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Glass hopes to be the photo-sharing app Instagram never was
It starts with appreciations, not likes, and photographers, not influencers.
The Glass app is all photos, and that's on purpose.
Photo: Glass
David Pierce
Social networks don't feel so social anymore. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and the rest seem to be leaning ever further into entertainment and away from helping people find and chat with others like them. But Glass is hoping to be different. The new photo-sharing social network is determined to find a better, less problematic, more social way to network.
Glass co-founders Tom Watson and Stefan Borsje have both worked in tech for years and have seen the pitfalls that come to social apps. So they've set out to build Glass very differently. They're not taking VC money, they're not prioritizing growth and engagement above all else and they won't even show you how many times people liked your photo. In the process, they hope they're building something photographers might actually want to use.
Watson and Borsje joined the Source Code podcast to discuss Glass, the state and future of social networking and what it takes to build something different.
You can hear our full conversation on the latest episode of the Source Code podcast, or by clicking on the player above. Below are excerpts from our conversation, edited for length and clarity.
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A theory I've always had is that you can tell the story of the internet through photo-sharing apps. You have Flickr, you have Instagram, you have all these different photo communities over time. Why do you think it is that photos have been such a core part of how the internet has evolved?
Tom Watson: I think it's that it's such an easy thing to share. You can take a photograph and immediately put it online, and it tells a visual story.
These days, it's just such a quick way to do it. Video is incredible, and you see it becoming more and more important with things like TikTok and YouTube. But the photo can be a very quick consumption experience as well; it just takes a second to look at it.
One thing I've noticed about Glass is you seem to have a very clear idea about what you don't want to be. And I think we're now more and more clear about what the traps are that companies and products fall into, that take them away from being the things that they originally were. So I'm curious: Was there a moment where you had to sit down at the beginning and, like, write on a whiteboard or a Google Doc, "Here's what would turn us into Instagram?" A "what not to do" list?
Watson: We wrote down a list not of what not to do, but more of a list of what we wanted to be. We want to be this community, we want to be a photo-sharing service. We want to build upon those things and focus on the market of photographers, and less on the things we knew we didn't want to be. But we did know that there were certain, like you said, traps.
So it's more like, "OK, so we're not going to take on outside funding." And that was a real thing. We've been offered that through the process, and it's really tempting when you're struggling and you're trying to build something like this. But the expectation that that funding would bring into what we're trying to build just wasn't in alignment with it. If there was an investor that had a particular mindset, sure, maybe, but even then we have really held true to that view that we know we're going for a smaller market. We know we want to have independence. And in order to do that, we need to not take on additional investors.
We want growth and engagement, but exponential growth and engagement is something we're very much not into. But that's the expectation that venture capital money ties you to. And so you need to build a product that needs to do that; you need to chase that growth in any way possible. I worked at Facebook from 2009 to 2013, and then Pinterest from 2013 to 2018, so I've seen what the expectations there are for those types of companies. We just wanted to intentionally build something different, and, in order to do that, required a different business model.
Community has been an internet buzzword for forever. And community's a challenge. It's a hard thing to do from a straightforward content-moderation standpoint, it's a hard thing to create a culture inside of an app. And figuring out even what you want that community to look like, and how to incentivize it the right way, seems like the kind of thing you really have to do from Day One, or else it's just going to be a losing battle forever. So what was the stuff at the very beginning where you were like, "Here's what we want this community to look like?"
Watson: The focus specifically was, all right, we want it to be a safe and trusting environment. So we invested upfront in reporting and blocking from Day One, which are traditionally not startup features that we would do. We just needed that base level; trust and safety needs to be a huge part of our community. We also were upfront with our community guidelines and rules. And then we obviously hoped that by bringing in alpha and beta testers into the service, we could really set the tone of what the community would be like before we opened it up to a broader audience. And I think that was really important.
And then it's just modeling the behavior. You can set up all these rules, you can set all this content moderation and stuff, but what you see when you walk into the space is really important. It like sets the tone for you, unless you have great photographers, big photographers, people who are active in the community commenting, really being engaged — those were key decisions for us before we just opened the doors like, "Here's an empty space, let's hope it all works out."
I think I spent at least eight months talking to photographers while we were building it. And we would just get on a Zoom call — during the pandemic, people had some time — and we'd just chat with them about what's going on, run them through the product, talk about the choices. We didn't always have a product yet, so it was just what their needs were and what they would hope from a community like this.
What were the photographers telling you in those early days? I asked a bunch of people what I should ask you, and my photographer friends overwhelmingly said: Why do all my photos look so bad on every web service? And can Glass fix this awful image compression that exists all over the internet?
Borsje: I think it's mostly just an economics question, to be honest, because bandwidth is not free. And especially if you have a large audience of viewers, you end up consuming a lot of bandwidth on the viewing side, obviously, especially if you have high-quality pictures. And I think for most platforms, it's probably a trade-off between what is good enough and what keeps our costs under control. And I think in our case, because our community's a little bit different — our community consists of a higher percentage of creators and I think a lower percentage of consumers — I think you can get away with spending a little bit more time and effort.
So we can afford to show high-resolution photos. Especially on the web version of your profile, we go through a little bit of extra effort: We load one lower-resolution photo first and then try to switch it to a high-resolution one as soon as the browser has it. So I think those kinds of tweaks are things that we can afford to do, because we're not as much of a mass-market channel as some of the others.
Would that calculation have to totally change if you get to 100 million users? Or is that one of those things that is so important to your users that you just have to deal with it?
Borsje: I think in our case, I would like to say that it wouldn't change because I think it's too important for our community to keep that around. So I would rather have a smaller group of viewers and optimize for the viewing experience than the other way around.
