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Stefan Al
Areas of Interest
Stefan Al is an architect, urban designer, urban planner, scholar, educator, and author. In his research, Al aims to understand pressing issues in architecture and urban design, such as urbanization in developing countries, new forms of consumerism, compact city form, and adapting cities to climate change.
His recent sole-authored book The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream (The MIT Press) investigates the city's experiments with architecture and branding. He is acclaimed for his work on Asian urbanism with published books investigating China's informal settlements and Hong Kong's compact urban form, including Factory Towns of South China, Villages in the City, Mall City, and Macau and the Casino Complex. He co-authored the book Beyond Mobility, making the case to connect people with places through transit-oriented development. His latest research is focused on designing compact and more resilient cities, most notably in his forthcoming book Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise. Besides his academic publications, his work has been featured in influential media outlets including The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Marketplace, and Dezeen.
Al's career as a practicing architect includes work on renowned projects such as the 2,000-feet high Canton Tower in Guangzhou, the preservation of world heritage in Latin America at the World Heritage Center of UNESCO, and an 11,000-acre new eco-friendly city in India. He has also served as an advisor to the Hong Kong government, consulting on the development of the city's harbor and external lighting guidelines, the Chinese government, advising on new urban design guidelines, and the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.
Selected Publications
Al, Stefan. 2017. The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream. The MIT Press.
Al, Stefan, ed. 2016. Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption. University of Hawaii Press.
Al, Stefan, ed. 2014. Villages in the City: A Guide to South China's Informal Settlements. University of Hawaii Press; Hong Kong University Press.
Al, Stefan, ed. 2012. Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook. Hong Kong University Press.
Francesca Ammon
Areas of Interest
Francesca Russello Ammon is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation in the School of Design. As a cultural historian of the built environment, her teaching, research, and writing focus on the changing shapes and spaces of the 20th- and 21st-century American city. She grounds her interdisciplinary approach to this subject in the premise that the landscape materializes social relations, cultural values, and economic processes. In particular, she is interested in the ways that visual culture informs planning and design, the dynamic relationships between cities and nature, and the politics of place and space.
Before joining the School of Design faculty, Ammon was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also held the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, jointly sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). While completing her Ph.D. in American Studies, she held long-term fellowships as a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellow in Technology and Democracy at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and John E. Rovensky Fellow with the Business History Conference.
For the past year and a half, Ammon has been a Researcher on the Mellon Foundation-funded project on "Photography and/of Architecture" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She is also currently a colloquium member of the Penn/Mellon Foundation Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, and she is a recent past fellow of Penn's Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
Ammon is on the board of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH).
Selected Publications
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2016. Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2015. "Post-Industrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New Jersey." Journal of Urban History 41(2): 158-174.
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2012. "Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children's Books." Technology and Culture 53(2): 306-336.
Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2009. "Commemoration Amid Criticism: The Mixed Legacy of Urban Renewal in Southwest Washington, D.C." Journal of Planning History 8(3): 175-220.
Jonathan Barnett
Areas of Interest
Jonathan Barnett is Professor Emeritus of Practice in City and Regional Planning and former Director of the Urban Design Program in the School of Design. He is an architect and planner as well as an educator and is the author of numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of city design. He has been an advisor to the cities of Charleston, SC, Cleveland, Kansas City, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Norfolk, Omaha, and Pittsburgh in the United States, as well as Xiamen and Tianjin in China. He has been the William Henry Bishop visiting professor at Yale, the Eschweiler Professor at the University of Wisconsin, the Kea Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, and the Sam Gibbons Eminent Scholar at the University of South Florida, and is a guest professor at Southeast University in Nanjing. With his co-author, Larry Beasley, he teaches an on-line course, Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs, which is available on edX. Barnett was awarded the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Design and Regional Planning, the Athena Medal from the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the William H. Whyte Award from the Partners for Livable Communities for being a pioneer in urban design education and practice.
Selected Publications
Barnett, Jonathan and Brian W. Blaesser. 2017. Reinventing Development Regulation. Cambridge MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Barnett, Jonathan. 2016. City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green, and Systems Perspectives, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Routledge.
Barnett, Jonathan and Larry Beasley. 2015. Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs. Washington: Island Press.
Barnett, Jonathan, editor. 2007. Smart Growth in a Changing World. Chicago, Ill. : Planners Press, American Planning Association.
Barnett, Jonathan. 2012. "Jane Jacobs and Designing Cities as Organized Complexity." In The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs, edited by Sonia Hirt and Diane Zamora. New York, NY: Routledge.
Eugénie L. Birch
Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education
Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning
Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Areas of Interest
Eugenie Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education. She teaches courses in global urbanization and the doctoral seminar and serves as chair, Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, co-director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, co-editor, City in the 21st Century Series, University of Penn Press and co-editor, SSRN Urban Research e-journal. With Penn IUR she recently completed a project "Entreprenuership & Innovation in Connecticut's Higher Education System," for the state of Connecticut.
Professor Birch's current research focuses on global urbanization with recent publications including: Slums, How Informal Real Estate Markets Work, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (2016) (edited with Susan Wachter, Shahana Chattaraj); "Midterm Report: Will Habitat III Make a Difference to Global Urban Development?" Journal of the American Planning Association 84:4 (Fall 2016); "The Institutions of Metropolitan Governance," in D.A. Gomez-Alvarez, E. Moreno and R. Rajack (eds), Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development (Nairobi: UN Habitat, 2017); "Inclusion and Innovation: The Many Forms of Stakeholder Engagement in Habitat III," Citiscape (July 2017); "Implementing the New Urban Agenda in the United States, Building on a Firm Foundation," Informationen zur Raumentwicklung (Information on Spatial Development) (Summer 2017).
Professor Birch has been active in the field's professional and civic organizations in the United States and abroad. She is president, General Assembly of Partners (GAP), the engagement platform for the implementation of the UN's New Urban Agenda and associated global agreements, co-chair, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Thematic Group on Cities, and an Associate Editor, Journal of the American Planning Association. In the past, she has been president, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning; president, Society of American City and Regional Planning History; president, International Planning History Society; and co-editor, Journal of the American Planning Association. She has been a member of the Planning Accreditation Board, having served as its chair from 2004-2006. She has been a member of the editorial boards of Planning Theory and Practice, Journal of Planning History, Journal of Planning Education and Research and Planning Perspectives. In the early 1990s, she was a member of the New York City Planning Commission, and in 2002, she served on the jury to select the designers for the World Trade Center site. She has chaired the Board of Trustees of the Municipal Art Society of New York and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Regional Plan Association of New York.
Professor Birch lectures widely. She has been Visiting Scholar, Queens University, Ontario, Canada; Foreign Scholar, University of Hong Kong; and Visiting Professor, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In May 2017, she delivered the keynote address, "Making Cities Safe, Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable," at the Dresden Nexus Conference, Dresden, Germany and "Post Habitat III Stakeholder Engagement: An Update" at the Wilson Center, Washington, DC.
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning has given her its three awards: the Distinguished Educator Award in recognition of her teaching and research (2009), the Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service that "recognizes an individual whose exceptional service, actions and leadership have had a lasting and positive impact on the ACSP"(2006), and the Margarita McCoy Award, "in recognition of her outstanding contribution to furthering the advancement of women in the planning academy" (1994). The Society of American City and Regional Planning History awarded her its Lawrence C. Gerckens Prize (2009) in recognition of her contributions to planning history. The American Planning Association honored her with their APA President's Award in 2013. This award is given out every other year in recognition of leadership in the field of planning. In 2000, she was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners and made a member (honorary) of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
The statement made by Professor Birch at the closing ceremony of the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) can be found here: http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/professor-of-education-and-research-of-university-of-pennsylvania-habitat-iii-closure-ceremony/5179115593001
Selected Publications
Birch, Eugenie. 2017. "The Institutions of Metropolitan Governance." In Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development, edited by D.A. Gomez-Alvarez, E. Moreno, and R. Rajack. Nairobi: UN Habitat.
