Director, Vendor Relationship Development: Office Equipment Group. Accountable for originating/ maintaining volume from large Office Equipment dealers. Preferred locations - SW and Mid-Atlantic. Full descrip/to Apply, Click here GreatAmerica is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States.

www.greatamerica.com

Monday, August 29, 2005

Headlines---

Correction-- Popular Leasing/California
    Classified ads---Asset Management
        find work after 50
            Welcome New Readers
                New Format
TechLease Joins "Story Credit" List
    TCF Equipment Joins the "Funder Only" List
        Classified Ads--Help Wanted
            MarCap Hires Idzerda VPSales-Imaging
Cohen/Terry Indirect Fin. Group USBancorp
    News Briefs---
        You May Have Missed
            "Gimme that Wine"
Today's Top Event in History
    This Day in American History
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Correction: Popular Leasing/California

In Thursday's story, " Lessee Sues Popular Leasing First, Gets Jurisdiction," Gregg Rapoport, the attorney involved requested that we clear up information that was told to us by his client, and there was no objection to using the company name.

1. Gregg Rapoport, the attorney for Organic By Nature suggested his client hire defense counsel in Missouri and then bring the suit to California , while stopping all payments to Popular.

2. Suing in California was desirable, among other things, as it provided Organic By Nature with the ability to recover its attorney's fees if it won.

3. Popular lost its motion to dismiss in California not because the California NorVergence lessee's had sued first (it did not) but because the floating venue clause was ruled unenforceable under California law (under Hunt v. Superior Court (2000) 81 CA4th 901). The ruling is attached.

4. Popular dismissed its Missouri action and brought it as a cross-complaint in the California action.

5. This same pattern occurred in five other California cases in California. Attorneys for the customers in all six cases (not eight) joined together in a motion to have the cases brought before one judge. The motion was granted in June (see attached) and a single consolidated California case was established in Orange County Superior Court (see attached).

6. There is a procedure to assign future plaintiffs/cases against Popular to be part of the consolidated case, so that all of the cases may be litigated efficiently.

Gregg A. Rapoport
Of Counsel to LEE & ROSENBERGER, a Prof. Corp.
135 West Green St., Suite 100
Pasadena, CA 91105
Tel: (626) 359-8080
Direct No. and voicemail: (626) 585-0155
Fax: (626) 585-0355
gar@garlaw.us

http://leasingnews.org/PDF/OrganicRuling.pdf

http://leasingnews.org/PDF/CoordinatingOrder.pdf

http://leasingnews.org/PDF/TransferOrder.pdf

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Classified ads---Asset Management

Austin, TX .
20+ years exper. lease/finance. P & L responsibility, strong credit & collection management, re-marketing& accounting. Computers, construction, auto & transportation. Both commercial/ consumer portfolios.
Email: kmalone@austin.rr.com

Bloomfield Township, MI.
15+ yrs experience asset management and credit analyst. Leadership and training skills. Audited returns, max residual, lease end and resale negotiator.
E-mail: cmcozzolino@msn.com

Chicago, IL .
MBA, 15+ years exp. Long history of success in maximizing residual position through outstanding negotiation skills & lease contract management. Third party re-marketing, forecasting etc...
email: jgambla@aol.com

Hartford, CT.
7yrs exp structuring US Leveraged & Single Investor leases w/ pre-paid deferred rents, 467 loans & early buyouts. Engineer rv guarantees, synthetic leases, economic capital models & securitizations.
E-mail: lease_structuring@yahoo.com

Princeton, NJ.
Asset management/credit/collection
20+ years experience in equipment financing.Last five years in Asset Management including remarketing, end of lease negotiations, equipment and market evaluations
E-mail: bgaffrey@earthlink.net

Wilton, CT.
18 years exp. in IT and High Tech leasing industry. Residual forecasting, workouts, off-lease sales, mid-term restructures, auctions, all aspects of remarketing and equipment management.
Email: charrer@hotmail.com

For a full listing of all "job wanted" ads, please go to:

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To place a free "job wanted" ad, please go to:

http://216.66.242.252/AL/LeasingNews/PostingForm.asp)

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It's harder to find work after 50, but not impossible

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/workplace/story/
125B0E89F95D2AD18625706A00324A40?OpenDocument

Other e-Mail Posting Sites:

www.adams-inc.com
www.affinitysearch.com
www.bajobs.com
www.careerbank.com
www.careerpath.com
www.craigslist.org (available in many cities now, use scroll feature)
www.elaonline.com
www.goldenparachute.com
www.Headhunter.net
www.hotjobs.com
www.jobs.net
www.JobSpin.com
www.jobsinthemoney.com
www.lessors.com
www.MarketingJobs.com
www.monitordaily.com
www.monster.com
www.Postonce.com
www.RecruiterConnection.com
www.resumeblaster.com
www.vetjobs.com
www.worktree.com

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Welcome New Readers

While most who read Leasing News go to the web site first, many still join our mailing list. Our goal is to print daily from Monday to Friday, but most often it is only three or four times a week, so when you are on the mailing list, you are informed that the new edition is available.

