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Fear and loathing inside the BBC
Published: 12 October 2009
He recalls how he was walking through Television Centre a few days ago and observed Jana Bennett.
Bennett is Head of Vision, which is another way of saying she oversees the other executives who oversee television and the BBC's internet output, for which she is rewarded with a salary package of £536,000.
She is one of the 47 BBC executives who is paid more than the £197,000 earned a year by the British Prime Minister.
"She was standing surrounded by a bunch of her acolytes as she held forth. They weren't quite bowing in her presence but they were certainly fawning over her. It was ridiculous. And I thought, what does she actually do for the BBC? What is the point of her?"
The reporter is adamant that I must not use his name, or even reveal which branch of the BBC he works in for he let his anger show when his programme-making budget was slashed again and he is now cast as a member of the awkward squad.
He cannot conceal his loathing for the interlocking layers of highly paid managers, of questionable competence, who smother the programme-makers.
The irony of this culture of silence is not lost on him. "My job as a reporter is to get people to speak frankly but if it was known I was talking in what I believe is the public interest about a public institution, I would be fired," he says.
In his demand for anonymity, the reporter is certainly not being overdramatic, because his fear in talking about the institution he still just about adores, in the manner of an abused lover, is shared by numerous past and present BBC staffers interviewed for these articles. There is an institutional terror of talking publicly about the fears that have dominated the conscious hours of everyone who works there.
The BBC is currently assailed from all sides by hostile public reaction to the salaries of its executives, the remuneration of its "talent", and the awfulness of much of its output, particularly its television.
But for the people who work there, the primary cause of anxiety and alienation is rather the stifling, enervating effects of the vast BBC bureaucracy, and its militant new outrider, Compliance.
One news editor working at Millbank, newly promoted, recalls being summoned to a management away-day team-building exercise.
"Congratulations," the management trainee man told the group, "you are now part of the elite cadre of the top 2,000 BBC managers." The journalist understandably wanted to cut his own throat.
The Jana Bennett critic describes the effect of this pressure as "like a giant inverted triangle bearing down on those of us still trying to make programmes".
The number of producers and researchers has been slashed so that in many current affairs programmes the reporter is working alone, without any oversight, and no back-up in the office to check facts.
Meanwhile, reporters and editors live in fear of any sort of row which might trigger the dreaded outcome of a "Compliance Audit", which often follows a charge of bias or bad taste, when teams of officials will descend to the editorial floor to make sure that reporter, editor and producer all ticked the correct boxes.
Various seemingly unrelated factors have combined to create the current state of crisis at the BBC but the trigger for recent headlines has been the fiasco of the Jonathan Ross/Russell Brand affair and their bullying of the actor Andrew Sachs.
The incident has since metastasised into a wider general bafflement over the scale of salaries which BBC executives award themselves and their stars.
A series of interviews for this investigation reveals that Bennett, a 30-year BBC lifer, is unpopular within the corporation.
But in the way all office rivalries generally relate to puny detail, BBC journalists seize on the trivia that emerged from the BBC's belated stab at transparency in publishing the expenses of its senior executives.
Bennett spent £100 of licence-payers' money in sending flowers to Jonathan Ross, claimed £35 to have her hair styled before an interview, and thought contract discussions with Jeremy Paxman should be conducted over a lunch for which she claimed £231.55.
Most bizarrely, she claimed £500 when her handbag was stolen "while on official BBC business", though it seems ultimately the cost was picked up by her insurers rather than the BBC.
Such are the financial details that are guaranteed to inflame office rivalries. Mark Byford is deputy director-general, a job title that no one inside the corporation understands, and which used not to exist.
Staffers anyway prefer to call him Mark Bypass ("as in personality", a producer explains).
As ultimate "head of all its journalisms", he presumably oversees Bennett as she oversees all the other executives.
No doubt he works extremely hard, but despite the splendid ambition of his role and his salary package of more than half a million, he files his expenses with the zeal of a cub reporter on the Ham and High rubbing along on £14,000 a year.
Last year, Byford put in claims for newspapers of £1.25 a go, and £3.60 for his train ticket to an England/Scotland international, though it is not explained on the published form why attending a rugby match at the weekend is deemed a working expense for the deputy director-general with no specific oversight role in sport.
But those who speak out against Mr Byford do not care much about these, or even his claim (£3) for withdrawing money from an Israeli cash machine during a working visit.
But they are especially cross that a man on more than half a million pounds a year charged licence payers £14.99 for a history of Queen's Park Rangers football club given to a departing colleague.
