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FUNDING MANAGER: Seeking a very organized, detail oriented Funding Manager with experience in discounting consumer
and commercial auto loans and leases.
Top salary. Send resume via email to ekaye@advantagefunding.us
or fax to 718 392 5427.
About the Company: Advantage Funding is the leader in automotive and equipment lease financing, Long Island City, NY.
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Monday, February 6, 2006
Congratulations!!! Pittsburg Steelers!!!
Headlines---
Fresno Bee: Kenneth Wheeler, Silver Star Hero
Top Stories--January 30-February 3
Classified-Collector/Controller/Contract Admin.
Archives-GE began cutting back w/Tilden in 2001
"Story Credits"--Up-Dated
"Funder List"---Up-Dated
UAEL Spring Conference F.I.R.E.
Classified Ads---Help Wanted
Asset-Based Revamp/Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Browser Wars---
Mt. Pleasant Capital New Warehouse Facility
News Briefs---
You May have Missed---
Sports Briefs---
"Gimme that Wine"
Calendar Events this Day
Today's Top Event in History
This Day in American History
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Fresno Bee Obituary Kenneth Wheeler, Silver Star Hero
KENNETH WHEELER Born in Reedley, California, to Betty Darlene and Worley Howard Wheeler, Ken passed away on Sunday, January 29, 2006, at the age of 61. As a Green Beret in the Vietnam War, Ken was awarded the Silver Star. He graduated from Fresno State College. He was a long time Fresno resident and business owner. He is survived by his son Sean of Fresno; his brother Tom of North Fork; his fiancée, Carola Gaylord of Fresno, and many nieces and nephews. A Service will be held in North Fork on Sunday, February 12, 2006, at 1:00 p.m., details pending. Remembrances may be made to St. Agnes Hospital Foundation, P.O. Box 27350, Fresno, CA 93729.
A Guest Book has been created as a tribute to Kenneth Wheeler.
http://www.legacy.com/fresnobee/Guestbook.asp?Page=GuestBook&PersonID=16587575
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Top Stories--January 30-February 3
These are the top ten stories most "opened" by readers last week.
(1) Ken Wheeler "Passing Away Story" Pulled
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/February%202006/02-01-06.htm#pulled
(2) Bad Moon on the Rise-by Steve Chriest
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/February%202006/02-03-06.htm#moon
(3) Menzel to Receive Award at UAEL Conference
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/January%202006/01-30-06.htm#paul
(4) Broker/Lessor List is Up-Dated
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/January%202006/01-30-06.htm#broker
(5) Studebaker-Worthington Leasing Parent hit
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/February%202006/02-01-06.htm#state
(6) Cortese Travelers Leasing New Head Op.
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/January%202006/01-30-06.htm#elo
(7) Feds Raise Rate ¼ Point
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/February%202006/02-01-06.htm#feds
(8) "Sales Makes it Happen"---Doug Houlahan
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/February%202006/02-01-06.htm#sales
(9) Attorneys Specialize in Equipment Leasing
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/February%202006/02-03-06.htm
(10 ) New UAEL Officers/Directors
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/February%202006/02-03-06.htm#uael
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Classified Ads-Collector/Controller/Contract Administrator
Collector
Collector: Boston, MA. Challenging position where my skills, professional experience, organization, leadership, strategic thinking, creativity, energy, passion, competitive nature will enable me to define opportunities and personal development.
Email: bernd.janet@verizon.net |
Collector: Jacksonville, East Brunswick, FL. 13 years experience with collection, recovery,re-marketing and legal on commercial loans and leases. Expertise with distressed portfolios, Six Sigma trained. Willing to relocate.
Email: RichardB12364@aol.com |
Collector: Wellington, FL
4+ years experience in credit/collections, 7 of which were with a large equipment leasing company as a manager.Also 3rd party collection experience.
Email: michaelgalan@adelphia.net |
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Controller
Controller: Seattle , WA
CPA w/ Sarbanes Oxley/ 15 years management exp. as CFO/ Controller/5 yrs w/ PWC Extensive exp providing accounting/ tax guidance for the equipment lease industry. Willing to relocate.
Email: bltushin@hotmail.com
RESUME |
Controller: Southeastern, MI.
Controller & Management experience w/ equip lessors &broker. MBA, CPA w/ extensive accounting, management, securitization experience with public and private companies. Willing to relocate.
Email: Leasebusiness@aol.com |
Controller: Uniondale, NY
I have a strong multifaceted background in all areas of lease accounting combining my years as a Controller of leasing companies and as Vice-President of Leasing for a NY Bank.
Email: awinitt@hotmail.com |
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Contract Administrator
Contract Administrator: New York, NY.
10+ years in equipment leasing/secured lending. Skilled in management & training, documentation, policy and procedure development & implementation, portfolio reporting. Strong work ethic.
Email: dln1031@nyc.rr.com |
Contract Administrator: Portland, OR.
6+ years small ticket leasing/financing. Documentation/funding
Policy development &implementation, management &training, process mapping, customer service, broker, vendor, portfolio experience.
Email: susanc777@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:
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Archives-GE began cutting back with Tilden in 2001
February 6, 2001
Colonial Pacific (2/2001) closed former Tilden operation in Hauppauge, NY and Anaheim, CA, at noon today.
This came as a surprise to employees, we were told. They were not "upset," but surprised.
They specifically did not want to talk "on" or "off" the record.
We had reported in Leasing News, September 21, 2000: "Tilden in its current form will be closed down and folded into GE\Colonial Pacific."
(Note: GE Capital purchased Colonial Pacific Leasing in 1998, after it had been run by Pitney Bowes, who purchased it from Rose Lumber. Perhaps this move was the first to fore shadow the cost of return for the dollar operated, when it ended this small ticket program, except for a few brokers. Eventually they phased out this once successful operation, along with other programs.
Reportedly in the last six months, GE Capital has been getting out of small vendor program, including many of their own manufacturing subsidiaries who require small ticket financing programs. It looks like the thrust is moving its energies to higher ticket items, not under $250,000 transactions, plus aiming at the India/China basin, positioning itself for more intercontinental business, because that is where the money is. Certainly manufacturing is moving in this direction, too. Editor)
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Story Credit Lessors
( for other "Funder", who do not specialize in "Story Credits," click here
for "Super Broker/Lessor," who primarily place leases, click here
for "Broker/Lessor," click here )
These companies specialize in "C" and "D" credits, often news businesses, or businesses where the principal(s) have Beacon score around 600 or previous difficulties; meaning to become comfortable with the credit and financial situation you need to learn the "story" to make a positive decision, often requiring further security, shorter term, or additional guarantors. Many of these companies may also be a "B," but appear otherwise without the "story" to understand the full financial picture.
(To qualify for this list, the company must be a funder and not a "Broker/Lessor" or "Super Broker/Lessor", along with an acceptable Better Business Bureau Rating and no history of complaints at Leasing News. We reserve the right to not list a company who does not meet these qualifications.)
We encourage companies who are listed to contact us for any change or addition they would like to make. Adding further information as an "attachment" or clarification of what they have to offer would be helpful to readers is very much encouraged.
