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Is break-up sex ever a good idea? We asked a relationship expert
It's been glamorized but break-up sex is something we should be avoiding...
Ah, break-up sex. That one last night of intimacy with an ex before you call it quits is something many of us can relate to. But is it a 'good' or 'bad' thing for us in the aftermath?
While some see it as a parting gift, sealing the end of a relationship, we won't be the first to admit that sex with an ex can get complicated—and fast. Especially if there are unresolved feelings or mixed emotions at play.
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Despite this, it's a pretty common thing. Very Well Mind (opens in new tab) recently reported that 27% of young people had had sex with an ex after breaking up, whilst almost one in four couples who are legally married but separated continues to have regular sexual contact. However, research has revealed that break up sex could be doing us more harm than good, though some people feel it brings them the closure they need to move on. So what exactly is the deal?
Why do people have break-up sex?
According to a July 2020 research study (opens in new tab), there are three primary reasons why people tend to engage in breakup sex: relationship maintenance, ambivalence, and hedonism.
To conclude this, the research looked at two different studies. The first one examined how post-break-up sex experiences made individuals feel compared to how they predicted they would feel in the future, while the other focused on why heterosexual men and women have break-up sex in the first place.
Ultimately, the results showed that heterosexual men and women engage in break-up sex for different reasons. The first study, which consisted of 212 participants, showed that men are more likely than women to have felt better about themselves after breakup sex, whereas women were more likely to feel better about the relationship after having break up sex.
The second study was tested on a larger group of 585 participants and concluded that it is due to the three aforementioned key reasons which in other words essentially means: because it feels good, because we are conflicted over how we feel about the person, and/or because we think there is maybe a way to salvage things, reports Big Think (opens in new tab). The study also highlighted that men had more of a tendency to have hedonistic and ambivalent reasons for having breakup sex than women.
Is break-up sex healthy?
Similar to the results of the study, Megwyn White, Certified Clinical Sexologist and Director of Education at Satisfyer (opens in new tab), explains that the emotional cost of break-up sex is never worth actually doing the deed.
"I wouldn't necessarily recommend break-up sex due to the fact that sex can naturally stir up emotions and also be motivated for reasons that are not necessarily relationship closure. That can be a bi-product for some choosing to engage in break-up sex," she tells My Imperfect Life.
"It is, however, important to remember that sex is also a source of neurochemicals that boost feel-good sensations within the body. Being separated from your ex can send you into a spiral of longing that can make it difficult to focus on much of anything. In fact, the drop in neurochemicals associated with partnership can even send some into a depression. It can be especially tempting to deal with this through engaging in break-up sex but could also stifle the natural healing process."
If you're struggling to come to terms with the end of your relationship, then White has a few tips too. "To help the process along try to not look at pics of your partner or gifts that they've given you which can potentially trigger desire," she explains. "A fun way to help shift your thinking when your ex pops up is to say to your mind "cancel-cancel-delete" to consciously help in disconnecting from attention on them, and then afterward focus on a physical activity that focuses your mind in a more productive way like washing the dishes or organizing your closet.
"Be honest with yourself if you are having difficulty and write down everything that was not good about the relationship. This can help you in cognitively processing the relationship and getting clearer on why this is not a relationship you want."
So ultimately, although break-up sex can bring short-term comfort, in the long run, it may simply hinder your healing process.


The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage invests in ambitious, imaginative projects that showcase the region's cultural vitality and enhance public life. We know that great art begins with artists, and forward-thinking work across disciplines evolves from ongoing dialogue within the cultural community; and so the Center's grant-making process starts well before a letter of intent or application is submitted.
As the Center has opened the cycle for 2016 grants (letters of intent are due on November 18; >>learn more here), we sat down with Bill Bissell, Director of Performance, and Bill Adair, Director of Exhibitions & Public Interpretation, to discuss the importance of those ongoing conversations with the region's culture-makers, how Center staff support the Project grant applications process, and what makes an application successful.
Let's start with the Center's application process. What are some of the elements of our process that ensure we continually expand the pool of applicants and identify bold, forward-thinking, rigorous project ideas?
BILL BISSELL: First and foremost, we're interested in the best possible projects that reach a variety of audiences. The emphasis is really on the underlying project idea, regardless of the artistic discipline. And we're interested in a wide range of projects that include local, national, and international perspectives and artists. We believe that diversity of work contributes to a vital cultural life in our region.
One of the ways we encourage that range of project ideas, organizations, and artists is by engaging in conversations throughout the year, not just during the applications cycles. We talk with constituents in the field in a variety of disciplines about not only what they're doing, but what else is going on here in the city, in our community, and also outside of the Philadelphia area—what they're seeing, what we're seeing, what we're reading. That's certainly one way to spark ideas that keep our grantee pool expanding and evolving.
BILL ADAIR: We also rely on our network of existing constituents—grantees and former grantees—to get the word out about the resources that are available through the Center, and that's another way we build upon our network every year. But everyone on the staff at the Center is always on the lookout for exceptional work, always on the lookout for interesting and talented people to talk to. We invite cultural practitioners in to the Center to participate in our capacity-building programs, and to have conversations—even if they're not necessarily ready for a Project grant discussion immediately. We might start by talking about where they are as an organization, or where they are as an individual artist, and offering them a kind of open dialogue on how we might work with them to foster future interactions with us, and to keep the discussions going throughout the year.
The Center encourages all potential grant applicants to meet with Center staff during the Letter of Intent and application process. Can you talk about that process and the Center staff's role?
BA: We're in many ways a hands-on funder. We have many touchpoints with our applicants: from their conceptualizing a project, to the creation of their application, to the fruition of their project, and even to its concluding analysis and evaluation. We interact with our constituents through every step of that process, and that allows us to be good stewards of our resources, and to help nurture the best possible match between our criteria and what an organization or individual is trying to do. We ask tough but important questions, and we hope that our feedback and rigorous process enable the best possible work to be created and produced here in the region.
BB: It's very iterative. Our process is purposely engaged with asking questions, and the questions are searching for clarity—for us in understanding what the applicant is after, but also for the applicant to turn over their ideas and see them with fresh eyes. I think the process speaks to values the Center has for engaging with ideas in ways that extend the practice of our constituents. How is this project advancing the applicant's work, and how does it also contribute to the field or engage with ideas in a way that reveals its urgency and its importance?
BA: Through our conversations with applicants, we try to provide, in some ways, an objective look into their work product and process. We ask our constituents and our grantees to consider if there's another way—beyond their usual assumptions—to approach the work that actually might push things in a really effective and useful way. Of course, that has to work for them and for their audiences.
BB: It characterizes us as a funder in the sense that we are dialogic. We want to foster dialogue and invention around the ideas and the issues of practice that each applicant comes to us with.
What should applicants know about the Center's approach and strategy as a multidisciplinary grantmaker?
BB: Our strategy starts with inviting applicants to come with an open mind about one or, we hope, multiple ideas they may have, so that we can look at them and get to a place of dialogue about the ideas that are in play in their proposed projects. With the applicant, we want to look at how those ideas can be fully realized or optimized in a way that results in a distinctive approach to the work.
BA: I absolutely agree with Bill that it starts with the idea. It's all about a really interesting idea, and then it's about how you use that idea to thoughtfully, and in an informed way, take risks in your practice, and carry that approach all the way through to the completion of the project. So you're conceiving of the project as a thoughtful whole—thinking about the audiences for the project, how you're going to reach them, how attitudes might be changed, how you're going to make meaning through the project, and how you're going to evaluate its effectiveness—right from the start. Our Project grants allow an organization or an individual to do something they would not be able to do otherwise, and we ask them to follow through with due consideration on every aspect of that pursuit.
BB: We're aware of how much information we ask for in our applications, and it is rigorous. But we're available to help through that process and to break it down manageably. And also, the process and approach is calibrated to each project, to some degree, taking into account the content and scope of each project and the practice of the applicant.
What are some key factors that make an application successful?
BB: I think applicants need to be prepared to make the argument about what the big ideas of a project are. What are the animating values that really mark out a particular territory of work? And how is that consciously understood on the part of the applicant as a measure of their work and practice?
BA: I think that most of our successful projects have a spirit of investigation and exploration about them, an openness to change, and a willingness to try something that hasn't been done before. And that is accompanied by a rigorous approach to planning, analysis, and reporting on what the results of the exploration are, and then an honest conception of how that's going to impact a grantee's practice.
BB: But that doesn't preclude that experimentation or investigation from using new methodologies with old, traditional forms, lineages, or practices.
BA: That's right. It doesn't mean privileging the avant-garde, or a certain kind of art or art making. It does mean privileging a willingness to be open to thinking about things in a new way, or thinking about things in a way that would be possibly more effective, or more productive, or reach new audiences, or something that you could learn from in a way that you haven't been able to do before.
BB: It's revealing the continuing relevance of whatever the work is, too. If it is a symphony, or a classical 18th-Century piece of music, it's about getting under a fresh way of experiencing that.
BA: Right, what does that mean in 2015-2016? What is the impact of an aspect of history, or a piece of art, or some kind of cultural product that was created from the past—and what are its implications for the present and the future?
The Center's Project and Discovery grants are adjudicated by a peer review panel. What do you look for when selecting cultural professionals to serve on a panel?
BB: Because we look at our Performance panels very much across disciplines, one of the things we look for are people who have a wide bandwidth in terms of being able to appreciate performance from a number of perspectives. It isn't about genre specificity; it's about being able to look at performance across the board and discern the quality and the level of ideas at work animating the project. The panels are also made to reflect the specifics of a particular pool of applicants—who is applying always factors into who's reviewing the applications.
BA: We look for knowledge of and experience with current practice, an ability to sense where practice is now and where it's been, and an understanding of what it might mean for it to move forward. We ask for a great openness to new approaches and ideas, and a generosity of spirit that allows the panelists to be empathetic to and understanding of the missions and histories of the applicants they review.
What perspectives do panelists coming from other parts of the country offer to the applications review process?
BB: It certainly brings a larger and more eclectic field of vision to the table, in terms of reference. It also holds up our projects to a national or international standard. At the same time, most of our panelists are, or have been, practitioners themselves, and so they understand the struggles and issues that cultural producers face—no matter where in the world their work is based.
BA: I would add that there are different sensibilities and different kinds of practice that go along with various geographic spaces, nationally and internationally. By having voices from the West Coast or the Midwest or the South in the mix, we get a perspective beyond the kind of aesthetic and conceptual biases this region, or even the Northeast or East Coast, might have. So we gain the different sensibilities and aesthetics that come from that diversity of geographic spaces.
What have you observed as meaningful impact for grantees receiving a Center grant?
BA: Some of the best impact I've seen is that an organization or an individual is less afraid of going forward with a new kind of practice, or working in a new way than they were before they started the project. They're more open, more nimble, and more fluid in how they work. That includes how they think about their audiences as well. That's built into our value system and built into our criteria, and our most successful projects, I think, result in at least some attitudinal shift on the part of our grantees.
BB: I think the Center's support can allow a grantee to take the lid off of their ideas of what's possible, and let that go in any direction it needs to go. That's certainly often where we start in our conversations with applicants who meet with us: let's not be constrained. At first, let's just think big. And big doesn't necessarily mean large scale; it means looking at how deep we can go in the ideation of these projects.
View the Center's list of grants and grantees here.
To learn more about applying for a Center grant visit our Apply page, and read "Applying for a 2016 Project Grant: What You Need to Know."


