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Survivor: Pearl Islands will premiere on September 19 with a 90 minute show.

Complete Cast Photos Released

The official cast of Survivor: Pearl Islands was released today. Take your first look:

Cast Photos - First Release

Here is the cast, in no order.

Rupert Boneham
Boneham, a mentor for troubled teens, is 39 and hails from Indianapolis, Ind.

Sandra Diaz-Twine
Diaz-Twine, 29, an office assistant, is from Fort Lewis, Wash.

Trish Dunn
A 42-year-old sales executive, Dunn is from Annapolis, Md.

Tijuana Bradley
Bradley, 27, is from St. Louis, Mo., and works in pharmaceutical sales.

Shawn Cohen
Cohen, who turns 29 on Sept. 20, works in advertising sales and lives in New York, N.Y

Ryan Opray
Opray, an electrician, is 31 and lives in Los Gatos, Calif.

Osten Taylor
Taylor, 27, is an equity trade manager from Boston.

Nicole Delma
Delma, who turns 26 on Sept. 19, is a massage therapist from Hermosa Beach, Calif.

Michelle Tesauro
From Pittstown, N.J., Tesauro is a 22-year-old student.

Lillian Morris
Morris, 51, is a scout troop leader who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Jon Dalton
An art consultant, Dalton hails from Danville, Va. He is 29.

Darrah Johnson
A mortician, Johnson, 22, lives in Liberty, Miss.

Christa Hastie
Hastie is a 24-year-old computer programmer from Los Angeles.

Burton Roberts
Roberts is a 31-year-old marketing executive from San Francisco.

Andrew Savage
An attorney, Savage is 40 and lives in Chicago.

Ryan Shoulders
Hailing from Clarksville, Tenn., Shoulders is a 23-year-old produce clerk.

Cast Photo Released -

FULL CAST (UPDATED) Wallpaper.

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Cast Released ... Or are they?

SurviorSucks recently featured an interesting post with a list of images of "faces to look for on Thursday." While we can't confirm this list of people, we do have a reliable source that has sent us information about Steve Gibson, 27, Cleveland, Ohio. That's all we can say now.

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Official "Survivor: Pearl Islands" Logo

The official CBS logo for Survior: Pearl Islands has been released. Click on the image to see the entire logo. The "CBS Early Show" will be officially introducing the cast of SURVIVOR: PEARL ISLANDS next Thursday, August 28 (7:00-9:00 AM ET/PT) on CBS.

Join the forum discussion about Survivor: Pearl Islands.

New twist may involve prior bootees...

RUMOR: "They said something about people who had been booted off teaming up and being given the chance to compete against the booters. This may compose a 3rd tribe or perhaps the opportunity to return someone to the game who had been voted off earlier. This could make for an interesting twist!"

SOURCE: DanBollinger - SurvivorSucks

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Termina filmación de ‘Survivor Panama’

'Survivor Panama’ resaltará elementos de la cultura e historia panameña. No hay duda de que Survivor Panama o más bien Survivor Pearl Islands, que se estrenará en EU el próximo 18 de septiembre, ha creado gran expectativa entre los fans de este exitoso reality show. - english

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Survivor: All-Star: Pearl Islands: Something

And, it's official, the Survivor All-Stars will be traveling to the Pearl Islands. SEG has made a new reservation at the hotel on Contadora for September 9 until December 15, 2003.

Dan and Wezzie
Survivor Maps - Discuss

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Panama's Arts & Crafts - Molas

In many cultures certain crafts are considered the province of women. Very young girls learn by mimicking their mothers' craft-making techniques; often, they are proficient before they are ten years old. Although a "women's craft" in one culture may be a "men's craft" in another (gender assignments are almost always as inexplicable as they are inviolable), all the crafts in this book are considered in their societies to be women's crafts.

Molas - intricate, layered, appliquéd pictures showing contemporary life, recent history and popular culture - form the front and back panels of the blouses that Kuna Indian women wear in the San Blas Archipelago off the east coast of Panama. Molas begin with reverse appliqué technique: stacked fibers are slashed and colors in the lower layers are pulled to the surface; after they are sewn in place, more colors are stitched on top using traditional appliqué techniques. Kunas credit their ancestress, Kicadiray, with creating their women's colorful clothing, including Molas. Molas are sold as pillow covers, place mats and framed art.