We go to press when we think there is enough equipment leasing news to do so.

Readers on our mailing list also get notices of major events from time to time.

We welcome the new readers and hope you enjoy and find informative Leasing News.

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New Format

We started out five years ago in text format, then went to HTML with classified ads and other features. We didn't plan this. Thus we thought it was time to come up with a new "masthead" to match our current look.

The new design was created by Maria Martinez-Wong, who takes care of many of the graphics and all of the advertising.

Thank you, Maria, well done.

editor

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"Just a short note to thank you for including Barrett on your Story Credit List. I have been pleasantly surprised by the number of phone calls I have received."

Best regards,

Barry
Barry P. Korn, CFA
President
Barrett Capital Group
Office: 914.632.4200
Fax: 914.632.8844
Cell: 914.954.1900
Email: Barrett@BarrettCapital.com

( Thank you. We are getting excellent feed back on this new list, as it seems to be "working." The latest to join is TechLease:

To view the entire list, please go here:

http://www.leasingnews.org/Story_Credit/Story_Credit.htm

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TCF Equipment Joins the "Funder Only" List

Funder's Only - Update

A -Accepts Broker Business | B -Requires Broker be Licensed | C -Sub-Broker Program
| D -"Private label Program" | E - Also "in house" salesmen

(E) TFC Equipment Finance is a wholly owned subsidiary of TCF National Bank (TCF). TCF is a subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation.
TCF Financial Corporation (TCF) is a $12 billion national financial services holding company. TCF trades on the NYSE under the symbol TCB.

To view the complete list, please click here.

While others may charge to be on a list, we do not, but we do pre-qualify those who want to join it. To see the list to date, please go to:

http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Funders_Only.htm

Back Office Companies

(a) Barrett offers proactive lease management/administration of commercial/consumer vehicles and lease/finance portfolios, covering insurance, titles, registrations, sales/property taxes, tickets, collections, repossessions, vehicle transportation and dispositions. Since 1975.

(b) Group 88 is a business partner of McCue Systems Inc, maker of LeasePak. With over 20 years supporting major firms in the leasing industry, Group 88 provides data conversions, system implementations, custom software development and outsourced system support.

(c) JDR Solutions, LLC., based in Indianapolis, Indiana provides back office lease/loan administration services and hosting of related accounting and portfolio management software.

Under a preferred partnership arrangement with International Decision Systems (IDS), JDR Solutions offers its "Managed Service" solutions utilizing the robust capabilities od Infolease and related software applications. JDR will soon offer IDS's next generation software, Profinia, in a hosted environment.

For more information about JDR Solutions, visit www.jdrsol.com or call:

Paul Henkel, Director of Marketing
317-251-5352 X7201
paul.henkel@jdrsol.com

(d) We also offer specialized programs for banks which want to start their own leasing operations and for vendors who want to find financing or act as lessor for their customers. We also act as a broker for end users looking for commercial equipment financing.

Sincerely,
Sharon Litwin
Vice President
Phoenix Leasing Portfolio Services, Inc.
2401 Kerner Boulevard
San Rafael, CA. 94901
(800) 227-2626 ext. 4637
slitwin@phxa.com

(e) ECS Financial Services, Inc. is one of only a few CPA firms in the United States that specializes in providing portfolio management, accounting, tax and management advisory services to the equipment leasing industry.  ECS Financial provides lease management services including accounts receivable billing and collections, preparation of monthly lease income and residual schedules, book and tax depreciation tracking, as well as guidance and a variety of useful management reports to assist management in making sound financial decisions.  ECS Financial offers accounting and financial statement compilation, review and audit services, as well as multiple state sales tax preparation, federal and state income tax return preparation, and personal property tax preparation and tracking.  Our lease management team of accountants and tax specialists are experienced in providing quality professional service in the management of lease portfolios, and their efforts are enhanced by the state of the art, industry-specific software we utilize.

ECS Financial serves clients throughout the United States .

The name has changed, but the quality service remains the same!
_______________________
Nancy A. Geary, CPA, CLP
Partner
ECS Financial Services, Inc.
Certified Public Accountants and Portfolio Management Services
ngeary@ecsfinancial.com
847-291-1333 phone
847-291-1190 fax
www.ecsfinancial.com

(f) PFSC is the largest independent commercial lease and loan-servicing company is the U.S. and is headquartered in Portland , Oregon .  PFSC provides primary/master servicing, backup/successor servicing, and consulting for lease and loan portfolios.  It currently manages over $14.0 billion in assets.  More information can be found at www.pfsc.com.

