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How can we teach religion in schools better?
By Suzanne Newcombe
The Religious Studies Department here at the Open University has just reached the conclusion of an 18-month collaborative project exploring the thoughts of stakeholders 'outside the classroom' on Religious Education in schools and the proposals for shifting the school paradigm to an approach called 'Religion and Worldviews.'
Proposed Religion and Worldviews national entitlement summary:
Pupils are entitled to be taught, by well qualified and resourced teachers, knowledge and understanding about:
· what religion is and worldviews are, and how they are studied;
· the impact of religion and worldviews on individuals, communities and societies;
· the diversity of religious and non-religious worldviews in society;
· the concepts, language and ways of knowing that help us organise and make sense of our knowledge and understanding of religion and worldviews; the human quest for meaning, so that they are prepared for life in a diverse world and have space to recognise, reflect on and take responsibility for the development of their own personal worldview.
(NATRE, CoRE, RE: Today, n.d.).
Over the last year, this research group has explored three key research questions with a series of focus groups and surveys. We asked for opinions and impressions on 1) the current State of Religious Education in schools, 2) the 'Religion and Worldviews' proposal and 3) What is needed to improve the quality and public perception of RE teaching. We explored these issues with:
Religious and Non-Religious Community Interest Groups (31 focus group participants in 4 geographically distinct locations)
Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education (SACRE) Members (9 focus group participants and 144 survey responses)
Parents (3 focus group participants and 45 survey responses)
School Leadership, i.e. Multi-Academy Trust leadership, School Heads and other senior leaders (6 focus group participants)
Academics and Policy Professionals (14 focus group participants)
The general conclusions from this process were that there is a need and appetite for greater engagement between the different stakeholders (Harvey et al. 2022). Schools, SACREs, community groups and parents all expressed enthusiasm for working together. It was also suggested that support and best practice guidance on this would be appreciated. Academics were keen to host and/or facilitate networking meetings and provide content to inspire school-level pupils (e.g. see the OpenLearn courses Why not 'World Religions'? and Census Stories).
Greater community engagement could also contribute to greater positive perceptions of RE/RW education and hence to greater critical religious literacy in the long term. More interaction with academics could ensure that school and university-level teaching on religion can lead to better alignment between educational levels. The importance of better integrating school and university-level approaches to the study of religion was also a focus of a recent report by the Independent Schools Religious Studies Association.
Another important conclusion from the project research is a need for more clarity and better messaging around 'What is being taught and why?' in Religious Education. While the British public has generally negative attitudes towards religion in general (Harvey et al. 2021b, p. 6), once the aims of religious education in schools are explained, i.e. the national entitlement summary above, opinions about the importance of RE in promoting social cohesion and ethical development are generally widely appreciated.
To start the process of improving the understanding and messaging around the contemporary religious education agenda to stakeholders outside the classroom, we have developed a new OpenLearn course entitled An Education in Religion and Worldviews.
The Religion and Worldviews proposal is a potentially effective container for bringing forward discussions which can aid community cohesion, teaching productive dialogue across different beliefs and backgrounds. This does not require complete agreement on definitions of 'religion' or 'worldviews' – or even the specific content of a local school's curriculum.
In fact, learning to work with contested concepts and dialogue with people's deeply held sense of identity, is one of the most important aspects of high-quality Religious Education. It also teaches skills that are in high demand in our twenty-first century economy in which 80% of the workforce is in the service sector.
Cooling, T., Bowie, B. and Panjwani, F. (2020) 'Worldviews in Religious Education', Theos and Canterbury Christchurch University. Available at: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/ research/ 2020/ 10/ 21/ worldviews-in-religious-education  (Accessed: 14 April 2022).
Culham St Gabriel's (2021) 'Public Perception' report of commissioned research: https://www.cstg.org.uk/activities/campaigns/public-perception/
Harvey, Sarah (2021a) 'Baseline Report 1: Setting the Context' 15 July. Inform website. Available at: https://inform.ac/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Baseline-Report-1-Setting-the-Context.pdf
Harvey, Sarah with assistance from Ruby Forrester, Suzanne Newcombe, Farzeen Shahzad and Silke Steidinger (2021b) 'Baseline Report 2: Public Perception: Student and Teacher Views' 25 November. Inform website. Available at: https://inform.ac/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Baseline-Report-2-Public-Perception-Student-and-Teacher-Views1.pdf
Harvey, Sarah with Carrie Alderton, Amy Ark, Phil Champain, Suzanne Newcombe and Anna Lockley-Scott. (2022) Promoting the Exploration of Religion and Worldviews in Schools: Insights Report. 4 April. Faith and Belief Forum Website. Available at: https://faithbeliefforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Insights-Report-Final.pdf
NATRE, CoRE, RE: Today (n.d.) 'A National Plan for RE in England Summary'. Available at: https://www.natre.org.uk/ uploads/ Free%20Resources/ A%20National%20Plan%20for%20RE%20-%20CoRE%20summary%20final%20with%20headers.pdf  (Accessed: 14 April 2022).
Ofsted (2021) 'Research review series: religious education', 21 May, HMSO. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/ research-review-series-religious-education/ research-review-series-religious-education#contents  (Accessed: 14 April 2022).
This entry was posted in RE, Religious literacy, Uncategorized and tagged education, RE, schools, teaching, worldviews on July 12, 2022 by David Robertson.
Forget Worldviews: Manifesto for a Postmodern Religious Studies
By Paul-François Tremlett
The point of departure for this post is that the much-touted Worldviews paradigm (REC 2018) — in much the same fashion as the World Religion Paradigm — conceives of religions as substances and as containers to which can then be ascribed traits and qualities, into which can be poured particular collections of beliefs, practices, founders, texts and institutions. Such conceptions lead to stereotypes, clichés and essentialism, and hinder the cultivation of critical religious literacy.
An alternative is required and, as such, I propose conceiving religions broadly in terms of relations rather than as substances or containers, and specifically as assemblages (Deleuze and Guattari 2014). An assemblage is a multiplicity of interconnected things. What would this approach mean for the study of Christianity?
In 1999–2000 I conducted fieldwork around Mount Banahaw in the Philippines. I was interested in religious groups and churches that had emerged amidst (i) complex historical encounters between Catholic and Protestant missionary activity in the context of Empire and revolution; (ii) gendered Southeast Asian conceptions of power and healing; and (iii), more recent post-colonial, nationalist, urban and diasporic imaginaries and networks.
Asymmetric interactions in Banahaw generated a religion called Rizalism, which was characterised by vernacular Biblical interpretation fused with local ontology, improvised monumental architecture, the configuration of José Rizal — a 19th century Filipino doctor and novelist executed by the Spanish colonial regime in 1896 and later elevated to the status of national hero — into a messianic personage and, with regard to the largest of the Rizalist churches in Banahaw the Ciudad Mistica de Dios — the building of a "city" that challenged the urban imaginaries of the Spanish and American colonial projects and the Philippines' own urban modernity. The Rizalism assemblage, then, drew and related together a number of previously distinct elements to constitute a new religious formation.
A further example from the Philippines concerns El Shaddai, which is neither Catholic nor Protestant and is both local and global. El Shaddai is a Catholic charismatic-Pentecostal group that, through mass rallies, radio and television programmes, digital media and a mega-church complex, links various locales across the archipelago with Manila and numerous Pinoy diasporas in Asia, Europe and the Americas. If traditional Catholic religiosity in the Philippines is centred on the defined space of the parish church and mediated through the priest, El Shaddai generates a mediatised transmission chain that links together domestic spaces, virtual spaces and numerous locales with rallies and worship in Manila, by broadcasting the latter live on various media platforms. The El Shaddai assemblage, then, also combines, relates and connects a host of previously distinct elements and gives them a new form.
An ethnographic perspective on El Shaddai and the Rizalists of Mount Banahaw opens out the lived and improvised, do-it-yourself dimensions of these assemblages. Both have been generated through everyday combinations of previously distinct elements. An astronomer's perspective makes visible how each of these assemblages has coalesced as a result of a series of asymmetrical, historical "generative interactions" (Tremlett 2021) between missionaries, technologies, landscapes and more. Combining these perspectives reveals complex processes of combination-relation-articulation by which different things arrive in each other's orbit to become an assemblage and processes of disintegration-separation wherein those orbits are disturbed and the elements pulled apart, perhaps to decompose altogether, or to fall into the orbit of something else.
A postmodern Religious Studies interested in Christianity would begin with such groups because they demonstrate the existence not of a distinct, single worldview called Christianity but rather a diversity of christianities assembled across multiple scales of the social (local, national and global). Critical religious literacy does not reside in being able to reproduce the ideologically policed borders of Christianity as a single tradition, but in being able to analyse its interactions and relations with the different scales and dimensions of the social, using multiple lenses (see Moore 2010).
This post was originally published on Socrel's blog at Medium: https://socrel.medium.com/forget-worldviews-manifesto-for-a-postmodern-religious-studies-85fbcf061b74. Reposted with permission and gratitude.
