The Plaza Hotel Quotes

I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.

I don’t wanna go. I want to defile the prestigious Plaza Hotel by having you ride me like a slutty mermaid in the bathtub.

(‘we can take your liver out and give it to the Princeton Museum, your heart to the Plaza Hotel’).

They were staying at the Plaza Hotel and, immediately after arrival, went to tea. At afternoon tea—never call it high tea, Barbara had said—Evelyn showed off what she and Barbara had been practicing at home.

He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a little room on the second floor of a hotel, a room with wide windows and a balcony that overlooked the plaza where the children ran and yelled each morning. He heard them shouting now. And this was Mexico's Death Day. There was a smell of death all through Mexico you never got away from, no matter how far you went. No matter what you said or did, not even if you laughed or drank, did you ever get away from death in Mexico. No car went fast enough. No drink was strong enough. ("The Candy Skull")

I walked all the way through the Heldenplatz – the Plaza of Heroes – and stood where thousands of cheering fascists had greeted Hitler, once. I thought that fanatics would always have an audience; all one might hope to influence was the size of the audience.

It seemed that Trump couldn’t spend fast enough. In 1988, he had paid $365 million to buy airplanes and routes from Eastern Airlines, which he turned into a Northeastern shuttle service. And he shelled out $407 million for the Plaza Hotel, the iconic château-style building across from Manhattan’s Central Park. In both cases, he borrowed most of the money, and analysts said he overpaid. The purchases loaded him up with debt at the same time he was ramping up his gambling empire by the boardwalk, and both moves would come to haunt him. To

California during the 1940s had Hollywood and the bright lights of Los Angeles, but on the other coast was Florida, land of sunshine and glamour, Miami and Miami Beach. If you weren't already near California's Pacific Coast you headed for Florida during the winter. One of the things which made Miami such a mix of glitter and sunshine was the plethora of movie stars who flocked there to play, rubbing shoulders with tycoons and gangsters. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between the latter two. Miami and everything that surrounded it hadn't happened by accident. Carl Fisher had set out to make Miami Beach a playground destination during the 1930s and had succeeded far beyond his dreams. The promenade behind the Roney Plaza Hotel was a block-long lovers' lane of palm trees and promise that began rather than ended in the blue waters of the Atlantic. Florida was more than simply Miami and Miami Beach, however. When George Merrick opened the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables papers across the country couldn't wait to gush about the growing aura of Florida. They tore down Collins Bridge in the Gables and replaced it with the beautiful Venetian Causeway. You could plop down a fiver if you had one and take your best girl — or the girl you wanted to score with — for a gondola ride there before the depression, or so I'd been told. You see, I'd never actually been to Florida before the war, much less Miami. I was a newspaper reporter from Chicago before the war and had never even seen the ocean until I was flying over the Pacific for the Air Corp. There wasn't much time for admiring the waves when Japanese Zeroes were trying to shoot you out of the sky and bury you at the bottom of that deep blue sea. It was because of my friend Pete that I knew so much about Miami. Florida was his home, so when we both got leave in '42 I followed him to the warm waters of Miami to see what all the fuss was about. It would be easy to say that I skipped Chicago for Miami after the war ended because Pete and I were such good pals and I'd had such a great time there on leave. But in truth I decided to stay on in Miami because of Veronica Lake. I'd better explain that. Veronica Lake never knew she was the reason I came back with Pete to Miami after the war. But she had been there in '42 while Pete and I were enjoying the sand, sun, and the sweet kisses of more than a few love-starved girls desperate to remember what it felt like to have a man's arm around them — not to mention a few other sensations. Lake had been there promoting war bonds on Florida's first radio station, WQAM. It was a big outdoor event and Pete and I were among those listening with relish to Lake's sultry voice as she urged everyone to pitch-in for our boys overseas. We were in those dark early days of the war at the time, and the outcome was very much in question. Lake's appearance at the event was a morale booster for civilians and servicemen alike. She was standing behind a microphone that sat on a table draped in the American flag. I'd never seen a Hollywood star up-close and though I liked the movies as much as any other guy, I had always attributed most of what I saw on-screen to smoke and mirrors. I doubted I'd be impressed seeing a star off-screen. A girl was a girl, after all, and there were loads of real dolls in Miami, as I'd already discovered. Boy, was I wrong." - Where Flamingos Fly

