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These Virginia Students Were Outraged When They Didn't Get A Snow Day

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Whoever was in charge of canceling school ~flaked~ out.

This morning, students in Fairfax County, Virginia woke up to their streets full of snow, and many were disappointed because classes hadn't been cancelled.

This morning, students in Fairfax County, Virginia woke up to their streets full of snow, and many were disappointed because classes hadn't been cancelled.

This is a shot taken post-morning commute, showing a build up of several inches.

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The topic #CloseFCPS began trending on Twitter after upset students took to the social media site to make fun of school board officials for failing to cancel school.

The topic #CloseFCPS began trending on Twitter after upset students took to the social media site to make fun of school board officials for failing to cancel school.

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17 Americans Who Are Seriously Confused By The Flat White

You Need To Hear Sophia Grace's New Song

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And that video.

Sophia Grace has just dropped a single and music video called "Best Friends." It might be the funnest slumber party you never went to:

Sophia Grace has just dropped a single and music video called "Best Friends." It might be the funnest slumber party you never went to:

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Sophia's all "Where's my #1 girl?" because obviously a slumber party is NOTHING without your very very best BFF.

Sophia's all "Where's my #1 girl?" because obviously a slumber party is NOTHING without your very very best BFF.

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And then the mom takes them to K-Mart?! Literally NO ONE has ever had this much fun in a K-Mart. Ever. Fact.

And then the mom takes them to K-Mart?! Literally NO ONE has ever had this much fun in a K-Mart. Ever. Fact.

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GIRLS ROOL BOYS DROOL. Just kidding. But — just remember how you felt when you were 11.

GIRLS ROOL BOYS DROOL. Just kidding. But — just remember how you felt when you were 11.

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Rosie Is Missing From Sophia Grace's New Music Video And It's A Tragedy

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Bring back Rosie.

Sophia Grace and Rosie are music prodigies that have warmed our hearts for years. And it's always Sophia Grace AND Rosie.

Sophia Grace and Rosie are music prodigies that have warmed our hearts for years. And it's always Sophia Grace AND Rosie.

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One without the other is like salt without pepper. It's like peanut butter without jelly.

One without the other is like salt without pepper. It's like peanut butter without jelly.

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It's like THE EARTH WITHOUT AIR.

It's like THE EARTH WITHOUT AIR.

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But a serious tragic event has occured, and it's that Sophia Grace released a new music video — AND ROSIE IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.

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17 Reasons Amy Poehler & Tina Fey Are The Best Celebrity Couple

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Reminder: Your favorite best friends are hosting the Golden Globes in a week. Eeeek!

Let's start off by celebrating the fact that our two favorite women of television are hosting the Golden Globes for the third year in a row.

Let's start off by celebrating the fact that our two favorite women of television are hosting the Golden Globes for the third year in a row.

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I mean, are we really surprised? These two are gold whenever they get together.

I mean, are we really surprised? These two are gold whenever they get together.

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It has been rumored that this will be their last year hosting...

It has been rumored that this will be their last year hosting...

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... so we figured now is the perfect time to look back on one of the best celebrity friendships that has ever happened: Tamy Foehler.

... so we figured now is the perfect time to look back on one of the best celebrity friendships that has ever happened: Tamy Foehler.

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This Super Easy Way To Make Homemade Ice Cream Will Blow Your Mind

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Too lazy to go to the store? This is for you.

According to YouTuber Crazy Russian Hacker, you can make vanilla ice cream in a matter of minutes.

And apparently, it's incredibly easy. You'll need half a tablespoon of vanilla extract, half a cup of milk, half a cup of half-and-half, three tablespoons of sugar, two large ziplock bags, ice, salt, chocolate syrup, and protective gloves.

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27 Times Jack White Looked Ridiculously Good

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Let’s all hear it for the seventh son.

When he was all "what" and you were all "yes."

When he was all "what" and you were all "yes."

Yes, Jack White. Twenty-seven images of you. For the thirsty.

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When he casually waved at mortals from a fancy old car.

When he casually waved at mortals from a fancy old car.

Twelve people fainted by the side of the road that day.

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When he channeled "Robert Smith for Gap" and it worked damn well.

When he channeled "Robert Smith for Gap" and it worked damn well.

Only Jack White can do this.

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That time he was a gothabilly preacher and you died.

That time he was a gothabilly preacher and you died.

I AM HERE FOR THIS LOOK. THIS LOOK IN 2015. THIS LOOK IN 1952. THIS LOOK FOREVER.

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University Of Virginia Approves New Safety Standards For Fraternity Parties

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Four student-led Greek leadership councils submitted additions to their agreements with the university, which approved them on Tuesday.

