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SANFORD, Fla. — It's over.
But it's not really done.
The not-guilty verdict that sounded so final, so utterly unequivocal, in Courtroom 5D of the Seminole County courthouse Saturday night has quickly given way to a kaleidoscope of demonstrations across the country, debate about wrongful-death lawsuits and website-crashing demands for the filing of federal civil-rights charges.
On Saturday night, George Zimmerman was able to shed the GPS that had monitored his movements before he was acquitted of manslaughter and second-degree murder charges in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin. But the drama over the case persists, and it promises to go on and on.
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Such is the cramped and rolling nature of this spectacle that Attorney General Eric Holder is to speak Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., just a short drive from the courthouse where the verdict was read. He will address the annual convention of an organization — the NAACP — whose leader, Benjamin Jealous, launched a petition late Saturday asking that Holder's Justice Department file civil-rights charges against Zimmerman. The petition received such a massive response that it crashed the NAACP website.
Within hours of the petition's debut, the Justice Department released a statement saying its civil-rights division still had an open investigation into Martin's death, dating back more than a year.
Working with the FBI, federal prosecutors are reviewing evidence gathered during a Justice Department investigation — and revealed during Zimmerman's trial — to see whether the case fits within "the limited federal criminal civil-rights statutes," the statement said.
The White House issued a statement in which President Obama characterized Martin's death as "a tragedy … not just for his family … but for America." The president acknowledged that "passions may be running ever higher" in the wake of the verdict but urged citizens to remember a jury had spoken.
"I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son," Obama said. "And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we're doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities … if we're doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis … that's the way to honor Trayvon Martin."
Zimmerman, who has a white father and a Peruvian mother, claimed self-defense in the death of Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager he saw walking through his modest gated community in February 2012. Zimmerman said he shot Martin after the teenager sucker-punched him and started pounding his head into a concrete walkway. Zimmerman had a concealed-carry permit for the handgun he used that night.
"I think it was racial profiling," Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in an interview Sunday shortly after arriving in the Orlando area.
Arnwine said she had met with Justice Department officials before Zimmerman's arrest in hopes of persuading them to file civil-rights charges and that she would renew the push now that Zimmerman has been acquitted by a six-woman jury with no African-American members.
However, doubts have been expressed by at least one Martin family attorney about the viability of a civil-rights charge.
In an interview with The Washington Post during the trial, Daryl Parks said: "There was not enough evidence to say that [Zimmerman] made this decision based on race … On the facts of this case, you can't say it was based on race."
In closing arguments and in a news conference after the verdict, prosecutors insisted the trial was not about race. Arnwine criticized prosecutors, including State Attorney Angela Corey, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Scott, R, for taking that approach.
"What did she think it was about?" Arnwine said. "I do think that the case did show that the prosecutors did not have a good strategy for dealing with the racial element of the case," she said.
Florida defense lawyer Diana Tennis argued in an interview that "if anybody has a civil-rights action, it's George Zimmerman."
Tennis said "black leaders and black lawyers got him maliciously prosecuted" by pressuring local politicians during the month and a half between the shooting and Zimmerman's arrest.
Zimmerman, she said, is "the one who might end up in federal court asking a lot of embarrassing questions to a lot of shamefaced politicians."
Zimmerman's attorneys are poised for the possibility of civil lawsuits against their client. Defense attorney Mark O'Mara has said he will seek immunity for Zimmerman if civil suits "spawned by this fiasco" are filed.
Tennis said the defense pursued a pretrial strategy that seemed designed, at least in part, to avoid any risk of not being able to claim immunity in future civil lawsuits.
The defense opted against asking the judge to dismiss the case based on Florida's "stand your ground" law, which in many cases justifies the use of deadly force, without the obligation to flee, when a person feels threatened.
If the judge had refused a dismissal on those grounds, Zimmerman might not have been able to claim immunity later, Tennis said.
"They took a gambit," she said. "I think they were looking forward."
She noted that even though Zimmerman is not wealthy, he may be able to strike lucrative book deals that would generate income that could potentially be at risk in a civil suit.
The legal standard in a civil lawsuit is lower — a preponderance of the evidence, rather than proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Zimmerman chose not to testify in his criminal trial, but it is likely he would have to testify and be deposed in a civil lawsuit, said Daniel Petrocelli, who led the legal team that won $33.5 million in damages in a civil wrongful-death trial against O.J. Simpson after his murder acquittal.
"In that sense, civil trials are a more pure search for the truth," Petrocelli said in an interview Sunday. He said his deposition of Simpson lasted 14 days and that he received suggestions from around the world — all of which he ignored — about what questions to ask.
Arnwine said she has met frequently with Martin's family since they began trying to persuade journalists and public officials to press for an arrest of Zimmerman.
She said she expects them to explore "all their options," including possible civil litigation and a push for a civil-rights charge now that Zimmerman has been acquitted.
The verdict, she said, is likely to spur more people to attend events related to next month's 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. And she knows what many of them will be wearing: hoodies.


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Weapons in The Ballad of Gay Tony
The Ballad of Gay Tony introduces seven new, military-grade, weapons, and also introduces the parachute to the GTA IV era. The weapons from Grand Theft Auto IV are still available and the Grenade Launcher from The Lost and Damned returns. Like The Lost and Damned, the new weapons can only either be purchased from Armando Torres's Cavalcade or spawned at Luis' apartment after completing a certain number of Drug Wars. Unlike TLAD however, the player can also acquire the new weapons by inputting the "Advanced Weapons Set" cheat code.
- 1 Thrown weapons
- 2 Handguns
- 3 Submachine guns
- 4 Shotguns
- 5 Machine guns
- 6 Sniper rifles
- 7 Miscellanous
- 8 See also
Thrown weapons
Sticky Bombs (Satchel charges)
- Cost: $800 per unit
- Carrying Capacity: 25 units
Explosives used to tag vehicles or objects for remote detonation. Unlike the Satchel Charges in GTA: San Andreas, these bombs don't stick to people. An explosive charge detonates when the player press down on the d-pad or shoots the charge. After completing 40 Drug Wars, some are sent to Luis' apartment. They pack the explosive punch of a Pipe Bomb, but with the ability to stick to vehicles, buildings, etc.
Pistol .44 (AMP Automag Model 180)
- Cost: $640 + $50 for each additional magazine
- Magazine Size: 8 rounds
- Carrying Capacity: 1,500 rounds
A new type of handgun. It is a high velocity handgun for quick and accurate kills. Using the .44 Magnum cartridge, it is more powerful than the Combat Pistol, however the Pistol .44 has the lowest rate of fire of any handgun, and takes longer to reload at an empty cartridge. After 10 drug wars, one is sent to Luis' apartment.
