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Colloquium with Dr. Cari An Coe, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, October 15, 200812:00 PM - 1:30 PM10383 Bunche HallUCLA CampusLos Angeles, CA 90095
Why do local officials in developing countries often fail to implement national environmental policy as the national government intended? Designed to engender "community-based natural resource management," the decentralized implementation of environmental policy has been largely unsuccessful in meeting its intended goals of enhanced resource conservation and sustainable resource use. Common explanations for these local failures include corruption on the part of local officials or a lack of sufficient resources and training locally to allow effective implementation. Thus, local officials are either portrayed as unaccountable to local communities or as incapable of serving them.
This study challenges this notion with a case study of Vietnam by showing that there are dimensions of local officials' accountability to their communities, even in non-democratic settings, which may constrain how they implement national policy. Using data from household surveys and interviews with local officials living in the immediate periphery of Tam Dao national park in northern Vietnam, I argue that the reason why households are using protected forest land in the national park for agro-forestry purposes is because local officials honor long-standing, community-recognized household property rights over this forest land. Because local officials are accountable to existing community power structures, they may fail to implement policy locally in the way intended at the national level.
Cari An Coe is a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in the Political Economy of Natural Resource Management at UC Berkeley. She recently completed her Ph.D. at UCLA's Department of Political Science. She also has a Master's degree in Pacific International Affairs from UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her dissertation, entitled "A Tragedy, but No Commons: The Failure of 'Community-based' Forestry in the Buffer Zone of Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam, and the Role of Household Property Rights and Bureaucratic Conflict," explores how the allocation of forest land use rights to households reflects local political dynamics between citizens and local officials.
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I'm working through a bunch of albums trying to make my list of all time best albums, and I thought I would see what kind of input CA has to offer
(i'm sure this thread has been done a million times, but hey, still fun!)
All I know for sure about my list is 1. Radiohead - OK Computer and 2. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute. I'm one of those guys who never gives out "10s" (because nothing is perfect), but if I were forced to give a 10 it would be to those two albums.
Anyways let me know what your all time favs are!
Oh, and youtubes, album covers or at least short descriptions are appreciated. When people just see a long list of albums they usually just ignore it.
I never give 10's unless something stands the test of time.
My rationale is that if I love something enough to listen to it 10, 20, 30 years after the fact...it's a damn 10. Doesn't really matter if EVERY OTHER PERSON ON THE PLANET considers it a 1, if I like something for that long, it's definitely a 10.
That all said, it's supremely hard to ever pick a "favorite album of all time" for me, because depending on my mood it would shift.
First thing that hits my mind, though...the album that has the MOST memories attached to it would be:
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
That is the first 2 songs (intro+song) off of the album, and within seconds you know it's a classic.
I DARE anyone to listen to that song and not feel the metal flowing through their veins. Even if you HATE heavy metal, it's basically impossible. If you deny, you are an alien or a zombie or all of the above.
And the album, in general, just contains the best of the best of them...pretty much at their peak. Any Priest fan is gonna have their favorite album (usually British Steel), but this was the one where I think their style really shined the brightest. If someone asked "What does Judas Priest sound like?", I'd tell them to pick a song from this album.
Following a close CLOSE 2nd
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Highlight of the album for me is this song, Rime of the Ancient Mariner...which is based off of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
It's 13+ minutes of ABSOLUTE musical perfection. The link above is live footage and it sounds precisely like the studio track. Maiden have an incredible legacy of music and they have influenced millions.
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Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On".
Will exist even after man destroys himself.
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http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=192127"Everything must serve the idea. The means used to convey the idea should be the simplest and clear. Just what is required. No extra images. To me this is a universal principle of art. Saying as much as possible with a minimum of means."-John Huston, Director
Well, the only one I can genuinely say is my fav album ever is Blue Blood by X Japan.
"I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster"
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The first 5 Metallica albums are metal perfection, they could have started making jpop after the black album and still keep my respects forever.
Watching them live in Caracas, just the opening with ecstasy of gold/Creeping Death followed by For whom the bells Tolls ( my favorite song ever)... it was pure epic bliss, i´d give up sex for that if id had to choose. Best night ever.
I listened to these albums so much I had to retire them.
I'd have to post literally hundreds of albums to make it a comprehensive list. Here are some bare essentials.
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Those are all absolute masterpieces. And that's coming from a collection of thousands of albums.
I realise it's kinda heresy but I always thought "Dark Side of the Moon" was way inferior to "Wish you were Here" or "The Wall".
I'd have to trade "After the Goldrush" for "Weld".
All great albums, just my 2p worth.
I highly disagree. I'd put Animals over WYWH and The Wall would be far behind many other Floyd albums for me, including Meddle and Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. AtGR is far and away my favorite Neil Young album, excluding some of his live ones.
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Fairy nuff.
I think I enjoyed "Weld" so much because it was an old fart called Neil Young at the height of the grunge era and it demonstrated so perfectly that it was all about songs.
Throw in a distortion pedal and some feedback, you now have a classic grunge album.
The Floyd.
I love "Wish you were Here" so much.
Then Comfortably Numb.
Best. Guitar playing. Ever.
I feel lists like this are heavily context dependent.
I will never be able to listen to Funkadelic without grinning a little bit just because of what they represent for me y'know?
Okay... Here's a hastily compiled list of 100 albums. I'm sure I'm missing some big ones but here are 100 albums that I love a whole damn lot. Some of them are major masterpieces for sure. I'm not going to bother ordering them, so they're alphabetical.
Agalloch – The Mantle
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Alice in Chains – Dirt
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Arvo Pärt - Tabula rasa
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
Bob Marley – Exodus
Can – Tago Mago
Comus - First Utterance
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Déjà vu
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
David Bowie – Station to Station
David Sylvian – Secrets of the Beehive
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of the Dying Sun
Devin Townsend – Terria
Earthless – Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
Genesis – Selling England by the Pound
Genesis - Foxtrot
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F#A#(infinity)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Isis – Panopticon
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye
King Crimson – Discipline
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson – Larks Tongue in Aspic
King Crimson – Red
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Leonard Cohen – Songs from a Room
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Neil Young – After the Goldrush
Neil Young – Harvest
Neil Young – Live Massey Hall
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Nick Drake – 5 Leaves Left
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Opeth – Still Life
Pink Floyd – Animals
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd – Meddle
Pink Floyd – Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Porcupine Tree – Stupid Dream
Portishead – Dummy
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Radiohead – Kid A
Radiohead – OK Computer
Radiohead – The Bends
Red House Painters - Red House Painters [Rollercoaster]
Scott Walker – Scott 3
Scott Walker – Scott 4
Sigur Ros – ( )
Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
Sigur Ros – Takk
Slowdive – Souvlaki
The Beatles – Abbey Road
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles – Revolver
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
The Beatles – Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Cure – Disintegration
The Cure – Pornography
The Doors – The Doors
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Who – Who's Next
The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Small Change
Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Ulver - Kveldssanger
Ulver – Perdition City
Ulver – Shadows of the Sun
Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff
Van Der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts
Yes – Close to the Edge
Yes - Fragile
The only "Album" that has stood the test of time and tastes for me is Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb. Still love every song on it.
