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Scholars interested in changes in city size over long periods of time often turn to one or both of two encyclopedia compilations of data: Tertius Chandler's, Four Thousand Year of Urban Browth (Chandler 1987), and George Modelski's World Cities: -3000 to 2000 (Modelski 2003). Chandler's book is an update of an earlier version (Chandler and Fox 1978). The data in both Chandler and Modelski are a mess, routinely dismissed by urban demographic historians as worthless for serious scholarship. Yet a growing number of scholars—particularly economic historians—mine those sources for city-size data in order to investigate various questions. This situation brings up a number of thorny professional and ethical questions.
In this post I describe the situation and point out some of the troubling questions that come to mind. This is not a thorough exploration of either realm. I only have two more days at the lab in Teotihuacan, Mexico, and I have about four days worth of tasks to complete.
I am moved to write this because of a new paper relying on Chandler and Modelski's bad data was just published in a new journal called Scientific Data (Reba et al. 2016).
What is wrong with the data of Chandler and Modelski?
The new paper (Reba et al. 2016) describes these sources. How they were compiled, and various problems and difficulties with the data. The latter are mostly limited to context, measurement, and presentation issues. The basic question of whether the data are accurate is barely considered. I am not a demographic historian, so I cannot provide a detailed critique. But I do use systematic archaeological and historical data on city size in some of my research, so I have looked into this question. I will limit myself to quoting experts (that is, urban demographic historians, scholars with experience working with primary sources). Some of these refer to the earlier version of Chandler (Chandler and Fox 1978), but the methods and reliability are not very different between the two editions.
(de Vries 1984)
· "Three Thousand Years of Urban Growth by Tertius Chandler and Gerald Fox, is a massive collection of information about the size of cities. Its unsystematic character, and, even worse, the authors' reliance on suspect sources and their completely uncritical use of such sources renders the volume all but unusable." (p. 18)
(Hopkins 1978)
· "the compendious, useful but not obviously reliable T. Chandler and G. Fox," (p. 2)
(Bairoch 1988)
· Chandler and Fox: "But it is only after the year 800 that this survey may be regarded as truly systematic. This monumental and extremely useful work nevertheless leaves a number of important gaps unfilled. These gaps result from the omission of a fairly sizeable fraction _ / - of the cities of the world (probably 20% of the larger cities and 60% of the smaller ones) and especially from the failure to undertake a systematic review of recent studies on the history of various individual cities." (p. 116-117)
(Rozman 1978)
· "Chandler and Fox fail to use sources in languages essential for their task" (p.66)
(Binford 1975)
· There are "serious flaws in the work" (p.23)
· [Chandler and Fox employ] "dubious rules of thumb"
· "Statements and methods like these undermine confidence in the work as a whole, because they suggest a fundamental naiveté … The authors overestimate the importance of statistics in the thinking of our ancestors, and assume too much uniformity in pre-industrial population trends. For all the cautious skepticism proclaimed in their introduction, they still seem too willing to make census taker out of medieval travelers, and to assume that, in the absence of factories and international capitalism, one place was more or less like another. This is not a work informed by the research of other scholars on the various reasons for collecting data in the past, or in the complexity of population trends even in small, non-industrial cities. Without more attention to such matters, the reader can only guess at the margins of error he ought to attach to the Chandler-Fox statistics, and therefore cannot use them with assurance in further calculations (for example, in computing rates or indices with gross population as a base." (p. 23-24)
· "One of the weaknesses of the Chandler-Fox collection is that the authors are sometimes too gullible in dealing with their informants. Similar errors may be introduced by mis-enumeration on the part of those who first gathered the evidence." (26-27)
(Kowalewski 1990)
· "Issues of completeness, scale, and time-depth make some studies (e.g.. Chandler 1987) less appropriate for comparative purposes." (p.40)
(Woods 2003)
· Critical of Chandler, but uses the data
· Chandler's data are "more doubtful, at least for some regions." (p. 219)
(Chase-Dunn et al. 2005:97)
· Chandler's "estimates are obviously error-prone."
Personal communications
In order to make sure my view of this topic was up-to-date, I emailed several urban demographic historians (about a year ago). I did not ask for their permission to quote their remarks, so I include the following quotations as anonymous. These two are well-respected historians, each of whom has published books and articles on population reconstruction in the past.
