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Progressing the Equal Opportunities agenda was a priority for the Left who gained power in 1984. On some aspects progress had already been made by the previous administration, but there was a lot further to go. Consultations took place with groups oppressed on the basis of race, gender, sexuality and disability, but setting up the committee and staffing structures was by no means simple. This chapter covers the initial steps and the difficulties encountered.
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There was already in existence a Race Relations Advisory Group chaired by Councillor Sally Shaw, but there was no understanding of the institutional racism and sexism that existed within the Council and society generally at that time (as was the case in the country as a whole). Despite the high numbers of black people in Manchester, there were no black, and very few women, councillors.
Out of the 63 Labour councillors in May 1979, there were only seven women. Four of them[1] were part of the right-wing grouping (8%), and although they were all pretty strong characters in their own way, they were fairly marginalised. There were proportionally more women amongst the left-wing councillors (23%) although this was only three women out of thirteen people on the Left – Frances Done, Val Stevens and Kath Robinson – so there was still work to be done to increase women's representation on the Council.
But this was fairly typical of other councils in the country. Kath Robinson had made friends with a councillor in Barnsley who was the only woman there and she was apparently completely marginalised by the male councillors.
Despite the work of the Women's Liberation movement in the early 1970s, the Labour Party still hadn't come to terms with exactly what equality for women meant. Women were still being expected to make the tea and not speak at meetings. At a Labour Group meeting after Kath Robinson was elected in 1979, she was told by one of the right-wingers (Colin Brierley) – "You should be at home making your husband's tea". He was stunned by her reply – "He's at home making mine".
By May 1984, the 42 councillors on the Left included 13 women (31%), which was a big improvement, with Nilofar Siddiqi being the first (and only) Asian woman.
In the Recreation Department, women employees had a particularly hard time and on one occasion, a female employee found a used condom had been placed on her desk. Even in the Social Services Department, which had a greater proportion of women employees than other departments, sexism was common.
Before the Left took over, the Policy Committee had approved a Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection in January 1984, which included a policy statement on Equal Opportunities in employment, drawn up by the Personnel Department as a result of national legislation. Also, the Personnel Committee had agreed to a proposal from the Race Relations Advisory Group (subject to consultation with the trade unions) that all vacancies should be advertised externally at the same time as internally. The previous policy had been for vacancies to be advertised internally first, which militated against women and black people being employed at any level other than at first-entry or junior positions.
During the early 1980s the City Party's Equal Opportunities Working Party had drawn up very detailed and extensive policies on Equal Opportunities and had thought through ways of implementing them. The Equal Opportunities Working Party was one of the most active and hard working groups and it developed a complete strategy for the Council. Val Stevens, Sorrel Brookes and John Shiers were amongst its members.
Immediately after the Council AGM in May 1984, work began to implement the strategy. As the person charged with the task of leading on Equal Opportunities, Val Stevens worked closely with a council officer, Penny Boothman, to set up the new committee and a staffing structure within the Town Hall.
Penny Boothman was chosen to work with Val Stevens on Equal Opportunities (and also with Frances Done on Neighbourhood Services) because she was the most senior woman in the Chief Executive's Department, and because she shared their values and had some understanding of what the issues were. It was the first time she'd ever worked directly with elected members. Val and Penny drafted the terms of reference for the new Equal Opportunities Committee and started the discussions about the staffing structure and remit of the Equal Opportunities Unit.
Val Stevens chaired all the meetings and Penny Boothman found them extremely challenging, but also very exciting. She felt that previous Council consultations with communities that she had been involved with (eg for the inner-city programme in the late 70s and early 80s) were pretty pathetic and she wanted to do better. Setting up the women's meetings was the easiest as there were established networks of women and mechanisms for consulting (see later), although getting good attendance at meetings was not so easy. Black and ethnic minorities were more problematic. It was decided to have separate meetings for the different communities, but they held one for the Asians, one for the African Caribbeans and then ended up with one for 'the rest of the world' – in a small committee room in the Town Hall! She admits now that they were very naïve and made lots of mistakes – like arranging meetings in the early evening during Ramadan and not working out how to make contact with young Muslim women.
The first meeting, for the Asian community, was held in the Library Theatre and it was packed. It was a very, very stormy meeting with lots of Muslim men shouting at Val Stevens, and Penny Boothman realised that they'd embarked on something really huge. She found the whole experience absolutely fascinating, but Val was shocked at some of the vitriol hurled at her and at just how much discrimination there was between the disadvantaged groups. According to Sheila Newman, the Labour Group was on a big learning curve, having assumed that all the oppressed groups would work together on a common agenda of eliminating discrimination. The City Party policy was that there should be no 'hierarchy of disadvantage', but amongst the different groups, there were arguments along the lines of "my oppression is greater than yours".
The ethnic minority groups would not accept being included with other oppressed groups and wouldn't co-operate, so it was eventually agreed that a separate Race Sub-committee would be established. Having accepted that, it was then decided to set up a separate sub-committee for women, one for disabled people and one for gay men and lesbians, although the lesbians were not happy about being included with the gay men, so a separate one had to be set up for them as well.
The disabled activists didn't want to have a sub-committee because a sub-committee of the Council had to have councillors actually making the decisions (even though there could be co-opted community representatives on it) and they didn't want to have any non-disabled people representing them, because for years they had suffered from non-disabled people speaking on their behalf. So it was agreed that there would be a disabled people's 'steering group' that would make the actual decisions, and that their decisions would be fed into the formal sub-committee. The sub-committee would have non-disabled people on it, but they wouldn't making decisions on behalf of others.
Prior to the first meeting for gay men, concerns were expressed by those men who worked for the Council and hadn't 'come out' as gay, that they would be identified and subsequently discriminated against. So Penny (as a council officer) wasn't allowed to attend their meeting. As there were community meetings being held two or three times a week, Penny was quite glad to have a night off. Their first meeting was held in the Archway pub and around 150 gay men attended. Margaret Roff and Val Stevens explained the Council's new policy and how they hoped it would work and ten or twelve community representatives were elected to the Gay Men's Sub-committee[2].
Amongst the Lesbian community there were similar concerns about council officers being identified, but Penny was allowed to attend their first meeting, which was held in Amigos (a Mexican restaurant in the city centre) in a very dark room, in order to protect identities.
In the autumn of 1984, a translation service was set up and a working party to monitor the implementation of the Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection, and, as there was an obvious lack of race awareness amongst chief officers (and councillors), a training programme was established for them.
Another key decision made by the Council in February 1985 was that all companies with Council contracts should have Equal Opportunities policies (as well as fair wages, Health and Safety compliance and trade union recognition, etc.)
Also early in 1985, the Council agreed to celebrate International Women's Day (on 8th March) by offering small grants to women's groups in order to put on events celebrating women's strengths and achievements. This became an annual week-long festival – International Women's Week (IWW) – with events happening all over the city as well as a big celebration in the Town Hall.
