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​Yale Professor Found Dead in His New Haven Jail Cell

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​Yale Professor Found Dead in His New Haven Jail Cell

Samuel See, 34, an assistant professor of English and American studies at Yale University, was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive in his cell at a New Haven detention center on Sunday. See had been arrested Saturday for violating a protective order and fighting with police officers when they were called to his home on a domestic dispute complaint.

According to police, they received a complaint of a domestic dispute early Saturday evening. Police officers arrived to a residence and found Saunder Ganglani, See's husband, retrieving his belongings at the home both men shared. Because both men had protective orders against each other, both See and Ganglani were arrested.

Police said See then became very upset, telling officers he shouldn't be arrested for violating a protective order at his own home. He fought against the cops as they tried to handcuff him. As See was led to a police car, the arrest report states that he yelled to one of the arresting officers, "I will kill you ... I will destroy you."

See was first transported to the hospital with a cut above his eye and was later taken to a cell at the Union Avenue Detention Facility. According to police, he was alert the night of the arrest but was found dead early the next morning. See is not believed to have committed suicide.

His death is currently under investigation and the New Haven Register reports that the chief state medical examiner's office said the "cause of death is pending further studies."

This weekend's incident was not See's first brush with the law. The professor, currently on leave from the university, was due in court next week to enter a plea for an incident in September in which he was arrested for assault and breach of peace.

Yale spokesman Tom Conroy released this statement Wednesday afternoon:

The University community is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Samuel See. Our condolences go out to his family, faculty colleagues, and students, and his friends at Yale and elsewhere. We encourage anyone at Yale who needs comfort and support at this time of loss to reach out to friends in the community or to University resources that are available for consultation and counseling (University Chaplain, Yale Mental Health and Counseling for students, and Magellan Health Services for staff). Mr. See was an assistant professor of English and American Studies who had been on leave during the current semester.

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Retail employees won't be able to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but the perks of working o

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Retail employees won't be able to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but the perks of working on the holiday are too good to pass up. For instance, Kohl's will make the day "fun for associates," Old Navy's atmosphere will be as "familial as possible," and Toys R Us is allowing employees to wear jeans and sneakers.

​Watch This Guy Trick His Girlfriend With Fake Marriage Proposals

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How do you propose to someone who knows the question is coming? Step one, at least in 2013, always involves procuring high-end video equipment. But step two includes setting up as many near-proposals as possible, making it seem as though the question could come at any second. And while I might have declared proposal videos over, this one is just charming enough to make me reconsider.

According to the video's description, the Summer found out her boyfriend was going to propose that night. So he decided to scrap his original plan and give her a night of surprises, including a public announcement at a sushi restaurant, and a group of men conveniently playing a Bright Eyes song in an empty park. In each location the girl waits for the question, and in each location, the question never arrives.

Using hidden video cameras and a group of friends, the man is able to capture each moment of the night, including the final—and real—proposal. It's sweet, the music's decent, it's in HD. And it's way better than any proposal in a Kay Jewelers holiday commercial.

[h/t reddit]

According to research from the Calorie Control Council, the typical Thanksgiving meal weighs in at a

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According to research from the Calorie Control Council, the typical Thanksgiving meal weighs in at about 4,500 calories and 229 grams of fat. Might as well add a few more glasses of wine to make it an even 5,000 calories.

[Vernita Gray, left, and Patricia Ewert hold their Illinois marriage license after they were married

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[Vernita Gray, left, and Patricia Ewert hold their Illinois marriage license after they were married in Chicago on Wednesday. While the state's gay marriage law takes effect in June 2014, the couple was granted an expedited marriage license because Gray is terminally ill. Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast via AP]

It's cold and windy in New York City, but after earlier fears about the weather, the balloons at the

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It's cold and windy in New York City, but after earlier fears about the weather, the balloons at the Thanksgiving Day parade are already flying.

Pizza Hut GM Axed For Giving Workers Off Thanksgiving Offered Job Back

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Pizza Hut GM Axed For Giving Workers Off Thanksgiving Offered Job Back

Feeling the full brunt of a public relations nightmare, Pizza Hut has offered manager Tony Rohr his job back, after he quit over a disagreement over whether his employees should work on Thanksgiving.

