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Adobe has released Camera Raw 8.2 and Lightroom 5.2, as final versions of updates that were originally posted as 'release candidates'. ACR 8.2 is designed to work with Photoshop CC but, as promised, is also compatible with Photoshop CS6. Both updates bring support for 16 additional cameras, including the Canon EOS 70D, Fujifilm X-M1, and Sony RX100 II, along with new lens profiles and bug fixes. For users of older Photoshop versions, Adobe DNG Converter 8.2 is also now available.
Click here to download Lightroom 5.2 for Windows
Click here to download Lightroom 5.2 for Mac
Click here to download DNG Converter 8.2 for Windows
Click here to download DNG Converter 8.2 for Mac
To install Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe recommends using the update mechanisms in Photoshop CS6 or CC
The full list of new cameras supported by these versions is as follows:
- Canon EOS 70D
- Canon PowerShot G16
- Canon PowerShot S120 (preliminary)
- Casio Exilim EX-ZR800
- Fujifilm FinePix HS22EXR
- Fujifilm FinePix HS35EXR
- Fujifilm FinePix S205EXR
- Fujifilm X-M1
- Leica C (Typ 112)
- Olympus E-M1 (preliminary)
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ70
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72
- Pentax Q7
- Pentax K-50
- Pentax K-500
- Sony DSC-RX100 II
- Sony A3000 (ILCE-3000)
- Sony NEX-5T
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I finally got my standalone CS6 to update to the new ACR 8.2. I had to download and run the CC Adobe Application Manager, which took quite a while, hit update, and it is all good.
I haven't been able to get my laptop's CS6 to update properly for ages. I think it must be a bottleneck with CC vs. my "old" standalone CS6.
Hope this helps anyone with the same headache.
On a Windows 7 64 bit machine, running PhotoShop CS6 I had no trouble whatsoever getting ACR to update from 8.1 to 8.3 from within the PhotoShop "check for updates" pulldown menu.
I repeated this process on a C drive clone, again no trouble at all.
No part of Adobe CC is running on my Windows laptop.
Just saying my experience differed.
Oops ACR8.1-8.2.
So I have Photoshop CC and LR 5.2. Both claim to be up to date.
When I edit in PS CC from LR I get a message that I need to update to ACR8.2 in PS help update. But of course when I update there is no new update avail.
I downloaded ACR8.2 via direct link and tried to install manually but it says 'not applicable' to any of my products.
What's going on?
I tried to post on adobe forums but lately I can seldom log in. The login just says unknown error try again later, or just reloads a blank page forever.
Did you install Bridge?
You have to have Bridge installed, to the best of my knowledge, in order to update Camera Raw.
By the way, this is 500Mb of wasted disk space if your workflow only includes LR+PS (=you're a photographer and not a graphic designer)
Need the direct download links to ACR 8.2 for CS6 and CC, Windows version. Links below do not work. There is no 'space" to remove
In case if someone needs them for offline install: ACR 8.2 links:
Let's enjoy and appreciate the update. It is only a matter of time before Adobe wants to ding Lightroom users on a monthly basis. I am grateful, however, that we seem to be getting lots of time to shop around for an alternative to Lightroom -- and there are quite a few possibilities.
Can anyone provide a manual Adobe Camera Raw 8.2 Download link, please?
Someone used to post the direct download links for Photoshop CS 6, the latest Elements, and LR here.
But my experience was that the download (an Adobe webpage) worked, but then wouldn't install because the download inaccurately detected my PhotoShop licence as fraudulent–this happened more than once. But then my PhotoShop CS6 had no problem getting the update from within PS's update feature.
You can try the links posted a few comments above.
Support for Sigma Merrill cameras (SD1M, DP1M, DP2M, and DP3M) is still missing.
Shame on Adobe...
(Sigma is said to have given all necessary information to Adobe many many months ago).
I'm all for Adobe supporting those Sigma cameras, but at least Adobe does support some Sigma Foveon cameras--not enough I know.
Capture One doesn't extract any Sigma Foveon files.
Still got bugs in the publish module. Can't see any difference between this version and the RC version, other than new camera support.
Found it...
Why does Adobe now make it so hard to find update links?
"Hey Adobe, my graphics computers are NOT connected to the internet... EVER."
Not Adobe's problem...
LR 5.2 Release Notes with features and bug fixes:
or this link from Kost's Blog to view enhancements and bug fixes:
D7100 tether support added, yay!!
I downloaded the trial version of LR from www.adobe.com but was unable to subsequently purchase it. Apparently from Dubai you cannot buy online, or so it seems. Can anyone who has successfully purchased LR guide me how to go about? Thanks.
Same nonsense here in Turkey. I brought it from the UK store using a Turkish bank VISA card. You get charged the UK VAT.
Alternatively, try Capture One. If you buy it outside the EU there is no VAT added!
http://swupdl.adobe.com/updates/oobe/aam20/win/PhotoshopCameraRaw7-7.0/8.2.67/setup.zip ???
Sorry, I added the ??? because I a downloaded it but had not tested it because I was on my way out. Yes, this is ACR for CS6.
No space or ??? added to the end.
swupdl.adobe.com/updates/oobe/aam20/win/PhotoshopCameraRaw8-8.0/8.2.67/setup.zip ?
Think it's the CC / Win version.
anyone find the 5.2 Final's bug fix list?
Could someone please post direct download link to ACR 8.2 (Windows).
Or post a web page link to where I can find this and future updates.
Thank you.
Please - Need link for ACR 8.2
I'm not sure LR5.2 is ready for prime time. Not only does my LR5 say it's up to date, but four attempts to download the 5.2 update on DPReview resulted in stalling somewhere between 1/2 way and 3/4 way. I even went directly to Adobe's website and tried again. No luck. I know it is not the iMac because I download updates all the time. Has anyone else tried to download this "upgrade"?
worked for me, Win 8, 64 bit, about 2 hrs before your posting
Mine installed ok, but I cannot get the Nvidia card to work with Lightroom 5.2, it works with Photoshop CC and Bridge CC, but it will only use Intel and not the Nvidia card on my Nvidia Optimus based laptop. I just give up with Nvidia and Adobe seriously.
No problem. The whole process took no longer than 5 minutes. Newish iMac.
Powershot s120?
We still don't like you, Adobe.
Sorry but with likes of his post compared to yours i had to giggle. Your post reminded me of the monty python scene "Yes we're all individuals!.... I'm not"
apart from the fact that those 14 "likes" represent a whopping 0,000002% of Dpreview's monthly unique visitors (7 milion according to wikipedia), it was already 13 when I posted my comment.
And since "We" looks like somebody is speaking on behalf of all the members of dpreview, I had to correct that statement.
Since there are at least 2 of us (Keith Reeder and me) that do not hate Adobe ;)
Hate? Who said hate? I don't like what they've become but I don't hate them. They're venturing out in a way demanded by their shareholders, but that doesn't mean they aren't being greedy and embracing a pricing structure that allows them to profit while removing motivation to innovate. If it works, it works. I hope it doesn't.
I don't like onions. I hate spiders. I thought that might put my words in context.
Yet. No cloud subscription necessary yet. I know it isn't necessarily the most pertinent piece of information, but the name "Photoshop" does imply certain things about its function. Also, before Lightroom the tool of choice for photographers was Photoshop. I've used Lightroom and I'm just not a huge fan. It is cheaper, but not as powerful. I would use it gladly if I had chosen to rather than feeling forced to because Adobe had taken a product they felt was so unique it could forego even the illusion of attempting to compete and improve. They feel they have addicts and can now jack up the price and/or set their own terms. Well, they can do both of those things and more power to them. And I can tell them where to stick it. Ah, the wonders of capitalism.
Photoshop has been used by photographers historically only because there were no other suitable "darkroom" alternatives.
Seriously - a BITMAP EDITOR for adjusting photos ???
That's like slicing a tomato for breakfast using a surgical laser scalpel.
Photographers who use Photoshop for general processing of their pictures are utilizing 5-10% of Photoshop's features.
Habit had become second nature.
