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Nüshu (simplified Chinese: 女书; traditional Chinese: 女書; pinyin: Nǚshū</i> [nỳʂú]; literally: "women's writing"), is a syllabic script, a very different variation of Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China.[1]
The Nüshu script is used to write a distinct local Chinese language known as Xiangnan Tuhua (湘南土話, 'Southern Hunanese Tuhua') that is spoken by the people of the Xiao River and Yongming River region of northern Jiangyong County, Hunan.[2] This dialect, which differs enough from the dialect of other parts of Hunan that it is unintelligible to speakers of that dialect, is known to its speakers as [tifɯə] "Dong language", and it is written only in the Nüshu script.[3] There are differing opinions on the classification of Xiangnan Tuhua, as it has features of several different Chinese languages. Some scholars classify it under Xiang Chinese or Pinghua and other scholars consider it a hybrid dialect.[4] In addition to speaking Tuhua, most local people in Jiangyong are bilingual in the Hunan dialect of Southwestern Mandarin, which they use for communication with people from outside the area where Tuhua is spoken, as well as for some formal occasions.[2][5] If Hunan Southwestern Mandarin is written, then it is always written using standard Chinese characters and not with the Nüshu script.[5]
Jiangyong County has a mixed population of Han Chinese and Yao people, but Nüshu is used only to write the local Chinese dialect (Xiangnan Tuhua, 湘南土話), and there are no known examples of the script being used to write the local Yao language.[6]
In the sex-segregated world of traditional China, girls and women did not have the same access to literacy as boys and men, and most people—male or female—were illiterate. However, throughout China's history there were always women who could read and write, and by late Imperial times[when?], women's poetry became a matter of considerable family pride in elite circles. Reforms of the early 20th century, which popularized education and promulgated a writing style reflective of speech (baihuawen) to replace the arcane literary style (wenyanwen), increased literacy rates for both males and females. It is not known when or how Nüshu came into being, but—because it is clearly based in the standard Chinese script, hanzi—Nüshu could not have been created before standardization of hanzi (circa 900). Many of the simplifications found in Nüshu had been in informal use in standard Chinese since the Song and Yuan dynasty (13th - 14th century). It seems to have reached its peak during the latter part of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911).[7]
Though a local educated worker at the Jiangyong Cultural Office (Zhou Shuoyi) had collected, studied and translated many Nüshu texts into standard Chinese, he was unable to draw outside attention to the script until a report was submitted to the central government on this subject in 1983.[citation needed]
During the latter part of the 20th century, owing more to wider social, cultural and political changes than the narrow fact of greater access to hanzi literacy, younger girls and women stopped learning Nüshu, and it began falling into disuse, as older users died. The script was suppressed by the Japanese during their invasion of China in the 1930s-40s, because they feared that the Chinese could use it to send secret messages.[citation needed], and also during China's Cultural Revolution (1966–76).[8] The last original writers of the script died in the 1990s (the last one in 2004). It is no longer customary for women to learn Nüshu, and literacy in Nüshu is now limited to a few scholars who learned it from the last women who were literate in it. However, after Yang Yueqing made a documentary about Nüshu, the government of the People's Republic of China started to popularize the effort to preserve the increasingly endangered script, and some younger women are beginning to learn it.
Unlike the standard written Chinese, which is logographic (with each character representing a word or part of a word), Nüshu is phonetic, with each of its approximately 600-700 characters representing a syllable. This is about half the number required to represent all the syllables in Tuhua, as tonal distinctions are frequently ignored, making it "the most revolutionary and thorough simplification of Chinese characters ever attempted".[7] Zhou Shuoyi, described as the only male to have mastered the script, compiled a dictionary listing 1,800 variant characters and allographs.[9]
Nüshu characters are an italic variant form of Kaishu Chinese characters,[1] as can be seen in the name of the script, though some have been substantially modified to better fit embroidery patterns. The strokes of the characters are in the form of dots, horizontals, virgules, and arcs.[8] The script is written from top to bottom or, when horizontal, from right to left, as is traditional for Chinese. Also like standard Chinese, vertical lines are truly vertical, while lines crossing them are angled from the perpendicular. Unlike Chinese, Nüshu writers value characters written with very fine, almost threadlike, lines as a mark of fine penmanship.
About half of Nüshu is modified Chinese characters used logographically.[dubious ] In about 100, the entire character is adopted with little change apart from skewing the frame from square to rhomboid, sometimes reversing them (mirror image), and often reducing the number of strokes. Another hundred have been modified in their strokes, but are still easily recognizable, as is nü 'woman' above. About 200 have been greatly modified, but traces of the original Chinese character are still discernible.
