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Wednesday,
July 21,2004
Headlines---
Classified
Ads----Leasing Industry Attorneys
Terminal
Marketing/Wells Fargo “Hell and High Water Contract”
Fraud
Involved with NorVergence Payroll?
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Marlin
Business 2nd Q Results Conference Call For July 28, 2004
Research
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Peter
Petropulos Joins GMAC Commercial Finance
U.S.
Bancorp Oliver-Allen Tech. Adds Online Asset Tracking
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Classified
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Listed are Attorneys
and law firms who specialize in the leasing industry, belong to a leasing association, and are looking for clients to
represent---free ad
California - statewide:
CA "ELA"
5-attorney creditors rights law firm, in biz 25 yrs +, specialize all aspects of creditor representation. Primarily represent equipment lessors & funders,plus collection and creditor rep. in bankruptcy.
Email: phemar@hemar.com Website: www.hemar.com
California - statewide:
Encino, CA. "ELA"
24 Attorney AV-rated Law firm representing the Leasing Industry for over 25 Years. We specialize in Lease-enforcement, collection and representation in Bankruptcy Court.
email: sjenkins@hemar-rousso.com
Website: www.hemar-rousso.com
Connecticut, Southern New England: EVANS, FELDMAN & BOYER, LLC Collections, litigation, documentation, portfolio sales and financing, bankruptcy. We represent many of the national and local leasing companies doing business in this state. Past chairman EAEL legal committee. Competitive rates.
email: rcfeldman@snet.net
EAEL
Law Firm - Service,
Dallas, TX. ELA
Mayer regularly practices in leasing, secured financing, project development and finance and corporate finance.
email: dmayer@pattonboggs.com
Website: www.pattonboggs.com
Los Angeles, Statewide: CA. "ELA" Aggressive creditors rights law firm specializing in equipment leasing handling collection matters on a contingency, fixed fee or hourly basis.
email: RGarwacki@prodigy.net
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Email: rrcohn@aol.com
National: Full staff of attorneys and legal assistants work with Group Leader Barry S. Marks to ensure prompt, cost-effective responses to client needs:
Email: poetbarry@aol.com
Website: www.leaselawyer.com
National:
Coston & Lichtman: Business
attorneys serving the lease-finance industry since 1980. Transactional, documentation, corporate; workouts, litigation, bankruptcy. Chicago & Florida offices. Jim Coston, CLP (Members: ELA/UAEL/MAEL)
email: Jcoston@costonlaw.com
Website: www.leaselawyer.com
Northern California
- Statewide: CA "EAEL" "ELA" San Francisco expertise
at Marin County prices; practice limited to equipment leasing and finance
with 22 years experience, testimonials. Ken Greene, Esq.
Vox: 415 461 3777
Email: keng@kengreenelaw.com Website: www.kengreenelaw.com
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Terminal
Marketing/Wells Fargo “Hell and High Water Contract”
“Thanks for posting
the depositions from the Wells Fargo litigation, which
will help the little
guys mount an effective defense against Wells Fargo
rather than make
the 'economic decision' and pay greenmail.
“ We just sent you
the O'Connor Deposition, the Wells manager on the spot during Oct, Nov,
Dec, Jan 2000-01 when the fraud occurred.
This one lays bare the people and
documents at the
actual lease assignment level - the point when Terminal
Marketing Company,
Inc. supposedly assigned leases to Terminal Finance Corp
II and Wells Fargo
facilitated investors providing funding with the TFCII
leases as collateral. What information was available to Wells at
the point
of supposed assignment?
“The dirty little
secret is admitted to - that Terminal Marketing was Wells'
servicing agent for
the lease-level actions in the portfolio.
Wearing this
"hat" Terminal
Marketing had a legal duty to tell Wells what was going on
with the trust assets,
the instant after the point of assignment.
What
about the instant
before, or the many instants going back to 1995?
Is the
court going to permit
Terminal Marketing to lean on one buttock (servicing
buttock) and know
the status of the leases but lean on the (assignor)
buttock and not know? We don't think so.