Then Adobe should thank their lucky stars a large group of people were not demading nearly as much from their updates and subsidized development for those using something closer to 100% of its abilities. As it stands, after years of working with Photoshop people have invested in learning the systems, plugins, actions, etc. that they now can only use if they keep their current version that will no longer be upgraded, and ACR is an important upgrade for many. Oh well, I hope they sink along with the artists that think Photoshop is for graphical designers rather than photographers.
That group of yours is really not that large.
And you're lying to yourself when you say you can not use CS6 once you buy a new camera.
You can get the free DNG convertor and use your old copy of Photoshop just like before.
But it's easier to blame Adobe for everything, I guess.
Who said I own CS6? It's easier to assume I have no idea what I'm talking about I guess. I was probably going to upgrade to CS7, but CS6 didn't having anything that I wanted or needed. Now to keep ACR updated I have to buy CS6 and I'm afraid Adobe has already alienated me too much to care and I certainly don't trust them to continue their support for ACR on CS6...their word is meaningless. And I'd love to add a useless step like converting to DNG before editing but I'd rather find a company that wants my business. Enjoy Adobe products all you want. I'm not trying to convince you not to value their CC strategy. Why must I value it? I'm not invalidating your decision and telling you to pirate a copy of CC, so kindly stop advising me on blatantly obvious solutions to a problem that you don't agree even exists. I've used Lightroom and don't care for it. I'm familiar with Photoshop and was willing to pay for it. Adobe responded with their new scheme because of backlash. I'm not alone.
You are right - I see no problem with Adobe dropping support for old versions of their products. You buy version X, and it has the same features throughout it's whole life. If you want additional feature (like support for new cameras), you'll have to pay for them, and that's perfectly normal.
And Photoshop is so much more than just ACR... The only people who have issues with unsupported cameras in ACR are those, who never needed Photoshop in the first place.
6, CS, CS3, CS5. I did pay. I paid extra because I wanted the power and interface of Photoshop, which I used. Adobe has gone from a loyal customer to losing my business. That's perfectly fine with me and them. Your perspective is the only useful one, so I'll stop having an opinion that differs from yours now. Thousands of previous posts in other articles might tell you something about the numbers of people who have a problem with the new scheme for various reasons though.
It tells me that you can't read.
"6, CS, CS3, CS5. I did pay. I paid extra because I wanted the power and interface of Photoshop, which I used. Adobe has gone from a loyal customer to losing my business. That's perfectly fine with me and them. Your perspective is the only useful one, so I'll stop having an opinion that differs from yours now. Thousands of previous posts in other articles might tell you something about the numbers of people who have a problem with the new scheme for various reasons though." ACR support was only one issue.
I wonder why the CS6 version is half the size download of the CC version?
I guess that need extra space for the "Cloud"
I don't know if this is the reason for ACR, but with other applications the download is twice the size if it contains both 32-bit and 64-bit code. If 32-bit has been dropped in this version it may contain just 64-bit code and be half the size.
Again, that's just my conjecture.
"We still don't like you, Adobe."
YOU are not "we".
So that means PS/LR CC edition for $9.99 is also available? The original PS/CC press release said that it would be released with LR 5.2.
Yes. You can find info on the program here:
D Sharp, I agree: the FAQs still state £7.14 + VAT, and the homepage of Adobe's UK site states that it costs £8.78 (which is basically £7.14 + VAT (Irish VAT is 23%, not 20% as in the UK - Adobe UK is based in Ireland)). But clicking on the link under the £8.78 headline brings you to the CC page where it states, as you point out, that it will cost £9.75! Maybe someone's messed up here, but far from a good start...
Edit: looks like someone did mess up - see here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5690835#5690835
So the price is still as they stated, £8.78 per month with VAT.
Im guessing it has "bug" fixes rather than "big" fixes- which would have made it actually work as fast as it should.
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Got there about 11 am. Had a nice clean room ready for use. Staff was friendly. Had a free shuttle to take use to the river walk so we were save in an area we did not know. Not thing. Everything was great
I thought the location would have been closer to the river walk
It was the best The fact it was so clean and friendly !!!
Close to downtown Internet connection was terrible. Mold coming out of our AC. No ice machine on our floor. Carpets were dirty. Bed was not so comfy.
Clean, friendly. I was happy with our stay. There wasn't any continental breakfast available...
The hotel is drastically understaffed. The housekeeper didn't come by our room until after 7p and that included us calling around 3p to make sure they hadn't skipped us. When we got back to our room that evening, we noticed bags of our trash and lots of other rooms trash scattered down the hallways. The wait staff at breakfast were opening talking about how much they hate their jobs, and the front desk was always full of other guests complaining about something that went wrong with their stay.
Free parking and shuttle service were very pleasant surprises based on previous stays in San Antonio. Loooong walk to our room
I thought that the facility was clean and comfortable. Staff that we encountered were all pleasant. We visited during remodeling so check-in was a bit odd. I also thought the shuttle service was a bit weak. There are so many places to travel in San Antonio that market square seems like an irrelevant spot to travel too being that it is only 2 blocks away.
Bed&linens were very clean and comfy. 4 pillows per bed! The staff was friendly from the front desk, to restaurant, to the maintenance guy who brought us pool towels. I was traveling my myself but had a couple friends visit to use the pool and it was great. Lots of families, but quiet rooms can't hear other guests Hot tub bubbles were broken.
The staff was nice except for housekeeping. The location was nice. Parking was good. Housekeeping staff were rude. The pool was dirty, the rooms are poorly ventilated. Woke up and everything in the room was damp. The carpets in the room were nasty and stained. The staff started vacuuming the hallways at 9:30 at night while my kids were sleeping. The kiddy pool tile was crumbling.
Fairly convenient location, within a short walk of market Square, slightly longer walk from Alamo. Heavily stained carpet, hair in bathtub, dirty toilet, peeling wallpaper. Needs updating and throrough cleaning.
The staff was friendly and very helpful Internet was difficult to login to and wasn't a very good connection
Only a few blocks away from the Alamo, Riverwalk and restaurants. The room has a fridge, wifi and parking was only $10/day. Other downtown hotels did not include these items and parking was much higher. Hotel was staff and very friendly and gave great suggestions. We stayed at a 5 star hotel in Austin and it was very noisy and only had 15 tv stations but this hotel had 50! Highly recommend if you are on a budget and don't mind walking a couple extra blocks to getting to the main tourist attractions! Hiring a couple of more front desk staff during the summer season would help and boosting the wifi signal as it went out a few times.
Clean, spacious rooms. No bathroom counter space. Coffee maker out of reach. Noisy A/C. Sausage and eggs at breakfast not good. Limited convenient parking spaces.
The staff was nice and the price was good for booking a day before. I like that it is close to market square so you can walk over. The river walk is about 8 blocks away with we walked also. This save us money on parking. The hotel is not clean. They need a better cleaning staff. Mold in restroom. Towels with hair. Bed was clean thankfully. Floor is dirty. Neighborhood is a bit sketchy at night but fine in the day . I would advise you to get a room toward the north side....rooms 120 to 140. It seem about to be safer.
yes, there was no radio or alarm clock. no shampoo or cond. no amendities at all.
Very clean, excellent location..friendly staff...
Free parking, huge beds and TV, not far from the center, cheap price. Bathroom very clean and discretion. Dust outside of one room, in the common hallway.
We enjoyed the location. We could walk to a trolley stop and go most places on the trolley. There was no carpeting.
Everything that I did was near by.
The hotel location (near the Mercado in Downtown San Antonio) and the reasonable room rates were good features. Houskeeping service knocked while we were still in room (10:00am), but did not return to make up room. Not discovered until we returned to room at 10:00pm.
Well that the WiFi was not free. That was the only bad thing about it
prompt attention to correcting door handle problem
Overall the motel is excellent! My kids wasn't able to use their laptop no router working.

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BP, whose Deepwater Horizon rig has been spilling up to a million gallons of oil a day into the fragile waters off the southern United States, is leading the drive to exploit the North Sea's remaining hydrocarbons. The British Government has said it has no plans to follow the United States and Norway by introducing a moratorium on new deep-water drilling activities in the still largely untapped area to the west of Shetland.
