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Chapter 6 - Achievement on the Battlefield (2)
Translator: Rockgollem
The orc pikemen had us surrounded in an impassable wall. We were like fish in a barrel. The men were cussing out our regiment which had retreated.
"You bastards! You only need to save your own hides, is that it?"
"If I make it back I am chopping off that damned captain's willy and shoving it in his mouth so he can't give a shitty order like that ever again!"
Everybody was clamouring to go out with a last charge since we were cornered.
"Squad Leader Valler! Let's take the fight to them!"
"He's right! We can't just die like cowards!"
I could understand that their frustration was on the verge of exploding. But if we attacked, we would all be dead men.
"You idiots! If we give up, we all die!"
I proclaimed with ample clarifications that no one was to charge without an order.
"What the hell do you want us to do then, damn it!"
"Why are you doing this?"
Complaints in rough tones spilled out from the ranks. Everyone was on the edge from being surrounded. It was times like this that I needed to reassure everybody as the squad leader.
"I'll find a way for everyone to make it back alive! I'll find it, so just wait a moment you impatient bastards! You all want to go back alive, don't you?"
A lot of mercenaries were simple wanderers but just as many had homes and families to go back to. At the very least, these men weren't someone who deserved to be abandoned by allies to die. I had befriended most of them in the past three months.
"von Horst! You said you had a daughter not too long ago!"
"T, that's…"
"Marx! What about your mother! She waits day and night for you, but are you just going to die here?"
"Telmann! That goes the same for you! You said you're from Spandau as well! We gotta go back together one day!"
"Squad Leader!"
I shouted at the top of my lungs to spark their will to survive. This was when the orc pikemen started advancing. Their commander must have decided they couldn't engage in one-sided negotiations anymore. They looked prepared to lose their colours. The cheap trick of holding the colours hostage wasn't going to work anymore.
I really didn't know what to do. But it's moments like these one needed to appear confident. Everyone was looking at me after all.
"Hold out! Hold out everyone! I'll find a way for us to make it out!"
Did my screamings work? The atmosphere had shifted. Everyone resisted ferociously while swinging their two handed swords.
"Waaarggh! Let's go back! Back to home!"
"Right! We can't die in a place like this!"
Another skirmish erupted and thanks to the morale boost, we held out fairly well. Eventually, the orc commander called in 12 goblin arquebusiers for reinforcement. He probably felt the situation was going nowhere.
"Make a barricade!"
I ordered the men to stack up the orc corpses. Then I shouted the moment goblin arquebusiers started firing.
Bang Bang Bang! Blam! Bang!
It was a deadly volley but we stayed closed to the ground and endured. The bullets clanged around noisily every time they struck an armour piece on the corpses.
"Goblins ain't nothing after all!"
Since we survived, the angry orc commander called in 12 more goblin arquebusiers. Firearms in this game was faithful to history and took forever to reload. The ones who already fired had retreated and were busy pouring in black powder and a ball into the barrel.
"Squad Leader! It looks like they're lining up for another volley!"
Everyone planned to hide behind the mound of bodies again. I planned to do so as well. However, my past experience endowed me with decision making skill far better than others.
I had even played as a general directing the entire war in previous playthroughs. My insight went beyond a mere squad leader thanks to those experiences. I could roughly grasp the flow of the entire battlefield.
"They pulled the gunners from the flank! If that's the case...!"
A sudden epiphany hit me and I stepped on the pile of corpses to climb up. The men who were crouching nearby were surprised and tried to hold me down.
"Are you crazy? Why are you climbing up there when they're about to shoot!"
"Hold the Squad Leader down!"
However, I ignored them and surveyed beyond the encirclement. And I found what I was looking for outside the wall of pike encircling us.
"Come down! Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
I shouted as soon as I was forcibly pulled down.
"Hand me the horn!"
"They're not going to come even if we blow the horn!"
"They're not going to come even if we blow the horn!"
"Just give me the damn thing!"
I snatched the horn from his hands and started blowing it towards east rather than south, where our regiment had retreated to. The horn signal pattern was also something nobody recognized.
Buu-- Buuum-- Buuuun!
Buu-- Buuum-- Buuuun!
The men looked baffled at the signal with regular intervals. Marx couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.
"What are you doing? Are you trying to play a music?"
"It's the signal for cavalry to charge, you idiot!"
"What? Cavalry charge?"
Before I could reply, bullets flew our way once again.
Bang! Bam Bang Bang Bang!
There were several injured men this time.
We couldn't dodge all the rounds since we weren't in proper concealment. Orcs thought it was the moment to seize after hearing our screams and rushed forward once more. I was the first to stand up and proclaimed while aiming the pistol I had managed to grab.
"Listen up pigs! Hold out for just a little bit more! If the gods are with us today, we'll make it out alive!"
"I really don't understand what you've been saying since the start, squad leader!"
"If you don't know, then shut up and swing your sword, you idiot!"
"Ah, I can understand that one."
Pikes came at us from every angle. We did anything we could do to survive. I even threw away my sword to pick up a corpse to use as a shield.
"Just hold out! Don't try to win."
"Damn it! Just how long do we have to hold out!"
"How the hell should I know!"
"If you don't know, then who the hell does, you crazy squad leader!"
There were only five men left swinging their swords.The rest were bleeding and groaning down on the ground.
"Ha… Damn it, are they not coming…"
I could only resign myself since situation had devolved so far. That was when a cool and clear voice pierced through the air.
"Don't give up!"
A lance from nowhere pierced through three orcs and broke into splinters. A knight emerged through a cloud of dust. Surprisingly, the knight's steed was a unicorn.
The knight shouted towards me.
"Pick up your sword! Some path will only open if you fight for it!"
With those words, the knight crossed arms to draw a pair of pistol to shoot at orcs coming from either side.
Two orcs collapsed with a hole in their heads in an instant. The knight did not miss the momentum to draw twin swords and scour the area of orcs like a fierce storm.
"They're here!"
I cried out in happiness. Using the horn to signal the cavalry to charge had paid off. Soon, 50 knights were charging over in this direction in unison.
"What's all this, Squad Leader?"
Marx couldn't hide his surprise as he asked.
"You don't know? Thanks to orc commander trying to hurry things up, an opportunity opened up."
"Since we were holding out, he pulled two ranks of goblin arquebusiers, a total of 24 over here. Naturally, their flank would weaken! Plus, the orc pikemen line was uneven since they were trying to surround us. It's a natural target for the cavalry."
"Goodness, you figured all that out and blew the horn earlier?"
"Of course. If our pike line was still engaged with theirs, the cavalry would have jumped in the flank like wolves long before this."
The reason I climbed on top of the mound of corpse to look around was to find where the cavalry was positioned. I managed to find a group of them and blew the horn.