Submachine guns
Gold SMG (Uzi)
- Cost: $5,000 + $60 for each additional magazine
- Magazine Size: 30 rounds
- Carrying Capacity: 1,200 rounds
A Gold-plated SMG. Yusuf Amir is often seen carrying this weapon. It is given to the player as a reward alongside Yusuf's Super Drop Diamond as a reward for completing all his missions. It can also be purchased from Armando after unlocking it. The weapon has a high rate of fire and superior stopping power compared to other SMGs, however it is less accurate due to the weapon being fired from the hip and also only has a 30-round magazine, compared to the Micro Uzi having a 50-round magazine. After completing 50 drug wars, one is sent to Luis' apartment.
Silenced Assault SMG (FN P90)
- Cost: $6,725 + $150 for each additional magazine
- Magazine Size: 50 rounds
- Carrying Capacity: 1,200 rounds
A light, accurate, silenced and compact sub-machine gun. The weapon's 50-round magazine and accuracy makes it a good ground combat weapon, however, unlike other SMGs, the Assault SMG cannot be used as a drive by weapon. NOOSE and FIB officers carry the Assault SMG as an alternative to the SMG in this episode that most officers use in GTA IV and The Lost and Damned.
Even though this weapon is fitted with a suppressor, any NPCs notice the player when it is fired.
There is a way to use the Assault SMG in a drive-by, if any other SMG is being used "i.e: Micro-SMG or SMG), and the "Advanced" weapons cheat code is inputted, Luis can fire the Assault SMG out of the window. He carries it an an unusual way, pointing it upwards from the aiming reticule, and it fires at about 4 rounds per second.
Automatic/Explosive Shotgun (AA-12)
- Cost: $1,250 + $80 for 20 standard shells or $160 for 20 explosive shells
- Magazine Size: 20 shells
- Carrying Capacity: 250 shells (standard); 600 shells (explosive)
A low recoil automatic shotgun with semi-auto fire to take down multiple targets easily. It uses either standard shotgun shells, or special explosive rounds (based on the Frag-12 explosive shell) which destroy almost any target. Standard shells are red whereas explosive rounds have a green casing. The Tactical Response Unit of NOOSE and the FIB use the Auto Shotgun with standard shells in place of the Pump Shotgun. After completing 30 drug wars, one with explosive cartridges is sent to Luis' apartment.
NOTE: If the player switches from the Automatic Shotgun to either the Pump Shotgun or Combat Shotgun, the player loses any extra shells beyond 80. Also, if the player switches between explosive rounds and standard shells, the player loses all units of the previous ammunition type.
Machine guns
Advanced MG (M249 SAW)
- Cost: $7,550 + $400 for each additional ammo belt
- Magazine Size: 200 round belt
- Carrying Capacity: 600 rounds
A powerful weapon that fires 900 rounds per minute, taking enemies down fast. The Advanced MG is placed in the Assault Rifle slot since it uses 5.56x45mm NATO rounds. The weapon's magazine capacity and rate of fire makes it perfect for engaging multiple enemies, however it is less accurate due to the weapon being fired from the hip. LCPD and NOOSE officers in The Ballad of Gay Tony use the Advanced MG from helicopters instead of the Carbine Rifle. After completing 20 drug wars, one is sent to Luis' apartment.
NOTE: If you want to fire the more accuratly, take standing cover. This will force Luis to aim down the sights.
Sniper rifles
Advanced Sniper (DSR-1)
- Cost: $4,750 + $200 for each additional magazine
- Magazine Size: 10 rounds
- Carrying Capacity: 50 rounds
Greatly increased range, rate of fire and sniper zoom make this the ideal long range weapon. Like the Automatic Shotgun, it can use either standard or explosive rounds, however explosive rounds are only available in multiplayer or single player with a cheat code. The explosive rounds have the explosive capability of a grenade in single player, however the explosive rounds are only as effective as Explosive Shotgun shells in multiplayer.
- Cost: $100
The Parachute returns in The Ballad of Gay Tony. Its steering system is the same as in San Andreas. It is first used in High Dive, and in parachute checkpoints. The parachute is automatically, infinitly available in multiplayer.
See also
|Characters | Luis Lopez | Gay Tony | Ray Bulgarin | Gracie Ancelotti | Category
|Features | Radio content | Safehouses | Trailers | Vehicles | Weapons
|Achievements/Trophies | Cheats | Missions | Nightclubs (Maisonette 9 and Hercules) | Seagulls
|Plot Related
|Diamonds | Heroin | Impossible Trinity (Museum Piece, Collector's Item, and Not So Fast)


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NIIGATA, Japan, April 13. KOSUKE Kagino continues to make a name for himself at the Japan Open, winning two more events on Saturday and going 2-for-2 in setting individual medley national/Asian records.
The 18-year-old started Saturday's session with a 3:45.42 in the 400 free, improving on his best of the year, which was a 3:46.89 from just last month in Australia. Only China's Sun Yang has been faster in 2013 so far, with a 3:42.93 to his credit. Hagino is inching closer to Takeshi Matsuda's Japanese record of 3:44.99, which Matsuda set in 2009. Finishing well back in second in today's race was Kohei Yamamoto with a 3:50.37, and Fumiya Hidaka was third with a 3:51.22.
Hagino notched a fifth event on his world championship schedule when he posted a 1:55.74 in the 200 IM to conclude today's finals session. The time breaks Ken Takakuwa's Japanese and Asian record of 1:57.24 from the 2009 nationals, and puts Hagino well ahead of the rest of the world so far in 2013, with China's Wang Shun's 1:57.50 formerly the world's best time. Today's swim was a major improvement on Hagino's best of the season, which had been a 1:57.68 from March's trip to Australia. Hagino now has a place in the all-time top 10 performers in the 200 IM, sitting sixth.
With the swim, Hagino creeps closer to the echelon of the event that had previously only belonged to Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. He is just nine tenths of a second outside of being the only person not named Lochte or Phelps in the top 10 performances in the event in history. Phelps' 1:54.84 from the 2012 Olympic Trials stands as the 10th-fastest performance in history.
Daiya Seto, also an improving 18-year-old, finished second in today's race with a 1:58.66, moving into third in the 2013 world rankings. Takakuwa missed out on world championship selection with a third-place 1:58.82.
Not to be outdone by Hagino, Aya Terakawa set a national record of her own, winning the 50 backstroke with a 27.51, clearing her own Japanese record by two tenths. Terakawa now will be considered a medal favorite in both sprint backstrokes, and will look to improve on her silver medal in the 50 back from the 2011 world championships. Emi Moronuki kept 34-year-old Noriko Inada from making the world championship team by out-touching the three-time Olympian 28.71 to 28.78.
