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Hotpoint TL43
Date: 06/07/00, updated on 17/11/00 (168 review reads)
Advantages: sensor dryer, timer feature, slightly larger than average capacity.
Disadvantages: beeper can be sooo annoying!
This is Hotpoint's top of the range dryer. I had not had a Hotpoint machine before , but chose this one on features and price together.
I've had it for over a year and have had one problem with it in that time,when the heating element stopped working, but it was quickly and easily fixed under guarantee and has been working perfectly ever since.
The feature I particularly wanted can also be the most irritating feature, but is worth the irritation. Having had a dryer which could only be set for a set number of minutes, and often ended up overdoing clothes, I wanted a sensor dryer. Hotpoint's Ultima Sensor is that, but with the not always welcome addition of a beeper which can be heard pretty much throughout the house. The clothes are put in the machine, it's turned on and when it finishes it beeps loudly about once a minute or so and continues tumbling *and* beeping until you turn it off.You *can* disable the beeper, but the machine will carry on tumbling. Not a good idea to leave it on while you go out!
A nice feature of this machine is a timer so if you have economy 7 or if you want to set the dryer so that the clothes are ready in the morning you can set it for up to 10 hours in advance.
There is also a feature giving you control over levels of dryness, but in practice I don't use that much - mainly because I don't iron much! However if, unlike me, you *do* iron things, it's useful to be able to leave clothes slightly damp.
Having this machine has done away with overdry, horribly creased clothes, but it can be annoying not to be able to leave it on and know it will turn itself off....in fact it probably *does* do that if you use the timed drying option, but as I'm so used to non-creased clothes (relatively speaking now, I prefer to suffer the beeper and remember to turn the thing off altogether before I go out!
All in all a good machine and with a beter than average capacity drum...jus
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The Nets announced their preseason schedule today. It features home and away games against Miami. Cue the excitement.
Here it is:
10/8/13, Tuesday, 7:00 PM, at Washington (Verizon Center)
10/12/13, Saturday, 7:30 PM, vs. Detroit (Barclays Center)
10/14/13, Monday, TBA, at Philadelphia (Wells Fargo Arena)
10/15/13, Tuesday, 7:30 PM, vs. Boston (Barclays Center)
10/17/13, Thursday, TBA, vs. Miami (Barclays Center)
10/23/13, Wednesday, 7:30 PM, at Boston (TD Garden)
10/25/13, Friday, 7:30 PM, at Miami (American Airlines Arena)
If this was supposed to be considered a playoff type game, then I like the Nets chances heading into the start of post-season. Led by the Nets superstar trio of Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and Brook Lopez the Nets grinded out a win over the Pacers at Conseco Fieldhouse, sweeping the season series and locking up the fourth seed and home court in the playoffs in the process.
This game looked like it was headed towards being a laugher early in third quarter as the Nets opened up a 24-point lead. The Pacers roared back in the third quarter, however, and briefly took a lead in the 4th quarter before the Nets were able to vanquish them for good.
The big story tonight was the continued brilliance of Williams who finished with 33 points and 14 assists and was in attack mode all night, especially in the second quarter when he erupted for 20 points. Williams' outside shot was falling as he hit five three-pointers, but more important was Williams' attack of the paint, which was relentless and at times unstoppable for any Pacer perimeter defender.
The tide turned a bit in the second half when the Pacers put Paul George and his length on Williams, but that only opened the door for Joe Johnson to put his thumbprint on the game.
Instead of erupting for points like Williams did, Johnson's 24 points came as a slow, steady burn. He abused smaller matchups and floated on the perimeter for timely three-point shots. Johnson's scoring was especially crucial down the stretch when the Nets were desperate for offense and the Pacers were surging.
The last component of the Nets big three is Brook Lopez and although he was quiet for most of the second half, Lopez set the tone early, easily driving around Pacer big man Roy Hibbert and hitting a myriad of mid-range jumpers to score 14 first quarter points. In the Nets final few possessions, Lopez was used as a ball screener for Williams and his rolling, swooping left-handed layup that came at the 2:23 mark just about clinched the game for the Nets.
It was a chippy, physical game. Deron Williams left hobbling with a knee bruise, Reggie Evans was ejected and Keith Bogans and Lance Stephenson were involved in a scrap that led to a double technical, but if this was a sign of what the playoffs will be like, the Nets responded to the test.
When they're 24 point lead evaporated in the fourth quarter and the Indiana crowd was rocking, the Nets did not wilt. Instead, they took every Pacer punch, absorbed them, and fought back to reclaim the lead. As the playoffs near, teams will turn to their superstars to lead and tonight the Nets' big three shone.