Several present and former BBC staffers lamented to the Evening Standard how the traditional camaraderie has been destroyed. Before the explosion in salaries, which gathered pace in the John Birt era but built up steam during the rule of Greg Dyke, everyone felt underpaid at the BBC.
But that was regarded as the flipside of working in public-service broadcasting.
Now vast salaries and commensurate pension allowances are justified on the grounds of stopping a drift of talent to the private sector.
This argument has disintegrated, given the advertising crash and the parlous financial state of ITV, Channel 4 and Five.
"Where on earth are these dozens of executives on more that £200,000 supposed to be going?," asks one BBC reporter. "They are literally unemployable outside the BBC."
One former executive, who has since turned freelance, was involved for a while in setting salaries. She said the entire process was bizarre.
Various pressures would be applied, and deals struck to justify specific little bundles of cash and benefits being chucked at those deemed to be stars.
There is particular fury across the news operation at the tendency of "stars" to be given salary bumps out of separate budgets for bringing glamour to the dry world of documentary and news gathering.
For instance, on top of a rumoured basic package of close to £1 million for his Radio 2 show, Jeremy Vine is understood to be paid a further £250,000 for Panorama and other work when it is clear that in some editions of Panorama he has little input beyond reading out a few sentences.
Vine and Jeremy Paxman are said by BBC colleagues to be locked into an ultra-competitive contest about their respective salaries.
Reporters of the old-school wince not just at this but at the patronising way BBC executives feel viewers of serious programmes need chewier subjects to be made more accessible to the dimmer licence-fee payers through the input of celebrities.
Recent headlines have been generated by Jonathan Ross's £6 million-a-year contract but salary inflation has gathered pace even among those who, though familiar faces, are not by any definition "stars".
"When I joined the BBC everyone was underpaid, so that was fine," recalls Tracey Scoffield, who now has a private production company and is one of the few former BBC staffers still working in television who is prepared to speak on the record.
She left the corporation five years ago, shortly after her 10-year employment anniversary when she got a letter from Human Resources awarding her an extra half-day's holiday a year.
"I thought, God, I've got to get out of this place," she says, and she did, not realising how miserable she had become working there.
This is a common observation from BBC people who leave the corporation to go freelance or join independent companies.
Scoffield stresses that the BBC is still full of highly creative and talented people who work extremely hard but the overall ethos of the place she describes as soul-destroying.
"Most senior people at the BBC spend their days in meetings. There is total paralysis, no one is empowered to take decisions. It's like working in the NHS or in education - meetings, meetings."
Though the BBC speaks the modish corporate language about investing in people, Scoffield says it is a strangely bad employer. "They're just not good to their staff. You're not praised or rewarded for good work.
"They talk endlessly about empowering you but actually they keep you in your place. One is endlessly summoned for 'appraisals', which in-house are known as 'reprisals', for that is when you are put back in your box."
One veteran BBC presenter, a household name who does not want to be identified, says the central problem with the corporation now is its size. "We have become so big, so dominant, that there's nothing institutional left for us to aim at," he says, noting that when he joined the BBC many years ago bosses were still focused on staying competitive with ITN news output, or the big dramas then still made by the ITV companies.
"But that ambition has gone, and the driving institutional imperative is not to make any cock-ups like the Ross affair."
For him, Mark Thompson, the BBC's director-general, has failed to answer the central question for the 17,000 members of staff, not including thousands more freelancers.
"What is this BBC for? Mark Thompson has not communicated to us what the BBC is for, and I'm not sure he actually knows."
This presenter said he was unaware of the fact that Vine's already vast Radio 2 salary was topped up so significantly for his work on Panorama. (The BBC, following its familiar practice of declining to comment on the salaries of Talent, will not confirm the exact figure.)
Compliance is the nightmare for programme makers, the presenter agreed, for an audit can be triggered by nothing more than a polemical piece in the Daily Mail.
BBC people have huge contempt for the Mail yet they flatter its power by being terrified that one article could trigger a programme editor to having their collar felt by the corporation's Compliance people.
"I was making a programme and I had Compliance down on me fretting about language that I was using about mental illness," he said.
"The Mail had run a piece, and I said, don't you want this programme to be noticed? The word I got back was: no we don't."
John Humprhys is one of the few current BBC staff who will talk publicly about the goings-on in the corporation.
When I tell him that I have spoken to numerous utterly miserable members of BBC staff, Humphrys laughs.
