe that is not a waste of time but should be recognized for what it is.
"Concentrate every minute like a Roman — like a man — on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, and with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can — if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you." — Book 2, Section 5.
Admittedly, Marcus has something far more serious in mind here than focusing on finishing a boring proxy statement, but focusing on what's in front of us has a great deal of merit. If we free ourselves from distraction and focus on the work sitting in front of us, and if we do this on a consistent basis day after day, good things are likely to happen. One very key point is that we must keep our emotions in check and let our rational mind dictate what we do. So much of what takes place in business is driven by emotions — principally fear, greed, and envy — and we must guard against acting in irrational ways due to these emotional factors.
"Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors." — Book 3, Section 7.
In other words, never take any action in business that you would be ashamed of and only wish to be known behind closed doors. Although acting in accordance with this ethical code might seem virtuous, it is really in our self interest in the long run. Being known as a person who betrays trust and acts in hatred and out of ill will and hypocrisy is, quite simply, bad for business. We can all identify businessmen and politicians who seem to have "gotten away" with terrible behavior but the high publicity surrounding these cases might obscure many more who have never risen to prominence because they were considered untrustworthy at an early stage.
"People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who will remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.
But suppose that those who remembered you were immortal and your memory undying. What good would it do you? And I don't just mean when you're dead, but in your own lifetime. What use is praise, except to make your lifestyle a little more comfortable?" — Book 4, Section 19.
Again, we can look to a modern example and consider Warren Buffett's notion of an "inner scorecard" and an "outer scorecard". People who live their lives based on an inner scorecard have a set of standards by which they judge themselves. How well they do in life depends on their own judgment, not that of others. Those who live their lives based on an outer scorecard allow their self-worth to be based on the judgment of others. As Marcus reminds us, those who are judging us during our lifetimes will also soon die. The judgment of others is, in reality, of limited utility to us personally during our own lifetimes.
One ironic aspect of this quote is that Marcus is himself remembered long after his lifetime through a book that he never intended to publish. As he wrote these words, it is unlikely that Marcus cared at all whether any of us are reading his words today. His philosophy of life was entirely based on an inner scorecard despite the immense power he held as Emperor and the obvious knowledge that his actions would be recorded for posterity.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to leave a legacy so long as we remember the limitations of legacies in general, the fleeting nature of fame, and the need to avoid taking shortcuts in order to attain something that might not really matter in the long run. Later in the book, Marcus makes the following observation: "It's quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that." — Book 7, Section 67.
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions." — Book 2, Section 1.
With a healthy degree of skepticism regarding the number of such people a Roman Emperor actually would have to tolerate, we can still see the wisdom in the sentiment Marcus expresses here. There's an element of giving difficult people the benefit of the doubt, and adopting a stoic philosophy in which one cannot be harmed by the meddling or dishonest misdeeds of others. In a practical sense, one can obviously be harmed in the short run and it does not appear that Marcus is advocating total passivity, only acceptance and recognition of the way the world is and that we can only control how we react to others, not how they choose to behave.
"The despicable phoniness of people who say, "Listen, I'm going to level with you here." What does that mean? It shouldn't even need to be said. It should be obvious — written in block letters on your forehead. It should be audible in your voice, visible in your eyes, like a lover who looks into your face and takes in the whole story at a glance. A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you should know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back. — Book 11, Section 15.
The next time you're tempted to say "Honestly, my opinion is … " or "I'm going to level with you … " or "To tell you the truth … ", consider the message this might be sending regarding your normal level of trustworthiness.
"Stop drifting. You're not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can." — Book 3, Section 14.
There's not much to add here. Time is limited and we must make the most of what we have while we can. Those who are unfamiliar with Meditations will almost certainly gain a great deal by taking a few hours in the near future to absorb its important lessons.


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WomenAWARE/FemmesAVERTIES is a non-profit, community-based center founded by former victims of domestic violence.
Our mission is to support, inspire and empower as well as prevent and strive to end domestic violence against women,men, youth, and children.
We offer long term support to those living with the dynamics of domestic violence. Support groups, drop in services and court accompaniment are structured to promote a sense of belonging and provide affection, affirmation, and tangible aid.
"We believe that everyone has a right to live in safety and to have a future without fear"!
Webster's Dictionary defines SAFETY as freedom from danger, injury, or the threat of harm such as a place where one is free of worry from potential harm and it gives as the example of safety — "as safe as you are at home".
For many of the women who reach out to our services safety is neither a word nor a feeling that is familiar to them and yet we continue to meet and work with incredibly resilient, strong and resourceful women – not despite their experiences but because of them!
The issue of domestic violence knows no border, it has no boundary. It is not new.
"It is indeed the voice of survivors, their struggles and experiences that guide our work and give meaning to our mission. There is nothing more powerful than the voice of a survivor guiding a victim of domestic violence on the journey from secrecy and silence into the pathway of strength."
Our vision is that as a person becomes aware of what is available to them and that they are not alone, a clearer picture of a better life takes shape for them and their children so the picture goes from:
Silence to Communication
Despair to Hope
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Fear to courage
Shame to pride
Victim to survivor
Survivor to mentor
"It is in simple gestures—one step at a time—that can help uplift our entire society out of the shadows of indifference and into the shining light of hope, healing and security."
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Letter: Don't folks who live in RVs deserve pets, too?
Since my cat Boo passed last October, I've been considering adopting another cat. On March 16 I went to the South Pacific County Humane Society to see about an adoption. That's where I met Mogul, a sweet, affectionate elderly black cat with less than ideal kidney health, (he needs a special diet cat food). Due to these factors, he has gone unadopted for several months.
I'm an older guy myself and figured Mogul and I would make a darn good team. I filled out the adoption form and went home. Sometime later, I received a call from SPCHS stating that I couldn't adopt Mogul because I had used the food bank in the past six months.
