Problem: Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML or Microsoft Open XML (MOX)) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The format was initially standardized by Ecma (as ECMA-376), and by the ISO and IEC (as ISO/IEC 29500) in later versions.

Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats have become the default target file format of Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict. Microsoft Office 2013 and Microsoft Office 2016 additionally support both reading and writing of ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.

In 2000, Microsoft released an initial version of an XML-based format for Microsoft Excel, which was incorporated in Office XP. In 2002, a new file format for Microsoft Word followed. The Excel and Word formatsknown as the Microsoft Office XML formatswere later incorporated into the 2003 release of Microsoft Office.

Microsoft announced in November 2005 that it would co-sponsor standardization of the new version of their XML-based formats through Ecma International as "Office Open XML". The presentation was made to Ecma by Microsoft's Jean Paoli and Isabelle Valet-Harper.

Microsoft submitted initial material to Ecma International Technical Committee TC45, where it was standardized to become ECMA-376, approved in December 2006.
1. what did Microsoft co-sponsor in 2005?
2. who was the presentation made to?
3. by how many people?
4. their names please.
5. who did they give the first material to?
6. what was it standardized to?
7. approved when?
8. what is also known as OOXML?
9. What does MOX stand for?
10. what format has become default?
11. when was the initial version for excel released?
12. what excel added to anything?
13. did all versions suppport both read and write?
14. what are Excel and Word formats called?
15. is this zipped?
16. what is the latest version according to the article?
17. what is the XML based format created for?
18. what else?
19. and?
20. when was the new format just for word released?
Answer: 1. standardization of XML-based formats
2. Ecma
3. Two
4. Jean Paoli and Isabelle Valet-Harper
5. Ecma International Technical Committee TC45
6. ECMA-376
7. December 2006
8. Office Open XML
9. Microsoft Open XML
10. Office Open XML file formats
11. 2000
12. Office XP
13. no
14. Microsoft Office XML formats
15. yes
16. ISO/IEC 29500
17. representing spreadsheets
18. charts
19. presentations
20. 2002

Q: In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

The concept of free market contrasts with regulated market, in which a government intervenes in supply and demand through various methods such as tariffs used to restrict trade and protect the economy. In a free market economy, prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy.

Although free markets are commonly associated with capitalism within a market economy in contemporary usage and popular culture, free markets have also been advocated by free-market anarchists, market socialists, and some proponents of cooperatives and advocates of profit sharing. Criticism of the theoretical concept consider systems with significant market power, inequality of bargaining power, or information asymmetry to be less than free, with regulation being necessary to control those imbalances.

The laissez-faire principle expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages, such as those from discriminatory government taxes, subsidies, tariffs, regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies. Friedrich Hayek argued in "The Pure Theory of Capital" that the goal is the preservation of the unique information contained in the price itself.

Answer the following questions:
1. what is a free market system?
2. are they commondly associated with capitalism?
3. are prices set freely?
4. by?
5. can the government intervene?
6. is free market and regulated market the same?
7. what is a regulated market?
8. what principle is mentioned?
9. what is laissez-faire?
10. from?
11. anything else?
12. what?
13. and?
14. aret there more?
15. please mention them.
16. who argued about about the goal being preservation?
17. in what?
18. did he write a paper or thesis about it?
19. called?
20. are free markets popular?
A: 1. a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers
2. yes
3. yes
4. the forces of supply and demand
5. no
6. no
7. a government intervenes in supply and demand
8. tariffs
9. expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages
10. discriminatory government taxes,
11. Yes
12. , subsidies,
13. tariffs
14. yes
15. regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies.
16. Friedrich Hayek
17. of the unique information contained in the price itself.
18. yes
19. "The Pure Theory of Capital
20. no

Problem: (CNN) -- An Ohio judge on Tuesday set a $1 million bond for the man accused of kidnapping and keeping a 13-year-old girl bound and gagged in his basement, authorities say.

Matthew Hoffman, 30, is suspected of having abducted Sarah Maynard, who authorities discovered over the weekend. She disappeared on Wednesday along with her mother, brother and family friend.

Sarah Maynard's mother, Tina Herrmann, 32, remains missing, along with 10-year-old Kody Maynard and Herrmann's friend, 41-year-old Stephanie Sprang.

Hoffman appeared in the Mount Vernon Municipal Court on Tuesday via a video link with the local jail, according to Pam Fuller, a deputy clerk. He is represented by a public defender.

Hoffman sat in a corner and looked straight ahead during much of the proceeding. He wore what looked to be a green vest, which the local sheriff later described as a suicide gown.

Knox County Sheriff David Barber said Hoffman was put in the gown after he gave indications to the jail staff and to investigators he could try to harm himself.

Previously, Barber has said he believes Hoffman could "absolutely" lead police to the three missing people. He is not cooperating with the investigation, officials said.

"The likelihood is, of course, that they are not alive," Barber said about Herrmann, her son and Sprang.

But he added he hopes they are, and that the department's priority remains trying to find them.

Sarah Maynard was released from the hospital Monday. Barber described the girl as doing well under the circumstances.

"There's so many people behind her that definitely that's going to help with her emotional recovery. And she is receiving those kind of services as well," he said.
1. Who is this story about?
2. How old is Matthew Hoffman?
3. What is it he did?
4. What was her name?
5. Are others missing?
6. Who?
7. What is his bond set to?
8. Where is he going to court?
9. Was he wearing anything special?
10. What was that?
11. Why was he wearing that?
12. Do the police think that Hoffman harmed the other missing people?
13. Do they think the missing people are alive?
14. Is Sarah Maynard doing ok?
Answer:
1. Matthew Hoffman
2. 30
3. kidnapped and kept a 13-year-old girl bound and gagged in his basement
4. Sarah Maynard
5. yes
6. Tina Herrmann, Kody Maynard, and Stephanie Sprang
7. $1 million
8. Mount Vernon
9. yes
10. a green vest
11. he gave indications that he could try to harm himself
12. yes
13. no
14. she is doing well under the circumstances