Beyonce is gracing the cover of Interview Magazine Germany’s December issue with her incognito swag on a 100 in a fishnet mask identical to the one she wore earlier this year during the On The Run tour with hubby Jay Z. Are you feeling this cover?
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This was so unprofessional. Baker Sends Bride Cake Shaped Like Feces We understand the baker was upset, but doing customers like this will fawk up business. According to New Zealand Herald: A hothead Kiwi baker is defiant after sending a cake shaped like a large pile of poo to a customer. Oh Cakes owner Emma McDonald, of Riverton in Southland, sent the disgusting-looking chocolate log on December 20 after she claimed the client became annoyed at her for rescheduling a meeting. Her actions have been greeted with outrage, but yesterday McDonald was unrepentant. “I have no regrets at all about what I did. I feel she got what she deserved,” she told the Herald on Sunday. “I don’t make cakes as a business. It is just a hobby and I’m taking it all with good humour.” The stoush started when McDonald said on Facebook that the client did not give her clear enough instructions about what she wanted. It is believed the cake was ordered for the engagement party of 24-year-old Micaela Harris of Invercargill by a relative. SMH. McDonald said the customer had won a $50 voucher for a cake, which McDonald reduced to $30 because she said the client owed her $20 for a separate business arrangement. Harris’ family and friends were horrified on the day of the party when they discovered they had been sent a cake in the shape of poo. A card with the cake read: “Eat s**t”. After it was picked up, McDonald posted on Facebook: “Your (sic) left with a $30 voucher and you want a cake still?? ok cool – give me some ideas?? oh wait you have none apart from wanting chocolate. I have a brilliant idea for your cake!!! – so here it is, your turd cake! Hope you learn your lesson.” Invercargill Chamber of Commerce president Sean Woodward said the incident was not a good look for the southern city. He insisted the region was famed for its good food and warm hospitality. “People expect any business to treat its clients with respect,” he said. “The cakemaker should have stopped and taken a breath or even gone on a holiday before doing this. What on earth was she thinking?” Some people have no shame.
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Sections of a building at a resort near an Orlando, Florida theme park district collapsed into a sinkhole late Sunday, forcing the evacuation of guests. Dozens of visitors staying in two adjacent three-story buildings were also evacuated. Sinkhole in Florida: Report The sinkhole ingested part of Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, Florida. “I was in the tub when the ‘boom’ went off and the tub literally popped up and came down,” Debbie Ward told MyFoxOrlando, recalling the experience. “She thought it was an earthquake and got out of the tub, and could “hear the cracking and the ceiling and glass breaking and we decided to get out as soon as possible.” Engineers have been drilling to see if the land has stabilized. Paul Caldwell, the owner, says one building was destroyed. Back in March, a Florida sinkhole killed a man when it opened up near his Hillsborough County home. The sinkhole prompted evacuations in the neighborhood. Sinkholes are as much a part of the Florida landscape as palm trees and alligators, especially in recent years. Florida has more than any state in the nation. Experts say sinkholes aren’t occurring at a greater rate than usual but that the high-profile nature of recent one in populated areas has drawn attention to them. So how does it happen? Much of Florida is made up of porous carbonate rocks such as limestone that store and help move groundwater. Dirt, sand and clay sit on top of that rock. Over time, these rocks can dissolve from an acid created from oxygen in water, creating a void underneath the limestone roof, creating the sinkhole. When the dirt, clay or sand gets too heavy for the limestone roof, it can collapse. Sinkholes are caused naturally but they can be triggered by outside events. Heavy rain, drought followed by heavy rainfall, tropical storms and human activity – such as overuse of groundwater, drilling, excavating and construction – can contribute.
Take a long look at the following wedding cakes. See if you notice a difference. You might need to give it a minute to really see it. Or not. Obviously those two cakes aren’t even close. Amazingly enough, the one on the right was supposed to be modeled after the one on the left. A bride in the U.K. sent the picture of the black cake to a baker in the hopes of arriving at her reception and seeing a confection similar waiting for her and her groom to cut into. Instead, she saw what looks to be a leaning tower of bruised rotting flesh more likely to be found on an episode of Criminal Minds than a wedding reception. Of course, the only logical step to take would be to try and sell the monstrosity on eBay… and that is exactly what the bride did! She listed it with the description, “A few defects due to maker being unskilled. Uncut, along with large amount of awful cupcakes for free. No topper or decoration. Unusual design. Very heavy.” If you feel like the cake was missing a little something, don’t worry because the bride adds: “I have roses which fell off this abomination if required. Sorry no returns.” This is the Internet, so of course there was the obligatory party pooper who pointed out that it likely wasn’t a good idea to sell the cake online. But the bride took it in stride: “Thanks for message and concern about the cake. It has been advertised purely as a joke and I’m not expecting anyone to buy it.” Amazingly enough, though? She’d already gotten bids. Quite a few actually! Just goes to show, people will buy anything if you call it an abomination and add a couple roses.
