Videos - It's Snowing in Alabama!

Hey, what's up everybody? Guess what! It is snowing. Isn't that super cool? Well, it's been sleeting pretty much all day, but it hadn't been snowing. And sleet's just boring. Like who wants a bunch of ice? Sleet is basically ice...raining ice. But snow is fluffy and cool and it's...you get to make snowmen with it, you know. I'm excited. I get to play in the snow tomorrow.

Today it's a little late. I'm not gonna play today because, you know, it's getting a little late. Here comes Jerry now back from hunting. And we're going to have supper and enjoy looking at the snow fall. Yeah, so pretty. Well, thank you all for watching. And stay tuned. I honestly do have Speak Natively episodes up. I swear.

Computer Science - University of Alabama College of Engineering

Computer science students not only design, implement, test and maintain individual software applications but also develop and manage larger systems that integrate a wide range of components. I received a full tuition scholarship to Boston College. Now, people look at me crazy when I tell them that I turned that down because who in their right mind would do that.

And quite frankly, the answer is the opportunities here. Like I said, I've been involved in undergraduate research since my sophomore year. I've basically run and started two organizations. I studied abroad. I basically know most of the computer science professors by name and, most of them, I feel comfortable walking in their office and just sitting down and chatting with them. So just the incredible range of opportunities that I had here was really what drew me here. Students graduating from this program find themselves working in careers such as software analysts, database designers, software engineers, systems managers, and programmer analysts.

Lightning Strikes Alabama's Orange Beach

She sure has a way of showing us who's boss, doesn't she? She came out in full force in Orange Beach, Ala., on Dec. 30, and a couple of social media users were there to document it. First we've got an Instagram video from Haley McAllister, who was on a youth retreat at the time. That'll get your heart to start racing, won't it? Next up, we have this hair-raising clip from Twitter user @lmrivers8. Look at how the sky flashes purple.

Pretty epic, and I think a little terrifying if you were there, but luckily it seems no one was injured on the beach as the lightning struck. Much of the United States has been experiencing some pretty frightening weather lately, thanks to Winter Storm Goliath. According to The Weather Channel, flooding, tornadoes and blizzard conditions tied to the storm's impacts have taken 52 lives, making it the deadliest storm system in the U.S. this year.

Encyclopedia of Alabama

The Encyclopedia of Alabama is a free online reference source of all things Alabama, from history to geography to sports to education to sciences to business. It is written specifically for us by scholars and experts in the fields in which the articles are about and we have more than 1,500 articles for people to read right now and we add new content every week.

In the beginning of the century, the year 2000-2001, people decided that they needed to update the printed version of what had been used as an encyclopedia. It was printed in 1921 and it needed to be updated. So the University of Alabama Press and the Alabama Humanities Foundation said, "We need a new one," and they decided to put it online because it was the 21st century, and it's proven to be a very brilliant decision because we can update articles and add new content regularly. You're going to read about battles that took place, inventions that were created, famous people who changed the world.

Recreation Center - University of South Alabama

At USA there are a lot of clubs and activities to participate in. and here at our Rec center, there are many ways you can be involved in an active lifestyle Hi guys! My name is Boni, I'm a mechanical engineering major here at South. I also work at the Rec center So let's go check out our facilities! So what is available to you? Let's go check it out!

The student Rec center offers cardio machines free weights, workout spaces with exercise machines and accesories like medice balls A multi purpose court for basketball, volleyball, and other games. An indoor track, racquetball courts, table tennis, and an indoor soccer field. And don't forget about our amazing 40 ft. rock climbing wall! Our student Rec center, offers a SouthFit program comprised of group fitness personal training, wellness, fitness certifications and workshops and education. You can take classes like Zoomba, bootcamp, yoga, and spinning.

The rec center facilities also include a dance studio as well as a kick boxing studio. Individual instruction from one of our personal trainors can give you motivation and teach you proper workout forms to maximize your workout experience Not let's check out our pools. Students cam swim laps in our 25 yd. six lane indoor pool or enjoy open swim hours and play water basketball or volleyball. The outdoor pool is the place to play water volleyball, basketball,polo or take an aquatic fitness class. You can also relax on the pool deck or in the outdoos hot tub an added bonus to your student recreation experience is access to free lockers, showers, and a sauna in the locker rooms We're not done yet!

whether you just finished working out or want to enjoy a break you can stop by Fresh Market Smoothies to find something delicious and healthy. So what does it cost to have access to this amazing facility? It's free for students! Make sure to bring your student I.D. to enter and we'll look forward to seeing you here soon!

