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Effects of Monascus Garlic Fermented Extract on Serum Triglyceride Level
The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of monascus garlic fermented extract on serum lipid concentrations in subjects with moderately elevated serum triglyceride.
Study Design
Allocation: Randomized, Control: Placebo Control, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Prevention
Monascus Garlic Fermented Extract, Placebo
Hiroshima University
Hiroshima University
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Comparing Effects of 3 Sources of Garlic on Cholesterol Levels
The purpose of this study is to determine whether fresh garlic can positively affect cholesterol in adults with moderately high cholesterol levels. This study will also determine whether t...
Firefighter Aged Garlic Extract Investigation With CoQ10 as a Treatment for Heart Disease (FAITH)
1. Statement of Problem According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 43.7% of all firefighters that died on the job experienced sudden cardiac death. The job a...
Allicin Bioavailability From Garlic Supplements and Garlic Foods
This study will measure the bioavailability of allicin, the main active compound of garlic, from garlic supplements and garlic foods (raw, cooked, processed) so that - supplement manuf...
Effect of Garlic on Inflammatory Mediators
This research will investigate the effect of garlic oil extract when added to daily diet on inflammatory mediators and blood clotting activation.
Evaluation of Dose-effect of a New Fermented Food in Healthy Adults
The aim of the study is to assess the safety and tolerance of a new fermented food versus a control product in healthy adults during the 4-week consumption period.
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Hypocholesterolemic activity of monascus fermented product in the absence of monacolins with partial purification for functional food applications.
Hypercholesterolemia is one of the most common chronic diseases in human. Along with chemical therapy traditional medication is used as hypocholesterolemic remedy, however, with unfavorable side effec...
Quality Characteristics and Content of Polysaccharides in Green Tea Fermented by Monascus pilosus.
In this study, we designed a method to manufacture elevated fermented green tea by using Monascus pilosus, which is known as a functional microbe, and observe its antioxidant abilities and quality cha...
Garlic extract attenuates brain mitochondrial dysfunction and cognitive deficit in obese-insulin resistant rats.
Oxidative stress in the obese-insulin resistant condition has been shown to affect cognitive as well as brain mitochondrial functions. Garlic extract has exerted a potent antioxidant effect. However, ...
Induction of apoptosis by a hexane extract of aged black garlic in the human leukemic U937 cells.
In this study, the apoptogenic activity and mechanisms of cell death induced by hexane extract of aged black garlic (HEABG) were investigated in human leukemic U937 cells.
The Effect of Garcin® in Preventing AntiTB-Induced Hepatitis in Newly Diagnosed Tuberculosis Patients.
Adverse effects of antituberculosis agents such as hepatotoxicity may reduce treatment effectiveness, because they significantly contribute to nonadherence and eventually result in treatment failure, ...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
A genus in the family Monascaceae, order EUROTIALES. One species, Monascus purpureus, has multiple uses in traditional Chinese medicine (MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL).
Thyroid Extract, Desiccated
A dehydrated extract of thyroid glands. After the removal of fat and connective tissue, the extract is dried or lyophilized to yield a yellowish to buff-colored amorphous powder containing 0.17-0.23% of iodine.
Thyroid (usp)
A dehydrated extract of thyroid glands from domesticated animals. After the removal of fat and connective tissue, the extract is dried or lyophilized to yield a yellowish to buff-colored amorphous powder containing 0.17-0.23% of iodine.
Therapeutic Misconception
Misunderstanding among individuals, frequently research subjects, of scientific methods such as randomization and placebo controls.
Mildly aromatic herb in the Allium genus related to ONIONS and garlic used in SPICES.


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How do you store/archive your recipes?
- Fowler Oct 17, 2011 01:27 PM
For years I kept my recipes as "hard" copies. The good old fashioned method of keeping recipes on paper within plastic sleeves in binders. That seemed to work well for years but with the advent of the PC I transferred all of them and saved new ones as Word docs on my PC.
That worked well until my PC crashed and I lost many recipes. Now I send them to my e-mail account so I can save them without worrying my computer will crash and I can also do a rudimentary search for what I am looking for.
It is probably not the best system. How do you store/archive your recipes?
I still do it the old fashioned way. I have a slew of Composition Books that I use, all color coded.
