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What information does Cashmere Boutique collect from you?
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services, Cashmere Boutique collects two types of information about its visitors: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our site. Any information you provide to us at this site when you establish or update an account, shop online or request information (i.e. name, address, email address and telephone number) is maintained in the strictest confidence. Cashmere Boutique does not share this information with any third parties. Personally Identifiable Information Personal information is requested when you order a product or service, enter contests or sweepstakes, fill out surveys, and send us feedback. Personally identifiable information may include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, email address, and credit card or other payment information. This information allows Cashmere Boutique to provide you with better and more personalized services on our site. Non-Personally Identifiable Information Non-personally identifiable information does not in itself identify a specific individual. We gather certain information about you based upon where you shop on our site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. For example, this information may include the Web site's Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. A URL is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") network, such as the World Wide Web. Networks like the Web use the TCP/IP protocol to route information based on the IP address of the destination. In other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web servers to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop.
Where do we collect information from you and how do we use it?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide our site visitors with a superior customized online experience. We use the customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional information, to enhance the operation of our site, and to more efficiently administer our systems.
We gather information in the following ways:
We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our site. We collect information from visitors to our site regarding the URLs they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses, the date and time of their visit or order, the number of visits and orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type, the operating system and browser type used to come to the site, the country, state and telephone area code where their servers are located, the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during their visit, whether the visitor's computer is enabled for Java or cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and any search terms entered on our site.
When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable information from you. If you order one of our products or services, we will collect and maintain your name, email address, billing address, shipping address, telephone number, product selections, order number, referring URL, IP address, page you bought from and a password. We collect this, and other information, as disclosed in this Policy, in order to fill your order, to communicate with you about your order and to send you promotional materials if you have requested to receive the Cashmere Boutique electronic newsletter. Before placing your order, you will have the opportunity to review and verify your order information and make changes and additions to the information it contained and these changes will be automatically kept for future use.
Online Surveys and Polling
In order to improve our services to you, we may from time to time ask some of our customers to voluntarily complete surveys or polls. Individual survey answers are confidential, and the information that is collected is not shared with third parties. If you do not wish to participate in a survey, simply decline to participate when asked.
Wish List
Cashmere Boutique offers site visitors the opportunity to sign up and create a Wish List. A Wish List is a list of desired products that can be shared via email with family and friends. If you sign up for a Wish List we will collect your first name, email address, birth date, and gender.
Newsletters & Promotional Emails
If you sign up to receive the Cashmere Boutique newsletter, we will collect your name, email address, age, and gender. The Cashmere Boutique newsletter is our way of letting you know about special promotions and discounts that are available on Cashmere Boutique. You will always have the option to unsubscribe from our electronic mailing list at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any newsletter, or by emailing us at [email protected] and asking to be removed from the list.
Contact Information
If you contact Cashmere Boutique or our customer service representatives by email or letter, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem with our site, we may collect such information in a file specific to you. If you contact us through our feedback area we may ask for your name, email address and order information in order to send you a reply. If other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or purchases on our site, we may keep the information in a file specific to you. We also track customers' traffic patterns throughout their online session, including which pages, information and advertisements a customer views while using the site and what items they place in their shopping cart or purchase. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers, software, to administer our site and to gather demographic information.
With whom do we share your information?
Any information you provide to us at this site when you establish or update an account, shop online or request information (i.e. name, address, email address and telephone number) is maintained in the strictest confidence. Cashmere Boutique does not share this information with any third parties. This information is used only to enable Cashmere Boutique to deliver better services to you.
How can you update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information?
We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us. During the online ordering process you can review, change, or delete the information that you have submitted. You may change any of your personal information in your account online at any time. We encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past purchases, you cannot delete information associated with past purchases.
What security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and order fulfillment are handled by established third party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order. When you access your account information, the information is kept on a secure server. All of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access by physical security means.
Cashmere Boutique's use of cookies.
Cookies are bits of information that your browser maintains to help a server (such as our website) communicate with you. You must have cookies enabled in your browser in order to use the shopping cart on Cashmere Boutique. The cookies placed on your machine are used solely to protect the integrity of your shopping cart, and they are removed as soon as you close your browser window. We do this as a convenience for you, so that when you place your order, your billing information is filled in for you automatically. If you leave our site and return, we also use cookies so that we can recognize and match your sign in and shopping information with your previous session on Cashmere Boutique. Cashmere Boutique collects and analyzes data about how visitors use this website, but we do not use this information to identify or contact individual users, nor do we supply any data that could identify individual users to a third party. We use this data only to improve our site and our services.
You should carefully review privacy policies of any third party sites accessible from Cashmere Boutique
From time to time, Cashmere Boutique may provide links to other websites that have their own information collection practices. These other websites are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be different from Cashmere Boutique. We encourage visitors to other websites to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of those websites.
Privacy Policy changes
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact Cashmere Boutique by email at [email protected] or by mail: Cashmere Boutique (Attn: Privacy Manager) 109 Huyler Landing Road, Cresskill NJ 07626 Telephone: 1-800-726-6066
Contacting Cashmere Boutique about privacy questions or concerns
This policy, like the Cashmere Boutique website itself, is subject to change. We will notify you of changes by posting them on our site. We encourage you to check back and review this policy, from time to time, so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it. We may change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately upon being posted on Cashmere Boutique.


