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Terri Nolan presents Burden of Truth ($14.99). Investigative journalist Birdie Elizabeth Keane would give anything–even her Pulitzer–to see Matt Whelan, the love of her life, one more time. The sudden death of the Los Angeles cop has left her devastated, angry, and baffled. Coming from a traditional Irish-Catholic family of cops, Birdie can't ignore the bizarre coincidences surrounding his "accidental" death–or her suspicion that he planned it. A twisting trail of clues leads her to a sixteen-year-old murder, a cold case she's always wanted to solve. With dangerous forces closing in, Birdie races to decipher Matt's last message for her. Each stunning revelation brings her closer to the dark truth about a man she thought she knew–Was he a dirty cop?–and unimaginable, painful secrets about the people she loves most.
Terri Nolan is California born and raised. She grew up in the San Gabriel Valley at the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She attended the University of Texas at Arlington and earned a B.A. in Communication/Radio & Television. Her first newspaper job was at the News Texan. She left with no regrets when radio beckoned. She lives in Southern California and has been lucky to have had a well-rounded business background in radio, high-end retail, oil, art, and freelance reporting. She's married and has two children.
Frosty Hesson discusses Making Mavericks: The Memoir of a Surfing Legend ($16.95). When Richard "Frosty" Hesson was first approached by a young Jay Moriarty in 1990, the skinny kid with a sparkle in his eye only wanted one thing from the icon: his help in becoming a better surfer. Hesson, one of the first to conquer the huge waves off northern California known as Mavericks, recognized that the kid "had a vision." Jay quickly demonstrated a resolve that reminded Frosty of his younger self, pursuing his goal with a seriousness far beyond his years. His attitude and work ethic earned Frosty's respect and, eventually, his friendship. Making Mavericks is the inspiring story of their father-son bond and of the challenges that made each of them who they were—surf legends, and the subject of the upcoming film Chasing Mavericks.
Richard "Frosty" Hesson has been surfing the northern California waters since 1963 and was among the elite group of surfers who first began riding the colossal waves at Mavericks in the 1980s. He has trained hundreds of young people in the art of surfing. Frosty continues to surf and follow his quest to help people achieve and accomplish their goals. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Left Coast Writers Book Launch!
Author and Left Coast Writer Patricia Bracewell reads from Shadow on the Crown ($27.95). In 1002, fifteen-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous court, with a husband who mistrusts her, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown, Emma must defend herself against her enemies and secure her status as queen by bearing a son. Based on real events recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Shadow on the Crown introduces readers to a fascinating, overlooked period of history and an unforgettable heroine whose quest to find her place in the world will resonate with modern readers.
Patricia Bracewell grew up in California where she taught literature and composition before embarking upon a writing career. This is her first novel. She lives in Oakland, California.
Gourmet restaurateur and vegan food expert Miyoko Schinner shares her secrets for making homemade nondairy cheeses in Artisan Vegan Cheese: From Everyday to Gourmet ($19.95). Learn how to make cheeses that retain all the complexity and sharpness of their dairy counterparts while incorporating nutritious nuts and plant-based milks.
For readers who want to whip up something quick, Miyoko provides recipes for almost-instant ricotta and sliceable cheeses, and a variety of tangy dairy substitutes, such as vegan sour cream, creme frache, and yogurt. For suggestions on how to incorporate vegan artisan cheeses into favorite recipes, Miyoko offers up delectable appetizers, entres, and desserts, from caprese salad and classic mac and cheese to eggplant parmesan and San Francisco cheesecake.
In Insane City ($26.95), Dave Barry returns to the comic suspense genre of which he is a past master. Here is a madcap, hilariously complicated, heartfelt tale of a groom, Seth Weinstein, and his numbskull posse of pals, set on the eve of his spectacular wedding. Soon Seth will become involved with a family of Haitian refugees, an orangutan named Trevor, medical marijuana, a fake pirate ship, a gigantic snake, Russian gangsters, scheming billionaires, angry strippers, and gorgeous Cuban women – all set in and around Barry's insanely dangerous, wacky, but exhilarating hometown of Miami.
Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, although he misplaced it for several years, which is why his wife now keeps it in a secure location that he does not know about. He has also written more than 30 books, including the novels Big Trouble, Lunatics, and Tricky Business.
When Women's Voices come together, a powerful song is born. Join Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat, A Little More About Me), Zoe Fitzgerald Carter (Imperfect Endings), Mara Purl (Where the Heart Lives), Allison Bartlett (The Man Who Loved Books Too Much), Barbara Graham (Eye of My Heart), and Victoria Zackheim (Exit Laughing) as they read from their fiction and nonfiction work: novels, memoirs, essays, writing that resonates with the powerful voices of women everywhere.
Join Linda Watanabe McFerrin and the Left Coast Writers® for an evening of love stories to help set the mood for Valentine's Day. You can count on the talented writers from LCW to provide an entertaining evening full of love, lust and other appropriate emotions.
There'll be wine an chocolate, of course, AND all who attend are invited to bring a love or lust story of 1000 words or less. Their stories will be considered for publication on the hotflashessexystsories.com website and a $100 award. You must be present to enter.
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Selisse Berry and select readers celebrate the book launch for Out & Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office ($14.95). Thirty-six never-been-published stories from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied business leaders make up this groundbreaking anthology.It features the stories of Maggie Stumpp, who found support as an executive at Prudential during her transition from male to female; George Kalogridis, who bravely came out and worked his way to President of Disneyland Resort; and contributors who've dealt with multiple diversity issues. Some of these contributors lost their jobs, family, friends and some even nearly their lives. But by being their authentic selves at work, many saw their careers – and companies – blossom.
