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Since the age of 16, when she burst onto the charts with her debut single, "…Hit Me Baby One More Time," Britney Spears has been one of the world's most famous and beloved pop stars. Yet despite her massive fame and fortune, Britney, who is now 39, has never truly had full control over her own life.
As most familiar with pop culture know by now, Britney has been living under a conservatorship for the past 13 years. Also known as "adult guardianship," a conservatorship is a legal structure in which the court granted Britney's father, Jaime Spears, and other individuals nearly complete control over her legal, financial, and personal decisions. The conservatorship was initially established in February 2008 after Britney suffered a mental breakdown, which resulted in her being briefly hospitalized.
A Total Loss of Control
Back in 2008, the court-appointed Britney's father and attorney Andrew Wallet as her co-conservators, as Britney was deemed mentally unfit to care for herself. The arrangement was only meant to be temporary, but in October of that year, the conservatorship was made long-term, and her father has remained in nearly complete control of Britney's life ever since. Although there has been widespread speculation that Britney's conservatorship was abusive, the exact details of her conservatorship have been kept private. Moreover, until very recently, Britney had never spoken publicly about her life under the arrangement.
Years of Abuse and Conflict
However, as we detailed last week in part one, Britney recently testified in a court hearing during which she described a shocking pattern of abuse and exploitation at the hands of her father and others involved with the conservatorship. We also discussed how confidential court records obtained by the New York Times provided support for Britney's claims and showed that the pop icon had expressed serious opposition to her conservatorship as early as 2014, and tried unsuccessfully on multiple occasions to have her father removed from his position.
In response, Britney's father flatly denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyers filed a petition requesting the court investigate Britney's allegations of abuse. Shortly after the hearing, both Britney's court-appointed lawyer, Samuel Ingham, and Bessemer Trust, the wealth management company, which had previously signed on to be the co-conservator of Spears' finances, asked the court to be removed from the pop star's conservatorship.
In a follow-up court hearing held this week on July 14th, Judge Brenda Penny approved the resignation of Ingham and Bessemer Trust and granted a request by Britney to hire her own lawyer. To represent her moving forward, Britney chose Mathew Rosengart, a prominent Hollywood litigator and former federal prosecutor, as her new attorney.
Britney, who phoned into the hearing, once again asked the court to remove her father as co-conservator, and she said that her father should be prosecuted for his alleged abuse. But Britney also reiterated that she's not willing to undergo any more mental-health evaluations, which she called "stupid psych tests," according to a report by NPR.
"I'm not willing to sit with anybody at this point to be evaluated," Britney said. "I want to press charges for abuse. Instead of investigating my capacity, I want an investigation on my dad."
Although Britney still hasn't filed the formal legal document seeking to end her conservatorship, which is required by law, her new lawyer, who was present at the latest court hearing, told the judge he plans to file the petition to remove Jamie Spears from the conservatorship. If so, the judge could rule on the petition in the next court hearing on the conservatorship, which is scheduled for September 29.
Use Estate Planning To Avoid Britney's Fate
Although we'll have to wait to find out whether the court will allow Britney to terminate the conservatorship without undergoing another psychiatric evaluation, as we noted last week, Britney could have been saved from the years of control by her father, if she had created a proper estate plan early on in her adult life. In fact, using a variety of different estate planning vehicles, Britney could have not only chosen the person, or persons, who would be in charge of making decisions on her behalf during her incapacity, but she could have also created legally binding instructions stipulating how her assets and personal care should be managed during her incapacity. With the right planning, Britney could have even spelled out the specific conditions that must be met for her to be deemed incapacitated in the first place.
With this in mind, here in part two, we'll discuss how you and your loved ones can use proactive estate planning to create a comprehensive plan for incapacity, so you can avoid suffering the same fate as Britney. And since a debilitating illness or injury could strike at any time, at any age, if you've yet to create your own incapacity plan, contact Truest Law right away to get this urgent matter taken care of.
Planning For Incapacity: Where To Start
When planning for your potential incapacity, the first thing to ask yourself is, "If I'm ever incapacitated and unable to care for myself, who would I want to make decisions on my behalf?" Specifically, you'll be selecting the person, or persons, you want to make your healthcare, financial, and legal decisions for you until you either recover or pass away. The most important thing to remember is that you must choose someone. Like we've seen with Britney, if you don't legally name someone to make these decisions during your incapacity, the court will choose someone for you. And this is where things can get extremely difficult for you and your loved ones.
Although laws differ by state, in the absence of any estate planning, if you become incapacitated, the court will typically appoint a conservator or guardian to make financial and legal decisions on your behalf. As with Britney, this person could be a family member you'd never want managing your affairs, a professional guardian who charges exorbitant fees, or even a crooked professional guardian who abuses and exploits you for their own financial gain.
