(WARSAW) - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk is a pro-European free marketeer who has earned the reputation of being an unflappable leader able to turn even the most difficult situations to his advantage.

With political roots in Poland's anti-communist Solidarity trade union, the football-mad historian set to be the EU's next president started out as an underground journalist.

Under communism, he also put his liberal ideals to work running a modest industrial painting business. Although private enterprise was rare, small ventures were tolerated by the ruling Communist Party.

After a bloodless end to communist rule was negotiated in Poland in 1989, Tusk and a group of friends in his Baltic Sea hometown of Gdansk founded the Liberal Democratic Congress, pushing for sweeping privatisation of the state-run economy.

It won 37 of the 460 seats in parliament in the 1991 general election, only to lose them two years later. It then merged with the larger centrist Freedom Union.

Tusk led a breakaway faction in 2001 and formed the Civic Platform (PO).

While his 2005 presidential bid failed, the PO took power after a 2007 snap election and Tusk was propelled to a second consecutive term as prime minister in the 2011 general election.

He has the distinction of steering Poland though the global financial crisis as the only EU state to maintain economic growth, although critics slam him for breaking promises on tax reform and cutting bureaucracy.

He also steadied the country in 2010 when an air crash in Russia wiped out a large chunk of the Polish establishment. Poland's then president Lech Kaczynski was killed as well as the country's top military brass, central bank chief and scores of lawmakers and other senior state figures.

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The public is invited to the grand opening of phase one of Portland Community College's new Swan Island Training Center.

An open house will be held from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the center, located at 6400 N. Cutter Circle, Portland. It will feature tours of the new 20,000-square-foot trades education building, which will house the PCC's Trades & Industry Division.

The center is opening as a resource for continuing education, training, retraining and professional development for Swan Island businesses. Courses offered at it include: a Facilities Maintenance Technology two-year degree; Facilities Maintenance Technology and HVAC Installers certificates; Millwright, Industrial Mechanics, Limited Maintenance Electrician, Manufacturing Plant Electrician and Stationary Engineer apprenticeships; and a Limited Building Maintenance Electrician training program.

The open house will be held in partnership with the Swan Island Business Association. Swan Island is one of Portlands most active industrial communities, with manufacturing, shipping, construction and distribution all being represented with significant business operations.

The center is located in a former Oregon Motor Pool Facility that PCC bought in 2010. The renovation cost $4.6 million. Most of the money, 3.6 million, was earmarked from PCC's 2008 voter-approved $374 million construction bond. An additional $1 million from the Oregon Department of Community College and Workforce Development was approved by the 2012 Oregon Legislature.

The Trades & Industry program had been located at three miles away at PCC's Cascade Campus. It outgrew that space, however, prompting the move to the new, larger center.

According to PCC, general contractor J.E. Dunn spent the summer preparing the five-acre former motor pool site. They first removed old equipment, including a 20,000-gallon gasoline and a 12,000-gallon ethanol tank. Metals, old gear, appliances and furniture were sold or recycled. Auto lifts and related equipment were moved to PCCs automotive program at the Sylvania Campus or donated to local high school programs.

The existing 11,000 square foot structure was then renovated, with an additional 12,000 square feet was added for classes and lab space for Facilities Maintenance Technology HVAC-R (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration), Electrical Trades Apprenticeship, and Fiber Optics.

Fall classes will start at the center on Sept. 22.

More about the bond program at PCC: http://bond.pcc.edu/

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Times/Review classifieds offers local companies a place to advertise their job openings each week, and this week close to 60 positions are availablefrom a carpenter, to a horse handler, to a farm stand worker.

And for anyone interested in submitting a classified ad, email: classifieds@timesreview.com.

Check out the listings below:

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERK: P/T, flexible hours will require additional time in the summer, no nights/ weekends. Private country club on the North Fork is looking for an experienced accounts payable clerk. Strong computer skills are required. Experience with Jonas software a plus. Light accounts receivable work is required. Please send resume, nfccjobposting@gmail.com

ADMINISTRATOR: On duty for our residential treatment center. Responsible for planning, directing/co-ordinating the oversight of operations within the residential treatment center. B.A., plus work-related experience required. Little Flower Children and Family Services in Wading River, NY. Fax resume, 631-929-6203 or email wadingriver-jobs@lfchild.org EOE

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: F/T, Monday-Friday. For high-end construction company. QuickBooks, Outlook and Excel experience required. Email resume with salary requirements to: resumes@owenconstructioncorp.com