United Nations and deputy executive director of UNICEF.
Gautam knows a thing or two about the power of vaccines. Part of the reason he came was to share again a message this column has reported often in recent years, which is that the Third World is on the verge of completely eliminating preventable childhood deaths because of the widespread dissemination of those miracle drugs.
I couldn't help but contrast his enthusiasm, and that of other Third World practitioners I have met, with the complacency of many privileged Americans who refuse to immunize their children.
One part of the world is tired of regarding death as a part of life, while another part of the world voluntarily gives up its lifesaving benefits.
The concept of herd immunity is simple. As long as about 90 percent or more of the population is immunized against a disease, that disease cannot gain a foothold or cause a serious outbreak. A small percentage of people cannot be vaccinated safely, due to disease, organ transplants or other conditions. They rely on the immunity of the herd to protect them.
Chen's report said Utah's kindergarten classes are close to losing that protection. In rural Carbon County, only 77 percent of kids have been immunized.
The report quoted one such parent who said he doesn't believe an outbreak will happen here because people are too clean, and because the United States has good hospitals.
He said this as if he believes those conditions simply exist naturally, independent of the enormous scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century that ended centuries of sorrow and death.
Rep. Carol Spackman, D-Salt Lake City, has a bill that would require parents to see a video before opting their kids out of immunizations. That shouldn't be necessary, but too many people seem to have forgotten.
We are a generation or two removed from the days when parents feared to send children to public pools because of polio. Before the first measles vaccines were made available in 1963, as many as 500 people died each year from the disease, and another 48,000 were hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and numerous news reports of the day. About 4,000 suffered encephalitis, a horrible swelling of the brain.
The nation had clean hospitals and people had decent hygiene back then, too.
Gautam, who in retirement will soon head the board of Results, an international advocacy group at the heart of health progress worldwide, said conspiracy theories exist in the Third World, too.
Instead, they embrace the obvious and miraculous effects of vaccinations.
More than a year ago, I met with Namala Mkopi, head of pediatric hematology at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He described the children's ward before 2013, which daily was filled with three or four children to a bed, and many more on mattresses on the floor, dying of various diseases.
Then he described the place after affordable vaccines were made available, especially against rotavirus. The beds now are empty.
What a sad irony if the Third World were to get control of rampant childhood diseases just as the United States were to begin embracing them again.


