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by Regina Longo, Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
first time I saw Kannapolis,
North Carolina, it was through the lens of H. Lee
Waters' camera. It was an early fall day and I was visiting Colorlab
to drop off a shipment of film from the archive where I worked at the
time. We were busy screening some stunning black and white 35mm
preservation prints struck from nitrate original camera negatives that
came from the archive's collection when Russ began to talk about a new
collection of 16mm materials that had just arrived at Colorlab from
Duke University. The enthusiasm in Russ's voice was contagious. I
anxiously awaited my first glimpse
While we sat in the darkened room continuing our journey through the North Carolina of the late 1930s and early 1940s, Russ began quizzing me: "So, who do you think the cameraman was? Do you think he was a member of the local community? Do you think he was a professional? How much footage do you think he shot before editing this? How much editing do you think he did; in camera editing or over a light box with a splicer? Do you think he was black or white? What condition do you think the original reversal was in when it arrived on our doorstep? How much shrinkage do you think these reels exhibited? " All of these questions seemed relatively simple for an archivist trained in assessing and handling actuality footage, yet I was still so caught up in the images scrolling past my eyes that I did not answer a single one correctly. I was completely in the dark. I did not remain that way for long. Russ began to fill me in on the history of the films, the filmmaker, and his subjects and I was hooked. Over the past year and a half, thanks to that initial introduction in the screening room at Colorlab, I have come to know and appreciate the vanishing world of once bustling mill towns in the Piedmont region of the U.S. South.
The filmmaker responsible for capturing these priceless images of working class life from 1936 to 1942 was H. Lee Waters of Lexington, N.C. His family relocated from South Carolina to North Carolina in 1917 when his parents went to work for Erlanger Mills. As a teenager, Waters worked in the mills alongside his parents and while he appreciated the value of a hard day's work in the factory, he pictured a different future for himself. Literally: a life in pictures. Waters never strayed far from this world of textile mills and their workers. You could say that he actually went deeper into this world with his 16mm movie camera than most of the inhabitants of the towns he visited. And he visited many, making at least 252 films in 118 towns throughout the Carolinas, Virginia, and Tennessee.
The sheer volume of motion picture films that Waters produced in six years is in itself astonishing. Keep in mind that this was during the Great Depression. In fact, Waters generated the film business to supplement the declining income from his still photography studio. While he traveled the countryside making "Movies of Local People," his wife, Mabel Elizabeth, and an assistant ran the photography studio. Waters had apprenticed in this same studio in 1925. One year later, his mother helped him buy it and Waters was off and running. Unlike many studio photographers, Waters made a name for himself by taking his camera out of the studio and documenting local life in and around Lexington, in many ways functioning more as a documentarian than a portrait photographer. He seemed to have a sense for noteworthy happenings and it is thanks to Waters that local historians today can recount in both pictures and words the construction of the High Rock Dam, as well as the visits of Charles Lindbergh and later, Harry Truman. (For more biographical information, please see the December 10, 1997, article by William Kessler in the Lexington Dispatch.
Waters approached his everyday subjects with the same enthusiasm as he did those who made front-page news and this is what initially drew me into the images that were meticulously preserved by Colorlab under the steady hand and watchful eye of Julia Nicoll, Colorlab's Optical Department Head. In addition to the Movies of Local People that he made in Kannapolis, Waters' Movies of Local People from the towns of Asheboro, N.C., Granite Falls, N.C., and Salisbury, N.C., arrived on Colorlab's doorstep for preservation in June, 2003, from Duke University. Most of the films exhibited wear and age; some showed more significant signs of damage from what is called vinegar syndrome. The tell-tale signs of this problem are a strong acetic acid smell and a loss of plasticity and flexibility in the film that results in a physically noticeable dimensional shrinkage of the film reel, as well as an increase in brittleness, often to the extent that the films are likely to break even when handled with care. Usually, films that have vinegar syndrome have a white flaky surface formation over the emulsion that resembles frost on a windowpane. In order to duplicate the films, Colorlab used an optical printer, which registers each frame in a projector gate. A lens and bellows are adjusted to focus the frame to the camera gate for duplication. A wet gate system, used with the optical printer, immerses the film in a liquid called perchloroethylene while the film is transported and registered frame by frame. The liquid fills in the scratches on the base side of the original film so that they are not transferred to the newly created film element. H. Lee Waters shot on Kodachrome (color) and black and white reversal film stocks. Colorlab created color internegatives or black and white dupe negatives depending on the format of the original footage.
Preparing the film for this essential printing phase is not always easy. In the case of the H. Lee Waters' films, the work involved assessing the condition of the original material, checking the shrinkage, noting any peculiar smells, noting the presence of surface damage like torn perforations, or even that white particulate matter on the film surface that is indicative of vinegar syndrome and the actual leaching out of plasticizer. In the case of Waters' Kannapolis, vinegar syndrome was indeed evident. Prior to duplication, Colorlab staff followed all the other standard preservation procedures, such as noting whether the films have high frame lines or any other sort of frame-line irregularities. In optical printing, the goal is to make the next best representative preservation element. If changes in frame lines are not noted, this "original" frame line can be "printed-in" to the new element that is being created. This sort of visual artifact would then be visible on screen and interfere not only with the content of the image, but also with an audience's enjoyment of the screened image. For Waters' films, frame lines had to be watched very carefully. Many of his trick shots had very high frame lines that needed adjustment.
In addition to frame line irregularities, it is important for the film preservationist to know the number of splices and whether they are original or repaired. Once all of these irregularities are noted, the actual preparation of the films for printing can begin. The most important repairs include fixing broken perforations (the perforations along the edge of a piece of film are the holes that allow the sprocket teeth of a projector or a printer to drive the film) and fixing weak or poor original splices (to ensure that the original film does not break apart again while going through the printer). A conscientious technician will always want to know as much about the physical condition of the film before printing it in order to be prepared for any complications that will require adjustment to the optical printer while making the duplication. This is a form of preventative medicine--a holistic approach to film preservation. It is interesting to note that Waters' films have few splices. His objective was to crank films out quickly to show them almost immediately because his subjects were also the audience. Waters thus stuck to a process of economy and spontaneity in shooting his subjects. The scarcity of splices shows his skill, focus, and purpose as a filmmaker and cameraman as well as his ability to edit in his head, following a preconceived, yet unwritten script.
