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January 3, 2016
The Books I Read in 2015
As they occur to me I'll add things that have escaped me.
A short history of China and Southeast Asia : tribute, trade and influence, Stuart-Fox, Martin
Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula, Paul Michel Munoz
The Looting Machine: Tom Burgis (Reviewed)
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, Andrew G. Walder
Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics, edited volume
China's search for security / Andrew J. Nathan, Andrew Scobell
The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan, Akiko Hashimoto
Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence, Joshua Rovner
Art of Rulership : A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought, Roger T. Ames
Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities, Anna Sun
The Birth of Vietnam, Keith Weller Taylor
Frontières de sable, frontières de papier : histoire de territoires et de frontières, du jihad de Sokoto à la colonisation française du Niger, XIXe-XXe siècles, Camille Lefebvre
Taming Tibet : Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, Emily T. Yeh
Markets over Mao : the rise of private business in China, Nicholas R. Lardy
How Pol Pot came to power : A history of communism in Kampuchea, 1930-1975, Ben Kiernan
Collateral damage : Sino-Soviet rivalry and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance , 1964-1979, Nicholas Kay-Siang Khoo
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth century : the China factor, edited by Geoff Wade and Sun Laichen
Lost soul: "Confucianism" in contemporary Chinese academic discourse, John Makeham
A History of the Vietnamese, K. W. Taylor
The Rings of Saturn, A novel, W. G. Sebald
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War, P. W. Singer
The Incarnations: A Novel, Susan Barker
Shike, Time of Dragons, Robert Shea
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
Stop-Time: A Memoir, Frank Conroy
Imagined Communitities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson
Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day, Leanne Brown
Tram 83, Mwanza Mujila, Fiston
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914, Bruce Vandervort
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love Karl Ove Knausgaard
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary, Ernest Harsch
The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century, D.W. Gibson
Light Years, James Salter
Burning the Days: Recollection, James Salter
Preparation for the Next Life, A Novel, Atticus Lish
Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Dubois and Emergence of Identity, Appiah, Kwame Anthony
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehesi Coates
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires, Dominic Ziegler (Reviewed)
Confucius and the World He Created, Michael Schuman (Reviewed)
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, Michael Pillsbury (Reviewed)
A Perfect Crime, A Novel, by A Yi (Reviewed)
The Most Wanted Man in China, Fang Lizhi (Reviewed)
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp, Ben Lawrence (Reviewed)
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, Anjam Sundaram
Kongo: Power and Majesty (The Metropolitan Museum)
Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations, Jessica Chen Weiss
The China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era, Liu Mingfu
The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World, Ho-fung Hung
Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, Andrew Mertha
A History of Korea, Michael J. Seth
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion, Donald Keene
Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus
The Mind of the African Strongman, Herman Cohen
Asian Maritime Strategies, Bernard Cole
July 24, 2015
Samori Touré – a quick reading list
I have long been fascinated with this figure, both in terms of the substance of the man's life and in the way he has been treated or mistreated by history, and in popular culture. He easily ranks as one of the most interesting and important African figures of the second half of the nineteenth century, and yet substantive writing on him has always been scarce, especially in terms of what's been written for general audiences. (What a great topic for a graphic novel, a comic book series, especially for African audiences, for film.) I have written about him myself, briefly, in a piece of historically inspired fiction that I hope to soon publish (he is not a central figure, but rather an inspiration for more modern characters). What brought me back to the subject late in the evening, during my ongoing visit to Côte d'Ivoire, was the stumbling upon this archival piece from the New York Times, which dates to 1898 – extraordinary in its own right, for what it says, and what it doesn't. Calling Touré an "African chieftain" exemplifies the casual and ever-present ways that African history and African agency have always been downplayed. The message is, the details don't much matter. Move right along.
Anyway, with no further ado, the readings. The first two items are particularly essential. The others are listed in no particular order:
- Person, Yves (1968–1975). Samori, Une révolution Dyula. 3 volumes,. Dakar: IFAN. p. 2377 pages. (review attached. This seems to be the most ambitious account of his life and era.)
- Firearms, Horses and Samorian Army Organization 1870-1898
- Martin Legassick
- The Journal of African History
- Vol. 7, No. 1 (1966), pp. 95-115 (Excellent and comprehensive on the military, including weapons supply and tactics.)
The French Conquest of Northwest Ivory Coast: The Attempt of the Rulers of Kabadugu to Control the Situation (La conquête française dans le nord-ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire. Tentatives des chefs de Kabadugu pour tirer parti de la situation)
O'Sullivan, John M
Cahiers d'Études Africaines, 1/1/1983, ISSN: 0008-0055, Volume 23, Issue 89/90, p. 121
|OCLC No.
|L'Empereur Almamy Samori Touré [microform] : grand administrateur et grand stratège
|[Conakry, Guinea : Imprimerie nationale, 1971]
|Révolution démocratique africaine ; no 48
|Physical description
|243 p. : port. ; 24 cm
L'Almami Samori Touré Empereur : récit historique
Fofana, Khalil I.
Paris, France : Présence Africaine, 1998.
Kuma Malinke historiography : Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure
Kai, Nubia
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2014]
- Boahen, A. Adu (1990). Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 357 pages. ISBN 0-520-06702-9.
Déportés politiques au bagne de Ndjolé, Gabon, 1898-1913 : l'Almamy Samory Touré, Cheikh Amadou, Bamba Mbacké, Dossou Idéou, Aja Kpoyizoun, et les autres
Mouckaga, Hugues, 1959-
Paris : Harmattan, c2013.
- Ajayi, J.F. Ade, ed. UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VI: Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
- Boahen, A. Adu, ed. UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VII: Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
- Gann, L.H. and Duigan, Peter, ed. Colonialism in Africa, 1870–1960, Vol. 1: The History and Politics of Colonialism 1870-1914, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1969).
Centenaire du souvenir : Almami Samori Touré, 1898-1998 : symposium international de Conakry, du 29 septembre au 1er octobre 1998 : les actes du symposium
Symposium international "Centenaire du souvenir, Almami Samori Touré, 1898-1998″ (1998 : Conakry, Guinea)
Conakry : Éditions Universitaires, 2000.
March 25, 2015
Jeff Fager, Executive Producer, CBS 60 Minutes (by email)
Dear Mr. Fager,
We, the undersigned, are writing to express our grave concern about the frequent and recurring misrepresentation of the African continent by 60 Minutes.
In a series of recent segments from the continent, 60 Minutes has managed, quite extraordinarily, to render people of black African ancestry voiceless and all but invisible.
Two of these segments were remarkably similar in their basic subject matter, featuring white people who have made it their mission to rescue African wildlife. In one case these were lions, and in another, apes. People of black African descent make no substantial appearance in either of these reports, and no sense whatsoever is given of the countries visited, South Africa and Gabon.
The third notable recent segment was a visit by your correspondent Lara Logan to Liberia to cover the Ebola epidemic in that country. In that broadcast, Africans were reduced to the role of silent victims. They constituted what might be called a scenery of misery: people whose thoughts, experiences and actions were treated as if totally without interest. Liberians were shown within easy speaking range of Logan, including some Liberians whom she spoke about, and yet not a single Liberian was quoted in any capacity.
Liberians not only died from Ebola, but many of them contributed bravely to the fight against the disease, including doctors, nurses and other caregivers, some of whom gave their lives in this effort. Despite this, the only people heard from on the air were white foreigners who had come to Liberia to contribute to the fight against the disease.