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By Tim Booth, The Associated Press — Jan 2nd, 2005
Point guard Luke Ridnour has justified coach Nate McMillan's decision to start him by helping to lead Seattle to a 20-6 record. Ridnour is averaging 6.2 assists for the Sonics and has proved to be a more than adequate floor general. AP file photo
SEATTLE — When Seattle SuperSonics coach Nate McMillan named Luke Ridnour his starting point guard, it wasn't just the player's aggressive style that factored into the decision.
It was words McMillan heard Ridnour say in an interview about wanting to be a successful leader on the basketball court that stuck with the coach.
So far, Ridnour is backing up McMillan's choice and doing a good job of running the surprising SuperSonics.
"I think he always wanted to be a special basketball player," McMillan said. "That was part of my decision on starting him. A guy who was that committed at a young age, he is going to run your company right."
Nearly one-third of the way through the season, Seattle is 22-6 and leading the Northwest Division. It's Seattle's best start since beginning the 1993-94 season 20-2, and it smashed preseason expectations for a team that many predicted would be among the NBA's worst.
Their lone offseason move was acquiring forward Danny Fortson in a trade with Dallas, and that wasn't expected to vault a 37-45 team into a playoff contender.
Ridnour was handed the reins of a team determined to play all 94 feet of the court, and the SuperSonics have taken off. The style plays to Ridnour's aggressiveness at both ends of the floor.
Offensively, Seattle is sixth in the NBA in scoring (100.7 per game) and leading the league in 3-point shooting. Defensively, they are allowing 3 points per game fewer than last season.
"Everyone understands how each other plays," said Ridnour, averaging 8.9 points and 6.2 assists per game. "And, for me, I'm getting more comfortable with everyone as the season goes."
Some NBA observers have even compared Ridnour in his second season to a young Steve Nash, suggesting that Ridnour in five years could be as good as the two-time All-Star.
"That's not a bad guy to be in five years," McMillan said.
Ridnour's rookie season wasn't very enjoyable at times. Returning to the state where he was a prep standout — he won two state championships at Blaine High School near the Canadian border — Ridnour sometimes found himself the odd-man-out among five guards battling for four spots in the rotation.
When Ridnour did get a chance, his play was inconsistent.
In his first professional start against Denver, Ridnour turned the ball over eight times. Later in the season, he handed out a career-high 13 assists against Dallas. Ridnour shot just 41 percent with an assist-to-turnover ratio that was barely 2-to-1 last season.
With the departure of free agent Brent Barry to San Antonio, Seattle's guard rotation became less competitive. When McMillan named Ridnour his starter, roles became more defined.
"A year ago, we had five guards for four spots," guard Antonio Daniels said. "Now, Luke knows he's going to start and I know I'm going to back him up. When you know what your role is, it's a lot easier to do it."
McMillan never doubted Ridnour's ability and the decision Seattle made in taking him out of Oregon with the 14th overall pick in the 2003 draft.
From the start, Ridnour's businesslike approach and his frenetic style impressed his coach. When McMillan decided to become more of a full-court team, he had no hesitation choosing Ridnour and his aggressive style, even though Daniels had more experience and led the NBA in assist-to-turnover ratio last season.
"There are some guards, some guys in the league that they play a lot of possessions, but they don't play every possession. I think Luke, as far as I see, plays every possession at both ends of the floor," McMillan said. "He is always in tune with what is going on offensively and defensively."
When Barry left for the Spurs, Ridnour seized the opportunity. He spent the summer improving physically and working on his shot.
Ridnour said he added 7-10 pounds of muscle in his upper body through lifting weights and improved his conditioning to handle an 82-game season. His shooting is still developing. He is making 41 percent of his 3-point attempts and he isn't afraid to take open shots.
And the topper? His mop-top, curly blond hair, has been sheered to a shorter trim. It was just something to change, Ridnour said.
But it reflects another part of Ridnour's maturation as a point guard, and his teammates have taken notice.
"Luke is not a guy that has a lot of junk with him. He's focused in on his game," Ray Allen said. "He's all about what his goals are and that helps out a lot."
No Rashard? No problem
Starting for the injured Rashard Lewis, Sonics guard Antonio Daniels scored 19 points and handed out seven assists in Seattle's 101-89 win over San Antonio on Sunday. With the win, the Sonics tied their best-of-seven series at two games each. Staff photo by Steve ... [Read More...]
Luke Looms Large
The Sonics will be looking for a tenured Luke Ridnour to run the point guard position this season. Steve Zugschwerdt | Kitsap Sun Seattle's Luke Ridnour drives against Quinton Ross of the Los Angeles Clippers during an exhibition game. Steve Zugschwerdt | Kitsap Sun Ray ... [Read More...]
Flashes in a limited role
In Seattle's final game before the All-Star break, against Toronto, rookie Luke Ridnour had 8 points and a career-high 8 assists in 20 minutes. AP photo by Elaine Thompson SEATTLE -- Baby-faced Luke Ridnour kind of sneaks up on you, teammate Ray Allen says with a ... [Read More...]
Sonics Notebook
Sonics forward Reggie Evans held Rashard Lewis' jersey aloft in a tribute to his injured teammate at the end of Sunday's game. Staff photos by Steve Zugschwerdt Luke Ridnour, driving against Beno Udrih, had 20 points and six assists in one of the best ... [Read More...]
Daniels coming up huge off the bench
Seattle's Antonio Daniels, in his eighth NBA season, is playing the best basketball of his career as a key member of the Sonics bench. AP photo by John Froschauer Seattle's Antonio Daniels, right, a veteran guard, is coming off the bench after the ... [Read More...]

