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Troy, MI
Proven in sales, prospecting and closing
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Monday, July 17, 2006
Headlines---
Classified Ads
---Collector/Controller/Contract Admin
Readers on “Evergreen Leases”
Top Stories--July 10-14
Classified Ads---Help Wanted
Why I Became a CLP
John Winchester-- "One World Chairman"
Book: “Turning Problems into Profit”
Trebles:Annual Lessor Resources Showcase
News Briefs---
You May have Missed---
"Gimme that Wine"
Calendar Events
Today's Top Event in History
This Day in American History
Baseball Poem
SuDoku Puzzle
40% Off Sale---Leasing Library, Closing July 31st
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Classified Ads---Collector/Controller/Contract Administrator
Les Bourgeois Winery and Restaurant, Rocheport, Missouri *
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, E. 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
Controller
Controller: Chicago, IL
experienced in lease accounting, operations, management, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Seeking position with equipment lessor. Would consider contract assignments or relocating.
email: leasecontroller@comcast.net
Controller: Philadelphia, CA
CPA/CFO/Controller/Due Dilgence Officer/SOX Lead seeking position.
Email: obrienhowardj@aol.com
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
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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* www.missouriwine.com
Les Bourgeois Winery and Restaurant, Rocheport, Missouri
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Readers on “Evergreen Leases”
Bob Robichaud, CLP
“Congratulations on a great article. I totally agree with Barry Reitman.
Hopefully every "scrupulous" lessor and broker will read it and also agree, and (in a perfect world) will then amend or have their lessee strike those unnecessary sections from their lease documents.”
Bob Robichaud, CLP
Regional Commercial Credit Sales Manager
PFF Bank & Trust
17851 17th. St.,
Tustin, CA 92780-2124
Tel: 714-730-1672
Fax: 714-505-9287
Mobile: 909-238-0392
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Charlie Lester
“I have never written one, never will and I think brokers and funding sources that do so in anticipation of shafting the lessee at the end of the lease term. I would also give you 10-1 odds these brokers and funding sources never give their lessees a warning as the lease term end approaches.
“These sources count on the fact that most lessees do not know the exact date of lease termination and the small print hides the fact that they must make formal notification to the lessor or the lease automatically renews. If the lessee was making an informed decision to renew, the Evergreen renewal would be an ethical business agreement. Unfortunately, the most common use of the Evergreen provision is to screw the lessee for missing the small print.”
Charlie Lester
cel3245@mindspring.com
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John Winchester, CLP
“Our lease document says that you are to notify if you are to exercise your purchase option. We however have never enforced that clause in the last 20 years. I think it is short sited for a leasing company to use that clause to increase profits.
“We seldom book residuals so what ever we get is a bonus and who would loose a customer over a few thousand dollars. I would say we have 65% of our business through repeat and referral business. You can't do that by playing games at your customers' expense.”
Always
jwinchester, CLP
JWinchester@comcolease.com
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Paul R. Knowlton, CLP
“BWC Equipment Leasing does have a 90 day notification period which rolls into a monthly renewal if notification is not received. The realty is that we write mostly $1.00 buyouts and we would never put a bargain purchase into a monthly renewal. We want to do repeat business with our clients and find that contacting them near maturity is well received and appreciated. Most of the time they want to keep the equipment anyway.
“We have found that managing our "back end" in this manner provides us with more future income than the residual gained. We have also been able to sell against these clauses when faced with them in the market.”
Paul R. Knowlton, CLP
President, BWC Equipment Leasing
knowlton@bowc.com
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Gary Saulter
“An Evergreen clause is something we are very passionate about at Chase Industries. I believe we are one of the few finance companies that not only lists our lease documents on our website, but under our ethics tab, explain in detail how interim rent, evergreen, forced insurance, and blanket liens all work. We know of large leasing companies that actually evergreens a put! We hold some of our paper and discount other transactions, all on our paper. If we broker a transaction on other companies' documents we require them to take out interim and evergreen verbiage. We also monitor end of lease terms on all deals just to make sure our banks are playing fair. We have caught a few of them sneaking in both practices.
“Corporate greed is very much alive in the good ol' USA! “
Gary Saulter|President
800.968.5000 | fax 616.459.6822| gsaulter@chaseindustries.com
Chase Industries, Inc. | 109 Ottawa Avenue| Grand Rapids, MI 49503 |
www.chaseindustries.com
"Evergreen Info"
http://leasingnews.org/PDF/Evergreen_Clauses_Info.pdf
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Mohammed Ahsan
“Generally we do not get involved with Evergreen Leases. Our typical transactions are either $1.00 buy out or FMV. Our doc is straight forward and we never had any issue with the lessee on window of notification problem. I do know that few lessors make a big deal on this window period and try to take advantage of the situation. To protect our good reputation, we do not want any hassle with lessee and we would like them to come back as a happy client.”
