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Classified
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Law Offices
of Kenneth C. Greene
Mortgage
Rates Reach 8-Month High
America
Online Introduces AOL® 9.0 Optimized
UAEL
Annual Conference October 9-12
Leasing Association
Champion Rosanne Wilson
Rosanne Wilson ‘s
Breakfast of Leasing Champions Cartoon
IDS
InfoLease Integration Mgr. Now SOAP Compliant
EXCLUSIVE
for Leasing News-- Why Financial Institutions
Must
Face The New Realities of This New Name-Economy
Statistics
From the Field----ELAonline
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Classified Ads---Attorneys Specialize in Leasing
Listed are Attorneys and law firms who specialize in the
leasing industry, belong to a
leasing association, and are looking for clients to represent---free
ad
( free ad-must be a member of a leasing)
California - statewide: CA "ELA"
5-attorney creditors rights law firm, in biz 25 yrs +, specialize
all aspects of creditor representation. Primarily represent equipment
lessors & funders,plus collection and creditor rep. in bankruptcy.
Email:phemar@hemar.com
California - statewide: Encino, CA. "ELA"
24 Attorney AV-rated Lawfirm representing the Leasing Industry
for over 25 Years. We specialize in Lease-enforcement, collection and
representation in Bankruptcy Court. email:sjenkins@hemar-rousso.com
Connecticut, Southern New England: EVANS, FELDMAN
& BOYER, LLC Collections, litigation, documentation, portfolio sales
and financing, bankruptcy. We represent many of the national and local
leasing companies doing business in this state. Past chairman EAEL legal
committee. Competitive rates. email: rcfeldman@snet.net EAEL
Los Angeles -statewide: CA "ELA "
Practice limited to collections, bankruptcy and problem accounts
resolution. Decades of experience. 10-lawyer firm dedicated to serving
you. Call Ronald Cohn, Esq. (818)591-2121 or email. Email: rrcohn@aol.com
Los Angeles, Statewide: CA. "ELA" Aggressive creditors rights law firm specializing
in equipment leasing handling collection matters on a contingency, fixed
fee or hourly basis. email:RGarwacki@prodigy.net
NY Metro and National: Hackensack, NY
Attorney specializing in equipment lease matters for at least
10 years with a 50-State operating network of attorneys experienced
in leasing matters. Email:wuscher@uqur.com
"ELA"
National: http://www.leaselawyer.com/
Full staff of attorneys and legal assistants work with Group
Leader Barry S. Marks to ensure prompt, cost-effective responses to
client needs: Email:bsm@blik.com
National: Coston & Lichtman: Business attorneys
serving the lease-finance industry since 1980. Transactional, documentation,
corporate; workouts, litigation, bankruptcy. Chicago & Florida offices.
Jim Coston, CLP (Members: ELA/UAEL/MAEL)
email: Jcoston@costonlaw.com
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Mortgage Rates Reach 8-Month High
As lender state they cannot process the mortgages faster
enough, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages became the highest since the first
week of December, according to Freddie Mac.
The rate has gone up from 5.94% last week to 6.14%.
The week of December six, the average was 6.19 percent.
The demand for fixed rate far outweighed adjustable rate
mortgages and the lack of popularity was seen
in its small rise to 3.68 percent from 3.67 percent last
week. The more popular 15-year
mortgage went from 5.27 percent the previous week to 5.44 percent this
week, the highest since the December 13,2003, week ended when it was
5.27 percent.
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America Online Introduces AOL® 9.0 Optimized
America Online, the
largest web private network and interactive services
company, released
AOL 9.0
This is aimed at
broadband users, plus allows AOL to promote its
own private service. Full
story is available at:
http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?10191
( I run version 6 at the office, as the higher versions have
conflicts here,
although at home, I have version 8, and will move to version
9, if
it doesn’t crash as my experience when these programs come
out.
I have been an AOL users since 1988, I believe, and although
others
tell me to wait until all the bugs are out, I still need
to learn the
hard way. editor )
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UAEL Annual Conference October 9-12
The United Association of Equipment Leasing Annual Conference
and Exposition will be here before we know it! By now you should have received the conference
brochure in the mail. If not
please feel free to contact the UAEL office or visit www.uael.org where
you can view the brochure, register for the conference, and set-up an
appointment with exhibitors.