The press was particularly hostile towards gay equality[4]. Every small grant given to a gay voluntary group (see below) was given huge coverage by the Manchester Evening News and also highlighted in a lurid way by the Tories in their leaflets. There was even a homophobic leaflet produced by an anonymous Labour Party member that was circulated widely. When the commercial developments began around the Canal Street area (later to become known as the Gay Village) the impression given by the press was that the Council was putting money into these ventures, as a further reason to attack the councillors, when in fact they were all private developments[5].
There was a huge range of voluntary and community groups that were given small annual grants (including groups such as scouts and guides, as well as those working with women, ethnic minorities, disabled people, gay men and lesbians) – groups which were just starting out or wanting to expand the services they offered. But, the grants given to gay or lesbian groups attracted so much bad press that, after agreeing a set of eligibility criteria, the actual decision about grant giving was delegated to a council officer and thereafter just reported to Council annually, rather than hitting the press every month, with the Equal Opportunities Committee only dealing with appeals against grant refusals. Even when the Council had to make huge levels of cuts (see chapter 18), these grants were protected as much as possible because, even though they were only small amounts, they made a significant difference to small groups battling against discrimination.
The antagonism towards gay men and lesbians persisted within the Labour Group, as well as amongst some of the black (and other) activists. At the Council meeting in February 1985, Paul Murphy tried to refer back the budget increase for the Lesbian Centre. This move was lost, but only by 12 votes (36 for, 48 against). At the same meeting, Hugh Barrett moved a rejection of a statement on AIDS[6]. This was also lost (same vote).
Even in late 1985, when the Labour Right were generally voting with the Left on most issues, many of them continued to vote against them on gay issues. Also, some continued to direct vitriolic abuse towards individuals in the most unforgivable manner.
Within the Party there were ongoing battles with the management committee of the Hulme Labour Club over their failure to deal with violence against gay men at social events. At one City Party meeting a delegate tried to find some centre ground by describing the differences as due to different generational attitudes to open affection between gay men in public. Unfortunately during his speech he described some of the Hulme management committee as 'bent' (a term commonly used in Manchester to mean 'crooked') but this was misunderstood to be a comment about gay men and this exacerbated the misunderstandings. A gay rights meeting was due to be held in November 1984, but this was postponed and the City Party and Moss Side CLP ceased using the club for meetings and social events because of the attitude of the management committee members.
Martin Pagel (later Deputy Leader of the Council) recalls a big conference being held for trade unionists and voluntary organisations, to explain the new direction that the Council would be taking under the new administration. This was probably the July 1984 City Party conference on 'not setting rate' (see chapter 2). The conference was picketed by disabled activists because of the Town Hall's inaccessibility. Martin was a leading member of this protest. Graham Stringer came out of the Conference to talk to them and admitted that they hadn't considered access and they hadn't considered how disabled people could be active participants. He asked them to allow the conference to go ahead and gave a commitment that they wouldn't make the same mistake again. There were differences of view within the disabled activists group – some thought the Council should cancel the conference and start again. Others (including Martin) thought they should accept that it was inevitable that things wouldn't be right the first time, but they should recognise the commitment if they wanted solidarity, and work with the councillors to get it right in future. Martin said to them, "What have we got to lose by accepting the offer?"
Sheila Newman was the 'lead Member' for disabled people and she felt that sometimes the left-wing councillors were treated worse than the right-wingers who had done nothing to promote equality or combat discrimination.
"We seemed to get attacked for everything, when it was us who were attempting to tackle the discrimination. We didn't expect gratitude, but at least a recognition that we were trying to address the issues".
But there were some aggressive and rude members of the disabled people's coalition who were very difficult to deal with and who wore T-shirts saying 'Piss on Pity'.
Attempting to combat the discrimination faced by disabled people didn't arouse the same hostility from the right-wing councillors (or the press), although attitudes were generally patronising and there was little understanding of the social and political dimensions to the discrimination they suffered. Tackling the physical access problems was also met with objections because of the costs involved, but despite these concerns about costs, in January 1986, adaptations to the Town Hall bridges (the internal links between the old Town Hall building and the extension) to get rid of the steps and access ramps on the outside of the building, were made a priority in the Capital Programme (by Frances Done, as Chair of the Finance Committee). Also, money was spent on installing Braille signs around the Town Hall and inductive loop systems in committee rooms for use with hearing aids, and employing signers at meetings for deaf people. But until these adaptations had been carried out, the meetings of the Disabled People's Steering Group were held at the Greater Manchester County Council building, which had no steps on the outside and a modern lift on the inside.
This insistence on having a 'full' Committee for Race was partly because the black activists regarded the race issue as the most important discrimination issue, but also because many of them were as prejudiced against gay people as the white community, and didn't want to be associated with them. Also, some of the Muslim community leaders were unhappy about women having equal status with the men. In December 1984, it was agreed that the issue about the committee shouldn't be dealt with hastily, but should be fully discussed at the January City Party meeting, with a summary of arguments for and against being prepared by members of the Equal Opportunities Working Party. This debate lasted for an hour, but at the end of it, the vote on whether to have a separate Race Committee was tied, so it had to remain as a sub-committee of Equal Opportunities. It was agreed, however, that there could be more representation on it from non-councillors.
During the debate, Party members expressed their concerns that the agenda was being set by representatives from a limited range of ethnic minorities, and that further attempts should be made to try to reach other ethnic minorities who had not come forward, and also Asian women who had not engaged with the process. There was also a dilemma as to whether African-Caribbean women should be part of the black group or the women's group. It was left to them to decide for themselves and eventually they chose the former (despite the sexism within the African Caribbean community at the time).
Some years later, a well-known Caribbean community worker (Kath Locke – after whom the health centre in Moss Side is named) told me that in all our consultations and appointments, we had failed to distinguish between black professionals and 'professional blacks'. In retrospect we did pay too much attention to the latter group and inadvertently contributed to their status. These 'professional blacks' were very quick to label any slip of language as racist and we were so afraid of being thus labelled that we initially failed to tackle poor work or inappropriate behaviour by some black council employees. Also, some of the appointments that were made, despite good intentions, turned out to be unwise.
The discussions about the Race Sub-committee went on through-out 1985, and eventually, in November 1985, Val Stevens reported to the Joint Policy Committee that the working party believed the only way forward was to make the Race Sub-committee a sub-committee of the Policy and Resources Committee, rather than Equal Opportunities Committee. So the matter was taken back to the City Party for it to review its policy. The Race Sub-committee was formally established as a sub-committee of Policy and Resources Committee in December 1985, with its first meeting being in February 1986[7].
