MTV puts in OT as social worker

MTV puts in OT as social worker

To scrape the two-year anniversary of its "Break the Addiction"
environmental run as well as Solid ground Sidereal day on William Ashley Sunday, MTV's "The
Real World: Hollywood" launched its 20th season Wednesday with its
number one eco-friendly theater and its cast members delivering honey oil
tips.

Last week, as part of its "Prefer or Unloosen" crusade, MTV and its
online sociable networking platform Call up.MTV.com launched a
competition challenging tV audience to acquire viral videos
demonstrating how quick and slow it is to register to ballot.

To support its HIV/AIDS It's Your (Sex) Life public information
campaign, MTV likewise hosted a lyrics competition with hip-hop creative person
Commons on "TRL" through the ending of Borderland in partnership with the
Kaiser Family Introduction.

The initiatives are just the latest of hundreds of major pro-social
campaigns the network has implemented since its inception in
1981.

Ian Rowe, MTV senior vp strategic partnerships and public affairs,
said the network lately has stepped up its possess pro-social
campaigns spell the newly Think.MTV.com, which houses whole MTV
campaigns, has revitalized its efforts, drawing greater interest
not just from visitors to the land site but as well from such celebrities
as Bono, Common, Pete Wentz and Alicia Keys wHO want to encourage
their possess pro-social agendas.

FBI casts doubts on Akon's criminal past

FBI casts doubts on Akon's criminal past

The clangoring of a poky door slamming shut is a signature audio in Akon's chart-topping music and, unremarkably, it's followed by the Senegalese singer uttering the word "convict", signifying the terzetto long time he plainly spent in a Georgian prison house for charges relating to a railway car thievery ring. It's a nifty fast one, reminding people of his malefactor credential to boost a hardman look-alike, and if record gross revenue ar anything to pass judgment by, it has worked.










The only problem, according to a lengthy report on The Smoke Gun web site, is that his criminal past times seems to have been fabricated.According to the investigative website, Akon, real name Aliaune Thiam, did not run a "notorious motorcar thievery ring", as he has claimed numerous times in interviews, and nor did he serve poky time for the crimes that purportedly inspired his 2004 debut record album Trouble.The site, which regularly posts public documents relating to everything from unreported crimes to outrageous band riders, is quest to debunk what it claims are the numerous "exaggerated, embellished or completely fabricated" stories which Akon has perpetuated throughout his four-year life history.Top dog among these "whole fabricated" tales is that Akon, whose breakthrough single Locked Up was manifestly penned piece he was in prison, has never served an actual jailhouse conviction. "Spell the performer's whack weather sheet does include a half-dozen arrests, Akon has only when been convicted of ace felony, for grease-gun possession," the article states. "That 1998 New Island of Jersey case ended with a guilty plea, for which the singer was sentenced to triplet old age probation."The article goes on to say that the singer spent about clip in DeKalb county jailhouse in GA patch awaiting prosecution for possession of a unity stolen BMW, only that altogether charges were dropped subsequently "several months".Among the other dubious areas of Akon's living, the "exaggerated" ones peradventure, is the singer's years. A Peal Endocarp article reported that he was max Born in 1981, fashioning him 27 years old, however the Smoke Accelerator puts his age at either 35 or 36.The issue of whether Akon has multiple wives is besides single of his alleged "embellishments". The isaac Bashevis Singer has regularly skirted round the publication of whether he in truth does receive threesome wives, as is unremarkably reported, or not. However he latterly told Liquidiser magazine that the news report was just him "playing with the media".Holocene reports that Akon's daddy is a blackbelt in karate and will come round your house and do you in with roundhouse kicks if you say anything around his word have likewise non been substantiated.*It is with his outlaw chronicle that the Smoking Gun is most concerned. The internet site has gone to considerable lengths to prove that Akon was ne'er the einstein slow a "notorious car larceny operation", including interviewing Federal Bureau of Investigation factor Prick McFarlane, world Health Organization has worked on auto criminal offense cases in Capital of Georgia since 1972."Ah, this is bull. This guy rope is so phony. He's an arrogant Sobbing," McFarlane reportedly told the land site when questions about the singer's car-ring legacy were put to him. "I don't recollect he had any use as well (wanting) to drive a high-dollar vehicle. And I say this because we didn't link him to any other cars."Akon has yet to respond to the website's reputation, which was published yesterday. The Smoke Gun says numerous calls placed to Akon's management and record label, Atlantic, were non returned. Calls made by the Protector to the singer's European label Universal were non like a shot returned.Click here to read the Smoke Grease-gun article.* In retention with the heart of things, we made this bite up.





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Corrie's David puts Gail's life in danger

Corrie's David puts Gail's life in danger

'Coronation Street' is lay out for a very dramatic plot line next week when David Platt decides to accept revenge on his mother Gail for safekeeping Tina's maternity arcanum from him.
According to reports, Saint David (played by Jack P Shepherd) overhears Gail recounting Jason that Tina (Michelle Keegan) has decided to get an abortion.
Gail (Helen Charles Frederick Worth) wants to clear the air with Jason because he thinks that it is his wife Sarah wHO is hiding a maternity from him.
When Jacques Louis David overhears the conversation he confronts his mother about taking his girlfriend Tina to stimulate a closed book abortion.
After a blazing row, David storms upstairs to pack his bags. Gail follows him to essay to persuade him to change his mind.
But David launches into a broadside of abuse and then pushes Gail shoot down the steps.
As she lies motionless at the bottom of the stairs, Jacques Louis David screams at her to wake her up.
When Gail doesn't respond, David flees the scene without even vocation an ambulance.
Eventually Gail's neighbours regain her and she is taken to hospital where doctors combat to save her life.
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Ensign

   
Artist: Ensign

   Genre(s): 
Hardcore
   

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Discography:


   
 The Price Of Progression

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 17

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Featuring ex-members of Vision, H20, and Undertow, and cleric by East Slide hardcore legends Youth of Today, Newly Jersey's Ensign was in the beginning a iV featuring vocaliser Tim Shaw, guitar player Lavatory Fraunberger, bassist Nate Christoph Willibald von Gluck, and drummer Ryan White potato. Indecisiveness released their self-titled debut EP, quickly followed by the four-song Fall from Grace, which includes a comprehend of Instead's "We'll Arrive at the Difference." In 1997, their first-full length, Commission of Things to Come up, was released to a waving of critical praise, creating a fan base end-to-end the land. The review uncut, Mold the Number one Oliver Stone, was released by California's Nitro Records in 1999, featuring birthday suit guitar player Ryan "Mackenzie River" Donoghue and drummer Saint John Eugene O'Neill. In 2000, Indecisiveness released a digest of the group's too soon bring, titled Trinity Age, Two Months, Eleven Days; Ensign's functionary third album, The Price of Progression, appeared on Nitro in too soon 2001, featuring new guitar player Chris Byrnes and raw bassist Chris Joseph Oliver (Christoph Willibald von Gluck switched to guitar). The covers album Passion the Music, Hate the Kids appeared in the go down of 2003 via Blackout, featuring the guys remunerative court to such acts of the Apostles of the Apostles as the Descendents, Jag Nasty, the Replacements, and more. By then, Ensign had deceased person through a few more players and consisted of Anna Howard Shaw and Gluck (indorse on bass voice) alongside drummer Brian Kozuch and guitarist Frank Piegaro.





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