8/17/2023 0 Comments Renault captur automatic price![]() ![]() You can choose from petrol, and plug-in hybrid petrol models but the 140PS TCe petrol does everything you need – it's plenty quick, has enough grunt for shifting the car when it's loaded and will return more than 40mpg all day long. You'll find the Renault has an engine for everyone, too. It's not as direct as a Ford Puma, but then it is more comfortable. The Renault's upright driving position and light controls make it easy to drive, but the weighty steering means it doesn't feel flighty at speed. Link your phone to the infotainment screen, get on the move and you'll find there's very little to whinge about. It looks like someone has erected a tombstone on your dashboard top but, hey, it's easy to use making so putting this morbid comparison to one side isn't difficult. All models get Apple CarPlay and Android Auto – so you can mirror your phone's display and use its apps on the car's big screen – while top-of-the-range cars swap the standard standard seven-inch screen for a portrait-style 9.3-inch effort. Naturally, the further up the range you go, the nicer it gets – R S Line models get Alcantara-look upholstery and splashes of aluminium trim. Well – take a seat – it's great, you get soft-touch plastics all over the place upfront and neat touches like knurled stalk caps. We say 'small', the bin between the front seats is actually pretty big and so are the pockets in all four doors.īut we know Renault can do practical – this is the firm that brought as the Espace after all, the world's first people carrier – how about interior quality? Renault has also gone liberal with smaller storage space. It's a handy feature that means you'll have no issues getting tall adults in the back but equally can slide the rear seats forward to free up boot space when needed. Front-seat passengers won't feel cramped at all, and in the rear a sliding bench allows you to prioritise boot or passenger space. It's slightly longer, wider and taller than its predecessor, giving it more interior space. Practicality has been a focus for the Captur's designers. It takes a lot to stand out in this crowded small SUV segment, but the Captur offers cheerful looks and a feel-good interior that mean its still one of the better options. That makes it an alternative to the Skoda Kamiq, Ford Puma and Peugeot 2008. Participating dealers only.Sharing a platform with the new Clio and Nissan Juke, the Renault Captur's dimensions sit at 4227mm long, 1797mm wide and 1576mm tall. Non-maintenance offers available on new vehicles when ordered between 4th April 2023 - 3rd July 2023 and registered & financed by 31st December 2023. ![]() Further charges may apply subject to mileage and condition at end of contract. Offer based on advance rental of £1,554, followed by 35 monthly rentals of £259. UK resident (excluding Isle of Man and Channel Islands). Guarantees and indemnities may be required. Mobilize Financial Services, Rivers Office Park, Denham Way, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, WD3 9YS. Service Plans do not cover wear and tear items such as (but not limited to) tyres, wiper blades or brakes. The plan ends when the vehicle reaches the age or mileage limit as specified in the Service Plan purchased (whichever comes first). The Service Plan covers the manufacturer’s minimum maintenance programme requirements for the term of the Service Plan purchased. *Service Plans applicable for vehicles under 12 months old or before the 1st service (whichever comes first). Vary but will not influence the interest rate you pay. Lenders will pay commission to your Renault dealer, rates may Speak to your local dealer for more information. Your Renault dealer is a credit broker and not a lender. ![]() Prices and offers shown are available on specified new vehicles when ordered between 4th April 2023 -3rd July 2023, registered & financed by 30th September 2023. 0% PCP Finance requires a minimum 30% deposit. Offers cannot be used with other schemes or finance offers. Offer based on 6,000 miles pa, excess mileage 8p per mile inc VAT. You must be a UK resident (excluding the Channel Islands) and over 18. £6,749 customer deposit, 24 monthly payments of £126. ^PCP Finance provided by Mobilize Financial Services, Rivers Office Park, Denham Way, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, WD3 9YS. ![]()
