Dear Sergeant Eld,
I write this letter to you because you were identified as the spokesperson for the Orlando Police Department in a story on false rape accusations that recently ran on NBC Channel Two in Orlando, both in their television broadcast and on their website.
There were some statements attributed to you by the station that raise some questions that I think need to be posed, given the gravity of the subject at hand.
You were quoted as saying, “We want victims to continue to report crime. We don’t want to spend endless hours and resources chasing ghosts.”
You added to that comment by saying, “False reports take personnel away from other calls for service, increasing the response time for real victims,” and that, “It also taints the jury pool in Orange county for true...
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Dear Davis Museum and Cultural Center,
You probably don’t remember me, but I worked for you during my time at Wellesley. I was in the technology department, if you can call one full-time employee and a work-study student a department. The bulk of my job consisted of a) importing digital photographs of artwork into your new database and b) updating your website, particularly whenever there was a new exhibition on. Because of these two activities, I am extensively acquainted with the vast majority of your 10,000+ works collection, and I am also pretty familiar with special exhibits you put on between 2005 and 2009. I remember some of these being more controversial than others—for instance, your “On The Edge” exhibit definitely sparked conversations around campus when you decided to...
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Dear Victoria Scott:
We would like to address the concerns about CAA presented in the undated essay titled “The Art History Guild” that was forwarded to us today https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwQRmvZJxL9zUzBnQWhrLUlXd3M/edit .
CAA statistics and finances: CAA presents an annual report including achievements, statistics and finances at the Annual Members Business Meeting held every year at the Annual Conference. This year it will be held on Friday, February 15th at 5:30 PMin the Rendezvous Trianon Ballroom on the 3rd Floor of the New York Hilton. This report is summarized and published in the CAA News following the meeting.
CAA now is able to provide accurate statistics on the total number of members (currently at 12,233 individuals and 1,792 universities and libraries). However,...
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Dear Snapchat,
When you did a Snapchat Story for the AMAs, where anyone could watch a curated stream of snaps from the American Music Awards, we got it. We felt like we’d gotten the full AMA experience from a number of manic angles without having to sit down for excruciating hours of polished, ad-laden TV viewing.
Same goes for your crowdsourced coverage of the Macy’s Day Parade, recent college football games and Electric Zoo. Well done.
But this week, you guys decided to run a Snapchat Story for of Art Basel, one of the world’s top international art festivals. While Art Basel is definitely a bacchanalia of celebrity shenanigans, the truth is that your core #teen demographic doesn’t give a shit about contemporary art.
They don’t care about the hand-painted cigarette butts of...
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Dear Mrs Maher
My attention has been drawn to media reports of your annual awards for plain English 2014 - in particular, your award of the Golden Bull prize for 'the worst examples of written tripe'.
You may not be aware of the fact, but here at the Tripe Marketing Board we are fighting a rearguard action against the use of the word tripe to signify something of inferior quality. Every time the word is used in such a negative context, it makes our task of promoting what is a cheap and nutricious product all the more difficult.
You may very well think that tripe is an 'easy target', that perhaps we can be dismissed as 'yesterday's food', but I can tell you that it is making a comeback. The decline in sales that has bedeviled us since the 1950s may not yet have been arrested,...
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Dear DMMA
This letter is written in an attempt to highlight some concerns we have with the quality of the industry regulation in South Africa.
Background
Formerly the OPA, there has always been unhappiness with the fact that Google (as the world’s and South Africa’s) largest publisher has failed to cooperate with the industry in sharing its usage statistics for measurement purposes. Ad Dynamo, launched in SA in 2009, has developed into the 2nd largest publisher in South Africa in terms of online audience reach. We’ve supported local industry, hosted regular Digital Cowboys events to stimulate awareness and community within the industry, and were one of the first to cooperate with your selected measurement partner, Effective Measures.
After activating with Effective...
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Dear Members,
It is with much sadness that we write to you today to inform you that the board of Sponsorship Australasia has taken the decision to officially wind up the association.
This regrettable decision has been made for a number of reasons:
Ongoing financial viability of the association
Lack of resourcing to effectively operate
Difficulty in offering a meaningful value proposition to members
This decision follows the communication to members on 28 August 2013, seeking feedback on Sponsorship Australasia’s relevance in the industry currently. The communication was distributed to over 1648 people on the Sponsorship Australasia database, and also to the sponsorship industry in general via Sponsorship News.
Feedback, simply in terms of numbers, was disappointing with only...
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Dear Minister Paradis:
RE: Federal support for equity based “crowdfunding” and a complementary tax credit to address funding gaps in the innovation chain
As you are aware, there is a dearth of funding available to start up new firms and grow them, and to expand many private firms wishing to explore promising new opportunities.
While proposals in the 2012 Budget do provide some relief by dedicating much needed new funds to IRAP and venture investments, the challenge still for entrepreneurs with new ideas is finding the initial funds needed to even get started.
CATA asks the federal government to take steps towards addressing the funding gaps in Canada’s innovation chain.
· We ask that the government commit to a process to develop a Model Framework for equity based...
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Dear Unresponsive,
I’d like to apologize for my internet marketing colleagues behavior. It’s not your fault. I know you spent your obligatory ten minutes looking up what this whole “social media” thing is, and I appreciate it. I also realize that all of the information you found was about “Marketing”. The discussions of “dialogs”, “engaging with the community”, “ROI”, etc. were all interesting I’m sure but I realize they were also kind of scary.
You are in the hospitality industry after all, an industry which is well known for its slim margins and skimping on behind the scenes staff. So while all of that info was interesting, we understand why you might have found it a little overwhelming. No money to do anything, no extra hands to help engage. It must seem a steep hill to climb to...
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Dear Premier McGuinty,
Your government has announced that it will pull its slot machines from Ontario race tracks, abruptly canceling a 14-year partnership that has been helping our province's horse breeding and racing industry to make the transition from the 20th Century to the 21st.
I am writing to share with you respectfully that I have learned in these past weeks that the more Ontarians hear about this, the more people are concerned. We fear that what undoubtedly was meant to be a well-intentioned move to maximize revenue opportunities for your government has the potential instead to rapidly become a very unnecessary human, economic and social catastrophe.
Going ahead with this abrupt change - implemented without enough analysis of the impact that it will have and without any...
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