Alabama Slammer Recipe

All right welcome back to Drinks With Diablo. This is your host Johnny Diablo. And this is a viewer request from Nicholas, I think. Anyway, so the Alabama Slammer-- what you are going to need -- sloe gin, Southern Comfort, amaretto, and orange juice. Tall glass with ice and we're just going to put 1 ounce each of these and fill it up with orange juice.

1 ounce of Southern Comfort.
1 ounce amaretto.

I don't know what it is-- there's a lot of drinks with SoCo and amaretto and sloe gin. All together. The Alabama Slammer-- it's not only a drink, it was Hardcore Holly's finishing move. All right, we'll ad sloe gin and then top it off with orange juice. And that looks all sunsetty and gradients and all that.

You got the orange juice, you got the sloe gin adding a little bit if fruity taste, the Southern Comfort adding a peach-flavored bourbon, and amaretto-- I can't really taste it. Maybe it's just because I got cheap stuff here. Anyway, the Alabama Slammer-- you need to know this if you're a bartender. If you want to find more great recipes as amazing as these and possibly more so, subscribe to our YouTube channel. Leave us a comment below. Let us know what drinks you want to see. Thanks again for being here. Tell me what time it is.

Student Sit-In Organizers Expelled from Alabama State University

On february 29, 1960, alabama governor john patterson spoke out against an anti-segregation sit-in that was taking place in the montgomery county courthouse. Students from alabama state college, a traditionally black institution in montgomery, were in the fifth day of a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in the courthouse. Governor patterson threatened to terminate the school's funding unless it expelled the student organizers.

He also warned that someone was likely to be killed if the protests continued. The next day, more than a thousand alabama state students marched on the capital. Then, the following day, the college expelled the nine student leaders of the courthouse sit-in. With word of the expulsions spreading, more than a thousand students pledged a mass strike. They also threatened to withdraw from school and continued staging days of demonstrations. 37 students were arrested. Meanwhile, six of the nine expelled students sued to be reinstated.

But a federal court upheld the expulsions as "justified and necessary" and barred the students' readmission to the college. It was not unusual for black-college officials at state-funded universities, under pressure from state officials, to expel student leaders of the sit-ins. At my own college in baton rouge, southern university officials expelled sit-in leaders, including me, in 1962.

Transferring to the University of Alabama at Birmingham

I transferred from Jeff State to UAB in 2010 with little direction as to what I wanted to do as far as a major and career. It was actually a lot simpler than I thought. I applied just like any other student, went to my tour, just like any other student and then started school just like any other student, so it was very simple. I got my financial aid done early, I got my class schedule done early, so it was just a matter of coming over here and showing up to class. Transferring into this university, it was seamless.

Something that surprised me about taking classes at UAB is the fact that it is a really big university atmosphere, I expected it to be more for the medical and more for the UAB hospital, but it surprised me with how much it's a school. You got every nationality here, people seem to mesh pretty good, and get along with each other, so the diversity really stood out more than anything. Do everything possible to get involved, because it's what you make it.

I did homecoming, that was an experience, with Blaze, so that was fun. Also I tried salsa classes up here at the gym, that was neat, that was different. I never thought of something like that, taking salsa classes, so I mean just stuff like that, doing stuff outside of the box and having the opportunity to do stuff outside the box. Becoming a part of Alpha Gam was kind of unexpected.

It was a really good decision because it keeps me involved, and it keeps me doing volunteer work around campus and it kind of puts you out doing things to where you wouldn't normally do if you were just a regular student. If you are a transferring student, don't be nervous, there is really not much to it. Just make sure you do things ahead of time, plan it out, talk to the appropriate advisors. If you know what you want to do, they'll go ahead and pull the curriculum out.

