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Latent Prints-Footwear and TiresFootwear and tire impression evidence is some of the most valuable evidence left at crime scenes but it is often overlooked! It is overlooked oftentimes because the impressions are destroyed by crime scene respondents, crime scene technicians don't know what to look for or they just don't know how to collect it. But if detected, protected and collected, it can be crucial in placing a suspect, or a suspect vehicle at a scene. Criminals can wear gloves and they can do everything in their power minimize leaving behind physical evidence but everyone has to enter and exit a scene and unless they are floating in air, they are leaving footwear impressions. Sometimes footwear and tire impressions will be the only evidence left behind by the perpetrator. Because of the evidentiary value of footwear and tire mark impressions, crime scene respondents are trained to locate, protect and collect these impressions. The Latent Print Section of the Maine State Police Crime Lab then examines the crime scene impressions and compares them to known footwear/tires much like crime scene fingerprints are compared to known, inked fingerprints. Just as in fingerprints, the minute details in each and every tire and article of footwear can be used to identify an unknown crime scene impression to a known article of footwear or a tire. Footwear and tire impressions are made up of many different substances such as grease, blood, mud and dust. Here in Maine, it is common to locate and collect a footwear/tire impression in snow. Some have even been located in in deep pile carpet. The most important means of capturing these impressions is through photography, so every impression should be photographed correctly prior to any attempt to collect. The principle ways to collect footwear and tire impression evidence include photography, dusting and lifting, electrostatic dust lifting and casting. Click here: For tips on how to correctly photograph and collect footwear and tire impression evidence. |
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As much as ever before, as it enters the second decade of the 21st century, England's domestic game is feeling the cold chill of the wind of change. Tradition has always played a significant part in the organisation of professional cricket in England and, while the degree to which it has done so is an interesting discussion point, there can be little doubt it has held back the development of the national team and the quality of the County game. For many years the hardcore of cricket lovers who run the game have seemed to be prepared to accept a degree of mediocrity in our Test side as an acceptable price to pay to maintain the game's traditions but, increasingly, there is restlessness amongst administrators, and a growing acknowledgment throughout the game that changes, of a kind that will dismantle the sacred structure, need to be made.
The reluctance of cricket to reinvent itself is most vividly illustrated by the fact that from the watershed year of 1864, when over-arm bowling was first legalised and there was a first attempt to nominate a Champion County, for an entire century the structure of the game remained essentially unchanged. By 1864 the leading fixtures in the country were the various matches between the Gentlemen and the Players, the most prestigious of which was played at Lords each July. The best amateur cricketers would take on the best professionals in a fixture which eventually did gradually diminish in importance but which, for a time, was generally considered to be greater than any Test match.
As far as the rest of the First Class game was concerned the leading counties played First Class matches from before 1864 but from then on Gloucestershire, Kent, Lancashire, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire and Yorkshire with, briefly, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire and Hampshire, were recognised as First Class. In 1890 a properly organised County Championship began which expanded until, in 1921, Glamorgan were the first county from outside England to join and the number involved became 17. Since then only Durham, as recently as 1992, have joined the Championship. No county has lost its First Class status since Cambridgeshire did from 1872.
As well as the Gentlemen, the Players and the leading counties there were matches involving Oxford and Cambridge Universities, both of whom fielded some very strong sides in the days before academic ability became the major factor in determining admission to their colleges. The MCC also maintained a programme of First Class fixtures and from time to time various scratch sides were given First Class status for certain matches. Touring sides from other nations started arriving in the latter part of the 19th century and Test matches, initially just against Australia but subsequently South Africa too, began in Victorian times. From 1926 onwards, with the exception of the war years and 1970, there has been at least one touring party in England every summer and after 1928, as a result of West Indies, New Zealand and India in turn all being elevated, Test matches were played each summer.
In the late 1940's cricket, like all sports, enjoyed a peacetime boom, but once the austerity of the immediate post-war period gave way to the 1950's, interest gradually tailed off and continued to do so into the 1960's. There was talk, as there had been occasionally before the war, of introducing a knockout competition. The idea never got beyond the discussion stage, the traditionalists always winning the day because of the difficulties involved in resolving drawn matches, and finding gaps in the County Championship timetable in which 28 three day matches were the norm. At one point some counties played as many as 32 Championship matches each summer.
By 1963 it was clear that something had to change and there were two momentous events that year. The first was the abolition of the traditional distinction between professionals and amateurs, all players thereafter simply being "cricketers". As a consequence the old Gentlemen -v- Players fixture, still important although nothing like as much so as half a century before, disappeared forever from the fixture list.
