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Would open source benefit from a unified system of smaller, simpler, and more easily apprehendable licenses?
What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons
The arrival of the ten-year anniversary of Creative Commons is an opportunity to express gratitude to an organization that has done so much to promote the sharing of cultural works and to challenge traditional assumptions about the appropriate use of copyright.
I have been a critic as well as an admirer of Creative Commons. Last year, here on opensource.com, I noted that the CC license suite, though inspired by open source licensing, was at odds with norms of libre culture licensing by embracing, under a single legal brand, form licenses that prohibit commercal use and creation of derivative works. The result, I complained, was "a general confusing dilution of the meaning of 'openness' in the context of cultural works" and confusion on the part of both authors and users of CC-licensed material. Creative Commons has recognized at least some aspects of this problem in the course of its work on the 4.0 license series. (For example, there has been an interesting recent proposal to relabel the controversial NC licenses with "Commercal Rights Reserved.")
In the same article I acknowledged that "[f]rom the perspective of open source, the very different legal culture established by Creative Commons is not only tolerated but welcomed as an enormously successful experiment that is safely cabined to non-software content". Since then, I have come to have a greater appreciation for this experiment, particularly with respect to its potential applicability to the improvement of open source licensing.
Free software licenses were developed in a largely distributed and organic fashion. This has given open source licenses something of a baroque and quirky character, which, while appealing (to some of us), has some drawbacks. The coordinated, centralized manner in which CC licenses are conceived, drafted and revised, and the successful occupation of the full policy field of open and quasi-open content licensing by Creative Commons, offer a model that, if applied with the greatest care, might be beneficial some day for the open source licensing world. For example, CC licensing has allowed the open content world to avoid some of the problems of license proliferation that are commonly thought to plague open source. The variety of CC licenses has actually been reduced over time. Moreover, while the various CC licenses implement different policies, for a given localized or international version they have common textual elements, which may reduce the difficulty of interpretation and revision. I was once more skeptical about this approach (and its possible future application to open source) than I am today. Therefore, to quote again from my 2011 article, if "someone [were] to propose that a seemingly simple Creative Commons-like suite, designed by some central committee, should replace all traditional FLOSS licenses as they exist organically today", what is most likely to concern me is the central committee part (and who gets to be a member). The danger for open source, at least, is excessive influence from my own guild, excessive influence by what (for lack of a better term) I have thought of as "FLOSS establishment institutions", and insufficient participation by developer constituencies.
A notable feature of CC licenses that has no precise counterpart on the open source side is the great emphasis on simplification of use, understanding, and identification of the various license categories. Here as well I tended in the past to have a skeptical view of the CC approach. Most troubling to me was the CC practice of separating the so-called "deed" (also formerly, and quite unfortunately, called "human readable code") from the (invariably lengthy and complex) license text proper, still described, somewhat annoyingly, as the "legal code". A particular concern is that authors will be inclined to read the "deed" (which is an imperfect summary at best) as the actual license.
Yet there is no question that the "deed" abstraction of license complexity is partly why Creative Commons licensing has been so accessible to so many content authors. I have more recently begun to wonder whether the serious copyleft wing of open source has been suffering disadvantage because of concerns about undue complexity among developer constituencies. That is a complicated topic and well beyond the scope of this article. But the example of Creative Commons shows one way in which complexity may be managed to promote license adoption and reuse. If CC "deeds" appeal to free software authors, it may be due to natural preferences for simplicity and minimalism. Perhaps open source would benefit from a unified system of smaller, simpler, and more easily apprehendable licenses.
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As always, I am glad to read what my good friend Fontana has to say. :) However, I must admit that even after studying the CC license suite for the last decade, I'm not sure there is all that much learning from its rise that we can easily apply to Free Software licenses. What I've mostly found are a series of "glad Free Software licensing doesn't work that way" responses.
I specifically agree with Fontana's earlier points about the diversity and baroque nature of drafting of Free Software licensing, but I like that aspect. CC is a single organization able to (more or less) dictate policy for the entire licensing infrastructure in the Free Culture community.
One of the major (and, IMO, insurmountable) problems is the mere existence of ND and NC versions. If CC has succeeded in any educational efforts, it has been to convince potential licensors that NC and ND versions are morally equivalent to the pure BY-SA options. CC is ultimately a centrist, neutral organization. CC takes the air out of the room for the more radical elements of the Free Culture licensing advocates.
This is where the Free Software world has things right. Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation once told me: I'm glad you're around to be a radical, because if you weren't, I'd be a radical by default, when I'm actually a moderate. This concept applies to the licensing infrastructure: The Apache License is seen as the moderate, permissive alternative, but Apache Software Foundation and its license would be radical, if FSF and GPL weren't around.
Indeed, Fontana, while it's true that your copyleft-next project hasn't received as much interest as you'd have liked, wouldn't a similar project to create a replacement for CC-BY-SA have been an entire non-starter in the Free Culture community? As you know, I've tried to participate with you on copyleft-next even though I'm on the Board of Directors of FSF, but do you think that if you tried to make a CC-BY-SA alternative, that one of CC's directors would come help you?
Frankly, I think what CC's suite still shows more than anything else is the danger of licensing monoculture. That problem drowns everything else. I like CC-BY-SA-3.0-USA as a reasonably good strong copyleft for non-technical works, and CC-BY isn't too bad of a permissive license for the same. But, with CC controlling all Free Culture licenses, I think it's really difficult to draw these distinctions with newcomers. I still see "Licensed under the Creative Commons license" regularly. Licensing monoculture is, in some ways, more confusing than what we have the Free Software world.
I do agree Free Software licensing wonks can help simplify and improve understanding, building on the "deeds" model. I began a brief collaboration with noted user interface researcher, Michael Terry about how we might think about presenting the content and message of GPL better to users. He's got some amazing ideas, but sadly I couldn't get any copyright licensing lawyers interested in working with us on the project, so I had to abandon those efforts. But, honestly, I think most people don't really grok CC licenses, anyway — despite CC's efforts in this regard. I ask every CC licensor that I meet to explain the differences between the various CC licenses, and they usually can't. (I'd love to see a survey study to back up and/or refute my anecdotal assessment there, BTW.)
