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Fenway Park's inaugural year was exceptional on many levels. After extensive construction in the early months of 1912, Fenway Park hosted its first game on April 9, an exhibition between the Red Sox and Harvard College. Eleven days later, the Red Sox played their first official game at Fenway Park against the New York Highlanders. The club went on to win 105 regular season games, the American League Pennant and a thrilling World Series. During the season, while the Red Sox were on the road, a few amateur baseball games were held at the park and the construction of left-field and right-field bleachers was completed in time for the World Series. In late 1912, Fenway Park hosted the National High School Football Championship Game, concluding an eventful first year in the park's history.
Record: 105-47, 1st in American League
Manager: J. Garland (Jake) Stahl
Attendance: 597,096
Postseason: Won World Series
The Red Sox opened the 1912 season with new ownership and a new ballpark. General Charles H. Taylor and his son John I. Taylor had sold controlling interest in the team to James McAleer in September 1911, but the Taylor family stayed on as overseers of construction on the club's new ballpark. After a feverish winter of work, Fenway Park, the new home of the Boston Red Sox, was ready for an April 9 exhibition against Harvard College, a 2-0 contest the Sox won amidst snow flurries. Opening Day of the regular season was scheduled for April 18, 1912 and not only did that day get rained out, but both Patriots Day games on the following day did as well - and the newspaper headlines focused mainly on the sinking of the steamship Titanic, which had sunk on April 15.
When the Sox finally took the field for the first official game on April 20, 1912, some 27,000 fans saw the Red Sox prevail in a 7-6, extra-innings victory over the New York Highlanders (renamed the Yankees in 1913). Boston Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a prominent member of the Royal Rooters fan club and grandfather of future President John F. Kennedy, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
One of James McAleer's first moves had been to entice back first baseman Jake Stahl, who had not played in 1911, making him the manager and giving him a small ownership share. Under Stahl's leadership, the Red Sox secured a hold on first place by June 15 that they never surrendered.
The 1912 Red Sox pitching staff was led by 22-year-old Smoky Joe Wood, who went 34-5 (including 35 complete games) with a 1.91 ERA. Wood's start on September 6, 1912 against Walter Johnson was considered the game of the year, with Wood prevailing 1-0 for his record-tying 16th consecutive victory before a packed Fenway Park. Wood was joined on the staff by two other 20-game winners, Buck O'Brien and Hugh Bedient, as well as the steady Charley Hall and Ray Collins.
With a .383 batting average, 90 RBIs, and a league-leading 10 home runs and 53 doubles, center fielder Tris Speaker was the 1912 American League winner of the Chalmers Award (the equivalent of the Most Valuable Player, presented by the eponymous motor car company). Speaker played a spectacular center field and had three lengthy hitting streaks during the 1912 season.
The Red Sox finished the season with a 105-47 record, which is still the best winning percentage in team history. The team also compiled the largest run differential in franchise history, scoring 799 runs while only allowing 544. Boston in particular dominated New York, with the Sox winning 19 of the season series' 21 contests, and finishing 55 games ahead of the Highlanders, the largest gap ever between the two teams.
The Red Sox went on to face the robust New York Giants in the 1912 World Series. Boston jumped out to a 3-1 series lead, but dropped the next two to force a winner-take-all finale at Fenway. The Sox trailed 2-1 in the final game heading into the bottom of the 10th inning, but Giants center fielder Fred Snodgrass' dropped fly ball gave the Sox life and set the stage for Larry Gardner's game-winning sacrifice fly, clinching Boston's first World Series title in Fenway Park.
When Fenway Park first opened, the most prominent feature that greeted fans was the exceptionally tall left-field wall. At a time when home runs were few and far between, almost no one believed that a hitter could ever send a ball above and beyond the towering structure.
Yet on April 26, 1912, an unlikely figure etched his name in Fenway Park lore with an historic shot to left field. Boston backup first baseman Hugh Bradley, a Central Massachusetts native with only one previous round-tripper in his big league career, hit Fenway Park's first home run against the Philadelphia Athletics during the team's fifth home game in their new park.
The shot was Bradley's lone home run of the season, and the final one of his career. After the 1912 season, Bradley went on to play two seasons in the Federal League before bouncing around the minor leagues for several years and then retiring. But Bradley's home run on April 26, 1912 lives on in baseball history as the first of many home runs hit at Fenway Park.
The 1912 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants began at the Polo Grounds, with 300 of Boston's Royal Rooters taking the train to Gotham for Game One. The Boston contingent included a 30-piece brass band and most of the group wore bright red sweaters with matching hatbands and carried pennants proclaiming "Red Sox World's Champs." Boston Mayor and prominent Royal Rooter John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald led the group in the singing of "Tessie," a song that the Rooters used in Boston's first World Series played against Pittsburgh in 1903. The cheering worked and Boston won Game One, 4-3.
On Wednesday, October 9, 1912, Fenway Park hosted Game Two, the first World Series game at the new park. The contest ended in a 6-6 tie when the game was called after 11 innings due to darkness. At the time, it was only the second World Series game to end in a tie, the first being Game One of the 1907 Series.
On October 10, 1912, before Game Three at Fenway Park, Tris Speaker was given a Chalmers Roadster for winning the season's MVP award and he took the car for a spin before the game. After Boston dropped Game Three to the Giants, the series alternated between the two cities. The Red Sox won the next two games, giving them a 3-1 series lead, but, facing elimination, the Giants won Game Six at home to force a return to Boston.
Up three games to two (not counting the tie), the Royal Rooters marched into Fenway Park on October 15 hoping to witness the clinching victory at home. Led by their band, the Rooters marched to Fenway only to find that their accustomed seats had been sold to others. The game was held up while police restrained the Rooters, who were stirred into a near riot. The Giants beat the Red Sox 11-4 in Game Seven, setting up a series-deciding, winner-take-all finale the next day.
