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By HAYLEY HARMON6 News Anchor/Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Tennessee's legislative session is just a few days old and already Knoxville state Senator Stacey Campfield finds himself in the middle of controversy.
He's getting national attention for a response email he sent to a Nashville woman who complained about some of his latest legislation proposals.
On Thursday, Nashville resident Telisha Cobb sent Senator Campfield an email criticizing his legislative proposals.
The email read:
Senator Campfield,
I am writing to you today as a mother, active citizen and born & raised Tennessean. You are an embarrassment to our great state. Folks all over the country and here in Tennessee are looking at the bills that you are proposing in shock. They are the most ignorant and morally lacking legislation that could be proposed this year. It is clear that you are targeting homosexuals and low income families with hogwash legislation. You need to search your heart, your values and your Christianity to find a better way to represent us as a whole. We will do everything in our power to make sure that you are not here in 2014. There are numerous grass roots parties that are making their voices heard.
Campfield fired back.
In an email response, he wrote:
You seem to have some serious, deep anger issues. Have you ever thought about therapy? I hear they are doing some wonderful thing with medications these days.
Yours in service,
Sen. Stacey Campfield
Campfield confirms he did write it.
As to why he sent that response, he says he's the one being attacked and says he won't be bullied.
"I take responsibility for everything that comes out of my office. There is a very loud, very vocal two percent of the community, more or less the homosexual activist community who likes to threaten, intimidates, insult, belittle people. You know what I'm not going to put up with it. That's not my job. I'm not here to be somebody's piñata," said Campfield.
Cobb posted the response on her Facebook page. By midday Friday, it had been shared more than 500 times and picked up by countless media outlets including TMZ.
The senator says that national negative attention doesn't concern him.
"When I heard TMZ, I kind of laughed. Did they find out about my date with JLo? I sort of laughed about it," he said.
Other people have posted online saying they've received the same response from him.
"If people treat me with respect, I treat them with respect. If people try to attack me or threaten me, I'm not going to put up with it," said Campfield.
Telisha Cobb told 6 News, "I was shocked and disgusted by his unprofessional response in which he encouraged me to seek therapy. To me his unprofessional reply shows an extreme insensitivity to important issues, and quite frankly the inability to perform his job as a public servant. State dollars are paying Mr. Campfield's salary and he has to listen to the people."
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The Mommies on the bus say Shhh Shhh Shhh!
Emergent Literacy Design
Ava Sewell
Rationale: When letters are combined into a digraph, they can represent a single phoneme, making it challenging for some children to read. The purpose of this lesson is for the students to recognize and learn the digraph /sh/, and the sounds it makes when reading, speaking, and spelling words. Students will learn a meaningful representation of the digraph, practice the digraph with use of music, as well as learn to automatically recognize it with decodable text practice by seeing it on the board a repeated number of times.
Materials: Group instruction area rug, Smart Board technology, Lyrics on smart-board of 'Wheels on the Bus', Meaningful representation of /sh/ on smart board, Primary paper, Pencils for each child, Copy of decodable text A Crash in the Shed by Gerri Murray for each child, Phonetic cue cards labeled: SHUT, SHIP, FISH, SHORE, Crayons for each child
1. Say: Have you ever noticed how your mouth moves differently when you say certain sounds? Today we are going to be learning about the sound that says /shhh/.
2. Lets all say /sh/. Did you feel the air coming through your teeth? Try again, everyone say /sh/. Sometimes our parents and teachers tell us to shhh be quiet! Can you do that to your neighbor like this.. (Hold finger to lip and say /sh/) Show picture of a finger on a lip saying shhhh.
3. Call on students to answer and tell how they knew: Do you hear /sh/ in shell or fell? fin or fish? line or shine? shape or cape Say: Let's see if you can spot the mouth move /sh/ in some words. Hold up your finger to your mouth if you hear /sh/. Sam shows his shoe to Trish and Tim.
4. Let's try a tongue twister. 'Shelly and Shawn went fishing for fish by the seashore.' Everybody say it three times together. Now say it again, and this time, stretch the /sh/ in the words. 'shhhelly and shhhawn went fisshhhing for fishhh by the seashhhhore.' Try it again, and this time break it off the word: '/sh/-elly and /sh/-awn went fi-/sh/-ing for fi-/sh/ by the sea-/sh/ore.'
5. We are going to sing the song Wheels on the Bus. It has the /sh/ sound in it when the mommies on the bus are telling the babies to 'shh shh shh.' Let's all sing it. (Sing that verse with lyrics on the smart board.' Next, call upon the children to underline the /sh/ sound on the smart board in the lyrics of the song verse. After that verse has been underlined, ask the children if they can find the sh in any other words of the song. Call upon them to come up and underline the sh. Make sure you read the word as the children are underlining the sh. (swish has the /sh/ sound in it too! You're right! Great Job!)
6. Have students take out primary paper and pencil. We use letters s and h together to spell /sh/.
I want you to write sh on your paper. To make an s, start at the top, and go around this way, and curve back around the other way. (Draw on the board while having everyone does it on their paper.) Do make the h, start with a straight line down from the top, now go back up to the middle, and make a hump like this (draw on the board while students write on their paper. Now put the letters beside each other like this (write sh on board as children do it on their paper). Assess the children by walking around and making sure they are doing the letter digraph writing correctly. Assist them if needed.
7. Show SHUT on a flashcard and model how to decide if it is shut or cut: ' I am going to see what this word says. I know that the u says /u/ and the t at the end says /t/. The beginning is an sh. that says /sh/ so /sh/ /u/ /t/ shut. The sh tells me to put my finger to my lip, /sh/, so this word is shhh-ut not cut. You try some: SHIP: ship or hip? Show: bow or show? FISH: fish or fin? SHORE: shore or pore?
8. Say: We are going to read this book A Crash in the Shed. It has the /sh/ sound in it. Have the book on the smart board so that you can point to the words as you read.