“But the key hurdle
to obtain a ruling that knowledge was imputed to Wells
based upon the legal
duties of Terminal Marketing as servicer and seller and
the multiple roles
, going back to 1995. What roles? Wells' litigation
position "We
are the Indenture Trustee, with limited, ministerial duties"is
a knowing misstatement
used to bluff defendants and mislead the courts.
Wells Fargo handled
the lockbox (deposits) account, was the back-up servicer
with oversight of
Terminal Marketing, worked with Terminal Marketing
personnel in the
joint production of financial reports, and also worked for
TFCII as "note
administrator." These multiple
roles are not ministerial,
they involve oversight
and access to Terminal personnel and files.
A ruling
that Terminal Marketing
was appointed "agent" for lease level activities
would normally impute
knowledge to Wells - and defeat their aspirations of
collecting from the
victims rather than their former business partners at
Terminal Marketing.”
Keep in Touch
Dale Washington
714 593-2317
Please find attached
the final transcript of Eileen O'Connor taken
Wednesday, July 14.
http://two.leasingnews.org/loose_files/OCONNOR.htm
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The Foundation Issues Report: to Help Lessors Forecast Quality, Evaluate Stability
The Equipment Leasing
and Finance Foundation yesterday released a new report providing lessors
with tools for evaluating the quality and stability of their operations.
http://www.two.leasingnews.org/loose_files/ForecastingQuality.pdf
“ Forecasting Quality
is a study that identifies key measures and useful indicators helpful
in successfully managing an equipment leasing and finance business measures that can be used to improve the financial
quality of the industry. Lessors can use Forecasting Quality to evaluate
their own financial health, which of possible acquisition to targets,
and continue to make good business decisions. The study isolates tools
helpful in achieving success and is based on an analysis and review
of the trends and signals that occurred in The Perfect Storms Study.
These tools are separated into two categories. The first category consists
of filters that can be used to assess the internal preparedness of the
company for dealing with ongoing events. The second category is more
specific in nature and relates to industry benchmarking.”
The report was produced
by The Alta Group, an international lease finance consulting firm. It
is viewed as a follow-up to their well-read and respected “Perfect Storm”
report issued in 2001.
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/nuggets.htm
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Classified
Ads---Help Wanted
Account
Executive / Small ticket leasing account reps
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Specialist
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Port Leasing Sales Officer - Port of Long Beach:
conducts/oversees negotiations for leases, permits, property acquisition;
prepares lease proposals; negotiates prop. acquisition; neg. lease
agreements with new/existing tenants; develops financial info.
to analyze lease proposals. College degree expected. Contact:
Stuart Satow, CPS Executive Search 916-263-1401,
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Fraud
Involved with NorVergence Payroll?
from Yahoo listserve:
“Your email has been forwarded to the NJ Department of
Labor and Workforce
Development - Division of Wage and
Hour Compliance for
review and response.
“We have just been
advised that NorVergence has filed
Chapter 7 on July
14, 2004. Since the company is
declaring bankruptcy,
it will be necessary for you to
file with the Bankruptcy
Court. Contact the United
States Bankruptcy
Court at 1-973-645-4764 to request a
Proof of Claim form.
The case number is 04-32079.
Chief Judge Rosemary
Gambardella has been assigned to
this case. The last
date to file a claim is November
29, 2004.
“It is necessary
for you to file the complaint with us
and a Proof of Claim
with the Bankruptcy Court in
order to fully protect
your rights.
“Although the company
is declaring bankruptcy, we will
likely proceed against
the owner as an individual. If
you have not filed
a wage claim form, please feel free
to complete the attached
forms. If you or your fellow
workers have any
information that would indicate there
was any intent to
defraud by the owner, please include
this information
when you return the complaint form.
The completed form
may be returned to the address
indicated on the
form.
“I hope you will
find this information helpful and if
you need anything
further, please contact Donald Povia
at 609-984-3008.”
Cathy Ossmann
NJ Department of
Labor and Workforce Development
Division of Wage
and Hour Compliance
(609) 292-1704
www.nj.gov/labor
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“We have made legal
contact with both Norvergence and our leasing
company (Popular).
Of course, I am not at liberty to post the
specifics of our
claim in this forum, but our attorney's contact
information is as
follows:
“Ronald E. Quirk,
Jr., Esq.