We walked back to the hotel under a deep navy sky bejeweled with stars. In the center of the plaza a choir was singing. They held quivering candles, and their voices lilted icily into the sky. I didn't see the moment. Not really. I saw the story behind the moment - a tale passed down over two thousand years that told of a child of a superbeing sent to save the world. Never before had I seen Homo Sapiens so clearly - a species, at its most fundamental level, of story tellers. Creatures who overlay story on everything, but especially their own lives, and in so doing, can imbue a cold, random, sometimes brutal existence, with fabricated meaning.

Laziness is a trait in Blacks”: John R. O’Donnell, Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump—His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991). O’Donnell is the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. In his memoir, he quoted Trump’s criticism of a Black accountant. Here is the full quote. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day….I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied he said this, but later told a Playboy reporter, “The stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.

These two would have felt like old friends had they met just hours before. To some degree, this was because they were kindred spirits—finding ample evidence of common ground and cause for laughter in the midst of effortless conversation; but it was also almost certainly a matter of upbringing. Raised in grand homes in cosmopolitan cities, educated in the liberal arts, graced with idle hours, and exposed to the finest things, though the Count and the American had been born ten years and four thousand miles apart, they had more in common with each other than they had with the majority of their own countrymen. This, of course, is why the grand hotels of the world’s capitals all look alike. The Plaza in New York, the Ritz in Paris, Claridge’s in London, the Metropol in Moscow—built within fifteen years of each other, they too were kindred spirits, the first hotels in their cities with central heating, with hot water and telephones in the rooms, with international newspapers in the lobbies, international cuisine in the restaurants, and American bars off the lobby. These hotels were built for the likes of Richard Vanderwhile and Alexander Rostov, so that when they traveled to a foreign city, they would find themselves very much at home and in the company of kin.

When we left, we were told it would be another month before the winner was announced. Then I felt really discouraged. Friends were telling me that my injuries and my fitness level guaranteed me the cover. I felt the opposite. I didn’t feel I was as fit as the others and I felt like the war was too controversial a topic for the magazine to want to feature a wounded veteran. I had completely talked myself out of even the slightest possibility of winning by the time I was back on a plane to New York a month later to find out the results. My family didn’t believe that I didn’t know already. They thought I’d been told and kept asking me about it. But I really didn’t know. The winner was being announced live on NBC’s Today show. I had made my peace with not winning and Jamie and I were just excited to go to New York and be on Today. We had a layover in Charlotte, North Carolina, and when we landed there I had a voice mail from my friend Billy. His message: “I thought we had to wait to see who won? It’s already out!” I clicked onto my Facebook app and saw that Billy had posted a picture of him and some of his buddies at a truck stop in Kentucky posing with a Men’s Health magazine--and I was on the cover! I was shocked. But even then I was convinced this wasn’t real. Maybe the editors had decided to give the cover to all three of us and we each had a different region of the country. It felt incredible to see myself on the cover of that magazine but I just wasn’t convinced I was the outright winner. Jamie and I got to our hotel room late. I called my contact at Men’s Health, Nora, and said, “I’ve already seen the magazine.” There was a beat on the other end of the line before she flatly said, “We’ll talk about it in the morning.” So Jamie and I went to bed. The next morning we met up with Finny and Kavan and headed over to 30 Rockefeller Plaza for the Today show. I didn’t say a word about what I’d seen. When we arrived, Nora was at the door. I waited for the others to go in before I said to her, “So we’re not going to talk about what we’re not going to talk about?” I was smirking a little but quickly wiped the grin off my face when I saw the look on Nora’s. “You’re not the only person in this competition, Noah. Not everyone knows.” Roger that. I wouldn’t say another word.

Hotel en Ciudad de México: Crowne Plaza. Clima del hotel: adinerado. Carácter en recepción: burocrático, güey.