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Hot off the press - Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin (September issue)
The latest issue of LexisNexis' Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin has just been released. We have an amazing line up of authors contributing 7 quality articles. Read my General Editor's note to get a taste of what's covered.
What is passing off?
What is passing off? Revlon's Mitchum Clinical deodorant v Unilever's Rexona and Dove deodorants
To put simply, passing off is where there is a misrepresentation that a business' goods or services are those of another business. Under an action for passing off, protection is given to those who have developed goodwill or reputation. For a claim of passing off to be successful, the claimant has to prove that a misrepresentation has been made by another in the course of trade to actual or prospective customer that injures and causes damage the claimant's business, goodwill or reputation. The misrepresentation can be one that relates to the likeness of a product or the trade name of a service provider.
On 19 August 2014, Gleeson J of the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) handed down the latest judgement in this area of law - Unilever Australia Ltd v Revlon Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2014] FCA 875. You can read the full judgment on the FCA's website.
The parties involved, being Unilever and Revlon, are competitors in the supply of deodorant products. Unilever's deodorants are branded Rexona and Dove, where as Revlon's deodorant is branded Mitchum Clinical. The initial action was by Unilever, who claimed that Revlon breached the Australian Consumer Law in terms of the representations Revlon made in advertising and on the packaging of Revlon's deodorant. In response to Unilever's claim, Revlon counter-claimed that Unilever breached the Australian Consumer Law in the same way, and in addition, engaged in passing off. Revlon wanted to obtain an injunction so as to restrain Unilever from selling or marketing Rexona clinical protection products in Revlon's new packaging.
In his judgement, Gleeson J explained why Revlon was unsuccessful in restraining Unilever in the use of the particular packaging. In essence, it was determined that it would be unlikely that a reasonable consumer would confuse the packaging of the two competing brands. It other words, Revlon failed to demonstrate that Revlon's packaging had become so distinctive that in the minds of the potential customer that Revlon had acquired trade reputation associated with it.
This is an interesting case to read, with important lessons to be learnt. In matters relating to consumer protection, for lawyers acting for SMEs and large corporations alike, it is worth remembering that, in addition to proving deception or that confusion has been caused, actual proof of damage is required to succeed in an action for passing off.
This post first appeared on CPD Interactive's "Legal Natter's Blog".
Bring Your Precedent Documents to Life - Just Add KM
Thank you to Peter Frankl of Legal Practice Intelligence for interviewing me for his special report on legal knowledge management - "Bring Your Precedent Documents to Life - Just Add KM".
For legal advisory assistance or knowledge management solutions, just contact us for assistance.
A survival guide for legal practice managers - five reasons to make visualisation your friend
Search and discovery makes up a bulk of a law firm's routine tasks. When each search generates a few pages of linear information in the form of PDF reports and each matter requires a few searches, the result is pages and pages of information. This information then needs to be sifted through to exactly what's relevant. If a dollar value is allocated to the time it takes to do this task, it's easy to see how the cost of this laborious process can eat into a law firm's revenues.
As a practicing lawyer I can appreciate the challenges that lawyers face when it comes to management of commercial information. Working with Encompass, however, I have realised that data visualisation can be a lawyer's best friend. Encompass has recently released their whitepaper titled "Lean Legal" showing how visualisation of information can help lawyers escape the world of words and enter a world of pictures. This helps cut down hours of reading and searching into minutes and even seconds. While the concept of visualisation is not new - we all remember the old adage 'a picture is worth a thousand words'- the legal world has only just started to understand its benefits.
Visualisation enables us to see the concepts that we are learning in a more interesting and more useful manner. One area where visualisation is having an enormous impact is in interpretation of legal search results from registers like ASIC, NPII or PPSR.
So here are five reasons why your firm needs to get familiar with data visualization:
1. Trimming the fat: Visualisation makes it easy to understand and analyse information at hand. This enables legal practitioners to take a 'lean approach' to information management for operational efficiencies in a challenging and competitive environment.
2. Getting there faster: Lawyers always need to quickly extract relevant content from many searches and use that information to advise a client, prepare transaction documents or draft a legal opinion. Visualisation technology helps lawyers speed up processes without compromising on the quality of their advice.
3. Good housekeeping: More often than not, the searches from a matter need to be referred to at a later stage by other members of the team. Searches may also need to be repeated as a matter develops (mostly just before a deal settles) for comparison, making the initial search extremely important. Visualisation technology based on Software as a Service (SaaS) platform allows easy access for stored information and visualisation makes it easy to everyone to understand it.
4. Competing and differentiating: With the help of advanced visualisation software, lawyers can abandon archaic traditional practices and drive better engagement by presenting their advice (at least in part) in a visual format. Visualisation software can also help uncover new business opportunities by showing clear links between people, properties and company ownerships, securing clients for additional consultation.
5. Taking down barriers: Regular cross-border and cross-departmental communication, whether it is with clients or team members, is essential to the success and reputation of a law firm. By building a picture of the critical information involved in a matter, lawyers can collaborate and communicate more effectively. Language, distance or technical legal knowledge are all barriers that can be minimized through the use of visualisation, not to mention the ability to share information quickly in a universal language.
Technological innovation in the form of visualisation is great news for the modern day legal practice. Given the magnitude of searchable data, we need something in our toolbox to facilitate lean data management practices. Lean means getting the most out of a process with the least amount of time and effort spent, eliminating waste of any kind. An interactive solution designed for professional audiences that can tease out connections and turn complex data into simple pictures is a clear step forward.
This post first appeared on the ALPMA blog "A Survival Guide for Legal Practice Managers".
Don't use "shall" if you can help it
Leading American authority on good legal writing, Bryan Garner, visited Australia in August 2012 and met with our judges in Sydney and Melbourne. As the editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of many leading works on legal style, our judges would have had a very interesting and dynamic discussion with Garner on legal writing. In a recent article published in the American Bar Association Journal, Garner challenged all lawyers to write shall-less documents. I recently authored an article on this subject matter (when I was Counsel at Allen & Overy's Banking group). The article appeared in the September edition of the firm's Australian Banking and Finance Update. Below is an extract of my article. For the full article (and other articles in the September newsletter), contact Allen & Overy.
Drafting lessons learnt from the common law approaches to statutory interpretation
The well-established rules our judges apply to statutory interpretation can help shed some light on why we should abandon all uses of "shall" in modern contracts. (These rules are the golden rule, the literal approach and the purposive approach, which I will not discuss in detail here.) The three key takeaways here are ordinary meaning, intention and purpose. When you draft a contract and want to use "shall", think carefully. Unless the use of the word satisfies these three tests, abandon the word and replace it with another word.
More reasons for never using "shall"
"Shall" is a chameleon. "Shall" has four meanings in the Macquarie Dictionary and five meanings in Black's Law Dictionary. It can be used to impose an obligation but it can also be used for other purposes, for example, to express the simple future tense. "Shall" is also not a commonly used word. It is archaic. It is what Shakespeare and Dickens would have used. Black's Law Dictionary pointed out that only one of the five meanings of "shall" is acceptable under strict standards of drafting – "shall" means "has a duty to".
Indeed, many people do consider, at least in the traditional use of the word, that "shall" (and "shall not") indicates obligation, and in comparison, "may" indicates discretion. But this is not always true, as you will see from the case below. And this is precisely why the word "shall" should not be used in modern contracts.
BW Gas AS v JAS Shipping Ltd [2010] All ER (D) 134 (Feb) is a UK Court of Appeal (Civil Division) case. The case considered a bareboat sub-charter of a new vessel that required it to be built in accordance with a building contract. The court found that although the contract provided that the buyer "shall" supply particular items for installation, the contract had not been breached by failure to deliver the vessel with the items installed, as it had not been mandatory for the buyer to supply. Although this case is a UK case and can be limited to its particular circumstances, the confusion created as to whether or not "shall" imposed a mandatory requirement is a very good reason for never using that word.
How to draft a shall-less agreement
Use "must" to express an obligation because the meaning is clear and it is a commonly used word. In Australia, this is the rule invariably applied by judges, and is supported by the Government as well as legal commentators. Similarly, do not use "will". This word can be used, and often is used, to express the simple future tense. If an alternative to "must" is really necessary, try using "agrees to" or "is required to".
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What is your area of research?
I study agroecology in the field of soil and crop sciences in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences. Agroecology is the study of agriculture as an ecosystem and draws a lot of from ecology.
Many small life events. I have always been driven by the desire to serve my community. Plants make happy, the way they interact with each other and other organisms is wondrous. A long fascination with the notion that humans can better integrate themselves into natural ecosystems by reconfiguring our paradigms of how we produce food.
Looking at the landscape of U.S. agriculture we have less people in touch with the food system than ever before, we spend the lowest amount of our wage on food, about one in seven people in our population is food insecure (my whole home state WV is a food desert), we have a declining farm population (1.8%), we have an increasing farm size, the majority of agricultural subsidies go to the largest farms, we have decreasing or stagnant funding for extension and outreach, and the largest agrochemical companies are in the process of buying each other up, not to mention that agriculture is responsible for about 10% of greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient pollution is causing vast dead zones on our coasts. There are two ways to look at these problems, you can say this agricultural system is inefficient and let's try to improve our practices. Or you can say this current agricultural system is problematic, why don't we spend time on examining alternative systems. Eventually the solution will be somewhere in the middle, but I think you will get better progress by using both approaches. I think a lot of agroecological ideas are coming from that alternative system perspective.
Personally, I am examining different practices, like intercropping and double-cropping, Northeastern dairy farmers could do to maintain farm productivity and improve soil health, which reduces their risk of being affected by droughts or floods.
How has your background influenced your scholarship?
I have always liked the idea of dynamic equilibrium, a stable system but in a state of flux. I like this idea at a small-scale and so I studied biochemistry and I like this at a large geopolitical scale, which is why I studied international development. I have had the privilege to travel to about 40 counties, and I have seen their agriculture and experienced their food culture; that has given me a lot of perspective.
What else has influenced your thinking as a researcher or scholar?
Remembering that everyone makes mistakes and that failures are a part of being human. Other influencers are my family, my friends, reading a lot—news, fiction, nonfiction, agriculture policy, and speaking with people outside of my discipline. Certainly my advisor Matthew Ryan and my labmates in the Sustainable Cropping Systems Lab. My identities as a woman, as an Appalachian, as a person who has seen death up close.
I understand that you've been named a 2017 Future Leader in Science by the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). Congratulations! What does this award mean to you?
Thank you. I think as a young scientist you have new ideas and it feels great when your work is recognized or validated. I hope it means other things will be more likely to happen—I'd like for everyone to be aware of the field of agroecology. But it certainly begs the question, at what point does a "future leader" become a "leader"?
As part of this award, you traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the annual ASA, CSSA and SSSA Congressional Visits Day. What was that experience like?
We were there advocating for AFRI (Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) funding, which is the largest competitive grants program for agriculture research. It is currently funded at about half the amount that has been allotted, which means a lot of research ideas that should be funded, aren't. How would our agrofood system look different if they were? It was eye-opening to hear what questions congressional staffers asked, a lot of their questions were focused on economics, which was not surprising but a little sad because economics is just one perspective, but one that is currently overrepresented in policy-making.
Why did you choose Cornell to pursue your degree?
Cornell had the world's best Agronomy Department and Matthew Ryan is the most amazing advisor anyone could ask for.
Next month I'm headed to California because my team (4 Johnson MBA students and 1 MS student in behavioral economics) made it to the final rounds of a case competition for Patagonia about how to source regenerative organic agriculture products. The usual grind of working to publish research. More advocacy for agroecology and extension.
Any advice for incoming graduate students?
Take the time to figure out what research questions make you happy because you are going to spend a lot of hours with them. And again, remembering that everyone makes mistakes and that failures are a part of being human.