Venable LLP
575 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004-1601
Tel: (202) 344-4677
Fax: (202) 344-8300”
“Good luck to you
all. If you have any NON-legal questions or
concerns, shoot me
an email and I will try to respond accordingly.
In short, our cell
phones are resolved. Since Norvergence is no more,
we are not expecting
anymore bills from them. So, that has resolved
itself. We have already
switched over our phone and internet
service. Our lone
remaining issue is the leasing company.”
The issue regarding
Terminal Marketing and Wells Fargo may be more similar
to NorVergence than
note, particularly in view of the issue of "holder in
due recourse,"
according to attorney Dale Washington.
“Read with interest
about NorVergence, spoke to some of the Victims, and have a
perspective which
may help:
Keep focused productively.
With planned, conspired fraud the key wrongdoers
are (always) over
the next hill or at least the money is gone when it comes
to light. It is tempting to commiserate over the details
of the fraud, but
do not build a case
against a ghost. The productive
activity is to prepare
to defend and possibly
sue the legit participants - equipment suppliers,
service providers,
or financial institutions that provided the forms, issued
the leases and were
participants - see if they are legally responsible under
agency, joint venture,
or negligence theories.
“Victims should focus
on who were the lessors, who were the sales people,
what business cards
they presented, what offices they worked out of - how
did the "team"
sucker so many people in, find members of the team who are
not over the next
hill. I saw big companies -
Sun, Cisco, on the documents.
“ How were they involved? Did
they appoint NorVergence people as sales agents?
“ Same with the banks. Locate information placing Norwest and the
banks in
privity so that the
bank cannot be the "ignorant, good faith investor" they
will purport to be
when they come to collect on the lease.”
Best regards,
Dale Washington
California
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Marlin Business Services Corp. Schedules Second Quarter 2004
Results
Conference Call For July 28, 2004
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J--Marlin
Business Services Corp. (NASDAQ:MRLN), a nationwide provider of equipment
leasing solutions, announces that it will hold a conference call with
investors and analysts on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 9:00AM EDT to
discuss results for the Company's second quarter and six months ended
June 30, 2004.
The related news release announcing the second quarter June 30,
2004 results will be made available on July 27, 2004 after the market
closes.
The dial-in number for the live audio call beginning at 9:00AM
EDT July 28, 2004 is (877) 407-8031 (International participants please
use (201)-689-8031). The meeting number is 110678 (no password required).
Please call in approximately 10 minutes early to avoid delays. A live
web cast and replay of the conference call will be available on the
Investor Relations section of Marlin Business Services Corp.'s website
at www.marlincorp.com.
About Marlin Business Services Corp.
Marlin Business Services Corp. is a nationwide provider of equipment
leasing solutions primarily to small businesses. The company's principal
operating subsidiary, Marlin Leasing Corporation, finances over 60 equipment
categories in a segment of the market generally referred to as "small-ticket
" leasing (i.e. transactions less than $250,000). The company was
founded in 1997 and completed its initial public offering of common
stock November 12, 2003. In addition to Mount Laurel, NJ, Marlin also
has regional offices in or near Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia.
For more information, visit www.marlincorp.com or call toll free at
(888) 479-9111.
CONTACT: Marlin Business
Services Corp. Bruce E. Sickel, CFO, 888-479-9111 X4108
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Peter
Petropulos Joins GMAC Commercial Finance's Equipment Finance Division
Southfield, Mich.
– GMAC Commercial Finance (GMAC CF), part of General Motors Acceptance
Corporation (GMAC) since 1999, announces that Peter Petropulos has joined
the company’s Commercial Asset Finance Group, Equipment Finance Division
as vice president, senior account executive. Petropulos will be responsible
for the states of Ohio, W. Va., western Pa., and western N. Y., as well
as all mining transactions on a national basis.
Petropulos joins
GMAC CF from ORIX financial, and brings with him many years of experience
in the general equipment finance and leasing industry, some of them
with GE, and with CIT, where he was responsible for their success in
the mining industry serving as national mining manager.
