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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Albany Events: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Stanford - "The other America" 1967

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be celebrated next week.

An event will be held January 18 at 9:30 a.m. in the Empire State Plaza Convention Center. The public is invited to attend the free program in celebration of the 87th anniversary of Dr. Kings birth. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Each year I am always impressed by the talented musicians and performers who come to this annual event and pay tribute to Dr. King, and this year is no different with Grammy-award winner Dorinda Clark-Cole, piano prodigy Shuan Hern Lee, blues guitarist Guy Davis, jazz pianist George Caldwell, and the Capital District Community Voices of Praise among those taking the stage, Commissioner Destito said. I join Governor Cuomo in inviting everyone to come in person or watch the live video of this important New York State tradition at the Empire State Plaza of celebrating the life of Dr. King. He was a champion of civil rights, equality, and peaceful social change, and each year we gather on this date to rededicate ourselves to keeping his dream alive.

This years celebration will include a special performance by national recording artist Dorinda Clark-Cole. Clark-Cole is a three-time Grammy-award winning gospel singer who has been called the Rose of Gospel, the Church Girl, and Evangelist. She is a member of The Clark Sisters and daughter of gospel legend Mattie Moss-Clark.

A 20-year retired veteran of the U.S. Air Force who currently serves as vice president of resource development and strategic partnerships for the United Way of Delaware, the Reverend Dr. John G. Moore Sr. will be the keynote speaker at this years observance. Moore has spoken in many schools, colleges, churches, and organizational gatherings throughout the nation and has been instrumental in keeping the dream of Dr. King vibrantly alive in the hearts of audiences of all diverse backgrounds for more than 20 years.

For the second year in a row, this years memorial observance will include the presentation of King video moments, focusing on King The Man, The Dr. King Memorial Sculpture: Empire State Plaza, and The Civil Rights Movement: A Freedom Fighters Story.

The event will also include a number of theatrical and musical tributes to Dr. King from local and regional performers, including a performance by jazz pianist George Caldwell and members of the University at Buffalo music departments jazz ensemble, which he directs. There will also be a performance by 13-year-old international piano prodigy Shuan Hern Lee and by blues guitarist Guy Davis, the son of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

Doors will open at 8:30 a.m., and there will be a musical prelude performed by the Capital District Community Voices of Praise. The formal program will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m.

The program will be televised live statewide with the assistance of the New York State Media Services Center, Time Warner Cable, Mid-Hudson Cable, and CUNY-TV.

Following the formal program, the City of Albany Beloved Community March will begin at the Plaza Concourse entrance on Madison Avenue. The march will conclude at the King Monument in Lincoln Park with a wreath laying ceremony.

There will also be a number of additional activities taking place on the Empire State Plaza concourse, including:

Empire State Be A King Volunteer Fair
Empire State Dr. King Quilts Display
Dr. King Statewide Childrens Art and Essay Display
Commemorative Dr. King Birthday Cupcakes

To honor Dr. Kings message throughout the year, a number of events are held to remind people of his vision for the community. These include a December food drive, a career fair on March 30; and a winter literacy drive to collect books for schoolchildren statewide.

More information and a live webcast of the event is available online at www.nyking.org.

Source: http://news10.com/2016/01/12/albany-events-remembering-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/

Disney Channel"s "The Jersey" Star Dies at 31

Disney"s "The Jersey" / Coaches Wife Voice Over / Michael Galeota - Paisley Baker

Michael Galeota, who starred in Disney Channels The Jersey in the late 90s and early 00s, died Sunday. He was 31.

It is with tremendous heartfelt sadness to announce the passing of Michael James Galeota on January 10th, reads a statement on a Go Fund Me page to raise money for his burial, created by Galeotas family.

He was a precious gift loving, giving, compassionate, joyful and intelligent, the post continues. A great inspiration for anyone that heard his genuine, humble, witty and joyful voice, or experienced his smile, laughter and love for just a moment. To know him was to love him.

The Go Fund Me page for Galeota has currently raised nearly $9,000 of its $25,000 goal. Interestingly, the biggest donation of $5,000 comes from a donor calling his or herself Shia L. While theres no confirmation of the identity of that donor, actor Shia Labeouf starred on the Disney Channels Even Stevens at the same time Galeota was on The Jersey.

The actor went to the hospital last week after complaining of abdominal pains and left Wednesday, according to TMZ, which first reported the news. After not hearing from him later in the week, one of his friends apparently went to check on him Sunday at his Glendale home and climbed through the window when Galeota didnt answer the door. He was found lying on the living room floor.