One big gate there just seems to be, "It costs money." [Editor's note: Glass is $5 a month or $30 a year.] As soon as you charge something, you're going to immediately lose lots of people. And it seems like you, very smartly, are very happy to lose most of those people. "If this is not a community you want to be part of, no hard feelings, it's just not worth it for you or for us." But I do wonder how that scales up and down.
Watson: One thing to note about when we talk about community building: One of the things that was a big factor in this is, when it's a paid-for service, you immediately have a different tone and interaction with the community versus something that's just free for anybody to just stop in on the internet. That has a very big impact on the way everyone interacts with us.
We haven't had to face massive content-moderation issues like I've seen in other social networks because we're a paid-for service. It currently requires an Apple ID to sign up, and that requires a credit card. And so you can't even be on a trial without a little level of commitment. And I think that helps us. I mean, it's still a free trial, but you can't just create a random account with some random username and just give it a shot. I think that really has helped us with our community building.
How has that played out? People being nice to each other makes sense. But from a standpoint of, like, "I've paid for this, I might as well try to make it good here," do you see that feeling play out in other ways across the app, too?
Watson: I think people treat each other a little better. They're more invested, literally, in the project. They want the space to be good. And I think that a lot of our members are getting really thoughtful comments, and they've been really responsive to our Appreciations thing, which is our version of liking.
Let's dig into that one a little bit. I think it has felt intellectually obvious to a lot of platforms and companies that, like, "Oh, we should let people say that they enjoy something," and then all the decisions you make after that are a mess. So what was the goal of Appreciations?
Watson: I think the big goal was to remove, "That's cool," "It's great," "Cool," and to create the comment space as a real area for discussion and community. So that was the impetus for it. Also, to improve engagement! We wanted people to be engaged in the platform.
We actually were kind of glad we launched without any; it was just comments. And we would get a lot of feedback saying, "Oh, this feels really old-school. This feels slower, and I love it." And we would see some of that. We also saw a big increase in engagement when we did release Appreciations.
But we wanted to strip out some of the things that we felt were problematic with liking, or the quick positive feedback. And a lot of those have to do with tracking. We wanted Appreciations to feel like this moment between you and the other person. It's a private appreciation. We don't show counts on any part of the product, so it's just sending positive vibes or sparkles or whatever the icon implies to the other person. There's no FOMO when you go see someone else's post and see all their like counts, or their heart counts, or whatever.
If you appreciate even a comment someone's left for you, you see what's been appreciated, but nobody else sees that you've appreciated that comment. Those subtle changes make a huge impact on the way you feel on the products. A lot went into each one of those little choices and how we deliver it. But the big, overarching theme is that we didn't want it to be tracked or feel uncomfortable by using the product. It's almost like a private thing between you and the person.
As the photographer, can I see how many people have appreciated my photos? That seems like a tricky balance, too.
Watson: We worked through that, too. So if you go to your photo, there's a section that appears when someone appreciated your photograph. And it just says Appreciations. And then if you tap through, you can see all the people that have appreciated you. But it explicitly doesn't have a number associated with it. So there's not like, "15 people have appreciated your photo." And that's really different from the world in which everything's got all these counts. And so you could count them up, I guess, if you want to, but there's just a difference: It's a nice big picture of the person and their name, people that appreciated your stuff. And it works in a small community. It doesn't always scale. But it will scale to a very large number, right? It's not hundreds of millions, but we're happy with hundreds of thousands of people using our product, and that's the goal.
I want to talk about the balance between not tracking and not optimizing for engagement, versus discoverability, which seems like a key thing that a lot of services get wrong. My sense is you have under-optimized on tripping through Glass, finding new funky things and people that I might enjoy. There seems to be a lot of stuff you could do there if you wanted to, but when I go to my homepage, it's just like reverse-chron photos of people that I follow.
Watson: We have a lot of plans to improve discovery. Optimizing for clarity of what you're getting to see, I think, is really important to us. When we talk to people about other social networks, they get so frustrated, they don't feel like they have control over what they're experiencing on the platform. So we really want to optimize for your home space to be what you expect to see — I follow these people, I get to see their content.
I think that's really important to us in the home space. But when you go to our Community tab, we want to work toward better ways in which we can surface you great photographers. We're exploring editorial ways of surfacing that stuff, as opposed to an algorithmically generated list or something. We'd love for photographers to explicitly express what type of photographer they are so that you could explore and find content that way. So we're looking into improving that space, because we launched with a very bare bones list of photographers. And we've since added categories, and you can discover things for categories, which is a good first step, but we have a lot more to work on there.
Borsje: One thing that, for me, personally, is always frustrating about recommendation algorithms is that they take away some of the discovery of new stuff that I'm not familiar with yet. I think you see it on YouTube, you see it on Instagram as well in the Explore feed. Once you've looked at a certain category of photos, you're just going to get bombarded with that. And that's it. And it's really difficult to step out of that bubble and see something else. And that would, for me, be a reason to be very hesitant about introducing, "Oh, we're just going to show you what we think you like," because we might not even really be able to figure out what you like. You might not even know yet what you would like.
I don't think you open the Glass app to get hooked and just doomscroll for like two hours. I think you come to Glass to get inspired, to see something that you haven't seen before, to get new ideas of how I can approach my photography with new techniques or new styles or something that I just haven't tried or tested before. And that sense of discovery, I think that's something that's very important to us.
David Pierce ( @pierce) is Protocol's former editorial director. Prior to joining Protocol, he was a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, a senior writer with Wired, and deputy editor at The Verge. He owns all the phones.
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using Application.Models.Skills;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Application.Models.Heroes
{
    public class Hero
    {
        private ICollection<Skill> activeSkills;
        private ICollection<Skill> passiveSkills;
        private ICollection<HeroComment> comments;
        private ICollection<HeroVote> votes;
        public Hero()
        {
            this.activeSkills = new HashSet<Skill>();
            this.passiveSkills = new HashSet<Skill>();
            this.comments = new HashSet<HeroComment>();
            this.votes = new HashSet<HeroVote>();
        }