More significant was the introduction of the "Knockout Competition", which in future years was to be named after a sponsor, initially as the Gillette Cup. The problem of drawn games was overcome by limiting each side's innings to 65 overs and, with an absolute maximum of five games for the finalists, it proved possible to comfortably accommodate the new competition alongside the County Championship.
One day cricket was a great success and in its 1964 edition Wisden said "The new Knockout Competition aroused enormous interest. Very large crowds, especially in the later rounds, flocked to the matches and 25,000 spectators watched the final ..at Lords, supporters wearing favours and banners were also in evidence, the whole scene resembling an association football cup final more than a game of cricket and many thousands invaded the pitch at the finish to cheer the Sussex Captain as he received the trophy".
There were, inevitably, grumbles about the new format and particularly that a number of counties had failed to include even a single spin bowler in their teams. Complaint was also made of the tendency for fielding captains to place too many fielders in the deep in order to prevent quick scoring, however tactics, the laws and playing conditions evolved and those concerns diminished over the years.
In addition to the introduction of the new one day game a wide ranging enquiry was launched amongst readers of the Daily Express to find out what supporters wanted to see happen to improve the game. More than 2,000 responses were received and there were a number of familiar themes. The main call was for the introduction of bonus points to encourage faster run rates amongst batting teams. Eventually, five years later, that innovation was brought in. Few mourned the abolition of the old provision for a few points for the side with a lead on first innings, which not infrequently led to tedious attritional battles for first innings points with neither Captain looking beyond that. Sunday cricket, inevitably given it was the one day of the week many could attend to watch, was also called for. Six years later, in 1969, the second one day competition, the 40 overs per side John Player's Sunday League, was launched. Despite the success of this, or perhaps because of it, it was to be 1981 before Test cricket was first played in England on a Sunday and a number of years after that before the first County Championship games were played on the sabbath.
There was also a call for limiting first innings in County Championship games either by time or overs. This was first experimented with in 1966 when in some County Championship fixtures the first innings was restricted to 65 overs, and later on longer limits were tried. The 65 over rule was an experiment that did not work and was not repeated. Opening batsmen were under pressure from the first over and middle order batsmen rarely had an opportunity to build an innings on decent pitches. The later, higher, limits on first innings were also experiments that did not last.
Almost universal amongst the Express's respondents was the call for leading overseas players to be allowed to play for counties without having to go through the five year residential qualification period that then existed. This did of course go through, but despite the overwhelming case in its favour it was still to be another five years, and 1968, before immediate registration of overseas players was to be permitted.
The rank and file cricket watcher/Express reader also expressed concern about deliberate pad play and again this was acted upon, eventually, the LBW law being changed in 1970 to remove a batsman's immunity from being LBW to a delivery that struck him outside the line in the event that he was not playing a shot.
Further popular ideas to improve the game by preventing time wasting were limiting bowlers' run-ups to 15 paces and increasing the number of balls per over to 8 or 10. This latter idea was never trialled, and although for a number of years run-ups in the 40 over game were limited to 15 paces, that rule was never tried in the First Class game and was, after a few years, abandoned in the Sunday League as well.
It was a mark of the game's conservatism that despite the success of the Gillette Cup it was to be 1969 before the Sunday League became the second limited overs competition. There was not such a long gap, just three seasons, until in 1972 the third one day competition, the 55 overs per side Benson & Hedges Cup, was introduced in order to provide counties with a second Lords final to aim for each year. The Gillette Cup, by now 60 overs per side, remained the premier one day competition, but not by much, and the Benson & Hedges final was almost on a par with it.
After 1972 English seasons took on a familiar look. The County Championship would begin at the end of April and would share the early weeks of the summer with the zonal stage of the B&H. The format there was for four groups of five teams. The First Class counties were initially joined by two representative Minor Counties sides and a Combined Universities team. The four groups would then produce eight quarter finalists and, amongst the succeeding rounds of Championship matches, the later rounds would be played culminating in a final at Lords in July. Throughout the season the Sunday League would run and, from July, the Gillette Cup would begin and that would culminate in its showpiece final on the last weekend of the season at Lords.
The one day competitions worked well for many years but there continued to be worries about the Championship which was poorly attended and generally considered to be of a poor standard and not "fit for purpose" in terms of producing Test match players. In an attempt to improve the Championship some four day matches were introduced in 1988, and all matches were of four days duration from 1993. Finally, in 1999, pressure to divide the Championship into two divisions was finally successful and the competition as we know it in 2010 began as the new millenium dawned.
