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Serious Fun with Diagonal Records
Electronic music can be a straight-faced business, but there's a refreshingly playful edge to the artwork Guy Featherstone creates for Diagonal Records, the label co-founded by musician Oscar Powell. Here the pair discuss their approach and reveal how it has transferred to Powell's new home at XL
Diagonal Records prides itself on existing "on the fringe of music for freaks and weirdos", according to its creative director Guy Featherstone – and since its founding in 2011 by Oscar Powell and Jaime Williams, it has been packaging its releases accordingly. Powell initially launched the label to release his own music – he signed to XL in 2015, bringing out debut album Sport this year – and continues to work with Featherstone, who is also creative design director at Wieden + Kennedy Portland, on the look and feel of Diagonal's eclectic roster.
The musicians on the label reflect a range of styles, from the multidisciplinary approach of artist Russell Haswell, to the post-punk inflections of Not Waving, via Powell's own visceral take on dance music. Following a show at TBA Brooklyn in New York, Powell and Featherstone met up to discuss their intimate working relationship, how they've forged a visual attitude for Diagonal (and an identity for Powell) that aligns brilliantly with the music – and why reflecting the sheer joy of sound is as vital now as ever.
Oscar Powell: So when we began working together on Diagonal stuff, it started with you helping me out with my half-baked ideas, basically.
Guy Featherstone: I don't think it felt serious or real from either of us, but there was a sense of trying to establish a vision for the label. I think Shit and Shine's first 12" (Diagonal 004) was the first time it really felt serious. The approach was simple. In terms of trying to distil it down, find some edges for the brand, and set up a bit of a system, that was where it started. That was the first time we introduced a bit of the irreverence and playfulness to the tone of the brand, a bit of the clowning.
OP: I should make clear that first of all things came from me making my own music – and having this idea that dance music could be provocative and challenging, but also playful and fun. Not taking yourself too seriously, but also being serious about what you do. That's how I felt about my own music and we talked about how we could get that attitude into the designs.
GF: My passion was largely associated with the idea that serious music demands serious art – and a serious tactile experience to accompany the sound. I look back at that Shit and Shine release – the yellow, PMS803. I love the way that that colour dries up on an uncoated stock, it's like a super vibrant cadmium. I feel colour plays a critical role in establishing an identity for the label, it helps introduce and inform some of the joy, the levity and the spirit of club music, when dance music was largely purveyed through….
OP: Acid?! It's one of my favourite words! Colour-wise and music-wise. It's a great word – all our covers have a certain 'acidity'.
GF: They have a 'wildness'. There's a spirit to those colours and something very evocative in terms of what they do to the retina. They make your eye buzz a little bit, which is fun, vibrant and poppy.
Acid?! It's one of my favourite words! Colour-wise and music-wise. It's a great word – all our covers have a certain 'acidity'
OP: So how does the process work? We'd have a new record and somehow I'd get it into a brief and get the artist to express what they think the record's about?
GF: I think originally that wasn't so much the case. Then, we'd just talk amongst ourselves. I'd examine the music and try to work out, almost through a process of synaesthesia really, what does that sound 'feel' like? What does it look like? And it's not just the sound, it's the 'experience' of listening to that music. How can I visualise that sonic terrain? We didn't really get into briefs until probably the work with Russell Haswell.
OP: This is Diagonal 007 (pictured above) – probably my favourite cover we did. Russ is a conceptual artist straddling fine art, curation, subversive noise music. So it's always interesting.
GF: It's probably my favourite cover as well. The process of working with Russ went back to the most traditional way of working with artists in the music industry. It started out with a conversation in a small meeting room at work, we did a Skype. I remember he had his modular synth set up and he played a few sounds on it and talked about how much he detested the aesthetic associated with the music he makes – that comes out of the 'noise' environment. He wanted to be really disruptive and change the lens of that environment – and he pretty much gave me free rein. That's probably one of my favourite sleeves for several reasons: the colour combination is timeless – black, red, white – but putting that 'toothpaste' [colour] with it just fused it. It seemed appropriate for the sound.
OP: But then most of the artists who have musical visions, they have ideas about visuals as well, right? So how do you work with artists who obviously want to say their own things?
GF: The one thing that Russ was pointed on was whilst he was prescriptive, articulate, eloquent in how he wanted to 'disrupt', he was also very specific in terms of a typeface he wanted. He was very specific about using Isonorm, a Monospaced type – 'I'd like you to use it small, in a delicate way'. And without sounding like I'm disparaging Russ, a lot of the [artists in the] genre that he's classified in do use small Monospaced typefaces!
It was a bit of a tension point for me, but I listened to the music [37 Minutes] with a piece of graph paper and some coloured pens [and] was making marks on the paper that denoted a rhythm. I ended up with a kind of random scribble of dots and lines, hashes and crosses all representing the different instruments I was listening to. The sketch started to resemble something that looked like what I was hearing. This was all then connected with thread, to try and bind more of an idea to the composition – if you look at a clock and dial the hand around to 37 minutes; every line or angle has been constructed through a 37 minute degree.
That was good fun. Martin Weigel, the Wieden + Kennedy planner, said this really interesting thing about getting used to 'playing to live to audiences' as opposed to creating 'the perfect studio album' – I love that philosophy and applying it to some of the stuff we do. Let's not be too precious about it: when it's too meticulous, infused with utter perfection, you start to lose a bit of the fun.
OP: I guess there's something magical about working on music – you can craft your own label in the image you want. As a musician, people often write about my influences, what informs the music – do you feel like you have influences that inform the way you work on Diagonal and Powell stuff as well?
