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Summary Report for:
33-3021.03 - Criminal Investigators and Special Agents
Investigate alleged or suspected criminal violations of Federal, state, or local laws to determine if evidence is sufficient to recommend prosecution.
Sample of reported job titles: Agent, Criminal Investigator, Detective, Detective Sergeant, FBI Special Agent (Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent), Investigator, Master Police Detective, Narcotics Detective, Police Detective, Special Agent
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Prepare reports that detail investigation findings.
- Obtain and verify evidence by interviewing and observing suspects and witnesses or by analyzing records.
- Identify case issues and evidence needed, based on analysis of charges, complaints, or allegations of law violations.
- Investigate organized crime, public corruption, financial crime, copyright infringement, civil rights violations, bank robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and other violations of federal or state statutes.
- Record evidence and documents, using equipment such as cameras and photocopy machines.
- Obtain and use search and arrest warrants.
- Testify before grand juries concerning criminal activity investigations.
- Search for and collect evidence, such as fingerprints, using investigative equipment.
- Determine scope, timing, and direction of investigations.
- Collect and record physical information about arrested suspects, including fingerprints, height and weight measurements, and photographs.
- Analyze evidence in laboratories or in the field.
- Collaborate with other offices and agencies to exchange information and coordinate activities.
- Develop relationships with informants to obtain information related to cases.
- Perform undercover assignments and maintain surveillance, including monitoring authorized wiretaps.
- Collaborate with other authorities on activities, such as surveillance, transcription, and research.
- Examine records to locate links in chains of evidence or information.
- Serve subpoenas or other official papers.
- Compare crime scene fingerprints with those from suspects or fingerprint files to identify perpetrators, using computers.
- Manage security programs designed to protect personnel, facilities, and information.
- Provide protection for individuals, such as government leaders, political candidates, and visiting foreign dignitaries.
- Administer counterterrorism and counternarcotics reward programs.
- Issue security clearances.
Technology Skills
- Data base user interface and query software — Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System IAFIS; Law enforcement information databases; National Crime Information Center NCIC database; National Integrated Ballistics Information Network NIBIN (see all 5 examples)
- Electronic mail software — Email software; Microsoft Outlook
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Computer aided composite drawing software; Graphics software
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Map creation software — Crime mapping software; ESRI ArcView
- Office suite software — Corel WordPerfect; Microsoft Office
- Project management software — Case management software
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Biological evidence collection kits — Blood collection kits
- Body armour — Body armor
- Bullet proof vests — Bulletproof vests
- Desktop computers
- Digital camcorders or video cameras — Digital video cameras
- Digital cameras
- Fingerprint equipment — Suspect fingerprinting equipment
- Fingerprint latent print kits — Fingerprint evidence kits
- Footprint lifters — Impression casting kits
- Hand sprayers — Pepper spray
- Handcuffs — Metal handcuffs; Plastic handcuffs
- Handguns — Semiautomatic pistols; Service revolvers
- Hazardous material protective apparel — Biohazard suits
- Instant print cameras
- Masks or accessories — Filter masks
- Measuring wheels for distance — Distance measuring wheels
- Metal detectors
- Narcotic test kits — Drug testing kits
- Night sticks — Nightsticks
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers; Mobile data computers
- Personal computers
- Physiological recorders — Polygraphs
- Police or security shotguns — Police shotguns
- Police vehicles — Police patrol cars
- Protective gloves
- Riot shields
- Rulers — Crime scene rulers
- Still cameras — 35 millimeter cameras
- Surveillance video or audio recorders — Audio recording equipment; Digital voice recorders; Wiretap equipment
- Tape measures — Crime scene tape measures
- Two way radios
- Ultraviolet UV lamps — Ultraviolet UV lights
- Weapon or explosives detectors and supplies — Explosive detectors
- Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Telecommunications — Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
- Sociology and Anthropology — Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Speed of Closure — The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Time Sharing — The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Work Activities
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Prepare investigation or incident reports.
- Examine records or other types of data to investigate criminal activities.
- Interview people to gather information about criminal activities.
- Observe individuals' activities to gather information or compile evidence.
- Investigate accidents to determine causes.
- Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
- Record crime or accident scene evidence with video or still cameras.
- Serve court ordered documents.
- Examine crime scenes to obtain evidence.
- Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.
- Determine operational procedures.
- Record information about suspects or criminals.
- Analyze crime scene evidence.
- Collaborate with law enforcement or security agencies to share information.
- Maintain surveillance of individuals or establishments.
- Collaborate with outside groups to develop programs or projects.
- Use databases to locate investigation details or other information.
- Direct security operations.
- Provide security escorts for officials, jury members, or other individuals.
- Direct law enforcement activities.
- Issue permits or other legal documents.
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Work Context
- Telephone — 100% responded "Every day."
- Contact With Others — 76% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Electronic Mail — 80% responded "Every day."
- In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment — 84% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 75% responded "Every day."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 74% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 61% responded "Very important results."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 62% responded "Extremely important."
- Deal With External Customers — 66% responded "Extremely important."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 73% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 56% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 59% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 61% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 50% responded "Very important."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 45% responded "Every day."
- Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 43% responded "Every day."
- Consequence of Error — 59% responded "Extremely serious."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 56% responded "Every day."
- Deal With Physically Aggressive People — 48% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 42% responded "Extremely important."
- Physical Proximity — 41% responded "Very close (near touching)."
- Letters and Memos — 52% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 39% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 37% responded "Every day."
- Very Hot or Cold Temperatures — 32% responded "Every day."
- Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled — 41% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Time Pressure — 35% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Spend Time Sitting — 37% responded "More than half the time."
- Exposed to Contaminants — 32% responded "Once a year or more but not every month."
- Exposed to Disease or Infections — 27% responded "Once a year or more but not every month."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters, and medical assistants.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
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- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Work Styles
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
- Recognition — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wage data for Detectives and Criminal Investigators.
Employment data for Detectives and Criminal Investigators.
Industry data for Detectives and Criminal Investigators.
|Median wages (2019)
|$39.99 hourly, $83,170 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|110,700 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Slower than average (2% to 3%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
- FBI Agents Association
- Federal Criminal Investigators Association
- Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association
- Fraternal Order of Police
- International Association of Arson Investigators
- International Association of Auto Theft Investigators
- International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators
- International Homicide Investigators Association
- International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association
- National Alliance of Gang Investigators' Associations
- National Tactical Officers Association
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Police and detectives


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Continuing to add new publishers, Sequential, the digital comics storefront app focused on literary graphic novels, is adding a selection of Top Shelf graphic novels for purchase. Beginning today the app will offer Rep. John Lewis's acclaimed graphic memoir, March Book One as well as works by Eddie Campbell, Ed Piskor and Jeff Lemire.
In addition to March Book One, the bestselling graphic memoir of John Lewis that also maps the history of the Civil Rights Movement, Sequential will now offer 12 Top Shelf graphic novels including Wizzywig by Ed Piskor, The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire and Alec by Eddie Campbell. Sequential overs about 100 graphic novels and its list is growing.
