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| Parlour Tour returns: Bay City's landmark homes are all decked out in ... - MLive.com Posted: 30 Nov 2009 11:40 AM PST By Pati LaLondeNovember 30, 2009, 2:28PM
Those attending Bay City's third annual Holiday Parlour Tour will get a sneak peek of what's inside the soon-to-be-opened Webster House Bed and Breakfast at 900 Fifth. Owned by Dr. Steven and Deborah Ingersoll, the main level of the three-story home, which is decked-out for a Victorian Christmas, will be open to visitors. This year's tour, which runs from 4-8 p.m. Dec.5-6, features nine East Side structures dating from the 1800s to the 1950s, all decorated for the holidays. At least three live trees will be decorated at various points throughout the first floor. "I'm going with live trees to be more authentic," Deborah Ingersoll said. In addition to the trees, Jim Begick from Begick Nursery & Garden Center will decorate fireplace mantels, the dining room table and other areas of the home in keeping with the Victorian theme. The Queen Anne Victorian home features Eastlake details, and was once the home of Judge Thomas E. Webster, a probate county judge and a veteran of the Civil War. He also was a bit of an amateur photographer. Of particular note is a photo of his daughter, Amelia, hanging in the breakfast room. The Ingersolls found the photo, along with one of the Judge, in the walls as they continued the restoration began by previous owners. Local artist Sara Urband-Murphy hand-made the stained glass windows and tiles that surround the fireplaces. A Christmas market moves inside to the Pere Marquette Depot, 1000 Adams, which is also open for tours. Vendors will be on hand selling everything from Christmas decorations to home furnishings, to jewelry and clothing. The depot is also the place to catch a heated shuttle bus to ride from site to site. Proceeds from the event go to the Center Avenue Neighborhood Association, which was formed to preserve and protect the architectural heritage of Bay City's East Side. Advance tickets are $15 and are available at Begick Nursery and Garden Center and other Bay City, Saginaw and Midland locations. Tickets the day of the tour may be purchased at the depot. For more information, call the Bay County Convention & Visitors Bureau at (989) 893-1222. Hours are 4-8 p.m. Dec. 5-6 at the following locations:
• The Dryzga home, 110 Boehringer, an Alden B. Dow-style home designed by architect Glenn M. Beach and built in 1959. The home combines both contemporary and traditional in the holiday designs. • Thumb National Bank & Trust, 708 Center, former home of the Bay City Branch Library, was built in 1922 in the neo-classical style. Original columns and marble flooring are maintained. • Konnie Licavoli home, 2160 Center, is a Dutch Colonial, sitting on the largest parcel of land on Center Avenue. Built in the early 1900s, the home retains its original hardwood floors and wood-burning fireplaces, with a newly remodeled cherry kitchen and butler's pantry. • The Webster House, 900 Fifth, owned by Dr. Steven and Deborah Ingersoll, a Queen Anne Victorian. • Joel and Sue LaBrie home, 1515 Fifth, was built in 1893 by Henry S. Raymond, a Civil War officer for the Michigan 23rd Infantry. The living room features a 9-foot Christmas tree. • Richard and Sandy Black home, 2222 McKinley, a Colonial revival built in 1954 that is an eclectic mix of furnishings and decorations from Victorian to the 1950s. • Bay Justice Associates, 814 N. Monroe, owned by Ed Czuprynski, was built in 1878 by James Shearer and is decorated in a warm and welcoming holiday style. • The Rev. Bill and Linda Omansiek home, 801 Pendleton, a mid-century modern ranch built in 1955 that is decorated with a mix of 18th century New England antiques and modern furnishings. • Amy Rushman and Kim Brissette home, 2150 Third, was designed and built with the intention of recreating the warmth and charm of an early 1900s farm house. Much of the interior woodwork was salvaged from the original Murphy home that stood on the property. Admission: $15 in advance, $17 day of the tour. Advance tickets are available in Bay City at Begick Nursery & Garden Center, 5993 Westside Saginaw; GT Homestead, 109 Third; Herman Hiss & Co., 905 Washington; Martha's Market, 1023 N. Johnson; Morgan's Auto Repair, 800 Center; My Secret Garden, 600 Saginaw; Saginaw Street Salon, 811 Saginaw; Utermalen Furniture, 921 Johnson; Violet's Blue, 115 Fourth; Thumb National Bank, 708 Center; Petite Four Pastry in Essexville, Warmbier Farms in Auburn and Feige's Interiors in Saginaw. Day-of tickets may be purchased at the Pere Marquette Depot, 1000 Adams Info: (989) 893-1222. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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| A look at JFK assassination a year afterwards - NorthJersey.com Posted: 30 Nov 2009 07:22 AM PST Here's a look at what was published in Suburban Trends around turkey time over the years.
