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Amid restrictions to foil Muharram procession, police detain Shiite mourners
By Guest on 2:30 am September 30, 2017 No Comment
Even as the district administration imposed restrictions in Srinagar parts, the authorities on Friday foiled the Muharram procession that was scheduled to start from Guru Bazar and would have culminated at Dalgate area of Srinagar City.
Reports said that restrictions under section 144 CrPC were imposed by the authorities in Srinagar areas falling under the jurisdiction of eight Police stations to thwart Muharram procession that was scheduled to be carried out by the Shiite Muslims here.
The restriction bound areas in Srinagar witnessed a huge presence of Police and paramilitary troopers since the wee hours of the morning.
The Srinagar areas which remained under restrictions today included Shaheedgunj, KaranNagar, Maisuma, Kothibagh, Shergadhi, Kralkhud, Batmaloo and Ram Bagh.
"The pedestrian as well as the vehicular movement was blocked by the forces by erecting concertina wires on the roads," witnesses informed.
Officials had said that the restrictions will remain in force in Srinagar parts as precautionary measure in view of today's Muharram procession.
The Muharram procession on 8th Muharram from Guru Bazaar to Dalgate area via Lal Chowk continued to remain 'banned' since the year 1990.
Meanwhile, police today foiled the attempt of Shiite Muslims to carry out a procession from Batamaloo area here and detained scores of mourners.
The procession was scheduled to start from Guru Bazar but in view of the restrictions imposed by the district administration, the mourners wearing black clothes or badges appeared outside the Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES) headquarter at Batamaloo.
Amid slogans in favour of Karabal martyrs, the mourners tried to march towards Dalgate.
However, Police already deployed in the areas swung into action and detained scores of Shiite mourners.
Later in the afternoon, the Muharram procession was carried out at Zadibal area in which thousands of Shiite mourners participated.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Range, Munir Ahmad Khan as per the local news gathering agency said that the situation remained normal throughout the day.
The news gathering agency also quoted him as saying that the mourners detained in the day will be released in the evening.
Pertinently, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, had on Wednesday issued a statement denying that the administrations has imposed any restrictions on Muharram processions. However, the claims fell flat owing to the strict restrictions that were imposed on Friday.
Amid restrictions to foil Muharram procession, police detain Shiite mourners added by Guest on 2:30 am September 30, 2017

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October 7th, 2022 by thehollywoodhome
Photos, Food, & More from the Los Angeles Times Food Bowl Night Market 2022
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Another year, another incredible Los Angeles Times Food Bowl. A fantastic month-long series of nights celebrating local restaurants, innovative chefs, and fine wine in locations all over town. The finale of every Food Bowl? A weekend of Night Markets on the legendary Paramount Pictures Studios backlot. We were there on Saturday evening for their delectable Dumpling Crawl and again on Sunday afternoon for their hearty Backlot Brunch. While we had to skip night one, we're told the "Smoked Soiree" was a rollicking good time with many of the same restaurants and chefs from Saturday and Sunday. That night was a classic celebration of the cities renowned food scene, highlighting top chefs, pitmasters, burger barons and grilling experts who gave patrons tasty food options to see first-hand what makes them so special.
We opted for the more vegetarian-friendly nights two and three, but all three days absolutely had something for everyone no matter your tastes or dietary restrictions. The Dumpling Crawl included celebrity guests such as Megan Mullaly and Nick Offerman who enjoyed the Live Demo hosted by Chef Matty Matheson and Culinary Producer Courtney Storer of the hit television series The Bear on FX. We also enjoyed bites from chefs such as Kevin Bludso of Bludso's BBQ and Eric Greenspan of Mr. Beast Burger. Night 2 Saturday we celebrated the city's renowned food scene by highlighting the diverse flavors of L.A. We sampled a smorgasbord of global cuisines for an experience that is quintessentially L.A. The Crawl was curated by L.A. Times food columnist Jenn Harris, inspired by her new series "The Bucket List: Dumplings!" with dumplings from CHD Mandu, Go Go Gyoza, Hui Tou Xiang, Lunasia Dim Sum House, Paradise Dynasty (VIP Only), Monta Factory, and more!
On Sunday we celebrated with the Backlot Brunch by feasting upon L.A.'s greatest brunches from west side surf to old school Hollywood glamour. The highlight of the afternoon was Duff Goldman, who is best known for the hit Food Network show Ace of Cakes, where his team of pastry chefs and artists at Charm City Cakes create spectacular custom cakes. Duff let us into the wonderful world of baking with his delicious baking demonstration.
Your Guide to the Los Angeles Times Food Bowl
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The Los Angeles Times Food Bowl is back and bigger, better, and brighter than ever! The monthlong festival celebrates our great city's top culinary talent, at both swanky and free and open to the public events, including special dining series in honor of the Los Angeles Times's Restaurant of the Year and Gold Award winners and an awesome and an exclusive launch party at Grandmaster Recorders to kick off 30 nights of divine food, wine, and fun.
The Gold Award was, of course, created by and named after former L.A. Times Food critic, editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jonathan Gold. The Los Angeles Times Food Bowl and I go way back, to the very beginning I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Gold at a delectable tasting and wine-filled evening at Paramount Pictures Studios in 2017.
The Los Angeles Times Food Bowl Launch Party will kick off the 30 nights of festivities at Hollywood's Grandmaster Recorders on Thursday, September 1. Ticket prices start at $150, which isn't cheap, but you'll be sure to get your money's worth with a night that will feature special tastings from exciting guest chefs, live DJs, as well as cocktails, beer and wine all included. Plus, the L.A. Times Food team General Manager Laurie Ochoa will honor this years' recipients of the Restaurant of the Year and Gold Award with a live presentation of the awards. Tickets are going fast so be sure to get yours here and read on below for the exceptional list of chefs and restaurants attending this year's opening night bash. Celebrate The Times' Restaurant of the Year, Anajak Thai, and Gold Award honoree, Meals by Genet.
The annual festival is presented by City National Bank and will combine the best of local eateries and world-renowned chefs in a series of over 30 pop-up dining events across the expanse of Los Angeles, while also highlighting issues of food access, sustainability and waste reduction. This year's lineup will also feature The Times' return to Paramount Pictures Studios's backlot with Food Bowl's Night Market tasting events Sept. 23, 24 and 25. Tickets are available now at lafoodbowl.com, with discounted early bird pricing for a limited time.
Plus, you can feel good about a night of imbibing as the Food Bowl supports the The L.A. Times Community Fund, where you can give back to nonprofits working in the community addressing hunger and food insecurity. Donations to the L.A. Times Community Fund's Food Insecurity project enable Food Bowl to make substantial contributions to non-profit organizations like Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Project Angel Food, World Central Kitchen, No Us Without You, and more. Just $50 provides the equivalent of 200 meals. The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, as just one example, has been fighting hunger in LA County for almost 50 years and has provided more than 1.5 billion meals to those in need. Yes, that's billion with a B. Food and nutrition insecurity continues to challenge many of our community's children, seniors, families and individuals. As a nonprofit organization, the LA Regional Food Bank relies on the generosity of organizations like the LA Times and its annual culinary festival.
September 14th, 2019 by thehollywoodhome
Photos From Los Angeles Times' The Taste at Paramount Studios
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The LA Times labor of love Labor Day tradition continued over the past Labor Day Weekend with The Taste LA. Along with celebrating amazing and inventive cuisine by Southern California's best chefs, The Taste also celebrated the legacy of the late Jonathan Gold. His image appeared in certain shadows of the event space as if he were watching from above and smiling down. We went to all three nights of the event!
August 23rd, 2019 by thehollywoodhome
The Best of SoCal Chefs at The Taste Labor Day Weekend at Paramount Studios
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Los Angeles Times's The Taste food & wine festival returns to Paramount Studios this Labor Day weekend and if you are in the mood for end-of-summer craft cocktails, local brews and award-winning wine from the best players in the beverage space and, of course, plenty of bite-sized, mouth-watering eats from the best of the culinary scene in Southern California, plus live music, cooking demonstrations, panels with celebrity chefs, and lots more, you won't want to miss the foodie event of the year. Read on for tickets, other info, and a who's who of participating restaurants, wineries, breweries, and distilleries.
Good Day Rosé: Food, Wine & Photos From The Taste at Paramount Studios
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The Los Angeles Times' The Taste, an annual celebration of Southern California's culinary scene, returned to Paramount Pictures Studios with five events highlighting food from Boyle Heights to Beverly Hills, NoHo to Venice. Inside you'll find all the best and most delicious food from all the best restaurants in town including Ocean Prime, Chaya, Otium, Kismet, Preux and Proper, and more. Plus your next new favorite bottle of rosé awaits!