Heaven and Hell, Mob rules, Dehumanizer by Black Sabbath DIO was a beast, him and Sabbath were such a great match, i could listen to those songs everyday and not get bored, i have the Dio years compilation and always listen to it when anoyed at work and never fails to bring up my mood.
I think Sabbath with Ozzy was a good band, with Dio they turned it up to 11. Not that i dislike Ozzy at all but its a bit of a shame people just stop there when mentioning the band, specially since they are understimating the talent of Iommi and Buttler who did mighty fine without Ozzy.
Lateralus by Tool is one of my new favorites, i can´t listen to a song or in not the proper order, i have to listen to the whole album everytime.
And then there where three by Genesis Peter Gabriel days were great, but Collins were also great in a different way, full of amazing drums.
Yeah not so much as time in a long stretch over my whole life. Just about a decade, which for my music tastes is surprising.
A few more albums that will feature highly on my list:
The Clash - London Calling
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
Top 5 ( just my two cents )
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
This will always be number one for me, I'm in love with this album. Counting the concept behind it, the "expierience edition" and the movie that gave me goosebumps... It doesn't get better than this, for me, as an album as a whole I don't think anything has been so well done. If you guys know of something similar to the magnitude of what The Wall is let me know. I admit I know very little about music.
2. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
This album all around is haunting and not for the impatient listener. It has 5 minute long fills of noise and spooky stuff. But this is my number 2 mainly for the song 31 minute taste of heaven that is the last track(s) Cassandra Gemini! Give Cassandra Gemini a full listen when you have the chance, let me know what you think.
3. Complex Full of Phantoms a split album with the bands Tera Melos and By the end of Tonight
First of all both of these bands are INSANE and Tera Melos may be my favorite band of all time. This may also be one of the most underrated albums for 2007... It is just a great band and the track by Tera Melos called "Last Smile for Jaron(Jeron)" ...omg.. that pushed me over the edge to buy the album as FLAC and keep it and treasure it...
Here is Tera Melos' side of the album = http://teramelos.bandcamp.com/album/drugs-complex <- Listen to last track, that's "Last smile for..."
By the end of Tonight's side is pure simplistic awesomeness but youtube probably has some of it streaming.
4. Cizaña De Los Amores by Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Omar is the guitarist for The Mars Volta his SOLO CAREER is prodigious and awe inspiring...
I post the album art for this one because ..i mean just look at it...
Words cannot describe how I feel when you listen to Track 4 and Track 5 back to back...
listen here: http://omarrodriguezlopez.bandcamp.c...-de-los-amores
if you have the time.
5. The Parallax Hypersleep Dialogues by Between The Buried And Me
I'm gonna be honest ..the name of this album kinda hooked me. But seriously I love everything by this band, they're an extremely dedicated band... This albums relatively new and I honestly didn't know what to for #5 ... Korbyn took most of mine >_< so I thought I just post something different.
Court of the Crimson King is blooddddyyyyyy amazingggg...
Yeah that's all.
...yes i like colors. i think it may help things stand out and make it easier to read...
...i hope..
EDIT: OH and this band called Brainiac...
Electro-Shock For President EP - by Brainiac would be my #6 or w/e ... idk this is just another great album I thought I'd share. The first track "Fresh New eyes" kicks off with a raw and catchy dreary pinching rock song... so good.
ALSO I understand a LOT of this stuff may not be your "bag" , you probably won't like this stuff... most people.
I mean for chrissake I think this shit is good... Melt Banana - Initial T ... idk how i grew to like these songs....... i do..not ..know
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Kid A // OK Computer // In Rainbows (Radiohead)
No Balance Palace // Passengers (Kashmir)
Harvest // Mirrorball (Neil Young)
Abbey Road // White Album // Sgt Pepper (The Beatles)
Songs for the Deaf // Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age)
Ghost in the Machine // Synchronicity (The Police)
Achtung Baby // All That You Can't Leave Behind (U2)
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins)
Parachutes (Coldplay)
Grace (Jeff Buckley)
The Kingdom of Rust (Doves)
The Seldom Seen Kid (Elbow)
Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd)
Vs (Pearl Jam)
Pet Sounds (Beach Boys)
Cosmos Factory (CCR)
Superunknown (Soundgarden)
Tiny Music (Stone Temple Pilots)
Monster (REM)
Nevermind (Nirvana)
Master of Puppets (Metallica)
AEnima (Tool)
Hourly Daily (You Am I)
Moonfire (Boy & Bear)
Moo You Bloody Choir (Augie March)
"If you're going through hell, keep going". Winston Churchill
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Let's get some females on here...my all time faves and inspirations
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Amazing live version of Woodstock...
Bjork - Post + Homogenic (because I can't choose)
Another album is Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway which is another complex concept double album that featured lots of stage theatrics like The Wall.
Seeing as you have some metal on your list you might enjoy Ziltoid the Omniscient and Deconstructed by Devin Townsend, both of which are basically comedy albums but are very densely produced and are concept albums that actually tell a story.
Also, now that I think of it, Godspeed's Lift Your Skinny Fists may not be a concept album but it has the same emotional power and grandure as The Wall.
You might like Porcupine Tree's The Incident, which in my opinion is actually one of the worst PT albums but is a concept album and actually has a very similar flavor to The Wall.
Supertramp's Crime of the Century is a great album and one that probably deserved to be on my top 100 but I forgot about it. It's proggy but accessible and was flawlessly produced. It's similar to The Floyd in some ways.
That's all I can think of for now. Radiohead's Ok Computer also reminds me of that era of Floyd but I'm sure you already have it.
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The ones above are very good examples, the only other that I can think of that has a Floyd feel to it, is Dream Theatre's Octavarium.
@Jacob Kobryn Woah I liked Bowie and Genesis but never listened to those before, thanks.
I got my hands on a few that you mentioned. Devin Twonsend's Ziltoid is awesome! Funny and heavy. and as for Godspeed You Black Emporor... haha i love that album had it for a while now.