( To apply to be listed, please fill in this form and fax to 408.374.3843 or you
may e-mail to: kitmenkin@leasingnews.org )
Story Credit Form
Alphabetical list - click on company name to view more details |
| ABCO Leasing, Inc. |
Blackstone Capital Partners, L.P. |
IFC Credit Corporation |
| Advantage Funding |
Boston Financial & Equity Corp. |
Mesa Leasing, Inc. |
| Agility Solutions |
Cobra Capital LLC |
Pawnee Leasing Corporation |
| Allegiant Partners Incorporated |
Creative Capital Leasing Group, LLC |
Pentech Financial Services, Inc. |
| American Leasefund, Inc. |
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Radiance Capital, LLC |
| Bankers Capital |
Dolsen Leasing Company |
Summit Leasing, Inc. |
| Barrett Capital Corporation |
Financial Pacific Leasing |
Sunrise International Leasing Corp. |
| Black Rock Capital |
Forum Financial Services, Inc. |
TechLease, L.L.C. |
Rank |
Name
In Business Since
Contact
Website
Leasing Association |
Employees |
Geo
Area |
Dollar
Amount |
Broker Qualify |
1 |
Financial Pacific Leasing
1975
Terey Jennings CLP,
800-447-7107, tjennings@finpac.com
www.finpac.com
EAEL, ELA, NAELB, UAEL (P) |
115 |
Nationwide |
$5,000-$50,000 |
Please Call or see "Prospective Broker" section on website |
1 |
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106 |
Nationwide |
$250,000 - $15,000,000+ |
Please Call |
3 |
|
45 |
Nationwide |
$1,000 - $30,000 |
One year time in business |
4 |
Pentech Financial Services, Inc.
1983
Peter C. Eaton
Eastern Region Sales Manager
Phone - 608.661.9536 peter@pentechfinancial.com
Larry Blazek
Western Region Sales Manager
408.879.2215
LarryB@pentechfinancial.com www.pentechfinancial.com
ELA, NAELB, UAEL (H) |
32 |
Nationwide |
$250,000 - $3,000,000 |
Contact Larry Blazek
or
Peter Eaton |
5 |
|
20 |
Nationwide |
Vehicles Only
$10,000 - $1,000,000
|
Please Call |
6 |
Sunrise International Leasing Corporation
1975
Carrie Halvorson or Jim Teal,
800-950-3211
www.sunriseleasing.com
ELA (I) |
20 |
U.S., Canada, Latin America |
$1,000
minimum no hard cap in place for maximums |
One year time in business |
7 |
|
12 |
National |
$100,000 to $1,500,00 |
A deal in hand and a full package |
8 |
Creative Capital Leasing Group, LLC
1980
Alister McNeil
949-646-6814
949-646-7094- Fax
www.Creativeclg.com
NAELB, UAEL (M) |
12 |
USA |
$40,000 - $1,000,00 |
Please call Broker Manager, Todd or Jason |
9 |
Summit Leasing, Inc.
1986
James, Klemens, Kevin, Mike, Mark
(800) 736-1530
www.summitleasing.com
UAEL (S) |
12 |
CA, ID, MT, OR, WA |
$20,000 - $400,000 |
Contact us |
10 |
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10 |
11 Western State |
$10,000.00 - $250,000.00 |
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11 |
Allegiant Partners Incorporated
1998
415.257.4200
Doug Houlahan ext. 205
Paul Foster ext. 206
www.allegiant-partners.com
ELA, NAELB & UAEL (B) |
9 |
Nationwide, including Alaska & Hawaii |
$70,000 to $250,000 |
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12 |
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8 |
Nationwide
(except LA, AR and AK) |
$50,000 to $2,000,000 |
Please Call |
13 |
|
7 |
US Canada (F) |
$50,000 to $3MM
$250,000 average transaction |
Please Call |
14 |
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7
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Nationwide |
$50,000 to $1.0 million. Our average size transaction is $250,000.
Preferred Range
$100,000 to $500,000
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15 |
American Leasefund, Inc.
1999
Tom Davis
tom@alclease.com
800.644.1182 - PH
503.244.0845 - FX
www.alclease.com
UAEL (Q) |
6 |
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington |
$3,500 - $50,000 |
Please Call |
16 |
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6 |
Nartionwide - 50 States |
$25,000.00 + |
Please contact Larry LaChance |
17 |
|
6 |
Nationwide |
$50,000 to $1MM
$250,000 average transaction |
Please call |
18 |
|
6 |
California Only |
$10,000 to $200,000 |
NAELB Members preferred but not required |
19 |
|
5 |
U.S. |
$50,000 - $1,000,000
(Master Lease) |
Please Call |
20 |
|
5 |
Western U.S. |
$25,000 - $350,000 |
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21 |
Barrett Capital Corporation
1975
Barry Korn
914-632-4200
Cell: 914.954.1900
Barrett@BarrettCapital.com
www.BarrettCapital.com
NVLA |
4 |
United States |
Vehicles Only
$10,000 minimum |
Please Call |
23 |
|
4 |
Northwestern
(see comments) |
$5,000 - $50,000 |
Please Call |
24 |
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4 |
Nationwide |
$20,000, average transaction size is $200,000 |
Please Call |
(A) Pawnee Leasing Corporation; Some times we go higher than $30,000, but our marketplace is from $1,000 to $30,000.
(B) Allegiant.pdf
(C) Mesa Leasing, Inc., Industries served: Titled vehicles (Trucks, trailers, OTR, etc.), Construction, Restaurants, and all the other "hard to get approved" industries.
(D) ABCO Leasing, Inc. in Seattle area has been operating since 1974 serving the broker community. We required full financial disclosure on every transaction. We do story transaction, but do not like to refer to them as "C" of "D" credits. We think of therm as "A" type credits that have not been discovered yet. In actuallity, we do not really like to look at what most describes as "D" credits.
(E) Black Rock Capital comment: We book anywhere between $15 to 20 million per year. We do no "app only" business and require a full financial package for each transaction. Our average size transaction is approximately $250k and, although, we concentrate in printing, packaging (steel rule die industry) and road construction equipment we do not rule out anything that makes sense. More information can be found at www.blackrockcapital.com.
(F) Black Rock Capital (Ireland) Limited and Black Rock Capital (UK) Limited provide the same services for small to middle market corporations in the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom.
(G) Cobra Capital, LLC. Comments: Our registered trademark "Making impossible possible" is our central marketing tagline for both strong and weak credits. I have developed a 10 year history, (from Cobra and my prior company GALCO), with specialty, non-conforming transactions (story credits) and have a solid reputation for candidly responding to our originators and lessees and working diligently to mitigate deal risk rather than making excuses to turn deals down. Our originators prefer our underwriting approach to non-conforming transactions since unlike most non-conforming funders, we prefer to mitigate risk versus jacking our return. Both Originators and Lessee's prefer our candid approach as we are also frequently asked to advise lessee's and lessors on the best way to structure their bank loans and raise capital due to our 25+ year banking and accounting backgrounds as my partner and I are both former bankers and CPA's.
| Partners Bio | LaSalle Bank Reference | Cole Taylor Bank Reference |
(H) Pentech is the lessor partner with Manifest Funding Services for their Navigator, Navigator Plus & Navigator Direct. This is through our sister company Pentech Funding Services, located in San Diego and headed up by Ron Wagner.