Selisse Berry is Founding Executive Director of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates. Under her leadership, the organization has grown significantly with dramatic increases in attendance at the annual Workplace Summit and the expansion of programs and global initiatives. Selisse is a frequent speaker on workplace equality and has spoken across the United States and abroad including recent presentations in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Hungary, the West Indies, and Mexico. Her most recent awards include the Outstanding Hero Congressional Recognition from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi; the Parks Award* in Rome, Italy; and the KQED Local Heroes Award** in San Francisco, California.
Special event for young adult readers!
Kirby Larson shares Hattie Ever After ($16.99). After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and do Grand Things, like Hattie's hero Nellie Bly. Another girl might be stymied by this, but Hattie has faced down a hungry wolf and stood up to a mob of angry men. Nothing can squash her desire to write for a big city newspaper.
After Kirby Larson heard a snippet of a story about her great-grandmother homesteading in eastern Montana, she went on to write Hattie Big Sky, selected as a 2007 Newbery Honor Book. This sequel was written in part to answer many questions readers posed about the irrepressible Hattie.
Rebecah Freeling is a master storyteller, experienced early childhood educator, and parent coach. New to California, she recently joined the faculty of Marin Mountain School Early Childhood Center in Corte Madera. For thirteen years she was owner, Director and Lead Teacher of Briar Rose Children's Center in her home state of Ohio. Her magical stories, both original and drawn from the folk and fairy tale traditions, are enhanced by handmade table puppets and simple marionettes. One often observes the children hearing her stories to be sitting on the edge of their seats, eyes wide and mouths open in anticipation!
To be placed on the wait list, call 415-927-0979, ext. 239.
The price includes the meal, wine, tax, tip & a signed copy of the author's book.
We all know someone who has suffered a heart attack, but how often do we learn intimate details that might help us deal with coronary artery disease before it strikes? In The Sanctuary of Illness ($15.00), Thomas Larson tells a powerful and personal story of what happens when our arteries fail us. Thomas Larson has been a staff writer for the San Diego Reader for fifteen years.
Patricia Schultz presents 1000 Places to See Before You Die in the USA & Canada ($19.95). Schultz will share her thirty favorite places in our own great country where you can explore, relax and appreciate the beauty that abounds!
Patricia Schultz is the author of the international bestsellers 1,000 Places to See Before You Die (now with over 3 million copies in print and translated into 25 languages) and 1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die. A veteran travel journalist with 25 years of experience, she has written for The Wall Street Journal, Everyday with Rachel Ray,and Travel Weekly.
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In Conversation with Book Passage president Elaine Petrocelli
Gretel Erlich presents Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami ($25.00). A passionate student of Japanese poetry and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake- and tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast, to bear witness and listen to the survivors. In an eloquent narrative that blends reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, she introduces us to fishermen, farmers, teachers, monks, outcasts, and an eighty-four-year-old geisha, who survived the wave to hand down a song that only she still remembered. Their harrowing and inspirational stories are set against a landscape both shattered and beautiful, with the ever-present specter of the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex that spews radiation into the fields and the fishing grounds.
Gretel Ehrlich is the author of This Cold Heaven, The Future of Ice, and The Solace of Open Spaces, among other works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She lives in Stevensville, MD.
Join us for hilarious readings from the latest Traveler's Tales humor anthology, Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana ($16.95). Authors include Spud Hilton (SF Chronicle Travel Editor), Laura Deutsch, Kimberley Lovato, and Jill Robinson. They'll be joined by editor Marcy Gordon for Q&A following the readings. This award-winning series just keeps getting better!
Scott Anderson - Literary Journalism and The Enduring Power of Creative Nonfiction
Creative nonfiction begins from the premise that life can speak for itself if we can only find the structures to contain it and the words to celebrate it. One of the most influential and controversial wings of this movement is Literary Journalism, an approach that was pioneered in the 1960s by wordsmith reporters like Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.After experiencing ups and downs in the 1970s, the genre saw a storming resurgence in the late 1980s with writers like Jon Franklin, David Simon and Jon Krakauer.
On Feb. 24, award-winning journalist Scott Thomas Anderson will discuss how he turned to Literary Journalism and other elements of creative nonfiction during a crisis in his writing career - the assignment of capturing, in a meaningful way, the child abuse, elder abuse, domestic violence, assaults and homicides he was witnessing around methamphetamine during his 18 months as an embedded reporter with law enforcement.
Scott Thomas Anderson is a journalist who has written for publications like The Sacramento News and Review and Sierra Lodestar magazine. He's worked as a foreign correspondent for Radio Kerry in Tralee, Ireland, and he's been published in The Irish Independent, Dublin's largest daily newspaper. Scott is currently a crime reporter for the northern California newspaper, The Press Tribune.
The Marin branch of the California Writers Club meets monthly at Book Passage, except July, August and December, on the 4th Sunday of the month, unless a holiday. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Meeting may feature a guest speaker, a workshop or a panel discussion along with networking, encouragement and writing news. All are welcome. www.cwcmarinwriters.com.
Marc Lesser presents Know Yourself, Forget Yourself: Five Truths That Will Transform Your Work, Relationships, and Everyday Life ($14.95 ). We all yearn for clear-cut answers to life's problems. Yet we rarely get them. And when we do, we often receive results we didn't expect. Formulas fail and contradictions mount. In Know Yourself, Forget Yourself, executive coach and Zen teacher Marc Lesser shows that understanding and embracing the points where our life feels most confusing, most contradictory, can lead us to more satisfaction and joy.
Marc Lesser, the CEO and cofounder of the nonprofit Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, lived at the San Francisco Zen Center for ten years and is the former director of the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He lives in Mill Valley, CA. His website is www.zbaassociates.com.
