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There are many configurations for these models of HP Probooks. Mine is like the following "lspci". Mostly, the stuff in lspci is pretty meaningless, because your OS (most likely Arch) will pick up all the device modules automatically, so you should't worry or pay too close attention to them. The most and only items in the lspci are your graphics card and your wireless networking card.
lspci model HP Probook 4320s P/N:WS904EA#ABB
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 05) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan HDMI Audio [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] 44:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe 45:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02) ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02) ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02) ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02) ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02) ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
items of interest form lspci
44:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]
other devices needing an attention
- Synaptics Clikpad (looks like a touchpad, but it has both of the buttons integrated in the overall touching zone of the touchpad).
- Battery life!!! Huuuuge difference of battery life when win7 and Arch compared. I suspect it to be tricky configuration of lm-sensors, cpufreq, and acpi alltogether.
This notebook comes, in my opinion, equiped the worst choice of wireless hardware. Definetely, for linux users. The Ralink combo card RT3090 is quite new, and Ralink promises extremely welcome support for the Linux community. However, the drivers supplied by them are nothing more but a pain and bunch of unstable, unusable lines of coding. So for now, let's try using what's already there for us within the linux kernel.
There generally are two drivers. One of with is old and staging, and another much newer, but probably not quite ready. The best choice is to load the older rt2860sta driver and blacklist the rest.
- add "rt2860sta" to the modules array in /etc/rc.conf
- black list the rest. My /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf looks like this
blacklist rt2800pci blacklist rt61pci blacklist rt2800usb blacklist rt2800lib blacklist rt2x00usb blacklist rt2x00lib blacklist rt2x00pci
- if especially the rt2800pci is not blacklisted, it messes up your wireless stability.
As the half-mini wireless card RT3090 is a combo one, the bluetooth radio is embeded together with wifi. The bluetooth device isn't listed in lspci. However, is is visible with hciconfig -a command. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d # hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 70:F3:95:xx:xx:xx ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN RX bytes:778 acl:0 sco:0 events:40 errors:0 TX bytes:2112 acl:0 sco:0 commands:40 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xff 0x59 0x83 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'hpprobook' Class: 0x580100 Service Classes: Capturing, Object Transfer, Telephony Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized HCI Version: 2.1 (0x4) Revision: 0x149c LMP Version: 2.1 (0x4) Subversion: 0x149c Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
Looks good as it should, but there is no radio activity! Nothing shows up on scannig neither direction. I assume, the driver is either dead, or I am missing something.
Video card ATI
Not much to say.. Just install the required package with pacman and you are all set. Your system will pick up the driver at the next lounch of X. The package is xf86-video-ati. Works without an issue. I have not tried the proprietary catalyst driver yet, I very well may not try it, because this one works good enaough for me.
Input Devices
Clikpad (touchpad)
The touchpad -clickpad is a pain. Unless you are already using the 2.6.38 kernel (as you shoud) and xf86-input-synaptics 1.4.0-2 package (wich came out pretty much the same day), your clikpad will be jittering and acting annoyingly with the default settings. I managed to get it working somewhat well by tweaking it with the /etc/X11/xorg.d/10-synaptics.conf file see below.
Now - with the synaptics package older than "xf86-input-synaptics 1.4.0-2", there are many things to tweak to get your clikpad working somewhat good. You will still miss the right-clik (the real click) button though, but I worked around this problem by making a soft-clik out of a two-finger touch that emulates the right-button click with inserting "Option "RTCornerButton" "2" in the config file.
Note, that normaly you shoudn't have any other files in the ..xorg.d/ directory that state configurations for input devices, unless you need specific configs for other input devices. When I connect external mouse, it works without any specific configuration.
Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf file.
# Config for clickpad ## Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad catchall" ## As defined in ../10-evdev.conf file Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "SHMConfig" "true" ## Alows you to run synclient commands on-the-fly. Good for testing MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "TapButton1" "1" Option "TapButton2" "3" Option "TapButton3" "0" Option "FastTaps" "0" Option "LockedDrags" "flase" Option "TapAndDragGesture" "true" Option "MinSpeed" "1" Option "MaxSpeed" "1.95" ## Found this value suiting best for me Option "AccelFactor" "0.0115" ## Also good for me #Option "AreaBottomEdge" "3800" ## Makes area around the real buttons insensitive for touch, disabled just because... Option "LeftEdge" "1756" ## Edge settins found to be correct Option "RightEdge" "5258" Option "TopEdge" "1622" Option "BottomEdge" "3450" Option "FingerLow" "30" ## Managing sensitivity Option "FingerHigh" "50" ## Also Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true" Option "UpDownScrolling" "true" Option "VertScrollDelta" "101" #Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "true" ## If enabled, the area right above real buttons will react to horizontal sroll, I prefer two-finger-scrolls for bot h ver and horiz Option "HorizScrollDelta" "88" Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true" Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true" Option "RTCornerButton" "2" ## Right-top corner touch will emulate 3rd button press- good for pasting #Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "5" #Option "HorizTwoFingerMinZ" "0" Option "CoastingFriction" "10" ## Adds inertia for scrolls Option "CoastingSpeed" "50" ## Also EndSection
What is achieved with these setings are explained in the comments in the file.
ClickPad with newest synaptics package
Now, with the newer package form Synaptics (1.4.0-2) I was really expecting much more improvement. However, it comes with some degree of dissapointment. First I tried to roll on without any aditional configuration of the device. I left it with the default settings that came with the new version of synaptics package.
- First, the clickpad seems to work smoother than before - thank you!
- However, the right-button is still missing. Vertical-two-finger sroll is working out-of-the-box - thank you!
- The default sensitivity of the clickpad is set too much - bad!
- None of the true wonders of clickpad are available (correct me if I am wrong)
- wonders like two-finger-zoom (stealed from apple),
- two-finger rotation,
- finger-movement inertia (really nice option- I very much like it),
- scrolling inertia (also very useful),
- Clickpad off button in the upper-left corner.
- I have the opportunity to test all the wonders of the clickpad, because I double-boot my Probook with Windows7. Where all the features of the clickpad are available.
Working w/o aditional settings in ../xorg.d/: with the newer Synaptics package
This is the default config file, let's use it and see how it goes.. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad catchall" Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "TapButton1" "1" Option "TapButton2" "2" Option "TapButton3" "3" EndSection
When reverting to using the same (my tweaked file) config file as listed above, everything works pretty much the same as with the newer driver, except that more options come default.