Taken together, this anachronistic style of coverage reproduces, in condensed form, many of the worst habits of modern American journalism on the subject of Africa. To be clear, this means that Africa only warrants the public's attention when there is disaster or human tragedy on an immense scale, when Westerners can be elevated to the role of central characters, or when it is a matter of that perennial favorite, wildlife. As a corollary, Africans themselves are typically limited to the role of passive victims, or occasionally brutal or corrupt villains and incompetents; they are not otherwise shown to have any agency or even the normal range of human thoughts and emotions. Such a skewed perspective not only disserves Africa, it also badly disserves the news viewing and news reading public.
We have taken the initiative of writing to you because we are mindful of the reach of 60 Minutes, and of the important role that your program has long played in informing the public. We are equally mindful that American views of Africa, a continent of 1.1 billion people, which is experiencing rapid change on an immense scale, are badly misinformed by much of the mainstream media. The great diversity of African experience, the challenges and triumphs of African peoples, and above all, the voices and thoughts of Africans themselves are chronically and woefully underrepresented.
Over the coming decades, Africa will become the backdrop of some of the most significant developments on the planet, from unprecedented population growth, urbanization and economic change to, potentially, the wholesale reconfiguration of states. We would like see to 60 Minutes rethink its approach to Africa, and rise to the challenge of covering topics like these, and many more, that go well beyond the bailiwick of the staid and stereotypical recent examples cited above. In doing so, 60 Minutes will have much to gain, as will the viewing public.
Howard W. French
Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Author of China's Second Continent and A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
Fatin Abbas, Manhattanville College
Akin Adesokan, Novelist and Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Cinema and Film Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Anthony Arnove, Producer, Dirty Wars
Adam Ashforth, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
Sean Jacobs, Faculty, International Affairs, Milano, The New School and Africa is a Country.
Teju Cole, Distinguished Writer in Residence, Bard College/ Photography Critic, The New York Times Magazine
Richard Joseph, John Evans Professor of International History and Politics, Northwestern University
Leon Dash, Swanlund Chair Professor in Journalism, Professor, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael C. Vazquez, Senior Editor, Bidoun: Art and Culture from the Middle East
Achille Mbembe, Professor, Wits University and Visiting Professor of Romance Studies and Franklin Humanities Institute Research Scholar, Duke University
M. Neelika Jayawardane, Associate Professor of English Literature at State University of New York-Oswego, and Senior Editor, AFRICA IS A COUNTRY.
Adam Hochschild, author
Pamela Scully, professor of WGSS and African Studies, Emory College
Eileen Julien, Professor, Comparative Literature, French & Italian, African Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Mohamed Keita, freelance journalist in NYC, former Africa Advocacy Coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Aaron Leaf, Producer, Feet in 2 Worlds, The New School
Dan Magaziner, Assistant Professor, History, Yale University
Marissa Moorman, Associate Professor, Department of History, Indiana University
Sisonke Msimang, Research Fellow, University of Kwazulu-Natal.
Achal Prabhala, Writer and Researcher, Bangalore, India.
Janet Roitman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The New School
Lily Saint, Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University.
Abdourahman A. Waberi, writer and Professor of French and Francophone Studies George Washington University
Binyavanga Wainaina, Writer
Chika Unigwe, Writer
James C. McCann, Chair, Department of Archaeology, Professor of History, Boston University
Susan Shepler, Associate Professor, International Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of International Service, American University
Peter Uvin, Provost, Amherst College
G. Pascal Zachary, professor of practice, Arizona State University
Cara E Jones, PhD, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Mary Baldwin College
James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History / Stanford University
Nii Akuetteh, Independent International Affairs Analyst, Former Executive Director of OSIWA, the Soros Foundation in West Africa
Mary Ratcliff, editor, San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper
James Ferguson, Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor, Stanford University
Alice Gatebuke, Rwandan Genocide and War survivor. Communications Director, African Great Lakes Action Network (AGLAN)
Max Bankole Jarrett, Deputy Director, Africa Progress Panel Secretariat
Mohamed Dicko, retired Computer Applications Analyst in St Louis, Missouri
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, African & Women's Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Adam Ouologuem
John Edwin Mason, Department of History, University of Virginia
Dele Olojede, newspaperman
Dr. Jonathan T. Reynolds, Professor of History, Northern Kentucky University
Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
Claire L. Adida, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego
Lisa Lindsay, University of North Carolina
Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Assistant Prof. of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Duke University
Karin Shapiro, Associate Professor of the Practice African and African American Studies, Duke University
Garry Pierre Pierre, Executive director of the Community Reporting Alliance, New York City
Lynn M. Thomas, Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Washington
Martha Saavedra, Associate Director, Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Kathryn Mathers, Visiting Assistant Professor, International Comparative Studies, Duke University
Siddhartha Mitter, freelance journalist
Alexis Okeowo, Contributor, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine
Susan Thomson, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University
Nicolas van de Walle, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University
David Newbury, Gwendolen Carter professor of African studies, Smith College
Charles Piot, Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology & Department of African and African American Studies Co-Convener Africa Initiative, Duke University
Adia Benton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
Gregory Mann, historian of francophone Africa, Columbia University
Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan
Howard Stein, University of Michigan
Adam Shatz, London Review of Books
Peter Rosenblum, professor of international law and human rights, Bard College
Timothy Longman, African Studies Center Director, Chair of Committee of Directors, Pardee School of Global Studies, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University
Laura E. Seay, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Colby College
Robert Grossman, Producer
Daniel Fahey, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, and served on the UN Group of Experts on DRC from 2013-2015
Jennie E. Burnet, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisville
Kim Yi Dionne, Assistant Professor, Smith College
Lonnie Isabel, Journalist
Karen L. Murphy
Peter Lewis, Director, African Studies Program & Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University – SAIS
Peter Lewis, Director, African Studies Program, Johns Hopkins – SAIS
Pamela Scully, Professor of WGSS and African Studies, Emory University
Ann Garrison, Pacifica Radio reporter/producer and contributor to SF Bay View, Black Agenda Report, Black Star News, Counterpunch, Global Research
Ryan Briggs, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech
Yolande Bouka, PhD, Researcher, Institute for Security Studies
Elliot Fratkin PhD, Gwendolen M. Carter Professor of African Studies, Department of Anthropology, Smith College
Gretchen Bauer, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware
John Woodford, journalist
Frank Holmquist, Professor of Politics, Emeritus, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College
Alice Kang, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Institute for Ethnic Studies – African and African American Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Michel Marriott, journalist, author
Jennifer N. Brass, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Séverine Autesserre, Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
Jill E. Kelly, Assistant Professor, Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University
Dr. Meghan Healy-Clancy, Lecturer on Social Studies and on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Dayo Olopade, journalist, author
Mary Moran, Colgate University
Sharon Abramowitz, UFL
Rebecca Shereikis, Interim Director, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, Northwestern University
Barbara B. Brown, Ph.D., Director of the Outreach Program, African Studies Center, Boston University
Jeffrey Stringer
Duy Linh Tu, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
David Alain Wohl, MD, Associate Professor, The Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andy Sechler, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
John Kraemer, Assistant Professor, Dept of Health Systems Admin. & African Studies Program, Georgetown University
Barbara Shaw Anderson, Associate Director, African Studies Center, Lecturer, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, African Studies Center, University of North Carolina
Adrienne LeBas, Assistant Professor of Government, American University, DC
Catharine Newbury, Professor Emerita of Government, Smith College
Ana M. Ayuso Alvarez, Epidemiology Programme applied to the Field, M. Art (Anthropologist)
Cynthia Haq MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Aili Tripp, Professor of Political Science & Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin
Anne Jebet Waliaula, PhD, Outreach Coordinator, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Judith Oki, Salt Lake City, UT, former Capacity Building Advisor for Rebuilding Basic Health Services, Monrovia, Liberia
Sandra Schmidt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Studies and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Emily Callaci, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Louise Meintjes, Assoc Prof, Departments of Music and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
May Rihani, Former Co-Chair of the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI), Author of Cultures Without Borders
Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Selah Agaba, Doctoral Student, Anthropology & Education Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin
Casey Chapman, Wisconsin
Ted Hochstadt, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Lesotho)
Kah Walla, CEO – STRATEGIES!, Cameroon
Kofi Ogbujiagba, journalist, Madison, Wisconsin
Matthew Francis Rarey, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
David B. Levine, consultant in international development, Washington, DC
Claire Wendland, Medical Anthropologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Frederic C. Schaffer, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Joye Bowman, Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cody S. Perkins, Ph.D. Candidate, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Eric Gottesman, Colby College Department of Art
Lynda Pickbourn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College
Kate Heuisler, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Henry John Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts, Departments of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sarah Forzley, lecturer in the English department at the University of Paris 10- Nanterre (France)
June Cross, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Aaron Bady, postdoctoral fellow, University of Texas – Austin
Laura Doyle, Professor of English,University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Ralph Faulkingham, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology (and former Editor, The African Studies Review), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dr. Jessica Johnson, University of Massachusetts Amherst History Department
Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia ret.
