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Kanye West Is Not Moving In With Beyoncé and Jay-Z After Fight In Kardashian Home
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Kanye West has moved in with Beyoncé and Jay-Z after a serious argument with Kris Jenner. At least that's what the tabloids want you to believe. Gossip Cop has summarized an article from the print issue of In Touch that discusses the alleged conflict.
"But according to the new issue of In Touch, which came out on Wednesday, West and Jenner recently had a huge argument, and she threw him out on the spot. The rapper was supposedly booted from the Kardashian home with no place to go. That is, until he allegedly turned to Jay Z and Beyoncé."
Would Kanye West really stay with Beyoncé and Jay-Z? [Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images]
A so-called insider claimed that Kanye has stayed there many nights since the argument and Kim Kardashian has done nothing to stop him since she is upset with his recent antics. The source claims that Kim is also upset at Kanye for staying with Beyoncé because she allegedly can't stand the superstar. If all this sounds too ridiculous to be true, it is. Gossip Cop has, once again, put the brakes on another rumor that includes Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
"And Gossip Cop is done with this nonsense. We previously corrected a report falsely claiming Jenner evicted West last month. And far from throwing him out, she had a movie night with him, Kardashian, and celebrity pals at her home just last week. West is still living there, he is not bunking with Jay Z and Beyoncé, and Kardashian is not moving forward with any kind of a divorce. Case closed."
Meanwhile, Kanye's wife is defending herself from slut-shaming and body-shaming critics. The Daily Mail has the news.
"Kim Kardashian has called for an end to 'slut-shaming' and says people need to get over her old sex tape in a new essay. The reality star said she wouldn't apologize for being 'empowered' by her sexuality in an essay she penned for her app and website KimKardashianWest.com for International Women's day on Tuesday – one day after her nude selfie sparked a social media uproar and online spats with Bette Midler, Chloe Grace Moretz and Piers Morgan."
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Alien: Resurrection
June 23, 2017 by Al
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Ripley back from the dead to save humanity from itself. Again.
Ron Pearlman
Dominique Pinon
Kim Flowers
Allow me to begin by warning those of us (myself included) who approach new Ruthless reviews with the same sort of gleeful yips a hyena may emit when approaching the rotting carcass of a blind, three-legged baby gazelle: This will not be a wholesale evisceration of Alien: Resurrection. The perceived wisdom is that this movie is perhaps the weakest link of the franchise, and that inevitably sets it up for a never-ending sequence of broadsides from purists who were outraged at its perceived vapidity. But, as Mark Twain said in a quote I literally just made up: "to judge in situation is to negate in isolation". If Alien: Resurrection came out as an individual movie, to be judged by unique standards, I think it would be generally thought of as a much finer example of the cinematic art. This is, at least, my thesis, and I shall begin it with an odd and barely relevant story:
Disney, paradoxically, is responsible for releasing perhaps the most depressing nature documentary ever created. In 1958 White Wilderness appalled viewers as they watched, for the first time, the distressing spectacle of Lemmings marching blindly over a cliff. Relentlessly, one by one, to be drowned in the water or smashed on the rocks below.
Such an incredible piece of documentary making this was, in that it was not just the human world that was introduced to this odd and counter-evolutionary practice, but the Lemming world as well. The Lemmings in question had in fact been scooped up from their Arctic habitat – where they tend to spend their days in regular furry animal pursuits like gathering food, being furry, and not walking off cliff-edges, and flown to Alberta to be filmed in a fake, natural habitat. When the Lemmings showed no natural inclination to walk off any ledges in Alberta, additional measures were taken, including disorientating the poor creatures before forcibly herding them off a drop into a nearby river. Thus was the legend of Lemmings walking off cliffs formed, but oddly enough it actually has no basis in fact – it just made good TV.
Anyway, the reason this fact has been awkwardly shoehorned into the Alien: Resurrection review, is that while the Lemmings weren't accessories in their own destruction, the human world nonetheless now has them pegged as relentless idiots who literally queue up to self-immolate. If the Xenomorph world has a similar network of information sharing – probably not Disney, but we mustn't assume anything – then they must look at humans in exactly the same way we see Lemmings. Except, with us, it's self-inflicted. Time again, humans engineer themselves into situations of mortal peril with the universe's most savage predatory species, resulting in immediate regret and mass death with almost clockwork predictability. Aliens must be scratching their heads in wonder – we literally never fucking learn. It's like the Lemmings saving up, booking their own plane tickets to Alberta, then retaining, at great trouble and expense, a film crew to capture them hurling themselves into swirling waters of doom.
You get the point. And once you accept our perpetual stupidity as a species (see Climate Change denial for details), then you can settle more comfortably once again into the enjoyable spectacle of observing the disastrous consequences of scientific hubris and over-reach in Alien: Resurrection. In true human style, despite Ripley literally melting her DNA at the end of Alien 3 to avoid any more Alien research horseplay, the scientists conceive yet another method of giving the Aliens a crack at the all-you-can-eat buffet. They do this by genetically re-creating both her, and the Queen Alien that she gave birth to at the end of A3. When the scientists breathlessly explain their clever plan to her, Ripley's bemusement is understandable since shes been dealing with these clowns for literally two lifetimes by now. Aliens are then bred to the sound of the dinner bell ringing in their scaly ears, and are kept in a sort of tank where scientists think they're able to study their habits through the glass, occasionally blasting them with dry ice to ensure that, when the aliens inevitably break loose, they know exactly who to tear to pieces first. In reality (and this is hardly a spoiler unless you've not seen any other Alien movies) it's the aliens that are observing the humans like hungry diners gazing lethargically at a fish tank outside a seafood restaurant.
Needless to say, it all goes tits-up, as the Aliens escape (which is quite cool). They then behave with a level of irresponsibility similar to a horde of sugar-high children on day-release from a mental institution. This development is naturally to the severe detriment of all other organisms on board. The crew are herded onto escape-craft by a captain whose upper back is so inexplicably hairy that simply patting him on the shoulder constitutes an unacceptable fire risk – shortly thereafter he gets eaten by a Xenomorph who presumably spends the rest of the movie coughing up hairballs in a corner. Ripley, alongside the rest of our protagonists, must escape the ship and destroy it before it gets back to Earth.
The Aliens, on the other hand, must take full advantage of the all-you-can-eat buffet before closing time. A struggle ensues, during which a half-human Alien is briefly introduced and then rapidly put through a rather extreme weight-loss program, which causes Ripley a brief crisis of conscience since she is technically the Alien's mother. All ends well, albeit with a number of deaths on all sides, and lots of shouting and general liveliness throughout. It's lots of fun, and only really let down by some excruciating lines of dialogue, which at points cause even the Xenomorphs to take time out from chewing on the femurs of ex-scientists to cringe at one another.
Oddly enough, the weakest dialogue of the movie belongs initially to Ripley herself, who seems to have been assigned a level of vapid flippancy throughout the film as a supposed reflection of her transcendent, genetically enhanced clone-self. Around half way through the film, this tendency spreads to the rest of the (remaining) characters, and it reads as though the writer took a weekend off and came back to work on Monday having had his brain surgically replaced with a baked potato. Luckily by that point the stage has been set and there isn't much for anybody to do except continue to avoid death for another hour – as a result the demands on the moderately vegetative writer thereon are thankfully much reduced.
This inconsistency is made up for, more or less, by the action set-pieces which are for the most part exciting and imaginative, despite being let down on occasion by some very questionable effects. It seems at times that someone on the production company realized that there was only $8 left on the budget, so hired their twelve-year-old nephew to fill in the blanks. At one point a Xenomorph supposedly spits acid at a hapless space pirate, but it honestly looks like somebody in post-production accidentally sneezed onto the reel.
There are some genuinely interesting parts of the movie, and it shouldn't be sneered at just because the Alien's heritage is such a strong one. When Ripley comes across the laboratory containing the first seven aborted attempts at cloning her, its authentically disturbing, and even the most committed cynic must consider for a moment what it would feel like to come across a tortured, horribly mutated version of yourself lying helpless on a gurney, begging for you to end its life. Sigourney Weaver delivers these segments with characteristic power, and its at times like these you understand why she has been such an enduring force in Hollywood since the initial 1979 Alien release.
Overall, if somebody tells you not to bother seeing Alien: Resurrection, they're probably being a self-important twat. The kind of person that introduces themselves at BBQs using their instagram handle, or loudly distributes unsolicited advice on zero-gravity yoga to anybody within earshot. No mate, your steak hasn't been marinated in responsibly-sourced organic kale extract, now please fuck off. Alien: Resurrection might be on the weaker end of the franchises spectrum, but its a pretty strong spectrum, and well worth a couple hours of anyone's time. Even Mark Twain said so.
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Bathymetric controls on Pliocene North Atlantic and Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production
Marci M. Robinson*, Paul J. Valdes, Alan M. Haywood, Harry J. Dowsett, Daniel J. Hill, Stephen M. Jones
School of Geographical Sciences
Cabot Institute for the Environment
The Bristol Research Initiative for the Dynamic Global Environment (BRIDGE)
The mid-Pliocene warm period (MPWP; ~. 3.3 to 3.0. Ma) is the most recent interval in Earth's history in which global temperatures reached and remained at levels similar to those projected for the near future. The distribution of global warmth, however, was different than today in that the high latitudes warmed more than the tropics. Multiple temperature proxies indicate significant sea surface warming in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans during the MPWP, but predictions from a fully coupled ocean-atmosphere model (HadCM3) have so far been unable to fully predict the large scale of sea surface warming in the high latitudes. If climate proxies accurately represent Pliocene conditions, and if no weakness exists in the physics of the model, then model boundary conditions may be in error. Here we alter a single boundary condition (bathymetry) to examine if Pliocene high latitude warming was aided by an increase in poleward heat transport due to changes in the subsidence of North Atlantic Ocean ridges. We find an increase in both Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production in model experiments that incorporate a deepened Greenland-Scotland Ridge. These results offer both a mechanism for the warming in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans indicated by numerous proxies and an explanation for the apparent disparity between proxy data and model simulations of Pliocene northern North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean conditions. Determining the causes of Pliocene warmth remains critical to fully understanding comparisons of the Pliocene warm period to possible future climate change scenarios.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.004
Published - 15 Aug 2011
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Sea-surface temperature
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Robinson, M. M., Valdes, P. J., Haywood, A. M., Dowsett, H. J., Hill, D. J., & Jones, S. M. (2011). Bathymetric controls on Pliocene North Atlantic and Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 309(1-2), 92-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.004
Robinson, Marci M. ; Valdes, Paul J. ; Haywood, Alan M. et al. / Bathymetric controls on Pliocene North Atlantic and Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2011 ; Vol. 309, No. 1-2. pp. 92-97.
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London vs New York
Talking with a friend at Citigroup last night, he agreed fully that London is now the financial center of the world. I've known for a while that AIM has outstripped NASDAQ in IPO numbers, but hadn't fully appreciated that more was raised publicly here than in NY (via TechCrunch UK):
London has already surpassed New York in terms of IPOs. According to the article, this year, through September $33.6 billion (US) was raised in London compared to $26.5 billion (US) raised in New York and London is predicted to beat New York again in 2007.
It's the US's fault that London is taking over, and as my friend quipped last night- "if the costs associated with being public in the US aren't bad enough, you still have the "Bush Factor"- which might mean your assets are frozen at a whim."
It's also of interest that London is the center of venture activity for both the UK and the EU- something like NY and Silicon Valley combined…
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Fred Destin says:
Thanks Jason did not realise I was on your blogroll !
Jason Ball says:
Yes, I put all the UK VCs in my blogroll (ok, I know you're in Paris these days, but Paul is in M&A, so I haven't kept strict guidelines)
Glad you guys are around to link to!