This entry was posted in Ideas, RE and tagged assemblage, deleuze, el shaddai, rhizome, rizal, worldviews on December 14, 2021 by David Robertson.
Promoting Better Public Understanding of Religion and Worldviews
Religion is an area of great contention. Media – both 'social' or traditional – seeks to gain attention by tantalising lines which inflame our passions and tug on our heartstrings. What better for the media to grab our attention, than by drawing attention some of the most deeply felt aspects of our identity and sense of connection with others. Yet identification with traditional, institutionalised religion is fading from public declarations of identity in Britain (see our new OpenLearn course Census Stories for more on this).
As we grapple with how we fit together as a society – what are our shared values and connective rituals? – beliefs continue to grab headlines, drive our behaviour and spark our anxieties. On a global scale, religious identity continues to be an important element of facing shared global challenges of climate change, migration, and the growing inequalities in health and wealth. The scale of these challenges means that accurate and sensitive discussions of religion – the beliefs and practices which shape our values and sense of identity – is as important and relevant as ever.
The vision for this project came from the realisation that there is a lot of excellent, but largely under-coordinated and under-resourced work seeking to improve the public discussions around a critical religious literacy. Improving public understanding about the nature of religion and belief, as well as ensuring information about these human practices is accurately conveyed in public discourse, needs a multi-pronged approach. Transforming public understandings requires greater coordination between school-level teachers of Religious Education, university-level educators in the Study of Religion, the media, civil servants and policy makers.
In the summer of 2020, the Open University's Religious Studies Department and Inform held a virtual roundtable to solidify networks between the many passionate and committed actors trying to improve public understandings about religion and how it needs to be considered in communications for facing many social challenges involving health, security and education. The Faith and Belief Form shared its specific expertise in promoting community cohesion and promoting strong, productive and positive relations between people of different faiths and no-faith. Also in attendance was the CEO of Culham St Gabriel's charity; Culham was in the process of strengthening its strategic commitment to promoting the Religious Education Council's report on Religion and Worldviews (2018). Together with Inform's commitment to promoting accurate information about minority religions and agile social scientific research team, and the Open University's commitment to educating wider publics through its unique nationwide, online platforms – the Religion and Worldviews project was collaboratively initiated.
We are almost half-way into this project now. The first output was a 'Baseline Report' which provides an overview of the existing reports relative to both Religious Education (RE) and to the perception of religion in public life more generally. This report has raised a number of key questions about public perceptions of the Study of Religion as a subject. Meanwhile primary research by Inform on perceptions of religious education at British schools by current University Students as well as an independent general population survey commissioned by Culham's in the summer of 2021, provides valuable evidence that many people find much of value in school-level Religious Education.
We are in the middle of the project and are currently seeking to better understand to what extent Religion and Worldviews proposal might be able to provide a coherent way forward for religious education at school level in England – and what the barriers are toward finding consensus around a more shared vision of the study of religion in schools. This autumn, led by the Faith and Belief Forum, the project is holding a number of focus groups with community groups, SACRES, educational leaders, parents and those who have influence on educational policy to try to determine the barriers to implementing a more vibrant and coherent approach to religious education that is fit for purpose in our contemporary world. The eventual outputs of the project will be a series of resources to help school leaders, civil servants, parents and others 'outside the classroom' better articulate a coherent vision of Religion and Worldviews as a way forward for best addressing the variety of competing needs around religious education at this time. Our Resources Packs should be ready in the summer of 2022.
With the diverse competing interests of religious and secular beliefs and practices, it is hard to achieve consensus on a shared coherent vision for religious education. Yet the need is great. Religious and non-religious beliefs will continue to inform the frameworks of public debate as we move to face the shared global challenges of coping with inequalities of wealth and health as well as the effects of climate change.
It is hoped that this project will help coalesce a better consensus around Religion and Worldviews as being a container which can move largely shared agendas forward. Religious actors as well as university and school-level educators passionately believe in the importance of accurate and sensitive understandings of religious and secular worldviews being presented in public discourse. Alongside other partners, this project hopes to drive this broadly shared agenda forward.
This entry was posted in contemporary religion in historical perspective, RE, Religious literacy and tagged inform, RE, religious education, worldviews on October 12, 2021 by David Robertson.
What happens to you after you die? Suzanne Newcombe outlines some of the many ideas promulgated by religious groups around the world.
You can read more in the new OpenLearn article Life After Death. Or you could even enroll on our free course Religion today: Themes and issues.
This entry was posted in Opinion, RE, Videos and tagged afterlife, life after death, openlearn, suzanne newcombe, video on July 30, 2019 by David Robertson.
Religious Studies and studying? Restraint and Celebration
Religious festivals involve a range of social practices. From having an annual drink with acquaintances before Christmas, office parties, spending money on gifts and eating a weeks' worth of food in a day, and ideally fitting in all that study, juggling demands can be difficult. In this session, we think about what these religious festivals might add, and how restraint during Lent or Ramadan, followed by festivities, are different to things like dry January.
But what does this have to do with studying? Taking ideas of restraint and celebration and applying those to study, Graham Harvey and Paul-Francois Tremlett give you some space to think about potential gains vs time, acknowledging success, and when discipline can be useful in your studies.
From Student Hub Live
This entry was posted in Ideas, RE, Videos and tagged graham harvey, paul francois tremlett, student hub, Study, study skills, studying on September 11, 2018 by David Robertson.
SEMINAR: Stephen Quilley, "Environmentalism on the Margins"
We are looking forward to welcoming Dr. Stephen Quilley of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, to the Open University on April 19th. He will be presenting a paper entitled "Environmentalism at the Margins: Exploring existing possibilities for an alternative modernity" in room MR05, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, from 14:00-16:00 (abstract below). Please join us if you can for what is sure to be a lively and stimulating talk – and if you can't be there in person, we'll be streaming the presentation on our Facebook page. More details here – http://ow.ly/221U308tKjr.
Understood as a complex adaptive system and through the lens of Holling's Panarchy heuristic, modern industrial capitalism is a 'deep basin of attraction'. The global consumer society has proved itself to be a profoundly resilient system – resilient, but nevertheless biophysically limited. As the metabolism of global civilization begins to breach significant thresholds and transgress 'planetary boundaries' humanity is approaching social-ecological 'tipping points'. Experiencing the concatenating effects of collapsing economies, degraded ecosystems, social crisis, political chaos, communal violence and war, failed and failing states are tracing the outlines of an undesirable basin of attraction defined by collapse. The challenge facing humanity amounts to a rather simple wicked dilemma: is it possible to reconcile technological and socio-political modernity (and all the requisite flows of materials, energy and information) with biosphere integrity and sustainable global life support systems. In this paper, we argue that the alternative modernity defined by this wicked problem should be envisaged as a 'third basin of attraction' i.e. the often-vaunted political economy of the 'third way' construed through the language of systems theory. In this paper, we explore the outlines of such an 'attractor' in terms of political economy, technological prerequisites and problems of culture/ontology. We explore some of the prefigurative possibilities evoked by various 'environmentalisms at the margins' i.e. counter-cultural lifestyles, intentional communities, disruptive technologies and practices, and alternative social commitments. These are building niches in diverse settings that could begin to contour space for a new kind of modernity, one that could enable socially and technologically complex human societies to thrive without compromising long-term ecological integrity. Specifically, we investigate how community-based health systems, micro-fabrication and Maker culture, and new religious movements at the periphery of the environmental movement may contribute to a developing 'third basin of attraction' – an alternative to the primary basin of attraction of consumer capitalism and the all too near second basin of societal collapse.
This entry was posted in events, RE and tagged collapse, complex adaptive systems, distributism, ecological economics, environmentalism, limits to growth, P2P economy, panarchy, planetary boundaries, pre-figurative politics, reMaker society, resilience theory, seminar, Third Way on March 1, 2017 by David Robertson.
New video on teaching RE
We've been asked to publicise this new video to recuit applicants for RE. Please promote 'RE: teaching beyond the ordinary' through your networks.
http://www.teachre.co.uk/beyondtheordinary/
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 Бердичевський Леонід Опанасович — радянський офіцер, Герой Радянського Союзу.
 Бердичевський Марк Наумович (1924—2009) — геофізик, доктор технічних наук, професор кафедри геофізичних методів дослідження земної кори геофізичного факультету МДУ.
 Бердичевський Сергій Ілліч — політичний діяч, член Української Центральної Ради.