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United Association of Equipment Leasing

September 22-25, Lake Tahoe, California

The Chairman for the conference is Randy Haugh from Lease Team, Inc. The event will take place at beautiful Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Our theme for this year is Peak Performance: Peers, Processes, Practices and Profitability. We have a great lineup of sessions, roundtables and panel discussions scheduled on interesting and diverse topics. We also have some good opportunities to network; Thursday night, welcome reception will take place on the deck of the Edgewood Country Club and the other of the events will also feature the exclusive buyout of the M.S. Dixie for the Saturday Sunset Dinner/Dance Cruise.

We are very excited about about two of the speakers we have line up this year. Colonel Tom Schaefer was an Iranian hostage for 444 days in 1979-1980. We also have Mr. Joseph Lane, Chairman of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Fundation, addressing our industriy as our keynote speaker.

Col. Tom Schaefer

Joseph C. Lane CEO of GE Technology Finance

The view the complete brochure, click here.

If you have not booked your room at Caesars Tahoe for the UEAL Fall Conference and Exposition please do so as soon as possible.

Caesars Lake Tahoe offers unparalleled comfort, luxery and gaming excitement with the great outdoors. A 17-story Y shaped hotel tower with 440 guest rooms and 37 suites. Caesars elegant rooms are accentuated by their beautiful surroundings.

Please call 1.775.588.3515 to make a reservation and don't forget to mention this is for UAEL block.

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Classified Ads-Help Wanted

Account Executives

Account Executives Positions are available for remote Account Executives with 7+ yrs Equipment Leasing Sales exp.  Work directly with CFOs, CIOs, CEOs and other high-level executives. Please send resume indicating where you saw this ad to:  US_DFS_Staffing@dell.com. About the Company: At Dell Financial Services, we aspire to fuel your potential with the kind of challenging opportunities and hands-on support you need to grow. We're the exclusive provider of leasing and finance services for Dell technology systems worldwide.

www.dellfinancialservices.com

Credit Analyst

Credit Analyst Campbell, CA. Credit Analyst for middle market commercial/venture leases. Performs financial statement analysis/assesses qualifications w/underwriting criteria. Assists portfolio management. Requires excellent analytical and writing skills. College degree  finance/accounting. Prior exper. financial services industry required. E-mail resume to: pentech@pentechfinancial.com

For more information about Pentech: www.pentechfinancial.com

Lease Representatives

MIS/Business Analyst

MIS/Business Analyst Campbell, CA. Business Analyst needed to assist Ops Department in production and development of business segment reporting, liquidity management; systems integration. College degree/related experience in financial services industry required. E-mail resume to: pentech@pentechfinancial.com

For more information about Pentech: www.pentechfinancial.com

National Account Manager

Vendor Relationship

Director, Vendor Relationship Development: Office Equipment Group. Accountable for originating/ maintaining volume from large Office Equipment dealers. Preferred locations - SW and Mid-Atlantic. Full descrip/to Apply, Click here GreatAmerica is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States.

www.greatamerica.com

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MarCap Hires Idzerda as VP of Sales-Imaging

CHICAGO-MarCap, a leading healthcare financing company, has hired Mark Idzerda as vice president of sales-imaging, MarCap's largest business segment. Idzerda, a 12-year veteran of healthcare financing, will further develop MarCap's imaging financing business.

Idzerda comes to MarCap from CapitalSource, Inc., a publicly traded specialized financing company, where he was director of the Healthcare Finance Group. A former entrepreneur who started a group of CT imaging centers, Idzerda also spent nearly 10 years at DVI Financial Services in a variety of management and sales management positions. He was managing director-Europe, managing director-Latin America as well as president of DVI Business Credit Corp.

"Mark has run businesses around the world and knows healthcare financing inside and out," says Peter Myhre, president of MarCap. "He also has an entrepreneurial spirit and has significantly grown companies before, so he understands MarCap's imaging center and hospital customers and the challenges they face in an increasingly competitive environment."

In its 30-plus years, MarCap has become a leading healthcare finance company with particular expertise in financing outpatient imaging, surgery and specialty care centers.
Idzerda can be reached at
949.294.6420 or
via e-mail at idzerda@marcapcorp.com.

MarCap is a member of The Marmon Group of companies, an international association of more than 100 companies that operate independently within diverse business sectors. Member companies have collective sales of approximately $6 billion.