We look forward to seeing you in Portland, Oregon October
9-12, 2003!
Jessica Roell
UAEL
78120 Calle Estado, Suite 201
La Quinta, Ca 92253
( I bet Jim Merrilees will be there as well as George Davis
and Jim Harris.)
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Economic Rebound Gains Speed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10816-2003Jul31.html
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Leasing Association Champion Rosanne Wilson
“Membership is extremely important because the Associations
offer on-going education that is so necessary to "legitimize"
ourselves in this industry. We are basically "self-policing" and WE weed out the bad
ones ourselves. We've been fortunate
not to end up being regulated like Mortgage companies, Real Estate companies,
Insurance companies, etc.
“We don't need the Feds poking their noses into regulating
the lease industry if we all do our part to play by the rules. I belong
to the United Association of Equipment Leasing and National Association
of Equipment Leasing Brokers and the dues are okay by me for what you
get out of it. I am a CLP (Certified Leasing Professional )
today because of the encouragement I received by UAEL to be the best
I could be.
“You get what you
pay for, and so far I have had a great return on my investment!
“You can quote this.
Thanks Kit for being part of my morning routine.
It's like coffee in the morning.
I can't live without the newsletter either.”
Rosanne Wilson, President
1st Independent Leasing,
Inc.
"Equipment Leasing
Specialists"
(800) 926-0851
(Thank you very much. To
me, this woman really has it together. I hope we hear from others, all
viewpoints on why you should, or should not, belong to an equipment
leasing association. And perhaps if you are a member, why you joined
the association you belong to. Editor)
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#### Press Release #################################################
IDS InfoLease Integration Manager Software Now SOAP Compliant
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., USA,
– International Decision Systems Inc. (IDS) announced that the Integration Manager module for InfoLease
is now Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) compliant.
InfoLease is the world’s premier lease portfolio and asset
management system. SOAP compliance makes Integration Manager, a Web-based
direct data access module introduced in April, easy to use for enterprise
developers.
“Our new SOAP-compliant Integration Manager module is a significant
advancement for InfoLease customers,” says Howard Dunlavy, Chief Architect
for IDS. “As part of our SOAP compliance efforts, we provide a Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) definition that can be imported into most
standard development tools to automatically create the interface to
InfoLease. The result is that
IT developers can use their own tools to easily integrate InfoLease
with their existing applications.”
The ability to work with virtually any enterprise application
makes InfoLease the most user-friendly and accessible technology of
its kind, saving high-end leasing companies time and money. Integration
Manager uses XML protocols and message oriented middleware to provide
automated data sharing between enterprise applications and InfoLease,
sharing real-time information about the basics of customer name and
address, as well as complexities of payment history.
For more information about SOAP-compliant Integration Manager,
or to arrange for a demonstration, call IDS Marketing Director Deb Marshall
at 612-851-3438 or visit www.idsgrp.com.
About International Decision Systems
International Decision Systems (IDS) is the global leader
in developing lease/loan accounting and portfolio management software
and services. With offices in the United Kingdom; Minneapolis, MN; Sydney,
Australia and Singapore, IDS offers the largest and most experienced
global consulting, implementation and technical support teams in the
leasing industry.
InfoLease, the world’s premier lease/loan portfolio and asset
management system, comprises the foundation of IDS’ product line. With
a web-enabled front-end and more than 70 custom add-on solutions, InfoLease
is the most adaptable and scalable lease/loan technology available in
today’s marketplace.
IDS’ parent company, IDS Group plc, is publicly traded on
the London Stock Exchange (IDGL). For additional information about International
Decision Systems and IDS Group plc, visit www.idsgrp.com <http://www.idsgrp.com/>
.
IDS and InfoLease are registered trademarks of International
Decision Systems
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Exclusive for Leasing News
Why Financial Institutions Must Face The New Realities Of
This New Name-Economy
by Naseem Javed
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Naseem Javed, author
of” Naming for Power, “founded ABC Namebank,
25 years ago,
www.abcnamebank.com speaker on global circuit and
expert on corporate
image & name identities.