 Міха Йосеф Бердичівський (1865—1921) — єврейський мислитель і письменник на івриті та їдиші українського походження.

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Instituto Projeto Sonhar provides social, spiritual and health services for people in accordance with the circumstances in which they live. They work on an integrated level to help families from the Capão Redondo region of São Paulo lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
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Security guard companies often have to keep double records of employees. One for their security guard management system and another for the payroll which often results in unnecessary double work. Correct, isn't it?
Since the natural data flow is disturbed, it paves the way for additional errors. This can be eliminated by integrating the two which we are more than glad to announce today as a part of Guardso 6.0 updates. We'll be offering seamlessness Guardso payroll integration with a few well-known payroll providers of the industry.
QuickBooks Payroll is one of the best payroll providers for small business. In case you are using it currently, you'll be thrilled to know that now you will be able to integrate it with Guardso, and vice versa to manage payroll with absolute ease.
A single click in Guardso's Payroll Reports will allow you to effortlessly send timesheets to QuickBooks online. All the hours from the guard's timesheets will be transferred as regular hours.
If the guards have any time off, holiday time, sick time, or overtime in a pay period, you will be required to manually adjust them in QuickBooks Online after exporting payroll from Guardso.
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From Guardso you'll be able to export payroll effortlessly in a file format ready to be uploaded on Gusto payroll to increase accuracy & reduce errors. The file of the security guards to do just that will include all their time hours, overtime hours, holidays, and even PTO.
ADP Workforce is one of the most sought after payroll developers. Which is why ADP payroll is known to process payroll faster and easier – locally & globally. It's one of the reasons why today we are proud to have them as an integration for Guardso payroll.
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Welcome to BirdGenie, a groundbreaking new app that enables you to quickly and easily record and identify singing birds around you.. You can also learn something about their habits, listen to example songs, browse pictures, and even view rotatable 3-D models of certain species.
To get the best results from BirdGenie, the recording needs to capture a clear, loud song of the one bird you are trying to identify. Ideally, there should be minimal background noise and no other birds singing at the same time.
Record only one bird. If several are singing at once, wait until only one is singing before you start recording.
Get as close to the bird as you can without disturbing it.
Point the microphone toward the bird (the mic is usually on the end of the phone away from the On/Off button).
Hold your arm out and keep it very still.
Don't walk while you're recording.
Be aware of background noises such as air conditioners, lawn mowers, andwind.
Record only one bird. If several are singing at once, wait until only one is singing before you stop recording.
Be aware of background noises such as air conditioners, lawn mowers, and strong winds.
Knowing exactly when a bird is going to start singing is tough. To make it easy to record a whole song, BirdGenie has a Pre-record feature that continuously records a short, 2-second loop once you are in the recording screen.
That means that with Pre-record, your final recording will include two seconds of time BEFORE you tapped the button to start the recording.
When you are in position, hold out your phone, stand still, and when the bird starts to sing tap the record button.
When the bird finishes singing, just tap the BirdGenie button again to capture the recording.
BirdGenie will then try to identify the species.
Some bird species sound fairly similar to one another, so sometimes the recording may not be clear enough for a perfect ID.
In this instance, BirdGenie will present the few species that most closely match your recording.
Compare the pictures and songs of each species with what you are seeing and hearing. You should be able to determine the identity of the species.
And of course anonymously sharing your recordings will help us learn more about different variations for a particular species.
We are working hard to ensure BirdGenie identifies bird songs with as much accuracy as possible.
However, there may be times when it may not be able to identify a particular song.
When BirdGenie can't identify a species it will try and offer information about any problems with the recording.
The recorded song is too quiet.
The recording has too much noise.
The recording has more than one species singing at the same time.
The bird is not one of the species or vocalization types covered by this version of BirdGenie.
TAP the TELL ME MORE button. By answering three or four quick questions you can help BirdGenie eliminate overlapping species or narrow down the possible candidates in a noisy environment.
EDIT the song to be sure it is cropped to the correct part of the recording.
RE-RECORD the bird, making sure the recording contains only one clear, loud song, without other species in the background.
SEND your recording to BirdGenie. It's possible the bird you are recording is a species or vocalization type that BirdGenie doesn't yet have in its library. By sending your recording to BirdGenie we can learn about what songs need to be added to the next update for your program.
This screen allows you to be sure BirdGenie is working to identify exactly the song you want.
In the song window you can see "handles" that define the start and end point of the target song.
By dragging these handles, you can be sure BirdGenie is focused on a specific part of the recording and isn't trying to identify a noisy section or a different background bird.
If you've recorded more than one song in a single recording, you can also look through your recording and highlight a different song for identification.
Once you have defined the part of the recording you'd like identified, tap the Match Button, and BirdGenie will reanalyze the song.
Using BirdGenie's sophisticated noise-reduction features, you can find the identity of singing birds even in fairly noisy environments, especially when the noise is low-frequency. People talking, traffic or even lawn mowers are good examples of noises that can be removed so BirdGenie can get a confident ID from an otherwise noisy recording.
On the Noise Filter screen, just raise the red line to just below the song you have recorded to screen out lower noises. It's fast and easy and will allow you to use the app in less than optimal environments.
BirdGenie's catalog allows you to look through all of the species covered by the app.
Select any species to learn more about it and hear its songs.
Some species have a small "3-D" icon in the upper right-hand corner of the species page.
If you press this you will see a 3-D image of the bird that you can rotate to match how you see the bird in your yard.
Not all species have 3-D models, but we will be adding more, so be sure to check for program updates.
This page gives you access to all of your past recordings, and allows you to listen to, delete, rematch and share them.
Tapping on a recording takes you to the Locate Song screen, where you can change the start and end points of the song, as described above.
You can also, share the recording with your friends, and send the recording to BirdGenie to help us improve the app.
On the Settings page you can opt to anonymously share your recordings to a database available to scientists.
Here you can also share your location with BirdGenie. That will help improve your results. If you don't share your location then you will be asked to choose the state you are in from a simple drop-down menu.
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thanks all for your birthday love, it was truly the best ever (they get better each year)! at one point after brunch i looked down at my phone and saw like 7 texts and 3 voicemails and at first was a little stressed out but then remembered….UM THESE PEOPLE LOVE YOU AND WANT TO WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY….HOW LUCKY ARE YOU?! very lucky. so i'm going to do a quick recap of my pre-birthday and actual birthday because it's been spectacular.
after i picked my mom up from the airport on thursday, we ate at petite provence (which is always spectacular) and poked around the super cute streets in NE along alberta. she even bought us each an air plant (i'm still learning about this so if you know how to keep them alive…let me know). she also absolutely took pictures of me with my coworkers when we visited my office. it was slightly embarrassing and then i got over it and found it very sweet that my mom is interested in where i sit every day.
since ravery would be leaving the next day (my birthday) to go play in vegas, we opted for a birthday eve celebration the night before at brix tavern. this place always has delectable, interesting food but i have to say waiting 23 minutes past our reservation time was a tad on the irritating side especially because i was getting hAngry (hungry, which leads to angry). we still had a great time and a super cute server who made it better! please look at the 'brix chips'= verde roasted pork shoulder, baked cheddar, with chips and cilantro sour cream. out. of. this. world.
birthday eve picture of the amazing woman who brought me into this world (isn't she pretty), my great friend alison (isn't she pretty) and moi (i clean up okay). we also cheers-ed my mom for all the hard work she put in on that superbowl sunday (broncos vs giants) 26 years ago!
at one point during dinner, matt (not pictured but alison's boyfriend and our other great friend) leaned over, pointed at my mom and alison and said "have they met before?" because they were giggling and having a great time. i love when important people in my life get along and laugh together. it's truly the best. and no, first time meeting! they brought me a heath brownie with a candle in it (no picture, i ate it way too fast) and then we ordered blackberry buttermilk pie. talk about indulgence the birthday eve was indicative of how great the actual birthday was going to be, i just knew it.
on my birthday morning, we all woke up earrrrly and we were out the door by 7:33am because ravery had to be at work but i also needed a birthday brunch (duh). we of course ventured to mother's bistro because it's my favorite and you know this (please reference 'the biscuit that changed my life' post if you are unaware).
as we were walking to the restaurant i said "man, i sure wish i could have tried their gingerbread pancakes during the holidays, they seemed amazing," (remember this, because it's important). i feel the need to show you both pictures of me with my favorite mom and my favorite husband because i couldn't decided which one to put up. yes, i already know i look asleep in both pictures.
our great waiter jason told us the specials and then said (here's where you remember) "…but my personal favorite is our gingerbread pancakes." i straight up almost flipped the table over i got so excited that they still had them!!! as we finished ordering, our great waiter jason said "and i'm going to buy you gingerbread pancakes for your birthday" and HE DID!
i am not kidding when i tell you that they were seriously the best pancakes i've ever had. it was kind of like a fluffy gingerbread cookie but they weren't overly sweet and just perfect. yes i proceeded to eat potatoes, eggs and a biscuit in addition to this and then felt too full for too long afterwards. that's what birthdays are about though, right?! right.
after we dropped ravery off at work (and after we may or may not have sat on the couch and took a short nap) we ventured to the fun shops along NW 23rd. we walked into a super cute store called papersource and they were offering up the chance to make valentines. i instantly accepted. but instead of a valentine i made ravery a "have so much fun in vegas, good luck with your workshop, tell lady gaga hi" card and hid it in his suitcase (ravery if you're reading this, check the outside pocket of your luggage)!
then my mom asked where i wanted to get birthday cake from and um duhhhh papa haydn's right across the street (i planned this outing well). if you live or within a 5 hour drive of portland…you need to go here. best desserts ever. just look at all the choices!
i opted for the cassata (the white one in the middle) which contains kahlua and espresso-soaked sponge cake, layered with sweetened ricotta and bittersweet chocolate chunks. as well as some sort of magical fairy dust because it's the best cake ever. we got it to go because we had to pick ravery up and take him to the airport.
oh, does that above picture look like it's been 'instagramed' (follow me at chelseata) and taken in the car?! yes on all accounts.
we literally sat in the cell phone waiting area for 10 minutes while my mom and ravery sang happy birthday to me and we almost all passed out from the smoke of the candle after i blew it out. first birthday cake in the car and i couldn't have been happier! we sent ravery off, grabbed a cocktail and then went to see a movie (les miserable). seriously, such a fun birthday and SO very special that i got to spend it with my mom too! you should also know that birthdays in my family usually last quite actively for at least a week but we celebrate all month so stay tuned for the rest of my birthday adventures with my mom.
life lesson: anytime someone takes the time to text/call/email/send you a card, be sure to thank them and truly appreciate it because it means someone cares about you.
3) strangest place you've had birthday cake or celebrated your birthday?
4) what's your favorite flavor of cake?
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2. Nope. Didn't even know they were a thing.
3. No where strange for me. I'm unadventurous on my bday.
i didn't know they were thing a either until thursday afternoon but they are pretty neat! i really need to try this costco cake you always speak so highly of- i'm obviously missing out. hope you had a great weekend stephen!
Chelsea, it looks like you had a perfect day! I can talk your ear off about airplants whenever you want.
indeed i did have a great birthday grace, thank you! i also feel as though i totally should have known you would know all about airplants! thank goodness-we will add this to the agenda tomorrow….hooooray!
That was simply EPIC. Well done on having such an awesome mommy.
Congrats on getting your gingerbread pancakes!!
1. On my birthday I eat whatever the hell I want!
2. No, but it sure is pretty, isn't it?
3. I once had birthday cake 'on stage'- no kidding. Delivered by a Chippendale. 20th birthday I think.
4. My favourite is key lime cheesecake. Oh and I also had an amazing frozen peanut butter pie on Amtrak across country.
thanks paula! it really was pretty epic and i feel pretty fortunate to have such a great mom 🙂 moms are the best. wow you win for craziest birthday cake-on stage and by a chippendale-hot dang. ohhh i don't think i've ever had a key lime cheesecake, i'm missing out! also great to know to keep my eyes peeled for frozen peanut butter pie when traveling on amtrak-craziness. i love peanut butter. hope your weekend was grand!
Happy Birthday!!! I love Papersource and wish it were a little more convenient to me as I have to go back tomorrow – I bought the wrong item to make invitations for a baby shower.
1. Yes, and I try not to remember how much I over eat because it usually hurts.
2. I have already killed the poinsettia I got the week before Christmas, you don't want my plant advice.
3. I celebrated my 21st with new friends while studying abroad in a country where I was already of legal drinking age. The place wasn't strange but it did help me bond with three amazing new friends.
4. Funfetti cake with matching rainbow chip frosting… there is something about the flecks of color that make it taste better than most boxed cake.
thanks claire! and you have to come all the way back to portland to exchange something from papersource?! i would happily send you whatever you want if need be in the future…love that place and also love saving gas money :). yeah i don't really have a green thumb so it will be interesting to see how long this little guy lasts! sounds like you had a super fun 21st birthday, who doesn't love bonding with new friends and exploring different countries. very very good call on funfetti cake….although i'm upset that the typical rainbow chip frosting isn't the same as it was when we were like 10 (or at least i haven't found it). now i want funfunetti cake toooooo!