Sequential founder Russell Willis said the app will offer the new Top Shelf titles immediately, continue to add new digital Top Shelf titles "day and date" or simultaneously with the release of print editions and "fill in the backlist over time."
Willis was in New York to attend the MoCCA Arts Festival, the annual small press comics show, and stopped by the PW offices. Willis is the founder of iEnglish, a software development firm based in Japan that produces apps and digital texts for the Japanese and global market for a wide variety of educational publishers among them Oxford University Press and Pearson. Willis is a longtime fan and fanzine publisher who worked with such authors as Alan Moore an Eddie Campbell in the U.K. in the 1980s before moving to Japan to launch his firm.
Willis launched Sequential in August 2013 with works from mostly U.K. comics publishers—Knockabout, Jonathan Cape, Myriad and Blank Slate among others. He's gone on to add works from NBM, Fantagraphics, Self Made Hero and now Top Shelf, with plans to add more publishers as well as more titles from indie comics houses. Sequential, the retail app, is a unit of Panel Nine, Willis' digital comics publishing platform, and both are divisions of iEnglish.
Sequential offers a storefront specializing in non-superhero indie comics, "a more focused list," Willis said. A software designer with 20 years experience, Willis has designed a state of the art app with a well designed interface, smooth and easy navigation and its own "guided-view" feature, a feature designed to enlarge each panel for easy reading.
Launched in the wake of the growing popularity of Comixology, the now dominant digital comics marketplace, Sequential has also worked to secure a number of exclusive digital offerings in an effort to lure comics fans to its list. Sequential offers a selection of titles that can be purchased only through the Sequential app, among them works by such comics luminaries as Gilbert Shelton, Neil Gaiman, Hunt Emerson, Alan Moore and others.
Panel Nine, Willis's digital publishing unit, publishes Infinity, a comics fanzine released about six times a year, and also publishes its own digital comics anthologies, some free publications and graphic novels including Dapper John by Eddie Campbell, Verity Fair by Terry Wiley and Kickback by David Lloyd. In addition, Willis said, he's worked with the U.S. house Self Made Hero to release "expanded" editions of graphic novels like Kiki de Montparnasse by Catel Muller and Jose-Louis Bacquet and Sand Castle by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Levy, with additional artwork and embedded multimedia with sound and video.
There's more to come from Panel Nine and Sequential. Willis said he's working with his old friend, British comics journalist and historian Paul Gravatt, who is the curator of "Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the U.K.," a massive survey of mainstream and underground British comics scheduled to open May 2 at the British Library in London and expected to attract more than a 100,000 visitors over the course of the show. The two will work on presenting a digital display tied to the exhibition as well as "another related project,' that will be released at alater time. And look for Android version of Sequential, probably by the end of 2014.
"It's a good time for more diverse fare in comics," Willis said. "We want to continue to add titles and create digital anthologies exclusive to our platform. U.S. sales are growing and it's our biggest market right now."


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NEA TV ad urges Congress to pass American Jobs Act
Ad draws attention to the consequences of Congressional inaction
WASHINGTON - September 28, 2011 -
The National Education Association today launched a multi-state television ad campaign urging Congress to pass the American Jobs Act. The legislation, if passed, will get more Americans working again, modernizing the nation's aging schools and putting teachers and support staff back to work.
"The American Jobs Act is a win-win for the American people," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "Congress can choose to put students ahead of political gridlock by supporting a bill that puts Americans back to work, modernizes our schools, and puts educators in classrooms instead of on the unemployment lines."
The 30-second ad is airing in select media markets in Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas and the District of Columbia. These are states that have been feeling the economic pinch caused by severe budget cuts and painful policy decisions.
Teachers, education support professionals, parents and others in local communities are rallying behind President Barack Obama's bold proposal to get the economy moving in the right direction again. His proposal would put up to 280,000 educators back to work and modernize 35,000 of our nation's aging public schools.
"The fact is that educators know firsthand the devastating impact the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is having on our communities, our schools and students," noted Van Roekel. "Children can't learn if they're hungry. They can't learn if their family can't afford to see a dentist or a doctor. They can't learn if they're anxious, nervous or have low self-esteem due to living in poverty. Unemployment isn't just an economic issue – it's an education issue."
One such unemployed teacher from Florida visited Washington to urge her Congressional delegation to pass the American Jobs Act. Cherine Akbari, a history teacher from Northeast High School in Oakland Park, FL, was fired the last day of Teacher Appreciation Week and five days after she moved into her new house. The American Jobs Act would put people like Cherine back in the classroom with her students again. There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed educators like Cherine who are willing and eager to get back to schools and classrooms with help from Congress.
To view the 30-second ad, visit http://tinyurl.com/4x2thmt
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We thought that we already knew just how glorious that Canon's $US2,699 EOS 5D Mark II would be, but the camera has one trick up its sleeve that's more practical than another megapixel boost, or maybe even its ability to capture 1080p HD video. Seriously. The camera can keep track of up to six batteries in its internal database, managing which of them still have juice.
The technology isn't extremely complicated, just clever. Each LP-E6 battery pack contains a microchip with an 8-character serial number. In the camera menu, the battery/chip can be registered to be tracked by the camera.
From there, the Mark II tracks the battery's charge by single percentages along with how many shots the battery has already captured. Put a photographer in a dark room and multiply his battery load by six, and it becomes obvious why many pros and consumers alike will take advantage of this feature. [Canon via Engadget]


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I just saw a remarkable film The Battle of Algiers. Made in black and white (French with English subtitles) in 1966 by the Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, the story is about the Algerian struggle for independence and the battle between the rebels and the French colonial powers in the capital city of Algiers in the period 1954-1960.
In order to deal with the increasing violence during this period, the French government sends in elite paratroopers led by Colonel Mathieu. Mathieu sets about ruthlessly identifying the structure of the insurgent network, capturing and torturing members to get information on others, and killing and blowing up buildings in his pursuit of the rebels even if it contains civilians. And yet, he is not portrayed as a monster. In one great scene where he is giving a press conference, he is asked about his methods of getting information and the allegations of torture. He replies quite frankly that the French people must decide if they want to stay in Algeria or leave, and if they want to halt the violence against them or let it continue. He says that if they want to stay and stop the violence, then they must be prepared to live with the consequences of how that is achieved. It is the French people's choice.
One gets the sense that Mathieu does not torture and kill suspects because he enjoys it. He is simply an amoral man, who has been given a job to do and he will get it done using whatever means he deems necessary. This is the kind of military person that political leaders want. They don't want people who worry about the niceties of human rights and human dignity. But when you train people to deny their normal human feelings, then you get the kind of people who carry out the tortures described in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and who are even surprised when there is an outcry that what they did was wrong.