Sean Hanretta, Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University
Iris Berger, Vincent O'Leary Professor of History, University at Albany
Jackson Musuuza, MBChB, MPH, MS, PhD student in Clinical Epidemiology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Dr. Anita Schroven, Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Prof. Dr. Baz Lecocq, Chair of African History, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Monica H. Green, Professor of History, Arizona State University
Sandra Adell, Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology Director, African and African American Studies Program, Acting Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College
Michael Herce, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
Satish Gopal MD MPH, UNC Project-Malawi (Director, Cancer Program), UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
Mina C. Hosseinipour, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, UNC Project, Lilongwe Malawi
Cliff Missen, M.A.
Director, WiderNet@UNC and The WiderNet Project, Clinical Associate Professor
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Groesbeck Parham, Professor, UNC (working in Zambia)
Norma Callender, San Jose
Harry McKinley Williams, Jr., Laird Bell Professor of History, Carleton College
Robtel Neajai Pailey, Liberian academic, London
Rose Brewer, professor, University of Minnesota
Fodei J. Batty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, Quinnipiac University
Graham Wells, MS. PE, (Professor, Retired), Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University
CHOUKI EL HAMEL, Ph.D., Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University
Obioma Ohia, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland Department of Physics
Paschal Kyoore, Professor of French, Francophone African/Caribbean Literatures & Cultures
Director, African Studies Program, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota
Preston Smith, Chair of Africana Studies. Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Catherine E. Bolten. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies. The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Michael Leslie, associate professor of telecommunication, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
Agnes Ngoma Leslie, Senior Lecturer and Outreach Director, Center for African Studies, University of Florida
Martin Murray, Urban Planning and African Studies, University of Michigan
Laura Fair, Associate Professor of African History, Michigan State University
Noel Twagiramungu, Post- doctoral Research Fellow, World Peace Foundation, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Brandon Kendhammer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Afircan Studies Affiliate Faculty, Ohio University
Sabrina Buckwalter, Communications Manager, Columbia University; Associate Producer, DRONE
James A. French, African investment specialist
Terrie Schweitzer, Writer/Consultant, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ghana 2011-2013)
Ken Opalo, Stanford University
Youssouf Traoré
Ron Davis
Robin L. Turner, Associate Professor of Political Science, Butler University
Jeffrey Ahlman, Assistant Professor of History and African Studies, Smith College
Madina Thiam
Michelle Poulin, PhD, Consultant, The World Bank, Africa Region
Felicia Akanmou, Multimedia Journalism Graduate student- Indiana University, Bloomington
Sarah Watkins, Lecturer, Departments of History and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Simon Halliday, Lecturer, Departments of History and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sally Orme, Educator, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Liberia, 2013-2014)
Hisham Aidi, Columbia University
Ann Garrison, contributor to Pacifica Radio KPFA/WBAI, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, Black Agenda Report, Counterpunch, and Global Research
Beth Elise Whitaker, Associate Professor of Political Science, Affiliate Faculty in Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Rachel Strohm, PhD Student, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Nathan J. Combes, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, San Diego
Heather Switzer, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University, research in southern Kenya, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Ethiopia '98-99
Casey Chapman, Ebola Survivor Corps
Aristide Kemla, University of Florida
Peter Schmidt, Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Florida, Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science
Goran Hyden, Distinguished Professor, Political Science, University of Florida
Erika Kirwen, London
Léonce Ndikumana, Professor of Economics, Director of the African Development Policy Program, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Rachael Clifford Ebeledi, Amherst, MA
Mwangi wa Githinji, Economics Department, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Gina Irene Njeru RT(R)(S) ARRT BAS HSA, University of Florida, Center for African Studies Program Assistant
Robin Poynor, PhD, Professor of Art History, School of Art and Art History, University of Florida
Amilcar Shabazz, American Council on Education Fellow, Office of the President, New York University
Kate S. Peabody, Liberian
Alan Neuhauser, reporter.
Matthew Adeiza, PhD Student, Department of Communication, University of Washington, Seattle
Robbie Corey-Boulet, Fellow, Institute of Current World Affairs
Nkemjika E. Kalu, Ph.D., Strategic Analyst, Abuja, Nigeria
Kim Foulds, Program Coordinator, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, Quinnipiac University
Susana Wing, Associate Professor of Political Science
Haverford College
Kevin Fridy, Associate Professor of Government and World Affairs, University of Tampa
Kukunda Liz Bacwayo, Uganda Christian University
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December 24, 2014
A year on the road, briefly recounted
I began the year in Hong Kong, a guest in a friend's familiar box apartment, before moving up the hill to a hotel at the edge of Hong Kong University, which had been my host most of the previous summer, when I'd been a visiting scholar there.
I'd come back to Asia to try and put the elusive finishing touches on the research for my current book project, as well as to report the related piece I did for The Atlantic, which can be found here. I'd worked the same project the previous summer, spending a month in Japan and then living in Hong Kong, where the university was my research base.
I was on academic leave for the spring semester, so this was an opportunity to really roam in pursuit of the details I needed, and so I did. From Hong Kong I flew to Manila on my first-ever visit to the Philippines, staying in the capital for a week or so and interviewing widely, before traveling to the island of Palawan, which figures in the lede of the Atlantic piece, and stands at a sort of front line in the dispute over maritime territory in the South China Sea that pits the Philippines against China
From Palawan, I made my way south (via Manila) on an Air Malaysia flight to Kuala Lumpur, where I stayed in a dive in the old, central Chinatown. In part, this is what travel on book advances does to one, but I also have a fondness for dives that lingers from my earliest years as an impecunious freelancer. I wouldn't want to have to restrict myself to them all the time, but as an occasional element in one's travel, they can be really refreshing, and this turned out to be a great choice, with lively streets and fantastic outdoor food all around. I got out of Kuala Lumpur a little bit, as well, making a day trip to Malacca, among other places.
I am a sucker for train rides, and always have been, so from KL, I took the overnight train to Singapore, enjoying a sleeper car all to myself, but scarcely sleeping. On this one, I Skyped with friends for a little bit, but the internet went in and out, so I finally gave up and listened to music and read and when the early morning light allowed, gazed hypnotically at the scrubland before arrival.
I was only in Singapore for a hot minute, but I was able to pack my stay with interesting interviews and more great meals. A couple of highlights were talks with historians: the formidable Wang Gungwu, who has been at it since the 1960s, and Prasenjit Duara (introduced by the ever generous Jeff Wasserstrom), who invited me to his home for a fantastic dinner with his family, and a long and incredible discussion about China, empire, modernity, tribute and many other things.