"I have never known a time in my 45 years at the BBC when morale was not said to be 'rock bottom', when it has not felt from the inside that it is under attack from politicians. That's the nature of an organisation like this."
He concedes that the fiasco of Jonathan Ross's £6 million annual remuneration - which is not far off the entire budget for the Today programme - has caused damage to the BBC's standing.
But he adds that it was caused by the corporation's consistent terror of losing the younger audience, which is not an unreasonable concern.
Several other past and present BBC people emphasised that the BBC spends far too much time talking to itself, and not nearly enough engaging with the outside world, or with its paymasters, the licence-fee payers.
One of the oddest things about talking to BBC people is that they will spend half an hour sounding off about the horrors of the institution, of its bureaucratic culture, of the shameful way its senior executives reward themselves ludicrous amounts of public money.
And then those journalists will say: "I hope you're not writing a Right-wing newspaper attack on the BBC." Everyone spoken to for this series stressed that they back the principle of the BBC as a public-interest broadcaster, and uphold its licence-fee funding model.
As they grumble about the bureaucracy and poor management, most BBC people concede or stress that much of the output remains very good.
Indeed, radio output may never have been better; much of the television drama remains very good, though there is less of it.
BBC Four has done well in pioneering a new form of relatively low-budget drama, and moving away from the familiar bonnet dramas the corporation has excelled at for years.
But the problem remains of how an institution so top heavy, so weighed down by centralised management, can reform itself.
An on-air reporter says it is the second-rate programme-making staff who get shunted up the management ladder.
"It's insane," he says. "We have one of the largest media organisations in the world run by jobbing journalists who couldn't hack it.
"In any private organisation they would eventually be fired, but in the BBC they just keep on climbing up the ladder."
Oddly, though almost everyone inside the BBC, and its former staffers, back the notion of the licence fee, there is widespread pessimism over the corporation's prospects for changing itself.
"The warning here is Gorbachev. Once you start trying to reform an organisation such as the BBC, it collapses, just like the old Soviet Union," says one well-known presenter. "Who, as director-general, is going to say, let's make this place smaller, let's reduce all the salaries, including mine?"
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Vikingsâââ‰â¢ LB coach Pete Bercich is from Joliet, IL and was one of five finalists for National Defensive Player of the Year at Providence High in 1989âââ¬Ã¦
Bercich was also a teammate of Bearsâââ‰â¢ FB Marc Edwards at Notre Dameâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ RB coach Dean Dalton coached with Bearsâââ‰â¢ head coach Lovie
Smith at Wisconsin in 1987âââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ G Chris Liwienski and Bearsâââ‰â¢ DE Adewale Ogunleye were teammates at Indianaâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ CB Antoine Winfield, LB Sam Cowart, S Ken Irvin, DT Pat Williams, and LB Keith Newman all played with Bearsâââ‰â¢ G Ruben Brown in Buffaloâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell also coached for the Bills during Brownâââ‰â¢s time thereâââ¬Ã¦
Bearsâââ‰â¢ K Doug Brien was with the Vikings in 2002âââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ TE Jermaine Wiggins and Bearsâââ‰â¢ WR Muhsin Muhammad were teammates in Carolinaâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ WR Travis Taylor was a teammate of Bearsâââ‰â¢ DE Alex Brown, S Todd Johnson, and DT Ian Scott at Floridaâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ RB Ciatrick Fason played with Johnson and Scott with the Gatorsâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ CB Ralph Brown played in the defensive backfield with Bearsâââ‰â¢ S Mike Brown at Nebraskaâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ S Corey Chavous played in Arizona with Bearsâââ‰â¢ RB Thomas Jonesâââ¬Ã¦
Jones also played with Vikingsâââ‰â¢ QB Brad Johnson in Tampa Bay in âââ‰â¢03âââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ LS Cullen Loeffler played at Texas with Bearsâââ‰â¢ CB Nathan Vasher and RB Cedric Benson and when Bearsâââ‰â¢ WR coach Darryl Drake coached on the Longhornsâââ‰â¢ staffâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ DT C.J. Mosley and Bearsâââ‰â¢ WR Justin Gage were teammates at Missouriâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ CB Ralph Brown and T Mike Rosenthal were teammates of Bearsâââ‰â¢ P Brad Maynard with the N.Y. Giantsâââ¬Ã¦
Bearsâââ‰â¢ LB Brendon Ayanbadejoâââ‰â¢s older brother, Obafemi, played for the Vikings in 1998âââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ LB Keith Newman and Bearsâââ‰â¢ OL Roberto Garza played with the Falcons togetherâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ TE Jeff Dugan, QB Shaun Hill, LB E.J. Henderson, and C Melvin
