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“I have been waiting all my life and now I just don’t know what the hell to say!” an overwhelmed Doug Jones told his election night party after his stunning come-from-behind win over GOP candidate Roy Moore Tuesday night in Alabama.
“We have shown, not just the state of Alabama, but we have shown the country, the way we can be unified,” Doug Jones said Tuesday night in becoming the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in a quarter of a century.
“At end of the day, this entire race has been about dignity and respect. This campaign has been about the rule of law,” he said.
“Help is on the way!” screamed one of his party attendees, interrupting Jones. The crowd roared.
“…we’ve tried to make sure this campaign was about finding common ground and actually getting things done for the people,” Jones said, grinning.
That should make ABC late-night star Jimmy Kimmel happy. The previous night, Kimmel blasted Congress for holding the Children’s Health Insurance Program hostage. The program is designed to cover children whose parents make too much money to be eligible for Medicaid, but can’t afford private health insurance.
Wa, Dec 31, GNA - Wa Secondary School has, for the first time since the inception of the senior secondary school system, scored 100 percent in the SSS certificate examinations.
Mr Moses Donneyong, the Headmaster of the school who said this at a dinner dance organized by the Wa Secondary Old Boys Association, said although the school had adequate teachers it was extremely difficult for it to capture academic glories due to lack of discipline. He said out of 276 students presented for the exami...
Mr Abudu Sakara, the Secretary of the association, said there was the need to organize funds to support their Alma Mater since the government alone could not provide all the needs of the school.
He said the association would embark on an educational campaign that would make the school attractive to the public and called on all members to remain committed to the course of the school.
Mr Sakara said they had prioritised the fence wall of the school and would work assiduously to achieve that goal before the end of 2006. Mr. Solomon A. Dansieh, the Chairman of the association, said members of the old boys have been levied to sponsor the school's forthcoming speech and prize-giving day and to contribut...
Mr Seidu Mohammed Saani, on behalf of the World Bank Book Project, presented 10 boxes of books to the headmaster of the school. He said the World Bank Book Project has presented a total of 40 boxes of books to other schools at an estimated cost of 60 million cedis.
In the 18th century, Jeffrey Amherst wrote the preceding question to Colonel Henry Bouquet, a fellow officer in the British army. His letters go on to specifically call for the use of biological warfare. He referred to natives as “an execrable race” and agreed in principle with the use of dogs to hunt them down.
While Amherst served as Commander in Chief of British troops in North America, he supported giving Native Americans blankets embedded with the smallpox virus and the use of any other tactic to “extirpate” the race.
The supremacist ideals that Lord Amherst embodied are more commonly associated with slavery, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan, but northerners must accept that white supremacy isn’t exclusive to the South and hasn’t only targeted African Americans. Every day that I live in Amherst, I am complicit in subconsciously reverin...
On September 5, Dallas, Texas voted to remove its statue honoring Robert E. Lee. Another Lee statue was removed from Duke University on August 19 and dozens of monuments to other confederates have been torn down over the past year, as they should be. Viral campaigns like #notyourmascot by the National Congress of Ameri...
How can we ask Texans and North Carolinians to take down appalling monuments to the past if we won’t do it ourselves? Yes, the costs to taxpayers and to small businesses would temporarily pose an obstacle to the renaming of Amherst, but supporters of so-called “confederate pride” can make administrative and economic ar...
William Bowen, the vocal proponent for the change, may have suggested confusing replacement names or used inflammatory rhetoric regarding Nazis—but these distractions don’t excuse what Lord Amherst stood for.
It won’t be easy or free to do the right thing; it usually isn’t. It would certainly entail choosing a name that not everyone agrees on. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what the new name is or who is leading the charge against Amherst’s disgusting legacy. This town couldn’t possibly do worse than continuing to revere a m...
If we’re talking about monuments to historic horrors and tearing things down, let’s tear down the ZooMass Department of Economics, which is definitely Marxist – one of the worst killers of people in modern history.
Glenn Tilbrook, who performs with his band the Fluffers in Teaneck tomorrow, was part of British new-wave band Squeeze that had several hits back in the '80s.
Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers with the Spring Standards. Where and when: 8 p.m. tomorrow at Mexicali Live, 1409 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck; 8 p.m. Friday at the Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., New York. How much: $20 in Teaneck; call (201) 833-0011 or visit mexicalilive.com. $25 in New York; call (212) 414-5994 or ...
When the British new-wave band Squeeze reunited to tour in 2007 and 2008, Glenn Tilbrook had to listen to old Squeeze records. The band hadn't toured since 1999, and while he continued to play some Squeeze songs in his own shows since then, he needed to brush up.
It surprised him to remember how simple and direct those old recordings were. He strove to re-create that with his own band, the Fluffers, on their new album, "Pandemonium Ensues," a collection of lyrically thorny but musically catchy rock songs in the Squeeze tradition. Songs range in length from 2:36 to 3:25."I wante...
In another back-to-basics move, the musicians played together in Tilbrook's studio instead of recording their parts separately.
"That gives it a totally different feel," Tilbrook says. "I've spent a lot of time by myself in a studio overdubbing stuff, and wouldn't ever criticize that way of making records. But right now that's the last thing I'd want to do."
They even recorded one song -- the album's hardest-rocking track, "Slaughtered Artist" -- in one take. That's something Tilbrook says he has never done throughout his entire career.
In a lot of ways, the past decade has been about restarting at ground zero for Tilbrook. Squeeze, built around the songwriting partnership of Tilbrook and guitarist Chris Difford, had big hits like "Tempted," "Hourglass," "Black Coffee in Bed" and "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)." The band was also able to fill arena...
After the breakup, Tilbrook continued recording and performing at small clubs, solo or with the Fluffers. One of the biggest changes was that he had to start writing lyrics. Difford wrote almost all the words to Squeeze's songs while Tilbrook concentrated on the music.
"I stopped writing lyrics when I met Chris, and that was when I was 14," Tilbrook says. "But I've been doing it now for 10 years, and I enjoy it. On this record, I think I've written more lyrics than tunes, which is a big turnaround for me."
He and Difford have talked about making another Squeeze record and are going to spend some time together this summer writing songs.
"I've said to Chris, 'I think what we ought to do is to have no preconceptions about the way that we would work with each other,'" Tilbrook says. "I would envision doing some lyrics, and I would envision Chris doing some tunes, as well."
"Pandemonium Ensues" features one of the most surprising celebrity cameos of the year. Johnny Depp appears on the final track, "Too Close to the Sun," occasionally intoning the title phrase over futuristic music.
Tilbrook says he met Depp and Depp's longtime partner Vanessa Paradis, who also performs on the album, after they attended a show of his in Los Angeles. Tilbrook invited them to contribute.
"That 'Too Close to the Sun' track was done with my mate Pete, who's a pest controller," Tilbrook says. "Originally that song was going to be called 'The 13th Bar,' because we were counting out 13 bars for him, and then he'd say 'too close to the sun,' which he did very well. But then if you have a chance to have Johnn...
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co of China Ltd <2318.HK> said it planned to raise its stake in Ping An Bank Co Ltd <000001.SZ> for 14.8 billion yuan ($2.4 billion).
Ping An Insurance will acquire up to 1.32 billion new shares of Ping An Bank at 11.17 yuan per share, raising its stake in the bank to 59 percent from 52.38 percent, the insurer said on Sunday in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
The Shenzhen-listed bank will use the proceeds to replenish core capital and increase its capital adequacy ratio so as to meet the capital regulatory requirements.
Jan 15, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s human resource (HR) practitioners will battle for ‘HRM Awards 2010’ which acknowledges and rewards best practices in the profession, to be held in May, an official said.
HRM Awards is organized by the Association of Human Resource Professionals (HRP), Sri Lanka and will be held for the fourth time.
“There is a big difference between successful companies and unsuccessful companies and big part of that difference is HR practices,” Isuru Tillakawardana, the association’s president said.
“That™s why that HR Awards started. We wanted to highlight best practices; we wanted to applaud such organizations that have best practices.
The awards are expected to attract over 100 companies this year, its organizers said.