The rest of the characters are phonetic. They are either modified characters, as above, or elements extracted from characters. There are used for 130 phonetic values, each used to write on average ten homophonous or nearly homophonous words, though there are allographs as well; women differed on which Chinese character they preferred for a particular phonetic value.[7]
Nüshu works
A large number of the Nüshu works were "third day missives" (三朝书; 三朝書; sānzhāoshū). They were cloth bound booklets created by laotong, "sworn sisters" (结拜姊妹; 結拜姊妹; jiébàizǐmèi) and mothers and given to their counterpart "sworn sisters" or daughters upon their marriage. They wrote down songs in Nüshu, which were delivered on the third day after the young woman's marriage. This way, they expressed their hopes for the happiness of the young woman who had left the village to be married and their sorrow for being parted from her.[10]
Other works, including poems and lyrics, were handwoven into belts and straps, or embroidered onto everyday items and clothing.
Recent yearsYang Huanyi, an inhabitant of Jiangyong county, Hunan province and the last person proficient in this writing system, died on September 20, 2004, age 98.[11][12]
The language and locale have attracted foreign investment building up infrastructure at possible tourist sites and a $209,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to build a Nüshu museum scheduled to open in 2007. However, with the line of transmission now broken, there are fears that the features of the script are being distorted by the effort of marketing it for the tourist industry.
Chinese composer Tan Dun has created a multimedia symphony entitled "Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women" for Harp, Orchestra, and 13 microfilms. Tan Dun spent 5 years conducting field research in Hunan Province, documenting on film the various songs the women use to communicate. Those songs become a 3rd dimension to his symphony, and are projected alongside the orchestra and harp soloist.
Lisa See describes the use of Nüshu among 19th century women in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
Nüshu is currently under proposal[1] for encoding in Unicode, in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, with 385 basic characters from U+1B000 to U+1B180, and 64 allographs from U+1B181 to U+1B1C1.
See also
- Compare with hiragana, a phonetic writing of Japanese used initially exclusively by women, who wrote such major works as The Tale of Genji.
- Láadan, an engineered language created to better express women's modes of expression
- Language and gender
- ^ a b c Proposal text, slides), 2007-9-17
- ^ a b Zhao 2006, p. 162
- ^ Chiang 1995, p. 20
- ^ Zhao 2006, p. 162
- ^ a b Chiang 1995, p. 22
- ^ Zhao 2006, p. 247
- ^ a b c Zhao Liming, "The Women's Script of Jiangyong". In Jie Tao, Bijun Zheng, Shirley L. Mow, eds, Holding up half the sky: Chinese women past, present, and future, Feminist Press, 2004, pp. 39–52. ISBN 978-1-55861-465-9
- ^ a b Additional text - Chapter 12, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, Jeff Connor-Linton and Ralph Fasold, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-84768-1
- ^ "Last inheritress of China's female-specific languages dies". News.xinhuanet.com. 2004-09-23. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ A language by women, for women, Washington Post, Feb 24, 2004
- ^ "Language dies with woman". London: Observer.guardian.co.uk. 2004-09-26. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ Jon Watts (2005-09-22). "Jon Watts, The forbidden tongue, The Guardian 23 September 2005". London: Guardian. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- Zhao, Liming 赵丽明 (2006). Nǚshū yòngzì bǐjiào 女书用字比较 [Comparison of the characters used to write Nüshu] (in Chinese). Zhishi Chanquan Chubanshe. ISBN 978-7-80198-261-2.
- Chiang, William Wei (1995). We two know the script; we have become good friends. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-0013-2.
- Wilt L. Idema. Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women's Script. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). ISBN 9780295988412. Ballads include: Moral tracts -- Admonitions for my daughter; The ten months of pregnancy; The family heirloom; The lazy wife -- Narrative ballads: The tale of third sister; The daughter of the Xiao family; Lady Luo; The Maiden Meng Jiang; The flower seller; The demonic carp; The karmic affinity of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai; Fifth daughter Wang.
External links
- Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women by Tan Dun
- [1] Selections from Writing from the Useless Branch, by Cathy Silber
- Nüshu texts (in Chinese)
- Much ado about Nushu, by Laura Miller, 2004 Invited contribution to the weblog Keywords.oxusnet.net
- World of Nushu: a detailed history of Nüshu and numerous illustrations.
- 6-paragraph article of AncientScripts.com
- Details of Nüshu at Omniglot.com
- A documentary about Nüshu on CCTV website
- An audio interview with journalist and culturalist Lisa See on her research of Nüshu
- The secrets of nu-shu, article by Lisa See
- The forbidden tongue (article in The Guardian)
- Chinese women lost for words (article in The Guardian)
- Simple arrangement of an unidentified Nüshu song in MIDI format (explanatory notes are mid-way down this page)
- Nüshu dictionary


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US Senate candidates hit campaign trail ahead of debate
First debate scheduled March 27
Candidates in Massachusetts special U.S. Senate race hit the campaign trail on Saturday four days before their first debate.
Five candidates are vying to fill the Senate seat recently vacated by Sen. John Kerry.
