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» Ranking: 10
» Ranking: 2
Match Notes:
Burdette/Gibbs only duo to beat Pluskota/Szekely (18-2)...Pluskota finishes career sixth all-time at UT with 107 wins.
Natalie Pluskota and Kata Szekely's 7-6 (1), 6-1 loss in the NCAA Doubles Tournament semifinals officially closes Tennessee's 2012 season and Pluskota's career. The first-set tiebreaker was Tennessee's fifth of the tournament, but the first it had lost.
Leading 6-5 in the first set and serving, Stanford was able to break and force a tiebreaker. Burdette and Gibbs ran away with the tiebreaker, 7-1, and controlled the second set.
The end of an era. Natalie Pluskota's career ends with four All-America honors, three All-SEC selections, three NCAA Doubles Final Four appearances and 107 doubles wins, the sixth-most in UT history. Kata Szekely ends the season as the team leader in singles and doubles wins. Her 31 doubles victories were the 13th-most in a single season by any Lady Vol all-time.
NP: "It's hard. I'm not ready to leave, but at the same time I left it all out there and I definitely gave my all for Tennessee."
KS: "It's amazing. Before the season, I would've never imagined making it to the final four in doubles. I'm pretty sure in a couple days, I'll be really happy about it."
» Ranking: 10
» Ranking: 22
Match Notes:
UT advances to NCAA Doubles Final Four for third time in four years...11th straight win for duo...Have won 18 of 19.
Despite trailing 5-3 in the third set and facing three match points, Natalie Pluskota and Kata Szekely rallied to comeback and win a tiebreaker, defeating Florida's Lauren Embree and Joanna Mather 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3) to advance to the NCAA Doubles Tournament Semifinals. MATCH RECAP
Down 40-0 on serve with Florida leading the third set 5-4, Tennessee strung together five consecutive points to tie the set at 5. The duos split the next two games, and Tennessee dominated the tiebreaker to win.
Second-seed Mallory Burdette and Nicole Gibbs (Stanford), who defeated Pepperdine's Lorraine Guillermo and Khunpak Issara 6-1, 6-3 on Saturday. Sunday's semifinal match is set for 4 p.m. ET.
KS: "I'm really happy and out of words right now. It was really hard to win that service game when we were down love-40. We had a crazy match point but I saved and I think that was the turning point in the match."
NP: "Every time, it gets a little more and more special. It's definitely a great opportunity. To do it with Kata, a different player, is tremendous and exciting. Hopefully, we can win this one and go onto the National Championship.".
» Ranking: 10
» Ranking: 18
Match Notes:
Pluskota becomes fourth four-time All-American in program history...Szekely 15th Lady Vol All-American...10th consecutive win.
Natalie Pluskota and Kata Szekely used a pair of tiebreakers to move past Virginia's Emily Fraser and Lindsey Hardenbergh 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) into the NCAA Doubles Quarterfinals. The win earns the duo All-American honors.
Leading 5-1 in the second set, Pluskota and Szekely felt the pressure and allowed Virginia's duo to work its way back into contention. Fraser and Hardenbergh rallied to win five straight games and appear on the verge of tying the match at a set apiece. Pluskota and Szekely turned it around, however, breaking serve to force a tiebreaker. After splitting the first four points, UT's tandem reeled off the final five points to advance.
1: Reaching the NCAA Doubles Championships quarterfinals for the third time in her career, Natalie Pluskota became the first Lady Vol to accomplish the feat. She advanced to the semifinals as a freshman in 2009 with Caitlin Whoriskey, and the duo followed it up by reaching the championship match the following year.
3: Pluskota and Szekely are the third Tennessee duo to reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA Doubles Tournament, marking the fourth time it's happened in UT history.
4: Pluskota is just the fourth Lady Vol to become a four-time All-American, matching the program record. Margi Lepsi and Manisha Malhotra were the first to do it in 1998, and were followed by Vilmarie Castellvi.
5: Pluskota is the fifth Lady Vol all-time to become a three-time All-American in doubles (2009, 2010 & 2012), joining Paula and Peta Kelly, Margie Lepsi, and Manisha Malhotra.
10: Consecutive doubles matches that Pluskota and Szekely have won together, owning a 17-1 overall record. Additionally, it marked Szekely's 13th consecutive win in doubles (also winning three with Joanna Henderson) and her 17th win in the last 18.
15: Szekely is the 15th all-time Lady Vol to earn All-American honors and the 10th to do so in doubles.
23: Where Szekely now ranks all-time with 63 doubles wins at Tennessee, a list she'll certainly climb before her time wearing orange is over.
106: Pluskota's 106 career doubles wins are tied for the sixth-most in Tennessee history with Zsofia Zubor (2006-10).