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Voltaire — To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize
Saturday, January 2, 2016
The mayor of a city south of Mexico's capital has been shot to death less than a day after taking office
Gunmen opened fire on Mayor Gisela Mota at her house in the city of Temixco, said the government of Morelos state, where Temixco is located. Two presumed assailants were killed and three others detained following a pursuit, said Morelos security commissioner Jesus Alberto Capella. He said that the suspects fired on federal police and soldiers from a vehicle. On his Twitter account, Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez attributed Mota's killing to organized crime, without citing a particular drug cartel or gang. Cartels seeking to control communities and towns have often targeted local officials and mayors in Mexico. Mota's leftist Democratic Revolution Party released a statement describing her as "a strong and brave woman who on taking office as mayor, declared that her fight against crime would be frontal and direct." Temixco is a city of about 100,000 people neighboring Cuernavaca, a resort and industrial city which has been suffering kidnappings and extortion linked to organized crime groups. Though Cuernavaca is the capital of Morelos, Temixco is the seat of several state institutions including the Public Security Commission, which coordinates state and local police forces. Morelos also neighbors drug cartel-plagued Guerrero state. Mota, who had been a federal congresswoman, was sworn into office on New Year's Day 2016. She was killed the following day. Morelos Gov. Ramirez vowed that there "would be no impunity" in her killing and promised that state officials would not cede to what he described as a "challenge from criminals." Federal and state forces are deployed in Cuernavaca and municipalities near the Guerrero state border in what is called operation "Delta." Capella did not provide more details about the attack on Mota, but said that when the suspects were detained, authorities found a 9-millimeter gun, an Uzi, ski masks and an SUV with Mexico State license plates. Morelos Attorney General Javier Perez Duron said that the detained suspects have been tied to other crimes, but declined to provide more details.
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Alex von Furstenberg Is One Jealous Fellow
Alex von Furstenberg flipped out, with insanity, when he found out his fiancee was flirting sexxxily with washed-up NBA star Reggie Miller. You got off easy, Reggie. Alex has been know to punch faces over this sort of thing.
All Alex did in this case was to hire a plane to fly over California beaches towing a banner that said "REGGIE MILLER STOP PURSUING MARRIED WOMEN," which—let's be honest—makes Alex look worse than Reggie. Particularly because the woman in question, Ali Kay, is not married. But this is a step toward civility for Alex, according to the New York Post; in 2003, AVF caught an assault charge (later expunged!) for beating up a dude who tried flirting with Ali:
Von Furstenberg's victim, Rowen Seibel, said he was sitting in his car at around 1 in the morning when Alex — also in a car — put his vehicle in reverse and repeatedly slammed it into Seibel's, according to court papers.
Von Furstenberg then got out of his car, smashed Seibel in the face and head with his fist, threw him to the ground and kicked him, court papers allege.
So, progress! We hope this was not due to intimidation by Reggie Miller, though. He's no Anthony Mason.
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The Bijou is a classic gin drink with the rich herbal sweetness of Green Chartreuse, and the dryness of French Vermouth, or as Flighty mixes it, with her homemade infused Lillet Blanc. The drink is light, sweetly complex, and balanced, the perfect alternative drink for Negroni lovers in the springtime.
Miss Flighty gets back to basics with the Pear Necessity, a flavorful gin drink with Pimm's #1, Luxardo, mint, lemon, ginger, and fresh pear. Take it from Baloo, the jolly dancing bear from the Jungle book, its the simple bare necessities like a good cocktail and friends that are truly important.
Inspired by the Pimm's Cup, a classic English summer drink, the MaryAnn with Ginger combines Plymouth Gin, Pimm's #1, cucumbers, mint and fresh ginger. The name is a tongue and cheek salute to the sexy stars of the 60s sitcom "Gilligan's Island" and was first served on the Aloha Airlines flight of one of Alberta's weekly airline theme parties.
The PSAde is a vodka Aperol refresher with rounds of tangerine, blood orange, and cucumber muddled in for the brightest freshest flavor.
Miss Flighty offers up her Bloody Mary Mix recipe, chock full of savory flavor, and easy to make at home. Horseradish, garlic powder, cilantro, celery salt, hot sauce, chilies, lime make up this fiery blend is more than a hangover remedy, its a meal!
An intriguing flavorful home made infused Bloody Mary Vodka that is simple to make at home. The recipe uses an assortment of herbs and spices, such as Ancho Chilies for their rich smokiness, garlic, cilantro, lemongrass, coriander, juniper berries, and bay leafs combine to make a "pepper" vodka that in contrast to most commercial varieties that are simply hot, it can also be enjoyed on its own as a shot for the adventurous drinker.
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Three year olds are curious, active – at least mine seem to have an endless supply of energy. They are beginning to make comparisons and differentiate patterns, colors and love to play pretend. Here are just a few of our favorite three year old activities. These activities were gleaned in part from from our weekly kids meme, It's Playtime.
Go on a color hunt through your house. Seek out items that are all the same color. This is a great clean-up activity.
Play with paint. Tinkerlab blew the paint around the page with straws with her kids. My three years olds loved this activity.
Make a stamping "wheel" with an old packing tape roll and foam stickers.
Dye pasta with food coloring and rubbing alcohol. Kids love to make dimensional collages with the colored pasta.
Practice picking up pom-poms with tongs and play a matching game putting them into muffin tins (via Crayon Freckles).