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U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance Names Cohen and Terry to Indirect Finance Group

SHERMAN, Conn. and NEW MILFORD, Conn. - The U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance, Inc. Indirect Finance Group has named Russ Cohen vice president of business development in its broker division and Mike Terry vice president of business development in its vendor finance division. Both Cohen and Terry are based in Connecticut.

In his new role, Cohen will be responsible for developing third party sources of business in the eastern United States. He was most recently a vice president with Tokyo Leasing USA and prior to that at GE Capital. Cohen holds a bachelor's degree from Western Connecticut State University and resides in Sherman, Conn.

"We are very pleased to have someone with Russ' experience and reputation on the team. His appointment completes our indirect source business development team," stated Paul Frisch, executive vice president, general manager for the indirect finance group.

Terry, a senior account executive with more than 15 years of leasing experience, most recently with Philips Medical Capital and GE Healthcare Financial Services, will be responsible for originating and managing national vendor programs. Terry holds a degree from California State University and resides with his family in New Milford, Conn.

"Attracting high caliber talent with a commitment to excellence and strong industry knowledge continues to be a priority for U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance," commented Kyin Lok, senior vice president, national sales manager for the vendor finance division. "These two accomplished leasing veterans bring proven track records for developing long-term customer relationships and are welcome additions to our team."

U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance, Inc., one of the largest bank-affiliated equipment finance companies in the nation, has been providing quality equipment finance solutions for more than 30 years. It is a major funding source for companies in nearly every industry sector nationwide.

U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance, Inc. is part of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB). With $204 billion in assets, U.S. Bancorp is the 6th largest financial holding company in the United States. The company operates 2,383 banking offices and 4,877 ATMs in 24 states, and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions. U.S. Bancorp is home of the Five Star Service Guarantee in which the company pays customers if certain key banking benefits and services are not met. U.S. Bancorp is the parent company of U.S. Bank. Visit U.S. Bancorp on the web at usbank.com.

Sites of Reference:

http://www.usbank.com

CONTACT:
Patty Wampler
U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance, Inc.
Phone Number: 503-797-0846
Fax Number: 503-797-0490
E-mail: patricia.wampler@usbank.com

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News Briefs----

Heavy debt load makes Americans vulnerable to rising rates, foreign currency imbalances

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050828-1028-debt-doomsday.html

Greyhound Will Stop Serving Almost 1,000 Small Towns

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2250166214

'Bubble' fears are well-founded; just ask Texans

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/08/28/
bubble_fears_are_well_founded_just_ask_texans/

Employee discounts make gas prices' toll tough to tally

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2005-08-28-gas-trucks-usat_x.htm

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You May Have Missed

Covering yourself

Take action now to protect your personal wealth

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/
082905dnbusperfifront.364561f.html

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"Gimme that Wine"

Bordeaux harvest begins

http://www.decanter.com/news/67614.html

Oregon's wine-grape harvest won't begin for another month, but early signs point to a trend not seen since 2001 -- price increases.

http://www.oregonlive.com/metrosouthwest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/
metro_southwest_news/112514050658120.xml&coll=7

Spanish Wine Country

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/travel/28rioja.html

Little wine bottles are getting big
New 187 ml plastic bottles appeal to young buyers
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/25/WIGIIEC69E1.DTL

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Today's Top Event in History

"The Bird Lives"

    1920-Birthday of Charlie Parker. Clint Eastwood made a movie about his life. Known as "The Bird," he and Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet player extraordinaire and great showman, are credited with "inventing" the style "Be-Bop." Definitely way ahead of his time, and quite melodic ( his record albums with strings from 1947 to 1952 produced by Norman Granz are jazz classics ). There is controversy on how he got his name. Some say it was from sitting in the backyard of "speakeasies" in Kansas City, Kansas, where he was raised, fingering his alto sax. Others say it was his love of chicken. He was addicted to Heroin, as many of the "Be-Bop" players were. The movie "The Man with the Golden Arm" was a take off of his life, not Chet Baker, according to the writer of the movie. He was taken to Camarillo for the Insane, where he kicked the habit, for a short time. The club Birdland in Manhattan was named after him. It is told one of his ideas to make the club more profitable was to have a Country and Western band come and play during the breaks. Parker was a profound influence upon Miles Davis, who started playing with his band at the age of 17.

http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/sc/bio/parker.htm

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5066/

http://www.cmgww.com/music/parker/parker.html

http://www.changingtones.com/trmpt02.html

http://www.duke.edu/~rw5/parker.html

http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column4.html

http://www.downbeat.com/artists/window.asp?action=new&aid=117&aname=Charlie+Parker

http://www.charlieparkerresidence.net/

*** When Charlie Parker died, this was found written on my sidewalk streets in New York City: "The Bird Lives! "

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This Day in American History