Give a booktalk: The book is about Jan and Tim. They want to go fishing. They go to the shed to get the things that they need. Jan and Tim are getting their things from the shed, when CRASH, something is knocked down by their cat Elf. Will Jan and Tim solve their problem? Read the book to the class and have them put their finger to their lip when ever they hear the /sh/ sound.
9. For assessment, distribute the worksheet. The students will be given a picture page with pictures of a dog, shell, shoe, car, and ship on each page. Underneath each picture will be primary writing lines. The students will write the names of each picture on the line and if the picture has the /sh/ sound, the student will use their crayons to color the picture. Call students individually to read the phonetic cue words from step #7.
Related Design:
Bice, Bethany. The Fish says SSHHH!
Decodable Text:
Murray, Gerri. A Crash in the Shed. Genie Collection, 2006.
Lyrics to Song Used
The wheels on the bus go round and round, Round and round, round and round, The wheels on the bus go round and round, All through the town.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish, Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish, All through the town.
The door on the bus goes open and shut, Open and shut, open and shut, The door on the bus goes open and shut, All through the town.
The mommies on the bus say, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, The mommies on the bus say, shh, shh, shh, All through the town.


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text: Yes I said it, we are #1 for the first time ever. We are the number one seed in the NFC. If we win the next playoff game, the road to the Superbowl comes through New Orleans. That Brett Favre is a smart fella. I think he played well, except for the knockdown and the 2 sacks in OT. They would have won it if AP didn't fumble the ball. But I think that was all part of Favre's plan. He knows Dallas is going to beat the Eagles next week and the Vikings are going to win. What he really wants is to play the NFC Championship game in New Orleans so all his family can come and watch. That is really what happened. He saw the Saints play some prevent offense, prevent them from locking up homefield advantage, and thought to himself, well if we lose this week but win next week and the Cowboys win, then we will still be #2 and we can play the NFC Championship in New Orleans and all my family can come watch. I tell you he is an Einstein. I am glad the Saints have overcome another tick mark in what this team has never done before. Next is to win the NFC Championship and get to the big game. I said in another one of my Fan Posts that I thought that the Saints were basically playing haphazardly in order to save their starters. How would the fans have felt if Payton sat the starters in the last home game? That is basically what he did. He didn't play the smash mouth football that we are used to. Anyone wonder why?? I think that he did play conservatively and he has his reasons for it. Do you really think that he would have not gone for it on those 4th downs in the first half? If this were the first game of the playoffs your darn tootin' he would have. Because that is the kind of coach he is. I know I said that every player wants to win every game but there is more to it than that. There are a lot of superlatives you have to think about. Do you think PT would have sat out the rest of the game had this been a playoff game, I don't think so. Do you think Drew would have given up throwing the long ball if this were a playoff game, again, I don't think so. So the only think that this Tampa Bay game told me was that I have to trust in the coaches that have led us into uncharted territory like they did 3 years ago. I have no question that the Saints are not going to be playing on the same level as they did in the beginning of the season. They have no reason to do so. If they do, I would really wonder why he is risking hurting his players in a do nothing game. I thing he might play Greer to get him some playing time before the playoffs, but that is it. Put him in for a couple of snaps to make sure he is ok for the playoffs, then take him out. I would hate to see him hurt himself again right before the playoffs. We need all our starters fresh for the playoffs, but without the cobwebs that might collect while waiting for the big game. I think that the Colts have started resting their starters a little too early, but I am not a coach, that is just my opinion. I have no doubt that we will see a resurgence of the old Saints team in the playoffs. They will play like they did against NE when there is something to prove. They have had nothing to prove in the last game, and still nothing to prove in the next. They did prove it in the beginning of the game and then they went on cruise control. I think that had Minn won tonight, then we would have seen the old Saints team against the Panthers, but now, I hope I don't. I want to see a healthy team go into the playoffs.


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The Columbus Blue Jackets had a welcome sight in their goal crease on Monday night when reigning Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky made his first start since Dec. 3.
His teammates didn't exactly allow him to ease himself back into action by making him face 43 shots. Fortunately for the Blue Jackets Bobrovsky was rock solid for most of the night, making 40 saves to help get the game to shootout where they were able to pull out a 4-3 win.
It was in that shootout where Bobrovsky made what was perhaps his best save of the night when he made this glove save to rob Rangers forward Rick Nash.
Bobrovsky's performance has definitely regressed a bit this season from his incredible run a year ago, but he was on top of his game on Monday.
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I think there is a lock for the top 4, possibly even the top 5 since I believe Hillen showed last year that he deserves his roster spot on the team offensively and defensively. My lock for the top 4 are Streit, Wiz, Eaton, and Martinek(if he can stay healthy). That would leave the 6th spot open to mostly 1yr wonder a-mac, the never played up to their potential yet gervais and jurcina, and the I need a miracle camp to make the team Hamonic since he hasn't had any ahl/nhl time yet. Out of them, I honestly believe a-mac has the best chance to make the team because of how defensively smart he played last year and the potential he could have. But then again, Gervais and Jurcina have shown to be very responsible bottom 2 nhl veterans in their time with that job so that makes this situation very interesting. Other things that come into play:
Was drafted by us and is still only 25. Has played with the islanders for ~ 3 full nhl seasons and was mostly given a role that he shouldn't have been given. Because of injury or lack of depth, Gervais was forced into high-minute and heavy lifting jobs he couldn't fulfill. This could have hurt his maturation and definitely hurt his play. Gervais has shown many signs of light that he could be a great and very solid bottom 2 15-20pts defensive player in that role, possibly even a top 4 at times. Is it time to give up on Gervais or finally give him that he was form fit to play and shine at on a bottom pair?