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Black Farmers' Lives Matter
by Heather Gray
The 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize will be shared by the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund (Federation) and the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras. The prize will be presented in Des Moines on October 14, 2015. Thankfully, this prize honors the important work of family farmers throughout the world.
The Food Sovereignty prize was first awarded in 2009 as an alternative to the World Food Prize (also taking place this week in Des Moines, Iowa) founded by "the father of the Green Revolution," the late Norman Borlaug. While the World Food Prize emphasizes increased production through technology, the Food Sovereignty Prize, awarded by the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance, champions solutions coming from those most impacted by the injustices of the global food system. In honoring those who are organizing to reclaim local food systems, the commons and community self-determination, the Food Sovereignty Prize affirms that nothing short of the true democratization of our food system will enable us to end hunger once and for all. (EcoWatch)
The theme this year is "Black Farmer's Lives Matter". This is indeed true!
Black farmers have fed their communities and have always generously done so during and since the end of slavery. The stories about this are abundant. Much food is almost always shared for those in need.
In the late 1990s, I conducted a research project for the Federation that included interviews of farmers throughout the South. I was amazed at the abundance and variety of produce grown by Black farmers. Even if they grew huge monocrops, they also tended to maintain an important tradition of diverse production somewhere on their farm. When farmers have talked with me about the crops they grow, regardless of their struggles, on a consistent basis I have witnessed a gleam in their eyes. It's as if farming is indeed a spiritual experience regardless of who you are or where you are from.
Yet this on-going productivity has never been easy, largely because of southern and national politics, along with the growing industrial systems in agriculture that continue to threaten the integrity of our important family farmer sector.
In fact, since the end of the Civil War in 1865 and prior to that as well, Black farmers have honored the land and farming. The Freedman's Bureau was created in 1865 to assist freed slaves and poor whites after the war. The Bureau, however, was never given the directive from Congress to offer 40 acres to the Black community but rather small portions of from 10 to 15 acres. Unlike whites that were given free land in the west, thanks to the 1862 Homestead Act, Blacks needed to "purchase" their land. In fact, with the Homestead Act, American whites received some of the most massive welfare subsidies of any people in the world in the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, by the early 1900's the Black community had managed to purchase some 15 million acres of land. It was an amazing feat. Yet by 1910, the loss of black-owned land began with the advent, for one, of Jim Crow laws in the South.
The contributions of the Black farming community in the development U.S. food and culture have also been significant. Most of the slaves in America came from West Africa and that culture is reflected, for one, in the food we eat today. For centuries, Black farmers have maintained the growth of these traditional foods.
In fact, many of the African foods we eat in the 21rst century came with Africans on ships during the slave trade. African origins of some of our foods include okra, gumbo, watermelon, spinach, coffee, yams, black-eyed peas, sorghum, and African rice. All of these foods resonate in the South today.
Okra is thought to be from Ethiopia or also, and more likely, from West Africa where it was also grown and eaten abundantly. The word gumbo is believed to have come from "quingombo", of the word "quillobo", which is the native name for the okra plant in the Congo and Angola areas of Africa. Watermelon is thought to have originated in the Kalahari Desert of Africa and in the 1800s British missionary David Livingston saw an abundance of watermelon growing wild in central Africa. Spinach is from North Africa. Coffee is from Ethiopia. Yams are a staple food in West Africa. It is thought the first domestication of black-eyed peas took place in West Africa. Sorghum and African rice are thought to have come from the Sahel in Africa some 5,000 years ago. African rice has been grown in West Africa for some 3,000 years.
Rice, in fact, was critical to building wealth in the American colonies. For example, white plantation owners in South Carolina did not have a clue about growing rice. They opted for bring in slaves from West Africa where, as mentioned, rice had been grown for thousands of years. It was African women who taught these planation owners, of course, as women were the farmers, as was true throughout most of the African continent. Nevertheless, white South Carolinians still resonate from the wealth they accumulated thanks to the skills and vast knowledge of African female farmers – not to mention the wealth overall accumulated by white America from the labor of African farmers throughout the region.
No narrative of Black farmers and agriculture can be complete without referring to the great George Washington Carver who played a significant role through his work at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Many say he saved the South. This is probably true. Carver recognized that the depleted soil from cotton production could be alleviated by a rotation of crops. Cotton, for example, should be rotated with legumes such as peanuts to fix nitrogen in the soil and farmers today are largely attentive to this practice. This example of rotation just touches on his genius but also his teaching model of a "moveable school" was transformative for agriculture education in the South, as in taking education directly to the farmer. This is something the Federation and other institutions have also adapted in many instances whether or not they recognize Carver's role in the development of the model.
Tuskegee agriculture professors will often bring their students to the Federation's Rural Training and Research Center in Epes, Alabama to meet some of the Black farmers in the area. One professor told me that the students can then witness a farmer digging his hand into the soil and tell them precisely about its health or what was needed to improve it.
Black farmers have also played a central role in the movement for freedom and justice in the United States and are rarely acknowledged for this. In the mid-20th century, across the South, they assisted in funding civil rights initiatives with students and activists including the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); they offered their land for civil rights workers; they ran for positions in USDA agriculture committees, such as the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), which is now the Farm Service Agency (FSA); they assisted in voter registration initiatives. These are just a few examples.
Black farmers are, in fact, at the pinnacle of American heroes in the movement for justice in America and should be acknowledged as such!
Importantly, the legendary 1965 Voting Rights March from Selma-to-Montgomery on Highway 80 could probably never have occurred were it not for Black farmers. Black farmers, who owned land along Highway 80, allowed the integrated mixture of black and white marchers to stay on their land during the 54-mile march. This would never have been allowed on white-owned farms along the route.
As Black farmers were often the levers upon which the movement rested in rural areas, the conservative and reactionary whites in the South went after them with a vengeance that included, of course, the representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In his book "Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights", historian Pete Daniel describes the USDA and the white south's tactics. Daniel managed to obtain records from the "U.S. Commission on Civil Rights" of studies that were conducted, for one, in 1965 and 1967 and he said that after his years of research, even he was shocked by the tactics to undermine Black farmers. Countless farmers were forced off the land during this period and/or left the South under the circumstances.
Daniel states, for example,
When SNCC) in the mid-1960s organized African American farmers to vote in ASCS elections, county offices issued inaccurate maps, neglected to send black women ballots, manipulated ballots to confuse black farmers, all with the complicity of the Washington USDA office. There was also violence, intimidation, and economic retaliation.
(Daniel)
Largely in response to this discrimination, the Federation was created in 1967. It grew out of the civil rights movement. As the late Alabama attorney J.L. Chestnut once said, "There were a lot of organizations that were spawned by the blood that was spilled on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965, and the Federation was one of those." Elders in the movement have told me that they felt the civil rights movement at the time had left the rural South behind. So the Federation was created to help fill that void by playing a role in saving black-owned land and offering tools for economic development.
As the founders of the Federation were, of course, aware of the discrimination against Black farmers in the South, they created an expansive organization in the South that is licensed in 16 Southern states. It has offered assistance in seeking resources from the USDA for farmers, and, through the cooperative economic development model, provided another significant framework for economic advancement. Its work has also included international outreach and assistance in Cuba, West Africa, the Caribbean and Haiti to name a few. This is often with international farmer-to-farmer exchange programs.
In its more that four decades, the Federation has assisted in the creation of agriculture cooperatives, fisher cooperatives, craft cooperatives, credit unions and other cooperative ventures in addition to an important infrastructure of State Associations of Cooperatives. It has remained a grassroots organization with community representation despite attempted persuasion from some major entities in late 1990s. The pressure was to change its model to a more elitist type board with government and/or corporate leaders – and this was after the U.S. government had launched a grand jury investigation against the organization. The Federation thankfully withstood this pressure.
In 1979 the U.S. government launched a Grand Jury investigation against the Federation at the behest of Alabama politicians including, primarily, Alabama's U.S. Senators Howell Heflin and James Stewart and local Congressman Richard Shelby. The claim was that the organization was misusing its federal funds for political activities. The proof? Many more blacks in the area were registered to vote in preparation for the 1980 elections. It appears these politicians were scared of Black voters. For three grueling years, the Federation was under investigation by the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office and lost a considerable amount of its major funding. In 1981 the investigation ended without explanation. For all intents and purposes it was a ploy in an attempt to destroy an effective and important Black institution, and it didn't work!
In addition to assisting individual Black farmers, the Federation has played a significant role effecting federal policy. In the early 1990s, Congress passed what was known as the "Minority Farmers Rights Act" that would, for the first time, use federal funds for programs targeted for Black farmers. While the bill passed Congress, funds were not appropriated. It took a "Caravan to Washington" in 1992 of farmers and supporters from across the South, to finally pressure Congress to appropriate monies for the program. The "Caravan" was the brainchild of the former executive director, Ralph Paige.
Importantly, the Federation was instrumental in the filing of the Black Farmer Class Action Lawsuit against the USDA that settled in 1999. It was known as the Pigford v Glickman lawsuit with Tim Pigford being a Black farmer from North Carolina and Dan Glickman being President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Agriculture. This was the largest civil rights lawsuit ever filed against the United States government. To date, more than a billion dollars have been allocated to Black farmers for the discrimination they experienced from the USDA.
The above is but a brief summary of the expansive work of the Federation in the Black Belt South. Its important contributions have offered hope and an inspiration to many throughout the region and the world. The Federation and Black farmers have played a significant role in both honoring and saving family farmers for the benefit of farmers themselves and their communities, of course, as well as for all of us in America in providing food, in significant contributions to our culture and the integrity of our communities over all.
Heather Gray is a writer and radio producer in Atlanta, Georgia and has also lived in Canada, Australia, Singapore, briefly in the Philippines and has traveled in southern Africa. For 24 years she has worked in support of Black farmer issues and in cooperative economic development in the rural South. She holds degrees in anthropology and sociology. She can be reached at hmcgray@earthlink.net.


