The ATH-ANC900BT headphones are equipped with 40 mm drivers with a diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating on the diaphragms for excellent sound reproduction. They utilise Bluetooth® 5 wireless technology and have touch and swipe controls built into the earcup for convenient handling of calls, music playback and volume adjustment. The headphones also support the Audio-Technica Connect app for convenient control of headphone settings, including the adjustment of noise cancellation and hear-through function. A detachable 1.2 m cable is also included to give you the option of using the headphones with a wired connection, such as when wireless operation is not available, when battery power is low, or when you want to reproduce Hi-Res Audio.
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Q: Angular2 - search in array inside of an array I have an array of events and I have a search() function (below) that filters through it. Currently it only filters for name or date. Within my payload I have an array of tags, and I'm trying to figure out how to include it in the filtering of this. My current work-around is buttons that re-run the /event endpoint with search params which I don't like.
  search(array: any[], query: string, excludeProps?: string|string[], dateFormat?: string) {
    if (!query || !this._objArrayCheck(array)) {
      return array;
    }
    const lQuery = query.toLowerCase();
    const isoDateRegex = /\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}.\d{3}Z/; // ISO UTC
    const dateF = dateFormat ? dateFormat : 'medium';
    const filteredArray = array.filter(item => {
      for (const key in item) {
        if (item.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
          if (!excludeProps || excludeProps.indexOf(key) === -1) {
            const thisVal = item[key];
            if (
              // Value is a string and NOT a UTC date
            typeof thisVal === 'string' &&
            !thisVal.match(isoDateRegex) &&
            thisVal.toLowerCase().indexOf(lQuery) !== -1
            ) {
              return true;
            } else if (
              // Value is a Date object or UTC string
            (thisVal instanceof Date || thisVal.toString().match(isoDateRegex)) &&
            // https://angular.io/api/common/DatePipe
            // Matching date format string passed in as param (or default to 'medium')
            this.datePipe.transform(thisVal, dateF).toLowerCase().indexOf(lQuery) !== -1
            ) {
              return true;
            }
          }
        }
      }
    });
    return filteredArray;
  }

I tried adding an addition else after the date finder and leverage a for() loop on item.tags but it seems typescript doesn't really let you do a traditional for loop.
What is the actual method of handling this within Ang/Typescript?
Update
  search(array: any[], query: string, excludeProps?: string|string[], dateFormat?: string) {
    if (!query || !this._objArrayCheck(array)) {
      return array;
    }
    const lQuery = query.toLowerCase();
    const isoDateRegex = /\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}.\d{3}Z/; // ISO UTC
    const dateF = dateFormat ? dateFormat : 'medium';
    const filteredArray = array.filter(item => {
      for (const key in item) {
        if (item.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
          if (!excludeProps || excludeProps.indexOf(key) === -1) {
            const thisVal = item[key];
            if (
              // Value is a string and NOT a UTC date
            typeof thisVal === 'string' &&
            !thisVal.match(isoDateRegex) &&
            thisVal.toLowerCase().indexOf(lQuery) !== -1
            ) {
              return true;
            } else if (
              // Value is a Date object or UTC string
            (thisVal instanceof Date || thisVal.toString().match(isoDateRegex)) &&
            // https://angular.io/api/common/DatePipe
            // Matching date format string passed in as param (or default to 'medium')
            this.datePipe.transform(thisVal, dateF).toLowerCase().indexOf(lQuery) !== -1
            ) {
              return true;
            } else if (
              typeof thisVal === 'string'
            ) {
              for (var i=0; i < item.tags.length; i++) {
                if (thisVal === item.tags[i]){
                  return true;
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    });
    return filteredArray;
  }

I was thinking something similar to this but it doesn't seem to be returning anything.
sample Payload
// collection: events
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("59dda4b702ac8332bcb90921"),
    "title" : "Gantt Chart Example222dsda",
    "location" : "Home",
    "startDatetime" : ISODate("2018-01-01T12:30:00.000-05:00"),
    "endDatetime" : ISODate("2018-01-02T12:30:00.000-05:00"),
    "description" : "dsad",
    "viewPublic" : true,
    "tags" : [
        "Gaming",
        "Social",
        "home",
        "misc"
    ],
    "__v" : NumberInt("0")
}

My function should be able to match 'gantt' to the title and still show the row. It should also be able to match 'gaming', 'social' 'home' etc and pull this same record due to the tags. It should be able to pull from the start or end date time.

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The leading European trade fair for secure communication with its 4,700 m² offered even more space for exchange with decision-makers and industry experts this year. 232 exhibitors - including 87 international - were glad to present their products and services to the trade visitors.
The internationally oriented trade exhibition was supplemented by an extensive lecture programme with subject-specific focuses - this year for the first time with the "Secure Communications Summit", the symposium "Secure Communication for the Energy Industry" and interesting, daily changing forums.
To our media partners, partners and sponsors for their support, our exhibitors for their contribution to the trade fair, the sponsors of the PMRExpo Career initiative for their commitment, our speakers and chairmen for their contribution, our visitors for their curiosity and for attending!
The Stadt Köln is raising a cultural tax of 5% of the room rate, which has to be paid at the hotel. Business travelers who fill out and present the official forms and employer document at the hotel are exempted from payment.
The Cologne beltway (A1, A4 and A3 motorways) brings you directly to the exhibition grounds. Follow the green "Koelnmesse" signs. Depending on your navigation system, you can enter "Messeplatz 1", "Deutz-Mülheimer-Straße" or "Barmer Straße".
There are about 14,500 parking spaces available all around the exhibition grounds. In the exhibition area, our modern traffic management system will guide you to the respective parking spaces.
Please note that the Cologne city centre has been declared a low-emission zone on the 1st January 2008, meaning only vehicles of emission groups 2 to 4 with an according sticker may enter. However, the exhibition grounds are easily accessible without a sticker. Check out the map here.
Cologne Bonn Airport can be reached by plane from major European cities such as Berlin, Paris, Prague, London, Munich, Milan and Zurich.
From the airport, the exhibition grounds can be reached quickly and directly by ICE high-speed trains. Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Brussels airports are also connected to the ICE network. In addition, you can use the S13 train. Travelling by taxi will take about 15 minutes. If you arrive at Düsseldorf airport, the taxi ride will take about 35 minutes.
Thanks to its central location, Cologne and Koelnmesse can be reached quickly by train. The ICE station Köln Messe/Deutz is located adjacent to the exhibition grounds.
For further information and train schedules visit: www.bahn.de. Public transport will conveniently take you to the most important destinations, such as hotels and restaurants in town. For further information, please contact KVB (Cologne public transport providers) at www.kvb-koeln.de, and, if you are arriving from the surrounding region, Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (Rhein-Sieg transport association) at www.vrs-fahrplan.de.
For your arrival, you can use the low-cost DB event ticket (from 99 euros nationwide for round trip). The offer can be booked at www.ew-online.de/bahn (in German).
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Trendsetter in aluminium sliding gates
In the 1980s, Heras was the first company to introduce a sliding gate made of aluminium. Of course, much has happened since then. We have not rested on our laurels. Besides developing new products, optimisation of our products continues to be an area of focus. 'The greatest advantage of aluminium? It's three times lighter than steel, has pre-stressing capabilities which is convenient for large gates, and it's strong, corrosion-resistant and reliable,' says Jan Ruigrok, mechanical engineer at Heras' Technology and Innovation Department.
The Delta was the first aluminium sliding gate that Heras put on the market more than 30 years ago. 'The pre-stressing technique, which we developed, is unique as it increases the strength of the gates over their full length,' Ruigrok explains. 'The tensioning wires keep the gate from sagging.' The Delta has a minimal mechanical load, and there's no rail in the road in which dirt or snow can collect.
Further development
Using aluminium soon proved to be successful, both in terms of production and service life. So we focussed on further improving our aluminium sliding gates. This led to the introduction of the Argos gate in 2007. 'Heras developed a unique, patented system to tension the mesh panel and the lower beam,' says Ruigrok. 'This gate doesn't have tensioning wires in the lower beam. The welded mesh panel between the top and lower beam ensures rigidity.'
Optimisation: a continuous process
With the introduction of the iGate and the uGate in 2012, Heras set new standards for pre-stressed gates. The iGate features integrated LED lighting and offers the possibility to have a personalised design applied to the panels. The iGate's design received the Red Dot Design Award. Ruigrok: 'The uGate which was launched next has a similar lower beam but has aluminium bars. Its maximum dimensions allow a clear width of up to 12 metres. The pre-stressing technique is also applied here.' For security reasons, all Heras' pre-stressed gates are equipped with anti-crushing safety devices. 'Should a tensioning wire of the Delta, iGate or uGate break, for example as the result of a collision, the wire is kept in place by an anchoring system,' says Ruigrok. 'This is to prevent unsafe situations due to wires breaking.' For Heras the optimisation of its range of aluminium sliding gates is a continuous process. 'This is partly to comply with new legal safety requirements. But we are also always looking for better solutions for mechanical and guiding systems.'
Modular and easy to install
The sliding gates have a modular construction. This makes them easier to transport and assemble. 'We don't have to hoist 10 to 12-metre gates onto a truck. The compact, modular design makes transportation a lot easier. What's more, the so-called self-build packs take up a lot less space at the customer's site. And because less space needs to be cleared, we can start installing the gate quicker. It usually takes us around half a day. That's unbelievably fast.' Aluminium also has advantages in case of damage. 'Because only the damaged part or even only a bent bar can be replaced, it's not necessary to replace the entire gate,' Ruigrok concludes.

