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Optimization and Validation of an HPLC-UV Method for Determination of Benzoic Acid and Sorbic Acid in Yogurt and Dried-Yogurt Products Using a Design of Experiment
https://doi.org/10.22146/ijc.27675
Ala Yahya Sirhan(1*)
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A method for the determination and analysis of benzoic acid and sorbic acid in yogurt and dried-yogurt products has been developed. This method was based on the use of a simple solid-liquid extraction method, followed by the high-performance liquid chromatography with a UV detector (HPLC–UV), enhanced with the aid of response surface methodology and design of experiment (DOE). The method excludes the use of complicated procedures, time-consuming and labor-intensive pre-treatment processes. Separation of the benzoic acid and sorbic acid with higher selectivity and sensitivity, and within reasonable retention time was performed by using an isocratic mobile phase of acetate buffer (pH 5.6)-methanol 60:40 at a column temperature of 25 °C. Optimization of sample preparation and analytical conditions gave recoveries in the range of 81 to 111% at spike levels of 2–20 mg/L and the relative standard deviations (RSDs) was lower than 9% in all cases. The intra-day precision and inter-day precision results were in the range of 8.4–8.5% and 10.4–11.0%. Additionally, the limits of detection (LOD) were 0.66 and 0.51 mg/L and the limits of quantification (LOQ) were 1.3 and 1.0 mg/L for benzoic acid and sorbic acid, respectively.
HPLC; response surface methodology; design of the experiment; benzoic acid; sorbic acid; preservative
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GM boosted June sales with discounts to dealers
Aug 1, 2014 at 12:01 AM Aug 1, 2014 at 6:15 AM
As General Motors tackles a safety crisis, a look its numbers from June show just how intent the company is on keeping new-car sales on the rise during a record spate of safety recalls.
The Detroit automaker has recalled nearly 30 million cars and trucks this year, including some models that had barely rolled off the assembly line. Yet sales have been resilient, up 2.5 percent through the first six months of the year.
In mid-June, however, the automaker was headed for a year-over-year monthly sales decline, according to data compiled by automotive research firms. Then, on June 20, GM asked dealers to buy more cars, and it threw in another $1,000 in discounts per vehicle, five dealership representatives told The Associated Press. The company finished the month with a 1 percent gain.
The dealers said they were asked to buy the cars for a rental program, one that provides loaner cars to people whose vehicles are being serviced. When they buy the cars for the program, GM counts them as a retail sale. It's a longstanding practice used periodically by nearly all automakers to boost sales results.
The GM incentive was unusually generous, the dealers said. And it came as GM executives try to manage the fallout from GM's delayed recall of 2.6 million older small cars with defective ignition switches tied to at least 13 deaths. The company has allayed investor fears by saying that recalls have actually helped sales by bringing in customers who see vastly improved new models.
"Clearly the timing seems a little suspicious," said Jesse Toprak, senior analyst for the Cars.com website who predicted on June 22 that GM sales would be down 7 percent for the month, compared with a 2 percent decline for the rest of the industry. "Retail numbers at that point did not show any kind of strength." The industry eked out a 1.2 percent gain for June.
GM spokesman Jim Cain confirmed that offers were made to dealers, but wouldn't give details. He said GM needed to make more models available as loaners for those whose cars are being recalled. As part of its ignition switch recall, GM is offering free loaners to owners of Chevrolet Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other small cars. But dealers have run short of cars and turned to rental car companies, which can loan out cars from competing brands.
GM has issued more than 83,000 loaner cars since the recalls started in February. But CEO Mary Barra said last week that it had fixed about 550,000 of the small cars, so the need for loaners was waning.
The automaker won't say how many vehicles were purchased by dealers in June. After about two months, the loaners are resold as used cars because of the miles on them. But buyers get low-interest financing and other incentives offered to new-car buyers, said the dealers, most of whom asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals from the company.
"There was a heavy push on an incentive program that increased sales," one dealer said. "If they don't have the volume they want, they'll come out to the dealers."
Mike Marone, chief operating officer of AutoNation Inc., the country's largest dealership chain, said AutoNation bought a small number of discounted vehicles for its loaner fleet. But he downplayed the impact on GM's numbers.
"I don't think it's as big a deal as it may sound," he said.
Marone and other dealers said other automakers also offer similar late-month discounts to boost sales. Some make the offers every few months.
GM probably didn't need the incentives in July. Edmunds.com estimates that GM sales rose 10.6 percent, while industry sales gained 11.1 percent. When all the numbers are in late Friday, it may wind up being the industry's best July in eight years, Edmunds predicted.
However, some dealers worry that if GM does make similar offers in future months, the influx of used cars into the market will hurt resale values and new-car sales.
GM's Cain said the company would have beaten analysts' sales expectations in June without the late sales to dealers. Analysts on average predicted GM sales would fall at least 6 percent.
The loaner program, he said, has helped boost GM's reputation for customer service.
"That has been very important during the recalls that we have had, to be able to put customers into new GM vehicles and not have to force people into a Ford Focus," Cain said.
GM's stock price has dropped nearly 16 percent since the start of the year. They've taken a hit over the past week after GM said recall costs had dramatically cut into earnings, and closed Thursday at $33.82.

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Іракські безпольотні зони були введені міжнародною коаліцією після завершення війни в Перській затоці (1991) для забезпечення безпеки курдського та шиїтського населення в Іраку та проіснували до початку Іракської війни (2003).

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У березні 1991 року відразу після завершення міжнародної військової операції "Буря в пустелі " в Іраку почалося повстання курдів та шиїтів, яке, однак, було швидко придушене іракською армією. Слідом за цим США та низка інших країн розгорнули гуманітарну операцію «Provide Comfort» на півночі країни для допомоги курдським біженцям. Для того, щоб перешкодити використанню іракської авіації проти курдів, США, Велика Британія та Франція оголосили про створення так званої безпольотної зони, межа якої була встановлена по 36 паралелі. Поява літаків ВПС Іраку у цьому районі була заборонена.

Друга заборонена зона була введена над півднем Іраку для захисту шиїтів у серпні 1992 року (на південь від 32-ї паралелі). Як правове обґрунтування свого рішення союзники посилалися на резолюцію Ради Безпеки ООН 688 (1991), хоча фактично текст резолюції не санкціонував створення подібних зон. Ірак ніколи не визнавав їх.

Обидві безпольотні зони патрулювалися бойовою авіацією союзників (Франція припинила участь у патрулюванні 1998 року). На півночі це здійснювалося в рамках операції Provide Comfort, а з 1997 року — «Північна варта» (Northern Watch). На півдні проводилася операція «Південна варта» (Southern Watch), з 2002 року — «Південний фокус» (Southern Focus).

Хронологія подій

 Грудень 1992 — загострення ситуації на півдні Іраку у зв'язку з розміщенням там зенітно-ракетних комплексів, здатних збивати авіацію союзників. Американським винищувачем F-16 збитий іракський МіГ-25 97-ї ескадрильї, іракський пілот капітан Лаїт Хашим Тхенон катапультувався.
 Січень 1993 — авіація США, Великої Британії та Франції завдала ударів по позиціях іракської ППО на півдні країни. У повітряному бою збито іракський винищувач МіГ-23.
 Квітень 1994 — трагічний інцидент у північній безпольотній зоні. Американськими винищувачами F-15 помилково було збито два вертольоти UH-60, які перевозили персонал ООН під час операції «Забезпечення комфорту». Загинуло 26 людей.
 Вересень 1996 — вслід за втручанням іракських військ у громадянську війну в Курдистані США провели проти Іраку обмежену військову операцію "Удар у пустелі " (Desert Strike). Кордон південної безпольотної зони піднято до 33-ї паралелі (Франція відмовилася визнати новий кордон).
 Грудень 1998 — після американо-британської військової операції "Лис пустелі " (Desert Fox) система ППО Іраку почала діяти в обох безполітних зонах. Це спричинило постійні інциденти, оскільки активізація ППО становила потенційну загрозу для авіації союзників. У 1998—2003 роках літаки США та Великої Британії сотні разів фіксували роботу іракських радарів або обстрілювались зенітними засобами. У відповідь на це вони завдавали ударів по позиціях ППО.
 Літо 2002 — активність авіації союзників значно зросла, вона стала набагато частіше завдавати попереджувальних ударів, поступово придушуючи іракську ППО у півночі та півдні країни.
 Грудень 2002 — іракським винищувачем МіГ-25 у повітряному бою збитий американський безпілотний літак MQ-1 Predator.
 Весна 2003 — режим Саддама Хусейна в Іраку повалено в результаті військової операції США та Великої Британії. Обидві безпольотні зони припинили існування.