GF: Absolutely. It's a combination of things, ultimately I feel like it can be anything. I sound like a hippy when I say this out loud, but I can see a piece of litter blowing down the street and the colours in it might mean I have to stop and take a picture of it. And that'll get saved away into the databank, I'll push that into a 'Diagonal' folder. All of the music we put out on the label is rooted in club music, it's digitally manifested, so much of my approach and inspirations come from a number of different worlds and then I attempt to make them feel like they've all been generated by a computer.
Punk is another large aspect of the label, which is why I often try to fuse different worlds together: fashion, patterns, colour systems, graffiti all play an important and influential role in the work. I'm a purist at heart and I feel that one of the defining values for the aesthetic of the label is firmly rooted in typography, [which is] the most powerful component in great graphic design. Possibly the greatest influence to me would have to be Wim Crouwel, from type to grids to form, balance etc.
OP: You're pretty sick on grids! No stones left unturned!
GF: I start everything with a grid. Kim Papworth [at W+K] always said that rules are there to be broken. So starting with rules is really good – but then break them. I love the analogy of setting the perfect table, positioning everything by place – and every place is informed by a position on the grid. Then it's almost like someone comes past and accidentally knocks the table – and a few cups and saucers, a knife and fork go slightly off. That beautiful/ugly thing, that tension is what we're always trying to get; that's some of the physics through which I always try and apply my work.
OP: Typographically, the biggest type thing we've done was the 'Powell' logo. But it was never conceived as a logo really was it?
GF: No. At the time, I was living in Brighton and commuting to London every day on the train and I was trying to apply a discipline; to never spend more than three journeys conceiving and designing a sleeve. I went hell bent on trying to define a response to the conversation we'd had about executing the Club Music sleeve in a typographic way. I was pushing it around the screen, but it wasn't really connecting.
It's a bit of a problem about the way we work today really. We often make mistakes in going straight to the computer, instead of thinking more. So I closed the laptop and got my sketchbook out and starting writing 'Powell' all over the page in pencil; not rendering with any typographic vision in my head, just literally writing your name. And I remember doing a 'down rocker', where I wrote each character under the other, a vertical stack of characters. And when I was rendering the second L after the first one, I was like, wait….
OP: He's got legs!
GF: And that was it! I remember having it pretty much done within 10 minutes and being reasonably happy.
OP: This year [2016] was the year he really came to life, because we had the album I was calling 'Sport' [and] we'd already explored the idea of colour around it. It suddenly became not so much a logo but a character. But we never set out to create that.
GF: On the reverse side of Club Music he was dancing to lasers – he's since been cycling, rowing and doing archery, equestrian, swimming, hurdles. If you remember, after Club Music I was trying to play with him in a 3D sense and never really landed it. I feel like I want to take him 3D now. We did create some laser-cut acrylic versions of him to brand the [Steve] Albini XL billboard and some little guys for you to take to live gigs.
OP: I think I should say something about logos for musicians in general. Using him as a logo, it can start to feel a bit uncomfortable. The moment you 'brand' yourself, maybe you've got an inflated sense of who you are? I was a musician barely selling 500 records a pop. But the thing with the Powell guy is that whenever you show him to someone, it makes them feel something. It's just fun. I got quite comfortable with it in the end. It's not a traditional thing for an underground musician to do, but I think it's been pretty effective.
GF: For me, some of the humility to it comes through the posture of how you've been characterised. You're a walking beanpole – you're 6 ft 5 – so the reason I adjusted the 'P' so that it's slightly nodded down, is because my image of you when I see you in a dingy club, you're lowering your head so you don't bang it on things! So some of the character in the posture suggests that you don't take it that seriously. It feels a bit silly. You should say something about the billboards.
OP: People say billboards have to do certain things: big type, not many words. We had one single poster and wanted to use it as a trigger point, a way of sparking something. You don't need to spend much on a poster campaign, you just need to choose one site and say something that's interesting. I never understood, in my limited experience of brands, why they don't employ similar tactics to be honest. It's a simple mechanism.
[For] the Steve Albini one – I got this email [in reply to requesting sampling his shouted intro to a live Big Black track] and thought it was hilarious – pretty much what I thought about the state of music. And it sparked a huge conversation about punk vs electronic music, old vs new. No-one got where I stood on it, but the irony of it was that I was on Steve's side really.
With the email address one – I have fun thinking about these things because I like to try and reflect the music in the way I talk about it – in an interview or whatever – so rather than just sending out a press release saying I'm about to do a new record, I thought it would be cool if I asked anyone who would actually give a shit to come and speak to me directly about whatever they wanted. I ended up having some mad conversations with people. It was a beautiful thing in the end. I never thought of it as marketing. You work with a label like XL, of course they've got a budget – so how can I have fun with this?
GF: It's starting a conversation, ultimately, right? I love it when you start a fire like that and walk away from it just to see how it burns. And it went berserk. We've spoken about this before – about the future of how you align the experience and feeling [in the] art direction and how you try and bring that fun and that energy, that wildness, that provocativeness, that cutting edged-ness to the brand. The biggest challenge going forward is how we package or present music that sits on a digital framework. I'm super excited about that.
OP: The nature of the distribution of music [is] always changing, and yet a lot of people just stick to putting out records. And I love records, but I don't think we've properly explored the delivery of music in an interesting way yet. There's such a monopoly over the way people consume music these days.
GF: If I can wave a white flag here, because we're part of the industry, but I feel like you've got to give 100% or you're just taking up room. I feel we're responsible for trying to define some of this, to change it and influence some of the experiences that people might have going forward. So, what's your favourite Diagonal sleeve?