I flew to Hanoi from Singapore and stayed the Vietnamese capital for about a week, again interviewing widely — both officials and interesting members of civil society. The latter stage of this stay was hindered a bit by the arrival of the Tê't holiday, leaving me to wander, a bit lonely, in a city where I don't speak the language and didn't have old personal friends. I went back to Bach Mai Hospital, whose Christmas 1972 bombing by the Americans, my father had investigated on behalf of Ted Kennedy and the Senate Committee for Refugees, and later testified about before Congress. It was the third trip I've made to Bach Mai over the years. This time, I found a man who worked at the hospital at the time of the bombings, but no one with any particular recollection of the American investigation team's visit. The stories my father brought back from that trip were the source of some of my first real thoughts about East Asia, and the bombing is something I'd like to write about somehow in the future. I also took a side trip to Halong Bay, where I did something a bit unusual for me, an overnight cabin boat cruise. Hanoi was completely shut down, so I'm glad I went there, but to be in such a beautiful place alone, especially filled with nuzzling couples in full romantic mode was a bit disorienting.
I flew back to Hong Kong from Hanoi (after a week of genuine vacation in Thailand, a guest in the Bangkok home of a very old friend) and stayed there for a few wet and chilly days before switching directions altogether. From HK, I took a long Emirates flight to Nairobi, via Dubai, and stayed in Kenya for about three weeks, initiating a project that would occupy me in the months ahead, consulting with the new journalism program of a Kenyan university. Nairobi is just beneath the equator, so it was warm and sunny at this time of year, and I enjoyed burning off my jet lag by swimming laps after work each day in a great hotel pool.
I'm not good with dates, but by late February or early March I was back in New York. I thought I would have missed the worst of winter, but I was wrong. It was really cold and dark, and it seemed to just keep snowing, storm after storm. What a messy place New York can be this time of year. The great thing about being back, though, was access to Columbia's libraries, which are numerous and in a word, amazing. Most of the reading one finds in this list was done at Columbia, whether Butler, or the East Asia library, or sometimes the libraries of SIPA or the Law School. A number of other titles are not reflected here, including a great many journal articles. I developed a work routine that I'll speak more about later, but which starts with scanning important texts for conversion into PDFs, which I can carry around with me in electronic form (on my phone and iPad) wherever I go and annotate them at will, often heavily, using three pieces of software: Dropbox, GoodReader and Adobe Reader. Since I'm not distributing these materials, no copyright issues arise, and I don't need to worry, either, about marking up books that belong in collections.
In late April and early May, I went back to China, first to Beijing and Tianjin, and then to Taiwan for yet another bit of reporting for my current book project, and interviewed there very intensively. The visit coincided with one of the high water marks of the so-called Sunflower Movement of popular protests over the nature of Taiwan's democracy and its relations with China; not planned, but from a writer's perspective, especially given my topic, fortuitous. I hadn't been to Taiwan for quite some time, and was really charmed by the place, including an afternoon's indulgence very late in my stay, with a visit to a hot spring.
From there, I went back to Africa, starting with nearly a week each in Ghana and Nigeria, two places where I've spent huge amounts of time over the years. In Ghana, there were discussions with journalist colleagues and friends about Ebola, which was just beginning to heat up, but which hadn't really pierced the American infosphere yet. This wasn't the purpose of my trip either. I was there to look at local journalism and at journalism education in West Africa for an ongoing project. I did't get beyond Lagos, but the visit there reinforced my sense that this is one of the most under-covered societies in the world. Lagos is changing very fast and is complicated and sophisticated way, way beyond the enduring stereotypes about the place, and in many ways the future of Africa is bound up in the fate of experiments like this. I've written a bit about that here. In Lagos, I reunited with an old colleague, Tony Iyare, and spent a ton of time with Tolu Ogunlesi, one of the most dynamic and interesting young journalists working in the region. One highlight was beers at sundown listening and dancing to High Life at Freedom Park there, which was once the grounds of the old, colonial prison on Lagos Island.
From Lagos, I flew to Nairobi, where I would base myself for the remainder of the summer, but flew back to New York briefly for the release of my book, and an early burst of related interviews, etc. When I got back to Kenya, I set myself up in a Spartan apartment, walking to work each day through dusty, chaotic streets, and spending evenings trying to organize my thoughts and gather my energies to start writing my new book. The day job with the local university went very well, but the split brain thing, being in Africa and trying to write about East Asia, all the while fielding queries about my China-Africa book, didn't leave much energy or mental space for this.
In the end, I gave in, and decided to make the most of my environment. I'd been visiting East Africa since my earliest days in journalism, but had never before lived in the region; West Africa had always been my main thing. So I plunged in to this experience in my off time, meeting a lot of people and traveling quite a bit locally in Kenya, both alone and with close friends and family, ultimately including going to game parks on safaris, which I'd never previously really been drawn to, but which proved amazing. I also bounced around the region a little bit, including visits to Uganda and Tanzania. In Kampala, I was the guest of my old friend, Mahmood Mamdani, director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research, and gave a lecture there. (I gave another talk in Kampala at the African Centre for Media Excellence.) And in Dar es Salaam, I gave a university lecture at Nkrumah Hall, and was able to hang out with my friend, the Tanzanian reporter, Erick Kabendera, who has done pioneering work on corruption there.
In August, I set off for the Seychelles for a week with the idea of taking a mental break from Africa and launching into the writing of my new book. Agnès and I lived in a little cottage right on water's edge, and I woke up early each morning to write, doing so until exhaustion, after which we would go out and eat, and then drive around the main island for the afternoon and into the evening. This has got to rank as a highlight of my entire year, managing somehow to be both highly productive and very relaxing. I hadn't been to the Seychelles since the 1980s (gulp), and cannot recommend it more highly. Don't go to a hotel. Rent a private cottage, where you can hear the sea at all times and lay on giant boulders at night and gaze up at what seems to be the entire universe. We found our place on Airbnb, where there were many choices.
On my way back to New York I stopped in Amsterdam, overnighting there at my sister's house. After that, it was back to school for me, teaching the J School's intensive basic reporting class for the first time, and using the weekends and late afternoons on many days to sustain the work on my book through the fall. In November, I spent the weekend after Thanksgiving at home in Virginia enjoying a mini family reunion with several of my siblings and our children, and giving a talk at nearby UVA.
In mid-December, I set off for China to do the last little bits of reporting for my book. (I keep thinking this way, but there's always more reporting to be done. No matter what.) First stop was Beijing, where once again, I ended up doing a lot of speaking, in addition to the forthcoming-book-related interviews that were my real purpose for traveling there. Beijing has never been my home, but I have some truly special friends there, and being able to spend a little bit of time with them took the edge off of the travel and work grind. At the suggestion of my friend and estimable journalism colleague, Ian Johnson, who allowed me to crash a previously planned dinner. At his suggestion, I also went to the National Museum and really enjoyed a major exhibition there about the Silk Road, which also relates to my new book.
From there, I flew to Shanghai for three relatively relaxing days, sharing meals in a city where I lived for six years with old friends, and wandering around a bit idly, feeling a bit nostalgic sometimes, I'll confess. Last stop, for another set of interviews, was Hainan, which is the Chinese frontline, as it were, to the disputed maritime areas of the South China Sea, a topic which relates somewhat to my current project.
I'd mentioned working methods earlier, and here's the last bit of that. I bought an iPhone 6 Plus when they came out, and decided I wouldn't travel with laptops anymore whenever that could be avoided. This China trip was the first trial of that approach, and I must say, it worked really well. I brought a wireless keyboard, and I have Word, Dropbox, Adobe Reader, GoodReader, Scribd and all of the other software I might need right there on my phone. I also bought a little stand from a company called Anker, which can be found on Amazon. It's brilliant, and so much more secure. I use a VPN at all times, and when I move about, my phone is in my pocket.
That's enough, I suspect. Maybe even too much. Happy New Year, everyone.
