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How to Make Money Trading Stocks with the Robinhood App We wrote up a full review of our experience with the Robinhood app, but here is a brief overview. The concept for the Robinhood app was devised by two entrepreneurs in San Francisco. They recognized a strong market need for a free way for millennials to start investing and trading in the stock market. Robinhood App Review 2020 - Warrior Trading May 12, 2016 · Round the clock trading –As from February 2018, Robinhood will limit cryptocurrency trading to Bitcoin and Ethereum even though it will be supporting 16 cryptocurrencies. More cryptocoins will be tradable later on. As a brokerage app, Robinhood will extend the app’s functionality to cryptocurrencies.
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Fremantle will be under new leadership next season as the club begins its transfer to new president Chris Sutherland, who will begin his role in December 2023. Sutherland was previously a non-executive director for Fremantle before receiving the promotion to take Dale Alcock's position.
Both the current and future president spoke with Fremantle Media on Wednesday, with Alcock speaking on his time at the club.
“There are only 18 AFL presidents in the world, so to lead one of them while Australia's Indigenous game going from strength to strength with a women's league coming on board, it was really special,” Alcock said.
“But I'm most proud of how, despite our size, we are still a family. I started as president in November 2016, and in some of our darkest days where performance wasn't where it needed to be on the field.
“I feel very confident in passing the baton on to Chris Sutherland, who's just a top quality person who I know will continue to build on our achievements, but at the same time he's an independent thinker who will bring something new to the role.”
Sutherland shared his delight in the announcement, expressing his excitement for the future.
“It's a great privilege,” Sutherland said.
“This is a Club that belongs to all the members and supporters and I won't take the position lightly.
“We have such a strong foundation to grow from and there's a great opportunity in front of us.
“I think that Dale has done an outstanding job over his tenure through what has been a very difficult period.
“It's an exciting time to be involved at the Fremantle Football Club and I can't wait to see what the future holds.”
Alcock was Fremantle president since November 2016 and had been part of the Fremantle board since 2011.


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One of the major consequences of the failure to pay child support on time and in full as ordered to do so is that you run the risk of suffering consequences associated with your actions. One of those consequences is having your driver’s license suspended. This is a major inconvenience for you and your family alike. Once you begin to repay the child support that you owe the next logical question would be: how do you go about getting your license reinstated?
It is frustrating to not be able to drive a vehicle. Getting behind the wheel when you are not legally able to do so means that you are risking further punishment by the courts in ways that are almost certainly going to be more severe than losing your driver’s license the first time. However, child support delinquency has become such a significant problem for Texas families that the state legislature felt like they needed to do something to up to ante as far as potential consequences of not paying your child support were concerned. This is where we get the ability to lose your driver's license. It is intended to "sting" and be like a splinter in your big toe- every time you try to do anything, you are going to notice not having your driver's license.
For many people, a wage withholding order put the issue of paying child support into a back-of-mind situation. A wage withholding order is directed at your employer. They will withhold a portion of your paycheck and transmit the money directly to the Office of the Attorney General. This way you will not have to think about paying the money yourself. Rather, your employer and the Office of the Attorney General will team up to make sure your children receive the child support that they should be receiving.
On the other hand, you may not be in a situation where a wage withholding order is practical. For example, if you work as an independent contractor then it may not make sense to have seven or eight wage withholding orders drafted so that each of your contractor employers can send a few bucks into the Attorney General's Office so that your child support obligation can be met. You may only work for one of these employers for a short period and then move on to a new place. The wage withholding order does not follow you from place to place where you work. The order is specific to that particular employer and is non-transferable.
The opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to this subject is paying child support directly from you to your co-parent. These direct payments eliminate the need for a wage withholding order but also put you at risk. The Texas Family Code states that informal payments of child support are not accepted. This means that if you were to write a check to your co-parent to pay them child support you technically would not get credit for that payment. This means that he or she could claim that they were not paid child support for a given period and you may be ordered to pay child support all over again.
Whether this is a likely situation that could happen to you is less important than figuring out how best to go about not falling into a trap of missing a child support payment and then needing to go back and correct your mistake. Even then you will have to go back and try to retrieve your driver’s license or any other license that is taken from you because of failing to pay child support.
You can’t work if you don’t have a driver’s license in many cases
Many of us reading this blog post would quickly find ourselves in a tough spot were we to lose our driver's license. This is especially true when it comes to working. Even if your job does not require a driver's license to fulfill certain work duties having a license may be critical to simply being able to make it to work that day. Texas is not a place where public transportation is all that widely available. Most everyone reading this blog post, therefore, utilizes a personal vehicle to make it to work that day.
Falling behind for payment or two will likely not put you in any danger of losing your driver's license for any period. It is not as if the judge who issued your court orders would send you a letter telling you that you are a few thousand dollars behind in payments and that your driver’s license is being revoked because of that. These judges do not sit and keep track of your Attorney General payments page to ensure that you maintain compliance.
The role of the Texas Attorney General in paying child support
Rather, the way that a court would become aware of your child support arrearage would be through something known as an enforcement case. An enforcement case seeks to enforce the terms of a court order on a range of subjects. When it comes to paying child support, you would be taken to court either by your co-parent or the Office of the Attorney General for the failure to pay child support either on time or in full.
Note that the Office of the Attorney General does not represent your co-parent in an enforcement case. Yes, the OAG can and does file enforcement cases for child support which can give the impression that they represent co-parent in the case. However, the truth of the matter is that the OAG represents the state of Texas and may be paying for benefits on behalf of your child in the form of health insurance or food stamps. In that case, the OAG is trying to prevent a situation where the state is paying your child benefits while their parent does not pay child support.
The OAG would also be working with the goal in mind to not put your co-parent in a position where he or she needs to enroll your child into a benefits program due to their not receiving the child support needed to care for your child. As you can see, the OAG has many motivations to keep track of child support and ensure its proper payment. Do not be surprised if you miss a child support payment to find that the OAG files an enforcement action against you either on its motion or because your co-parent have contacted them first.
As you can see, while a family court judge will not be constantly monitoring the state of your child support payments other entities certainly will be doing so. The OAG has a group of attorneys who specifically work to ensure the proper payment of child support. These are lawyers who file enforcement cases every single day regarding situations very similar to your own.
On top of that, your co-parent is likely very aware of the status of your child support payments or lack thereof. When budgets are tight the money that you pay in child support can go a long way toward ensuring that rent is paid, or groceries can be purchased. It isn’t likely that your co-parent is either going to overlook a missed payment or be ok with your continuing to miss child support payments even if you have a good excuse.
If you find yourself on the receiving end of an enforcement petition regarding child support, it is best to meet the issue head-on. It does not make sense for you to ignore the problem and hope it goes away. As you probably experienced with your initial divorce or child custody case these do not tend to be issues that go away. A decision can be made in a case that you do not file an Answer once you are notified of the pending enforcement lawsuit. This means that a court can order terms for repayment of child support without your knowledge or approval. A bad situation where you were not able to make child support payments can quickly turn into an even worse situation where you owe current and past due child support simultaneously.
On the positive side of this situation, however, there are ways for you to avoid running afoul of your prior court orders and to avoid having a court order you to pay past due child support in ways that are no better for you than what you had on the books earlier. An enforcement case is a serious matter and one that requires you to be prepared for a range of outcomes. At the same time, if you are intentional about avoiding missed payments whenever possible then you can position yourself well to deal with any issues you encounter head-on rather than trying to avoid them or hoping that they will go away on their own.
How to proceed if you lose your driver’s license for the failure to pay child support
If you do find yourself in a situation where your driver’s license has been suspended because of the failure to pay child support, then you should take a step back and think through what to do next. There are a series of steps that your take to have your driver’s license reinstated as well as to get back into the good graces of your co-parent and the OAG, alike.
There are legitimate reasons why you may have missed a child support payment. The nature of your job may be that you are moving from job to job on a near-constant basis. For example, we have already discussed how being a contract employee may find you going from employer to employer regularly. While this type of arrangement may afford you a great deal of autonomy when it comes to your daily life it may also put you in a position where you have a week or two here or there where you have no income coming into your home.
You can budget your way out of a situation like this. Saving up your money while you are working to have some money set aside for when you are not drawing any income would seem to make sense. However, I also realize that the likelihood of your being able to do this may not be all that high if you do not have a household budget or if other factors prevent you from saving up enough money to do so. In a perfect world, a budget is a tool that every family should use to understand their finances and where their money is being spent.
Not having a budget may be indicative of a situation where you are not aware of your financial situation and therefore it is easier to fall behind in your bills, child support included. If there is no wage withholding order in place that automatically pays your child support obligation, then you are in a position where an enforcement case becomes more and more likely to be filed against you.
The most direct way to address this situation is to nip it in the bud before you have your license taken away by a court for any period. Talk with your co-parent about your situation and see if a payment plan can be worked out directly with him or her. You may be surprised at how willing they are to work with you if you explain your circumstances clearly and honestly. The more direct you can be and the more aware of your situation he or she is the greater the likelihood that this can be an issue that is not solved by going through the courts.
Once you discover that you are behind in child support payments you should start to take steps that go toward the repayment of child support arrearages. This could include saving money as much as possible and offering to make a payment on a one-time basis to get yourself caught up on the payments that you have missed to that point. This could be seen as a good-faith effort on your co-parent's part to show that you are doing everything you can to pay him or her back the money that you owe. Keep in mind that he or she is under no obligation to accept this sort of offer.
If you have already had an enforcement case filed against you, it is best to have some amount of money in the reserve to be able to show the court that you are taking this situation seriously and that you can quickly begin to make progress in paying the arrearage. In some situations, you may even be able to take on a second job to give yourself a bigger shovel to dig yourself out of this hole that you are in.
The same judge who took away your license can also restore your license. It may involve your co-parent notifying the court when you have met a certain benchmark for repayment. For example, if you owe $10,000 in back child support you may be able to petition the court to have your driver's license reinstated once you have paid by half of that figure. You should talk with the court at your hearing about whatever the circumstances are and see if you can avoid having your license taken away. If you need your license for an essential job function, then it may not make sense for the judge to take away your license.
It also pays to understand your child support order from front to back. Many people in your shoes run into missed payments simply due to a misunderstanding about what their responsibilities are. You should know exactly how much child support you owe each money, how the money needs to be paid to your co-parent, and what any other details are regarding missed payments. If you also are ordered to pay cash medical support or any other set costs with health insurance, then you should pay attention to these details.
One final bit of information that we can share with you today is to always try and do your best to keep the lines of communication open between you and your co-parent. It can become easy to just fall into a groove of making your child support payments each month and never really considering what is going on with your co-parent. Remember that your co-parent and you are raising children together and this goes beyond paying and accepting child support. The better your relationship the greater the likelihood that the two of you will be able to work out any temporary problems regarding child support.
Questions about the material contained in today’s blog post? Contact the Law Office of Bryan Fagan
If you have any questions about the material contained in today's blog post, please do not hesitate to contact the Law Office of Bryan Fagan. Our licensed family law attorneys offer free-of-charge consultations six days a week in person, over the phone, and via video. These consultations are a great way for you to learn more about the world of Texas family law as well as how your family's circumstances may be impacted by the filing of a divorce or child custody case.