Florida's Lauren Embree and Joanna Mather (ranked 22), who defeated 5-8 seed Annie Goransson and Anett Schutting (California) on Friday. Quarterfinal match time is set for 2 p.m. ET on Saturday. Pluskota and Szekely defeated the Gator duo, 8-3, early in November at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships.
NP: "It's exciting. It's a goal and a dream of mine to become a four-time All-American since my freshman year. Honestly, today I'm just super pumped for Kata. I really wanted to get her All-American status and we accomplished that today."
KS: "It's great. Before the season started, that was one of my goals - to somehow become an All-American. I accomplished my biggest goal. Now, we have to go after it and try to win the tournament."
NP: "We just have to go after it and leave it all out there. Everyone at this point is really good and wanting to win. We just have to stick to our gameplan and execute.".
» Record: 16-10
» Ranking: 35
» Record: 37-5
» Ranking: 3
Match Notes:
Finishes singles career with 56-45 record...Ends season-high four-match winning streak...Led second-set tiebreaker 5-2.
Natalie Pluskota truly gave her all for Tennessee, but fell short in two sets that could've gone either way to third-seeded Nicole Gibbs of Stanford 7-6 (1), 7-6 (6). Pluskota took the first break of the match in the first set to lead 4-2, but Gibbs battled back for a 4-all tie. Pluskota had two opportunities to close out the first set with another break at 5-4 and 6-5, but Gibbs held each time. After forcing the tiebreaker, Gibbs scored seven of eight points to go up a set. Both players broke each other's serve to open the second set (1-1), but neither did the rest of the way. Pluskota forced the tiebreaker this time after trailing 6-5 and seemed to be running away with the race to seven, leading 5-1. After switching sides, Gibbs scored the next four points to tie it. Pluskota held serve to lead 6-5 and had an opportunity to put it away at the net, but didn't get it over. Gibbs took advantage, scoring the next two points to win, 8-6.
With a 5-1 lead in the second-set tiebreaker, the two switched sides. Gibbs found new life, scoring the next four points and seven of the final eight.
Gibbs moves on to the tournament's quarterfinals, while Pluskota's singles career at Tennessee comes to a close. By advancing this far, Pluskota became the fifth Lady Vol to earn All-American honors in both singles and doubles in her career, and the 10th overall to do it in singles alone.
» Ranking: 10
» Ranking: 4
Match Notes:
Winners of nine consecutive...16-1 overall...Pluskota now tied for seventh all-time at UT with 105 doubles wins.
Natalie Pluskota and Kata Szekely are getting used to this winning thing. The duo is undefeated in 2012 (9-0), and holds a 16-1 record overall. After using a tightly-contested first set tiebreaker, 7-6 (2), UT took a couple games to regain focus in the second set. But after that, it was all orange as Tennessee defeated Shinann Featherston and Lauren McHale (UNC) 7-6 (2), 6-3.
Down 2-0 in the second set, Pluskota and Szekely reeled off three consecutive games and six of the next seven to close out the Tar Heel tandem.
The duo is closer to earning All-American honors in doubles. Another win would officially clinch it, but already ranked 10th heading into the tournament, beating the nation's fourth-ranked couple won't hurt their odds regardless of what happens Friday. Natalie Pluskota is now tied for seventh at UT with Alison Ojeda with 105 doubles wins. She can move up to sixth with another win.
Thursday's winner of Millie Nichols/Olivia Smith (TCU) and Lindsey Hardenbergh/Emily Fraser (Virginia) on Friday in the Round of 16. Nichols spent her freshman season with the Lady Vols before transferring.
Szekely: "I think it was a really hard team to beat. Obviously, they're the number four team in the country for a reason. They came out with some great shots. We were just fighting as hard as we could."
Pluskota:"Going down 2-0, we were going into our service game. We knew we had to hold. I was coming up serving and we hadn't gotten broken on my serve. I knew if we could hold, we'd get our break because we were actually doing really well on our return game."
» Record: 15-10
» Ranking: 35
» Record: 15-11
» Ranking: 50
Match Notes:
Fifth Lady Vol to earn All-American honors in singles and doubles...Also fifth Lady Vol to advance to NCAA Singles Round of 16...Matched season-high fourth straight win.
Coming into the NCAA Individual tournaments, Natalie Pluskota was already considered among the elite all-time to play at Tennessee, but she's not ready for her career to be over. Pluskota used a 5-7, 6-1, 7-5 win over Arizona's Lacey Smyth to advance to the Round of 16 and earn All-American honors in singles. She's the 10th player at UT to earn that distinction in singles and the fifth to do it in both singles and doubles during her career. After losing a tight first set, Pluskota dominated the second round and carried her momentum into the final frame, leading 5-2 before finishing off her opponent.