The few splices in the Movies of Local People films usually serve the practical purpose of attaching the 100-foot camera rolls he shot using the Kodak Cine Special camera or for cutting in trick shots. Waters loved to put in shots of kids jumping backwards into the air or riding bicycles in reverse to wow his audiences and the tricks never failed to do just that. In order to achieve this astonishing on-screen effect, Waters held the camera upside-down and then cut the footage and flipped it. Shots with fast or speeded-up motion were created by shooting single frames instead of shooting continuously at a set speed. Waters also incorporated split screens using a set of mattes that were provided by the camera manufacturer, the Eastman Kodak Co., and came with the camera, in order to create effects like the upper torsos of townspeople floating above the sidewalk, another surefire crowd pleaser! He also used iris effects to highlight his subjects.
In the case of H. Lee Waters' film "Kannapolis," Colorlab's Julia Nicoll noted that there was a 100-foot section toward the end of the film that was actually identified as a positive print, rather than a camera reversal original. This was evident because the winds on these two pieces of film were not the same. To keep the new duplication element all the same wind, Julia changed the orientation of the wind during the optical phase of preservation so that it would "read" like the rest of the film. These films also exhibited a fairly high range of overall shrinkage (1.5% to 2.5%), but an experienced optical preservationist like Julia has honed her skills to the point of being able to handle shrinkage as extreme as 5+%. The higher the rate of shrinkage, the more time it takes to print the film. Still, Waters' Kannapolis took quite some time to print.
The time spent on this meticulous process was well worth it. The work of H. Lee Waters is unique for so many reasons, but perhaps the most striking "trick" this man had up his sleeve was his uncanny ability to quickly win the trust of a near total stranger on the street. Waters' subjects seem to open up in front of the camera at the precise moment they encounter the filmmaker. As anyone who has ever held a camera understands, this is a rare occurrence, yet it is perhaps the most important characteristic of a successful documentarian. Waters had that unique blend of charisma coupled with a keen sense of observation and near perfect timing.
The second time I saw Kannapolis, it was with my own eyes. On Saturday, February 5, 2005, Julia Nicoll and I attended a one-time only restoration screening of H. Lee Waters' 3-reel film "Kannapolis, N.C." at the historic Gem Theater located in downtown Kannapolis. The event was sponsored by the Kannapolis History Associates and the Kannapolis Public Library. The folks of Kannapolis are rightfully proud that their home has now garnered itself a place on the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. In late 1996, the United States Congress passed landmark legislation creating the independent, nonprofit National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF), a public-private partnership to benefit the film preservation efforts of American film archives, historical societies, and similar institutions. Each year, the National Film Board, under the auspices of the U.S. Library of Congress, selects a number of films that are added to the National Film Registry. The Registry represents every genre of film and spans the history of American cinema, all in an effort to further the important work of a variety of individuals and archival institutions devoted to creating, preserving, and making accessible our cultural patrimony. [National Film Preservation Foundation]
The National Film Preservation Foundation grant money that enabled Duke University's Visual Materials Archivist Karen Glynn to work closely with Colorlab to preserve these reels and then to lobby the National Film Board for a well-deserved place on the 2004 National Film Registry is the obvious fruit of many years of behind-the-scenes work.
When Karen arrived at Duke in 2001, she brought with her a keen interest and wealth of knowledge of American amateur and itinerant filmmakers, having previously worked as an independent film researcher in Washington, DC, and as an archivist in the Southern Media Archive at the University of Mississippi. When I first spoke to Karen about H. Lee Waters, it was evident that she had done her research and that her work with the H. Lee Waters Collection went beyond her responsibilities to Duke's archives. H. Lee Waters' work moved her and for this reason, she did all that she could to ensure the lasting legacy of his films; she was integral in arranging the Kannapolis screening. I had the chance to meet Karen and to speak to her, along with Norris Dearmon, the articulate 83-year-old volunteer at the Kannapolis Historical Society who also helped to make the event happen. I arrived at the Kannapolis Library around 10am on the morning of February 5 in order to spend some time with Norris and Karen before the public screening scheduled for later that afternoon. [http://magazine.lib.duke.edu/issue17/notes.html]
As I drove into town and headed toward Main Street that morning, I expected to see a world unchanged by time--a picture postcard moment--an H. Lee Waters snapshot, if you will, even though nearly 70 years had passed since H. Lee Waters first filmed in Kannapolis. These images were still flickering in my mind. The streets were still there; the buildings were still there; the brightly painted red and white smoke stacks bearing the name of the Cannon Mills factory still loomed over the main square. I felt as if I was stepping onto a studio back lot and that any minute, the soundstage would be bustling with cameras, crew, actors, and extras. I closed my eyes, imagining for a minute that I would reopen them to a brightly lit set and the sound of H. Lee Waters camera rolling. I opened my eyes to the bright light of day, but the streets remained empty, the factory gates remained closed, no workers would exit those doors today and wave to H. Lee Waters' camera. In fact, no workers would exit those padlocked gates ever again.