One of the difficulties with the Women's Steering Group, was that there was a real aversion to electing representatives, which was a common attitude in the women's movement at the time. So the membership kept changing, although there was a core of women who did attend regularly. At first, the monthly meetings were held in the Town Hall, but then in the Pankhurst Centre and elsewhere, to try and encourage more women to attend, because the Town Hall was felt to be intimidating and male-dominated. Attendance was always a problem and it was very frustrating when women attendees would say the day and time needed to be changed to suit them better and then they didn't turn up at the newly agreed day and time.
Manchester was one of the first councils to have specialised officers for each of the 'oppressions', which was regarded as being very radical at the time. The Equal Opportunities Unit was modelled on the one set up by the Greater London Council (GLC), which had also produced a charter on gay rights. The Unit consisted of three officers dealing with women's issues, three for disabled people's issues, two for lesbians and two for gay men, together with administrative officers.
Most of the appointments for the Equal Opportunities Unit were made around March 1985. The administrative officers were appointed first and, according to Janice Lomas, who was one of the first to be appointed, they were just put in an office with no equipment or supplies and left to get on with setting up the infrastructure, including managing the budget.
The interviews for the Co-ordinator were then begun and Terry Day was appointed[8], although she wasn't able to take the post until some time later. Vicky Rosin (see later) applied for both the Co-ordinator post and one of the women's posts and was appointed to one of the latter. Marilyn Taylor had wanted to appoint Vicky as Co-ordinator, but was outvoted by those who wanted Terry Day. A year later, Marilyn said to Val Stevens that she'd changed her view and thought Terry was the right person for the Co-ordinator job after all, but Val said she'd changed her mind as well and thought she wasn't.
Terry Day was passionately committed to achieving equality for all oppressed groups, but she had no management experience and adopted an extremely confrontational management style which aroused enormous hostility amongst officers (at all levels, including her own staff) and councillors.
The Race Unit was set up with 12 staff and headed by Keith Burrell, who was more prepared to work within the system than Terry Day. But, as very little progress was made initially on the issue of Race Equality, he was considered by many councillors to be fairly ineffective.
Within each department, an Equal Opportunities Working Party was set up, chaired by the chair of the employing committee to give it status, with all sections being encouraged to send representatives in order to help implement the policies at the grassroots of the Council organisation. This method of working was very difficult to handle for many of the senior managers.
Each service committee also had an Equal Opportunities Working Party to monitor progress on staffing changes within each department, and the implementation of the Recruitment and Selection policy, which was previously unfair even to white men. In 1988, as the only female member of the Highways Committee, I was made the Chair of its Equal Opportunities Working Party, meeting regularly with the City Engineer, Sinclair McLeod, and his Deputy, Gordon Daintree. Even four years after the change in administration, these two were perplexed by it all and couldn't see how female equality could possible apply to the City Engineer's Department, because of the physical strength required for some of the jobs (eg paving and roadworks).
A crèche had been opened in July 1984 in what had been the ladies toilets on the ground floor – one of the few victories of the Left prior to May 1984 (see chapter 1) – but this was totally inadequate to meet the real needs. The lack of good quality childcare generally within the city, and the importance of this provision if women were to be encouraged to play a greater role in the workplace outside the Council, as well as within it, led to a commitment in the 1984 Manifesto to expanding day nursery places (see below) and so a small working party was set up – chaired by Frances Done – to make progress on the issue.
The 1984 Manifesto section headed 'Under Fives' stated:
"Pre-school provision is essential support for all parents and children and our aim is a comprehensive and co-ordinated range of nursery facilities to match the requirements of all Manchester households. This includes urgent commitment to:
- expanding day nursery places to meet full need,
- increasing the educational element in day nurseries,
- extending and improving nursery school provision for 2 – 5 year olds,
- examining ways of providing for the whole working day, all the year round, in consultation with the appropriate trade unions."
The idea of bringing together Social Services' day nurseries and Education's nursery schools into a unified service, and creating purpose built children's centres, gradually developed and the working party became known as the Children's Centres Working Party.
There was also recognition of the importance of play in children's lives and strong support for adventure playgrounds. There was no coherence, in policies or staffing, in the out-of-school provision for children. The Recreation Department had responsibility for play-grounds in parks, the Education Department had responsibility for youth work, and the Chief Executive's Department was responsible for administering grants for, and evaluating the quality of, after-school clubs and voluntary play and youth work schemes (operating mostly in school holidays). In order to assert some coherence and consistency in provision, councillors from the three responsible committees set up a group called the Joint Play Working Party[9], chaired by Richard Leese.
A small Under Fives Unit was set up and Roger Jones (referred to in chapter 4) was seconded from his job in the Education Department to be the co-ordinator, with two council officers to support him – one full-time and one part-time. There was a lot of discussion about the department within which the Unit should be located – Recreation, Education, Social Services or the Chief Executives Department? Frances Done decided early on that the children's centres shouldn't be included within the Social Services Department because their day nurseries had a negative image as places for people who had harmed their children. Eventually it was agreed to locate the Unit within the Education Department, although there had been some hostility from those involved in 'play' work about being included within the Education Department – formal education being seen as being the antithesis of play.
Working parties had been set up by the new administration in order to circumvent the slow-moving bureaucracy of Council committees, but this way of working – having Council officers and councillors working together as equal partners – led to some interesting changes in attitudes of local government officers. Frances has a clear memory of a Children's Centre Working Party meeting involving senior officers and architects (all of whom were male) to which childcare workers had been invited (including Kate Kavanagh as the NUPE representative). These workers had a lot of ideas to contribute, which initially nonplussed the officers who were not used to listening to staff at lower levels in the Council hierarchy, or to women.
The Children's Centres Working Party was re-named the Under-Fives Working Party and an Under Fives Sub-committee of the Education Committee was established and chaired by Richard Leese. In addition to being a councillor, Richard Leese was the main carer for his and his wife's children and was keenly aware of the scarcity of good quality provision for young children. He had been a member of the working party since its inception as well as chairing the Joint Play Working Party, and in May 1986 was the Chair of the Education Committee (see chapter 10) as well as being a key member of the Finance Committee.
There were also a lot of trade union negotiations around the appropriate staffing structure for the children's centres and the grades and qualifications of the workers within them, but with his NALGO background, Roger Jones was good at steering through those negotiations.
The first one was to be for council workers and be based in the Town Hall – to be called the St Peter's Centre. It had been decided to make it into a children's centre, rather than a workplace nursery, because the Tory government at the time taxed workplace nursery places, which would have made the latter prohibitively expensive. But, in order to legitimise it as a children's centre, it had to provide places for parents other than council workers, so a catchment area was drawn up around the Town Hall. Vicky Rosin, one of the women's officers in the Equal Opportunities Unit, started with a survey of the workforce – finding out what the childcare requirements of the existing workforce were – and considering what demand there might be from businesses in the city centre. There were further difficulties around the St Peter's Centre because the Town Hall, as a listed building, had limited possibilities for adaptations to create space for a play area (see chapter 17). There were also difficult issues to be addressed around Social Services day-care regulations and getting enough revenue to meet all the requirements. All of these difficulties were eventually overcome by a combination of persistence and determination from the leading politicians and hard work by committed council workers.
