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A love letter to heels.

OMIGOD. Shoes.

OMIGOD. Shoes.

“Oh you’re in flats today! Are you sick?”

There’s a running joke in my office that something is wrong if I’m not in heels. My collection of shoes topping 5 inches is almost alarming, as is the comfort with which I can walk around in them. Bragging? Yup. It’s taken me four years not only to be comfortable wearing shoes that have a tendency to squish your toes into numb blobs while simultaneously restricting blood flow to your arch like a straitjacket, but to be comfortable with myself while wearing them. At 5’7″, I’m not a short person necessarily, but strap on a slingback and suddenly I feel like an Amazon, towering over everyone around me as they look up in wonder at this strange creature rumbling the halls.

Heels were a NOPE in college, where I regularly went out in sweatpants, and in my first few months in the city, I couldn’t imagine teetering around the rocky sidewalks in pumps. Even going out, my ex and I were about the same height and I was horribly self-conscious about being taller than him. To his enormous credit, he really didn’t care (and actually in some instances, preferred the heels), but I would become so self-aware that I’d end up in a bad mood, try to “drink the foot pain away” (PLD alert) and then pick a fight with him over something stupid – all because I couldn’t just relax over something as arbitrary as height.

My most important files.

My most important files.

A few months in to city life, I started packing heels with me to wear around the office only, testing the waters of heels without fully committing. A few impulse buys that had been buried in my closet for years started to make their way into the open, and lo and behold, I found myself inadvertently feeling more and more confident. I started wearing heels daily, amassing an impressive collection in what was supposed to be my file cabinet and rotating new shoes daily. As I began moving up professionally, the heels became somewhat like a confidence coach, forcing me to stand up straighter, look people in the eyes and generally assert myself as a tall-ass force to be reckoned with. My feet adjusted to the now constant, dull ache that accompanies essentially standing on tip-toes all day, and I started wearing them outside the office, whether running errands in Bucco booties or dancing on the bar in some killer purple wedges.

One of the first nights I really went out with my girlfriends since entering single life a few months back, I slapped on a pair of my tippy-tall boots, despite knowing I’d be drinking, dancing and likely falling within a few hours of that decision. And yet clomping around the city, even as the bars started to blur, felt great. I felt confident, tall, in-charge and hell yes, I felt sexy. Inevitably we heard Beyonce at one point that night, and I couldn’t help myself for grabbing my girlfriends into screeching along,”BOW DOWN BITCHES,” dancing like everyone was watching. I’ll always hold that moment in those tippy-tall boots, lost in ourselves and the moment of feeling alive.

As I look towards an exciting future, starting a new job and finishing the adjustment to the single life, there’s a lot of uncertainties running on repeat in my mind – will I do well in this new position? Am I really about to start dating? What other changes are in store for me? If nothing else, I know I can hold on to the absolute certainty that wherever this future takes me, I’ll be following that path standing straight in my stilettos, walking confident and very, very tall.

4 thoughts on “A love letter to heels.

  1. I’m completely inspired to werq through the pain in the hope that I’ll eventually be able to ignore it. Aaaand you’re a badass, per usual.

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Quick Thoughts: Scary Thoughts

When your relationship of nearly four years falls apart, a lot runs through your head. “What could I have done differently?” and “What am I going to do now?” are two big ones, but “Who am I going to hang out with?” is the scary one, especially if you were someone like me, who wrapped up so much of her life in her significant other. It’s scary for a little while, to be on your own for the first time as an adult, but maybe if you’ve got half my good luck, you’ll have a friend who was a part of your life step in, almost out of nowhere, and suddenly your whole life changes.

When your single partner-in-crime of just four months tells you “I met a guy!” a lot runs through your head. “”Is she going to leave me?” and “What if he doesn’t like me?” are two things that come to mind, but “What if I lose my best friend?” is the scary one, especially if you were someone like me, who had never been single in her 20s and was expecting a lot more time with her showing me the ropes of the bad bar scene in NYC. It’s scary for a little while, when they start dating and it’s serious, but maybe if you’ve got half my good luck, you’ll realize from day one that this guy is someone different, and he fits in the group like he was meant to find us, and suddenly your whole life changes.

When you wake up the morning before their big day, a lot runs through your head. “I can’t believe it’s already here!” and “Oh god I’m already nervous” are two of the first thoughts that pop in your head, but “I’m so fucking excited for them!” is the big one. Because maybe sometimes when your life changes in ways you’d never imagined in such a short period of time, it’s scary, and all sorts of terrible thoughts run through your head. But then again, if you’ve got even an iota of my good luck, you’ll be staring down a weekend dedicated to two people you love more than anyone celebrating how they love each other above all else.

So here’s to love, bridesmaids dresses that decidedly don’t suck and a weekend with friends in fancy gear watching two people say two words before taking the first steps into forever. My R&H, I’ve learned to expect the unexpected when it comes to you two, and I wish you a life of perfect surprises – most especially, the ones that start out as scary thoughts.

Friendly Conversations: Cuatro

I’m dedicating this to my parents, because the below is solid proof that I was raised without any form of a filter. Now please enjoy another snapshot of your average, everyday friendly conversations.

On conditional love
Mama B: Babe I’ll support you no matter what you do.
Me: I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that, I was so nervous to tell you about…

On crowning achievements
Friend: So…. until recently,  you were a white girl that did not like rose?
Me: Yep.
Friend: Lifetime should do a biopic about you.

On accessorizing
Me: I’m so glad we got the belt for my maid-of-honor dress, it needed a little sparkle.
Mama B: I think my dress needs something too, but not a belt. Maybe like a pin or something?
Papa B: You should wear the Star Wars federation badge.
Mama B: OMG! Perfect. Will you buy it for me??

On conditional love (Pt. 2)
Mama B: But seriously no more tattoos.
Me: There’s more coming, it’s fine, you’ll get used to it.
Mama B: Please don’t get another visible one.
Me: What’s the point of spending all that money if no one can see them?

On wedding events
Twinster: I want all my shower presents pre-opened so we can get through that shit quickly. Like, paper ripped, ribbons cut..
Mama B: Don’t break the ribbons!!! There’s an old Irish saying that you’ll have a child for every one that breaks.
Me: If the ribbon breaks?
Twinster: Mmmm sorry Mom, I think you’re referring to condoms.

On weekends at home
Family friend: Alright girl, your mom and I are on a mission to set you up. Really quick name three physical qualities you like in a guy GO!
Me: Uhhhh beard, tattoos and a man bun.
Mama B: Like his butt?!
Me: Omg Mom like the hairstyle.
Mama B: You have weird taste in men maybe that’s why you’re single.

On conditional love (Pt. 3)
Mama B: What are they going to look like when you’re older?!?!?
Me: MAHM. We’re done talking about my tattoos, present and future.
Mama B: You weren’t serious about getting more though, right?
Me: This conversation is over.

“At a certain point, I realized there’s a huge difference between what we work for, and what we live for.”

Last weekend I had the enormous privilege of watching D&D’s dogs, a welcome respite from the insanity of life in favor of long walks under the summer sun in Central Park and along the East River. It’s so comfortable to be back in that neighborhood, where I spent the first two years of my NYC life; and it’s also a quiet time, where outside of the walks, I’m mostly watching Netflix, snuggling with the pups, and thinking. This weekend’s Netflix binge of choice was Sense8, which was the sci-fi escape I needed while on mini-hiatus from my normal life, and without going into details (because seriously, everyone should watch this show), the quote above caused me to stop, and rewind, and rewind again, just to understand and grasp those words. They were exactly what I needed to hear when I didn’t even know I needed something to hold onto, and they pushed me into making a decision that I’ve been thinking about for longer than I care to admit.

I feel things really deeply. It’s something I’ve had to learn to control in the past few years, in an effort both to protect myself and just to pull back from extremes in emotions, as from experience, they can be incredibly draining. On one hand, the elated high of good fortune, celebrating friends, having a crush, falling in love, those are moments that stick out to me so vividly it’s like I can relive them if I close my eyes and breathe in. I’ll never forget the rush of saying three words for the first time to someone who said them back, and I’ll never forget what it felt like when N clued me in on the date he planned to propose to M. In 10 years I won’t remember the conversations that I’ve had with friends and family, and I won’t remember which night was a night we spent on a rooftop and which one was a night spent on my couch with little miss. But I will remember the way my heart swelled when C and me surprised R not once, but twice in a day with parties. And I will also remember how fiercely I cried when I came home one night, exhausted from 15 hours in the office and needing someone to be there for me, finding myself once again saddled with the full weight of being alone.

