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Doug Ross, one of the founders of the University Prep charter schools, once told me that he thought of my uncle, William Beckham Jr., as the "essential Detroiter."
I always thought that was a great phrase, something you might see etched at the base of a statue. But I wasn't really sure what Ross meant.
"For that time," Ross told me Friday, referring to the few years before my uncle's death in 2000, "he was the only one who had the combination of political influence and fearlessness to lead in the community, to make a difference for education in Detroit.
"There were politicians who couldn't deal with the community. And there were leaders in the community who didn't have the political influence. But Bill had both."
Talk about someone you'd like to bring back from the grave.
When we started kicking around the idea of an editorial package about deceased Michiganders whose expertise we could use to solve our current challenges, lots of people said Bill Beckham should be on the list.
As the driving force behind the state-led remake of Detroit Public Schools in the late 1990s -- and the man whose sudden absence played a huge role in clipping the endeavor's success -- he'd almost certainly be at the forefront of an effort not just to save, but to resurrect, the floundering system today.
No way could I argue against him. But because he's a relative, I thought I would look too much like I had my thumb on the scale if the Free Press editorial board included him.
I kept him off the official list for that reason but figured I'd write on my own about why the city, and the state, could use someone like him right about now.
His passion for fixing education in the city was virtually unmatched. And it didn't matter what "job" he was doing -- president of New Detroit, CEO of the Skillman Foundation.
Schools, kids and opportunity -- mostly the tragic loss of opportunity visited upon city kids every day by the awful state of the public schools -- were first on his agenda.
And he was moving the ball on getting things fixed. Quickly.
He'd been an aide to U.S. Sen. Phil Hart, deputy mayor to Coleman Young in Detroit, and assistant secretary of the Treasury for President Jimmy Carter. So navigating the politics of the situation (heavily Democratic in Detroit, but staunchly Republican in the John Engler days in Lansing) was an easy glide for him.
My Uncle Bill knew everyone, and he knew what motivated them. He could move seamlessly between partisan crowds of either persuasion, and could win political arguments without creating losers. He was masterful at creating the shared victory.
In Detroit, where suspicions of Engler were hardwired into activists' minds and a drive to maintain autonomous governance was building fast, my Uncle Bill was just as adept at keeping people focused on what would work for the city's children.
As my other uncle, Charles Beckham, said at the funeral: Bill Beckham treated everybody like they were important. To him, everyone was a dignitary. And he was just as comfortable working alongside community activists as he was in the board room or the governor's office.
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Would that we could reignite his singular zeal.
Essential, indeed.
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I must admit, if I played a part in the story that no one liked and later found out that I was essentially being used as a Mary Sue, I would kind of feel violated. Wes feels less like a character and more like some guy's self-indulging fantasy who thinks he can do no wrong. Plus, Wesley was once planned to be a girl for reasons I can totally relate to (How many promising sons are there in fiction?). Unfortunately Gene said no because dang it, Wesley ain't a girl's name!
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What Does the Economy Have to Do with the Market?
by Barry Ritholtz - October 6th, 2009, 7:33am
"There's a lot of risk going ahead of some big bumps. There's a very big risk that markets have been irrationally exuberant."
-Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
Far be it from me to challenge the 2001 economics Nobel prize winner, but sometimes, indeed, quite often, markets decouple from the economic fundamentals.
I can show you many eras in history when the economy was awful, and nonetheless markets rallied strongly.
There have also been times when earnings did not matter, and profitability was irrelevant. There are times when animal spirits run the show, when irrational exuberance was in charge.
Such is the result of giving two million primates lots of money and keyboards and a belief they can make a living based on numbers and letters moving around — on a screen, in a futures pit, on an exchange floor, or even under a buttonwood tree.
Most mainstream economists — with notable exceptions like John Maynard Keynes, Richard Thaler, and Robert Shiller — have traditionally paid little attention to this reality. To a trader or investor, rationality matters far less than what the tape was doing.
Indeed, prices matter a great deal more to traders than theories or annoying things like "Objective Reality. To a trader, prices ARE the objective reality; to them economic theorists are peripheral players trying to rationalize reality.
I believe you can describe and explain what the market is doing, but in doing so, we must acknowledge Keynes terriblyu accurate observation that "Markets can stay irrational far longer than you can stay solvent."
I'll have more on this later in the week . . .
Stiglitz Says Markets 'Irrationally Exuberant' About Recovery
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Barry Ritholtz says:
Futures look quite strong this morning . . .
ben22 says:
The stock market has been detached from reality going back much further than 2009. By virtually every measure of economic health (not the stock market) the economy from 1975-1999 was far weaker than the economic growth from 1942-1966.
We'll see what those consumer animal spirits look like this week when consumer credit is released. Retail Joes dont' seem to have much going on right now in the way of Animal Spirits. They haven't really participated in the stock market rally as evidenced by the allocation to cash/bonds vs. stocks and all these "green shoots" still lead to more jobs lost on main street since this rally started than during the entire last recession. And, now you have Costco and Kroger blaming deflation:
Mark E Hoffer says:
to chisel the QOTD into the ether:
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. -—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin, he knew how to handle some bourgeoisie~
too bad, many took notes, and the bourgeoisie have been beset by too many, additional, adulterants to pay any mind–even on Credit.
AmenRa says:
Just when I thought we were heading into a trend change the market is trying not to confirm the change by closing lower. The SPX weekly TLB reversed on Friday but we haven't retested the low. The futures are running as fast as they can in the other direction. My guess is that the market and the economy are related when traders and investors are not in denial.
Oh yeah SPX weekly TLB chart here: http://tinyurl.com/y92omou
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further, on the denial front http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/cherniawski/2009/1002.html
"…On October 2, 1930…
Railcar loadings for week ended Sept. 20 were down 18.4% vs. 1929 and 16.7% vs. 1928; considered disappointing, largest percentage drop this year.
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The Association of American Railroads today reported 271,659 carloads for the week ending Sept. 26, 2009, down 17.1 percent compared with the same week in 2008. For the first 38 weeks of 2009, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 10,104,171 carloads, down 18.2 percent from 2008; 7,141,006 trailers or containers, down 16.8 percent, and total volume of an estimated 1.08 trillion ton-miles, down 17.3 percent. Total volume on U.S. railroads for the week ending September 26 was estimated at 28.8 billion ton-miles, off 17.2 percent from the same week last year…"
Bruce in Tn says:
I think you could reverse the question and pose one: What does the market have to do with the economy?
…The average workweek, just reported, was down to 33.0 hours.
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Maersk Exec Says 'Transformation' Needed
"Bingham said even state-controlled carriers may eventually find that their governments will eventually tire of bankrolling heavy losses. "It's hard to imagine the industry getting out of this without some financial failures," he said."