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8/17/2023 0 Comments Gmail iphone settings![]() ![]() Now tap Advanced, under Move Discarded Messages Into: tap Deleted Mailbox. Open the Mail App on your iPhone and select Google as your Email service provider. Tap Account in the top left corner, then Done in the top right.Now below Move Discarded Messages Into: tap Deleted Mailbox You can: Add an email signature Select which emails you're notified about Change other settings Want to get more out of Google apps at work or school Sign up for a Google Workspace trial at.How to delete Gmail on iPhone instead of archive in the Mail app One way is to tap the Unsubscribe button at the bottom of an email from the sender. Tap the three-line icon in the top left corner > swipe down and tap Settings > Mail swipe actions. If you want to block an email address in Gmail on your iPhone, there are a few different ways you can do it. If you use the Gmail iOS app, you can also change the default settings. Although Apple is using the open standard IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV services to make Gmail setup on iPhone, you could go to Settings > Mail to setup Gmail on iPhone if you have a paid Google account. iOS: How to change default email and browser apps The way to setup Gmail on iPhone is simple and convenient.You can even set third-party email services like Gmail as your default (with iOS 14 and later). ![]() Keep in mind, this tutorial is for those who use Gmail through Apple’s Mail app on iPhone and iPad.Īnother option is using the Gmail app on iPhone/iPad. The setting to change the default option of archiving Gmail emails with the Mail app on iPhone and iPad is quite buried in settings, but it’s quick to change once you know where to go. Have you noticed when you try to delete messages in Gmail on iOS you only get an archive option? Read on for how to delete Gmail on iPhone instead of archive in the Mail app. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cisco is one of the largest companies in the networking industry, making this credential highly relevant. Job Outlook: Employment of computer network architects is projected to grow 4 percent over the next ten years, about as fast as the average for all occupations. It covers a wide range of networking fundamentals. Salary: The median annual wage for computer network architects is 120,520. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Widely regarded as a staple network certification, the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) is an associate-level (early career) credential. Extensive experiments reveal that ConvMatch with a simple CNN backbone consistently outperforms state-of-the-arts including MLP-based methods for relative pose estimation and homography estimation, and shows promising generalization ability to different datasets and descriptors. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Widely regarded as a staple network certification, the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) is an associate-level (early career) credential. Specifically, with the observation that sparse motion vectors and dense motion field can be converted into each other with interpolating and sampling, we regularize the putative motion vectors by estimating dense motion field implicitly, then rectify the errors caused by outliers in local areas with CNN, and finally obtain correct motion vectors from the rectified motion field. Computer networkers designs, plans, implements and monitor. In this paper, from a novel perspective, we design a correspondence learning network called ConvMatch that for the first time can leverage convolutional neural network (CNN) as the backbone to capture better context, thus avoiding the complex design of extra blocks. A computer networker, or sometimes called a computer network architect or network engineers. However, the problem of lacking context information limits its performance and hence, many extra complex blocks are designed to capture such information in the follow-up studies. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) has been widely used in two-view correspondence learning for only unordered correspondences provided, and it extracts deep features from individual correspondence effectively. A Cisco Network Architect is a professional who designs and plans the architecture of a computer network that uses Cisco technologies. CV: Motion & Tracking, CV: 3D Computer Vision, CV: Image and Video Retrieval Abstract ![]() 8/17/2023 0 Comments Pictures of animal hides![]() ![]() While many consider her to be perpetuating the endangerment of these species, Jones argues she is helping to conserve them. Jones recently went on safari in Zimbabwe, where she shot and killed several endangered species, such as a leopard and rhino. Jones will star in an upcoming show about African hunting on the Sportsman Channel, but recently became the target of animals rights activists because of her animal trophy photos. This week, they removed several pictures from the profile of Kendall Jones, a Texas Tech cheerleader and wild game hunter. When Facebook admins are not focused on baby bottoms, they are also at odds with hunters, who often post their kills on their profiles. These policies are designed to ensure Facebook remains a safe, secure and trusted environment for everyone on Facebook." With over 1 billion people using Facebook we have to put in place a set of universal guidelines that respect the views of a wide range of people. Facebook found the photo inappropriate, citing their policy against child pornography and nudity. Instagram is also pretty anti-baby-skin, banning a prominent mommy-blogger after she posted a photo of her toddler who was showing her tummy.