Circumstances beyond my control caused me to come out of retirement and take a part time job. As a result I have not been able to dress for a while. Nice to be back in Leggs again.

bit.ly/soNgmr“Your major is Liberal Arts? What is that anyway? And what kind of a job are you going to get when you graduate?” If you have a major in liberal arts, you've probably heard questions like those. First of all, “Liberal arts” can mean different things to different people. While some use a broad definition that often includes mathematics, basic sciences, and economics, others refer more specifically to the humanities and social sciences. Majors that are usually classified as "Liberal Arts" under both definitions are history, English literature, women’s studies, anthropology, foreign languages, philosophy, and international relations. But even once you've explained what a liberal arts major is, it can be challenging to understand how a liberal arts degree will lead to a fulfilling and lucrative career. Fortunately, students who study liberal arts can pursue a range of job options. Employers today are look for good communications skills coupled with a strong work ethic, teamwork, initiative, interpersonal skills, critical thinking and problem-solving and analytical abilities. These are exactly the abilities liberal arts majors learn through their coursework in the humanities and social sciences. That doesn’t mean that getting a job when you graduate with a liberal arts degree won’t take effort and persistence. But there are some techniques you can use to increase your chances of getting hired once you have your liberal arts degree. First of all, remember that you have many options beyond the obvious ones. An English major might decide to become a journalist, but other possibilities that use the same editing and writing skills include media, public relations, and publishing occupations, and even sales or graphic design in some cases. Similarly, a history graduate might consider jobs as a research assistant, paralegal, reporter or technical writer. And geography majors are well suited to positions in location-based urban planning and even public policy and administration. Another option that can help liberal arts students entering the workforce is to pursue a minor or other training in a technical or business subject. Some colleges and universities specifically offer programs that train liberal arts students in real-world skills. Through these practical programs an art history major could earn a certificate in art appraisal, or a Spanish major could complete the courses for a certificate in translation. Finally, many employers consider internships to be one of the most effective methods for finding new staff. Internships give liberal arts majors a hands-on opportunity to learn more about their chosen career. Summer jobs, part-time jobs, and volunteer work can also be useful possibilities for those students who want to gain valuable practical experience and a better understanding of the challenges and rewards of their chosen profession. Working as an intern or a volunteer not only provides liberal arts degree students with exposure to the world of business or community service; it also gives the students an opportunity to demonstrate maturity, reliability, timeliness, courteousness, and other traits important to employers. And building a solid reputation as a good worker or volunteer is helpful for jobseekers in need of references and an edge that will make their resume stand out when they are applying for job openings.

So I guess you can see a bit of a pattern happening here with my café strangers and I am not going to disappoint especially after spotting DJ standing behind the counter of yet another café. In my usual shy style, I walked straight up to him and asked the same question have asked 92 times before. Soon we were out on the street taking some shots.

DJ was so calm & relaxed in front of the camera it was almost as if having your portrait taken on the street is part of his normal daily routine.

The café work is DJ’s part-time job, and I was impressed to know that he works full time at an ice cream factory not far from Newtown. (Ice cream just happens to be one of my favourite foods).

Then to top that off he told me that he is planning to open a skateboard manufacturing business where he hopes to design, make & sell his own boards.

Oh, I almost forgot, in his “spare time” he hand makes stuffed soft toys. He buys all the materials, then cuts & sews & decorates them.

This is one creative and talented individual with a lot of energy & drive.

Luckily for DJ he has youth in his favour!

Thanks for being part of the Strangers Project.

This picture is #93 in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

Nazareth College Career Services held its Job & Internship Fair in the Kidera Gym. The fair offered Nazareth students exclusive access to recruiters for full-time and part-time jobs, as well as internship opportunities for all majors.

As Audrey Charles looked around, something seemed eerily familiar about the park she was visiting with three of her classmates.

It was the park benches and the descending staircase that carried visitors down into the park space that kept her wheels spinning, trying to imagine where she had seen it all before.

Except the park was 4,300 miles farther away from home than she had traveled her entire life prior to that day.

Then it struck her.

“Those were the same seats I saw on ‘Cheetah Girls 2’ when they were in Barcelona,” Charles said. “I went, ‘Oh my God, I’m here.”

It was an epiphany shared at some level by her classmates and chaperone Beth Shoemaker, as the five ladies traversed along the Mediterranean as part of a European tour including stops in Spain, France and Italy at the end of March.

The trip was the product of DHS becoming International Baccalaureate certified, according to Shoemaker.

“They thought it would be great, since we’re IB, to offer an international trip,” said Shoemaker, who also serves as Dublin High’s media specialist.

When Shoemaker took over as advisor for the trip, she began investigating options and leaned toward Spain as a potential stop.

“Since we offer Spanish courses on campus, I thought a Spanish-speaking country would be a good idea,” Shoemaker said, “then I noticed how close Spain was to France and Italy so we turned it into a Roman Conquest tour.”

The 10-day trip carried the five from DHS, and a sister school from Maryland, to the Spanish and French countryside still holding onto relics from the Roman Empire, the watering hole of Vincent van Gogh, Monaco and the Coliseum, to name a few.

“It was an experience of a lifetime,” Charles said.

Charles was joined by Kamisha Miles, Lauren Price and Samaya Dupree, along with Shoemaker, who began their “Roman Conquest” tour in Barcelona, stopping at Park Guell; the aforementioned site from the movie.

By Day 3, the quintuplet stopped in the walled city of Carcassone, camping out at the Hotel Forum in Arles France: the once home of van Gogh.

“Our hotel was directly across from the Yellow Café where van Gogh used visit,” Shoemaker said. “It was a quiet, quaint little town. It all rolled up at 9 p.m.”

The trip continued through France with a visit to Cote d’Azur and the Roman-era Nimes-Maison Carree and Arena before heading east to a Roman aqueduct called the Pont du Gard.

Then Monaco.

“It was so beautiful,” Shoemaker said, showing a selfie that included the building-filled hills of the Riviera coastline in the background. It was in Monaco where the students broke from touring to take part in a cooking class where they constructed their own Mediterranean-stylized meals.

“All the food was amazing,” Miles said.

“My favorite part was the chocolate,” Price said with a smile. “Chocolate mousse, chocolate mocha.”

“Even at the truck stops,” Shoemaker added. “It was unbelievable. It was food you’d find in a regular restaurant in America.”

From Grace Kelly’s former home, the group headed to Florence and finally to Rome for two days touring the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain and the Piazza Navona, as well as the Ostia Antica (a large archaeological site).

“And we went to the Vatican,” added Charles, who took on a part-time job in order to cover the expense of the trip. “The ceilings there were really pretty.”

“The beauty of the Vatican Museum really struck me,” Miles said.

Every one of the women, both young and old, said the trip is one that will live on in their memories indefinitely.

“I wanted to go because I had been places before with my parents and I wanted to try it for myself,” Miles said. “When I look back on my phone I realize how great it all was.”

“I feel more confident in trying new things because of the trip,” Charles added.

“It was amazing to see them grow and mature in such a short period,” Shoemaker said. “They were a pleasure and I’d take them anywhere. I can’t wait to go back.”

Restored home of Sir Hubert Wilkins at Mount Bryan East, about 160 kilometres from Adelaide, South Australia.

Funding for the restoration of the building was raised by Australian Geographic through its supports - opened by Dick Smith on Sunday 29 April 2001.

Sir George Hubert Wilkins (known as Hubert), Military Cross and Bar, MiD

Hubert Wilkins was born 31 October 1888 in an outback cottage on his parents’ property named Netfield, Mount Bryan East, South Australia. He was the youngest of 13 children, born to Henry and Louisa Wilkins.