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wally says:
This market, being dominated by big players who more or less understand the bluff they are running, may not crash for a long, long time. Effectively, they have made the market an unsafe and undesirable place for the retail investor. The problem is, the current paper profits can't be pulled out until the retail investor – the mark – comes in to the casino.
Marcus Aurelius says:
Mark E Hoffer Says:
"Lenin, he knew how to handle some bourgeoisie~"
Good stuff, MEH!
Ponchovilla says:
Seems to me Ben Graham said something about this topic with a very efficient use of words… "irrational" "solvent". Ya'll know the drill?
dss says:
Revolutions come when the peasants and the newly beggared bourgeoisie rise up against the privileged class. It was no accident that the US government instituted great socialist reforms during the 30′s.
HCF says:
>Futures look quite strong this morning . . .
Looks like the "dollar goes down forever" trade continues on!
HCF says:
Price action is positive on the SPX, but the volume yesterday was pathetic… My guess is a last gasp for this rally if the volume doesn't pick up on the upside tape. Oh course, as I say that, today will probably be a huge volume day to the upside…
jc says:
NYS tax receipts down 36% compared to 2008 and remember that Thain jammed the 2009 ML bonuses back into 2008 so that will make the 4Q 2009 even awfuller.
Maybe NYS will need a bailout along with CA and Mich. Only short term solution to a really big problem is furloughs. The big money eating machine is the education industry and they can't be furloughed but I bet NYS will delay reimbursements to local school districts which will create a ball of confusion.
I'm glad Uncle Ben has determined the drecession has technically ended
AmenRa says:
Holy crap. Gold is over 1033. Even though the story about oil and the dollar has been refuted, gold is on a tear.
Kort says:
The U.S. apartment market in the third quarter turned in one of its weakest performances ever as the national vacancy rate hit a 23-year high despite being propped up by landlords willing to take lower rent to keep tenants, according to real estate research firm Reis Inc.
In the third quarter, the U.S. apartment asking rental rate fell 0.5 percent to $1,035 per month, the fourth consecutive declining quarter. Factoring in months of free rent and other perks landlords have been using to lure or keep tenants, effective rent fell 0.3 percent to $972, also the fourth consecutive quarter of declining rent.
"We have not seen that before," Calanog said.
Have not seen that before, indeed…
beaufou says:
As you say, markets are not rational and were never supposed to be.
Just a few bets by individuals on the future to make money, absolutely nothing to do with politics and the future of the economy.
The problem nowadays is that politicians are looking at the markets as an indicator while acting to make them look good, a bad mistake when we look at the current job market and its future, huge growth and huge returns on WS do not constitute a strategy for long term employment, unless you think middle management is the answer.
Same goes for Healthcare where investors returns are obviously more important than health itself, the cost of the public option isn't anywhere near what financial institutions are costing us, again, the pattern of irrationality in policies for the sake of WS.
As De Gaulle once said about the stock market, I don't look at it, I don't pull my policies out of a basket.
jc says:
Unemployment getting worse, BAC looking for emergency CEO replacement for Ken Lewis who's legal problems with the smelly ML deal seem to be getting worser
Bruce in Tn says:
Retailer's Lament: Halloween Sales Turn Ugly
"Pinched between poor back-to-school sales and a holiday sales season that is anticipated to be the worse in years is Halloween which generally brings retailers about $5 billion. This year will not be as good as last which may be telling when analysts look toward industry sales in November and December.
The Nations Retail Federation says, "consumers are expected to spend an average of $56.31 on Halloween, down from $66.54 in 2008. That is a slide of 15%, and much of the retail industry cannot survive if holiday sales in last quarter are nearly as bad."
…Er, trick or treat…
Mannwich says:
I think beaufout hit the nail on the head here. Most of us know the markets are not reflective of the economy most times (certainly not even remotely close now), but our gov't seems to use it to craft its policies. Everything they do seems designed to prop up our Ponzi markets. I think that's because this is the easiest thing they can do (not best thing, mind you) because they think that confidence will follow a rising market and that confidence will be self-fulfilling and the economy will eventually follow. This may work in the short term, but those terms are getting ever shorter before the bubble mirage is exposed and the damage greater each time. I'm will past the point of anguish on this anymore. Acceptance has set in for me.
Dan Duncan says:
"Such is the result of giving two million primates lots of money and keyboards and a belief they can make a living based on numbers and letters moving around — on a screen, in a futures pit, on an exchange floor, or even under a buttonwood tree."
But what's discussed here isn't [g]ambling? Somehow…it's investing/speculating….
When people discuss [g]ambling, often they talk of The House, ie the [c]asino. When people discuss speculating, they often talk about the banking oligarchy….Yet the notion that CNBC and "Investing" blogs are nothing more than ESPN and a tip sheet blog dressed in an Armani clothing is labeled as blasphemy.
I am definitely looking forward to what Barry has to say about price action and why what's discussed here isn't unadulterated [g]ambling but until then….
In the past year…..if you bought or sold a stock on the basis of it's price action…perhaps you conferred some "important level of support"…or RSI was crossing over 20….or you let one of Singer's annotated charts influence you in any way, shape or form…
Then you [g]ambled. And chances are, the collective record of the [g]amblers on this blog is no better than the bettors on a La$ Vega$ Football Blog.
Again: There's nothing wrong with [g]ambling (unless you can't control yourself, or you somehow fool yourself that what you're doing is somehow not [g]ambling). It's the hypocrisy and the delusion that's most troubling. People here understandably laugh and mock a guy buying NFL picks…but the same people will then turn around and take annotated charts, amorphous support/resistance and Head and Shoulder Tops seriously.
HCF says:
> I think that's because this is the easiest thing they can do (not best thing, mind you) because they think that confidence will follow a rising market and that confidence will be self-fulfilling and the economy will eventually follow.
It's funny to hear politicians and policymakers (rightfully) say incentives are skewed for investment bankers, who get their bonuses based on yearly performance. Hmmm, isn't that the same thing as elected officials? You can promise your constituents the sky, but by the time their children are paying for it dearly 25 years down the line, they won't care because they will be retired, out of office, relaxing on a beach in Tahiti, or dead. Talk about misaligned incentives!
HarryWanger says:
We may hit 10k this week! Glad I still have my large AAPL position. Economy on the mend but market is in its own world right now and will continue to climb. I'm still looking for 11,500 Dow EOY.
Bruce in Tn says:
Me too Harry, gadflies need love too.
Since Halloween is coming you could send some of your profits to Detroit…really unbelievable stuff there now…
Detroit's dead pile up
HCF says:
@ Harry:
>I'm still looking for 11,500 Dow EOY.
Where's the dollar index (DXY) when this happens… 70? 65? 60? In the grand scheme, in real terms, we're treading water at best if that happens.