Republican Michael Sullivan held an open house at his campaign's new headquarters in Weymouth before heading out to knock on doors in a nearby neighborhood, and meeting voters in Brockton.
The former prosecutor said what he's hearing from voters is concern about the country's debt.
"It's the lack of certainty in terms of where our government is heading and the fact of the matter is there's no plan in terms of addressing what is going to be a crushing problem at some point in time," Sullivan said.
Fellow GOP Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez addressed GOP volunteers in Rockland and Worcester. The Former Navy Seal is scheduled to be in Wakefield and Lynnfield on Sunday.
"I think each generation should pass off a better generation for its kids," Gomez said. "And I am concerned that my kids are not going to have the same opportunities I had. So I'd rather go down there and serve and try, rather than just remain on the sidelines and complain."
Republican hopeful Daniel Winslow stumped for votes around Plymouth County.
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On the Democratic side, Congressman Stephen Lynch attended the opening of local campaign offices in Worcester and Dorchester before meeting with voters in Gloucester and Danvers later in the day.
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Let's get the obvious points of comparison out of the way first: "Iron Man 3" is on a par with the original, way better than the lame "Iron Man 2" but nowhere near as good as last summer's "The Avengers," Joss Whedon's gold standard take on Marvel Comic's greatest superhero team.
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Fans of the Iron Man comic books will recognize the storyline that director/writer Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon") and his co-writer Drew Pearce (the upcoming "Pacific Rim") draw on for their script. "Extremis" was a six-book, 2005-06 arc that is widely considered one of the best in the character's long history. Considerable liberties have been taken, but many of the basics are there.
"Iron Man 3" takes place sometime after the "Avengers" throwdown with Loki in New York City, with Tony Stark (Downey) suffering from something close to post-traumatic stress. He's with his lover/long-time assistant, Pepper Potts (Paltrow), but he spends most of his time tinkering with new armored suits while she runs Stark Industries.
In the background, the Mandarin -- a bad guy from the earliest Iron Man comics -- is wreaking havoc around the world with a series of attacks. (Kingsley plays him, delightfully, as a cross between an Afghan warlord and a fire-and-brimstone Southern preacher.) Since things are never quite as simple as they seem, two figures from Stark's past -- brilliant inventor Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) and scientist/former lover Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall) -- pop up unexpectedly. (He's the founder of Advanced Idea Mechanics aka A.I.M., a reference that will trigger an "uh, oh" from devoted comic geeks.)
When the Mandarin launches an attack that nearly kills Stark's friend and security chief Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau, director of the first two films), the battle lines are drawn. The terrorist launches a spectacular full-on helicopter assault on Stark's lavish Malibu home that nearly kills our hero and Potts. But Stark survives and is soon off on a cross-country chase that eventually involves an experimental miracle drug called Extremis, powerful and fiery super soldiers, an attack on Air Force One and a final showdown on the Miami waterfront.
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The tears will be flowing and the tissues flying when The Bold and the Beautiful fans must say goodbye to longtime matriarch Stephanie Forrester later this month. But behind the scenes, the end of actress Susan Flannery's 25-year run on the show was an occasion to celebrate as seen in this newly released behind-the-scenes video from her last days on set in October.
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Set to the tune of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' "Who Loves You," the video shows Flannery getting the surprise of a lifetime when she is led through an elaborate performance featuring cheerleaders, breakdancers — complete with Susan-esque wigs, natch — and lots more performers sporting "Team Stephanie" t-shirts.
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D-backs' all-time Top 5 in-season trades
Will the D-backs swing a deal before the July 31 Trade Deadline? Sometimes it takes years to determine how well a team did in a trade. With the benefit of hindsight, the following are the five most successful trades in franchise history that were conducted during the regular season, according to Steve Gilbert. Agree? Disagree? Comment below:
PHOENIX -- The 2010 season was one the D-backs would just as soon forget. At least when it comes to on the field where they finished last in the National League West for the second straight year.
A pair of Trade Deadline deals the D-backs made that year, though, have helped shape the organization going forward and played a role in their bounce-back season in 2011.
In their short 16-year history, the D-backs also have been buyers several times at the Deadline and two of those deals paid immediate dividends while a third set the stage for the franchise's greatest accomplishment: the 2001 World Series.
Here's a look at the top five in-season trades in D-backs history:
July 26, 2000: D-backs receive RHP Curt Schilling from Phillies for LHP Omar Daal, RHP Nelson Figueroa, 1B Travis Lee and RHP Vicente Padilla.
Despite the trade, the D-backs still did not win the NL West in 2000, but the acquisition of Schilling would pay off in a big way in 2001 as he would win 22 games for the D-backs and be named co-MVP of the World Series.
Schilling, who along with Randy Johnson formed one of the best one-two starting combos in history, also helped the D-backs win the NL West in 2002 when he won a career-high 23 games.
