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When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murders—and, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding race and faith. After being dragged into the world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict, Clarence is encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods to forge an unlikely partnership with a redneck homicide detective. Soon the two find themselves facing dark forces, while unseen eyes watch from above. This re-release of Randy Alcorn's powerful bestseller spins off from Deadline and offers a fascinating glimpse inside heaven.
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Indy has beat bad raps before. It transformed its image from a dirty, backwater, Rust Belt Gotham to a city with a future, with culture, with vision. Citizens are cleaning the sewage from the rivers; they're recycling and biking more.
The narrative loses its urban renaissance thread, however, when it turns to Indianapolis Public Schools. The schools, according to one common local line of opinion, are broken. Indiana's employers fret over the state's anemic pipeline of passionate and capable math and science students. And IPS, with six of its schools deemed "failing" by the Indiana Department of Education is held up by leaders as a glaring example of what Hoosiers do not want their educational system to be.
When The Mind Trust, a local nonprofit incubator of educational leadership and innovation, released its "Creating Opportunity Schools" report in December 2011, it outlined in great detail its core position that IPS "is broken — with catastrophic results for students" and would take radical restructuring to achieve needed and lasting change.
"We've taken a piecemeal approach to reform to public education for decades," David Harris, The Mind Trust's chief executive and founder, said in an April interview.
"If we're going to get the kind of results we want and believe are possible, we need to do a variety of things at the same time — we can't just fix reading in middle school or preschool. We need a comprehensive set of reforms that need to happen together that support and strengthen each other."
The nature of the radical reforms proposed are, in some ways, too radical and, in others, not radical enough for local critics of The Mind Trust and its "Opportunity Schools" plan.
"The more I look and read about what's going on, I feel the past 30 years of educational research has been ignored," said Alex Sage, a "concerned community member." He and his father, Michael Sage, a local psychotherapist, attended a recent Innovate Indy summit that engaged a group interested in strengthening local education.
Sage is among a group of people interested in education who find many aspects of The Mind Trust plan they agree with, yet are frustrated by the sense that standardized test scores will remain the way success for students — and even teachers and schools — is defined. The group has other concerns, as well. They felt it imperative that Indy embrace a deeper discussion of the implications of the plan. They agreed to join in an informal roundtable discussion at NUVO to provide their assessments of Indianapolis' educational landscape in relation to the framework set up by The Mind Trust.
This group included Sage; John Harris Loflin of the Southeast Education Task Force and the Black & Latino Policy Institute, who is an IPS grad and retired IPS teacher; Master Artist Tony Artis, who is a teaching artist specializing in African percussion and African history through percussion; and IPS grad Carole Craig, who joined the Greater Indianapolis NAACP following her 2005 retirement from IPS after performing the duties of teacher, counselor, dean, principal and central office staffer.
Inspired by the passion for quality local education demonstrated by the group that visited NUVO in March, and prodded further by David Harris' desire to drive discussion that leads to action on reform of IPS, NUVO News committed to providing a platform for further public discussion by posting a rotating forum of local perspectives from within IPS and Indiana education overall at NUVO.net/news. Find new "Perspectives in Education" postings each Thursday by noon, beginning June 14. [Direct submissions firstname.lastname@example.com.]
After speaking to Harris and the roundtable, the mantle fell upon NUVO news to actually read the 155-page, well-footnoted "Opportunity Schools" report. With this substantial but stimulating homework complete, the task turned to collecting more feedback from local education leaders, students and a dramatic, unforgettable interaction with an impassioned parent. This sets the table for an introduction to the ongoing dialogue about the educational reform in Indianapolis.
This discussion has economic, public safety and quality-of-life implications for people of all ages and classes in Indy — this is about the future.
Defining a "broken" IPS
Before offering its solutions, The Mind Trust's "Opportunity Schools" report details its position that IPS is broken. Chapter One's subheads offer a simple outline:
"Too few students meet state standards." Evidence offered includes this stat: "Only 45 percent of IPS students across all tested grades met basic state standards in both math and English É in 2011 on Indiana's ISTEP+ compared to 72 percent of students statewide and 65 percent in Marion County." And, the report noted, "Gaps widen in higher grades."
"Too few students graduate from high school." Evidence offered: "A 2009 report from America's Promise Alliance, a national advocacy and research organization headed by retired General Colin Powell, showed IPS had the lowest graduation rate among central city school districts in the nation's largest 50 cities."
"Few failing schools improve." Evidence, as distilled by Harris: "95 (Indiana) schools were at risk of being taken over in 2005. By 2011, only seven remained on the list. Six of the seven were in IPS."
"Failure to meet the needs of parents and families." Evidence offered: "As the number of students enrolled in IPS has declined, the proportion of disadvantaged students in IPS has increased." Free lunch accounts up to 81 percent in 2011 from 77 percent in 2002. Racial and ethic minority population equals 77 percent, up from 63 percent a decade earlier. Limited English proficiency at 11 percent in '11, from 6 percent in '02. "Given the strong influence of poverty on student academic achievement, these changes have increased the challenge of improving student outcomes in IPS," the report read, promising a plan to cultivate schools capable of erasing the achievement gap associated with inner city schools where high levels of poverty and greater racial diversity exist.
"Failure to focus resources effectively." Evidence offered: "Per-pupil spending in IPS has grown 61 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1988. ... IPS has almost four times as many administrators per 1,000 students than the average in other districts in Marion County, and it has nearly twice as many as the average district in the state." The report noted an IPS plan to trim its administrative load. Current estimates peg that number of planned cuts at about 15.
Radical transition, radical enough?
Enabling successful schools (according to standards set between the school and the district, probably including but not limited to test scores) to have greater autonomy over core elements such as hiring, curriculum and financial resources will help improve Indy's educational outlook, the report suggested.
"The conditions we outline — namely school level autonomy — will attract the caliber of talent needed to transform schools," Harris said. "We do not think autonomy is a good in and of itself. If a team of poor school leaders got autonomy the results would not be good."
The plan suggests that greater authority and financial resources would enable schools to possibly pay teachers more among other things, which would help stem the exodus of younger teachers to better-paying jobs in the suburbs.
It identified $188 million that could be siphoned away from the IPS central office and directed to what it calls "Opportunity Schools" —an estimated $12,000 per year upon completion of a six-to-eight-year transition period, up from $6,000 today. Public charters receive about $7,000 now, but do not receive the additional support provided to districts for transportation and special education. Earlier in the transition period, the report figured "Opportunity Schools" could see about $9,000 per student.