The philosophy that was developed was that of 'open access – childcare as of right, not based on financial need or class'. Sheila Newman disagreed with this philosophy. She wanted to give priority to single parents, young parents, families with a lot of children, disabled parents and disabled children. But she was over-ruled by the others on the working party. Part of the reason for this was because of the shortage of social workers across the city, which meant that lots of children who needed support, hadn't been identified. But the other part of the objection to the 'need' approach was because they didn't want social workers to be the 'gate-keepers' of the service. The Social Services 'deficit model of parenting' was to be rejected. Sheila also wanted priority to be given to low income families, but that would have involved means-testing, which was anathema to the Left at the time.
Although Sheila's approach was rejected, and the children's centres were to be for all children in the immediate neighbourhood, in practice they did serve the areas of greatest need because the locations. Three of the next four centres (after St Peter's) were in council estates with high levels of deprivation (Benchill, Burnage and Old Moat). The fourth – Rusholme – was in a very mixed, multi-cultural area. However, these wards (all in the south of the city) were represented by some of the councillors[10] on the Children's Centres Working Party and this led to some murmuring in the Town Hall about favouritism. Given that the wards in the North and East of the city were mostly represented by right-wing Labour councillors who were hostile to the whole left-wing agenda, it is hardly surprising that those wards were not the first ones to be chosen for the flagship policies.
The small section on Under Fives within the Education section of the 1986 Manifesto made some pretty ambitious commitments, including:
"a major programme of family centres and day nurseries, a nursery education place for all 3 year olds whose parents want one, and an offer of full-time nursery education for all 4 year olds."
This was developed even further by 1987 and that year's Manifesto included a separate section on children's centres which set out a very comprehensive and radical (at the time) programme (see chapter 17). The intention was that if Labour won the 1987 General Election, there would be full coverage across the city, with a children's centre for every neighbourhood.
The councillors wanted the buildings to be child-focussed, accessible by, and usable by, disabled adults and children which was a completely new concept for the council architects. Even when the concepts had been absorbed and understood, mistakes were still made with things like the height of light switches on the walls and the positioning of door handles. The term 'barrier free' was coined to describe these buildings, and this term became a standard one to be used for all future new-build in the city, and then nationally. However, in their zeal for making everything accessible by wheelchair users, some mistakes were made in the other direction, such as the positioning of the sinks which were too low down for non-disabled people to use without getting backache. These were changed over time, making the sinks at different heights.
The drive to develop children's centres across the city was not as politically controversial as other aspects of the Equal Opportunities policies, although the high building costs and their prioritisation within the capital programme did cause concern for some on the Right. But, because Frances Done had control of the budget as Chair of the Finance Committee, she could ensure that the necessary money was set aside, as not many of the other councillors understood enough about the Council's budget to be able to challenge her.
However, this key policy of Equal Opportunities wasn't always carried through outside the Council. The tradition of drinking in city-centre pubs after meetings (both City Party and Labour Group) discriminated against the women who had families. Also, these pubs tended to have a very male-oriented atmosphere and were not the most comfortable environments for women, disabled people or non-drinkers.[11]
Editorial Comments
This chapter has had a second edit, after I'd finished the four chapters in the Building a World Class City section. Mostly the editing has been typographical and layout, but a few sentences have been split up and altered where they were too long. The sub-headings have been altered in some cases from the previous version. There were no sections with these titles in the original.
[1] The women in the right-wing grouping were Pat Conquest (wife of Gordon), Alison Kelly (wife of Leo), Sally Shaw (who really had more in common with the women on the Left) and Winnie Smith.
[2] Paul Fairweather and Ian Wilmott were two of those elected. Paul worked at the gay centre and was later appointed as one of the officers in the Equal Opportunities Unit; Both later became councillors – Ian in a by-election in 2001 and Paul in 2002.
[3] Editor's note. I feel this needs more explanation but don't have any information to go on. Have left it in as perhaps it will trigger a memory for someone who knows more about it.
[4] The local press were also hostile to the measures being pursued on equality for women and black people. The phrase 'loony lefties' was regularly bandied about and scathing articles were written about non-sexist, non-racist 'politically correct' language. This was happening nationally as well.
[5] Carol Ainscow and Peter Dalton opened Mantos in 1986/87 – the first bar proclaiming 'proud to be gay'
[6] In 1986, Manchester became the first Council to develop an AIDS policy – to ensure that staff or members of the public with AIDS were not discriminated against. The policy became a model for other local authorities.
[7] With Sally Shaw as Chair. Although allied with the right-wing grouping in the battles of the 1980s, she was politically closer to the Left and very strong on Equal Opportunities. The Deputy on the Sub-committee was a community representative – Mohammed Azad. Azad was thought to be untrustworthy and always seeking to further his own interests, rather than those of the Asian community, but he had enough support to get elected on to the Committee for many years.
[8] The appointment panel was Val Stevens, Marilyn Taylor, Nilofar Siddiqi and Penny Boothman.
[9] This had on it representatives from voluntary organisations involved in play schemes – including the Manchester Adventure Play Association (MAPA).
[10] Benchill – Ronni Myers, Burnage – Marilyn Taylor, Rusholme- John Nicholson.
[11] Editor's note. I feel this needs an improved summing up paragraph rather than ending on the note about pubs and drinking culture. But this is how it ended.Previous Chapter Contents list Next Chapter
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Pantone reveals that the colour of Spring 2011 to be Honeysuckle.
"Honeysuckle emboldens us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor. A dynamic reddish pink, Honeysuckle is encouraging and uplifting. It elevates our psyche beyond escape, instilling the confidence, courage and spirit to meet the exhaustive challenges that have become part of everyday life."
I would actually give Pantone 9/10 for their depiction of Honeysuckle. I would describe the colour as muted watermelon brûlée – a concoction of vibrant watermelon with pastel peach underlying tones. Maybe 'Watermelon" would have been a more appropriate name?
As you can see from my polyvore below, I feel that the exact colour is very hard to come across in the fashion world, as clothing tends to be a lot more vivid, verging towards hot pink shades. However, upon reading Pantones press release I did immediately recollect an item of clothing that I purchased exactly 12 months ago. The item being an ASOS diamante hoop split front maxi dress. This is the perfect Honeysuckle shade! (maxi dress located far right on my polyvore)
I know that this shade is not for everyone but for me I cant get enough of it. I think this shade works best with medium/dark skin tones although in terms of make up, I feel that the pastel hues would be best suited to light/medium skin tones.
What do you think of Pantones Spring 2011 colour report? Do you think it works best as a make-up colour or a clothing/accessories/shoes colour?