    1786- Daniel Shays, veteran of the battles of Lexington, Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga and Saratoga, was one of the leaders of more than 1,000 rebels who sought redress of grievances during the depres­sion days of 1786-87. He began organizing his followers with speeches this day. They prevented general court sessions and on Sept 26 they prevented Supreme Court sessions at Spring­field, MA. On Jan 25, 1787, with 1100 men, they attacked the federal arsenal at Springfield; Feb 2, Shays's troops were routed and fled. Shays was sentenced to death but pardoned June 13, 1788.The uprising had been caused by the harsh economic conditions faced by Massachusetts farmers, who sought reforms and the issuance of paper money. Shay later he received a small pension for services in the American Revolution.
http://www.shaysnet.com/dshays.html
    1809-Birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and author, father of Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, born at Cambridge, MA. Died at Boston, MA, Oct. 8,1894. " A moment's insight, " he wrote, " is sometimes worth a life's experience.".
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/owholmes.htm
http://www.eldritchpress.org/owh/owhhes.html
    1815- Anna Ella Carroll birthday, writer and publicist for Union cause during the Civil War. She is best known for her pamphlet which outlined the proposition that the Southern states would resume their original places in the United States once the rebellion of the Civil War was over, precisely the course adopted by Abraham Lincoln in superseding Congress in the conduct of the war. She is credited with the plan to invade the South along the Tennessee river. Her tombstone reads "Maryland's Most Distinguished Lady." However, she died financially poor and anonymous in 1893.
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/carroll.html
http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/Wroten/AnnaEllaCarrollAugust.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/103-5362656-4423850?tag=
fast-bkasin00-20&keyword=Anna%20Ella%20Carroll&mode=books
    1817-The first "abolition" newspaper was the Philanthropist, published and edited by Charles Osborn, which appeared in Mount Pleasant, OH. It published " An Appeal to Philanthropists" by Benjamin Lundy, which is said by some to be the most powerful abolition appeal ever made.
    1839-In Jan­uary , 53 Africans were seized near modern-day Sierra Leone, taken to Cuba and sold as slaves. While being transferred to another part of the island on the ship Amistad, led by the African, Cinque, they seized control of the ship, telling the crew to take them back to Africa. However, the crew secretly changed course and the ship landed at Long Island, NY, where it and its 'cargo" were seized as salvage this day. The Amistad was towed to New Haven, CT where the Africans were imprisoned and a lengthy legal battle began to determine if they were property to be returned to Cuba or free men. John Quincy Adams took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where on Mar 9, 1841, it was determined that they were free and could return to Africa.
    1852- The Latter Day Saints first published their doctrine of "celestial marriage," popularly known as polygamy. The Mormon Church maintained this teaching until the Manifest of 1890 (and later Congressional legislation) outlawed the practice.
    1861- the first Confederate forts to surrender in the Civil War were Fork Clark and Fort Hatteras on Hatteras Island, NC, guarding Pamlico Sound. They surrendered to Flag Officer Silas H. Stringham and General Benjamin Franklin Butler, who had captured the garrison with 715 men, 31 heavy guns, and 1,000 stands of arms.
    1862-(29th -30th ) At the second Battle of Bull Run, the maneuvers of General Stonewall Jackson and his teamwork with General Robert E. Lee were too much for the 45,000 Union troops under General John Pope, who broke and retreated to Washington, DC. Union losses were 1724 killed, 8372 wounded, 5958 missing. Confederate losses stood at 1481 killed, 7627 wounded, 89 missing. Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0857066.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839705.html
http://columbiad.com/reviews/bk_colwinter002.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0252023633/jimbo2/104-1979401-1205565
    1894-Birthday of African-American sociologist E. Franklin Fraiser..
    1896-History records chop suey was concocted in New York City by the chef of Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang, who devised the dish to appeal to both American and Asian tastes. Chop suey was unknown in China at the time.
    1904-Third modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis .These Games were originally scheduled for Chicago. However, President Theodore Roosevelt intervened on behalf of St. Louis so that the Games would be in conjunction with the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition. Again the Games were upstages, this time by the St. Louis World's Fair, and critics believed this would kill the fourth Olympics from taking place. The marathon included the first two black Africans to compete in the Olympics - two Zulu tribesman named Lentauw (real name: Len Taunyane)and Yamasani (real name: Jan Mashiani). They wore bibs 35 and 36, respectively. 
The only problem was that these two tribesmen were not in town to compete in the Olympics - they were actually the sideshow! Yes, they were imported by the exposition as part of the Boer War exhibit (both were really students at Orange Free State in South Africa, but no one wanted to believe that these tribesmen could actually be educated - it would have ruined the whole image). 
Lentauw finished ninth and Yamasani came in twelfth. This was a disappointment, as many observers were sure Lentauw could have done better - that is if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by a large, aggressive canine! 
The marathon was over, but there is still one more little story to go along with this: 
It seems that two of the patrolling officials driving in a brand-new automobile were forced to swerve to avoid hitting one of the runners - they ended up going down an embankment and were severely injured. 
In the end, the St. Louis Olympics (along with the previous Paris games) proved to be such a disaster that the Olympic Committee was forced to hold interim Olympic games in 1906 at Athens, in an attempt to revive the flagging Olympic movement. These games were not numbered, but were attended by twenty countries and put the Olympics back on a steady course to success. 
An interesting useless side note : Iced tea made its debut at the 1904 Exposition. It seems that it was so hot during the Expo that the staff at the Far East Tea House couldn't even give away their product. 