Mannwich says:
@HCF: Why worry about such "trivialities"? We're in a new bull market and mini-economic boom.
beaufou says:
I have a question for market savvy guys around here.
Wouldn't gold gaining $25 at this time be somewhat paradoxal?
I don't understand this one.
HarryWanger says:
HCF, Mannwich: This is not my comment but I agree with the assessment: "A weak dollar will be an important factor that should help America get through the restructuring of this economy.
It should curtail American spending power abroad (lowering imports) and boost the country's exports, which is a major plus to the nation's income. A weak USD should help bring manufacturing back, and makes American labour more competitive internationally.
dead hobo says:
H Wanker,
Volume is pretty light, meaning this is another tape painting session. It's not real. I know that doesn't matter to you, and you probably don't even understand the concept. Are you really as dumb as you sound or are you a shill for some sales pundit?
HarryWanger says:
beaufou: You would think it would be paradoxical but not in the present climate. All commodities are rising on the dollar falling. Market also rises on the weak dollar. Gold, like equities, is happy with a falling dollar right now so it's not that odd.
HarryWanger says:
dead hobo: I'm not "dumb", I completely understand that the weak dollar is helping equities rise and I'm making money from that, light volume or not. Light volume will take the Dow to 11,500 if the dollar stays weak. I get that and I'm also profiting from it.
beaufou says:
I get that Harry,
but gold is a refuge value, if the recession is over even with a weaken dollar and things are looking bright, why go for a systemic risk commodity.
HarryWanger says:
beaufou: I don't think people are looking at it as a systemic risk commodity in the sense of economic fears but rather moving away from the dollar. At some point does that cause systemic risk? Probably, but that would be a major collapse in the dollar and that won't happen.
mcHAPPY says:
Oh Harry. I thought there was hope for you after all after you comments last week and selling your long posisitons – minus Apple. You even sounded concerned, tuned in to the fact all is not well despite the ticker, weary enough to part with your posistions acquired on the "dips". But here we are again in another classic pump and dump and you are falling for it hook, line, and sinker. Good luck my friend – it turns out you can lead a bull to reality but you can't make him think.
HarryWanger says:
mcHappy: I get it. Really. Forget the economy for a second. I'm just talking about equities right now and the weak dollar is allowing that to move them higher. I watched the psychological chart pattern that was a total setup and bought some long ETFs yesterday at the open.
Here's how it works. In August everyone said September is going to be a terrible month for the market. So everyone dumps on 9/1. 9/2 has a very shallow follow through. Fast forward to end of September. Everyone says October is going to be awful for equities. 10/1, everyone sells. 10/2 shallow follow through. Then boom, it's off to the races again. I get the game. It's pretty easy these days.
HCF says:
The problem with assuming exports will save us is that we IMPORT way more than we export so a weak dollars hurts us more than it helps us. What do we manufacture anyways? Cars, airplanes, corn, and heavy machinery. What do we import? Pretty much everything else…
I'm not saying the dollar goes down forever / market goes up trade can't hit your magical Dow 11,500 level because it certainly can, but when this thing unravels, it's going to get very ugly very quickly.
HarryWanger says:
HCF: If the dollar continues to fall to say the 72 level, where it was in spring of '08, there's a very good chance the market will mirror that move. It that were to happen the Dow could easily go to over 12,500 no problem. I believe the dollar will fall to that level so I'll stick with long positions.
To repeat: This is an easy money making opportunity. Markets go up while dollar goes down. We don't see an end to the dollar falling right? So why wouldn't you play long equities if you know they'll continue upward on a downward dollar?
HCF says:
We're at ~76 on DXY and ~9700 on the…. So to say 72 on the DXY would lead to a 12,500 Dow means that a ~5.5% weakening in the dollar will spurt a 29% gain in stocks. And what's with the upping of your Dow target throughout this thread? I'm sure by the end of the day, you'll be saying that we should let the DXY get down to 60 because that will force the Dow up to 36,000…
HarryWanger says:
I'm not upping my Dow target. I stick with my 11,500 Dow this year. But we're going to see 12,500-13,000 if the dollar reaches those levels again. It's inevitable. And no, I'm not saying let the dollar go to 60, I'm just saying we will certainly go back to 72 at some point, probably in Spring '10 and the Dow will follow it higher. As for this year, I stick with my 11,500 Dow.
HCF says:
Thanks for the clarification on the Dow target. I would say that our principle disagreements at this point are on
1) Why the market is going up – I think it's pure liquidity and momentum at this point, you believe it's at least partially that fundamentals are improving
2) Whether dollar weakness is good – You think it is, I clearly don't…
I still don't see a happy ending to this, but I guess we all dance while the music is playing and Ben and Tiny Tim keep mixing the punch for us…
HarryWanger says:
HCF: I think the dollar weakness is very good to an extent. Clearly if the dollar falls below 70, that's not good for the US. Until then, I'll dance to the music they're playing until they decide to turn the lights on and take the bowl away.
[...] Sometimes the stock market doesn't care what is happening in the real economy. (Big Picture) [...]
Thor says:
Harry – put your money where your mouth is. Tell us what you are in right now besides AAPL
Hey Thor, how's it goin', bud? Would you please do The Great CNBC Sucks a favor and ask cvienne on Andy T's blog (in the current thread on S&P futures) to approve my fantasy football trade from this morning?
I do not want to start commenting on Andy T's blog, because I have ruined Ritholtz's blog already.
HarryWanger says:
Thor: Went long again SSO yesterday at 33 and DDM at 36.80. As I said, once the follow through to the downside didn't happen and the dollar started its decline again, it was an easy position to take.
HarryWanger says:
CNBC: Who is Andy T???
donna says:
Oh, cmon, of course it's gambling. Goldman Sachs is the house, duh.
Andy T is — or was? — a regular poster on Ritholtz. Andy is a really smart guy on the markets, very well respected, a likeable fellow, but the man is very sneaky in fantasy football. Andy snuck off smirking thinking he had made a steal from The Great CNBC Sucks — a FF newbie — in our trade, BUT…that's all I can really say.
I don't know whom I trust less in fantasy football — cvienne or Andy T.
Harry, sorry I can't provide you a link, because all those Ritholtz regulars are now on Andy's blog trying to get away from you.
@ Thor — a little help?
HarryWanger says:
CNBC: Whatever. Thanks for the info. I'll stick with Barry, we seem to be somewhat on the same page.
@ Thor
cvienne and the gang have moved on to the "Silver" thread on Andy's blog, which you probably already know. Can you please help me as I requested at 1:06 PM? I would not request this normally, but the waivers deadline is tonight. Thanks.