APPLIED BEHAVIOR SPECIALIST: P/T, for our intermediate care facility. Experience in writing/ reviewing behavior plans. Experience with mental retardation/developmental disabilities population. Masters in psychology required. Little Flower Children and Family Services in Wading River, NY. Send resume, wadingriver-jobs@lfchild.org or fax 631-929-6203. EOE

AUTO SALESPERSON: Lexus of Southampton is looking for the right individual to help handle our busy showroom. Automotive experience necessary. For a confidential interview contact Matt, 631-259-0300. (S)

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By George C. Ford, The Gazette

CEDAR RAPIDS When Mark Wallinga began working for International Automotive Components (IAC) in 2007, he was employed as a finish operator at the Iowa City plant. In 2008, he began a registered apprenticeship program for mold setting or injection molding setup.

When the recession hit in late 2008, early 2009, I was laid off, Wallinga said. I was recalled to work in late 2009 and spent another year and a half as an apprentice mold setter. I was able to bid for a position as an apprentice electrician in 2010 and was successful.

I started as an apprentice electrician in October 2010. I completed my apprenticeship in April 2013 and became a journeyman electrician.

Wallinga, who completed four years of classroom and 8,000 hours of on-the-job training during his electrician apprenticeship, is second-shift maintenance supervisor at IAC. He said the need to pursue a higher level of training became apparent during his layoff from IAC.

I was actively looking for another job and there was a lot of competition, Wallinga recalled. When I got back into the plant, I began looking at my future and what I could do to prevent that from ever happening again.

When that electrician apprentice bid came up, I jumped all over it because I knew it was a skill I could take with me for the rest of my life.

Changing perceptions

When most people hear the term apprenticeship, they typically think of learning a building trade such as carpentry or masonry.

But that perception is starting to change as other sectors such as advanced manufacturing, culinary arts, health care and information technology are embracing apprenticeships to expand the pool of qualified candidates.

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This picture does not show an electric car charging in 1905. It's fourteen years off, but that's just the start of things.

This is indeed an old electric car charging, but it was taken in 1919, as the Library of Congress notes. The first tipoff is that the car is a Detroit Electric, which didn't start production until 1907. Here's the picture in full.

What's interesting is that there was electric car charging earlier in the 20th century, and even charging stations. General Electric showed off an 'electrant' (like an electric fire hydrant) for street charging in New York City all the way back in 1900, as a contemporary electrician's journal reports, and they kept making them at least through 1914.

The thing is, electric car charging around the turn of the century might look pretty modern in photographs, it was a much more involved process. Battery technology was way behind where we are now. Tons of corrosion needed regular cleaning and battery themselves could easily be overcharged. You'd have to get a custom-built control panel, as the excellent book Taking Charge: the Electric Automobile In America explains. Some early electric car buyers took the step of hiring their own electrician.

So yes, we did have electric car charging over a century ago, it just didn't look quite as it does in this picture.

Photo Credit: Cress-Dale Photo Co., Seattle/Library of Congress

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(WARSAW) - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk is a pro-European free marketeer who has earned the reputation of being an unflappable leader able to turn even the most difficult situations to his advantage.

With political roots in Poland's anti-communist Solidarity trade union, the football-mad historian named on Saturday as the EU's next president started out as an underground journalist.

Under Communism, he also put his liberal ideals to work running a modest industrial painting business. Private enterprise was rare then, but small ventures were tolerated by the ruling Communist Party.

After a bloodless end to communist rule was negotiated in Poland in 1989, Tusk and a group of friends in his Baltic Sea hometown of Gdansk founded the Liberal Democratic Congress, pushing for sweeping privatisation of the state-run economy.

It won 37 of the 460 seats in parliament in the 1991 general election, only to lose them two years later. It then merged with the larger centrist Freedom Union.

Tusk led a breakaway faction in 2001 and formed the Civic Platform (PO).

While his 2005 presidential bid failed, the PO took power after a 2007 snap election and Tusk was propelled to a second consecutive term as prime minister in the 2011 general election.

He has the distinction of steering Poland though the global financial crisis as the only EU state to maintain growth.

He also steadied the country when in April 2010 an air crash in Smolensk, Russia, wiped out a large chunk of the Polish establishment, killing Poland's then president Lech Kaczynski, the country's top military brass, central bank chief and scores of MPs and other senior state figures.

- A savvy Kashubian -

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AVERA, John William, 61, of Folly Beach, a carpenter and husband of Missy Durban, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Palmetto Cremation Society of Charleston.