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This guide covers Waiheke Island only. For other areas of Auckland, please refer to the Zero Waste in the Auckland Region post.
NB: All our regional guides cover as many low-waste options as we could find for food, drink, kitchen and food packaging, cleaning products and bathroom products – scroll down to view each category. On the landing page for the region (above), we also list community groups, council services and ideas for tricky waste streams, so make sure you read that part too!
Plastic Free Pantry – Waiheke is incredibly lucky to have Plastic Free Pantry, one of only two truly zero waste grocery delivery services in NZ. You can order a wide range of dried bulk foods and pantry staples (including organic) such as grains, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, flours, spices, muesli, sweets and snacks, recipe kits and more. All you do is order online and they deliver to you the next day in glass jars. You then put your empty jars out for them on the next delivery day and they'll take them back for sterilisation and refill, so they just go around and around the system (just like the old-school milk run)! There are a few delivery services out there that package their deliveries in brown paper bags, but as these bags are still single-use, it is an inefficient overuse of resources. So Plastic-Free Pantry's glass jar refill and return system is far more zero waste. For more details, read about how it works on the Plastic Free Pantry website.
The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa – has a range of bulk bins with organic ingredients, including grains, legumes, flours, seeds and nutritional yeast (on the pricey end of the spectrum). Also stocks vanilla essence and paste in glass jars/bottles (rather than plastic). Most of the fruit and vegetables in the store are unpackaged, just remember to BYO bags to put them in.
Gulf Foods, 19 Tahi Road, Ostend – stocks a great range of bulk bins with a mixture of both organic and non-organic items at affordable prices, including grains, flours, legumes, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, sugars, spices and condiments. Also has liquid foods on tap, such as oils, vinegars, and tamari.
Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend – while most of the bulk food here is packaged in cellophane (and some returnable/refillable glass jars thanks to Plastic Free Pantry), there are a few products available in bulk: fresh organic dates, and maple syrup and apple cider vinegar on tap which you can fill into your own bottles.
Supermarkets – Waiheke's supermarket does have a bulk bin/pick and mix section with wholefoods (BYO bags for these). However, the items in the bulk bins are pretty pricey, often more so than equivalent ingredients in packets (bah!), and pricier than the bulk bins at Gulf Foods (even the organic products in bulk bins at Gulf Foods!). But look out for when things in the bulk bin aisle in supermarkets are on special because sometimes you can get a good deal!
Places that sell unpackaged meat, sausages, smallgoods and seafood, who will happily put your unwrapped purchases straight into a BYO container – woohoo!
Village Butchery, 102 Oceanview Road, Oneroa – this shop is more than happy to put your cuts of meat into a BYO container.
Te Matuku Oysters, 17 Belgium Street, Ostend – fresh fish and shellfish available unpackaged into your own containers.
Try your luck with BYO containers at the supermarket delis – Most supermarkets have a deli section offering meat, seafood, olives and other antipasti, salads, lunch foods and more – all unpackaged. Some supermarkets will allow you to BYO container for these goods, while others won't. It can be hit and miss, often depending on the staff member you talk to. For example, New World and PAK'nSAVE supermarkets have a flexible franchise model which means they can usually make their own in store decisions about whether to allow BYO containers or not, whereas pretty much any Countdown will not accept BYO containers. It's always worth asking though!
Markets, co-ops and crop swap – check out the Waiheke Ostend Market, Belgium Street, Ostend, every Saturday, for excellent produce – BYO bags to put fresh fruit and veges in. Here you can also get cheese straight off the round into your own container at the Helios stall (try the amazing bread too!). You may also be interested in the monthly crop swap running at the Waiheke Sustainability Centre, Mako Street, Oneroa – this is a money-less exchange, just bring some of your homegrown produce or homemade baking and preserves to share and exchange for the produce, baking and preserves of others in the community. Waiheke also has various co-ops from which you can benefit from bulk buying power – again, just make sure your share is divvied up into reusable bags and containers.
Trade Aid's entire chocolate range comes in Econic home compostable packaging! You can get it at The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; and at Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend. Trade Aid sugar also comes in 100% brown paper, and the coconut oil in glass jars with no plastic seal around the rim – both are available at The Island Grocer.
Coffee – Waiheke Island has two local roasters who can sort you for unpackaged coffee – yay! Island Coffee, 21 Belgium Street, Ostend is more than happy to put their freshly roasted unpackaged beans or grinds straight into your BYO bag/container – just ask at the counter. FYI that the roastery is only open in the mornings! Alternatively, Roast Waiheke sells their yummy freshly roasted beans and grinds inside at the Waiheke Ostend Market. It's all prepackaged, but if you ask nicely then you can get a prepacked bag of coffee poured into your own bag or container, the owners are then happy to repack that bag rather than chucking it out. Roast Waiheke also does home deliveries of coffee and might be open to delivering in your own containers if you ask nicely and can work out a system with them that works (you could have a glass jar exchange where you use two glass jars. You put one empty one in your letterbox, and they swap it for your other full one and take the empty away to refill for next time).
Drinking chocolate – find Kokako's drinking chocolate, which comes in home compostable packaging, at The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; and RAW at Waiheke, 4 Putiki Road, Ostend. You can get cocoa powder in from the bulk bins at Gulf Foods, 19 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Tea – we avoid teabags as many brands use plastic in them, so we go for loose leaf instead. BYO jar to Timmy Smith, 143 Oceanview Road, Oneroa, and they'll be able to weigh out 25g portions of what they already have open into your jar. You can also get loose leaf tea in returnable/refillable glass jars at Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend; or order a range of loose leaf teas through Plastic Free Pantry.
Beer – the key to zero waste beer is to bring your own flagons/bottles to stores that sell beer on tap. You've got options on Waiheke! You could go for one of the oldest craft beers in New Zealand, by master brewer Alan Knight, at Waiheke Island Brewery, located at Wild on Waiheke, 82 Onetangi Road, Onetangi. Alternatively, check out Boogie Van Brewing, 29B Tahi Road or Alibi Brewing Company, 70/72 Onetangi Road.
Say "no more" to disposable takeaway coffee cups and plastic water bottles by getting yourself reusables instead! Get reusable water bottles at Veranda, 2/116 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Island Design, 114 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Eclectic Boutique, 28 Belgium Street, Ostend; True Blue, 21 Belgium Street, Ostend; and The Living Room, 26 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Find the Keep Cup brand at The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Veranda, 2/116 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Likerish, 23D Belgium St, Ostend; Island Coffee, 21B Belgium Street, Ostend; or order one with your next delivery with Plastic Free Pantry.
You can also get the NZ-made Cuppa Coffee Cup and European made Zuperzozial bamboo/corn based cups at True Blue, 21 Belgium Street, Ostend.
