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MTV is back with more drama, fights and extreme challenges as The Gauntlet 3 is now airing on MTV Canada. This season, 32 favorite "Veterans" and "Rookies" from The Real World and Road Rules will battle it out for $400,000 in cash and prizes, in a winning team takes all competition. Pro BMX dirt jumper, TJ Lavin will be back again as host to lead the teams through the challenges. Players find themselves competing in some of the hardest obstacles yet, both on and off the playing field. Basically, picture Survivor meets The Real World. It's insane! Read More .
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Vincent's closing and story about the homebound, which one is more exclusive to The Spokesman-Review? S-R can give more consideration to a story that is more exclusive.
There's been a run of snow-related centerpiece stories all week. On the other hand, there's also more of a snowstorm coming tomorrow. The final decision was to combine the homebound and snow articles on the front page, then to put the St. Vincent de Paul closure in center on the Northwest page. "This is about social service agencies not being able to help people who are stuck," said senior editor Carla Savalli. In other news Under Storm Stories, click on "Is it a pig or a rat?" Folks wondered whether it was a pig, rat, kangaroo, dinosaur... .
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Ladies and Gentlemen," President George W. Bush declared Monday night, "some may deny the surge is working, but among terrorists there is no doubt." Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), The Hill reported, rose in applause.
Bushs speech was one of the more restrained descriptions of the surgelast years decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Iraq. In recent weeks, politicians and commentators have moved beyond saying the surge is working to the blunter declaration that the surge "worked," full-stop. Bill Kristol, declaring Gen. David Petraeus his Man of the Year, wrote in a Weekly Standard editorial, "We are now winning the war. " In his New York Times column, Kristol challenged the Democratic candidates to "say the surge worked." On Jan. 10, the first anniversary of the surge, the GOP presidential front-runner, Sen.
Olympus Stylus 770 SW digital camera
The Olympus Stylus 770 SW is rugged and reasonably good looking. And that's pretty much where the praise runs out. The 7.1-megapixel camera is designed for rough outdoor use, with a sealed housing that's shockproof, freeze-proof, and crush-proof, and waterproof to depths of 33 feet to boot. It even has a manometer, which records the depth or altitude at which a photo was shot. The waterproof part is no gimmick, as the camera shrugged off repeated dunkings in salt water on a couple of kayak expeditions. If we had the time to go to Alaska, it no doubt also would have laughed at repeated drops onto the frozen tundra. Downsides? In Macworld jury tests, the camera did receive Good ratings across the board, but many shots came out soft and overexposed, and there's little room to override the camera's decisions.
A giant has fallen: Remembering Barry Barclay
It's been a couple of days now since the phone rang, and I heard from his sister Pauline that Barry Barclay had died. Barry was - and remains - an absolute giant in New Zealand and the World's film communities. He is widely and famously regarded as the first member of an Indigenous nation to direct a feature film, and often held up in New Zealand as being possibly our greatest and most influential documentary maker. But I think it's important to remember now that Barry's more celebrated achievements - Ngati, the Tangata Whenua series, The Feathers of Peace - were founded on the back of a long and compassionate journey of discovery of self, of others and a rigorous, vigorous, disarmingly playful and punishingly sharp mind. .
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