Scholar 1:
· "Many years ago I thought about writing a paper on this/these books (There are two editions, I think) but never did get around to writing it. But as far as I'm concerned it's all but worthless. Chandler was assiduous, without a doubt, but just compiled (or piled) one estimate after another without any indications of the merits or demerits of each. It might be useful for tracking down estimates but not for the estimates themselves.
· Modelski I don't know--yet."
Scholar 2:
· "I do not have a high opinion of Chandler's data. In those cases where I was able to check his Greek, Roman, medieval or early-modern data, they turn out to be seriously wrong. Do not know about the more modern data, though."
A note on these scholars
Most historians are notoriously picky about their sources; they like to stick close to their textual sources and hesitate to compare or generalize beyond one or two cases (Grew 1990; Kocka 2003). Thus one might be tempted to reject the above critiques as reflecting this bias. Some historians simply do not accept the validity of broad comparative analyses that require simplification and standardization of diverse local datasets. I discuss this and related issues of comparative analysis elsewhere (Smith and Peregrine 2012). But most or all of the individual quoted above actively pursue comparative analysis. They have all assembled regional or temporal databases of city-size data, although not on the scale of Chander and Modelski. While they are well aware of the historiographic issues of data sources, they are also willing and able to systematize, simpilify, and push forward with comparative data. In other words, their critiques do not reflect the cranky complaints of particularistic historians who are anti-comparativist. Instead, their critiques reflect real historiographical issues in the origins, quality, and relevance of primary data on city sizes in the past.
Some positive comments
(Binford 1975)
· "This book will be useful to students of population and urban development because it is the only worldwide compilation done by one person using consistent criteria." (p. 22)
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Daniel Pasciuti reviewed Modelski very positively in Jr. World Systems Research, 2004. They work with Modelski and have co-published with him. They evidently liked the book so much that they later published the IDENTICAL book review, word-for-word, in the journal Globalizations, in 2006. Hmmmmmmm……..
Uses of these data by scholars seemingly oblivious to potential historiographical problems:
· (Reba et al. 2016)
· (Manning 2005)
· (Jedwab and Vollrach 2015)
· (Jedwab and Vollrach 2016)
· (Nunn and Qian 2011)
Uses of the data by scholars who attempt to verify or adjust the data in relation to other scholarship
(Morris 2013:146)
· Ian Morris uses some of the data cautiously, in the context of a discussion of it's validity:
· "in my opinion some of Chandler and Fox's estimate are not supported well by the data."
· "While there would be some advantages to taking a single source like Chandler and Fox's Three Thousand Years of Urban Growth and then relying on it consistently, the drawbacks seem to outweigh them." (p. 146)
(Acemoglu et al. 2002)
· These scholars analyze Chandler's data, compare them to, Bairoch's data, and attempt to evaluate their usefulness.
Troubling questions
My gut reaction to works like the new paper by Reba et al, is "Garbage in, garbage out." The data cannot be trusted, so why should we be expected to trust the results of the analysis? Here are some troubling questions that arise out of this situation.
(1) Why do otherwise rigorous scholars feel free to use bad data?
· Because it is there. If data exist in some usable format, and they seem relevant to a research question, someone will use the data, even if the data are terrible, unreliable, or inaccurate. I have considered posting a bogus dataset online to see if people will analyze it. The risks seem to outweigh the benefits, though.
· Because scholars lack training in other disciplines. The paper by Reba et al is curious in that it has a very rigorous discussion of geospatial methods, but virtually no discussion of the historiography of the city size data. See some of the sources quoted above for historiographical discussions of historical city-size data.
· Because scholars are not critical of sources. Perhaps there is an assumption that all data in other disciplines are valid. Perhaps scholars believe that if something is published it is true. Do the authors think that data published by non-experts in another discipline (neither Chandler nor Modelski are/were urban historians or demographic historians) are valid just because they are published? Reba et al justify their use of Chandler's data based on the fact it is published and other scholars have used it. They provide citation data for Chandler and Modelski. The message is that if it is published and cited, it must be valid. Hmmm, I haven't encountered that principle in my readings on methodology in the social sciences or the historical sciences.