Reusable lunch boxes or containers are great to have on you when you're out and about in case you want to get takeaways, to carry leftovers home with you, or if you find food to forage. You can get Meals in Steel stainless steel lunchboxes and food containers at The Living Room, 26 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Plastic shopping bags are a menace, but so too are those plastic produce bags for fruit and vege or the plastic bags often offered alongside bulk bins at bulk stores. You can avoid them by bringing your own bags or buying a set of reusable produce bags. You can get 100% cotton produce, bulk bin and/or shopping bags at The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Veranda, 2/116 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; and Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend. For reusable shopping bags, look no further than the BYO Bag Waiheke bags available at Upcycle Re-Design Store in Pendragon Mall, Oneroa.
Say "no straw thanks" next time you order a drink out and either use your mouth to drink, or get yourself a reusable metal straw instead. If you're keen on a reusable metal straw, you can get them from The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Eclectic Boutique, 28 Belgium Street, Ostend; metal AND glass straws from Oneroa Pharmacy, 120 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; or order metal straws with your next delivery with Plastic Free Pantry.
Purchase at Veranda, 2/116 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend.
DIY (waaaay cheaper): You just need to get natural fibre fabric (cotton) and unpackaged beeswax. Keep an eye out at secondhand stores and fabric stores for off-cuts of cotton. Get unpackaged beeswax candles at Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Silicone covers for pots/bowls (an alternative to plastic cling wrap and tin foil) are available at True Blue, 21 Belgium Street, Ostend.
You can find dishbrushes with wooden handles and removable + replaceable, home compostable heads at Waiheke Sustainability Centre, Mako St, Oneroa; Veranda, 2/116 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Te Matuku Oysters, 17 Belgium Street, Ostend; Eclectic Boutique, 28 Belgium Street, Ostend; and Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend.
You can also get wooden/plant fibre (thus home compostable) veggie brushes which also work well as dish scrubbers from Te Matuku Oysters, 17 Belgium Street, Ostend; and Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend.
For something more like a traditional dishcloth sponge, check out the Wet-it! 100% cotton + cellulose dishcloth sponges (home compostable at the end of their life) which are available at Te Matuku Oysters, 17 Belgium Street, Ostend. Another brand of the same type of cloth is SPRUCE, which you can order with your next delivery with Plastic Free Pantry.
You can get 100% cotton dishcloths at Veranda, 2/116 Oceanview Road, Oneroa.
Waiheke Sustainability Centre, Mako St, Oneroa – stocks a huge range of bulk Ecostore cleaning products, simply BYO bottle to refill – including laundry liquid and dishing liquid, multipurpose cleaner, glass cleaner, floor cleaner, toilet cleaner… the list goes on.
Gulf Foods, 19 Tahi Road, Ostend – stocks a great range of bulk Earthwise cleaning products, simply BYO bottle to refill. Gulf Foods also stocks refills of powdered cleaning products (like laundry powder).
Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend – stocks a small refill range of Ecostore cleaning products.
Soapnuts – natural nut shells that release saponin (like soap) in water and can be used for laundry. Once spent, the shells can be composted. The SoapNuts NZ brand comes only in a cardboard box with no inner plastic lining. You can order with your next delivery with Plastic Free Pantry.
Non-plastic clothes pegs – Go Bamboo pegs are available at The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend; RAW at Waiheke, 4 Putiki Road, Ostend or through Plastic Free Pantry. You can also get metal pegs at Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Baking soda/vinegar – available unpackaged in bulk bins/refills at Gulf Foods, 19 Tahi Road, Ostend. Or you can get baking soda through Plastic Free Pantry.
Bamboo toothbrushes – a great alternative to plastic toothbrushes because they have wooden, home compostable handles (though bristles are still plastic and need to be removed from the handle and put in a rubbish bin). You can find bamboo toothbrushes at The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Oneroa Unichem Pharmacy, 120 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend; RAW at Waiheke, 4 Putiki Road, Ostend or order one with your next delivery with Plastic Free Pantry.
Dental Floss – Countdown stocks Do Gooder floss, which comes in a refillable glass tube with a screw on metal lid. The WHITE floss is made of 100% silk and is home compostable (the black, bamboo and activated charcoal floss has polyester in it so is landfill only). When you run out of the floss, no need to get a new dispenser, you can get refills of the floss in a cardboard box from www.dogooder.co.nz – just pop the refill into your original metal/glass dispenser. Alternatively, Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend, and The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa, stock The Eco Floss in a glass dispenser. The floss is PLA, which is compostable. Sometimes PLA can't be hard to break down in a home compost but in floss form it is probably OK. This is a good alternative for vegans who may not want to use silk floss.
Waiheke Island Botanicals at the Waiheke Ostend Market.
Or order one with your next delivery with Plastic Free Pantry.
At Upcycle Re-Design Store, Pendragon Mall, Oneroa you can get locally-made bars of soap wrapped in weaved grass/flax. Also, look out for Waiheke Soap Company soap, which is all over the island and is virtually naked (just a wee bit of home compostable wrapping on it).
Look out for the popular Ethique range which includes shampoo bars, conditioner bars, shaving bars, deodorant bars, moisturiser bars, etc. (all of Ethique's bars come in home compostable packaging). The range is stocked at Oneroa Unichem Pharmacy, 120 Oceanview Road.
For a locally-made, very popular shampoo bar, check out Waiheke Island Botanicals at the Waiheke Ostend Market. Alternatively, you can get a local shampoo by Angelica at Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Dirty Hippie bars are also available on the island. Get their shampoo bars and shaving bars from Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend or their shampoo bars through Plastic Free Pantry.
If you're looking for some sustainably packaged deodorant, Plastic Free Pantry stocks Raw Nature deodorant and insect repellent, both of which come in cardboard (home compostable) tubes. Also get Dirty Hippie deodorant in a cardboard tube at Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Menstrual cups are available at Oneroa Unichem Pharmacy, 120 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; or Countdown.
Avoid plastic shavers that are designed to be disposable and go for 100% metal razors that will last you decades and only require the 100% metal and recyclable blades to be replaced (or sharpened with a leather strop!), and remember to use a bar of shaving soap instead of shaving foam that comes in an aerosol can (see above) – note, you'll need a shaving brush to make this work. You can buy razors at Escapade, 114 Oceanview Road, Oneroa or through Plastic Free Pantry.
Cotton Buds – Go Bamboo makes home compostable buds so you can avoid the single-use, unrecyclable plastic ones. Get them from Oneroa Pharmacy, 120 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; RAW at Waiheke, 4 Putiki Road, Ostend; Green Space, 20 Tahi Road, Ostend; or order some with your next delivery with Plastic Free Pantry.
Toilet Paper – both Smartass and Greencane toilet paper come wrapped in home compostable packaging.
Greencane is available at The Island Grocer, 110 Oceanview Road, Oneroa; and RAW at Waiheke, 4 Putiki Road, Ostend.
Get refills into BYO bottles of a range of toiletries (hand wash, shampoo, conditioner) at Waiheke Sustainability Centre, Mako St, Oneroa or Gulf Foods, 19 Tahi Road, Ostend.
Angelica Skincare makes a range of lovely skin care products in jars which can be refilled if brought back. You can find Angelica at the Waiheke Ostend Market on Saturdays.