Only yesterday, the
image of a bank was of a Roman arch, huge columns, and people working
behind bars.
Today, the banks
and financial institutions are in your pockets, humming in palm-pilots,
PDAs, laptops, quietly completing
complex transactions, 24/7. Banks which all over the world discovered
globalization and e-commerce
way before these words came into our daily lingo, are not only caught
in a highly competitive marketplace but also are stuck with a lot of
old-fashioned names and ancient iconography.
As the tidal wave
of this net-savvy culture becomes a global phenomena, the marketers of these financial services are faced with critical
issues of branding and naming. In the past, monolithically designed corner bank buildings displayed their
hard assets. Overly dramatic, long and monopolistic names engraved on the buildings provided the assurance
to the early settlers. E.g., The First Chartered Bank of the First Dominion, or The Amalgamated of the De-Amalgamated
Union Bank of Western Commerce, etc&
Perhaps the society
needed such consolations from a handful of such name identities.
Today, while feeding
pigeons in the Central Park you do your banking online with INGs
or the MBANXs alike. Now, there is a thick
forest of strange names out there, and thousands of online identities
are clashing with each other, causing
confusion among names
and services.
How Cyber-Branding
created this new Name-Economy
Today, it’s all about
business names and their high visibility on global e-commerce,
instant accessibility on the net, quick search-ability on the
web, distinct memorability of names by overly strained populace, easy typability
by tired fingers, and pleasant vocalization of such names and brand experiences by the customers
all over the world.
This new name-economy
is now the new driver of commerce and it is the only boost to the global
engine of cyber-branding. At this second, business names are
skating at bullet speed on this flat new earth, without borders, passports or time
zones. No delays, no barriers, no major costs, just access. The name identity of a business will
be the only measure on how a name works in a
micro-multi-national-formation in a maze of countries and cultures.
Under the new rules, a name works
like a KEY, being the only thing that can unlock the doors to this net-kingdom.
The competitive fog
is so thick, that without this key, a name identity is simply doomed.
The old-fashioned
gigantic logos, splashing colors and stripes have nothing to do with
this access. This is all about
the structure of name and its impact and not about its type fonts or
shape of logos. As sixties were for burning flags
and bras, perhaps now is the time to burn most of the old marketing and branding books. Good names have
direct impact on corporate persona and positively influence customers, shareholders, media and
public opinion at large. Its time to explore the power of names, new laws of marketing and how to play
on this new one flat earth.
It is a false rumor
that all good names have been taken .
Corporations believed
that all the star-quality names were taken, and had no choice but to
accept a silly, weird name. Nonsense.
The same big ad-agencies, which delivered world-class logos and commercials
somehow seriously, failed in naming. A false myth was created
to cover the lack of skills, and serious
naming was farmed
out to skateboarding freelancers for a buck-a-name service. $500
got you 500 names.
Where else would
names like “Oinga or Boinga’ come from? What ever happened to strange
names like
PurpleFrog or PinkRhino?
Banking executives
all over the world are faced with new challenges, because E-commerce
visibility demands powerful URLs
and DotComs. Dotnets, dotinfos,
dotbizes are all easily forgotten and marketing suffers. Now, DotCom has become the only gold standard. Today, naming of a banking
product is not a simple creative exercise, rather a serious discipline where Rules of Naming and Laws of Corporate
Nomenclatures must be applied.
There is a big difference
between a general branding exercise and a specialized naming expertise.
You can have a star quality and globally effective name with
an identical
Dot.com within 48
hours. It is the easiest thing to do under the laws.
Banks of North America
and most money institutions around the world have mainly three types
of names.
1- Long geographic
names; that seriously hurt national and international marketing. These
same long names get initialized
cause massive confusion with strange companies worldwide and are almost
impossible to find on the Net.
2- Words on a string;
names of things combined either accidentally due to M&A or other
strange reasons, sometimes making
no connections at all.
3- Initials; this
come about because the customers refuse to call out the long names.