(I) Sunrise International Leasing Corporation Comment: The broker program is "...an informal program as our primary business is still vendor leasing."
(J) Boston Financial & Equity Corporation, most of our leases are venture capital backed startups and turnarounds. We require full financial disclosures, CPA and internal statements, no tax returns. We do not required additional collateral, no PG's or RE needed. Do not send deals with large tax liens, especially if they are payroll taxes.
(L) IFC Credit Corporation also services on a regular basis "A" and "B" credits, but it also considers "story credits." "As you say, we need to become comfortable with the credit and financial situation and learn the "story" to make a positive decision, often requiring further security, shorter term, or additional guarantors. I would describe the B and C type credits we fund as companies having 'checkered earnings'."
(M) Creative Capital Leasing Group: "We are able to fund tough deals, bad credits, BK's, past tax liens, start ups, used equipment, etc., because we look outside the transaction for real estate, and marketable securities to take as additional collateral."
(N) Blackstone Capital Partners, L.P. lends up to 50% of verified auction value for working capital and/or equipment financing requests (we of course include equipment to be acquired in our valuation). Using this formula, allows Blackstone to approve deals on the assets rather than the credit or cash flow that other lenders desire. Also being an asset lender, we are looking for hard assets i.e. yellow iron, machine tool, manufacturing lines, textile etc... We do not care for soft assets such as computers, furniture, restaurant, or "white elephants" (equipment that is too specific to the clients needs and was specially built for them - there would be no resell available and our liquidity if repossessed would be in jeopardy). If you have any questions, please feel free to call, we will do our best to help or seek the answer for you.
(O) Bankers Capital " We will do ANY Type of Equipment, in ANY industry, in ANY state. We especially like 6-figure transactions with full financial packages no matter how good or bad they look. We look to structure the story C&D credits with any kind of additional collateral that makes sense. It could be with 2nd or 3rd mortgages on residential or commercial Real Estate, additional equipment, cash value life insurance, security deposits, vendor agreements. We look for any way to make the deal work instead of looking for any way to decline the deal."
(P) Financial Pacific Leasing supports a nationwide network of Brokers and Lessors. We specialize in "B" and "C" credits for established companies as well as companies under two years in business.
(Q) American Leasefund, Inc. funds small hard to do transactions under $50,000.00. Most of the transactions are "app only". We look for additional collateral or larger first payments to help the weaker credits. We maintain and service our own portfolio. All of our lessee billings are done via ACH.
(R) Dolsen Leasing has served the 11 Western States since 1958 and specializes in B & C Credits for established and new companies. We require a full financial package and offer both leases and financing for new and used equipment in the range of $10,000.00 to $250,000.00. Specialties include titled vehicles for both existing and new owner operators. Story credits are considered as long as credit has been reestablished and trends are positive. Credit decisions are based on old fashioned common sense, not credit scores, allowing us a very quick turnaround-often the same day. We accept broker business and also have in house salesmen.
(S) We at Summit Leasing consider ourselves to be primarily "B" credit lenders, working almost exclusively through brokers.
(T) TechLease - due to previous experiences, TechLease is vertically focused on three primary sectors: Semiconductor, Media and Aerospace. We fund all deals and hold paper an all equipment under $250,000. Deals over $150,000 we typically want to meet the Lessee face-to-face. We prefer business in California, however we will fund nationwide.
(U) We specialized in start-up business. These are the northern states we do business in AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, OR, WA. Click here to read our Product overview and Press Realease.
(V) Agility Solutions; we fund all equipment used by Wireless Internet Service Providers.
Click here to see Leasing News story.
(W) Forum Financial Services, Inc., prefer venture capital backed start-ups and middle market to large corporate turnaround companies including companies in bankruptcy and post bankruptcy. Our absolute minimum sales for an established business with financial problems are $10.0 million. (this does not include venture capital backed start-ups).
(X) Advantage Funding - While we also consider quality equipment leasing as a funder, in the title vehicle leasing business, we consider all types of situations and credits and speciality vehicles for commercial use. We have a history of understanding all types of title vehicle leasing.
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"Funder List" Up-dated
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| Advantage Funding |
Diablo Capital |
National City Comm Capital |
| Agility Solutions |
Dolsen Leasing Company |
NetBank Business Finance |
| AIG Comm. Equip. Fin., Inc. |
Dumac Leasing |
Northern California Production Credit Assn. |
| All Points Capital |
Enterprise Funding |
Padco Lease Corp. |
| Allco Lsg, a division of LEAF Fin. Corp. |
Equilease Fiancial Services |
Pawnee Leasing Corporation |
| Allegiant Partners Inc. |
Evans National Leasing, Inc. |
People's Capital and Leasing Corp. |
| American Bank Leasing Corp. |
Fifth Third Leasing Company |
PFF Bank & Trust - CA only |
| American Leasefund, Inc. |
Financial Pacific Leasing |
PFF Bank & Trust - Commercial |
| Balboa Capital Corporation |
First City Bancorp |
Pioneer Capital Corporation |
| Bankers Capital |
First Credit Corporation |
Popular Leasing |
| Barrett Capital Corporation |
First Federal Leasing |
Puget Sound Leasing |
Belvedere Equipment Finance Corp. |
Forum Financial Services, Inc. |
Pullman Bank & Trust |
| Black Rock Capital |
GE Comm Fianance
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Radiance Capital, LLC |
| Blackstone Capital Partners, L.P. |
Heritage Pacific Leasing |
RBS Asset Finance |
| Boston Financial & Equity |
Hewlett-Packard Fin Srvcs |
Republic Financial Corp. |
| Bank of the West |
Highland Capital Corporation |
Rockwell Finance Group
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| Butler Capital Corporation |
Home Savings Bank |
Sovereign Bank |
| BWC Equipment Leasing |
HPSC |
Standard Professional Services, LLC. |
| C Leasing Company |
Huntington Bank Equipment Fin |
Summit Leasing, Inc. |
| California First Leasing |
ICB Leasing Corp. |
SunBridge Capital |
Cashmere Valley Bank |
IFC Credit Corporation |
Sunrise International Leasing Corp. |
| Caterpillar Financial Services |
Irwin Business Finance |
Suntrust Leasing |
| Centennial Bank |
Lakeland Bank Leasing |
TCF Equipment Finance |
CFC Investment Company |
LaSalle National Leasing |
TechLease, L.L.C. |
| CIT Group |
Madison Capital |
Textron Financial Corporation |
| Coamerica Leasing Corp. |
Main Street Bank Leasing |
The Matsco Campanies |
| Cobra Capital LLC |
Marcap Corporation |
Tokyo Leasing U.S.A. |
| Columbia Bank |
Marlin Leasing Corp. |
Tri County Bank |
| Comdisco |
MB Financial Bank |
US Bancorp |
| Commonwealth Capital Corp. |
MBNA |
US Bancorp Business Leasing |
| Creative Capital Leasing Group, LLC |
Meridian Healthcare Finance |
Wells Fargo Bank |
| Dakota Financial |
Mesa Leasing, Inc. |
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance |
| De Lage Landen US |
Mount Pleasant Capital |
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To view full list with alphabetical click to, please go here:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Funders_Only/Funders.htm
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At the conference, Leasing News will be presenting Paul Menzel, CLP, with the "Leasing News Person of the Year for 2005" award. Editor/Publisher Christopher "Kit" Menkin and many of the Leasing News Advisory Board will be on hand for the presentation; to salute Paul for the over 30 years he has contributed to the leasing profession.