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It's hard to believe, but in Israel, in 2012, Ethiopian women are forced to receive injections of the Depo-Provera contraceptive. This injection is not a commonly prescribed means of contraception. It is considered a last resort and is usually given to women who are institutionalized or developmentally disabled. Yet according to an investigation recently aired on the "Vacuum" documentary series hosted by Gal Gabay and shown on Israeli Educational Television, it is also given to many new immigrants from Ethiopia.
This is not the first or only case where the state has interfered in the lives of people who have limited means of resistance. And as in other cases, the system that carried out this policy is extremely sophisticated, so it is hard to find a specific person who is responsible or a signed and written order. But the televised investigation, conducted with researcher Sava Reuven, found that more than 40 women have received the shot.
Depo-Provera has a shameful history. According to a report by the Isha L'Isha organization, the injections were given to women between 1967 and 1978 as part of an experiment that took place in the U.S. state of Georgia on 13,000 impoverished women, half of whom were black. Many of them were unaware that the injections were part of an experiment being conducted on their bodies. Some of the women became sick and a few even died during the experiment.
There are many examples across the world of efforts to reduce birthrates among disadvantaged populations that lack the resources and the capability to resist. During the 1960s, the U.S. was concerned by the increase of the population in Puerto Rico. In 1965, it was reported that 34 percent of Puerto Rican mothers aged 20 to 49 had been sterilized.
The injections given to Ethiopian women are part and parcel of the overall Israeli attitude toward this group of immigrants. During the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews spent months or years in transit camps in Ethiopia and Sudan. Hundreds died en route to Israel simply because a country that is supposed to be a safe haven for Jews decided the time wasn't right, they couldn't all be absorbed together or they weren't Jewish enough – who had heard of black Jews?
In transit camps today, future immigrants enter a horrifying bureaucratic entanglement, which gives them the burden of proving they are worthy of arriving in Israel. As in the past, those who arrive here are not quickly released from the grasp of state institutions. They continue to receive "treatment" in absorption centers, where the children are sent to religious boarding schools and included in special education frameworks, while the parents stay in ghettos and the women continue to receive injections. We are told there is no choice. The repressive, racist and paternalistic policies continue unhindered – policies that are supposedly in the best interests of the immigrants, who don't know what is best for them.
This policy of total control over their lives, which starts while they are still in Ethiopia, is unique to immigrants from that country and does not allow them to adjust to Israel. Using the excuse that they need to be prepared for a modern country, they are brainwashed and made to remain dependent on the state absorption institutions.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee said the claims the women made in the investigation were nonsense. This reminded me of some other women who spoke nonsense, such as the mothers of the kidnapped Yemenite children or the Moroccan women who underwent "treatment" for ringworm. To this day, their words are dismissed as nonsense. If they tried to sterilize me or take my children away, I think I would be talking nonsense too.
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Man oh man, I had an experience so fantastically wonderful today that I almost said the word "miracle" but that word's weird and gross and frankly I'm embarrassed I even typed it right now. This is two parts, the first part is kinda dumb, but I'm dumb so I get high on weird shit.
Erica's Xmas Eve Grocery Experience Part I
Obviously it's pure fuckin chaos but we're supposed to get a Snowpocalypse and this heifer needs to stock the fuck up on essentials (particularly beer). I'm lurking in the baking aisle because god damn, bittersweet chocolate (60% cacao) gets me horny as fuck. The midwestern version of Louis CK comes up to me and asks if he can bake cupcakes with boxed cake mix. He's got his two daughters tonight for Christmas Eve and thought it would be fun to bake cupcakes with them. I give him the info he needs but I also politely suggest baking them from scratch. His reply was "I don't even know what that is" and I almost had a heart attack. I explained that it would be more fun, taste better, IS NOT COMPLICATED and he'll be able to pronounce the ingredients that he's putting into the bodies of his kids. I spent 20 minutes with him, picking out ingredients, writing the recipe on a napkin, and giving him my number in case of a cupcake crisis. He tried to pay me but i was like dude, this experience was payment enough.
I'm sure no one else would give a shit about something like this, but if you know me, you know how grossed out I am by instant meals and pre packaged horse shit pawned off as food, so this was fucking awesome.