Pluskota established control in the second set, dominating with a 6-1 performance. She used that to take a 5-2 lead in the decisive third set, but Smyth battled back to tie it at five. Pluskota overcame Smyth's game point opportunity in the 11th game, and eventually won, 7-5.
Third-seeded Nicole Gibbs (Stanford), who came back to defeat 21st-ranked Joanna Mather (Florida) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the Round of 32. Friday's match time is TBD.
Pluskota can become just the Lady Vol to advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championships and the first since Vilmarie Castellvi did it in both 2002 and 2003.
"I'm pumped. I came here to win and I did that today. I'm extremely excited to be an All-American again. It was a big goal of mine coming in freshman year. To me, it's really important and I accomplished that. But I don't want to stop here."
"It's a tremendous honor. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I love this university and every day I give it everything I have. To be a singles All-American - something I haven't done - is definitely a great accomplishment and means a lot to me."
"The first set was tight. We were having great points in that. Coming out in the second, I just really needed to focus on holding because I didn't hold a lot in the first. I was breaking a lot in the second. I just steamrolled through in the second and went after it."
"I was up 5-2, but she was swinging for the fences. I got caught moving backwards a little too much. I just needed to gut it out again in that 5-all game. When I went up to serve again, I felt pretty comfortable.".
» Record: 26-8
» Ranking: 57
» Record: 18-1
» Ranking: 37
Match Notes:
Szekely will finish season as team-leader with 26 wins...Loss snapped career-high seven-match winning streak...Defeated 10 ranked opponents this season.
Kata Szekely will head into her senior season in 2012-13 with plenty to be proud of. Her 6-3, 6-4 season-ending loss came to Georgia State's Abigail Tere-Apisah, who has only lost one match all year. Szekely led the Lady Vols with 26 wins this season, 10 of which were against ranked foes.
Szekely trailed 4-1 in the first set before holding serve and breaking Tere-Apisah's to pull within 4-3. She had game point with an opportunity to tie the first set, but Tere-Apisah toughed it out, took the first set, 6-3, and went on to win the match. Each player held serve to 4-4 in the second set, but Tere-Apisah broke and held to secure the win.
Szekely's season concludes in singles, but she will play Thursday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. ET in doubles with Natalie Pluskota. Szekely will be Tennessee's lone senior next season.
"She was playing really well during the whole match. She hit the ball really hard. As soon as I tried to change my gameplan, she adjusted really well. I felt like no matter what I did she had an answer to both of my shots. Kudos to her. She played really well today."
"At the beginning of this year, I would've wished for a season like this. Right now, I'm disappointed but in a couple of days I'm pretty sure I'll be really proud of all the wins I had this year."
"I'll work on my game again like I do every summer when I go home. I'll try to work on my fitness at the same time. When I get back in the fall, I can really improve and set a really good example for the incoming freshmen with my work ethic and everything else. I would like to have an even better season next year.".
» Record: 25-10
» Ranking: 32
» Record: 27-5
» Ranking: 23
Match Notes:
Match lasted 3 1/2 hours...Second consecutive three-set match...Concludes season second on team with 25 wins.
In a three and a half hour match, where every point seemed to be that long, Baylor's Nina Secerbegovic outlasted Brynn Boren and advanced to the Round of 16 with a 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-4 win. Each player displayed toughness and gutsy performances, but Secerbegovic broke a 4-4 tie in the final set, taking the final two games to win.
After falling behind 2-0 in the final set, Boren won three straight games and appeared to be in control. But nothing was predictable in this match. Secerbegovic won the next two, and Boren tied it again at four games. During the fifth match, Boren's leg cramped up and she fell behind, 5-4. After receiving treatment, Secerbegovic took advantage and came out on top.
Boren's 2011-12 season is officially over, but tabbed the ITA Ohio Valley Region's Player To Watch, the two-time All-SEC selection has a bright future ahead. She'll enter next season with career marks of 55-24 in singles and 48-18 in doubles..
» Record: 25-8
» Ranking: 57
» Record: 32-9
» Ranking: 12
Match Notes:
Career-high seventh consecutive win...Highest-ranked win of career and third Top 30 win of season...Fifth Lady Vol to advance to NCAA Second Round.
The first Lady Vol of the day to finish, Kata Szekely set the bar high, defeating 9-16 seed and 12th-ranked Emina Bektas (Michigan) 6-4, 7-5. Szekely jumped out to a 4-2 lead in the opening set and after breaking for her third point, she held the rest of the way. A furious second-set comeback lifted Szekely to Thursday's Round of 32.
Down a set, Emina Bektas came out swinging and took a 4-1 lead in the second stanza. But Szekely settled down and won the next four games to lead 5-4 and eventually wrapped up the set, 7-5.
Georgia State's Abigail Tere-Apisah, who defeated Katie Le (Santa Clara) 7-6, 5-7, 6-0 on Wednesday.