The notoriously stormy waters on the edge of the continental shelf are home to up to 20 per cent of the UK's existing oil and gas reserves, and the energy minister Charles Hendry said it was "in the national interest" to continue to develop indigenous resources. But many environmentalists believe that ministers are poised to offer another huge tax incentive to energy companies to promote drilling there. In January Labour announced £160m relief on each new gas field opened up off Shetland. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is thought likely to review the tax arrangements for offshore drilling after canvassing the multinationals before the election on how best to promote further deep-water exploration and reduce Britain's reliance on imports. The Conservatives also promised to make it "simpler" for big companies to get licences to drill for hydrocarbons.
Four fields are currently producing oil west of the islands where in 1993 the MV Braer, carrying 85,000 tonnes of crude oil, ran aground in hurricane-force winds. A further 113 exploration licences have been approved and applications for another 57 are pending, with a decision due by next year, according to figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, said this week that he had reviewed regulations on existing gas and oil exploration after the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Announcing an increase in the number of offshore inspectors and the setting-up of a new industry group to report on the UK's ability to cope with a major spill, he concluded the present regime was "fit for purpose". He said much had been learnt since the Piper Alpha disaster of 1988, in which 167 people died, and insisted the regime was "among the most robust in the world".
The number of spills recorded in UK waters has continued to decline. The most recent figures show that in 2008 there were 272 incidents, resulting in 37 tonnes of oil being lost in the sea – down from 432 accidents and 61 tonnes spilled in 2005. BP has been exploiting the area off Shetland since the 1970s but stepped up production in the mid-1990s as other reserves in more accesible areas ran dry. All three of its platforms are operating at depths of around 500m – deeper than in the rest of the North Sea but much shallower than in the Gulf of Mexico, where engineers are operating at 1,600m. It plans to begin drilling an exploration well at North Uist, 1,300m below the surface, in the autumn. A spokesman for the company confirmed it was continuing to work at one field off Shetland with its Swiss-based contractor Transocean, with whom it has been involved in bitter recriminations since the blow-out at Deepwater Horizon. The company said it still has "bold investment plans" for the North Sea where it is determined to reverse the decline in production and maintain output at around 300,000 barrels a day.
The industry body Oil & Gas UK said contingency plans had been rehearsed to prevent oil coming to shore in the event of a spill and that the rough conditions off Shetland would help dispel pollution. Mike Tholen, the association's economics director, said: "As exploration and development there progress, the safety of the workforce and protection of the marine environment will be paramount."
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CINCINNATI — Yadier Molina got the loudest boos during pregame introductions. The five-time All-Star catcher got booed again as he rounded the bases for his game-turning homer.
On opening day, he was driving them batty in Cincinnati again.
Molina broke a seventh-inning time with a home run and made a pair of slick defensive plays on Monday, leading the defending National League champion St. Louis Cardinals to a 1-0 victory over the Reds.
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Mr Linnett said: "It's horrendous. People take more care of their shopping than they did with our beloved son."
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Bulgarian Tuner Adds Some Much-Needed Style to the Camaro's Interior
One of the major complaints about the latest-generation Chevy Camaro is regarding the interior. Exterior styling is spot-on, and there's no arguing the powerplant is potent, but the cockpit is most certainly lacking in terms of material quality and design. Bulgarian tuner, Vilner, has gotten their hands on the first Chevy Camaro in Bulgaria and decided to build their vision of a perfect Camaro.
It's hardly perfect, but it's nice to see someone has addressed the Camaro's interior issue(s). Vilner specializes in designing vehicle interiors, and their Camaro features a reupholstered cockpit using Nubuck, aged Nappa and chrome accents.
Their choice of color accents involves brown and black with top-notch attention to detail and craftsmanship. They also did a few performance and aesthetic changes, with an 8-piston brake kit and LEDs for the headlights. The stock wheels have been accented with Camaro and Vilner scripting.
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The perfect Camaro
"This is impossible," said the Reason. "This is reckless," remarked the Experience. "This is futile," snapped the Pride. "Try it," whispered the Dream.
Which of them will you trust? One vote for the Dream. And for Nasko Vilner, who made the same choice. And he made one of his dreams come true in a remarkable way.
Atanas Vilner is the owner of a Bulgarian company for vehicle interior and as such he definitely has affinity to cars. He fell in love with the new Chevrolet Camaro the very moment he saw it as a prototype. Three years later, he managed to become one of the first Europeans with the fifth generation of the legendary American coupe. And surely – the first Bulgarian.
At the end of 2009, the aspired Camaro is already a fact for our happy fellow countryman. The dream-come-true for Nasko Vilner arrived in Bulgaria with Silver Ice metallic varnish, V6 engine and manual gear-box. Its power is 312 hp, and the acceleration of the US muscle car is 6,1 sec from 0 to 100 km/h. Sufficient to provide intriguing moments on the road. During some of which the back wheels mark long and smelly lines of rubber on the road…
Since the owner of the grey Camaro is engaged in interior design of vehicles, interference in the interior of the sport coupe is inevitable. Moreover, almost all modern US vehicles are rather simple and too plastic in terms of furniture.
Thus, the brand new Camaro got its even more brand new interior. The front panel, steering-wheel, seats, ceiling – everything is touched by the designer and with a new image. The humdrum black interior is replaced with a stylish combination in grey and brown. Nubuck, aged nappa and chrome cover almost all surfaces in the coupe. In order to turn it into a festival of style and exclusivity. And also into a courtesy of the original from the middle of last century.
The seats are reupholstered in two colors. The seams cut through their surface in the same way as the seats of the first Camaro from the 60ies are made. Chevrolet's designers have designed a retro hitch in the mileage-meter and cyclometer, which in the Vilner's version are illuminated in electric blue, accentuated with chrome and covered in aged nappa. Surmounted with large seams in light grey. Just as the leather elements with scorched edges, filigreed on the chromed door handle. This detail is so precisely designed that it creates the illusion that the leather emerges out of the chromed surface.
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This is Vilner's Camaro. The great American car parts with its minor flaws and turns into the perfect vehicle. Unique, exclusive and very stylish. A real dream. And what are dreams really, except a breath of fresh air for the soul…


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Guardian Australia's Brisbane festival podcast: episode six
Today is our final podcast and we are once again on the move, this time recording at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art. Goma's Bruce McLean, curator of Indigenous art at the gallery, has been sharing some of his favourite works in the collection as part of our My Favourite Work Series. Today we catch up with Vernon Ah Kee, who created one of one of McLean's favourite works, Neither Pride nor Courage, to talk about reclaiming old ethnographic archives through portraiture. Vernon and Bruce also talk about anger, art and the major exhibition currently at Goma, My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia
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Hot Girl with a Grudge (Part 1)
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|"Hot Girl with a Grudge (Part 1)"
|Minutes into the game, Morgan, Trish, and Garrett are declared the weakest by the tribe leaders.
|Episode Information
|Episode Number:
|1/14 (386)
|Original Release:
|February 26, 2014
|Viewership (in millions):
|9.40 [1]
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|Episode Chronology
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|"Hot Girl with a Grudge (Part 2)"
Hot Girl with a Grudge (Part 1) is the premiere episode of Survivor: Cagayan. This article contains the content from the beginning through the first Tribal Council of the two-hour long premiere episode.