Erica's Xmas Eve Grocery Store Experience Part II
I'm at the checkout and the lady in front of me is with her daughter. I can see she's got her EBT card (food stamps) out and I'm thinkin you know what, I sincerely doubt that she got additional food money for December so she's either had to sacrifice regular food or holiday food this month. The stuff she's buying is super basic and mad cheap, store brand bread, some fruit and veggies, store brand oats, yadda yadda (I always creep on what people buy at the grocery store, I seriously can't help it. I'm a grocery voyeur FOR SURE, but I guess I could be worse.) So I'm like alright fuck this, I'm buying this lady's shit. So she goes to swipe her card and I'm like yo I got this and she's like what and I'm like yea and she's like what and I'm like yea and she's like what and I'm like yea and this goes on for probably two minutes. Then she starts crying and her daughter starts crying and I'm crying and the cashier is crying and we look like a giant fucking disaster in the middle of Schnuck's. Her groceries were 43$. We're all sobbing hysterically over $43. Forty three fuckin dollars. She and her daughter give me a huge hug and I got to hear some shit about jesus in my heart and I was like lady I'm a jew but happy holidays.
I go to pay for my own groceries and the man behind me, whose only item was an expensive ass bottle of rum, does the exact same thing I did to the woman in front of me. Some guy I don't know spent 93$ on my groceries today. Here we go again, I'm crying, he's crying, the cashier's crying, the bagger's crying, and that poor bagger was wearing a ton of makeup so her mascara was runnin all down her face. I can't even imagine how we looked to anyone else doin their normal shoppin, probably like a bunch of crazies.
I make a lot of fuckin jokes about people who are preachy about giving. I tend to do this because of the holier than thou types who think that because they have something to give (time, money, etc), they need to alert the entire universe about it. It doesn't matter though because giving is giving, and yeah, our motives may be selfish (I won't lie, the high that I get from giving is probably the main reason why I do it), but in the end, the only thing that matters is the action that was taken.
Pay it forward, when you can.
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Sal's Pizza is tossing up some customer appreciation.
Sal's will raise money Saturday with the United Way for early-childhood education.
In honor of National Pizza Month, all Sal's stores will charge $5.55 for a 19-inch cheese pizza, the price charged when Sal's opened its first store in Salem, N.H., in 1990. The company will donate 55 cents from each pizza to the United Way.
Throughout the day, customers picking up at the more than 30 Sal's Mass. and N.H. locations will receive a Sal's VIP card. Customers will receive a 10 percent discount off their next five pizza purchases and get the sixth one free. Customers who visit the company's website may also enter to win free pizza for one year.
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Godchaser - Prologue Brother Francis' foot caught on an uneven brick. He lurched forward, his breath caught in the stitch in his chest; he stumbled, and his dress shoes scraped across the wet cobblestone as he managed to stop. He straightened up, his chest heaving and his glasses askew, but his arms still anchored to Gabriel's shoulders. His two comrades had abruptly stopped when he tripped; the bishops' quickly whipped their heads around and stared at him, wide-eyed, their faces nearly as white as their robes – their fear seemed to emit an eerie luminescence to the early evening.Godchaser - Prologue1 year ago in Introductions & Chapters More Like This
"Not now," Francis gasped shortly as he urged the two onward, "We don't have the time!"
The one holding Gabriel's left leg nodded and turned around; the one on the right visibly gulped – his Adam's apple protruding like a large white stone from his thin sweaty neck – and shot a
Darkened PerfectionJoin us here, we welcome youDarkened Perfection1 year ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
to a world of wonder and joy
no outcasts here, just perfection
doesn't your life seem void
tears fall not
dreams are found
let the hardships of life flee from you
no need to feel down
come young child
into the world of darkened perfection
where mirrors are not needed
for who needs a reflection
~Cookies, Brother, Large Field~the crumbs fall from your mouth~Cookies, Brother, Large Field~1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
as you take the last bite.
the pastry tasted amazing, like you remembered.
you sit back in your chair,
close your eyes with a simple smile,
and let the memories rush back...
the colors are spinning around your eyes.
when you stop, the colors settle
into your surroundings.
you are 5 again
in your favorite field,
the ones with the buttercups you used to pick and bring home.
and your brother was there too.
he was 20 years old that day
and he said as a present to himself
he wanted to spend the whole day with you.
so you chose your safe place,
your field.
he had lifted you up and spun you around.
when he stopped, you both fell from dizziness.
you both laugh.
the laughs are pure
and are crafted from true enjoyment.
your brother didn't want you to know,
or maybe he thought you were too young to understand,
but he was dying.
he was slowly dying from a tumor in his brain
and he wasn't going to live to when it was your turn to be 20.
he took out the c
Pencil SkirtI am a pencil skirt Pencil Skirt1 year ago in Free Verse More Like This
A pinstriped business card on bronze stilettos.
