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Once youve obtained your masters degree in physical therapy and received your state license, youre likely ready to get started in the working world. As a new graduate, youll probably have a lot of options when beginning your first job search. For instance, youll have the choice to work at hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, outpatient care centers, and the list goes on. While choosing the type of facility youd like to work in will be one of the first decisions you make, its important to remember that you have travel therapy options available to you. Working as a traveling PT opens up a world of possibilities that traditional physical therapy jobs might not. You may have some questions about the travel therapy industry like those below:
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LONGLEY, AVARD, farmer, merchant, orchardist, temperance advocate, and politician; b. 22 Feb. 1823 at Paradise, Annapolis County, N.S., son of Asaph Longley and Dorcas Poole; m. first in 1848 Hannah Maria Whitman; m. secondly in 1855 Charlotte Augusta Troop, and they had at least three children; d. 22 Feb. 1884 in Paradise.
Avard Longley's ancestors came to Nova Scotia from New England. From the beginning his life was greatly influenced by his family's attachment both to the land they farmed and to the Baptist Church in which they worshipped. He was educated in his home town and became a successful farmer and merchant there. Through the influence of the local Baptist church and his father-in-law, William Henry Troop, he became increasingly convinced of the evils of alcohol and of the necessity of total abstinence. The temperance cause became the glasses through which he viewed many issues of the day, and he frequently held positions of importance in local, provincial, and national temperance organizations.
It was apparently Longley's involvement in the temperance movement that first drew him into politics. In 1859, on a platform of opposition to rum and railways, he was elected a Conservative member of the Nova Scotia assembly for Annapolis County. Among the candidates opposing him were his brother Israel, and his successful running mates included James William Johnston*, the incumbent premier. Johnston's government was subsequently ousted by William Young and the Liberals early in 1860. Longley was re-elected in 1863 when the Conservatives under Johnston and Charles Tupper* resoundingly defeated the Liberals. He gave his full support to Tupper's controversial bill in 1864 which established a public school system supported by compulsory assessment, although many of his Annapolis County constituents opposed the plan. His stand on the other key issue of the day, union of the British North American colonies, is less clear. In 1864, referring to the choice between a union of the Maritime colonies or a general union, Longley was recorded as having made the curious and ambivalent statement: "Somehow or other it appeared to be inadvisable to include Canada in the arrangement; but he was inclined to think, if there is to be any union at all, it should be one of the whole of the Provinces." In the ensuing discussion of union over the next three years he wisely refrained from again entering the debate.
In late 1864 Longley was appointed commissioner of railways, a post he occupied until 1869; under his direction, railway lines were constructed between Truro and Pictou and between Windsor and Annapolis. Having resigned his assembly seat in 1867 to run, unsuccessfully, in the federal election of that year, he failed in his attempt to re-enter provincial politics in 1871. He was, however, again elected for Annapolis in 1874 and served until 1878. In the Nova Scotia house he was considered a major spokesman for the temperance cause and the Baptist Church.
Longley's first attempt at entering federal politics was as the pro-confederate candidate in Annapolis County in 1867. In this election, in which Joseph Howe*'s anti-confederate forces triumphed, Longley was soundly defeated, probably as much by resentment over Tupper's Free School Act as by opposition to confederation among the voters. He was defeated again in 1872, but was finally elected to the House of Commons in 1878. During the brief period he spent in Ottawa, Longley once reminded a somewhat startled (or amused) Sir John A. Macdonald* and his fellow members that the temperance question was worth ten National Policies. He also attempted unsuccessfully to have the House of Commons bar permanently closed. Ill health forced his retirement at the time of the 1882 general election.
Politics by no means dominated Longley's life. As an increasingly prominent orchardist and a pioneer in the important Annapolis valley apple industry, he saw the potential in the export of apples to overseas markets and in 1863 was one of the founders of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association. He served the association in numerous executive capacities and was its president from 1883 until his death the following year. Church affairs also occupied much of his time. He had joined the Baptist church in Paradise in May 1842 and from 1870 until his death served as its clerk. In 1876 and again in 1878 he was elected president of the Maritime Baptist Convention, and from 1874 until his death he was an elected member of the board of governors of Acadia College in Wolfville, N.S., despite the fact that he had had very little formal education himself.
Neither a significant politician nor a brilliant public speaker, Avard Longley as a spokesman for the Baptist Church and the temperance cause nevertheless represented important social forces in 19th-century Nova Scotia. He clearly saw politics in such terms, although the causes he championed often put him out of step with the major political trends and politicians of his day.
Annapolis County Court of Probate (Annapolis Royal, N.S.), L77, Administration of estate of Avard Longley, 13 May 1884 (mfm. at PANS). Atlantic Baptist Hist. coll., Paradise and Clarence Baptist Church records, 1827–69. PANS, MG 4, Wilmot Township, Township book, 1749–1894 (mfm.). Can., House of Commons, Debates, 1879. N.S., House of Assembly, Debates and proc., 1864. Acadian Recorder, 23 Feb. 1889. The Baptist year book of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island . . . (Saint John, N.B.), 1876. The Baptist year book of the Maritime provinces of Canada . . . (Saint John), 1880. Directory of N.S. MLAs. Historical records and general catalogue of Acadia College, August, 1888 (Halifax, 1888). W. A. Calnek, History of the county of Annapolis . . . , ed. A. W. Savary (Toronto, 1897; repr. Belleville, Ont., 1972). [S. N. Jackson], Historical sketch of the Paradise and Clarence United Baptist Church read at the centennial services held Sept. 10–13, 1910: 1810–1910 (n.p., [1910?]). R. S. Longley et al., Three Avard Longleys of Annapolis County (n.p., 1943).
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Until now everything has been just great for Airbnb, a service that lets people rent out their homes and become a sort of mini-hotel. The company launched in 2008 and has grown rapidly. They've been cloned by the Germans, which is always a mark of success. And they're now a part of the billion dollar valuation club. Even the clone raised $90 million.
Which is all super great. But now the story of a trusting Airbnb user who's had her home sacked (it's the only way to describe it) is starting to spread. Airbnb's response so far has been tepid at best. It turns out that when something like this happens, Airbnb isn't financially responsible.