From Bravo's Top Chef All-Stars winner Richard Blais comes Try This at Home ($35.00), his debut cookbook for home cooks who hope to up their game and have more excitement in the kitchen. Accessible and fun, his book includes the signature recipes, flavor combinations, and cooking techniques that have made him such a popular chef.
Self-Publish like a Professional: How to Avoid the New Slush Pile, is a rare Left Coast Writers® Salon which will be open to the public—no membership required to attend!
The panel of speakers, led by LCW president Linda Watanabe McFerrin, will include a planning and print specialist, a book designer, a small publisher, and a bookseller—all experts in their fields, with unique perspectives on today's popular practice of self-publishing. The discussion will be frank, and full of vital information that writers need to know, with plenty of time left for the many questions it will raise. Every writer should attend! Please join us.
Book Passage hosts monthly meetings of Left Coast Writers® at our Corte Madera store. The monthly meetings provide an evening of literary connections, support, counsel, readings, writing tips, literary chat, unabashed networking, and great fun. Each meeting also features a presentation by one of several Bay Area literary figures. LCW has its own lively newsletter and website at www.leftcoastwriters.com/.
Phil Cousineau and tea expert James Norwood Pratt discuss and sign copies of The Meaning of Tea: A Tea Inspired Journey ($24.95). The book explores the nature of tea through the words of growers, tasters, and experts.
This event is part of the S.F. Interntional Tea Festival at the Ferry Building.
Ignite Your Writing With Details & Fire!
Sun., Mar. 10 • 1:00-3:00 pm • $45 per person
Left Coast Writers Event!
Set prior to Hurricane Katrina, Bayou Nights ($14.99) features Claire Rivet, a Baton Rouge Assistant D.A. attempting to connect the rape and murder of a young woman to a similar attack she suffered when she was ten. Nicola Trwst's previous book was The Belvedere Club.
Reception with wine to proceed reading
At seventeen, Mary Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of Time magazine; eighteen months later she began her training as a Missionary of Charity, a nun in Mother Teresa's order. Not without difficulty, this boisterous, independent-minded teenager eventually adapted to the sisters' austere life of poverty and devotion, but beneath the white-and-blue sari beat the heart of an ordinary young woman who faced daily the simple and profound struggles we all share, the same desires for love and connection. Eventually, after twenty years of service, Johnson left the church to find her own path. In An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir ($16.00), her magnificently told story holds universal truths about the mysteries of faith and how a woman discovers herself.
For twenty years, as Sister Donata, Mary Johnson was a Missionary of Charity, a nun in Mother Teresa's order, until she left in 1997. A respected teacher and public speaker, she has been named a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony and is on the board of A Room of Her Own Foundation. She lives in New Hampshire.
Dina Hampton captures the revolutionary fervor of the '60s in Little Red: Three Passionate Lives Through the Sixties and Beyond ($25.99). She tells the parallel biographies of Angela Davis, Tom Hurwitz, and Elliot Abrams—three graduates of the Greenwich Village "Little Red School House" who went in radically different directions.
Joins us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine, fun, and fresh new writing.
Meet and Greet!
In the Kitchen with the Pike Place Fish Guys ($30.00) serves up more than 100 savory seafood recipes that answer the most popular question the Fish Guys get: "How do you cook that?" Anders Miller features the inspiring words from the fishmongers who made Pike Place Fish entirely sustainable in 2011.
Tony La Russa discusses One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season ($27.99). Speaking candidly, the third-winningest manager in baseball history talks about his World Championship season with the St. Louis Cardinals, his lifetime spent studying the game, his famously intense style, and his decision to retire. La Russa also shares stories from throughout his career that shaped his outlook — from his first days managing the Chicago White Sox to his championship years with the Oakland A's, to his triumphant tenure as St. Louis's longest-serving manager.
Tony La Russa managed the St. Louis Cardinals from 1996 to 2011, as well as the Oakland A's and the Chicago White Sox. He has three World Series wins, six league championships, and five Manager of the Year awards, and is ranked third in all-time major league wins. He and his wife, Elaine, founded the Tony La Russa Animal Rescue Foundation in Walnut Creek, California.
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Christa Parravani's Her ($26.00) is a blazingly passionate memoir of identity and love: when a charismatic and troubled young woman dies tragically, her idential twin sister must struggle to survive. Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. But, haunted by childhood experiences with father figures and further damaged by being raped as a young adult, Cara veered off the path to robust work and life and in to depression, drugs and a shocking early death. Beautifully written, mesmerizingly rich and true, Christa Parravani's account of being left, one half of a whole, and of her desperate, ultimately triumphant struggle for survival is informative, heart-wrenching and unforgettably beautiful.
Christa Parravani is a writer and photographer. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are represented by the Michael Foley Gallery in New York City and the Kopeikin gallery in Los Angeles. She has taught photography at Dartmouth College, Columbia University and UMass, Amherst. She earned her MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers.
The ticket price of $55 includes lunch and a signed book
Call (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 to reserve
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni shares Oleander Girl. Beloved by critics and readers, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Junot Díaz as a "brilliant storyteller" and by People magazine as a "skilled cartographer of the heart." Now, Divakaruni returns with her most gripping novel yet, a sweeping, suspenseful, atmospheric coming-of-age novel about a young woman who leaves India for America on a search that will transform her life.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the award-winning author of many books, including The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, and One Amazing Thing. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times. Born in India, she currently lives in Texas and teaches in the nationally ranked Creative Writing program at the University of Houston.
Author Elizabeth Berg will introduce Ms. Divakaruni.Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata's Restaurant of San Anselmo.