Ī Facebook spokesperson told MailOnline," It is hard. It was reminiscent of the classic Coppertone Girl sunscreen ad, which is why White posted it to her Facebook account. Jill White, a photographer and mother, took a photo of her toddler's swim trunks being pulled on, revealing a bit of her baby butt and tan lines. ![]() White's toddler photo, censored per Facebook's request. ![]() 8/17/2023 0 Comments Dwarf fortress nobles meme![]() ![]() They should just punish you instead of specific dwarves. Or was it the player who ordered all those things of many different dwarves, none of whom were fully aware of what they were doing? Even if you WANT to track all those things, what killed the duchess was a magma flow, not a dwarf, and the dwarves had no direct hand in introducing the magma flow to the duchess, they simply dug pits because you ordered them to that happened to get filled with magma under someone else's watch, when it happened to have a floodgate that dropped magma onto the duchess's shiney new lever room. Was it the miner who carved out the chamber? Was it the miner who carved out the channel the magma flowed through? Was it the engineer who installed the floodgate? Was it the other engineer who installed the lever? Was it the other-other engineer who connected the lever? Was it the other-other-other engineer who built the lever that you set the duchess to pull as bait to get her into the deathtrap? Was it the dwarf who finally pulled the lever to the deathtrap floodgate, or the dwarf who pulled the lever that started the pump that would fill the deathtrap's magma resevoir? Please keep the hating and calling me an elf to a minimum.īecause we don't have the ability to invade yet, but trust us, when we get the ability to, we will, and those dirty elves will all see their Final Solution in the concentration camps.Īs for preventing atom smashing - HERESY! Besides, even then, there's magma dumping, or just plain walling off the duchess's coffin entirely so that there is no way to find it.Īs for tracking "who built the trap that killed the duchess", that's just plain absurd. ![]() ![]() In more extreme cases, like repeat offenses, they may even lay a sanction on you, or even send an "honor guard" who take up the job of law enforcement.įeel free to add thoughts on the subject. In the case of the Queen or King dying, punishment should be much more severe, such as also taking your mayor, taking a percentage of your wealth, or even refusing to send caravans for a long time, up to five years. (In this case, blame would fall on the mason and mechanic who built the floor, support, and trigger.) When they find the culprit, they take them into custody and either a) give them to the Sheriff/CotG/Hammerer, or b) take them away to the mountainhome, depending on what noble it was that died. They rough up your dwarfs a little, find out who killed the Duchess. They begin asking questions, and they aren't as polite as the investigator. Two seasons later, when you would be getting a caravan, you instead get an Inquisitorial Squad. He begins snooping around the Duchess' chambers and, depending on how good of Liars your dwarfs are, eventually he investigates the pit and finds the Duchess' rotting body. The next season after, a single dwarf comes with the title of Investigator. Some amount of time later, perhaps with the next Dwarf Caravan, the liaison comments on the missing duchess. You, pissed off and tired of this ungrateful waste of flesh, decide to stage an "Unfortunate Accident." Namely, you have her pull a lever that drops her thirty z-stories into a pit. ![]() The Duchess demands green glass items for the fiftieth time, despite the fact that this map still, consistently, has absolutely no sand. Here's the type of scenario I'm imagining: It should, however, require ingenuity and resources in order to avoid a worse punishment. So, why not have a punishment system in place? It doesn't have to be super serious, like instant failure of the fortress. How many fantasy stories do you know of where an important noble dies in strange circumstances and nobody notices or cares? You can probably count them on the fingers of one head. It is, in fact, supposed to be a simulation of a fantasy world builder. Let me explain.