Day 1
|Once again, Survivor has taken television's social experiment in a new direction. These eighteen Americans have been divided into three groups that represent the qualities they most rely on in their daily lives. The "Brain" tribe, with an average IQ of 130. This group utilizes their intellect to accomplish their goals.
|In 2010, I entered the World Open Chess Tournament and I tied for first. I certainly don't look diabolical or like a genius, both of which I am.
|I'm the president of the Miami Marlins. In baseball, there's only one winner at the end. Survivor is the same, so I've been playing this game for a long time. Just not on a beach.
|I am an attorney and my track record is undefeated. They're thinking "Aw, how cute, there's the mom." They don't know I'm probably more cunning and ruthless then 95% of the population.
|The "Beauty" tribe. This group includes a cheerleader, pageant queen, and fashion model, who rely on their looks to get what they want.
|I was an NFL cheerleader. I don't want to sound, like, super conceited, but from a guy, I usually get what I want.
|I'm a fashion model. I think it's going to help me out get a bit further into the game, because I'm gonna win them over with my looks.
|I competed in Miss Kentucky. I was second place three years in a row. People label me "Pageant Girl," but I believe that beauty is going to help me with the social aspect of the game.
|The "Brawn" tribe. This group relies on physical strength.
|My name is Cliff Robinson. I played eighteen years in the NBA. I always play for bread and meat. I don't win, I don't eat. That's what the game of Survivor is about.
|I'm a police officer and I started mixed martial arts in 2009. Getting paid to punch someone in the face... It doesn't really get better than that.
|I've been a police officer up in Jersey City for thirteen years. I'm always jumping over cars, climbing over fences, jumping from roof to roof, chasing people. So this game to me should be easy. Knock on wood.
|It is the ultimate challenge. Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty. Which trait will prove the most valuable?
|I'm super smart. I have what it takes to win this game.
|I don't see the guys going, "Oh, I wanna vote her off right away." They don't wanna look at ugly girls all day. (laughs)
|I'm known as the tough brawny girl. When I feel like someone's out to get me, I'm gonna get you back, and I'm going to get you ten times harder.
|And who will have what it takes to outlast all the rest?
|I will go down as one of the best players to play and I want to play an awesome game.
|In the end, only one will remain to the claim the million dollar prize. 39 days, 18 people, 1 SURVIVOR!
The tribes entered Cagayan by three different modes of transportation: Aparri, the Brawn tribe, entered along a rough road in the back of a truck. Solana, the Beauty, then entered by boat along the river, with Lindsey Ogle snickering at the girls lounging in the front. Finally, Luzon, the Brains tribe, entered by helicopter, with Jefra Bland noting that they looked like "the Cochrans" of the group.
|I am so excited to start Survivor, I can't even stand it. I'm such a competitive person that I would literally do anything to get to the finish line, to beat you, if I have to. I mean, it's just who I am. (laughs)
|When I saw the speedboat race up, the girls were in the front and they were all kinda like "Oh, look at us." I'm surprised there wasn't, like, cheesy music in the background.
|I noticed a few people coming off the helicopter who seemed like more the nerdy type, like the Cochran of the game, that's gonna be really smart and witty and play the game well.
Jeff Probst welcomed the three tribes to Survivor: Cagayan; the three tribes cheered and clapped in excitement. Jeff Probst explained that the twist of the season was Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty and asked each tribe to guess which attribute they belong to. Morgan McLeod said, "I don't mean to sound conceited, but I think we're Beauty." Spencer Bledsoe then noted that he thought his tribe were the "Nerds," adding that the other remaining tribe looked "really physical." Tony Vlachos then said he would "gladly accept" being on the Brawn tribe, and was eager to "stomp on beauty and stomp on smarts."
Jeff noted that each trait was important in the game of Survivor, before asking each tribe to immediately select a Tribe Leader. Starting with Solana, Brice Johnston nominated LJ McKanas to be the leader. When asked what he thought about being the leader of "the hot group," LJ answered that he must be "the inner beauty" and that if he was the one to stick out, he had to roll with it. Aparri then chose their leader, looking for "a talker." Sarah Lacina said that she was a talker, and the tribe elected her as the leader. Trish Hegarty said they chose Sarah because she looked "confident" and would "get the job done." Luzon then chose their leader, with Spencer asking who looked the smartest. Kass McQuillen and Tasha Fox pointed to David Samson because of his blazer, and he took on the role. Kass said that she didn't usually "trust a man in a suit," but liked David.
The leaders were then instructed to choose who they thought was the weakest person on the tribe. LJ chose Morgan, rationalizing that she looked the least physical. She said that this didn't often happen to her, and that there was "a first time for everything." Sarah said she had a good vibe from everyone and didn't want to make the call, reluctantly choosing Trish. Trish said that, despite her support of Sarah as the leader, she understood her call. Before making his pick, David clarified that "the jacket doesn't match the pants, so it's not a suit." He added that he made decisions like this frequently, and slapped Garrett Adelstein on the shoulder. David said that he'd made his decision based on "the last two thirds of the game." Garrett joined Morgan and Trish, and Jeff revealed that they were still in the game, but would be flown straight to camp - avoiding the hike with their tribe - where they would make a decision on behalf of the tribe who had just ostracized them. The three departed in the helicopter, and Jeff gave Aparri, Luzon, and Solana maps to their beach.
|In my perspective of beauty, there is hot and there's cute. Morgan, she's hot, whereas the other girls are, like, cute. And me personally, I trust cute more then I trust (chuckles) hot.
|My strategy with choosing Garrett was that he's built like a Mack truck, and he's got brains too? Now that's gonna be a formidable combination. So I figured it would make sense to get rid of him.
Garrett was dropped off at the Luzon beach to find the decision awaiting him: choose an extra bag of rice for the tribe, or take a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol for himself. He chose to take the clue, and followed the map to a waterfall near camp. Meanwhile, Trish arrived at the Aparri beach and was torn on what decision to make. Despite being tempted to take the clue, she remained a team player, choosing the extra bag of rice for her tribe. Morgan, on the other hand, with a growing grudge against LJ, chose the clue to the Idol.
|To be isolated from the group right away, it really sucks. Like, at least both of the other two leaders pretended like they were so sad they had to pick the person, but David doesn't hesitate! He immediately pats me on the back and says, "Garrett! He is the weakest." Which is BS. I'm stronger than any of them.
|As far as I'm concerned, I'm already on the outs with my tribe, so this is a complete no-brainer. Obviously, I'm going to look for the Hidden Immunity Idol. When people see my body, often they're like, "He's just a dumb jock." But I was valedictorian of my high school class, 99 percentile SATs and for a living am a high-stakes professional poker player. So anything I do in my life, I go all in. Without question, David making the asinine decision he did, works to my advantage, but he's a threat and I want him out of the game.
|When Sarah had to pick the weakest of the tribe, when I looked around, I was clearly the oldest, I was clearly the thinnest. So I wasn't surprised it was me. When I saw that note, I was like, "Oh jeez!" I gotta to make a decision whether it's for me or for the team. Initially, I could hear myself saying, "Don't be an idiot! Go and get the Idol for yourself and protect yourself." I have been divorced for fifteen years, supporting and raising my children emotionally and financially and it's been really hard. Yet, at the same time, I've always been a team player. It's just who I am. I just went with my gut and said, you know what, I'm just gonna go with the team. I hope I don't kick myself for the rest of the game on that one, but there's nothing I can do now, so I just hope I don't regret it.
|I'm surprised I was voted off first. I feel like I have more physical strength than the other two ladies. Then, I kinda thought I had the guys under my thumb. But maybe LJ was tempted by my looks and he didn't really want me around to mess with his head. That's what I'm good at, so maybe he can sense that. But I hold grudges big time. I will never forgive him for this. This is a game where you have to save yourself, so of course I'm going to look for the Idol. I guess I'm a selfish person, but if I can find it, it's gonna be a huge game-changer, for sure.
Back at Luzon, Garrett found the waterfall, stripped down to his underwear, and began searching the pool for the Idol. After a duration of frustration in which he made no headway, Garrett finally found the Idol in a bag at the bottom of the pool. Over at Solana, Morgan was also searching for the Idol out by a rock shelf in the ocean. As she searched, the rest of the tribe arrived at camp, prompting them to be suspicious of her whereabouts and concerned Morgan that she had blown her opportunity.
|The clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol said it's right by the waterfall. Unfortunately, these hide-and-go-seek type activities – it's just not my area of expertise. I've been in situations at the poker table, playing for huge amounts of money, and I didn't get stressed out about it. So this should be child's play. But I'm embarrassing myself by not being able to find this stupid Idol right now.
|Finally, I was able to find the Hidden Immunity Idol. I'm definitely going to keep it to myself. But what an amazing start to the game. Me having the Idol puts me in a really strong position. I don't know what the hell David was thinking, but I promise you, I'm going to do everything in my power to get rid of him.
|The clue said that the Hidden Immunity Idol would be somewhere near rocks, so immediately I thought of the huge rock shelf to the right of our camp. There's so many little crevasses and nooks and crannies that a Hidden Immunity Idol could be hidden, but I don't know when they're going to be here. I don't know how much time I have. I just know that I have to find it.
|26. We arrived at the beach and it's like, "Where's Morgan?" She was nowhere to be found and it was just very suspicious.
|I was climbing on the rocks, then I saw my other tribemates come strolling up on the beach and my heart just jumped in my throat. I had been outed trying to find the Idol and I was like if I don't come up with something, I'm going home for sure.