Jurcina -Salary-$1million
Drafted by the Bruins and is 27. Is taller and bigger than Gervais, but doesn't play it and certainly doesn't play with the same drive Gervais does or does as much charity work as Gervais does. But he does play as an effective bottom 2 when given the job. Has mostly played with the offensive juggernaut known as the Capitals, so you must take his offense and +/- numbers with a grain of salt. But in the role, he does play like he was fit for a bottom 2 role in a number of ways. Also has the potential to be crease clearer if he uses his size. Another bonus to Jurcina was that he played in Gordon's hockey system under Gordon for 2years at the ahl level, where he was solid top 2 guy but still not very offensively productive at all. Is it time for Gordon to throw Jurcina back into the system that he knows and in a starting job, like he had for a couple of years with the Caps? For all we know Gordon could have custom ordered Jurcina when we missed out on the other top d-men in the market or he could have been brought in to make our ahl defense better? Who knows.
Don't bring a-mac into this because I believe he is a 3rd leg and should be a wild card because how unproven he is and how undersized he is compared to gervais and jurcina.
Whom do you think has the better chance of making the starting line-up/top 6 out of camp and why?


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Details on Zoroaster
Basics on Zoroaster
Zoroaster was a priest or Zaotar who rejected the old Indo-Iranian gods (or monotheistic religion) and in their place believed that a single, wise, omnipotent god, Ahura Mazda 'Lord Wisdom', created and ruled the world. Ahura Mazda fought against the prince of evil or druj, Ahriman, which makes Zoroastrianism, Zoroaster's monotheistic religion, dualistic.
Zoroaster may have lived in the area of modern Azerbajian, the area of the ancient Medes, or the area of eastern Iran around modern Afghanistan and Tajikistan. He may have lived in the 7th century B.C., as early as 1200, or as late as the 1st century B.C. Earlier dates are based on linguistics. In "Further on the Calendar of Zoroastrian Feasts," Iran, Vol. 43 (2005), pp. 1-38, Zoroastrian scholar Mary Boyce says 1200 is as good a date as any.
As one expects with a culture hero like Zoroaster, there are various miraculous legends surrounding his birth, including surviving fire, wolves, and the blades of assassins.
The beliefs of Zoroaster, religious prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism, were written down perhaps a millennium later [source: Zoroastrian Scriptures, Presentation at North American Mobed Council July 30, 2005 – New York], in the Avesta, the name of the work and its language, which was translated into Phalavi during the Sassanian period. Much of the original Avesta was lost, although the extant Gathas retain Zoroaster's teaching. Other components of the scripture include the hymns known as Yashts and the Pahlavi books.
Zoroaster is based on the Greek: Ζωροάστρης. Zarathuštra is Avestan and is familiar through the writings of the philosopher Nietzsche. The Persian version of the name is Zardusht or Zartusht.
See Frequently asked questions on Zoroastrianism and the Avesta
- "Dualism in Iranian and Christian Traditions"
François de Blois
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.
- "On Mysticism and Esotericism among the Zoroastrians"
James R. Russell
Iranian Studies, 1993.
Zoroaster is on the list of Most Important People to Know in Ancient History.
There is a tradition dating Zoroaster to the 6th century that includes his meeting with Pythagoras, but see "The Greek Origin of the Sixth-Century Dating of Zoroaster," by Peter Kingsley, in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1990) for problems of dating. Zoroaster is also said to have influenced another Greek philosopher, Heraclitus.


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A worker at an Albany chemical company was seriously burned Wednesday night.
Thirty-seven year-old Jason Pate suffered second degree burns over 60 to 70 percent of his body in a flash fire from an acetylene tank at Equinox Chemicals on West Oakridge Drive.
Firefighters and HAZMAT crews responded a little before 9 o'clock. They blocked off Oakridge Drive, as they made sure no dangerous chemicals were leaking.
Equinox does pharmaceutical research and manufacturing for companies, government agencies and defense contractors.
Other workers helped put out the fire on Pate and helped him into a shower area.
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I needed to get a new battery to my TomTom Go navigator. Battery Upgrade site had this battery easily findable with Google and shipment trough mail was rather fast, about 10 days from Hong Kong to Finland. I got the package, and the only problem with replacing was "How to open the Tom Tom". I had not suitable Torx wrenches nor small plasti piece to pry open the Tom Tom unit as explained in one Youtube guide. Those tools could possibly be shipped with the batteries? Anyhow, carefully following the guiding video I was able to open the Tom Tom unit and replace the battery. The old battery was glued to the place very tight, and heating the battery with hair dryer melted the glue enough so I could rip the old one away. The Tom Tom unit was able to be upgraded with the new battery, but the main problem in the navigator was not fixed with this. I still do have the problem of unit hanging up if external power feed cuts befor closing the unit with power button.
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Mineweb reported yesterday that although gold has performed well in February, a month that is historically not good for the metal, UBS AG (NYSE:UBS) expects its luck to run out in March, also typically a poor month for gold prices.
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'This anticipated seasonal weakness ties in with our one-month call for gold prices to reverse to $1280 from here,' UBS says.
The main reason for its view is that, while the rise since the beginning of the year has been orderly, it has been a fairly sizable move and over the course of the period, gold net longs have risen 114%.
And, it says, 'given that investor participation has so far been limited to those with short-term horizons, the temptation to book profits is very strong and we expect this to dominate up ahead.'


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Showing 41 - 45 of 45 for " Center Art Gallery"
A prodigal gift of art
Calvin College was given the Gerbens family's entire Prodigal Son collection as a gift.
January 09, 2008 | Myrna Anderson
Calvin to host Hillis Miller
A renowned literary theorist will speak at Calvin College this month on connections between literature and Scripture.
October 10, 2007 | Myrna Anderson
Calvin hosts Hague School exhibition
From Oct. 5 through Nov. 17, 2007, the Center Art Gallery at Calvin College will be hosting "Between Nature and Nationality: The Hague School in the Nineteenth Century."