The incident is their worst?(listening now)
hm i guess there are really concepty albums ... and then really good albums in general... If i had to make a statement to say about it:
Not all concept albums are great but most awesome/epic/timeless/beloved albums are concept albums(albums with stories)...
at least in my experience. I think it adds so much more than just having songs on a list. come to think of it most of the stuff i listen to is loosely concepty.. as in... there is a evident story behind and in front of the lyrics/songs.
I like Coheed and Cambria which is concept album gold(i think) ) . i like their comics too.
Also anyone have any Original Soundtracks as their fave albums?
The OST for The Deer Hunter was good.
OST for Book of Mormon is reallllly good in my opinion.
Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust OST, only for the main theme, some of the other songs are okay. the mains good on its own.
-Shaun of the Dead soundtrack
OO and video game soundtracks.
-Any Nobou Uematsu , guy is a god (Final Fantasy games)
-Streets of Rage sound tracks for 2 or 3 are SO damn good.
-the Pokemon Red(or blue) Version OSTs are apart of my music folder i can proudly say. but i guess thats mostly nostalgia for me.
basically ALL the Final Fantasy games and Dissidia's remastered versions take the cake for me there.
There may be more deserving soundtracks than this for "TOP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME"
Just to throw in a few more amazing concept albums you have The Whos Tommy and Quadrophenia
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Check out Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites. Most of the album flows together as one song. It's one of my all time favs
Had nothing to do, so here is a list of 100 albums I am currently listening (in random order)
16 horsepower - 16 horsepower
airbag - identity
antimatter - leaving eden
balmorhea - balmorhea
Beethoven - violin sonata no.9 and 10
beirut - gulag orkestar
ben klock - one
bill ryder jones - if
bobby womack - midnight mover
bonnie 'prince' billy - wolfroy goes to town
brahms - symphony no.2
DAAU - The shepherd's dream
De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising
Godspeed You! Black emperor - Yanqui U.X.O
Gold Panda - Lucky shiner
Gorillaz - demon days
Spacemonkeyz - laika come home
Handwrist - all flesh is grass and all its grace is as the flower of the field
Henryck Gorecki - Miserere
Junior Boys - So this is goodbye
Kula Shaker - K
Lamb - 5
Little Dragon - Little Dragon
Long Distance calling - Long distance calling
Mahler - Symphony no.10
Marcel Fengler - Berghain 05
Mc Hammer - Please Hammer don't hurt 'em
Mud - let's have a party
Noah and the Whale - The first days of spring
Oasis - Masterplan
Pete Philly and Perquisite - Mystere repeats
Pink floyd:
the final cut
the division bell
a momentary laps of reason
dark side of the moon
Planningtorock - W
Plastic Bertrand - King of the Divan
Plastikman - sheet one
Plastikman - consumed
Radiohead - the king of limbs
Signe Tollefsen - Hayes
Slade - You Boyz make big noize
Sly & the family stone - dance to the music
The boomtown rats - the boomtown rats
The cat empire - two shoes
The Flashbulb - Arboreal
The hundred in the hands - the hundred in the hands
Kyteman - the hermit sessions
The temptations - wish it would rain
those poor bastards - country bullshit
tokimonsta - creature dreams
tool - 10.000 days
triggerfinger - all this dancing around
U.F.O - seven deadly
Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született
Wim Mertens - Educes me
Muddy Waters - The Johnny Winter Sessions
Dave Brubeck - Take five
deus - worst case scenario
oh no ono - yes
Len Faki - Berghain 03
Fink - Biscuits for Breakfast
boemklatsch - bonafied
C-mon & Kypski - vinyl voodoo
Gare du Nord - in search of excellounge
st germain - tourist
Das Pop - I love
richard bona - reverence
marcus miller - Free
Jan Garbarek - Officium
laura marling - Alas, I cannot swim
Le Le - La Bouche
De jeugd van tegenwoordig - de machine
tinariwen - Bamako
pantha du prince - black noise
prince - purple rain
Siouxsie and the banshees - once upon a time
stereophonics - just enough education to perform
the tallest man on earth - the wild hunt
unkle - war stories
vive la fete - nuit blanche
woven hand - ten stones
xavier rudd - solace
Wu Man - Chinese music for the Pipa
A.A. Bondy - Believers
blockhead - music by cavelight
Arvo Pärt - Lamentate
barry white - I've got so much to give
planetary assault systems - temporary suspension
arts the beatdoctor - transitions
kruder and dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions
Krzysztof Penderecki - symphony no 1
emilie simon - March of the penguins
moloko - statues
modeselektor - Hello mom!
new cool collective - bring it on
air - late night tales:air
zita swoon - I paint pictures on a wedding dress
eels - beautiful freak
admiral freebee - admiral freebee
myrath - tales of the sands
infectious grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves
radiohead - hail to the thief
i have a text file from a couple of years back with like 500 albums on it but i'm not gonna post it here. so here's a dozen from the top of my head
new order - substance 1987
drexciya - neptune's lair
pet shop boys - behaviour
the associates - fourth drawer down
luomo - vocalcity
john maus - love is real
junior boys - last exit
goblin - tenebre
arthur russell - calling out of context
omd - dazzle ships
serge gainsbourg - L'Homme à tête de chou (copypasted this, can't make those fucking characters)
suicide - the second album
prince - dirty mind
my laptop's about to explode from all the youtubes on this page, but here's one more. i've to listened this tune over the years at least thousand times
edit: all pink floyd albums after syd barrett's departure suck ass
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May as well add a few comments upon albums that cannot be ignored...
this utter beauty, Mastadon's Crack the Skye
the whole album seems so alien yet so easy to listen to, flowing with each track together into something not too long, not too short, perfectly constructed and not ever getting boring.
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metal may not be your cup of tea, but my goodness this album cannot be ignored, yes the message doesn't extend further than 'oppression is bad' but i'll be damned if it isn't amazingly done
Just listen to the first song's intro... it will crush your mind... keep listening and you should be amazed at how good this album is
the Ocean's Anthropocentric is utterly awesome, if you can forgive the underlying christian indoctrination hate, you should be astonished by the shear power and grace of this album.
think i'll just mention a good as all hell soundtrack
Thomas Newman is absolutely amazing, able to harness so many emotions and styles that you have no soul if you're a fan of working music of a certain feel with an artpiece of a certain feel. This being the OST to Lemeny Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events
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Tool - 10,000 days is one of my favourites. I also like the band 'The XX' a lot, I'm hoping they'll release a new album soon.
I'm torn between My World and My World 2.0.