"Failing schools" would be replaced with "Opportunity Schools," which are conceived as "excellent schools" with autonomy from IPS central office to hire and fire, develop curriculum and manage their budgets. They can be traditional IPS schools, public charter schools or magnet schools, they just have to prove their ability to demonstrate student achievement. Once the transition is complete, the plan envisions 100 percent of IPS students in Opportunity Schools.
The plan frees more money for schools, in a nutshell, by decentralizing many central office functions and shifting the responsibility for those functions to individual schools. Schools may choose to contract with IPS for the services or turn to the private sector or another solution. The plan details which funds, restricted and unrestricted both, could be shifted to achieve its plan. It also calls for a full audit of current IPS finances.
In addition to sending more money to the schools, $14 million per year is shifted from the central office to fund prekindergarten for all IPS 4-year olds.
Teacher empowerment is also a core theme of the report, which calls for school incubator and talent development funds of up to $10 million during the transition — "an unprecedented investment nationally" —to help national and local firms underwrite the start-up plans of new "Opportunity School" models and bolster local leadership development capable of creating and maintaining "Opportunity Schools." Most of that money (about $7.5 million in transition and $2 million afterward) would fund IPS-distributed grants of $250,000 to $750,000 for "carefully selected teams to plan and open new schools within IPS."
The "key premise is to attract top-notch teachers," the report said.
Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for-profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city-county council.
The plan also suggests that, to accomplish swift and deep reform akin to The Mind Trust's outlined plan, the Indiana General Assembly might want to consider passing a law that enables the state to take over "failing" districts much like it now has the authority to replace the leadership at "failing" schools.
"We are not big and we're not coming in to take over anything," Harris said of The Mind Trust, noting it is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which forbids lobbying.
Mostly the plan builds on work the nonprofit has already been doing to develop what Harris said is the nation's first incubator for educational entrepreneurs and to invest in programs that bring more teachers and educational leaders to Indianapolis.
The Mind Trust has raised $27 million, mostly through donations from charitable foundations plus $2 million for charter incubation from the city and, Harris noted, "two earmarks supported by Sen. Lugar and both congresspeople Carson" to support its work since 2006. He noted its Venture Fund is responsible for bringing five of "the best established entrepreneurial organizations" to Indy: Teach for America; The New Teacher Project, College Summit, Diploma Plus and Stand for Children.
The trust's Education Entrepreneur Fellowship has granted seven project grants of about $250,000 each to help people design, build and launch new local educational ventures, inspiring proposals from more than 48 states and 31 countries, Harris said. These projects include efforts to offer greater educational support to foster children, bolster summer education offerings and increase teacher retention. The nonprofit also launched a charter school incubator last year to foster the development of high-end programs, aiming to seed "some of the nation's best charter schools in Indianapolis."
Moving forward, The Mind Trust will take the $18 million it raised through its "Grow What Works" campaign to support its Venture Fund entities and the fellowship initiatives that are demonstrating the greatest impact in the city.
"One of the things that's really surprised us (after publishing the "Opportunity Schools" report) is the number of people who feel we are some company coming in to take over IPS," Harris said. "We are not a company, we're a nonprofit, and we are not big and we're not coming in to take over anything.
"These are our ideas of what we think could be best way to drive the district forward. A lot of people came to the conclusion that putting forward a plan like this could spark the debate that we need as a community to really drive things forward."
Critics counter that if success continues to be defined by students' ability to take standardized tests, true educational advancement — for all students — is impossible. In short, they argue that the plan accomplishes massive changes in the school system's structure, but fails to change its heart.
Constructive criticism
Distilling critics' fears to the common denominator, one finds an overarching concern that the current discussion about IPS reform will center on shifting control of money and power without genuine awareness of what techniques could best shape IPS students into life-long learners capable of achieving success on a broader plane than that defined by standardized test scores.
Part of the issue is about money, of course.
"It's basically a business plan for putting together a school system based on charters," Sage said.
Indeed, visitors to the website of Public Impact, the North Carolina-based "education policy and management consulting firm" that The Mind Trust hired to prepare the report, will see similar language to that employed in the "Opportunity Schools" report. A featured section on national education policy reform promotes "building an opportunity culture" and "extending the reach of excellent teachers," familiar themes to readers of The Mind Trust's report.
Still, David Harris is adamant that, while the plan is supportive of charter expansion, it affords local teachers and innovators equal opportunity to propose and establish Opportunity Schools whether they opt for charter, magnet or traditional district-style organization.
While critics worry about how money relates to school reform and the entities attracted to participating, they also highlight concerns about democracy and diversity.
"They never talk about what is a great school or what are we trying to do here in America anyway," the NAACP's Craig said during the roundtable.
Alex Sage: "What is the purpose of public education?"
Carole Craig: "That's not dealt with here."
Earlier, Loflin said that after witnessing protests about the privatization of schools in the U.K. and hearing of them in South America, he was "automatically distrustful" when The Mind Trust plan came out.
John Harris Loflin: "It seemed like (The Mind Trust plan) was a way of establishing a beachhead for people to come in and make a lot of money — and really not a lot to do with children, per se, because of what it was proposing in regard to charters coming in and taking over if public schools weren't able to make the grade according to test scores.
"Bottom line, I think the issue is: What are schools for? What does it mean to be educated? What does democracy require of schools? And the realization, at least from my point of view, that testing is political concept, it's not educational concept. Normalcy — the social-political construct concerning the state of being "normal" with respect to the body, intelligence, race, or gender — is a eugenics concept, like special ed. I think special ed is nothing but a political concept.
Anthony Artis: "The high-stakes testing, it's got teachers ... the students stressed out. It's culturally biased."
John Harris Loflin: "The whole idea of this school reform is based on testing. ... If you look at the history of standardized tests all the way back to the '20s, and all these tests that reinforce normalcy ... it's based on eugenics. It's reinforcing European, white, middle-class epistemologies. In fact, if I were black, and I did well in school, it could be construed that I'm actually supporting a system that discredits my African-American epistemologies — our way or knowing, our way of determining what the truth is, our idea of the nature of things. ... It's not the cultural capital of the status quo, which we here all have acquired."