When a movie or a television show or a song makes me feel, really Feel something, it’s like a drug for me. I drink in those emotions like a feral beast in the desert: this song made me feel heartbreak, this show made me feel joy, this movie made me feel love. I’m obviously capable of these emotions on their own (*I would hope that’s obvious), but connecting them to songs, stories, images, is a way that I can lose myself in the emotion, the full depth of the feeling, like I can understand it without the distraction of real life. Feeling things like this can get me in trouble, and absolutely has in the past, but I wouldn’t change that part of me for anything, the part that works to connect on a different level, whether real or through my screen, through my headphones. I want to understand what people are going through in some sort of self-destructive effort to feel on all ends of the spectrum, possibly so I know what I’m up against in suppressing those emotions at the end of the day.

There’s something that’s been on my mind for the better part of a year, something I haven’t talked to anyone about, not the Nickname Posse, not my family, not anyone. Little things in the past few months have been pushing me closer to that gut feeling, pushing me to a point where it was on my mind and I couldn’t get rid of it if I tried. And weirdly, my moment of clarity midway through binge-watching the entire season of Sense8 in 48 hours wasn’t an emotional roller coaster, or even a big epiphany. In finally giving attention to this idea, and considering it from the full emotional spectrum, I could feel a wave of calm energy wash over my entire body, followed by a tangible sense of relief, like pushing a rock up a hill for years and finally realizing it’s not meant to be at the top. I texted my anchor G before anyone else to gauge her reaction, and after fielding her perfectly ecstatic replies, I found myself noticing little signs everywhere that maybe this time I’ve made a good life decision.

That calm feeling hasn’t left me, and if anything, it’s given me a better focus for the days ahead. I won’t go into details here quite yet – there are things that people you love should hear from you in person first – and I’m going to need all the emotional anchoring that I’ve learned from years spent overfeeling everything in the weeks and months to come. But in looking ahead, all I can feel is excited, because this next year is going to be one hell of a fucking ride.

While shopping for my maid-of-honor dress this spring for Twinster’s wedding in October, I very quickly narrowed it down to two choices, but took a long time to make a decision. T and I talked about it a lot, because unfortunately, the reason we loved one dress more than the other was the exact reason we knew I couldn’t get it. See, I think I have just about the coolest mother in the world. She taught me how to be kind, and tough, and has supported me through absolutely everything. But she just can’t stand my tattoos. She loves to admonish me for them whenever they’re visible (*which truly, isn’t that often), tell me how much I’m going to regret them when I’m older, your typical parent things. The dress T and I loved was backless with a sheer cape, and while it was probably the perfect dress for me, it would have put the rib tattoo on display. Now, T wouldn’t have cared less if I showed up sporting a Mike Tyson (“Have you seen my dress? It’s not like anyone will be looking at you”), but Mama B would never forgive me if I wore something that displayed that much of my ink. So I went with my second choice, a dress that’s equally beautiful and has a closed back, and though it doesn’t showcase one of my favorite features, I can’t wait to wear it all the same.

I don’t mind that my mother hates my tattoos. Well, let me rephrase that. At this point in my life, and sporting the pieces that I do, I no longer mind that my mother hates my tattoos. I think because the first two were such carefully planned impulse decisions, I didn’t have the chance to prepare for her reaction. In some vague way, I knew she was going to be PISSED (*and she was), but at the same time, I knew that it didn’t really matter how angry she was with me for them, because I’m the one that has to look at them and live with them, and I love them a little more every day. I finally gave her a heads up before getting the third, and planned a careful speech to have with her so that she would understand both my decision to get one, as well as how well-researched and serious I was. She cut me off after a few sentences when I finally worked up the nerve to talk to her, but I didn’t push it. I know she’ll never understand or like them, and so I’ve just continued to get them, warning her along the way if I can, preparing for the renewed anger that I’m getting used to.

It’s hard to respond to people when they say things like “I couldn’t get a tattoo, I change my mind too often!!” because I think it misses the point of tattoos. Yes, they’re permanent – but that doesn’t mean it absolutely has to have some sort of higher meaning that will never change, a design you’ll feel exactly the same about from the day you get it till your last breath. I mean, the tiny heart on my ankle was the epitome of an impulse decision. Exactly seven years ago today, I was 19, living in a foreign country, and though I tried telling myself that it was too cliche to come home from six months abroad with a tattoo, I still walked into a shop that cool August morning by myself, an indecisive teenager ready to make a permanent decision. The final product isn’t the design I wanted, it’s not even the design the artist wanted, and I’ve had to have it redone once already. But here I am, seven years later, and despite everything being wrong from what I’d initially wanted, every time I look at my very first tattoo, it reminds me of a time in my life where I was bold. It calls a memory of that wild child in Buenos Aires, who did so many stupid things and a learned a lot of lessons to boot. The tiny heart on my ankle is like my little souvenir from who I was, and what I learned, exactly seven years ago today.

The designs have improved with time, and for the last two pieces I’ve stayed with the same artist, because he’s really the one person I trust to put ink to my skin now, but that feeling of a souvenir from a previous LB is true with every one of them. Of the remaining four, one of them makes me feel daring; one makes me feel obvious and loud in the best way; another reminds me that you can choose your family too; and another tells me every day to be grateful. That’s not the order in which I got them, because how each of those memories connects with which tattoo is too personal, even to mention here. But those are pieces of a previous me that I want to remember, and parts of my spirit that I never want to lose. Truly, it’s not for everyone, a permanent reminder of who you were seven, five years, even just one year ago. But whether tattoos “are” for anyone else is irrelevant to my decision to have them, because they absolutely are for me.

At the wedding this fall, I’ll wear my beautiful dress with a full back, and stand behind my sister, making sure her beautiful dress looks picture-perfect while she says yes to the rest of her life. And only my arm will be showing, but luckily it’s just the one line, so for Mama B’s fear about the photos, there’s always Photoshop. We’ll have our bridal lunch, and wedding, and then of course the Jets v. Pats game on Sunday, where husband and wife will enjoy a fierce rivalry as such for the first of many times. And then when I return to the city, I’m going to rest for one day before traveling to the Lower East Side for tattoo number six, one that will be very visible and very planned, and I absolutely can’t wait. It’s going to remind me of this time in my life, where I’m surrounded by love and the one-bedroom apartment that no longer feels so empty, and one day I think it will remind me that life is meant to enjoy.

How a Firefly taught me patience.

Serious question: if I’ve achieved my sole New Year’s resolution by mid-August, does that mean I can coast for the rest of the year?

This week has been… interesting, to say the very least. I suppose I’m not surprised – it’s a new moon today – but on that same token, it’s been a really trying week, mentally, physically, emotionally. Sometimes in weeks like this I have a tendency to neglect my yoga practice, using excuses like ‘I’m too tired’ and ‘I just don’t have the time’ to justify sitting on my chair feeling sorry for myself or drinking wine alone with the cat. This week, though, I made a point to stay on the mat, and in all my frustrations at everything outside of yoga, I somehow found the patience and focus to manage a huge breakthrough. Back on December 31, 2014, I told myself if I could hold a handstand for at least five seconds in 2015 that would be a goal accomplished; and on August 12, 2015, I did exactly that, and then a little more.

There’s something empowering, invigorating about setting and reaching a goal. Whether it’s as simple as “I will not forget to wash the dishes before going to bed tonight,” or as complex as “I will get into a crazy yoga pose,”  having something to work towards, pushing you, motivating you to get better, is absolutely a wonderful things. But I am admittedly terrible at following through on long-term goals. My first few years in NYC were so tumultuous between moves and new jobs and relationships that trying to think in the long-term was way too overwhelming, when it was all I could do just to budget so I’d have enough for groceries that week. The longest I’ve stayed in a job is just under 30 months and that place was fucking nuts, so I always knew that wasn’t a place to look at in my long-term, and while I love my apartment and I see myself there for the foreseeable future, I know it’s not somewhere I’m going to be for many more years.

Everyone around me is making these huge decisions that affect the long term, like moving around and getting married. It’s easy to feel left behind in these situations, which I know because around this time last year that’s exactly how I felt; I had this clear view of everyone in my life moving forward and I was still blacking out on weeknights after an office happy hour. Then earlier this week I had a little freak out about the future, because all of a sudden I’ve realized I have a plan. I have a long-term plan about my life here in New York, and how I want to grow as a person, and where I might be in the next five years, and it’s absolutely not at all what I thought it would be when I moved to New York five years ago. Maybe to some people that sounds like growing up or maturity or whatever, but it just makes me fucking terrified because honestly, I don’t know if I can do it.

After reaching my resolution on Wednesday, I paused for a minute after a long flow yesterday and decided to try a pose that first piqued my interest in yoga, and a pose that I swear to grilled cheezus I have been working for the better part of a year and still couldn’t get into it. In frustration a few months ago, I stopped practicing the pose, telling myself maybe it would be more of a possibility down the line. So yesterday, on my handstand high, I gave tittibhasana, or Firefly pose, a try. And just like the handstand, all of a sudden I was in the pose. No frills, nothing fancy, and miles from perfect, but in that moment I couldn’t have cared less about perfect. I was flying in tittibhasana and that is something I never thought would happen in 2015, never in a million years. Patience is a lesson that kept coming up this week in work and in practice – patience with others, patience with myself. Getting into that pose was a revelation in patience that I needed before tonight’s new moon: sometimes there are things I can do on the first try, or after a week or two of concentration. But sometimes it’s going to take more time – maybe eight months, or maybe over a year. But if I remember to focus on love, practice and patience, truly – all is coming.

