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The following is a list of publications on aid architecture and financing.
For more information, please visit our website here.
The Architecture of Development Assistance
This book includes reports on Multilateral Aid, the Division of Labour and Aid Fragmentation, Aid Predictability to provide an overview of the key trends and developments in the architecture of aid.
|Future Aid Flows: Preliminary Findings of the 2011 Survey on Donors' Forward Spending Plans 2011-2013
Tracing country programmable aid (CPA) flows, this annual survey on donors' forward spending plans aims to reduce some of the uncertainty around aid at the global, regional and country level.
|What if Development Aid Really Rewarded Results?: Revisiting the Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid Model
Results-based funding discipline is in high political demand today. However, target-driven schemes bring with them measurement, attribution and perverse incentive problems. This development brief explores the potential of a Cash-on-Delivery aid model to overcome these problems and sets out further questions for consideration
|2010 OECD DAC Report on Aid Predictability: Survey on Donors' Forward Spending Plans 2010-2012 (pdf, 1.27 MB)
This report is a unique instrument: the only regular process at the global level that brings together most bilateral and multilateral aid spending plans 1-3 years ahead with the aim of improving global predictability of future aid flows. The 2010 survey is the third survey in this series. The 2010 edition of the survey report provides an assessment of indicative forward programming to countries that need it the most in order to reach the MDGs by providing a first indication of the collective forward programming of bilateral and major multilateral donors' up to 2012, mid-way to 2015. The international development community faces the challenges of aid prospects and needs through 2015, as ODA is a necessary and complementary source of finance for development to reach the MDGs. The report is intended both for policy makers in recipient countries as a guide to overall planning of aid resources and for aid managers in donor countries and international agencies to inform their aid allocation decisions.
|The Evolving Development Finance Architecture: A Shortlist of Problems and Opportunities for Action in 2011 (47KB)
The current "architecture" is largely impervious to top-down attempts at restructuring and to bottom-up competitive pressure. Shared norms can nonetheless help, and joint action can reduce information gaps and other sources of market failure.
2009 DAC Report on Multilateral Aid (pdf, 2.6 MB)
This report on covers recent trends in multilateral aid and total use (core and non-core) of the multilateral system, with a special focus on UNDP and World Bank trust funds. It explores development perspectives of the climate change funding architecture, and provides an overview of the response of multilaterals to the financial and economic crisis. It also includes an update on members' multilateral strategies and assessment approaches.
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Development Finance Challenges 2010-2015 (pdf, 458kb)
This paper looks at the DAC's collective delivery against key global development finance challenges starting with the emerging lessons from the global economic crisis; progress with ODA commitments and claims on ODA, 2010-2015; stocktaking of recent thematic initiatives; post-Copenhagen implications for development finance; mobilising domestic resources; and innovative sources of finance.
Monitoring Report of the DAC HLM Action Plan on Responding to Global Development Challeneges at a Time of Crisis (pdf, 591 kb)
In response to the financial crisis in 2009, the DAC HLM produce a seven point action plan to ensure that development remained high on the political agenda and to mitigate the impacts of the crisis in partner countries. The report draws on existing monitoring and evaluation information within OECD as well as external monitoring systems and case-studies from DAC Members and Observers, think tanks and other crisis monitoring efforts across the international system
Global Governance for International Development: Who's in charge? (pdf) (pdf, 169kb)
Development Brief
This new development brief outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the complex network of existing institutions in international aid and briefly evaluates the ability of these institutions to meet the challenge of improving aid effectiveness. This development brief argues that efficient management of the aid system and closing "transmission losses" would more than justify better networking efforts among these institutions.
Getting closer to the core - Measuring Country programmable Aid (pdf 199kb)
Development Brief
The headline measure of spending by industrialised country governments in favour of developing countries has long been official development assistance, or ODA. This captures grants and concessional loans made to developing countries and multilateral development institutions for development purposes. But debt relief, imputed student costs, aid administration and technical co-operation - while scored at face value as ODA within Development Assistance Committee (DAC) guidelines - may not represent actual transfers of funds to recipient countries. This brief looks at attempts to strip these and other items from ODA to derive a more meaningful, "real aid" measure.
2009 OECD Report on Division of Labour: Addressing fragmentation and concentration of aid across countries (pdf, 2.3 MB)
Developing countries differ greatly in their potential for development and in the challenges they face, but at least in one respect, many share a common problem: too little aid from too many donors. The report traces up to 4 000 aid relationships between all 151 aid recipient countries and the 46 largest donors, covering all DAC members and the largest multilateral agencies.
|Aid Orphans: Whose Reponsibility? Development Brief (pdf, 191.3 kB)
Development Brief
The pattern of aid distribution across countries is insufficiently co-ordinated. Individual donors (public and private) decide separately which country programmes to assist and to what extent, based on their unique set of values, goals and criteria, shaped by specific contexts and historical relationships. The absence of timely information on other donors' forward intentions impedes everyone's ability to adjust their own plans accordingly. Furthermore, accountability to taxpayers or boards is seldom focused on correcting the actions of others, predictable or not: each donor has its own priorities and incentive framework.
2009 DAC Report on Aid Predictability: Survey on Donors' Forward Spending Plans 2009-2011 (pdf, 4.15 MB)
This report is a unique instrument: the only regular process at the global level that brings together most bilateral and multilateral aid spending plans 1-3 years ahead with the aim of improving global predictability of future aid flows. It is intended both for policy makers in recipient countries as a guide to overall planning of aid resources and for aid managers in donor countries and international agencies to inform their aid allocation decisions.
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> Report of 2008 Survey of Aid Allocation Policies and Indicative Forward Spending Plans (pdf, 1.49 MB)
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I entered Parliament with BJP support. The Sena votes were not enough to see a second candidate through. Satish Pradhan was the official candidate. I came in as the second one, in the hope that the BJP may give me some of their extra votes. Balasaheb made an impassioned plea for me, an outsider to the party. So charismatic was his plea that I not only got the Sena votes but I also got the extra BJP votes. Satish Pradhan limped in last while Ram Pradhan (known as Sonia's candidate) lost. Clearly the BJP was behind my victory even though Pramod Mahajan never quite liked me. But he listened to Balasaheb. So I have a soft spot for the BJP even though India looks all set to forget them.
My biggest disappointment with the BJP is that despite India voting it into power within a decade and a half of being a tiny two man party in Parliament, it stubbornly refused to meet any expectations. It picked up every cracked cause it found, from joining the rivers of India to building a Sanskrit supercomputer to wanting to replace the national anthem with Vande Mataram, to stitch together a political agenda so weird that even today people sigh with relief when they see the BJP out of power. It's a party where everyone's so busy putting the other down that no one has time for anything else. I suspect Vajpayee and Advani, the two who built the party from scratch, are as sad to see it go down the drain. But the real tragedy is that the very things the BJP (and India) hated about the Congress flourished most during its own regime: Corruption, ineptitude, nepotism, and nonsense masquerading as ideology. Sitting in the Central Hall of Parliament, I often felt like an idiot. All that I had spent a lifetime fighting was happening there– right before my eyes. No wonder I did not seek re-election.