Carole Craig: "That's why cultural competency is so important; knowledge of the culture, its history, if you're teaching in a culture that's not reflective of your own. That law that went into place at 2004 and no one's monitoring it ... .
"What's been lost is the creativity and critical thinking. I came through all-black schools, K-12, all the staff, the teachers were black. We were taught not only high performance academically, we were taught critical thinking. Now children aren't taught that because of the narrow focus on standardized testing.
"We're wondering why our community is so silent. Well, it's worked ... now the community has no voice, and they take on the victim."
Anthony Artis: "You've wiped out creativity because arts programs are the first to be cut. Now we've got STEM: science, technology English and math. As artists, we say, 'Make it STEAM — put the arts in — you need that creative thinking.'"
Carole Craig: "I saw things go down while I was in the system. ... Arts relegated to every other week, home ec and industrial education, went out ... ."
Alex Sage: "... in spite of research saying that those programs improve outcomes."
The group also voiced concerns about the proposal for mayoral control.
Carole Craig: "(Mayoral control) truly disempowers the urban whereas the other districts would have a voice in their elected boards. You're reducing power in the urban core by taking their voice away, which is you're taking their vote away."
If township schools kept elected boards while IPS moved to mayoral control, that would crystallize the sense of inequality, roundtable members said.
In response to these concerns, David Harris responded that, while he is open to different ideas about governance, that evidence suggests that districts under mayoral control perform better and are more accountable to voters by giving them a single line at the voting booth by which to express displeasure over educational issues.
"In this city, there are 63 elected school board members across 11 school districts," he said. "Does anyone think that's an accountable system? This is not picking on IPS. It's not something that's punitive, it's about saying 'This is a positive vision.'"
He added that the plan called for local advisory committees made up of neighborhood leaders to help encourage and monitor the school.
Regarding concerns about testing, he added, "They should love this plan, frankly, because the schools would have the ability to design their accountability systems, flexibly. [We can't change the state requirements] but you could say as a school we'll judge you on a variety of metrics and report that to the community so that (it) can evaluate whether a school is successful."
Still, he added, "We do as a state have state standards, things we believe it's important that kids should understand at different levels. And now there's big discussion about common national standards. We think there's a lot of value in having common national standards so we can really compare states. Are they perfect? I'm sure they're not."
Harris also offered his observation that "when you go to schools that have excellent test scores, they're not teaching to the test."
Finally, he added, "When people say we're trying to privatize education, I really don't understand that. They are all public schools. We're just saying other people can be involved than just the people in the central office."
Segregation via special ed/zero-tolerance
Any productive discussion of educational transformation must address the ways in which schools keep kids off the books, so to speak, who don't fit the mold of a successful student as defined by school authorities. Roundtable members had plenty to say on this subject, much of it boiled down to concern that data is not readily available on alternative schools or disciplinary programs.
John Harris Loflin: " I have a degree in alternative education. IPS instituted 21 alternative programs in 2005. They are hidden. You can't even find data. We don't know if these are places to hide certain students who will bring IPS test score averages down, graduation rates down, attendance rates down. ... These schools lie in the underbelly of the system. ..."
Alex Sage: "... that doesn't get talked about."
Anthony Artis: "Then there's the question of the school to prison pipeline ... and how corporations are setting that up."
Alex Sage: "That's ACLU's platform for the year is the 'school-to-prison' pipe-line."
Anthony Artis: "My son had a heck of time at Arsenal Technical. He got in trouble at school and they put him in an alternative program — like a dumping ground for the undesirables. That really turned him around (for the worse). It was like sending him to prison."
Community concern over how alternative education tracks and special education classes relate to "the school-to-prison pipeline" is not limited to roundtable members. Separately and independently from the NUVO education roundtable, local parent Brenda Williams contacted the news desk to report her long-term distress with the structure of the state's special-education system.
After making an appointment, Williams visited the newsroom with a suitcase in tow containing binder upon binder detailing how several schools throughout Indiana, from New Albany to Pike Township, kept trying to steer her hard-of-hearing son into psychological testing and special education instead of providing the extra reading tutoring he needed. The more she pushed against and questioned the system, the more various school districts demonstrated retaliatory behaviors, she said.
She laid out a paper trail of strong evidence culminating in discovery that a local school district forged her permission to administer psychological testing. Just a few
days later, she said, her 11-year-old son was taken from her custody. He was placed for four days in the local juvenile corrections facility, accused of raping a girl on the school bus, despite the alleged act somehow escaping the attention of the bus driver and a bus monitor. The case never went to court. But, she said, the experiences her son endured scarred him forever.
The detailed story of her son, who is now grown and living in another state, must be saved for a different day, but the myriad questions that even the synopsis raises about accountability over federal special education and disability services funds is important to keep front and center during the current reform conversation.
"I do believe there are human rights violations that are going on," Williams said. "People know about it."
Among her several pounds of paperwork, Williams fishes out a column by RiShawn Biddle in the March 30, 2007, edition of The Indianapolis Star, entitled "Putting males into the education ghetto." It outlined several statistics across several townships suggesting that males, especially black males, were being labeled as emotionally disturbed and learning disabled at rates far greater than their proportionate population would suggest.
"Black and White males made up just 45 percent of Indianapolis Public School's overall enrollment in the 2005 school year, yet they account for 58 percent of students diagnosed as mentally retarded, 80 percent of the students diagnosed as mentally disturbed and 64 percent of the students diagnosed with a "specific learning disability," one section read.
A comment posted at the column's end continues to haunt Williams to this day and it underscores some of the roundtable's most salient concerns.
"Uncovering the underlying motives and deconstructing educational rationale, economics and social/educational politics of human intelligence perpetuated by our very public schools would be too much," a portion of the comment read. "The topic is too dangerous, too political, and its roots are too deep in the history of our country, state and Indianapolis Public Schools. You can't face the truth because if it were known, the house of cards that legitimizes local public education would collapse ... and we can't have that ... even if it means we have to sacrifice our youth on the alter of special education."
Williams said she has encountered other families in similar predicaments, people who suffered retaliation for filing state and federal complaints against schools.
"If this has happened to me, how many other parents has it happened to?" Williams asked. "I was trying to petition parents to say 'let's challenge the system' and it's very hard to crack here in Indiana. People are very complacent."
