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We know that compliance with CPAP therapy is notoriously bad. Some studies show compliance rates as low as 20% for CPAP therapy. Now it seems that even if patients are meeting the standard for compliance according to the technical definition, it's not enough to help with important metabolic effects of sleep apnea, such as diabetes.
REM vs. NREM Sleep Apnea
Researchers from the University of Chicago looked at whether sleep apnea disturbances during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more important for regulation of diabetes than disturbances during non-REM (NREM) sleep.
It turns out that sleep apnea events occurring during REM sleep cause more metabolic disturbance than those that occur during NREM sleep. Researchers measured the hemoglobin A1C levels in patients and compared it to the amount of sleep disturbance people experienced during REM sleep. Hemoglobin A1C, or glycated hemoglobin, is a measure of glycemic levels that gives an overall estimate of a person's average blood sugar over the previous three or four months.
Results showed that apneic events during REM sleep were independently correlated with higher hemoglobin A1C levels. People with the lowest level of sleep disturbance during REM sleep had a hemoglobin A1C score of 6.3%, while those with the highest level had a score of 7.3%.
Why CPAP May Not Be Effective
The problem with sleep apnea is that even when people comply with treatment, they typically are only getting four hours of CPAP a night, which means they're being treated during the first part of the night, but not the second. However, REM sleep occurs predominantly in the second half of the night, meaning that most people miss out on the benefits of CPAP treatment when they need it most.
In this study, researchers estimated that four hours of CPAP treatment would only cover 40% of REM events, while improving the compliance measurement to seven hours of CPAP would cover a full 85% of REM sleep, resulting in significantly improved hemoglobin A1C levels.
The Importance of REM Sleep
This study analyzed the effectiveness of CPAP for treatment of REM sleep disturbances for diabetes control, but disturbing REM sleep may have many other potential impacts, including:
Interference with brain development
Depletion of brain resources
Memory problems
Increased anxiety
Cognitive disorders
In order to effectively avoid these problems, we need to target sleep apnea events during both NREM and REM sleep.
There Is an Alternative
Fortunately, there are more treatment options than just CPAP for sleep apnea. Oral appliance therapy may work better for some people who do not get good results from CPAP.
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Shabbat at the Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan is a very special experience. There is something for everyone, including meaningful prayer services, supervised group activities for children as well as special children's services, divrei torah (sermons) by Rabbi Glogower, shiurim (classes), and kiddush. We also hold luncheons on various holidays, to which the entire community is always invited.
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It can come as a nasty shock towards the end of a lease when the landlord requires extensive work from the tenant to remedy damage or disrepair or to put the premises back to its original state if the tenant has made internal alterations. If the tenant does not carry out this work, he or she may be required to pay the cost of having it done.
As a tenant you may be able to challenge the landlord's list of required repair work, referred to as a schedule of dilapidations. To be in a strong position to mount a challenge you need to consider the dilapidations question right at the outset, with the help of your chartered surveyor, before you sign a lease.
What are dilapidations?
The term is normally used to cover defects and disrepair which you as tenant will be required to deal with or pay to have remedied when you vacate the premises that you have leased.
When do I need to start thinking about dilapidations?
Before you take a lease. A survey will establish the condition of the premises, giving an indication of work that may be needed, both immediately and later. If the premises are already in bad repair, special considerations apply (see below). During the term of the lease, regular or planned maintenance can avoid greater expense later. It is usually a good idea to record the condition and layout of the premises before you occupy.
What if the premises are in a poor state at the outset?
Most commercial leases require the tenant to put and keep the property in repair. Unless you and the landlord specifically agree otherwise, the fact that the premises were in a poor condition when you took them on is largely irrelevant. You still have to put them right. So negotiate for a lower premium or a lower rent to compensate for costs that you face.
Alternatively, persuade the landlord to agree that the premises be returned at the end of the lease in a condition similar to the state in which you took them. In this case, after you have had the premises surveyed, make sure that their condition is established, recorded and attached to the lease as a 'schedule of condition'. Ensure that your solicitor varies the lease clauses to reflect the reduced obligations.
When is the landlord likely to submit a dilapidations claim?
Generally speaking, landlords do not serve dilapidations claims earlier than three years before the end of the lease. If you, as tenant, have a statutory right to a new lease, the landlord probably will not serve a dilapidations claim unless or until you indicate that you are unlikely to renew your lease.
What is the position on alterations I have made?
This depends on the terms of the lease and any licences that the landlord granted you to make alterations. On granting consent for alterations the landlord probably required that at the end of the lease you restore the property to its original state if requested to do so.
Therefore, unless the landlord thinks your alterations have added value, you will probably be required to reinstate the property at the end of the lease or pay the cost. The exception is if neither the lease nor the licence for alterations gives the landlord the option of requesting reinstatement.
Do I have to accept the landlord's dilapidations claim in full?
No, do not accept it without taking professional advice. A chartered surveyor may be able to reduce the figures and / or demonstrate that certain items should not have been claimed.
The landlord may not in fact intend to repair the property; he or she might plan to demolish or alter. In these circumstances you would have a good defence in law to the claim because landlords should not claim for more than they have actually lost.
What if I cannot reach a compromise with the landlord?
If you cannot reach agreement, the landlord has recourse to the court, but this is a slow process and expensive for both sides. Landlords and tenants will generally avoid it if they can.
Consult your solicitor as well as your chartered surveyor if things look like they are taking this course – in a court hearing your chartered surveyor will be able to act as an expert witness on your behalf.
Alternatively, disputes can be resolved by mediation, expert determination or arbitration. The RICS has a list of accredited experts and arbitrators who can be appointed by both landlord and tenant to resolve the dispute.
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Mother Nature is dragging her heels but our Spring cleaning is done and
The Cedars House has reopened!
Please take notice of our new Sunday hours!
We encourage everyone to #OptOutside and enjoy all the Wissahickon Trail has to offer!
Although the Park Curfew has been lifted and the ice and snow is melting, there are a few safety precautions we ask hikers and walkers to consider on the trails.
Dress Warmly
It's better to dress in layers than one bulky overcoat. One large, heavy coat can hold in moisture and will cause your inner clothing to become damp with perspiration during your hike. By dressing in layers, you can remove clothing as needed and carry in a pack. Warm weather is coming soon, but for now you're good with three layers:
- Undergarments: should be snug against your skin and made of non-absorbent material. Cotton is less preferable as it holds moisture close to your skin and cause you to feel colder.
- Insulation: should be fitted so that air is not circulating and carrying away your body heat.
- Windshell: outer coat should be loose enough to get over your other layers, heavy enough to keep out wind, and preferably waterproof.
Beware Poison Ivy
There are still snow mounds bordering the Drive, but it's never too early to start looking out for patches of Poison Ivy. In the Spring, leaflets sprout up with a red or orange hue. Later in the summer, the leafs will turn green and hairy vines will grow around the stem. Do not be thrown off by their young appearance, leaflet sprouts still weep the highly poisonous oil, urushiol, that dermatologists estimate that roughly 85% of humans are allergic to. To lessen your chance of contracting poison ivy, we recommend enclosed shoes, long pants, and a barrier cream applied to any exposed skin on arms, hands and neck. Our canine friends generally do not suffer allergic reactions to poison ivy, but can transfer it home by way of their hair.
"Leaves of three, let it be"
Practice Situational Awareness
Be aware of where you are and what is happening around you in the Park! Avoid accidents by being alert and respectful to others, their pets, and park property. Forbidden Drive and other select trails offer directories to view, but for a more extensive Wissahickon hike, grab a map:
The Friends of the Wissahickon offers a brilliantly detailed map that makes planning a breeze. You can pick one up for $10 at The Cedars House.


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WELL, its been a little bit since I've posted. Because we MOVED. This is in my new bedroom with our new dog (what the fuck? we got a dog. okay. his name is Petrie and he's a demon.)
We now live in Old Town Toronto which is really only a five minute drive from where we lived before, in the Gay Village, but it's a totally different atmosphere. It was sort of an impulse thing. I got my old place 5 years ago, and there were just so many memories in that apartment- my ex boyfriend and I bought it together (and he moved out six months later), I lived there when my mom died, when her dog died, and when my Lola died. It was too sad of a place. So now we live in this bitchin condo and my old place is on the market. Want to buy it from me? Please buy it from me.
