Hello Victoria,
We're recently under the impression from events that have unfolded overnight that you've been mistreated. Which based on the years of service you've provided for one of the biggest online communities in the world we find that absurd. While we don't know the details under why this has happened, and we wouldn't want to presume, we do know for a fact you are someone that passionately cares about the community you work with.
There are countless examples of times you have gone out of your way to provide more than you were obligated to for users of Reddit. The response the community has shown to your dismissal is more than testament to that and quite frankly moving.
Campus Society is a startup, we're small, we're located in London, England, and to be honest the weather...
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Dear Rehka,
Thanks for expressing your and the extreme Left’s view in your open letter to Dick and Betty Odgaard of The Gortz Haus. Not surprisingly, we see the world and, specifically, the unfortunate circumstances surrounding The Gortz Haus in Grimes very differently.
Late last year, you recommended that we seek civil discussion with those whom we disagree. Let’s discuss.
Dick and Betty Odgaard, owners of the Gortz Haus, are like many Iowans who own a small business. They follow their passion, while utilizing their talents and gifts, offering distinct services and goods to the broader community. The days begin early and many end late. While Iowa is blessed with many large businesses, we should never forget that it is small business owners like the Odgaards who are the main...
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Dear Andrew, Taryn and Cathy,
You made a big issue out of my failure to respond to your letters, so I am responding herewith to the letters each of you sent.
I note that Jude sent me a letter when I was living in Denver – but didn't send another in the second round after I moved near where she lives, and Benjamin didn't send me a letter at all. I guess the Church is worried that I may respond in person by paying her or Benjamin a visit and it sort of blows the "You have disconnected from your family and refuse to communicate to them" line when I show up and they are unwilling to talk to me (as when I went to the Fort Harrison and requested to see Benjamin).
I also note your letters were coordinated, all coming from the address of the International Justice Chief. You put notes...
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Dear Jane and Candice,
We are writing to you to request that you correct some serious factual errors contained in your article "The 'One in Three' claim about male domestic violence victims is a myth" (April 30). We sincerely hope that Daily Life adheres to the principles of the Australian Press Council concerning accuracy and clarity.
We believe the errors to be as follows:
You state that the One in Three Campaign website claims the source of the 'One in Three' claim is The Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Personal Safety Survey (PSS). This is quite incorrect. If you look at the overview page on our website, you will see that we cite seventeen different authoritative sources, including the PSS, but also other community surveys, crime, police, homicide, hospital, and...
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To the Members of the Illinois Legislature:
I understand that you are considering passing SB 1564, a bill to amend the existing laws of Illinois that protect freedom of conscience.
I urge you not to do so, as SB 1564 fatally weakens the conscience rights of Illinois citizens.SB 1564 would amend existing law to, among other things, add a new section regarding "access to care and information protocols." This section would require "health care facilities, physicians, and health care personnel" who are opposed for reasons of conscience to performing an abortion to, nevertheless, "refer, transfer, or give information ... about other health care providers who they reasonably believe may offer ... the ... service," which includes abortion.
In so providing, SB 1564 violates elementary...
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Dear Inventor of Stick Figure Family Car Decals,
At any given stoplight, I can be blessed with the knowledge that the moron in front of me summers on Nantucket, loves her Wheaten Terrier, has a son on the honor roll at Beaver Buck Country Day School and (to toot her own horn) married a Harvard alum. Lucky her!
Now, because of your idiotic invention, I have the pleasure of adding these fine details: Her name is Bethany, her husband's name is Colby II, her son's name is Colby III, and the dog's name is Harley. Bethany loves to cook, Colby III plays lacrosse, and Colby II apparently loves to carry his briefcase around. Oh, and look at that — number 2 is on the way and it's a girl!
Please stop polluting our driving landscape with these asinine stickers. We all know what I am talking...
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Dear Kendall,
Take a moment and remove yourself from your current situation, if you can, to a life that isn’t riddled with excess and only hearing the word “yes” to your wants and requests. Now, imagine you’re from a small town and/or Third-World country where your only way to get out of your current social class, achieve your dreams, get a green card or just gain better work conditions is to become a high-fashion model. You have to leave for six months to a year sometimes, signing contracts you can barely understand, let alone oblige to, almost without choice. You’re away from your family, your friends and everything you know. You live in a one-bedroom apartment with six other girls in the same situation in this Big Apple, New York City.
Did I mention you’re only 17 when all of...
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Dear Nepali Family,
It is on days like these, when the clouds of uncertainty and despair hover over the fragile human hearts; when humanity sheds tears of deaths and distress; when survivors question their very own survival over the loss of their loved ones, that it is important to put the crisis in perspective, look back at history, take solace in what has remained, and come together as one Nepali family to craft a new course of action for the beautiful country and its diligent people.
On April 25, 2015, god may have died, but that is irrelevant since he has died so many times before, and every single time he has died, you have picked yourself up, one another alongside, and moved on. This is your story: the story of bravery in defeats, humility in triumphs. When the clouds of Sati...
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Dear Premier Clark and Minister Cadieux,
Thank you for your response to our 2014 BC Child Poverty Report Card dated December 22, 2014. We decided to write this response as an open letter, as many of the points made in your correspondence are being repeated by government spokespeople in the media and we want to give people hearing them a full understanding of the credibility of our research.
First of all, we are glad to hear that your government believes that one child living in poverty is one child too many. We agree wholeheartedly.
Given this belief, we are puzzled by other aspects of your response. BC is about to introduce a budget with a surplus. In this context, and recalling BC’s obligations as a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)...
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Dear Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
My name is Rebekah Gregory. We don't really know each other and never will. But over the last two years, I have seen your face not only in pictures, but in almost every one of my nightmares. Moments before the first blast, your stupid backpack even brushed up against my arm, but I doubt you remember because I am no one to you. A complete stranger. And although I was merely just a blip on your radar, (someone that happened to be standing 3 feet from your designated "good spot" for a bomb), you have been so much more to me. Because you have undoubtedly been my source of fear since April 15th, 2013. (After all, you are one of the men responsible for nearly taking my child, and for the permanent image embedded in my brain of watching someone die.) Up until now, I...
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