IMO, this whole problem goes back to Noam Chomsky's point about concision. Namely, it's very difficult to engage the public in discussions on important issues that require deep and complex context. I believe the Free-Software-using public's general inability to easily navigate the baroque set of licenses comes down to the simple, unfortunate (but understandable) "this makes my brain hurt" response.
Even now, if the FSF were to come out with a strong copyleft license (it would need to be stronger than the current BY-SA) for non-software works there would likely be a good amount of uptake. Especially if it could be crafted to be compatible with cc BY licenses.
It would also help such uptake if the FSF and RMS would give up on the idea that some works are ok being non-Free and that especially in light of the current copyright situation.
So perhaps the copyleft-next license / project could aim to fulfil this role and be a good license for both software and non-software in one. If it does not do so already.
If it already does this, let me know and I will try to find time to get more involved.
all the best,
Fontana is the dictator of copyleft-next (although the dictatorship is starting to wane a bit :), but it's up to him for the moment if he wants to try to make it a universal-work license.
Meanwhile, I don't really agree if FSF is necessarily the right place for non-software licenses. FSF's work in this area has mostly been superseded by CC already (FSF even uses CC licenses for some of its own stuff now). Meanwhile, there's plenty of software licensing work to be done.
This article closes with, "Perhaps open source would benefit from a unified system of smaller, simpler, and more easily apprehendable licenses." I would argue that there is already such a set. The problem is that not everyone realizes that.
I think the OSI (and others) should do a better job emphasizing that people should prefer to use a small set of widely-used mutually-compatible licenses. Don't forbid other licenses (you can't anyway)... just make it clear that there are serious advantages of choosing one of the common standard ones. But what are the common ones?
The DoD OSS FAQ specifically notes that, "nearly all open source software is released under one of a very few licenses that are known to meet this definition. These licenses include the MIT license, revised BSD license (and its 2-clause variant), the Apache 2.0 license, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) versions 2.1 or 3, and the GNU General Public License (GPL) versions 2 or 3. Using a standard license simplifies collaboration and eliminates many legal analysis costs."
If you stick with those licenses, then these licenses are already mutually compatible (Apache 2.0 isn't compatible with GPL2, but it is with GPL3 and in most cases that works).
OSI's list of licenses "that are popular and widely used or with strong communities" includes all those, and is a step in the right direction. One problem with OSI's list is that it has some extra ones, which have known problems: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0), Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL-1.0), and Eclipse Public License (EPL-1.0). These licenses are "wrong" in any sense, but the CDDL and EPL are GPL-incompatible, and since the GPL is the most popular OSS license, it is unwise to choose a GPL-incompatible license for a new project. The new MPL helps considerably, since the new MPL (unlike the old one) is GPL-compatible; I know of no efforts to fix the CDDL and EPL.
Blazing everywhere a list of "common licenses", instead of hiding it, would help. Not including the CDDL and EPL would be best, but if that's politically infeasible, an asterisk that noted "GPL-incompatible, which can inhibit collaboration because the GPL is the most common OSS license" or some such.
Hear, hear.
I think there's room for long-term improvement in apprehension, but that'll have to come from guidance outside of licenses as you suggest, and improvements in existing licenses in the most popular public domain->AGPLv3+ compatibility path, or aggressive compatibility from those out of it (such as MPL2 achieved) and new ones (such as the current copyleft-next draft).
It is nice that there are no fundamental-purpose incompatibilities among FLOSS licenses, unlike among CC licenses. This is a usability plus, even if not evident by examining individual licenses in isolation.
Note there is a possibility of a one-way CC-BY-SA-4.0->GPL compatibility mechanism. I think that'd be a very good thing long term, practically for things like games and hardware designs, and normatively for encouraging people outside the software world to consider and demand modifiable forms, and to collaborate more closely with FLOSS.
There's also the problem of incompatible and newish copyleft licenses targeted at databases and hardware designs...
I think of CC as compelling not because of the "brand" or the command-and-control necessarily, but because it's very easy for the recipient of the license to understand what they are and are not allowed to do – as Richard mentioned. It's focused on the end-user. There may be confusion at the margins, but the terms of a CC license are generally more easily grasped that your average OSI-approved license.
The ease with which I can express my intentions as a property owner under CC is something that would be very valuable in the software world. I don't think this necessarily requires a top-down regime. I know this idea has been flirted with before, but I think it would be immensely helpful to have a consensus set of signifiers, oriented to the end-user, for specific, recurring software licensing terms.
A timely update from Creative Commons on the future of the -ND licenses:


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Female bluebirds resemble a muted version of the male. Juvenile bluebirds are heavily speckled below, a trait that reveals their thrush family lineage: most thrushes are spotted below, at least when immature. Eastern bluebirds are unique among Ohio thrushes in that they nest in cavities. It's this habit that has forged the strong bond between bluebirds and people.
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Starlings, along with the introduced house sparrow, began to greatly diminish bluebird populations by usurping bluebird nest sites. About the time of Chapman's gloomy prediction, Thomas Musselman of Illinois had discovered bluebirds would readily take to artificial nestboxes and, before long, Musselman had a strung a trail of more than 1,000 boxes. He met with great success, and the bluebird trail was born.
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A 6000-block East SR 19 resident requested to speak with a deputy Wednesday evening about the theft of a cell phone.
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A 6000-block West CR 6 man reported Thursday morning someone broke into an out building.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
I like to think of myself as a dedicated runner. I also like to think of myself as a six-foot tall redheaded showgirl, so we can see where this is going.