Thanks,
Mohammed Ahsan/Quail Capital
mahsan@quailcap.com
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Top Stories--July 10-14
Here are the top ten stories most "opened" by readers last week.
(1) Open Letter to Marlin Leasing
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-14-06.htm#marlin
(2) Litigious lessor loses a big case
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-14-06.htm#case
(3) “The Evergreen Lease”
—Legal but unethical by Barry Reitman
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-12-06.htm#ever
(4) Evergreen Clauses
by Terry Winders, CLP
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-10-06.htm#ever
(5) JP Morgan Chase owns $27MM Marlin Stock
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-12-06.htm#marlin
(6) Leasing Library: “Lost our Lease”
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-10-06.htm#lost
(7) Menzel Finally Gets Award
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-12-06.htm#award
(8) Archive— Web Site Up/Advisory Board
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-10-06.htm#archive
(9) Sales Makes it Happen—L.P.Kester
“Use a Tiered Approach”
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-12-06.htm#sales
(10) FASB Issues Lease Accounting Guidance
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202006/07-14-06.htm#fasb
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Classified Ads---Help Wanted
Account Managers
 "Specializing in Equipment Financing"
Charlotte * Los Angeles * New York * Phoenix
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60% com./30% res. APP only to $150,000. No industry/geo restrictions. Tremendous flexibility/freedom: your home office or our regional offices. bjohnson@alliancecap.com
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Seeking self-motivated, energetic individuals for California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,Texas
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Email resume : ekaye@advantagefunding.us
or fax to 718-392-5427.
About the Company: Advantage Funding was recently acquired by Marubeni Motor Holdings, a major Japanese trading company and is a leading commercial and consumer vehicle and equipment financing and leasing company based in Long Island City, NY.
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Why I Became a CLP
John Winchester-- "One World Chairman"
This is the thirteenth article in a series about the Certified Lease Professional program, explaining why individuals decided to become a CLP, the process, and their reaction to the knowledge and other benefits gained.
John Winchester--"One World Chairman"
In 1981, John Winchester joined Garrett Financial Services, eventually being named Executive Vice President. While with Garrett, John started Winchester Company a d/b/a Company that is active in the micro-ticket equipment leasing today.
John joined Communications Leasing, Inc. in 1987 as President. In 1988, John purchased the portfolio of Communications Leasing, Inc. from Southeastern Telecom. CLI became a founding member of One World the National Equipment Finance CO-OP. CLI/OneWorld now manages (bills, collects, files sales taxes and UCC-1's on all equipment financed) a portfolio of more than $12,000,000.00 with over twenty-five (25) banks and other funding companies. CLI/OneWorld has a staff of 12 people that produce, fund, document, bill and collect leases.
John served six years on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers (NAELB). He was regional director of the Northeast Region and headed up the education committee. John is a CLP (Certified Lease Professional) and served on the Board of Directors of the CLP Foundation. Communications Leasing, Inc. is a member of OneWorld Business Finance (the national Equipment Financing CO-OP). He was recently elected Chairman of the Board on the OneWorld Business Finance Board of Directors.
(John wanted to note his son Micheal Porter just made Tech-Sergeant USAF, Combat Arms Instructor, and his other son, Luke Winchester, is vp commercial loan officer, First Freedom Bank. He also sent in a picture of his grandkids:)
While I was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers (NAELB,) I felt one of the primary roles of the NAELB was to lead the way in education. At one time I even suggested the NAELB should form a Chair at the University of Chicago where Jimmie Johnson, PHD was a tenured professor and leasing educator.
I still feel that would be a great idea to have an annual $500.00 scholarship for a college student from the leasing profession.
Today I am very proud of the NAELB Master Member Designation for those who take an active interest in their association. I think this rewards those who participate and some of that education is bound to rub off in the association with the annual conferences and regional events. That way if a person just doesn't want to take the test they can be rewarded for active participation.
When I was president and pushing education so much and trying hard to get others to join in that endeavor I felt I should at least attempt to achieve the CLP designation. I attended a couple of review classes and finally took the review in Atlanta lead by Bob Baker. When we were finished and ready for the test I decided to take the test just to learn more about it. I thought there was no way I could pass the test. I took it just for the practice to learn what it was about, as I thought it was very difficult. In fact, I was studying on my own for the retest when word came I had passed. Even my wife couldn't believe it.
