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Friday, February 18,2005
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Lease Broker arrested again
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Wealthy Young Americans Eschew Traditional Labels
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Correction: Not Bottom Line Leasing, Westminster, Ca
“In the (Weekly Bulletin Board Complaint) you used the name "Bottomline Leasing" as a fictitious name for an unethical leasing company. The name is essentially the same as the real name or our company "Bottom Line Leasing". Even though you made a statement in your article that this is a fictitious name, at least one reputable funding source has questioned us and believed we might be involved in this story.
“Kit, what is the best way to clarify this situation to the point where it is absolutely clear to all the readers that our company is not involved in this matter in any way?
“Thanks for publishing a fine newsletter.”
Bob Mazenauer
Bottom Line Leasing
Westminster, CA 92683
714-891-8283
(In the last Weekly Bulletin Board Complaint about the leasing company sending “sale/leasebacks” to a vendor who put them through his “dealer” leasing source as “new equipment,” we mentioned several times that all the names were fictitious. We also noted in the article the leasing broker's company was posted in the Leasing News Complaint Bulletin Board from a previous complaint concerning money not returned.
The fictitious name we used was Bottomline Leasing. It is not Bob Mazenauers' company Bottom Line Leasing in Westminster, California. His company has never been listed, nor have we ever received a complaint, and have heard nothing but good things about him.
We apologize for any confusion that may occur from the similarities in names. Editor
Here is the original article:
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Lease Broker arrested again
(Front page story of Newsday Newspaper, Long Island, yesterday, February 17, and on newsday.com.
(Postal Inspector Steve Bolz , 216-443-4028, has asked that anyone who has had dealings with Spanos – good or bad – contact him.
His web site still exists, and he was attracting brokers to send him business that he would take existing equipment for a lessee and get them cash on it.
http://www.comfingrp.com/pages/6/index.htm
This type of apparent scam is not new, but growing, as reported in leasing news of a broker presenting sale/leasebacks to a “vendor” who presents as “new equipment” to his equipment leasing source. editor )
Spano comeback
Con man who nearly bought the Islanders is out of prison -- but arrested in new fraud in Cleveland
Eight months after he got out of prison for fraudulently attempting to take over the New York Islanders, John Spano went back to his old ways, federal officials said yesterday.
Accused of defrauding a host of companies around the country, Spano was arrested and arraigned yesterday in federal court in Cleveland.
Spano, after serving more than 5 years in prison for the Islanders scheme, set up a firm called the Commercial Financial Group in the Cleveland suburb of Westlake, according to a court complaint filed by Steve Bolz, an inspector with the federal Postal Inspection Service in Cleveland. He used the company to scam more than a dozen companies, the complaint said.
Bolz's complaint said Spano rented a jet he claimed he owned to impress victims and began to swindle numerous firms around the country through various confidence schemes.
Spano, 41, promised to obtain loans for businesses, and then pocketed the fees they sent him without ever delivering the loans, the complaint said. In one complex variant of the scheme, Spano allegedly agreed to purchase mechanical equipment that a firm wanted and then lease it to them for a fee. Spano pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in fees but never delivered the equipment, Bolz said.
"He's the cleverest, sneakiest guy," said one of Spano's alleged victims, Sandra Beard, president of Badger Lighting and Signs in Waukesha, Wis., in a telephone interview yesterday. Spano is accused of swindling her out of $17,000 by collecting a "security deposit" on $100,000 in metal-bending machinery he agreed to purchase and lease to her firm.
When she complained, Beard said, Spano would regularly call her back with seemingly plausible excuses why the machinery had not been delivered and her money had not been returned. "I've got 147 voice mail messages from him," Beard said, adding that when she finally became suspicious and started doing research, she came across a John Spano who had been convicted in the Islanders case. Beard said she asked him whether he was that person, and he said no.
Spano's attorney, Jerome Emoff of Cleveland, said his client is not guilty and federal officials are criminalizing what is a civil dispute about payments among business people.
Magistrate William Baughman held Spano without bail on fraud charges yesterday, pending hearings next week.
Spano was on 5 years of supervised release after he was discharged from prison in June. Gary Brown, head of the U.S. attorney's office on Long Island, who was one of the prosecutors in the Islanders case, said yesterday his office will seek to have Spano charged with violating the conditions of his release. That could add an additional 2 years onto any fraud sentence.
Spano, who claimed to be a rich Dallas businessman, fraudulently inflated his net worth and contracted to buy the Islanders in 1997 for $165 million. He briefly controlled the team in what was considered one of the oddest happenings in sports history.
At his sentencing in 2000, Spano said, "I made a terrible mistake. My judgment has been incredibly poor. ... I don't know what came over me to do what I did. I'm sorry for the people I've hurt. ... I'm sorry for the people of Long Island who believed I was going to do something for the team."
