Oy.
On Saturday, the Edmonton Oilers suffered their sixth straight loss after an embarrassing 7-1 result against the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Oy.
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Read them at night, if you dare…
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"Three or four years ago I used to be in my old school's netball team. One day, we were waiting for the teacher to come so we could start training. I was in the middle of the pitch and suddenly, the lights went out. Blindly, I tried to find my way back to the other girls, but I tripped over something cold and hard. Out of nowhere, a cold, small hand touched my bare leg, squeezing and rubbing it up and down, as if it, like me, was trying to find a guide in the dark. Out of fear I asked 'Who is it?' and a feminine, child-like voice answered 'It's me!' and giggled playfully. Shortly after, the lights came back; I was in one corner of the pitch, while the other (three) girls were huddled close together in the opposite corner, and there was no trace of whatever thing had been next to me."
— Carme Querol Martinez
"I work at a nursing home and one particular rainy night, I was sitting next to one of my residents that has severe dementia. Out of nowhere she starts screaming bloody murder and shaking a wrinkly, disfigured finger across room screaming, 'SHE'S DEAD SHE'S DEAD!!!' She was so out of sorts, I decided to push her around the building to try and calm her down. That's when I found out that a woman who lived on the other side of the building had just passed away not five minutes before."
— Katie Braschler
More than one thousand felines competed in Cat Fancy’s Supreme Championship Cat Show, one of the largest in Europe. The event was held Nov. 22 in Birmingham, U.K.
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The new messaging app is blowing up among college students and investors . Like most anonymous messaging spaces, it can be a cesspool of garbage ; Other times, it produces these gems.
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The sales really take place on Thanksgiving and Saturday now. Poll: would you shop on Thanksgiving?
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There's a new boss in town in the world of frenzied holiday retail, analysts say: This year, the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend is set to topple Black Friday as the year's biggest shopping day.
As the retail industry attempts to drum up more sales by opening ever earlier, spending that once happened on Black Friday has been shift to Thanksgiving Day. ShopperTrak, a prominent retail analytics firm, said earlier this month that this is the year when Black Friday finally loses its throne.
Thanksgiving-day sales more than tripled to $2.5 billion last year, while Black Friday sales fell 13% to $9.8 billion, Sterne Agee analysts wrote in a Nov. 24 note. This year, the trend is expected to accelerate as retailers advertise even earlier openings for their "Black Friday" (but really, Thanksgiving Thursday) events.
This Thanksgiving, J.C. Penney and Best Buy will open at 5 p.m. while Macy's, Target, Walmart and major malls will open at 6 p.m. Gap's Old Navy chain will open at 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving and stay open for 31 straight hours before finally closing at 11 p.m. Friday.
"The earlier openings simply spread sales out, and will not result in incremental sales," Jennifer Davis, an analyst at Buckingham Research Group wrote in a note. Last year, 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day was the new industry-accepted opening time, which was bumped up from midnight in 2012, she wrote.
Referring to many of the deals this weekend as Black Friday sales "is just really silly now," said Wendy Liebmann, CEO of WSL Strategic Retail in New York. "It didn't even make sense before, because that wasn't the day retailers made money anyway, but that was the myth around it."
"If this isn't the year, then its grim luster will be diminished soon," Liebmann said of Black Friday losing its top-sales day status to Super Saturday.
Opening on Thanksgiving comes with its own set of problems, particularly for the low-paid retail workers that would rather spend the day with their families. And images of mobs bursting through the gates of local malls have began to sour a national day of gratitude with rampant, sometimes violent, consumerism. Earlier this month, Walmart announced plans to offer five days of deals, showing the diminishing importance of a single day.
It's possible the industry may try to move deals back into Black Friday next year or halt the Thanksgiving sales tradition, though it will require some coordinated movement, Liebmann said.
"We've heard various levels of uproar about it but I think this year, especially because so many retailers have come out so much earlier with their deals, there's a sense that it will be an advantage for those who finally say, 'Listen, we've just gone too far, we're a great place, we take care of our people, we're not going to be open all these hours,'" she said. "Increasingly, there's just no real massive advantage to this."
Or rather, which Annalise quote is the most badass? Warning: Spoilers ahead!
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Want a little help figuring this parenting thing out? Then the BuzzFeed Parents newsletter is for you!
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We visited 826 NYC , an after-school program for kids in Brooklyn, and asked kids about reading.
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I put my engagement on Facebook before I even called my parents.
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Flickr: lovemaegan / Via Creative Commons
Everyday you’re hustlin’.
No cookies and punch for you.
I mean...it's nice to be invited.
Much guilt. Very burning.