The facts: Last month "EJ" wrote a long blog post about how a renter spent an entire week carefully robbing and trashing her home. Walls were cut through to get to locked valuables, including her grandmother's jewelry.
They smashed a hole through a locked closet door, and found the passport, cash, credit card and grandmother's jewelry I had hidden inside. They took my camera, my iPod, an old laptop, and my external backup drive filled with photos, journals… my entire life. They found my birth certificate and social security card, which I believe they photocopied – using the printer/copier I kindly left out for my guests' use. They rifled through all my drawers, wore my shoes and clothes, and left my clothing crumpled up in a pile of wet, mildewing towels on the closet floor. They found my coupons for Bed Bath & Beyond and used the discount, along with my Mastercard, to shop online. Despite the heat wave, they used my fireplace and multiple Duraflame logs to reduce mounds of stuff (my stuff??) to ash – including, I believe, the missing set of guest sheets I left carefully folded for their comfort. Yet they were stupid and careless enough to leave the flue closed; dirty gray ash now covered every surface inside.
The kitchen was a disaster – the sink piled high with filthy dishes, pots and pans burnt out and ruined. Comet Cleanser was dumped everywhere; the kitchen counters, wood furniture, my gorgeous new bed frame, my desk, my printer… all were doused in powdered bleach. The death-like smell emanating from the bathroom was frightening (and still is) and the bathroom sink was caked with a crusty yellow substance. Various pairs of my gloves were strewn about – leather, dishwashing and otherwise – I imagine in a weak attempt to cover up fingerprints. Whoever these people were, they were living large and having one hell of a time for an entire week inside my home, unwatched, unchecked, free to do whatever destruction they wished. And damn, did they do a lot of it.
The creepiest part of this is that the renter was sending cheerful emails during the week's rampage:
All the while, Dj Pattrson was sending me friendly emails, thanking me for being such a great host, for respecting his/her privacy…. telling me how much he/she was enjoying my beautiful apartment bathed in sunlight, how much he/she particularly loved the "little loft area" upstairs… with an "lol" closing one sentence, just for good measure. It makes me sick to my stomach to think now of these emails.
EJ also explains how Airbnb's policies of not letting people know who they're renting to until the last moment makes a situation like this more likely to happen. She explains (convincingly) how Craigslist is actually safer because they warn people of the risks. Airbnb, in effect, is vouching for the renter.
Yet now I ask myself this: for what, exactly, did I pay a service fee to Airbnb.com? What did I get in exchange for my 20-something dollars? What was the advantage of using this service over Craigslist, which is free? Ironically Airbnb.com's site states "the promise of our site is that it is entirely transparent" when in reality, it is not. And therein lies the fundamental, though not immediately apparent, difference: on Craigslist, I am warned loudly and repeatedly that use of the site is at my own risk. I am encouraged to take certain precautions, and I have the ability to do so by gaining quick access to the email addresses, phone numbers, and other identifying information of the person(s) I am communicating with, all of which can be researched and at least somewhat verified by means of basic internet searches. Alternatively, Airbnb.com tightly controls the communication between host and traveler, disallowing the exchange of personal contact information until the point in which a reservation is already confirmed and paid for. By hindering my ability to research the person who will rent my home, there is an implication that Airbnb.com has already done the research for me, and has eliminated the investigative work that Craigslist requires. In effect, the friendly, community-based site with its Golden Rules creates a reasonable expectation that some basic screening of its users has occurred, and speaks little to the risks involved, primarily within the very small print of the lengthy Terms of Service. Thus by the time this reservation was confirmed and I was given Dj's email address and phone number, I was on a plane heading East, and he/she was armed with my welcoming instructions on where to pick up the keys to my apartment.
Airbnb's response has been diplomatic but tepid. CEO Brian Chesky wrote yesterday:
Hey everyone – we were shocked when we heard about this unsettling event. We have been working closely with the authorities, and we want to reassure our community that, with the help of our security infrastructure, we were able to assist the police in their investigation, and we understand from authorities that a suspect is now in custody.
We've created a marketplace built on trust, transparency and authenticity within our community, and we hold the safety of our community members as our highest priority. We will continue to work with our users to stamp out those who would put that community at risk in any way. The vast majority of our community members genuinely respect and protect each other, but we urge users to be careful and discerning with each other and to hold others accountable through reviews, flagging and our customer service channel. Our hearts go out to our host and we will continue to work with her and with the authorities to make this right.
The fact that the police may have arrested the person responsible is great. But EJ's life has been completely turned upside down by this.
I can't stay here much longer. The feeling of having been violated is overwhelming. The apartment's energy – once light and airy – now feels thick and disquieting.
Suddenly Airbnb's only FAQ on a situation like this doesn't sound as witty and fun as it must have before.
Will someone steal my grand piano?
Highly unlikely. Grand pianos weigh thousands of pounds and do not fit through doors.
I wonder how Airbnb would answer a FAQ question that's more to the point, like "What if my renter methodically ransacks my home and steals everything of value while sending me cheerful update emails saying how nice everything is?" Probably with something less pithy than before.
There's a very short window of time for Airbnb to deal with this before it may spiral out of their control. Hotel lobbyists are already trying to crush Airbnb before it becomes more of a threat.
I spoke to Airbnb about EJ's situation. They won't reimburse her for damages, they say, and they do not insure against losses. They are helping police track down the person who did this, but their help ends there.
The hotel lobbyists couldn't ask for anything more.
Update: I spoke with Brian Chesky. He says the company has offered "to assist financially, find new housing for the host, and anything else she can think of to make her life easier." He says they intend to "go above and beyond" to make the situation right for her. This is different than what a company spokesperson said earlier (see above). I asked Brian if this sets a new policy, and he responded that they'll look at it on a case by case basis.
The company also sent this email with corrections:
1) We have been assisting investigators and they have a suspect in custody.