Set amid the Armenian community in newly occupied Paris, Nancy Kricorian's All the Light There Was ($24.00) is a lyrical, finely wrought story about family loyalty, secret love, the many faces of oppression—and the many faces of resistance.
Nancy Kricorian, author of the novels Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and Fire, is a widely published poet, essayist, and activist. After graduating from Dartmouth, Nancy studied and worked in Paris before earning an MFA in writing at Columbia University.
The ticket price of $55 includes lunch and a signed book
Call (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 to inquire about availability
Ruth Ozeki shares A Tale for the Time Being. Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
Ruth Ozeki, author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation, is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Shambhala Sun, and More, among other publications. In June 2010 she was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She lives in British Columbia and New York City.Book Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata's Restaurant of San Anselmo.
Joins us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine, fun, and fresh new writing.
Welcome to a three-hour intensive flash fiction-writing workshop. Flash fiction centers on the art of compression and the brilliance of brevity. To inspire and enliven us, we will read and briefly discuss a sampling of excellent, inventive short-short stories. The main focus of the workshop will be on your writing and we will work from prompts to generate ideas, encourage risk, and bring forth trouble (only trouble is interesting). Our goal is to enjoy our group's collective charge and to produce a first draft of tiny but meaningful narratives. That's a lot to accomplish in three hours. Please arrive on time and come prepared to make every moment of our time together worthwhile.
Wine & Cheese Reception
Join Pam Belluck (Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor) and Daniel J. Levitin (This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs) for an evening of live jazz and lively discussion ranging from health and science to writing, music and the interconnections of these varied disciplines.
Pam Belluck has been a staff writer for the New York Times for more than fifteen years. She is currently a health and medical writer for the Times. Belluck has won several awards, a Knight Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship, and is also an accomplished jazz flutist.
Daniel J. Levitin runs the Levitin Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University, where he holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communications. Before becoming a neuroscientist, he was a record producer with gold records to his credit and professional musician. He has published extensively in scientific journals and music trade magazines such as Grammy and Billboard.
This very special event will be held upstairs from the Book Passage store in the San Francisco Ferry Building's Port Commission Hearing Room.
Moment in the Moment House, Claire Blotter's third poetry chapbook, dives below the surface of a rapidly changing technological world, examines the roots of violence- and calls for a compassionate witnessing and response, moment to moment.
Claire Blotter holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a Special Master's Degree in Creative Writing, Women Studies and Speech Communications from San Francisco State University. She is the author of Trying to Sing in the War Zone and Face. She has received two Marin Arts Council Artists Grants in Poetry and grants from the Marin Community Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Holly Lynn Payne is an internationally published novelist in ten countries whose work has been translated into eight languages. She lives in Northern California with her husband and young daughter, and serves the literary community as a volunteer producer for Litquake.
The Marin branch of the California Writers Club meets monthly at Book Passage, except July, August and December, on the 4th Sunday of the month, unless a holiday. 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Meeting may feature a guest speaker, a workshop or a panel discussion along with networking, encouragement and writing news. All are welcome. www.cwcmarinwriters.com.
Book Passage hosts the monthly meetings of Left Coast Writers® at our Corte Madera store. This Literary Salon is led by author/teacher Linda Watanabe McFerrin. The monthly meetings provide an evening of literary connections, support, counsel, provocative readings, writing tips, literary chat, unabashed networking, and great fun. Each meeting also features a presentation by one of several Bay Area literary figures. The fee includes membership in Left Coast Writers®, a group of new and experienced writers. LCW has its own lively newsletter and website at www.leftcoastwriters.com/.
Photographer and conservationist Bryant Austin's breathtaking photographic project Beautiful Whale ($50.00) is the first of its kind: tt chronicles his fearless attempts to reach out to whales as fellow sentient beings. Featuring Austin's intimate images--some as detailed as a single haunting eye--that result from encounters based on mutual trust, this work captures the grace and intelligence of these magnificent creatures. Austin spent days at a time submerged, motionless, in the waters of remote spawning grounds waiting for humpback, sperm, and minke whales to seek him out.
As oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle says in her foreword to the book, "As an ambassador from the ocean--and to the ocean--Bryant Austin is not only a source of inspiration. He is cause for hope."


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Have you ever wondered who handles the huge, ridiculously scandalous crises for politicians, sports stars and all the headline-grabbing A-list celebs and musicians?
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State Of Affairs: Sheriff's race, Eric Garcetti, city pension system and more
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Los Angeles County Sheriff candidates gather at the Van Nuys Civic Center in Van Nuys for a debate on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. .
It's Thursday and that means it's time for State of Affairs, our look at politics and government throughout California. To help us with that we're joined in studio, not by drones, but by KPCC political reporters Alice Walton and Frank Stoltze.
Last night there was a debate between the candidates running for sheriff. It's a crowded field. How did they distinguish themselves?
More than half of the Los Angeles City Council has been D.C. this week for the National League of Cities conference. What have they been up to?
A candidate for L.A. County supervisor made news this week when he said he would not follow campaign spending limits in his race. That means spending caps are lifted for all candidates. What's behind Bobby Shriver's decision?
It's the season for political conventions here in California. Let's start with the Democrats. Last weekend, the party met in downtown Los Angeles to make endorsements and approve a party platform. What was the takeaway from that?
The Republicans will be in San Francisco this weekend. That party has two candidates running for governor. What can we expect from Tim Donnelly and Neel Kashkari this weekend?
Tim Donnelly's campaign made some news this week when his campaign manager quit. What happened there?
Mayor Eric Garcetti visited KPCC this week for a sit-down with our political team. What did he have to say?
Finally today, voters might not pay a whole lot of attention to a candidate's ballot title but political reporters do.Our political reporters noticed something a little funny about Wendy Greuel's title in the Westside congressional race.