I knew I had to study harder as I get nervous at tests, particularly since so much was riding on it for me. I thought it was one of the most difficult things that I have ever done. Number one as a member of the NAELB board of directors if I failed it could be a reflection on the board and me. Second I hate tests and thought I knew enough about leasing and had come a long way from 1981 class by Sudir's partner Mr. Terry Isim.
I remember when Terry was teaching the HP38B and after about 20 minutes I asked him how do you turn this thing on? Who needs more education? Third I had evaluated and determined that since I worked for myself NO ONE would give me any more money (a raise) or a promotion (when you own it you can give yourself any title you want.)
so what did I gain? I gained the knowledge that enabled me to pass the test number one and I join an exceptional group of people that have excelled in our industry. No money, no promotion, but the self satisfaction that I am a CERTIFIED LEASE PROFESSIONAL.
I like that now you can retake portions of the CLP test and not have to take the entire test this is much better and will encourage more people to sit for the exam. In looking back, I psyched myself out that I didn't have enough knowledge to pass. I would also like to add I get more respect around the house because I passed the test on the first run (although I would not have been ashamed to have to have taken a second time because the way to succeed is not to give up, but to pick yourself up and go at it again.)
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Book: “Turning Problems into Profit”
by Christopher Menkin
Adolf F. “Sonny” Monosson's 276 page soft cover book “Turning Problems into Profit and other life lessons” is not only fun to read, educational, but shows how an entrepreneur with an inquisitive mind and willingness to find things out for himself, despite corporations or project leaders telling you they don't have time to see you or explain things to you. Monosson's never took “no” as “no,” but the start of an adventure. He went to the top of the company or the person directly in charge to get answers, as he also had “answers” for them, too.
To say that Mr. Monosson was a “character” is the least thing you can say about a man with leadership, a great sense of humor, and a person not afraid of failure or trying something new. A honest, brilliant mind, who not only wanted to turn a profit, but help others, too.
While I was in the process of reading several books, one of my habits, with one only a chapter away to finish, I couldn't put this book down, except to write Leasing News at night. I finished “Turning Problems in Profit” t before going back to the others I was reading, including Tim Russert's “Wisdom of our Fathers.” In fact, you can see why Debbie Monosson so lovers her father by reading this book. He instills the “can do” in every page.
For more information contact: debbie@bfec.com or send check for $19.95 plus $1.00 Massachusetts per copy plus $3.50 for shipping and handling to Boston Financial, 1260 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 02215 (Please make check out to: Boston Financial & Equity Corporation.)
To learn more about the book, please go here:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Sonny_Monosson.htm
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Rudy Trebels, CLP, President / CEO, IFC Credit Corporation to Speak at Annual Lessor Resources Showcase
Mr. Trebels founded IFC Credit Corporation in 1988. With a B.S. degree in business from Drake University he has over 25 years of successful experience in the leasing industry. Mr. Trebels received his Certified Lease Professional (CLP) designation in 1995. He has served on the Board of United Association of Equipment Lessors (UAEL) and served as their Membership Chair. He is a member of The Executive Club of Chicago and sits on their Finance Committee. Mr. Trebels' serves on several Boards including the Board of Trustees of Drake University, Advisory Board of North Side Community Bank and Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois. Mr. Trebels' club affiliations include membership at Evanston Golf Club, since 1997. He was a member of their Board of Directors and is currently serving on the Membership Committee. He is a member of North Shore Country Club since 1995, Bob O'Link since 2002 and
Audubon Country Club since 2005. . .
Founded in 1988, IFC Credit Corporation is a leading provider of equipment leasing and financing services to businesses throughout the United States. Headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove, Illinois, IFC provides lease financing for capital equipment. Focusing on small-ticket, middle-market, and indirect funding opportunities, IFC handles transactions from as small as $5,000 to over $20,000,000.
IFC has grown to become one of the largest independent leasing firms in the United States, with more than 140 leasing professionals employed at our company headquarters and regional offices. We've grown by offering innovative leasing solutions to diverse markets and leveraging opportunities through acquired companies. At IFC, our overall business philosophy is simple: we are committed to building a personal relationship with each of our customers so that we can provide sensible leasing solutions that help them reduce costs, improve profitability, and conserve capital. . . ABOUT THE ANNUAL LESSORS RESOURCES SHOWCASE
The Lessors Network continues setting the standard, showcasing strategic resources enhancing the equipment leasing enterprise. If you've grown increasingly frustrated with expensive, unproductive "convention" events, we invite you to experience the comfortable elegance of the beautiful Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead hotel in Atlanta, as the Lessors Network hosts a smaller "professionally intimate" group of industry executives gathering to identify and evaluate equipment leasing resources in a sophisticated, high-profile networking environment that works!