Hewitt Associates, an HR consulting company based in India, will shortlist the competition and prepare a detailed analysis to advise a panel of judges, the organizers said.
When children return to classrooms this fall, they're less likely than ever to find a very smart teacher standing at the front of the class. Researchers say that since the 1960s, "high-aptitude" womenthose in the top 15 percent of college graduateshave increasingly eschewed teaching. (Women account for about three-qu...
But other factors may be driving bright women out of classrooms. Professor of economics Caroline Hoxby says another common hypothesis holds that teachers' unions are discouraging well-qualified teachers by compressing wages: "If you were to look at a typical school's pay schedule, you would find that everyone who has a...
Working with Andrew Leigh, Ph.D. '04, then a doctoral student at the Kennedy School of Government, Hoxby set out to understand the troubling decline in the numbers of high-performing teachers. Is it that top women are shunning the profession due to the "pull" of better pay in alternative fields, or does the meager pay ...
For their study, published in May in the American Economics Review, Hoxby and Leigh used federal data from surveys of recent college graduates, which included information about 21,600 public-school teachers from 1961 to 1997. Because those data lacked ideal information on teachers' academic aptitude, the researchers se...
Before the 1960s, she explains, public-sector teachers' unions were not legal in the United States. That changed when a teachers' strike in New York City led the state to legalize teachers' unions. Other states followed suit. Today, although some small and rural school districts in the United States still operate witho...
Still, pay compression alone doesn't deserve all the blame. The reality is that pay compression and increased job opportunities interacted. "That was really a bad combination," Hoxby says. "Pay compression was squeezing women out while at the same time there was the siren call from all of these other occupations." Comp...
Hoxby hopes her study leaves readers with "a real sense of anxiety" about teacher ability in the United States. It's unclear how a lack of truly bright teachers is affecting American children. "But I think a lot of people have a feeling in their gut that it's probably not a good idea," she notes. "Shouldn't there be so...
She doesn't think bright people are opposed to teaching. They're interested, but turn away because it's tough work and, compared with other professions open to high-aptitude people, like law or medicine, "the rewards aren't that great," Hoxby says. "While other occupations were making more and more opportunities availa...
National news will turn its spotlights on Montgomery on Tuesday during Lester Holt’s Across America series for NBC Nightly News.
Montgomery will be Holt’s second stop on the five-state, five-day tour, he said Friday.
“I’ve never been to Montgomery, but Montgomery was a critical part of the fabric of the civil rights movement and with the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice it was a place we wanted to be,” Holt said.
Holt will spend Tuesday interviewing Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Alabama State University Mighty Marching Hornets band director James Oliver and longtime Dexter King Memorial Baptist organist Althea Thomas.
Holt will broadcast from outside the church at 5:30 p.m., he said.
The tour is a whirlwind adventure throughout the country, Holt said.
The tour will begin in Houston on Sunday, and he’ll continue on to Tampa, Florida, Kansas City, Missouri, and San Diego after visiting Montgomery.
The community is invited to watch the broadcast and can do so from Dexter Avenue between Bainbridge and Decatur streets.
Montgomery police will close Hull, Decatur and Bainbridge streets from Monroe Street to Washington Avenue and Dexter Avenue from Bainbridge to Hull Street from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Thursday it has pumped $29.3 million into 10 banks, which will be the last to receive investments as part of the taxpayer-funded program to shore up the financial system.
The aid comes from a $700 billion financial bailout program created last year during the height of the financial crisis.
The investments in the 10 banks are the last under Treasury's so-called Capital Purchase Program, Treasury officials said. By law, the Treasury must report the transactions — which occurred on Tuesday — within two business days.
Although the government anticipated winding down support for banks, Treasury Secretary Geithner recently extended the publicly derided bailout program, saying it will now focus on helping homeowners avoid foreclosures and small businesses get loans.
The banks receiving the latest outlay are: Atlantic Bancshares Inc. in South Carolina; Union Financial Corp. in New Mexico; Mainline Bancorp Inc., in Pennsylvania; FBHC Holding Co. in Colorado; Western Illinois Bancshares Inc. in Illinois; DeSoto County Bank in Mississippi; Lafayette Bancorp. Inc. in Mississippi; Priva...