I used to run a minimum of 36 miles a week, and cant remember why. Oh, wait--my husband said something about I wasnt using my education or my mind these days, and who wants to hear that? So I ran until I didnt think about itand until my right Achilles tendon threatened to pop like a piano wire.
Nowadays I sort of lurch along, three miles a day. Its pitiful. So I had to find something to supplement the pitiful.
A friendwho, it turns out, is far fitter than meloaned me the Insanity DVD series. From it I learned two things: 1) I hate trainers named Sean and 2) If you can do 15 minutes of Insanity, God bless you.
Less than halfway through the Insanity fit testthis is BEFORE the real program even startsI was panting like a pit bull in August. I thought I would throw up in the fake ficus tree. On the fourth burpee my cross necklace flew up and hit my front tooth. I paid too much for that tooth. I turned the DVD off. Take that, Sean.
(I hear P90Xwhich sounds like the chemical formula for Windex-- is a lot like Insanity. Wont be doing that, either.)
My friend also loaned me a Jillian Michaels DVD. Jillian promised to get me shredded, which certainly sounds exciting. Ive never watched The Biggest Loser so there were no preconceived notions. I just knew she was short, loud and had a rocking body.
Now I know she is not human.
Go ahead, give Jillian a try. Here are 20 things you will think while busting your abs.
Jillian has such pretty hair. I wonder what conditioner she uses?
Stay calm. Exhale on the effort, inhale on the rebound. Or is that backwards?
My mouth is so dry.
I can do this. Its not that hard.
Its HARD. I hate this. I want my mommy.
My mouth is so parched my lips are actually cracking. Jillian has nice moist lips. I bet someone puts lip balm on her between takes. I hate her wet lips.
If God had meant for me to kick like a donkey, Id eat oats and bray.
I still cant breathe. Luckily, Im past caring.
My brother used to date a girl who looked like Jillian. I hated her, too.
I can no longer feel my calves.
If I staggered out into the front yard right now, my neighbors would flee screaming.
My tongue is actually protruding from my mouth.
Cooldown should start soon. Where are you cooldown? I NEED COOLDOWN. NOW. BEFORE I CUT SOMEBODY!
Why are we kick-boxing? This is so unfair!
I bet her real name isnt Jillian. I bet its Mabel or Esther and shes making us all pay for the awful name her parents gave her. IT WASNT MY FAULT, I WASNT THERE!
Im no longer sweating. Isnt that a bad sign?
Im coming for you, Jillian. Thats right, Im heading to California to find you andCOOLDOWN! Thank you, Lord! Thank you!
If I can remember to breathe, soon I can get up off the floor. Soon. One can only hope.
I am willing to concede one point: It might be less painful to start using my education and my mind.
Julie R. Smith, who is still on the floor, can be reached at email@example.com.
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Career of Dennis Farina
Walt Disney/courtesy Everett Collection July 22, 2013 2:00 PM Yahoo News
Dennis Farina, a former Chicago policeman turned tough-guy actor, died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, the actor's publicist said. He was 69.
Farina, best known as detective Joe Fontana on the long-running TV series "Law & Order," suffered a blood clot in his lung, publicist Lori De Waal said. (REUTERS)
Here's a look back at some his outstanding roles in film and television.


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There comes a moment in the life of a young company when a product changes from a great idea that helps some people solve a problem into an essential product for a large group of people. The kind of product that forms the backbone of a large company, the kind of company a college football bowl is named after. Earlier this year, that moment may well have happened for local start-up StatEasy.
StatEasy was started many years ago by former volleyball player and active coach, Mike Ressler. As an undergraduate assistant for the women's volleyball team at Carnegie Mellon University, Mike applied his computer science skills to create a better way to track volleyball statistics. A few years after graduation, his wife, also a volleyball coach, and a few other coaches asked Mike if they could use the software for their teams. At that point, Mike smelled an opportunity. He immediately began to improve the product to make it usable for a wider variety of people, even adding huge enhancements such as the ability to synchronize statistics with video. He soon found more and more coaches that wanted to use StatEasy (and who now love it and swear by it), including the head coach of the men's team at my alma mater, Penn State. So many coaches liked StatEasy that Mike brought on a co-founder, and they are currently turning the idea of accurate feedback through statistics and video synchronization into a legitimate competitor in the volleyball market.
Then, out of the blue came bowling, and with it, a chance to pivot from lifestyle business to growing company. The volleyball coach at St. Francis University showed StatEasy to the new head coach of the bowling team, and he was immediately stoked. It was exactly what he needed, and something like he had never seen for bowling – a way to reliably score and capture statistics (not to mention break down video) for his team's every match. Mike and his co-founder got to work immediately and answered the call by creating a complete solution for bowling in only 6 weeks! Their solution solves many problems for bowling coaches, one of the biggest being the complicated nature of the collegiate scoring systems (some of the scoring rules of bowling are so new and complex that even the coaches aren't comfortable with them), and their hopes are that StatEasy could become the standard way to score and capture statistics for entire bowling conferences and eventually the NCAA. And then it only gets better from there. When most colleges are using StatEasy for bowling, what do you think the high schools will start using? What about the parents who want their kids to get a bowling scholarship? And the bowling leagues that the collegiate bowling players join after they graduate? When a company solves problems for an entire sport (while already helping numerous coaches in other sports), that's the kind of company that grows big – really big. The kind of company that can help Mike Ressler realize his dream of the StatEasy Bowl, with him watching the action from a bright orange blimp in the sky.
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Being of not only pure royal blood, but also possesing numerous super human powers and abilitys far beyond the mental comprehension of mortal peasants.
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Bender's super hero name after joining The New Justice Team. He has no real powers, but he's a robot so that makes up for it of course. They had to steal the gemerald to give to the Zookeeper so Leela's parents wouldn't be killed
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Last season, when the Hatters won a school-record 24 games, captured the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship in dramatic fashion, and earned a #14 seed for the NCAA Tournament, they did it with a senior-laden squad that had seen virtually no turnover in the roster from the year before.
