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An impressive-looking dish can pause the conversation when it arrives. The oyster log at Trenasse, however, looked like it could stop traffic.
A lacquered slab of cypress nearly as long as our four-top table, the log was like a diorama of three dozen oysters ($59). Some sizzled with garlic butter, some were prepared as Bienville or Rockefeller, others bubbled under caps of smoked Gruyere and pancetta. A clutch of fried oysters riding over the top looked as though they'd been strewn there out of whimsy. Never mind pausing the conversation. This became our conversation, even after we finished it off.
It was the presentation, the execution and the high-low balance of casual extravagance that made this spectacle of a shared appetizer so compelling, and that's also a fitting introduction to Trenasse.
Contemporary and upscale, Trenasse evokes the gusto and spirit of Louisiana hunting camp cooking, though perhaps for the type of camp that would have a private chef and a ready supply of microgreens. The style and flavors are manifestly of Louisiana, but they're also more modern and original than a textbook Cajun or Creole read on the subject. In this way Trenasse continues one of my favorite local dining trends of late (see Peche Seafood Grill and Borgne for comparable examples).
Trenasse comes from chef Jim Richard, who opened it in December inside the CBD's Hotel InterContinental with the chefs Brannon Janca, Jean Pierre Guidry and Todd Misener leading the kitchen. A lifer in the business, Richard grew up in his family's restaurants in Lafayette, later cooked around the South (including a turn as sous chef at Commander's Palace in the 1990s) and made his name with Stinky's Fish Camp, his popular seafood restaurant in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Trenasse shares some of Stinky's menu staples (namely, that oyster log) but is the urban step up from its beach restaurant sibling.
Trenasse is a restaurant that has Sauternes and port on a wine list that is impressive throughout and also has daiquiri machines swirling behind the bar. Instead of bread, diners are greeted with cracklin and red bean butter (as if cracklin had just been calling out for a savory, buttery spread) but also has a menu where many of the entrees breach the $30 mark.
Some dishes are intricate, like appetizers of crab-stuffed squash ($16), tufted with oven-crisped Hollandaise for a dose of brown butter flavor, or grilled quail ($15) that ooze mozzarella over spicy-sweet barbecued eggplant. Other dishes are more about rural touchstones burnished by a chef's attention, like the lushly juicy fricassee of braised rabbit and shrimp ($26) with egg noodles as thick as country dumplings. Darkly tangy frog legs ($24), coated in a lemon butter with the viscosity of Madeira sauce, show why frog is best when it tastes like itself and not like fried chicken.
"Blackboard fish," a changing selection, make up a good chunk of the menu and are mainly left to their own merits with straightforward, grilled preparations. The whole fish (market price) is a different story. It was redfish when we tried it, crusted with Parmesan and bent into a U-shape as if leaping from the water. This fish was not jumping from waves, however, but from a base of green onion boudin, removed from its casing. The impressive presentation makes this dish look like an edible fishing trophy, though it gets better as it gets uglier — that is, as you break the fish into ever-smaller pieces and crispy-skin bits, and all of this mixes with the boudin beneath.
Letdowns come when dishes jumble too much together, like "Stinky's stew" ($27) a mix of seafood in too demure a broth, and a flounder ($30) that is swallowed up by a sticky Brie and leek sauce.
Desserts are low-key, with homey flavors dressed up by colorful flourishes, like a Creole coffee milk cake ($11) falling into damp crumbles, and beignets to dunk in caramel foam.
Though unmistakably part of the hotel (the bar flows into the lobby), plenty of design touches, and the outgoing staff, lend character beyond the typical hotel restaurant template. Gleaming cypress tables fill the room flanked by the curving main bar and small oyster bar, a patio extends the dining room to the adjacent pedestrian mall and a mural from Emerald Coast artist Justin Gaffrey illustrates the meaning of trenasse (a Cajun word for a fisherman's cut through a marsh).
The lunch menu takes a step back, with many entrees replaced by entree salads and po-boys. But the blackboard fish is still available, and oysters are always on, served raw, broiled, steamed or covered with ceviche.
You may need a team effort, or one exceptional appetite, to tackle the oyster log. But with these options, dedicated oyster lovers can build bivalve tasting menus at their own pace, too.
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Whatever perfume Helen Mirren's wearing, we want some.
The 63-year-old Dame can't go anywhere these days without being surrounded by a gaggle of young boys, tripping over themselves to impress her.
And she's having the time of her life.
When comic Russell Brand revealed he had the hots for Helen last week, we didn't rate his chances.
But the Oscar winner tells us: "I heard he fancies me. I fancy Russell too.
"I mean, who can resist a man that looks so good in tight trousers? He's absolutely lovely."
But he's got some stiff competition.
When the Prime Suspect star won Most Stylish Woman at the Inspiration Awards on Tuesday, she walked away with not one but two younger admirers.
Premiership footballer Sol Campbell, 34, and ex-Blue singer Simon Webbe, 29, were enchanted by her as she shunned her private room filled with pink lilies to drink champagne with them. Sol had just presented her with her gong and four luxury King watches for her nieces.
An onlooker said: "There was a lot of smiling and flirting going on after Dame Helen came off stage with Sol. He kept telling people: 'She's such a lovely lady.'
"Then she had a photoshoot with Simon and was asking him to move in closer. He didn't object at all."
So during our audience with the Queen at the Sloane Square event we asked for her secrets.
She said, pointing to her killer five-inch patent heels: "My shoes have a special step built in to elongate my legs. I don't want to be a 63-year-old wearing comfortable Scholl shoes, do I? And she added: "I take this sequinned bolero with me everywhere. It's great for a bit of glam."
So we asked which of her admirers she prefers - and it turns out we don't know the half of it.
She smiled: "There's a young man in the offing.
"I have an admirer. They're getting younger all the time."
All hail the Queen, you are our heroine.

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It's Boooosh's fault.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) blamed Bush for Fast and Furious today. She told reporters that AG Holder was innocent.
(That's why he won't turn over documents.)
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How can high cholesterol be controlled?
Nearly 1/3 of all adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). High cholesterol can put people at risk for heart disease, heart attacks, and death.
Cholesterol levels can be lowered with regular exercise, weight loss, and a healthy diet that is low in cholesterol and saturated fats. But in some cases, diet and exercise are not enough and cholesterol-lowering medications may be needed.
This slideshow will discuss the basics of cholesterol and the types of drugs prescribed to treat high cholesterol.