I am so happy to hear that you are planning a visit to the most magical place on earth with your little ones! They are going to have a fantastic time, and you will surely make memories that will be cherished forever.
I have a daughter, so I know that traveling with kids this young requires diaper changes, bathroom and snack breaks, strollers and more! Your pace is definitely different when we navigate the theme parks with them, so I think it is very important to consider that when you make FastPass+ reservations.
You have selected great attractions for little ones at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Na'vi River Journey is a great attraction in the evening because I just love visiting Pandora – The World of Avatar at night and admiring its bioluminescent beauty, but since you have little ones, it might be easier to visit this attraction early in the morning when this amazing land is still not too crowded. Finding Nemo The Musical is inside a theater so it is the perfect attraction to enjoy lunch or early in the afternoon when the sun is shining bright – and hot! I recommend visiting Kilimanjaro Safaris late in the afternoon or early in the evening when the animals are usually more active.
Thank you for stopping by the Disney Parks Moms Panel! I hope this helps you while planning and that you have a lot of fun with your kids!


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One day in advance of Epiphany, we bring you a reading from an unauthorized revision of the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Gospel according to Matthew 2:13-23, which some call the GCS Translation:
Now after the wise men from Iran had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to José in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Canada, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." Then José got up, took the child and his mother, Maria, by night, and went to Canada, and remained there until the impeachment of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, "Out of Canada I have called my son."
The Round-Up of the Infants
When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men from Iran, he was infuriated, and he sent orders to round up all the children in and around Charlottesville who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:
The Return from Canada
After Herod had been impeached, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to José in Canada and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go back to the U.S.A., for those who were seeking the child's life are no more. Then José got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the U.S.A.
But when José heard that Pence was ruling in place of Herod, he was afraid to go there.
Statue of Liberty in Nazareth, Texas
And after being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the high plains of the Llano Estacado of Castro County in the State of Texas. There José made his home in a town called Nazareth (pop. 311), so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, "He will be called a Nazorean."
— GCS, Chaska, MN, January 5 (the Eve of the Epiphany), 2018.
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hilda nafarrate on January 5, 2018 at 3:32 pm said:
Oh Gordon! You and the unauthorized NRSV are something wonderful!!!
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Gordon C. Stewart on January 5, 2018 at 5:12 pm said:
Thank you, Hilda. 😂


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La diocesi di Kolwezi (in latino: Dioecesis Koluezensis) è una sede della Chiesa cattolica nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo suffraganea dell'arcidiocesi di Lubumbashi. Nel 2019 contava 1.378.000 battezzati su 2.450.000 abitanti. È retta dal vescovo Richard Kazadi Kamba.

Territorio
La diocesi comprende l'intera provincia di Lualaba, ad eccezione dei territori che si trovano ad est del fiume Lualaba, nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo.