Puzzled, I went to the to the food bank and learned that they do not give out information about individuals who use the food bank. Furthermore, the SPCHS has never called them about any such matter. Now I'm left scratching my head, wondering why SPCHS would tell me a falsehood and represent that falsehood as the reason for my disqualification. It sounds a little farfetched, even to me but that was my experience.
When I filled out the application, the information requested included my landlord's name and number, my address and what type of home I live in. SPCHS didn't contact my landlord, or anyone else. The only pertinent information really left on the form was that I reside in a 35-foot RV. Is this the reason I was turned down to adopt a pet? I shudder to think. Who does that? But, if this is the case, the food bank story makes a kind of sense.
You can't just tell someone that they're not qualified for something because of where they live. That would be wrong and likely illegal. Easier to concoct the "food bank fabrication." What a superb way to prevent trailer park "riff raff" from adopting a pet. I suspect that my Humane Society experience may not be an isolated one. If there are others with a similar narrative, I urge them to come forward and share their stories. Perhaps it is time to shine a brighter light on the South Pacific County Humane Society.
All this said, I am not usually the sort to go around stirring up the muck and causing a fuss. I'm just an old guy who wants to rescue a sweet, old black cat who deserves far, far better than the bum hand life has dealt him. Why was that rescue denied? Does SPCHS, from time to time, work against its own purpose? If so, why?


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A scholar defends Israel from biased criticism
The Jewish state held to a different standard, writes Michael Curtis
By Johanna R Ginsberg April 11, 2012, 12:00 am Edit
Staff Writer, New Jersey Jewish News
The United Nations gets an inordinate amount of attention in Michael Curtis's new book, Should Israel Exist? A Sovereign Nation Under Attack by the International Community.
That's because, Curtis acknowledged in an interview with NJJN, he considers the UN to be the most egregious offender of justice where Israel is concerned. Few UN agencies escape his critique, from the UN Human Rights Council to UNESCO to the Security Council.
"There are 193 nations in the UN but Israel is the one that is picked out incessantly," said Curtis, a distinguished professor emeritus of political science at Rutgers University. "The rest of the world is barely material at all, and that includes places like Syria, Burundi, and Congo. In Syria, where 10,000 people have been slaughtered, one would have thought the UN Security Council would step in, but no. The UN Security Council has 47 people on it, and two-thirds of the resolutions condemn Israel for human rights violations."
Curtis wants to make it clear that he doesn't believe Israel is above criticism.
"It is totally appropriate to criticize Israel for certain things, but to criticize Israel to the exclusion of other nations is inappropriate," he said.
Curtis's book, published in January by Balfour Books, is an impassioned indictment of those who single out Israel on charges of racism, apartheid, and colonialism.
Of all the charges, the "apartheid" label offends him the most. The book started as an article he wrote in 2011 for the on-line magazine American Thinker "destroying" that charge.
"After 30-40 pages, I decided to go on to work on other allegations against Israel that need to be dispelled," he said.
He also takes on "lawfare and universal jurisdiction" — the strategy of using international law and agencies in the fight against Israel.
"In a speech the head of Hamas made in Istanbul recently, he said, 'We won't attack Israel militarily, but we will act by diplomatic pressure and proper means.' In other words, we will continue with non-military means, making use of all international law possible to attack Israel," Curtis said.
Although many of his arguments have been taken up by the "hasbara" camp — organizations focused on improving Israel's image and fighting its delegitimization — he argues that his book is an "objective scholarly effort" and not "Zionist propaganda." He hopes Should Israel Exist? will reach a new audience.
"I don't think I'm targeting the usual choir, but those who might be intellectual people, open to thinking about Israel being under attack."
Curtis said he believes there is even more at stake in the debate over Israel than its survival. "An attack on Israel is an attack on every democratic country, and an attack of this kind eventually leads to attacks on the United States and other democratic counties."
At Rutgers, Curtis specialized in political theory, comparative government, European politics, and the Middle East.
Among his approximately 30 books are Three Against the Third Republic, an analysis of the rise of anti-democratic and anti-Semitic ideology in France after the Dreyfus affair, and Verdict on Vichy, named one of the best books of the year by the Sunday Telegraph in London. For many years, he was the president of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East and editor of the Middle East Review.
In addition to his 37 years at Rutgers — he retired in 2000 — Curtis has taught at Yale University, The Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and University of Bologna and given lectures at hundreds of institutions.
Originally from London, he lives in Princeton and is a member of The Jewish Center there.


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Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Mortgage Covered Bonds
Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Mortgage Covered Bonds (01/20/2011-09/29/2015)
Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Mortgage Covered Bonds (07/06/2001 - 09/16/2010)
Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Public-Sector Covered Bonds
Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Public-Sector Covered Bonds (02/17/2005- 9/28/2010)
Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Public-Sector Covered Bonds (06/26/1995 - 01/17/2005)
Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Aircraft Mortgage Covered Bonds
Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Mortgage Covered Bonds
Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Public-Sector Covered Bonds
Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Public-Sector Covered Bonds (04/10/2007 - 12/05/2008)
Rating Action: Moody's concludes reviews for Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ's, Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft)'s and NORD/LB Luxembourg S.A. Covered Bond Bank's covered bonds
Credit Ratings Remaining On Review: Moody's Investors Service – Update On Credit Ratings Remaining on Review
Rating Action:
Moody's changes direction of covered bond ratings' review for NORD/LB and Deutsche Hypo to review up from direction uncertain
Frankfurt am Main, February 18, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has taken the following rating action on Covered Bonds issued by Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ ("NORD/LB"; deposits Baa2 on review for upgrade; adjusted baseline credit assessment ba3 on review for upgrade; counterparty risk assessment Baa2(cr) on review for upgrade) and Covered Bonds issued by Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) ("Deutsche Hypo", deposits Baa2 on review for upgrade; adjusted baseline credit assessment ba3 on review for upgrade; counterparty risk assessment Baa2(cr) on review for upgrade):
- Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Mortgage Covered Bonds: Aa1 placed on review for upgrade from Aa1 on review direction uncertain,
- Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Public-Sector Covered Bonds: Aa1 placed on review for upgrade from Aa1 on review direction uncertain,
- Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Aircraft Mortgage Covered Bonds: A3 placed on review for upgrade from A3 on review direction uncertain,
- Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Mortgage Covered Bonds: Aa1 placed on review for upgrade from Aa1 on review direction uncertain, and
- Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Public-Sector Covered Bonds: Aa2 placed on review for upgrade from Aa2 on review direction uncertain.