With a win Thursday, Kata Szekely can earn All-American status in singles, something that only nine other Lady Vols have done.
"In the second set, my opponent started playing better and better. She made a lot of first serves which was really important. After that, I just tried to stay focused and tried to win my service games, hoping that at some point I would have a chance to break her back."
"In singles, I have to come in with a mentality that I really need to fight as hard as I can because it's going to be a really important match. In the second round, you're not going to face any bad players."
» Record: 24-12
» Ranking: 32
» Record: 30-13
» Ranking: 11
Match Notes:
Has won 12 of 15 matches...Highest-ranked win of career and eighth of season...Sixth Lady Vol to advance to NCAA Round of 32.
Brynn Boren has come a long way since losing her eighth career match in Oct. 2010 to Jillian O'Neill 6-0, 6-0. The All-SEC first-teamer fought through several tough stretches in Tennessee's tightest match of the day and avenged that loss with a 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-4 win. A second-set lacking drama was sandwiched in between two that were loaded with it, both of which Boren conquered.
There were two critical moments in Boren's big win Wednesday. After dropping a game in which she led 40-0 to fall behind 5-3 in the opening set, Boren swept through the next game to hold serve and went on to win three straight games and take a 6-5 lead. After O'Neill pushed back, Boren scored the final five points of the tiebreaker to win the first set 7-6 (2). In the decisive set, Boren was down 2-0 and faced game point in the third game several times. She also overcame O'Neill's game point in the next game, winning three consecutive and five of six to seize control of the set and match.
Baylor's Nina Secerbegovic, who defeated North Carolina's Lauren McHale 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday. Boren beat Secerbegovic 6-0, 6-3 at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships earlier this season.
A trip to the Round of 16 and All-American status in singles. Only eight Lady Vols have done that all-time.
"She was on a roll and she was playing a lot better. My goal for the whole entire match was to keep fighting no matter what. That's what I did in game three. I wasn't going to give up."
"(Beating Secerbegovic before) gives me a lot of confidence. I know how to play her, but it's been a long time since we last played. It's been about four months. She could be a completely different player mentally and physically. You just never know. Stranger things have happened at the NCAAs."
» Record: 14-10
» Ranking: 35
» Record: 27-14
» Ranking: 54
Match Notes:
Winner of three straight and six of seven...Seventh Lady Vol to advance to NCAA Singles Second Round...Eighth career three-set win.
A roller coaster match ended with Natalie Pluskota reaching the loading zone with a big smile and hands in the air. Defeating Utah's Anastasia Putilina 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, Pluskota won four consecutive games to close out a dominating first set, lost control in the second set, and then grinded out a win in the third and decisive set.
After seemingly running away with the final set leading 4-1, Pluskota found herself trailing 5-4 (see what we meant by roller coaster?). Facing Putilina's serve, Pluskota rallied off the first three points of the next game, tied the set at five, and cruised the rest of the way.
Arizona's Lacey Smith, who upset 9-16 seed and 10th-ranked Kristi Boxx (Mississippi) on Wednesday.
By advancing to the Round of 16 with a win Thursday, Pluskota can become just the fifth player in Tennessee history to have earned All-American distinctions in both singles and doubles.
"Going in, I had a lead and then went down 5-4. Going into her serve, I just had to go after and make her work on her service game. I knew if I could break and then hold the next game that I'd be in a comfortable spot. I did that and ended up coming out on top."
"It's awesome. We worked hard to get to where we are today. All three of us moving on is a great accomplishment, but we're definitely not stopping here. We're going to go into tomorrow strong and hopefully, come out on top."


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Bulldogs Post 4-3 Walk-Off Win In 11 Innings
Feb. 28, 2014
ATHENS-----Nelson Ward delivered a walk-off double in the 11th to give Georgia a 4-3 victory Friday over Binghamton.
Georgia (3-6) trailed 3-1 going to the bottom of the ninth. Ward didn't reach base until that frame when he scorched a bases-loaded liner over first base to bring Georgia within one run. After the Bulldogs were able to tie it up at 3, it remained that way until Ward's next at bat in the bottom of the 11th.
Bearcats' pitcher Mike Bunal issued a leadoff walk to Conor Welton to begin the 11th, and added another four-pitch walk directly after to freshman Mike Bell. With runners on first and second and nobody out, junior Nelson Ward attempted to lay down a sacrifice bunt twice before hitting the walk-off double to right center to end the game. It was the first extra-inning game played by either club as the Bearcats dropped to 3-5.
The Bulldogs were helped by a strong performance from sophomore pitcher Ryan Lawlor who recorded four strikeouts over six scoreless frames, giving up five hits and a walk. He ran into some trouble in the top of the sixth inning after a single, a wild pitch and a walk. With runners on first and third with two outs, Lawlor was able to get Jake Thomas to ground out to second to end the inning.