Sede vescovile è la città di Kolwezi, dove si trova la cattedrale di Santa Barbara e Sant'Eligio.

Il territorio si estende su una superficie 105.184 km² ed è suddiviso in 35 parrocchie.

Storia
La diocesi è stata eretta l'11 marzo 1971 con la bolla Qui beatissimo Petro di papa Paolo VI, ricavandone il territorio dalla diocesi di Kamina.

Cronotassi dei vescovi
Si omettono i periodi di sede vacante non superiori ai 2 anni o non storicamente accertati.
 Victor Petrus Keuppens, O.F.M. † (11 marzo 1971 - 25 aprile 1974 dimesso)
 Floribert Songasonga Mwitwa † (25 aprile 1974 - 22 maggio 1998 nominato arcivescovo di Lubumbashi)
 Sede vacante (1998-2000)
 Nestor Ngoy Katahwa (16 novembre 2000 - 11 gennaio 2022 ritirato)
 Richard Kazadi Kamba, dall'11 gennaio 2022

Statistiche
La diocesi nel 2019 su una popolazione di 2.450.000 persone contava 1.378.000 battezzati, corrispondenti al 56,2% del totale.

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| 1980 || 128.553 || 668.183 || 19,2 || 29 || 8 || 21 || 4.432 ||  || 25 || 64 || 24
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| 1990 || 286.000 || 766.150 || 37,3 || 47 || 19 || 28 || 6.085 ||  || 86 || 73 || 30
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| 1999 || 590.210 || 969.526 || 60,9 || 55 || 32 || 23 || 10.731 ||  || 201 || 104 || 29
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| 2000 || 497.621 || 935.637 || 53,2 || 57 || 36 || 21 || 8.730 ||  || 111 || 112 || 29
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| 2001 || 590.210 || 969.526 || 60,9 || 61 || 35 || 26 || 9.675 ||  || 126 || 90 || 29
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| 2002 || 590.210 || 969.526 || 60,9 || 61 || 35 || 26 || 9.675 ||  || 126 || 90 || 29
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| 2004 || 615.000 || 1.050.000 || 58,6 || 68 || 37 || 31 || 9.044 ||  || 149 || 103 || 30
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| 2006 || 639.863 || 1.091.709 || 58,6 || 73 || 38 || 35 || 8.765 ||  || 199 || 128 || 31
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| 2013 || 791.000 || 1.351.000 || 60,2 || 87 || 48 || 39 || 9.091 ||  || 135 || 113 || 35
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| 2016 || 1.213.260 || 2.245.000 || 54,0 || 92 || 54 || 38 || 13.187 ||  || 151 || 125 || 35
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| 2019 || 1.378.000 || 2.450.000 || 56,2 || 86 || 50 || 36 || 16.023 ||  || 173 || 142 || 35
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Bibliografia

Collegamenti esterni
Annuario pontificio del 2020 e precedenti, in

 Carta geografica dei territori della Provincia di Katanga (antecedente la nuova organizzazione amministrativa del 2005)

Kolwezi
Kolwezi

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One of the most quoted definitions of Economics today is perhaps, "Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.". This Definition was given by Lionell Robbins in 1935.
If we put in simple words, Economics is the study of human bahaviour in relation to their wants. It studies how human beings manage their scare resources in trying to satisfy their wants.
Scarcity means limitation of the availability of resources in relation to their wants. That means the available resources are not enough to completely satisfy all the wants.
By now, you must have already learnt that human beings have unlimited wants. And as the resources with which these wants must be satisfied are limited, we can understand that 'scarcity' is the central economic problem of everyone including individuals, firms and the government, and even the whole world.
The concept of scarcity, choice and opportunity cost can be shown in many ways, at different levels. For an individual, it may involve choosing the best from the choices available. For example, a student may have to choose between doing A levels and going for a diploma right after finishing O levels. Choosing one option means the other option has to be forgone.
A firm may have to choose between different production methods.
A government may have to choose between different development projects.
Each and every level of economic agent (individuals, firms or government) has to make the choices as all of them are confronted with central economic problem (scarcity). Governments have to decide on the best possible way to allocate resources (example – where and what kind of factories must be built), the firms have to decide how to maximize profit (what is the most efficient way to produce goods) and individuals have to decide how to maximize their welfare (which goods will give them most satisfaction). In the process of making this choice they have to give up other alternative so the concept of opportunity cost is applicable for each and every level of economic agents.
What to produce primarily depends on consumers in free market. The consumers choose the product they like and thus their choices direct the types of production that should be carried out. The firms will follow this because this is the most profit maximizing combination.
Sometimes the government too can decide what to produce. The government may decide to produce an essential good or service which everyone ought to have.
This question will be answered by those supplying the goods and services. If the supplier is a private firm, it will seek to use the method which will give the maximum profit. For example, production can be done using labour intensive method and capital intensive method. The private firm will decide on the method which will give lowest average costs.
If the government is the supplier, it may try to use the method which promotes welfare of the society rather than maximising the profit.
For whom to produce will also depend on the suppliers (government and private firms). The consumers are the target of production, but the kind of consumers the firm or the government wants to target is the question. The government usually produces for the general public where as the private firms can seek to maximize profit by producing for the high and rich level customers as well as the general public. In simple words, the production is done for those who are willing to pay.
Note: among the suppliers, there will also be private individuals(sole traders). Their objective in production is the same as that of the private firms – that is, to maximise profit.
In the perspective of an individual firm, the short-run is when at least one of its factors of production is fixed. Therefore, there will be a limit to the extent to which it will be able to respond to an increase in price.
However, firms will try and increase their capacity by increasing all their factors of production, which means all the factors of production can become variable. This is known as the long-run. Therefore, the long run is the time which is taken by a firm to change all of its factors of production.
In the very long run, not only all of a firm's factors of production are variable, but also all the inputs which are beyond the control of the firm. During the very long run, not only are the labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship inputs variable, but so too are key production inputs such as government rules, technology, and social customs.
Very useful short and sweet notes.
These notes are good. However I must say that some people are content with what they already have. Unlimited wants are of those who are materialistic.


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Q: Normal & Dashed lines problems I edited MyLine and CanvasView but now I draw normal line and dashed line but after that I click on normal line and it draw dashed line. Down you have mt edited code. After I created private paint in MyLine, line.paint from onDraw was transformed in getPaint
Here you have MyLine.java

    public class MyLine { //  line
    public float x,y;
    public float xStart,yStart,xEnd,yEnd;
    private boolean drawDashed;
    private Paint paint = new Paint();

public MyLine(boolean drawDashed)
{
    if(drawDashed){
    getPaint().setColor(Color.BLUE);
    getPaint().setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
    getPaint().setPathEffect(new DashPathEffect(new float[]{20,30}, 0));
    getPaint().setAntiAlias(true);
    getPaint().setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
    getPaint().setStrokeWidth(5f);
    } else{
        getPaint().setColor(Color.RED);
        getPaint().setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
        getPaint().setPathEffect(null);
        getPaint().setAntiAlias(true);
        getPaint().setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
        getPaint().setStrokeWidth(5f);
    }
}

public void mouseDown(Path path,float xDown,float yDown){
    //path.moveTo(xDown, yDown);
//  path.lineTo(xDown, yDown);

    xStart = xDown;
    yStart = yDown;
}

public void mouseUp(Path path,float xUp,float yUp){
    //path.lineTo(xUp, yUp);
    xEnd = xUp;
    yEnd = yUp;
}

public void draw(Canvas c){
    getPaint().setColor(Color.GREEN);
    //paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
    getPaint().setPathEffect(new DashPathEffect(new float[]{10,20}, 0));
    getPaint().setAntiAlias(true);
    getPaint().setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
    getPaint().setStrokeWidth(5f);

    c.drawLine(xStart,yStart,xEnd,yEnd,getPaint());
}

public Paint getPaint() {
    return paint;
}

public void setPaint(Paint paint) {
    this.paint = paint;
}

Here is from CanvasView.java
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    paint.setPathEffect(null);
    if(bitmap!=null){

        canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, paint);
         for(MyCircle circle:circleList){// draw circles

             myCanvas.drawCircle(getCircleMidPointX(circle.firstX, circle.lastX),getCircleMidPointY(circle.firstY, circle.lastY),circle.radius,myPaint);
         }