But I still owe the BJP. I owe Mahajan in particular. He was one of the party's cleverest and most insolent satraps. There was nothing he wouldn't stoop to but he was smart enough to know that to be in power the BJP had to master the art of sustaining alliances and he did that brilliantly. I suspect even Balasaheb misses him. The BJP certainly does even though no one will admit to it because the BJP loves fighting the enemy within, not the Congress. Every leader in the party hates the other and yet they all sit down together, laugh, joke, drink tea and eat samosas, pretending they are just a whisker away from power. Who know? They probably are. But it's certainly not on merit. The only support that exists for them comes from people like you and I who want a powerful Opposition around just to keep the Congress in check.
But the truth is most people don't think the BJP have it in them any more. The fact that some still vote for it and alliance partners remain is because there's no real alternative in sight. The Congress is clever. They showcase young leaders like Rahul Gandhi so differently that you can hate the Congress and yet vote for Rahul and his candidates. In your mind they are entirely different propositions. The BJP can't even do that. Barring Narendra Modi, no one in the party can stand apart and claim a personal following. Some crackpots may still buy their poison brew of Hindutva, Hate and Hysteria. But the BJP has nothing else to offer India. Not even an alternative economic roadmap to capture the nation's imagination, burdened as it with spiralling prices, unrealistic taxes, and a Government constantly in denial of its failures.
The Congress may refuse to change. But at least it's using its new mascot Rahul Gandhi wisely, to cleverly draw in the young and not so young to whom he stands as a sign of possible change. The BJP offers nothing apart from the notion of an alternative. But the face of that alternative can't be an overweight leader who faints in the Delhi heat or a pack of wolves who tear into one of their own when he writes a book on Jinnah. The BJP obviously doesn't like intelligent, capable, charismatic leaders. Not enough to give them prominence in the party. It offers no political roadmap, no economic agenda that can make them look like a real alternative. It speaks only through ill fitting dentures on issues India has long forgotten.
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DCRP Lens Buyers Guide
Version 3.7 - July 2008
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Figuring out your needs
3 What determines price?
4 Apertures and IS
5 Extenders
6 MTF Charts
7 Lens Recommendations
8 Conclusion
9 Links/Resources
I. Introduction
Buying a lens for your new DSLR can turn out to be a more difficult decision than deciding which DSLR or brand to buy. For each system, there are dozens upon dozens of choices on the market ranging from a lowly $50 all the way up to a bank breaking $10,000+.
This guide will help you choose the right lens(es) given your needs and your budget.
II. Figuring out Your Needs
The first step towards buying a lens is asking yourself what kinds of subjects you shoot the most. That's where the bulk of your investment needs to go initially. Ask yourself questions like the following...
- Do I shoot indoors or outdoors?
- Do I take pictures of closer things or farther things?
- Do I take photos of fast moving objects (i.e. action, sports)?
- Do I want to take portraits or do weddings?
- Do I like hiking around to take pictures of wildlife and nature?
- Am I into macro photography?
- Do I take pictures of landscapes, interiors, and/or architecture?
- Do I prefer more compact, convenient lenses or more bulky, inconvenient lenses that will help me take "better" pictures?
These are the kinds of questions you need to ask yourself. Once you find out what your needs are, you need to decide what your budget is and how many lenses you plan to buy. If your lens budget is in the range of…
Under $300
In this range, a solid 3rd party all-purpose lens will be your best bet. Hopefully, you won't be in tricky situations like indoor sports, concerts or indoor venues where flash is prohibited.
In this range, you have a little more room to work with. You still can't afford a "premium" first-party (Canon/Nikon) lens, but you can comfortably buy a top-grade 3rd party lens with money to spare for a 50mm prime (for low light situations).
Above $600
When you have a little more money to work with, you can start looking at entry-level premium lenses. However, these may not work for tricky situations like indoor, low-light photography. For those situations, you will want to look at lenses with large apertures of at least f/2.8. You may also want to opt for a prime instead.
Either way, refrain from buying more than 2 lenses at the outset. Buy slowly and constantly evaluate what you need. You may end up changing your mind once you start shooting.
Whichever lens(es) you decide to purchase, be sure to actually try them out in the store before buying! Make sure you're comfortable with the build of the lens as well as its weight. And most importantly, make sure that its optical quality meets your expectations.
Bring along a memory card and see how the shots come out at home. There's no way you can evaluate image quality through the preview LCD, even a 3.5" one!
III. What determines price?
If you are looking at lenses and their prices for the first time, you may be quite bewildered at the pricing scheme. It may be counter intuitive at first to see that the lenses with the widest ranges (the highest "optical zoom") tend to be the cheapest while the ones with the most restrictive ranges tend to be the most expensive.
But once you understand how several key factors play into the final cost of a lens, you'll understand why certain lenses can cost thousands while seemingly similar ones can cost only hundreds.
There are two primary factors that determine the price of a lens. These are focal length and aperture.
Focal Length
The cheapest lenses are the ones that are easiest to make. The easiest lenses to make are those that are close to the 50mm mark*. The farther the focal length deviates from 50mm (percentage-wise), the more costly it will be. It is much trickier to design a 10mm or a 500mm lens than 50mm lens.
Moreover, we must take into account the fact that most digital SLR's use sensors whose area is smaller than that of 35mm film. This is where the crop factor originates and is why people commonly say to multiply a lenses focal length by 1.5x or 1.6x to get its true length.
* Precisely speaking, the "normal" focal length is defined as the length of the diagonal dimension of the medium. For film this is approximately 43.2mm (24mm x 36mm). Calibrating this to 50mm is a simplification, so that we can make our calculations easier.
(Comparison between a 50mm to a 1200mm lens)
The bigger factor into cost is how large the aperture is. The larger the aperture is (indicated by a small f-number), the more costly a lens is. This is why two lenses with the same focal lengths can differ by $1000. Notice how the lenses with large apertures have huge, fat barrels while the small aperture lenses are skinny and compact.
(Comparison between a small aperture and large aperture lens)
There are other features that factor into the final cost such as build quality and the inclusion of ED (extra low dispersion) elements for reducing Chromatic Abberation (abbreviated CA and known as "purple fringing").
IV. How big an aperture do I need? Do I need IS?
Bigger apertures are better, but they cost you a lot of extra money. Why do you need a bigger aperture anyways? There are several reasons for wanting a big aperture.
Bigger apertures are most commonly used in situations where there's poor lighting and if you cannot use flash. To take a picture, the camera will either need a bigger aperture or it will need to make the shutter speed slower to expose the shot properly. Using a larger ISO value (1600, 3200) will help too, but going too high may sometimes introduce unwanted noise into the picture. If you are handholding the shot in this situation, the need for a bigger aperture is that much more important because a slower shutter speed will lead to camera shake and blurriness.