Panic Cord

There’s this thing that happens to me sometimes that I’ve long since learned I can’t control. It’s something I can ignore usually, or at least after a few years of recognizing it I’ve learned to ignore it, but when things in different areas of my life start imploding all at the same time, I find myself wrestling with this burning desire to do something destructive. The definition of “destructive” has changed over the years, but I can recognize that feeling coming from a mile away. It’s like an old addiction to self-destruction that yoga and clean eating and new attitudes and a new life can’t hide forever; the moment I can feel things start to slip, slip from my control, there’s a sort of cloud that covers my vision in this hazy need to do something impulsive, and big, and maybe a little dangerous to boot.

One of the earliest memories I have of the first time this happened is standing in the bathroom outside my bedroom at around 15 years old. I was angry with my mother yet again because she “couldn’t understand” why I so badly wanted the top of my ear pierced. We’d had the arguments many times, and she never gave me a reason more than “because I said so” as to why she wouldn’t allow me to have that put in my ear. Hormonal and filled with angst, I had this overwhelming impulse to do something, everything, anything. I went into one of the bathroom drawers and grabbed an earring, the one that had been used to pierce my ears a few years back, marked a spot on my left ear with a pen, took a deep breath and stuck it through. As I exhaled, I thought three things in quick succession: That didn’t hurt as much as I thought it might! Mama B is gonna be so fucking pissed off at me. Huh, I actually feel way better.

This draw to impulsive sorts of self-destruction has led to a lot of interesting decisions over the years, from bad third dates to at least one of my tattoos. I’ve had piercings all up and down my ears and face and abdomen, and many years ago this impulse may have led to an interesting afternoon in the office following a sangria-fueled lunch on a weekday with my lovely friend M. When things in my life start to feel like they’re slipping, not quite out of my control yet but on the way, I use that helpless feeling as an excuse to do something impulsive or crazy without thinking, as though I feel like things are already bad so let’s just keep rolling with it and see where we land. It’s not always a bad thing – following that impulse has led to some awesome nights (/mornings…) out and of course, at least one of my tattoos – but as I’ve gotten older, catering to such an impulse is starting to get exhausting.

That particular feeling started to bubble up yesterday while I sat in the office and watched the clock move slowly, knowing it was the first of yet another series of very late nights. It’s like all of the lucky, wonderful, something-big-is-happening feelings I’ve had in the past month finally came crashing back down, with so many things out of my control and so many things about to happen. And by early evening, I found myself contemplating a few things: Where else could I get a piercing at almost-27 years old that isn’t weird? Maybe I’ll go get that tiny script tattoo that popped into my head yesterday when I leave the office tomorrow. I wonder if anyone is around for a Sunday Funday this weekend?  I had to halt at that last one (Sunday Funday is dangerous and may or may not lead to lost wallets), take a step back, and figure out what was really going on, because I knew if I didn’t, one of those things would happen and really none of those things are good ideas.

I sighed deeply from the conference room where I’d camped out for the day, and calmly rationalized that I already have one facial piercing and I’m waiting till after T’s wedding for my next tattoo. And while I can’t say for sure what’s going to happen this weekend (aside: N.Posse – I would be super down for a Sunday Funday #justsaying), I decided instead to forget a budget for a minute and ordered a yoga prop I’ve been eyeing for months. Maybe saying “fuck it” to budgeting and spending money on a workout toy isn’t the craziest thing I’ve done to find a little more control in the wild things in my life these days. I’m okay with that, though. It’s worth it to have these little self-teaching moments that make it very apparent when you’ve grown up, if only a little bit.

Choose Love

“I know girl. But if the only way to avoid the lows is to avoid the highs too, it’s not worth it.”

This past weekend was one of those perfect, lazy city weekends. Despite an initial prediction of 90% chance of rain on Friday, the weather was clear and sunny, just hot enough to feel like summer and not too hot that having a picnic in Central Park after work is uncomfortable. The Nickname Posse minus C had plans to do exactly that once we realized the weather would hold, and M prepared us all a feast, cheese and meats and olives and more; the night that we all thought would end early instead found us in the Park till 10:30, laughing, finishing the last bits of sangria, and willing the bugs away so we could savor the final few moments of a perfect night. The next day evolved slowly and easily, brunch with my dearest K and M turned into drinks back at his place, turned into a walk in the parks of the Heights, summer sun and the bouncing Lakeland running ahead of us keeping the smiles that started on Friday on our faces. Sunday I finally made it back to the mat, with an early Bikram yoga class to sweat out everything from the past few weeks and rehab my back a little, and when I crawled into bed later that night, exhausted and wishing for one more day like the past few, I had to laugh a little before sighing deeply. Life is good right now, I found myself saying, just before my tired eyes shut for the night.

These types of weekends aren’t rarities, but they aren’t commonplace anymore either. Life is evolving quickly here these days, the rush of the summer’s end calling attention to some big changes in everyone’s lives, weddings, birthdays, more. It makes the next part of this year like this huge, scary unknown, like we know exactly what’s going to happen yet the situation is completely out of our control. Then again, now that it’s officially four weeks out till my birthday, maybe I’m just reacting to being in what feels like the same exact position as last year while officially entering my late 20s. These questions were on my mind last night for a while as I settled in my chair with a cup of tea and Netflix, trying to make sense of these big questions where I’m not even sure I want an answer.

Something I’ve been doing in yoga lately is switching up my usual mantra to one that carries a meaning I struggle to embrace: Choose love. This doesn’t mean dating or family or really any kind of love in particular. It’s just a reminder to choose to focus on the good things. Choose what gives back love and smiles instead of choosing to dwell on the negative; in the context of this weekend it mostly meant I needed to focus on the benefits of Bikram practice instead of how badly I wanted to pass out during the standing postures, but it has wider implications for the weeks to come (or at least I think it might).

I was texting my soul sister E in the midst of the aforementioned Netflix-ing and contemplating, and she mentioned those words at the top, which were exactly what I needed to hear after a weekend like this one. I won’t go into the context – it’s of little consequence, really – but it started to make sense on a number of levels, and I had to write it down before I forgot. Why is it so hard to choose the positive? When the focus is avoiding what could hurt or what could be difficult, it’s too easy to miss that without the low moments, there’s nothing to make the high points that much better. It’s not a matter of seeking out the low moments to experience the high, but a reminder not to give them the attention they crave. I have a feeling in the next few months there’s going to be a lot of low moments, after a spring and a summer filled with highs, but I think in the end that’s okay. Because I also have a feeling that I can choose to look at the low moments not as things to break me down, but as teaching moments in looking to always, always choose love.

PLD Montage Vol. 2.3: Pre-Wedding Wedding Edition (Pt. Twinster)

To say my life has been taken over by weddings this year is a massive understatement. In the full volume of people that I hold dear to my heart, there are only two other single people, with everyone else now either engaged or married – and most of them are getting married this year. Though we planned an amazing weekend bachelorette/bridal shower combo for my partner-in-crime R back in June, this last weekend was a much bigger undertaking, wherein I needed to plan a bridal shower and bachelorette weekend for my twin sister. And truly, the weekend went better than I could have imagined, and at the end of the day, I wouldn’t have changed a thing. Well.. okay. Maybe I would have *tweaked* just a few moments….