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Everyone knows that exercise is always important. But its importance is paramount after pregnancy.
The CDC recommends that people engage in at least 150 minutes of exercise per week after their pregnancy. Yet many people don’t know what exercise after pregnancy looks like.
What post-pregnancy exercises can restore your body to the way it was before pregnancy? How can you strengthen your muscles? What can mild exercises do to fight off postpartum depression?
Answer these questions and you can start your parenthood in good health. Here is your quick guide.
Diastasis Recti Exercises
The rectus abdominis is the two banks of muscles that lie through the middle of your abdomen. In the process of giving birth, the two muscles can pull apart. This can cause significant pain in the stomach and abdomen, which becomes worse when you strain.
Diastasis recti exercises reduce the pain and help ease the muscles back into place. Deep breathing may be enough to attach the muscles together.
A hip hike is an easy exercise. Stand on a platform with one leg off to the side.
Drop that leg slightly until one side of your pelvis is higher than the other. Lift the leg up, then repeat the hike 15 times before switching to the other side.
Ab exercises build muscles in the abdomen while reducing fat. Pelvic tilts are easy, especially for people who have previously done yoga.
Lie on the floor with your back against the ground, but your knees should be bent. Bend your pelvis up slightly as you tighten your abdominal muscles. Hold for as long as you can, then rest and repeat the process.
If you want to add strength to your pelvis, you can do a Kegel exercise. Tighten your pelvis floor muscles together, and hold for ten seconds before resting. Repeat ten times over, and try to do another set later in the day.
A 2019 meta-analysis found that regular exercise during and after pregnancy reduces rates of postpartum depression. The exercise does not have to be extensive, though you should commit yourself to a regular routine.
Try to go for a walk every day or night. Go out for at least an hour and walk at a casual pace. You can listen to music or go with someone else, or you can walk by yourself.
Do a few different exercises. In the middle of your walk, you can stop to perform some hip hikes or Kegel exercises.
How to Exercise After Pregnancy
Exercise after pregnancy is a great way to fight weight gain and build muscles. If your abdomen hurts, you should perform some hip hikes and other diastasis recti exercises.
Add some definition to your muscles through ab workouts like pelvic tilts. Then mix in some mild cardio exercises by walking or jogging.
Talk to a doctor if you have postpartum depression. In addition to following their suggestions, you should do some exercises. They may help you manage your symptoms.
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Sorry I haven't been posting much lately.
Let's just say that I've been taking a break from my computer. As a night person, I somehow managed to get on a morning schedule. On the one hand, it allows me to see the sun. That's a good thing I guess. On the other hand, it allows me to see the sun! ;)
I'm fairly sure it is just temporary. I shall return with more charts in the not too distant future. I can't define exactly when that will be but if I'm still on a morning schedule several weeks from now I may need serious medical attention, lol.
And on that note, I shall leave you with something to remember me by.
I played a bit of Rocksmith today, but not at anywhere near this level. Not even the same ballpark!
Pollsters Get One Right: Macron and Le Pen Square Off in Round Two as Expected - Emanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will square off in round two of the French elections as most expected. (more…)
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The latest round of Zogby polling shows something amazing. Nationally, Bush is up by three points. This isn’t earthshattering news, but A:) it’s a Zogby poll that measures far more Democrats than Republicans and B:) it’s a weekend sample which traditionally lowers Republican numbers. Why is Bush running so well?
About 5 percent of likely voters are still undecided heading into the final full week of the campaign, but Bush has opened a 12-point lead on Kerry among independents.
This is very bad news for the Kerry campaign. And while Zogby argues in the Reuters article that he doesn’t know how undecideds are breaking, an astute reader of the Kerry Spot notes him saying the following:
Pollster John Zogby: “Bush had a stronger single day of polling, leading Kerry 49% to 46%. For the first time, in the one-day sample Bush had a positive re-elect, 49% to the 48% who feel it’s time for someone new. Also in the one-day sample, Undecideds were only 4%. Could Undecideds be breaking for Bush?
Yesterday, Zogby noted:
Pollster John Zogby: â€œAnother good single day of polling for President Bush. In todayâ€™s sample alone, he leads 50% to 43%â€”the first time weâ€™ve seen either candidate hit 50%. Each candidate continues to tighten his own constituency, and Undecided voters are now at only 4%
Consistant with that, Zogby’s polling finds Bush up by 5 in Ohio and 3 in Florida.
If Zogby is showing these kinds of results, I’m wondering what is going on here. The ABC/WaPo tracking poll is showing a tighter race than Zogby – which is a major reversal from the norm. If it’s true that undecideds are breaking for Bush, it’s good news for the President. Nor would it be particularly surprising. The CW that undecideds break for the challenger isn’t always true on the national level, and given that this is a wartime election there are a lot of people who aren’t fond of Bush’s domestic policies but simply can’t trust Kerry to defend this country.
I have a feeling that this last week of polling will show a break for the President, and if that’s true the President’s margin of victory could get bigger in the popular vote – and if Zogby is correct about Ohio and Florida Bush may be cementing a lock on the Electoral College as well. Then again, given how reliable Zogby’s state polling is, the Electoral College race is anyone’s guess at this point…