The game heated up in the top of the sixth inning. After giving up a leadoff single to John Howell, Lawlor was able to strike out two straight batters, the second coming on a full-count called third strike to Bill Bereszniewicz. However Howell was able to steal second and advanced to third on a wild pitch. After a walk and with runners on the corners, Lawlor was able to force clean-up hitter Jake Thomas to ground out to second and get out of the jam.
The Bulldogs finally struck first in the bottom of the sixth on sophomore Daniel Nichols' sharp grounder up the middle, his third RBI of the season. It was set up by a one-out double to left center by sophomore Zach Bowers. Georgia was unable to put up any more after a lineout by Brandon Stephens and a strikeout to Stephen Wrenn.
Senior Dylan Cole came on to relieve Lawlor in the top of the seventh and pitched 1.2 innings with three strikeouts and a walk, but left a runner on second. That run was quickly charged to him after reliever Jarrett Brown gave up a double to Bereszniewicz down the left field line, knotting the score at 1-apiece. The Bearcats' Daniel Nevares followed that up with a single up the middle to drive in Bereszniewicz. Nevares advanced on the throw to second and scored after two wild pitches by Brown, putting the Bulldogs a 3-1 hole. Brown was pulled after walking Thomas and junior Jared Cheek recorded a strikeout to end the inning.
After Cheek notched a scoreless ninth, Binghamton pitcher Mike Kaufman issued two straight walks to Stephen Wren and Connor Welton. He was then replaced by Mike Bunal, who promptly issued a four-pitch walk to Bell, sending Georgia to the top of the order with the bases loaded.
Ward gave the crowd something to cheer about with an RBI single to right field bringing the Bulldogs to down one, 3-2. With the bases loaded and nobody out, Binghamton decision to bring in the infield paid off, as Jess Posey grounded into a double play, scoring Welton and tying the game at three-all. With two outs and a man still on third, Bunal intentionally walked Hunter Cole before Bowers popped out to second ending the inning.
Cheek (1-2) picked up his first win of the season after pitching 3.1 scoreless innings in relief. He gave up only two hits and notched three strikeouts. Bunal (0-1) picked up his first loss of the season after giving up the walk-off double to Ward in the 11th.
"We needed a win like this, there was a lot of energy in the dugout in the ninth," said Georgia coach Scott Stricklin. "It was similar to Wednesday's game with Georgia State. We pitched well and then in one inning they strike for a few runs and we're down 3-1 in the ninth. I was glad to see Nelson (Ward) up in that situation, and I know he would put it in play tonight. Ryan Lawlor gave us a great start and Jared Cheek went the final three-plus innings."
The series continues Saturday at 1 p.m. at Foley Field.
Bulldog Game Notes: Ward's single in the ninth was the first hit with the bases loaded by Georgia this season. Before the liner they were 0-10.
Freshman Mike Bell made his first career start for the Bulldogs at shortstop, finishing 0-3, but drew crucial walks in Georgia's two-run ninth and game-winning 11th. This was his second game back from a broken hand after coming in as a pinch runner and playing two innings at second base on Tuesday against Furman.
The Bulldogs turned four doubles plays against the Bearcats, the most since a 2011 NCAA tournament win against Creighton in Corvallis, Ore.
Junior Hunter Cole recorded his fifth multi-hit game of the season with singles in the first and third innings. He has reached base safely in all nine games this year.
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Samuel Griffin
2009: Started 12 games at right tackle, missing one start (at Syracuse) due to illness ... named the team's offensive newcomer of the year ... behind the offensive line, the Bearcats had an individual top the 100-yard plateau in eight out of 13 games overall ... UC topped 200-yards rushing on three occasions and set school records for points and touchdowns.
2008: Played in five games ... started at right tackle against Eastern Kentucky ... saw action at No. 4/4 Oklahoma, against Miami (OH) and at Marshall and Hawai'i.
2007: Rookie found the fi eld in two games at left tackle ... promising blocker ... provided depth to the roster without utilizing a redshirt.
Don Bosco Prep High School: Instrumental in the Ironmen's 12-0 record and 2006 state title run ... twice named to the all-North New Jersey Interscholastic League first team ... second-team all-county as a senior after receiving third-team all-county honors as a junior ... member of the league championship squad in each of his final three seasons ... three-year varsity letterwinner for head coach Greg Toal.
Samuel F. Griffin: Born Aug. 4, 1989 ... son of Betty Hannah-Griffin.
Academic Major: Exploratory Studies.


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The title of this post is meant as a bit of a warning.