College students gathered outside of the College Center at Crozier-Williams in solidarity with students of color who have experienced racism on college campuses and in everyday life.
In a call for greater equity and inclusion, hundreds of Connecticut College students held a candlelight vigil Monday night in front of the College Center at Crozier-Williams.
The event, organized by the College's Student Government Association, culminated a day where the SGA asked Conn students to dress in black in order to show solidarity with students of color who have experienced racism on college campuses and in everyday life.
"We are showing that we as students have a voice," Sal Bigay '16, president of SGA, said.
After Bigay kicked off the vigil, David Canton, interim dean of equity and inclusion, addressed the crowd. Canton urged students to turn this moment into a sustainable movement.
This is more than just a Snapchat or Instagram post, "we want to commit to doing something more. Be proactive not reactive," Canton said.
During the vigil, individuals from the crowd were encouraged to stand before the microphone and reflect on the event. Some told personal stories about their own battles with racism while others stressed the need to bring the College community together.
Speakers routinely encouraged the audience to continue engaging in conversations about race and inclusion, and to stand in support of students of color on this campus and across the nation.
Luca Powell '16, co-editor-in-chief of "The College Voice," had an answer to the critics who question what a few hundred students, along with a handful of professors, can accomplish at a campus vigil. Powell said the event itself was a small victory.
"It's a platform for people to talk. You never know what will come out of it, but we are here as an expression of solidarity and that is a valuable outcome," Powell said.