RATINGS RATIONALE
Today's rating action is prompted by the review of the ratings assigned to NORD/LB and Deutsche Hypo. For further details, please see "Moody's changes direction of long-term ratings' review for NORD/LB to a review for upgrade, confirms short-term ratings", published on February 14, 2019 at http://www.moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PR_394987.
The Covered Bonds have been placed on review for upgrade because NORD/LB's and Deutsche Hypo's counterparty risk ("CR") assessment has been placed on review for upgrade. We expect to conclude the rating review of these two entites' CR assessments if finalised. During the review, Moody's will consider the level of over-collateralisation ("OC"), including OC in "committed" form, that is expected for each programme.
KEY RATING ASSUMPTIONS/FACTORS
Moody's determines Covered Bond ratings using a two-step process: an expected loss analysis and a timely payment indicator ("TPI") framework analysis.
EXPECTED LOSS:
Moody's uses its Covered Bond Model ("COBOL") to determine a rating based on the expected loss of the bond. COBOL determines expected loss as (1) a function of the probability that the issuer will cease making payments under the Covered Bonds (a CB anchor event); and (2) the stressed losses of the cover pool assets following a CB anchor event.
The CB anchor for all programmes is CR assessment plus one notch. The CR assessment reflects an issuer's ability to avoid defaulting on certain senior bank operating obligations and contractual commitments, including Covered Bonds. Moody's may use a CB anchor of CR assessment plus one notch in the European Union or otherwise where an operational resolution regime is particularly likely to ensure continuity of Covered Bond payments.
---Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ -- Mortgage Covered Bonds---
The cover pool losses for this programme are 22.5%. This is an estimate of the losses Moody's currently models following a CB anchor event. Moody's splits cover pool losses between market risk of 13.3% and collateral risk of 9.2%. Market risk measures losses stemming from refinancing risk and risks related to interest-rate and currency mismatches (these losses may also include certain legal risks). Collateral risk measures losses resulting directly from cover pool assets' credit quality. Moody's derives collateral risk from the collateral score, which for this programme is currently 13.8%.
The over-collateralisation in the cover pool is 45.7%, of which the issuer provides 2.0% on a "committed" basis. Under Moody's COBOL Model, the minimum OC consistent with the Aa1 rating is 19.5%, of which 0% needs to be in "committed" form to be given full value. These numbers show that Moody's is relying on "uncommitted" OC in its expected loss analysis.
With a CR assessment of Baa1(cr) (one notch higher than currently), OC consistent with a Aaa covered bonds rating would be 20.0%, of which 0% would need to be provided in "committed" form to be given full value.
All numbers in this section are based on the Performance Overview report based on data as per 30 September 2018.
---Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ -- Public-Sector Covered Bonds---
The cover pool losses for this programme are 9.0%. This is an estimate of the losses Moody's currently models following a CB anchor event. Moody's splits cover pool losses between market risk of 6.5% and collateral risk of 2.4%. Market risk measures losses stemming from refinancing risk and risks related to interest-rate and currency mismatches (these losses may also include certain legal risks). Collateral risk measures losses resulting directly from cover pool assets' credit quality. Moody's derives collateral risk from the collateral score, which for this programme is currently 4.8%.
The over-collateralisation in the cover pool is 11.3%, of which the issuer provides 2.0% on a "committed" basis. Under Moody's Cobol model, the minimum OC consistent with the Aa1 rating is 4.5%, of which 0% needs to be in "committed" form to be given full value. These numbers show that Moody's is relying on "uncommitted" OC in its expected loss analysis.
With a CR assessment of Baa1(cr) (one notch higher than currently), OC consistent with a Aaa covered bonds rating would be 7.5%, of which 0% would need to be provided in "committed" form to be given full value.
---Norddeutsche Landesbank GZ - Aircraft Mortgage Covered Bonds---
The cover pool losses for this programme are 72.1%. This is an estimate of the losses Moody's currently models following a CB anchor event. Moody's splits cover pool losses between market risk of 5.1% and collateral risk of 67.0%. Market risk measures losses stemming from refinancing risk and risks related to interest-rate and currency mismatches (these losses may also include certain legal risks). Collateral risk measures losses resulting directly from cover pool assets' credit quality. Moody's derives collateral risk from the collateral score, which for this programme is currently 100%.
The over-collateralisation in the cover pool is 169.4%, of which the issuer provides 2.0% on a "committed" basis. Under Moody's COBOL Model, the minimum OC consistent with the A3 rating is 0%, of which 0% needs to be in "committed" form to be given full value. These numbers show that Moody's is not relying on "uncommitted" OC in its expected loss analysis.
With a CR assessment of Baa1(cr) (one notch higher than currently), OC consistent with an A2 covered bonds rating would be 0%, of which 0% would need to be provided in "committed" form to be given full value.
---Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Mortgage Covered Bonds---
The cover pool losses for this programme are 14.1%. This is an estimate of the losses Moody's currently models following a CB anchor event. Moody's splits cover pool losses between market risk of 8.3% and collateral risk of 5.8%. Market risk measures losses stemming from refinancing risk and risks related to interest-rate and currency mismatches (these losses may also include certain legal risks). Collateral risk measures losses resulting directly from cover pool assets' credit quality. Moody's derives collateral risk from the collateral score, which for this programme is currently 8.7%.