Create a batch of fizzing sidewalk paint. Enjoy watching your sidewalk bubble as you spray it off with vinegar.
Have fun "cooking" in an outdoor-mud-kitchen. Pepperpaints had fun making muffins with her girls.
Oobleck is a mixture of cornstarch and water. It has a consistency that is both solid and liquid, and can make great prints (via The Imagination Tree)
Goop. We have a favorite recipe, and Mossy does too! We love slimy goop!
Home Adventurer had fun emptying out expired items from her fridge and with some food dye had fun creating potions with her kids.
Get physical. Our boys just love using bands to help contain them and provide resistance as they run. Great activity for developing team skills.
Hopscotch is a long-time favorite activity. Here are easy to follow instructions on how to make your own hopscotch rug.
Stretchies are also great for independent exercise and stretches. The girls at Making Stuff had fun with these homemade stretchy bands.
This is on our to-do list. Make a giant bubble for your kids to play in – it looks like so much fun! (via Play at Home Mom)
Have leftover chewed on pool noodles? Give them new life this fall/winter and use them as bats in a game of balloon batting.
Like this post but are looking for activities for other age groups of kids? Check out our other age sets:
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Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation Included in the American Urological Association's Overactive Bladder Clinical Treatment Guidelines
21 May, 2012, 07:00 ET
MINNEAPOLIS, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Uroplasty, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPI), a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products for the treatment of voiding dysfunctions, today announced that the American Urological Association (AUA) issued a clinical guideline titled "Diagnosis and Treatment of Overactive Bladder (Non-Neurogenic) in Adults," which includes percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) as an integral part of the care path for overactive bladder (OAB) treatment. The AUA's evidence-based guidelines are intended to promote the highest standards of clinical care. Uroplasty's Urgent® PC Neuromodulation System is the only FDA cleared device that delivers PTNS.
"It is noteworthy that the world's most prestigious urology society has recognized the clinical significance of PTNS in their OAB treatment guidelines," said David Kaysen, President and CEO of Uroplasty. "We will present these guidelines to the medical directors of U.S. private payers and Medicare carriers as we continue our efforts to expand coverage for our Urgent PC Neuromodulation System."
About Uroplasty, Inc.
Uroplasty, Inc., headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, with wholly-owned subsidiaries in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, is a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products for the treatment of voiding dysfunctions. Our focus is the continued commercialization of our Urgent PC system, which we believe is the only FDA-approved minimally invasive nerve stimulation device designed for office-based treatment of urinary urgency, urinary frequency and urge incontinence – symptoms often associated with overactive bladder.
We also offer Macroplastique Implants®, an injectable urethral bulking agent for the treatment of adult female stress urinary incontinence primarily due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency. For more information on the company and its products, please visit Uroplasty, Inc. at www.uroplasty.com.
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Long-term tropospheric trend of octafluorocyclobutane (c-C4F8 or PFC-318)." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12, no. 1 (2012): 261-269."


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While Wouter waits for his clearance to post... Begin forwarded message: > From: Wouter van Hulten <wouter at vanhulten.com> > Subject: Re: [connect-bof] Regulation proposed by European Commission > Date: 29 October, 2013 18:32:09 CET > To: Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13 at gmail.com>, "connect-bof at ripe.net" <connect-bof at ripe.net>, "cooperation-wg at ripe.net" <cooperation-wg at ripe.net> > > Thanks for this clear summary. > > I contacted the ITRE Secretariat last week. Whilst the deadline for the feedback is 5 november, the ITRE Secretariat indicated that they will only send the documents to translation on 14 november. Also, they are keen to receive feedback from RIPE community: "Please make comments", and "the text is very complex, technical, political". > > Also, Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake has kindly offered to arrange a meeting in Brussels with the ITRE Rapporteur, Mrs Del Castillo Vera. (You may have noticed that she wrote the preface to Report of the Dynamic Coalition in support of Net Neutrality.) Her assistant has written to ITRE rapporteur that "Ms Schaake would like to see whether it would be possible to set up a meeting between Mrs Del Castillo Vera, herself and a small delegation (max 5 persons) of [representatives] from the RIPE Internet Community in order to discuss the Connected Continent proposal." Tentative dates are 11 november after 1pm, or 12 november 1-2pm. > > Legislative package: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/connected-continent-legislative-package > Impact assessment: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/impact-assessment-connected-continent > > What's next? Please submit feedback via WG Chair or the list. If you are able to join the meeting, please also send a message. > That's all for now, more news to follow from the WG Chair, if I'm not mistaken. > > Wouter > > > http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/itre/home.html > Public stakeholder consultation on Telecoms Regulation > Ms Pilar del Castillo (EPP), the newly appointed ITRE Rapporteur on the recently proposed Telecoms Regulation is launching a public stakeholder consultation to benefit from the input of consumers, national regulators, industry stakeholders and other interested parties, not least NGOs, in the work of the ITRE Committee. The Rapporteur would welcome this stakeholder input on the Commission proposal by 5 November 2013. > For more information on the proposal consult EC website <http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/connected-continent-single-telecom-market-growth-jobs> > > > > On 22/10/13 12:55, "Gordon Lennox" <gordon.lennox.13 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just before Athens and in the margins of the meeting itself I had various brief exchanges on this and so I thought it useful to bring the various things together and to try and give some pointers. >> >> I am not sure which group is better. So I am sending it to both the Cooperation WG and the Connect BOF at this stage. >> >> ------- >> >> The basic Brussels problem is that they still have not managed to do Internet and telecoms policy as a coherent whole. >> >> People there tend not come to RIPE, or any similar Internet meetings. The few who do internet-related things have tended to go to ICANN, where of course the emphasis has been on new gTLDs, and to the IGF, which was defined as having "no negotiated outcomes". Which can all seen as adequate as there is no intention to regulate the Internet in the EU! >> >> Meanwhile there is a much larger group working on EU telecoms regulation which is done without significant reference to the Internet and yet with serious lobbying from ETNO and GSMA. Even ETSI has its Brussels