GMAC Commercial Finance,
considered a leader in its segment of the financial services market,
provides accounts receivable management, asset-based lending, equipment
finance/leasing, structured finance and supplier payment solutions to
a wide variety of middle-market clients in diverse industries. Loan
facilities are in the $1 million to $500 million range. With locations
in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Poland and United Kingdom,
the Company is positioned to provide lending services worldwide.
GMAC Commercial Finance
is part of GMAC Financial Service which has been a wholly owned subsidiary
of General Motors Corporation since 1919. Located in Atlanta, Ga., the
Equipment Finance Division can be reached at 678-553-2700.
# # #
Sites of Reference:
http://www.gmaccf.com
CONTACT:
Kim Rutherford
GMAC Commercial Finance
Phone Number: 248.358.8322
Fax Number: 248.350.2733
E-mail: krutherford@gmaccf.com
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U.S.
Bancorp Oliver-Allen Technology Leasing Adds Online Asset Tracking to
Lineup of Services
LARKSPUR, Calif--U.S.
Bancorp Oliver-Allen Technology Leasing has introduced LeaseTrak, an
online asset tracking system that provides customers with secure, unlimited
24-hour online access to detailed information about their leased assets.
LeaseTrak offers
six easy-to-use and predefined reports that track location, rent, payment
frequency, equipment cost, asset description, lease term, lease start
date, schedule number and more. LeaseTrak also offers users the ability
to export data to three formats including Excel, PDF and CSV so that
they may create their own customized reports or upload the data into
other systems.
In addition, LeaseTrak's
Asset Move Notification feature, makes it easy for users to transfer
leased equipment from one location to another while automatically notifying
U.S. Bancorp Oliver-Allen Technology Leasing.
"We developed
LeaseTrak because we wanted to help our customers gain control over
their valuable leased assets and to assist in their IT planning and
budgeting. We believe these benefits will ultimately save our customers
money and give them a competitive edge," said Kobert Smith, president
of U.S. Bancorp Oliver-Allen Technology Leasing. "We are pleased
we can provide a product that is easy to use and provides a great deal
of detail and flexibility in the way data can be used."
U.S. Bancorp Oliver-Allen
Technology Leasing provides lease financing for computers and other
types of information technology and is a division of U.S. Bancorp Equipment
Finance, Inc., a major source of middle market equipment lease financing
for companies in almost every industry sector.
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:
USB), with assets of $192 billion, is the 7th largest financial services
holding company in the United States. The company operates 2,275 banking
offices and 4,472 ATMs in 24 states, and provides a comprehensive line
of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment
services products to consumers, businesses and institutions. U.S. Bancorp
is home of the Five Star Service Guarantee which assures customers of
certain key banking benefits and services or customers will be paid
for their inconvenience. U.S. Bancorp is the parent company of U.S.
Bank. Visit U.S. Bancorp on the web at usbank.com.
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UAEL
Southern California Region Presents
Our
3rd Annual Angel Game Night
Thursday July 29,
2004
7:00 PM - Angel Stadium
- Anaheim, California
Anaheim Angels vs.
Seattle Mariners
Here is more information and form for game:
http://two.leasingnews.org/loose_files/SoCal%20Angels%202004UAEL.doc
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UAEL
Colorado Region Presents
Colorado Rockies Game Night August 6
Event Hosted by UAEL
Colorado Regional Committee, Pawnee Leasing, BSB Leasing
Take me out to the
Ball Game!
Date: Friday, August 6, 2004
Time: 7:05 PM (Colorado Rockies -vs- Cincinnati Reds)
Place: Coors Field ~ Denver, Colorado
Ticket Includes: Owners Box seats
$40.00 UAEL Member Price
$50.00 Non UAEL Member Price
Company Employees
are invited to attend. Family
and Friends are welcome!
Reserve your tickets
today by emailing Skip Wehner at swehner@bsbleasing.com Please RSVP by
August 2, 2004
Hurry and get your
tickets. Limited to 40 people!
Reserve your tickets
today by mail or online at UAEL.ORG with credit card!
