tattoo artist Kari Barba, who operates Outer Limits Tattoo in Long Beach, the longest continually running tattoo studio in the U.S., the museum says. Front and center is a graphic octopus design by pioneering L.A. The entrance gallery features original tattoo designs on lifesize silicon body parts. A primary goal, the museum says, is to showcase the role of women in the art form. So this exhibition is trying to take what you see on the streets and kind of unpack it, go deeper, understand that this is part of this bigger human impulse to mark our bodies.”Ībout a third of the exhibition is content original to the Natural History Museum. “But we don’t have this broader understanding of how this tradition came to be. It’s mainstream,” says the museum’s vice president of exhibitions, Gretchen Baker. “Now you walk down the street and almost everyone is tattooed. “Revolutionary type images, Aztec Indian images, lettering, pachuco crosses - because we always wanted to say who we were and where we were from.” “As Chicano, cholo gangsters, we had images that were very important to us,” Negrete says. Giving and receiving tattoos gave him purpose and a sense of belonging. He worked with black ink made from burned plastic ash mixed with water. Learning from other prisoners, he built a crude, single-needle tattoo machine with a Bic pen, a melted toothbrush, a cassette tape motor, a paper clip and a sharpened guitar string for the needle. Negrete made do with whatever materials he could get his hands on. A talented artist, he passed his hours inking fellow inmates with tattoos in exchange for cigarettes or Top Ramen soup. Freddy Negrete was 18 and serving time in a juvenile detention facility when the image came to him: the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy paired with the catchphrase “Smile Now, Cry Later.” It was 1974 and Negrete, a member of San Gabriel’s La Sangra gang, was incarcerated for a gang-related shooting.
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So now I am properly saving like an actual adult, instead of begrudgingly sticking money into another account each month. A bit dramatic, but there is an element of truth in that – for whatever reason, your income and money could drain away. A colleague helpfully pointed out a few years ago that ‘you’re only ever three pay packets away from being homeless’. But in the second year, the amount you’d earn. For example, if you were to put £1,000 in your savings account at an annual interest rate of 1.5 AER / Gross, you’d earn £15.10 (1.5 AER / Gross of £1,000) of interest in the first full year. I’m not saving for anything in particular, more for the financial security it gives me. You can earn interest on the money you put into a savings account. ED: To read more about what AER actually means, Money Saving Expert has a pretty good explanation. They’ve been pretty good to me and I understood their savings accounts, so I trust them to look after my cash. AER: is an Annual Equivalent Rate, is a figure which shows what the profit rate on an account would be if profit was paid for a full year and compounded. So I gave up and opted to have everything with Lloyds, who I bank with anyway and have done for years. What happens to my money? Financial jargon is so confusing. Variable interest, fixed rates, personal savings allowance…I kind of get what these mean, but what does it actually mean? I did look at opening a savings account with other banks but with so many competing savings accounts it was hard to plough through the info. It shows how much the interest rate would be if the interest was worked out once a year. This means I don’t have a chance to dither about how much I put away, or even if I put anything away at all! Which is good, because it takes the money straight out of my account when I get paid. All I have to do is pay in money via standing order each month. I’ve also opened a proper savings account that actually gives me some money back – 4% for the first 12 months. But whatever it is, I’m sure it’s a good thing. Actually, up to 4% AER variable credit interest, which I don’t really understand….so that can be another blog. But no!īy signing up to Club Lloyds, I get interest on my balance. Whenever I’m online banking, I don’t pay all that much attention to all the products on offer – the messages are so focused on things like mortgages and loans, I just assumed none of it was relevant to me. By some interpretations it can seem misleading that some financial institutions boast an AER rate, fooling many potential customers into assuming '5 AER' offered, say, by ING Direct is equal to '5 gross' offered by Nationwide for their e-Savings a/c. Progress! In my mission to be more financially sensible and to actually save my money instead of obliterating it on crap, I have looked at what my bank actually offers and been pleasantly surprised. It could be linked on the left, in the Banking + Savings & Investments sections. You will receive a tarball (e.g., " eclipse-java-202x-xx-R-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz") in the " ~/Downloads" folder. Choose "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" for Java SE program development or "Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers" for developing webapps ⇒ Linux x86_64. Under "Get Eclipse IDE 202x-xx" ⇒ Click the link "Download Packages" (instead of pushing the button "Download x86_64"). To install Eclipse (e.g, for Java Programming): Nonetheless, you can install any package, and then add more features when needed. To use Eclipse for C/C++ programming, choose "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers".To use Eclipse for PHP programming, choose "Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers".