I give you: PLD Montage, Vol. 2.3: Pre-Wedding Wedding Edition (Pt. Twinster)

  • We had a full house at my parents’ the night before the wedding, with myself, my lovely friend M, T, three of her friends, my parents and my sister’s almost-in-laws. The original plan for the night was for all of us to enjoy a nice, relaxing dinner together, and then M and I would head to a dear family friend’s house, where the shower was being held the next day, so we would each have a bed for the night and then could be there early for set-up. M and I both had stressful Fridays – she was coming in from NYC and her plans changed abruptly two hours before her train left, where I mismanaged my time and was somehow running errands from 9am till 430pm – so when the wine came out for dinner, we gratefully accepted. And accepted… and accepted….
    Lesson learned: If you don’t pace yourself with alcohol on a night you’re supposed to drive to sleep somewhere else, you end up sleeping on the floor of the house family room, where the calming noise of crashing dishes being washed at 5:30am will wake you from a Merlot-fueled restless sleep.
  • We all woke up bright and early the next morning (yours truly at the aforementioned 5:30am), shared coffee and breakfast on the deck in the beautiful weather, and planned to get to the shower location by around 10am for last minute set-up and to heat up the food. I was starting to get somewhat eager/anxious for the rest of the weekend, so my usual two-to-three cups of coffee somehow turned into four and a half. Then I had to get in a convertible and drive the 10 minutes to the shower location with my recently-done hair and flowers picked from the garden, all while in a black dress in the sunshine.
    Lesson learned: Coffee makes you sweaty and shaky, which doesn’t help when you’re driving a convertible with sun beating down on your black dress, which in turn makes you more sweaty, and also convertibles mess up hair. TL;DR: No part of my morning was well thought-out or planned.
  • Set-up actually went incredibly smoothly, and we had popped the first bottle of champagne by 11am, drinking slowly to savor the last few minutes of calm before the 40+ guests arrived. The main event of the shower, the CREPE TRUCK, was running late, but eventually made it, and I was really looking forward to a ham and cheese crepe, as I hadn’t eaten much that morning due to nerves and too much coffee. Then crepe truck man proceeds to tell us that he has: forgotten ice, forgotten all of the savory ingredients, brought one can of whipped cream for 40 people, informed us that setting up the stand was going to take 40 minutes, oh, and he let it slip that he may have been “a little hungover.”
    Lesson learned: Always trust and emulate your mother – not only had Mama B planned ahead and made enough quiche and salad to feed an army (“just in case people don’t want crepes!”), but after exchanging a few words Idiot Crepe Boy, she got them to waive the fee for the truck and send us an IOU for our next party. She’s the best.
  • A few weeks before the shower, T and I were texting and she sent the most bridezilla thing that’s come out of her mouth since getting engaged: “Dude, I’m at a shower and we’ve been sitting in the sun for almost two hours watching someone open presents. If we don’t set a record for gift-opening since you’ll be pre-opening everything for me, you’re fired as my maid of honor,.” Challenge accepted.
    Lesson learned: With a joint effort between the bridesmaids, we had every damn gift opened, cataloged and stored for the taking in under 45 minutes. BOOM.
  • I woke up the next morning after the Moulin Rouge themed bachelorette party that followed the shower, and sighed loudly. M and I had shared the futon in the office for the night, and as it was 7:30am, I inched my way out of the bed so as not to wake her so I could survey the damage in the house and start cleaning before everyone else woke up for breakfast. In walking into the kitchen, the sun was just starting to peek over the treetops in the backyard, calling us to the deck for a slow morning with good friends and laughs about the night before. The house was already clean, a joint effort from all the girls there, and as everyone slowly emerged from the various sleeping locations around the house, we all had laughs and good memories from the two parties the day before. The one thing that was missing? Almost no one took pictures from the bachelorette.
    Lesson learned: Maybe it sucks when you can’t Instagram all of the decorations and hard work that you put into a bachelorette party for your twin sister, but when everyone is having too much fun to stop and stare at a cell phone, you know it’s been a hell of a night.

Two wedding shower/bachelorette weekends down, one to go – next up, H and R’s wedding!!

Eager Eager

It is AUGUST, which means I am BACK. Oh, it’s good to be writing again. A mini-vacation from a self-imposed responsibility to share my poor life decisions with the world was exactly what I needed before diving into yet another busy month in the life of LB.

A break, a break, I need a break. How often do we say those things? The city gets too overwhelming and too crazy, strangers pushing you in the subway: I need a break! Work is emails on meetings on phone calls on meetings, more hours, push harder, do better: I need a break! Life is weddings and parties before the weddings, clean that, decorate that, there are 40 people coming in 2 minutes: I need a break! It killed me to stop writing for a few weeks, but this was the one space in my life at that moment where I could actually, legitimately take a break, and honestly, it helped. I still checked in here, and I had all these great ideas for posts (“How Snapchat selfies saved my sanity on 4-hour client calls”; “Packing – how many feather boas are too many?”; “4 hours of sleep vs. my sister’s bridal shower”), but stepping away helped move everything along this past weekend, and this past weekend was perfect.

This past weekend was the bridal shower and bachelorette bash for Twinster, a Paris-themed fete complete with chocolate Eiffel Towers and wedding-themed drinking games (*at different parties). The weather was perfect, the crowd was perfect, and we had so many laughs that my cheeks still ache, months of nerves eased by obsessive planning on my part and a wonderful group of women. There was no feeling quite like spending 48 hours watching my sister smile and laugh and talk about her big day, which is so rapidly approaching it makes me eager and anxious and excited in a way I’ve never been before.

The weekend also kicked off bridal season for me, with weddings every month for the rest of the year. Speaking candidly, I’ve been so focused on T’s weekend that it only hit me this morning that we’re under a month before my partner-in-crime R and her Scot H make it official, the wedding I’ve been looking forward to since pretty much the day they met. The group has been so busy the past few weeks between weddings and work and other travel that it feels like we’ve barely seen each other since the springtime, so the prospect of a party to celebrate how much we love two of our own while they celebrate how much they love each other is such a delicious event to look forward to.

I’ve noticed lately that things feel like they’re on the verge of something, though I can’t tell you what that something is. Leading into last weekend things felt like they were teetering at the peak of the first drop of a roller coaster; there is anxiety and anticipation and some feeling you can’t describe, as you know things are about to tip and then the wild ride really begins. I can’t put my finger on what I’m feeling in that regard exactly – all I know is that a rush of calm came over me when I got back to my apartment last night, like things have officially been set in motion, and now everything is about to come to light. Where such a feeling might have scared me two years ago, the idea that change is a’coming whether I want it to or not has given me a steady calm, like I’ve never really felt before.

I realize this post has a lot of feelings and not a lot of substance, and a lot of crazy and very little sense, but after leaving the blog alone for two weeks, I think that’s what it needed: a boost from the cranky, whining posts of recent past, where I’m exasperated and exhausted; a new perspective after a few weeks to focus on everything calming down before everything else happens. So here’s to whatever is about to happen! Because I am b-a-c-k baby, and the only thing I can say to this crazy ride that’s getting ready to tip over is to bring. it. on.

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This is a list of Christian organisations in New Zealand.