Ritholtz, I hope you can hold on better to your regular commenters. It is very awkward to post an off-topic message on one blog to ask a guy to post an off-topic message on another blog.
basinpipes says:
It's been like this for a quite some time now. The stock market doesn't seem to be an indicator for the economy. Unemployment is absolutely horrific right now and the stock market keeps going up. It probably has a lot to do with the cheap money from the Fed – it gives financial institutions more incentive to gamble and speculate.
Thor says:
You're lucky I like you so much CNBC ;-)
LMAO. Thanks so much, Thor! You are a great guy, and a well-traveled one as well. I was impressed by what you wrote about the IOC decision to host the 2016 games in Rio.
@ Harry:
Here's the deal. I have to ask you, why do you post so much on Ritholtz, trying to get everyone convinced things are on the way up? Why would you post on this blog, just because you are on the same page as Ritholtz? I started posting on Ritholtz because the man was / is on CNBC, and I just happen to be The Great CNBC Sucks. I like Ritholtz's blogging style, especially in contrast to my own, but being on the same page as him has never been a priority.
I mean, I get your drift, Harry, and everyone here knows there is no bigger Obama supporter than The Great CNBC Sucks, so I would be glad for everyone to be happy with markets moving up for the next few years. But I really would like to see some of the regulars come back and not be exasperated, frankly by you. Everyone knows Mark E. Hoffer and The Great CNBC Sucks have not always seen eye to eye, but I would be the first to admit — even in my semi-retired status — that this blog starts to lose something when he does not post.
I don't know what all y'all do with this, but a healthy comments section on Ritholtz is a good thing.
constantnormal says:
"Far be it from me to challenge the 2001 economics Nobel prize winner,"
Funny … when Barry announced a little while back he was backing off a little bit in his managed accounts and picking up some short side instruments, I thought this was exactly the point he was making …
"There's a lot of risk going ahead of some big bumps. "
constantnormal says:
I'm certainly not questioning that markets can stay completely separated from the economic realities, and especially where there is a flood of liquidity, with not much of any place to put it (other than gold, which is also booming skyward on irrational inflation fears).
HOWEVER, the great distance between where we are and where we would be if there were any question about the wheels coming off the cart for the US of Bananamerica surely behooves one to not let profits ride too far, periodically taking some profits and maintaining some form of "insurance", whether that be in the form of covered call-writing, short-side instruments, and always sleeping with one eye on the ticker and one hand on the "sell button" (a.k.a. stop-loss orders). In this case "wheels coming off the cart" means Treasury rates increasing and money flowing out of stocks and into the debt markets (or someplace perceived as "safer", like maybe gold).
I don't think that there is any "big risk" at all that "markets have become irrationally exuberant" — that is clearly the case. The question is when will the probability wave form collapse and bring the equities markets back into line with the economy? That is clearly an unknown and unknowable thing. So long as the punch bowl is present, party on, but don't make any long-term plans about your portfolios, because it could all change tomorrow.
There is not a shred of fundamental basis for valuations that we currently see, same as there was not in the dot-com bubble or any of a zillion stock bubbles in the past, other than a sea of liquidity with noplace else to go. And in the domestic US stock market's case, that underlying liquidity rests on the shifting sands of our not-so-strong dollar. If it continues a steady measured decline, with rates near-zero, the equities markets can continue higher.
But if it slides a little too fast and the Powers-That-Be are forced to hike rates (even a teeny bit) in order to stem the slide, then the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Or if some Black Swan — like a sudden war in the MIddle East, a terrorist strike in a major US city, a hurricane storming into NYC and disrupting the financial markets, or an asteroid or earthquake or any of a number of other unexpected "Black Swan" events is visited upon us, the markets do not have the internal strength to take the hit and bounce back — it will be a one-way trip to the bottom.
Hence the case for caution while we party on.
That's how I interpret Stiglitz's concerns.
Bruce in Tn says:
Actually Barry posted Chris Whalen's critique of bank earnings for the 4th quarter, and his reasoning echoes some of the things already on the web. It is worth a look. He opines the rise in equities in the face of tight credit conditions in the economy is actually a bad sign. Liquidity that is available going into things that don't require credit, e.g. equities, means the economy is actually contracting since increased credit is not being used.
All that logical thinking has made me gassy….burp! Escuse me, now I feel better…….
[...] But there have been several instances throughout history when the economy has been awful and earnings were essentially irrelevant, yet stocks still managed to rally, Big Picture blogger Barry Ritholtz notes. [...]
Mark A. Sadowski says:
"I can show you many eras in history when the economy was awful, and nonetheless markets rallied strongly."
And vice versa. Real GDP more than trippled (up by 247.2%) between 1929 and 1964 and yet in inflation adjusted terms the Dow Jones index went up by nada. The real economy needs the market like a cow needs a saddle.
kaleberg says:
The markets seem perfectly rational to me. When there is nothing to invest in, put your money in the stock market. If everyone else does too, you can make money. Only irrational people think that the stock market is somehow tied to the economy.
The purpose of the stock market is to produce prices. That's it. Of course, being able to produce a price is essential for raising capital, but raising capital is a side effect, like the fact that you can buy NYSE coffee mugs or cufflinks. I forget the number, but for every hundred dollars of stock bought and sold, perhaps a few pennies of new capital are raised.
My father started investing in the mid-1930s, and as far as he was concerned it was one of the great bull markets. We baby boomers may be taking a bath, but our children may do just fine. Think of it as a generational transfer of wealth. That should make us feel less guilty about our Social Security checks.
[...] are "Objective Reality" Barry Ritholtz succinctly makes the case for relative strength (without actually using the term relative [...]
Hunter Lewis says:
Returning for a moment to Barry Ritholtz, private investors surely suffer from animal spirits, but so do government figures, notwithstanding Keynes's claim that they make decisions based on "long views" and "collective wisdom." I discuss this further in my new book, Where Keynes Went Wrong. And how can markets operate rationally when governments control key prices such as interest rates and mortgage rates and currencies? Markets need real prices to tell them what is happening. Even Bernanke has this problem: he is trying to follow what is happening in markets but his own actions are making the markets impossible to read.
[...] quote from our commentary yesterday: Finally, the secret of stock markets, revealed: Barry Ritholtz has the answer to the question that Nobelists, professors, economists and soothsayers have been asking for for 300 [...]
[...] noted our current (bullish) posture, along with the reasons for it. Earlier this week, I noted the disconnect between the economy/markets, and I promised to explain my views in greater [...]
[...] noted previously, at times, things like "valuation" or the economy or earnings don't matter [...]
[...] I want to reiterate that I do not believe that this is Mr. Market anticipating a full economic recovery (and I see Mish [...]


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On overview of the regulations with which all of the aviation industry must comply.
On 7 December 1944, the majority of the world's nations became signatories to the "Chicago Convention", the aim of which was to assure the safe, orderly and economic development of air transport. ICAO sets out, in the terms of the convention, the rules, regulations and requirements to which each signatory must adhere.