Fowler were all teammates of Bearsâââ‰â¢ LB Leon Joe at Marylandâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ G Marcus Johnson played on the line at Ole Miss with Bearsâââ‰â¢ OL Terrence Metcalfâââ¬Ã¦
Bearsâââ‰â¢ C Olin Kreutz played at Washington when Vikingsâââ‰â¢ offensive assistant/assistant QB coach Randy Hanson was on the Huskiesâââ‰â¢ staffâââ¬Ã¦
Bearsâââ‰â¢ QB coach Wade Wilson was an 8th-round draft pick by the Vikings in 1981 and went on to play 11 seasons (1981-91) in Minnesotaâââ¬Ã¦
Wilson played with Vikingsâââ‰â¢ DE Lance Johnstone in Oaklandâââ¬Ã¦
Bearsâââ‰â¢ asst. special teams coach Charlie Coiner coached at the University of Minnesota in 1987âââ¬Ã¦
Bearsâââ‰â¢ assistant DB coach Torrian Gray was a 2nd-round draft pick of the Vikings in 1997 and was with the team from 1997-2000âââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ CB Antoine Winfield and DE Darrion Scott played at Ohio State when Bearsâââ‰â¢ RB coach Tim Spencer coached the Buckeyesâââ‰â¢ running backsâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ defensive line coach Brian Baker and TE coach John Tice played at
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Vikingsâââ‰â¢ S Corey Chavous played at Vanderbilt when Bearsâââ‰â¢ DB coach Perry Fewell coached the secondary for the Commodoresâââ¬Ã¦
Vikingsâââ‰â¢ P Chris Kluwe played for UCLA when Bearsâââ‰â¢ defensive line coach Don Johnson coached at UCLA
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Vikingsâââ‰â¢ WR Marcus Robinson played the first 5 seasons of his career in Chicago (1998-02) and set a Bearsâââ‰â¢ franchise record with 1,400 yards receiving in 1999âââ¬Ã¦
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Too bad Nap isn't going to be starting. I did hear that correctly didn't I. Didn't someone say that Nap in being benched?????????????
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Isn't our assistant line guy and former player, Corbin Lucina a former Bear.
I think he played there his last season.
He is not listed on the website as a coach, but I saw or heard his named mentioned as a sideline coach on Sunday.***
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Isn't our assistant line guy and former player and Minnesota native, Corbin Lucina a former Bear.
I forgot to add that.
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I recently ran into a couple that is loosely related to Nick's side of the family that live in Saudi Arabia now, on one of the ARAMCO compounds about an hour away from where I lived as a child. After talking to them and getting to know them, come to find out they know a lot of the same people that I knew growing up, parents of my friends and names they've always heard of that were people close to me as a kid. It was refreshing to say the least, to be able to talk to them, to have them know exactly what I was talking about when I was shocked to hear of a new green grass golf course in Dhahran (when I was there, they were only oiled sand), to hear that two of the smaller compounds were totally full with residents and to hear their stories. To have someone know that part of me completely, without even really knowing anything about me personally, is a feeling I haven't had in a long time. It is rare to speak to someone in my daily life (other than my parents) that knows in depth about that part of my life. It's hard daily to not be able to show my husband that part of my life, a part that was such a huge reason why I am the way I am now. So when I can share it, when I can let others in just a little on what my childhood was like in the middle of the Middle East, it makes that burden a little easier.
When I look back on my childhood in Saudi Arabia, I remember feeling completely at home, always feeling safe, an idyllic way of life. But as I look back on it now, a full seventeen years this month since we moved back to the States, those memories are still what shape me today and the lessons I learned during my eleven years there are the lessons that I hold with me daily still. So in the midst of so many present uprisings and conflicts in the part of the world that I was born into, I think it's worth remembering that that part of the world still has lots to teach us as well if we'll let it.
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I was always one to be totally fine on my own, even as a kid, I didn't need to be surrounded by friends or have activities planned all the time. But I think one thing that Saudi brought out in me at an early age was a curiosity with the world. I am fascinated with cultures and languages and how all over the world we're all just people, living the best we know how to. A curiosity with the world I think has always been in me, but living half a world away as a kid only strengthened it. It's still something I hold on to today and something that I hope I always have, a curiosity to better understand our world.
