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BeschreibungThis book is a philosophical analysis of children's rights with regard to the legal system.
InhaltsverzeichnisIntroduction; 1. Why rights for children?; 2. The existing relationship rights of children; 3. Paradigmatic relationship rights; 4. Why adults have the relationship rights they do; 5. Extending the theoretical underpinnings of relationship rights to children; 6. Rebutting defenses of the status quo; 7. Implementing children's moral rights in law; 8. Applications; Appendix; Notes.
PortraitJames G. Dwyer received his JD degree from Yale Law School and a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University. He taught at the University of Wyoming School of Law and Chicago-Kent School of Law. He has worked as an attorney in law firms in Washington, DC and as a law guardian representing children in family court in upstate New York. He has published several articles and book chapters on children's rights in law journals such as The California Law Review and the North Carolina Law Review. He has written two books - Religious Schools v. Children's Rights and Vouchers Within Reason: A Child-Centered Approach to Education Reform.
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum: April 2006
Seitenanzahl: 364 Seiten
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R v Taylor and anor; CA (Crim Div) (Judge LJ, Sedley, Maurice Kay JJ) 27 Oct 1998.
It should be the standard national practice, where reliance was placed on a witness turning Queen's evidence, for the prosecution to offer to disclose the witness's convictions to the jury at the start of the trial, unless the defence invited them to do otherwise. A submission that the admission of those convictions prejudiced the witness, and the defendant by association, would not be accepted, as a professional criminal could otherwise set a premium on having a large number of convictions, and, in the belief that evidence of his convictions would not be admitted, feel free to impugn prosecution witnesses.
Freddy Apfel (Registrar of Ciminal Appeals) for the appellant; Brian E. Jones (Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the co-accused; Tim Clayton (CPS) for the Crown.
Mainwaring and anor v Goldtech Investments Ltd; CA (Peter Gibson, Pill, Mummery LJJ) 30 Oct 1998.
Where two orders for costs providing for costs to be taxed if not agreed had been made against M and L jointly and severally, and the taxation proceedings and certificates as against L had been set aside because the bills had not been served on him, the costs were also disallowed against M. The effect of disallowing the costs against L under RSC Ord 62 r 28(4), combined with the operation of the common law rule with respect to a joint debt, meant that once L had been released by order of the court, M was also released from liability. Upon a nil taxation in accordance with the rules, the joint debt created by the order ceased to exist.
M in person, and as a Mackenzie friend for L; Peter Sheridan QC (SJ Berwin & Co) for the defendants' solicitors; Jeremy Morgan (Treasury Solicitor) as amicus curiae.
Statutory nuisance
Pearshouse v Birmingham CC; QBD (Div Ct) (Bingham LCJ, Collins J) 4 Nov 1998.
Since s 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 was intended to provide a simple procedure for the private citizen to obtain redress if a statutory nuisance under s 79(1)(a) of the Act existed at the premises he occupied, unnecessary technicalities were not to be imposed. For the purposes of a notice served under s 82(6), any errors or any indication that it might not contain an exhaustive list of the defects complained of would not invalidate that notice because it was not for the tenant to prejudge the matter, but merely to draw to his landlord's attention what was troubling him.
Stephen Knafler (Graham Pearce & Co, Solihull) for the appellant; Philip Coppel (Legal Services, Birmingham City Council) for the respondent.
Contingency fees
Hughes v Kingston upon Hull CC; QBD (Div Ct) (Rose LJ, Mitchell J) 9 Nov 1998.
Once a magistrate had found that a contingency fee arrangement existed between a complainant and his solicitor, he was right to declare that the complainant was unable to seek an order for costs pursuant to s 82(12) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. It was clear from the case of Swain v Law Society [1982] 2 All ER 827, which had not been cited to the court in Thai Trading Co v Taylor [1998] 3 All ER 65, that r 8(1) of the Solicitors Rules 1990 had the force of law, and that it precluded solicitors from entering into any arrangement to receive a fee payable only in the event of success.
Valerie Easty (Sydney Mitchell, Birmingham) for the appellant; James Findlay (Town Clerk, Kingston upon Hull CC) for the respondent.
Compulsory winding up
Re Inside Sport Ltd; Ch Div (Lightman J) 2 Nov 1998.
Where there was an ongoing voluntary liquidation and the main dispute between the parties was the identity of the person appointed as voluntary liquidator, the court should, when deciding whether to grant a petitioning creditor's application for a compulsory winding up order, bear in mind the alternative remedy of an application under s 171 of the Insolvency Act 1986 for the appointment of a fresh voluntary liquidator.
Hilary Stonefrost (Dibb Lupton Alsop) for the petitioner; Edward Francis (Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave) for the opposing creditors.
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The National Theatre is to tackle the "resurgent" issue of gender inequality with a new play created by two rising stars of the theatre world, using controversial hit "Blurred Lines" as its "lightning rod".
The play, also called Blurred Lines, seeks to highlight that the battle against misogyny "is not won," the director said. The play has a tagline: "We need a revolution. Big or small, quiet or loud, it doesn't matter."
Carrie Cracknell, associate director of the Royal Court Theatre, added that Robin Thicke's much-criticised song was a "useful access point" to exploring the themes which range from tweeting to stripping, breast feeding to online dating.
"It feels like there's a concentration on what can become casual misogyny that operates systemically around all of us," she said.
Award-winning playwright Nick Payne - whose work includes Constellations - is scripting the play, which will be staged at The Shed, the National Theatre venue on the South Bank.
The pair had talked for 18 months over developing a piece on feminism and gender equality, inspired by The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today by Kat Banyard.
Ms Cracknell said: "Reading the book was like a veil being lifted. The book is an assessment of contemporary feminism. The thesis is: We think we're equal, but it's an illusion and here's why. It uses statistical analysis."
They appropriated the title following the furore around Thicke's song. "Blurred Lines" became a number one hit last summer but its video was criticised for its use of scantily clad models, while one Daily Beast journalist referred to the lyrics as "rapey".
It has been banned by more than 20 university campuses in the UK and earned Thicke the Sexist of the Year title from the End Violence Against Women Coalition.
Ms Cracknell said: "The use of the title from the song was about the fact the song has become a lightning rod for conversation around gender in popular culture, sexism in popular culture, and we've seen an explosion around that in the last few months."
Ms Cracknell, previously artistic director of the Gate, pointed to the Twitter furore that engulfed campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez : "It shines a light on a seething mass of misogyny and hatred all channelled through the anonymity of Twitter.