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The university on Tuesday approved regulations for parties at Inter-Fraternity Council fraternities as part of amendments to its Fraternal Organization Agreement. The additional regulations, presented by the four student-led groups representing Greek life on campus, aim to enhance safety practices, according to a university statement.

Greek activities were suspended at the university following the publication of a Rolling Stone article describing a student's account of her rape at a campus fraternity party. The magazine later said it had "misplaced" its trust in the young woman after the fraternity said it had not hosted an event that night.

In the plans approved Tuesday, the roughly 30 fraternity chapters represented by the IFC vowed to put in place educational programs this spring, as well as the additional regulations for fraternity functions. The rules cover parties taking place after 9 p.m. where at least half of fraternity brothers are present.

"We seek to achieve a safe environment at fraternity events by addressing high-risk drinking, sexual misconduct, and unhealthy power structures," the addendum read. "These changes are not comprehensive – nor do they claim to be. Instead, we submit these reforms as the next step in the IFC's commitment to guaranteeing a baseline of safety for fraternity members and our guests."

People gather with signs during a protest at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on Nov. 22, 2014.

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  • At least three sober brothers must be on hand to monitor alcohol distribution and the stairway to residential rooms.
  • An additional sober brother must be on hand for each 30 fraternity members.
  • Functions must be registered with the council.
  • Beer must be served in its original, unopened can.
  • Wine must be visibly poured at a bar by a sober brother.
  • Punch and premixed drinks are prohibited.
  • Liquor may be served at the bar by a sober brother at parties where outside guests don't exceed the number of brothers. But at larger parties, a bartender and outside security must be hired.
  • Bottled water and food must be available.
  • A sober brother must have a key to access each room.


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23 Times Rachel From “Friends” Perfectly Summarized What It's Like To Be In Your Twenties

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The one where you realize that every twentysomething has the same pitfalls.

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When your thirst level is so high that it messes with your emotions...

When your thirst level is so high that it messes with your emotions...

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Signs You've Found Your Sarcastic Soulmate

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You’re my best friend.

18 Things Everyone Needs To Eat In Bristol

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Get eating.

Falafel from Falafel King

The undisputed chickpea monarch of Bristol, complete with pitta bread from the only Middle Eastern bakery in the city.

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Huevos Rancheros from Bakers and Co

Huevos Rancheros from Bakers and Co

Perfectly poached eggs, fresh salsa and crisp freshly baked bread.

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Cake from Ahh Toots at St Nicholas' Market

Almost every kind of incredible hand made cake, including vegan and gluten free masterpieces. Large slices of sweetness.

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Dr Pepper Pork Brioche and Slaw at Mockingbird Cafe

Dr Pepper Pork Brioche and Slaw at Mockingbird Cafe

Pulled pork marinaded in Dr Pepper sever with mega crunchy slaw and gherkins.

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In The Bronx, Residents Fear Both Criminals And The NYPD

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After two police officers were shot while pursuing robbery suspects Monday night, Bronx residents say they don’t feel safe anymore.

Omar Corporan, Bronx resident

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An NYPD van announced a $10,000 reward for information on the suspects who shot two NYPD officers in the Bronx.

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NEW YORK CITY — Omar Corporan, 22, doesn't feel safe when he gets up every morning at his home in the Bronx, a few blocks from where two police officers were shot by a robbery suspect Monday night.

"This is a bad neighborhood," Corporan said as he swept away the snow outside a deli where he hangs out with his friends after school. "It's not even 30% safe. You can either get shot by criminals or harassed by the police."

The crime rate is worsening in the 46th Precinct. Shooting incidents went up from 29 in 2013 to 42 in 2014, a nearly 45% increase, according to NYPD statistics as of Dec. 28.

The number of shooting victims increased nearly 58% over the same period, with the rates for homicides, rapes, and burglaries also on the rise.

The neighborhood's increasing crime rate — coupled with the recent wave of anti-police sentiment in the wake of the officer-involved shooting deaths of unarmed black men Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island — is why Corporan said he fears for his safety on a daily basis.

A psychology student at Bronx Community College, Corporan said that after what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, he doesn't know who to be scared of anymore. While residents are wary of street gangs that dominate the area's neighborhoods, there is also a fear of being harassed by cops "for no reason."

"I'm, like, walking home from school and a cop will, like, push me, show me his gun, and say, 'Get out of here,'" Corporan said. "My friends say, 'Fuck the police.'"

Corporan said he was arrested and beaten by cops five years ago for "resisting" during an argument with his father on the street.

"They beat me up so hard, I was in the hospital," he added.

Despite that experience, Corporan said it was "absolutely not OK" to shoot police officers.

"Cops just need to do a better job," he said.

His friend, 25-year-old Carlos Tejeda, agreed. Tejeda is from Boston but visits his friends in the Bronx neighborhood often. He said that a year ago, people respected police officers. But since Ferguson, "bad people want to shoot the police because they want to demonstrate their anger."

