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"I've heard from ECU, Norfolk State, UNC Chapel Hill, Penn State and Florida State," said the 6-foot-1, 190-pound Hammond. "I have offers from Louisville, Virginia Tech, and Old Dominion."
ECU defensive line coach Marc Yellock has been in contact with Hammond. He doesn't know much about the Pirates, but would like to learn more. In order to do so, Hammond has planned a visit to ECU on March 29 – it will be his first time on campus.
As far as other visits, Hammond made it out to Virginia Tech for an unofficial on Sep. 21, 2013. Running backs coach Shane Beamer is in charge of his recruitment and it could be another battle between the Hokies and Pirates for Hammond's interest. He has yet to name a top school.
Hammond covers a lot of ground in the secondary. He mentioned the strength of his game right now is his hitting power. As a safety, hitting power is a huge deal.
This summer will be a busy time for Hammond. He has plans of attending camps at some of the schools that have shown interest, but hasn't decided on which ones yet or when.
Right now Hammond is planning to hit the Rivals Combine coming up in April. After that he will assess the interest from schools and plan where he would like to visit in the summer and fall.


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Obamacare's Medicare Experiment Is WorkingBy
Medicare's big experiment in changing how it pays doctors and hospitals appears to be paying off. A voluntary program started three years ago to reward health-care providers for keeping people healthy rather than delivering more care has saved the federal government more than $380 million, officials announced today.
Health economists and policymakers widely agree that we should pay doctors for keeping people healthy, rather than the current fee-for-service model, in which health-care providers have an incentive to perform more tests and treatments. But changing those incentives is difficult.
The idea behind Accountable Care Organizations is that groups of doctors and hospitals team up to coordinate how they treat patients. They focus on preventive care and managing chronic disease to keep people healthy. The goal is to reduce unnecessary medical costs, especially expensive treatments such as trips to the emergency room. If they save Medicare money, the organizations get to keep some of the savings.
More than 360 groups of health-care providers have formed ACOs. The voluntary program, created by the Affordable Care Act, now covers 5.3 million people on Medicare, the federal health insurance program for older Americans, or about one in eight people on Medicare, according to Jon Blum, principal deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "This number is far higher than what we had guessed would happen three years into the program," he said on a call with reporters today.
The program allows for two types (pdf) of ACOs, depending on how much risk health-care providers want to take on. Under the lower-risk program, known as Medicare Shared Savings, 114 ACOs signed up in 2012, and 54 spent less than projected to treat patients in the first year, CMS reported. Of those, 29 reduced costs for Medicare enough to keep some of the savings—$126 million in total.
The record for the higher-risk program—known as Pioneer ACOs—has been spottier. Nine of the 32 original Pioneer ACOs have left the program or converted to the lower-risk track. But the 23 that remained saved Medicare $147 million in their first year, the agency reported.
The savings didn't compromise the care patients got, Blum said. Measures of quality, such as patient satisfaction and safety, are improving even as costs go down, meaning "we are getting better value for our Medicare resources."
There are plenty of caveats to Medicare's announcement. The program is voluntary, and the groups of doctors and hospitals that signed up in the first year were the most eager to try new ways of delivering medicine. Even so, more than half of them didn't beat their cost-savings targets for the first year.
Most medical care in the U.S. is still bought and sold in a fee-for-service marketplace—sometimes with bad results. The current legal battle over allegations that hospital chain Health Management Associates' pressured doctors to increase revenue by admitting more patients shows just how perverse the incentives still are for health-care providers. Health Management Associates has not commented on the allegations but told the New York Times that it is cooperating with the Justice Department's investigation.
If the experiment shows that ACOs can save money and improve care, and if the government can find a way to switch more health-care providers to that system or something like it, the implications for Medicare patients, the health-care industry, and America's fiscal outlook would be profound. Those are big ifs. Still, Blum said the early results from ACOs are promising. "This is not a small step," he said. "We're in this for the long term. What I think is impressive is that so many organizations did save in its first year."

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Modern Etiquette: Getting it right with royalty on jubilee
By Jo Bryant
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is gripped by Jubilee fever. Across the country, bunting is strung up, picnics and street parties are happening as this weekend sees the official weekend for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
An additional bank holiday has been issued to mark the occasion, allowing festivities to span four days.
There is a host of official events to enjoy, including a spectacular pageant of over 1,000 boats travelling up the river Thames, the lighting of 2,012 beacons across the UK and Commonwealth and a star-studded concert right outside Buckingham Palace.
The weekend culminates with a carriage procession through London and, of course, the obligatory appearance on Buckingham Palace's iconic balcony.
For The Queen, 2012 has been a busy year as she and the Duke of Edinburgh have travelled all over the UK to celebrate her 60 years on the throne.
Other members of the Royal Family have also travelled across the country and the Commonwealth, representing the Monarch, to mark the momentous occasion of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
For the lucky few who get the chance to meet The Queen and other members of the Royal Family, there is plenty of protocol and etiquette that should be strictly observed:
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A phone call, fax or email to the brewery will now get you a tamper-safe box of six beers for the good-value price of £10, plus £3.95 carriage. All six bottle-fermented, which means they contain live yeast and will continue to improve with age, so you might as well order two boxes of the same beer and lay down six of them - though that's not to say the beers aren't ready to drink straight away.
The choice varies - the box I received contained Worthington White Shield, which the Horsham brewery now produces under arrangement with Bass. Other beers in the range include Old Porter, a magnificent interpretation of the 19th-century beer style; a bottled version of the brewery's famous premium draught beer, Festive; Coppercast, a spicy ale made with rye as well as barley malt; Cornucopia, a powerful beer that is a blend of corn and malt; and a delicious pale beer, called Faygate Dragon, that is bursting with citrus fruit from the hops.
The fact that White Shield is now brewed in Horsham has caused some raised eyebrows among beer connoisseurs. That's because, historically, it is a classic beer from Burton-on-Trent, a direct descendant of the India pale ales developed in the early 19th century to refresh ex-pats stationed in the colonies. But White Shield left Burton many years ago, sent by Bass first to a subsidiary brewery in Sheffield and then to Mitchells & Butlers' vast Birmingham beer factory.
Now, however, it's back in safe hands, and the singular character of Burton-brewed beers - the spring waters from the Trent Valley - can be replicated by adding such salts as gypsum and magnesium. In general, I'm not in favour of beers that have been moved away from their original homes, but Bass would have killed off White Shield as a low-volume irritant if King & Barnes hadn't offered to take it on. Crucially, K&B is using Bass's yeasts to ferment the ale: one strain for primary fermentation, a second one for bottle-conditioning.
The Horsham brewery also brews its own bottle-fermented India ale, which is available as part of the take-home service, too. (The full K&B range can be found on www.kingandbarnes.co.uk; tel 01403 270470; fax 01403 225737; email email@example.com.) Devotees of the IPA style can taste both beers side by side, and decide which they prefer.
In the days BC (Before Caffreys), when Bass cared about its great ales, a brewer in Burton told me that Worthington White Shield came into drinkable condition about a month after bottling, was at its best after three months (the length of a sea journey from England to Calcutta in the 19th century) but then mysteriously went out of condition after nine months - this was known as the "sickness period"; then, after a year, it was drinkable again. I tasted some aged White Shield at Burton, and found it remarkably complex. The hops had softened, but there was a rich fruitiness reminiscent of citrus fruits and raisins. I have a dusty nine-year-old that I will crack open soon and compare with a fresh one.