With Japan preselecting its Olympic medalists from 2012 for the world championships roster, Takeshi Matsuda did not need to finish in the top two in the men's 200 fly today, and that's exactly what he did, placing third behind Yuki Kobori's 1:55.51 and Seto's 1:55.59. With Matsuda already going to Barcelona in the 200 fly, Seto finds himself shut out of the roster for a second event today.
Natsumi Hoshi, also preselected for worlds based on her bronze-medal performance from the Olympics in the 200 fly, won that event with a 2:06.12. In London, she took bronze with a 2:05.48 and holds the national record with a 2:04.69. Today's swim puts her second in the world behind reigning Olympic champion Jiao Liuyang's 2:05.87 and ahead of Olympic silver medalist Mireia Belmonte Garcia's 2:06.70. Kona Fujita was second with a 2:09.73, while Kei Hoshiba took third with a 2:10.44.
Junya Koga, the 2009 world champion in the 100 backstroke who missed out on Olympic team selection in 2012, won the 50 back today with a 25.12 over Ryosuke Irie, who was second with a 25.24. Junya Hasegawa placed third with a 25.52.
Asami Chida won the women's 800 free with an 8:38.31, while Maiko Fujino placed second with an 8:43.30 and Ayano Koguchi was third with an 8:44.72.
Haruka Ueda used a strong final 50 meters to overtake Miki Uchida in the women's 100 free, winning with a 55.29 to Uchida's 55.43. Ueda holds the national record with a 54.00 from 2012. Misaki Yamaguchi placed third with a 55.51.
Kanako Watanabe won the women's 200 IM with a 2:12.61, ahead of Miho Teramura's 2:12.89 and Miyu Ohtsuka's 2:13.16.


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Anyone that owns a shop or has owned a shop have some advice for me??
Anyone that owns a shop or has owned a shop have some advice for me??
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." - unknown
2000 Montague CX, I do not recommend it, but still ride it.
Strida 3, I recommend it for rides < 10mi wo steep hills.
2006 Rowbike 720 Sport, I recommend it as an exercise bike.
1996 Birdy, Recommend.
Wieleder CARiBIKE (folding), decent frame.
My experience was that its easy to make friends and hard to make money. Please give some more info on your plans. What kind of riders are you trying to cater to.
A wild man once explained to me how bicycles came from sailboats.
Work at one first. UNtil you have seen things from the inside you have almost no idea what is involved.
Also 80-90% of all small business failures are due to undercapitalization. For a bike shop that would very likely mean simply not enough money to have the merchandise you need in stock.
Wanna make money? Don't run a bike shop.
Like bikes? Run a bike shop.
Owning a bike shop in my town is called the Huffy Repair Center! About 90% of the bikes brought in for repairs are department store bikes. You should take a trip to your local Walmart and see the type of bikes you'll be repairing. The LBS owner told me he always gets a kick when someone brings a beat up Magna that's been almost totally destroyed and expects him to bring it back to life.


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aikido and competition
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Re: aikido and competition
Ron , I stumbled on this thread in a google adventure.
I guess the aikido cyber world has a centre too. It appears to be aikiweb (in the context that in the cyber world this place seems to be central, thats all). I have a different approach now. I need not explain my approach, but lets say I have learned from all these ppl here (maybe you are one of them) I can`t remember but more importantly I don`t care.
I like to view the verbal exchange, I like to see the knowledge of the MASTERS here. There is a lot of valid discussion here but, personally I don`t like a lot of the opinions and lectures that have no substance. I have been belittled by ppl for bad grammar (not pertaining to aikido at all), I have seen lack of respect toward posters and other stuff I don`t care to type.
Basically I will Join this community and now take it with a grain of salt, I know who is worthy of respect and I know who is trying to make a name for themselves through blatant assertiveness! (check the grammar and bag me at your will).
Still I say good luck.
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To "play over the changes" first forget playing over "chords". The changes that are happening are KEY changes, not CHORD changes.
Arpeggio's are one thing, but chord functions and how to treat them are where a lot of the "jazz sound" comes from. Sure you have the chords in front of you and you can follow them with arps or scales, that's the "one-dimensional" approach. It's very usable, but after one or two passes, it'll be obvious you don't have too much more to say than you already did.
Things turn into jazz when you understand a few other dimensions...chord functions, chord substitutes, chromatics, swinging the beat, etc...
To play over changes you first need to pick out Keys, what chords belong to what Key. And, when the Key changes, what's the chords function is in the Key. You are not necessarily playing over "chord changes" but "Key changes" and the functions of the chords within the Key.
If you stayed in one Key throughout a whole song...there's no "changes" going on. You would be in one Key, all the chords relate to the each other Diatonically using the same notes. The only way to get a "jazz sound" here is to look at chord functions...but again, no REAL Changes going on.
But, as soon as that Key changes...if you remain in the old Key it usually isn't going to sound very good, so you HAVE TO change Keys. And you need to look at the chords of this new Key and their functions.
Now there are VERY COMMON progressions found in almost every tune (especially Jazz standards) that you find all over the place...the ii-V-I, the vi-ii-V-I, I-IV-V, iii-ii-I.
Funny things is once you get into it, with functions and subs, you'll see they all do pretty much the same thing...they find a smooth transition BACK TO THE I CHORD. And a lot of times they can be played over using the same concepts.
Most of the time they "cycle back through the Circle of 5th's". They use "cadences", (if you're not aware of both the Circle and cadences, I will show them but, get on the Internet and look up more info on them, they explain a lot) Look at the Circle of 5th's...
Pick the Key of C Major (right at the top)...
If you want to play a ii-V-I move three steps clock wise from C on the circle...you land on D, make that a minor chord, so Dm...from D move one step counter clockwise to G, make that a major chord, so G...now move one step counter clockwise from G, moving "Back to" C.
So a ii-V-I in the Key of C Major is, Dm-G-C.
So a ii-V-I uses three chord in succession back pedaling up the Circle of 5th's "back to" the I chord.
Ok, now look at the vi-ii-V-I progression...we'll stay in C...and start with C on the Circle...
Move up 4 notes clock wise from C...to A, make that a minor chord, Am. Now move back one from A to D and make it a Dm, now move back one more the G and make it a G Major chord, and then one more to C and make it C Major.
Now you have Am-Dm-G-C, which is a vi-ii-V-I in C Major.
Using the Circle you can start ANY WHERE, work your way back through the Circle making each group of 3 notes a ii-V-I and you'll cycle through "CHANGES".