So far I seem to have configured the following things to my understanding, but the most annoying thing remains- battery life is BAD! I can see outmost 1h50m when unplugged. In Win7 with the HP PowerAssistant common tweaks, I see 3h40m right after unplugging.
- Cooler fan is running, which makes me think, that the cpu's are overloaded. But they are not.
- cpufreq-info says my cpu cores all are governed by the "conservative" mode,
- command "watch grep \"cpu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo" shows cpu cores at the lowest Mhz,
- laptop-mode is enabled and configured properly.
- My settings in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/cpufreq.conf set the governing of cpu cores accordingly:
BATT_CPU_MAXFREQ=fastest BATT_CPU_MINFREQ=slowest BATT_CPU_GOVERNOR=conservative BATT_CPU_IGNORE_NICE_LOAD=1 LM_AC_CPU_MAXFREQ=fastest LM_AC_CPU_MINFREQ=slowest LM_AC_CPU_GOVERNOR=performance LM_AC_CPU_IGNORE_NICE_LOAD=1 NOLM_AC_CPU_MAXFREQ=fastest NOLM_AC_CPU_MINFREQ=slowest NOLM_AC_CPU_GOVERNOR=performance NOLM_AC_CPU_IGNORE_NICE_LOAD=0
But actually, my fans run quieter when notebook is charging, and cpu governor it "prformance". Can you beat that?
- After configuring lm-sensors, the command "sensors" are not showing the RPM data of systems fans.
I suspect the problem to be there...


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2001 4.0L or 2003 3.0L Ranger?
I have to choose between two Ford Rangers: 2001 4.0L XLT SuperCap w/ 7,000 miles or a 2003 3.0L XLT S/C w/ 30,000 miles.These 2 Rangers are priced between $500.00 of each other. I will use this truck for my contract painting work. My 93' 3.0L Ranger worked fine for me. My concerns are the 4.0L gas mileage & it's relatiablity. Any suggestions?? Thank you.
goldranger Posts: 54WJL3,
I have a 2001 4.0L x-cab with 37K miles & yesterday I drove 617 miles, round trip Jax, FL to Columbia, SC & return. All I-95 & I-26 no more than 20 miles off the interstate. Cruised 75-79 the whole way. Very little A/C, light traffic. Gas mileage 21.564 MPG. I also have K&N air filter & Gibson CAT/Back exhaust. It runs very good, but as you can see it likes fuel.
Where did you find a 01 with only 7K?
totheendoftime Posts: 14Go with the 2001. The gas mileage is about the same, it has less miles on it and tons of more power.0
Mazdas are Ranger twins (I like both trucks, liked the Mazda styling better). I had a B3000 Regular Cab with 2wd. Sold it and bought a new B4000 extended cab with the four doors and 4wd.
The B3000 with 3.0 was a much lighter truck. It was slow, the damn engine pinged all the time (I had to run at least mid grade if not premium) and I got 15 in the city, upper teens on the highway.
The B4000 has much better acceleration (even with all the extra weight of the 4 doors and 4wd) and the engine is smooth. I get 15 in the city, upper teens on the highway. Two years, 45k miles, no problems. Cheaper overall fuel costs cause I can run regular and not a higher grade.
Get the 4.0!0
between the 3.0 and the 2.9, which is more reliable.0
I think they are basically the same engine. At some point in time (1990 +/- ?) they expanded the engine to 3.0.0
cjharris Posts: 1I own a ranger xlt ext cab. I drive it all over the country and on the highway I can get 325 miles out of a tank. My husband owns a 99 ranger ext-cab 4door-4x4 with a 4.0 and gets the same gas mileage.we both love a ranger for the reliability of them. mine is automatic and his is a 5-speed. the only advantage that he has is the four doors. to me the extended cab is so much more accessible with those doors.0
the 2.9 was the engine ford put in the 4x4 rangers from 87 to 1990. in 1991 they went to the 3.0 which is a totally different engine that was designed for the taurus. the 2.9 is more of a truck engine...it gets its torque lower in rpms. the 3.0 is more reliable. i have a 4.0 (which IS a stroked 2.9) and it is a great engine...go for it!0
170 Lbs Ft of torque at 2600 RPM,and 140 HP at 4600 RPM, and the 3.0 has 170 Lbs Ft of Torque at 3500 RPM and 145 HP at 5000 RPM more like a car. My grandpa has a RWD 1991 Ranger 3.0 Automatic, I bet if it were a 4WD it would have the 2.9 instead of the 3.0, I bet they didn't put the 3.0 in 4WD Rangers until they got rid of the 2.9 which was 1993.
What are the numbers on the 4.0 for the late 80's and early 90's, I never can find the numbers for any 4.0 except 2001 and up. What does stroked mean anyway, I never did understand that.0
means they lengthened the pistons so that it moves farther up and down in the block and head, therefore giving it a longer way to travel and "creating" more space and thus "more" cubic inches. basically its a way of getting almost free preformance out of the same engine and so ford doesnt have to redesign a new engine lol.
cheap way out but it works.
and they didnt have a 2.9 in 1992 as far as i know.0
the 2.9 stopped after the 1992 model year, and there are reveiws for the 1992 model year here on edmunds that claim to have the 2.9 liter engine.0
did Ford stroke the 2.9 when Chevy brought out the Big beast 4.3 which was 1988 I belive, or did they have the 4.0 since Ranger day one in 1983.0
Was the 2.9 a german engine and is it related to the 2.8 that used to be in Mustangs and Capris in the '70s and '80s?
Also, has any else heard about the most recent J.D. Power three year survey? 2001 Ranger was the most reliable compact pickup. Take that Toyota and Nissan!0
tittle Posts: 1I have a 2000 Ranger XLT extended cab. Today I was driving the truck and it was running perfectly. I parked the truck and a few hours later I got back in and the auto transmission was acting weird. The ABS light came on and the transmission would not switch gears. The fluids are fine and I had the transmission serviced at 55,000 miles just 6 months ago with no reported problems. The speed om also quit working. Has anyone had this problem and if so what was the diagnosis.0
bolivar Posts: 2,316You would have better luck posting on the Ranger Problems topic.