On another note, the trickle of organic beers has yet to become a flood, but the number is slowly increasing. It's especially encouraging when one of the big hitters among regional brewers joins the small band of chemical-free producers. Fuller's of west London, famous for its London Pride and ESB bitters, has brewed a pale Honey Dew beer for several years, mainly for the spring and summer. For the past year, however, it has been experimenting with organic materials in order to turn Honey Dew into a fully-fledged organic ale. The result - brewed from English organic barley malt and Target hops grown by Peter Hall at Marden in Kent, the only regular grower of chemical-free hops - was launched last month. As the name suggests, the beer's ingredients also include fresh honey, which imparts a pleasant and not overly sweet character to the aroma and flavour. The result is a complex ale with a rich aroma, a palate of juicy malt, honey and spicy hops, and a long, lingering, bitter-sweet finish. Honey Dew is 5% alcohol in bottle. A draught, cask-conditioned version at 4.3% will be available in Fuller's pubs and the free trade during the spring (for more information, call Fuller's on 020-8996 2000)


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10 Reasons Why Book Club is Like Church
The Inkwell Bookstore in Falmouth, Massachusetts, has an excellent blog. Their post on 10 Reasons Why Book Club is like Church is very funny.
10. Half the participants are lonely old women, the other half are just there for the wine.
9. There's always one member who not only falls asleep, they snore.
8. Miss a few meetings, and they make you feel like you're going to Hell.
7. When interpretations vary, arguments follow.
6. Audible farts are inexplicably hilarious.
5. New members = potential mates.
4. No one's ever finished the book/The Book.
3. Donations are strongly encouraged, willfully withheld.
2. You're too chickensh*t to admit that you thought the book/The Book was boring.
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My car has been sitting for awhile, haven't driven it much for a couple months. I started it up the other day and drove it around the block. While driving, or with the key turned right before ignition, I'm getting a noticeable noise coming from what sounds like the drivers side dash. It literally sounds like someone is writing a romance novel on a typewriter.
I can't seem to hear it from the engine bay.
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By Wallace McBride, Fort Jackson LeaderJune 7, 2013
FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Fort Jackson welcomed eight men and women into the Adjutant General's Corps Hall of Fame last week, a roster that included the deputy commandant of the Adjutant General School at Fort Jackson.
The program honors leaders from the Army's human resources ranks, known as the Adjutant General Corps, and recognizes people who have made positive, lasting and significant contributions to the corps. The inductees were welcomed to Fort Jackson last week during a special reception at the Soldier Support Institute.
Col. Todd Garlick, commander of the Soldier Support Institute, said there was a "symmetry" with having last week's ceremony at a post that routinely trains new Soldiers for duty.
"The sons and daughters of America are embarking on their careers, full of energy, full of hope and setting off to achieve their dreams and aspirations, while here, in this auditorium, we're inducting eight members into the Adjutant General Corps Hall of Fame for a career of service in support of Soldiers," Garlick said. "Our job in the Adjutant General Corps is to do everything we can, morally, legally and ethically, to care for those Soldiers and their families. The Soldiers and Department of Army civilians we're recognizing today have made that their life's passion."
All inductees are honored with a permanent photo display in the AG Corps Hall of Honor at the Adjutant General School. This year's inductees join those from past years with displays on a kiosk inside the school where students can view them.
"Knowing who is on that wall upstairs in the Hall of Honor, and what they've done to advance our corps, our Army and our nation, makes it a very humbling experience, one to be treated with careful reflection and respect," said Mike Molosso, deputy commandant at AG School, and one of this year's Hall of Fame inductees.
"I've always believed our mission is to serve commanders, Soldiers and families to the fullest extent possible," Molosso said. "It has always been about making the (human resources) system work for them, not the other way around. It's always been about the team, and there's no 'I' in 'team,' 'Army' or 'corps.'"
Inducted during Friday's ceremony were:
Patricia Hickerson
Retired Maj. Gen. Patricia Hickerson ended her 32-year career as Adjutant General of the Army, where she began the design and development of the Army Casualty Information Processing System, which became the basis for the Defense Casualty Information Processing System in use today. She was also critical in the development and fielding of key Army enterprise personnel systems, such as the Standard Installation/Division Personnel System and Personnel Electronic Records management System, which permitted the elimination of the paper Military Personnel Records Jacket. Hickerson's assignments include serving as executive director of the Military Postal Service Agency; commander of the Army Physical Disability Agency, and the commander of the 14th Army Band.
Lester Bowen
Retired Col. Lester R. Bowen retired as deputy chief of staff, Operations/Mobilization, Total Army Personnel Command after 26 years of Army service. Bowen deployed to Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm as chief of Theater Personnel Operations in the provisional 10th Theater Personnel Command, and executed the mission of the Theater Adjutant General, a first for modern military history. His work as the Theater Adjutant General formed the basis of how the Army supports leaders and formations in current deployments. Bowen was also the longest serving G-1 in the history of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Michael R. Molosso
Retired Col. Michael R. Molosso ended his 27-year career as commandant of the Adjutant General School in 2002. Under his leadership, the school molded an annual student workload of 7,000 personnel into high performing Adjutant General and Human Resources professionals. He also led the Force Design Update conversion of Personnel Groups into consolidated Corps G1/AGs, and the Enlisted Career Management Field 71 consolidation study, which merged CMF 71 Soldiers into the Enlisted AG 42 Branch of today. Molosso was commander of the Eastern Sector, U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, covering 33 stations throughout the eastern half of the contiguous United States and Puerto Rico. He developed and implemented a customer service ethos known as "The Prime Directive," which served as the support center pole for commanders and their organizations. Molosso continues to serve in a civilian capacity as deputy commandant of the Adjutant General School.
Robert Ortiz-Abreu, Jr.
Retired Col. Robert Ortiz-Abreu, Jr. was Corps Support Command Secretary to the General Staff during the COSCOM deployment to Operation Desert Shield and Storm. Ortiz was at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, and subsequently authored the first Army Stop Loss policies for all three components in support of the Global War on Terrorism following the 9/11 attacks. He served as the G1/AG for III Corps. The Corps headquarters deployed to Iraq in January 2004 and replaced V Corps as Combined Joint Task Force 7 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This was III Corps' first combat deployment since World War II. Ortiz led the command's effort to reorganize and split the headquarters into Multi-National Force-Iraq and Multi-National Corps-Iraq. His G1 team restructured two major command headquarters, resolved three- and four-star complex command functions and relationships, ensuring each headquarters was properly manned for combat operations for the Iraqi theater.
Jerry Dillard
Retired Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jerry Dillard dedicated nearly 33 years of service before retiring as the Warrant Officer Advisor/Assistant Executive Officer to the Chief of Staff of the Army. He provided insight and Human Resources counsel to the most senior leaders of our Army and developed numerous cost saving processes to improve the proficiencies within the office. Since his retirement in 2006, Dillard has been serving as the chief editor and facilitator for S1NET. In June 2009, the S1NET became the largest Battle Command Knowledge System forum, and remains the most active Army Professional Forum today.