However, with the graduation of six seniors from the last year's squad and the addition of seven newcomers to the program, the Stetson University women's basketball team will certainly have a new flavor in 2013-14.
Part of the challenge for head coach Lynn Bria and her staff is shortening the learning curve for the newcomers, many of whom will need to contribute right away.
"We are going to have a lot of growing pains with six freshmen," Bria said. "You have to do a lot of teaching, a lot of standing around and talking (during practice). I think they are picking up things very well. It is a new system for them, but they are working extremely hard, and I think our upperclassmen are really helping them come along."
The Hatters head into the season with just one senior, two-time all-conference performer Sasha Sims. The lone remaining player from both of Stetson's recent A-Sun championship teams (2011, 2013), Sims will be called upon to be a leader both on and off the court.
"It is a lot tougher; I think I bear a lot more of the responsibilities," Sims said about being the team's only senior. "It is a different role than I assumed last year, but I feel I am adapting. The leadership part is the same, being vocal and leading by example. It just requires a lot more ownership to one person versus having five other seniors to help out and contribute. It is a lot of pressure, but it is something I have prepared myself for over my three years, because I have always been by myself in my class."
Sims has already had one of the most decorated careers in school history. In addition to her two conference championships, she has scored over 1,100 points, grabbed over 500 rebounds, and is quickly approaching the school record for career blocks. Recently, the league's head coaches selected Sims as the preseason Defensive Player of the Year.
"I think she is the most versatile player in the conference, and I have said that since she was a freshman," Bria said. "I don't think there is anything she can't do. She can guard the perimeter, she can guard the post, she can step out, and she can go inside. I'm glad she is on my team, and we are going to need her every day."
Although Sims is the only senior, she will have veteran support among a solid trio of juniors, C.J. Coddington, Cherisse Burris and Jama Sharp. All three have been frequent starters and consistent contributors on teams that have twice set school records for most wins in a single season.
"C.J. has improved tremendously, I think her shot has gotten a lot better," Bria said. "She has always been a great defender. She has great size. C.J. contributed a lot for us last year, and I expect her to do even more this year."
A strong force around the basket and a consistent rebounder, Burris averaged 8.6 points and 4.4 rebounds for the Hatters last season. She averaged 10.0 points during last year's A-Sun tournament, including scoring 13 points in the second-half of Stetson's A-Sun finals victory over FGCU.
"(Cherisse) finished the year strong," Bria said. "We would never have won the championship without her. I thought she had a great tournament. So far, she looks really good. She is rebounding the ball well; she is shooting the ball from the perimeter extremely well. When we put her inside, she is posting up and scoring for us. I anticipate her to really help us this year."
Sharp, meanwhile, will have some big shoes to fill this season. After primarily playing the shooting-guard position her first two seasons, she will slide over to the point-guard spot, effectively taking over the role held by Victoria McGowan and Shanasa Sanders the past few years.
"Jama has played point most of her life, so it is not a position that is new for her," Bria said. "We are going to rely heavily on Jama and Sasha to score for us, but we need Jama to play the quarterback spot, we need her to run the show, and I believe she will do that. She has done a good job, and she is going to continue to get better."
Sharp had a breakout year last season, averaging better than 8.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game. She said she is looking forward to moving back to her familiar spot at the point.
"I have always been a point guard, but we had Victoria, and we had Shanasa, so I just played my role and helped wherever I could," Sharp said. "Now my role is to be the point guard. I am going to step in and help lead the team where we have so many young players. I just hope I can get them where they need to be and get myself better so we can get to the next step."
Sophomore Cha Cha Williams will help provide depth in the Hatters' frontcourt, and sophomore transfer Myeisha Hall will bring her athleticism and experience to the backcourt. Hall was named to the Colonial Athletic Association all-rookie team in 2011-12 at Old Dominion.
The six talented freshmen joining the program this season are Stacia Allen, DeAsia Beal, Sydni Davis, Keara Finnerty, Amber Porter and Brianti Saunders.
Allen, a 5-6 guard, helped lead Lima (Ohio) Senior High to a Division I sectional championship last year. Beal, a 5-9 guard, was named the Northern Kentucky Athletic Conference Division II Player of the Year at Holy Cross High School.
Davis, a 5-2 guard, earned All-State honors her senior year at Southfield-Lathrup (Mich.) High School. Finnerty, a 5-9 guard, led the DC-metro area in 3-point field goals for three consecutive years. Saunders, a 5-4 guard and the Florida 1A Player of the Year, averaged over 24 points per game and help lead Hilliard to the State Semifinals. She was named the district player of the year an amazing five times, and scored over 2,300 points in her prep career.
The lone forward in the group is Porter, a 6-3 post player from Woodbridge, Va. Porter averaged over 27 points and 11 rebounds per game as a senior, helping lead Potomac High School to a district championship.
Bria says the team is going to have to rely on its strong defensive play, especially early in the season. With 53 percent of the team's scoring gone from last year's team, including the team's top two scorers, new individuals are going to have to step up and contribute offensively.
"The biggest question that I have is, 'Where are we going to score points?'" Bria said. "We are working on it, and I think the offense will come, but with losing so many points from last year, we have to have some people fill those roles and do it consistently. Last year, I never had to worry about telling Shanasa or Victoria to score. They were going to do that. This year, I think we share the ball a little bit more. We just have to have people want to step into those roles. I think it is going to come down to finding points.
"If we get better every day, I think we will have a chance at the end. I don't know how good we are going to be early, but I think the more we play together, the better this team is going to get."
The Hatters open the season on Friday at 11th-ranked Oklahoma in the Preseason WNIT. Season tickets for the team's 14 home games are available by calling the Stetson ticket office at 386-738-4287 or by going online at GoHatters.com/tix.


