I cannot believe it, but our tent is no longer a viable shelter. The intense wind this afternoon is quite unbelievable. Our tent and everything in it is covered with sand. Massive amounts of sand! What to do?

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About the program: The 4 Man Show is a program that runs on Aaj TV, projects politics in a lighter vein and pokes fun at our politician, policies, the government and thus ourself. One of the most widely popular shows in the country. The 4 Man Show is sharp and witty in depicting our shortcomings as a nation with humor. For them, nothing is impossible. This is an Eid Special program and it is a comedy spoof of super-hit movie Sarkar Raj! It stars almost all the active Pakistani politicians/figures for example Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Imran Khan, Asif Ali Zardari, Pervez Musharraf (As Sarkar), Javed Miandad, Sheikh Rasheed… This is too funny. Other Parts Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com Part 4: www.youtube.com Part 5: www.youtube.com

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Magnetic Man playing Perfect Stranger live in the Sahara Tent at Coachella in Indio, CA on the evening of 4/15/11.

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Torres del Paine, Chile by TravelPod blogger Travellingtans titled “Dial W for Walking”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Travellingtans’s travel blog entry: “For all who have despaired, the blog is still alive. A combination of circumstances have led to a very late blog update but hopefully we can breathe some life back into this thing. The last blog left us watching ice crack off a glacier face, celebrating my 30th birthday and about to head for the trek of our lives. We left El Calafate heading towards the Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in Chile, unsure of whether we would be doing the famous W Trek. The W Trek is famous amongst trekkers, so named because the 4 day route sees you making a W shape through the region. It promises spectacular views and varied trekking so we thought we’d sign up for it as a few of our truck members were already down for the challenge. You could do the W Trek by staying in the refugios along the way, paying for a bed and the meals which is not cheap, or you could hire all of your camping gear, cooking gear and carry all of your food along with you. We opted for the latter, which made the trek harder but more of a challenge. In all, 7 of us set out across the lake from the camp ground our truck was parked at and caught the ferry over to Camping Pehoe. There the adventure would begin and boy was it an adventure. Day 1 Arrive at Camping Pehoe just after noon. Set up tents, stow away …

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Here are some videos of a tent city / shanty town that has popped up in the suburbs of Southern California. I’ve never seen anything like this in America since the great depression. At first it seems as though many of the residents had lost their houses due to the mortgage crisis, and I am sure some had, but it seems rather that most here have just fell on hard times due to the economy in Souther California in general. The tent city has been removed by the city and no longer exists to my knowledge. We only went there a few times, as our major work is in Los Angeles with the homeless on Skid Row.