person. >> >> The result has been texts and proposals that Internet people have found confusing or even potentially dangerous. >> >> Confusing? A few years ago there was a major study on "IP Interconnection". Because there were major problems with IP interconnection? If I remember correctly the way in was given by Daniel Karrenberg who suggested that if you changed the title of the study it made more sense. It was not about IP interconnection: it was about the interconnection of telecoms services over IP networks. Not exactly the same thing. >> >> Dangerous? I think it was folk from the CENTR community who saw the problem. While the Commission said they had no intent of regulating certain Internet things, and so had not looked in that direction, CENTR lawyers felt their text could be interpreted as applying to the DNS and TLDs. The problem is though that regulations are for regulators and the courts to interpret. And they are not going to run back to Brussels and ask what they really meant. >> >> So now we have a new proposed regulation. >> >> I should mention that once "regulations" are adopted by the European Parliament and the Council that is it. "Regulations" are unlike "directives" where Member States then have to transpose the texts into their national legislation. There is also the point that next year sees elections for the Parliament and a new Commission which will obviously influence the timetable. >> >> There are a number of aspects which should be of interest to this community: >> ** the Commission's view of the sector. The telecoms sector is in a bad way? But if helped it will do good things? >> ** market consolidation. This is a big part of the answer? >> ** interconnection. Needs to be regulated? But at which layer and between who? >> ** network neutrality & the open internet v. specialised services >> ** ... and so on >> >> The press release or "memo" provide perhaps the easier ways in: >> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-828_en.htm >> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-779_en.htm >> >> But the "communication" is probably better: >> https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/communication-commission-european-parliament-council-european-economic-and-social-committee-a-0 >> >> Then the proposed Regulation is where the meat is: >> https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/regulation-european-parliament-and-council-laying-down-measures-concerning-european-single >> >> If you only read one text though then the proposed Regulation is the best. >> >> There is a link to the text of the new Regulation, and all the other various associated documents, here: >> http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/connected-continent-single-telecom-market-growth-jobs >> >> ------ >> >> So the formal title and a few semi-random extracts: >> >> Brussels, 11.9.2013 >> COM(2013) 627 final >> 2013/0309 (COD) >> >> Proposal for a >> REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL >> laying down measures concerning the European single market for electronic >> communications and to achieve a Connected Continent, and amending Directives >> 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC and 2002/22/EC and Regulations (EC) No 1211/2009 and (EU) >> No 531/2012 >> >> <<Today, Europe is fragmented into 28 separate national communications markets, each with a >> limited number of players. As a consequence, while no operator is present in more than half >> of the Member States, most in far fewer, overall more than 200 operators serve a market of >> 510 million of customers. EU rules on, for example, authorisations, regulatory conditions, >> spectrum assignment and consumer protection are implemented in diverging ways. This >> patchy scenario raises barriers to entry and increases the costs for operators wanting to >> provide cross-border services thereby impeding their expansion. This stands in stark contrast >> with the US or China who have one single market of 330 and 1400 million customers >> respectively, served by four to five large operators, with one legislation, one licensing system, >> and one spectrum policy.>> >> >> <<A right for electronic communications providers to offer and access on reasonable >> terms harmonised connectivity products with assured service quality to enable new >> types of online services.>> >> >> <<In a context of progressive migration to 'all IP networks', the lack of availability of >> connectivity products based on the IP protocol for different classes of services with >> assured service quality that enable communication paths across network domains and >> across network borders, both within and between Member States, hinders the >> development of applications that rely on access to other networks, thus limiting >> technological innovation. Moreover, this situation prevents the diffusion on a wider >> scale of efficiencies which are associated with the management and provision of IP-based >> networks and connectivity products with an assured service quality level, in >> particular enhanced security, reliability and flexibility, cost-effectiveness and faster >> provisioning, which benefit network operators, service providers and end users. A >> harmonised approach to the design and availability of these products is therefore >> necessary, on reasonable terms including, where requested, the possibility of crosssupply >> by the electronic communications undertakings concerned.>> >> >> <<"assured service quality (ASQ) connectivity product" means a product that is made >> available at the internet protocol (IP) exchange, which enables customers to set up an IP >> communication link between a point of interconnection and one or several fixed network >> termination points, and enables defined levels of end to end network performance for the >> provision of specific services to end users on the basis of the delivery of a specified >> guaranteed quality of service, based on specified parameters;>> >> >> >> ----- >> >> So one might ask what "four to five large operators" would mean for the public Internet in this region. >> The second point says an awful lot in a few words! >> The third point may not make sense if you think in Internet terms. But if you sprinkle "telecoms" throughout then you may see better where they are coming from. >> Point four? An "internet protocol (IP) exchange" is not an IXP? >> There are other points elsewhere that you might find more interesting of course. >> >> ----- >> Meanwhile from the European Parliament web-site: >> >> <<Public stakeholder consultation on Telecoms Regulation >> >> Ms Pilar del Castillo (EPP), the newly appointed ITRE Rapporteur on the recently proposed Telecoms Regulation is launching a public stakeholder consultation to benefit from the input of consumers, national regulators, industry stakeholders and other interested parties, not least NGOs, in the work of the ITRE Committee. >> The Rapporteur would welcome this stakeholder input on the Commission proposal by 5 November 2013. >> For more information on the proposal consult EC website. >> ITRE Secretariat contacts: Peter Traung and Elina Kaartinen>> >> http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/itre/home.html >> >> ---- >> >> So suggestions. >> >> I would hope others will take the time to read at least some of the material. 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In the comments to my notice that we shipped, karl asks:
I haven't played with VB.Net 2005, but are all of the bugs also causing problems? Most seem CLR related, but with a hint of IDE link, and I know C# and VB.Net don't share all the IDE code.