Таким чином, виходячи із зазначених вище даних, в результаті повітряних боїв над Іраком з 1992 по 2002 рік було втрачено 2 іракські винищувачі, коаліція в свою чергу втратила 3 літальних апарати (1 безпілотник і 2 вертольоти), причому 2 від «дружнього вогню».

Посилання

 No-fly zones: The legal position (BBC, 2001)
 Full-text of Resolution 688
 Operation Northern Watch
 Operation Southern Watch
 Robert Dryfus article o ilegality of NFZs
 Embarrassment and Illegality of the No-Fly Zones

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Liverpool and Chelsea in 'auction' to sign midfielder – 28 goals and 15 assists this season
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Although the Manchester clubs get more mentions in the race for Sporting midfielder Bruno Fernandes, some Portuguese outlets continue to say Chelsea and Liverpool are alive in this battle.
Newspaper O Jogo adds the Blues and Reds today to the list of clubs who should take part in the 'auction' for the 24-year-old in the summer.
Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and PSG would be waiting for the end of the season to make their moves for Fernandes.
O Jogo writes that when signing the player from Sampdoria on a €10m deal in 2017, they didn't expect such a rise. Now the midfielder is valued at €35m at least, and protected by a €100m release clause.
Bruno Fernandes has 28 goals and 15 assists in 48 games for Sporting this season, and these stats make it highly unlikely he will stay in Lisbon for the next season.
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It intends to provide statistics that contribute in measuring progress to achieve various engagements for sustainable development. In this context, statistics based on fields of education enable the University to keep on track performance indicators of benchmarking at various scales of measurement.
Results show that since its establishment, University of Rwanda graduated the total number of 49,477.
Non STEM graduated 53% and 47% in STEM areas ; 36% are females and 64% males.
Total enrolment for the last seven years provides proportions of 45% students registered in Non-STEM and 55% students registered in STEM areas.
Female students present 34% and 66% stands for male students. Undergraduate programmes dominate with 95% and 84% of the total enrolment are financially supported by the Government of Rwanda.
Total number of publications is 2,096 from 308 publications in 2014 where publications from STEM programmes present 74%.
Number of UR staff decreased from 2,367 staff in 2013 to 1,952 in 2020 due to various harmonization and restructuring conducted for both academic and administrative structures.
Distribution shows that 68% are academics and 32% are administrative and support staff. 25% females and 75% males compose academics. Administrative and support staff side 60% are males and 40% are females.
In terms of contract terms, 90% of academic are permanent, 89% of administrative and support staff are permanent. Number of Staff with a PhD increased from 18% to 26%.
Results identify areas of improvement such as academic programmes, lack of students' enrollment in sensitive fields of education over 30% of fields of education do not have students. Looking at the proportion of enrollment in postgraduate programmes, the University has a long journey to satisfy the labor market even its own academics personnel.
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#WiretapWednesday: Asian Community Activist – Christian Oh
May 24, 2017 gunsullypodcast 1 Comment
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Christian Oh
Asian Comunity Activist
linkedin – instagram – twitter
You'd be hard pressed to find someone more involved in the Asian community in DC, or in DC as a whole than Christian Oh. Christian is a part of every element of DC, organizing events for local charities and non-profits, promoting artists and standing up for Asian and Pacific Islander identity. Here's just a little of what he's involved with:
DCAPA Film Festival
http://www.apafilm.org/
Christian is currently the Executive Director of this massive film festival that showcases Asian American film from all across the country and even from around the world.
Follow their Social:
https://www.instagram.com/dcapafilm/
Tweets by apafilm
https://www.facebook.com/apafilm/
To inquire about "Script-To-Screen" or submit your screenplay, contact:
zhibo@apafilm.org
Learn more about Asian American Lead: http://www.aalead.org/
Rapper: Heesun Lee
Christian is proud to manage the talent of a strong Asian-American female voice Heesun Lee. She has lived a uniquely American life with a multitude of influences being adopted into a Chinese American family and listening to her favorite US hip hop artists growing up. Her diverse influences and experience makes her tagline: "Breaking Stereotypes" all the more real, as she encourages listeners to follow their passions.
heesunleemusic.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC_flJzcpsGCJywYG7lA4xg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrMrq0enjJnZwTTujwuSrfQ
The Slants/Anime Convention/Kollaboration
Christian explains how he met Simon Tam and the Slants at their beginnings at Anime Conventions and his work with artists through http://kollaboration.org/
K-Pop Event – June 24th – Eden Lounge
July 22nd – K-Pop Expo
GI Film Festival
Thursday Raw at Howard Theater
BONUS LINKS:
The Food we talked about:
Chef Evelyn Bunoan's
POM (Philippine Oriental Market & Deli)
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Uyghur Cuisine: Queen Amannisa
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#TopTenTuesday Iran
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[Politics/World News] The Podcaste: #TopTenTuesday | Episode 6 – Iran
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Gun breaks down 10 of the misconceptions that Americans, both Democrat and Republican have regarding The Islamic Republic of Iran.
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I've tried to stay apolitical with the #TopTenTuesday episodes, but in honor of my favorite director Mania Akbari, my professors who were refugees of the Iranian Revolution, the continuing "revolution" and the Iran Iraq war, Sgt. Kurosh of the US Army and author Reza Kahlili.
Top Ten Misconceptions about Iran
1. D Iranians are black or Arab
– Caucasian, Persian
2. R/D They Speak Arabic
– Farsi
3. D Iran always was a very conservative Islamic country
– Under the Shah the culture more emulated western, specifically French style and fashion
4. D Iran is now a Democracy.
– The democracy at the highest levels is a show. True reform candidates are not allowed to run and if they are in some respect allowed to run, they won't win. The Ayatollah runs the country and picks the leader.
5. R/D Iran started the Arab spring. *facepalm*
6. D America installed the Shah.
7. D The IRI did bad stuff but they've changed and now they're reasonable.
– You might read the book "A time to betray" and think, well, that was a couple decades ago, I'm sure they fine now.
– They are making WMDs
– They HAVE NOT claimed their Nuclear is for peace, that's all coming from OUR GOVERNMENT
– They continue to support Terrorists both inside and outside of Iran
8. R Iran supports ISIS
– Islamic Republic of Iran does not support the Islamic State, IRI is Shia and IS Sunni, they fight, they are currently fighting against each other on multiple fronts.
9. D Iran, since they fight ISIS, are good guys and we have more in common with them the differences.
– We in America are a multi-cultural, socially liberal Democratic Republic, which means even our "Conservative" politicians are still pro-freedom of speech and religious freedom since those concepts were in the founding of our country. IRI is a Theocracy, Remember, the first I in IRI is Islamic- just like Islamic state, but as I pointed out before, they are a different kind of Muslim Theocracy, so that why they butt heads, it's NOT because, like us they want freedom and civil rights to all, it's because of hyper-conservative religious reasons, not to mention the baser concepts of territory and defense. They have a ZION FORCE (Neruye Quds) which is a special fighting force who's ultimate goal is in their name, the Muslim religious term for Jerusalem. To put that in perspective, Israel actual is where Jerusalem is and are predominantly Jewish yet THEY DON'T HAVE A "ZION" FORCE, and haven't since the time of the British Army Occupation.
10. D Islamic Republic of Iran should have all Iranian assets because they are the country
– this is not the government of Iran that had any friendly ties with, this is a criminal government. "The Revolution" wasn't what American's think a revolution is these days, a few protests and then voting in somebody you like- no, it was a REAL and BLOODY Revolt that put the Ayatollah's government in power