With a CR assessment of Baa1(cr) (one notch higher than currently), OC consistent with an Aaa covered bonds rating would be 11.0%, of which 0% would need to be provided in "committed" form to be given full value.
All numbers in this section are based on the Performance Overview report based on data as per 30 June 2018.
---Deutsche Hypothekenbank (Actien-Gesellschaft) - Public-Sector Covered Bonds---
The over-collateralisation in the cover pool is 7.9%, of which the issuer provides 2.0% on a "committed" basis. Under Moody's COBOL Model, the minimum OC consistent with the Aa2 rating is 3.0%, of which 0% needs to be in "committed" form to be given full value. These numbers show that Moody's is relying on "uncommitted" OC in its expected loss analysis.
With a CR assessment of Baa1(cr) (one notch higher than currently), OC consistent with an Aa1 covered bonds rating would be 6.0%, of which 0% would need to be provided in "committed" form to be given full value.
For further details on cover pool losses, collateral risk, market risk, collateral score and TPI Leeway across Covered Bond programmes rated by Moody's please refer to 'Moody's Global Covered Bonds Monitoring Overview' and 'Global Covered Bonds Sector Update', published quarterly.
TPI FRAMEWORK:
Moody's assigns a TPI, which measures the likelihood of timely payments to covered bondholders following a CB anchor event. The TPI framework limits the Covered Bond rating to a certain number of notches above the CB anchor.
For NORD/LB's aircraft mortgage Covered Bonds, Moody's has assigned a TPI of "Improbable". The mortgage and public-sector Covered Bonds of NORD/LB and Deutsche Hypo have a TPI of "High".
Factors that would lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the ratings:
The CB anchor is the main determinant of a Covered Bond programme's rating robustness. A change in the level of the CB anchor could lead to an upgrade or downgrade of the Covered Bonds. The TPI Leeway measures the number of notches by which Moody's might lower the CB anchor before the rating agency downgrades the Covered Bonds because of TPI framework constraints.
Based on the current TPI of "Improbable", the TPI Leeway for NORD/LB's aircraft mortgage Covered Bonds is 2 - 3 notches. This implies that Moody's might downgrade the Covered Bonds because of a TPI cap if it lowers the CB anchor by three notches, all other variables being equal.
Based on the current TPI of "High", the TPI Leeway for NORD/LB's mortgage and public-sector Covered Bonds is one notch. This implies that Moody's might downgrade the Covered Bonds because of a TPI cap if it lowers the CB anchor by two notches, all other variables being equal.
Based on the current TPI of "High", the TPI Leeway for Deutsche Hypo's mortgage Covered Bonds is one notch. This implies that Moody's might downgrade the Covered Bonds because of a TPI cap if it lowers the CB anchor by two notches, all other variables being equal.
Based on the current TPI of "High", the TPI Leeway for Deutsche Hypo's public-sector Covered Bonds is two notches. This implies that Moody's might downgrade the Covered Bonds because of a TPI cap if it lowers the CB anchor by three notches, all other variables being equal.
A multiple-notch downgrade of the Covered Bonds might occur in certain circumstances, such as (1) a country ceiling or sovereign downgrade capping a Covered Bond rating or negatively affecting the CB Anchor and the TPI; (2) a multiple-notch downgrade of the CB Anchor; or (3) a material reduction of the value of the cover pool.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was 'Moody's Approach to Rating Covered Bonds' published in February 2019. Please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology. .
For further specification of Moody's key rating assumptions and sensitivity analysis, see the sections Methodology Assumptions and Sensitivity to Assumptions of the disclosure form.
Moody's did not use any stress scenario simulations in its analysis.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series or category/class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the credit rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular credit rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt, in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would have affected the rating. For further information please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit support from the primary entity(ies) of this credit rating action, and whose ratings may change as a result of this credit rating action, the associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity. Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures, if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating review.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued the rating.
Please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating.
Patrick Widmayer
Vice President - Senior Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Deutschland GmbH
Frankfurt am Main 60322
Client Service: 44 20 7772 5454
Juan Pablo Soriano
MD - Structured Finance


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SKU: 9781941529140 Categories: Academic, Essential Thich Nhat Hanh, Mindfulness 101, Parallax Picks Tags: heart sutra, sutra commentary, sutra study
This new translation of the Buddha's most important, most studied teaching offers a radical new interpretation.
In September, 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh completed a profound and beautiful new English translation of the Prajñaparamita Heart Sutra, one of the most important and well-known sutras in Buddhism.
The Heart Sutra is recited daily in Mahayana temples and practice centers throughout the world. This new translation came about because Thich Nhat Hanh believes that the patriarch who originally compiled the Heart Sutra was not sufficiently skillful with his use of language to capture the intention of the Buddha's teachings—and has resulted in fundamental misunderstandings of the central tenets of Buddhism for almost 2,000 years.
In The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries, Thich Nhat Hanh provides the new translation with commentaries based on his interpretation. Revealing the Buddha's original intention and insight makes clear what it means to transcend duality and pairs of opposites, such as birth and death, and to touch the ultimate reality and the wisdom of nondiscrimination. By helping to demystify the term "emptiness," the Heart Sutra is made more accessible and understandable.
Prior to the publication of The Other Shore, Thich Nhat Hanh's translation and commentaries of the Heart Sutra, called The Heart of Understanding, sold more than 120,000 copies in various editions and is one of the most beloved commentaries of this critical teaching. This new book, The Other Shore, supersedes all prior translations.
The original recording of Thich Nhat Hanh's lecture at the Green Gulch Zen Center, Muir Beach, California on April 19, 1987 is available at
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What happens when you have an emergency as you drive to your parents' house? You have a flat tire. Away from town. Where do you turn to? Where do you get help? Roadside assistance services is what you need. Changing that flat tire, jump starting your car, fuel delivery tow track, or whatever type of emergency you come across on the road, then the roadside assistance services are what you need. They will be there to help you out in case of these mechanical problems that are not accident related. some of the solutions they offer are.