Click Here To View Showcase Details
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News Briefs----
Airbus will be determined by history
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/16/business/rairbus.php
GE Profit Rises on Health Care, Finance; NBC Slumps
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaNXJSFBMEVU&refer =
Report: Washington Mutual may be shopping its asset management arm
http://www.snl.com/interactivex/article.aspx?CdId=A-4466956-9825
June retail sales unexpectedly fall 0.1%
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/trade/2006-07-14-retail-sales-june_x.htm
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Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens
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“Gimme that Wine”
Fred Frenzia: The Scourge of Napa Valley “Two Buck Chuck”
http://money.aol.com/inc/general/canvas3/_a/the-scourge-of-napa-valley/
20060706173109990001
Forecast: California winegrape crop to drop 16 per cent
http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2006/07/10/daily31.html
Lolonis' new release: 1 million ladybugs
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2006/07/13/business/local/
doc44b6a1ff766a3277668074.txt
Texas winemakers find success in award-winning wine made from UF's hardy grape
http://news.ufl.edu/2006/07/12/uf-grape/
Wine Prices by vintage
http://www.winezap.com
http://www.wine-searcher.com/
US/International Wine Events
http://www.localwineevents.com/
Winery Atlas
http://www.carterhouse.com/atlas/\
Leasing News Wine & Spirits Page
http://two.leasingnews.org/Recommendations/wnensprts.htm
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Calendar Events This Day
Korea: Constitution Day
Legal national holiday. Commemorates the proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of Korea in 1948. Ceremonies at Seoul's capitol plaza and all major cities.
National Get out of the Doghouse Day
This is the day when anyone can “Get out of the doghouse!” Annually, the third Monday in July.
www.edenflorist.com
Puerto Rico: Munoz-Rivera Day
Public holiday on the anniversary of the birth of Luis Munoz Rivera. The Puerto Rican patriot, poet and journalist was born at Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, in 1959. He died at Santurce, a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 15, 1916.
“Wrong Way” Corrigan Day. Anniversary.
July 17, 1938. Douglas Grace Corrigan, an unemployed airplane mechanic, left Brooklyn, NY's Floyd Bennett Field, ostensibly headed for Los Angeles, CA, in a 1929 Curtiss Robin monoplane. He landed 28 hours, 13 minutes later at Dublin, Ireland's Baldonnell Airport after a 3,150-mile nonstop flight without radio or special navigation equipment and in violation of American and Irish flight regulations. Bron at Galveston, TX. Jan. 22,1907. Corrigan received a hero's welcome home: he was nicknamed “Wrong Way” Corrigan because he claimed he accidentally followed the wrong end of his compass needle. Died at New York, NYU, Dec. 9, 1995.
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Today's Top Event in History
1944 -- Two ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 — including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work forms the basis of the trial & conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny. The glare of the explosion could be seen in San Francisco, some 35 miles away. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. Officially, the world's first atomic test explosion occurred on 16 July 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico; but the Port Chicago blast may well have been the world's first atomic detonation.
http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/usa6.html
http://www.google.com/search?q="port+chicago"0drops%20back.htm
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This Day in American History
1763-birthday of John Jacob Astor, Germany, fur trader become banker, at one time, the richest man in US.
http://www.raken.com/american_wealth/encyclopedia/profile.asp?code=83
1744-Gerry Elbridge, Fifth vice president of the US (1813—14), born at Marblehead, MA. He was a well-known “gadfly” and signer of the Declaration of Independence. His name became part of the language (gerrymander) after he signed a redistricting bill favoring his party while governor of Massachusetts in 1812.
http://www.elbridgegerry.com/
1794- African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h471.html
1794- Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
1854—King's College opened in New York City. It later changed its name to Columbia University ( lower half of:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul17.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/aboutcolumbia/history.html
1861- Congress authorizes paper money. the notes were $5( Hamilton), $10 (Lincoln), and $20 (Liberty.) They were called “demand notes” because they were payable on demand at certain designated subtreasuries. There were not legal tender when first issued but were made so by the act of March 17,1862.
1862-Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts introduced and Congress passed the military act to authorized military service by African-Americans. President Abraham Lincoln signed it. The act empowered the president to accept “persons of African descent for the purpose of constructing entrenchments or performing camp competent. There was debate on blacks serving in the military, primarily from states who had seceded from the Union. There was a contingency of African-Americans who originally were going to fight on the side of the Confederates, primarily thought to protect their homes, property, and family. The government of the Confederate States refused to accept blacks into the Confederate army, whether “free man” or “slaves”, plus issued declaration of forfeiture to those who joined the Union army. Over 186,000 African-Americans served in the Union Army, with 38,000 losing their lives.