2) We have been working with the host since the event and we have offered to assist her to the situation to everyones satisfaction. If you read the blog post, you'll see that she points this out:
I would be remiss if I didn't pause here to emphasize that the customer service team at airbnb.com has been wonderful, giving this crime their full attention. They have called often, expressing empathy, support, and genuine concern for my welfare. They have offered to help me recover emotionally and financially, and are working with SFPD to track down these criminals. I do believe the folks at airbnb.com when they tell me this has never happened before in their short history, that this is a one-off case.
3) We actually have an entire safety FAQ for our users. You can find it here: http://www.airbnb.com/safety
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NAIROBI, Kenya – CIA and FBI agents hunting for Al Qaeda militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.
Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.
The detainees include at least one U.S. citizen and some are from Canada, Sweden and France, according to a list compiled by a Kenyan Muslim rights group and flight manifests obtained by AP.
Some were swept up by Ethiopian troops that drove a radical Islamist government out of neighboring Somalia late last year. Others have been deported from Kenya, where many Somalis have fled the continuing violence in their homeland.
Ethiopia, which denies holding secret prisoners, is a country with a long history of human rights abuses. In recent years, it has also been a key U.S. ally in the fight against Al Qaeda, which has been trying to sink roots among Muslims in the Horn of Africa.
U.S. government officials contacted by AP acknowledged questioning prisoners in Ethiopia. But they said American agents were following the law and were fully justified in their actions because they are investigating past attacks and current threats of terrorism.
The prisoners were never in American custody, said an FBI spokesman, Richard Kolko, who denied the agency would support or be party to illegal arrests. He said U.S. agents were allowed limited access by governments in the Horn of Africa to question prisoners as part of the FBI's counter-terrorism work.
Western security officials, who insisted on anonymity because the issue related to security matters, told AP that among those held were well-known suspects with strong links to Al Qaeda.
But some U.S. allies have expressed consternation at the transfers to the prisons. One Western diplomat in Nairobi, who agreed to speak to AP only if not quoted to avoid angering U.S. officials, said he sees the United States as playing a guiding role in the operation.
John Sifton, a Human Rights Watch expert on counter-terrorism, went further. He said in an e-mail that the United States has acted as "ringleader" in what he labeled a "decentralized, outsourced Guantanamo."
Details of the arrests, transfers and interrogations slowly emerged as AP and human rights groups investigated the disappearances, diplomats tracked their missing citizens and the first detainees to be released told their stories.
One investigator from an international human rights group, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak to the media, said Ethiopia had secret jails at three locations: Addis Ababa, the capital; an Ethiopian air base 37 miles east of the capital; and the far eastern desert close to the Somali border.
More than 100 of the detainees were originally arrested in Kenya in January, after almost all of them fled Somalia because of the intervention by Ethiopian troops accompanied by U.S. special forces advisers, according to Kenyan police reports and U.S. military officials.
Those people were then deported in clandestine pre-dawn flights to Somalia, according to the Kenya Muslim Human Rights Forum and airline documents. At least 19 were women and 15 were children.
In Somalia, they were handed over to Ethiopian intelligence officers and secretly flown to Ethiopia, where they are now in detention, the New York-based Human Rights Watch says.
A further 200 people, also captured in Somalia, were mainly Ethiopian rebels who backed the Somali Islamist movement, according to one rights group and a Somali government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not want to jeopardize his job. Those prisoners also were taken to Ethiopia, human rights groups say.
Kenya continues to arrest hundreds of people for illegally crossing over from Somalia. But it is not clear if deportations continue.
The Pentagon announced last week that one Kenyan Al Qaeda suspect who fled Somalia, Mohamed Abul Malik, was arrested and flown to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Ethiopia Denies Existence of Secret Prisons
When contacted by AP, Ethiopian officials denied that they held secret prisoners or that any detainees were questioned by U.S. officials.
"No such kind of secret prisons exist in Ethiopia," said Bereket Simon, special adviser to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. He declined to comment further.
A former prisoner and the families of current and former captives tell a different story.
"It was a nightmare from start to finish," Kamilya Mohammedi Tuweni, a 42-year-old mother of three who has a passport from the United Arab Emirates, told AP in her first comments after her release in Addis Ababa on March 24 from what she said was 2 1/2 months in detention without charge.
She is the only released prisoner who has spoken publicly. She was freed a month after being interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed by a U.S. agent, she said. Tuweni, an Arabic-Swahili translator, said she was arrested while on a business trip to Kenya and had never been to Somalia or had any links to that country.
She said she was arrested Jan. 10. Tuweni said she was beaten in Kenya, then forced to sleep on a stone floor while held in Somalia in a single room with 22 other women and children for 10 days before being flown to Ethiopia on a military plane.
Finally, she said, she was taken blindfolded from prison to a private villa in the Ethiopian capital. There, she said, she was interrogated with other women by a male U.S. intelligence agent. He assured her that she would not be harmed but urged her to cooperate, she said.
In a telephone conversation with AP, Tuweni said the man identified himself as a U.S. official, but not from the FBI. A CIA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday that the agency had no contact with Tuweni.
"We cried the whole time because we did not know what would happen. The whole thing was very scary," said Tuweni, who flew back to her family in Dubai a day after her release.
Tuweni's version of her transfer out of Kenya is corroborated by the manifest of the African Express Airways flight 5Y AXF. It shows she was taken to Mogadishu, Somalia, with 31 other people on an unscheduled flight chartered by the Kenyan government.
The family of a Swedish detainee, 17-year-old Safia Benaouda, said she was freed from Ethiopia on March 27 and arrived home the following day. Benaouda had traveled to Somalia with her fiance but fled to Kenya during the Ethiopian military intervention, her mother said.
"She is exhausted, her face is yellow and she's lost about 22 pounds," her mother, Helena Benaouda, a 47-year-old Muslim convert who heads the Swedish Muslim Council, wrote on a Web site she set up to help secure her daughter's release. "She was beaten with a stick when she demanded to go to the toilet."
The mother spoke briefly by telephone with AP, saying any information she had was being posted on the Web site. She declined to make her daughter available for an interview.