February 9: In the company of Laurence Olivier, Marilyn calls a press conference in the Terrace Room of the Plaza Hotel to announce their joint project, The Sleeping Prince (later titled The Prince and the Showgirl). Publicity shows a smiling Marilyn, flanked by Olivier on her right and Rattigan on her left, gazing at her. In front of more than 150 reporters and photographers, one of the straps on her dress breaks, setting off a flurry of photography until a safety pin repairs the strap. One shot shows the dangling pin after it comes undone—twice.

The Chinese renminbi was fixed against the dollar from July of 2005 until June 2009. With a fixed exchange rate, a currency’s value is matched to the value of another single currency or to a basket of other currencies. So when a country pegs its currency to the dollar, the value of the currency rises and falls with the dollar. This action helped China survive the global financial crisis. But China removed the dollar peg after the global financial crisis ended last year. Meanwhile, Japan has also seen the value of the yen grow stronger. With the U.S. economy continuing to lag and growing fiscal uncertainty in European countries, the yen has continued to gain strength because it was the only currency that was stable. So countries like China expanded their purchases of the yen, resulting in the yen’s appreciation. As the yen continued to rise against the dollar, the Japanese government intervened in the currency market in September for the first time since March 2004. This is not the first global currency war the world has seen. In 1985, the finance ministers of West Germany, France, the U.S., Japan and the UK gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York to sign the Plaza Accord. Under the deal, the countries agreed to bring down the U.S. dollar exchange rate in relation to the Japanese yen and German mark. As the recent currency war continues to spread around the globe, some countries are now saying that there is a need for a new Plaza Accord to stabilize the world economy and the global financial market.

As I pass the Plaza Hotel with its beaux arts facade, I run into Bob Loomis coming out the front door. Loomis looks slightly startled, as though he's been caught voting NDP.

In November, Random House had published The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump, whose disdain for tradition and good taste had by now convinced striving classes that he was one of them. The people who resented him were the meritocracy who followed the rules; those on top and those on the bottom both knew Balzac had it right: “Behind every great fortune,” he’d written, “there is a great crime.” For Liz Smith, the love of money could still excuse anything. “It is refreshing,” she wrote of “The Donald,” “to find a rich person who isn’t pretending to be broke or modest and unassuming, hopping and skipping on hot coals to avoid being called crass and vulgar when it comes to the most absorbing subject known to the average man and woman in 1988: money…” She finished, “Let’s not kill Donald. Don’t you want to see what happens when he grows up?” In the meantime, he borrowed $407.5 million to buy the Plaza, taking out full-page ads promising to make it “perhaps the greatest hotel in the world.” He mulled public office. “I’m not running for president,” he said, “But if I did… I’d win.” The Helmsleys, on the other hand, were sacrificed for the sins of their class; Giuliani indicted them for tax evasion.

Mrs. Kay taught him how to use the microfilm machine and the computer indexing service. It looked pretty standard. When she left him alone, Myron first typed in the name Anita Slaughter. No hits. Not a surprise, but hey, you never know. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you plug in the name, and an article comes up and says, “I ran away to Florence, Italy. You can find me at the Plaza Lucchesi hotel on the Arno River, room 218.” Well, not often. But sometimes.

Many have questioned how Lyndon Johnson could have put his closest protégé and right hand man John Connally in mortal danger by having him ride with JFK in the presidential limousine in the Dallas motorcade . Indeed, Johnson maneuvered desperately to get Connally moved to the vice-presidential car and substitute his archenemy Yarborough in the presidential vehicle. Senator George Smathers said in his memoirs that JFK complained to him prior to the trip about an effort by LBJ to get first lady Jacqueline Kennedy to ride in the vice presidential car, an idea JFK flatly rejected.39 Shortly before Kennedy’s death in the motorcade LBJ would visit the president’s hotel room and try again to convince him to have Connally and Yarborough swap places. Again, JFK refused, and Johnson stormed from the room after a shouting match.40 The outburst was so loud that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy expressed to her husband that Johnson “sounded mad.”41 Perhaps this explains LBJ’s taciturn behavior from the moment the presidential motorcade left Love Field for Dealey Plaza. An earlier rain had subsided, giving way to sunny skies. The crowds were large and friendly, yet LBJ stared straight ahead and never cracked a smile or waved to the crowds as did Lady Bird, Senator Yarborough, the Connallys, and the Kennedys. LBJ would actually tell Robert Kennedy, “of all things in life, this [campaigning] is what I enjoy most.”42 Normally, the gregarious Johnson would wave his hat, pose and wave to the crowd and shout “howdy,” but on this day he seemed non-expressive and focused. New 3-D imaging analysis and more sophisticated photographic analysis now show without question that LBJ ducked to the floor of his limousine before the first shots were fired.43