What is cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance in the blood that is made by the body's liver and helps your body produce hormones, vitamin D, and to digest fat. The other source of cholesterol is from the diet in foods like egg yolks, fatty meats, and cheeses. You only need a small amount to regulate the body processes, and when there is excess cholesterol in the blood, it can build up on the walls of the blood vessels, in deposits called plaque. Plaque can contribute to the narrowing and blockages of arteries that can lead to heart disease.
What are LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides?
There are different types of cholesterol. Most of your body's cholesterol is low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, also referred to as "bad" cholesterol because it can lead to plaque buildup in the arteries, which leads to heart disease and stroke.
High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is called the "good" cholesterol because it absorbs "bad" cholesterol and carries it back to the liver, which helps remove it from your body. This can reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke.
Triglycerides are a type of fat found in your blood. High triglycerides combines with low HDL cholesterol or high LDL cholesterol can increase your risk for heart attack and stroke.
What types of cholesterol drugs are available?
Numerous types of cholesterol drugs are available in the U.S., including statins (HMG CoA reductase inhibitors), nicotinic acid (niacin), fibric acid derivatives (fibrates), bile acid sequestrants, cholesterol absorption inhibitors and omega-3 fatty acids. These medications can help lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels, and increase HDL ("good") cholesterol levels. Different medications may also be combined to do both at the same time.
What are statins?
Statins are a class of drugs that work by lowering blood cholesterol levels, and reducing the production of cholesterol by the liver by blocking an enzyme. Statins are used to reduce high cholesterol levels, and also to prevent and treat hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) that can cause chest pain, heart attacks, strokes, peripheral vascular disease and intermittent claudication (cramping leg pain) in at-risk patients.
Risk factors for atherosclerosis include:
The next several slides are examples of statins currently prescribed to lower cholesterol.
atorvastatin (Lipitor)
Drug Class: Statins
Prescribed for: Atorvastatin (Lipitor) lowers the LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglycerides and can raise your HDL ("good") cholesterol. This can lower the risk for heart attack, stroke, certain types of heart surgery, and chest pain in patients who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease such as age, smoking, high blood pressure, low HDL, or family history of early heart disease.
Side effects: Atorvastatin (Lipitor) is generally well-tolerated. Minor side effects include diarrhea, constipation, nausea, upset stomach, gas, fatigue, heartburn, headache, muscle and joint pain, and changes in some blood tests. Atorvastatin (Lipitor) may cause liver and muscle damage (rhabdomyolysis).
rosuvastatin (Crestor)
Drug Class: Statins
Prescribed for: Rosuvastatin (Crestor) is used for the reduction of blood total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and to increase HDL cholesterol levels, to reduce the chances of developing problems like heart disease and strokes.
Side effects: The most common side effects of rosuvastatin (Crestor) are headache, depression, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation, muscle aches or pains, joint pain, and sleep problems (insomnia or nightmares). The most serious side effects are liver failure, muscle breakdown (rhabdomyolysis), and kidney failure.
simvastatin (Zocor)
Drug Class: Statins
Prescribed for: Simvastatin (Zocor) is used for reducing total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, and for increasing HDL cholesterol in patients with coronary heart disease, diabetes, peripheral vessel disease, or history of stroke or other cerebrovascular disease.
Side effects: The most common side effects of simvastatin (Zocor) are headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, muscle pain, heartburn, gas, bloating, indigestion, constipation, headache, joint pain, skin rash, sleep problems (insomnia), cold symptoms (stuffy nose, sneezing, or sore throat), and abnormal liver tests. Hypersensitivity reactions have also been reported. The most serious potential side effects are liver damage and muscle inflammation or breakdown.
pravastatin (Pravachol)
Drug Class: Statins
Prescribed for: Pravastatin (Pravachol) is used for the reduction of total and LDL cholesterol as well as triglycerides, and to increase HDL cholesterol. It has been suggested that pravastatin may reduce the occurrence of heart attacks, strokes, and death caused by coronary artery disease.
Side Effects: The most common side effects of pravastatin (Pravachol) are headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, skin rash, dizziness, and abnormal liver tests. The most serious potential side effects are liver damage and muscle inflammation or breakdown.
lovastatin (Mevacor)
Drug Class: Statins
Prescribed for: Lovastatin (Mevacor) is used to treat high LDL cholesterol. Effectiveness of the medication in lowering cholesterol is dose-related. Blood cholesterol determinations are performed in regular intervals during treatment so that dosage adjustments can be made. A reduction in LDL cholesterol level can be seen two weeks after starting therapy.
Side Effects: Side effects of lovastatin (Mevacor) are rare. Minor side effects include constipation, diarrhea, gas, heartburn, indigestion, stomach pain, nausea, headache, muscle pain, joint pain, back pain,and sleep problems (insomnia). Major side effects include abdominal pain or cramps, blurred vision, dizziness, itching, chest pain, muscle pain or cramps, rash, or yellowing of the skin or eyes.
fluvastatin (Lescol)
Drug Class: Statins
Prescribed for: Fluvastatin (Lescol) is used to treat high LDL cholesterol. Effectiveness of the medication in lowering cholesterol is dose-related. Blood cholesterol is checked at regular intervals during treatment so that dosage adjustments can be made.
Side effects: Side effects of fluvastatin (Lescol) are rare. Minor side effects include stomach upset, constipation, diarrhea, gas, heartburn, headache, and insomnia. Major side effects include abdominal pain or cramps, blurred vision, dizziness, itching, muscle pain or cramps, rash, or yellowing of the skin or eyes.
What are fibric acid derivatives (fibrates)?
Fibrates aim to lower blood triglyceride levels by 35 to 50 percent and raise HDL ("good") cholesterol levels by 5 to 20 percent. Fibrates work by reducing the amount of triglycerides produced by the liver, and increasing the rate at which the triglycerides are removed from the bloodstream.
While they can increase HDL cholesterol, fibrates do not work to lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol and are often combined with statins to accomplish this. Fibrates are also prescribed to help prevent heart attacks in at-risk patients with high blood triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol.
fenofibrate (Tricor)
Drug Class: Fibrates
Prescribed for: Fenofibrate (Tricor) is used along with a non-drug program (including diet changes) to treat elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
Side effects: Common side effects of fenofibrate (Tricor) include stomach pain or upset, back pain, constipation, headache, dizziness, trouble sleeping, or runny or stuffy nose. Muscle damage may occur, and muscle pain, tenderness, weakness and fever should be reported promptly to your physician. Decreased sexual drive, yellowing of the eyes or skin (jaundice), and stomach pain may occur and also should be reported.
gemfibrozil (Lopid)
Drug Class: Fibrates
Prescribed for: Gemfibrozil (Lopid) is used for persons with either low HDL cholesterol and/or high triglyceride concentrations to reduce the risk of heart attacks. It also is used in persons with very high triglyceride levels that are at risk for pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).
