Alcoa Inc, an Ackermann client since 2000, flexed both financial and literal muscles today for our local community.  They gave a heckuva lot of money to the community, and then their employees and managers put their muscles where their money left off.
Alcoa Foundation and Alcoa Inc. Tennessee Operations announced today more than $190,000 in grants to [...]

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Who’s sprained both her ankles more than 5 times? Yep, me: Crutches McSkinner.
As a FORMER long-distance /10K runner, I’ve had some stupid ankle turns while training in the rain and bad weather. I’m remembering the “old days” of landing at the hospital ER/military clinic, getting an X-Ray and watching as the physicians physically placed film up on a lighted box. Since Steve and I [...]

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Misc. musings and random thoughts from working in Europe…it’s Friday afternoon here and I haven’t slept since 5:15 a.m. Thursday. These fevered questions are running through my mind…
Do European women possess some special balancing gene,  wearing those spiky high heels & walking so comfortably on these little cobblestone streets? I cannot get the hang of [...]

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I’m working in Germany this week at the law firm of Taylor Wessing in Hamburg, and their London associate Louise Popple had some interesting advice for clients regarding Facebook’s recent urging of users to create personalized URLs for their Facebook pages (I believe this began around June 12, but can’t quite remember through my jet [...]

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As the holiday weekend approaches, my husband and I have begun chuckling , wondering “in which” local emergency room we may find ourselves.
For the past three years, either his job as a small animal veterinarian (read into this: BAD dog and cat bites) or our roles as aunt and uncle to watersports-loving nieces and nephews,  have placed [...]

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