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Feb. 2, 1931 – March 5, 2013
Nagibe Betros, who with her husband introduced Western New Yorkers to Lebanese pita "pocket" bread, died unexpectedly Tuesday in her Town of Tonawanda home. She was 82.
Born Nagibe Germany in Kornayel, Lebanon, she came to visit family in the United States in 1953 and never returned after meeting her Lebanese-American husband, Peter M., and marrying him two weeks later.
She and her husband opened Pete's Lebanese Bakery downstairs from their flat on Grant Street in 1957 and moved it to Elmwood Avenue in Kenmore in 1965. The bakery supplies pita bread to many area restaurants.
Known affectionately as "Mama," she baked for more than 50 years and produced more than 400 loaves a day of "markook," or Lebanese flat bread. She also made Lebanese specialty food items that were sold at the bakery. She retired two years ago.
Mrs. Betros was honored as Woman of the Year in 2004 by the Altar and Rosary Society of St. John Maron Catholic Church.
Her husband died in 1991.
Survivors include two daughters, Amelia "Amy" and Rosemary Lunghino.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. John Maron Church, 2040 Wehrle Drive, Amherst.


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CHARLESTON — Lawmakers would get a sense of how a bill might help or harm West Virginia's economy before casting a vote, under a measure proposed by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin this sessio....
The 4th branch of government being asked what to do again. By summer a lot these idiotic concerns will be put aside as people begin to worry about eating and the drugheads can't afford their drugs. Change is almost here...
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We take a look at the cooler south west flow pushing in across the country - but also warmer weather is the on the way with one model predicting a rain maker at the end of this month/start of March. Fingers crossed! We also show you video and a fantastic photo from the Vatican City, just hours after the Pope resigned lightning hit the Vatican twice…we have the video and photo.


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San Diego's North County is a vast, expansive region known for its pristine beaches, natural preserves and miles of open spaces. From Del Mar to Oceanside, the North County coastline is a string of unique picturesque seaside villages that have a small-town feel and provide surprises around every corner.
If you're looking for opportunities for outdoor activities in San Diego, the north region has plenty. From hiking and horseback riding in Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, stand-up paddle boarding and kayaking in Carlsbad Lagoon, to biking along historic Highway 101, or sport fishing, whale watching or surfing the coastline from La Jolla through Oceanside, outdoor enthusiasts are sure to be entertained.
The North County Coastal region is home to some of San Diego's top attractions, including LEGOLAND California, SeaLife Aquarium and Legoland Water Park, the Flower Fields at Carlsbad, and the Del Mar Fairgrounds, host to the Del Mar Fair from mid-June to early July, followed by the Del Mar Thoroughbred Races until early September. There's also the San Diego Botanic Garden for a look at San Diego native flora and fauna, and at the Eastern border of North County, you'll also find the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Las Vegas Style Indian Casino Gaming and a handful of great wineries and local breweries.
San Diego's North County Coastal and Inland regions are also a paradise for golfers, with over 40 diverse courses to choose from. Graced by cooling breezes from the Pacific Ocean, the Arnold Palmer-designed Park Hyatt Aviara and Tom Fazio-designed Fairmont Grand Del Mar golf courses are uniquely sculpted around the natural landscapes and native vegetation.
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North County San Diego's coastal communities offer lodging options as expansive as the Pacific views. Escape to an elegant romantic bed and breakfast surrounded by breathtaking mountain views, lounge at a luxurious four-star hotel by the beach, or treat yourself to a well-deserved break at a spa resort. There are also plenty of affordable accommodations just inland from the beach. From beautifully decorated guest rooms and delicious cuisine to championship golf and pampering spas, pick your passion and stay in style. With North County Coastal's long coastline stretching from Del Mar to Oceanside, the options are endless when choosing your San Diego getaway.
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Boy Scouts Rethink Gay Ban
Proposed Change Comes After Petition Drives and Pressure by Corporate Backers
The Boy Scouts of America is weighing an about-face to its long-standing ban on gays among its membership and troop leaders.
The Scouts said Monday it was considering a new policy that would let local scouting groups determine their own policies about allowing participation by openly gay people, according to their own "mission, principles, or religious beliefs." The change will be discussed next week by the organization's national board, a Scouts spokesman said.
The surprise move came just six months after the Scouts drew a line in the sand to underscore the ban on gay scouts and troop leaders, which the organization had gone to the Supreme Court to defend. The court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Scouts in 2000.
The Scouts' turnabout highlights how quickly American attitudes on gay rights are shifting. Last year, President Barack Obama publicly supported same-sex marriage, and voters in three states decided to permit gay weddings.
The move also shows the growing influence of gay-rights groups and their backers. Throughout 2012, the Scouts were lobbied by organizations that collected more than one million signatures asking it to overturn the ban. Amid the tumult, several major corporate donors pulled their support from scouting organizations.
But tolerance towards gays remains controversial. The Scouts' new proposal was immediately condemned by some conservative groups who say it undermines the moral integrity of the organization.
In a statement Monday, Scouts spokesman Deron Smith said that, under the new policy, groups that oversee the organization's youth programs, including churches and schools, would be empowered to make their own choices. "Members and parents would be able to choose a local unit that best meets the needs of their families," he said.
It remains unclear how the Scouts would implement such a plan and contend with the patchwork of conflicting local policies that could result.
The Scouts didn't say how the Irving, Texas, organization had arrived at the proposed change. The group had 2,658,794 youth members and 1,039,825 adult members as of Dec. 31.
Until now, the Scouts had said that same-sex relations are inconsistent with the scouting oath, which requires that scouts be "morally straight."
Last July, after a confidential, two-year review, the organization reaffirmed its policy. It said that an 11-member special committee composed of Scout executives and volunteers had come to the unanimous conclusion that excluding gay scouts is "absolutely the best policy."
Several high-profile members of the Scouts' board publicly promised last June to work inside the organization to change the policy, including AT&T Inc. T -0.29 % Chief Executive Randall Stephenson and Ernst & Young CEO James Turley.