Spano's attorney at the time, Nicholas Gravante Jr., added, "After he serves his sentence, he hopes to get on with his life." Unfortunately, prosecutors said yesterday, he did.
From Islanders scam until now
1997
Spano briefly takes control of Islanders, only to plead guilty that year to fraudulently inflating his wealth to buy the team, and siphoning money from it. He also pleads guilty to two other fraud counts involving other victims.
Sentenced in April 2000 to 5 years, 11 months in jail, he's ordered to pay $11.9 million in restitution, undergo counseling and serve a 5-year probation on his release.
Among the victims: the Islanders ($3.4 million); a Dallas pottery importer ($3.4 million); a Dallas loan lender ($1 million); former hockey player Mario Lemieux ($890,000).
1998
Sued by Cleveland bank for writing a $100,000 check that bounced.
1999
While awaiting sentencing in the Islanders' case, Spano's bail is revoked when he's charged and pleads guilty to writing bad checks and using invalid credit cards to pay $7,700 a month for apartment and penthouse in Philadelphia's ritzy Rittenhouse Square area.
2004
Spano's released from jail in June. While still on probation, he set up a firm that investigators now say he used to scam more than a dozen companies.
2005
Yesterday, federal officials arrested Spano and arraigned him on new fraud charges.
• Stacey Altherr
Here is a 1997 Dallas Observer story:
http://leasingnews.org/PDF/SPANOS%202-1.pdf
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Letters---We get eMail
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“ Your article about Government Regulation of the Industry was very good. I'm making sure that all of my employees read and understand it. Thanks and take care.”
Kevin Clune
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"I enjoy staying abreast of the industry through the leasing news. You do a great job of presenting both sides."
Ken Winkle
Administrator
MicroFour Healthcare Solutions FinMain Office
7118 I-40 West, Bldg. D
Amarillo, TX 79106
Voice: 806.355.7280
Data: 806.353.4188
Email: kwinkle@micro4.com
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--“As a professional mediator and attorney who has worked with parties to successfully settle many thorny disputes in leasing and finance, I wholeheartedly endorse your editorial opinion on NorVergence; it\'s the right approach.
”Although I am sympathetic to the concern that these cases are being used to advance broader agendas (and certainly are being used for political purposes by certain AGs), I strongly share your view that the best course of action both for the lessees and the leasing companies involved is still to concentrate on the creative mutual resolution of these disputes before ending up in court.
”Based on my experience in helping parties craft workable resolutions to some very difficult issues, I assure you it can be done.”
Paul Bent
The Alta Group
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“We won a motion to dismiss in Federal Court in Illinois today (Wednesday,February 16,2005) Judge Darrah refused to enforce the forum selection clause, stating as follows:
"The purported forum selection clause does not designate a specific
state to which the parties will litigate any issues one the lease is
assigned and confers upon the lessor the right to assign to any
creditor in any state. Defendants have no way of knowing, at the
time the lease was executed, what state in the union they would be
required to litigate. As such, Defendants cannot be found to have
consented to jurisdiction in Illinois. The cases cited by Plaintiff
all contain clauses which designate a specific forum at the time of
execution of the agreement."
( name with held )
(Our article mentioned the “ERA”contracts had several provisions
that will be difficult to enforce, especially the venue provision,
which other courts in other states have made similar rulings
as now made in Federal Court in Illinois. Companies located
in Illinois, such as IFC Credit, will now have to conduct venue
in the county where the lessee is located, unless mutually
agreed somewhere else. editor )
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“Normally I never download files with a .exe extension fearing a virus, but I trust your website and so I took a chance. I love the hammer! I have already been "breaking" things with it this morning. I saved it to my desktop for easy access. In this business, we need something like this. Solitaire just doesn't do it. Thanks for keeping me from blowing my brains out.”
Rosanne Wilson, President
1st Independent Leasing, Inc.
rosanne@1stindependentleasing.com
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Stress_relief.htm
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“From your story: ‘Dell reports that they sell direct, not to dealers'
”As an authorized reseller, you are given a password to enter the Dell system and configure quotes based on the discounted re-seller pricing. Our sister company is also an authorized re-seller, so we can help in the future if you need information.
”Of course, the exact pricing was not needed as the point of your story was abundantly clear.
”Which makes me want to say to these underwriters who only work direct – Are you kidding me?