July 25, 2010: D-backs receive LHP Joe Saunders, LHP Patrick Corbin, LHP Tyler Skaggs and RHP Rafael Rodriguez from Angels for RHP Dan Haren.
The D-backs were in the midst of a dismal season, but this trade would help set up their rotation for the next several years.
Arizona was able to cut its payroll by dealing Haren's contract. Saunders would help them win the NL West in 2011 and was a solid contributor in the rotation. Corbin made his big league debut in 2012 and has become the staff ace in 2013. Skaggs, who technically was the player to be named later in the deal, is 2-1 in five starts for the D-backs this season and has been ranked among the organization's top prospects.
July 8, 1999: D-backs received RHP Matt Mantei from Marlins for RHP Vladimir Nunez, RHP Brad Penny and OF Abraham Nunez.
The D-backs had made a splash in the free-agent market prior to the season but were still lacking a closer. Mantei came in and saved 22 games for Arizona and helped the D-backs win 100 games in just their second season of existence.
Mantei battled injury issues the rest of his career, but he did spend six years with the D-backs and compiled 74 saves for them.
Aug. 23, 2011: D-backs received 2B Aaron Hill and SS John McDonald from Blue Jays for 2B Kelly Johnson.
The D-backs were hanging onto a narrow lead in the NL West when they acquired Hill and McDonald. While McDonald provided above-average defense at short, Hill had an immediate impact at the plate.
Hill had an .878 on-base plus slugging for the D-backs, who won the division, and then in 2012 he followed that up with an .882 OPS while winning the Silver Slugger Award at second base.
Hill was definitely not just a rental player either as he was signed to a two-year contract after the 2011 season and then another extension prior to the start of Spring Training in 2013.
July 30, 2010: D-backs received RHP Daniel Hudson and LHP David Holmberg from White Sox for RHP Edwin Jackson.
Mired in a last-place season, the D-backs jettisoned Jackson's contract and got two quality young pitchers in return. Hudson pitched well the final few months of 2010 and he was 16-12 with a 3.49 ERA in 2011 to help the D-backs make the postseason.
Holmberg is still working his way through the Arizona system but is regarded as one of their top pitching prospects.


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I'm tackling the 2012 cyclocross season missing some pieces. Check out the photo below. Can you spot what I'm talking about? (It's not my mental "marbles"…well maybe it is!)
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Did you catch it? No? Click here for another clue (look at the drivetrains).
Still don't see it? No worries. I'll share it with you: I converted my trusty Cannondale SuperX into a single speed. How? I used a Beer Components EBB30, SRAM Red GXP Crankset, SRAM Single Speed Levers and tubeless wheels by Stan's NoTubes. Cockpit was compliments of Zipp Service Course (non SL). *More bike stats at bottom.
Why? What's the big deal? Riding the singlespeed is silly fun and I thrive on new challenges. *It's also because I'm part of a crew assembling something for 2013.
My next singlespeed adventure will likely be THE IRON CROSS.
*Credit to Johnny Walrod (who now lives in Portland, OR) for introducing me to SSCX back in 2004. I've been a fan ever since and had DreesensBicycles build me a sweet rig soon after.
*I ran Schwalbe Sammy Slicks with slightly higher than my norm tire pressure's at 30 psi rear and 28 front. Nittany CX weekend conditions were bone dry and fast so the higher pressure was required. I currently weigh 165lbs. Bike weight as pictured: 16.03lbs.
*Saturday gear 42×16 and it felt too big. Got bogged in the tight stuff. Sunday gearing 42×18, perfect for the course, my current fitness and weather conditions.
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MOVIE REVIEW- Pass the plate: Putting the $ back in Chri$tma$
In the 21st century there's no point putting Christ back in Christmas unless you can make a buck doing it. I'm sorry if I sound cynical, but if you believe The Nativity Story was made for purely religious reasons, I have some stock in Jim Bakker's Heritage USA park to sell you.
Whatever the motivation, The Nativity Story is a reverent, decently made illustrated Sunday school lesson. Obviously inspired by The Passion of the Christ, it opens on the most violent scene, the slaughter of the innocents (kept safely PG by not showing frightened babies and sword-wielding men in the same shot), before flashing back a year to begin the story.
Later there's an unintentionally amusing attempt to spice up the dull hundred-mile journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem. While they're crossing a river, a snake startles a donkey and throws Mary on her– er, off her ass.
Mostly it's an extended version of the story that's usually the prologue in movies that can't wait to get to the hunky Jesus, aged 30, beginning his ministry.
A white-robed, translucent angel (Alexander Siddig), who comes and goes in the form of a bird, delivers most of the good news; but Zechariah (Stanley Townsend) hears from God personally that his past-childbearing-age wife, Elizabeth (Shohreh Aghdashloo), will bear him a son. The child will be named John and will act as advance man for the coming Messiah.