Tejeda believes that the police are partly to blame for the hostility.

"Cops need to be less aggressive with citizens," he said. "They need to be trained better, because many of them come from the streets like us."

Councilman Ritchie Torres, who represents the Central Bronx, said that demands for police reform were "misplaced anger that's centered around police officers."

Protesters should instead direct their anger and concerns away from the police and toward elected officials, he said.

"[The police officers] are not free agents," Torres said. "They're acting at the behest of leaders. They're implementing policies created by establishment."


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23 Striking Vintage Photos Of Australians At The Beach

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Some things never change.

Margaret didn't think it was the right time to tell Betty about the wave headed her way.

Margaret didn't think it was the right time to tell Betty about the wave headed her way.

Around the 1920s.

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As his friends enjoyed the water, Fred yelled "shark!", because Fred was a dick.

As his friends enjoyed the water, Fred yelled "shark!", because Fred was a dick.

Collaroy, around 1926.

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That was the day Gertrude decided she hated the beach.

That was the day Gertrude decided she hated the beach.

Sisters Bay, 1909.

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Despite looking for hours, the children could not find Nemo.

Despite looking for hours, the children could not find Nemo.

Cameron Bay, 1909.

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The Paradoxical Rise Of The Viral Marriage Proposal

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Late last year, a grand romantic gesture went horribly awry. A Dutch man in a town near Utrecht hired a crane to use in a spectacular marriage proposal — the plan was for him to be lowered into his girlfriend’s garden as he sang to her, and for him to then pop the question. Alas. The crane fell over and smashed through neighboring roofs, resulting in the evacuation of 32 homes, international news coverage, and the amused pity of readers around the world. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and she said yes.

As someone who has watched a lot of romantic comedies — they were the subject of my doctoral dissertation — this story caught my eye. In order for a romantic comedy to come to a “happy” ending (that is, with the couple united, and presumably headed for monogamous heterosexual marriage), they must first be reunited, having been parted by the various obstacles to their love. Then she writes an article about him and stands on the baseball field in front of a huge crowd, waiting for him to show up and accept her apology, or he drives to her apartment in a white limo blaring La Traviata out the sunroof and climbs up her fire escape to declare his love. Or he stages a flash mob in Grand Central Station, or stands outside her window with a boom box, or interrupts her at her place of work to propose in broken Portuguese, or shows up at her press conference to ask her a big non-work-related question. You know the drill.

The unnamed hopelessly romantic Dutchman is an extreme example of how the ways in which many of us experience and express love have changed in recent years. Our collective desire to make a spectacle out of our love, and our unprecedented ability to broadcast and share that spectacle, have produced a visible and dramatic shift in the culture of romance. Today, we perform love, and consume it, as never before. And yet, the popularity of marriage is fading among young Americans. It’s a fraught and fascinating paradox, one of several that mark contemporary romance culture.

Romantic comedies, which teach us that the truer a true love is, the grander and more public the public grand gesture will be, have been around for a long time. So have public proposals. But the arrival of the internet, and the fact that we now live so much of our lives online, means that when we hear about them, it’s no longer in the abstract. Now we don’t just hear about our friend’s sister’s roommate’s cousin getting engaged when her fiancé staged a music number at Disneyland — we see the video. Lots of people see the video. Now that everyone has a video camera and a television in their back pocket, we can all get engaged on the Kiss Cam. And we can all watch as other people do too. And that video lives forever online, instead of slipping away after airing on the 11:00 news. These performances of love are more public, and more permanent, than ever before — even though the popularity of marriage, particularly among straight Americans between 18 and 29, is waning.

Certainly, public proposals aren’t entirely novel: Growing up in Sydney, Australia, I’d often see banners strung up along the overpass that spanned the road between my house and the local public pool — “Marry me, Kylie,” “I love you Mel.” Nor is there anything novel about spending lavishly on a wedding and on the events and items that surround it, or about the appeal of the grand romantic-comedy-style gesture. But new notions of public have fused with old ideas about romance to change how many of us experience weddings and the constellation of events around them — whether the weddings in question are their own, or those of others. If romantic comedies tell us that the truest and most special love is performed in grand, public ways, then the advent of social media has increased the pressure on all of us to stage those performances in our own lives. Now we can all prove that our love is special and true by putting on our own romantic comedy happy ending — and now more people than ever before will be able to watch it.