He was war correspondent and photographer, polar explorer, naturalist, geographer, climatologist, ornithologist and aviator. As a child, Hubert experienced the devastation caused by drought and developed an interest in climatic phenomena.

If hardship moulded the character of Hubert Wilkins, so also did his passion for nature, music and a desire for knowledge. Enrolled in both the South Australian School of Mines and the Elder Conservatorium School of Music simultaneously, he studied electrical engineering, and singing, playing the organ, flute and cello at the Conservatorium.

It was in a number of part time jobs he learnt the art of blacksmithing, and gained a sound knowledge of the workings of both steam and internal combustion engines. On a trip to Sydney he became interested in photography. Returning to Adelaide he found employment with a travelling cinema and travelled in both South Australia and the Eastern States showing films.

When he was 20 years old (1908) he decided to leave Adelaide and see something of the world. At this time in his life a number of thoughts were forming in his mind, thoughts based upon his past experiences and that were to lead him to follow fixed courses of action. One of the most important of his ideas was to attempt to discover how and why the weather could so dramatically affect people’s lives, as it had done his own. Two forces now took over his life: the need to discover things concerning the world about him, and the need to travel to places that would provide him with the answers to the many questions forming in his mind.

His travels began by stowing away on a ship at Port Adelaide. The ship deposited him in Sydney and he soon found employment as a projectionist, then later as a cinematographer.

On reaching London he obtained work with the Gaumont Company as a cinematographic cameraman and with the Daily Chronicle as a reporter. It was then (1910) that he learnt to fly at Hendon. He did not sit for any of the flying exams, which would have made him a qualified pilot, through lack of money. But his interest in flying was to remain with him for the rest of his life. So too was his passion for photography. Photographs of the time (1911) show him performing photographic stunts. One popular photograph shows him astride the fuselage of a Deperdussin monoplane hand cranking his camera. Despite these promotional stunts Hubert Wilkins was perfecting the art of taking aerial motion pictures. In his autobiography he believed he was the first person to take a movie camera into the air and film the scenes around him.

As a war correspondent and photographer, in 1912 he covered the fighting between the Turks and Bulgarians. From 1913 to 1916 he was second-in-command on Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition: Wilkins became adept in the art of survival in polar regions, added to his scientific knowledge and conceived a plan to improve weather forecasting by establishing permanent stations at the poles.

Returning to Australia, on 1 May 1917 he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force (Australian Flying Corps). By August he had been transferred to the general list and was at I Anzac Corps headquarters on the Western Front. Appointed official photographer in April 1918, he was tasked with providing 'an accurate and complete record of the fighting and other activities of the A.I.F.' as a counterpart to Captain J. F. Hurley's propaganda work. In June Wilkins was awarded the Military Cross 'for bringing in some wounded men'. With Hurley's departure, he was promoted captain on 11 July and took charge of No.3 (Photographic) Sub-section of the Australian War Records unit. His routine was to visit the front line for part of each day that troops were engaged in combat and periodically to accompany infantry assaults. During the battle of the Hindenburg line, on 29 September he organized a group of American soldiers who had lost their officers in an enemy attack and directed operations until support arrived. Awarded a Bar to his M.C., he was also mentioned in dispatches. He is the only Australian official photographer to have been decorated.

In January 1919, as photographer, Wilkins joined Charles Bean’s mission to reconstruct Australia's part in the Gallipoli Peninsula campaign. He entered the England to Australia air race that year, but his aircraft, a Blackburn Kangaroo, experienced engine failure and crash-landed in Crete; he arrived in Australia by sea in July 1920 and his A.I.F. appointment terminated on 7 September. Engaging in further polar exploration, in 1920-21 he made his first visit to the Antarctic, accompanying J. L. Cope on his unsuccessful voyage to Graham Land. Wilkins next took part in Sir Ernest Shackleton's Quest expedition of 1921-22 on which he made ornithological observations.

Sir Hubert’s adventures continued from his home base in America. On one occasion he gleaned information from the Japanese Consul-General about Japan's intention to destroy Pearl Harbour and invade Singapore. Sir Hubert passed the information to the Allies but was not believed.

He died suddenly at Massachusetts, on 30 November 1958 and was cremated: four months later his ashes were scattered from the ‘Skate’ at the North Pole. Lady Wilkins survived him and wrote affectionately of a husband whose only contact with her for extended periods had been through his letters.

Ref: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 12 (MUP) 1990

South Australian Aviation Museum

Flinders Ranges Research

I have a part-time job where sometimes people say to me, "Oh man! How do I get that kind of work?" Because I work as a freelance photographer on the weekends for our local "scene" website - and it's my duty to go out...every weekend...and take pictures of people having fun. Sounds all great and nice, unless you're sort of a homebody who enjoys spending Friday nights in their pajamas. Tonight was one of those nights where I didn't want to "go to work." Happens to everyone, which is why it's called a job.

Luckily, I am fortunate to have some really great friends. Here Jed and I sit at some sleazy bar in downtown Reno, enjoying some free drinks. Neither of us really wanted to be there, but it ended up being quite a pleasant evening. And I'm home early, which is just the best.

It's the best because because my sister just got into town, and I haven't seen her since our vacation in January. YES!!!

Snow is rarely seen at Fareham, on the south coast, and this only lasted a day but was worth a shot. 7O35 and return 7V16 is my near regular part time job at Fareham stone terminal those days, until full time GSTM become available.

This is Rebel, one of my sister's Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers; that's quite a mouthful. She's got three of them and I can hardly tell one from the other. Her three border collies are easy to tell apart.

For those of you losing count: she's got 9 cats, 6 dogs, 30 odd birds, 2 sons, 1 husband , a large garden and, I almost forgot, a part-time job. Somehow my sister's always busy ......

The crisis has hit women harder than men and this comes on top of the numerous obstacles they already face on their road to success. Women are more likely to be in part-time jobs and badly paid jobs, are paid less than men and are held back by a lack of childcare facilities. For this year's International Women's Day on 8 March, Parliament decided to focus on women's response to the crisis. Find out more in our feature.

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/content/20130301...

This photo is copyright free, but must be credited: "© European Union 2013 - European Parliament". (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). For HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

"Cafe Del Sol is a German system catering chain of Gastro & Soul GmbH based in Hildesheim. Cafe Del Sol wants to offer Mediterranean atmosphere with a restaurant and a bar. The menu offers pizza, pasta and schnitzel, but also salads and snacks for the small appetite. The range of beverages includes soft drinks, beer, coffee and tea as well as cocktails and wines.

The company serves (car) mobile customers on the outskirts of the city with individual freestanding, "greenfield" buildings (standardised new buildings). This puts it in competition with other providers of system catering. The respective building of the café is a single-storey standardised building with a lot of wood in the American colonial style, a flat gabled roof as well as roofed and heatable surrounding verandas and terraces. The available space comprises about 400 to 500 jobs each, about half of them outside, the staff about fifty full-time and part-time jobs.

A breakfast buffet and Sunday brunch are offered at a flat rate. Each store has the same standardized offer; prices may vary from region to region."

Source: wikipedia.de

This is my 18th stranger. I interviewed Rod for an "odd job" story about beekeeping. No one got stung! The bees were swarming on a bird feeder, three pounds, or 12,000 bees, according to Rod. The bird feeder is inside the bucket. Rod said because there's no brood to protect, the bees don't mind us being close to them. Rod collects and relocates bees as a part time job. This will be his eleventh hive. Thanks Rod!