(2) Why don't scholars who know the data well care about this?
Scholars like Bairoch, de Vries, and others quote above DO care about data quality, and hence their negative remarks on Chandler and Modelski's data. But many of these quotations come before the time when economic historians and others started mining data sources for city size data. Perhaps these and other historians simply don't care that historical data are being used badly. With the advent of the Internet, there are all sorts of bad data readily available, and all sorts of bad analyses of bad (and good) data. Or perhaps disciplinary myopia is the cause. Urban historians are not reading journals like Scientific Data, Explorations in Economic History, so perhaps they are unaware of the uses of Chandler and Modelski's data. Perhaps they have trouble believing that such terrible data would be taken seriously by scholars.
This latter is a very real factor in work that crosses disciplinary boundaries. For years I didn't believe that Jane Jacobs's silly and ridiculously inaccurate model that cities preceded agriculture could be taken seriously by anyone at all. Then I found that geographers were citing and praising the model. I got cranky and did a blog post or two on this. Then when a paper in a major journal promoted this idea, I finally got motivated to publish a critique, so I rounded up a few colleagues and we published a paper (Smith et al. 2014). Maybe the urban historians have not yet been provoked sufficiently to mount a proper attack on Chander and Modelski.
(3) What can be done about this situation?
I have to admit that I really despair of this situation. I am very upset that such obviously poor data are being used by otherwise rigorous scholars, and I am upset that I don't have better data. I have talked to quite a few colleagues—archaeologists and ancient historians—about this situation. I have asked if any of them were involved in assembling reliable and accurate data on ancient city sizes in their region of specialty, and the answer has been negative. I have asked if they knew of anyone doing systematic urban demographic history in their region, and again the answer is no. In my own region, Mesoamerica, there was a flurry of demographic work on city size in the 1980s, but then scholars lost interest. I have asked if anyone might be interested in mounting such a systematic comparative project, again with a negative answer. This may not arise entirely from a lack of interest – if someone asked me to assemble demographic data from all Mesoamerican cities at, say, 50- or 100-year intervals, I might claim that I am too busy for such a task. It would take a lot of time, and it is hard to see how a granting agency would get excited about such a project.
I don't have any grand conclusions here. The situation is bad--journals and scholars are merrily using bad data--and I don't have any good solutions, beyond the suggestion that bad data should be avoided. The journal Scientific Data should be ashamed for using such non-scientific data. We can all do better than this.
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2002 Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World. Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (4): 1231-1294.
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1975 Never Trust the Census Taker, even when he'd Dead. Urban History 2: 22-28.
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1987 Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census. St. David's University Press, Lewiston, NY.
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1978 Three Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census. Academic Press, New York.
Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Alexis Álvarez, and Daniel Pasciuti
2005 Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems Since the Bronze Age. In The Historical Evolution of World-Systems, edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and E. N. Anderson, pp. 92-112. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
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Hopkins, Keith
1978 Conquerors and Slaves. Cambridge University Press, New York.
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2015 Urbanization without Growth in Historical Perspective. Explorations in Economic History (under review??) 58: 1-21.
2016 The Urban Mortality Transition and the Rise of Poor Mega-Citiesunpublished paper posted online.
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2003 Comparison and Beyond. History and Theory 42: 39-44.
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2011 The potato's contribution to population and urbanization: Evidence from an historical experiment. Quarterly Journal of Economics 126 (2): 593-650.
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Labor slams King George Square's design as 'not suitable'
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IT is the hottest issue on a slow summer's day in Brisbane - is the refurbished King George Square too stark and unsheltered? Too hot? Too glarey?
Labor leader Shayne Sutton, gathering the TV cameras in the middle of the square in yesterday's late morning sun, said the place was "dangerously" hot.
She called for Lord Mayor Campbell Newman to take immediate action and re-think the design after The Courier-Mail recorded temperatures over 50C on Monday.
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She claimed that under Cr Newman, City Hall (with a Labor majority when plans were finalised in 2006) had got the $28 million update wrong.
"Cr Newman has been at the helm of this project from the start but it's time for him to swallow his pride and seriously re-think the stark, arid design."
