He met his wife while running the ovens that bake Oreos and Chicken in a Biskit. Mayagoitia’s shift is usually from 3 to 11 am. On a Saturday afternoon, the station is manned by Eddie Mayagoitia and another man. ![]() (Union Pacific told them they couldn’t stand on the tracks.) Five camp chairs have been set up, and a picnic table is stocked with powdered donuts, Hot Pockets from a nearby convenience store, and wasp repellent. They’ve set up a white tent beside the track in a small brown clearing beside the railroad. Now, two workers with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 364 keep watch of the tracks at all times. The train engineer-a union member-reversed course.Ī Union Pacific spokesperson tells WW that it’s not currently serving the facility because of the strike. Boulevard overpass to stop a Pacific Union supply train headed for the Nabisco facility. 23, baker Linda Lasher and a co-worker named Julie stood on the railroad tracks that run under the Martin Luther King Jr. WW could not independently confirm that.) (Strikers say the supplies carried via rail include flour, sugar and oil. Perhaps most notably, Nabisco bakers have halted rail delivery of ingredients to the Portland bakery. The union, too, has stepped up strike efforts. Later that same night around midnight, protesters tell WW, 10 of them drove their cars to the outside of two hotels near the airport where they suspected strikebreakers were being lodged and set off their car alarms and honked horns. Eventually, videos show, the vans drove across the grass and between trees to enter the street and leave. Pictures shared with WW show two cars at one of the entrances, the driver of one swapping out a tire and moving painfully slowly, according to bakers-for over an hour. Then, on the following Tuesday evening before strikebreaking workers left the facility, protesters tell WW they staged “car troubles” at all seven of the egresses. Once those vehicles left, protesters rushed to the Nabisco facility and started slowly walking across the main vehicle entrance on Columbia Boulevard to impede swift entry. Eventually, cars and vans started turning around. Starting around 5 am, protesters blocked the driveway into the parking lot with their bodies for an hour. 20, protesters blocked vans and personal vehicles from entering an external parking lot eight minutes away from a building on Northeast Killingsworth Street where protesters say strikebreakers park, then load onto buses and vans, and get taken to the bakery. Two women standing outside one of the hotels on Monday evening told WW they were going to Nabisco that evening to work. Strikers say those listings and the descriptions mirror their jobs exactly-and many of them are listed as higher paid than union members. The following jobs are listed on Huffmaster’s website for work at facilities of a major food producer around the country: machinists, maintenance, engineer, forklift driver and quality control for food production and manufacturing. There’s some evidence for this: Mondelez appears to be using a strike staffing company called Huffmaster to employ contract workers. ![]() ![]() Striking bakers assert the passengers are strikebreakers. On Monday evening, the vehicle models varied-from minivans to boxy white vans that resembled Amazon delivery trucks-but nearly all had tinted windows hiding who was inside. WW has seen these vans both in video and in person. 10, the company has been running buses and vans to and from hotels in North Portland. Mondelez, based in Chicago, maintains that its Nabisco operations are running smoothly.īut since Portland bakers walked out Aug.
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Especially good if you’re a fan of a wide variety of interests, Reddit’s front page can keep you up-to-date with everything you care about, from /r/worldnews, /r/android, and even /r/pokemon. It gets something of a bad rap due to certain bad apples, but Reddit is still an excellent place to gather news. But it’s not the only news app around, and there are plenty of other options if you want something more specialized or a different pace of news. There’s a lot of flexibility with what you can do in Marvis Pro versus the standard Music app, and this is a great way to rediscover those albums that you haven’t listened to in years.