http://www.asama.org/GABARRON/1904.HTM
http://www.sfo.com/~csuppes/Olympics/misc/index.htm?../1904St.Louis/index.htm
http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/olymp2/ol1904.htm
    1920-Birthday of Charlie Parker. Clint Eastwood made a movie about his life. Known as "The Bird," he and Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet player extraordinaire and great showman, are credited with "inventing" the style "Be-Bop." Definitely way ahead of his time, and quite melodic ( his record albums with strings from 1947 to 1952 produced by Norman Granz are jazz classics ). There is controversy on how he got his name. Some say it was from sitting in the backyard of "speakeasies" in Kansas City, Kansas, where he was raised, fingering his alto sax. Others say it was his love of chicken. He was addicted to Heroin, as many of the "Be-Bop" players were. The movie "The Man with the Golden Arm" was a take off of his life, not Chet Baker, according to the writer of the movie. He was taken to Camarillo for the Insane, where he kicked the habit, for a short time. The club Birdland in Manhattan was named after him. It is told one of his ideas to make the club more profitable was to have a Country and Western band come and play during the breaks. Parker was a profound influence upon Miles Davis, who started playing with his band at the age of 17.
http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/sc/bio/parker.htm
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5066/
http://www.cmgww.com/music/parker/parker.html
http://www.changingtones.com/trmpt02.html
http://www.duke.edu/~rw5/parker.html
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column4.html
http://www.downbeat.com/artists/window.asp?action=new&aid=117&aname=Charlie+Parker
http://www.charlieparkerresidence.net/
    1921 - Birthday of Wendell Scott (auto racer: first black stock-car driver; NASCAR champion [12-1-63]: won race but because of racial tensions did not receive honor until Jan. 1964 when NASCAR officials admitted the flagman's intentional error; died Dec 22, 1990)
http://www.pbs.org/tal/racecars/wscott.html
http://www.polepositiondistributing.com/newsletter/-3.htm
http://www.stonebridgefarmpro.com/page635373.htm
    1922-New Orleans Rhythm Kings cut first records for Gennett.
    1924 - Birthday of singer Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones) born Detroit, Michigan ( What A Diff'rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You, Our Love is Here to Stay, For All We Know, Baby [You've Got What It Takes], A Rockin' Good Way [To Mess Around and Fall in Love], Baby Get Lost, This Bitter Earth; w/Lionel Hampton band [1943-46]; died Dec 14, 1963)
http://www.p-dub.com/thang/dinah.html
http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1950/Washington.html
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=207
    1939-A typical day at the Graham dairy farm in Georgetown, North Carolina.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug29.html
    1944- For the sake of diplomacy, Paris was liberated on August 25, when the German commander General Dietrich von Choltiz surrendered to French General Jacques-Phillipe Leclerc. On this day, the 15,000 American troops taking part in the liberation marched down Champs Elysees.
    1945- Wyomia Tyus birthday, Afro-American U.S. sprinter who was the first person to win Olympic gold medals in back-to-back competitions: the 100m dash in 1964 and in 1968, setting a new world's record the second time.
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/610/19.html
http://www.multirace.org/firstday/sport14.htm
    1948- In St. Louis, Jackie Robinson hits for the cycle, drives in two runs, scores three times and steals a base helping the Dodgers to beat the Cardinals, 12-7.
    1948- Carol Bartz birthday, American CEO and chair of Autodesk, one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer-design software. Only 2 percent of technology company chief executives are women. As CEO of Autodesk, Carol Bartz runs the fourth largest PC software company in the world, with 3 million customers in nearly 140 countries. She is also a strong role model for other aspiring women in the software Industry. Bartz led the effort to re-architect Autodesk's flagship product AutoCAD, and continues to lead the corporation towards further innovation and diversification of its product line.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=348263&siteID=123112
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=229
    1954-Birthday of Flora "Flo" Hyman, volleyball player born at Inglewood, CA. Hyman stood 6'5" and was regarded as the best player in the US, starring on the 1984 Olympic team that won the silver medal. She suffered from Morfan's syndrome, a hidden congenital aorta disorder. Died at Matsue, Japan, Jan 24, 1985.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/69/
    1954-San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens. It has been continually "under construction" since this date. San Francisco has had at least three airports within the city limits during the twentieth century. Crissy Field at the Presidio dates from World War I, the Marina Flying Field from 1915, and the late 1930s saw development of the Seaplane Harbor at Treasure Island. Ingleside racetrack was also used for aviation purposes in the early part of the twentieth century. Commercial and general aviation ultimately moved to Mills Field in San Mateo County in the 1930s, which originally was temporary as the originally international airport was to be built on Treasure Island..Crissy Field at the Presidio was the last airport within the city, and ended limited operations in the 1980s.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/airport.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/airfield.html
http://www.san-francisco-sfo.com/
http://www.worldairportguide.com/Airports/sfo/sfo.asp
    1956---Top Hits
My Prayer - The Platters
Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Allegheny Moon - Patti Page
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
    1958- Air Force Academy moved from Denver to its present site in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
http://www.usafa.af.mil/pa/media/facts/history.htm
    1958 - Birthday of singer/dancer Michael (Joe) Jackson ('King of Pop'), Gary, Indiana: group: The Jackson Five: I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, I'll Be There, solo: Ben; Grammy Award: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough [1979]; 5 Grammy Awards in 1983: Thriller, Billie Jean, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; 2 in 1984: Beat It; another in 1985 [w/Lionel Richie]: We are the World); 1989 Best Music Video/Short Form Grammy: Leave Me Alone; The Legend Award Grammy; The Girl is Mine, Stay, Stay, Stay [w/Paul McCartney], I Just Can't Stop Loving You [w/Siedah Garrett], Rock with You, Bad, Smooth Criminal, Ease on Down the Road [w/Diana Ross - from Broadway's The Wiz]; Captain Eo in Epcot Center's multimedia show; married and divorced Lisa Marie Presley; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Mar 19, 2001)