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When they had the ultimate audacity and have it they did then you needn't wonder that everything was turned upside down.

In this sentence, what is the meaning of 'have it they did'? Please tell me I have no idea... It's too difficult:(

A: "It" is "the ultimate audacity".
So the sentence could be written

When they had the ultimate audacity - and have the ultimate audacity they did - then...

Which could in turn be then placed in a more "normal" word order

When they had the ultimate audacity, and they did have the ultimate audacity, then...

As user105719 observed, the change in the usual word order is to provide literary emphasis.


If there was any doubt about the Trump administration's desire to push healthcare towards a value-based system, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Director Adam Boehler wiped it away on Thursday morning.
It's not the first time that Boehler, who was appointed to the position in April, has taken such a decisive stance. Prior to his appointment, Boehler was the CEO of Landmark Health, a medical group that focuses on integrating technology to care for chronically ill patients at home and operated largely on value. During his time at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) he has expressed support for alternative payment models (APMs), noting that CMMI can play a role in finding providers that are ready to take on more risk. The administration has proposed significant changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program to facilitate that shift among ACOs.
But killing off fee-for-service entirely will be easier said than done given the industry's reliance on the existing infrastructure. Boehler's counterpart at Thursday's fireside chat, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., cautioned that the shift to value can't happen all at once and advocated for giving states the leeway to experiment so the rest of the country can determine what approaches work best.
A recent report showed 34% of healthcare payments were tied to an alternative payment model in 2017. Medicare fee-for-service has showed notable gains with just 10.5% of payments in traditional legacy arrangements not linked to quality. More than half have some level of pay-for-performance.
But just 38.5% of Medicare payments had more robust incentives like shared savings, bundled payments or population-based payments and integrated delivery systems.
The Obama administration set a goal to tie 50% of Medicare payments to value-based models, but there's been no indication the current administration will stick to that threshold. CMMI itself has underwent a significant overhaul last year, and ended several Obama-era mandatory bundled payment models.
But Boehler has the support from some private sector insurers, including Patrick Conway, M.D, the former CMMI director and current president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina.


During World War One many grand private homes were offered for War Service and The Castle was adapted as a fully equipped Red Cross Hospital.
In 1915 Kleo Friend, Commandant Voluntary Aid Detachment Hants, wrote to John Oglander, Island Lord Lieutenant, to say that Colonel Hosie considered The Castle, offered by Colonel Cradock, most suitable. It had four Officers Rooms and the War Office Food contribution would be 2/- per head, 3/- for enterics. 30 convalescent typhoid cases had already been taken. She also reported that doctors in the town were speaking very highly of the work of her members.
Mabel Gough-Calthorpe also wrote to John Oglander to explain that she had been trying very hard to get Miss Friend started at The Castle. "Lord Kitchener stated he would require 40,000 more beds by the end of March:- here is a house which in a week's time could be ready to receive about 40 wounded men, the house fully equipped as a convalescent hospital with all necessary material and a division of well trained nurses. Our wounded men will be nursed back to health and so in many cases able to return to the front and God knows we want every available man if England is to win in this awful war."
The new Golden Hill Fort Hospital built in 1897 to the north of the fort in Hill Lane. Today the building serves as a masonic hall.


Alongside alternative clean energy sources, energy recovery and conversion will play an important role in addressing future technologies, especially for autonomous devices. Thermoelectric devices that convert temperature gradients into electric power and vice versa have been actively investigated with the aim of enhancing existing technologies for heat/power recovery and conversion. They are reliable, non-polluting, require minimal maintenance, and can be operated over a wide range of temperatures. If it were not for its currently low efficiency, thermoelectric energy conversion could revolutionary replace thermomechanical conversion in many applications. The performance of thermoelectric materials is expressed by the dimensionless figure-of-merit, zT, which is about 1.2 for materials currently used in thermoelectric devices. For wide adoption, the zT needs to reach a value of 3, a goal that has been pursued for over 50 years. Recent record zT values approaching 2 are driven in part by nanocrystals self-precipitated in bulk, even though control and understanding of nanocrystal formation remain elusive in these systems. This project aims at significantly increasing zT values of thermoelectrics by nanostructuring thermoelectric materials into nanocrystal solids that can offer high electrical conductivity while dramatically lowering the thermal conductivity. We propose an approach for creating completely new high-zT thermoelectrics via bottom-up assembly of thermoelectric nanocrystals.


This yarn is washable and the color was so nice, but it has some cotton in it that causes the sweater to stretch out and lose its shape quickly. It kind of pulls on the sweater and leaves it hanging weird in some places.
I should've known better. Famous last words.
Wool is springy, of course, and retains its shape better. I think if the yarn had more wool in its fiber content, maybe it could overpower the cotton. Sigh. From now on, I'm staying away from yarns that have a lot of cotton unless it's for a really light garment like a summer tee.
The worst part is that I knit this sweater two times. The first time I knit it, it was way too big. I didn't pause to think that it was because the cotton was affecting the drape. Instead, I just knit it again in a smaller size.
I'm filing this one under Knitting Lessons Learned. I'm so mad that I didn't think much about the fiber content to avoid this.
Have you ever been disappointed by a yarn and how it turned out when you stitched it? This sweater makes me so sad!


