Amazing Race 10 Recap: Duke & Lauren Eliminated

This weeks episode of Aamazing Race 10 stars off as usual, with a brief recap of what went down in last weeks Amazing Race 10 episode.

Peter & Sarah were the first team to finish the last leg of the race, as such, they were the first to head out on this leg. They both leave at 6:54am and head for Hanoi, Vietnam where they will search for the “Hanoi Hilton” Prison.

All teams get $0 to start this leg of the race and will be left to rely on whatever money they have left over from previous legs. They are also not allowed to beg or sell anything to make more money. This will certainly prove to be a lot harder for some teams than others.

In order to get to Hanoi, Vietnam via Mongolia all teams must go to the Ghengis Chan hotel where they will buy plane tickets to Vietnam. Big downer for the teams in the lead, the travel agent doesn’t open until 9:00am, at which time almost all the teams have arrived and are battling it out for a spot with one of four vendors, which also doesn’t matter, since everyone gets on the same flight.

Dustin & Kandice cut the line on Tom & Terry and the boys whine and cry like 3 year olds for a few mins before making some snarky comments, giving up and waiting back in line.

All the teams get booked on the 1:00pm flight to Beijing, where they will connect to Hanoi, Vietnam.

Duke & Lauren are falling behind at the airport because, for some stupid reason, Duke decided he wanted to wait for a lady he met on the plane to get help finding where they need to go. Big mistake, as waiting for her to get back to the cab uses up precious time and, to top it off, she wants to be taken to her brothers house before they head to where they need to go. The kicker, her brothers house is 30mins out of the way and they’re no going to have enough money to pay the cab driver. HA! Idiots.

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Old Woodwards Building Implosion

As I’m sure almost every Vancouver resident knows by now, today marked the official ending of an era as the old Woodwards building in Downtown Vancouver was imploded today. I’ve been sick and didn’t want to drag my butt out of bed to go watch it, so I’ve been watching videos and checking out pics to see what there is. This is, by far, the best video and angle I’ve been able to find:

Woodwards Implosion Videos
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At Least They Weren’t Touching Little Boys

The Catholic Church is in the news again, but this time, not because a few priests sexually abused some little boys, amazingly enough.

Two former Priests of a Catholic Church in Florida are being sent up on criminal charges for allegedly skimming close to $8.6-million in funds over the past 40 years. Both priests are being charged with grand theft and it didn’t take long for one of them to confess to everything shortly after being arrested. At least he seems to have that part of Catholisism down. Guess he missed the part about greed being a sin though. Oh well, I’m sure if he confesses to stealing from the good ole’ god-fearing people of Florida for 40-years his sins will be washed away. That is how this whole thing works, isn’t it? Don’t matter what you do, as long as you confess it and have your sins absolved you’re in the clear. No wonder they like little boys so much.

Police have yet to catch the second priest though, who allegedly used half a million dollars of the stolen cash to pay off gambling debts and go on a vacation. I’ll assume I don’t even have to mention how the Catholic Church feels about gambling.

The best part about this entire situation, you ask? The only reason the cops found out about this money laundering operation is because an anonymous parishioner sent a letter to a State Attorney informing him of his fears. Why did the parishioner send this letter instead of letting someone higher up in the Catholic Church know, you ask? Well, one big reason: he was afraid that the Diocese of Plam Beach would cover up the theft and keep it a secret. The fact that a parishioner can’t even trust the Diocese HAS to be great for the Church. Just goes to show, the corruption doesn’t stop at the church level, it goes a whole lot further up then that, not even members of the church trust the church anymore.

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McChicken McCancer with a side of Heart Attack

Eat chicken and get cancer.

Yup, that’s right, chicken products from fast food restaraunts have been added to the long list of things that can cause cancer. As the list seems to grow almost daily, it’s no wonder we don’t all have cancer, or starve.

A US doctors group has sued seven major fast food chains like McDonalds and Burger King for their use of dangerous carcinogens in grilled chicken products, how comforting.

The group is hoping to compel fast food restaraunts into better warning their customers of the dangers involved in eating their grilled chicken products. For some reason, I don’t see that happening. The group also said that every sample of grilled chicken products taken from the seven major fast food restaraunts tested positive for a dangerous carinogen known as PhIP.

I’ve never been a fan of grilled chicken stuff from fast food restaraunts myself, so I don’t have anything to worry about on that front. I’d personally be more worried about the absurd amount of calories, fats, saturated fats and trans fats found in almost all fried chicken.