One thing that makes all of this even stronger is, make the ii chord a m7, the V chord 7 (dominant chord) and the I chord a maj7...so in the Key of C you'd have Dm7-G7-Cmaj7. This will help you state the Key stronger.
Check this, starting to the left of C...on the F note...
||: Fm | Bb7 | Ebmaj7 | Ebmaj7 | Abm7 | Db7 | F#maj7 | F#maj7 | Bm7 | E7 | Amaj7 | Amaj7 | Dm7 | G7 | Cmaj7| Cmaj7 :||
Notice how every three chords (every four bars) the Key changes, and each little ii-V-I keep moving itself back to the Imaj7 of it own Key. There are MANY ways to connect these, and they all sound pretty much right, and usable.
I'm not sure if that example is a real jazz tune on not, but I know for certain it was/is a way people practiced "PLAYING THROUGH CHANGES"...again, not CHORD changes, but KEY changes.
Now try this with the example above, when you finish all the way through to the last Cmaj7, jump to the note just left of the F you would originally have repeated...and then continue through more ii-V-I's...so after Cmaj7 go to Bbm7-Eb7-Abmaj7...then keep moving back through the Circle in the same manner...like so...
||: Fm | Bb7 | Ebmaj7 | Ebmaj7 | Abm7 | Db7 | F#maj7 | F#maj7 | Bm7 | E7 | Amaj7 | Amaj7 | Dm7 | G7 | Cmaj7| Cmaj7 | Bbm7 | Eb7 | Abmaj7 | Abmaj7 | Dbm7 | F#7 | Bmaj7 | Bmaj7 | Em7 | A7 | Dmaj7 | Dmaj7 :||
You can tie this of at the end with Dm7-G7-Cmaj7 like so...
|| Fm | Bb7 | Ebmaj7 | Ebmaj7 | Abm7 | Db7 | F#maj7 | F#maj7 | Bm7 | E7 | Amaj7 | Amaj7 | Dm7 | G7 | Cmaj7| Cmaj7 | Bbm7 | Eb7 | Abmaj7 | Abmaj7 | Dbm7 | F#7 | Bmaj7 | Bmaj7 | Em7 | A7 | Dmaj7 | Dmaj7 | Dm7 | G7 | Cmaj7 | Cmaj7 ||
NOW, try it all starting anywhere and using a vi-ii-V-I progression, still just back pedaling through the Circle of 5th.
A I-IV-V is looking at the Tonic, let's stick with C as I, the IV is F which is one note to the left of C on the Circle and then the V, G, is one note to the right of C on the Circle...
So, guitar wise, and pitch wise, when playing ||: C | F | G | C :|| (pretty much King Of the Road)...it seems like you move UP from C to F, then UP from F to G, then DOWN from G to C...but "Circle wise" you are move DOWN from C to F, then DOWN from F to G, then DOWN from G to C...DOWN also means BACK, so you are again "back pedaling" or back cycling through the Circle of 5th's.
Now here's you task as you try to tackle "PLAY THE CHANGES"...
Go back to the ii-V-I examples and figure out what Major Key each of the ii-V-I's is from, start by playing the Major scale of the Key over it's chords, then when you next set of chords comes up, CHANGE KEYS to the new Major scale.
This is the BEGINNING of PLAY OVER THE CHANGES.
The next step to having it sound like Jazz is to learn how to treat the "function" of each chord in the Key. This will allow you progressively ENHANCE the sound of everything MOVING BACK TO THE I CHORD.
After that there are plenty of others things that can help you play over the changes even more deeply...but these are the basic fundamentals to get down first...recognition and understandi


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What to Eat at Villa Pacri, Serving Fabio Trabocchi and Giuliano Matarese's Menu Tomorrrow
The team behind Bagatelle in the meatpacking and Pacri in St. Barts fully open their triple-threat venue.
After opening the basement lounge Tzigan and the casual Italian spot La Gazzetta, the French-Italian team behind Bagatelle in the meatpacking and Pacri in St. Barts are finally set to open the last element of their triple-threat venue, Villa Pacri, tomorrow.
With original chefs Michael Berardino and Daniele Sicuranza gone from the project, consulting chef Fabio Trabocchi is now working with Giuliano Matarese, last seen
working for the Malta brothers, and Todd Macdonald, an alumni of Bouley and Cru. Here, at long last, is their menu.
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Concentrations of cadmium, lead, and zinc in fish from mining-influenced waters of northeastern Oklahoma: Sampling of blood, carcass, and liver for aquatic biomonitoring
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AbstractThe Tri-States Mining District (TSMD) of Missouri (MO), Kansas (KS), and Oklahoma (OK), USA, was mined for lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) for more than a century. Mining ceased more than 30 years ago, but wastes remain widely distributed in the region, and there is evidence of surface- and groundwater contamination in the Spring River-Neosho River (SR-NR) system of northeastern OK. In October 2001, we collected a total of 74 fish from six locations in the SR-NR system that included common carp (Cyprinus carpio), channel- and flathead catfish (Ictalurus punctatus and Pylodictis olivaris), largemouth- and spotted bass (Micropterus salmoides and Micropterus punctulatus), and white crappie (Pomoxis annularis). We obtained additional fish from locations in MO that included three reference sites and one site that served as a "positive control" (heavily contaminated by Pb). Blood, carcass (headed, eviscerated, and scaled) and liver (carp only) samples were analyzed for cadmium (Cd), Pb, and Zn. Our objectives were to assess the degree to which fish from the OK portion of the SR-NR system are contaminated by these elements and to evaluate fish blood sampling for biomonitoring. Concentrations of Cd and Pb in carp and catfish from OK sites were elevated and Pb concentrations of some approached those of the highly contaminated site in MO, but concentrations in bass and crappie were relatively low. For Zn, correlations were weak among concentrations in the three tissues and none of the samples appeared to reflect site contamination. Variability was high for Cd in all three tissues of carp; differences between sites were statistically significant (p < 0.05) only for blood even though mean liver concentrations were at least 100-fold greater than those in blood. Blood concentrations of Cd and Pb were positively correlated (r 2 = 0.49 to 0.84) with the concentration of the same element in carp and catfish carcasses or in carp livers, and the corresponding multiple regression models were highly significant (p < 0.001). Our data indicate that potentially nonlethal blood sampling can be useful for monitoring of selected metals in carp, catfish, and perhaps other fishes. ?? 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
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Henry Robinson ... just can't be a Bieber believer.
AS 14-year-old boys, my peers and I find ''Bieber fever'' distressing - and bemusing.