Capping what is considered by many to be the greatest World Series ever played, Game Eight was held at Fenway Park but, due to a boycott staged by the still-furious Rooters, it was witnessed by only 17,000 fans. The pitching was superb, pitting the Giants' already legendary Christy Mathewson (whose 23-12 record in 1912 represented his 10th consecutive 20-plus win season) against 22-year-old rookie Hugh Bedient, who was 20-9 with a 2.92 ERA in 1912. Both pitchers were outstanding but the Giants led 1-0 when the Red Sox came to bat in the bottom of the seventh. With two outs and two on, pinch-hitter extraordinaire Olaf Henriksen stepped in for Bedient and doubled in the game-tying run.
Smoky Joe Wood took over for Bedient and shut the Giants down in the eighth and ninth. But the Red Sox failed to generate any offense, and the game entered extra innings. With one out in the top of the 10th, New York's Red Murray hit a double and then scored on teammate Fred Merkle's single. Now leading 2-1, Mathewson started the bottom of the 10th by inducing pinch-hitter Clyde Engle to lift a routine fly ball to center field, but New York's Fred Snodgrass dropped the ball, and Engle wound up on second base.
The play went down in baseball lore as the "$30,000 muff," as that amount was the difference between the collective winners' and losers' shares. Harry Hooper promptly smacked a ball to Snodgrass, who made a truly great catch - but Engle tagged up and took third. After Steve Yerkes walked, Tris Speaker hit a foul pop-up but it fell between Merkle and Meyers. Given new life, Speaker singled, tying the score, and Yerkes took third. Mathewson intentionally walked Duffy Lewis to put a force at every base, but Larry Gardner hit a long sacrifice fly to deep right field and Yerkes ran home to give the Red Sox the World Series victory.
The Giants had out-hit the Red Sox (.270 to .220) and outscored the Red Sox by six runs. Their pitching was much better overall (an earned run average of 1.59 to Boston's 2.92) but timing was everything, as it often is, and the Red Sox came out on top. After the series, thousands upon thousands of delirious Red Sox fans lined the celebration route from Fenway Park to Faneuil Hall, where Mayor Fitzgerald welcomed the 1912 World Champions.
Just three months after the start of construction in late September 1911, the new home of the Boston Red Sox was quickly taking shape. Former Owner John I. Taylor had sold controlling interest in the club to James McAleer shortly before construction commenced but Taylor remained heavily involved as the overseer of construction. Under Taylor's leadership, building efforts proceeded at a breakneck pace: the foundations for the facility were already in place by the start of the New Year and the roof had also been framed.
The asymmetrical piece of land that the Taylors had bought in early 1911, combined with the family's wish to utilize the entire parcel, resulted in a ballpark with unique field dimensions. Because all games in the early twentieth century were played during the day, the orientation of the sun to the playing field was a crucial factor. To keep the solar glare out of batters' eyes in the late afternoon hours, home plate was placed in the southwest area of the plot, with the third base line pointing northward.
The new ballpark was ready to hold baseball crowds by the start of the 1912 regular season, but certain areas remained incomplete and the initial plan to build a second deck was abandoned due to the hastened timetable for construction. When it opened, the single-decked grandstand seating areas, both around the infield and down the right-field line, were made of steel and concrete. There were wooden bleacher sections in center field, but other areas didn't have any seating. There were no seats down the left-field line, while the right-field bleachers had also not been built (in fact, there was a large parking lot beyond right field that was used throughout the 1912 season).
The new ballpark had a towering left-field fence and a steep incline in front of the wall that took on the nickname, "Duffy's Cliff," in honor of Red Sox Hall of Famer Duffy Lewis, the starting left fielder for the 1912 team who adeptly handled this tricky part of the field's layout.
When explaining his reason for choosing the new park's name, Taylor casually and rhetorically asked, "because [the park's] in the Fenway, isn't it?" The fact that the appellation provided free publicity for the Taylor family's Fenway Realty Company didn't hurt either.
Fenway Park hosted its first game on April 9, 1912, an exhibition the Red Sox won 2-0 over Harvard University. The park's first official, regular season game was played on April 20, 1912, a contest between the Red Sox and New York Highlanders that drew a crowd of 27,000 fans. On May 17, the formal dedication of Fenway Park took place.
The Red Sox celebrated their first season in the park by winning 105 games, still their highest total in club history, and earned a World Series berth against the National League Champion New York Giants. In preparation for the series, Fenway Park underwent further renovations in September to accommodate the larger crowds expected for the match-up and by the start of Fenway Park's first World Series, the left field and right field bleachers had been built, along with temporary seating in front of the left-field wall and in the outfield.
With baseball fervor peaking as the 1912 regular season came to a close, capacity crowds were expected for the World Series tilt between the Red Sox and the Giants. Boston hadn't been to the Series since 1903, and anticipation for the club's battle with John McGraw's mighty New York club resounded throughout the city.
While the Red Sox were on an early to mid-September road trip through the Midwest, over 10,000 seats were added to handle the expected crowds. In left and right field, bleacher sections were completed and held approximately 4,500 fans each. In addition, temporary seating, which accommodated over 1,000 spectators during the 1912 World Series, was added on Duffy's Cliff in front of the left-field wall and additional seats were built in front of the grandstand beyond each dugout. For the first time, Fenway Park was fully enclosed.
When the team returned home from its road trip on September 23, the sheer number of fans greeting the players confirmed the wisdom of the construction efforts. An estimated 220,000 people lined a route that the team traveled from South Station to the Boston Common, where Mayor Fitzgerald presented each player with a key to the city.