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Line Forgets Foul Ending To 2014; Turns Thoughts To Winternationals
During a telephone interview earlier this week, Jason Line sounded as though he knew exactly what question he was going to be asked first and he had an answer loaded and ready – probably because he had been asked the question more times than he would prefer in recent months.
Thoughts about the last run of the the 2014 season? The one where he red-lighted in his winner-take-championship Pro Stock finale against Erica Enders-Stevens at the same Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif. where the 2015 season will kick off this weekend?
No thoughts, he quickly said. Not really.
"To be honest, I haven't thought about that a whole lot at all," Line, a two-time Pro Stock champion, said. "You can't look back. If you look back, you're going to trip."
Line also had a surprising answer when asked about his need to get back into his car at this weekend's NHRA Circle K Winternationals in Pomona.
Not really ready to go yet, he said. Would prefer more time to get things together with his Team Summit, KB Racing Camaro. Like another month's worth of time.
"But we have a lot to look forward to," he said, "and these first few races are going to be pretty interesting. The bottom line is that I want to win. We all want to win. It's a long season, but it starts here. We'll continue to work as hard as we can, and we'll hope for the best."
Surprising response from the man who kicked off the 2014 season by winning the Winternationals a year ago.
And a good season 2014 was for Line. He won four times, was runner-up five other times and he went 49-20 in eliminations. He took the points lead into the Countdown to the Championship playoffs and he sat second in points when the engines were turned over at Pomona last fall – 17 points behind Enders-Stevens.
"It wasn't a bad year," Line, who won his Pro Stock championships in 2006 and 2011, said.
Nope. A good year with a bad ending.
Twice during that final Sunday a year ago Line advanced when the driver in the next lane fouled– Jeff Isbell in the first round and Jeg Coughlin in the semifinals.
In the finals, the red light bit Line. Enders-Stevens was awarded the victory and the championship and Line was left to not think about Pomona 2 in 2014. Except, of course, that's not possible.
"It just didn't end the way I wanted it to end," Line said. "But that's life. That's racing. I'm not going to cry over it, that's for sure. There's no crying in racing. Not for me anyway."
Line will once again team with former national Driver of the Year Award winner Greg Anderson – who missed the first five races of 2014 because of heart surgery – at KB Racing in 2015.
Also in the stable will be Jimmy Alund, the Swedish driver who took Anderson's seat early in the season a year ago. Alund will be leasing KB machinery, including the Pontiac which Line drove to his 2011 championship.
"I think we're on an upswing right now," Line said of KB Racing and Team Summit. "It's very hard to stay on top. It's a tough deal (Pro Stock). You set the bar high and we were part of that the past 12 years. We've been right there. Not last year but the year before, I think, was the worst finish I've ever had and I finished third. It's tough to maintain that. It's a pretty tough task.
"But when you get beat up, it makes you go back and want to work harder. Right now, we've got a great group of folks and their very dedicated to getting back to the top."
A victory this weekend would be Line's fourth in the prestigious Winternationals. It would be his 36th in 261 career starts. It would be a giant first step back toward the stop.
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I learned two things yesterday: ash in Spanish is ceniza and Volcan Turrialba is much closer than I imagined!
Last week's ashfall was nothing to yesterday's. For a good part of the morning the sky over San Jose was a gray swirl of soot and everything from streets to cars to people received a good dusting of volcanic powder. The worst part of it was the stuff getting in your eyes and nose and even your mouth if you dared talk. Not in the least bit pleasant!
Nevertheless, a coworker and I made an adventure out of face mask hunting and had a hilarious time with it! We went to two pharmacies before we found masks, and asking for eye drops in our broken Spanish made for an interesting interlude with the clerk. Outside, it seemed like we were the only ones donning the ridiculous, oversized masks and definitely got some funny looks. Either the Ticos have an exceptional ash-resistant respiratory system or they've developed an immunity for it because they didn't seem to be bothered at all!
But the effects of the eruption in San Jose and Heredia were nothing to what the area around the volcano suffered. Reports showed inches of ash on the roads and on crops and animals in the region. From what my local friends have told me, there are tons of farms and and cattle ranches that have been adversely affected.
I also heard that several flight have been canceled because of decreased visibility, and I'm really hoping it'll clear up by Tuesday. My sister, her boyfriend, and a several friends are coming to visit and it would really suck if they can't make it. Fingers and toes crossed!!!!


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Cynicism. A personality trait that one adopts when adopting the profession in law enforcement. This personality trait may continue to develop as the officer continues to put on more years. And if not careful, one may get this to accompany their pension. This negative addition maybe the result from the psychological beating that an officer takes during their entire course of their career.
Richard Tracy opens the show with an infamous narration by Paul Harvey called the policeman. He once again takes the opportunity to dog on Madonna and talk about how psychotic she is. Shortly into the show, Tracy reads an article which was written by a traffic officer. This article mentions some of the psychological punishments that the officer endures during his or her career. Along with the article Tracy discusses how easy it is to get consumed by this negative personality trait and allow it to potentially dictate the rest of your life well beyond retirement.


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Bright Star Birthing is a doula located in Imperial Beach, California, serving mothers within the greater San Diego metro area and beyond. Their services include prenatal doula, birth doula, and postpartum doula. Prenatal Doula provides prenatal education, shares information regarding childbirth and what to expect, and more. With their Birth Doula service, Bright Star Birthing assists clients through childbirth by helping them prepare, staying with them during baby delivery in the hospital, and helping with feeding.
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Cara Lee – Yoga and Birth Doula Services conducts yoga classes and provides doula services in San Diego, California. Cara Lee gives doula services to support, educate, and empower pregnant and birthing mothers. The Doula Service Basic package costs $800. The Doula Services + One Trimester of Yoga package costs $1555. Doula Services + Two Trimesters of Yoga costs $2240, which is the best value. Cara Lee - Yoga and Birth Doula Services offers the first yoga session for free.
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Connie Merritt is a midwife and doula located in San Diego, California. She is a Licensed Midwife in California and a DONA Certified Birth Doula who served as a Labor Support Specialist through the UCSD. Connie Merritt studied at the University of California, San Diego, where she earned her Certificate in Childbirth Education. Her services include placenta processing and encapsulation and infant massage instruction for parents.
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Radiant Heart Doula is a doula located in San Diego, California that specializes in hypnobirthing, nutrition, and postpartum services. Their complete birth service fee is $900. Radiant Heart Doula also provides placenta encapsulation for $250. Their very own Christal Quick, CD is a DONA certified birth doula. During the birth process, Christal Quick, CD helps the mother and family achieve a state of confidence, relaxation, and comfort.