James F. Jordan is a Distinguished Service Professor of Health Care & Biotechnology Management, and Senior Director of Health Care and Biotechnology Programs at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. He also serves as the President & CEO of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, a public-private economic and venture fund owned by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
A recognized expert in market development and guiding the successful formation of entrepreneurial startup businesses, Mr. Jordan recently authored Innovation, Commercialization, and Start-ups in Life Sciences, published by Taylor & Francis Group.
Mr. Jordan is an accomplished Fortune 20-level executive with such companies as Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson, and McKesson. He has leveraged his experience in several startup ventures and is active on multiple Boards of Directors. Through the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, he has applied his 25 years of experience in industry, consulting, and academia to work with over 400 life science startup companies, with direct investment in 75 of them.


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[. . .] To achieve a higher SOL in the near future, the global village will have to currently save more (Mankiw, 2004). Abu Dhabi plans on investing a total of Dh555 billion in the upcoming 5 years, of which, Dh320 billion will be allocated to construction, Dh120 to the development of the tourism industry, and a total of Dh80 billion on seeking to expand the natural resource sector. Furthermore, investments on hydrocarbon industries have increased as it seeks to create alternative revenues from sources independent of these natural reserves (United Arab Emirates 2007, 2007, p.81). The investment by UAE might cause some consumption hurdles at present, it is a long-term measure that is likely to lead to a brighter future for its citizens.
Free trade is being promoted between other countries and the global village of UAE because of rapid globalization. This trade has enabled UAE to invest goods from abroad that are much cheaper than those produced at home. Though foreign goods, or imports, hurt domestic producers as demand for their products fall and they are likely to lay off workers, thus increasing the rate of unemployment (Mankiw, 2004), it is also possible that it creates more job opportunities in other profitable industries of UAE such as those of oil and those of gas.
Following are some of the factors of globalization seen all over the world. Influence of these factors on UAE has also been documented by a number of scholars (Domluke, 2010).
It is generally said that innovative and technical inventions are only made in the Western developed countries. If, the concept of globalization or global village does not exist then these inventions can only be used in the countries where they were invented. The spread of these inventions not only enhance the life style of people in developing countries but also make people aware about the political and economic conditions of neighbouring as well as western developed countries. A very good example of spreading useful knowledge is the usage of Yoga and Ayurveda medicines in the western countries, which are Indian traditional practices used for curing many diseases. The Western antibiotic medicines are easily available in India, which have improved the common man's life quality (Domluke, 2010).
No civilization can be perfect in all aspects. Civilizations are made when people belonging to different cultures unite and live together at one place. Normally if people are receptive they find drawbacks of their own culture and try to adopt other cultural norms which they found to be devoid of those flaws with time. In this way societies get larger because people of different cultures and civilizations merge with one another and generate an entire new culture of that particular society. Globalization has brought people of different countries closer by spreading customs, languages, cooking and clothing styles all over the world. Different famous art forms like music, movies, and theatres have greatly influenced the cultures of different countries (Hussain, 2010).
The world has now become a global village and media has reduced the distances. In this global village people belonging to different cultures have come closer in many ways. Spread of education throughout the world is one of the major positive effects of globalization. Now people can go anywhere for higher studies without facing any problem of cast, colour and creed. One can move from U.S. To other continent for his field of interest which is not found in his own country. People can go for specialization in their fields to different countries and then serve their own country by using that speciality. Here an example of American managers can be quoted that they went to Japan for specialization in mass production and then used their education to enhance their country's product units (Zoi, 2010).
There was a time when it was difficult to punish the criminals because of the limited jurisdiction. One more benefit of globalization is that, now criminals cannot get asylum in other countries because of international courts for justice and they can be punished then and there in any part of the world. Globalization has brought many countries closer by having relations between security agencies of two or more countries who work together against terrorism. Thus, now criminals cannot find shelter in any country (Khazraji, 2009).
There are certain drawbacks of globalization also. Like many organizations of developed countries have outsourced their business of manufacturing or white-collar jobs to the people of developing Third-World countries such as China, India and UAE to reduce the cost of labour which is very high in their own countries. The most common and prominent jobs are related to the field of customer services. As in the developing countries people are fluent in speaking English and ready to do these jobs at only one-fifth of that a person does in developed country and calls it a low pay job. However, this situation is not favoured by the people of developed countries as they have accused the companies of taking their jobs and giving to other people. Americans also have problems with the quality of customer services they usually get that is why they are against the outsourcing phenomenon (Abdullah, 2009).
Many schools of thought claim that globalization has enhanced the problem of child labour, where companies can easily bribe officials in such countries where government rules and regulations are not severe or firmly intact. This contributes to the overall percentage of illegal activities. Though globalization has led to a highly competitive market, it has also resulted in increased unethical practices (Abdullah, 2009).
Both developing as well as developed countries have complaints regarding the impacts of globalization. Cities have become garbage dumps through the accumulation of waste by factories, further contributing to the high levels of pollution (Abdullah, 2009).
The developing countries are experiencing the rapid growth of fast food chains such as KFC and McDonalds, which implies that consumers now have greater access to unhealthy foods that result in adverse effects on their health. Furthermore, it is also argued that due to globalization, new stream of restaurants and hotels which have opened up seem to be completely insensitive to the religious beliefs of the citizens of the country they are running operations in. For instance, when it was discovered that McDonald's in India had been serving beef to its customers, a lawsuit was filed against it (Abdullah, 2009).
Income and wealth inequalities continue to increase, with the rich having ample resources while the poor struggling for a decent meal. A quick recall of this can be reflected by the Wall Street protests. However, no notice seemed to have been taken in this regard, or any measure implemented to reduce the levels of poverty. In an ideal situation, globalization was supposed to have created mutual benefits for everyone in the form of prosperity and wealth, but inefficient government and greed has played a major role in the unequal distribution of wealth (Abdullah, 2009).