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package google

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema"
)

func dataSourceGoogleLoggingProjectCmekSettings() *schema.Resource {
	return &schema.Resource{
		Read: dataSourceGoogleLoggingProjectCmekSettingsRead,
		Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
			"kms_key_name": {
				Type:     schema.TypeString,
				Optional: true,
				Description: `The resource name for the configured Cloud KMS key.
				KMS key name format:
				"projects/[PROJECT_ID]/locations/[LOCATION]/keyRings/[KEYRING]/cryptoKeys/[KEY]"
				To enable CMEK for the bucket, set this field to a valid kmsKeyName for which the associated service account has the required cloudkms.cryptoKeyEncrypterDecrypter roles assigned for the key.
				The Cloud KMS key used by the bucket can be updated by changing the kmsKeyName to a new valid key name. Encryption operations that are in progress will be completed with the key that was in use when they started. Decryption operations will be completed using the key that was used at the time of encryption unless access to that key has been revoked.
				See [Enabling CMEK for Logging Buckets](https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/routing/managed-encryption-storage) for more information.`,
			},
			"kms_key_version_name": {
				Type:     schema.TypeString,
				Computed: true,
				Description: `The CryptoKeyVersion resource name for the configured Cloud KMS key.
				KMS key name format:
				"projects/[PROJECT_ID]/locations/[LOCATION]/keyRings/[KEYRING]/cryptoKeys/[KEY]/cryptoKeyVersions/[VERSION]"
				For example:
				"projects/my-project/locations/us-central1/keyRings/my-ring/cryptoKeys/my-key/cryptoKeyVersions/1"
				This is a read-only field used to convey the specific configured CryptoKeyVersion of kms_key that has been configured. It will be populated in cases where the CMEK settings are bound to a single key version.`,
			},
			"name": {
				Type:        schema.TypeString,
				Computed:    true,
				Description: `The resource name of the CMEK settings.`,
			},
			"service_account_id": {
				Type:     schema.TypeString,
				Computed: true,
				Description: `The service account associated with a project for which CMEK will apply.
				Before enabling CMEK for a logging bucket, you must first assign the cloudkms.cryptoKeyEncrypterDecrypter role to the service account associated with the project for which CMEK will apply. Use [v2.getCmekSettings](https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/reference/v2/rest/v2/TopLevel/getCmekSettings#google.logging.v2.ConfigServiceV2.GetCmekSettings) to obtain the service account ID.
				See [Enabling CMEK for Logging Buckets](https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/routing/managed-encryption-storage) for more information.`,
			},
			"project": {
				Type:     schema.TypeString,
				Required: true,
			},
		},
	}
}

func dataSourceGoogleLoggingProjectCmekSettingsRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
	config := meta.(*Config)
	userAgent, err := generateUserAgentString(d, config.userAgent)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	url, err := replaceVars(d, config, "{{LoggingBasePath}}projects/{{project}}/cmekSettings")
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	billingProject := ""

	project, err := getProject(d, config)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Error fetching project for ProjectCmekSettings: %s", err)
	}
	billingProject = project

	// err == nil indicates that the billing_project value was found
	if bp, err := getBillingProject(d, config); err == nil {
		billingProject = bp
	}

	res, err := sendRequest(config, "GET", billingProject, url, userAgent, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return handleNotFoundError(err, d, fmt.Sprintf("LoggingProjectCmekSettings %q", d.Id()))
	}

	d.SetId(fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/cmekSettings", project))

	if err := d.Set("project", project); err != nil {
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An artists' demolition derby in a still from Aaron Rose's Beautiful Losers (2008)
Lives of the Artists (ca. 2000)
I asked Tyler Kline to join me at the January 21 International House screening of two films on art/skateboarding cultures since he comes out of a Portland skateboarding and art scene of a younger generation than Aaron Rose's Beautiful Losers (2008) and I thought he could provide footnotes (which he did). Rose's film made for an interesting comparison with Ted Passon's Space 1026 (2007) and told quite a different story of how the art and community developed. Rose portrayed Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Chris Johanson and Harmony Korine as self-described misfits no one would talk to in high school who were looking for love (or acceptance) so created intentionally-accessible art, Nike contracts and all, to attract their own community of appreciative viewers.
Thomas Campbell in a still from Aaron Rose's Beautiful Losers.
Passon, on the other hand, portrayed Space 1026 as a group of art school grads who wanted to make art and hang out together and managed to find a way to do so. Passon's short film was screened first and I suspect the local interest was the reason for the large and enthusiastic audience; the pairing made an entertaining program.
A November, 2007 event at Space 1026.
Contemplative Minimalism
Douglas Witmer's installation, Joseph's Coat at Philadelphia Cathedral.
Douglas Witmer's work can be seen at Philadelphia Cathedral through Feb. 28. Joseph's Coat is inspired by the story from Genesis; it consists of four large unstretched canvases which Witmer created for the space. They hang like tapestries below the stained glass windows on the North wall of the Cathedral. Along the opposite wall he's installed five conventionally-stretched paintings and another on an adjacent wall. All push the meaning of geometry through their siting, emphasizing the contemplative quality of their reductive means. Surprisingly I found the paintings created independently to work better in the space than those created for it; their backgrounds of uneven gray washes pick up the neutral stucco of the Cathedral walls. Seeing them in the quiet, airy space with the sound of water dripping from a nearby baptismal font, it was easy to appreciate the play of the sharply-defined stripes against the background washes which bleed unevenly onto the canvases and occasionally seep onto the edges where they wrap around the stretchers.
Douglas Witmer's work at Philadelphia Cathedral.
First Friday Footnotes
Oyvind Fahlstrom detail of Map of the World (1972). The Brazilian/Swedish artist created maps based on political rather than geographical topography and created his own interactive versions of monopoly-style board games.
My first stop Friday night was Basekamp which is exhibiting An Atlas (through March 15) which they describe as a traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography"—a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change (previously reviewed by Jacob Hellman here). Lots of reading and the expected left-wing critique of militarism, big business, etc., but interesting as far as it goes; I only hope visitors realize that these ideas have been around a long time. Oyvind Fahlstrom made anarchic political maps in the early 1970s and Mark Lombardi produced highly-researched charts of interlinked financial and political networks in the 1990s. There's a huge amount of this material available on the web. For one example, see here.
The exhibition was an interesting bookend with Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West, currently at Temple Gallery, which documents a workshop for Tyler students in the American Southwest as well as a Philadelphia-based mapping project, both run by Chris Taylor, director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University.
Mark Lombardi detail of George W. Bush, Harken Energy, and Jackson Stephens, ca. 1979-90 (5th Version) (1999).
Benjamin Pierce still from Transfigurations, at Painted Bride.
Benjamin Pierce's Transfiguration is on view at Painted Bride through March 15, courtesy of InLiquid.com. Pierce is showing several videos along with still images; all present visual interpretations of songs which Pierce sings a capella as he draws in light and reveals hints of his figure manipulating (dancing with) the light source. Pierce said he doesn't consider the stills to be independent works; but I think he should reconsider. They are the more poetic, despite being still and silent.
Vasily Kandinsky. Motif from Improvisation 25 (plate, folio 16) from Klänge (Sounds) by the artist. (1913). Woodcut from an illustrated book of fifty-six woodcuts, composition (irreg.): 8 9/16 x 8 11/16″. Photo courtesy of Museum of Modern Art.
The equivalence of music and visual imagery goes back to the beginning of abstraction, embodied in Kandinsky's illustrated book, Klange (Sounds) of 1913 and running through Thomas Wilfred's clavilux of the 1920s and abstract animated films by Oskar Fischinger and others. It was the subject of a 2005 exhibition, Visual Music, organized by the LA Museum of Contemporary Art. Pierce's light drawing also recalls the famous Gijon Mili portrait of Picasso drawing with light.
A Lumia image created by one of Thomas Wilfred's color organs, which he called the clavilux.
Painted Bride's next exhibition, Synasthesia (April 3-May 16), organized by Anabelle Rodriguez will explore the subject further.
Upcoming FLUX Fundraiser
I ran into Chris Golas at the Vox opening who gave me the hot-off-the-presses poster for the Feb. 19th Flux Fundraiser at Kung Fu Necktie. I imagine the details will be on the Flux website (though they aren't up as I write).
I, can't resist passing on a link forwarded by my friend, Barbara Tannenbaum, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Akron Art Museum. It's for a toy based on airport security checkpoints, and I can't decide whether it's the height (depth?) of decadence or just a reprise of the sort of mad paranoia that gave us grade school drills in the 1950s where we got under our desks and covered our heads in case we should face nuclear bombs. Anyway, check out the customer responses, some of which are clearly tongue in cheek.
aaron rose, basekamp, chris taylor, douglas witmer, inliquid, international house, painted bride, space 1026, ted passon
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The next-generation 2015 Chevrolet Cruze first hit the show floor at this year's Beijing Motor Show. Based on General Motors' D2XX platform, the 2015 Cruze features an all-new exterior design with a major revamp for the interiors as well. General Motors China has now officially revealed the interiors of the 2015 Cruze. The interiors host the now-familiar dual cockpit dashboard that is common to most new Chevrolet cars, albeit with two tone dashboard colour and finish.
The 2015 Cruze's dashboard seems inspired by Hyundai's Fluidic design with a profusion of curves. The revamped center console, which gets a piano black finish, hosts an 8 inch touchscreen infotainment module with Chevrolet's MyLink II interface with voice assist and Bluetooth functions. The emphasis is clearly on adding new-age communication functions that are a must for the smartphone generation of buyers.
The vents of the dashboard are new along with a new design for the door trims while satin inserts are generously used across the cabin. The seats are upholstered with hand stitched leather, and this adds a modicum of premium-ness to the car's insides. Also, the interiors of the 2015 Cruze are said to be more spacious than the outgoing model through better space management.
The car uses General Motors' new design language replete with the new Chevrolet family face. The roofline of the new car takes a more gradual slope from the C-Pillar onwards, for a coupe-like appearance. The 2015 Cruze will be sold with an all-petrol line up in the Chinese domestic market. Other parts of the world will see the addition of a turbo diesel motor, likely to be the 2 liter Z-Series mill that is a prominent fixture on the current-generation Cruze.
Although the launch schedule of the 2015 Cruze remains unknown, a end-2014 launch in the Chinese domestic market is likely. Other global markets are expected to see the Cruze arriving in 2015. An India-launch timeframe is at least a year away as General Motors just updated the Cruze sold in this part of the world with a mild facelift. The Cruze sold in India is a diesel-only D-Segment sedan, equipped with manual and automatic transmission options.