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Spring Break Service Trips Set to Depart
From March 17 through 25, while students nationwide join the annual spring break exodus to the beach, 75 Calvin students with less leisurely agendas will be trekking to seven locales on the college's spring break service-learning trips.
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The 2005 edition of StreetFest will see some 1,000 incoming Calvin College students spend a part of their orientation combining service with learning in a variety of Grand Rapids neighborhoods.
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It's been about three months since Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) started preperation work on upgrading the Susquehanna-Roseland power line, and since then officials have been making progress, after getting delayed about a month from Superstorm Sandy.
The power line, which has been a controversial project, is a 500,000-volt transmission line that will go through Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey, including Montville. Pre-construction activities began in September in Montville, including survey work and site preparation on Ward Witty Road, Boonton Avenue, Stoneybrook Road, Schneider Road, Abbot Road, Old Lane and Main Road.
As of this week, preparation work for the power line project was continuing.
"Right now it's still site preparation, grading, excavation, and road work," PSE&G Project Director John Margaritis said.
Margaritis said the company does not have the schedule as to when the new towers will be up, but said "it's going to be a while."
Specifically in Montville, the project has been met with some opposition by township residents. The Montville Township Board of Education reached a $1.5 million settlement with PSE&G in December of 2011 regarding power lines projected to be placed near the Robert R. Lazar Middle School.
New Jersey's Sierra Club released a statement Thursday that said they joined other national and local environmental groups in filing a preliminary injunction to stop the project. They claim the project was "inappropriately rubberstamped" and will destory scenic vistas and natural resources "all to carry more polluting coal-fired power to eastern markets."
"The Susquehanna-Roseland line will cause irreparable harm and permanent damage to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area," Director of the NJ Sierra Club Jeff Tittel said. "This destruction cannot be mitigated and that is why we are seeking an injunction. We cannot allow one of the biggest violations of the public trust and the National Park Service to go forward."
The Susquehanna-Roseland Power Line has been deemed necessary by PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of electricity through 13 states and the District of Columbia.


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As we head into festival season, with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicking off its first weekend in three weeks (April 12-14), one of the things folks who love the Coachellas and sister event the Stagecoach Country Music Festival have been keeping an eye on is the future of Goldenvoice in Indio, specifically at the Empire Polo Club.
On Thursday, March 21, a meeting of the Indio Planning Commission voted 5-0 to approve the environmental impact report submitted by festival promoter Goldenvoice in a bid to keep the Coachellas, Stagecoach and the possibility of new festivals at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, as reported by KESQ.
KESQ said another part of the plan was to increase attendance from 95,000 to 99,000 at Coachella and from 65,000 to 75,000 for Stagecoach.
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The current permits and plan Goldenvoice has with the city is set to expire this year. The long-term deal will keep the festivals at the current location from 2014 through 2030.
The Desert Sun pointed out that there's no guarantee that the two extra festivals included in Goldenvoice's proposal will happen, but the proposal gives them the freedom to add to the successful events they already stage in the desert. The new events would host up to 75,000 people.
The other interesting thing this year is that Goldenvoice's Skip Paige told the commission that Goldenvoice mapped out the noise complaints for the festival and this year, artists will not be allowed to bring their own sound systems in.
Indio's City Council has the final say in approving or denying the long-term permit.
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This is great! A very filling recipe. We used hot turkey sausage instead of sweet because we like spicy food.
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All four of my teenagers love this!
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Very good - used Lucini marinara sauce from Whole Foods and LOVED the flavor. Felt the polenta needed something extra - added salt and could have used a nice dose of parm but tried to maintain the "light" aspect of the recipe. Both my husband and my daughter liked this recipe.
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I gave this 5 stars (with a few changes I made). I added 2 T. of basil and little bit of salt to the polenta (at the end of the cooking process). I also added a bit of basil and a little more garlic to the sausage ragu. Finally, I added some organic, no salt added canned tomatoes to the ragu. Very filling, very fast, and very delicious! I will definitely make this again.
Ketamom Posted: 03/17/12
This was delicious! I used wine instead of the water in the meat sauce. Also used pork sweet Italian sausage rather than turkey. Would definitely make this one again. Leftovers were just as good.
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|Yankees finish tee ball season for 2012
The Yankees tee ball team is pictured above with coach Haley Verst. Front row, from left: Dylan Turner, Reagan Tackett, Madison Verst, Laci Tackett, Kaden Mastin, and Maddox Workman. Back row: Tanner Martin, LeRoy Bryant, Sam Bryant, Abraham Beebe, Isaiah Kavanaugh, Luke Dennison, and Cole Younger. Not pictured: Cailyn Harper, Tanner Martin


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The Smart car has been on the market in the U.S. for five years, but now Smart care is getting even smarter with a fully electric car. We saw one up close on Thursday's Good Day New York.
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And what's just as surprising is that people are lining up to pay the fee. Seems that the people of Hawaii are so accustomed to fees for everything in their life, that it's completely normal for them to find a fee for this as well. This is indeed a unique place.
The "insiders," government employees, were invited to the very first tour. A publicly sensitive DOT could have used the opportunity of the first tour as a gesture of gratitude to the people living on the Windward side who were most inconvenienced by the construction detour delays they experienced commuting on the Likelike.
Instead this was a tour of the misnomer known as an "interstate" highway conducted for those of the "intrastate" society with true connections.


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"We had ordered the shirts for everyone to recognize us as officers of Arcadia High School's OC, or Orchestra Council. We planned all summer for Music Camp, a big event for all performing arts groups, including Marching Band, Percussion, Color Guard, Orchestra, and Choir. It was really easy purchasing the shirts from CustomInk because I had past experience with it already. We took this picture as a funny-face photo because it was the last day of Music Camp, and we were all really happy based on our success of the big event."