Many international conferences have been seeking to confront the serious threat of environmental degradation, and it is widely believed that globalization has further elevated the issue. Increased demands by factories for raw materials has depleted the world's resources to dangerous levels, as well as polluted the air we breathe in, which is threatening our very survival (Abdullah, 2009).
UAE seems to have greatly benefitted from globalization because of the tremendous increase in investments, both foreign and domestic. Furthermore, such benefits have promoted the notion of free trade between other countries and the UAE. Recent statistics suggest that the nominal growth rate achieved by UAE was 26.3% while the real growth rate was 8.2%. These figures promise a bright future for UAE ahead. In addition, UAE has been transformed into a developed country in many respects through the phenomenon of globalization. Infrastructure, social relation, media, and education levels have also improved. If UAE keeps following the same track, it is bound to become one of the major players on the world scene.
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For the various characters throughout the Fallout series, see Mysterious Stranger (character).
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Mysterious Stranger is a perk in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76.
With this Perk, you have gained the attention of a Mysterious Stranger, who will appear to help you from time to time. If your ally is lost in combat, do not expect him or her to be replaced.
In hostile random encounters there is a chance that the player's character will gain a temporary ally in leather jacket (of the same gender as the player character), whose statistics depend on the player's level.
The Mysterious Stranger remains on the map of the random encounter after the end of the fight. The player can start a conversation with them, but they will not say much. If they are killed, they won't return. The perk is, essentially, pointless.
The Mysterious Stranger will not say anything and they will leave the map of the random encounter directly after the end of the fight. As in the previous game, killing the Stranger will remove them from the game permanently. And again, it's pointless due to the Stranger's fragility.
The Mysterious Stranger with the hunting rifle actually spawns shotgun shells as ammunition instead of .223 FMJ. As such, the Mysterious Stranger only has the 10 shots already provided in the clip.
Saving during a random encounter with the Mysterious Stranger still on the map and then loading will freeze the Stranger in place.
Gives you your own personal guardian angel... armed with a fully loaded .44 magnum. With this perk, the Mysterious Stranger appears occasionally in V.A.T.S. mode to lend a hand, with deadly efficiency.
There is a flat 10% chance every time the player uses V.A.T.S. that their character will gain a temporary ally in a fedora and overcoat armed with a powerful and unique .44 Magnum, dealing exactly 18002 (9001 + 9001 critical damage with 100% critical multiplier) damage per shot, enough to kill any enemy in one hit. Just to make sure, he will fire all six shots at the chosen target. The functionality of the perk is the same in New Vegas. However, the game also features a supplementary perk, Miss Fortune. The eponymous lady appears more frequently than the Stranger, but deals primarily fatigue damage and generally damages the target, rather than killing them outright. They will never appear together.
In Mothership Zeta, when the player first arrives aboard Zeta, having the Mysterious Stranger perk opens up a new line of dialogue with Somah: "Maybe, if we're lucky, a friend of mine will show up to help us."
The Lawbringer, Contract Killer, and Grim Reaper's Sprint perks will not grant their benefits if the Mysterious Stranger deals the killing blow. Furthermore, the Stranger can and will kill anyone targeted, so it pays to consider that.
His appearances have a counter called "Mysterious Stranger Visits" that is displayed randomly during the loading screens of Fallout 3, and on the Pip-Boy 3000 under the "Stats tab - General" in both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
PC PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 The Stranger will sometimes be positioned unfavorably. This can include being stuck in a wall or such, being placed in water, being placed near a cliff, etc. This can result in his death (unconsciousness) or inability to effectively attack the enemy, or even in some cases to kill the player if the player is between the Stranger and his target.
PC PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 It is possible to injure the Mysterious Stranger by using weapons that deal area-of-effect damage from grenades to large cannons such as the Tesla cannon, Fat Man, or experimental MIRV. It will just give captions such as "Mysterious Stranger right leg crippled" or "Mysterious Stranger is unconscious."
PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 While in the Operation: Anchorage simulation, the Mysterious Stranger will sometimes appear and then lie unconscious. When the V.A.T.S. sequence ends, gameplay will resume to normal.
Xbox 360 During V.A.T.S., it isn't uncommon to hear the Mysterious Stranger music, even if he does not appear. This most likely happens at times when he would have appeared to finish off your enemy, but you killed the enemy instead. He may also have been affected by the bug above in some of these cases.
Sometimes when the Mysterious Stranger appears, he doesn't shoot. He'll just stand there, leaving you helpless. Another variant causes the Stranger to reload his magnum for the duration of his attack. If it jams, he may not attack at all. This also happens if his target is killed prematurely by an explosion or by you or a companion. V.A.T.S. will remain active for an extended time, leaving you open for attacks by any surrounding enemies.
At times, the Mysterious Stranger will aid you during V.A.T.S., but there will be a 5-10 second delay between killing the target and returning to normal gameplay. This can pose problems when fighting multiple enemies, as they will continue to attack both you and your companions during the delay. On occasion, this bug may cause normal play to not resume.
With the Mysterious Stranger perk, an unknown ally will appear occasionally in V.A.T.S. and instantly kill an enemy. Doing so may even fill your Critical meter.
The Mysterious Stranger's functionality is the same as before, with four ranks that increase the chance of his appearance. Nuka-World adds a fourth rank, which adds the chance for the Critical meter to be filled upon a successful kill.
Rank 1: Enables Stranger appearances.
Rank 1: Increases Stranger spawn chance.
Rank 1: Adds a chance to fill the critical meter upon the Stranger's appearance.
Rank 1: Increases the chance to fill the critical meter.
With the first rank of this perk, the Mysterious Stranger will occasionally appear in V.A.T.S. and instantly kill the first target. The second and third ranks causes the Mysterious Stranger to appear more frequently, but the third rank alone causes the critical meter to fill whenever the Mysterious Stranger kills an enemy. A fourth rank added by Nuka-World, increases the chance for filling the critical meter.
When traveling with Nick Valentine, he will remark on each encounter. This corresponds with a case file found in his office in Diamond City.
The Mysterious Stranger perk was originally designed by Scott Bennie.
The Mysterious Stranger in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas wears a fedora and overcoat, like the protagonists of 1950s film noir.
This page was last edited on 12 August 2018, at 00:04.