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Roasted Fennel & White Bean Dip
Author Notes: I have always loved the White bean dip from Williams Sonoma. It was always a go-to dip for when guests came over. One day I was making it and I had some leftover roasted fennel from the night before and I pureed it into the dip; it was amazing! The next time I broiled some Parmesan cheese on top to create a crunchy texture and it was perfect. You could serve this with crostini, pita chips, or tortilla chips. Basically anything works. - singing_baker - singing_baker
Food52 Review: Most dips involve dumping a bunch of ingredients in a bowl and mixing them until smooth. If the ingredients are good quality, you'll end up with something worth dipping a chip into, but if you're like singing_baker and you tweak some of those ingredients, you'll end up with an unforgettable hors d'oeuvre. First, you roast the fennel and garlic, to bring out their sugars and intensify their flavors. You simmer the white beans (we used canned) in a fragrant garlic-and-rosemary oil. You blend the beans and fennel with more oil so the mixture lightens like a good whipped salt cod and potato puree. And, finally, you spoon it all into a baking dish, cover it with cheese, and slide it into a hot oven so the top of the dip toasts, leaving you with a crisp veil over the pillowy dip. You won't even remember the work that went into it once you're showered with praise. - A&M - A&M
Serves 12 as an appetizer
For Roasted Fennel
- 1 Large or 2 Small Fennel Bulbs, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces
- 2-3 tablespoons Olive Oil
- 2 Cloves Garlic still in papery shell
- Salt and Peper
For the Cannellini Bean puree
- 3/4 cups Olive Oil
- 2 Garlic Cloves, Peeled and minced
- 2 1/2 cups Cooked Cannellini Beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 tablespoon Fresh Rosemary, Chopped
- 1 tablespoon Lemon juice, Freshly squeezed
- 1/2 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated
- Crostini
- First make the roasted fennel. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Toss the fennel and garlic cloves in the olive oil and spread on a sheet pan. Season generously with salt and pepper. Roast for 30-40 minutes, turning twice during cooking. Take out and let cool. When cool squeeze the roasted garlic out of their skins.
- Start the cannellini bean puree. In a small frying pan heat 1/2 cup olive oil over medium heat. Add the garlic cloves and cook until lightly golden, add rosemary and cannellini beans and cook for one minute more. Be careful not to burn the garlic. Take it off the heat.
- In a food processor combine the garlic bean mixture, fennel, roasted garlic, lemon juice, remaining 1/4 olive oil and all but 3 tablespoons of the parmigiano-reggiano. Puree until smooth.
- Raise oven temp to 450 degrees. Transfer puree into a small baking dish and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Feel free to add more. If your dish is near full, place it on a baking sheet, in case it bubbles over in the oven. Bake until cheese is golden on top, about 15-20 minutes. Serve with crostini. Enjoy!
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about 1 month ago ghainskom
about 1 month ago Gcvlee
I made this for a close group of friends, and we all loved it. I also backed the oil down a bit and it was delicious. Needless to say, everyone wanted the recipe. Thanks!
about 1 month ago TriBeCa
OH MY! Probably the best surprise I have ever enjoyed in my kitchen. I was hosting a fundraiser for 100 women at my house, cooking the entire dinner from scratch. When choosing my menu I was looking for items off MY beaten path. Not only did I love it, but it was gone in about 5 minutes. The touch of lemon brought the whole dip to perfection. Before I cooked it with the cheese I tasted it (for salt) and thought that as is this would be a delicious soup. So next time, soup without the cheese your delicious dip will be. Thank you!!
about 1 month ago Margaret Lohr
I used a 9" deep dish pie pan.
about 1 month ago shayma
I am sorry if this question has already been answered below - but what size baking dish did everyone use? I am just doing a bit of prep work before I make this. Thank you.
3 months ago Margaret Lohr
This is delicious and perfect for a larger crowd. I used the juice of 1/2 a lemon and slightly more rosemary. Everyone including the guys loved it!
3 months ago Charlene
Delicious! I added the zest of 1/2 lemon, s & p. I cut the oil in half, but decided it needed the flavor, so probably added as much back in. I spread half the puree in my baking dish, poured oil over, added the remaining puree and finished with more oil. I will be making this as a side dish and can't wait to make it for my son who eats mostly low-carb. Thanks for a great recipe!
4 months ago miznoodles
I made this for New Years's Eve and it was a huge hit. I used the juice of whole lemon to kick up the tartness, and baked it with a rosemary sprig pressed on the top. Beautiful and so tasty.
4 months ago Calie
I made this as an appetizer for Christmas Dinner and it was possibly the biggest hit of the evening. I added more garlic, lemon, and rosemary plus added some more herbs that I had lying around and needed to use up. This dish will becoming a staple in our household. I have been craving it since Christmas.
4 months ago Patty Brite
I've made this several times and am totally addicted to this dip! I usually double the fennel and use juice from an entire lemon. If you cut the oil by a third it is still delicious but not as creamy. Thank you Singing Baker for this recipe!
4 months ago jslade
Wow! Amazing. This was absolutely delicious. I loved the mellowed flavor of the roasted fennel. I did cut the oil by 1/2 and it still had a creamy consistency. Will serve it over and over again.
4 months ago Lauren
Would this go well on a crudite platter- with red peppers, cucumbers and carrots? I already have several crostini planned and need something fresh and crunchy for the table, but am unsure whether the flavor of the dip would work with veggies?
4 months ago singing_baker
I think it would go great with a crudite platter! I remember someone recommended serving it with raw fennel that might be nice to add as well.
4 months ago SKK
Question to you singing_baker. Love, love, love your recipe and have made it many time and shared your recipe many times. Am considering making it for Christmas gifts. Do you think it would freeze well? Assemble it all to the point of baking? Thanks in advance.
4 months ago singing_baker
Hello and thank you! I haven't tried to freeze it yet but I feel that it would affect the texture and the oil may separate from the beans. I have made this up to three days in advance and then sprinkled it with cheese and baked it at the last minute and it was fine. Let me know how it goes if you freeze it. Happy Holidays!
5 months ago Rupi D
I made this dip and it turned out great :) Made it the night before but baked right before serving- I think that actually made the flavors better. Used the cheeses i had on hand, gruyere, grana padana and parm and doubled the cheese to 1 cup. Will def be making this often! Really fast and easy.
5 months ago singing_baker
ohhh that sounds great I'm going to try it with gruyere next time I make it!
6 months ago swobohe
I may have over roasted my fennel. I cooked it until it was pretty well caramelized and while it added a delicious sweetness, the fennel flavor was pretty much lost. Does this dip usually have more fennel flavor?
