![]() You're walking alone, your mind's wandering, thinking of nothing in particular, then BAM. "All my anger fell away and there I sat to think an hour or so on the war-torn colonnade." It's about enlightenment: "the feeling of a Eureka moment. "All along the Rue des Champs, on a sea of high-planed dreams," sings Nick on 'Champs'. You've bought pizza, a case of beer and everything's packed.Īs expected, none of your friends show up to help and you're left schlepping boxes alone all day, getting a bit too drunk," the band explains. 'Nothing' meanwhile is "about moving on a beautiful, sunny day. "It's Seinfeld, but what the hell isn't?" says Nick, adding they "pull a bit from everywhere." Completed by live drummer Adam White and live guitarist Scott Boudreau, Mauno's Rough Master is a journal of "the kind of music that's churning in our minds when we're not focused on grocery lists." Opener 'Reeling' sets the tone: a gentle lament at growing old that descends into a loose yet lush release before the chaos of 'Manitoba'. Over the course of Rough Master it strays from twisting grunge-pop on 'Again', to a breezy lilt on 'Champs', to piano ambience ('Pulses') and string-accompanied haze ('Reeling') elsewhere.īut then, what do you expect when Eliza has a background in classical cello and old R&B, while Nick boasts a record collection jammed with choral and folk? The result is an album that sounds like a windows-rolled-down summer road trip with the cast of Seinfeld.Įlaine doesn't want to listen to music, George is very focused on the road, Kramer is sporadically buzzing through his iPod listening to half-songs from every genre possible, and Jerry is reading whilst eating spicy Cheetos. ![]() I arrived here on a failed hitch-hiking trip and just keep getting drawn back." Rough Master, the group's smart, intricate new album, has at least this in common with the city where it was forged.įull of familiar and charming shimmery guitar-and less-familiar, somewhat absurd stories written over rueful meals in empty apartments-Rough Master is a record you too will just keep getting drawn back into.įormed in September 2014, Mauno - pronounced Mao-no, and named after bassist Eliza Niemi's adamantly unmusical Finnish grandfather - have a wandering sound that refuses to be pinned down. "At times, it's really boring, which I find useful for writing songs-not being distracted. "Halifax is a weird little town," says frontman Nick Everett of the Canadian peninsula they call home, where life unfolds in a slow-drift of tiny moments never more than a stone's throw from the sea. Pre-order it here.F boredom really does breed creativity, then Nova Scotia weirdo pop-rock sophisticates Mauno must be four intensely bored individuals. Tuning is out 10/13 via Tin Angel and Idee Fixe. Jeff Miller edited the video and made it look great.ġ1/11 Winnipeg, Manitoba The Handsome Daughterġ1/21 Quebec City, Québec Sous-sol du Cercleġ1/22 Fredericton, New Brunswick The Capitalġ1/24 St. To make the video, we fortified a piece of plexi and then had two people on each side of the glass playing someone’s face along to the track. We realized that you could play your face like an instrument. The idea came together when we saw an Instagram video of Scott’s nephews smushing their faces up against a piece of plastic or something. We made this video on my back porch in Halifax with the very talented photographer Ali Seglins. Calm, and rise a-feared.” Via email, frontman Nick Everett clarified the impetus for the video: ![]() The lyrics’ fluctuating anxiety blends with the upbeat, frenetic rhythm, echoing the video’s playfulness and slight discomfort: “The restless hour, the restless noise. The self-proclaimed “shapeshifters” smush their faces into clear glass, distorting their bodies into awkward and amusing forms that fidget with the beat, reducing their bodies to fleshy instruments. It follows the record’s first single and video “ Helah,” a disproportionately soothing precursor to today’s release.ĭirector Ali Seglins matches this new song’s spinning melody and modern medieval lyricism with an equally eccentric visual. Canadian indie rockers Mauno are teasing their upcoming sophomore album, Tuning, today with its second single, “Com,” and an accompanying video.