Diagnostically, solutions
are simple and here are three steps:
First, determine
whether your names are Healthy, Injured or on a Life Support. It makes
no difference, whether these names
are of products, services, division or the main corporate names. To
a customer a name is a name, no matter
how it is offered. Healthy names are easy, unique and one of
a kind with global protection and a dotcom
Like CitiBank, SunTrust, etc& Injured names are long confusing
or initialized, like UCBH, CIBC, BB&T or RBCFG.
While, Life Support
names are tangled into serious trademark or obvious name confusion problems.
Simple dictionary words also
cause a lot of confusion. There are too many Firsts, Uniteds, or Nationals
in just about every country and
there are too many compass directions, East, West, North, and South
and so on.
Online or completely
virtual banks are also struggling for respectable and trustworthy
naming identities and most important short and sweet URLs&the
market is swamped with promotions, players like Everbank, Pc-banker,
ING-direct, Earthstar, Giant-bank, and
thousands others all chasing clicks and hits with a better URL, around
the globe.
Second, quick analysis
and the forward steps, after this proper check up, is to get a mandate
to formally audit and analyze
the name so management can take a specific direction to modify them.
These names can be for cards,
special accounts
or for various products or services. Most financial organizations have
dozens of different names and
many hundreds of domain names clashing each other all over the continents.
Its always better to have few
strong and protected
names as champions than hundreds of injured players. Fast treatments
and more forward steps, it is
very easy, to reevaluate, reposition and rebuild a Name-Identity of
any product or a service, provided it is
done using the Laws of Naming.
Third, you may already
be over funded. Great names will give you great results, with much less
dollars. Weaker names will cost
you ten times while bleeding your budgets and exhausting major resources
in the process. Names on life
support will constantly
need oxygen. Theres no point in spending millions on weak names and
risk losing the race.
You may already be
over funded. Just fix the KEY problem and open the gates.
Banking is not the only industry facing this
impact of names its all over the globe and reaching the farthest corners.
The old ideas of
building brands using expansive billboards and banners are all now replaced
by fluid web pages, which are
being changed as you read along. URLs and domain names are now controlling
access to the entire corporations.
In conclusion, there
are major naming issues that executives must tackle in order to cope
with the new challenges of this
new name-economy .
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Thinking of doing business in Iraq? The unemployment rate
is 38 percent in a population of 23 million, and last year’s GDP was
$25 billion in 2002, according to estimates made by a Treasury team
economist, one fifth of what it was in 1979. The GDP is expected to
fall to about $15 billion this year. While Iraq could soon be generating
$18 billion in annual oil revenues, the country also could be burdened
with $380 billion in debt and war reparation bills. (Source: Fortune
magazine, July 7, 2003)
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index fell 6.9
points in July, which was far worse than expected. The consensus estimate
had called for a slight increase. Expectations of future economic conditions
fell 10 points, while consumers’ assessment of current economic conditions
fell 2.3 points. (Source: Wachovia Securities, July 29, 2003)
Of 1,500 business to business online exchanges started, only
43 percent remain today, according to a Winter 2003 edition of the California
Management Review. Most buyers placed to high a premium on long-term
relationships with vendors to change their purchasing procedure. The
exception is in the electronic components industry, where exchanges
have survived at a rate of 67 percent. (Source: Inc. magazine, pre-dated
August 2003)
The American Banking Association reports identify fraud losses
to its members of around $1 billion per year and credit card companies
absorb around $1.5 billion per year in such fraud losses. (Source: Inc.
magazine, pre-dated August 2003)
A CEO survey by Goldman Sachs this April found a strong preference
among CEOs for investments in existing assets. According to the Business
Roundtable in an April poll, 82 percent of CEOs in its poll did not
anticipate increases in capital spending. (Source: Inc. magazine, pre-dated
August 2003)
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French vintages less likely to be poured into American
glasses
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2003-07-31-frenchwine_x.htm
This Day in American History
1619-First black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h289.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p263.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1i2991.html
http://www.historian.org/local/jamstwnva.htm
1764-Birthday
of Anne Willing Bingham conducted social salons for leaders of the newly
born United States such as Jefferson, Washington, etc., and had a lot
to say to them. AWB is one of the largely unrecognized cadre of early
American women who along with Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, and
others attempted to gain human rights for women from the framers of
the U.S. Constitution.