In Fenway Park's inaugural year, the ballpark also hosted amateur baseball games featuring local teams. The first such game ended in a tie when a team from the Christian Science Monitor newspaper played the Somerville Independents for 12 innings on July 27. A week later, the two teams played a do-over of the tie game with the Monitor team emerging victorious. On August 8, the Monitor squad played at Fenway Park again, this time against the Boston Transcript in a newspaper league game, and two days later, the Winthrop Knights of Columbus defeated the Lynn Elks club in seven innings. These four games in the middle of Fenway's first summer were the first of many amateur baseball games in Fenway Park's history.
|1912 Non-Red Sox Baseball At Fenway Park
|July 27
|Christian Science Monitor 8, Somerville Independents 8
(12 Innings) (Tie)
|August 3
|Christian Science Monitor 4, Somerville Independents 1
|August 8
|Christian Science Monitor 2, Boston Transcript 1
|August 10
|Winthrop Knights of Columbus 3, Lynn Elks 1 (7 Innings)
The 1912 World Series wasn't the only championship decided at Fenway Park in its inaugural year. On November 30, 1912, Oak Park High School of Illinois faced off against local Everett High School in the National High School Football Championship Game. Boston Latin High School and Boston English High School also played a late-November football game in 1912 and the Boston Lodge of Elks held a field day in August that included an appearance by famous athlete Jim Thorpe.
|1912 Non-Baseball Events At Fenway Park
|August 10
|Boston Lodge of Elks Field Day
|November 28
|Boston Latin 7, Boston English 6 (Football)
|November 30
|Oak Park High School (IL) 32, Everett High School (MA) 12 (Football)
On November 30, 1912, Oak Park High School (IL), led by future Hall of Fame coach Robert Zuppke, defeated Everett High School by a score of 32-14 in the National High School Football Championship Game. A crowd of over 10,000 filled the bleachers and was described in the following excerpt from the game account from the Boston Evening Record:
"The Oak Park squad came onto the field amid a momentary hush and then the Everett cohorts gave a lusty yell for the westerners that seemed to put added life into the practice, and they charged up and down the gridiron with speed, their husky backs keeping well together in interference.
The Everett players watched their antagonists with a great deal of attention, each man giving his opponent for the afternoon a sizing up.
When the Everett boys went out for their practice the entire crowd rose and gave a cheer that would have done credit to the Harvard cheering section." (Boston Evening Record, December 1, 1912)
Just prior to the game, fans spilled from the bleachers onto the field and had to be restrained by mounted police summoned by Boston Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.
Despite the heroics of Everett's captain Charlie Brickley, Coach Cleo O'Donnell's Everett team couldn't match the razzle and dazzle style employed by Oak Park. At times the Illinois team made as many as six laterals before charging forward in an attack that wowed fans and sportswriters alike.
Oak Park's victory represented their third title in the first three years of the competition and was also Zuppke's last game at Oak Park prior to taking over the football program at the University of Illinois. At Illinois, Zuppke led his squad to four national titles.


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Michael Moore says 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore so admired the daily demonstrations against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker that he traveled from New York to Madison for one on March 5, 2011.
The liberal firebrand opened his speech by heaping praise on those fighting the Republican governor's efforts to take collective bargaining powers from state and local government employees.
But he put more firepower into bashing the nation's rich.
"Right now, this afternoon, just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined," Moore avowed to tens of thousands of protesters.
"Let me say that again. And please, someone in the mainstream media, just repeat this fact once; we're not greedy, we'll be happy to hear it just once.
"Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined."
OK, we've repeated Moore's declaration (including the reference to Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president).
Now let's see if what he asserts -- that 400 Americans "have more wealth than half of all Americans combined" -- is true.
Moore has made other staggering claims about the gap between the nation's rich and poor. In Capitalism: A Love Story, his 2009 documentary, Moore said "the richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."
He was awarded a Mostly True by our colleagues at PolitiFact National for that claim.
For his Madison speech, Moore posted a version of the text on his website. It included a link to back up his statement about the 400 wealthiest Americans. The link was to a blog post by Dave Johnson, a fellow at the Commonweal Institute, a California organization that says it promotes a progressive agenda.
Johnson wrote that in 2007, the combined net worth of the 400 wealthiest Americans, as measured by Forbes magazine, was $1.5 trillion; and the combined net worth of the poorer 50 percent of American households was $1.6 trillion.
Aside from using slightly different terminology than Moore did, Johnson's numbers present two problems:
They're four years old. And they indicate that the poorer 50 percent of American households had a higher net worth than the 400 richest Americans.
That's the opposite of what Moore said in Madison.
We were referred to another item on Moore's website that was posted two days after the Madison speech. It cites more recent figures, for 2009.
So, let's start again.
In that item, Moore correctly quoted Forbes, which said in a September 2009 article that the net worth of the nation's 400 wealthiest Americans was $1.27 trillion.
Forbes generates its list annually, using interviews, financial documents and other methods to tally their figures. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, with an estimated net worth of $50 billion, topped the 2009 list for the 16th consecutive year
The second part of Moore's claim -- that the net worth of half of all Americans is less than that of the Forbes 400 -- is more complicated.
Moore cited a December 2010 Federal Reserve Board report that said the net worth for all U.S. households was $53.1 trillion in September 2009. That was the same month Forbes released its top 400 list.
That's a starting point -- $53.1 trillion is the net worth for everybody.
Moore also cited a March 2010 "working paper" by Edward Wolff, an economist at New York University and Bard College. Wolff was a key source in Moore's claim that was rated Mostly True by PolitiFact National.
Wolff's paper said that as of July 2009, the three lowest quintiles of U.S. households -- in other words, the poorest 60 percent of U.S. households -- possessed 2.3 percent of the nation's total net worth.
Moore then multiplied that 2.3 percent by the nation's total net worth of $53.1 trillion and got $1.22 trillion.
In other words, he was saying the poorest 60 percent of U.S. households had $1.22 trillion in net worth, which is less than the $1.27 trillion in net worth for the Forbes' 400 wealthiest Americans.
Of course, if the net worth of 60 percent of households is less than that of Forbes' 400 wealthiest, the net worth of 50 percent of the households -- which is what Moore claimed -- would also be less.
We contacted Wolff, who said he had reviewed Moore's calculations.
"As far as I can tell, they're fine," he said.
Three economists -- Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and Daniel Mitchell of the libertarian Cato Institute -- agreed.