Here's a link to the story:

www.publicbroadcasting.net/kcur/news.newsmain/article/0/1...

I was inspired to start the strangers project when I saw www.100strangers.com

He passed me on Dundas Street in downtown Toronto and by the time I reacted I had to overtake him from behind. He didn’t hear my introduction because he was listening to music with his earbuds so I had to tap him on the shoulder – hardly an ideal way to meet a Stranger. Luckily, he stopped and removed the earbud and listened attentively to my introduction and request. “Sure. That’s ok” he said. We shook hands. Meet Akin.

We were near a sidewalk covered with an overhang which is one of my favorite types of location for street portraits. Doorways and laneways can have the same effect: a darker background but enough filtered light on the subject to make attractive casual portraits.

I took a few frames, all quite similar, and resorted to the live view function on my camera once it dawned on me that Akin was tall and my first couple of photos were looking up at him. I explained the change I was making and told him it was to make sure I wasn’t “looking up your nostrils” which amused him.

We chatted for a few minutes and I found Akin a wonderfully soft-spoken and polite young man of 20 who lives in Brampton, a bedroom suburb of Toronto. He was born in Nigeria, moving to Canada in 2000. In our brief chat he seemed to embody the qualities that make me think the future is in good hands with people like Akin coming online as others of us retire from the workforce.

I made sure I wasn’t making him late for class and he said “No, that’s fine. I’m just on my way to my part-time job but I have a few minutes.” His part-time job is leading groups of prospective university students on tours of the campus. I have seen many of these tours with a leader holding a sign on a stick with a gaggle of high school students surrounding them and being told what the various buildings are for and some tidbits about student life at the university. He said it’s a good part-time job which is very rewarding even though the pay is modest in comparison to the time it takes him to commute to do it. In an email he expanded a bit on his motivations: "But, I do love the job. My boss and colleagues are great. I most of all love meeting highschoolers, talking to them, trying to keep them from making mistakes I made and answering the questions and telling them things that, a lot like my quote, I wish people had told me. I give them the truth, the grass on both sides so they can compare and weight it out in their hearts."

Akin is graduating this year in Medical Physics and hopes to get work at one of the local hospitals, preferably the world-famous Hospital for Sick Children which is just blocks from where we were standing. “What drew you to this field?” “I’ve always been interested in science and physics and I really like helping people so this program was the perfect fit for me.” I told him I thought he could make a significant contribution to many patients with his training – either directly or indirectly – and I wished him success. When I asked if he had any words to share with my fellow project photographers he gave his shy smile and said "Just to treat others the way you would like to be treated." In his nice email to me, Akin told me to "keep dong what you do" and "I hope to meet you again some day." The feeling is mutual Akin.

Thank you Akin for stopping to chat and for participating in 100 Strangers. You are now Stranger #465 in Round 5 of my project. I wish you success.

Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

To browse Round 1 of my 100 Strangers project click here: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157633145986224/

To browse Round 2 of my 100 Strangers project click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157634422850489/

To browse Round 3 of my 100 Strangers project click here: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157635541434065/

To browse Round 4 of my 100 Strangers project click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157639207561566/

Like in the bottom of a packet of M&M's whilst watching 'The Boat That Rocked' hehe

Do you think it looks like a love heart or is it just me? I think at first glance it doesn't but once you have a good look you start to see it. I was very impressed by this, yes, I'm THAT geeky. I was sat in the cinema and I almost ate it and then I was like OMG, I showed it to the friend I was with and she wasn't as impressed as I was haha

I hope you're all doing well :)

I'm looking for a part time job atm. Not had much luck so far because all the shops are tightening their spending because of the credit crunch so they're not really taking on part time staff but I'm persevering and hopefully I'll get there in the end.

Keep your fingers crossed for me! :)

This is where I do my part time job when I'm back in Japan.

They serve great range of Belgian Ales and traditional dishes.

Looking south on Washington Street at the intersection of Metropolitan Av. Looking back on my early teens c1956 - On the southeast corner underneath the gray triple decker was the old 'variety store' (I think it was called 'The Little Store') run by a somewhat taciturn older man who sold penny candy, ciggs,, newspapers and a variety of small items (7-11 style). Most of all he was a 'numbers man' although I never quite understood this as a child. You could catch the trolley -later the bus- from in front of his store and while waiting for its appearance coming down the hill seek shelter within when it was snowing or extremely cold. There was an old seldom used booth inside to sit and eat something but he was never encouraging of us kids hanging around, other than waiting for the bus to Forest Hills.

Where we did congregate was in front of (never inside) the Hill Pharmacy and Drug Store (The Pet Store off to the left). Starting around age 12 (1956) myself, Johnny Dunn, Johnny Hawks, Dominic Guella (his little brother Richie was not allowed) lol, Glen Grant, Ray and Andy Spognadi, Jackie ? and some others whose names now elude me started hanging out in front of the drug store. There was an older group of -teens and young adults already established there who were getting ready to move into the world and give up 'the corner' to a limited extent to us 'kids.' Their names I can't recall other than 'Nookie' (Charlie Maloni - thanks Hank Maglia) a big burly, good hearted kid who rode a Harley hog with all the bells and whistles. Nookie drove a dump truck for a local construction company. A few years prior I was pedaling my bike across Washington Street and he was in the fully loaded dump truck coming down the hill, as a typical 10 year old I rode the bike directly across his path. I can still see the look on his face, the blaring horn and brakes as I barely cleared out of the way. Nookie and his friends had purchased together an old hearse from a local funeral home and would pile in to go to special occasions. One night Nookie was fueling up his hog across the street from 'The Little Store' at Tony Russo's Esso Station (where Ray Spognadi got his start as a mechanic) and left the hog unattended while gassing it up and it blew up into a 40' high ball of flame, saw it all - in awe. Before too long Nookie and the gang had moved on and just as quickly our little group started in the same direction, Johnny started dating and the rest of us followed suit, began serious part-time jobs and school and branching out into bigger circles.

From another poster:

By kvn on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 5:18pm.

"I had to look at Google . The original Roslindale Hardware was across the street, on the left side of that building close to the house. It's present location was the Laudramet and also Giant something or other sub shop , owned by Joe the Polish guy ( sub shop only ) . Before it was the sub shop , it was the greatest little bake shop , Agnes's. The gas station on the other side of Met ave was Tony Russo's Atlantic. Tony was a former Studerbaker mechanic from the dealer that was just past Roslindale Square, near the DD. That corner of Met ave is dedicated to George Gottwald Jr , who was Killed in Viet Nam In 1968 . His father , George , was a Boston Fire Lieut. died in 1970 in a Roxbury fire, having rescued 3 other firefighters."

Cheap Wallabee Clones from college days

These shoes are 55 years old. I got them when I started my Freshman college year, along with a pair of very cheap Keds knockoffs. By the beginning of my Sophmore year, the sneakers were full of holes, both uppers and soles. The Wallabees were just developing holes in the soles. By the time winter arrived, there were holes in both Wallabees and the cardboard innersoles were rotting and crumbling. I had no money to buy new shoes, and I was afraid the snow and ice would be really uncomfortable on my feet.

However, I discovered that after a week or two, I hardly noticed the cold, except if I stepped in a puddle of ice water. That was really cold.

By Spring, they were pretty much as you see them here. I found the Custodian in the dorm had a box of left-behind sneakers and shoes, which I picked over. None were my size, but I found that didn't make much difference I could wear most any size if the width was reasonable. The length didn't really matter.

I did still wear these from time to time, I wore them for a summer in the 1970's when I had several part time jobs and I didn't want to mess up my good shoes. I think that is when the heel gave out.