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Root Mama Wellness is a doula located in San Diego, California that provides therapeutic support for pregnancy, labor, and more. This doula offers massage services and doula services, with the fee of $750. The doula of Root Mama Wellness underwent doula training in 2014 at a DONA approved training facility with Carrie Kenner at Big Belly Services. Root Mama Wellness is a post-partum doula, prenatal and post-partum yoga teacher, does belly binding, and offers post-partum sealing ceremonies.
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It's rare to find a sub-£1,000 full-suspension bike these days that's worthy of wholehearted recommendation, but the KHS is one of those uncommon breeds. Very few of its component parts point to the budget price and the ride feel is as good as on many bikes costing £500-600 more.
Ride & handling: The best sub-£1,000 full suspension bike we've tested so far this year
Right from the off the KHS feels just right. It doesn't suffer from the slightly cumbersome over-weighty feel that afflicts so many of the sub-£1,000 full-sussers we test. On the contrary, it feels much more agile than its 29.8lb heft would suggest.
You only really notice the weight on long steady climbs, but no more than you would with any other 30lb bike: the efficiency of the rear suspension design means you don't feel as though you're losing pedal power compared with your hardtail mates, so you'll have a fighting chance to keep up.
Elsewhere, it deals with everything you point it at with the sort of skill-flattering flourish that is usually the preserve of far more costly bikes. The Manitou Drake fork in particular is a breath of fresh air compared with the usual downmarket forks we see on budget suspension bikes.
It's a bit of a surprise, and a real joy, when forks and shocks work as well as this at a price where most are compromised by poor suspension performance. Of course, the big question for many riders will be whether this is better than a hardtail at the same price.
The answer, annoyingly, is both yes and no. Yes, because it turns the ride experience over rough terrain into a well controlled fun-fest that allows you to get away with far more ill-advised trail lines than you would on a hardtail, and you'll also feel more comfortable and in control while you're doing it.
And no, because the best hardtail offerings at this price will still tip the scales at 3-4lb less, and therefore will pedal up all but the roughest hills a fair bit faster as well as feeling more sprightly in acceleration. On a typical cross-country race course, a hardtail would still be faster for most riders.
For messing around in the woods, or for those who simply like to ride without the finesse that a hardtail can demand, the XC 604 is one of the very few sub-£1,000 full-suspension bikes we'd recommend. The parts specification and ride is better than any other full-susser we've tested at this price. In fact, it's better than a lot that cost hundreds more.
While the pricetag has something to do with cunning parts choices, it has more to do with the fact that KHS's UK importers are selling direct. After all, cut out the dealer network and you delete one of the profit margins in the sales chain, which is fine as long as you don't mind having the bike delivered to your door in a box.
Frame: Proven four-bar rear suspension and spot-on angles
The XC 604 offers a classic Horst Link four-bar linkage back end that feels remarkably well controlled with its rocker-activated X-Fusion O2 RC shock. There's just over 100mm of travel on offer and the platform damping lever turns all the way from bump-eating plush to locked out, although the pedal efficiency of the frame design ensures that you'll rarely feel the need for full lockout. The rebound damping is dial adjustable and effective too.
Frame-wise, the straightforward round tubed design has loads of standover room and is reinforced behind the head tube. The geometry is spot on for aggressive cross-country trail riding, with the long top tube (23.75in on our 19in model) keeping things flat-back efficient on power sections. There's also a single set of bottle cage bosses.
Equipment: Excellent spec for the price, including a decent budget fork and Hayes discs
It's usually the case that the biggest letdown on a sub-£1,000 full-susser is the fork, but that's not the case here. The Manitou Drake isn't a common choice on production bikes these days, but its performance is excellent, as befits its £350 pricetag.
The 'Absolute' platform damping lever on top of the right leg is an effective way of setting up your fork to behave exactly as you want it to. It's easy to change on the fly too, from incredibly plush in progressive stages all the way to completely locked out for fast climbs and sprints. The rear-mounted arch looks tidy and does a fine job of helping to keep wheel tracking dead stable.
We're still not quite sure how KHS have managed to hang such a decent bunch of parts on the XC 604 as well as such a good fork, but they have. The rear mech is Shimano XT, backed by Deore shifters and front mech, and a decent Truvativ Firex crankset and external bearing bottom bracket.
For stopping duties, the Hayes Stroker brakes are powerful, but ours were painfully screechy in the wet. The wheels are well built too, using unbranded hubs laced to Mavic X317 rims shod with grippy and reasonably fast-rolling Kenda Nevegal treads. The 27in FSA handlebar and WTB Silverado saddle are better choices than you'd usually find on a full-susser at this price too, as are the twin-bolted seatpost and quad-bolted stem.


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Coming spring of 2014, we have heard that for how long. Well it's spring of 2014 so we are getting so close. This past week Disney Parks Blog released the amazing video below of an onboard view of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. It looks so amazing, love how smooth it looks and what great views of the castle. We have heard rumblings of late March or early April – can't wait!!!
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Low table comprising 2 tables in 12 mm thick curved clear glass with clear plastic gliders. The above-indicated dimensions correspond to the overall dimensions of the 2 tables together. The dimensions of the large table are H 38 W 131 D 60; those of the small table are H 40 W 70 D 40. The small table is positioned 'astride' the large table.
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With the recent announcement by Amazon that they plan to hire 1,000 full time employees in their San Bernardino and Moreno Valley locations, the news came as good news for a workforce looking for jobs and elected officials that have been working hard to create them.
This hard hit area with a high unemployment rate of over 9% two years ago is now down to 6.2% as of April of 2015. The news from Amazon will drive that rate even lower. This news comes on the heels of the San Bernardino City Unified School District announcing it had 400 classified jobs to fill. Those jobs were tied up in a dispute between the district and personnel commission for years.
According to the Employment Development Department's professional and business sector: The unemployment rate in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metropolitan Statistical Area was 6.2 percent in April 2015, down from a revised 6.5 percent in March 2015, and below the year-ago estimate of 7.7 percent. This compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 6.1 percent for California and 5.1 percent for the nation during the same period. The unemployment rate was 6.2 percent in Riverside County, and 6.1 percent in San Bernardino County.
Between March 2015 and April 2015, nonfarm employment increased by 4,200 jobs to reach 1,330,900. Agricultural employment shrank by 800 jobs, for a total of 14,600 jobs in the region.
• Professional and business services recorded the greatest month-over gain, adding 3,700 jobs. Gains in this industry included administrative and support and waste services (up 3,400), and professional, scientific, and technical services (up 300).
• Manufacturing posted 1,500 more jobs month-over, all in durable goods (up 1,700). Nondurable goods lost 200 jobs over the month.
• Gains were also recorded in three other industries, including leisure and hospitality (up 600), government (up 300), and information (up 100).
• Educational and health services recorded the largest overall loss of 1,100 jobs. Healthcare and social assistance (down 1,200) accounted for all the job loss in this sector. Educational services gained 100 jobs over the month.