According to Cr Newman – shifting the media to the deep shade of the big deck – there is time for more public consultation and perhaps some changes.
He wants to give the area all four seasons to settle in; let the trees grow, let the winds blow.
"It's a huge improvement on what we had before but I'm more than happy to look, after 12 months, at changes suggested by the community," Cr Newman said.
"It's only three months since it's been opened and I've had both positive and negative feedback.
"I'm taking it all on board."
Cr Newman argued there was more shade and more trees than ever in the area outside City Hall, an area once shabby from 40 years of wear and tear.
It could be years before Brisbanites finally feel the cooling shade of the 15 trees planted in the square last year.
The fiddle leaf figs and crepe myrtles dotting the searing granite box could take another year, but probably more, before casting their soothing shadows.
Consulting arborist Adam Tom, who has 24 years' experience, said the figs and myrtles would eventually provide "good shade" and were both tough trees, but he said he could not predict when they would fully mature.
"You're not going to get an honest indicator of shade for another one to two years," he said.
Mr Tom, who has worked for councils and architects throughout Queensland, dismissed concerns the figs and myrtles would become ill from the square's radiant heat.
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APTOS, Calif. — A school bus driver and his 3-year-old passenger escaped injury here when a motorist forced the bus off the road and then intentionally backed into it, police said.
The incident happened around 1:30 p.m. on Monday on a highway in Aptos, near Santa Cruz.
According to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's office, the driver of a Toyota Corolla cut in front of a small school bus and suddenly slowed to about 15 mph. The bus driver responded quickly to avoid a collision, but then the Corolla drove next to the bus and tried to turn into it.
Again, the bus driver was able to narrowly avoid a collision, this time turning onto the breakdown lane. But then, police said, the Corolla driver pulled in front of the bus and deliberately backed into it.
The bus driver and the 3-year-old on board were not hurt. The Corolla driver left the scene.
Police conducted a follow-up investigation and identified Jeffery Bowie, 35, as the driver of the Corolla. On Thursday, deputies arrested him at his home.
Bowie is being charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Local news station KSBW reported that when deputies talked to the school bus driver, he was perplexed as to what had enraged the Corolla driver. "It's possible that something is in his life that's causing him to have a huge amount of anger and he took it out on the bus," Deputy Ryan Kennedy told the news outlet.
Interestingly, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's arrest log shows that Bowie was also apprehended on Tuesday — the day after the road rage episode — for a different incident. In that instance, he was arrested on a charge of alcohol-related disorderly conduct and was released.
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If you have carpet anywhere in your home, you will inevitably have to face a tough, stubborn stain. Your coffee might spill, your child might get a little too excited about finger painting, or your pet might have an accident.
All of these situations can leave unsightly (and sometimes stinky) stains on your carpet that seem to be undisturbed by your strongest cleaners. Are you doomed to have to rip up your carpet or strategically rearrange the furniture? Before you go to any drastic lengths, try these carpet cleaning tips.
Immediate Actions for Stain Removal
Your stain removal efforts will be most effective if you act immediately. The first course of action is to soak up as much of the liquid as you can with a cloth. Be very careful not to smear or rub the mess; just press firmly into the stain, then lift the cloth straight up and continue with a clean section of material. Keep blotting the stain until very little liquid is pulled up into the cloth. Soaking up the outer edges of the spill and working your way toward the center is recommended.
If the mess isn't just liquid (such as a chocolate ice cream cone that splatters onto the carpet), carefully remove the solid waste before beginning the blotting technique. It's important to not press the debris or liquid further into the carpet.
At this point, your technique will vary slightly based on the type of stain you're trying to remove.
Removing Most Stains From Your Carpet
If you're lucky, the stain-causing culprit will be water soluble, meaning that you'll only need a bit of water, your cloths and some patience to get the job done. Such stains include soda drinks, most alcoholic drinks (except wine), fruit/berry juice, ice cream, jelly, mud, wet or latex paint, and washable ink.