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Until today, there were four reasons that, despite our better judgment, we kind of loved Katie Lee Joel.
1. She is from West Virginia and met Billy Joel in a hotel lobby when she was 21 and he was 54 and got him to marry her. "We joke that he's very immature for his age, because he has a job that has allowed him to be, and I am very mature for my age," she once said. "So we sort of meet in the middle."
2. She has stayed married him for five entire years, even though he has shown no real signs of dying any time soon.
3. Despite not having to work, she does anyway.
4. Even though she got replaced on Top Chef by that other lady who likes 'em short, round, bald, and old, she has persevered with her dream of becoming a food star, lately with her new cookbook, The Comfort Table which she celebrated the release of the other night.
If this life trajectory does not embody the current version of the American Dream, we don't know what does.
And then today, we discovered a fifth reason we love Katie Lee Joel. Apparently, she has created very special dish that she completely unselfconsciously calls "Man Loaf," as though that is not the grossest name for a thing ever, and she talks about it all the time, most recently, "Page Six" tells us, to Beth Ostrovsky at her book party. "God, is it moist, too! That is really moist!" Oprah said, when Katie and Billy brought it on the show. We bet Billy got a chuckle out of that.
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namespace Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

use Oro\Bundle\EntityBundle\EntityProperty\DatesAwareInterface;
use Oro\Bundle\EntityBundle\EntityProperty\DatesAwareTrait;
use Oro\Bundle\EntityConfigBundle\Metadata\Annotation\Config;
use Oro\Bundle\EntityConfigBundle\Metadata\Annotation\ConfigField;

use Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\ExtendLocalization;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Entity\Repository\LocalizationRepository")
 * @ORM\Table(name="oro_localization")
 * @Config(
 *      routeName="oro_locale_localization_index",
 *      routeView="oro_locale_localization_view",
 *      routeUpdate="oro_locale_localization_update",
 *      defaultValues={
 *          "entity"={
 *              "icon"="icon-list"
 *          },
 *          "security"={
 *              "type"="ACL",
 *              "group_name"="",
 *              "category"="account_management"
 *          }
 *      }
 * )
 */
class Localization extends ExtendLocalization implements DatesAwareInterface
{
    use DatesAwareTrait;

    /**
     * @var int
     *
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    protected $id;

    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255, unique=true, nullable=false)
     * @ConfigField(
     *      defaultValues={
     *          "importexport"={
     *              "identity"=true
     *          }
     *      }
     * )
     */
    protected $name;

    /**
     * @var Collection|LocalizedFallbackValue[]
     *
     * @ORM\ManyToMany(
     *      targetEntity="Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Entity\LocalizedFallbackValue",
     *      cascade={"ALL"},
     *      orphanRemoval=true
     * )
     * @ORM\JoinTable(
     *      name="oro_localization_title",
     *      joinColumns={
     *          @ORM\JoinColumn(name="localization_id", referencedColumnName="id", onDelete="CASCADE")
     *      },
     *      inverseJoinColumns={
     *          @ORM\JoinColumn(name="localized_value_id", referencedColumnName="id", onDelete="CASCADE", unique=true)
     *      }
     * )
     */
    protected $titles;

    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="language_code", type="string", length=16, nullable=false)
     */
    protected $languageCode;

    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="formatting_code", type="string", length=16, nullable=false)
     */
    protected $formattingCode;

    /**
     * @var Localization
     *
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Localization", inversedBy="childLocalizations")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_id", referencedColumnName="id", nullable=true, onDelete="SET NULL")
     */
    protected $parentLocalization;

    /**
     * @var Collection|Localization[]
     *
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Localization", mappedBy="parentLocalization")
     */
    protected $childLocalizations;

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();

        $this->childLocalizations = new ArrayCollection();
        $this->titles = new ArrayCollection();
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function __toString()
    {
        return $this->getName();
    }

    /**
     * @return int
     */
    public function getId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $languageCode
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setLanguageCode($languageCode)
    {
        $this->languageCode = $languageCode;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getLanguageCode()
    {
        return $this->languageCode;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $formattingCode
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setFormattingCode($formattingCode)
    {
        $this->formattingCode = $formattingCode;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getFormattingCode()
    {
        return $this->formattingCode;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $name
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setName($name)
    {
        $this->name = $name;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    /**
     * @param Localization $parentLocalization
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setParentLocalization(Localization $parentLocalization = null)
    {
        $this->parentLocalization = $parentLocalization;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return Localization
     */
    public function getParentLocalization()
    {
        return $this->parentLocalization;
    }

    /**
     * @return Collection|Localization[]
     */
    public function getChildLocalizations()
    {
        return $this->childLocalizations;
    }

    /**
     * @param Localization $childLocalization
     * @return $this
     */
    public function addChildLocalization(Localization $childLocalization)
    {
        if (!$this->childLocalizations->contains($childLocalization)) {
            $this->childLocalizations->add($childLocalization);
        }

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @param Localization $childLocalization
     * @return $this
     */
    public function removeChildLocalization(Localization $childLocalization)
    {
        if ($this->childLocalizations->contains($childLocalization)) {
            $this->childLocalizations->removeElement($childLocalization);
            $childLocalization->setParentLocalization(null);
        }

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @return Collection|LocalizedFallbackValue[]
     */
    public function getTitles()
    {
        return $this->titles;
    }

    /**
     * @param LocalizedFallbackValue $title
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function addTitle(LocalizedFallbackValue $title)
    {
        if (!$this->titles->contains($title)) {
            $this->titles->add($title);
        }

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * @param LocalizedFallbackValue $title
     *
     * @return $this
     */
    public function removeTitle(LocalizedFallbackValue $title)
    {
        if ($this->titles->contains($title)) {
            $this->titles->removeElement($title);
        }