"While that's painful for her it could be culturally quite useful as it reminds us that that's not won."
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The prime minister was runner-up to Robin Thicke for 2013's sexist of the year. Earlier this year, female MP Therese Coffey argued that the leading politician should have anti-sexist training to help boost the pitiful number of women in his cabinet - four. Past sexist controversies have included Cameron telling shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Angela Eagle to 'calm down dear' during a Commons exchange.
2/5 Godfrey Bloom
The ex-UKIP MEP resigned after making a controversial 'joke' describing a women in politics conference meeting as being 'full of sluts'. Bloom is no stranger to outrage, having previously condemned aid to 'bongo bongo land'. There should be a mention of UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who defended Bloom and insisted lines of racism and sexism had not been crossed. Bloom claimed he had used the 'slut' slur as the word was originally intended, to refer to untidy women. Urm...
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Stella Creasy (pictured) was attacked by The Sun's political editor Tom Newton-Dunn after she spoke in Parliament in favour of the No More Page 3 campaign to ban the bare breasts from The Sun. Newton-Dunn sent a tweet reading: 'Boldly, Stella Creasy has just asked the PM to justify Page 3 while wearing a bright blue PVC skirt in the Commons chamber', as if such a skirt-wearing crime made her argument void...
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Barrister Robert Colover was a contender for this year's sexist title after comments he made during the sentencing of paedophile Neil Wilson at Snaresbrook Crown Court (pictured) in August. He described the 13-year-old victim as sexually 'predatory', claiming she had 'forced' herself onto 41-year-old Wilson. He later agreed to resign from the Crown Prosecution Service.
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Last year's sexist of the year, George Galloway MP was crowned winner of the dubious accolade after saying that having sex with a woman while she was asleep was 'really bad sexual etiquette but whatever else it is, it is not rape' in relation to the Julian Assange case. He won a copy of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman as a prize.
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Ever since that event I'd been on edge. Normally someone would report something like that to the police. But people who worked in the dark district didn't have that privilege. We were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Sure, our business was the most respectable of the dark district. However the authorities turned the other direction when it came to happenings in this part of town. A sort of compromise I suppose. I wouldn't have told them anyway.
I didn't know what to do, so I didn't do anything. Still that event haunted me and the girls were beginning to notice something was wrong. Sue was the one that asked; she was quiet and shy but wanted to be accepted so badly by the group that she put on a facade of being bubbly and outgoing. She had become quite popular among the younger dancers and they had asked her to represent them in their curious concerns. When she asked what was wrong I of course said nothing. When all the girls became persistent I had to tell them something.
It felt good to talk about it and their concern and attention was one of the warmest, comforting feelings I've ever known. I told them only that someone had yelled at me and pushed me into the street. I said I didn't know why or who it was. The girls praised my bravery, not knowing how I cried, and gave their promise of protection. At least I wouldn't have to walk alone for a while. Yet I knew that their words were empty.
One girl placed her arms around my neck in a hug. It was all just part of the moment and didn't really mean anything but it felt good nonetheless. Yet even my fellow dancers' affections couldn't shake my feelings that something incredibly frightening was going on in the dark district. I couldn't have known what was going on although I had seemed to have gotten involved.
I noticed a man come to our shows every night soon after that. He was always in that same seat in the front row. It was the man, not that the woman had talked to but the other one; the one who had coyly pretended not to listen to their conversation. He was of medium height and well built. He looked as if he were a businessman or some other respectable middle class position. There wasn't really anything intimidating about him yet his attendance was strange. The startling thought that he might actually be in league with the menacing woman hit me during a Thursday night performance.
My brow furrowed as I gripped the newly mended poles of the cage. I was hanging upside down. My tiny skirt inched down towards my belly button to expose my matching briefs. Most of the weight was borne by my legs but supporting myself with my arms made the process much less painful. I wondered if I really was in danger or if I was letting my imagination get the best of me.
Blood rushed to my head. From his middle class seats the suspicious man would get a good view of my shimmering indigo covered buttocks. Four days ago my biggest concerns were remembering choreography. Now I was worrying whether someone wanted me dead, if audience members were assassins.
I dismounted from my inverted perch atop the cage. The sore ache behind my knees eased with each step I took climbing my way down to the stage floor. My hands were still tinted red and throbbing from tightly gripping the bars. I didn't want to think about this. I convinced myself it was preposterous to have created a scenario in which my observation had landed me in the middle of some criminal's plot.
The regular was just a satisfied customer, probably a fan of a certain acrobat or pole dancer, who made a habit of catching her performances. The incident at the big performance was admittedly strange but of no consequence. As for the incident in the street, I wasn't entirely sure I hadn't just made that up.
With this reasoning I tried to push the concerning thoughts from my mind. At the performances end I grabbed my things and hastily made my way out of the amphitheater. As I had predicted the girls caring attitude for me had been fleeting. It only took one mistake from me at rehearsal to fall from valued friend to vile nuisance. I wasn't going to risk any awkward encounters if I got stuck travelling next to one of them.
A few minutes of brisk walking and the tall grey form of the complex came into view. The myriad rows of dark windows gave an inviting glisten. I would be among the first to turn their dull visage bright. Another detail caught my eye as I approached the building. A car parked across the street. Its appearance wasn't worthy of observation aside from the fact that it was occupied.
I knew it was nothing to be worried about. If they stuck around too long the guards would see that the vehicle was moved. What struck me was that the man was inside; the regular who had started attending the shows recently. I initially would have pegged his appearance as evidence for stalking behavior. His fandom of the girl that motivated his ticket purchases may have developed into a more fervent obsession.
But then he wasn't alone. A pony tail of light brown hair with a glint of blond highlights bobbed to the man's right. She seemed to be in her early thirties. Her other features were indiscernible in the darkness.
She could have been here to pick him up from the performance. Perhaps she was a rare spouse who supported their partners taste in illicit entertainment. However unlikely my justification for his appearance their business was none of mine. Fighting the urge to observe them longer I swiped my pass card over the door. Took the elevator to the fourth floor and found the solace of my room.
Lying in the darkness of my room I was startled by the shrill scream of a woman. The initial shock quickly dissipated. It wasn't unusual to hear someone scream in the middle of the night. It was probably just a drunken brawl.
