| Kenneth Atchity Making Film Waves
As the first of several infrastructure projects planned for Louisiana, Louisiana-born Dr. Ken Atchity, chairman of Atchity Entertainment International, Inc. ( www.aeionline.com), announced with co-manager Fred Griffin of Houston's Griffin Partners, Inc. ( www.griffinpartners.com), the formation of Louisiana Wave Studio, LLC to own and operate the only motion picture-dedicated facility with built-in automatically-generating waves in the United States at Sealy-Slack Industrial Park six miles from downtown Shreveport.
Atchity produced 'The Madams Family' for CBS and Orly Adelson Productions in Louisiana. AEI is also producing 'Meg' (New Line, Jan de Bont directing) and 'Believe-It-Or-Not!' (Paramount, Jim Carrey starring). He was looking for a way to shoot a film about Katrina's impact on Charity Hospital when he came across the Shreveport tank and realized it was slated for removal.
Real estate wrap: Ballinger helping on design of new Barnes site
Out-of-town architects play a big role in Phila. design [Philadelphia] Cornucopia to provide food service at Cephalon [Philadelphia] Insurance Agency Merger Creates Local Powerhouse [Memphis] Residential rents rising [Philadelphia] West Chester, Pa., apartments sold [Philadelphia] .
Amending life-insurance trust not an option
Microchip Technology Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Sanghi offers practical help for your real-life challenges.
Question: Several years before we retired, we were advised to open a Life Insurance Irrevocable Trust. Our finances are no longer what we thought they would be at this point, and it has become very costly to maintain. We would like to revisit our options. Can we rescind or amend an Irrevocable Trust? Will there be tax ramifications?
- Rosemary .
Growth and development
Shelbyville's Career Center will be seeing more job seekers due to the closing of the state's Fayetteville office. The Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development announced Friday it is closing the Fayetteville Career Center effective Jan. 25... .
SUNSET: Denver crowds cheer Rockies despite World Series loss
DENVER (AP) — Even after being swept out of the World Series, it was a happy Halloween for the Colorado Rockies. A crowd estimated by police at about 5,000 braved chilly temperatures and gray skies Wednesday to thank the Rockies for a nearly magical season, even though it ended abruptly with a four-game sweep at the hands of the Boston Red Sox. Many of the fans left work or skipped lunch to head downtown, a few blocks from Coors Field, to celebrate with Rockies players, owners and management. They showed up in full Rockies regalia, donning black and purple shirts, jackets, even Halloween costumes, waving white Rockies rally towels beneath white and purple balloons floating above the stage. Left-fielder Matt Holliday, a potential MVP, had trouble making himself heard over the screaming chants of "MVP! MVP!" "I wasn’t around when we had sellouts every night," Holliday said, referring to the franchise’s early years.
McCain and Romney running close in Florida
The winner in Florida will move to the top of the pack in the seesawing state-by-state race to pick the Republican party's candidate in November's presidential election. McCain and Romney have split the last four contests. McCain won in South Carolina and New Hampshire and Romney carried Michigan and Nevada, the latter a state scarcely contested by other Republicans. Huckabee won the kick-off contest in Iowa. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton easily won a Florida Democratic race that featured no active campaigning because of a dispute between the national and state parties. The national party stripped the state of its delegates to the national convention and Democratic candidates pledged to stay away. But Clinton, who lost to rival Barack Obama in a landslide in South Carolina on Saturday, visited Florida after polls closed in a bid to claim at least a symbolic victory.
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