L.A. City Controller Ron Galperin released audit reports that show that during the pension system for public employees remains in trouble. What the his reports say?
Correction: In a conversation about candidates for the California governor's race, our political correspondent mentioned how voters might lean in the Republican primary. However, under California's nonpartisan blanket primary law, all candidates now appear on the same ballot, regardless of party - there is no Republican gubernatorial primary.


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Anonymous2: screw the third, i have milk
Anonymous3: screw the quantity i have money!!!
Anonymous4: Screw the third! I have a rail!
Anonymous5: Next: I will beat a rod till a tank empties.
Anonymous6: After that: I wash your pipe. I investigate the inside.
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Anonymous8: Anon7 is Master of Engrish. We will refer to you next time we are told "I wash your pipe. I investigate the inside."
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Hello Pego, How do i ensure that the text in in the left area of the upper panel appears in the middle of the upper panel?http://stylionista.zite.be/wordpress/
It is now sticking to the top border of the upper panel and i want it in the middle. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hi again,
this would require a code change. Upper header has 2 areas defined. One goes to the left and one to the right. If wanting to have just one in the middle, osecond would probably need to be removed and the remaining one would need text alignement to center.
Best regards,
Hi sir, I was wondering if there is a way to set how many items to show on Portfolio Overview before Pagination shows up (like Blog page).
Thank you in advance.
because theme supportd multiple portfolio and also filtering we didn't add the pagination to the portfolio items. It would need to be added to the code in roder to set number of items on each page.
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Can you please, help me with that, if I don't ask too much? I don't know how, and I need this!
we might consider adding this feature with an upcoming updates.
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Ok, but when?
we usually fill the wish list and then discus what should we put in an update, which new features We do give the bug resolving issues priority. So no relese date yet.
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Hello, you guys say that the theme is translation ready however it looks like all of the language is hardcoded into the template files.
For example, the word "comments" is not written as a _('comments', 'remarky') instead it is simply written as comments.
Are we missing something?
if there is such a word stilll in the theme without the "translate wrapper" it would just need to be added to it.
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Pego, we still haven't been able to find the translate wrapper in the templates. Can you please send a link where I can download the templates with the translate wrapper applied?
Hi again,
you may send us a temp ftp access to your files(use the contact form on our Themeoforest profile) and we can check this for you.
Best regards,
Hi, i´m realy happy about purchasing your theme but i have a little problem. My slide is not reacting like yours (same problem as robles_design has posted 15 days ago). When you load the page it fits the width perfectly but when you resize it doesnt behave like yours, stays the same width and height as it had when it was loaded.
I hope you can help me, thanks
can you send us a temp admin access(use the contact form on our Themeforest profile) so that we can check your slider settings?
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Hi, can I change the header of the pages? I mean the grid header.
Greetings from Germany René
sure you can. Do you ahve anything specific in mind?
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Cool! And can I change it on EVERY page? So that every page has an different header?
Hi again reneruebner,
in order to ahve different header for different pages a little code change would need to be done. Adding an input where the header for specific page would be defined and then read it on a page.
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Just wanted to leave a comment saying my experience with the Remarky theme and pego's customer support has been outstanding. Remarky is perfect for my business, and when I needed a little help, pego took care of everything quickly. Would definitely purchase from pego again.
Stephanie Quinn salescopysteph.com
Thanks for the kind words, Stephanie!
Hi dear customers,
we have to inform you that we will be absent for a week, because we are going on holidays. We will begin replying to all support questions once we are back. Will also make sure to charge our batteries and work even harder then
Thanks for understanding.
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Hello Pego,
Love this theme!!!
I'm working on it for a client who purchased it.
Is there a way to put a link on the column icons? (the 3 icons just under the slider on your theme demo)
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance
thanks for the kind words. In order to have a link on the icon as well, a minnor code change would need to be done in it's shortcode. For now the url can be set only to the column title.
Best regards,
I'm with stratusint about the shortcode thing.
Any plans on future updates and is there any plans including retina icons?
Hi, which icons so you ahve in mind?
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Killer theme!
Would I be able to incorporate typekit fonts?
Hi jamesgrabatin,
yes that can be added by modifing/inserting code for it. We can help you with that.
If you have any other question, feel free to ask us.
Best regards,
One of my pages is not displaying the page builder elements, it's a published public page but doesn't show anything. What could be the issue?
did you try to create a new one with same content?
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Hi great theme! What code did you use in the upper header area – left widget? I'd like to use the icons and have the text sit the same as you have in the sample.
we used the Quick Info widget for that area. Do check and test it.
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Ok, awesome. What is the URL for the phone and the envelope icons?
nevermind. figured it out :O)
One more thing. The brick pattern behind the page titles is only showing on some pages. How do I fix that?
ok I fixed it. nevermind again. sorry :O)
I have a question regarding the header images. I am trying to upload a header image for the full-width theme. It is not responding however and is remaining a static width. I've dug around the CSS and tried to override this but I cannot seem to made it respond. Any help is appreciated!
Link to installation: http://s171573.gridserver.com/
Thank you
your image is simply to small to fit as background to the entire header wrapper. You need a bigger one, or some that can be put on repeat.
Best regards,
Sorry, I may have worded my question wrong. I used a full width image (2560px) but when re-sizing the browser window, the header image remained static and did not resize. I have solved my problem by just adding the image to the header.css file and adding the appropriate css rules to have the image scale.
great. Sorry for misunderstanding.
Best regards,
Hi sir!
I'm wondering how can I change PAGE TITLES AREA BACKGROUND for each page I have?