"Goodness! How did you know all that Squad Leader? Even on how to signal the cavalry!"
It wasn't just Marx. Everybody was surprised as well.
"Doesn't matter! Let's get out of here!"
The knights managed to split the pike line into half and arrived. One of them shouted towards us.
"How many survived?"
"Twelve including the wounded!"
"Got it."
He hurried the men to load us up on the horses. Other knights were fighting off the enemy meanwhile.
Bam Bang Bang Bang Bang!
The knights firing their pistols in unison broke the back of the orc front line and they were in full retreat. Their formation was now folding back on itself.
However, the knights knew they couldn't sweep aside the entire enemy line just by themselves. Once the wounded were loaded up, they started to make their exit.
"Squad Leader!"
"Hurry, Squad Leader!"
"Hurry, Squad Leader!"
I was the last one left since I've been helping to load the men. I couldn't find a knight to hitch a ride with due to putting the men first. Everybody was already getting out in droves. The situation forced me to abandon my sword and start sprinting with the colours in hand.
It really was a desperate all out sprint. I needed to make it out before the gap the knights had opened up got filled with orcs again. However, I attracted too much attention since I was carrying the colours.
I didn't want to give up the colours after going through everything, but I didn't want to die as well. A galloping sound rang out behind me while I was contemplating.
"You! You'll go with me!"
When I turned around, it was the female knight who was first to arrive to the scene. She rode over to me and extended her arm towards me. My mouth opened wide at that moment. It was because I recognized the female knight.
"My god!"
Her! Right, she participated in the Battle of Hofheim. I focused so much on Iron Prince-Elector, I forgot all about her.
My memory welled up. She was someone I always trusted and relied on. I spent most of the 100 years worth of game time with her. I could not forget that unicorn steed and her saint-like appearance even if I wanted to.
The Sister Knight Templar, Walpurgis.
That was the identity of the knight who had jumped into the middle of the pike line. The world worked in mysterious ways. She still came to my rescue despite having never met me in this play through. I didn't anticipate on meeting her in the first place since I was starting off as a regular character.
"Your hand!"
With Walpurgis' help, I hopped on behind her with the colours in my hand.
"Hold onto my waist! We're leaving in a hurry!"
Walpurgis drove her unicorn to glide like the wind. Plenty of orcs tried to dismount her with their pike but she deflected them all. It was a level of swordsmanship truly on an artistic level.
The real war had yet to erupt, but this already felt like the climax. In terms of the Romance of Three Kingdoms, Walpurgis was someone like Zhao Yun.
(TL: Zhao Yun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Yun)
"Thank you for your help!"
I could only think I was saved from certain death. My heart beat rapidly at the thought of having escaped the maw of death.
"We were planning to break through in a different area of the line, but heard the horn. And I saw you and your men fighting desperately there. We couldn't charge in blindly, but for some reason there were less gunners covering that flank. That's why we could attack!"
Just as I thought.
"Thank you for your rescue. I thought it was all over for me, but I survived by my lady's graciousness."
"You and your men were worth it. I salute you for your courage to charge into the middle of enemy line to take their colours."
Walpurgis was of noble birth, but she did not judge people by their status. She judged one's worthiness by their courage.
"You praise me too much."
"Praising too much? You say that even after taking the enemy's colours. Look over there."
Walpurgis pointed to a side while galloping atop the unicorn. I looked over without much thought but what I saw surprised me.
"Hip hip! Hurray! Hip hip! Hurray!"
Countless soldiers were screaming out their cheer for me. There were 10,000 men gathered at Hofheim and the battle was still at an opening phase. Majority of the men had yet to meet the enemy in battle and were advancing to the frontline.
There were several pike regiments amalgamated from various company size units marching forward for a decisive push. The soldiers in those regiments all cheered me on.
"You're like a general in a victory parade. They all see the colours you have taken from the enemy."
Walpurgis asked something to me just then.
"I wish to hear your name."
"I'm Valler from Spandau."
After nodding as if she understood, Walpurgis slowed her unicorn down near the troops and announced to the troops nearby.
"Hear me! Valler from Spandau here has courageously taken the enemy's colours! There will be many who takes enemy's colours today, but remember that Valler was the first to do so this day!"
Countless soldiers in the area chanted my name.
"Valler! Valler! Valler!"
The ground shook every time they chanted my name. The pikemen were pounding the ground with their pike while standing still. It rang out like an earthquake.
"Valler! Valler! Valler!"
My whole body was shaking. It was something I've never felt no matter what kind of hero I played as.
"Valler. You need to respond to them."
Walpurgis had intentionally slowed the horse. I nodded simply and raised the colours up high. Then another wave of cheer swept through the area.
Along with the cheer, the regiments marching towards the enemy gave me a little ceremony. They lowered their regiment colours towards me as a sign of saluting me.
A chill ran down through my back. Saluting by lowering regimental colours was done rarely even for the Archduke or a king. It was truly a heartfelt and voluntary respect for a soldier who showed valour and achieved an outstanding feat on the battle.
TL Note: Sorry for late post folks, but can't post with mobiles away from home.
I've also been fiddling around which days to post since Saturday seem to overlap too much with Sky's main releases. For now tentatively, the date will be Sunday.


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The Process of Recording
Curb your doggie like you're spoze to do
Just don't let that dog
Curb you.
-Langston Hughes
Manny Festo
Recording has been with us for more than a century now and it has become an integral part of our sonic landscape. Most of the music we have been hearing for the last seventy years has been pre-recorded and most people don't make much of a distinction between music that is live and music that isn't. Even a lot of 'live' music isn't actually live in the sense that its processing is integral to it.
Along with photography, television, phones, etc. recording has redefined our most basics conceptions of presence. While on one hand we now live in a global village, on the other we accept as present things which aren't really anywhere at all. The town square of our global village is essentially a vacuum.
Absence and presence are basic elements of human consciousness and emotion, possibly the first things we are aware of. They are fed by our senses and living in the global village has changed our relationship to our own senses to the degree that we now live with absence-as-presence.
This is our reality and there isn't much point in getting upset about it. Still, it would probably behoove us to be conscious of it. We appear to have come to accept an equality of communication between the present and the absent. For instance, often one is engaged in conversation with someone and that person answers an interrupting telephone, valuing the absent over the present or at least putting them on equal footing. Similarly, many pop music shows are mimicked rather than performed, the presence of the performer in the flesh is a token gesture to the old reality of what you see is what you get.
As we lose contact with the simplest forms of presence, we also lose contact other aspects of our nature that were once rooted in our consciousness. The vital withers incrementally away into the virtual. We live more and more not in events, but in symbols of eventfulness and so our fellow beings become, in a way, symbols of beings as much as or more than actual beings.