Furthermore, like most court proceedings, the process of naming a guardian can be quite lengthy, costly, and emotionally draining for your family. And this is assuming your family members agree about what's in your best interest. If your family members disagree about the course of your medical treatment or managing your finances, this could lead to ugly court battles between your loved ones. Such conflicts can tear your family apart and drain your estate's finances. For an example of just how bad things can get, look at the case of Florida's Terry Schiavo, who spent 15 years in a vegetative state after suffering a heart attack at age 26. Because Terry did not have a living will or health care directive indicating in writing how she would want medical decisions made for her in such an event, Schiavo's young husband fought Terry's parents in court for more than a decade for permission to remove her from life support before she was ultimately allowed to pass away.
A Comprehensive Incapacity Plan
Fortunately, such turmoil can be easily avoided through proper estate planning. Determining which estate planning strategies you should use to grant and guide this decision-making authority depends entirely on your personal circumstances. There are several options available, but choosing what's best for you is something you should ultimately decide after consulting with an experienced lawyer like us because there are many considerations beyond simply whether to "pull the plug", including how to handle such matters in the event of a pregnancy, whether to keep providing hydration and nutrition (and, if so, what kind), and how to determine incapacity. These, and other factors, are not typically addressed in a standard advance health care directive.
That said, we can tell you one estate planning tool that's totally worthless when it comes to your incapacity—a will. A will only goes into effect upon your death, and then it merely governs how your assets should be distributed, so having a will does nothing to keep your family out of court and out of conflict in the event of your incapacity.
When it comes to creating your incapacity plan, your best bet is to put in place an array of different planning tools, rather than a single document. To this end, your plan should include some, or all, of the following:
Durable financial power of attorney: This document grants an individual of your choice the immediate authority to make decisions related to the management of your financial, business, and legal affairs, and can state how your affairs should be handled.
Revocable living trust: A living trust can immediately transfer control of your assets held by the trust to a person of your choice to be used for your benefit in the event of your incapacity. The trust can include legally binding instructions for how your assets should be managed, and the document can even spell out specific conditions that must be met for you to be deemed incapacitated.
Medical power of attorney: An advance directive that grants an individual of your choice the immediate legal authority to make decisions about your medical treatment in the event of your incapacity.
Living will: An advance directive that provides specific guidance about how your medical decisions should be made during your incapacity, including who should be able to see you and specifics regarding how you want your care to be handled. In some instances, a medical power of attorney and a living will are combined in a single document.
Documents Aren't Enough
In the end, there's one thing to remember about all of these documents—they are just documents, and they don't provide your loved ones with a trusted advisor who is often needed to deal with all potential outcomes, and to navigate the legal system on your behalf. If you really want to keep your family out of court and out of conflict, you cannot just rely on documents to do it. Instead, these documents should be created by a lawyer like us who will get to know you, your wishes, and be there for you throughout the many stages of life—and ultimately be there for your family when you can't be.
Furthermore, in addition to the above estate planning documents, it's equally—if not more—important for your loved ones to be aware of your plan and understand their role in it. As part of the planning process, a Personal Family Lawyer® will hold a family meeting with all of the individuals impacted by your plan, where we walk them through your plan, explaining the reasoning behind your decisions and what they need to do if something happens to you.
In the end, you'll find that the best protection comes from combining your comprehensive incapacity plan with a team of people who will care for you, can watch out for you, and know exactly what to do in the event tragedy strikes. Here at Truest Law we can guide and support you to put in place both of these elements. In doing so, it would make it virtually impossible for a conservator or legal guardian to ever be appointed—or even need to be appointed—against your wishes, and instead, we will create a robust plan that would allow you to stipulate how your life, healthcare, and assets should be managed if you ever become unable to manage them yourself.
Timing Is Everything
Keep in mind that your incapacity plan must be created well before you become incapacitated. You must be able to clearly express your wishes and consent in order for these planning documents to be valid, and even slight levels of mental illness or dementia could get them thrown out of court.
Plus, as we mentioned earlier, an unforeseen accident or illness could strike at any time no matter your age, so don't wait—contact us right away to get your incapacity plan started.
Finally, it's vital that you regularly review and update your estate plan to keep pace with changes to your life, family dynamics, and the law. If any of the individuals you've named becomes unable or unwilling to serve for whatever reason, you'll need to revise your plan accordingly, and we can help with that, too.
Let Britney's Story Be A Lesson
Although Britney's story is certainly tragic and we can't be sure how it will ultimately play out, her case has at least shined a spotlight on the potential for abuse that exists within the conservatorship and guardianship system. In fact, Britney's case has already inspired lawmakers at both the state and federal level to take a closer look at adult guardianship and push for increased oversight and transparency for these legal arrangements.
As one Congresswoman from Massachusetts told Politico, "If this could happen to someone who is as famous as Britney Spears, I mean, think about what's happening to regular Americans. We need to pull back the curtain on this." said Rep. Lori Trahan.