Thanks in advance.
yes you can. Each page has it's Page settings. Do set it for each page that you want a different page title background.
Best regards,
Hi, I don't see the option to upload an image background. I see only the option "Show page title?". Can you please help me?
Hi again,
sorry for that, that is an option on some other theme of our. A filed can be added, we can help you with that.
Best regards,
I am having a problem with inserting images. it was working find for about a week. now I cannon insert any images from the media library. also all of my images have resized themselves. i don't know what happened.http://immigrationhadley.com/about-us-2/
Hi djres,
we have replied to your email. Do reply there for fixing your issues.
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There are so many different styles of preparing adobo, but this one is definitely NOT Philippine style.
Tasty and easy. Instead of the leg quarters I just cut up a whole chicken for the mix of white and dark meat.
Adobo is a no-muss no-fuss dish. this recipe has the same ingredients but the prep is over the top. To make 'real' Adobo - Brown chicken in a big pot then add the other ingrediants and cook till done. That's it. Also - and this is Very important - leaving raw meat out at room temperature for 45 minutes is dangerous. Leaving raw meat out at room temp. allows for bacteria growth (especially true for salmonella prone chicken). Never leave raw meat out unless you're actively prepping it.
This recipe does not do justice to the true Filipino Adobo. Read all the reviews for this recipe and you will know why. Adobo is the easiest chicken dish you can make. Dump everything in a pot and voila. No baking. No marinating. It's delicious IF done right! Best served with white rice or garlic rice
I didn't care for this one at all either. I am also a Filipina and am used to the traditional Filipino dish, where it is not baked.
Chicken adobo is incredible if made the right way. Use rice vinegar, soy sauce, water, bay leaves, garlic, and pepper, cook on the stovetop for either one hour then transfer to the crockpot, or just simmer longer. You can broil it at the end if you want but the longer stewing the better. No marinating. There are so many long responses because this is so good when done right.
I made it twice, first as written, and second marinating it overnight. It wasn't anything special at all.
I used some of the ideas from this recipe and then altered it with input from my Philippino friend. Try this and you will not be disappointed. It's such an easy and simple dish to make without all the fuss. First, don't use the oven use a crockpot if you have one and cook on low for 8 hours. I only used chicken, as a matter of fact I cut up a whole chicken and plopped it into the pot. The marinade: I used 3/4 cup rice vinegar, and 1/4 Soy sauce. I added crushed red pepper flakes (to taste), 8 garlic cloves, 2 large onions, 2 bay leaves. I mixed this together poured it over the chicken and marinated it in the fridge for 1 1/2 hr. After cooking it in the crockpot 8 hours you simply have an amazing dish. I've been eating this all week with varying side dishes, like roasted asparagus or steamed spinach. Finger lickin' good.
The way I make adobo is to brown the garlic and the chicken & pork, and then add equal parts soy sauce and white vinegar, bay leaves, black peppercorns and roughly 1-2 tablespoons of ground coffee. Definitely mix the pork with the chicken, and if available, dried banana or lily flower. I've tried many different adobos - you know, holidays with the extended family - but find that this way is best. The coffee counteracts some of the sour and adds a nice depth; the dried flower adds a touch of sweetness; the pork adds not only flavor, but some moisture too. Ma sarap! I also think it's funny that all the Filipinos/Filipinas have read this recipe and responded like a call to arms. But I suppose that's from calling something Philippine-Style. One of the best thing about Philippine cooking is that every family throws their own spin on things, and then passes it down. So perhaps some Philippine family makes the adobo like the recipe...but really, cider vinegar and no peppercorns? Hindi pa sarap.


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Although mass merchants remain a popular holiday shopping destination for those who want to experience the nostalgic festive experience in stores, 54 percent of shoppers say they will take advantage of free shipping deals that eRetailers can offer.
The study also shows more men plan to do their shopping with eRetailers because they say spending as little time as possible is the most important attribute for holiday shopping, while more women will shop at mass merchants as they say having an enjoyable experience is the most important attribute.Shoppers choose different channels at different times during the shopping season, with mass merchants being the choice destination for Black Friday and last minute shopping. "The length of the holiday-shopping season allows shoppers to interact with brands and retailers multiple times and across multiple touch points. Shoppers increasingly expect a multichannel shopping experience that allows them to easily transact across websites, smartphones, and store aisles," said Craig Elston, senior vice president, Insight & Strategy at The Integer Group. "Brands and retailers should take time to evaluate and understand how customers move through these various touch points to ensure that their priorities are being met throughout the path to purchase." Additional findings in the Holiday Edition of The Checkout include:
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New BEA Data Provide Insights on How Harsh Winter Impacted Industries in First Quarter
How much did the harsh winter weather affect the U.S. economy in the first quarter of this year?
We know that the economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), contracted at an annual rate of 2.9 percent over January, February and March, the first quarterly decline in three years. But how were different industries affected and was weather a factor? New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis provide fresh insights on that front.
The economy's downturn in the first quarter was widespread, with 19 of 22 major industry groups contributing to the drop in U.S. economic activity, the new BEA data show. Some of the leading contributors to the downturn included industries that were impacted by the unusually harsh winter weather that hit most of the United States, including "agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting."
Severe weather conditions can have both positive and negative (although mostly negative) effects on the Nation's economic performance. For some industries this is intuitive, like "agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting" and "construction;" for other industries, like "mining," and "nondurable-goods manufacturing," the link may not be as intuitive.
Real value added —a measure of an industry's contribution to GDP—for agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting declined 31 percent in the first quarter, reflecting a drop in the production of farm-type products, including livestock and dairy.
Construction fell almost 9 percent, reflecting a notable decline in nonresidential construction activity that began in January and continued through March; unusually cold and wet weather hampered construction activity.