And Mathieu does succeed in his task, at least in the short run. By his ruthless methods he destroys the rebel network. But all that this buys is some time. After a lull in the violence for a couple of years, a sudden eruption of mass protests results in Algeria becoming independent in 1962. The French win the battle of Algiers but lose the war of independence.
The film gives a remarkably balanced look at the battle, avoiding the temptation to fall into easy clichés about good and evil. It shows the FLN (National Liberation Front) using women and children to carry out its bombing campaign against French civilians living in the French areas of the city. In one memorable sequence, three young Muslim women remove their veils, cut their hair, put on makeup, and dress like French women to enable them to carry bombs in their bags and pass through military checkpoints that surround the Muslim sector of the city (the Casbah). They place those bombs in a dance hall, coffee shop and Air France office, bombs that explode with deadly effect killing scores of civilians who just happen to be there.
In one scene:
Pontecorvo deals with the issue of the killing of innocents by an army vs. such killing by an irregular force. During a press conference, a reporter asks a captured official of the FLN: "Isn't it a dirty thing to use women's baskets to carry bombs to kill innocent people?" To which the official answers, "And you? Doesn't it seem even dirtier to you to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages with thousands of innocent victims? It would be a lot easier for us if we had planes. Give us your bombers, and we'll give you our baskets."
The parallels of Algeria and Iraq are striking, so much so that it is reported that the US policy makers and military viewed this film with a view to hoping to learn how to combat the Iraq insurgency.
As in Iraq, the rebels are Muslims and the objections they have to being ruled by non-Muslims plays an important role in their motivation to revolt. The French had just humiliatingly lost in Vietnam in 1954 and their military was anxious to rehabilitate their reputations by winning elsewhere. In other words, they had their own 'Vietnam syndrome' to deal with, just like the US.
In the film, you see how the ability of the insurgents to blend in with the urban population enables them to move around and carry out attacks on the French police and citizenry, with women and children playing important roles. We see how the privileged and western lifestyle of the French people in Algeria makes them easy targets for attacks. We see how the attacks on French people and soldiers in Algeria causes great fury amongst the French citizenry, causing them to condone the torture and killing and other brutal methods of the French troops.
One major difference between the French involvement in Algeria and US involvement is Iraq is that Algeria had been occupied by the French for 130 years, since 1830. They had been there for so long that they considered it part of France and refused to consider the possibility of independence. The long occupation also resulted in a significant number of French people living in the city of Algiers, thus making them vulnerable targets. In Iraq, there are very few US civilians and almost all of them are in the heavily fortified so-called 'green zone.'
The film takes a balanced look at what an urban guerilla war looks like and those who wish to see what might be currently happening in cities like Ramadi and Falluja and Baghdad can get a good idea by seeing this film. The scenes of mass protest by huge crowds of Algerians and their suppression by the occupying French forces are so realistic that the filmmakers put a disclaimer at the beginning stating that no documentary or newsreel footage had been used. And amazingly, this realism was achieved with all novice actors, people who were selected off the streets of Algiers. Only the French Colonel Mathieu was played by a professional actor, but you would not believe it from just seeing the film since the actors give such natural and polished performances, surely a sign of a great director.
For a good analysis of the film and background on its director, see here. The film is available at the Kelvin Smith Library.
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Today at 10:00 pm WVIZ Channel 25 in Cleveland is showing No More Tears Sister. I wrote about this documentary earlier.


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Schwartz, Welsh Pay Tribute to Airmen at Air Force Transition
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2012 – Both outgoing and incoming Air Force chiefs of staff paid tribute to airmen and their families during the transition of responsibility ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Md., today.
There, Gen. Norton Schwartz turned over responsibility as Air Force chief of staff and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Gen. Mark A. Welsh III.
Schwartz retires with over 39 years of service, and ends his career as the most senior member of the JointChiefs. "Norty has been a selfless, committed and determined teammate to our joint DOD interagency and international partners," Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said. "He has demonstrated daily to our airmen that the best route to mission success is through teamwork across the total force – active duty, Guard, reserve and civilian airman working together."
The new chief of staff has big shoes to fill, Donley said. "Mark is highly respected throughout the Air Force for his exceptional leadership and his ability to connect with airmen, qualities that will continue to prove extremely valuable in his new role. Without a doubt, Mark is an officer with a broad range of military experience and professional acumen grounded with the core values and the character that make him ready to lead this world-class institution."
Schwartz was not expecting to become Air Force chief of staff. He was serving as the commander of U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., when then-President Bush asked him to accept the job. His mission was to tighten contracting, ensure no mistakes in the handling of nuclear weapons and provide trained and equipped forces to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During today's ceremony, Schwartz listed what the Air Force accomplished in his four years at the helm. "We conducted effective combat operations in multiple theatres. We revitalized the nuclear enterprise, including the establishment of the Air Force Global Strike Command, exclusively to oversee our intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal and nuclear-capable bomber fleet."
The service developed the contract for the nation's next-generation air refueling tanker program and institutionalized remotely piloted aircraft.
"We can be proud of the progress that we have made, not only from a materiel perspective but also in caring for airmen and their families," he said. "This includes the comprehensive airman fitness efforts and morale, welfare and recreation programs that are relevant to a broader range of airman and family needs."
The service has also made progress in family support area. "We can be optimistic even as we look to improve further our exceptional family member program, enhance services at child development centers and spouse employment programs, among others," he said.
The new chief of staff also stressed the importance of joint operations and joint cooperation. "For our airmen, I believe that joint operations are the only way we will succeed on the battlefield. If you plan to criticize one of our sister services, don't let me hear you."
And joint operations must blend with coalition operations. "I believe our Air Force is an absolutely essential contributor to the joint team, just like each of our sister services are," he said. "No one else can bring what we bring to the fight, and every real war fighter knows that. Don't ever doubt yourself or this service."
The Air Force has a large part of protecting America in the future. "Without a well-trained, well-equipped, capable and credible Air Force, our nation will simply not be able to project or protect its power and interests in the future," he said. "Our job is to make sure we can."
The Air Force is a model of total force integration, Welsh said, and cited how active duty and reserve components operate together around the world.
"I believe every member of our Air Force family is critically important to our success, and each of them deserves to be treated that way. When it comes to airman resiliency, the suicide prevention, the sexual assault prevention and response, I believe you're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem. There is no middle ground."
Welsh spoke about his priorities, saying the most important thing airmen must concentrate on is winning. "Number one, win the fight, today's fight, the one that starts next week, the one that starts next month or the one that starts next year," he said. "Readiness and training are not optional."
All airmen must work together to strengthen the team. "That's the Air Force team, the airman family team, the joint team, the coalition team, the interagency team," he said.
Finally, airmen must be ready for the future and not lose sight of the mission. "That will require innovative thinking and different approaches to problems, and it will require modernization. I believe success is all about people and pride in performance. And I will insist we walk the talk when it comes to taking care of the people we're privileged to lead. But we can never afford to forget that the only bottom line in this business is performance. No one will care how well we treated our people if we lose the next war."