We made one more check.
Since Moore's statistics were for 2009, we sought figures for 2010.
The 2010 net worth of the Forbes 400 was $1.37 trillion, Forbes reported in September 2010. That same month, the total U.S. net worth was $54.9 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve Board report cited by Moore.
Wolff hasn't updated his 2009 figures. So we used his 2.3 percent figure again, multiplied by the 2010 total net worth of $54.9 trillion, and found that the net worth of the poorest 60 percent of U.S. households was $1.26 trillion in 2010.
That's less than the 2010 net worth for the Forbes 400.
How could it be that 400 people have more wealth than half of the more than 100 million U.S. households?
Think of it this way. Many Americans make a good income, have some savings and investments, and own a nice home; they also have debt, for a mortgage, credit cards and other bills. Some people would still have a pretty healthy bottom line. But many -- including those who lost a job and their home in the recession -- have a negative net worth. So that drags down the total net worth for the poorer half of U.S. households that Moore cited.
We also want to add one cautionary note, from Mitchell of the Cato Institute, about Moore's methodology: The Federal Reserve uses hard numbers to calculate the net worth of all households, but Forbes uses assumptions and interviews along with hard numbers in estimating the net worth of the Forbes 400.
There's no way to know how the differences between the two affect the net worth numbers, but Moore used the data that are available and there's no indication he "cherry-picked" figures for a desired result, Mitchell said.
With that caveat, our assessment indicates that as of 2009, the net worth of the nation's 400 wealthiest individuals exceeds the net worth of half of all American households.
We rate Moore's statement True.

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As spring approaches, you may feel the urge to set the stage for new growth by cleaning house or cleansing the physical body. Shaucha or purity is one of the foundational principles of yoga, and ancient yogis practiced six types of cleanses, known as the shatkarmas. Most of these should be undertaken only with the guidance of an experienced teacher. However, some yogic cleanses, combined with gentle ayurvedic practices, make an effective daily cleansing routine suitable for anyone who wants to release toxins and build agni, the digestive fire.
Start each morning by cleaning the tongue of ama, toxins that have accumulated overnight. A tongue scraper is the best tool. If you like, follow this by gargling or oil pulling, swishing a spoonful of oil in the mouth for at least 10 minutes, then spitting it out. Before showering, massage your skin with a dry washcloth or soft brush to stimulate circulation and slough off dead skin cells. Use light pressure, stroking toward the heart. Other simple cleanses include washing the eyes using an eyecup and purified water, and cleaning and massaging the gums with a paste of sesame oil and salt.
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If you've learned jala neti—nasal irrigation using lukewarm saline solution and a neti pot—you know that it's ideal for warding off allergies or helping control symptoms of upper respiratory infections. In 2011, however, news stories about neti practitioners dying from infections scared some away from this simple and venerable practice. If you have learned cleaning and drying techniques from a teacher, and you keep everything—water, salt, neti pot—squeaky clean, you should have nothing to worry about. (Don't use water straight from the tap.) Jala neti, like most yoga cleanses, has both a physical and a psychospiritual purpose. Nasal washing removes debris and pollutants and stimulates the sinus cavities, but also helps open the third eye, ajna chakra, the seat of inner vision.
Incorporate your cleansing routine into a morning sadhana, which might include meditation, sun salutations, and pranayama. The candle-gazing meditation known as trataka cleanses the third eye. Kapalabhati pranayama, taught in many yoga classes, is said to purify the frontal brain regions, as well as help remove carbon dioxide from the lowest regions of the lungs. Asana cleanses the body by promoting circulation and massaging the digestive organs. Twists are especially effective at this. The pawanmuktasana digestive series focuses on building agni and freeing energy blockages in the abdominal area. This spring yoga sequence can help awaken dormant energy and release stagnation.
Just as the spring equinox marks the equilibrium of day and night, the aim of cleansing (like the aim of yoga) is to restore balance. When purification becomes part of an ongoing healthy lifestyle, we begin to experience balance on ever deeper levels, encompassing body, mind, and spirit. This is the renewal of spring.
How are you preparing for spring?
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Open-Air Homes Have Unexpected Visitors
An increasing number of homeowners are opting for open-air living, where spaces are completely or partially exposed to the outdoors. The WSJ's Maya Pope-Chappell discusses the pros and cons of such homes.
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Dogs may be able to sniff out prostate cancer
Pet issues in the news
Cancer-sniffing canines – Dogs can sniff signs of prostate cancer in human urine, recent research suggests.
While other scientists are dubious, the author of the latest study called the findings promising, according to an article on Healthday.com.
"The dogs are certainly recognizing the odor of a molecule that is produced by cancer cells," said French researcher Jean-Nicolas Cornu at Hospital Tenon in Paris.
The problem, he said, is that "we do not know what this molecule is, and the dog cannot tell us."
But if it can be made to work, it would mark an improvement over the current form of detection. Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, blood tests administered to some 30 million American men each year are rife with false positives.
To conduct this study, two researchers spent a year training a Belgian Malinois shepherd to differentiate between urine samples from men with prostate cancer and men without.
When urine samples were put in front of the dog to see if it could identify the sole sample from a man with prostate cancer, the dog got 63 out of 66 specimens right, Healthday reported.
If the findings hold up in other studies, they'll be "pretty impressive," said urologist Dr. Anthony Y. Smith of the Unversity of New Mexico.
Skeptical researchers are concerned about factors that could throw off the results, said Smith. Among other things, scientists wonder if the animals used in such studies pick up on subconscious signals from researchers.
Pets as role models – Another new study written up by Healthday found that caring for a sick pet may improve the pet owner's health as well.
In the Canadian study, lead author Melanie Rock, an investigator at the Population Health Intervention Research Center in Calgary, and a colleague interviewed 16 pet owners as well as veterinarians, a mental health counselor and a pharmacist about what it takes to take care of dogs and cats with diabetes.