ĭwarf Fortress is supposed to be a simulation of a fantasy world. And this, in the most un-dwarvenly tradition, in the most apologetic course of action, is my suggestion: This, in the nature of things, has lead to many, many people creating extraordinarily complicated ways to kill their nobles. They make horrible demands, order the hammering of dwarfs who could not have possibly completed their mandates, and generally bring a fortress to a spiraling death halt. Nobles are generally agreed to be the most worthless wastes of space since Soapmakers. ![]() 8/17/2023 0 Comments Halo infinite story catch up![]() ![]() We get to watch their partnership be born, then strain, and later strengthen. You don’t need to be a hardcore Halo fan to recognize Taylor’s nuanced performances in playing three similar but distinct roles she effortlessly separates the three, playing brilliantly off of the fact that The Weapon doesn’t know the Chief at all (though that makes it even stranger that basic Halo concepts aren’t spelled out for new players by using her as their proxy). ![]() She is voiced by Jen Taylor, who also stars as Cortana as well as Spartan program creator Dr. Still, there are really good aspects of the story too: namely, the relationship between Master Chief and his new AI companion, who we only know as The Weapon. ![]() Maybe 343 ran out of time or maybe it never came up, but it’s a failure that could’ve been avoided. This sixth Halo should’ve come with a “Halo’s Story So Far” cinematic that rolls before you start playing, as we’ve seen other long-running series do (most recently, Microsoft’s own Psychonauts 2). If you’re in the latter group, you’re going to ask the following questions (and plenty of others) that Infinite never answers: Who are the Covenant? Why is Cortana evil? What are the Guardians? None of that old ground is covered.Īnd even if, like me, you’ve played every Halo campaign multiple times, the fact is that it’s been six years and the last one was the most convoluted Halo story ever means that it’s not easy to get comfortable with Infinite’s plot. ![]() Its tale focuses on the splinter Covenant faction The Banished (last seen in Halo Wars 2) and was not particularly satisfying for this longtime Halo fan, and the new players Infinite is hoping to bring in might be outright lost. It’s not a Halo 5-level disaster by any stretch – for starters, Infinite doesn’t waste time with any playable characters who aren’t Master Chief – but it probably isn’t going to really make most players happy. Read the full Halo Infinite Multiplayer Review Impressively, it manages to give nostalgic veterans the best of what they remember Halo multiplayer feeling like while also smoothly introducing new players to the joys of Spartan combat. With some fantastic map design, a collection of straightforward but highly engaging modes for both large and small groups, excellent weapons and gear options, and those delightfully bouncy and sticky grenades, Halo Infinite’s multiplayer modes put it in the top tier of competitive shooters. It’s so nice when a game actually lives up to sky-high expectations! Halo Infinite has been one of the most anticipated games out there since it was first announced three years ago, and for its multiplayer component to so fully deliver on the series’ classic feel while also keeping up with the modern-day competition in the FPS genre is a huge achievement. What We Thought About Halo Infinite's Multiplayer It dug a deep hole for Halo Infinite to try and climb out of – particularly given that Infinite tries to both tie up 5’s loose ends and keep the existing storyline going, while also serving as the aforementioned “spiritual reboot” meant to welcome in new fans. Halo 5, unfortunately, followed up by derailing any momentum that 4 had built by, among other narrative crimes, barely letting you play as Master Chief. Halo 4 certainly has its issues, but its focus on Master Chief’s relationship with a Cortana who was rapidly succumbing to rampancy gave it a memorable and commendable emotional core. Speaking of previous Halo games, the only concern I had heading into Halo Infinite that I really had to worry about was the story. “Hey Cortana, What the Hell Is Going on in Halo?” While Infinite’s indoor spaces did wow me at times and there are certainly some impressive vistas across its outdoor landscape, Infinite looks perfectly good at best, but not jaw-droppingly so as Halo 1, Halo 2, and Halo 4 did before it. Halo games, like many major first-party efforts, have often been graphical showcases for their respective consoles – including 343’s own Halo 4, which elicited a late-in-the-generation “How did they do this on the 360?” kind of reaction to its gorgeous graphics back in 2012. On a related note, I also wish Zeta Halo was a bit prettier. ![]() 8/17/2023 0 Comments Ios 6.1.4 jailbreak evasion![]() This will help the jailbreak process to run smoothly. Wait for the download to complete, locate the downloaded file on your computer, and double-click the Evasi0n icon to open the program.