I can't even count anymore the people who, over the years, have said things to me like "all Muslims are terrorists" or used racial slurs against Islam or those who would practice a different faith than their own. It's something I won't tolerate and those that have made the mistake of making those comments to me will get a response they perhaps weren't expecting if you don't know me. I won't tolerate ignorance or bigotry, there is no reason for it and those that would put down an entire group of believers in a religion like Islam, or any other for that matter, are going against any faith they pretend to practice or believe in. I'll never forget a conversation I had with a Muslim friend of mine as a kid. We sat in the jungle gym on the playground at school and talked about how much our two religions, Islam and Christianity, really had in common, how much we were alike in what we believed. Saudi Arabia taught me that faith across the world is more similar than different and whether you are a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Jew, we all have more in common than not.
My passion for seeing the world is no doubt something that stems from my childhood abroad, a drive to see all parts of the globe, to find out about different cultures and learn different languages. From an early age we traveled to far off places like Cyprus and Bahrain, Dubai and India. We spent time as a family seeing the world and while my parents probably wouldn't say they have such an insatiable passion for traveling as I do, they raised my brother and I in a way that we learned about the world through experience. We learned words in Arabic and embraced local foods and cultures. My passion for this beautiful world we live in no doubt came from Saudi Arabia, a place I called my home.


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Agrarian Trust was conceived in January 2013 by a 30-member team of farmers, ranchers, lawyers, conservationists, farm-service providers, philanthropists, farm business advisers, technical assistants, agricultural economists and accountants at Paicines Ranch, Paicines California. In March, Agrarian Trust was fiscally sponsored by the Schumacher Center for a New Economics under the direction of Severine von Tscharner Fleming and Kendra Johnson. One month later, "Affording Our Land: A Guide to Farm Finance" and the first 14 working case models were published online to be used by retiring and new farmers, land trusts, and other stakeholders.
This fall we look forward to convening another brain-trust meeting of stakeholders and advisers in Saratoga Springs, New York. In partnership with RAFI and Farmaid we will continue the design discourse, gather more case models, and hear testimony about loss of land-rights in the southern farming community, and how to create systems of intervention that anticipate opportunities to build security and equity for economically marginal actors.
At this meeting we will define a vision for how land access can positively shape a new kind of agrarian political economy, an ethos appropriate to current conditions, evolving the 18th century Jeffersonial land-use theory to reflect an updated mission: to retrofit, restore and resettle the land with prosperous farms serving the regional economy.


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We have now had two college players call out major media members in the past 24 hours over reports about them they are claiming as false. Just hours after Ohio State defensive back Bradley Roby claimed all reports about his alleged arrest for drunk driving were false, Auburn running back Tre Mason was quick to thwart a report that he needs wrist surgery this offseason.
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported that Mason was a surprise name to show up at the medical check in Indianapolis for the combine, and that the Heisman finalist needed wrist surgery. While the report noted that Mason would be ready for the preseason, that didn't stop the man himself from firing back at Rapoport's report.
The original report:
Combine exams revealed #Auburn RB Tre Mason had a bone in his wrist that wasn't healing properly. Needs surgery, knocks him out of OTAs, etc
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 25, 2014
And the response it promoted from Mason, who then heard back from Rapoport:
False information, I WILL NOT be having any surgery to anything on my body!
— Tre Mason (@TreMason21) April 25, 2014
Teams have been informed differently. RT @TreMason21: @RapSheet this is false and DO NOT need any type of surgery!
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) April 25, 2014
This is an interesting development for Mason as it's not unclear if his wrist is injured or not. While he's saying his wrist is fine, Rapoport is trying to tell him that his wrist isn't.
It's hard to say who we should believe here but both have motives to be correct. Rapoport is fighting for a scoop while Mason is fighting to ensure his stock doesn't take a hit.


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Top Teachers: Debbie Waldenmaier
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As a sixth-grader in Brentwood, N.Y., Debbie Waldenmaier struggled with reading and had difficulty grasping some concepts that didn't involve visual or audible elements. But her teacher spent extra time with her and helped create new ways for her to learn that eventually allowed her to thrive.
As a third-grade teacher at Colonial Trail Elementary School, Waldenmaier prides herself upon her ability to do the same for her students.
Because so many students learn in different ways, she has spent extra effort developing unique lessons for individual students, taking their strengths and weaknesses into account as she does so.