Side effects: Side effects of gemfibrozil (Lopid) include upset stomach, stomach/abdominal pain, diarrhea, tiredness, nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, drowsiness, joint pain, loss of interest in sex, impotence, difficulty having an orgasm, numbness or tingly feeling, unusual taste, cold symptoms (stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat), depression, blurred vision. Less common side effects are muscle aches, pains, weakness, or tenderness.
What are bile acid sequestrants?
The liver produces bile acids (a main component of your digestive enzymes secreted by the liver) using cholesterol. Bile acid sequestrants bind bile acids in the intestine causing bile acids to be excreted in the stool. This causes the liver to use more of the blood cholesterol to make more bile acids, and in turn, lower blood cholesterol levels.
Bile acid sequestrants used alone, mildly lower LDL cholesterol. They are commonly used in combination with other classes of cholesterol drugs to more effectively lower LDL cholesterol levels.
colesevelam (Welchol)
Drug Class: Bile acid sequestrants
Prescribed for: Colesevelam (Welchol) is used to treat high blood cholesterol levels, especially high levels of LDL cholesterol. It does not lower cholesterol as much as the statin class of drugs, but when used in combination with a statin, it lowers cholesterol levels further than the statin alone.
Colesevelam (Welchol) also is used in combination with other drugs for treating type 2 diabetes such as metformin (Glucophage), sulfonylureas, or insulin to further lower blood sugar levels.
Side effects: Colesevelam (Welchol) usually is well-tolerated. Patients may experience constipation, upset stomach, indigestion, nausea, vomiting, gas, headache, stomach pain, diarrhea, feeling weak or tired, muscle pain, runny nose, sore throat, or flu symptoms.
colestipol (Colestid)
Drug Class: Bile acid sequestrants
Prescribed for: Colestipol (Colestid) is used for the treatment of high cholesterol in conjunction with dietary control; for the treatment of diarrhea due to increased intestinal bile acids after some types of surgery; for the treatment of itching associated with partial obstruction to the flow of bile due to liver disease.
Side effects: Side effects of colestipol (Colestid) include constipation, stomach upset, heartburn, indigestion, belching, gas, diarrhea, nausea, loss of appetite, aggravated hemorrhoids or rectal irritation, change of taste, headache, or itching. If patients experience unusual bruising or bleeding, severe stomachaches, or vomiting they should notify their physicians.
cholestyramine (Questran)
Drug Class: Bile acid sequestrants
Prescribed for: Cholestyramine is used for reducing cholesterol levels in the blood, to relieve the itching of liver and biliary disease, and to treat overdoses of digoxin or thyroid hormone.
Side effects: The most common side effects are constipation, stomach/abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, loss of appetite, excessive gas (flatulence), hiccups, a sour taste in your mouth, skin rash or itching, irritation of your tongue, itching or irritation around your rectal area, muscle or joint pain, dizziness, spinning sensation, or ringing in your ears. Long-term use of cholestyramine may cause a deficiency of vitamins A, D, E, and K.
What is nicotinic acid (vitamin B3 or niacin)?
Nicotinic acid (vitamin B3 or niacin) is a B vitamin. Niacin is a common vitamin component of most balanced diets. However, the dose of niacin used to treat cholesterol is much higher than the average dietary intake. Nicotinic acid (niacin) is available in immediate release and sustained release preparations. Some nicotinic acid preparations are available over-the-counter but are not federally regulated.
Nicotinic acid is used to increase HDL ("good") cholesterol (sometimes by as much as 30%). It is only mildly effective at lowering LDL ("bad") cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
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When I go running, I usually set out with a goal for that run–say 35 minutes. Sometimes, when I've met that goal, I think, "Great, but it'd be even better if I went around the loop once more and made it 45." Yes, my hips will thank me, and an extra ten minutes will not normally throw off my whole schedule, but surpassing a goal isn't always the right choice.
There's a delicate balance between shirking your work and going overboard. It takes discipline to keep going when it feels like you won't make it, but it also takes a sort of discipline to stop when you reach your goal.
For example, I have set a daily writing goal of 1000 words. Some days it takes me less than two hours, and other days I sit in front of the computer for 12. And some days, I don't meet it.
Often, I feel like I should keep pressing, even if I meet my 1000 words, to make up for the days when I don't. Shouldn't I just keep typing until bedtime? Write during lunch? Skip reading that book I've been dying to open?
As tempting as it is to work on my MS day and night (and I still do, a lot), I'm granting myself permission to stop at 1000 words. Stop after reading one contest entry. Stop after doing one class exercise.
Otherwise, I'll miss out on the little joys that I so look forward to. Every good effort deserves a reward. I'm not yet getting paid to write, but I can pay myself in other ways. Relax with a good book. Hang out with the kids. Have lunch with a friend.
How do you keep yourself from burning out, but still meet your goals?
The Daily Squirrel: goal
A crimson banner emblazoned with the word "FINISH" flapped in the breeze at least a mile down the road. It appeared closer on the long, straight path, but she had only passed the eleventh mile marker a few minutes ago.
Her legs dragged as if weighed down with lead, but she kept shuffling forward in a pathetic jog-walk. No one thought she could do this. Brad had laughed right in her face when he overheard her telling the boss she signed up for the half-marathon.
She might not finish in ninety minutes like super jock, Brad, but she would finish if it killed her. She couldn't wait to see the look on his face when she crossed the finish line. He wouldn't be laughing then, and he might start to wonder what else she could accomplish if she set her mind to it.
Let him worry, she thought with a smile.


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Yesterday I wrote about one parish's innovative and very Catholic approach to Vocation Bible School, and soon afterward I found that my own parish--actually just one parish north here in the Diocese of Arlington--had been featured recently on the mystery worship shopper website Ship of Fools.
It's pretty rare to see an all-positive review of a parish on the website, but the mystery worshipper was apparently thoroughly pleased with her experience.
Particularly gratifying was the juxtaposition of elements that some would like to keep asunder: friendliness, concern for the poor, art, the pipe organ, and solid preaching.
You don't need to have guitars to be friendly, if you have priests who take plenty of time after Mass to talk to everyone and get to know them. And in this parish, stained glass windows and hospitality for the homeless go hand in hand.
The photos accompanying the article are "before" photos that don't take into account the recent sanctuary renovations, as documented on NLM a few years ago.