The Pizza Hut corporate office told CNN that it had "made a serious error in judgement, one which we hope to help remedy."

Rohr had taken a stand against the Thanksgiving hours after the store asked employees to work the holiday for the first time since he began working there. He was asked to resign from the company, but instead wrote a letter explaining why it's immoral for workers to have to not spend time with their family and work during a holiday. Pizza Hut has agreed.

"We fully respect an employee's right to not work on a holiday, which is why the vast majority of Pizza Huts in America are closed on Thanksgiving," Pizza Hut said. "As a result, we strongly recommended that the local franchisee reinstate the store manager and they have agreed. We look forward to them welcoming Tony back to the team."

Rohr has not indicated whether he will return to the position.

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Thanksgiving Songs, Ranked

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21. Brianna Haynes, "Thank You"

20. Nicole Westbrook, "It's Thanksgiving"

19. Ray Davies, "Thanksgiving Day"

18. Graham Parker, "Almost Thanksgiving Day"

17. Marc Philippe Eskenazi, "Thanksgivukkah"

16. "We Gather Together," a Dutch hymn written by Adrianus Valerius

15. Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Thanksgiving Song"

14. Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"

13. Agoraphobic Nosebleed, "Thanksgiving Day"

12. Loudon Wainwright III, "Thanksgiving"

11. Mount Eerie, "Thanksgiving"

10. Kendrick Lamar, "Thanksgiving (Feat. Big Pooh)"

9. William S. Burroughs, "A Thanksgiving Prayer"

8. Eef Barzelay, "Thanksgiving Waves"

7. Adam Sandler, "The Thanksgiving Song"

6. The Smiths, "Meat Is Murder"

5. Bama the Village Poet, "Thanksgiving"

4. (tie) The National, "Kill the Turkey"

4. (tie) Bob's Burgers, "Kill the Turkey"

3. James Brown, "Mashed Potatoes"

2. Johnny Cash, "Thanksgiving Prayer"

1. Drive-By Truckers, "The Thanksgiving Filter"

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A Guide For Cleaning Every Possible Thanksgiving Stain (Like Blood)

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A Guide For Cleaning Every Possible Thanksgiving Stain (Like Blood)

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her.

The holidays are a great time of year for my line of work, which is actually sort of sad because it means that while I'm delighting in all the horror stories gracing my inbox, you all are staring forlornly at a giant mess. I'm sorry for your mess!

OK, fine: I'm not really that sorry for your mess. But only because your mess keeps me in work.

Speaking of your messes … in past years, I've taken on what I like to refer to as Holiday Disasters; this was the 2011 version, and here comes the one from 2012. This year, I've decided to take a preemptive approach and write up a primer of sorts on the most common stains that mar the fabric of our otherwise perfect holiday seasons. With that said, the holiday season is only just beginning so do feel free to thrill me over the next few weeks with the tales of all the things you've dirtied up.

Before we get into it, though, allow me to say a quick word of thanks: I just adore this job, and I wouldn't be able to say that if it weren't for all of you wonderful people who read and comment and email me with your wild and weird cleaning conundrums. It's touching, in a way that's hard to articulate without sounding ham-handed, to be trusted with the questions you ask of me and I am so grateful for that. Thank you all from the bottom of both my heart and my supply bucket!

Blood

We all dream about stabbing one of our relatives, so just in case one of you actually does (um, don't?) here's everything you need to know about cleaning up blood stains. Even if you don't plan on stabbing a relative, these are handy instructions to have close by, what with all the drinking and carving and such that goes on at Thanksgiving.

Cranberry Sauce

Cranberries stain like the dickens, so please don't drop cranberry sauce on yourself, the good tablecloth, the upholstered chairs, Aunt Ethel, etc. etc. etc.

If you do drop cranberry sauce on yourself or on any of those other things I mentioned, get to it immediately. If possible, flush the stain with water, then treat it with a bit of laundry detergent (or dish soap, since the dish soap is usually closer at hand on Thanksgiving) before laundering as usual.

If the stain is on something you can't flush with water, like an upholstered chair or Aunt Ethel, wipe as as much as you can with a damp cloth or sponge, and then treat the stain by sponging at it with a small amount of detergent.