1 Denominations and Churches
2 Ecumenical Organisations
3 Parachurch Organisations
4 Social Service Organisations
5 Educational Organisations
5.1 Theological and Bible Colleges
5.1.1 Denominational
5.1.2 Ecumenical
5.1.3 Non-denominational
6 Religious orders
7 Primary and Secondary schools
7.1 Catholic Church
7.1.1 Primary schools
7.1.2 Secondary schools
7.2 Anglican
7.2.1 Primary schools
7.2.2 Secondary schools
7.3 Methodist
7.4 Non-denominational
7.5 Presbyterian
8 See also
9 References
Denominations and Churches
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
ACTS Churches NZ (formerly the Apostolic Church Movement of New Zealand)[1]
Alliance Churches of New Zealand (The Christian & Missionary Alliance of NZ)
ARISE Church New Zealand [2]
Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand
Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (Ekalesia Fa’apotopotoga Kerisiano Samoa)
Congregational LMS Samoan Church (Ekalesia LMS Toefuataina Samoa)
Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
Methodist Church of New Zealand
Baptist Union of New Zealand
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand
Assemblies of God in New Zealand
Associated Pentecostal Churches of New Zealand
Salvation Army in New Zealand[3]
Christian Brethren Assemblies in New Zealand[4]
Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand[5]
Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania
Coptic Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand
New Life Churches, New Zealand
North Shore Church of Christ in Auckland New Zealand[6]
Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
Orthodox Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand
Reformed Churches of New Zealand
Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand
Pentecostal Church of New Zealand
Destiny Church
Revival Centres International
City Impact Church New Zealand
Church of the Nazarene in New Zealand[7]
LIFE (church)
Lutheran Church of New Zealand[8]
Elim Church New Zealand
Religious Society of Friends
The Way Of The Cross Ministries New Zealand
Ecumenical Organisations
Bible Society in New Zealand
Christian World Service
Churches Education Commission
Church Women United
Fellowship of the Least Coin
Interchurch Hospital Chaplaincy Council
Student Christian Movement
Te Runanga Whakawhanaunga I nga Haahi
Uniting Congregations of Aotearoa New Zealand
Unity Dialogue
Parachurch Organisations
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Celebrate Messiah New Zealand
Christian Broadcasting Association
Focus on the Family New Zealand
Hagar New Zealand
Parachute Music
Rhema Media
Scripture Union New Zealand
Society of St Pius X in New Zealand
Student Life New Zealand
Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship
World Vision New Zealand
Social Service Organisations
Baptist Community Ministries[9]
Catholic Social Services[10]
Christchurch City Mission[11]
Methodist Social Services[12]
New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services[13]
Presbyterian Support[14]
Wesley Community Action[15]
Educational Organisations
Theological and Bible Colleges
Arise Church Ministry School
Alphacrucis (Assemblies of God)
Bishopdale Theological College (Anglican)[16]
Booth College of Mission (Salvation Army)[17]
Catholic Institute of Theology[18]
Carey Baptist College
Equippers College (ACTS Churches NZ)[19]
Good Shepherd College (Catholic)[20]
Holy Cross Seminary (Catholic)[21]
Holy Name Seminary (Catholic) (closed)
Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership (Presbyterian)[22]
Marist Seminary (Catholic)
Ministry Training College of New Zealand (Elim)[23]
St John’s College, Auckland (Anglican)
St Mary’s Seminary (Catholic) (1850-1869)
South Pacific Bible College (Church of Christ)[24]
Theology House Christchurch (Anglican)[25]
Trinity Methodist Theological College[26]
Vision College New Zealand (ACTS Churches NZ)[27]
Ecumenical Institute of Distance Theological Studies[28]
Capernwray New Zealand [29]
Faith Bible College[30]
Grace Theological College[31]
Gospel Training Trust[32]
Laidlaw College
Lifeway College[33]
New Covenant International Bible College[34]
The Shepherd’s Bible College[35]
World Gospel Bible College[36]
Religious orders
Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth
Primary and Secondary schools
Catholic Church
Primary schools
190 Catholic primary schools
Secondary schools
See also: List of Catholic schools in New Zealand
Aquinas College
Baradene College of the Sacred Heart
Bishop Viard College
Campion College
Carmel College
Catholic Cathedral College
Chanel College
Cullinane College
De La Salle College
Francis Douglas Memorial College
Garin College
Hato Paora College
Hato Petera College
John Paul College
John Paul II High School
Kavanagh College
Liston College
Marcellin College
Marian College
Marist College
McAuley High School
Pompallier Catholic College
Roncalli College
Rosmini College
Sacred Heart College, Auckland
Sacred Heart College, Napier
Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Hamilton
Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt
Sacred Heart Girls’ College, New Plymouth
St Bede’s College
St Bernard’s College
St Catherine’s College
St Dominic’s College
St John’s College, Hamilton
St John’s College, Hastings
St Joseph’s Māori Girls’ College
St Kevin’s College
St Mary’s College, Auckland
St Mary’s College, Wellington
St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream
St. Patrick’s College, Wellington
St Paul’s College
St Peter’s College, Auckland
St Peter’s College, Palmerston North
St Peter’s College, Gore
St Thomas of Canterbury College
Sancta Maria College
Verdon College
Villa Maria College
Primary schools
Cathedral Grammar School
Churton St. James, Lower Hutt
King’s School (Auckland)
Medbury School, Christchurch
St. John’s School, Invercargill
St. Mark’s School, Christchurch
St. Mark’s School, Wellington
St. Matthew’s School, Hastings
St Michael’s Church School
Selwyn House, Christchurch
Southwell School
Secondary schools
Christ’s College, Christchurch
Craighead Diocesan School, Timaru
Dilworth School, Auckland
Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland
Hukarere Girls’ College
King’s College, Auckland
Nga Tawa Diocesan School
Rathkeale College
St. Hilda’s Collegiate, Dunedin
St. Margaret’s College, Christchurch
St. Matthew’s Collegiate, Masterton
St Mary’s Diocesan School, Stratford
St Paul’s Collegiate School
St. Peter’s College, Cambridge
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay
Waikato Diocesan School
Wellesley College, Eastbourne
Wesley College, Auckland
Bethlehem College, Tauranga
Elim Christian College
Faith Academy (New Zealand)
Hebron Christian College, Auckland
Immanuel Christian School, New Zealand
Liberton Christian School
Middleton Grange School
St. Dominic’s College, Wanganui
Columba College
Iona College, Havelock North
John McGlashan College
Queen Margaret College, Wellington
St. Andrew’s College, Christchurch
St Cuthbert’s College, Auckland
Saint Kentigern College
Saint Oran’s College, Lower Hutt
Scots College, Wellington
Solway College


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Kindergarten Transportation Information 2018-2019

In order to secure a seat for your child from the first day of school, it is important that you ensure an accurate home or daycare address is in the school’s information system prior to July.
Routes will be run with all stops as planned from the first day of school, regardless of intermittent KG start up schedule.
Motorized Transportation for Students in the Bus Zone

The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA) shall provide transportation for students of Member School Boards who reside, or in the case of students in elementary grades (KG to Grade 8) whose caregiver resides, within the designated attendance and/or program boundary of the school they are attending and meet the minimum transportation eligibility distances as follows:

-Junior and/or Senior Kindergarten 0.8 km or more
-Grades 1 to 8 1.6 km or more

The caregiver address shall supersede the home address within the designated attendance boundary of the school attended for distance measurement purposes. The pickup and drop off addresses must be consistent five (5) days a week.

Transportation to Two Homes

Students who are in a joint custody arrangement and require transportation to two homes may apply for transportation to an alternate home/daycare location based on the parties’ access schedule. All eligibility rules apply to the second address. Deadline for September 2018 seating is JUNE 1, 2018. All documents are available at:

Get Active! Resources for Students in the Walk Zone

We encourage students and their parents who are within the walk zone to use human-powered transportation. This leads to a healthier lifestyle, readiness to learn, and reduces traffic congestion around the school. Preferred walk routes to every school are available at:

Addresses inside the green line are designated walkers. Addresses outside the green line are assigned motorized transportation. If the address is in a shaded area inside the walk zone, the address is assigned to motorized transportation based on a walking hazard.

Meeting KG at Bus Stop

To ensure the safety of transported Kindergarten students, school bus drivers shall not drop off these students unless the parent/guardian or a responsible individual identified by the parent/guardian is present at the stop location to accompany the student home.

If there is no one at the stop to receive your Kindergarten student, s/he may be transported back to the school to be picked up by the parent/guardian or may be dropped off at the local police station. Failure to receive your KG child at the stop may result in termination of transportation services.

OSTA will be providing bright yellow plastic tags for each KG student. Schools will attach these tags to any KG student’s backpack (preferably on the lower left side) that is assigned to motorized transportation services. These bands will assist the driver in making sure a responsible person is at the stop to collect the student at their drop off point, per policy.

Bus Stop Location and Parent/Guardian Responsibility

  Your child’s bus stop will not be at your door.
 Kindergarten students can be expected to walk up to 500 meters to their bus stop and must be accompanied by a responsible adult on their walk.
 Arrive at the bus stop 5-10 minutes before the scheduled pick up time
 Dress properly for the weather

Responsibilities of Parents/Guardians

 Ensuring a parent or guardian is available to receive the kindergarten student at drop off  Accompanying student(s) on their way to the stop location;
 Ensuring the safety and security of student(s) while waiting at the stop location
 Assisting student(s) when getting on and off of a school bus or into or out of a small vehicle, including restraints if applicable;
 Ensuring the safety and security of student(s) after getting off the bus at the drop-off location when returning from school; and
 Providing adequate access/supervision to the student(s) at home and/or caregiver as specified by the parent/guardian.

School Bus and Pedestrian Safety Day (First Time Rider Program)

OSTA will conduct a safety program for first-time school bus riders, and young pedestrians, on Sunday August 26, 2018. If you are interested in having your child(ren) attend this important program, please check our website in early July for program date and registration information at All students are welcome to attend.

If you cannot attend a School Bus and Pedestrian Safety session, please take some time to review the school bus safety brochure and video with your child. Repetition of school bus safety rules during the first two weeks of school ensures your child, and others, will be safe during their trip to and from school.

Bus Stop Finder and the Bus Planner Parent Portal

Parents may access transportation information for their child as of mid-August using the Parent Portal on, or by clicking Bus Stop Finder. Eligibility will be identified as “walker” or will provide information about yellow bus or van service. Students will be provided a booster or car seat on van service.

We strongly encourage parents/guardians to sign up for email notification. This service provides delay information for your child’s route as well as other important service notices like snow day service cancellations.

Courtesy Seating (Empty Seats) for Students in Walk Zones

Students, who do not meet the distance eligibility requirement for motorized transportation, may apply for an empty seat on the school bus. The “Application for Access to Empty Seats on School Bus Vehicles” form is available on the OSTA website at

All applications are processed and managed by OSTA. OSTA will begin reviewing and processing applications after October 1. This ensures accurate rider numbers and how many empty seats may be assigned to other students.

Please do not place your child on a bus until the seat assignment has been confirmed through the Bus Planner Parent Portal. We have also instructed schools not to put unassigned students on buses for the ride home. To do so could compromise your child’s safety, as their name would not show up on any bus route lists.

Thanks for helping us keep all students safe!

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Liberals say the real cost of light rail is $4,000 per household per year

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ALISTAIR Coe says the real cost of ACT Labor’s tram plan has been revealed through new analysis. The ACT Labor tram network will amount to $14 billion according to a former senior ACT Treasury official which means it will cost every household $4,000 every year.