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Various radioimmunoassay kits have been developed for measuring the serum free thyroxine (T4) concentration. Values for free T4 obtained with these kits correlate well with values obtained by the more cumbersome and time-consuming method of equilibrium dialysis in patients with thyroid dysfunction and abnormalities in the serum thyroxine-binding globulin concentration (1, 2). However, when some of these kits are used to assess serum free T4 in euthyroid patients with nonthyroidal illnesses, the values may be lower than those obtained with equilibrium dialysis (2-5). These discrepancies may limit the clinical usefulness of these methods in ill, euthyroid patients.
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Emperor Huai of Jin
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Emperor of the Jin Dynasty
晉懷帝
307 – 14 March 313
Sima Lun
Emperor Min of Jin
Crown Prince of the Jin Dynasty
Sima Ying
Sima Ye
14 March 313(313-03-14) (aged 28–29)
Family name: Sima (司馬; sī mǎ)
Given name: Chi (熾, chì)
Posthumous name
Full: Xiaohuai (孝懷, xiào huái)
literary meaning "Filial and missed"
Short: Huai (懷, huái)
literary meaning "Missed"
Emperor Wu
Lady Wang
Emperor Huai of Jin (simplified Chinese: 晋怀帝; traditional Chinese: 晉懷帝; pinyin: Jìn Huái Dì; Wade–Giles: Chin Huai-ti; 284 – March 14, 313), personal name Sima Chi (司馬熾), courtesy name Fengdu (豐度), was an emperor of the Jin Dynasty (265-420).
Emperor Huai was captured in 311 and later executed in 313 under the order of Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state of Han Zhao.
1 As Prince of Yuzhang and crown prince
2 Reign
3 After capture by Han Zhao
4 Era name
6 Ancestry
As Prince of Yuzhang and crown prince[edit]
Sima Chi was one of the youngest sons of Emperor Wu, the founding emperor of Jin, by his concubine Consort Wang. Just prior to Emperor Wu's death in 290, he was created the Prince of Yuzhang. During the early stages of the War of the Eight Princes during his developmentally disabled brother Emperor Hui's reign, unlike the other princes fighting for power, Prince Chi did not get himself in political or military matters, but spent his time studying history.
In late 304, when Emperor Hui was forcibly taken from the capital Luoyang to Chang'an, then under the control of the regent Sima Yong Prince of Hejian, Prince Chi was forced to accompany the emperor. In early 305, when his more ambitious brother Sima Ying the crown prince was demoted back to Prince of Chengdu by Sima Yong, Prince Chi was created crown prince to replace him. He was initially going to decline the honor, believing that his nephew Sima Qin (司馬覃) the Prince of Qinghe and one-time crown prince should be returned to that position, but was persuaded to accept by his associate Xiu Su (脩肅). Later, after Sima Yue the Prince of Donghai defeated Sima Yong in 306, Crown Prince Chi accompanied Emperor Hui and returned to Luoyang.
Early in 307, Emperor Hui was poisoned. (Most historians believe that Sima Yue ordered the murder, but there is no conclusive evidence.) Emperor Hui's wife, Yang Xianrong, believing that she would not be honored as empress dowager if her brother-in-law inherited the throne, tried to have Sima Qin declared emperor; she was rebuffed by Sima Yue, however, and Crown Prince Chi succeeded to the throne as Emperor Huai. Emperor Huai honored her with the title "Empress Hui," but not empress dowager. He created his wife Crown Princess Liang Lanbi empress.
Reign[edit]
Emperor Huai was commonly regarded as an intelligent man, and he tried to institute reforms that he felt would allow the empire to recover from the ravages of the War of the Eight Princes and the subsequent Wu Hu and agrarian uprisings. However, Sima Yue maintained a tight grip on power and would not allow the emperor to exercise much actual authority.
In spring 307, Emperor Huai created Sima Qin's brother (and therefore fellow son of Emperor Huai's brother Sima Yan (司馬晏) the Prince of Wu) Sima Quan (司馬詮) crown prince. (His apparent conclusion, at the young age of 23, that he should make a nephew his heir, may indicate that he considered himself infertile.)
In spring 307, Sima Yue left Luoyang and set up headquarters at Xuchang (許昌, in modern Xuchang, Henan), but continued to control the government remotely. In 309, Sima Yue, concerned about the growing use of authority that Emperor Huai was exerting, made a sudden return to Luoyang and arrested and executed a number of Emperor Huai's associates, including Emperor Huai's uncle Wang Yan (王延). Other than privately mourning them, there was nothing that Emperor Huai could do. Sima Yue further disbanded the imperial guards and put his own personal forces in charge of protecting the emperor.
For all of Sima Yue's assertion of authority, he could not stop Han Zhao, under its generals Liu Cong the Prince of Chu (the son of Han Zhao's emperor Liu Yuan), Liu Yao the Prince of Shi'an (Liu Yuan's nephew), Wang Mi (王彌), and Shi Le (石勒), from disrupting Jin rule throughout northern and central China and gradually wearing out Jin forces and capturing Jin cities and towns. In late 309, he managed to fight off a joint attack by Liu Cong and Wang on Luoyang, but that victory was the exception to Han Zhao's inexorable advances. After Liu Yuan died in 310 and was succeeded by Liu Cong, Han Zhao renewed its attacks on the Luoyang region. Meanwhile, Sima Yue continued to alienate other generals and officials, and when Liu Kun (劉琨), the military commander of Bing (并州, roughly modern Shanxi) proposed to him the plan of an attack on the Han Zhao capital Pingyang (平陽, in modern Linfen, Shanxi) in conjunction with the powerful Xianbei chieftain Tuoba Yilu (拓拔漪盧) the Duke of Dai, Sima Yue was fearful of backstabbing attack by some of these warlords and therefore unable to accept Liu's plan. Indeed, when Emperor Huai and Sima Yue sent out calls for the various governors to come to Luoyang's aid later that year, there were few responses. Sima Yue became uncertain of himself, and late in 310 left Luoyang with virtually all of the central government's remaining troops, along with a large number of officials, effectively stripping Luoyang and Emperor Huai bare of their defenses, except for a small detachment commanded by Sima Yue's subordinate He Lun (何倫), intended as much to monitor as to protect Emperor Huai. From that point on, Luoyang was left even without a police force and became largely a city abandoned to bandits and thugs.
Emperor Huai soon entered into a plan with Gou Xi (苟晞), the military commander of Qing Province (青州, modern central and eastern Shandong), who had been dissatisfied with Sima Yue, to overthrow Sima Yue's yoke. Sima Yue discovered this plan, but was unable to wage a campaign against Gou. He grew ill in his anger and distress, and died in spring 311. The generals and officials in his army, instead of returning to Luoyang, headed east toward Sima Yue's principality of Donghai (roughly modern Linyi, Shandong) to bury him there. He Lun, upon hearing about Sima Yue's death, also withdrew from Luoyang and sought to join that force. However, both were intercepted by Shi Le and wiped out. Shi, declaring that Sima Yue had caused the empire much damage, burned Sima Yue's body. Sima Yue's sons were all captured and presumably killed by Shi.
Sima Yue's death, however, only left Emperor Huai even more vulnerable to Han Zhao attacks. Gou sent a force to welcome Emperor Huai to move the capital to Cangyuan (倉垣, in modern Kaifeng, Henan), and Emperor Huai was going to do so, but his officials all still missed Luoyang and did not want to leave. Soon, however, the famine that had already overtaken Luoyang got even more severe. Emperor Huai resolved to head for Cangyuan, but with Gou's force having already left Luoyang, was unable to even leave the palace without being attacked by bandits, and therefore was forced to return to the palace. In summer 311, knowing that Luoyang was defenseless, the Han Zhao generals Liu Yao, Wang Mi, Shi Le, and Huyan Yan converged on Luoyang, and they easily captured Emperor Huai in what is known as the Disaster of Yongjia. A large number of Jin nobility was slaughtered, although Emperor Huai was, for the time being, spared and delivered to the Han Zhao capital Pingyang, to be presented to the emperor Liu Cong. Liu Cong created Emperor Huai the Duke of Ping'a.
After capture by Han Zhao[edit]
For one and a half years, the former Jin emperor lived a humiliating existence in the Han Zhao capital. In 312, Liu Cong promoted him to the title of the Duke of Kuaiji. Once, after inviting the duke to a feast, Liu Cong commented on a meeting they had while the former emperor was still the Prince of Yuzhang, leading to a notable colloquy. Liu Cong first stated,
When you were the Prince of Yuzhang, I had once visited you with Wang Ji (王濟). Wang praised me, and you said, "I have long heard of your fame." You showed me the music that you had written, and then asked me and Wang to write lyrics for them. We wrote lyrics praising you, and you liked them. Then, we spent some time shooting arrows; I hit the target 12 times, and both you and Wang hit nine times. You gave me gifts of a mulberry bow and a silver inkstone. Do you still remember?
The duke responded, "How can I forget? What I regret is not realizing that I was in the presence of a dragon." Liu Cong, impressed by the flattery, then asked, "How is it that your clan members slaughtered each other?" The duke replied:
This is not a human matter, but was the will of Heaven. The great Han was going to receive divine favor, so our clan eliminated itself for Han. If our clan members could follow the directives of Emperor Wu and remain united, how could Your Imperial Majesty become emperor?
Liu Cong was impressed, and they spent all night talking. The next day, Liu Cong gave one of his favorite concubines to the duke as a gift, creating her as the Duchess of Kuaiji.
In 313, however, the former emperor would suffer his death. At the imperial new year celebration, Liu Cong ordered him to serve the high level officials wine, and former Jin officials Yu Min (庾珉) and Wang Juan (王雋) could not control their emotions at seeing his humiliation, and cried out loud. This made Liu Cong angry, and he falsely accused Yu and Wang, along with a number of former Jin officials, of being ready to betray Pingyang and offer it to the Jin general Liu Kun. He then executed those former Jin officials and poisoned the former emperor.
Era name[edit]
Yongjia (永嘉 Yǒngjiā) 307–313
Family[edit]
Consorts:
Empress, of the Liang clan of Anding (皇后 安定梁氏), personal name Lanbi (蘭璧)
Lady, of the Liu clan (劉氏)
Ancestry[edit]
Sima Fang (149–219)
Sima Yi (179–251)
Sima Zhao (211–265)
Zhang Wang
Empress Xuanmu (189–247)
Lady Shan of Henei
Emperor Wu of Jin (236–290)
Wang Lang (d. 228)
Wang Su (195–256)
Lady Yang of Hongnong
Empress Wenming (217–268)
Lady Yang
Emperor Huai of Jin (284–313)
Empress Wuyuan (238–274)
Fang, Xuanling. Book of Jin (Jin Shu).
House of Sima
Born: 284 Died: 14 March 313
Regnal titles
Emperor Hui of Jin Emperor of China
Western Jin
with Sima Yue (307–311) Vacant
Captured by Han Zhao
Title next held by
Chinese nobility
Recreated
Last known title holder:
Sun Xiu Duke of Kuaiji
311–313 Unknown
Next known title holder:
Helian Chang
Emperors of the Jin dynasty (265–420)
晉
Eastern Jin
Jianwen
Xiaowu
(Huan Xuan)
Xia → Shang → Zhou → Qin → Han → 3 Kingdoms → Jìn / 16 Kingdoms → S. Dynasties / N. Dynasties → Sui → Tang → 5 Dynasties & 10 Kingdoms → Liao / Song / W. Xia / Jīn → Yuan → Ming → Qing → ROC / PRC
Notable figures of the War of the Eight Princes
The Eight Princes
Sima Ai, Prince of Changsha
Sima Jiong, Prince of Qi
Sima Liang, Prince of Runan
Sima Lun, Prince of Zhao
Sima Wei, Prince of Chu
Sima Ying, Prince of Chengdu
Sima Yong, Prince of Hejian
Sima Yue, Prince of Donghai
Other notable figures
Empress Jia Nanfeng
Sima Chi, Emperor Huai
Sima Yu
Sima Zhong, Emperor Hui
Wei Guan
Yang Jun
Yang Xianrong
Empress Yang Zhi
Zhang Fang
Zhang Hua
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Orlando, Fl, November 17, 2010 — Dinner reservations at La Luce means a leisurely stroll from the Waldorf Astoria through Peacock Alley, past the expansive meeting and convention spaces to the attached Hilton Property where incredible authentic Italian cuisine, ably prepared, is served.
The space looks out over the Hilton's pool, slide and lazy river, with the golf course and edging of trees providing a bottom frame to a full moon night.
Scattered throughout the restaurant are original works of art, on our visit, by artists such as Edson Campos and Kathleen Brodeur.
Brodeur's chalk paintings are exquisite, even more so because of their temporary status; every three months or so the artist returns, completely erasing the board, and recreating a new image.
Italian food, with its rich tapestry of flavors, should always be served family style and a friendly staff that meets each and every request with ease, as it is at La Luce.
Three dishes started the feast; Antipasti Misti, a mélange of salame, mortadella, peppers, olives, provolone and grilled garlic toast, an avocado, roasted beets and green beans dressed with fennel and Roquefort vinaigrette Fragolini Verde con Betole and the table favorite, the Olive Fritte a deceptively simple dish of fried Spanish olives filled with the tart tastes of sea salt and vinegar pared with the sweet crunch of baked Marcona Almonds.
Foods are often described as "can't put down" but the Olive Fritte, with its combination of sweet, salty, unami and satisfying crunch makes it the perfect accompaniment to crisp, cold vodka and lemon martinis and on a future visit, bar time will be made.
Beautiful wood burning ovens produce Pizze with a decidedly gourmet touch. A creative selection of flatbread pies include Bambini of tomato, mozzarella, fries and "not green stuff or the more familiar Margherita with tomato, basil and creamy Mozzarella Fior di Latte, signifying the cheese is made from cow's milk.
Our choice combined sweet roasted pears and caramelized onions with tart young Gorgonzola dolce, which is a creamier, moister cousin to the more mature cheese we often see, with aged balsamic drizzle. This dish offered so many different flavors that each bite took on a new profile.
Pasta is plentiful and varied at La Luce and a selection of dishes for our Primi, or pasta course, included a classic meat ragu in a Riccia con Bolognese, a savory Farfalle con Funghi with earth rich wild mushrooms, artichokes and truffle pecorino cheese, a Bucatini Amatriciana with large pieces of salty bacon, tomato, onion, and a bit of a bite from the chilies garnished with pecorino Romano cheese and the unique and incredible Silk Handkerchiefs, thin sheets of house made pasta brushed with a rich, pesto sauce and sprinkled with pecorino cheese.
At the core of each of these dishes was incredible pasta that stood on its own, even beneath the rich dressings of the dishes. The Ricca con Bolognese with the thick flat Pappardelle ribbon pasta that stood next to the rich meat of the ragu or the decorative bow tie of the Farfalle that held the rich mushroom sauce in its delicate folds.
The pasta shined most fully in the Silk Handkerchiefs, thinly rolled pasta squares basted in a fresh basil pesto. Every excellent meal has at least one dish with memory recall of its flavor and smell, and for La Luce, it was the Silk Handkerchiefs, or Mandilli de Sea, a pasta that calls the Southern Italian seaport region of Liguria, which is also known for its most famous export, pesto sauce.
The capital of Liguria, Genoa, is the basis for the "Principality of Genovia" which is a fictional country that Princess Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) in the Meg Cabott book and movie The Princess Diaries, reigns over. A bit of trivia for when you dine at La Luce!
Making Mandilli de Sea, or Silk Handkerchiefs, the egg pasta dough (flour, salt, olive oil and a lot of eggs) is thinned by rolling it by hand, or through the pasta machine. With each pass it becomes more transparent, or silk like. Quickly boiled the delicate squares are liberally basted with fresh basil pesto, sprinkled with salty, grated pecorino cheese and served very warm.
Each square should be folded into no more than a two-bite sized morsel and allowed to sit on your tongue for a moment, as the pesto seeps out from the pasta. This is a dish whose fragrance comes alive from the warmth of the pasta creating a dish that smells, tastes and has an incredible mouth feel.
While a dinner consisting of Antipasti Misti, Olive Fritte and Silk Handkerchiefs accompanied by a good friend and a bottle of Castiglioni Chianti, a light bodied wine that has a wonderful berry nose and flavors of fresh berries and fruit with a comfortable Chianti spicy finish, would be perfect, this meal continued to the Secondi, or second entrée course.
To the table was placed a seared salmon filet resting atop a potato puree with chive butter sauce and tomato garnish; a Chimay (a Trappist beer brewed by monks in Belgium since 1850) braised short ribs with roasted cauliflower and gremolata which is a chopped herb dish consisting of garlic, parsley and lemon peel, that when sprinkled over the dish, enhances the rich short ribs while cutting back some of the "fattiness" of the meat and the Bistecca Tagliata, sliced grass fed rib eye steaks tossed with ribbons of peppery arugula lettuce finished with lemon juice and shaved Reggiano cheese.
Fesce del Giorno, or fish of the day, included a seared diver sea scallop over tomato risotto and a seared halibut over sweet potato gnocchi with cherry tomatoes and basil puree garnish.
This gourmand feast was finished with a selection of deserts, include a creamy cheese cake garnished with fresh fruits, min and a crisp twist, Luce's interpretation of strawberry shortcake, with plenty of rich cream, strawberries, black berries and custard crème, a selection of house made sorbets and an incredible toffee pudding martini garnished with toffee chocolate and whipped cream.
And all together we said Ahhh.
For over 50 years, Chef and restaurateur Donna Scala was immersed in the art of creative cuisine. Donna grew up surrounded by the restaurant and hotel business. Her grandfather owned several different types of restaurants and Donna received first-hand experience throughout her childhood.
Donna's passion for food continued to evolve and was officially ignited when she traveled to the South of France to formally study her culinary craft. She returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1982 to open a gourmet French and Italian food store in Sausalito.
Throughout the 80's and 90's, Donna opened and managed a number of highly successful and sought after Italian restaurants in Northern California. With her innovative approach to traditional Italian cooking, along with her incredibly vibrant personality, she came to be recognized as a culinary force in the San Francisco and Napa Valley regions. And it was this unique blend of taste and spirit that made her such an integral ingredient here at La Luce by Donna Scala, as well as throughout the Bonnet Creek Resort family.
Since her passing in March 2014, Donna's legacy continues to shine here at La Luce. Her exuberant energy and passion for creating delicious food and memorable experiences will live on in our hearts forever.
Jacquie Kubin is a 15-year, award-winning veteran of travel and culinary writing.