The Civil Aviation Act 1982 is the UK's means of discharging its ICAO responsibilities. This legislation required the creation of the CAA. The Air Navigation Order (ANO) is the law that empowers us to carry out our duties.
EASA became operational on 28 September 2003. It is an independent legislative body under European law, accountable to the Member States and the European Union institutions. EASA itself is not an ICAO signatory because it does not constitute a State; however, it works closely with ICAO and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with the aim of harmonising standards and promoting best aviation practice worldwide.
The creation of EASA has had a significant impact upon UK Registered aircraft. EASA has assumed responsibility for the type-certification and continued airworthiness of a large number of UK registered aircraft.
During the next few years, the agency will extend its responsibility to aircraft operations, crew licensing and the certification of non-Member State airlines.
The list of specific EASA and non-EASA aircraft types is contained in CAP 747 - "Mandatory Requirements for Airworthiness". CAP 747 also provides a statement of the general categories of aircraft that are excluded from European Regulations and so remain subject to National rules.
Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3922/91 Annex III (EU-OPS)
As of 16 July 2008, EU-OPS applied to all aeroplanes operated by European Community Member States' operators. The EU-OPS requirements apply to all EU operators of aeroplanes flying for the purpose of commercial air transportation. The EU-OPS requirements supersede the ANO in these relevant areas and the objective is to reflect these changes so far as necessary in the ANO. EU-OPS does not apply to helicopters.
The Regulation aims in particular to enhance aviation safety and promote a level playing field in commercial air transportation within the European Union. The Regulation transposes the non-binding Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR-OPS) established by the Joint Aviation Authorities at non-binding inter-authority level into a binding Community legislative act.
Regulation (EC) No. 216/2008, Articles 2 and 4 splits aircraft into those deemed subject to EASA or to National legislation.
Regulation (EC) No. 1702/2003 was developed from JAA JAR 21, and is often referred to as "Part 21". Part 21 Subpart H concerns the approval of Design and Production organisations and procedures for the issue of Certificates of Airworthiness. Subpart I addresses the subject of Noise Certificates, Subpart M deals with repairs etc.Regulation (EC) No. 2042/2003 covers continued airworthiness regulation, continuing airworthiness management organisations, engineer training and licensing and approval of Maintenance Organisations.
CAP 393 - "Air Navigation: The Order and the Regulations"
British Civil Airworthiness Requirements (BCARs)
CAP 393- "Air Navigation: The Order and the Regulations
EU-OPS (Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3922/91 Annex III) sets harmonising rules for commercial air transport by aeroplanes.
JAR-OPS 3 prescribes the requirements applicable to the operation of any civil helicopter for the purpose of commercial air transportation by any operator whose principle place of business is in a JAA Member State.
EASA Implementing Rules will introduce technical requirements for all aircraft involved in commercial and non-commercial operations and will supersede EU-OPS and JAR-OPS 3 by 8 April 2012.
The following presentation was presented by EASA Rulemaking Staff at the Workshop held at Gatwick on 20-21 January 2009:


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Better and Inclusive Neighbourhoods for All on Tenerife Island (Spain)
In January 2012 Tenerife's public authorities, civil society leaders and community representatives launched a civil participation initiative with a view to fostering social cohesion and community bonds in a culturally diverse neighbourhood of El Fraile in the Arona municipality in the South of the Island. The idea was born from the cooperation between the project Juntos en la misma direction (Together in the same direction) and the European initiative Puzzled by Policy conducted by the La Laguna University with the aim to incite urban dwellers to participate in shaping migration policies. The El Fraile neighbourhood was chosen due to its longstanding and vibrant migration history and the need to re-consider its human and cultural diversity as a resource rather than equating it with problems and conflicts. The initiative quickly earned the interest of representatives of the local school, church and the mosque, associations of neighbours, mayors, women or immigrants from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Uruguay and Columbia, as well as public authorities such as the Arona Municipal Council, the Department of External Affairs and the Immigration Observatory of Tenerife.
Between January and June 2012 nine meetings were held in different venues in El Fraile, such as the local mosque, parish, public school, youth house or the premises of community associations. At the very first meeting the participants sketched a map of their neighbourhood in order to identify and facilitate understanding of the existing social actors dealing with integration matters. The attendees also shared their aspirations and concerns regarding living together in El Fraile, its resources and potential development. At subsequent meetings the participants came up with the name for their initiative – El Fraile para todos (El Fraile for all) – and set goals to be achieved. These goals include, for instance, improving the image of the neighbourhood and contributing to its transformation into a leader in diversity management; strengthening partnerships between neighbours and social actors; encouraging the neighbours to participate in cleaning up the area; strengthening social bonds within the neighbourhood; creating a friendly and participatory environment and promoting accessibility by removing language barriers. To achieve these goals, five working groups were established to focus on different thematic areas, such as environment, communication and relations, translation and linguistic exchange, mediation and intergroup cooperation. Each group designed an action plan featuring specific goals. In June the five groups presented their action plans to the Social Participation Board of the Juntos en la misma direction project.
According to Ms Eva Luz Cabrera, Municipal Council for Citizen Participation, the initiative has the full potential to be extended to all other neighbourhoods of the municipality since there is growing demand for similar projects. The first step in this direction is to create citizen working groups which would mainstream their ideas to newly-formed participatory councils. "It is essential to convey the message that each and every person living in the neighbourhood has a crucial role to play to enrich, build and design a place for living together in unity, respect, cleanliness and in compliance with common values. We need to rely on citizen involvement and participation to build more cohesive and sustainable cities".
Christina Baglai


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A guide to Christmas giftsComment on this story
Atlas Mountain Rose gift box R250, The Body Shop. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng
Pen Revolution R290. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng
Go Pro Hero3 R999. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng
French citrine & diamond pendant 5.8carats R13 995. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng
Bell & Ross vintage collection watch R58 000. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng
Hairmonies doll R199. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng
Johannesburg The festive season has arrived and shopping is about to become a nightmare, but regardless of how you feel about it, gifts must be bought. Here's a list of top buys from local stores...
For the adornment aficionado
* Bell & Ross watch – R58 000 (Bellagio Cresta)
This vintage collection watch has a strap made of baseball leather. It ages well as the leather softens and darkens.
* French citrine (5.8 carats) and diamond (0.26 carats) pendant and chain – R13 995 (Bellagio Cresta)
* Nomination's You-Cool bracelets – R699 (Bellagio Cresta)
This gift is great for young adults who want to add colour to their funky outfits but wish their look to remain simple.
For the kids
* Chatimals – R249.90
This cute toy will be lots of fun for both kids and adults. It's been a best-seller for the past three years because of the laughs you get from your furry friend mimicking everything you say.