Isopropyl alcohol can also be used to treat a cranberry-sauce stain; put a small amount on a clean cloth or paper towel and dab dab dab at the stain. This is a good trick to know about if wood countertops or cutting boards get stained. The same thing applies to pomegranates, but seriously, good luck with that. Pomegranate stains are even trickier to remove than cranberry stains.

Dairy

Dairy stains aren't so bad actually—just pretreat with a stain-removal product or a small bit of liquid laundry detergent prior to washing. Really bad stains might require you to call in the Carbona Stain Devils (#4 is the one you want for dairy stains) for added muscle.

Gravy, Grease, Butter, Uncle Bob's Hair Oil, Etc.

Dish soap is the first thing you should reach for when you splatter your nice shirt with butter, turkey grease, gravy, etc. If you get a little soap on it straightaway, you'll be far less likely to end up with a permanently stained shirt.

If you missed the stain when it happened, or if grease happens on something non-launderable, there are a few other options. The first is to treat the stain with Pine Sol or Lestoil before laundering as usual. Dab a bit of whichever one you've got onto a cloth or paper towel, and then apply it to the stained area.

You can also use cornstarch to pull up greasy stains, which is a great trick when dealing with splatters on tablecloths, upholstery or carpets. Just pile the cornstarch up on the stained area and let it sit there while you nap in front of a football game. Then sweep or vacuum it up.

Lipstick

Just in case Aunt Ethel gets your shirt collar with that coral lipstick she's been wearing since the Nixon administration, dab at the stain with a cotton ball dipped in a bit of isopropyl alcohol.

Necktie Assistance

Got a baby around? Grab one of the wipes out of the diaper bag that comes with them and blot at those inevitable necktie stains—they're low-moisture and use a mild soap, which means they're safe to use when treating stains on delicate silk ties.

Red Wine

The table-salt trick is my go-to for red wine stains (it's the trick in which you pour table salt all over the fresh stain and let that table salt drink itself stupid).

Other treatments for red wine stains are club soda; white wine; dish or laundry soap; Wine Away. (That Wine Away stuff is amazing, btw. If you're bringing a bottle of red wine as a gift, it's a charming and practical little add-on.)

If you've spilled on your clothing and are in a place where you can take your shirt off, try flushing it with cold water. That'll go much further than you think it will in pushing out a fresh red-wine stain.

Sweet Potatoes and Other Orange Gloppy Foodstuffs

Sweet potatoes create the kind of stains that benefit mostly from a good rinse—first, scrape off as much as you can using a spoon or butter knife, then rinse the stained fabric under cold running water. Then hit it with a bit of dish soap (SORRY, I KNOW I KEEP REPEATING MYSELF. BUT IT'S RIGHT THERE, OK?) or laundry detergent and chh-ch-ch the fabric against itself, which will help to convince the soap to get sudsy and coax the staining out.

Tea & Coffee

Tea and coffee fall into the tannin-stain category, which means that much like red wine, simply flushing a stained garment with cold running water is the first thing you should do. Then apply some dish or laundry soap if needed.

Wax

We covered wax removal/wax-stain removal in greater detail, but the quick version for candle wax that's dripped onto tablecloths goes like this: Put your iron on the lowest setting, cover the wax with a piece of brown paper, put the iron on top of the paper—the heat will melt the wax, which will then be absorbed by the paper. Residual staining can be addressed with a stain treatment product like Zout, Resolve, OxiClean, etc. etc. etc.

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Jolie Kerr is the author of the upcoming book My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag … And Other Things You Can't Ask Martha (Plume, February 25, 2014); more cleaning-obsessed natterings can be found on Twitter, Kinja, and Tumblr. Squalor appears on Jezebel and Deadspin on alternating weeks.

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Thatz Not Okay: Can I Ban a Guest's Tupperware from My Thanksgiving?

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Thatz Not Okay: Can I Ban a Guest's Tupperware from My Thanksgiving?

Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition of Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions (max: 200 words) to caity@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay."