His death is currently said to be due to natural causes, and Galeota has battled hypertension, high cholesterol and diverticulitis. An autopsy is pending.

The Jersey premiered on the Disney Channel in 1999, based on the Monday Night Football Club books by Gordon Korman. Galeota starred as Nick Lighter, one of the four teens with access to the jersey, a magical garment that transports the wearer into the body of a professional athlete. The series finale aired in 2004.

Before The Jersey, Galeota had other roles in his youth, including in 1996 film Clubhouse Detectives and 1995s Bushwacked. He also appeared in episodes of E.R. and Ally McBeal in 1995 and 1997, respectively. The Jersey, however, marked his last acting role.

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Alabama football: Crimson Tide on verge of unprecedented run

Alabama Football - Postseason Hype 2015

Ralph D. Russo | The Associeated Press

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Regardless of the outcome of Monday night"s College Football Playoff championship game between No. 1 Clemson and No. 2 Alabama, a case can be made that no team in the history of the sport has had a better run than the Crimson Tide under coach Nick Saban.

If Alabama beats the Tigers to win a fourth national title in seven seasons, the argument may be settled.

There was talk early in the season after Alabama lost to Mississippi that the Tide dynasty was in decline. Now Alabama (13-1) is one victory away from an unprecedented achievement.

The Tide can become just the third school in college football"s poll era, dating back to the creation of The Associated Press media poll in 1936, to win four championships in a 10-year span.

Notre Dame won four in seven seasons from 1943-49, but big-time college football is hardly comparable now to then. Those Fighting Irish didn"t play in bowl games and never needed more than nine victories to be the best in the country.

Miami won four championships in nine seasons (1983-91), but none of those teams had to play more than 12 games.

Alabama"s four championships under Saban, who took over in 2007, have all come in at least 13-game seasons.

"I mean, it"s incredible," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Sunday during a news conference with Saban. Swinney heaped so much praise on his counterpart during the half-hour session with reporters that Saban looked a little uncomfortable.

"Coach Saban, what he"s done, I mean, he"s one of the greatest coaches that ever coached the game," Swinney said.

Saban also has a BCS title from his time at LSU, giving him four overall. Only former Alabama coach Bear Bryant with six has more.

"This is the first one I"ve sniffed as a coach, and he"s going for his fifth," said Swinney, who is in his eighth season at Clemson. "It"s incredible."

Clemson has one national championship to its credit. Behind Danny Ford, an Alabama native and former Tide player for Bryant, the Tigers won the title in 1981 by beating favored Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.

The Tigers are back on the biggest stage and again being led by an Alabaman and former Tide player. Swinney grew up near Birmingham and played for Alabama when Gene Stallings was the coach in the early 1990s. He was on the Tide team that won a national championship in 1992, upsetting Miami in the Sugar Bowl. Alabama then went through a long dry spell until Saban arrived.

"People will say, well, anybody can go win at Alabama," Swinney said. "Not everybody can coach a great team. Not everybody can coach a great player, and I think he has a gift to be able to do that."

Under Swinney, the Tigers have won at least 10 games each of the last five seasons, just like Alabama. And Clemson has its own shot at history: If the Tigers win the national title, they would become the first team to achieve a 15-0 season.

RELATED: Swinney leads Tigers with a smile

"We want to be a program that is competing at this level on a consistent basis and I think to do that, you"ve got to be a top-10, top-15 type program year in and year out," Swinney said.

Alabama has been even better than that. Since going 7-6 in Saban"s first season, the Tide is 97-12 and has never finished out of the final AP top 10.

No surprise: Saban has not been part of the legacy talk this week. Pondering his place in history won"t help his players Monday night at University of Phoenix Stadium.

"I owe them as the leader of the organization," Saban said. "I owe them our best as coaches and people who can support them to give them the best opportunity to be successful in the next challenge that they have.

"So I"ve got no time to think about that stuff."

This article was written by Ralph D. Russo from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.

Source: http://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2016-01-11/alabama-football-crimson-tide-verge-unprecedented-run

Disney Channel"s "The Jersey" Star Dies at 31

Former Disney Star Michael Galeota Dead at 31

Michael Galeota, who starred in Disney Channels The Jersey in the late 90s and early 00s, died Sunday. He was 31.

His death is currently said to be due to natural causes, and Galeota has battled hypertension, high cholesterol and diverticulitis. An autopsy is pending.

