Plot summary:
A rail company frantically works to prevent an unmanned, half-mile- ling freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from wiping out a city.

Saw the trailer the other day, looks intense.

Anyone got any tips on how to do it? I have seen people do different things, bit its been YEARS.

I tried recently, but i think i added them to the grill to late. IDK.

We have very limited quantities left of this batch of t-shirts from 2004. Once these shirts are all sold, they wont be printed again! Get yours now before they are all gone! On sale now for $20 each (plus shipping of $6)

Here are the sizes and quantities* remaining.

6 Medium
6 Large
12 X-Large
4 XX-Large
1 XXX-Large
*Available quantities will be updated regularly.

If you would like to purchase a shirt, send $20 per shirt plus $6 shipping via PayPal to pyanet@gmail.com and be sure to include your shipping address. Once payment is made, I will confirm your address with you via email and immediately ship your tshirt(s).

If there are any questions, comments or concers... dont be afraid to reply to this thread.

Hello everyone!

My name is Chris and I just ran across this place. I was wondering if anyone knew were you can buy a Maquahuitl? I've found some online but they cost upwards of $500. Maybe some independent shops in Mexico City have some? I'll be visiting there soon anyhow so if anyone has a heads up on where to look? I'm a bit of an antique weapons collector and I don't think my collection will be complete until I have this destructive weapon from my homeland!

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Only one more year and you can retire this old thing.


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Oh yeah, how could I forget the cake. I'm sure you'll like it. You did say that it's your favorite. . .
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It's up to you if you want to share with some of the ladies. As for me, I'll pass. Happy Birthday!! :mrgreen:

http://scribe.googlelabs.com

Has anybody else used this? It suggests words as you type. I wrote this entirely in google scribe. Needs some work though.

So I been thinking about doing a project for a while now, and I finally had the money to do it. So I just started a site called Brown Ghetto, check it out at www.brownghetto.com or use the link on my profile.

Brown Ghetto is for all us Brown Homeboys worldwide!! We got Tattoos, Graffiti, Gang Videos, Hip Hop Videos and a forum. We're even gettin some exclusive interviews with some dope ass chicano rappers and tattooists in the next couple of days.

I was tryna get the forums busy so if you wanna help a homie out and help me with the site then please go represent over there

let me kno what u think of the site too man, it's a work in progress. I haven't finished uploading all the content yet but when it's up it will be dope.

my username is 'El Nino' on there.

kool

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All 32 NFL Teams Announce They Are Underdogs Headed Into 2010 Season

September 6, 2010


NEW YORK—Just days before the start of the season, representatives from every NFL franchise have come forward to state that they are not going to let doubters hold them back, and that they are using "all the hate" as fuel for the 2010 campaign. "All those people out there betting against us are just more motivation to shock the world," said running back Reggie Bush of the defending Super Bowl champion and preseason Super Bowl-favorite Saints, echoing the sentiments of the Super Bowl runner-up Indianapolis Colts, the NFC runner-up Minnesota Vikings, and every other player and coach around the league. "No one's giving us a chance, but we prefer it this way. We're fine flying under the radar all season." Every NFL team later went on to guarantee it would make the playoffs, with the exception of the St. Louis Rams, who said their underdog status made complete sense because they are a "horrendous, just absolutely horrendous, football team."


http://www.theonion.com/articles/all...s-heade,18026/

just wanted to say what's up, i'm a new member to the forum. i never knew a forum like this existed so i'm hella pumped to be part of it.

peace!

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/01...-offered-sdsu/

Rise In Zapotec-Speaking People Results In New SDSU Language Course

SAN DIEGO — Thousands of Mexican natives migrate to California every year. Most speak Spanish. But others do not speak Spanish at all. Some speak an indigenous language called Zapotec. Now, San Diego State University wants to teach this language to others.

It's a warm Saturday afternoon in Venice, California. We're at a restaurant that serves up fresh Oaxacan cuisine and tasty margaritas.

It’s here where we meet Gabriel Martinez. He orders a rice, chicken and mole in his native language -- Zapotec.

Martinez wears a tan, Panama hat and round glasses. He's from a small, rural village in Oaxaca. Oaxaca is located in southern tip of Mexico.

When Martinez was growing up, he spoke only Zapotec. As a matter of fact he didn't learn Spanish or English until he came the U.S.

“Arriving in Venice at the age of 15 years old, I was totally shocked when I encountered the culture,” Martinez said. “For example, I was very surprised when I saw an African American person.”

Martinez says that's because poor villages in Oaxaca are typically isolated from each other, and the rest of the world, due to the rugged, mountainous terrain. That's also why Oaxaca is such a hot bed spot for indigenous languages.

Zapotec is one of the more common dialects.

Experts say up to 100,000 migrants come to California every year. One fact, one anthropologist coined the term Oaxacalifornia to explain the migratory pattern.

As more and more Oaxacan people come to the Golden State, more and more Zapotec-speaking communities are emerging.

The problem is many Californians assume these people speak Spanish.