My mother is dying (well, we're ALL dying, of course, but my mother is doing it with a bit more haste than most), and I suspect that this process is going to be something that occupies a great deal of my thinking and energy until she finishes (and, if I may point out the obvious, probably for a while afterward, too). Some of my musings – like today's I hope – will be at least marginally coherent; I'm not making you any promises about all of them, mind, because while people I love have passed on, no one who has been so instrumental in my life has yet to make that step. I can wax philosophical about how I'll handle my mother's death, but I won't know for sure until it actually happens. When it does, all bets are off.
For starters – as I suspect this will be a series of posts that I'll link together with a couple of categories so that I (and my children and, if they would like, my readers) can refer back to the whole story after it's over – I should probably do a little bit of background. My mother did not give birth to me. I came to her as a result of having fallen deeply in love with her son when I was about 14 (our romantic relationship lasted through my four years of high school; our friendship has endured to this day. For the sake of clarity, I will refer to him as my brother).
Mom took me in whole-heartedly and matter-of-factly even before she understood how deeply damaged my home life was (and even after my relationship with her son ended). What I know about independence and self-reliance, pragmatism and the rules of fighting fairly, spirituality and faith, I learned from her. She manages to walk the line between compassion and drill sargent with a consistency that astounds me, and though I've often used the bossy-and-stubborn that she taught me against her (lest you think that our relationship was all daisies and sunshine), we have settled into a sympathy of spirit that really defies my ability to describe it.
So, back to the point of this post. Mom is dying. She's been ill for a while; she's always had some mobility issues (which she stubbornly refused to have diagnosed for decades), and last year she was treated for throat cancer. Until recently, she was able to hobble around with the aid of a walker but now, due to what we think is an attack of MS, she can't even sit up witout assistance.
This new and disturbing development lead to a series of tests which have revealed a bunch of bad news. The MS was confirmed (though, to be honest, those of us around her have suspected for years that MS was behind her mobility problems), and some of the tests have indicated that there may be more cancer. Because of the treatments for the throat cancer last year, Mom's nutrition has been sketchy for a while now (swallowing was impossible for a period, and she got her sustenance from a feeding tube. That's been removed, but she still can't eat most foods without the risk of choking). The lack of nutrition, combined with her inability to get any meaningful exercise, has left her extremely weak physically. If the cancer diagnosis is correct, I'm not certain that she'd be strong enough to endure the treatments.
My brother called me today to ask if we can get together to discuss some of the things that have to happen in anticipation of Mom's death. We want to get her estate in order and we'd like to sell off some things (like her car, which she's never driven – and never will) to help pay for some of her (astronomical) medical expenses. We need to find out from her, on no uncertain terms, what she wants to happen in the event that she is rendered incapable of making decisions for herself, along with how she wants her final ceremonies to be handled and what she'd like done with her body once she leaves it.
He's coming to the house for dinner on Tuesday.
Right now, I'm handling all of this with a strange sort of detached clarity. I've known for a while that my mother has been gravely ill, and I've watched as her physical health has deteriorated, markedly, over the past few years. She taught me, more than anyone else, that death is not an ending, and I believe with something approaching certainty that I will still feel her around me long after she departs this plane.
What is making me most uneasy isn't that she's dying; it's that she's still capable of putting up a great deal of resistence to things that she knows have to happen, but that she may not want to face on a practical level. My brother has asked that *I* be the one to confront her about these things; he understands that my personality is far better suited than his to do that" march-in-and-take-the-lead" thing, and he concedes – correctly – that my relationship with her is more conducive to having those kinds of conversations. I guess what I'm fearing is that the end of my earthly relationship with Mom will be marked with confrontation and strife, and I'm trying to figure out how I can walk that line of compassion and drill sargent that my mother modeled for me for so many years.


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Hello Michelle,
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Can you provide a little more information about the marketing list, does it contain confidential details?
What processes did you have when acquiring the list of companies on the list, when being entered on to the list did you ask each company whether they would min their details being passed to third parties?
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No, the question will remain open until closed by the moderators (quite a few days before they look at it) and they will see you are attempting to post.
Keep persisting, you managed to post this "Tom - This is getting daft......" reply - try to post in this manner and you should be fine.
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Hi Michelle,
The key is whether those businesses on the list have opted out of the Data Protection Act. The DPA imposes penalties on the dissemination of information without the consent of the person/business.
You will notice when you sign up to things online that there is nearly always a box stating "please tick if you do not wish your information to be passed to our trusted affiliates for marketing purposes".This is what this is for, if the user does not tick this box then they have in effect foregone their right to data protection.