You will now have 4 listening exercises in the IELTS listening test: 4 videos each followed by 1 quiz.
You will hear a tour of a newly renovated health club.
First you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
As you listen to the first part of the talk, answer questions 11 to 15.
Thank you all for coming to see the new renovations to the Hartford Health Club! I know you'll be as pleased as I am to see the wonderful results of our months of hard work to improve the club and bring you the best facilities ever!
We'll begin in here with the swimming pool. You'll notice the new color of the adult pool, a lovely cool green.
Now walk over here and look at the children's pool! It's the same green but as you see with brightly coloured sea creatures painted everywhere!
Both of the pools needed painting, not only for maintenance. But I think the new colour greatly improves the atmosphere of this part of the club!
Next let's take a look at the locker rooms. Don't worry there's no one using them just now!
Doesn't it feel roomy in here? We've expanded both the men's and women's locker rooms.
So now they'll be much more comfortable to use. There are bigger lockers a good deal more room in the dressing area and more places to store extra towels and equipment.
Be careful as you walk through here. The floors just been polished and may be a bit slippery!
Let's go up to the exercise room next! Here you'll notice a new floor. Walk on it! Doesn't that feel comfortable? It's a special material softer than the old floor – an ideal surface for jogging and exercising! They had to move all the exercise equipment out while they were working on the floor. But don't worry it will be brought back in before the end of today!
Let's step outside now and look at the tennis courts!
We haven't done a great deal here except to the equipment.
We replaced all the nets and the ball throwing machine. Otherwise everything is the same as it was before.
Let's walk down this hallway! And here we are at the club store in its new location. We thought here by the entrance was a better place for it than where it used to be – by the swimming pool. But it still has all the same items for sale sports equipment and clothes in the club colours.
We're excited about the upcoming activities and events to take place in our newly renovated Club! Now that the pools are ready for use again, swimming lessons will begin tomorrow for both adults and children.
If you haven't signed up yet, you can stop by the office before you leave today and put your name on the list.
If you're a tennis player, you'll be interested to hear about the tennis competition coming up on Wednesday. Players from different clubs all over the region will be participating. If you'd like to watch the event, tickets are available in the office. Also I want to be sure you all know you're invited to a club party coming up next weekend. We're celebrating the completion of the renovation work and we have a lot to celebrate!
The entire renovation project was finished in just nine months. That's three months less than the twelve months we'd originally planned on. We're proud of that and proud that we came in under budget too! Because we've had such good results with this project, we're already planning the next one. We already have two indoor pools and next year we plan to install an outdoor pool right next to the tennis courts.
Details of these plans will be made available to all Club members soon.
All right I think we've covered just about everything.
That is the end of section two. You know have half a minute to check your answers.
Escuchará un recorrido por un club de salud recientemente renovado.
Primero tiene tiempo para ver las preguntas.
Mientras escucha la primera parte de la charla, responda las preguntas 11 a 15.
¡Gracias a todos por venir a ver las renovaciones al Hartford Health Club! ¡Sé que estaréis tan contentos como yo de ver los maravillosos resultados de nuestros meses de arduo trabajo para mejorar el club y ofreceros las mejores instalaciones!
Comenzaremos aquí con la piscina. Notaréis el nuevo color de la piscina para adultos, un precioso y fresco verde.
¡Ahora venid aquí y mirad la piscina de los niños! ¡Es el mismo verde pero como veis con criaturas marinas de colores brillantes pintadas en todas partes!
Ambas piscinas necesitaban pintura, no solo por mantenimiento.¡Pero creo que el nuevo color mejora mucho la atmósfera de esta parte del club!
A continuación, echemos un vistazo a los vestuarios. ¡No os preocupéis, no hay nadie usándolos ahora mismo!
¿No parece espacioso? Hemos ampliado los vestuarios de hombres y mujeres.
Entonces ahora serán mucho más cómodos de usar. Hay taquillas más grandes, mucho más espacio en el vestidor y más lugares para guardar toallas y equipos adicionales.
Tened cuidado al caminar por aquí. ¡Los suelos han sido pulidos y pueden estar un poco resbaladizos!
¡Vamos a la sala de ejercicios al lado! ¡Aquí veréis un nuevo suelo! ¡Caminad sobre él! ¿No se siente cómodo? Es un material especial más suave que el anterior: ¡una superficie ideal para correr y hacer ejercicio! Tuvieron que sacar todo el equipo de ejercicio mientras trabajaban en el suelo. ¡Pero no os preocupéis, volverá a aparecer antes del final de hoy!
¡Salgamos ahora y miremos las pistas de tenis!
No hemos hecho mucho aquí excepto en el equipo.
Reemplazamos todas las redes y la máquina lanzadora de bolas. Por lo demás, todo es igual que antes.
¡Vamos por este pasillo! Y aquí estamos en la tienda del club en su nueva ubicación. Pensamos que la entrada era un lugar mejor para ella que el lugar donde solía estar: junto a la piscina. Pero tiene todos los mismos artículos para la venta de equipos deportivos y ropa en los colores del club.
¡Estamos entusiasmados con las próximas actividades y eventos que se llevarán a cabo en nuestro Club recientemente renovado! Ahora que las piscinas están listas para usarse nuevamente, las clases de natación comenzarán mañana tanto para adultos como para niños.
Si aún no te has registrado, puedes pasar por la oficina antes de irte hoy y poner tu nombre en la lista.
Si eres un jugador de tenis, te interesará saber sobre el concurso de tenis que se realizará el miércoles. Jugadores de diferentes clubes de toda la región participarán. Si deseas ver el evento, las entradas están disponibles en la oficina. También quiero asegurarme de que todos sepáis que estáis invitados a una fiesta del club el próximo fin de semana. Estamos celebrando la finalización del trabajo de renovación y ¡tenemos mucho que celebrar!
Todo el proyecto de renovación se ha terminado en solo nueve meses. Eso es tres meses menos que los doce meses que habíamos planeado originalmente. ¡Estamos orgullosos de eso y orgullosos de haberlo logrado también por debajo del presupuesto! Debido a que hemos tenido tan buenos resultados con este proyecto, ya estamos planeando el próximo. Ya tenemos dos piscinas cubiertas y el próximo año planeamos instalar una piscina al aire libre junto a las pistas de tenis.
Los detalles de estos planes estarán disponibles pronto para todos los socios del Club.
Está bien, creo que hemos cubierto casi todo.
Ese es el final de la sección dos. Ahora tiene medio minuto para verificar sus respuestas.
You will hear a museum director talking to several student interns, explaining their internship duties at the museum.
Welcome to the City Museum of Art! I'm dr. Shirley Johnson, the director of the museum's internship program. Today I'll be giving you an orientation to the museum and our museum administrators internship program.
Will we get a chance to tour the museum today?
Yes, we'll start right now with a tour of the building! We'll skip the basement – most of that part of the building is devoted to art conservation which won't be part of your internship. Let's begin here on the ground floor with the museum offices.
I guess this is where we'll be spending most of our time, helping with the office work.
You'll spend some time working in here so you can learn what the administrative duties involve. But you'll also get a chance to experience all aspects of museum work. This room in here is the museum tours office.
I'm interested in that! I'd really like to help out with the tours!
That's great because you'll all have a chance to lead some tours and maybe even to develop a tour of your own!
Let's go up to the second floor now!
This is the boardroom in here, isn't it? Will we get to go to board meetings? Only members of the board of directors attend those. Now, back here behind the galleries are the classrooms. You're all welcome to attend any class you want, at no charge!
But we won't be teaching any, will we?
No, the staff of the education department is responsible for that. Let's move up to the third floor now and the research department! Each of you will spend some time working in here.
Great! I'd like to help with the research!
We're working on some very interesting research projects right now! Also as an extension of your research work, you will probably contribute to some of the museum's brochures.
I'm looking forward to that! I like writing about art! Another thing I've been hoping to be able to do is meet some artists!
You're in luck then! We've planned a reception for the first day of your internship. And you'll have the chance to meet several local artists then!
Could you give us a little background of the museum? I mean, when it was built? And some information about the collections and things like that?
Of course! The main part of the museum was built in 1895 with a combination of public and private funds. The new wing was built 60 years later, with a donation from the Rhinebeck family.
That part of the museum was built for the modern art collection, wasn't it?
