Monday, July 9, 2012

'Dog' Chapman hit with $1.8M IRS tax lien - Denver Business Journal:

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The Honolulu-based TV bounty hunter and his wifeAlicee E. Smith, known as Beth Chapman, owe $1.8 million to the on 2006 and 2007 according to a federal tax lien recordecd May 19 by the Hawaii Bureau of The liens come five months after were filesd in Hawaii against the Chapmans for unpaid taxesa from 2002through 2005. The Chapmans’ Los Angeles-based Dennis Duban, told PBN in Februaryt that some of the federal tax bills had already been paid and blamexd a lag between the time of paymentr and the release of the But according to records on file with the Bureauof Conveyances, none of the liensd filed in January have been released.
Duban was out of the offic this week and was not availablefor comment. who owns Da Kine Bail Bonds on Queen Emma Stree and lives inHawaii Kai, stars in the A&d program “Dog the Bounty Hunter.” In 2006, the IRS filedf liens against Chapman for almost $200,000 in 2004 income but in early 2007 Duban said thosw tax bills had been paid. The IRS had previously filec liens against him for unpaid 1993 and1994

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Sales of imported ros wines leap 42 percent - Houston Business Journal:

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U.S. retail sales of imported rosé winews leapt 42 percent in the 52 week period endingApril 4, compared with a less-than-5-percenyt increases in total saless of table wines during the same period, accordinyg to data cited by the . The French wine known in France as Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins de Provencedor CIVP, said Monday the steep rise in rosé consumptiobn is consistent with an earlier studyh by International Wine & Spirit Record predictingb that consumption of the popular pinkisgh wines worldwide will jump from 565 million bottles to 620 million by 2012. Not surprisingly, the CIVP expects the growingy thirst for imported wines inthe U.S.
market will bode well for particularly its Provence wine The French produce 28 percent ofworldwidee rosé wines by volume, making it the leadere in the category, according to the wine counsel, whichj represents 700 Provence wineriesw and 55 local trading companies. Provence producew 38 percent of France’s rosés, the group Separately, Nielsen figures revealed that2008 U.S. salexs of rosé table winea priced at $6 per bottle or more jumpedf 24.9 percent by price and 22.4 percent by despite a weakening economy.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Mark McGovern reveals the horrific aftermath of assault in San Francisco GAA ... - IrishCentral

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Mark McGovern reveals the horrific aftermath of assault in San Francisco GAA ...

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Mark McGovern reveals the horrific aftermath of assault in San Francisco GAA match: A year after he was brut »

Thursday, July 5, 2012

PAS Technologies promotes Spriggs to CTO - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Spriggs was vice president of product development of the privatelt held NorthKansas City-based company. He started with PAS predecessor company, , in 1996 as business unit manager of newproduct development, PAS said in a Thursday release. As CTO, he will oversee the company’w long-term technology strategy. “We’re doinv this because we feel that technology is the way to grow and satisfygour customers,” company spokeswoman Marsha Farmer said Friday. Spriggs has 35 yearsx of experience in operations and engineering assignmentsfor , , and , as well as independent consulting in the aviationn and power generation industries, PAS said. He has receiveds six U.S.
patents in his own name or as PAS Technologies specializes inproviding cost-effective repair and overhaulp services for the aerospace and industrial markets. It has about 600 employees, about 280 of whom work in the KansaCity area, Farmer said.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

WAPCOS derives its strength from its human resource - Hindustan Times

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WAPCOS Limited is a "mini ratna" public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Water Resources. WAPCOS provides consultancy services in all facets of water resources, power and infrastructure sectors. Its chairman and managing director RK Gupta spoke ...



Monday, July 2, 2012

I won't burden my kid's lives with the same mistakes my parents made - Seattle Post Intelligencer

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While I'm away, readers give the advice. On using privacy as a form of control: I lived in constant fear as a child that I was going to let slip one of our so-called "secrets" -- which I realize now were innocuous life details that no one but my ...



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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Williams-Sonoma looking to sublease 1.1 million square feet in Olive Branch, Miss. - Memphis Business Journal:

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million square feet at Olive BranchDistribution Center, addinhg distribution space to a Memphiss industrial market that has experienced negative absorption for the firsr time in years. The company is currently leasingg the space at11624 S. Distribution Cove, locatexd near the southwest corner of Statelineand Polk. It leasexs 4.3 million square feet total in Memphiss andOlive Branch. “Due to reduced inventory WSI (Williams-Sonoma, Inc.) currentlty has excess distribution capacity,” company spokesman Patricia Sellman said inan e-mailed response.
“To more efficiently serve our customers, certain distributiomn functions are being consolidated to other existing Our other operations in Olive Branch and in Memphis will notbe affected.” Williams-Sonoma will reducse distribution expenses by consolidatingy this particular operation into other distributionm facilities that currently have excess according to Sellman. “We expect that managers and hourlh associates will be assimilatef into our existing Olive Branch and Memphis she says.
In the company announced it was closingta 500,000-square-foot distribution facilitgy in Memphis, which was part of $75 million in cost reductions by the company that includes cutting 1,400 of its full-timee work force and closing a 38,000-square-foot call center in Camp Hill, Pa. Williams-Sonom a currently employs about 1,000 in Memphis and North “Williams-Sonoma, Inc., is very committes to the Memphis area,” Sellman says. “Thed company opened its first distributiohn center in Memphis a quarter of acenturh ago. Our plan is to continue to have a significant presencew inthe area.
” Olive Branch Distribution Centef comprises two buildings, an 800,000-square-foogt property at 10425 Ridgewoor Drive and the 1.1 milliobn square-foot property at 11624 S. Distribution is marketing thesublease space. The Williams-Sonomaw space joins another large sublease space in the DeSotoCountyy submarket. , a third-party logistics provider, is lookingb to sublease the 865,120-square-foot DeSoto Traded Center, Building Five. These properties could have an impacy on the Memphis industrial realestatee market’s supply because with most sublease landlords get a below-market deal, says Jim Mercer, executive vice president at .
However, it won’t have an impac on vacancy numbers because rent is stillbeingv paid. The overall Memphis market, which includes DeSoto County, had a 16.6% vacanc rate for first quarter 2009, comparerd to vacancy of 17.5% in the year-ago according to CB Richards EllisMarketView reports. The DeSoto County submarkeft hada 16.5% vacancy rate for the first down from 24.8% in first quartedr 2008. The availability rate, which includes sublease also dropped in DeSoto from 24.8% in first quarter 2008 to 20.8% in this year’w first quarter. The Williams-Sonoma and Kuehne + Nageol sublease spaces, paired with ’s decision last year to vacatwe 2.
2 million square feet of distribution spacde inSoutheast Memphis, shouldd further slow down any potential new industrial developmenft in the area. “When the market does turn, we’vde got enough space that we should be able to accommodatewmost users,” Mercer says. “This may prolong the time it takeds before a developer will build another spec The overall Memphis market experienced negative absorptionof 521,6676 square feet for the first quarter. This was after five straighrt quarters of positive absorptiob during anational downturn. Much of this negativew absorption is dueto Hewlett-Packarsd vacating 1.4 million square feet so far.