As Solana dropped their stuff by the flag, Morgan came running up out of the ocean. On the spur of the moment, she came up with a cover plan, telling her tribe that she'd picked rice, shelter materials, and fishing supplies for them, and told them she was out in the ocean exploring the tide pools and looking for crabs. LJ, however, was suspicious of her cool demeanor, and guessed that she either had a clue or the Idol itself. However, he apologized to her, and she told him she'd just have to prove him wrong. Brice, on the other hand, took the opportunity to pull the ostracized Morgan into an alliance, telling her that he wouldn't have voted her out, and pointed out that LJ and Jeremiah Wood, and Alexis Maxwell and Jefra were already pairing up, adding that he had her back. Meanwhile, the tribe worked hard to prepare camp, with Jeremiah and LJ even making fire for the tribe with only bamboo.
|My other tribemates come strolling up on the beach. It was pretty obvious what I was doing. I had already been outed as the weakest person and now I'm going behind their back and trying to find the Idols and I was like, "I'm done." Then I realize, y'know, I could just totally lie and say that, "Oh yeah, I picked the shelter materials and the fishing stuff over comfort."
|I, for sure, think I fooled them. Now I have however many days to look for the Idol. I'll have to be really sly about it, but I don't think they have any clue.
|Morgan's already in her underwear, just like a mermaid that just walked out of the ocean, which had me a little nervous because she's way too calm and collected for someone just voted out. She either already has an Immunity Idol or she has a clue, so I gotta be on my best behavior because she could be the hot girl with a grudge.
|Morgan was able to provide for us, you know, some good things. I kinda felt like that kinda boosted her confidence a little bit, but I'm no dummy. I know a scorned woman when I see her. So she was the perfect opportunity for me to use my purple pants and, kinda like, my personality to kinda get in with her.
|Me and Brice kinda made a little connection, so right now, we're sticking together. He's got my back. We'll see what happens.
|People don't expect anything from us because they've labeled us the "Beauty." They think it's just a tribe full of princesses and guys who are like pretty boys that don't wanna really get dirty.
|I'm so excited we got fire right away, you know, without flint which is very hard to do. So I'm loving our tribe!
|The other tribes – there's nothing in their minds that wants to connect the Beauty tribe with success. But it's happening! We can kick butt out here and we're doing it!
At Aparri, Trish greeted her tribe with open arms and assured Sarah that she was not offended by being picked as the weakest. She told the tribe that she'd been given the opportunity to look for an Idol, but had instead chosen extra rice for the tribe, prompting surprise and celebration from Sarah and the rest of Aparri. The tribe then split up to begin assembling the shelter. As they worked, Cliff Robinson drew some attention for his height. He told Tony and Woo Hwang that he worked in sports marketing, but had played some basketball at which point Woo revealed that he had some of Cliff's basketball cards. Cliff then shared his history as an NBA-player with the rest of his tribe who were impressed, but didn't seem to let his past influence their opinion of him.
|Because I was already seen as being the weakest, I felt like that's what they were going to come to camp thinking. That this older, skinny woman that would be eliminated is weak. So, I had to get myself right back on equal terms with all of them.
|Soon as we arrive to camp, Trish came with open arms. She says, "I had the choice of looking for the Idol for myself or helping my tribe out in getting a second bag of rice." And we were, like, so excited. We were like, "Yes, you did the right thing." But if I was in Trish's shoes, it would have been one bag of rice... and one Idol in my pocket.
|Looking through all of my team members, I could tell that any challenge that will have physical strength in it, we're definitely gonna dominate. I mean, we have, like, the biggest man out here. He's like eight feet tall.
|Me being a basketball enthusiast, I immediately knew who that was: Cliff Robinson. Portland Trail Blazers. One of my favorite players growing up and everyone seems stoked to have him on their tribe. But I don't think anyone's making a really big deal about it.
|The fact that I'm a former basketball player could hurt me, but to tell you the truth, it doesn't seem like they really have any interest in basketball. So for me, that's just fine. I can play this game. Not worry about my tribemates judging me for what I did and they're just looking at me like as Cliff Robinson – one of the tribe members of Survivor.
Sarah, meanwhile, suspected that Tony was a police officer. She approached him alone and asked him, but he denied it, point blank. She asked him again, but he continued to deny it, telling her that he worked in construction and pointed to his tattoo as evidence (citing that police officers were not allowed to have tattoos). Sarah then told him she was a cop. Tony then joked with her, pretending to confess, puzzling her, and making her suspicious.
|I've been a cop for quite a while and there is a look that cops have – and Tony's got it. If I'm wrong, he should go be a cop because he looks just like one.
|I thought for a split second, "Should I tell her I'm a cop?" But then I said, you know what? If I tell them I'm a police officer, the first thing they're gonna be thinking is, like, this guy's strategical, he's tactical, he's probably sharp on his toes, he's very observant. And they're gonna be right. So obviously I'm a threat to them, so they're gonna probably want to try and blindside me right away.
|Interview and interrogation are my daily duties and I get lied to every day at work, y'know? And there's just something that makes me feel uneasy about Tony.
|I don't know what the hell he does. All I know is I don't think I can trust him, so he's gotta go as soon as possible. That's all I gotta say.
Luzon arrived at their beach, greeting Garrett. Spencer was frustrated by David's decision, but Garrett put on a good face, telling his tribe he'd found the water, as well as a waterfall. The tribe then began focusing on shelter, at which point J'Tia Taylor told the group she was a nuclear engineer, and had orchestrated a plan for the shelter. She then began doling out orders to her tribe, instructing them on how to do everything, from cutting the bamboo to constructing the base for the shelter, without putting in any physical effort herself. However, her abrasive approach rubbed Tasha Fox, Spencer, Kass, and David the wrong way, and despite several objections to the practicality of her plan, J'Tia insisted she had the right plan. Kass talked to David about her attitude, but he suggested they just "let her do what she does." When Tasha sat down on the shelter to test the balance, it collapsed under her, prompting Kass to mutter, "We're not very smart for the Brain tribe."
|When David came out and said that he was going to pick Garrett, I thought, "You're an idiot!" You're picking the one guy who can help us in challenges and you're ostracizing him already. It's a terrible move.
|I have my PhD in nuclear engineering. I think I'm the smartest person here. Hands down! Ima build that shelter. I'm not gonna cut the bamboo, but I'm gonna tell 'em how to build it. And it's gonna be an awesome shelter.
|J'Tia took the leadership role and her approach is not the sleekest and she does come off really confrontational and bossy.
|Right now, we have an – (air quotes) – "engingeer," J'Tia, who says that she can build a shelter. She has the decisiveness of a leader, she has the bossiness for sure, but she doesn't exactly have it all... (points to head) ...here.
|J'Tia... I don't appreciate her attitude. I don't think anybody does. It makes it uncomfortable.
|J'Tia's taking charge of doing stuff, but she doesn't do anything. She just sort of barks orders to us. In my career, I have enough experience with people who look like they can get things done, but you put 'em at the plate and put a bat in their hand and all of a sudden, they look like Bugs Bunny. And that's J'Tia. J'Tia's just too much. She's too much.
Day 3
Jeff welcomed the tribes in for their first challenge: Draggin' the Dragon. Each tribe would manoeuvre a cart through an obstacle course, stopping along the way to retrieve a key suspended high in the air. They would then use the key to unlock a chest of puzzle pieces, load it onto the cart and continue along the course. Once all three chests were obtained, the cart was to be disassembled and slotted through a barricade before being reassembled on the other side. The tribe would then complete the obstacle course, at which point, two members of the tribe would use the puzzle pieces to solve a giant circular puzzle. Jeff then revealed the two-part Immunity Idol. In addition, the tribes were competing for reward in the form of fire, with the first tribe to finish getting a fire-making kit and second place receiving flint.