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Ebay Eliminates Auction Listing Fees for Casual Users
Online auction marketplace eBay is eliminating some fees.
Users will soon be able to list up to five items for auction every 30 days without paying any listing fees - which previously ranged from $0.10 to $4.00. Under the new fee schedule sellers will continue to pay a flat 8.75% of the sale price but there is a cap of $20 per item.
eBay previously forced sellers to pay different rates depending on the sale price with no cap. The changes is slated to take effect on June 16th. The new schedule also does not apply to fixed-price listings. According to an article from the Associated Press, the majority of the 25 million people who sell on eBay are occasional sellers, and many of them stand to benefit from the change. Some could end up paying more in fees, though, particularly for items that sell for $50 to $450.
For example, if you sold a pair of concert tickets for $300, you would owe eBay $20 under the new fee structure. Under the current system, you would pay up to $3 to list the tickets and $11.82 as a final value fee, for a total of less than $15. However, you'd pay the listing fee of up to $3 even if the tickets don't sell, whereas you'd owe nothing under the new system.
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Although she might have a little less money to spend these days, Kelis appeared to be having a great time while shopping with a friend and her adorable 22-month-old son Knight in Los Angeles over the weekend.
Kelis and a friend stroll along Larchmont Boulevard in L.A. with her baby boy Knight. - Brooks/INFphoto.com
Think little Knight will grow up to be a rapper like his daddy Nas? - Brooks/INFphoto.com
According to TMZ, the "Milkshake" singer found herself back in court with her ex-hubby Nas a couple of weeks ago, where the rapper managed to convince the judge that the economy has hurt his earning potential. As a result, instead of sending a check to Kelis for a little over $50K per month, the MC now only needs to write one for about $25K. Chump change for a celeb.
While the former hip-hop couple's divorce was pretty messy, Kelis -- who filed for divorce from Nas after four years of marriage and two months before giving birth to their son -- told Us Weekly last summer that everything is now fine between she and her ex. "We are divorced, but there is no point to fighting -- there is nothing to fight about. I am super happy; my life is awesome. We are friends, we get along now and it's all good."
Also good is the fact that being Knight's mom has simply made Kelis a better person. "Motherhood has made me more selfless and emotional," she said in December. "Motherhood changes the way you look at people and human life. Babies make you more human. No matter how much it was explained to me, I didn't understand the strength of my feelings for him. He literally brings me joy."
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According to Forbes, Ye was stripped of his title as a billionaire on Tuesday (October 25) after he and adidas ended their lucrative partnership together.
As Kanye is now valued at around $400 million, the outlet Substack proclaimed in a list compiled by Forbes former Senior Entertainment Editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg that Diddy has now surpassed Ye on the list of rap’s top five richest moguls. However, JAY-Z still reigns supreme with a net worth of $1.5 billion.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is now valued at an even billion, making him the second wealthiest rap mogul behind Hov. Diddy’s lucrative surge into the billionaires club comes thanks to his longtime investments with Ciroc – valued at around $60 million – DeLeon tequila and his media network Revolt.
Berner, and Dr. Dre snagged the final two slots with values at $410 million and $400 million, respectively.
Diddy’s billionaire status comes shortly after he made a few braggadocious claims about being “Hip Hop’s first billionaire” in a motivational video posted on YouTube. Once the video went viral, the “Gotta Move On” rapper clarified in a follow-up video that he hadn’t yet achieved billionaire status.
“A lot of blogs took that as I had become Hip Hop’s first billionaire. That is not the case,” he explained. He went on to say that “the race is still on,” adding that “any of you hustlers out there can come and get it.”
“It really ain’t about the money at the end of the day,” he said. “It’s about the impact that you have on the world.”
As Kanye West has continued to experience financial and social fallout as a result of his bigoted comments about Jewish people, Diddy was actually at one point a target of Ye’s agitated fervor.
“I didn’t like our convo,” Kanye wrote on Instagram. “I’m selling these tees Nobody gets in between me and my money This is my grandfather texting you now Never call me with no bullshit like that again unless you ready to green light me Cause anybody who got on that tee is me.”
The “Gotta Move On” rapper then attempted to text Ye directly, writing, “Let’s stop playing these internet games. And don’t feel threatened. You’ll be fine. Just love.”
Ye replied: “This ain’t a game Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me I told you this was war Now gone get you some business.”
Meanwhile, Diddy recently unleashed numerous remixes of his new “Gotta Move On” single, including a “Queen Remix” that features Ashanti addressing Irv Gotti’s inebriated comments he had made about their past relationship on Drink Champs.


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Everyone has had one; back in the eighties we all had them packaged to Spain, Canaries, Portugal and the Riviera. I mean beach holidays were the rage, then they became the places to Rave ‘Ibiza’ and beaches further a field ‘Thailand’ that book by ‘Alex Garland’ didn’t he go looking for the perfect spot? Became a bit too much like Lord of the Flies all that battling for leadership etc… not what one expects from a beach holiday.
Accelerate to 2013, who wants to travel to these destinations? I don’t; I went to Budapest a few years ago, the treatment received in Luton airport would have made that bird ‘Elaine Page’s’ voice rise an octave or two, I know they just had some bombs and things but it is no excuse to treat people like they did, anyway never been in an airport since.
So what to do for holidays? Pre-world madness, dust clouds and poor exchange rates or is it a weak currency? I used to holiday only in Spring in the UK, Cornwall, The Lakes, Scotland and a couple of trips to Norfolk, always self catering close to where the adventure could be found. Summer time I would never be found in any of the above on a beach.
Now here is the thing we have great beaches all around us we live on an island, and the furthest point from the sea anywhere in the UK is something like 76 miles, I don’t know if that’s correct but it does mean there is a beach nearby
A self-catering holiday on the beach in the UK now that’s the thing, at Barn & Beach the self catering aspect is based on a beach house a house that looks straight into the face of the North Sea a huge expanse and on the doorstep, you do have to negotiate the golden sand before dipping your toe, it’s a tough one, we are never going to have the weather of the Costa’s but challenge yourself, what can we do on our beach that we would never do on theirs?
Go on write a list and then start to think about that UK self-catering beach holiday, what would you really like to do?
Start with a visit to any of our glorious Beach Houses @barnandbeach relaxing places to stay
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is urging the nation’s schools and colleges to do more to prevent sexual violence, saying campus sex crimes often go unreported because victims fear that universities will not discipline offenders.
Mr. Biden travels to the University of New Hampshire on Monday to discuss new Education Department instructions, issued on Monday, to public school districts, colleges and universities about their responsibilities under civil rights laws to prevent sexual violence.
Mr. Biden’s New Hampshire visit is part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to draw attention to sexual violence and ways to prevent it, officials said.
“There is a terrible and alarming trend in the country of sexual violence,” said Russlynn H. Ali, assistant secretary of education who heads the Office of Civil Rights.
She cited a private, Internet-based survey of undergraduate women in 2007 at two public universities in which 19 percent of respondents reported that they had been victims of attempted or actual sexual assault while at college. The Justice Department financed the surveys.
On Thursday, Ms. Ali’s office announced that in mid-March it received a 26-page complaint against Yale, filed by 16 students and alumni, and would investigate. The complaint says that a sexually hostile environment exists on the Yale campus and that the university has not responded effectively.
The Yale Daily News on Friday cited a 2008 incident in which fraternity pledges were photographed holding a sign referring to Yale women in sexually degrading language. That and other episodes were indications of a worsening sexual climate at Yale, several of those who signed the complaint to the department’s Office of Civil Rights told the student newspaper.
A spokesman said Yale takes all allegations of sexual misconduct “extremely seriously” and would cooperate with any investigation.
The Education Department’s new guidance came in the form of a 19-page letter to all educational institutions that receive federal money.
It says that once a school or university “knows or reasonably should know of possible sexual violence,” it must act to end the violence, protect those who have reported it and investigate to find out what happened.
Mr. Biden picked the university in Durham, N.H., to make his remarks, officials said, because it has exemplary sexual violence prevention programs.