I am having Thanksgiving at my apartment this year, hosting a group consisting of friends from work and university, who don't make enough money for the trek home. I think it will be fun, but during a recent conversation with an invitee from work I was given cause for worry. My work colleague is lives alone and sends money to her parents (currently unemployed) and occasionally to extended family. So, I appreciate that her financial burden is extreme and try to be helpful with her extracurricular business endeavors. However, during a recent conversation she informed me that she intended to bring her "wares" to sell at my Thanksgiving dinner to my guests. After a moment of confusion I could only say "Of course", but after further reflection I'm worried she intends to turn dinner into a Tupperware party of sorts. Looking back on the conversation she alluded to everyone drinking (she abstains for religious reasons) and I'm worried she thinks everyone will be drunk and therefore easy prey. Is want to request that she leave her "wares" in the car and only bring them out if someone expresses an interest. My apartment is small and I don't think it will be an unreasonable request. Is that okay?

Thatz okay.

Even the pilgrims, who were pretty damn ballsy, did not have the audacity to use their feast of thanks giving as a commercial opportunity to sell some really fabulous luxury home goods at wholesale prices to their Native American guests.

A good rule of thumb for attending a holiday meal at someone else's house is that you cannot make any requests. ("I'm fatally allergic to nuts and bee stings so please don't put nuts in my food and please don't have bees in your house," is OK. The polite thing to do is sip water all night, compliment the decor—"Interesting use of bees!"—and swing by KFC on your way home.)

A more general rule is that, when someone offers you a generous favor, it is considered bad manners and full crazy to come over the top and try to negotiate a sweeter deal for yourself.

You have already done this woman a great kindness by offering to host her at your holiday meal. She doesn't want to turn your Thanksgiving dinner into a Tupperware party "of sorts." She wants to turn it into a Tupperware party "and that's the end of that sentence."

While you may feel a little awkward telling her that, on second thought, you're not comfortable with her using your party as a free, catered event to hawk her wares to your trapped friends, take solace in the fact that you will not feel as awkward as your grim-faced friends would have felt pulling crumpled Jacksons out of their wallets as she launched into her presentation (which, by the way, would seem like your presentation, since you apparently lured them to your house to hear it, and are the Welch's Fruit Snacks in your coworker's Costco box even labeled for individual sale, and isn't she a little employed to be raising money for her after school youth basketball team?)

You should not extend an offer for your guest to bust out her wares "if someone expresses an interest." This will only cause her to prod people into politely expressing an interest.

"Let's all go around the table and say what we're thankful for. Here, I'll start: I'm thankful for the even heating and no-worry maintenance I get from my Pampered Chef Baking Stone, only $27.99!"

"What a beautiful engagement ring. You know, I actually make twisty wire jewelry with glass beads myself. You should buy some."

"It's so funny you mention golf—I've actually got an entire golf bag of barbiturates out in my car because the square didn't think you folks would want to party. You want to party, don't you, babies?"

Trust that, whatever her wares are (and I am dying to know—Girl Scout Cookies? Avon? Burpee seeds? Catalogue of sexual favors with non-negotiable fees?), she will find a way to trick someone into asking about them in order to circumvent your rule.

She is, after all, a seasoned saleswoman; who else would respond to a generous invitation by saying, "Thank you so much! I see this as a huge business opportunity for me!" She knows you don't move product by sitting around waiting for someone to say, "That four-course Thanksgiving meal was delicious, but you know what I could really go for right now? An entire sleeve of Do-Si-Dos."

While I love your excuse about having a too-small apartment ("Unfortunately, I don't have room for any more objects, even temporarily. We are at max capacity for things and such"), don't sabotage yourself by using it. Doing so only provides an in for her to make a counteroffer.

You don't think there will enough space? Don't worry, it's not much—she can fit everything into the trunk of her car, which is a lot smaller than your living room!

You don't need to give details, justify, or explain your decision because you are not the person behaving rudely. Your reason could be "I have a rule about parties, which is that people are not allowed to ruin them" or "You can't bring your stuff in here because I'm a mean old crazy witch!" and you would still be in the clear, manners-wise, for you are the one hosting Thanksgiving.