OP: I think probably Russell's 37 Minute Workout or Powell Club Music because it was so exciting to see it all brought to life like that. [Speaks into mic] The thing with Guy's stuff is you give him a brief and he says he's going to look at something and he's got these rough ideas – and then what he sends you is 15 times better than what you'd expect. So that's why I try and look after him. And occasionally buy him dinner.

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Bring the music to the people. That's not the official mantra of the Penny Jam (thepennyjam.com), but it might as well be. The video podcast—like a localized take on the popular La Blogothèque series—gathers local musicians, places them in foreign scenarios, and then lets the cameras roll.
Laura Gibson vulnerably croons under the eerie shadow of looming Chinese dinosaur bones under the lights at OMSI, one-man dance party Mattress performs alone atop the Lafayette footbridge as the sun disappears into the West Hills, and the bilingual punk of Magic Johnson ricochets off the walls of the Dollar Scholar. These are just a few of the finer moments of the Penny Jam, whose basic template—take musicians, add an unorthodox locale, and turn the camera on to capture it all—always equates to an inspiring glimpse at Portland's thriving local music scene.
Producer Scott Carver explains how the Penny Jam's work is more than just a show without a stage: "Concert venues are great for live shows; the lighting is usually sparse, the sound is good, and you are close enough that you can actually see the musicians playing most of the time. When you shoot a video at a venue like that, the lighting is harsh and unless you want to interfere with the show by getting between the audience and the band, you probably aren't going to get good footage." He adds, "Mostly it is about making music accessible to as many people as possible—by adding Portland locations it creates a reason for people who live in the city to get into the series, even if they don't know anything about the music yet."
The revolving Penny Jam ensemble—which features a cast of a half-dozen contributors ranging from lighting to audio mixing—creates an ideal environment conducive to both their footage, and the performers themselves, while the audience is blessed with access to a website with 17 achieved episodes, and counting.
The stable of acts that have performed under the Penny Jam banner range from the rapid-fire hiphop of Sleep (clutching the mic atop an industrial Southeast rooftop), to the jazzy ballads of Derrek Wayne (performing while surrounded by the vintage stock at the Immortal Piano Company), and are primarily smaller acts, which is part of the initial mission devoted to sharing this music community with the masses.
"There is a certain element of 'bring it to the people' going on when we put together an episode," explains Carver. "It's partially motivated by the kind of satisfaction that comes with being part of an introductory process."
Although in recent months the Penny Jam posse has ventured out some: "Many have heard Starfucker, not many have heard Starfucker in a barbershop," jokes director Sean Whiteman when referring to the dance-pop group's performance amid the hair trimmings at Rudy's Barbershop. "Yes, we are the ones that finally put Starfucker in the barbershop, we triumphed where many have failed."
As for the lineup of performers captured by the Penny Jam crew, the list is growing. "I'd really like to gig it up with the Builders and the Butchers in some capacity," Whiteman admits. "Or the Decemberists playing the Bagdad while The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is silently projected behind them. Maybe Mirah singing in the corner of the Blazers training facility while the team is three-man weaving."
While not all of these ideas will come to fruition, the Penny Jam's willingness to try anything in the name of shining the spotlight on Portland local music is commendable. Or as Whiteman explains it, "I'm just pleased to be able to latch myself like a parasite to this community of artists. I don't have a beard and can't play the dulcimer, so this is closest I'll get to being part of a music scene."


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A few weeks ago, my computer suddenly shut down on me. No warning, no prep. Just out of the blue, it was black. And of course I was devastated. At the time, I had tons of assignments to do, and would you guess where they had to be done? On a computer!
Before I could pull all the hair out of my head and scream until all the windows were broken, I decided to take the computer to my college's tech department.
"Just use the school's library computers for a few days while the tech wizards work their magic on your little Asus," I told myself. They kept it for a good three days.
Then, "You can come get your computer back," they said. "We fixed it," they said.
But apparently, these wizards cheated their way through magic school. A few minutes after I got my computer back, it froze again. Yes, it froze again even though I told them that was the problem I had with the computer before it shut down. "We fixed it," they said. "You can come get it back," they said.
At that moment, I had a whole list of backed up assignments still to finish. And just as luck would have it, one of those assignments was a French recording assignment where I had to answer some questions in French and record them onto a website. Guess what? I couldn't do that at a library without making everybody there turn their heads to me and hiss like cobras. I had already asked my professor for an extension on the assignment, and he had kindly given me a couple more days. Those were the days my computer spent with the whack – I'm sorry – tech department. I had to finish the assignment before midnight that day or get a zero for the whole thing.
So it gets to around 11:30 at night. The library is about to close and that assignment is still not done. I decide to try my luck on my own computer and get it recorded back in my dorm room. I get back to my dorm and I find my roommate sleeping there. She would also cobra her head at me if I started talking all over the place…
I'm fighter. So you know what I decided? To go outside and find someplace quiet, and get the thing done one way or the other. Behind Creighton Hall, my school's admin building, I folded my legs, kissed my behind onto the concrete, and switched on my computer to start the good old French devoir.
Is there ever rest for the weary? No. So of course, my computer would not cooperate and only kept on freezing when I tried to record my answers. I've got stamina. So I pulled my phone out, recorded the assignment on my phone and emailed it to my professor. Phew!
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All thirteen original final acceptors are still in the mix for the $1.25 million Group 1 Lexus Newmarket Handicap (1200m) run down the famous Flemington straight as Race 7 at 3:55pm (AEDT).
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April 23rd, 2012, 04:22 PM #1Where should I announce my new program?
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Thanks you for the tips guys
Other than AbestWeb and Shareasale, where else can I announce my new program?
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I have found a few free sites. JVzoo.com and Manta.com.