I used to bookmark them and cook using my laptop. I hated the fact that I had to touch the computer while cooking. If you are making chicken, or your hands are covered in cake batter the last thing I want to do is touch a laptop. In the end I copied them all from my laptop and printed out a binder with all my best recipes.
re: rcallner
I do exactly the same. I put some of the most used recipes in plastic sleeves, to keep them clean when I am cooking. I also back up my pc weekly. So I won't lose much except for the past week's work.
re: rcallner
I also keep them as Word files, and print them out when I want to make them. Inside a general recipe folder, I have separate folders for main dishes (and sub-folders for beef, chicken, pork, etc.), cakes, cookies, etc. I also keep a separate folder for recipes I haven't tried yet, arranged in the same sub-folder system.
I usually stick pretty close to the original recipe when I make it the first time--but I almost always tweak and change and make notes on tricks that helped or changes I want to try next time. Having the recipes on my computer makes that so much easier than trying to scribble notes in the margins of a hard copy. It's also easy to print a copy or send as an email attachment or cut and paste a recipe to a web post when someone asks for a copy.
And I also back up obsessively (continuous backups with Time Machine, plus a monthly backup to a drive I keep off-site), so I don't really worry about losing them!
I do what you do. I don't have a gazillion recipes though. I have put mine under subject headings in my saved conversation file in my gmail account. If I ever switch email providers, I'll have to move them elsewhere, obviously.
I also subscribe to this service now: http://www.eatyourbooks.com/home
This website provides indexing for cookbooks. In future they will provide a way to store personal copies of recipes. But in the meantime, I can search an index of recipes from my own cookbooks and/or food blogs. If many of your recipes originated in cookbooks you own, this would be ideal for you.
Otherwise, you can figure out how to use google.docs to save your recipes. Doing this seemed too hard for my situation, because I don't have a lot of loose recipes. There are some templates for saving recipes that can be used with google.docs.
Good luck! I hope you find just the right solution.
I have started using Pinterest for most of my recipes. especially since i can collect from stumbleupon, foodgawker, tastespotting, chowhound, etc. plus once theyre there, theyre just a search away
I have about 3000 recipes in Word format on my hard drive. I have them broken down into several categories. Some are even duplicated because I want them in two different directories. I back them up on flash drives and dvd's and a back up drive.
I print them out when I am going to cook the dish then throw it away afterwards.
There are services on the web but I prefer my Word files. Eventually, I will type in all the recipes from all my cookbooks. Then I will get rid of most of my cookbooks.
I do my best to find them on the web so I can cut and paste.
I'd love to find someone else with a lot of recipes in Word format so we could send each other flash drives full of recipes.
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"I have about 3000 recipes in Word format on my hard drive. I have them broken down into several categories. Some are even duplicated because I want them in two different directories. I back them up on flash drives and dvd's and a back up drive."
I do mine exactly that way. I used to use MasterCook, but found I no longer liked it, so started keeping them in Word documents in folders, with sub-folders.
I had a computer crash and lost all of my recipes, so now I keep them on an external hard drive. Of course, I understand that that hard drive could go also, but honestly, I just can't think of another way of maintaining them. Will look into Pinterest - hadn't thought about that method of maintaining them.
re: Hank Hanover
hey HH,
no need to type in recipes...
you can buy a cheap scanner and copy the text.
or find someone with a multi-function printer that can also scan documents.
re: escargot3
I am trying to talk myself into buying a hand scanner but it is $167 and doesn't have that good of reviews. http://www.amazon.com/Ectaco-C-Pen-Bl...
With the book scanners, you have to deal with the text being obscured and deformed by the page curving.
re: escargot3
The only thing about scanning a recipe (and I have done that) is that you can't type type over or eliminate anything when making the recipe your own. That has been my experience with scanned recipes anyway.
re: Wtg2Retire
I scan and then convert to text... if you don't have a program to do the image-to-text conversion, you can use free tools online... e.g. http://www.onlineocr.net
As far as avoiding loss is concerned... all disk drives will eventually fail. So I have my Living Cookbook files on my PC's hard disk, but I have it configured to backup to a separate external drive every few days.
re: THewat
Me too. Works GREAT! And if you're using the app for either an iPad to cook from or an iPod/IPhone to shop with, you already *have* your backup.