        public int ID { get; set; }

        public int CareerId { get; set; }
        public virtual Career Career { get; set; }

        public int ApplicationUserId { get; set; }

        public virtual ApplicationUser ApplicationUser { get; set; }

        public virtual HeroItems Items { get; set; }

        public virtual HeroStats Stats { get; set; }

        public String Name { get; set; }

        public String InGameId { get; set; }

        public int Level { get; set; }

        public Boolean Seasonal { get; set; }

        public Boolean Hardcore { get; set; }

        public int ParagonLevel { get; set; }

        public virtual HeroGender Gender { get; set; }

        public Boolean Dead { get; set; }

        public virtual HeroClass HeroClass { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Skill> ActiveSkills
        {
            get { return this.activeSkills; }
            set { this.activeSkills = value; }
        }

        public virtual ICollection<Skill> PassiveSkills
        {
            get { return this.passiveSkills; }
            set { this.passiveSkills = value; }
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        public virtual ICollection<HeroComment> Comments
        {
            get { return this.comments; }
            set { this.comments = value; }
        }

        public virtual ICollection<HeroVote> Votes
        {
            get { return this.votes; }
            set { this.votes = value; }
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Jessie J confirms she's pregnant after devastating miscarriage
The Price Tag star is expecting her first child!
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Jessie J (Roberto Finizio/NurPhoto)
Jessie J has announced to fans she's pregnant after previously suffering a miscarriage.
The Do It Like A Dude singer, real name Jessica Cornish, confirmed the news on Instagram with a sweet post showing off her baby bump.
Read more: Jessie J says she's 'still not herself' following miscarriage
In a collection of videos and photos collected into a Reel, Jessie J, 34, shared the moment her pregnancy test went positive, through to the first scans and the first look at her bump.
Alongside the clip, she wrote: "I am so happy and terrified to finally share this… Please be gentle with me.
"Honestly, ya girl just wants to ugly cry in public in a catsuit eating a chocolate covered pickle with no questions asked."
Read more: Jessie J wants stolen ring and gloves from Jamal Edwards tribute event returned
Celebrity pals were quick to send their congratulations, with Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland saying: "AHHHHHHHHH SCREAMING CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU!!"
Singer Ellie Goulding added: "You look completely radiant and full of joy. Many Congratulations my love."
Jessie J (WireImage)
Stacey Solomon, who also surprised fans with her own pregnancy announcement over Christmas, added: "Oh Jessie I'm so happy for you. Love you."
The star is yet to confirm when the baby is due.
The happy news comes after the Price Tag star openly discussed her devastating miscarriage in November 2021 moments after a scan which confirmed her baby didn't have a heartbeat, and hours before she was due to perform in Los Angeles.
Read more: Jessie J keeping 'positive' despite still not being able to sing or talk without pain
A month later, Jessie told fans: "I posted about losing my baby just hours after I was told. I reacted in work mode. It's safe to say I sometimes pour more energy into creating a unhealthy process of my own pain in front of a camera, than I do acknowledging it behind one in real time. 'The show must go on' mentality reacted before the human in me did.
Jessie J (Alamy)
"I must justify to the audience for my show tomorrow, and explain to the world why I might be a little off, was my first thought. I must turn this into a inspirational, I know I will be ok, strong moment, because that's who I am right?
"Truth is, I just needed to f****** cry and fall into someone's arms and sob. But at the time I was alone. I hadn't processed anything. Nor did I have any idea what I was about to go through not just emotionally but physically after this show."
WATCH: Jessie J is expecting a baby!
Mel B wants Viola Davis to potentially play her in a Spice Girls biopic
Mel B wants VIola Davis to play her on screen.
Aston Martin DBS 770 Ultimate Is The Most Powerful DBS Ever
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Inside Alexander, Colin Farrell's swords and sandals howler
The past year has been a glorious one for Colin Farrell, acclaimed in everything from The Batman to survival drama Thirteen Lives, and now, in perhaps his greatest performance to date: Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin. Having won a Golden Globe and the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, he is currently favourite to win Best Actor at the Oscars.
Rita Ora finally addresses Taika Waititi and Tessa Thompson 'throuple' rumours
Rita Ora and Taika Waititi started dating in 2021. Shortly after, there were wild rumours that they were in a throuple with Tessa Thompson.
King Princess got a haircut inspired by Joe Jonas in Camp Rock
King Princess took a photo Joe Jonas in 'Camp Rock' to the hairdresser when they were in elementary school.
Lauren Sánchez 'so proud' of blended family with Jeff Bezos
Lauren Sánchez has detailed how she and Jeff Bezos have been blending their families. While speaking to the Wall Street Journal for an interview published on Wednesday, the Killer Movie star walked through a typical day of co-parenting seven children. Lauren shares 15-year-old Eleanor and 16-year-old Evan with her ex-husband Patrick Whitesell, and 21-year-old Nikko with her ex Tony Gonzalez. The media personality's partner Jeff shares three sons and one adopted daughter with his ex-wife Mackenzi
Michael Buble felt less of a superhero after son's cancer diagnosis
Selena Gomez's Bob And Fringe Haircut Is Giving Us Major 1970s Vibes
Selena Gomez took to Instagram to share an adorable throwback picture with her friend, Connar Franklin. They both sport a 70s short bob and fringe haircut.

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Located near River Rhine next to Johanniterbrücke, in the centre of Basel's most innovative neighbourhood when it comes to design and art, you find a small shop called Marinsel. The English translation of the slogan might be something like "A Space for Fashion and Things Related". And what's that, exactly?
Marinsel exhibits over 50 labels, most of them Swiss, all of them young and relatively unknown. And that's a good thing: because these labels surf the highest waves of innovation when it comes to design and fashion. Independent and on the brink of breakthrough, the labels sold at Marinsel represent the latest trends in fashion.
The assortment changes all the time, as Marinsel manager Marianne Mumenthaler is constantly looking for new trends, products and designers. It's worth having a look every now and then, there is always something new to see.
So next time you think about what to get or what to wear, try Marinsel. You will doubtlessly find something great and cool and trendy and on top, you support young designers and the Swiss fashionscape.
Open Thursday and Friday 2 pm to 7 pm and on Saturdays from 11 am to 5 pm.


I'm planning on purchasing MC in the near future. I was wondering if MC can take advantage of AMD 64's dualcore? Anyone notice any speed benefits?
From what the developers say, there is some benefit in study(indicator) calculation when using a dual-core system. If your trading involves frequently calculating multiple complex studies, this may be worth the investment.
I have tried 1.9 on various PCs with 1 to 4 cores. I find the major benefit of a multicore system is encountered when more than one symbol or study is tracked at once. There is relatively little speed pickup when a single study is posted to single symbol, even for a relatively complex study.


June 16, 2008 Backyard birdwatchers will love this wildlife spy-cam from Wingscapes. The motion-activated BirdCam is designed to capture video and digital photos of birds and small animals while you're not around to see them.
The weatherproof camera boasts easy operation and three capture modes; auto, which makes use of an Infrared sensor to capture images based on motion detection; manual, which includes remote control operation from a distance of up to 30 feet away: and time lapse mode.
The camera supports a 4GB memory card and includes a USB cable for downloading your images to computer plus a TV-out cable. The photo size can be preset to either High (2048x1536), Med (1328x996) or Low (640x480) resolution, so at the highest setting its roughly equivalent to a 3.1 megapixel camera. Video capture is is 640 x 480 at 10fps for a 10 second AVI clip.
The adjustable focus works at a distance of 18-inches or farther and a laser aiming device is incorporated to make setting-up the focus easier. The device is also "specially engineered to discriminate against non-bird movement" according to Wingspan so it shouldn't be triggered by moving plants. BirdCam can be tripod-mounted or attached to stationary object and there's also an add-on mounting arm available.
The applications for the device are of course not limited to monitoring the backyard birdhouse - all sorts of critters could be caught in the act from short range and time lapse mode could be used to watch flowers budding or a host of other scenarios. The device is also being used by field biologists and professional ornithologists as a tool for research.
The Wingscapes BirdCam retails for USD$249.99 plus $29.00 for a mounting arm.
Via Wingscapes / Picture Snob.