You may have a bad ABS sensor, located in the rear differential. But it also could be something else - wires, connectors, etc. The sensor is, I think, on top of the differential and accessable from the outside. Look for it, see if the wiring looks ok and trace it as far as you can, looking for bad wiring.
I would have a decent shop, or Ford, 'pull' the codes on the ABS, before just buying parts and putting on the truck. The ABS sysem is rather complicated, and probably should have the code pulled before working on it.
If you go to www.therangerstation.com you will find much more info on Rangers than here on Edmunds.0
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The University of Nebraska-Omaha Athletic Department released a statement Friday afternoon stating two players had been removed from the hockey team.
Athletic Director Trev Alberts said the athletic department was made aware of an incident Aug. 3 involving co-captain Matt White, senior Alex Simonson and freshman Preston Hodge
According to a police report, the incident happened near 10th and Harney streets around 2 a.m.
A witness told police the men were yelling at a group of African-Americans and used racial slurs and swear words.
The police report stated Hodge hit his head on the ground and was taken to a hospital where he was treated and released.
White, Simonson and Hodge were ticketed for suspicion of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor.
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Quote:No comment about a Kung Fu style that has kata?Kata are japanese, Kung Fu is Chinese.
Quote:I was informed that Shaolin Kung Fu instead uses sets instead of kata so to speak and that you are kind of encouraged to make your own, though there are older ones of course. I think kata or sets should be only passed down master to student personaly unless you are going to make your own becuase they should hold the essence of the art.
Quote:Shuey,You have to admit that story line on the lineage of this style of Kung Fu seems an awfully lot like a bad MA movie. I mean if it's true....it's true. But I would certainly like to see some other disinterested info to confirm it.-B
Quote:As does mine coxne. We bring in many other grappling styles in class as well. Just because you have never heard of something doesn't mean that it's no good either.
Quote:That's fine and dandy if you want to let me know of the fishy history of my style. However, I did not ask a question about it's history. I asked a question of the katas within the style.
Quote:In almost each rank Grade a life time of studies is introduces as seen below.1st Black belt to Second BBTai Chi Ch'uan Yang Tai Chi (64)Pa Kua Chang Classical Pa Kua....... and on and onIt starts Iron Body training at its highest rank level, if you ain't got it by then it ain't gonna do you much go 45-60+.
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Report of the Ontario Human Rights Commission on police use of force and mental health
February 2014 - People with mental health disabilities are often among the most vulnerable people in Ontario. Many face a unique set of challenges where they live, in workplaces, or in our communities. When people are in crisis they also present a unique set of challenges to police services when considering the use of force. This leads to many concerns from a human rights perspective. It is not the role of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) to comment on individual cases – we leave it to other experts to resolve these. But it is our role to look at common themes and concerns, and offer ways to move forward.


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Jebu Ittiachen is a Principal Engineer at Yahoo!, working with the Content Platform Group. Jebu blogs at http://blog.jebu.net and tweets frequently from @jebui. Arun Suresh works for Yahoo! as a Technical Lead. He is currently developing next-generation platforms that power Yahoo! Properties. He tweets from @arun_suresh.
Harvester is a data acquisition component at Yahoo! that acquires data from various providers concurrently through a pull model from drop boxes via various protocols. Feeds can either be scheduled or fetched on demand.
While Harvester was originally written in Perl, Erlang's high-level concurrency constructs -- along with OTP design principles -- make it an ideal platform for building reliable, fault tolerant, and scalable applications like Harvester. The resulting service is more scalable, available, reliable, and able to comply with tighter service-level agreements (SLA) on a lighter code base and less expensive development efforts. In this article, we compare how the two systems perform side-by-side on a single box and showcase the higher ROI provided by the Erlang stack.
Harvester is modeled as a set of cooperating Perl processes. A Perl daemon (foreman) monitors a queue in the database for feeds that are scheduled to run. The foreman launches worker processes when a feed is ready for a fetch. A separate Perl daemon (conductor) schedules jobs into the queue. For scalability and high availability, all nodes run the foreman and conductor. To avoid concurrency problems, they use named locks in the database to avoid stepping on each other. Figure 1 presents a high-level architectural view of a queued batch processing system such as this.
The advantages of this approach include:
- Since each process is well isolated, a crash does not affect other processes.
- It scales horizontally reasonably well.
- There is no single point of failure (except the database).
Still, the current design has limited Harvester's adoption in areas such as mission-critical feeds with strict SLA. These drawbacks include:
- Perl processes are heavy, each taking almost three seconds to load.
- Resource usage per feed is high.
- Upgrades were extremely tricky given the nature of feeds running on the system.
- Load balancing across processes was skewed by proximity of write master.
- SLA misses under peak loads because of a combination of above-mentioned factors
Extracting More From the Current Implementation
To address these drawbacks, we took several steps, starting with tweaking the existing architecture with pooled Perl processes. We hoped this would reduce the process launch times by pooling worker processes that were launched, reusing it for the next run. However, the resource usage was still high per process. Considering that the processes are mostly I/O intensive, the huge number of spawned process meant neither the CPU nor the I/O was being effectively utilized and the OS was spending more time in process switching. Moreover, the database contention still remains. Bringing in a job management system into the architecture meant more maintenance overhead with no significant returns on resource utilization. Threads in Perl were explored for more efficient resource utilization but not advised by the gurus.
Stepping back we realized that the requirements were of a broader nature. We realized that what we needed was a:
- Programming model that simplified parallel processing.
- Well-tested distributed programming model for scaling horizontally.
- Reliable and guaranteed error handling mechanism.
- Framework that allowed code upgrades with no downtime.
- Efficient use of modern multicore commodity hardware.
- Easily integrate with the existing software stack at Yahoo!.
With this in mind, we considered a Java solution. The Java stack has a very good threading model, which has been proven in the field. However, mapping our problem to the Java application server model like Tomcat was not a natural fit because Harvester:
- Is not a web-app.
- Does a lot of network calls from within the container.
- Has a lot of long running calls.
Building it as a stand-alone threaded Java app would mean introducing the issues associated with the threaded programming model. The threading model is based on shared memory and locking to achieve consistency. Developing and deploying an error-free threaded program is tough, since hard-to-reproduce concurrency issues go hand-in-hand with shared memory. A message passing solution is not native to Java and we would need to bring in an external library to help us do messaging, in turn introducing a performance impact.