Happy Friday!! I planned to share a craft project roundup today but my laptop was not cooperating last night. It's been a long week, so I decided not to fight it. I have a list of fun links instead, today!
I just debuted a new fabric print (above)! The Vintage Lawn Chair fabric is available in three different colorways, black and white, aqua and white, and multi (above). Each chair is hand drawn and is based on classic, retro lawn chairs. It reminds me of summer cook-outs in the backyard. You can find all three options in my shop!
Adorable cactus pincushions - I need to make one!
Speaking of cacti, these paintings (yes, paintings) are incredible.
I love this super-simple diy ring holder.
Also, this clever wood planter.
Did you hear? Etsy just started a crowd funding pilot program.


Q: For any of our readers who are unfamiliar with yourselves tell us a little bit about your band.
A: Justin – My name is Justin Goodson and I'm the vocalist for the Georgia based hard rock band Days To Come. Brandon Rix is our guitarist and Jalen Hall is our drummer. We try to blend pop-styles vocal melodies over heavier, intricate music.
Q: What was your earliest memory of music that peaked your interest?
A: Brandon – When I first saw Steve Vai play "I Know You're Here". I watched that video hundreds of times, and each section is just so pleasing to listen to. I wanted to be able to play or create something like that.
Q: Who was the first album / single you purchased?
A: Jalen – The very first album that I ever purchased with my own money was Slipknot's Iowa. That was in my early high school days. Still to this day one of my favorites.
Q: When did you first pick up your respective instrument / or start singing?
A: Justin – I started playing the guitar when I was 17 and I started to take singing seriously in my 20s. I knew then that I wanted to be in a band. I played solo acoustic gigs for years trying to find a band or form one. Nothing really worked out until Days, which I'm thankful for.
Q: What route did you take with your music / instrument / lessons / music school / self-taught and any fond memories of that journey?
A: Brandon – At the start, it was self taught for a while. After about a year or 2, I ended up getting lessons. A while after, It got to the point where I was paying money to take lessons, but it ended up I was sitting there teaching him. Turns out I'm a prodigy.
Q: Who were your hero's as a young musician that inspired and pushed you to want to be a musician too?
A: Jalen – In all honesty I didn't really have musical heroes when I was younger. I just knew that I wanted to make music as a career and I'd do whatever it took to get there.
Q: Is there one particular album or song that gave you a "Eureka" moment from your youth that made you want to be a musician?
A: Brandon – That would be "I Know You're Here" by Steve Vai.
Q: What was the best gig you've ever attended?
A: Justin – Nothing More. A few years ago, my wife and I had the opportunity to see them in Atlanta at the Masquerade when they were touring on their first record.
Their energy and showmanship completely captivated me. They're phenomenal performers.
Q: Do you have any musical guilty pleasure?
A: Jalen – I don't think there is such a thing as musical guilty pleasures. If there's a song or style that you listen to that not everyone likes, screw 'em. Music's all about emotion and if you find it in something that's "out of the norm" then so be it.
Q: So any new music in the works currently or just released?
A: Brandon – We just released our brand new single Siren (January 25th). We're continually developing and expanding on what the Days To Come "sound" is and, when we were working on Siren, everything clicked. We knew that the feel of Siren was what we were after and what we would continue to chase in future songs.
Q: Where and when did you record it?
A: Justin – We tracked Siren in Albany at 7th High Studios in early 2018.
Q: How does the song writing process generally work for you?
Q: What route have you taken to build up and establish a fan base locally & beyond your local area?
A: Justin – Early on, we traveled and played a bunch of shows. We kind of got lost doing that. It was a bunch of fun and we were able to learn a lot, but it wasn't the most productive use of our time and limited resources at that time in our career.
Now, we're pretty active on social media (@daystocomemusic). It's such a wonderful tool to engage with your fans and continue to build those relationships. We have a mailing list and exclusive Facebook group for our core supporters.
We've recently started doing a lot of giveaways. This has been a great way to engage with our fanbase, give them free stuff, and introduce ourselves to new people.
Q: What is the music scene like locally to you and where do you fit in?
A: Jalen – Here in Albany the scene is 90% R&B or rap. So for a band like us to stand out is a truly humbling experience.
Q: Do you feel there are enough venues around you to help promote and establish up and coming bands like yourself?
A: Brandon – Around where I'm at? No. My area is congested with cover bands and venues only want them. We had to venture out in order to start our journey.
Q: What would you like to see ideally to help hard working bands / artists get better exposure and opportunities to make a living form their craft?
A: Justin – I believe we are living in the golden age for the indie artist. For the first time, we're able to connect with people all over the world. An artist can create, distribute, and market music without the help of a major label and that's huge.
There are so many opportunities for an indie artist to create a platform to grow a fan base and monetize their music. There are a bunch of resources to help artist learn how to better create content, successfully brand their band, market their content, and grow their fan base.
I would like to see more of these resources become available to continue helping artists.
Q: What is the best piece of advice you have received on your journey thus far?
A: Jalen – "Always have a back-up". You never know what all could happen on the road so it's better to simply be prepared for everything.
Q: What would you say has been the biggest lesson you have learnt on your journey to date?
A: Brandon – Expect low, but aim high.
Q: With the music industry always constantly changing – how have you had to adapt to the ever-changing landscape?
A: Justin – We live in a culture where art, in its many forms, is expected to be free. The listener will continue to find ways to get music for free and we, as artists, need to find creative ways to deal with it, rather than simply complain that it is happening. Streaming services (like Spotify) help expose artists to listeners as well as make it difficult for those artists to sell their music.
The older traditions of buying and selling music are changing. Indie artists need to be creative with their brand, marketing, and content to continued to grow their fan base. Music is everywhere. Artists need to find ways to stand out from the rest to get their music heard.
Q: Does the introduction of New Technology / Digital Age / Social Media etc enhance your life as a musician or do you feel it can be more of a hindrance?
A: Justin – It has definitely helped us better reach and connect with people. We're pretty active on our social media (@daystocomemusic) and we love interacting with our fans. Because of the time we live in, we're able to stay connected everyday. We're able to meet people at shows and continue the conversation online.
Q: So moving forward what's next for you?
A: Brandon – More dancing. We're about to become a k-pop band.
Seriously though, we've released our new single Siren and we're excited to promote it. We're playing a few short tours this spring and we're planning a longer tour in July surrounding Rock Fest in Wisconsin. We're so excited to be on that festival!
Q: How do you see the evolution of the band / yourself as an artist?
A: Justin – I'm constantly trying to push myself as a songwriter. With Siren, we fell into a nice groove and felt a little closer to "our sound". I'm excited to continue working in that direction.
We're definitely a rock band, but I wouldn't consider myself a rock vocalist. Melodically, I draw from a lot of artists outside of the genre and I feel like this is one aspect that separates us from modern rock bands.
Q: Do you have any short-term or long-term goals in mind?
A: Justin – We just released Siren and we're scheduled to release our new single Wolves around April. I would like to continue to release singles roughly every 10 weeks until July – we're playing a tour leading up to Rock Fest in Wisconsin.
My long term goal is to continue to reach our audience and positively impact their life through out music.
Q: If you could tour with any band or artists who would that be?
A: Jalen – I would love to tour with Sevendust. They're one of the hardest working bands in the genre.