________ Company
Name
________ Number of
Attendees from your company
________ Total Amount
Due
Please make check payable to UAEL and mail to:
UAEL
78-120 Calle Estado
Suite 201
La Quinta, CA 92253
Please contact Skip
Wehner with any questions. 800-945-3372 ext. 334
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UAEL
Summer Meeting Northern California Aug. 19
"Day At The
Races"
Bay Meadows, San
Mateo
Thursday August 19,
2004
12:00 pm
Cost is $40, which
gains you admission to the track, San Mateo County Fair and Buffet Lunch.
Kyne Room Reserved
Seats
Lunch starts at 12:30
Races start at 1:45
and go to 6:00
This is a networking
and social event to meet with brokers, funders and service providers
in the
Bay Area.
RSVP:
Paul Knowlton, Bank
of Walnut Creek 888-278-1079 ext 253
John Haenselman,
Belvedere Equipment Finance 650-616-1948
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News
Briefs----
Fed official: Economy's
on track
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/07/20/fed_official_economys_
Economy in 'Soft
Patch,' Greenspan Tells Panel
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A149-2004Jul20.html
Greenspan Says Rates
Could Rise Quickly
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/business/21fed.html
NVCA New Study Reports
Impact of Venture Capital on Economy
http://www.nvca.org/pdf/Venture_Impact_2004.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/technology/21gates.html?hp
Microsoft to Pay
Stockholders Special One-Time Dividend
Ford posts profit
of $1.2 billion in second quarter
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2004-07-20-ford_x.htm
Housing construction
in June falls to lowest level in just over a year
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040720-1417-economy.html
Low-income workers
seeing housing woes
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/07/20/low_income_
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“Gimme
that Wine”
Wi-Fi Hits the Vineyard
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/News/0,1145,2539,00.html
100 Wine Web Sites
http://chef2chef.net/rank/winesites2.shtml
California Wine Shipping Up 4%
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/news/20wine_e1e01_biz_e1streete.html
Small wineries lead
California’s wine growth http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2004/07/19/daily11.html
Dry Creek Zinfindel---Eric
Asimov
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/dining/21WINE.html
A visit to Seghesio:
Now that's Italian Healdsburg winery focuses on Zinfandel
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/08/WIGOK7HGL51.DTL
August 1 ---Clos
LaChance Winery Hosts Area Wide ZAP Event; 2004 Annual Zinfandel Days
Is Marked by Barbecue, Panel Discussion and Educational Seminars
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=
news_view&newsId=20040719005858&newsLang=en
This
Day in American History
1828-The
first strike in which a militia was called out occurred in Paterson,
NJ when the Godwin Guards of the national militia were ordered to keep
peace during a strike bought about by the changing from noon to one o’clock. the strikers were defeated,
but the noon lunch hour was afterwards restored.
1832-
Henrietta King Birthday – Founder of King Ranch in Texas. She inherited
a good size ranch in west Texas - 500,000 acres - from her husband and
a king-sized debt. By all reason the ranch should have gone on the auction
block, but Henrietta was a stubborn
woman. She decided to run it
herself, hiring her son- in-law to assist. Together they streamlined
the ranch operations. She personally developed the Santa Gertrudis cattle
breed that became the mainstay of the Texas cattle business. When she died at age 92 in 1925, she had parlayed that nearly bankrupt
ranch into the world-renowned King Ranch of 1,280,000 debt-free acres
and an estate in excess of $5 million.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/KK/fki16.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/hking/
http://www.taliesyn.com/hmking/hmking.htm
http://www.king-ranch.com/visit.htm
1846-
Mormons found first “American” settlement in California (San Joaquin
Valley) called “New Hope.”
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0934153094/
inktomi-bkasin-20/103-5362656-4423850
http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/calif.html
1853-
Anna Adams Gordon birthday - U.S. social activist. AAG at 24 became
the live-in private secretary of Women's Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU) organizer and its long-time president Frances Willard. She became a prominent activist in the WCTU
in addition to her duties to Willard and she served as national as well
as world WCTU president after Willard's death. It was under her presidency
that the U.S. adopted the 18th Amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of liquor, the last major attempt by government to legislate
morality and like all others, it failed. Contrary to popular belief,
deaths from alcohol abuse recorded by hospitals went down considerable,
as did traffic accidents.