If, through some Rube Goldberg-esque machinations of the Universe, this woman does end up extolling the virtues of the Tupperware® Microwave Pasta Maker to a throng of your enthralled, inebriated guests, you can take comfort in the fact that it will probably end up being a funny story for everyone else, in retrospect.

"Remember that Thanksgiving?! The Lions won, and I drunkenly spent $200 on Skin So Soft."

You can take turns telling and embellishing it at next year's Thanksgiving dinner, to which this woman obviously will not be invited.

Submit your "Thatz Not Okay" questions here (max: 200 words). Image by Jim Cooke, source photo via Shutterstock.

Why Visit Family When You Can Live in The World's First Floating City?

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Why Visit Family When You Can Live in The World's First Floating City?

Rising seas, high transportation costs, its enough to make a man move to the middle of the sea.... And be surrounded by thousands of other people in a beautiful floating city.

"The Freedom Ship," a mile long, 25-story high floating city is looking to raise $10 billion so 50,000 people can live in a city completely at sea. A Florida-based company called Freedom Ship International is looking to build a ship that sails constantly, never having to dock, and also has an airport, schools, ballfields, and even an aquarium (which would be different from the ocean it floats on).

"The Freedom Ship will be the largest vessel ever built, and the first ever floating city," Roger M Gooch, director and vice-president of Freedom Ship International told the Daily News. "This will be a very heavily capitalised project and the global economy in the last few years hasn't been too inviting for unproven progressive projects like ours."

Who on Earth would want to buy into a $10 billion luxury city that will be able to prove a haven for when the Earth becomes a boiling, sunken mess. Oh, right. Everyone.

"In the last six months we're getting more interest in the project and we are hopeful we will raise the $1 billion to begin construction," Noah Gooch said of the project.

In the tired wastelands of the future time, on what once were the highest of peaks, men will speak of a mystical city that houses the remaining elite, floating near what once were the polar ice caps. Freedom Ship, they'll whisper. And you, rugged survivor, will wave it off. There's no such thing as Freedom Ship, you'll think. It's just an old tale to keep men calm in the darker, most humid nights. But as you'll soon find out, it exists, and one of the old men has a secret, and if you give him your remaining batteries, he'll tell you where to find a young woman gifted with sight. And there your adventure begins. For humanity, for survival, for Freedom Ship.


[A giant Uncle Sam balloon is marched down 6th Avenue during the Thanksgiving Day Parade this mornin

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[A giant Uncle Sam balloon is marched down 6th Avenue during the Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning. He is watching you eat. Eat as much as you can. Photo by John Minchillo via AP]

What Crazy Things Are Your Relatives Saying?

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What Crazy Things Are Your Relatives Saying?

It's that time again. You're all gathering in homes across the country to converge on a dead bird (or vegan substitute for cousin Sparrow) and discuss what you've done, where you've been, and whether ObamaCare/HAARP will destroy civilization as we know it.

So, we ask all of you huddling in the bathroom, desperately trying to avoid talking to anyone, what's the craziest shit you've heard today?

[image via Shutterstock]

Did Spike Lee steal this designer's poster idea?

Turkey Gets Hit By Car, Survives, Will Most Likely Be Eaten Next Year

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Turkey Gets Hit By Car, Survives, Will Most Likely Be Eaten Next Year

For all of our gorging on turkeys today, we seem to dwell a lot on the ones we spare. Here's another lucky turkey that will live long enough to be eaten by us at a later date.

In Maine, a pickup truck hit a turkey on the side of the road. The young tukey, badly injured, was treated by veterinarians for brain injuries and a broken wing. They named her Alice.

"When I went over to her [Alice], I spoke to her really quietly and said, 'I'm going to put the blanket over you,' and I reached down and picked her up and she was huge. She just felt huge in my arms," Meg Lord told Maine's WMTW.

She's almost fully recovered from the Halloween accident, and will soon be released into the wild.

"It is hunting season for turkeys, so she kind of gets a pass this year, I guess," the veterinarian treating her said.

If all goes well for Alice, she will fully recover, before a gunshot ends her life sometime in the next calendar year.

Ride on, Alice. Ride on.

Morrissey, your thoughts on Thanksgiving?

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Morrissey, your thoughts on Thanksgiving? "Thankskilling." Ah, great. Always a pleasure.

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