Birch, Eugenie. 2017. "Inclusion and Innovation: The Many Forms of Stakeholder Engagement in Habitat III." Citiscape (July).
Birch, Eugenie. 2017. "Implementing the New Urban Agenda in the United States, Building on a Firm Foundation." Informationen zur Raumentwicklung (Information on Spatial Development) (Summer).
Birch, Eugenie, Susan Wachter, and Shahana Chattaraj , eds. 2016. Slums, How Informal Real Estate Markets Work. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Birch, Eugenie. 2016. "Midterm Report: Will Habitat III Make a Difference to Global Urban Development?" Journal of the American Planning Association 84:4.
Seung Ah Byun
Areas of Interest
Seung Ah Byun is the Senior Planner for Water Resources with the Brandywine Conservancy's Municipal Assistance Program. Her responsibilities involve developing and managing innovative stormwater management practices, green infrastructure tools, and source water protection projects at the watershed and local scales. She also provides technical expertise to municipalities on compliance with state and federal water quality regulations such as MS4 and TMDL requirements. Previously, Seung Ah was a water resources engineer at CDM Smith, primarily consulting for the City of Philadelphia's Office of Watersheds and CSO Program. Seung Ah received her doctorate and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design's Department of City and Regional Planning. She also obtained a master's degree in environmental engineering from Drexel University and a bachelor's of science in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Seung Ah is a licensed Professional Engineer and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
Selected Publications
Byun, Seung Ah. James T. Smullen, Mark Maimone, Robert E. Dickinson, and Christopher S. Crockett. (2003) "Overcoming Obstacles for the Application of SWMM to Large-scale Watersheds." Practical Modeling of Urban Water Systems, Monograph 11. Edited by James, William. CHI, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
José Caléia Castro
Areas of Interest
José Caléia Castro is a Ph.D. Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Vale do Paraiba, São Paulo, Brazil, and a visiting scholar at the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. An architect and urbanist, Caléia's research interests are related to informal urbanization processes and planning policies in the countries of the Global South. He employs a mixed methodology to analyze hybridization strategies from the combination of formal/informal transport systems as a new theoretical/methodological approach to the planning and restructuring of urban spaces of informal cities. From 1998 to 2006, he worked with the United Nations (UNICEF, WFP) in Angola. In Brazil, he worked as an architect and a construction coordinator in several offices, as assistant professor, and as assistant researcher at the Research Institute of the University do Vale do Paraiba. He earned his M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Vale do Paraiba.
Selected Publications
Castro, José Caléia; Reschilian, Paulo Romano; Zanetti, Valéria. Candongueiros and urban "disorder" in Luanda: an analysis of the social representation of informal transport. urbe, Rev. Bras. Gest. Urbana [online]. 2018, vol.10, n.1.
Castro, José Caléia, Reschilian, Paulo. Territorial planning of Africa globalized cities: The informality interference in the metropolization process of Luanda city. WPSC, 2016.
Castro, José Caléia; Neto, Pedro Ribeiro. The war as a factor of induction to urbanization: Internal conflicts and structuring of the regional space in Angola. XVI Enanpur, 2015 (Port.).
Caroline Cheong
Areas of Interest
Caroline Cheong is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on the relationship between urban heritage conservation and economic development, values-based conservation management, conservation economics and poverty reduction. She earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in City and Regional Planning, her MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and her BS in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. She was a US/ICOMOS International Exchange Intern in Al Houson, Jordan and a Graduate Intern at the Getty Conservation Institute where she evaluated the challenges and opportunities facing historic cities. Previously, Caroline was the Director of Research for Heritage Strategies International and PlaceEconomics through which she published numerous research reports and professional publications focusing on the economic impacts of historic preservation with Donovan Rypkema.
Selected Publications
Macdonald, Susan and Caroline Cheong. The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Conserving Heritage Buildings, Sites and Historic Urban Areas: A Literature Review. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 2014
Cheong, Caroline. Instruments for urban regeneration: Mixed-capital companies. (2014). Manuscript submitted for publication. Prepared for Eduardo Rojas.
Cheong, Caroline. Creative Cities and Place. (2013). Manuscript submitted for publication. Prepared for Donovan Rypkema, Erasmus University and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands.
Cheong, Caroline. Cruise Ship Tourism: Issues and Trends. Prepared for the World Monuments Fund for "Harboring Tourism: A Symposium on Cruise Ships in Historic Port Communities," 2012.
Thomas Daniels
Areas of Interest
Tom Daniels is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Land Use and Environmental Planning Concentration in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the School of Design. His main areas of interest are farmland preservation, growth management, and the connection between land use and water quality. Daniels often serves as a consultant to state and local governments and land trusts. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where for nine years he managed the county's nationally recognized farmland preservation program. Daniels' has taught at SUNY-Albany, Kansas State University, and Iowa State University and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association. In 2002 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Selected Publications
Daniels, Thomas and John Keene. The Law of Agricultural Land Preservation in the United States. American Bar Association, 2018.
Daniels, Thomas. 2014. The Environmental Planning Handbook, 2nd edition. APA Planners Press, 2014.
Daniels, Thomas and Doug Walker. 2011. The Planners Guide to CommunityViz. APA Planners Press.
Daniels, Tom. 2010. "Integrating Forest Carbon Sequestration Into a Cap-and-Trade Program to Reduce Net CO2 Emissions." Journal of the American Planning Association 76(4).
Daniels, Tom. 2009. "A Trail Across Time: American Environmental Planning from City Beautiful to Sustainability." Journal of the American Planning Association 75(2).
Daniels, Tom. 1999. When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Eliza Davenport Whiteman
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Built Environment and Health Lab, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Areas of Interest
Eliza is a former PhD Student in the City & Regional Planning program at PennDesign and is now a pPostdoctoral Research Scientist, Built Environment and Health Lab, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research interests focus on issues of food access and food insecurity in urban environments. She uses a mixed-methods approach to explore spatiotemporal dynamics of food and health across the urban planning, public health and social welfare disciplines. She received an MS in Nutrition Policy and an MA in Urban & Environmental Planning from Tufts University and a BA in Sustainable Agriculture from The Evergreen State College. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked on city food policy issues at the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, and in Portland, Oregon, where she served on the Portland-Multnomah Food Policy Council and worked at a non-profit food education organization.
Selected Publications
Whiteman ED, Chrisinger BW, Hillier A. Forthcoming. A Nationally Representative Study of Changes in Diet Quality of Food Purchases Over the SNAP-Cycle. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Johnson, M. P., Hollander, J. B., & Whiteman, E. D. (2015). Data and Analytics for Neighborhood Development: Smart Shrinkage Decision Modeling in Baltimore, Maryland. In Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities (pp. 61–76). Springer International Publishing.
Auerbach, A., McCabe, K., & Whiteman, E. D. (2014). A Health Impact Assessment of the Massachusetts Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights. Health Resources in Action.