Backing a cooperative approach
The "Opportunity Schools" plan does address some aspects of special education. It recognizes the significant challenges that now exist in special education and also highlights an area that the proposed redesigned district will still be dependent on the IPS central office.
"The gap between disabled and nondisabled students in IPS was larger than the district's achievement gap between poor and more affluent students and the gap between black and white students," the report noted.
IPS serves students with disabilities through a Single School Corporation, while most of the rest of the state handles such services through cooperative efforts.
"Statewide, SSC students are identified with more severe disabilities, are more likely to be placed in self-contained settings, and have higher dropout rates and lower graduation rates than students educated in non-SSC districts," the report said.
Even as it advocated more inclusiveness for students with disabilities, the report also noted that "once most schools have become Opportunity Schools, IPS may continue to operate a small number of schools and provide special education on those campuses."
It concluded that IPS must continually monitor "qualitative and quantitative data to prove students with disabilities are achieving and that schools are complying with federal, state and local education regulations.
Establishing community standards
"We think all kids — no matter what their backgrounds, no matter how economically challenged, no matter what their family circumstances — all kids can excel if given the right support and conditions," Harris said. "That needs to be the goal we strive for every day. And when we see less than half the kids are graduating without a waiver (and) the district is almost doubled the number of waivers issued in the last few years, less than half the kids are proficient on the state standardized exams ... we need to do much better than we are doing.
"We think there are ways the district can be redesigned that can produce substantially better results. But we're very interested in sparking a conversation ... we're hopeful that, if we have robust conversation, what emerges from that will be an even better plan than what we produced.
"That is not to say we don't believe strongly in our plan."


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The tenth day of the seventh month between the feast of trumpets (Neh. 8:2) and the feast of tabernacles (Neh. 9:14) was appointed to be the day of atonement; we have no reason to think but that it was religiously observed, though it is not mentioned. But here we have an account of an occasional fast that was kept a fortnight after that, with reference to the present posture of their affairs, and it was, as that, a day of humiliation. There is a time to weep as well as a time to laugh. We have here an account. I. How this fast was observed, Neh. 9:1-3. II. What were the heads of the prayer that was made to God on that occasion, wherein they made a thankful acknowledgment of God's mercies, a penitent confession of sin, and a humble submission to the righteous hand of God in the judgments that were brought upon them, concluding with a solemn resolution of new obedience, Neh. 9:4-38.
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N. Auburn Costco, Walmart could grab more Nevada County shoppers
April 20, 2013
It's Tax Day, and while Nevada County residents either already handled their own IRS dealings or are scrambling to do so, some local leaders are looking to North Auburn's two superstores poised for development and pondering their potential effects on local sales tax revenue.
"We've been aware of them working on those stores," said Grass Valley City Manager Dan Holler. "That will suck more sales tax dollars."
As a two-year effort to develop a Super Walmart on 18.6 acres off Highway 49 about two miles north of Auburn city limits shows signs of reconciliation, Placer County officials are moving forward with a Costco even closer to Nevada County.
"We are embarking, though we are only at the negotiating phase, for … the development of a CostCo," said Mary Dietrich, the assistant director of Placer County's facility services.
"As those types of stores move closer … will people go more often? There is a potential for that."
— Dan Holler,
Grass Valley city manager
"Those negotiations are not completed, but Costco is doing its due diligence on site conditions," Dietrich said. "Optimistically, if everything can come together in terms of an agreement with county facility services for a lease agreement and if they can secure all environment review requirements and permits, they are looking at a 2016 timeframe."
The Costco would be a close to 150,000-square-foot store on about 16 acres just south of Home Depot, which itself is an about 97,000-square-foot facility on about 10 acres of county-leased land, Dietrich said. Both areas are about a 25-minute drive from Grass Valley.
"This is certainly an opportunity" to bring in some retail, Dietrich said.
But where Placer County sees opportunity, Grass Valley could see more lost sales tax revenue.
"As those types of stores move closer, if it is 25 minutes away versus 45 minutes away, will people go more often? There is a potential for that," Holler said. "It has the potential to enhance that leakage of sales tax revenue."
On April 1, Grass Valley's sales tax measure went into effect. It added a half of a percent to Grass Valley's rate, bringing the overall rate up to 8.125 percent. Grass Valley estimates its tax will garner $2.4 million annually.
Since the economic downturn, Grass Valley's estimated more than $10 million general fund is $1.5 million lower than its fiscal year 2007-08 peak at nearly $11.56 million. Nevada City has lost $487,000 from 2008-09 levels, according to its city documents.
A 2011 retail sales and surplus analysis indicated that the Grass Valley area loses more than $200 million dollars annually in retail sales leakage to other communities, such as Auburn, Roseville and Sacramento, according to Texas-based Buxton Company. The report was part of a Buxton contract with Grass Valley for $65,000.
Part of analyzing Buxton's information touches on a local debate about whether to attract "big box" stores to the area or if such retailers would spoil the area's small-town feel and put local shops out of business.
Also in 2011, Wal-Mart, the Arkansas-based retail giant, purchased property on Luther Road and Highway 49 in North Auburn for $10 million to build a 155,000-square-foot store, according to The Union's archives.
The site once housed a lumber store, which has spurred the Alliance to Preserve the Auburn Community Environment to push for further soil tests before Walmart moves forward with its planned super center — a battle that has raged for two years.
The group appealed a March 2011 Placer County Superior Court decision to allow the development, stating it does not meet environmental standards. Since then, several decisions have been made and appealed with Walmart recently voluntarily agreeing to a state Department of Toxic Substances Control's testing of the site, the Auburn Journal reported.
The new store would include many of the same everyday household items expected from a Walmart store along with a full-service grocery department, a bakery and a deli, according to the website auburnwalmart.com.
"One of the things we try to do to combat losing business to those larger companies is to work on customer service as much as we can," said SPD Markets co-owner David Painter. "We also make an effort to give back to the community."
While Painter said his business hasn't seen such drastic impacts to its bottom line by Nevada County residents shopping "down the hill," he can't guarantee that future stores won't siphon away shoppers.
"It depends on how close they get to us," he said. "With the new ones that are built closer in Auburn, we may see some impact … There isn't a whole lot you can do about these issues proactively. You just kind of wait for them to happen and deal with them."
While Grass Valley can't do much to dissuade big box stores in Auburn, it can provide zoning to allow businesses to grow or move to town. The city is currently working to annex and re-zone more than 400 acres along its southern border to foster industrial use — a move its proponents say will lead to jobs. The site was once eyed for retail purposes.