“In an article which appeared in today’s Canberra Times, it is stated that there are only three options for dealing with the massive expense which is ACT Labor’s tram,” Alistair said.

  1. Cut spending on health, education and other services;
  2. Significantly raise taxes; or
  3. Abandon light rail.

    “Labor’s plan for 90 kilometres of tram tracks is expected to cost $14 billion. This works out to be more than $80,000 per household, or $4,000 for every household every year.

    “The Treasury official said light rail is a luxury and might lead to bankruptcy.

    “Every Canberran will pay for Labor’s reckless and desperate policies.

    “Andrew Barr will do anything to be re-elected, without considering the massive burden on Canberrans for decades to come, including imposing an additional $4,000 annual bill for each household,” Mr Coe concluded.

    UPDATE: Andrew Barr has been quick to respond!

    Canberra’s population is growing, but rather than developing a plan to manage that growth, the Liberals refuse to invest in the long term transport infrastructure our city needs to avoid becoming gridlocked like Sydney.

    ACT Labor is delivering on our commitment to build a staged city wide light rail network, whilst also investing more in our health and education systems. That’s what good governments do.

    Work is underway on the fully-costed and fully funded first stage light rail. This first stage represents less than one percent of the total ACT Budget.

    For every $1 we invest in light rail, we will invest $24 in education and $33 in health.

    This will continue over the years ahead as we further improve our education and health systems AND progressively build the city-wide light rail network.

    Stage one is already being built, and Labor has committed to build stage two to Woden, to create a strong public transport spine from the north to the south.

    In 1999 Kate Carnell promised a test track for light rail, in 2005 the Liberals said the case for light rail was strong, and in 2008 they complained it was taking too long. In 2009 they opposed Labor’s rapid bus services, and before the 2012 election they retreated even further saying Canberrans would only ever use cars. Yet immediately after the election they said they were very happy to work on light rail.

    But most recently the Canberra Liberals have promised to tear up the light rail contracts, wasting $300 million of ratepayer’s money on a traffic jam, and then incredibly, they admitted that Canberra will need light rail in 20 years’ time.

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3 Responses to “Liberals say the real cost of light rail is $4,000 per household per year”

  1. September 12, 2016 at 5:23 am #

    How can Barr say LR will reduce congestion when the government’s own EIS clearly stated the LR on Northbourne will increase congestion, due to LR dictated changes in traffic signal priorities. Also the maximum capacity for the LR on Northbourne will be only 4000 passengers/hr (even at 3 minutes headway instead of 6 minutes) while a bus lane could carry 15,000/hr. The Woden LR tram will be limited to 70 km/hr (manufacturer’s specification) compared with the current express buses travelling at 80 to 90 km/hr. The fastest LR in Australia is at the Gold Coast with an average of 23 km/hr. LR will have 70% standing while buses have only 40% standing. As Infrastructure Australia said, LR is not suitable for Canberra.

  2. September 12, 2016 at 4:13 pm #

    Half-baked re-reporting of half-baked reporting is not what I expect from City News. The $14bn ‘figure’ is given for a 90 kilometre network. When will the 90 km network be built please? Couldn’t be bothered to ask the questions? Didn’t think so. Just re-reporting the anti-government rhetoric in a dying outlet like the Times does you no favours.

  3. September 12, 2016 at 5:04 pm #

    The government announced the netork will be built in 20 to 25 years.

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Uniform Mediation Act FAQs

What is the Uniform Mediation Act?

Ohio’s Uniform Mediation Act (UMA), which became effective in 2005, affects many types of mediation and is designed to provide for a uniform set of legal rules regarding mediation practices within Ohio and from state to state. The UMA can be found in chapter 2710 of the Ohio Revised Code, sections 2701.01 to 2710.10. A link to the Uniform Mediation Act in Ohio is HERE.

Why should I be concerned about the UMA?

The UMA applies in the Clermont County Common Pleas Court to both mediation of civil cases and foreclosure mediation. Knowing how the UMA affects mediation will be increasingly important for those who are participating in any type of mediation.

What types of mediation are covered by the UMA?

The UMA defines mediation broadly as any process where a third party neutral helps the disputing parties negotiate better. By Local Rule, the UMA applies to mediation of pending cases in the Clermont County Common Pleas Court.

What is not covered by the UMA?

The discussions not covered by the UMA are court settlement conferences conducted by a judicial officer (judge or magistrate) who might make a later ruling or decision in the case, collective bargaining in the labor field, school peer mediations, labor dispute mediations, or mediations in a correctional institution for youths.

Who can be a mediator under the UMA?

As defined in the UMA, a mediator is anyone who conducts a mediation. In the Clermont County Common Pleas Court, the Court Mediator and the Magistrates who mediate are all attorneys. A mediator does not have to have special credentials or a license, but a mediator must be impartial.

In essence, what does the UMA do?

The primary purpose of the UMA is to protect the private and confidential nature of discussions before, during, and after a mediation. This is important because, when people don’t talk openly with the mediator and each other, the chances of a successful settlement drop. The UMA protects the privacy of the mediation discussions, and thus helps everyone reach a mutually beneficial resolution.

How does the UMA protect the privacy of talks in a mediation?

The UMA creates a legal privilege for “mediation communication” (any statement made before, during, or after a mediation). A “privilege” is the legal ability of one person to block another person’s testimony from being introduced in a later court proceeding.

Who holds the privileges created by the UMA?

The mediator, all parties, and any other people present at the mediation (such as attorneys) have a privilege in varying degrees under the UMA to stop other people from revealing what was said at a mediation. A participant in the mediation (a party whose decision is necessary to an agreement) has a privilege against disclosure of his or her mediation communications, and may prevent any other person from disclosing any mediation communication.  The mediator holds a privilege against disclosure of a mediation communication, and may prevent another person from disclosing the mediator’s own mediation communications.  A nonparty participant (usually an attorney in a litigated case, but also a family member, expert, or other support person) may refuse to disclose, and may prevent any other person from disclosing, a mediation communication of that nonparty participant.

Can a person give up the protection of the UMA?

Yes, a person can waive or give up his or her mediation privilege, although that person still must respect the privilege held by others who are involved in the mediation.

What is not privileged?

While the heart of UMA creates a broad privilege for mediation communications, another provision specifies nine exceptions to that privilege. The exceptions can be divided into five groups by their objectives.
•A written settlement agreement signed by all parties is not privileged and is subject to disclosure. This exception is particularly important in circumstances where settlement terms and details need to be memorialized to prevent later confusion or if there is a risk that a party might change their mind about settling.
•Any mediation communication that is a public record under R.C. 149.43 or made during a session that is open or required by the public meeting laws to be open is not privileged and is open to disclosure. This exception is important when mediating with a government entity.
•A third group of exceptions deals with threats and crimes.
•A fourth grouping involves professional misconduct, either of the mediator or a party or party representative.
•The fifth group protects children and adults from abuse, neglect, abandonment or exploitation.

In addition to these statutory exceptions, the UMA spells out how privileges may be waived.

Is everything said in a mediation protected by the legal privilege in the UMA in all circumstances?

No, the mediation privilege only applies in court or other official proceedings. The UMA does not stop or limit communications by participants outside of court to third parties. If someone is concerned about protecting personal information or trade secrets, for instance, the parties can enter into a confidentiality agreement before a mediation starts.

What can a mediator tell a judge if the case is in court?

A mediator cannot tell a judge much at all. The UMA limits a mediator to telling a judge the following: whether or not the mediation occurred, who attended, and whether or not the case was settled. Beyond those points, a mediator cannot report, analyze, evaluate, or make findings or recommendations to a court or judge.

Who may attend a mediation?

The UMA specifically provides that a party may have a support person—an attorney, a family member, etc.—present and participating at the mediation.  A waiver of this attendance may be withdrawn at any time, so a participant can change his or her mind about having someone else present during a mediation.

Does a mediator have any obligations under the UMA?

Yes. A mediator must look into and reveal any potential conflicts of interest that might affect his or her impartiality, and, if asked, must disclose his or her qualifications as a mediator.

Where can I learn more about the UMA?

The exact language of the Uniform Mediation Act in Ohio is HERE.

The Internet has many resources on the UMA in Ohio. You can read the full text of the UMA at http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2710.  The Ohio Supreme Court has a Dispute Resolution Section, which can be accessed HERE. The Ohio Supreme Court also has a Commission on Dispute Resolution, which can be accessed HERE.


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Guggenheim accused of siphoning annuity unit's cash for LA Dodgers

NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) - Guggenheim Partners, overseen by billionaire Mark Walter, is facing a lawsuit claiming it defrauded annuity investors by saddling an insurance affiliate with risky assets, and siphoning cash for purposes including Walter's purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.

The complaint, which has drawn little media attention, closely mirrors in substance and language a lawsuit filed in Chicago in February 2014, only to be withdrawn a day later.