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2010 Maryland Code
TITLE 8 - FRAUD AND RELATED CRIMES
Subtitle 4 - Other Commercial Fraud
Section 8-401 - Fraudulent conversion of partnership assets.
§ 8-401. Fraudulent conversion of partnership assets.
(a) Prohibited.- A partner may not with fraudulent intent:
(1) convert or appropriate to the partner's own use partnership money or property;
(2) make, or cause to be made, a false entry in partnership records of a partnership transaction; or
(3) fail to make or cause to be made an entry in partnership records to show the true state of a transaction:
(i) relating to partnership business; or
(ii) involving the use of partnership money or property.
(b) Penalty.- A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.
(c) Statute of limitations and in banc review.- A person who violates this section is subject to § 5-106(b) of the Courts Article.
[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 173; 2002, ch. 26, § 2.]
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TR Property Investment Trust PLC operates in the Investment offices sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares TR Property Investment Trust PLC with three other
companies in this sector in the United Kingdom:
ICG Enterprise Trust PLC
sales of £92.68 million [US$120.67 million]
3I Infrastructure Plc
(£110.70 million [US$144.14 million]
of which 278%
was Economic Infrastructure businesses), and
Monks Investment Trust PLC
(£127.44 million [US$165.94 million]
of which 100%
was Investment Trust company).
TR Property Investment Trust PLC reported sales of £116.69 million (US$151.94 million)
March of 2019.
decrease of 12.2%
versus 2018, when the company's sales were £132.84 million.

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Making the 1,300-mile journey through Western Europe from Syria is a treacherous feat, and one that requires many tools: Water. Food. Almost bottomless perseverance. But the most important may well be the Internet, and, more specifically, a smartphone.
More than 4 million people have fled Syria's civil war since 2011, most of them headed for the beleaguered nation's neighbors. Faced with overcrowded camps, religious persecution, and the hostile borders of Eastern Europe, many continue on to Western Europe. More than 500,000 refugees, the majority of them from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, started arriving there in October.
Many of these displaced people rely upon smartphones to find safe passage. Maps and GPS help chart the best course. Messaging apps provide a lifeline to loved ones. Apps of every kind help find a place to sleep, translate foreign languages, offer guidance on what to pack, and help manage money. Almost every need is met with mobile.
But not all have access to this technology. It is no surprise that the refugees carrying smartphones are those who could afford them back home. And holding onto the device during so arduous a journey is no easy feat. Border patrol guards often confiscate cellphones at government checkpoints. And even those who have phones don't always have access to the Internet, or to apps and services that might help them.
The tech sector has taken note of these issues, and is attempting to address them.
Just this week, Mike Butcher, editor-at-large of TechCrunch, organized the Techfugees Conference in London. The goal was to hone some of the ideas that came out of an October hackathon that drew engineers, entrepreneurs, designers and NGO members—some of them former refugees themselves. They offered a bounty of ideas, ranging from tools to report war crimes to apps that can help reunite families. One of the most promising is GeeCycle, a widget developers can add to sites and prompt people to donate smartphones to refugees.
Butcher started the project over the summer after seeing the harrowing images of children’s bodies washed ashore. “I looked around and I just couldn’t see a flag under which tech startups and developers could rally around to address the crisis. I put up a Facebook group and a couple days later, we had several hundred members. Now it’s over 2,000. I was clearly pushing at an open door and others wanted to get involved.”
Although the hackathon drew tremendous support, this week's conference was a harder sell. Butcher found companies less keen on being associated with Syrian refugees after the ISIS attacks on Paris and Beirut. “The organizations that are trying to address this crisis in a genuine and helpful way are suffering because of the erroneous conflation of refugees with terrorism. It’s totally wrong and detrimental to the efforts of those who seek peaceful integration of refugees into society,” he says.
As Techfugees expands to other parts of the world, concerns might arise over surveillance issues, especially location-specific tools. Blockchain and Bitcoin products to leverage encryption, Butcher says, are increasingly popular ideas among developers.
Many refer to the exodus from Syria as a "modern migration." It's an apt description, given the role technology—and apps in particular—play in the largest mass migration since World War II. According to one study, 86 percent of Syrian youth in refugee camps have access to a smartphone, as agencies have made it relatively easy to get SIM cards once inside. Statistics are harder to come by for the migratory population, though heavy reliance upon WhatsApp and Facebook groups to find safe passage, Butcher says, suggests that refugees use smartphones in vast numbers.
Refugees often rely on free messaging services like Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, and Viber to communicate. Those traveling by boat often use WhatsApp to update their location on Google Maps, a move that lets them avoid astronomical calling rates and alert the authorities to their location should trouble arise. Arabic-language Facebook groups such as التهريب إلى الاتحاد الأوروبي or “Smuggling Into the E.U,” are the most popular way for smugglers to advertise services, allowing you to see who has the cheapest rates. Because of their vulnerable status, refugees rely on mobile networks to stay safe from labor trafficking and other human rights violations.

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Here's my plan for the next several days...
Monday, November 27: Go to West Sound in Surry to record four of the songs for the CHRISTMAS WITH THE DEAD musical. These will be included in an application package for an ASCAP Musical Theater workshop to be conducted by Steven Schwartz, who wrote music and lyrics for GODSPELL, PIPPIN and WICKED, among others. Wish me luck!
Wednesday November 29: Drive to NYC to deliver a fresh NH Christmas tree to my daughters and meet Michael Pierce for lunch and fun! Then that evening it's a HANSON concert with Emma!
Thursday, November 30: Drive 3 hours to Lititz, PA for the first concert on the tour at the home of Rich and Wendy Motz 6pm START
659 Laurel Ave., Lititz PA 17543
After the show I get to hang out with two of my Carpentour friends, Carolyn and Larry Heard!
Friday, December 1: Drive 2 hours to Nazareth, PA for a concert at Jason Reph's “Reph’s Winter Wonderland”
198 Firehouse Lane, Nazareth, PA 18064
Saturday, December 2: Driving Day 6 hours to CLEVELAND
VISIT THE CHRISTMAS STORY HOUSE!!!!!!!!! (this visit is coming out of my personal $$, not the tour money. I'm going through the area anyway, and Cleveland was a good place to stop on my way to Indiana, and this visit is a LIFE GOAL!)
Sunday December 3: Drive four hours to South Bend, IN to perform at the home of Gary and Bobbi Mayfield's , “Holiday Lightshow on Edison Road”
24013 Edison Road, South Bend Indiana 46628
Monday, December 4: Drive 3 ½ hours to Hudson, IL to perform at Bobby and Roxanne Dicken's “A Dicken Christmas” 706 Trimmer Dr., Hudson, IL 61748
Tuesday, December 5: Driving Day- 16 hours to WY!!!