Some participants said they had learned so much about the condition they felt better equipped to take care of a person with diabetes should they need to. Others became more diligent about exercising daily for their pets' sake.
"What we observed was that people take the care of their pet very seriously, and in doing so, they blur the lines between their own health and their pets' health," Rock told Healthday. "Being responsible for a dog may get people up and out of the house on a rainy day."
Those lessons may have important implications for people, Rock noted. "Taking care of a diabetic pet may mean adhering to a schedule of injections and meals, or perhaps going for more walks to keep a diabetic dog healthy. Previous research has shown those types of routines and the opportunity for physical activity can be very important for people, particularly as they age."
Pet health-care reform – California lawmakers are trying to bring a version of health care reform to pets. according to a story by The Associated Press.
A bill that passed this month in the state Assembly would require greater disclosure from health insurance companies that cover animals.
The bill would require an insurer to disclose on the main page of its website any policy that limits coverage. Insurers also would have to make it clear whether they deny coverage based on
preexisting conditions.
The bill originally sought to ban pet insurers from denying coverage to animals with a preexisting conditions, AP said, but that provision was removed.
The bill moved to the state Senate.
Helping animals in distress – In Los Angeles, meanwhile, a state appeals court ruled that a report of
a dog crying in distress can constitute an emergency that justifies police entering a home without a warrant.
In appealing Keith Chung's conviction for animal cruelty, his lawyer argued that officers may disregard the normal requirement that they obtain a search warrant only if a human life is at stake, according to a report on SFgate.com.
But police can conduct a search without a judge's approval "when an officer reasonably believes immediate warrantless entry into a residence is required to aid a live animal in distress," Presiding Justice Joan Dempsey Klein said in the 3-0 ruling.
The court said a woman in Marina del Rey called police early one morning in July 2007 and said she and her husband had been awakened by the sound of a dog howling in apparent pain for about 15 minutes in Chung's condominium upstairs, SFgate.com reported.
Police went to see Chung, who told them he didn't own any dogs. When an officer heard what sounded like a dog whimpering from inside, he handcuffed Chung and entered the condominium. There he found an injured dog lying on a towel in the patio and the body of another dog in the freezer, the court said.
Rabies help – To help protect pets from rabies, Denver Animal Care & Control offers pet vaccination clinics weekly at the Denver Municipal Animal Shelter on Wednesdays (dogs) from 2:30 to 4:45 p.m. and Thursdays (cats) from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
The agency will also be hosting low cost pet vaccination, license and microchip clinics in area parks throughout the summer. Two clinics will take place in this month: June 13 – Barnum Park, North Hooker St and W. 4th Ave.) 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 27 – Harvey Park, (near South Tennyson Way.) 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The cost is $35 for dog and cat vaccinations and a one-year pet license. Microchips will also be available for $25. Information: denveranimalshelter.org
Meet the reptiles – The Longmont-based Colorado Reptile Humane Society will host its annual open house June 26-27, noon to 5 p.m. Attendees can visit adoptable animals, learn how to create habitats, and meet Colorado's state reptile. The event is a fundraiser to help support the needs of shelter residents. Admission is $5. Information: corhs.org.
Ride for MaxFund – The Molly-Dharma Annual Motorcycle Run for MaxFund will be June 13. Registration is at 9 a.m. at The Platte River Bar & Grill on Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, and the ride is at 10:30. Information: MaxFund.org.
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What economic recovery?
On Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, more than 2,000 people showed up to apply for 200 slots in a
government- taxpayer-subsidized public housing in Columbus, Ohio. The mob got so unruly and violent, the police were called and sprayed Mace to restore order.
Ohio's 10TV reports that police said the crowd started to gather Friday night for the Saturday morning event at The Heritage apartment complex on Gatewood Road near Sunbury Road in northeast Columbus.
At its highest number, the crowd reached over 2,000 people.
Residents in the area called police overnight and complained about the noise and number of cars in the neighborhood. Then a melee broke out when the manager of the complex started to set up for the event just before 7 a.m. Saturday morning.
Several individuals were sprayed with Mace by police and treated at the scene by emergency crews. Police did not report making any arrests.
Here's the 10TV news video:
Neither 10TV nor any news media would tell you what you can see with your own eyes that the mob mainly was comprised of blacks. Not just black, but from the head scarves of the women, black Muslims. Reader comments on the 10TV site say they are immigrants from Somalia, Africa.
According to the 2010 Census, blacks make up 28% of Columbus' population. In 1900, whites made up 93.4% of the city's population; in 2010, their proportion has declined to 61.5%. Wikipedia says 23% of Columbus' immigrant population are from Africa.
Here are some screen shots I took from the 10TV news video:
See also:
- "We're Broke, but Obama Welcomes 80,000 Muslim Refugees into America"
- "Obama Ends 9/11 National Security Registration for Muslim Male Immigrants"
- "Obama Advisor Sees America as Place of Islam's Revival"
Are you still on the fence that Obama's agenda is to destroy this country?


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This medication stimulates the central nervous system. Typically, it is used for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It may also be used for narcolepsy (sudden or excessive daytime sleepiness), as well as for other uses. Its effects can be felt within 1 hour.
This pharmacologic treatment should be an integral part of a global treatment program that could include supportive psychological, educational or other measures.
This medication is typically used twice a day. However, your doctor or pharmacist may have suggested a different schedule that is more appropriate for you. Take it regularly and continuously to maintain its beneficial effects.
Important: Follow the instructions on the label. Do not use more of this product, or more often, than prescribed. Chronic abusive use can lead to dependance.
This medication should be taken immediately after finishing a meal. Consuming alcohol may intensify the effect of this product. If you choose to drink alcohol, do so in moderation. Talk to your pharmacist or doctor to find out exactly how much alcohol you can drink.
In addition to its desired action, this medication may cause some side effects, notably:
Each person may react differently to a treatment. If you think this medication may be causing side effects (including those described here, or others), talk to your doctor or pharmacist. He or she can help you to determine whether or not the medication is the source of the problem.