Yes, it was in the main part of the museum. We have a gallery devoted to works by local artists, our sculpture collection, and a small collection of classical European art.
You mentioned classes earlier. What kinds of classes does the museum offer?
In our adult education program, we offer a series of art history classes. And for children we have a program of arts and crafts workshops. You can get a brochure from the office. That will give you more information.
I saw a lot of chairs set up in the main hall. What are those for?
Those are there for tonight's musical performance. We offer a weekly concert series during the fall and winter. And of course, all of you are welcome to attend. Now if there are no more questions, let's step into my office and I'll show you your schedules.
Escuchará a un director de museo hablando con varios estudiantes de prácticas, explicando sus deberes de prácticas en el museo.
Primero, tiene tiempo para ver las preguntas 21 a 25.
Mientras escucha la primera parte de la conversación, responda las preguntas 21 a 25.
¡Bienvenido al Museo de Arte de la Ciudad! Soy Dr. Shirley Johnson, director del programa de prácticas del museo. Hoy les daré una orientación sobre el museo y el programa de prácticas para administradores de museos.
¿Tendremos la oportunidad de recorrer el museo hoy?
¡Sí, comenzaremos ahora mismo con un recorrido por el edificio! Nos saltaremos el sótano: la mayor parte de esa parte del edificio está dedicada a la conservación del arte, que no formará parte de sus prácticas. Comencemos aquí en la planta baja con las oficinas del museo.
Creo que aquí es donde pasaremos la mayor parte de nuestro tiempo, ayudando con el trabajo de oficina.
Pasará algún tiempo trabajando aquí para que pueda aprender qué implican los deberes administrativos. Pero también tendrá la oportunidad de experimentar todos los aspectos del trabajo del museo. Esta sala de aquí es la oficina de visitas del museo.
¡Estoy interesado en esto! ¡Realmente me gustaría ayudar con las visitas!
¡Eso es genial porque todos tendrán la oportunidad de conducir algunos tours e incluso de desarrollar su propio tour!
¡Vamos al segundo piso ahora!
Esta es la sala de juntas, ¿no? ¿Tendremos la oportunidad de ir a las reuniones de la junta? Solo los miembros de la junta directiva asisten a ellas. Ahora, aquí detrás de las galerías están las aulas. ¡Todos son bienvenidos a asistir a cualquier clase que quieran, sin coste!
Pero no enseñaremos nada, ¿o sí?
No, el personal del departamento de educación es responsable de eso. ¡Pasemos al tercer piso ahora y al departamento de investigación! Cada uno de ustedes pasará algún tiempo trabajando aquí.
¡Estupendo! ¡Me gustaría ayudar con la investigación!
¡Estamos trabajando en algunos proyectos de investigación muy interesantes ahora mismo! También como una extensión de su trabajo de investigación, probablemente contribuirán con algunos de los folletos del museo.
¡Estoy esperándolo ansiosamente! ¡Me gusta escribir sobre arte! ¡Otra cosa que he estado esperando poder hacer es conocer a algunos artistas!
¡Estás de suerte! Hemos planeado una recepción para el primer día de sus prácticas. ¡Y entonces tendrán la oportunidad de conocer a varios artistas locales!
¿Podría darnos un poco de antecedentes del museo? Es decir, ¿cuándo fue construido? ¿Y alguna información sobre las colecciones y cosas por el estilo?
¡Por supuesto! La parte principal del museo se construyó en 1895 con una combinación de fondos públicos y privados. La nueva parte se construyó 60 años después, con una donación de la familia Rhinebeck.
Esa parte del museo fue construida para la colección de arte moderno, ¿no?
Sí, estaba en la parte principal del museo. Tenemos una galería dedicada a obras de artistas locales, nuestra colección de esculturas y una pequeña colección de arte europeo clásico.
Mencionaste clases antes. ¿Qué tipo de clases ofrece el museo?
En nuestro programa de educación para adultos, ofrecemos una serie de clases de historia del arte. Y para los niños tenemos un programa de talleres de artes y oficios. Pueden obtener un folleto de la oficina. Eso les dará más información.
Vi muchas sillas en la sala principal. ¿Para qué son?
Están allí para la actuación musical de esta noche. Ofrecemos una serie de conciertos semanales durante el otoño y el invierno.Y, por supuesto, todos ustedes son bienvenidos. Ahora, si no hay más preguntas, entremos en mi oficina y les mostraré sus horarios.
You will hear a lecture about the history of the tomato.
First you have some time to look at questions.
The tomato is a popular vegetable which figures in the cuisine of many countries around the world. It is particularly prominent in Italian cooking but it was unknown in Europe until Spanish explorers brought it back from the Americas.
The tomato originated in the highlands of Peru. From there it eventually found its way to Mexico where it was cultivated by the Aztecs. The Aztec tomato wasn't the large red vegetable we know today. Rather it was small and yellow.
When this small round fruit arrived in Italy, it was named Golden Apple for its bright yellow color. You'll notice I just called it a fruit. That's because a tomato is botanically a fruit even though almost everyone calls it a vegetable.
The actual word tomato comes from the Aztec name for the vegetable meaning plump thing.
The tomato arrived in Europe in the 1500s and quickly became a popular food in Spain and Italy.
In the late 1600s the Italians began publishing recipes that used Tomatoes.
The British however had a different attitude toward the vegetable. It was grown as an ornamental plant in Britain in the 1600s but it wasn't eaten because it was thought to be poisonous.
It wasn't until the 1700s that tomatoes became part of the daily diet in Britain.
In the United States tomatoes were also used as ornamental plants rather than as food. For a long time this attitude began to change in the 1800's.
In 1806 a gardener's calendar mentioned that tomatoes could be used to improve the flavor of soups and other foods.
Thomas Jefferson did much to enhance the tomatoes reputation as a food. He first served tomatoes to visitors at his home in Virginia in 1809. Then in 1820 a man named Robert Gibbon Johnson decided it was time to discard once and for all the idea that tomatoes were poisonous. To prove his point he ate one kilo of ripe red tomatoes in public which took place on the steps of the courthouse in Salem Massachusetts. Amazingly enough Johnson survived this stunt.
The popularity of the tomato as a food began growing rapidly. Soon people all around the country were eating tomatoes. By the 1830s American newspapers and magazines were publishing thousands of tomato recipes. However all those recipes involved using tomatoes in some cooked form.
Tomato salads and sandwiches were still unknown. It wasn't until a century later in the 1930s that it became popular for people to eat raw tomatoes.
You now have half a minute to check your answers.
Escuchará una conferencia sobre la historia del tomate.
El tomate es un vegetal popular que figura en la cocina de muchos países del mundo. Es particularmente importante en la cocina italiana, pero se desconocía en Europa hasta que los exploradores españoles lo trajeron de América.
El tomate se originó en las tierras altas del Perú. A partir de ahí, finalmente encontró su camino a México, donde fue cultivado por los aztecas. El tomate azteca no era el gran vegetal rojo que conocemos hoy. Más bien era pequeño y amarillo.
Cuando esta pequeña fruta redonda llegó a Italia, se llamó Golden Apple por su color amarillo brillante. Notarás que acabo de llamarlo una fruta. Eso es porque un tomate es botánicamente una fruta, aunque casi todo el mundo lo llama un vegetal.
La palabra actual tomate proviene del nombre azteca para la palabra vegetal que significa algo regordete.
El tomate llegó a Europa en el año 1500 y rápidamente se convirtió en un alimento popular en España e Italia.
A fines del 1600, los italianos comenzaron a publicar recetas que usaban tomates.
Los británicos, sin embargo, tenían una actitud diferente hacia el vegetal. Se cultivó como una planta ornamental en Gran Bretaña en el siglo XVII, pero no se comió porque se pensaba que era venenosa.
No fue sino hasta la década de 1700 que los tomates se convirtieron en parte de la dieta diaria en Gran Bretaña.
En los Estados Unidos, los tomates también se usaban como plantas ornamentales en lugar de como alimentos. Durante mucho tiempo, esta actitud comenzó a cambiar en el siglo XIX.
En 1806, el calendario de un jardinero mencionaba que los tomates podían usarse para mejorar el sabor de las sopas y otros alimentos.
Thomas Jefferson hizo mucho para mejorar la reputación de los tomates como alimento. Primero sirvió tomates a los visitantes en su casa en Virginia en 1809. Luego, en el año 1820, un hombre llamado Robert Gibbon Johnson decidió que era hora de descartar de una vez por todas la idea de que los tomates fueran venenosos. Para demostrar que tenía la razón, se comió un kilo de tomates rojos maduros en público, que tuvo lugar en los escalones del juzgado de Salem, Massachusetts. Sorprendentemente, Johnson sobrevivió a este truco.
La popularidad del tomate como alimento comenzó a crecer rápidamente. Pronto la gente de todo el país estaba comiendo tomates. En la década de 1830, los periódicos y revistas estadounidenses publicaban miles de recetas de tomate. Sin embargo, todas esas recetas involucraron el uso de tomates en forma cocida.
Las ensaladas y sándwiches de tomate aún se desconocen. No fue hasta un siglo más tarde, en la década de 1930, que se hizo popular que las personas comieran tomates crudos.