If you have something similar or that has the same effect from your dealings with those on the list then you probably can sell it. I would tread very carefully, particularly when considering the sale of a person's details, because you can be liable for a fine of £5, 000.00 per person if you do not have their permission and possible criminal sanctions
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I cannot believe that not ONE person mentioned the POSSIBILITY of defective tires! I had this VERY problem with my 1999 Chrysler 300M for 10 1/2 months until I took control of the issue. The dealer(s) started with the usual BS- it's the crown in the road. Sorry, I've been driving new cars since I was 16 and the same roads also and NEVER had a car that felt like someone was under the hood pulling the wheel to go left right into the Jersey barrier! Then, they started with alignments again and again, then tire rotations again and again, then replaced rack and pinion steering components- can't recall what else they tried. FINALLY, one day after months of this BS, I picked up the phone and called Goodyear Corporate Headquarters and explained my dilemma. I asked if I could bring my car to one of their authorized dealers and have them drive the car. They made the arrangements and told me that if the tires were defective, they would replace them. The tire dealer called me at work and said that the tires were defective and they were all being replaced! The steel belted treads had separated.
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Good point. What do you suppose caused this, a bad queen?
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Wolf Creek Hutterite Colony in New Dayton, Alberta, was founded in 1930 as a relocation of the original Dariusleut colony at Wolf Creek in South Dakota. In 2012 the Wolf Creek Hutterite Colony was a Dariusleut colony. The minister was Mike M. Hofer and the manager was Joe Hofer.
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Location: New Dayton, Alberta (coordinates: 49.408611, -112.5161 [49° 24' 31" N, 112° 31' 00" W])
Address: Box 266, Stirling, AB T0K 2E0
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My Mother, My Son: A true story of love, determination, and memories...lost by Dwayne J. Clark
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Unfortunately, as anyone who has a family member suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's already knows, things only get worse tomorrow. The disease's progress is entirely predictable, and there is no way to undo the damage already done or bring back the memories already lost. And the clock is relentlessly ticking away.
If anyone should know this, it is Dwayne Clark, the author of My Mother, My Son, a touching memoir in which he shares what it was like to see his mother snatched from her family one memory at a time. But Clark, the founder and chief executive officer of Aegis Living, a man with over 25 years experience in the senior housing field, was caught as unprepared for what was happening to his mother as any of us are likely to be.
My Mother, My Son is part biography, part memoir, and the devotion between Clark and his mother is obvious early on in the book. Clark recognizes how sufferers of major illness end up being defined by those illnesses. This is particularly true with an illness like dementia that robs a person of the very memories that define them even to themselves. It happens so gradually that the rest of us tend to "overlook the richness of experience and personality that underlies a person…their life, their contributions." Clark does not want this to happen to his mother.
By alternating chapters pertaining to his childhood or to his mother's younger days with chapters describing her life after being stricken by dementia, Clark has found just the blend to achieve that goal. And what a life his mother had: born in India before the breakup of the British Empire, she lived a life of privilege there before her father's sudden death left the family struggling for financial survival. Mary Colleen Callahan married an American serviceman and immigrated to America, only to see her marriage fall apart. For the rest of her life, she would work hard at whatever jobs she could get in order to support her children – something Dwayne, her youngest, would never forget.
My Mother, My Son is the story of a son's love for his mother, one that reminds me very much of a similar memoir I read a few weeks ago, Richard Russo's Elsewhere. Both men spent their formative years in households alone with rather demanding single mothers, and experienced similar issues and relationships with their mother as adults. Both are eternally devoted to their mothers.
Clarke closes his memoir with advice he received while coping with his mother's illness (his mother died at age 87 after having had dementia for almost ten percent of her life). As my wife and I go through a similar situation with a loved one, we find these bits to be particularly comforting:
• "Understand from the outset that things will never improve."
• "This may well be the most difficult thing you ever do."
• "Try not to feel guilty. None of this is your fault."
• "Sometimes, with the afflicted person, comfort is the only victory."
• "This time will pass and you will have the memory of how you responded to the challenge."
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 098481521X, Paperback)My Mother, My Son illustrates the power of love and a cruel twist of fate. A son who came from a struggling family that had little means was able to fulfill his mother's lifelong dream to be successful, a "big shot" with all the status and trappings that entailed. Little did they know that her dream would end with a disease that had become an integral part of his livelihood. As Dwayne Clark became a successful executive in the senior living industry, his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and became a resident of one of his memory care communities. Even though his life's work dealt with the elderly and memory loss, he still has to come to terms with the diagnosis and the painful realization that his mother would one day forget who he was and the dreams and memories they had shared. This story chronicles the life of the author's feisty and wildly devoted, single mother, her childhood in India, the memories of a struggling young family and the many life lessons that she taught him along the way. All of the profits from this book are being donated to the Potato Soup Foundation and the Alzheimer's Association.