Gerald Sims
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William Hoffer
Retired Command Sgt. Maj. William Hoffer retired from the Army after 31 years of service as command sergeant major of Human Resources Command. His efforts facilitated better human resources business practices at the strategic and operational levels as well as the AG Community at the Army's tactical level. During his prior assignment as command sergeant major of the 38th Personnel Services Battalion, he spent almost five years creating an environment of highly trained professional Human Resources Soldiers. His constant mentoring and care for Soldiers made a tremendous impact during their 10 month deployment to Bosnia. Hoffer now serves the Chief Military Personnel Services Division, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
Gerald Purcell
Retired Sgt. Maj. Gerald Purcell served in the AG Corps for more than 24 years, and retired as sergeant major of the Directorate of Military Personnel Management, Deployment Cycle Support, in Washington D.C. Since his retirement, Purcell continues to work as the desk policy officer in the Directorate of Military Personnel Management. Purcell implemented the first major overhaul of the SPC-SGT Semi-Centralized Promotion System in 30 years, and shifted the foundation of the Semi-Centralized Promotion System to a paperless process. Purcell developed a system for the Army data bases of record to automatically capture and calculate promotion scores, increasing the relevancy of Soldiers records for promotion and reducing the workload on the Human Resources community.


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Seducing the Duchess (edition 2010)
by Ashley March
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Seducing the Duchess by Ashley March
No current Talk conversations about this book.
I liked this one because it was different from the usual HR books that I read. And that first chapter where she is kidnapped by her husband was just great. But their love story is a messy one, and a sad one.
Why is then their story such a mess? Well Phillip whispered words of love and got her to marry her. Everything was perfect, their wedding night was perfect, until next morning when he told he he had only used her for revenge and he packed up and left her to go to his mistress. Poor Charlotte was left with a broken heart and during the years that followed she has tried everything to get the cold Duke to divorce her.
What saves Phillip for me is how he is presented from now on. We meet a man who knows what he did was wrong, he knows that he ruined her life, and during these horrible years he has started to fall for her. They used to be friends when they were smaller, and that is what he remembers. If we would have met the coldhearted bastard that took her innocence and spit upon it, then yes I would not have forgiven him.
Charlotte is the talk of London, she is rumored to have bed half the ton (and more), and she is quite the scandal. She just wants out, she is hurting and her family is not talking to her since she married him. Since I knew how much it must have hurt I did approve of her petty remarks, because she is changing too. That is what this whole book is about. Does she dare to trust him again? Because she does love him, and hate him.
Phillip tries to win her back, and he has a long way to go. And there will be misunderstandings, but come one, this is a HR, you know it will end with happy tears instead of sad ones. I am just saying that the road there is long. And sometimes you do forgive and forget.
After having finished this book I did want to read more of her books. The writing was good and I liked the story of these two broken souls.
I read this book during a flurry of reading and writing activity, and put off my Goodreads review for a week. Had I rated [b:Seducing the Duchess|8205558|Seducing the Duchess|Ashley March|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1332137496s/8205558.jpg|13052613] immediately after I put it down, and before I picked up the next volume in my TBR stack, I would probably have given it five stars and a glowing review, a reflection of the pleasure it gave me.
Several days of sporadic contemplation later, I find myself agreeing with some of the very perceptive negative comments posted by other Goodreads reviewers.
My conclusion? Ms March is a consummately skillful storyteller who can take a flawed and flaky narrative and make it seem compulsively exciting. I'll stick with my initial evaluation -- my enjoyment of the book was very real -- but at the same time I'd encourage prospective readers to scan some of the other reviews before committing themselves.
Ashley March's debut novel features a particular theme I really enjoy: second chances. When done right, it can be very satisfying to see two lovers come back to each other. I can say that Ashley March does it well.
Three years ago, Phillip's best friend, Ethan, ran off with Phillip's fiancée. In revenge, Phillip wooed and married Ethan's younger sister, Charlotte. Phillip and Charlotte were friends before he set out for revenge and after one glorious night (their wedding night), Phillip told Charlotte that she was just a pawn and he used her for revenge. Since then, Charlotte has taken her revenge out on the oh-so-proper Phillip by dragging the Rutherford name through the mud with all her scandals. And now she wants a divorce. She can no longer stomach being married to Phillip. But she hasn't noticed the changes in him, that he's been trying to win her back. And even when he kidnaps her, she truly doesn't believe his claims that he's changed. Can Phillip win his wife's affections back?
Phillip and Charlotte. Two very wounded people. Two very proud individuals that didn't want the other to get the upper hand in their unfortunate marriage. I have to admit, I empathized the most with Charlotte. You see, she fell in love with her childhood friend and when she found out he didn't love her, was only using her, it broke her heart. And it remained broken for three years. Even when Phillip changed the way he acted towards her, she knew better. She knew exactly how good he was at pretending and she had no way of judging if he had really changed or if this was another ruse on his part. So even though Charlotte still doesn't trust Phillip for the majority of the book, it makes sense and I didn't feel like she gave in too easily. In cases like this, the hero has to do some major groveling, and I was more than happy with Phillip and his actions.
And Phillip. Here's a man who knew exactly how much he screwed up and was trying to make things right. Although he still had a ducal attitude about the whole thing, Charlotte more than gave him his comeuppance. And that's why Seducing the Duchess really worked for me – Charlotte. She's such a strong character!
I am giving this debut novel a 4 out of 5 and eagerly look forward to Ms. March's next book.
This book was just OK. The leading characters were just too angry for me. Charlotte was confused about her feelings for Philip and did the I-love-him-I-hate-him dance throughout the entire book. The conflict was not sufficiently resolved at the end.
Seducing the Duchess (The Bridal Pleasures) by Ashley March
Historical Romance - Oct. 5th, 2010
5 stars
I often rate how much I enjoy a book by how emotionally involved I was with the 2 main characters. I was dazzled by this author's story about a Duke who is determined to woo his Duchess even if she fights him at every opportunity! This fresh story was a fun and moving book that readers will love.
Charlotte, Duchess of Rutherford was young and naïve when she was seduced by her husband, Phillip who used his young and beautiful innocent bride in a cold game of revenge against her beloved brother. Charlotte had fallen in love with the man she thought was Phillip. But she that was before he callously left her after their wedding night and scorned her love. Broken hearted but audacious, Charlotte is a strong woman and soon vows to free herself and get her own revenge. She creates scandal after outrageous scandal hoping the unfeeling and dutiful Duke will divorce her and finally let her go.
It is years later and Phillip has come to the appalling realization that he loves his wife. But he knows Charlotte hates him. He longs for her company and is no longer willing to let her escapades go unnoticed. Desperate and starving for her attention, he kidnaps her in public and makes her an shocking proposition. If she will help him find another wife and teach him how to be a good husband, he will grant her a divorce. Phillip plays a deadly gamble and one he is determined to win but his wife isn't about to lose and she will not let Phillip break her heart again.
I loved this story. At first I wondered if I would like Philip. His past behaviors were reprehensible. But as the author reveals Phillip's desperate love for Charlotte and his sheer ruthlessness as he pursues her, you can't help but admire his tenacity and understand why Charlotte cared about him in the past. And slowly I, too, began to care for him. The author also eloquently explains Phillip's cold upbringing and what formed his character. He was raised to be a proper Duke by his unfeeling grandfather who coldly and brutally shaped him into a carbon copy of himself. Philip begins to realize he doesn't want to be his grandfather. He wants love and laughter with Charlotte even if that means changing himself. His metamorphosis was enthralling to read. Another thing that makes this book so deliciously wonderful is the feisty and endearing heroine. She doesn't make life easy for Philip and I adored her fighting spirit as she often out smarts him but also makes him see what is really important in life. Charlotte has such a caring heart and I wanted her to guard her heart from Phillip but as Charlotte learned to love Philip, I couldn't help but care for him too!