Register:
http://www.uael.org/events/conferences/slc/register.asp
or download form in PDF
http://www.uael.org/events/conferences/slc/RealFinalSpringApp.pdf
www.uael.org
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Classified Ads---Help Wanted
Funding Manager
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FUNDING MANAGER: Seeking a very organized, detail oriented Funding Manager with experience in discounting consumer
and commercial auto loans and leases.
Top salary. Send resume via email to ekaye@advantagefunding.us
or fax to 718 392 5427.
About the Company: Advantage Funding is the leader in automotive and equipment lease financing, Long Island City, NY.
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Independent Regional Sales Manager
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Independent
Reg. Sales Managers:
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Florida, Georgia. Other positions available nationally. Vehicle & Equipment Funder.
Earnings potential is unlimited. Two years outside leasing/finance sales, proven track closing deals. Est. customer base/vendors a plus. Click here for more info.
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Sales Person
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Motivated Sales Person
Burbank, California
Long established lessor, "app. only" to
$100K, commercial & structured
transactions up to $10 million.
Call Jim McFeeters
818-843-8686 X25
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Asset-Based Revamp At Royal Bank of Scotland Group
ELTnews
Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC said it has combined its three U.S. asset-based financing businesses under its RBS Asset Finance unit.
The unit, which has retained its name, now includes the asset-based operations of Royal Bank's $148 billion-asset Citizens Financial Group Inc. of Providence, R.I., and of Charter One Financial Inc. of Cleveland, which Royal Bank bought in August 2004.
Royal Bank said it will continue to use RBS, Citizens, and CharterOne brands in different markets.
The company said it will be able to extend the range of products available to customers with loans and leases of between $250,000 to $250 million, with particular expertise in business aviation, federal government, cross border, structured and public finance, as well as indirect sales and equipment leasing.
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Browser Wars
Firefox is challenging Microsoft in the browser wars.
This free software is available at: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
Safari is Apple's browser. The Apple system reportedly has very little spam and less hackers than all the others combined, it is said.
Netscape, who once was in the same position as Microsoft today, holds only a very small portion of the marketplace they first dominated, actually charging for their program. It is said Netscape revolutionized the World Wide Web as it was the first to replace "Archie" and "Gopher" with a very friendly "search engine."
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Mount Pleasant Capital Negotiates New Warehouse Facility
Bob Rodi, CLP, President of Mount Pleasant Capital Corp. has announced that the company has negotiated a new warehouse facility with Sky Bank. The new warehouse facility provides MPCC with a borrowing base up to $5MM and is expected to greatly enhance the company's funding capability. Mr. Rodi stated "We were reaching a plateau in our ability to handle pre-funding for our franchise customers. Without the additional capacity the potential to capitalize on growth initiatives would be limited." MPCC has also refocused its marketing efforts using targeted, web based advertising which is already producing excellent results. The company is also developing its RAPIDTrack platform for SalesForce.com and will include a "dash board" capability that will channel internet leads directly to sales affiliates in targeted metro areas. Rodi states "We expect these initiatives to produce a major increase in volume in the upcoming year. With the availability of additional capital and improved take out funding, we can accommodate additional Affiliates. We are also planning on instituting an outbound telemarketing program as we think this will be major year for refinance activity in the franchise industry."
MPCC has also completed its first subordinated debt offering. The company will use this opportunity to evaluate raising sub-debt as a growth strategy. With the help of long time friend, investor and advisor, Richard J. Masterson of Masterson Development, MPCC is presenting its capability to investors who are disenchanted with the stock market and real estate. Bob Rodi states "We are very fortunate to have a great friend and advisor like Rich Masterson. Rich was a founder of this company and he is family to us. He is still committed to our long term success and he has a proven track record and tremendous credibility when it comes to raising capital.
Rodi is also betting that the Specialty Finance industry is once again entering that part of the cycle where origination will be "King" and "buy desks" will be plentiful. It is apparent that conditions for raising capital are also turning in favor of those who have the most efficient origination capabilities, especially in niche markets. Rodi states "After 17 years in business we are in an excellent position to grow this company and begin holding more transactions in our own portfolio. We have an in-depth understanding of small ticket and the franchise niche, excellent industry contacts, and a thorough knowledge of credit scoring and risk based pricing. Couple that with an efficient, web enabled origination capability and we believe we have the right formula for growth."
Mount Pleasant Capital Corp. will debut its new logo, programs and RAPIDTrack at the IFA (International Franchise Association) show in Palm Springs in late February where Bob Rodi, CLP will head a round table session "Successful Leasing Programs for Franchisees."
About Mount Pleasant Capital Corp.
Mount Pleasant Capital Corp. based in Warrendale, PA is a technology enabled lessor\lender. The company is a leading provider of specialty finance products and "SBA alternatives" to the franchise industry. The company's proprietary, web enabled software product, RAPIDTrack uses the latest in credit scoring technology from Fair,Isaac & Co. and Genesis Analytics to offer an accurate and efficient risk management and pre-screening tool to the franchise industry.
About Masterson Development.
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Major deficit-reduction deal this year has hurdles
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-05-bush-deficit_x.htm
How commercials ranked in Super Bowl Ad Meter
http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/admeter/2006-ad-meter-results-chart.htm
Mortgage rates climb this week
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2006-02-03-mortgage-rates_x.htm
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Steelers are super for the fifth time, 21-10
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06036/650650.stm
Jubilant Steelers fans celebrate in Pittsburgh
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06036/650776.stm
Steelers reach improbable destination with Super victory
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/13801249.htm
http://media3.steelers.com/article/62382/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/sports/football/06super.html?hp&ex=1139288400&en=
1bb87f77eb49801d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Mistakes plague Hawks in first shot at title
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002786644_webrunning05.html
Reader Response: Hawks lose in first Super Bowl
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002786952_websbreader05.html
Madden living a dream
Ex-coach expected a call but learned of Hall of Fame selection from TV
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/05/SPGV6H391J1.DTL
Madden deserves Hall pass
Career as TV analyst has obscured successful decade as Raiders' coach
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/29/SPGO9GVE7I1.DTL&hw=
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"Gimme that Wine"
$2M worth of wine destroyed in Silver Oak Winery fire
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060202/NEWS/
60202012/1255/NEWS01
Now is the best time to buy wine
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/02/WIGHGH0H0V1.DTL
For better or worse, few rules for Pa. grape lovers seeking to buy out of state.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/13769257.htm
www.winezap.com
http://www.wine-searcher.com/
If you want to know if you got a value for your wine, or what the wine price is today, go to www.winezap.com Type in the vintage (year) and name of the producer with wine type or geographic area, such as 1995 Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac. Even 1995 Lynch Bages will work, or 1998 Viader
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Pay A Compliment Day
Practice his simple act of premeditated kindness and pay a compliment to coworkers, family members or a stranger on the street or in the elevator in your office building. Go ahead, make someone feel special and see a difference a sincere compliment makes.