īefore running Evasi0n, you’ll want to turn off the passcode on your device if you have it enabled. Click on the link for the operating system you’re running. Next, download the Evasi0n jailbreak tool on your Mac, PC, or Linux computer. Once you’ve declined iTunes’ prompt to update your device, click Sync and wait for the process to finish. I recommend choosing the Do Not Ask Me Again option at this point to ensure that you don’t accidentally tell iTunes to update your device in the future. If you do, your device will update and you’ll lose the ability to jailbreak it. NOTE: When you connect your device to iTunes and you’re running an out-of-date, jailbreakable version of iOS, iTunes will prompt you to update to the most recent version of the operating system. Wait for the process to complete, and you’re done! To back up your device using iCloud, open the Settings app on your device, tap on iCloud, scroll to the bottom of the screen, tap on Storage & Backup, and then tap Back Up Now. This way, if anything does go wrong and you find yourself in a position where you need to perform a full system-restore, you’ll want to have backed up your settings and content. However, just to be safe, it’s always a good idea to back up your device to iCloud and perform a sync using iTunes. Jailbreaking using Evasi0n is easy and there is little chance that anything will go wrong. Step 1: Back up your device to iCloud and sync using iTunes ![]() The process of jailbreaking an iOS device using Evasi0n is extremely easy. If you checked your device’s operating system version, though, and it’s in the window of iOS 6.0-6.1.2, good news! Your device can be successfully jailbroken using the Evasi0n jailbreak tool. Steps to performing a jailbreak on iOS 6.0-6.1.2 using Evasi0n UPDATE: In late 2013, a jailbeak tool was released that allows users to jailbreak the remaining versions of iOS 6.1 including 6.1.3, 6.1.4, and 6.1.5. Hopefully, a jailbreak solution will become available for iOS 7 soon after it’s released in the fall. So, if you are running a version of iOS more recent than 6.1.2 you are out of luck for the time being. Apple also does not allow downgrading devices to previous versions of iOS. Unfortunately, in the most recent version of iOS, which is, depending on the device, either 6.1.3 or 6.1.4, Apple patched the exploits they used. The team of hackers behind the Evasi0n untethered jailbreak, the major jailbreak solution for iOS 6, successfully jailbroke iOS 6.0 through iOS 6.1.2. ![]() You can find information about which version of iOS your device is running by opening Settings, tapping on General, tapping on “About,” and then looking at the “Version” section. In fact, if you’ve kept up with Apple’s software updates as they’ve been pushed to your device, it’s probable that your device cannot currently be jailbroken. Hence, it’s common that the next minor update to iOS will render the jailbreak solution useless after updating. After developers release a jailbreak solution, Apple usually acts quickly to patch the exploits the developers used to create the jailbreak. ![]() Now, as I mentioned in Lesson 1, a jailbreak solution does not exist for every iOS device or every version of the iOS operating system. Generally, one major jailbreak solution will be released for most devices per yearly update of iOS. For a great list of different jailbreak tools that includes Evasi0n and other jailbreak tools that work with older versions of iOS, check out iDownloadBlog’s download page. This post will tell you how to jailbreak iOS 6 using the Evasi0n jailbreak tool. So, how do you actually perform a jailbreak? The answer to this question varies depending on which version of the iOS operating system is running on your device. In Lesson 3, we described the pros and cons of jailbreaking. In Lesson 2, we addressed common misconceptions about jailbreaking. If you’d like info on how to jailbreak iOS 6, please continue reading this post.įirst, to recap, in Lesson 1 of this series, we defined & overviewed jailbreaking and discussed jailbreak programs, called “packages,” breaking them down into categories. Update: iOS 7 has also been jailbroken! Check out our post on how to jailbreak it here. In this post, the last lesson in a 4 part series about jailbreaking iOS devices, we’ll get down to specifics and describe how to actually perform a jailbreak on iOS 6 using the Evasi0n jailbreak tool. ![]() 8/17/2023 0 Comments Transparent later inkist![]() It provides several options for uploading files, such as drag-and-drop, screenshot and paste, or copy-paste the link. RemoveBG is another straightforward background removal tool you can use to make a transparent watermark. Hit Download to save your transparent watermark.įor more convenience, you can download the PicWish software tool on your Mac or Windows and add watermark images in bulk up to 100 images at once.Go to PicWish official website and click the Upload Image button to import the photo.Here’s how the three steps to make transparent watermark PNG: Best of all, this transparent watermark maker service is absolutely free and gives high-quality output. ![]() It provides a precise and clean cut without requiring complex tools. Using this easy-to-use, AI-powered online tool, you can instantly remove the background of any image, including graphics, logos, and even scanned signatures that can be added to your photos as watermarks. ![]() The top-tier transparent watermark maker you can trust is PicWish. In other words, you must learn how to control the image’s opacity and make a perfect transparent watermark PNG.