Nov. 22, 1964 – 'JFK: One year later'
It was a disappointment for this column around this time last year when we could not take a look at the local reaction to the beloved young president's assassination because all of the November 1963 copies of Suburban Trends are missing from our archives. But we can begin to make up for it by taking a look at what the local sentiment was exactly one year after JFK's assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. "JFK: One year later," was the title of Managing Editor Bob Juran's "After Hours" column in the Nov. 22, 1964 Suburban Trends. Juran opened his solemn column with a description of a typical reaction to JFK's assassination. Charles Bonney, a 20-year-old college student from Arizona, had spent the year following the assassination sculpting a 200-pound bronze bust of the late president. To raise funds for sculpting materials, Bonney posed for art classes, washed walls, and went into debt. After completing the bust, Bonney drove from Arizona to Boston in a beat-up pickup truck with an Army cot and small stove in the back. He hoped the Kennedy Memorial Library, which would not be dedicated until 1979, would be able to use the sculpture. "Not all of us can sculpt in bronze, nor would many of us drive an old truck 2,500 miles on a wild gamble. But John Fitzgerald Kennedy left all of us a legacy that is best expressed in the words from his inaugural address: 'Not what America can do for us, but what we can do for America,'" wrote Juran. A national poll taken a year after the assassination indicated that one in three Americans said they missed Kennedy more as time went by, and nearly half ranked him as one of our greatest presidents, according to Juran. (A 2009 C-SPAN poll ranks JFK as our sixth best president out of 44 – his highest ranking yet in a poll of such scope.) "What did Americans miss about JFK one year after his death?" asked Juran. According to the poll he cited, the most common answers were JFK's "dramatic personality, forcefulness as a speaker, strength of leadership, vigorous way of doing things, brilliance of mind and feeling for people." Juran said that clearly JFK was different than his presidential predecessors. The columnist asked what effect the assassination had on our nation, and said "the little things have to be examined" to answer that question. "Scarcely a town of any size does not now have a John F. Kennedy School (Wayne, for example), a Kennedy Boulevard, a Kennedy Airport, a Kennedy Bridge, a Kennedy Memorial. There seems to be a compulsion, almost of guilt, to attach the name Kennedy to something, a feeling that it is essential to prove that this particular town will never forget," wrote Juran. "The bridges and boulevards are hardly necessary. The name of Kennedy is engraved on the heart and mind, and will survive there far longer than on brass or bronze." The JFK Memorial was being built at the time the source column was written and would be completed in 1970 a few blocks from where the assassination took place, but even one year after the assassination, people kept spontaneously placing flowers at the exact spot where Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza, reported Juran, adding that JFK's resting place in Arlington National Cemetery also had to be redesigned in order to accommodate the thousands of visitors every day who sought to gaze upon the eternal flame. He also wrote of the donations pouring in from across the nation to fund the construction of the JFK Presidential Library, and the thousands of letters Americans, many of them children, wrote to the widow Jacqueline Kennedy. "All of this would seem to indicate that most Americans – including a great many who did not vote for him – feel they had their lives changed, if only a little, by John Fitzgerald Kennedy," wrote Juran. "He was human; he made mistakes. All of us do. He went on from those mistakes to do his job just a little better the next time." JFK's "style and dash" also assured him of a second term in office had he not been killed, opined Juran. "John Kennedy gave us something not easily defined – a sense of national purpose; a desire to make this a better America," concluded Juran. "That's what he would have wanted."