* Furby – R799
An electronic robotic toy resembling a hamster/owl-like creature.
* Hairmonies doll – R199
This doll sings and plays an instrument while you comb her hair.
* Amazing Band Keyboard – R99
Great for little budding musicians.
* Thundercats Lion-D – R199
* Barbie Tablet – R499.90
Your little ones can now have their own touch-screen tablets to play with and learn from while you are busy with your own (real) tablet.
* Leap Pad Explorer – R1 499.90
* Baltorinas unique babies – R800 to R1 795
For the gadget fiend
* New iMac 21 inch – R13 699.95
* inCarBite iPad mount – R799 to R999.95
This mount is great for keeping back-seat passengers entertained during the drive. It includes a keyboard stand.
* Shox Max – R199 to R219.95
These pocket-size speakers come in all colours to suit different moods.
* Wii U basic pack – R4 119.95; premium pack – R4 599
* Xbox 360 pack – R3 199.90 (Reggies)
This gift pack includes three games and an extra controller.
For the outdoor devotee
* GoPro Hero3 – R999 (Incredible Connection)
The perfect camera with which to capture all your adrenalin-pumping adventures. It has built-in wi-fi and takes quality HD videos.
* Garmin Forerunner 10 – R1 300 (Incredible Connection)
A simple GPS running watch that tracks your steps, your distance and your calories burnt.
For the beauty buff
* Body butter lollipop – R225 (The Body Shop)
This lovely lollipop-shaped gift pack includes five fragrances of body butter.
* Atlas Mountain Rose gift box – R250 (The Body Shop)
In a book-like package, this gift needs no wrapping and the scent will surely make the receiver extremely happy. The luxurious pack includes perfume and body lotion.
* Knomo laptop bags – R600 to R1 000 (Incredible Connection)
These designer laptop bags are also sold at Harrods and come in a number of colours to complement your look and suit your mood.
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Try this easy soda bread recipe for when you want bread in a hurry - it's ready in less than an hour.
Each serving provides 215kcal, 8g protein, 43g carbohydrate (of which 3g sugars), 1g fat (of which 0.3g saturates), 1g fibre and 1g salt.
170g/6oz self-raising wholemeal flour
170g/6oz plain flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
290ml/½ pint buttermilk
Preheat the oven to 400F/200C/Gas 6.
Tip the flours, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a large mixing bowl and stir.
Make a well in the centre and pour in the buttermilk, mixing quickly with a large fork to form a soft dough. (Depending upon the absorbency of the flour, you may need to add a little milk if the dough seems too stiff but it should not be too wet or sticky.)
Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly.
Form into a round and flatten the dough slightly before placing on a lightly floured baking sheet.
Cut a cross on the top and bake for about 30 minutes or until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Cool on a wire rack.
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Lauren Lamping, of McNicholas High School, hits from a bunker on No. 8 during the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division II Girls' Sectional golf tournament held at the Hamilton Elks Golf Club.
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As the crisp morning air turned into a beautiful fall day, Indian Hill's scores improved to secure a victory Monday in the Ohio girls' golf Division II sectional tournament at Hamilton Elks Golf Club.
Junior Pari Keller fired a 79 to anchor the Braves en route to a sectional title and one of four team berths in next week's district tournament.
Indian Hill, ranked second in the Enquirer's Ohio Division II coaches' poll, finished with a team score of 404, which was 27 strokes lower than any other squad. ...


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During the 1970s, a time of intensive de-industrialisation and the transition to an information economy in New York, artists found new ways to use the city. The creative use of abandoned and peripheral spaces intensified, especially in Lower Manhattan, which was becoming a centre of the commercial art world. Action Behind the Margins combines debates, performances pieces and film screenings to reveal a city where public and private spheres intermingle and marginal subjects assert their right to the city.
The inaugural conference, Mixed Use, Manhattan, explores photographs taken in New York from the 1970s on, focusing on contemporary artists like Zoe Leonard (New York, 1961) who engage with the artistic practices of their predecessors, including Peter Hujar (New Jersey, 1934-New York 1987) and his nocturnal photographs taken on Manhattan's West Side in 1976.
Drawing on urban theory, Rosalyn Deutsche and Johanna Burton in Art and Silence in the City question whether the art in Mixed Use, Manhattan really represents resistance to the appropriation of space by private enterprise and the state.
The session entitled History, Memory and Space consists of a dialogue between Juan Antonio Suárez and the artist Matthew Buckingham (Nevada, 1963), looking at some of the central themes in his work: the reading of space through history and history through space, the contrast between official history and subaltern micro-histories and the material embodiment of collective memory.
The city is no longer seen as a geometric extension or field of vision, but as a medium for the distribution of resistance, transitions and actions that often seek to counteract the most oppressive and homogenising inertias of contemporary time. Occupations and Evictions offers a journey through the different ways in which experimental video and film have depicted and intervened in the urban landscape of Manhattan since the 1970s.
In The Spatial Aesthetic of Urban Renovation, Ann Reynolds looks at the relationship between the city and works of art including performance pieces, film and video. All are equally fleeting and open to dematerialization, but they form part of the collective memory of New York, even though the spaces that they represent have ceased to exist.
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Mizzou RB credits renewed faith for return
Mizzou running back Henry Josey credits his faith for his improbable early return.
By BEN FREDERICKSON FS Midwest
COLUMBIA, Mo. — On a morning that marked another milestone in his remarkable return, a soft-spoken Missouri running back explained why he had to lose it all in order to gain much more.
"What I went through was a big lesson in me taking a lot of things for granted," Henry Josey said as he stood in an end zone of a stadium that fell silent when he grabbed his left knee in agony 18 months ago.
Josey will tell you there's a reason his devastating injury happened. He says the loss of football made him find his faith, and he credits that strengthened relationship with God as the reason he's been able to complete a comeback so many said could not occur.
"Believing in God like I needed to be, showing how much I'm in love with Him, showing my faith, it brought it all back," Josey said.
That faith, he says, wasn't always there. Not as a sophomore, when he was the nation's fifth-leading rusher. At that time, football was the most-important thing.
"He took it from me that fast," Josey said. "I almost lost it for the rest of my life. I didn't know how I was going to live without that."
The game he had tied himself to showed its fragile existence the moment he crumpled to the turf during game against Texas on Nov. 12, 2011. Doctors would find a torn patellar tendon, torn anterior cruciate and torn meniscus — along with torn medial collateral ligaments.
What followed, Josey says, was a period of time he describes as a dreamlike state — a span of hours then days in which he felt like he was watching himself from outside his own body. He says he tossed and turned, unable to sleep. His mind constantly raced through one soul-searching question after another.
"Why am I in this position now?" Josey recalls wondering. "Why am I watching everything? Why? Why? Why me? At times, I was like, 'This is not my body. This isn't me. Who am I right now?'"