California during the 1940s had Hollywood and the bright lights of Los Angeles, but on the other coast was Florida, land of sunshine and glamour, Miami and Miami Beach. If you weren't already near California's Pacific Coast you headed for Florida during the winter. One of the things which made Miami such a mix of glitter and sunshine was the plethora of movie stars who flocked there to play, rubbing shoulders with tycoons and gangsters. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between the latter two. Miami and everything that surrounded it hadn't happened by accident. Carl Fisher had set out to make Miami Beach a playground destination during the 1930s and had succeeded far beyond his dreams. The promenade behind the Roney Plaza Hotel was a block-long lovers' lane of palm trees and promise that began rather than ended in the blue waters of the Atlantic. Florida was more than simply Miami and Miami Beach, however. When George Merrick opened the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables papers across the country couldn't wait to gush about the growing aura of Florida. They tore down Collins Bridge in the Gables and replaced it with the beautiful Venetian Causeway. You could plop down a fiver if you had one and take your best girl — or the girl you wanted to score with — for a gondola ride there before the depression, or so I'd been told.

THE PLAZA HOTEL DID NOT look like the far more famous one in New York City on the edge of Central Park.

sabía que no tenía ninguna opción de ganar al esprint contra aquellos dos galgos. Pero también sabía que el ganador podía elegirlo él. Cuando los dos franceses se lanzaron a por la pancarta de meta, Gerbi se agarró con todas sus fuerzas al maillot de lana de Garrigou, le echó la mano al cuello, lo desvió hacia la acera y no lo soltó hasta que su compañero Petit-Breton ya cruzaba la meta con la mano en alto. Gerbi entró segundo. Garrigou se volvió loco, corrió furioso a la mesa de los jueces, pidió a gritos la descalificación del piamontés: la consiguió. Los jueces otorgaron la segunda plaza a Garrigou y retrocedieron a la tercera a Gerbi, que se marchó sonriente, pedaleando suave hacia el hotel, donde compartió la mitad de los premios con su colega Petit-Breton.

PARNELL: Do you recall an afternoon, along about the middle of the second decade of this century, when you took my sister to the Plaza Hotel for tea under the grossly misleading and false pretext that you knew how to dance? And as my reply comes weakly, “Yes, sir,” I hear the murmur run through the committee room and see reporters bending over their notebooks, scribbling hard. In my dream, I am again seated with Eileen at the edge of the dance floor, frightened, stunned, and happy—in my ears the intoxicating drumbeat of the dance, in my throat the dry, bittersweet taste of cinnamon. I don’t know about the guilt, really. I guess a good many girls might say that an excursion such as the one I conducted Eileen on belongs in the un-American category.

Los representantes del conservadurismo liberal vernáculo insisten en referirse a la Argentina de principios del siglo XX como el “paraíso perdido”, una nación rica que supuestamente perdimos por dejarnos tentar por “populismos”. María Sáenz Quesada describe a la Buenos Aires que se aprestaba a festejar su primer siglo de existencia: “La ciudad causaba una impresión favorable. Llamaba la atención en primer término la vista del Plaza Hotel recién inaugurado en la plaza San Martín; la Avenida de Mayo parecida a un bulevar de París; las muy elegantes Alvear, Callao y Santa Fe bordeadas de casas nuevas y bien construidas; las calles limpias arboladas y alumbradas con electricidad; los anuncios luminosos, las plazas y los parques diseñados por grandes paisajistas [Palermo, el Jardín Botánico, el parque Lezama, la Plaza del Congreso]. La zona céntrica se veía atestada de tranvías eléctricos, carruajes y automóviles [...] Los nuevos edificios monumentales eran el palacio de Aguas Corrientes, el Teatro Colón, la sede del diario La Prensa, el palacio de Correos, el de Tribunales y el del Congreso. En todos ellos se había hecho alarde de magnificencia y quizás también de un gusto bastante recargado en la profusión de columnas, capiteles y estatuas. Las mansiones particulares más lujosas imitaban el estilo de los Borbones franceses: el palacio Anchorena (actual Cancillería) y el palacio Paz (hoy Círculo Militar), ambos sobre la plaza San Martín, el palacio Ortiz Basualdo (hoy embajada de Francia) en la calle Cerrito y la actual Nunciatura (Alvear y Montevideo)”.