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I recently got MacGourmet Deluxe... I mostly love it, especially the ease of import, when I occasionally do this. However, the Nutrition function is less than desirable. It asks for approximations of ingredients if it doesn't recognize. I can enter 50 g brown sugar, then it asks for me to pick the closest thing.. 1 cup packed, 1 cup loosely packed, 1 ounce, etc. Most often, none are close. Maybe I'm not using it right...
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you know, i went through the help manual... and basically, they know it's a flaw, and seem to say, "oh well, best we can do..." pfft. i may write them as well, just to further complain and get heard. like i said, i can hope i miss something.
Until a year ago, I used MS Word.
But now I am using Living Cookbook (http://www.livingcookbook.com ).
Even if using a recipe from a magazine or book that I own, I put it into Living Cookbook -- I scan and OCR the page(s), and Living Cookbook then has a streamlined way of highlighting sections of the text and marking them as title, author, ingredients, procedure, etc. When I cook, I print out the recipe and can then be as messy as I want and take notes etc. And I can then update the recipe with any observations later.
Well, the fatal flaw here is not doing a backup on a flash drive or some external media.
You can enter your recipes on Chow.
No matter how recipes are organized, I don't like cooking off a pc in a kitchen, so I usually print them off when I want them and then put it in the recycling bin. Otherwise, then I'd have to come up with a system for storing the recipes I printed out.
re: rworange
"You can enter your recipes on Chow.
I have not used Chow because I thought there was a copywrite issue. For example, if I wanted to post a Hazan recipe word for word I thought that would be removed. And as you said in another reply, any online site could shut down w/o notice.
I email recipe to myself in gmail and use "tags" to keep them organized -- everything gets tagged "food and recipes", and some are also marked "vegetarian", "healthy", "gluten free", etc. In retrospect, I wish I'd made better labels to organize recipes by course or type (e.g.starters, baking, splurges, dinner-party ideas, etc.). I like using gmail for recipe organization because it's available remotely---I can easily search for a recipe on my phone while I'm shopping. And if my computer crashes, all is not lost.
I've also started collecting recipes on Pinterest, which is a type of virtual photo pinboard/gallery that someone else mentioned. I find it helpful when nothing sounds good---I can just log on and see what I've saved (or others have posted) that looks appealing. The only drawback is that there aren't many chowhounds on Pinterest (yet), so many of the recipes others share are heavily geared toward casseroles, cream cheese, and quick-n-dirty recipes. I'd love to see more foodies join.
Here's my "pinboard" so you can see what I'm talking about: http://pinterest.com/wrydcgal/
re: ChristinaMason
The only warning I would give anyone planning to use online sites ... even Chow ... is that sometimes these places shut down permanently ... and then you have lost everything.
There was once this fabulous huge recipe database, the name is escaping me now because they changed it once. Anyway ... one day ... poof. They were gone. It was really sad because this was one of the most extensive and interesting recipe sites on the web. The smaller the site, the more likely they go under.
Sorry, to sound cautionary, but having been an IT manager, I learned sadly over the years that the spifiest software from a small comapny is often the least likely to stay in business long term.
Which is worse than a computer crash. If you don't back up, you can usually go to a computer store and recover the data.
re: rworange
A scary, scary thought!
As I said above, I use a recipe database on my own desktop with an app for transferring it to my iPad and iPod. I was never even tempted by online storage even tho I never thought of the possibility of them going down. I just didn't want my DB to be limited to the contents of a single site. However, the same online sites (food blogs, Epicurious, magazines, newspaper food sections, etc) are terrific for providing formatted recipes that can be copied into my own DB.
I find I rarely have to type in a recipe. But even if I do have to, once I do it's always there from that point on.
re: rworange
I agree with you. This also happened to me, and I lost some of the very, very best recipes.
I keep all mine in Word format. And backed up on a flash drives, because the recipes and notes are the most prized thing on my computer! I know, most people treasure family photos and all, but it's recipes for me.
I don't like to cook with the computer, so I print one off when needed. The most used ones, I keep stashed in a 3 ring binder that's kept with my cookbooks.
For recipes I find online, I save a virtual PDF scrapbook of recipes. In the Mac OS X print panel, you can add items to the PDF menu. I have a directory called Recipe File, that I setup to save recipe PDFs with one click from the PDF menu in the Print Panel. It's as easy as printing! These saved PDFs are then easily searched using Spotlight.