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Gordon_Anna_Adams.html
1856-
Louise Blanchard Bethune birthday - U.S. architect. She was the first
professional architect in the U.S. who was also a woman. In 1889 she
was elected the first woman member of the American Institute of Architects.
http://204.168.97.3/sws/wod/lb_bethune.html
http://www.fredbecker.org/News%20Letter/L%20Bethune.htm
http://ah.bfn.org/a/archs/beth/bethberk.html
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/bethunel.html
http://www2.uiuc.edu/ro/WIA/bethune.html
1861-In the Battle of Bull Run Union General Irvin McDowell was defeated by Confederate troops led by General Joseph E. Johnston at the first Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, VA. It was the first major engagement of the ware. It was during this battle that Confederate General T.J.Jackson won the nickname “Stonewall”
(by the way, the
movie “Gods and Generals is only boring,
buffs, CS Col Francis
Stebbins Bartow, 8th GA, killed at 1st Bull Run July 21, 1861, was the
first Georgian to die in the war.
On July 18, 1861,
with Confederate and Union troops gathering nearby, a Union shell dropped
through the chimney of the home of Wilmer McLean who had retired to
an estate near Manassas Junction VA. When the smoke had cleared and
the first major battle of the war known as 1st Bull Run was over, McLean
moved away from the war to a small quiet area of Virginia known as Appomattox
Court House. On Sunday, April 9, 1865, the war ended in McLean's parlor
with the meeting of Lee and Grant for the signing of the surrender of
the Army of Northern Virginia.
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul21.html
1865-The
New Orleans Tribune, first daily Black newspaper, is published in English
and French. Belgian scientist Jean- Charles Houzeau became managing
editor of the New Orleans Tribune that year. Ardently sympathetic to
the plight of Louisiana’s black population and reveling in the fact
that his dark complexion led many people to assume he was black himself,
Houzeau passionately embraced his role as the Tribune’s editor and principal
writer. The paper closed on February 28, 1869. Presently the New Orleans
Tribune is a monthly newsmagazine targeted to the upscale African-American
community. Founded in 1985 by Dr. Dwight and Beverly McKenna, the Tribune
has earned a reputation as a fearless, pioneering advocate for social,
economic and political issues often ignored by the mainstream press.
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1219/The_
http://www.neworleanstribune.com/
1886-
The cardinal's hat was conferred upon Elzear Alexandre Taschereau, 66,
archbishop of Quebec. He was the first Canadian to be made a cardinal
in the Catholic Church.
http://www.archiv.umontreal.ca/Galeries/Groupe/TaschereauCardinal.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14462b.htm
1896-National
Association of Colored Women founded by Mary1873 - Jesse James and his
gang conducted the first train robbery in America. At Adair, Iowa, James
and company took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express.
Church Terrell in
Washington ,DC
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/terrell.html
http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/terrell.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnacw.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/dc2.htm
http://gos.sbc.edu/t/terrellmary.html
1898- Sara Dougherty Carter birthday - U.S. music legend. SDC, with her husband A.P., formed the nucleus of the Carter family singing group that included cousin Maybelle Carter (B. 05- 10-1909) and Maybelle's children (including June Carter)as they grew up. The group disbanded in 1943. The group was responsible for the popularization of Appalachian and folk music and was the first group to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Much of today's country music depends on the innovative guitar styling of Maybelle as well as Sara's slide picking.
http://www.greatwar.org.nz/carter.htm
http://www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/bio/0,,412598,00.html?artist=Sara+Carter
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ca/CarterFam.html
1899-Birthday
of Ernest Hemingway, American short story writer and novelist born at
Oak Park, IL. Made his name with such works as The Sun Also Rises (1926),
A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Old
Man and the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954 and wrote
little thereafter; he shot himself July 2, 1961, at Ketchum, ID, having
been seriously ill for some time.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul21.html
1911-Birthday
of (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan, university professor and author, called
"the Canadian sage of the electronic age," was born at Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. Understanding Media and The Medium is the Massage (not
to be confused with his widely quoted aphorism: "The medium is
the message"), among other books, were widely acclaimed for their
fresh view of communication. McLuhan is reported to have said: "Most
people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own
time." He died at Toronto, Ontario, Dec 31, 1980.