"Her classroom is a hands on, challenging learning environment," one nominator wrote of Waldenmaier. "Her enthusiasm and love of what she does is clear."
To Waldenmaier, her teaching style is a natural extension of who she is.
"I think it comes naturally because of the way that I learn," she said. "I was a very eclectic learner – I needed to touch, see, hear it."
To help her students understand the larger world around them, she has arranged for pen pal partnerships with students in Italy and Niger, Africa – students with whom her own class communicates in writing and through video conferencing.
"We sent candy canes to them for Christmas, we've exchanged DVDs. The experience is so real for them," Waldenmaier said of her students.
Moments of recognition and clarity excite Waldenmaier, who feels at home with third-graders and relishes her role assisting in their transition from students who are learning how to read to students who are reading to learn.
"It's just a wonderful transformation over the course of the year," she said. "They become much more independent."
Last year, Waldenmaier – a 16-year teaching veteran who has spent the past four years at Colonial Trail – earned teacher of the year honors at her school. In November, she was one of several recipients of the REB Award, which is given annually to a select few teachers in Metro Richmond. The $10,000 award will help fund a trip to Greece and Italy this summer, during which she plans to document her visits to the historical sites her students can't quite fathom.
"It's really difficult for them to make the connection that a building was built 2,000 years ago and still exists," she said.
Her trip, she hopes, will make the connection a real one for students in the future. Her classroom message is not unlike her favorite quote from Mother Theresa: "Speak kind words, and you will hear kind echoes."
"We teach them to be good citizens and about the differences between people and accepting people for who they are," she said.
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Randis is best known for her bestselling novel, Spilled Milk, which tells her painful – but ultimately triumphant – personal story of abuse and of child abuse prevention. The book is her first novel.
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Went to this place in desperation since I was staying around the corner. While I agree that the market is cool and that the food here isn't bad, there is really no reason to go here unless you are forced to. The service is kind of distant and could care less about good beers, and although there are a couple of decent beers on tap, almost everywhere here has a couple on tap. This is the Bay Area for crying out loud! You are surrounded by great places, and this place wouldn't even make the top 200 list. If you like pool, fine. If you like beer, go to a real place.
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Young children are full of curiosity, imagination, and a sense of wonder. They're willing to try new things and possess a natural joy of discovery. Yet in a traditional school, these natural behavior traits are too often squelched. That's why more and more parents just like you are choosing to teach their children at home during these critical years—the years that lay the foundation for developing learning skills that last a lifetime. Inside, respected homeschooling author Linda Dobson shows you how homeschooling can work for you and your young child. You'll discover how to:
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NEW YORK-- Best Buy says two executives, including its U.S. president, are leaving the company as it eliminates the most senior level of its U.S. operations to become more streamlined. Best Buy is facing increasing competition from online retailers and discounters. Mike Vitelli, president of Best Buy's U.S. business, will resign when the fiscal year ends Feb. 3.
Once all is said and done, consumers, the state and Amazon all could actually benefit – the rare win–win–win for all involved.
While there's been an explosion of apps and websites bringing retail online, the latest wave of innovation is focused on bringing mobile technology into brick-and-mortar retailers.
CNBC's Bob Pisani & Kayla Tausche chat about last night's presidential debate and who they thought won.
CNBC's Courntey Reagan reports that Best Buy plans to sell its own tablets.
Target announces programs aimed at holiday shoppers, including a pledge to match online competitors' prices.
NEW YORK-- In the latest effort to beat Amazon.com at its game, Target says that for the first time it will match prices that customers find on identical products at select online competitors this holiday season.
SEATTLE, Oct 12- Microsoft Corp opened its Windows 8 operating system for pre-orders on Friday, setting the price for an upgrade to the full version of the software at $70 for a DVD pack. Shoppers can reserve the software pack at Microsoft's own stores, Amazon.com, Best Buy, Staples and elsewhere.
SEATTLE, Oct 12- Microsoft Corp opened its Windows 8 operating system for pre-orders on Friday, setting the price for the full version of the software at $70 for a DVD pack. Shoppers can reserve the software pack at Microsoft's own stores, Amazon.com, Best Buy, Staples and elsewhere.
Big Box stores are switching to aggressive strategies, like matching online prices and offering same-day deliveries. Daniel Binder, Jefferies, and Stacey Widlitz, SW Retail Advisors, discuss whether this can top internet shopping trends.