You will also need a bigger aperture when you want to blur the background in a shot. When you use a larger aperture, the depth of field becomes shallow, placing only closer things (to the focus point) in focus, leaving the rest out of focus, or blurred. Conversely, when you use a smaller aperture, the depth of field becomes deeper, making a larger part of the image in focus.
Diaphragm Blades and "Bokeh"
The other major factor when it comes to blurring the background is how many diaphragm blades there are. This affects the the "bokeh" (a Japanese word which literally means "blur"), describing how well a lens handles out of focus areas of an image. Having more blades (7-9) is better than having fewer (5). Bad bokeh can be characterized by the presence of distinct geometric shapes (like pentagons or hexagons) instead of smooth circles when certain elements are blurred out.
Do I need IS?
Image Stabilization (IS) is a technology that can reduce the need for a larger aperture if you are handholding shots in low light. In layman's terms, it is a "virtual tripod." In situations where you cannot bring along a tripod, IS can make a difference between a photo that's a keeper and one that heads to the trash bin.
In practice, IS will gain you about 2 full stops (3-4 for newer generation lenses), but your mileage will vary depending on how advanced the technology in the lens is and technique. To put things into context, I've heard of people who were able to handhold shots at shutter speeds of 1/4 sec!
(Right - IS off, Left - IS on)
Beware that IS does NOT help when the subject moves. While IS may still help you handhold the shot, you will still need a fast lens to obtain a faster shutter speed that will freeze the action.
Like everything else, IS is a useful tool but is not a substitute for skill. You still need to hold your camera still and use proper technique.
What apertures do I need?
If you are doing available-light indoor photography, f/2.8 is the bare minimum. I recommend f/2.0 or larger.
If you are doing indoor sports or action photography, f/2.0 and larger is virtually required, so you can get fast shutter speeds to freeze the action in addition to bumping up the ISO to 800 or 1600.
If you are working in decent light (i.e. outdoors), f/4 will work just fine. If you work mostly outdoors in great lighting, f/5.6 and above will suffice. If you plan on bringing a monopod or a tripod to stabilize things, you can even get away with even smaller apertures.
V. What is an extender?
An extender is a special kind of lens which mounts itself between the main lens and your camera. As its name suggests, an extender increases the focal length of your lens by some set amount. At this moment, there are two kinds of extenders, 1.4x and 2.0x. As a quick example, if you have a 100mm lens, the 1.4x and 2.0x extenders will transform the focal length into 140mm and 200mm respectively.
For this reason alone, extenders can be quite useful in extending the reach of your lenses at a relatively low cost while taking less space.
As always though, there's a tradeoff when you gain convenience. You sacrifice image quality, and the lens becomes "slower." Here's an explanation for both points.
1) You might recall that f-stop is a simple ratio between the diameter of the aperture of the lens (how big the hole is) and the focal length of the lens. For example, a 50mm lens with a 25mm diameter has an f-stop value of 2, hence the f/2 branding. Naturally, this means then that doubling the focal length will double the f-stop value, causing you to lose TWO whole stops. Using a 1.4x extender makes you lose ONE stop. If the f-stop value gets too high, sometimes auto focus will no longer function. Check with your manufacturer for exact details.
2) Extenders also degrade image quality, especially if you use a 2x extender. Think of an extender as a magnifying glass for a moment. If an extender is a magnifying glass, all of the "faults" in a lens will effectively become that much more noticeable. For examples, images may be softer, be more distorted or may lack contrast. But this is the price you pay for convenience. I'm sure that most of us would be happy lugging around a 200mm lens with an extender rather than a 400mm lens and a tripod.
To sum it up, extenders are useful tools for getting more utility out of your lens collection. I personally recommend buying a 1.4x converter as the degradation in speed and image quality is less noticeable in practice. If you start with a very good lens, you may not notice a difference at all!
VI. How do I read MTF charts? (For the Adventurous)
MTF stands for Modulation Transfer Function. You don't need to understand what the heck that means to read an MTF chart.
An MTF chart gives us a visual representation of how well a lens performs. It gives us a good idea of how contrasty and sharp a lens is in laboratory testing.
Here are two sample MTF charts from Canon. For simplicity, I have chosen 2 primes. The first chart is for the 135 f/2 L. The second chart is for the 50mm f/1.8.
(Source: Canon USA)
The vertical axis represents contrast, ranging from 0% to 100%. An ideal lens would take in 100% of the light, but that never happens in practice. So, the higher a line is, the more contrast the lens has, which is good.
The horizontal axis represents the distance for a sample point from the center of the image in millimeters. It is typically the case that quality suffers as you move towards the edge, but that isn't always true as you can see with the 135L.
Ignore the dotted lines for a moment. The black lines represent the lens performance wide-open. The blue lines represent its performance at f/8. Obviously, stopping a lens down will result in better contrast and sharpness. The best lenses will differ little when stopped down, meaning they can be used wide-open! This means you want the black and blue lines to be as close to each other as possible as you can see once again with the 135L.
If you look carefully, you'll notice that for each pair of lines (black and blue), there is a thicker line and a thinner line. The thick line tells you specifically about contrast while the thin line tells you specifically about sharpness.
Finally, what do the dotted lines represent? Rather than go into the technical jargon of what they are, you are looking for these lines to be close to each other. They represent the quality of the "bokeh."
MTF charts shouldn't be taken as the ultimate word on everything as they are yet just another bunch of numbers, but they are usually pretty accurate. Their weakness though is that they don't reveal everything about a lens.
BOTTOM LINE: A good MTF chart doesn't necessarily lead to great performance in real world photos and vice-versa.


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Tragically, in the first three months of this year, South Carolina has lost 40 citizens to fire-related incidents. This nearly doubles the five-year average of 22 fire fatalities during the same three-month period.
As the newly appointed state fire marshal, my first priority is identifying the contributing factors leading to these deaths and utilizing the resources of South Carolina to keep this number from continuing to rise. We cannot bring back the lives lost, but through state, local, private, and public partnerships we can do a lot to prevent future loss.
Billions of dollars flow through South Carolina every year – to contractors and others – for roads and other infrastructure projects.
The money comes from three pots, essentially: funds sent from the General Assembly through the state Department of Transportation; federal dollars channeled through SCDOT; and money, usually borrowed, spent by the state Transportation Infrastructure Bank, or STIB.
We're hearing a lot of scary claims from the S.C. Department of Transportation and from legislative leaders: we have the highest rate of road fatalities in the nation, it will take billions to climb out of the hole our infrastructure system is stuck in, we have to pass some pretty significant tax hikes in order to truly address problems, and so on.
What are they not telling us? A lot, actually.
I have a lot to say against Democrats. They are on the wrong side of any objective truth. They have their own truths that I reject.
I also have a lot to say about Republicans. They have some of their own truths also. Republicans' new motto seems to be "Vote for us because we are not as bad as they are."