Think back to your favourite teacher: for me, a French teacher who wept as he read out from a novel by Marguerite Duras. The teachers whom we hold in our hearts are not those who taught us the most facts, but those who inspired us and opened us up to ourselves. But what is inspiration and can it be cultivated?
Similarly, the Church maintains that inspiration is a gift from the Holy Ghost, including the inspiration for the Bible itself: 'For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost' (2 Peter 1:21).
The Oxford English Dictionary defines 'inspiration' as 'a breathing in or infusion of some idea, purpose, etc. into the mind; the suggestion, awakening, or creation of some feeling or impulse, especially of an exalted kind'. Going with this, there appears to be two aspects to inspiration: some kind of vision, accompanied by some kind of positive energy with which to drive or at least sustain that vision.
'Inspiration' is often confused with 'motivation' and 'creativity'. Motivation aims at some sort of external reward, whereas inspiration comes from within and is very much its own reward. Although inspiration is associated with creative insight, creativity also involves the realization of that insight—which requires opportunity, means, and, above all, effort. In the words of Thomas Edison, genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration—although you may not get started, or get very far, without the initial one percent.
Other than creativity, inspiration has been linked with enthusiasm, optimism, and self-esteem. Inspiration need not be all artistic and highfalutin: I often feel inspired to garden or cook, to plant out some bulbs for next spring or make use of some seasonal ingredients. Such inspired tasks feel very different from, say, writing a complaint or filing my accounts. If I could be paid to do what inspires me, and pay others to do what doesn't, I should be a very happy man.
Despite its importance to both society and the individual, our system of education leaves very little place for inspiration—perhaps because, like wisdom and virtue, it cannot easily be taught but only… inspired. Unfortunately, if someone has never been inspired, he or she is unlikely to inspire others. That is a great shame. The best education consists not in being taught but in being inspired, and, if I could, I would rather inspire a single person than teach a thousand.
For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
Socrates compares inspired poets to the Bacchic maidens, who are out of their minds when they draw honey and milk from the rivers. He asks Ion, a rhapsode (reciter of poetry), whether, when he recites Homer, he does not get beside himself, whether his soul does not believe that it is witnessing the actions of which he sings. Ion replies that, when he sings of something sad, his eyes are full of tears, and when he sings of something frightening, his hairs stand on end, such that he is no longer in his right mind. Socrates says that this is precisely the effect that a rhapsode has on his audience: the muse inspires the poet, the poet the rhapsode, and the rhapsode his audience, which is the last of the iron rings in the divine chain.
In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates argues that madness, as well as being an illness, can be the source of our greatest blessings. There are, he continues, four kinds of inspired madness: prophecy, from Apollo; holy prayers and mystic rites, from Dionysus; poetry, from the muses; and love, from Aphrodite and Eros.
But if a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane companions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
All human beings, says Socrates, are able to recollect universals such as perfect goodness and perfect beauty, and must therefore have seen them in some other life or other world. The souls that came closest to the universals, or that experienced them most deeply, are reincarnated into philosophers, artists, and true lovers. As the universals are still present in their minds, they are completely absorbed in ideas about them and forget all about earthly interests. Humdrum people think that they are mad, but the truth is that they are divinely inspired and in love with goodness and beauty. In the 20th century, the psychoanalyst Carl Jung echoed Plato, arguing that the artist is one who can reach beyond individual experience to access our genetic memory, that is, the memory, such as the memory for language, that is already present at birth. It is perhaps no coincidence that, in Greek myth, the mother of the muses is Mnemosyne/Memory.
The idea that 'madness' is closely allied with inspiration and revelation is an old and recurring one. In Of Peace of Mind, Seneca the Younger writes that 'there is no great genius without a tincture of madness' (nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtuae dementiae fuit), a maxim which he attributes to Aristotle, and which is also echoed in Cicero. For Shakespeare, 'the lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact'. And for Dryden, 'great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide'. As I argued in a book called The Meaning of Madness, our reservoir of madness is a precious resource that we can learn to tap into.
The most beautiful things are those that are whispered by madness and written down by reason. We must steer a course between the two, close to madness in our dreams, but close to reason in our writing.
So it seems that inspiration is some kind of alignment or channelling of primal energies, and that it cannot quite be summoned or relied upon.
1. Wake up when your body tells you to. No one has ever been tired and inspired at the same time. To make matters worse, having our sleep disrupted by an alarm clock or other extraneous stimulus can leave us feeling groggy and grouchy, as though we had 'woken up on the wrong side of the bed'.
2. Complete your dreams. REM sleep, which is associated with dreaming, is richest just before *natural* awakening. Dreaming serves a number of critical functions such as assimilating experiences, processing emotions, and enhancing problem solving and creativity. In fact, the brain can be more active during REM sleep than during wakefulness. Many great works of art have been inspired by dreams, including Dali's Persistence of Memory, several of Edgar Allan Poe's poems and short stories, and Paul McCartney's Let it Be.
3. Eliminate distractions, especially the tedious ones. Clear your diary, remove yourself from people, take plenty of time over every small thing. You want to give your mind plenty of spare capacity. You want it to roam, to freewheel. Before going to bed, I check my calendar for the next day's engagements, and am never happier than when I see 'No Events'. Don't worry or feel guilty, the sun won't fall out of the sky. Many people are unable to let their minds wander for fear that uncomfortable thoughts and feelings might arise into their consciousness. If they do, why not take the opportunity to meet them?
4. Don't try to rush or force things. If you try to force inspiration, you will strangle it and achieve much less overall. There may be 'on' days and 'off' days, or even 'on' hours and 'off' hours. If you don't feel inspired, that's fine, go out and enjoy yourself. Your boss may disagree, but it's probably the most productive thing you could do. If you can, try not to have a boss.
5. Be curious. The 17th century philosopher John Locke suggested that inspiration amounts to a somewhat random association of ideas and sudden unison of thought. If something, anything, catches your interest, try to follow it through. Nothing is too small or irrelevant. Read books, watch documentaries, visit museums and exhibitions, walk in gardens and nature, talk to inspired and inspiring people… Feed your unconscious.
6. Break the routine. Sometimes it can really help to give the mind a bit of a shake. Try new things that take you out of your comfort zone. Modify your routine or your surroundings. Better still, go travelling, especially to places that are unfamiliar and disorienting, such as a temple in India or a hippy farm in the Uruguayan pampas.
7. Make a start. When I write an article, I make a start and come back to it whenever I next feel inspired. The minute I start flagging, I stop and do something else, and, hopefully, while I do that, the next paragraph or section enters my mind. Some articles I write over three or four days, others over three or four weeks—but hardly ever in a single day or single sitting. When I write a book, the first half seems to take forever, while the second half gets completed in a fraction of the time. Small accomplishments are important because they boost confidence and free the mind to move on, establishing a kind of creative momentum.
If you have any other thoughts on inspiration, please put them in the comments section.
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Q: С# и Excel - Копирование диапазона ячеек в массив Есть xls файл с большим количеством строк.
Использую C#, библиотеку interop. Чтение происходит в виде создания списка  объектов (один объект представляет одну строку) со свойствами a1, a2...a8, которые содержат значения столбцов данной строки.
Затем следующая строка и т.д. циклом for, пока не встречу пустую строку.
Затем с помощью этих объектов провожу анализ.
Проблема в очень маленькой скорости считывания.
В интернете советуют использовать EPPlus. Но, он работает с xlsx, у меня же xls.
Руками, через ctrl+a, ctrl+v копирование большого количества ячеек на другой лист занимает всего пару сек.
По аналогии, можно ли как-то выделить, скопировать весь диапазон заполненных ячеек в, допустим, двумерный массив и далее с ним уже работать? По идее, скорость на порядок увеличиться? Если да, как это сделать? Количество строк в разных файлах различно.
Спасибо.
Мой фрагмент кода
//считываем ячейки, пока не встретим пустаю