She reported was used as the model for “ liberty” on US coins.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/reidgold/draped_busts/debate.html
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/reidgold/draped_busts/pics.html
http://www.ssha.org/abstract2003/abs87.html
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl69.htm
1776- the first Jew to die in the American Revolution,
Francis Salvador, was killed in a skirmish with the British loyalists.
He was also the first Jew selected to office in colonial America.
He was voted a member of the South Carolina Provincial Congress
in January, 1775. He was known as the Southern Paul Revere for having
warned of the approach of the British fleet at Charleston, SC. On August
1, 1776, while he was leading the militia under the command
of Major Andrew Wilinson, his group was ambushed by Native Americans
and loyalists near Esseneka (Seneca). Salvador was shot through the
body and the left leg and was scalped by a group of Cherokees who sided
with the British.
http://www.fau.edu/library/brody3.htm
1779-Birthday of Francis Scott
Key ( and if you don’t know who he was, turn
in your citizenship papers).
American attorney, social worker, poet and author of the US national
anthem. Key was on shipboard off Baltimore during the British bombardment
of Fort McHenery on the nights of September 13-14, 1814. Thrilled to see the American flag still flying
over the fort at daybreak, Key wrote the poem “ The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Born at Frederick County, MD., he died at Baltimore, MD, January 11,
1842. http://www.marylandtheseventhstate.com/article1014.html
1790- the first census revealed
that there were 3,939,326 citizens in the 16 states and the Ohio Territory.
Virginia, with 747,610, was the most populous state; Rhode Island, with
68,825, the least. New York City
had a population of 33,131, Philadelphia had a population of 28,522,
and Boston had a population of 18,320. The US has taken a census every
10 years since 1790.
1791- Virginia planter Robert Carter
Ill confounded his family and friends by filing a deed of emancipation
for his 500 slaves. One of the wealthiest men in the state, Carter owned
60,000 acres over IS plantations. The deed included the following words:
“I have for some time past been convinced that to retain them in Slavery
is contrary to the true principles of Religion and Justice and therefore
it is my duty to manumit them.” The document established a schedule
by which 15 slaves would be freed each Jan 1, over a 21-year period,
plus slave children would be freed at age 18 for females and 21 for
males. It is believed this was the largest act of emancipation in US
history and predated the Emancipation Proclamation by 70 years.
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/hb_rc.htm
1794- Whiskey Rebellion
begins. http://www.whiskeyrebellion.org/rebell.HTM
1812- A rare tornado
hits Westchester County, NY.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nylnphs/HH/2.htm
1818-Birthday of Maria Mitchell. An interest in her father’s hobby and an ability for mathematics
resulted in Maria Mitchell’s becoming the first female professional
astronomer. In 1847, while assisting
her father in a survey of the sky for the US Coast Guard, Mitchell discovered
a new comet and determined its orbit. She received many honors because
of this, including being elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences---its first woman. Mitchell
joined the staff at Vassar Female College in 1865---the first US female
profession of astronomy—and in 1873 was a cofounder of the Association
for the advancement of Women. Born at Nantucket, MA.
Mitchell died June 28, 1889, at Lynn, MA. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_mit
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981010.html chell_maria.htm http://209.68.19.123/
http://ne.essortment.com/biographyofmar_rhff.htm
http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?I
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981010.html D=94
1838-Abolition of slavery in Jamaica.