Voters wanting to cast ballots in the August primary don’t have much time left to get themselves registered. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan says people can register with their local elections authority or they can go to her website. But they have to file their registrations by the close of business next Wednesday, J...
Missouri already has gained thousands of new registered voters. Carnahan says registration spiked before the Presidential Primary in February.
She says the August primary probably won’t produce a record turnout. But she says the November election could be a record-breaker.
Demonized by some but celebrated by others, marijuana has had a place in American culture for decades. Now, as CNBC’s Trish Regan reports, it seems poised to become something else again: commonplace, and out in the open.
LESTER HOLT, anchor: Marijuana has had a place in American society and culture for decades, demonized as a corrupter of youth in the jazz age, celebrated by the counterculture of the '60s. Now it seems poised to become something else again, commonplace and out in the open. It's still illegal, but 15 states and the Dist...
Mr. SCOTT DURRAH: We're going to do a quiche today.
TRISH REGAN reporting: At a cooking class in downtown Denver , a new twist on classic cuisine.
Mr. DURRAH: You can add whatever you'd like to your quiche.
Mr. DURRAH: Put a little sprinkle in there.
REGAN: ...except for one, a Colorado -grown herb.
Mr. DURRAH: So it's always important to make sure that you have high quality pot. This is breakfast.
REGAN: Pot is going mainstream, and leading the way are people like Scott Durrah and Wanda James . Do you represent the new generation of cannabis entrepreneurs?
Ms. WANDA JAMES: Definitely. When you look around this industry and the people who have come into the industry, there's lots of professional people. This is America 's new hot industry.
REGAN: Wanda and Scott are branding and marketing medical marijuana under their label, Simply Pure , a line of cannabis-infused edibles.
Ms. JAMES: Every time you have one of our products, they will affect you the same al the time. It's like going to Starbucks , you know what you're going to get.
REGAN: In just the first year since the boom, the state has collected more than $21 million through sales tax and a host of licensing fees. Medical marijuana laws are already on the books in Washington , DC , and 15 sates, and support for legalizing marijuana has never been greater.
Unidentified Man #1: And an eighth of the headband.
REGAN: In tough times medical marijuana is one industry that's putting people to work.
Unidentified Man #2: These oyster crackers are really popular, too.
REGAN: ...people are still smoking pot ?
REGAN: There are more pot dispensaries in Colorado than Starbucks -- too close to home for some.
Ms. STACEY HOWELL (Concerned Parent): You don't want it invading your state . How am I trying to teach my kid that it's still an illegal drug , federally it's still illegal.
REGAN: What kind of signal are we sending to our young people ?
Ms.. JAMES: What kind of signal does it send to your children when you have a fully stocked refrigerator with Coors Light or with, you know, Budweiser in it?
REGAN: It's a debate that rages on in Colorado and across the country as the medical marijuana movement brings us closer to imagining what the legalization of pot might look like. Trish Regan , CNBC, Denver.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Netflix says it will be offering instant access to new episodes of the U.S. television sit-com "Arrested Development" starting in 2013.
The Emmy-winning series is being revived in an Internet production deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television and Imagine Television, and will be available through Netflix rather than an on-air or cable network.
"'Arrested Development' is one of the finest American comedies in TV history and its return through Netflix is a perfect example of how we are working closely with studios and networks to provide consumers with entertainment they love," Ted Sarandos , Netflix chief content officer, said in a written statement.
Lee McAllister after knocking down Danny Williams.
Aberdeen Assassin Lee McAllister vowed today to bring professional boxing to the north-east, having confirmed a first ever fight event in Peterhead.
In his role as promoter, multiple weight and belt title-holder, McAllister has arranged the first ever pro boxing event in the Blue Toon on Saturday March 30.
Aberdeen lightweight Nathan Beattie will box on the bill at Peterhead Leisure Centre.
Peterhead will also host debut fights for Scott Murray (super-lightweight), David Hastie (welterweight), Kenny Allan (flyweight) and Adele Steinback (super-lightweight).
McAllister insists he will not stop at the history-making Peterhead show and aims to take boxing shows to many more towns in the region.

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