I like this outfit because it's kind of boring. It's just jeans and a tshirt. But I feel like fat people are sometimes seen as lazy if they dress like this? Whereas skinny girls in jeans and a white tee will have 100000000 notes on tumblr. It's kind of a bullshit double standard- sometimes when I'm putting on clothes for a blog post I feel the need to over-accessorize or add a pair of heels that I normally wouldn't really wear. But mostly, in real life, I just dress like this. And in pajamas. A lot of pajamas are involved.
These Forever 21 jeans are amazingly comfortable- a 20 fits me perfectly- and I live in these tshirts from Addition Elle. They're the softest, comfiest, most flattering (ugh sorry hate that word but it's true) and they come in like 80 colours (more like 7ish but whatever ok)
Shoes- Michael Kors
Jeans- Forever 21+
Shirt- Additi0n Elle
Toronto Hat- Peace Collective
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Kayak Eco-Tours at Delaware Seashore State Park
- Wednesday, Aug. 22 - Friday, Sep. 28, 2018
- Recurring weekly on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
- Time: 09:30:00
39415 Inlet Rd
Rehoboth Beach, DE
- Price: $35
- Phone: (302) 227-6991
While the bulk of park visitors are enjoying the beaches of Delaware Seashore State Park, few take the time to experience the peace and wildlife of the bayside. The best way to explore the bayside of the park is by kayak and park staff will be leading guided kayak eco-tours all summer long. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings, park staff will lead a 2.5-mile tour through the salt marsh islands of an area of Rehoboth Bay called Station Cove. This journey will take participants through small marsh creeks to get an up-close view of a variety of nesting birds. Along the way, diamondback terrapins, horseshoe crabs, and blue crabs are frequent sightings. In addition, the tour allows for a unique view of the historic Indian River Life-Saving Station, so not only will participants learn about local wildlife, they will also get a taste of local maritime history. The fee for this program is $35 per person.


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Premier Suites located on the 2nd and 4th floor, are divided into a bedroom with a comfortable bed and a living room. Without any doubts, main advantage of this room category is its marvelous view on the St.Isaac`s Square. Premier Suites are designed in two styles. For the admirers of traditions Lotte Hotel St.Petersburg is happy to offer Premier Suite decorated in classical style. For those who appreciate modern tendencies we have Premier Suite on the 4th floor that reinvents traditional luxury to present a modern take on it.
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• Digital control panel - lights, air-conditioning, heating
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- Living room
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- Work desk with stationeries
- 3 separate telephones
- Coffee maker, coffee & tea making facilities
- Minibar
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- 2 vanity units
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"Success is getting what you want, happiness is liking what you get" H Jackson Brown
Personal coaching helps you take control of your life and develop practical ways to make the changes you want. Breaking through personal barriers allows you to build on your strengths and achieve your true goals and aspirations.
Coaching provides effective and personalised support to help you create the life you want.
Some of the benefits our clients have gained include;
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• Overcoming phobias, fears and limitations
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A new job brings new responsibilities, but also represents freedom, since you've finally started earning your own money.
In Australia, according to the Bureau of Statistics, 62% of people are aged 15 – 19 years when they get their first job. Almost 2/3 of these new employees find their first jobs while still studying full time.
For many, fast food restaurants are the easiest entry point into the workforce. The pay is low and the work can be hard, but the hours are designed to work around school and homework, and experience is not generally required.
These fast food jobs generally fall into two categories; customer service and food preparation. They can provide an excellent foundation for future careers, since many of the skills learnt on the job (money handling, customer relations, stock management, cleaning, conflict resolution, etc.) are transferable into jobs you might want later in life.
But if McDonalds or KFC aren't available, or don't fit your plans, there are many other employers willing to consider those looking for their first job.
For those with trade aspirations, many companies hire 'juniors' to assist on sites, be it in carpentry, landscaping, bricklaying or any other form of labour. Alternatively, a number of retail stores provide opportunities for first-time workers to gain experience in customer service or shelf stacking.
When looking for your first job, remember that the job you choose won't limit or define your future career. Spending a few years earning money and experience in the family business, for example, needn't mean you're destined to stay there until you retire.
If you are fortunate enough to already know the career or field you'd like to end up in, finding a first job in a related field or with a similar set of required skills can provide a great boost later. If you're keen to work with animals, for instance, speak to your local vet. While they may not advertise jobs for juniors, they could have a few limited opportunities available for someone with a genuine passion.
There are plenty of jobs available for those looking for their first job. Don't apply for a job you know you're going to hate- think about the type of tasks you might enjoy doing, and the kind of atmosphere you'd like to work in.
Traditionally, the only method for finding a first job was to go from door to door with a bag full of resumes. But now, by building an online resume with ISMYCV, you not only have the opportunity to demonstrate your personality and passion online, but you can sit back and keep studying while employers look for you.
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Selecting the correct material is an important process, which will ultimately affect how your product functions in its application. Formtech can help guide you through this critical process. Formtech extrudes several thermoplastic materials, which include the following:
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Enjoy the butterflies and 90% of the staff is very funny. Enjoy tour by thr staff. Get to hold a butterfly and great picture in there. Take as many picture as u can!
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"It is better to look good than to feel good" - Fernando Lamas
Truth is, when you look good you feel good. My job is to make you look your best because you have only one chance to make a good first impression. I serve clients in Leesburg, Ashburn, Sterling, Great Falls, Loudoun County Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. Call for your portrait quote today.


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In the past customers have asked about our 7% administration fee for issuing refunds. It consists of the following:
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Statement on Rideau-High
The Vanier Community Association (VCA) supports Rideau High School remaining open as a local option for our young people. As a vibrant multicultural school with a focus on supporting our new immigrant and Indigenous populations, Rideau High School has been a part of our community's fabric for decades. The VCA encourages residents to write to school board trustees about your reasons for keeping Rideau High open. Their email address are as follows:
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Also, plan to attend the meeting on February 15 where the closure will be discussed by trustees. The VCA will be speaking at the meeting.
Wednesday, February 15 at 6 pm. 133 Greenbank Rd. Free busses will leave from Rideau High School at 5:30 pm sharp (and will return after the meeting).
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Ground Water Contamination in NJ
Chemical Exposure Lawyers in NJ
Groundwater is used for irrigation as well as drinking water and is susceptible to pollutants that can cause various injuries and illnesses when ingested.
When individuals rely on well water, various chemical can contaminate the ground aquifer, which then develops into a plume and infiltrates well water sources. This can cause individuals dependent upon well water to be exposed to chemicals through ingestion (drinking the water), skin contact (bathing with the water) and inhalation (breathing steam from the water).
Groundwater can also become contaminated when hazardous materials from contaminated soil infiltrate the water. Pesticides, fertilizers and other toxic substances may seep into groundwater, making it unsafe to use.
Additionally, groundwater contamination may occur when a business or other entity fails to comply with federal laws. Groundwater contamination may also occur when an entity is negligent about the dangerous chemicals and substances that their operation may be depositing into the soil, water or air.
Injuries Caused by Groundwater Contamination
Breathing, ingesting, or otherwise coming into contact with contaminated groundwater can result in a number of different injuries and/or illnesses. Symptoms of groundwater contamination may include of nausea/vomiting, headaches, eye irritation and nose irritation. More serious, chronic side effects of groundwater contamination include:
- Various types of cancer
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If you have been exposed to environmental hazards due to contaminated groundwater and have experienced any of the above symptoms or illnesses, you could be eligible to file a claim. Get a free consultation or contact our chemical exposure lawyers at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer today by dialing 855-800-0093.


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Twenty-three students received their high school diplomas on August 17, 2017 after completing summer school studies.
"I know many of you displayed perseverance and grit to get here," said New Britain High School Principal Joseph Pinchera, speaking at the graduation ceremony. "It would've been easy for you to give up, but you didn't. As you move forward in life, make sure you never stop learning."
"Ask yourself what you want to do in life and come up with a plan to accomplish that goal," said Michael Foran, Principal of the New Britain High School Satellite Careers Academy. "Your goals will always evolve. Make sure you always learn and grow to meet your ever-changing goals. You may not get there today and you may not get there tomorrow. However, you will get there someday and that's all that matters."