By the same token, Britney's story should inspire you to make certain that you and your loved ones have the proper estate planning strategies in place to prevent the loss of autonomy, family conflict, and potential for abuse that comes with court-ordered conservatorships and guardianships. To this end, if you've yet to plan for incapacity, schedule a Family Wealth Planning Session™ right away, Truest Law, can advise you about the most suitable estate planning vehicles to put in place. And if you already have an incapacity plan prepared—even one created by another lawyer—we can review it to make sure it's been properly set up, maintained, and updated. Contact us at our website or at 480-949-6500 today to plan for your life.


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It's interesting that Daily Beast writer Caitlin Dixon precedes her question "When did we let our guard down?" with the story of sleeping on strangers' couch in Italy after finding them in a couch-surfing site. Yes, she let her guard down (but the people were great hosts). What's interesting, though, is that she compared couch-surfing to connecting with people online. One could argue – and I've heard a professor, David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center do so – that the two aren't equally risky. In fact, he suggested in his 2010 talk about "juvenoia" that the Web is quite possibly a risk reduction tool. Over the past several years I've heard and read about young people saying they use the Web for just that purpose – they make it a practice to check out the profiles of people they don't know before agreeing to "friend" them in social media. This is smart use of social media that parents of people who don't already have strategies like this in place might consider encouraging (or teaching).
Another protection is the social norms that are developing. For example, Dixon herself writes that "the majority of people who use online dating sites assume that other participants are misrepresenting themselves in their profiles." And teen social media users reportedly have some practices and norms of their own in place. "For all Internet problems, the vast majority of [social networking] teens either had appropriate reactions or ignored the behavior," wrote California State University psychology professor Larry Rosen in an academic journal in 2008. He said 92% "responded appropriately to sexual solicitations" and 90% to harassment. He defined "responded appropriately" as "telling the person to stop, blocking the person from commenting on their profile, removing themselves from the situation by logging off, or reporting the incident to an adult or to site." Those apparently quite normative practices of teenagers were already in place five years ago. [For more prior to and since, see this and danah boyd on teens' "social steganography."]
What is and isn't new
Dixon, the writer of the Daily Beast post, places herself in Generation Y, the people who grew up with the Internet, and asks, "Have we become too naive for our own good?" It's a question that has been asked many times in association with technology (usually by people older than her, so she's being very politically correct for her generation) but I'm really not sure it's either a generational thing or an Internet thing. Backpackers bunked in with total strangers – sometimes in hostels, sometimes on couches – long before there were Web sites for couch-surfers. Dixon gives a number of examples of true Web-based naiveté and describes social-discovery apps like Grindr and MeetMe for meeting new people and sharing one's location (or both). But she also cites the comment of a social media provider that people of like interests could, in real time, share their location publicly with one another across the Net in Usenet groups in 1980 – by typing it.
What's different now is scale of use and convenience, not so much people's (including teens') behaviors. Usenet was more in the social margins (or unknown by most people), and it took a little more doing to use. Now, everybody seems to have cellphones, and social discovery and location-sharing take virtually no doing. Just download another app and click on a map – no typing required.
For dealing with what's new
So meeting new people and sharing location are not new, but they're now very easy for seemingly everyone, including kids with cellphones. So what's the takeaway for parents? Well, there are a few:
- We need more research on how many kids use geolocation and social-discovery tools (I'm not aware of any studies on young people's use of either), why, and under what conditions
- We need more research on what percent of minors who use these tools have protective strategies in place
- With the understanding that most kids (like other people) are naturally self-protective and tend to be suspicious of "creepy guys" (though, in groups, kids are often less cautious), there needs to be candid parent-child discussion about these capabilities' downsides as well as upsides, bearing in mind that…
- These apps are proliferating, and parents don't need to get caught up in the losing game of whack-a-mole by trying to learn about and block every one of them, but…
- Depending on a child's age, maturity, and parent-child trust levels, it can be a good idea to know what apps are on a child's phone and to talk with the child about how he or she uses them (with younger kids, you could make it a rule that Mom or Dad is told when a new app gets downloaded and how it works).
Ideas for talking with kids
As the Internet Safety Technical Task Force brought out in early 2009, not all kids are equally at risk online. If you're reading this, you're probably an engaged parent or educator, so it's quite likely your children or students either already have some pretty smart practices in place or just need a little thoughtful discussion about whether or how they're using social-discovery apps and geolocation. It probably wouldn't be helpful to use special terms like those, though – just ask if they've ever made new friends with an app, and if so whether they could tell much about them and what they could tell. See whether they'd share their location or meet someone in person and why or why not. They'd probably say no, but if they have met someone in person, it's probably best not to show a reaction – just to ask what the circumstances were and whether there were friends with them. Then, if they say something that concerns you, tell them you're concerned and why. But see how they respond to genuine curiosity, and ask them to demo apps you don't understand.