There is nothing really new in this. Degrading other humans to symbols is as old as tribalism, politics, and religion (even though it reached its early peak –through the use of radio- in the Nazi era). The difference is that now everything is essentially propaganda, i.e., it is manipulated, mediated, and intentionally constructed to be symbolic before it comes to us. Prior to this time what was present possessed a reality and significance that the absent did not. In the new paradigm, when presence does not exist, neither do other people. It's only a spectacle. It's our culture.
Absence has come to hold a power greater than presence. The cult of celebrity is an obvious symptom of this, as is the antiseptic compulsion that drives a lot of modern design, and the minimalist aesthetic in music and fine art. In the escapism that permeates our culture, presence has come to be seen as undesirable, awkward, and inconvenient.
The paradigms that dominate our social interactions naturally dominate our systems of communication. They are hierarchic and centralized, essentially distant from us, alienating to the extent that we have come to embrace our alienation as if it were presence.
Absence is a propertarian concept. One accepts the absence-as-presence ethos because it reaffirms one's own sense of the rightness of property, allowing one to have a sense of engagement while being physically disengaged (those familiar with the work of Brecht –along with Joyce and possibly Picasso the first post-modern artist –will have considered this idea of escapist identification). The illusion of non-participatory, asensual, engagement is the vacuum that lies at the center of the global village. The empty, "clean", surfaces of modern design, minimalist art and music are essentially hollow spaces into which one can pretend to project oneself, their deep neutrality generating an absence of exclusion (a passive state) that has come to be mistaken for inclusiveness (an active one). In short, anyone can feel large and substantial in the presence of a vacuum, the ego of the perceptor is encouraged to expand without any consequent increase in physical engagement or responsibility. This is the same paradigm that has fostered the ownership of enormous polluting cars, big, empty houses, and other common bourgeois accoutrements –the celebration of the irresponsible power of the powerless. The desiderata is to generate a cloud of emptiness around oneself in which one can enjoy the sense of dominion.
It's no coincidence that popular art reflects and recapitulates this.
Part of an anarchist's mission is to challenge and shift such paradigms.
The question is how.
There is no legitimate simple answer to this. We are so encompassed by the world we live in that all we can reasonably hope to do is to try to be as aware as we can of the implications of our undertakings and seize what small opportunities we see to create alternatives. Rigid, dogmatic, reactions are useless (i.e., the failure of communism, the collapse of inclusive liberalism into exclusive "political correctness"), the situation we find ourselves in has been generated by dichotomous logic and the same philosophical approach won't produce any better results. The logic itself needs to be innovative.
Prior to the existence of the global village, culture was an accumulation of positive ideas and techniques, innovative practices retained over time because they contributed somehow to the general well-being. Development was incremental and additive as long as it was rooted in physical reality. When culture became mass media instead of this sort of folk wisdom, it became an accumulation of absences, substituting a generated illusion (idealism) in place of a physical reality. The pie-in-the-sky ethos that had previously been the province of manipulative religion slowly permeated all facets of life. In a mass media society lives are defined more by what they lack, what they will-or-should have, than what they have. An economic culture driven by advertising and consumerism demands this. Selling the ideal (sizzle) rather than the real (steak) has in our time become even what science does (nuclear power).
How do we counteract this tendency?
It is incumbent on us to be products of ourselves and our own lives rather than products of our culture. It is important to keep our idealism in its place and not make it the enemy of the real. This is not to say we should not be idealistic, only that our idealism should inform the realities we generate with our lives as opposed to diminishing our perceptions of their beauty and importance. When we use the ideal as a benchmark by which to validate or invalidate the real we can only end up disempowering ourselves. The ideal is (by definition) incapable of being anything but symbolic.
The history of the 20th century may well be viewed in hindsight as the period in which the abstract symbols of living eclipsed life itself. This can be seen in a number of instances ranging from Hiroshima (physical) to semiotics (intellectual).
Because of this shift the drama of selfhood now comes as much from (mediated) outside pressure as from inner vanity.
A few years ago I was sitting on a sidewalk with some friends and we noticed that nine consecutive passers-by were wearing exactly the same (Old Navy?) shorts (six were one color, three another). We thought it was funny, but at the same time I found it deeply unnerving. These people had succeeded in voluntarily turning themselves into symbols, preferring that to being individual humans. Symbols can exist in a vacuum where actualities are automatically marginalized and pressured to dissolve. (Earlier that same evening my friends and I were hassled by a cop for no apparent reason besides the fact that none of us looked generic enough to belong in the symbol world of people who wear the same pants.) Anyone engaged in resisting co-optation will have similar anecdotes.
The upshot of the symbolic modern paradigm is that I am not re-assured by the familiar (as my grandparent's generation was), but increasingly disturbed by it. It gnaws at the edges of my consciousness like the Ligeti music that plays in The Shining while Jack is being interviewed for his job at the hotel. This is not because I am somehow markedly different from them in a human sense, but because the nature of what is familiar has changed. It is now rooted in symbolism where a few generations ago it was rooted in a compilation of shared practicalities.
Our sonic universe (along with our sense of ourselves as individual beings) seems to be collapsing like Jack's sanity.
Over time it has become harder for me to hear through the veneers of sonic sameness that coat most of the music that presents itself to me. The sonic sameness that existed in earlier soundworlds originated in a different context and served a different purpose. It celebrated its marginality, its ethos of originating from individuals and specific regions. These samenesses were the inevitable results of the technologies and materials at the disposal of their users over long periods of time and in specific geographic locations rather than a condition they aspired to (listen to any three Delta Blues musicians and the perceived similarities between them become shallower and less meaningful with every exposure). This no longer seems to be the case. A good way to examine this is to compare "world music" recordings from the 60s and 70s with those from the 90s and 00s. The oddness and diversity (of tonality, timbre, and meter) present in the earlier music has slowly been filtered out. Style is an idealistic construct and musicians all over the world have come to aspire to it (or at least come to feel compelled by market forces to submit their imaginations to it –modern capitalism institutionally suppresses marginality wherever it is able to).
My sense of this is that we must challenge sameness at its root level, the aspiration to it, the acceptance of it's a priori valuations about sound, the pursuit of comfort that drives it, the methodologies it makes easily available to us. Great music (whether its Debussy, Eric Dolphy, Bob Marley, or Morton Subotnick) has always initiated itself from the rejection of current style, accepting the accrued wisdom of precedent (content) but not the received ideas (form). We will not all see this the same way. Each of us will perceive different oppressions acting upon our individual creativity. The propagandic success of the ideal is that a vacuum is by nature nearly impossible to identify while the specific objections to it are easily identified and therefore simple to attack. In our current politics the candidates who use the most words to say the least are invariably the most successful. In a culture based on idealism any attack, regardless of merit, has its desired effect in so far as it is able to undermine the sense of the vacuum.
