UT AgResearch honors Dale Gregg for exceptional contributions
KNOXVILLE — The University of Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Greeneville is honoring Senior Farm Equipment Operator Dale Gregg as the 2013 recipient of a UT AgResearch Directors’ Award for Outstanding Support Service.
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Appeals court decides in favor of victim's estate in railroad wrongful death case
KNOXVILLE -- After three years of legal battles, the tides of justice have turned back in favor of a now-deceased CSX railroad switchman and his legal estate in a case against CSX railroad, one of the nation's leading transportation suppliers. The Estate of Winston Payne, a former CSX switchman who lost his life to lung cancer, obtained an 8.6 million dollar verdict from a Knoxville, Tennessee jury in November 2010.
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Christians are still being thrown to the lions
By Greg Allen
A third of America’s population says they’re evangelical Christians and 93% of all Americans claim they believe in God. That’s a staggering number. Yet 2% of the population claims to be homosexual and some are militant about it. Read more >> |
Crown says starting your own business may be key to finding your dream job
KNOXVILLE -- In a sluggish economy, if your New Year's resolution is to find a dream job it may be time to consider whether it's time to start your own business, noted Crown President Robert Dickie III. In a national op-ed out this week, Dickie noted that avoiding some pitfalls could make a difference between creating a successful start-up or becoming a statistic. Read more >>
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Knoxville News Bits:
The WordPlayers announces auditions for the musical, The Secret Garden on Jan. 11, 2014.
Please call 865-539-2490 for an appointment. For more info, see www.wordplayers.org.
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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team, archived on the USGS Earth Explorer. Caption by Adam Voiland.
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The World's Tallest Mountain: Mount Everest
Fourteen mountain peaks on Earth stand taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). The tallest of these “eight-thousanders” is Mount Everest, the standard to which all other mountains are compared. The Nepalese name for the mountain is Sagarmatha: “mother of the universe.”
Everest’s geological story began 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent began a slow-motion collision with Asia. The edges of two continents jammed together and pushed up the massive ridges that make up the Himalayas today. Pulitzer-winning journalist John McPhee summed up the wonder of the mountain’s history when he wrote Annals of the Former World: “The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the Earth. If by some fiat, I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence; this is the one I would choose.” Read more >> |
 Winter Schedule in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
GATLINBURG, TN - Great Smoky Mountains National Park has announced its winter operating schedule. As cooler weather approaches and visitation decreases, various facilities will close, including campgrounds and picnic areas, and operating hours for some visitor services will be reduced.
Some roads are inaccessible during winter months due to ice and snow. Other areas do not get enough traffic to provide maintenance to keep those roads open.
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