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After days of intense voting, the International Olympic Committee had finally picked a host for the 2016 Olympics last Friday, October 2. And the triumphant winner is Rio…after beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago.

This is the first time for a South American City to host the Olympic Games and the Brazilians are absolutely thrilled. On Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach, nearly 50, 000 people roared when the winning city was announced by IOC president, Jacques Rogge. The celebrations on the streets of Rio headed into the night.

While hiking at Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park in Alberta, Twin Cities couple Melissa Brandts and her husband, Jackson, set their camera to a timer and posed for a holiday photo when a wide-eyed ground squirrel popped into the frame and stole the shot.

The camera’s focus locked onto the squirrel and the blurred-out couple seemed to have just become part of the background.

MGM and Farrelly Brothers of ‘There’s Something About Mary’ fame have chosen their cast for the upcoming film The Three Stooges and quite unlikely names were attached to the starring roles. Oscar winner Sean Penn has already signed on to star as Larry Fine. On the other hand, negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Jerome “Curly” Howard and Benicio del Torro for the role of the trio’s slapstick leader Moe Howard.

The film, originally constructed to be 4 separate short films, has been streamlined into a single

You know how it is when you unconsciously say something, then afterwards you realize the implications of what you have just said. There’s no way to retract an uttered word right? Well, President Obama had the misfortune of doing that at “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” Thursday night. Asked by Leno if he had been practicing bowling at the Washington office, Obama said that his highest score was the extremely low total of 129. Leno complimented Mr. Obama on the score, the President in turn joked: “It was like the Special Olympics or