Īfter learning the proper way of adding a transparent watermark on your photo, we’ll introduce to you the top 3 transparent watermark makers along with their step-by-step guide to using them. When putting a watermark, you should make it translucent yet recognizable. Play around with the size of the watermark before permanently putting it on your photo to find the perfect fit to the dimensions of the pictures you’re going to post. Therefore, you should put it in the cleanest space of your photo as much as possible, but ensure that the area cannot be cropped easily. Watermarks over your main subjects don’t just look unprofessional, but they also ruin the quality of your image. Whether you place the watermark in the middle, top-left corner, or bottom-right corner, the watermark should be in the same place every time. It should also complement your image well. Make your watermark as minimalist as possible, and avoid too many decorative elements. Whatever your subject or forte is, a watermark shouldn’t steal the spotlight from your masterpiece. Check them out below: Simple and Straightforward It is also a must that you follow the basic guidelines when making it. When adding one, you don’t just put it anywhere in your photo. These can appear as logos, signatures, and even as brand names. We will all agree that “protection” is the appropriate word to describe watermarks. Guidelines in Creating Transparent Watermark PNG over Photos ![]() How to Make Transparent Watermark with Online Tools That duplicate, right here and after a few years, is still missing the background-blend-mode property, widely implemented nowdays (It lays below the multiple background and inset shadow examples).įrom an answer of mine at How to add a color overlay to a background image? marked as a duplicate of that question where no pseudo element ,nor extra element is required.Basic Rules and Best Apps for Making Transparent Watermark PNG Guidelines in Creating Transparent Watermark PNG over Photos mind the third one if you already read other answers about bg and box-shadow): So here is about my answer out there, answer that gives you 3 easy ways without extra markup nor pseudos :Īt first, i saw two easy options at that time (2016, those two option are also within answers standing here too, so nothing really new to add about these. Multiple background with a translucent single gradient over image from an an old codepen of mine with few examples. Huge inset shadow which does about the same thing as a gradient overlayĬSS gradients are represented by the data type, a special type of made of a progressive transition between two or more colors. You can choose between three types of gradients: linear (created with the linear-gradient() function), radial (created with the radial-gradient() function), and conic (created with the conic-gradient() function). You can also create repeating gradients with the repeating-linear-gradient(), repeating-radial-gradient(), and repeating-conic-gradient() functions. Gradients can be used anywhere you would use an, such as in backgrounds. Because gradients are dynamically generated, they can negate the need for the raster image files that traditionally were used to achieve similar effects. ![]() 8/17/2023 0 Comments Instagram symbols with mustaches![]() ![]() “I didn’t like those of the 1930s and 1940s very much, like Errol Flynn and Clark Gable. Lacasa is a keen classifier of the mustache. Joaquin Phoenix couldn’t have had a beard in Her: it had to be a mustache.” “Furthermore, being set in the future, the movie left a prophecy: the modern and interesting man of tomorrow will wear a mustache. “That was the turning point for the return of the mustache: a cool dude, well-dressed… and with a ‘tache,” says Blanca Lacasa, a journalist, writer and firm defender of masculine facial hair. Moviestore Collection/face to fa (0070056 / Cordon Press) Many people agree that it was Phoenix who paved the way for the return of the mustache in Her (2013). Her was set in the future, and the mustache was simply there. It was such a groundbreaking move that review website Gizmondo noted: “ Her looks so good that you won’t care about Joaquin Phoenix’s mustache.” The review also wondered: “I’m not sure which is the scifi part, though: that a man could fall in love with his computer, or that an intelligent being of any sort would date a dude with that mustache.” James Franco in Milk (2008) and Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds (2009) had sported mustaches before that but both were period pieces and the facial hair part of the actors’ characterization. ” Spike Jonze, a totem of hipsterism, gave Joaquin Phoenix a mustache in his 2013 hit movie Her. Sergio Lopez, a Goya-nominated make-up artist, believes the current trend for top lip adornment is “an inheritance of the hipsters, a natural evolution of that bushy beard. In any case, the mustache renaissance has been underway