Also, current Java VM's are not well-suited for the new range of hardware sporting more cores and lower clock speeds. The code upgrade issue still remains and doing application upgrades involve taking a host down, upgrading it, and putting it back into the cluster.


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What's next for Sports Authority — key court dates, deadlines
Sports Authority's attorneys this week said they're still pursuing a "robust" sale process.
Here's a look at some key deadlines and dates in the sale and auction process as of Thursday morning, according to Reorg, a research firm that tracks bankruptcies.The dates are subject to change.
Main auction:
- May 11 at 5 p.m. EDT: Deadline to submit bids
- May 13 at 4 p.m. EDT: Sale objection deadline
- May 16 at 10 a.m. EDT: Auction, if any, for main auction leases as well as certain closing store leases
- May 20 at 4 p.m. EDT: Post-auction objection deadline
- May 24 at 9:30 a.m. EDT: Hearing to approve the sale
- May 27 at 10 a.m. EDT: Hearing on backup bidder for main sale (if necessary).
Closing store lease auction:
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Digger Monday...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Show Rod Sunday...Carl Casper
Casper's Ghost. I love modified "t-buckets", especially this one. A recurring theme in Casper's creations were multiple superchargers. This one is no exception!
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Hope your Memorial Day weekend...
Is off to a fast start! Hope your beer is cold and your women hot. Be safe!
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KayJohn's Body Shop
What a sight! K's body shop/showroom with a bunch of his restored Denver's bikes on display. Pics stolen from the JJ.
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Friday, May 27, 2011
tIt's Friday...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Alchemy...or the Midas touch
Have you checked the price of gold plating lately? I have. Damn I wish I could afford it. Nothing looks better than gold, but I can barely afford to chrome my scoot!
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Green grass and high times...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
One of my favorite pics...
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Digger Monday...the Magic Pan
The Magic Pan was owned by Syd DeSoto. No money was spared on the 24 karat gold plated turbo, cases, and heads. Hex turned cylinders, engraving, airbrushing, this baby had it all. I always dug the mirror mounted on the front axle!
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Show Rod Sunday...Trendero
This '57 Ranchero was originally built by Dave Public and John Malik to promote their custom shop. In '82 it was found sitting behind a shop in Chicago under a cover. It was recently acquired by Dave Shuten, who simply cleaned and polished it, as is. These wild customs from the '50's are still out there!
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Saturday's words of wisdom...
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Friday, May 20, 2011
tIt's Friday...
Too lazy today to post anything , feel like shit. Tomorrow I was gonna ride to to Philly, then to Baltimore to the Ride to Skate party/show then back to Jersey. Probably not gonna make it. Normally I'd jump at the chance of 8 hour ride and some drinking, but I think I'm gonna stay home and sleep. Have a better weekend than me! Stay thirsty my friends.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Ness Project
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Daytona 1978
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L7 Forks
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Rhinebeck Alert
The Rhinebeck Grand National Meet is June 10-12 this year. This show is definitely worth checking out. The motorcycle show is a sight to see! Plus the Leadfist show on Saturday, should be a good time. Check it out at http://www.rhinebecknationalmeet.com
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Digger Monday...Jeff McCann
Absolutely killing it. If you don't know him, he's painted alot of Ness bikes. Search mcwont on flicker. His pics have lots of digger history, how ti's on gold leaf etc.
Anyway a couple of posts ago, I showed the famous "Goldie". I was kind of skeptical on the paint because it was signed Arlen. Rowan sent me the McCann pic which clearly shows Goldie's tank on the right. So it's confirmed. Thanks Rowan!
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Sunday Show Rod...Roth's Rubber Ducky plug for sale
Roth built this trike in '70 using a Honda 600cc car engine and trans. Anyway, the body plug is for sale from the original mold. What's a body plug? It's used to protect a mold when not in use. Basically it's a body made of fiberglass, just a lighter version of a finished body. If interested, call Moldy Marvin at 661 944-2299.
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Fageol Supercharger
These make for super clean installation, but look way to modern for a shovel or ironhead.
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Friday, May 13, 2011
tIt's Friday...The Cinderella Cart
The Cinderella Cart was built by Gary Littlejohn. You know the guy, he made all those cool prism tanks, all kinds of trick parts, practically invented bmx frames, built street rods,etc. There was a great article in Street Chopper on the man not too long ago. It's archived on their website.
If you know the whereabouts on this trike, drop me a line, Gary's daughter is looking for it!
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Don't look for Emma Watson in the upcoming "Fifty Shades of Grey" flick.
The Harry Potter star made it clear she's not interested in headlining the sexy adapted film, in spite of reports she was cast in the lead role.
Emma Watson gets wild and sexy in "Bling Ring" trailer
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"Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life," Watson tweeted. "Good. Well that's sorted then."
Reports hit the web Friday that the 22-year-old actress was set to star as Anastasia Steele in the highly anticipated film, after a hacker team hacked into the internal server of German studio Constantin Film, stealing a document that reportedly showed that Watson was attached to the film.
A source told E! News, however, that in spite of the supposed hacking, casting for the film has not even started yet.
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Ocean entry of August 2016 Puu O'o lava flow. Kalapana, Hawaii Island.
Moody sky, sea, and lava. Pu'u O'o lava flow of August 2016. Kalapana, Hawaii Island.
Smoke on the Water
Beach entry of Pu'u O'o lava flow. Kalpana, Hawaii Island, August 2016.
Akaka Falls
Akaka Falls shot early in the morning before the hordes of tourists arrive. Plummeting 442 feet into an eroded gorge, beautiful Akaka Falls is perhaps Hawaii Island's most famous waterfall.
Borrego Desert and Mountains
Indian Head Sunrise
Anza Borrego Park.
Borrego Bad Lands
Borrego Light and Shadow
Coyote Mountain Last Light
Sunrise Drama Hawaii
Fellow photographer Chris Johnson's daughters enjoying nature's free light show on the Kona coast of Hawaii. October 8, 2017.
Chasing Light
"Chasing Light" This is an image of photographer Christopher Johnson (https://500px.com/fromhereonin) chasing the quickly changing sunset light on the Kona coast of Hawaii Island.