Trust is a key component, and Welsh wants airmen to know he trusts them. "I know how talented you are. I know how well you serve and how proud you are of what you do and … what you represent," he said. "And you need to know that no one, no one ever has been prouder to serve as your chief of staff. It's about time I got to work."
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Many fighters follow the sport, but a surprising few consider themselves hardcore MMA fans.
So when WEC bantamweight newcomer Ken Stone (9-1 MMA, 0-0 WEC) – who makes his promotion debut against former champ Eddie Wineland (17-6-1 MMA, 4-2 WEC) at Thursday's WEC 53 event in Arizona – calls himself a true fan, you may be skeptical.
That is until you hear his list of favorite fighters: Genki Sudo, Takanori Gomi and Masakazu Imanari, among others.
A "TUF noob," Stone is not.
"Everyone likes to see spectacular moves, and I'm no exception," Stone recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "Those guys are some of the best."
Yet Stone has produced many of his own spectacular performance since turning pro a little more than three years ago. A former wrestler at Division III Bridgewater State University, Stone had been following the sport, especially the now-defunct PRIDE Fighting Championships, long before he decided to launch a career of his own. Fight DVDs and live events often filled his downtime before he decided to make his own run in the sport.
Now with American Top Team, Stone won his first eight pro fights – all via stoppage, and seven in the first round. His lone loss came in bout No. 9, when the Massachusetts native suffered a broken foot in the second round of a fight with Jason McLean. Yet Stone went the full five rounds and suffered only a close split-decision defeat.
After healing and returning from a 16-month layoff with a submission win over Jason Bennett in October, he got the call from the WEC.
"When I found out I was going to be on the card, I could hardly sleep for like a week," he said. "I'm really happy and excited for the opportunity. I love this sport. If I'm not having fun, I don't want to do it. And I'm having a lot of fun right now. A lot of fun."
His opponent, Wineland, who was the WEC's first-ever 135-pound champ, had been scheduled to fight Damacio Page this past month at WEC 52. But when an injury forced Wineland off the card, he got matched up with Stone at WEC 53, which is the organization's final event before it's absorbed into the UFC.
A lot is riding on the line for Stone, including a possible UFC deal if he proves successful in his preliminary-card bout. He's also facing his most experienced opponent, one of those longtime pros who first got him interested in MMA.
But don't confuse Stone's respect with fear or trepidation.
"I've had more than a month to get ready," he said. "I'm in good shape.
"My striking is sharp, my jiu-jitsu is sharp, and my wrestling is feeling sharp. I'm just so excited for this fight. This is a great matchup for me, and I can't wait to get in there."
For the latest on WEC 53, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
MMAjunkie.com Radio broadcasts Monday-Friday at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) live from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino's Race & Sports Book. The show is hosted by Gorgeous George, MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan and producer Goze. For more information or to download past episodes, go to www.mmajunkie.com/radio.


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Offsite backup covers the replication of backup data to a site geographically separate from the production systems site as well as performing backup over WAN. Motivations for offsite backup include disaster recovery, backup operations consolidation and cost savings.
Who uses offsite backup, and why ?
A wide variety of organizations may choose to offsite backup, for reasons including:
Disaster recovery.
In this case, offsite backup replicates backup data to a remote site, to enable recovery of data or recovery of application use should disaster strike the local site.
Backup operations consolidation.
Geographically dispersed enterprises may have their branch offices perform offsite backup to a central location rather than each branch maintaining backups on site. This would require performing backup over WAN from the branch office to another, typically, central location. Depending on the scope of backup needs and circumstances in their production facilities, such an approach can make more efficient use of IT resources as well as affording a greater degree of corporate control over backup practices.
Depending on the scope of their data backup needs and circumstances in their facilities, for some organizations offsite backup in the form of backup over WAN may be more cost effective than backing up data onsite.
How offsite backup works
Traditionally, offsite backup has was limited to copying data to portable media – most often tape – and then transporting the media to the remote backup location. Given past technical limitations – most notably, network bandwidth constraints – there was no practical alternative to this labor-intensive means of implementing remote backup.
In today's high-bandwidth era, a new generation of disk-based backup systems and remote backup software makes offsite backup simpler and faster by using corporate WANs or the internet to replicate or backup over WAN. In addition to leveraging modern high bandwidth connections, these next-generation offsite backup approaches employ advanced deduplication technologies to sharply reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network and stored remotely. The most advanced systems and software apply deduplication at the sub-file level to dramatically reduce the bandwidth and storage capacity requirements associated with offsite backup.
Cloud backup is a specific form of modern offsite backup implementation. With cloud backup, client software on customers' primary storage systems automatically replicates or backups data to the cloud service provider's offsite backup location, and the service provider is responsible for operating the backup facilities.
Benefits of offsite backup
Offsite backup for disaster recovery helps enterprises avoid the potentially severe consequences of data loss or service interruption in the event of a data center scale disaster. Offsite backup over WAN benefits some organizations by reducing the total costs of providing adequate data and system backup, or by bringing backup and recovery operations under central control in a multi-office environment.
Disk-based backup systems and backup software that support deduplication deliver these offsite backup benefits as well as benefits like smaller backup windows, faster recovery times, simpler management, and improved security compared to traditional tape-based systems.
For organizations looking for offsite backup, and for cloud service providers delivering offsite backup services, EMC offers next-generation backup solutions including EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar, and EMC NetWorker.


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THE first thing you realise after talking to a few patients and staff at Cotswold House, Headington, is that the common perception of anorexia and bulimia being mostly driven by body image is untrue.
In fact, the need for control, to have their life dictated by order and routine is what motivates most of the people who attend as day and inpatients at the unit, at the Warneford Hospital, rather than seeing themselves as "fat".
Consultant clinical psychologist Nicky Boughton, who helped set up the service in 1994, said: "It is completely over-egged in the way it is presented in the media. Many patients know they are thin."
She said: "The kind of people who develop eating disorders are perfectionists. They are very much all or nothing.
"They are obsessed with getting the best results which becomes impossible and becomes their downfall."
Adding that high achievers are particularly at risk, Mrs Boughton said: "Part of the therapy is helping them with their thinking. They focus on little details and don't see the bigger picture.
"Although it is a severe mental disorder, people don't see it like that. They think people are vain and concerned about what they look like."
The lack of specialist care motivated her and colleagues to set up the unit – supported by another in Marlborough, Wiltshire – to tackle what she said is the mental illness with the highest death rate for the under 65s.
Before then, sufferers were sent to general psychiatric wards or specialist units far from home.
It was first hoped that by seeing people early on in their crisis without the need for overnight stays in hospital, they could stop the onset of a severe eating disorder.
She said: "Unfortunately that was not the case because there are patients who feel they can't let go so they have very low weight and are on the edge of severe illness."