If you want to be a nurse, go talk to the nursing manager, the person in charge of ensuring that you can get a step into the nursing program and then, you know, by the time you transfer to UAB, they have face recognition with you, they know you, they've seen that you're putting forth an effort versus everybody else. It might be your GPA, it might be a number or a name. I think that my opportunities that I've had to get involved in all the research that's here at UAB definitely helps, it's a leg up on a lot of the other applicants. Just the fact that it's UAB, UAB is a known school, it's a little bit more prestigious in a sense, and so therefore saying that I'm graduating from UAB as a CIS student did help me a lot during my time looking for jobs.

There're so many different things that you can do here, so, it's like family, you know each school is like family. So, whatever school you're gonna be in, it'll be just like a family away from home. And then a good education on top of that, you can't beat that.

University of Alabama's First Black Student Suspended After White Students Protest

In 1952, autherine lucy, a young, black woman, was accepted into the university of alabama. But once the school realized she was african-american, they told her state law did not allow her to attend. That sparked a three-year legal battle, and the united states supreme court eventually ruled in her favor. On february 3, 1956, miss lucy attended her first classes, but she had to pass through crowds of hostile students on the campus.

Those protests against desegregation continued and on the fourth day, escalated into a full-scale riot. Thousands of angry white students and community members followed lucy, hurling threats, racial slurs, eggs, and rocks at her. She had to be rescued by police. At the end of the day, citing safety concerns, university officials suspended her. Lucy's legal team, which included attorney thurgood marshall, challenged that decision, but eventually, they lost. That ended miss lucy's efforts to desegregate the university of alabama.

Broken Lives, Empty Fields - Alabama Farmer's Story - Imigration Law

Alabama Immigration Law and the farming community Brian Cash Owner of K&B Farms, Alabama speaking: "This is a third generation farm. We have a hundred and twenty acres and me and my dad run the farm now. K & B farms. The day after the judge upheld the law I sat right here and paid 64 people. At the end of the day I had eleven. So I went from 64 workers to eleven in one day. Some of these workers have been working in my family for 25 to 30 years.

The ones that have been here their like family to me they were really the first ones to up and leave. They just fear the harassment. The fields have to be cleaned up we lay plastic mulch and have drip irrigation. Stakes and string and all that has to be cleaned up and we don't have anybody left to do that. Which is a going to be a problem for us if we don't get it cleaned up then we wont be able to farm next year anyway. Senator Bason sat up here personally and told us that Alabamians would take the jobs and its just not happening. It pretty much just grinds Alabama agriculture down while everybody else is still flourishing. If I cannot get my normal work force back then I'll not even attempt to farm."

Alabama Student Marries ISIS Fighter

Recruit other americans to join her in syria. Intelligence officials say this 20-year-old university of alabama birmingham dropout is now a potential national security threat. A family spokesperson says hoda fled to syria in november after communicating with members of isis online. She had withdrawn from the muslim community over a year before she left to join isis because she knew that the community was not sympathetic to those extremist idea groups.

According to was feed she later posted on social media this picture of four western passports with the caption bonfire soon, no need for these anymore. On march she tweeted, go on drive byes and spill all of their blood or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Women like mu than that play a powerful roll in influencing and recruiting others. They're good at drawing in other women and egging men on saying i'm over here in syria, why are you still waiting at home.

In an interview she told was feed, quote, i felt like my life is to bland. Life has so much more meaning when you know you're here. But her family believes she may have been speaking under duress. The spokesperson says her messages to her family have been conflicting. In one she asks for $2500 to escape isis and complained that the group was pressuring her to.

Google Earth Enterprise Case Study in Alabama Virtual

Jim: How do we benefit local emergency managers? What can we provide to local law enforcement officials or firefighters?

>>Norven: How could we take advantage of what was out there in visualization?

>>Chris: Virtual Alabama is really a visualization system that provides a common operating picture for the state of Alabama.

>>Norven: One of the real, live examples that how we use Virtual Alabama is relative to a couple of tornados that happened back in February.

>>newsman: Dramatic videotape of the tornado that hit Enterprise yesterday. As the tornado barreled through Enterprise, tossing cars and snapping power lines.

>>Trish: This is truly an unbelievable scene here at Enterprise High School. The destruction here is simply indescribable.