They are still very comfortable, kind of funky, because the remaining sole pushes large lumps against my foot in places where you don't normally expect it.

I sort of have this part time job working with this crazy guy who buys cars from auctions, insurance companies, impound yards, repossessions and more. He needs help listing over 190 cars and parts from some of those cars. He has Mercedes, Jaguars, Lexus, Dodge, Fords and GM's of all types. He has some really high end cars and in the middle of all those cars right out front of his office sits this beautiful 1969 Mustang Mach 1 Fastback with a true and real 428 SCJ with a shaker hood scoop. This car is 100% original and unrestored, this is the original paint from what I can see and so is the interior. Out of all the newer cars he owns this is probably worth the most money. I saw one listed for $110,000.00 on Ebay. He told me this car is a friends and another worker told me this has been sitting untouched for almost a year OUTSIDE. He also has a 1971 Camaro SS 350, needs some parts but no where as nice and rare as this car.

Sorry for the bad pictures the Mustang is blocked in between 4 cars and some bushes, no way to get this out.

Photography student with a part-time job.

After moving to Kent in 1963, I found most of my spare time going to the Cinema. I had a choice of several, including The Odeon Ashford, The Ashford Picturehouse / Cinema, The Regal Cranbrook, Maidstone Granada and the ABC Maidstone. It was the Embassy Tenterden that I fell in love with. On a hot August Bank Holiday in 1965, I asked the Cinema Manager (Edwood Cook) if I could visit the projection room. The Chief projectionist (Roy Roberts) soon offered me a part time job, as they were short staffed. I jumped at the opportunity and within a short time, I became a full time projectionist at the age of seventeen. My first jobs were polishing the floors and rewinding film. Within a short time, I progressed to lacing up the projectors and changeovers. Changeovers are a change of reel from one projector to another. A feature film came in twenty minute spools of around 2000 feet, so a two hour film would arrive in six cans. Two projectors were needed to run a continuos programme. As one reel came to an end, the operator would watch the top right hand side of the screen for a set of changeover dots. the first set of dots are a cue to start up the second projector with reel two. The second set of dots was a cue to change projectors by means of a shutter system. In recent years, only one projector was needed, with a long playing device that held the entire programme. Today, cinemas up and down the country are changing their equipment to digital projection, and in time, 35mm film will be sadly phased out. My first changeover came with (Doctor in Clover 1966). 35mm film ran at 24 frames per second. Roy Roberts was a showman, he taught me everything from operating the equipment and the high standard of presentation. Before the introduction of CinemaScopE in the 50s, the Embassy had two sets of curtains (tabs) and a deep stage. A new screen was added behind the front set of tabs to give the maximum width for the new widescreen/ scope format. My favorite film logo was 20th Century Fox . We used to open out the side masking on (A CinemaScopE Picture) to reveal the huge scope screen. The elaborate stage lighting was used for colour changing on the curtains and the black and white coming shortly film titles. All music (non-sync) was timed to the second. The sad news of the Embassy closure came in the autumn of 1969 but despite having many full houses which included (Carry on Camping), the cinema was doomed to close in December. The last film screened was the Lynn Redgrave adult comedy (The Virgin Soldiers). The very last performance ran with a full house, some patrons arrived in evening dress, they even brought their own Champagne. The local Mayor gave a speech, thanking everyone for attending the special last performance at this beautiful cinema. The screen curtains were closed for the very last time on the Columbia logo. An after show party was held for staff and friends in the circle lounge. We had two weeks to strip out anything of value. Just before the cinema was boarded up, the green neon was switched on again for the last time. It looked rather ghostly with a December snow storm. From The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, My fair Lady, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, The Jungle Book, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Far from the Madding Crowd, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner , the many Hammer films and the hundreeds of other films from the famous, to the Merton Park/Edgar Wallace B movies, the Embassy Tenterden will be remembered for them all. The Cinema still stands today with the original Embassy lettering on the facade. Will it ever revert back to a cinema again ?

When I moved cross country to the Pacific Northwest from Boston I was just turning 30 and reluctantly realizing it was probably time to grow up. A couple of jumbo jets crashed into the twin towers, toppling the world economy and my hopes of making it as a commercial artist down with them. My budding art career dried up overnight. No art directors or publishers called me anymore. Suddenly my part time job as an environmental fundraiser wasn’t going to cut it and it was time to move cross country with a girl I’m incidentally no longer with and to pursue a real job…one with health benefits and a 401k. It was time to take responsibility and live the American Dream in a little cabin on the waterfront right next to her rich parents. Maybe someday we’d have kids and a dog…maybe I’d finally fit in with high society...maybe someday her well to do mother would stop judging me and like the person that I am. This entailed giving up my dreams as an artist…this meant losing my identity as a free thinker, as a rogue…as sort of a bad boy. This is the last painting I did when I lived in Boston and reflects the fear I felt of moving cross country. It tells the story of a guy named Roy…a regular guy living in the conformist 1950’s…a guy with a great job as a bread delivery driver, a guy with a supportive wife, beautiful kids and a little house with a white picket fence to call his own. In spite of having everything a regular guy could ever want, Roy eventually was compelled to rebel against conformity, religion, authority and the forces that caged him within the confines of being a regular guy and nothing more. He became more than happy to burn his perfect little house down in the dead of night and careen his truck off a cliff.

If paintings are like my children, this is my darkest, most brooding child yet. It’s a favorite amongst so many people. Years ago someone offered $6000 for it and I refused as I couldn’t bear to part with my most brooding child…one that reflects so much of my soul. That great job I was pressured to seek out so many years ago…the one with the health benefits and a 401k, like many things in life has ended a few months ago. I was just no longer affordable to keep around so they bid me adieu and sent me off into the world. I believe when one door closes, another opens and I’m trying my hand at being a commercial artist again. To move forward with my new life as an artist, I’m willing to live like one and finally sell off this painting for…as fate would have it…considerably less than the $6000 that was offered years ago. This and my other work will be at Zero Zero Gallery. 1525 Summit Ave. Seattle, WA. The opening is November 8th from 8-1030pm and will mark my reentry into the artist’s world. Come if you can, to show your support and hang out with me. I’ll be easy to find. I’ll be the one with a headful of hopes and dreams and a thousand doors of opportunities opening before me.

After 6 months of absence, I'm back to Flickr. My last 6 months in Korea was not easy. I got my bachelor degree, and started to work, plus precisely as an Intern. The pay was not bad for an intern but still not enough to well survive in the capital - So I also had to deal with part time jobs. Due stress, my health state also decreased...and well, you can imagine. I had no time for photos and no money for develop T_T

I came back to Europe just yesterday, after 5 years in the Korean peninsula. I'll start my Master's next month. I don't know how things will work (since well, new life challenges, starting from 0 again!) but I truly hope things will be fine.

Hope to be able to reconnect with you all,

Cheers,

Clara

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was visiting the Granite State on Wednesday.

Bush took questions at a town hall event in Hudson on Wednesday evening after making an unannounced stop at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dover earlier in the day.

Bush spoke, surrounded by veterans, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Hudson -- a popular stop on the primary trail.

Bush spoke about New Hampshire's twin energy controversies -- the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in the state's southern tier, as well as the Northern Pass project.

"I mean, you guys are struggling to build pipelines and transmission lines, best I can tell," said Bush.

One attendee followed up, asking Bush what he knew about the pipeline.

"It promises to cut through a number of people's homes and [environmentally protected] land," the questioner said.

"There's a trade-off in this, which is how public policy works. The trade-off is how do you balance the economic interests of working-class families with environmental considerations? And those are best sorted out at the state level, not in Washington, DC," said Bush.