It came as Guggenheim, which said it has more than $305 billion of assets under management, tries to quell client concerns after a year of bad press over its corporate culture.

Guggenheim in April said it was cooperating with a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe into an asset management unit.

In his proposed class-action complaint, which was filed on May 22 and amended last month, Albert Ogles accused Guggenheim of deceiving customers at its insurance companies including Security Benefit Life, from which he had bought a $145,000 annuity in July 2012.

Ogles, who lives in Alabama, said Guggenheim's financial "machinations" left the insurers in "hazardous" financial shape, locking investors like himself into poorly performing investments while letting Guggenheim promote its self-interests.

He said the alleged scheme included how Guggenheim, Walter, then-Guggenheim president Todd Boehly and Texas oil tycoon Robert "Bobby" Patton Jr used the insurers as a "cash machine" to fund the $2.15 billion Dodgers purchase in 2012.

This sum included $1.2 billion "financed by policyholder and annuity holder money," the complaint said.

Guggenheim, with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, bought Security Benefit Life in 2010. It has until Aug. 8 to respond in court to the complaint, which also alleges racketeering.

"The allegations are without merit and are going to proceed with a motion to dismiss the case," Guggenheim's lawyer Dan Webb, a partner at Winston & Strawn, said in an email last week.

Lawyers for Ogles did not respond to requests for comment.

The complaint filed with the federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, seeks triple and other damages from Guggenheim, Security Benefit Life and other defendants. No individuals were sued.

Walter is worth $3.1 billion, Forbes magazine said.

Concerns about Guggenheim's management also surfaced in media reports that staff and clients were concerned about the relationship between Walter and Alexandra Court, who had been global head of institutional distribution.

Court recently left Guggenheim after a year's sabbatical. A Guggenheim spokesman has said she and Walter had only a "business relationship," and that a personal relationship would have had to be disclosed.

The case is Ogles v Security Benefit Life Insurance Co et al, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, No. 18-02265. (Reporting By Jennifer Ablan and Jennifer Ablan)

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Michael Eisner reiterated his company's position on Comcast Corp.'s proposed $54 billion takeover bid for Disney, indicating the bid is below-market, and the Disney board of directors rallied in support Monday. He said growth is the trend after a better-than-expected quarter.

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Family sues Disneyland over bedbugs, but no complaints filed with health agency

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A Northern California family is suing the Walt Disney Co. saying its Disneyland Resort vacation two years ago included being bit by bed bugs while staying at the Grand Californian Resort & Spa. The Orange County Health Care Agency said it has received one complaint about bed bugs in the last five years. The complaint, received earlier this month, was dismissed after an inspection found no such evidence.

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This is the second part of a series sponsored by CodeGuard. Although I'll walk you through the basics of adding your site in this tutorial, I suggest beginning with our detailed first episode: How to Back Up a WordPress Website With CodeGuard.

What Is CodeGuard?

CodeGuard is an automated cloud-based backup service for websites and databases, and it's well suited to securely backing up your WordPress sites in real time and restoring them. CodeGuard can restore your website automatically, which is recommended, or through several manual processes you can choose from.

When it comes to backing up WordPress, we need to consider all the files in our WordPress configuration, e.g. WordPress itself, themes, plugins, image uploads et al., as well as our database. CodeGuard can manage backups and restoration for all of these.

Every day, CodeGuard watches for changes and updates its backups:

CodeGuard Checking Your Site for Changes Daily

In this tutorial, I'm going to briefly recap using CodeGuard to configure backups for a typical self-hosted WordPress site and then describe the various restoration options available to you. Again, I suggest beginning with our detailed first episode: How to Back Up a WordPress Website With CodeGuard.

In case you're wondering, CodeGuard used to offer a WordPress plugin but has moved away from that solution for security and reliability issues. If you're interested in WordPress Multisite, there are a couple of ways to configure CodeGuard to back up WordPress Multisite.

Backing Up WordPress With CodeGuard

For this demonstration, I'm going to configure CodeGuard to back up my Yii2x Developer Exchange website which runs on WordPress.

CodeGuard Backup Walkthrough Will Use Yii2 Developer WordPress Website

Add Your Website

Your configuration may differ, but I'm using Ubuntu with SFTP and a custom port configuration. I've described my WordPress installation before as well as my security configurations in Securing Your Server Login (Tuts+).

CodeGuard Backups Add Your Website

Then I select the path to my WordPress site which appears via SFTP in my home directory from a symbolic link. All of this is described in detail in How to Back Up a WordPress Website With CodeGuard.

CodeGuard Backups Capture Your Code

Then CodeGuard will begin backing up your site and showing its Backup Progress Tracker:

CodeGuard Backups Progress Tracker

Add Your Database

Then we add our database. I'm using my SSH account to tunnel into MySQL:

CodeGuard Backups Add New Database

Select your database:

CodeGuard Backups Add New Database

Then CodeGuard will begin backup of your database tables and show you its progress:

CodeGuard Backups Database Progress Tracker

When complete, you'll see the summary in the dashboard—which eventually will include a history of recent backups:

CodeGuard Backups Summary Dashboard

Here's the latest backup:

CodeGuard Backup History

CodeGuard's restore options can be quite granular. You can see individual files listed from specific backups.

CodeGuard Backup Details

Now let's walk through CodeGuard's built-in restoration process.

Restoring Your WordPress Website

If you click on your website from the CodeGuard dashboard, you'll see a reference to recent backups and buttons which link to restoration options:

CodeGuard Restore Your Website and Database

Website Restoration Options

First, let's click through to our website, e.g. You'll see three restore options: Automatic Restore (recommended), Download Zip, and Selective Restore:

CodeGuard Select Restore Type

Let's begin with Automatic Restore, which incorporates your database restore into the process as well.

Using Automatic Restore

Click the Automatic Restore button. You'll be asked to select the WordPress website and its accompanying database:

CodeGuard Automatic Restore

Then you'll be asked to verify your contact information and provide a reason for the restore:

CodeGuard Restore Contact Information

Finally, you'll be asked to confirm your restore to begin the process:

CodeGuard Confirm Restore

Before performing the restoration, CodeGuard will perform one final backup in case you need to switch back to the pre-restore version.

Here's the CodeGuard automatic restoration progress tracker:

Pretty easy, right? Here's a brief video demonstration of the automatic restoration process in action.

Another option is to download a zip of your WordPress website files.

Using Download Zip

From the restore options page, click on the Download Zip button. You'll be asked to select which content to back up—or you can click the Download Entire Backup button in the upper right:

CodeGuard Select Content to Download as a Zip

CodeGuard will perform the zip backup in the background, providing you a progress tracker.

CodeGuard Zip Files in Progress

It will send you an email when it's complete and available for download:

CodeGuard Download Available

You can use the zip file to restore your site to any location you wish.

Selective Restore

If you just need a single file or need to replace a corrupted directory, Selective Restore is ideal.

First you're asked to select which directories and files to restore:

CodeGuard Selective Restore

Then you need to confirm the selections:

CodeGuard Confirm Selective Restore

And then CodeGuard will begin the restoration process automatically, as it did for the complete restoration earlier.

Restoring Your Database

If you click on your database from the restore page, you'll see two options: Request Zip and Restore (which works automatically).

CodeGuard Restore Your Database

Request Zip

If you want a zip file of your WordPress database, CodeGuard will provide it in just a few minutes. You can choose to wait for a download link or have it emailed to you when complete.

CodeGuard Restore Your Database Zip Will Begin Shortly

Automatic Database Restore

Or you can automatically restore your database. Click the Restore button and CodeGuard will show its Progress Tracker as it performs the database restoration:

In Closing

CodeGuard is a great solution for reliably maintaining WordPress websites and their databases. Whatever your need, CodeGuard has a variety of options to ease the backup and restore process.

I hope you've found these two CodeGuard for WordPress tutorials useful. Please feel free to post corrections, questions and comments below. I do keep up with the Tuts+ discussions. You can also reach me on Twitter @reifman or email me directly.

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Confederates In The Attic by Tony Horwitz

Confederates In The Attic

Although this work of non-fiction was written in the 1990’s, it’s especially pertinent today.  Journalist and Civil War enthusiast Tony Horwitz took a journey through the South, following the path of the great Civil War battles.  Sometimes he went as a reenactor, and sometimes as a journalist, interviewing various Southerners about their view of the Civil War and civil rights.

I think it helped that Horwitz had a penchant for Civil War history himself, because throughout his interviews, he was able to remain objective and allow the reader to see the human side of the subjects he interviewed.  I greatly enjoyed hearing the stories and learning why many Southerners hold on to their Confederate past.

My family didn’t emigrate to the United States until after the Civil War, and they settled in the North, so all this is relatively new to me.  But I have a love of history and spent many years researching the family genealogy, so I felt a kinship to these people who identify with their family’s history.  From the grunt soldier re-enactor to the Scarlet O’Hara impersonator,  they have an intrinsic understanding that the past has made them who they are today.