As for kids without parents who'd read this, education about the positives and negatives of these technologies at school or in prevention and intervention work with at-risk youth is crucial – without scare tactics and ideally on or with the devices that use geolocation and social-discovery apps. If there's a rule against cellphone use in classrooms, suspend the rule for this protective instruction (and have some extra phones handy for students who "didn't bring theirs")! [There's real engagement when students can use their own phones, educator Tim Clark in Forsyth County, Ga., told me.]
Those new conditions I mentioned above – much greater scale (than Usenet in the '80s or AOL in the '90s) and convenience – indicate a whole lot more about technological change than about human change. I don't think we have suddenly "let our guard down" (but in my next post, I'll link you to an article indicating how careful we need to be about convenience). As for our kids, they don't want to be naïve, manipulated, or unsafe. When we make their education about tech safety and privacy a respectful conversation aimed at effective participation, we'll probably get a respectful response.
Next: where we as well as our children could be more alert
Related links
- See, for example, how smart these Australian teens are.
- "Private vs. public parenting"
- 2-part series about a key Canadian study of kids and parents: "Kids & teens not only ok, but smart" and "WHAT has online safety wrought (with parents)?!"
- "From 'flipped classrooms' to flipped households"


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Yesterday, a little after lunchtime, one of my colleagues in the New York bureau announced news that sadly isn't so uncommon here in the US. Another shooting had happened at another school in another American state.
This time, the incident took place at a community college 20 miles or so outside of Houston, Texas. And this time, like many times before, the cable news networks were all over it.
Switching between each of the major round-the-clock news sources, viewers were given little variety in how the news was presented to them. Each network ran with aerial shots of the campus from their circling helicopters. The camera zoomed in on figures in bulletproof vests, emergency vehicles and even bodies being treated by medical staff. These vague yet invasive images were accompanied by bold headlines and seemingly ill-informed commentary from former-FBI agent types who had been brought on the line to postulate about some cause or detail that, so soon after the event and before the release of comprehensive official information, was pure speculation.
Without specific information to convey but with time to fill, news anchors and their guests made obvious comparisons to any example of American gun-related violence that came to mind. Occasionally an interview with a similarly ill-informed local would interrupt the cycle alongside out-of-context images of the school grabbed from social media networks or Google Earth.
After 15 minutes of watching, no more news than the original headline could be gleaned from any of these channels so why did they all feel the need to spend so much air time covering so little? And, as seen during the coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, how responsible is it for news networks watched by millions to piece together stories as they happen?
During the first few hours following last December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, CNN named the gunman as Ryan Lanza. Viewers and reporters took to social media to contact him. Photos of him were broadcast across networks and police went to his home in New Jersey. When it was realised that the gunman had in fact been Ryan's brother, Adam, it was too late to have stopped the public harassment of Ryan on the day he was to discover that not only had his brother killed 27 people, he had also killed their mother.
Protected by the US Constitution – as is the right to bear arms – press freedom is an expected liberty in the United States. Despite being ranked 47th in the world in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index of 2012, there is little that American news outlets are prevented from doing. But when it comes to rolling shots of scenes from mass shootings, interviewing crying children after such events (as seen at Sandy Hook) and making conclusions via questionable sources, are some parts of the US media just a little too free?
The non-stop coverage of catastrophes like school shootings gives the impression that networks are idly waiting for something to happen. There's an unspoken hope that the helicopter camera will stumble over a dramatic image or the reporter will manage to interview an emotional witness. That's not the news that I want.
With seasoned producers and journalists, news networks should be focusing on what sets them apart from social media feeds and citizen journalism. They have the ability to edit, to pick what is appropriate to report on and when to do so. The power of these networks lies in their authority. Rather than trying to emulate 24-hour online sources, new channels should set themselves apart through their ability to edit and be accountable. Otherwise why do we have professional journalists at all?
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Sharing its name with the French term for the liminal moment linking late afternoon and early evening, Cinq à Sept brings the intriguing tension between day and night to a new advanced contemporary collection. Inspired by the hours between 5 and 7 p.m., when city streets are awash in the warm glow of the vanishing sun and office desks are abandoned for cocktails and as-yet unknown possibilities, Cinq à Sept embodies a deliberate balance between sophistication and ease, youthful daring and confident allure. The collection's modern feminine aesthetic embraces unexpected details and striking silhouettes, resulting in clothing that draw their romance and sexiness from the woman wearing them.


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BCR's TITAN enterprise (ERP) product is a fully functioning business accounting, order processing, and inventory management product designed specifically for the wholesale distribution industry. It is not sold piecemeal. It will run your company "out of the box."