   while (true)
        {
            excelcells = excelworksheet.get_Range("A" + row.ToString(), Type.Missing);
            if (excelcells.Value2 == null)
            {
                break;
            }

            excelcells = excelworksheet.get_Range("C" + row.ToString(), Type.Missing);
            int AA = Int32.Parse(excelcells.Value2.ToString());

            excelcells = excelworksheet.get_Range("H" + row.ToString(), Type.Missing);
            double BB = (double)excelcells.Value2;

            excelcells = excelworksheet.get_Range("I" + row.ToString(), Type.Missing);
            double CC = (double)excelcells.Value2;

            new ClassRs(AA, BB, CC);

            row++;

        }

A: Если необходимо скопировать всё содержимое первого листа в массив тогда так:
var oExcel = new excel.Application();

var oBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(filePath, false, true);

var sh = oBook.Worksheets[1];

var arr = sh.UsedRange.Value2;

A: *

*Открываете Excel через Interop, далее пересохраняете(конвертируете)
в *.xlsx в какую-нибудь временную директорию. Пересохранение происходит почти моментально.

*Далее открываете новый файл черезEpPlus и со скоростью света читаете ячейки.
Проблема решена.
Единственный минус в том, что для первого шага понадобится interop.
Еще есть вариант с выделением Range на странице и вызовом метода Copy у Application. Тогда все это будет скопировано в буфер-обмена. Я посмотрел буфер через Free Clipboard Viewer и там есть html-представление=> парсить его можете, но лучше все таки первый мой вариант.

A: Как оказалось, одна из проблем низкой скорости библиотеки interop - использование "range" методов и объектов при обращении к ячейкам. Следовательно, нужно минимизировать их использование. Для считывания ячеек, вместо кода, приведенного в изначальном вопросе, нужно сделать так:
var arrayRsu = (object[,])excelworksheet.get_Range("A" + startRow.ToString(), "P" + lastRow.ToString()).Value;

Где правая часть - сразу ВЕСЬ необходимый диапазон ячеек. После чего работа с каждой ячейкой осуществляется через объявленный массив. Т.о. на одном и том же файле с 540 сек удалось сократить время обработки до то ли 23, то ли 8 сек.
Тот же смысл и при записи в ячейки. Необходимые данные прежде занести в массив, затем этот массив присвоить диапазону range. Моментально.

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Discover one of the world's most unique and fascinating cities through 28 dramatic true stories spanning the colorful history of San Francisco. Author Gael Chandler takes readers through more than 250 years of American history with exciting essays on topics such as the city's origins to the founding of the Presidio of San Francisco and the Mission San Francisco de Asis to its modern role as the progressive and innovative heart of a nation. Along the way you'll meet characters like the city's foremother Juana Briones, Gold Rush entrepreneur Levi Strauss, confectioner Domenico Ghirardelli, gangster Al Capone, the rock legends of Haight-Ashbury, activist politician Harvey Milk, the pioneers of today's techno boom, and many others who changed the face of the city—plus lesser-known tales, like those of the children of Alcatraz and the story of John McLaren, the architect of Golden Gate Park. In addition, guided walking tours of San Francisco's historic neighborhoods by the bay and beyond, illustrated with color photographs and period maps, take readers to the places where history really happened.
"San Francisco is such a modern, progressive city that it is easy to forget just what a rich history it has. The eighth title in Museyon's Chronicles series, Chronicles of Old San Francisco explores the City by the Bay. Beautifully illustrated, the guide concludes with eight walking tours, from Chinatown and Nob Hill to Golden Gate Park and Haight-Ashbury." —June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune
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TransMontaigne Partners L.P. (the partnership) has announced its first quarter 2017 (1Q17) financial and operating results, including the expansion of its Collins terminal and reported 1Q17 net earnings of US$13 million compared to US$8.7 million in the prior year's first quarter (1Q16).
The company previously entered into a long-term terminalling services agreements with various parties for approximately 2 million bbls of new storage capacity at the Collins, Mississippi bulk storage terminal. The revenue associated with these agreements comes online upon completion of the construction of the new tank capacity. In December 2016, Transmontaigne placed 0.9 million bbls of the 2 million bbls of new tank capacity into service, and in February and May 2017 it placed an additional 0.3 million and 0.3 million bbls into service, respectively. Completion of the remaining 0.5 million bbls of new tank capacity will occur in various stages through the 2Q17.
The anticipated aggregate cost of the 2 million bbls of new capacity is approximately US$753 million. Construction of the Collins expansion project commenced in the 1Q16, and the company has spent approximately US48 million as of 31 March 2017.
The Collins/Purvis terminal complex is strategically located for the bulk storage market and is the only independent terminal capable of receiving from, delivering to, and transferring refined petroleum products between the Colonial and Plantation pipeline systems. The facility has current active storage capacity of approximately 4.9 million bbls and is expected to increase to approximately 5.4 million bbls once the remaining 0.5 million bbls of tankage is completed. Transmontaigne are in the process of permitting an additional 5 million bbls of capacity for future construction at its Collins terminal and are in active discussions with several prospective customers regarding this potential future capacity.