”One final thing that I would like to add, but please don't use my name if you ever re-print as I don't want to worry anyone who was speaking in confidence to me. We have been approached on many occasions by sales reps from national underwriters who only work direct with vendors to set up a "dummy vendor" operation to submit deals. They have gone so far as to offer a complete diagram of how to set it up or, “if we chose not to do it on our own, the names of other such vendors who we could choose to send business to. So what you have is the crime being perpetrated by the "victim". It is my impression from the conversations I have had that these situations are not few and far between, but rather very widespread and established.
”Thank you for your work.”
( name with held )
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QUESTIONAIRE on Equipment Leasing Regulation
Last Chance . We will be “turning off” the Questionnaire
today; hopefully to have the results on Tuesday.
This Questionnaire is for those in the leasing industry
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Leasing News Advisory Board Members...Leasing Conferences
( Part II )
One of the first things I did when I began my leasing business in 1995 was join a leasing association.
My involvement in the UAEL started by attending conferences, evolved to committees, task forces and eventually the board of directors. Furthermore, the decision to register and begin preparing for the Certified Leasing Professional designation was also a result of attending conferences where I met colleagues who explained the value of understanding all aspects of the industry, not only the ones I dealt with day to day, and they were right.
Attending the conferences is an affordable way to make contacts, get new ideas, brush up on the old ones, find new funding sources and brokers, trainers and mentors. It is a great way to stay exposed to current IT developments, specific to leasing, as well as tax, legal and legislative issues. If you can carve out the time, attending a conference is a worthwhile investment. Not to mention, they are often in warm sunny place, and when you live where I do, it's a fun break to end the day with a dip in the pool!
your leasing buddy,
Theresa
Theresa M. Kabot
Kabot Commercial Equipment Finance
800.987.9257 phone
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and financing equipment in all 50 States
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I personally attended many ELA conferences since I got into the business in 1987 and have found the principal benefit was less the agends and more the fact that a bunch of people from far flung places would be at the same locale. I learned to set up dates with folks that I wanted to see before arriving and the chance to spend 30 minutes in lieu of traveling across country just to see someone separately was invaluable.
I know that the actual forums sometimes included spirited debate on issues or revelations about trends and news. My own busy schedule and short attention span sometimes meant that I was on the phone when a juicy meeting was occurring. Still, the bringing together of industry experts and enthusiasts was and still is often a catalyst for change or talk about it.
When attendees exceed around 200, the impersonality of an event kicks in, which to me meant the smaller attended conferences compared to ELA conferences, may have had a greater opportunity for meeting some people that you saw again over 2-3 days and built mini-friendships with.
I preach that the interested conference should be as excited about the small events as the large.
Paul Weiss, President
Icon Capital
San Francisco/New York
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For us at McCue Systems, attending equipment leasing conferences is key to our ability to stay connected, remain informed, and present our finance management solutions to prospective customers.
Notice that “stay connected” came first, because there is no better venue for renewing old acquaintances and forming new relationships. In the relaxed atmosphere of a conference, we can learn about new directions and emerging needs in our target market without the formalities of a presentation or the challenges posed by gatekeepers. While emails, phone calls, and product demos are all useful, the conference atmosphere allows for unstructured conversation that combines friendly chitchat with pointed business-related inquiry.
Of course, another significant benefit of our participation is the opportunity to attend the workshops and presentations that make up the official “program” of the event. These sessions can be useful for more than the specific content presented; much can also be learned by seeing who attends what, what questions get asked, and what topics are the biggest draws.
Typically, McCue Systems participates in these events as an exhibitor. We present a carefully crafted environment that projects the technical acumen of our company – in interactive on-screen presentations, focused product literature, and the presence of well-informed and approachable representatives of the company.
After 3 decades in the industry, McCue Systems is a mainstay of the technology provider corner of the major equipment leasing organizations and their conferences. For us to be otherwise would be an unlikely strategic choice!
Andrew Lea, VP, Marketing and Corporate Communications
McCue Systems Inc.
111 Anza Boulevard, Suite 310
Burlingame, CA 94010
650-348-0650 Ext 1171
andrewl@mccue.com
www.mccue.com
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You asked me why people should attend conferences, as I am the chair for UAEL's Spring Conference. Everyone has their own reason or agenda, and they are usually one or a combination of the following:
1) As a professional within the industry they want to keep up-to-
date on the industry and its' direction or trends.
2) One wants to learn or enhance their skills and knowledge, or as
a reminder of what they learned in the past, but had forgotten.
3) Reinforcing your relationships that you have developed, as
emails, faxes and phone calls are not the same as face-to-face.
4) The opportunity to meet/develop new relationships
5) The chance to interact with your competitors/peers (which I
personally gain the most from).
6) You like to play golf, or get away from the daily grind
7) A perk
Whatever ever your reasons for attending, it boils down to networking and walking away with a little more knowledgeable, while having an enjoyable time.