Full-featured accounting application that is integrated with all operational applications. It even includes payroll and fixed assets, frequently sold as options in other products
Designed specifically for the wholesale distributor so that is extremely easy to use but with all of the information and features a wholesale needs to profitably serve their customers.
Multiple tools to manage automated pricing and quotations. Starting with basic item/customer price levels, fine tuned with item category discounts and matrix pricing, and custom customer/item price lists or contracts.
Designed to both increase your profits and improve customer service by having the right amount of inventory at the right time. Practical inventory replenishment features can create suggested POs, dramatically reducting time spent creating them from scratch.
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Physicists have used the world's most powerful laser to zap diamonds. The results, they say, could tell us more about the cores of giant planets.
"Diamonds have very special properties, besides being very expensive and used for jewelrey etc.," says Raymond Smith, a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. "It's the hardest substance known to man."
And diamonds aren't just here on Earth. Diamonds are made of carbon, and carbon is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. Scientists now believe that diamonds might be relatively common, especially at the cores of giant planets.
That goes for the eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune. "There's studies suggesting that Neptune has a diamond core," he says.
At least that's the theory. But the pressure at Neptune's center is enormous. Researchers weren't sure what that would do to a diamond.
"Before these experiments scientists just did not have the capabilities at hand to generate these high pressures," he says.
Livermore Lab has the world's most powerful laser, the National Ignition Facility. Smith and colleagues used its 176 beams to squeeze a tiny diamond target. The team got up to 50 million atmospheres of pressure, that's about 10 times the density of the Earth's core.
The diamond at the center of the capsule was at the density of lead before it was vaporized by the laser energy. The results, published inNature, prove that diamond can withstand this kind of crushing. More studies are being planned to see how its behavior might change.
So what expensive thing can Smith target next? Maybe caviar?
"We could compress caviar to very high pressure," he says. "But probably the practical and planetary applications would be limited."
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pthread_attr_setscope(3) | Library Functions Manual | pthread_attr_setscope(3) |
pthread_attr_setscope, pthread_attr_getscope - set/get contention scope attribute in thread attributes object
POSIX threads library (libpthread, -lpthread)
#include <pthread.h>
int pthread_attr_setscope(pthread_attr_t *attr, int scope); int pthread_attr_getscope(const pthread_attr_t *restrict attr, int *restrict scope);
The pthread_attr_setscope() function sets the contention scope attribute of the thread attributes object referred to by attr to the value specified in scope. The contention scope attribute defines the set of threads against which a thread competes for resources such as the CPU. POSIX.1 specifies two possible values for scope:
- The thread competes for resources with all other threads in all processes on the system that are in the same scheduling allocation domain (a group of one or more processors). PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM threads are scheduled relative to one another according to their scheduling policy and priority.
- The thread competes for resources with all other threads in the same process that were also created with the PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS contention scope. PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS threads are scheduled relative to other threads in the process according to their scheduling policy and priority. POSIX.1 leaves it unspecified how these threads contend with other threads in other process on the system or with other threads in the same process that were created with the PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM contention scope.
POSIX.1 requires that an implementation support at least one of these contention scopes. Linux supports PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM, but not PTHREAD_SCOPE_PROCESS.
On systems that support multiple contention scopes, then, in order for the parameter setting made by pthread_attr_setscope() to have effect when calling pthread_create(3), the caller must use pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3) to set the inherit-scheduler attribute of the attributes object attr to PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED.
The pthread_attr_getscope() function returns the contention scope attribute of the thread attributes object referred to by attr in the buffer pointed to by scope.
On success, these functions return 0; on error, they return a nonzero error number.
pthread_attr_setscope() can fail with the following errors:
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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pthread_attr_setscope (), pthread_attr_getscope () | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
The PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM contention scope typically indicates that a user-space thread is bound directly to a single kernel-scheduling entity. This is the case on Linux for the obsolete LinuxThreads implementation and the modern NPTL implementation, which are both 1:1 threading implementations.
POSIX.1 specifies that the default contention scope is implementation-defined.
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Ugly Mugs No. 3: Walk, Don't Run (Vintage 1967 Guyatone LG-160T Electric Guitar)
For this last musing on ugly duckling guitars, let us turn our attention to this example from Japan, this Guyatone LG-160T. The Fenton-Weill Tux-master we contemplated was pretty much unrelentingly ugly, only redeemable if you fondly remember it from your youth. The Burns UK Flyte was more of a space oddity than especially ugly, but it sure didn't grow on me, at least. However, some unusual guitars do eventually win your heart over the more you stare at them. I think that this is the case here.


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This week, we talk about one of Glenn's side project- French Fry Diary!
This week's podcast includes discussion of the following:
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French Fry Fairy
The Daily Fry
Freaky Eaters Vs. The Daily Fry
Bloomberg soda ban
Steak 'n Shake
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Nodding Head
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Burger King New Fries
Wendy's New Fries
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Five Guys
Berke Breathed's Whopper without a Bun
In-N-Out Burger
the In-N-Out secret menu
Taco Bell Fries
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Biff Bam Pop!