St. Mary's is an old and pretty parish by American standards, and in a nice area, but the standards it sets for excellence are not governed by those circumstances. What is important here is having everything that is good and Catholic, all at the same time. There are those liturgical activists who would like to oppose concern for the poor against formality in worship, or friendliness against beauty, or welcoming against doctrine. That's not at all necessary, and hasn't been in the Catholic Church, ever.
We truly can have it all.
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Phone: 740-385-7485
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Enjoy 2 new private luxury cottages decorated with an "Artist Touch". Each unit is an Art Gallery, filled with original art. The perfect vacation lodging with an outstanding list of amenities, close to the State Parks but private. With direct access to the Buckeye Trail and the Hocking Hills State Forest.
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Mission Statement and PhilosophyDiamond Bank is the result of a merger between two of Southwest Arkansass strongest community banks. In March, 2007, the banks that merged were Arkansas Diamond Bank of Glenwood , and Diamond State Bank of Murfreesboro, which was chartered in 1904. Diamond Bank continues to provide a stable source of financial leadership in the communities we serve. Our Primary market area is Pike, Howard, Hempstead, Sevier, Garland, Montgomery, Polk and Hot Spring counties in Southwest Arkansas. Southwest Arkansas continues to grow and prosper with good diversity of economic sectors including industry, education, construction, agriculture and retail trade. The philosophy of this bank has been and continues to be, one of maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with our customers and communities. Our goal is to provide a high level of sound and meaningful financial services to the people we serve, while obtaining a fair return for our stockholders.
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"Call it fate or whatever, but I do believe that things happen the way they're supposed to," said Mullen, who last October became the first woman to be named deputy director for investigations with the TDCJ Office of Inspector General. "I do believe that we're here for a purpose, and I think I've found my purpose. Whether I stumbled into it or not, somehow something led me here. I can't explain it, but once I got here, I knew that this was it."
Mullen herself says she never dreamed of becoming a peace officer, even though she says she enjoyed shooting her brother's rifle and watching cop shows as a kid. Instead, as a lot of young women did in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she went to college to get her degree in education so she could teach school. Her first job out of the University of Missouri was teaching a kindergarten class in a small Missouri town.
"A kindergarten cop, huh?" Mullen joked in reference to the 1990 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After a year in the classroom, Mullen moved to Mississippi and took a job as a therapeutic recreation teacher with the North Mississippi Retardation Center in Oxford. For the next five years she worked with physically and mentally challenged children and eventually became assistant director of the center's recreation department. While there, though, she took a life-altering trip to Houston one day with a friend.
"I liked Houston," said Mullen, who grew up in Wentzville, Missouri, a tiny town that touts itself to tourists as being the birthplace of rock-n-roll legend Chuck Berry. "Houston was the biggest place I'd seen in my life."
At that time, Mullen planned on returning to Mississippi and working toward a master's degree in therapeutic recreation. But while in Houston, someone mentioned to her that the city police department was hiring officers.
"It just sounded like something exciting, something different," Mullen said about her snap decision to switch careers. "I must have just had this spirit that I wanted to do something different with my life, so I gave it a shot. Most everyone I knew back then became a teacher."
Mullen entered the Houston Police Academy in November 1975 at the age of 26. She was the only female in her class.
"At first they try to run you off," she said about the academy instructors. "They want to see what you're made of. They give everybody a hard time, but I really had a hard time being the only female. They rode me pretty hard until they saw that I was serious about the job and that I could do it."
Indeed, Mullen graduated near the top of her class and became one of just a few female officers then patrolling the streets of Houston. She worked in the HPD's Accident Investigation Division for four years and then split her time with the department's Hit-and-Run Detail and Special Operations Division.
Mullen left HPD in 1981 and moved to Huntsville where she worked in various jobs before applying for employment as a TDCJ correctional officer and as an entry-level investigator with what was then the agency's Internal Affairs Division. She was offered either job, and because of her law enforcement experience, opted to work as a unit investigator. It was 1988 and only three other women were working as Internal Affairs investigators for TDCJ at the time.
"Back then, we were not doing criminal investigations," Mullen said. "It was predominantly administrative. Local law enforcement agencies investigated crimes that occurred on the units."
But in December 1989, Mullen was among the first 25 TDCJ investigators to become state commissioned peace officers. She was assigned to the Special Investigations Team, which conducted covert operations and investigated high-profile cases. By 1994, all OIG investigators were commissioned, and today investigate all major cases involving offenders and employees. The office reports directly to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.
"We're focusing on what we need to be doing now," Mullen said. "We're investigating the serious criminal offenses and the serious administrative violations."
Mullen said it hasn't always been easy for her to work in a field long dominated by men.
"There have been ups and downs, but it's best not to dwell on the lows because the highs are so much better," she said. "This is a great job, and this is a great place to work. The organization has come a long way in the time I've been here."
Mullen has, in fact, experienced many highs during her 21 years with TDCJ. Besides being the only woman ever to hold her current position with OIG, she was the first female promoted to the rank of commander in that office. She was also the OIG's first female bureau chief. And in October 1995, she became the first OIG-sponsored employee to graduate from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The second was her current boss, Inspector General John Moriarty.
"I'm very honored and humbled to have this job," Mullen said of her promotion to the second highest-ranking position in OIG. "I think it's a victory for all women who work here and should inspire them all, or at least confirm in their minds that if you want this job, you can have it one day if you work hard and if you have integrity and ethics and practice them."


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It's gonna get sappy up in here.
As a kid, I spent most of my time wishing I was grown-up. I had big plans for my adulthood and I couldn't wait to get there.
Now that I am a grownup, I regret it. I thought adulthood would be a never-ending escape of glamour, champagne, and romance, but mostly it's just paying bills, swiping left, and perusing cancer symptoms on WebMD.
I probably wanted to grow up so badly because I mostly watched "grown-up" films. (NOT "adult" films. My parents were liberal, but not freaks.) I watched my fair share of kids' movies (holla at We're Back), but mostly, I just watched whatever my mom was watching.
Watching movies full of grown, adult ladies gave me some ideas about what I would look like by the time I, too, was a grown, adult lady. While none of my #goals entirely panned out, here are a few of the fictional ladies who shaped my childhood beauty ideals.
Rose DeWitt-Bukater Dawson Calvert in Titanic (1997)
Looking back, it was questionable for my mother to take me to see Titanic at the tender age of SEVEN but, oh boy, I am glad she did. Like every other girl-who-came-of-age in the '90s, Jack Dawson is still my number-one crush, but my main takeaway from this film was Rose. Rose was and is the ultimate capital-W Woman to me.