When cooking, I revert to old school, and usually try to work from a hardcopy (printed PDF if its from online, or xerox copy if from a cookbook/magazine). In fact anytime I hit "Print" on a recipe, I've trained myself to also remember to "PDF->Recipe File" it at the same time, if I haven't already.
I couldn't keep up with all of the paper copies of recipes I collected over the years, so after a while I scanned everything to PDF. Now if I see something I like anywhere on the internet, I print to PDF and file it. I also have word docs, xcel files, e-mails etc. The format doesn't matter to me as much as my naming system. I developed this to help me find stuff easily. It's something like this:
(Protein) - (Ethnicity) - (cooking duration) - (resource) - (name of dish)
An example might be: VEGG - Italian - 0015 - CHOW - Macaroni and cheese
This tells me it's a vegatian dish, italian, takes 0 - 15 minutes to cook, I found it on Chowhound, and it's mac and cheese.
Over the years, I've added some other search functions to it, such as FAM for family recipes, DIET to categories recipes when I'm trying to lose weight, or seasons such as summer so I can find recipes that are more seasonal. My wife rolled her eyes for years until she understoon my methodolgy. I can always find the recipe I'm looking for in about 5 seconds.
I also use a free software called Find and Run Robot which you can download. With a few key strokes, it finds my recipes based on my naming convention.
In the mood for Chinese tonight with not a lot of time? VEGG - Chinese - 1530 will pull up every recipe I have for vegetarian chinese dishes that take less than 30 minutes.
If you file electronic, make up your own system and you'll be glad you have a fast way to search for recipes.
re: rockability
How do you ever find what you are looking for?
re: Mother of four
Honestly, I have no idea. But I always seem to be able to open up the folder to just the right spot. It's an organized mess. :)
umm.... 3 x 5 cards in an old wooden card box. No, I'm not 100 years old. I do this because my cooking mentor did (still does) this.
I have some bookmarks on the computer, but if it's something I like, I make a card for it. Most cards are "ideas", with ingredients but no measurements (except for the breads/baking section)
AND- if it's something I decide I don't really like after all..... I (gasp!) throw the card away.
re: caviar_and_chitlins
What was the name of that site we used for a COTM a few years ago? I think it started with an L and was a compilation of recipes from all kinds of different pro chefs. I tried to search COTM but gave up because I'm too lazy.
re: oakjoan
oakjoan, that's http://leitesculinaria.com I'm surprised you haven't bookmarked the COTM archive page, so you can access it all: http://www.chow.com/cookbook_of_the_m...
re: caviar_and_chitlins
Looking at this thread I am astonished that so few people use a card file. Mine has been active for nearly sixty years and hasn't crashed yet. Works every time during a power failure, too.
re: Querencia
There is a sad thing to computerized recipes.
After people are gone, there will be no little box or notebook found by relatives or at a yard sale of someone's treasured recipes. Who is going to know someone's password or even take to the time if they do to look at what they left of the pc.
On the plus side, if people publish them on line and make them public, a larger audiance can share those restaurants. I did that with one treasured recipe from my mom passed to her from her mom ... etc. People did steal it and claim it as their own. However, that is ok with me. The recipe lives whether or not its DNA is known.
One of my favorite Chowhound posts was this woman who shared a family recipe
Mom Mom's Red Velvet Cake/Butter Cream Icing
re: Querencia
You should still back them up. Card files can be lost in disasters. They might last longer on cards, but cards can burn.
I don't use cards -- because me and paper do not get along. I find computerizing them great since I can include pictures, send a copy to relatives with easy (including a copy of the entire set of recipes) - which is another form of offsite backup.
I have everything stored on my Mac in folders. The one's that I use the most I email over to my iPad as that is what I use in the kitchen. I store my recipes on my iPad in Pages in folders. Works great for me.
I use Evernote (a free program) to "clip" recipes from the internet as well as keep track of ones from other sources. I like that I can tag them with whatever tags I'm likely to search with, and even keep folders for recipes I've tried (and added a rating tag) and one for recipes to try. It backs things up online and is free up to a certain amount of monthly additions. I really like it.
re: sarahjay
I'm another Evernote user. It's nice because it's multi-purpose so I can have my recipes and my shopping list and anything else I choose in one place. It's basically my brain stored somewhere else. The nice features are full search capabilities, apps for all my devices so I have it anywhere, sharing content with others, multiple media types (video, audio, pictures, pdfs), I can export contents and back up to my own disk, I can print the notes out when I want to cook a recipe.