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Baby-led weaning is one way to start solids with your baby. It involves skipping the spoon and allowing your baby to self-feed solids that are prepared in graspable and dissolvable forms, such as sticks of cooked meat or ripe fruit cut into wedges or sticks.
While research suggests that baby-led weaning encourages self-regulation, development of feeding skills, and leaner babies, there isn't much research to assess its nutrient adequacy. Some research suggests that lower calorie foods such as fruit and vegetables are more common in this feeding approach, which may be associated with baby's weight status.
More recent research points to inadequacies of iron in the diet of baby-led weaners and their spoon-fed counterparts. More research on nutrient intake is needed to help guide optimal food selection to support normal growth and development.
Iron—Iron requirements are particularly important during the first year of life when baby's brain is developing, his body is growing, and iron stores are being built up. Around the time of introducing solid food (6 months), iron requirements shoot up to 11 mg/day (from 0.27 mg/day), making iron an important consideration when choosing foods to feed your baby. If you are breastfeeding your baby, iron-rich foods will play a central role to your baby's overall growth and development. Try to offer two servings of iron-containing foods each day; if offering plant-based iron sources, give a source of vitamin C (orange juice, tomato sauce, etc) at the same time to maximize iron absorption.
Good sources of heme iron (animal-based and naturally well-absorbed in the body) are: chicken liver, oysters, beef liver, beef cuts and ground beef, turkey (dark meat), tuna canned in water, turkey (light meat), chicken (light and dark meat), fresh tuna, crab, pork, shrimp, and halibut.
Good sources of non-heme iron (increase absorption by adding a source of vitamin C): ready-to-eat cereals, oatmeal, soybeans, lentils, beans (kidney, lima, black-eyed peas, navy, black, pinto), tofu, spinach, raisins, molasses, and commercially prepared white and wheat bread.
Zinc—Zinc is a key nutrient for growth and appetite. Children with poor zinc intake may grow slowly, and have a poor appetite causing inadequate food intake. Zinc is also tied to immunity and plays a role in keeping your baby healthy.
Include zinc-rich foods as your baby transitions to solid food, such as red meat like beef and lamb, poultry like chicken or turkey, crabmeat, lobster, fortified ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, a variety of beans, different nuts (when older), whole grains and foods made with whole grains, and dairy products.
Fat—Babies need quite a bit of fat in their diets to sustain their rapid growth in the first year of life, especially when considering how easily their tummies fill up. Every calorie counts! In fact, babies need about 50 percent of their total calories from fat, which is an amount naturally found in breast milk and infant formula. However, when babies start solid food, their fluid intake naturally decreases over time, making fat sources from solid food an important inclusion.
Vitamin D—If you're breastfeeding, your baby should already be getting a vitamin D supplement; vitamin D is included in the panel of nutrients in infant formula.
As your baby transitions to solids, keep an eye out for foods that include vitamin D, either naturally (fatty fish such as salmon, cooked mushrooms, or eggs) or fortified with vitamin D (milk or vitamin D-fortified orange juice). As you reach the one year milestone, milk or milk alternatives fortified with vitamin D will help your baby reach his requirements, though you may still need supplementation to assure your baby is getting enough.
DHA—Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid essential for the development of the retina and the brain. Breastfed babies will receive DHA through mother's milk, provided that mom has a good diet including DHA food sources (found below); many infant formulas include DHA.
By 9 months, start offering solid foods that are good sources of DHA, including 1-2 servings of low-mercury fish each week, including salmon, trout, shrimp, tilapia, pollock, and canned light tuna. Other sources of DHA include fortified eggs, DHA-fortified milk, and DHA-fortified orange juice. Consider a DHA supplement if your toddler won't eat fish or other sources of DHA.
Pay attention to nutrients no matter what feeding approach you use.
If breastfeeding and using baby-led weaning, keep an eye on the following nutrients: iron, zinc, vitamin D, fat, and DHA.
A Review of Studies on the Effect of Iron Deficiency. The Journal of Nutrition.
Castle JL and Jacobsen MT. Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School. Jossey-Bass, 2013.
Development and pilot testing of baby-led introduction to solids. BMC Pediatrics.
Zeigler et al. Dry cereals fortified with electrolytic iron or ferrous fumarate are equally effective in breast-fed infants. J Nutr. 2011; 141: 243-248.