for years. The pandemic lockdowns did a lot to normalize mustache relations: an opportunity to experiment led many people to realize the look suited them and they retained it when the streets reopened. Justin Bieber has one, and Zak Efron sports one for his latest movie, The Greatest Beer Run Ever. Today, the American Mustache Institute only exists on Twitter and Instagram, and it does not have a vast following: the mustache is no longer conflictive. The most famous mustache of the 1980s belonged to Queen front man Freddie Mercury, who wore it as a symbol of sexual freedom. ![]() If a five o’clock shadow is the first outward sign of adolescence being left behind, it also represents a rite of passage toward becoming a voter and taxpayer. In fact, a mustache represents a man’s entry into politics. The institute’s president, Aaron Perlut, told The Atlantic in an interview that they had saved the job of a waiter in Georgia who was threatened with being fired if he did not shave and had a student called Sebastian Pham reinstated at his high school in 2006 after he had been expelled for refusing to remove his mustache. ![]() The institute carries out surveys, which do not always work in its best interest: in 2013, one poll revealed that 73% of respondents associated mustaches with alcoholism and only 30% believed a man in a managerial position should wear one. In the US, mustaches remain important enough the American Mustache Institute was founded in 1965 and takes its work very seriously. Others still link a mustache with the darkest side of 20th century militarism and names like Hitler, Franco and Mussolini, who have quite the opposite effect. Some marketing theories posit that men with carefully groomed beards and mustaches inspire confidence and help advertisers to sell more products. They have also been associated with love: in the 19th century, British men sported a mustache to announce that they were single and of good social standing. ![]() On a global scale, mustaches have been associated with war: Greeks and Romans considered a luxurious beard a symbol of manhood, but found that a mustache was better for the battlefield to prevent their enemies from grabbing them in battle. The history of the mustache, at least in Spain, was embedded in that myth for years. In fact, men with mustaches are either gay or fugitives, or both at the same time.” Even in the context of gross comedy, the observation is not entirely without basis. Rossy replies: “Mustaches are not the exclusive patrimony of men. In a scene from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s 1993 movie Kika, Verónica Forqué encourages her home-help, Rossy de Palma, to shave her top lip, on the basis it will make her more feminine and attractive. ![]() 8/17/2023 0 Comments Maxel reels for sale![]() ![]() We also concluded that a built-in pickup, which would allow you to plug the instrument into an amp, was not an important feature in a beginner model. We thought a good uke that didn’t come with a case was better than a mediocre uke that did. Cases are important, but they are also inexpensive. Accessories: We considered an included case (and other accessories) to be a bonus but not a requirement.Instruments with laminated tops often sound very good, and laminated tops tend to crack less easily. Ukes with a solid-wood top tend to have a richer sound, but in the price range we were looking at, the decision to use more costly solid wood typically requires sacrifices in other aspects of construction. We looked for wood models that were inexpensive but not “cheap.” One thing we didn’t focus on was whether the uke had a solid-wood or laminate (plywood) top and body. Build quality: Instructors we spoke to said that most students would prefer a traditional uke made of wood, not plastic.(We made an exception for the Populele 2 Pro because its electronic design is in a class by itself.) ![]() We found dozens of promising models below this price. Price: Beginners rarely spend more than $100 for their first uke, so we decided to cap the price for our test group at $130.Maxel Hybrid 20C Jigging Reel HY20C, Magnetic Cast Control. MAXEL SEALION OSL06D Right Handle Reel Used From Japan F/S Big Game Blue/Silver. Soprano ukes might feel too small for some adults, though. MAXEL RAGE R25H Right Handle Reel Used From Japan F/S Big Game Black/Gold. After discussions with retailers and instructors, we decided to focus on soprano and concert ukes for their portability, price, and light, trebly sound. The bigger the uke, the easier it will be to fit your fingers between the frets, and the fuller and louder the sound will likely be. A baritone uke is tuned like the four highest-pitched strings of a guitar, so some enthusiasts consider it more of a cousin to the uke. Soprano, concert, and tenor ukes are basically the same instrument in different sizes they are all tuned the same, so if you can play one, you can play them all. ![]() |
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