"Puka Man"
Photo of me (Mark Rogers) looking for a place to set up my tripod and camera. Taken by Christopher Johnson. October, 2017. Kona, Hawaii.
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Torrey Pines State Park. La Jolla, California, November 2017.
California Dreaming
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Abstract detail of weathered sedimentary rock found in the coastal badlands of Torrey Pines Park in La Jolla, California. Sometimes the most interesting landscape is found below our feet, though it be more Martian than Terrestrial.
Sunset Bridge
Kona, Hawaii Island
Petite Puka
Keahole Point coastline, Hawaii Island, January 2017.
Coastal badlands under stormy skies. Shot in late afternoon light at Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego, California.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, MI – A Mount Pleasant man has announced his effort to raise $1 Million or more for Alzheimer's Research – by putting his body through grueling physical challenges all around the country. Brad Kloha will run in 100 races in 52 weeks to reach his goal. The 100 races will include races of all distances and include many of the more popular mud and obstacle races such as Warrior Dash, Tough Mudder, and Spartan Race.
Kloha who works at Central Michigan University, will run most of the races on weekends, meaning he will typically be running in two races per weekend, on some occasions however, he will run compete in three races in a single weekend.
"I know that running these races will present both a mental and physical challenge, but in the end, if I'm able to achieve not only the goal of raising the $1 million, but also increasing awareness of the disease, it will all be more than worth it," Said Kloha. "Even though I was unable to do anything to help my great-grandmother and grandmother during their battle, I hope this will honor them and help others in the future."
Kloha's grandparents suffered with the disease and are the motivation behind his effort.
"Watching my grandmother's 13 year battle with the disease and the helplessness I felt not being able to do anything to help her, knowing there was no cure, is part of the reason I created this project in order to support the research to find a cure so in the future other families may not go through the same thing," Kloha said.
Kloha is seeking sponsors to help raise enough money to hit his $1 Million goal. With the site only being posted for one week, Kloha's efforts have raised over $3,000.
To donate or find out more about Kloha's efforts you are encouraged to visit: www.runtoremember.net


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Fashion Diary
So what if it was Presidents Day and most people took a holiday? By George, it's Fashion Week and some of us have to do our duty. Here's a capsule:
8 a.m. Grab a cab from Midtown to the Viceroy Cafe on 18th Street for breakfast and a walk-through of more than a dozen collections HSN is currently featuring, or will be soon. Now that everyone from Naem Khan and R.J. Graziano are selling their wares on TV, those who used to turn up their noses at shopping on the tube are giving it another look. Faves: the shoe collections by Edelman, Badgley Mischka's jewelry and handbags, and the double-duty cosmetics from Purple Lab debuting Thursday.
9:30 a.m. Cab it to the tents at Bryant Park for Carolina Herrera's show. Color of note: steel blue. Finely crafted, refined clothes, lots of fur. Best when they're not overly complicated.
10 a.m. Look at Shoes of Spain exhibit at Bryant Park. Chie Mahara and Pura Lopez, you make us want to walk a mile in your shoes.
10 a.m. Back to hotel to check messages, make phone calls and change from closet-sized hotel room to walk-in closet sized room. Whew, finally can breathe.
12:30 p.m. Back to tents in Bryant park for Tracy Reese show. Lots of great dresses, pants and sweaters, many of the pieces obscured by massive scarves and neck pieces. Reese showed the key to wearing sleeveless tops in the winter: over-the-elbow knitted arm warmers.
2 p.m. Cab it to Robert Verdi's studio on West 30th Street for a Future of Fashion immersion. In the fashion and lifestyle guru's penthouse (floor 12A? Do you think they were afraid of calling it the 13th floor?) there were demos from Phyto's new professional hair products line; manicures from Ginger+Liz, a new polish line that's free of harsh chemicals; make-up touchups from Jouer Cosmetics' Heather Graham-lookalike artist Chelsea, and the unbeatable low-carb lunch combo of a Blue Print Cleanse kale salad and a Absolut Berri Acai cocktail. (Now you know what keeps the fashion crowd fueled.)
3 p.m. Take the bus back to hotel to check messages, clean out overloaded email account and work on stories.
6 p.m. Hit the tents for Ecco Domani fashion show of seven designers who won the company's talent contest for emerging designers (You'll be reading more about them later.)
7 p.m. Hoof it over to NASDAQ Tower in Times Square for Carmen Marc Valvo presentation. Luxe evening gowns galore; love the beaded bolero, built-in necklaces and view of the crowds a couple stories below in Times Square.
8 p.m. Cabbed it down to the Lexington Armory for Marc Jacobs' show. Great expectations as ever, and he again not only started on time but delivered some exquisite clothes. In all of 8 minutes, he showed 56 looks in a muted palette of lightweight gray wools and blush silks, luxuriously detailed with fur trims. Even the handbags were made of fur. The styles referenced his favorite vintage eras like the 1930s, including high waisted pants, long rounded skirts that exposed a little leg, ankle socks and pointy toe crocodile shoes. The models walked to a soundtack of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and it was sweetly nostalgic. I half-expected to see the last model out – in a daisy printed gown — to be carrying a little dog named Toto.
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In the opening game of group play for Switzerland and Latvia, the Swiss won with the hockey equivalent of the magic bullet. Simon Moser was credited with the goal because his pass, headed for Nino Niederreiter in front of the goal, was tipped by goaltender Edgars Masalskis's stick into defender Georgijs Pujacs's arm and then back past Masalskis. This all happened with 7.9 seconds left in a 0-0 game.
Though they pulled this one out of their asses, the Swiss were considerable favorites heading into the game.
Latvia had no wins, eight losses and two ties against the top eight teams (Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States) in its Olympic history before this contest. Toss in the World Championship and Latvia has seven wins, eight ties and 57 losses against those nations.
Three seventh-place finishes in the World Championships (1997, 2004 and 2009) represent the height of Latvian's success at this level.
Masalskis kept Latvia in the game, but ultimately a freak deflection he set into motion undid everything.