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The Pushcart Prizes were announced today, and the list is long and illustrous. Andrew Dubus III, Natasha Trethewey, Louise Gluck, Amy Hempel, Pam Houston, Lorrie Moore ... Three Minnesota writers are among the nearly 70 winners:
Charles Baxter, for his story, "What Happens in Hell," published by Ploughshares
Jude Nutter, for her poem, "Love Like That," published in Briarcliff Rerview
Matt Rasmussen, for his poem, "After Suicide," published in Water-Stone Review, the literary magazine published by Hamline University.
The Pushcart Prizes honor stories, essays and poems published by small presses.
For a full list of winners, go here.
The women weren't exactly sedate, but they read from printed scripts--poetry, book excerpts, essays--and they mostly kept to the time limit. Within those constraints, though, there was much room for laughter and poignancy, as Heid Erdrich read poems that she had "sneaked into" her new cookbook, "Original Local," and Mary Lou Judd Carpenter read from a memoir she has written about her parents, "Miriam's Words: The Personal Price of a Public Life." (Her father was congressman Walter Judd, and the memoir draws heavily on the letters of his wife, Miriam.) Eleanor Leonard read an essay about lighting the candles on a tree and singing "Silent Night."
But the men! Whoa! Less reading than performance art, spoken word, with props.
Last night's Readings for Writers (holiday edition), coordinated and emceed, as usual, by St. Paul Poet Laureate Carol Connolly, was unexpectedly raucous and, at times, side-splittingly funny. Not what you might expect for a literary evening at the sedate and dignified University Club.
Poet Mike Finley, blue-eyed and cherubic, pulled a tinsel-bedecked hat out of a bag, placed it solemnly on his head, then pulled out a big gold Christmas stocking and began fishing around inside of it, drawing out slips of paper at random and reading them. Not poems, exactly, but more than jokes, they first startled, then amused the audience. (The first one: "Why / is that frisbee / getting bigger? / and then it hits me....")
Poet and memoirist Ted King pulled on a Santa hat, claimed that Ted King couldn't make it and had sent Santa in his place, and then began spinning fantastic stories, seemingly off the top of his head, about the original Santa giveaway (which involved theft).
Baker-poet Danny Klecko never opened his prop bag, just pounded it on the podium dramatically as he read a poem about urging one of his pastry chefs to steal Garrison Keillor's salt and pepper shakers. Was that what was in the bag? The last line of the poem tells us that the contents "I'm not at liberty to discuss."
At 9 p.m., just as Tim Nolan, the last poet of the evening, approached the podium, a dozen or so people screamed, "Snow emergency!" and fled to move their cars. Nolan looked wryly at Connolly and said, "You mention my name and people head for the door."
He carried only a sheaf of paper with him, but it turned out that he, too, had props: As he read his final poem, "Shoes," he removed his shoes and placed them on the podium in front of him. He made it almost all the way through the poem before stopping, sniffing the air, and saying, "Oooh, my shoes stink." And then, "That's not part of the poem."
The annual event is free but passes the hat for Public Art St. Paul.
When you're out shopping for books the Saturday after Thanksgiving (as of course you will be), do not be surprised if some of your favorite writers are manning the cash registers or tidying up displays. Walk up to them. Ask for a recommendation. That's why they're there.
Saturday, Nov. 30, is not just "Small Business Saturday," but it's also "indies first" day — a day when writers show support for independent bookstores by helping out for a few hours. Writer Sherman Alexie came up with the plan, which has been embraced by hundreds of authors across the country. ("Hello, hello, you gorgeous book nerds," his open letter begins.)
Lists are still being firmed up, but here's what we know so far (and you can check the map to find out what's going on in your favorite store):
Chapter 2 Books in Hudson, Wis., Michael Norman and Stephanie Bodeen;
Red Balloon, Saint Paul: Debra Frasier, Nancy Carlson, Kurtis Scalleta, David LaRochelle, Brian Farrey, Lauren Stringer, John Coy
Addendum Books, Saint Paul (in a corner of SubText Bookstore): Dawn Klehr, William Alexander, Nancy Carlson, Catherine Clark, John Coy, Brian Farrey, Kevin Kling, Christopher Lincoln ("Billy Bones"), Mary Losure, Carrie Mesrobian, Chris Monroe, Laura Purdie Salas, Kurtis Scaletta, Pat Schmatz, Lauren Stringer, Stephanie Watson, Jacqueline West
Micawber's, Saint Paul: Peter Geye and Nicole Helget
Birchbark Books, Mpls: Heid Erdrich
Common Good Books, Saint Paul: Mary Losure and Sarah Stonich
Magers & Quinn, Mpls: Andy Sturdevant
SubText, Saint Paul: Sarah Stonich.