Schools Superintendent Nancy Sarra said that she has been fortunate to watch many of the graduates grow since kindergarten, adding, "Embrace your story and live it. Share your story – you never know who you can impact. May your stories enliven memories and inspire others to lead a life that is good. Tell your story with pride and make New Britain proud."
"Whatever you choose to do, do it with pride and passion," added Pinchera. "Be a good person. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't accomplish something. You can and you will if you put your mind to it."


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Waiting for Karl Rove is the satire that anyone with any semblance of a sense of humor MUST read. Although both authors profess to be left wing liberals (and truly their opinions reflect that) the writing style – snarky, sassy and satirical – is such that even a right wing conservative like myself found humor on every….single….page. If you have ever had someone get the wrong first impression of you (or second or third), or if you have had your best laid plans lead you down a one way street going the wrong way, this is the wonderful escape you are looking for.
Waiting for Karl Rove is a reminder to each of us that life happens and when it does we need to be able to laugh at ourselves AND laugh harder if it's happening to someone else.


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Studio Dance Photography Shoot – Northwest UK
What a successful weekend! I had the opportunity to photograph some of NLDA's dancers. It was such a pleasure to work with the dancers from NLDA as they had a wealth of creative ideas to bring to the session. To help the dancers get the best from their images I used remote shoot. Dancers being dancers are always striving to do better, and remote shoot helps them to achieve better lines etc from their images. The idea that the dancer can look at their last few frames and decide if they like were, the image is going and seeing if their technique is correct, really helps the dancer. As a former dancer myself I always try to ensure that I give as much advice on posture etc whilst I'm taking the photos, but remote shooting is the best possible reference to get the most from your images.
A lot of the day was spent on a contemporary style of dance photography. This is one of my favourite styles of dance to photograph as the movements are so versatile and lends itself well to creating beautiful fine art style of photographs.
Examples of the images captured can be seen in the Studio Work section of my dance photography Galleries.
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Wilson, K & McCready, P 2009, 'BONUS Plus: sharing content across New Zealand and Australia', Incite, vol. 30, no. 9 (Sept), pp. 24.
The BONUS Plus system is an unmediated requesting system that enables the sharing of monograph resources among 8 university libraries from Western Australia to New Zealand. BONUS Plus uses the INN-Research consortial borrowing software from library system vendor Innovative Interfaces Ltd that offers quick and seamless inter-library borrowing.


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It was 1988 when I first get to know Hideaki Tokunaga…
I was introduced to his songs by a friend and since then I never missed getting his latest album.
Though I don't understand Japanese, its the music and the vocal that captured me.
my all time favorite song of his: カラオケ風
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KP-A pressure switches for use in refrigeration and air conditioning systems with fluorinated refrigerants and ammonia (R717/NH3).
Materials in contact with the medium in steel, primarily 18/8 stainless steel (to EN 10008-2).
KP pressure switches are designed to protect refrigeration systems from excessively high discharge pressures, excessively low suction pressures, to start/stop compressors or to operate fans of aircooled condensers.
KPU pressure switches are for use on commercial refrigeration and air conditioning systems to give protection against excessively low suction pressure or excessively high discharge pressure.They are also used for starting and stopping refrigeration compressors and fans on air-cooled condensers.
KPU pressure switches are fitted with the Single-Pole Single-Throw (SPST) or Single-Pole Double-Throw (SPDT) switches, suitable for direct as well as indirect (with a contactor) control. KPU pressure controls are available in several pressure ranges and are compatible with non-aggressive, fluorinated refrigerants.Standard enclosure is NEMA1.


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Pat Downs
What triggers a pat-down?
Pat-downs are used to resolve alarms at the checkpoint, including those triggered by metal detectors and AIT units. Pat-downs are also used when a person opts out of AIT screening in order to detect potentially dangerous and prohibited items. Because pat-downs are specifically used to resolve alarms and prevent dangerous items from going on a plane, the vast majority of passengers will not receive a pat-down at the checkpoint.


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If I were to stand on one foot and ask you to teach me all of Torah, what would you say?
One of the first things I learned when I was becoming religious was the Talmudic passage in which a man goes to Hillel and asks him to teach him all of Torah while he stands on one foot. Hillel replies, "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary– now go and study it!" (Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 31a.)
As someone who knew very little about Judaism before this, I was surprised by Hillel's response. I thought the answer would be some of the more tangible things, like keeping Shabbat, not eating pork, or having sidelocks. Instead, the answer was something I had already learned, not through a Jewish context, but in my public school in kindergarten.
I was coming to Orthodox Judaism from a family that is not religiously affiliated. I went to public school my entire life—not the most common path for a student of Yeshiva University and much of the Orthodox world. In tenth grade, someone approached me about attending an NCSY Shabbaton, and for some inexplicable reason, I agreed. After going once, I was hooked and I started becoming more and more involved in NCSY, and in turn, more and more involved in Judaism. Finally, upon graduation, I went to seminary for a year and a half in Israel. I am now in Stern College and am a dedicated, Torah observant Jew.
One of the Jewish concepts I learned when first becoming religious was Hashgacha Pratis, or Divine Providence, which states that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes we don't know why something is happening in the moment, but often when we look back, it all makes sense. There are two big pieces of my life that didn't make sense at the time, but looking back, it's clear to me that they were supposed to happen.
In my freshman year of high school, I joined the Gay Straight Alliance, or Alliance for Equality. I identify as straight and cisgendered, so seemingly, this club didn't affect me. Nevertheless, I became more and more involved in equality at my high school. I presented at faculty meetings where I spoke to all of the teachers at my school about sensitivity, and also to eighth grade classes and told them about what it truly means to be an LGBT ally.
By senior year, I had become the president of the Gay Straight Alliance. Initially, I felt like I was a fraud. How could a straight person be the president of this club? However, my faculty advisor explained to me that if I was the president, since I identified as straight, closeted people would feel comfortable coming to meetings, because showing up wouldn't be outing them.
This club had become something that was very important to me. One day, my mom was driving me home from school and we pulled into the garage and she turned to me and said "JJ, I have an important question for you. It is totally fine if you are, but are you gay?" I laughed. She then said, "No for real, I'm okay with it! Just tell me!" So I told her, "No, I am not gay." And then she looked at me and asked, "Then why does it matter so much to you? Why do you fight so hard to be an ally?" And I told her the truth—that I didn't really know. I was not quite sure when and how, but it had become something that mattered. And then, my mom broke down in tears. Through her tears, she just managed to say that there was something important she needed to tell me.
I was named after my uncle Jordan who died about a year before I was born, but I never heard his story until that moment. My uncle Jordan was gay, and he died of AIDS. Sitting in the car, my mother said to me,"If there had been more people like you, more allies fighting for the LGBT community, they might have cared enough to find a cure for AIDS, and my brother might still be with us."
When people find out both of these parts of me—the Orthodox Jew and the LGBT ally—they often ask me how I reconcile everything I have learned about Torah with this community that I care so deeply about. People assume it is extremely difficult to rationalize being a continuous ally as I have become more and more religious, but I always tell those people that it's actually really easy. The two fit together quite perfectly.
When I learned this source of Hillel summarizing the entire Torah as "what is hateful to you do not do unto your neighbor," I realized that, by being an ally to the LGBT community, I was following this exact ideal. I was respecting people, and giving them the amount of respect I want for myself. It all began to make sense and fall perfectly into place.
If that wasn't enough, I soon learned about the Omer. Between Pesach and Shavuot, we have forty-nine days that we spend mourning the loss of Rabbi Akiva's students. Forty-nine days is a huge chunk of our year. I can't think of anything else that we consistently set aside that much of our year for. If you were to ask anyone in the time of Rabbi Akiva what his students were like, they would tell you that his students were following all the tangible Halachot I mentioned before. They were amazing Torah scholars, learning more than I could ever dream of in my lifetime. So why did they die?
The Talmud Tractate Yevamot answers this troubling question: "It was said that Rabbi Akiva had 12,000 pairs of disciples… and all of them died at the same time because they did not treat each other with respect." (Yevamot 62b)
Rabbi Akiva's students were exemplary in every way, but they died because they weren't treating each other with respect. Not only that, but we now set aside a huge chunk of our year to remind ourselves just how important it is to respect people. That's a really big deal. For forty-nine days we change the way we live and the prayers we say as a reminder of how high we hold the value of respect.