It has way more features than I use but these are the basics. I'm not interested in capturing nutrition information on a recipe (usually) so this works fine. If the recipe is on a website I can just grab the entire page or copy & paste content out and link to the original.
It's ideal for me.
I've been using MasterCook ever since it came out for 3.1. I now have 11 and I still love it. It's easy to import recipes from the Internet plus I have no problem scanning recipes into the program. It has a great search function, and a great filing system. As I try a new recipe I can make notations and then if we like it, move it into a cookbook of "tried & true" recipes.
re: HBGigi
TopTenReviews has comparative reviews of recipe software at http://cookbook-recipe-software-revie...
A year or two ago (when I was selecting software to use), TopTenReviews' top 3 were MasterCook, BigOven Deluxe, Living Cookbook. I tried all 3 and chose Living Cookbook.
This year, the order is Living Cookbook, MasterCook, Cook'n with Betty Crocker Deluxe... with BigOven not listed at all. Maybe they've decided BigOven is in a different category (it's perhaps more focused on the iPhone app and website).
TopTenReviews also has reviews of Mac software at http://cookbook-recipe-software-revie...
re: rasputina
"And you didn't back up your files, why?"
I simply was not as smart as you were at the time. Fortunately that has changed.
re: Querencia
Hard copies should be backed up as well. If you have a kitchen fire, or some other disaster, you won't want to lose your recipes.... for a lot of people it is like losing a part of yourself
I forgot to add that most of my favorite recipes are in a Tastebook ( www.tastebook.com/ ) I made one for my mother and one for my sister when she got married and we really like them. All the recipes we use most in one place. You can also access the recipe's you've entered online, so I gave my littlest sister my login when she moved out so she can get family recipes all the time
I use Pinterest. I'm a very visual person, so I need the photos. And, I get most of my recipes from websites/blogs etc anyway. I don't have a ton of cookbooks but I'm working through mine by googling for the recipes I have marked in my books, then pinning them to the appropriate pin board. Same for magazine recipes I find. I have different boards for different types of food, and once I've made a recipe, I move it to one of two boards... tried and liked, or tried and didn't like, along with my notes.
In addition to the photos, I like that I can access it from anywhere. I do most of my meal planning while I'm at work, so I have all my recipes wherever I have internet.
I use MacGourmet software which I find to be pretty darn good. Only thing I would really like changed is that I would prefer to have the option of multi-lingual names on the same recipe (English name, and Thai name). I have a copy of that macgourmet file in several drives, locations and devices.
- two different hard drives in my main computer
- a copy on my iPad (MacGourmet for iPad)
- a copy on my iPhone (MacGourmet for iPhone)
- and a copy uploaded offsite (currently dropbox). I just copy the file into another directory and dropbox syncs it offsite.
Computerizing the recipes gives me the option for backups (assuming one takes the time to worry about that) - paper might last longer but it can burn as easily as a hard drive can crash. Hard drives have a "mean time between failure" (i.e. it will eventually fail). A hard drive will usually last 5+ years, but it could crash sooner.... or you might accidentally delete things.
It is great having a copy on my iPhone.... if I am out shopping and feel like cooking something I can double check the recipe on my phone to make sure I have all the ingredients.


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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Japanese automakers are about to make another run at challenging Detroit's dominance in trucks. And they will bang head-on into John Lucchese.
When it came time to replace his nine-year-old Ford pickup, Lucchese, 49, a software engineer from Los Angeles, drove Chrysler's new Ram truck and even gave Toyota's Tundra a try. He ultimately ended up right where he started: at Ford, with a $48,000 F-150 with leather seats and a 360-horsepower V-8.
I've been a Ford guy all along, he said.
When it comes to pickups, loyalty runs deep. There is no model more important or more zealously defended by Detroit. The $8,000 to $10,000 in gross profit each truck hauls in for U.S. automakers accounts for the majority of their earnings – 90 percent for Ford and two-thirds for GM, according to Morgan Stanley.