Despite the boost given to the game by one day cricket by the 1990's the attraction had begun to wane and less people were attending matches. The formats and playing conditions of the three competitions were tinkered with but none of the changes prevented the general downward trend. In 1998 the ECB suggested for the first time a different, reduced form of the game but the counties rejected it. In 2001 a further attempt was made. This time the ECB, anticipating the traditionalists' arguments, made the wise decision to invest in some market research.
The research consisted of 4,000 people being interviewed, face to face, for 15 minutes about their attitudes to the game. Around two thirds of those spoken to had no interest in the game and, worryingly, the majority of them were children, young people aged 16 to 34, women, ethnic minorities and those from lower income households. More promisingly for the ECB however, of those who responded in such negative fashion around half said that given the opportunity they would be prepared to rub shoulders with the white, male, middle-class cricket followers if it were at a game that would be completed in under three hours on a weekday evening, with a series of side shows and other distractions. Despite this overwhelming evidence the counties were far from convinced, but eleven of the eighteen were persuaded by the case for change and the first 20/20 Cup was scheduled for 2003.
Having already spent GBP200,000 on research the ECB shrewdly decided to spend another GBP250,000 on marketing. The game had seen nothing like it before with advertisements for the tournament appearing in the nation?s newspapers and, in a most inventive ploy, customers of a leading supermarket being encouraged to exchange their loyalty points for tickets.
What the ECB most desperately wanted for 20/20 was something that money could not buy and, by Act of God, they got it. The games were scheduled for early June and the sun shone all over England and crowds flocked to the matches in their thousands. In another sensible move the ECB ensured that the initial group matches were organised on a regional basis to create local derbies. No fewer than 15,000 supporters turned out for the Roses clash at Old Trafford and as many as 15 of the 45 group games sold out completely. The zonal games of the old Benson & Hedges Cup had, in its final season, attracted a total of 67,000 paying spectators. The same stage of the new competition saw that figure increase by 350%.
Initially the ECB managed to resist the temptation to cash in on the runaway success by maintaining the same number of fixtures for 2004. The only significant changes made were to create a quarter final stage which, sensibly, ensured there would be fewer group matches in which the result was irrelevant. In addition, not wanting to push their luck with the weather, the matches were pushed back to the first half of July. By 2005 however the temptation to expand became irresistible and each county was given eight group matches instead of five which, in 2008, increased to ten and then, this year, to sixteen.
As far as the other competitions are concerned 2009 marked the last year of a traditional one day final at Lords. It seems bizarre that the first great success of limited overs cricket, the Knockout Cup, has been consigned to history. It is difficult to think of another major sport which doesn?t have such a competition and it seems particularly perverse given that the ICC Cricket World Cup maintains the same format. Equally bizarrely a 40 over competition, with a national league, has been retained despite there being no ICC tournament that plays 40 over games. The answer can only be that the ECB is allowing itself to be dictated to by its paymasters at BSkyB. Television wants a match every day and a competition that has been meaningless for some time has been allowed to continue for that purpose. It is not good for the game and the sooner the Clydesdale Bank 40 in its current form is put out of its misery the better.
Relatively free from interference over recent years, some tinkering with the points system this year apart, has been the First Class game. Four day cricket and two divisions has, it would seem, been a success. The standard of cricket in the top division is high and the matches are competitive. Crowds remain low, and will inevitably remain that way, but interest is high and the need for a domestic First Class competition of as high a standard as possible, to produce future Test players, must remain paramount. If BSkyB wants to have cricket on its screens every day then what is there to prevent it serving up championship matches to its audience? There are many of us who would be delighted to see more First Class cricket on television. Personally I am far from convinced about day/night matches but, in the interests of reaching a compromise with BSkyB, who clearly want to show play in the early evening, I would have no objection to the Championship experimenting with that in order to give the company the evening coverage that they demand.
Should the two division structure be replaced and the number of counties reduced? This is, generally, the stumbling block upon which all real advances founder. The "mire of mediocrity" that Graeme Wright referred to in his editorial note to the 2002 Wisden has, certainly in the case of the first division, been removed and perhaps matters can stay broadly as they are for the First Class game. There may be a case for expanding the first division. This would enable, say, twelve counties to play each other only once, thereby reducing the workload on players. At the same time the leading sides could be guaranteed a place in the top flight without fear of relegation while, at the other end of the spectrum, ambitious teams from outside the top echelon would still have an opportunity to establish themselves. The second division could, as times progress, take in sides such as Ireland, Scotland and Holland and perhaps even overseas teams from further afield such as Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
That County Championship apart I would have just one other competition for the traditional counties that being a return to a straightforward knockout cup involving the 18 First Class counties and however many other teams justify inclusion. The existence of just one such competition would underline its importance and create something akin to the early Gillette Cup. English cricket desperately needs a competition where supporters will remember, from one season to the next, who are its one day champions. My preference would be for a 50 over contest, but if the majority prefer 40 then so be it. The priority must be to remove the often meaningless zonal games which some counties seem, from their team selection, to use as practice matches.