According to the Web site, an American specialist visited the location where Benaouda was being held and took DNA samples and fingerprints of detainees. It said the teenager was never charged or allowed access to lawyers. The teen was also concerned about a 7-month-old baby that was in detention with her, the Web site said.
American Among Those Arrested
The transfer from Kenya to Somalia, and eventually to Ethiopia, of a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, Amir Mohamed Meshal, raised disquiet among FBI officers and the State Department. He is the only American known to be among the detainees in Ethiopia.
U.S. diplomats on Feb. 27 formally protested to Kenyan authorities about Meshal's transfer and then spent three weeks trying to gain access to him in Ethiopia, said Tom Casey, deputy spokesman for the State Department.
He confirmed Meshal was still in Ethiopian custody pending a hearing on his status.
An FBI memo read to AP by a U.S. official in Washington, who insisted on anonymity, quoted an agent who interrogated Meshal as saying the agent was "disgusted" by Meshal's deportation to Somalia by Kenya. The unidentified agent said he was told by U.S. consular staff that the deportation was illegal.
"My personal opinion was that he may have been a jihadi a-hole, but the precedent of 'deporting' U.S. citizens to dangerous situations when there is no reason to do so was a bad one," the official quoted the memo as saying.
Like Benaouda, Meshal was arrested fleeing Somalia. A Kenyan police report of Meshal's arrest obtained by AP says he was carrying an assault rifle and had crossed into Kenyan with armed Arab men who were trying to avoid capture.
Meshal's parents insist he is innocent and called on the U.S. government to win his release.
"My son's only crime is that he's a Muslim, an American Muslim," his father, Mohamed Meshal, said from the family's two-story home on a cul-de-sac in Tinton Falls, N.J., where he lives with his wife, Fifi.
"Clearly the U.S. government interrogated him, and threatened him with torture according to the accounts that we've seen," said Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law who has been assisting the family.
Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday to demand Meshal's immediate release. "Our government cannot allow an American citizen to continue to be held by the Ethiopian government in violation of international law and our own due process," he said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, the guardian of the Geneva Conventions that protect victims of war, is seeking access to the Ethiopian detainees, said a diplomat from a country whose citizens are being held. He insisted on speaking anonymously because he is working for their release.
U.S. officials, who agreed to discuss the detentions only if not quoted by name because of the information's sensitivity, said Ethiopia had allowed access to U.S. agencies, including the CIA and FBI, but the agencies played no role in arrests, transport or deportation.
One official said it would have been irresponsible to pass up an opportunity to learn more about terrorist operations.
Kolko, the FBI spokesman, also said the detainees were never in FBI or U.S. government custody.
"While in custody of the foreign government, the FBI was granted limited access to interview certain individuals of interest," he told AP. "We do not support or participate in any system that illegally detains foreign fighters or terror suspects, including women and children."
Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman, declined to discuss details of any such interviews. He said, however: "To fight terror, CIA acts boldly and lawfully, alone and with partners, just as the American people expect us to."
One of the U.S. officials said the FBI has had access in Ethiopia to several dozen individuals — fewer than 100 — as part of its investigations.
The official said the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds are a major focus of the agents' work. Law enforcement officials have long believed the bombings were carried out by members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network who were later given safe haven in Somalia.
The official said FBI agents would not be witness or party to any questioning that involved abuse.
It wasn't clear how many people the CIA interviewed or whether the agency's officers were working jointly with the FBI.
The CIA began an aggressive program in 2002 to interrogate suspected terrorists at an unknown number of secret locations from Southeast Asia to Europe. Prisoners were frequently picked up in one country and transferred to a prison in another, where they were held incommunicado by a cooperative intelligence service. But President Bush announced in September that all the detainees had been moved to military custody at Guantanamo Bay.
One Western diplomat, who refused to be quoted by name for fear of hurting relations with the countries involved, would not rule out that additional suspects in Ethiopia could be sent to Guantanamo.
Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua insisted no laws were broken and said his government was not aware that anyone would be transferred from Somalia to Ethiopia.
Lawyers and human rights groups argue the covert transfers to Ethiopia violated international law.
"Each of these governments has played a shameful role in mistreating people fleeing a war zone," said Georgette Gagnon, deputy Africa director of Human Rights Watch. "Kenya has secretly expelled people, the Ethiopians have caused dozens to disappear, and U.S. security agents have routinely interrogated people held incommunicado."


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STILLWATER, Okla. – The Iowa State wrestling team (7-3 overall, 1-2 Big 12) suffered its first road loss of the season 29-3 to No. 9 Oklahoma State (5-4 overall, 2-1 Big 12) Friday night. The Cowboys won nine of the ten bouts en route to their seventh straight dual win over the Cyclones.
All-American Kyven Gadson picked up the lone win of the night for ISU. Gadson defeated OSU's Kyle Crutchmer 3-1 after scoring a takedown late into the final period. Gadson has now won 24-straight dual matches. The Waterloo, Iowa, native pushed his season record to 17-2 overall and 9-0 in dual competition with the win this evening.
A top-10 matchup kicked off the evening, as No. 10 Tanner Weatherman was pitted against No. 2 Chris Perry at 174 pounds. Weatherman scored a takedown in the final 10 seconds to tie the match 4-4, but Perry prevailed with a bonus point for riding time to get the 5-4 win.
Iowa State grapplers fell twice in overtime tonight at Gallagher-Iba Arena in swing matches at 125 pounds and 184 pounds. At 184,Lelund Weatherspoon was handed an 11-9 loss by No. 20 Nolan Boyd in the first sudden victory period, and at 125, Earl Hall was handed a 4-2 loss by No. 15 Eddie Klimara in the first sudden victory period.
Weatherspoon came back after trailing 5-0 in the first period after getting caught on the edge trying to throw Boyd. He notched two reversals, a takedown and a two point nearfall in the ferocious comeback. A riding time point awarded to Boyd sent the match to overtime, where he eventually prevailed for the win.
Hall was in on two shots in overtime vs. Klimara in the first 30 seconds but was unable to capitalize on the scoring chances. Klimara won the match with takedown on the edge of the mat with 7 seconds remaining in the first sudden victory period.