This can, in part, be put down to jealousy - considering that the Canadian teen singer Justin Bieber has a contingent of 4000 girls chasing him and none of us knows why.
You might attribute it to his singing but this seems doubtful considering his hit song Baby revolves around the lyrics ''And I was like / Baby, baby, baby, ooh / Like baby, baby, baby, noo," while he woos girls who look six years his senior with a voice several years his junior.
I recently read the Facebook post of a girl who insisted "her" Justin was amazing and dashing but she had never even listened to his songs.
So instead we have have to put Justin Affliction down to his unthreatening, delicately tactical appearance and - god forbid - charisma. This is a more realistic view but suggests an incredibly depressing superficiality for those 4000 girls.
Is an unthreatening appearance reason to instil a nigh-feral fanaticism in the mob mentality, to the extent of delivering fractures to loyal Beliebers? The riot squad being requisitioned to quell a "Twitterdom" of hormone-enhanced girls would, pre-Bieber, have been amusing.
Now we are witness to a fanaticism that snuffs commonsense and overrides etiquette; a fanaticism that storms the stage on the advice of rumour. A fanaticism with talons that rakes police faces.
However, this fanaticism suggests a complete lack of cynicism. Justin can hardly be expected to be independent. A plethora of marketers and managers would be directing and shaping his image. Each public appearance would be planned.
I talked to a Belieber who chastised me for my lack of knowledge as to the nature of the poor child, claiming he was in fact a decent guy who cares about other people. However, her exposure to the celebrity was limited to interviews, public appearances and music videos in which he carries girls off their feet. A healthy dose of cynicism, or even commonsense, would hardly call such sources reliable. Yet Bieber Fever moves in insidious ways and the indoctrination brooks no argument from sensibility.
In a way though, I feel sorry for the kid, driven relentlessly by his managers or his mum, who posted him on YouTube in the first place. Not to mention there is a limited time before he is ravaged by hormones. At least the exalted B has left the sane girls for us ordinary mortals.


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Rwanda : Wrap sweater, the popular item for Rwandan ladies
A wrap sweater found in a clothing store at Giporoso-Remera
The simple wrap sweater is rocking Kigali streets. It has become a popular trend of many ladies young and old, wearing them in different styles and colours.
A wrap sweater is really on trend and so versatile. It can be tied or wrapped in many ways to change the look and style because of its numerous designs.
Wrap sweaters are an accessory that can go with pants, jeans, dresses and skirts. This is a very versatile accessory that can be worn on different occasions.
Apart from being sweaters, some people have made it a fashion item by wearing them like fashion accessories even when it's not cold. This is because they are light and can be comfortable even on a hot day since most of them are cotton.
In Kigali, wrap sweaters are popularly worn with long skirts, jean trousers and short skirts or dresses by some people especially youth.
However, wearing a wrap sweater can be overwhelming if you do not know how to wear the entire yardage without looking sloppy or untidy. To get the neat look, attention is needed when trying to get the best out of the sweater.
How to wear a wrap sweater
A wrap sweater is great when worn with jeans or dress pants because of the overall long line it creates. One of the best features of the wrap sweater is the fact that it clinches to the waist. Because of this, it can be a slimming look for most body types.
When you are using a wrap sweater as an accessory, you will want it to match the rest of your outfit. Choose a pair of jeans or a different pair of pants that will match with your sweater.
Choose what to pair with a wrap sweater according to where you are going. If you are just lounging around the house, matching colours is not the matter but if you are heading out to town, make sure the wrap sweater matches with the outfit.
Make sure that your sweater goes with both the top and your jeans. Occasionally, your sweater will clash with one of the two items but for the most part, these kinds of sweaters will go with jeans and a lot of different tops.
Accessorize the wrap sweater with like bracelets, necklaces or earrings but make sure the accessories also match with the sweater, so none of the colors will clash with the rest of the outfit.
Put the wrap sweater on like you would do with a cardigan/jacket. The sweater should be open when you put it on and sashes should be hanging by your side. Pull one of the sides over so it is overlapping the other side of the sweater.
Do not wear a wrap sweater with long sleeved tops or blouses. Wear it over sleeveless tops or short sleeved ones since its light.
Wrap sweaters can be tied in many different ways. If you want to go with a different look, you can tie the sashes on your side. Pull the sashes through the loops on the sweater until you have them on your side.
It's important to tie the sweater on the side that you normally do not carry your handbag. This will frame the knot as sort of an accessory.
However, in this cold weather, it's advisable to carry other types of portable sweaters to keep you warm especially during rainy moments because wrap sweaters are light.
To those who wish to buy fashionable wrap sweaters, they are available in almost every clothing store in Kigali town and markets like Nyabugogo among others.
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PULLMAN, Wash. -The Washington State offense tallied eight touchdowns during its scrimmage at Martin Stadium in front of a couple hundred fans who stayed after to meet the team and get autographs.
Senior quarterback Jeff Tuel finished 14-of-19 for 183 yards and four touchdowns while redshirt sophomore Connor Halliday went 12-of-20 for 223 yards and three scores. Redshirt junior David Gilbertson also threw a touchdown pass.
A number of receivers recorded a catch with junior Marquess Wilson made four receptions for 65 yards and two touchdowns while freshman Gabe Marks caught three balls highlighted by a 70-yard score from Halliday. Redshirt sophomores Bobby Ratliff and Rickey Galvin each posted a scrimmage-high five receptions and a touchdown. Sophomore Isiah Myers had two touchdowns catches.
Halliday opened the day with a 30-yard strike to Myers for the first score after starting the drive from midfield. Tuel led the Cougars to their next two scores, finding Bobby Ratliff on the sideline from 18 yards out and connecting with Wilson for a 34-yard touchdown. The highlight of the game came when head coach Mike Leach moved the ball back to the offense's own 30 and Halliday found Marks behind the defense and went in for a 70-yard score. Following Halliday's three-yard touchdown toss to Wilson and Gilberton's five-yard touchdown pass to redshirt freshman Max Hersey, Tuel closed the day by connecting with Galvin and Myers for five-yard- and 10 yard-scores, respectively.
The defense recovered from a rough first couple series to make a couple stops later in the day. The finished the scrimmage with four sacks and an interception from Anthony Carpenter who picked off a Tuel pass in traffic and returned it 36 yards for a score. Eric Oertel, Steven Hoffart, Cyrus Coen and Logan Mayes each recorded sacks.
The Cougars have Sunday off and will resume fall camp Monday at 2:45 on Rogers Field.