Perhaps somewhat surprising, the utility industry also contributed to the decline in GDP in the first quarter. While demand for additional utilities, for example electricity generation, was evident with the severe winter weather, a surge in the costs of the inputs used by the utilities industry—things like energy, materials, and purchased services used in the production process—caused real value added to drop over 16 percent in the first quarter.


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|Sun, 10-31-2010 - 12:49am
We've made it to the end of October! Only two months left in 2010. Somehow I find that hard to believe, but the calendar tells me it's true... ;)
|Sun, 10-31-2010 - 10:57am
Things are going well at my house this weekend. Not too busy for our Saturday, and hopefully we're organised enough that today won't be bad either. Made tortellini for supper yesterday so that we'll have leftovers today, leaving more time for taking the kids out trick-or-treating. It'll be Ben's first time!
I didn't sleep after 5 am, but had some good Christmas shopping ideas - may use ToysRUs.ca to get the kids' presents instead of having to arrange a trip where they can't see what they're getting. (The dilemmas of always shopping with your kids... LOL) Also pondering the gift exchange on my side of the family. Haven't picked names yet and I feel like we should get on that already!
Once I was done with those thoughts, I grabbed my DS (which I'd wisely left by the alarm clock in case I needed it late at night or early in the morning) and played Puzzler World. The most challenging game for me is Codeword, so I used a few of my many hint tokens this last time to get me started on the letters that appeared a lot in the puzzle.
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(WSCR) Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall has tweeted he's been medically cleared to play.
The wide receiver entering his second season with the Bears had been recovering from arthroscopic hip surgery.
"Just got cleared to get back out there with my teammates. #Glory. Only right to get in the zone by blasting @Unclereece Until I pass out," Marshall wrote.
Marshall could participate in his first team activities as early as today.
The Bears have three more OTA practices this week, and then a minicamp next week before taking a break.


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"You don't know where they come from," said Singleton. "You know, they could load up with a bomb or whatever and come right out here."
As much as I'd like to say "oh he's kidding," I can't. This comes from one of those types of folks that totalitarian government just loves to have around. They beg to be made more "secure." They say the dumbest things sometimes.
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Reading the comments below the article – dissing the whole notion of terrofascism – gives one hope that the average Joe is starting to "get it."6:04 am on June 3, 2007 Email Karen De Coster


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Dear President Tripathi,
It's your turn to talk about the Heights
This is how an e-board should behave, admit to their mistakes and accept what punishment is given to them. They were open about going over as far back as the debate and let everyone know. I will say that the new $300 limit is a bit too low for elections this large. It works great for the senate races, but these are a bit bigger. Anonymous #comment 2
We are tired of one-sided conversations and unanswered phone calls, of turned cheeks and of the ticking time bomb that is the University Heights.
So today, we want to make a deal: We are reserving Friday's front page for you. You have the opportunity to say whatever you want about the problems in the Heights, how you feel UB should or should not handle it, respond to students' concerns or write whatever comes into your head. By emailing your response to the address at the bottom of this editorial, you guarantee a spot to answer the criticisms that your school is facing without fear of censorship or spoiled words - a spot to instill faith in the student body.
However, if we don't receive anything from you by 10 p.m. on Thursday, the front page will remain blank. Sometimes nothing speaks louder than silence. We are faced with short deadlines and quick responses day after day, so we realize this isn't a lot of time. But we are tired of waiting.
This is The Spectrum's second editorial of the school year regarding the University Heights district of Buffalo. In October, we made a call for action to UB, encouraging - nay, pleading - with the school to make a push to take care of the living conditions that UB's off-campus residents are subjected to and that UB so willingly endorses as alternative, affordable housing.
In case you failed to notice (but we know you didn't), Monday's paper was dedicated to the area. Our eight-page issue was almost completely occupied by a comprehensive outline of the crime and conditions in the Heights. We had interviews with international students who had few other options besides their unsafe, untended homes. We had other residents - current and former - who felt strong enough about the matter to share their own experiences of break-ins and gunpoint robberies.
And not once have we heard back from you. Not one single word. We've seen you jump at the opportunity to answer questions about school-wide expansion and even gave a full interview to a Spectrum staff writer on state funding for the Center of Excellence for Materials Informatics earlier this month (and you responded quite quickly, at that). This is your school and these are your students and hearing your thoughts on the negative aspects of the former that hurt the latter has been an impossible mission. You and your staff want pats on the back when something good happens but pass the blame on negative press.
It's becoming increasingly evident that we are being played, but we are not the victims of this game; the victims are all the students who are being misguided and misinformed by a school that is supposed to have their best interests at heart. It's supposed to be a school that will protect them, yet Dennis Black, your vice president of University Life and Services, has said you're "not in the protection business" and you're "not guardian angels that can travel with 40,000 people wherever it is they are or wherever they go."
Your students do not need guardian angels, but it does seem like at this point they need a miracle to actually get and hold your attention. Crime after crime and violation after violation, students are told just how little the school is willing to do to help Heights residents. Black told The Spectrum if a student feels unsafe where he or she lives, that person needs to move. To him, that choice is as simple as the choice of drinking alcohol or the time you pick to go out (yes, that is actually what he compared it to).
Meanwhile, somebody else is making the choice to break your windows or steal your money.
These are not isolated incidents or uncommon occurrences; this is what happens in the Heights - rather frequently, in fact, and increasingly so. Robbery numbers have gone down since 2008, but crime - including homicide, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny and vehicle theft - remains unchanged. Five hundred twenty-three crimes in the Heights in 2008, 523 crimes in the Heights in 2012. And enough students who live there feel unsafe and want something done about it.