“Migrants from Mexico, even second generation, don't necessarily speak Spanish,” says Romona Perez, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego State. “They may speak English along with an indigenous language. Many of these kids are coming into the U.S. into our school systems and are being spoken to in Spanish, but they may not even speak Spanish.”

Perez is developing the country's first Zapotec language program at SDSU. This is the first semester classes are being offered to students and the community.

Perez says this program is extremely important as more Zapotec-speaking people are ending up in clinics, courts, and schools.

“If you want to talk to them about what happened to them in a criminal situation, you need to go back to their language where they can express themselves. If you want to talk to them about their health, if they get hurt, the hardest thing to do is go to a hospital and say, ‘This is what I'm feeling.’”

Perez says Zapotec is a complex, difficult language because it's a tonal dialect, meaning one word can carry entirely different meanings based on how you stress certain syllables.

In that way, it’s similar to learning Chinese. An estimated half a million people speak Zapotec in Mexico, but it’s hard to teach it because it’s not a written language.

But perhaps the biggest obstacle in offering a class in Zapotec at San Diego State is that its not a mainstream language course. Most students opt to take Spanish or French because they think it will help them in the real world.

Shane McClain is a graduate student at U-C San Diego studying indigenous languages. He doesn't agree with people who think indigenous languages are somehow inferior.

“In a lot of ways its more precise, and there is less room for ambiguity,” McClain said. “The more you get into (the language), your world just opens up.”

That different perspective is what San Diego State officials hope will attract students to the program. They says it's not just about learning the Zapotec language, it’s about broadening students' understanding of a different culture.

first thoughts when hearing this?

Tourists seek out Mexico's darker side

MEXICO CITY — While most travelers flock to Mexico to sip margaritas on white-sand beaches, a hardy few choose lesser-known tourist sites where they are chased down by immigration agents or risk their lives in dangerous slums.

Escalating violence in Mexico's war on drugs may be prompting some would-be tourists to think twice about Mexico, but agencies offering alternative tourism are thriving among those seeking not just a break, but a break from the ordinary.

Innovative tourist agencies offer trips to remote mountain areas home to leftist Zapatista rebels and to the most crime-ridden neighborhoods of Mexico City.

But foreign tourists, mostly from Europe, are signing up for undercover tours in Tepito, a sprawling market area in Mexico City notorious for drug deals, underage prostitution and pirated goods, said Cesar Estrada, head of Universal Travel.

Another community center runs what they call a 'safari' in this historic area, where many Mexicans refuse to set foot for fear of being robbed at gunpoint.

"We tell visitors to dress simply. If they want pictures, our guides take them discreetly," Estrada said.

Donata Von Salviati, a German tourist, said she prefers such tours because they provide the kind of insight into the real Mexico one could not get in a beach resort like Cancun.

"Things like this don't exist in Germany," she said.
Domestic tourists are taking to reality tourism in the central state of Hidalgo, where one agency run by local residents simulates the dangerous trek Mexicans and Central Americans undertake as they cross the U.S. border illegally.

Tourists pay about 200 pesos ($15) for a nocturnal trek through a state park where they struggle to keep up with guides posing as "polleros" — ruthless traffickers charging thousands of dollars to usher poor would-be migrants across the border.

In order to help tourists understand migrants' plight, guests are prohibited from carrying food and water as they wade through a river in the darkness and hide in bushes to elude the "migra," or U.S. immigration authorities.

The tour ends quickly for those who don't run fast enough — they are thrown in the back of a mock border patrol truck.

Tourists visit remote mountain areas that are home to members of the Zapatistas, the rebel group that spurred a largely bloodless peasant revolt in 1994 in support of indigenous rights.

Travelers may not get a glimpse of the Zapatistas' elusive leader, the iconic Subcomandate Marcos, but they get acquainted with the food and culture of Mexico's indigenous south.

"People want to see the Zapatista movement personally," said Sneh Rao, regional director of the Global Exchange.

Quran burning raises fear of violence here, elsewhere

By Chad Smith
Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.

"Anybody bring a gun to shoot us?" Jones asked, eliciting a smattering of laughs.

But some posting comments on jihadist websites are not laughing, vowing revenge against his church, the Dove World Outreach Center, which had about 30 attendees at its worship service Sunday.

"Now, I wish to bomb myself in this church as revenge for the sake of Allah's talk," wrote one person who identified himself as Abu Dujanah, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

As area law enforcement form their response, the reporting of Jones' plans has gone international - from Mumbai to Melbourne, with some media outlets, including the Journal, describing Dove World as a Gainesville "mega-church."

While city officials are concerned about the effect on Gainesville's image, they say the more pressing matter is the potential for trouble.

The FBI and state and local law enforcement agencies are monitoring the threats of violence promised if the church follows through with its plans to burn the Muslim holy book, Gainesville Police Department Maj. Rick Hanna said.

"We're on top of this, and we are taking it serious," Hanna said, adding that the Police Department is sharing information with the FBI and that police investigators have interviewed Jones about threats he has received.

On the day Dove World intends to burn the Quran - plans for which the city has denied a permit - thousands of people will be in town for the University of Florida's football game against the University of South Florida.