I loved her long, curly, red hair, often worn either half-down or in a loose, romantic up-do with her face framed by soft, ringlet bangs. Her sparkling gowns, her pointy-toed, satin, shiny heels, her full lips, her restless and wild eyes—ah, she's everything! I still watch Titanic more often than any well-adjusted adult should, and I'm always taken aback by Rose's radiant beauty and natural sex appeal.
Rachel Green on Friends (1994-2004)
Besides inspiring one of the most imitated haircuts of all time, Rachel Green was also the first time I saw someone with my name in a TV show or movie. As a budding egomaniac even at a young age, I was immediately taken.
I loved her bouncy hair, her denim vests, her toned arms, and her simple but sexy makeup. I loved her various failed romances, her devotion to her girlfriends. Rachel was the Rachel I hoped I'd one day be.
Gillian Owens in Practical Magic (1998)
Practical Magic contains so many of my favorite things in one film: sisters, revenge, witches, hot Eastern Europeans, Stockard Channing. It was Nicole Kidman's look as Gilly in this film that enraptured me, though. Her fiery red hair and silky, straight bangs were enough to woo me, but it was when she wore her hair in braided pigtails that I was really sold.
I loved the contrast of her smoky eyes and vixen-esque wardrobe with such a low-key home look. Her hair was long, soft, and the perfect shade of warm red. As a brunette with a redheaded sister, my envy of redheads was already in me, and this movie only fanned those flames.
Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail (1998)
Is anyone immune to the charm of You've Got Mail? It's truly one of the most perfect romantic comedies ever made. You would expect nothing less from the likes of Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks though, backed by the powerhouse that was Nora Ephron. (Miss you all the time, Nora.)
Meg Ryan ruled many a movie screen throughout the '90s, but this was the film that stole my wistful, romantic, book-loving little heart. Kathleen Kelly had blonde hair, blue eyes, the perfect, flippy pixie and an enviable sweater collection. I dreamed of one day owning a children's bookstore of my own. It could still happen!
Daphne Moon and Roz Doyle on Frasier (1993-2004)
As a kid, I'm positive most of the jokes on Frasier went over my tiny head. I totally missed the point that we were all lovingly mocking Frasier and his brother, Niles. I thought it was just a show about how great being rich and smart would be.
One thing I didn't get wrong, though, was that Daphne and Roz were total babes. British Daphne was a total stunner in miniskirts and bangs. She was kind, funny, and loved dogs.
Roz, Frasier's sassy producer—I loved her voluminous hair and perfectly arched brows. She was career-driven and always ready with a witty one-liner to keep Frasier and Niles in check.
Together, Daphne and Roz were everything I wanted to be. Together, they could probably run the world.


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Goodguys Heartland Nationals is a hot rod and custom car show for fans of vintage cars & late model American muscle, featuring outstanding high quality cars, over 2,500 rods, customs, classics, muscle cars and trucks, free kids entertainment, vendor & manufacturer exhibits and so much more. This 3 days hot rod and custom car show is being organized by Goodguys Rod & Custom Association. The venue of this event is Iowa State Fairgrounds which is located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America. The event will be held from 29 June 2018, Friday to 01 July 2018, Sunday. Goodguys Heartland Nationals 2018 will showcase a wide range of products and services related to hot rodding and custom cars from the leading exhibitors such as cars, trucks, classic cars, transport vehicles, spare parts and accessories, car maintenance equipment, car security, custom bicycle. The frequency of Goodguys Heartland Nationals is annual. No pets, cans, bottles, bicycles, scooters or roller/inline skates are allowed on grounds.
Address : 3000 East Grand Avenue
City : Des Moines, IA
Country : United States of America
Phone : +1 515-262-3111
Website : Click here for venue website
With 24 different venues to choose from, acres of free parking, helpful event management professionals and a convenient location, Iowa State Fairgrounds is the perfect venue for conventions, weddings, trade shows or corporate events.
Goodguys Great Northwest Nationals
Great American Trucking Show
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Goodguys Rod & Custom Association
Founded by Gary Meadors in 1983, Goodguys Rod & Custom Association is the world's largest hot rodding association with members from all over the world. The association promotes and produces the finest dynamic automotive events and publish credible & entertaining media content. Goodguys' events feature thousands of candy colored hot rods and customs, tricked out trucks, mighty muscle cars and regal classics sprawled throughout venues such as lush fairgrounds, super speedways and large outdoor stadiums.
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Sample preparation is an essential step in many analyses. This book approaches the topic of sample preparation in chromatography in a methodical way, viewing it as a logical connection between sample collection and analytical chromatography. Providing a guide for choosing the appropriate sample preparation for a given analysis, this book describes various ways to process the sample, explaining the principle, discussing the advantages and disadvantages, describing the applicability to different types of samples, and showing the fitness to specific chromatographic determinations. The first part of the book contains an overview of sample preparation showing its relation to sample collection and to the core chromatographic analysis. The second part covers procedures that do not use chemical modifications of the analyte and includes methods for sample dissolution, concentration and cleanup designed mainly for modifying the initial matrix of the sample. This part starts with conventional separations such as filtration and distillation and finishes with more advanced techniques such as solid phase extraction and electroseparations. The third part gives a description of the chemical modifications that can be performed on a sample either for fractionation purposes or to improve a specific property of the analyte. This part includes derivatizations, polymer chemical degradations, and pyrolysis.CHAPTER 6 Automation in Sample Preparation 6.1 AUTOMATION OF THE INSTRUMENTATION USED IN SAMPLE ... It is a convenient path in case of manual processing, when the same operation is performed on a set of samples. The entireanbsp;...
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Patti Davis
|Patti Davis
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Patricia Ann Reagan
October 21, 1952
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|Actress, author
Paul Grilley
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Patti Davis (born Patricia Ann Reagan; October 21, 1952) is an American actress and author. She is the daughter of U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004) and his second wife, First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan (1921–2016).
Early life[edit]
Patricia Ann Reagan was born to Ronald and Nancy Reagan on October 21, 1952, in Los Angeles, California. She is the older sister of Ron Reagan, and the half-sister of Michael Reagan and the late Maureen Reagan. She went to grade school at The John Thomas Dye School in Bel Air, and graduated from the Orme School of Arizona in 1970.[1] She attended Northwestern University from 1970–71, where she studied creative writing and drama. She then went to the University of Southern California for two years.[2] She changed her last name to her mother's maiden name, Davis, in an effort to have an independent career.[3] She was active in the anti-nuclear movement before her father was elected president, and continued her activism through his term, stirring controversy and creating strife in the family.