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Q: Can't extract rss feed item title I'm using a php code to extract the title of an ebay affiliate (Partner Network) rss, but I'm having no success. What am I doing wrong?
By the way, is it possible to link the title too?
PHP
<?php
$xml = new DOMDocument();
@$xml->loadHTMLFile('http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?keyword=%28jewelry%2Ccraft%2Cclothing%2Cshoes%2Cdiy%29&sortOrder=BestMatch&programid=1&campaignid=5337945426&toolid=10039&listingType1=All&lgeo=1&topRatedSeller=true&hideDuplicateItems=true&entriesPerPage=2&feedType=rss');

$products = array();

    //Loop through each  tag in the dom and extract inner html

foreach($xml->getElementsByTagName('td') as $p) {
    $children  = $p->childNodes;
    $phtml = '';
    foreach ($children as $child)
    {
        $phtml.= $p->ownerDocument->saveHTML($child);
    }

     echo '

' . $phtml . '

';
}
?>

A: Would comment but not enough rep.
There are no td elements in that feed. It's also not an HTML file.
Instead:

*

*Load as XML

*Create XPath expression to select title nodes

*Iterate returned nodes and make sure they're actual DOM nodes

*Extract text value of node.

Here's how I'd do it:
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML("http://www.longurl.com");

$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$items = $xpath->query("/rss/channel/item/title");

foreach($items as $item) {
    if(XML_ELEMENT_NODE === $item->nodeType) {
        echo '

' . $item->textContent . '

';
    }
}

A: You're on the right way. While checking the feed page I could see that the td elements are inside the <![CDATA[. but the title is outside it, that's why you can't get the title.
Try this temporary solution (This is a completely new code, not to be inserted with the older one):
$feedurl = "http://rest.ebay.com/epn/v1/find/item.rss?keyword=%28jewelry%2Ccraft%2Cclothing%2Cshoes%2Cdiy%29&sortOrder=BestMatch&programid=1&campaignid=5337945426&toolid=10039&listingType1=All&lgeo=1&topRatedSeller=true&hideDuplicateItems=true&entriesPerPage=8&feedType=rss";

$rss = simplexml_load_file($feedurl);

foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {

$link = $item->link;

$title = $item->title;

$description = $item->description;

}

You can output it using print:
print = $description;

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Nicki Janna Francisca Pouw-Verweij (born 21 May 1991) is a Dutch physician and politician. She has served as member of the House of Representatives for JA21 since March 2021.

Pouw-Verweij studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and is working on a PhD in rheumatology at the VU University Medical Center.

As a member of Forum for Democracy (FvD), Pouw-Verweij was elected to the Provincial Council of Utrecht in March 2019, and to the Senate in June 2019. She took maternity leave from the Senate from July to November 2019, and was replaced by Otto Hermans during this period. Pouw-Verweij left Forum for Democracy on 26 November 2020 because of controversial statements uttered by the party's leader Thierry Baudet. On 29 November, she formed the Van Pareren group (renamed the Nanninga group on 15 February 2021) along with four other former FvD Senators. The group became affiliated with the JA21 party on 24 December 2020.

In the 2021 general election, Pouw-Verweij was elected to the House of Representatives, receiving 16,302 preference votes. She took office on 31 March 2021, giving up her seat in the Senate, and resigning from the Provincial Council of Utrecht on 14 April.

References

External links
 Nicki Pouw-Verweij, House of Representatives
 N.J.F. Pouw-Verweij (JA21), Senate

1991 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch physicians
21st-century Dutch politicians
21st-century Dutch women politicians
21st-century women physicians
Dutch rheumatologists
Forum for Democracy (Netherlands) politicians
Independent politicians in the Netherlands
JA21 politicians
Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Members of the Provincial Council of Utrecht
Members of the Senate (Netherlands)
People from IJsselstein
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni
Women rheumatologists


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United States of America: AD & CVD investigations of large diameter pipe from Canada, China, Greece, India, Korea, and Turkey
INVESTIGATION PROGRESS
06 Dec 2018 Definitive duty
21 Aug 2018 Preliminary duty
17 Jan 2018 Initiation
IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL
AFFECTED FLOW
Inflow
ANNOUNCED AS TEMPORARY
NON-TRADE-RELATED RATIONALE
TARIFF PEAK
← back to the state act
Inception date: 21 Aug 2018 | Removal date: open ended
Still in force
Anti-dumping
On January 17, 2018 the American Line Pipe Producers Association filed petitions seeking the imposition of antidumping duties against certain large diameter welded pipe imported from Canada, Greece, India, China, Korea, and Turkey. On March 5, 2018 the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of these imports.
On August 21, 2018 the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations:
Canada – 24.38%
China – 132.63%
Greece – 22.51%
India – 50.55%
Korea – 14.97 to 22.21%
Turkey – 3.45 to 5.29%
As a result of these decisions, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect cash deposits from importers of large diameter welded pipe from Canada, China, Greece, India, Korea, and Turkey based on these preliminary rates. With respect to the India and Turkey investigations, Commerce will adjust the cash deposit rates by the amount of export subsidies found in the companion countervailing duty investigations.
On November 7, 2018, the Department of Commerce announced its affirmative final determinations in the cases involving China and India. In the China AD investigation, Commerce assigned a dumping rate of 132.63 percent to the China-wide entity, based on adverse facts available. In the India AD investigation, Commerce assigned a dumping rate of 50.55 percent to the mandatory respondents, Bhushan Steel and Welspun Trading Limited, based on adverse facts available. Commerce assigned a dumping rate of 50.55 percent to all other producers and exporters of large diameter welded pipe from India.
On December 6, 2018 the U.S. International Trade Commission announced its injury determinations. As a result of the USITC's affirmative determinations, Commerce will issue antidumping duty orders on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel line pipe from China and India and a countervailing duty order on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel line pipe from India, and antidumping and countervailing duty orders on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel structural pipe from China.
On February 21, 2019 the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative final determinations in the investigations of imports from Canada (AD only), Greece (AD only), Korea (AD and CVD), and Turkey (AD and CVD), determining that exporters from Canada, Greece, Korea, and Turkey have sold large diameter welded pipe at less than fair value in the United States at the following rates:
Greece – 9.96%
Korea – 7.03 to 20.39%
On April 2, 2019 the USITC announced its final injury determinations in an unusually complex and nuanced set of findings. The commission made affirmative determinations with respect to the antidumping duty investigations of line pipe from Canada, Greece, Korea, and Turkey; and made affirmative determinations with respect to the countervailing duty investigation of line pipe from Korea. All four commissioners voted to terminate the countervailing duty investigation of line pipe from Turkey. The Commission made affirmative determinations with respect to the antidumping duty investigations of structural pipe from Canada, Korea, and Turkey; and made affirmative determinations with respect to the countervailing duty investigations of structural pipe from Korea and Turkey. All commissioners voted to terminate the antidumping duty investigation of structural pipe from Greece, made negative determinations with respect to the antidumping duty investigations of stainless steel pipe from Canada and Korea, and voted in the negative with respect to the countervailing duty investigation of stainless steel pipe from Korea. All commissioners voted to terminate the antidumping duty investigations of stainless steel pipe from Greece and Turkey and the countervailing duty investigation of stainless steel pipe from Turkey.
As a result of the USITC's affirmative determinations, the Department of Commerce will issue: antidumping duty orders on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel line pipe from Canada, Greece, Korea, and Turkey; a countervailing duty order on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel line pipe from Korea; antidumping duty orders on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel structural pipe from Canada, Korea, and Turkey; and a countervailing duty order on imports of LDW carbon and alloy steel structural pipe from Korea and Turkey.
AFFECTED SECTORS AND PRODUCTS
412 Products of iron or steel
7305 Other tubes and pipes (for example, welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular crosssections, the external diameter of which exceeds 406.4 mm, of iron or steel.
730511 Longitudinally submerged arc welded
730512 Other, longitudinally welded
730519 Other
730520 Casing of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas
730531 Longitudinally welded
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As images and photos start to stream in from One Giant Leap climate jams around the world, the amazing scale of what we've accomplished is becoming clear.
Nearly 40 countries took part at final count, with around 130 jams taking place across different cities worldwide. We're yet to tally the full list of traceurs who took part on the day, but at well over 3,000 participants it is set to dwarf any parkour jam conducted before and should place us firmly in the record books.
What a fantastic achievement for the global parkour community and what incredible outreach for our climate change campaign!
Environmental campaigns have often been accused of just engaging with the usual suspects, fuelling the guilt of the worried-well in the developed world. That's certainly not the case here!
This campaign has created an entirely new class of activist, consisting largely of young people in advanced developing countries like Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico.
Instead of remonstration they use inspiration. Instead of words they use actions.
Firstly, it's a campaign guided by a vision of a world where clean, low-carbon power is available to all.
Secondly, it's a campaign defined by practical and efficient action to achieve this vision: reducing carbon from the biggest emitting countries in the biggest emitting sector.
It has been wonderful to hear global groups reporting their excitement at being part of something so big and so positive, and that same excitement was certainly tangible at our home event here in London where over a hundred traceurs turned up in support.
Over the coming weeks we will be putting a short campaign film together from the assembled footage in order to capture the energy of the day and use it to galvanize the public and policymakers between now and December. You can help us by encouraging everyone you can to sign our petition at [sandbag.org.uk/onegiantleap](https://sandbag.org.uk/onegiantleap "").