We meet Mary (Keisha Castle-Hughes), a virginal teenager, toiling in the fields on her father's (Shaun Toub) farm. King Herod (Ciar'n Hinds), who has reigned for 35 years, is demanding unfair taxes, taking children and livestock from people who don't have money.
Before Herod can take Mary, her father gives her in marriage to Joseph (Oscar Isaac), with the understanding they won't live together or fool around for a year. Cue the Angel with the "Good News," which makes things a little awkward (but again, within PG boundaries) for the girl. She arranges to spend the summer with Elizabeth, her cousin, and is visibly pregnant when she returns home. The Angel comes to Joseph in a dream to tell him everything's cool.
The people's hopes have been kept alive for years by prophecies of a messiah. The stories of "a man of power, a man the people will follow" are making Herod nervous. Meanwhile in Persia, the Magi are planning a trip. Balthasar (Eriq Ebouaney), the astronomer, foretells a planetary convergence which could signal the birth of the Messiah. Melchior (Nadim Sawalha) insists they go and persuades cranky old Gaspar (Stefan Kalipha) to join them. Herod notes their arrival and invites them to the palace to pump them for information, then orders that they be followed.
This apparently doesn't happen. A heavenly spotlight shining on the manger where Mary gives birth attracts the Magi and an assortment of local shepherds but no soldiers. As the film returns to its opening sequence, the Angel tells Joseph and Mary to get out of Dodge (I'm paraphrasing), so Jesus escapes the killing of all male children under two. Cue the orchestra, which plays "Silent Night" almost 1,800 years before it's written. (The opening theme is "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," but at least it's sung in Latin.) A couple of other carols creep in, but mostly Mychael Danna's score sounds reasonably ancient, i.e., no hip-hop.
A subplot about Herod suspecting his son of plotting rebellion goes nowhere. Most of Mike Rich's script is by the Book, leaving the actors, under Catherine Hardwicke's direction, to flesh out the characters. This they do reasonably well. They also create a cohesive community, considering that the leads are from New Zealand (Castle-Hughes) and Guatemala (Isaac).
Somewhere between a megachurch pageant and a sword-and-sandal epic (with the emphasis on the sandals), The Nativity Story isn't likely to be an award contender, but it's one of the better options for those who complain of there being no movies for God-fearin' families to see.


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Some independent advisors undoubtedly are following with interest the current debate between the Department of Labor and the securities industry over a fiduciary standard for IRA advisors. If you're not, you should—it's providing a sneak preview (a pre-season game, if you will) of the arguments that will be made whenever the SEC gets around to issuing its own fiduciary standard for retail brokers.
An illuminating example of this was reported on AdvisorOne August 31 by John Sullivan in "Fiduciary Backers Renew Critique of Oliver Wyman Study," which detailed Wall Street's latest attempt to show why brokers acting in pension investors' best interest would drive up costs, reduce access to advice, contribute to world hunger, climate change and cause widespread impotence (at least among brokers).
But despite the seemingly skewed findings of the Wyman Study—including investor cost increases of up to 195%, and preventing 7.2 million Americans from having access to IRAs—it and the ensuing debate over the Study's veracity, touch on the central issue of retail advisory regulation: Consumer protection vs. freedom of choice. And at the center of this perennial conundrum is the cost of advice.
Given our current sound-bite culture, I suppose we really can't blame the financial industry for its dogged focus on consumer costs (although I still do): the overly simple fact is that on the surface, at least, getting "free" advice is always cheaper than paying for advice. But what neither side of the fiduciary debate seems to be interested in talking about is why. I guess it's also not fair to criticize fiduciary advocates for failing to address this point: It involves exactly the kind of complex explanation that causes the modern consumer's (or voter's) eyes to glaze over and change the channel back to "Survivor."
In this case, Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, is quoted criticizing the Wyman Study this way: "Part of it is just the opacity of what they are doing. They released the study, and then refused to release the underlying data for further scrutiny." Wyman, of course, responds that they did in fact release the underlying data, and most observers are left scratching their heads over a "confusing" he said/she said (literally) standoff.
The real answer should be something like this: "Of course non-fiduciary 'advice' is cheaper: it's being paid for by brokerage firms and/or investment companies." The real question why is this allowed to be characterized as "financial advice" delivered by "financial advisors?" Are we really protecting investment consumers by allowing salespeople (not that there's anything wrong with that) to masquerade as advisors?
Which brings us to the freedom of choice issue. Should investors, including retirement investors, be allowed to hire brokers to execute their transactions? Of course. There's a large and growing portion of the investing public, driving in part by the Internet and the proliferation of high-tech investing tools, who want to manage their own portfolios. To them, I say go for it: someone's got to be on the other side of all those profitable transactions. With the caveat that they know exactly what they are getting, and not getting, for their commissions and trading costs.