What then of 20/20? There has undoubtedly been too much of it this season. The 144 games this summer have not killed the goose that laid the golden egg but they have certainly left it suffering from indigestion. Crowds generally (but not everywhere) have been down although the recession, as well as a surfeit of the game, will have played a part in that. The fact that 20/20 has been good for the game cannot be disputed. One day cricket brought about a great advance in fielding standards throughout the world and, when further improvement might not have been thought possible, it has certainly taken place. Batting too has been revolutionised with shots like the reverse sweep, the scoop, the ramp and the switch hit filling further pages in the coaching manuals and thrilling the crowds.
England is ideally placed, being the only Test nation in the Northern Hemisphere, to take advantage of the interest in this new form of the game, not only in our own backyard but the world over. For me the answer is obvious. Base nine teams around the Test match grounds and introduce franchises and an IPL style auction. Even without a formal or informal alliance with the IPL it surely cannot be beyond the expertise of the marketing arm of the ECB to create a product which will allow the game to reach new audiences and cash in on the appeal of the new format. The traditionalists will be happy too. Those of us who look back more often than we look forward care deeply about the County Championship and I would hate to see the prospect of Lancashire winning it again becoming an impossibility. I would also hate to see the likes of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire, the three who seem to receive most nominations to be the sacrificial lambs, disappear completely but so long as there remains a second division they can get out of if their team is good enough then I can live with the changes I suggest and, of course, they would start the knock out cup at the same level as the First Division counties.
As for 20/20 I have learnt to like, if not love, the shortest version of the game. As to who succeeds at it I really don't mind and if the final pits the Manchester Super Kings against the London Lions I shall look to see who my favourite players are appearing for and support them - or then again perhaps I will just sit back in my favourite armchair with my 1982 Wisden and watch my video, recently transferred to something called a DVD, of "Botham's Ashes".
Good article
I really don't fancy the prospect of franchises in domestic T20 matches. I like supporting my county and enjoy going to a few matches each year and loved being at the finals day this year, even if my county weren't there. Somehow, I don't think it would be the same for me to "support" some fake franchise with no tradition or cultural links with (or is that me just being typically English and being rooted in the past?).
As for the Championship, I think it's been good since the two divisions came in. I think a slightly larger first division would be good too, as mentioned in the article. But why not introduce a third and possibly a fourth division and so have relegation from the second division to allow minor counties with the ambition the chance to develop over time and to move up the divisions?
Comment by Stoggler | 12:56pm gmt 17 Sep 2010
Great article Martin - and bad luck Somerset!
Comment by Dave Wilson | 7:36am gmt 17 Sep 2010
**** change.. My county have just been shafted yet again, and remain one of two sides not to win a championship, but what a fantastic climax.. Why would you ever want to change something that is perfect anyway?
Comment by Langeveldt | 12:29am gmt 16 Sep 2010
In my part of the country May was a good deal better than August for the most part. Just as well, as half the Championship programme had to be completed by the first week in June.
Comment by stumpski | 3:32pm gmt 16 Sep 2010
I stand corrected....
I didn't realise that so many of them actually played in April and May.
Comment by shivfan | 11:24am gmt 16 Sep 2010
How many national players actually play for their counties in May?
Comment by shivfan | 10:28am gmt 16 Sep 2010
Strauss has actually played in as many as 8 LVCC matches this season - he averages all of 30 without a century so its hardly surprising it has passed unnoticed
Comment by Martin | 11:28am gmt 16 Sep 2010
Anderson, Broad, Finn, Cook, Prior, Strauss, Sidebottom and Trott all played Championship cricket in April and/or May this season
Comment by Martin | 10:49am gmt 16 Sep 2010
A 40 or 50 over domestic competition with proper knockout rounds is a must, with a proper Lords final not played in the middle of September.
Comment by AdamsonAfton | 9:27am gmt 16 Sep 2010
The point is that it's vitally important to the prospects of the national team, and of getting some players in form. Sometimes you have to subsidise domestic cricket for the health of the game.
EDIT: more in reference to May cricket.
Comment by vic_orthdox | 7:45am gmt 16 Sep 2010
Wither atrophy?
Comment by zaremba | 11:27pm gmt 15 Sep 2010
I really, truly, don't see the point of playing domestic cricket in May and September....