He said the questions made him analyze his relationship with God — which had weakened as his football success had grown. He began to rehabilitate his faith, along with his knee.
The former helped the latter. It fueled him through tear-filled physical therapy sessions and bolstered his confidence when it came time to walk, then eventually run.
"No one has any idea what this guy had to do," Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said after Josey participated fully in Missouri's first full-contact spring scrimmage Saturday. "He's had three surgeries, and all the things he's done to rehab. And look at him. He doesn't even have a brace on."
Someone asked Josey about a brace.
Why doesn't he wear one?
The junior running back laughed.
"Anytime someone asks me that, I just look up," Josey said. "I tell them, 'God has me.' That's something I rely on so much now."
It appears to be working.
Josey, knees pumping, carried his first handoff 17 yards.


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Stephen Jones on Wade Phillips' job security: 'Only Jerry can comment on that'
Stephen Jones shed no light on his father's thought process regarding head coach Wade Phillips.
Owner Jerry Jones said after Sunday's loss to Jacksonville that he did not in any way want to make a change, but then talked about willing to "do something hard" if it needed to be done. Stephen Jones, the Cowboys chief operating officer, was asked about that quote Monday.
"Only Jerry can comment on that," Stephen said. "I don't have any comment on that."
What about Phillips' contention in his press conference that he and the staff were the root problem because they have not gotten the players to perform up to their talent level.
"I'm sure everyone has their opinion," Stephen said. "I really don't have a response to that.
"I mean, we've just got to play better. The guys are playing hard. I think we are making mistakes, whether it be turnovers or mental errors in the game that cost us plays. Those are things we've got to do better."
Stephen Jones did acknowledge that everyone is frustrated and disappointed and the worst time to make a decision is when you're emotional. He talked about how everyone needed to work harder and show some pride.
"Obviously, this wasn't our plan," Stephen said. "We certainly didn't think this would happen to this team.
"We feel like we've got good players, I think we've good character on this team, guys who football means a lot to them. It's just hard to explain right now.
"But I will say this. I think the same group of guys and staff and everybody is going to work hard. Our goal is to win a football game."


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Congrats to Teacher of Week, Mr. Wes Smith!
It's that time of year again -- time to polish your apples and submit the great educator in your life for STAR's Teacher of the Week!
Mr. Wes Smith, a 5th grade teacher from Seahurst Elementary School, was nominated by his student, Destinee McKinion. STAR 101.5's morning personality Curt Kruse made a surprise visit to Mr. Smith's classroom in Burien last Thursday.
"He keeps the line of communication open with us so we can work together to help Destinee as best we can," says Destinee's grandmother.
Each student received a goodie bag full of prizes from Sound Credit Union, Dairy Farmers of Washington, KOMO 4, and STAR 101.5, while Mr. Smith received a personalized plaque from Issaquah Trophy & Awards, a $100 check, and $100 VISA gift card from Sound Credit Union. She also received a makeover gift card courtesy of Blanc N' Schwartz Salon in Kent.
STAR 101.5's "Teacher of the Week" is a program that allows students to recognize local, deserving teachers for their commitment to quality education.To nominate the great educator in your life, visit our Contests page.
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COLUMBIA A long-delayed project to build a computerized state child support enforcement system was years away from completion when the state sued, then terminated its contract with the vendor, state officials have told GreenvilleOnline.com.
A spokeswoman for the state Department of Social Services said it is unknown how long it will take to finish the project, which was started in 1997 and has racked up more than $100 million in federal penalties because of delays.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the vendor, Hewlett-Packard State and Local Enterprises, a division of HP, said the path the state has chosen by terminating the contract will produce a long and expensive legal battle.
Marilyn Matheus, a DSS spokeswoman, said completion of the project will be quicker since the state is committed to bringing in a team with more experience in domain knowledge.
The state is assessing HPs product to see what parts of the systems can go forward as is, what parts need repair, and what parts need replacement, she said. In the next few months, the state will be able to develop a schedule showing when the systems are likely to be deployed.
State: Deadlines not met
The state terminated the contract earlier this year after accusing HP of failing repeatedly to meet deadlines. The state also has asked that HP be debarred from future state contracts. HP is the third vendor to work on the project.
HP has denied the states allegations and has argued that what the state has done is unlawful and unjustified. HP also has alleged that the state has mismanaged the gigantic project and is responsible for delays, allegations the state has denied.
HP was and still is best positioned to help the state achieve its objective of having a federally certified child support enforcement system in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost to the citizens of South Carolina, said Bill Ritz, an HP spokesman.
The path the state has chosen in terminating HP and engaging in what will be a long and expensive legal battle is necessarily going to delay even further South Carolina having what every other state in the nation has had for years a federally certified child support system.
The dispute now rests in the state procurement office. A procurement officer will hear both sides arguments next month and issue an opinion.
South Carolina remains the only state, officials say, which hasnt installed a computerized child support enforcement system as required by a 1988 federal law. The state Department of Social Services has been leading a team of state agencies on the project since 1997.
'Never felt better'
Ive never felt better about the states ability to finish this project than I do now since we have terminated HP and taken control and a new direction, said DSS Director Lillian Koller.
DSS also alleges that its investigation of the project once HP was fired uncovered serious poor quality problems with many portions of HPs work.
DSS argues that HP has repeatedly missed deadlines on the project.
HP bid a 36-month schedule in 2007 but by November 2008 it asked for an extension, according to the state.
Future negotiations eventually gave HP 73 months to finish but in September 2012, HP was 71.3 percent behind on the system test, the state alleges. In July when HP was terminated, it had completed 54 percent of the system test, the state alleges.
While the state has mentioned that the original contract at issue here was for three years, it fails to point out that the state chose to expand that original contract by more than $40 million and that the deadlines moved as the contract expanded, Ritz said.
He said the system HP helped develop passed 24 of 25 federal test scripts, which is a strong indicator of progress towards achieving federal certification of the system.
The state spent more than 13 years trying to develop a child support system (both with another vendor and on its own) before contracting with a company later acquired by HP, Ritz said. Therefore, the lack of success with this project long predates any involvement by HP.


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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Cimabue: Crucifix
"If a good man strikes or reproves me it is kindness.
Set, O Lord, a guard over my mouth;
keep watch at the door of my lips." Psalm 141 (out of sequence.)
An unedited homily from Don Marco for the Mass of the day, June 20, 2006: (A day late!)
