![]() WE GET STUCK IN THE ECHO CHAMBER BECAUSE OF THE ALGORITHMS OUR MAIN TAKEAWAY: HAVING A BRAND IMAGE, DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE INAUTHENTIC HOW DO YOU SET AND MAINTAIN HEALTHY BOUNDARIES FOR CONSUMING SOCIAL MEDIA? JESSICA’S STRATEGY FOR CREATING AND CONSUMING MEDIA INCLUDES THINKING ABOUT HOW SHE CAN GIVE BACK THE STRUGGLE IS REAL, JESSICA TALKS ABOUT HOW MEDIA HAS LED TO FEELINGS OF DEPRESSION + ANXIETY POSTING OUR BEST MOMENTS ISN’T JUST HUMAN NATURE, IT’S LOGISTICAL GUEST: Jessica Gee, The Bucket List Family SPOTTSWOOD’S RESEARCH-BASED STRATEGIES FOR HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POSITIVITY BIAS AND HYPERPERCEPTIONS WHY ONLINE COMMUNICATION MIGHT HELP US TO BETTER DETERMINE THE TRUTH AND AUTHENTICITY OF A MESSAGE HOW DO WE KNOW IT’S GENUINE IF WE CAN’T SEE NONVERBAL CUES? THE STRUGGLE TO BALANCE OUR BRANDED “WORK SELVES” WITH OUR AUTHENTIC “PERSONAL SELVES” YOU’RE ONLY GETTING A “SLICE OF THE REALITY PIE” THE NORMS OF TECHNOLOGY USE + THE POSITIVITY BIAS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE HYPERPERCEPTION MODEL SPOTTSWOOD IS SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS FIELD Give ourselves and others grace, don’t read the comments, realize that you can never 100% satisfy a goal in a persistent space We can be our authentic selves in many different ways.īalancing a brand image and a personal image - you can be your authentic “work self” ![]() What you need to know about why people present their best selves onlineĪre nonverbal cues helpful in determining someone’s online authenticity/honesty? How to break free of the hyperperception rabbit hole The less they know, the farther from reality their perceptions might get. People make “hyperperceptions” about what they see online. How knowledge of the positivity bias and the hyperperception model can help with our understanding of social media’s impacts Then, I have mega influencer The Bucket List Family’s Jessica Gee on the show to breakdown the research and what we learned by reflecting on our own personal experiences. Erin Spottswood teaches us about how social media is impacting us, and what we can do to counteract it’s negative impacts. This episode was the perfect episode to kick of Season 1 of the Communification Podcast. ![]() The goal of this podcast is to expose us to communication research so that we might gain research-based communication tools to help with the beautification of our communication.
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(Older stains may take up to 24 hours.) Then, sweep away the absorbent. ![]() Work it in with a stiff broom or brush and leave it for at least an hour. Or cover the area with an absorbent material like clay or clumping cat litter on the affected area. Soak up as much of the spilled material as you can with paper towels. It absorbs anything that makes its way to its surface.īecause of this, it is important to try to address spills as soon as possible. As a result, concrete is porous, just like any other natural material. While cement doesn’t naturally occur, it is made from limestone, clay, sand and iron ore, all-natural materials. Why does concrete stainĬoncrete consists of natural materials: water, sand, gravel and cement. ![]() Here’s how to remove all types of stains from concrete. No need to worry, though! You can usually remove those stains easily and quickly, depending on how old it is. From oil in the driveway to grill grease on the backyard patio, these stains leave your concrete looking dated and unappealing, especially if they were there when you moved in. Over the years, concrete can accumulate quite a few nasty stains. We would like to set optional cookies to give you a better user experience and to assist us in understanding how visitors use our site. We use Strictly Necessary cookies to make our website work. ![]() The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. When you visit any website, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Spezials are on the slightly narrower side, so if you have particularly wide feet, you may want to consider going half a size up. One thing to bear in mind is the width of the shoe. 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The most effective method for cleaning your suede Spezials is by using an old toothbrush and gently working away the dirt. The most thing important thing to remember is: DO NOT use water. ![]() Handball Spezials are typically made of suede, which requires care and attention when cleaning. However, cleaning them requires a bit of care. These iconic creps should always be kept in pristine condition. Keeping your adidas Spezial trainers clean is a must. Now a fashion icon, you need a pair of Spezials in your life. Rooted in retro, they were originally designed as indoor handball trainers, before finding a home on matchday terraces up and down the country. Sitting alongside the Samba and Gazelle in the legendary line-up, adidas’ Spezial has become one of the bands biggest hitters. Adidas Originals’ Handball Spezial has quickly become one of the brands most iconic