At Cabot Mill Antiques and now at Hathaway Mill Antiques, we have been asked so many questions over the last 21 years.
Do You Sell Replacement Chimneys, door knobs, lamp shades, etc.?
Do You Sell Any Restoration Products?
Do You Provide Restoration Services, Reupholstering, Chair Canning, Furniture Refinishing?
Do You Have Clock Repair Services?
Do You Have Jewelry Boxes?
What was the mill used for?
We are asked if we have certain items that people are looking for daily. We do not have a list of each dealer's inventory however we do walk the shop every day and the staff has a good knowledge where something might be found in the shop. If we don't have it??... We have a request book where you can write down what it is that you're looking for, your name and contact information, we will continue to scan the shop weekly and call you if anything comes in that you may have requested. The merchandise in the shop changes daily, so if you haven't been in in a while be sure to check us out. That something you were looking for might be here this time.
Yes! Hathaway Mill Antiques is open 7 days a week year round, 10am-5pm and we are open late every Friday until 7pm! We are closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We are a multi-dealer shop. Each of the 160 displays in our shop represents a different antique dealer. Hathaway Mill Antiques, as a shop entity does not buy antiques. We do have antique dealers that are members of our shop that do buy antiques from individuals. Contact Hathaway Mill antiques and we will be glad to give you their contact information.
Our sales staff is always available and happy to assist our customers in their pursuit to acquire the perfect antique.
We do ship! We use FedEx Ground and do the packaging ourselves. As for large pieces such as furniture, we do not provide services for that but we can refer you to shippers who do ship furniture and larger merchandise. Also check out our Resources Page!
We offer free appraisals annually during out anniversary celebration in November, conducted by a prominent independent appraiser. We can give you contact information for appraisers. Stop in, call, or email Hathaway Mill Antiques and we will be happy to provide you with that information. Also be sure to check out our Resources Page where you can find the link to many appraisers and auctioneers.
We do sell replacement glass chimneys but we do not sell reproduction door knobs or replacement handles. We do however get old handles, door knobs and hardware into the shop from time to time. As for lamp shades, you might find the occasional single shade. We do have contact information for someone who does sell replacement shades. If you go to the registers our staff will be able to assist you. ALSO don't forget to check out our Resources Page where you can find links.
We do have a vendor that displays a small assortment of restoration products. If you do not find what you are looking for in the store one of our sales associates will see if it can be ordered.
We do not provide these services in-house. If you come to our registers, our staff will be able to give you information for reupholsters, chair canning, furniture repair & restoration. Also check out our Resources Page!
We do have an antique clock dealer at Hathaway Mill Antiques who does clock repairs. Our staff can assist you with contact information.
We do have a vendor who sells small boxes for an extremely fair price. If you don't wish to purchase a box we will package your jewelry for you as tenderly as possible.
Hathaway Mill had a long history as a cotton textile manufacturing company. In 1809 the original building was known as the Brunswick Cotton Manufacturing Company. In 1812 the Maine Cotton & Woolen Factory Company, in 1847 Worumbo Manufacturing and in 1857 Hathaway Manufacturing Company. For more in-depth information on the mill's history, click on the About Us tab or ask a sales associate for the history timeline and building article.
There are many other businesses in the building including two restaurants, art studios, woodworkers, a yoga studio, a mixed martial arts studio, law offices, a dentist, dermatologist and so much more! See our Resources Page for more information on what can be found at Fort Andross & Hathaway Mill Antiques.


