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Here's a rough translation to English from the Babelfish tool:

Babel is the first cupboard in spring collection, devised in 2005. Babel exists from a modular system and is multipurpose; he can serve piece of furniture, book cupboard as sidetable, TV or as room divider. Above all Babel striking and a particular object in each space is! The cupboard is built modules, he who of 15 mm birches are plywood composed. The basis module (A) is 62 cm high, module b and c each 31 cm. Each module has a fixed classification with horizontal legplanken. There a desired altitude can be turned, into a maximum altitude of 185 cm. The cupboard is always 150 cm broad and 30 cm deeply. At the modules loose block-systems are provided, which one can place to own insight in the cupboard. It is important, however, that the block-systems jump; this reinforces the construction of the cupboard. The kopse to square of birches plywood in Babel is white and onbehandeld. All legplanken have been bilaterally held with frosted, slijtvaste plastic low, deliverable in 2 colours: * blank * warm anthracite.

For those getting telemarketer or other unwanted calls, even despite being on Do Not Call lists, a service I might suggest would be the Privacy Manager feature available from most phone services. [No, I don't work for a phone company and generally am not a fan of paying extra fees to them. However, I have had this type of service for 3-4 years now and LOVE the benefits.]

Here's a brief description from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse:
Most local phone companies offer a relatively new service called Privacy Manager. It works with Caller ID to identify incoming calls that have no telephone numbers given. Calls identified as "anonymous," unavailable," out of area" or "private" must identify themselves in order to complete the call. Before your phone rings, a recorded message instructs the caller to unblock the call, enter a code number (like the inbound call blocking devices mentioned above), or record their name. When your phone rings, you can choose to accept or reject the call, send it to voice mail, or send a special message to telemarketers instructing them to put you on their "do not call" list.

You do NOT have to use the phone company's voicemail with this service, if you have an answering machine and you're not home to take the call, it just rings through a second time after the caller has identified him/herself and records the message to your machine like normal.

It's really not much of an inconvenience to callers (and I have been through a couple of job searches and running some client projects with this service in place). A couple of times a business caller had their callerID blocked but went through the quick sequence, when I briefly explained what it was, most understood and thought it was a great idea (and no one expressed annoyance).

[Oh, one suggestion: if you have parents that may not be techno-savvy (or patient with technology or messages), explain it to them upfront and assure them that they'll get through. My parents live in an area in CT that apparently automatically blocks outgoing numbers as the default (my parents didn't request the feature and are oblivious to the entire Caller ID concept). My mother (whom I speak to nearly weekly) thought I had intentionally blocked her call specifically (she didn't bother fully listening to the prompt).]

Anyway, I'm a fan of the service and recommend it, particularly as a couple of voting periods are approaching. (Before that triggers a flamewar, I worked on political campaigns and encourage participation; but almost nobody wants to be interrupted at dinner or on the weekend by phone scripts)