After the town hall, Bush told News 9 that he won't be taking sides.

"I think this should be locally driven," said Bush.

Bush also provided additional context to comments he made to the Union Leader editorial board earlier in the day.

Controversy began brewing on social media after Bush said that "people need to work longer hours."

Bush clarified that he was referring to new overtime rules, which he believes will force people into part-time jobs.

"I think people want to work harder, to be able to have more money in their own pockets -- not to be dependent upon government. You can take it out of context all you want, but high, sustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours, and that by our success they have money -- disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line," said Bush.

Bush also dismissed Donald Trump's criticism of his immigration position, when Trump essentially said that Bush is biased by the fact that his wife is Mexican.

"You can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe we need to control the border," said Bush.

Bush also had coffee and breakfast with a small crowd at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop earlier in the day, where he said he'll use his leadership skills from his experience in office to change the roles within our government.

Bush said that one of the first things he would do in office is reduce federal overreach.

"Under this administration, there's been broad overreach in the regulatory powers. We need to bring powers back to states and local communities and that's something the president can do almost immediately,” said Bush.

Bush also said he would create a better energy plan for America and re-establish America's leadership internationally.

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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the Everglades, supporting caps for medical malpractice litigation, moving Medicaid recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting school choice.

Frequently cited by the media as a possible candidate for president in the 2016 election, Bush announced in mid-December 2014 that he would explore the possibility of running for President. Bush subsequently launched his presidential campaign on June 15, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

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HOSEA Feed The Hungry & Homeless Benefits Coordinator/Case Manager Danina Battle was present at the announcement of grantees for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) pilots at Gwinnett Technical College, in Lawrenceville, GA, on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack commended Ms. Battle for meeting the challenges in her life and her way off the SNAP and the many challenges to enter her present career path. Battle is a mother of three and was hard hit by the recession. Battle was motivated to be a role model for her children, she got a part-time job and went back to college building her technology, health care and interviews skills. This provided her the ability to enter a career path with HOSEA. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

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I managed to take this shot earlier today at work. I’ve taken a shot like this before but I don’ think I used such a wide aperture to such an effect before. The float rack at work provides a perfect setup for shallow DoF photos!

So yeah, I work at a fishing tackle shop part-time. Whilst I don’t actually fish, I have done before (almost ten years ago) and my brothers and dad do go, so I do know a fair bit about it all. The job itself is pretty awesome, and for a part-time job, I couldn’t ask for a better setup and or boss!

Tonight I’ve been at a wine, ale and cheese evening but unfortunately I didn’t take my camera. I’ll take it next time to the one next month though.

from Ziphozakhe Hlobo, Cape Town integrated reporter

Cape Town tourist attraction spots are buzzing with tourists snaping photos, shooting videos and filling up the flee markets and tour buses in and out of the city center. How vivid the contrast is between their jollyful faces and locals´s grumpy faces, because for most locals, January is always a cloud hanging over their heads, reminding them that children need school uniforms, books, stationary and school fees to begin their school year. They watch their credit letters piling up their post-boxes like a block of flats, their silence tastes like grief as hawkers ponderously shout on the streets "buy one, get one free," and regret of December wreckless spending certainly sticks on them like a stubborn stain.

Retail shops have long taken down Christmas trees to replace them with enormous "back to school" posters, while sales agents in loan lending companies are being painfully disturbing on our ears, ringing everyone to offer loans that no one will be able to pay back.

This January means my younger sister is frustrated with the long university application processing, while other students are going back and forth to these universities to write entrance tests, others are already accepted jumping up and down with excitement like children at a candy store, and others are agitated by the news that they will be put on waiting lists because of limited space.

Meanwhile, my older sister is running errands looking for a new job for the sake of new beginnings and because she is fed up with her previous employers; we are making preperations to leave my aunt's place and find our own before the end of this quarter. Each time we travel by train, we try to avoid peak hours because trains have a way of reminding you that living in a township means living in a peripheral part of this big city; third-class compartments are packed because people are back from holidays to work hard so they can make end's meet.

"We are working for money we do not ever see because of all these things we must pay," the domestic workers in the trains always complain. If not about this, then the daughters who did not come home last night or the sons who might join the township gansters, and during these conversations, the men in the train are heatedly discussing political election times, which are just around the corner. Youngsters are usually glued to their cellphones sitting on the corners to avoid the stench of body odour that runs through each compartment.

In clubs, bars and restaurant, I am sure anticipation for the busyness that will fill up central town thickens, because in no time, university students will be back to enhance the vibrancy of this international city and to paint the famous Long Street 'drunk'. It's all part of the drill, I guess.

For me, the new year looks like an empty chalkboard of possibilities, whose chalk is hidden and anxiously waits for me to find it, soon. I hope.

Last year was quite long and challenging being my first year out of shool just after graduating from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape), where I grew up. I graduated in Media Studies and have been a freelance performance poet and writer since I decided to move to Cape Town, which is fast becoming an arts hub. It is, however, not too financially viable for very young emerging artists, hence myself and those I work with have been occupying our time with part-time jobs, establishing our own movements, organizing and performing at arts events the whole of last year.

This year's work includes a compilation of my recently found feminist passion & pleasure ethos writing, among other things, and am working towards sending these to potential publishers. Therefore, the Nine Urban Biotopes project couldn't have come at a better time. Antje Schiffers, the resident artist I am assistant for, is already in town, we have been having our little amusing and informative cultural exchange dialogues in the apartment she and Thomas are renting.

Little Iwan (Antje' seven year old son) avoids eye contact with me because him and I are having a language barrier situation, which sucks, because I can feel we really would like to share a few words with each other. I look at him, I smile, he avoids my eyes and says something to Antje or Thomas in German. It's the first time a child from another ethnic group (particularly white) is so shy to look at me in the eyes. I remember, growing up, this is something that was associated with the African culture, because it was and still is embedded in our culture that it is rude for children to look at adults in the eyes.

Antje and I have started looking at institutions and people of interest for the project, which promises to be a fulfiling experience. Lucky for me, Antje and Thomas have offered to pick me up at the train station when I go to meet with them, because walking up Bloem street to their apartment is about the last thing anyone ever wants to do. I only did it once and hated every minute of it, it's that kind of hill that, by virtue of being steep, means you have to take your time or else you might just go out of breath. It's the kind of hill that seperates the fit from the unfit, and I didn't like being told by a hill how unfit I am.

Anyway, I am happy to be working with Antje while I work on my own writing projects too, I can imagine an intersection might happen at some point. Time will tell.

Nazareth College Career Services held its first Spring Job & Internship Fair in the Kidera Gym. 50 + organizations such as Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Paychex, and Rochester AmeriCorps were in attendance. The fair offered Nazareth students exclusive access to recruiters for full-time and part-time jobs, as well as internship opportunities for all majors. .

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Locals gathered outside Ipswich Town Hall in solidarity despite the snow to protest the bedroom tax due to kick in at the beginning of the financial year.

The imposed tax by the government will see housing benefits cut by 25% for those seen to be “under-occupying” their council or housing association homes.

This leaves many questioning whether to stay in their accommodation and struggle more and more with mounting bills alongside the tax or for single mother with two children Zoe Bartel, to decide whether to move into shared housing.

“I moved here two years ago when my eldest was just six, now they’re asking me to pay 14% more on my housing benefit and 8% council tax which will total to £60 per month.”

“I also have the option to move but as a single mother with two children with a part time job, moving again is just not going to happen”

Some fifty protests are believed to be held all over the county today. Manchester was noted to have gathered an estimated 1200 protestors on the 16th of March”.