    }

    for (Path p : paths){
        canvas.drawPath(p, paint);
    }
    canvas.drawPath(path, paint);

     for(MyLine line:lineList){ //draw lines
         canvas.drawLine(line.xStart, line.yStart, line.xEnd, line.yEnd, line.getPaint());
      }
final OnTouchListener drawLineListener = new OnTouchListener() {
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

            FirstActivity.ll.setVisibility(LinearLayout.GONE);

            switch (event.getAction()) {
              case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                  myLine = new MyLine(dashedLine);
                  myLine.xStart = event.getX();
                  myLine.yStart = event.getY();

                return true;

              case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
              case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                myLine.xEnd = event.getX();
                myLine.yEnd = event.getY();
                invalidate();
                lineList.add(myLine);
                break;

              default:
                Log.d("mock it up", "Unknown touch event  " + event.toString());
                return false;
            }
            return true;

        }
    };

    final OnTouchListener drawDashedLineListener = new OnTouchListener() {
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

            FirstActivity.ll.setVisibility(LinearLayout.GONE);

            switch (event.getAction()) {
              case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                 return true;

              case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
              case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:

                break;

              default:
                Log.d("mock it up", "Unknown touch event  " + event.toString());
                return false;
            }
            return true;

        }
    };

A: b    in onDraw()
 if(dashedLine)
     line.paint.setPathEffect(dashEffect);
 else
     line.paint.setPathEffect(null);

You are resetting the effect for all lines, so that is what is being drawn: all dashed or all normal
What you probaly want to do is give each MyLine its own property:
boolean drawDashed =true/false;

And let it draw itself accordingly (picking the right paint with the right dasheffect)

A: public class MyLine { //  line

public float x,y;
    public float xStart,yStart,xEnd,yEnd;
    private boolean drawDashed;
    private Paint paint = new Paint();
    public MyLine(boolean drawDashed)
    {
      if(drawDashed){
        ...
        paint.setPathEffect(new DashPathEffect(new float[]{10,20}, 0));
        ....
      } else{
         ....
         paint.setPathEffect(null);
         ...
      }
    }

public void mouseDown(Path path,float xDown,float yDown){
    //path.moveTo(xDown, yDown);
//  path.lineTo(xDown, yDown);

    xStart = xDown;
    yStart = yDown;
}

public void mouseUp(Path path,float xUp,float yUp){
    //path.lineTo(xUp, yUp);
    xEnd = xUp;
    yEnd = yUp;
}

public void draw(Canvas c){

    c.drawLine(xStart,yStart,xEnd,yEnd,paint);
}

}

So add two private properties to Myline so the line it self has the knowledge how to draw itself:
private boolean drawDashed;
private Paint paint = new Paint();

then the draw method becomes very simple:
public void draw(Canvas c){
    c.drawLine(xStart,yStart,xEnd,yEnd,paint);
}

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Q: ASP.NET MVC3 and right opinionated client side software development model? I am currently evaluating how to create and maintain MVC3 web applications that have a level of client side richness we've never attempted before. I realize this will require a much more thought out usage of javascript.
This lead to me starting research on Dojo and Closure. Of course the amount of information (especially in context with various versions) is just overwhelming on this.
Does anyone have any good sources of guidance on working with tools such as these in the context of MVC2+ style applications? Such as which mesh well, and which have the highest barriers, personal success or failure stories and so on.

A: This is interesting, because I think Microsoft is leaning heavily toward wanting MVC users to use jQuery in their projects. jQuery is the only JavaScript framework included by default in the MVC project at creation. They are also actively developing plugins to use in MVC projects. Now I am not saying you should use jQuery for these reasons, but it is hard to ignore how much effort MS is putting towards jQuery and making it a large part of the MVC workflow.

A: jQuery all the way is the only way. MVC 3 libraries use it behind the scenes anyways now. Whats the issue with simply including the scripts as opposed to relying on the dogo.requires() ?
With jQuery - simple includes on your layout pages are all you need most of the time. There is some faultiness when you want validation to occur on an ajax loaded partial view in which you need to 'tell' jQuery about the new content to validate, but besides that its quite solid.

A: Just stumbled onto this question: not sure whether you're still interested in it.
There are several internal initiatives inside Dojo to build an MVC module and low-level "binding" functionalities into Dojo, and use automatic binding as the "glue" between the model object and the view (or widgets inside the view).
dojox.mvc is where most of this work is currently residing.
I have a small implementation of automatic binding (similar to WPF so you can actually do MVVM with Dojo) intended as a plumbing layer in Dojo.  There is a small proof-of-concept test page here: http://www.mingleplace.com/test/bindingtest.html
So, the short answer is that MVC is actively being developed/pursued in Dojo, and experimental packages are already available.  However, as far as when the actual API will be formalized into Dojo, you probably have to wait till 2.0...