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Terézia Poliaková (ur. 2 kwietnia 1989 w Breźnie) – słowacka biathlonistka, uczestniczka Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2014.

Podczas igrzysk w Soczi wzięła udział w dwóch konkurencjach biathlonowych. W biegu indywidualnym na 15 km zajęła 66. miejsce, wystąpiła również w sztafecie, jednak Słowacja nie została w niej sklasyfikowana.

Trzykrotnie wystąpiła w biathlonowych mistrzostwach świata. W 2013 roku zajęła 47. miejsce w biegu indywidualnym, w 2015 roku była 37. w biegu indywidualnym, 57. w sprincie, 49. w biegu pościgowym i 19. w sztafecie, a rok później zajęła 39. miejsce w sprincie, 58. miejsce w biegu pościgowym i 14. w sztafecie.

Dwa razy uczestniczyła również w mistrzostwach świata juniorów. W 2009 roku była 11. w sztafecie i 44. w biegu indywidualnym. Rok później zajęła 46. miejsce w biegu indywidualnym, dziewiąte w sztafecie i 43. w biegu pościgowym.

W Pucharze Świata najlepszy indywidualny rezultat osiągnęła w biegu pościgowym w Hochfilzen w sezonie 2014/2015, zajmując 28. miejsce.

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Carriera
È stato selezionato dai Chicago Bulls al quarto giro del Draft NBA 1986 (74ª scelta assoluta).

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Qatar Airways will fly in agents from across the GCC to attend the event at InterContinental Hotel Dubai Festival City on March 16.
ATN has joined forces with The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Qatar Airways to run a mega training day for GCC travel agents.
The partners have sent out invitations to 300 travel agents across the region inviting them to the event, which will be staged at the brand new InterContinental Hotel Dubai Festival City on March 16.
The key aim of the initiative, which is being organised in conjunction with PATA's GCC representation company, Fusion Marketing, is to educate the trade on how to sell Asia Pacific destinations to both business and leisure travellers.
With this in mind, the event will feature informal presentations from five tourism boards - Australia, New Zealand, India, Thailand and Malaysia.
Fusion marketing executive director and PATA;s regional director Nicki Page, said the PATA event was being staged in response to positive agent and tourism board feedback from a similar smaller-scale session staged for UAE agents in April last year.
"PATA's objectives in the region are the faciliation of business to from and within Asia Pacific and this event gives a great platform to talk with the industry to better support their understanding of what's new in Asia Pacific, as relevant to the outbound Gulf traveller We aim with our partners to make this a yearly event," she added.
Rather than showing the agents promotional videos and giving power point presentations, the training day will be interactive and involve question and answer sessions involving the tourism board and the trade, explained Gemma Greenwood, the senior group editor of ITP Business, which publishes Arabian Travel News.
"There will also be quizzes to ensure agents are making the most of the training opportunity and prizes from the tourism boards, Qatar Airways and IHG will be up for grabs," she said.
"This is a prime opportunity for agents to brush up on their Asia Pacific knowledge and learn how to better sell the many destinations this vibrant region has to offer their clients."
Event organisers are currently lining up a dynamic keynote speaker to kick off the event, while both Qatar Airways and IHG will give presentations aimed at helping agents sell their products and services.
In addition, an afternoon panel session involving key industry professionals from the region will debate several relevant topics, ranging from zero commission to medical tourism opportunities.
Travel agents from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman have been invited to the event, which is by invitation only.
However, expressions of interest in attending the event should be e-mailed to cc@fusion-mgt.com.
Agents attending from outside the UAE will be flown to Dubai on March 15 by Qatar Airways and hosted for one night at the InterContinental Hotel Dubai Festival City, which is located 2km from Dubai airport and boasts 498 rooms, including 121 suites, three Presidential Suites and one Royal Suite.
The agent training day partners and ATN's sister publication Meetings Industry Middle East are also joining forces to stage a similar seminar for corporate clients on June 14-15 with the aim of showcasing meetings and incentives facilities and services in Asia Pacific.