Rabbi Moshe Benovitz of NCSY Kollel and Reshit gave a lecture in which he discussed that it's not only our halachic responsibility to be kind to people, but that we also have a responsibility to go out of our way to make people feel comfortable. In his lecture, he asks why God created this universe where we all live together. Surely God has enough power that He could have created separate universes for each of us: that way we could have just focused on our own interactions and relationships with God.
Rabbi Benovitz said, "The reason why we are together is necessarily the ultimate test of our humanity. God is saying by the very fact that He creates the entire universe and world together that this is the ultimate testing ground of how human we are, how successful we are as people, and that this is a necessary aspect of our growth and our avodah in life." Benovitz continues, "The way we treat people determines how successful we are going to be. That is not a reality that we are always comfortable with."
Benovitz ends by saying, "That is not a reality that we are always comfortable with," and this is important. I don't want you to think I write this as a hypocrite. I didn't care about Torah or Judaism when I was becoming an ally to the LGBT community, but that doesn't mean it was easy for me. As a little ninth grader, I was bullied by students older than me, I got threatened on the bus and during extra-curriculars, and I even had teachers bullying me, which is hard to believe, but it happens. But I kept fighting for it because I knew how important it was. I knew that just because something gets difficult, it didn't mean I should stop fighting for what was right or what I believed in. What Rabbi Benovitz is saying is that respecting people is the ultimate test of our humanity—and any ultimate test is not going to be easy. It's difficult, and Rabbi Benovitz is acknowledging that, but it's difficult because it is so crucial.
There are people who consider themselves Torah dedicated Jews who poke fun at, ridicule, bully, and excommunicate people in the LGBT community, Jewish or not. Some of these people even confidently align this behavior with being a mensch based on Torah values. But the message is simply and clearly illustrated in the verses of Torah; if you would not want these things done to you, do not do them to others.
We as Jews are supposed to be "a light unto the nations," a responsibility many struggle with. Does that mean we are better than others, or that Jews are superior? Of course not. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach said it most succinctly: "God chose the Jewish people to teach the whole world that we are all chosen."
If we keep living our lives as Hillel tells us to, with as much respect for human life as we believe we deserve, then eventually everyone will appreciate how important they are and will rise to fill their potential, and the world will be filled with light.
Now, wherever you are, stand up. Stand on one foot, and ask yourself this: how are you going to internalize the most important message of the Torah?


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NEW YORK – Asia Society
17 February 2015
CHARLIE ROSE: Kevin Rudd is a former Prime Minister of Australia. He was in office from 2007-2010 and again in 2013. He is also a former diplomat and fluent Mandarin speaker. He is now President of the Asia Society Policy Institute. I spoke to him recently at the Asia Society. We talked about China's Premier Xi Jinping, their national and global ambitions as well as US policy towards the region. Here is that conversation.
I've heard lots of conversations, people come to my table about Xi Jinping and talk about how he's exercising power and how he's planning to change China. We'll get to that, but tell me about him, your impressions of him, how he came to power. Who and what enabled him to become President of China?
KEVIN RUDD: The first thing to bear in mind with Xi Jinping is his family background. He is the son of a former Politburo member Xi Zhongxun. Xi Zhongxun was a former member of Deng's Politburo when Deng returned to the political scene in the late 70s. After that Xi Zhongxun was entrusted by Deng with a very important task. His task was to oversee the implementation of what is called the 'Four Special Economic Zones' in China in the 1980s. That's what he set about doing. In other words, he was put in charge of what in China then was a highly controversial project. Putting it back into Chinese history it's a bit like this – those four special economic zones coincided with the 19th century treaty reports, where foreign countries (namely, the British but a lot of others as well) demanded exclusive access to these treaty ports and what the Chinese described as the 'Unequal Treaties' between China and the West. So to go back to these after the revolution of '49, and then to say (30 years after that in '79), "Guess what we're going to do, we're going to open the doors to these treaty ports to the West." So the Left of the Communist Party said, "You're going to do what?" This was not welcome news. This was the vehicle through which China's initial exploitation occurred in the internal historiography of this by the Chinese Communist Party. So Xi Zhongxun was tasked with this and, as a result, the economic zones were eventually expanded in scope, the number of special economic zones grew and in time the policies adopted in the special economic zones were adopted across the country. And so, in the economic reform tradition of China, his father represents what I'd describe as a liberal reform agenda.
But the other thing to say about his dad comes the other way around. Xi Zhongxun was also a revolutionary commander for the Red Army, for the Eighth Route Army in the lead up to the '49 Revolution and so his father was a Party loyalist, strong on the Party's role in bringing about the Revolution, strong on the Party's role in holding the country together. So with his father you have this combination of a hardline political supporter of the continued role of the Chinese Communist Party, on the one hand. But at the same time, someone who understands that China's future hinges on the continued reform of its economy in a market direction. We may find this to be an enormous contradiction in terms, but that very much explains, in part, the political worldview and the economic worldview of his son, Xi Jinping.
ROSE: And, as a leader, what have you seen so far?
RUDD: I've met Xi Jinping a number of times. In fact, when I was a junior woodchuck working in the Australian Embassy in China in the 1980s, I first met Xi Jinping when he was a Vice-Mayor of Xiamen which is one of those treaty ports, one of those special economic zones to the south of Fujian, again to the south east of Shanghai. He didn't know me obviously but I knew that he was a significant figure in municipal politics back then. But rolling the clock forward to my meetings with him when he's been Vice-President and my discussions with him since he's been President of the country. Number one, he's one of the few Chinese leaders since Deng who I've seen conduct all his engagements with foreigners without speaking notes. This isn't a person who talks to a brief, this is a person who speaks extemporaneously and the people writing most furiously are the apparatchiks around him because they are discovering new things everyday. That's number one.
Number two, what you discover with Xi Jinping is that he's enormously steeped in his own country's history and the history of his own Party in the country. So there is a profound historical frame of reference which affects his current worldview as well. Namely, that China, having been first occupied in the modern era by the British after the First Opium War when Hong Kong was ceded, through to the defeat of the Japanese in '49 more than 100 years later – through what they call the 'Century of Humiliation'. Foreign humiliation at the hands of the West plus Japan. This is burned deep into Xi Jinping's worldview and, therefore, the need to cause China to go through its own national reawakening, its own national renaissance, its own national rebirth. The Chinese word for it is (CHINESE). This is a core part of what he describes as his dream for China's future – which is to bring China back to a respected place in the global council of nations.
The last thing I'd say about Xi Jinping as a person – beyond his self-confidence, not using notes, his historical frame of reference – is that he is a deeply committed Party loyalist himself. Many in the West and in the US as well, assume because of what we've seen in China since Deng's opening (when Deng wore the cowboy hat when he visited Houston in '79 with Jimmy Carter and the rest). We often assume, because of the cowboy hat, through the ups and downs of Tiananmen Square and what occurred in '89 but through the '90s and through the '00s that essentially there is a slow evolution to a more open economy, creating a more open society and a more open political system in China. Under Xi Jinping, the economy will continue. There will be a continued opening of society relative to a Maoist past. But his political frame of reference is very much a conservative Party view. And, therefore, what he will seek to advance – and I think it is his worldview – is what he calls the 'China Model'. The China development model is not a liberal capitalist model, it's more of a state capitalist model. And I think it's very important that we in the Collective West understand that.
ROSE: What do you think misconceptions are amongst Western leaders are about him and his intent?
RUDD: I think there is always a predisposition on the part of any nation state looking at another nation state to think the worst. That's basically how diplomats keep in business and I've been one of those in an earlier professional incarnation. Themselves and intelligence agencies and defence departments have about them this view as a nation state – whatever that country over there says is one thing, we are paid professions to assume the worst case scenario. Often you see that around the world in relation in China. I think the largest misperception is this – that somehow China has a growing military capability and military ambition to occupy in time parts of its region. The bottom-line is that, whatever negative things you can say about the Chinese tradition, it is not a substantial part of the Chinese tradition at all (as it was with the Europeans) to say, "Well, now we've got all this wealth and power, how do we go and conquer this bloke's territory? Or the next one's?" There is a deep civilizational view alive in Beijing through multiple dynasties that, frankly, there is enough to manage here under heaven (CHINESE), in the Middle Kingdom, to not require us to go out there and do as the British did and the French did and everyone else did and go and conquer the other half of the world. That, I think, is a big misconception.