We should aspire to making art which is incomplete, unresolved, which cannot be enclosed in the vacuum of style, which aspires to its own realities and not to idealism, which works outward from its own specifics rather than toward accepted generalities, which pushes us from it in a way that makes us hear for ourselves, according to our own realistic intentions rather than those of its author.
Only that which is filled with contradictions is alive!
Part 2
Chain Gang
What is media?
That which mediates between the maker and the receiver of some object of communication (book, cd, telephone, radio, DSL, etc. –for current purposes we'll stick with music). To some extent media is an enabler, but it can (and often does) introduce inertia into the exchange between the maker of music and the receiver. As recording allows us to hear music which we do not witness, it also allows the music we hear to be manipulated so that what we hear is different from what was made.
How much do we want our listening experience to be mediated? How much inertia do we wish to allow into our exchanges? Is what is made in the medium itself real, or is it purely inertia? Is inertia what people have come to expect, come to value, from music?
FRONT and BACK
In recording lingo front and back refer to areas along the recording chain. The front end refers to the sounds before they reach the medium (tape, hard drive, etc.) and back end refers to what happens to them after the medium. The front end includes everything before the mixer. After tracks are recorded they are mixed down to a stereo signal.
This schematic is simplified with "mixer" including many options (mikes, preamps, EQ, etc).
Back in the days of, say, Robert Johnson, this chain was very short: a microphone, a tape recorder / a tape recorder, a disc presser; or a microphone to a wax master / wax master to disc presser.
Over time it has become longer.
Through the mid-60s the emphasis was primarily on improving the front end technology. Since then most of the innovations have been on the back end. The impetus behind this is that the producers of music have a lot more money to invest in the research and development of equipment (and the incentive to make product involving the musicians as little as possible) than musicians do.
Obviously, the longer the chain of processes becomes the greater the amount of inertia between A and B.
The Politics of Listening
Listeners, as opposed to performers, only experience music on the back end, as consumers, and most of them are (reasonably) only concerned with how it sounds to them. Nevertheless, it can be instructive to draw analogies to other consumed products. In the case of food, it behooves the consumer to consider more than the flavor of what they are eating: is it nutritious?; does it contain pesticides or other toxins?; will it contribute to obesity?; how does one feel about agribusiness, GMOs? In the case of clothing, factors other than appearance come to mind: will these (cool looking) shoes injure one's feet?; are they made by children in a sweastshop?: what are the ethical implications of wearing fur?
These things matter only to the degree that one cares about or accepts responsibility for them. Beyond "me like, me buy" lie a whole range of questions that depend on the depth of ones involvement. Beyond "me like, me listen" lie a similar range of questions.
The ethos of back-end music is that it "sounds better", that it's more listener friendly, that it's "easier". In the back end of production mistakes can be removed, sounds can be enhanced, pitches corrected, effects added, etc. The back end, as 'spin' does with the news, inserts a layer of interpretation (inertia) between the performer and the listener. This disengagement from the process of music making can be soothing (creating a vacuum into which the listener can project him/herself), but it also limits the listener's depth of understanding, hiding the made sound (if there was one) behind a screen of edits, effects and other manipulations. To the degree that this separates the listener from the maker of the sound the level of the listener's engagement is limited.
There is a widening gap between "produced" (tightly controlled) sound, which has an unnatural and sterile stillness to it, and what I think of as "actual" (living) sound, which is more prone to unexpectedness and characterized by less easily recognizable timbres.
This "produced" (as opposed to performed) kind of music is ultimately controlled (often created) by a listener (an engineer / producer) rather than a performer or group. In a bottom line way this makes good sense, the (commercial and aesthetic) logic that drives the concept is clear. In addition to that, music pre-screened by a professional listener will already have been purged of potentially objectionable elements before it reaches the target listener. The process of production in these cases is like 'enriching' bread or even irradiating it in that it substitutes a perceivedly beneficial extrinsic element for a perceivedly undesirable intrinsic one. To process sound most efficiently the initial sonic event is simplified (or generalized) as much as possible, ideally generated by code, controlling events after they've happened as opposed to dealing with them directly.
The simplification of sound naturally simplifies the messages it is able to communicate, as a "lifted" face lacks the expressive range and subtlety of an un-lifted one. For music to be extremely popular (and therefore profitable) it needs to generalize its appeal as widely as it can and it is completely logical for the business of music to develop sonic techniques that enable universal generalization. For their purpose these techniques are very good, but for the expression of less generalized ideas they are often a liability and the pervasiveness of their use and the kind of sonic standards they've established tend to militate against any "otherness" of sound. After a generation of listening in this soundworld it has become difficult for people to hear possibilities that exist outside of it without at least an initial impulse to reject it.
I equate this sonic sterility emotionally with the complacency (and denial) I sense is devouring our world (westworld) on several levels at once, whether it be about our social constructs, our attitudes towards our environment, our aesthetics, whatever. The same way I feel alienated in a shopping mall, a room full of similarly-dressed people, or a traffic jam of shiny cars and SUVs, I feel an outsideness listening to organizations of pre-ordained sounds, whether made by conventional instruments or synthesizers. (An instructive way to examine this would be to listen chronologically to an artist like Bob Marley and hear his voice slowly disappear into clouds of echo and synthwash.)
Everyone listens differently.
There are different levels and desires of activity and passivity and different musics encourage or discourage them.
There are listeners who expect the music to bear the burden of engagement and listeners who expect themselves to engage it. There are listeners who never initiate engagement of any kind.
The ethos of front-end music is that it comes more directly from the maker of it, that it hasn't already made decisions for the listener. In the front end of production sounds can be 'captured', ephemeral phenomena preserved. This type of music expects and often requires a high degree of engagement and even participation on the part of the listener.
As a player of instruments, I am almost always an active listener. My normal response to music is to engage with it as fully as I can. Because of this I have developed a sense of revulsion toward music that assumes non-engagement, that has made decisions for me, that has generalized itself to avoid offending me. I don't want my experiences to be mediated. I don't want to listen to listeners.
My revulsion is not with the commonplace, but with the equation of conformity with the commonplace, the symbolization of even the most ordinary things, the lack of challenge to received ideas about what is of substance, the devouring complacency that codifies human errors into a priori assumptions that come to seem unassailable (the 4/4 beat, the honorability of american intentions, or the ascendancy of product over process).
As I'm not willing to spend a significant amount of time promoting myself, external mediation (radio play, distribution, press, etc.) is largely beyond my control. My personal effort can have the most effect (and engage my interest) in matters of internal mediation. In this my interest is to do what I can to minimize inertia.