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Liquid soybean oil is low in saturated fat, contains no trans fat, and is high in poly and monounsaturated fats. It's also the principal source of omega3 fatty acids and the primary commercial source of vitamin E in the U.S. diet. Soybean meal is a co-product of the soybean oil milling process. Soybean meal serves as an excellent protein source for beef cattle diets and is often the "gold standard" protein supplement to which other feed supplements are compared. Soy meal is a major ingredient in poultry, beef, dairy, and swine diets around the U.S. Soybean hulls are a co-product of the soybean oil milling process and are widely used in Mississippi beef cattle diets. Soybean hulls are a relatively good energy source, particularly in forage-based diets.
Express Grain's Biodiesel plant uses 100% local soybean oil produced onsite at the Greenwood Oil Mill. Biodiesel is most commonly used as a blend with petroleum diesel fuel.
Express Grain Biodiesel meets standards set by the American Society of Testing Materials.

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We devised and implemented a timing attack against OpenSSL—a library commonly used in web servers and other SSL applications
Remote timing attacks are practical
USENIX Security, no. 5 (2005): 701-716
Timing attacks are usually used to attack weak computing devices such as smartcards. We show that timing attacks apply to general software systems. Specifically, we devise a timing attack against OpenSSL. Our experiments show that we can extract private keys from an OpenSSL-based web server running on a machine in the local network. Our r...More
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- Timing attacks enable an attacker to extract secrets maintained in a security system by observing the time it takes the system to respond to various queries.
- Kocher  designed a timing attack to expose secret keys used for RSA decryption
- Until these attacks were only applied in the context of hardware security tokens such as smartcards [5,11,19].
- It is believed that common implementations of RSA are not vulnerable to timing attacks
- The authors challenge both assumptions by developing a remote timing attack against OpenSSL , an SSL library commonly used in web servers and other SSL applications.
- Timing attacks enable an attacker to extract secrets maintained in a security system by observing the time it takes the system to respond to various queries
- It is believed that common implementations of RSA are not vulnerable to timing attacks. We challenge both assumptions by developing a remote timing attack against OpenSSL , an SSL library commonly used in web servers and other SSL applications
- Our results show that when using OpenSSL the network server virtual machines can extract the RSA private key from the secure virtual machines, invalidating the isolation provided by the Virtual Machine Monitor
- We devised and implemented a timing attack against OpenSSL—a library commonly used in web servers and other SSL applications
- The timing attack is effective between two processes on the same machine and two Virtual Machines on the same computer
- The authors performed a series of experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of the attack on OpenSSL.
- In each case the authors show the factorization of the RSA modulus N is vulnerable.
- The authors show that a number of factors affect the efficiency of the timing attack.
- The authors' experiments consisted of: 1.
- Test the effects of increasing the number of decryption requests, both for the same ciphertext and a neighborhood of ciphertexts.
- 2. Compare the effectiveness of the attack based upon different keys
- The authors devised and implemented a timing attack against OpenSSL—a library commonly used in web servers and other SSL applications.
- Counter to current belief, the timing attack is effective when carried out between machines separated by multiple routers.
- The timing attack is effective between two processes on the same machine and two Virtual Machines on the same computer.
- As a result of this work, several crypto libraries, including OpenSSL, implement blinding by default as described in the previous section
- Table1: Timing attack with programs ‘‘regular’’ and ‘‘extra-inst’’ for bits 30 and 32 of q
- Table2: Decryption time using a sample size of 7 (Panel A) and 2800 (Panel B)
- This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 0121481 and the Packard Foundation
- M. Blaze, Simple UNIX time quantization package, Available from <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbrumley/pubs/quantize.shar>.
- D. Boneh, R.A. DeMillo, R.J. Lipton, On the importance of checking cryptographic protocols for faultsLecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1233, Springer, Berlin, 1997, pp. 37–51.
- D. Coppersmith, Small solutions to polynomial equations, and low exponent RSA vulnerabilities, Journal of Cryptology 10 (1997) 233–260.
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- J.-F. Dhem, F. Koeune, P.-A. Leroux, P. Mestre, J.-J. Quisquater, J.-L. Willems, A practical implementation of the timing attack, in: CARDIS, 1998, pp. 167–182.
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Ready to binge read? My entire TWIN MOON series is on sale. Each of the 9 titles is only 99¢ from March 11-18!
That’s six books in the series plus a collection of short stories, Sasquatch Surprise (the series offshoot), and the holiday story, Desert Yule. Come meet the hottest wolves in the West in this spellbinding, award-winning series of paranormal romance!
Note: buying the ebook gets you a discount on the matching audiobook!
Desert Hunt (always free)
Desert Wolf Complete Collection
Get them all here while the sale lasts!
(Note: the sale is only on Amazon.com and UK. Other Amazon stores don’t honor the sale prices. Sorry - their policy. I keep asking them to change it!)
So, here’s my writing round-up of 2019. I have to say, I’m proud of myself! All too often, we don’t take the time to celebrate our achievements, big or small. So, what about you? What are you proud of from your 2019?
As for me, I…
PUBLISHED 4 NEW TITLES
RELEASED 6 AUDIOBOOKS
PUBLISHED 2 SHORT STORIES
RELEASED 2+ BOX SETS
& much more - all details here!
Happy Holidays! To celebrate the season, Anna Lowe is slashing the price of all her box sets from $6.99 or $9.99 to only $2.99! Each bundle contains three great shifter romances & most include bonus epilogues so you can follow up on your favorite couples’ happily ever afters. Grab these incredible deals while the holiday sale lasts!
Note: This is also your chance to get the AUDIO BUNDLES at a huge DISCOUNT! (Bundles marked with an * are also available in audio. If you own the ebook, Amazon will give you the matching audiobook at a huge discount!)
LURE OF THE ALPHA, Volume 1
including Lure of the Dragon / Lure of the Wolf / Lure of the Bear + 3 bonus scenes
LURE OF THE ALPHA, Volume 2
including Lure of the Tiger / Love of the Dragon / Lure of the Fox + 3 bonus scenes
REBEL SHIFTERS, Volume 1
including Rebel Dragon / Rebel Bear / Rebel Lion + 3 bonus scenes
REBEL SHIFTERS, Volume 2
including Rebel Wolf / Rebel Heart / Rebel Alpha + 3 bonus stories
ONCE UPON A DESERT MOON*
including Desert Moon / Desert Blood / Desert Fate + 3 bonus stories
TWICE UPON A DESERT MOON
including Desert Heart / Desert Rose / Desert Roots + 3 bonus stories
BLUE MOON SALOON, Volume 1*
including Damnation / Temptation / Redemption
BLUE MOON SALOON, Volume 2
including Redemption / Deception / Celebration
including Lure of the Dragon / Desert Moon / Damnation / Gambling on Trouble
DESERT WOLF COMPLETE COLLECTION
including Friend or Foe / Strangers in the Night / Close Encounters / A Very Close Shave
SECOND CHANCE ADVENTURE ROMANCE
including Uncharted / Entangled (Action-Adventure Romance - not PNR)
So, here’s a fun bonus extra. I asked my wonderful audiobook narrator Kelsey Osborne if she would do an interview to answer fan questions. And here it is! Everything you might have wondered about the working day of a professional voice talent!
You can find a list of all the audiobooks Kelsey has narrated for me here.
Hooray! FIRE MAIDENS: LONDON - Book 2 in my new Billionaires & Bodyguards series - is now available in audio! Once again, AUDIO FIRST!!! (Paperback also available. The ebook is available for preorder & releasing soon)!
If you’re new to Audible, you can get this book FREE! Just click on the Audible link of your choice!
Hooray! I’m super excited to that FIRE MAIDENS: PARIS - Book 1 in my new Billionaires & Bodyguards series - is already available in audio! That’s right - it’s ready in record time AND this is AUDIO FIRST!!! Check it out here.
Hi there! I made a new puzzle, featuring some of my favorite audiobooks. Let’s just say they all feature some pretty stunning scenery! You can adjust the level of difficulty by clicking “play as” in the top right and changing the number of pieces. Have fun!