Following the previous Anders Zorn sketch, another small study was undertaken using Strathmore 500 charcoal paper, panpastel and charcoal to try and get a painterly effect. It was drawn yesterday afternoon, with photographs taken during the progress so that I could share the techniques in a tutorial.
The original painting – A Toast in the Idun Society – features a number of historical figures, but the prominent fellow enjoying his drink and cigar was Harold Wieselgren who was a well-known Swedish humourist. He certainly looks like he knows how to have a good time.
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The Goražda fortress is perhaps one of the most interesting fortresses at the Bay of Kotor. When it was built it was the epitome of military technology. The latest advances of warfare engineering were implemented here. The newest German weaponry was installed. Even today, the fortress is rather impressive.
Though it is located on a small mountain between Tivat and Kotor, it is hard to spot. The camouflage is perfect. Perhaps, that is the reason it has remained intact until today.
There is an old road from Kotor to Cetinje via Lovcen. Within 5 km from Kotor, you will see a sharp right turn, a road sign that points to the Goražda and the nearby village of Mirac, that is the road you need.
What should you know about Goražda Fortress
The Goražda fortress was one of Austrian strongholds at the Bay. It controlled the waters of the Bay near Tivat and protected it with long-range fire.
Built in 1886, it was reinforced in the beginning of the XX century by Austrians and Montenegrins.
Before the entrance, you will see an inscription that says THURMFORT GORAZDA. In German, it means 'Goražda tower fortress'. The etymology of the name is not complex. The old Slavic language has a word, gorazd, that means apt, capable. In Poland, it is also a first name. In Hungarian, however the same old word, garazda, means 'grumpy'. There is a place similarly called Gorazde, near Sarajevo in Bosnia, that was known for being a place of bloody fighting during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. It is most likely that it is the local name of the hill where the fortress stands. Austrians did not tend to invent names for their fortifications.
The architecture of the fortress is quite unusual. I will describe it starting from the entrance, where you see a bridge over a moat or specifically a concrete slab. It appeared here in the XX century, earlier it was probably a drawbridge. The hinges are still there. From the bridge, you can see gun ports to your right. A caponier protects the moat, there are four of them in total.
In front of you, there is the entrance hall and gate hinges. To the left and right of the corridor, the remains of the rods are still visible. They were 1 metre in length and covered in barbed wire. After the war they were removed, so that local children would not come to harm. The corridor twists in a way that prevents you from seeing through it, protecting it from fire. As the result, the left wall is almost destroyed, perhaps by large-caliber fire. After the corridor, there is another drawbridge.The gates to the fortress stand on an islet surrounded by a moat. You can now see the entrance to the main building. Note the window shutters and the doors of the fortress. There are gun ports everywhere. On the doors there is a Yugoslavian flag with some fond words about the people's beloved leader, Josef Broz Tito.
We will not go any further to avoid spoilers but be sure to check every door and every room. Do not be afraid to go to the end, as the best is always left until last. Note the small metal sinks in the walls. When you understand the purpose of them, you will really see that the engineering is top notch!
Now let us consider the armaments of the Gorazda. This is the most interesting part.
The fortress was built with long-distance targets in mind so within the main building, there were four 120-mm cannons. Two were aimed at Kotor, the other two at Budva. The horizontal direction was controlled with a special heel that moved across the floor (metal plate) and the vertical direction was maintained with a cable that went through a ceiling ring. These parts are still there, but the guns themselves have been removed and the gun ports filled in.
Tivat and the vicinity were covered using the invention of Hermann Gruson, a German military engineer and a partner of the Krupp family, known as the largest weaponry manufacturers in the world for the last 400 years. The invention itself was rather simple: a cylinder on wheels with a rotating spherical roof that housed a small-caliber cannon (see image). The cylinder was manned. But in this case, it is a huge sphere with a diameter of 3m rather than a small mobile vehicle. It carried two 120-mm guns, which is very serious by any standards. The installation was controlled by a single operator, and the rotary mechanism was manned by two soldiers. The range of the guns exceeded 10 km. Only five of these were built. All of them were used by Austro-Hungary in Eastern Europe. Today, only one remains at the Gorazda fortress. The mechanism and the chassis are well-preserved. You can find this on the top of the fortress in the centre.
There are concrete pillboxes at the flanks of the fortress. They were added at the beginning of the XX century. Nearby you can see small Gruson cannons, dug into the earth. You can see them through the portholes in the pillboxes. On the top of each cannon, you will see the mark of Emil Skoda metal works.
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Get a weighing scale. Put 'Like' on one side. Put 'Risk' on theother side. And your eyes start to roll as you figure out the obvious. That the higher the risk, the less you're liked.
But is there more to the like factor than you think?
You know it, and I know it. It's called risk. We don't like the idea of being cheated, fooled and gypped. So if we sense risk, we don't buy the product or the service. Of course, you'd assume that if you took away the risk factor, you'd end up with the like factor, wouldn't you? And we'd all live happily ever after, right?
Yet look at your own buying behaviour There's no risk in buying petrol. In most cases, the prices arewell posted, and in most cases, the product is identical to whatyou'd get at the next petrol station. So why do you buy petrol from one place, instead of the other. Or rather, why would you drive a couple of miles, instead of buying it from the petrol station that's convenient.
You see, reducing risk is important Yes indeedy, you must get the risk down to nothing. But at the same time, you've got to increase the intensity of the like factor.Simply lowering the risk factor, does not improve the chances ofconverting to a sure sale. The reason why you buy at the nextpetrol station and not at the most convenient petrol station, isbecause you like something about the other petrol station.
You probably like the exuberance of the owner You probably like the surroundings. Or the service. Or the fact,that they stock up your favourite candy. Or the fact, that theycall you by name. Whatever the scenario, when it comes toconversion, customers are looking for low risk, lots of like.
Ooh, here comes the hard part How do you make your customers like you?
On the Internet: Customers like personality. Photos (smilingphotos, please), little quirks in your words, or pictures, make youlikeable.
Off the Internet: Chocolate, Phone calls, Wine and Cheese Session,Thank you cards: They all work to increase your likeability.
Personal Experience: On our website, we have recipes, lots of photos (weird and normal touristy ones), recipes, cartoons, one-of-a-kind words like kazooza, squillion, waka-waka.
So how do we know that all of the above works? Because clients write to us all the time about the recipes. They send in their own recipes. They comment on the whacky word usage. They complain when we don't put cartoons. And they tell us about how they love the photos, andhow it makes them feel like they know us.
Offline, we have small parties for clients. We send them movietickets. We send them chocolates. We use Amazon.com from time to time. We remember birthdays. we send little notes of encouragement. We use thank you cards.
Risk. And Like. They're twins. Work on both of them simultaneously.
Who needs better marketing? "Who needs better marketing? Why would someone choose a method of deeply rooted psychological principles that speaks directly to the mind of potential prospects? The answers are "everyone" and "because they work!" This is one of the best marketing programs in the world today."
Find out Why! Your marketing might not be zooming ahead because of a fundamental flaw in your message.


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NASA Hoping To Get In On Some Defense Funding With Plan For Torpedo-Equipped Orbital Telescope
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NASA engineers say they could definitely strap a few more torpedos on the telescope if that's what the Pentagon wants.
WASHINGTON—Discussing plans for a new space-exploration project that it said could also potentially be the most advanced weapon system in the U.S. military's arsenal, NASA confirmed Thursday it was trying to get in on some of the nation's defense spending by designing a torpedo-equipped orbital telescope.
Agency officials told reporters they hope the state-of-the-art space observatory, which would allow astronomers to study the furthest reaches of the observable universe and would also hold a payload of 16 torpedoes, catches the attention of the Defense Department and ultimately scores them a sweet piece of the military's $610 billion annual budget.
"This satellite has the ability to detect cosmic radiation from 13.5 billion years ago, greatly furthering our knowledge of how galaxies first formed after the Big Bang, and we installed some torpedo launchers on the side there as well," said NASA senior project scientist Diane Everett, adding that the 21-ton telescope, which would allow scientists to study the formation of planetary systems capable of supporting life, could likely be outfitted with a few other types of weapons too, depending on what the military is looking for. "This would be an incredible scientific tool for learning about our universe's origins. And once the Joint Chiefs get a look at the firepower on this thing, maybe they'll give us a little taste of that 12-figure funding."
With $30 billion, NASA could equip the next Mars rover with front-axle-mounted flamethrowers, a land-mine detector, and a "gigantic" mortar embedded into its frame that could blast targets many miles away.
"After all, it should be able to shoot things out of orbit, and it could probably even hit a bunch of targets on the ground, too," Everett continued. "Who knows? They may want two or three of these things."
Officials at NASA, whose share of the federal budget has decreased steadily over the past two decades, reportedly began discussing the idea of outfitting their next-generation orbital telescope with heavy weaponry such as machine guns and grenade launchers after looking over government records and discovering the space agency's funding amounts to less than 3 percent of that received by the military. The scientists ultimately decided the best way to get some DoD green was to attach "a whole bunch of torpedos," according to accounts.
Moreover, NASA sources stated several times that they're completely open to placing penetrating or fragmentation warheads atop the torpedoes should that increase their chances of dipping their hands into the defense-spending honeypot.
"We want to emphasize that the prototype is very flexible, and with proper financial support, we could probably mount big cannons or something on each end of the near-infrared spectroscope—whatever they want, really," said Everett, who estimated the massive sunshield required to keep the delicate scientific instruments operating in a thermally stable environment could probably fit "one of those big guns on a tank." "As long as we get a piece of the Pentagon's funding action, we can work with them to build a telescope that has laser targeting, heat-seaking missiles, or anything else, in addition to expanding our knowledge of the cosmos in ways we cannot yet imagine."
Although this is the first weaponized research platform designed by NASA, Everett stressed that the cooperation does not need to end with this project. She estimated that with $30 billion, her agency could equip the next Mars rover with front-axle-mounted flamethrowers, a land-mine detector, and a "gigantic" mortar embedded into its frame that could blast targets many miles away.
"This could be the beginning of a bold new frontier, for NASA and for the military," said Everett, who reportedly pressed her design team to devise ways to attach additional torpedos to the telescope after learning that many of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates' budget proposals call for further increases in defense spending. "We only need the telescope for about 10 years, so we could even strap a thermonuclear device on board, and once its mission is complete, we could just make it fall back down to earth wherever they like."
"We're more than happy to do it, really," she added. "If anyone in the Pentagon's budgeting department is interested, really, just give us a call."