SCRIMMAGE STATS Scoring Isiah Myers from Connor Halliday - 30 yards Bobby Ratliff from Jeff Tuel - 18 yards Marquess Wilson from Jeff Tuel - 34 yards Gabe Marks from Connor Halliday - 70 yards Marquess Wilson from Connor Halliday - 3 yards Max Hersey from David Gilbertson - 5 yards Anthony Carpenter 36-yard interception return Rickey Galvin from Jeff Tuel - 5 yards Isiah Myers from Jeff Tuel- 10 yards
Rushing Marcus Mason 4-7 Theron West 5-13 Carl Winston 3-5 Leon Brooks4-3
Passing Jeff Tuel 14-19-183, 4 TD, 1 INT Connor Halliday 12-20-223, 3 TD David Gilbertson5-11-59, TD
Receiving Gabe Marks 3-74, TD Marquess Wilson 4-65, 2 TD Brett Bartolone 2-24 Isiah Myers 3-55, 2 TD Bobby Ratliff 5-76, TD Rickey Galvin 5-60, TD Theron West 1-38 Bennett Bontemps 2-16 Marcus Mason 1- (-2) Mansel Simmons 3-42 Brett McDonald 1-12 Max Hersey1-5, TD
Field Goals Andrew Furney 37-no good, 47-no good, 47-good Michael Bowlin50-good, 37-no good, 37-good
Interceptions Anthony Carpenter(Tuel) 36-yard touchdown return
Sacks Eric Oertel, Steven Hoffart, Cyrus Coen, Logan Mayes


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Juicy Stories Sell Ideas
Published: September 6, 2010
Stories are hot. And why not? We all know how to tell a story. Stories are a lot more interesting than most other ways of sharing information. And they work. Stories are a great way to introduce a concept in an imaginative way or sell an idea to your team or management.
Storytelling fits into the design process in many places. You probably know that collecting stories is key to user research and ensuring your UX designs tell a clear story makes the resulting user experiences better. But in this column, we'll focus on that big moment when you have something to share and want everyone on your team to pay attention.
Here's an example of a case where a story is worth a thousand arguments. All of us have likely been there:
You've been testing some concepts for a new product design. Your team is excited about the ideas. Unfortunately, your users aren't. When you take this disappointing news to your team, your report is met with skepticism. They might say, "You must have found the only people on the planet who don't love this idea." Or perhaps, "Your tasks must have been wrong." Or, "You've just misunderstood them." You know the design concepts won't work as they are, but you just can't convince the team.
Once your team gets in that place, no amount of persuasion seems to work, and the discussion can degenerate into a battle of opinions—what Steve Krug calls "religious wars"—which can break out even over how to respond to user research or usability tests. Our usual business tools—charts, graphs, and rational argument—don't work very well when you have to convince people on both a rational and an emotional level. You might be able to overwhelm them with data, but to do that, you have to have a lot of data. You can work through a dialogue with your team to resolve such issues, but this takes a long time and is impractical if you need to persuade a lot of people at once. That's where stories come in.
Storytelling as a way of communicating ideas isn't just our idea. There's a whole community around storytelling as a way to lead. Steve Denning, a former manager at the World Bank, says a story can act as a spark for an idea. In his books The Springboard and Radical Management, he describes the way you can use stories to introduce new ideas into an organization and get people to listen to them. He thinks they are the key to a new style of leadership that abandons command-and-control for teamwork.
What makes stories work in a business context is the way they engage the imagination. The same thing works in user experience. A good storyteller invites listeners to enter into the world of the story and make it their own. Figures 1–4 show how this works.
Figure 1—First, the storyteller shapes the story.
Figure 2—Listeners form an image of the story in their own minds.
Figure 3—As the story unfolds, the storyteller and listeners also interact. Energy flows back and forth between them, and each affects the others, shaping the story they create together.
Figure 4—In the end, the most important relationship is between the listeners and the story. They are part of the story each time it is told.
Once your listeners have engaged their brain and their emotions, they're ready to join you in a new idea.
Here are three examples of how short, targeted stories can engage your team or your management as you explain user research results or present a design idea.
Use Stories to Explain Pesky Realities
Real people have a habit of surprising us with unexpected attitudes or behavior. When you have to share counterintuitive or subtle user research, don't drown your team in data. That sets you up for an argument—and a few data points probably won't convince anyone on their own. Instead, use a story to present the idea from a different perspective. When crafting your story, you can use this simple structure:
- Start with a fact.
- Suggest an explanation.
- Use a juicy fragment from your user research to illustrate the point.
- End with a conclusion.
Here's an example:
We were ready to be disappointed. We'd tried a discussion forum before, but nurses were more interested in people than technology. They used the Web, of course, but didn't see social media as something for work. Only a few of them had phones that did more than make phone calls. Some didn't even have Web access except at home. So, we were taken by surprise when one nurse after another got enthusiastic about some concept sketches for mobile health sites.
Gina gave us the first clue. A nurse manager for the county health system, she told us: "I'm on the move all day, and I have a huge case load. Patients are always throwing new questions at me. Yesterday, I really struggled to sort out a problem one patient was having with side effects. Though I speak a little Spanish, I just couldn't remember the correct medical term to explain a new adjuvant the doctor wanted to try. It was so frustrating. I'd like to know it all, but there are difficult cases and new drugs. I always try to make sure I get all the specifics right, so I don't give anyone the wrong information."
What Gina wanted was targeted and practical: Spanish translations of medical terms, information about side effects, and dosing guidelines. She pointed at the sketch, saying, "I don't have a phone that will do all that—yet. But if it's really that simple…"
Instead of our team's arguing about adoption rates of smartphones among nurses or whether medical professionals are Web savvy, our story put the data into context. The problem wasn't what technology the nurses have, but understanding how they think about technology on the job. Stories from your research data that illustrate the real people and real contexts behind the data can be a starting point for productive discussion and brainstorming—and, in this case, a mobile Web site that would really work for this audience.
Your story doesn't have to be long and involved. A simple, juicy fragment lets your audience get the flavor of a real person with a real point of view. Here's what you need:
- a sympathetic character—Make sure you give a few details, so your audience can identify with the person in the story, no matter how far the character seems from your listeners. For example, our listeners may not be nurses, but everyone can identify with a chaotic, busy workday like Gina's and having to deal with a constant stream of new information.
- a clear situation—Include enough context to set the scene, but make sure there's room for your listeners to imagine their own small, contextual details. In our example, our listeners would be able to imagine working in a busy county health center and the challenges of low health literacy, so they wouldn't need much help to understand Gina's perspective.
- rich imagery—Focus on details that evoke sensory images. You want to communicate what the person's experience is like, not the details of the activity. Gina is on her feet all day. She's rushed. Her patients can be difficult to communicate with. The information she needs is always somewhere else.