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Merkel under pressure within CDU as Cologne police detail assaults

Logic - Under Pressure (Full Version)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure to harden her line on refugees on Monday as the first extensive police report on New Year"s Eve violence in Cologne documented rampant sexual assaults on women by gangs of young migrant men.

Cologne police said at least 11 foreigners, including Pakistanis, Guineans and Syrians, had been injured on Sunday evening in attacks by hooligans bent on revenge for the assaults in the western city.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere condemned those attacks and warned against a broader backlash against refugees following the events in Cologne, which have deepened skepticism towards Merkel"s policy of welcoming migrants.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party seized on the latest developments to attack the chancellor while members of her own conservative party warned that integrating the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived last year would fail if the influx were not stopped immediately.

"If the influx continues as it has, then integration can"t work," said Carsten Linnemann, a lawmaker in Merkel"s Christian Democrats (CDU).

"If we get another 800,000 or a million people arriving this year, then we won"t be able to do this," he added, playing on Merkel"s optimistic "we can do this" mantra.

Speaking on Monday evening, Merkel said Europe was "vulnerable" because it was not yet in control of the situation as it would like to be.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/12/merkel-under-pressure-within-cdu-as-cologne-police-detail-assaults.html

Disney-Star stirbt mit nur 31: Michael Galeota ist tot!

Disney"s "The Jersey" / Coaches Wife Voice Over / Michael Galeota - Paisley Baker

Schock-Nachricht aus Amerika! Der ehemalige Disney-Star Michael "Mike" Galeota ist tot. Der junge Schauspieler verstarb mit nur 31 Jahren auf tragische Weise.

Screenshot "The Jersey" Er spielte in der Disney-Sendung "The Jersey" mit und wurde dadurch bekannt

Vergangene Woche ging Michael Galeota ins Krankenhaus, klagte ber starke Bauchschmerzen. Doch entgegen dem Rat der rzte verlie er dieses nach wenigen Untersuchungen wieder freiwillig. Nun ist der Schauspieler tot. Der erst 31-Jhrige, der durch die Disney-Sendung "The Jersey" bekannt wurde, starb offenbar ganz alleine in seinem Haus in Glendale. Wie TMZ berichtet, machten sich die Freunde von Mike, wie sie ihn nannten, Sorgen, weil er schon mehrere Tage kein Lebenszeichen von sich gegeben hatte. Als ein Freund das Haus aufsuchte und sich durch das Fenster Zugang verschaffte, machte er im Wohnzimmer die furchtbare Entdeckung: Der Schauspieler lag leblos auf dem Boden.

Facebook / Mike Galeota Weil er ber Bauchschmerzen klagte, wurde er im Krankenhaus behandelt

Warum Michael mit nur 31 Jahren sterben musste, ist noch nicht bekannt. Fakt ist, dass er an Bluthochdruck litt und seine Cholesterinwerte viel zu hoch waren. Auch kmpfte er mit einer Entzndung im Verdauungstrakt, die wohl auch die Bauchschmerzen verursacht hat. Die rzte gehen laut TMZ von einem natrlichen Tod aus, die Autopsie steht noch aus.

Facebook / Mike Galeota Auf eigenen Willen verlie er dieses aber schnell wieder - nun ist er tot

Source: http://www.promiflash.de/news/2016/01/11/disney-star-stirbt-mit-nur-31-michael-galeota-ist-tot.html

Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney had s*x on a canvas for photo shoot

Lady Gaga Doesn"t Thank Fiance Taylor Kinney in Golden Globes Acceptance Speech

October 19, 2015. Singer Lady Gaga arrives with Taylor Kinney for the premiere of the film "Rock the Kasbah" in New York.(Reuters)

Lady Gaga may have recorded an album with Tony Bennett but she has not relinquished being one of the most provocative performers of her generation.

She and fiance Taylor Kinney had s*x on a canvas for the cover of V Magazines issue for peace. The magazine is selling prints of the cover for $50. All the proceeds will be going to the pop stars Born this Way Foundation.

"We made love on the canvas on a Sunday in Chicago," she wrote in the issue. "We made love amidst chaos. We talked about shootings. We made love amidst terrorism. And we talked about how people"s hearts are also suffering all over the world as they watch and witness a swell of violence."

Lady Gaga co-starred as the Countess in American Horror Story: Hotel while Kinney can be seen in the upcoming film The Forest.

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Source: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/01/10/lady-gaga-and-taylor-kinney-had-s*x-on-canvas-for-photo-shoot/