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the original Gino's
Roy Rogers
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I'm dreaming all about deeply satisfying rich tastes and at the moment I love the pairing of chocolate with creamy peanut butter. As though you can't tell from my previous post :)
To try and quell my desire I created this chocolate peanut layer extravaganza cake. Now I know what y'all are thinking, surly that Oreo Chocolate Cheesecake you just posted put a dent in my cravings, but the problem was I shared it all out. To remedy it I kept this one mostly to myself.
Which is quite an accomplishment as it's a reasonably tall cake. With the additional height of the chocolate shards it makes quite an impressive cake suitable to serve at any gathering.
The addition of salted peanuts sprinkled on top and the chocolate shards with added sea salt flakes adds a lovely contrast both in it's crunchy texture and the salty taste which is a welcome foil to the sweet frosting.
During the winter months the cake should hold up quite well, however in warmer months or in warm climates you may need to chill the cake in the refrigerator during assemble the next layer of cake has been pressed in place.
Finally if your tastes tend towards the delectably indulgent but you don't quite have my stamina you can quarter the recipe, bake in a 15 cm round baking tin for around 20- 15 minutes less and have a cake that is still extravagant in taste but a little more moderate in serving size.
Chocolate peanut extravaganza cake makes 1 X 20 cm diameter by 15 cm high cake (excluding shard height)
I used an Ateco 868 piping tip and large disposable piping bag. Cake will serve 20 to 35 people depending on serving size.
4 layers of chocolate cake (recipe follows)
Peanut Butter frosting (recipe follows)
100g dark chocolate
3 Tbsp salted peanuts
1/4 tsp salt flakes
Make the chocolate shards.
Cover a flat tray with baking paper and melt the dark chocolate in the microwave at medium low heat and whisk until smooth. Spread the chocolate out onto the prepared tray, the chocolate should be a few mm's thick.
Chop 1 1/2 Tbsp of the peanuts roughly and sprinkle on top of the melted chocolate along with the 1/4 tsp of salt flakes. Allow to set.
Assemble the cake.
Place the first layer of chocolate cake onto a cake board or cake stand. Ensure this layer is completely flat, so it would be the bottom layer from one of the cakes you cut in half.
Place a large star piping tip into a piping bag and fill the bag with peanut frosting.
Starting on the outside edge of the cake, holding the piping bag upright 90 angle to the cake apply pressure for a short burst to pipe a star of frosting. Release the pressure on the bag and the pull the bag up away from the cake. Continue to pipe frosting around the edge of the cake and then pipe a second circle of frosting 'stars' just inside the first circle. Continue to pipe working to the center of the cake, you should have around 4 or 5 circles.
Take the next layer of cake, it should be the top layer to the cake you have placed on the bottom. If this cake has a rounded dome*, turn it over and gently press the domed edge into the frosting ensuring the cake is completely centered on the previous layer and that you have no cake overhanging. You should now have a flat top on the cake to work on.
Using the piping bag filled with peanut frosting cover the top of the cake with frosting as described in the steps above.
Take the next layer of cake. This layer should be the bottom layer of the remaining cake. Press it gently into place, make sure that the cake is centered with no overhang.
Using the piping bag filled with peanut frosting cover the top of the cake with frosting as described in the steps above.
Place the final layer of cake, if it has a domed top, once again push the top down gently into the frosting so you have a flat top on the cake to pipe onto.
Pipe the final layer of peanut frosting onto the top of the cake taking care that the stars are even and the same size.
Add final decorations.
Cut the dark chocolate covered in peanuts into large triangle shards using a sharp knife. Press the shards into the top of the cake with the points of the triangle facing upwards.
Sprinkle the remaining peanuts onto the top of the cake.
Cake may be served immediately or stored for in refrigerator until ready to serve, remove 20 minutes prior to serving. Left overs cake be stored in an airtight container in refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Chocolate layer cake
3 cups plain flour
2 tsp bicarb soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup cool water
250 g unsalted butter room temperature cut into small squares
2 1/2 cup caster sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp bicarb soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup cool water
250 g unsalted butter room temperature cut into small squares
2 1/2 cup caster sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup sour cream
Preheat oven to 160 C fan forced (325 F) and grease flour and line 2 X 20cm round tins with baking paper.
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Mix the hot water and cocoa to make a paste then add the cool water mix until well combined, set aside.
In a large bowl of a stand mixer mix together butter and sugar at high speed until well creamed (about 2-3 mins).
Reduce speed to low and mix in eggs then vanilla mixing until well combined.
