News - Friday, April 8, 2011

Monday, April 10

Dr. John B. Steele, Chatta-nooga physician and civic leader for more than 50 years, was presented the Tennessee State Medical Association’s “Outstanding Physician of the Year” award Monday night at Erlanger Hospital where he is a patient following an automobile accident Sunday.

The photographs on the walls of Forgotten Children Ministries in Chattanooga form a collective picture of unimaginable poverty.

In one, a boy whose thin frame can barely be seen under his clothes lies in the middle of a city sidewalk, sleeping. In another, two male children are sucking air out of a baby food jar filled with glue in an effort to numb their hunger. And in a third, Forgotten Children’s chairman and CEO Stan Nowell kneels beside a boy wrapped in a blue blanket and lying in startling filth under a massive concrete bridge.

The Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event on April 16 at Coolidge Park will give men the chance to literally put themselves in a pair of women’s shoes. They will do this to protest rape, sexual assault and gender violence while raising funds to benefit the Partnership for Families, Children and Adult’s Sexual Assault Center. The center provides violence prevention efforts and rape services in the Greater Chattanooga community.

Whether Pro Bono or Legal Aid

The assistance must be prepaid.

By tuition and endurance to the School of Law

Hoping the recipient will be held in awe.

It’s not just advice the recipient will need

Across the country, baseball stadiums are once again replacing snow with warm bodies. The fact that I have noticed this turn of events is probably more remarkable than the fact that once again a long winter has departed, since most people would not consider me a sports enthusiast. However, over time I have learned to appreciate the parallels of sports and life. In particular, the agony of losing a game in sports has given me perspective on the tragedy of losing in the law.

That cold early spring afternoon that I pulled into the old building’s parking lot, the structure seemed to have lost all of its protecting warm grandeur I had experienced over the years in previous visits entering its front doors. Now woven fence wire encircled the grounds of the county’s old hospital building which is scheduled to be torn down in the very near future due to the building of a brand new facility in a part of the city where modern growth has made its move.

As I sat on the back porch my legs dangled off the side, swinging a few inches above the red Georgia clay. Next to me, in tattered blue overalls, sat my Grandpa Jesse. Grandpa’s once light hair had turned much darker with the passage of time. His steel blue eyes offered a sense of strength. With his Case pocketknife he was whittling on a piece of maple he had cut from a tree.

Kelly Williams v. The Greater Chattanooga Public Television Corporation, d/b/a WTCI-TV Channel 45.

Hamilton County – The trial court granted summary judgment to the defendant on plaintiffs’ causes of action, alleging discrimination by their employer and termination by the employer because of their age, or that they suffered a retaliatory discharge.

Monday morning began warm and wet, with storms all around. At the office, the generator we have behind our building was rumbling loudly as I walked by it on my way to our back door. I am far from an expert on generators but I knew this one wasn’t sounding quite right. And the only reason it was running anyway was because something else was not.

I was sitting in Starbucks. Minding my own business. Reading the paper, actually. On a Monday morning.

I was sitting pretty close to the area where people pick up their orders. Thus, I was getting interrupted pretty regularly by friends.

And then for a while … nothing. At least, it seemed like nothing.

It’s almost Nightfall time again. The free concert series that brings national headliners and musically-savvy local acts to Miller Plaza will begin on May 20 and run every Friday night until September 23, with two weeks off for Riverbend.

This year Chattanooga Presents, who organizes Nightfall, decided to mix things up by allowing one local band the opportunity to play the headliner spot on July 29 for the first time in Nightfall history.

Sometimes you have to “take life by the horns” literally. I did. During a recent night out, I rode a mechanical bull for the first time in my life. It turned out to be one of the most craziest and silly things I’ve ever done. Truly, it was the highlight of my week, perhaps month.

1. Which song was ABBA’s second highest selling single, selling over ten million copies worldwide?  Waterloo; Chiquitita; Take a Chance on Me; Fernando?

“Though I never thought that we could lose/There’s no regret/If I had to do the same again/I would, my friend.”

Your last vacation was a memorable one.

Your plans absolutely became reality. You got to see everything and everyone you wanted to see, the sights were wonderful, the kids had fun, and you felt relaxed for the first time in a long time. You took what seemed like a thousand pictures.

There’s no shortage of outlets for theater in our area, but now one of them, the Theater for the New South, is putting some new plans in the works. With the Fresh Squeezed Reading Series on April 28 to 30 and May 5 to 7, six local writers will have the opportunity to have their six new plays read at CreateHere, 55 E. Main Street.

A young man and woman are enjoying their first date. He wants to impress her with his taste in food, so he takes her to his favorite deli and buys a pastrami on rye for them to share. He unwraps the sandwich, gives her half, and bites into his portion.

If Susan Worley’s life had gone according to plan, she would not be a Realtor today. Instead, she’d be spending more time hiking through some of the 600,000 acres of national forest that back up against the farm she and her husband own in Trion, Ga., or scuba diving off the shores of Belize, or playing with her grandchildren.

They wash dishes, pick up litter and clean bathrooms. They also lead major corporations, defend clients in court, and perform surgeries. While many of them spend their lives isolated from others, their ranks also include some of the most powerful people in history.

Spring is in the air – all the tulips, buttercups, azaleas, redbud and dogwood trees are blooming! Just don’t take too big of a whiff – that could cause some major sneezing since the pollen count is so high! Before too long, all the beautiful blooms will be replaced with green dust. You know – the dust that makes your car temporarily green?

Some movies leave viewers with questions. For example, at the end of “Inception,” many people wondered if Dom was stuck in limbo or if he’d made it back to the U.S. Certain scenes in “Black Swan” suggest the character of Lily, played by Mila Kunis, doesn’t exist, but the makers of the movie don’t resolve that uncertainty. However, at the end of “Sucker Punch,” the new Zack Snyder movie, the only question that came to my mind was, “Why?”

When I finally arrive at a home, I want to have completed all of my work ahead of time. I want to walk in the door fully prepared with the expectation of success.

My belief is you establish a flow to your actual presentation and stick with it. Don’t change the structure or allow your client to do so. If they want to talk about something out of order, ask them politely if you could go over that later in a certain segment of the presentation where you normally address that concern.