This was a sensational read! I became so emotionally involved in the 2 main characters. They were perfect for each other and I will definitely be reading any future books by this fabulously talented new author!! If you are looking for an absorbing story about 2 characters that you really can care about and their adventures along the way, then you will adore this book as much as I did.
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Gambling. Carousing. Flirting. Charlotte, Duchess of Rutherford, will do anything to escape her painful marriage and force her husband to divorce her. But when Phillip, Duke of Rutherford, promises a divorce if Charlotte will help him become a better husband for another woman, she wonders if she really wants to lose him...
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Gambling. Carousing. Flirting. Charlotte, Duchess of Rutherford, will do anything to create a scandal large enough to force her husband to finally petition for a divorce. Once madly in love with Philip, she is now determined to escape from their less than civil marriage and the reminders of his betrayal. Philip Burgess, Duke of Rutherford, is not a man to tolerate regrets. He wed Charlotte for revenge, not for love or convenience, knowing she would come to hate him. But he never expected he would one day find himself craving her attention or desiring her company. Philip is no longer the cold, deceitful man she married years ago. And when he promises Charlotte a divorce if she will help him become a better husband for another woman, she wonders if she truly wants to lose him and if Philip may still possess her heart after all.… (more)
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[WARNING: This fic is rated R for graphic violence. Also, even though I'm usually a stickler for continuity in my fics, this one does contain death. If either of these bother you, then I advise you not to read. That said, enjoy!]
Immortality Syndrome
By: Mark J. Hadley
* * *
The city of Townsville…and in the suburban home of the Utonium family, the PowerPuff Girls enjoy a much-needed Saturday off. Blossom was using the time to catch up on her reading, while Bubbles worked on papering the walls with her crayon drawings. Buttercup was spending time in the Professor's training room, honing her fighting skills. Professor Utonium himself was at the kitchen table, working on his latest theorem, since it was too noisy with Buttercup in the lab to work there. Except for the occasional dull explosion sound from the training room, all was quiet and peaceful in the house.
The doorbell interrupted this quiet. The professor got up and walked over to the door, calling out, "I'll get it!" He swung the door open, and asked, "May I help you?"
He suddenly froze in alarm, as he was not looking at a person, but rather, a large metal foot. Gazing up slowly, he saw the towering form of a giant robot staring down at him. The large glass bubble over the cockpit revealed its pilot…Mojo Jojo. He answered the professor sarcastically, "Ah, yes, Professor Utonium…can the girls come out and play?"
The professor forced a smile, and said, "Uh, well…I'll go check…" He quickly slammed the door shut, bracing his back against it, and called out, "Girls!"
Mojo waited patiently outside, drumming his fingers against the console aimlessly. A few moments later, the girls flew out from the front door. Blossom pointed at Mojo and called out, "What's the big idea? It's our day off!"
"Yeah!" Buttercup added, "Can't you come back tomorrow or something?"
Mojo shouted, "Absolutely not! I did not work late into the early hours of the morning constructing my most powerful Robo-Jojo to date, just to put it into storage! I intend to use it, to see it in action, and if all goes well, it will only see action once, as it will soon be destroying you!"
"Fine! If that's the way you want it…let 'em have it, girls!" Blossom ordered. The three of them immediately shot towards the robot, while below, the professor peered out from the front door. He decided it was safe enough to come out with the girls there, so he did so, and watched them begin their attack.
Mojo immediately opened fire with a spread of lasers from the arms, but the girls nimbly dodged around them. As they got close, he swatted at them with the robot's claws, knocking them into the ground together. As they picked themselves up, he armed a set of missile launchers.
Buttercup leapt up from the ground and shouted, "Yeah! Let's have it, Mojo…" One of the missiles launched directly at her, but she stood her ground. As it approached, she knocked it away into the sky with a punch, where it exploded harmlessly above them. Bubbles flew up next to her, while Blossom stayed on the ground, examining the robot from a distance to look for weak spots…
Mojo gritted his teeth, and said, "Very impressive…but let's see if you can knock this away!" A hatch opened up on the body, and a spinning sawblade shot out, towards Buttercup. She raised her arm, ready to punch it the same way she had punched the missile.
Blossom, shouted, "No, Buttercup! Don't touch it!"
"Huh?" Buttercup said. She leaned to the side at the last second, but the blade clipped her arm cutting a huge gash along it. She yelped, and clutched it tightly…blood was seeping out from around her hand.
"Ha!" Mojo declared, "That blade was solid Duranium! It is strong enough to cut through anything, even you! And there are many more where that came from, as I have specially constructed a large batch of them in preparation for this battle!" With that, he fired five more blades, one after another, out of the body of the robot, spinning towards Bubbles and Buttercup, which quickly dodged out of the way as fast as they could.
Buttercup looped back around, hovering near where the professor was standing. He saw the gash on her arm, and said, "Buttercup, maybe I should take a look at that..."
"Nah, it's fine, Professor!" Buttercup insisted. "It looks worse than it is, really!"
The professor was concerned, but said, "I guess you're right...you'll be okay, but in the meantime, your sisters need your help…"
No sooner than these words were spoken, but Blossom, who had just started flying in towards the body of the robot in order to disable the sawblade shooter, was suddenly grabbed out of the air by one of the robot's claws. She struggled to break the grasp, but couldn't. Bubbles, in the meantime, was tugging on the other arm, trying to break it off from the robot.
Buttercup called out, "Hang on, Red!" and started flying over so she could assist her escape.
Before she could make it over, the robot held Blossom out in front of itself, and Mojo said, "Farewell, Blossom!" The body of the robot shot a sawblade directly at her. Blossom tried breaking free with her full strength, but the claws barely budged.
She screamed in panic, "AAAAAAAAAAAA—*…" and her scream was cut off with a loud *SCHLAK* sound. The other girls gasped, staring in absolute horror. The robot turned its claw face down, and released…two separate halves of Blossom fell to the ground. They landed on the street, in a slowly spreading pool of blood. There was no way she could possibly still be alive…
"My god..." the professor said softly.
"BLOSSOM!!!" Bubbles cried out at the top of her lungs, tears welling up in her eyes. Buttercup stared in shock, and couldn't believe what she had just seen…she thought to herself, No, that didn't just happen…she's all right! She's got to be! No!!
Mojo cackled gleefully, and shouted, "Yes!! I have defeated one of you at last! And there is no coming back this time! One down, two to go…it is only a matter of time now before I defeat the rest of you as well!" He didn't have time to gloat long, though, as suddenly, both Bubbles and Buttercup shot towards the robot with amazing speed, both of them screaming with rage. Before he could raise any kind of defense, they tore through the robot's arms, ripping them clear off from the body, and smashed through the glass bubble at the top. With a powerful blow, he was knocked clear out of the cockpit, where he landed on the ground. The robot tottered, then crashed to the ground also, exploding.
As he weakly tried to sit up, Bubbles and Buttercup flew over to him and started hitting him with punches and kicks, as hard as they could. They left him in critical condition, a twisted, mangled mess, barely conscious.