Over breakfast the next morning I'd overhear girls talking about the blood soaked dirt a mere block away. The woman was found a few feet away in front of a neighboring building. Apparently she had been dating a gang member but no one could be sure of her attacker.


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In a standing electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar at medium speed until creamy. Add the egg yolks and vanilla bean seeds and beat until smooth.
In a food processor, combine the almonds with the salt, baking powder and flour and process until the almonds are finely ground. Add the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl and beat on low speed until smooth. Pat the dough into 2 disks, wrap in plastic and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 350° and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Working in batches if necessary, roll out the dough 1/4 inch thick on a lightly floured surface. Using a 1 3/4-inch round cutter, stamp out cookies as close together as possible. Arrange the cookies 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheets. Bake the cookies in the upper and middle thirds of the oven for about 22 minutes or until lightly browned on the bottom and around the edges. Let cool on the baking sheet, then transfer to a platter. Meanwhile, refrigerate the scraps until chilled, then reroll, stamp out more cookies and bake.
Top half of the cookies with a rounded teaspoon of the Tangy Lemon Curd. Refrigerate until the curd is set, about 15 minutes. Top with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate for 8 hours before serving.


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For what it is worth, I'm not surprised the retail value went up a little. The body contours are simply amazing, the Gibraltar bridge is rock solid and the necks are incredible for which Ibanez are known for. The pickups are okay, and give a descent tone, but for my taste I really prefer my EMG X series in them, which went in easily enough for someone's who's a little tech savy like me. The stock pickups are Ibanez's way of having an active pickup config without affecting cost, but they are simply battery powered passive pickups in a nutshell. They can operate with or without batteries, hence the EQ on/off switch, but this guitar is just screaming for EMG's or SD's, which I've gladly obliged. There were few minor adjustments I've done to mine which involved tightening up a few parts but other than that I'm very happy with it. Looks amazing and sounds even better than she looks, just incredible. If you're considering a 7-string I would definitely recommend this one. It has great features to start off with and potential for future "upgrades" that aren't impossible to do. just be careful and consider what elements you need if you decide to do it. Overall I rated it 4.5 mostly because there are a few features I would prefer this guitar to have which it doesn't, however, they are more cosmetic than anything affecting tone. Neck-through body or set neck, and continuing that great looking binding to the headstock.


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|The SFPD's new model for tight-fistedness
First up was Mesa police spokesman Sergeant Ed Wessing, who landed in San Francisco last Tuesday for two days of advising the SFPD's historically tight-lipped public affairs office. Two more Mesa officers are expected to come to San Francisco in September to help implement a computerized crime-tracking system.
The Arizona Republic quoted Mesa officials defending the decision to have on-the-clock officers helping out San Francisco as a "training opportunity." According to the article, Mesa isn't paying for any of the trip expenses. San Francisco police department spokeswoman Sergeant Lyn Tomioka responded, "I think we did [pay the expenses], but I can't say absolutely what we paid for."
Still, Tomioka claimed this wasn't any extravagant wining-and-dining tour of the city. Wessing booked the "cheapest" flight and motel package deal he could find online, Tomioka says. (Wessing wasn't immediately available for comment.) Tomioka added that she personally picked him up and dropped him off at the Holiday Inn to save the cost of a rental car.
Tomioka said the public affairs office requested the trip in order to meet Gascon's goal of creating more media transparency. Among the proposed changes for the new public relations M.O. will be quarterly press conferences with the chief himself, Tomioka says. Additionally, the department will set up meetings with editorial boards and assignment editors of media outlets in town. "[Gascon is] much more comfortable talking to the media," she said. "That's different than before."
The public affairs office will be bringing on two additional officers to the current two-person staff, and designate officers at each station that can handle media calls well into the evening for late-breaking news. "With just two of us, it's hard to get our requests for information met," she said.
Also, the department would like do more to communicate with the public directly, circumventing the media altogether. "If there's an officer-involved shooting and the community has questions ... we're going to go out and arrange community meetings and answer questions. [The public is] not going to rely on the media for the officer version of what occurred."
Tomioka said the visit was quick, but productive. "We did a lot of talking in that day and a half."


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This is just what I think could possibly happen in season 5 if Blair turns out to be pregnant. To be honest, I really don't think that they'll give Chuck and Blair a baby right now, but if they do, this is how I think it will play out. So in other words, this is my ideal theory.
The more realistic theory I have is that Blair will get an abortion over the summer. She'll keep it a secret, then everyone will find out somehow that she aborted Chuck's baby. Louis will break up with her for cheating on him and Chuck will be mad/upset with her and will probably say something along the lines of "I'll never forgive you for this." Hence, C and B won't interact much for most of the season. At the same time, Dan's book will be published and everyone but Blair will hate him for it since she's apparently the only one depicted in a good light. So then having no one else to turn to, Dan and Blair will probably get closer and start up some sort of relationship. But they'll realize that they're wrong for each other eventually, causing Blair to go back to Chuck and Dan to Serena. This theory definitely sounds plausible, but who knows what will happen with these writers.
Anyway, please review about what you think of my story, as well as theories about whose baby it is (and if there will even be a baby) and how it will pan out in season 5 :)
Blair groaned as yet another contraction took over her body. She tried her best to breathe through it, while attempting to block out the 'encouraging' words of her mother and fiancee. To an outsider, it would seem like she and Louis were just a young couple having their first baby. But Blair had a secret that she had been keeping from everyone for the last nine months. The baby she was carrying and would soon give birth to was not Louis'. She had allowed the man to believe that she was pregnant with their child for the duration of her pregnancy. She had allowed him to form an attachment and love for the baby growing inside her. He had been to every doctor's appointment, every ultrasound and had felt the baby kick from inside Blair's womb ever since she was strong enough to be felt from the outside. The fact that the baby girl his fiancee was carrying may not be his hadn't even occurred to Louis. He trusted her completely and didn't think for a second that she would be unfaithful to him. As far as he knew, this was his and Blair's daughter.
It was in this extremely painful contraction -the most painful one she had experienced yet- that Blair realized that she couldn't keep this charade up anymore. She couldn't carry on like she wasn't about to have Chuck Bass' baby. Even though it would be easier for all involved if she carried on telling everyone that Louis was her unborn daughter's father, it wasn't fair to either man and the truth would eventually come out. "Stop!" she cried out, pulling her hand out of Louis' as the contraction finally ended. "I can't do this."