The city is also adding an interchange to Highway 49 at Dorsey Drive, a move touted to have the benefit of fostering economic development at a planned development on La Barr Meadows and around Sierra College as it would give companies easier access to a main road.
"We have had leakage forever because we don't have a huge retail base," Holler said.
"Whatever type of shopping opportunity can we provide to offset (has been) the crux of the study work we have undergone," Holler also said.
To contact Staff Writer Christopher Rosacker, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (530) 477-4236.
Editor's Note: A reference to a 2009 report from Loyola University in Chicago on the effects of a Walmart on a community has been removed from this story because its veracity has been disputed.


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Missing the big one
To all cell-phone addicts: I feel sorry for you. The trumpet of the Lord is going to blow to announce the Second Coming, and you are going to miss it because you had you phone stuck in your ear.
Speeding bus
I was surprised as I was driving to work this morning to see a school bus passing by so many cars on U.S. 61 between Highway 177 and Interstate 55. I was driving the speed limit of 45 mph as was most of the other traffic while I watched the bus pass us at what must have been at least 55 mph. I am glad I don't have a child riding that bus.
Marxist movement
David Limbaugh and Mike Jensen need to look up the "Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto" written by Karl Marx in 1848. We just jumped onto one more plank by centralizing the means of credit in the hands of a national bank. Both of our political parties are falling directly into the Marxist trap, but the Democrats are just faster to move toward Marxism. Republicans are moving slowly toward Marxism. It is interesting to note that in the time of Marx, socialism and communism meant almost the same thing. We need to reject the failure of Marxist economies around the world and move back to the free market.
Casino impact
FOR THOSE of you who want a casino in town, I invite you to take a look at the bingo venues in the area. Watch when they let out and multiply what you see by 24 hours a day, seven days a week times 10 and you'll get a good look at what a casino will be like in town.
Chinese workers
I KNOW times are bad with the economy, but it is true every cloud has a silver lining. I was reading how, because American consumers are not buying their cheap goods, Chinese factories are closing. To all those cheap Chinese laborers who spent the last 10 years stealing jobs from the American factory workers and are losing their jobs this time around. I have only two words to say: Ha ha.
Those endorsements
JON RUST'S endorsement of Rock Finch for county commissioner would carry more weight had he deferred judgment on his overly enthusiastic endorsement of what has turned out to be the disastrous candidacy of Sarah Palin.
Hard-core base
I RESPECT Joe Sullivan's ability to have his pulse on the psyche of the American public but strongly disagree with his assertion, "We are, it turns out, a nation that chooses by deciding which candidate is worse and voting for the other guy." Joe should, as I do, defer to the honorable heretofore Republican Gen. Colin Powell, who recently said we have two good candidates for president, admitted there was justifiable enthusiasm for both, but said that on balance Barack Obama is the better choice. Joe, I think this is proof positive that you've been hanging around with and are too much influenced by those relatively few who make up the hard-core Republican base and are now those stereotypical angry Americans, bitterly clinging to their guns and religion.
Kind ghosts
I WOULD like to thank the people who were working Friday night at the Haunted Train Car in Jackson. My daughter became upset and started crying during the tour. Everyone stopped what they were doing and took off their masks to show her that they were just ordinary people. They told her that if she came back and wanted to go on a train ride at a later date that she could even tour the engine. Thank you so much for your kindness and understanding.
Explanation needed
JON RUST'S rather cavalier description of Jay Purcell as suffering from paranoia is stunning. Paranoia is a serious psychotic illness, often associated with schizophrenia. Thus, Rust is apparently characterizing Purcell as someone who not only wrongly thinks people are out to persecute him but also most likely has confused thought processes, suffers from serious delusions and so forth. If Rust is right, Purcell is in need of psychiatric intervention. If Rust is wrong, one can only conclude Rust has been reduced to relying on tactics common to the old Soviet Union, erroneously declaring opponents of the status quo mentally ill and consigning them against their will to state run psychiatric facilities. Ironically, if Purcell is sane, his "paranoid" belief that people like Rust are out to get him would be correct. Rust has some explaining to do, to Purcell and to the public.
Reading concerns
MEADOW HEIGHTS parents who have children in junior high have a real concern about what their children are learning in reading. There is a problem when 80 percent of the children in the communication arts class failed. This puts up a red flag to me, and it should to administrators. Most parents had the same feeling after parent-teacher conferences. There is no concern over the reason why so many failed. We voted to pay more taxes to update the building. Now we want teachers who are more concerned for our children and the final outcome of their education.
Pretty fair
THIS IS regarding the person who said the Southeast Missourian is getting too liberal. Are you reading the same paper I am? This paper has a column by David Limbaugh, who I don't think could ever be referred to as liberal. To me the Southeast Missourian is pretty fair to both sides, with a slight lean to the right. It sounds like you only want the conservative message told in our paper. That's not balanced.
Not directing traffic
AS I left the Taste of Home Cooking Show at the Osage Community Centre, the traffic was horrific. Common decency is out the window when nobody lets anybody else exit the parking lot. Every other car is what people should be doing. but when I finally got to turn onto Kingshighway, there were two Cape Girardeau police officers in the Rhodes parking lot. What harm would it have done for them to direct traffic to make the exit a more timely effort? But instead they were spending our taxpayer dollars in a parking lot on North Kingshighway having a little chit-chat with each other. Thank you, Cape Girardeau city police, for spending my tax dollars so wisely.


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Almond Lake With Mandarin Oranges
|2 1⁄2 Cup (40 tbs)
|Granulated sugar
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Almond essence
|1 Teaspoon
|Ground rice
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|Canned mandarin oranges
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|Toasted flaked almonds
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Bring to the boil, stirring constantly, and simmer for 5 minutes.
Pour into a dish, cover and cool.
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Calories 626 Calories from Fat 155
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17 g26.1%
Saturated Fat 5.8 g29.2%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 28.2 mg9.4%
Sodium 127.5 mg5.3%
Total Carbohydrates 107 g35.8%
Dietary Fiber 3.8 g15.1%
Sugars 78.5 g
Protein 15 g30.9%
Vitamin A 46.7% Vitamin C 88.1%
Calcium 37.7% Iron 7%
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Sick Girl May Get a Lung but It's Not a Happy Ending
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A child dying of cystic fibrosis now hasa shot at a lung transplant. A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to let 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan move from waiting list for lungs from deceased children to the waiting list for lungs from adults.
