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Nearly two years after the sudden demise of Temecula portable-classroom builder Turnkey Inc., a bankruptcy attorney has begun auctioning the remains of the company and the lavish lifestyle of its founder and owner, Harry Clark. Even after everything is sold, however, the money won't be enough to pay back creditors -- including Bank of America and the Santa Maria-Bonita School District in Santa Maria -- who claim Clark and his wife, Linda, owe more than $15 million. The exact amount of the debt hasn't yet been determined, but the Clarks' assets will probably bring in less than $7 million, court documents show. Founded in 1998, Turnkey built modular classrooms for school districts around the state. It grew quickly, but collapsed in 2004 and filed for bankruptcy, leaving behind dozens of unfinished projects and unpaid employees and subcontractors.
IKEA, the Swedish flat-pack furniture group, is to start building timber-frame kit homes across Britain to help tackle the shortage of affordable housing. Scotland will be one of the first regions to see the BoKlok - pronounced BooKlook) homes spring up, with Glasgow earmarked for building behind launch area Gateshead, on Tyneside. .
LUMBER dealers may soon find profit in operating a framing shop - not framing for photographs or artwork, but wood framing for residential and commercial buildings. Like at a picture gallery, this type of framing has options, materials, colors, and characteristics for customers to consider, and the number of choices is growing. The framing market is huge. The National Association of Home Build-ers says that new single-family homes average 2400 sq. ft., which translates to about 19,000 bd. ft. of lumber and 7,000 sq. ft. of panels per home. For the most part, studs continue to be made from pre-cut spruce/pine/fir material. They are textbook commodity products, typically very price-sensitive with little margin. Over recent years there have been innovations in framing. These include wood I-beams, Structural Insulated Panels, different truss configurations, finger-jointed studs, and steel studs.
GLENS FALLS -- There were Christmas stockings with little trains chugging across the toe and bags of tiny trees, each one not much bigger than a thimble, to place along a Z-scale track.Victorian barbershops, crossing signals and 1,500-piece puzzles with a train theme were all for sale at the 7th annual Greater Glens Falls Model Train Show and Sale, held Sunday at the Civic Center's Heritage Hall.Train enthusiasts by the hundreds flocked to the show, sponsored by Upstate Model Railroaders club, which also offered a simultaneous display of four different-scale layouts at their headquarters in Glens Falls."Club members have been working for the past year, getting all four layouts built," said Pat Dowd, who added that the club's facility is now permanently located in the basement beneath Aimie's Dinner & Movie at 190 Glen St."Having a location has made a big difference," said Dowd.
They met the basic needs of food, shelter, clothing. It was quite tremendous. They never got the accolades because it's what they do." The night before Katrina struck, the Pastors Resource Council Compassion, 500 evangelical ministries headed by Louisiana Family Forum, Healing Place Church, Bethany World Prayer Center, Chapel on the Campus, Christian Life Fellowship and 60 other local churches, positioned volunteers and supplies to provide immediate aid. The consortium partnered with 200 Gulf Coast churches to harbor nearly 11,000 evacuees, deploy 15,118 volunteers and distribute nearly 65 million pounds of goods. Meanwhile, individual churches' relief efforts evolved spontaneously on a smaller scale. The morning of the storm, Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church school principal Eula Smith assembled 50 women to prepare meals for those who found their way to the Mid City monolith.
Moscow-based broadband provider Corvette Telecom is launching a new IPTV service that is built on open technology and content services from SeaChange International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEAC) and its subsidiary On Demand Group, Ltd. Corvettes rollout demonstrates how operators can easily develop and deliver a complete television package with the modular software, hardware and services of the SeaChange TV Platform, while enjoying the performance of a single, full-service partner with extensive IPTV experience. Corvettes IPTV service, branded City TV, will initially provide customers on its 300,000 homes-passed Moscow network with on-demand access to top-rated content, including Hollywood feature films and independent titles as well as music, childrens and lifestyle programming. Working with one organization to build our IPTV and video-on-demand platform allows us to rapidly and effectively deploy these services with the minimum execution risk, said Dominic Reed, CEO, Corvette Telecom.
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