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dcbc

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  1. I don't know how many white-collar criminals they acquit, but the NE Texas rubes still convict some too. We see plenty of them. The Medicare fraudsters tend to end up in federal court; so I can't help you with that one.
  2. Can we talk about "clear and specific" while we're at it? Did we really need another standard for TCPA.
  3. Preponderance: 50.1% Clear & Convincing: Upwards of 75% (nobody really knows) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: 98% Presumption of Innocence: State has to prove every element and D doesn't have to prove anything. Not that you can explain it to a jury without just going from the statute unless you like being yelled at by a judge. It's all ball bearings nowadays.
  4. How thick are those carbon steel griddles? I've considered this for a while. If those c/s griddles are too thin, I'd be concerned with their warping when spanned across two, bridged burners on an induction cooktop. And as for rust prevention, I figured it was about the same as cast iron inasmuch as I treat my C/S pans the same I do as my cast iron and don't have any issues with either really. The cast iron is probably quite a bit cheaper. As for no lips, I feel like that would just make it easier to get a spatula in there, and it's not like I'm playing air hockey on it. There's going to be grease splatter either way. I'd definitely put an appropriately sized sil-pat mat under it in any event. And a little grease splatter is nothing to clean up on an induction cooktop anyway. Still shopping myself. So no real world experience. edit: Looks like the one marketed by Made In is 4mm thick. So probably good against warping and can be used to bludgeon your enemies too, which is the mark of any good cookware.
  5. Oh, yeah! They smell July Fresh afterward. That's a feature. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I have an insulated bag like that from a grocery or food delivery somewhere.
  6. You can get warming ovens on Amazon for around $250. They're reasonably well-reviewed.
  7. Sounds like you all were wrapping the brisket in the towels. I've always just put the foil wrapped brisket on a tray in the bottom of the cooler and packed in a few towels loosely to fill the head space. It's always worked well. More recently, I've been tossing it into a low, wide Crockpot with a warm setting.
  8. Our KA tilt-head is 24 years old and counting. I suspect it needs service and I don't knead as much dough these days with it. We've had a few different ice-cream makers over the years from White Mountain to the cheap Cuisinarts with the frozen bowls. A few years ago, we got a Cuisinart ice cream maker with a built-in compressor, and the ability to run a few back-to-back batches has been great. I recently got a MEAT meat grinder. 500 watts (roughly 1/2 hp). It's pretty well made, even if my wife did mistakenly put the aluminum bits in the dish washer, robbing them of their luster. I bought a cheap momentary-switch foot pedal for it to use when I'm stuffing sausages, and it works well enough that I haven'e hankered for a manual-crank stuffer yet. Along with he meat grinder, I've finally realized the genius of the $3 plastic hamburger patty maker my wife picked up somewhere. 6 oz. of beef on wax paper, press, perfect patty without overworking the meat. It's great!
  9. Then there's the matter of LBJ's being a constant-level lake, which, when I see pictures of the flooding on the Llano arm, really confuses me, but maybe that isn't noticed on the lake-proper as much. Anyway, your point is well-taken, but I was thinking about this earlier since Inks is constant level/pass-thru to a degree, but definitely rose several feet last weekend.
  10. Do it in a separate pan after the sear. That pan should be hot enough to melt butter but not burn it. Alternatively, get that sear pan hot, but not ridiculously so. Have a big spoon and keep that butter moving so it doesn't burn. I prefer the first way.
  11. That latter part is weird. That wasn't the case in the 80s and as I may have mentioned above, those camps were above my pay grade when my kids were that age. But the Surly acceptance ceremony is quite nice. @immamac has it catered. Everyone chants, "Muledick!" South Austin's mom has a raffle of sorts. There's a stripper pole and a sex tent. Sorry you didn't get one.
  12. I probably jogged by your house more than a few times.
  13. It's hard to keep up, but I think there still is a missing counselor, Katherine Ferruzo, age 19. Chloe is the one from Kinkaid (headed to UT), who was confirmed dead. Katherine, also was an incoming UT freshman, who graduated from Memorial. They were counselors in the same cabin, it appears. edit. I added her name. It's in the news at this point. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14882191/photo-entire-cabin-Camp-Mystic-girls-counselors.html
  14. They could pay me $500, and the final bill would be too rich for my blood. My kids went to some smaller camps close by and had some fun times. My older son finally got to go to Longhorn . . . as a counselor. Better to make them pay you . . . and they don't pay a lot.
  15. Apparently, Indian Springs (a/k/a Ranch Branch to us olds) is the harder one to get into these days because it was renovated most recently. According to my son, they pay their counselors quite a bit more than they do at Inks. When I went there, I went to Ranch because the waiting list was too long at Inks. It was fun for a few years (forty years ago). But there was a waiting list even back then for the "Main" camp.
  16. I felt like that was the correct answer as well. And I say that as someone who did not keep up with anyone from summer camp. But I can still remember their names and have run into a couple of them over the years.
  17. What's weirder, this or people who spent 3 weeks at a time with other kids for years, formed friendships, and have kept in touch. I think I know the answer.
  18. He, with his 20,00xth post, said on the most recent iteration of a message board where people interact regularly and have formed friendships. Just saying.
  19. No, it's not. We peeked at it for our kids, and the ones at this level were $5k and up for a 2 or 3 week session. Too much for this civil servant. I wouldn't doubt for a second that exclusive/expensive summer camp attendance is up there behind zip code and private high school attendance for some fraternities and sororities at UT and elsewhere. In fact, I know it is. And the parents who send their kids there surely understand this to a large degree, whether it's Mystic, La Junta, Waldemar, Olympia, Ozark, Longhorn, Champion, etc. But the kids don't figure this out until much later and are there to have fun.
  20. Okay, I missed that part. I figured the text groups were people who had kids there. I went to Longhorn for three summers and by the time I was in sixth grade had decided that was enough. I still remember some names of people there and have run into them a few times since then, but I don't otherwise keep in touch. I guess if I went there for eight plus years, I might keep in touch with more people or have been added to some random text group. But yeah, seems kind of strange. But these camps are pretty close knit, and a lot of these kids (now adults) went to high school (smaller, private schools) and college together. So maybe I'm not so surprised that some of them keep in touch regularly.
  21. I think a little better description of it is that it's swimming, and sailing, and fishing, and horseback riding, and all sorts of other fun things for kids to do. So a lot of the kids go back for years until they are in high school, at which point, some transition to being counselors at the camp. But these camps are very expensive. So, as @C-Man mentioned, later, when some of these kids end up at large Texas universities like UT, some of them know each other and end up in fraternities or sororities together or get recommended for bids to these organizations because they knew each other from years of going to summer camp together. I wouldn't call it weird for what it is at its base. It's just fun shit for kids to do during the summer. But because it's expensive and there are limited spots available (and because people have been attending for generations, it is exclusive and because of that, it feeds into the exclusivity of fraternities and sororities later.
  22. I went to high school with her mother and played soccer with her uncle. Sweet people. Chloe was an incoming freshman at UT. Just tragic.
  23. There were a couple of Jewish campers in my cabin and the one above ours. They gathered for a separate service IIRC. I wouldn't have described Longhorn as a "Christian" camp either. But things seemed less in your face back in the 80s, except when it wasn't, in which case, it seemed very in your face.
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