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I like to do flank steak over a lower heat.

Give it some seasoning, then pound the crap out of it with a meat mallet to even it out and tenderize. 300 degrees direct heat. 10 minutes per side. Slice thin, against the grain

Love that it's rated R, hate that the animation looks like ****

For even cooking on whole chickens on the grill, nothing beats beer can chicken imo. Easy and comes out moist and delicious every time

Based on my own experience, I disagree.

A 4-5lb butt isn't too small. I can't comment on anything under 4 lbs, because I've never tried that.

I've smoked a lot of 'em, in the 4-5 lb range, and have never had one go through the stall quickly. I've never had any meat go through a stall quickly, even when I've foiled briskets. This is based on smoking at 225, which is the standard that I use.

When I smoke two at a time, they're usually done within an hour, or two, of each other,(I pull them at 203°). If one finishes first, I wrap it tightly in foil, and stick it a faux cambro. Which is a fancy term for a cooler with a couple of towels in it. The meat stays piping hot for hours.

I cooked one that was close to 4 lb even, and had the problems mentioned above. Maybe it was a bad cut, or the difference between 250 and 225. Since then I always tried to stay at 5+

The extra time doesn't really bother me. I get the temp locked in and forget it, and employ the cooler method if it finishes early. And if I have extra I freeze 1 lb bags and use it to make Brunswick stew

What if I cut an 8lb butt in half and smoke it as two 4 pounders? Any downside?

I've read about a different, faster method than the standard 250 all the way. Search the biggreenegg forum for "turbo butt" and you'll find it. Never tried it myself, but I recall several people on that board were happy with the result

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Wall anchors for tall, top heavy shelves, once they're closer to a year and start trying to climb the furniture (or pull themselves up to stand using it)

Literally just had the happen to me. A seal in the (old) valve came apart and lodged in the line, killing my hot water. You probably need the valves replaced. Not DIY (for me). Plumber took care of the hot water for $130.

So you only had to replace the line, not the faucet?

That would be...well, a little better at least

Plumbing question

So about a year and a half ago, our kitchen faucet lost all pressure and was down to a trickle, to the point we were doing dishes in the bathroom. We ended up having to replace the faucet

FF to this week, same damn thing is happening. Hot water pressure went down significantly out of nowhere. Although this time the cold water pressure is still good. And if you hook a hose up to the valve to spray into a bucket, hot water pressure is just fine. So looks like I'll be replacing the stupid faucet again. This should not be happening again so soon. Or at all.

The house is under 20 years old. I'm thinking about replacing the shutoff valves too. Maybe some seal is disintegrating and sending pieces up the line or something. I don't know. Any thoughts/ideas would be appreciated. I want this to be the last kitchen faucet I have to buy for this house

I think this is an original enough story to not tread the same ground. It's really just the time period that's familiar, with the occasional familiar face.

I agree, and would add that I think it's important, in this early stage, for them not to drift too far from those touchstones.  We need something connecting these movies to the stories we know.  You don't want to expand the universe too fast.  

the casting for Mon Mothma is incredible.  If you told me it was some CGI trick where they digitally put the original actress' head on someone else's body, I might believe it.

Uncanny

Plus he outsmarted Han Solo...and had the coolest voice, pre-Lucasing the OT.

Speaking of which, for all your originalists out there, Harmy's long-awaited update to the despecialized ROTJ was released about 2 months ago.  

Copies of all 3 available here:  http://doomtorrent.com/star-wars-harmy-s-despecialized-trilogy-v2-5-iv-v-vi-mkv-t12049613.html#star.wars.harmy.s.despecialized.trilogy.v2.5.iv.v.vi.mkv

(For those unfamiliar, the despecialized versions undo all the "Lucasing" of the OT, in an effort to come as close as possible to a bluray quality print of the real original movies.  See this old thread http://es.redskins.com/topic/345700-attn-star-wars-fans-these-are-the-versions-youve-been-looking-for-screened-behind-the-scenes-of-harmys-star-wars-despecialized-editions/)  

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My understanding is at the automated rapid charging stations battery swaps were also automated. These batteries are very expensive. you aren't going to have a spare set in your garage. Besides there is no need.