"You can do this Blair," Louis smiled at her from her bedside, assuming that she was talking about giving birth. "I know that you're in pain right now, but just think of the beautiful baby we're going to have at the end of this."
Seeing the excited look on his face, Blair immediately hid her face in her hands and began to sob. "Darling, what's wrong?" her mother asked from where she was standing on the other side of the bed.
She knew that she was going to have to explain herself eventually, but she couldn't stop crying. Her life was a mess. She was a terrible mother and a terrible person for keeping this secret and lying to so many people. Louis and Eleanor looked on worriedly as Blair tried to calm herself down. Just as she had stopped crying, another contraction hit her hard. She cried out again and even though she was delirious from the pain, she managed to choke out to her mother, "You need to get Chuck!"
Eleanor gave her a puzzled look and Louis followed suit. "What are you talking about Blair?" she demanded, her eyes widening in alarm. "Louis, your fiancee is right here. The two of you are having this baby."
Blair groaned, grabbing onto her swollen belly as she felt the most painful part of the contraction. "She's not his," she murmered, shutting her eyes tightly. She didn't want to see Louis' face when she told him about the baby. It was going to kill him.
"What?" Eleanor and Louis asked in unison. She had spoken so softly that they had genuinely not heard her.
"This baby isn't yours, Louis!" she exclaimed, resting back on her pillow with a sigh of relief when the contraction finally ended.
A look of realisation and absolute heartbreak appeared on the young prince's face. With that one statement from the woman he thought was the love of his life, his world came crashing down around him. "Oh Blair," Eleanor sighed in disappointment, putting two and two together. Her daughter was having Chuck Bass' baby. She shared one last look with Blair, then she slipped out of the room to call the actual father of her grandchild. While she still didn't approve of Chuck and Blair's complicated relationship (or whatever they had at this point), the man deserved to know that Blair was giving birth to his child.
"I'm so sorry," Blair choked out, reaching for Louis' hand.
He immediately pulled his hand away and asked softly, "When?"
"What?" she asked in confusion.
"When did this happen?" he demanded, more strongly this time.
"Does it matter?" Blair asked with a sob as tears streamed down her face.
"Yes it matters!" Louis exclaimed. "When did you sleep with Chuck?"
She swallowed, before taking a deep breath and replying, "The night of our engagement party."
He felt his heart break once again. The night that he and Blair were supposed to be celebrating the fact that they would be sharing their lives together, she had slept with another man. And now she was having his baby. Chuck didn't deserve to be the father of Blair's baby. He didn't deserve to be a father, period. It was true that he had appeared to have turned over a new leaf over the better part of the last year, but all Louis knew was that he had hurt Blair. Chuck would always be an awful person in his eyes and he had no idea what Blair ever saw in him. Louis took a deep breath, then asked, "How could you do this to me Blair?"
"I'm sorry-"
"Don't!" he cut her off abruptly. She jumped. It wasn't often that he raised his voice and even when he did, it was never directed at her. "How could you let me believe that this child was mine all this time? How could you let me grow to love a baby that you knew very well that I didn't help create?"
"I don't know," she replied honestly, shaking her head. "I was scared Louis. I was scared about how you and Chuck would react, and what people would say about me and this baby. I don't know if Chuck would have even wanted the baby-"
"So you thought you would just pass her off as mine to save yourself the trouble," Louis snapped back.
Blair shook her head once more, "It wasn't like that. I never wanted to hurt you. I love you."
"Obviously not as much as you love Chuck Bass or we wouldn't be in this situation," he scowled.
She just continued to sob. As much as she wanted to deny what Louis had just said, she couldn't. Not when it wasn't true. She couldn't lie to him anymore, she had done enough of that over the last nine months. For a few minutes, they were both silent. Blair was crying softly, while Louis was blankly staring at a spot on the wall. Neither one of them knew what to do next. She groaned as a wave of nausea suddenly hit her and she felt the urge to throw up. When she had been reading up on childbirth over the last few months, she had discovered that a lot of woman were sick during labor. She had just hoped that she wouldn't be one of them.
"I'm going to be sick," she cried, putting her hand over her mouth as she looked around frantically for something to throw up in. There was no way she was going to make it to the bathroom, even though it was only a few feet away. Louis quickly retrieved the small bin from her bedside and brought it to her, just in time for her to throw up into it.
When she was finished, Blair shakily attempted to place the bin back down on the floor beside her bed. Louis immediately came to her assistance, taking it from her and setting it down on the floor nearby, in case she had to throw up again. "Louis," she started, after another moment of silence. Her hand came to rest on her pregnant belly and she began to rub it gently. He looked up at her and sighed. She stated softly, "I really am sorry."
"I know," he responded. Blair nodded, before slowly removing Louis' engagement ring from the finger of her left hand. Her fingers hadn't swollen up too much during the pregnancy so she had still been able to wear the ring. She held the ring out to him and he took it from her. He slipped it into his pocket, then looked to his now ex-fiancee once more. "Goodbye Blair."
"Goodbye Louis," she responded. She watched as he left the room. As soon as Louis shut the door behind him, she was hit with another contraction. She groaned as she attempted to breathe through it, her thoughts drifting to Chuck and how he was going to react to the news that he was about to be a father.
Louis ignored the sympathetic looks he received from Blair's parents and friends as he exited the hospital room and began to make his way towards the elevator. "Louis," Serena called out to him.
He was about to turn back and politely say goodbye to everybody, when the elevator just down the hall opened and Chuck stepped out. He had left for the hospital right after Eleanor had called him and told him about the baby. While he was still in shock about the news, considering that Blair had told him that there was no chance that the baby was his, he knew that Blair and their child needed him. Chuck looked concerned and slightly confused, but as soon as he saw Louis, a look of dread appeared on his face. He began to approach the man cautiously. Before he could even get a word out, the usually passive prince had grabbed him by the lapel of his suit and threw him up against the wall angrily.
"Get your hands off of me!" Chuck exclaimed, shaking himself free from Louis' grasp. Although he couldn't blame the guy for acting like this, it was the last thing he needed right now. He had to get to Blair.
Louis grabbed him once more and shoved him against the wall again. "You son of a bitch," he growled. "How could you?"
Chuck suddenly felt the man be pulled off him, and looked up to find Harold and Nate standing there, attempting to hold Louis back. "I'm sorry Louis, I really am," he stated calmly. The man just scowled angrily. "But Blair and the baby need me right now." He attempted to step around him, but Louis stopped him.