This led to the opening of a seven-bed inpatient facility in 2003, now expanded to 14 beds, and still supported by day care for non-residents.
Today the service, run by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, supports about 250 women from across the south of England.
Rather than delve deeply into the root causes of people's problem, the service focuses on how people can change their behaviour with techniques like cognitive behaviour therapy, now widely used in the NHS to treat anxiety.
Mrs Boughton said: "It is very much about managing your mood by other means.
"It is about being aware of how you feel and finding a different way of managing it.
"For many people, to get things going, it is about being practical, getting them eating again and getting them to deal with their situation.
"You used to think you can just do therapy but the reality is nobody can make use of proper therapy while they are very starved."
Ensuring people eat enough and regularly is therefore vital, she said, and staff hope to turn around outpatients' disorder through 20 to 30 weekly sessions.
It's not an easy challenge: "It is difficult nursing people with anorexia – they don't want to be helped," she said.
About 50 per cent of its patients – nine in ten are women – recover with a further 25 per cent finding a way of "living with their long-term illness" and the remainder struggling to overcome their disorder, she said.
"The main reason people tend to get better is actually when they realise they are sick of being ill and the restrictions that imposes on their life and they can have a different life and are brave enough to take that step."
It works with Oxford University's Department of Psychiatry on new treatments in what is still a complex and often misunderstood problem.
Mrs Boughton said: "We still haven't got the definitive treatment for anorexia but we have spent a lot of energy in enabling those who live with it to live fuller lives."
Looking back, she said: "It is fantastic, it makes you feel 'wow, there is a reason'.
"Sometimes you see people come back and you tend to forget those who are successful."
DR BECKY McKnight, below, said her 2004 to 2010 battle with her anorexia – including a seven-month inpatient stay – inspired her to tackle the issue in her professional life with a job at Cotswold House.
The psychiatrist, who studied medicine at Oxford University, said: "I feel I have a unique insight into what it's like to have mental health problems compared to the average doctor.
"The things that led to it were probably intense pressure to perform really well academically. I put pressure on myself to do that.
"One thing I felt was out of my control was my weight and shape and if I thought if I can control that I will do well academically.
"People have different reasons they want to take control but, at the end of the day, it is that control."
Asked how the unit helped, Dr Knight, 30, said: "I wouldn't have finished medical school. It is hard to say whether I would be alive or not.
"I wouldn't have a career or the relationship I have got. I wouldn't have my son because I wouldn't have been able to have a child."
ANNA King, 20, above, said the pressure to succeed academically contributed to her eating disorder and stay at the unit from March to July 2012.
The Nash, Buckinghamshire, resident said: "There was definitely a mould for life which was school, exams. An A was acceptable, a B was failure and an A* was what you should be getting.
"I have always been a bit of a perfectionist and had obsessive tendencies.
"You can become very controlling and eating comes quite high on that list."
She began shunning food in her first year of a maths and philosophy degree at Edinburgh University and her weight fell from 9st to 5st. Daily exercise and only eating small portions like two pieces of melon saw her weight plummet.
She said of her stay at Cotswold House: "Once they got me on the right medication then everything changed.
"Without it I could quite possibly be dead rather than be very, very happy with my life."
It also helped her realise that practical work as a hotel pastry chef was her path to happiness. She said: "I'm the happiest pastry chef in the world."
MODEL Tiffany Saunders, 23, above, said her need for control and not her career in a body-conscious industry led to her dangerously low food consumption.
Miss Saunders – modelling from the age of four – was an inpatient from February to May 2012 when her weight dropped to a low of 5.5st.
She said: "My life was incredibly structured and rigid. My mind was all over the place and I didn't necessarily have time for breakfast. If I ate, it was an apple.
"I just didn't know how to manage everything. Being an inpatient forced me to stop and rest and eat.
"It was incredibly bad anxiety, I became very anxious about a lot of things. I was fearful of the big wide world and the reality of growing up.
"I put a lot of pressure on myself. I had to do everything the absolute best. It meant I was controlling what I ate. Eating became my coping."
Despite commercial modelling in media like catalogues, she said low self-confidence led to her disorder and stay at Cotswold House.
She said: "When I got to the January I wanted to change and started to work with them rather than against them. That was when it worked."
EATING disorders are harder to treat as people get older and Jane Donnelly, 52, above, finds it an ongoing battle.
She has struggled with her eating disorder since 11 at a time when such conditions were little understood, saying: "I just ate very little."
She said: "I didn't fit the mould, I'm not a young girl, I'm older.
"I used to run up and down the stairs as a teenager because I was worried about getting a big stomach."
Her weight fell as low as 5.5st.
She said: "Now things are different because Cotswold House will take people of an older age."
Undiagnosed until her 30s, she said 10 years ago she would have been "terrified" of the chocolate cake at the unit's birthday party.
While doctors are encouraging her to raise her weight, she said: "I make sure that I can enjoy food now and not feel guilty afterwards."


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Passport® Toolkits provide ELM Solutions clients and partners with powerful capabilities to administer, configure, and extend Passport solutions. These toolkits give our clients and global partner network the ability to tailor Passport solutions to meet precise client requirements. Our clients and partners are also able to build new solutions on Passport to support the emerging needs of corporate legal, risk, compliance, and claims departments.
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Three-Rooker Baris a small, semicircular island that has emerged within the last decade. The fact that sand has been accumulating at this location while erosion has occurred at other locations demonstrates the complexity of the coastal processes at work on the West-Central Florida coast. As the island emerged, it quickly became vegetated, increasing its stability.
Three Rooker Bar is not your typical bar because it's really a small Island or sand bar just of the coast of northern Pinellas. Partying here is the nautical equivalent of tailgating in a parking lot before a football game. Boaters just drop anchor and get crazy. On weekends it's crowded and loud but the water is Caribbean blue and the sand is white and sugary soft.
This party paradise is accessible only by boat or personal watercraft. The closest ramp is probably Dunedin Marina and Anclote Park. Tip: No glass allowed on the beach. PETS ARE NOT ALLOWED
This island is only accessible by private boat and has no facilities. Additionally camping is allowed on the southern tip OUTSIDE of the restricted Bird Habitat which is clearly marked.


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Unity3D Getting Started
WarpClient provides an interface for applications to interact with the cloud services. It allows client side applications to connect, subscribe and manage server side rooms, lobbies and users. The APIs are developed to be used asynchronously, which means you simply add the corresponding request listeners to the WarpClient instance to receive responses and updates. This page describes to how to set up your connection with the cloud server and introduces API usage.
In order to use the various functions available, you will have to initialize and connect the instance of WarpClient. WarpClient is initialized by passing the apiKey and secretKey which you received after creating an app from AppHq (App42 management console).
WarpClient.initialize("Your API Key", "Your Secret Key");
After initialization, you are ready to connect and authenticate with your application on the server. It is recommended you implement and add a connection request listener which will be called by WarpClient with the result of the connection and authentication requests.