1925
-Following a sensational 12-day trial, high school biology teacher John
T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in his Dayton, TN classroom
and was fined $100.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/timeline/index.html
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/evolut.htm
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menk.htm
http://www.freeessays.cc/db/26/hmd422.shtml
http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Scopes/
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html
1929-birthday
of singer Helen Merrill singer New York
http://www.museum.media.org/ella/carnegie/artists/merrill.html
1931-birthday
of tenor sax player Plas Johnson
Donaldsville, LA
http://www.spaceagepop.com/johnson.htm
1934--
113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1943
-- "Stormy Weather" premieres in New York City with Lena Horne,
Bill "Bo Jangles" Robinson, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, the
Nicholas Brothers, & Katherine Dunham. A week before the premiere,
Horne said of African American actors, "All we ask is that the
Negro be portrayed as a normal person. A worker in a union meeting,
a voter in the polls...or an elected official. Perhaps I'm being naive.
Perhaps these things will never be straightened out on the screen itself,
but will have to wait until... [they're] solved in real life."
http://www.parabrisas.com/m_hornel1.html
http://www.moviefolio.com/movies/Stormy_Weather_1943.cfm
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Horne/horne.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/horne_l.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001HKG/inktomi-musicasin-20/103-5362656-4423850
1946---Top
Hits
The Gypsy - The Ink
Spots
They Say It’s Wonderful
- Frank Sinatra
Surrender - Perry
Como
New Spanish Two Step
- Bob Wills
1949-birthday
of Modern Blues Record owner/producer Dan Jacoubovitch, Roslyn, L.I..N.Y.
http://www.bluespower.com/armod.htm
http://www.bluespower.com/alph.htm
1951
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protested
the television version of "Amos 'n' Andy." The NAACP called
it "a gross libel on the Negro and distortion of the truth".
1953-Birthday
of Robin Williams, comedian, actor ("Mork and Mindy," Mrs
Doubtfire, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting,Good Morning, Vietnam),
born Chicago, IL. 1954---Top Hits
Little Things Mean
a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Sh-Boom - The Crew
Cuts
Goodnight, Sweetheart,
Goodnight - The McGuire Sisters
Even Tho - Webb Pierce
1956-
In a 13-6 defeat to the Cubs, Dodger shortstop Pee Wee Reese becomes
one of five active players to collect his 2000th hit and Junior Gilliam
sets a major league record by handling 12 assists at second base.
1956--Billboard
calls Elvis Presley "the most controversial entertainer since Liberace."
The article also notes that Ed Sullivan, who once said Presley would
never appear on his show, just signed the singer for three appearances
1957
- When she won the Women's National clay-court singles competition,
Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major United States
tennis title
1958
- On CBS-TV, the last installment of "Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts"
aired. Many artists owed their starts to "Talent Scouts,"
including Tony Bennett, Pat Boone, The McGuire Sisters and a singer
named Connie Francis; who not only sang, but played the accordion.
1962---Top
Hits
Roses are Red - Bobby
Vinton
The Wah Watusi -
The Orlons
Johnny Get Angry
- Joanie Sommers
Wolverton Mountain
- Claude King
1963-
The usually mild-mannered Dodger manager Walter Alston is thrown out
of both games of a doubleheader as the Braves sweep a twin bill for
the first and only time in Milwaukee, 7-2 and 13-7. To make matters
worse, the Los Angeles skipper has beer thrown in his face by a hometown
fan as he leaves the second game.
1968-Arnold
Palmer became the first golfer to surpass the $1 million mark in career
earnings despite losing the PGA championship to Julius Boros by one
stroke.
1969
- One day after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, on ABC-TV Duke
Ellington and some of his band performed a 10-minute composition titled,
"Moon Maiden." The tune featured piano, drums, bass and vocals.
1970---Top
Hits
Mama Told Me (Not
to Come) - Three Dog Night
(They Long to Be)
Close to You - Carpenters
Band of Gold - Freda
Payne
He Loves Me All the
Way - Tammy Wynette1972 -- George Carlin charged with disorderly conduct
& profanity after performing his famous "7 Words" routine
at Summerfest in Milwaukee.
http://georgecarlin.com/
1971--Carole
King receives a gold album for "Tapestry."