Acting, modeling and writing careers[edit]
In the early 1980s, Davis acted in a few television shows before getting her first publishing deal. In 1986, she published her first novel, Home Front. She used elements of her own life to create a fictional story, and because of that the book became controversial and she was widely criticized. Following her second novel Deadfall, she wrote an autobiography called The Way I See It, in which she revealed many family dramas and secrets. She has since spoken publicly about how she regrets the form, but not the content, of the critique she presented in the book.[4]
In the July 1994 issue of Playboy, Davis posed for the magazine with a "Full Frontal" view. This issue of the magazine also displayed Davis on its front cover. This issue is considered to be one of the magazine's most controversial covers. Davis has posed for other magazines such as More in 2011. Playboy also issued a VHS tape as a complement to the 1994 issue.[5]
When her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she began writing The Long Goodbye. It was published in 2004. During that time, she began writing for magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Newsweek and Time. Her original screenplay, Spring Thaw, became the 2007 Hallmark Channel movie Sacrifices of the Heart starring Melissa Gilbert and Ken Howard.[6]
Personal life[edit]
In the 1970s, Davis lived with Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon.[2] Together they cowrote the song "I Wish You Peace" which appeared on the Eagles album One of These Nights.[7] In the 1980s, she dated Timothy Hutton and later had a two-year relationship with Peter Strauss. In 1984, she married Paul Grilley, a yoga instructor. They divorced in 1990 and had no children.[2]
In 2011, she launched "Beyond Alzheimer's" at UCLA, which she still runs.[8][9]
- Home Front. Crown, 1986. ISBN 0-517-55952-8. (quasi-novel)
- Deadfall. Crown, 1989. ISBN 0-517-57405-5. (novel)
- A House of Secrets. Carol, 1991. ISBN 1-55972-082-4. (quasi-novel)
- The Way I See It: An Autobiography. Putnam, 1992. ISBN 0-399-13748-3.
- Bondage. Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0-671-86953-1. (novel)
- Angels Don't Die: My Father's Gift of Faith. Harper Collins, 1995. ISBN 0-06-017324-6.
- The Long Goodbye. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0-679-45092-0.
- Two Cats and the Woman They Own. Chronicle Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8118-5166-4.
- The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us. Hay House, 2009. ISBN 1401921620.
- Till Human Voices Wake Us. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013. ISBN 1483990044. (novel)
- The Blue Hour. CreateSpace, KDP, 2013. ISBN 1492144479. (novel)
- The Wit and Widsom of Grace. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-983812055
- The Earth Breaks in Colors. Huqua Press, 2014. ISBN 0-990696642 (novel)
- ^ "Orme mourns the passing of Honorary Trustee, President Ronald Reagan". The Orme School. 2004. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^ a b c Podolsky, J.D. (May 18, 1992). "A Daughter's Lament". People. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
- ^ Grove, Lloyd (Feb 3, 2011). "Patti Davis on Her Dad, Palin and Playboy". The Daily Beast. Retrieved Oct 16, 2014.
- ^ Kornblum, Janet (16 November 2004). "Reagan daughter's new leaf". USA Today. Gannett Company. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis poses nude at 58". Oakland Press. May 19, 2011. Retrieved Aug 30, 2014.
- ^ Moses, Marilyn (28 February 2007). "Sacrifices of the Heart". The Hollywood Reporter. Associated Press. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Patti Davis – Biography". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
- ^ Davis, Patti (February 6, 2012). "My Turn: Patti Davis on the chains that break, the links that form in Alzheimer's". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Various authors (December 3, 2013). "The UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program for Comprehensive, Coordinated, Patient-centered Care: Preliminary Data". National Center for Biotechnology Information.
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The Intellectual Firepower Against Right-to-Work
Who's who on right-to-work
Many opponents of a Michigan right-to-work law cite figures generated by a union-funded entity called the "Economic Policy Institute."
EPI President Lawrence Mishel is a "longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America," according to an article posted on that organization's website (go to page 15).
Also, unions are heavily represented on EPI's board of directors, including the presidents of the SEIU, AFSCME, the machinists union, the communications workers union; the food and commercial workers union; UAW President Bob King; AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and others.
Most of these unions' money comes from dues and fees involuntarily extracted from workers' paychecks as a condition of employment. The right-to-work law in Michigan prohibits unions from taking money from workers who do not wish to contribute.
Stay Engaged
Much of the research being cited by supporters of the right-to-work law in Michigan has been produced (or made readily accessible) by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a state think tank whose leaders and scholars generally agree that free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. The Center is funded by individuals, business owners and foundations. The Mackinac Center has never accepted any government funding.
Related Articles:
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Kentucky Becomes Nation's 27th Right-to-Work State
National Labor Expert: Right-To-Work Just the Beginning for Missouri
Another Judge Upholds Teachers' Right-to-Work Status; Faults Union's Tactics
Rumors of Unions' Post-Right-to-Work Death Exaggerated


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The Future of Manual Testing
With the advancement of technology and more companies turning their focus towards devising software for mobile devices, you may have begun to believe that automation is the only way forward!
While you may not be completely wrong in believing that, there is always scope for effective manual processes. With regards to the field of testing, you may have heard about several test automation tools being used in organizations. So, does this mean that manual testers are no longer required? What lies ahead as far as manual testing is concerned?
Let's try to get some answers to these queries about the future of manual testing.
The Story So Far
If you check the trends in IT companies over the last couple of decades, you will observe that there was a high demand for manual testers, professionals who were proficient in executing test procedures manually. No specific testing skills or IT skills were expected of them and it was easy for companies to groom employees to handle manual testing.
A manual testing professional was only required to possess good soft skills (decent communication, learning aptitude, and attention to detail) in order to be able to carry out his role effectively. In the last few years, many companies have shown an inclination towards automated test frameworks and tools.
However, this does not mean that IT firms have simply moved ahead without any manual testing requirements. You will find that demand for manual testing is still present and co-exists along with the demand for test automation expertise.
Need for Multi-Tasking
If you check with IT recruiters, they will be the first ones to confirm that manual testing vacancies do arise, but the roles demand more out of candidates to beat the fierce competition.
So, a manual tester with just good soft skills may find it a little difficult to find a job these days. As IT developers are expected to stay updated with new programming languages, manual testers are now expected to add some automated testing skills and technical expertise to their repertoire.