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Q: Passing an array argument from Excel VBA to a WCF service I'm trying to pass an array as an argument to my WCF service.  To test this using Damian's sample code, I modified GetData it to try to pass an array of ints instead of a single int as an argument:
using System;
using System.ServiceModel;

namespace WcfService1
{
    [ServiceContract]
    public interface IService1
    {
        [OperationContract]
        string GetData(int[] value);
    }
}

using System;
namespace WcfService1
{
    public class Service1 : IService1
    {
        public string GetData(int[] value)
        {
            return string.Format("You entered: {0}", value[0]);
        }
    }
}

Excel VBA code:
Dim addr As String
addr = "service:mexAddress=""net.tcp://localhost:7891/Test/WcfService1/Service1/Mex"","
addr = addr + "address=""net.tcp://localhost:7891/Test/WcfService1/Service1/"","
addr = addr + "contract=""IService1"", contractNamespace=""http://tempuri.org/"","
addr = addr + "binding=""NetTcpBinding_IService1"", bindingNamespace=""http://tempuri.org/"""

Dim service1 As Object
Set service1 = GetObject(addr)

Dim Sectors( 0 to 2 ) as Integer
Sectors(0) = 10
Sectors(1) = 20

MsgBox service1.GetData(Sectors)

This code works fine with the WCF Test Client, but when I try to use it from Excel, I have this problem.  When Excel gets to the service1.GetData call, it reports the following error:
>Run-time error '-2147467261 (80004003)'
>
>Automation error
>Invalid Pointer

It looks like there is some incompatibility between the interface specification and the VBA call.
Have you ever tried to pass an array from VBA into WCF?  Am I doing something wrong or is this not supported using the Service moniker?

A: There are a couple of things that you could try / check:

*

*From your code, it looks like only the first element in your array is set to a value, try setting them all.

*Instead of passing an array of int, try passing an object that contains a single property which is an array of int.

A: a hack solution could be to join your array as a single string using some kind of delimiter, and pass that instead of the array.  Then in the service, split the string back to an array.  It seems to work, but I really want the correct solution.  If anyone can figure this out, please post!


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The Good Word
Epic Win
Goodbye, schadenfreude; hello, fail.
By Christopher Beam
Oct 15, 200811:55 AM
A demonstrator holds a "fail" sign at a Senate hearing on the financial crisis
When Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson testified before the Senate banking committee last month about Paulson's proposed bailout bill, a demonstrator in the audience held up an 8.5-by-11 piece of paper with one word scrawled on it in block letters: "FAIL." Earlier in September, Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson was dubbed by some bloggers an "epic fail."Grist magazine invoked the phrase when John McCain told a Maine TV reporter that Sarah Palin "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States." And just last week on the Atlantic's Web site, Ta-Nehisi Coates found the theory that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Barack Obama's memoir so "desperate" he called it an "Epic Fail."
What's with all the failing lately? Why fail instead of failure? Why FAIL instead of fail? And why, for that matter, does it have to be "epic"?
It's nearly impossible to pinpoint the first reference, given how common the verb fail is, but online commenters suggest it started with a 1998 Neo Geo arcade game called Blazing Star. (References to the fail meme go as far back as 2003.) Of all the game's obvious draws—among them fast-paced action, disco music, and anime-style cut scenes—its staying power comes from its wonderfully terrible Japanese-to-English translations. If you beat a level, the screen flashes with the words: "You beat it! Your skill is great!" If you lose, you are mocked: "You fail it! Your skill is not enough! See you next time! Bye bye!"
Normally, this sort of game would vanish into the cultural ether. But in the lulz-obsessed echo chamber of online message boards—lulz being the questionable pleasure of hurting someone's feelings on the Web—"You fail it" became the shorthand way to gloat about any humiliation, major or minor. "It" could be anything, from getting a joke to executing a basic mental task. For example, if you told me, "Hey, I liked your article in Salon today," I could say, "You fail it." Convention dictates that I could also add, in parentheses, "(it being reading the titles of publications)." The phrase was soon shortened to fail—or, thanks to the caps-is-always-funnier school of Web writing, FAIL. People started pasting the word in block letters over photos of shameful screw-ups, and a meme was born.
The fail meme hit the big time this year with the May launch of Failblog, an assiduous chronicler of humiliation and a guide to the taxonomy of fail. The most basic fails—a truck getting sideswiped by an oncoming train, say, or a National Anthem singer falling down on the ice—are usually the most boring, as obvious as a clip from America's Funniest Home Videos. Another easy laugh is the translation fail, such as the unfortunately named "Universidad de Moron." This is the same genre of fail that spawned Engrish, an entire site devoted to poor English translations of Asian languages, not to mention the fail meme itself. A notch above those are unintentional-contradiction fails, like "seedless" sunflower seeds or a door with two signs on it: "Welcome" and "Keep Out." Architectural fails have the added misfortune of being semipermanent, such as the handicapped ramp that leads the disabled to a set of stairs or the second-story door that opens out onto nothing. Even more embarrassing are simple information fails, like the brochure that invites students to "Study Spanish in Mexico" with photos of the Egyptian pyramids. These fails often expose deep ignorance: One woman thinks her sprinkler makes a rainbow because of toxins in the water and air.
The highest form of fail—the epic fail—involves not just catastrophic failure but hubris as well. Not just coming in second in a bike race but doing so because you fell off your bike after prematurely raising your arms in victory. Totaling your pickup not because the brakes failed but because you were trying to ride on the windshield. Not just destroying your fish tank but doing it while trying to film yourself lifting weights.
Why has fail become so popular? It may simply be that people are thrilled to finally have a way to express their schadenfreude out loud. Schadenfreude, after all, is what you feel when someone else executes a fail. But the fail meme also changes our experience of schadenfreude.What was once a quiet pleasure-taking is now a public—and competitive—sport.
It's no wonder, then, that the fail meme gained wider currency with the advent of the financial crisis. Some observers relished watching wealthier-than-God investment bankers get their comeuppance. It helped that the two events occurred at the same time—Google searches for fail surged in early 2008, around the same time the mortgage crisis started to pick up steam. And the ubiquity of phrases like "failed mortgages" and "bank failures" seemed to echo the popular meme, which may have helped usher the term out of 4chan boards and onto blogs. It's rare that an Internet fad finds such a suitable mainstream vehicle for its dissemination. It's as if LOLcats coincided with a global outbreak of some feline adorability virus. The financial crisis also fits neatly into the Internet's tendency toward overstatement. (Worst. Subprime mortgage crisis. Ever.) Only this time, it's not an exaggeration.
Most Internet memes have the lifespan of fruit flies. But there's evidence to suggest fail is here to stay. For one thing, it's easier to say than failure. (Need for brevity might explain why, in Webspeak, the opposite of fail is not success but win.) And there's a proud tradition in English of chopping off the endings of words for convenience. Between Old and Middle English, many nouns stopped being declined, says Anatoly Liberman, an etymologist at the University of Minnesota. Likewise, while Romance languages still conjugate their verbs, English keeps it relatively simple: I speak, you speak, we speak, etc. It's also common for verbs to become nouns, Liberman points out. You can lock a door, but it also has a lock. You can bike, but you can also own a bike. There was great fuss a century ago among readers of the British magazine Notes and Queries when it used the word meet to refer to a sporting event. It's not surprising that failure would eventually spawn fail.
It wouldn't be the first word to owe its ascendance to the Internet. The exclamation w00t—an interjection expressing joy—gained mainstream recognition when Merriam-Webster crowned it Word of the Year in 2007. The phrase pwned, a perversion of owned used by online gamers, made it into an episode of South Park—not quite the OED but still authoritative—and enjoys broad ironic usage. And of course, Google is no longer just a noun.
Unlike those words, though, fail has the luxury of pre-existing forms. Italready exists as a noun in the phrase "without fail." It's therefore likely to gain quicker entry into most people's lexicon than, say, a word that includes digits.
In other words, fail will win.