    1959-Horace Silver Quintet records " Blowin' the Blues Away."
    1962- Malvin Russell "Mel" Goode of Pittsburgh, PA, became the first African-American to be a television news commentator when he was assigned by WABC-TV to the United Nations staff, New York City.
    1964---Top Hits
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
C'mon and Swim - Bobby Freeman
I Guess I'm Crazy - Jim Reeves
1964- Walt Disney's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious "Mary Poppins" released.
http://us.imdb.com/Details?0058331
    1964 - Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" was released. It hit number one (for 3 weeks) on September 26th and became the biggest of his career. "Oh, Pretty Woman" was Orbison's second #1 hit. The other was "Running Scared" (6/05/61).
    1965- Giant Willie Mays breaks former Pirate Ralph Kiner record for home runs in the month of August when the 'Say Hey Kid' connects for his 17th round tripper in an 8-3 victory over the Mets.
    1965-cool wave brought 2.5 inches of snow to Mt. Washington for an August record. It reached 25 in Vermont, the earliest freeze on record in many locations.
    1966 - The Beatles performed at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA. It was the group's last live appearance before they disbanded in 1970. 1966- Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, San Francisco) Also appearing were The Ronettes, and the Remains. Ticket purchases by mail were available from KYA, No. 1 Nob Hill Circle, San Francisco
http://www.televideos.com/prod01.htm
http://www.acuity4u.net/EREPORT/BEATLES/852077179.html
    1967- Final TV episode of "The Fugitive". The series originally started on September, 1963. Dr. Richard Kimble ( David Janssen) was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for his wife's murder, but escaped from his captors in a train wreck. This popular program aired for four years detailing Kimble's search for the one-armed man(BillRaisch) who had killed his wife, Helen ( Diane Brewster). in the meantime, Kimble himself, was being pursued by Lieutenant Phillip Gerard ( Barry Morse). The final episode aired this day in 1967 featured Kimble extracting a confession from the one-armed man as they struggled form the heights of a water tower in a desert amusement park. That single episode was the highest-rated show ever broadcast until 1975. The TV series generated a hit movie in 1993 with Harrison Ford as Kimble and Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones as Gerard. (Feb. 28,1983, M*A*S*H, concluding a run of 255 episodes, this 2 ½ hour finale became the most-watched television show at that time---77 percent of the viewing public was tuned in. Cheers last episode on August 19,1993 did not beat this rating nor did Seinfield last on May 14, 1998 nor did my most favorite show, "Mad About You." on May 24, 1999.
http://www.tvtome.com/MadAboutYou/
http://www.landfield.com/faqs/tv/mad-about-you/faq/part4/
(Helen Hunt and co-star, Paul Reiser, were both given $1,000,000 per episode salaries for the 1999 TV season of "Mad About You".
    1968-Cream and Electric Flag opened at Fillmore West, San Francisco.
    1969 - To compete with Johnny Carson (NBC) and Joey Bishop (ABC), CBS-TV presented Merv Griffin on late-night TV. Johnny ruled -- staying on top for almost 23 years to come.
    1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to drive in 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
    1972---Top Hits
Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry - Jerry Wallace
    1972-Preisdent Richard Nixon announced that a White House investigation of the Watergate break-in, conducted by White House counsel John Dean, revealed that administration officials were not involved in the burglary.
    1974- 600 Catholic nuns adopt a resolution calling for the ordination of women priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
    1974-Moses Malone became the first basketball player to jump from high school to professional basketball, skipping college to sign a contract with the Utah stars of the ABA.
    1977- Lou Brock stole the 893 rd base of his career, surpassing Ty Cobb's modern record for career stolen bases. Ricky Henderson in 1982 breaks Brock's for stealing the most bases in one season with 122.
    1979-Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network, making it the first completely Black owned radio network in the world.
    1980---Top Hits
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Drivin' My Life Away - Eddie Rabbitt
    1984 - Edwin Moses won the 400-meter hurdles in track competition in Europe. It was the track star's 108th consecutive victory.
    1984-high temperatures at Topeka, KS reaches 110 degrees for the first time since the dust bowl of the 30's.
    1986 - The former "American Bandstand" studio, at the original home of WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, PA, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The studio is located at 4548 Market Street.
    1987- "La Bamba" by Los Lobos topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks.
    1988---Top Hits
Monkey - George Michael
I Don't Wanna to Go on with You like That - Elton John
I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love - Chicago
The Wanderer - Eddie Rabbitt
    1990 -Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq. By the end of 1990, 580,000 Iraqi troops were believed to be in Kuwait or southern Iraq. Facing them were 485,000 troops of 17 allied countries. Earlier, on August 10 at a meeting in Cairo, only 12 of the 21 member nations of the Arab League voted to support American troops.
    1991- the Soviet Communist Party suspended parliament, thus ending a 75-year control of the USSR. Democratic change was sought and the struggle still continues today. Perhaps ending the hunt in the United States to "halt" communism. Capitalism won out.
    1998---Top Hits
I Don t Want To Miss A Thing- Aerosmith
The First Night- Monica
Crush- Jennifer Paige
My Way- Usher
    2002- To show their displeasure about tomorrow's impending strike, fans at Devil Ray-Angel game begin throwing foul balls back onto the field at Edison Field and over a100 people are ejected for throwing trash. New words are added to the traditional seventh-inning rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as many of the fans in attendance begin to chant, "Don't strike! Don't strike! Don't strike!".