Who in their right mind is going to sit in the stands to watch monkey cricket being played in that chilly weather?
Comment by shivfan | 2:39pm gmt 15 Sep 2010
Anyway very good article as always, the scheduling this season was horrific and something obviously needs to be done about it. Agree with most of it apart from Franchises; just hate that word so much. I don't actually think they are needed either, it needs to be shorter and in a part of the season where England players can feature on a regular basis.
A 40 or 50 over domestic competition with proper knockout rounds is a must, with a proper Lords final not played in the middle of September.
Comment by Pothas | 8:57pm gmt 14 Sep 2010
Excellent article.
IMO Franchises are the way forward for T20 cricket in England.
Comment by GingerFurball | 6:31pm gmt 14 Sep 2010
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Low wages, long hours for iPod factory workers
The UK's Mail on Sunday has published a report (not yet available online) that offers a look inside the Foxconn-owned iPod factories in China. Macworld UK says the newspaper's report reveals that an iPod plant in Longhua houses 200,000 workers, who work 15-hour days for $50 per month. The workers reportedly live in dormitories that house 100 people each, and that outside visitors are not permitted. The Mail reports that the iPod nano is made in a five-story factory that is secured by police officers. The article also says that workers at an iPod shuffle factory in Shanghai are housed outside the plant, and earn $100 per month—but that they must pay for their housing and food, "which takes up half their salaries."
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Out of curiosity then, how much does a decently paid factory worker in China make? Double those wages?
Posted by cerisier on June 12, 2006 at 9:48 AM (CDT)
And how is this different from just about every other manufactured product sold in the U.S.?
Posted by tt69 on June 12, 2006 at 9:51 AM (CDT)
Wow, talk about a scoop! And here I was, thinking iPod factories were the only place in asia where work would be decently managed.
Posted by JT on June 12, 2006 at 9:59 AM (CDT)
And how is this different from just about every other manufactured product sold in the U.S.?
It isn't, at least for the stuff that comes out of China. Why do you think companies go there to begin with. Profit is GOOD. Maximizing profit is BETTER.
I mean, who really cares if these so-called 'high-tech' laborers can barely scrap by, if it means the rest of the wealthier world can have the (way overpriced, perhaps?) iPods.
Not all jobs are the sweatshop dregs in China; after all, they're also enjoying a run of pure capitalistic consumerism. I hear Porsches, BMWs, Aston Martins and Ferraris sell quite well over there. But then again, not all that boom is as widespread and is as shared by many as it seems, either.
Posted by flatline response on June 12, 2006 at 10:03 AM (CDT)
HILARIOUS!!! People complain that iPods cost too much, then complain when they find out _how_ the costs are kept down. Try making them in a unionized factory in the states or Canada and see how much they cost. Without third world there is no first world. As long as four year old kids aren't chained to desk, that's fine. That's capitalism (which you enjoy) at its best. Idiots.
Posted by Warren Piece on June 12, 2006 at 10:03 AM (CDT)
Yeah as bad as this is, i think there's more than one company over there that has this kind of work life
Posted by Kevin on June 12, 2006 at 10:15 AM (CDT)
I am shoked, but I have to agree eith Warren Piece. Without the third world there is no first world. I think I am in the second. I am from ex-Yu (southern Europe), and things are here better, but not as much as it should be.
Posted by Pilot on June 12, 2006 at 10:37 AM (CDT)
food there is cheap though, it's about 10 cents per meal
Posted by hoho on June 12, 2006 at 10:39 AM (CDT)
"Without third world there is no first world. As long as four year old kids aren't chained to desk, that's fine. That's capitalism (which you enjoy) at its best. Idiots."
yes the time is ripe for revolution!
time for some major redistribution of the wealth for everybody. solidarity is the way to think and socialism is the way to go
Posted by dammskog on June 12, 2006 at 10:41 AM (CDT)
Good Stuff—Now if we can just get some cheap oil from china. I do think it's funny how if certain other companies came out with this same kind of business ethic, they'd be tied up and hung, but apple and steve jobs can do no bad. Funny stuff.
Posted by eq on June 12, 2006 at 10:45 AM (CDT)
I mean, who really cares if these so-called 'high-tech' laborers can barely scrap by, if it means the rest of the wealthier world can have the (way overpriced, perhaps?) iPods
I don't think this report is fair. While I understand your point, flatline, I think that if they are going to discredit ONE company's use of cheap labour, they might as well discredit them ALL. Not that I defend them, but Apple is NOT the only company that uses cheap chinese labour, there are way too many to name.