There is no salvation in any political party. America is in a mess today, and it is getting messier each day.
Last month, President Trump visited Charleston's Boeing plant and proclaimed the "America First" policy that has been one of his constant themes.
He said he the country will "rely less on imports and more on products made right here in the U.S.A. … This is our mantra: Buy American and hire American."
It's a great slogan, but it conflicts with the complex realities of global trade.
Where does your tax money go? In most instances it supports direct government activities such as schools, police, housing, public health and the like.
But in many instances your tax money is transferred to nonprofit corporations that have convinced government leaders that they perform a service worthy of public support. Museums, festivals, parks and tourism promoters are common nonprofit recipients of public funds.
There is a bill, H.3931, pending in the S.C. House, that would exempt nonprofit organizations getting public funds from the Freedom of Information Act.
This is my response to the columns by Jeremy Miller and Michael Jedson in Wednesday's paper, which criticized Dr. Brooks Walker's support for President Trump.
I loved Dr. Walker's letter. It was all true. Trump is trying to save our country. He sees that America is running toward socialist government, and that goes to communist.
I am responding to Brooks Walker's March 17 column "Democrats are redefining the party."
Dr. Walker states that the Democrats' one goal is to "get Trump." Apparently, Dr. Walker must have forgotten Sen. Mitch McConnell's statement at the beginning of Obama's first term that the Republican's goal was to block any and all legislation initiated by Obama.
Last Thursday, state Sen. John Courson was indicted by a state grand jury on three ethics charges. He was immediately suspended from the Senate.
The indictment alleges that the Columbia Republican funneled nearly $250,000 in campaign contributions to the political consulting firm of Richard Quinn and Associates, which then returned almost $133,000 to Courson for his personal use.
The reaction around the state has been universal shock and disbelief.
This is a response to the Feb. 10 letter "Trump Will Make America Great Again."
When I hear that statement, I can't help but wonder what is wrong with America now? If our great country is so bad, why do people flock to this land for better opportunities.
Most of us know someone who was been overseas protecting our way of life. Some of our daddies fought in Vietnam and a lot of our granddaddies fought the Nazis and Japanese in World War II.
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The American brand Mercury enjoyed a long history of success and customer satisfaction. From its inception in the 1930s to its closure, Mercury will always be known as the brand that united the practicality of a Ford with the luxury and refinement of a Lincoln.
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Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's son, launched the Mercury brand. His goal was to outshine his father's "everyman" Ford and yet appeal to those who could not afford the luxurious Lincoln. Edsel Ford's desire was to unite the sensibility of Ford with innovative features and stylized designs. His first attempt at expanding the brand was in 1935 with the Ford Falcon. Because he did not see how this car could fit in with the Ford brand, he decided to create an entirely new division, Mercury, which he named after the mythological Roman god. Edsel's first entry-level luxury car was the Mercury Eight crafted in 1939. It outperformed Ford vehicles with its 95-horsepower engine and extra wide body and it distinguished itself from Ford with its 116-inch wheelbase. The Eight was priced at $916 and the brand sold 65,800 automobiles in its first year alone.
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From the beginning, Mercury was intent on building its brand in the North American auto market even though the company lost its momentum in recent years. Throughout its long history, Mercury was originally created as a division of Ford with a high commitment to performance. During its tenure, it would compete with rivals such as Oldsmobile, Chrysler, and Buick, especially during the 1950s to the 1980s.
Mercury continued to succeed while consistently filling voids in the market. In the 1980s, it introduced compact cars to meet consumer needs along with minivans in the 1990s. Even though the move proved to be successful, Mercury struggled in the 21st century. Lack of consumer demand and distinguished features between Mercury and Ford left the brand in a financial slump. Consumers were not inclined to open their wallets and pay for an altered Ford with a higher price tag. Due to this decline, Mercury ceased operations in June 2010.
Mercury Models
Starting with the Mercury Eight (which Ford ultimately sold more than 155,000 vehicles), the brand experienced much success in its infancy. Though production came to a halt during World War II, manufacturing resumed afterward and continued to grow as Mercury aligned itself more with the ideals of the luxurious Lincoln vehicles.
In the 1960s, Mercury introduced the Comet, a car appealing to the higher-classes. In the same year, Mercury also introduced the Meteor, a midsize car for the family that needed a comfortable, roomy car with high performance. Mercury also revealed its iconic Cougar toward the end of the decade, a car that is a close relative of the Mustang.
The 1970s auto consumer market desired compact vehicles, which were more fuel efficient. Mercury met consumer expectations once again by introducing its first compact cars, the Capri and, later, the Bobcat. The 1980s proved to be a promising decade for Mercury with its new lineup of cars such as the subcompact Lynx and the Sable, which closely resembled the Ford Taurus.
In the 1990s, minivans and sport utility vehicles were on the rise and Mercury responded to the competition by introducing the Villager minivan and Mountaineer SUV. As a result of the popularity of these two new additions, the 1990s were successful for Mercury.
Mercury Products and Technologies
Mercury had a lot of success due to innovations and commitment to safety. In the 1950s, Mercury's Turnpike Cruiser became popular for its newest state-of-the-art features such as the power rear window, adjustable seats called the "Seat-O-Matic," and an automatic transmission called the "Merc-O-Matic".
Throughout its long history, Mercury pleased consumers as it stayed on top of new technologies and features. The 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid received rave reviews for its application of the technology and overall pleasurable driving experience.
From James Dean and his black Mercury coupe in "Rebel Without a Cause" to countless consumers who value the name "Mercury," the American-born brand will always be known for its commitment to style, high performance and technology developments.
Mercury Cougar
2002-2000, 1997-1995 | Coupe, Sports
Mercury Grand Marquis
2011-1995 | Midsize, Sedan
From 1983 until Mercury's demise in 2010, the Mercury Grand Marquis was a full-size sedan that served as the company's flagship car.
Mercury Marauder
2004-2003 | Midsize, Sedan
Mercury Mariner
2011-2005 | Hybrid, SUV, Utility/Offroad
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Mercury Milan
2011-2006 | Hybrid, Midsize, Sedan
In 2005, Mercury rolled out one of its more successful cars, the midsize four-door sedan Mercury Milan.
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2007-2005 | Midsize, Sedan
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Mercury Monterey
2007-2004 | Minivan/Van
Mercury Mountaineer
2010-1997 | SUV, Utility/Offroad
From 1997 until 2011, Mercury produced the Mountaineer, which was a midsize sport utility vehicle (SUV).
Mercury Mystique
2000-1995 | Midsize, Sedan
Mercury Sable
2009-2008, 2005-1995 | Midsize, Sedan, Wagon
The Mercury Sable was launched as a midsize sedan in 1986 by the Ford Motor Company.
Mercury Tracer
1999-1995 | Midsize, Sedan, Wagon
The 1970s was arguably the Mercury line's most challenging decade since the automotive manufacturer rolled its first car off the Ford assembly line back in 1939.