Almost two years ago, the Cannon Mills factory ceased operation; Plant Number One, the original Cannon Mills factory that had opened in 1906 in Kannapolis--the "city of looms"--had been sold by its last owners, Pillowtex Corporation, along with 16 other plants that originally formed the J. W. Cannon empire, at one time, the world's largest producer of household textile products such as sheets, towels, and bedspreads. The purchaser was David Murdoch, the primary owner of the Dole pineapple fortune whose company is consistently cited by Fortune 500 as one of the 20 wealthiest US-owned corporations. This was the second time he bought the properties, this time primarily as a speculative real estate investment. This time, he quickly shut all the factories down, causing the largest mass lay off in the history of the state (about 4,800 people). Murdoch was not thinking of the past or current residents of Kannapolis who had devoted a lifetime to this mill town; he was thinking toward the future. The town of Kannapolis is located about 27 miles from Charlotte, N.C., which is currently the fastest growing financial center in the United States. According to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, more banking resources ($1.3 trillion) are headquartered in Charlotte than in all but one other U.S. city (New York). Five of the nation's top 150 banks operate in Charlotte; the nation's largest two banks based on deposits, Bank of America and Wachovia, are both headquartered in Charlotte. Their combined deposits total more than a half trillion dollars. Kannapolis is perfectly situated to be the next bustling suburb of Charlotte.
Kannapolis, like other mill towns, offered many amenities: Mill workers lived in craftsmen style, low-rent homes with low utility costs, free maintenance and garbage collection, while paying no taxes. Services the company provided included a YMCA, the hospital, a police force, fire protection, water treatment, and a sewage system. A close partnership existed among government, business, and community organizations. This situation in Kannapolis obtained until Pillowtex filed for bankruptcy.
The final demise of Pillowtex was drawn out; much of the workforce had been on reduced hours for up to two months prior to closing and many workers were already in a financial crisis. The situation that I witnessed in Kannapolis in February, 2005, was not encouraging. It seemed bizarre to be visiting an economically depressed town, where every other home appeared to sport a "For Rent" or "For Sale" sign, in order to witness the revival of a film made during the Great Depression that depicted a much more prosperous Kannapolis. ("For Residents of Kannapolis, Unemployment Is as American as Apple Pie," http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,378940,00.html)
I could not even begin to imagine what the lifelong residents of Kannapolis were experiencing that afternoon when they arrived at the Gem Theater for a free screening that the local paper billed as an "Old Time Movie." At the hotel that morning I had spoken to a young girl at the front desk who said she had hoped to attend the screening but unfortunately had to work. I took this as a good sign, that the younger residents of the community were aware of the screenings and interested in their town's history. The crowd forming outside the theater thirty minutes before show time was made up mostly of senior citizens -- those who could recall Kannapolis in its heyday. The crowd was mostly white, although the paper had made note of the fact that the films also featured an entire reel shot in the black residential neighborhoods of the then segregated town. This highly anticipated event had turned into a pleasant social gathering that had the air of a reunion, with many residents greeting each other like long lost friends, exchanging stories about their families, and second guessing who and what they were about to see on screen.
Once the doors opened, the audience streamed in quickly, filling the entire orchestra section, both balconies, and then the aisles of the 960-seat Gem Theater. Norris Dearmon welcomed everyone to the screening and as the film began rolling, he attempted to explain to the crowd that they would have to stay alert for this screening, reminding the audience, "Now, this isn't video you are about to see, this is silent film, the real deal, and those images move pretty quick and you can't rewind it back." He encouraged audience members to shout out when they recognized people and places on screen. He passed the microphone to Judge Horton for reel two, and finally to Corinne Kenna, a former school teacher and one of the founding members of the friends of Kannapolis Public Library for reel three, which focused mainly on the black community known as "Fishtown." These three pillars of the community were all residents of Kannapolis at the time that H. Lee Waters chronicled the daily life in that town and they each lent a particular air of authenticity and nostalgia to the images that illuminated the screen.
I settled into my seat for the two-hour program. It was not long after Norris introduced reel one that a man directly behind me piped up, "Mr. Rove, the bandleader, well I'll be darned!" Having seen the color footage of the J. W. Cannon High School marching band, several times at Colorlab, and at the 2004 Orphan Film Symposium [http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposiu/] I felt in some way as if I too would soon be calling out to the screen. A few minutes later, a woman called out, "Look! It's Greta Sue Catchen! And Billy Wells! Oh, oh, my goodness, I know her! And I know him also! I can get the faces, but not all the names. Oh look! They are playing dodge ball! I love dodge ball!" At this moment the spry 83-year-old Norris chimed in with his understated southern drawl, "I believe I could still dodge that ball now." The theater took on the air of a revival meeting as the call and response between the screen and the audience continued for the duration of the program.
Several audience members wanted to stay and screen the films again to catch another glimpse of their mothers, their fathers, their childhood playmates, their sweethearts, and often themselves. People lined up for copies of the flyer on how to purchase video copies of the footage from Duke University for home use. Two local journalists quickly found the one woman in the crowd who seemed to know everyone and made arrangements to sit with her and Norris Dearmon at the Kannapolis Public Library and review the footage again. The time-intensive work of documenting the faces of "Kannapolis, N.C." could now begin.
Courtesy of H. Lee Waters Photography Collection, Davidson County Historical Museum
For archivists like Karen Glynn, these are the moments that make the effort worthwhile. Karen has not stopped with Kannapolis, or Chapel Hill, or Asheboro, although these are some of Waters' better-known films. She will not rest until she has located or preserved all of the 252 known films shot in 118 communities that H. Lee Waters meticulously documented in the business ledgers that are a part of his collection at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. In the fall of 2004, Karen sent letters to all of the communities documented by H. Lee Waters whose film was unaccounted for. Responses to those letters in the form of information, questions, and reels of film are still trickling in to her office. Karen is currently searching for $120,000 dollars to preserve the rest of the original film in the H. Lee Waters collection waiting impatiently to go to the laboratory. She can be contacted at email@example.com
With special thanks to Julia Nicoll at Colorlab for technical support and all photographs not otherwise credited.