ROSE: We see here clearly in the 21st century a rising power which began in the previous century but is coming full stride. And we see a country that has not yet decided whether it's a stakeholder in the world but seems increasingly to want to be perceived as such…
RUDD: What are they up against and can they actually make it work?
ROSE: Right.
RUDD: And, as a consequence to that, where do they think they're going? A lot gets lost in translation when we're dealing with our Chinese friends. You mentioned the word before 'stakeholder'. Bob Zellick (who is a good friend of mine and the head of the World Bank in days past) when he was Deputy Head of State, pointed out that China should become a responsible global stakeholder. This led to two lines of mistranslation in Chinese. One, around BBQs (I'm going to 'hold a steak'? What the hell does that mean?), that wasn't what Bob had in mind. Secondly, stake as in putting a stake through someone's heart. This was not a good word and basically there was a long pause as China tried to work out what Bob was on about. The concept was a strong concept but that's just how things get lost in translation.
On that core point it's worth understanding this: we have an expectation in the US and the Collective West that China will increasingly follow and comply with the rules of the global system that we, the Collective West, have evolved for ourselves in the post-'45 period. To which the Chinese would say, "That's terrific. We weren't even there then. Thanks very much guys." To which we say, "But you were." China was one of the victors in 1945 to which they say legitimately, "That was the KMT, not us." So their view is that the global rules based system should be the subject of continuing review and reform. If I look at a couple of the more recent speeches of Xi Jinping, he's quite sharp on this subject – that the rules of the system need to be reformed in a manner that makes the system more just and equitable between states. That I think is a big challenge for us because we, the Collective West, much of the developing world has accepted the status quo with the rules of the international system as they exist. China is saying something quite different. We don't know the answer to it yet. Which is, we are in the business of reforming (to use their terms, 'changing') the rules of the system over time as our power grows.
ROSE: An obvious example of that, I assume, is the reserve currency – the dollar as a reserve currency. But what else?
RUDD: It's interesting, if you go to the detail of what China means by this. At this stage their public pronouncements on all of this it is still a little opaque. But let me give you one clear example. There has been a great debate across the world in the last six months or so about China's decision to establish the Asian Infrastructure Bank. Of course, the response from the US, the West and the rest has been along the lines of, "Why the hell do we need that, we've got the Asian Development Bank? We've got a series of multilateral development banks around the world, ultimately with their parentage in the World Bank. These are run along international rules and it's all gone fine and dandy thank you very much since the days of Bretton Woods." To which the Chinese say, "No, not really." They've gone out there and established their own Asian Infrastructure Bank to which we have objected. In other words, they're establishing an institution outside of the UN and outside of Bretton Woods. Of course, its initial paid up capital is intended to be $100 billion so it's not going to shake the earth in one go. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if it continues to expand. My own view, for what it's worth, about that is, given the global investment and infrastructure deficit in developing Asia, multiple sources of capital should be welcomed into the system so long as the governance of these institutions is along professional governance lines. We haven't raised objections to the thing called the 'Islamic Development Bank' in the past, though it operates extensively across the Middle East. I think we need to be careful about saying 'no' to Chinese initiative, on the condition that governance is (as you would expect) a properly formed financial institution.
ROSE: What about militarily?
RUDD: Yeah, they've got a lot of those. It's a phenomenon which is unfolding. Chinese military spending in terms of annual growth has outpaced that of the United States for arguably the last 25 years and with increasing intensity. But if you look, for example, at some of the international data released on this – say that put out by the CIPRI (Centre for International Peace Research Institute) which is normally regarded as a fairly neutral, credible, reliable institution assessing the hardware of each country's military in the world. They would probably rank China's total aggregate military expenditure at about one-quarter to one-third, at best, of that of the United States. But we need to be mindful of where that heads as it goes ahead. But the Chinese military planners do not conceive of a realistic point in the foreseeable future where the aggregate capability of US convention powers could ever be surpassed or equalled by that of China.
Mind you, their view of their foreign policy role is somewhat different. They see themselves as having an expanding policy footprint around the world and around Asia in particular, on the back of their enormous economic power. That's happening as we speak.
ROSE: How was the military somehow part of that, the expansion of Chinese interest?
RUDD: Let's start this with a narrow frame. The core interest that Xi Jinping has is the modernization of his military, given he comes from a military family in part. It's to make sure this military is modern, is sophisticated and is capable of engaging in – and prevailing in – a military conflict in or around China's periphery. Remember the first function of the military is to protect the Party in that country, under the Party's and the state's constitution. Always important to bear that in mind. The contingencies for which the Chinese military plan are still primarily those associated with the long term scenarios for the recovery of Taiwan to the mainland's tender embrace. Of course, the Chinese want to achieve that through diplomatic means but if something happens or if something cracks in the meantime (like a unilateral declaration of independence by Taiwan which is always possible) then their wargaming is around how do you secure Taiwan and, therefore, defeat a US military or naval action in the Taiwan Strait? Of course, in planning for that you acquire a whole bunch of additional capabilities which provide further complexity for US defence and naval planners in the Pacific.
ROSE: Is the outlook for China less today than it was when they were growing at, say, 10 per cent for all those 18 or 20 years and or was it to be expected – that as they got larger, the base was larger, the growth would slow down?
RUDD: I think any of us who are students of economic history know that an expanding continental economy engaging in trade for the first time, you're going to have extensive growth, rapid growth. As you did with the history of the United States and its continental economy – when it began exporting and trading with the rest of the world in great volumes itself in the 1870s, becoming the largest economy in the world. This is natural and slowly with the maturation of the economies you'll more from developing to developed status the growth rate narrow to a historic median of between 2 and 3 per cent – like your economy, like the Australian economy. So the Chinese, in their planning, have been absolutely fixated oh how you actually transition a rapidly expanding developing economy into a long-term sustainable growth as a developed economy, while avoiding what they call the 'Middle Income Trap'. Hence the growth strategy or change in the growth strategy you just referred to.
Here's the kicker though: on the way through, can they sustain growth at sufficiently high levels to provide the necessary buffer for the transformations to occur? That's been really tough. One, global markets have been so flat. Look at Europe – one of China's principal export markets. Look, until the last twelve months, at the United States – China's other principal export market. So net exports have turned out to be, frankly a minor and even negative contributor to Chinese growth. What they've done historically to try to fill that gap is pump prime by engaging in massive capital projects which has had the unfortunate consequence of, therefore, creating asset bubbles in the property sector – in real estate and redundant state construction. I give the government credit. As growth slows, not to engage on that on the way through. But there are some seeds, frankly, of a positive nature that are starting to look at with China's growth model for the future. The one piece of data which has emerged in the twelve months or so since they adopted these new blueprints for long-term economic reform – moving from manufacturing and investment to the services sector and consumption – and that is the phenomenal increase in new business registrations. A phenomenal increase. This has been achieved in part through some regulatory changes which don't require you to mortgage your wife and your house if you want to start up a new business, that's been welcome. But as a result the big driver for growth, which they hope will take will take place in the future, is through an emerging small business sector, greater opportunity for private firms and if the reform goes according to plan a contracting size of the state owned enterprise sector relative to private firms.
ROSE: Levelling out the field a little bit?
RUDD: Well through their domestic competitive neutrality laws. You went through before, a list of what could go wrong and I would tick most of the boxes that you've raised including this one, and that is – the real question of the leadership now is will they continue to shrink the size of the state owned enterprise sector, given many of these are just sub-optimal economic performers and are distorting the resource allocation within the economy? Will they bite the bullet and allow that sector to further contract and yield more space to private firms or does that create too much of a political problem because the state owned sector of the economy becomes too small and their ability to affect decisions on the ground is reduced as well.
ROSE: What is the threat to future of the Chinese Communist Party? And what might be a threat or where is their paranoia justified?