KINSEY, Bryant, 33, of Ladson, died Monday. Arrangements by Murray's Mortuary of North Charleston.

RICHARDSON, Octagia, 58, of Charleston, died Aug. 21. Arrangements by Smith-McNeal's Awendaw Chapel.

ROSEBROCK, Neale, 72, of Charleston, husband of Sylvia Rosebrock, died Aug. 11. Arrangements by Palmetto Cremation Society.

SIMPSON, Acquanetta S., 41, of North Charleston, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Dickerson Mortuary.

CALDER, Curtis George, 76, of Summerville, husband of Gladys Calder, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Palmetto Cremation Society of Charleston.

CLARK, Willard Edward, 92, of Russellville, a Navy veteran, retired electrician with the Panama Canal Commission and Russellville Lumber Co. and widower of Justina Arias Clark, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Dial-Murray Funeral Home of Moncks Corner.

HUNT, Charles, 69, of Moncks Corner, a truck driver with Hess Trucking, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Scott's Mortuary.

RINGLEY, Ronald Louis, 69, of Summerville, owner of R&R General Maintenance Heating and Air Co, former employee of the Charleston Naval Shipyard and husband of Ruthie Ringley, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Tri-County Cremation Center.

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Mother of one and electrician Charlotte Riddle says male customers often try to do her job for her Painter and decorator Jane Pennock, 49, used to work in the fashion industry but felt unfulfilled Plumber Pamella Edwards, 43, has a supportive husband but the men she works with are verbally abusive Between 2011 and 2013, website checkatrade.com saw a three-fold rise in the number of women becoming members Barclays Bank also reported a 12 per cent increase in female-owned trade businesses

By Andrea Childs

Published: 17:07 EST, 24 August 2014 | Updated: 04:59 EST, 25 August 2014

Charlotte Riddle spent a morning last week crawling on her stomach through a rat-infested attic, inches deep in dust and grime.

While most women would be happy to leave this sort of ordeal to celebrities in the jungle, mother-of-one Charlotte couldnt have been happier. I was trying to get to the wiring I was replacing, she explains. You should have seen the shock on the customers face when I said Id take on the job!

As an electrician, Charlotte is used to surprised reactions. When I answer the phone at work, they assume Im the receptionist and ask to speak to the electrician, or ask when he is going to arrive, she says. I tell them theyre speaking to her, and theres usually a pause and an embarrassed apology.

Electrician and other of one Charlotte Riddle even has husband Adriano on the payroll of her business

Its mainly older men who dont know what to say to me or cant look me in the eye its like they cant understand a woman doing a mans work.

In fact Charlotte, who lives with her partner Adriano and her five-year-old daughter Lucy, owns the company.

Adriano, 41, is on the payroll. We met through friends and he loves the fact Im an electrician he says it makes me even more unique, says Charlotte, 33. His background is in general trades, so he began helping me out on jobs and now works for the business full-time.

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LOWELL -- The city Retirement Board recently voted to reconsider its denial of the disability retirement application of former electrician/wire inspector Robert Sheehan, who has alleged the city unlawfully tried to force him from his job.

The board had previously granted the retirement before the matter was remanded to it by the state Retirement Commission. The city board will reconsider its more recent denial at a meeting Monday.

Through his attorney, Sheehan has alleged that in 2010, under then-City Manager Bernie Lynch, the city tried to force him from his position because he refused to sign off on inspections of work at the Lowell Housing Authority he never inspected.

Sheehan, 63, is the second former city employee to allege he refused to sign off on uninspected LHA work at North Common Village, where 132 units were renovated from 2008 to 2011 without a full set of permits pulled and inspections conducted.

Former building inspector Paul Welcome told The Sun in 2011 that he and Sheehan refused to sign off on non-inspected LHA work in 2010 despite pressure to do so from supervisors.

Sheehan's alleged date of injury was several months later, in late May 2010, which is when Sheehan received confirmation "of the city's intent to force him from his position," Attorney Richard Sullivan wrote in a letter to the Retirement Board.

Soon afterward, the city approved a reorganization plan to split Sheehan's two positions and allow him to only hold one of them.

Sheehan, who went out on sick leave and later retired, would have taken at least a $23,000 reduction in his salary if he took one of the new positions. Sheehan had worked for the city for more than 30 years.

Due to privacy reasons, the nature of Sheehan's alleged injury has not been provided to The Sun.

Lynch did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

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