Source: How to Make A Mola

Tools and Supplies: The tools and supplies needed to design and make a Mola are simple and basic: cotton fabric, thread, a pencil, sissors, a thimble and a needle. In the 1970s, the Peace Corp arrived in the San Blas Islands with treadle sewing machines. Their purpose was to help the Kuna Women in their mola making by teaching them how to use these machines. The artists quickly rejected the automation and returned to the simple needle and thread process to accomplish their intricate work. A sewing machine is sometimes used to secure Molas to garments, purses and other commercial items. A collector will occasionally find a machine stitched mola from the '70s. (Click on the photo for a closer look at the tools.)

Construction and Design: A mola panel can have two to seven layers of cloth. The layers of fabric, cut in rectangles, are basted together and a design is sketched with pencil on the top layer of cloth. Some of the more experienced Kuna women can work without sketches. The fabric most often selected for use in making a Mola is cotton. Red, black and orange are the dominant colors used, however, every color imaginable can be found in the accent fabrics used. (Click on the photo for a closer look at the pencil sketch.)
The Indian artists are inspired by everything when determining a theme for their Molas. The dominance of realistic objects in Mola motifs stems from an observance of nature in everyday jungle and village life; to the other extreme, images conjured from dreams, fantasies and pure imagination, including abstracts of monsters and devils.

Nature unquestionably dominates the Mola theme: birds, animals, sea-life, plants and flowers are the subject of many pieces. Tribal teachings, superstitions and village life are also recorded in the fabric panels. The influx of North Americans after the construction of the Panama Canal gave the Kuna women even more subjects to sew into their blouses. The wealth of graphic images from magazines, comic books, trademarks, labels and advertisements offer endless ideas for Mola design. Of course, traditional geometric cut-outs remain popular.

Cutting and Sewing: Fabric is snipped away, closely following the design, to reveal the lower layers of fabric. The cut is made through one or more layers to reveal the selected accent color. The raw edges of the cut section are notched to avoid bunching, turned under and stitched, permanently exposing the lower layer of fabric and creating the intended pattern. The artist of the mola on the left used three full layers of fabric in traditional reds and black with several smaller sections of fabric in primary colors for accent to create her design. (Click on the photo for a closer look at how the cloth is layered!)

In general, larger patterns are cut from the top piece and, progressively, smaller patterns are cut from the successive under layers. Cutting through to various levels is not always done in sequence but according to the whims of the seamstress.

Note: When a color is chosen for a small section of the Mola, the artist often inserts a small piece of fabric in only the area where it will be used. If you look closely at Mola-20, you can see the outline of the middle layer of cloth (black fabric) used as an accent color in this predominantly red, yellow and blue mola, cut away so it does not interfere with other pieces of cloth in different colors which the artist also used for accent.

Stitches: The more traditional Mola is pure applique, however, some artists of late are using embroidery stitches (#1 in photo) to enhance their work. Most of the Mola is sewn with a blind stitch or hem stitch (#2 in photo, #3 in photo). Sewing machines (#4 in photo) were used for a brief time in the 1970s and are used to attach the finished Mola to a garment or to other commercial items. (Click on the Mola for a closer look at the various stitches used.)

RELATED LINKS:

MOLA PHOTO INDEX
JOHANNA'S MOLA COLLECTION

A principal or a 'Survivor'?

TV hopeful had to make hard choice. How much would the job of your dreams be worth to you? A thousand dollars? Ten thousand? OK, how about a million bucks? That's what Ed Spurka had to decide.

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Writers Wanted

We're taking final submissions now! The season is just weeks away.

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Survivor Delayed

Reports by the Pacific News Service and from fan groups have it that the American “reality TV” game show Survivor, whose latest season is being filmed in the Perlas Islands, is way behind schedule. There’s no specific word on what the problems may be, but Panama did get unusually heavy rains at about the time when shooting was to begin.

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Oh my heck! She's gone!

Neleh Dennis, the Utah runner up on "Survivor: Marquesas" last year who became a KUTV Channel 2 morning reporter, has left the station.

"She came to me awhile back and said she had some opportunities outside the [TV] business and some in TV," said KUTV news director Steve Charlier. DEVELOPING

Dennis, who got married recently, was hired in June 2002 and became a features reporter for the station's morning program after missing out on winning the million dollars on "Survivor" by one vote.

Her position at KUTV is temporarily being filed by other on-air personalities. Charlier said he will begin looking for a permanent replacement.