and sought-after terrace sneaks. ![]() Gregory Alan Isakov, album: Evening Machines: Qobuz.Emma Movie soundtrack, song: Country life: Qobuz, Amazon.Outland series season 1, volume 1: Qobuz, Amazon.Eddy Navia, track: Basta Corazon: Qobuz, Tidal.I left out Google’s (or is it YouTube) music offering because I don’t understand what it is, how it relates to Youtube, and/or if it still exists after December 2021. Where’s Google Youtube Red Play Music Unlimited service? Please leave your suggestions for other criteria to rate on. Here’s a tabular summary of the different services. It‘s close to Spotify’s usability while rivaling Qobuz and Tidal on audio quality. Looking for an upgrade from Spotify in terms of audio quality? Go with Deezer.Need ultimate music quality? Go with Qobuz, it has its quircks but once you find your songs and get it to play them you can be sure you’re getting the best of the best.If you’re fully Applefied, Apple Music is a good option as well, but lacks in the suggestions area. You just want to stream? Go with Spotify, it’s still the most advanced streaming service.It offers verified ‘digital master’ which already sound great while there’s rumours of a high-res option coming soon. In the ends there’s not much to fault Apple Music, though it doesn’t excite in any particular category. Of all the hardware vendors only Sonos supports Apple Music, where Apple’s main rival Spotify basically invented hardware integration. The Apps are of course top notch, given that you’re in the Apple ecosystem. Apple could take it a step further by offering personal playlists for certain moods or genres. They work fine though and you can easily just ‘start playing’ both your known and suggested tracks. Apple is my go to service for tracks I can’t find on Tidal or Qobuz.Īpple Music offers music suggestions, but doesn’t put them front and centre like Deezer or Spotify. It allows you to stream any song in Apple Car, something Tidal and Qobuz refuse (they only play pre-downloaded songs).Īpple has a vast catalogue and landed some exclusives in the past, though these days practically all artists are generally available to stream, including stubborn mega stars like Pearl Jam and Adele. It has good App support, including an Apple Watch App and Apple Car app. It has a cool feature where it plays your entire library of favorites with suggested tracks mixed in. The catalog was surprsingly broad as well, showing all the tracks in my ‘rare’ collection. The desktop App was responsive enough, though the UI design feels a bit cluttered at times. It’s a name that I had heard of, mostly concerning Internet service providers offering a bundled subscription, but never concidered. I found Deezer a pleasant surprise to use. Deezer has an Apple Watch App) and very enjoyable recommendation algorithms. Contender(s)ĭeezer is the main contender for Qobuz, offering lossless tracks (“CD quality is enough for everyone”) but with a very complete catalog, better software (e.g. Even in the App pressing the space bar doesn’t pause the music (!) and I have to manually click the pause button to pause it. It still doesn’t respond consistently to the systems play/pause button. It used to be a bit unresponsive, but that that’s much improved recently. The Qobuz desktop app has the option to select an output device. It even manages to have particular songs missing from an album, which the Qobuz app will play for 2 seconds and then abruptly skip to the next track □ If Qobuz doesn’t solve the catalog issues I will move to another service once my subscription ends. Sometimes it’s missing specific albums and some artists are not present at all. The real pain point for Qobuz are the holes in their catalog. On a yearly plan, you can get this extreme level of sound quality for just €15 a month, which beats Tidal on price and quality. Qobuz puts classical music front and center, but it has a wide range of other genres. That’s 190 megabytes of compressed data for a 5-minute song! Qobuz is the service for high res music, currently the only mainstream service offering true lossless music up to a baffling 24 bits at 192kHz. A reason to stick with Tidal is mostly the ‘brand’ and their higher fees for artists and they also offer some unique content like interviews and concerts. Deezer is Tidal’s main rival though: Deezer has a bigger catalogue and better software for less. Qobuz competes with Tidal on absolute music quality, which Qobuz wins. An audiophile should probably look elsewhere. MQA is something the artists, hardware manufacturers, and consumers are all paying for, but are apparently not benefiting from. It’s been recently proven to be lossy and question marks have been raised on what it’s doing to the original audio. It's a 1.5 hour drive each way to the court, plus gas. I am going the speed limit these days and spend my money on track events instead of tickets. Trial by written declaration only if you are out of traffic school options and / or if you get a ticket by the local town police. In summary, in your case, I would pay the fine and go to traffic school. However, note that you can not go to traffic school once you go with a trial by written declaration. If the trial by written declaration is not in your favor, you can still go to court. CHP officers obviously do their paperwork. Usually because the local police is too busy to write and then the case is dismissed.