It's time for Congress to bring railroad rules into the 21st century. That attitude is as dated as a wood-powered locomotive. Much of the framework for federal oversight rests on the idea that railroads have little responsibility for their impact on the community. In this case, the federal Surface Transportation Board must approve the siting, and the public will get a chance to comment. Local residents are determined to keep the tracks from splitting the city or the fertile Yuma Valley. The railroad says the most practical line would go through Yuma. Union Pacific plans to be the rail partner in a bid for Mexico's deep-water port project in Baja California. A rail yard would alter the landscape forever and set a pattern for heavy, industrial development in an area that's a mix of agriculture and scenic desert. The proposed location is right alongside one of Arizona's prize landmarks, Picacho Peak, and above an important aquifer. But the cost runs several million dollars, and the railroad is required to pay just 5 percent. If the level of danger and traffic flow justify it, the best solution is to build an overpass or underpass. The Corporation Commission is concerned that some of the 50 road crossings that will be affected are in rapidly urbanizing areas. Union Pacific has already started adding a second track to its Sunset route, which goes from Los Angeles to El Paso, and aims to finish the job across Arizona in the next three years. That's a fine model for these three complex projects. Union Pacific acted as a responsible corporate citizen, adjusting its plans to meet local concerns. Local representatives spoke with the railroad, and the Corporation Commission held a meeting. The town's worries included drainage, road crossings and which side of the track would get the new rails. The experience of Willcox shows the value of dialogue. Increasing the opportunities to discuss a project, even if the only authority is the Corporation Commission's bully pulpit, is positive. Union Pacific argues that it already holds community meetings, and the bill would just add time-consuming red tape. Otherwise, the bill could be challenged for usurping federal authority. The commission would have to hold a public hearing, take comments and ensure that alternatives are examined and potential impacts are minimized. House Bill 2020 would require the Arizona Corporation Commission to review any railroad proposal to acquire land or materials by eminent domain or at auction. The Legislature is considering a bill that is designed to give the community more of a voice in rail projects. The Arizona Corporation Commission does some oversight, but it's mostly limited to the safety of railroad crossings. Because they deal in interstate commerce, railroads are mostly regulated by the federal government. That includes the authority to acquire land through eminent domain. Railroads were given broad power in the 19th century, when America was eager to propel the construction of a modern transportation network. The role of state and local communities in how they proceed: far too tiny. And it's preparing to bid on a new rail line that would run through Yuma. It wants to build an enormous switching yard on a proposed site near Picacho Peak. The railroad giant is double-tracking its east-west route across the state, providing far more capacity than the current single track. Two Union Pacific projects are chugging into Arizona and a third is in the station, building steam. You can see work being done in Welton and Wilcox. Here is a recent article from the AZ Republic which is Phoenix's newspaper. Fred, The State of AZ is getting pissy with UP about there plans. How often you have to make corrections on the scanned results from any of these apps depends partly on how capable its OCR software is.Īnother factor affecting the results is image quality. At least occasionally, you’ll need to make edits, such as correcting the spelling of a business or a person’s name. It’s impossible for these apps to produce perfect results every time. And many allow you to export the data as a vCard email attachment, to a CSV file, or even to CRM platforms like Salesforce, though you may have to pay for a premium account to do so. These results can be added to your phone’s contacts app with a quick tap.Īdditionally, these apps typically offer cloud storage (either their own or via a third-party service like iCloud or Google Drive) so you can access the contact data from anywhere. Some apps’ OCR software can even recognize languages other than English - a plus for today’s global business environment. The app performs optical character recognition (OCR) on the photo to extract the information printed on the card and categorizes that info into fields (name, job title, phone number, email address, etc.). Using such an app, you snap a photo of a business card with your phone’s camera. Why not let a business card scanning app can do the work for you? But if you’re like many business professionals, you lack the time or motivation to type the information on them into your contacts. Throughout workdays, meetings and industry events, you probably collect a lot of business cards. “Stop those kids!” somebody screamed behind us. My boys knocked them to the ground as they busted out of the front door and ran up Houston toward Broadway to the train station. The most popular duo in rap, Run-D.M.C, was walking into the building as Hav, Prince A.D., and I came running out. I ran downstairs to catch up with Hav and A.D. “Yo, get off me!” I yanked my arm away from him. Yo, this nigga just shot this muthafucker! I looked down at Perry as he tried to grab on to my shoulder. Hav dropped the gun and ran out of the building with Prince A.D. The gun went off, hitting Perry in the stomach, his shirt catching fire where the bullet hit as he fell onto me. “Nigga, give me them posters,” Hav said, joking. When Perry came back with the posters, Hav pointed the gun at him. “Don’t play with me like that,” I told him. Hav pointed the gun at me, playing around. I asked him for some De La Soul and Slick Rick posters I’d seen lying around, and he went to get them. We walked in behind him and Perry passed it to Hav instead of me. These niggas were screaming, cussing, and waving TEC-9s in their videos, looking like black skinheads!