Special thanks to Tom Waters // Karen Glynn , Visual Materials Archivist , Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University /// Catherine Matthews Hoffmann, Museum Curator, Davidson County Historical Museum (http://www.co.davidson.nc.us/Museum/default.asp)
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(Afterthoughts from Russ Suniewick)
Why are these H. Lee films so enormously viewable and restorable? One gets the impression viewing these images that, other than the occasional hockey puck and brittle and curled examples due to hard-core bad storage, they exude a remarkable beauty that is unique. These films have also been pretty easy to work with to create preservation masters. As a film preservationist, I'm thinking this has to point to how the film was handled, presented, and otherwise cared for during the time it was being regularly exhibited. I found little in the way of wear and tear at the heads and tails of these films when I first examined them. Large amounts of thread-up leader at both ends appear to be the reason for only a very few projector rubs in the first few scenes where great shredding and scraping is usually found due to improper threading. I remember reading that H. Lee's son, Tom, occasionally accompanied his dad on these screenings so I called him to see what he remembers.
Tom reports no one touched those films except H. Lee. Part of the deal H. Lee made with the theaters was he maintained control over the exhibition and ran the event from the booth. Then, remembering what Regina always told me regarding the priorities of small town projection booths, the 16mm projector always seemed to be placed in a manner that cried out "second class citizen," never placed properly on axis in the middle of the booth between the 35's, but off in the corner guaranteeing half of its projected image was sure to be somewhat soft. So I asked Tom if he remembered how his dad dealt with this. Did the images appear crisp and bright or muddy? The answer was "bright and clear." The fact is, H. Lee had invested in a Bell&Howell FilmOArc silent projector with a rectifier, which he lugged around to each theater. This surely gave him the optimum 16 to 18 foot candles of illumination needed for professional-looking imagery. He used this system until the government confiscated the projector (Tom says "forced him to sell") for the war effort in 1942, which was about the time H. Lee stopped exhibiting.


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September 2011:
I would like to give a tremendous thank you to Nick and Linda Wlaznik and all the bike riders who participated in the 1st Annual Riding for Reading bikeathon to raise money for Andy's Books for Kids. The ride was held on Saturday, September 10th at Rock Cut State Park. The bikers were given a choice regarding the distance they wished to ride and almost all the riders chose the long 50 mile ride!
The total amount raised on Saturday and donated to Andy's Books for Kids was $800 which will go a very long way toward helping fund our projects for 2012.
Hats off to Nick, Linda, Nick's family, the riders and all the people who so generously donated to Riding for Reading to support Andy's Books for Kids.
August 2011:
The 2nd Annual Used Book Sale at the 2011 Boone County Fair was a resounding success. Andy's Books raised $7000, more than double what we raised last year!!
This excellent result would not have been possible without the support of our volunteers and contributors. Thank you to all the following who directly participated in our success:
Kathy O'Brien, Mary Rudzinski, Nancy & Laura Mihelich, Marcy Van Evera, Marissa, Scott Olson, Shelley Wagner & kids, Deb Hightower, Jody & Mike Warren, Upward Bound students: Diego, Josh, Ashley, Shelby, Kayla, Kyle, Cheyenne, Andres, Ariana, Sandra, Emily & DeShawna, Lin Schmeling, Lorna Collier, Linda Voiles, Ashley Losure, Sarah Hyland & Katie Magnuson
Book Drop Locations:
The East State, Charles Street, Harlem Avenue & Rockton Avenue Logli Grocery Stores, the two Pacemaker Grocery Stores in Belvidere, Shopko Store in Belvidere & Wonderland Books and Toys
Used Book Drives were held by the following:
Shirland Elementary School, Immanuel Lutheran School, Brookview Elementary School, Washington Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, Belvidere High and Belvidere North High School
Christ United Methodist Church
City of Rockford
Hamilton Sundstrand
Special Thanks to:
Michelsen Office Furniture for so generously donating the use of their book shelves for the week of the fair which infinitely increased our display space and enhanced our booth both aesthetically and practically.
And last but most definitely not least, my sincerest thanks to all who donated the thousands of outstanding used books which provided us with an incredible inventory for our sale!!
August 2010:
Earlier this summer the Rockford Register Star published an article about my not for profit organization, Andy's Books for Kids. Included in the article was a request for donations of used books to be sold at the Boone County Fair as a fundraiser for Andy's Books. The fair ended on Sunday, August 15th and my book sale was a wonderful success. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who through their participation were instrumental in that success.
A big thank you goes to the Logli grocery stores, the Curves Women Fitness Centers, the Rockford and Belvidere YMCA's, Christ United Methodist Church, the Pacemaker grocery stores, Wonderland Book Store and the Mobil Quick Mart in Belvidere for their willingness to act as drop off locations for the donated books. I cannot express my gratitude enough for all those individuals and groups, most of whom do not even know me, who so generously donated what eventually amounted to thousands of books for me to sell.
I would also like to thank all of you who purchased books at my booth at the fair. Your interest in Andy's Books and your pleasure at finding just the right book for such a bargain made my time spent at the fair very enjoyable in spite of the extreme heat and humidity.
Another thank you goes to Jim who donated the boxes used to hold my books before and during the fair and the cloth bags we sold at the fair, and to Margaret who created the design for the bags.
Last, my volunteers deserve a tremendous thank you: Kathy and Katie, who spent hours in my basement and garage helping me sort and separate books; Marcy, Dick, Lorna, Barbara, Jody, Rebecca, Joan, Peggy, Deb, Sarah, Kathy, Elizabeth and Hannah who braved the heat either to help me set up my booth or so willingly and enthusiastically took shifts during fair week to help sell my books.
Without the generosity of all of you who donated books and all of you who donated your time, this book sale would not have been possible. During the course of this year, Andy's Books will use, in the Rockford area, 100% of the proceeds from this sale to continue its mission of promoting child literacy by donating new children's books to kids in underserved areas. Thanks again for helping me keep Andy's Books for Kids going.


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March Records Fastest Ever CMBS Delinquency Deterioration In History According To TREPP
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"According to TREPP the lodging sector is still the worst hit, followed by multifamily, retail, industrial and office."
Let's see if I can rephrase that sentence.
"According to TREPP, the lodging sector is still the worst hit, followed by everything else."