For this reason, aside from equalisation and cleaning up of beginnings and endings, I don't subject my recordings to any back end processing. In addition to this, I shorten the front end chain –microphone or pick-up / pre-amp / EQ / mixer- as much as possible. I don't wish to create any illusions, only reveal the sounds as they are made. What I want the eventual listener to hear is the instrument and the playing of it rather than the manipulation of what was played. A certain amount of front end technology (good mics and preamps) and technique (well placed mics, properly tweaked eqs) reduces inertia by increasing transparency –poor recordings don't help anyone listen.
So, in short, my methodology is to use the technologies available to me as passively as is practicable. We have much better equipment at our disposal than Robert Johnson did, but this does not make it compulsory for us to lengthen the recording chain. Because we have automobiles at our disposal doesn't make it healthier, more enjoyable, or a better contribution to our common environment to give up walking.
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Elizabeth McCarroll, PhD
M.S. in Child Life Program Coordinator
Professor of Early Childhood Development and Education
Office: WH 110
Phone: 940-898-2736
PhD, Texas Tech University, Human Development and Family Studies
MS, Texas Tech University, Human Development and Family Studies
BS, University of Texas, Human Development and Family Studies
Certified Child Life Specialist, Association of Child Life Professionals
Research Interests
Social and emotional development of children, including peer relationships and friendships; impact of hospitalization on children and on parents/parenting; infant and toddler development
Elizabeth McCarroll is a professor in child development and also is a Certified Child Life Specialist. She teaches both online and face-to-face courses at the undergraduate and graduate level on topics related to the field of child life, the impact of hospitalization on children, and in child development. Her research agenda includes examining the social and emotional development of children, both inside and outside of a healthcare setting. She also is interested in how health status might impact the parent-child relationship, and parenting decision making. She has presented her research findings in local, regional, and national forums, as well as in peer-reviewed, professional journals. She is actively involved as a member of the Texas Association of Child Life professionals, as well as the national organization, Association of Child Life Professionals.
Selected Publications
- Mechler, H. M & McCarroll, E. M. (2017). Factors that influence parents' meta-emotion approaches: Implications for families. International Journal of Emerging Trends in Social Sciences, 1(2), 46-52.
- Ajanga, A. & McCarroll, E. M. (2013). Children's hospitalization and parental involvement. The HAAEYC Advocate, Winter edition.
- Colvin, W. & McCarroll, E. M. (2013). Art with children with delays and disabilities: Teaching the way children learn. Texas Child Care Quarterly, Fall Edition.
- Mills, H. C. & McCarroll, E. M. (2012). Ramifications associated with child abuse. Advances in Applied Sociology, December 2012.
- Mills, H.C., & McCarroll, E.M. (2012). Adults' guidance and the development of children's emotion regulation. Texas Child Care Quarterly, Summer Edition.
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Prince of Wales Hospital – Randwick
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St George Hospital – Kogarah
St Vincent's Hospital – Darlinghurst
Shellharbour Hospital – Shellharbour
Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital – Nowra
Sutherland Hospital – Caringbah
Sydney Children's Hospital – Randwick
Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital – Sydney
The Mater Hospital, Sydney – North Sydney
Wollongong Hospital – Wollongong
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Bowral and District Hospital – Bowral
Camden Hospital – Camden
Campbelltown Hospital – Campbelltown
Canterbury Hospital – Canterbury
Concord Repatriation General Hospital – Concord
Fairfield Hospital – Fairfield
Liverpool Hospital – Liverpool
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital – Camperdown
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Blue Mountains Hospital – Katoomba
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Nepean Hospital – Penrith
Westmead Hospital – Westmead
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (The Children's Hospital at Westmead) – Westmead
New South Wales Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health
Rural Area Health Services
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Bateman's Bay District Hospital – Batemans Bay
Bega District Hospital – Bega
Cooma Hospital – Cooma
Cootamundra District Hospital – Cootamundra
Goulburn Base Hospital – Goulburn
Griffith Base Hospital – Griffith
Gundagai Hospital – Gundagai
Hay Hospital – Hay
Leeton Hospital – Leeton
Lockhart and District Hospital – Lockhart
Narrandera Hospital – Narrandera
Queanbeyan Hospital – Queanbeyan
Wagga Wagga Base Hospital – Wagga Wagga
Yass District Hospital – Yass
Young District Hospital – Young
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Bloomfield Hospital – Orange
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Broken Hill Base Hospital – Broken Hill
Cobar District Hospital – Cobar
Cowra Hospital – Cowra
Dubbo Base Hospital – Dubbo
Forbes District Hospital – Forbes
Orange Base Hospital – Orange
Parkes District Hospital – Parkes
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Armidale Regional Hospital – Armidale
Cessnock District Hospital – Cessnock
Glen Innes District Hospital – Glen Innes
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital – Gloucester
Gunnedah District Hospital – Gunnedah
Inverell District Hospital – Inverell
John Hunter Hospital – Newcastle
Maitland Hospital – Maitland
Manning Base Hospital – Taree
Moree District Hospital – Moree
Muswellbrook District Hospital – Muswellbrook
Nelson Bay and District Polyclinic – Nelson Bay
Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital – Newcastle
Prince Albert Memorial Hospital – Tenterfield
Scott Memorial Hospital – Scone
Singleton District Hospital – Singleton
Tamworth Base Hospital – Tamworth
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Figtree Private Hospital – Figtree
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Nowra Private Hospital – Nowra
St George Private Hospital- Kogarah, Sydney
St John of God Hospitals – Burwood
Southern Highlands Private Hospital – Bowral
Sydney Adventist Hospital – Wahroonga
The Hills Private Hospital – Baulkham Hills
Westmead Private Hospital – Westmead
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Prince Henry Hospital – Little Bay (now part of Prince of Wales Hospital)
St Margaret's Hospital – Surry Hills
Royal Hospital for Women – Paddington
Northern Territory
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Mater Mothers' Private Hospital – South Brisbane
Mater Private Hospital — Brisbane – South Brisbane
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Mater Children's Hospital – South Brisbane
Mater Mothers' Hospital – South Brisbane
Brisbane Private Hospital – Spring Hill
The Prince Charles Hospital – Chermside
Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital – Chermside
Princess Alexandra Hospital – Woolloongabba
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital – Herston
Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane – Herston
Wesley Hospital (Brisbane)|Wesley Hospital – Auchenflower
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital – Coopers Plains
Logan Hospital – Meadowbrook
St. Andrew's Toowoomba Hospital – Toowoomba
St. Vincent's Hospital – Toowoomba
Gold Coast Hospital- Southport
Palm Beach Currumbin Clinic – Currumbin, Queensland
St Vincent's Hospital, Robina
Ipswich Base Hospital, Ipswich – Ipswich, Queensland
Cairns Base Hospital – Cairns, Queensland
Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Townsville – Townsville
Townsville Hospital – Townsville
Mount Isa Hospital – Mount Isa, Queensland
Bundaberg Base Hospital, Bundaberg – Bundaberg, Queensland
Mackay Base Hospital, Mackay – Mackay, Queensland
Rockhampton Base Hospital, Rockhampton – Rockhampton, Queensland
Gympie Hospital, Gympie – Gympie, Queensland