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![]() $200 a person? And it gives +15-20% hapiness? Awesome.īut no its trash. You're thinking damn that's pretty sweet. Why? Gift shop makes you $200 a pop (newsagent gives $120) and takes 3 seconds to serve a person. And if that's what you want, its better to have one manning a gift shop. The only time cafe sorta breaks even is when a max customer service assistant is manning it. You can use cafe space to put down useful rooms like toilets, staff rooms, diag rooms and treatment rooms. Large cafes (2-4 stalls) only add to a huge traffic jam.why? Because theres only ONE ENTRANCE.Ĩ vending machines take up less space than a cafe, serve 4 times people faster, sending them on the way, and add less trash as long as you have trashcans. Limiting cafe to staff own = lose money on it. But that advantage simply doesn't come close to covering the inefficencies introduced by the cafe. You CAN make a cafe work, and it does have some small advantages: Namely, I think that a patient who has eaten at the cafe won't need to eat or drink again for the duriation of their visit. As a side note, a patient who has actually received food and sat down will abort the eating animination if they are being called to their next appointment - doesn't help much, but. It isn't clear to me if this period of time runs from "Entered the cafe -> sat down to eat" or from "got food -> sit down to eat" (I think it is the former), but whatever it is, it has catastrophic effects on efficency. It works much better if you lay it out so that there is sufficent space for a straight line of sufficent length leading ot each of the servers, but that requires tons of space.īut the critical problem is that once a patient has entered the cafe they won't leave if they are called to their next appointment. Since patients in a queue (of any sort) periodically re-evaluate which queue is shortest, this can lead to large numbers of people moving in slow motion as they attempt to switch queues. Note that if a cafe has multiple servers, and you don't allow sufficent space for the queue to form (in a straight line!) then you'll end up with a mass of people clipping into one another (and moving very slowly as a result). Spoiler alert Putting down a cafe immediately breaks the game. ![]() It took way too long to figure out why the level that introduced the cafe was so much harder than the rest. It's a completely unusable part of the game. You can't even get patients to order food. When people are getting into the cafe it reaches a critical mass in which people run into each other and the actual cafe itself slows down. which means you'll need vending machines to satisfy patient's hunger. The only way to move things along is to shut down the cafe. You will get these giant queues at times of 30 people waiting for food. The result is adding a cafe slows down all diagnosis and cure times across your hospital. Instead of being bumped in an appointment they keep their place in line and just keep the queue from never moving. They will line up endlessly to get food and so if you don't have as many cafes as you have GPs, well they never go to their appointments. Patients get hungry and they will preferentially go to a cafe for food over vending machines. ![]() I just don't understand how they could have been released in the game as they are. ![]() Change the "1" to the number found in the request URI error that Google gives you. If it is, you will receive an error when attempting to link an account.
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For so-called “hands-off” investors, there’s nothing more valuable to them than their time, which means they almost exclusively look for investments they can put on autopilot. All proceeds from the book go to a nonprofit, the Consumer Federation of America, in support of financial literacy.For some investors, there’s no better thrill than rolling up their sleeves and getting in the trenches to achieve substantial returns. If you would like to learn more about patient investing, my friend Patrick Geddes has written a book titled “Transparent Investing: How to Play the Stock Market without Getting Played.” MarketWatch readers can get a free Kindle copy by going here by January 27. To quote Buffett again, “If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.” No? Then you shouldn’t be investing at all. 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The recent stock market volatility, following years of up markets, is nevertheless the most widely forecast financial reversal in recent history. ![]() Tacos Al Pastor traditionally begin with a corn tortilla and are piled with charred, thin shavings of marinated, roasted pork, pineapple, pico de gallo, cilantro and lime juice. What is in tacos al pastor?Īl Pastor and Tacos Al Pastor are almost interchangeable terms. It is thinly sliced vertical shavings of caramelized pork served with pineapple. The shredded pork is then oven-roasted until slightly crispy.Īuthentic Al Pastor, on the other hand, is spit-roasted pork and seasoned with guajille chiles, achiote paste, pineapple juice, etc. ![]() It is seasoned with oregano, garlic, cumin, onion, jalapeno and orange juice and braised until fall-apart tender. I love them both!!! Both Al Pastor and Carnitas are made with pork but the difference lies in the preparation and seasonings.Ĭarnitas is made with pork shoulder and is Mexico’s version of pulled pork. What is the Difference Between Al Pastor and Carnitas? Pork shoulder is a relatively inexpensive cut of meat and layered with enough fat that when marinated and cooked on high heat, it emerges tender and juicy. ![]() What kind of meat is al pastor?