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Judge Dismisses Lawsuits By Chemung Executive; County Legislators "Relieved"
VESTAL, NY (WSKG) - A statement on behalf of the Chemung County Legislature said the board is relieved a judge decided to dismiss and deny lawsuits file by County Executive Chris Moss.
At the center of the controversy was legislative attorney Bryan Maggs. The county executive, who took office in January, tried to fire Maggs. However, representatives on the legislature called this an overreach.
In lawsuits, Moss argued the county legislature lacked the authority to hire a lawyer. The county legislature then changed its charter, hoping to clarify its control over the office. In response, Moss said the board couldn't change its charter either.
A judge dismissed the suits this week.
"The cost of this lawsuit, both in terms of money and time spent, is extremely unfortunate," said County Legislative Chair David Manchester, adding that he still has a good working relationship with Moss.
On Facebook, the county executive expresseddisappointment with the court ruling. Moss lists several other issues he has with the legislature and said he wants them addressed.


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- A cinematic adventure set during the events of the first Jurassic Park movie
- Combines fast-paced action, exploration and puzzle-solving
- Confront T. Rex, Raptors, and other prehistoric beasts in spectacular showdowns
- Revisit familiar movie locations (such as the scene of Dennis Nedry's death and the Visitor Center)
- Head deep into the island to reveal new creatures, mysteries and danger
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- Great story and voice acting
- A retro style game for re-living those childhood memories
- Explore new parts of the park like the marine life facility
- Dinosaur animations and sound effects are great
- The investigative sections where you explore the environment are a lot of fun
- Dialogue can be stereotypical at times
- Animation (Specifically the human characters) and Graphics in general are below today's standards by far
- A lot of quick time events
Overall I give it prop's for simply being done well with what budget they had and it's clear by their efforts that they loved the source material and did their best to make an adventure worthy of the fan's love. Take it for what it is and what could of never been instead of what it isn't.
The only reason people don't like this game is because they were expecting to be able to move around freely on the island and go anywhere. Graphics are fine and should not even be a reason for writing a 1-3 Star Review.
But not in this entry.
I really wanted to like this one. I love Jurassic Park (The first movie anyway. I read the books but that was years ago and I don't really remember all that much). Some of it feels so much like the movies that you can kind of tell that they picked up visual cues directly from them - the camera pans, some of the shots of the dinos, etc. As a visual reference, it works pretty well. But gameplay, especially when stacked up against another TellTale series, there's not much to be had.
So story first - it's pretty standard. A group of survivors left after the events of the first Jurassic Park movie are still on the island and need to be rescued, while another group has snuck their way onto the island to retrieve the embryos Nedry was supposed to grab but was unable to. The park's vet ends up saving one of these intruders only to be held hostage while another group of mercenary forces is sent via helicopter to air lift them out. How the game tells the story is another issue. In past and future titles, usually you control one character unless something bad has happened to that character. In The Walking Dead, you control Lee (Until the end and the start of the second season when you control Clementine). In The Wolf Among Us, you're Bigby Wolf.Read more ›
That said, I legitimately enjoyed this game. I have heard all the criticism of it. No, your choices don't matter. Yes, the story is cheesy. And yes, there are a few frustrating button press sequences which are solved through trial and error. But I found the story entertaining enough, the characters likeable, and the various dinosaur-related deaths pretty cool. You can easily play through the story in less than a day, and there is no real skill involved in anything. If you're in it only for the gameplay, you shouldn't be playing any of Telltale's make-your-own-choice games anyway. This is more of an interactive story than a game. Take it for what it is and enjoy it.
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Graphics not as good as some games, very limited mobility through out game, primarily for the story line, great for beginner who is needing to learn controls.Published 3 months ago by Darrin Priest
This game is nearly unplayable! First the good: Story, graphics, sound, suspense/horror. That does not make a for good game in itself! The gameplay is primary! Read morePublished 4 months ago by Jarin
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Due to climatic conditions the scope for green processing is limited in many countries, sodium chloride is widely used to preserve raw hides and skins. It contributes to a high volume of total dissolved solids (TDS) in the soak waste liquor. No commercially viable technology for treating effluent has been developed to date. A large amount of the salt sticking to the hide and skin surface can be removed by shaking the hides mechanically or manually.
Within the framework of the UNIDO regional programme for pollution control in the tanning industry in South-East Asia, a pilot demonstration unit was set up to demonstrate different options for
(a) desalting hides and skins prior to soaking and
(b) reusing dusted salt in the pickling operation after purifying the salt recovered.
This report covers the demonstrations carried out during the period January 1997 to February 2001 of desalting of salted raw stock and use of the recovered salt in pickling.

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Land Rover recently pitted their Discovery Sport SUV against a team of six sled dogs led by Laura Kääriäinen in an underground snow tunnel in Finland for a unique training challenge.
The “race” was organised at the Vesileppis Ski Tunnel in Finlandfor a much-needed sprint around the track in anticipation of winter championships.
Laura Kääriäinen and her Finnish middle distance championship-winnning team of sled dogs went head to head in a unique one km sprint around a tunnel that’s been carved out 35 metres below ground level and kept at a constant -2°C to maintain a blanket of snow that’s 20mm deep throughout the summer. This makes for a perfect place to put the Discovery Sport’s all-terrain capability to the test.
Driver Karl Richards, Lead Engineer for Stability Control Systems at Jaguar Land Rover, said: “Snow is one of the most demanding surfaces drivers will encounter during winter around the world and Discovery Sport proved to be as comfortable in these conditions as the dogs. Land Rover’s advanced Terrain Response technology and intelligent four-wheel drive system ensure our premium compact SUV is in a class of its own when it comes to off-road driving – whether you’ve got two legs or four.”
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Diabetes as a disease is posing a serious warning to the health sector as a whole. Awareness of diabetes is the corner stone of diabetes management & prevention. Know diabetes and spread awareness. Prevention is way better than cure..Isn’t it?
The laddus immersed in pure ghee and barfis stuffed with dry fruits have definitely lured you away from your healthy diet this festive season, isn’t it? An extra serving of biriyani or a bigger piece of mutton for your family might be your way of expressing your love towards them during the happy times. But, are you genuinely doing them or yourself any good?
Do you really think that there’s no way in which you can have a gala time this festive season without leaving a long-term scar on your health? If yes, then let’s break the myth today.
Some Simple and Effective Tips To Eat Healthy This Festive Season:
You might get so much lost in your daily routine life, not even bother about what’s happening inside your body at that very moment until your body fire the alarm for emergency by itself.
It’s better to take one step every day than running in one single shot. Making your lifestyle healthier and stress free is in your own hands. If you really don’t want to hustle yourself into grave without accomplishing the actual goals of your life, then take a step ahead. Continue reading “Minor Habits, Major Changes” »
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We look forward to eating turkey at Thanksgiving, but what about the leftovers?
Since we are all busy this week with celebrating Thanksgiving and enjoying family and friends, along with lots of scrumptious food, I thought I would share a recipe instead of a blog. Here is one of my favorites for leftover turkey. This recipe prepares a generous sized dish which can be frozen for enjoyment later, as well.
3 cups spaghetti, cooked and cut into pieces
3 cups left over turkey, cut up into bite sized portions
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup canned sliced mushrooms
2 cups shredded carrots
2 cups frozen peas
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. black pepper
3 cans (10 3/4 oz.) cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup Miracle Whip
1 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Saute onions and mushrooms in 4 T. butter until onions are tender. Add garlic, Worcestershire sauce and black pepper. Stir one minute. Add soup, milk, Parmesan, Miracle Whip, and cheddar cheese. Simmer stirring occasionally until cheese is melted. Add turkey, carrots, spaghetti, and peas. Cook until heated through. Pour into 9 x 13 pan. Pat with butter and bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.
I hope you all have a blessed holiday. If you are fortunate to have leftovers, I hope you’ll enjoy this dish. It makes a lot so you may want to freeze half for a meal another day! A serving is about one cup. Enjoy!
What recipe do you enjoy with your Thanksgiving leftovers? Please share.
Photo by Alison Marras on Unsplash.

