Dear Hon. Dr. Emmanuel Fabiano,
I write this open letter to your Hon. Education Minister with heavy heart and it borders on what I suspect to be a spar between quality education and incompetent administrators in the education sector.
Honourable Minister, it is undeniable fact that all countries that have registered tremendous improvements in the sphere of economy have an educated citizenry because education has proved to be the only greatest known civilizing force since antiquity. Thus, education needs to be handled without kid gloves.
Honourable minister, I have been prompted to drop this letter to bring to your attention the callous ordeal newly recruited teachers are always subjected to by a team of incompetent and heartless employees –you inclusive- in the ministry of...
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Dear Mr. (name withheld),
Thank you for reaching out to let us know your opinion of the Locally Laid Egg Company. Not enough of us stand up for what we believe and I appreciate the time it took to handwrite a letter. I also want to acknowledge your right to find our name vulgar and also to tell the grocery store owner and your friends your opinion that we are crude.
So having respectfully listened to you, I ask that you hear me out.
Here’s why we named our company, Locally Laid. First off, it’s completely demonstrative of what we are. We are the first pasture-raised egg company in the Upper Midwest providing you with eggs which are laid locally. More on the sassy part of the name in minute, but let’s look at local. It’s important.
The average food product in this country travels some...
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Dear Mr. Fleury,
Thank you for encouraging me to email you after our conversations on Twitter, I hope that this email finds you well and that you’ll be encouraged to reply back to me.
My name is Sarah and I’m a Registered Nurse, city-girl-turned farm wife and mom of two young boys. I met my future husband at the University of Alberta during my last year of nursing and his first year of Crop Sciences in the agriculture program. We joke to this day that the only way a die hard Edmonton Oiler’s fan like me and a die hard Calgary Flames fan like him ended up sticking out our relationship was because we met during the lock out of 2004. My husband admired you growing up, you were a hero of his, he’s read your book and we were both surprised to see your Facebook post today stating “I...
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Dear Jerry,
Thanks for taking the time to stop by my booth at PAX. I was really glad to hear you liked my game. Believe it or not, you were actually kind of a hero of mine when I was a kid, and your writing style was a huge inspiration to me; so hearing that from you meant a whole lot.
Here’s the thing, though: not long before you so cordially stopped by, your business partners Mike and Robert were with you on stage, saying that the biggest mistake they’d ever made was pulling the “Dickwolves” shirt. People more eloquent than me have described what’s wrong with this, but suffice to say, that’s some pretty fucked up shit, man. You said you were happy that I was there, but let me tell you, I was definitely not happy to be there.
PAX is the biggest show of its kind in North America...
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Dear White Walkers and Your Thousands of Undead Wights:
I get it—you’re scary and disgusting. To Jon Snow and his ragtag, reluctant band of allies, you’re a formidable enemy, an unstoppable harbinger of death; to TV critics, you’re a horrifying thrill. Your triumphant appearance in the “Game of Thrones” episode “Hardhome,” after seasons of teasing, was a coup, a set piece, a breathtaking, daze-inducing experience so pleasurable that it transcended what was already transcendent. To me, however, you’re a snooze factor eleven.
Wights, when I see thousands of you, your gray, gristled skeletons scampering over a cliff like a throng of bipedal lemmings and crashing to the ground, motionless—Hey, you’re dead! No, you’re not!—and then popping back up again, waiting to kill and be re-...
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Hey Kids,
Feel free to leave your stuff wherever you want this summer. Half drunk smoothies in the family room? No problem. I got it. Socks in the hall. I’m on it. Dishes in the sink? Keep ’em coming. Legos? Everywhere? Love it. Oh, and feel free to drag your blankets all over the house and abandon them the moment you no longer want them. I’ll fold them lovingly for you and return them to your rooms.
And doors? Shutting them is optional. I’m right behind you, so, seriously, don’t worry about it. I love when the wasps get in and the air conditioning gets out. Who are we to be sequestered in our climate controlled house? Open door policy in this house. We have endless money.
And it’s totally fine to leave your wet bathing suits and towels on any surface from the floor to the...
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Dear Carolina Family,
As a public health scientist, I am acutely aware that good health habits have a profound impact on body, mind and spirit. This is why Patricia and I are passionate advocates for healthy campus living. We've worked with many of you to imagine, create and implement positive changes on campus. I'm pleased that we now have a better variety of healthy dining choices. I'm happy to see members of the Carolina family maintaining garden plots or purchasing fresh, locally grown produce at our Farmers Market. And, of course, there is no place like the Strom to relieve stress through exercise.
So it's the right time to take the next step. I have now signed USC's new tobacco-free policy. This means that in January our campus will become tobacco-free. Our research tells us...
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Dear Majority Leader McConnell, Minority Leader Reid, Speaker Boehner, Minority Leader Pelosi, and Ambassador Froman:
We the undersigned—professors and scholars of international law, arbitration, and dispute settlement—strongly support a robust, even-handed, and careful discussion about investment treaty arbitration (ITA), which is sometimes referred to as investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). We believe, however, that the discussion should be based on facts and balanced representations, rather than on errors or skewed information.
To that end, we offer the following responses to the letter circulated by the Alliance for Justice.[1]
Sovereignty and the Rule of Law
Far from an abdication of sovereign responsibility, entering into international treaties of any kind—including...
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Hi everyone. Caitlyn here. First of all, I want to thank you all for your support. The response to my new journey has been overwhelmingly positive and I’m eternally grateful for all of your sweet messages, letters, and gifts.
Up until now, I have totally isolated myself from the transgender community so I have a lot of catching up to do. I feel such a responsibility to this courageous group to try to get it right and tell all sides of the story. To me, that's always the biggest question: am I doing it right?
A few weeks ago I had dinner with some of my new friends—a group of six trans women—and I went around the table and asked each of them how long it had been since their transitions. One said 20 years, the other one said 15 years ago...seven years ago...three years ago… They came...
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Dear Parents
I am writing to you to inform you that, unfortunately and annoyingly, over the weekend we had a number of leaks from the new skylights including the new Year 6 skylight which has leaked and has damaged a large amount of the Year 6 exercise books containing the pupils’ work. I feel devastated for the children whose work has been damaged, as it is something they had put a lot of effort into and demonstrated the progress they had made so far in Year 6. Thankfully, Mr Hann regularly reviews where the children are and makes records of progress and levels of assessment and so this information is current and we are fully able to identify the levels each child is working at. Fortunately we managed to get to the work early enough so that the majority of this work is salvageable...
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