The list of reported issues has put a halt, possibly permenantly, on my push to upgrade the entire team to 2005.
I'm guessing Karl is talking about a lot of the blog entries that came out around the release of VS 2005 to MSDN subscribers, some of which are summarized by MiniMSFT.
So, is VB 2005 a buggy piece of crap? In a word, no. Although I have not been intimately involved with bug triage for quite some time, I do know that we've spent a very long time working very hard to ensure that VB 2005 (and VS 2005) is a solid, quality release. My own personal experience with it is that it's very stable and so far I don't see a groundswell of complaints that would indicate serious problems.
When, then, to make of the brouhaha? Well, first we should be clear: VS 2005 shipped with bugs. This happened for two reasons. One, as has been discussed elsewhere, the only way to "converge" on a release is to steadily raise the bar for the severity of bugs that you're going to accept fixes for in the product. This is because every bug fix, no matter how benign, has the possibility to uncover or cause more bugs. Ergo, the only way to reach a steady state is to stop fixing most bugs. Some bugs, I should be clear, are always going to be fixed if found before shipping — if we product incorrect code, for example. But others can be postponed. And this is how it's worked for pretty much every product you've ever bought from Microsoft (or any other vendor, for that matter, I would guess).
The other reason VB 2005 shipped with bugs is that I know that there are bugs we didn't find. Again, Whidbey was a pretty long release cycle, so we had plenty of opportunities to flush out problems. But no matter how hard we look, there are always bugs that slip through. We could spend years in beta and still would find serious problems after we ship. It's a fact of life given the myraid of different ways that our products can be used.
OK, so what about the reports of bugs bouncing around the blogsphere? Like I said, it's inevitable we shipped with bugs so I'm not surprised that, given the high level of sophistication of the most prolific bloggers, a few things are going to show up right away. Murphy's Law in action. However, as I also said, I'm not seeing the volume that would indicate significant problems. Instead, it's a handful of reports that have then been bouncing madly around the echo chamber of the web. This doesn't mean that the bugs that have been verified aren't real or aren't serious — any bug that impacts a customer is a serious problem and one that will need to be addressed — just that the preponderance of the evidence so far is that we've got a solid release. Time, of course, will tell. I encourage anyone who's worried about the stability of the release to: a) give it a bit of time and see what the consensus is after people have had a few months to live with the release, and b) try it out yourself and see what you think, either by using the trial version or the Express version (see here for links to those).
All this is deja vu for me, I might add. The very first product I shipped at Microsoft was Access 1.0. It was a great product and a solid piece of engineering. However, we had a slight mishap — during the launch event at Comdex, Bill Gates was up on stage with someone (forget who) doing a demo of the great features of Access 1.0. Everything was going great and then suddenly WHAM! Access crashed. (Thankfully, I was in the second wave of team members to go down to Comdex, so I only heard about it. Half the team had to sit in the audience and just watch the whole thing unfold.) This wasn't great, but in theory it wasn't the end of the world — after all, it was just one crash. However, Phillipe Kahn, whose product Paradox for Windows we had just beaten to market by (I think) a good six months, saw an opening and started going on about how people shouldn't buy Access because it was "too buggy." Was this true? No. Did it matter? Not really. The perception stuck and was part of the reason that we shipped a 1.1 version, so people would think that we fixed all those nasty bugs that weren't really there. (Of course, in the long run, Access did just fine.)
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Scientists create world's thinnest balloon, just 1 atom thick
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a lump of graphite, a piece of Scotch tape and a silicon wafer, Cornell researchers have created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick -- but strong enough to contain gases under several atmospheres of pressure without popping.
And unlike your average party balloon -- or even a thick, sturdy glass container -- the membrane is ultra-strong, leak-proof and impermeable to even nimble helium atoms.
The research, by former Cornell graduate student Scott Bunch (now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado), Cornell professor of physics Paul McEuen and Cornell colleagues, could lead to a variety of new technologies -- from novel ways to image biological materials in solution to techniques for studying the movement of atoms or ions through microscopic holes.
The work was conducted at the National Science Foundation-supported Cornell Center for Materials Research and published in a recent issue of the journal Nano Letters.
Graphene, a form of carbon atoms in a plane one atom thick, is the strongest material in the world, with tight covalent bonds in two dimensions that hold it together even as the thinnest possible membrane. It's also a semimetal, meaning it conducts electricity but changes conductivity with changes in its electrostatic environment.