WarpClient myGame = WarpClient.GetInstance(); myGame.AddConnectionRequestListener(new MyConnectionListener()); myGame.Connect("TestUserName");
The connection request listener callback will be invoked once the connection with the Warp server has been established. If this is successful,you can go ahead and call the authenticate API by giving in the user name with which the client wishes to join the online application. Note that two users with the same name can not be connected to the online application simultaneously. Here is a simple implementation of a request listener.
public class ConListen : com.shephertz.app42.gaming.multiplayer.client.listener.ConnectionRequestListener { public ConListen() { } public void onConnectDone(ConnectEvent eventObj) { if (eventObj.getResult() == WarpResponseResultCode.SUCCESS) { Console.WriteLine("connection success"); } else { Console.WriteLine(("connection fail"); } } public void onDisconnectDone(ConnectEvent eventObj) { } }
Below are the Request Result codes and their description that can be retrieved when an event callback is invoked from the event instance
byte SUCCESS = 0; byte AUTH_ERROR = 1; byte RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND = 2; byte RESOURCE_MOVED = 3; byte BAD_REQUEST = 4; byte CONNECTION_ERR = 5; byte UNKNOWN_ERROR = 6;
Once you have successfully connected you can either join the lobby or join a particular room. You should also subscribe the lobby or the room joined to catch the notifications generated in that particular room or lobby.
myGame.JoinRoom(roomId); myGame.SubscribeRoom(roomID);
To exchanges messages you can either send messages in plain text format using sendChat() method or send messages in binary format using sendUpdate() method respectively. To catch the messages send through sendChat() method use the onChatReceived() method of MyNotificationListener and to catch the messages send through onUpdatePeersReceived() method of MyNotificationListener.
Appwarp also allows you to set custom data for users and rooms through the methods SetCustomUserData() and SetCustomRoomData(). To retrieve the custom data and other information WarpClient comprises GetLiveUserInfo() and GetLiveRoomInfo() methods.


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I suppose we're stating the obvious here, I mean, everyone knows that back pain can be relieved by a soak in hot water, right? And, it makes sense that the same hot water therapy can relieve the pain and swelling of arthritic joints.
According to The National Institutes of Health, Spa therapy, or hot-water balneology, appears to be indicated for chronic low back pain, stabilized rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. Clinical trial findings suggest that patients with knee and hand osteoarthritis may benefit.
OK, point proven. Hot tubs and spas are great for what ails ya. The combination of the heat and the body's buoyancy in the water relax the central nervous system and allow blood to flow. Increased blood flow helps to relieve inflammation and swelling, and brings more white blood cells to your painful areas.
And if you have massage jets in your spa, you get the bonus benefit of hydro-massage to specific areas.
Chronic back pain is an extremely disabling condition, affecting millions of Americans. Persistent pain can be managed with pills, but for many, it's the hot tub that brings steady relief.
Back pain can be caused by vertebrae misalignment, or from compression on the nerves that pass through the spine. Warm water therapy has been shown to be useful (American Journal of Medicine) for those recovering from back or spine trauma. Range of motion exercises in the hot water can increase one's flexibility in the affected region.
Although hot water soaks are great for backs, experts generally agree that for first aid treatment to back injuries, one should start with ice or cold compresses. After some stabilization of the area, alternating treatments of hot water soaking and cold compresses can be used. Weeks or months after an injury, hot tub therapy can continue to bring back pain relief and speed healing of the area.
As early as 1938, the New England Journal of Medicine stated "No therapy has been shown to be more consistently effective at treating chronic arthritis, as is physical medicine, including hydrotherapy".
Arthritis can be of two types, rheumatoid or osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is when the body's defenses are weak, affecting joints and bones. Osteo-Arthritis is a more common type of arthritis, affecting joints and bones that had suffered previous injury. Another very painful type of arthritis is Gout, when crystals develop between and around the joints. The swelling and pain can be excruciating.
Fortunately, there is relief in hot water. The temperature of the water helps to increase blood flow, and reduce swelling, while numbing pain receptors. Constricted muscles slowly expand as the skin absorbs the moisture deep into the body. Toxins are drawn off, and one can finally relax.
Hot tubs aren't a panacea for pain management, but they do provide real relief, and are an accepted treatment for back pain, arthritis, and many other ailments.
Does your spa bring therapeutic relief to you or your family? What benefits do you see? Which conditions is your spa or hot tub treating effectively?
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation to punish Russian human rights violators as part of a broader bill to expand U.S. trade with Washington's former Cold War enemy.
Passage of the bill, by a 92-4 vote, drew an immediate angry response from Moscow, which had been warning that the human rights provisions would damage relations.
"The decision of the U.S. Senate … is a performance in the theater of the absurd," Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement. A senior Russian lawmaker said Moscow could retaliate with a similar law.
The bill, which President Barack Obama said he would sign into law, grants "permanent normal trade relations," or PNTR, to Russia by lifting a Cold War-era restriction on trade.
"The legislation will ensure that American businesses and workers are able to take full advantage of the WTO rules and market access commitments that the United States worked so hard to negotiate," Obama said in a statement.
The bill also grants PNTR to Moldova.
Business groups have been pushing Congress for months to approve the bill, which would ensure that U.S. companies get all the market-opening benefits of Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization. Russia joined the WTO on Aug. 22.
Without it, U.S. firms such as Caterpillar, Ford, JP Morgan Chase and others feared they would be left at a disadvantage, compared to competitors in other countries that already have full WTO relations with Russia.
The United States cannot use the WTO dispute-settlement system to challenge any Russian actions that unfairly restrict U.S. imports until PNTR is signed into law.
Russia is the United States' 20th largest trading partner, with two-way trade totaling about $43 billion. As part of its WTO accession process, Russia agreed to cut tariffs, open its services market and make other trade reforms.
U.S. exports to Russia totaled about $8.3 billion last year, and the PNTR vote raises hopes those sales could double or triple over the next five years.
Many U.S. lawmakers refused to approve PNTR, which required lifting a 1974 human rights measure known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment, without new human rights legislation.
Jackson-Vanik tied the most favorable U.S. tariff rates to the rights of Jews in the former Soviet Union to emigrate freely. While it is broadly considered a success, it is a relic of the Cold War and at odds with WTO rules.
The bill approved on Thursday directs Obama to publish the names of Russians allegedly involved in the abuse and death of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-corruption lawyer who died in a Russian jail in 2009.
It also would require the United States to deny visas and freeze the assets of any individual on the list, as well as other human rights violators in Russia on an ongoing basis.
It directs the administration to publish the names, but allows exceptions if it decides that it is in the national security interest of the United States.
"My administration will continue to work with Congress and our partners to support those seeking a democratic future for Russia and promote the rule of law and respect for human rights around the world," Obama said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry statement accused U.S. lawmakers of acting as if the Cold War was still on.