Reggae Day
Honors birthday of Bob Marley, one of the most popular and influential performers of reggae music, an "off-beat, accented Jamaican" music.
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Today's Top Event in History
1820- US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%)) The number of college graduates in the U.S. was estimated by James Fenimore Cooper to be 8,000. A financial panic that struck the U.S. in 1819 still brought fear as many state banks were closed and much western property was turned over to the Bank of the United States. Immigration slowed to a trickle for almost two decades, especially after the new immigration law was enacted by Congress. Stained relations between the North and the South hinted at trouble to come as the Union consisted of 11 free and 11 slave states. The North, however, was rapidly outdistancing the South in population and held a grown numerical advantage in the House of Representatives. Ready for state were Maine, certain to be a free state, and Missouri, part of the Louisiana Purchase and likely to be a slave state. Big time political machines were introduced in the US led by a group of New York Democrats known as the Albany Regency. Martin Van Buren was among the leaders of the group, which controlled New York politics for two decades.
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This Day in American History
1756- birthday of Aaron Burr, 3rd vice president of the US (Mar 4, 1801-Mar 3, 1805). While vice president, Burr is remembered most for challenging political enemy Alexander Hamilton to a duel and mortally wounded him July 11,1804, at Weehawken, Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson tied in the electoral vote and the election went to Congress. Hamilton, a leading Federalist, supported Jefferson. In those days, president and vice-present were elected separately ( Jefferson when he ran for re-election, choose his own vice-president, George Clinton, starting the tradition.) It was Hamilton who denied Burr the presidency by his one vote, and lead against Burr's politics. ( Hamilton was not familiar with firearms, but was a Man of Honor" and despite pleas from friends, his wife, sons, he felt he had to defend his honor, knowing it meant his death. ) Indicted for the challenge and for murder, Burr returned to Washington to complete his term of office (during which he presided over the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase). Ironically, the man who was almost president joined forces, centered around land before Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase In 1807, one of his "partners" turned evidence against Burr to escape hanging, and Burr was arrested, tried for treason (in an alleged scheme to invade Mexico and set up a new nation in the West) and acquitted. Burr journeyed to New Orleans and entered into a conspiracy with U.S. Gen. James Wilkinson, although it is not clear what they conspired about. Wilkinson was actually in the pay of Spain at the time. This was about the time of great wars in Europe and the need for cash had France sell "the Louisiana Purchase" to the U.S. Speculation was that Burr intended either to establish an independent nation in the Southwest or to seize territory, now known as "Texas", for the same purpose in Spanish America. Burr secured financing from Harman Blennerhassett, of Blennerhassett Island in the Ohio River near present-day Parkersburg, West Virginia.. He set out from there in the fall of 1806 with about 60 well-armed men and headed downstream. The expedition aroused suspicion and Wilkinson, seeking to save his own skin, turned against Burr. He spread stories of Burr's intentions and sent dispatches to the government in Washington accusing Burr of treason. Burr was arrested and charged with of treason. Burr was arrested and charged with treason, but still had many friends in Washington and was acquitted in 1807. Born at Newark, NJ, he died at Staten Island, NY, Sept 14,1836.
1788- by a vote of 187 to 168, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the Constitution. The people of this state drafted the first constitution eight years earlier, which was utilized in the formation of the US constitution. Massachusetts is derived from two Indian words meaning 'great mountain place'. This great mountain place in New England was one of the most important of the 13 colonies in the new America, which gave it its other nickname, Old Colony State. Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, has been the center of activity in the state since those old colony days. Massachusetts state symbols include the chickadee, state bird; American elm, state tree; ladybug, state insect; "All Hail to Massachusetts", state song; and mayflower, the state flower. Which arrived first, the ship or the flower? Unique to Massachusetts is a state beverage: cranberry juice and a state muffin; I am not making this up, the corn muffin is official. The Massachusetts state motto is: Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (By the sword we seek peace; but peace only under liberty).
1788- France was the first country to recognize the independence of the United States. Treaties of amity and alliance between the United States and France were drafted in Paris this day.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb06.html
1820- US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%)) The number of college graduates in the U.S. was estimated by James Fenimore Cooper to be 8,000. A financial panic that struck the U.S. in 1819 still brought fear as many state banks were closed and much western property was turned over to the Bank of the United States. Immigration slowed to a trickle for almost two decades, especially after the new immigration law was enacted by Congress. Stained relations between the North and the South hinted at trouble to come as the Union consisted of 11 free and 11 slave states. The North, however, was rapidly outdistancing the South in population and held a grown numerical advantage in the House of Representatives. Ready for state were Main, certain to be a free state, and Missouri, part of the Louisiana Purchase and likely to be a slave state. Big time political machines were introduced in the US led by a group of New York Democrats known as the Albany Regency. Martin Van Buren was among the leaders of the group, which controlled New York politics for two decades.
1820- The first organized emigration of U.S. blacks to Africa began when the "Mayflower of Liberia" sailed from New York City for Sierra Leone with 86 blacks aboard. The ship arrived in Sierra Leone on March 9. Twenty-two years later, it took a U.S. Supreme Court ruling for 35 former passengers of the "Amistad" to accomplish the same thing. During this period of history there was a growing movement of "free" blacks to return to their native continent. As Northern states made slavery "illegal," the "free" Blacks number grew from a few thousand in 1760 to 319,000 by 1830. Many of the movements were for the benefit of the organizer, who received fees as a "travel agent." Some were outright "scams," and others started the free state of Liberia. At the turn of the century, Marcus Garvey actually bought a steamship to send his followers to Liberia, and other countries in Africa.
http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/colon.html
http://www.columbia.edu/~gtl5/seminar6.html
http://www.blackvoices.com/feature/blk_history_98/fleming/column5.htm
1843 - "The Virginia Minstrels", the first minstrel show in the United States, opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.
1862 -General Ulysses S. Grant provides the first major Union victory of the war when he captures Fort Henry on the Tennessee River. Ten days later, he captured Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, which gave the Yankees control of northern Tennessee and paved the way for the occupation of Nashville.