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Two months after Arianny Celeste made the cover of Playboy magazine, several other UFC stars also made it to the pages of popular men's magazine.
Popular UFC personalities, Ryan Bader, Junior Dos Santos, Dana White, Vitor Belfort, Stephan Bonnar, and Jon Jones are all featured in a photo-shoot they called "Stand Tough". You can catch it on the January issue of Playboy, with Pamela Anderson gracing the cover.
As some of you might remember, a behind the scenes look on this fashion shoot was seen on one of Dana White's UFC 121 video blogs.
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Local bar owners are wondering whether they will be serving alcohol next Sunday. The Georgia General Assembly is expected to vote Monday on a bill that will allow bars to serve alcohol on the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day.
Some bars are having a hard time planning ahead because many of them already put in their bulk alcohol orders for next weekend and if this bill passes, they will need even more alcohol.
Jinx bar manager Scott Johnsen says they order nearly triple the amount of alcohol for St. Patrick's Day but this year they may be placing an additional order.
With a vote coming down just days before the festivities begin, it doesn't give many local bars much time to plan.
Johansen says they are in limbo right now wondering whether they will be open on Sunday.
"Honestly I think the state should [vote in favor]," said Johansen. "If they have certain holidays that bring in more revenue to the city, I mean you should make some exceptions."
And if the bill doesn't pass, some restaurant owners say they will be scrambling to stock up on more alcohol because all of the bars will be closed.
Right now, restaurants can serve alcohol on Sundays because they also serve food.
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Veterans and others voiced their opposition to the war with Iraq.
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Here is a message from a Deputy Commissioner of Medicaid explaining the different programs that may be available for some of our folks. You may need to print this message out and have copies available to furnish interested folks as the time arrives for the 3.3% increase in the Social Security program benefits. Bear in mind that the QI1 program is a special limited fund that folks have to specially apply for. They may need assistance in doing this, and they should not "linger" about getting their paperwork processed. This may help a lot of those folks that the 3.3% increase causes them to be removed from the normal Medicaid roles. If they are not eligible for the QI1 program, the Medicare Low Income Subsidy Program may be the answer to their needs. That is a Federal program, not administered by Alabama Medicaid.
Seems the word about the new increase is out though we haven't seen anything official here. We will be adjusting our Medicare Savings Program income guidelines around Feb. or March based on the poverty level increases and that should help. The fortunate thing this year is that we are able to accept QI1 applications. Last year we stopped taking them and couldn't exparte anyone into that group because we ran over our federal allotment. I know you all will be getting calls so I wanted to share a web page with you. It has the incomes for our Medicare Savings Programs. We do our best to exparte someone into the next program if their income becomes too high for the one they are in. In other words, if someone is QMB and they receive an increase, we will look to see if they are eligible for SLMB or QI1 prior to terminating them. In addition to the Medicaid MSP programs at Medicaid, there is the Medicare Low Income Subsidy Program. That would be an alternative if an individual is no longer eligible for one of Medicaid's MSP programs. All of these programs provide Part D prescription drug benefits as long as the individual is a citizen, lives in Alabama and eligible for Medicare Part A hospital insurance and/or enrolled in Medicare Part B (medical insurance) and meets the following income limits:
The income limits are as follows:
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We all love Internet radio. Services like Pandora play a diverse range of music and pay artists the royalties they deserve. But since going public, Pandora is acting like so many other companies on Wall Street- it's looking for a bailout. This time, the government subsidy would be paid for by artists.
Last year, Pandora asked Congress to pass the deceptively entitled "Internet Radio Fairness Act" (IRFA). This bill would have cut the music royalties paid by Pandora by as much as 85%, taking money away from music creators and giving it to Wall Street shareholders. IRFA would have allowed Pandora to pay royalties that are below a fair market rate, thereby increasing its profits while reducing payments to the featured artists, session musicians and producers that are the backbone of its business.
At a congressional hearing last fall, Members of Congress heaped scorn on IRFA, with one member derisively labeling it the "Paycheck Reduction Act" because of its impact on music creators. And just as importantly, the hearing shined a spotlight on the real inequity in radio - that while Internet radio services properly pay music creators, terrestrial radio broadcasters pay nothing. The Academy's witness at that hearing, Producer Jimmy Jam, drove the point home conclusively.
Pandora has had an enormously successful IPO and executives continue to make millions of dollars cashing in stock options. Pandora can afford to compensate hard-working artists and music professionals by paying fair market royalty rates. Instead of pushing this misguided bill, Pandora should support real radio parity by working with us to require terrestrial broadcast radio to compensate music creators just as Internet, satellite and cable radio services do.
Although IRFA died last year after facing broad bipartisan opposition, we know that Pandora plans to reintroduce this harmful bill again. This time, Pandora wants to try and use artists as their advocates - artists who would see their own pay slashed by IRFA - by encouraging them to sign a "letter of support" that they will use on Capitol Hill. The Recording Academy does not support any legislative effort by Pandora that will be used to reduce compensation to music creators.


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Final preparations are being geared towards Saturday 3rd March 2012 when we are hosting the inaugural EMC Community Cup for Under 9s and Under 10s teams at RAF Halton, near Aylesbury. The EMC Community Cup will provide organised and structured competitions; qualified and experienced referees; high quality facilities; further added value through attendance of a London Wasps match at Adams Park Stadium AND the Festival Finals being played on the Adams Park pitch!!
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Duvall wins the 14th spot by 12 votes. Here's the poll for the 15th prospect. Because I'll be travelling for much of tomorrow, I'm going to leave this one open until 9PM PST tomorrow, Decemberr 28th.
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Budding art student uses car to get creative (From Chelmsford Weekly News)
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5:20pm Tuesday 21st February 2012 in News
A CREATIVE sixth form student gave a £30,000 car a colourful makeover.