Hervey Bay Hospital, Hervey Bay – Hervey Bay, Queensland
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Burnside War Memorial Hospital
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Calvary Wakefield Hospital – Private Hospital
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Glenelg Community Hospital
Lyell McEwin Health Service – Elizabeth (Website)
Modbury Hospital – (Website)
North Eastern Community Hospital Incorporated, Campbelltown
North Western Adelaide Health Services
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Cowell Community Health and Aged Care
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Elliston Campus, Mid-West Health
Eyre Regional Health Service
Flinders MediTech Pty Ltd
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Kimba District Health & Aged Care
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Lock Community Health and Welfare Centre
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Craigieburn Health Service – Craigieburn
Dandenong Hospital – Dandenong
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Frankston Hospital – Frankston
Healesville & District Hospital – Healesville
John Fawkner Private Hospital – Brunswick
Maroondah Hospital – Ringwood
Mercy Hospital for Women – Heidelberg
Monash Medical Centre – Clayton and Moorabbin
Northern Hospital – Epping
The Northern Hospital – Epping
Panch Health Service – Preston
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute – East Melbourne
Rosebud Hospital – Rosebud
Royal Children's Hospital – Parkville
Royal Melbourne Hospital – Parkville
Royal Women's Hospital – Carlton, planned relocation to Parkville in 2008
Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital – East Melbourne
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital – Malvern
St Vincent's Hospital – Fitzroy
Sandringham & District Memorial Hospital – Sandringham
St John of God Hospitals- Nepean Rehabilitation, Pinelodge Clinic
Sunshine Hospital – Sunshine
Werribee Mercy Hospital – Werribee
Western Hospital – Footscray
Williamstown Hospital – Williamstown
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Bendigo Base Hospital – Bendigo
Colac Regional Hospital – Colac
Geelong Hospital – Geelong
Goulburn Valley Hospital – Shepparton
LaTrobe Regional Hospital – Traralgon
Northeast Health – Wangaratta
St John of God Hospitals – Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Warrnambool
Warrnambool District Base Hospital – Warrnambool
West Gippsland Hospital – Warragul
Wimmera Base Hospital – Horsham
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Frances Perry Private Hospital – Carlton
Freemasons Hospital – East Melbourne
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital – Malvern
St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital – Fitzroy and East Melbourne
Closed Mental Hospitals
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Brierly – Warrnambool
Caloola – Sunbury
Heatherton Hospital – Heatherton
Willsmere – Kew
Lakeside Mental Hospital – Ballarat
Larundel – Bundoora
Mont Park – Bundoora
Royal Park Hospital – Parkville
Yarra Bend Asylum – Fairfield
Western Australia
Metropolitan Perth
Acute public teaching hospitals (all have emergency departments):
Royal Perth Hospital – Perth
Royal Perth Hospital, Shenton Park Campus – Shenton Park
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital – Nedlands
Fremantle Hospital – South Fremantle
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children – Subiaco
King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women – Subiaco
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Bentley Hospital – Bentley
Graylands Hospital – Mount Claremont
Joondalup Health Campus – Joondalup (both public and private on the one campus, managed by Ramsay Health Care)
Kalamunda Hospital – Kalamunda
Osborne Park Hospital – Osborne Park
Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital – Cooloongup
Swan Districts Hospital – Middle Swan (has emergency department)
Private hospitals:
Bethesda Hospital – Claremont
Hollywood Private Hospital – Nedlands
Joondalup Health Campus – Joondalup (both public and private on the one campus, has emergency department)
Mercy Hospital – Mt Lawley
Mount Hospital – Perth
Peel Health Campus – Mandurah (both public and private on the one campus; has emergency department)
St John of God Health Care, non-profit providers of health care with two locations in Perth:
St John of God Hospital, Subiaco – Subiaco
St John of God Hospital, Murdoch – Murdoch (includes an emergency department)
Regional Western Australia
Numerous public hospitals across the state are operated by the WA Country Health Service, divided in several regions:
Goldfields, including Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Esperance;
Great Southern, including Albany, Denmark, Katanning and Mount Barker;
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Pilbara, including Port Hedland and Karratha;
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|Advance, NC
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|Accident date
|12 Mar 1998
|Aircraft type
|Piper PA-28-180D
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On March 12, 1998, about 1810 eastern standard time, a Piper PA-28-180D, N7826N, registered to a private individual, collided with trees while approaching to land on runway 27, at Twin Lakes Airport, Advance, North Carolina, while on a Title 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed. The aircraft received substantial damage and the private-rated pilot was fatally injured. The passenger received serious injuries. The flight last departed Chattanooga, Tennessee, the same day, about 1612.
The passenger stated they flew west to east from Chattanooga to Advance. They approached with the airport to the left and turned onto final approach to land toward the west. Neither he nor the pilot were wearing sunglasses or had the aircraft's sun visor down. As they lined up with the runway, he looked out the front windshield and was blinded and disoriented by the sun. The sun was directly at the end of the runway, over the runway. He then realized he was looking at the runway through tree branches. They collided with the branches and he then felt a large impact. The pilot's body then came between himself and the instrument panel. He became unconscious and next awoke trapped in the wreckage.
A witness reported hearing the engine of the aircraft accelerate to high power followed by the sound of the aircraft colliding with trees and crashing to the ground. A short time later, he found the wreckage of the aircraft at the edge of a wooded area near the runway. A pilot who departed on runway 27 shortly before the accident reported visibility was restricted by the setting sun directly down the runway to the west.
Personnel Information
Information on the pilot is contained in this report under First Pilot Information.
Aircraft Information
Information on the aircraft is contained in this report under Aircraft Information and in attachments to this report.
Meteorological Information
Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. Sun calculations showed that at the location and time of the accident, the sun was at an altitude of 3.3 degrees on a bearing of 268.3 degrees. Additional weather information is contained in this report under Weather Information and in attachments to this report.
Wreckage and Impact Information
The aircraft crashed in a wooded area, about 650 feet east of the approach end of runway 27 at Twin Lakes Airport, Advance, North Carolina. Examination of the crash site showed the aircraft first collided with 75-foot-tall trees. The aircraft continued toward the west colliding with additional trees. The right wing navigation light was found on the ground about 75 feet from initial tree impact. The outboard 3 feet of the left wing separated and remained in a tree about 100 feet from initial tree impact. A tree branch which had been cut by the aircraft's propeller was found at the base of this tree. The aircraft continued to the west for about another 60 feet where it came to rest, left wing and nose down. A 5 1/2 inch diameter tree was severed by the aircraft's propeller near the base at the point of the aircraft's ground impact. An additional cut, which went about half way through the tree, was present about 2 feet from the point where the tree was severed.