Why does the stuff that tastes oh so yummy always have to be the stuff most likely to kill you? It’s like being taunted.

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Survivor Cook Islands Recap: Cecilia Eliminated

Tonight’s episode of Survivor Cook Islands certainly proved to be an interesting one and had a few twists and turns that I definitely wasn’t expecting. Now, on to the recap:

The Aitutaki tribes members start the show off by sitting around their camp talking about Billy’s supposed “love at first sight” bought with Christina. What an idiot, if he wasn’t going home already, that stupid comment was certainly the nail in his coffin.

Over at the Puka beach some spear fishing is happening and a fair amount of fish are falling victim to speary-wrath and Cao Boi is rambling on about something, naturally. Brad’s getting really sick of listening to Cao Boi ramble on all the time and has taken to blocking him out. I have to admit, I liked Cao Boi at first for his excentric nature, but now he’s just annoying me. Sorry buddy.

At the Rarotonga beach tree mail is being broken out and it mentions something about using your brains and baun to further your stay in the game. Kind of early for a challenge though, wonder what that could mean? Oooooooh, I know what it means:

Tribal Change Up:

In an interesting twist of events, all four teams meet Jeff Probst for waht they think is a challenge, but walk into a full out tribal switcheroo. Yul returns from Exile Island (having found the immunity idol, I remind you) and all the teams are seperated into two rows, men and women.

Jeff Probst comes around with a sack and gets all the male Survivors to pick a tile out of the bag and to hide it in the palm of their hands. Jeff then grabs a seperate bag and pulls the same trick with the female Survivor. Interesting.

All of the Survivors show their tiles and the ones with X’s are selected as new team captains. The captains come out as:

  • Cecilia
  • Parvati
  • Brad
  • Jonathan

The two men and two women then throw down some rock, paper, scissors action to see who gets to pick for their team first. The teams ended up coming out as:

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Horror of all Horrors

I forgot to prep the coffee maker last night for my morning coffee. What am I gonna do? I don’t wanna wait until I get to work to have a coffee and I sure as hell don’t want to spent $15 on a Starbucks coffee. To bad they aren’t still doing that free starbucks coffee promo, that’d be real nice about now. It really is a shame that they had to go and cancel it so quickly.

Oh well, that’s my whining for the morning, now I have to go chew on some coffee grounds. Bye now!

Biggest Loser 3 Recap: Tiffany Eliminated

This weeks episode of the Biggest Loser 3 kicked off with both the Red and Blue teams getting a bit of a training surprise. Both teams hopped into four gorgeous old Ford Mustangs and headed for the beach, where they would be training. Sand + Exercise = Way harder and lots of sore muscles. Ouchy!

But before leaving for the beach, Ken gets some really sad news from home and learns that his 19 year old son has been in the CCU (critical care unit) for the past three days, likely as a result of an infection due to surgery he received. He pulls Kim out of the room and she comforts him, gives him a big hug and tries to get him back in the game. After that both the blue and red teams get together and pray for Kens son. I’m personally an atheist, but the fact that everyone was willing to sit down together and pray for Ken’s son struck me as very awesome. These people really do care about eachother a lot, it’s a great thing to see people care for each other in a reality TV show, instead of the usual hate, venom and disdain.

The first beach workout for both teams was hardcore. Both Bob and Kim were pushing the red and blue teams to the max and working them like dogs. There was some definite shedding of poundage as a result of this workout.

Temptation Challenge:

  • 20+ sand castles are laid out in a grid, under each sand castle is either a chocolate bar, carrot stick or immunity.
  • Some of the contestants, mainly Pam, consider giving in, in the hopes of finding immunity.
  • In the end, both the red and blue teams refuse to give in and no one from either tribe takes part in the temptation challenge. Good work guys!

Once back from the tempation challenge the Biggest Loser 3 contestants get to have the very first Biggest Loser BBQ. The trainers say that the average calories taken in at a BBQ are around 2,500 and can get even higher, but those calories are required to have a good BBQ. Healthy romaine salads, veggies, fruits and turkey burgers are the nights specialty and everyone enjoys the down time of the BBQ. Once the BBQ is over, the teams get another gem of info, they’ll be sleeping on the beach for the night. Hehe, nice!

Home Contestant Feature:

Adrian from North Dakota has already dropped 4 sizes and is looking and doing really well. Good work Adrian, Keep it up!

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