Posted by ahMEmon on June 12, 2006 at 10:50 AM (CDT)
yes Apple is not the only one. life is unfair, get over it! i get paid way more than those ppl but 3/4 of my paycheck is for paying the rent, student loans and other stupid bills. we are all slaves in this world in one form or another.
Posted by slayer on June 12, 2006 at 11:14 AM (CDT)
It is fair because Apple's "hippie dippie, we're the everyman's product" image invites it. I don't expect my faceless Western Digital hard drive to be made with ethics. I don't actually expect my iPod either since I don't believe any of Apple's hype, but since Apple spends millions annually to create a certain image, you can't fault someone who wants to reveal the truth of the emperor's clothing.
Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on June 12, 2006 at 11:16 AM (CDT)
So they make $100 a month, but spend half that on food and housing.
Who doesn't spend half their salary on food and housing and transportation?
Posted by good grief on June 12, 2006 at 11:37 AM (CDT)
Posted by Real Reply on June 12, 2006 at 11:45 AM (CDT)
Has there ever been a news post that has spawned as many responses borne of ignorance, stupidity and just plain insensitivity as this? No, I didn't think so.
Posted by Margk on June 12, 2006 at 11:51 AM (CDT)
I don't think that this is any different to other manufacturers. That's why everyone moves to Asia, cheaper manufacting because workers are exploited.
I'm sure that now it's come out two things will happen - iPod competitors wil say how well they pay their workers and Apple will say that they didn't know and are doing something about it.
Posted by craigb6 on June 12, 2006 at 11:58 AM (CDT)
Wow. So much hostility. Do we really feel obligated to defend Apple. They're a megacorporation. Are we naive enough to believe they're governed by a strong sense of morality? It's about profit. Period.
The problem over in the 3rd world is much bigger than Apple. I admit I was surprised. I wondered why on earth I paid 300 for my iPod. But, I still love my iPod and will still enjoy Apple products.
Nonetheless, I'm not going to defend them. Let Apple defend themselves. Let's see what they say.
Posted by praetor on June 12, 2006 at 12:09 PM (CDT)
work like this is just another step to modernization. americans worked like this in the 1800s and 1900s and now other countries are catching up. the similarities are striking, the ny times the other day ran a story about china's factory towns - the descriptions are eerily similar to the US a hundred years ago. while unenjoyable, cheap labor will bring rapid growth, which brings money into that country. it's a process that will do more good than bad.
Posted by jm on June 12, 2006 at 12:17 PM (CDT)
The Mail on Sunday is a vile little tory rag for middle-class, Thatcherites everywhere. The only positive stories it carries concern the property price boom and snotty-nosed school kids overachieving at their 10K-a-term private schools.
That they should be banging the drum for the exploited factory worker is deeply ironic.
Posted by yashin on June 12, 2006 at 12:24 PM (CDT)
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Thirty" Filmmakers On Illegal Torture
The political trolls from both parties are joining forces for what could be rather dubious reasons. This could easily be something much different than the headlines. It could be that lawmakers are trying to ensure their involvement in illegal torture is kept secret. ie, Cover your ass. Because at some point, if things turn badly against either or both political parties or their countless secrets used to mislead democracy and possibly even perpetuate countless crimes, they could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity in a public tribunal. Or they could have warrants issued for their arrest by the International Criminal Court in The Hague or courts elsewhere. Don't laugh this off. Why else do politicians care to make the headlines as it pertains to the release of a movie? Crimes against humanity don't "expire". The Nazis did what they wished by subverting the law for nearly two decades until they were prosecuted by an international tribunal.
Of course, there is the possibility that the CIA, what I believe evidence clearly shows is a criminal, anti-democratic enterprise, manipulated Hollywood. That would be no surprise. We know that has clearly happened time and time again.
I linked to the Washington Post for this story for one reason. Look at the section where this story is printed; Entertainment. That's rich. I'm not sure who believes the topic of illegal torture and crimes against humanity are entertainment but that's par for the course in the dystopian mainstream media. ie, The relevant story isn't the act of illegal torture itself but the political concerns of its characterization in an entertainment venue. A Brave New World indeed.
Obama's direct link to Manning's torture is one.
Great to see you on the cover TL. I am traveling out west right now visiting family. Not much time to check in here. Glad I caught this. Am about to see the torture movie and hopefully do my own review.
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1. On the roof of the building across from both the Gotham Light and Power building and the Ace Chemical Plant, there is a generator that you must charge up with the Shock Gloves. Once you do, the three pressure pads will light up. Step on each until the middle row of three lights on the wall light up and the data pack beside them will be yours.