Yeah, that's better. Shorter, more concise, harder hitting. To the point.
Isn't defaulting a "negotiating tactic" for CRE?
It is rapidly becoming that in RRE as well. Expect defaults in RRE to spike as borrowers try to take advantage of principal writedowns.
Yes, defaulting is a tactic that borrowers are taking to force the hand of the banksters to revalue their loans. Since BHO said he was going to force banks to take a cut and revalue loans.... It makes financial sense to force the issue via non-payment of RE and CRE since those who are paying on time will not be eligible for such a revaluation.
Another tactic is asking to see the actual physical contract. Many banks can not produce the document, so until they can they can not successfully foreclose due to no proof in actually owning the property. Many have been very successful is living in their homes for well over a year payment free.
Another interesting part of contract law is that both parties have to put up something of value. CRE/RE owners have the physical items to present while banks have nothing. The timeline is such that banks have nothing to give you of equal/like value due to being fractional reserve and how the bankster system works. Before you sign the contract the bank has nothing to offer, it is only AFTER you sign the contract that then the bank can legally add in their ledger the loan value to their books. i know this sounds like legalese, yet small items like this can technically make or break a lawsuit.
As always, DYOD and get a good lawyer who knows the facts and inner workings.
Ghost', I commented in the downtown NY Office vacancy article about the Columbia Center missed payment in Seattle.
Reflex' asked if this was an isolated event or reflective of general CRE conditions in Seattle (in light of REITs doing well lately). [comment-281444]
I'm a scientist not a finance guy, but I know you're familiar with Seattle. Would you care to comment? Reflex was curious about Silicon Valley as well.
I'd also be interested in your comment, Ghost. Dantlzer thanks for asking the question.
Thanks for the non-April fools truth letting, will the FEDRES buy up CMBS trash next.
Also, read somewhere NYC has highest Commerical vagancy rate since 9/11. If I'm talking out of my ass, please forgive me!
My Dear Friends,
If you think this is bad, wait until the tsunami of Option ARMs and Alt-A resets start later this year. 2010 will be a cake walk compared to 2011 thru 2013.
shit, I won't last that long, I'm looking at 2011 tops then I'm sol!
I hear you, my financial future is over before the Mayan apocolypse unless things improve soon. Built houses for 15 yrs and subdivisions for 10, pretty safe to say I need a new career path unless I move to Chindia.
Serious question/suggestion: I am not in the res. construction industry, but a good friend of mine is and he's in a similar situation. He is seriously mulling over focusing his efforts on learning the details of the energy efficiency home improvement/remodeling industry (and abandoning new construction for the time being). It's a bit tricky to be able to any quality financial modeling of potential profits because so much relies on tax credits that change constantly. But my friend can't stop thinking about big the potential oppportunity to get involved in energy saving remodeling and construction projects. If you've pondered this constructing 'niche' at all and would care to comment, please do. Thanks.
Just do it. In a down RRE market remodeling is the only place to be . It's an effective strategy as old as the industry. But, with regards to 'green/energy efficiency' keep it simple. The problem with alt energy projects is ROI. You need a quick payback for going outside of the box and building something different. Focus on what really matters first. You want a tight building with controlled air changes that capture and contain heated/cooled air. That means you spend money on high quality windows and doors, insulation; you also close all of the air change exits (holes/gaps/openings) in the buidling that would allow that heated/cooled air to escape. Double lock entries are a winner as is site orientation to take advantage of maximum solar heat/loss. Once you've got that under control then you look at more expensive options; solar panels, passive storage systems, etc. Research the 'degree cooling days' for your region and use that as your basic design criteria. Good luck.....................................
Gee, that was tough to foresee. The only question is, who is going to start picking up all of the empty anchor department stores in our malls. My guess is NOBODY.
Not to mention the 60%+ vacant industrial parks.
We're in BAAAAAAADDDDD shape down here in the Sunshine State....
REITS have again been ramped in a quest for yield by all kinds of non-dedicated funds (think 2007).
Once the non-dedicated funds start blowing out of REITS I think they will hear two words: NO BID.
Dr. H
I saw a report a month or so ago that alot of Alt-As were automatically resetting early as the previously approved drawdowns took the loans to 120% of initial value, bringing the reset trigger forward. Have you followed that at all?
Every day Tyler Durden provides some new report about how CMBS has hit some new all time bad level, and every day commercial real estate (eg. as represented by IYR) goes higher in price. So either
1) the information is useless because the market ignores it
2) the information is useless because there are other good aspects to CMBS that are not being considered by Durden
Either way, the information is useless, so why bother reporting it? Is it so that when the commercial real estate market finally crashes (about 50 years from now) you can say "told you so?" Bah.
So go triple levered long CRE if that's how you feel.
The rest of us might look for somplace else to invest.
I mean, we all know that the current system will go on as it always has, because there's no chance the various bankers of the world will ever stop trusting each other to keep to their agreements, right?
You have shit for brains.
Reductio ad Absurdum indeed. Well trolled my good man.
3) It's a matter of time until the chickens come home to roost. Just because it's not that time yet, doesn't mean they're not coming.
SRS to the moon, baby.
Or at least, like, $6?
IYR tecnicals sure look bearish, except volume perhaps.
SRS broke above its downtrend line
So, where's the online QE-termination countdown party?
Aw, everybody knows it's just going to become the online QE-recommencement vigil in a coupla months.
Yeah because you know banks are definitely creating enough real cashflow to justify their prices Reductio what the hell kind of logic are you applying here.
Even using the term "the market" makes me want to vomit because as shows like Who Wants to be Mocked on TV and Jeopardy have shown us, people are dumb, and computers are even dumber.