I decline
1. The choker at my neck
2. Ribbons to dress my mane
3. Colored glass for my ears
In favor of
1. A bonus at my desk
2. Plaques to dress my wall
3. A trinket for my shipyard
I sleep beside the bleached bones of my suitors.
The radiator rattle protects my four-digit wages
From girlish distractions -
From famished sighs wrestled out by tired fingers.
38. trustIt is a matter of perception38. trust1 year ago in Concrete Poetry More Like This
And is also a matter of interpretation
Trust, a funny thing it truly is
But how do we live our lives around it?
Do you trust me because you know me
Or is that the reason for your distrust?
You have parts of me
That no one else will ever have
But you seem to be unaware
Or is it just not enough?
I trusted you because you never gave me a reason not to
But now that you have, how do I piece it back together?
I am lost in my mind
As the realizations set in
What I had not seen at first
Is slowly setting in
Is it worse to have suspicion though nothing done
Or betray promises made to seek your own truth?
Pushed, pulled
Tested and failed
What is left?
All that's left is a question mark
I do not know who you are
And wonder if you know me
They say, trust
Once broken will never be the same
Was it really worth testing the accuracy?
Imaginary FriendI once had a friend.Imaginary Friend1 year ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
That was made of pretend,
Who's only friend was me.
We played all alone,
Just all on our own.
Down on the hills,
And the trees.
We ran through the woods,
Jumped in the hills,
And played in the dark,
Because we lived for the thrills.
We went on our journeys,
And time would stand still.
The world would change,
Because it was our will.
Then came the days
My friend started to fade.
We no longer spoke,
We just sat in the shade.
And as we sat silent
We looked at the sky .
My friend left for the last time,
Without a goodbye.
I guess the fact is.
They were no longer shy.
I once had a friend,
I thought was made of pretend.
Who supposedly no one could see.
So I sit and I wait,
Pretending their late.
Alone with no guarantee.
Hoping and saying ,
Undoubtedly praying.
The friend,
Of pretend.
Wasn't me.
* Nomad*Time of change, years ago* Nomad*1 year ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Since then life's bittersweet
Cold seeped into my life force
This engenders great remorse.
History coloured many days
Odd wonderous moments enjoyed
Benjamin Disraeli kissed my hand
His charm I managed to withstand.
Was presented at Russian court
Dressed in white my favours sort
More than a few felt tempted to bite
Kept my fangs well out of sight.
Napoleon Bonaparte Corsican upstart
Eventually exiled to Elba
Dined on him, his blood so thin
Obvious to me he would not win.
Life of change, one wish denied
Should love to turn back time
Not possible - it's torture for me
So many people would disagree.
2012 Delice1941
12th November2012
White RoseI'm searching for a white roseWhite Rose1 year ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Among a sea of crimson red
That litter the field in countless throes
Looking for life among the dead
I see one withered black rose,
And one red with gleaming thorns,
But not a hint of white within the rows
Of both the old and the newborns
I stop and sit to take a rest,
Watching blue skies give into red,
Holding this hope within my breast
That I might find life among the dead
I have been searching all my life
As countless others did before me,
Searching for the truth among questions rife,
For a hint of white among a red sea
And forever I will search the field
Where the red roses thrive,
Hoping for the White Rose to yield
And help our souls to revive
Working Title: The Fire TamerPrologueWorking Title: The Fire Tamer1 year ago in Introductions & Chapters More Like This
The sun was setting. Its dying rays spilled liquid gold on the city above the city, the red rooftop roads spread to map the home of pigeons. The incessant sound of clopping hooves beat the air; the murmur and rumble of a broken Italy slid unnoticed by those who created the noise. High on one of these rooftops, watching the sun make its resounding exit, sat a woman. This was an unusual sight; not because someone was on the roof no, but that is was a woman on the roof. The butter gold light washed down her face and drenched it in one colour, sliding off it, till her skin was lit no more. It crept past her shoulders and those shoulders heaved a sigh.
The woman pulled her dangling leg to join her other, leapt from her crouched position and landed on a lower roof with catlike feet. She vaulted from there into the deserted alley. She knew she'd acted impulsively, storming from her mother like that. She should return; besides, the dark was coming.