Jump-starting your car. You can call them if your battery fails or if it drains out the power. The solution to this is jumpstarting your car.
Services related to winching. If your car has been stuck, maybe in snow, mud, sand, soil or even water, the roadside service providers will come and pull your car out of all these scenarios. The chain or rope is what is used to pull the cars out. Some of the service providers have terms and conditions associated with this service.
The gas runs out when you are in a remote area, what do you do. The place has no gas station. The solution to that is to call the service providers for them to deliver the fuel to you. Some service providers offer this service for free except for the fuel money.
The service providers will help you out in cases where you have locked your car keys. They can change your car lock or customize some other car keys for you. If your car keys have been lost or stolen, they will do the same.
Towing services. If the car requires some tow services, then the service providers to provide a tow truck for you. They tow the car to the nearest garage or a place where your cars mechanical or electrical problems will be fixed.
But now, what do you look for when you are choosing the best roadside assistance services.
Go to the service provider who offers quality services. Their response to emergencies should be very efficient. The roadside problems you encounter can be termed as emergencies. Chose those service providers who can cover all your emergencies, regardless of the state, that is, them who have the jurisdiction to operate in your state. The best are those who deliver most coverage with just the basic plan.
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No charge for Stillwater Art Guild members, $5 non-members.
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Different organizations have different requirements which are specific to their own. It helps them to keep their records according to their needs.
TimeLive understands that and to cater their specific needs, Custom Field plays a key role in achieving this.
Navigate to Admin Options > Custom Fields.
The following picture shows a list of Entities under which Custom Fields can be created.
Through Options > Manage Custom Field link against each entity, Administrator can create custom fields according to organizational needs. At the moment, there are 15 custom fields can be created in each entity.
There are 4 Data Type through which, Custom Field can be created.
In below screenshot, 1 custom field "Date of Birth" is created. which is under Employee Entity. IsRequired check is a validation if this field is mandatory or not. Further, a new custom field is in the creation process. Data Type is selected as Drop-Down and list of options will be visible under employee record for custom field selection.
Click on the Options gear icon against the entity in which you want to create a new custom field.
Click on the Options gear icon against the entity in which you want to edit the existing custom field.
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Medigold Health, a leading provider of occupational health and corporate wellbeing services, has received a £9.5m investment from BGF to support its ambitious growth plans.
The Northampton-based business has used some of the funds to make two strategic acquisitions, buying IMASS, an occupational health provider with a focus in the South West of England and on public sector customers, and Hampton Knight, a specialist provider of alcohol and drug screening services throughout the UK.
Founded 20 years ago by Dr Mike Goldsmith, and now under the leadership of his son Alex Goldsmith, Medigold Health provides occupational health services – including Sickness Absence Management, Health Surveillance and Mental Health Support – for large corporate and public sector customers across the UK.
In a fragmented marketplace, Medigold Health has grown consistently, forecasting turnover of ~£30m for FY18. According to the HSE, work-related illness and injury resulted in 30.4 million lost working days in 2015-16. Medigold Health's offer is to quantify the cost of absence and minimise the impact for its customers while improving employee wellbeing; helping employers to keep their people in work, safe and well.
The acquisitions of IMASS and Hampton Knight will enable Medigold Health to expand its geographic and sector reach. The business is eager to complete further acquisitions, as it looks to become the UK's most prominent provider of occupational health and related services.
BGF, the UK's most active investor in small and mid-sized businesses, provides long-term funding as a minority equity partner in the companies it backs.
Alex Goldsmith, CEO of Medigold Health said: "Still family owned, Medigold Health has been dedicated to the business of helping employers keep their people in work, safe and well for nearly two decades and, in doing so, helping to redefine corporate healthcare in the UK.
The investment was led for BGF by James Syrotiuk, Joanne Smith and Mark Freer.


Did you know Purina Pro Plan has declared June 15 is National "Take Your Cat on an Adventure" Day? There are lots of ways to take kitty on an adventure, even in your own backyard. And feeding her Purina Pro Plan gives her extraordinary nutrition to help her live an adventurous lifestyle and flourish! On May 23 in NYC's Central Park, Purina Pro Plan kicked off pre-National "Take Your Cat on an Adventure" Day festivities, including a "cat walk,". In addition, Adventure Cats, other select media, influencers, and Purina cat veterinarians/behaviorists attended. So how is it possible to take your cat on an adventure in your own backyard? No matter where you live, you can find a great adventure for your cat!
We live in a very rural area with few parks and lots of wild critters. Our cats love the outdoors, so we help them have adventures within our own backyard, literally!
When we got Adventure Kitty, she was a tiny little kitten, probably about 2 weeks old, that we had to bottle feed. She had three siblings, but Adventure Kitty was the most active. We'd gather the kittens on the back patio while we fed each one and Adventure Kitty would venture all the way to the edge of the concrete and out into the grass. All of the other kittens could barely walk and Adventure Kitty was off on an adventure, as fast as her tiny little legs could carry her.
If your kitty spends most of her time indoors, like Adventure Kitty, then going outside can be a special treat. We've been spending 3o to 60 minutes in our garden every night, planting, weeding, and building new beds, but Adventure Kitty howls at the door when we leave her alone in the house.
We've started bringing her into the garden with us, where she can sniff the plants and dirt, lie in a cool spot under the blackberry and boysenberry bushes, and visit with our outdoor kitties.
She even stalks and chases butterflies! Purina Pro Plan's extraordinary nutrition helps all of our cats, like Adventure Kitty, to enjoy adventurous activities and a lifestyle that allows them to truly flourish.
This year, one of our other cats had kittens and they so remind me of Adventure Kitty when she was tiny. We're keeping the mama and the babies safe in our extra-large dog house, lined with cedar chips and comfy felt bedding.