Steve Reid, CLP
VP Marketing, Leasing Division
Pacific Capital Bank
2230 W. Chapman Ave #200
Orange, Ca 92868
800-700-9858
714-938-0288 (fax)
email: steve.reid@pcbancorp.com
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Wealthy Young Americans Eschew Traditional Labels,
Embrace Middle-Class Values
U.S. Bankers Weekly News
A new Visa study reveals that today's young, affluent consumers reject traditional views of wealth, aligning their perceptions and values more with their parents' middle-class approach to living. They trade prestige and luxury for value, pragmatism and the adventure of doing more with what they have. Visa is targeting this “New Affluent” segment — individuals ages 35 to 54 whose household income is at least $125,000 — with its new Signature card. It comprises seven percent of the U.S. population, representing 15 percent of total U.S. spending. The survey shows these consumers clip coupons more than other Americans, report embarrassment in being identified with wealth and status, and are more concerned about passing along honesty and integrity to their children than money or status.
“As the New Affluent bring their largely middle-class values and identity to bear in the way they believe, live and shop, the rules for marketing to upper-income consumers are being rewritten,” says Michael J. Weiss, demographic expert and author of The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy and What It All Means to Who We Are. “Their tastes are a lot more mid-scale than their wallets.” Weiss notes that as high-achievement individuals, New Affluent consumers tend to have worked extremely hard for their wealth and overall success. With the knowledge of how hard it is to “make it,” he says, they are ultra-vigilant about spending wisely. Nine out of 10 new affluent consumers surveyed identify themselves as “middle class” or “upper middle class,” while only 7 percent—most with incomes in excess of $500,000 — describe themselves as “affluent.” Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of new affluent consumers surveyed say they are embarrassed by or dislike being identified by terms such as “wealthy” or “well off,” while acknowledging these terms accurately describe their situation. Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of new affluent consumers surveyed clip coupons, significantly higher than the national average of 65 percent. More than a third (34 percent) of upscale consumers surveyed have hunted for bargains at garage sales in the past year, and about the same number say they shopped for deals at going-out-of-business sales. Two-thirds of new affluent consumers surveyed say they regularly shop at club-discount or warehouse stores. This compares to less than half of the general population sample doing the same.
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Key Equipment Finance Hosts Delegation of Chinese Business Leaders
In keeping with the company's commitment to providing the best equipment financing solutions and client service to its customers worldwide, Key Equipment Finance announced that the company is hosting a delegation of Chinese business leaders at its global headquarters today.
Key Equipment Finance is one of the nation's largest bank-affiliated equipment financing companies and an affiliate of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY). The company is hosting seven business leaders representing five Shanghai-based businesses in order to provide an overview of how equipment leasing functions in the United States and stimulate thinking as to the potential of this industry in China. The visit is a follow-up to a governmental and Equipment Leasing Association trade mission to China that representatives from Key Equipment Finance attended in 2004.
“China is one of the most important markets in the world from an international trade perspective,” said Philip G. Schultz, senior vice president of global business development for Key Equipment Finance. “Since establishing our first greater China subsidiary in Hong Kong in 1994 and subsequently our Taiwan subsidiary in 1997, Key Equipment Finance has demonstrated a long standing commitment to supporting its vendor customers in the greater China region. Exchange visits such as this help provide the Chinese with perspective on the platforms which sophisticated forms of equipment finance are dependent, and we are committed to the continuous cross exchange of industry information and practices as the greater China equipment leasing market evolves.”
About Key Equipment Finance
Key Equipment Finance is an affiliate of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) and provides business-to-business equipment financing solutions to businesses of many types and sizes. The company focuses on four distinct markets:
· businesses of all sizes in the U.S. and Canada (from small business to large corporate);
· equipment manufacturers, distributors and value-added resellers worldwide;
· federal, provincial, state and local governments as well as other public sector organizations; and
· lease advisory services for manufacturers' captive leasing and finance companies.
Headquartered outside Boulder, Colorado, Key Equipment Finance manages a $12 billion equipment portfolio with annual originations of approximately $5 billion. The company has major management and operations bases in Toronto, Ontario; Albany, New York; Chicago, Illinois; London, England; and Sydney, Australia. The company, which operates in 25 countries and employs 1,100 people worldwide, has been in the equipment financing business for more than 30 years. Additional information regarding Key Equipment Finance, its products and services can be obtained online at KEFonline.com.
Cleveland-based KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) is one of the nation's largest bank- based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $88 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. The company's businesses deliver their products and services through KeyCenters and offices; a network of nearly 2,200 ATMs; telephone banking centers (1.800.KEY2YOU); and a Web site, Key.com(R), that provides account access and financial products 24 hours a day.