Also the testa sales guy told me the power plant for these cars is only rated for 1000 full charges. Partial charge isn't the same as a full charge he said. But that still sounds pretty limiting.

So once every 3+ years you have to pay $30-50 for a new battery at a charging station?

Doesn't sound THAT limiting...

http://blog.estately.com/2016/02/valentines-day-related-gifts-each-state-googles-more-frequently-than-other-states/

I recognize that, in light of yesterday's events, I'm addressing something unimportant that has already been moved past.  But, as a construction lawyer, I thought I'd take a stab at addressing some of Larry's concerns regarding liens.

I'll certainly take y'all's word for it, that that's the way things ARE. But I've got to say, I've got a problem with that. Seems to me that what we've created is a situation where anybody who wants to can claim to own your house, and your only remedy is to go to court, at your own expense, and prove your innocence.

To get your judgment, you had to go to court, and prove that a debt existed. You had to at least give the accused an opportunity to contest your claim. And the burden of proof was on the person wanting the property.

Seems, to me, that seizing somebody's home should require AT LEAST that burden of proof.

(And yes, I realize that a lein is only a claim to own PART of your home. So what?)

I would think that a law is needed. Maybe two.

1). In order to place a lein on real estate, a judgment must first be obtained.
2). Falsifying a judgement is a criminal offense. (A felony, if the amount of the lein is more than $20, or whatever the threshold for felony theft is, in that jurisdiction).

Maybe, if there's some reason why it's necessary, you permit non-judgement leins to be placed, but such leins expire, say, one year after being filed, unless a judgment is obtained.

A lien is not a claim that you own someone's house, and it's not a claim that you have a judgment.  It's a public notice that you claim the owner of the property owes you money for work you did to improve the property, and that if they don't pay it then you have a right to go after the property.  But that's a long process.  You file the lien, file the lawsuit, win the lawsuit (by proving that you completed the work properly and were not paid), fail to collect on the judgment, initiate foreclosure proceedings, advertise the property for sale, then actually sell it on the courthouse steps.  I spent the last 10 years at an 8-person firm in Atlanta doing nothing but construction litigation, and in that time not one person at my firm ever actually foreclosed on a piece of property.  And we filed a LOT of liens.

There are 3 parties we have to protect here - the contractor/subcontractor entitled to be paid for their work (the routine screwing over of these guys is part of why we have lien laws in the first place); the owner who shouldn't have illegitimate liens on his property; and the subsequent purchaser who, if they buy the property without knowing about the claim, can not be at risk of a lien foreclosure action. Lien laws are an attempt to balance all of those interests.

The reason your proposal doesn't work is it ignores how long it takes to get a judgment.  Typically a lawsuit is going to take at least a year to win.  Longer if the subcontractor has to sue the GC and the Owner in separate venues or if there's an appeal.  If you had to win a lawsuit first, unscrupulous owners would rush to sell the property before the lawsuit was over, screwing over either the contractor or the subsequent purchaser.  That's why lien statutes require fast action.  In most states you have to file within 90 days after the work is done, which minimizes to the greatest extent possible the ability of those bad actor owners to sell the property to an unsuspecting purchaser before the lien can be filed.

FYI filing a fraudulent lien can subject you to punitive damages, attorneys fees and criminal penalties, in some states.

Gee, I could have sworn that I mentioned that they weren't claiming all of your house, just part of it.

And it's still wrong. In order to attack something so basic, the plaintiff should have to go to court and prove that the debt exists.  (In a setting where the owner has the right to object.  That includes being told that the claim is being made.)  The owner should not have to prove his innocence. 

To actually foreclose on the lien, the contractor has to prove their claim first and obtain a judgment in court, basically by winning a breach of contract action and proving that they dotted all their i's and crossed all their t's in filing the lien.  Again, the lien is just a notice to the world that a claim--not a judgment--exists.

I do not believe that the only possible way to resolve said disputes, is to allow the contractor to encumber the homeowners property, with no burden of proof whatsoever, and the homeowner must then give in, or go to court and prove his innocence.

Maybe I'm silly, but I think the burden of proof should be on the contractor, and that said proof should come before encumbering the property.

And, like I suggested. If there's some compelling reason why the contractor has to get the encumbrance first (say, an electrician who didn't get paid by the general contractor, and the house is about to be sold next week), then let them get a temporary, one year, encumbrance, while they wait for their court date.