(The Dallas Morning News - April 22, 2005) The Eastern Orthodox Church, as far removed from a nondenominational or evangelical congregation as you can get, is nevertheless attracting a growing number of converts who are drawn by the tug of an ancient faith. Converts are trading in their PowerPoint sermons and praise bands for the ancient rhythms of a liturgy that hasn't changed in thousands ofyears - a pendulum swing from the casual, seeker-friendly services that have dominated contemporary evangelicalism, Their numbers are still small compared to megachurch growth patterns, with 1.2 million Eastern Orthodox Christians in America and an estimated 10,000 in the Dallas area. But adherents say there's been a surge in people drawn to the faith. The Antiochian Orthodox Church, the most evangelistic of the American Orthodox churches, has tracked conversions for several decades. The number of its churches in the US, has doubled in 20 years to more than 250 Parishes and missions. About 80 percent of its converts come from evangelical and charismatic backgrounds 20 percent from mainline denominations. Many go on to be. come Orthodox priests. About 78 percent of clergy in the Antiochian Church are converts up from 10 to 15 percent 25 years ago. Nearly half of the students in America's two largest Orthodox seminaries are converts, Those who convert say they are drawn to an aesthetic beauty and spiritual mystery in Orthodox worship that are often lacking in their own Protestant services. Its like entering a time machine that allows congregants to worship as the early Christians did. Not that it doesn't take some getting used to. Orthodox services are based on the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, which can last two hours or more, Congregants stand much of the time, while priests in vestments offer incense and chant the Psalms.
Frederica Mathewes-Green, a former Episcopalian and author of Facing East: A Pilgrims Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy said the experience of Orthodoxy was startlingly different from anything she'd known in Western churches. But it clicked when she saw it was directed toward God rather than her own emotional needs. It called us to fall on our faces before God in worship and to be filled with awe at his glory. I could never go back. I now find Western worship tedious and sentimental. To me! the contrast is jolting." Ms. Mathewes-Green also prefers the Orthodox view of the Christian life as a healing process and a journey, rather than a one-time 'sinner's prayer." She and her husband converted from a liberal Episcopal Church in 1993 and helped found an Orthodox church made up mostly of American converts. It's not about getting the sin-debt paid, the ticket punched and now you wait around to die and ~o to heaven, Orthodoxy is a transforming journey where every day the Christian is being enabled to bear more of God's light. That's exciting,' she said. Stan Shinn of Wylie, who was raised in the Assemblies of God denomination and attended Oral Roberts University, recalls feeling nearly overwhelmed when he stepped inside Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in North Dallas for the first time. What looked good on paper - definitive answers to his search for early Christian worship and doctrine - had taken him to a very bizarre and strange" church with icon-filled walls, heavy incense and Byzantine chanting. '1 felt like there was a gauntlet thrown down in front of me," he said. He and his wife, Janine, and their three children converted in 2002 from their nondenominational church to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Like the Shinns, those who convert are joining 350 million Orthodox Christians around the world.
"Orthodox' means 'right belief." The Orthodox Church traces its origins back to Jesus' apostles and first-century practice. The Roman Catholic Church makes that same claim, but the two branches of ancient Christianity differ in ecclesiastical hierarchy and a few doctrinal points. Roman Catholics believe the pope has ultimate authority while Orthodox Christians say their council of bishops is more in line with Scripture and church tradition, (The early church had five centers of Christianity - in Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Rome and Constantinople, which is now Istanbul.) Orthodox Christians also disagree with the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which states that Jesus' mother was born without sin herself. The two branches of ancient Christianity split in 1054. Today, the Orthodox community is led by patriarchs and a hierarchy of bishops who must be celibate. Unlike Catholic clergy. Orthodox priests can marry before ordination, Archbishop Dmitri, 81, leads the Archdiocese of Dallas and the South for the Orthodox Church in America. He grew up as Robert Royster in a Southern Baptist family in Teague, Texas. but converted to Orthodoxy as a teen because he wanted more out of faith. Everything was true, but it was not complete. It wasn't that I needed to repudiate it, I just went on to find the rest of it," he said. The Orthodox consider themselves to have a bond with other Christians but believe they have a more accurate understanding of the faith. At a recent daylong festival in Dallas about Orthodox Christianity, Archbishop Dimitri encouraged people in other denominations to cling to the elements of the historic faith that their churches uphold, but added an invitation: ''If you find there are hales at the bottom and you have to abandon ship, then head for one that's still afloat." he said.
Conversion to Orthodoxy often begins with an intellectual quest, Mr. Shinn said, lie began searching when he saw modern churches abandoning historic Christian tenets, such as the Nicene Creed, and stripping their sanctuaries of any religious symbolism to be more seeker-friendly. ~The elements of Christianity were disappearing before me like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland. What kind of Christianity would my grandchildren inherit, and would the Gospel even be recognizable?" he said, Studying church history and tradition raised even more questions: Why was the Apocrypha a part of Scripture until the Reformation? Did the early church really have bishops instead of the congregational rule that governs most Protestant churches? Why did they have such a high view of Communion and baptize infants? And the ancient liturgies, chants, incense and sacraments used in Orthodox services, he discovered, were not taken from medieval Catholicism - as his Protestant up- bringing taught him - but from early church worship. 'It all caused me to re-evaluate my core assumptions. Instead of me judging history, I decided I wanted history to judge me and tell me what should t practice," Mr. Shinn said. The unchanging nature of the Orthodox Church is a strong draw for "serious Christians" who are tired of Protestant individualism yet disagree with the Catholic Church's teachings, said the Rev. Peter Giliquist. chairman of missions and evangelism for the Antiochian 'Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. "It's charismatics and evangelicals, those diamonds in the rough who are looking to find Christ's church. There's a lot of people who love the Lord and his word, but they're still looking for his church." Father Gillquist was a card-carrying evangelical" himself before his conversion to Orthodoxy. He attended Dallas Theological Seminary and Wheaton College, and was a director for Campus Crusade for Christ, a nondenominational evangelistic campus organization. Now he uses evangelistic strategies to promote Christianity and the Orthodox Church. Most who come into the church now are people from other denominations who are confused by the hundreds of Protestant denominations and disturbed by increasing theological liberalism, he said.
But some who are ready to convert still think the church might be too exotic for them, said the Rev. Anthony Savas, pastor of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Dallas, They're afraid it's too ethnic. They wonder, What will my friends think?' he said, It's true that the Orthodox Church in America took on the ethnic flavors of 20th-century immigrants. The dozen Orthodox churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth area reflect these geographic and ethnic heritages. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is Dallas' largest, with 1,500 active members. The church holds services in Greek and English and hosts an annual Greek festival with ethnic foods dance and crafts. St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in the Oak Lawn area is predominantly Russian. At Sts. Constantine and Helen, an Antiochian Orthodox Church, 80 percent of the families speak Arabic. Services at both are in English. There's a Hispanic congregation in Oak Cliff - Holy Transfiguration Hispanic Orthodox Mission. Converts become more familiar with the church through catechism classes and the guidance of spiritual godparents (individuals and couples in the congregation who mentor new converts). If they've already been baptized in another church, they also must be chrisrnated, or anointed, to be received in the Orthodox Church. Americans who convert to Orthodoxy know they will he part of a minority faith. That doesn't bother Father Saves at Holy Trinity, who grew up Orthodox among Mormons in Salt Lake City. 'It's wonderful to practice the ancient Christian faith in an environment that doesn't know what to do with it. A minority can be a beacon of light, like the apostles, who took it beyond their own country," he said. 'It's a beautiful eye-opening experience for people to see the church of the New Testament is alive and thriving today. We don't define ourselves by who we're not. The church is just here. And we're here to lift it up." Adherents say there is only one Orthodox Church, which is administratively organized into several jurisdictions. The faith, worship and doctrine is the same, but churches differ in language and administration. Dioceses of Orthodox Churches are administrated by bishops in North America, as well as archbishops and patriarchs abroad.