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US Postage Stamp Found To Be Infringing On Copyright Over Statues In US Korean War Memorial
from the so-much-wrong-with-this deptLast year, we wrote about the appeal in a case involving a US postage stamp which was based on a photograph of the US's Korean War Memorial in Washington DC. You can see the sculpture and the stamp below:
The Federal Circuit has ruled on the appeal and stunningly decided that this isn't fair use, claiming that it's not, in fact, transformative. I'm somewhat amazed -- as is law professor Peter Friedman in the post linked here. The two works are quite clearly extremely different, but the court felt that since they both were designed to honor soldiers killed in the Korean War, it couldn't be seen as transformative. The fact that the photographer took hundreds of images before settling on this one apparently didn't matter. On top of that, the fact that the snow totally changes the character of the image was dismissed by the court as being just "nature's decision." Update: That "nature's decision" line was really bugging me, and Friedman has updated his post to show it's bugging him too, so I wanted to write a bit more. If "nature's decision" makes something non-copyrightable, then it can be argued that all nature photography is not covered by copyright -- which goes against pretty much every precedent out there. It's hard to see how CAFC can make this argument.
While there were other discussions over who actually owned the copyright (the government claimed it should jointly hold it, since it had a lot of input in the memorial) and whether or not the photograph should not be subject to the copyright on the sculptures because architectural works can't have their copyrights cover photographs of buildings (both courts noted that a sculpture is not an architectural work), there's a much bigger issue here: why the hell did the government ever agree to build a public memorial and not get all of the rights associated with the memorial? This omission seems like a stunning failure of the government in creating this memorial in the first place. We've seen plenty of similar cases, involving copyright lawsuits over public displays of artwork -- and they all seem equally ridiculous from a common sense viewpoint. If you're commissioning a public piece of artwork, shouldn't you also make sure you get all the rights associated with it? Leaving them with the artist, and then displaying the artwork in public creates a massive sense of confusion for pretty much everyone. Your average man on the street assumes it's legal to take photographs of public pieces of artwork and to then do what they want with them. It's hard to think of any public policy rationale that would explain why the opposite is true -- and yet, that appears where things stand.
Rulings like this should be quite scary for both amateur and professional photographers. If you photograph things that are covered by copyright, you may be infringing. It's yet another scenario of "accidental infringement" that clearly was never intended to be covered by copyright law.
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I saw this fun party over at Kate's blog called Centsational Girl. I just drool over her home office. Let me tell you, this girl's got class.
Anyway, she's having a party where you can post pics of the places you blog. I had never given it much thought, but I do tend to blog in several areas of my home. They are my comfort spots and also where I can feel creative.
So, here's where I blog:
My blogging location varies with the weather. On nice afternoons/evenings you'll find me here on the front screened porch. The chickens are usually running around just outside the porch area and they are quite the entertainment. Babe, our youngest, insists on talking to me the whole time I'm out there. I keep reminding her that she is a chicken - not a person! Posted: NO CHICKENS ON THE PORCH!
On beautiful mornings you'll find me here. I like to do my devotions out here and follow up with a bit of blogging and facebooking.
If you're interested in where other bloggers blog, then check out the party at Centsational Girl.
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For the first time in two seasons, Texas Tech has a brand quarterback and although we're accustomed and grateful for what Graham Harrell did, it's time to look a bit forward and wonder what Taylor Potts might bring to the Red Raiders as a first year starter under Mike Leach's system.
Going into Graham's second year, I asked how much he could improve from one year to the other, but this time I thought that it might be a good idea to take a look at Symons, Cumbie, Hodges and Harrell's first (and sometimes only) year. The nice part about this is that it's a nice mix of players. It's not just one type of quarterback, which means that perhaps there's actually something to gain from looking at what we can expect.
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Playing It Safe
What's the one thing that jumps out at Harrell's 2006 season? For me it's the fact that he had over 50 attempts for every interception. Contrast that with the touchdowns per attempt? Now, contrast that with Symons and what does that tell you? For me, it tells me that Symons was a guy that was going to take chances, while in Harrell's first year, he was dead set on playing it safe, evidenced by the lowest yards per attempt of any of the four, although he only beat out Cumbie in that category by one-one-hundredth of a point. There's got to be some middle ground here, and taking a look at Cumbie's 2004 season, his touchdown to attempt ration is far and away better than his partners in crime. Statistically, he's really not much better than his fellow quarterbacks and lost in all of this, sometimes is that Cumbie was just damned good at putting the ball in the endzone.
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I've probably beaten everyone over the head about yards per attempt and it's a really bad habit, but if you'll indulge me here, I'll try to make this quick. In the Air Raid offense, there may not be a more telling statistic about the success of a quarterback than yards per attempt. Every offense is better when the team is moving the ball vertically, rather than horizontally. That's probably one of the real misconceptions about Leach's offense, is that the intent may be to make it a dink-and-dump offense, but I think this is more than likely a product of the quarterback rather than the offense itself. Exhibits "A" and "B" are Symons and Hodges. Granted, the Air Raid is not as vertical as many other offenses, but taking last year as an example, Texas Tech ranked 20th in the nation at 8.11 yards per attempt. The offense bogs and becomes not as effective if the pass is going sideline to sideline.
While I completely agree that yards per pass attempt is the most valuable passing statistic, I also think it can be adjusted slightly to better capture the issue Seth is looking at here. Specifically, you can factor in interceptions using a simple rule of thumb. This is relevant here particularly for the raw numbers between Graham Harrell's first season, in 2006, and B.J. Symons's first and only season, in 2003.
- With raw numbers, Symons threw for 5336 yards on 666 attempts, for a yards per attempt of 8.01. He also threw 21 interceptions.
- For Harrell in 2006, he threw for 4555 yards on 617 attempts, along with only 11 interceptions.
What the stat guys are doing now is subtracting 45 yards for every INT thrown: they've crunched the numbers, and this is about what it takes away from you in terms of field position, scoring probability, etc.
If you did that for Harrell in 2006 (multiplying 11 times 45 yards and subtracting that from his raw passing yards) you get him 4060 adjusted total yards. Compare that with Symons' 21 INTs, which brings his total down to 4391. This makes their adjusted yards per attempt stats now 6.58 (Harrell) and 6.59 (Symons) -- nearly the same, though by different roads. Interesting, no?
The other X factor is QB sacks/runs. College stats make this hard of course: in the NFL, sacks are counted against passing yards and thus factored into yards per attempt. For Texas Tech QBs I think the safest thing is to just count the rushing attempts and yards all as part of the adjusted yards per attempt. (If this was Oregon or Tebow at Florida it'd be very difficult to do this without completely going back to the raw data and recreating the "sacks" and "yards lost by sack" statistics.)