Xiaoxia Dong
Areas of Interest
Xiaoxia Dong is a doctoral student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign. His research interest lies in transportation and infrastructure planning. In particular, he is eager to explore how the potential of new transportation technologies and services such as driverless cars and ride-hailing can be maximized to create accessible and sustainable urban environment. Having witnessed the success and failure of many of these emerging technologies and services in China, he also hopes to incorporate an international perspective into his research. His goal is to enable policy makers to make informed decisions when facilitating urban development with respect to new transportation technologies and services. Xiaoxia has a BA degree in Urban Planning from the University of Utah and a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a transportation planner at Fehr and Peers where he participated in multimodal planning, traffic impact studies, master planning, and statistical analyses. He also interned at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Beijing after college where he learned the current sustainability related policies and practices in China.
Selected Publications
Dong, Xiaoxia. 2014 "A High Speed Future." Panorama. University of Pennsylvania, School of Design.
Dong, Xiaoxia. 2011 "Wisdom of the Businessmen of Chicago" (In Chinese). Peking University Business Review. Peking University.
Chandan Deuskar
Areas of Interest
Chandan Deuskar is a doctoral student in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. His research interests relate to rapid urbanization in the developing world and its relationship with urban poverty and economic growth, the spatial form of cities, and urban land issues. Between 2011 and 2016, he worked at the World Bank on urban development in Indonesia, Vietnam, Mongolia, Malaysia, Haiti, and Palestine, as well as regional and global studies which used new data and methods to standardize the definition and measurement of urban areas to allow international comparison of urbanization and its impacts. In 2011, Chandan obtained a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his thesis was on land readjustment as a means of acquiring land for urban expansion in Ahmedabad, India. He also holds a BA in architecture from Columbia University. He grew up in Mumbai, India, and has also lived in Dubai, New York, Boston, and Washington, DC.
Selected Publications
World Bank. "East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth." (2015).
Sanyal, Bishwapriya, and Chandan Deuskar. "A better way to grow? Town planning schemes as a hybrid land readjustment process in Ahmedabad, India." Value capture and land policies 149 (2012): 182.


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Most creamy salad dressings rely on concentrated fats (oils) and/or tofu (or tofu products, like tofu mayo/sour cream) to give the dressing that creamy texture. And that's fine, but if you're eating as much salad as you should be, you might feel the need to mix it up a little, and if (like me) you're always looking for ways to cut calories while maximizing nutrient density, here are a few ideas.
Watered Down Hummus
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Sesame Dressing
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this dressing for everything from falafel to a dip for raw veggies to a sauce for steamed greens. But it can be pretty high in calories, and the addictiveness of the flavor can make those calories add up quickly. So I make a regular tahini sauce and thin it out with water. It is super-delicious. All you do is start with a spoonful of tahini, slowly add water and lemon juice until at the desired consistency and flavor, and season with a bit of sea salt. Sometimes I use garlic but I've been enjoying the clean flavor of just the sesame and lemon. You can really thin this out a lot and retain the wonderful flavor.
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This stuff is decadent! Start with a ripe avocado in the food processor. Add lime juice, cumin, fresh parsley, salt, and water until at the desired consistency. Yum.
White Bean Dressing
This is a lot like hummus. Basically make a white bean hummus in the food processor with white beans, lemon juice, tahini (optional), white pepper, and salt. Add water until at the desired consistency.
Cashew Dressing
This can be done with most nuts and seeds. Soak raw cashews in enough water to cover for 1-2 hours. Blend both in a food processor until smooth and creamy. Add lemon juice OR a clear or light-colored flavored vinegar of your choice, garlic, and more water to desired consistency.
Ah the magic of water -- the more you add, the fewer calories end up on your salad. It's up to your taste buds to find the right balance between flavor and nutrition value. And certainly if you need to GAIN weight, keep it thick, as these dressings are chock full of health-supporting nutrients!
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2 comments:
- Renata said...
Awesome - thanks so much for this post - what great ideas - can't wait to try the tahini and avacado dressings!!!
- January 15, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- zestyvegan said...
These are great, I love the edammame hummus from TJ's too, their eggplant hummus is my favorite. I love the idea of a thin guacamole dressing, yum! http://www.zestyvegan.com
- January 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM
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A murderous force threatens a far-off magical world, and an ordinary Californian is drawn into the battle to save mankind.
As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows well the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat.
Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil's world. The student of history is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined.
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- Jennifer
- 20-03-2013
Terrible Narration
I have tried three times to listen to this book, and have not been able to make it beyond about an hour or so.
I was very excited by the premise of the story, and was looking forward to more books by Barbara Hambly.
But the narration is so abysmal that I cannot finish the book. Teri Clark Linden is the absolute worst narrator I have listened to in all my time as an audiobook listener.
She over-enunciates every single word and gives everything the same emphasis. She can only read about 4 words before having to take a breath, and there are odd pauses in all the wrong places. She prounounces the indefinite pronoun "a" as a long vowel (as in the first letter of the alphabet) and it's like biting on tinfoil. Other words are mispronounced, and it makes for an abysmal listening experience.
The only slightly better narration is when she is using a mock-English accent (voice of the wizard), but that only rises the performance out of the mire for a short time.
I am prepared to give Barbara Hambly another chance, but I will never listen to anything by this narrator again. I am going to return or delete the book.
20 of 20 people found this review helpful
- Daniel
- 29-04-2013
Worst audiobook I've ever heard.
I first read Time of the Dark when I was in high school and I enjoyed the story greatly, the premise was interesting, the plot was well conceived, and the characters were enjoyable. As a fan of audiobooks, I have waited for this series to come to audio for a while. Sadly, when the series finally became available, the performance was so miserable that I can't bring myself to purchase the second and third books.
This audiobook can best be described as cruel and unusual punishment for the ears. Linden reads with zero emotion, horrible character voices, and a punctuation and pronunciation that would suggest trying to teach a recalcitrant child with a lisp how to read. There is so little emotional inflection that terror and joy could be the same thing. When Linden reads as a character, she seems to choose the worst possible voice. Ingold, possibly the most important character in the book, is meant to be a strong older man with a great deal of command and power while maintaining a normally soft spoken, kind demeanor. The voice given to him in the audiobook would be perfect for a dying old man with laryngitis who is trying to speak his last wishes. Rudy, another main character who is portrayed as a biker, artist, and semi-drifter from California is given a voice that seems more like what you would expect for a Virginian farmer with a bad case of southern accent. All the while, regardless of the character background and personality, they are all read to sound like some English professor who has lost sight of how to communicate in favor of dictionary pronunciation.
One of the worst parts of this audiobook is that Linden can't seem to understand how to deal with the letter A. Who in their right mind would pronounce the words around and across with a long A? Why would someone given a hick farmer accent use a long A any time he talks? If Linden speaks the way she reads in her everyday life, I can't imagine anyone wanting to spend time with her after the first 5 minutes of conversation.
All in all, after listening to this audiobook, I can't imagine how this got past any editor. It would be difficult to imagine a performance better equipped to make this audiobook be a failure. A re-recording with an actually talented narrator would be a great service to Hambly fans.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful
- Wayne
- 11-04-2013
Almost ruined by the narration
I saw another review before I purchased that said, "terrible narration." I ran the sample and it sounded like the narrator didn't know what word was coming next in the sentence. I checked the second book - the same. And then I checked samples from other books and they were completely different. Different voices, inflection, tone. Not a bad reader. So what happened? Has the narrator gotten to a place where she is in demand and can read it for the first time as she is recording it? Are they paying her so much less for Hambly's books and time doesn't permit a read through first? Did she not connect at all with the material? I don't know but she obviously can't compensate for not knowing or liking the material.