Recent events in Charlottesville have placed anyone who cherishes Southern history in the limelight, and not in a good way.  That’s unfortunate, because these people generally take the good with the bad.  They don’t claim that slavery was virtuous or that their heroes of the war were saints.  But it is THEIR past, and they don’t want it erased.  In today’s politically correct society, there is little tolerance for middle ground.  If you own a rebel battle flag, you must be a racist.

Towards the end of his journey, he visited a high school history class in Selma, Alabama. The teacher, a black woman, told Horwitz that the US Civil War was not even part of the curriculum, but she chose to spend a little time teaching it anyway.  The views of these teenagers was shocking, but it helped me to understand how we got to where we are today.  Segregation may not be enforced anymore, but it’s freely chosen.  The racial divide is greater than ever, and the ideology of race has become a mainstay of identity politics.

In August 2017, Horwitz wrote of piece for the Wall Street Journal, revisiting some of the subjects he interviewed for this book.  I detected a drift away from the author’s warm, non-judging tone to one that is more fitting with today’s subjective journalism.  It made me sad.

5 stars (out of 5)
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At 33, Martin Luther King Jr. was working diligently for civil rights alongside Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. At 34, he captivated the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech. At 35, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. While facing numerous threats of harm to he and his family, Dr. King continued to march and speak publicly regardless of how frightened he may have been. When he was assassinated at 39, he left an inspiring legacy of resoluteness and courage that continues today for us as educators, parents and school climate change agents.

Dr. King said that “we must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” Although he spoke those words a long time ago, the need for courage in the face of fear is no less prophetic today than it was in the midst of the American civil rights movement of the 60’s. And indeed, as we tackle the 21st century challenges of our public school system, the need for courage stands at the forefront of required character attributes.

We know that injustice, indifference and incivility take place in our schools every day. We also know that there are four different student “participants” involved in the dynamics -- those who are the aggressors, those who are the targets of the aggression, those who stand by watching and those who stand up and speak up to stop or de-fuse the aggression (aka bullying, cyber-bullying, teasing, hazing, harassment, etc.).

There are three primary elements that a student needs to shift from being a bystander to becoming an upstander:

  1. Courage – According to Wikipedia, courage is “the choice and willingness to confront pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation. Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, discouragement or personal loss.” As was fully evident in Dr. King’s life, standing up for others in the face of intimidation can be a daunting task, a risk that many people are unwilling to take. When a student intervenes with a bully in action, he or she has to summon the fortitude to go against the grain, and perhaps most importantly, hold the belief that his or her actions have the potential of helping another human being from being victimized.
  2. Skillfulness – One of the main things that help a student find the courage to take a stand is possessing the skills that make intervening safe and effective. They also need ample and ongoing opportunities to practice and integrate their skills in non-threatening situations.
  3. Consistent Support – We all want young people to be upstanders, and in order for them to be successful we must provide ongoing support and supervision. Within a school culture, all staff members need to be trained to offer a consistent message of support to do the right thing, to be ‘hall-friendly’ adults and to make relationships their highest priority.

The evidence-based Safe School Ambassadors® Program (SSA) empowers student bystanders to speak up and intervene with their peers in bullying-related incidents. The year-long program engages the socially-influential leaders of a school’s diverse cliques. These “alpha” students participate in a two-day interactive training along with several adults who serve as program mentors. The SSA training gives student Ambassadors the motivation and skills to resolve conflicts, defuse incidents, and support isolated and excluded students. After the training, small “family group” meetings of Ambassadors and adult facilitators are held every few weeks, providing regular and consistent support so that they can confidently and competently help their schools become havens of safety and inclusion.

In the words of Dr. King, “The time is always right to do what is right.”

Learn more about waking up students’ courage to do what is right with the Safe School Ambassadors® program at http://community-matters.org/programs-and-services/safe-school-ambassadors

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Legacy controllers (200, 800, 2400, SC1 and SC2) and 3200 do not support upgrading to AOS version 6.2.x.x.

Currently, the newer controller models like 7200 Series, M3, 3200XM, 3400, 3600, and 600 Series are the ones that are supported on 6.2.x.x. This list may, however, change in future with the release of newer controller models.

Another point to note is, when a 651 controller is upgraded to 6.2, the internal AP is disabled and the 651 will appear as 650-1 and the
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    Your 2018 Extra Life Stories!

    Ever Extra Life event is different and we all have different experiences. Lets here yours! What did you play? Did you do anything crazy fun for incentives? What would do differently for 2019?
  2. Just found this thread, thought I'd share my Extra Life should piece I got last year.
  3. It kind of saddens me that the Winnipeg Extra Life forums have died down, I can take some blame for that. Extra Life gets bigger every year and with that I know there's people in Winnipeg who are just starting out but have questions so I've started this thread to help give advice to anyone seeking insight, help, or whatever it may be. This will be my 7th year, I want to help those just starting out have the best event they possibly can!
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    Starting early this year!

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    Starting early this year!

    Shaw would be our best bet as a lot of commercial spaces use Shaw already.
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    Starting early this year!

    I've never done a Play Room event but it could be fun! I have a lot of capture stuff so we could do PC/Console if we wanted.
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    Starting early this year!

    The more the merrier! I get competitive when it comes to who raises the most money thought So let the competition begin.
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    Starting early this year!

    Go big or go home, right?
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    Starting early this year!

    A lot of you may not know who I am but that's ok. I've been doing Extra Life going on 5 years now and have always plateau'd around the $500 mark. This year I want to change that and go for the $1,000 mark. To do that I've created incentives which can be found on my donation page to help drive people to donate hopefully (fingers crossed). I'm going to attempt this years Extra Life in 3 parts, each 24 hours, in an attempt to raise the $1,000 in chunks rather than a 1 time shot. First round begins April 16th, second round will be roughly around mid September, and final round will be November 5th to coincide with the global event. I'd love to hear peoples thoughts, whatever, maybe some support *wink wink nudge nudge* on my page: http://www.extra-life.org/participant/shawnbernard Cheers to another year every one!
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    How to get involved?

    Hi Sturbinator, I'm not a part of that Facebook Messenger chat and going to be attending the guild meetings in the future. Regards
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    Thursdays is my podcast day
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    2015 experience

    I really want to get these forums bumping and get new people involved. I have a lot of friends who did Extra Life this weekend but aren't aware theres forums to communicate/participate with one another. That all being said let's hear how your experience was this year!!! Personally this was my favourite year so far participating. I raised more money than I ever have, the stream had literally no issues (no frame drops, no internet drops), and my chat was a constant chatter of meme's or kappa's. Felt so accomplished going to bed at 10 a.m yesterday.
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    How to get involved?

    I've contacted you via PM Graeme.
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    How to get involved?

    So I've been observing from the side lines for a bit now and would like to bring a few things to the table to help take the Winnipeg Guild to the next level. Through the major gaming community grape vine I've been hearing a lot of commotion around Extra Life but people are not sure how to approach it yet. I would like to help bridge the gap between the two. If Jasmyn Johnson could please send me a private message (I got the name from another posting) that would be much appreciated.
  15. Hey, I'm Shawn I haven't been able to attend an EL Guild meeting yet but I'm a staff member from the BaseLAN event and a participant of EL for the last few years! I've been here for a bit but hiding in the shadows but hoping to now be able to post more. Here are my tags/links. steam: pyro1991337 twitter: https://twitter.com/casual_bot twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/pyro1991337 Cheers!


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Am I right in assuming the only way to move my hub location is to type a different address in? I go to the place on the map where the pin is (iOS) and the only thing I can do is expand the location.

What I’d like to do is to move the home location about 1/2 mile closer to the main highway, at the entrance to our development, but I don’t see a way to move it. So I’m guessing to do this I need to find an address close to the middle of the development (that I can then expand the circle so it is large but not so large it hits the highway).

I can’t expand it any further from my home because there is a highway behind us that I travel on at times and that would trip certain events I don’t want tripped.

(Yipes I did some searching on this and find that if I start over I’ll delete all my devices and such. This is BAD – I cannot do that. But there should be SOME way to adjust the hub short of just expanding it).

You’re supposed to be able to just change the location and not have to change anything else. Not remove devices or change smart apps.

You Used to be able to do this through the mobile app. The current version of the mobile app no longer supports voice navigation, so I can’t confirm this one way or the other.

But I would just contact because you’re definitely supposed to be able to just move the pin.

Which version of the mobile app are you using?

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Just tested myself and you can move your location at will. Through the mobile app location settings. If you can’t get to to work support will be able to help you.

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Yeah, I was having issues with the app but finally got it working (I think it may have had something to do with the server problems and/or changeover that was occurring).

But, thanks!