Valley Booksellers, Stillwater: Julie Kramer, Erin Hart, Colleen Baldrica, Stephanie Landsem, Charlie Quimby
Monkey See, Monkey Read in Northfield. Benjamin Percy
The Bookstore at Fitger's in Duluth: Erin Soderberg.
When last we blogged, Cambridge, Mass., writer Katherine A. Powers had tried to donate a copy of her new book, "Suitable Accommodations," to her hometown library and had been refused. Why do we care? Because her book is a collection of letters written by her father, Minnesota writer (and National Book Award winner) J.F. Powers.
Powers had noticed that the library system she had patronized for 40 years didn't own a copy--other Massachusetts library systems had the book in their collections, including Boston, but not Cambridge. So she brought a copy down to the library and offered it to them.
And they said no.
The reason, they said, was that they only accept donations of books that are on the New York Times best-seller list, and while the Powers book had been published by FSG and had been widely reviewed, it was not a best-seller.
The library director was out of town when all of this happened, and Monday was a holiday, and it wasn't until yesterday that the whole thing was resolved--more or less.
Powers and the director met, the director said that refusing the book had been a mistake, and that the staff member who had rejected the book had made a mistake. (But the library policy apparently says otherwise.)
In any case, the director agreed to now accept the donation of the book, but it was too late; Powers had already donated the book to a more willing library, the one in nearby Maiden, Mass.
So will the Cambridge library now pay to add a copy to its collection? Stay tuned for a possible Chapter Three...
Because we are Flyover Country, and thus aw-shucks dirt-kicking provincial, we are allowed to claim every author who not only was born here and lived here for a time (or lives here still), but also every author who was educated here, is here on fellowship, or who has summered up the Shore. (This would include Pat Conroy, whose sister lived in Minneapolis for awhile--he'd visit her, and then head up the Shore.)
We draw the line at including writers who have simply spent the night or changed planes at MSP International. We do have some pride.
So in that vein, we should all be bursting with pride at the number of Minnesota authors who have made it to the semi-finals in the annual Goodreads Best Books competition. There are perhaps overly many genres, but we won't argue with that--all the better for highlighting more and more books! (Though the books don't always seem to quite belong with the genre--is Colum McCann's "TransAtlantic" really "historical fiction"? And is Joyce Carol Oates' "The Accursed" really "horror"? Well, maybe.)
It should be no surprise that the busy and prolific Neil Gaiman is a finalist -- in three categories. (Fantasy, middle-grade and picture book.) Fortunately, because he lives in western Wisconsin and flies in and out of the Twin Cities, we get to claim him.
So. To the list. If you are a member of Goodreads (and it's easy to join, though controversial, since they were acquired by Amazon) you can vote. There are 25 semifinalists in each of 20 categories--a lot of books! Though some, such as Helene Wecker's highly praised "The Golem and the Jinni," are in multiple categories. (Fantasy, and Debut Novel.) (Wecker is a Carleton grad, and, thus, one of us.)
I'm not going to give you all the titles. You can find those yourself on Goodreads.com. But here are the Minnesota books (or Minnesota-tinged books). More than a million votes have been cast already, so it's quite impressive to make the seminfinals. Be proud!
Fiction: "The Orphan Train," by Christina Baker Kline. (She summers in Minnesota, and the book is partially set here.)
Mystery and thriller: "Ordinary Grace," by William Kent Kruger. (A resident of St. Paul.)
Fantasy: "The Golem and the Jinni," by Helene Wecker, and "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," by Neil Gaiman.
Horror: "The Fate of Mercy Alban," by Duluth writer Wendy Webb, and "Red Moon," by Benjamin Percy, writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College.
Nonfiction: "I Wear the Black Hat," by Chuck Klosterman. (Born here!)
Poetry: "Black Aperture," by Matt Rasmussen. "Incarnadine," by Mary Szybist (published by Minnesota's Graywolf Press). (We'll find out next week about the National Book Award -- both are in the running.)
Middle grade: "Fortunately, the Milk," by Neil Gaiman
Picture book: "Chu's Day," by Neil Gaiman.
Now go do your civic duty, and vote! Voting ends Saturday, and you can vote on the finalists beginning Monday. Good luck.
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