5 months ago cookbookchick
I have had the same experience. I want to love it, so I've made it twice, but over-roasted or not, the fennel flavor does not seem to come through. Does anyone have suggestions? There are so many rave reviews for this dip.
5 months ago singing_baker
I think you could add another fennel bulb or I remember one person suggested serving it with raw fennel as oppose to the crostini. Perhaps a garnish of fennel fronds would also enhance the fennel flavor.
5 months ago cookbookchick
Thanks, singing_baker! I must tell you, the dip was a hit both times I made it. I just wanted more of a fennel taste. I'll make it again for Thanksgiving and try your suggestions.
6 months ago Jane Branstetter
I made this today for my luncheon group. To make it more special I used fresh fennel from my garden. It was very well received. The ladies in my group are all very accomplished cooks and I had to promise to supply them with the recipe. One member, who conducts cooking classes and is catering a reception honoring a national known local artist, plans to include this dip as an appetizer at the event next week. Thank you so much for providing your subscribers with so many tasty recipe.
6 months ago singing_baker
wow I feel honored! I'm sure the fresh fennel took it over the top. thank you so much!
8 months ago cschaefer
Made this as an appetizer for my in-home date night with my husband & it was an absolute hit. I halved the recipe and baked it in a small half-loaf pan. It turned out to be the perfect size for two & we maaaay or may not have eaten the entire thing in one sitting...
8 months ago singing_baker
haha, so glad to hear it!
11 months ago RHafer
made this without the parm, much less olive oil, and no baking after blending but it was still DELISH! great addition to the repertoire.
about 1 year ago Dishlicious
Hit on Easter! Everyone agreed. Eating cold for lunch today. Scrumptious!
about 1 year ago singing_baker
awesome! thanks!
12 months ago Dishlicious
Forgot to mention, I made this two days before (and with less olive oil), so we have a make ahead winner!
about 1 year ago Honza Bauer
instant hit of yesterday party. thanks for recipe


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What a difference a year makes. By far the biggest story of the Internet in the last twelve months is the stunning reversal of Google (ticker: GOOG), which has gone from dog to darling.
A year ago at this time the shares were down 2% for the year, in no small part because investors were fixated on the prospect that the soon-to-be-public Facebook (FB) would steal Google's lunch, becoming the gateway to everything on the Internet. Then came Facebook's disastrous IPO in May, and people remembered that the wildest aspirations of any company, Internet or otherwise, are always something of a fantasy.
As the market warmed to the fact that Google's search business was not going away, and as analysts and traders began to believe in revenue prospects for its YouTube business, including paid ads in videos, they gradually forgot about Facebook's threat, and the change of mood was borne out: Google is up 10.7% so far this year, and 24% in the trailing 12 months, following a slew of brokerage upgrades. Facebook, meanwhile, which is down 28% from its IPO price of $38, cannot seem to do anything right.
OVERALL, THOUGH, THE GENERAL picture of the Internet one quarter into the year is of rising optimism, as the big online players offer, once again, better growth prospects than can be found in the overall tech landscape.
The stocks are up about 26% so far this year, on average, based on a basket of twelve of the larger names that I use, which, though incomplete and unscientific, nevertheless is a decent proxy for the group, I think.
Apart from Google and Facebook, they are Amazon.com amzn +3.87% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $337.15 +12.57 +3.87% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6.72M AFTER HOURS $337.99 +0.84 +0.25% April 24, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 2.57M P/E Ratio 526.80 Market Cap $149.35 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $634,714 04/24/14 Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Trie... 04/24/14 Amazon Again Reports Thin Prof... 04/24/14 Amazon Shipping Costs Outpace ... More quote details and news » (AMZN), eBay ebay -0.18% eBay Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $54.84 -0.10 -0.18% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7.58M AFTER HOURS $54.99 +0.15 +0.27% April 24, 2014 7:21 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 109,869 P/E Ratio 24.93 Market Cap $69.61 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $479,134 04/24/14 Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Trie... 04/23/14 FCC to Propose New 'Net Neutra... 04/23/14 5 Things to Know About Alibaba... More quote details and news » (EBAY), Yahoo! yhoo -0.56% Yahoo! Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $35.24 -0.20 -0.56% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17.10M AFTER HOURS $35.27 +0.03 +0.09% April 24, 2014 7:39 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 145,714 P/E Ratio 29.11 Market Cap $35.89 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $383,012 04/24/14 Alibaba Plan Puts IPO Record i... 04/24/14 Why Mobile App Install Ads Are... 04/23/14 FCC to Propose New 'Net Neutra... More quote details and news » (YHOO), LinkedIn lnkd -2.34% LinkedIn Corp. Cl A U.S.: NYSE $171.59 -4.12 -2.34% April 24, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.04M AFTER HOURS $171.00 -0.59 -0.34% April 24, 2014 7:41 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 9,491 P/E Ratio 714.96 Market Cap $21.18 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $302,982 04/21/14 Morning MoneyBeat: Another Sel... 04/18/14 LinkedIn Reaches 300 Million M... 04/15/14 Twitter Notches Biggest Rally ... More quote details and news » (LNKD), Groupon grpn -0.20% Groupon Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $7.41 -0.01 -0.20% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13.15M AFTER HOURS $7.40 -0.01 -0.07% April 24, 2014 7:51 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 78,630 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $5.06 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $765,513 04/15/14 Twitter Notches Biggest Rally ... 04/04/14 GrubHub Shares Surge in Debut 04/01/14 Revisiting the Myths of the Do... More quote details and news » (GRPN), AOL aol -0.45% AOL Inc. U.S.: NYSE $41.93 -0.19 -0.45% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 690,262 AFTER HOURS $41.93 0.00 0.00% April 24, 2014 4:22 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 4,322 P/E Ratio 34.94 Market Cap $3.37 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $454,882 More quote details and news » (AOL), Zynga znga -1.58% Zynga Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $4.35 -0.07 -1.58% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 71.11M AFTER HOURS $4.31 -0.04 -0.92% April 24, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 164,761 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $3.92 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $382,349 04/24/14 CFO Moves: Guardian Life Insur... 04/24/14 Stocks to Watch: Apple, Facebo... 04/23/14 Zynga Founder Gives Up Operati... More quote details and news » (ZNGA), ValueClick (VCLK), Yelp yelp -2.79% Yelp Inc. U.S.: NYSE $62.70 -1.80 -2.79% April 24, 2014 4:01 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5.88M AFTER HOURS $62.52 -0.18 -0.29% April 24, 2014 7:52 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 15,067 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $4.71 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $117,433 04/09/14 Yelp Deal With Yahoo Has Small... 04/07/14 Oppenheimer: Despite Selloff, ... 04/04/14 GrubHub Shares Surge in Debut More quote details and news » (YELP), and OpenTable open -0.28% OpenTable Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $70.23 -0.20 -0.28% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 321,514 AFTER HOURS $70.23 0.00 0.00% April 24, 2014 4:47 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 1,046 P/E Ratio 48.77 Market Cap $1.65 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $304,080 04/04/14 GrubHub Shares Surge in Debut 04/03/14 GrubHub Delivering Another Int... More quote details and news » (OPEN).
