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I read the Senate Foreign Relations Committee report "Another U.S. Deficit:-- China and America –Public Diplomacy in the Age of the Internet" today. What an amazing document, it reads like a laundry list of distortions and misrepresentations. Individual...

I had a great holiday weekend, three days of relaxation and reading. I spent Saturday with friends eating wonderful Wuhanese food then two days of sleeping, reading and listening on online broadcasts about 9-11 commemorations on Pacifica. I was particularly...

I went last night with friends to see source code, a new American sci fi movie showing in Wuhan. Sicifi films are often parables about complex social issues that cannot be addressed head on. This film was no exception, hard to miss the references in this...

For the last month I have been getting back into the swing of things as the summer winds down. It has been crazy busy at work. We are getting ready for a new software launch with training materials, promotional videos, and power point slides all needing...

This summer has been odd. For the entire season when people were enjoying some down time and hitting the beach with their families, the US government was in a restructuring generated crisis over the debt. When the dust settled, what remains of the New...

One of the facinating things about living in another culture is the differences in how everyday life is organized. Learning to read your emotional responses to situations is a critical skillset, after all as the alien, you are the square peg in the round...

I have lately been spending a lot of time thinking about photogrammetry and remote sensing. These are not really my interest areas but they sort of force themselves upon you in a place where informationization is currently underway in concert with urbanization,...

I have been recently working with Virginia New Majority to make a series of maps to inform planning for precinct walks in Virginia State house districts. It is collaborative, involving emails, exchanges of data back and forth, and skype calls. The core...

Students, staff, planners, visitors and police construct George Mason University through spatial practices performed everyday. Space is subject to territorializing and deterritorializing processes (Duncan 1996:128) from multiple vantage points. For planners...

I changed apartments this week, my new crib is on the 5th floor of the central building of my complex. It has some great views. What I love about the city scape of Wuhan is for a lack of a better word, its syncopated modularity, a rythmn of intersecting...