>>Chris: Virtual Alabama was a brand new program at that point and Coffee County stayed ahead, not been adjusted in the system. So we learned, very quickly, the power of the tools themselves and how capable the software was. Having those situational awareness tools in place ahead of time and having the instant commanders and the on-scene commanders trained in advance is invaluable to our state.

>>Jim: What used to take days, if not weeks, to prepare disaster declaration, we can look at irrefutable damage and determine the amount of damage relatively quickly.

>>Norven: The main thing that we were looking for from a state perspective is a common operating picture that could be applied across all 67 counties. Virtual Alabama is built upon the Google Earth Enterprise, which we took Google Earth and took it behind a state firewall.

>>Chris: The day the servers came online and the lights came on, we went live to the community. And that was a little scary at first, because we really didn't know what the reception would be, but it turned out in the end to be the right answer. The interesting thing about Virtual Alabama is when the program was started, we initially thought it would be a Homeland Security and emergency management type application.

>>Jim: We're using it now for economic development projects, for environmental management, for conservation and natural resources. With our imagery, you can populate the gas lines, water lines, stop lights, stop signs, fire hydrants, flood plains.

>>Chris: We're really working hard to help bring situational awareness to our schools, being able to see interiors of buildings and floor plans to provide fire evacuation routing and emergency planning for those administrators in those schools. And also, Google Earth gives us the ability to be able to see camera feeds.

>>Norven: Our Environmental Protection Agency uses it quite extensively also. So back at their office, they can actually see if anybody is violating any of the environmental protection laws.

>>Chris: Every week, we get new reports from our user communities of the different ways that they're using Virtual Alabama.

>>Jim: We wanna say, "Hey look. Here is a platform that we can provide you for free. Now, go out and do great things with it."

Chris: The relationship that we've been able to have with the developers and the engineers within Google Earth has been very helpful and really key to how we've been able to roll this project out and continue to keep it rolling.

Jim: Whatever Google comes up with, we then can take advantage of to make our application better.

Chris: At the end of the day, what's most gratifying is to look in the eyes of a first responder or a law enforcement officer and realize that this tool had made a difference in how they're keeping our community safer.

Alabama Drag Queens In Holiday Parade

Celeb eva has an annual Christmas parade and this year the organizer the parade made a terrible mistake in their eyes and of the mistake for us so they wanted to hire some dancers for the parade of a lot of fun here eggs at this very conservative town of three thousand people accidentally hired the prancing elites its a group drag queens that dressed up a sec the Fanta I and away and now they arrived in Semmes Alabama. your everyone in town had their head explode i love this story.

 

Okay so this is love very colorful budge I will I love the fact that they were hired because what does that look fun and also up. They have Twitter handles including pretty boykin dreaded cunt boy ma'am and idea so what I loans for what yeah. So may come out there doing their thing right and of course the residents are those very small town were outraged by it %uh some that were saying stuff like all my got wiped back I are you from time to time for you to community warm its. I'll there's another person Claudia Davis was also very upset about this.

I never expect anything like this in the sense Christmas parade and they're gonna put this kind of activity in the parade they should have notified the people sense so that we can had a choice. Whether we want our children to attend and see something like that so of course what about the children must liken an obvious criticism what if they were to find out that their strength there are transgender people in the world. Well we were know their transgender their 30's cross-dressers yet they like to dress up in drag yet they might not even be sweet home or Alabama no no we we are in and i'd I you right even though I consciously got rid of that shit.

Because there was a graph a good read made they going to do you think about what I don't know I listening the is at a point out of course cross-dressers don't aren't necessarily gape a but to you think a good people said Alabama could make that distinction so you're going to say the least bit. How is named after Confederate General okay and now only was it converge on after the war and after reconciliation he was still tried for treason because he would let it go and a good for folks in that town in Alabama for that's our guy.

So the name it after I know there was a long long time prepared so it in this school was actually from mobile alabama them so it's not like they're from New York City for several visco cooker puts the good folks at Sams Alabama life aren't we Waitrose those its city slickers for mobile alabama coming in here with the dancing troupe her i'd a so-what I i care okay I can have these guys in fact actually. I don't care you probably don't know those we caught the reaction when this day is a true got into town here.