Iowa State returns to the mat next week, as it heads southwest to battle Arizona State Saturday night in Tempe at 9 p.m. CT.
Match-By-Match Results:
125: No. 15 Eddie Klimara (OSU) dec. Earl Hall (ISU), 4-2 (SV-1)
133: No. 4 Jon Morrison (OSU) maj. dec. Shayden Terukina (ISU), 14-6
141: No. 20 Anthony Collica dec. Gabe Moreno (ISU), 4-0
149: No. 9 Josh Kindig dec. Luke Goettl (ISU), 8-5
157: No. 3 Alex Dieringer (OSU) maj. dec. John Nicholson (ISU), 14-3
165: No. 5 Tyler Caldwell (OSU) dec. No. 10 Michael Moreno (ISU), 5-1
174: No.2 Chirs Perry (OSU) dec. No. 10 Tanner Weatherman (ISU), 5-4
184: No. 20 Nolan Boyd (OSU) dec. Lelund Weatherspoon (ISU), 11-9 (SV-1)
197: No. 2 Kyven Gadson (ISU) dec. Kyle Crutchmer (OSU), 3-1
285: No. 18 Austin Marsden (OSU) dec. Quean Smith (ISU), 2-0


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Windows application developers moving into the mobile realm must grasp the reality that the platforms users want are not necessarily Windows.
A report released today entitled "Entering the Brave New World of Mobile Apps" emphasizes both the demand Windows developers are facing for mobile software as well as the reality that the two platforms most in demand by their users are Google Android and Apple iOS, not Windows platforms, which rank third and fourth in the survey. The report was authored by Dimensional Research and sponsored by software development tools vendor Embarcadero Technologies. Participants included 1,337 persons involved in Windows desktop application development, either as developers, engineers, or development managers.
The survey found that 85 percent of respondents had requests for mobile applications, which involve mobile capabilities for existing applications, new applications altogether, or replacing existing mobile systems. Android was the most requested platform, with 83 percent getting requests for it, followed by iOS (67 percent); Windows Phone (33 percent), Windows RT (13 percent), and RIM BlackBerry (14 percent).
Windows developers having to build for iOS and Android face challenges, said researcher Diane Hagglund, a principal with Dimensional Research: "They have to do it. They're figuring it out. These are really smart guys, but it's making challenges for them." Developers must build new skills, she said.
Meanwhile, 92 percent of respondents reported having concerns about building mobile applications, including a need for new development skills, the high costs of developing for multiple platforms, and inadequate tooling. Eighty-five percent said native apps are best, and 74 percent found HTML5 and JavaScript-based development challenging due to issues like accessing device features and inadequate language capabilities. Ninety-five percent see value in common source code for desktop and mobile applications. Embarcadero is positioning its RAD Studio XE 5 tooling platform, being announced Wednesday, as a solution in this vein, supporting multiple mobile platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS.
This story, "Reality for Windows developers: Users want Android, iOS apps," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Scholars in the 1990s played a hunch and gave rise to a new field of ecology and religion, some focusing on climate change as a moral issue.
No significant academic field of ecology and religion existed in 1995.
Today, more than 260 scholars in the U.S., and a network of 8,000 people around the world, are examining these converging perspectives. For them, understanding exactly how religious traditions revere and respect the natural world may prove key to helping individuals alter their behavior to help address climate challenges and other environmental problems as moral issues.
Efforts to chronicle lessons on religious ecology began when Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim met in 1975 when they were both graduate students in the history of religions program at Fordham University, studying under Thomas Berry.
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Over the years, Tucker and Grim, married, gathered with other scholars for seminars and discussions on the banks of the Hudson River at Berry's Riverdale Center for Religious Research. They've traveled extensively, much of it in East Asia and American Indian communities. Tucker's early expertise began with religious traditions in Asia while Grim's studies first focused on Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and then on Asian and indigenous religious traditions.
In the early 1990s, while teaching Asian religions at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, Tucker wondered how she, as a religious historian and neither a scientist nor policy maker, could best contribute to discussions on the environment. By then she had lived and traveled throughout Asia and had developed concerns for environmental degradation and impacts on humans around the world. "I realized that the world's religions might be an entryway," she said in a recent interview.
What will make people better global citizens? In "Journey of the Universe," evolutionary philosopher Brian Swimme explores the human connection to Earth and the cosmos, leading viewers on a journey of the origins of the universe, the emergence of life, and the rise of humans. The film, written by Swimme and historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker, chronicles the findings of modern science with cultural traditions of the West, China, Africa, India, and indigenous peoples. It offers lessons on how to work toward a more sustainable future.
The "Journey of the Universe" and companion book are the result of the collective inspiration of a 30-year collaboration between evolutionary philosopher Swimme, Tucker, John Grim, and the late Thomas Berry, a historian of world religions and leading environmental thinker.
Between 1996 and 1999, Tucker and Grim convened a series of 10 conferences at Harvard, culminating in 10 edited volumes offering serious reflection on the views of nature and environmental ethics from the different world religions. The volumes are generally considered the genesis of the newly emerging religion/ecology field.
Tucker is a senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale University, where she and Grim, also a senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale, direct the Forum on Religion and Ecology. They teach a joint master's program in religion and ecology at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale Divinity School. (Tucker and Grim are serving as visiting professors at Princeton University for the 2012 fall semester.)
At the Forum on Religion and Ecology, Tucker and Grim have built on the legacy of their teachers — Berry, William Theodore de Bary at Columbia, and Tu Weiming at Harvard — and they lead a comprehensive effort at Yale to bring world religions into environmental issues with a broad sweep. Their work provides ample religious focus on a wide range of environmental issues such as climate change, ecosystems, loss of species, biodiversity, toxicity, water issues, and deforestation, to name a few.
A Moral Issue and Not Solely Scientific, Legal, or Economic
By studying religious ecology, the context for thinking about the environment is not just a scientific issue, or a legal issue, or an economic issue, but a moral issue, Tucker says.
Environmental studies programs are introducing moral and ethical studies into their curricula for the first time. The focus on religion and ecology has become an academic field and a force, one in which religions are involving their congregations.
