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Last week I took my wife and my daughter to the baseball game the St. Louis Cardinals verses the Pittsburgh Pirates, I am from the St. Louis area as my wife is from the Pittsburgh area so this was a sort of rivalry game between us. I have to say the cardinals were playing very well that evening as the Pirates you could say stunk.

Of course when we got there we had to get the usual food which literally cost me an arm and a leg. We had really good seats in left field under the canopy. When I got my food I ordered a pizza, the first 100 people who ordered pizza got a scratch off it turns out I won, I had to go pick up my prize at the customer relations dept.

When my daughter and myself got to customer relations I gave the nice man behind the counter my ticket he gave me a t-shirt then he also gave us a 2006 world series lanyard and badge holder, he started to tell us a  story he was working that world series, the game got over at 10:30 pm, he passed out these holders and lanyards till 1:30 am in the morning then he said I’m going home. Needless to say the game was good the food was good and the Cardinals won 11-2.

Ive seen the alot of the reports of the fake Id cards China gave to their gymnasts and I wonder to myself is all of this bad publicity worth ruining your credibility to the whole world that you must win at all costs? Everybody wants to win its a good feeling to be the winner but what if your the winner cheating , how gratifying is that, never knowing if you really could win the deck was stacked in your favor to begin with, to me that would be a crummy feeling to carry around with me for the rest of my life. After doing more research I have found out this is not an abnormal practice at all, from one article I read 6 out of 10 Id cards have the birthdates changed for various reasons one of them is to get their kids in school earlier. So how do you deal with this kind of activity to make sure things are fair?  Also China has came out with more paper work claiming the girls are the right age. How do we know these papers arent fakes, we wont, so how can they be trusted now?  So from hear on out at the next games and the rest of this years games do we keep them under the microscope, Im sure the investigative panel has better things to do than follow them around with a fine tooth comb to see just what they are up to.

With the olympics there are thousands upon thousands of people milling around watching the events its hard to keep track of who is supposed to be where who gets admitted in to the events, you can bet there are plenty of identification cards for the participants, set up crews, judges and personnel other wise how could you keep track of everyone. Since this is an international event the whole world is watching, so there is a greater chance to breach security with so much attention this event draws. Every one of the athletes and any such personnel had to have their passports and id cards up to date for this event, China has ramped up the security beyond the normal measures running 24/7, and made IT security its highest priority.

Car holders are a must in the working world to keep that id card safe from damage there are so many different kinds one in particular is the proximity card holder rightly named to protect proximity cards. The difference with this card holder from from other varieties is you can totaly lock your card in place where it cannot fall out as to some of the other holders the top is left open. Alot of government agencies prefer to use the proximity holders over the standard holders to make sure their id card stays in the holder. Before you make your purchase ask for samples to make sure you are getting the right item, as with anything you purchase make sure its a quality product that can stand up to the abuse you can dish out to it.