That's a motley assortment, to be sure: LinkedIn is a mish-mash of social networking and corporate software, very different from a publisher such as AOL. But it gives an idea of growth, with an average projected rise in revenue this year of 19%.
Yahoo's rise of 17% is in part a consequence of optimism about its new chief executive, Marissa Mayer, who has restored hope the moribund search portal can revive itself. Search-related revenue, which rose 14% in the December quarter, showed the Street that even a seeming has-been can see some decent growth given the increasing shift of advertisers to online as a medium.
The Internet stocks' return beats the 6% return of the Nasdaq this year, and certainly tops every sector of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, including the health-care names, which are up almost 16%, on average.
I'm leaving aside for the moment some of the smaller outfits—such as ReachLocal (RLOC), a proprietor of local online listings for services such as plumbers and caterers, with a $417 million market cap—to focus for the moment on the majors.
AS YOU'D EXPECT FROM PAST encounters with Internet names, they have preposterous valuations, on average. There's Amazon.com's 180 multiple of this year's expected earnings per share on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis; or LinkedIn's price/earnings ratio of 127 times.
The behind-the-scenes story to all of these outfits is that they struggle to "monetize," in Internet jargon, what traffic they bring in the door.
Because the actual payoff is always highly speculative, Wall Street spends a lot of time pondering strange bragging rights that may or may not yield profits. Facebook, for example, has the lion's share of total minutes spent on the Internet, at 15% in February, strictly among U.S.-based users, according to data provided by research firm comScore SCOR -0.56% comScore Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $30.34 -0.17 -0.56% April 24, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 235,889 AFTER HOURS $30.34 0.00 0.00% April 24, 2014 4:47 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 1,172 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $1.05 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $243,102 04/04/14 Apple, Android Continue to Lea... 02/12/14 Nielsen Feels Digital Heat Fro... 02/11/14 Stocks To Watch: ConAgra, CVS,... More quote details and news » (SCOR) and data collected by JPMorgan's Doug Anmuth.
Facebook's 114 billion minutes of use, what Anmuth terms "engagement," dwarf its next-closest rival, Instagram, which, you'll recall, Facebook bought for $1 billion last year. Far, far behind is Twitter, which had 5.3 billion minutes last month.
The point of Anmuth's excercise was to quell concerns that people are moving away from Facebook.
Investment banker and former Rolling Stone magazine publisher Porter Bibb was on CNBC last week promoting that very idea. Said Bibb, who tends to sound like a futurist more than a banker, kids in England aren't using Facebook. They're all on a chat program you've never heard of, called Kik, which has roughly 40 million users.
Kik, along with Twitter and social-networking programs such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, may be occupying some young people's time. But Anmuth's point is that Facebook is still the 800-pound-gorilla of wasting time online. None of which is to say that it's worth a forward P/E of 48.
In the last few weeks, Rich Greenfield of the boutique research house BTIG has released a scathing set of anecdotes about ads that he noticed in his personal "newsfeed," the part of Facebook where you see all the stuff your so-called friends chat about.
Greenfield's point is that most of this is spam, or worse, harassment, as come-ons for things from out of left field interrupt you while you're trying to waste time.
AFTER A SCANT 2.9% RISE this year, Facebook probably has room to reverse some of the favor it has yielded to Google, and the stock can make gains the rest of this year, even at that high P/E.
Mobile will continue to be the question that dogs all these companies as the smartphone becomes more and more our "command center," as Jim Cramer recently put it.
Raymond James's Internet analyst Aaron Kessler wrote in a note last Friday that mobile advertising is now 30% of the total ad-buying by one large, presumably representative, agency that buys on Facebook, up from 20% a quarter earlier.
The same outfit told Kessler it expects mobile advertising to become half of all the buying it does. And prices for mobile ads appear to be improving.
As smartphones gain the ability to act as your swipe card, the pressure will be on these Internet outfits to invade your consciousness at ever point of sale, in order to insinuate themselves into the dollar value of that transaction. That may not bode well for your peace of mind, or for that matter your cherished sense of privacy. But I think it will prove positive for investor interest in Internet stocks for the rest of this year.
Tiernan Ray can be reached at email@example.com or at blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily or www.twitter.com/barronstechblog.


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Truth: Indoor heat is apt to be the main culprit when your complexion flakes out on you. "People who spend time outdoors in winter aren't usually the ones with the most severely dehydrated skin," says Fredric Brandt, M.D., a dermatologist in Miami. "It's even worse for those who sit indoors all day with the thermostat cranked up high." That's because, unlike humid July days, indoor heat tends to be bone-dry, leaving your complexion parched. What helps: If you can, turn down the temperature a few degrees. (It's healthy for your utility bill and the earth—a win-win!) You can also pump lost moisture back into the air with a humidifier. The ideal place to keep one is in your bedroom; turn it on while you sleep. "During the night, your skin goes into cell-renewal mode," Dr. Graf says. "That's a good thing, but the process also speeds up moisture loss."


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Saturday Bibs ~ updated 5.3.13
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Location InformationColoradoFollow signs to parking lots from gate. Please make sure to bring a government issued ID along with the vehicle's current registration
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When: May 4th and 5th
Distance: Military Sprint distance will be approximately 4 miles give or take a few extra special forces surprises!
Obstacles: This Military Sprint will be similar to the Spartan Sprint with additional obstacles designed by the 4th Infantry and Specials Forces units. A big difference is this race has its own rules and rankings which is why it will also have VERY unique Military medals and a different T-shirt.
Start Times: Starting at 8am, waves of 200 athletes will be released every 15 minutes across 5 groups (Elite, Confirmed, Morning, Afternoon, Late Afternoon). YOUR exact start time in the group you registered for will be posted here a few days prior to event date. Want to know more details? Read our FAQ.
Aid Stations: 2 aid stattions on course sponsored by Snap Infusion.