Finally, keep your story short. You can always build on the basic story if people ask you to elaborate or answer questions. The shorter the story, the faster it is to deliver and the easier it is for your listeners to hold it all in their mind and consider it like a gem. The longer the story, the greater the risk that it will take on a life of its own and drift away from the point you are trying to make.
Stories Can Spark Ideas
Another situation where stories can be useful is in brainstorming ideas for something new. To tell a story that helps your team collaboratively create a design idea, you can start with a problem, tell a story that imagines what if, then let your design show how that story might become reality. For example:
Mary is always writing down notes—on slips of paper, on Post-its on her desktop, on the calendar by the front door, and on the organizer pad on her desk. She's called her own home phone to leave a message for herself. She's even written reminders on her hand. As a research scientist and mother, she's gotten to be a first-class multitasker. But somehow, whenever she's rushing through the grocery store on her way home, she can never remember whether she's out of milk or has three cartons in the fridge. Or if today's the day she's picking up the kids from their soccer game or rushing home in time for a call from... Where is it this week? It's not that she doesn't have a calendar. She's got three—or is it four? What Mary wants is a way to put everything together and keep track of it in one place—no matter where she is and no matter whether she's wearing something with pockets or carrying a bag. From anywhere, anytime. If only she had…
This story provides context and communicates a problem. It hints at some detail, but not too much. Why? Because you want the people hearing the story to fill in the gaps for themselves, so they can start thinking about a solution that would finish the story, thinking about all the Marys out there with the same problem. Let's look at the structure of this story:
- Set the context. Mary is an overloaded person who is trying to get organized. She is a mother with a professional job, who just doesn't have enough time. Use details from your user research to keep these images grounded in real experience.
- Describe the problem. Mary has too much going on in her life, and even though she has a lot of tools, they don't all work together. Plus, she doesn't always have access to them.
- Close with an opening to explore. "What Mary wants is…" a different experience. The story doesn't offer a solution. It just points in a general direction. This lets the team fill in the gaps by coming up with their own ideas for devising a solution to this problem.
Notice that this story doesn't include too many details. Unless you are brainstorming specifically about, say, merging kids' sports schedules with a business calendar, you should leave room for your team members to think about all the different people Mary represents. If there are too many specifics at this point, you run the risk of Mary's representing only Mary—just one person.
When you start with an in-a-perfect-world scenario, you get to paint that perfect world and the technology that drives it. Your goal should be to spark your listeners' creativity and imagination. If a great new idea is only your idea, you'll have to carry it through the gauntlet of resistance alone. But if a great new idea is everybody's idea—if they've all helped dream it up—that idea has the combined momentum and diverse creative input of the group to carry it through.
Stories Set a Context to Sell an Idea
Let's roll forward a little bit. You've done your user research. You and your team have come up with an innovative new design. Now you have to convince management it's the right solution.
If you frame an idea with a technical explanation, it's easy to get off track, discussing technology instead of the user experience. Furthermore, not specifying a technology yet leaves room for managers to connect to the questions your innovative idea really addresses—like Why is it that people like to keep separate calendars for different parts of their life? How could a calendar help enforce someone's effort to have a life that seems less busy and more sane?
It really helps if you can connect your story to the sorts of real events management can understand. Here's one of the stories we created to sell the idea of a collection of intranet tools:
At the beginning of this project, we found the head of the support staff sitting on the floor in her office, sorting through a collection of product boxes, trying to figure out what we sell—in which countries, under what name—to answer a customer's question. Yep. Sitting on the floor reading labels was faster than finding someone to run a query on the product database. Why can't she do this herself, on an easy-to-use Web site? Here's the future we imagined:
February 17, 3:23 pm, London, England: Susan Bentley needs product information. She just received an inquiry from a pharmacist, concerning a customer who is on vacation in San Francisco and has lost his allergy medication. He needs to find a place to purchase the product in the US or identify an alternative. Sue uses the Product Encyclopedia, which includes the entire consumer-product database. A search by product name, ingredient, and country produces a total of three different options. She contacts the pharmacist and forwards the information.
Let us show you how we think this could work…
This story structure uses the same elements as the first two. We've still got a character the managers can identify with. We have a problem they might not have anticipated—that their big SQL database isn't easy enough to use or fast enough for front-line staff. And we have a vision of a solution that doesn't just solve Sue's problem, it can also help sell the company's products.
Keep the Details Real
Whether you are crafting a story to persuade or to start a brainstorming session, make sure you stick to real details. It's the way these details ground your stories that gives them some of their power. After all, you're not trying to win a prize for fiction, but to put storytelling to work to create a product you hope real people will actually want.
Of course, this means you have to know something about those people. If not, you may end up writing mirror stories—stories that are just perfect for the person you see in the mirror every morning.
The previous story has a nice after-story. We got the go-ahead to build the product database as part of a knowledge-management system. Just before it launched, the project leader got an email message from a colleague. "Would we like to consider her idea for that intranet project?" The message contained a chain of messages that almost exactly mirrored the situation we outlined in that story. (Here's a brief presentation about that project.)
Stories: Any Time, Anywhere
Stories can help you share, explain, imagine, or persuade. The nice thing about stories is that they can fit anywhere in the design process. You don't have to start telling stories from the very beginning of a project; they can be useful wherever you are in your design process, whether or not you have done rich user research. You don't have to learn a new method to sell your ideas and persuade your team or management. You don't have to announce that you are about to tell a story. Just slip a few juicy story tidbits into your presentation or discussion, and you might find the people who listen to them are getting more involved in your ideas. Your first story might be about something unexpected you learned from users or a problem that is begging for a solution or just a way of explaining some aspect of a user experience. All it takes to start using stories in your work is just to start. Your stories will get better with practice.
Resources for Storytellers
If you'd like to read more about using stories to communicate with management, we can recommend a few resources:
- For storytelling in business, these books are a good place to start:
- The Story Factor and Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins, by Annette Simmons
- Managing by Storying Around, by David Armstrong
- The Secret Language of Leadership and Radical Management, by Stephen Denning
- Web sites and communities of business-focused storytellers:
- Golden Fleece has a discussion list and an annual conference.
- You can meet like-minded people on the Storytelling in Organizations page on Facebook.
- A Storied Career is a blog about different uses of storytelling, with profiles of people using stories in many ways.
- Improving Your Storytelling, by Doug Lipman, is a great coaching book that helps you do just that. You can sign up for his monthly storytelling newsletter, Story Dynamics.
- There are local storytelling groups that meet regularly in many cities around the world.