Spanish settlers introduced the slave trade into Jamaica in 1509
and sugar cane in 1640. Slavery continued until this day when it was
abolished by the British. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lslavery33.htm
http://www.greatvac.com/about.asp
1861-for trivia fans, John Tyler
of Virginia, president of the United States from 1841 to 1845, became
a delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. He was elected a member of the House of Representatives
of the permanent Confederate Congress on November 7, 1861, but died
on January 18, 1862, before taking his seat. he is the only former president to serve as an official of an “enemy
government.” http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jt10.html
http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=10
1873- the first cable car ran at
5am on Clay Street Hill , San Francisco, CA,
while the City slept. It
was ready to run its trails, and pictures were allowed
to be taken on August 2. Revenue service
did not take place until September 1. The ride cost five cents. This was the first cable car put into service
anywhere in the world. It was
invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie, who obtained a patent on January
17, 1871, on an “endless-wire rope way.” Today only three lines of the
original lines operate.
http://www.americahurrah.com/Postcards/SFCC1.html
http://www.cablecarmuseum.com/Histcars/Histcars.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hallidie.html
http://www.cablecarmuseum.com/8c/8c.htm
http://www.cablecarmuseum.com/Tour/
http://www.americahurrah.com/Postcards/SFCC1.html
1876- Colorado admitted to the
Union as the 38th state.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug01.html
http://www.sfcablecar.com/hist1.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/3518/html/ccwho.html
1903
–Birthday of Calamity Jane, who’s
real name was Martha Jane Cannary Burk, born Princeton, Missouri. Between
legend and the usual misrepresentations, the true life of this frontier
woman is shrouded. She usually
dressed as a man, yet historians claim she was a prostitute. She claimed
to have scouted for the army, including for Gen. George Custer while
others say that was impossible. She
was part of a geological expedition to the Black Hills and stayed after
gold was discovered. History
says she also was a "companion" of Wild Bill Hickok who died
27 years and one days before she did, and is buried next to him, not
his wife. She lived her last years in poverty. How she earned her living appears
to be a mystery as many historians claim that she was not a stage driver,
a scout, nor anything else like that. She was in El Paso for a time
where she married a Clinton Burke who soon deserted her. She was believed
to have been a mail carrier in Deadwood, but her exact ways of earning
a living are just not known. In reality, most of what we think we know
of Calamity Jane is the product of dime novels of the era that portrayed
her as beautiful and daring as well as Hollywood movies.
http://www139.pair.com/read/Marthy_Cannary_Burk/Life_and_
Adventures_of_Calamity_Jane/Life_And_
Adventures_Of_Calamity_Jane_p1.html irls.com/dream/cowgals/calamity.htm
1916-Hawaii Volcanoes National
Park Established. Area of Hawaii Island, including active volcanoes Kilauea
and Manua Loa, were established as Hawaii National Park in 1916.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/destinations/Hawaii_Volcanoes_National_Park/
1933- California introduces sales
tax due to the devastating depression. http://www.salestaxcpa.com/id50.htm
1939-Glenn Miller Band records
“ In the Mood,” ( Bluebird 104150 Non-royalty contract gives him only
$175.
1941---Willy’s introduces the “jeep.”
General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America could not have won World
War II without it. http://jeepin.com/history.shtml
1941-Birthday of Ronald H. Brown, born Washington,
DC., grew up in Harlem and studied at Middlebury College in Vermont.
After graduating from St. John’s University law school, Brown served
as chief council for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He went on to become
the first African-American partner at the law firm of Patton Boggs &
Blow, the first African-American leader of the Democratic National Committee
and later served as the US Secretary of Commerce during the Clinton
administration. Brown died in a plane crash at Dubrovnik, Croatia, Apr
3,1996, while on government business.
Some say the death was not an accident.
1941- Yankee Lefty Gomez breaks the major league mark
for walks in a shutout by issuing 11 walks in a 9-0 victory over the
Browns.
1942- Birthday of Jerry
Garcia, lead guitarist and driving force behind the Grateful Dead, was
born in San Francisco. The Dead were the only psychedelic band of the
1960's to survive into the '90s. They had been better known for their
4 - 5 hour concerts than for their recordings, until 1987's "In
the Dark." It was the Grateful Dead's biggest seller, and a single
from it, "Touch of Grey," became their first top-ten hit.
Garcia died of a heart attack on August 9th, 1995, at a residential
treatment center in Forest Knolls, California. He had reportedly gone
there to battle his heroin addiction.