Mercury Villager
2002-1995 | Minivan/Van
The Mercury Villager was a minivan manufactured by the Ford Motor Company and marketed under the Mercury brand from 1993 through 2002.


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Throughout the night, Redskins legends streamed in and out of the Fisherman's Inn in Grasonville, Md. Players ranging from Rypien to Gary Clark to Reggie Branch to Jeff Bostic were in attendance.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:18 pm
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From Capetonians link....Are these the poor souls you're talking about Chandler?
Consider California, where just 10 individual pensioners will cash $50 million in pension checks from state and local governments over the next 25 years. Already some 30,000 retired California government employees pull in pensions higher than $100,000 a year. One retired librarian in San Diego receives a $234,000 annual pension. Beach lifeguards in Orange County are retiring at age 51 with $108,000 annual pensions plus health-care benefits.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:50 pm
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their pay is already way above civilian pay.
I posted the fallacies in that claim a couple of weeks ago.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but there would be a free flow of individuals in and out of govt if their pay was market based. It is not, so they latch on to the govt teet. And if you really want my opinion, most govt folks would have a difficult time surviving in the real world if ejected from their govt jobs.
They are way overpaid, and your assertion is laughable. There is practically 0 turnover in govt. There is significant turnover in the private sector.
It's not just "my" assertion; it's from large agency comparisons of the pay government and private workers get
for the same job.
From just one earlier post:
This comparison is way over the heads of us peons, the media, and most pundits. It's just too complex, has too many variables, and depends too much on what the meaning of "is" is, to justify the blanket statements we see from the media or any administration. [Besides, the comparisons we see in the media are based on gross average pay scales, not head-to-head job skills vs pay. A GS-15 at Hanford makes 1/3 to 1/5 the pay of the private contractor peers and subordinates he goes toe-to-toe with every day.]
It's no surprise to me that state and local government compensation is often off the charts. The federal picture is much more stringently controlled, but still has many aberrations. Salaries in the DOE, for example, are tens of thousands of dollars above those of far more competent DoD personnel for the same job at the same location.
Comparisons overlook some of the regulations and laws federal employees must obey. Examples:
o Access porn on a gummint computer and youre history.
o Express any political opinions in any way in public and your job is in jeopardy.
o Accept anything worth more than $25 - - lunch, snacks at a meeting, a ticket -- from a contractor and youre likely to become unemployed.
o Frequent flyer benefits go to the government, not the flyer.
o Tell a subordinate manager whom to hire and youre outta there.
o Any hourly-paid employee who works overtime without authorization, even without pay, is likely to be fired.
o Cannot run for public office.
o Feds must disclose all personal finances.
o No smoking in the building, beginning in the 1960s.
o Before you are approved for an advanced security clearance, the government will know which hand you wipe with, so to speak.
o Many federal retirees are expressly denied Social Security benefits they paid cash for.
o I have seen dozens of federal civil servants ordered to work as long as they can stay awake, get a few hours sleep, then repeat, 24/7, for 400 straight days/nights including weekends, without one extra cent of pay.
o Many very senior federal employees are subject to immediate dismissal without cause.
o Ive seen managers forbid employees from setting office air conditioning thermostats below 100 degrees in the desert SW (during the Carter administrations energy conservation fiasco).
o Violation of any of those is a federal offense, not just a mark on the bosss $#!+ list.
o And, of course, some government employees job descriptions include getting shot at.
I dont think everybody is going to get in line for those cushy, overpaid gummint jobs all at once.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:13 pm
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The Obama haters find new and unique ways to avoid facts; the latest from the man who cannot spell--or read:
LOL, you do know that Mark Murray has always carried BHO's water, or at least aspires to.
It is hysterical how you missed the poll, so I'll repeat it for you--it has nothing to do with Mark Murray. 52% of those polled thought the sequestration was a bad idea, with 50% saying the cuts were too severe. You can see the full poll here. If you scroll down and compare approval rates for Obama and the Republicans you might understand what Murray opined about--and why you come across as completely uninformed.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:06 pm
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From the midget Napoleon who runs New York...
We are spending money we dont have, Mr. Bloomberg explained. Its not like your household. In your household, people are saying, Oh, you cant spend money you dont have. That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. Our debt is so big and so many people own it that its preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. Its the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And thats a problem for the lenders. They cant stop lending us more money.
Oh yeah? That's like saying nobody is going to make a 17 ounce Coke illegal....
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:58 pm
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"From Capetonians link....Are these the poor souls you're talking about Chandler?"
No. I was talking about federal employees and programs that will be affected by the sequester. I don't think you can draw a parallel between federal employees that will be affected by sequester cuts and the pension issues associated with state and local employees in California, Illinois and San Jose. Nice try though.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:53 pm
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Oh, you mean these guys?
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 5:13 pm
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SB--on the assumption that you are in one of your constructive modes, you have identified an important concern--but it has nothing to do with the Federal budget or sequestration.
California has a system--the Public Employee Retirement System--that covers both State and local government employees. State employees don't make a lot of money compared to education--but local government employees are sometimes paid way too much by local governments. A significant part of the problem is that the Democrats can't say no often enough to the public employee unions, and the Republicans have destroyed their brand in California by focusing on gay marriage, immigrants, and abortion rather than good government.
The legislature passed a law about 20 years ago allowing local governments to increase the pension payout if they thought it was prudent. That plus term limits meant that many public officials that understood money, and municipal budgets, were termed out. So folks that didn't understand government finance (an even less informed group than the current Tea Party fruitcakes), or people who knew that they would be on to bigger and better offices, allowed pensions to be increased. In mant cases local officials used the pension system to ease out employees rather than use the disciplinary systems. In combination with the skyrocketing cost of health care and the collapse of the economy, this hammered local governments.
The only thing this has to do with Obama is that the first stimulus had some money for preserving local jobs as local tax revenues plumetted. It matters a lot for local government revenues because personnel costs are most of the cost, and the big groups of employees are, in rough order, cops, firemen, and teachers.
Federal pay, and pensions, are less generous than local government pay and pensions, but more generous than State pay. But the total payroll of non-military Federal employees is a very small part of the Federal budget. Defense, social security and medicare. It is pretty easy to look these things up.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 5:54 pm
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Oh, you mean these guys?
I haven't verified it, but I heard one credible talking head say the DoD's boondoggle trips outdo the GSA's hands down. I'm a bit surprised, simply because of the caliber of most of my DoD peers, who would and often did blow the whistle and stop such deliberate fraud, waste, and abuse. I watched several promising careers end over a long term high-class whorehouse some of my coworkers had set up for themselves on government money, and I personally prevented a totally unnecessary week-long 40-person working trip one two-star had set up at San Francisco's Presidium. One friend has ended the careers of many colonels and generals who tried to abuse the DoD system. For every such ratbag in the DoD, I've got to believe there are at least 10 honest AND bold coworkers who won't tolerate that $#!+. Sure, it takes horsepower to bring down powerful abusers, but their power protects them only until the abuse reaches an honest, bold public servant higher up the totem pole.