This should be the point that independent advisors and other proponents of a universal fiduciary standard drive home: There are two parts to every transaction—the costs, and the products or the services one gets in return. The brokerage industry only wants to talk about the surface costs. It's time we started talking about what financial consumers are giving up in return for their "free" advice. I suspect that if most people understood the financial conflicts of interest and lack of someone advising in their best interest they'd think twice about that "free lunch"—and our representatives in Washington would be a lot less likely to only focus on the costs.


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The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ
BY Rev. Andrew Murray
Chapter 24 Grieving the Spirit
"Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption" kjv@Ephesians:4:30.
It is by the Holy Spirit that the child of God is sealed, separated, stamped, and marked as the possession of God. This sealing is not a dead or external action that is finished once and for all. It is a living process, which has power in the soul, and gives a firm assurance of faith, only when it is experienced through the life of the Spirit in us. Because of this, we are to take great care not to grieve the Holy Spirit. In Him alone can you have the joyful certainty and the full blessing of your childship every day.1 It is the very same Spirit who leads us and witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.
How can anyone grieve the Spirit? Above all, by yielding to sin. He is the Holy Spirit, given to sanctify us, and--for every sin from which the blood cleanses us--to fill us with the holy life of God, with God Himself. Sin grieves Him.2 For this reason, the Word of God names the sins which, above all, we are to guard against. Notice the four great sins which Paul mentions in connection with our text.
The first is lying. There is no single sin in the Bible that is so brought into connection with the devil as lying. Lying is from hell, and it goes back to hell. God is the God of truth. And the Holy Spirit cannot possibly carry forward His blessed working in a man or woman who lies, who is insincere, who does injury to the truth. Young Christian, review with care what the Word of God says about lying and liars. Pray God that you may never speak anything but the literal truth. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God.3
Then there is anger. "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you" ( kjv@Ephesians:4:31). Along with lying, the most common sin which keeps the Christian from increasing in grace is the sin of temper--hastiness, the proneness to anger.4 Christian, let all ill-temperedness be put away from you. This follows from the command not to grieve the Spirit. Believe that the Holy Spirit, the great power of God, is in you. Surrender yourself every day to His indwelling in faith that Jesus can keep you by Him. He will make and keep you gentle. Yes, believe in the power of the Father, the power of Jesus, and the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome temper.5 Confess the sin. God will cleanse you from it. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God.
Then there is stealing. This is all sin against the property or possession of my neighbour, and all deception and dishonesty in trade, in which I wrong my neighbour and seek my own advantage at his cost. Christ's law is love which works to the advantage of my neighbour as well as myself. The love of money and property--inseparable from self-seeking--is incompatible with the leading of the Holy Spirit. The Christian must be a man who is known to be honest, righteous, and who loves his neighbour as himself.6
Then the apostle says, "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" ( kjv@Ephesians:4:29). Even the tongue of God's child belongs to his Lord. He must be known by his manner of speech. By his speaking, he can grieve or please the Spirit. The sanctified tongue is a blessing not only to his neighbour, but to the speaker himself. Foul talk, idle words, foolish jests--they grieve the Holy Spirit. They make it impossible for the Spirit to sanctify, to comfort, and to fill the heart with the love of God.7
Young Christian, please do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by these or other sins. If you have committed such sins, confess them, and God will cleanse you from them. By the Holy Spirit you are sealed. If you want to walk in the stability and joy of faith, listen to the word, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God."
Lord God, my Father in heaven, I pray that you would cause me to understand what marvellous grace You are manifesting to me, giving me Your Holy Spirit in my heart. Lord, let this faith be the argument and the power for cleansing me from every sin. Holy Jesus, sanctify me, that in my thinking, speaking, acting--in all things--Your image may appear. Amen.
Footnotes1) (Childship--a word used by the author to express the relationship of a child. Childhood expresses the state of a child rather than the relationship.) 2) ( kjv@Isaiah:53:10 kjv@Acts:7:51 kjv@Hebrews:10:29) 3) ( kjv@Psalms:5:6 kjv@Proverbs:12:22 kjv@Proverbs:21:28 kjv@John:8:44 kjv@Revelation:21:8 kjv@Revelation:21:27 kjv@Revelation:22:15) 4) ( kjv@Matthew:5:22 kjv@1Corinthians:1:10-11 kjv@1Corinthians:3:3 kjv@1Corinthians:13:1-3 kjv@Galatians:5:5 kjv@Galatians:5:15 kjv@Galatians:5:21 kjv@Galatians:5:26 kjv@Colossians:3:8 kjv@Colossians:3:12 kjv@1Thessalonians:5:l5 kjv@James:3:14) 5) ( kjv@Matthew:11:29 kjv@1Corinthians:6:19-20 kjv@Galatians:6:1 kjv@Ephesians:2:16-17 kjv@Colossians:1:8 kjv@2Timothy:1:12) 6) ( kjv@Luke:6:31 kjv@Romans:13:10 kjv@1Thessalonians:4:6) 7) ( kjv@Proverbs:10:19-21 kjv@Proverbs:10:31 kjv@Proverbs:18:20 kjv@Ecclesiastes:5:1-2 kjv@Matthew:12:36 kjv@Ephesians:5:4 kjv@James:3:9-10) Notes
1. The thought of the Christian about this word, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit," is a test of whether or not he understands the life of faith. For some it is a word of terror and fear. A father once brought his child to a train to go on a journey with the new governess with whom she was to remain. Before her departure he said, "I hear that she is very sensitive and takes things amiss. Take care that you do nothing to grieve her." The poor child did not have a pleasant journey. It appeared to her very grievous to be in anxious fear of one who was so prone to take everything amiss. Many have this same view of the Holy Spirit. They think that He is a Being whom it is difficult to satisfy, who thinks little of our weakness, and who, even though we take pains, is discontented when our work is not perfect.