"It is worth noting that the law approved by the Senate will have a highly negative impact on the prospects of our bilateral cooperation. Responsibility, of course, lies entirely with the United States," the ministry said.
Senator Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who helped author the Magnitsky provision, said he would push to make it universal in scope so it could be used to punish other human rights violators around the world.
"With this vote, we are setting a precedent for future trade agreements that tells the world that gross violators of human rights cannot escape the consequences of their actions even when their home country fails to act. Human rights cannot and should not be open to compromise," Cardin said.
The PNTR bill also contains measures that pressure the White House to make sure that Russia abides by WTO rules.
"If there are areas where Russia is not in compliance with its obligations, the administration is required to develop an action plan to address them," said Senator Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.
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I hate to be this guy, but I am in need of some advice. Due to highschool with 3 classes being college classes and working 40 hours a week I have been unable to get out scouting for my elk hunt. I normally hunt spikes over by Strawberry with my cousins and uncles, but due to my time constraints this year I won't be able to do that. I will be limited to short hunts after school or maybe one day on the weekends if I can trade shifts around. I live in Kamas, so it would have to be somewhere somewhat close to that. Here comes the classic line "I am not looking for honey holes, just general areas." Thank in advance for any advice you guys may have.


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At the end of a leafy, dead-end street in Coconut Grove, past actor Christian Slater's new digs and the sprawling grounds of Hollywood director David Frankel's home, sit mounds of rubble. Just a few days ago, this was one of Miami's grandest, most envied private homes: the five-acre, 26,000-square-foot du Pont estate.
But the house was bulldozed to make way for minimansions. On the property's north side, St. Gaudens Road slopes gradually down to Biscayne Bay. At the road's end, beneath a mangrove-shaded guardrail, are coarse, glittering bits of melted glass, tiny clumps of metal, and other telltale toxic detritus of Miami's long-closed municipal incinerators.
The du Pont estate was built atop an ash dump.
Toxic Du Pont Estate in Coconut Grove
"It came from the incinerator over in the [West] Grove," says Dr. John C. Nordt III, an orthopedic surgeon and a lifelong Coconut Grove resident. "That's certainly no secret."
Like the Grove's Blanche Park, which recently became a national scandal when inspectors found that tons of dangerous ash from the "Old Smokey" incinerator had been dumped and left for decades where children play, the former du Pont estate is poisoned. The property was recently sold at a monstrous discount after a survey showed arsenic, barium, lead, copper, and other toxic contaminants at levels far above what's considered safe. In all, environmental engineers estimated the site contains as much as 100,000 tons of tainted soil buried as deep as 18 feet.
Nordt grew up a stone's throw away, in the two-story Mediterranean Revival recently purchased by Christian Slater. As a boy, the surgeon recalls trucks rumbling down the street, perhaps two or three times a week. They backed up to a low ridge overlooking the property and dumped their loads. "We kids collected the melted glass to play hopscotch," he says.
Back then, few people understood the threat to human health: "They dumped in the low-end neighborhoods, and they dumped in the high-end neighborhoods," he says. "They really didn't discriminate against anyone."
Nordt's family lived on the street for decades. He says the dumping continued throughout the 1950s and stopped shortly before the du Ponts acquired the land and built their mansion in 1964.
The road is named after its first notable resident, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, an acclaimed sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation once honored with his likeness on a 3-cent stamp. Saint-Gaudens — who also designed the rarest coin in U.S. history, the $20 "double gold eagle" — acquired the swampy, mangrove-covered lot in the early 1900s, passing it to heirs upon his death in 1907.
The property was later acquired by Dr. Tracy Haverfield, a well-known Miami neurosurgeon who, according to Nordt, welcomed the city's unwanted incinerator ash as fill that eventually transformed the acres of wetland into dry, buildable land.
Willis du Pont, an heir to the chemical fortune, needed 35 railroad cars to ship enough sandstone from an Ohio quarry to build the 33-room mansion he would name Baymere on the site. The home's sleek midcentury-modern design, while modest by today's garish standards, was widely acclaimed for its grandeur and detail. Perhaps, Nordt quips, only the legatee of an industrial chemical concern could feel at peace living atop a toxic dump.
In 1967, the home was featured in one of Miami's most sensational crimes. On a chilly October night, five gunmen broke in; tied up du Pont, his wife, their two young children, and two servants; and ransacked the place. The robbers had good manners but bad grammar, du Pont's wife told a Miami News reporter.
After dining on roast beef and soda pilfered from the kitchen, they escaped in the family's red Cadillac convertible with a fortune in rare coins that was among the world's most valuable private collections. (Over the years, many of the coins have been recovered, including, in 2004, an exceedingly rare 1866 silver dollar valued at close to $2 million.)
Badly shaken, the du Ponts fled their beloved Baymere for the relative safety of Palm Beach County. The estate changed hands, eventually making its way into the bowels of a vast real estate portfolio owned by an oil-rich sheik from the United Arab Emirates, who, neighbors say, hasn't been seen in years.
In June 2012, the property was put up for sale for $22 million. Early this year, a prospective buyer conducted a routine environmental assessment. The results were startling: arsenic, barium, lead, copper, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and other toxic contaminants at dangerous levels. One test sample found arsenic at more than 25 times the concentrations the county deems significant enough to warrant remediation.
In all, roughly four of the five acres, including a filled portion jutting into the bay, contain buried toxic ash. Evidence suggests the material extends beyond the property's boundaries, perhaps onto abutting lands.
Meanwhile, groundwater tests show carcinogenic plumes that most likely extend into Biscayne Bay. The identity of that prospective buyer remains a closely held secret, and what came next is unclear. But it is apparent that neither buyer nor seller informed the county of the obvious risks to human health and the environment.
Records obtained by Miami New Times show that a legion of attorneys, consulting engineers, building contractors, and other professionals knew about the contamination as early as last March, but nearly three months passed before the findings were forwarded to Dade's Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM), the county agency charged with pollution oversight and control.
Why the wait? Though that too is unclear, the environmental engineers, in their 366-page assessment report, described the cumbersome consequence of reporting the results and counseled the hiring of an attorney.
So far, neither the consulting engineers nor DERM have pinpointed the contamination's origin. DERM's longtime environmental chief, Wilbur Mayorga, says the county is pocked with former dump sites — some legal, some not. Where they are, he says, is often a surprise.
Improbably, the house opened to the public in late August for a weekend garage sale featuring tacky, overly padded furniture and kitschy bric-a-brac. The caretaker told a visitor the sheik was making way for a new owner, later identified by neighbors to be a 40-something Venezuelan ex-pat named Isaac Perez.
In late September, the property sold for $11.4 million — just under half the already-reduced asking price. A newly formed corporation — 3500 St. Gaudens LLC — holds the deed. State records list Key Biscayne's Isaac R. Perez as the corporation's manager and president and Odette Perez as vice president. According to news reports, two siblings of the same names are heirs to a Venezuelan oil fortune (their uncle was a founder of OPEC). They fled to Key Biscayne in 2002 after their alleged involvement in a failed attempt to overthrow President Hugo Chavez.