The capacity to easily record, upload, and broadcast videos has propelled visibility of public proposals — explicitly made with the validation of strangers in mind — but these performances happen without video too, and they owe their virality to the social media saturation of 21st-century life. One potent example of how social media has changed our relationship with the performance of love is the engagement photo shoot. Before so many of us were living a proudly curated, Valencia-tinted, inevitably performative life through social media, engagement photo shoots were a relatively niche pre-wedding ritual. Few people had them taken, and if you did do them, they were seen only by those who received your save-the-dates and those who happened to walk past your friend’s fridge or your parents’ hall end table. Now they’re seen by all your Facebook friends, whether they’ve been sent a wedding invitation or not. And even if you never considered hiring a photographer to take photos of you and your betrothed before the wedding, you know lots of people who have done it. You’ve clicked through their albums on Facebook and seen your engaged friends dressed up and dolled up, posing in parks and on bridges and at the beach, transformed for an afternoon into models and movie stars as a professional photographer — usually a virtual stranger — tries to capture the unique intimacy of their love so that it can be splashed all over the internet.

This sense of ubiquity — everyone is having engagement photos taken! — creates a perception that this kind of public performance is necessary, a standard part of the ever-expanding process of getting married. The combination of new social media and the decades-old American urge to keep up with the Joneses has been a boon for the wedding industrial complex, and professional photographers are profiting from the new perception that this costly but once-rare part of the marriage ritual is expected. About half of heterosexual couples getting married in the U.S. now opt to do it, and a session with an “experienced professional” will run you over $800 (figures aren’t available on what proportion of gay couples do it). And while some wedding photographers include the engagement session for no extra cost, many don’t, adding to the ballooning price tag of the entire affair — the average wedding in the U.S. now costs $25,200. The urge to perform, and the opportunities and expectations to do so, have expanded far beyond proposals and pre-wedding photography. For many years, the usual public exchange of vows has been supplemented by various other performances of coupling, like the bride and groom’s entrance at the reception and their first dance. Now we have choreographed dance numbers for the wedding party, which are recorded and posted online, where they can go viral.

That these declarations of love are staged and public does not suggest that the love is not real, and some of these grand public gestures are incredibly touching. Three years later, I still cannot watch video of the Home Depot flash mob proposal without a box of tissues nearby (and I’m clearly not the only one, as it now has over 12.5 million views on YouTube). And, of course, for people whose love is still threatening to the status quo, treated as second-class or hidden away and kept secret, there’s enormous political and personal power in the kind of visibility that a spectacular public display provides. But for everyone else, even when the love is real, there’s something unsettling about all this performing, and it’s not just that a man surprising a woman with a public proposal — and that’s almost always how it goes — places her under an enormous amount of pressure to say yes, or that some men, as the writer Elizabeth Weingarten puts it, see the “extravagant proposal as an act of virility, a palpable way to exert dominance over the marriage process.” Indeed, watching some of these public proposal videos, it seems that the men are not so much proposing to women as at them.

Viewed in this light, public proposal videos can be read as a reactionary response by straight, cis couples to reclaim marriage as their own, insisting that marriage is great – and that marriage is straight. But marriage is evolving in a way that is historically normal, even if it feels unprecedented at our close range. This is just one of several paradoxes at the heart of how we perform and consume love today: As marriage becomes less popular, the performance of it becomes more insistent. Another paradox: Despite the intimate nature of romantic love, straight, cis couples seem more intent than ever on displaying it in public. And, though we talk about romantic love as priceless, declaring to the world that you’re in love, and declaring it in the manner that romantic comedies and our new public square have taught us is desirable, is awfully expensive — and many twentysomethings are broke.

The most vexing paradox of all, of course, is that even those of us who are critical of this new romance culture are not immune to it. I myself am currently dating someone to whom I once publicly (albeit jokingly) proposed. Even among those who find other people’s public proposals nauseating and everyone else’s engagement photo shoots irksome, there are plenty of women who want to be publicly proposed to, and plenty of men who want to stage a spectacular public proposal. That is, plenty of us want to perform our own love. Because our love, as romantic comedies teach us so well, is exceptional. Strangers in restaurants will want to cheer for us when we get engaged. Commuters won’t mind when our flash mob disrupts their evening commute. Our love is true, and when love is true, we want to tell the whole world about it. And here’s the thing: Now we really can.

29 Times B.J. Novak's Fictional Sister Keough Was The Sassiest Teen On Twitter

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Are you a #KeoCat?

B.J. Novak, star of The Office and author of One More Thing and The Book With No Pictures, has the sassiest teenage sister in the world. She's into HBO Go and calling people out. She's also fictional.

B.J. and his brothers Jesse and Lev created her to fill the void of not having a sister, and she's amazing. Here's all the proof you need.

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16 Reasons "Dance Moms'" Maddie Ziegler Slays

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The star of Dance Moms and Sia’s music videos for “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart” may only be 12 years old, but she’s already a superstar.

On Dance Moms, she's known for being Abby's favourite...

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