"You're not going anywhere," he said, shaking his head. "Not until you tell me why."
"Why what?" he remarked impatiently. "Why Blair and I slept together? Do you really want to open up that can of worms?"
"Yes, yes I do!"
"Because we still love each other you imbecile," Chuck snapped. "And if you haven't realized that by now, you're a lot more stupid than I thought."
"You don't deserve her," Louis said with an unwavering glare. "You don't deserve to be the father of her child."
He scoffed sadly and replied, "Tell me something I don't know."
"You've put Blair through so much," he continued, "And now you get to have a baby with her. A baby that should have been mine."
"Well it's not," Chuck retorted bluntly. His patience with the whole situation was wearing thin. "The sooner you accept that, the better."
"Chuck," Nate interjected, stepping in between the two men. "I think you've put Louis through enough, don't you?" He just sighed, looking down at the floor guiltily. Nate looked to Louis apologetically, before looking back to his best friend and instructing, "Just go to Blair, she needs you."
He nodded and immediately rushed to the door of the hospital room that everyone was gathered near. He knocked, before letting himself in. Louis just sighed, before storming down the hallway in the direction of the elevator. He ignored everyone who was calling out to him to come back. He had to get out of there now.
Chuck found Blair lying on her side in her hospital bed, rubbing her rounded stomach in attempt to calm the baby down. Her eyes flicked up to him immediately and she addressed him shakily, "Chuck..."
"Hey," he responded, giving her a small smile. She breathed a small sigh, relieved that he didn't seem to be too mad with her. Not that she could blame him if he was. "How are you?" he asked, approaching her hospital bed and taking her hand. "The baby?" He looked her over, as if he would be able to tell if anything was wrong with her or the baby.
"We're fine Bass," Blair told him softly. After a moment of silence, she said, "I'm glad that you came."
"How could I not?" Chuck asked. "You're having my baby." His free hand came to rest on her belly as he corrected himself, "Our baby." Her eyes filled with tears, but she closed them so he wouldn't see. He already had of course, but she closed her eyes anyway. "Why didn't you tell me?" he asked, finally asking the question he had been dying to know the answer to since Eleanor had called him.
"I don't know," she replied, opening her eyes. "I was afraid of the scandal this would cause and what people would say," she admitted, shaking her head. "I'm so sorry for lying to you and Louis. And everybody for that matter."
"It's okay-"
"It's not okay," Blair interjected strongly. "She's just as much your daughter as she is mine, you deserve to decide whether or not you want to be apart of her life. I had no right to make that choice for you."
"Of course I want to be apart of her life," Chuck insisted, his eyes drifting down to her stomach. "This is my daughter Blair. I would never leave her."
"You seem pretty certain for a guy who just found out he's about to be a father twenty minutes ago," she commented.
He sighed, giving her a small smile, "Just so you know, it takes a fraction of that time to realize that you love your kid."
"I know," Blair smiled back. "I loved her the moment I found out that I was pregnant." She paused, then told him, "I wish I had told you about the baby sooner."
"No, I really do," she insisted. "Although we still would have hurt Louis either way, it wouldn't have been as bad as telling him while I'm in labor. But you and I could have worked something out." He looked at her hopefully, wondering if there was still hope for the two of them. "Who knows, we could have been back together by now?"
Chuck smiled slightly at the thought and nodded, "We very well could've been." He reached over to brush a stray curl behind her ear and asked, "What do you need me to do Blair?" She gave him a surprised look, not expecting him to want to discuss their relationship status at this very moment. "Do you want me to stay with you for the birth or do you want me to wait outside? It's entirely up to you."
Blair blinked, suddenly realizing that he was talking about a much more pressing matter, the birth. "I'd like you to stay," she admitted. "If you want to, of course."
"Absolutely," he told her, kissing her on the forehead. As he was about to pull away, their eyes locked for a moment. He could see her looking down to his lips and wondered if he should kiss her. Chuck decided that he would wait a few seconds and allow her to make the move if she wanted to. Unfortunately, she looked away a moment later. He was disappointed, only to realize that she had pulled away because she was having a contraction. She squeezed his hand tightly and he whispered comforting words to her, reminding her to breathe. He of course had no idea what he was doing and was just relying on his instincts.
Blair finally relaxed as the contraction passed. She looked to Chuck while trying to catch her breath and said, "Thank you."
"No, thank you Waldorf," he remarked, rubbing her belly gently. She smiled at the gesture, hoping that Chuck would be able to handle supporting her through this labor. She was definitely having her mother or Serena in here as well, just in case.
Hours later, Blair sat in her hospital bed with a tiny baby girl nestled in her arms. Chuck was standing at her bedside, admiring the infant in amazement. He was still shocked that he had a part in making this tiny human being. Baby girl Waldorf-Bass had been born just under an hour ago and was being introduced to everyone for the first time. They still hadn't named the baby. Blair had picked out some names with Louis of course, but it didn't seem right to use any of them. She and Chuck would have to discuss it once everyone had left. "She's beautiful Blair," Serena said as she cooed at the baby in her friend's arms.
"She's perfect," she agreed, stroking the baby's cheek gently.
"It's lucky that you told Louis she wasn't his before she was born," Nate commented, studying the infant closely. "You would have had a hard time explaining why she has Chuck's wild hair."
"Nathaniel," Chuck scolded him gently, shaking his head. It was too soon to be making comments like that.
However, Blair attempted to brush the comment off and joked, "The poor thing is going to have to wear hats until she's old enough to use hair products."
"Actually I'm pretty sure that you can buy baby hair products now," Eleanor informed them.
"Lucky for you missy," Blair smiled, tapping the infant on the nose gently. She didn't intend on using any product on her baby's hair of course. In her eyes, her daughter couldn't be more perfect and she wouldn't change a thing about her.
"Have the two of you discussed how you're going to raise her?" Harold enquired. He was concerned for his granddaughter and worried that she would get caught in the middle of a big custody battle.
"When would we have done that Daddy?" Blair asked incredulously. "I've kind of been busy giving birth."
"Well it's something that you need to discuss," he insisted, giving Chuck a warning look. "You have a baby now. You need to put her needs before your own."
"We know that," Chuck nodded. "As soon as we get a moment alone, we'll start to discuss all of those things."
"You won't be getting a moment alone for a while now that you're parents," Cyrus cut in with a chuckle.
"She has to go to the nursery sometime, doesn't she?" Chuck asked.