That's exactly what a lien is.  A temporary encumbrance.  If you don't file suit within a year (typically), the lien is automatically invalid.  The only reason 10 year old liens are a problem for anyone is because title companies are a pain in the ass and will treat an obviously expired lien as if it were valid because they are prohibited from using their brains.

Also, for what it's worth, it's easy to get a lien off your property without going to court.  All you have to do is bond it off.  You pay a bonding company 3-5% of the amount of the lien, they issue a bond, the lien transfers from the property to the bond, and *boom* the property is free and clear to sell.  

Aquaman is on the team too, Yahoo guy. He's in the concept art you're discussing! Right there on the left...

Poor ole aquaman. Never gets any respect

Yep, looks official now - Chippy to the 49ers:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000622478/article/niners-hire-chip-kelly-as-head-coach

Great landing spot for him.  They have no black superstars left to cut, so it's like half the work is already done.

Pretty plain from the quotes that these people are Sovereign Citizens.

Which means this will not end peacefully

Saw this trailer this weekend. Early candidate for 2016 box office bomb of the year.

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I'm not saying you can't remake a movie that was good. But those movies also had something to "fix". Outdated special effects and stunt work. Stylized acting that dates it and comes off weird now. Or the story has a completely new twist that makes it worth telling.

This stinks of a direct to video cashgrab like that Donnie Darko "sequel " that was completely unaffiliated.

This is a ****ing outrage

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/16/memento-remake-christopher-nolan-ambi-pictures

Memento remake in the works from AMBI Pictures

 

 

Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller about an amnesiac trying to piece together his wife’s murder is getting the remake treatment from AMBI Pictures, which will finance and produce the project, the company announced Monday.

 

AMBI took ownership of remake rights to Memento in September when it acquired the 400-title library of Exclusive Media Group, which also contains such films as Donnie Darko, Cruel Intentions, End of Watch, andSliding Doors. AMBI then announced a $200 million film fund last week, which set up Memento for a greenlight.

 

Released in 2000, the original film starred Guy Pearce as a man suffering from a rare form of memory loss that prevents him from retaining new memories and seriously complicates his quest to track down one of his wife’s killers.

 

Told in a unique combination of chronological and reverse-chronological order, Memento received strong reviews, earned Oscar nominations for screenplay and editing, and marked Nolan as a rising filmmaker.

 

“People who’ve seen Memento 10 times still feel they need to see it one more time,” AMBI founder and CEO Andrea Iervolino said in the announcement. “This is a quality we feel really supports and justifies a remake. The bar is set high thanks to the brilliance or Christopher Nolan, but we wouldn’t want it any other way.”

 

So what you're saying is, what justifies a remake is the fact that the film was AMAZING the first time?  That's moronic.  It's the exact opposite - that's why it doesn't need to be remade.  There's not an obvious problem to fix.  

It's like they're inside my house (except with DirecTV it's 4x that's uncontrollable)

Smoking a pork shoulder for the first time on my offset wood grill.

Been smoking about 7 hours (small shoulder 3.5 lbs) now but can't seem to get the internal temp above 140.

Keeping the smoking temp at 225 is tricky and my smoker seems to like 240. There is definitely an art to this but I haven't got it figured out yet.

There's nothing wrong with 240 and I wouldn't fret about that.  You're still definitely in the "low and slow" range.  I typically do mine at around 250.  As others have pointed out, the meat hits a plateau stage where the temp doesn't change for a while, and the fat is rendering.  This is good.  You don't want to rush through it.  

I've been reading about a different, faster method that has apparently become popular on the BGE messageboards.  The "turbo butt".  Cook @ 350 (indirect) to 160 internal, wrap in heavy duty alum foil and continue cooking to 195 internal, put it in a cooler with beach towels for 30 min - 1 hr.  Supposedly cuts the cooking time in half and gets nearly identical results.

The end of that method is my go-to for whenever a butt is done before I'm ready to serve dinner.  Double wrap in heavy duty aluminum foil and put it in a cooler with several beach towels.  You can wait a few hours to pull it, and the meat stays warm and tender.  

Plus it makes your towels smell amazing