Scientists discovered several years ago that isolating graphene sheets is as simple as sticking Scotch tape to pure graphite, then peeling it back and re-sticking it to a silicone dioxide wafer. Peeled back from the wafer, the tape leaves a residue of graphite anywhere from one to a dozen layers thick -- and from there researchers can easily identify areas of single-layer-thick graphene.
To test the material's elasticity, the Cornell team deposited graphene on a wafer etched with holes, trapping gas inside graphene-sealed microchambers. They then created a pressure differential between the gas inside and outside the microchamber. With a tapping atomic force microscope, which measures the amount of deflecting force a tiny cantilever experiences as it scans nanometers over the membrane's surface, the researchers watched the graphene as it bulged in or out in response to pressure changes up to several atmospheres without breaking.
They also turned the membrane into a tiny drum, measuring its oscillation frequency at different pressures. They found that helium, the second-smallest element (and the smallest testable gas, since hydrogen atoms pair up as a gas), stays trapped behind a wall of graphene -- again, even under several atmospheres of pressure.
"When you work the numbers, you would expect that nothing would go through, so it's not a scientific surprise," said McEuen. "But it does tell you that the membrane is perfect" -- since even an atom-sized hole would allow the helium to escape easily.
Such a membrane could have all kinds of uses, he added. It could form a barrier in an aquarium-like setup, for example, allowing scientists to image biological materials in solution through a nearly invisible wall without subjecting the microscope to the wet environment. Or, researchers could poke atomic-sized holes in the membrane and use the system to study how single atoms or ions pass through the opening.
"This could serve as sort of an artificial analog of an ion channel in biology," McEuen said -- or as a way to measure the properties of an atom by observing its effect on the membrane.
"You're tying a macroscopic system to the properties of a single atom," he said, "and that gives opportunities for all kinds of single atom sensors."
The paper's co-authors are Cornell physics graduate students Arend van der Zande and Jonathan Alden; postdoctoral researcher Scott Verbridge; and professors Jeevak Parpia and Harold Craighead.
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LAKELAND, Fla. -- Domonic Brown blasted a solo home run to right field in the eighth inning of Sunday's 5-5 tie against the Tigers at Joker Marchant Stadium.
Brown is competing for a roster spot and playing time, and has been swinging the bat well early in camp. If he keeps it up, he could secure regular playing time once the season starts, regardless of when injured outfielder Delmon Young gets on the field.
"We've got 10 outfielders," said Phillies manager Charlie Manuel. "Somewhere along the line, probably like two-thirds of the way through Spring Training, we're going to have to at least make some decisions on four of them. That would be the first thing, probably. We're going to try to get them all some playing time so we can see them enough. But if somebody really jumps out and gets going like Brown ... last three days he's swung good, he's played good outfield and stuff like that -- we can settle on a guy."
But, so far so good for Brown.
"You notice how nice and easy and staying behind, nice and good balance, staying behind the ball [he is]," said Manuel. "[He has] big power and he shows it. … He has the potential to be a good hitter. We're talking average and power, especially in some of those National League ballparks, and that would really help us."


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August 10, 2012: On the nights of Aug. 11th through 13th, the best meteor shower of the year will fill pre-dawn skies with hundreds of shooting stars. And that's just for starters. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up right in the middle of the display.
The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the nights around August 12th as Earth passes through a stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle.
"We expect to see meteor rates as high as a hundred per hour," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "The Perseids always put on a good show."
Perseids can be seen any time after 10 to 11 pm. The best time to look, however, is during the dark hours immediately before dawn. Also, advises Cooke, avoid city lights if possible. Faint meteors are easily lost in the urban glare. A visit to the countryside will typically triple the number of meteors you see.
This year's display is extra-special because of the planets. Jupiter, Venus, and the crescent Moon are gathering together just as the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak. The alignment occurs in the eastern sky before sunrise on the three mornings of highest meteor activity.
On August 11th, a 33% crescent Moon will glide by Jupiter, temporarily forming a bright pair directly above brilliant Venus. Red-giant star Aldebaran will be there, too, adding a splash of color to the gathering:
On August 12th, the narrowing 24% crescent Moon will drop down between Jupiter and Venus. Together they make a bright 3-point line in the sky, frequently bisected by shooting stars:
On August 13th, with the shower just beginning to wane, the planets put on their best show yet: The 17% crescent moon will pass less than 3 degrees from Venus as Jupiter hovers overhead. Sky watchers say there's nothing prettier than a close encounter between the slender crescent Moon and Venus--nothing, that is, except for the crescent Moon, Venus and a flurry of Perseids:
It's only natural, while you're watching a meteor shower like the Perseids, to count the number of shooting stars you see. It turns out those numbers in your head are valuable. NASA wants them. Meteor tallies gathered by amateur sky watchers can be used by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office to study and model the Perseid debris stream.
"We've developed an app for Android and iPhones to help amateur sky watchers count meteors in a scientific way and report the results to us," says Cooke. "It's called the 'Meteor Counter' and it's available for free in the Android Marketplace and Apple's App Store."
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Let's look at how it works. Step up stimulates your pituitary gland which will increase production of growth hormones. By increasing the production of the hormones that control your growth the more you produce the more you will grow. This supplement should not be consumed for a long period of time because our body knows how much of each hormone should be naturally produced. Not only is the Step Up a supplement you can take, but it also comes with a step by step height growth program. This is an easy to follow program that will enhance the results.