December 22, 2014
Libraries and piles of books, a 2014 reading list
In line with recent tradition, here are the books I read in the last calendar year. I may have left a few titles out, in which case, I'll try to add them here and there as they come to mind. A very few among these would have appeared in past lists, meaning I've reread them. In the case of titles like Before European Hegemony, The Chinese World Order, The Borders of Chinese Civilization and The Fall of Srivijaya, I've reread them more than once recently, both because they were so interesting and because they are so important to my current book project.
I regret there isn't more fiction here. Many of the books that appear on this list were read for work-related reasons, which is not a statement about how interesting they were or how much I enjoyed them; it's just that this year reflects a fairly applied effort, again, due to what I am working on. I hope to change that next year as I (hopefully) finish this project and go eclectic again.
A few of these authors have been very generous to me, personally. In no particular order, special thanks go to Douglas Howland, Keith Weller Taylor, Evan Osnos, Teju Cole, Mark Driscoll, Wang Gungwu and Paul Kramer.
Here, I've also published a brief account of my travels in 2o14, a year in which I got around an awful lot, even by the standards of my heavily traveled past.
The book list:
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel, James, Marlon
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945, Mark Driscoll
Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State, Frederick Cooper
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos
Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China's New Rich, Osburg, John
Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam, Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine
Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time, Joshua A. Fogel
Asian Maritime Strategies, Bernard D. Cole
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350, Abu-Lughod, Janet L.
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival, David Pilling
Brother Enemy: The War After the War, A History of Indochina Since the Fall of Saigon, Nayan Chanda
By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World, Elizabeth Economy (Reviewed in The Wall Street Journal)
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Mission of 1793, James L. Hevia
China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan, Douglas R. Reynolds
China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice, Richard Bernstein
China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and its Neighbors, 10th-14th Centuries, Morris Rossabi
China and the International System, Huang and Patman
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China), by Mark Edward Lewis and Timothy Brook
Chinese Studies of the Malay World: A Comparative Approach, Dingo Choo Ming and Ooi Kee Beng
Chinese Turkestan, Ryan Pyle
Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds, Susan Falls
Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World, from it's Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century, Kagan, Robert
Diamonds, Ian Smillie (Reviewed, The Wall Street Journal)
Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China (Reviewed in The Wall Street Journal)
Every Day is for the Thief, Teju Cole
Fifty Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer, Heisler, Gregory
Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific, Haddick, Robert
Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan, Christopher Alan Bayly
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles Mann
Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (Second Edition) LaFeber, Walter
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, Karnow, Stanley
In the Light of What We Know, Zia Haider Rahman
Japan and the Shackles of the Past, R. Taggart Murphy
London Boulevard, Ken Bruen
Manila Galleon, William Lytle Schurz
Ming China and Southeast Asia in the 15th Century, Geoff Wade
Shadow of the Dragon, Henry Kenny
Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink), Amis, Martin
Negotiating Asymmetry: China's Place in Asia, Anthony Reid and Zheng Yangwen
Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations (Contemporary Asia in the World), Wang, Zheng
Night Heron, Brookes, Adam
Okinawa: The History of an Island People, George H. Kerr
Petals of Blood, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Policing America's Empire: The United States, The Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State, Alfred W. McCoy
Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture, Hisham D. Aidi
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, Westad, Odd Arne
Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel (The Natural History Library), Bowen, Elenore Smith
Road to Seeing, Winters, Dan
Sea of Poppies: A novel, Amitav Ghosh
Sino-Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century, Derek Heng
Soldiers Alive, Ishikawa Tatsuzo
Sophie's Choice, Styron, William
Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Rebecca E. Karl
State and Society in the Philippines – Abinales and Amoroso
Stones of Contention: A History of Africa's Diamonds, Todd Cleveland
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor, Geoff Wade and Sun Laichen
The Birth of Vietnam, Keith Weller Taylor
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines, Paul A. Kramer
The Borders of Chinese Civilization, Douglas Howland
The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa, Dayo Olopade
The Children of Men, James, P.D.
The Chinese World Order, John King Fairbank
The Eighth Voyage of the Dragon, Bruce Swanson
The Fall of Srivijaya in Malay History, O.W. Wolters
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavor, Meredith Martin (Reviewed The Wall Street Journal)
The Great Convergence, Kishore Mahbubani
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783, Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
The Mind-Body Problem (Contemporary American Fiction), Goldstein, Rebecca
The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations, Christopher A. Ford
The Nanhai Trade: Early Chinese Trade in the South China Sea, Wang Gungwu
The Perfect Wave, Heinrich Pas
The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives, edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita and Mark Selden
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia, Bill Hayton
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, William Easterly (Reviewed for The New York Times)
US Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s, David Healy
Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power, Marr, David G.
Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, And the Origins of Globalism (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War), James Peck
When China Ruled the Seas, Levathes, Louise
Will China Dominate the Twenty First Century?, Jonathan Fenby
World Order, Kissinger, Henry
Xi Jinping's China, Francois Godement
Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433, Edward L. Dreyer
November 24, 2014
Public lecture – Duke University
I gave a lecture on China's relations with Africa on Nov. 20, 2014 at Duke University. Listen here.
- Public Lecture – Indiana University of Pennsylvania
November 24, 2014
- China Invades Africa
September 7, 2014
- Money, Power, Sex
November 5, 2013
- Reading List 2013 (definitive)
November 4, 2013
- Haphazard Empire: Encounters with China's New African Migrants
July 25, 2012
- More on covering Africa…
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In a recent piece posted to ESPN.com, NFL Analyst Ron Jaworski explains how the defenses of the Cardinals and Falcons were able to confuse Tom Brady and Peyton Manning respectively during Week 2.
Though Brady finished with 316 yards passing, he managed just a 60.9 percent completion rate and a quarterback rating of 79.6, both pedestrian totals for the former league MVP. Jaworski explains that a pivotal element in the Cardinals containing Brady was the ability to deceive the quarterback, and cites a specific example of a coverage the team implemented called "Cover 2 Zone Trap."
Jaworski describes the coverage as such:
"It looks like a standard Cover 2, with the safeties high and the corners staying underneath, but just as a QB expects the corner to sit down and leave an open window for a pass, the corner jumps the route. The defense is trying to coax the quarterback into an interception. When the Cardinals employed this look Sunday, Brady was able to read the trap in time … barely."
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In the 1970s, Patti Smith hit the underground music scene with an ecstatic blend of free-form poetry and three-chord rock. The woman hailed as the "godmother of punk" credits her signature sound to lessons in free-verse defiance from 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud and 20th-century music legend Bob Dylan. Tracey Tanenbaum speaks with Smith for Intersections, a series on artists' influences.
Smith, 57, spent most of her childhood in rural New Jersey. Gangly and rail thin, she fell short of the fleshier and blonder ideal of beauty of the day. "I didn't really mind being different," she says, "because I perceived that it was connected with creativity."
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Although Smith says she had no special talents of her own, she felt a kinship with artists. At age 16, she came across a book by Rimbaud in a pile of recycled paperbacks. "The language in it just totally seduced me, and I fell in love," she says.
Rimbaud believed a poet's role was to jar the senses. As a teenager roaming the streets of Paris, he was one of the first to draw images from dreams and drug-induced states. Smith — an outsider in high school — clung to the bohemian poet as the ideal imaginary boyfriend.
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The "freelance economy" is exploding. Today 1 in 3 Americans, or about 42 million people in the workforce, are freelancers. As more people find work as independent contractors, more businesses are adapting to take advantage of this shift in the workforce. Freelancers are filling even high-level, highly skilled positions. Here's an overview of what's going on and what it means for business.
There's a lot fueling the emerging freelance economy. The pace of business is quickening—corporations need to be more agile and scale up and down to meet market demand, which requires a contingent workforce. Meanwhile, advances in mobile technology are making virtual-work sharing and a pick-up-and-go work style a reality.