I was so excited to see these books in the store. Barbara Hambly was one of my favorite fantasy authors in a time where True Blood and Vampire Diaries weren't even a dream of publishers. Fantasy was much smaller of a genre than science fiction. Now there is a glut of fantasy, especially urban fantasy.
Barbara Hambly was one of the first to combine contemporary characters with fantasy worlds. I loved her for this and for all of her books. This series was one of my favorites. So I bought it and still enjoyed it but I wish that my life wasn't so time constrained that reading is difficult to fit in or I would have rather popped this off my shelf and read it.
Other narrators are listed for some of her other books. I look forward to listening to my old favorites that lead me to love fantasy.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful
- Julie
- 19-05-2013
A great story destroyed by an abysmal reader
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Reading this book is time well spent. Listening to this book is pure torture. Please re-record this with a good reader. What a waste! The reader over enunciates every single word. She has no inflection. She sets my teeth on edge. I was so excited to see this series in audible form but I will not get the rest of the books or anything else read by this person.
What did you like best about this story?
Fantastic premise, enjoyable characters but the reader ruins it all. Read it, don't listen!!!
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Teri Clark Linden?
My Great Dane could do a better job. Seriously, a male reader would be a better choice for this series although anyone who isn't Teri Clark Linden would have to be an improvement.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
As long as Teri Clark Linden was not involved.
Any additional comments?
I am very disappointed that such a fine novel was destroyed by such an inept reader.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Beth
- 25-04-2013
Great story, AWFUL narration
I am delighted to (finally!) see Barbara Hambly's works appearing on Audible. She has a wonderful feel for fantasy, character, suspense, and the books are great reads/listens. BUT the narrator for the Darwath series is TERRIBLE. Not only are the voices she uses for the characters unconvincing and stilted, her basic delivery is incredibly annoying, containing, as it does, not only strange mispronunciations, (long a instead of the schwa sound in words like away and about, accents on the wrong syllable, etc.) but also a peculiar interrogative inflection in the middle of statement-sentences, and idiosyncratic (if not unintelligible) word emphases. Honestly, she sounded like a third grader reading aloud (oops, long A-loud). What WAS the producer THINKING? These books certainly deserve more deft handling, and I hope Audible will consider reissuing them with someone who can really read aloud!
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-2013
Read it, don't listen to it!
What would have made Time of the Dark better?
My free Natural Reader computer program does a better job reading this than the narrator. This is one of my favorite series by Barbara Hambly and I was thrilled to see it on audible. Until I realized that the narration didn't get better as the reader got into the story. Heavy sigh.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Couldn't listen to the book. Let Kindle read it for me.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Ellen Clary
- 30-12-2013
Great story, terrible reading
Would you try another book from Barbara Hambly and/or Teri Clark Linden?
This is one of my most favorite books, so I was very disappointed in Teri Clark Linden's reading where she put pauses in all the wrong places. (Listen to the sample and you'll see.)
Who was your favorite character and why?
Gil and Rudy
Would you be willing to try another one of Teri Clark Linden's performances?
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Yes, definitely.
Any additional comments?
This is a hair-raising gripping story, and a good reader can convey that.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Cara
- 06-12-2013
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
The book (and the series) is great. I've read it several times and was glad to find it as an audiobook. Then I started listening to it. My objection to the way the narrator voices several characters is subjective, I just don't hear them that way when I read the book. But consistently pronouncing "a" as a long a, and over enunciating any word over two syllables (and some under) make it sound as though she is sight reading and not doing it well. So I would (and have) recommend the book, but not the audiobook.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Teri Clark Linden?
Holter Graham
Did Time of the Dark inspire you to do anything?
Listening to this book inspired me to turn it off and listen to music instead.
Any additional comments?
Buy the book.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- David
- 03-10-2013
I'm disappointed
Is there anything you would change about this book?
This is one of my favorite fantasy series, but the reader is the worst I've ever heard.
Would you be willing to try another one of Teri Clark Linden's performances?
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 19-02-2017
Terrible Narration
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
If the narrator actually knew how to read, didn't end every other sentence on an up tone and maybe had done a little research into grammar and punctuation before she had started I might rated this higher.
What did you like best about this story?
Barbara Hambly is one of my favorite F & SF writers and this is one of my favorite series of books. Despite that I turned it off just a few minutes into the book because the narration is so awful.
How could the performance have been better?
I am sure the narrator is a very nice person who takes care of her family, pays her taxes, doesn't kick puppies and would hold the door open for you if you had an arm full of stuff. She really needs to go back to broad cast school, get some acting lessons or just change professions.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
The vocal performance is a vast disappointment.
Any additional comments?
Find a different reader and hope the author has forgiven the production team who put this together.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- J.M.Harley.
- 19-01-2014
Never heard anything like it.
If this book wasn't for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?
Someone who's deaf?
What was one of the most memorable moments of Time of the Dark?
The whole book has a really good plot, with twists and turns right through it. I read the book several years ago and the story has stuck with me ever since.
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Teri Clark Linden?
Nicole Poole would be a good narrator. Maybe she would know that Gil is actually pronounced Jill.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Time of the Dark?
If I was Editor, I would have thrown Teri out of the office and hired someone else. The book is just fine.
Any additional comments?
Definitely read the book. Don't bother to buy this Audio. Unless you like being read to by a three year old. I only managed 2 minutes of it. Wish I'd read the reviews of other people before buying it.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 24-05-2018
Good book ruined by awful reader
I really like Barbara Hambly. I really like the Darwarth trilogy, post-apocalyptic fantasy, well-written, engaging characters, a really good read. But the reader for this audiobook is terrible: slow, mannered and displaying a range of truly awful faux-Brit accents. Ingold the wizard sounds like a terminal laryngitis case, and the cryptic, deadly Icefalcon has for some reason been rendered as a Brummie. At least I think it's Brummie, it's kind of hard to tell, but by heaven it doesn't work. I'm returning the audiobook, it's painful to listen too. What a pity. I had to return 'The Ladies of Mandrigyn', again by Hambly, because the same reader simply destroyed it for me.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Hazel
- 28-06-2017
Updated review
Would you try another book written by Barbara Hambly or narrated by Teri Clark Linden?
I'd buy another book written by Barbara Hambly, she is a great story teller
What other book might you compare Time of the Dark to, and why?
If you enjoy books by Robin Hobb, Patricia McKillip or Robin McKinley then you'll probably enjoy this.
Would you be willing to try another one of Teri Clark Linden's performances?
Well.. I've discovered a way to cope with her performance. I play it on 1.25x speed and then it sounds much better to me. I can't cope with the slow ponderous reading at normal speed.
Did Time of the Dark inspire you to do anything?
No, but it is a book I have reread over the years and enjoy greatly
- Jamie
- 12-08-2015
A world where the monsters in the dark are real
I read this series years ago and enjoyed it immensely then so was happy to see that the audio books are available.
Briefly the plot is two people are transported to an alternative medieval earth where the human population is being threatened by some very real and very alien monsters in the dark. They have to adapt to this new world and to the threat, and being different people they both do it in different ways. The actual monsters have quite a nice and different twist to them that is gradually revealed and climaxes in book 3 - sorry you need to listen to the whole series to find out what it is, no spoilers here :) - but is it nice when an author doesn't follow the standard formula.
