Article: You’re used to being emotionally and physically intimate with each other, so don’t expect to establish new relationship patterns right away. Don’t seek your ex out socially, especially at first. Experts recommend taking at least eight weeks without any sort of contact. Seeing your ex right after the breakup can make it more difficult to move on. Be friendly and respectful without indicating too much closeness.  Keep your interactions light. Especially if you have not seen each other in a while, resist the urge to address long-simmering relationship issues. You: Hi, Dave. Did you catch the game last night? Him: I did. They need new management. You: The relief pitcher looked pretty good. Maybe he should have started. Him: Yeah, I didn't understand that decision. You: Well, good seeing you. Hopefully they make it to the post-season.   If your ex brings up a contentious issue, try changing the subject to something you agree on. Him: Hi, Melanie. Did you try the pierogies? You: I did. They remind me of the ones your mom always made. Him: How would you know? You never went to visit her. You: I think we both appreciated her cooking. Him: That's true. Emotions will already be riding high. If you’re drinking, you’ll be less inhibited and more likely to say something that you’ll regret. Unfriend him on Facebook and avoid him on other forms of social media. Yes, keeping tabs on an ex online is tempting—you want to know if he is miserable without you, if he has started dating someone new, etc. Research shows that it is better to avoid this temptation, though.  It’s easy for these behaviors to get obsessive, turning into what psychologists call “interpersonal electronic surveillance” and the rest of us call Facebook stalking. It’s also bad for your own emotional health. Like seeing your ex in person, interacting with him online can make the heartbreak last longer.  If you do insist on continuing to follow your ex on social media, remember that what you are seeing is a highly selective view of his life. Don’t think that you’re struggling more than he is just because he doesn’t post about it. Many people want to stay friends after a breakup, which makes sense—you enjoyed being around your ex at one point, and he was a large part of your social life. Why shouldn’t you continue to act as you did before, going to baseball games together, calling him to vent about your boss, or asking for his jacket when you get cold? Plenty of reasons, it turns out.  Maintain physical and emotional distance to avoid ambiguity. Behaviors like flirting and touching can cause confusion for both of you.  Limit your interactions. You shouldn’t be checking in multiple times a day, or even once every day. It’s fine to be friends, but your ex should not be the person you turn to first with good or bad news.  You should not pursue a friendship with your ex as a guise for trying to get him back. If you want to rekindle the romance and he does not, you are better off cutting off contact entirely. With overlapping social circles, you and your ex will likely run into each other at special occasions including birthday parties, graduations, and weddings, probably for years to come. Be prepared for this inevitability.   Don’t ignore each other at big events, but don’t sit together, either. If you’re not on the best terms, you run the risk of making a scene. Plus, don’t want to have to answer questions all night long about whether you two are back together. Divide up smaller events. You can both go to your friend’s play, but you might not both want to go to the intimate dinner she’s having afterward. No one likes to miss out on fun events, but it can be preferable to the alternative of a huge confrontation.
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Be patient. Treat your ex as you would treat a colleague. Avoid alcohol. Disengage from your ex online. Tread cautiously when trying to be friends. Don’t let your relationship affect special occasions.

Problem: Article: It proves most effective at the start of the growing season, when nut grass is just barely beginning to germinate and sprout. You do not need to soak it, but the lawn should be evenly moist down to the soil. Walk up and down the lawn in straight lines and at a steady pace. Pour the sugar through a sifter as you walk, continually turning the handle of the sifter the make sure that the sugar falls on the grass in even amounts. This is no mere folk remedy. Sugar actually "eats" the nut grass while nourishing microbes that have a positive effect on your lawn. Do not saturate the grass, since doing so will wash the sugar away. Spray the lawn with a light mist, providing just enough water to re-moisten the blades of grass and coax the sugar down into the soil and the roots of the lawn. The nut grass may not die off completely after the first treatment, but after a couple more, all of it should be dead.
Summary: Perform this procedure in spring. Use a hose to water the lawn. Sift sugar over your lawn in straight lines. Spray the lawn once more using a hose. Repeat this procedure at least twice more throughout the spring.

Your shooting hand should grip the butt of the cue stick in a loose, relaxed manner, with your thumb as a support and your index, middle, and ring fingers doing the gripping. Your wrist should point straight down to prevent it from moving sideways when you take your shot. Your shooting hand should generally grip the cue stick about 6 inches (15 cm) to the rear of the stick's balance point. If you're short, you may want to move your hand forward of this point; if you're tall, you may want to move it further back. This prevents the cue stick from moving sideways when you shoot. There are 3 main grips: the closed, the open, and the rail bridge. In a closed bridge, you wrap your index fingers around the cue and use your other fingers to steady your hand. This allows for more control over the stick, particularly with a forceful forward stroke. The cue will slide through and you will use your other fingers to keep the cue from moving sideways. The open bridge is better for softer shots and is preferred by players who have trouble making a closed bridge. A variation of the open bridge, is the elevated bridge, in which you raise your hand to lift the cue over an obstructing ball when striking the cue. Use the rail bridge when the cue ball is too close to the rail for you to slip your hand behind it. Lay your cue stick over the rail and keep its tip steady with your off hand. Line yourself up with the cue ball and the ball you want to hit. The foot corresponding to your shooting hand (right foot if you're right-handed, left foot if you're left-handed) should be touching this line at a 45-degree angle. Your other foot should be a comfortable distance away from it and forward of the foot matching your shooting hand. This depends on 3 things: your height, your reach, and the location of the cue ball. The further away the cue ball is from your side of the table, the longer you'll have to stretch. Most billiards games require you to keep at least 1 foot (0.3 m) on the floor when shooting. If you can't do so comfortably, you may either need to take a different shot or use a mechanical bridge to rest the tip of your cue stick in when you shoot. Your chin should be rest slightly over the table so that you're sighting down the cue stick as close to horizontal as comfortable. If you're tall, you'll need to bend your forward knee or both knees to get into position. You'll also need to bend forward at the hips.  Either the center of your head or your dominant eye should line up with the center of the cue stick without tilting. Some professional pool players do tilt their heads, however. Most pocket billiards players put their heads 1 to 6 inches (2.5 to 15 cm) above the cue stick, while snooker players have their heads touching or almost touching the cue. The closer you bring your head, the greater your accuracy, but at a loss of range for the back and forward stroke.
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Grip the cue stick correctly. Place the fingers of your off-hand around the tip to form a bridge. In an open bridge, form a V-groove with your thumb and forefinger. Align your body with the shot. Stand a comfortable distance away. Position yourself vertically with the shot.