- For more about stories in user experience:
- Read "Better User Experience with Storytelling," a two-part article on Smashing Magazine, by Francisco Inchauste.
- Watch Cindy Chastain's IxDA 2010 presentation, "Thinking Like a Storyteller."
And, of course, read our own book: Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design.
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Thanks for the great writeup!
You've given me some ideas on how to translate findings to the rest of the business, in an easy to digest manner that will illicit productive conversation.
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WOOOOWWW so cool
It's the Scandinavian version. They also have it in Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Extra are the documentary "Destination Forks: The Ultimate Twilight and footage from the Stockholm Fan event with Robert Pattinson and Ashley Greene. Very nice, just like with New Moon and Eclipse.:O)
Aaaaa that one I have :DD
the best part was that i didn't know you would get Bellas wedding hair clip.. o: <3
I have a Spanish version!! I love it :)


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Survivor: Redemption Island — Francesca Burned Out
March 03, 2011 03:07 PM by Ryan Haidet
Francesca Hogi was the first person to experience lots of different elements on Survivor: Redemption Island. She was the first person voted off. She was the first person to live on Redemption Island. She was the first person to have her buff turned to ash after losing the first Redemption Island duel. As a result, Francesca was also the first contestant to speak with the press about her time on Survivor: Redemption Island. During a conference call with reporters today, Francesca dished the dirt on Phillip, explained what life was like on Redemption Island and described how Boston Rob is running the Ometepe tribe. Plus, Francesca revealed who she wants to win the whole game. Read on for all that and much more!
Question: Have you changed your name to Fransequa yet?
Franesca Hogi: That will not be happening anytime soon. Hahaha.
Question: Do you believe Phillip is really a former federal agent?
Francesca Hogi: When Phillip first told me that he was a former federal agent, I didn't disbelieve him. I just thought it was so irrelevant to anything that it wasn't even worth considering. By the 500th time that he mentioned he was a former federal agent, I started to have my doubts. Now I find it completely hard to believe, but he could be just that amazing of an agent that he's still undercover and this is all an act. Haha.
Question: You were the first person to ever go to Redemption Island. What was it like having to live alone?
Francesca Hogi: It's not the Four Seasons. It was rough when I first got there. It was really late. I was exhausted. I was dehydrated. I didn't have any water. All I wanted to do was go to sleep, and there was nowhere for me to sleep. So I actually had to put together a bed and clear out the structure that was standing there because it was just filled with a lot of debris. … Once Matt got there, we improved on it some more. It certainly was never pleasant, but actually, after the whole fiasco of my Tribal Council, I really was glad to be away from my tribe. I didn't mind the isolation.
Question: We didn't get to see much of your life at Redemption Island. What exactly did you do there all day long? Did you find something cool to do?
Francesca Hogi: I was there for four days. The shelter made it a lot of work, so that was kind of the continuous process of trying to improve upon that. It rained every night, so all of the firewood and everything was wet. I tried to keep the wood dry. It didn't work. So in the daytime I was trying to bake the wood in the sun so it was dry enough to keep the fire going. It was all these little things. Cooking a cup of rice takes like an hour. Haha. Getting the fire going and keeping it going when you have not a lot of dry wood, that was a big effort. It was just all these little things. I didn't actually have all that much time to sit around and contemplate life. My energy was really low, so as soon as the sun started to set I would go to sleep.
Question: You were given your journal on Redemption Island. What did you write in there?
Francesca Hogi: I only wrote in it once, and actually I was thinking I need to go look and see what I wrote because I don't remember. I do remember that I didn't have the energy to sit and write. That was how kind of spent I was, but I forced myself. I said, "You have to at least try to document what just happened and how you feel right now." But I haven't gone back and read it so I don't remember what I wrote.
Question: What were you given as far as food is concerned on Redemption Island?
Francesca Hogi: Matt and I were given rice and that was it. That was all we had to eat. There were no fruit trees there. That is one thing that I did do, and we did the same thing back at camp. We just went looking for fruit. We're like, "There has to be a tree somewhere around here that has a piece of fruit on it." We couldn't find it at camp. We couldn't find it at Redemption Island. That was the food situation. It was not good.
Question: What did strategy did you and Matt talk about at Redemption Island?
Francesca Hogi: Matt is such a good guy. He was obviously very blindsided and really shocked by it all. We were out there for a couple of days together, and it took those couple days for that to wear off. I was like, "Matt, if you make it back in the game, you need to take them down!" Haha. "Don't let Rob talk about trying to make it up to you. Don't let anyone on your alliance say, "Oh we only did it for this reason." Like, "No you have to take them down."
Question: What happened in the duel when you were so far ahead?
Francesca Hogi: Haha. Yeah. I don't know. It's just one of those mysteries. I still don't really know how I lost it. I think that my pole was not that structurally sound. It kind of held up for two keys, and then when it came time for the third key, it really fell apart and I had to start over again. By the time I did that, Matt had already caught up.
Question: Everybody seemed to follow Rob as he sort of ran the camp. Was that the actual atmosphere?
Francesca Hogi: Yes, he actually was running the camp. A lot of it made sense. First of all, it's good to have someone else in the leadership role then that focus is taken off of you. We needed to build a shelter. What did any of us know about building shelters? Rob has built a lot of them. He directed that whole thing. We didn't have flint. He taught us how to make a fire without flint. We had a fire on day two because Rob taught us how to make one.
Question: Had you survived that first Tribal Council, what was your next move?
Francesca Hogi: My plan was to vote out Natalie, as I mentioned. I felt that Natalie was kind of the key to Rob's alliance. And I thought that if Natalie was gone then Kristina and I would be able to flip Matt and Andrea. We thought we could actually have a good chance of flipping Ashley, too. I didn't think I really had a chance to align with Rob at that point, but I thought I could break apart his alliance. …
Question: Is there anyone on your tribe that you might like to see win?
Francesca Hogi: As much as he screwed me, I am still a fan of Rob's. I mean, I'm not rooting for him to win. I'm rooting for Matt. Because Matt is such a good-hearted person, and I think he really did learn a lesson by being blindsided. Kind of like, "Oh, right. I am playing Survivor." I would love to see Matt win.
Question: Where are we going to see you next?
Francesca Hogi: I don't know do you have any suggestions?
Question: You could always go into the FBI, right?
Francesca Hogi: Apparently anybody can, right? Hahaha!
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2 Responses to "Survivor: Redemption Island — Francesca Burned Out"
Aaron Says:
March 3rd, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Loved you Francesca!! Just got into some bad luck. I hope you enjoyed your experience.
Ross Says:
March 6th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
I hope that snake in the grass Russell gets the boot!


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