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/tn001.htm
http://users.aol.com/greenup1/page1.html
1865- Dashing Confederate General John Pegram is killed at the Battle of Dabney's Mill, Virginia, only three weeks after marrying Hetty Cary, the "handsomest women in the Southland." Pegram graduated from West Point in 1854, 10th in a class of 46. He served in various posts in the west before resigning his commission at the start of the Civil War. He was well connected, a Southern gentleman, but not considered a good military officer by the troops he served under. After leaving the US Army, Pegram received an appointment as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate army. Sent to fight in western Virginia during the summer of 1861, he was captured by General George McClellan's men at the Battle of Rich Mountain. Pegram was exchanged in April 1862 and sent to serve with General Pierre G. T. Beauregard in Mississippi. He fought in Tennessee and Kentucky and earned a promotion to brigadier general. After the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, Pegram was transferred to General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864, but recovered to fight with General Jubal Early during the Shenandoah Valley campaign in the summer of 1864. That fall, he was sent to defend his native city of Petersburg. On January 19, Pegram married Hetty Cary, a prominent Richmond socialite who many called the "handsomest women in the Southland." Even in the gloom of the ongoing siege, the ceremony was a grand affair attended by nearly all of the high-ranking Confederates, including President Jefferson Davis and his wife, Varina. The bride, commented onlookers, was a vision of beauty and one said that the "happy gleam of her beautiful brown eyes seemed to defy all sorrow." Just three weeks later, Pegram's body was returned to the same church, St. Paul's Episcopal, and his young widow knelt beside his coffin as the minister who married them presided over the dashing general's funeral.
http://www.richmountain.org/pegram.htm
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/essays/paradoxicacavalier.cfm
http://router.patch.net/misc/cary.html
1867-The Peabody Fund is established to promote Black education in the South.
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/11767/mcms.html
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1776/The_Peabody_Fund_established
( see the Letters of Robert C. Winthrop: http://muweb.millersville.edu/~winthrop/news2.html )
1891-The Dalton Gang's first attempt at train robbery was a fiasco as Bob, Grat, and Bill tried to rob a Southern Pacific train near Alila, California. While Bill kept any passengers from interfering by shooting over their heads, Bob and Grat forced the engineer to show them the location of the cash-carrying express car. When the engineer tried to slip away, one of the brothers shot him in the stomach. Finding the express car on their own, Bob and Grat demanded that the guard inside open the heavy door. The guard refused and began firing down on them from a small spy hole. Thwarted, the brothers finally gave up and rode away. The Daltons would have done well to heed the ominous signs of that first failed robbery and seek safer pursuits. Instead, they returned to Oklahoma, reunited with young Emmett, and began robbing in earnest. A year later, the gang botched another robbery, boldly attempting to hit two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks at the same time. Townspeople caught them in the act and killed Bob, Grat, and two of their gang members. Emmett was seriously wounded and served 14 years in prison. Of all the criminal Dalton brothers, only Emmett lived into old age. Freed from prison in 1907, he married and settled in Los Angeles, where he built a successful career in real estate and contracting.
1895- George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher and outfielder born at Baltimore, MD. One of the baseball's greatest heroes, Ruth was raised at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. He was signed to a minor league baseball contract by Jack Dunn of the Baltimore Orioles and became known as "Dunn's Babe." An out-standing pitcher, Ruth began swatting home runs in record numbers and was converted to the outfield. He hit 714 home runs in 22 major league seasons of play ( a record 60 in 1927) and played in 10 World Series. He was the game's greatest star and became an enduring legend. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 19236. Died at New York, NY, on August 16,1948.
1902- the Young Women's Hebrew Association was organized in New York City. Mrs. Bella Unterbergwas the founder and the first president. The first building used by the organization was at 1584 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
1899 - The Treaty of Paris was ratified by the United States Senate by one vote, ending the Spanish-American War.
1911- birthday of Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th president of the US (1981-89). Former sportscaster, motion picture actor, governor of California (1967-74); he was the oldest and the first divorced person to become president. He would visit John Birch meetings down the street from us in the Pacific Palisades, CA., as I parked cars for our neighbor who held the meeting at his house. I also delivered flowers to his house when I was working for Oliver Bente Florist in Brentwood, CA. He is suffering from Alzheimer's. Born at Tampico, IL. Married actress Jane Wyman in 1940 (divorced in 1948); married actress Nancy Davis, Mar 4, 1952.
1918-Birthday of trumpet player Howard McGhee, Tulsa, OK ;Died July 17,1987, New York City, NY
http://www.4stardust.com/howard.htm
http://www.trumpetjazz.com/artists.cgi?name=Howard+McGhee&x=23&y=12
1919- a heady display of labor's growing power concluded when a general strike was called off in Seattle, Washington. World War I had swelled the ranks of the nation's unions, while the Marxist revolution in Russia raised hopes of deliverance for the world's workers. In the days before the war, a strong alliance of craft unions enabled Seattle's 35,000 dockworkers to gain some of the highest wages in the nation. With the outbreak of war, the government placed constraints on the shipyard worker's wages, in hopes of rolling their earnings back in line with the rest of the country. In January, the dockworkers retaliated by walking off the job, and on February 1, 25,000 of Seattle's other workers joined the dockworkers on the picket line. The workers began the strikes in response to government sanctioned wage cuts. A riff occurred in the various labor unions, some say due to anarchists, Marxists, socialist and other "malcontents." The mood definitely was to protest the wage cuts. The five-day strike effectively shut down Seattle: factories, shops and the waterfront all sat dormant, waiting for a resolution to the dispute. A General Strike Committee swiftly stepped in and established temporary systems for feeding and protecting Seattle's citizens. Although the strike was peaceful, and the Committee judged that people were rapidly "learning to manage" the city's daily operations, local government and business chiefs threatened action against the country's unions. Feeling the fire of a potential legal or political nightmare, national labor leaders stepped in and urged Seattle's workers to end their strike. Seattle's strikers had not yet gained ground on their wage demands, but they heeded the call and headed back to work, releasing the city from their grip on this day in 1919.
http://users.rcn.com/figgins/generalstrike/northamerica/unitedstates/washington.html
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curcan/main.html
1921- "The Kid", starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, released.
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~anpajune/chaplin/chaplin.html
1921-Birthday of lead trumpet player Ernie Royal, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/bio/0,,487546,00.html?artist=Ernie+Royal
http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Ernie%20Royal.htm
1922-Lead trumpet player great Conrad Gozzo birthday
http://www.trumpetstuff.com/images/Goz/
http://www.jazztrumpet.com/tofc/charts/gozzovol1.html
( Perhaps Hollywood's Best Lead Trumpet player, title now passed down to Warren Luening, Jr. )
1924-Birthdayof arranger Sam Nestico, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.52ndstreet.com/reviews/mainstream/cappplayitagain.html
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/basie_c_cat3.html
1924-- Station KFSG (Kall Four Square Gospel) went on the air. One of the earliest radio stations licensed, it broadcast the services of Angelus Temple, the flagship congregation of the International Foursquare Gospel Church, founded by Aimee Semple Mc Pherson in 1923.
1926- Norman Rockwell's Colonial Sign Painter cover for the Saturday Evening Post was the first to appear in full color. It depicted a Rockwell kindred spirit--a Colonial sign painter
1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted, allowing the president to take office in January instead of March.