Reynosa has a terrible reputation for cartel violence. But Reynosa’s two large hotels on the plaza were inexpensive and pleasant, and I had a good meal at the restaurant La Estrella.

THE 1934 MAVERICK CAMPAIGN also marked Lyndon Johnson’s first involvement with one of the more pragmatic aspects of politics. Awakening early one morning a day or two before the election, in the big room in San Antonio’s Plaza Hotel that he shared with Johnson, L. E. Jones experienced an awakening of another sort. Johnson was sitting at a table in the center of the room—and on the table were stacks of five-dollar bills. “That big table was just covered with money—more money than I had ever seen,” Jones says. Jones never learned who had given the cash to Johnson—so secretive was his boss that he had not even known Johnson had it—but he saw what Johnson did with it. Mexican-American men would come into the room, one at a time. Each would tell Johnson a number—some, unable to speak English, would indicate the number by holding up fingers—and Johnson would count out that number of five-dollar bills, and hand them to him. “It was five dollars a vote,” Jones realized. “Lyndon was checking each name against lists someone had furnished him with. These Latin people would come in, and show how many eligible voters they had in the family, and Lyndon would pay them five dollars a vote.

Abandoné el lago, me persigne al revés a cruzar delante del monumento elegido al ángel caído -la rebeldía de esta ciudad no tiene límites-, salí del parque vigilada por un pasillo de silentes estatuas, cruza el Paseo del Prado y subí, como siempre, la calle Huertas, que aún olía a alcohol que había ingerido y meado los de la noche anterior. Entonces supe que sobre todas las cosas echaría de menos el barrio los domingos: los ancianos paseando en zapatillas de estar por casa, los grupitos de turistas apostados frente a la casa de Lope de Vega mientras un guía vestido de época me recitaba un monólogo de El perro del hortelano, el agudo chillido de los vencejos, un piano ensayando en un primer piso... [...] Mientras caminaba calle arriba me pregunté si habría en el mundo calle tan corta que tuviera tal cóctel de espacios y establecimientos. Se podría vivir una vida plena sin salir de ella nunca más. Fui haciendo recuento según subía por los 60 números de Huertas hasta la plaza del ángel. Veamos... tres plazas, cinco tabernas, ocho garitos de marcha, tres coctelerías, un karaoke, veinte restaurantes, tres locales de música en directo, dos salones de té, cuatro pastelerías, tres cafés, una comisaría, un parque, convento de clausura, la tumba de un genial escritor, tres tiendas de moda, dos supermercados, tres hoteles, dos librerías, tres anticuarios, una sala de teatro y el cementerio de una iglesia convertida en floristería

Edgar Wallace Four Just Men Table of Contents Thery's Trade A Newspaper Story The Faithful Commons One Thousand Pounds Reward Preparations The Outrage at the 'Megaphone' The Clues The Messenger of the Four The Pocket-Book The Cupidity of Marks Three Who Died A Newspaper Cutting Conclusion Prologue: Thery's Trade If you leave the Plaza del Mina, go down the narrow street, where, from ten till four, the big flag of the United States Consulate hangs lazily; through the square on which the Hotel de la France fronts, round by the Church of Our Lady, and along the clean, narrow thoroughfare that is the High Street of Cadiz, you will come to the Cafe of the Nations.