Most of the other reviews feel that Teri Clark Linden is a terrible narrater. Actually I didn't have a problem with her. Yes, I think she's over done the accents of the different characters a bit, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the book. The straight bits where she's simply narrating the story rather than speaking as a character are actually very pleasant. She does enunciate very clearly which apparently upsets some people, but that didn't cause me any problems. If you're unsure about the narration, make sure you listen to the preview before you buy.
I've already bought the second book and will be buying the third so I'm obviously not that worried about the narration :)
Bottom line - very enjoyable alternative medieval earth fantasy with magic, swords and monsters. Good combination :)
2 of 5 people found this review helpful


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Twins To Call Up Waldrop; Host Royals
The Twins are expected to call up righthander Kyle Waldrop from triple-A Rochester.
Waldrop is a 2004 1st round pick who has a 1.26 ERA in 14 1/3 innings at triple-A in 9 games.
Relief pitcher Jeff Manship has been optioned to triple-A Rochester. Manship has a 10.97 ERA in 10 2/3 innings for the Twins this season.
The Twins begin a 4-game series with the Royals tonight at 7:10, pregame on WJON at 6:40.
Lefthander Brian Duensing (1-3) gets the start on the mound for the Twins and righthander Luis Mendoza (2-4) toes the rubber for the Royals. The two teams play a day/night doubleheader Saturday to make up for a previous rain-out this season.


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Shangrila Hair & Beauty is different to any other salon that we've ever seen. Based around the tibetan influence with buddhas placed around the salon, incense burning and a variety of organic teas our clients come here to relax and feel at home at the base of the Mount Dandenong Ranges.
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We are after a DL sized flyer to be put into envelopes and letter box dropped on the valentines day weekend. One sided only.
The logo is written in Edwardian Script and apart from that we have had no real advertising done so there's nothing that needs to be matching. (I have attached a basic business card that we use)
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College softball program and head coach Jamie Grodecki are proud to announce the addition of assistant coach Brittany Bennett.
Bennett will primarily serve as the pitching coach and will also work with the catchers and outfield, as well as have a role in recruiting and alumni relations.
Bennett comes to GC following a three-year stint as assistant coach at fellow Division II institution, Lynn University. With the Knights, Bennett's pitching staff allowed the second fewest hits in program history in 2009 and held opponents to their lowest batting average in four seasons. Bennett also helped produce one Daktronics Honorable Mention All-American and two Daktronics All-Region outfielders. At Lynn, she worked under former GC assistant coach Mandy Harris.
Prior to her time at Lynn University, she spent a season at Division I UNC-Wilmington and also served on the staff at Mount Olive College for a season as an assistant. Under the guidance of Bennett, the Trojan pitching staff lowered its earned run average from 5.13 to 1.70, 18th lowest among all NCAA Division II institutions. She also helped the squad post a school-record 39 victories. In addition, sophomore Jenny Jackson was selected the Carolina-Virginia Athletic Conference Player-of-the-Year after ranking seventh nationally in ERA (0.87).
Bennett spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Southern Arkansas University from 2004-06 where she worked with both the hitters and pitchers. The Lady Muleriders produced the Gulf South Conference's Pitcher-of-the-Year in Kayla King in 2006. It was at SAU where she met Grodecki, as the future GC skipper was an assistant coach on the Mulerider staff.
No stranger to the Division II game, Bennett was a two-year letter winner at Southern Arkansas. A member of the Gulf South Conference Academic Honor Roll in 2004, she holds the school record for fewest errors in a career with six.
Originally from Longview, Texas, Bennett earned her Bachelor's of Business Administration in computer information systems from Southern Arkansas in 2004 and received her Master's of Science degree in kinesiology at SAU in 2006.
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The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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230pm Train to East Logan
Aug 10, Aug 11, 2013
230pm. The 230pm Train to East Logan is the longest of the regular weekend trains and operates every Saturday and Sunday between Memorial Day and the last full weekend of October. The train departs the Nelsonville Depot for a round-trip ride along the historic Hocking River Valley. Along the way, we will pass through the historic company town of Haydenville, which was the last company town in Ohio. It was once part of a large brick and clay company known in its later days as NATCO. On the return trip to Nelsonville after pausing at the east end of Logan, the train continues past the Nelsonville Depot to Robbins Crossing. Robbins Crossing is a restored 1850s-era Ohio pioneer village operated by students, staff, and volunteers from Hocking College and is located at the south end of the Hocking College campus. After a 30-minute stop at Robbins Crossing, the train returns to the Nelsonville Depot.Duration of ride Approximately two hours and fifteen minutes. Adult $17. Senior $15. Child $12.
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On Saturday night, a resident of Snowmass Village in Colorado opened the door of her car to find three bear cubs in the back seat. She was shocked, but as the town's transportation department pointed out, it was all her fault.
The pictured incident was not isolated, but rather one of a string of dangerously cute break-ins. Beginning over a week ago, one mother bear and her three cubs began breaking into a number of vehicles with food left inside.
The Snowmass Village Transportation Department issued this pointed and remarkably clear warning on Facebook for its city's residents.
Bears are breaking into cars in Snowmass Village!
Please lock your cars and try to clean all traces of food out of them.
On second thought, sell your car and ride the Village Shuttle. Beats having to clean it.
Seriously! Lock your cars. These cute little guys lives depend on you to act responsibly in bear country.
Adorable as they are, these bears may soon be breaking into homes. Bears are no laughing matter, people.
(Hat tip to $kaycog!)
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Midday Express of 2013-02-14
News from the European Commission's Midday Briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi de la Commission européenne
Financial Transaction Tax under Enhanced Cooperation: Commission sets out the details
The details of the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to be implemented under enhanced cooperation have been set out in a proposal adopted by the Commission today. As requested by the 11 Member States that will proceed with this tax, the proposed Directive mirrors the scope and objectives of the original FTT proposal put forward by the Commission in September 2011 ( IP/11/1085). The approach of taxing all transactions with an established link to the FTT-zone is maintained, as are the rates of 0.1% for shares and bonds and 0.01% for derivatives.
Commission to launch bioeconomy observatory
The European Commission will establish an observatory to map progress and measure the impact of the development of the European Union's bioeconomy, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn announced today. The observatory will gather data to follow the evolution of markets, to map EU, national and regional bioeconomy policies, research and innovation capacities, and the scale of related public and private investments. The observatory will be coordinated by the Joint Research Centre, the Commission's in-house science service.
Flash estimate for the fourth quarter of 2012 - Euro area GDP down by 0.6% and EU27 down by 0.5% / -0.9% and -0.6% respectively compared with the fourth quarter of 2011
GDP fell by 0.6% in the euro area (EA17) and by 0.5% in the EU27 during the fourth quarter of 2012, compared with the previous quarter. In the third quarter of 2012, growth rates were -0.1% and +0.1% respectively. Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP fell by 0.9% in the euro area and by 0.6% in the EU27 in the fourth quarter of 2012, after -0.6% and -0.4% respectively in the previous quarter. During the fourth quarter of 2012, GDP in the United States was stable compared with the previous quarter (after +0.8% in the third quarter of 2012). Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, GDP rose by 1.5% in the United States (after +2.6% in the previous quarter). Over the whole year 20123, GDP fell by 0.5% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU27.