Now to the most important question, "Is it really effective?" The growth hormone that the formula affects is one of the main hormones that are responsible for your growth. Many people who have used this supplement reported that they have seen a difference in their height. No matter whether you are male or female, your race or age Step Up height powder can help you gain up to six more inches. Can you imagine what a difference that will make for you? If you are looking for something that will give you immediate results then Step Up is not for you. The results from this growth formula will happen over a period of time, between three and six months. It is worth the wait when you see what it can do for your health.
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13. Children
Our websites are not intended for children and we do not intentionally solicit or collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. If we are notified or otherwise discover that a minor's personal information has been improperly collected, we will take all commercially reasonable steps to delete that information. In limited instances, we may have a campaign or programme targeted towards children. In these instances, details on the information practices will be presented within the terms and conditions of the programme.
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14.2. When WMC Group discovers that The Customer's personal information on our system is being infringed by another person, we will endeavor to contact The Customer and / or other authorized authority within 72 (seventy-two) hours for the The Customer and / or the competent authority to consider the action plan, unless such infringement does not jeopardize the rights and property of the individual of The Customer. We will only deal with the information that has been infringed, unless advised otherwise by a competent authority – i.e. Vietnamese Police, Government or similar agency.
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If The Customer has any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or our privacy issues, please contact us:
WINDSOR MANAGEMENT CORPORATION GROUP (WMC Group)
Level 10, No. 8 Nguyen Hue, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
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Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie -- Selling New Orleans Mansion ... Big Easy Future Unclear
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Selling New Orleans Mansion Big Easy Future Unclear
6:15 AM PST -- Brad's rep just got back to us and said Brad and Angelina will look for another home "off the beaten path down the road," adding, "They remain committed to, and infatuated as ever with the city of New Orleans and will continue to focus on growth in the lower 9th through the Make it Right Foundation."
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are selling the New Orleans mansion they bought after Hurricane Katrina ... and it's unclear if they'll stay in the Big Easy.
You'll recall ... after the 2005 disaster leveled part of New Orleans, Brad and Angelina came to town and became extremely active in rebuilding the community. They bought the mansion a year later for $3.5 million and said they would remain embedded in the community.
Brad and Angelina were true to their words and spent a substantial amount of time in the city with their family.
But now they're moving on, selling the 5 bedroom, 3.2 bathroom home in the French Quarter. We're told the house has Brad Pitt's touch ... which is awesome, because he's an architectural aficionado who has masterfully restored a number of notable estates.
Real estate sources tell TMZ, Brad and Angelina have listed the home at $6.5 million.
For obvious reasons, prospective buyers are not allowed to take pictures of the interior.
As for their next move, Brad and Angelina's reps would not say if they plan on buying another home in New Orleans.


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Historical Photos
Thursday, February 11, 1982
Pix #1 - Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison, one of the world's great inventors, was born to Samuel and Nancy Edison, 135 years ago, February 11, 1847, at the small town of Milan, Ohio, Erie County, just about 40 miles from Fostoria.
His birthplace has been maintained as a memorial museum for many years. It is open at specified periods during the year, but in the winter months only, by appointment. Yet, on this anniverdary of his birth it was not open, and the town where he was born and lived his early years did not have any special event to commemorate it.
His diverse inventions and their multiple uses have affected the lives of young and old around the world.
The records divulge that at age 10, after his family had moved to Port Huron, Michigan, young Alva set up his first laboratory in the basement of the house.
Poor health kept him from starting to school at the normal age, but when he did enroll his teacher thought he was stupid because he asked so many questions. After a short period of schooling, his mother, who had been a school teacher, withdrew him from school and taught him. It was probably his reading of an encyclopedia which developed his interest in chemistry and experimental work.
At about age 12, Edison began his career as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railroad which ran between Port Huron and Detroit. He was allowed a corner of the baggage car to stock his newspapers, magazines and candy. He also used his space to intall a small hand-operated press, for which he handset the type, printing a small newspaper containing local news items and happen- ings on the train. The trainmen and passengers were glad to buy the miniature paper from the enterprising young publisher.
It was on one of the train's trips that a bottle of phosphorous jarred off a shelf and exploded. Edison kept the bottle there for conducting experiments in his spare time. As a result of that event, he not only lost his job but got a cuffing on his ears which produced deafness.
One day standing on the station platform at Mt. Clemens, watching a train approach, the state telegrapher's small son wandered on the tracks. Without hesitation, Edison grabbed the child from the train's path just in time, saving his life. In appreciation for his bravery and for saving his son's life, the father taught Edison telegraphy. The next six years of his life he went from place to place working as a telegrapher.
Edison's first patent, a vote recording machine came in 1868; followed by the improvement of the electric stock ticker in 1869. Some years later he sold his invention related to those devices for $40,000 which enabled him to establish his plant to manufacture electrical devices in Newark, N.J.
In 1869, at age 22, Edison arrived in New York, still hiring out as a telegrapher for his livelihood. He applied to the Gold and Stock Telegraph Co. for a job. Awaiting their decision to hire him, their telegraph equip- ment broke down and no one knew how to fix it. Edison volunteered to fix it and did so in a couple of hours. As a consequence they offered him a job at the fabulous sum of $300 per month and he accepted.
In 1871, he aided another inventor, Chistopher L. Sholes in maing a working model of the first practicable typewriter.