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I read my daily emails from Manta Tip of the Day as I am a small business owner. Is that the market you are advertising to?
Is the premise of your merchant account on Shareasale to find a way to only advertise for free and make money? Seems like you should be advertising to affiliates on the value proposition of your program and what you are selling.
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I just learned about manta just from searching around on google, i have to signed up but not sure what to do now. I guess just look for businesses and connect with them. Have you found affiliates on manta? What else do you use it for?
Also, jvzoo.com is free but i have been having issues uploading my product for some reason.
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Yes, i am a part owner. ok, good to know.
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For a couple hundred dollars you could have placed ads/announcements here and at several other affiliate venues. Lunch money, really.
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Iain Pears wrote two of my favourite novels, 'The Dream of Scipio' and 'Stone's Fall', both of which have historical themes and feature split narratives unfolding at different times. They both worked very well, yielding intriguing and engrossing stories, and I was, therefore, eagerly awaiting this novel.With 'Arcadia', however, I fear he has overreached himself. There are ten separate stories in the novel, all woven together in an ambitious embroidery. Sadly, for me the experiment failed to work and rather than an intricate and satisfying pattern, I found myself contemplating an inchoate slop of contrived plots. In many ways 'Arcadia' reminded me of David Mitchell's 'The Bone Clocks' another book to which I had looked forward for a long time only to be disappointed when I finally came to read it. The publishers have even created a mobile phone app to enable readers to keep track of the different threads of the story, which suggests to me that it must be unnecessarily (and unsustainably) complicated. I am all in favour of writers experimenting with form, but they sometimes seem to overlook the basic integrity of their story.
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Friday, September 19th
Parent Revolution Applauds Columbus School Board Announcement of Parent Trigger Schools
Los Angeles, CA
Parent Revolution applauds the Columbus School Board's public announcement of 20 Parent Trigger eligible schools in the district. While other districts around the nation haven't been forthright, or have outright attempted to avoid their responsibilities under Parent Trigger legislation, the Columbus School Board is communicating with parents and community members about their democratic right to organize to improve failing schools.
Parent Trigger in Columbus Schools will give parents the ability to organize and demand changes that will improve their children's schools. Additionally, parents, by engaging in the school transformation process, can keep the district accountable to student needs over the long term.
Ben Austin, Executive Director of Parent Revolution, issues the following statement about today's action:
"We applaud the efforts in Columbus, Ohio to give parents real power to transform their children's low performing schools through organizing. We have discovered over the last four years that parent empowerment laws can make a real difference for students stuck in low-performing schools by finally giving a real voice to parents. We have also learned that implementing these laws and turning around schools is never easy or quick. Parents need to get organized and decide collectively what changes their children need, and the state needs to provide clear and workable rules of the road to help guide the process.
Just like in California, Connecticut, Tennessee, and every other state where parents have fought for change, we know there will be those in Ohio that are invested in keeping parent from having power instead of helping this law to work. We stand with parents everywhere who are trying to use this important law to transform their neighborhood schools and improve opportunities for their children."
Parent Revolution transforms underperforming public schools by empowering parents to advocate for what is good for children, not adults, through grassroots community organizing.


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After assigning Kathryn Lofton's Oprah: Gospel of an Icon, which discussed, among other things, how Oprah's book club created a quasi-religious community, I was thrilled to be asked to be on this web page! I am currently reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Completed in 1868, The Moonstone is the first detective novel in English. As you may be able tell from the dated copy I am holding, I was given this book in the early 1980s, but couldn't get through it. Now that I spend most of my time worrying about the 14th and 15th centuries, I have found that 19th century novels are akin to futuristic science fiction page-turners.
The moonstone is a legendary diamond looted from a temple in India by British soldiers. The temple's hereditary guards, Brahmins I believe, seem to stop at nothing, including infiltrating upper-class British parties as jugglers, to get it back from the families of the British soldiers. As a scholar of religion, I am, of course, cheering for the guards, but am also struck by how, on one hand, the novel depicts a dichotomy between a religious Orient and rational, secular Occident. Yet, on the other hand, the British certainly believe the legend that the diamond will bring bad luck to whomever possesses it and how the Indian guards, while ostensibly motivated by religion, are certainly aware of the diamond's economic value.
The book's portrayal of the servants, particularly Rosanna Spearman, is complex and sympathetic. Rosanna was once in a reformatory for theft, becomes a suspect in the theft of the diamond, and ends up committing suicide even though she was not the culprit. As a whole, the novel is more character-driven than modern examples. Yeah, the 500 page length and slowish pace turned me off as a 12 year-old, but as I read I am struck by how well-crafted the book is and by how the experience of reading is much closer to what solving a mystery might actually be like.


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EIGHTY Victorian secondary students will be selected from a statewide ballot to attend the 2015 ANZAC Centenary dawn service at Gallipoli.
The special ballot will give year 9-12 students the opportunity to attend the emotional commemoration at ANZAC Cove which marks 100 years since Australian soldiers landed on the Turkish peninsula in World War I.
Victorian Minister for Veterans' Affairs Damian Drum will on Wednesday announce details of the selection criteria for students and other ANZAC centenary initiatives as part of a $6 million package.
The boys and girls will be among 400 students from across the country who will make the trip as part of a government program to help teach a new generation about the ANZAC sacrifice and service which helped define the nation.
The ill-fated eight-month Gallipoli campaign saw 8141 Diggers killed among 26,111 casualties and nine Victoria Crosses awarded to soldiers in Australian units.
The student ANZAC package provides government-funded return air tickets, accommodation and a five-day visit which includes the ANZAC Cove April 25, 2015 service, an Australian service at Lone Pine, battlefield and memorial tours and to historic sites in Istanbul.