Sites of Reference:
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News Briefs---
Greenspan Suddenly Silent About 'Measured' Rate Increases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33329-2005Feb17.html
Fed Chief Urges Cutback in Scale of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/business/18greenspan.html?
New Law to Limit Class-Action Cases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33211-2005Feb17.html
Oil Inches Back Towards $48
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33891-2005Feb18.html
St. Louis Symphony will vote on proposal today
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/music/
story/872B167231BA80C686256FAC0023A1B6?OpenDocument&
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California Nuts Briefs---
Schwarzenegger, in Washington, meets resistance, partisan sniping
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/18/GOV.TMP
Governor drops plans to eliminate state boards http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/2005
0217-1609-ca-statebudget-commissions.html
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“Gimme that Wine”
California's white-wine grape crush falls 7%
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/
2005/02/17/WIGITBBID51.DTL
Wine Notes: Word spreading of petite sirah
http://www.modbee.com/columnists/moran/story/
9944417p-10784490c.html
Cold threatens N.Y. wine-growing region
http://www.azcentral.com/home/wine/articles/0217coldny17.html
Columbia Winery /Wine pioneer takes operation to new heights
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/02/16/fd.simplywine.0216.html
Wisconsin Growers look at local winery
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/02/17/news/01wine.txt
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This Day in American History
1571- A group of Spanish Jesuits in the Chesapeake Bay area, led by Fray Batista Segura, were murdered by the Indians they had come six months earlier to convert. The massacre led ultimately to the withdrawal of all Jesuits living in Florida as well. On September 8, 1565, the first white colony in what is now the US was founded At. St. Augstine, FLA, by the Spanish under Pedro Menendez de Aviles. The first Catholic parish was founded by Fr. Don Martin Francisco Lopez de Mendozo Grajales, chaplain of the Spanish expeditionary forces. The first introduction of European livestock such as black cattle, horses, sheep and swine, into America was made by the Spanish in Florida. The Spanish began to settle the area, including fighting all those who had laid claim to the land. On September 20 th , Mendendez destroyed Fort Caroline, and massacred most of its inhabitants. He renamed it San Mateo and in the next two years built a strong of Forts to Tampa Bay while looking for a water passage across Florida. The once “peaceful” Indians were either converted to Christianity or tortured and killed by the Spanish on their quest in the New World.
1668-Protest against slavery of importance was made by the German Friends, or Quakers, at a meeting in Germantown, PA. They protested against the “traffic in the bodies of men” and considered the question of the “lawfulness and unlawfulness of buying an keeping Negroes.” Some of the protesters were Francis Daniel Pastorius, Dirck opden Graeff, Abrahama op de Graeff, and Gerhard Hendricks. 1678- John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" was first published, in England. Bunyan was frequently imprisoned for preaching without a license. During these sequestered times, between 1660-72, Bunyan collected the ideas enabling him to pen this masterpiece of Christian literature. It was the most popular book in the new colonies.
http://www.orionsgate.org
http://www.hcis.net/users/miltozah/pilgrim1.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/025201894X/
avsearch-df1-2-20/102-1682336-8966565
1685 -Explorer Renee-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle established a French colony at Fort St Louis in Texas.
1688 -- Pennsylvania Quakers make first formal protest against slavery.
1795- George Peabody birthday, American merchant philanthropist, born at South Danvers, MA. He endowed the Peabody institute in Baltimore, museums at Harvard and Yale and the George Peadbody College for Teachers at Nashville, TN. Died at London, England, Nov 4, 1869
1834- 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man", published, New York NY
1839 -Detroit Boat Club forms (still exists today). http://www.detroitboatclub.com/
1841- First Continuous filibuster in the Senate began over the issue of dismissal of the printers of the Senate. The filibuster continued until March 11. The first extended filibuster, debating the establishment of a national bank, began on June 21 and lasted fourteen days. First continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//
www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/today_relocate.cgi%3Fmonth%
3D10%26day%3D11%26section%3Dthisday%26x%3D17%26y%3D7
http://www.newsaic.com/ftvww39n.html
http://wing_nuts.tripod.com/issue.html
1848- Louis Comfort Tiffany birthday, American artist, son of famed jeweler Charles L. Tiffany. Best remembered for his remarkable work and with decorative iridescent “vavrile” glass. Born at New York, NY, died there Jan 17, 1933.
1859-Scholem Aleichem birthday , pen name of Russian-born author and humorist Solomon Rabinowitz. Affectionately known in the US as the “JewishMark Twain,” Died at New York, NY. 1916
1861-Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America. In the years before the Civil War, Senator Jefferson Davis was the acknowledged leader of the Southern bloc and champion of states' rights, but he had little to do with the secession movement until after his home state of Mississippi joined the Confederacy January 9, 1861. Davis withdrew from the Senate that same day. He was unanimously chosen as president of the Confederacy's provisional government, actually surprised with the news while he was pruning the roses for the winter with his wife, and was inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama this day. Within the next year he was elected to a six-year term by popular vote and inaugurated a second time February 22, 1862 at Richmond, VA.