You'll need to do something that seems to go against the very nature of what you're trying to achieve: to pour a small amount of clean water onto the stain and repeat the blotting process. The water "rinses" the carpet by pulling up particles that were left over from the initial clean-up. If pouring water onto your carpet makes you nervous, apply water with a spray bottle or wet a fresh cloth and use that to blot the area (a white cloth works well so that you can see whether you're removing any of the stain).
Removing Pet Stains From Your Carpet
Carpets and pets don't seem to mix well, as fur and dirt have a way of becoming deeply embedded in the fibers without regular maintenance. The worst stains of all are those related to pet vomit, fecal matter and urine.
After following the basic cleaning steps above, follow-up with a spritz of white vinegar and warm water (mix equal parts vinegar and water). This mixture will help bring up more of the stain and to simultaneously neutralize strong odors. Let the carpet dry, and repeat as necessary.
If you find the mess long after it occurred, you may need to wet the area first in order to remove the stain. Use plain water until most of the stain has been removed via the blotting technique, and then switch to the vinegar mixture.
Removing Drink Stains From Your Carpet
For removing stains caused by coffee, wine, tea or chocolate, add some non-bleach detergent to the vinegar and water mixture. Dish soap or a laundry detergent will work. Continue to spray, blot and dry until satisfied that the stain is gone.
Note that liquid will spread out among the fibers, so if the surface stain appears small, it's still important to target the surrounding area with your stain-removing concoction.
Removing Ink Stains From Your Carpet
When an ink pen bursts all over your carpet, don't run to the sink with your cloth; instead, head to the medicine cabinet. Dampen the cloth with rubbing alcohol and then blot the stain. Repeat as needed, and then follow up with a clean water rinse. White wine, white vinegar and even nail polish remover can be used in lieu of rubbing alcohol. Once you're done cleaning up the stain, dry the area with a fresh cloth and/or vacuum.
Ongoing Actions for Stain Removal
Over time, you may see the stain reappear. This is normal since the carpet fibers have a natural wicking action and the particles can be drawn up toward the surface, taking the place of the debris you've already removed. This is more likely to happen if a large amount of liquid was spilled (enough to make it down to the carpet backing, where it is hard to reach by blotting). And if you live in a humid area like Houston, carpet stains can reappear even faster via wicking.
A practical long-term solution is to regularly have your carpet professionally cleaned, or to rent a professional-grade carpet cleaner and do the job yourself. Such heavy-duty cleaning can get farther into the carpet and pull stains up right before your eyes.


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Stormwater Maintenance Agreement
A Private Stormwater Maintenance Agreement is needed as required by the City Engineer in order to ensure the proper maintenance and functioning of storm drainage facilities that are not owned and operated by City Operations per section 4.070 of the City Municipal Code.
They are most commonly required of property owners that have an onsite raingarden or other water quality feature, underground treatment/detention system, or other water detention/retention/treatment system. Recording fees are required to be paid by the responsible party (as specified in 4.070) to the City in order to record the agreement in the Deed Records of Clackamas County.
Directions for submitting a Maintenance Agreement to the City
- Please print agreement on legal sized paper (8 1/2" X 14"). This ensures that the agreement has the correct sized font accepted by Clackamas County Recorder's Office (8pt or larger).
- The agreement must be signed and notarized by the property owner prior to submitting to the City of West Linn. If there are two property owners, please use the two-property owner agreement and ensure that both parties have notarized signatures on the document.
- The agreement must have a site plan inserted into the box on the front page of the document or as an attachment to the document. Please note that if a site plan is attached as a separate document it will increase the length of the agreement as a whole and therefore will increase the cost of recording the document with Clackamas County. Additionally, any font within the site plan will need to be 8pt or larger to be recorded.
- The cost of recording the Maintenance Agreement is $53.00 for the first page and $5.00 for each additional page. The average cost of recording a Maintenance agreement is between $63.00 and $68.00 depending on whether it is a single or double property owner, or if the site plan is attached as an additional document.
- Notaries are available at the City of West Linn City Hall for no charge.
- After the City receives the signed agreement and collects the recording fees, the City Engineer will sign on behalf of the City and the City will record the document with Clackamas County. Upon recording, a copy of the recorded document will be returned to the property owner.