Many gathered to protest, not because the tax affected themselves directly, but affected those around them including family and friends.

A protestor in Ipswich told, “It’s disgusting, they’re taxing blindly with no regard to those who will be affected, many have more than one bedroom because their sick children have disabilities that require dialysis machines. How is this fair? ”

HOSEA Feed The Hungry and Homeless Benefits Coordinator/Case Manager Danina Battle stands with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at Gwinnett Technical College, in Lawrenceville, GA, on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015. Secretary Vilsack announced the grantees for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) pilots. These grants are provided by the 2014 Farm Bill to help SNAP participants gain and retain employment that leads to self-sufficiency. Ms. Battle was commended for meeting the challenges in her life and her way off the SNAP and many challenges to enter her present career path. Battle is a mother of three and was hard hit by the recession. Battle was motivated to be a role model for her children, she got a part-time job and went back to college building her technology, health care and interviews skills. This provided her the ability to enter a career path with HOSEA. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

City leaders and representatives from the Neighborhood Cinema Group celebrated June 21 the opening of a multi-million dollar, 10-screen theater at 1050 Powder Springs St. The theatre, which includes stadium seating, 3-D and surround-sound technology, is the only cinema in the city. It is expected to create 40 to 50 regular part-time jobs and several full-time management positions.

This city of Marietta photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, e-mails, products or promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the city of Marietta, its elected officials or staff. Publication of this photograph must include a credit: Photo courtesy of the city of Marietta.

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OK, this isn't a great photo - in fact it's rubbish, but in the context of not over-thinking things this is my emoticon Mood Board for today: I'm rather nervous right now as I'm off to my first "proper" interview in years with a view to hopefully securing a (part-time) job as a TESOL/TEFL teacher (this means I'm a qualified Teacher of English to Speaker's of Other Languages). Fingers crossed that later today Up is the applicable emoticon and not Down or All-in-a-Tangle :-)

1887 Queen Anne Listed on the National Register of Historical places, the ''Shea House'' is a unique expression of the Queen Anne Style (the only one in Council Bluffs).

John Joseph Shea was born in 1859 near the village of Business Corners in Van Buren County. His parents were John Shea and Ellen Flynn Shea, natives of County Kerry, Ireland. It is not known if there were other children.

In the 1860s, the family moved to Jefferson County, where John helped his father on the farm and attended country school. He was an exceptional student. Having no further education beyond what he received in the country school and county institutes, he qualified as a teacher.

At a very young age, he taught school near Neola. With money he made teaching and working at part time jobs, he was able to enter law school at the University of Iowa, graduating in 1882. He began the practice of law in Neola as a member of the firm of McWilliams and Shea.

Agnes Mary Fenlon was born in 1860 in Illinois. Her father, James Fenlon, was born in Ireland; her mother was born in Pennsylvania. Other family members were her sister, Nellie, and her brother, James. Agnes taught school at the Center Street School in Council Bluffs. The St. Patrick parish (Neola) centennial book commemorating the construction of the church recognizes Mr. and Mrs. James Fenlon and the children of James Fenlon as donors of large windows in the church.

John Shea and Agnes Fenlon were married on Nov. 21, 1883, in Neola. A short time after their marriage, John was elected to the office of clerk of the district court of Pottawattamie County and he and Agnes became residents of Council Bluffs. He completed his term in 1889 and returned to the practice of law – this time in Council Bluffs. He formed a partnership with his boyhood friend, John Galvin. The firm Shea & Galvin was located in the Merriam Block.

The Sheas were the parents of six children: Florence (born in 1885), Elizabeth (1886), Elsie (1887), John J. (1890), Agnes (1892) and Thomas Fenlon (1894). In 1886, their address was 712 S. Eighth St.

On July 5, 1887, an announcement in The Nonpareil read: “Yesterday morning, County Clerk Shea broke ground for his handsome new residence on Eighth Street, immediately south of Capt. Geo. Brown’s residence. Wickham Bros. have the contract for the brick work and J.H. Murphy for the carpenter work.” (Agnes Shea’s sister, Nellie, was married to O.P. Wickham, contractor and brickmaker.)

By 1888, the Sheas were living in the new house at 309 S. Eighth St.

The Panic of 1893 was described as the worst economic depression the United States had experienced at the time. It was marked by the overbuilding and shaky financing of railroads and a run on the gold supply. It lasted for five years and resulted in a series of bank failures. The Sheas lost their new home.

According to city directory listings, in 1897 they were living at 629 Willow Ave., and in 1899 at 726 Willow Ave. In 1904, the family moved to Independence, Kan. The following year, they settled in Bartlesville, then Indian Territory, and afterwards Washington County, Okla., where he began the practice of law. According to the Annals of Iowa, he was ... “an active participant in the transition from the territorial to the state form of government; appointed judge of the twenty-fourth judicial district by Gov. Chas. N. Haskell; upon leaving the bench resumed the practice of law” ...

Following World War I and the discharge of his son Thomas from the Army, the Sheas moved to Tulsa, Okla. where John practiced law in partnership with his son until his death on Nov. 14, 1928. He was buried in Holy Family Cemetery beside his wife, who preceded him in death the previous year.

The Chronicles of Oklahoma wrote this about him: “The son of an Irish immigrant and tenant farmer, his life is a fit illustration of the heights to which the lowliest citizen of this country may ascend. He loved the Constitution of the United States and the American Way of Life, and he believed that this country had attained its greatness and its leadership among the nations of the earth because of the fact that its government is one of laws and not of men.”

Banker Timothy Turner purchased the home at 309 S. Eighth St. in 1900. He and his brother-in-law, C.R. Hannan, who lived across the street at 805 Second Ave., founded City National Bank. Turner’s daughter, Marian, continued to live in the house until 1993.

This massive two and one-half story Queen Anne house is built of patterned brick, adorned with limestone, pressed metal trim, carved sunbursts and corbelled chimneys. It is dominated by a three-story turret with a “witch’s cap” on one corner and a two-story square bay on the other corner. There are many stained, leaded and beveled glass windows. The large “L” shaped porch of classical design was modified at a later date, while a side porch is of a charming gingerbread style. Projecting from the north side of the house is a one-story round room. Once a bed and breakfast, the house is now a private home, a local landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

City leaders and representatives from the Neighborhood Cinema Group celebrated June 21 the opening of a multi-million dollar, 10-screen theater at 1050 Powder Springs St. The theatre, which includes stadium seating, 3-D and surround-sound technology, is the only cinema in the city. It is expected to create 40 to 50 regular part-time jobs and several full-time management positions.

This city of Marietta photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, e-mails, products or promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the city of Marietta, its elected officials or staff. Publication of this photograph must include a credit: Photo courtesy of the city of Marietta.

City leaders and representatives from the Neighborhood Cinema Group celebrated June 21 the opening of a multi-million dollar, 10-screen theater at 1050 Powder Springs St. The theatre, which includes stadium seating, 3-D and surround-sound technology, is the only cinema in the city. It is expected to create 40 to 50 regular part-time jobs and several full-time management positions.

This city of Marietta photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, e-mails, products or promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the city of Marietta, its elected officials or staff. Publication of this photograph must include a credit: Photo courtesy of the city of Marietta.

Nazareth College Career Services held its Job & Internship Fair in the Kidera Gym. The fair offered Nazareth students exclusive access to recruiters for full-time and part-time jobs, as well as internship opportunities for all majors.

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1887 Queen Anne Listed on the National Register of Historical places, the ''Shea House'' is a unique expression of the Queen Anne Style (the only one in Council Bluffs).