1863- Harriet Tubman led Union Army guerillas into Maryland, freeing more than 700 slaves
http://www.awm.lee.army.mil/tubman.htm
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=74
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASunderground.htm
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=74
http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/tubman/tubman_bio.html
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html
1863- Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/ok007.htm
http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/mus-sites/LHF-bhs.htm
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/indian/honey_springs1.htm
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/indian/honey_springs2.htm
http://www.oklahomaadventureguide.com/greencountry/places/checotah.html
1864 –Confederate States of America President Davis replaces Gen Joseph Johnston with John Bell Hood, against the recommendation of General Robert E. Lee. Johnston was Lee's roommate at West Point. Hood was more allied to Davis, and a very find general, but the chain of command was disrupted and Hood found himself without the confidence of the higher military command. September 1, Hood evacuates Atlanta, Ga. The next day the city was occupied by Union forces under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. November 15, General Sherman's march to the sea with 62,000 men began, leaving Atlanta, GA., in flames and sweeping across a 60-mile front with little serious opposition, Sherman's army destroys everything useful to the Confederates and ravages the countryside, and marches to Savannah. The appointment of Butler became one of the major mistakes of Jefferson Davis, who often acted alone in making major military decisions, as he was first a “politician.”
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/johnston.htm
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/statues/jejohnston.htm
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/bentonvi/Main.htm
http://www.tennessee-scv.org/camp28/johnstonbio.html
http://www.moc.org/FlagCollection/Index.html
http://docsouth.unc.edu/gordon/gordon.html
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2004/4_45/59961978/p1/article.jhtml
http://www.gwest.org/46thmsin.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/confederaterebels/bat2.html
http://ngeorgia.com/history/allapass.html
http://www.netease.net/wayne/Hood.htm
http://www.dnet.net/personal/cwh/
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fho49.html
1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in America.
1867- Linda Anne Eastman birthday- U.S. librarian. LE developed the children's rooms at the Cleveland Public Library, developed library extensions in hospitals, developed a Braille collection. In 1918 she became the first woman to head a metropolitan library system, that, under her tutelage became one of the largest and most complete library systems in the United States, its collection grew from 57,000 volumes to more than 2,000,000.
http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/sch00186.html#bioghist1
http://www.cpl.org/Locations.asp?FormMode=History
1877 -- Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins, eventually spreading from West Virginia to cover the whole country, leaving over 100 dead and thousands of rail cars destroyed. When West Virginia rail workers walk out over a 10% pay cut, the state militia sent to prevent blocking of the trains instead join the workers and America's first general strike spreads through Chicago, New York & St. Louis. Workers in steel, flour, sugar, chemical & lead industries occupy the factories and begin self-managed production for distribution to strikers The labor movement begins with many "radicals" and "anarchist" with political agendas, but the majority were workers looking not only for better wages, but a 48 work week and an age restriction as many industries had eight year olds working full days for little or no wages, as a requirement for the parent(s) to work.
1888- Erle Stanley Gardner (yes, Erle )American author of detective fiction, born at Maiden, MA. Best remembered for his series about lawyer-detective Perry Mason, Gardner also wrote novels under the pen name A.A. Fair.
1891- Anna Moscowitz Koss birthday - social-minded U.S. judge who devoted much of her private life to working for improving the services for women, juveniles, and children
http://www.huc.edu/aja/kross.htm
1898-Birthday of Berenice (sic.) Abbott, born at Springfield, OH, and went on to become a pioneer of American photography. She is best remembered for her black and white photography of New York City in the 1930's, many of which appeared in the book Changing New York. After published his collection, she began photographing scientific experiments that illustrated the laws and processes of physics. She died at Monson, ME, December 11,1991. . Her work was once described by an art critic as "...a chess game between light and shadow." Her portraits are among the most outstanding ever done, although she is best known for her studies of New York city.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPabbott.htm
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/abbott.html
http://www.artsmia.org/picture/print/abbott.shtml
http://www.3wposter.com/abbott.htm
http://www.netstoreusa.com/pmbooks/188/1881270173.shtml
http://www.nmwa.org/legacy/bios/babbott.htm
http://women.eb.com/women/articles/Abbott_Berenice.html
http://www.artsmia.org/get-the-picture/abbott/index.html
1920 - Sinclair Lewis finished the now-famous novel, "Main Street".