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This medication may interact with other medications or supplements, sometimes significantly. Many interactions, however, may be dealt with by a dosage adjustment or a change in medication schedule. Check with your pharmacist before using this medication in combination with any other medications (including non-prescription products), vitamins or natural products.
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joshuahaynes needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Create a logo for an international Mobile-Banking conference! The "M-Banking 2009: Balancing Regulation and Innovation" conference will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, and will bring together scholars, academics, politicians, regulators, students and practitioners from around the world to talk about the current challenges and future of m-banking.
We are a group of students organizing this conference and need a GREAT logo! The conference focuses on mobile-banking, which is exploding in the developing world, and allows people who don't have access to traditional banks to gain access via cellular phones. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_banking)
- Contains some essense of :- internationalization
- Africa / East Africa
- bringing people/ideas/innovation together
- uses colors that fit in with this scheme:- red: #82050B
olive: #6F6540
purple: #482932
blue: #3F5A69
sand: #A19987
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Lyndon Johnson has time and again demonstrated his special regard for the symbolic appurtenances of Presidential actions. He once journeyed to the one-room schoolhouse he had attended as a pupil to sign a bill launching the Federal Government into the field of general education; and he approved a new law overhauling this nation's immigration policies while at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Thus it may not have been wholly coincidental that he chose New Year's Day to promulgate new regulations intended to stem the outflow of U.S. dollars through direct overseas investments by Americans. For while many of his fellow countrymen, at that very moment, might have been experiencing the aftereffects of their giddy farewells to 1967, the national economy was suffering a kind of hangover of its own in the wake of devaluation of the British pound sterling and subsequent speculative assaults on the gold-backed U.S. dollar. If some were later to find reason to quarrel with the President's prescription for a cure, there were few who were ready to dispute the urgent need of his finding a potent remedy. But the immediate worry that confronted many a businessman the morning after The Morning After, as he arrived for work at the start of the new calendar year, was not the President's concern for the general health of the economy. Important though that be to any businessman, the first focus of his attention must be on the individual well-being of his own patient—in this case, any company he served that had interests in foreign ventures. So before the businessman could attempt to assess the effectiveness of the President's program or even undertake a search for ways of learning to live with this new code of restrictions, he needed first to know its requirements. The fact that the U.S. Department of Commerce was only slightly more prepared to confront this new situation was of little solace. To begin with, the problem had three aspects. It immediately placed a limitation, based upon a U.S. resident investor's 1965 and 1966 experience in foreign investing, on all further capital contributions, loans and other capital transfers to any branch, subsidiary or affiliate located abroad. It also established a set of strict guidelines governing the extent to which current profits generated by American investments overseas must now be returned to the U.S. Finally it placed restrictions on bank and other liquid balances maintained in foreign countries by American investors. The initial difficulty arose from attempts to interpret and understand regulations that were, admittedly and intentionally, loosely drawn. Drafted to embody the spirit of the program, the new regulations were seen by some to impose unintended hardships, which might later call for modification or exemption. Such revision, it was said, could be dealt with after enough experience had been gained to prove these changes necessary. For the moment, however, the new rules were at least something concrete that could be measured and tested against a company's actual situation. More importantly, the new regulations demanded clear definition in order to determine precisely to whom they did apply. Underlying all was the certain knowledge that the intent of the program was to aid this nation's balance of payments. As such, there was the belief that the new rules were not to be applied in so narrow or restrictive a sense as to contradict the desired result of reducing dollar outflow or of actually interfering with the possibility of creating foreign exchange credits which could be used by the United States. The first reality, however, was that


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I had heard that you could have too many VLFs in your transaction log, and it could cause performance issues. Kimberly Tripp has a great blog on how to get better performance from your log, but until I was studying for the MCM, I didn't realize you could have too few.
The issue seems to be that if you allocate too much transaction log at once, you could end up with a few, very, very large (GB in size) VLFs, and despite regular log backups, you could not be clearing any VLFs inside the log until there are no active transactions in that VLF. And that could cause a performance slowdown as it clears that large VLF.
How are VLFs allocated? Here's the formula:
- chunks less than 64MB = 4 VLFs
- chunks of 64MB and less than 1GB = 8 VLFs
- chunks of 1GB and larger = 16 VLFs
This is from : http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Transaction-Log-VLFs-too-many-or-too-few.aspx#ixzz19KysnYcK
So if you need 50GB of log space, do as Kim recommends and get 512MB chunks by allocating 8GB at a time. You can do this contiguously, as in all the same day, but allocate 8GB, let it finish, then ALTER to add 8GB more, repeat until you reach the correct size.


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BAUMHOLDER, Germany -- An early morning drive to Baumholder quickly turned into a nightmare recently for Heather Majorwitz and her two children, Kaitie and Bret.
They were on their way to school when the car hit a patch of ice and started to skid across the road toward an oncoming bus. Majorwitz swerved to avoid the bus and slid off the road, rolling the car.
"One minute we were on the road and the next we were hanging from our seatbelts," said Majorwitz.
The car wheels were still turning when four Soldiers from the 421st Multifunctional Medical Battalion came upon the scene. Without hesitation and not knowing who was in the car, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Vladimir Sequera and three other Soldiers stopped their Humvee and dashed out to help. The children were already making their way out of the shattered back window when the Soldiers approached the vehicle.
Sequera and the other Soldiers, Sgt. 1st Class Winston Smith, Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Lehman and Sgt. Cheryl Henneberry quickly brought the children to safety and wrapped them with their jackets so they could stay warm. By then Majorwitz was making her way out of the car so Sequera and the other Soldiers turned their attention to helping her.
"When we saw the vehicle we immediately pulled our vehicle to the side. We all had the same thought. There's somebody in the vehicle," said Sequera. "We didn't know if they were American or German. We just wanted to help so it only took us an instant to stop," he said.