Joe Parker, a budding artist in Year 13 at New Hall School, in Chelmsford, has created a unique piece of artwork on the bodywork of a new BMW.
Themed around the London 2012 Olympic Games, Joe spent seven hours painstakingly decorating the car in front of amazed staff and shoppers at the Cooper BMW garage, in Chelmsford, with just a pack of dry wipe pens.
Gareth Hughes, head of art at the school, helped Joe create the art car.
He said: "At New Hall we pride ourselves on giving our students artistic freedom and opportunities for creativity, Joe did an amazing job – look out for his work in the future."
Joy Hopkinson, senior school headteacher at New Hall, added: "For Joe to spend seven hours on a Saturday on this project highlights the dedication and passion that New Hall Students have."
Sadly for Joe, he was not able to keep the car and as the ink wipes off, it is one work of art that won't be around forever.
The car will be on display for a limited time at the BMW garage, in Colchester Road, Springfield.
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It's a blatant rip off of The Dark Knight Rises poster. They even managed to work "Dark" in to the title. I'm not a fan:
Ever since Cloverfield Abrams has been engaged in what you could label 9/11-exploitation. While being totally apolitical (that's the difference between him and Nolan in Dickens mode (The Dark Knight Rises was heavily influenced by A Tale of Two Cities), JJA might be stupid but he is not conservative) he uses images of destruction, terrorists, an atmosphere of fear and so on.
I think it is safe to predict that Star Trek 12 will be similar to its predecessor (remember that Nero was motivated only by personal grief and wrath whereas in the comics they did show how he became Praetor) and Abrams' oeuvre in general, i.e. the story will not feature any TNG-esque "there is something wrong with us" vibes but go down the same "oh my god, a madman wants to destroy us" road of the previous movie.
To compare it again with Nolan, this will just play on post 9/11 fears (Nero the crazy Tattoomulan terrorist wants to kill everybody) and not be a political (the democratic populist is dangerous and Batman has to protect the ruling class) but of course this form of political apathy is, whether it wants or not to, quite political, especially in a political sci-fi franchise like Trek. We already witnessed the undoing of everything Starfleet and the Federation stands for, namely discipline and principles, when a bunch of insecure and immature adolescents could realize their dreams in STXI.
And yes, it is not just possible but actually extremely easy and riskless to predict all this based upon Paramount's strategy and the previous work of the involved people. Anybody who expects something with more substance than an extremely well-done yet fluffy action movie fools himself.
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Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) - Mike Trout scored the game's lone run and C.J. Wilson tossed seven scoreless innings as the LA Angels of Anaheim beat the Seattle Mariners, 1-0, in the third contest of a four-game series.
Wilson (6-5) continue his mastery of the Mariners by giving up just two hits and striking out three. The left-hander improved to 8-1 against Seattle since the start of the 2011 season.
"I threw a bunch of sinkers tonight and that kept the ball in the infield," Wilson said.
Seattle starter Joe Saunders (5-7) allowed one run on six hits over eight innings to take the hard-luck loss. The left-hander, who spent the first five- plus years of his career with the Angels, fell to 1-5 on the road this season.
"Joe was good against a tough lineup," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. "He got some big double plays when he needed to."
The Mariners' best chance to score early on came in the second inning. Kendrys Morales reached base on an infield single and Mike Zunino walked around a pair of outs. Michael Saunders fouled out to end the inning.
The Angels scored the only run in the sixth. Trout doubled to left, moved to third on Albert Pujols' flyout and raced home on a wild pitch.
Seattle again had runners on first and second in the seventh. Kyle Seager singled and stole second before Michael Morse was hit by a pitch. Wilson, though, retired the next two batters to keep the visitors off the board.
Scott Downs and Ernesto Frieri tossed a scoreless eighth and ninth, respectively, to secure the victory. Frieri picked up his 16th save of the season.
Wilson is now 14-5 lifetime against Seattle ... The Mariners went 0-for-3 with
runners in scoring position and stranded four ... Peter Bourjos had two of the
Angels' six hits.
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Sports Illustrated Disrespects Buccos
Even just questioning whether the Pirates should be seller is an insult to a team that is 0.5 games back in the division. Not only that but they say the Pirates have gotten lucky and stayed healthy this year! What a joke. Our pitching has stayed healthy except for Meek and Ohlendorf (Ohlendorf could be a blessing in disguise with Karstens dominating) and left field, 3rd base, catcher, and to lesser extent shortstop have all gone through major injuries and have required AAA players or individuals via trade (McKenry). If they said this because we need to be careful about buying because we can't afford to deal prospects I would understand but they are talking about us being sellers. Really?


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WARREN, Ohio - The shale boom will bring a number of jobs to the Valley, but there needs to be enough trained workers to take them.
That's why over 150 people came out to learn more about free training in Trumbull County called ShaleNET.
"We saw the opportunity for the area and we also know that we have wonderful people here that are interested in working, based on the attendance at these sessions," said Tracee Joltes, Assistant Director of Workforce at Eastern Gateway Community College.
Potential workers learned about a three week, full-time training program paid for through a grant through Eastern Gateway. There are eighteen open positions for the June 11th-29th session.
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A fight over accusations of infidelity ended with a Phoenix man in jail.
Christopher Ramirez is accused of strangling his live in girlfriend during the argument.
When their 8-month-old child began to cry in his playpen, police said Ramirez kicked the boy so hard, a shoe print was left on the toddler's leg.
Police said Ramirez then attacked his girlfriend's brother. When she stepped in to break it up, officers said Ramirez placed his hands on her neck in a choking manner.
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The Parable of the Multi-colored Cloak
Beloved one, when your news media brings you news of fresh disasters, which it loves to do, allow yourself to see the appearances, yes; do not deny appearances, but look a little further and ask, "How can I see this differently? What is beyond what seems to be apparent right away? How can this be for good?"