John Joseph Shea was born in 1859 near the village of Business Corners in Van Buren County. His parents were John Shea and Ellen Flynn Shea, natives of County Kerry, Ireland. It is not known if there were other children.

In the 1860s, the family moved to Jefferson County, where John helped his father on the farm and attended country school. He was an exceptional student. Having no further education beyond what he received in the country school and county institutes, he qualified as a teacher.

At a very young age, he taught school near Neola. With money he made teaching and working at part time jobs, he was able to enter law school at the University of Iowa, graduating in 1882. He began the practice of law in Neola as a member of the firm of McWilliams and Shea.

Agnes Mary Fenlon was born in 1860 in Illinois. Her father, James Fenlon, was born in Ireland; her mother was born in Pennsylvania. Other family members were her sister, Nellie, and her brother, James. Agnes taught school at the Center Street School in Council Bluffs. The St. Patrick parish (Neola) centennial book commemorating the construction of the church recognizes Mr. and Mrs. James Fenlon and the children of James Fenlon as donors of large windows in the church.

John Shea and Agnes Fenlon were married on Nov. 21, 1883, in Neola. A short time after their marriage, John was elected to the office of clerk of the district court of Pottawattamie County and he and Agnes became residents of Council Bluffs. He completed his term in 1889 and returned to the practice of law – this time in Council Bluffs. He formed a partnership with his boyhood friend, John Galvin. The firm Shea & Galvin was located in the Merriam Block.

The Sheas were the parents of six children: Florence (born in 1885), Elizabeth (1886), Elsie (1887), John J. (1890), Agnes (1892) and Thomas Fenlon (1894). In 1886, their address was 712 S. Eighth St.

On July 5, 1887, an announcement in The Nonpareil read: “Yesterday morning, County Clerk Shea broke ground for his handsome new residence on Eighth Street, immediately south of Capt. Geo. Brown’s residence. Wickham Bros. have the contract for the brick work and J.H. Murphy for the carpenter work.” (Agnes Shea’s sister, Nellie, was married to O.P. Wickham, contractor and brickmaker.)

By 1888, the Sheas were living in the new house at 309 S. Eighth St.

The Panic of 1893 was described as the worst economic depression the United States had experienced at the time. It was marked by the overbuilding and shaky financing of railroads and a run on the gold supply. It lasted for five years and resulted in a series of bank failures. The Sheas lost their new home.

According to city directory listings, in 1897 they were living at 629 Willow Ave., and in 1899 at 726 Willow Ave. In 1904, the family moved to Independence, Kan. The following year, they settled in Bartlesville, then Indian Territory, and afterwards Washington County, Okla., where he began the practice of law. According to the Annals of Iowa, he was ... “an active participant in the transition from the territorial to the state form of government; appointed judge of the twenty-fourth judicial district by Gov. Chas. N. Haskell; upon leaving the bench resumed the practice of law” ...

Following World War I and the discharge of his son Thomas from the Army, the Sheas moved to Tulsa, Okla. where John practiced law in partnership with his son until his death on Nov. 14, 1928. He was buried in Holy Family Cemetery beside his wife, who preceded him in death the previous year.

The Chronicles of Oklahoma wrote this about him: “The son of an Irish immigrant and tenant farmer, his life is a fit illustration of the heights to which the lowliest citizen of this country may ascend. He loved the Constitution of the United States and the American Way of Life, and he believed that this country had attained its greatness and its leadership among the nations of the earth because of the fact that its government is one of laws and not of men.”

Banker Timothy Turner purchased the home at 309 S. Eighth St. in 1900. He and his brother-in-law, C.R. Hannan, who lived across the street at 805 Second Ave., founded City National Bank. Turner’s daughter, Marian, continued to live in the house until 1993.

This massive two and one-half story Queen Anne house is built of patterned brick, adorned with limestone, pressed metal trim, carved sunbursts and corbelled chimneys. It is dominated by a three-story turret with a “witch’s cap” on one corner and a two-story square bay on the other corner. There are many stained, leaded and beveled glass windows. The large “L” shaped porch of classical design was modified at a later date, while a side porch is of a charming gingerbread style. Projecting from the north side of the house is a one-story round room. Once a bed and breakfast, the house is now a private home, a local landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sir George Hubert Wilkins (known as Hubert), Military Cross and Bar, MiD

Hubert Wilkins was born 31 October 1888 in an outback cottage on his parents’ property named Netfield, Mount Bryan East, South Australia. He was the youngest of 13 children, born to Henry and Louisa Wilkins.

He was war correspondent and photographer, polar explorer, naturalist, geographer, climatologist, ornithologist and aviator. As a child, Hubert experienced the devastation caused by drought and developed an interest in climatic phenomena.

If hardship moulded the character of Hubert Wilkins, so also did his passion for nature, music and a desire for knowledge. Enrolled in both the South Australian School of Mines and the Elder Conservatorium School of Music simultaneously, he studied electrical engineering, and singing, playing the organ, flute and cello at the Conservatorium.

It was in a number of part time jobs he learnt the art of blacksmithing, and gained a sound knowledge of the workings of both steam and internal combustion engines. On a trip to Sydney he became interested in photography. Returning to Adelaide he found employment with a travelling cinema and travelled in both South Australia and the Eastern States showing films.

When he was 20 years old (1908) he decided to leave Adelaide and see something of the world. At this time in his life a number of thoughts were forming in his mind, thoughts based upon his past experiences and that were to lead him to follow fixed courses of action. One of the most important of his ideas was to attempt to discover how and why the weather could so dramatically affect people’s lives, as it had done his own. Two forces now took over his life: the need to discover things concerning the world about him, and the need to travel to places that would provide him with the answers to the many questions forming in his mind.

His travels began by stowing away on a ship at Port Adelaide. The ship deposited him in Sydney and he soon found employment as a projectionist, then later as a cinematographer.

On reaching London he obtained work with the Gaumont Company as a cinematographic cameraman and with the Daily Chronicle as a reporter. It was then (1910) that he learnt to fly at Hendon. He did not sit for any of the flying exams, which would have made him a qualified pilot, through lack of money. But his interest in flying was to remain with him for the rest of his life. So too was his passion for photography. Photographs of the time (1911) show him performing photographic stunts. One popular photograph shows him astride the fuselage of a Deperdussin monoplane hand cranking his camera. Despite these promotional stunts Hubert Wilkins was perfecting the art of taking aerial motion pictures. In his autobiography he believed he was the first person to take a movie camera into the air and film the scenes around him.

As a war correspondent and photographer, in 1912 he covered the fighting between the Turks and Bulgarians. From 1913 to 1916 he was second-in-command on Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition: Wilkins became adept in the art of survival in polar regions, added to his scientific knowledge and conceived a plan to improve weather forecasting by establishing permanent stations at the poles.

Returning to Australia, on 1 May 1917 he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force (Australian Flying Corps). By August he had been transferred to the general list and was at I Anzac Corps headquarters on the Western Front. Appointed official photographer in April 1918, he was tasked with providing 'an accurate and complete record of the fighting and other activities of the A.I.F.' as a counterpart to Captain J. F. Hurley's propaganda work. In June Wilkins was awarded the Military Cross 'for bringing in some wounded men'. With Hurley's departure, he was promoted captain on 11 July and took charge of No.3 (Photographic) Sub-section of the Australian War Records unit. His routine was to visit the front line for part of each day that troops were engaged in combat and periodically to accompany infantry assaults. During the battle of the Hindenburg line, on 29 September he organized a group of American soldiers who had lost their officers in an enemy attack and directed operations until support arrived. Awarded a Bar to his M.C., he was also mentioned in dispatches. He is the only Australian official photographer to have been decorated.