"I encourage students from across Victoria, particularly regional Victoria, to apply for the chance to fly the flag for their local community and bring to life the stories of courage and sacrifice that defined the Gallipoli campaign at ANZAC Cove," Mr Drum said.
Students, enrolled in years 9 to 12 next year, can apply to attend and panels of teachers and principals in the four Victorian school zones will select successful candidates.
The students will join descendants of those who served at Gallipoli, Australian World War I widows and thousands of other Australians who were successful in the national ballot.
Under selection criteria, Victorian students will be asked to write their thoughts on the ANZAC spirit, why they want to attend and demonstrate how they can share their experiences with local communities when they return.
The trip will also seek applications from 18 adult chaperones or teachers who will attend with the student group.
"The government is proud to work with Victorian schools and communities to keep the spirit of ANZAC alive, and pass the torch of remembrance on to young Victorians," Mr Drum said.
"We want our young people to embrace the stories of the ANZACs, to never forget the sacrifices they made."
Minister Drum has committed an additional $6 million to help Victorians and community groups commemorate the WWI centenary over the next four years.
The funds will upgrade visitor facilities at Point Nepean, from which the first shot of the war was fired in August 1914; host a First Shot commemoration ceremony next to Fort Nepean; a major event at Melbourne Town Hall to commemorate the mass meeting in 1914 in support of the war effort and other community engagement and information programs.
Student and teacher/chaperone applications for the 2015 Gallipoli visit will close on June 13, 2014 and must be submitted electronically to firstname.lastname@example.com
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|Quoting DesertJets (Reply 1):
Though the one thing I know for sure, there are much better ways to spend a Saturday morning than taking the ACT.
|Quoting DesertJets (Reply 1):
Right now at work I am coordinating a test prep series for GRE and GMAT
|Quoting DesertJets (Reply 1):
To do well on these types of test all you have to do, and I am not kidding here, is have paid attention in school and actually done the work;
|Quoting DesertJets (Reply 1):
Though the one thing I know for sure, there are much better ways to spend a Saturday morning than taking the ACT.
|Quoting PDXtriple7 (Reply 2):
I've seen stuff on these tests, but what exactly are they? I'm interested in business, so I know I'll have to take one of those for graduate school, but are they specific to business, medicine, etc., or are they more general like the SAT so it doesn't really matter if you take business courses as an undergrad in order to do well on them?
|Quoting DesertJets (Reply 3):
GMAT has sentence corrections; plus the verbal and math sections on GMAT are longer (75 minutes a piece vs. 30 and 45).
|Quoting StevenUhl777 (Reply 5):
That's step #1. The GMAT (which I've taken twice now) and GRE are used for grad. school, yet the level of math and english is at the high school level. It's something that everyone has seen before, but the big difference is the way the material is tested. It's worded and presented differently than in a high school math class.
|Quoting StevenUhl777 (Reply 5):
Specific to the GMAT, and most likely why MBA programs only want students to take it, is for the critical reasoning and the tricky data sufficiency problems. That's key in a business program. The skills you need to beat the GMAT are the same ones you'll need in grad. school.
|Quoting StevenUhl777 (Reply 5):
Between that and practice tests, I don't know if you need to take a prep. class...just my opinion...sorry DesertJets...
|Quoting AirWillie6475 (Reply 8):
In california the SAT is a BIG thing, in other states I think they value the ACT more.
|Quoting Homer71 (Reply 19):
I've never been to Waco, but I can vouch that San Antonio has a nice airport (especially Terminal 1) and will be nicer once they finish the new concourse.
|Quoting MD-90 (Reply 11):
. In the South, no one takes the SAT, unless they're planning to go to a school that prefers or requires it, which for sure isn't any of the SEC schools.
|Quoting Dvk (Reply 22):
. Most top students in the South take both the ACT and SAT.
|Quoting Aa777jr (Reply 15):
Whoever said people that live in the south don't generally take the ACT is correct. Unless applying for admission to east coast schools, most people prefer the SAT.
|Quoting VSLover (Reply 16):
took it again my 11th grade year and scored a 1600, which clearly, i was satisfied with. as for the SAT II's i had to take three, so i opted for math II (i think thats what it is called) scored 800, bio scored 750, and the writing which i cannot remember my score.
|Quoting AirWillie6475 (Reply 8):
In caliornia the SAT is a BIG thing, in other states I think they vallue the ACT more. I used the ACT for college and I got into my first choice.
|Quoting PDXtriple7 (Reply 26):
Congratulations with those scores!!! Where did you end up going to college by the way?
Well, I got my SAT II results back today, and got a 710 Math Level I, 740 Math Level II, and 650 Spanish. I'm pretty happy, and all my practice tests and studying seemed to pay off for the subject tests.
|Quoting MD-90 (Reply 30):
I do wish I had taken the SAT, but I didn't bother. I know of only one person from my high school class that did. It would've been nice to have something to compare the ACT with. And something that my mother didn't take and score a perfect 36 on.
|Quoting Tu144d (Reply 32):
Even though I'm now a graduate student at MIT i didn't get into the undergrad program herewith a 1580 on my SAT's and a 3.9 GPA. On the other hand my dumb valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA and a get this...1190!!!!!!! on her SAT's got in. SHe graduated with a D+ average thus proving she didn't deserve to be there.