³I say to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those whopersecute you² (Mt 5:44). ³Bless those who curse you, pray for those whoabuse you² (Lk 6:28). These are not suggestions, dear brothers and sisters;they are not pious recommendations. They are clear precepts of Christ:commandments conceived in His merciful Heart and addressed to each of uswithout exception. It is no coincidence that this Gospel passage should be given usat this particular liturgical moment: halfway between the Solemnity of theMost Holy Body and Blood of Christ and that of the Most Sacred Heart ofJesus. One cannot receive the Forgiving Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist andpersist in refusing anyone forgiveness. One cannot approach the PiercedHeart of Jesus and not be drawn into His prayer to the Father from theCross: ³Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do² (Lk 23:34). The prevalent culture of options and of personal choices has allbut rendered us impermeable to the commandments of Our Lord. We prefer tothink of them as suggestions or as ³talking points.² Contemporarysensibilities in the world and, alas, even in the Church, resent theobjective precept, the non-negotiable commandment, the mandate coming fromabove. A combination of the effects of original sin and actual sins ofpride has conditioned us to want to discuss everything, to debateeverything, to argue the value of any law coming from above us or outside ofus. Today in the Gospel Our Lord presents us with just such a commandment.It is not a suggestion. It is not open to discussion. It is not thesubject of debate. It is a divine commandment. In obeying it, we obey God.In neglecting to obey it, we neglect to obey God. Insofar as we consider ourselves disciples of Christ, we arebound to bless those who curse us, to pray for those who speak evil againstus. We are commanded to do good to those who hate us. This good that weare commanded to do is, first of all and above all, prayer. There is no greater force for good than prayer. There is nobetter way to do good to those who hate us than by asking the light of theFace of Christ to envelop them and penetrate them. There is nothing morebeneficial to those who afflict us than confident recourse to the piercedHeart of Jesus. There is no more powerful blessing of those who curse usthan the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered on their behalf. For thosespeak evil against us there is no prayer more powerful than the prayer ofChrist the High Priest who, in every Mass, stands before His Father,pleading and interceding for those who approach God through Him. Mother Church, with her ancient experience of human nature,provides us with the means of obeying this commandment of our Lord. TheRoman Missal contains a Mass specifically for this purpose. It is entitledPro Affligentibus Nos, ³For Those Who Afflict Us.² The title of the Massspeaks volumes. Opening my Latin dictionary to the entry for affligo, I seethat it means to throw down, to afflict, damage, crush, break, ruin; humble,weaken, or vex. If you have ever felt thrown down, if you have ever feltafflicted, damaged, crushed, broken, ruined, humbled, weakened, or vexed,you need to enter wholeheartedly into today¹s Mass Pro Affligentibus Nos. There is a mysterious power in praying for those who have hurtus, in interceding wholeheartedly< for those who have spoken ill of us,< for those who have damaged our reputations,< for those who have incited others to think less of us,< for those who have hurt us emotionally, physically, or spiritually,< for those who have been abusive toward us,< for those who have cursed us,< for those have broken our hearts, betrayed us, or rejected us. Our Lord commands us to pray for them, not only for their sakes,but also for our own. Our own spiritual liberation, our own inner healingfrom resentment, hatred, and lingering bitterness is contingent upon ourpersevering obedience to the commandments of Christ in today¹s Gospel. Prayer for those who afflict us has, at times, immediate andastonishing results. Persons suffering from physical complaints < chronicillnesses, pains, and weaknesses < have been completely healed after prayingsincerely for those with whom they are at enmity. Persons suffering fromemotional illnesses < depression, chronic jealousy, addictive patterns ofbehaviour, and irrational fears < have been liberated from these afterobeying Our Lord¹s commandment to pray for those at the root of theirsuffering. Prayer for those who afflict us sets in motion concentriccircles of reconciliation and healing. In praying for those who have hurtyou, place no limits on the munificence of God. Ask boldly. Beg God tooverwhelm them with His choicest blessings, to make them profoundly andtruly happy in this world and in the next. This kind of prayer, made inobedience to the commandment of the Lord, radiates an invisible butsupremely efficacious love: the very charity of God ³poured into our heartsby the Holy Spirit which He has given us² (Rom 5:5). ³In all these thingswe are more than conquerors through Him who loved us² (Rom 8:37). You may find it helpful as part of your preparation for thefeast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to pray the following prayer offorgiveness and reconciliation, or one like it: Lord Jesus Christ,Who revealed the infinite mercy of Your Sacred Heartin saying: ³Love your enemiesand pray for those who persecute you² (Mt 5:44)and again, ³Bless those who curse you,pray for those who abuse you² (Lk 6:28),give me, I beseech You,grace to obey these commandments of yours,and to persevere in praying dailyfor those who, in any way,have abused, cursed, hurt, or rejected me. I pray for those who hate me,for those who resent meand for those who have spoken ill of me.I beg you to bless them abundantlyand to pour into their heartssuch a profusion of healing merciesthat in them and around themlove will triumph over hatred,friendship over resentment,sweetness over bitterness,meekness over anger,and peace over enmity.I further ask you to extend these gracesto their families and to all whom they hold dear. In particular, I pray today for N. (and N.).I present him/her/themto Your Eucharistic Face,asking You to envelop him/her/them in Its healing radiance,dispelling whatever shadows of sinmay have darkened his/her/their mind(s)or hardened his/her their heart(s)in anger, hatred, or the refusal to forgive. For my part,with deep sorrow I confessthat I have sinned grievously against others,causing them pain and even endangering their souls.I pray you, O Merciful Jesus, to repair the evil I have done to othersand to heal the hurt I have inflicted on them.In particular, I acknowledge my sins against N. (and N.)imploring You to heal and repair the harm I have done him/her/them. I ask you so to penetrate my heartwith the charity of Your Pierced Heartthat I will be able to forgivethose who have offended me,to love them sincerely,and to desire for them all that will contribute to their true happiness inthis life and in the next. By means of a permanent intention,I desire to renew this prayerin every offering of Your Holy Sacrifice.Let the light of Your Eucharistic Faceshine in the hearts of all who harbourhatred or resentment toward me,to bring them healing and peace.Let Your Precious Bloodtriumph over evilin those against whom I have sinnedand in those who have sinned against me,so that, delivered from the shadowsof this valley of tears,we may one day praise Your Mercy togetherin the sweetness of a boundless charity.Amen.
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- Anonymous9:51 PM
Father is correct - how often do we think of the commandments from the Sermon on the Mount as mere admonitions or ideals to try and live up to, rather than implicit commandments. The ten commandments are what we think of as being binding, how dare we think that the words of the very Son of God are not as binding? That they are reserved for those in the religious state, the state of perfection as St. Thomas deemed those who profess the evangelical counsels, and therefore are not incumbent upon us to observe.ReplyDelete
We discount the commandments of Christ and expose our faithlessness when we refuse to accept His word as truth and obey it. "When the Son of Man comes will He find any faith?"
Please comment with charity and avoid ad hominem attacks. I exercise the right to delete comments I find inappropriate. If you use your real name there is a better chance your comment will stay put.