Add 1/3 of the flour, mix until just combined then add 1/2 the cocoa mixture, mix again until combined and scrape down sides. Add another 1/3rd of the flour, mix, add the remainder of the cocoa mix and scrape down sides then mix in the remaining flour.
Add the sour cream and continue to mix at low speed until completely combined.
Divide mixture evenly between the 2 X 20cm tins and bake for around 55 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool in tin for 5 minutes then carefully turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Allow to cool in tin for 5 minutes then carefully turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
When ready to use cut each cake in half horizontally to make 4 layers in total.
Peanut Butter Frosting
Ensure that all ingredients are at room temperature prior to mixing. In warm weather you will only require 1 Tbsp to achieve a smooth piping consistency. In cold weather you may need to add extra milk to achieve the desired consistency.
4 cups icing sugar mixture
2 cups smooth peanut butter
200 g unsalted butter room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp milk at room temperature
extra milk at room temperature extra if required
Place the sugar, peanut butter and butter in a large bowl and mix at high speed until light and fluffy, around 6 minutes. Add the vanilla extract and mix until combined. Add 1 Tbsp of milk and mix until well combined. Add extra milk as required to achieve a consistency which will is light and fluffy but will hold its shape when piped.
Linda Vandermeer is a blogger, baker, maker and author of the cookbook ' Sweets on a Stick': More than 150 kid friendly recipes for cakes, candies, cookies and pies on the go!. Published in the US the book is available at most online book stores.
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You confirm that you are authorized to instruct PamConsult GmbH to process any information and that all instructions given will be lawful. We will not disclose such information to any third party, except where it is required to do so by any court or regulatory authority and in that case only to the extent necessary.
We take all necessary technical and organizational security measures to prevent system information from being accidentally or illegally destroyed, lost or wasted and to prevent such information from falling into the hands of any unauthorized party or from being misused or otherwise treated in a way which is contrary to the Data Protection Act.
You may test a paid subscription for 30 days free of charge without having to enter any payment information. In case no subscription is purchased during the 30 days, the account will automatically be removed from our system.
You shall pay us, via respective payment processing company (Gate2Shop, PayPal or other available payment options), any applicable rates as stated on the website in connection with your purchase of respective products or services. VAT is charged at 19% for all citizens of an EU country. Citizens outside of the EU are not required to pay VAT. Should you submit a valid EU-VAT number at time of purchasing, then the purchase will be without VAT.
Payments are not recurring. You are solely responsible for extending your subscriptions by purchasing a new subscription. PamBill will warn you in advance via email and in the PamBill dashboard of upcoming expirations.
We do not store your Credit Card information or other payment information in our databases.
When you purchase a subscription from us, you will be entitled to a cancellation period of fifteen (15) days. The cancellation of a subscription will lead to termination of your account with us. All data must be saved prior to issuing the refund, as this data will be permanently deleted after your account has been closed.
If you believe that we have charged you in error, you must contact us within 30 days of such charge. No refunds will be given for any charges which are more than 30 days old.
We reserve the right to refuse a refund request if it reasonably believes (i) that you are trying to unfairly exploit this refund policy, for example, by making repetitive refund requests in respect of the same Product; (ii) if you are in breach of these Terms or (iii) if we reasonably suspect that you are using our Products or Software fraudulently or that your User Account is being used by a third party fraudulently.
This refund policy does not affect your statutory rights.
We may change the rates at any time by giving a thirty (30) day notice of such change on the website www.pambill.com, or by stating new rates in connection with your purchase. The new rate will apply to your next purchase after the adjustments have been published on the website. You agree that by continuing to use PamBill following the adjustments of the rates, you accept the new rates. If you do not wish to accept such adjustment of rates, you may ask for a refund of your subscription.
In case where we find or suspect unfair use of the Site and/or service, we reserve the right to change, modify, suspend or discontinue user access to any portion of the Site and/or service at any time. We may impose limits on certain features or restrict your access to parts or the entire site and/or service without notice or liability.
By using our website, you understand and agree that all Resources we provide are "as is" and "as available". This means that we do not represent or warrant to you that:
In conjunction with the Limitation of Warranties as explained above, you expressly understand and agree that any claim against us shall be limited to the amount you paid, if any, for use of products and/or services. PamConsult GmbH will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or exemplary loss or damages which may be incurred by you as a result of using our Resources, or as a result of any changes, data loss or corruption, cancellation, loss of access, or downtime to the full extent that applicable limitation of liability laws apply.
All content and materials available on PamBill, including but not limited to text, graphics, website name, code, images and logos are the intellectual property of PamConsult GmbH, and are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law. Any inappropriate use, including but not limited to the reproduction, distribution, display or transmission of any content on this site is strictly prohibited, unless specifically authorized by PamConsult GmbH.