"I just remember the car rolling and lots of glass," said Majorwitz. I felt blessed to walk away from the wreck, but I also felt really blessed that we had Soldiers there that would go above and beyond and help us. You guys are my heroes," she said.
"I'm glad that we were there to help out. I don't think it's a hero thing. I think it's a human behavior that we help each other out. It's part of what we do in the military," said Sequera.
Madeleine Dwoiakowski, public affairs officer for the USAG Baumholder, drives the same route on her way to work. When she approached the site she saw numerous first responders already assisting.
"I saw Soldiers and hoped that none of our guys were injured, not knowing that the Soldiers were actually assisting on the scene," said Dwoiakowski. "I then saw the car and it looked like it had gone through a press. They were extremely fortunately to walk away from there with no injuries and they were also equally fortunate that the Soldiers were there almost immediately to help."
For Majorwitz it was the scariest moment she's experienced as a mother.
"I wasn't sure if the children were OK. Everybody said they were OK, but even at the hospital I wasn't sure. My little boy gets anxious about things and I was worried that he'd have this anxiety and wouldn't want to ride in a car again," she said, recalling that they had a flat tire once and for the next year her son checked the tires before getting in the car.
"But he was fine, he was a trooper," said Majorwitz. Turning to Sequera she added, "I think he was fine because you guys were there immediately. There wasn't that second to even worry about it because we were taken care of right away."
Later on the day of the accident, Majorwitz, who is the librarian at Smith Elementary School, called her 15-year-old daughter in the states and told her, "this is why I do what I do to serve these guys, because they're there and they step in no matter what. It's automatic because that's who they are. This makes me even more proud to be able to teach the kids of our Soldiers, because I know that they're out there taking care of everybody else."
Fighting back tears Majorwitz turned to the Soldiers who rescued her and her children and said, "I think that's why you all are in the Army and you're Soldiers. We could have died but we didn't. We were very fortunate all around so I just want to thank you."
Majorwitz then embraced Sequera and repeated her appreciation for their help, "You guys are my heroes."


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Luther W. Linch Partner, Executive Office
*Presented at the University of Miami Tax Conference, Miami Beach-May 1974
The asset depreciation range (ADR) system of depreciating property for tax purposes has been with us for some time, and by now experience may have moderated some of the extreme reactions that greeted its unveiling. "It's a gigantic giveaway to all capital-using business." "The procedures are so complicated and burdensome that, as a practical matter, it cannot be advantageous to use." Somewhere between these extremes lie the real value and effects of ADR, but the value and effects will not be the same for all businesses. For some it is a tremendous tax-saver; for others it is considered too burdensome to use; for still others it provides a relatively trouble-free means of accounting for capital cost recovery for tax purposes.
As many have noted from the very beginning, the ADR rules and regulations are very lengthy and in some areas very complicated. It would serve no useful purpose here to review all of the intricacies of the ADR regulations. However, practice and experience with ADR by the substantial number of businesses that have adopted it have revealed some useful, interesting and unusual planning opportunities that warrant our attention.
Since there are both advantages and disadvantages inherent in ADR for any business, these must be explored in order to decide whether to adopt the system and, if adopted, how best to make use of it. The system provides certain flexibilities not available without the use of ADR, and it contains some restrictions that must be recognized as well.. Advantage can be taken of the flexibilities, and, fortunately, there are ways around some of the restrictions.
One of the factors at the very heart of ADR is the life over which depreciation deductions can be taken in the tax return. The availability of a tax life 20 percent shorter than the former guideline life, without fear of later
*This paper was presented by Richard B. Keigley, partner, Executive Office.


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Donated by Gordon Bellerose (thanks Gordon!).
This is a Strat neck made by Warmoth. It is a maple neck with a rosewood fret board, and dots inlaid. It also has a two way truss rod. Like all Warmoth stuff, it is very nice.
Shipping must be paid by winner (Gordon lives in Canada).
Estimated value = $150, we'll start the auction at $75.


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The Florida Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds raised more than $16,000 in its annual fundraising auction Wednesday (May 9) night, which took place during the half-way point of the association's 2012 Conference and Expo.
Proceeds from the auction will be used to pay for the association's scholarship fund and educational programs, said Bobby Cornwell, executive director of Florida ARVC, which is holding its annual conference at the Shores Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach.
According to a press release, about 70 representatives from 42 parks in Florida, Alabama and South Carolina were participating in the event along with representatives from 28 companies that provide products and services to the campground industry.
Wednesday's activities included Florida ARVC's annual business meeting and an election of board members and officers. Officers selected for one-year terms include Chairman Pat O'Neill of Camping on the Gulf in Destin; Vice Chairman Tim Deputy of Sun-N-Fun RV Resort in Sarasota; Treasurer Chris Long of the Central Park of Haines City; Secretary Don Hilgeman of Lake Waldena Resort in Silver Springs; with Bob Little of Flamingo Lake RV Resort in Jacksonville as immediate past chairman.
Board members elected to three-year terms included O'Neill of Camping on the Gulf, representing the northwest; Ed Schneider of Ocean Grove RV Resort in St. Augustine Beach, representing the northeast; John Parkhurst of Holiday Travel Resort in Orlando, representing the central region; and Carl Ludecke of Olde Mill Stream RV Resort in Umatilla, who will serve as an at-large representative from the central east area. Ray Seigneurie of Newby Management was also elected as a representative for Florida's southeast region.
Silvana Clark provided an entertaining keynote presentation highlighting some of the things campground owners can learn from reality TV shows, while Jeff Crider, ARVC's publicist, provided a seminar on how to get your park into the news. An exhibitor reception and trade show also took place in late afternoon.
Jeff Sims, who heads up ARVC's state relations and program advocacy, served as the auctioneer for Wednesday night's auction, which took place before a dinner and live music on the top floor of the Shores Resort & Spa.