This past weekend, the sun came out and we moved the kitties to a sunny patch in the grass so they could get out into the fresh air. Even kittens as young as these, at just under 3 weeks old, can have adventures in the safety of your own backyard. Once they're a bit older, we can leash train them and take them on play dates with other kitties or to friends' houses.
With kittens, take care not to disrupt the bond between mother and kitten. Our cat is a young mother who we handle often so she was fine with us touching the kittens.
How will you take your cat on an adventure for National "Take Your Cat on an Adventure" Day?
Kitties can have adventures at any age!
I'd love to hear your plans for National "Take Your Cat on an Adventure" Day and any ways you share in adventure with your cat. And be sure to visit www.mygreatcatadventure.com for more tips and ideas for going on an adventure with your cat. Share your adventures on social media using #MyGreatCat and @ProPlanCat and your photo may be featured on their site!


How do I get involved with the WordPress Theme Review Team (WPTRT)?
It's really rather simple. Just follow these steps below.
Subscribe to the Theme Review mailing list.
Make sure you have a WordPress.org username.
Send a message to the mailing list expressing your interest in helping out with Theme Reviews.
A current WPTRT member will contact you (generally via a reply to your message). If you are ready they will assign you a ticket in the Theme trac and you will be on your way to becoming a Theme reviewer.
Of course, there is more to reviewing Themes as part of the WPTRT, the above is just how you get started.
Let's have a quick look through these steps.
Subscribing to the mailing list gets you involved in one of the main discussion areas of the WPTRT. It is one of the places we discuss ideas about various items that may, or may not, affect how the Theme Review guidelines are interpreted or used when reviewing a submitted Theme.
Your WordPress username is a common focal point for all of your WordPress activities. If you are a Theme author, or a plugin developer, you already have one and this is the one that will be used on the Theme trac system. It could also be the username you log into the WordPress Support forums with although current members generally use their "developer" username.
We need to know you are interested, although you can also log into the #wordpress-themes channel on freenode.net and chat via IRC with one of the theme reviewers as well. The mailing list is generally the more common approach.
We assign the first few tickets to new reviewers just to help with the learning process. Once you have shown you understand the process we'll make a few changes behind the scenes and you will be able to assign yourself your own tickets in trac and carry on reviewing Themes.
NB: Just in case, I would suggest reading these pages at least once a week, although generally our intent is to not have them change very often.
I also suggest installing a plugin that writes viewable text to 'wp_footer()' for testing as well, if you do not have your own preference you are welcome to download and install my BNS Login plugin.
Now, you might be asking why would I want to join the WPTRT?
There are many reasons and many ways to get involved with the WordPress community. This one will offer you: insight into how the Theme submission process works; the opportunity to influence positive change in the Theme Review guidelines; a wealth of new ideas and code possibilities; and, interactions with some of the best and the brightest current Theme authors involved with the WordPress Themes repository.
N.B.: The above "guest" post was written after a suggestion from Jeff Chandler during the 106th episode of the WordPress Weekly podcast; and was posted by Jeff at the Weblog Tools Collection site.


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Released on 2016-05-23 by Heikki E.S. Mattila
Author: Heikki E.S. Mattila
This book examines legal language as a language for special purposes, evaluating the functions and characteristics of legal language and the terminology of law. Using examples drawn from major and lesser legal languages, it examines the major legal languages themselves, beginning with Latin through German, French, Spanish and English. This second edition has been fully revised, updated and enlarged. A new chapter on legal Spanish takes into account the increasing importance of the language, and a new section explores the use (in legal circles) of the two variants of the Norwegian language. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and include more detailed footnote referencing. The work will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of legal history and theory, comparative law, semiotics, and linguistics. It will also be of interest to legal translators and terminologists.
Legal Linguistics
Released on 2009 by Marcus Galdia
Author: Marcus Galdia
Publisher: Peter Lang
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
This book introduces into the problems of Legal Linguistics. It starts with the most fundamental legal-linguistic question, i.e. how law is created and applied with linguistic means. In breaking down this vast question, the book identifies the linguistically relevant aspects of language use, especially its terminology, and scrutinizes the most significant legal-linguistic operations such as the legal argumentation, the legal interpretation, and the legal translation. Based on case analyses, it canvasses the language use strategies that are most instrumental in the developing of professionally convincing legal argumentation, primarily around terminological units. Towards the background of these and other linguistic operations in law, the book reflects upon some practical problems related to the regulation of language use and the emergence of the global law.
Legal Linguistics Beyond Borders: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts
Released on 2020-07-31 by Friedemann Vogel
Author: Friedemann Vogel
Publisher: Duncker & Humblot
The world of law has changed in the last decades: it has become more globalized, multilingual and digital. The sections and contributions of this volume continue the interdisciplinary discussion about the challenges of this change for theory and practice of law and for the International Language and Law Association (ILLA) relaunched in 2017. First, the book gives a broad overview to the research field of legal linguistics, its history, research directions and open questions in different parts of the world (United States, Africa, Italy, Spain, Germany, Nordic countries and Russia). The second section consists of contributions about the relation of language, law and justice in a globalized world with a focus on multilingual and supranational law in the EU. The third section focuses on digitalization and mediatization of the law, the last section reports about the discussion at the ILLA relaunch conference in 2017.
Charting the Divide Between Common and Civil Law
Released on 2012-08-15 by Thomas Lundmark
Author: Thomas Lundmark
What does it mean when civil lawyers and common lawyers think differently? In Charting the Divide between Common and Civil Law, Thomas Lundmark provides a comprehensive introduction to the uses, purposes, and approaches to studying civil and common law in a comparative legal framework. Superbly organized and exhaustively written, this volume covers the jurisdictions of Germany, Sweden, England and Wales, and the United States, and includes a discussion of each country's legal issues, structure, and their general rules. Professor Lundmark also explores the discipline of comparative legal studies, rectifying many of the misconceptions and prejudices that cloud our understanding of the divide between the common law and civil law traditions. Students of international law, comparative law, social philosophy, and legal theory will find this volume a valuable introduction to common and civil law. Lawyers, judges, political scientists, historians, and philosophers will also find this book valuable as a source of reference. Charting the Divide between Common and Civil Law equips readers with the background and tools to think critically about different legal systems and evaluate their future direction.