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December 16, 1963. Fire destroys the old gymnasium at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. Arson suspected. The building had already been condemned for public assembly and was scheduled for demolition. In a way, the beginning of the end of the mission revival architecture of this institution, of which nothing remains on the present campus. Also: 1960 Thunderbird; vintage Van Pelt fire engine, but I can't identify the original truck make. Plus a really vintage, even for 1963, pedestrian signal at the extreme left. 35mm Kodachrome. View full size.
April 21, 1955. Using the self-timer on his new Lordox 35mm camera and a roll of high-speed Kodak Tri-X film, my brother photographed himself in what appears to be the canned soup and dog food section of the Rainbow Market, the exterior of which can be seen here. View full size.
1967. Grandpa Leonard Hermonson and his 1936 Plymouth. Originally it was my Great Aunt Ella's; she gave it to my grandfather when she could no longer drive. This picture was taken in Rockford, Illinois, by a photographer for The Labor News. The publication ran a short story about my Grandpa and the car. View full size.
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Ask for water at Restaurant Alain Ducasse at the Essex House in New York City, and a waiter will appear bearing six bottles, inquiring if you prefer one from Italy or Scotland. Your squab breast needs salt? Scoop some fleur de sel—a $20-a-pound delicacy raked from beds on France's Atlantic coast—from a custom-made china dish. Time to sign the check? Choose a pen from a tray of Mont Blancs, Cartiers and Guccis.
Of course, when you see the tab, you might wish this hyperluxe restaurant also provided a dish of smelling salts. With a menu featuring $28 pea soup, entrees up to $80 and a six-course, fixed-price feast for $160, dinner for two can easily exceed $500—especially once you crack the red wax seal on the wine list. These eye-popping prices made Alain Ducasse at the Essex House the nation's most expensive French restaurant when it opened in June—and touched off a scorching backlash against the U.S. debut of owner Ducasse, 43, one of the world's most celebrated chefs. The New York Post called Ducasse "the most arrogantly launched eatery in the history of the world," while FORTUNE magazine dubbed it "Ishtar, the Restaurant." As for the food, while Zagat Survey founder Tim Zagat deems it "extraordinary," many other reviews have been surprisingly tepid. "We're not so easily fooled," wrote New York magazine's Gael Greene, calling a prawn dish "simpering baby food" and a $76 veal chop "certainly not twice as good" as other restaurants'.
Ducasse, a brisk man who favors handmade suits, defends himself indignantly. "Excellence has a price," he says in French through his translator and personal assistant, girlfriend Gwénaëlle Guéguen, 27. "For the space, time, the best ingredients and atmosphere, this is fair." Famed Chicago chef Charlie Trotter concurs, pointing out that unlike competitors, Ducasse doesn't turn over his 65 seats. "You book the table, and it's yours for the evening," he says. "Look at what you're getting in terms of the luxury you're surrounded by. It's worth it."
Well-heeled food lovers seem to agree and regularly jet around the world to sup at his Restaurant Alain Ducasse in Paris and Le Louis XV in Monte Carlo, twin temples of haute cuisine that have made Ducasse the first chef since the 1930s to boast two three-star ratings from France's benchmark Michelin guidebook. "He's very talented and knowledgeable with food but with a larger ambition," says Laurent Gras, a onetime protégé who is now executive chef at Manhattan's Peacock Alley.
Ducasse's growing empire also includes one-star restaurants in Paris and Monaco, a chain of eateries as far away as Tokyo called Spoon Food & Wine, a kitchenware line and a string of cookbooks, endeavors that together grossed $30 million last year. Ducasse, who has homes in Paris, Monte Carlo and Manhattan, "works more than anyone I've ever known," says Monaco haberdasher Georges Feghaly, who designs the suits for Ducasse's staffs. "Sometimes I think even Gwénaëlle has to make an appointment."
That CEO-style approach draws heat from critics who think a chef's place is in the kitchen. "Not even Robo-Chef could juggle three ambitious houses so far apart," wrote New York's Greene. "I have confidence in my employees," Ducasse retorts. "When other chefs are on vacation, it's not them in the kitchen. But I'm one of the few that admit it."
