| Perry Homes in Westheimer Lakes offers bonus on homes ready for ...
(PRLEAP.COM) Perry Homes in the Canyon Lakes section of Westheimer Lakes showcases homes ready for move-in in a peaceful environment with a convenient location. And, through April 30, Perry Homes offers a $10,000 buyer bonus on all home sales in the community. Perry Homes in the Canyon Lakes section of Westheimer Lakes are priced from the $160,000s and range from 1,700 to more than 2,600 square feet. Several homes featured are ready for move-in. The Canyon Lake section also has homes under construction that will be ready for summer move-ins. In addition, this section has lake view sites available, offering buyers the opportunity to select from more than a dozen Perry Homes floorplans available to build in the community. Ready for move-in is 25635 Oakstone Park Drive. Showcasing Plan 2326W, this one-story home has three bedrooms and two baths in approximately 2,326 square feet.
Rakuten looks to up TBS stake above 20%
Leading online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc. said Thursday it has told Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. it aims to raise its equity stake in the broadcaster to "a little more than" 20.00 percent from the current 19.86 percent and send Rakuten President Hiroshi Mikitani to the TBS executive board. The announcement by Rakuten, which had a merger proposal rejected by TBS in October 2005, is likely to ignite a takeover battle, although Rakuten said the latest move is not hostile. No comments were immediately available from TBS, the third-largest domestic broadcaster. To emphasize the friendly nature of the move, Rakuten followed procedures stated in TBS's package of antitakeover measures, submitting a notice of its intentions to the broadcaster, Rakuten said. In its notice, Rakuten proposed that TBS accept Mikitani and Muneaki Masuda, president of Culture Convenience Club Co.
Cookware store opens downtown on N. High
Nothing But Cooking, brainchild of Stark software consultant with passion for food, offers variety of specialty cookware, including a lot of high-end stuff. It'll have site for online sales, too By Lisa Abraham Beacon Journal food writer It's been a long time since the terms ``shopping'' and ``downtown Akron'' have been in the same sentence. Matt Reeder hopes to change that with Nothing But Cooking, a specialty cookware store he has opened on North High Street. ``We're a pioneer right now,'' he said. The store opened a few weeks ago with little fanfare. Reeder plans a grand opening later this month. It's perhaps a testament to the era that the storefront was an afterthought to what was intended to be an online cookware business.
Fitch Upgrades One Class of BALL 2003-BBA2
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch upgrades the following class of Banc of America Large Loans, Inc.'s commercial mortgage pass-through certificates, series 2003-BBA2: --$16 million class K to 'AAA' from 'AA+'. In addition, the following classes are affirmed: --Interest only classes X-1A, X-1B, X-3, and X-4 at 'AAA'; --$34 million class L at 'BBB-'. Classes A-1, A-2, A-3, Classes B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and J and Interest-only class X-2 have paid in full. The upgrade is due to the repayment of the JW Marriott hotel loan in Washington D.C. As of the April 2007 distribution date, the transaction balance had paid down 96.5% to $50 million from $1.4 billion at issuance. One loan remains in the transaction: the Westland Shopping Center, a regional mall in Westland, MI.
Road to Beijing ends at UVic
Team Canada will have home-field advantage in women's field-hockey on the road to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The final Olympic qualifying tournament will be hosted April 26 to May 4, 2008, on the new international-level pitch at UVic, which will be encircled by 2,500 temporary bleachers for the event. It will really be home-field advantage for the several Island players on Team Canada. "I hope a lot of younger kids come out to watch and get inspired," said Megan Anderson of Duncan, a 22-year-old national team defender out of Cowichan Secondary. .
The magic of the Polaroid - a vanishing image
There's something magical about seeing a Polaroid image emerge from blank paper as you wave it in the air, inhaling a whiff of caustic chemicals. Voila! A picture, a moment frozen, but not forever, writes Yao Minji. Instant cameras were once all the rage in China, as everywhere else. But digital cameras have largely replaced them and Polaroids are used almost exclusively by police, dentists, insurance adjusters and museum curators. But Polaroids still have their fans. Though it can be difficult to find instant cameras and paper in China, these die-hard shutterbugs are holding their own, actually increasing in numbers. They have found a gathering place on the Internet to discuss technologies and "share memories," as Lu Yao, one of the founders of polalife.com, puts it. In films and music videos, instant pictures were always shown as traces and proof of memories.
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