She found her discarded skirt where
The Siege of the Old FiveThe keep's walls were made of mighty stone hauled in here from the same quarry that built my forefather's foundations and roofs. My hand ran alongside me feeling the stone rapping out a small rhythm with two knuckles. The song was hard to hear over the general buzz in the corridor of men running, their armor sending a high clang as they ran, and bowmen peering through the small slits all praying to their god. My own prayers went to the Old Five that oversaw all of mankind, but these days those prayers were always silent.The Siege of the Old Five1 year ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
Outside the slits in the walls was coming the most beautiful music I've ever heard. A pulsing melody that ran with the many myriad horned instruments and a bass-line that was so loud it seemed to shake the keep. The soldiers of the enemy were all singing in tempo and tone, something exceedingly rare for an army I've found in my travels. Usually the drunken songs and marches all degrade to shouting matches and swilling more ale—a truly awfu
Guiding Human ExperimentsGuiding Human Experiments: The Result of Twentieth Century EthicsGuiding Human Experiments1 year ago in Historical More Like This
Humans have always served as scientific guinea pigs, but when do experiments lose their element of humanity and cease to be ethical? Throughout history, human experiments have been motivated by a desire for knowledge regarding the human body. However, in the twentieth century, several experiments were uncovered that appalled and outraged the public. Scientists were discovered to have conducted human research without obtaining proper consent or notifying the subjects. Questions of ethical standards surfaced in the scientific community and the idea of ethical guidelines and requirements for research was presented. Beginning with the Nuremberg Code used in the trials of German doctors after World War II, the United States government and its agencies have adopted standards to control human experiments, limit experimenters' power, and protect the interests of participants
The Folly of ManThe folly of man lies within his progress,The Folly of Man1 year ago in Traditional Fixed Forms More Like This
Though he sees it not in his deep urgency.
Disaster lies in the wake of his success
And spoils the beauty of victory.
I see the ever impending upshot
The one that begins at the foot of man
And lies in the shadows by man forgot
Where the ethereal dream first began.
Time goes on and leaves behind the end
Of failed attempts to ease man's heavy chain.
And even though the people still pretend
Not to see the consequence of gain --
I must acknowledge evr'y isolated grave
For from my drop of water came the wave.
As The Future Repeats Today...The buildings were unnaturally cold, as if in every doorway, molecular winter had arrived. Somewhere, the sound of building frames crashing split through these now silent streets. The echoes of men greater than most were all that broke the silence. A sense of despair was now the life of the town, a star among the unknown. He had his way throughout the bars and left his mark upon this place, spreading his brand of joylessness wherever he was needed, or rather, not. His judgement would be that mankind be more in touch with both a man's and a tree's roots.As The Future Repeats Today...2 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
As I stepped carefully about, admiring the decaying walls, I stepped on a brown wrapper. I picked it up and read its label: "Al's Mint & Chip Chocolate Candy Bars! Only a quarter!" I threw it into a dried gutter, hoping the rats would find Al's candy a lot more inviting. I'd imagine Al isn't around anymore to see his treats tossed away.
The harsh rain, one that begins softly, soon came. As the sky bawled, I
Swordsmen's DuelTheir swords clashed heavily in the cool midnight air. The resulting sparks briefly enhancing the light of the stars and moon. Locked in a stalemate, the two combatants jumped away from one another before closing the distance once more. The two of them were rivals in every sense of the word, matching each other slash for slash, and parry to parry. They used no shields, for those things only serve to limit offensive strategy. Relying on the cold pieces of steel held tightly in each of their hands, it was almost poetic how the two struggled to best one another.Swordsmen's Duel1 year ago in Short Stories More Like This
The younger fighter having more raw talent than his superior was too worn out to think. His instincts were all that kept him alive by that point. The older having the experience of what some could call too many battles at his disposal, was able to easily read the simple style of the younger. But simple does not mean ineffective. Talent versus strategy, a battle that in t
The Slave Trader"Good evening, Herr." The man's voice was small, accented in Spanish. He was wearing a pair of glasses and an old tricorne hat colored dark blue. The table he was sitting at was laden with papers and scrolls, a few inkwells and enough quills to make me think a goose is running around completely naked. The room was empty save for him and me; a number of candles resting on the table and a few shelves around cast the room in odd shadows.The Slave Trader1 year ago in Flash Fiction & Vignettes More Like This
"Wie gehts? Diese ist eine gute Nacht, ja?" I replied sitting in the worn out armchair across from the bespectacled man. A small smile broke out on his face at the remark.