You agree that we may, at our sole discretion, suspend or terminate your access to all or part of our website and Resources with or without notice and for any reason, including, without limitation, breach of this User Agreement. Any suspected illegal, fraudulent or abusive activity may be grounds for terminating your relationship and may be referred to appropriate law enforcement authorities. Upon suspension or termination, your right to use the Resources we provide will immediately cease, and we reserve the right to remove or delete any information that you may have on file with us, including any account or login information.
This website is controlled and operated by PamConsult GmbH, Germany. It can be accessed by most countries around the world. By accessing our website, you agree that the statutes and laws of Germany and the EU, without regard to the conflict of laws and the United Nations Convention on the International Sales of Goods, will apply to all matters relating to the use of this website and the purchase of any products or services through this site.
Furthermore, any action to enforce this User Agreement shall be brought in the federal court in Munich, Germany. You hereby agree to personal jurisdiction by such courts, and waive any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts.
If you have any questions or comments about these our Terms of Service as outlined above, you can contact us at:
PamConsult GmbH
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Last updated: January 28, 2014
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GST Management
The GST system is a complex and confusing one. Consequently Potts & Schnelle ensures our team remains up to date with any changes, enabling us to offer you accurate advice.
Every transaction now has an associated GST issue. We are experienced in these issues and can offer expert advice on the GST implications for your business. The GST-related services we offer include, but are not limited to:
- Advice on registering for GST
- Filing and adjusting GST returns
- ATO audit assistance


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Each homeowners insurance policy is different. Our friendly agent will be happy to review your policy with you to help ensure you have the coverage you need. Generally, homeowners insurance covers a broad range of potential damages that includes the dwelling itself and other structures on the property, such as a fence, shed, or driveway. The following can give you an idea of what is – and is not – usually covered by homeowners insurance.
Homeowners Insurance Coverage For Damage To Structures On The Property
Your homeowners policy may help cover damage to structures on your property caused by a covered peril, such as a fallen tree or a storm. It may also cover structures external to the dwelling, including your:
- Fence
- Shed
- Detached garage
Wind damage to a fence or other insured structure is typically covered by homeowners insurance. If a healthy tree on your property falls and damages a structure, your homeowners insurance will likely pay to repair or replace the structure and remove tree debris. If a neighbor's tree falls and causes damage on your property, you may still file a claim on your homeowners insurance policy. However, your insurance company may try to recover the costs from your neighbor's insurance if there is evidence that the tree was weakened by disease or lack of basic maintenance.
Coverage For Landscaping Under Homeowners Insurance
Most standard homeowners policies will pay to replace trees, plants, and shrubs that are damaged by covered perils. These perils typically include:
- Fire
- Explosions
- Lightning
- Theft
- Vandalism
- Damage caused by someone else's vehicle
However, certain common risks to landscaping are not generally covered by homeowner's insurance. Perils that are typically not covered include damage from weather, such as wind, hail, and the weight of snow and ice, as well as damage from insects, pests, and diseases. Some insurance companies offer optional coverage to provide additional protection for landscaping.
When Structures Are Covered, But Not Landscaping Is Not
If a tree on your property blows over in a strong wind and damages a structure such as a fence or shed, homeowners insurance would not typically pay to replace the tree, although it may pay to repair the damaged structure. If a tree falls on your property and damages a structure, your homeowners policy will likely cover the cost of removing the tree. However, if a tree falls and no structure is damaged, your homeowners insurance will not cover the cost of having the tree removed.
How Negligence Factors Into Homeowners Insurance Coverage
Please note that if your own negligence led to structural damage on your property, your insurance is not likely to cover it. For example, if a tree on your property has started to rot and you fail to have it removed, your homeowners insurance will not cover the resulting damage if the tree falls and damages your house or another structure on your property. On the other hand, if a rotting tree in your neighbor's yard falls and damages your home or structures in your yard, your insurance may help cover the damage.
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We learned about this tremendous effort from our Teamster brother Joseph Mosca, Jr. He wrote on our Facebook page:
This is for a fellow sanitation worker and teamster brother. Running the nyc marathon and trying to raise money for autism. Please share thank you so muchAnd so we followed the link and came to Dennis Palazzola's personal donation page. He has already raised $8,365 for the Nov. 4 NYC Marathon.
He writes on his page:
My Thomas is on the left my Jack is on the right.Thomas was diagnosed with Autism at a very early age(17months)My family's whole world,expectations and purpose changed that very day! as it has for so many families just like mine.No one ever asks for this journey or even expects it,but as a chosen family for this beautiful,trying,challenging journey we are all doing the best we can for these beautiful gifts that are our children.I want to personally thank every person who opened their hearts to support Autism Speaks and Team Up as they continue to tirelessly help all of these beautiful familes.God bless all of you!If you'd like to support your brother in this worthy cause, just go to his page here.
Autism Speaks, according to its web page,
...is the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families.And remember, 'thugs' stands for Those Helpful Union Guys and Gals.