«Conversaciones con la vaca» Em Buenos Aires conheci um escritor argentino muito excêntrico que se chamava, ou chama, Omar Vignole. Ignoro se ainda vive. Era um homem grandote, sempre de grossa bengala na mão. Certo dia, num restaurante do centro, no qual me convidara para comer, já perto da mesa dirigiu-se a mim, com ar deferente, dizendo-me com um vozeirão que ecoou por toda a sala, repleta de fregueses: « Senta-te, Ornar Vignole!» Sentei-me com certo mal-estar e perguntei-lhe acto contínuo: «Porque me chamas Omar Vignole, ciente de que és tu Ornar Vignole e eu Pablo Neruda?» «Sim», respondeu-me, «mas neste restaurante há muitos que só me conhecem de nome e, corno vários deles querem dar-me uma tareia, eu prefiro que a dêem a ti.» Vignole fora agrónomo numa província argentina e trouxera de lá uma vaca com a qual mantinha amizade entranhada. Passeava por Buenos Aires inteira com a sua vaca presa a uma corda. Publicou então alguns livros, que tinham sempre títulos alusivos: Lo que piensa la vaca, Mi vaca y yo, etc., etc. Quando se reuniu pela primeira vez naquela cidade o congresso do Pen Club mundial, os escritores, presididos por Victoria Ocampo, tremiam ante a ideia de ver Vignole chegar ao congresso com a vaca. Explicaram às autoridades o perigo que os ameaçava e a polícia isolou as ruas em torno do Hotel Plaza a fim de evitar a entrada, no luxuoso recinto onde decorria o congresso, do meu excêntrico amigo com o ruminante. Tudo foi inútil. Quando a festa estava no auge e os escritores examinavam as relações entre o mundo clássico dos Gregos e o sentido moderno da história, o grande Vignole irrompeu na sala de conferências com a sua inseparável vaca, que para mais começou a mugir como se pretendesse tomar parte no debate. Trouxera-a até ao centro da cidade dentro de uma enorme furgoneta fechada que iludiu a vigilância policial. Dele contarei ainda que uma vez desafiou um lutador de catch as can. O profissional aceitou o desafio, e chegou a noite do encontro, num Luna Park repleto. O meu amigo apareceu pontualmente com a vaca, amarrou-a a uma esquina do quadrilátero, despiu um roupão elegantíssimo e enfrentou o «Estrangulador de Calcutá». Porém, de nada serviam ali a vaca, nem o sumptuoso atavio do poeta-lutador. O «Estrangulador de Calcutá» atirou-se a Vignole e em três tempos deixou-o transformado num nó indefeso, colocando-lhe, para mais, em sinal de humilhação, um pé sobre a garganta de touro literário, no meio da tremenda assuada de um público feroz que exigia a continuação do combate. Poucos meses depois, publicou um novo livro: Conversaciones con la vaca. Jamais poderei esquecer a originalíssima dedicatória, impressa na primeira página da obra. Dizia, se bem me lembro: «Dedico este livro filosófico aos quarenta mil filhos da puta que me assobiaram e pediram a minha morte no Luna Park na noite de 24 de Fevereiro.»

Robert Patterson. One day in New York in 1974 I got a call from Robert and his wife, Sybille, asking me to come to the Plaza Hotel for drinks and dinner. When I got there, they explained that Duke (Ellington) was terribly sick and that he was going to call in a few minutes to talk to Robert about canceling his upcoming tour in the United Kingdom. We began our dinner, and the call came. Then Robert passed the phone to me. I remember standing near the long velvet curtains by the window, looking out at the lights in Central Park twinkling through the trees. Duke’s voice was weak, but he spoke to me so kindly, and asked me about my upcoming record, about my touring. How did I like working in Europe? Did I have family? Wasn’t I glad I was a musician so I could lead this kind of life doing what I loved and making people happy? The next week Duke died, never having left the hospital.

The “city” of Kangbashi, for instance, sits on the edge of the Inner Mongolian desert. It was built from scratch in 2004. Architecturally speaking, it’s impressive, or at least ambitious. It features a meticulously landscaped central plaza more than a mile in length, along which sits a library shaped like a trio of enormous shelved books, a museum shaped like a cross between a peanut and a bronze beanbag, and an art gallery vaguely modeled on a pair of yurts. Wide avenues lead to shopping malls, hotels, and high-rise housing developments. The city was built to house more than a million residents. But when I was there in spring of 2016, it held barely one-tenth that number.