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Malaysian police to wear anti-corruption badges

(AFP) – Malaysian police must wear badges reading “I’m against corruption” as part of a new campaign to clean up the force and discourage people from bribing officers, police said Thursday.

About 40,000 of the badges have been distributed to police officers along with 20,000 car stickers with similar slogans for the force’s vehicles, said federal police spokesman Chief Superintendent Mohamad Daud.

“Nice patrol car, don’t you think? Now, get a closer look at the sticker/decal that’s on the back windscreen. It says, “Jangan Rasuah.” No Bribery. This is the new campaign that the Police Dept. started last year. It’s more for the cops than it is for us laymen. The police here have a very bad reputation for taking bribes. The campaign is to promote a better public image. Not that its helping. I was stopped for a minor road offence a couple of days ago and when he asked if I wanted to ‘settle,’ I showed the cop an empty wallet and he let me go without a ticket. Someone please raise their salaries!”

Alife Rivington Club
Past the clubby cherry-paneled walls of Alife Rivington Club, the original purveyors of high sneaker culture, there is a courtyard that in agreeable weather is only sometimes open to the public. ‘‘A lot of people might be hanging out, but you might not even know that,’’ explains Matt Fontana, the general manager of the Alife brand, which includes the eponymous lifestyle store next door and a creative agency. ‘‘There might be one person in the sneaker store but 20 people out back.’’ Fontana describes a time when the popular singer John Mayer dropped in and improvised on a graffiti-painted guitar while the hip-hop producer Just Blaze contributed beats (both of them, of course, wearing highly covetable sneakers) without ever having met each other before that evening. ‘‘You never know who you’re going to catch back there,’’ Fontana says. ‘‘The sock man rolls through, and you can cop three pairs for $10.
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Nom de Guerre
The founders of this fashion collective decided that the only relevant neighborhood left in New York City that could serve as a location for their next store was no neighborhood at all. So they went underground — into a basement without any sense of place, below the mainstream hustle of Lower Broadway in the crease between east and west. Marked only by a modest sign, Nom de Guerre is a destination for the creative accomplices who make up an art scene that crystallized at the parties thrown at Isa, the store’s Williamsburg predecessor. ‘‘I’ve been told that we’re a little intense,’’ admits Holly Harnsongkram (center, in gray sweater), a partner. ‘‘I don’t think in a bad way. We all just have definite ideas and aesthetics. Everybody that we hang out with is pretty respectful of other people, so it’s not like you get into these crazy bar antics where somebody falls over and someone gets hurt.’’ She adds, ‘‘I wouldn’t even call myself a drinker.’’
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aNYthing
‘‘The streets used to be the clubhouse, but obviously you can’t hang that way because of the authorities and everything,’’ says Aaron Bondaroff (center, on bike), also known as A-Ron, who runs his business from a storefront in the lightly gentrified extremities of the Lower East Side. ‘‘Kids have blogs and Web sites, but if you don’t exist on the streets, you’re not a real thing. There always has to be a place for people to come together, a meeting spot.’’ His mission, or ‘‘final war,’’ as he describes it, is to unite the subcultures of Lower Manhattan against ‘‘the meatheads and squares’’ he sees appearing in his neighborhoods. ‘‘We all have to stick together and become more of a power,’’ he says. The former mixed-nuts-and-dried-fruits shop carries the creative contributions of a crew that is motley by necessity. ‘‘It’s definitely mixed nuts and dried fruits,” he says of the skaters, musicians, designers and a rotating cast of minor characters, artists recognized by the museum establishment, members of the new voguing scene and ‘‘washed-up cool guys like me.’’ www.anewyorkthing.com

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Rapper-actor Mos Def has been arrested for disorderly contact after giving an impromptu performance in front of the Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thrusday night, where the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards wre being held.
Mos Def performed on a truck in front of the venue, and ignored requests from police to move from the scene.

Police then started making arrests, apprehending Mos Def, his entourage and his brother.

The rapper was released the following day.

rene kininmonth
The dough-limbed, knife wielding children of Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara have inspired the Little Ramona collection, which pays tribute to the spirit of youth, mischief and untamed imagination. Simple street garments are enlarged and expanded, layered and printed to provide a safeguard from the evils of the adult world. Giant size tent flaps, stacked furniture, and little sharp teeth prints teamed with lumberjack blue checked flannel provide the nostalgic wearer with the memory of hiding away as a child in a clumsy fort made of bed sheets and furniture.

yelza spring fring was definitely “rockin” I don’t know what possessed me to make people pose like this… But but hey they could of said no. N e ways here’s a few of them, there is sooo many more.

You’ve probably heard that the album was defaced by Banksy, a notorious urban artist from England. 500 copies of the “renovated” album were substituted for real ones in stores in England. The cd was replaced by a mix from none other than “DM” Danger Mouse, According to an email from his management company obtained by SPIN.com, Danger Mouse met Banksy in London while shopping for disguises. The two had one singular statement about the project: “It’s hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try.”