All Racers Receive:
- - Finishers Medal
- T-Shirt
- Free Beer ticket for anyone 21 and over
- Bragging Rights
- Free Mud
- High Pressure Water to the Gut
- Roasted Shoelaces
- Scrapes and Bruises
- Awesome Stories to Tell
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Parking: Parking is Free for our event. We will be providing shuttles to take all racers and spectators to and from the race venue. Cost of Shuttles is $5 per person. CASH ONLY! Please feel free to use our Facebook wall to set up carpooling!!
Spectators: Spectator tickets are $25 onsite (please bring cash, limited Credit Card services are available) OR you can register online for only $20. As a Spartan Race spectator, you get $5 Spartan bucks redeemable at the merchandise tent, a festival map, and rad access to some obstacles on the course, the epic Gladiator pit and finish line, and the vendor tents! So enjoy the live music and watching your friends and loved ones slip and slide through the Spartan course in the safety and comfort (and relative mudlessness) of the Spartan Race festival ground areas! Raffles, entertainment, free muddy hugs from Spartan athletes, and all the other festival perks make this the best money you'll ever spend and we promise the next ticket you will want to buy will be a race entry!
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How many people are needed to make a team?Teams are unlimited with a minimum of four people! Team members are timed individually and are not required to cross the finish line together.
Which team takes home the prizes?The fastest 4 times of the team will be used to calculate the team's finishing time. Prizes will be awarded to the team who finishes on top! Interested? Learn more here...
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We are proud to announce that Navy Federal Credit Union has ponied up a $7,500 cash purse at each of the following 2013 Spartan Race events: SoCal, Arizona, Las Vegas, Texas Sprint, Washougal, and Virginia. The top 3 male and top 3 female finishers in our ELITE wave on Saturday will take home $2,000 for 1st Place, $1,000 for 2nd Place, and $750 for 3rd Place respectively.
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Spartan Kids RaceSpartan Racing For Kids
Varsity Spartan | 1 mile
Spartan Race is not only limited to adult fun! Bring the kids ages 4-13 who can participate in their very own Jr. Spartan race. They will enjoy the thrill of the run, a variety of scaled down obstacles and their own mini festival area filled with games and children's challenges! Our mission is to inspire children to develop a love for fitness at an early age.
The course is about a 1⁄2 mile filled with junior obstacles for Jr. Spartans and 1 mile for Varsity Spartans. Each child will receive a T-shirt and Finisher's Medal with 100% of the Jr. Spartan Adventure proceeds benefiting the Kids Fit Foundation.
As a leader in the movement to help children learn life-long health and fitness habits, the Kids Fit Foundation strives to raise awareness and develop programs that educate, empower and inspire kids to become and stay fit.
Spartan Kids' heats go off between 12pm and 1pm.
Pre-Register: $25 / Day of Registration: $30
*Kids Registration and check-in closes at noon so please be early. To register, click the REGISTER button on the top right of this page.
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One of our employees was in Boston this weekend and was lucky enough to visit Fenway Park for the first time. Wow, what a great experience and an amazing stadium! Below are some photos of the stadium, along with some interesting facts about Fenway Park.
Fenway has one of the last hand-operated scoreboards in major league baseball. It was great to watch them change the score by hand!
The halls of the EMC Level were lined with framed Mitchell & Ness Authentic Red Sox jerseys!
Of course they have our Babe Ruth pinstripe 1918 Red Sox Road Jersey on display! Babe Ruth hit the first homerun in All-Star history at Fenway Park.
Fenway Park was constructed in 1912 and was named by then Red Sox owner John I. Taylor. Taylor said, "It's in the Fenway section of Boston, isn't it? Then call it Fenway Park."
The first major league game was played at Fenway on April 20, 1912, just a few days after the Titanic sank.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his final campaign speech at Fenway Park in November of 1944.
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Blumenthal M M, van der Kaaden G, Vlodavetz V I, 1964. Turkey & Caucasus. Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields, Rome: IAVCEI, 17: 1-23.
Gushchenko I I, 1979. Eruptions of Volcanoes of the World: A Catalog. Moscow: Nauka Pub, Acad Sci USSR Far Eastern Sci Center, 474 p (in Russian).
Katsui Y (ed), 1971. List of the World Active Volcanoes. Volc Soc Japan draft ms, (limited circulation), 160 p.
Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains of SW Russia, is a large glaciated stratovolcano with twin summits. The 5595-m-high eastern summit has a 250-m-wide, well-preserved crater, separated by a low saddle from the 5633-m-high western summit. Products of Mount Elbrus cover 260 sq km; its longest lava flow traveled 24 km down the NNE flank. The most recent lava flows from Elbrus are fresh-looking, and the latest eruptions took place during the Holocene (Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World). Weak solfataric activity near the summit continues, and hot springs are present on the volcano's flanks.


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You either need a CSV before the pressure tank, or a pressure regulator after the pressure tank.
I am trying to design my sprinkler system to run off of my shallow well. My house is on domestic water. My sprinkler system will have spray heads and drip irrigation.
The water level in the well is about 3' below grade and about 5' during pumping. I have a 1 hp Sears convertible jet pump with a 52 gallon precharged pressure tank. The pump has a 40/60 pressure switch. I get about 12 gpm at 45 psi output from the pump.
I have read that I should be shooting for between 40-45 psi at the pump so I can deliver 30 psi to the sprinkler heads after losses. Does this sound about right? Do I design the sprinkler system to the full 12 gpm or some reduced value?
How does the pumping system "know" to maintain the 45 psi I want it to? Since I have a 40/60 switch, the pressure in the system will start at 60 psi until the tank empties and go down to 40 psi when the pump first kicks on. Will the system automatically go to 45 psi if I have sprinkler heads that add up to 12 gpm? Do I need a cycle stop valve to keep the pressure constant?
Also, do I need anything different for drip irrigation since the flow will be so low? Will it just use the water from the pressure tank?
Thanks in advance for any help. I am new to wells, so I may be a little ignorant.
You either need a CSV before the pressure tank, or a pressure regulator after the pressure tank.
If you run a test and adjust the flow to 12 gallons/minute, what is your pressure? If the pump puts out what you want, just pipe it up and go. 30 pounds is fairly low for a sprinkler system. Figure out what pressure you really want, and adjust the flow with a valve until you get that pressure then measure the flow. Design the system with zones so you will use that flow rate at that pressure. As the pump ages, it may not have the same characteristics, though.
The alternative is a CSV and/or or a pressure regulator...simpler is better, figureout what you can get, and design the sprinklers for that.
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Thanks for the replies!
If I do decide to go with a cycle stop valve, say 50 psi, what do I set the cut-in/cut-out pressures at? 40/60? It seems to me that the pressure would start at 60 when a sprinkler zone starts, then fall to 40 as the tank empties, and then the pump would kick on at 40. Am I correct in that the pressure would then increase back up to 50 and then remain constant with the CSV? Or do I use different cut-in/out pressures?