"We are trying to create a large tent for the various world religions to enter and make their contributions to a variety of issues that are challenging us in the environmental crises we are facing. A great deal of this has to do with climate change, but it also has to do with soil depletion, loss of water, loss of fisheries, and so on," Tucker says.
Rethink Scriptures … With Realistic Expectations
Tucker and Grim see the need for religious traditions to rethink their scriptures and retrieve, reevaluate, and reconstruct their theologies with consideration of the very challenging environmental problems now facing society. For starters, for example, religious leaders are reflecting on just what it means to have dominion over nature (Genesis 1:26). Religious traditions must be brought into the dialog involving environmental science to help solve these modern problems, Tucker says. But even theologians modifying their definitions of dominion, stewardship, and the natural world may not on their own be sufficient to inspire adequate action.
Strong religious leadership could close the gap, according to ethicist Donald Brown, whose work has focused extensively on climate change.
"They have access to the politicians in a way that the environmental community does not get," said Brown, who teaches at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pa. "We are only going to make progress if we can make people see the ethical unacceptability of some of the players in this civilization dialogue."
Brown says religious leaders have a duty to explain that greenhouse gas emissions in their states and regions are harming people across the world. He says spiritual traditions hold tremendous potential to evoke big social changes.
"Historical studies of smoking cessation, the civil rights movement, and women's rights show that social change happens when a group says, the rules of your clan are morally unacceptable. Religion can bring that voice to the debates. They could be the tip of the spear. We desperately need a social movement that sees things, especially things that are wasteful, that are generating greenhouse gases, are morally unacceptable," Brown says. "It is probably the most important thing we could be working on." (See related Q&A with Don Brown.)
Brown says he is optimistic about change, but he also feels theologians and religious leaders are not sufficiently engaged and not adequately communicating the issues broadly to their congregations.
Christopher Key Chapple, a professor on the religions of India and comparative theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, recalls first meeting Tucker and Grim in 1976 when he too was a Fordham University graduate student studying under Berry. Chapple says he is encouraged that scholarly writing and popular literature on religious ecology have become more of a societal force over the past 15 years.
(Chapple is editor of Worldviews, one of two specialized journals that focuses solely on religion and ecology. The other is The Journal of Religion, Nature and Culture. In addition to major publications, such as the 2005 two-volume Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature edited by Bron Tayler, a group on religion and ecology was established within the American Academy of Religion.)
Religious traditions have been the traditional resource for wisdom throughout world history, Chapple explains. "As people turn to religious leaders for guidance, religious leaders are going to task parishioners and temple goers to ask questions of themselves like, Is there anything that I can do to be part of the solution and not continue to be part of the problem? Those are very important and real developments in the last few years," he said.
Chapple believes religious interests can constructively lobby and influence legislation and that religious conscience can move people to take direct action. But change won't happen unless clear messages come from the active influence of religious leaders. Right now, he says, ideas on taking those steps are still forming.
"All change in the world starts with ideas," said Chapple. "Ideas are sometimes not very tidy. They can be a bit messy. As we educate new generations of students and suggest pathways for really responding once they have all the information, the change will eventually prove effective."
As illustrated by the full series of faith-based features (see listing below) that have comprised this Yale Forum series, faith-based interests and their religions increasingly are awakening to the size, scale, complexity, and challenge posed by human-caused climate change. Some may feel they have been late in coming to the issues, but they increasingly are a force yet to be reckoned with.
Yale Forum Series on faith-based groups:
Nationwide Climate 'Preach-In' To Target Broad Faith-Group Congregations
The Catholic Church and Climate Change
Judaism and Climate Change
Episcopalians Confronting Climate Change
Baptists and Climate Change
The United Church of Christ and Climate Change
'Green Muslims,' Eco-Islam and Evolving Climate Change Consciousness
Presbyterians and Climate Change
Preachable Moments: Evangelical Christians and Climate Change
Mormon Silence on Climate Change: Why, and What Might It Mean?


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Dry Skin and Itching
Dry skin is a common problem that can occur at any age. When you have dry skin, your skin may be rough, or scaly or flaky, and it may itch.
There are many causes of dry skin. As you age, your skin produces less of the natural oil that helps your skin keep its moisture. Dry indoor air can cause your skin to become dry. So can living in climates with low humidity. Indoor heating or air conditioning can dry out the air inside your home. Bathing too often may also dry your skin, especially if you use hot water for your baths or showers.
Practice good skin hygiene to keep your skin healthy. Here are some tips if you notice your skin getting too dry:
- Shower or bathe in lukewarm water. Don't shower too often—just when you're dirty or sweaty.
- Avoid washing with soap during every bath. When soap is needed, use a gentle, nondrying product, such as Aveeno, Dove, or Neutrogena. Use soap only on the underarms, groin, and feet, and rinse immediately afterward.
- Pat your skin dry after a bath or shower. Apply a moisturizer right away. Moisturizers include Aquaphor, Eucerin, and Purpose.
- Apply moisturizer several times a day. Use moisturizer on your hands, especially if you must wear gloves often or if the air is dry where you live.
- Consider using a humidifier if the air inside your home is very dry.
- Use sunscreen to protect your skin when you are outside.
- Protect your lips with lipstick or a lip balm, such as Chapstick.
Part of good skin hygiene is also making sure the skin between your fingers and toes doesn't get too dry or cracked. Take care of rashes or fungal infections, like athlete's foot. If they don't clear up with nonprescription medicines, see your doctor to prevent more serious skin problems.
Home Treatment
In addition to the prevention guidelines, the following home treatment suggestions may help make you comfortable if you have dry skin.
- Look for a moisturizer that is a skin barrier repair moisturizer, like CeraVe or TriCeram. Using this type of moisturizer can help heal dry skin.
- For very dry hands, try this for a night: Apply a thin layer of petroleum jelly, and wear thin cotton gloves to bed. (Dry feet may benefit from similar treatment.)
- If dry, brittle nails are a problem, use lotion on your nails as well.
- Take care of your nails, keeping your fingernails and toenails trimmed and smooth. Long or sharp nails can accidentally scrape your skin.
