Q: Financial or economic abuse involves controlling you through money. This can entail an abuser not allowing you to have your own money whether or not you earned it.  An abuser might take your credit cards. They could start a credit card in your name and ruin your credit history when they don’t pay the bill. On the flip side, an abuser also might move into your home and not contribute to paying any of the bills or expenses. They might withhold money for your basic needs (such as buying groceries or filling prescriptions). Abusers utilize technology like cell phones, email accounts and social media accounts to threaten or bully you, or stalk or intimidate you. Abusers use social media to send you harassing messages, blackmail you, and stalk you. An abuser may insist you have your cell phone at all times. They might demand that you answer the phone the moment it rings. Stalking, or “obsessional following,” is when an abuser monitors your actions and movements. This can happen with someone with whom you’re not romantically involved. But in an intimate partner relationship, your partner can still stalk you. Oftentimes, this happens when the relationship is ending. It can, however, happen when the relationship is still going on. This type of surveillance and over-possessiveness typically causes fear.  Your partner may be stalking you if:  They turn up at places that you regularly go to. They secretly follow you. They are spying on you. They send you threatening cards or letters in the mail. They leave threatening phone messages for you. They damage your personal property. They threatens or accosts other people that you’re close to.
A: Determine if you are being financially abused. Determine if there is digital abuse. Determine if your abuser is stalking you.

Q: You can download a basic printable chart at https://omniglot.com/charts/print/arabic.pdf and use it to study the Arabic alphabet. Spend about 20 minutes a day on a letter or two and you'll have the alphabet mastered in less than a month.  Stanford University has an interactive chart available at https://web.stanford.edu/dept/lc/arabic/alphabet/index.html that will help you learn how to write the letters properly. Visit http://www.arabic-studio.com/arabic-alphabet-course/ for a free online video course on the Arabic alphabet. Most letters of the Arabic alphabet change form depending on where they appear in a word. They may have a different form if they come at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Many also have a different form if they appear on their own. Arabic Reading Course, available at http://arabicreadingcourse.com/index.html, is designed to help you recognize individual letters in words. The basic version is free and can also be used on mobile devices. If you pay for the premium version, you get additional flashcards and quizzes. To get the sounds of the letters right, try to mimic the sounds as pronounced by a native speaker. Since the sound may differ depending on the dialect of Arabic the person speaks, make sure you stay consistent with the dialect you plan to learn. You can watch and listen to a basic video introducing the Arabic alphabet and the sound each letter makes at https://youtu.be/53Nf8xVrN24. There are plenty of similar videos on YouTube that can also help you. Diacritics are used to mark short vowels. Although you'll commonly only see them in the Qu'ran, you may see them in children's books or language-learning books designed either for adults or children. Diacritics and other marks are designed to help you understand how to pronounce words in written Arabic or to distinguish similarly spelled words so you can tell them apart when you're just learning the language and may not completely understand the context.
A: Download an alphabet chart to practice Arabic letters. Study how letters change form. Listen to the alphabet spoken by native speakers. Familiarize yourself with vowel diacritics and other symbols.

Q: Sometimes people have no idea that they are hogging the sheets. If your partner regularly takes all the sheets, you may simply have to wake them up and tell them gently that you can’t sleep without covers.  Try nudging your partner and saying "Honey, wake up, you've got all the sheets. Can I have some back?" Many people are grumpy when woken up in the middle of the night. Try to keep calm and gentle when telling your partner about the stolen sheets. If blanket-stealing is a regular problem, sit your partner down and talk to them about it during the day. They’re much more likely to remember a conversation in the daytime, and it will help emphasize how important this is to you. Tell them you are having difficulty sleeping uncovered, and ask them to try to use only half of the blanket. You don't need to make it a formal talk. Try something like "I've noticed that you usually wind up with all the covers at night. It's actually making it pretty hard for me to sleep, would you mind trying to keep to your half of the blanket?" Many people steal sheets because they are too cold or because the other bedding is uncomfortable. Ask your partner if they’re comfortable at night. If they aren’t, try changing the bedding or turning the furnace up before you go to bed.
A: Wake up your partner. Talk to them about it during the day. Ask if they’re comfortable at night.

Q: Add salt and pepper to taste. The pesto is now ready for adding to pasta or for use in any recipe.
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Remove from the appliance.