RUDD: This is a very deep and searching question. Let me hazard a couple of answers. If you were looking at the world from Xi Jinping's perspective, the number one priority – stated or unstated in their daily or weekly meeting agenda is, keeping the Party in power. So what are they, therefore, mindful of? They are very mindful of threats to the Party's absolute position within and, therefore, what you are seeing increasingly is a tightening of the environment from the perspective of the activities of universities, the activities of cultural dissidents, the activities of political dissidents. This is occurring as we speak.
The second cause of concern is through the emergence of alternative centres of power and that's why the Chinese economies will look with great scepticism at the great emergence of religious organizations in China which, from their perspective, become potentially significant sources of dissent. Not all but some.
That leads me to my third point, which is they are very much focussed on the separatist tendencies both in Xinjiang and Tibet. Now Xinjiang in particular because of the forms of violent jihadism that you see being played out in various part of China in what I would describe as this crescent of instability brought about by violent jihadism from Xinjiang in the northeast to Boku Haram in northern Nigeria and the great crescent of lands in between.
If you're putting together the hierarchy of concerns it would be that and then finally a deep view held in China is that Uncle Sam is out there actively fermenting a lot of this and that Uncle Sam is also engaged in a de facto policy of containment to prevent China's rise. I'm not going into the rights and wrongs of them at the moment, just seeking to describe. If I was the say that's what animates China's internal Party concerns about their ability to sustain the Party, they are big concerns – together with the environment and your ability to breathe the air in Beijing, and together with the sustainability of economic growth.
ROSE: And there's been a lot of money spent on the search for alternative sources of energy.
RUDD: That's true, if you look at the seachange in Chinese environmental policy in the last three or four years. I remember sitting in the room with President Obama and Chancellor Merkel and about 20 other global leaders in Copenhagen only about five years ago as we tried to bring about a global agreement on climate change. You may have read the newspapers, it didn't work. I've got the t-shirt that says 'I survived Copenhagen'. Well for a while anyway (that's a comment on Australian domestic politics).
ROSE: There is life after being a politician though!
RUDD: Yeah, it's political exile in the United States. It's a good place to be in exile.
But the bottom-line is this – when I contrast the position which Chinese negotiators took then on climate change which was basically a collective 'no' to where they are now. The shift has occurred because the Chinese have calculated that a combination of plain old air pollution and its partner in crime, greenhouse gas emissions resulting in long-term climate change, that the science is in within China. They have the evidence and know it is happening. And if, to start with you only had 10 to 12 per cent of your country as constituting arid arable land and that becomes progressively degraded through the absence of water or pollution into the soil or other factors. This has brought about a seachange in Chinese policies and the world will wait, with anxiety I believe, to see if these policies will work because China now by a country mile is the world's largest emitter of GHGs.
ROSE: What ought to be a constructive American policy towards the rise of China that would serve both countries?
RUDD: I've been to China about a dozen times, I've been to Washington a lot talking to the Administration, and chatting to leaders and those who advise them behind the scenes. I think there is a way through this. It might sound naively optimistic from a happy and sunny country like Australia but there's a basis for my optimism. If I was to give it a name it would be for both sides to adopt a posture of 'constructive realism'. What do I mean by that? One, be absolutely realistic or realist about where at this stage the two countries cannot agree on fundamental geopolitical questions, political values questions and some others as well. But also agree on a mechanism through which those differences can be managed short of conflict. That's the realist bit.
The constructive bit is – the other side of your brain – which is engaged in, "hang on there's a bunch of stuff we and the Chinese can work on together in order to advance not only our national interest, but our bilateral interests and frankly the world's interests." And that list is formidable. We've just been talking about China's seachange on climate change. The two largest emitters in the world – People's Republic of China and the United States – they will the Paris Conference of the Parties on Climate Change this December succeeds or fails by what they do. India will also be critical. That is one example of constructive engagement. And the second in the Asia-Pacific region is how do you evolve an institution in our region which is capable of, frankly, step by step building confidence and security building measures with each other. Like, working together on natural disasters in a more effective way. Like, elaborate protocols to not allow a minor bingle at sea – when one submarine whacks into another or an aeroplane whacks into another by accident because of the density of the hardware flying around out there – how do you prevent that through a system of sophisticated protocols from escalating. Down to a whole range of other bilateral cooperative endeavours. For example, the bilateral investment treaty between US and China because that will be good for both economies. If you start investing in each other's economies, guess what, you have a great interest in the other's economy succeeding because you have a bunch of cash there and it helps if they succeed. That's what I'd describe as the constructive dimension.
The final dimension is to have, in the back of our minds, a view that if you develop sufficient political capital and diplomatic capital from the things that you work on constructively together over time that, as circumstances allow, you draw on that capital to solve some of the unfixable problems in the first realist box. These three elements – I believe you can hold them all together in a common strategic view on the long-term relationship. Often what we do though because we are human beings, is we go to one side of the brain and say, "uh uh problems, difficulties, clash of civilizations (thank you Huntington), off to conflict or worse." And the others which can be pie in the sky by and by people which is, "Isn't it wonderful, we're all holding hands and doing great things together. Let's just forget about the development of our respective navies which are facing each other off in the Pacific each day." You need a strategic view which embraces both realities but I think we're capable of doing that and the mechanisms are starting to evolve between President Obama and President Xi Jinping with annual working level summitry I think gives us an institutional capacity to make that work over time.
ROSE: How is that relationship? Do you think it's a healthy relationship between the two? At least in comparison to the relationship with the President of Israel?
RUDD: I'm not even going to go there, Charlie. But between President Obama and Xi Jinping – I think the truth is, when President Obama invited President Xi Jinping to the first working level summit held in Sunnylands in California in June of 2013, it was a start. I think most people say it wasn't necessarily the most back-slapping start that you could have had to bilateral summitry but, then again, when you're dealing with China and the United States you can't really expect that. Then I think it's fair to say that the relationship went through a significant series of problems between that June and the November just passed which centred around the East China Sea and the South China Sea. But what I find interesting in this most recent meeting in Beijing – the two leaders spent at least eight hours, nine hours speaking to each other with a very limited number of people around the table. My advice is that the two leaders really got down to some tintacks on these questions of, "Are you American trying to domestically destabilize us? Are you really containing us? How do you give evidence about A and B above?"
Frankly, I know enough about international relations to know that unless you get down to some tintacks – unless you're dealing with those – you can't get to the second levels of constructive cooperation. My sense is that there is a working level of respect now between the two Presidents, which for the remaining two years of President Obama's term, I hope we can turn into something more.
ROSE: A couple of things about the trip to Annenberg where the President went? Much was made perhaps just in the press about the fact that the First Lady did not accompany the President and that the Chinese were not pleased by that because the President's wife had come with him.
RUDD: Well I have a slightly different take on that and that is, I spoke to the Chinese at length before Annenberg and a lot after Annenberg (lot of travel to Beijing last year). I think – and Therese and I know the President and Michelle reasonably well – the reality is that they've got two young kids. The Chinese are a very 'family' people, they understand when you've got kids and younger kids – from memory I think one of the kids had a birthday or some celebration at the time. But here's the other point, neither President Xi Jinping or his wife Madam Peng has explicitly or expressly or solely come to the US, they'd been visiting Latin America. This was a working level summit on the way through. So Madam Peng would have been there for that anyway. Besides if there was any difficulty arising from it, I think Michelle Obama and the kids' subsequent visit to Beijing as Madam Peng's host smoothed all that away. The key thing in the Chinese leadership is the tintacks of the one relationship in the world which fundamentally matters to their future and that's this one with the United States.
ROSE: And what are they prepared to do to make it better?
RUDD: Their first step in that direction will have been to see the President's priority attached, since his re-election, to bringing about a global agreement on climate change. The Chinese, if I was to give you an example, could have said, "Okay, we've decided for national reasons to act on climate change. This is what we're going to do. Number one, we're going to announce a peaking year when our aggregate national carbon emissions will peak. And two, we'll give you an indication as to what that quantum will be." The Chinese could have announced that unilaterally, they could have announced it at the Non-Aligned Summit, they could have announced it in a bilateral with India, they could have announced it at Copenhagen itself or the preparatory meetings, which were run through this year at the UN General Assembly with September. I think as a significant gesture to the President and given the intensity of the two-way negotiations between the two, they chose to make this a core part of the announcement of the outcomes of the President's visit in November. That's a discretionary decision. At a substantive level – and I think it's really important – at the viscera of the military relationship, the agreement of two transparency initiatives between the Chinese armed forces and the United States armed forces on how to prevent and manage incidents at sea or incidents in the air. We've been chipping away at that for decades. The United States had an agreement with the Soviets dating back to the '70s I think and maybe even a little earlier, but we never had been able to crack that between the US and China. Finally, the two militaries are able to come together on that and I think that is potentially one of a number of stabilizing elements which lie ahead of us for the US-China relationship.