The professor, in the meantime, had run out to the street. A quick glance at Blossom's body was all he needed to confirm the awful truth. She had been severed in half, right across her neck. He still checked her vitals, in quiet desperation, even though he knew there was nothing they could do…
Bubbles, tears flowing down her face, was about to fly over, but Buttercup held onto her arm, keeping her from getting closer, "No, Bubbles…stay here…" Bubbles turned back to her, and hugged her, burying her head in her chest and crying. Buttercup patted her hand on Bubbles' back, trying to comfort her, but tears were streaming down her own face, too. She looked over at the professor hopefully, but he looked back at her, and shook his head sadly.
A moment later, both Blossom's head and body began to glow softly, and after a few seconds, in a blinding flash of light, both halves vanished, replaced by a pile of sugar, spice, and everything nice. That was the final proof; now that she had broken back down into her base elements, she was truly gone.
Bubbles cried softly, "…no…Blossom…"
"I know, kid…" Buttercup said, consolingly, "It's over…shhh…" She closed her eyes, and thought, If only there was something I could have done…I could have kept this from happening…I should had been stronger! I should have attacked it with my full strength the moment I saw it…instead of playing around…
The professor suddenly ran past them, back towards the house. His arms were cradling something. Bubbles looked up through her teary eyes, and said, "P-Professor?"
He hesitated, and turned to face them for a moment…they could see that he was holding the sugar, spice, and everything nice that had been left behind. He said, "I don't have time to explain! I've got to hurry!" He turned back to the house, and ran in through the front door.
Bubbles and Buttercup gave a questioning glance at each other. Bubbles asked, "What's he doing?"
"I dunno," Buttercup said, "but let's find out…"
They flew into the house, looking around, but the professor had already disappeared into his lab. As they approached the door, they heard a loud explosion. Startled, Buttercup quickly rushed forward and opened the door, flying in. Bubbles flew in right behind her.
"Professor, what was that exp--…" Buttercup began, but then both she and Bubbles froze, gasping in alarm. The professor was against the wall, like he had been thrown back by whatever explosion they just heard. But even more important, hovering over a bowl on one of the worktables…was Blossom. She lived…and even more amazing, she looked completely unharmed.
Bubbles and Buttercup flew over in a flash, hugging her tightly from both sides, "Blossom! You're alive!" Bubbles cried out happily.
"Oh man, I can't believe it!" Buttercup exclaimed, "I thought you were dead…"
Blossom, however, looked confused. "Huh? What are you talking about? Where am I?"
Bubbles glanced at her, "In the professor's lab…"
"Don't you remember what happened, Blossom?" Buttercup asked.
"Blossom? Is…is that my name?" she asked back.
"What do you m--…hey…" Buttercup said, suddenly realizing something, "What's my name?" Blossom stared at her silently, and her puzzled look confirmed what she was thinking…
Meanwhile, by the wall, the professor sat up, rubbing his head, "Ughh…" He blinked his eyes a few times to clear them, then saw Blossom. His face lit up, "It worked! I can hardly believe it! It was a long shot, but I'm glad I took it…"
"Professor, what did you do?" Bubbles asked.
"Well," he replied, climbing back to his feet, "when Blossom broke down into her base components, it suddenly occurred to me that it might be possible to re-create her, simply by mixing them back together again with another small dose of Chemical X. And by golly, it worked!"
"Yeah, but…" Buttercup said, looking at Blossom, who was gazing around the lab, "…she doesn't remember us. She doesn't remember anything."
The professor explained, "She shouldn't. Even though her components are aged, technically she was just created. Other than her basic operational memory and instincts, she won't remember anything she had learned since her original creation." He rubbed his chin, "Although, there's a chance she might recall some of it, if her memory signatures were somehow carried over on her genetic pattern. It's a possibility, but we won't know for sure until it happens."
Blossom forced a smile and said, "Uh, are you guys talking about me? Could someone tell me what's going on?"
"Patience, Blossom," the professor said, "I'll explain everything. For now, I'm just glad to have you back. Girls, take her upstairs and show her around, would you?" The girls nodded, and the three of them flew upstairs. As the professor watched them go, he thought to himself, I can't believe it was that easy to bring Blossom back. I wonder if I'm doing the right thing, though…it feels like I'm granting the girls immortality, here. Well, it doesn't matter…all that matters is that we have our Blossom back with us. She'll be as good as new soon enough…
* * *
The girls sat around the kitchen table, talking to each other. As they continued their discussion, the professor was fixing up dinner. In all the time the spent familiarizing Blossom with her life, they had all but forgotten the horrific events from earlier. They were all beginning to feel better at last.
"We're superheroes?" Blossom asked, amazed at what the girls told her. They had already told them who they were, and the professor, and were now going into the subject of who she was. She was a little surprised to hear that they had superpowers. She already knew she could fly, but she didn't know about the eyebeams, their super strength, or anything else.
"That's right. We're the PowerPuff Girls!" Buttercup told her. She continued, "And, um, I'm the leader, of course...since I'm the strongest fighter..."
Bubbles frowned, "Hey, that's not true! Blossom's the leader, not you!"
Buttercup sighed in frustration, "Bubbles! You ruined my one good chance..." She rubbed her arm softly as she talked, over the spot where she was cut earlier. Man, that's going to leave a nasty scar, she thought. I hope it heals...it'll look pretty ugly.
"Wow..." Blossom said, musing over that last piece of information, "I'm really the leader? That's amazing! Why me?"
"Well," Buttercup said, "I'd hate to admit it, but you're the smartest one of us. I don't know if that's true anymore, 'cause you forgot everything, so maybe..."
"She could still learn everything again!" Bubbles said. Buttercup gritted her teeth, and finally just folded her arms, giving up.
The professor walked over to the table, setting down a dinner plate in front of each of the girls, with a scoop of casserole on each plate. Blossom picked up her fork, and said, "It looks delicious, Professor!"
"All right, let's dig in! I'm starving!" Buttercup exclaimed, grabbing her own fork. She and Bubbles started eating, while Blossom carefully took a forkful of the casserole, examining it. She smiled, and took a bite. While she chewed, she glanced down at her napkin on the table, and thought, This could be a little messy, maybe I should tie my napkin around my neck...
As she thought this, she suddenly froze. Her hands flew to her throat, taking in a sharp breath. Buttercup dropped her fork, concerned, "Bloss! You all right?"
Blossom, still with her hands around her throat, coughed, "…can't…breathe…"
The professor hurried over to her, to check her out, while the girls looked on, worried. After looking over her, she said, "It's all right, sweetie…stay calm…"
"No…" Blossom said, her voice still rough, "…my neck.…I can't…"
"It's okay," the professor explained. He frowned a little, "I was afraid this might happen…what you're experiencing is a phantom pain…your body is recalling what happened to you before, but you're going to be just fine…"
She relaxed a little, coughing a couple more times, and managed to say, "It hurt...it won't keep hurting like that, will it?"
The professor shook his head, "No...it might happen a few more times, but just remember that it's all in your mind, okay?"
"I'll try..." she said. She looked disturbed by the ordeal. The professor felt sorry for her...What a terrible thing to have gone through, he thought, but I'm sure she'll be okay. They managed to continue on with the rest of their dinner uneventfully, although the conversation was kept to a minimum for the most part...