2. To the west of the entrance to the Merchant's Bank, there is an alleyway with a pressure pad. Stand on it and then throw a remote batarang through the opening in the fence to hit the green light. Once hit, slide through to get the data pack.
3. South of the horse sculpture, there is a cage on the ground with three green lights inside and a pressure plate outside. Enter the cage and place three explosives on where the lights are and then return to the pressure plate. Step on it and then detonate the gels to open the data pack to the right.
4. Directly west of the Merchant's Bank, on the rooftop along the shore, there will be a set of pressure plates and a data pack at the far end. To reach it, use the remote claw and climb across the rope to reach the far side. Drop down and pick it up.
5. This data pack can be grabbed by standing on the pressure plate on the smaller roof of the eastern side of the Gotham Light and Power building. When you step on the plate, a green light to the far left will light up. Throw a remote batarang to hit it and then grab the pack.
6. Directly across from the Gotham Light and Power building, on the west side, there is a very tall building with a lone balcony on the front of it. Look there to find this data pack.
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February 21st, 2012 - 3:10 pm
Microsoft may or may not have a version of Office ready for iPad.
Microsoft may or may not have a version of Office ready for iPad.
Oh boy! More Microsoft bloatware!
I'll stick with Pages/Numbers/Keynote, thank you.
Feh, Firefox, T-bird and StarOffice are Good Enough. And did I mention no cost beyond contributions? IPad? Would that be proprietary hardware? Death to proprietary hardware! No more Commodore!
If I remember correctly, Adobe made the mistake of trying give Jobs the shaft when it came to iMac versions of Photoshop and it's movie editing software. That just prompted Jobs to make his own versions (and ban flash from his iToys), which Apple fanbois seem to like a lot better. I guess Microsoft wants to reach the same level of irrelevancy.
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When the Vet's Hall closed in January, the yoga world scattered and teachers booked classes all over town. It was a slight inconvenience but I made it to a lot of classes and discovered some studios I hadn't known. Out of this inconvenience a new studio, yet unnamed, has been born. Just off Ocean Street, on 215 Washburn, Gina Marinelli has reborn her garage into a yoga studio, primarily to house Michael McEvoy's generally loyal students. The floor is soft bamboo. Hooks with ropes line the side of the studio for stretching that feels like heaven, usually. There is no website yet, but you can check out Michael's (www.pranichathayoga.com) for his schedule. Others may rent the space for yoga or other creative endeavors.
If someone had told me two years ago that I would become a runner, I would have told them they were crazy. I did not grow up in a fitness-focused family. My dad and my brother were sports boys, playing baseball and soccer. But I did not have a female fitness role model. My mom's workout routine consisted of jumping on a trampoline to bad '80s music. This is what I learned in my childhood years: To lose weight, you diet.
As I got older, I tried for years to "become" a runner. I remember being 12 years old, "running" at my grandmother's beach condo in Monterey during my summer vacation. I think I made it a mile and crashed. Although I was an active dancer, there is a cardiovascular difference between dance class and running a mile. I could feel it in my bones, my muscles, my lungs—and I quit before even trying. I repeated the "try and fail" technique for the next 15 years, going full force and then burning out.
Driving through pounding rain, slipping on the winding shoulders of rte 9, lost in Greg's dreamy music, I am part of the world, at one with the trees and the rain and the notes. This ride is how I prepare for my Tuesday, 8:00am class with Kris D'Amico, who teaches a solid and energetic vinyassa flow at Village Yoga, on Front Street. I need to feel this solid movement. Don't come if you don't like heat. The Bikram room is normally heated to about 100˚, although the temperature is not jacked up as high for this class. The movement was welcome, considering the long holds I have recently been practicing. The sweating and the twists, the balance and the rest, the focus and the alignment. A necessary change for today, as I am needing to shake it.
Well, here I am, a month to the day, fully healed and not even thinking about my absent tonsils (and I did NOT get a sore throat and tonsillitis with a recent cold!). Overall, I did much better than the average patient, pretty well fully functional by 12 days following surgery and no complications. I think that the prayers, herbs, craniosacral treatment, nutritional IV's, and acupucture all helped—at least as much as the love of the people providing them. And I have to give a grateful nod to Western medicine, for as much as I loved all the holistic approaches, nothing came close to the passion I felt for my bottle of liquid Vicodin in that first week.
