Ciera eastin biography sampler
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We’re back on the predictions beat to try and figure out what will happen post-merge in Survivor Cambodia. We don’t really know what we’re doing.
Staff Predictions
We usually post a staff chat where we all talk through our predictions, but a combination of me being sick on the day we usually do them and our attempt at doing a chat being nearly impossible to follow due to how crazy the game is right now had me tapping out. The compromise was just getting everyone to send me their thoughts to go along with those John and I already shared on the podcast.
Andy: While I think the initial target will be Savage, with the Ta Keo 5 alliance getting enough of the swing votes to make a move, I think Tasha will let her long bubbling issues with Kass blow up into a full on argument. And that will piss Kass off enough to insist that Tasha becomes the target. Kass takes out another Cagayan buddy.
John: It’s Savage this week, both because he is destined
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Survivor: The Top 40 Players of All Time, Ranked
It is impossible to rank Survivor players without acknowledging the objectivity that plays a part in this exercise. So much of Survivor is circumstantial; while there are certain skills necessary to excel - social acuity, a strategic mind, the ability to make fire - the factor of luck cannot be overlooked as a vital part of the equation.
Nonetheless, Survivor, which celebrates its 20th anniversary two weeks from today,has a history so rich and a significance so enduring to its genre that it is often tempting to debate which figures have been most adept at mastering the greatest game. Since it has lasted for 40 seasons and counting, some of the players considered to be the best have lost. Many who make the list of the Top 40 Survivor competitors are batting .1000, one-time champs with legacies that have withstood the test of time. And many others have never won, but have proven to be adroit at balancing the Survivor tenet
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Social media influencers and followers’ loneliness: the mediating roles of parasocial relationship, sense of belonging, and social support
1 Introduction
While digital technology innovations have made the world more connected, more people feel lonely than before (Ernst et al. 2022). Loneliness reflects “the difference between a person’s actual and desired level of connection,” and this means “even a person with a lot of friends can feel lonely” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2024). Loneliness fryst vatten a widespread problem in the U.S., and more than 1 in 3 adults feel lonely in the United States (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and medicin 2020), posing a serious threat to their mental and physical health. For instance, research has associated loneliness with higher risks for a variety of physical and mental conditions including high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, an