Alabama Sorority Accused of Racism

Tuscaloosa with the story.
They like grew up.  Reporter: melanie thought this year her last at the university of alabama would be the year a black student would be invited to join alpha gamma delta. The reason she said was a girl everyone was talking about.

What you did hear about her? I heard there was a black girl coming through. That she was wonderful and fabulous. And she had a resume that embarrassed any of us. Reporter: when it was time to determine whether to let the girl join, she said sorority leaders decide ad vote was not necessary.

And of course, i say we won't talk about the black girl. Reporter: according to her, the only reason they gave for not letting her in was a technicality on a letter of recommendation. Chris says his step daughter is the girl everyone is talking about. She doesn't want her name or face out there but he confirmed for us that no sorority invited her to join.

If we're just talking about on paper, what kind of person would fit, i think she fits more than your average person. Reporter: if she would have been white, do you do she would have. Yeah, i do. And that's the problem. No doubt in your mind. Really, no. I don't think so, no. That's why i felt so strongly about it too.

The university release ad statement saying in part, they are working to, quote, remove any barriers that prevent young women from making the choices they want to make. The local chapter of alpha gamma delta refer us to their national organization which release ad statement saying they have a strong and clear policy against self-incrimination nation. They are investigating the incident. Abby crane and matthew ford, two editors at the campus paper, broke the story on wednesday. And it is fueling conversation beyond the campus. Even the governor is weighing in. I asked my wife about it last night. She said it is not the students. It is the a alumni. Personally i think they need to change their attitude.

Reporter: race is a particularly sensitive topic on campus. In fact it was here in front of foster auditorium 50 years ago on june of 1963 that then governor george wallace stood in front of these doors and tried to stop the first two african-american students from enrolling in the school. Today, he said some of her fellow students have privately told her they are glad she is speaking out but so far, she is the only one in her sorority to come forward publicly. I don't blame them for not speaking out. That doesn't make them bad people. It just makes them scared to do such a big and daring thing.

Whites-Only Christian Gathering In Alabama

It alabama currently holding a white only christian gathering and they do you believe that europeans and their descendants are the child's people however they maintain that. They are not race after he was there but they say yes we believe that the europeans and their descendants are the children people of God we believe this not, because we think at the white resistant carrier but because there is overwhelming proof in support of this belief.

We do not back down from this belief because we are sick of an audit sliding over that sir clad hostesses silly believe but it turns out they get this thing like that. there's overwhelming prove. They just don't know what the proof if i would go to that of the is for free. It's it's really about the i_r_s_ i will go to the that because i know the food woodstock just purely based on the phone and a lot of just a bunch of white people just cooking up stuff. It's not gonna be very cold and lovely series is silly and they don't get it we're not racist happen to know the way people a severe right. We have proof of defeat are excel at what you need as an idea of who these people are asa let's listen to reverend william calling a retired doesn't conference exclude black people but we don't have character where several program and i did get back more of a rare fair enough.

We don't know where no man died and over i think they have an setup. we have been in jumping up and i had to uh... join and joe or jewish synagogue manchester he said it's not a racist event even the members of the k_k_k_ it will be there you have nothing hard for american character of them are highly regarded and anybody who would render would believe arrested and hunger mentor of your the flyer does talk about across twenty ramani but polyester as the one. will be burned for religious purposes only or are rendition of what classes are composition to charity cocaine except either what i've heard says why they're bothered to protect ineptly so refreshing cross-burning uses for whites only bother pretending that you're not a racist. i don't get it like what's the trick with so there are only as racist as the n_ double a_c_p_ because then double a_c_p_ has invited antennae their events. i think that guy inbred hit small fitted to the other direct tv show and said well what's the complex regis terrific ph candidate is the worst let's just say you're for this real heat for whites. it is this white power it's or that this is a cake and rally realistically about it. i mean what they call it across lighting relative prosperity into one folks guard alone so that that's going to be your guys if that's the phase of your weekend. you really need a hiring a publicist forget that new spokesperson.

It’s Official, Allah Not Welcome In Alabama

In what has to be the most important issue decided in the 2014 race, Alabama has decided they're banning Sharia law. "What now, Allah? Got you! Won't be any sweet home Allahbama." OK. What are you guys doing? Are you guys, like - they've lost their minds. I keep saying this about the Republicans, but really? I mean, how delusional do you have to be to think that Sharia law is on the precipice of taking over Tuscaloosa?