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Anne Yao
Bamboo Curtain Studio
Intra-Asia Network
Ssamzie Space
Intra Asia Network (IAN) – A secret society for Asian artistic directors
First day of workshops in Taiwan, 2005. Participants were divided into groups to discuss different topics. Courtesy of Bamboo Curtain Studio.
Bamboo Curtain Studio (BCS) has been an independent art organization since its establishment in 1995. Like many of our Asian peers, we looked up to occidental art organizations for networking and resources for development. Nevertheless, during the Res Artis (the global artists-in-residency alliance) annual meeting in 2004, Asian members realized that they were strangers to each other and very different in operating structure compared to the occidental members. That is why BCS called for a gathering for Asian artistic directors to address the issue.
A typhoon crashed into the whole island on the second day of workshops in Taiwan, but we managed to find a venue and continue the workshop in a big group. Courtesy of Bamboo Curtain Studio.
We started to envision how things could work with Asia as a center. The presenter was Aki Hoashi of ARCUS Project, Japan, on the second day of workshops in Taiwan. Courtesy of Bamboo Curtain Studio.
With support of our Council for Cultural Affairs (now the Culture Ministry), local governments and the Asian Cultural Council, we successfully had 40 people from 16 Asian countries gathered in Taiwan to discuss the similarities and differences among us, the management of difficulties, and how we could possibly form a supporting group to share experiences and resources. It was a three-day workshop held at several sites in Taiwan. On the second day, we were trapped in Tainan city because all the traffic systems were shut down due to floods caused by heavy rain. Eventually we managed to find a venue to continue the discussion and we were well received by a local company in their canteen since all businesses outside were closed. We had a convivial evening enjoying the karaoke despite the cruel weather. Mutual understanding and trust were then forged among the participants after the typhoon and intensive communication. The participants agreed to form a network that facilitated more exchanges and collaborations within Asia, and that's how the name "Intra Asia Network" (IAN) first came about. Unfortunately, Peewee (Norberto Roldan) of Green Papaya had to cancel his attendance at the last minute due to the political turmoil in Manila.
Right after the workshop, BCS initiated an action research titled "Mapping Asian Artists' Mobility." We sent out 400 surveys to Asian art organizations, trying to understand the correlation between these art hubs and the energetic flow of artists, how these art hubs could develop partnership with one another, and the way they survived under the local atmosphere. The outcome of the research was a report titled "Below the Radar Screen: dynamic new artist led movements in Asia" that was first presented in IAN's next meeting in Korea in 2006.
Discussion on possible structure of a new network, still on day 2. The presenter was Averyl Rodrigues from The Necessary Stage in Singapore. Courtesy of Bamboo Curtain Studio.
All participants enjoyed the convivial karaoke night in Tainan while the typhoon raged outside. Courtesy of Bamboo Curtain Studio.
Peewee (Norberto Roldan) from Green Papaya gave a short presentation about his expectations during the opening of the IAN workshop in Korea, 2006. Courtesy of Bamboo Curtain Studio.
Though it's always painful to get funding, after the 2005 workshop, we thought it was indispensable for members to meet in person so as to develop a more concrete guideline and to initiate some pilot projects as models for future collaboration. The 2006 meeting was hosted by Ssamzie Space, with Dr. Kim Hung-hee as its director, and co-organized by BCS and BizArt from Shanghai, China. Peewee had a problem again getting a visa because he lacked a financial certificate (a common problem for art workers actually). Luckily, the situation was solved before his departure. This time, 33 participants from 15 Asian countries attended the event. We were divided into three groups to investigate these topics:
1. Alternative strategies for residency programs
2. Funding intra Asia connections – resource development and policy
3. Reinforcing cooperation – international exchanges
As there were newcomers and some collaboration proposals were raised this time, we all agreed to go full steam with this intra Asia exchange. Several members were delegated to transform the discussion into action. Therefore, a Yahoo! group, a website, and a Wikipedia page were established with joint effort to showcase this new network and to facilitate regional communication.
Group photo of workshop group 3 participants in Gwangju, Korea. Courtesy of Ssamzie Space.
Last workshop session was held in Ssamzie Space, Seoul. Courtesy of Ssamzie Space.
Say "Yes" to IAN 2006 in Seoul. Courtesy of Ssamzie Space.
However, as IAN was designed to be a loose network and all members were volunteers to common affairs, members were then easily dragged by their daily business. It was rather difficult to pull things together. BCS made some attempts like curating a "harbor festival" inviting artists from Asian harbor cities but eventually could only invite two Asian artists to join the residency program in Tamsui, Taipei, lacking the financial support for a bigger event.
Somehow a good relationship was maintained among all members despite malfunction of the network. BCS has been using the connections for regional artists referral and to learn intra Asia happenings. For example, BCS has made an artist exchange program with several Asian art organizations including 98B in the Philippines. IAN is still fruitful as an organic platform and can be considered a great tool for Asian artistic directors, even after years of fading into the background.
With a background in social studies, Anne Yao has been a cultural practitioner since 1998, specializing in cross-cultural exchange programming and impact research. She worked with Bamboo Curtain Studio from 1998 to 2010 and helped organize many milestone projects with its founder, Margaret Shiu. She currently lives and works in Taipei where she has been focusing more on art intervention initiatives with her husband, artist Yuyo Pan.
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Mio Iwakiri. "Hot Workshop in a Big Typhoon." (1 Sep 2005)
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Building your wealth is almost every person's dream. After years of hard work and toil, you want something to show for it. But how do you set aside the needs of the present and invest in your future? Here's a quick but comprehensive guide on how to do just that.
Sit down and make a budget. First things first. You can't build wealth if you don't save money, and you can't save money if you don't know what you have and how you spend it. You probably already know the basics of how to do a budget — and if you don't, click on the link above — so we won't bore you with the nitty gritty. The big picture to remember is that setting a reasonable budget that you can stick to and learn from is a huge (!) step towards the ultimate financial independence.
Set aside part of every paycheck you earn. How much you set aside is up to you. Some swear by 10% to 15%, others by figures a little higher. But the younger you start saving, the more time you spend saving, and the less you probably need to put away. So start saving early, even if you're only setting aside 10%.
Another rule of thumb that people use is the rule of 8x. This rule of thumb recommends that you save 8 times the salary you have by the time you retire. By this yardstick, you'd do well to have 1x your salary saved by age 35, 3x your salary saved by 3X by 45, and 5X by 55.
Employers sometimes match 401(k) plans. This means that for every dollar of your salary that you put into your 401(k) plan, your employer will put in another dollar from their pocket. Hypothetically, if you contribute $2,500 to your 401(k) and your employer matches, they'll also pay out $2,500 for a total of $5,000. That's the closest thing to "free" money you'll probably ever get. Take advantage of it.
If you want to learn more about 401(k) plans, click here. A 401(k) plan is retirement account where the money you put into it is tax deferred, meaning it's not taxed until a later date or possibly not at all.