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KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A new report on hunger says nearly a fifth of Indiana households with children struggle to find enough money to feed their loved ones.
The Food Research and Action Center's report found that Indiana has a nearly 19-percent "food hardship" rate for households with children. The August report defines food hardship as an economic or social condition where people have limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
The nonprofit lists Indiana as having the 20th worst overall rate of food hardship in the country, at 15.8 percent. The national overall food hardship rate was 15.4 percent, with a rate of 17.9 percent for households with children, the group said.
"While often hidden behind closed doors, food hardship is a serious national problem that requires a serious national response," said Jim Weill, president of the nonprofit.
The report comes after advocacy group Feeding Indiana's Hungry recently announced that nearly a third of the state's residents who qualify as having food hardship aren't eligible for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which has been attacked by President Donald Trump's administration and some lawmakers.
"The high rates of food hardship underscore the need for Congress to pass a Farm Bill that protects and strengthens SNAP, otherwise we will see worse health and hunger for struggling children, seniors, working families and others across the country," Weill said.
In response to food hardship, community members have started efforts to serve the hungry. Kokomo Urban Outreach no longer offers its regular pantry and instead has a class where people learn to prepare meals and get the food that they can cook throughout the week for a $10 fee. The organization said it wanted to help people become self-sustaining instead of just providing handouts.
"There's tons of places to get food that's healthy, nutritious and affordable," said KUO Director Jeff Newton. "We just want to make sure everybody understands that."
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Big dealership group puts giant parts operation under 1 huge roof
As Jeff Bazurto considered ways to streamline the Thomason Auto Group's wholesale parts operation, he thought about how much time the dealership network's delivery drivers spent loading parts at various locations. Our dealerships have always been centrally located, but our delivery trucks were still spending up to two hours a day just stopping at different locations to pick up the eight vehicle lines
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As Jeff Bazurto considered ways to streamline the Thomason Auto Group's wholesale parts operation, he thought about how much time the dealership network's delivery drivers spent loading parts at various locations.
"Our dealerships have always been centrally located, but our delivery trucks were still spending up to two hours a day just stopping at different locations to pick up the eight vehicle lines of parts we carry," says Mr. Bazurto, parts director for the Thomason dealership group based in Portland, OR. "Now that we've brought all those parts under one roof, that's time those trucks can be out there getting parts to our customers faster."
That roof tops a 50,000-sq.-ft. warehouse that now houses all eight of Thomason's wholesale parts departments.
"Other dealers have parts warehouses, of course, but I've not heard about anyone with multiple franchises in one warehouse," Mr. Bazurto says. "With no model to follow, we've had to try to figure out how to best make this work on our own."
The company moved into a warehouse the dealership had been using as a used-car facility. Scott Ripley, the company's sales manager for wholesale parts, says while the first six months were not glitch-free, the dealership's wholesale customers have come to appreciate the benefits the warehouse system provides.
"With no model to follow, we've had to try to figure out how to best make this work on our own."
— Jeff Bazurto Parts director Thomason Auto Group
"We've been able to increase our inventory of some lines, and improve delivery service even though the streamlining allowed us to eliminate one driver position," Mr. Ripley says. "We now offer three daily deliveries in the Portland area, and two as far south as Salem and Eugene (115 miles south of Portland), and daily delivery as far north as Seattle."
Also appealing to customers is the centralized phone system the dealership implemented. It connects customers to what's jokingly dubbed the "war room" — the busy warehouse office where parts orders are received.
"Our shop customers really seem to like the 'one-call-does-it-all' concept," Mr. Ripley says. "With one phone or one fax number, they can order all eight lines of parts."
The central phone number puts customers in touch with one of 11 wholesale parts specialists.
"We don't have anyone in that room with less than seven years of parts experience, and a number of them have 20-plus years," Mr. Ripley says. "We're cross-training so that all of them become familiar with all the lines, but we still have the specialist for each vehicle line when there's a unique question or situation."
Mr. Bazurto says, "Within the first six months here, we had wholesalers selling all of the car lines. Some have picked it up faster than others, but for folks with a lot of parts experience, a fender is a fender and a hood is a hood. It's really just a matter of learning where things are in the catalogs for the different lines."
The Thomason network includes 10 new and 18 used-car dealerships. It's the largest dealership in the Pacific Northwest. It merged with Asbury Automotive Group in 1998.
Mr. Bazurto's biggest frustration has been the inability to integrate much of the computer systems needed for parts sourcing, maintaining a perpetual inventory and other functions for the dealerships eight lines: Honda, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, Mazda, Subaru and Suzuki.
"It does seem like we have to do a lot of things eight times, once for each line," Mr. Bazurto says. "That's been the biggest struggle."
But those headaches have been offset by the ability to improve consistency elsewhere.
He says, "Every parts manager does things a little differently, but here we've been able to get all our wholesalers on the same page, get all the pickers in the warehouse doing things the same way, and centralize shipping, receiving and returns."
Wholesale parts account for more than 60% of the company's parts sales. Though the company centralized its more than $3 million inventory of "crash parts" at the warehouse, it retained its inventories of mechanical parts at its dealership locations.
Mr. Ripley says that while the shift to the multi-line warehouse still is fairly new, he's convinced it's a good move.
"After that first month or so, it has actually worked pretty smoothly," he says.
John Yoswick is a freelance writer based in Portland, OR.
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Preparing for Paris
Digitalization and a Renewed Focus on Sustainability
Lawrence Schwartz
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The new US Administration has committed to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change. A global agreement that now includes 189 countries, its primary goal is to limit the rise of global temperature in this century to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (and just 1.5 degrees Celsius longer term). These changes affect all companies in capital-intensive industries and a vast majority are already working through approaches to sustainability. In fact, in a recent ARC Strategies survey of global chemical and energy companies, 90% of respondents said they have sustainability initiatives in place.1
Digitalization, with its promise of reducing inefficiencies and predicting failures, is a key enabler not just to profitability but also to reaching sustainability goals. Seventy-five percent of respondents in the same survey agreed. Digitalization allows companies to progress towards their sustainability goals by making the most efficient use of their current resources and assets. Higher efficiency means reduced emissions, waste and energy consumption in existing assets, something that can also be tracked and reported on.
Five Customers, Five Digital Solutions
A few of the ways AspenTech customers support their sustainability goals can be seen here. These include:
1. Supply chain optimization to coordinate, manage and improve transparency of connected processes. Supply chain planning tools are typically used to improve demand planning and to gain visibility into existing processes. The same tools can also be used to reduce emissions and waste. Digitalization of these processes maximizes profitability and enhances data capture and access, providing better real-time data to workers.
2. Programmatic advanced process control to reduce process variability and energy consumption and support autonomous operations with a very significant carbon reduction impact.
3. Asset wide energy optimization and utility optimization models will help reduce energy use on both the supply and demand sides and enable control over use of renewable sources in powering refining operations. At least 5-10% energy use can be targeted using hybrid models to get a better, more accurate representation of the asset, with Industrial AI being used to improve model accuracy.
4. Predictive and prescriptive maintenance use machine learning to identify precise failure patterns to predict equipment degradation weeks or even months in advance so action can be taken to avoid unplanned downtime and associated safety and environmental risks.
5. Digital Twin technology uses real-time data to provide an evolving digital profile of the historical, current and future behavior of an asset or process. Digital twin monitoring systems, dynamic optimization and advanced control solutions can together save 5-15% energy use, reducing carbon emissions a proportional amount.
The Shift's Role in Accelerating Digitalization
The pandemic and sudden shift to work-from-home has forced many businesses to accelerate their digitalization faster than anyone could ever have predicted. An October 2020 McKinsey global survey of executives2 found that "companies have accelerated the digitization of their customer and supply-chain interactions and of their internal operations by three to four years. And the share of digital or digitally enabled products in their portfolios has accelerated by a shocking seven years."
Taking the Journey
Often, the journey starts by measuring the issues that need action. For example, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) implemented Aspen HYSYS® to develop a refinery-wide emission model that can track emissions from all sources in the refinery, fired heaters and boilers and more, every five minutes. The data that BPCL captures is written back to historians so it can identify trends and correct errors, and ultimately look at emission data in real-time to ensure optimization in its fuel production.
Efficiency has been a key driver for customers in the process industries to achieve profitability, but the same approaches deliver reduced emissions and more sustainable solutions, too. If you are interested in exploring the potential of how digitalization can directly improve efficiency, profitability and reach sustainability goals, then please register for OPTIMIZE '21 and hear from peers during the Sustainability Panel and sessions from May 18-20, 2021. This year's OPTIMIZE is entirely VIRTUAL and FREE.
1 Sustainability Future for Energy and Chemicals, ARC Strategies, September 2020
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