Blair gasped, "She's not going to the nursery! She's staying right here with me."
"Okay," he nodded, raising his hands in surrender. "Sorry. I just assumed that all babies had to go to the nursery."
"The nurse can take the baby there if you want to get some rest and they'll take care of her," Blair explained. "But I for one am not about to hand our child off to a stranger an hour after being born."
"This is so surreal," Nate shook his head. "I can't believe that you two have a baby."
"Me either," Serena agreed. "When did you even sleep together? And why didn't I know about it until now?"
Blair and Chuck immediately turned bright red and she shot Serena a glare, "Because it's none of your business."
"Come on B, you can't blame us for being curious," she continued.
"Well you can continue to wonder because I'm not going to tell you," Blair retorted, looking down to the baby to avoid making contact with either of her parents or step-fathers.
Nate nudged Chuck and asked, "You'll tell me later?"
"No," he rolled his eyes as Blair shot Nate a glare. "Like Blair said, it's none of your business."
"I would certainly like to know how this happened," Eleanor spoke up, causing everyone to look to her in surprise.
Chuck cleared his throat awkwardly and asked, "You want to know the details?" Blair smacked him on the arm with a disapproving look.
Her mother made a face and retorted, "No, I don't want to know details. It's just, it obviously happened while you and Louis were together, is that correct?"
"Yes mother," she answered quickly, wanting to get these questions over and done with as soon as possible.
"So, when?" Eleanor asked, looking between Chuck and Blair for answers.
Blair sighed and confessed, "It happened the night of the engagement party. Chuck saved me from Russell Thorpe who had gone crazy and was going to set a building alight with me in it." She cringed when her parents looked to her in shock. She couldn't blame them, it sounded crazy to her and she had lived it.
"Then afterwards, we went to have a drink at the Plaza and we ended up at this random kid's Bar Mitzvah," Chuck continued.
"Then there was dancing and we got lifted up on these chairs," she added, smiling a little at the memory.
"Then before I even knew what was happening, Blair had pulled me into an empty room and-"
"That's enough," Harold interjected with a grimace. He had certainly heard enough.
"So you knocked Blair up at a Bar Mitzvah?" Nate asked his friend with a chuckle.
Serena also chuckled, before leaning down and saying to the baby, "I'm going to start calling you 'Bar Mitzvah Baby'."
"S!" Blair scolded her.
"Come on, it's funny," she laughed.
"Nice to see that you find infidelity so hilarious," Eleanor remarked dryly. Harold and Roman looked down to the floor awkwardly. Cheating was a particularly sore subject for her considering that Harold had left her for his current partner.
"Come on Eleanor, they made a mistake," Cyrus came to Blair and Chuck's defence.
"I wouldn't exactly call our daughter a mistake," Chuck objected with a frown. Blair nodded in agreement.
"Of course not," he agreed. "This beautiful little baby is anything but a mistake."
Blair sighed, "Can we just drop this? We know that what we did was wrong and we feel terrible about it. But that doesn't change the fact that we now have a baby that we should be focusing our attention on."
"Maybe we should give the new parents a moment alone with the baby?" Roman suggested, eager to leave the now tension-filled room.
Thankfully, everybody agreed and left the room quite quickly, leaving Blair and Chuck alone with their daughter for the first time. She gave him a small smile and asked, "Do you want to hold her?"
"I thought you'd never ask," he grinned, stepping closer to the bed to allow her to pass the baby to him.
"I shouldn't have to," Blair pointed out, pulling away slowly once she knew that the baby was secure in Chuck's arms. "She's your baby too, you can hold her whenever you want."
Chuck smiled at the baby in his arms and replied, "Sorry, I'm still getting used to this whole father thing." He sighed and said, "She looks like you, you know? A part from her untameable hair of course."
"There's a lot of you in there as well," she insisted, reaching over to stroke the baby's cheek gently. "She definitely has your jawline."
"She has your nose, ears and mouth."
"But she has your eyes," Blair said, recalling seeing the baby's extremely dark brown eyes the moment the doctor let her hold the her. The baby's eyes were far too dark to be hers, she had definitely gotten them from her father.
"So in other words, she's a good mix of the two of us," Chuck concluded.
She smiled, "Yes she is."
"What are we going to name her?" he wondered out loud, gently kissing the baby on the forehead.
"Well I promised my mother that her middle name would be Eleanor, but her first name is completely up to us," Blair replied.
"What about her last name? Waldorf or Bass?"
"I was thinking Waldorf-Bass or Bass-Waldorf," she suggested with a shrug.
Chuck nodded, "Waldorf-Bass sounds better. Besides, you're the one who gave birth to her so your surname should come first."
"Well that's two-thirds of her name picked out. We just have to think of a first name." They looked down to the baby, hoping that a name would come to mind. "Would it be completely conceited to name her Blair?" she joked.
He chuckled, "Not at all. Men do it all the time with their sons."
"I'm joking Bass," she told him. "But if you insist-"
"Why don't we give her her own name?" Chuck interjected, cutting her off. "Even though she came from you and me, she's still her own person. Maybe not so much now, but she's going to develop her own little personality, her own likes and dislikes. She needs her own unique name."
"We're not naming her Apple or anything of that nature," Blair warned him. Their child would have a completely normal name. There was no reason to give the kids she went to school with a reason to tease her.
"I didn't mean anything weird, just a name that hasn't been used by either of our families before."
"What about Audrey?" she asked excitedly.
"Nothing Hepburn," he shook his head, causing her to pout.
A mischievous smirk appeared on her face as she suggested, "Holly?"
"Go-lightly?" Chuck finished with a smirk of his own. "I think you've forgotten that you made me watch Breakfast at Tiffany's about 20 times over the course of our relationship. And that's not counting the other five times during the year that Serena was at boarding school."
"We can get to naming her later," Blair decided, brushing off the subject. "I think we have more pressing matters to discuss right now, like living arrangements."
"Do you want to live together?" he suggested nervously, shifting the baby in his arms slightly. "We don't have to be in a relationship if you don't want to be, but there would be advantages to raising her together."
"When did I say that I didn't want a relationship?"
Chuck looked up from the baby in surprise, then they shared a smile. "So is that a yes to living together?"
Blair nodded and clarified, "Yes it is. But as for you and me, we're taking things slow. I just got out of an engagement, the last thing I want to do is enter another one." He looked hurt for a moment, so she added, "Right now."