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Attempts to reach the Perezes were unsuccessful. Neither brokers involved in the deal nor South Miami contractor John Kovacs of Ikon Builders, which commissioned the environmental assessment reports, were available for comment. And two environmental attorneys who helped navigate the regulatory maze, John McNally and Kerri Barsh, also did not respond to calls and emails requesting comment.
In any case, the owners — whoever they may be — have until November 13 to submit a plan detailing how they intend to clean up the soil and protect the groundwater. Given the tests results, that remedy will likely require removal of the contaminated soil — a ghastly expensive, loud, and time-consuming undertaking; groundwater protection may be even more challenging.
But a preliminary report, submitted to DERM in September, suggests a less costly remedy. The buyer, the report says, intends to build five luxury residences with driveways and other impermeable surfaces that will limit toxic exposure. Elsewhere, two feet of clean fill will cap the contaminated soil, rendering it safe.
For now, though, DERM is demanding tightly restricted access to the walled-in property. But on a recent weekday morning, both drive gates on the property's north side were open, allowing a visitor to roam freely across the toxic landscape. In the exposed soil, churned by demolition of the once-grand residence, the unmistakable mix of incinerator ash sparkled in the sunlight.


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Gear ratios, circular pitch, mesh, RPM -- lessons from my college Mechanical Design class flashed before my eyes when I first previewed The Robot Book by Heather Brown. Why? This board book contains a bolt, a nut and several interactive cardboard gears. And it's hard not to think of all those lessons when I see two gears mesh together.
The Robot Book by Heather Brown; Accord Publishing (October 2010); ISBN 9780740797255; 12 pages
Book Source: Review copy from publisher
Now, this is not at all an informational book about gears, machines, or how they work, but more of an entertaining "touch and play" perfect to engage toddlers' minds. In my experience, kids love interactive toys and books -- anything with moving parts or flaps that open. Kids love robots, too. The Robot Book combines both these kid friendly elements into a short and sweet book about a robot's parts...mouth, eyes, arms and something else special on the inside. The book reminds young and old of an ever so important message...it's what's inside that counts! Preview the entire book in the following YouTube video.
Our robot obsession is well documented. See this robot book and craft. Or this robot series. Or this robot website. The Robot Book is probably one of the simplest robot books we've read together, and probably the most entertaining from an interactive standpoint. The book doesn't contain a whole lot of text, but my toddler son really loves exploring the pages and talking about the parts. It's pure fun! So much so, that I'm thinking about buying him a set of actual toy gears for Christmas so that he can tinker to his little heart's delight. And, not surprisingly, he loves the packaging, too. The publisher inserted cardboard inserts to help protect the book's moving components. My son has spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out how to reinsert all those cutout inserts so they fit around all the different parts. I'm sure the publisher never intended those inserts to provide so much entertainment, but they do! I'm happy to report that the book's construction has held up pretty well to all his fiddling around. No gears have been removed yet (though sometimes the gears don't mesh properly). That's OK though. It's a good challenge to test his problem solving skills. I may have a little budding engineer in the family. :)
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Where the wild things are: Abell shoots the Amazon
The opening of "Sam Abell: Amazonia" at Les Yeux du Monde last Friday recalled those "Sensurround" movies of the 1970s. Just as Earthquake gave its audience a you-are-there experience via rumbling seats, the gallery had a distinctly jungle-like feel as throngs of Abell fans crowded into the small space on a sultry evening. Sweat trickled down the backs of my legs; only biting bugs and birdcalls were missing.
But the sensation was appropriate since Abell strives to create an intimate encounter between viewers and the tropical wildlife showcased in the exhibition. The 33 large color images result from the National Geographic photographer's several trips into the Amazon's headwaters, often accompanied by Danish photographer Torben Ulrick Nissen, to capture the unique ecosystem threatened by encroaching industrialization and environmental hazards. Instead of using scare tactics, Abell presents photos that compel a relationship with the beauty of the Amazonian landscape and animals.
He achieves this personal involvement by foregoing long-range lenses and remote-controlled cameras in favor of getting up close with his subjects, which include anacondas, monkeys, and brilliant butterflies. His point of view becomes our point of view. Fortunately, Abell is a skilled observer, taking note of color and spatial relationships most of us would otherwise miss. In many cases, he frames the scene and patiently waits for us to notice what's happening.
For example, "Praying Mantis" appears to be an almost abstract composition of green grasses crossing the frame diagonally against a rich blue background. A closer look, however, reveals one of the central blades is not like the others; it is a praying mantis clinging upside down to a shoot of the same color. Similarly, a scaly head with a gleaming eye goes almost undetected beneath a carpet of fallen leaves in "Hidden Anaconda."
Other images are more obvious in their spectacle, such as Abell's "Sloth Crossing Playa," in which a mottled-gray, primate-like animal, baby beneath her belly, crawls across a sandy expanse toward a coppery stretch of river, while in the background the jungle canopy looms against the sky. Highlighting the exotic energy of the Amazon, Abell even makes a visual pun on his iconic Stay this Moment photograph of a canoe's prow in calm blue waters by creating a nearly identical composition, "Guide at Dusk," with an olive-green blur of river rushing by.
With Abell as our guide, "Amazonia" is an immersion experience that leaves viewers wide-eyed with wonder.
The exhibition "Sam Abell:Amazonia" is on view through July 18 and then again August 4-31 at Les Yeux du Monde. 841 Wolf Trap Road. 973-5566.


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elijah wrote:That the promotion of "pastafarianism," is attempted defamation of Ras Tafarian religion and its adherents, is self evident and undeniable. Any defending the promotion of such a term options are mearly to concede lack of such rights or further thier mission of oppressive exploitation and augment its consequences through rejection of our currently peacable demands.
Welcome to the world of parody, Elijah, a protected right of free speech. You don't even have a wooden leg to stand on.
I, for one, do not take your implied threat to possible future violence (ie your last sentence) lightly. But, then, you are talking to Pirates, and violence is inherent in the piracy system. I would not mind a good ass-kicking session. Work up a sweat, then go have a few beers.
I pray that His Noodly Appendage touches you and lightens your heart from all the hate you have spilled upon the decks of this great WebShip of the CofFSM.
Peace, matey, life's too short to waste time hating others.


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Liinalapsi - Wearababy is the manufacturer of Vanamo woven wraps and Wompat baby carriers. We are located in Turku, Southern Finland. Niina - the owner of Liinalapsi - has a deep love for babywearing and passion for woven wraps & other baby carriers. She wanted to help other parents to find the same love for wearing their babies and experiencing the closeness with the child. Liinalapsi company was founded on year 2008. Today our team includes also two wonderful textile designers who are responsible for all the custom carriers among many other things.
Finnish Site: www.liinalapsi.fi
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