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According to a recent study about The Future of Work released by Tower Lane Consulting, as technology continues to advance at an ever-increasing rate, it's necessary for businesses to constantly acquire new talent. Piggybacking on this tech trend is a shift in thinking among Millennials, who are "opting to follow unconventional career paths that allow them to maintain their independence."
The study also found that central to this shift is "the volatility of the current economy, which encourages brief relationships between companies and the talent they need." In fact, 88% of the companies surveyed reported using freelancers for projects that lasted less than a year. The reality is, freelancing is no longer a career path solely for hourly contractors and programmers. Companies are filling critical roles with temporary experts to meet a variety of specialized needs at different times.
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Advances in cloud computing services, affordable software platforms, and increasingly seamless collaboration over the Internet are having an enormous impact on the freelance economy. According to Dave Maney, founder and CEO of Deke Digital, "the ease with which businesses today can find and collaborate with a contractor, freelancer, or small firm with the exact skill set and reputation needed is helping create a new kind of employment ecosystem."
However, there are some kinks to be worked out within this new ecosystem. Because freelancers are independent workers that are often hired at scale, they can be difficult to manage. According to the Future of Work study, this includes inefficient payment processes and poor visibility over work completion. (Two-thirds of companies surveyed manage their freelancers on-site, even though a lot of the work could be done remotely.)
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Currently, there's a need for new management tools capable of ironing out the inefficiencies that come with a rising freelance workforce. Companies such as the recently merged Elance and oDesk offer programs to help businesses streamline the hiring of freelancers by mitigating the administrative work involved. It's important to acquire new tools and processes that can monitor and facilitate the entire freelancer life cycle within a company.
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Gravitas Ventures has acquired rights to Michael Tully's "Ping Pong Summer," which recently premiered in the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival. Gravitas will roll the film out theatrically and digitally early this summer.
The coming-of-age comedy starring Susan Sarandon, centers on an awkward teen who attempts to become a master breakdancer, ping pong player and ladies man all before the end of a summer break in 1985. The film is based on Tully's own childhood experiences.
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"Having been a fan of Tully's work, both as a filmmaker and as a writer at Hammer To Nail, I was still not prepared for what a truly joyous blast of a film 'Ping Pong Summer' turned out to be," said Gravitas VP of Theatrical Distribution Dustin Smith. "Anyone (i.e. me) who spent lonely teenage summers dreaming of rapping, breakdancing or even (gasp!) talking to a girl is going to love this movie. Plus, where else are you going to see Susan Sarandon wield a fish like a weapon?"


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Doyle Wiseman, President of The Wiseman Company
- Graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Business Administration
- Certified Public Accountant
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- Former Manager, Audit Division, Arthur Andersen & Co., San Francisco
- Former Vice President and Controller, Itel Container Corporation, San Francisco
TERON, a California Limited Partnership, Primary Partners:
Gordon Player, Entrepreneur and Investor
- Graduate of University of Utah with a degree in Accounting
- Certified Public Accountant
- Former Co-founder, President and CEO of Triton Holdings Limited, San Francisco
Ed Schneider, Co-founder and Co-Chairman of Triton Holdings Limited, San Francisco
- Graduate of Dartmouth College with degree in Government
- Graduate of Harvard Business School with an M.B.A. in finance
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John Barkey, Chief Financial Officer
John Barkey is The Wiseman Company's Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, John spent six years in the public homebuilding industry, as a VP of Acquisitions for Taylor Morrison Homes in San Ramon, CA, as VP of Development for Pulte Homes/Del Webb in Sacramento, California, and as a Division President for Taylor Morrison Homes in Reno, Nevada. Prior to that, John held a variety of positions at Catellus Development Corporation (now an industrial REIT owned by Pro-Logis) in San Francisco, including Vice-President of Development and Director of Financial Planning. At Catellus, in the last few years he was there, John worked extensively on the Mission Bay project in San Francisco, which is now the location of UCSF's new 2.6 million square foot research campus, over 5 million feet of new and planned office space, and over 6,000 units of new and planned attached housing. Prior to Catellus, John had worked for Price Waterhouse in New Port Beach, California. He has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine.
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Brian Wills is The Wiseman Company's Chief Operating Officer. A native of Pacifica, CA, Brian attended Long Beach State before taking his competitive cycling talents to Europe in 1997. Brian returned to the United States and directed YMCA summer camps for several years before joining The Wiseman Company in 2004.
As Chief Operating Officer, Brian directs new building development and construction. Working with his team of architects, engineers, general contractors and sub-contractors, The Wiseman Company is able to design, construct and lease the finest Class A office buildings in Napa, Solano and Yolo counties.
Brian also leads an outstanding Property Management team. Customer Service is at the core of every interaction with our professional tenants and single family home residents. Brian's team continually improves and modernizes The Wiseman Company's 300,000 square foot portfolio to stay competitive in the Class A market.
R. Scot Hunter, Infill Development Joint Venture
Scot Hunter is the Infill Division's Managing Partner and CEO. As the owner of Cornerstone Properties Group, Inc. Scot has been an active real estate investor and developer for the past decade. Prior to entering the real estate field, he helped build several companies in the health care field working as an owner or consultant. A graduate of Northern Michigan University, he is a licensed California real estate broker and a member of the Urban Land Institute. Scot and his family have been residents of Ross in Marin County for over 25 years. He is active in Ross town government and community activities and is an avid road and mountain biker. Scot works out of his office in Ross and can be reached at 415.990.9911.
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Letty Perez is The Wiseman Company's Director of Properties. Letty is a Northern California native who has more than 20 years professional management experience and was responsible for all the sales, marketing and business development initiatives with key clients in her previous position. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree which she achieved while working full-time.
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Seattle-based Impinj, a technology company that designs and sells RFID chips used for tracking everything from pants to prescription drugs, filed papers Thursday to raise up to $100 million through an initial public offering of stock.
Seattle-based Impinj, a technology company that designs and sells RFID chips used for tracking everything from pants to prescription drugs, filed papers Thursday to raise up to $100 million through an initial public offering of stock.
Net proceeds from the proposed IPO would go to repay as much as $25 million in debt, with the balance invested in developing products and running the business, according to its preliminary prospectus, which did not disclose the expected price or number of shares to be sold.
Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are the lead underwriters for the proposed IPO.
The company, founded in 2000, sells the chips inside advanced radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, tag readers and software. Each chip contains a unique identifier, and once the tags are affixed to products, tag readers can quickly discover what's in a stack of inventory and relay that information to computer systems.
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The chips account for about two-thirds of its revenue.
Impinj focuses on the RFID market's fastest-growing segment — ultrahigh frequency (UHF) chips. The chips offer low cost, longer range and don't have to be visible to tag readers.
The tracking technology helps companies like Walmart and Banana Republic know when certain types of apparel are running low, and gives prescription-drug distributors confidence that their supplies aren't tainted with counterfeits.
Impinj hopes retailers of electronics, cosmetics and jewelry will adopt the new RFID tagging systems. Some governments have mandated such tagging for cars and liquor bottles, the company says.
"We envision a future when a broad array of everyday items are linked to networked information systems," Impinj said in its prospectus. "This global network of connected objects is often referred to as the 'Internet of Things.'"
Revenue has been growing: Last year, the company booked $31.8 million in revenue, up from $20.8 million in 2009. About 36 percent of its 2010 revenue came from just two customers.
Its revenue last year would have been higher, Impinj said, had it not experienced a 9-month shortage of wafer supplies and production problems in manufacturing its chips.
The company has never been profitable. Excluding interest due to its preferred stockholders, it had a net loss of $9.9 million in 2009, $11.4 million in 2010 and $1.8 million in the first three months of this year, according to its financial statements. Those preferred stockholders are owed more than $40 million in unpaid interest.