He nodded understandingly, "I'll hold off on the marriage proposal for now." She smiled, patting the bed beside her and gesturing for him to sit down. When he had done so, she rested her head on his shoulder and they continued to watch the sleeping baby. "This is going to cause a huge scandal," he stated softly. "Things could get ugly."
"It will blow over," she assured him. "I don't really care what the media says about us. The only thing that matters is that our daughter is happy and healthy."
"I agree, but I should probably hold a press conference before the news gets out to the public," Chuck pointed out. "Louis was pretty mad, he may say something-"
"He wouldn't," Blair insisted. "He may be hurting right now, but he wouldn't do that. It's in his best interests to keep this quiet as well."
"When do you think your mother's going to be able to look at us without scowling in disgust?" he asked.
She sighed, "Who knows? She'll get over it though."
"How could she not when she got a beautiful granddaughter out of our little affair?"
"Affair is such a horrible word," Blair stated, making a face. "I don't want this hanging over her head her entire life," she added, taking the baby's tiny hand and stroking it gently with her thumb.
"Well it is what it is," Chuck shrugged.
She shook her head, "I prefer to think of our baby as the product of two people who love each other so much, that it's impossible for them to stay away from each other no matter how hard they try."
"That's certainly the romanticized version."
"Regardless of the circumstances in which she was conceived, this baby was made out of love Chuck," Blair responded. "We can't deny that."
"That's true," he agreed. He turned his body slightly and set the baby back down in Blair's arms, then gave the infant a kiss on the cheek. Chuck looked up to the mother of his child with a smile.
She returned the smile. "You know Bass, I believe you still owe me a kiss from earlier," she informed him. She hadn't forgotten the brief moment they had shared earlier that had been interrupted by one of those awful contractions.
"Do I?" Chuck asked sarcastically, with a fake puzzled look. "I'm sorry, but I don't recall-"
She cut him off with a gentle kiss. It was so nice to kiss him again. She hadn't felt this level of passion and love in a kiss since the last kiss they had shared. Kissing Louis had been amazing in its own right, but they just didn't have the chemistry that she and Chuck had. As they broke apart, Blair smiled coyly and asked, "Did that refresh your memory?"
"Definitely," he nodded. "Everything is crystal clear now." He leant in to kiss her again, having missed doing so over the last nine months. He ended the kiss once more, but allowed his lips to linger near hers. "I love you," he told her softly.
"I love you too," she responded as he pressed his lips to her forehead. For the first time in a long time, Blair had hope for their relationship. She, Chuck and their baby were going to be fine, she just knew it.
I know it probably seemed like Chuck and Blair resolved their issues and got back together quite quickly, but the writers seem to have no trouble with skimming over their problems so... *shrug*. Besides, the will-they-or-won't-they storyline has been repeated and dragged out twice over the last four years in regards to Chuck and Blair, so I don't see the need to delay a reunion any longer.


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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Antonio <email@example.com> wrote: > 2009/1/8 Christian Grobmeier <email@example.com>: >> I have spoken to the developers and they are willing to sign the >> software grant and donate the code to the compress component if they >> are mentionend in the code (guess NOTICE file would be ok too). > > No wait! > The software grant *donates* the code to the foundation, so all the > rights become of Apache itself, not of the owners. > The previous owners of the right will be mentioned only in the IP > (intellectual property) clearance form. > In your case I suggest to: > 1. add the code in your software; > 2. add the copyright information on the top of the file that contains > it, before the license header. > 3. add in the NOTICE file a reference like this: > > This software contains code developed by (copyright owner) for the > project (name of the project): (project website). Wrong on the 'donate' bit - the grant doesn't donate the code to the foundation but licenses it to the foundation. You are correct though that if they grant it to us then we don't have to do attribution. +1 to your suggestion, with the addition of adding ASL 1.1 to the LICENSE file if it's ASL 1.1 rather than AL 2.0. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Since Sega first announced the Jet Set Radio HD remake, we've been teased by a release time frame of Summer 2012. But as August rolled around, I'm sure I'm not the only fan to wonder exactly when we'd be able to actually play this classic. Wonder no more. Sega has just announced a release date… Read More »
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Last week, SEGA teased a digital release of their Dreamcast classic, Jet Grind Radio. In a recent blog post, SEGA has confirmed a digital download release of Jet Set Radio for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Windows PC for this summer. Note that the game is not referred to as Jet Grind Radio, as… Read More »
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Twenty-two seconds. That's all it takes to get some people excited, myself included. Earlier today, SEGA released a twenty-two second video on YouTube. It starts with an oddly familiar electronica/hip-hop beat followed by "SEGA presents the next Dreamcast game on XBLA and PSN. Guess who's back?" Clue 1: The music is consistent with the tunes… Read More »


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Bank of Canada "Just Says No" to Quantitative Easing
I'm Back! Once again, the traveling troubadour returns to the saddle. I'm here for two weeks, then gone again for the Las Vegas Money Show; then I get a nice reprieve in June before heading to Vancouver in July. There's a day game at Busch this Thursday, and I've already been invited to go, so I'm already getting in the frame of mind for that!
OK… Chris did a great job bringing you the Pfennig each day last week… I was still writing each day, giving daily updates to the FXU people. Chris will be traveling with me to "lost wages"… I mean, Las Vegas… So I'll be writing from the road, which long time readers know I just absolutely love… NOT!
The currencies rallied for most of the week, after the Swine Flu scare filtered through the markets. On Friday, the currencies were range bound, as it was May Day across the globe, and many countries were on holiday. So… We start this week with the news that Citigroup may need $10 billion to keep afloat, and news that Federal regulators shut down Silverton Bank in Atlanta, along with another smaller bank in New Jersey, bringing the total count of banks closed in the United States this year to 31! The FDIC estimated that the cost to the insurance fund would be $1.3 billion.
The Silverton Bank was supposedly a key cog in the Southeast, according to the Wall Street Journal, and bankers in Georgia are saying that Silverton's collapse could take down at least 8 to 12 other banks with ties to Silverton. It's like dominoes…
I'm not being flippant about this folks… I'm trying to point out that the rot on the vine is deeper than the media and the leaders of this country would have you believe them to be. I keep coming back to that interview with Ron Paul that I saw in March, where he said, "people are saying that problems in other countries are worse than ours… Those people are wrong!"