Nov. 29, 1964 – 'Oswald and Ruby'
A woman from Wayne wrote a letter to the editor titled "Oswald and Ruby" in which she complained about how the stupid "American" people had made assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's widow rich while Jack Ruby – who shot and killed Oswald on live television while Oswald was about to be transported to Dallas County Jail two days after the JFK assassination – had no money to mount a legal defense. "Darn it, I'm mad!" Mrs. Sylvia Ackerman began her letter. She admitted that "maybe" Ruby was wrong for killing Oswald, "but at this time last year how many of us felt like killing Oswald too?" Although she was eight months pregnant at the time, Ackerman said she wanted to kill Oswald too. Ackerman asked how we could be certain that Oswald's widow, Marina née Prusakova, didn't have a clue of what her husband had planned. "How can you live with someone and not get one clue? What harm would it have done to pick up the phone and call the police to give a warning when her husband left her that day?" asked Ackerman. Mocking the widow Oswald's status as a Russian immigrant, Ackerman wrote, "Me no speak English." "Hah, she's speaking it fine now at beauty parlors while spending 'American's' money!" argued Ackerman. "And Ruby? He's sitting in some cell somewhere, all forgotten. Well, darn it, I'll send what I can for his aid." On Sunday, Nov. 22, 1964, the one-year anniversary of JFK's assassination, Ackerman said she took a drive through town and felt like shaking the hands of few homeowners who displayed American flags – some at half-mast. "I cried that day, as I cried for a week last year," said Ackerman. "Sometimes, just sometimes, like when I saw the flags that day, I was proud to be an American. Where, oh where are all the rest of them?" Oswald's widow is still alive at age 68 and lives in Dallas. She remarried in 1965 and took on the last name Porter. Ruby died in prison in 1967 after successfully appealing for a new trial.
Nov. 25, 1984 – Butler's fountain pens
A history column by Emmett Bayles said that when we use a ballpoint pen, we should think about the writing implement's predecessor – the fountain pen. "Are you aware that Butler once had a fountain pen factory? Oh, yes it did! And it flourished for a number of years too, creating at least 15 jobs and as high as 25 jobs for area residents and producing countless thousands of excellent quality writing pens for the then-expanding market," reported Bayles. Apparently a big fan of scrivener history, Bayles opined that "the evolution of writing pens is one of the most fascinating phases of our human heritage." He launched into a long history of the evolution of writing from its beginnings as chiseled symbols in stone, to painted brushstrokes on scrolls and finally to ink on paper. His history meanders through many details about the history of pens and sometimes loses its focus about the local contribution toward the fountain pen industry, but since many of the November editions of Suburban Trends are missing and we have to fill up this space with something, we'll indulge Bayles' enthusiasm. The first true pens were quill pens fashioned from bird feathers, but writing with them, according to Bayles, "was an exacting and tedious process to produce an acceptable manuscript." Only with the introduction of the fountain pen "was the common man finally gifted with the means of transcribing his thoughts and ideas to paper with facility and dispatch," wrote Bayles. He mentions "steel-nibbed" dip pens as appearing after quills but before fountain pens. (Dip pens are still used today in calligraphy and illustration.) Despite the popularity of the dip pen, "it lacked the all-important self-contained ink reservoir of its successor the fountain pen – this innovative component which contributed to its popularity and success, and lastly and more importantly, its portability," according to Bayles. He noted that a "surprising and lesser known facet in the evolution of writing pens is the disproportionate time period between the invention of the various types of pens and their subsequent acceptance by the public." As an example, he said that while the first practical fountain pen was introduced in 1884 by Lewis Edson Waterman, it was not in common use until the 1920s. The ballpoint pen took even longer than the fountain pen to become popular after its initial introduction. Produced by Sirus Kochendar in 1896, it was not until post-WWII that the ballpoint really took off, and even then they were still expensive. (A Google search for Sirus Kochendar produces no results.) Bayles noted that for the price he paid for the highly-publicized Reynolds Ballpoint pen in 1946, 38 years later he could buy a whole hat full of expendable ballpoints. The fountain pen company in Butler began around the turn of the century, according to Bayles, when Herman F. Rickman was working at the Diamond Point Pen Company of New York and endeavored to start his own company. He took a Mr. Levy as a partner and together they began operations as the Commercial Pen and Manufacturing Company. The company was a success and thrived for "several years," according to Bayles, until Levy's sudden death. Rickman then reorganized and formed a new company in 1912, taking on Sidney Roff, one of his best employees, as a partner. Rickman and Roff relocated the company from New York City to Meadtown "where a factory of sorts was set up in a barn on Kakeout Road." "A shop was set up within the barn with rows of machines along the length of the building where they received power from a long overhead shaft," said Bayles. "This shaft extended outside the building to its power source – a one-cylinder gasoline engine." Bayles noted that the barn was long since torn down by 1984. Despite a low overhead and plentiful workforce, the company languished at its Meadtown location. Bayles owed this downturn to the barn's lack of "creature comforts," especially during bad weather. So