Avoid scratching, which damages the skin. If itching is a problem, try the following:
- Keep the itchy area well moisturized. Dry skin may make itching worse.
- Add a handful of oatmeal (ground to a powder) to your bath. Or you can try an oatmeal bath product, such as Aveeno.
- Try a nonprescription 1% hydrocortisone cream for small itchy areas.
- Use the cream very sparingly on the face or genitals.
- If itching is severe, your doctor may prescribe a stronger cream.
- If you are using this cream for larger areas like your arms or legs, you may want to mix some of this cream with a moisturizer before putting it on your skin.
- Try a nonprescription oral antihistamine. Examples include chlorpheniramine (such as Chlor-Trimeton), diphenhydramine (such as Benadryl), and loratadine (such as Claritin).
- Cut your nails short or wear gloves at night to prevent scratching.
- Wear loose and comfortable clothing. Avoid scratchy fabrics next to your skin.
When to Call a Doctor
Call your doctor if any of the following symptoms are present:
- You itch all over your body but there is no obvious cause or rash.
- Itching is so bad that you cannot sleep, and home treatment is not helping.
- Your skin is badly broken from scratching.
- You see signs of infection, including:
- Increased pain, swelling, redness, warmth, or tenderness.
- Red streaks extending from the area.
- Discharge of pus.
- Fever of 100.4°F (38°C) or higher with no other cause.
- Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpits, or groin.
Related Information
Other Works Consulted
- Baumann L (2012). Cosmetics and skin care in dermatology. In LA Goldman et al., eds., Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 8th ed., vol. 1, pp. 3009–3020. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Garg A, Bernhard JD (2010). Pruritus. In MG Lebwohl et al., eds., Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies, 3rd ed., pp. 608–614. Edinburgh: Saunders Elsevier.
- Habif TP, et al. (2011). Maintaining the skin barrier. In Skin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd ed., pp. 2–5. Edinburgh: Saunders.
- Hall JC (2010). Pruritic dermatoses. In JC Hall et al., eds., Sauer's Manual of Skin Diseases, 10th ed., pp. 124–130. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Current as of: April 1, 2019
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Martin J. Gabica, MD – Family Medicine & Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & Ellen K. Roh, MD – Dermatology
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Weekly Rewind 3.31.12
point of view video of the ride and prepare to drool.
Another new coaster has started to go up, though it'll be a long time until it opens. See photos of the Magic Kingdom's new Seven Dwarfs Mine Train coaster going vertical!
It is not a big new ride, in fact it's the opposite of thrilling, but Legoland Florida's new Fresh From Florida Greenhouse looks like fun. Plenty of educational fun mixed with Lego models and more.
open to the public!
Ding Ding! Here comes the trolley - specifically the Red Car Trolley that will open with the all new Disney California Adventure this Summer. Check out some testing photos from Disney Parks.
Dinos, Dinos everywhere! Cedar Point is finishing up Dinosaurs Alive! so the attraction is ready to open with the park. Here's some video and photos if you're interested in a preview look.
announced that this year's new ride is Air Race, a ride provided by Zamperla. To my knowledge this will only be the second of its kind in the world!
The more theming that is applied to Sea World San Diego's Manta coaster, the more interested I am in the project. The press recently got a tour of the ride's aquarium and other facilities, which means new views of the ride's progress.
Expansion continues at Phoenix's Wet 'n' Wild with the addition of Wet 'n' Wild Jr., a new kids play area that will feature small versions of the park's most popular attractions. A great idea!
sharing more cool photos as the opening draws near.
It has been a while since we've heard from Six Flags St. Louis, which is adding a new slide tower named Bonzai Pipeline - but now they've uploaded some construction photos for us.
Finally, Screamscape posted some photos of some shiny new green Bolliger and Mabillard Wing Coaster track at the fabrication plant. Where oh where will it be headed?!


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INDIANAPOLIS -- The unthinkable suddenly seems possible in Indianapolis -- opening the season without Peyton Manning.
The four-time league-MVP who has never missed a start in his NFL career is doubtful for Sunday's game at Houston because of lingering soreness in his back following offseason neck surgery. If Manning sits, it would be the first time the NFL's active iron man missed a meaningful game after 227 consecutive starts including the playoffs.
Manning's triceps strength has plateaued and he doesn't have the arm strength right now, sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen. Manning also had some back soreness that worsened during the weekend.
The Colts currently have no plans to attempt another surgery on Manning's neck, a source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
"I hate it for Peyton," said Pro Bowl center Jeff Saturday, one of Manning's closest friends. "You want him to be healthy, you want him to be back, but you want him to take care of it, too. It's sad when players face tough times, but I know he's strong enough to get through it."
The question is whether the Colts can survive without their franchise quarterback, whose streak stands second in NFL history to Brett Favre's among all QBs.
His 208 consecutive regular-season starts are the most among active players. If Manning can't start Sunday, Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Ronde Barber, who has started 179 straight games, would take over the top spot if he starts Sunday against the Detroit Lions.
Manning has been the Colts' only starting quarterback for the last 13 years. Over that span, the Chicago Bears have started 17 different quarterbacks, the most of any NFL team. Every team other than the Colts has had at least three different starting quarterbacks during that span.
Team officials have not said how much longer it could take Manning to recover, leaving that decision to Manning and his doctors.
Over the years, life without Manning has been pretty dismal.
The only time he missed a regular-season snap because of injury, against Miami in 2001, backup Mark Rypien fumbled. The Dolphins recovered, then drove 59 yards for the winning score. Manning returned on the next series with a bloody mouth. He was later diagnosed with a hairline fracture in his jaw.
On the rare occasions when Manning has played sparingly, in the preseason and meaningless late-season games, the Colts have not fared much better.
The goal now is to change that trend.
"If anything, we want to go out there and step it up," Pro Bowl safety Antoine Bethea said. "Of course it will be different (without Manning), but it's one of those things that if it happens, everybody else has to step up. It's next man up."
That's been true at every position but one over the past 13 years in Indy. And now the Colts' longtime mantra will be put to its most challenging test.