Īl Pastor is traditionally spit-roasted pork but for our homemade Al Pastor we are going to use boneless pork shoulder. The citizens of Mexico developed their own guajillo chille marinade with its signature tangy chile flavor and applied it to pork instead of lamb or other meats. The “pastor” in Al Pastor is the name given to the Lebanese merchants who brought the concept of shawarma with them. As the rotisserie rotates, the outside cooks and thin pieces are continually shaved off. These immigrants cooked their thin cuts of meat stacked together in a cone-like shape on a vertical spit-grill, known as shawarma (one of my favs, coming soon!), much like Greek gyros. I am always fascinated by the origins of popular “authentic” food so I was surprised to learn the concept for Al Pastor was brought to Central Mexico by Lebanese immigrants in the early 1900s. The Al Pastor is sliced off the spit-grilled meat to-order in thin slices accompanied by chunks of fresh pineapple. The outside edges of the pork become beautifully crisp and caramelized while the inside remains splendidly juicy. If you aren’t familiar with Al Pastor, (meaning “shepherd style” in Spanish), it is a popular pork dish in Central America in which pork is marinated in pineapple, chilies and spices then stacked and vertically roasted on a slowly turning spit with a pineapple on top which bathes the pork with its juices. I hope this Al Pastor recipe joins the ranks of my Mexican Chicken, Salsa Verde Chicken, Carnitas, Chipotle Pork, Carne Asada, Beef Barbacoa and Chipotle Chicken as one of your favorite new Mexican protein staples. In fact, he had three teenage boys from our church youth group over to our house to eat the leftovers that night – and they ate ALL of it. He loved the Al Pastor as it was coming off the grill, he loved it as it was barely warm after photos and he loved it reheated the same night. My foodie critic husband (who loves Mexican food even more than me – which is barely possible) would agree. The combination of smoky, tangy, chile pork, with grilled pineapple is 1000X crave worthy so I knew I was up for a challenge to create a traditional al pastor tasting recipe that was homemade BUT, I think we have done just that and I can honestly say this is arguably one of the best homemade Al Pastor recipe out there. When we go out, I usually order it in some form or another from authentic Tacos Al Pastor to Ada Haba Pina California Burrito (burrito with Al Pastor, pineapple, French fries, sour cream, guacamole, cheese, etc.) to Al Pastor Nachos. I recently shared in my Al Pastor Kabobs post, that I am obsessed with Al Pastor. ![]() BBS sightings have shown a steep rise since 1995. Introduced birds and their offspring wander widely across Britain and Ireland but, as yet, pairs have been slow to set up breeding sites distant from the release areas ( Balmer et al. Orros & Fellowes 2014, 2015) or the development of a well-established communal roost. ![]() Each of these centres has given rise to a productive breeding group, in some cases benefiting from large-scale provision of food (e.g. Further releases were begun in Northamptonshire in 1995, central Scotland in 1996, Yorkshire in 1999, Dumfries & Galloway in 2001, northeast England in 2004, Aberdeen in 2007 and County Down in 2008. Successful breeding populations quickly established in both areas. As a step towards restoring the original breeding range, birds were introduced in 1989 into the Chilterns (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) and into the Black Isle in Easter Ross ( Evans & Pienkowski 1991). Most birds were descended from a single female that had continued to breed successfully during the population bottleneck ( Carter 2001). Through careful husbandry organised by a 'Kite Committee' of local conservationists and landowners, including RSPB bounties paid to farmers for successful nests during 1922-90, the Welsh population rose to 100 pairs by 1993. There are now thought to be around 2,700 breeding pairs across the UK.Red Kite was historically widespread across Britain but, following widespread persecution, fewer than ten breeding pairs remained by the 1930s and 1940s, concentrated into a small area of mid Wales. However, in 1989 reintroduction programme in the Chiltern Hills has seen them return as a widespread British bird of prey. But following centuries of persecution, only one or two pairs survived in Wales by the 1930s. Red kites were once a common and impressive sight over medieval towns, where they were welcomed as they helped keep the streets free of rotting dead animals. "The success of the species in the UK means we may now act as a lifeboat for red kites, as numbers in their European strongholds are in decline." Reintroduction He added: "Red kites are a beautiful and charismatic species, and it should be a cause for great celebration that their reintroduction has gone so well. Professor Fellowes said it was possible feeding had helped to boost the birds’ breeding success and increased their chances of surviving periods of cold or wet winter weather, which made finding food in the wild difficult, but added further research would be needed to confirm this. ![]() There have also been some reports of birds swooping into gardens to steal food from picnics or barbecues.īut this latest research suggests that in Reading up to 300 kites each day are drawn in by the food left out deliberately by people. Some conservation groups have asked people not to feed the kites, arguing the birds can find enough food in the wild without having to depend on handouts from humans. "The birds seem to be commuting into the town each day from the surrounding countryside for a meal."