* * *
Nighttime. The girls were getting prepared for bed, after a long day of re-familiarizing Blossom with everything they could. Blossom seemed to be catching on pretty fast, although she still claimed that she didn't remember any of it. They told her about Townsville, about how they save they day and everything. Even though they had gotten over the incident with Mojo, the girls were just overjoyed to be having these conversations at all with her, especially after they thought she was gone for good. Now that the harrowing day was coming to a close, they were looking forward to some sleep, to rest up for the next day.
"So Townsville really loves us?" Blossom asked, crawling under the covers on the bed. "It sounds like they would. I mean, we keep saving them from danger."
"Most of them do," Buttercup explained, also getting into bed, "but you gotta watch out for the criminals. They hate us, especially the big ones like Mojo Jojo."
Blossom nodded, "Right, you mentioned him earlier."
Bubbles flew over to the bed, dropping a big pile of stuffed animals down by her place, and said, "Mojo's a bad monkey. 'Specially after today…there's not a good bone in his body."
Buttercup yawned, "Anyway, let's just get some sleep. G'night…"
The girls nestled into bed, and slowly drifted off to sleep. Hours passed, late into the middle of the night, and for the most part, they were sound asleep. Blossom, though, was tossing and turning a little bit. Images flashed through her sleeping mind briefly, fleeting glimpses that she could not make out. She felt as though she knew them…memories, but too distant to see clearly. However, she could not ignore them, as they continued to flash before her.
Blossom's eyes flew open, and she glanced around. In the darkness, she could see that the other girls were still asleep. Yawning, she flew up out of the bed and over to the bathroom. She filled a glass of water from the sink and drank it. Setting the glass down, she looked at herself in the mirror…her reflection stared back at her, and it seemed strangely unfamiliar, as though she wasn't looking at herself anymore.
She smiled slightly, and ran a hand through her hair. It was so beautiful, better than the other girls'. Especially after all she had heard from them, it sounded like she was the picture of perfection. She was the smartest of the PowerPuff Girls. She was their leader. And to top it all off, she was pretty to boot. Her long hair…those eyes, that smile…even her arms, her neck…
Another image flashed before her eyes. She could see it more clearly now…a towering form of metal. At the heart of it, a twisted, evil monkey…she thought she saw the other girls there, too, but the images were fleeting, switching quickly from one to the next. She suddenly saw herself, her arms pinned to her side, held by that towering monstrosity…she remembered how tightly it held her, even though it still seemed so distant, like a dream. But it was all rushing back to her…she couldn't move, she could barely breathe, as the thing held her…and from its body, she saw something flying towards her, like a spinning wheel of death…she felt a scream escape from her lips, and…
Blossom screamed, falling back from the mirror. She landed on the ground, clutching her throat in pain. The noise must have woken the others, because Bubbles and Buttercup flew into view by the bathroom door, and was joined a moment later by the professor.
"Blossom!" the professor exclaimed, "Just remember, it's in your mind...the pain isn't real..."
Despite the professor's words, Blossom still seemed tense. She shook her head, "No, professor, I…remember…I remember what happened…I remember everything…the robot, the…the pain…" She was crying now. "It was horrible…all of it…Professor, I-I don't want to remember…"
"Easy, Blossom," he said, "you've had a shock…"
Blossom looked up at him through her tears, and asked softly, "Why did you bring me back?"
"Now, sweetie, I…"
"Why did you bring me back?" she shouted, her tears turning suddenly to anger. "I can't take it…I can't get the memories out of my mind...they won't go away! I have to face the horror over and over again! I...I don't want to remember it, any of it...I don't want to!" Before they could say another word, Blossom flew past them in a flash of light, heading downstairs.
"Oh dear," the professor said. "Girls, you'd better go follow her, and talk to her a little bit…"
"Right!" Buttercup said. Bubbles nodded as well. The two of them flew out of the bathroom, looking for her, while the professor thought, Her memories have come back…I knew it was possible, but I didn't realize the impact it would have on her. What have I done? By bringing her back to life, am I just putting her through more torment? Oh, I wish I knew what to do…
* * *
They didn't find Blossom downstairs, and the front door was open, so the girls went out to search for her outdoors. Bubbles searched the woods and the suburbs, while Buttercup soared over Townsville, keeping an eye out for her amongst the buildings. As she did, she couldn't help but think over what Blossom said back at the house. It was a little chilling to see her like that.
She seemed so different, Buttercup thought. I hope she's not going to be like that forever. I'd rather have the old Blossom back…
As she mused over these thoughts, she spotted Blossom, down below, sitting on the edge of one of the rooftops, atop one of the tallest buildings in the city. She was gazing off over the rest of the city, with her head resting in her hands. She looked like she was lost in deep thought. Buttercup landed on the roof behind her, and said, "Blossom?"
She didn't answer…instead, she continued to sit unmoving, never taking her eyes off the city. Buttercup said, "Look…we're getting a little worried about you. Why don't you come back home, so we can get back to sleep, and we can talk over it in the mor--…"
Blossom abruptly spoke up, "What do you see out there, Buttercup?"
Buttercup stared at her, confused, then looked out over the city. "Uhh, buildings?"
"And inside those buildings?"
"Uh, well…nothing right now, it's the middle of the night…"
"Exactly," Blossom nodded. "No movement, no life. The buildings are merely hollow shells, nothing more."
Buttercup scratched her head, "Blossom, what's going on?"
"I was just noticing how much like life this city is," Blossom remarked. "During the day, it's full of movement and energy, but once night falls, it becomes quiet. Still. Dead."
"But that's only until the next morning…"
"No," Blossom stated. "With life, there is no 'tomorrow morning'. When night arrives, it all ends." She looked down at her hands, holding them up in front of her, "Except for me. Thanks to the professor, I have been given another morning…and I know the truth."
"What truth?"
"That the buildings were never really full." Blossom looked back out into the city. "The people that fill them are pointless…for when they have gone, the buildings will still be there, unmoved by their presence or actions. Take them away from the buildings early, and they are still unaffected. Such it is with us. We call it life, but in reality, there is no life…only the stubborn refusal of death."
Buttercup looked worried, "Uh, Blossom, you're starting to scare me a little…"
Blossom turned and stared at her. It was a creepy look, almost like she was looking through her, like she wasn't there. She spoke, "You don't understand. You haven't seen Death. The truth about life, the pain and suffering, is revealed only for a moment before oblivion…but I have returned from that oblivion, and I remember everything. You see, life serves no purpose, other than the brief pain and suffering at the very end. That is all it exists for."
Buttercup shook her head, "No, that's not all there is! What about happiness?"
"What about happiness?" she challenged. "What is happiness, anyway, but the absence of suffering? No, it is just as pointless as life itself. Life is misery…it spreads misery to others, and creates more life, so that it can create even more misery. No, Buttercup, there is only one way to stop it…and that's to put an end to it."
"What?" Buttercup exclaimed. "What are you talking about?"
Blossom stood up and faced her. "As long as life exists, there will be only pain and torment. Life is suffering...and the only way to put an end to all suffering, is to put an end to all life...which I intend to do, myself."
Buttercup took a step back, and frowned, "You're crazy! You've lost your mind, Blossom!"
Blossom shook her head, "Not at all…I finally see things clearly. We're the only ones that can understand, Buttercup…you, Bubbles and I, we have the power to escape the clutches of Death, and see the world as it really is."
"Now, hold on!" Buttercup shouted, "We're not like you, and we'll never be like you! Life is good, no matter what you say!"