In a statement at the time, Mr. Turley said that "an inclusive environment is important throughout our society and I am proud to be a leader on this issue." A spokeswoman said Monday that Mr. Turley declined to comment on the organization's proposed policy change. Mr. Stephenson also declined to comment.
The Girl Scouts of the USA has long had a policy not to discriminate against gay participants. "Sexual orientation is a private matter for girls and their families to address," said spokeswoman Michelle Tompkins.
Some gay-rights leaders put changing the Scouts policy on the front burner last spring after an incident in which Ohio mother Jennifer Tyrrell lost her position as a den leader in her son's Cub Scout pack because she is lesbian.
Groups including Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation began online petitions asking the Scouts to change its policy. Another group, Scouts for Equality, said that 11 of the 300 local scouting councils in the U.S. publicly said they disagree with the national organization's policies on gay members.
Over the summer, the Intel INTC 1.15 % Foundation, which gives money to causes in which Intel Corp. employees volunteer time, changed its policy to require all organizations that might receive funds to sign a nondiscrimination guarantee that includes gays. The move prevents possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars from going to local Scout troops, an Intel spokesman said, adding that the policy change wasn't made specifically because of the Scouts policy.
In December, the Merck Company Foundation decided to end its financial support to the Scouts specifically because of its gay ban. The company has said it would consider funding the Scouts again when its "inclusion criteria has been expanded." A spokeswoman declined to comment on the proposed change Monday.
Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the American Family Association, called the Scouts' move "craven capitulation to social pressure," adding that "they are putting the sexual integrity of the young boys that are entrusted to their care at risk."
Lorraine Penna, 71, of Easton, Pa., who was a local scout chairwoman for 10 years while her two sons were growing up, said she was against lifting the ban because scout-aged children are "very impressionable" and could be taken advantage of.
But the proposed change won tentative praise from some scouting participants who had been rallying against the ban.
"It would be a partial step in the right direction," said Eric Andresen, of Moraga, Calif., whose son, Ryan, was turned down for his Eagle Scout rank last year because he is gay.
Local scout leaders approved his application, but the national organization refused to consider it. Mr. Andresen said that if the policy changes, he hopes that Ryan can retroactively be awarded the Eagle Scout rank.
"If they change this policy, in Ryan's mind that means that a whole lot of other scouts wouldn't have to go through what he had to go through," he said.
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People used the website Change.org to launch online campaigns petitioning the Boy Scouts to change its policy on gay members. An earlier version of this article said Change.org itself was among groups that began petitions.
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Known for its eponymous blue-collar Italian restaurants and Banchetti banquet center, the Rizzo family aimed higher last year, and opened Rizotto Ristorante. ¶ The fine dining Italian operation, nestled in the well-appointed former Verbena/Daffodils space on Maple Road in Amherst, has a high-ceilinged bar and about 120 seats all told. They're scattered through several rooms and some cozy corners, with solid tables, real chairs and lots of dark wood trim, radiating a luxe vibe before you even sit down. ¶ We were recognized, but the tour of the antipasto bar we got was standard fare for diners, owner Michael Rizzo said. A cook was working on a neatly arranged display of vegetables, seafood, meat and cheese that can be ordered singly or in combinations.
Our guide noted that Rizotto makes its own bread, pasta, mozzarella and desserts.
Bread arrived warm in two flavors, a classic airy, moist-crumbed crusty Italian loaf and a denser rosemary-scented cousin. Three spreads – olive tapenade, cheesy roasted red pepper and rich white bean puree – beat butter.
We consulted the written specials and asked for pork belly over greens and beans ($9), three-pepper gorgonzola arancini ($8.50), artichokes au gratin ($9), insalata abraci, with squash and melon ($5.50), half-orders of macaroncini and orechiette pastas ($8 each), and one entree, scarlet snapper with pea risotto ($19).
The antipasto bar is an easy way to explore the kitchen's sensibilities, so we hit a pick-six ($12.95). We got milky house-made mozzarella and decent tomato, for March; shaved fried zucchini, darkly delicious but oily; tender meatballs of beef, veal and pork in fruity marinara; and a tender grain called farro with crunchy diced grilled vegetables. The tough core remained in chewy caramelized fennel.
The surprise favorite was seafood couscous: tender squid pieces, tentacles and scallops in a light herb-flecked dressing, Moroccan pasta grains and celery for crunch and astringency. Simple but satisfying.
By that point, we'd already encountered the insalata abraci, a lightly dressed green salad hosting chunks of roasted butternut squash, pickled red onions and watermelon, dusted with salty shreds of ricotta salata cheese. Braced for a collision, I found myself enjoying the ride, the unexpected pleasure of sweet juicy crunch against salty cheese and earthy squash. (May Chef Carlo Tonelli be blessed with local watermelon this fall.)
Artichokes gratin were two medium-sized, stem-on specimens, split open, crumbed and baked with gorgonzola cheese on a bed of radicchio. Tasty, but I wanted more browning from either the light crumb coat or the broiler.
A foursome of arancini (fried rice balls) arrived on more fruity marinara. A stouter crust would have kept the spheres from cracking under their own weight and oozing molten cheese. No quibbles about the flavor, though, or the rice, which remained distinct grains instead of mush. They were dispatched without mercy, leaving behind only the garnish of greasy fried basil leaves, which, as I learned, are not so nice to eat.
Pork belly was meltingly tender under its crisped, peppery surface, with much of the fat cooked out but still dangerously rich. Underneath were garlicky white beans and greens that hadn't been boiled textureless. With a squeeze of grilled lemon brightening up the heavy flavors, I could have eaten it all, but I wanted to enjoy it again for lunch, so I stopped.
The macaroncini, like jumbo elbow pasta, came in a creamy meat sauce with major mushroom aroma, from fresh fungi and a restrained drop of truffle oil. The pasta was chewier than what I consider al dente, however.