OK, alright. So, they - voters - passed the Foreign Laws in Court, Amendment 1 to make sure that there are no foreign laws applied in Alabama, including Sharia law. Now, this is so absurd that even a guy leading the Christian Coalition of Alabama has spoken out against it. Go to Reuters for the story: Now, there's two elements to that. One, he's of course absolutely right. Secondly, I don't think he likes that idea of banning religious law, 'cause he's like "Well, I mean, we wanna ban Muslim law, but we want back Christian law, 'cause that's kind of interesting."

Fascinating bedfellows there, OK? Now, in case you are unaware of what Sharia law is, Reuters explains: Do we really believe that the good folks of Alabama were taking advice from the Hadiths of the prophet Muhammad about personal hygiene and how they should pray? Like if that was a significant issue in the state. How delusional do you have to be to believe that that is something like "Hey, wait, we gotta spend money to put a ballot measure there and make sure you go vote, make sure you turn out. OK, Muslims - gotcha! Sorry, no personal hygiene of the Muslims here."

Randy Brinson again, back to Christian Coalition: Well, you got that right, because they just passed a resolution, a referendum to make sure it won't. So don't bring any of that Sharia nonsense around here. Tell me when to shower and how to pray. What would happen?

Alabama Beats Clemson to Win National Championship

January is a great month for sports. Basketball season is in full swing with All Star Weekend on the horizon,  NFL is heading into the playoffs, and only the best College football teams are still suiting up for the fifth month. Last night was the season finale for collegiate football, as number one Alabama took on number two Clemson in Glendale, Arizona. Luckily for us viewers, there was plenty of action from the first quarter.

Running back Derrick Henry scored the first touchdown of the game for Alabama, putting the tide up seven nothing. It's worth mentioning that Henry, the 2015 Heinemann trophy winner, is a straight beast, and has scored at least one TD in the last 20 games. There was a combined 40 points scored in the fourth quarter, so that's where we'll jump. Ten minutes to go, tie score, 'Bama goes for the onside kick, and gets the ball back, and they would capitalize.

Seven minutes on the clock, Crimson Tide up four, Kenyan Drake turns the jets on, and takes the ball 95 yards, all the way to the house. Check it out: That score put Alabama up eleven, but the Tigers would answer back.Four minutes left, Quarterback Deshaun Watson hits Artavis Scott for the 15 yard touch. They'd miss a two point conversion, score is 38-33. Third and goal, just over a minute remaining, here's Henry again for his third 6-pointer of the game, to put them up 45-33, and they would not look back. Clemson would score one more touchdown to put them within five. They would fail the onside kick, and Alabama would go on to win 45-40.

The win gives Nick Saban and Alabama their fourth College Football Championship in the last seven years, and they truly are a dynasty. Crazy thing is, these SEC teams have what seems like NFL-ready guys straight out of high school. Congrats to the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Nick Saban on "Traditional" Uniforms for Alabama Football

I think there's a brand there's an expectation of what people expect to see when Alabama plays football that's all over the country That's a brand that has you know sort of been developed for how many years? Now definitely since Coach Bryant has been here... and all the years past that. so just for some marketing whim... I'm not really into that. I don't think it's my decision. It's somebody else at the university's decision to make those kinds of decisions the one thing that you do when you have a sponsor like Nike who does a great job for us and we love them.

Alright, so I'm not saying that that way...is they will make an additional package of stuff for you if you do that, like special gloves and I don't even know whatever else goes with it. And the players really like all of that, so the reason I agreed to the small changes that we had last year, which people couldn't even hardly notice was so that we would be able to you know get the other package of things to sell and for our players to have and all that kind of stuff so there was a compromise on my part even to do that. So, I'm a traditionalist.

I don't think the coach should change uniforms. I don't think the coach should change the color of the helmets. I just don't believe that. Now that doesn't mean it's wrong when somebody does it or they think they should it or whatever. I think what we wear is a lot bigger than me and a lot bigger than anyone. It's what everybody's expectation is and what they want to see when Alabama plays football and what they're used to seeing.