Methodologies of Legal Research
Released on 2011-02-28 by Mark Van Hoecke
Author: Mark Van Hoecke
Until quite recently questions about methodology in legal research have been largely confined to understanding the role of doctrinal research as a scholarly discipline. In turn this has involved asking questions not only about coverage but, fundamentally, questions about the identity of the discipline. Is it (mainly) descriptive, hermeneutical, or normative? Should it also be explanatory? Legal scholarship has been torn between, on the one hand, grasping the expanding reality of law and its context, and, on the other, reducing this complex whole to manageable proportions. The purely internal analysis of a legal system, isolated from any societal context, remains an option, and is still seen in the approach of the French academy, but as law aims at ordering society and influencing human behaviour, this approach is felt by many scholars to be insufficient. Consequently many attempts have been made to conceive legal research differently. Social scientific and comparative approaches have proven fruitful. However, does the introduction of other approaches leave merely a residue of 'legal doctrine', to which pockets of social sciences can be added, or should legal doctrine be merged with the social sciences? What would such a broad interdisciplinary field look like and what would its methods be? This book is an attempt to answer some of these questions.
Language in the Negotiation of Justice
Released on 2016-04-15 by Girolamo Tessuto
Author: Girolamo Tessuto
This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today's globalized world. The volume addresses three main aspects of language use in the negotiation of justice. Beginning with the legal contexts of litigation, arbitration and mediation, the book moves on to discuss the main issues identified in those contexts and finally it explores the applications of legal linguistics. These three aspects are studied across the themes of analyses of legal discourse and genres, issues of power and ideology in the use of legal language, cross-cultural legal communication, questions of recontextualization, accessibility and plain language, law and disciplinary identity, and pedagogy of legal language. With chapters set across a variety of jurisdictions, the contributions offer analytical insights into the interface between law and language. The book is a valuable resource for those in the legal community wishing to increase their understanding of the use of language for the negotiation of justice.
Comparative Law - Engaging Translation
Released on 2014-06-27 by Simone Glanert
Author: Simone Glanert
In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law has assumed a significance which it would be hard to overstate. The following situations are typical. A French law school is teaching French law in the English language to foreign exchange students. Some US legal scholars are exploring the possibility of developing a generic or transnational constitutional law. German judges are referring to foreign law in a criminal case involving an honour killing committed in Germany with a view to ascertaining the relevance of religious prescriptions. European lawyers are actively working on the creation of a common private law to be translated into the 24 official languages of the European Union. Since 2004, the World Bank has been issuing reports ranking the attractiveness of different legal cultures for doing business. All these examples raise in one way or the other the matter of translation from a comparative legal perspective. However, in today's globalised world where the need to communicate beyond borders arises constantly in different guises, many comparatists continue not to address the issue of translation. This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars from various cultural and disciplinary backgrounds who draw on fields such as translation studies, linguistics, literary theory, history, philosophy or sociology with a view to promoting a heightened understanding of the complex translational implications pertaining to comparative law, understood both in its literal and metaphorical senses.
Fair Trial Rights and Multilingualism in Africa
Released on 2023 by Catherine S. Namakula
Author: Catherine S. Namakula
Category: Comparative law
"This book examines the best language fair trial practices of the courts in arguably the most multilingual region of the world. It contains an instructive list of standards and approaches to linguistic dynamics, which may be considered a Language Fair Trial Rights Code. By way of jurisprudential analysis and scrutiny of constitutional imperatives and examination of legislation among the respective jurisdictions from the Sahel region, the Horn of Africa, to the Cape, this publication presents peculiar country specific practices and common standards towards the realisation of a fair trial in a multilingual context. The exceptionally multilingual nature of legal processes in Africa makes the standards in the region instructive towards a universal language fair trial code. The book reveals valuable lessons across jurisdictions, including those outside of Africa, and suggests measures that may be taken to improve existing approaches. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of Law and Language, Legal Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Criminal Justice and Comparative Law"--
Lectures on Legal Linguistics
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
This book describes law from the perspective of its language. The author proposes a theory of the legal language as language used in legally relevant communicational situations. He focuses on legal-linguistic operations such as legal argumentation and legal interpretation that steer the legal discourse.
Interdisciplinary Comparative Law
Released on 2022-05-17 by Jaakko Husa
Author: Jaakko Husa
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Comparative law scholars have long recognised the importance of looking beyond legal texts and incorporating interdisciplinary methods into the study of law, yet in practice such use of non-legal methods has remained modest. Interdisciplinary Comparative Law illuminates why the doctrinal approach to legal research has retained its strong position, offering a critical analysis of the difficulties of interdisciplinarity. Incisive and ambitious in scope, the book highlights why the comparative study of law benefits from employing the methods of other disciplines. Chapters explore the various ways in which different fields can learn from each other, taking a deep dive into the respective studies of legal history, linguistics, literature, economics, social theory, and international law. The result is a vibrant cross-section of the contrasts and parallels between the practices of law and other areas of research, demonstrating which are the easiest for comparatists to grasp and implement, and which present obstacles for the application of non-legal methods. This cutting-edge book is an essential read for advanced students and scholars of law and legal studies. Its diagnosis of interdisciplinarity as both a boon and bane in the study of law will be of especial interest to comparative law scholars.
Comparative Methods in Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
Released on 2021-11-19 by Adams, Maurice
Author: Adams, Maurice
This cutting-edge book facilitates debate amongst scholars in law, humanities and social sciences, where comparative methodology is far less well anchored in most areas compared to other research methods. It posits that these are disciplines in which comparative research is not simply a bonus, but is of the essence.