Oh, and did you hear that Boston's most storied newspaper, the Boston Globe, is going to be shut down? And one more item… Those "stress tests"? Well, wouldn't you know it, the results are being delayed, due to the Banks debating the findings. Well, they have that right to do so… Maybe, the regulators didn't understand something in their accounting methods, or something like that. Unfortunately, I believe the banks' debating will be like arguing with an umpire over balls and strikes!
OK… Enough of the blood in the streets! Let's talk about some good things… Like last week when the Bank of Canada (BOC) decided to do a Nancy Reagan, and just say "no" to quantitative easing… Let's hope they don't end up with egg on their collective faces should they need to implement quantitative easing at some point in the future. But I'm sure they have weighed all the facts to this point. Canada's Banks are in tip top shape, compared to their neighbors to the south, and I'll explain this about the Canadian dollar/loonie (CAD) once more for those new to class… When oil returns to higher levels, the loonie will follow. This currency is so juiced by energy prices, and oil is the Big Kahuna…
And remember what you heard here first, last month, and that is that China would be the first to come out of the economic doldrums. I had someone ask me last week, why I thought China's stimulus worked better than anyone else's… Ahhh grasshopper, I've explained that before… But again, it's very simple… With China being a Communist Country, they can dictate not only whom the stimulus goes to, but HOW the stimulus is used. Imagine if you will the initial $150 billion that was sent out last spring… If there were stipulations on how it was to be spent, maybe you'd have something, or better yet… The initial $700 billion in TARP funds… They didn't have strings attached, and the receivers didn't use the funds to loan out, as "requested by the Treasury"; they threw it in their nearly empty treasure chests and sat on it… See the difference in the two methods?
It appears that the so-called "decoupling" is back on the table, as China and India seem to be coming out of the economic doldrums long before the U.S., Europe, and Japan will… Hmmmm…
OK… The Chinese renminbi (CNY) has begun to move higher again, just when everyone thought the Chinese would batten down the hatches on currency appreciation. This is only happening because the Chinese economy is beginning to show signs of improvement.
Those signs of improvement in China are doing wonders for the Aussie dollar (AUD)… Don't look now, but the Aussie dollar has climbed past 73-cents!
Aussie's kissin' cousin across the Tasman, New Zealand (NZD), is not seeing the same kind of McLovin' the Aussie dollar is seeing… The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) left the door open for further rate cuts last week, while the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is giving signals that the rate cuts may be nearing an end. The Tale of Two Central Banks…
A long-time reader sent me a link to a story on Morningstar regarding our fave shiny metal… Gold… Here's a snippet…
"Jon Nadler, a senior analyst at Kitco Bullion Dealers, points out that all of the world's above-ground gold amounts to around 0.6% of total global wealth, so even if gold were at $10,000 per ounce, the metal would only amount to 6% of total global wealth." (I know Jon, so I just had to use his quote!)
Here's another snippet from someone else… "Singapore, Norway, Saudi Arabia and other member nations of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries are likely already increasing their allocation to gold, or likely to do so in the coming months. They would be somewhat ignorant and financially and economically illiterate not to do so."
Everyone at the Total Wealth Symposium in Bermuda last week was talking about gold… I see that it has slipped back below the $900 level, which I have taken as the line in the sand for buying opportunities… Could it go lower? Of course it could, but that wouldn't change my mind as far as a sub $900 level being a buying opportunity to get it cheaper than where most people see it going.
Did you see that China announced last week that they had increased their holdings of gold by 76% in the past six years? Hmmm… No wonder the last six years have been so kind to holders of the shiny metal, eh?
And… How about this for some "good news"… Ford outsold Toyota in April! Now, that's something you don't see every day!
OK… The data cupboard is pretty feeble this week until we get to the end of the week, when the April Jobs Jamboree gets printed. We'll see Pending Home Sales, Construction Spending today, and then not much until later in the week. The initial forecast for jobs in April are showing a job loss of 606K… The weekly numbers show this forecast to be quite understated… But, as I've explained many times in the past, the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) doesn't use those Weekly Initial Jobless Claims. The BLS uses a survey of corporations, and then puts the survey in their witch's caldron and stirs in the Birth/Death model, and comes out with "their number."
Bad news for my little river town this past week, as Chrysler closed down the plant that had been operating in our city since the '60s. Good thing we decided back in the late '90s to diversify our income stream in the city! I was an alderman then, and recall this to be my greatest fear, that the city depended on one corporate entity so much… And the alderman at that time made great strides to diversify the city's portfolio of income streams… So that today, when the bad news hits, it doesn't hit as hard as it would have if no diversification had taken place. You see… The overall risk to the portfolio was reduced!
Well, what does that lesson teach us? It should teach us that diversification is the most important monetary thing anyone should be thinking about! Diversification so that the asset classes in your portfolio have a low correlation to one another; that they have different pricing mechanisms. Currencies and metals represent the best diversifying assets to your already existing portfolio of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and land… It is a proven fact that by adding currencies and metals to a portfolio, you will reduce the over risk in the portfolio! And…. Remember… 94% of a portfolio's return is based on asset class selection.
Just thought I would give you an example of diversification in real life, and then apply it to the lesson for today… That's how I always tried to explain things to my kids, and the older two are teachers today, and probably use the same methods for explanation!
The U.K. is on holiday today, as they decided to do May Day on the 4th! Either way, it was a 3-day weekend for those that celebrated May Day!
Currencies today 5/4/09: A$ .7330, kiwi .5720, C$ .8415, euro 1.3230, sterling 1.4845, Swiss .8770, rand 8.38, krone 6.5750, SEK 8.08, forint 218, zloty 3.33, koruna 20.14, yen 99.30, sing 1.4815, HKD 7.75, INR 49.90, China 6.8220, pesos 13.76, BRL 2.1725, dollar index 84.77, Oil $52.89, Silver $12.61, and Gold… $890.60
That's it for today… A very good road trip for yours truly last week, and my beloved Cardinals! My little granddaughter, Delaney Grace, came by to see me on Saturday. She sings songs now… She is so darn cute! She tips her head from side to side while singing! Too much work in the yard yesterday, has my hip and leg quite sore this morning, but that's a good thing! My little buddy, Alex, can cut the grass now, so that's a good thing for my beautiful bride, who had to take that over after my surgeries two years ago… Speaking of my beautiful bride… She and I walked into a restaurant last week, and a long time reader saw us and said, "Hey Chuck, she really is your beautiful bride"… Now how nice was that?


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