In fact, if you are a cross-functional software tester, you can get good job offers from several companies.To have a bright future in the field of manual testing, you definitely need to know your job well and keep learning new things about automation test frameworks, as well as some programming language. This will help you stay ahead in the rat race.
Manual Testing for Mobiles
With the entire world turning towards mobile phones and the internet, you may have feared an early end to your potential career in manual testing.
However, this is definitely not the case. People that have worked with mobile companies such as Samsung and LG will tell you that there is still plenty of scope for manual testing to handle a variety of hardware and software features.
A major reason is the rising trend of usage of touch and gesture-control devices across the globe. It is difficult to test such devices without manual data input as automating such tests would be a major challenge.
With a large number of new mobile phones being released every year with different hardware configurations and software, the demand for manual testing is again increasing.
So, it is clear that even though some test processes may be automated, manual testing still forms an integral part of the IT development lifecycle.
Manual Testing To Simulate End User Actions
Manual testing is growing in importance and relevance as far as usability and accessibility testing processes are concerned. For such test procedures, it is necessary to simulate the actions of the end users and doing so via automated tests is not always possible. For example, consider the need to verify if the alt text of an image has been entered correctly. This can only be done through a manual tester.
Constant Need for Manual Intervention
A company has to spend a significant amount in order to get its automation test framework and tools in place. The automated test process helps save costs in the long run, but not every small project will be able to sustain the initial expenses.
Moreover, it takes time to establish an automated test process. Your company may not always have enough time or the budget for automated testing at every juncture. During emergencies and low budget IT projects, you will be expected to manually test plenty of programs, software, or hardware without any formal test plans.
If you check the current automated test tools, you will realize that they are more suited to regression test cases (that can be repeatedly tested until the results are positive). However, testing new software or new functionalities for the very first time requires more manual intervention and intelligence. Thus, the need for manual testing will always remain as technology evolves constantly.
In a way, the time saved by the project or your company through automated regression tests provides more time to manual testers to dig deeper for issues or bugs found during some tests and help developers. Therefore, testing involves teamwork between manual testers, automated test frameworks, and the developers.
To sum it up, even with the emergence of cloud computing, big data, mobile apps and similar technology advancements, you need not worry about the future of manual testing. It will always be required to provide intelligence, assist software developers closely as well as sort out the technology limitations faced by automated testing.
Is your organization employing automated testing frameworks? If you are a manual tester, how has that affected your work? Let us know in the comments below, and thanks for reading!


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SA_Penguin wrote:
the girls with the tech power seem rather
lmao. xanthe disapproves of milton
building them
for the reasons why he builds them, and her friend
disapproves of the usage
of them, but neither of them have been shown to have anything against the creations themselves. why would they? they have no control over the circumstances behind their existences, having very little free will and all, and pose no harm to them. xanthe has
defended rogue before
, and her friend is shown to be nothing but encouraging of the idea of
fembots being free
and gaining free-will as well as equipping them with the less pleasant knowledge the factory refuses to provide them with. the reason they are destroying the illuminati drones is because they are a physical threat to their safety as individuals - they spy on them and demand they conform to d-man's ideals and they have made
an attempt on xanthe's life
before. the sisterhood had never harmed a single drone until
point, in which it became clear that the drones are a threat and are not as harmless as they seem. and it's very likely that the drones that made an attempt on xanthe's life did so at the command of milton,
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As someone who dreams of getting my own fembot, specifically to fulfill fantasies I wouldn't expose real people to, I'm sympathetic to thinking of fembots as things.
You are super fucking creepy.
You know, it would be nice if you didn't say things like that to me. It would be nice if you imagined having a fetish that you could never be open about, not even to your closest friends. People who are gay can come out, and they'll face backlash and bullying and danger, but they will also have supporters, and they can live their dream and find happiness someday. But you will never live your dream.
And even then, whenever you go online, your fantasy is held up as the worst evil, and people make a mockery of you. You are the thing people compare evil to, like when people disapprove of homosexuality/evolution/puppy kicking/whatever, first they compare it to Hitler, and then they compare it to you. At least they will argue about whether homosexuality is evil. But for you, they assume it, they say Hitler and then they say your name in the same breath, and no one defends you.
And you've never even done anything, never even hurt anyone.
How about you leave me alone? I am NOT super fucking creepy.
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spoiler alert: wobster's fetish is just leather
or raping and murdering people, i can't tell
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How about you leave me alone? I am NOT super fucking creepy.
Sorry, you kind of are. Not because you have a fetish, but the way you're letting it affect your line of thinking and your behavior. Having a fetish or a kink isn't a big deal. But I do find the way you're speaking about your fetish, and about the fembots, to be weird and creepy.
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People with leather fetishes copulate wearing the skins of dead animals.
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:17 pm
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I'm sorry wait, we're supposed to feel bad for you because you can't live your dream of... what? Hurting people against their will?*
That would be really funny if it wasn't so fucking creepy that you're serious.
I am under no moral obligation to support your desire to hurt people against their will.
*obviously bdsm is totally fine as long as everyone involved is consenting adults.
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:36 pm
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Alternate guesses for Wobster's deep dark secret he so creepily announced: necrophilia, bestiality or pedophilia. By the way, I've heard people argue for the rights of the people who have
of these fetishes. Hell, I've heard MRAs claiming that the legal age consent laws are oppressive to men and were created by evil feminists to unnaturally restrict their sexuality, that women start their decline at twenty (and by that they always mean "stop being as hot to my boner") while men reach their peak breadwinning peak in their 30s or 40s or whatever, so QED the "natural" state of things is old rich dudes impregnating teenagers.
Also, fuck you for comparing whatever the hell your super secret fetish is to the oppression of queer people.
(Also I doubt Wobster's fetish is BDSM, because that's fairly mainstream now)
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wobster109 wrote:
Dogen wrote:
wobster109 wrote:
As someone who dreams of getting my own fembot, specifically to fulfill fantasies I wouldn't expose real people to, I'm sympathetic to thinking of fembots as things.
You are super fucking creepy.
You know, it would be nice if you didn't say things like that to me. It would be nice if you imagined having a fetish that you could never be open about, not even to your closest friends. People who are gay can come out, and they'll face backlash and bullying and danger, but they will also have supporters, and they can live their dream and find happiness someday. But you will never live your dream.
And even then, whenever you go online, your fantasy is held up as the worst evil, and people make a mockery of you. You are the thing people compare evil to, like when people disapprove of homosexuality/evolution/puppy kicking/whatever, first they compare it to Hitler, and then they compare it to you. At least they will argue about whether homosexuality is evil. But for you, they assume it, they say Hitler and then they say your name in the same breath, and no one defends you.