Ī Red Kite taken by Mark Fellowes Controversialįeeding red kites is controversial. "What we found was that people in Reading are providing enough food to provide the daily food needs for hundreds of red kites. "People had assumed waste food and road kill attracted them, but very little of this is actually available as our modern towns are remarkably clean. Professor Mark Fellowes, the University of Reading ecologist who supervised the study, said: "There are very few nesting or natural feeding sites in suburban areas, but we know that hundreds of red kites visit Reading every day. Bird and butterfly species could disappear due to lack of habitat and climate change.Instead up to 300 birds, which have a 1.75m wingspan, fly into Reading from their countryside habitats each day to eat. Hundreds of spectacular birds of prey are "commuting" into Reading each day to receive food handouts, according to researchers.Īlmost one in 20 Reading households, the equivalent of more than 4,300 homes, regularly feed red kites meaning the extraordinary birds travel into town for food.Īccording to the research, carried out by scientists at the University of Reading, there are not many red kite nesting sites in the town. ![]() So to keep them active and free of stress, you should have a clean tank to keep ammonia levels to a minimum.Ī proper filtration system is valuable because it helps keep the water clean, and minimize the spread of impurities. Researchers have experimentally verified that mystery snails are sensitive to ammonia because they breathe using their gills. ![]() It’s important to keep your tank clean at all times, as it can help encourage the mystery snails to mate. TIP: Refrain from powering wave makers in your aquarium during the breeding process, because waves of water could wash away the egg clutches. These are the two main reasons for the failure of egg clutches nested too close to the water line. Predators such as fish could nibble or eat the eggs when they’re kept alongside the water surface. Continuous water splashing could drench the eggs, causing them to get soggy and infertile. If the water level is not brought down, females will have to nest their clutches much closer to the water, which can be highly ineffective. Snails nest their clutch of eggs above the water surface, so they need this area to lay their eggs. Lower the water level, so there’s a gap of at least one inch. To prepare a breeding tank for mystery snails: If you feel your snails lack the nutrition to reproduce, you can provide them with small quantities of spinach, lettuce, carrots, or any other vegetable (Halstead, B. Unless your aquarium is very tidy and free of debris, feeding on a routine is unnecessary, as they scavenge for leftover fish food, algae, and other plant scraps. Like any other type of aquatic snail, mystery snails are more comfortable laying eggs when provided with an abundant food supply. Chestnut, gold, jade, magenta, yellow, black and blue are some of the available color variations of these snails. You can also use selective breeding to create snails of your desired colors! This is done by matching parental snails of different colors to create baby snails of various color combinations (The Apple Snail (Ampullariidae) Website, n.d.). While recognizing the gender of mystery snails can be a complex task, the best option is to select a group of about 6 snails, creating a good chance that both genders are present.įor effective breeding, add well-grown mystery snails, as they can produce much larger clutches with thriving offspring. If you plan on breeding mystery snails, you need both male and female creatures. This allows them to reproduce without the presence of a partner.īut this is not the case with mystery snails. In other words: Certain snail species, like trumpet snails and bladder snails, carry both male and female organs. Unlike other types of snails, mystery snails are not a hermaphrodite species – Meaning, they don’t reproduce asexually. The following steps will help encourage mystery snails to lay eggs: Selecting the parental snails In cold climates and in winter, a heater is mandatory to raise the water temperature, both for the snail’s well-being and for breeding conditioning (which we’ll dive into next). Temperature ranges from 68 degrees F to 82 degrees F are best, and it’s a healthy move to monitor the temperature and avoid letting it fall below 70 degrees F (Halstead, B. Mystery snails are hardy and likely to reproduce in any given environment, so they’re flexible when it comes to water parameters. Their growth can depend on their food consumption, as tanks with more food around can boost their growth and size. They may reach their full size in less than 2 months, and they’re ready to breed by the time they’re 1-1.5in long. How long do mystery snails take to reach their full size?Ī mystery snail may grow to be two inches long and reach one-fourth of an inch in just one week. We’ve covered what to expect, and how to do it right. Sometimes aquarists find it challenging to maintain and hatch the eggs if they’ve never done it before, as there are some complications that can occur. The mystery snail, scientifically known as ‘Pomacea bridgessi’, is a variant of the spike-topped apple snail and is a popular breed of snails in the aquarium hobby They’re super hardy, easy to care for, and can help keep a clean tank by eating detritus at the bottom. If you’re not happy about having mystery snail eggs in your aquarium, you can jump ahead to “How to stop mystery snails from breeding” or “How to get rid of mystery snail eggs.” But if you’re excited to breed and hatch your own clutch of mystery snail eggs, read on to learn how! |
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