A two-star ratbag protected his comparable-grade DoD ratbag civilian friend for years, but ultimately, the clamor from us peons went over their heads and solved the problem. I.e., the system worked, if very slowly, if a few people are willing to risk their careers in the interest of doing the right thing.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:17 pm
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The Senate offered Obama a bill yesterday expressly to grant the president the authority to carefully choose the individual targets of his sequestration law. Its objective was to let him focus the cuts on intelligently chosen wasteful expenses rather than all the horrible front line hits he has threatened. Just as he did on 11/11/11, he repeated that he would veto any such bill.
That very clearly reveals his single-minded objective: destroy the GOP [our sole obstacle to his transformational social agenda] at any cost to any and every public service including the economy itself and to the people he swore to protect. If he can fool enough people long enough, this would give him free range as our dictator. If the public and the Congress are too stupid to see through that, we are indeed farked. Unfortunately for him, his sharper supporters in the Congress and the streets are finally seeing through his claims that this is the GOP's fault; virtually no Congressmen believed sequestration as he defined it would ever come to pass. That, not 2.4% of our "budget", is what's at stake today and over the next few weeks.
And don't think that is just my opinion. It's coming from Congressmen of both parties, from celebrated world events analysts and newsmen and authors including liberals, from historians, and from tens of millions of voters. For the sake of the free world, we must hope the latter outnumber the welfare voters and the young idiots brainwashed by today's schools.
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Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:22 am
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You are correct about the Republican brand in Cali Mac. There are 2 sides to the equation. One is Obama's (Dems) amazing job on vilifying conservatives, and the other, the practical missteps by some conservatives.
In other words, how did gay marriage top the news cycle when our financial system was collapsing? Immigration, when we use so much of their labor? Abortion when most people don't approve of it personally? It seems to be a giant head fake to me. Waive one hand over here, while the other one is picking our pockets. Conservatives unable to articulate their positions.
As for Federal vs local, I will stick to my opinion that they are both over paid. When turnover in govt jobs equals 25% the turnover in the private sector, I'll change my stance. Currently the turnover is fractional compared to the private sector.
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The Siege of Boston
During the Siege of Boston, the New England Army formed from the militiamen who answered the alarm on 19 April 1775 (who became the Continental Army when it was established in June 1775) effectively contained British troops within the boundaries of Boston, and, after the Battle of Bunker Hill, to the peninsula of Charlestown. Many residents moved out of Boston, and some Loyalists from the surrounding countryside moved into town. Conditions within the town were harsh for all who remained; although the British maintained control of Boston Harbor, provisions dwindled within the town while they waited for supply ships to arrive.
Cheever's manuscript diary commences with an entry dated 19 May 1775 in which he writes that he returned to Boston after safely relocating his mother and sisters to Taunton, Massachusetts. Cheever's succinct entries cover the realities of living through a long military campaign. He describes press gangs and imprisonments within the town on 19 June (on page 2) as "the usual consequence of martial law." His diary entries describe raids and vandalism committed by both sides (see entries for 30 May, 12 July and 9 January), bombardments (2 August, page 4) and the scarceness and expensiveness of food (12 August, page 5). He also describes the Battle of Bunker Hill in his entry for 17 June (on page 2) and the damage the British troops did to the Old South Meeting House (15 November, page 7). Cheever's final diary entry describes the last day of the Siege, 17 March 1776 (page 12) and records that General Howe and the British troops left town "upon which the Continental Army enter'd it."
The British were forced to evacuate Boston after George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, seized and fortified Dorchester Heights, just south of Boston, on the night of 4 March 1776 and from that location positioned cannon aimed at British ships anchored in the harbor. The artillery deployed by Washington had been captured from Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point and laboriously brought from Lake Champlain to Boston by Henry Knox and his men during December 1775 and January 1776.
Who was William Cheever?
William Cheever was born in Menotomy (now Arlington), Massachusetts, in 1752. His parents, William Downes Cheever and Elizabeth Edwards Cheever, were members of the First Church in Boston. He attended Harvard College and graduated with the class of 1771. After college he worked as a merchant for his father's business both in Boston and then in Amsterdam. By 1784 he was back in Boston and purchased property there (on Battery and Commercial streets). He died in 1786.
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Ellis, George E. March 17th, 1876 : Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Evacuation of Boston by the British Army, March 17th, 1776.... Boston: printed by order of the City Council, 1876.
French, Allen. The Siege of Boston. NY: Macmillan Company, 1911.
Hale, Rev. Edward E. "The Siege of Boston," Chapter II in The Memorial History of Boston, volume 3, edited by Justin Winsor. Boston, 1881.
McCullough, David. 1776. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
"William Cheever." From Biographical Sketches of Those who Attended Harvard College in the Classes 1768-1771 by Clifford K. Shipton. Sibley's Harvard Graduates, volume 17. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1975. Pages 501-502.
"William Cheever's Diary, 1775-1776." From the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings October, 1926 - June, 1927, Volume 60. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1927. Pages 91-97.
In addition to owning Cheever's manuscript diary (listed as, William Cheever diary, in the online catalog) the Massachusetts Historical Society's Caleb Davis papers contains two letterbooks relating to business matters kept by William Cheever, some letters written by him, and several manuscript volumes written by his father, William Downes Cheever. The first letterbook kept by William Cheever contains copies of letters he wrote from Boston dating from 1779 to 1781 and also from 1784 to 1786. The second letterbook contains copies of letters William wrote from Europe (mostly Copenhagen and Amsterdam) between 1781 and 1784.


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Ten outstanding volunteers from Costa Mesa and Newport Beach were honored last Friday at the Daily Pilot Community & Clubs Hall of Fame luncheon.
American Legion Newport Harbor Post 291 Commander Jess Lawson was nominated by 3rd Vice Commander Ken George. A Legion member for five years, Jess has served as 3rd vice commander (three years), post commander (two years), District 29 Boys State chairman (two years), 5th Area Boys State chairman (two years) and Boys State counselor (two years).
He was recently re-elected to a third term as the post commander by the general membership and continues to oversee the Legion in its day-to-day operations and programs. Lawson, in conjunction with being the post commander, is the 5th Area Boys State chairman and a Boys State counselor, where he continues his passion for community service and the development of our youth.
Steve Grant was nominated by Charles Markel, past president of the Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa.
Steve is a 45-year member of the Kiwanis club, a board member of the Costa Mesa Community Foundation and president of the Kiwanis Club of Costa Mesa Foundation. Steve is active in the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce and sits on the CM900 Club. You can find Steve on the third Sunday of the month flipping pancakes at the Isaiah House, a homeless shelter in Santa Ana.
Norm Witt Jr. was nominated by Robert Fish, president of the Newport-Irvine Rotary Club.