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Sierra Leone gov't reject Sellas Tetteh's appointment as national team coach
Source: Ghana/Joy Sports
Sellas Tetteh won the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009 with Ghana
Ghanaian Sellas Tetteh's appointment as head coach of Sierra Leone national team has been rejected by the government of that country.
Tetteh was appointed on Tuesday evening by Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA). According to the SLFA statement, the 62-year-old came out tops among shortlisted coaches who went through a thorough interview process by the association's head coach recruitment committee.
However, the government through the Sports Ministry has rejected the appointment claiming the selection process "did not come to a logical conclusion," and was "incomplete."
"The report of the Ministry's representatives also observed that representative from the Sierra Leone Football Association on the interview panel came with a premeditated mind of appointing the said coach," part of a statement released on Wednesday, August 14 read.
"Therefore the Ministry does not recognize Sellas Tetteh as the Head Coach of the Sierra Leone National Team A because the process was incomplete.
"The Ministry of Sports wants to assure all Sierra Leoneans that the government is committed to supporting sports in the country and the process of appointing the National Team A coach will soon come to a conclusion."
Tetteh, who won the FIFA U-20 World Cup with Ghana, was making a return to the West African country after serving as caretaker coach between 2015 and 2017.
He has also served as head coach of Rwanda national team.
Ghana's rating to suffer if businesses do not uphold integrity - GII


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UK looking at vaccinating children as young as five, Lim says
UK looking at vaccinating children as young as five, Lim says - Copyright Thomson Reuters 2021
LONDON – The British government's scientific vaccine advisory group is discussing whether or not to advise children as young as five receive COVID vaccines, the chair of Britain's vaccine group said on Tuesday.
"We are discussing that at the moment. We're also waiting for the vaccines to be approved by MHRA," Professor Lim Wei Shen, chair for COVID-19 immunisation on the government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, said.
Lim said the decision could be made before Christmas.


Swamp white oaks are native to the northeastern and north central United States as well as to eastern and central Canada. Durable and resilient, they can live up to 350 years. Lowland trees, swamp white oaks are suitable for growing in low spots, though they can adapt to a range of conditions from wet to dry. They do best in acidic soils. Swamp white oaks have a moderate growth rate, are relatively easy to transplant and are very well suited as shade trees. They are, however, susceptible to a number of diseases and insect pests and are not tolerant of salt spray.
Form: Medium sized tree with a broad, rounded crown and short trunk. Grows 50 to 60 feet high and wide.
Leaves: 4-7" long, 2-4" across, shiny green on top surface, silvery-white below. Fall color is a brownish-orange to golden brown. Leaves are two-toned but not as vibrant in hue as with white oaks.
Flowers: Insignificant yellow-green catkins in April. Attractive to birds.
Fruit: Acorns are 5/8" to 3/4" long and 3/8" to 3/4" wide with a warty cap. They are an important food source for squirrels, mice, deer, bears, birds and turkeys.
Bark: Peeling and flaky with an orange inner bark on young trees, greyish-brown with blocky ridges on mature trees.


The SDU aims to develop 25 'outgrower schemes' over five years, directly benefitting up to half a million farmers, half of them women under the age of 35 years.
Ann Miles, director of financial inclusion and youth livelihoods at The MasterCard Foundation, added, "We are excited about the potential of this work with AgDevCo to drive the adoption of new technologies — such as mobile phones, cashless payments and micro-insurance products — by a younger generation of African farmers.
The SDU is expected to make an important contribution to AgDevCo's mission of investing in agricultural enterprises in Africa to create jobs, improve food security and increase rural prosperity.


The design adopts the principles of the master plan and reacts to the environment with a clear geometric structure. Due to the position of the buildings, two generous open spaces are created as buffer zones between the urban outdoor areas on Nordbahnstraße and the "Frei Mitte", which is characterized by recreational uses. Correspondingly, there are different spatial shapes in the respective transitional areas: narrower passages on the Nordbahnstraße – further openings towards the "Freie Mitte". The transitions to the free center are formed by the building position so that the rooms do not leak to the track-accompanying green space out, but, according to the semi-public nature, are pocket-like.
The structure of the skyscraper takes up the directions of the surrounding city and offers the apartments optimum exposure and orientation. With its front facing the free center, projecting from the third floor, it creates a higher-level effect that is commensurate with its height and urban planning importance, and enters into dialogue with the building opposite the tower building 8.