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Entertainment in the Sky: Reviewing Virgin America's Red In Flight Entertainment package
Seth Gilbert, 10-15-2007
Touch screens, video-on-demand, GPS, Portable Entertainment, taxi's with TV, highway rest stops with WiFi hotspots …. Entertainment technology is reaching into our travels and changing fast. No where are these changes more apparent than airlines. New planes have new technology and are trying to keep up.
Last week Virgin America, the newly launched U.S. low fare airline chose a handful of prominent Internet personalities and blogger's as cartoon faces to front their new ad campaign. They included people like Kevin Rose (Digg) and the team at popular blog Boing Boing. I wasn't among the chosen few – Metue is a good ways from the scale of audience to draw that kind of attention - but I have flown VA twice this month and the time seems right to take inventory and do a review; a closer look at the entertainment technology aboard the newest company to take flight.
Long gone are the days of fixed televisions spaced along the aisles to display a pre-selected in-flight movie (unless of course you're flying an older plane). Today's newer aircraft are increasingly outfitted with networked entertainment. So far, no airline has gone more forward (or customer centric) in defining the user experience than Virgin America. As a part of Richard Branson's empire, that makes sense. Sir Richard has a reputation for being flamboyant; a cutting edge entrepreneur who likes to push the edge in his businesses and his adventures. Half owned by Virgin (U.S. regulations prohibit majority ownership of domestic airlines), it's fair to say Virgin America's toting at least half of Branson's signature style.
Expanding on rival Jet Blue's in flight systems, VA offers "Red" a fully interactive system controlled by a combination of seatback touch screen and armrest mounted remote controls. The system is still characterized as being in Beta (with features still under development) though it's live and running on their fleet. It's not perfect but here's a run through of some of the highlights and the flaws:
• Touch Screen Monitor with built in media player
Red is controlled largely by the touch screen monitor housed in the seatback in front of you. The screen is about 9" in diagonal and provides a crisp viewing experience. The user interface, including the media player, looks and operates similar to most PC/MAC based software. It's easy to use and, for the most part, intuitive. The backend was largely built by Panasonic and CoKinetic. The Interface was built by Wunderman.
The system showcases the video entertainment, or music. It also, with the touch of fixed button allows you to cycle between a Google powered in flight map, the home page and the media player environment. On a thumb's up, thumb's down basis, it's looking good. I particularly like the ability to order a drink when I want it from the system.
Score: positive.
• Armrest controls
A few buttons on the armrest to switch channels and change the volume are commonplace. VA takes it a step further. The Virgin armrest pivots up to release a corded remote control. One side of the device provides the standard and expected functionality: channel, volume, basic navigation. The magic happens when the controller is turned over. On the back, it has a full QWERTY keyboard and an old school style Nintendo game controller.
• Dish Network live satellite TV
The primary free video entertainment (mainstream movies are all pay-per-view) on the flight is satellite television through Dish Network. As of today, there are about 22 channels. They include 4 ESPNs, Food Network, Fox and FX, USA, Disney, Current TV, Discovery Channel, a dose of news programming and a few other channels. The offering is moderately balanced but many cable standbys like TBS and TNT, and much major network content is noticeably absent. (Disney, Fox, Paramount and Warner Brothers were Virgin's early partners. NBC Universal signed on in July).
Fly on a Sunday during football season and you may be disappointed. You may also be disappointed, for now, with the consistency of the TV offering. In my two flights, many of the channels were temporarily unavailable (or completely unavailable) for much of the flight. There seemed to be issue with the Satellite reception.
Score: negative. Depth of programming isn't great but reliability is a big fault. Seeing the same Simpson's episode recycle for hours on end was not good for me or the other passengers.
• Movies and Premium TV
The inflight movie is an old standby. On Virgin America, it's place of merit changes. Here all mainstream films are sold pay per view via the credit card reader in the monitor. On my flights there was a good selection – 25 titles (along with a handful of free shorts and festival circuit level films). The movies play fine and having them available on-demand is great. The trouble here is they're priced at $8 per flick. That's rather pricey compared against the kind of pay-per-view prices I'd pay at home or to rent a movie ($4 or less). 8 bucks for a rental? Steep… especially on a 9 inch screen. I don't mind paying but I like to think I'm getting fair value for my money. Even if contracts require the high price, it's no good for the customer.
Score: Negative, with potential. Change the pricing or at least make one title available free (priced into the ticket).
As for premium TV, that too suffers a bit from pricing confusion. Virgin offered 20 TV shows priced at $1.99 a piece. Some of these programs were select episodes of Showtime programming like Dexter. Others are regularly (and usually freely available) network standbys like 24, or Family Guy. Paying for them is not a problem but bring in more specialty content. Sign on HBO. Get to work licensing. And tell me, why is a 30 minute show the same price as an hour long cable program? $1.99 is not outrageous. It's comparable to iTunes pricing but again, the value equation? Give me more. For now, the limited offering is so far just average.
Score: Neutral.
Music is part of where Virgin shines. That figures given Richard Branson's early successes in the music industry. Here, instead of just the usual elevator selection of genre organized hits on looping inflight radio, Virgin America offers a deep library of MP3's that you can select from the seat. About 200 artists were represented from U2 (21 songs) to Elvis to Amy Winehouse to Etta James. There was something for everybody – along with a handful of free music videos for those inclined. Some of the artists are single album selections, other career retrospectives. It's an impressive offering. It could even be great opportunity for record labels to promote new talents. Score: Positive
• In Seat Video Games
Video games with a real controller in your seat? That wasn't expected, but it's there. Through about 15 games, kids, adults or otherwise can cycle through a range of gaming entertainment, all free of charge. Most of the titles are throwbacks – Atari asteroids clone, a Tetris like offering. There's even first person shooter game Doom. They're all dated, but they are still fun. The system was little buggy, occasionally freezing, but for kids, or passing time, it wasn't bad. Be nice if the games were more modern but not a bad start. Score: positive.
• In Flight Messaging system
The back of the remote control is home not just to the gaming controller but to a full mini keyboard. Parents or groups not sitting together can use it to sent text messages between seats. For now, this is a novelty. The real payoff will be at the next stage of development when Red adds email and SMS messaging abilities. At that point, the system could provide a realistic alternative to keeping in touch during the flight (albeit with potential security concerns if people use it for webmail). Score: neutral with prospects.
Email is coming soon, likewise there's space allocated for some form of e-reader digital book offering and the prospect of in seat shopping through Red. Novelties or winner? Too early to tell. Overall though, for in-flight entertainment (IFE) Red is an impressive starting point; a real showcase of technologies converging


One of the sights I returned to after my recent trip (besides the knee-high lawn) was the ninebark.
This is probably the best-looking shrub in my yard year-round, but in mid-spring it really impresses with its blooms.
Minimal fragrance (if any), but does that even matter in this case?
Maybe several octopuses hugging each other, because there are way more than 8 arms. Sadly, I'll have to prune some of these soon as they'll be blocking paths. This plant got much larger than the tag indicated.
The pink of the unopened buds really does it for me. I don't know if I'd like these as much if they were pure white. Perhaps.
Just beautiful! It bloomed early this year just like everything else, but I'm glad I didn't miss the whole show while I was away.
I really like it! I've never seen a ninebark in our part of the country. I wonder why nurseries around here don't carry them?
I'd heard about ninebark on Gardening by the Yard, but I didn't know about the flowers. So pretty!!
Great photos! I've never looked that closely at a ninebark flower before. They really are lovely. Could it possibly be a Diablo ninebark? It was all the rage when it came out and everyone planted it... and it ended up growing to nearly twice the size the tag said it should be!
I have never hear of this shrub. It has delightfully pretty blooms. Glad you didn't miss the show.
Jennifer: it's 'Summer Wine', not 'Diablo'. I think they're very similar though. Tag says 4-5' tall and wide. Double that is closer to what I see too.
Have you had any problems with powdery mildew? Seems like all the cultivars of Ninebark I have planted (Diablo, Summer Wine, Coppertina, Center Glow) wind up looking bad due to powdery mildew.
Zoo: nope, I've never seen powdery mildew on this, even when monarda was planted next to it -- the king of powdery mildew hosts in my garden.


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