Now, that is quite a question that ones ask, and the answer is most revealing, because the answer will show you, and the brothers and sisters, as well, that there is much more to life than just the body. There is much more to life than just the tangible goods. There is, indeed, the energy of the loved ones that you can, if you want to, feel around you. You can speak with the loved one and know his presence with you. You can speak with the loved one and know that she is with you, that she is very happy, truly; on to a new adventure, but not leaving you out of that new adventure, because wherever there is a bond of love, that bond is never broken.
So when ones will release the body and move on, the bond of love is still there. That is where truly you live and move and have your being: in the energy of love. The body is great for running in the meadow, for riding the horse, for going to the top of the mountain and viewing the valley below. The body is great for relationships, but it is not all that life is about.
Life is for loving, and the more you allow yourself to get in touch with the love that truly you have for any of the loved ones, for the friends, that love grows to the place where when you decide that you will release the body, you are living in love, and it is no big deal to let go of the body, for truly you know that life is ongoing.
You know that the body is not the beginning and ending. It is to be used for awhile, to be enjoyed — to live in joy with the body — to be as active as you can be, but then to let it go when there is the feeling, the knowing at the soul level that there is more, more to the adventure of love and light and life itself.
Many of you may come to a place where you want to move on, you want to know, "What is around the next corner? What can I experience that is beyond this life experience? What more is there?" And so you say goodbye, adieu to your friends, your loved ones, and you stay with them; not with the body, but you stay with them in consciousness.
You watch what they do and you speak to them, "Please do not mourn. Do not get caught up in the sorrow, but remember all of the good adventures that we had together."
Now, I know that separated ego then will run onto their stage very quickly and say, "You should feel guilty if you are thinking of the good times that you had with the loved one. You should be feeling, at least for a certain length of time, the loss of their acquaintance, of their being with you and talking with you." Separated ego may say, "If you feel happy, you should feel guilty."
The loved one who has moved on is living in a place of greater view, being able to see a larger picture, and they do not want you to be held in sorrow; not to spend one more minute grieving for them. Separated ego often will say, "If you really, really loved this person, you should spend at least six months, a year, six years, ten years mourning this one, perhaps even the rest of this lifetime."
But the loved one does not want you to do that. The loved one is saying, "Hey, I'm still here; I'm still alive. Listen for me. I am still with you." It is the same message that I send to you every day: "Lo, I am with you always"; always, and it is the same with the loved ones. They are with you forever and always; you have journeyed other lifetimes with them, as well.
So when you look at the world activities, and your news media brings you all of the seeming disasters, allow yourself to see that this is the activity of the world, yes, but there is more. Look for the more. Feel the more; in other words, ask of one who has released the body, "Where are you? Speak to me. Allow me to know your presence."
Even if you are a skeptic and you think, "Well, it's just an exercise, and okay, I'll try it," something miraculous will happen, something that will be totally surprising to you, and you will say, "That has to be my loved one. He/she is the one that I shared this idea with. It wouldn't come from anyone else. It has to be from the loved one." And so you make evidence for yourself that they are still with you.
Ones have asked the question about why there have been so many storms—the tornados, the great wind. Is the one known as the Ram, the great wind, is he causing all of this to happen? Why are there such floods and so much rain, a deluge of rain? Do we need to start building the ark? No. The reason that there are so many storms right now is because within the consciousness there is an attention put upon the storms and a feeling that the storms are heralding change.
Yes, they certainly do herald change, but there is a consciousness that brings energy to the storms. As you have more storms, there is more attention, which equals more energy, which equals more manifestation.
So I say unto you, get yourself busy and visualize peace. Visualize the calming of the storm. Put your energy into the calmness and the divine right order of what is called nature and the energy of nature. Bring your tremendous power, your divine power to manifest an easement of whatever seems to be the storm.
Yes, you do need the gentle rain. Yes, you do need some of the wind to freshen the air. You can decree the weather. Ones have proven this to themselves and to others, where the projected trajectory of a storm has been put out by your weather bureau, and ones have said, "No, it's not going to be of that intensity; it is not going to follow that route." They have visualized a calming of the storm and a redirection of the energy, and the storm has to obey.
You are the masters who create everything that you experience, whether the experience is right here, right in front of you, or whether you hear about it on your news media. As long as it comes to your consciousness, you are creating it, and if you are creating it, you can change it. That is how powerful you are.
Right now the news media is very happy to bring you the news of storms. The weather people are quite happy, because they are in the focus of the spotlight, and everyone is seeking out their predictions. And they are putting energy unconsciously into more of the drastic, because you love drama.
In its place put your own news. Allow yourself to calm the storm. When ones bring you the predictions, all they are, are possibilities. If you give them a little more energy, they are probabilities, but they are not manifestations until there is what you have termed the one-hundredth monkey syndrome, until there has been enough energy in the collective consciousness to make them manifest.
As you will put calming energy into it, you neutralize some of the other energy that is feeding the drama and it lessens that which might have been a little more drastic. You are powerful. You can calm any storm anywhere. When it comes to your consciousness, allow yourself to calm the storm, to take the deep breath and say, "No, this does not have to be. The energy that is in this storm can be lessened." And you breathe your peace into the storm.
It will change the energy of the storm. It will lessen. You can even, as I have said, change the direction of the storm. This has happened even on a subconscious level for ones. It has happened recently to ones on a subconscious level, where they saw the tornado approaching them and then it went over top of them. It went around. It did not suck them into it, but it went another path.
So when you hear of storms, send your peace to it. Gentle the storm. We have spoken previously of how you can take your energy and gentle anything that is happening. In any relationship that seems to be traumatic, you can bring your energy of peace into it and gentle it. Let that be your touchstone, your codeword: gentle.
Allow the rain, because it is necessary. Allow the wind, because it is necessary. Allow the rivers to flow, because that is necessary, but be gentle in the manifestation. Try it. Already you are acknowledging that it is a possibility. Already you are acknowledging that maybe it can be a probability; it might happen.