All components of the aircraft which are necessary for flight were found on or around the main wreckage of the aircraft. Continuity of the flight control system was established. All separation points within the flight control system were consistent with overstress separation. The wing flaps were found extended to 40 degrees. The stabilator trim was found set to 7 degrees tab down or aircraft nose up. The right front seat passenger's seat belt had separated from the aircraft when the right attach fitting separated due to overstress. The pilot's seat belt was still attached to the aircraft and the buckle was latched. The belt was cut by rescue personnel. The left attach fitting of this seat belt was found with extensive corrosion damage.
Examination of the engine after recovery showed the engine assembly rotated normally and continuity of the crankshaft, camshaft, valve train, and accessory drive gears was confirmed. Each cylinder produced compression and the engine oil pump operated when the engine was rotated by hand. Oil was found in the engine and the oil screens and filters were free of debris.
Each engine magneto was found timed to the engine at 25 degrees before top center. Each magneto rotated and produced spark at each distributor post. Each spark plug had deposit colors consistent with normal engine operation. Uncontaminated fuel was found in all lines and the carburetor bowl. All passages within the carburetor were unobstructed and the float shutoff needle valve operated normally. The engine driven fuel pump and vacuum pump operated normally. The inlet air filter and ducts were unobstructed. The propeller and spinner had damage consistent with rotation at the time of ground impact.
Medical and Pathological Information
Postmortem examination of the pilot was performed by Donald R. Jason, M.D., Forsyth County Medical Examiner, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The cause of death was attributed to blunt force injuries. No findings which could be considered causal to the accident were reported. Postmortem toxicology testing of specimens obtained from the pilot were performed by Dr. Jason and Dennis V. Canfield, Ph. D., FAA Toxicology Laboratory, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The tests were negative for ethanol alcohol, carbon monoxide, cyanide, basic, acidic, and neutral drugs.
The passenger received serious injuries as a result of the accident. Additional medical and pathological information is contained in Supplement K to this report and in attachments to this report.
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The aircraft wreckage was released by NTSB to Mr. Rick Holland, Manager, Twin Lakes Aviation, Advance, N.C., on March 13, 1998. Components retained by NTSB for further examination were released to Mr. James Brewer, Inflight Aviation, Denver, N.C., on June 10, 1998.


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Google Tag Manager: Seal of Approval
Google Tag Manager 360 has released a new authorization feature allowing users to submit changes for approval.
We've always been keen on Google Tag Manager but for many of our enterprise clients GTM has perhaps lacked some of the more advanced workflow and version management tools they have come to expect from their tools. However, Google has now announced a new authorization feature for GTM 360, which is aimed at helping enterprise clients with larger teams manage their implementation.
The authorization feature is an additional level of control that means that some users must ask for approval for changes in order for them to be submitted to a version and published. Apart from unlimited workspaces, this is the first key feature to differentiate GTM 360 from the free version.
However, it's worth noting that this update has included a minor UI update for all users; as instead of seeing the options to "Create Version", "Publish" and "Preview", standard GTM users will now also see the option to "Preview" and "Submit". For them the "Submit" option opens a pane to publish or create a version.
User permissions
The authorization feature has subtly changed the functionality of user permissions for GTM 360 users:
- View: This hasn't changed and users can still only view and preview the container.
- Edit: This lets users create a new workspace and make changes, but users cannot create or publish a new version and can only submit a workspace for approval.
- Approve: This allows users to approve all submitted changed workspaces as well as create a version from them but does not let you publish.
- Publish: This allows users full access to the container.
The eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that users with approve permission or above can approve all changes and that includes their own. Enforcing that users must submit changes for approval means that those users making changes to GTM have edit access only.
In an ideal, fully QA-tested world, all users of GTM would not test their own changes and all changes would be thoroughly tested! Currently the approvals feature lacks a way to compel users with Approve and Publish permissions to also seek approval of edits to a workspace.
However, this does give you the option of continuing to use GTM 360 without using this new feature through adjusting user permissions appropriately.
The new workflow begins after users have made any change to their workspace.
Users with edit permission will be able to see a new 'Submit' button alongside the existing 'Preview' button.
Clicking this button will allow them to request approval from any user with approval permission or higher for their changes.
On clicking the submit button users with approval access or higher will now also have the option to request approval as well as create a version; and users with publish permissions will additionally have the option to publish and create a version.
When a user submits an approval request it can be assigned either to a specific user with approval access through using the dropdown menu or to any user with approval access in general. It is also possible to add annotations to explain the changes that they are submitting for approval. This is perhaps one of the most useful aspects of this feature as it enables a dialogue to be created between the user and an approver around why these changes have been implemented and how.
Once changes have been submitted for approval in a workspace, a gavel will be shown alongside that workspace in the workspace overview.
In addition, any user with approval access will see a blue dot alongside the approvals tab on the main screen if any changes have been submitted but not specifically to them or a red dot if they have been specifically assigned to those changes. In addition to this dot a Pending Approval message will also appear with the name of who has submitted the request with the option to view that request in that workspace. It is also possible to see all submitted requests through selecting the Approvals tab.
Once a user with approval access views the request they will be able to see an overview of all changes made to the workspace. Clicking the specific changes will allow them to see in more depth the changes made. This is similar to how changes between versions are currently displayed in the version history.
If an approver does not approve the change then they can choose to send it back to the user with why the change requires further work. The user can then resubmit further changes for approval.
If the change does pass inspection then they can approve the change and submit the change to create a version or approve the change but leave it unsubmitted in the workspace. If the user has publish permission they will additionally be able to create a version and publish it live.
However, it is worth mentioning that a user can continue to edit a workspace once they have submitted a request for approval. If a user's request for approval is approved but the workspace is not turned into a version they will not then be able to resubmit another request for approval if further changes are made to that workspace.
This is potentially a weakness in the approvals workflow as it means that further unapproved changes in a previously approved workspace may appear at a casual glance to be approved. This could lead to such changes being submitted into a version at a later date and then ultimately published. I would recommend that the workflow should end with either changes being published or versioned if using the approvals feature, as ideally all changes should be approved if using the feature to its full potential.
The approvals feature gives an additional layer of control and visibility over the changes that users make in a GTM container. In conjunction with the environments feature as well as workspaces it should help larger organizations keep control over their GTM setup and the deployment of new tags. However, ultimately, using this new feature isn't obligatory and there are still ways in which it could be side-stepped. The approvals feature is less a way to manage the quality assurance process and more a useful way to keep an eye on users with less experience in GTM and a more limited understanding of an organization's GA setup. It is essentially a tool for communicating changes in GTM – an effective tool – but not one that will replace any existing QA framework.