When classic music tenor Lawrence Brownlee took the field at Metlife Stadium to sing the national anthem at a San Francisco 49ers football game, he felt conflicted.
On the field, 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick, was leading a league-wide protest against that very anthem. As a fellow African-American man, he was sympathetic to Kaepernick and the Black Lives Matter movement, but as musician — and son of a war veteran — he felt the need to sing.
Helping Brownlee was Unison Media, a marketing and PR firm for classical musicians based out of WeWork Irving Place. Unison is managing to break new ground by bringing their clients into the mainstream and changing the way classical musicians are portrayed in the very spaces in which their music is performed.
For Brownlee, that meant garnering media attention for the tenor and placing a classical musician at the heart of a hot-button political discussion.
Founded two years ago by Brown University alumni Andrew Ousley, Unison has quickly taken off as a premier marketing and public relations agency for young classical musicians in New York City. Warner Music is now among their clients.
After graduating Brown with a degree in philosophy, Ousley travelled to France and Norway on an Arnold Fellowship to study classical music. That love of music was nurtured at an early age by his mother, an opera singer, and his early exposure to Beethoven and Mozart.
When he returned, a job had opened up in the classical division of music company, EMI and he was hired. "I just kind of fell into it," Ousley says.
From a business standpoint, Ousley found EMI's approach to PR outdated.
"I spent 10 years watching the record industry self-destruct," he says. During that time, he learned everything about the business from marketing and PR, to website design and social media.
Ousley realized classical music needed a PR makeover. And with Unison, he has set out to reshape the way people view it.
This approach has attracted Unison's clients – mostly young musicians. "They're willing to see the potential of what can be, rather than what has changed," he says. That explains why Unison has never had to solicit a client and has, in fact, turned quite a few away.
Once they do sign a client, Unison works closely with artists to curate their story, public image, and their sound.
For a recent concert series, Unison brought classical music out of the stuffy theater and into a new, intriguing environment. The Crypt Sessions launched in 2015 in Harlem's Church of the Intercession.
Since then, the shows have been selling out in 10 minutes, and boast waiting lists of 200 people. In the candlelit crypt, 50 seats wrap around the center-stage, where the musicians sit, performing against a backdrop of chambered ashes and the beauty of the church.
To keep attracting those open-minded folks, Unison stays on top of current trends in social media. Shortly after live streaming became available on Facebook, they worked with concert presenter DCINY to broadcast their performance of Christopher Tin's music. He is the first composer to win a Grammy for music featured in a video game. This earned him a Guinness World Record, for essentially merging classical music with new age culture, much like Unison.
The live-stream performance, with a full choir and orchestra, went out to 10 million people who follow the Guinness World Record on social media. It also included a follow up interview.
Unison also recently coordinated a live stream with The New York Times for the Attacca Quartet, young musicians performing a contemporary composition by John Adams.
Unlike the Lincoln Center show, this was more intimate and informal; the stream stuck to close-ups on the performers.
In the coming year, Unison plans to expand more into management and digital marketing, continuing to generate media buzz around their clients and set up more concert series like the Crypt Sessions.
Meanwhile, Unison continues to rewrite the narrative on classic music, one public statement at a time.


Fashion designer Gert-Johan Coetzee could not resist when approached by Art-movie-book.com with the opportunity to assist in raising funds for the Joburg Ballet.
Coetzee who is used to dressing models and high profile customers, rolled up his sleeves, assisted with hair and styling, as he draped his red carpet gowns on professional ballet dancers during a photographic shoot. The portraits, ten in total, will be sold on auction at the CIRCA Gallery, Rosebank, on 1st December 2015, to raise funds for the Joburg Ballet.
Art-movie-book.com, proposed putting together a series of photographs of dancers in South-African designer pieces for quite some time, and when Gert-Johan Coetzee, one of our country's most loved fashion designers, agreed to be involved, they knew the time was right. Coetzee's designs epitomise everything a woman wants to experience when getting dressed for an occasion and this, combined with the grace and elegance of the ballet dancers of the Joburg ballet, seemed like the perfect combination for collaborative initiative.
A team of experts including Art-movie-book.com husband and wife team, creative director Raschika Marx-Badenhorst and photographer Jurgen Marx, make-up artists, videographers, printers and framers came together to create something beautiful.
Marx-Badenhorst wants to make sure that this will be the first of many collaborations between various Art forms. The more money raised for the Ballet, the better. The project has brought together photography, fashion design, dance, and sculpture all in one space.


One of most famous luxury properties of India, Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai is a seamless blend of old-style architecture and Renaissance styles. In 1903 by India's foremost industrialist Jamshedji Tata, this eclectic abode is a real gem in Mumbai and offers high-quality service and has guestrooms featuring stat-of-the-art amenities.
Legend has it that JN Tata hit upon the idea of building the Taj Mahal palace hotel after he was refused entry to the city's poshest hotel, Watson, on account of his being "a native".
A famous landmark of Mumbai, Taj Mahal Hotel has played host to a guest list of notables inducing Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mick Jagger and Madonna. A blend of luxury and history, this stunning hotel is a luxurious oasis to unwind after a long day's business or sightseeing.
Located in close proximity to the Gateway of India, Taj Mahal Hotel has 560 rooms including 44 suites and is ideally located to explore the fashionable haunts of Colaba. All the rooms of the hotel are well designed and beautifully decorated to give the guests peace of mind.
In 2008, Taj Mahal hotel bore the burnt of the terrorist attackers in which several people were killed.


The following procedure describes the process of launching Zend Server as a single server or in a clustered environment.
The Launch wizard is designed to quickly get your Zend Server up and running with an optimized working environment that includes system configuration settings that are suited to your personal requirements.
Prior to being launched, Zend Server can be added to an existing cluster member or manager. After being launched, Zend Server has to join the cluster to be become part of it.
The first time Zend Server runs after installation, the Launch Zend Server wizard is opened with the License Agreement dialog displayed.
Read and accept the terms in the agreement, and click Next.
The Profile dialog is displayed.
Development - Launch Zend Server with server and PHP settings optimized for a development environment.
Production (Single Server) - Launch Zend Server with server and PHP settings optimized for a production environment.
Production (Create or Join a Cluster) - Launch Zend Server with server and PHP settings optimized for clustered production environment.
See Server Profiles for more information on the difference between the various server profiles.
To use Z-Ray, select the Development launch profile. If a different profile is selected, Z-Ray can be manually enabled.
If you selected to join a cluster, the Cluster Configurations dialog is displayed.
If you selected Development or Production, the User Passwords dialog is displayed - skip to step 6.
Enter the details of the server and cluster database, and click Next.
According to the details entered, the wizard identifies whether you are the first member of the cluster, or an additional member to a pre-existing cluster, and displays the next dialog accordingly.
If this is the first server in the cluster, the User Passwords dialog is displayed. If not, the Summary dialog is displayed - skip to step 7.
Configure the passwords for accessing the Zend Server UI. Passwords must be between 4 - 20 characters long and can be changed at a later stage from within the product.
Enter and confirm a password for 'admin' user.
Enter and confirm a password for 'developer' user (optional).
For information on the differences between these two user roles, see User Management.
The Library Packages dialog is displayed with a list of the library packages deployed on Zend Server.
The Summary dialog is displayed.
Review the details, and click Launch.
Zend Server launches with Getting Started page displayed.
At any point, access the Zend Server UI by clicking the Zend Server desktop icon (only in Windows), or opening your browser at: http://localhost:10081/ZendServer.