The tribes were even out of the gate, with Spencer retrieving the key for Luzon, Brice for Solana and Cliff for Aparri. Aparri and Solana easily got their chests onto their cart, but Luzon got their chest tangled up in the chains, dropping them into last place. Aparri pulled into first place as Cliff easily retrieved the second key, with Brice and Solana close behind. Spencer made up some ground for Luzon, but J'Tia got stuck unlocking the chest and once again, the tribe tangled the chest in the chains. Meanwhile, Aparri extended their lead, obtaining their third key and chest and beginning to disassemble their cart. As Aparri began slotting their cart through the wall, Solana retrieved their third key and began pulling apart their cart as Luzon also began disassembling the cart. Aparri continued to maintain a lead, with Solana narrowing the gap by slotting most of their cart through the barricade in one swift go. As Aparri began to reassemble their cart and Solana got their last chest through the wall, Luzon was falling further behind, even dropping their chests to have puzzle pieces fall out all over the place. Aparri easily traversed the last obstacle – a series of ruts obstructed by rocks and logs – as Luzon continued to fall apart, dropping another crate.
Sarah and Lindsey began work on the puzzle for Aparri, solving it on the ground before slotting it into the wheel. Solana made up some ground, and Alexis and LJ began work on the puzzle soon after. Meanwhile, Luzon was still assembling their cart. Aparri finished the first section of their puzzle, with Solana moments behind. Luzon's cart began to fall apart on the last obstacle as Aparri and Solana maintained their lead on the puzzle portion. As Aparri finished their second section of the puzzle, Luzon finally caught up and Kass and Tasha began work on their puzzle. Solana finished their second chest of puzzle pieces, with Aparri neck-and-neck going into the final section of the puzzle. Luzon completed their first section of the puzzle and raced to catch up, but the other two tribes were significantly further ahead, with Solana down to their last four pieces and Aparri down to their last six. Solana finished their puzzle first, claiming victory, Immunity and a fire-making kit. Aparri finished moments later, also winning Immunity and flint. Meanwhile, Luzon were only halfway through their second puzzle portion and only won a trip to Tribal Council.
Back at camp, the Luzon tribe dissected their abysmal performance, pointing out that they couldn't underestimate the other tribes. David and Kass discussed the poor effort and debated who to target at the vote – J'Tia or Garrett. Kass accusing J'Tia of taking over her role in the challenge (unlocking the chests) and then getting the chains tangled up. David, however, pushed to vote out Garrett, claiming he had been of little physical help in the challenge, but also thought of him as a bigger threat down the line. Kass, however, insisted that J'Tia was the only sound option for "tribe harmony."
|At the challenge, we sucked. I can't really blame any particular person. I think it's everyone and it's like we're book-smart, but when it comes to playing this game, we're dumb.
|Personally, I'd like to get rid of Garrett because I view him as a bigger threat to me than J'Tia. I'm thinking about Day 39 and my biggest concern is that I'm not exactly sure what put him on the Brains tribe. He hasn't told us. And that scares me – really to my core.
|David, he wants Garrett to go first, but that's ridiculous. He's our strongest guy. Plus, he's a work horse. But J'Tia, she has not been pulling her weight. She's been doing a lot of direction and no production. And everyone sees it. She's dead weight. So let's just send her home.
Later, J'Tia asked Kass who she wanted to vote out, and Kass bluntly told her she was leaning to get rid of her because of her poor work ethic. J'Tia objected, saying she'd pulled her weight in the challenge, but Kass countered that she'd been resting for three days. Kass warned her that it was "probably time to scramble." Later, Tasha approached a tearful J'Tia, who asked Tasha her opinion of her work ethic. Tasha agreed that she may have rubbed some people the wrong way. Garrett joined the two of them and assured J'Tia that she was safe, proposing that they oust a strategic threat in David. He told the women that he could pull in Spencer and, four-strong, they could vote out David. However, when he approached Spencer, the latter was concerned about the Idol and feared David may have it. Garrett lied that he hadn't heard anything about Idol clues, but Spencer pointed out that David and Kass often went off alone together. As the rain and wind swept in, Luzon departed for Tribal Council.
|I went up to Kass and she was very honest. She said that she doesn't think that I work around camp and that I'm going home. Kass kinda hurt my feelings a little bit. 'Cause I'm not lazy. We needed a shelter and I felt like if I hadn't built a fire under the tribe's butt, we wouldn't have got it done. So I felt like I was being motivating. Clearly it doesn't come off that way, but I just hope that I have not ruined my chances. I might have.
|J'Tia is definitely pretty paranoid right now. And for what it's worth, she has pretty good reason. She's bossy. Y'know, she doesn't get along with anyone. I personally care less about that than others because as far as I'm concerned, the biggest threat is David. He's very intelligent. I do think he's a schemer and he's already made it clear that he wants to get rid of me. So David's going home tonight.
|I'm really concerned about voting out David. I know that in the past, there have been clues and Idols around camp and I keep seeing David and Kass walk off and just wander around. So I'm a bit worried that he could have found it. So I'm thinking, since J'Tia's a pain in the ass, let's vote her out. Just to be safe.
|Spencer's paranoid about David having the Idol which is ridiculous because I have the Idol. Of course, I'm not going to tell him that but now I feel nervous about voting for David because it looks like I don't have four solid votes for tonight. Without question, David is just a huge threat and if people don't see that, they're idiots. I don't know. I hope that Spencer and I stay strong together, but we'll see what happens.
At Tribal Council, the Luzon tribe lit their torches. Before the council began, Garrett leapt out of his seat as he noticed a spider crawling on him. Jeff gave an open statement to talk about the first three days, at which point J'Tia smiled and noted, "I knew you were gonna want to talk to me a lot, Jeff" because she knew she was on the chopping block. She added that Kass had told her that she was a target because of her work ethic and bossiness, pointing out that she had been unaware that she'd been coming off so negatively, but owned her mistakes, laughing at the complete failure of her shelter plan. David added that J'Tia had come out very strong at the beginning, citing her credentials as "a nuclear physicist or a nuclear... bomb builder or something," which had made him feel like she knew what she was doing. J'Tia corrected him that she was a nuclear engineer, and argued that she hadn't said she knew what she was doing, but had just been excited about a plan. She reiterated that she'd made an error, and urged her tribe to tell her if they had problems with her actions or personality.
As thunder cracked and the rain started to pour, Jeff asked David about his decision to point to Garrett as the weakest. He answered that it wasn't a perfect position, but he hadn't wanted to "dither around" because it was a game. Garrett countered that it had sucked to be "cast as the outsider." He added that he didn't think he was an immediate target because of David's call, and trusted his team. David agreed that Garrett was correct in his confidence because he wasn't going anywhere, at least "not tonight."
Asked how it would feel to be the first out, J'Tia said that she would be disappointed because she'd come to play, and that for the tribe to succeed, they couldn't be "thinking about the last two-thirds; you've got to be thinking about the first third and getting there." The reference to David's comment about why he'd picked Garrett on Day 1 led to her saying that Luzon were "her people" and while she understood that someone had to go, she didn't want it to be her, and pointed directly at David. David said that such accusations were common strategy when you were about to be voted out.
As Spencer was asked about the "big vote," the thunder roared, and he answered that they had to make the vote based on keeping the tribe unified and trustworthy.
Jeff then initiated the vote. Kass voted first, followed by David, who cast his vote for "Je Tia." Tasha followed and J'Tia then returned the favor with a vote for David. Garrett and Spencer concluded the proceedings and Jeff tallied the votes.
When Jeff asked if anybody wished to play a Hidden Immunity Idol, Garrett coughed pointedly but did not play the Idol. The first vote was for J'Tia, followed by one for David. Each received another vote, tying the score at 2-2. However, the last two votes came up for David. He took his torch to Jeff, muttering "Unbelievable." With that, David Samson became the first contestant eliminated from Survivor: Cagayan. Jeff urged the tribe to get it together quickly, before sending them back to camp with flint.
Challenge: Draggin' the Dragon
The tribes have to pull a cart across man-made and natural obstacles. They are carrying boxes of puzzle pieces in the form of a dragon. At three different spots, one player climbs up a ladder, using a bamboo pole, to reach out and release a key. The players must take that key, unlock a chest and put it in the cart. Once they have all the chests together, they must dismantle their cart and take all the chests out to stuff them through a barricade in the course. They must then climb up over the wall, reassemble the cart on the other side, and then make it through a bunch of natural obstacles to make it to the end. Using the pieces of the boxes, they must then solve a puzzle. The first two tribes to finish their puzzles win immunity.