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/bios/32.html
http://www.selfknowledge.com/mnstr10.htm
1921-birthday of guitarist Mary Osborne, Minot, ND
http://www.classicjazzguitar.com/artists/artists_page.jsp?artist=21
1925-birthday of singer Jimmy Little Scott, Cleveland, OH
http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/scott_j_bio.html
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000827mag-jimmyscott.html
1926-birthday of trumpet player Ray Copeland, Norfolk, VA
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.asp?ctr=93645
1928—Piance Vince Guaraldi birthday
http://www.who2.com/vinceguaraldi.html
http://www.vinceguaraldi.com/
1928-birthday of drummer Joe Morello , Springfield MA
http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=product&id=1927006108&clink=dmmu.artist&a=b
http://www.dmprecords.com/JoeMorel.htm
http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Joe%20Morello.html
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jem33b/Morello/index.html
1933-birthday of drummer Ben Riley, Savannah, GA
http://www.jazzcorner.com/jokenrecords/riley.html
http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Ben%20Riley.html
1934-birthday of trumpet player Bobby Bradford Cleveland MS
http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=product&id=1927005300&clink=dmmu.artist&a=b
http://www.gallery41.com/JazzArtists/BobbyBradford.htm
1933- Dr. Albert Ernest Forsythe of Atlantic City, NJ, became the first African-Americans to make a transcontinental flight (made by African-American Charles Alfred Anderson of Bryn Mawr, PA.) He left Atlantic City on July 17 at 2:49am and arrived at Los Angeles, CA, on July 19 at 5:30pm.
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/chief.htm
http://www.blackseek.com/bh/2001/212_CAnderson.htm
1934--Extreme heat wave in Michigan begins. In the last two weeks of the month claims 679 lives in Michigan alone, over 300 in Detroit.
1935 -- Composer-humorist Peter Schickele born Ames, Iowa. Created P.D.Q. Bach, who in turn wrote "Concerto for Horn & Hardart," the oratorio "Iphegenia in Brooklyn," & "Blaues Gras" (the Bluegrass Contata).
http://www.presser.com/Composers/info.cfm?Name=PETERSCHICKELE
http://www.schickele.com/
1936- General Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in North Africa against the elected government of the Spanish Republic. Spain was quickly divided into a Nationalist and a Republican zone. Franco's Nationalists drew support from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Many saw this as a war to follow in Europe later. The USA had their foreign policy as “Me First.” Ernest Hemingway is best known as a correspondent covering this war and for his short stories and novel, “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” On Apr 1,1939, the Nationalists won a complete victory when they entered Madrid. Franco ruled as dictator in Spain until his death in 1975.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul17.html
1938-Douglas Grace Corrigan, an unemployed airplane mechanic, left Brooklyn, NY's Floyd Bennet field, ostensibly headed for Los Angeles, CA, in a 1929 Curtis Robin monoplane. He landed 28 hours, 13 minutes later at Dublin, Ireland's Baldonnel airport, after a 3,150 mill nonstop flight without radio or special navigation equipment and in violation of American and Irish flight regulations. Born at Galveston, Texas, January 22,19-7. Corrigan received a hero's welcome home; he was nicknamed “ Wrong Way” Corrigan because he claimed he accidentally followed the wrong end of his compass needle. Died at New York, NY December 9, 1995.
1939-Charlie Barnet Band records “Cherokee” ( Bluebird 10373)
1941-birthday of Daryle Lamonica Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967)
http://www.niashf.org/inductees/lamonica_daryl.html.
http://www.cmc.net/~chrisr/Lamonica/ND.html
1944 -- Two ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322 — including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work forms the basis of the trial & conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny. The glare of the explosion could be seen in San Francisco, some 35 miles away. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. Officially, the world's first atomic test explosion occurred on 16 July 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico; but the Port Chicago blast may well have been the world's first atomic detonation.
http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/usa6.html
http://www.google.com/search?q="port+chicago"0drops%20back.htm
1950---Top Hits
Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Mississippi - Red Foley
1952-Goerge Shearing Quintet records “Lullaby of Birdland” MGM 11354)
1953-The first Navy ace in Korea was Lieutenant Guy Bordelon, who achieved his fifth victory in a World-War-II-vintage propeller-driven F-4U Corsair. He was awarded the Navy Cross
http://m2reviews.cnsi.net/reviews/korean/f4u5n.htm
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dz27/pages/library/bedcheck.html
http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/2000/nov-dec/chosin.htm
1954- the First Newport Jazz Festival. The 1956 movie “High Society” made this become a worldwide event each year.
http://lycos.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0835462.html
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/exchange/exchange_festivals.htm
http://www.art4now.com/wepost2.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/special_report/1999/04/99/duke_ellington/
newsid_325000/325871.stm
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?ean=74646493229
http://www.jazzpix.com/Artist_Listing/Davis_Feature/Miles_Davis_591027/
Miles_Davis_Newport_Jazz_Fest_/miles_davis_newport_jazz_fest_.html
http://www.newportjazzfestival.com/
1954 –The first major league baseball game in which the majority of the players on one team were African-American was played between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Milwaukee Braves at Milwaukee, WI. the Braves won 6-to-1. The black players on the Brooklyn team were Donald N. Newcombe, pitcher; Roy Campanella, catcher; James William Gilliam, second base; Jackie Robinson, third base, and Edmundo Isasi Amoros, left field.