Between April 2014 and April 2015, total nonfarm employment increased by 52,200 jobs, or 4.1 percent. Agricultural employment increased by 200 jobs, or 1.4 percent.
• Professional and business services posted the greatest year-over gain, up 14,500 jobs. Seventy-five percent of the expansion was in administrative and support and waste services (up 10,900). Professional, scientific, and technical services added 3,200 jobs, followed by management of companies (up 400).
• Eight other industries also posted gains over the year, with the most significant coming from trade, transportation, and utilities (up 12,600), and leisure and hospitality (up 9,700).
• Mining and logging and information both recorded no change over the year.
While the economy in the Inland Empire slowly begins to bounce back, if area local governments continue to work together, a full recovery in possible.


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New Hanover County Board of Education Student Scholarships for
Future Teachers
The New Hanover County Board of Education (Board) is accepting applications for the New Hanover County Board of Education Student Scholarships for Future Teachers.
The Board will award four scholarship loans of $7,000, specifically, $3,500 per semester, each year to an accredited North Carolina college or university of the recipient's choice, for a total amount of $28,000 per scholarship. The scholarships will provide incentive, recognition, and financial assistance to outstanding individuals who are academically talented for professional development in the field of education.
For more information and to apply for the scholarship please visit http://www.nhcs.net/board/scholarship/BOEscholarship.htm.
The deadline to submit the application and all of the necessary documentation is by noon on Tuesday, February 6, 2018.
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Travel: EuropeIn August 2014 we moved to Barcelona for a one-year sabbatical. One year quickly turned into two. These are some of my favorite images from our time here in Spain and from traveling across Europe.
Sunset, Gullfoss waterfall, Iceland, 2016.
Aurora sky, Iceland, 2016.
Sunrise over Reykjavik, Iceland, 2016.
Skogafoss waterfall closeup, Iceland, 2016.
Hotel Ranga observatory and Aurora Borealis, Iceland, 2016.
Winner, Hotel Ranga photo contest, 2016. Honorable Mention, 2017 International Photography Awards.
Cofradia, Sevilla, Spain, 2015.
Montserrat, Spain, 2014.
Hills outside Ronda, Spain, 2015.
Finalist, Photographer's Forum "Best of Photography 2016."
Ronda, Spain, 2015.
Sunrise, Dolomites, 2015. Winner, PDN Great Outdoors 2017.
Honorable mention, ND Photography Awards 2016.
Honorable mention, International Photograpy Awards 2016.
Musician, Rome, 2014.
Bridge and reflection, Venice, 2015.
Gondolier, Venice, 2015.
Kayaking the fjords, Norway, 2014.
Hikers, Vale de Ordesa, Aragon, Spain, 2015.
Fall Colors, Ordesa y Monte Perdido, Aragon, Spain, 2015.
Groom and bride, Tarragona, Spain, 2014.
Tribute to Joan Miro, El Raval, Barcelona, 2015.
Editor's Choice, LensCulture Street Photography 2016.
Mirrored ceiling, Encants flea market, Barcelona, 2015.
"Chicken on Sale," El Raval, Barcelona, 2015.
Runner, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, 1988.
Concha (Shell) Beach, San Sebastian, Spain, 2015.
Woman at window, San Sebastian, Spain, 2015.
View through windows, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, 2016.
Gullfoss waterfall in winter, Iceland, 2016.
Honorable mention, International Photography Awards 2016.


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Time & Date
Setting time not possible, as does not accept toor as superuser password.
The menu entry does not work. To start up, Chrome needs lots of space on an almost minimal system (880 MiB), and with just Konsole open, Run (Alt+F2): /opt/google/chrome/chrome does the trick.
Module when fixed runs, less demanding than Chrome, and almost viable as a browser on this minimal system. Runs with Flash as well.
Launching Firefox just blows the whole system. Presumably due to its ram hungriness.
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…says World Horse Welfare as they welcome a new scientific report on horse transportation legislation.
World Horse Welfare's most recent campaign, to end the long-distance transportation of horses to slaughter in Europe, has received a welcome boost with the publication of recommendations from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Scientists at EFSA have made a number of recommendations for improvements to current EU welfare legislation for horses and other animals during transport, including a cap on journey times and improved welfare conditions.
World Horse Welfare informed the report by submitting evidence from its own research and field investigations, and many of the charity's campaign priorities have been explored within the recommendations.
Please click here to find out more and get the story straight from the horses mouth at World Horse Welfare online: http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org/information/latest-news?view=show&content_id=4138
To read the full report made by the EFSA please click here http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1966.htm


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BTEC overview
Talking options and next steps
Thought about BTEC? A BTEC qualification is unlike any other. Why? Because it works for everyone. It works for learners developing the skills and knowledge they need to be successful, for teaching professionals preparing their learners for the jobs of the future, and for employers recruiting team members who can hit the ground running.
74% of employers want new hires with practical knowledge and skills combined; 90% of BTEC students are employed full-time after graduating; and 1 in 4 students who went to university in 2017 had a BTEC. You can't argue with numbers like that. It's an effective path into the career you've always wanted. So choose BTEC - because BTEC Works.
Progress with BTEC
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We need to 'Find the Win' or you'll have to do it over again. We made a vow to our self, to find the win, 0r we will have to do it over productive value, of everything in this existence and it begins in the mirror, not only the mirror on the wall or in your hand, but the mirror in your mind. As thinkers we are essentially repeaters, we repeat the same thoughts, over and over again. THIS KIND OF THINKING IS JUST ACTIVITY to GIVE THE MIND A PURPOSE, it's just an energy user, thinking takes a lot of energy. Existence doesn't create anything that doesn't have a positive purpose, we just don't see the bigger picture clearly. AS we keep increasing our spiritual Vision, we will be able to see the value of more things easier.. RE-member, seeing is releasing doubts and fears.We need to find value of ourselves first. 'WHEN WE'RE O.K.,SO IS EVERYTHING ELSE. Trust and Faith.WILL DO IT.
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Strange Maze... What is This Place?
I wanted to post this yesterday, but I realized I didn't have the pictures! I had a lot of problems with a new program called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and it decided not to cooperate with my computer (as you know, my technology hates me and decides to live its own life most of the time), so I had to delete my photos from the program, move folders around on my computer, delete folders, and even though I tried to always know what was where I must have slipped because I deleted the folder with these photos that are from last Friday's electives. Anywhooo, my teacher had the pictures on her flashdrive, so now I have them and am ready to post them!
Fisrt, we were asked to pick a topic and take some pictures of it. Crazy as I am (and you know I am) about shoes, I naturally chose to photograph shoes! Here's the result of this task:
Self portrait!! But it would have been cooler if it was my black Converse with the writing and drawings on the tip... You remember, I posted this picture earlier!
These are my high heels, and I just LOVE them, I walked in them all of last school year!