Pickup sales are poised to soar this year, thanks to a parade of new products from Detroit and a surge in housing starts, which jumped 28 percent last year to the fastest rate since 2008, according to U.S. Commerce Department data.
U.S. pickup sales will top 1.7 million this year, up more than 50 percent from 2009's low of 1.1 million, according to forecasts by researchers IHS Automotive and LMC Automotive.
Sales could eventually reach the historic high of 2.5 million set in 2005, said Fred Diaz, president of the Ram truck brand.
Toyota revealed a redesigned Tundra this month at the Chicago Auto Show. Nissan is updating its Titan truck. But so far, the Japanese have put barely a dent in the last bastion of U.S. automotive hegemony. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler control 93 percent of the full-size pickup market, according to Barclays.
The billions in those profits finance the U.S. automakers' entire business plan: fixing Europe, expanding in Asia, engineering electric cars.
That's why the new Ford, Chevrolet and GMC pickups over the next 18 months, on the heels of last year's Ram 1500 refresh, are the most important introductions Detroit has on its calendar.
It's like an annuity stream that helps underwrite their less-profitable ventures, said Adam Jonas, analyst for Morgan Stanley.
It's the product where they know the customers best because they have generations of experience. There's tremendous brand loyalty, and it's a relatively protected market.
That doesn't mean it's not hotly contested.
GM is rolling out a new Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra in the second quarter, and Chrysler's new Ram 1500 was voted North American Truck/Utility of the Year at the Detroit auto show last month – aimed squarely at Ford's F-Series pickup, the top-selling truck line in the U.S. for 36 years.
Ford responded by unveiling a brawny new F-150 concept at last month's auto show – lowering it from the rafters of the Detroit Red Wings hockey arena amid a shower of acetylene sparks.
You can't get timid, Chief Operating Officer Mark Fields said as he stood beside the massive Atlas concept pickup with an imposing chrome grille. The minute you get timid is the moment your competitors overtake you.
Even before Detroit's pickup profit growth became clear, investors had warmed to GM and Ford as they laid out plans for European turnarounds and boosted earnings in North America. GM's shares are up 10 percent since Oct. 31, while Ford rose 17 percent during that time.
U.S. automakers sound more confident than ever that they can defend their turf.
There are some things that are endemic to the American carmakers; this is one of them, Sergio Marchionne, chief executive officer of Chrysler and majority-owner Fiat SpA, said in an interview. All three of us will defend the area tooth and nail. It's our business, period.
Without truck profits, Detroit would be out of business. Big pickups accounted for almost one in four sales by the Detroit automakers last year. More important, they are the most profitable vehicles in modern history, according to Max Warburton, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.
Morgan Stanley's Jonas figures the F-Series trucks accounted for 70 percent of Ford's record $8.34 billion in pretax auto profits in North America last year. The truck's contribution to global profit swells to 90 percent because Ford is losing money in Europe and Asia.
The Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra and their sport-utility vehicle derivatives also constitute as much as 70 percent of GM's North American profits, Jonas said. On a global basis, that drops to about 65 percent when factoring in GM's Asia profits and losses in Europe, he said.
While the automakers declined to reveal profit by vehicle, executives of the U.S. automakers don't discount pickups' financial contribution.
It's a big part of our corporation and where we derive our profits, Chrysler's Diaz said in an interview.
Foreign competitors
Detroit has protected those profits better than any other vehicle category.
When Nissan started selling the Titan in 2003 and Toyota rolled out the second-generation Tundra in 2007, each built factories capable of producing more than 200,000 trucks a year.
Last year, Toyota sold 101,621 Tundras and Nissan sold 21,576 Titans. Ford sold 645,316 F-Series, GM sold 575,497 Sierras and Silverados, and Chrysler sold 293,363 Ram pickups.
I drove the Toyota and thought, Are you kidding me?' said Lucchese, the software engineer. For a couple thousand less, you're getting a lot less truck.
Toyota and Nissan build their trucks in the United States because of a Cold War-era law known as the chicken tax that levies a 25 percent tariff on any imported light truck. The law was established in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson in retaliation for duties France and West Germany levied on U.S. chickens. It helped establish and preserve Detroit's dominance.
Nissan aims to boost Titan's annual sales to 100,000 with a redesign coming in 2015, Pierre Loing, vice president of product and advanced planning and strategy for Nissan North America, told Edmunds.com.