Norm has been a member of the Rotary Club for 34 years, serving as president in 1989-90 and over the years as Interact chairman at Irvine High School, Woodbridge High School and University High School, Rotaract chair at UC Irvine, district Interact/Rotaract chair and District 5320 matching grants chair.
He was the founding charter organization representative to Cub Scout Pack 645 for 13 years and Boy Scout Troop 645 for 12 years. Norm has been an AYSO referee, Boy Scout assistant scoutmaster and Rancho Del Mar District chairman for the Scouts. He has served on the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce board for four years, Commodores Club since 1996 and skipper of the Commodores in 2005-06. He served as chairman of the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade in 2007.
Bill Simons was nominated by Bob Miller, president of the Kiwanis Club of Newport Beach/Corona del Mar.
Bill has been a member of the Kiwanis Club for 27 years, having served as president, community service chair, fundraising chair, membership chair and a member of the board of directors.
Bill has been the cornerstone of the club, which participates annually in the following community projects: Pacific Coast Triathlon, Boy Scouts Troop 90, Southwest Community Center (Santa Ana shelter), Key Clubs at University and Corona del Mar high schools, Circle K at UCI, Toshiba Classic, Orange Coast College Special Olympics and many other projects.
Joanne Johnston was nominated by Kathy Youngman, president of the Assistance League of Newport-Mesa.
Joanne has been a member of the Assistance League for 25 years, having served as president in 1995-96, vice president, Region II representative, vice president for education, parliamentarian, bylaws chair, Debutante Ball chair, La Marisa Auxiliary chair and treasurer.
In the offices and positions Joanne has held, she has provided leadership to Assistance League of Newport-Mesa programs, including low-cost dental care for children of low-income families, clothing for children through Operation School Bell, socially relevant puppet programs for children and adults through Kids on the Block, educational scholarships through Community Outreach Program and the League's Thrift Shop and Treasures on Consignment as fundraising sources for the programs.
Dick Dickson was nominated by AJ Thielen, president of the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa.
Dick is the longest-serving member of his Rotary Club, having become a member in 1970 — 43 years. He was sponsored by past club president and Orange County Supervisor Tom Riley. Dick has held many positions in the club, including the presidency in 1989-90. Dick has been a member of the Commodores Club of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce since 1969 and served as skipper in 1979-80. He served on the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters from 1970-88 and the Orange County Council of Boy Scouts. Dick has been a eucharistic minister for the past 33 years at St. John Vianney Chapel on Balboa Island.
Deane Bottorf was nominated by John Kruse, secretary of the Exchange Club of Newport Harbor.
Deane has been an Exchange Club member for 15 years, chairman of the club's Search for Talent committee for 15 years and leader of the club's five-piece band, the X-Men, which performs at fundraisers and other occasions.
For 15 years, Deane has organized and presented, as master of ceremonies, the club's Search for Talent for youngsters, ranging in age from six to 18 years. Trophies were awarded for the three different age classes, and winners moved up to area and district competitions. His community involvement includes providing music for many amateur and variety shows.
Don Oldis was nominated by Lawson, his fellow honoree this year.
Don has been a member of the post for 11 years, volunteering for numerous events sponsored by Post 291. With more than 3,000 members, organizational activities and operating details are vital, and Don provides important leadership and management. For the 2012 Air Force birthday event, Don personally raised more than $1,000 in donations.
Don is involved with several community outreach organizations, including Freedom Committee of Orange County and Living Veterans Program.
Sue Seager was nominated by Eileen Jensen, president of the Harbor Mesa Lions Club.
Sue has been a member of the Lions Club for nine years, serving as president, first vice president, secretary, visitation chair, Lion Tamer, Christmas families chair and advisor to the Leos, a Lions Club for high school students. Sue has been a Girl Scout leader for 25 years.
She serves as chair of the Newport Harbor High School men and women's basketball parent committee.
Jack Hammett was nominated by the Sons of the American Legion.
On Dec. 7, 1941, near Pearl Harbor, Jack had a day off from hospital duty. The landlord awoke Jack early in the morning and asked if he had heard on the radio that the Japanese were attacking Pearl Harbor. Jack worked the next three days at the hospital, triaging the wounded as they arrived.
Jack was transferred to the European theater, where he was assigned to Normandy, then to North Africa and the Atlantic anti-submarine duty. He served in Korea until he retired, in the Navy from 1937 to 1959 and in the Navy reserve fleet until June 1, 1967. Jack founded the Freedom Committee of Orange County.
We welcome all the honorees to the Daily Pilot Community & Clubs Hall of Fame!
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Orecchiette (pronounced OR-REK-I-ETTE) is a type of home-made pasta, reflective the charm of Apulia, a region of Southern Italy from where it originated. Its name comes from its shape, which is reminiscent of a small ear. In Italian, orecchio, means ear, the ette means small. One serving of this ear shaped pasta comes in at 200 calories with zero grams of fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium, making this a low-fat, heart healthy pasta. However, as we all know, it is often the sauce and 'toppings' that add significant fat and sodium to pasta dishes.
The pesto sauce, which is mixed into this pasta dish, consists of broccoli rabe, skim-milk based cheese, and olive oil. Broccoli rabe is a member of the brassica genus of plants and is related to cabbage, kale, cauliflower and mustard. Even though the word broccoli is commonly used in its name, it's not the same plant as the floret-headed vegetable that is most familiar to Western (North American) cuisine.
Broccoli rabe is highly nutritious and contains many of the same beneficial cancer-fighting elements as its cruciferous relatives. It is high in phytochemicals, such as sulforaphane and indoles, which are believed to help the body defend itself against certain cancers. It has a mere 20 calories per one cup raw, 3 grams of protein, 72 mg of vitamin C, and 7.6 mg of beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. It is also a good source of vitamin K, as well as potassium, essential to blood and heart health. When combined with pistachio nuts, a blend of skim cheeses, and olive oil, the broccoli rabe is made into a light pesto that will have diet conscious pasta lovers wanting more!
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 12 min
4 servings
- 1 bunch broccoli rabe, tough lower stems removed
- 1/3 cup pistachios, toasted
- 2 tbsp. grated skim parmigiano – for garnish
- Kosher salt ("lightly")
- 1/4 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1/2 pound orecchiette pasta
- Extra-virgin olive oil, for finishing
- 1/2 cup chicken ('pollo') – grilled, sliced, skinless breast or thigh – optional
Bring a large pot of well-salted water to a boil. Set up a bowl of well-salted ice water. Cook the broccoli rabe in the boiling water for 1 to 2 minutes and then immediately plunge in the salted ice water. This will prevent the broccoli rabe from being overcooked and will set the lovely green color.
Drain the broccoli rabe and squeeze out any excess water; coarsely chop. Place the broccoli rabe in the bowl of a food processor and puree until it is a coarse paste. Add the pistachios and Parmigiano and puree until smooth. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Add the ricotta and pulse until combined. Taste for seasoning once again. Set aside.