Impinj chalks up much of those losses to having spent more than $32 million on research and development over the past three years.
The company employs 142 people and has its main office in Fremont. Its engineering offices are in California's Rancho Cordova and Newport Beach.
Impinj relies on third-party foundries and subcontractors to manufacture its chips and contract manufacturers to assemble its tag readers.
It said it holds 90 U.S. patents and has 77 pending applications as of April 15.
Impinj competes with two other leading chip-makers — California-based Alien Technology and Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors.
Impinj had about $11.8 million in cash at the end of March, and is due to repay preferred stockholders $6 million on June 30. Venture capital firms, including Seattle-based Madrona, own just over half of Impinj. Intel Corp. owns 6.6 percent of the company.
Such backers have poured $160 million into the company since its inception.
The UHF RFID tag industry is on a sharp growth curve, with global sales expected to double both this year and next, said Justin Patton, managing director of the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas.
More than 40 companies, including Impinj, provide equipment and participate in the center's research, which evaluates applications of RFID technology in different industries.
Impinj's chief technology officer, Chris Diorio, has led the way in developing the global UHF Gen 2 standard, Patton said.
"They're very well known, and a lot of the tags you see out there today have their chips in them," he said.
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Should the White Sox make some changes?Mark Townsend at Big League Stew1 hr ago
To say the Chicago White Sox have been in a tailspin lately would be putting it kindly.
After surprisingly keeping pace with the crosstown Cubs in April by posting a 17-8 record, they've since faltered in May, dropping 15 of 25 games. The six-game lead they built in the AL Central is completely gone now, and they've lost two straight this weekend to the Kansas City Royals that they should have won.
[Related: Comebacks and collisions have defined the Royals strange week]
On Friday, they blew a 5-1 lead in the sixth inning. On Saturday, it was far worse, as they coughed up a 7-1 lead in the ninth inning, allowing Kansas City to score seven runs.
Now they'll look to avoid a devastating sweep on Sunday in the MLB Free Game of the Day on Yahoo Sports. You can stream the game at Yahoo's Sports Home, MLB index and video home beginning at 2:15 p.m. ET.Sun, May 292:15 PM EDTChi White Sox at Kansas CityPreview Game
The Walk Off: Yu Darvish is back and appears to be in fine formMark Townsend at Big League Stew10 hrs ago
Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we'll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with a game you need to know about.
The Texas Rangers rotation got a big boost on Saturday with the return of All-Star Yu Darvish.
Making his first start since Aug. 9, 2014, Darvish looked like he never missed a beat, let alone nearly 22 months after undergoing Tommy John surgery. In five innings of work, Darvish limited an impressive Pittsburgh Pirates offense to one run on three hits while striking out seven. That was good enough to earn the victory as the Rangers ultimately triumphed 5-2.
[Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now]Sun, May 293:05 PM EDTPittsburgh at TexasPreview Game
Chase Utley authors perfect responses to Mets 99-mph messageMark Townsend at Big League Stew13 hrs ago
If Noah Syndergaard thought he was going to rattle Chase Utley on Saturday, he and the New York Mets had another thing coming.
Two things, in fact. As in a solo home run and a grand slam that helped fuel a Dodgers 9-1 victory.
[ Noah Syndergaard ejected after throwing pitch behind Chase Utley]Sun, May 298:00 PM EDTLA Dodgers at NY MetsPreview Game
Noah Syndergaard ejected after throwing pitch behind Chase UtleyMark Townsend at Big League Stew13 hrs ago
New York Mets right-hander Noah Syndergaard was ejected in the third inning of Saturday night's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers for throwing a pitch that sailed behind Chase Utley.
The 99-mph fastball was assumed to be retaliation for Utley's take-out slide on Ruben Tejada during last season's NLDS, the result of which broke Tejada's leg. Home plate umpire Adam Harami wasted no time signaling that Syndergaard's night was over. He also ejected Mets' manager Terry Collins, who vehemently argued his decision.
[Related: Report: Mets unhappy with Dodgers defensive positioning tactics]
Syndergaard's complete intentions were unclear, but it is safe to assume he at least wanted to send a message. The league will now have to decide if he meant to hit Utley with that message, or if he simply wanted to make Utley uncomfortable.
Comebacks and collisions have defined the Royals strange weekMark Townsend at Big League Stew18 hrs ago
Take about a roller coaster of emotions. The Kansas City Royals have run the gamut this week between their comeback victories and vicious collisions. In fact, they ran the gamut in the ninth inning alone on Saturday, first losing catcher Salvador Perez to a quad injury, and then rallying to score seven runs in the final frame to knock off the Chicago White Sox, 8-7.
The wild victory was Kansas City's second consecutive comeback win against Chicago, and it temporarily moved them into a first place tie in the AL Central. The Cleveland Indians still have a chance to leapfrog both with their own win on Saturday.
[Elsewhere: Diamondbacks need Zack Greinke's best on the mound more than ever]
Indians fans put discarded beer cans to best possible useMark Townsend at Big League Stew19 hrs ago
As wonderful as baseball can be, sometimes the action on the field can be overshadowed by those who make up its audience.
That was the case on Friday in Cleveland, as a group of fans seated near the right-field foul pole stole the show with an epic creation.
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Behold, the beer-can pyramid, which many are also dubbing the beeramid.
Starting the #beeramid #TribeLive pic.twitter.com/QnvktcVasM
According to the folks at SB Nation, the pyramid included 112 cans and stood over four feet tall at its peak.
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Tigers wander into the strangest double play of the seasonMark Townsend at Big League Stew20 hrs ago
A typical baseball season produces thousands upon thousands of double plays. Still, we doubt we'll see another double play quite as strange as the one turned by the Oakland A's on Friday night.
Or perhaps we should say, we doubt we'll see another double play this season quite as strange as the one the Detroit Tigers served up to Oakland on a silver platter.
[Elsewhere: Report: Mets unhappy with Dodgers defensive positioning tactics]
If you're scoring at home, the official ruling was "3-2-batter's interference," which in this case meant Victor Martinez interfered with Yonder Alonso's throw to the plate. Martinez did so unknowingly, as he was simply wandering back to Detroit's dugout after popping out to Alonso in foul territory, but according to MLB's interference and obstruction rules it was still a violation.
Here the explanation under Rule 6.01 (5):Sun, May 294:05 PM EDTDetroit at OaklandPreview Game
Diamondbacks need Zack Greinke's best on the mound more than everKyle Ringo at Big League Stew21 hrs ago
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Zack Greinke is nearly two full months into his first season with his new team and still trying to live up to the six-year, $206.5 million deal he signed in the offseason. Greinke got off to a disastrous start to the season in April but so far in May has looked much more like the pitcher who finished second in the National League Cy Young voting a year ago and has routinely been among the best pitchers in baseball since 2009. He's still looking for his first outing of the year without giving up a run after doing so 11 times in 2015. So there is plenty of room for improvement.
[Elsewhere: There's a good explanation for Howie Kendrick's mysterious actions]Sun, May 294:10 PM EDTSan Diego at ArizonaPreview Game
Report: Mets unhappy with Dodgers defensive positioning tacticsMark Townsend at Big League Stew22 hrs ago
, the New York Mets are not happy about the lengths the Los Angeles Dodgers were willing to go to gain a defensive advantage before Friday's game.
In a report filed Saturday afternoon, Rosenthal says the Mets immediately contacted Major League Baseball officials after learning that the Dodgers intended to mark prearranged defensive positions in the outfield grass at Citi Field.
[Related: There's a good explanation for Howie Kendrick's mysterious actions]
This practice would be an extension of the Dodgers known use of a laser rangefinder to determine the best ways to position their fielders. In this case, the Mets were having none of it and essentially told the Dodgers to shut down the operation.