Blossom closed her eyes and sighed. She said, "At least grant me this…take a look at the city once more, and tell me what you see."
Buttercup turned, and looked out across Townsville, "Buildings, the same as befo--…" At that moment, while her back was turned, Blossom struck her hard on the back of the neck. She toppled to the rooftop, knocked out from the blow. Still unsmiling, Blossom scooped Buttercup up from the ground and tossed her over her shoulder, and flew away from the rooftop…
* * *
Buttercup's eyes opened slowly. The back of her neck felt sore. She groaned, "Uhhhh..." and blinked a few times until she could see clearly. When she tried to move, though, she couldn't...struggling a little, she looked down and saw that she was lying on a table, and some heavy bands of metal bound her in place against it. No matter how hard she tried to break free, it wouldn't give.
The surroundings were different as well. She couldn't tell exactly where she was...maybe it was in an abandoned warehouse, or some basement. There were a few wooden tables, with several items scattered across it. She saw a set of test tubes and beakers, filled with a black liquid, sitting on a shelf. She also saw something else...Blossom, fiddling with something on the table. She looked up, her back still turned to Buttercup, and said, "So you're awake. Good, it's time to get started."
"What? Blossom, what's going on? Let me go!" Buttercup demanded. She tugged at the restraints again, but they wouldn't budge. What's going on? she thought, I'm not feeling weak right now...this should be a snap to get out of!
"Don't bother struggling," Blossom informed her. "I collected some of Mojo's Duranium sawblades from the fight, and cut them into bands to make those restraints. They'll hold you." She picked up one of the sawblades from the table she was at and examined it. "As you can see, I left one intact, because I have a much more important use for it."
Buttercup didn't like the sound of that at all. She lifted her head from the table to see better, and said, "W-what are you going to do?"
Blossom turned to face her and said, "I tried to convince you before, but I see now that it was futile. You'll never understand what I'm trying to do, unless you first experience what I have." She glared coldly, "And for that, Buttercup, you must die."
"What? No!" Buttercup exclaimed. "Blossom, you don't mean it...you can't do this! It's not right!"
"But it is right. This is the first step to the end of all suffering," Blossom told her, and started to float over to the table.
Buttercup took in a shaky breath, watching her come closer, with that awful blade in her hand. Alarmed, she stammered, "L-listen, Blossom...Y-you gotta think this over...there's g-gotta be another way..."
"There is no other way. This is the only way," she replied.
"B-But, Blossom! I'm your s-sister!"
"And as sisters," Blossom agreed, "we will share a common purpose." She rubbed her chin thoughtfully, and ran her hand across Buttercup's chest, searching for a good place to begin. Buttercup gritted her teeth, watching in horror as she stopped over her heart. Blossom nodded, satisfied at the spot she found.
She's actually going to do it! Buttercup thought. "No!" she sobbed, "Please, don't...please, I'll do anything..." As she pleaded, she saw her raise up the blade, and panicked, "Aah! Oh god, no! Please, Blossom, don't!"
Blossom carefully positioned the blade over the spot. Buttercup started breathing quickly, almost hyperventilating, and her eyes locked with Blossom's. She saw the complete lack of emotion in her face, and at that moment, it really dawned on her that she was going to die...she shrieked, "P-please, no!! NO!!"
Blossom said nothing...instead, she brought the blade down, the sawed teeth cutting into Buttercup's chest. She immediately cried out in pain, and Blossom carefully pulled the blade down, cutting a long incision down the center of her body. It was a deep cut, with the blade buried halfway into her. Blood poured out of the wound, spilling across the table and onto the floor. Buttercup screamed in agony, with all her heart. Through the pain, her thoughts raced out of control: Oh god this is it this is it I'm gonna die this is it it's all over it's all over...
She tried to take in another breath, but she couldn't...as the darkness closed in around her, all she could feel was the pain. She gurgled once, and finally, her head lolled to the side, and she lay still. Blossom watched this impassively, pulling the bloodstained blade free from her and setting it on the other table. She waited.
As she expected, Buttercup started glowing faintly, then the glow grew brighter until it became a blinding flash of light. As it faded, Buttercup's sugar, spice, and everything nice was left behind. Blossom picked up a bowl from the table and carefully scraped everything into it, making sure not to miss anything.
She flew back over to the worktable with all the chemicals, picked up a long-handled spoon, and started mixing the contents of the bowl. As she mixed, she very carefully added a few drops of Chemical X from one of the test tubes. Setting the spoon down, she quickly flew to a safe distance and watched. The mixture suddenly exploded, filling the room with bright light once again.
As the light cleared, she could see Buttercup hovering above the bowl, back in perfect condition. She blinked her eyes a few times, looking around in confusion, "Where am I? What's going on?"
Blossom floated slowly over, still unsmiling, and said, "Listen to me. Your name is Buttercup, and you have forgotten your past. I will help you remember it, however." She pointed to the table with the restraints, and said, "Look over there...what do you see?"
Buttercup stared at the table, and at first was a bit revolted, "Is..is that blood? What..."
"Do you recognize the table?" Blossom asked. "Those restraints?"
"I...don't know...I think..." Buttercup held her head, trying to remember. "It seems familiar...I just..."
Blossom flew over to another table and picked up the blade. She held it up over her own chest, over precisely the same position where she began the cut on Buttercup before. Buttercup stared at the blade, and raised her hand, holding it against her own chest, "That..." She suddenly took a sharp intake of breath, and clutched her chest with both of her hands. She cringed, and slowly hovered down to the ground, landing on her knees, doubled over in pain.
Blossom flew over and stood in front of her. She said flatly, "Do you remember?"
Tears flowing from her eyes, Buttercup nodded without looking up, and sobbed, "Yes..."
"And you remember what I told you before? About life?"
Her eyes narrowed, "And do you understand now?"
Buttercup looked up at her, through her tears, and nodded, "Yes...I do..."
"Excellent," Blossom said, helping Buttercup to her feet. She turned to look out of a window, and added, "We can finally begin, now. Tonight..."


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Why is this important? With all of the famines, wars, floods and other crises in the world today, what good will visualizing the chaos in Kenya do? Friend and fellow blogger Erik Hersman, one of the founders of Ushahidi, answers this question in the most eloquent way I've seen yet. In this post he suggests that a digitally connected world not only grants us a front row seat to the rest of the world, but also the power to influence events and create change in a way that was impossible just a few short decades ago. So that events that may occur thousands of miles away are in fact – quite literally – in our digital backyard. Which makes it a lot harder to just sit back and watch.


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gwind says:
Someone just sent this to me. I can't resist posting it.
gwind says:
Yes, the very same Polk COUNTY, FL sheriff, Grady Judd, that used tax payer's dollars to extradite Phillip Greaves, author of the "Pedophile Guide to Love and Pleasure" from COLORADO, is now using drones to govern his "territory."
More going on in central FL than Disney. Google his name…he even made Snopes
A Tampa Bay article from last year: http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1149570.ece
Snopes for shooting: http://www.snopes.com/crime/cops/judd.asp
Amanda Painter says:
katie —
just to clarify, are you calling this cartoon a distraction from more important things?
or are you calling the news about the CIA wanting to send drones to yemen a distraction by the gov't away from drone use here?
Katie Scarlett says:
Is Droning in Yemen a well-timed tidbit to distract the sheeple's attention from more pressing and alarming news? Like America's burgeoning police state? Why, even uber Liberal Susan Sarandon has been adversely impacted by THAT.