1944-Warsaw Uprising. Having received radio reports from Moscow promising
aid from the red Army, the Polish Home army rose up against the Nazi
oppressors. At 5pm, thousands of windows were thrown open and Polish
patriots, 40,000 strong, began shooting at German soldiers in the streets.
The Germans responded by throwing eight divisions into the battle. Despite
appeals from the
London-based Polish government-in
exile, no assistance was forthcoming from the Allies, and after two
months of horrific fighting the rebellion was quashed.
1944- Anne Frank makes the last
entry into her diary. To escape deportation to concentration camps,
the Jewish family of Otto Frank hid for two years in the warehouse of
his food products business at Amsterdam. Gentile friends smuggled in
food and other supplies during their confinement. Thirteen-year-old
Anne Frank, who kept a journal during the time of their hiding, penned
her last entry in the diary Aug 1,1944: ‘[I] keep on trying to find
away of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if .
. . there weren’t any other people living in the world.” Three days
later (Aug 4,1944) Grune Polizel raided the ‘Secret Annex” where the
Frank family was hidden. Anne and her sister were sent to Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp where Anne died at age 15, two months before the
liberation of Holland. Young Anne’s diary, later found in the family’s
hiding place, has been translated into 30 languages and has become a
symbol of the indomitable strength of the human spirit.
1944---Top
Hits
Amor - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan
1951-Neal Hefti Band records his
“Coral Reef.” Great trumpet player,
greater arranger for Basie, Sinatra, and many others. http://www.spaceagepop.com/hefti.htm
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hefti,+Neal
1952---Top
Hits
I’m Yours - Don Cornell
Delicado - Percy Faith
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart - Vera Lynn
Are You Teasing Me - Carl Smith
1953-Birthday of guitarist Robert
Cray, Columbus, GA
1957-
Dodger first baseman Gil Hodges hits his 13th career grand slam and
the last grand slam in Brooklyn Dodger history. The bases-loaded shot
establishes a new National League record.
1960- Chubby Checker's recording of "The Twist" was released
by Cameo-Parkway Records. Checker wasn't the originator of the song
that spawned the '60s greatest dance craze. That honor belonged to Hank
Ballard, who wrote and recorded the tune as the "B" side of
his 1958 hit "Teardrops on My Letter." But it was Chubby Checker
who rode "The Twist" to stardom. His recording went to number
one on the Billboard pop chart twice - in 1960 and again in 1962.
http://www.send4fun.com/twist.htm
http://www.chubbychecker.com/
1960- 18 year-old singer Aretha
Franklin made her first secular recordings for producer John Hammond
at Columbia Records. She had recorded some gospel songs at her father's
church in Detroit four years earlier.
http://www.aretha-franklin.com/bio.htm
http://www.artistdirect.com/showcase//urban/arethafranklin.html
1960---Top
Hits
I’m Sorry - Brenda Lee
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Brian Hyland
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
1963-Arthur Ashe, first Black male
to win Wimbledon, becomes first Black person named to the US Davis Cup
team.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/features/1997/arthurashe/biography.html
1968---Top
Hits
Grazing in the Grass - Hugh Masekela
Stoned Soul Picnic - The 5th Dimension
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny
1971-The two Concerts for Bangladesh,
organized by George Harrison, were held at Madison Square Garden in
New York. Among the other performers were Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Leon
Russell and Ringo Starr. A three-record set, which won a Grammy Award,
and a documentary film were made of the event. The concerts, album and
film raised nearly $11 million US for the impoverished people of the
newly-independent nation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. But
much of the money was impounded by the US Internal Revenue Service during
a nine-year audit of the Beatles' Apple Corps Limited. $2 million was
sent to UNICEF before the audit began, but it wasn't until 1981 that
a check for the remainder was issued.
1976---Top
Hits
Kiss and Say Goodbye - Manhattans
Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
Teddy Bear - Red Sovine
1977-Willie McCovey of the San
Francisco Giants hit the 18th and last grand slam of his
career. His total still stands
as the National League record. Lou
Gehrig holds the major league record with 23.
http://www.eteamz.com/hallfame/files/AA06.txt
http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/McCovey_Willie.stm
1977-
Giant Willie McCovey establishes a National League record by hitting
his 18th career grand slam.