Īpple News is the default news app for iOS, and it’s a great news app. ![]() With Marvis Pro, you can access your entire Apple Music library, search for and add new music from the Apple Music catalog, rediscover forgotten albums in your collection, scrobble to Last.fm, and so much more. Marvis Pro is a highly customizable music app for those who use Apple Music but hate the default Apple Music interface. IOS Marvis Pro ($9) Christine Romero-Chan / Digital Trends You can listen to full albums and create playlists. It’s free on PCs and tablets, but $10 a month if you want to fully use it on iPhone. Spotify is changing the game for the entire music industry. Whether you’re there to watch some professional gamers play new decks on Hearthstone or a League of Legends tournament, the Twitch app allows you to chat with streamers and other viewers and watch previously recorded videos, and it’s AirPlay and Chromecast compatible. Yes, it sounds like the app version of being a younger sibling, but we promise you that it’s maddeningly compulsive once you get started. ![]() Twitch is the best place to watch other people play video games or professional tournaments, or just chill out with some real-life board games. IOS Twitch Image used with permission by copyright holder Not sure what Roblox involves? Check out our guide on Roblox to find out. Join your friends and explore thousands of different experiences created by people around the world. Roblox is less a game itself these days and more a platform for creative people to make their own games. ![]() Why is Roblox here and not in the best iOS games article? It’s because it’s one of the best apps to download to play a huge variety of games. IOS Gaming Roblox Image used with permission by copyright holder Never lose a great recipe again, thanks to Whisk. There’s a meal planner you can use to plan the week ahead, and making a shopping list is as easy as pressing a single button. Instead of that, why not start using Whisk? Whisk allows you to pool recipes from all over the internet, substitute ingredients and amounts, and basically create your very own cookbook. There are amazing free recipes everywhere on the internet - but finding the one you need is very much like dealing with a needle in a haystack, and it’s easy to lose a great recipe. ![]() The Chromatics version was used as the closing music in HBO's " The Sex Lives of College Girls" season 1, episode1. The song later appeared on Young's Greatest Hits in 2004 and was included at #93 in Bob Mersereau's book The Top 100 Canadian Singles in 2010. In 1980, the song was used as the title theme of Dennis Hopper's movie Out of the Blue. Texas author and journalist Brad Tyer wrote in the Houston Press that "Hey Hey, My My" was stylistically " proto-grunge grunt rock". Reception Ĭash Box called it a "grinding three-chord rocker" that makes "a challenging musical and lyrical statement" with "thrashing drums and brash fuzz guitar." Record World called it "a perfect anthem with its slam-bang 'rock'n'roll will never die.'" Īccording to Young, the version of the song on Rust Never Sleeps is the same as that on Live Rust, except that for the Rust Never Sleeps version they removed the crowd noise and added sound effects such as hand claps and slamming doors in the studio. The line "It's better to burn out than it is to rust" is often credited to Young's friend Jeff Blackburn of The Ducks. The lyrics, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." were widely quoted by his peers and by critics. Young adopted the line and used it in the Crazy Horse version of the song, as well as for the title of his album. During the Different Fur studio sessions, Mothersbaugh added the lyrics "rust never sleeps", a slogan he remembered from his graphic arts career that promoted the automobile rust proofing product Rust-Oleum. On May 28, 1978, Young collaborated with Devo on a version of "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" at the Different Fur studio in San Francisco and would later introduce the song to Crazy Horse. In 1977, Devo had been asked by Young to participate in the creation of his film, Human Highway, and a scene in the film shows Young playing the song in its entirety with Devo (with Mothersbaugh changing a lyric about " Johnny Rotten" to "Johnny Spud"). The song "Hey Hey, My My.", as well as the titular phrase of the album on which it was featured, "rust never sleeps," sprang from Young's collaborations with Devo and, in particular, the band's frontman, Mark Mothersbaugh. ![]() The song was influenced by the punk rock zeitgeist of the late 1970s, in particular by Young's collaborations with the American art punk band Devo, and what he viewed as his own growing irrelevance. Combined with its acoustic counterpart " My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. " Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a song written by Canadian-American musician Neil Young. ![]() Paradise portrays Raymonde as a composer with remarkable range, one who treated the stars and the nobodies, the cheeky