I was promised, by the good Dr. Lane, that this surgery would hurt. A lot. And she never lies. I started out gagging down the disgusting, yellow, sickly sweet liquid Vicodin and, honestly, by the end, I looked forward to its pineapple-like flavor. Amazing what the imagination can do. I have a whole new appreciation for the difficulty of living with chronic pain and a new sympathy for the longing of addicts for their substance of choice. After 10 days, I graduated myself to Tylenol and poured my lovely Vicodin down the drain.
Dave Eggars writes in the introduction to David Foster Wallace's huge ( emotionally and physically – 1079 pages ) novel, Infinite Jest, about "a constant tragic undercurrent that concerns people who are completely lost – lost within their families, lost within their nations, lost within their time and who only want some sort of direction or purpose or sense of community and love." This seems universal. After digging through Infinite Jest a number of times, never to finish, I can understand the commitment necessary to forge a connection to others or to the divine through creative expression. Is this my answer? Investigating and committing to photography and writing with a quest for love are encouraged by yoga. These postures, after years of practice, seep deeper and deeper into my heart allowing the art to emerge. Sometimes I'm sore, but mostly these days, I'm inspired. The asanas have become established within me inducing a clearing for the expression that seems more important than ever. Love.
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I traveled the windy road up to SF, thrilled with the cityscape, after these lonely hills, to the Yoga Journal's 7th Annual SF Conference, and to an enveloped world of yoga. The faces I deem "famous" for my world were talking nonchalantly with each other and with students. Very exciting.
My schedule the first day was aggressive: David Swenson's Primary Series, Shadow Yoga, with Scott Blossom, and James Higgins. These classes were top notch and helped me to explore new streams of my yoga practice. It was Sunday morning's class with Rod Stryker that really did it for me. It was a pranayama class and I learned the depth of breath and its meaning. The benefits? Improved health, concentration and mental focus – increased vitality, manifestation of desires and intentions - self-realization. Watching my partner as she practiced pranayama, her lungs expanded and something wonderful seemed to happen. Incorporating this practice into my regular practice this week has been the goal and the benefits are already apparent, with my week in full bloom. *overheard at the conference
Acclimating to an indoor life is a winter happening, even in this un-extreme climate. This transformation is a balance: the dark to the light, the yin to the yang, the rest to the action. And it is this stopping that is crucial to a yogic life. It begins as a forced exile – outdoor activity curtailed - reading more, meditating more, sleeping more, thinking more, obsessing more. I have heard many teachers tout the importance of savasana (resting pose) as the most influential posture. This resting will balance the movement, they say, and assist in the slow opening of the heart.
I have only to look over at the amaryllis that Aunt Madeline sent me for Christmas, as she does every year. Yesterday the flower bloomed, after a strict dormancy, in the dead of January – a preview of my heart.


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Summary: These notes were developed from a course taught at Rice University in the spring of 1976 and again at the University of Hawaii in the spring of 1977. It is assumed that the students know some linear algebra and a little about differentiation of vector-valued functions. The idea is to introduce some students to some of the concepts of Lie group theory --all done at the concrete level of matrix groups.
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The outfit is a bit odd but I don't I don't know what Julia and Babs were thinking when it came to the shoes.
Julia can wear pretty much everything and looks fine.
But who gave her these boots to this outfit ?
She doesn`t notice it anyway.
The leather clothes obviously were off and their choice of dress looks a little improvised.
They were probably in a hurry after the doubles and had no time to look for something more suitable.
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Sanguine: a person with the temperment of blood, also close to (derived from) the latin word sanguio, meaning blood.
Are latin and french words allowed?? ;_;
Sanguine: a person with the temperment of blood, also close to (derived from) the latin word sanguio, meaning blood.
Are latin and french words allowed?? ;_;
systolic, a type of blood pressure measurement.
Edit: Ignore this post. I didn't see silver's post.
Eccentric - because this is a nice way to describe some Sanguine people
Don't want to sound rude, but rules at the first page explains it quite clearly that we use english - even if those are words like 'touché' which comes from French but got popular for discussion. Also, I don't see much of use of latin words except for scientific stuff, which mostly have it's english corresponding word sounding quite the same. I try to narrow the words variability to make the game harder.
Edit : I was too late - answer the first one
Last edited by Kolox; 10-10-2007 at 01:28 PM. Reason: Too late with answer.
charismatic, another way to describe people.
creative, some ppl are creative
@Kolox :: I'm sorry I forgot.. ;_; but hey! name was also used twice in the thread!
excitable, many creative people tend to be.
excitable ppl are often energetic
Charismatic - Energetic people might be charismatic too.
^The game deems that we call you a loser since you repeated a word (check 1st post).
I'll continue to chocolatey, because chocolatey snacks somehow make people more charismatic.
"Cocoa" is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolaty stuff are made from