The middle market squeeze and consolidation of any and all real estate of value… minus those who have the wherewithal to re-purchase their own leveraged properties…
Plainly, Commercial Real Estate… leveraged with 20% injected equity and with an operating cash flow of 6% (a 6% cap rate)… even with a National Credit Rated Tenant with a "NNN" lease in place with 10 years left is still upside down… 20% plus… another 4 with a "NNN" lease in place with 10 years left is still upside down… 20% plus… another 4% minimum with regard to cash flow for the new, new, new squeeze reserve… Plainly it is credit arbitrage, the monies for securing the loan(s) cost no more at the FED Window… and the Banks are pocketing the difference which then drops to their bottom line as funds earned…
So a $1.4 Trillion dollar market(ish)… of which 20% more is needed in cash… and the 4% only holds water for the Crème' de la Crème'… so… $300 Billion more in cash from property owners…
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Fed Closes Out Legacy CMBS Program
The newly minted "AAA" rated corporations that are now banks… get to pick thru pile for the best and leave the rest for the tax payers to pick the tab up on during the next rescue… Ya'll know there is a new Commercial that will be needed? All of those properties the Banks don't want? Someone will have to pay for them and it won't be the Banks… it will be the Tax Payers, AGAIN!
The public tax trough is open for business and is the most profitable game going…
The triple "AAA" rated corps / banks who have been funded thru the United States Government… will continue to prey on Main Street… the middle market and feed at the tax money trough…
The rip off of the American Tax Payer… that is funded by the American Tax Payer… that is facilitated by the American Tax Payer paying for the Lobby dollars used against them… will be broadcast in digital quality… I wonder who will be blamed this time? After all of those monies where pumped into the Banks? Who will bare the brunt of the squeeze on the middle / bottom?
Is there a planned date as to when Obamageddeon starts? Or will this be a spontanious event? I vote for next tuesday, 4 . 6 . 10.
Surely this cant go on too much longer...??
As soon as I read your comment, I was struck by a disturbing thought:
Most of the time in history we are surprised by some terrible financial or social shock; financial shock is like a market bust or accounting scandal, or a social shock is like surprise attack in war like Pearl Harbor or 9-11.
My disturbing thought is this: What if...seriously...what if...there is some unforeseen 'force' that is driving the market higher right now and this force is LEGITIMATE. As happens all throughout history, we just can't see or currently understand in the present why this surprise good thing -- like the market rising against all sane expectation -- is caused by something real and positive. Only after the fact will we all slap ourselves in the head and say, 'duh!'
Is this market upswing, despite all bad news like this CMBS delinquency, really caused by a legitimate positive black swan event?
THe only reason why I would give two seconds to mention this is that this is the time when surprises happen-->when everyone agrees in one direction only to be proved wrong by a positive or negative black swan in the other direction.
I guess my point is this: we are now accustomed to being hypervigilant to negative black swans (thanks Taleb!), but I think we fail to remain equally vigilant for positive black swans.
Could there be a real, legitimate reason why the market keeps climbing and that we just don't see the reason yet???
(After paying heed to this thought, I immediately reverted back to a state of severe pessimism and conspiracy theory generation.)
Tick ... Tick ... Tick ... Tick ... Tick ... Tick ...
We all know what comes next, it's only a matter of when. I'm figuring once we see that the Fed Income Tax numbers have collapsed the rout will be on. Late April.
I will bet we will not see "the truth" upfront, but a revision later in the year.
To....by Mr Lennon Hendrix
on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 22:45
Is there a planned date as to when Obamageddeon starts? Or will this be a spontanious event? I vote for next tuesday, 4 . 6 . 10.
So... you taunt me with "Fox News" sound bites? Really? Are you sure that your one line response is accurate? You sound like you feed at the "Fox Independent and Accurate News" trough…
************* "Obamageddeon" ***************** (ur speeling sux)
Results 1 - 10 of about 222,000 for Obamageddon. (0.12 centons)
Bush Bank Bailout Overpaid by Billions: Study
So… I could take you all the way back to Reagan… when cheap credit began… but why? http://www.rightcondition.com/2010/02/reagan-revolution-and-economic.html
Or minus the yappitty, yap… bla, bla, bla… or yada, yada, yada… I offer this…
Total Spending
Health Care
Source: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/#usgs302a
(In Billions)
Reagan increased the national debt by 125%(ish)… but Reagan spent most of those monies at home…
In the plainest dumbed down vernacular I can muster for you, you ignorant fuck!
If you invest a Million dollars into your home… your home will be worth more than you paid for it… now if you maintain your home and the million dollars worth of improvements going forward you will have generated monies locally… the jobs created, the tax dollars paid and just having a really nice million dollar plus trailer to live in…
Bush… who had energy concerns for the Nation… went to Iraq.. with its 100 plus in Oil reserves… thus the whole history will vindicate Bush… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYuLjGQQ-jg&feature=PlayList&p=C1B06538A32767DF&playnext_from=PL&index=132
That video should give you a better understanding of Oil… and what it means and thusly why Bush did what he did… No Trade ='s War at some point in the future.
But you, quoting "Fox News" sound bites and blaming the Leftards… Commie's… or whoever or whatever the newest catch phrase is… does not help you, your family or the World.
The Lobby controls the left and the right… there is no other power greater than the Lobby, for now… or more accurately until people like you, broadly wake the fuck up!
Banking Dollars to the Lobby…
714 client(s) lobbied for specific issues containing the word 'bank' (See all)
Here's the Top 50 (by number of bank mentions)
· Process Handler Et Al for Hire
· Estate of Robert James Brassell
· National Assn of Federal Credit Unions
· Securities Industry & Financial Mkt Assn
· Independent Community Bankers of America
· Estate of Delois Albert Brassell
· United Services Automobile Assn Group
· Council of Federal Home Loan Banks
· National Assn of Bankruptcy Trustees
· National Assn of Home Builders
· Financial Services Roundtable
· International Council of Shopping Cntrs
· US Public Interest Research Group
· American Council of Life Insurers
· American Veterinary Medical Assn
· Coalition for Employment Through Exports
Really? The Banks are using profits to pay for their Lobby? not the 0% Fed Window?