1972-
Rod Stewart releases "Never a Dull Moment." The album
peaks at number two and has two top 40 hits, "You Wear it Well"
and a re-make of Jimi Hendrix's "Angel.
1973
- Jim Croce got his first big hit when "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
reached #1 on the "Billboard" pop-singles chart. Two months
later on September 20, 1973, Croce died in a plane crash.
1975-Felix
Millan of the1968-Brandi Chastain birthday, soccer player born right
here in San Jose, California where women take off their shirt all the
time when hot.
1975-
New York Mets got four singles, but each time he was erased from the
base paths as teammate Joe Torre grounded into four double plays. The
Mets lost to the Houston Astros, 6-2.
1978---Top
Hits
Shadow Dancing -
Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry
Rafferty
Miss You - The Rolling
Stones
Only One Love in
My Life - Ronnie Milsap
1979-Seneca
Falls, NY. Founded to honor American women whose contributions "have
been of the greatest value in the development of their country"
and located in the community known as the "birthplace of women's
rights," where the first Women's Suffrage Movement convention was
held in 1848, the Hall of Fame was dedicated with 23 inductees. Earlier
National Women's Hall of Fame, honoring "Twenty Outstanding women
of the Twentieth Century," was dedicated at New York World's Fair,
on May 27, 1965.
1979-Genesis'
first album in over two years, "Duke," goes gold. The LP makes
it up to #11 and gives the group their first major hit, "Turn It
On Again."
1979-
Robert Palmer's "Bad Case Of Loving You" is released
1984-The
first reported killing of a human by a robot occurred at Jackson, MI.
A robot turned and caught a 34-year-old worker between it and a safety
bar, crushing him. He died of the injuries July 26, 1984. According
to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, it was
"the first documented case of a robot-related fatality in the US."
1985-John
Henry, the greatest money winner in thoroughbred racing history, was
retired after earning $6,597,947. John Henry started 83 races and won 39 times.
1986---Top
Hits
Invisible Touch -
Genesis
Sledgehammer - Peter
Gabriel
Nasty - Janet Jackson
Until I Met You -
Judy Rodman
1988-
The Red Sox suspend Jim Rice for three days for shoving manager Joe
Morgan. The Boston outfielder became upset when the skipper pinch hit
for him using the light-hitting shortstop Spike Owen.
1988
- While cool air invaded the central U.S., unseasonably hot weather
continued over the western states. The temperature at Spring Valley,
NV, soared from a morning low of 35 degrees to an afternoon high of
95 degrees. Fallon, NV, reported an all-time record high of 108 degrees,
and Death Valley, CA, reported their sixth straight day of 120 degree
heat.
1996-Gretzy
signs with the Rangers: after playing less than half a season with the
St. Louis Blues, the team to which he had been traded from the Los Angeles
Kings, center Wayne Gretzky signed a 2-year contract with the New York
Rangers estimated to be worth $4 million per year plus incentives. Gretzky
earned his money and defied those who thought he was too old and fragile
to play regularly any more. He played everyone of the Rangers’ games
and finished fourth in the league in scoring.
1997-Executive
officer of a man-of-war w3ho was a woman was Lieutenant Commander Claire
V. Bloom, who served as the executive officer of the frigate U.S.S.
Constitution, the flagship of the Navy, during the 200th
anniversary voyage that began in Marblehead, MA.
2000
-Thanks to Harold Baines' four hits, the Orioles halt its 20-game Canadian
losing streak defeating the Blue Jays, 9-5. It is Baltimore's first
victory north of the border since June 13, 1998.
Baseball Poem
The Closer
"We need to have a talk
about the door."
Her venom bared, she sheds her socks, her blouse,
her bra, her pants, then slithers off the floor
and into bed. Her eyes uncoil her spouse.
The hissing message piques
his ears. His hair
is shocked erect. His paws are clenched. His back
is arched. He freezes, sizing up her stare,
then creeps up slowly, hungry for attack.
The closer takes the field,
immersed in sweat,
the bases loaded, two outs, one-run lead,
the swarming air abuzz about the threat,
the prize so near desire transmutes to need.
He bends and grabs the rosin,
throws it down,
then with a long, deep breath, ascends the mound.
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