Processed Animal Proteins to be re-authorised in feed for fish
A Commission Regulation to re-authorise the use of processed animal proteins (PAPs) derived from non-ruminant farmed animals (i.e. mainly from pigs and poultry) in fish feed entered into force yesterday. Such use was prohibited twelve years ago when the total feed ban was introduced in 2001 to tackle the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic. The current BSE epidemiological situation shows that the EU is now on the final path to eradicating BSE within its cattle population. Endorsed by Member State experts in the Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH) in July 2012, this measure will allow farmed fish and other aquaculture animals, to once again be fed with non-ruminant PAPs. It is also in line with latest scientific opinions which indicate that the risk of BSE transmission between non-ruminant animals is negligible provided that intra-species recycling (cannibalism) is prevented. Traceability requirements will be ensured all along the feed chain via a channelling system in order to prevent cross-contamination with feeding-stuffs intended for species other than fish. In addition, very sensitive analytical tests based on DNA detection will be used to control the correct implementation of the channelling system. This re-authorisation will apply from 1 June 2013 and will improve the overall sustainability of the aquaculture sector, since these PAPs could be a valuable substitute for fishmeal, which is a scarce resource. Yesterday's measure is a first step as the Commission, subject to specific analytical tests, intends to propose a further measure to re-introduce the use of pig and poultry PAPs for poultry and pigs. The Commission has however no intention to propose the re-authorisation of PAPs for feeding ruminant animals (i.e. cattle, sheep or goats) or to propose to re-use PAPs from ruminants for feeding non-ruminant farmed animals.
Commissioner Hahn in Western Greece and Peloponnese to push for an approach to EU investments that delivers jobs
EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn is in Greece from 14-15 February pushing for the most efficient and effective use of the country's main source of public investment – EU Regional Funds. On this leg of his tour of the country's 13 regions he is urging local business and regional representatives to use Regional Funds for growth and innovation and calling for more targeted spending to create new jobs; in particular in research and development, support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and sustainable tourism. He will also urge the end of illegal landfill sites, which deter potential investors and badly affect people's quality of life, to be replaced by modern waste management plants. These can be co-financed through EU Regional Policy. Commissioner Hahn meets Western Greece Regional Governor, Apostolos Katsifaras in Patras as well as regional representatives, NGOs and business representatives in the Peloponnese region, to discuss how to best target EU investment to build on the regions' strengths and to create maximum impact.
Commissioner Oettinger welcomes the signature of the intergovernmental agreement on TAP
EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger welcomed today's signature of a tri-lateral intergovernmental agreement (IGA) as an essential step in the preparation of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project (TAP). TAP is an important gas pipeline between Italy, Albania and Greece with a starting capacity of minimum 10 billion cubic metres per annum (bcma).
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Arcade Spotlight: Spacebar Arcade in Boise, ID
If you're ever in the Boise area and find yourself bored out of your mind, take comfort in knowing that there is one place that will entertain you for hours. No, not the local strip joints -- we're talking about the Spacebar Arcade! Check out this week's Arcade Spotlight!
Half bar/half arcade/all awesome, Spacebar Arcade will quench your thirst for beer and arcade skill recognition. With over 20 classic arcade games, like Gorf, Joust, Pac-Man, Tron, Frogger and Mario Bros, you'll be knocking down high scores as you knock back brewskis. They even have a few pinball machines for all you pinheads out there.
Spacebar offers beers on draft and in a can (for the sophisticate), while also offering some red and white wine for people who don't know any better. They have live bands, DJs and some really cute Boise babes. They even do Donkey Kong tournaments!
While their bar may be awesome, their website is bare bones. But they do have some nice pics of the place. Take a gander and tell 'em Arcade Sushi sent ya the next time you head down there. It won't get you any discounts, but it'll make you sound like you know important people!
Spacebar Arcade is located at:
200 N. Capitol Blvd.
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 918-0597
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To celebrate the International Year of Chemistry, members of the Chemistry Department at Laval University established the Guinness record of the largest figure made with glowsticks. On March 25th, 2011, 308 persons made a glowstick figure of the molecule of life, H2O, with 500 glowsticks. View the video (link on the right) and read about it in the Guinness Records Blog Post.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Identifying the world's finest airports is easy. Hong Kong International Airport, Singapore's Changi and Seoul's Incheon have topped the ranks of airport awards for the last decade.
Sitting comfortably? Not at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, ranked by some as one of the worst.
These 21st-century airports boast the best shopping, classiest restaurants, as well as features such as indoor pools, orchid gardens, and free wireless Internet. See world's best airports
The world's worst airports, however, are harder to pin down. It's a crowded field to choose from and the choice depends on what you class as bad. See our pick of the world's worst airports »
If it's for danger, then Baghdad International Airport, in the middle of a war zone, should rank pretty high.
Lukla airstrip -- gateway to the Mount Everest region in Nepal -- is also a strong contender.
Landing involves a hair-raising plummet onto an uphill airstrip cut into the side of a mountain. On takeoff, the airstrip comes to an abrupt end at the edge of a mountain cliff. What do you think is the world's worst airport? Sound off below
Watch CNN's Ayesha Durgahee examine what it takes to become Airport of the year in Hong Kong. »
In 2007, TripAdvisor asked travelers to rank airports according to how easy they are to navigate, the cleanliness of the lavatories and parking facilities.
Based on these factors, the 2,500 respondents classed London Heathrow and Chicago O'Hare as the world's most hated.
Yet neither of these major hubs appeared in Foreign Policy magazine's review of the five worst airports, published in 2007.
The list here included the likes of Mineralnye Vody airport in Russia for its feral cats and daggers on sale in the departure lounge.
Charles de Gaulle also gains little affection from those that pass through its interminable terminals. As Foreign Policy says, "visitors to Paris should expect more than the grimy terminals, rude staff, confusing layout, and overpriced food."
Where was your worst airport experience in 2008? Which airport do you think is the most dangerous, uncomfortable or aggravating? Sound Off below
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The Mekong River above Vientiane, extending upstream to Luang Prabang, is one of the least-studied sections of the entire Mekong mainstream. No detailed bird or other fauna surveys have been conducted in most of this stretch of the river, which is considered a critical habitat, migration and breeding corridor for numerous species of conservation and economic significance.
Part of the area is globally recognized as an 'Important Bird Area' (IBA) and may support at least 15 other priority species, including mammals such as Smooth-coated Otter and Fishing Cat, birds such as Masked Finfoot, Greater Adjutant, Lesser Adjutant, and White-shouldered Ibis, and reptiles including Asiatic Softshell Turtle and Asiatic Giant Softshell Turtle. Confirmed breeding populations of regionally threatened bird species include River Lapwing, Wire-tailed Swallow, Plain Martin and Spot-billed Duck.
In September 2011, IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature Lao PDR Office organized the first ecological survey of the Mekong River between Luang Prabang and Vientiane. This was the first step of a five year Mekong conservation project, financed by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).
The study area is part of a critical migration and breeding corridor for a large assemblage of migratory fish, including the famous Mekong Giant Catfish, which undertake seasonal movements along the mainstream and tributaries between the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia and southern China.
This river section contributes to maintenance of the integrity of ecosystem services along the upper Mekong, including regulation of seasonal flow, silt entrapment and flood protection.
The area also supports around 30,000 local residents, who depend directly on healthy populations of migratory fish and other fauna and flora, intact river habitats, a reliable water source and protection against flooding.
However, within the study area, channel habitats are being lost or degraded due to increasing infrastructure development (roads, ports, sand mining, bank reinforcement), conversion of riverbank habitats for agriculture, over-fishing, and hunting. At least three dams are also planned along the Mekong mainstream within the study area.