1865 - In the American Civil War, the Unionist fleet took the town of Charleston, South Carolina. In Columbia, SC, the fires still burned from the prior day invasion by federal troops under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Bales of cotton were put to the torch, perhaps by Confederates to prevent their falling into federal hands. Strong winds scattered the burning cotton across most of the city. The entire south was becoming scorched earth as Gen. Grant's plan was to cut off all supplies and food, blockade ships from Europe or free Southern ports.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb18.html
1867- Morehouse College: The Augusta Institute was founded in Georgia. Established as an institution of higher learning for black students, it moved to Atlanta in 1879, and in 1913 changed its name to Morehouse College.
http://www.morehouse.edu/
1882- violinist Alfred De Seve, a native of Montreal, appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mendelssohn's "Concerto in E Minor." His appearance was among the earliest by a Canadian soloist with a US orchestra.
1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the United States for the first time. At the time, the book was banned by many libraries for its racial-equality overtones. One hundred years and eleven years later, the book was again in the headlines, targeted to be banned from school reading lists because of its racial inequalities
1892-Wendell Wilkie birthday, American lawyer, author, public utility executive and politician, born at Elwood, IN. Presidential nominee of the Party in 1940. Remembered for his book, ‘One World,” published in 1943.” He ran for the nomination in 1944 but suffered a series of four heart attacks and lost to New York Governor Thomas Dewey.
1899 -80º F, San Francisco CA While much of the central and eastern U.S. was recovering from the most severe cold wave of modern history, the temperature at San Francisco soared to 80 degrees to establish a record for month of February
1908 - For the first time, United States' postage stamps were sold. They cost a penny.
1922—Birthday of author/editor Helen Gurley Brown . While an advertising minor executive in 1962 she authored her first book, Sex and the Single Girl, an immediate and controversial best seller. In 1965 she was named editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine and changed it into a splashy, upbeat magazine aimed at the young women. It even played the "Playboy" card and featured a male nude centerfold (the first was Burt Reynolds with an artful bear rug keeping the censors away).** Circulation and advertising revenues shot up. She also wrote Helen Gurley Brown's Outrageous Opinions, 1966, Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook, 1969, and Sex and the New Single Girl, 1970,
1928-Drummer Frank Butler birthday, Kansas City, MO http://www.centrohd.com/biogra/b2/frank_butler_b.htm
http://www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/bio/0,,410461,00.html?
artist=Frank+Butler
1928- Tenor Sax player Harold Land birthday, Houston, TX
http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/land.html
http://www.view.com/land-bio.html
1924-Bix Biederbecke and the Wolverines cut first records in Richmond, Indiana, for Gennett ( Fidgety Feet, Jazz Me Blues, Lazy Daddy.)
1930-Cow milked while flying in an airplane. Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane. During the flight, which was attended by reporters, she was milked and the milk was sealed in paper containers and parachuted over St. Louis, MO.
1930-Planet Pluto discovered. Pluto, the ninth plant, was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, AZ. It was given the name of the Roman god of the underworld. Some astronomers don't accept Pluto as a planet.
1931-Toni Morrison birthday, Nobel Prize-winning novelist (Beloved, Jazz Tar Baby, Sual), born Lorain, OH.
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1932 - In Montreal, Canada, Sonja Henie won her 6th world women's figure skating title.
1938 –“The Big Broadcast of 1983” was released, one of the most famous motion pictures of all time hit the silver screen, as "The Big Broadcast of 1938" was released. The film featured Bob Hope singing his version of, "Thanks for the Memory", which got an Oscar for Best Song. Also starring in the film were Dorothy Lamour and W.C. Fields.
1939- Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/ti-statue.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/views/ggieviews.ppt
1942 – The Mills Brothers on Decca records recorded one of their three all time greatest hit, "Paper Doll". The other two classics by the Mills Brothers are: "You Always Hurt The One You Love" (1944) and "Glow Worm" (1952).