ROSE: How do they view Russia?
RUDD: Well, as Tip O'Neill famously reminded us here in this country that politics is local. And I imagine an active conversation between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin is about what they both describe the as the 'Colour Revolutions' of Eastern and Central Europe, and the extent to which they have concluded that either the Europeans or the Americans or the Collective West were complicit in that. In other words, aimed at toppling their governments and their political systems. That is an active element of the political conversation, I think that's true. As are their respective attitudes to the censoring of the internet in their respective countries as well. I think though that the relationship between China and Russia is at a deeper complexity. Sometimes in the cut and thrust of what is happening today we lose sight of the strategic shifts. What did Nixon do? You in your country know better than I but I studied it from afar as a kid. He fundamentally rewrote the strategic rule book by engaging China strategically and military against a common Soviet adversary and this actually fundamentally altered the strategic equation and was one element – one of many elements – given that that began in 1972 and we saw the Soviet Union collapse in 1991, that's one of a number of elements which frankly rattled the pre-existing concept of the strategic status quo. What worries me though is that we look back at the strategic relationship between US and China since '91 and the collapse of the Soviet Union is that we hadn't and haven't put in sufficient strategic effort into constituting a new long-term strategic rationale for the US-China relationship. The Soviet Union collapsed, in 1991. But if I look at the period through the '90s and the '00s, there's no real evidence of a new strategic rationale for the US-China relationship.
Leave that to one side and roll into the present…
ROSE: So you're describing this as a missed opportunity for the United States? That it did not take that moment to build a new relationship with China, that China would be more responsive?
RUDD: With a new global strategic rationale. The glue which held China and the US together in that period, the previous 20 years, was a common position against the Soviet Union. Take out the Soviet Union, what have you got left? We could make a lot of money together and that's kind of what held together for a season but, frankly, there wasn't a grander strategic narrative capable of uniting these two great countries into a common endeavour for the future. Maybe it would have been impossible, I don't know. But what I do know, is that when you start to see this fundamental rift emerge between Russia and the US, the West and the rest that it didn't take long for strategic cooperation to emerge and strengthen between Moscow and Beijing. I think that's the other part of the strategic sandwich.
ROSE: They've shown a little bit of that in Afghanistan too. Is there enough interest in Afghanistan?
RUDD: It's a complex question. There was an Aspen Strategy Group conference on this last August. I went up and participated and there was a little paper I wrote I think on a website about it but just understand, however, that both these countries have a very long view of each other. And the Russian long-term view, I went to Moscow last March to ask this question, what do you really think about China? They said, "It's the best it's been in the last 450 years. And how it will be in the next ten years we don't know."
ROSE: So in 25 years from now it'll be 2040. What will China be and what will we be?
RUDD: This is a fundamental question for how we view these two countries future and critically what we do in the interim. Of course, the conditionality attached to your question Charlie is, on the assumption of no policy change. And that's very important as an assumption. Because if that is the case and we do not have policy change either in Beijing or Washington what I do worry about is an incremental slow drift towards one form of conflict or another. The alternative narrative out to 2040 is one where the two nations through their leadership much sooner rather than later, develop a common narrative for their future along the lines I mentioned earlier. Constructive realism – here's what we disagree on, here's what we agree on, let's maximize the latter, minimize the former and develop the political capital to solve the hard ones over time. That way I can see, frankly, us being much more able to secure the long term peace and security of the neighbourhood. One final point if you're going out to 2040 is this, China will, in order to continue to emerge as global great power, have to deal with a raft of six or seven major challenges around the economy and its demography in that time in order for its rise to continue to be unabated. That involves a range of assumptions which assume that smart Chinese leadership and a bit of luck will prevail on the way through. But I'm into the realist business of how do you maximize the prospects for peace and stability and in Asia, where my country is located, we really want to see the emergence of a common narrative between the two of them.
ROSE: Prime Minister Modi said, when he was here, "No one doubts this is the Asian Century." Well some do. "What we don't know is whether this is China's century or India's century." How would you assess India's place?
RUDD: India's place is huge and I'm glad we're talking about a country other than China. This society, the Asia Society represents the totality of the region and of its five subregions of which China is just one – Northeast Asia. India and to some extent rising Indonesia represent two huge parts of the jigsaw as well as the continuing emergence of Japan. I think the world sits with bated breath to see if Prime Minister Modi succeeds with his domestic political reform program. If you follow Indian politics, the good people of Delhi in their most recent provincial elections said, "Thank you very much Mr Modi but not too far too fast." Managing an economic reform program through the complexities of A, the Indian democracy and B, the Indian federation will require a high level of sainthood in order to navigate your way through. That's before you encounter other arms of the Indian bureaucracy. I think the world wants Prime Minister Modi to succeed. I think the world wishes him well. It's one of the reasons, as President of the Asia Society Policy Institute my first visit abroad will not be to Beijing but to Delhi next month because we will want to work as actively as we can with the Indian government to make sure we can cooperate with their policy success.
ROSE: What is your favourite Chinese proverb and what does it teach us about Chinese culture?
RUDD: I presume that excludes all rude expressions right? The Asia Society is a family society. I think the one that always captures my mind is a saying of Mao's actually because it represents in so many ways all that China actually seeks not to be the case. Mao, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, said the following, "There is chaos in heaven, there is chaos under heaven, the political situation is excellent." And Mao the great revolutionary from the pre-49 period and the Cultural Revolution, he was into this business of permanent revolution. If you were to look at the absolute antithesis of that, namely, a progressive, orderly, systematic reform program under regular forms of political leadership with no great surprises on the way through – that's what the Chinese are now seeking to do. Whenever you quote that phrase at our Chinese friends they literally freeze, because they know what it was like to come out of the Cultural Revolution.
ROSE: Bo Xilai used to talk a lot about Mao before he was arrested and Xi Jinping talked about Mao. Yet most people believe that the person he most resembles is Deng Xiaoping.
RUDD: I'd agree with that. Remember, there's a bit of symbolism attached to this. Chinese leaders rarely do these sorts of things on a whim, but the day after he became General Secretary of the Party (or it may have been after he became President of the country) he flew south to Shenzhen in order to lay a wreath at a statue of Deng Xiaoping – to honour Deng's contribution to the opening of China to the outside world. When he did so he was simultaneously honouring his father who made a contribution in that sense. So I think there is a great reverence and respect for Deng and remember, Deng was a hardliner politically and frankly a big reformer economically – seeing that market based economic reforms were necessary for China's overall accumulation of national economic power and improving the living standards of ordinary Chinese.
ROSE: There seems to be at some levels, that the Chinese are to put it mildly that the Chinese are displeased with the North Koreans and my question is what are they prepared to do about that?
RUDD: That's a good and sharp question. The first part of it is true and the second part of it is hard to answer. On the first part, it is beyond analytical doubt that there has been a considerable rupture in the relationship between Pyongyang and Beijing because Kim Jong-Un, the new leader the DPRK, so early in Xi Jinping's period decided to demonstrate his statecraft by letting off an underground nuclear test at around about Chinese New Year of 2013. This made China really grumpy. Capital 'G', grumpy. One, because what is Xi Jinping doing? He's saying that our number one priority is to grow the Chinese economy, for that we need regional stability and now we have this renegade neighbour trying to blow up the furniture so thank you very much I really appreciate that. Number two, thank you in particular for doing it in Chinese New Year. I really enjoy spending my New Year trying to clean up a political mess globally because of what you've done.
This has led to deep angst on the part of the Chinese leadership and the clear evidence of it is, to date, Kim Jong-Un has not been invited to Beijing to visit and the clear further evidence of that is that Madam Park, the President of the South, has visited Beijing and Xi Jinping has visited Seoul. So this is happening – there is deep rupture. I've seen some diplomacy from Beijing trying to improve that again and the North in turn now is reaching out to Russia and other countries to obtain stronger international leverage internationally. Your description of displeasure is correct.