Nissan may offer more engine choices and cab configurations in the new Titan, said Dan Bedore, a spokesman. The truck now comes only with a V-8 engine and in crew cab and extended cab, and doesn't offer a V-6 engine, though fuel efficiency is now more important to truck buyers.
In 2011, Ford began offering two V-6 engine options, which now account for more than half of F-Series sales.
Fuel efficiency wasn't a top reason to buy a truck when Nissan was first developing the Titan a decade ago, said Larry Dominique, then the Japanese automaker's product development chief.
We did more research in preparation for that truck than any other vehicle Nissan had ever produced, said Dominique, president of ALG, an auto-lease researcher. I give Nissan and Toyota a lot of credit for sticking with it. It's a tough segment. For the foreseeable future, the domestics are going to own this segment.
Toyota failed to achieve its sales goal of selling 200,000 annually because just as we were introducing our vehicle, the financial crisis hit, said Bob Carter, vice president of U.S. operations. We're going to be a bigger player in the pickup market.
Long experience
Ford's Fields said Toyota and Nissan struggle because they don't have the experience or fully understand the needs of ranchers and hardhats.
We've been at this for 70-plus years, Fields said. There's a whole culture within our company. Engineers who join the company on the truck side stay on the truck side.
And trucks engender fierce loyalty among their owners.
People chose sides: You are either a Ford truck buyer or a Chevy truck buyer, said Jessica Caldwell, an analyst with researcher Edmunds.com. My dad is a Silverado owner, and once he identified himself as a Chevy buyer, that was it.
Last year, 39 percent of Silverado buyers were repeat customers, according to Edmunds. At Ford, 36 percent of F-150 buyers were trading in an F-150. Chrysler's Ram 1500 pickup had repeat business from 27 percent of its buyers.
By comparison, 11 percent of Ford Fusion buyers were repeat customers and 15 percent of Chevy Malibu buyers traded in the same car.
Chevy and Ford pickups top even the most loyal sedan buyers: Toyota Camry customers, who had a 33 percent loyalty rate last year, Edmunds said.
Having that same buyer decade upon decade, you kind of get an idea of what they're looking for, Caldwell said.


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Lieberman Rewrites History While Defending McCain, Claims U.S. Leaves Residual Troops In 'Every Conflict'
"Lieberman Rewrites History While Defending McCain, Claims U.S. Leaves Residual Troops In 'Every Conflict'"
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has recently engaged in a frantic effort to "put the toothpaste back in the tube" regarding his notorious 100 years remark on the Iraq war. McCain says that since the U.S. has left troops in South Korea, for example, a prolonged presence in Iraq is also justified.
Yesterday on Fox News, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) went even further than McCain, claiming that the U.S. leaves troops behind to "secure the peace" in "every conflict":
But the fact is we're going to need, as we have after every conflict we've been in — World War II, Korea, etc., we're going want to leave troops there to secure the peace that our soldiers have won. It's clear that's what he meant.
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"Anybody who says that John McCain is for a 100 year war in Iraq is either not informed or intentionally trying to mislead the public," Lieberman added. In reality, it seems Lieberman is the one who is "not informed." The U.S. does not maintain a strong contingent of troops in "every conflict," as history has shown:
– Vietnam: After President Nixon announced a phased withdrawal, the "last U.S. combat troops" withdrew in August 1972. "The last remaining American troops withdrew" by 1973. In April 1975, "the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon, concluding the United States presence in Vietnam."
– Somalia: "All UN and U.S. personnel were finally withdrawn…in March 1995."
– Haiti: The "last American combat troops in Haiti returned home" in 1996. Final withdrawals were completed in 1999.
McCain claims his remarks are being distorted, but he has repeatedly supported a heavy U.S. presence, for example, even supporting permanent bases in Iraq. Andrew Bacevich of Boston University explains that McCain's scenario would likely entail a combat-heavy engagement for U.S. troops:
"In Iraq, it's not even clear there is a nation-state, and there's little evidence there is an effective Iraqi government," he said. "That tends to suggest a long-term presence in Iraq will not be a peacekeeping one but one in which we're engaged in a very, very long, ugly unconventional war."
Today's Progress Report asks: when does McCain's 100 years without casualties start?


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