Manning had surgery to repair a nerve May 23, but the recovery has taken longer than the expected six to eight weeks that would have put back on the field for the start of training camp. Instead, Manning started camp on the physically unable to perform list and wasn't activated till last Monday.
He did limited work at practice last week, which led to complaints about back pain. The team issued a statement Monday saying that team doctors re-evaluated Manning over the weekend and instructed him to stop practicing while he undergoes more tests.
No additional surgery has been scheduled.
"At the conclusion of the diagnostic process, if there are any new developments in the prognosis which we outlined for Peyton at the start of training camp we will report them," the statement said. "As of now, Peyton continues to deal with a complicated neurological recovery, the end date of which is unpredictable."
Losing Manning for any time, even one week, would be a shock to Indy fans. Not only has he never missed a start, he's rarely missed practice.
Manning sat out one week of training camp in 1998 before signing his rookie contract. It was a decade later when he missed all of training camp in 2008 because he underwent surgery twice to remove an infected bursa sac from his left knee. The only other time his playing status was in doubt was 2001 after he was injured at Minnesota in a preseason game.
Somehow, he's always made it back for game day.
"I'm sure it's killing him," receiver Anthony Gonzalez said. "I've not spoken to him, but knowing him, how hard he's working, how many hours he's put into it, I'm sure it's hurting."
The last quarterback other than Manning to start for Indy was Jim Harbaugh, now the San Francisco 49ers coach.
Many who know Manning well aren't counting him out yet.
On Monday, coach Jim Caldwell urged caution to those already writing the end of the streak.
Former Colts coach Tony Dungy, now an NBC analyst, told viewers recently he expected Manning to play unless he was "dead." Harbaugh had been thinking the same way before the latest twist in this saga.
"Watching Peyton Manning, the pro, the competitor, I'm not going to take your word for it that he's not going to be in there for the first ballgame," he told reporters Aug. 25. "So the streak may indeed just rage on."
Still, the Colts are preparing as if the second-longest starting streak by an NFL quarterback will be history after Sunday.
Sixteen-year veteran Kerry Collins came out of retirement, presumably to back up Manning in case this happened. Collins has spent the last 12 days learning the playbook and splitting work with Curtis Painter at practice.
Collins said that while he's comfortable running the Colts system and familiar with Houston's defense from his days in Tennessee, it would be unfair to expect anyone, including a former Super Bowl starter, to deliver a Manningesque performance.
"There's no way I can replace someone like Peyton and what he means for this team and this franchise," Collins said. "But I will bust my butt to get ready and I hope the guys see that."
Team owner Jim Irsay said he anticipated Manning returning for the start of training camp.
But after signing a five-year, $90 million contract in late July, Manning was placed on PUP and didn't return to practice until last week.
Manning has repeatedly said the 4½-month lockout delayed his rehabilitation because he couldn't work out with team doctors.
When he returned in 2008 after missing all of camp, Manning struggled during the first half of the season. He eventually led Indy to nine straight wins and back to the playoffs, picking up the third of his record four MVP awards.
Could he take a snap to keep the streak alive? Sure.
But Manning ruled out that possibility last week.
"I have to be able to competitively play," he said then. "I have too much respect for football. I've got to be able to compete and to help my team win, and that's what's fair to the team, fair to myself."
And right now, it appears, that means playing with someone other than Manning behind center for the first time since December 1997.
"He loves to play, loves to compete, loves to practice, and any time he can't, it's tough," Caldwell said. "That's who he is. He's always been a hardworking guy. He doesn't miss days -- offseason, in-season, you name it -- he's always there. I think that's the commitment to the sport he's made since he was a little guy."
Information from ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen, ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter, ESPN Stats & Information and The Associated Press was used in this report.


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CLEVELAND — Terry Francona loves to talk about his dad. Their relationship went way beyond baseball.
One a Cleveland Indians player, the other the team's adored manager. Father and son.
Tito and the kid who became Tito.
John "Tito" Francona, who proudly watched his son Terry follow his footsteps to the major leagues, died unexpectedly at his home on Tuesday night in New Brighton, Pennsylvania. He was 84.
Francona's passing cast a pall over Cleveland's training camp in Goodyear, Arizona, as pitchers and catchers reported Wednesday. Terry Francona, who has been affectionately called "Tito" for years in a respectful bow to his dad, will leave the team for several days to be with family.
There will be private services to celebrate the elder Francona's life.
"We're all incredibly saddened by Tito's passing," Indians president Chris Antonetti said. "Not only was he a really good player in our franchise history but he was a friend to so many of us. There have been so many great things for the organization and for me personally. Having Terry here for the last five years, one of the most meaningful things for me was to get to know his dad and build a friendship with him.
"He was such a warm, thoughtful, exuberant person that brightened every room he walked into. To have the opportunity to visit with him when he'd come into town, to hear his stories, to see how he and Terry connected was really meaningful. He will be missed by so many of us."
After he was fired in Boston following the 2011 season, Terry Francona spent a year in broadcasting before he was hired by the Indians. In Cleveland, he was closer to his dad, who would occasionally drive in for games.
"It was such a deep bond and having a chance to talk to Tito (Terry) today, he was able to reflect back and talk about so many great memories he shared with his dad showed how deep that bond was," Antonetti said. "He said, 'I had the best mom and dad in the world and to have the chance over the past handful of seasons share a lot of those moments with my dad, for him to come to Cleveland and watch every game on TV, with a chance to talk about them with him afterwards, were memories that he will continue to cherish."
Terry Francona was born the first year his dad played in Cleveland. All Francona did that season was bat .359 and finish fifth in AL MVP voting. He led the AL in doubles the following year, and in 1961 he was an AL All-Star and led the league in singles.
Francona made his debut in 1956 with the Baltimore Orioles. He retired as a player following the 1970 season with Milwaukee.
The Indians ask that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Tito Francona's memory to Cleveland Indians Charities (http://mlb.mlb.com/cle/community/donation_form.jsp). Funds will be directed to youth baseball-oriented programs in both Cleveland and New Brighton.
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