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New Book Celebrates the Storied Legacy of the Providence Biltmore
Everyone from bootleggers to Buddy Cianci has graced the walls of the "city's hotel," and author Amanda Quay Blount has the receipts.
Dana Rae Laverty,
The Graduate Providence — formerly the Providence Biltmore Hotel — has a long and storied history, all detailed in a new book by author Amanda Quay Blount. Photograph by Christian Horan Photography.
Fresh on the heels of the 100th anniversary of the Graduate Providence — formerly the Providence Biltmore Hotel — a new book delves into the notoriety, glamour and history of the city's opulent landmark.
Some of the state's — and the world's — most famous people have stayed within its walls: John F. Kennedy, Buddy Cianci, the Rolling Stones, but throughout its century of anchoring the downtown area there's been no definitive guide to its history or lore.
Amanda Quay Blount, a Providence resident and self-described history nerd, moved to the city with her husband in 2018 and immediately took to the streets, admiring the architecture and history of her new hometown.
"I'm fascinated by the architecture of different eras," says the thirty-seven year old, who heads a literacy nonprofit in Attleboro, Massachusetts. "Providence is a gold mine for all of those things, so I spent a lot of time just walking around the city and being in awe of how beautiful everything is and how much history is embedded in each of these incredible structures that we've preserved here."
Her father told her to check out the Biltmore, since it was such a city landmark. One day she wandered into the lobby, struck by the ornate fixtures, gilded ceiling and famous glass elevator. Fascinated, she contacted libraries, trying to learn more about the building's history but discovering there were no books devoted to the hotel.
So she decided to write one herself. During the pandemic, she pored over history books and old Providence Journal stories to produce Meet Me at the Biltmore: 100 Years at Providence's Most Storied Hotel. It's available by presale now at biltmorebook.com; it will be released by Stillwater Books in October.
Blount recently spoke to Rhode Island Monthly about moving to Providence, her research methods and writing a book during a pandemic while also running a nonprofit and raising her five-month-old daughter Barrett. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Providence resident Amanda Quay Blount delves into the history of a Providence landmark in her new book, "Meet Me at the Biltmore: 100 Years at Providence's Most Storied Hotel." Photo courtesy of Stillwater Books.
How did this project come about? Did it stem from your love of old buildings?
When we first moved to Providence, my father actually had said to me, "Oh, Providence, such a great city. You have to go downtown and check out the Biltmore, it's a really cool old hotel and it has this really cool plaque for a high-water mark of this flood from the 1930s." So that's sort of how that started. That piqued my interest.
We were living on the East Side at the time and I wandered down into downtown and into the front door of the now-Graduate Hotel (at the time it was the Biltmore) and I was just in awe. Anyone I think who walks into the lobby of the Biltmore feels that way. You look up and you're just blown away by the beauty of the ceiling and the ornate fixtures and the really beautiful columns — it's such a lovely and special place.
And so I was fascinated by it and I sort of petered along. And I was reading more about Providence history and I read a great book by David Brussat called Lost Providence about buildings that no longer exist. And I started thinking to myself, man, I'd love to read a book about the Biltmore. I think it probably has an incredible history that I don't know enough about. So I contacted the library and the Providence Preservation Society and asked are there any books that include the Biltmore or any books about the Biltmore, and the answer was just sort of a flat no, no one's written about the Biltmore. There's been a couple of mentions of it in architectural reviews of the city, but no comprehensive history written.
So I said to myself, well, maybe I'll start doing some research and see if there's anything interesting about it. Maybe there isn't, and that's why it hasn't been written. This was in the fall of 2020, and we all had a lot of extra time on our hands. We weren't going out to restaurants or doing anything, so I hunkered down and started doing some Google searching and one thing led to another and I ended up amassing many thousands of articles about the Biltmore and decided that I needed to do something with them.
Amanda Quay Blount. Photo courtesy of the author.
Can you tell me a little about your research? Where did you go and what sorts of things did you look for?
My research process started with the things I already had — I kind of went backward. One can access the Providence Journal archives from 1981 onward through the public library, so the more recent history of the hotel was accessible to me online, so I started there.
I should say I started with the New York Times archives because we have a subscription to the New York Times, and I'm from the New Jersey/New York area, so the New York Times to me is still an important publication. So I started there and the first article I found related to the Providence Biltmore Hotel was prior to its construction being completed. It was a story about a taxi driver who was injured because a steel worker dropped a rivet from the top of the construction site of the Biltmore and it went flying through the air, tore through the top of the cloth-topped jitney taxi and damaged the driver's leg. So he ended up going to the hospital. So there was this short blurb in the New York Times in 1921 — I went down this huge genealogy rabbit hole when I found out who the taxi driver was. The things you can do when you're bored — before you have children!
So that really got me thinking. This hotel, for it to be featured in the New York Times, there must have been something really important about Providence. Why else would it be in the New York Times? And then that led me to really dive into Rhode Island history, better understanding the history of Providence as the manufacturing hub of the world.
So I got really excited about that, and I realized that I needed access to the Providence Journal from that era. So I called the Community College of Rhode Island after digging around to try and find who had this database. CCRI is awesome. So it's November 2020. No buildings are open, the college buildings aren't open. But, as a researcher, they gave me access to their database through their internal Wi-Fi, and all I had to do was go sit in their parking lot [of the Liston campus] and access their Wi-Fi through my car. They were amazing. They were all working from home, too. I probably spent two to three hundred hours in their parking lot, in my car, on my laptop, pulling PDFs of the Providence Journal archives.
The story of the Biltmore started to come into focus for me as not just the story of a hotel but the story of Providence as a city. And at the time it was one of the most important cities in the United States. I became incredibly fascinated by it. I let the story just sort of unfold. And through my research in the archives and with other periodicals and a few books, I was able to piece together the conception of the hotel all the way through the present day.
I love the mental picture of you sitting in the parking lot of CCRI with your laptop. That's really dedication.
You know, I don't know how to write a book because I've never done it before, so this is all new to me. The thing that I found most challenging about using primary source material like newspaper articles is that nobody wraps it up and puts it into context for you. I started at about 1916-1915 I think, because in 1922 there was an article that said "when this project was first conceptualized by the chamber of commerce in 1915" or something along those lines, so you know what that does as an investigative journalist. So I'm back in 1915 in the archives now and I find that an editorial had been written that said Providence was lagging behind all the other bigger cities of the world by not having a luxury hotel. So in my mind, I have to make the decision: Is this the beginning of the story?
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That's so interesting. Was it a piece in the Providence Journal that was calling for a hotel?
The first piece of evidence I could find where the hotel was sort of demanded was a letter from a theater owner downtown, Edward Albee. He wrote a letter to the chamber of commerce, essentially saying that people were not staying in Providence. Businesspeople from all over the world were coming to Providence to do business, but they weren't staying in the city because there were no proper accommodations for affluent folks. They were getting back on the train and going back to Connecticut or New York or Boston, and it was hurting the theater industry, in his mind. Downtown businesses — mostly vaudeville theaters at the time — were really hurt by that drain at the end of the day. In his mind, if the city would build a luxury hotel, the theaters and the other entertainment houses of the day — the opera houses and the lecture halls and the things that existed downtown then — would be greatly, greatly supported. Plus, it would be good for all commerce.
The chamber of commerce read his letter at a meeting and made the determination that the city did indeed need a bigger, more luxurious hotel. At the time there were a number of hotels [in the city], but none that were up to snuff. None like the Waldorf-Astoria or some of the others they would have compared them to at the time.
Did the Biltmore — or the Graduate, now — have any records you could look through?
The hotel has been amazing. The Graduate folks have been incredible. Even though there were some opinions about them changing the name of the hotel, they really value the history and the historical significance of the hotel.
The hotel itself does not have a lot of its own historical documents. That has nothing to do with the Graduate management; it's just that the hotel has changed hands a number of times, and many times in the last 30 years. And because of that a lot has been lost. There was also sort of a fire sale in the 1970s when the hotel closed and they sold off everything in the hotel, all the way down to the plumbing fixtures. There's very little in the hotel that's original as far as furniture and documents and things. But the Graduate folks do have a collection of silver from the original 1920 silver service and cups and spoons and some cool things like that. They have their own history and documentation, but it's actually stuff that's been compiled by employees of the hotel over the years. The hotel itself doesn't have its own archives, so to speak.
I do kind of remember it fell on hard times, but I didn't know that they sold many of the interior items.
Essentially they had a multi-month yard sale where you could just walk into the hotel and anything you thought was for sale you could just point to it and say, "I'd like to buy that."
During your research did you discover anything that really surprised you or that was really notable?
Providence as a city has a real wild history. I think it's probably understated compared to other cities in the country when we think of Prohibition cities like Chicago and New York. Rhode Island was actually the "wettest" state when it comes to prohibition, meaning that it defied Prohibition laws more than any other state. And the Biltmore was designed and built during Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol was still illegal in the United States. But it was designed with multiple bar rooms, very lengthy bars themselves — there was clearly no intention to have this be a "sober" house.