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The author made an attempt to study the system for settling labor disputes abroad (as of collective and individual). The mechanisms for their resolution, and the possibility of borrowing-data systems in order to maximize the experience of foreign countries to improve the legislation of Kazakhstan. Determined that a comparative analysis of the legal regulation of labor dispute settlement in these countries are not so much comparison of the activity of an organ, the presence or absence of authority for employees, employers and the state as how to reflect the tradition and historical context of these countries on the process formation of the modern dispute resolution mechanism.
Various legal actions and conflicting views in the political, economic, social and international spheres are very painful for the society and the state. Increasing tensions in social relations — is dangerous. Therefore there is a need in «translation» of their solution in the legal channel to give collision and conflict of a legal nature. What does it give? Order stability in its analysis and resolution is achieved.
To provide transparency and publicity. The rights of the parties in disputed relationship are guaranteed by using pre-defined ways and the acceptance of the grounded decisions on the controversial cases.
Difficulties and disputes accompany any activity and its various stages. Originating due to objective reasons and subjective factors, they reflect the different interests of the subjects of law and the differential law, the resulting of its legal position.
At first disputes gain meaning of differences and refer to the understanding of a situation. The typology of disputes is determined by its' nature and status of the participants, and, accordingly by a set of legal rules from different areas of law.
Perhaps combined application of different standards, because complex and continuing disputes involve many participants and increase the field of contentious relations.
The concept of «dispute», «controversial situation», «peaceful resolution of disputes» as is the concept of «dispute», according to international law experts, contains constructive grain — a well-defined requirements and requirements of the parties to each other, that sets them to resolve the existing contradictions [1]. Highlighting the concept of dispute can explain the meaning of a labor dispute — is disagreement between the employee and the employer in the application of labor legislation, that the conditions of the employment and collective agreement, not previously settled between the employer and employee, which stated in a specially created to resolve a labor dispute body or the court [2; 379]. N.N.Nurgaliyevа gives his definition of a collective labor dispute: «Collective labor dispute — are unresolved differences between employees (or their representatives) the employer (employers and their representatives) on the establishment and change of working conditions (including payment), conclusion, amendment and implementation of collective agreements, agreements and the refusal of the employer to take into account the opinion of the representative body of election workers in making local normative legal acts» [3]. In clause 3, Article 24 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstanrecognized the right of individual and collective employment disputes with the use law for their resolution, including the right to strike. Most national labor law was formed as a result of the settlement of collective labor disputes. The need for social stability caused society to establish certain rules of interaction between workers, employers and the state, which are more or less take the edge off conflicts in the workplace. Collective bargaining is a means of regulating relations between management and employees and for settling disputes between them. It is based upon the realization that employers enjoy greater social and economic power than individual workers. The contract of employment is by nature imbalanced due to the fact that its content is largely determined by the employer by virtue of him owning the means of production and this places him/her in a stronger bargaining position. As employees need work more than the employer needs the services of a particular employee, they tend to accept any terms and conditions offered to them, even if they turn out to be exploitative Labor disputes, usually preceded by a labor violation. Labor can be considered guilty of the offense, any failure to perform its obligation to the subject of work. In some cases, it may be a labor dispute. It can occur when the action of the subject were legal, but the other person thinks its unlawful, that is, when labor is virtually no offense. The establishment or the lack of labor violations is the prerogative of the competent authority, considering the employment dispute. Such a body has jurisdiction to resolve the dispute.
It should be noted that the labor offense is not a trade dispute. Disagreement subjects of labor law can evolve to an labor dispute, if it is not settled by the parties themselves, and therefore brought to the jurisdictional body.
Consequently, the dynamics of the labor dispute in stages would be as follows:
- Labor law relation (effective or only according to the authorized agent);
- different estimation of it by legal entities (disputes);
- an attempt to resolve these disputes between the parties in direct negotiations, that is, self-regulation of disputes;
- to appeal in order to resolve the employment dispute to the jurisdictional body [4; 8].
Labor dispute resolution system in the West, as a rule, differs in kinds — a dispute about the rights or interests.
As for the foreign experts, the system of industrial relations in the world differ in the way of the classification of labor disputes, if any, once classified. However, the intrinsic nature of a labor dispute is that, intentionally or not, and regardless of the procedures and mechanisms for its resolution, the dispute falls within the specific category. Accordingly, in many systems of industrial relations allocation of labor disputes to a category dictates the use of a specific mechanism for its' resolution.
Disputes about the interests — it is always disputes about establishing or changing conditions, if this is not about violating the law, other legal acts, acts of social partnership and individual employment contracts. A classic example of a dispute of interests — a dispute initiated by the employee on the salary increase, if the obligation of the employer is to raise the salary is not provided in a regulatory legal act or agreement (if such obligation is provided, then we are talking about violating workers' rights, not conflicts of interest; such dispute shall be classified as a dispute about rights, i.e. legal). The role of collective bargaining as an effective tool for industrial democracy and social justice has been recognized for many years. It is against this background that collective bargaining forms one of the most important gradients of the ILO Strategic Objective on promoting and strengthening social dialogue. Collective bargaining has the potential of reducing conflict through the resolution of labor disputes, and can promote workplace democracy and ensure the recognition and protection of the worker's rights. International legal instruments on employment law, providing for arbitration of disputes under collective bargaining's, appeared only after the Second World War. So, in 1949, the International Labor Organization (hereinafter — ILO) adopted the Convention # 98 on the Right to Organize and the right to make collective bargains, which provides the freedom and the right to collective bargaining's. In 1951, the ILO adopted a special act on the resolution of collective labor disputes — Recommendation # 92 on the Voluntary Conciliation and Arbitration. ILO Convention № 154 and Recommendation № 163, 1981 on collective bargaining's provided a procedure for resolving disputes (disputes) in collective bargaining's. These international instruments on collective labor disputes are the basis for the development and adoption of national legislation.