Remember 'Quality is not an act, it is a habit' (Aristotle)!
If you want some advice on how to use this new feature to best assist your QA process, or if you are interested in upgrading to GTM 360, please don't hesitate to get in touch!


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Continuing up Hutt St. I'm not ordering any wine, so the waiter can't pair any of the main courses with it. I ask him to pair something with my Diet Coke, and he suggests the spatchcock.
The kind of chutney of semi-crisp eggplant on the crostini is nice, but the brown sauce contains horrifying coriander! Will rate this without coriander.
The little croquette is only slightly warm, and is very crumbly. It's innards look like mince, but are actually a slightly crispy risotto, with only a slight taste other than the tomato sauce.
Grilled, marinated Clare Valley spatchcock with eggplant caponata, pistaccio di Bronte & ricotta salata.
The chicken is very juicy, and has a very strong rosemary taste. It's difficult for chunks of meat like this to taste really good, but this one did. The jumble of cold antipasto-style bits, including tomato and basil, was the only other thing on the plate. Whole these components were good in their own right, chicken plus cold antipasto just isn't an awe-inspiring combination.
Sicilian pistaccio di Bronte & bufala ricotta tart, baked to order & served with roasted rhubarb & sorbetto.
The same problem exists, with the dessert menu, as the last time I came here. Almost every dessert contains alcohol. However, unlike last time, there's one without alcohol (or vast quantities of coffee.)
I break the walls of the little tart, and the innards flow out. It's a slightly lemony custard, a taste that goes well with the pistachio nuts. I eat it with the red sauce. It might be some kind of coulis, but it doesn't add anything here.
The sorbet atop the rhubarb is sweet and chunky, like a Calippo.
The legs of rhubarb are surprising. Not at all sour, and only slightly sweet. They're very soft. They're reminiscent of the texture and sweetness of an apricot. Very interesting use of rhubarb.
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Compulsory Leave in Kenya
In Thomson Kerongo & 2 Others vs James Omariba Nyaoga & 3 Others (2017) eKLR, it was the Interested Party's case that the Speaker of the County Assembly of Kisii, having sent the Clerk of the County Assembly on compulsory leave acted illegally as there was no law providing for compulsory leave.
The judge held that there is no law that prohibits an employer from sending an employee on compulsory leave where the circumstances warrant and provided that the same is but an interim measure. Compulsory leave in Kenya is essentially a suspension of the employee from employment pending investigation of the employment offence and outcome of the disciplinary process. It has the effect of only removing an employee from the workplace on temporary basis without interfering with the terms of his service. As a consequence, an employee is entitled to full pay when on compulsory leave. Further, an employer has no right to offset the compulsory leave days against the employees' annual leave entitlement.


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The girls and I picked up our chicks on May 31,2011. They peeped all the way home. My husband, Ben, his dad and our son cleared out our garage and built a brooder out of cardboard boxes, lattice/lathe strips, and staples. It took a bit more than one bundle. The bundles are almost $13.00 at Lowes and the boxes were free as we have been collecting them from my husband's work to reuse. We unfolded them so they were totally flat and stapled them to cut down slats. The brooder is oval shaped and the slats are stapled to a few full length one's on the side for support. We took the flaps and went one in one out the whole way around and added 2x4's along the long sides. We added some weight with paint cans around the curved part. We covered the floor with cardboard as it's a cement floor. (Well, I say we..but really it was them.... )
I added a bale of hay to the floor to cover the cardboard so the chicks didn't slip. A few days later I added pine pellets and pine flakes. The waterers are raised so they'll stay out of the water. I bought disposible pans and filled them with starter and oyster shell. After reading about how farmers used raw dairy milk to cure coccidios (spelling sorry!) I decided to add some raw milk to their starter. It's still nice and crumbly but is giving them some goodies. I've also added some yogurt I made from the milk so they'd have a few more goodies. They also have 2 pans of milk sitting our for them. They LOVE it and it's gone within an hour. I also have RACV (raw apple cider vinegar) added to their water and was giving them a probiotic vitamin in their water.
Oh, the brooder is 12 by 25 feet. We have 100 Cornish Cross that will be slaughtered in about 6ish weeks, 50 Rhode Island Red Roos, 50 Barred Rock Roos, 50 Buff Brahmas (my daughter calls them cowgirls"...'cause their legs look like they are wearing chaps..."....She's 10 and HALARIOUS!!!), 25 Golden Comets, and 25 Buff Orpingtons. We got the Rocks and Reds as 'bonus' chicks and after slaughtering the Crosses I'm going to camponize them and cull as needed. We're going to keep the ones that are very protective so they keep our layers safe and happy to lay yummy eggs and raise little ones.
We've been collecting materials to make our coop and have almost everything ready. I'll be posting pics once we get started on it. PLEASE excuse the messy garage. Instead of actually CLEANING out the garage they just shoved everything to the side and smooshed up against the doors. I'm currently trying to clean the garage while moving around the brooder and not scaring the chicks. Oh we also added more heat lamps because the night temps were too low and they were huddling up.
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The Research Experience in Ghana is a biannual program run by Professors Phil Allman and Alison Elgart consisting of two courses and a four-week long trip to Ghana. Students will learn field techniques such as MARK recapture and DISTANCE sampling while observing African wildlife first hand. The preparatory course introduces participants to Ghana culture, history, ecology and wildlife as well as provides practice for the field techniques.
During the December travel, Professor Elgart will lead the students in a study of the monkeys of Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary located in central Ghana. The sanctuary is a 192 ha dry semi-deciduous forest where about 200 ursine colobus monkeys inhabit the forest between the towns Boabeng and Fiema, along with Campbell's mona monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli lowei) (Saj et al., 2006; Sicotte and Macintosh, 2004; Wong et al., 2006). The primates are protected by a traditional taboo held among the local villagers that imposes a "hunting ban". Oral tradition tells us that over 100 years ago, a local chief instructed villagers of Boabeng and Fiema to "care for the monkeys", and today a thriving ecotourism venture exists on site (Saj et al., 2006; Appiah-Opoku, 2007). The monkeys are so revered that whenever a monkey dies, it is buried in a special cemetery. This protection is far from complete however, as BFMS was inhabited by more species of monkeys in the past (Saj et al., 2006; personal communication, P. Sicotte, 2009). As with many colobine species, ursine colobus are endangered. The last IUCN survey concluded that the white-thighed black and white colobus "conservation needs are for a thorough survey and more rigorous protection of remaining populations" (Appendix 2: IUCN, 1996). During the upcoming 2012 program, students will conduct a census of the Campbell's mona monkeys and test physical properties of the ursine colobus diet.


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Mormon Helping Hands said it would join with members and friends of the church throughout the state Saturday to renew and beautify some 10,000 city, county and state parks.
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