And you've never even done anything, never even hurt anyone.
How about you leave me alone? I am NOT super fucking creepy.
You don't have to have hurt someone in order to be super fucking creepy. You just have to talk about how your sexual fetish isn't safe to experience with living people for some reason. That pretty much sticks you solidly in super-fucking-creepy-town. If you don't like it, talk to a mental health professional. I'm not saying it's easy to be less creepy, but a competent professional might be able to help.
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:29 pm
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The main reason people are getting upset is that, even if it would be genuinely good for you to have something approximating a fembot in real life, this is really,
not the place to say it. Since their introduction, fembots have been metaphors for anywhere from the effects of a culture which sells
My Little Poledancer Dolls
to young children, to human trafficking.
Which means that fembots are standing in for women in anywhere from kinda bad, to really, really bad situations.
Don't. Dehumanize. Them.
This isn't a comment or a judgement on your situation, or on your personality, and I know you didn't mean it like this, but Sinfest is hugely heavily metphored, and your dream literally de-metaphors to "I wish women really
disposable robots created solely for sexual pleasures."
Outside of the context of Sinfest, you might be able to have other discussions about fantasy-fulfilling robots. I'm not commenting on that.
But here, you really need to understand what's being said, and what you're saying, and you really need to stop.
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:30 pm
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I think the creepy kicks in when you say you identify with this person treating the fembots as things when in this context they aren't merely things. That's like the people who say they understand Warren Jeffs because they are attracted to younger people yet have to worry abput being tricked into breaking age based consent laws - as if the problem of a cult requiring its 12 and younger female membership to marry and sexually service their leader is on parr with an adult having to make sure their sexual partners are of age. Nit saying the fembot and FLDS situations are the same, but I hope that gets the gist of it across.
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The problem starts when you start doing bad stuff to people you consider things. You'd have to put down a clear definition of what is a thing and what is a person. What if someone falls just outside those rules but is a person? What if a thing like fembot becomes a person? And how do you stop people who harm things from harming people when they start seeing them as things? If you give someone a thing that resembles a person, how can they differentiate the 2 after a while?
Wow that's a lot of whargleblargle.
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Felgraf wrote:
Wait but real humans don't have self destruct mechanisms planted in their arms/the ability to explode.
The fembots do not become biological humans when they enter the Reality Zone. They turn into "real" androids.
(Some will wonder: why does DevilCorp even build in the capability to develop an independent awareness? Spec: There must be enough demand from customers who don't want an obvious mechanical personality but rather a more sophisticated AI to interact with, and that level of intelligence has an emergent quality of awareness when not under limiter control. Milton and his fellow code devils were too good for their own good.)
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- but - in Sinfest they stand for something else and saying you would want one to be used in that manner comes across really badly. In-Universe they are used by those who can't handle real people or for whom the Bomf District is too much. That is NOT presented as a positive.
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:48 am
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any actual android we could build in the foreseeable future would be a mere object
Would they, or indeed, *should* they be, if we can build them with systems that are capable of passing more than the simpler versions of the Turing test? Or even with the level of AI we can achieve now?
I don't think that the above claim is a given when the pace of technology development is pretty unpredictable, and the bar that we're asking it to get over doesn't have a widely-agreed definition.
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First things first: I am a woman.
Miss Magenta: I sympathize with Milton, and I don't like to be cursed at. You don't have to like him, and I don't agree with his choice, and I know the new bot was sentient. But I can understand why Milton wouldn't think so. Does that make me creepy? Does it make me "super fucking" creepy?
Samsally: Yes, you're supposed to sympathize with me, because I've had a dream all my life that I will never get to experience. Even if you find the dream weird and objectionable, you can still sympathize with a dream I'll never get to experience. By the way I have no intention of ever hurting anyone. If I did you could condemn me all you want. Did you know I stopped three drunk men from harassing two women of color on a train? They were all strangers. When I was in college I stopped a crowd of 50-ish boys from pressuring a girl to kiss someone, again all strangers. And I'm a small Asian-American woman. I fight racism and sexism and body-shaming in my own real life all the time. I'm the friend you can call up in the middle of the night, I'll drive you across town and back if you asked me to, I'll take whole days to take care of people who are ill. I never hurt anyone. You're not under any moral obligation to support my fantasies. But maybe you can be sympathetic of my situation. Maybe you do have a moral obligation to be kind to me.
Ennis: I'm a woman. I compare my fetish to the oppression of LGBTQIA people because that's how it is! LGBTQIA can expand to the whole alphabet and still it won't include me. In every aspect I have less rights, less respect, and less acceptance. If I were "out" I'd be in physical danger. I'll never have any rights/respect, nor do I ever expect to. You don't get to cheapen my experience and tell me that I don't deserve to compare my life to something else. You don't know. Don't tell me "fuck you". By the way, all those people you listed, I'll defend their rights: their right to draw child porn without involving any actual children, to role play with other consenting adults, to lick a horse's penis so long as they aren't injuring the animal. Wanting to draw child porn in your room is VERY DIFFERENT from wanting to violate age of consent!
Dogen: You do have to hurt someone to be creepy! Otherwise it's all personal judgment! And anyways it's perfectly safe but that's besides the point. By the way, do you know how many times I've confided in a close friend and been told to go to mental health, so they can take away my desire and replace it with nothing? I don't need to change. And you know, maybe most people do find it creepy, but it doesn't hurt any less to be called super fucking creepy just because it's happened a bunch of times before. Maybe I'm a person behind the screen who's hurt by things like that.
Moor: I don't say the battlebot wasn't real in Sinfest world. I said I sympathize with Milton, and I understand why he would think so. I said I know what it's like thinking of fembots as not-people. Not that it's Sinfest-accurate or even right, but that I can see why Milton thinks so. Anyways I brought it up because people were saying it's impossible to like Milton anymore, so I tried to explain why I still liked him. Also: funny that of all the people insulting me and calling me names, I'm the one who needs to stop.
stripeypants: I identify with Milton because he doesn't know. He's used to thinking a certain way and doesn't know what a reality zone is like. It's more like judging a person who's attracted to children but deals with it by playing with dolls. I'm sympathetic to pedophiles who fantasize and draw child porn and never ever touch a real child. No one chooses to be attracted to children. If they ever hurt a real child, I would condemn them and hate them. But if they write fanfiction in their own houses and draw their own art? I'm not going to judge them.
Yinello: I say stay clear of anything ambiguous.
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