Today's activities include a morning tradeshow and several educational seminars, including "Managing the Millennials as Employees," by Silvana Clark; an update on federal labor laws in Florida, by William Richardson, Jr. of the U.S. Department of Labor; and a presentation by John Barron of GravityFree titled "Making sense of Internet marketing." A conference luncheon was also scheduled with group discussions, a legislative update and question and answer session.
Based in Tallahassee, the Florida ARVC represents 380 parks in Florida and 18 in Alabama.


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Support for interrobang characters of "!?" and "?!" has been added to doc manager and story submissions. We are not supporting the Unicode version of interrobang since the Unicode version is a single character combining both ? and ! which is entirely illegible on screen. Spanish's interrobang equivalent has been added as well.
We like to stress that the value of interrobang and proper usage has been debated among academics and here is our take on it.
When and why you should not use interrobang:
- Interrobang is very new and old school writers frown upon it. If you like to be hired to editing work for established publishing house or enter a career in writing, don't use it.
- Professors and teachers just might give you a shifty eye. If you are writing essays for literature class or publishing theses for university, avoid using it.
- Laziness. Words and language itself can be highly expressive when creativity is injected. Relying on a punctuation mark to improve your expressiveness will not help you to improve as a writer.
When and why you should use interrobang:
- Want to be a rebel with a cause? The world is changing and so will our words!
Regardless, times change and maybe interrobang will be accepted by the mainstream in the future. For now, use with care or even better, avoid it whenever possible.


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For Residents
Yes, the Teen Center offers Homework Help services during the school year. The Homework Help program provides a quiet space for teens to complete their homework and gives them access to all WVUSD textbooks from the 6th to 8th grade level. These services are available Monday through Thursday from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Teens must be a Teen Center member to utilize the homework help program.
Membership in the Teen Center is $80 for the entire school year or $45 for single semester purchase.
Fall/Spring Semester Hours: 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Summer/Winter: 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
WVUSD Early Out Days: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Minimum Day Hours: 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Saturday/Sunday/City Holidays: Center Closed
Life in Walnut is published four times a year in the winter, spring, summer and fall.
The Senior Center offers a variety of special events throughout the year. Visit the Senior Center Special Events page frequently to stay up to date.


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from the Death Grip category of the A.L. Closer report:
Bobby has hardly been King of the Hill in July. In 7.1 frames, he has served up 13 hits, 8 runs and 4 walks. If there's a silver lining, it's that Jenks may be able to be acquired at a less-than-premium price from an angered owner. His 4.33 ERA looks horribly disappointing, but Jenks has suffered from a .338 BABIP, with a HR/FB rate (15.2%) way above his career average (8.7). His K/BB for the season is 3.7, well above 2008's 2.24 mark. It may sound crazy at first, but Jenks' 2009 is probably better than his 2008 work, bloated ERA and all.
and from last week's A.L. Closer report:
Jenks has turned in a bumpy July. In 6 innings, he has allowed 10 hits, 6 runs and 4 base on balls. His K/BB ratio (3.5) is still well ahead of last year's pace (2.24), and there appears to be little chance of anyone overtaking Bobby as he works out the kinks in his delivery.


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TOPEKA — The Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission will conduct a public meeting and hearing on Thursday, Jan. 6, at the Dole Institute, 2350 Petefish Drive in Lawrence. The afternoon session will begin at 1:30 p.m. and recess at 5 p.m., and the evening session will begin at 7 p.m. For the first time ever, live streaming audio of the meeting will be broadcast over the internet. A link will be provided on the KDWP website, www.kdwp.state.ks.us, for anyone who wants to follow along with the proceedings.
The afternoon session will begin with an overview of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks' (KDWP) 2011 Kansas legislative agenda, followed by a general discussion period on the following topics:
- Commissioner Big Game permit update and drawing;
- Kanopolis trapping update;
- mountain lion sighting update;
- Outdoor Recreation Management System (ORMS) update;
- Kansas Wildlifer Challenge program;
- natural resource planner demonstration; and
- firearm magazine capacity request.
- KAR 115-25-5 — turkey, fall season, bag limit, and permits;
- KAR 115-25-7 — antelope, open season, bag limit, and permits; and
- KAR 115-25-8 — elk, open season, bag limit, and permits.
- KAR 115-25-Series – deer regulations;
- big game permanent regulations;
- potential regulation changes to address aquatic nuisance species; and
- KAR 115-16-5 — wildlife control permit, operation requirements.
Time will be set aside in both the afternoon and evening sessions for public comment on topics that are not on the agenda. If necessary, the commission will recess on Jan. 6 and reconvene at the same location at 9 a.m., Jan. 7, to complete unfinished business.
If notified in advance, the department will have an interpreter available for the hearing impaired. To request an interpreter, call the Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at 1-800-432-0698. Any individual with a disability may request other accommodations by contacting the Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission secretary at 620-672-5911.
The next commission meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 10, at the KDWP Region 2 Office, 300 SW Wanamaker Road in Topeka.


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With passwords proliferating like tribbles, I've had to upgrade from my two previous methods of managing my accounts.
The first method was the easiest: I had two passwords, an easy one and a complicated one. If the site was important I used the complicated one. If the site wasn't important I used the easy one. Well… that started to seem like less and less of a good idea pretty much as soon as I started online banking and getting work passwords that mattered and stuff. So.
The second method worked for a long time: I had several passwords written down in a fairly secure online place that was itself password protected, and then I had an easy password that I used for all my "I wonder what del.icio.us is" experimentation online. That started seeming less and less good after several of the sites with the easy password got hacked multiple times and the hackers stole their databases of user passwords. Multiple times. And then I'd have to go through these millions of little sites changing a bunch of passwords all day. That got to be a less and less appealing way of spending a few hours. So.
Now I'm using an encrypted password manager. Here's the setup. KeePassX (the Mac version of KeePass) on each of my computers and KyPass installed on my iPod Touch, each of these is directed to look at the KeePass database that's stored in Dropbox (and the file made available offline on my iPod Touch).
Hopefully this solution lasts me for a while.