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Prominent investor Whitney Tilson did not like his experience with the Hertz counter at the San Francisco airport, so he did something about it. Here’s a look at how a few complaint emails from a “well-known shareholder” gets results.
Look enraging/familiar?
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It's an all-too-familiar scene to travelers: you get off a long flight, wind your way through the various airport nightmares, and finally arrive at the car rental counter, only to discover an endless line and one or two people manning the booth.
It's infuriating, sure. But what can you do?
It turns out you can do a lot, if you happen to be a very extraordinary specimen: a hedge fund manager. And not just any hedge fund manager, but one whose funds hold a decent-sized stake in the car rental company you just happen to be wasting your extremely valuable time waiting in line for.
This was the exact scenario at the San Francisco Airport Hertz counter when Whitney TIlson, a well-known value investor and part-time shade thrower showed up. What follows is a step-by-step guide based on an email Tilson sent to his industry peers, on how to stand up for justice at the car rental counter and get results. Real results. As in, a CEO-getting-fired kind of result.
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I’m an E cup, and I haven’t gone out in public without a bra in 18 years. So I wanted to see if anything bad would happen when I finally went without one.
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I love bras, because making my boobs look good is one of the few things about my body that I feel I have a lot of control over. Besides: I am either a 40D or a 38E, depending on the bra and the time of month, so generally speaking, going braless isn't an option.
I haven't left the house without a bra since I was 13. So I decided to see if I could go a for week without wearing a bra. It was just as uncomfortable as I worried that it might be — but not for any of the reasons I thought. Here are the unexpected things that I learned.
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“Can’t” isn’t in your vocabulary.
Haven't you learned from the first hundred times you weren't on time?
Adult Swim
Sorry I work well under pressure.
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There's just so much that needs to be done.
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You're given time in advance for a reason.
Oxygen
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him stop splashing.
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Essex police visited Brad White at his house on Monday morning to hand over a warning in relation to one of his Vines. But he says it won’t stop him causing mischief in public.
As you can see, he's not taken the Vine down.
I was in work late today because I had a half day, so I was half asleep in bed and my mum goes 'the police are here, they want to see you'. I thought, oh no what have I done now. Was it something over the weekend that I don't remember?
They said 'we're here to talk to you about an incident on 27 October' and as soon as they said that I went 'oh right, the silly string.' They were all serious about it. They pulled out the paperwork and they said 'you know you can't go around doing that.'
I said 'when I was a kid I used to go around spraying people with silly string – I didn't know it was against the law. What am I being pulled up for?'
They said that I was 'prodding' people with silly string. I didn't think prodding people with silly string even existed [as an offence].
...The nationally recognised term for the reoslution of a less serious offence or anti-social behaviour incident, where an offender has been identified, through informal agreement between the parties involved as opposed to progression through the traditional criminal justice process.
Remember: “Only the hard come in the garden”.
In German: "Nur die Harten kommen in den Garten."
What it means: Only the strongest survive.
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In German: Kinder und Betrunkene sagen immer die Wahrheit.
What it means: It´s hard to find people who tell you the truth.
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In German: Du gehst mir tierisch auf den Keks.
What it means: You´re driving me crazy.
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In German: Zu viele Köche verderben den Brei.
What it means: Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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Poet Danez Smith’s “Not An Elegy For Mike Brown” and “Alternate Names for Black Boys.” Republished with permission.
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I am sick of writing this poem
but bring the boy. his new name
his same old body. ordinary, black
dead thing. bring him & we will mourn
until we forget what we are mourning
& isn't that what being black is about?
not the joy of it, but the feeling
you get when you are looking
at your child, turn your head,
then, poof, no more child.
that feeling. that's black.
\\
think: once, a white girl
was kidnapped & that's the Trojan war.
later, up the block, Troy got shot
& that was Tuesday. are we not worthy
of a city of ash? of 1000 ships
launched because we are missed?
always, something deserves to be burned.
it's never the right thing now a days.
I demand a war to bring the dead boy back
no matter what his name is this time.
I at least demand a song. a song will do just fine.
\\
look at what the lord has made.
above Missouri, sweet smoke.
Originally published on Split This Rock. Used with permission.
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1. smoke above the burning bush
2. archnemesis of summer night
3. first son of soil
4. coal awaiting spark & wind
5. guilty until proven dead
6. oil heavy starlight
7. monster until proven ghost
8. gone
9. phoenix who forgets to un-ash
10. going, going, gone
11. gods of shovels & black veils
12. what once passed for kindling
13. fireworks at dawn
14. brilliant, shadow hued coral
15. (I thought to leave this blank
but who am I to name us nothing?)
16. prayer who learned to bite & sprint
17. a mother's joy & clutched breath
Originally published in Poetry. Used with permission.