1955- Disneyland, America's first theme park, opened at Anaheim. I remember visited it in 1956 and playing Dixieland at the frontier saloon, and watching it grow into an international attraction and destination site. Many did not know that Walt Disney had an apartment there and supervised all during the week. He would stay some weekends, and since the saloon originally did not serve anything alcoholic, he would attend some Dixieland sets with his famous paper cup.
1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Hard Headed Woman," Elvis Presley. The song is taken from the Presley film "King Creole."
1958---Top Hits
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley
Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Guess Things Happen that Way - Johnny Cash
1960-birthday of Scott Norwood NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat)
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/billsthunder/LEVYSTORY.html
http://www.billsbackers.com/MarvLevy.htm
1961- Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out . Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games.
1961-Motown Records releases The Supremes' first single, "Buttered Popcorn" with "Who's Loving You" on the flip side. The record fails to chart.
1966- Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
http://www.ryun.house.gov/biography/
1965-The Miracles' "Tracks of My Tears" is released.
1965-Them's "Here Comes The Night" is released.
1965-The Byrds' LP "Mr. Tambourine Man" enters the charts.
1966---Top Hits
Hanky Panky - Tommy James & The Shondells
Wild Thing - The Troggs
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield
Think of Me - Buck Owens
1966—In San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg read poetry and Sopwith Camel performed in concert at the Fillmore, to benefit A.R.T.S. Gary Goodrow of The Committee emceed.
1967—In San Francisco, Moore Galley exhibition at 535 Sutter St. of the works by Rock poster artists Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin and Alton Kelley.
1968-The Beatles animated movie, "Yellow Submarine" debuts in London at the Pavilion Theatre. John, Paul and George attend the screening.
1971-Blood, Sweat and Tears' "B,S&T 4" enters the album charts.
1974-Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals struck out Cesar Geronimo of the Cincinnati reds to become the second pitcher in baseball history, after Walter Johnson, to strike out 3,000 batters. Gibson pitched in the major leagues from 1959 through 1975 and finished with 3, 117 strikeouts.
1974---Top Hits
Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
Annie's Song - John Denver
On and On - Gladys Knight & The Pips
He Thinks I Still Care - Anne Murray
1976-The Rolling Stones' "Hot Stuff" single peaks at #50.
1976- ELO's "OLE ELO" LP enters the charts.
1976-The Beach Boys "15 Big Ones" makes it to the LP chart where it floats right to #8 and is certified gold in September.
1976-Heart's "Magic Man" is released.
1978-Pitcher George “Doc” Medich of the Texas Rangers saved the life of a fan suffering a heart attack before a game in Baltimore gains the Orioles. Medich, a medical student, administered cardiac first aid until additional help arrived.
1966- Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1980- Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president. George Bush of Texas, former ambassador to the UN and former director of the CIA, was nominated for the vice-presidency. The Democratic National Convention in August then President Jimmy Carter and vice-president Walter Mondale for vice-president. Carter defeated Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts by a margin of nearly two to one. In November, Reagan gets 489 electoral votes to President Carter's 49, carrying 44 states with a popular vote of 42,797,153 to 34,434,100 with John Anderson, an independent candidate picking up 5,533,927.epublicans picked up 12 Senate seats for a 54-46 majority, one independent. In the House, the Democrats lost 33 seats but kept a majority of 242-192, one seat independent.
1981-About 1,5000 people were attending the popular weekly tea dance at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at Kansas City, MO,, when, about 9pm, two concrete and steel skywalks that were suspended from the ceiling of the hotel's atrium broke loose and fell on guests in the crowded lobby, killing 114 people. In 1986, a state board revoked the licenses of two engineers convicted of gross negligence for their part in designing the hotel.
1982---Top Hits
Don't You Want Me - The Human League
Rosanna - Toto
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
'Till You're Gone - Barbara Mandrell
1982-Frank Zappa and his 14 year old daughter Moon Unit have a novelty hit with "Valley Girl." It debuts at #75. Val-speak makes its way to commercials and network television.
1982-"Going To A Go-Go" by the Rolling Stones peaks at #25 on the singles chart.
1982-Chicago's "Chicago 16" album enters the chart. The album featured the #1 hit "Hard To Say I'm Sorry."
1984 - Corpus Christi sets both daily record low (70) and record high (99) on the same date.