"There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit," The U.K. Daily Mail's MailOnline reports. "The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states. Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority."
Here's the kicker: "But, astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles. It is thought that many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology."
Well, well. High-Tech Big Brother with ivory-tower Intelligentsia predictably in the vanguard–and on the payroll–and we get treated to cartoons about Yemen and what may have been, in effect, an assassination attempt (by the usual suspects) cover story on a presidential patsy. Oy frickin' vey.
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By: Dr. Linda Gordon, New York University, January 9, 2013
Gerda Lerner, historian, writer, feminist activist and program builder, died January 2, 2013, In Madison, Wisconsin, at age 92.
Born Gerda Hedwig Kronstein to a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, she was active in anti-Nazi protests while in secondary school. When her father, Robert Kronstein, came to understand the Nazis' plans to appropriate Jewish property and arrest Jews, he fled to Lichtenstein to develop a second business. Gerda and her mother Ilona and sister Nora were arrested and held for six weeks; they were released only after Robert sold his Austrian assets to Gentiles for a pittance. Gerda believed that her experiences as a Nazi resister and imprisoned teenager were the most formative influences of her life, undergirding her assertive, fighting spirit and her understanding of the virulent force of racism.
Immigrating to the US, she contracted a brief first marriage and divorce, and earned a living in working-class jobs, then in 1941 married Carl Lerner, a theater director and film editor. They moved to Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and she worked with community social-justice groups. Both were Communists at the time, and when Carl Lerner's career was destroyed by the Hollywood blacklists, they returned to New York with their two children. In the 1960s Gerda became one of the founding members of NOW.
At age 38 Gerda enrolled in college and then graduate school at Columbia. Defying warnings and belittlement from those who believed she should choose a more conventional and "high status" topic, Gerda wrote a PhD dissertation about women—the abolitionist Grimke sisters. In 1968 she began teaching at Sarah Lawrence College where she developed an MA program in women's history, the first in the US. Twelve years later she won a professorship at the University of Wisconsin, over significant opposition, where she developed a PhD program in women's history.
Two related intellectual and personal understandings marked Gerda Lerner's career: a visceral grasp of how power worked and a sense of the relatedness of various forms of inequality and oppression—class, race, gender, and global imperialism. In both her faculty positions she strategized that teaching women's history would not be enough to build respect for the field, and that she needed to build women's history programs with visibility and autonomy. In both places the existence of these programs attracted top-notch students willing to take risks and to pursue graduate work in history not merely as job training but also out of a commitment to making history relevant to movements for social justice. At Wisconsin she took the job only on the condition that the history department hire a second faculty member in the field, and Linda Gordon came there in 1984.
The Sarah Lawrence and Wisconsin programs combined trained over 40 historians of women and gender, many of them now the leading scholars in the field. Gerda organized the first ever conference of faculty from graduate programs in women's history, at which several dozen professors from around the country were able to share syllabi, programmatic developments, teaching methods, etc.
At the University of Wisconsin the women's history program not only trained academic historians but emphasized outreach. The program sponsored regular women's history lectures and publicized them to a broad public. The program developed a collective project for bringing women's history into the public schools. Students and faculty created several slide shows with scripts—this was well before the days of Powerpoint—at both high-school and elementary-school levels on a variety of subjects: women's work, women in sports, women's activism. Schools and teachers were offered presentations, and students and faculty fanned out into a variety of classrooms in Madison to do these.
Throughout her professional life Gerda encountered opposition. Her drive to overcome it led her to develop a hard-pressing style, pushing those she worked for and with forcefully. She could be intimidating. But her efforts made the path of each following generation easier. No one who knew her ever doubted her commitment to encouraging women's history and female scholars, or her loyalty to those who worked with her.
Her awards, too numerous to list, include Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, in 1996. Lerner's teaching and scholarship never focused on those few elite or otherwise successful women who became historically well known. Her 1969 article "The Lady and the Mill Girl" examined class differences among women in the Jacksonian US. Her 1972 edited collection of documents, Black Women in White America, proved even to doubters that there were ample sources making the study of African-American women's history possible. Her Creation of Patriarchy and Creation of Feminist Consciousness (1986 and 1994) aimed at understanding nothing less than the global origins of male dominance and resistance to it.
Throughout her life Gerda's intellectual and physical energy was formidable. An avid hiker, she made arduous treks in the Rockies and wanderings in the North Carolina and Wisconsin woods. She was also an inspirational speaker, and her lectures throughout the US and in Europe were a major force, not only in building support for women's history but also in motivating feminist activists. Her speaking power was related to her exceptionally fine writing. Her gripping prose showed up in her superb memoir of her husband's dying, A Death of One's Own (1978) and then in the autobiography of her early years, Fireweed (2003). A fireweed is a brilliant cerise wildflower, hardy from the sub-Arctic down through the southern states, one of the first plants to reappear after fire has scorched the earth. It is determined to grow even under unfavorable conditions, toughhard to eradicate, and thus sometimes a nuisance to gardeners—a fitting metaphor for this powerful, life-loving and nature-loving woman.
Gerda Lerner is survived by her sister, Nora Kronstein Rosen, an acclaimed artist, of Tel Aviv; her son Dan Lerner, film director, producer and cinematographer, of Los Angeles; her daughter Stephanie Lerner-Lapidus, apsychotherapist, of Durham, North Carolina; and four grandchildren, of whom she was extraordinarily proud.
Contributions to honor Gerda Lerner's legacy and to further the field of women's history can be made to two funds:
The Lerner-Scott prize of the Organization of American Historians (of which Gerda was president) for the best women's history dissertation at https://www.oahsecure.org/donate or by mail at http://www.oah.org/donate/pdf/2012oahdonate.pdf
The Lerner fellowship at the University of Wisconsin History Department at http://history.wisc.edu/alumniandfriends/supporting.htm


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College of Earth, Ocean, & Environment
From the deep sea to outer space (and everywhere in between) come join us and learn about the exciting frontiers we're exploring to uncover the mysteries of our blue planet! At the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE), our mission is to advance the knowledge, understanding, and wise use of ocean, earth, and atmospheric resources through programs of interdisciplinary research, outreach, and education in the physical, chemical, biological, geological and social sciences.
As a graduate student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, you may undertake one of the following graduate degree programs in one of our three academic units (School of Marine Science and Policy, Department of Geological Sciences or Department of Geography).
There are also courses and other opportunities for you to explore Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of Delaware!
• Course Catalog With Descriptions of Course Offerings
Geography (GEOG)
Geological Sciences (GEOL)
Marine Science & Policy (MAST)
Crab Cake Cook-off
Aug. 4 deadline to enter recipes for 2017 Coast Day Crab Cake Cook-off
Putting Science to Work
Delaware Sea Grant's annual report informs community about latest efforts
Where Water and Minerals Meet
Molecular scale science may inform water purification methods, battery improvements
Tracking ocean pollution
Stemflow study
Horseshoe Crabs and Artificial Bait
Advancing the understanding, stewardship, and conservation of estuarine, coastal, and ocean environments.
Discovering how geological processes have operated over various time scales to create and influence the planet's surface environments.
Investigating the interactions between people and the environment and the processes that explain the location of human and natural phenomena.
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment • 111 Robinson Hall • Newark, DE 19716 • USA Phone: 302-831-2841 • E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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