As for increased police presence (which has been proven to deter crime) by the Buffalo Police Department, Black is all for it.
"I think that anything people can do to take away the opportunity for crime is good," he told The Spectrum at the end of December. "And that's lighting, that's transportation, that's people being smart and that's enhanced police presence."
But as for expanding University Police's jurisdiction to help cover that? It's a no-go. The excuse Black gave us against adding UPD patrol to the Heights? We'll give you a hint: It's green and keeps the university alive.
"Imagine what it would cost for University Police to patrol University Heights," he said. "Who would pay that cost?"
Us probably, like everything else that goes into the university. Black says two things could happen: Cost of attendance would go up and/or other services would go down ("It's not magic," he said).
Is anybody actually going to object to an added service that protects a good percentage of the student body? Plus, the cost of attendance going up is hardly a threat when it is already going up steadily each year to pay for UB 2020, that lovely expansion plan that will increase the school's presence in downtown Buffalo yet continues to ignore South Campus. As a city, Buffalo is relying on UB to pull it from depression, and UB 2020 is supposed to be the program that does so, but what about the facets that are getting ignored in the process?
It only makes sense to give University Police jurisdiction in the University Heights, and community members have no idea why it hasn't been done yet, especially after other universities have taken that step. In September, Ohio State University and the City of Columbus teamed up to give campus police the right to patrol the inner city. In the first two months, violent crime dropped 5 percent from the past 10 years. According to OSU Undergraduate Student Government President Taylor Stepp, he just wasn't comfortable having students in a situation where they were getting mugged off campus or held at gunpoint. Clearly UB's administration is.
As Black noted to The Spectrum, doubling up on jurisdiction requires state legislation and approval, but in Ohio's case, University President E. Gordon Gee actually pushed and worked with state legislature to make sure that it was acted upon.
Black's response to that one? Nothing - unless you count a stymied grunt for an answer.
So here we are. How did we get to the point where we say, "Well, it's not as bad as Detroit" or "South Campus isn't as bad as the East and West Side?" This shouldn't even be a talking point - not now and not ever. Our two main campuses are in Amherst and Buffalo. That's what we should be comparing - the two places where our school's flag is flown high.
By name, UB owns the University Heights. It's supposed to be safe, and our students are supposed to be protected. You promote the housing and give us vendors in the area to use Campus Cash and spend our weekends when we're bored of Amherst.
But none of us signed up for what we have to face.
Most people are coming to Buffalo for the sole purpose of going to school. This is a neighborhood the school promotes, a neighborhood on which you can find listings galore for on Sub-Board and that the school helps find apartments in. Why do we get to go home at the end of the day and have to worry about getting robbed or having our house get broken into?
Every Buffalo official and UB administrator likes to pretend the situation is fine. It's not fine. You can't build up a failing city with a university that will not protect its students. You cannot build up a university while ignoring your student body. And the state is not going to ignore a state university and one of its major centers if you, President Tripathi, try to protect the school's students.
It's not magic.
To all the students who are reading this along with President Tripathi, we hope you are not taking it as lightly as our administration is. In the last few days, we have been accused of muckraking and fear mongering, of exaggerating the severity of the situation. Let us assure you: the problems and the fear already exist.
How many people have to say "the people who are walking around at 3 a.m. should know better and are just asking for it" before one person recognizes residents in the Heights shouldn't have to worry about walking in their neighborhood at 3 a.m. for whatever reason? You should be able to come home without getting robbed between your driveway and your doorstep. You shouldn't have to fear for your life coming home late from work or from studying because your school's administration has blatantly and clear-as-crystal said UB has no responsibility for its students off campus.
If somebody breaks into your house and takes your belongings, there's a chance you can get them back. What we're trying to do is prevent something much bigger from happening that has yet to happen. Things are going to come to a head, and when they do, we at The Spectrum are going to just be forced to cover it again, hoping that story will be the triggering event, hoping the university will finally do something.
It's not enough to just pick up the paper and read it anymore. You have to pick it up, read it and do something about it. You have to tell your friends and your family. You have to get as angry as you should be about the situation. You have to make the university know this is as unfair and unsafe and deplorable as you know it is.
Because this university does not care about you. The administration has said it doesn't want to widen UPD's jurisdiction because tuition will go up, but tuition is still going up. The worse the conditions in the Heights, the more money students are going to be willing to shell out for the ridiculous costs of on-campus living.
For the parents who may be reading this, nobody is going to do anything without your help. We are students who don't find it safe, but after months and years of asking, we are constantly ignored. You have let your children go off to a school that claims it's "not in the protection business," a school that lets them live in an unsafe neighborhood in homes that are not up to code with just a pat on the back and a bill in the mail.
And as to you, President Tripathi, of the 760 students we polled, 82 percent said they think UB should do more to improve the living conditions in the Heights. A majority (54 percent) of the 787 polled on the question "Do you feel safe in University Heights" said no.
How are those numbers you can even continue to ignore? You are trying to build and expand the university as a major force in higher education but refuse to answer the most comprehensive critiques of it. You promote housing off campus for students (especially international students) who cannot afford any other options, yet not only does your administration refuse to help those who are being threatened and who are suffering, it also places all the blame on said students, apathetically declaring their decisions are choices they have the opportunity to change and turn the other cheek.
But if choosing to live in the Heights is just one of many choices we make in our lifetime, as Black so nonchalantly suggests, then some of our other choices must include whether or not to even go to UB, encouraging our children and siblings to go here or even donating money to future development as alumni. If these are our choices, then we can surely guarantee what options the average student is leaning toward, and if you're as concerned with the image of this university as we know you are, you're not going to like what we've all picked.
We await your reply.
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