Reward: Fire-making kit for the first-place tribe and a flint for the second tribe.
Winners (in order of finish): Solana and Aparri
|Reward/Immunity Challenge: Draggin' the Dragon
|Key Retriever
|Puzzle Solvers
Jefra, Jeremiah, & Morgan
Alexis & LJ
Tony, Trish, & Woo
Lindsey & Sarah
David, Garrett, & J'Tia
Kass & Tasha
Tribal Council
| Tribal Council 1:
| Voted
David (4 votes)
Garrett, J'Tia, Spencer, Tasha
J'Tia (2 votes)
David, Kass
David Samson
Voting Confessionals
J'Tia is shown writing down David's name on the parchment.
|(voting for J'Tia) In the real world I may hire you, but in this world? Not tonight.
Final Words
|I have no regrets. I played the way I thought I needed to play to get forward in the game and the tribe just doesn't have it together or they have it together just against me. But no hard feelings to any of them. I consider myself pretty much the luckiest person in the world.
Still in the Running
- This episode, along with "Hot Girl with a Grudge (Part 2)", was voted the 16th best Survivor episode of all time in the "Top 25 Greatest Episodes of all time" poll by Survivor Oz in 2015.
- This episode aired on David Samson's 46th birthday.
- Coincidentally, he was voted out first this episode.
- No footage from Day 2 was shown during this episode.
- This episode marks the earliest time someone finding a Hidden Immunity Idol. Garrett Adelstein found the idol on Day 1 before his tribe arrived to the beach.
- The three people who were the third people to have a confessional for their respective tribes (Kass McQuillen for Luzon, Jefra Bland for Solana, and Tony Vlachos for Aparri) all were the highest ranking members of their tribes.
- The combined Reward/Immunity Challenge, Draggin' the Dragon, was originally conceived as a water challenge.[2]
Episode Title
- The title of the episode was said by LJ McKanas about Morgan McLeod in regards to him having chosen her as the weakest of the Solana tribe.
|Survivor: Cagayan Episodes
"Hot Girl with a Grudge (Part 1)" · "Hot Girl with a Grudge (Part 2)" · "Cops-R-Us" · "Our Time to Shine" · "Odd One Out" · "We Found Our Zombies" · "Head of the Snake" · "Mad Treasure Hunt" · "Bag of Tricks" · "Sitting in My Spy Shack" · "Chaos Is My Friend" · "Havoc to Wreak" · "Straw That Broke the Camel's Back" · "It's Do or Die"


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The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English (Topics in English Linguistics)
Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstructs the English spoken by African Americans between 1830 and 1920. By means of detailed quantitative analyses, three linguistic features (negation patterns, copula usage, and relative marker choice) are interpreted along the lines of temporal change, regional diversity, and variation across gender. Additionally, some 300 non-standard letters written by African Americans in the 19th century are compared to the main corpus in order to identify differences between speech and writing.
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A little brown box is now in place about where the gray and blue boxes of the Alabama Row retail strip are supposed to go, a reader notes. The construction trailer recently popped up inside the newish construction fencing now framing the long-empty lot along Mandell St. (across W. Alabama from the block holding the Menil Collection's parking lot, and part of its bungalow herd). The new strip would sit just west of the 2-story brick house now holding cat spa and boarding facility Fat Cat Flats.
So far Alabama Row looks like it may be bookended by Vietnamese and burger joints, with room for some non-food offerings in the middle — that's W. Alabama toward the bottom in the preliminary site plan below, with the strip's parking tucked in back:


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A Story from the HeartMature
A more science fiction version of why a girl suffers from a broken heart.
I sat there, hoping that she didn't stay home sick today or skip practice. I felt my pocket, just to make sure it was still there. I went over the plan several times in my head until...
There she was, leaving the gym locker, at 5:45. She must have wanted a less crowded, yet smaller, locker.
Her black hair was pulled back into a ponytail, her hair slightly falling out. It was almost sexy, but in a horribly unattractive way.
She had a slight glisten on her face from sweat. Her bangs stuck slightly to her forehead.
She didn't look like the kind of person who would be in a sport, with her almost black outfit, white striped shirt, and overdone eyeshadow.
I scratched my buzzed head, trying not to look obvious.
As she walked out of the building, I whipped out my cell phone and punched in the number.
"Jason?" a female voice asked.
"Yeah, she's here," I said, my deep voice opposite of her.
I walked outside, feeling like the guy sitting inside was watching me. I set my backpack and work-out-clothes-bag down and sat next to them on the wet ground.
I gently wiped my forehead, trying to get rid of the sweat.
A car drove up slowly, and it was obviously not my ride.
A young woman with brown hair (that had horribly obvious highlights in it) walked past me, inside.
I sighed, and watched for my ride. I heard the door behind me open, but didn't look. I didn't care about it who it was.
A few minutes later, the door opened again, and again I didn't care. I didn't look back, and I only listened for a little while.
"You did what? I told you not to knock her out that way!" a male voice said, slowly getting louder as I woke up. "It could've harmed her memory!"
My head throbbed.
"Sir," a female voice said, "she's coming to!"
"What?" he said. "Put her out! Hurry!"
A cold mask came onto my face. The air was cold. I felt my eyes roll into my skull as I passed out again.
I pulled my hair up into a messy bun, then washed my hands.
"Doctor?" a male voice said, as I turned off the water.
"Yes?" I replied.
"She's here, and she's ready."
I froze for an instant, then quickly finished drying my hands and hurried out.
I quickly hurried into the slightly dark room. It felt slightly too clean; but, then, what hospital doesn't?
I immediately began to set up the suction-cup-like receptors just below her collar bone.
As the machine turned on, a male nurse ran in. "Turn off the lights, please," I asked him.
The lights flipped off, and a 3-D image of her soul's heart came up.
"Oh, my God," I whispered under my breath, as I slowly walked around the clump of class-like, shattered maroon. "What happened to her?"
"She should be dead--emotionally--by now," the male nurse said.
I pressed a small button on the machine and waited as the pages printed out her story, last page first.
"Dr. Jones," he said. "You need to see this." I walked over to him and the 3-D image once more. "Look closer at each piece."
I got closer to the image--as close as I could get without messing up the machine or her soul (if her souls could possibly have more damage).
I gasped, seeing that each piece had slight cracks in it... She was trying to heal herself.
I ran to the cupboard and pulled out many sight enhancing objects--magnifying glass, glasses, telescope, etc.. I threw them onto a rolling table and rolled it closer.
I held the magnifying glass between my face and the image.
"We need to get her onto life support," I said to the male nurse, beginning to roll the table back.
I looked at him, and he at me. "Now!" I yelled and he ran from the room. The last page printed at I turned off the machine. I slowly removed the suction-cup-like receptors, and the rest of the crew ran in, then wheeled her away.
I quietly walked out of the room and into the cafeteria, the twenty- or thirty-some, undersized papers held under my arm. I grabbed a cup of coffee, pouring in a lot of sugar and cream, hoping to drown out the horrid taste of the coffee itself. I stirred it, papers tucked under my arm as I walked into my office.
Quietly, my finger clicked the mouse to my computer, giving it the command to turn off.
As I cleared of my desk, I found it obvious that now was not the time to let children tour my room. Rotting apples. Opened snacks. Week old coffee. I shoved it all into the small garbage.
Finally, a section of my desk was clean. I took a sip of coffee as I relaxed in my chair, holding the story of the girl's heart in my hand.
Tired from the day's work, I began to read...
I had never really had any real friends. Sure, I had some friends, and I'd help them through rough times, but they were never there for me when I needed them.
In my junior high years, a few of these friends turned their backs on me completely: making fun of me, putting me down. I never understood why, until years later. It was probably because I wouldn't fight back. So I understood depression, and even the feeling of being suicidal from a rather young age.
This was about like most other teenagers' lives. Beside the being suicidal at a young age.
After leaving the private school, I went on to my first public high school, which ran 9th through 12th grades. I was hoping for this to be an awesome change for the better. To be able to find people that could kind of understand me.