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"Earth's Alien Cousin" Found – Once Again
An artist's impression of Kepler 452b (right). Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle.
In recent years, NASA has been busy looking for alien life. Every now and then it has announced the discovery of something very spectacular.
In 2010 it was the discovery of a bacterium that was supposed to thrive on arsenic. It was a false alarm.
NASA has a rather suspicious record of "firsts". Two of its life-friendly exoplanets (Gliese 581d and Gliese 581g) might not even exist though this hasn't kept artists from imagining what they might look like.
It reminds me of the hype that often follows the discovery of a fossil that is supposed to belong to one of our long-lost ancestors. However, once more facts start coming in, the discovery turns out to be a disappointment. Ida was presented as our grand aunt, but it soon became obvious that she was something entirely different.
This time NASA announced the discovery of Kepler 452b that orbits its sun in the constellation Cygnus some 1400 light years away. Assumed to be a rocky planet, its diameter is 60 per cent larger than the Earth's.
With a year lasting 385 days, it seems to resemble an oversized Earth. However, we know next to nothing about what the planet is really like. Life needs a lot more than a place in a potentially habitable zone.
After all, Venus and Mars are in the Sun's habitable zone and look how habitable they are.
Obviously, much more is needed, such as a big moon to keep the oceans alive. The Earth is fine-tuned for life in every way.
In contrast, many exoplanets are weird. They are not at all like Earth.
Earth was made to be habitable. As we know, life only comes from life. It does not pop into existence by chance from non-life anywhere in the cosmos.
We should thus probably remain sceptical of NASA's latest Earth's cousin announcement.
Sokol, Joshua. Earth-like alien world looms into view through Kepler telescope. New Scientist (23 July).
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Saturday…..Whoo! I got six hours of sleep last night. Can't believe how rested I feel.
Spent a couple hours emailing our legal advisory committee about the conversations I had with various attorneys over the last week. Spent an hour pulling my grandson on a sled in the snow. Can't believe how seven months of inactivity have left it so easy for me to get winded. Met with one of the area's best known attorneys for an hour and a half to pick his brain. Tonight watched "The Sweet Smell of Success" on a channel that shows vintage movies. Its hard to believe such jerks still live on the planet – a few of them right here in Duluth.
Oops! Looks like I was so busy I forgot to put in yesterday's thank you note. Well you can find it and others on the Let Duluth Vote website.
This post is long, long overdue. Blame it on overwork. I woke up at 3AM today (went to bed past midnight) and finally got a chance to post information about our Plan B history on the Let Duluth Vote website. At first we thought keeping a low profile would help us work with the District. Yeah, I know, we're naive. Now we need to make this information available to attorneys looking over the multiple legal challenges that we've outlined in our RFP for legal services.
We've posted the original petition language.
We show the District's letter rejecting our RFP saying it doesn't match the language on the petition.
We show the District is wrong.
After dragging out the petition process for almost a year the District has no interest in expediting a referendum that would prove how unhappy voters are. They've said a vote won't count anyway because they will ignore the result. They've said their lawyers told them we did the petition wrong. The Attorney General ruled that the District lawyers were wrong. They've said it will cost money they don't have. They've said our understanding of our own petition is wrong. They've said its too late because the Red Plan has advanced so far. This foot dragging simply provides us one more issue for a possible court challenge.
As promised, Here's Roger Reinert's reply to my question.
As you know, I've been in this new role for just three weeks now. During that time I've been focused on learning the role and the $4.8B deficit which I expect will grow to $7B by the end of this month. My attention has also been focused on the committees to which I've been appointed. As I'm sure you know, K-12 Finance is not one of them. You may wish to contact your Representative, Tom Huntley, on your concern since he has far more experience in the Legislature than I do.
and here's my reply to Roger.
How reasonable Roger. Yes, by all means, please attend to your larger responsibilities.
I just got back from Randy's, a restaurant in old West End, where LDV's legal advisory committee met for lunch. We each reported back on our conversations with attorneys and I was pleased with the early reports. We still have a lot of names to go through and I haven't even begun to call my list.
Afterward, I stuck around a little while and talked about the District's increasingly tenuous political situation. I used some pretty rough language albeit under my breath. As I left the back room an elderly co-worker from my year at Washington Junior asked me how we were doing. I guess I can't go anywhere no without being recognized. She had seen me on the tube last night. I told her I hoped she hadn't heard me using my colorful language. "Oh, no," she said.
Her equally elderly friend, the wife of a former Duluth teacher, joined her and we had a rollicking time talking about how foolish the school board has been. These sweet old ladies said a couple colorful things themselves.
The friend said she had laughed to herself when she had read that if Duluth would went to a four day school week it would be the first time in history. She went to school four days a week in Duluth during the war – WWII!
"Are you saying?" I asked her, "that we're as bad off today with Dixon as we were when we were fighting Hitler?" They both thought that was pretty funny.
If a government entity like say, the Duluth School Board, has permission from the Dept. of Ed to spend $293 million on something like say, the construction of the Red Plan, but the project manager say, Johnson Controls Inc., ends up charging twenty or thirty million more for the work. Would the School Board be required to pay for the charges in excess of the amount the MDE gave it permission to spend?
I'll report back what they tell me.
The latest joke going around town says that the School Board has shown how flexible it can be and that it has bent over backward for the Ordean neighbors. It was first promoted by the Trib in a congratulatory editorial on Jan 15th. Sorry the link is no longer available. It shows up again today in a letter bashing the Ordean neighbors for being NIMBY's and anti-development.
"The School Board and the city bent over backwards to accommodate the wishes of those in the Ordean neighborhood. They reduced the number of parking spaces in their plans for a new school at Ordean, scrapped an access road, and removed the possibility of eminent domain ("Ordean plan changed to quell neighbors' ire," Jan. 13).
"And the Duluth school district listened and made adjustments, reconfiguring the plan while also reducing the size of the property to remove any potential need for eminent domain.
First – Eminent Domain is not off the table.
Second – East High has more parking available (although its not enough) than the District advertises.
Third – You can redraw plans for a dog house as many times as you like but if you only have enough wood for a daschund you'll never fit a St. Bernard in it. Making it plain that you will make the St. Bernard fit is not evidence of flexibility but of some other character trait.
Tim Grover commented the other day that the School Board hardly ever gets letters or email from critics. That's because they've trained people that talking to the Board is futile. The Red Plan's critics now send email to the City Council. It remains to be seen whether the Council will also turn a deaf ear to the people.
Oh, and we get lots of comments. I wasn't able to keep them up during my recent vacation but you can see a full month's worth here.
Its a little prideful of me to post this particular note but it sure takes the sting out of the few ef you notes directed at me. I don't take them personally. I'm sure some of our allies feel the same way about the authors of the Red Plan. This note was sent to my home and contained three crisp, new, ten dollar bills.
"I attended the open house this week at Old Central High School, at which local contractors met with architects to receive information to help them prepare bids for more than $270 million of projects under the district's long-range facilities plan ("Contractors eager for school projects," Jan. 22).
The room was standing-room-only. More than 300 people brimmed with positive energy and hope as architects went over schematics and described needed work. Repeatedly, I heard people talk about how welcome the work will be during these tough economic times. These local, well-paying jobs will provide a huge economic boost to our region.
It was only last month that Judy voted to borrow $5 million from the operations budget to spend on her marvelous construction.
The District is doing everything it can to gin up public enthusiasm for their Trojan horse. I've been told that the huge throng of contractors was brimming over with small fry contractors who could never post the kind of bonds required of such a project. They may have oohed and ahhed on cue for the puppet masters but many, if not most of them, will never get a piece of the action.
And one more little detail from the Monday meeting. Judy is reported to have brightened and bubbled about how nice it would be to have a four day school week. Why the McCray, Minnesoto Schools have one and people love it. Tim Grover was having none of it. He made it clear he wanted any happy talk about a four-day week to come to an end.
I'm not the only one who gets a vacation. The City Council Monday night voted 6 – 2 to vacate fourth street in front of Denfeld.
I don't follow the City Council very closely but because Dr. Dixon scheduled a school board meeting at the same time (a coincidence?) someone had to stick it out in the Council Chambers to raise some questions before the vote. I got to the Chamber at about 5:20 missing the first twenty minutes of a Committee of the Whole discussion on the Red Plan that Councilor Stauber chaired. I arrived during the prattling of a Move Forward Duluth spokesman who explained how great the Red Plan was going to be.
Evidently before this there was a curious change in the messages telegraphed to the councilors by city staff. They seem to be suggesting that everything about the Red Plan wasn't necessarily so hunky dory. Interesting.
In my two minute spiel I warned the Council that no one could be sure based on the multiple plans for Ordean just what the Denfeld site would look like and that because the School Board hadn't even bothered to approve any plans for the school vacating the streets was premature. Jim Stauber pointed out that in other similar transactions it was usual that people doing business with the City had to sign agreements to protect the City before it gave something away……..Remember the City's agreement with St. Mary's over that parking lot?
Oh, that reminds me of a funny story I heard about Faribault's City Council and Dr. Dixon.
Today's Trib told part of story of the District's accelerated construction schedule.
"Don O'Connor, executive director of the Duluth Builder's Exchange, said that gesture probably would be appreciated by the local construction industry.
Last fall Dr. Dixon pushed all the architects to get their work done early to make sure a new school board seated next January wouldn't pull the plug on his folly. Now, with the prospect of court intervention this year the District is fairly flying. But no architect can turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. Ordean is impossible and in fact a more careful check of its buildable space shows that rather than 26 acres (still far below the state's guidelines) there are only 13 buildable acres.
By the way the School District's graphic leaves the vital start information out which was part of the District's schedule. You would never know from the Trib's illustration that fully seven out of eleven schools construction plans have been pushed up to this spring.
My eight regular readers have noticed that while I was "on vacation" in Florida I did precious little blogging. Its not that I didn't want to. The laptop I'd planned to take with me had a worm. The hotels I stayed at didn't have business centers and I refused to look for a computer while my family was awake. One night at Disney World where I was sure I would find a computer I had to travel by bus for fifty minutes to get to a business center in a "nearby" hotel. I didn't get back to my hotel until 1 AM.
I knew big things were happening because the Press reported on our recent success at fundraising and the School Board panicked and announced the premature closing of schools like Ordean. Actually I announced it on this blog and the Trib's education reporter confirmed it. No, I'm sorry. The closing is taking place because the State didn't give the District enough money. Dr. Dixon must think he can sell be sell us another bridge.
I kept up with Duluth by trading emails but that was about all I had time for. I didn't get to read the Trib daily but had to read all the back issues when I returned. That used to take me a solid day and a half but with today's Trib it only took a pathetic hour-and-a-half to go through ten papers. Sheesh! It was a bash Let Duluth Vote week. Most of those stories are no longer on line for me to link to but I'll make a few comments in later posts about some of them.
I've been spending so much time working on Let Duluth Vote's request for legal services as well as the chores that pile up after a short trip that the old blog is desperate for some fresh info. I'll see what I can do about that.
You might also find the history of the Red Plan which accompanies our RFP interesting.
Tonight I will be posting our request for legal services which we will begin mailing out to practicing attorneys tomorrow. We have begun contacting some by phone already. We will keep sending out additional requests for service until such time as we engage an attorney. Depending on proposals brought to us we are prepared to hire multiple attorneys to pursue several different cases and as the letter indicates we have already helped pay for the legal services of an attorney, two actually, who have been bird dogging an environmental case challenging the Red Plan.
I have to post this news. If ever there was proof of Dr. Dixon's incompetence this is it. Its what I've been expecting for a year. This School Board should resign.