Here's more from Rosenthal's report:
Alex Rodriguez has refined his mechanics and his bat flipsMark Townsend at Big League Stew23 hrs ago
You have to give Alex Rodriguez credit. Every time we think the end is getting near, he comes back to prove there's still some fuel left in his tank.
That's exactly what he's attempting to prove again after missing three weeks with a hamstring injury, and so far anyway the results are encouraging.
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In fact, on Wednesday we noted that Rodriguez was feeling especially good during his final rehab game. On that night, he launched a mammoth home run while playing for Double-A Trenton and punctuated it with a grand bat flip.


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Sub-Sahara Africa Stocks: Centum Kenya, East African Breweries
Kenya's All-Share Index rose for a sixth day, climbing 0.5 percent to 66.11 in Nairobi.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange All-Share Index snapped three days of declines, increasing 0.1 percent to 21,044.7 in Lagos, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Mauritius's SEMDEX Index gained 0.1 percent to 1,787.79 by the close in Port Louis. The FTSE/Namibia Overall Index climbed for a third day, advancing 0.6 percent to 915.27 in Windhoek.
The following shares are active in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa. Stock symbols are in parentheses.
Centum Investment Co. (CENTUM KN), Kenya's largest publicly traded investment company, retreated 9.8 percent to 13.30 shillings, the biggest drop since February 2007, after full-year earnings fell by almost half.
East African Breweries Ltd. (EABL KN), Kenya's biggest beermaker, rose 1.4 percent to 223 shillings, the highest close since Jan. 6, 2011, on speculation profit will increase in the year ending this month.
"The stock has generated good appetite from investors as there is expectation of strong performance for the year ending June on the back of turnaround for loss-making Serengeti Breweries in Tanzania to breaking-even level," Eric Musau, an analyst at Nairobi-based Standard Investment Bank Ltd., said in a phone interview.


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The surname Beattie was first found in Roxburghshire, Scotland, where they held a family seat from ancient times.
During the era when a person's name, tribe and posterity was one of his most important possessions, many different spellings were found in the archives examined. Beattie occurred in many references, and spelling variations of the name found included Beattie, Beatty, Beaty, Beatie, Betay, Bety and others.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Beattie research. Another 151 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1296, 1597, 1603, 1735, 1771, and 1803 are included under the topic Early Beattie History in all our PDF Extended History products.
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Gradually becoming disenchanted with life in Ireland many of these uprooted families sailed aboard the armada of sailing ships known as the "White Sails" which plied the stormy Atlantic. These overcrowded ships often arrived with only 60 to 70% of their original passenger list, many dying of illness and the elements, were buried at sea. In North America, early immigrants bearing the family name Beattie, or a spelling variation of the surname include:
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Motto: Lumen coeleste sequamur
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I'm sorely disappointed with MobileMe.
First, rules are not available on the webclient. So, if you have any sort of filtering (mailing lists, loved ones, etc.), that has to be done with mail.app. That means a message is received in the cloud, pushed to your Mac, processed my mail.app, then uploaded to the server, where it is then reflected across the wed interface and your iDevice. Since I leave my laptop in sleep mode when I'm not using it, I get a lot of mail in my inbox that would normally be filtered into folders.
Next, although you can specify a personal domain for iWeb, you can't do so for for email. So any email I send from the web interface comes from <my.name>@me.com instead of <my.name>@<my.domain>.com.
Next, there isn't any sort of intelligent adding for calendaring. Gmail allows me to add an event by typing "Dinner at Joes on Friday" and it will parse and figure out the correct date.
Performance is also dreadful, though that may be growing pains.
Finally (and I'm not a hundred percent sure about this), I don't believe there is any spam filtering on the web client, so you have to leave mail.app to handle this. I get a lot of spam (though I'm using gmail to filter most) and I don't need that pushed to my iPhone.
Overall, unless there is a lot of improvement over the next 60 days, I'm not going to be subscribing. I'll stick with gmail and Spanning Sync. It doesn't have the push capability, but it syncs calendar and contacts. I'm also willing to bet Google (or a third party) will be coming out with a similar push capability once Apple opens up push to developers.
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From Mini to Pro
In 2005 Apple released the Mac Mini and I was one of the first to buy one. For most of 2004 I had become infatuated with OS X. The Unix underpinnings coupled with the elegance of the Aqua screamed out for me to play with it. I had run Microsoft since the DOS days. In the last 5 years I had become a modest expert with Linux, building Gentoo kernels on my HP VL-400. I played with all the major operating systems available except OS X (then 10.3). The price point was out of my range. But one day Steve Jobs stood up in front of an audience and showed off the Mac Mini and I saw an opportunity. The Mini didn't inspire me with its capability, but it gave me an entry point I could justify in my mind. So I bought the 1.42Ghz version with 512MB of memory and an 80GB drive and set it up as my home system. Over time I upgraded the memory to a gig and replace the paltry 80GB 4200rpm drive with an external Firewire 7200rpm 200GB model. The Mac Mini served me well, easing my way into the world of Mac.
There were problems, of course. Gripes mostly, areas where Windows faired better then OS X (why the red X doesn't quit an application or why the green plus button does different things based on the app I'll never know), but overall I was happy with the purchase(s).
Then the DVD drive started acting up, refusing to read blank or burned DVDs. Then playback started stuttering on commercial DVDs and I was forced to stop using it. When the low-pitch hum emanated from the Mini and the fan seemed to kick in more often, I knew the abundant dust from the house had made its way into the inner workings of the aluminum box. So I opened it up and took it apart, removing each component carefully and, with a can-of-air, cleaned the dust off. But it was never the same afterwards, slowing and freezing, even occasionally throwing a kernel panic. I may have damaged something reassembling it or it might have just been its time. When the video started to cut out (turning blue for no apparent reason), I knew the Mini was heading down an inevitable path of complete failure.
It had lasted me two and a half years. I don't own computers that long. Actually I do, I just get new ones to replace them and give the old one to my wife and then finally regulate it to the closet (I've really got to donate that VL-400). The Mac experience had been pleasant. Pleasant enough for me to invest in a real Mac, a machine with power.
But I wasn't going to be limited this time. I wasn't going to be stuck in the den while my wife was in the living room. I had at some point decided that my next main computer (a geek always has at least 2 computers running at the same time) was going to be a laptop. I had played with my fathers MacBook and decided it wasn't powerful enough. The MacBook Pro, on the other hand offered the 256mb of graphical memory and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor that put most desktops to shame. I decided to save my pennies (and dollars and twenties) and buy myself a computer that would hopefully last me three years.
With my corporate discount in hand (in the form of my badge), I trekked to a nearby Apple store (there are three within 30 minutes). This was a week before Leopard was going to be released, so the store wasn't packed with the Mac-Zealots that I had learned to ignore. Working with one of the clerks, I asked for the 2.4Ghz 15-inch MacBook Pro. 15 minutes later I walked out of the store with a AppleCare package in my pocket, a MacBook Pro box, and a hefty charge on my credit card (I get cash back and have already paid the charge off).
That was a week and a half ago. Since then I have cleaned my desk of the Mac Mini, Dell monitor, and monitor stand. I have re-purposed the external USB hard drive to be my Time Machine with a new 320GB , bought an update to Photoshop CS3, bought a copy of VMware Fusion (the geeks VM software), and upgraded the memory to 4GB for about $400 less then Apple wanted. Lastly I updated my OS to Leopard even though the up-to-date disk missed it's arrival time by two days. I've also bolted this guy down to my desk to keep idle hands from walking aways with it.
Let's just say I've joined the Mac revolution. Just don't call me a Zealot.
October 29, 2007 Comments Off on From Mini to Pro