"You'll have to excuse me, I know very little. Please, make yourself comfortable. Coffee? This late, I think it would help." Without waiting for my answer, he's already up and moving towards the door. He calls for some coffee down the hall; I hear muddled footsteps outside the room. "Shall we begin?"
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Inside, the fuselage was loaded with 13 instrumented crash-test dummies and two uninstrumented mannequins. Seven more high-speed cameras captured the action, as did 11 head-mounted video cameras of a type widely used by mountain bikers and other extreme sports enthusiasts - "cheap and rugged", says Annett.
New seat designs were also tested. Some of the dummies rode on normal Chinook cloth jump seats with a lap belt, but others - including the "pilot" and "co-pilot", but also some of the "passengers" - had Apache-style "stroking" seats, which deform on impact to absorb energy.
Early indications are that the dummies in energy absorbing seats fared much better than their counterparts on ordinary seats, which Annett says is, of course, obvious and hardly surprising. But what makes this test special is the vast amount of data gathered, particularly from the high-speed cameras. In addition to all that image data, inside and outside the fuselage, each dummy was wired up to output between 10 and 30 data channels. All of the data - over 15s - was synchronised to less than a tenth of a millisecond.
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September 2, 2012 (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) (WLS) -- One of the biggest differences between what happened last week at the Republican convention and what will happen this week in Charlotte at the Democratic convention is the diversity among the delegates.
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"We have more minorities that are delegates that are Latino than ever before," said Rep. Linda Chapa Lavia (Ill.-D). "So you have a new surge, voters from the Latino population that want to get behind Barack."
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Thank you all who could join us for Commencement and alumni reunion weekend.
It was wonderful to celebrate our community's achievements together, especially in light of the recent, senseless events of the Boston marathon bombing and subsequent aftermath. In the wake of this tragedy, there were countless acts of generosity and support—both mental and physical—for everyone affected. Our emergency management and communications professionals worked hard to keep our community safe and informed. Though we were deeply shaken, we are fortunate and grateful to find a way to move though grief to find joy in the year's accomplishments.
I was pleased to preside over our first doctoral hooding ceremony. On Saturday of Commencement weekend, we graduated 28 and hooded 21 candidates—our largest doctoral cohort in the school's history that included two of my own PhDs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
We also hosted our first Tufts World Health Day event, focusing on sensor and information technology in the areas of new devices, disaster management, smart sensors, and visual analytics. Learn more about World Health Day and watch videos from the plenary sessions below.
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Thanks again to everyone who joined us for our eighth annual Alumni Weekend Engineering Reception to see presentations from our music engineering students. If you missed the event, take a look at the video below.
Have a wonderful and restful summer. I look forward to sharing news in the fall at the start of another exciting and productive year for Tufts engineering.
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Being natural, there are levels to this Ish", was the tagline of a recent conversation had by a Butterfly that I'll name Olivia Curls. She was professing to me the epiphany she had once she finally accepted her natural hair. As I sat listening to her speak, I was prompted by my good sense to pull out my iPhone and capture key notes. As Olivia Curls spoke the realness about the steps she had to take to be natural, I learned there are levels to this Ish…
In Olivia Curls voice:
It was a no brainer that relaxers were not good for me. I'd returned back to my natural hair, but continued to use heavy amounts of heat via flat ironing and blow drying. I felt like keeping relaxers out of my hair was great but I still wanted to conform to the ideas that my hair was manageable and fitting to societal standards. I knew in order to truly have healthy hair; I had to get past my idea that my hair had to be bone straight. I had to become comfortable embracing styles, managing, and rocking my hair. Which brings me to my point; there are levels to this ish. Naturals who return back to their hair have to realize you may have to crawl before you walk (i.e Levels to this Ish). In order to get to the point I am currently with myself and my hair, I had to do the following:
Remove relaxed hair
Be comfortable with no heat
Find confidence in my own hair and not weave
Find comfort in styling AND seeing my hair in its natural form
I don't claim to be totally past #4, but I'm working on it. I'm rocking more styles consistent with my actual hair texture and not the one wish I had. All I can tell you is, there are levels to this ish, and it won't happen overnight but when it does, it can attribute to growing your inner self and beauty. So my question to you is this: Have you really exposed yourself to being a natural? Or just sticking the tip in? Cause you know, there are levels to this ish.
Signed: Olivia Curls
When I tell you I got off the phone with half of this post already written. I took serious dissertation while talking to this Butterfly. I think she made some factual point and it made me wonder how long did it take you and your hair to click? How may levels to this ish did you take for this to happen?
Butterflies UP!!
Diana (Head Curl in Charge)