        return $this;
    }
}

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Elena Kagan Selectively Quotes Amendment Framers on Redistricting
By Ilya Shapiro and Thomas A. Berry
This article appeared on The Federalist on December 11, 2015
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Evenwel v. Abbott, the "one‐person, one‐vote" case that will decide whether state legislative districts should be drawn to equalize people or voters.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan needs to read two more sentences when considering whether Texas can draw voting districts by population or voter totals.
Texas claims it's free to draw districts with the sole aim of making total populations equal, even if there are great disparities in the number of voters — and therefore the weight of each vote — from district to district. The plaintiffs argued that the only way to give people equal votes, as required by the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, is to put them in districts with equal numbers of voters.
Midway through the argument, Justice Elena Kagan brought forth seemingly damning evidence from the congressional debates over the Fourteenth Amendment — specifically its lesser‐known second section, which apportions U.S. House members among the states according to their total populations (except untaxed Indians, and reduced by the number of 21‐year‐old males unlawfully disenfranchised — a protection for freedmen and Union sympathizers in the South):
JUSTICE KAGAN: The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly considered this issue, and, you know, made a decision. So Senator [Jacob] Howard [R‑MI], who introduces the Amendment on behalf of the joint committee that drafts it, talks about these deliberations. And he says the committee adopted numbers as the most just and satisfactory basis, and that's the principle upon which the Constitution itself was originally framed, referring back to the original drafting. And then he says numbers, not voters; numbers, not property; this is the theory of the Constitution.… This is just a clear, explicit choice that was made about what it meant to have equal representation with respect to [House apportionment]. And how you go from that being mandated to it being prohibited in the State context is something that I still can't quite work myself around. (Transcript at 18 – 19.)
It seems like a compelling argument. Shouldn't the selection of a total‐population rule at the federal level indicate that the Fourteenth Amendment's framers believed this was the true principle of democracy? What Kagan left out, however, is the beginning of Howard's statement, which hints at a much less principled and more political story behind the total‐population rule for apportionment.
SEN. HOWARD: Nor did the committee adopt the principle of making the ratio of representation depend upon the number of voters, for it so happens that there is an unequal distribution of voters in the several States, the old States having proportionally fewer than the new States. It was desirable to avoid this inequality in fixing the basis. The committee adopted [total] numbers as the most just and satisfactory basis, and this is the principle upon which the Constitution itself was originally framed, that the basis of representation should depend upon numbers; and such, I think, after all, is the safest and most secure principle upon which the Government can rest. Numbers, not voters; numbers, not property; this is the theory of the Constitution. (Emphasis added.)
The "inequality in fixing the basis" that Howard was referring to stemmed from a uniquely nineteenth‐century problem: women were ineligible to vote, and as Sen. Luke Poland (R‑Vermont) remarked, "The Union contains many very recently settled [western] States.… These new States to a great extent are settled by emigration from the older States, and it has been and will ever continue [to be] the case that a much larger proportion of this emigration are males. The consequence is that the newly settled States contain a very much larger proportion of males than the older States, and therefore a much larger ratio of voters."
The West Was Voter‐Heavy
Rep. James Blaine (R‑Maine) was the first to discover this disparity. He warned that state eligible‐voter populations ranged from a low of 19 percent in the East to a high of 58 percent in the West, so western states would gain vast relative power from a move to voter‐based apportionment. As Sen. John Henderson (R‑Missouri) later explained, it was the fear of this prospect among eastern members of Congress that defeated voter‐based apportionment:
SEN. HENDERSON: At an early period of the session the prevailing sentiment … was in favor of a simple constitutional provision by which representation should be based on voters qualified as electors under the respective State constitutions and laws .… Just at this moment … [Rep. Blaine] betook himself to the census, and found the proposition would not do. It suddenly became unjust. Why unjust? Because, if adopted, the eastern and Atlantic states would lose power comparatively with the West.… It might drive the North and the East to woman suffrage, for which they were not prepared. The very moment Mr. Blaine made some figures on this subject and laid them before the House of Representatives, that proposition was dead forever.… The proposition died so soon as it was found that the East was to lose by it." (Emphasis added.)
This description matches precisely the explanation Howard gave. Although he went on — in the only part of his speech Justice Kagan referenced — to frame the total‐population rule as a matter of principle, he was more honest when he admitted that it was about allocating power between the "old States" and the "new States."
Howard himself may have believed that it was "desirable" to avoid this power shift — many of the amendment's framers sincerely believed husbands "virtually represented" their wives — but eastern opposition to the voter‐based rule made its passage impossible and its retraction by the drafting committee was inevitable regardless of its members' views regarding theories of representation.
As it turns out, then, Justice Kagan did not need to look very far at all for a clue toward how to "work herself around" to the possibility that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment didn't mean apportionment by total population to stand as an enduring principle of democracy in all circumstances. Had she looked two sentences earlier in the record, she would've seen that analogizing state districting to House apportionment is no more appropriate than the "federal analogy" to Senate apportionment that the Supreme Court rejected more than a half‐century ago when it established the "one‐person, one‐person" principle.
Ilya Shapiro and Thomas A. Berry
Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, which filed an amicus brief in Evenwel v. Abbott. Thomas Berry, a Stanford law student, was a legal intern at Cato last summer and has an article forthcoming in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty regarding the constitutional debates over apportionment and representation.


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Q: $f$ is T periodic and $f(x) + f'(x) \ge 0 \Rightarrow f(x) \ge 0$
Let $f: \Bbb R \to \Bbb R$ be a function such that $f'(x)$ exists and is continuous over $\Bbb R$. Moreover, let there be a $T > 0$ such that $f(x + T) = f(x)$ for all $x \in \Bbb R$ and let $f(x) + f'(x)\ge 0$ for all $x \in \Bbb R$.
Show that $f(x) \ge 0$ for all $x \in \Bbb R$.

My attempt:
$f(x) \ge 0 \iff f(x) \ge f'(x) - f'(x) \iff f(x) + f'(x) \ge f'(x)$.
Thus, it is enoguh to show that $0 \ge f'(x)$.
$\iff 0 \ge \lim_{h\to0}\frac{f(x + h) - f(x)}{h}$
I do not know how to proceed from here. I know that $f'$ also has a periodicity of T but I do not know how to use that here.
Am I on the right track? How can I use the periodicity of $f$ to solve the problem?

A: Let $g(x)=\mathrm e^xf(x)$, then $g'(x)=\mathrm e^x(f'(x)+f(x))\geqslant0$ hence: $$(1)\ \textit{The function $g$ is nondecreasing.}$$
Since $f$ is continuous and periodic, $f$ is bounded, say $|f(x)|\leqslant C$ for every $x$, hence $|g(x)|\leqslant C\mathrm e^x\to0$ when $x\to-\infty$, that is: $$(2)\ \textit{The function $g$ has limit $0$ at $-\infty$.}$$
Properties (1) and (2) of $g$ imply together that $g\geqslant0$ everywhere, hence $f\geqslant0$ everywhere.

Examples: Consider $$f(x)=c\,\mathrm e^{w\cos(ux+v)},$$ for every  $c\geqslant0$, $u\ne0$, $|uw|\leqslant1$ and $v$, then $f$ has period $2\pi/|u|$ and, for every $x$, $$f'(x)+f(x)=(1-wu\sin(ux+v))\,f(x)\geqslant0.$$
For example, if $c=w=u=1$, $v=0$, one gets the function $f$:
$\qquad\qquad\qquad$
...And the function $f'+f$:
$\qquad\qquad\qquad$

A: We don't even need that $f'(x)$ is continuous! It is enough to show that $f(x) \ge 0$ on $[0,T]$, because of periodicity. Since $[0,T]$ is compact, $f$ has a minimum on $[0,T]$. Let $x_0 \in [0,T]$ be such that $f(x_0)$ is minimal. If $x_0 =0$ or $x_0 =T$, then $f(x_0)$ is also minimal in $[-T,2T]$, because of periodicity.
A necessary condition for a minimum is that $f'(x_0) =0$. (And it is also valid in the case $x_0 =0$ or $x_0 =T$, because of the above remark.) Thus we get $f(x_0) = f(x_0)+f'(x_0) \ge 0$. This shows that $f(x) \ge 0$ everywhere.

A: Since $f$ is periodic, it has maximum and minimum. Choose the period $[a,b]$, such that $f(a)=f(b)=M$, where $M$ is the maximum.
It can be seen that, there is a point $f(c)=m$, where $m$ is the minimum. c is golbal minimum, and thus local minimum, so:
$$f'(c)=0$$
from your condition.
$$f+f'\ge 0$$
we see
$$f(c)\ge 0$$. Since $f(c)$ is the minimum, we are done!