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Every now and then Network World Fusion Executive Editor Adam Gaffin copies me on a gem that he's dredged up from the bowels of the news. Mr. Gaffin recently sent me the following item that appeared in the Bay City Times news section of Michigan Live on Jan. 20:
"Last summer, the folks at Albie's Foods here started making crust-free peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches for their customers. Just before Christmas, an executive with an Ohio food company ordered Albie's to bag 'em. Robert V. Vickers wrote to Albie's explaining that his company, Menusaver, Inc., holds the patent for crustless PBJ and plans to preserve its exclusive rights to the lunchtime staple."
Yes, folks, Menusaver holds the patent, awarded in December 1999, for the "sealed crustless sandwich." Patent No. 6,004,596 states: "The sandwich includes a lower bread portion, an upper bread portion, an upper filling and a lower filling between the lower and upper bread portions, a center filling sealed between the upper and lower fillings, and a crimped edge along an outer perimeter of the bread portions for sealing the fillings therebetween . . ."
We all understand the point of patents to protect an inventor's intellectual property rights, but a patent for a "sealed crustless sandwich"? This is what the patent system is for? So any proto-geek in a virtual white lab coat can flash on the obvious and then get to legally hold the rest of the world for ransom over something that the patent office should have thrown out without a moment's hesitation?
Let me give you another equally ridiculous example of "intellectual property": NetZero holds a patent on pop-up windows showing advertisements being used in the context of supporting free Internet access. At the end of December last year, NetZero filed a lawsuit against Juno Online Services for allegedly infringing the patent. Crazy. And don't get me started on Priceline's collection of patents.
It is one thing to have a patent and quite a different thing to defend it. When it comes to figuring out the tiny details of whether a product or service has violated a patent, that's where the devil is. For example, Budget Rent A Car's use of a reverse auction is the basis of a Priceline patent suit which, to the best of my knowledge, has yet to be resolved.
Now when the thing being patented is something that took real intellectual investment to create, then patents and their defense make complete sense. For example, Sun has finally forced Microsoft to settle in the case of Microsoft's illegal (under the terms of the license) modification of the Java syystem. Microsoft quite blatantly violated the license to improve Java's performance under Windows.
Sure, Microsoft dressed up their "improvements" under the banner of making things better for users, but at the heart of the issue was the effect Microsoft's changes made -- they essentially broke the Java model of write once, run anywhere by making some technical aspects of Microsoft's version of Java Windows-dependent.
The settlement terms: Microsoft loses its Java license and has to pay Sun $20 million (not much of a fine for Microsoft -- that's probably about the scale of a rounding error in Microsoft's coffee budget).
Even so, there's a good chance that Microsoft will go and develop a Java clone and in the process it is going to have to be careful it doesn't infringe any of Sun's patents.
Building something "like" Java will be a lot harder than making something almost but not exactly quite like a sealed crustless sandwich.
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BENISHEIK, Nigeria (AP) — An environmental department official says workers combing bushes have recovered the bodies of at least 143 civilians killed by suspected Islamic militants in northeast Nigeria.
Abdulazeez Kolomi told The Associated Press that environmental workers also found some beheaded corpses among victims of a Tuesday night attack on a major highway and Benisheik village some 45 miles northeast of the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
A soldier, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters, said Thursday that extremists disguised in military fatigues attacked in 20 pickup trucks firing anti-aircraft guns that overwhelmed soldiers using automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.


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Kapurthala, Oct 4 (UNI) In a bizarre incident, a one and half year old female child of a migrant labourer was allegedly raped and left to die in the cremation grounds here.
According the police, the child was taken away from her 'jhuggi' on Circular Road in the town by an unknown man on Friday evening.
The infants father while searching for the child found her this morning lying at the cremation grounds.
The father immediately rushed the profusely bleeding child to a hospital here and then informed the police. The child is under treament at the hospital.
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Think Sprinkler, think Pond: think the entire bottom rung of the Sub Pop roster, circa 1992. With brawny guitar chords and the most lackadaisical vocals this side of Malkmus or Mascis, Black Helicopter doesn't quite take flight. Which isn't to say it entirely embraces that old slacker ethos by declining to try; the album's opening riff attains a certain onomatopoeic effect by whirling in appropriately rotoresque fashion. Tim Shea's bored singing, however, dulls the blades and keeps things on the ground. The abject lack of passion (or even enthusiasm) in his voice is matched by mundane lyrics about cars or verses such as "How's my kids / How's my wife / How's my house / How's my life", which arguably strives to explore banality a la the Talking Heads' methodology, but ends up simply being banal. The thick, juicy guitar tones and strong, steady strumming of Shea and fellow guitarist Jeff Iwanicki count for something, but the merits are offset by overly-leisurely pacing that sees most songs straggle on past the point of interest. "Warshed Out" offers Black Helicopter at its most compelling, with the band in full melancholic rotation and Shea flirting with an actual melody, but including a bonus version of the song is a bit presumptuous, regardless of the guest presence of Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) the second time around.
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