Contemporary Approaches to Legal Linguistics
Released on 2022-08 by Daniel Green
Author: Daniel Green
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
In this volume, scholars explore and discuss current issues in Theoretical Legal Linguistics (TLL) and Applied Legal Linguistics (ALL), contributing to the growing body of international research in the field. Focus is placed on the interconnected skills, tasks and approaches to the study of legal language in its plethora of facets as presented at the first international conference and the second International Legal Linguistics Workshop (ILLWS19) of the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics. The articles present research in the areas of contract interpretation, bijuralism, the European Reference Language System, clear language and communication in legal settings, issues in legal semantics, plain legal language in multilingual legislative drafting, legal language teaching, light verb constructions in legal German, forensic linguistic expert testimony, deontic modality in legislative drafting, migration and legal language, appeals in Russian and their qualification as language crimes, and graduation in the use of force statutes. The concepts, methods, and findings offer valuable insights into current research in legal linguistics.


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Way, Haul Away… Sea shanties and language learning
February 12, 2021 June 18, 2015 by EuroTalk
Last weekend, I spent a very merry, slightly tipsy few days at the International Sea Shanty Festival in Falmouth.
International What, now? Allow me to explain.
Every year, Falmouth town hosts a three-day festival of nautical songs and chants, to which people flock not only from all over Cornwall, but from foreign parts too – Ireland, Brittany, England, even America. Every B&B, campsite and hotel is full to the brim with shantymen (and, increasingly, some shantywomen!), and the streets swarm with be-smocked musicians and the occasional pirate. Nearly every pub (of which Falmouth has a very generous range) becomes a venue for the various shanty bands, who also play on street corners, outside shops and in the public squares.
Each hour, a venue's lineup changes, and you'll see canvas smocks in Breton red, navy blue and stripes scurrying from one establishment to another as they get ready to set up for their next gig. Every year, I make elaborate plans to switch venue every hour to see all the bands I want to see, but inevitably the beer in one pub ends up being unusually good, and a seat becomes vacant, and 7 hours later you find that somehow you're still in the same venue and 7 different bands have floated on and off stage before your eyes, whilst old-timers have come and shared your table and had a natter about… well, everything under the sun. Which is all very much in the spirit of the festival.
So, what is a shanty?
Most people think the name 'shanty' comes from the French 'chanter' (to sing). Although there's some debate about this, what's definite is that a shanty is a traditional form of song sung by sailors, which aims to reflect the rhythm of the work on deck (hauling halyards, pulling the anchor, setting jibs, winding a capstain). Often, a lead shantyman will give the 'call' and then the other crew will give the 'response' (short, sharp calls and responses for the jobs requiring bursts of energy; longer, more lyrical ones for the slower jobs). Working shanties often feature the nature of the work itself as the main theme – 'Haul Away Joe', 'Wey, hey, blow the man down!' – but for those lonely evenings or periods of comparative calm, there are the wistful shanties which recall the shore and all its comforts – 'Spanish Ladies', 'Maggie May' – and remind the young sailors of their sweethearts left behind (often including a not-so-veiled warning about what said sweethearts are most likely getting up to with other boys whilst their sailors are at sea).
Who sings shanties nowadays?
There are plenty of shanty bands around the country – and the world. This weekend alone, I saw bands from Falmouth, Treverva, Salisbury (not a lot of sea in Salisbury, but there you go), Brittany, Exmouth, Holland, Poland, Yorkshire, and plenty more places. Some are professional groups with regular gigs of their own, whilst others are more casual affairs – people who just love to shant!
What's all this got to do with language?
I'm glad you asked. The thing is that although shanties get sung in all sorts of languages and dialects, you never, ever feel left out by not understanding the words. Turn up to one of the Breton bands and (unless you speak Breton or Cornish), you probably won't have a clue what the words mean, but you'll definitely understand the spirit of it, and before long you'll find yourself singing along to the chorus, arm in arm with everyone else. In part, this is because shanties are very repetitive by nature, so it's easy to pick up on lyrics and sing along.
All of which makes me think that singing has got to be a great way to pick up a new language – and any type of song will do! Nursery rhymes, pop songs, national anthems, folk songs, poems, choral music, raps; it all helps, it really does. I still remember all the Zulu words to 'Siyahamba', which Safia and I learned over just a few days (video evidence below). And even if you don't know exactly what all the words mean to begin with, it's a huge encouragement to be able to fluently reel off a couple of sentences in your new language, all learned through song.
…Way, Haul Away,
We'll Haul Away, Joe!
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He hooked me easily. On the phone. He had a believable story, how he'd partnered with my company's main competitor for strategic business alliances, but that person screwed him, took the deals but didn't pay him.
He knew the market segment we were in, he knew that competitor, and he dropped a lot of very convincing names. Decision makers in major companies, websites, all very convincing. And he had deals ready to go, he said. Contacts in companies who wanted to do volume buying of our product.
This was exciting. I'm an entrepreneur; I wanted the sales. And the names he dropped checked, the companies checked. It all made me happy.
But it was just a plain swindle. He ended up taking several thousand dollars as an advance payment. He cashed the check, closed the account, and disappeared. The telephone number he'd been on was disconnected.
If you explore this, there's an obvious lesson in healthy cynicism, but there's also a bit of a morality play here, because he was offering me a shortcut, leverage on work already done, something vaguely akin to something for nothing. I admit it.
This all happened more than 10 years ago. I'm posting it today because I liked Alexis Martin Neeley's post on The Scammers Who Conned Me Out of $10,000 on her Intreprid Mompreneur blog a week or so ago. It's a refreshingly honest account, which might help others. And when I saw it, I decided to post this one.
Both stories could go onto John Caddell's Mistake Bank, a delightful collection of stories about mistakes. Learn from my mistakes, or Alexis' mistakes, and don't make the same mistakes. Good idea, no?
Yes! Yes! Yes! Please add this to the Mistake Bank!


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