in 1913, the factory moved to upper Main Street in Butler in the rear of the building in which John I. Marion ran an auto sales agency and repair facility. This building is located at 268 Main Street, and today is occupied by the Mullin Glass Company, as it was at the time of the source article's publication 25 years ago. Bayles reported that this Main Street location was not quite up to snuff either and so in 1915, Rickman moved the pen factory to Central Avenue in the borough. This factory was called the Butler Fountain Pen Company, and was the last of the company's moves. Although modern machinery can make thousands of identical pens, Bayles noted that such a level of manufacturing precision was not possible circa 1915, even to Jules Verne. Back in the day, pens were each crafted individually by machinists working with cutting tools to shape hard rubber tubes that were then embossed with a machine called a "chaser." The raw rubber, of course, was supplied by the American Hard Rubber Company in town. Bayles interviewed Rickman's son Fred in researching his article, and related some "very interesting and amusing tales about the old pen factory." As a youth, Fred Rickman knew the ins-and-outs of every aspect of fountain pen production, and set himself up with a small pen manufacturing operation when he attended Yale University to help pay his tuition and provide spending money. Fred's landlord got wind of the small enterprise and subsequently "chewed me out with a vengeance," recalled Fred. Fred didn't get thrown out, but his little company came to an end. Toward the end of the 1920s with the Great Depression imminent, the business climate began souring, but Fred's father tried new innovations to keep the pen company afloat. He brought in Edward Kent and later a Mr. Strucker as partners, but both the buyers' and sellers' markets were drying up. Finally in 1932, the pen company on Central Avenue was written off. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Skyworks to Present at Upcoming Investor Technology Conferences - Earthtimes Posted: 30 Nov 2009 04:59 AM PST WOBURN, Mass. - (Business Wire) Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, today announced that company executives will be presenting a company overview at two upcoming investor conferences:
Each presentation will be Web cast live and archived for replay for one week following the conference on the "Investor Relations" section of Skyworks' Web site at www.skyworksinc.com. About Skyworks Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks offers diverse standard and custom linear products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military and mobile handset applications. The Company's portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems, mixers/demodulators, phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and technical ceramics. Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., Skyworks is worldwide with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please visit Skyworks' Web site at: www.skyworksinc.com. Safe Harbor Statement This news release includes "forward-looking statements" intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include without limitation information relating to future results and expectations of Skyworks (including without limitation certain projections and business trends). Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "forecasts," "intends," "believes," "plans," "may," "will," or "continue," and similar expressions and variations or negatives of these words. All such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those projected, and may affect our future operating results, financial position and cash flows. These risks, uncertainties and other important factors include, but are not limited to: unprecedented uncertainty regarding global economic and financial market conditions; the susceptibility of the wireless semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by our, and our customers', products to economic downturns; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; losses or curtailments of purchases or payments from key customers, or the timing of customer inventory adjustments; changes in laws, regulations and/or policies in the United States that could adversely affect financial markets and our ability to raise capital; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing technological environment; economic, social and political conditions in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including security and health risks, possible disruptions in transportation networks and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; fluctuations in our manufacturing yields due to our complex and specialized manufacturing processes; delays or disruptions in production due to equipment maintenance, repairs and/or upgrades; our reliance on several key customers for a large percentage of our sales; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new markets; uncertainties of litigation, including potential disputes over intellectual property infringement and rights, as well as payments related to the licensing and/or sale of such rights; our ability to rapidly develop new products and avoid product obsolescence; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; lengthy product development cycles that impact the timing of new product introductions; unfavorable changes in product mix; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; shorter than expected product life cycles; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; and our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual property portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Note to Editors: Skyworks and Skyworks Solutions are trademarks or registered trademarks of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other brands and names listed are trademarks of their respective companies.
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