The orecchiette, little ears, held its tomatoey meat ragu well, and I would get the full order next time.
Red snapper arrived on risotto green from mashed peas, topped with a toque of pickled julienned bell pepper, carrot and celery. The fish was browned but moist and flaky, and the sourness of the vegetables perked up its mild character.
The cannoli trio, with thrillingly crunchy house-made shells ($6.50), and apple tart ($6) were both satisfying and skillful.
Rizotto transcends its blue-collar roots to earn its Italian fine dining label.
Rizotto Ristorante: 8 plates (Out of 10)
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TRUCKEE - Caltrans announced last week the completion of the shoulder-to-shoulder repavement project on Highway 89 between Squaw Valley Road to West River Street.According to Caltrans, the $7.2 million project between Truckee and Olympic Valley improves the surface for bikes and motor vehicles, and includes water quality protection from stormwater drainage while extending the pavement life an additional 10 years."This project is an important investment in our infrastructure," said Caltrans District 3 Director, Jody Jones, in a statement. "In recent years, our crews have increasingly had to repair major stretches of the travel lanes and shoulders to prevent further erosion, correct water drainage problems, and improve safety. The shoulder-to-shoulder repavement immediately reduces maintenance costs and improves motorist and cyclist safety."Stretches of Highway 89 have had extensive pavement failure, including cracking, rutting and insufficient water drainage that threatened the roadbed, according to a Caltrans press release.The last shoulder-to-shoulder repave was nearly 20 years ago. The travel lanes received additional resurfacing in various projects from 2003-06, according to the department, but excluded bike lanes/shoulders, presenting particular challenges for cyclists."We brought our concerns to Caltrans and they were extremely responsive," said Paco Lindsay, owner of Paco's Bike & Ski, in a statement. "We are thrilled the project is done and that the cycling community's safety was taken into account."The prime contractor for the project was Sierra Nevada Construction of Sparks.
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This season and the current standings show that playoff seedings and the like could or should be modified, given how both 3rd place teams will pretty much have less points than the 4th/5th/6th seeded teams in the conference.
So, what would you change about this? Would you change anything at all?
Personally, I think there should be some type of award for winning your division as there is at present. Nothing wrong with that concept to me.
If you keep going this route however, somehow a concept of just two divisions in a conference perhaps, or keep the existing alignments, reward your division winners like usual these days, and re-seed the teams after the first round. Because more than likely if you do a re-seeding concept this year, 3rd place team would likely start the second round on the road, assuming those seeds win their first round series obviously.
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E2E: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer - Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming, 1 of 3
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WOW! What a great video! These two guys are just totaly amazing and true role models in terms of software and where the ideas behind it come from!
Oh, and Charles - nice trying to hide behing the white board, and while speaking of that - Eric needs a bigger one next time
There ain't no party like a whiteboard party!
Awesome video - I love seeing the comparison between the physics (engineering) world and the programming model of the world. Can't wait to see part 2.
Can't think who I'd rather see 2010 kick off with than the Erik and Brian! This stuff rocks my world.
That's a great whiteboard jam session, leaving us with a cliff hanger
It's just boiling over with creativity, can't wait for part 2.
I'd like whiteboard pens with motion capture to automatically recreate the text digitally
Couple of things...
1) Don't tease the viewer with half episodes!
b) This presentation is very similar to what Blend does for WPF. (Don't let me kinda create the UI you envisage, create it yourself! Apparently easier said than done at the moment but you get the idea.) I'm sure that if I got that spec from Brian and didn't go through the functional middle man like Erik does, the implementation would have been different in one aspect or another. Maybe even one of the 70% failed projects in time or cost.
Great (half grr) video concept! Nothing like applied application to sink concepts home.
re: 1 - Nothing wrong with spreading out goodness: like great butter on toasty bread, one piece at a time.
I love the part in the begining when you Charles are doing the introduction and it looks like you wanted to say something more but "Beckman and Meijer" and imidiatly start their talk
Good you didn't interupt them because there could have been some casualties
Thanks, great stuff!
I guess all scientists dealing with functions would benefint from being able to write function signatures/types the way Eric does on the whiteboard here (not needing to know everything Eric knows about type theory, just the basics displayed here!), as it is a very powerful tool/notation for clear thinking and presentation. (In addition to getting some type checking and inference for free).
I loved this! Ever since I learned Haskell I've thought about how much easier math would have been in school if the notation was more systematic or formal. But maybe that's just because I'm a programmer
Great lecture, although I do wonder (from a Haskell background) why you'd call the original 'x' function 'xs' as Eric mentions?! The 's' suffix is used to identify a collection (so a list is pattern-matched as "(x:xs)", which denotes 'one single x and some more xs'), whilst the function 'x' simply calculates the coordinates (as a product type) from a given position...
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Sarah Acton showed many of her Tapestry Charter School students the world – and she pushed them hard to succeed there.
She took them on college trips, including visits to her alma mater, Fordham University in New York City. She insisted they graduate from high school and aim high with their postgraduate plans. And she shared with them her passion for the Spanish language and her beloved Costa Rica.
Acton led 11 of her high school Spanish students on a planned two-week cultural exchange in Costa Rica. On Monday afternoon, she accompanied them on a white-water rafting trip, and they had just gotten back on the raft following a fun-filled time at a local swimming hole.
"One minute she was sitting in the back of a raft, laughing with her students, and then Sarah became nonresponsive," Tapestry Executive Director Joy Pepper said.
"She lost consciousness, and we don't know why," Tapestry High School Principal Lynn Seagren Bass added Tuesday, inside the school on Great Arrow Avenue in North Buffalo.
Acton received immediate medical attention, but attempts to revive her were unsuccessful, and she died, at age 31.
Tapestry Charter School considers itself both a community and a family, and school officials were reeling Tuesday from the loss of a five-year veteran teacher they described as bubbly, energetic and passionate about life.