Put money into a Roth IRA — early! Like a 401(k), a Roth IRA is a retirement account that gets invested and potentially isn't taxed. There's an individual limit to how much you can contribute to your IRA annually ($5,000), but a goal you might have — especially in your 20s and 30s — is to hit this max contribution every year.
Here's how effectively a Roth IRA can help you build wealth. If a 20-year-old person contributes the maximum $5,000 to their IRA every year for 45 years at 8% annual growth, magic things happen. By the time they retire, they'll have a portfolio of over $1.93 million. That's $1.7 million more than if you'd just stuck that money into a regular savings account.
How do Roth IRAs produce such wonderful wealth? Through compound interest. This is how compound interest works. A bank or other institution gives you interest on your IRA, but instead of pocketing that interest, you put it back into your pool. Then, the next time you get interest, you're not only gaining interest, but interest from your interest as well.
As with all savings vehicles, the earlier you start, the better. If you make a one-time contribution of $5,000 at age 20 and then let it sit for 45 years at 8% growth, you'd have a whopping $160,000. If, on the other hand, you make a one-time contribution of $5,000 at age 39, by retirement age that $5,000 would only be about $40,000. So start early!
Wean yourself off of credit and debit cards. While credit cards can be incredibly useful in some situations, they can promote really bad financial behavior in others. That's because credit cards can encourage people to spend money they don't have, to push very real worries farther out into the future until they finally become unavoidable.
Not only this, scientists have discovered that the human brain thinks about credit and real money very differently. One study found that credit card users outspent cash users by an average of 12% to 18%, while McDonald's found that people who pay with plastic spend an average of $2.50 more in their stores than their cash counterparts. Why is this?
We don't know for sure, but we think that cold, hard cash feels a lot more like "money" than credit cards do, perhaps because the money isn't physically present when you swipe the card. In short, credit can feel like Monopoly money — fake — in the primitive part of our brains.
Save your tax refund, or at least spend it wisely. When the government issues a tax refund at the beginning of the year, many people go on a spending spree. They think, "Hey, here's this windfall. Why don't I spend it and have some fun with it?" While this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do on occasion (and given good circumstances), it doesn't exactly help you build wealth. Instead of spending the tax refund, try to save it, invest it, or use it to pay off significant debts that you have. It may not feel as good as spending it on a new set of deck chairs or a rebuilt kitchen, but it will help you achieve your goal of preparing for the future.
Whenever you make a bigger purchase, divide the cost of the item into your hourly wage. So if you're eyeing those $300 pair of shoes, but you only make $12/hour, that's 25 hours of work, or more than half a work week. Are the shoes worth that much to you? Sometimes, they will be.
Cut your savings goals into smaller chunks. Instead of setting a goal of saving $5,500 per year, think in terms of months, weeks, or even days. Think, "Today I'm going to try to save $15 and put it away." If you do that for every day of the year, that will turn into $5,500.
Talk to a certified financial planner. Have you ever heard the phrase "It takes money to make money?" Well, when it comes to a good financial planner, that's often the case. A financial planner will cost you money, especially if she's a good one. But the idea is that she'll ultimately make you more money than she charges. By that measure, it's a good investment. It will help you build wealth.
A good financial planner does a whole lot more than manage your money. She teaches you about investment strategies, explains short- and long-term goals, helps you develop a healthy emotional and rational relationship with wealth, and tells you when to spend some of your hard-earned shekels.
Think about investing in an index. If you invest in the S&P 500, for example, or the Dow Jones, what you're doing is betting on the American economy to succeed. Many investors think that dumping money into an index is a relatively safe and smart bet.
Think about investing in a mutual fund. A mutual fund is a collection stocks or bonds that are bundled together to pool risk. While they tend not to make as much money as dumping all your money into one or two stocks, it's much less risky.
Try not to get tangled up in day trading. You may think that you can make a killing off the stock market by buying low and selling high each and every day, but time will eventually catch up to you and prove you wrong. Even if you marshall solid business fundamentals, industry health, or other value-investing tenets when making your picks, what you're doing is essentially speculating, or gambling, instead of investing. And when it comes to gambling, the house almost always wins.
A mountain of academic research has found that day trading is not profitable. Not only are you incurring big transaction fees each and every day, but you're usually only seeing 25% and 50% increases — if you're lucky. It's very hard to time the stock market correctly. The people who simply choose good stocks and leave their money invested for long periods of time usually make far more money than people who flit back and forth buying and selling.
Consider putting money into foreign or emerging markets. For a long, long time, United States stocks and bonds were the most lucrative thing you could invest in. Now, emerging markets are offering more growth in certain sectors. Investing in foreign stocks or bonds will round out your portfolio and give it the risk reduction that you might not otherwise find.
Consider buying a home you can afford and building equity in it instead of paying rent. Buying a mortgage is probably one of the single most expensive purchases you'll make in your life, but that shouldn't dissuade you from buying a home you can afford if the financials make sense. Because why pay hundreds or thousands of dollars in rent to a landlord with no property to show instead of building equity in something that you can one day fully call your own? If you're financially ready to own a home (they cost a lot of money to upkeep), this can be a sound move.
Flip homes with caution. Be wary about flipping. Flipping is when you buy a house, quickly upgrade it for as little money as possible, and then put the upgraded house on the market so that you can make a profit. Houses can be flipped, and some have done so profitably, but houses can also founder on the market for a long time, become money pits, or simply cost more than someone is willing to pay for them.
Live within your means. This is one of the hardest lessons people attempt to learn as they learn more about personal finance. Live within your means now in order to live above your means later. If you live beyond your means now, expect to live below it in the future. For most people, it's easier to move up the ranks comfort instead of down.
Institute a mandatory waiting period. Wait at least a week, possibly even to the end of the month when you have a better idea of what your finances will be. If you still want to buy the item after a week or longer, it's probably not an impulse buy anymore.
Don't go grocery shopping when you're hungry and, for God's sake, make a list. Several studies have shown that people who shop while they're hungry buy more than they need as well as more caloric foods. So eat before you leave to go grocery shopping, and make a list. Then, at the grocery store, only buy the items on your list, giving yourself one or two exceptions. That way, you'll buy what you need, not what you think you may need. Remember, research suggests that approximately 12% of what you purchase at the grocery store will end up thrown out anyway, so do not add to the expense of purchasing items that you will not eat.
Buy items online, and in bulk! Instead of buying one box of Kleenex that you know you'll run through in a month, get smart and buy a year's supply. Retailers heavily discount items bought in bulk, passing the savings onto you. And if you're really looking for the most bang for your bulk, check out prices online before you buy in person. Online prices are often much cheaper because retailers don't have to pay for as much labor or show space — only warehousing.