The federal organ rationing system had previously limited transplants from adult donors to patients more than 12 years old. Sarah's parents argued that federal law requires organs to be rationed based on the severity of a patient's condition and "the unique health care needs of children," implying that adults can be denied organs from children but not vice versa. Although some child transplant candidates' bodies are too small to accept organs from adults, Sarah's doctors say that would not be a problem for her.
The pool of available lungs from adult donors, the Murnaghans argued, is 50 times greater than the number from children. There are currently 14 children and 148 adults waiting for lungs in Pennsylvania. Ten Pennsylvania children and 42 adults have been waiting longer than a year for a matching organ.
The case points up the tragic and, despite efforts to the contrary, inherently arbitrary nature of organ allocation. As long as there is an absolute shortage of organs, giving one person a transplant means denying it to someone else.
Contrary to what many people assume, merely signing an organ donor card doesn't mean your organs will be transplanted when you die. You have to die in exactly the right way, and very few people do. The shortages are especially acute for pediatric organs since, fortunately, relatively few children die from massive brain trauma. The separate pediatric and adult lists reflect the need to make sure those rare organs go to children who can't tolerate transplants from adult.
Murnaghan's family is correct that the 12-year-old cutoff doesn't reflect medical considerations and, as a result, puts children like Sarah at an arguably unfair disadvantage. But any weighing of lives will seem unfair to the losers. The current system generally favors people in dire straits over healthier patients, for instance. It gives patients points for waiting a long time and, as a result, favors older, sicker patients over younger, healthier ones. That reflects one politically determined idea of fairness. But it would be equally fair-- or equally unfair -- to favor healthier patients who might live longer with the precious organ.
A sick little girl makes a compelling story. The tragedy is that if little Sarah gets her lung, someone else will go without.
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Description: "DLM No. 182 pages 4,5" by Marc Chagall, 1969 Unsigned Lithograph. Paper size is 15 x 22 inches, with an image size of 12 x 16 inches. The Lithograph is from an unknown edition size. and is not framed. The condition was rated A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling. Additional details: Double page lithograph printed on pages 4,5 for DLM No. 182. Fold line down the center as issued.
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The first harvest estimates for the early fall bow deer season (September 6 - 26) and statewide bow season opener (September 27) are in, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Fish and Wildlife (Division) reports the season is off to an excellent start. Although numbers for the traditional statewide fall bow opener are down some from last year (745 compared to 983), overall tallies are up as 6,235 deer have been taken by archers through September 27 compared with 4,685 deer taken by bow hunters during the equivalent period in 2002.
Fall is an excellent time of year for deer hunting in New Jersey. The fall bow season provides quality recreation for more than 37,000 hunters, and liberal season lengths and bag limits allow sportsmen and women to enjoy countless hours of hunting opportunity. Hunters in return provide an invaluable service to the people of New Jersey by helping control deer populations. The fall bow season contributes significantly to the Division of Fish and Wildlife's deer management goals by ensuring the harvest of antlerless deer (adult females and fawns). This helps keep deer populations in balance with available habitat and also helps reduce agricultural damage and deer - vehicle collisions. This year, the Division's overall goal is to reduce the whitetail population on 68% of deer range and stabilize the herd on the remaining 32%.
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Savvy B2B Marketing
Prospects DO Judge Your White Paper by its Cover
Savvy B2B Marketing
I've written quite a bit about white papers in my blog posts because they are one of the key content assets I develop for my clients. So I'm always on the lookout for new research and insights into how to magnify their effectiveness. That's why this study from IDG Connect caught my eye. The first cover was a standard, common cover design with a title and author name.
Savvy Week in Review - September 2
Savvy B2B Marketing
It seriously can't be September already, can it?! If you are in the States, we wish you a wondeful and safe holiday weekend! The Biggest Challenge in Content Marketing by @BrennerMichael. How a Single Bullet Can Get a Customer to Buy by @Seandsouza via Write to Done. Sometimes, your whole message hinges on one line. Social Media Minute: Social Bookmarking for B2B Marketing by @B2BLaunchPad.
Weekly Wrap Up - September 30
Savvy B2B Marketing
Happy last day of September! If you are feeling like many of us who are fortunate enough to work from home, it's a great day to get cozy in some warm clothes and fuzzy slippers and sip a hot beverage. while catching up on the blogosphere. Lots of goodies this week! Why B2B Companies Need a Chief Content Officer by @basebot. Two reasons: quality and efficiency. Both can wreak havoc on the success of your content marketing if you don't have them. Content Marketing Questions: #1 What's the Problem by @patsiblogsquad. Although this is a B2C examples, many B2Bs can relate.
How to Be a Guest Blogger Any Editor Will Love
Savvy B2B Marketing
As editor of the Content Marketing Institute blog , I review a lot of posts and work with many different authors. Over the past 16 months, I have worked with so many great writers and edited over 330 posts. It's been a lot of fun — and a lot of work. Writing for other blogs is a fantastic way to share your expertise and get your name out there. Understand guidelines. Read other posts.
Marketing is Not Magic
Savvy B2B Marketing
Every summer my kids get me hooked on America's Got Talent. We love watching those brave hopeful performers taking their chance at stardom. Every year some of my favorites are the magicians. This year a talented illusionist, Landon Swank , made it all the way to the final 10. The best a magician had ever done on the show. Cautionary Tale. They hired me to do a big launch promotion. The Fix.
6 tips to strengthen your businesses' internet message
Savvy B2B Marketing
These days, we all know how important it is to have a web-presence. If you have a business, then you need to be on the web. Period. Too often, though, websites are quickly created "just to get something up." My business partner and I recently met with a photographer who had asked us to critique her website and make suggestions on how she could improve her web message. Right, there.
Confronting the Trust Barrier
Savvy B2B Marketing
We're pleased to present this guest post by Britton Manasco, who specializes in helping companies establish thought leadership and enable their sales teams to engage more prospects and close more business. Read on for his insightful thoughts on what it takes to earn the trust of prospective buyers. Trust is essential to successful selling, particularly if you are engaged in a high impact sale. But here's the problem. Trust is now trading at a higher premium than ever. Why is that? Well, look around. Unpleasant factors that once were cyclical seem to have to have become structural.