People abroad follow the traditional classification of Kazakhstan of labor disputes on individual and collective, although this classification is given less importance than the classification of the controversy about the rights and the interests. Note that the law holds the opposite approach, dividing labor disputes is on the individual and collective disputes, but no where a distinction between disputes over rights and disputes of interest, which, in our opinion, is not quite correct, because it is the intrinsic nature of the dispute in greater than its subject structure shall determine the manner of its resolution.
Authorities which work on labor disputes over rights abroad can be classified into four groups. Specifically:
- the courts of general jurisdiction;
- courts on labor disputes;
- quasi-judicial administrative bodies;
In many countries there are no specific judicial or quasi-judicial bodies, which could be addressed in the event of a labor dispute of rights. Such conflicts are treated exactly the same and is the same courts as any other civil dispute. Supporters of the status quo argue that disputes under the contract are not different, whether it is a contract of employment, collective agreements, business, etc. As a rule, a qualified judge in the state of competence applies the law — the statutory or common law — whatever the facts. Undoubtedly, this statement contradicts the very idea on which the system of labor courts.
Labor courts exist in many countries, but only a few are endowed with the broadest jurisdiction. We are talking about countries where the ordinary courts practically engaged to resolve labor disputes. Labor courts in developed countries where they are established, they different in many ways:
- in terms of competence, that is, the type of cases under their jurisdiction;
- by composition (tripartite, double-sided or single);
- selection and role of lay judges in the courts of constituents;
- degree of pre-trial procedures (mediation procedures of any kind);
- procedural powers and a number of other
The countries where the ordinary courts play a major (and often exclusive) role in the resolution of labor disputes on the rights include the Netherlands and Italy.
All countries in the European Union allow for individual worker disputes concerning alleged breaches of employment law to be heard in an appropriate court of justice — whether a specialist labour court or a civil court. The issue addressed by this comparative analytical report is the use of means seeking to resolve the problem before a full hearing takes place, that is, through alternative disputes resolution (alternative dispute resolution — ADR) procedures. A narrow definition of ADR is the use of third parties engaging in conciliation, mediation and arbitration prior to a court hearing. This can be action by a legal authority, often the court judge, immediately prior to a hearing in an effort to resolve the dispute. Alternatively, or in addition, it can involve the appointment of publicly-funded specialists, or private experts — either once an application has been made but before a court hearing is fixed, or before the claim has been made. These types of ADR linked to the judicial process are referred to as 'judicial ADR'. In addition, some countries emphasise the role of the social partners in the workplace, or sometimes in the region or sector, in providing an avenue for a worker to resolve a dispute at the level of the works council or similar institutions aligned to collective bargaining.
Collective labor disputes are closely connected with the history of the labor movement for sake of the improvement of working and living conditions of workers. However, the legislation anywhere in the world up to 50-th in the XX century didn't regulate the settlement of collective labor disputes. In present, both in England and in the United States it remained mostly collective-contractual negotiation its regulation.
Conciliatory procedure for settlement of collective labor disputes in many developed countries is all developing.
The term «collective bargaining» was first used in the UK in 1891. The country which first experienced the formation of trade unions.
The collective bargaining process here was to develop even in those times when almost nothing was known in other countries. Nevertheless, these negotiations have become a common practice for skilled workers. Suffice it to mention only the world's first factory law in favor of workers, adopted in the UK in 1802. Against child labor for more than 12 hours daily. This law was passed due to the fact that among the children working in unsanitary conditions, spread dangerous infectious diseases. The history of regulation in the sphere of labor everywhere demonstrated the feasibility of combining two opposing inequalities parties to the employment contract: government regulation, as well as workers' and their resources to jointly defend their requirements, in particular through the equitable settlement of collective labor disputes. And still the main feature of collective labor disputes in the UK can be called a tradition of non-interference of the state in managing their permission. This distinguishes the British labor law, not only from the relevant institutions of the continental system, but also the USA.
In the United States relating to compulsory collective bargaining has always been the opposite British. Collective agreement from the beginning was seen as a mandatory document, equal in force to any other contracts between the entities. The Italian legislation provides the possibility of using an individual labor dispute by the parties of a certain form of Arbitration (whose decisions are not binding), however, noted that this possibility is almost never used. As already mentioned, as such, labor courts in Italy did not exist. However, labor disputes over rights generally become objects faster procedure than with other things, and they can be seen judges with special training in labor law, so-called «praetors» (pretore). Thus, in the Italian system still contains some aspects of the labor courts.
In Italy, recourse to the judicial authorities for the resolution of a labour dispute must be preceded by a mandatory attempt at conciliation — referred to as «administrative conciliation». This takes place before a special board instituted by the relevant Provincial Labour Directorate. If the judge ascertains at the beginning of the court procedure that no attempt has been made to use conciliation, the proceedings may be suspended and the parties ordered to use the procedure. The administrative difficulty in setting up a conciliation hearing, especially in the public sector where different rules apply, can lead to lengthy delays. Alternatively, a worker may give written permission to a trade union to attempt «trade union conciliation» in the workplace. If the outcome is registered with the labour directorate, it is deemed valid. In non-union organisations, the equivalent process available is called a «transaction», ending in a written agreement or decision. Issues relating to the payment of wages can be dealt with by 'monocratic conciliation' at the Provincial Labour Directorate prior to a formal intervention of the labour inspector at the behest of the worker. A recent development, introduced in 2004, is a form of non-judicial ADR where the management and trade union can request a certification of the working relationship, presumably showing the quality of procedures for handling grievances and disciplinary matters.