ĬHP I have tried myself and two other buddies. I have had 3 tickets thrown out this way. ![]() Usually my wife gets these local citations. I fight local police citations with a "trial by written declaration". If I go this route and the ticket is not dismissed, can this cause the fines to be even more than they would if I had just accepted things?Īgain, I am only looking for info from anyone that has been in this type of a situation. What is the procedure in California for fighting a ticket? I have heard that I should seek a continuance on the court date, plead not guilty. I am thinking about this as well - only because of the error. A number of guys on the board think I should try an fight the ticket. He filled in the line with my cars license plate #, there was another place for that number and he filled it in there as well. I didn't I was too busy paying attention to the scenery and the road.Īnyway, I noticed that the CHP officer did not put down my DL # on the ticket. He asked how fast I was going and I honestly answered with "I don't know". As I did this, I passed a CHP at the side of the road. The third car was a bit in front of me, so I did speed up to try and pass him before the lane ended. There were three cars in front of me and slow. It's a two lane highway, but at certain areas the lane would become two lanes for passing - it's posted. At appropriate points, I would pass the slower traffic, as was the case when I was pulled over. ![]() ![]() I wasn't trying to be a speed demon going down the hill yesterday, but at certain points, cars in front of me were going a lot slower than the speed limit and that was irritating. I was driving down the mtn by myself, not with the group. Granted, I do tend to drive a bit fast day to day, but usually, it's because everyone else is driving faster than the limit as well. We had our annual Big Bear run yesterday and on the way home, I was pulled over for speeding. First off, I am willing to accept the fines and traffic school for my error, but. ![]() This subscription is valid only for home use. 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I’ve had issues with swollen ankles, ankle surgery, and shin splints, so they are a must. Perhaps I’m late here and you’ve already taken your trip… I’ve learned to wear the most durable, best fitting, supportive hiking boots when I’m traveling, even if they are ugly. Capri? Or Pompeii? The Coliseum? Or the Catacombs? How about we just stay another month. This has been extremely helpful and loads of virtual fun. Thank goodness for free shipping and UPS drivers! Let’s hope they don’t have to go on strike and don’t tell them what I said about their shoes! So the only way for me to shoe shop is Amazon/ Zappos. We live in a remote area of coastal Maine. I thought I ordered Pikolinos but maybe they didn’t have my size/style. Don’t tell my husband.how many I’m taking.) Think I’ll need my Tevas for touring that time of year? Not sure if they’ll fit in our bags. I’ll also squeeze in a pair of ballet flats and fancy sandals for dinners on board the ship. So it’s looking like the Arcopedicos and the Skechers are going to Europe this fall. I wanted to love the Jambus but the toe box felt a bit too stiff for one of those problem bad-boy toes. He recently bought two expensive pairs of Sperry Topsiders and got blisters galore. I even convinced my husband to get a pair for this trip. A tad too big so I’m exchanging for a half size smaller. And regarding Skechers, I, too, always sort of poo-pooed them. ![]() But something like that is nice to bring because it's light and won't add to much to your packing weight, but it does give you the opportunity to switch off to a different pair of shoes.įirst, to dear departed Beth: no one’s looking at moi? I’m crushed!!! JK. The are extremely lightweight and so comfortable for walking around in. ![]() ![]() I've alternated between Jambu walking sandals, and my current favorite, a pair of Hey Dude Wendy Chambray deck shoes in navy. What a lot of people (including me) do is to bring one extra pair of lightweight shoes, so you can feel a bit more stylish in the evening or even when doing some light walking during the day. I would suggest just searching for the terms "walking shoes" and a plethora of posts will appear. If you are on your phone, just click on the 5 horizontal bars in the top left and a search box will appear. You can search the forum for many many suggestions by going to the search box in the upper corner left of center (on a computer). Believe me, you will not stand out in those. That no longer applies - most Europeans now are out all day in comfortable walking shoes that look just like Merrells. Many decades ago, you used to be told to never wear gym-type shoes to Europe because it would make you stand out like a tourist. |