novelties and the heartfelt ballads, with equal insight and consideration. When Ian “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll” Dury wanted to evoke that heyday on 1980’s “Superman’s Big Sister,” he hired Raymonde to write the string arrangements, creating a song that mashes pop, punk, and novelty into three strident minutes. ![]() Taken together, his catalog forms an eccentric, not exactly representative but still incredibly enjoyable, history of a sophisticated era in British pop. During that time, he worked with major artists at the height of their careers (Billy Fury, the Walker Brothers), future stars ( David Bowie, Tom Jones), and many musicians who never achieved celebrity. A product of big bands in the ’40s and jazz combos in the ’50s, Raymonde started working with eccentric producer Joe Meek in the early ’60s, signing on as an in-house producer for Decca Records later in the decade. Ivor Raymonde was a figure of no small significance in the 1960s UK pop scene, but because he worked mostly behind the scenes, his name is not especially well known. Simon isn’t inflating his father’s importance with Paradise. “In those days it seemed from all the documentation he was the sort of guy who’d turn his hand to anything, he was happy to get paid, happy to be a session musician, happy to do an arrangement if asked and didn’t turn down work,” Simon recently told the Yorkshire Post. He even sings on one track, the dusky pop number “Mylene,” which appeared on the soundtrack to the forgotten 1959 sex romp Upstairs and Downstairs. The task was complicated by the fact that Ivor was a hired gun, working any number of jobs: writing songs, scouting talent, producing sessions, devising and conducting string and orchestra arrangements. Simon has described the project as a labor of love: It’s taken him years of diligent research to reconstruct his father’s sprawling catalog, which starts in the late 1940s and ends in the 1980s. But hopefully the release of Paradise: The Sound of Ivor Raymonde-by Bella Union, a label run by Ivor’s son Simon Raymonde, of Cocteau Twins-will change that. His more bizarre compositions include "Men Will Deceive You" for the actress Honor Blackman "Humpity Dumpity", a ridiculous twist song for Gene Vincent and "Grotty" for Ivor Raymonde and his Orchestra.Springfield is likely the only name many readers will recognize in that story (although some Brits may remember Vaughan). ![]() He had songs recorded by the Karl Denver Trio and Matt Monro and reached the American performers Eydie Gorme and Jimmy Gilmer. Hawker wrote songs for many female artists of the 1960s including Susan Maughan, Jackie Trent, Glenda Collins, Julie Rogers, Maureen Evans and Shapiro's cousin, Susan Singer, although in all cases without chart success. Springfield recorded another of their songs, "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love" (1965), an excellent ballad which only scraped into the Top 40. They wrote the plaintive ballad "I Wish I'd Never Loved You" for the third single, but Springfield favoured the Bacharach and David song "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself". The same team wrote the follow-up "Stay Awhile", which was the closest anyone in Britain had come to copying Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. ![]() You can make a lot more money if you Upgrade your Criminal Network at the expense of more Heat and danger to your base, keep an eye out for "green $ symbols" on the map for long-term Schemes to extract money from. Heat is added up together from all regions of a Faction and the competence and amount of Agents they send to your island and you have to deal with is based on the total Heat you have built up with said Faction (keep an eye on the Heat Tracker at the top right) Try to build out Criminal Networks evenly within the different Factions instead of going all-in on one early in the game (Scouting out 2 regions for each is good at the beginning). I have one at the end of a long corridor filled with traps coming from the Casino and the Helipad: Also Research Batons/Weapons to increase their combat effectiveness, making them ready for most threats. For instance it's good to have a staffed Armory ready near a Chokepoint Agents enter your Evil Lair through (with a camera right outside so they are alerted to the presence of tagged enemies immediately). The placement of the Armory is important. Consider making the Gauntlet for them longer ![]() ![]() If you're having problems with Agents attacking your Minions on Distraction attempts, they don't do this in the Casino area, only once they got to the "Evil Lair" part of your base sometimes. The longer you keep Agents busy in your Casino, the longer it'll take for the next group of Agents to arrive and the less you'll have to deal with them in general.