What can China do about it? Look, I have a personal view on this which horrifies most Chinese and American strategists but let me put it anyway, given I'm now working for the Asia Society and all collateral damage lies with me. There's only one way that we can deal effectively with North Korea over time, on the two big policy interests of peaceful reunification and denuclearization, neither of which can be separated from each other in my view. And that is for there to be a grand strategic bargain between China and the United States about how the Korean Peninsula is to be governed in the future. What is the baseline Chinese concern about Korean reunification? That American troops south of the Parallel will then find themselves up bordering mainland China. A reunified Korea means American troops, American allies. One thing that is toxic to our Chinese friends is the idea that Americans actually being on a land border with China rather just being a maritime problem, as seen from the perspective of Beijing. Therefore, that has to be dealt with. If you can arrive at a compact which deals with the security of Kim Jong-Un and his regime in some sort of confederation with the South – the condition of which is the unilateral denuclearization of North Korea weapons program, for which the quid pro quo is the withdrawal of American forces from the Peninsula all together, you might be able to cook with gas (that's an Australian expression – you might be able to produce a result).
If you're a looking for what I think is an overall strategic concept that is possibly it. This is my one additional thought though Charlie. There's something about Xi Jinping's leadership style and his absolute authority within the Chinese political system which says that big strategic thinking like that should not be discounted. He sees himself in the mould of China's great political leaders. Deng, you might remember, was the leader who actually did the deal with the Soviet Union in the chaos of Tiananmen in 1989 when Gorbachev visited – what did Deng do, in the midst of all this extraordinary outburst of protest movement within the Chinese capital? He finally sealed the Soviet-Chinese border with a comprehensive agreement. That more than anything else, frankly, has determined the future Russia-China relations. There is no disagreement on the border. It's been done. Xi Jinping sees himself in a similar strong leadership mode. So if there was ever a Chinese leader who could entertain a grand strategic bargain on the Peninsula it might just be him.
ROSE: That's a great way to end – on a grand strategic initiative. On behalf of everyone here, thank you so much.


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My process is largely just the solving of puzzles about space and time, done from a specific aesthetic viewpoint. I create minimal video scapes of texture and color, and form based experimental dance works.
I have a desire to morph choreographic thinking into video art and create installational spaces that complicate that desire.
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After getting out of school - The University of North Carolina School of the Arts for High School and the Ohio State University for College - I moved to New York. Since here, Kathryn Logan and I started Logan Company, working in live dance-ish performance and movement on camera. In San Diego, I work as a camera op, colorist, and editor, as well as on my own video installation work, and with a group of dance artists cultivating a new practice in ensemble improvisation.
I have lots of schemes for the kind of art I would create if I had money, but find it hard to start at the beginning. I have all these ideas for impossible, large scale projects, such as a many sided building where each audience member could have their own private entrance to the performance. Once inside their private door, they would walk down a private hallway, with private music, and stand in a private viewing platform, allowing a completely isolated and individual experience of a show. A show designed and created for that type of experience.
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Hi Jan. Do you have permission from the estates of Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt and Marie Helene van der Zeyde to upload their translation of Psalm 71 here? They lived recently enough that copyright becomes an issue (you may want to see this page for more information). Thanks, KGill talk email 18:39, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi KGill. I have received permission from the publisher (Katholieke Bijbel Stichting, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) to put compositions in which I have used Psalm translations by Gerhardt & Van der Zeyde on-line on the condition that it is for non-commercial use. Is this OK and can I try again to add them to my page? Jan van Putten, 30 October 2011.


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Market Name(s): Sea bass, Patagonian toothfish, mero
Max Size: 200 lbs
Avg. Size: 20-40 lbs
FROZEN: H&G, skinless, boneless fillets and portions.
Despite its high oil content, fresh sea bass has a relatively good shelf life--up to 12 days from the time it's caught--when held in ice at 32°F. Frozen product will keep well for six to nine months at -5 to -15°F.
Rich and full of flavor, sea bass can easily stand alone, simply baked, grilled, broiled or sautéed, with a pinch of seasoning or a squeeze of lemon juice. At the same time, however, this fish pairs up wonderfully with more elaborate flavors. Consider simmering it gently with plenty of tomatoes, garlic and fresh herbs, or marinate it in a spirited teriyaki style marinade before grilling or broiling. Because it will stay moist after cooking, sea bass is excellent in banquet applications.
Inhabiting the frigid depths of the southern oceans, this large, slow-growing fish is in great demand in the U.S., Japan and China for its firm, white flesh and rich, oily flavor. Although the fishery was started off Chile, the demand for sea bass has led to the expansion of the fishery throughout the circumpolar region, although heavy fishing pressure has led to a sharp decline in catches in recent years.
The name "Chilean sea bass" stems from the fact the fish was first commercially harvested in Chilean waters. Now, however, sea bass are also caught off the coasts of Argentina, South Africa, Australia, as well as assorted remote territorial islands and in the international waters of the southern latitudes.
Although commonly called sea bass, this fish is not a sea bass at all, but rather a unique species— also called mero and Patagonian toothfish--that belongs to the family Nototheniidae.
Sea bass can grow to more than six feet and 200 pounds, although they average between 20 and 40 pounds in the commercial catch. Caught by longline, they can be found as deep as 5,000 feet, which has given rise to another market name, bacalao de profundidad, or "cod of the depths." Because of their large size, sea bass yield large, snow white fillets. Most finished product consists of skinless, pinbone-in fillets, although skinless, boneless portions are also available. Most sea bass comes into the U.S. market as frozen H&G product. This product is generally "refreshed," i.e., frozen fish that is later slacked out and filleted. Frozen within hours of capture, refreshed fish offer excellent quality. Fresh sea bass is also widely sold in the U.S. Almost all this product comes from Chile. Because of its high oil content and poor handling by some small boat fishermen, the quality of fresh sea bass can be highly variable. Because sea bass is so highly regarded in both Japan and China, the flow of fish to the U.S. is greatly affected by conditions in these two markets.
According to figures from the United Nations, global sea bass landings have been around 30,000 to 35,000 metric tons a year recently, although illegal fishing in remote territorial waters probably puts the total even higher. Quotas for sea bass in Antarctic waters (i.e., those managed by an international fisheries-monitoring body) have been 15,000 to 18,000 tons in recent years. However, illegal and high-seas fishing puts the actual harvest much higher, one reason the U.S. and other nations have instituted a catch documentation system that traces sea bass from its harvest to the marketplace. Only documented, legally caught sea bass can be can be imported into the U.S. Since this system was implemented in 2000, illegal catches of sea bass have declined sharply. Due to the circumpolar nature of the sea bass fishery and the prevalence of high-seas fishing, specific fisheries are in a constant state of flux. Recently, the leading suppliers to the U.S. market have been Argentina, Chile and Mauritius (where a lot of high-seas product is off-loaded).
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Today's lesson plan was especially pertinent to my current situation, as I have a job interview at the end of this month. Just last week I scoured my facebook and removed pictures that I felt weren't appropriate for my possible employers to view. Also I recently created a twitter account and have tried to stay mindful of how I interact with other people.
1) Having no digital identity or footprint on the internet is a negative when potential employers search your name.
2) It is possible to manipulate how people find/view you on the internet.. ex) purchasing a domain name and creating your own website.
3) Be mindful of your digital footprint.. Luckily the stats i've accumulated on the lacrosse field fill in the majority of my DF, and my facebook and twitter accounts are buried deep in the pages of google.
4) One way to rid yourself of a negative DF, is to create material that is positive.
5) Be mindful of privacy settings on social networks, and watch out for hackers.
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I am trying to be strong, but the constant endorsements by the Kardashian/Jenner family is starting to hurt my willpower.
The more i see these beautiful Celine bag's plastered everywhere, the more i'm obsessed with them!!
When did i become such a mindless consumer??
But look, how pretty!!!! 😦
Sigh… I am a bit bias on Kourtney. I think she has the best style by far.
I mean… see the difference between pregnant Kim, and pregnant Kourtney. Erk.
Is it too late to ask for a birthday handbag Muuzi? 😀 😀


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