Edison married Mary G. Stilwell in 1873, and to that union was born three children. She died in 1884.
There followed many other inventions and improvements on others, including duplex and quadruplex telegraph equipment, which permitted more than one message to be sent across the wires at one time.
He also invented the uatomatic duplicating machine, the phonograph, incandescent light, motion picture camera, new types of dynamos, and he also made improvement in the telephone for commercial use.
In 1886, he remarried Mina M. MIller, to whom three more children were born.
In 1915, Edison became president of the U.S. Naval Consulting Board. During the period of 1917-18, he turned most of his time and eforts to the perfection of naval inventions to assist his country in winning World War I.
The first electric railway line was built by Edison in 1880-82, and at that time he opened the nation's first commercial electric lighting central station in New York City. He also invented the process for making synthetic phenol (carbolic acid). One of the processes he was working on in his later years was the production of synthetic rubber from the common goldenrod plant.
Edison died on Sunday morning October 18, 1931 in his home in West Orange, N.J. The body was placedin the library of his workshop, surrounded by the tools, records and memories of his labor. The public was permitted to pass the bier to view the remains. The funeral on Wednesday, was private for family, relatives and intimate friends, including President Hoover, Henry Ford and the Harvey Firestone family. His burial was on the 52nd anniversary of his invention of the incandescent lamp.
At the time of Edison's death, it was estimated that his invention of the hand-crank phonograph had contributed to the industry a value of at least $105,000,000. His invention of the electric lamp formed the nucleus of that industries worth at least $5,000,000,000. The motion picture camera gave that industry assets totalling more than $1,250,000,000. His inventions and improvements to dynamos, motors, telephones, eletric railways, and other inventions, helped build industries worth $8,000,000,000.
It doesn't take much exercise of the imagination for readers to realize that in the homes, commerce and industry, worldwide, we all owe Edison much for his contribution to the improvement of our daily existence.
Every year, the populace in the Ft. Myers, Fla. area, Edison's winter home, celebrate his birthday with a week-long program of arts and crafts shows, parades, musical events, band concerts, crowing a queen, luncheons, and all the rest. The event draws as many as 100,000 or more. The parade lasts two hours or more. The Ft. Myers News Press prints a special edition of over 100,000 copies.
Gordon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gair, former Fostorians, now living in Cape Coral, has directed the TV broadcast for the event over WINK TV, Ft. Myers, for the last several years. This year his marriage is taking place during the ceremonies, thus cancelling his participation in it.
A communication from Mrs. Harry (Georgianna) Gair, when this article was being prepared, revealed the data about the annual celebration and Edison's winter home. His home and laboratory are open daily to visitors. The gardens are full of trees and plants he brought from all over the world. The swimming pool was one of the first in that area.
Henry Ford, one of Edison's close friends, enjoyed his visits to Edison's home so much that he had one built across the street from it.
Few readers may realize that the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Tiffin has an ornate chandelier in their sanctuary, donated by Edison in 1885, on the church's completion, because it was the first public edifice in Ohio lighted electrically. In the fixture are 60 eletric bulbs, one of Edison's inventions.
Many of Edison's important inventions were made in a very simple laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. before Edison's death. Henry Ford, one of his close friends and fishing buddies, arranged to have the laboratory become a part of the Ford Museum in Detroit.
Edison assisted in the arranging of the equipment in the new location, to exactly duplicate the original setting in Menlo Park.
It was not until 1923, three years before his death, that Thomas Alva Edison was awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal for his many contributions to science and mankind.


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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Devil's Advocate
14 comments:
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Just checked and as of this post, that number hold :)ReplyDelete
I better double check my magic circle against evil.ReplyDelete
Also, my CAPTCHA word was Coutl. I'm serious.
That totally killed me. Very funny. I'm honored that my "avatar" or whatever it's called is one of the ones that showed up in your screen capture.ReplyDelete
It's even more cool that it's a picture of my daughter being, as my wife calls it, "spunky".
I'd like just one follower who wasn't someone I already knew. (Or possibly a comment from the same.)ReplyDelete
Congrats on your arbitrarily demonized number. :-) It is in all seriousness quite the accomplishment.
Well, I'm following. I could drop out and then rather than being at 666 (Number of the Beast) it would be at 665 (Neighbor of the Beast). 8)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2010 at 5:02 AM
Shhh! Don't let Jack Chick know...ReplyDelete
IM NUMBER 666?! Lolz! Well, I love the Lord so regardless of what your blog says I'm saved...FOLLOW ME INFADELS!!!...sorry, just a cold....THE INNOCENT WILL SUFFER...um...*cough cough*....ReplyDelete
Just further fuel for Chick Tracts...No Blackleaf!! Noooooooo....lolReplyDelete
Naw, dude, that just means you rolled an 18.ReplyDelete
I feel cheated!! On Monday, I was number 666. After reading this blog for months, I saw that the follower meter was at 665, so I quickly clicked "follow" and became your 666th henchman. Then, within hours, the meter read only 665 again. Someone obviously un-followed you for no other reason than to ROB ME of my 666th status.ReplyDelete
I mean who would ever un-follow this blog?
I'm surprised you didn't go with Advocatus Diaboli, but who am I to judge.ReplyDelete
Enough people think I'm pretentious as it is; I didn't want to give them any further cause to feel that way by using Latin :)
Naw, dude, that just means you rolled an 18.ReplyDelete
I like the way you think!