An important feature of judicial review labor cases in Germany — focus on reaching a compromise on the conclusion of a settlement agreement. In Germany, collective agreements may be reached at company level between a trade union and an employer, or-as is most common-at a more general level between a trade union and an employers' organization. Inconsistencies can sometimes arise between collective agreements, for example, if an employer signs a collective agreement at company level at the same time as the employer through membership in an employers' organization is bound by a more general collective agreement. In such situations the company-level agreement applies. In Germany, the right to strike does not permit strikers to prevent non-strikers from entering the workplace. Neither is it permitted to stop goods deliveries to from the company, nor to refuse customers access to the company. The labour courts have exclusive jurisdiction over virtually all legal conflicts between the employer and employee arising from the employment relationship. Labour court proceedings aim to be simple, speedy and inexpensive. Every case brought before the labour court begins with a conciliation hearing heard by the chairperson acting alone. The purpose of this approach is to achieve an amicable settlement, usually a compromise between the parties, before recourse to a formal hearing. In Germany, all employees have the right to have their grievances heard by the works council. It is then possible for a company-level arbitration committee to be established. In practice, in most cases where a works council exists, an employee might first address the council; the works council would then seek to resolve the matter with management, sometimes using informal mediation. Where there is no works council, the trade union would seek an out-of-court agreement with the employer. In cases of individual dismissals, the works council must be consulted. Recent evidence shows that only 12 % of forced dismissals resulted in court cases.
As in France, the court first attempts to reconcile the parties. It makes one chair at the preliminary hearing. In case of impossibility of reconciliation is going to court in full force, and regards this matter, but, as a rule, in a few months. Procedure before the court the labor dispute is somewhat simpler than in the ordinary courts, and everything possible to complete the works in a single sitting. Solutions labor courts of first instance are subject to immediate execution. In accordance with the principle of immediate execution, solutions announced immediately after the court hearing.
In conclusion, let us summarize: each model has several varieties. In addition, the basic model of dispute resolution for the interests are used simultaneously or sequentially. If, for example, the legislature defines a mechanism for resolving disputes between the parties, based on the collective judgment of its objective and fair due to the competing interests of the parties, the dispute may be settled by the simultaneous application of models of arbitration and state regulations. In turn, finding out what is hidden behind the term «fair», the legislature may have the effect of incentive on the part of the instructions or recommendations of the ILO Report of the Special Committee appointed by the president or the prime minister. An example of consistent use of dispute resolution models can serve the interests of the situation in which to reach an agreement, the representatives of the parties are using the talks, but the achievement of this agreement depends on the approval of the members of these parties by voting. Comparative analysis of the legal regulation of the labor dispute settlement in these countries are not so much a comparison of the activities of a body, the presence or absence of authority for employees, employers and the state as how to reflect the tradition and historical context of these countries, the formation of the modern dispute resolution. The main goal we studied the system for settling the labor disputes abroad both collective and individual labor disputes and make an attempt to analyze the mechanisms in resolving the labor disputes, as well as the possibility of borrowing these systems.
In the Republic of Kazakhstan in the formation of civilized labor relations in the market plays an important role Labor Code (the LC RC), adopted on the 15 of May 2007. The emergency of the Labor Code of a chapter on collective labor disputes in general should be viewed as a positive decision of the legislator as it facilitates systematic labor law regulating collective labor disputes, codified in a single act. Of the above systems, the settlement of collective labor disputes can reveal that the current procedure for settlement of labor disputes in the interest of workers, because disputes are resolved at the workplace, in the workplace, by the same workers who can most accurately judge the validity of any claims.
The legal framework of the parties' collective labor disputes in the negotiation process outlined inclusion LC RK procedural rules. Full explanation of rules dedicated to the prevention of illegal strikes, the revised institution of «labor dispute», which have been refined: the beginning of a labor dispute, the procedure of registration, a quorum meeting, conference representatives, terms of labor disputes. Over the years, is improving the labor law, examines the experience of foreign countries to ratify international conventions on labor, which is a big step towards a stable legislative regulation. Poor knowledge of the subjects of labor law and social and labor relations, and the weakness of the trade unions and the protection of the interests of employees, one conclusion is based on the state of the law in labor law field. Analysis of violations of labor law shows that often the violations by employers may be due to ignorance of labor laws or improper use, negligence, heads to his official duties, inefficient organization of work [5].
In its report, a prominent scholar of labor law professor, LLD Nurgaliyevа E.N defects noted labor law, namely, the objective and subjective reasons for their occurrence. The objective causes include socioeconomic factors, the lack of the necessary material conditions for the implementation labor law standards. Subjective factors include socio-cultural reasons, when adopting regulations on labor rulemaking authority takes into account the awareness of the society, the level of cultural development, including the culture of labor relations [6]. All the above mentioned defects of labor law unfortunately, present in Kazakhstan labor law. Particularly prevalent such subjective reasons for their appearance as ignoring the legal awareness level, the cultural level of employment. So try to settle the collective agreement at the level of the most important issues of labor and wages instead of their laws and regulations has led to numerous collective labor disputes.
Thus, a comparative analysis can give a legal response to the settlement of collective labor disputes, and compare their fundamental differences, take the positive aspects of the peaceful settlement of disputes arising from the employment relationship. Learning and using the experience of foreign countries is the main objective of improving the rules of domestic law.
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Rangers midfielder Lewis Macleod is out of the William Hill Scottish Cup fifth-round clash against Dunfermline with a calf strain.
But Bilel Mohsni is available before the defender serves a two-match league ban following his red card against Brechin.
Nicky Clark (foot), Chris Hegarty (ankle), Kyle Hutton (broken leg) and Ross Perry (ankle) all remain on the sidelines.
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