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Chattanooga is on a five-game win streak that includes a road win at Indiana and a sweep of the Challenge in Music City with wins over Northwestern, Georgetown and Auburn. Saturday's game against UT Martin is a double-header with the Chattanooga men who will also host the Skyhawks.
Chattanooga and UT Martin first met in 1975 in the Mocs’ first season as a varsity team.
Chattanooga won the first eight games and have won the last three, all in the past three seasons. The Skyhawks
lone win was in 1997 in a neutral game at the Cincinnati Bear Cat Invitational. Chattanooga has won all four games at home.
started the season at 0-3 for the first time since 2010-11 but have since strung together five consecutive victories. Chattanooga claimed the Challenge in Music City title beating Northwestern (61-44), Georgetown (54-41) and Auburn (50-41), holding all three opponents to less than 50 points each. UTC leads the Southern Conference in scoring defense, allowing just 54.2 points per game. Chattanooga leads the league in 3-pointers made with 6.5 per game and 3-point field goal percentage making 41.6 percent of its attempts.
Keiana Gilbert was named the College Sports Madness SoCon Player of the Week and the Southern Conference Player of the Week last week. She leads the Mocs with 14.1 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. She has a team-high 11 blocked shots and has dished out 18 assists. She is shooting 48.9 percent from the field and is 10-of-21 from the 3-point line. Aryanna Gilbert is second on the team in scoring with 12 points and 5.1 rebounds per game. She is 10-of-10 from the free throw line and has 12 3-pointers on the year. Lakelyn Bouldin is the third UTC player in double figures with 11.8 points and is 16-of-36 from the 3-point line.
The Skyhawks have won back-to-back games to even out their record beating Southern Conference opponent Western Carolina (62-54) and North Carolina A&T (76-63). UTM is averaging 75.8 points per game and allows 71.5 ppg. They are shooting 42 percent from the floor, 46.5 percent from beyond the arc and 75.6 percent from the free throw line. The Skyhawks are averaging 32.8 rebounds per game and lead the OVC in turnover margin forcing opponents into 8.83 more turnovers per game.
Kendall Spray had eight 3-pointers in the Skyhawks win over North Carolina A&T in their last outing and is 23-of-53 from the arc on the year. She leads the team with 16.7 points per game. Three more UTM players are averaging double figures with Emanye Robertson putting up 11.0 ppg, Myah Taylor is averaging 10.8 points and 4.0 rebounds while Chelsey Perry has a team-high 5.7 rebounds per game and is fourth in scoring with 10.5 ppg.
Chattanooga vs. UT Martin
Saturday, December 2, 2017 | 2:00 p.m.
Chattanooga, Tenn. | The McKenzie Arena
Tickets on sale at the McKenzie Arena box office and online at GoMocs.com

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A Vegan diet has always been the best and easiest environmentally friendly decision you can make. Why is an animal free diet beneficial towards our planet?
Glad you asked.
1. Since 1967, forests have been destroyed at a rate of 1 acre every 5 seconds to create grazing land for beef cattle to ensure a continuous supply of inexpensive meat for our fast-food restaurants.
2. Economists estimate that for every person who switches to a vegan diet, 1 acre of trees is spared each year.
3. Runoff from animal waste is linked to a 7,000-square-mile "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico that no longer supports aquatic life.
4. At the present rate, many rain forests -- a natural resource on which we rely for everything from lifesaving medicines to the very air we breathe -- will be gone in 30 years.
5. Livestock produces 7 trillion tons of manure every year, and it all finds its way into our water system.
6. Sixty percent of all water used in America is used for meat production.
7. It takes 16 pounds of grain and 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat. Yet 16 people can be fed on the grain it takes to produce that pound of meat. Growing that amount of grain requires only 250 gallons of water.
8. Countries such as Ethiopia and some Central American countries use their farmland to supply the United States with cheap burgers instead of growing healthful grain foods for their own starving people. Every 2 seconds, a child starves to death somewhere in the world.
9. The livestock population of the United States consumes enough grain and soybeans to feed more than 5 times its human population. Ninety percent of all corn grown in the United States goes to livestock. Eighty percent of all grain and beans go to feed these animals.
10. Food grown directly for human consumption occupies 60 million acres. Food grown to feed livestock occupies 1.2 billion acres.
This week I will be eating vegan and documenting meals, energy levels, and over all well being. Quinoa casserole anyone?


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|Lowest Recommended Age:||Mature High Schooler|
|Profanity:||Strong language for a PG-13|
|Violence/ Scariness:||Sword and arrow battles (characters injured and killed), beheading, fist fights|
|Diversity Issues:||A theme of the movie|
|Date Released to Theaters:||2001|
Martin Lawrence is a very funny guy who is usually a lot better than the movies around him, which tend to play as though half the script reads, “Martin enters and does funny things.” This time, the material comes a little closer to his talents, in a story inspired by Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.”
Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee of a run-down medieval theme park who is vastly more attentive to brushing his teeth than he is to anything relating to his job. When a rival theme park called Castle World moves to his neighborhood, he tells his boss that it is time for her to sell out and retire. She tries to explain that she has a commitment to creating good jobs in the community, but he does not understand.
Then, grabbing for a mysterious amulet while cleaning the moat, he falls into the water and comes up in a lake. The people he meets are so authentically medieval in dress and speech that he thinks he must have landed at Castle World. But it turns out that he has somehow landed in 1328, in the court of a usurper king who has mistaken him for a Moorish messenger sent by a Duke.
Lawrence gets to show various kinds of astonishment at the odd world of the medieval folks (They behead people! And they have awful bathrooms!), and they get to show various kinds of astonishment at his behavior (of course he has to be asked by the king to show off his riding and dancing skills). He gets interested in a pretty chambermaid who is a part of a conspiracy to bring back the real queen. And the daughter of the usurper king goes after Martin, especially after he teaches her some new kissing techniques. It’s a classic comedy set-up that could easily have starred any movie comedian skilled in pratfalls, from Buster Keaton to Jerry Lewis to Jim Carrey.
There is a lot of slapstick, a little romance, fights with swords, arrows, and a couple with fists, and it all moves along pretty painlessly, helped by some good gags and Lawrence’s facility with physical comedy.
Parents should know that the movie has very strong language for a PG-13, including a slightly obscured four-letter word that normally would get an R-rating. In addition to the violence mentioned above (mostly comic and bloodless, but with real injuries and deaths), there is a beheading. There are a number of sexual references and situations, including a discussion of “French” kissing, characters making sounds so that people nearby will think they are having sex, and a man who has sex with a woman because he thinks she is a different woman. Minority and female characters are smart and brave (though not always seen that way by others).
Families who see this movie might like to see some of the other versions of this story, including one starring Whoopi Goldberg called A Knight in Camelot.