I was, of course, horribly mistaken. I continued to still hang out with my old friends. It wasn't that I didn't meet new people. It was just the fact that none of them were really like me.
Well, some of them were. Three in choir, two more in history, one here, another repeating there. But I could only find them in classes.
I figured out where most of them hung out during the later half of lunch, and would hang out with them for the last ten minutes.
The weirdest part for me was the fact that most of them were girls, when while going to a private school, I always got along with the guys better.
During choir, our teacher let us volunteer for a music festival, to help do random jobs. Moving chairs, tables, drums, etc.. Realizing I had nothing better to do then, I volunteered away my Saturday afternoon.
I knew a few people there, and met a few new people. Including him.
The first time we met, he was limping and faking a hunchback. I don't remember the very first thing he said to me, but I do remember him saying, "You're a slave, so you have to act like one."
I had recently found where many of the kids who were like me sat during lunch. A few days after the festival, I joined them for a few minutes, not completely ready to give up my old friends.
He was there. "Hey," he said to me. "Is your lat name T------?"
"Yeah," I replied, slightly shocked.
"Is your dad's name D--?"
"Yeah... Why?"
"My dad knows your dad," he said. "We have a picture of your dad on our fridge. My dad wanted you to tell him, 'T-- says hi.'"
"T--?" I repeated, hoping to get the name right.
I was shocked. I know a kid for three days, then find out our fathers know each other.
Slowly, I formed a crush on this kid, M-----, that I would admit to nobody. Not even myself. I told myself that I was in love with this other person, although I know now that I didn't, due to not knowing him.
Throughout the year, my depression and lack of sleep grew. I would not have admitted that I was suicidal then, but looking back, I know I was. I was hoping summer would help. It came, and I couldn't get a job. I was broke, couldn't hang out with friends, and unable to get a job. Along with the fact that I never had a boyfriend weighing heavily on my conscience.
Eventually, I got a job half-way into the summer. I was a waitress at a local restaurant. The owner was Mexican, and she served authentic Mexican foods, along with American and Italian foods.
The work there was pretty fun, and a good experience for a young girl. I worked, hoping to go to a foreign country.
One of the most awkward parts about working there was the fact that everyone considered me older than I really was. Instead of just finishing my freshman year in high school, they considered me a college student.
Only a freshman, and a waitress? This girl has some guts. And to be considered more mature, too.
I continued to work all day on Saturdays after school started.
I had finally quit choir this year, and had taken in some more useful classes: welding and woodworking.
My first day of school, I still was in the process of switching out of choir, so when I went to welding on the second day, I was fortunate enough to find M----- sitting in there. He helped me get situated and feel welcomed. Well, as welcomed as I could be, anyways.
It was my last Saturday to work, for I had already given my notice to the boss. It was just before the dinner shift, and M----- was texting me, trying to convince me to get off work so that I could go to the fairgrounds.
I dearly wanted to go, for my grandfather had just died and I was feeling extremely stressed about working earlier, too. However, I remained strong, and told him I couldn't.
The next week, I left for my grandfather's funeral. He was texting me the whole time, happy as could be. It did lighten my spirit more. I had always considered death a happy thing, since it meant God was ready for you, and you no longer had to suffer on this earth.
Anyways. It wasn't until we were finally coming home from out trip (for we had to go to another state) that he even learned who's funeral it was. When he felt bad, I laughed.
I was having issues concentrating on the life of this girl. I had already finished my coffee and was starting to get tired. Although I was ready to go home, I knew the soul of this girl rested dearly in my hands.
I continued to read her story as I got more coffee.
I was at a friend's birthday party, knowing now how M----- had truly felt about me, and knowing he wanted a kiss. I could never forget how we spent hours trying to get isolated just to do this simple act that would impact my life.
We were finally alone when it happened. There are so many details about it I could share, but it would bore anyone--except me--to tears.
After that, we started to actually date continuously, and have crazy excuses for going out. Such as a football game. Or a "game" to kiss. Such as every time we came to a red light or stop sign, we'd kiss.
It was nearly a month after we started to go out, and it was going to be Thanksgiving. And he wanted me to go to meet his extended family (and closer family, too) that lived in South Dakota.
I knew my parents would never agree. So when they actually did agree, I naturally was shocked.
We rode together in the back of their family's vehicle, his mom driving the whole way down. On the way back, his sister sat in the passenger's seat. (She rode with a family friend on the way down.)
While down there, and after getting back, I would slowly get more serious with him, probably letting him go a little to far each time. After each time I got home, I'd regret letting us go as far as we did. But each time we got together, I'd let him go at least as far as the last time.
I would have never gone that far with any boy I would date. But he was special. He knew me as well as my brother did (and my brother knows me the best in the world); he became my best friend.
Occasionally at night, when we would text, we would talk about marriage, and what we would do if we ever got married. There were two definite places we had planned on going to. Tibet and Bohemia. We had a general life planned out. For once, I had a future. And it was one I looked forward to.
Christmas break, he left to see his father and little brother in South Dakota. Eleven and a half long days, he was gone. I never knew love hurt physically, too, until then.
He returned, and he started robotics as I started the musical. His schedule was more filled than mine, at the moment, so we would always work around both.
At this time, his sister and I would talk online. She decided to start a club, "The Lonely Girlfriends" Club, due to her also having a boyfriend that she rarely saw.
One week, I could tell M----- was not feeling the same. Every day, I'd ask him, "What's wrong?" and he would generally say something that I knew meant, "I don't want to talk about it."
Thursday night, it finally came clean that he wanted to break up. Devastated, I got online and typed an email to a friend that I had talked to earlier that night.
Without reading the email, he got online and started to talk to me.
That weekend was long. For eighteen hours, I tried to turn his friends against him. The rest, I spent trying to fix it and make them understand that they should get along with him (because he needs friends too). I also tried to understand my lack of appetite, lack of sleep, and try to prevent myself from committing self-harm and suicide.
I went insane for the next few weeks. I had to force myself to eat, for otherwise I wouldn't have. I started to take melatonin, for otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep. My enjoyment in all things was lost, even ones that had previously kept me from suicide.
Everything I saw, everything I did, reminded me of him. I couldn't do homework without remembering his classes compared to mine. I couldn't draw without remembering him putting down the class Studio Art (which was one of the few slightly mean things he did). I would watch a movie, and want to vomit what little I had eaten.
I had also learned of him wanting to cheat on me while we were going out. And she was a friend of mine, and she wouldn't let him. And although nothing really happened, it still crushed me to know that he lied to me and didn't really love me, and that someone else had taken my place without me knowing it.
All I could do was go back to what I was good at and could do: act. The musical became my life, and I let nobody get in the way with what I knew. I would get mad at anything I could, and I would long to take out my anger. I refuse dot let anyone act like they knew more about plays than I.
And my character was who I wished I could be like: 20-21 years old, sassy, a bitch, and going to get any guy she wanted, along with not being afraid of being too honest.
Towards the last two weeks of the musical, I continued to talk to my friend, T----, online. We would share issues and try to help each other solve them. I had then told him of my wanting to no longer be M---, but a different person who was always happy, and not having some boy haunting my every waking moment.
It took him a while, but he finally convinced me not to do it.
However, I later realized that I secretly did try to have that second personality without even myself knowing it.
Finally, the musical ended and I had started track. The running would give me time to think, while the pain it would give me relieved my soul.
I'd talk to those who were similar to me and were friends, and they'd help me with support. However, there was always one fact haunting me: he would never talk about me to anybody; and if they would mention me, he'd change the subject.
I know now that I should've gotten help, for wanting to harm myself, much less kill myself, was not something that should happen.
I enjoyed the running, but it was not doing as I had expected. The pain was still there. The boy still haunted me. During competitions, I'd still think about him, and there was nothing I could do to stop it, no matter how hard I tried to.
It stopped there. I rolled my eyes as I tossed the papers onto my keyboard.
I walked to the room in which we put the girl in. I looked at her, then laughed.
I pushed the red emergency button on the wall and everyone ran in.
"Take her home," I said. "She's only an over-dramatic teen."
"But, her heart..." the male nurse said.
"It'll recover," I said, leaving the room.