Ducasse's passion for food goes back to a childhood on his family's farm in the southwestern French village of Castelsarrazin. His parents raised ducks and geese for foie gras; his grandmother made the meals. "The aroma drifted up to my room, things like roasted chicken, blanquette de veau and cèpe mushrooms," recalls Ducasse.
After apprenticing in kitchens around the country, he became a two-star chef in 1984 at age 27. That same year, disaster struck: A small plane he was traveling in crashed into an Alpine mountain in a storm. Of the six on board, Ducasse was the only survivor. He endured 15 operations to repair leg, back and eye injuries. "I suffered greatly but was no longer afraid of taking risks," he says. Indeed, he took over Monaco's Louis XV, brashly vowing to win the owners three Michelin stars. He made good—and in 1998 repeated the feat with his Paris restaurant.
Nor was he afraid of courting a woman 16 years his junior. After meeting Paris-born Guéguen before a flight from Paris five years ago, the divorced Ducasse (he has a teenage daughter, Audrey, with ex-wife Michèle) asked the then 22-year-old architecture student to have coffee in the airport. "I thought he was cute and funny," says Guéguen, admitting she "didn't really care" when one of his traveling companions told her, "Don't you realize he is the best chef in the world?"
Now he just has to make a city full of feisty New Yorkers care, even as competitors gloat about how reservations at Ducasse, supposedly booked solid for months when it opened, are now easy to get. But Zagat, for one, predicts Ducasse will succeed. "Certain people," he says, "like to be able to say, 'I'm taking you to the most expensive restaurant in New York.' "
Samantha Miller
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Vision trouble can dim life's prospects
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skittering in the cabinet (quietly)
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Watch the cat thinking, "No, not yet."
Happiness is a long tale about a grave
granite cold in a kind March sun (loudly)
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Watch the cat sighing, "my beloved one."
a boy is being small
a boy is being tiny
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a bomb is bursting hot
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today in Somalia
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GDANSK, Poland (AP) – One day ahead of their European Championship quarterfinal against Greece, the one thing on German minds was patience.
Both coach Joachim Loew and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer stressed patience as being the key to success over the Greeks.
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I've heard several people talk about buying F-S. I've thought about buying F-S, even before Cramer told the world what a great deal it was. But I've had misgivings about F-S's value. And I've been in the market for exactly this type of offering for a while now. So when kahunacfa and rog56 mentioned it in that previous thread, I thought I'd post my musings about F-S as a potential investment. What follows is partly a rambling review of the security and part analysis. Any conclusions are my own.
I have to say F-S is a rather unique hybrid fixed income vehicle and an interesting topic in its own right. I've been tempted to purchase shares in the past but have always been too concerned about either the associated risk or the relative pricing of the offering. The latter keeps me from buying even today. But the complexity of the hybrid itself makes it a little difficult to establish a fair price relative to other Ford offerings.
The key characteristic of F-S is that it's a capital trust preferred, meaning it is preferred shares of a capital trust that holds junior debt. In the case of any qualifying capital trusts, dividends of the debt must be suspend-able for at least 20 consecutive months. Unlike most direct (US) corporate preferreds, dividends continue to accrue despite the suspension. But like most direct corporate preferreds, to suspend dividends, Ford must concurrently suspend dividends on all equal or subordinate securities. (Meaning they can't pay dividends on common or direct corporate preferreds until these dividends have been paid.) These are typical characteristics of qualified capital trusts used by bank holding companies to raise equity.
That this is a capital trust issue, which is usually issued by bank holding companies makes me believe it must have been set up with an eye to spinning off Ford Credit as a separate bank holding company. Certainly the F-S prospectus spends a lot of time discussing Ford Credit's activities and market position; but I doubt that's speculation I could verify.
The par value of F-S is $50/share. It is past its call date; but it doesn't mature until 1/15/2032. And though it's past its call date, the actual redemption price doesn't fall to par until 2012. The current redemption price is $50.65. (It was $50.98 for 2009.)
What makes F-S a hybrid preferred is the indivisible inclusion of a common stock warrant with each share of F-S. The warrant is exercisable at the holder's option any time after 1/15/2007 - this is pretty unusual as most equity hybrid preferreds are mandatory convertibles, which usually makes conversion provisions differ from warrant or option contracts. If you exercise the F-S warrant, you must tender your shares. In exchange, Ford will provide you with 2.8249 shares of F. Fractional shares are not actually redeemable. They will result in a return of principal. If you actually redeemed one share at a time, Ford would issue you 2 shares of F and $14.60 in change.