Bring lunch to work more often than not. If buying lunch costs $10 on average and bringing lunch only costs $5 on average, that's a savings of $1,300 over the course of a year. That's more than enough to start a small rainy day or emergency fund in case you suffer any unexpected costs or lose your job. Of course, you want to balance thriftiness with sociability, so carve out a little time and money to eat out with your co-workers every once in a while.
If you have a house with a mortgage, refinance your mortgage to save a lot of money. Refinancing your mortgage can shave thousands of dollars off your monthly payments over the life of the loan. Especially if you started off with an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) and your interest rates have gotten more expensive to deal with, you should consider refinancing.
Learn to earn. If you find that your skills limit your earning potential consider going back to school. Trade school and community colleges have so much more to offer for your dollar. If your interest lies in the computer industry, for example, many community colleges offer computer certification tests.
The tuition and fees are usually less expensive and the training consumes less time than traditional degrees because you don't have to take basic courses like math, English and history to get a technology or skills degree! As a bonus you can take many required courses for a two year degree online.
Also, it's worth noting, you shouldn't underestimate the power of an associate degree. After all many employers just want to see that you can finish your program and be self-motivated to improve yourself, while others just want "the paper."
Continue to network with peers in the industry. Don't be afraid of office politics; "scratching" someone else's back an in order to have yours "scratched" could be a very good thing.
Support community cooperation. Keep tabs on community endeavors such as the local chamber of commerce and the Small Business Association. Spend time volunteering there, talking with members, and giving back to your community. Just like with networking, you never know how you might impact a life, or how they might impact yours. It pays to have a lot of lines in the water when fishing.
Learn to use your money. After learning the delicate dance of scrimping and saving, of sacrificing for your future, it's good to remind yourself that once in a while, it's good to spend. Because, after all, money isn't an end in itself. It is a means to an end, and its true value lies in what you can buy with it, not in how much you have by the time you die. So learn to treat yourself to life's simple and not-so-simple pleasures once in a while — a ticket to Verdi, a trip to China, a pair of leather shoes. That way, you can also learn to enjoy life while you're living it.
How many years should you stay in a house before you refiance?
No particular length of time. You would refinance when interest rates drop significantly.
Read- yes, read. Read everything, know what's going on in your industry (trends, new concepts), learn what's going on in the World. This is a global economy and likely whatever is happening in the world is affecting your industry.
If your company offers a 401k plan then contribute. The company almost always matches your contribution up to a certain percentage. That's FREE MONEY!- you didn't have to do anything to get that extra money except give yourself money. It can't be any easier than that.
Don't spend your savings for desires and wants.
Don't work for minimum wage- after all they (the business) would pay you less, if it were legal.
If you currently invest in a 401k or similar program, whatever you do- DON'T BORROW AGAINST IT, there are heavy consequences.
Investing advice: Don't eat the seed (no crop) or eat all of your chicken's fertile eggs (no baby chicks).
All your hens will get old and leave no income!
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Do you ever feel fed up with your life? Have you ever fantasized about just walking away from everything? Then this is for you. Gift yourself the ultimate freedom this Christmas!
Do you ever feel fed up with your life? Whether you feel trapped, anxious, frustrated, even lost, in a life you never chose, which just seemed to happen to you without your permission, and sometimes over a quiet drink or as you struggle to sleep at night, you wonder what things would be like if you could start all over again.
Well, the first thing to say is that you're not alone. A Gallup survey in 2017 found that 85% of people in the USA were unhappy with their jobs, and a similar study in 2015 in the UK reported that 69% people feel trapped in the same old routine, and over 40% are unhappy with their lives.
As we stretch to bridge the gaps between the many personalities and faces –real and virtual– that we've created for ourselves, anxiety is fast becoming our default mode, with 40 million adults suffering in the US alone (and those are just the ones who've realized it).
Whatever the fundamental reasons behind these statistics, it seems clear that what has been termed the 'unhappiness epidemic' affecting life and society is a by-product of hypermodern living. We're in the midst of a global identity crisis, and true to form, this generation has so far handled the apparent nadir of fragmented existence with dry wit and self-effacing humor. But, is it really a sustainable solution?
There seems to be an alternative out there, though, and it's not what we expected. Enter We Disappear You, a fairly opaque group of experts offering a very, very niche service. They help people "start again, from scratch, somewhere new, with a blank slate, in a distant place, where either no-one or perhaps only a select few know where you are or how to contact you, in total or partial secrecy and anonymity, depending on your needs, for a short period or for good, to a city abroad, to a farmhouse, a cabin, or even a halfway house while you decide what's next."
After all, in our service-based economy and with our devices leaving a digital trail wherever we go, it makes sense to get some help ironing out the details.
It's a big promise, and an even bigger decision to make. But the idea of sunning ourselves, un-hassled, on a Greek island, or waking up to no notifications on a Swiss mountainside, is an intriguing one. So if all you want for Christmas this year is to leave it all behind and start over again, with a whole new beginning, then maybe it's worth a shot.
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Meitaki! Tourism operators inspire young
Tuesday 18 June 2019 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
Left: A representative from The Vaka Cruise receives Paul Turepu's A1 Meitaki Award from Aitutaki mayor Tekura "Poo" Bishop on Friday last week. 19061710
Renowned lagoon tour company The Vaka Cruise was the big winner at the A1 Meitaki Awards on the island of Aitutaki on Friday last week.
It claimed four awards, including three going to its staff Arerau "Ali" Maao, Paul Turepu and Andrew Rave, for providing excellent customer service to the tourism industry. Twelve recipients in total were bestowed with the A1 Meitaki Awards.
The award is presented to deserving individuals and businesses for encouraging "the Kia Orana spirit".
The event coincided with the official opening of the new Cook Islands Tertiary Training Institute campus at the old Amuri School, as well as the Te Rito and Training Institute graduation ceremony for Aitutaki students.
It was attended by prime minister Henry Puna, who is also the minister responsible for tourism and education, as well as the mayor of Aitutaki Tekura "Poo" Bishop.
Last week, Cook Islands Tourism celebrated the Kia Orana Week activities with the Tereora College Careers Day at the Domes.
Cook Islands Tourism director of destination development Metua Vaiimene said over 500 students from Year 10 to Year 13, participated in the careers day.
"On Wednesday, Cook Islands Tourism alongside other government agencies and a number of businesses joined Tereora College at their careers expo. The event showcased a number of career pathway options available to students here in the Cook Islands," Vaiimene said.
"In the end all four colleges on Rarotonga managed to send their students to the careers day planned initially for Tereora students only."
Vaiimene added the Cook Islands Tourism staff focused on enlightening the students on the different career paths offered at the Tourism Office.
"Many of the students expressed their interest in wanting to work for Cook Islands Tourism, and to be able to give back to their community so they were all signed up to an email database to receive more information about tourism in the future."