**** "In the first three months of 2009, the financial sector spent $104.7 million to lobby Congress and the administration, down 8% from the same period last year" ****
So that I am clear... 2008 was a vintage year for Banks? they made soooooooooooooooooooooo much money on 2008 that in the first 3 months of 2009... they could drop $104.7 MILLION DOLLARS?
I'll say it again... why can't media outlets with vastly greater resources (CNN / NBC / etc) cover this story with even a fraction of the detail provided here?
Too many facts get in the way of a good story.
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Have you ever heard of the story of the Hedgehog and the Fox?
To do what you want MSM journalists to do would require them to be foxes (skilled at both investigative journalism and high finance). Unfortunately most MSM journalists are just one-dimensional hedgehogs (their one-dimension being journalism).
If they had more than a Rosetta Stone style 'language learning' course on finance, then they'd be much more fluent in finance, and thereby much more effective.
Tyler, Marla, et. al. are foxes.
"If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will".....The Wheel
There are often significant tax liabilities (debt forgiveness) if an owner walks away from a shopping center.
But the bank doesn't want to manage the property. So owner continues to operate, does not service loan, simply gives cash flow to bank. At this point owner has equivalent of OTM call option on asset as long as bank plays ball and deferral of tax bomb.
Neither party is interested in incenting quality tenants to invest in the center, so asset deteriorates as all parties try to reduce their expenses, tenants bargain down rents etc etc.
Game can run until net operating income goes negative.
I stopped watching the teevee news when I hung on thru a whole 'news' segment with Katie Couric or some other schill, who was promising me a 'special report' about some subject I was interested in, only to time said 'special report' and it lasted all of 1 minute, 17 seconds. What about 'bought and paid for' in the main stream news do you not understand?
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These tender peppered steaks get plenty of zip from a quick-to-fix sauce flavored with mustard and Worcestershire.
- 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns, crushed
- 2 boneless beef top loin steaks (8 ounces each)
- 2 to 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 to 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 cup red wine or beef broth
- 1 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon water
- Rub pepper over both sides of steaks. Refrigerate for 15 minutes. In an ungreased skillet, brown steaks on both sides over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium; add butter and garlic; cook for 4-6 minutes, turning steaks once. Add Worcestershire sauce; cook 4-6 minutes longer, turning once, or until meat reaches desired doneness (for medium-rare, a meat thermometer should read 145°; medium, 160°; well-done, 170°). Remove steaks and keep warm.
- Combine wine or broth, mustard and sugar; add to the pan. Stir to loosen browned bits. Combine cornstarch and water until smooth; add to pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with the steaks. Yield: 2 servings.
Editor's Note: Top loin steak may be labeled as strip steak, Kansas City steak, New York strip steak, ambassador steak or boneless club steak in your region.
Originally published as Peppercorn Steaks in Quick Cooking May/June 1999, p10
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CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago Cubs have claimed infielder Mat Gamel off waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers.
The 28-year-old Gamel missed this season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. He batted .229 with six home runs and 29 RBIs over parts of five seasons with the Brewers from 2008 to 2012.
The Cubs announced the move on Thursday.
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Michael James Spivey
Position: DB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 197 lbs.
Born: March 10, 1954 in Houston, TX
High School: Aldine
College: Colorado (school history)
Drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 2nd round (43rd overall) of the 1977 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 11 (6880th overall since 1950)
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I took cutie for a ride in my deathcab
She tipped me with a kiss I dropped her off at the meth lab
Before she left she made a dashboard confessional
And spilled her guts in cursive but whats worse is
I could still see her bright eyes like sunny day real estate
Oh my and in a funny way the ceiling tastes
So high but no chance
My little chemical romance left a bad taste in my mouth
But I approached her like hey mercedes why the long face
Why you cryin? theres no need
Just put on this coheed and fallout
Boy meets girl jimmy eat world
But Schlep eats pills till hes all out
Not once not twice she was thrice times a lady
Mackin on brand new, but I had to
Bounce over to the postal service to
Pick up these pills that take care of my nervousness
And all the way I saw planes and mistook 'em for stars
She played games but she took em too far
At the drive in
Watching soft porn and you can tell
By the trail of the dead, that there was somethin in the popcorn
I hop in my cab destination midtown
Just to get up with some kids that like to get down
I'd made my rounds and that was that
In between the frowns and scraps and heart attacks
And I remember I seen her ass in early november
On a Thursday, taking back Sunday for a refund
She shot a wink like no hard feelings
Then she jetted to Brazil man them pills had me spun
This is the story of the year right here
This is hot water music
Put ya ramen into it
What up, Elliot, I ain't seen you in a minute
How ya doin?
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Favourite genre of music: pop punk, alt, british electro
Favourite photographer: Cadie Carson
Favourite style of art: My own
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Wallpaper of choice: FOB
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This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff.
I'm Holmes, Bitch!!


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Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper's proposal to split California into six individual states cleared its latest hurdle on the way to being put to a vote.
According to USA Today on Friday, the SixCalifornias initiative received approval this week to begin collecting signatures. In order to get the initiative on the ballot this November, Draper needs to collect the signatures of 807,615 registered voters by July 18. Even if that happens and it is approved by voters this fall, making it a reality would be a massive undertaking, as Congress would still need to give it the thumbs-up.
Draper, a technology investor and founding partner of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, launched the initiative in December 2013 in order to pare down the nation's third-largest state and get people closer to their state government (or governments, rather).
"California, as it is, is ungovernable," Draper said in a statement released by his office yesterday. "It is more and more difficult for Sacramento to keep up with the social issues from the various regions of California. With six Californias, people will be closer to their state governments and states can get a refresh."
The plan to divvy up California would result in the formation of Jefferson, North California, Central California, Silicon Valley, West California, and South California. The present capital of Sacramento would be located in North California, while Los Angeles would wind up in West California.
Draper told TechCrunch back when he announced his plan that its key tenets include better representation in the U.S. Senate and more competition in lieu of monopolistic power, plus the ability for each state to make decisions more relevant to its respective populations, such as regulatory and constitutional resolutions.