Bring a large pot of well-salted water to a boil. (If you are making the pasta right after the pesto, just use the broccoli rabe blanching water.) Cook the pasta 1 minute less than the cooking time on the package.
While the pasta is cooking, place the pesto in a large skillet and add about 1 to 1 1/2 cups of the pasta cooking water; place over medium-high heat. When the pasta is ready, drain and add to the skillet with the pesto. Stir vigorously to combine and cook until the sauce is creamy and heated through, 1 to 2 minutes; add salt to taste. Remove from the heat, add 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil, if desired, and stir vigorously. Garnish as desired.
Adding grilled, sliced, skinless chicken ('pollo') breast or thigh meat increases the protein content greatly. For added color and a slightly tangy flavor, one may add diced sun-dried tomatoes to the garnish.
Per serving: Calories 388; Fat 10 g (Sat. 2 g; Mono. 5 g; Poly. 3 g); Cholesterol 18 mg; Sodium ~100-200 mg (depending on seasoning preference); Carbohydrate 54 g; Fiber 3.5 g; Protein 22 g
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It is a race for Hard Men and Hard Women only (like those on the posters in the Mountain Gym in Mt Beauty). Needless to say, I opted to cheer him on from the warmth of Australia. Andy is a pretty handy skier and used to spend his summers racing the world cup circuit in Europe. Back home we were very excited to hear not only that he had survived, but he had come 5th overall behind some eskimos and overall winner Ilya Chernousov from Russia. Allez Andy! The race organisers thought that Andy was from Austria, not Australia, so I emailed them to tell them. To make the email worth reading for them, I also told them that in Australia he was known as The Flying Kangaroo and had recently finished 3rd in Celebrity Masterchef behind Crocodile Dundee and Bindi Irwin. They didn't mention that in the race report though.
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Andy and his Dad get home on Friday. It's been 8 weeks since he's been home and he flies in a couple of hours before my flight leaves for Mersey Valley Tour in Tassie, hurrah! We'll be able to find out how seal blubber compares to airport coffee.
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Another soldier in Barksdale's line-up, Preston "Bodie" Broadus, grew up the hard way in Baltimore with an economy that couldn't support him. Neither could his mother, so his grandmother took him in. Bodie came up in The Pit under D'Angelo Barksdale's soft supervision, which was at odds with his own style. He is loyal, stoic and willing to do whatever his superiors regard as necessary, up to and including participating in the murder of his young cohort, Wallace, when ordered to do so by Stringer Bell. In return, Bodie was given command of a crew at a high-rise tower, and he held that territory until the buildings were dynamited.
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The Ultimate CRM MachineBy Tom Steinert-Threlkeld | Posted 2001-10-29 Print
For 115 years, Avon Products has been employing personalization--in the form of its ubiquitous Avon ladies--to sell everything from cosmetics and fragrances to sundresses and bug repellent. Yet when the Web, with its ability to let companies interact one-
So why was this North Providence, R.I., Avon lady sweltering this summer in a booth on the grounds of the annual South County Hot Air Balloon Festival, rather than sitting in her air-conditioned home and raking in the Web orders?
Because, to Campbell, there's still no better way to sell Courageous Courage lipstick than to let a potential customer see it, handle it and ask face-to-face questions about it. Campbell handed out the latest Avon catalogs to some of her old friends, as well as to prospects. She hawked raffle chances for a basket of Avon goodies. And she shook hands, the old-fashioned way.
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Campbell, who has sold Avon products for nine years, only gets only about 6% of her orders from her Web site, and another 6% from e-mail, despite her active Web efforts. Her biggest customer still doesn't have a computer, she acknowledges. So, house calls are still the best way to make direct selling work.
Avon's top brass knows this to be true, as well.
"Everything that you'd look at as a textbook version of what CRM is about, the (Avon rep) is doing with her customers," says chief information officer Harriet Edelman. "They know the product lines they like, the birthdays coming up. They do the customization, the personalization, the outbound marketing. It's all very one-to-one."
Indeed, Avon uses 572,000 women like Campbell in the United Statesand 3.4 million like her around the worldto produce 98% of its $5.7 billion in annual sales.
But in spite of Avon's rep-centrism, this 115-year-old cosmetics and collectibles company not too long ago was considering whether to abandon its tried-and-true sales channel. At the height of the hype around the Internet and how it was going to revolutionize all of global business, Avon weighed the benefits and costs of the unthinkable: Doing away with the Avon ladiesand just selling to buyers over the Web.
The promises were plentiful. Instant global reach, with thousands of products and prices that could be constantly updated, around the clock. No printing and reprinting of scores of millions of glossy catalogs every two weeks. No handling pages and pages of order forms filled in with No. 2 pencils. Fewer worries about reps defecting or resigning.
In the end, technology for technology's sake wasn't the answer for Avon. The company ended up rejecting a pure clicks alternative in favor of a "representative-centric" Web sales model. And, for now, the company has held off from deploying customer relationship management (CRM) software to codify its customer-support functions. Instead, Avon has relied on the low-tech kitchen kibitzing of its Avon ladies to provide the personalization, customization, customer retention and other deliverables attributed to CRM packages.
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Congratulations to Joanne Christopherson, Department of Demographic and Social Analysis at the School of Social Sciences, the recipient of the 2014 Instructional Technology Innovation Award.
Part of the annual Celebration of Teaching, the Instructional Technology Innovation award goes to an instructor who uses innovative methods to provide an enriching and creative experience for their students — Read more
Students and instructors can now view the final schedule for a course in its class dashboard. You will be able to see a date and time listing when the course's final will be held.
Date/Time: Friday, May 2, 2014 @ 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Location: HIB Room 135
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/rethinkclassroom
Moderator: Judi Franz, Humanities Instructional Resource Center (HIRC) Director
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You may have heard recently about the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in security technology used to protect information on many web services.
The EEE website was not vulnerable to this issue, but we still recommend you take a moment to change passwords to any web services you use, including those on campus, to ensure your information is protected.
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Panelists (listed below) will share their experiences incorporating student response systems (iClickers & mobile devices) into their teaching:
Date/Time: Friday, April 25, 2014 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/mobilestudent
The campus community is invited to come help us to celebrate excellence in undergraduate teaching by attending the annual Celebration of Teaching. The awards will be received by several undergraduate instructors and TAs. —Read more
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Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Time: 2:00 p - 3:00 p
Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
Sponsored by the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator, this workshop will offer tips and guidelines for maximizing the impact of your responses to written assignments. Workshop facilitators will present and discuss different strategies for responding to student work that will both (1) get your students' attention and (2) challenge them to take ownership of their learning and writing.
Please RSVP at their website by April 24, 2014.
Instructors can now quickly add quiz scores into their course gradebook. For more information on how to use Quiz to Gradebook, please view the help documentation.
This Spring, DUE & HIRC would like to invite Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Post Docs to a presentation and interactive discussion on Friday, April 11th [10:30 am – 12:00 pm]:
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