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New systematic World War only a matter of time
Arthur Blok Apr 16, 2020	China, Exclusive, Interview, News, Science, Security, United States 3 Comments
The world is so focussed on the latest figures of Covid-19 deaths and infection statistics, only few people realize what is pending in the background; a new global systematic war. Dutch political scientist Ingo Piepers (PhD) expects a new systematic war to erupt in the nearby future: "It has not yet started, but that it is only a matter of time."
By Arthur Blok
In 2016, the Dutch scientist published his thesis '2020: WARning' in which he elaborates on the phenomenon of wars. In his thesis, he asserts that the global system produced, and still produces, two types of wars: systemic and non-systemic. He qualifies the latter as small wars, for example, between two nations with limited effects on the other hand, systemic wars could be qualified as 'world wars' and have a 'rebalance' of the global system as a result.
In his thesis Piepers states that systemic wars are periodically necessary in anarchistic systems to rebalance relationships among states and to implement upgraded international orders that provide, at least temporarily, relative stability to the world system. Not necessarily a traditional war where tanks and soldiers are on the frontline, but a war of information and psychological control.
Piepers elaborated on the current global events exclusively for The Levant.
If you analyse what is currently happening on the world stage with Covid-19 and the US-China crisis on the background, did the systematic war, that you predicted in 2016, start?
"To answer this question, it is also important to know how a next systemic war – that is a world war – will manifest itself. For sure, it will be fundamentally different from the last systemic war, the Second World War. Other technology is now available, such as the Internet, which also allows for other forms of warfare, such as cyber war.
Another factor that determines the form and shape of a next systemic war is how social systems, including the international system and societies, are structured. A next systemic war will be a mixture of more traditional forms of warfare between states involving 'armies', but also involve populations and communities. That is my guess.
My research suggests that the international system will become critical this year plus or minus two years. I think that at this point it has not yet started, but that it is only a matter of time."
Piepers has studied all the major wars and global conflicts since 1495 up until present time. He elaborated on the Cold War period after the last systematic war (the Second World War: 1940 – 1945) up until present-day, a chaotic time in which the number of unresolved issues grew, and tensions accumulated in our global system.
Earlier this week US president Donald Trump escalated his war of words against the World Health Organization (WHO). He vowed to cut all US funds to the WHO and called for an investigation into the WHO's wrong calls in the Covid-19 crisis.
Is this something that is likely to further escalate post-corona, involving other Western states like we saw with the trade embargo against China?
"Trump's decision to suspend funding of the WHO will result in further politicization of the pandemic, also at the international stage. The pandemic further sharpens all kinds of issues, and also negatively affects international cooperation. Because communication and coordination structures are also affected, the risk of misunderstandings has also increased.
Irrespective of the question if WHO has reacted adequately or not, Trump apparently hopes to kill two birds with one stone, with this controversial decision: (1) shifting responsibility of his own inadequate and late response to the pandemic to the WHO and China, and (2) shifting attention away from issues in the US to rivalries with China, he can then exploit.
In this way Trump hopes to control and to manipulate the narrative. Trump knows how to make enemies for political purposes, and how to use them for his own advantage. Trump has become more vulnerable in the upcoming US elections because of the pandemic and his handling of it: The US economy is now in tatters, while the economy was his main promise for the campaign. More erratic decisions and accusations are to be expected."
The PhD research of Piepers focuses on improving the overall understanding of war, the involved dynamics and the element of social evolution in the global system. Piepers makes use of complexity and network science, and modern thermodynamics identifying patterns in war dynamics that are produced by dissipate structures.
Will there be any significant shift of power on the world stage post-corona?
"It is too early to answer this question. The purpose of a systemic war – that is of a world war – is to 'interactively' design and implement an upgraded international order, that again reflects the actual balance of power and spheres of influence in the international system. This interactive process includes the formation of alliances, war-fighting and negotiations.
The current international order is obsolete, which explains its dysfunctionality and the accumulation of (unresolved) issues and tensions. A systemic war is also a lengthy process. That a shift of power occurs at the world stage, is without doubt (that is what a systemic war is about)."
Who will be the main actors?
"That are of course the United States and China, but countries like India and Russia also play a decisive role by choosing sides. Although the US has overwhelming military capabilities and assuming they actually have utility in a next systemic war, it does not automatically mean that the US is destined to become again the next superpower that can dictate the rules of a next international order.
Hard power matters, but also does the ability to form alliances, and the ability to deploy soft power. Trump's reckless and ill-considered decisions do not bode well for the US in case of a next systemic war. The WHO matters, maybe not for Trump – other than as a scapegoat – but it does for numerous other countries. Thus, a significant shift of power is only a matter of time, and of which the pandemic can be a trigger, but the outcome of this shift cannot be predicted at this time.
Is a Pax China a likely outcome?
"That can be an outcome, but it cannot be predicted at this stage."
The IMF called the current economic crisis caused by the so called 'Great Lockdown' the worst economic downturn since the great depression.
Is China to be held responsible for that?
"No, that is not an accurate state of affairs. Although China could have contributed to the wide spread of the coronavirus by withholding information, as is stated by some, the economic downturn is above all the result of numerous interacting variables in the international system.
You can also argue that the economic downturn is a consequence of the (initially) ineffective response of European countries and the US, when disturbing information became available from China. In essence, the US response to the spread of the virus in January and February 2020, was not much different from China's response in November and December 2019: one of underestimation and denial, and overestimation of the ability to control the spread virus. Both Xi and Trump should have known better.
The fact that the virus is as economically and politically destructive as it is, reflects the state of the international system at this point in time. Typically, systemic wars are preceded by increased rivalries and tensions that undermine international cooperation. This condition of the system makes that the pandemic causes so much economic and political damage. Whereas during the financial crisis in 2007-2008, international cooperation was still possible at a global scale and also in Europe, that is now no longer the case."
Arthur Blok is the Executive editor-in-chief of the Levant
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A change is definitely on its way. But would it be a systemic war or a mutiny on the bounty? I see it more coming from within, from the disappointed citizens of the world, who have seen with their own eyes, on their own cremated parents, the incapacity of their governments and leaders: and I say all countries… (excluding maybe Germany who handled the crisis better: or just hid the real numbers ?).
In any case, political systems are a failure.
Economical systems are a failure: just look at the EU and how when it came to actually act as one entity retracted and failed Italy unwilling to help with the Covid bound.
Health systems are a failure.
The systemic war coming upon us will be a war on the systems, who only proved to be there only to take never to give back.
Identifying patterns of shifting hegemony is quite common in the study of international relations, including the wars that indicate shifts between superpowers. Eg. around 1800, 1914-1945, but also earlier. Piepers elaborates on that and projects that into the near future.
China – US tensions have been noticeable for a long time. They did not start with Trump, already Obama pledged a 'pivot to Asia' in response to what was seen as challenges by China of US supremacy in the region.
By saying that he does not know what such a systemic war will look like, Piepers leaves an important question open. But the main characteristic of these systemic wars in the recent past have been the mobilization of a large part of the economy and population.
More recent trends seem to be a number of smaller-scale actions and provocations: the Russian annexation of the Crimea, cyber operations by Russia, China, the US, but also Iran, Israel, trade wars. These actions are disturbing, often dangerous, but with these kinds of actions the balance of power will not be overturned. Whether the shifts in power will take the form of systemic war, is far from certain. A long time many people believed that US and the Soviet-Union would go to war one day. That situation changed without war.
Ingo Piepers
Dear Addie,
In response to your comment: Typically, in systemic wars all Great Powers in the internationale system get actively involved. At stake is a next internationale order, and the values that will underpin it. Systemic wars involve: alliance dynamics, war-fighting and negotiations. It will affect all domains.
How such a war will fought 'in detail', can not be predicted at this stage.
I think the current situation is much more fluid and unpredictable (chaotic) than was the case when the Soviet-Union collapsed, and was (at least for some time) preoccupied with consolidating its crumbling sphere of influence. See also global4cast.org for more background and context.
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