A: Consider such $f(x)$ to be non-constant. There must be a global minimum within each period, say at $x=x_0$. Since $f(x)$ is differentiable and continuous, $f'(x_0) = 0$. Hence
$$f(x) \ge f(x_0) = f(x_0)+f'(x_0) \ge 0$$

A: Say a period is $[a,a+T]$. Since $f$ is continuous, it attains a minimum on that interval, say at $c$. (If you have $c = a$, then change the period to $[a - T/2,a + T/2]$ so that $c$ becomes an interior point.)
We must have $f'(c) = 0$ there, so $f(c) \geq 0$. So the minimum value of $f$ is nonnegative.

A: suppose $f(x)$ is negative for all values of $x$. Periodicity tells us that there must be solutions to $f'(x)=0$ and for such $x$ we would then have $f(x)+f'(x)=f(x)<0$.
Suppose that $f(x)$ is negative for some values of $x$ but not all.  Let $a,b$ be zeroes of $f(x)$ such that $a<x<b\implies f(x)<0$. Specifically, let $x_0$ be some value for which $f(x_0)<0$ and let $a$ be the greatest upper bound of $\{x\,:\,x<x_0\,\;\&\,\;f(x)≥0\}$ and $b$ defined similarly on the other side. Since $f(a)=0=f(b)$ there is some $c$ with $a<c<b$ and $f'(c)=0$.  But for that value we must have $$f(c)+f'(c)=f(c)<0$$ contrary to assumption.

A: $ f \ne 0$
$f(x)=0 \Rightarrow f'(x) \ge 0$, hence $f$ can cross the X-axis at most once. periodicity means that it cannot cross  at all.
if $f$ is non-positive then $f' \ge 0$ so $f$ is monotone increasing. again this contradicts periodicity

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Q: Open URL with a button on a webpage Im tying to make a simple site that will control my android phone using a combination of tasker and autoremote. Opening this link:
https://autoremotejoaomgcd.appspot.com/sendmessage?key=APA91bHfsnJn7b1EgvnoROOPLBUiy4aIFMxPkF9shm7Z-XUfG7dxBfUR4CGc1K2NYl73FjvCB9OitNRHwUbG0xz17yq8LZa09rBrXcoqDKdLM-fIf8W97d6JbdnJxyvNYlWUZvhqzmsDMWPLqk6KBqyPfy6NRIy8AVYXkB4xQJ0eiAaF6m2FkGI&message=Forward
will make my Phone say "forward". I will have 4 buttons, forward, left, right, back. Its for a simple school project where a person wearing a blind fold will be controlled by my phone saying directions.
I need a button that will open that url but not go to the site or leave my site. Is this posable?

A: You could use JavaScript to send an AJAX request in the background to that page.
In your HTML you could have something like this:
<input type="button" value="Forward" class="movement-btn-f" />

<input type="button" value="Back" class="movement-btn-b" />

<input type="button" value="Left" class="movement-btn-l" />

<input type="button" value="Right" class="movement-btn-r" />

Then in your JavaScript, something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {

    $('.movement-btn-f').click(function() {
        $.get("your forward URL here");
    });

    $('.movement-btn-b').click(function() {
        $.get("your back URL here");
    });

    // etc...

});

To use that you'd need to include the jQuery library (see: http://www.jquery.com).
You might want to check out the documentation (http://api.jquery.com/jquery.get/) and see how you could use the success callback to wait for a command to be sent and block others in the meantime, but that depends on your application.


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Other investors who funded TailsLife include Encube Venture Partners LLP, Satish Tembad (Individual Investor), Vineet Jain (Individual Investor) and Nishanth Ramkutty (Individual Investor).
"Balaji and founders of TailsLife are passionate about pets and animals. This is a must for anyone to succeed in this space. They are taking the right approach to network the Vet's and make their advice available to pet owners. TailsLife is not just a transaction App, it connects the entire life journey of the pet with you, making it a memorable experience. As a pet lover, I really love Tailslife and I believe every pet owner will enjoy the experience." said lead investor Mohan Kumar of NVP Norwest Ventures.
"With rising disposable income and pet ownership, India is one of the fastest growing pet markets in the world. What India lacks is an integrated ecosystem where pet owners can get all their needs fulfilled in a common single platform. Being a pet owner myself, I am happy to be invested in Tails life which provides a unique, unparalleled market place experience for all pet owners. The team at Tails life is passionate and are committed to make it a great success" said V. Balakrishnan, Exfinity Ventures.
"Our Chief Inspiration officer is my 2-year-old English Cocker Spaniel, Pepper. So when I got him to Bangalore from my hometown Coimbatore, it was quite a struggle for us to find the best solutions and pet services in the city and thus hit upon the idea of creating an app that would be very helpful to other pet parents" said Balaji Ramesh, Co-Founder and CEO of TailsLife.
An app created specially to meet the needs of every pet parent across India. TailsLife aims at making pet parenting easier and happier by providing content specific to the breed and age of your pet and easier access to vet, grooming and boarding services. They have also developed a free (for now) backend portal that helps pet service providers manage appointments.
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Hello Lisa and welcome back to the Disney Parks Moms Panel where as the current British Mum it's always an additional pleasure for me to assist a fellow Guest who also visits Walt Disney World Resort from across the pond!
I'm so happy to hEar you've already got a super magical Disney holiday all planned out for your lovely family and as the Mum to a sometimes fussy eater I can totally relate to your great enquiry.
It may be useful to know that each Disney Resort Hotel does indeed benefit from it's own Shop which stocks a general selection of grocery items and sundries including fruit, bread, milk, biscuits (cookies) and so on plus you'll find a great selection of Grab & Go or Quick Service Dining locations too which will offer fruit platters or similar healthy options.
I also thought you may find it helpful to know that in a bid to help keep my own fussy eater healthily fed whilst enjoying a holiday at Walt Disney World Resort I often place an order (prior to leaving home) with an online provider such as GardenGrocer.com who can deliver grocery items including bananas, apples and so direct to most any Disney Resort Hotel; other online providers are available but I've personally received good service in the past from this particular one.
Have a great Disney day and before you travel be sure to check out all the magical information found in this fun Holidays to Walt Disney World Resort with Toddlers & Kids link.