1933 -Birthday of Walter E Fauntroy (Representative-D-DC, 1971-1991 )
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000046
http://www.nblr.org/WEF.htm
1936 -Birthday of rocker Otis Williams rocker (Charms and the Temptations)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=4:40:55|PM&sql=B2kq4g4jttv5z
http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=199
1937-John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men, the story of the bond between two migrant workers, is published. He adapted the book into a three-act play, which was produced the same year. The story brought national attention to Steinbeck's work, which had started to catch on in 1935 with the publication of his first successful novel, Tortilla Flat . Steinbeck was born and raised in the Salinas Valley, where his father was a county official and his mother a former schoolteacher. A good student and president of his senior class in high school, Steinbeck attended Stanford intermittently in the early 1920s. In 1925, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a manual laborer and a journalist while writing stories and novels. His first two novels were not successful. In 1930, he married Carol Henning, the first of his three wives, and moved to Pacific Grove, California. Steinbeck's father gave the couple a house and a small income while Steinbeck continued to write. He shortly thereafter moved to Los Gatos, California, where he lived in two homes, trying to avoid visitors and celebrity status. His third novel, Tortilla Flat (1935), was a critical and financial success, as were such subsequent books as In Dubious Battle (1935) and Of Mice and Men (1937), both of which offered social commentaries on injustices of various types. In 1939, Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath, a novel tracing a fictional Oklahoma family as they lose their family farm in the Depression and move to California seeking a better life. His work after World War II, including Cannery Row and The Pearl, continued to offer social criticism but became more sentimental. Steinbeck tried his hand at movie scripts in the 1940s, writing successful films like Forgotten Village (1941) and Viva Zapata (1952). He also took up the serious study of marine biology and published a nonfiction book, The Sea of Cortez, in 1941. His 1962 nonfiction book, Travels with Charlie, describes his travels across the United States in a camper truck with his poodle, Charlie. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 and died in New York in 1968.
1938-Birthday of Isaac Hayes, one of the most important forces in the development of Memphis soul music, born in Covington, Tennessee. He played piano in the house band at Stax Records in the 1960's, and also began composing hit songs, such as "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Coming" for Sam and Dave and "BABY" for Carla Thomas. Hayes's 1969 album "Hot Buttered Soul" established his reputation as a performer. The lushly orchestrated and often lengthy songs that became his trademark laid the foundation for the disco music of such artists as Barry White. Hayes himself, with tights, cape and gold chains around his bare chest was the '70s forerunner to Mr. T. Hayes's commercial peak came in 1971 with his double soundtrack album for "Shaft." "The Theme From Shaft" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and made Hayes an international superstar. But by 1976, mismanagement and personal excesses had forced Isaac Hayes into bankruptcy. He made several comeback attempts, one of them in 1979 producing the gold album, "Don't Let Go." He is currently the voice of 'Chef' on the hit adult cartoon "South Park".
1940- TV media journalist Tom Brokaw birthday, Yanton, SD.
1943 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander-in-chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in North Africa.
1943- Frank Sinatra makes his first appearance on "Your Hit Parade."
1943- birthday of singer Fabian ( Fabianoo Forte ), Philadelphia, PA. One of several manufactured teen idols to come out of Philly in the late 1950's, Fabian had three big hits in 1959, then disappeared from the charts. His most popular record was "Tiger," which hit number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Fabian later turned to acting, and in 1974 posed nude for Playgirl magazine.
http://www.history-of-rock.com/fabian.htm
1943 - Swashbuckler screen actor Errol Flynn, age 33, was acquitted of three charges of statutory rape by a jury in Los Angeles Superior Court. It was well known that he had a penchant for teenage girls, and in the later years of his life lived openly in Havana, Cuba with 16-17 year old Beverly Aadland. While it is true, "In Like Flynn" became a popular expression during the 40's, the origination according to A Dictionary of Catch Phrases (Eric Partridge, 1986) came from: Edward J. Flynn (1892-1953) a New York City political boss who became a campaign manager for the Democratic party during FDR's presidency. Boss Flynn's "Democratic Party machine exercised absolute political control over the Bronx.... The candidates he backed were almost automatically 'in,' and he himself permanently so," Partridge comments.
http://www.inlikeflynn.com/
http://www.shopping-entertainment-online.com/vintage-stars/errol-flynn.htm
http://www.spiritone.com/~law/celeb_statutory.html
http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/
D3473A226D5984F2CA256CB1001633C1!open
1943 -- US government requires the 110,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned in internment camps to answer loyalty surveys. The first questionnaire was issued on February 3 at Tule Lake and by this date all the internment camp require their "prisoners" to answer: Question 27 asks draft-age men: "Are you willing to serve in the US armed forces on combat duty, wherever ordered?"
22% of the 21,000 second-generation respondents will answer "no" or give no response. Known as Nisei [nih-say], these U.S.-born Japanese-Americans are not expressing disloyalty but their protest against the internment. In January 1944, the Selective Service began reclassifying to 1-A the Nisei men who answered "yes" to the question and issuing draft notices. After more than 300 Nisei refuse to be inducted, authorities arrest & indict Frank Emi and six others for conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act. The seven are found guilty and sentenced to four years at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~tassi/intern.htm
http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html#4
http://www.ww2pacific.com/relocation.html
1945- birthday of Bob Marley. With his group, The Wailers, Bob Marley was one of the most popular and influential performers of reggae music, an "off-beat-accented Jamaican" music closely associated with the political/religious Rastafarian movement (admirers of the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, who was formerly called Ras Tafari). Marley was born at Rhoden Hall in northern Jamaica. In 1963, Marley formed a vocal quintet, the Wailers, who achieved some success, but little financial reward, in their native country, before disbanding in 1966. The Wailers reunited in 1968, but for several years seemed no closer than before to establishing steady careers. Then, in 1972, Chris Blackwell signed them to Island Records and advanced them the money to record an album in Jamaica. The result was "Catch a Fire," the first album by Bob Marley and the Wailers to be marketed outside Jamaica. It was the start of their climb to international fame, aided by Eric Clapton's hit single of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff." Over the next several years, Marley and the Wailers were largely responsible for the worldwide popularity of reggae music. Marley became a superstar in Jamaica, where he survived an assassination attempt in 1976. In 1980, a tour of the US was cancelled when Marley collapsed on stage during a concert. He had developed brain and lung cancer, which killed him in May, 1981, Maimi, FL.
http://www.bobmarley.com/
1946-Birthday of Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle was born in St. Sauveur-des-Monts, Quebec. She and her sister Anna first attracted international attention in the 1970's as songwriters. Anna's "Heart Like a Wheel" was recorded in 1972 by McKendree Spring and served as the title song for a 1975 album by Linda Ronstadt. The duo's 1976 debut in London resulted in one British critic saying they were among "the very best voices to be heard in popular music today." The McGarrigles sing both their own songs and French-Canadian folk tunes.
1949---Top Hits
A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight
Far Away Places - Margaret Whiting
Powder Your Face with Sunshine - Evelyn Knight
I Love You So Much It Hurts - Jimmy Wakely
1950-Birthday of singer Natalie Cole ("This Will Be," "Unforgettable'), born Los Angeles, Ca.