The first ecological field survey for this river section was implemented by IUCN Lao PDR in September 2011.
The scientific team included 11 participants from IUCN Lao PDR, the National University of Laos (NUoL) Faculty of Science, the Lao Living Aquatic Resources Research Center (LARReC) and international consultants.
Ecological surveys were made by boats with frequent stops in different natural habitats along the Mekong River. The survey also included interviews with villagers in order to gain a better understanding of the use of wildlife along this stretch of the river. The preliminary results showed that, despite a low population density, natural habitats and wildlife populations may be threatened and decreasing.
A second ecological survey will be planned in 2012 during the dry season .This will provide new information on the status, distribution, and abundance of a suite of species of global or regional significance with the potential for re-discovery of at least one species, River Tern, and for discovery of new species to science and/or Lao PDR.
After conclusion of the ecological surveys, the next phases of this five years project will focus on conservation through a participatory approach with local communities. The main activities will be Protection of sites with the highest biodiversity value will be implemented, along with developing and expanding community co-management of key natural resources, and raising the capacity of district and provincial government staff to manage natural resources.
Raphaël Glémet
Water and Wetlands officer
IUCN Lao PDR
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What is DMARC and Why Should You Care?Carly Brantz
DMARC is an acronym for "Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance" which is a new standard that makes it easier for ISPs' to prevent messaging abuse in the email ecosphere. With malicious email on the rise, consumers are having increasing difficulty identifying legitimate email. As a result, they unwittingly give up their personally identifiable information which exposes them to financial havoc and ultimately reduces trust in the channel and trust in the brand.
DMARC is the next evolution of email authentication, a process by which ISPs can better identify legitimate mailers from spammers. Essentially, DMARC allows email senders to specify how ISPs should treat emails that cannot or were not authenticated using SPF or DKIM by them. Senders can opt to send those emails to the junk folder or have them blocked them all together. By doing so, ISPs can better identify spammers and prevent malicious email from invading consumer inboxes while minimizing false positives and providing better authentication reporting for greater transparency in the marketplace.
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As the November trial of Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev inches closer, many of his friends also facing federal charges are learning their fate.
Twenty-year-old Dias Kadyrbayev pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice for taking a backpack, fireworks and a laptop from Tsarnaev's UMass-Dartmouth dorm room after Tsarnaev was identified by the FBI as one of the marathon bombing suspects. He faces up to seven years in prison if the judge accepts his plea deal.
"Dias understands that he should not have gone to that room and should not have taken items from that room and he hopes by accepting responsibility that people here in Boston and around the world will eventually understand that he did not do so out of malice or in any way to condone what the Tsarnaevs have allegedly done," Kadyrbayev's defense attorney Robert Stahl said.
Last month, Kadyrbayev's roommate Azamat Tazhayakov was convicted of similar charges and now faces up to 25 years in prison when sentenced Oct. 16. A third friend accused of lying to investigators, Robel Phillipos, is set to go on trial Sept. 29.
NECN Legal Editor Randy Chapman says it wouldn't be surprising to see Phillipos going after his own plea deal.
"Now that he knows he's probably not going to get any more than seven years, you would expect he might give some serious consideration to some type of a sentence," Chapman said.
Kadyrbayev's attorney would not comment Thursday if part of his client's deal was to testify against Tsarnaev, but Chapman says he thinks testimony from Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov or Phillipos could actually be detrimental to the government's case.
"If anything they're likely to add some degree of mitigation because they can talk about his background history in a way that might humanize him a little bit, so I don't really think he's going to be helpful to the government in any respect," Chapman said.
The judge will decide whether to accept or reject Kadyrbayev's plea deal on Nov. 18.
Tsarnaev's trial is currently scheduled for Nov. 3, but his defense attorneys have said they intend to file a motion by next Friday asking to delay the trial. They have also filed a motion to move the trial to Washington, D.C.


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April 23, 2012
Lenny Schwartz's Subject 62 plays at the Bell Street Chapel through April 28th
BWW Reviews: Boeing-Boeing at Trinity Rep. - Funny as Hell
April 20, 2012
Fred Sullivan, Jr. Directs a Delightful Production of this Effervescent 60s Sex Romp
BWW Reviews: THE ADDAMS FAMILY at Providence Performing Arts Center
March 21, 2012
The Addams Family, which is playing at PPAC through Sunday, March 25th, is a charming and family-friendly.
BWW Reviews: BOOM at The Gamm
March 18, 2012
Fred Sullivan, Jr. directs this clever little comedy which had its original workshop right here in Rhode Island and plays at the Gamm through April 8, 2012
BWW Reviews: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Makes Rhode Island Premiere at 2nd Story
March 14, 2012
Ed Shea directly a terrific production of Tracy Letts' comic tragedy
BWW Reviews: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE at Trinity Repertory Company
February 11, 2012
Curt Columbus directs a delightful, fast-paced production that is filled with first-rate performances.
BWW Reviews: TAKE ME OUT Hits it Out at 2nd Story Theatre
January 26, 2012
Richard Greenberg's Tony award-winning play is at the Warren, RI theater through February 12th.
BWW Reviews: FESTEN makes its New England premiere at The Gamm
January 18, 2012
Tony Estrella directs a tight ensemble of actors in this drama about familial betrayal and neglect
BWW Reviews: SHREK THE MUSICAL is a gas at Providence Performing Arts Center
January 5, 2012
Based on the 2001 animated comedy, Shrek is a perfect "gateway drug" to Broadway musicals
BWW Reviews: CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE Amazes at PPAC
December 15, 2011
Cirque Dreams Holidaze is family-friendly entertainment that is sure to delight and amaze
BWW INTERVIEWS: Lynda Carter talks new album, new gig and, of course, Wonder Woman
December 7, 2011
Lynda Carter will be playing a free show at Mohegan Sun's Wolf Den on Saturday, December 10th.
BWW Reviews: BETH at Daydream Theatre Company - Interesting & Accessible
November 7, 2011
Lenny Schwartz directs the premiere of Michael Roderick's modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Queer/Art/Mentorship Program Launches in NYC
October 31, 2011
Filmmaker Ira Sachs and Lily Binns have recently launched Queer/Art/Mentorship, a program that supports emerging queer working artists in New York City.
BWW Reviews: CLYBOURNE PARK at Trinity Repertory Company
October 21, 2011
Brian Mertes directs a gorgeous production of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize winning play
BWW Reviews: ROCK OF AGES at PPAC - Lacks in Taste, Compensates in Enthusiasm
October 5, 2011
The second national tour kicked off last night in Providence, RI
BWW Reviews: COMMUNICATING DOORS at 2nd Story Theatre
October 3, 2011
Ed Shea directs one of Alan Ackbourn's lesser-known comedies; Communicating Doors, through October 23, 2011
BWW Reviews: HIS GIRL FRIDAY at Trinity Repertory Company
September 15, 2011
Curt Columbus directs Trinity's season opener; a fast-paced adaptation of the classic 1940 Columbia Pictures film
BWW Reviews: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION at the Gamm Theatre
September 14, 2011
Annie Baker's Obie-award winning play, directed by Rachel Walshe, runs at The Gamm through October 9, 2011
BWW Reviews: THE 39 STEPS at Theatre By The Sea
September 11, 2011
Amiee Turner directs this production of firsts for Ocean State Theater Company, which operates Theatre By The Sea. It is the first post-Labor Day production and the first non-musical the theater has produced since its re-opening in 2007.