Īs we were leaving Def Jam, I went to get my gun from Perry’s office. Although a month later, they signed this group Onyx from Jamaica, Queens. If they didn’t sign us it was their loss, not ours. We were pissed off but we weren’t that mad because we knew we had some hot shit. They would get in trouble with the law for putting our album out. He said Def Jam couldn’t do anything with us because we were too young to speak like that. Lyor listened to our best songs and told us that we cursed too much and our music was too violent. He sent us back to the office to meet with Lyor Cohen instead. Nervous and excited, we waited around for fifteen minutes until the assistant said Russell wasn’t going to be able to make it. Oh, so this is what it’s like to have a million dollars and your own record label. The white carpet had just been shampooed and we had to take our shoes off and step on the soapy stinking carpet in wet socks. There was a big-ass Jacuzzi tub in the floor in the room next to the living room. Perry walked us to Russell’s apartment on Broadway near NYU. I always kept my gun on me, but I didn’t want to disrespect Russell by bringing that type of energy into his home, so this kid Perry at Def Jam let me leave it in his office drawer until we were done. from Queensbridge, and I were scheduled to meet Russell Simmons at his Manhattan condo around the block from Def Jam. The Time Havoc (Mistakenly) Shot An A&R At Def Jam He was released in 1997 after 21 years total in jail, moved to France and lived as a free man. He was jailed in India again for a period during which, according to CNN, the time where he could be tried for the alleged Thai murders would expire. In Thailand, he faced murder charges punishable by death.Ĭharles Sobhraj was re-captured on Apdrinking beer in a resort bar. At that point, he was wanted in Thailand, Nepal, and Singapore for murder, as well as in Greece for a prison escape, and nearing the end of his sentence, likely orchestrated the escape-for which he would be re-arrested-in order to avoid extradition to Thailand. He drugged the guards with laced candied fruit claiming it was his birthday, and escaped the top-security jail along with six other inmates. According to CNN, he had a suite of cells, special privileges, and the respect of the wardens. Sobhraj, however, did well in jail in New Delhi. She died in April 1984 of ovarian cancer at the age of 38.Ĭharles Sobhraj and Marie-Andrée Leclerc. She claimed she never knew about Sobhraj’s murders, although she had lived with him in 19, as well as traveled using the passports of their missing visitors. A few years later, as the series shows, she was diagnosed with cancer, and allowed to return to Canada. Marie-Andrée Leclerc was originally sentenced to life in prison in India for her complicity in Sobhraj’s crimes, including murder. Those murder convictions were later overturned, but he was found guilty for the robbery and sentenced to 12 years in New Delhi’s Tihar Prison. Sobhraj fled to France, then to India, where the police finally arrested both him and Leclerc on Jafter he drugged an entire French tour bus in an attempt to rob them. The Bangkok Post printed a front-page story titled "Web of Death," and after that, the Thai police issued an Interpol notice. Roland Neveuįinally, on May 5, 1976, Knippenberg went to the press with his story that had until that point been shunned by the Dutch ambassador and the Thai police. According to CNN, they found 11 pounds of medicine, 3 industrial-size cartons of a drug that was both laxative and a "chemical straitjacket," as well as the Dutch woman’s coat and bag.īilly Howle as Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg. Although they evaded police capture, Knippenberg had a team raid the apartment while they were out of the country. Specifically in March of 1976, she warned him they were planning to travel. She was instrumental to the case, putting her own life in danger to obtain evidence and alerting Knippenberg to the couple’s whereabouts. She had met the Dutch couple who had vanished, and witnessed other guests come to her neighbors' apartment, get sick and disappear, too. Nadine Gires (played by Mathilde Warnier), Sobhraj’s neighbor who assisted Herman Knippenberg, was also real. The Dutch couple-Henricus Bintanja and Cornelia Hemker-had their names changed in the Netflix series, but all the murders depicted in the series, including of American Teresa Knowlton and the two Nepal travelers, occurred. They traveled across Asia using the stolen passports of Sobhraj’s victims while he drugged, robbed, and killed at least a dozen travelers in Thailand, India, and Nepal. She came to Thailand to be with him three months later, as the show depicts, and spent the next two years posing as Monique, the wife of Alain Gautier the gem dealer. Sobhraj really did meet 30-year-old Marie-Andrée Leclerc (played by Jenna Coleman), who was born in Quebec in 1945, while travelling in India in 1975. According to CNN, he had been placed in, released from, and escaped from various jails at least four times in several Asian and European countries between then and 1975, when the string of druggings, robberies, and murders of tourists covered in The Serpent began. He was born in Vietnam in 1944, and had been in jail twice already for theft by the time he allegedly committed his first murder of a taxi driver in Pakistan in 1972, when he was 28. But Charles Sobhraj-who went by many aliases, including Alain Gautier-was committing crimes years before the events of the series began. The series is largely accurate in terms of the timeline it presents. The real Herman Knippenberg, who is 76 years old today and living in New Zealand, consulted on the show. With imagined dialogue, the suspenseful series retells the druggings, robberies, and murders committed by Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim) and his inner circle throughout Asia in the ‘70s. Netflix on April 2, shows the devastating web of crimes that Knippenberg's (played by Billy Howle) digging uncovered. The 23 Best Netflix Original Movies of 2021īBC mini series The Serpent, which arrives on U.S. Saffron is a bold yellow-orange color that brings energy and vibrancy into any project or design. Tone it down with other colors for more subtle effects. Its neon-like intensity can be used to create an eye-catching look and also signal danger in certain situations. Safety Orange is a bright, lively hue that will easily draw attention. Get creative by mixing it with complimentary colors for unique effects. 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