My Tommy Hilfieger flats.
Everybody else's Converse! I Photoshopped this one; desaturated it and then went back and picked up the color in the red shoes.
Furthermore, we went to town to pretend to be tourists. We also had to do a personal project there, so I chose cars. Let's have a look at the results there, shall we!
This is my favorite...
I swear to god, I could�KILL photoshop right now... It refuses to do anything I tell it to do! D:
Anywhoo..... Today we've been taking pictures of each other, doing various kinds of portraits, so there will be none from today's project. But you've gotten these instead!
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This week Mark J. presented the concept of personal pivotal needs and their impact on our Definite Major Purpose '[DMP]. Since this is my third year down this path to increased self-knowledge and actualization, one would think I should have a clear understanding of this concept. Well, I do and I don't. Clear as mud right?
I perceived gray areas in differentiating liberty and autonomy. Mark's explanation really helped me in making my determination. I definitely want autonomy and the ability to make and act on my own decisions. However, liberty is the better choice for me as I need not only the authority to make decisions but the wealth/ funds to act on my decisions. Another important [for me] aspect of this week's focus is the recognition that these PPN's [personal pivotal needs] are the engine that drives me toward achievement of my DMP. If I lack passion and true desire, my 'subby' also lacks the motivation to implement my DMP.
I continue to enjoy this journey and the revitalization of my task to take charge; to take control of my thoughts and actions.
I, too, have chosen True Health and Liberty as my PPN's. Since that choice in 2015, I have seen the manifestation of two DMP targets that fall in the Liberty area–new patio door, trip to South America.


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The world's number three ranked tennis player Victoria Azarenka has signed a two year endorsement deal with Esurance. A former world ranked No. 1 player, Azarenka's combination of talent, personality, and beauty has already landed her a long list of endorsements that includes Red Bull, Wilson, Citizen Watches, Six Star Pro Nutrition, American Express and an apparel deal with sports apparel giant Nike that pays her $4 million annually.
According to business insider Azarenka is the 7th highest earning tennis player in the world, with off-court earnings of over $9 million a year, a testament to her as a player and as a person. After bursting on to the scene in 2007 and 2008 with mixed doubles Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open and US Open, she solidified herself as a top individual player in 2012 and 2013 with consecutive Australian Open titles and consecutive appearances in the finals of the US Open. A native of Minsk, Belarus, she captured the Gold Medal for her home country in the 2012 London Olympic Games, and considers it to be one of the proudest moments in her professional career.
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Decades of consistent lobbying by enthusiastic motor vehicle institutions has led the government to impose licensing laws for motor-vehicle-repair businesses. The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is Australia's national consumer law, replacing previous consumer protection laws in the Commonwealth, states and territories. Licensing puts a stop to unqualified vehicle repairs, improves workshop conditions and introduces service standards. The primary focus of this guide is to educate mechanics on the legal documents they need to set up shop, as well as their rights and obligations to the consumers.
What legal documents are required for a mechanic to operate a business?
A motor-vehicle-repair business license is required to operate your own vehicle repair business. A sole trader, a partnership or a body corporate (Proprietary Limited Company) can make an application for this license. Licenses are issued for a variety of classes of repairs (for e.g. heavy vehicles, cars and motorbikes) and for auxiliary repairs such as auto-electric/AC, tire fitting etc. Individuals working without supervision in such businesses need to be certified. Further licenses and certification are required for certain classes of work, such as approved examiners of secondhand vehicles, safety certification examiners, modifying or altering vehicles, operating a crane, and gas installation. Businesses offering courtesy transportation should have certification to operate public passenger service in the state.
It is also important to ensure that you enter into a client agreement with every customer. This is a binding contract which protects both your business, and your customers.
Term and expiry
Business licenses are issued for 3 years and applications for renewal must be submitted 28 days before expiry. As a mechanic you should always be sure you're applying for the relevant legal documents at the appropriate office (noting that mechanics in Victoria do not require a licence):
Australia Capital Territory: Office of Regulatory Services
Western Australia: Consumer Protection Licensing Branch, Department of Commerce
New South Wales: Office of Fair Trading
Tasmania: Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading
Queensland: Office of Fair Trading
South Australia: Consumer and Business Services
Northern Territory: Consumer Affairs
As an applicant, you must have suitable premises, along with the required tools and equipment. You also must employ sufficiently trained and certified staff for each class of work the business undertakes.
Having a registered license will instill confidence in your customers and make your business as legitimate and professional as possible. Licensing fees are not a form of tax imposed on the motor repair industry. Rather, licensing fees simply cover the cost of processing the application. The licensing fee is reasonable for both small and large businesses, as the cost of licensing a business is directly proportional to the number of mechanics employed by the business.
Licensing of repair businesses provides protection from unlicensed mechanics that compete for your customers. In addition, penalties for unlicensed repair work can reach $50,000. Further, licensing allows access to general legal advice services regarding technical matters, such as consumer disputes – a handy tool if you're met with an unhappy customer or employee.
Don't forget that the Integrated Development Assessment System (IDAS) application has to be filed for new and existing premises. Also, playing videos or music in the premises requires a Music License and auto-body repair businesses must also comply with the State's Tobacco laws.
There's no doubt that starting a motor vehicle repair business can become a profitable venture, but there are important legal considerations that you should understand before starting your business. Get in touch with LegalVision on 1300 544 755, and speak with one of our experienced business lawyers to get all the legal certificates and other required legal documents before starting your business.
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Little Known Facts About residential hard money lenders.
A 3.ninety six GPA Appears remarkable till a single realize you went to U of P. Sorry however, you are really delusional if you believe your U of P degree is on par with regular College. Many of that have been around for 70 many years or more with extended list of productive alumi's. I talk from expertise, see my ex girlfriend attended UofP and graduated with a degree in Business Admin (three.5 GPA). Amusing point is she barely acquired via highschool with C's and D's, and UofP want us to believe that from nowhere she grew to become an honor college student graduating faculty with honors? Give me a break, I was there persistently when she was logged in to class, and their group structure was a joke.
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I attained my Masters from Uop. There were several bumps in the road. I did not acquire heed. I've 44 hrs completed on my DBA And that i am acquiring my "asks" outside of that faculty. They have got severe challenges and disputes will not be settled. The teacher is usually right based on the college.
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Will not dismiss me as just another irate customer that was mistreated. I realize some things You do not. Without the need of suitable federal funding UOP would not stand an opportunity. You have to motivate your subscribers to simply call the Section of Educationand need the Gainful Employment Act develop into law. You and your subscribers must desire it!
UoP is accredited every year because of the North central Affiliation of colleges. All other great educational facilities (regular) are accredited by North Central Assoc of colleges just about every 10 Several years. If you have to be looked at yearly, it means you happen to be about the fringe of dropping your accreditation (question any academic this question).