2. Another father also brought his daughter to a train to go on a journey, and to be a time away from home, but in the company of her mother whom she loved very deeply. "You are to be a good child," said the father, "and do everything to please your mother. Otherwise you will grieve her and me." "Oh, certainly Papa!" was the joyful answer of the child. For she felt happy to be with her mother and was willing to do her utmost to be agreeable to her.
3. These are children of God to whom the Holy Spirit is so well-known in His tender, helpful love as the Comforter and the good Spirit--that the word, "Grieve not the Spirit of God," has for them a gentle and encouraging power. May our fear to grieve Him always be the tender, childlike fear of trustful love.
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ANAHEIM – I got my work in today, sitting out the final game of my suspension, and afterward at my locker I was telling the writers that I was serving out my sentence and had 24 hours to go before my release. I told them the first thing I was going to do was call my wife, then get a hamburger. They thought it was pretty funny.
The truth is, it's been no fun at all sitting around watching my teammates bust their tails on TV, not being able to do anything. I'm a player, and not playing hurts as much as any injury. I never got used to it last year when I injured my groin running into walls and had to miss a chunk of the season. I'll never get used to not playing until I'm retired, and that's a long way off, I hope.
I told the media it's probably a little blessing in disguise, giving me a little break, but I don't ever like watching my team play knowing I could be doing something to help us win. I hate what happened in Detroit, the whole incident. I'm still frustrated, upset about that. I was heated, and I don't like to be like that. But I have to let it go and move forward now, try not to think about it.
I've been asked a lot about making the move to right field to make room for young Peter Bourjos coming up to play center. The truth is, they didn't come to me and say, "You've got to go to right field.' They told me it was up to me. I had to think about it. I decided that if it made the team better, I was all for it. I had to think about the big picture, the long haul, and this could prolong my career, keep me on the field more. And that's a good thing for everybody, I feel.
Bourjos is straight speed. That young man can fly. Watching him on the road trip run down some balls, even go after ones he didn't get to, I was like, "Wow. That's impressive." As we play together more, I'll know his range, what he can get to, and let him have it.
Right field is not center field. Center field is fun; you've got a lot of power out there. It's a power trip, really. You can call off infielders, the left fielder, the right fielder. Anything you can get to, it's yours. It's not easy to give up something you love, whatever it is, and this isn't easy for me. But if it makes the Angels better and helps us win, I'm all for it.
I've won nine Rawlings Gold Gloves and a Silver Slugger, but I've never won a World Series championship ring. That's what we're all playing for, and I'll do whatever I can to help move us in that direction.
The toughest part of playing right field so far has been playing the corner. It's a totally different look in right, with a lot of top-spin on the ball, hook and spin. When the ball's hopping around in that corner, you're thinking, "What are you going to give up, a double or a triple?" It's something new for me to learn, and that's a good thing. A guy told me a long time ago that once you think you've got it all figured out, your career's over. I've got more to learn, so I've got some time left.
Mike Scioscia came over after the media guys left, and we talked for a while. He played against the guy who made me want to be a baseball player, Andre Dawson, and we talked about how he made the transition from center to right and actually became a more productive hitter. It was easier on his legs, and as a hitter, everything starts there. I see that as a good sign. I think I'm getting better all the time as a hitter, and I'm looking forward to seeing where this takes me – and our team.
There's a lot of season left, and I'm ready to get back out there and bang some balls around and have some fun.
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I understood your frustrations and your passion as well. The Angels are playing well at the moment so hopefully you come back and help them do even better :). It's important to finish strong in my opinion regardless of the standings. Though things aren't looking that great I thank you for your diligence and faith!
Peter Bourjos is a thrill to watch! That speed is incredible I definitely agree 🙂 To move from center like that takes great humility and you easily could have made it about you instead you gave a rookie a chance. So thank you for that!
Best of luck the rest of the season! GO ANGELS! 🙂
We've missed you, Torii!
I'm sorry about what happened in Detroit. But, maybe you're right. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
Good luck in right field. I hope it works out for the best!