1945---Top Hits
Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Accentuate the Positive - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
I Dream of You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Freddy Stewart)
I'm Losing My Mind Over You - Al Dexter
1949 - On CBS radio, "Yours Truly Johnny Dollar" debuted on CBS radio, starring Charles Russell as the insurance investigator. The show was the last of radio's major, dramatic network programs. Johnny Dollar continued until 1962.
http://www.wayback.net/jd.htm
1953---Top Hits
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como
Till I Waltz Again with You - Teresa Brewer
Keep It a Secret - Jo Stafford
I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes - Goldie Hill
1953 – 3D, the new fad in America , as demonstrated in the movie, "Bwana Devil". The three-dimensional feature opened at Loew's State Theatre in New York City. Arch Oboler directed the movie which starred Robert Stack and the three-dimensional Barbara Britton along with Nigel Bruce and Ramsay Hill.. It was a Natural Vision-Magnetic Sound Track picture requiring Polaroid views. It was the story of a British engineer who tracked two man-eating lions that were disrupting the construction of the first railroad in East Africa at the run of the century. ON April 10, “The House of Wax,” another 3-D film was exhibited at Paramount Theater, New York City, starring Vincent Price. It was also seen through Polaroid viewers. Historians believe the advancement of color, sound, and now 3-D was to combat the emergence of television, which they thought would put the motion picture industry out of business.
http://www.indiana.edu/~t311/timeline/1950DeArmitt.html
1953 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz signed a contract worth $8,000,000 to continue the "I Love Lucy" TV show through 1955. The deal was the richest contract in television. “Babaloo!”
The hour TV Show:
http://timstvshowcase.com/lucydesibak.jpg
1953-Robbie Bachman birthday, drummer for Bachman-Turner Overdrive, was born in Winnipeg. The Canadian rock band, which also included Robbie's brothers Randy and Tim on guitars, was internationally popular in the 1970's with such hits as "Blue Collar," "Let It Ride," "Takin' Care of Business" and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," a 1974 million-seller. At its peak, BTO won many polls and honors in the US, as well as seven Juno Awards.
1955-John Travolta birthday; dancer, singer, actor John Travolta ( Pulp Fiction, Look Who's Talking, Urban Cowboy, Saturday Night Fever, “Welcome Back Kotter) Born, Englewood, NJ.
1956-The Platters hit "The Great Pretender" peaks at #1 on the pop chart.
1956-Pat Boone's cover version of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" hits #12 on the pop chart.
1957-Birthday of Vanna White ( Wheel of Fortune), born Conway, SC.
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/5304/vanna.html
http://us.imdb.com/Name?White,+Vanna
http://www.smickandsmodoo.com/aaa/1957/1957.htm
1959 - Some of the higher elevations of California were in the midst of a five day storm which produced 189 inches of snow, a single storm record for North America.
1960-The first artificial ice skating rink of Olympic size was formally opened by Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon at Squaw Valley, CA., for the Eighth Olympic winter Games. Freezing brine was piped into the rink through 70 miles of steel tubing. It had 300 feet of roof floating on cables suspended from 80-foot steel and concrete pillars.
1960 - The VIIIth Winter Olympic Games were opened in Squaw Valley, California. A lack of snow had prompted organizers to hire Native Americans to do a snow dance, but a deluge of rain was the only result. Snow finally arrived just before the opening ceremonies, which had to be delayed to await the arrival of U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, who would declare the games open. The storm had held up his flight.
1961---Top Hits
Calcutta - Lawrence Welk
Shop Around - The Miracles
Calendar Girl - Neil Sedaka
North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
1964 - "Any Wednesday" opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. The play established Gene Hackman as an actor. Don Porter and Sandy Dennis also starred in the show.
1964- United States punishes nations for trading with Cuba
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1965 -- Civil rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson is beaten & shot by state police in Marion, Alabama. He dies eight days la
1969---Top Hits
Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone
Touch Me - The Doors
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
Until My Dreams Come True - Jack Greene
1970 -- Federal jury finds the "Chicago 7" innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. However, 5 were convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite riots.
http://hometown.aol.com/stewa/chicago.htm
1972 – Death Penalty declared by the California Supreme Court to be cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the state constitution. 107 inmates were taken off death row. Among those spared by the ruling was Charles Manson.
1972-Neil Young receives a gold record for "Harvest," the only Number One record of his lengthy career. The album includes the Number One single "Heart of Gold.
1973- The syndicated radio show "The King Biscuit Flower Hour" debuted with Blood, Sweat and Tears and a then- unknown Bruce Springsteen. The program, which is still on the air, would go on to feature live performances from some of the greatest names in rock, including the Rolling Stones, U2, Elton John and David Bow. 1973---Richard Petty, the "King of Stock Car Racing," won the Daytona 500 before a crowd of over 103,000 spectators, marking the first time a stock car race had drawn over 100,000 spectators. No longer would there be questions about NASCAR's mainstream popularity.
1977---Top Hits
Torn Between Two Lovers - Mary MacGregor
New Kid in Town - Eagles
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Near You - George Jones & Tammy Wynette.