1985 - The nation's second largest banking company, Bank of America of San Francisco, CA, reported a second-quarter loss of $338 million.
1986 - The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history took place as LTV Corporation asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts in excess of $4 billion.
1987 - Slow moving thunderstorms caused flooding on the Guadalupe River in Texas resulting in tragic loss of life. A bus and van leaving a summer youth camp stalled near the rapidly rising river, just west of the town of Comfort, and a powerful surge of water swept away 43 persons, mostly teenagers. Ten drowned in the floodwaters. Most of the others were rescued from tree tops by helicopter.
1988-- San Francisco has its hottest day ever with 103. A dozen cities in the eastern U.S., and six others in California, reported record high temperatures for the date. Downtown San Francisco, CA, with a high of 103 degrees, obliterated their previous record high of 82 degrees. Philadelphia, PA, reported a record five straight days of 100 degree heat, and Baltimore, MD, reported a record eight days of 100 degree weather for the year. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather along the Middle Atlantic Coast, and over southern New England.
1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from South Dakota to Lousiana, with 126 reports of large hail and damaging winds during the day and night. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced hail four inches in diameter in Frontier County, and at North Platte, causing millions of dollars damage to crops in Frontier County. Thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Peggs. Tahlequah OK was drenched with 5.25 inches of rain.
1990-the Minnesota Twins became the first team in major league history to record two triple plays in the same game when they turned the trick against the Boston Red Sox. But the Red Sox won, 1-0.
1990---Top Hits
Step By Step - New Kids on the Block
She ain't Worth It - Glenn Medeiros featuring Bobby Brown
Hold On - En Vogue
The Dance - Garth Brooks
1994--Atlanta endured its 14th straight day of rain, tying a record. Monthly total of 17.71 inches was a record for Atlanta.
1995-Netscape announced its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security product, designed to encourage Internet shopping, on this day in 1995. The company said the technology could conceal customers' credit card numbers from Internet merchants and hackers. At the time, the theft of credit card numbers on the Internet was costing merchants $100 million a year, Netscape officials said. The race to create security standards in the mid-1990s was followed by the explosion of Internet shopping's popularity in 1998 and 1999.
1996 - TWA (Trans World Airlines) flight 800, carrying 230 people, including four cockpit crew members and 14 flight attendants, exploded, falling into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York. The Boeing 747 had lifted off from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport at 8:19 p.m. bound for Paris, France. The explosion happened about 26 minutes later, some 40 miles east of New York, as the plane was climbing through 13,800 feet. The victims included celebrities in sports, entertainment and the arts, business people, and vacationers. Possibly the most poignant were the deaths of sixteen teen-agers, all students from the Montoursville, PA high school French club, and their five chaperones. There are several theories as to the cause of the explosion. Some believe that the airliner was sabotaged and destroyed by a bomb planted on board. Others swore they knew the plane had been struck by a U.S. missile. But, after a 16-month probe, the FBI announced it had found no evidence of a criminal act or stray (or otherwise) missile. It has concluded that the crash was caused by electrical arcing in the plane's center fuel tank igniting fuel vapors.
1997-The Georgia O'Keefe Museum, opened in Santa Fe, NM. It housed major works by O'Keefe, whose paintings of desert scenes and flowers made her the best-known 210 th -century artist of the American Southwest. It was the first art museum of importance devoted to the work of an individual woman. The museum, which contained 116 paints and one sculpture, was housed in a sprawling adobe building renovated and expanded by architect Richard Gluckman. Peter H. Hassrick was the first director.
2005 - Dave Matthews Bandís ìDreamgirlî video premieres on VH1. The band snags one of Hollywood's top actresses for the latest video from its RCA album, "Stand Up." Appearing in her first film role since the birth of her twins last year, Julia Roberts stars in the Dave Meyers-directed clip.
2005 - Kelly Clarkson's concert in Orlando, Fla., is cybercast live via AOLmusic.com. The show is also be available on demand after the conclusion of the performance.
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Baseball Poem
He's Just A Little Boy
He stands at the plate,
with his heart pounding.
The bases are loaded,
The die has been cast.
Mom and Dad cannot help him,
He stands all alone.
A hit at this moment,
Would send the team home.
The ball meets the plate,
He swings and he misses.
There's a groan from the crowd,
With some boos and some hisses.
A thoughtless voice cries,
Strike out the Bum!
Tears fill his eyes,
The game's no longer fun.
So open your heart,
And give him a break.
For it's moments like these,
A man you can make.
Please keep in mind,
When you hear someone forget.
He's just a little boy,
And not a man yet.
Author Unknown
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SuDoku
The object is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. What could be simpler?
http://leasingnews.org/Soduku/soduko-main.htm
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