Blythe Danner Talks Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Trinity Rep and More!
August 15, 2011
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- Nov 18:
- Deadline for flood victims to apply for relief in Superior extended to Dec. 9
- Nov 14:
- Sunshine Canyon Drive, Flagstaff Road to reopen to all users Saturday
- Nov 6:
- Superior Chamber establishes relief fund for residents affected by floods
- Oct 5:
- Boulder area car buyers warned how to avoid flood-damaged autos
- Boulder Reservoir draws 300 volunteers for flood clean-up, repairs
- Oct 4:
- Vail Resorts to put 150 employees to work fixing flood-ravaged Coal Creek Trail
- Oct 3:
- Superior launches Flood Buster program to match volunteers with victims
- Oct 1:
- Superior to hold rescheduled flood repair volunteer project Saturday
- Superior to hold flood impact public meeting tonight
- Sep 25:
- Superior to host volunteer project day Saturday to repair flood damage
- Sep 22:
- Boulder County flood victims facing housing crunch
- Sep 21:
- Boulder ceremony honors memory of couple lost in flood
- Boulder begins inspections of flood-damaged properties Monday
- Sep 18:
- Collection for flood relief at final Art Night Out on Friday in Lafayette
- Sep 15:
- 'Camp Erie' to provide activities for kids during flood-related school closure next week
- Sep 14:
- 234 people remain unaccounted as rescuers gain ground
- Residents, officials: We will come back.
- Road closures in Boulder, east county and surrounding area
- Closings, cancellations and re-openings post flood
- Boulder area canyons remain isolated
- Boulder County's major reservoirs holding steady, despite week's deluge
- Fifth-graders stranded at Cal-Wood near Jamestown return to Louisville
- Officials: Extensive road damage still being assessed
- Boulder County to provide community dumpsters for flood cleanup
- 234 remain 'unaccounted for', rescuers slowly gain ground
- Boulder remains under flash flood watch through Sunday afternoon
- Sep 13:
- Rescue crews help Lefthand Canyon residents evacuate
- St. Vrain schools closed until Thursday, BVSD officials still deciding when to reopen
- In the mouth of Boulder Canyon: The aftermath of a 100-year flood
- Football: No make-up date yet as CU postpones game against Fresno State because of flood
- East Boulder County emerges from a tough night of evacs, road closures
- Boulder to see some relief, but more rain in forecast
- U.S. 36 reopened in both directions between Denver and Boulder
- 181 'unaccounted for,' at least 3 dead in Boulder County
- Flood-related closures in Boulder County for Friday, Sept. 13
- List of Boulder County road closures due to flooding
- Boulder police chief tours flood damage, says 'things are looking better'
- Eldorado Springs residents ordered to evacuate due to high waters, mudslide risk
- Sep 12:
- Surge of water carrying cars, other debris flattens in Boulder Canyon
- Evacuations ordered for 4,000 residents along Boulder Creek
- Flooding claims at least 2 lives in Boulder, Jamestown
- RTD suspends numerous bus routes in Boulder
- 2nd Boulder flooding fatality was recent Centaurus grad Wesley Quinlan, friends say
- 100-year-flood: Boulder rainfall records swamped in dueling weather systems
- Louisville, Lafayette open shelters as creeks swell; downtown Superior under evac order
- Homeless people turned away from Boulder flood shelter
- Flooding prompts evacuations near Erie; community center to serve as shelter
- BVSD: Students at Jamestown's CalWood Education Center are safe
- Closures: Host of area roads closed, as well as CU, Naropa, Boulder Valley, St. Vrain schools
- Firefighter trapped by 'wall of water' rescued, suffers severe injuries
- Boulder registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record
- Sheriff asks Boulder County residents to stay home today, keep roads clear
- 500-year flood nearly cuts Longmont in two, forces evacuations
- National Guard carries evacuees from Lyons, delivers supplies
- Boulder flood: Live social media coverage of flash-flood emergency
An elusive one-ton concrete block appeared and then disappeared in Boulder County homeowner Mark Gerzon's front yard, blocking a culvert and causing thousands of dollars of damage to his yard and home during September's floods and heavy rains.
Gerzon called it a Boulder flood mystery that may never be solved.
He first noticed the concrete block, which he described as roughly 6 feet wide, 2 feet thick and 2 feet tall, about a week after the heavy rains that caused major flooding and damage across Boulder County.
He started wondering why, a week after the heavy rains had ended, the swollen Fourmile Canyon Creek near his home at 57th Street and Woodbourne Hollow Road wasn't receding. It had grown from about 2 feet wide to 75 feet wide because of the intense rain, Gerzon said, and covered a large portion of his yard.
When Gerzon went outside with a friend to see if debris had blocked the culvert that runs underneath 57th Street, he found a giant, one-ton concrete block sitting squarely in front of the culvert, stopping all water from rushing under the street. It had a metal hook on top, as if a crane or some other machine was needed to lift it, he said.
He called around to see who, if anyone, was responsible for the concrete slab that probably contributed to the creek overflowing into his yard and basement. Gerzon blames the concrete block for pushing floodwaters into his yard, destroying a two-room outbuilding on his 1.5-acre property and ruining all the appliances in the 1500-square-foot crawlspace beneath his home.
The water took so long to recede that Gerzon is still drying out his yard and the crawlspace, he said.
Gerzon called Boulder County, which maintains both the culvert and the roads in his neighborhood. Boulder County Road Supervisor Ted Plank said the county would only be hurting itself by blocking culverts during the flood. Because of the high number of roads washed out by the flooding, county road crews couldn't get to Gerzon's neighborhood until this week, Plank said -- almost a month after Gerzon saw the concrete block.
"The whole thing is a mystery to us," Plank said. "The county had no equipment in the area. We weren't doing any work and certainly we didn't block our own culvert, that would be silly. It had to have been by a private party."
Plank wondered aloud if a neighbor downstream deposited the concrete block in an attempt to keep some water away from their property during the heavy rains and flooding.
The day after he called Boulder County, Gerzon went outside to photograph the offending block. It was gone.
Gerzon said also he saw tire tracks in the mud nearby.
"Now I'm really getting curious," he said. "Coincidence that the next day it's gone? Who dropped this thing? Where'd it come from?"
The riddle persisted. Later, while he was out driving, Gerzon noticed huge stacks of concrete blocks behind a fence near 61st Street and Valmont Road. He called Martin Marietta Materials, which owns Boulder Ready Mix at that location, and the company explained it sold those types of concrete blocks every day. It could've been anyone, they told Gerzon.
The ditch company, which is responsible for maintaining the waterway itself but not the culvert, also denied any involvement or knowledge of the concrete block in Gerzon's yard. Boulder and Left Hand Ditch Company president John Brunner said it likely washed downstream and got stuck near Gerzon's culvert.
"I have no idea, other than it actually could've moved down there," Brunner said. "We don't have any reason to put anything in the ditch. Where it came from I have no idea. I would assume it was part of the debris that came out of the flooding."
Though he consulted several lawyers, Gerzon eventually decided not to take legal action, and because he was so busy trying to repair damage to his home from the flood waters, he didn't have time to investigate. Gerzon decided the mystery of the concrete block was one that would have to play out by itself.
"It'd like to get to the bottom of it," he said. "I'm not going to pursue legal action but I am hurt that someone would do that."
Contact Staff Writer Sarah Kuta at 303-473-1106, email@example.com or twitter.com/sarahkuta.