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93,708 Shares in SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSNC) Acquired by Great West Life Assurance Co. Can
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Great West Life Assurance Co. Can purchased a new position in SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSNC – Get Rating) during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 93,708 shares of the technology company's stock, valued at approximately $4,467,000.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Dark Forest Capital Management LP purchased a new stake in shares of SS&C Technologies in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $26,000. Tobam purchased a new stake in SS&C Technologies during the 2nd quarter valued at $40,000. Venture Visionary Partners LLC purchased a new stake in SS&C Technologies during the 2nd quarter valued at $44,000. Benjamin Edwards Inc. boosted its stake in SS&C Technologies by 49.2% during the 3rd quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. now owns 813 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $39,000 after purchasing an additional 268 shares during the last quarter. Finally, First Horizon Advisors Inc. boosted its stake in SS&C Technologies by 202.2% during the 2nd quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 843 shares of the technology company's stock valued at $48,000 after purchasing an additional 564 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 83.14% of the company's stock.
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Several brokerages have commented on SSNC. Jefferies Financial Group cut their target price on SS&C Technologies from $81.00 to $55.00 in a research note on Friday, October 28th. Truist Financial lowered their price target on SS&C Technologies from $75.00 to $55.00 in a report on Tuesday, December 6th. Credit Suisse Group lowered their price target on SS&C Technologies from $78.00 to $65.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 28th. Raymond James lowered their price target on SS&C Technologies from $83.00 to $63.00 and set a "strong-buy" rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 28th. Finally, Morgan Stanley decreased their target price on SS&C Technologies from $65.00 to $55.00 and set an "equal weight" rating on the stock in a report on Friday, October 28th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, seven have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $64.73.
SS&C Technologies Price Performance
NASDAQ:SSNC opened at $56.27 on Monday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.13, a current ratio of 1.13 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.24. The business's 50-day simple moving average is $52.64 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $54.06. The stock has a market cap of $14.18 billion, a PE ratio of 21.56 and a beta of 1.42. SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. has a 52 week low of $45.25 and a 52 week high of $82.46.
SS&C Technologies (NASDAQ:SSNC – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October 27th. The technology company reported $1.13 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.04 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $1.32 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.35 billion. SS&C Technologies had a return on equity of 19.05% and a net margin of 13.24%. As a group, analysts forecast that SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. will post 4.25 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, December 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 1st were issued a dividend of $0.20 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, November 30th. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.42%. SS&C Technologies's dividend payout ratio is presently 30.65%.
SS&C Technologies Company Profile
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc engages in the development and provision of software solutions to the financial services and healthcare industries. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Japan, Canada, and the Americas, excluding the United States and Canada.
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In case you're wondering what a porterhouse steak is, it's basically a supersize T-Bone steak. I personally think it's one of the best steak recipes around and it's perfect for a few people to share. The cut contains both the strip steak and a full portion of filet mignon so it really is the holy grail for steak lovers!
This really is a favourite of mine and it's a really filling evening meal that you can sit down to enjoy (with some wine!) after a hectic day.
Let the steak sit out on the counter for 30 minutes until it comes to room temperature.
Pat with paper towels then rub a generous amount of the steak spice on both sides.
Start your oven broiler with one oven rack at the top, and one oven rack in the middle.
Once the oil is heated, place the steak into the hot skillet and sear on both sides for 2 minutes, or until browned as you like.
Once the steak is browned, reduce the oven heat to 300 °F and place the skillet on the middle oven rack. You can place the thyme sprigs on top and around if desired.
Cook for another 7-10 minutes until the steak reaches the desired temperature. Remove and place the porterhouse steak into a cutting board to rest for 5 minutes. The steak will rise another 5 degrees in temperature, so take that into consideration when removing from the oven.
What's the difference between T-Bone and Porterhouse Steak?
Like I said earlier, these are essentially the same steak. The porterhouse is just bigger because it's carved from a larger portion of the tenderloin. Specifications from the USDA state that the fillet portion must be a minimum of 1.25" thick at its widest point to be labeled a Porterhouse Steak. In comparison, a T-Bone Steak only has to be 0.25" thick. Anything smaller is referred to as a Club Steak. So size really is the only difference here!
What side dish and wine options are best served with Porterhouse Steak?
Once you've perfected your mouth-watering Porterhouse Steak, the last thing you want to do is serve it with a sub-par side dish! Some great side dish options include: twice baked stuffed potatoes and Brown Sugar and Dill Roasted Carrots, homemade coleslaw, sliced tomatoes or corn on the cob!
When choosing a wine, there are so many to compliment this steak that it all depends on your budget. You really can't go wrong with a full-bodied red such as Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon if you're serving with a rich sauce. And Syrah is a great choice in either instance because of its notes of hearty black fruits.
Warm your steak at room temperature before cooking. All steaks (not just Porterhouse) should be warmed to room temp (or 70 F) before cooking. If you just stick a cold steak in a hot grill you're going to end up with a tough and hard crust on the outside. Why? Well if the steak is cold going into the hot grill, the meat tissue sharply contracts which results in this nasty tough crust.
Season with salt when serving and not before. Salt draws moisture out of meat when it's cooking and the water accumulates at the meat surface, which will leave you with a partially steamed steak, i.e. not the tasty brown steak you're looking for.
I hope you enjoy this hearty protein-packed meal!
Steak Oscar Recipe: this steak recipe is so easy to make but it'll make an amazing impression on your dinner guests!
Instant Pot Low Carb Cube Steak and Gravy: low in carbs, low in prep time, and SUPER tasty. What more could you want?
Sour Cream Steak Enchiladas: a family favourite! If your family are as fond of Mexican food as mine, you'll definitely want to give this a go.
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Somalia Civilians in Somalia, enduring abuses by all warring parties and dire humanitarian conditions, continue to bear the brunt of the country's long-running conflict. Government commitments to improve security in areas under its control, and build capacity of rule-of-law institutions,bore limited results in 2016.
Targeted attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, particularly by the Islamist armed group Al-Shabab, with suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), continue to have a devastating impact. Over 1 million Somalis remain internally displaced, facing serious abuses and very limited access to basic services. Fighting, linked both to military operations against Al-Shabab and clan fighting over resources and political power, and forced evictions resulted in new civilian displacement and casualties.
Much of the focus of the Somali authorities andtheir international partners has been on the electoral process. Tight deadlines as well as ongoingpolitical maneuvering and infighting around the electoral process, including between the federal and regional authorities,largely detracted from progress in justice and security sector reform.
The Somali president took a positive step in August by signing a law establishing a national human rights commission. The government also made important commitments to human rights protections during itsUniversal Periodic Review at the United Nations, but in practice it failed to address violations against the internally displaced and attacks on journalists, among other serious abuses.
Abuses by Government and Allied Forces
Somalia's national intelligence agency, NISA, continues to conduct mass security sweeps despite having no legal mandate to arrest or detain. NISA held detainees for prolonged periods without charge or judicial review and on occasion beat suspects during interrogations. On July 21, NISA agents arrested five members of a policy center, Mogadishu Center for Research and Studies, held them without charges or legal counsel until September 6, before releasing them.
Security forces continue to arbitrarily detain and recruit children.Media reported that NISA used children in their custody as informants to identify Al-Shabab members.According to the UN,a government investigation later corroborated the allegations.