Ĭonsider making a sort of "Gauntlet" for Agents from the Casino Entrance to the Lair Entrance they have to pass through to get there, this is best done after you Unlock the "Spin Doctor" that comes with "Slot Machines" and "Casino Divider", but you can do it early on with plants or similar too, the longer they have to walk to get there and the more staffed Cover Operation items they have to pass, the lower their "Skill" and "Resolve" are going to be at the end: ![]() They only visit gambling tables that aren't set to "Scam Tourists" to make you money though. Also consider that you can partition a single room into Mess Hall/Barracks/Staff Room or similar and don't need a separate room for each in certain parts of your Lair.Ī well-staffed and equipped Casino drains Agents "Skill" that they use to disable Traps you have set for them and their "Resolve", which has to drain before they leave your island every time they take part in an activity or talk to your Deception Minions. You don't want your Scientists to queue up for the Mess Hall instead of doing what they're supposed to. You can set those to only allow serving food for those specific Minion types too by clicking on them if you want to Railroad them into a specific Mess Hall. Have a large Central Mess Hall and/or several smaller Minion-based ones.ĭeception Minions like the Valet or Socialite prefer the "Refreshment Bar" that unlocks with the Socialite, Muscle Minions like the Guard or Mercenaries prefer the "Dinner Bar" that unlocks with the Mercenary and Science types like the Scientist, Technician and Biologist prefer the "Sushi Bar" that unlocks with the Biologist. Other important Research Trees are the three Top ones under "Lair", they will turn your 50/50/50 Minions into 100/100/100 one near the end of the game and make them Stronger and more durableĪfter you're done Researching the current Tier, you can use your Scientists to gather Intel for you instead of having them run around the Lair uselessly, by setting the "Computer Consoles" in the Control Room to "Scientist" Also "Safe Rack" and "Nuclear Reactor" for the Lair to save lots of space for your Vault and Power Station rooms. Research seems to be one of the most important things to do early game, especially useful are "Improved Mining Techniques" to be able to dig the slightly darker dirt, "Brainwasher 2000" to turn captured Agents into Workers/Guards/Valets and "Stun Club Rack/Stun Gun Rack" or "Club Rack/Pistol Rack" for your minions depending on whether you want to Capture or Kill agents, so they are able to get through tougher battles. Lockers increase your Maximum Minion cap up to 300, so expect to build lots of those in the Barracks Use your Evil Genius abilities to do things like speeding up Research, Training or concentrating on Work tasks If they’re heavy sleepers or utterly passed out, have them wake up in a strange place. Seriously, if they have a problem cleaning up their pubes, then (with gloves on) grab a bunch of the stuff and super clue it to something that’s valuable enough to them that they’ll get the point. Even if it takes 10 rolls, that’s probably only $20 to do a full single dorm room. Grab some festive wrapping paper and thoroughly set about wrapping their entire room in it. Shaving Cream FloorĬover the floor completely in fragrant shaving cream. However, this may not occur to them for some time. Simply sneak into the dorm shower while they’re getting ready for another day of collegiate labor and steal their towel and clothes so they will have no other option but to grab the shower curtain. If you can hold your composure, it will play an epic mind prank on them. Then, when they bring it to your attention, seriously act as if they’re nuts, and it’s been that way the whole time. While they’re away at class, sneak into their room and switch everything to the opposite side so it’s a perfect match. This one doesn’t make a mess, it’s free and it’s funny. They could wake up in the night screaming, or they could wake up in the morning to an unexpected stranger. Making the mannequin’s face scary is a bonus. Get a realistic-looking mannequin and sneak them into bed next to someone. Okay, so set the alarm an hour ahead of schedule (and any other clocks in the room along with it) and then flatten the tires so they think they’re going to be late. They’re the type of person that jets out of bed last minute, scrambles onto their bikes and heads off to class. No, instead grab like 10 bags of flour (that’s a pretty hefty clean-up job, remember) and slowly stealth fully cover your college buddy while they sleep. Completely Cover them in Flour While they Sleepĭon’t pour it on so they wake up. Really good for roommates or college friends with hardwood floors.