1977- "Elvis - What Happened,"
an expose by two of Presley's former bodyguards, was published. It sat
in bookstores almost unnoticed until Presley's death two weeks later.
Then it sold more than three-million copies.
It is not
available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, nor other on line
used book
stores at this time. Try
the library in your neighborhood, and order by
telephone or internet for a copy via the library system (
you must have a library card and internet pin number---it is free ).
1979- Following her
graduation from rabbinical college in Philadelphia, Linda Joy Holtzman
was appointed spiritual leader of the Conservative Beth Israel congregation
in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, making her the first female rabbi to head
a Jewish congregation in America.
1981-The all music-video channel,
MTV, debuted. VHq, another music
channel owned by MTV Networks that is aimed at older pop music fans,
premiered in 1985. 1982- Greg Louganis, US
becomes first diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives.
1982- Hank Aaron, the holder of
the career home run record (755) and RBI record (2,297); Frank Robinson,
the first player to win the MVP in both leagues and the first black
manager in the majors; Travis Jackson, an outstanding offensive and
defensive shortstop for the Giants during 1920's, and former commissioner
Happy Chandler, who provided leadership in breaking baseball's color
line are inducted in the Hall of Fame
1984---Top
Hits
When Doves Cry - Prince
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
State of Shock - Jacksons
Angel in Disguise - Earl Thomas Conley
1989--
Gwendolyn King, became the first American of black African descent to
head the Social Security Commission.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/king.html
1998
-Using the old Negro League teams represented in their respective cities,
the Cardinal-Brave game Saturday featured throwback uniforms of the
1928 St. Louis Stars and the 1940 Atlanta Black Crackers.
1990-The creation of what would
become the world Wide Web was suggested this month in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee
and Robert Caliiau at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
at Switzerland. By October, they
had designed a prototype Web browser. They also introduced HTML ( Hypertex
Markup Language ) and the URL ( Universal Resource Locator). Mosaic, the first graphical Web browser, was designed by Marc Andesseen
and released in 1993
( he was one of the founders of Netscape )---until that time
there was “Archie”
and Gopher. ) by early 1993,
there were 50 Web servers worldwide.
1990-IBM
sold off its typewriter and keyboard businesses on this day in 1990.
The move signaled IBM's increasing focus on the personal computer market.
IBM also discontinued production of several of its PS/2 systems due
to poor sales.
1990-
Ashton Tate released a new version of its software package, dBase IV.
Ashton Tate had dominated the database market in the 1980s but began
to slide in the 1990s. At the height of the company's success in the
mid-1980s, founder George Tate died of a heart attack at his desk.
1993-African-American Ronald H
Brown, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appointed
head of the Department of Commerce by President-elect Bill Clinton.
1994-, Michael Jackson and Lisa
Marie Presley confirmed that they had been married by a judge in the
Dominican Republic on May 26th. Publicists for the bride and groom had
been denying the marriage took place since word of it leaked out on
July 10th.
1996 - Olympic wrap-up: Michael Johnson left his fellow runners in the dust
to win gold in the 200 meters in a record 19.32 seconds. He was the
first male Olympian to complete the 200/400-meter Olympic double. And
French sprinter Marie-Jose Perec became only the second woman in history
to win a gold medal in both the 200-meter and the 400-meter runs at
the same Olympics. Perec joined American Valerie Brisco-Hooks, who won
both the 200 and 400 races in 1984 in Los Angeles. The U.S. women’s
soccer team claimed the gold medal and capped the first women’s soccer
competition at the Olympics, beating China 2-1. And last, but certainly
not least, Dan O’Brien won the gold in the decathlon, four years after
failing to make the U.S. Olympic team.
2001
-For the 33rd time in the team's history, the Tigers turn a triple play
as Mariner Mark McLemore lines out to second baseman Damion Easley,
who throws to shortstop Deivi Cruz to double up Tom Lampkin. Cruz then
relays the ball to first baseman Shane Halter catching Ichiro Suzuki
off first to complete Detroit's first triple killing since July 3, 1992,
when the victim was also Seattle.
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