Guess that’s the way the cake crumbles? Yet another bakery is turning down business for faith based reasons, specifically when it comes to gay matrimony-dom. Via Salon reports : Oregon baker Aaron Klein could face legal action after refusing to do business with a same sex couple who sought a cake for their upcoming wedding. As reported by KATU, the woman who filed the complaint says she had previously purchased a wedding cake from Sweet Cakes Bakery for her mother without incident, but was denied service after she told Klein the cake she wanted to buy was for her same-sex wedding. Klein admitted he refused the bride-to-be, telling NBC, “I believe that marriage is a religious institution ordained by God. A man should leave his mother and father and cling to his wife… that to me is the beginning of marriage.” While he won’t bless the union of a gay couple with a too-thick layer of buttercream frosting and overly dry white cake, he is not anti-gay, Klein says. “I’ll sell [gay people] stuff… I’ll talk to them, it’s fine,” he told NBC. This isn’t the first time a bakery has become an unlikely battleground in the gay marriage debate. In 2011, Iowa baker Victoria Childress came under fire for refusing service to a same sex couple at their pre-wedding tasting. Again, Childress cited her religious beliefs and freedom of speech as a justification for the denial. And again, she didn’t see it as discrimination. “I didn’t do the cake because of my convictions for their lifestyle. It is my right as a business owner. It is my right, and it’s not to discriminate against them. It’s not so much to do with them, it’s to do with me and my walk with God and what I will answer [to] him for,” she told KCCI. In 2012, Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, found that refusing to bake for a gay couple’s wedding was a boon to his business. After the incident, “We had about twice as much business as normal” Phillips told KDVR. “There are people coming in to support us.” While many states have laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment and housing, the law is less clear when it comes to things like selling cakes. In Oregon, the question for the Attorney General’s civil enforcement officers is whether or not Klein’s religious beliefs defend him against the Oregon Equality Act of 2007, which prohibits discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. Last year, the New Hampshire legislature introduced a bill that would allow businesses to refuse business to gay and lesbian customers seeking wedding-related services through a conscience clause. As reported by the Eagle Tribune, the proposed bill could enshrine discrimination in state law, enabling more than just bakeries to refuse services to their customers: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, including a business owner or employee thereof, shall be required to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges to an individual if the request is related to the solemnization, celebration, or promotion of a marriage and providing such services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges would be a violation of the person’s conscience or religious faith. A person’s refusal to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges in accordance with this section shall not create any civil claim or cause of action or result in any state action to penalize or withhold benefits from such person. That New Hampshire bill sounds like some pure hater isht… Do you think these business owners should have a right to refuse certain services — or is it just like back in the day when Woolworth’s could opt not to have blacks at their lunch counters? Shutterstock
Call it a desperate plea for human salvation. Just two hours before December 21, the day that marks the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar, MTV pulled the plug on Jersey Shore for good. Last-minute peace offering to the gods? We’ll find out, won’t we?! Yeah buddy. For now, let’s break down the grand finale Jersey Shore in all its fist-pumping, STD-ridden, GTL’d glory … THG style! Like the season as a whole, it was relatively uneventful, but Situation, Snooki, Pauly D, Sammi, Ronnie, Vinny, Deena and JWoww went out in style. A bonfire on the beach required some hard wood courtesy of Vinny, and not the kind he’s used to displaying whenever Snooki is around. Plus 20 . This farewell bash felt like exactly that. Everyone’s friends and families joined, and had a blast, but it felt like they were all about ready to move on. The sober Mike tells us he is “in the best shape of my life” about 100 times. And then is absolutely torched by Jionni LaValle in beach football. Plus 30 . Roger Mathews and Jionni – “The father gorilla and a little baby ape” according to Vinny – arrive with flowers for their ladies. They’re good guys. Plus 30 . The last day of “work” at the Shore Store was bittersweet. So many good memories of being hung over and pretending to have to work there. Minus 20 . Snook says little baby Lorenzo will work there one day. Aiming high. Plus 10 . “I’m fighting back the tears right now,” says Danny. “Tears of joy.” Plus 50 . Paula Pickard left a card and cake for her ex Mike to celebrate his birthday, which felt like a pathetic move until we realized she had a plan the whole time. More on that shortly. Vinny reflects that he never thought he’d call a tanned guido his best friend. Pauly puts it, “Never judge a book by its blowout, son.” AWW! Plus 20 . Vinny and Pauly decided to take Ron’s air mattress outside as a prank, but then Vinny popped the mattress which made it kind of a bad idea. Minus 40 . They put it back in the room, after which Ron and Sam thought the prank was just deflating the bed … and tried to fill it back up with air for a long time. Even . The next day was July 4 – Mike and Pauly’s birthday – and Ronnie still wasn’t over the bed drama and Sam for pranking Vinny in the first place. Minus 30 . As with all Sam-Ron fights, things got heated, they threatened to break up with each other, then kissed and made up and smushed in like an hour. Plus 60 . During the crew’s final GTL session, Paula’s coworker at the salon asked Mike’s roommate (while he was in the tanning bed) if they ate the cake. They did not, as only Mike, Deena and Pauly ate some. Then the girl displayed a photo of some dude teabagging the cake. Yes, full-on balls up in there. Paula Pickard FTW. Plus 70 . Mike tried to call Paula about that “nutty situation,” but she kept pretending she couldn’t hear him, Mike became enraged and smashed the duck phone. Not cool Mike. So not cool. RIP Wood Duck Phone (2009-2012). Minus 180 . The gang’s last night together was spent with filler / memories. Using the hot tub the first night, Snooki getting punched in the face by a guy at the bar, to Pauly and Jenni’s hookup, welcoming Deena into the house. It’s been a good run. But it’s time to end it right here and now. “I thought this was the biggest mistake of my life,” says JWoww of her first summer in the Shore house, but now, she says, it’s made her life “perfect.” “You can’t take away what we’ve done together,” adds Pauly. No you cannot. Bags were packed and loaded into giant black SUVs. Tearful goodbyes were said. Even The Situation cried bidding farewell to his Jersey Shore “family.” Grab the Kleenex. And the motherf–kin’ condoms. Plus 100 . EPISODE TOTAL: +200! SEASON TOTAL: +430!
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