"She mentored these kids," Bass said. "She went way above and beyond."
One student may have summed it up best Tuesday, according to school officials.
"We've got to remember, she wanted us all to graduate and be successful," this student said. "So we've got to do it for her."
"She really embraced these kids, and she knew how to connect with them," Pepper said.
While the school mourned its loss Tuesday – with students, teachers and staff members all trying to comfort each other – school officials wore out their emails and cellphones in communications with Costa Rican officials during Easter week.
The 11 students on the exchange trip, all 10th-, 11th- or 12th-graders, are safe and under the care of the program's student-exchange coordinator in Costa Rica, Pepper told the Tapestry community in a lengthy message Tuesday morning.
Earlier, school officials arranged for the students, who had lived with various host families in Costa Rica, to stay together Monday night, after all of them witnessed their teacher being fatally stricken.
"We felt it was better that they all be together," Pepper explained.
Jack Turner, the lower school's assistant principal, who accompanied Acton on a similar trip to Costa Rica two years ago, headed there Tuesday to bring the students home. They were scheduled to return home late tonight, about halfway through their scheduled trip.
While some of the students wanted to stay in Costa Rica, to honor Acton by finishing the trip, school officials opted to bring them home, so they could be with their families, Pepper said.
School officials also helped Acton's family arrange for her body to be returned home some time later this week.
The former Sarah Thorp, who graduated from Kenmore West High School and later studied Spanish language and literature at Fordham, was married to James Acton, a YNN News photojournalist.
Tapestry administrators learned about Acton's death late Monday. They called the teachers from about 11 p.m. Monday until about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
After the students heard the news at school Tuesday morning, Tapestry's sense of community took over.
"The students asked for the flag to be at half-staff this morning," Pepper said. "It was a way for them to honor her. It was a tangible thing that they could say they wanted to do for her."
Crisis Services counselors were made available at the school Tuesday.
Late Tuesday, students, teachers and staff members shared stories about Acton, including little things, like her passion for teaching kids to bake and decorate cupcakes from scratch.
"We told the kids that they needed to take care of each other," Bass said. "That's what she would want."
As news of Acton's death spread Tuesday morning, members of the school community – presumably students and former students – took to social media sites to share their condolences.
"RIP to one of my favorite teachers, Mrs. Acton. We love & miss you so much," one person wrote. Another said, "Not a single person in the Tapestry community will forget what you have done for all of us."
And another, referring to Acton's love of cupcakes, wrote, "R.I.P. Mrs. Acton!!!!!!!! You will truly be missed ... I can imagine you being an angel making a billion cupcakes right now!"
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Jerry L. Hise, 74, a resident of Elkins, passed away Tuesday evening March 26, 2013, in Hospice Care Inpatient Unit.
He was born Nov. 26, 1938, at Mill Creek, a son of the late James W. and Wilda Hamner Hise.
He was married to Louella Fox Hise, who preceded him in death Nov. 15, 2010.
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He is survived by three sons, Curtis Lynn Hise and wife, Mary, of Colonial Heights, Va., James Dennis Hise of Elkins and Bryan Keith Hise and wife, Michele, of Newnan, Ga.; one brother, Joseph; two sisters, Delores and Rella Sue, all of Maryland; one brother-in-law, Kenny Fox of Mabie; and one sister-in-law, Sandy Johnson of Elkins. Also surviving are six grandchildren, Brittani Jessup, Lyndsy Hise, Brenden Hise, Chelsa and Josalynn Hise; four great-grandchildren, Zoe, Brent, Michael and Kailey; two stepgrandchildren, Justin and Erica; one stepgreat-granddaughter, Elena; and several nieces and nephews.
Also preceding him in death were five brothers, Gary, Bill, John, Kenny and Jimmy; and one sister, Eloise Taylor.
Jerry was a veteran of the United States Army and was retired from the Kroger Corp. where he had worked as a meat cutter. He was a loving caregiver and husband to his wife, a loving father and grandfather, and he enjoyed hunting, fishing, martial arts and woodworking. He was a member of Elkins Church of God, National Rifle Association, Tygart Valley Post 3647 Veterans of Foreign Wars and H.W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion.
Friends may call from 5 until 8 p.m. today at Tomblyn Funeral Home in Elkins. A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 30, from the funeral home chapel with Pastor Jamie Estep and the Rev. Eli Hostetler officiating. Interment will follow in Mountain State Memorial Gardens near Gilman.
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Bernice went to Our Lord on Dec. 12, 2010. She was an inspiration and role model for all of us on how to live our lives by Christ's teaching. She led her life with charity and kindness. She was generous with herself, her home, her caring and her joy of life. And we can't leave out her legendary cooking! And she was generous with that, as well. She also shared her love of cooking by giving the ladies cooking classes and sharing recipes and knowledge.
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Freshman quarterback Jake Heaps will lead the 6-6 BYU Cougars onto the field, hoping to keep their late-season success going against the slumping UTEP Miners.
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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia will try to unload its massive vacation home on the Ventnor, N.J., beachfront, assessed at $6.2 million, at a Sept. 15 auction, church and real estate officials said Monday.
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The house, on a block-long property that runs 175 feet along the Boardwalk from Princeton to Portland Avenues, was used until this summer as a getaway for retired priests and high-ranking archdiocese officials.
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Gulfport, Florida -- The long-awaited community art project will soon take shape at Gulfport Square, the shopping plaza at the southwest corner of Gulfport Boulevard and 49th Street.
Banners emblazoned with the words "Community Art Project Coming Soon" have teased the locals for some time. "This has been a year in the process," Michelle Kotewa, the owner of the Liberty Tax franchise in Gulfport Square, says. Her office has the six art submissions, including the three winners, on display.
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The deadline to apply to be on the airport, building and planning commissions is Friday.
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Appointments will be made at the council's second meeting in January. For more information, call City Clerk Susan Alessi at 542-6004.