In January 1919, as photographer, Wilkins joined Charles Bean’s mission to reconstruct Australia's part in the Gallipoli Peninsula campaign. He entered the England to Australia air race that year, but his aircraft, a Blackburn Kangaroo, experienced engine failure and crash-landed in Crete; he arrived in Australia by sea in July 1920 and his A.I.F. appointment terminated on 7 September. Engaging in further polar exploration, in 1920-21 he made his first visit to the Antarctic, accompanying J. L. Cope on his unsuccessful voyage to Graham Land. Wilkins next took part in Sir Ernest Shackleton's Quest expedition of 1921-22 on which he made ornithological observations.

Sir Hubert’s adventures continued from his home base in America. On one occasion he gleaned information from the Japanese Consul-General about Japan's intention to destroy Pearl Harbour and invade Singapore. Sir Hubert passed the information to the Allies but was not believed.

He died suddenly at Massachusetts, on 30 November 1958 and was cremated: four months later his ashes were scattered from the ‘Skate’ at the North Pole. Lady Wilkins survived him and wrote affectionately of a husband whose only contact with her for extended periods had been through his letters.

Ref: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 12 (MUP) 1990

South Australian Aviation Museum

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was visiting the Granite State on Wednesday.

Bush took questions at a town hall event in Hudson on Wednesday evening after making an unannounced stop at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dover earlier in the day.

Bush spoke, surrounded by veterans, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Hudson -- a popular stop on the primary trail.

Bush spoke about New Hampshire's twin energy controversies -- the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in the state's southern tier, as well as the Northern Pass project.

"I mean, you guys are struggling to build pipelines and transmission lines, best I can tell," said Bush.

One attendee followed up, asking Bush what he knew about the pipeline.

"It promises to cut through a number of people's homes and [environmentally protected] land," the questioner said.

"There's a trade-off in this, which is how public policy works. The trade-off is how do you balance the economic interests of working-class families with environmental considerations? And those are best sorted out at the state level, not in Washington, DC," said Bush.

After the town hall, Bush told News 9 that he won't be taking sides.

"I think this should be locally driven," said Bush.

Bush also provided additional context to comments he made to the Union Leader editorial board earlier in the day.

Controversy began brewing on social media after Bush said that "people need to work longer hours."

Bush clarified that he was referring to new overtime rules, which he believes will force people into part-time jobs.

"I think people want to work harder, to be able to have more money in their own pockets -- not to be dependent upon government. You can take it out of context all you want, but high, sustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours, and that by our success they have money -- disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line," said Bush.

Bush also dismissed Donald Trump's criticism of his immigration position, when Trump essentially said that Bush is biased by the fact that his wife is Mexican.

"You can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe we need to control the border," said Bush.

Bush also had coffee and breakfast with a small crowd at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop earlier in the day, where he said he'll use his leadership skills from his experience in office to change the roles within our government.

Bush said that one of the first things he would do in office is reduce federal overreach.

"Under this administration, there's been broad overreach in the regulatory powers. We need to bring powers back to states and local communities and that's something the president can do almost immediately,” said Bush.

Bush also said he would create a better energy plan for America and re-establish America's leadership internationally.

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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the Everglades, supporting caps for medical malpractice litigation, moving Medicaid recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting school choice.

Frequently cited by the media as a possible candidate for president in the 2016 election, Bush announced in mid-December 2014 that he would explore the possibility of running for President. Bush subsequently launched his presidential campaign on June 15, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

In the early 1970s I had a part time job as a painter with AVRO coaches of Corringham Essex. This company was to pass through several owners and as far as I know is still going today. This picture is taken at their first yard at the bottom of Rookery Hill, Corringham. The mess caravan is painted in the original colours of blue and white but by the time this photo was taken new management had instituted a change to yellow for the colour of the buses. AVRO had originally operated their bus fleet under the title of Corringham & District Motor Services, in homage to the long defunct Stanford & District that was taken over by Eastern National in the 1930s.

I am pleased to report that RUF 205 is now in pristine condition, preserved in original Southdown colours.

As Audrey Charles looked around, something seemed eerily familiar about the park she was visiting with three of her classmates.

It was the park benches and the descending staircase that carried visitors down into the park space that kept her wheels spinning, trying to imagine where she had seen it all before.

Except the park was 4,300 miles farther away from home than she had traveled her entire life prior to that day.

Then it struck her.

“Those were the same seats I saw on ‘Cheetah Girls 2’ when they were in Barcelona,” Charles said. “I went, ‘Oh my God, I’m here.”

It was an epiphany shared at some level by her classmates and chaperone Beth Shoemaker, as the five ladies traversed along the Mediterranean as part of a European tour including stops in Spain, France and Italy at the end of March.

The trip was the product of DHS becoming International Baccalaureate certified, according to Shoemaker.

“They thought it would be great, since we’re IB, to offer an international trip,” said Shoemaker, who also serves as Dublin High’s media specialist.

When Shoemaker took over as advisor for the trip, she began investigating options and leaned toward Spain as a potential stop.

“Since we offer Spanish courses on campus, I thought a Spanish-speaking country would be a good idea,” Shoemaker said, “then I noticed how close Spain was to France and Italy so we turned it into a Roman Conquest tour.”

The 10-day trip carried the five from DHS, and a sister school from Maryland, to the Spanish and French countryside still holding onto relics from the Roman Empire, the watering hole of Vincent van Gogh, Monaco and the Coliseum, to name a few.

“It was an experience of a lifetime,” Charles said.

Charles was joined by Kamisha Miles, Lauren Price and Samaya Dupree, along with Shoemaker, who began their “Roman Conquest” tour in Barcelona, stopping at Park Guell; the aforementioned site from the movie.

By Day 3, the quintuplet stopped in the walled city of Carcassone, camping out at the Hotel Forum in Arles France: the once home of van Gogh.

“Our hotel was directly across from the Yellow Café where van Gogh used visit,” Shoemaker said. “It was a quiet, quaint little town. It all rolled up at 9 p.m.”

The trip continued through France with a visit to Cote d’Azur and the Roman-era Nimes-Maison Carree and Arena before heading east to a Roman aqueduct called the Pont du Gard.

Then Monaco.

“It was so beautiful,” Shoemaker said, showing a selfie that included the building-filled hills of the Riviera coastline in the background. It was in Monaco where the students broke from touring to take part in a cooking class where they constructed their own Mediterranean-stylized meals.

“All the food was amazing,” Miles said.

“My favorite part was the chocolate,” Price said with a smile. “Chocolate mousse, chocolate mocha.”

“Even at the truck stops,” Shoemaker added. “It was unbelievable. It was food you’d find in a regular restaurant in America.”

From Grace Kelly’s former home, the group headed to Florence and finally to Rome for two days touring the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain and the Piazza Navona, as well as the Ostia Antica (a large archaeological site).

“And we went to the Vatican,” added Charles, who took on a part-time job in order to cover the expense of the trip. “The ceilings there were really pretty.”

“The beauty of the Vatican Museum really struck me,” Miles said.

Every one of the women, both young and old, said the trip is one that will live on in their memories indefinitely.

“I wanted to go because I had been places before with my parents and I wanted to try it for myself,” Miles said. “When I look back on my phone I realize how great it all was.”

“I feel more confident in trying new things because of the trip,” Charles added.

“It was amazing to see them grow and mature in such a short period,” Shoemaker said. “They were a pleasure and I’d take them anywhere. I can’t wait to go back.”