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Debate: Lagos governorship candidates unfold plans
By The Nation On Jan 14, 2019
Lagos State governorship candidates of four political parties yesterday unveiled their plans for the state, if they win the forthcoming election.
The candidates, who featured at the debate organised by The Platform and Channels Television, are Jimi Agbaje of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Owolabi Salis of the Alliance for Democracy and Babatunde Gbadamosi of the African Democratic Alliance.
The candidates explained how they would make Lagos better than its present status.
According to APC's Sanwo-Olu, his experience in public and private sector would assist the growth of Lagos.
He said APC government had always sought the input of Lagosians each time matter of economic importance was on the front burner.
He noted that under his administration, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act would take dominance position.
"I have been in public service and had served as commissioner in the state. I recorded many firsts and Lagosians are savouring what we achieve in the past. When I moved to the private sector, I equally serve them in that capacity. Throughout my services, I never put my hand into public funds and we are going to serve them with the same passion, when elected as governor."
Agbaje said he would ensure the domestication of the FOI, noting Lagosians were presently not being fed with the necessary information they needed.
He said the state under the PDP government would be exposed to new economic ideas that would promote growth.
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Agbaje said he had been consistent in serving the people in whatever capacity he found himself.
"I have never gone to bed each time I contested elections, rather I serve the people through other mediums available. You should remember that I contested for the PDP Chairman and I have made my services available to the youth through many forums. So, it will be wrong for anyone to say that I go to bed after each election."
AD candidate Salis said Lagos would be happy when he is elected governor. He promised to take the commonwealth back to the people.
He added that he had joined the camp of the ordinary people, who were presently suffering due to mismanagement of fund meant for growth.
Salis added: "I have come to address the problem of the less-privileged, who have been suffering. They are the grassroots people and that is the camp where, I belong, we are in the majority and we intend to take back the commonwealth. We shall rescue the people and return back to them what legitimately belong to them."
ADP candidate Gbadamosi said Lagos need good road, power and housing.
He added that he had been providing them to the people in private capacity and would ensure it continues when he becomes the governor.
He promised to keep his reputation high by ensuring public funds and finances are made open.
He said his administration would ensure FOI was given the right acknowledgment in the state.
The candidates, however, promised not to seek second term, if they failed to deliver in their first term in office.
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I actually started out as a graphic designer for a small company in Barcelona, Spain (now a rather big one). Just a few months into the job, I found out that I had a knack for the more technical part of design. Slowly, but surely, I transformed from a graphic designer into an interface designer. Designing the shop interfaces of Esprit and Hugo Boss was a great experience.
A few years later, I was the interface designer for a publicist in Belgium and was part of the data-team. It was there where I came in contact with all kind of research methods: A/B testing, user session recordings, usability testing, heatmaps, etc. Data-driven design was more or less established and the results were all that mattered back then. It was then that I became more interested in uncovering the reasons behind those results.
Since my arrival in Berlin a few years ago, I have had the pleasure to work for a few start-up companies (nu3, Home24), a start-up incubator (Project A Ventures) and a few well established companies (Die Welt, Axel Springer).
I currently work as a UX Designer for Home24, an online shop for furniture, lamps, accessories and more, with about 80.000 products in our assortment and active in 8 countries.
I started this blog in 2009 and named it after myself, basically because I didn't have any better idea at the time. To me, it was (and still is) my online playground to share my knowledge and ideas, to experience and discover new things. But we've come a long way since then.
The UX community has grown exponentially and that's why it's not longer just about my knowledge and ideas. Many guest authors have found their way to this blog, to explain their point of view on all UX related topics.
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Cars are becoming more accessible in more countries. Here's an ETF that tries to profit from that trend.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- America's love affair with the automobile has become the world's love affair with the automobile, and while there are fewer car companies in the U.S. than before, the industry overseas is growing as cars are becoming more accessible in more countries. As an example, IHS Automotive estimates that India will become the third largest automotive market by 2016, surpassing Japan and Germany.
First Trust Global Auto Index Fund ( CARZ - Get Report) is an option for investors who want to capitalize on this trend. The exchange-traded fund started trading a little over two years ago when General Motors ( GM - Get Report) was performing poorly, and so CARZ declined more than 20% in its first three months, lagging the SPDR S&P 500 ( SPY - Get Report) and the Industrial Sector SPDR ( XLI - Get Report).
In the trailing 12 months, however CARZ, helped by Tesla's ( TSLA - Get Report) nearly five-fold gain, has rallied 64%, well ahead of both SPY and XLI.
CARZ tries to take advantage of growing demand for cars worldwide, though it does not do so for every country. Japan is the largest country weighting at 33%, followed by Germany at 23% and the U.S. at 20%. South Korea has an 8% weighting, mostly with Hyundai ( HYMLF and Kia ( KIMTF. The fund, however, comes up short by allocating only a combined 5.3% to China and Hong Kong. The most recent reports for China show sales growth of 9.3%.
A glaring omission is India. An estimate from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers calls for sales to increase to 4 million units by 2015. And although that is a decline from previous estimates of 5 million, India is becoming increasingly important to the industry. Many of the larger global companies sell cars in India, but the numbers are not large enough to move the needle on their stocks.
There are a couple of relatively large auto manufacturers in India including New York Stock Exchange-listed Tata Motors ( TTM, which has a market cap of $15 billion. An inquiry to First Trust was not able to specifically address when or if any Indian companies would be included.
The largest holdings in CARZ are the usual suspects, including Daimler ( DAI, Ford ( F - Get Report), Toyota ( TM - Get Report); each of the three has close to an 8% weighting in the fund.
CARZ employs a modified market-cap weighting. If the weighting was not modified, then Toyota could have a 30% weighting in the fund by virtue of its $194 billion market cap.
CARZ has a 0.70% expense ratio and a 0.85% trailing dividend yield.
Auto stocks tend to trade like cyclicals. During large market declines, they tend to go down much more than the broad market, and during market rallies, they tend to outperform.
For now, it seems that the broad market wants to continue higher until the Federal Reserve provides more specific plans of slowing down its bond purchases. So CARZ has a good chance to trade higher, as well.
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Hawley, Cruz, and Paul Leave GOP and Start the "Lost Cause Party"
By James Schlarmann
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the mid-19th century, the United States of America splintered, and spent four bloody years fighting each other during the Civil War. At its core, the central conflict of the war was the continuance of the African slave trade, and several states broke off from the Union, forming the Confederacy, and declared their intentions to keep practicing slavery. In an infamous speech, the vice president of the Confederacy named slavery as the "cornerstone" his rebellious consortium of states.
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However, over the course of time, there have been attempts made to whitewash — for a lack of a more fitting term — what caused that great conflagration between the states, and as such the myth of the Lost Cause has managed to stay alive, more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War.
Wikipedia's definition of the Lost Cause, below:
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, or simply the Lost Cause, is an American pseudo-historical,[1] negationist ideology that advocates the belief that the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was a just and heroic one. This ideology has furthered the belief that slavery was just and moral, because the enslaved were happy, even grateful, and it also brought economic prosperity. The notion was used to perpetuate racism and racist power structures during the Jim Crow era in the American South.[2] It emphasizes the supposed chivalric virtues of the antebellum South. It thus views the war as a struggle primarily waged to save the Southern way of life[3] and to protect "states' rights", especially the right to secede from the Union. It casts that attempt as faced with "overwhelming Northern aggression". At the same time, it minimizes or completely denies the central role of slavery and white supremacy in the build-up to, and outbreak of, the war.[2]
While it's unclear at this time if they were fully-aware of the connotations around the phrase, three Senators announced today that they were leaving the Republican Party to form their own called the "Lost Cause Party." Senators Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Ted Cruz held a joint press conference, maskless, today and announced their decision. Citing the GOP's "lack of interest in publicly shining the former president's dong," Hawley, Cruz, and Paul said they were ready to strike out on their own, without the help of a national party apparatus.
"Yes, the Trump re-election ended up being a lost cause, but aren't Americans entitled to continue committed to a cause, even if it's lost," Cruz asked rhetorically. "Some in this country want us to believe that just because we have no proof of our claims, and that our claims cause people to die, that we should somehow be held responsible for our claims getting people killed. As if freedom and accountability should ever be mixed. What a dangerous idea."
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Q: Django - ForeignKey value same as object from different model I have two models. One of them have a ForeignKey which should be related to an object in a different model:
class Game(models.Model):
    gameday = models.CharField(max_length=120)
    hometeam1 = models.ForeignKey(Teams, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="hometeam1", blank=True, null=True)

class Tipp(models.Model):
    hometeam1   = models.ForeignKey(Game, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=Game.hometeam1)
    week = models.CharField(max_length=120, null=True, blank=True)

The hometeam1 object in the model Tipp should be the same as Game.hometeam1 and Game.hometeam1 gets his value manually. How can I assign that Tipp.hometeam1 has everytime the same value as Game.hometeam1?