The military court in Mogadishu continues to try cases that are not legally within its jurisdiction and in proceedings falling short of international fair trial standards. According to the UN,at least 64 death sentences were issued in 2016.The majority of these were handed down in Puntland, followinga large-scale Al-Shababoffensive in Puntland and Galmudug,when a military court sentenced43 people to deathfor their association with Al-Shabab in June.According to the UN,12of those on death row arebelieved to be children.
Large-scale forced evictions of internally displaced persons, including by government forces, continued. According to UN figures, during the first eight months of 2016, over 80,000 people were forcibly evicted by government forces and private actors,primarily in Mogadishu.
Inter-clan and inter-regional fighting primarily linked to tensions around the creation of new federal states resulted in civilians deaths and injury and the destruction of property. Fighting broke out in October between the Galmudug interim administration, which was established in 2015, and Puntland forces. At least 22 civilians were killed and dozens injured, and according to the UN, nearly 90,000 people were displaced.
Al-Shabab Abuses
Al-Shabab committed targeted killings, beheadings, and executions, particularly of those accused of spying and collaborating with the government. The armed groupcontinues to administer arbitrary justice, forcibly recruits children, and severely restricts basic rights in areas under its control. Some young men and boys who returned from Kenya's refugee camps to Al-Shabab-controlled areas, including Buale and Sakoow, have faced pressure to join Al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab regularly targets civilians and civilian structures, with an increase in attacks on schools, hotels, and restaurants in Mogadishu, resulting in numerous casualties. On January 21, Al-Shabab conducted a complex attack on popular restaurants in Mogadishu's Lido beach, in which over 20 people were killed and dozens injured, including women and children.
Al-Shabab controls and carries out attacks along many supply routes and imposes blockades on towns captured by AMISOM and government forces, restricting movement of goods and assistance.
Al-Shabab continues to threaten and target journalists in government-controlled areas and bans independent media from reporting in areas it controls. It claimed responsibility for a December 3, 2015 car bomb that killed 31-year-old reporter Hindiya Haji Mohamed, who worked for the state-run media.
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Reports persist of indiscriminate killings of civilians by AMISOM and other foreign forces, including during operations against Al-Shabab and airstrikes.
On July 17,Ethiopian forces indiscriminately killed 14 civilians during an operation against Al-Shabab in Somalia's Bay region. So far, despite public commitments from AMISOM's leadership, and an AMISOM board of inquiry, the findings have not been made public and survivors and the community have not received any compensation.
Airstrikes by Kenya in the Gedo region following the January 15 attack on its base in El Adde resulted in significant civilian deaths, displacement, and destruction of livestock and civilian property. The UN raised concerns of use of cluster munition by Kenya in the Gedo region, which Kenya denied.
The UN Security Councilrepeatedly called on troop-contributing countries to share information with AMISOM's Civilian Casualty Tracking Analysis Research Cell, but this has not regularly occurred in practice.
While the full scope of sexual violence in Somalia remains unknown, internally displaced women and girls are particularly vulnerable to rape by armed men, including government soldiers and militia.Protection of the most vulnerable communities is largely non-existent.
AMISOMtookmeasurestostrengthenitscapacitytofollowuponsexual exploitationandabuse.However,thiscapacity remainsattheheadquarters'levelwithrestricted reachwithinthemissions'sectorsthus limiting its abilitytoinvestigateabuses.The UN reported allegations of gang-rape by 14 AMISOM soldiers of two girls in the Galgudud region; an AMISOM investigation found the allegations wereunfounded.
Displaced Persons and Access to Humanitarian Assistance
According to the UN, there are currently 1.1 million internally displaced people in Somalia, an estimated 400,000 living in Mogadishu alone, who remain very vulnerable and reliant on assistance. Human Rights Watch and other organizations continue to document serious abuses against displaced people living in government-controlled areas including rape and forced evictions. A number of refugees returning from Kenya as part of a UN-supported repatriation drive ended up in informal displacement camps.
Humanitarian agencies faced challenges accessing needy populations due to insecurity, restrictions imposed by parties to the conflict and targetted attacks.
Attacks on Media, Human Rights Defenders, and Political Opposition
Targeted attacks on media, including harassment, and intimidation by federal and regional authorities and the Al-Shabab continue.
Sagal Salad Osman, working for the state-run media, was killed on June 5, and Abdiaziz Mohamed Ali, ajournalist at Radio Shabelle,was killed on September 27, by unknown gunmen.
TheSomali authorities rarely investigate cases of killings or attacks on journalists or prosecute perpetrators; the authorities have only investigated and prosecuted attacks attributed to Al-Shabab, relying on the national intelligence agency, and the country's military court, whose investigations and trials do not meet international due processstandards.
On March 3, the military court sentenced Hassan Hanafi, a journalist who worked for Al-Shabab's Radio Andalus, to death for his alleged involvement in the killing of at least five journalists; he was excuted on April 11. Hanafi had been held without being brought before a court for over a year, was filmed "confessing" prior to his trial on the state-run media and only met the lawyers representing him on the day of his sentencing.
In January, President Hassan Sheikh signed a new media law that risks further hampering freedom of expression by including many vague media restrictions.
In Puntland, on June 23, the minister of information ordered the closure ofDaljir's FM radiostations throughout the region, reportedly as a result of an interview with a critic of the government. Daljir was off air for 12 days.
Somalilandauthorities continue to restrict public criticism of their governance and policies. In May, the justice minister revoked the license of human rights lawyer, Guleid Ahmed Jama, on dubious grounds that his work as a lawyer and as the chairman of a human rights organization were incompatible. The chief justice later revoked the suspension. Authorities regularly detained journalists; some resulted in criminal charges.
Somaliland continued with its negative trend of executions with seven people executedin 2016.
Somaliland authorities have failed to sufficiently control and regulate private mental health centers that have confined patients involuntarily and subjected them to chaining, and, on occasion, beatings.One private center improved it treatment of those with mental disabilities by closing its inpatient facilities and providing support to patients in their communities.
Key International Actors
Foreign and regional partners continued to provide financial and other assistance to AMISOM, andthe United States and United Kingdom paid the salaries of the Somali national army.Donorsalso provided directsupport to regional security and police forces. In addition to Turkey's ongoing humanitarian, political, and economic engagements, the Gulf states, primarily the United Arab Emirates, increased their military and political support to Somalia.
US airstrikes and ground operations against Al-Shababsignificantly increased in 2016. In November, the US Defense Department acknowledged a September 28 strike had killed local militia forces and not Al-Shabab members, as they had initially claimed.
At the political level, much of the international and regional community has focused on the electoral process, despite limited progress in key reform areas.
In September, the US imposed partial military sanctions on Somalia due to its continued recruitment and use of child soldiers, barring commercial arms sales and several other categories of military assistance for the 2017 fiscal year.
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The area around Guangzhou Railway Station is a mecca for wholesale garments, fashion accessories and even shoes and leather goods. Here you can find dresses, casual, sports, Korean styles, European styles, costumes, children's clothes and fashion accessories. The markets are located in multi-level buildings with anywhere from 200 to 1800 individual stalls/stores in each one and these buildings are spread out across several blocks on either side of the railway station.
Most are wholesale only and will mostly only want to deal with people looking to buy in bulk, that said, there are many that have clearances of display lines, or willing to sell one time purchases. Recently some stores have become more open to selling to the general public. For wholesale fashion buyers, this is the place for you.
Most stores open from 10 am and some close at 6 pm. Some more retail orientated stores may stay open till as late as ten pm.
Stores range from big open bags of clothes on the floor through to very cool concept like store fit-outs. Quality and styles are also diverse. Most places will not allow trying on of garments and inspect everything and are 100% happy before handing over money. There are no warranties or returns in most cases.
This is in no way a complete list of the markets in the area, there are so many, but these would be the highlights.
Liu Hua 流花服装批发市场 – Casual clothing, T-Shirts, approx 1000 stores. Address: 194 Huanshi W Rd, Yuexiu Qu. Near Guangzhou Station and adjacent to the Provincial Bus Station.
Liuhua Hotel – 4 star (self-rated) – clean and comfortable, this is the most central hotel in the market area. Next to the subway station.
Yingshang Hotel – Comfortable and clean, it's close to the action of the markets and still within walking distance of the railway station (10 mins).
Xinghe Business Hotel – clean and modern, it's roughly 1 km from the market action and the railway station.