*** When Charlie Parker died, this was found written on my sidewalk streets in New York City: "The Bird Lives! "

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Baseball Poem

MICHAEL S. HARPER

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Cooperstown, N.Y.

Photos and clippings fade;
no one can find a real signature
of Rube Foster, who put together
the Negro Leagues; efforts
at why Josh Gibson died at thirty-
five are even vaguer,
his sleek strong body in the waves
of San Juan the vintage year:
1934. Later, 72 home runs,
the only ball over the third tier
at Yankee Stadium
for the games on off-days.

No flicks of Gibson as a Globe-
trotter, his golden gloves
astride the mound captured,
for real, with Curt Flood,
eating steaks on a grill,
in a parking lot in spring
training. Reggie is a mask,
astride a roadster, a paltry
lid on a rainday with Vida Blue.

Frank Robinson's loaded automatic
put him under arrest; the flick
of his headrag, a white mop,
only shown in Cincinnati,
eating Satchel's 45-lb. catfish,
chasing " Willmont " Liquors, Inc.
as endorsements in Brooklyn.

The clippings of the rest
of Negro America are full of glee;
no ounce of bitterness,
except for Jackie, who hit
better than they thought,
and was fast, stealing home
in public, voting Republican,
the whole Civil War
on his back and pigeon-toes.

On PBS the documentaries,

one trailer sideshow,
a whole hall of oral history
in transcriptions
of black and white.

Trujillo, who paid the best,
threatened execution if you lost;
the black World Series in Comiskey
full of chicken, zoot suits,
trainfare from everywhere but endorsements,
turnstyles.

" Let ' s play two. "

From "Line Drives," 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems,edited by Brooke Horvath
and Tim Wiles, Southern Illinois University Press

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