1955- Horace Silver Quintet records "The Preacher" ( Blue Note 5062 )
http://www.harlem.org/people/silver.html
http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/silver_discography.html)
1957---Top Hits
Too Much - Elvis Presley
Young Love - Tab Hunter
Banana Boat (Day-O) - Harry Belefonte
Young Love - Sonny James
1957--The Del-Vikings' first and biggest hit, "Come Go with Me," debuts on the pop chart. In four weeks, it peaks at #5 while on the R&B chart, it hits #3. 1958- Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid in baseball. He retired from the Boston Red Sox at the end of the 1960 season with a lifetime batting average of .344, a lifetime home run count of 521 and a reputation that will span generations to come.
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/williams_ted.htm
http://www.boston.com/sports/redsox/williams/
http://www.redsox.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/history/bos_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=1939
1961-- The Capris' "There's a Moon Out Tonight" enters the R&B charts.
1962- Birthday of singer Axl Rose [William Bailey] Lafayette IN (Guns & Roses)
http://www.celebritystorm.com/mcelebs/pics/AxlRose/
1965---Top Hits
You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers
The Name Game - Shirley Ellis
This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
You're the Only World I Know - Sonny James
1965-- The Temptations' "My Girl" hits #1 R&B.
1967 - Muhammad Ali retained his world heavyweight title and won the WBA heavyweight title with a 15-round decision over Ernest Terrell in the Houston Astrodome.
1968 - Joan Whitney Payson was elected as president of the New York Mets. One year later, the 'Miracle' Mets would become world champions.
1968 - The Xth Winter Olympic games opened in Grenoble, France. Some 18,000 people participated in the opening ceremonies as the games were dedicated by General Charles de Gaulle. Thousands of scented paper roses were dropped from helicopters against a background of five circles drawn in the sky by the smoke of parachutists. And Olympic flags were shot into the air by cannons.
1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard took a six-iron stashed inside his spacecraft took a swing at three golf balls on the surface of the moon. Shepard whiffed the first swing. The others were good shots that went a few hundred yards in space's vacuum. Because his moonwalk suit was so bulky, he didn't get enough of a swing to launch the golf balls into orbit. But he did get a couple of divots.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/9804/moonpunt_a15.jpg
1973---Top Hits
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas
Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith
She Needs Someone to Hold Her (When She Cries) - Conway Twitty
1978 - A massive nor'easter buried the cities of the northeastern U.S. Storm totals included 18 inches at New York City, 16 inches at Philadelphia, and 14 inches at Baltimore. The Boston MA area received 25 to 30 inches in "The Great New England Blizzard", and the mayor outlawed travel in the city for an entire week.
1981---Top Hits
The Tide is High - Blondie
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
I Feel like Loving You Again - T.G. Sheppard
1985 - For the first time in 123 years, French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted a new product. On grocery store shelves and in trendy establishments, you could find water with a twist of lemon, lime or orange.
1985-Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer and inventor of the best-selling Apple II computer, resigned from the company on this day in 1985. The company, which started in Wozniak's garage in 1976, had become a massive bureaucracy by the mid-1980s. Wozniak had developed his first computer, the Apple I, as a project to impress his friends in the Homebrew Computing Club. With Steve Jobs' help, he created the Apple II, which went on sale in 1977 and quickly became popular with mass-market consumers, not just electronics hobbyists. As the fastest growing company in history, Apple experienced serious growing pains, including the hiring of a professional management team. Wozniak, who preferred to remain an engineer rather than participate in management politics, objected to the tactics and strategies of Apple's management. He lives in Los Gatos, California, where he has attempted to start several companies, but basically remains a "dilettante." The San Jose Technology Museum is located on a street named after him called "Woz Way."
1985- skier Dianne Roffe, 17, took first place in a giant slalom race to become the first US woman to win a gold medal in a World Alpine Skiing Championship race.
1985-Microsoft announced it would develop a word processing program for the IBM PC on February 6, 1985. Microsoft later adapted the program, called Word, to the Macintosh. At first, Word was an underdog, competing with category dominator WordPerfect; however, Word's intuitive, user-friendly design quickly won users over, making it the most popular software in history. Word marked an important turning point for Microsoft, which moved from being an operating-systems company catering to computer manufacturers, to a consumer-oriented software company. Perhaps the best marketing ploy was the Microsoft Suite, where the software programs were bundled at a very low price and coordinated with each other: word, excel, access, money, and originally publisher ( later replaced by the browser Explore. It took up to 14 hard floppy disks to install and was quite time consuming and large for its day, but the integration between word and excel doomed the very popular word perfect and other spread sheet programs that were perhaps superior to excel at the time but more difficult to learn and more expensive, plus did not interchange with other software.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old, adding another year to his already established record as the oldest United States President. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the previous record holder, by serving the country at age 70.
1988 - Arctic cold invaded the south central and eastern U.S. Sixteen cities reported new record low temperatures for the date. Squalls in the Great Lakes Region produced a foot of snow at Arcade NY in three hours.
1989---Top Hits
When I'm with You - Sheriff
Straight Up - Paula Abdul
When the Children Cry - White Lion
What I'd Say - Earl Thomas Conley
1989- The first nude musical, "Oh! Calcutta!," closed on Broadway after 5,059 performances. John Lennon was one of the writers who contributed to the show, which opened off-Broadway in 1969
1989 - Forty-one cities in the western U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date. Lows of -30 degrees at Ely NV and -33 degrees at Richfield UT were all-time records. Morning lows of 31 degrees at San Francisco CA and -15 degrees at Reno NV were records for February. Logan Canyon UT was the cold spot in the nation with a low of 54 degrees below zero, and Craig CO hit 51 degrees below zero.
1990- Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues scored his 50 th goal of the season to join his father, Hall of Fame left wing Bobby Hull, as the only father-son combination in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season. 1993 - Tennis champion Arthur Ashe died of complications brought on by AIDS that he received from a blood transfusion.
1992- Bob Dylan made a rare TV appearance on David Letterman's 10th anniversary special. He performed "Like a Rolling Stone," backed by an all-star band that included Emmylou Harris, Chrissie Hynde and Carole King.
1995- Keith Lockhart replaced John Williams as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Williams had led the orchestra since 1980, when he took over after the death of the legendary Arthur Fiedler.
1998 - Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport, for U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1998 - Carl Wilson, the Beach Boys' lead guitarist and youngest of the Wilson brothers, died at age 51 in Los Angeles. He'd been diagnosed with lung cancer which then spread to his brain. Despite chemotherapy, Wilson lost the battle. During the group's publicized ups and downs with drugs over the years, Carl's steady influence reportedly was responsible for keeping the group together. He went to University High School, West Los Angeles, CA. He really was a surfer, personal testimony; Zuma Beach, Malibu, rarely Santa Monica Beach.
2000- the NFC defeated the AFC 51-31 which set an NFL record for most points scored by a conference and total points combined for a Pro Bowl.
2000-Janice Mirikitani, wife of Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial, was named the poet laureate for San Francisco for 2000.
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