Thanks again!
If you are trying to get more water than the pump can supply, the pressure will drop. For a sprinkler system, you don't even need the pressure tank. You could just turn on the pump when you turn on the sprinklers. If you know the flow/pressure characteristics, design the zones appropriately. Basically, when running the sprinklers, run the pump full out.
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What kind of pump do you have? Submersible? Shallow well jet? Centrifugal?
Get the flow/head curve. Plot a graph of pressure versus flow.
Let's assume that you want to operate your system between 40 and 60 psi.
What flow does the pump deliver at 60 psi? At 50 psi? At 40 Psi?
Now draw a graph of your proposed irrigation system. You want to install an irrigation system that will use more water at 60 PSI than the pump will deliver at 60 psi, but will use less water at 40 psi than the pump will deliver at 40 psi.
When the irrigation system comes on, the pump will start and the pressure will remain between 40 and 60 PSI as long as you are using the irrigation system.
Since your pump is doing only irrigation, you can set the pressure switch to keep the pump running while irrigating.
Your drip system is another story. I would not try to use a CSV; I would let it cycle on the tank. But if you want it to run constantly, make your drip system operate at the highest possible GPM. Then put in a second pressure switch and a selector relay so the power for the control valve for drip system selects the switch corresponding to that system.
With a little care you can match the pump and the irrigation system. It may take another pressure switch and a relay to match to the drip system.
If you have a shallow well jet pump, the characteristic is such that you should be able to run the pump into the irrigation system without a tank or pressure switch. You need to set up the system so it won't completely cut off the flow.
The CSV won't increase pressure. The pump can only do so many gallons per minute at any given pressure. More water flow less pressure and vise versa.
If your pump does 12 gpm at 45 psi that's great. Just use large enough pipe to not cause friction loss and use the heads that add up to 12 gpm. Like the other guys said, the tank and switch is not necessary unless you want to do hand watering or wash the family dog/car. The switch and tank have absolutely nothing to do with how much pressure the pump produces.
Where the CSV is handy is when your are using too little water to keep the pump running instead of cycling. Then you will want the CSV. This condition will only happen if your zones are not equal.
One more question... If I design one sprinkler zone for 45 psi and 12 gpm, but for some reason I end up with only 11 gpm of sprinkler heads, will system then operate at the 11 gpm with a pressure, let's say, of 47 psi? I guess my question is how much flexibilty do I have before my system begins cycling? Do I have to have the design exact or am I okay as long as I am operating somewhere between 40 and 60 psi (let's say 14 gpm and 8 gpm) for each zone?
Thanks again!
It's all up to your pump and where you set the pressure switch. Or install the 50lb CSV.
With a pump that delivers 12 GPM at 45 psi, you will probably have somewhere in the range of 6 to 8 GPM at 60 psi. You will probably not get more than 15 GPM at 40 psi.
I would hook it up without pressure switch or tank and let it pump. A jet pump will not overheat if you are pumping 3 or 4 gallons per minute and it has a limit on maximum pressure it can deliver.
You just want to make the lowest flow circuit as large as possible, and keep the largest flow circuit low enough that you get adequate pressure. The pressure and flow tend to be self-correcting.
What equipment do you need in order to switch the pump on when the sprinkler timer opens the zone valves? I am looking at a similar system as handymans but without the tank and switch and require automation due to water times needing to be greatly staggered.
My 1hp Betta Flo will produce 19 gpm at 50 psi. That is with the jet installed on the pump of course. You didn't mention if you had the jet for that convertable pump. If not, your maxed out already.
If you don't use a switch and tank, you don't have to worry about anything, like BobNH said, if it's pumping a few gallons per minute, it will be fine. Or go with a Bronze impeller and don't worry. You won't find that one at Sears though.
Joe T,
You need a sprinkler timer with a motor circuit and a relay to operate the pump from the timers motor circuit. They are sold at irrigation supply stores or you can get one from me.
The valve system is probably 12 Volts AC, so the timer issues a signal to open each valve. If your timer system has an output that is turned on whenever any valve is open (a PUMP output), then you can use that signal to operate a relay that will start the pump.Originally Posted by Joe T
If your timer doesn't have a separate "Pump" output, then you need a small relay for each zone that will be connected to the coil of a contactor to start the pump.
The coil of each relay will be connected to one of the timer outputs. The the common terminal of one of the poles of each relay will be connected together, and the corresponding normally open terminals will be connected together. Those terminals will be wired in series with the coil of the contactor so when any one of the relays is actuated it will close the contactor and start the pump.
No matter what system you go with, install a pressure relief valve. In case the solonoid doesn't operate and open the valve, the pump will still start and the pump will heat up. The prv will save the day.


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Homocysteinemia due to MTHFR deficiency
Other Names for this Disease
- 5,10 alpha methylenetetrahydro-folate reductase deficiency
- 5,10-alpha-methylenetetrahydro-folate reductase deficiency
- Homocysteinemia due to methylenetetrahydro-folate reductase deficiency
- Homocysteinuria due to methylenetetrahydro-folate reductase deficiency
- Homocysteinuria due to MTHFR deficiency
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Homocysteinemia due to MTHFR deficiency is a metabolic condition characterized by neurological problems, such as developmental delay, seizures, and microcephaly. Signs and symptoms of vary from no symptoms to severe neurologic and blood vessel disease. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion and is caused by mutations in the MTHFR gene . These mutations may cause a mild to severe loss of activity of the MTHFR enzyme and result in elevated levels of homocysteine in the blood (homocysteinemia) or urine (homocysteinuria). The most common MTHFR gene mutation is the C677T mutation. Health problems tend not to be related to whether someone has a MTHFR gene mutation or even a MTHFR enzyme deficiency, but whether the deficiency is leading to elevated levels of homocysteine in the blood (homocysteinemia) or urine. [1][2]
Last updated: 7/20/2011
- MTHFR. Genetics Home Reference. February 2011; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/MTHFR. Accessed 7/11/2011.
- Homocystinuria due to deficiency of N(5,10)-Metylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Activity. Online Medelian Inheritance of Man (OMIM). June 2007; http://www.omim.org/entry/236250. Accessed 7/11/2011.
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- The Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is an catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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- Varga E, Sturm A, Misita C, Moll S. Homocysteine and MTHFR Mutations: Relation to Thrombosis and Coronary Artery Disease. Circulation. 2005;111:e289-e293. [PDF]