F closed Friday at $10.84, placing the intrinsic value of the warrant at $30.62/share. Or $36.28/share if you're willing to do the paperwork for each share individually and spread the redemptions out over time. (I assume no one is really willing to do that.)
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From what I gather from the prospectus, Ford actually must pay the accrued dividends if you exercise the warrant, so if you bought F-S Monday and faxed in a notice to exercise and gave instructions to sell the resulting shares of F immediately to your broker, $33.95/share is about what your holdings would fetch.
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Dave Robinson played on some of the most famous teams in football history, including the first two Super Bowl champions.
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The Yankees' No. 5 prospect tossed five hitless innings in his second start of the season as the Class A Charleston RiverDogs defeated the Augusta GreenJackets, 11-5.
After fanning three over six scoreless frames in his first outing, the 19-year-old right-hander struck out eight and walked two on Wednesday.
"It feels very good," Campos said through a translator. "I've been working with our pitching coach, Danny Borrell, on my mechanics. I'm very happy with the outings I've had."
The only run off Campos came in the first after a pair of RiverDogs errors. Leadoff hitter Kelby Tomlinson reached on a fielding error by second baseman Angelo Gumbs, then came around to score two batters later when first baseman Reymond Nunez made a throwing error following a groundout.
"My mind was set to do my job and keep working," Campos said. "I know errors are going to happen, so I have to keep working hard and command my pitches and give the team a chance."
Campos allowed only two more baserunners over the rest of his outing, both on walks. Meanwhile, the Charleston offense lit up the GreenJackets, scoring nine runs for Campos and then adding two more after he left the game.
Yankees' No. 8 prospect Dante Bichette Jr. tripled in three runs and Tyler Austin added a triple, a double and two RBIs.
"[The offense gave me] confidence to attack hitters," Campos said. "I was more comfortable."
Augusta's first hit of the day did not come until the sixth, when Fred Lewis took over for Campos. Tomlinson led off the inning with a double, while three other GreenJackets -- Jose Cuevas, Elliott Blair and Charles Jones -- also recorded base knocks in the frame.
"That's one of my goals, to try to throw a no-hitter all the way," Campos said. "But I know I'm in development and I might not throw nine innings. I was looking to give the team a chance to win."
After coming over to the Yankees with Michael Pineda in the offseason trade that sent Jesus Montero and Hector Noesi to Seattle, Campos has not allowed an earned run in two starts with the RiverDogs. Over 11 innings, the native of Venezuela has only yielded a single hit.
So what will he do for an encore his next time out?
"I'll keep working hard and just keep attacking the hitters," Campos said. "Work on my confidence, keep commanding my pitches and go to work every five days."
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Police say two people are dead and a third critically injured after a shooting suspect fleeing police crashed his car in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Police Department said officers pulled over a car in the city's Mission District on Tuesday morning while investigating reported gunshots at a housing project.
Police said the suspect drove away as an officer approached the car, and broadsided a car two blocks away before a pursuit even began.
Killed were a pedestrian and a female passenger in the parked; police said the victim driver suffered life-threatening injuries. All three were in their 20s.
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Halo 2the pinnacle of online matchmaking: had the best maps, weapons, ranking system, dual wielding, and fun glitches.Halo Reachsuch a huge departure from Halo 2+3, it gave us some new ideas that I grew to love: armor abilities, actionsack, invasion, DMR.Halo 3It was pretty much Halo 2 version 2.0, there wasn't much difference other than slightly blander maps (although Narrows was legit) and those secondary grenades or w/e their called (flare, shield drainer) felt tacked on.Halo 4Better graphics, worse everything. The only saving thing was bringing back Halo 3's Valhalla.Halo CECan't say much because I never played it on XBL, LAN parties and online matchmaking are two very different experiences.
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The Seattle Seahawks have been on the move ever since?their Super Bowl win.?This, we assume, is why Richard Sherman and Doug Baldwin Jr. needed some relaxation time.
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