Savvy Speaks: No Good, Low Down Underhanded Marketing Tactics
Savvy B2B Marketing
We all know that sometimes, and in some circles, marketing has a bad rep. We Savvy Sisters like to think that's it's mostly due to late night infomercials, but if we are honest with ourselves, we have all seen some underhanded marketing tactics over the years. Here are our (least) favorite: Wendy. Flotsam and Jetsam. live in New Hampshire. It's called "opt" in people! Jamie.
Weekly Wrap Up - September 23rd
Savvy B2B Marketing
For those of you in the norther hemisphere, welcome to fall. The equinox is behind us and we're officially moving into the colder half of the year. Around here, the Halloween decorations are already cropping up in the stores, pumpkins are arriving by the truckload, and the smell of apples is everywhere. Meanwhile, the Savvy Sisters are all hustling along on various projects and staying up-to-date with what's happening in the world of marketing by reading our favorite blogs. Here are this week's picks for top reads. Enjoy and go get yourself some apple pie! Don't panic.
Savvy Week in Review: September 16
Savvy B2B Marketing
As the summer draws to a close, do you find yourself switching into high-gear mode? If so, these reads from around the blogosphere should help fuel inspiration for the coming week. Enjoy! How to Structure Your Web Content to Get Better Conversions by @ brodydorland via @ Junta42. Teriffic step-by-step guide with fantastic visuals to help you see how it all comes together. We're women.
Savvy Week in Review - Sept 9th
Savvy B2B Marketing
Another week gone by. Sometimes it's hard to say where those days go - especially when you're busy. This week gave many of us pause, however, when we learned that our virtual community had suffered a tragic loss with the sudden passing of Trey Pennington. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. Enjoy your weekend to the fullest. Hidden Friction: The 7 Silent Killers of Conversion.
Savvy Speaks: Inspirational Marketing Campaigns
Savvy B2B Marketing
As creative communicators, we naturally draw inspiration from a variety of sources. Sometimes it's a marketing campaign from a totally different industry that gives us a little creative burst. This week the Savvy Sisters share what they think are the most creative - and inspiring - marketing campaigns in recent memory. Clear, concise and creative. I can't resist a clever turn of phrase.
The B2B Demand Gen Marketing Playbook
Savvy Speaks: Just Give Me a Reason!
Savvy B2B Marketing
Everyone needs a reason to do things. As marketers we are always asking prospects to give us their time, attention, or business. As freelance professionals we do the same things in our own professional lives. This week the Savvy Sisters share the reasons they give that get prospects off the fence. Jamie. Show, don't tell. It's always about the prospect's problem. What is your value add?
4 Website Best Practices (and a Tip!) You Can't Afford to Ignore
Savvy B2B Marketing
I write copy for a lot of websites, and like all of you, I also visit a lot of websites. So you can imagine I can't help but notice good ones, bad ones and ones that need to just shut down and start over from scratch. What makes a GREAT website? It's not rocket science. It's just following through on a little knowledge about how B2B customers interact with websites.
Savvy Toolkit - Tapping into the SEO lobe of John Hoff's Brain
Savvy B2B Marketing
When we started featuring Toolkit on the Savvy blog almost a year ago the very first installment was an SEO tool because I feel like it is one area that confounds most B2B marketers the most. Many of us come from a copywriting background and the idea flies somewhat in the face of what we have classically done. Writers are proud of our thesaurus like vocabularies.
Selling new products – 5 success factors for training your sales force
Savvy B2B Marketing
This guest post is from Janet Spirer, Ph.D., co-founder of Sales Horizons. If your company is like most, you will launch more new products in the next five years than you did in the previous ten. These products will be expected to produce significant revenue and some may be "bet-the-company" entries to the market. Yet history tells a scary tale. Collaboration. Early Wins. Customization.
A Content Formula for Complex B2B Organizations
Savvy Toolkit - Using Social Media for Small Business Success
Savvy B2B Marketing
Credit Donkey's recent infographic on Social Media participation by Small Businesses indicate that only 35% of small businesses have a Facebook page. Where are the other 65%? Don't they know creating a Facebook page is FREE? Courtesy of: CreditDonkey
Thesis vs Genesis – Comparing Premium WordPress Themes
Over the Labor Day weekend, I had the pleasure of working on my first website using the Genesis Framework from StudioPress. I say pleasure because it happened to be my husband's new photography site, and it was the first theme he's chosen that didn't lead me to using a string of obscenities that might actually shock people who regularly watch HBO. Thesis vs Genesis. Enjoy! 59.95.
The Trouble with Klout
Paul Gillin
Estimating influence is a delicate balance of art and science. People are drawn to quantitative methods because scores are easy to understand. The downside of reducing influence to a number, though, is oversimplification. Lately, I've been looking at Klout , the popular new tool that bills itself as "The Standard for influence measurement. The more I look at it, the less I like it.
Why Klout matters. A lot.
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
Yes, this is a real invitation. If you hate Klout … and you probably do … try to take a deep breath and read ahead with an open mind. And, unlike every other blogger on the planet it seems, I've come to the conclusion that this is a very important development. In fact, a historically important development. Never has. Never will. Now, for a different perspective. Even me. Right?
Social Media is Lowering Our Content Standards
Digital B2B Marketing
Sharing has ceased to be an endorsement of the quality of content. Social media has created the expectation that we share content, and in the drive to meet the content demands social media places on us, our content standards are falling. … or "+100 RT … ). As Jessica Northey wrote recently, Don't Should On Yourself and instead, find what works for you. Forget the Rules.
50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)
Social media marketing has gone well beyond the hype stage and is now mainstream business practice. Still, questions remain: how do I use social media most effectively across the enterprise? Which social media monitoring tools should I use? What should I monitor for? How do I use my time and resources most effectively? What social media developments and trends should I be watching? What to do?
20 of the world's most clever Twitter bios
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
Last year I started "collecting" great Twitter bios and kind of got hooked. When I decided to publish "The All-Time Best Twitter bios," and "The 20 Funniest Twitter Bios," readers of {grow} seemed to get hooked too! So here we are with the third edition. These are all real Twitter bios … @MichaelACaruso. I've learned I don't know anything.