I think just knowing that it was built during Prohibition and very much with the intention of serving alcohol gives you a lens into what the owners were thinking at the time. Known bootleggers who ran vast networks of bootlegging operations throughout the Northeast lived in the Biltmore as permanent residents in the 1920s. There was a speakeasy across the street on Eddy Street that many staff from the hotel in the 1920s would utilize — either filling up their own canteens or those for guests of the hotel. There was a lot of anti-Prohibition activity happening at the hotel at the time.
I think everybody loves that part of history. As the only luxury hotel in the state at the time and with Providence being the epicenter of the manufacturing industry up until the 1930s, there were just so many important people that came through and stayed at the hotel. All of the political heads, major celebrities: Charles Lindbergh stayed at the hotel at least once, Babe Ruth stayed at the hotel, all the Kennedys, Jackie O., Nixon, Reagan, Bush. And then lots of local celebrities — [former governor] Bruce Sundlun's parents lived at the hotel when he was a boy, so he kind of grew up in the hotel for the first portion of his life. He ended up being on the committee in the '70s that saved the hotel; of course, he owned the hotel in part for a period of time, too. There are lots of local folks who were involved in saving the hotel in the '70s from demolition, like Michael Metcalf from the Journal, Buddy Cianci, that whole group.
I think though, the most surprising and perhaps exciting stories to me were not about celebrities, but about folks that maybe have been lost to time and were really, really wild characters. When the hotel was built, hotels and apartment buildings were synonymous, so the hotel, while it always had short-term, overnight rental stays as part of its business model, also had permanent residents. And most hotels at the time did. Lots of people lived at the Waldorf in New York or at the Plaza in New York. And so some people who lived at the hotel during the '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s — were some very interesting people.
There was a period of time when women who had become widows would sell off part of their estate or homes and move into the hotel. So for a time there were a number of wealthy widows living in the hotel and their social lives played out often in the social sections of the Providence Journal.
Could you give me an example of someone of who wasn't as well-known but made the Biltmore their home?
There's a guy named Dutee Flint. You won't find a lot about Dutee Flint when you Google him, but if you go in the archives of the Providence Journal you would find hundreds of articles about him. Dutee Flint and his wife were extremely wealthy socialites. They loved to entertain and had a very large estate in Cranston. Dutee made his fortune in the very early days of the automotive trade. He was very good friends with Henry Ford and had the exclusive right to Ford dealerships in the Northeast. He made an incredible amount of money selling cars.
He was very involved, like everybody at the time who was anybody, in the construction and opening of the Biltmore Hotel, to the point where on opening day of the hotel — June 6, 1922 — when all the prestigious "hotel men" from New York arrived at Providence Union Station by train, Dutee Flint was there with a long line of his Ford cars, and took them to his house for lunch before they went to the hotel. Which makes no sense, because the train station was directly next to the hotel. So he takes them all to Cranston, probably at like 10 miles per hour. But he was that kind of guy. He wanted to show off his estate and he had one of the largest pipe organs ever made for a home in his house. He always liked to show that off. So he was a real wildcard.
But then he had a pretty terrible and swift falling out with the Ford Motor Company and lost his fortune almost really overnight. He went from being a very high-society person to having very little very quickly. On the heels of that, his massive home — his huge estate in Cranston — mysteriously burned down in the middle of the night. And Dutee and his wife were able to collect substantial insurance money for their home. That night, with the fire slowing burning their home down, Dutee and his wife moved into the Biltmore Hotel. And he maintained a residence there until his death in obscurity in the 1940s. It was sort of a sad end to a really illustrious and interesting life.
He was also very involved in lots of different hobbies. He ran a radio station from the rooftop of the Biltmore Hotel for a long time. He broadcast all of the happenings of the hotel and everything that was going on from the roof of the hotel for a long time.
I should take a step back for a moment and say that the hotel was built in civic spirit. The chamber of commerce developed a committee, and the committee went door to door in Providence asking people to invest in the hotel. So over 1,800 people in the city invested in the building of the hotel. It was financed by members of the city as stockholders in the hotel. And that created all sorts of challenges as the hotel reorganized over the years because there were so many people who had a stake in this. But from day one this has been the city's hotel.
So Dutee Flint being an investor in the hotel was not a surprise because everyone who was anyone in Providence helped pay for the construction of the Biltmore.
That's fascinating. It's almost like crowdsourcing.
This idea of running a public campaign was very new. In fact, I read a book about the Plaza Hotel that said the Plaza was one of the first to ever do that. The Plaza used a similar model but it was not quite as robust as the community fundraising campaign that was done by the Biltmore.
I have to ask — you always hear tales of hauntings and spectral beings in the hotel. Did you discover any stories related to that during your research?
Getting back to the idea that people lived in the hotel for a long time and it was definitely during a time when people died in their homes, so realistically — and perhaps maybe it's something they don't want to put on the front page of the hotel's website — but many, many, many people have died in the hotel. Because it was their home, and many people died at home.
There are lots of ghost stories that have floated around about the Biltmore that I couldn't find very much evidence around. There certainly was not a Satanist who helped build the hotel — that's one that gets floated around quite a bit. There was also no evidence of a wealthy banker committing suicide on the day of the stock market crash.
However, I do think that story — if one believes in ghosts — is the one that holds up the most. There have been a number of guests over the years that I saw in different articles that have reported seeing someone falling by their window outside of the hotel. To the point where guests have called the front desk to say, "Someone fell. Someone jumped. I just saw them fly by my window." And front desk staff would go outside and check the sidewalk to see if anyone had actually fallen and no one was there.
This has happened a number of times and the story was always that a banker during the 1929 stock market crash committee suicide. I searched the records, the police reports, the newspaper records; I didn't find anybody committing suicide at that time. But there was a suicide in the hotel in the 1940s and it would have been on the same floor [the eleventh] that people had reported seeing this body fall outside their window. I think if people are experiencing that, if one believes in ghosts, it is likely the body of a young woman who threw herself out of a window, not a banker in the 1920s.
She was in room 1130 on the eleventh floor. She checked in under an alias, she wrote a note pertaining to how she would like her three young children to be cared for, she took off her wedding ring, put it with the note, put it all together with her purse on the table and then threw herself out the window.
I omit her name from the book. I share the story but I do omit her name, respectfully recognizing that she had three children, so she has descendants, and I don't want to make her name a ghost story.
There are just so many "hauntings," so to speak — people hearing doors open and close — I think that if you believe in ghosts it would make no sense that it wouldn't be haunted. There have been so many people — particularly those who have had some really serious falls-from-grace situations who have moved into the hotel to escape either their financial ruin or escape from social ruin. There's been a number of people who've moved in whose wills have been contested. So if there are spirits, I can only imagine that they are not quite happy with how their lives played out at the end and perhaps being stuck at the Biltmore was their ultimate fate.
The hotel is such an icon. You think of Providence and you think of the Biltmore. Why do you think it's had such a lasting impression and has been such a big part of Providence's landscape throughout the years?
I think for a long time it was the only one. When the hotel was built, it was the most modern hotel in the world. At that time, there was a lot of competition going on to have very modern hotels and over the years the hotel's grandeur and the beauty of the inside of the hotel has been maintained really well. I think that's part of it. It has an old-world charm. It is what luxury hotels used to be.
And at that time, they were unique. They were one of a kind. Even though there were multiple hotels in the Biltmore chain, every single one was perfectly unique and designed specifically for that space. I think because it can't be replicated, because it's one of a kind, and because it has such a storied past within the city — and perhaps a little bit because of how Providence is and how Rhode Island is — everyone has a story about the Biltmore. It was the place to get married, it was the place to have your sweet sixteen or your debutante ball. It was the place. It was the ultimate place to be seen and to see people.
It also was the center of the entertainment in the city for a very, very long time. All the way through the 1960s it was the place to see up-and-coming acts and even established acts. Count Basie played there, the Andrews Sisters, Rudy Vallee — just so many people.
Of course, it had one of the most scandalous cocktail lounges in the world, the Bacchante Room, which has its own history as well. But it was certainly a favorite of JFK and his Navy buddies when he was stationed in the Navy in Rhode Island. It was sort of the center of the social world for so long and I think that cultural memory has been cemented in Rhode Islanders' minds forever.
The other side is that people who work at the Biltmore have worked there for decades. There were countless obituaries I came across that said so-and-so passed away, they worked at the Biltmore for twenty-five years; they worked at the Biltmore for forty-five years; they worked in the kitchen of the Biltmore for fifteen years. It was just the place to work at all levels of the hotel. I talked to people who are still alive today who worked in the kitchen at the Biltmore who have told me that when you got a job at the Biltmore, you had made it. And that was in the '90s. That was still the feeling. It was the best kitchen. It was an old-school luxury hotel that did things in a way that wasn't done at other hotels.
It has been both the hotel and the home of the city for so long. People have moved into the hotel when they either lost a home, when they sold a home, when they were in financial ruin. The Biltmore was the place to go. It's part of the cultural identity of the state.
Every year and every decade that the hotel went through, it transformed itself. It grew with the city and changed with the city and met the city where the needs of the city were. I'm hopeful that this book is as much a story of the hotel as it is about the city of Providence.
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