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Written by Poindexter on August 13, 2017
The blurred lenses are starting to clear up and many people starting to looking the same to me. We live in a time when social media magnifies everything that occurs, everyone is holding a camera ready to go LIVE. I find it nauseating that you can have proof in hand of injustices but it’s never good enough evidence. AmeriKKKa there’s a huge issue that the “land of free” wants to sweep under the rug. Listen as an African-American I’m aware of the issues that are going on in our community. When you see the actions that have taken place in Virginia, do white people take accountability for the actions that are being displayed in Charlottesville. See Poindexter is familiar with being told what the problems in my community are LAZY, HANDOUTS, LACK OF UNITY etc… I’m smart enough to know this doesn’t apply to all of us but you’d be hard pressed to think this when hearing the rhetoric. HATE is still running rampant in many pockets of white AmeriKKKa and you need to be accountable for your actions. You do need to take responsibility for this in your own communities, help put an end to this hypocrisy that’s plaguing this nation. In my opinion is that it starts at the top, yep up there in the Oval Office but the work can be put into action down on the ground level. All I’m saying is own your IDIOSYNCRASIES and fix them. FIX YO’ SHIT!


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There's a track that Mike starts in the Video "Music gets us through"...Would like to know the name or if it was released. First time hearing it and sounds really good. Anyone know? Thanks
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Whenever you hear of some Democrat-Republican supporting Israel or taking money from the Israel lobby, remember the 9/16, 17, 18/82 Sabra & Shatila Massacre where 3,500 to 8,000 people, mostly women and children, were murdered by the Phalangists, under the supervision of the US puppet, Israel. We had huge demonstrations at the 450 Golden Gate federal building, San Francisco to protest this genocide.
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Reluctant, Mediocre Candidate Next to Rule Chinese Regime
Xi Jinping, a senior Chinese Communist Party apparatchik with a handful of posts, was elevated to a key position in the military on Oct. 18, formalizing an under-the-table deal that had been known about for some years: his accession to position of Party chief after the incumbent Hu Jintao.
The decision to make Xi vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission was the result of a factional compromise that underscores the CCP’s attenuated confidence and authority in the face of mounting social, economic, and political crises, experts say.
“In the succession of Communist Party leadership, they think he’s the only figure that’s acceptable to different political forces within the Politburo,” said Cheng Xiaonong, former advisor to ousted premier Zhao Ziyang and, later, chief editor of Modern China Studies, in a telephone interview.
“The goal of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao is to safely get off the boat … they would like to leave all the trouble and problems to the next generation of leaders,” he said.
The decision was made public at the end of the CCP’s 12th “Five Year Plan” meeting, a ceremony typical to communist parties that has been held in China since 1953, after the CCP took power.
There is an emerging consensus among many China experts that the CCP’s “reform” model—of state corporatism (resulting in entrenched corruption) at home, and mercantilist trade and export policies abroad—after 30 years, has reached the end of its useful life, and that the only way forward now lies in a reconfiguration of the economic and political structures.
Unbalanced and unsustainable development has resulted in enormous wealth disparities and lurking economic, environmental, demographic, and social crises.
It has also fostered a class of interest groups in and around the CCP who are only able to maintain their wealth by maintaining the status quo. Networks of CCP officials, often through state resource and market monopolies, have dominated and manipulated China’s economy, leading to a distorted profile of income distribution and myriad other problems.
“It is not only that most of the national wealth is occupied by vested interest groups of the CCP, but that the central government also takes too much of the fiscal income for itself,” says Cheng Xiaonong. “That’s the real reason why income distribution can’t be improved and why the economic structure can’t be changed or adjusted.”
Action would require political reform, essentially reducing and restraining the power of the Communist Party and its cadre corps. “That is exactly what they cannot do,” he says.
Xi was seen as the best choice in a field of not very good choices, primarily because he will be able to maintain the status quo and hopefully hold back the contradiction that lies at the heart of the ruling clique’s grip on power.
“He’s someone that people don’t oppose, and who can protect all these interest groups,” says Li Tianxiao, senior political analyst with New Tang Dynasty Television.
A Reluctant Candidate
Given the difficulties, Xi did not even really want to take the top job, according to Cheng.
“The easiest tasks which could be done by the Chinese leadership have already been used and employed. The tough issues, the problems that cannot be easily solved, have been left over for the next generation.”
This is why several years ago, according to insiders known to Cheng, Xi sent a letter to the Politburo, the country’s chief power organ, requesting that he be removed from the list of candidates for vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission.
But, as in leadership successions in the former Soviet Union, where candidates simply could not get out of difficult political accessions “if other people push them into it, they have to do it. That’s called ‘collective leadership,’” Cheng said.
Li Keqiang, next in line to take over the premiership from Wen Jiabao, is in the same quandary. “Now, this is not a good job for anyone. In China, the economic problems are no longer an easy job for the prime minister,” Cheng said.
Apart from the growing economic and social contradictions, which some scholars have predicted will result in a “trapped transition,” the CCP’s stubborn interest groups and factions that have moved the economy and the society to the brink will compound the difficulty of Xi’s rule as general secretary.
“They can’t just give up their vested interests and change the way things work, it’s not feasible,” says Li Tianxiao, the political analyst. “For example, the issue of high-level officials disclosing their wages and property has been raised again and again, and vetoed again and again—every high level official has a lot interests wrapped up here.”
This is particularly the case where, as a new leader, Xi’s legitimacy will largely be decided by his performance, rather than a network of patronage in the Party.
“Hu was anointed by Deng [Xiaoping], so he was a little bit solid, but Xi Jinping does not have that kind of authority,” Cheng says. “It is very likely that they’re not going to have good performance, and that will certainly damage their legitimacy.”
By all accounts, Xi was not anyone’s first choice. “Everyone knows that Hu Jintao wanted Li Keqiang to take over,” says Hu Ping, chief editor of Beijing Spring, the flagship pro-democracy journal, in a telephone conversation, “but the Jiang Zemin faction didn’t want him, so they came up with someone else.”
Xi is not thought to be highly capable, either. “The special thing about these new CCP leaders is that there’s nothing special about them,” Hu Ping says.
Xi rose up through the ranks quickly, built relationships with a range of leaders in the system, as a “princeling” has a good political background (meaning he is the son of a revolutionary from Chinese communism’s early years), and has made no major mistakes—though, according to Hu Ping, “of course he hasn’t done anything good either.”
For Li Tianxiao, the choice of Xi was the best way to maintain the status quo. “They can’t reverse the collapse of the CCP, but he’s the only person that everyone can accept.”
Already, according to Li, Xi’s rhetoric raises contradictions: “Xi Jinping has said that ‘the power comes from the people,’ and everyone thinks he’s talking along the lines of political reform. But if Xi really wishes this, he needs to firstly stop the CCP’s persecutions of the people.”
Difficult decisions of that order are unlikely to come. “The job of the next tenure of the leadership is much tougher than the previous leadership,” Cheng Xiaonong says. “And the quality of the next generation leadership is weaker than before.”