Three reasons social media marketing favors small businesses
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
I've spent some time this week attending a few online webinars and catching up on my blog reader and I noticed an interesting trend. The conversations, research, presentations, and case studies focused entirely on large corporations. Look through the success stories in your blog reader. Coca-Cola. And of course the ever-present Zappos. Is anybody paying attention to the little guys?
8 Ways to Create More Effective Lead Generation Programs
The Death of Internet Marketing and the Rise of Social SEO
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
By Robert Dempsey, Contributing {grow} Columnist. Internet marketing as we once knew it is dead. Gone are the days when a sales page was enough of a relationship to sell a product. Gone are the days when claims of riches tugged enough at the emotions to persuade a sale. Gone are the days when bloated claims could pass as truth and lies went unpunished. Now is the time of social SEO. Then Came SEO.
Can you make money managing social media?
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
Now, here's the next big question … can you make money managing social media for others? My original prediction was based on a statement I heard at many companies: "Can you please just do this social media stuff for me?" " Of the course the purists will contend that everybody should do their own social media because of the "authenticity" value. Overseas.
Measuring the Immeasurable
Paul Gillin
My post last week about the shortcomings of Klout got several thousand views and generated quite a bit of discussion. it also got me several e-mails from companies that claim to have built a better mousetrap than Klout. haven't reviewed these tools in detail just yet, but it appears that influence is a red-hot topic in PR and marketing circles right now. TopazPartners.com. Just be skeptical.
12 Tweetable Statistics Prove B2B Social Media ROCKS
PWB Marketing Blog
Know B2B social media fact from fiction. Fiction: Social media offers limited value to B2B marketers. Fact: 86% of B2B companies are using social media. B2B companies are absolutely using social media to generate leads , connect with customers, and reach business goals. We compiled twelve tweetable facts about the prolific use – and success – of social media among B2B marketers.
The New 4 P's of Marketing
It's All About Revenue
by Brian Kardon | Tweet this You know the saying: You go to college for an education, and then spend years trying to un-learn everything you were taught. It's hard to name a field that has faced as much disruption and change as marketing. It's our attempt to spice up the stodgy principles of marketing. Here are the 4 New P's of Marketing you'll see throughout the syllabus. 1. Personality. Physics.
The hidden costs of social media conversation
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
It's all about the conversation. Have you heard that a thousand times? It's a ubiquitous mantra of the social web to the point where sometimes I think it takes over as the ultimate goal. It's not the goal. The goal of any organization is to increase shareholder value … a.k.a. make money. Even non-profits. In the beginning, there was conversation. The conversation was always there.
Why Salespeople Hate Most White Paper Leads
The Point
How is it that a quality white paper on a hot topic can still generate bad leads? It's got to be the media, right? Wrong. It's the offer. When embarking on a content marketing strategy, one of the critical first steps is to determine the types of leads you want to generate. Then your offer should have as broad appeal as possible. Choose your content carefully.
9 attributes of the best thought leadership content
Chris Koch
Some time back, I blogged about the attributes of a thought leader. Lately, I've been talking to B2B marketers about the content delivered by these thought leaders and asking, What defines good thought leadership content? Here's what I have so far. Surely, you have a suggestion that will get us to ten attributes? Visionary. It's best to address a problem before customers realize that it's a problem. Provocative. The best thought leadership pieces are bold and attack conventional wisdom. Differentiated. No "me too" ideas allowed. Relevant. Timely. Has a narrative. Demonstrates mastery.


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Tickets available for February 19th MCV's Women of the Year awards
There are still tickets left to our Women of the Year awards, which take place on the afternoon of February 19th.
MCV Awards 2015: The finalists revealed
After two months of lobbying from the UK games industry, the finalists for this year's MCV Awards have been selected.
MCV Games Market Valuation
MCV's widely-read annual market valuation returns in February 2015, with a launch at a special breakfast briefing in central London.
MCV's Top 100 Women in Games revealed
The high-flyers on our MCV Brit List: Women in Games Top 100 are now revealed.
New eSports channel opening on MCV from February 2015
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Ambivalent Hollowby Candice Ann Moraga
Feels so empty - Hollow inside
Wish I could feel something - Anything
When did it become like this?
When did I stop caring?
Somehow, I just don't give a shit
Sometime – I just stopped daring
I used to be on fire - Used to be so passionate
I want it back - I want the chaos
But not the pain it brings
So hollow
So hollow
So hollow
Trying to find that shred of something - Something to hold on to
Believe me, I've reached out - I've reached out & touched somebody a million times
A million dimes
And I'm TIRED
Tired of trying – Tired of crying
Too tired to care anymore
Indifference - In a shell
Hard, protective coating - You cannot break through
Even if you did care or wanted to
My fortress
My island
My SELF
All by myself
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Definitions for GOP
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word GOP
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Republican Party, GOP(noun)
the younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of GOP in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of GOP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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The GOP is broken [and] may not be salvageable.
Indiana GOP is going to be fair. Indiana GOP is going to be tough.
I am so looking forward to debating whomever emerges from their [the GOP] process.
The GOP survived the Civil War and North v South. It will not fade as we have a common enemy. A democrat.
The California Republican Party is a microcosm of the national GOP, the party is struggling over immigration.
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dreams drop themselves
on our lazy heads
on pillows and fortresses
of mayhem
we gather them carelessly
as if they could be
sold for cheap
then sudden pain appears
we wonder where
the dreams
have fallen into
as we reap
the neglect of self respect
bringing us to
fears, tears
where is my dream
where is my hope
as I wait in
grasping nothing
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wow leesah... kewl!... woke this morning from a dream... was it a dream at all?... so sat there in a day dream thinking about it...that might not make sense... but it does to me... thanks for evoking a thought... great piece! 5/5
I have some insane dreams-and for some reason I remeber them. Then there's my daydreams, which normally involve world domination...
This is a great poem, very well written and made me shiver!!
Excellent work!
Surprisingly, Dawns comment doesn't surprise me, lol. I like this piece. The opening lines draw you in. Superbly written Sis :)
love it-- :)
'Be yourself, don't be yourself, speak your mind, don't speak your mind, stand alone, don't stand alone, be on your own, be all alone'.
This is you being yourself, love it. Shattered my spine from the tingling vibrations.
One of my favorites leesah! Love it!
I sometimes hate when I wake up and feel so dazed, and wonder, where did that dream come from... *sigh* (This was so well described, I could relate!)
May all of your sweet dreams manifest.
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