1979-Richard Petty became the first man to win six Daytona 500s. Winning the most prestigious event in any sport six times is enough to earn the nickname "The King," but Petty is perhaps most famous for his 1967 season in which he won twenty- seven of forty-eight races, including a record ten straight victories. In a sport where mechanical failure is commonplace, Petty's total domination was seen as superhuman. "The King" came from royal stock. His father, Lee Petty, was the first man to win the Daytona 500.
1979 -52º F (-47º C), Old Forge NY (state record)
1979 --Miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV. There is controversy that the original story was plagiarized from a 1967 novel by white author Hal Courlander. This miniseries two years after the original concerns Arthur Haley's actual life, and begins where the original series left off, 1882.
http://www.marcsinger.com/roots.html
http://www.martinlutherking.org/roots.html
1993 -Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
http://www.eonline.com/On/Howard/
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/heynow2/
(this is x-rated, and typical Howard Sterns: http://www.howardsterndivorce.com/
1981 – The first budget of United States President Reagan proposed the largest tax cuts and spending curbs ever for an administration. In his first State of the Union message, Pres. Reagan called for cuts of $41,000,000,000 in the budget President Carter had submitted. He also proposed a 10% income tax cut in each of the next three years, an increase of about $5,000,000,000 in defense spending and more liberal depreciation rules for business.
1983 -- The Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle is the worst mass-murder in the history of Washington State.
http://www.wahmee.com/chapone.html
1984 –Reed Larson, Detroit, Michigan got two assists, making him the highest scoring, American-born player in National Hockey League history. Larson broke Tom Williams' previous record by scoring his 432nd point.
1985---Top Hits
Careless Whisper - Wham! featuring George Michael
Loverboy - Billy Ocean
Method of Modern Love - Daryl Hall John Oates
Make My Life with You - The Oak Ridge Boys
1985 –Greg Louganis: When he received the James E. Sullivan Award of the Amateur Athletic Union, today, diver Greg Louganis was recognized as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Louganis won double gold at the 1984 Olympic Games.
1987 – Girl Scouts Change Color of Uniform: The executives of the Girl Scout movement decided, because the older girls wanted a change, that it was time to change the color of the scout uniform from the traditional Girl Scout green to the newer Girl Scout blue.
1989 - Low pressure off the coast of North Carolina brought freezing rain and heavy snow to Virginia and the Carolinas. Snowfall totals in Virginia ranged up to 18 inches at Franklin. Freezing rain reached a thickness of two inches around Charlotte NC.
1995-Jansen Wins Gold: American speed skater Dan Jansen won a gold medal in the 1,000 meter race at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.
1995-Hootie and the Blowfish's "Hold My Hand" peaks at #10 on the pop chart.
1995—Top Hits
Take A Bow- Madonna
Creep- TLC
On Bended Knee- Boyz II Men
Another Night- Real McCoy
1997 – Pat Boone Cancelled: Trinity Broadcasting Network, a U.S. Christian TV net, cancelled Pat Boone's weekly gospel music show after he appeared in black leather and fake tattoos on the American Music Awards show. The network said it received thousands of protest phone calls and letters from its ‘prayer partners'. Boone explained that his garb was designed to promote his album "In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy".
1998-New standard for 56k modems: As speeds from ISDN connections, DSL, and now cable were threatening dials-up, the two major rival modem makers 3Com Corporation and Rockwell International announced a new standard for 56K modems. There still was confusion and it was hoped the new “high speed” would boost sales and overcome the growing competition. It battle over the protocol gave the rivals more sales, enabling them to lower prices even further.
1998 – Harry Caray, long-time Chicago Cubs broadcaster died at the age of 83; in Rancho Mirage, California.
1999 – Dr.Ross Leaves ER: The much-anticipated departure episode on NBC's ER of Dr. Doug Ross, played by George Clooney, aired, and was the top-rated show for the week and earned a higher Nielsen rating than it had in many months; each ratings point represents 994,000 households. ER earned a 23.8 rating, watched in 23.7 million homes.
2000---Top Hits
I Knew I Loved You- Savage Garden
Thank God I Found You- Mariah Carey Featuring Joe
Amazed- Lonestar
What A Girl Wants- Christina Aguilera
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Winter Poem
Cool Tombs
by Carl Sandburg
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot
the copperheads and the assassin . . . in the dust, in the cool
tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
cash and collateral turned ashes . . . in the dust, in the cool
tombs.
Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in
Novem-
ber or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? Does she
remember?
. . . in the dust, in the cool tombs?
Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries,
cheering
a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin horns . . . tell me
if the lovers are losers . . . tell me if any get more than the
lovers . . . in the dust . . . in the cool tombs.
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