Test it out. You are divinely powerful, and you are bringing forth these occurrences to test your power. You are not victims. You are bringing opportunities to yourself.
Take the deep breath and say, "Well, Jeshua says, etc.", and try it out. You can affect anything that is going on in your life. Try it out. See with the storms; they are a good place to start. See how you can affect what is being predicted, because it is only being pre-dicted—pre = ahead of time; dicted = said—one is making this prophecy, but it does not mean that it is going to come true. So allow yourself to be at peace.
Now, would you like a story? Yes. We will have a story. It is written in your holy Scriptures that truly I spoke from time to time by using stories to put a point across. Stories are very good; they are fun to listen to and they make a point on many levels.
Once upon a time—now, all good stories start with "Once upon a time"—there was a baby boy born to a shepherd family, the shepherd and his wife, and they loved this baby boy. They very much wanted someone who would help them with the sheep, who would grow up to love the sheep, to tend the sheep, and to have the same love of life that they had.
So when the baby was born, there was great rejoicing, because the shepherd and his wife had wanted for some years to have a child and now they had manifested their deepest desire. So within their extended family—there were aunts and uncles, as well—there was great rejoicing and great love.
One of the aunts, knowing that truly this child was a gift, wanted to give to the parents a gift to commemorate this great occasion, so she stitched together what you would call a blanket, a baby blanket. Oftentimes in this lifetime when ones have been born, there has been the gifting of the special baby blanket. So she did this for the baby.
She made the special blanket for baby Michael from many different strips of material so that it was of many colors, and she made it extra big so that it could be folded over several times. Michael loved this blanket. As a baby he was wrapped in it to keep him warm.
As he grew, he always took the baby blanket with him. He would drag it along behind him everywhere he went, because it was his favorite possession. Now, he did not have a lot of possessions, and he did not need a lot of possessions, but this one blanket meant much to him, so wherever he would go, he would drag the blanket, either over his shoulder or along behind him in the dust. It was his beloved object of affection.
As he grew a little bit taller, he would use it as a cloak; he would put it around his shoulders when the wind would blow and the dust would blow. Sometimes he would put it across the face to keep the dust from coming into the mouth and the eyes. At nighttime he would wrap himself in the cloak to keep warm as he lay down with the sheep. Sometimes he would wrap a baby lamb in the cloak if the lamb was motherless or ailing. There was a lot of love in the blanket.
As he grew to be a man, he wore the blanket as a cloak around him. Always, whenever you saw Michael, he had the cloak with him. He was known as Michael of the multi-colored cloak, because he always wore it.
In time his mother and father said goodbye to him, passed on as you call it, and he became the head shepherd. He married and had children of his own, and he would wrap his children in the cloak of many colors, as well. And over time the cloak looked a bit worn; well-loved but well-worn. He would take it, give it a good shake, get the dust out of it, and wrap himself in it again.
Ones of his friends teased him as he was a teenager and even later on—a good-natured teasing because they saw that it did not make any difference to Michael what they said; he was still going to love it and use it. It did not matter to him what the appearances were.
The point of this story is a very simple one. You can look upon appearances and see one thing, but if you look a little deeper you can see more meaning. You can discern what is truly happening. Judge not by appearances. Allow yourself to remember Michael of the multi-colored cloak.
A thing of love never leaves you. That is true for loved ones. It is true for a cloak which perhaps you have had for a long time. Allow yourself to feel the energy.
Allow yourself to look upon the appearances of what is happening in the world and then to step back from the appearances; perhaps to symbolically give that view a bit of a shake to get the old thinking, the old dust out of it, and look at what is happeningin the world anew.
Judge not by appearances. But if you must judge, judge by right-use-ness; in other words, by the love that is in it. Take that with you, and know that always you and I together—because there is no separation—are the cloak of love that walks the Earth at this time. We spread our cloak, our arms around others, no matter what the appearance may be—some are light-skinned, some are dark-skinned, some are red-skinned, some are yellow. Some have much hair on top. Others have a bit less hair on top. Some are tall, some are short, some are fat, some are thin.
Judge not by appearances, but judge by the love of the Christ. And together, as the cloak of love that we are, we will wrap our arms mentally, energetically around ones and say to them, "You are greatly loved."
So be it.
- Jeshua ben Joseph (Jesus)
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Peters Township Council wants to revisit the municipality's electronic sign ordinance and might eventually allow businesses to install multi-colored signs.
The council heard from Stacey Pape, owner of SP Floors & Design Center on Route 19, about her concerns that the standard electronic sign with red letters is inadequate to promote her business.
"Just because it's digital, doesn't means it brighter or flashing or distasteful," Pape told the council during its Monday night voting meeting. "It's tasteful, it's upscale and it advertises our merchandise. It's not flashing, not animated."
She took the council through a slideshow of potential signs she would use and told the officials that there are now automatic dimmers that can be calibrated to be softer during evening hours.
Councilman James Berquist said he's been surprised by the improvement of the electronic sign industry after amending their township ordinance a couple years ago. He said they should review their ordinance to allow business owners and organizations to have more options than the typical "ugly" black and red signs.
When we originally did the sign ordinance … we were trying to control electronic signs and keep them somewhat consistent throughout the township," Berquist said. "If the technology has gotten better so we can see signs like these, then I think we have to revisit it."
Councilwoman Monica Merrell agreed, although she wants to make sure they're still protective about what sizes are allowed and where they can be installed.
"The technology, already in this short time, has come such a long way," she said. "We need to be very particular where they belong and where they're allowed. The Washington Road area is our prime commercial area and I think that would be where they're most welcome."
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The council voted 6-to-0 to have the planning commission review the ordinance again with Lewis abstaining from the vote. There's not timeline on when the ordinance might be changed.