A SixCalifornias press conference is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 24 at 3 p.m. PT.


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The Salvation Army's plan to open the long-closed Strawberry Field building in Liverpool, which inspired John Lennon's Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever," will be good for the city and fans, a Liverpool Beatles tour guide told Beatles Examiner March 16.
"I think it's a shame that the place has been closed for so long and am really happy that it will once again be used for the benefit of disadvantaged children in Liverpool," said Jackie Spencer of Beatle Guides.com. "The proposed use is great because it also benefits Beatle fans. It will make a great coffee or lunch stop on my tour that will in turn add real value to the community."
The Strawberry Field site, located in the Woolton section of Liverpool, is to be reopened by the owner, Salvation Army, as a training center for people with learning difficulties, the BBC reported March 14. A spokesman told the BBC the re-opening may include bringing back the original gates, which were put in storage in 2011.
The gates were vandalized last summer by someone who sprayed yellow paint over the red gates.
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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Fruit & Nut Trees
Fabulous Figs (page 3 of 5)
by Robert Kourik
How to Plant and Care for Figs
Smaller, bush-like fig trees are easiest for northern gardeners to manage.
You can buy fig trees in containers or bare root. Bare-root trees are much cheaper and the only way to buy from a mail-order nursery, but they are also prone to dehydration during shipping.
Fig trees are not available on dwarfing rootstocks, so they grow to be full-sized. But full size varies according to climate and variety. Commercial fig trees in California, such as 'Mission', often grow to be 30 to 40 feet wide and nearly as tall. Others, such as 'Black Jack' are only 8 feet high and wide when mature, even in California. In cold-winter climates, fig trees are naturally smaller because of the necessity of heavy pruning for winter protection.
To ensure superior drainage, plant your fig tree in a raised bed or mound of soil elevated 18 to 24 inches high by 3 to 5 feet wide. Water to settle it and eliminate air pockets, and after planting, mulch.
The tender bark of a bare-root fig tree is susceptible to sunscald. Wash the trunk with water from the lower limbs to an inch below soil level, let it dry, then paint with white latex paint (interior or exterior) that's diluted 50 percent with water.
The most widespread pest of figs is birds. You can either beat the birds to the ripe fruit by harvesting early each morning or cover the tree with netting. Gophers love to gnaw on fig roots. If they're common in your area, plant young trees in large wire baskets, leaving 12 inches of wire above the soil. Use traps to minimize gopher damage to mature trees.
Fruit "souring" is caused by bacteria and fungi entering the maturing fruit, usually via ants, beetles, and other small insects able to crawl into the fig's basal opening or "eye." Souring is most common in areas of high humidity. Varieties of figs are more or less prone to souring according to the size of their basal opening. If souring is a problem in your area, select varieties with a closed or nearly closed eye. Several are noted in the listing of varieties that follows.
Nematodes will parasitize fig roots and reduce your harvest. Minimize their damage by buying healthy, clean nursery trees and by maintaining an organic mulch over the root area of mature trees.
Common garden figs are self-fruiting, meaning they require no pollination. One exception to this pattern is the 'Calimyrna' fig, a commercial variety that requires a tiny wasp to crawl inside the undeveloped fruit and leave behind the pollen from another type of fig tree called a caprifig. Without pollen from the caprifig, the fruits of 'Calimyrna' do not mature.


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This intervention, however, has elements that may prove challenging in a correctional setting.
For example, caregivers are an important part of the therapy, Lopez said. It calls for caregivers to sharpen parenting skills and learn supportive responses to the youth's description of the trauma.
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Lopez will work with the Texas Youth Commission in adapting the therapy for a correctional facility. She'll also work with Dr. Anthony Mannarino of Drexel University, a prime developer of the therapy, to assure fidelity to the intervention. This research will ultimately inform the field on how to best improve the lives of incarcerated youth with trauma-related disorders.
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Released: Dec 01st, 1996
Running Time: 103
Directors: Jim Holliday, Michael Zen, Henri Pachard, Nic Cramer, Bud Lee
Company: Dripping Wet Pix
Distribution Companies: BBE
Cast: Misty Rain, Chad Thomas, Jay Ashley, Peter North, Christi Lake, Sean Michaels, Stacy Valentine, Julian St. Jox, Kyle Stone (straight), Krista Maze, Brian Surewood, Mitch Gant, Jonathan Morgan
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Feature
Vanity projects are usually the kiss of death buy with DWD, Christi Lake wisely chose to let five directors guide her to orgasmic heights—most of them anal! The payoff is a quim-filled quintet of tease, tension and release. Nearly every scene is stamped with a unique flavor, and the overall taste is like sweet puddy pie!
Nic Cramer puts Christi through the moves in a black alley threesome with bikers Jay Ashley and Brian Surewood. Shadows and fog develop a menacing mood for good cocksucking, before the boys bend her over their Harley for a crack attack.
In a James M. Cain-like revenge scenario, Michael Zen leads Christi into a hot, stylized exterior tryst with Vince Vouyer, who reams her rectum buy winds up getting fucked himself, in a way.
Henri Pachard sets us up for an unexpected punchline as blood-covered Sean Michaels and Julian St. Jox strip naked in Christi's Laundromat. Between cycles, the guys make an Oreo cookie out of her, and she hungrily gobbles the double cream filling.
In perhaps the best work he's done this year, Bud Lee puts Christi into a pastoral setting as she showers and shaves her cooch. Exceptional tease shots induce blue-balls for the viewer, but she finally takes on Jonathan Morgan and Mitch Gant in a rustic 'n' ribald d.p.!
Jim Holliday's segment recreates his typical lesbian hijinx in a familiar studio set. Msity Rain, Stacy Valentine and Krista Maze take a dip in the "Lake," but the scene drags until Chad Thomas and Peter North arrive to unleash their trouser pythons. A hot anal penetration shot and double facial saves the scene.