ħ. If you have any tiles, butter them up and then wait because regardless of what kind of cleats someone may be wearing, they’re going to end up on their butt. The next person who opens that will be bombarded with fizz and syrup, unlike anything they’ve ever experienced before.Īgain, cheap and easy but effective. Simply put it back in the fridge and wait. But, what you do is put a tiny hole through one, latch it onto a string, and then drop it into a big bottle of soda and close the cap tightly. Then, turn their sound system up super-loud (not so loud you blow speakers) so that the next time they expect to hear some pleasant sound, suddenly they’re under siege and could potentially crap themselves. Anything from a full-on gunfight to a ground-shaking explosion with screams of terror. ![]() If you can get their log in information or get into the computer while they’re away, change the log-in sound to something crazy. It’s not over-the-top but it works (especially on girls) you could either big a furry spider in there of substantial size, a small snake, or perhaps even a rate. No, not a real dead thing, but a realistic looking one. The trick is that ideally you should be able to leave the room through the window so you can make the popcorn 5 feet tall (or more)! Transporting it is easy as well….industrial-sized trash bags. Making it goes really quick, and you can easily fill an entire dorm room with only about 8 or 9 bags which cost maybe $2 each. Go into their room, especially if they’re super-messy, and tape everything (within reason, of course) that’s trash onto their door and let them know it’s time to clean up! 2. You can find out a fair amount about a person by exposing their trash. Tape the Contents of Their Trash to Their Door ![]() Here are 15 that you can always count on as long as they go off without a hitch and are executed safely. Listen, if you’re looking for prank ideas and don’t want to get sucked into hours of prank videos, this article is for you. ![]() Oh Lord, there are so many hilarious pranks to pull on college friends. ![]() We then used a jig saw to cut a slit from one hole to the other. Then we drilled two holes about 6 to 8 inches apart, one on each end of the sharpie line.We laid out where we wanted the “plant pockets” to be, and marked them by drawing a line with a sharpie.DIY GARDEN TOWER INSTRUCTIONSĪfter finding our barrel(s), the next steps to finishing our container garden went something like this: The first thing we did was find some barrels that they hadn’t had any toxic products in them beforehand. ![]() But, if you’re handy with a blow torch and short on funds, then by all means, jump in and make your very own DIY Garden Tower! This ended up being QUITE the project, taking a bit of time (and a lot of wine bottles!), and I don’t really recommend going this route if your able to order a “real one” from the Garden Tower Project. So, before we get into this, I want to add a disclaimer. The plants grow really fast and really well, soon providing you with enough produce for a family in just one container. Over time the nutrients build up, creating a super nutrient packed fertilizer. Because you recycle the water, it’s an effective way to garden in desert regions or areas with limited water resources. Anytime you water the plants or it rains, the excess water will come out the bottom and you collect it and dump it back over again. In summary: This is basically a closed loop system. Over time, it creates this really brilliant system of increasingly nutrient rich soil so that your plants flourish. You then take the worm tea and dump it back on top to water the garden. You put a pan underneath it and it catches all of the water that runs through. Then, at the bottom, underneath, there is 4 inch hole cut in the barrel with a screen screwed over it. They crawl in and out, eating compost and creating ever more fertile soil.ģ. As the worms eat the compost, breaking it down, and then crawl out the holes into the dirt and fertilize it. ![]() The tube is then with compost, and some red wriggler worms. We used a drill to put holes in the PVC…this is for the worms to crawl in and out. In the barrel, there’s a 4 inch PVC pipe going down the middle that you fill with compost from your kitchen.