Dear Brunswick Customers and Partners,
Last week, Brunswick Corporation announced an agreement to sell its U.S. retail bowling centers to Bowlmor AMF and, as a result of that action, its intention to sell its global bowling products business.
We understand that this news could raise concerns among our loyal customers and partners, and we want to assure you that the Company is in very strong financial health, and that we believe that any sale will continue the Brunswick legacy into the future.
We further understand there are lingering questions in the bowling industry about our intention to sell Brunswick Bowling Products. Some customers are concerned that their warranty may not be valid under new ownership. Some customers are concerned that sales contracts that are either signed...
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Dear Mayor-Elect Duggan,
I am writing today to propose that I join your administration in the critical area of culture and entertainment policy. Specifically, I want to be Detroit’s first musical ambassador and help Detroit reclaim its rightful status as a global music capital. In 2011, after over fifteen years of working as a writer, entrepreneur, and scholar in Detroit’s music industry, I founded an organization called the Detroit Sound Conservancy in order to preserve what music producer Don Was has called “the indigenous music of Detroit.” My goal is to bring my extensive experience in the music industry, including two informative and trailblazing years at the DSC, to the City of Detroit, and forge the policy leadership required in the Mayor’s office in the city’s most important...
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Dear Colleagues:
I have been thinking about each of you and wanted to write you prior to the arrival of my successor. I thought it might be helpful to provide some tips on good transitions. Below are some things you probably already know, but they may be worth repeating.
1. Make your new leader welcome. Go out of your way to say hello. Keep the new vice president posted on what you are doing. If a group of you are going to lunch, extend an invite. Continue to offer an invitation, even if the answer is no at first. Ask about the person's move. Simply saying "good morning" and "good evening" will go a long way.
2. Communicate, communicate, communicate. Update your distribution lists and copy him or her on important items. Explain the "little things" about our institution that only...
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Dear Jesus,
We weren’t ready.
Surely you could have seen that as you floated into the sky, your disciples standing beneath your feet with craned necks, slacked mouths, a million questions, and no clue what to do next. I bet they totally asked those angels which one of them would be greatest in the Kingdom, and Luke just left that part out because, oh my gosh, not again; how embarrassing.
And while we’re on it, what’s with the floating thing? After all the eating and drinking and healing and laughing and crying, it just doesn’t seem like your style—floating. I like you better with your feet on the ground.
I’ll be honest, Jesus, Ascension Day brings up some abandonment issues for me. I know you promised we wouldn’t be alone, that you would send a Helper and Advocate, full...
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Dear Betty and Richard Odgaard,
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry about your decision to close the doors of your historic Gortz Haus to all marriages rather than open them to gay marriages. I'm sorry you feel that decision was unfairly forced upon you, in violation of your religious beliefs.
And I'm sorry you've been deeply hurt by the fallout of your choices — first not to allow a gay couple to marry in your space, then to sue the state and now to stop all weddings there. Some people have boycotted your business and called you hateful. Others with various agendas have held you up as heroes. I suspect you never wanted either kind of attention.
But I'm also sorry that your lawsuit, where those hateful and threatening emails and phone calls were disclosed, was ever encouraged by lawyers. The...
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Dear Deputy President,
My best friend is gay. She is also Kenyan.
She lives in a country where the majority of people are homophobic, and the other day you proved that the leadership is as well.
You made a rather ignorant statement the other day about how there is no room for homosexuals in Kenya, almost as if you think that being Deputy President gives you licence to speak with authority on what people like in the bedroom.
Tell me sir, do you like whips? Or chains? Or 'strange things' in the bedroom? And then, tell me, do you think it is any of my business? It really isn't.
READ: There is no room for gays, warns Ruto
READ: Church faults court ruling in favour of gays
READ: Gays and lesbians win big court battle
Sexuality is the business of no one but the...
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Dear Amy Stockwell and Jamila Rizvi,
I am the host of Man Business and Chief Barista Etc (manager) at Village Coworking in North Sydney.
Thank you for starting the discussion about Man Business on Mamamia recently. I have always encouraged open discussion, am happy to take on feedback and have continuously worked hard to promote all businesses on the North Shore run by women, men or both.
Village coworking, the host for Man Business, has been a proud advocate for small business on the North Shore. With little support from council, Village has provided a platform and event space for many local networking events and workshops. We also host a lot of female networking events and now man style events.
While you did not give me the opportunity to comment in your article, nor did...
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Dear Mr. Vincenzetti and team,
Pursuant to the procedure outlined in your customer policy,1 the Citizen Lab at Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, is submitting the attached report regarding apparent misuse or abuse of Hacking Team systems and solutions.
As detailed more fully in the report, journalists at the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT) in the United States were again targeted in late 2014, with what appear to be two updated versions of Hacking Team’s Remote Control System (RCS) spyware. Our research suggests that the attacker is the same governmental entity as that implicated in December 2013 attacks using RCS against ESAT journalists, on which we previously reported.2 The attacker may be the Ethiopian Information Network Security Agency....
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Dear Modi-ji,
It is one year since you assumed office. Your government can surely point to a general boost to the country’s morale and self-confidence. But actual accomplishments remain modest. Against the scale and magnitude of what is required to catapult India into the ranks of the first powers within our lifetime, the effort is frustratingly half-hearted and the pace of change frightfully slow. At this rate, far from catching up with the world’s A-listers, India will keep slipping farther behind with each passing year.
There are four portfolios that you should prioritize with a sense of extreme urgency. First, choose a tough law minister to chop, rationalize and simplify the plethora of laws surplus to requirements for running a modern economy. S/he should ask: Is this...
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Dear Miss Hooi
I’m writing to congratulate you on your contribution to declining op-ed standards at the Business Times. Under the column of Miss Ann Thrope, an amusing play on the word, you have certainly demonstrated the Business Times has a sophisticated understanding of the communications industry and how the media interacts with it.
First of all, I have to note that your article, no matter how witty or innocuous it attempts to sound, casts the Business Times in a poor light. As a daily that’s business focused, I expect that your op-eds should sound less like a compilation of Facebook rants. Instead, you might wish to reference op-eds found in the FT Weekend, which are amusing and have little to do with business, but certainly better thought out.
Of course, given that the...
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