Harrell's rushing stats in 2006 were 32 rushing attempts for -66 yards. Throwing that with the above adjusted numbers makes his new adjusted-adjusted total yards 3994, his total adjusted-adjusted attempts 649, and his adjusted-adjusted yards per pass attempt 6.15.
For Symons, in 2003 he rushed 74 times for 140 yards. Adding this to his passing attempts/yards we get 740 attempts and 4531 adjusted-adjusted yards. (I know that this number, unlike Harrell's, is actually positive, but I think it defensible to add it all back in because few Tech QB runs -- other than sneaks -- are called run plays.) So the adjusted yards per attempt is 6.12.
So Harrell actually beats out Symons in adjusted-adjusted yards per attempt, 6.15 to 6.12, though that's basically too close to make a call. I think it reinforces Seth's point that Leach has gotten it done with QBs of vastly different styles, especially considering these two guys were (probably) the best of that run by Leach where each first-year QB excelled that Harrell broke by starting more than one season.
In any event, the real point of this is to show how you might compare apples to oranges for any system or QB, with a guy like Symons who was acting as more of a gunslinger and Harrell who -- within the confines of Leach's wide-open offense -- was operating slightly more conservatively.
(I don't have exact cites but credit must be due to Advanced NFL Stats and the Pro Football Reference Blog, both of whom have undertaken similar analyses.)


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This little whippy cake ((tardy)) was quite difficult to make an outfit around. I love my neutrals and glitz is NOT my thing. However, this outfit was pretty darn cute, if you ask me! A little branching out is good for me, I suppose.
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The battle is being fought across the border and in our backyard
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An Inhumane Trade
Ch. 2: S.D. Survivor's Sex Slavery Saga
Ch. 3: Strength in Numbers, the anti-trafficking forces in Mexico
Editor's note: This package of stories, photos and video is a joint project between U-T San Diego and the International Center for Journalists, which provided funding from the Ford Foundation and the Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation.
Tenancingo, Tlaxcala, Mexico - In a Mexican village some 1,800 miles from San Diego, girls and young women are coerced, threatened and forced into a life of prostitution. It is where pimps use the town's annual Carnival to show off their chicas, luxury vehicles and wealth that builds mansions with distinctive architecture to impress and then lock away victims.
Tenancingo is the beginning of a pipeline in an illicit, international trafficking trade where San Diego is a key nexus. This village and others in the state of Tlaxcala generate as much as 80 percent of all Mexican sex traffickers.
The perpetrators include multigenerational families, town officials, neighborhood gossips and lookouts.
Their business scheme is emblematic of systems from Asia to South America, from Eastern Europe to the United States, that profit from the slave labor of men and women. The victims toil in fields, build homes, do housework, beg on streets and work in brothels for little or no compensation.
The spotlight on their plight has grown during the past decade. The United States, Mexico and other countries have passed new laws, advocacy groups have formed to help victims and law-enforcement officials are trying to pursue more of these cases. Successful prosecutions have occurred in San Diego, New York City, Miami and Atlanta.
"As the fight against human trafficking becomes more normalized, I think the lay understanding of it stops being 'over there' and people understand how it happens in their own backyard," said
Human trafficking is a lucrative affair, ranking as one of the top three most profitable criminal enterprises (behind the arms trade and drug trafficking), according to the
It is estimated to be a $32 billion-a-year business that ensnares 21 million to 27 million victims worldwide, said the International Labour Organization and Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves and author of "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy."
What is human trafficking?
According to several countries' laws and the United Nations:
• Human trafficking has occurred if a person performs labor or a sex act for money because of force, fraud or coercion.
• Any person younger than 18 who performs a commercial sex act is considered a victim of human trafficking, regardless of whether force, fraud or coercion was involved.
• Smuggling is considered a business transaction that most often entails helping someone who pays a fee to enter a country illegally. Once the travel is completed, the parties go their separate ways. Smuggling can become trafficking if the relationship turns into forced labor or sexual exploitation.
San Diego County plays a significant role in human trafficking because it has the busiest land port in the world, miles of border territory, an international airport and easy access to interstate highways. Those factors make it one of the top 10 U.S. cities for child pornography and trafficking, said
The State Department estimates that 15,000 to 18,000 foreign trafficking victims are brought to the U.S. each year. Many of them come from Mexico or cross through Mexico into America from distant countries.
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Cradle of trafficking
On the surface, Tenancingo is a charming town — despite the lurkers who follow and question newcomers.
The village plaza is large. Its trees are trimmed into the shapes of animals, tea pots and blooming flowers. An old man with a weathered face and a cowboy hat shines shoes near a gazebo in the municipal park. His view across the street encompasses the tall spires of the village's yellow Catholic church building.
Food carts line the square, and a nearby school provides the cacophony of sounds only children at recess would make. Beyond the school, a warehouse doubles as a gym where boxing and karate are offered to kids.
Then there are the teens and young women who arrive in Tlaxcala in the middle of the night from other parts of Mexico. They live behind the thick walls and barbed wire of the village's largest and most ornate houses.
These structures resemble tiered wedding cakes with single-room cupolas, or turrets, perched atop their steep, shiny, glazed roof tiles. The little rooms have steepled roofs and glass panes but no windows because, it is whispered, if a victim were to escape, she could not climb down and run away.
The homes stand out with facades painted the colors of navel oranges, fresh sod, sunflowers and salmon. Finials in the shape of gargoyles and angels emphasize the apexes of some houses.
Neighboring towns of Tlaxcala have a similar landscape. From this central Mexican state, men fan out across the republic to woo girls with romance and dreams of marriage, then use brainwashing and violence to press them into prostitution.
One in five young boys there say they want to be padrotes, or pimps, according to a local university's study. They are taught the ways of a Romeo pimp by brothers, cousins, fathers and grandfathers.
"They can have houses, cars and women, and they see that it is not punished," said Emilio Munoz Berruecos, director of Centro Frey Julian Garces, a center that educates the community about trafficking and lobbies government officials to take action.
Spreading the blame
Researchers said sex trafficking in Tenancingo dates back to the 1960s, when a laborer witnessed it in Mexico City and returned home to start his own illicit business.