Torri, We love you I don't care where you are playing, it's just important to us that you are out there on the field, we know you may have some adjustments but you will get the job done, it's only in your nature. You are a true Angel and we are all behind you 1000%.
Hi Torii,
You have such a great attitude and that attitude is a wonderful example for all walks of life. Torii, use what ever God given gifts you have to reap the harvest. Rev.14:15 says: Then another angel cried out in a loud voice to the one who was sitting on the cloud, "Use your sickle and reap the harvest, because the time has come; the earth is ripe for the harvest."
Torii!! We miss you up here in Minny! I'm a huge baseball fan and ever since I can remember you've been my fav player. I'm 16 y/o so I got to watch you a ton when you were with the Twins! You've been very impressive w/ LAA. Keep it up!
Mr Hunter I am a jays fan and have a blog I talk about everything jays, sometimes I ask people about jays players. If you would be so kind please go to http://bluejaysblog.myblogsite.com/ and make a comment about what it is like to play against them thanks a lot. ps if you like my blog please show it to you friends thanks
Torii, you're a class act and true team player! I love watching you play because, in addition to being amazing, it's obvious how much you love the game. I am sure you will make right field as much your own as center field was and I look forward to watching more gold glove caliber plays in this latest evolution of the Angels outfield. Go Angels!
Ive always been and always will be a huge torri hunter fan regardless of who where or who hes playing for. i think youre a great baseball player and an even better guy and just lost youre temper on a bad call
I am a huge torii fan and always will be regardless of where or who he plays for. i believe he is a great player and an even better guy. he just lost his temper on a terrible call.
Hey, Torri its great to see your doing well here in LA just like i knew u would..Ur the player i always imagined u would be..I dont go to any Angels games because im a Dodger fan but of course bro Your my favorite player..Hall of Fame bound I know ur family is proud of u, i am..! i jus wish i was there playn beside u making it happen, but that wasnt the lords will for me…Im not mad tho, im living my life doing me its jus wonderfull to kno sum i knew is winning in this world..! Your a true hero in my book u always have been since the day we met in Rookie ball,,ur a positive story an an inspiration to all..Only great things come from my mouth about u..( i still believe u could have been a better hitter) non the less ur the greatest….and if u get a chance to read this tell the famoly i says hello and there in my prayes…ur lost but not forgotten ol pal….Leon Weathersby…..


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Yet the inexorable rise in inequality over the last 20-30 years is winnowing out the middle in many economies, and tensions are rising around the globe. From the revolutionaries of the Arab Spring, to the protestors setting up camp on Wall Street, it is hard to ignore the voices of those who feel they have been deprived the gains of growth.
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Some economists have argued that the shrinking middle is not all bad news, if more families are moving up the ladder than down. Yet polarisation of the workforce and growing inequality as the rich get much richer nonetheless raises urgent questions for policymakers, particularly as they struggle to stimulate growth. The issues are as pressing for developing countries such as China and India where, despite a rapidly growing middle class, inequality has also been on the rise.
William Easterly, the US economist, writing for the World Bank in 2001 found that middle income share affects all indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality and health outcomes. A middle class consensus is also good for democracy, he argues, with research showing that a rise in middle class share has a clear impact on development of political rights. Elite dominated societies, he adds, will also invest less in human and infrastructure capital for the majority because of "fear of empowering groups outside [its] own class".
The middle class is a constituency that policymakers ignore at their peril. The key will be to ensure that the traditional aspirations of the middle class—a job, education for their children and a secure retirement—are not rendered futile as governments seek to control public spending while boosting growth. That, of course, means pursuing job creation policies. But in a world where technology has ruthlessly culled middle income opportunities, policymakers will also have to ensure that the skill sets of the middle class match the needs of employers, which means prioritising education above almost all else. Focusing on lifelong learning and skills enhancement must be a priority, as the wage premium for education has clearly grown.
It is also notable that the Resolution Group study found that countries with the greatest disconnect between growth in the economy and median wages were those where unions and collective bargaining were weakest. Encouraging a working dialogue between labour and employers could help to stem in inequality.
Finally, policymakers must do more to halt the accumulation by an extreme minority of an ever greater share of their nation's wealth. This means doing more to rein in the culture of excessive bonuses that has flourished in recent years. Progressive fiscal policies will also ensure that the burden of maintaining public services such as health and education—which have the greatest effect on income inequality and relative poverty—are more fairly shared. This will not only bolster the middle class but benefit the poorest as well.
As Aristotle said more than two millennia ago, no government should be content with a nation "of masters and slaves, the one despising, the other envying". Everyone's interests are best served when the population has a healthy middle class. "This is the class of citizens which is most secure in a state … and as they neither plot against others, nor are themselves plotted against, they pass through life safely."
OECD (2011), Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising, OECD Publishing.
See also:
OECD (2008), Growing Unequal?: Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, OECD Publishing.
Britain's Resolution Foundation
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