Ģ. Here’s an overview of how the garden tower system works:ġ. I only recommend products I use and love! Read my full disclosure here) (This post contains referral links and Amazon affiliate links. As you can see, we don’t have anything planted in it yet and we’re just getting it setup again. So here it is, our very own homemade, DIY garden tower. Hence, the DIY Garden Tower was born! DIY GARDEN TOWER DESIGN It wasn’t even that expensive, but we decided to try and make our own instead. ![]() Although I really, REALLY wanted one, but at the time we didn’t really have the budget to be able to invest in something like that. When I stumbled saw the one make by Garden Tower Project, I thought the idea was BRILLIANT. I first came across a garden tower back when we first got married. In fact, if I had it to do over again, I’d probably just save up and buy one. But hey, ya do what you can with what ya got! If I’m being honest, I don’t really recommend making your own (unless you just have a surplus of empty wine bottles and a blow torch you’re itching to use!). I love having our small garden containers! Having easy gardening options allows us to eat more organic food while staying on a budget. It’s going to be more of a general explanation from someone who mostly cheered her husband on from the sidelines as he worked and sweated! DON’T DO WHAT WE DID! To clarify, this isn’t going to be an in depth, step-by-step technical tutorial. In this post I am going to give you an overview of how the system works, and also show you how we made our own homemade variation. I think it’s a really great setup, that is easy, practical, and allows you to easily grow your own fruits and veggies.įor instance, not only does the garden tower grow a lot of produce in a small space, it also works well in desert regions, when there is limited water resources- I’ll explain why later on. In short, a garden tower is a small container garden that will grow almost an entire gardens worth of produce in only 4 square feet. If you are downloading the recovery image using the same Dell computer, select For this computer, and click NEXT and go to step 7 of this section.Identify the computer that requires the recovery media using the Service Tag.Launch the Dell OS Recovery Tool application ( Figure 2 ).Step 2: Creating the Dell operating system Recovery Media Double-click the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.įigure 1: Reinstall Microsoft Windows Download operating system Recover Tool.Browse to the folder where the downloaded file is saved.Click Download operating system Recovery Tool and save the file to the computer ( Figure 1 ).Step 1: Download and install the Dell OS Recovery Tool. The Dell OS Recovery Tool allows you to download either Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, or Linux operating system recovery image that was preinstalled on your Dell computer. ![]() The Dell OS Recovery Tool helps you download the operating system recovery image that is customized for your Dell computer and create a USB recovery media. Using the Dell OS Recovery Tool to create USB recovery media on a Windows computer: To use a non-Windows computer to download the recovery image, see our article How to Download and Use the Dell Operating System Recovery Image in Ubuntu or Linux It is not designed or tested for use on non-Dell computers. NOTE: The Dell operating system recovery image must be used on Dell computers only. The Dell OS recovery tool provides an interface to quickly download and create a bootable USB drive to reinstall the operating system. You can download and use the Dell operating system recovery image to perform a clean install, or reinstall Windows, Ubuntu, or Linux on your Dell computer. The Windows, Ubuntu, or Linux image that was factory installed on your computer. If your computer does not support Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery, Dell provides operating system recovery image. See our article, Restore your Computer Using SupportAssist OS Recovery for more information. For a list of computers that support SupportAssist OS Recovery, see the Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery Support Matrix. ![]() To reinstall the operating system due to a computer crash, hard drive replacement, or other serious software problem with your Dell computer?ĭell Technologies recommends that supported computers use Dell SupportAssist OS Recovery Automated by SupportAssist for a premium restoration experience. ![]() NOTE: Windows 11 ONLY supports the Automated by SupportAssist option. ![]() Kluber pitched two scoreless innings, allowing a hit with a strikeout. ![]() Story went 1 for 2 with a three-run homer, scored twice and had a walk. ![]() Red Sox: Infielder Trevor Story (offseason elbow surgery) and right-hander Corey Kluber (right shoulder inflammation) both started a rehab assignment with Double-A Portland on Friday night. 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