"Right now it's the third generation, the sons and grandsons of the original traffickers," Berruecos said. "And in all of those years, we did not see any people working on this issue."
Villagers acknowledge that traffickers are in their midst, though no one admits to being one. The mansions, they said, belong to professionals such as doctors, engineers and sports figures. When pressed, they admit that some do belong to traffickers.
Sex victims transported to San Diego County and across the U.S. have testified that their pimps took them to Tlaxcala, introduced them to their families and initially brought up the idea of prostitution as a way to help the household. If they resisted or tried to leave, they were often locked in, beat up or simply forced into prostitution.
In Tenancingo, village leaders and residents are quick to spread the blame. Trafficking is everywhere in Mexico, they said, not just in their Tlaxcala.
"We can't cover that up, it has marked our town both nationally and internationally. But it's a small part," Jose Carmen Rojas Jimenez, president of the village.
But only towns in Tlaxcala, and particularly Tenancingo, hold historic festivals that have become an outlet for traffickers to showcase their slaves, cars and money.
Tenancingo leaders said Carnival's traditions and have nothing to do with trafficking, but former victims recall participating in the pageantry with their pimps. Witnesses say this year, for the first time, a Lamborghini made an appearance in the village's cobblestoned plaza.
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Striving for change
While officials dispute descriptions of their village as a traffickers paradise, they are also desperately working to provide better options to young people, especially boys.
Rojas Jimenez and Mario Romero Flores, a retired boxer, started an athletic training program for kids that includes boxing, karate and other sports. Fathers have brought their sons to Flores and asked that he expose them to more career and educational opportunities.
"They say, 'I don't want him to be like me, I don't want him to do what I do,'" said Flores, who comes from an extended family that was involved in sex trafficking during the 1980s and '90s. "They are padrotes (pimps), but they see how things are changing. More people are going to jail."
One participant is national silver medalist German Rojas, 15. Even Rojas, however, said the sex trade is a choice by the prostitutes and their traffickers.
"It's up to each person to decide how to live. We are not the judges," he said.
Marcelina Tones, who crafts handmade sopes and tacos from her food stand across from Tenancingo's city hall, shrugs her shoulders when asked about the village's reputation.
"Sometimes women are at fault, too," she said. She recited an old Mexican saying: "A man will only go as far as a woman allows."
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Growing attention
Sex trafficking has existed in Tlaxcala since the 1960s, but it has persisted around the world for centuries. There have been concerted efforts to help some victims — white women trafficked to the new world for Spanish conquistadors, blacks enslaved in the U.S., children working as servants in nations developed and undeveloped.
In the past decade, more attention, money and law enforcement have been focused on the issue. Authorities said international organized-crime enterprises and local gangs, including those in San Diego County, have increasingly taken up sex trafficking. A recent gang case in North County led to the indictments of 39 people involved in drugs and forced prostitution.
In 2000, the United Nations adopted a trio of rules known as the Palermo Protocols to combat sex and labor trafficking, smuggling and the illicit manufacturing and trafficking of firearms. That same year, the U.S. passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which helped bring the issue into the public sphere, said Ron Soodalter, author of "The Slave Next Door."
The law provided a new legal foundation to go after human traffickers. It also created the T visa for victims of international trafficking who assist prosecutors in building a court case and want to stay in the U.S. More than 3,000 of those visas have been granted since 2002.
Mexicans, Filipinos, Chinese, Guatemalans and Indians make up the top five nationalities of foreign trafficking victims in the United States based on hot-line calls, said the Polaris Project, a nonprofit group specializing in the issue.
Mexico created its own anti-trafficking law in 2007 and bolstered it in June by requiring police to investigate all reports of human trafficking. In November, Californians will vote on Proposition 35, which would stiffen penalties for domestic and international human traffickers. In both countries, the greatest number of sex-trafficking victims by far are their own citizens.
"We cannot stop fighting this crime. It is an attack on society and women," said former Mexico congresswoman Rosi Orozco, who wrote a children's book titled "Cuidado con Malo Gato" ("Beware of Bad Cat").
Orozco has visited San Diego several times to collaborate with nonprofit groups and law enforcement on how to stem the flow of trafficking victims to the U.S.
In National City, Marisa Ugarte, founder of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, was one of the first in the region to focus on human trafficking. Her decade-old nonprofit group has helped nearly 100 labor and sex slaves, including many who were taken to Tenancingo, and recently opened a thrift store to help fund its work.
"There is a lot of money in selling the bodies and hurting the souls of these men and women. It is bondage," she said. "And we must all help. It is all around us."
- Ch. 2: S.D. Survivor's Sex Slavery Saga
- Ch. 3: Strength in Numbers, the anti-trafficking forces in Mexico
- Ch. 4: Trafficking Survivors, in their own words
If you suspect that human trafficking is occurring, need help or want to get involved against the crime, contact the following groups:
- Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition: (619) 667-2757 or www.bsccoalition.org
- Generate Hope: (619) 818-4026 or generatehope.org
- Polaris Project's National Human Trafficking Resource Center: (888) 373-7888
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking - LA: (888) 539-2373 or castla.org
- Department of Homeland Security: (866) 347-2423 or dhs.gov/humantrafficking
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement Victim Assistance Program: (866) 872-4973
- For information in Mexico: unidoshacemosladiferencia.com


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Twins refer to the two offspring that are brought forth by the same pregnancy and birth. Twins may be monozygotic (or identical) or dizygotic (fraternal). Monozygotic twins are twins that develop from one zygote and splits, forming two embryos. They are always of the same sex, i.e. both males or both females. They have the same genetic constitution. They have the same blood groups. They are physically alike. They would also exhibit identical psychological and mental characteristics. Thus, they are also called identical twins.
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Evacuees staying at the sports complex in Baranggay Poblacion rush to the stadium to get their share of food aid. Around 780 people are still missing after the province was hit by Typhoon Bopha. Bopha is the most southerly typhoon e recorded in the western Pacific Ocean, and the second strong typhoon to have hit southern Philippines in 2 years. Scientists predicted years ago that human-caused climate change would result in abnormally severe extreme weather events. The past few years have seen the Philippines, and other parts of the world, struggle to cope with the effects of drastically altered weather patterns. Pablo has left more than 1,500 people either dead or missing and has left at least PHP 14.30 billion in damages.
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