Movie Review: ?Frankenweenie? Is A Total Tail Wagger | njtoday.net ...

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By Michael S. Goldberger,?film critic

?Frankenweenie,? Tim Burton?s animated, stop action reimagining of the classic Mary Shelley horror tale Hollywood brought to life in 1931 is wonderfully nutty. Part parody, part paean, and delivered in era-emulative black and white, it heartily basks us in the eerie legend while taking the occasion to make a contemporary social comment or two.

As he lovingly dips back into his cartoon/artistic roots at Disney, it occurs that director Burton is the Fellini of animation, his grotesque, circus-like characters readily evincing philosophic notes on the perennially wacky state of things. Still, trust that it is ultimately optimistic, even if its only half-kidding delivery sears with ominous incantations.

Here, taking advantage of a broadening, more enlightened view of what kids should or should not see, he makes the Frankenstein metaphor even more approachable whilst also upping the ante on the traditional boy and his dog story. And you don?t need the scientific acumen of a Dr. Frankenstein to plumb the witty criticisms on bullying and peer pressure.

So sit back and meet little Victor Frankenstein (voiced by Charlie Tahan) and his, uh, typically American family, denizens of New Holland, Somewhere or Other, living in the late ?50?s or early 1960s. The sneering, poetic vagueness of the nonetheless familiar time and place heightens the acerbic observations with passionately seriocomic whimsy.

Making it a point to inform that Victor has no friends increases the dramatic importance of the grade school loner?s relationship with his pup, Sparky, a pointy-nosed bull terrier of sorts who stars in his master?s home movies, not unlike the filmmaker?s actual history. Well, we know it?s coming?a kid?s worst nightmare. Sparky chases a ball into the street.

Even if you were lucky enough as a child to avoid the despondency that then rains down and engulfs Victor, you can?t help but emote. But then, this is a movie, and a PG-rated one at that, the Burton signature notwithstanding. Backtrack a bit and Victor is being inspired by his science teacher, Mr. Rzykruski. A light bulb goes on above his head.

Until now, Victor hadn?t quite decided what his project would be for the much heralded Science Competition announced by the controversial Eastern European educator, mistrusted by the bulk of New Holland?s Babbitts. Now, it?s a no-brainer. Turning his attic into the proverbial mad scientist?s lab, he begins his work?to resurrect Sparky.

The sociology is spot on, Martin Landau urgently, intelligently voicing the ostracized Rzykruski, heretofore the only human who speaks to Victor?s sensibilities. Press your cheek to truth and purity, the besieged iconoclast exhorts as he packs the trunk of his tiny, character-correct foreign car. Now more than ever, Victor is alone. He must succeed.

What particularly delights, aside from the screwball fancifulness of the filmmaker?s comic homage, is the apparent fun he?s having whilst unloading ideas he?s doubtless wanted to frame in one piece de resistance. Harking back to themes he nurtured in his formative years, he puts them all together in a loving, biographically sensitive giambotta.

It makes no difference, for example, that Tod Browning?s ?Dracula? (1931) is but a genre cousin to this variation on director James Whale?s 1931 adaptation of Mrs. Shelley?s irreverent reverie. He gleefully tosses in several cues just the same: i.e. ?Victor?s cute neighbor is Elsa Van Helsing, as in Dr. Van Helsing, the vampire expert.

The cross-pollination is then further synergized as Burton turns the intolerant burghers of his source material into stereotypical suburban types, and with frighteningly little effort at that. Rather ingeniously, as aficionados of the lore will attest, he realizes his lampoon in terms that would still make it recognizable to Mary Shelley, just in case, y?know.

But beware, parents who feel it?s high time Tyler and Brittany saw their first horror flick. Cartoon or not, there are some scary scenes, borne out by the mortified toddlers the two daddies to my left dragged to the theater. Unhappy that they merely lacked judgment, by not removing the hysterical waifs the Neanderthals also proved they were inconsiderate.

That dutifully noted, tots north of 8 should be heartened to learn that Victor must deal with the same jerky classmates and status issues that they do while seeking a safe, ego-pleasing niche in a world fraught with ambiguity and fears, Franken monster or not. They might also relate to albeit loving parents who don?t always know what?s good for Victor.

But most profound is how Burton again embraces the ghoulish and bizarre as a vehicle to understanding. Combine that with superb verbalizations by Martin Short and Catherine O?Hara, plus black and white imagery often suitable for framing, and ?Frankenweenie? introduces yet another generation to the sheer joy of intoning, ?It?s alive, it?s alive!?

?Frankenweenie,? rated PG, is a Walt Disney Pictures release directed by Tim Burton and stars the voices of Martin Short, Catherine O?Hara and Charlie Tahan. Running time: 87 minutes

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Ryan says Obama misleading on Libya questions

President Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters after speaking about the choice facing women in the upcoming election, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at a campaign event at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters after speaking about the choice facing women in the upcoming election, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at a campaign event at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Republican Vice President candidate Paul Ryan waves to one of the 1500 supporters who attended his visit on the Ocala downtown square Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Ocala, Fla. Ryan spoke about creating jobs, growing the economy and getting rid of the national debt in the United States. (AP Photo/Ocala Star-Banner, Doug Engle)

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the 67th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity gala organized by the Archdiocese of New York and also attended by President Barack Obama,Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

From left, President Barack Obama, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and his wife Ann Romney attend the Archdiocese of New York's 67th Annual Alfred. E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan slammed President Barack Obama on Friday for describing the deadly attack in Libya as "not optimal" and said the White House is misleading the country in the face of mounting questions about its response.

Obama promised answers. "If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal," the president said Thursday during an appearance on "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. "We're going to fix it."

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been criticizing the administration for initially describing the attack as a spontaneous mob reaction to an anti-Muslim video on YouTube when they now acknowledge it was a terrorist attack. U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of the attack to say there was evidence it was carried out by militants, although it's unclear who received that information right away.

Ryan told "The Charlie Sykes Show" on Milwaukee radio station WTMJ that Obama's "response has been inconsistent, it's been misleading."

"Why the stonewalling?" the Wisconsin congressman asked.

"The thing about Benghazi is that they continue shifting their story," he said in a second Wisconsin radio interview on the Jerry Bader Show on Green Bay's WTAQ. "And they're refusing to answer the basic questions about what happened. Why blame (a) YouTube video for two weeks after knowing that that wasn't the case? It leads to more questions than answers."

The Wisconsin congressman said he hopes a congressional investigation and Monday night's presidential debate, which will focus on foreign policy, will provide answers.

"That's why you have these investigations in Congress, to find out what exactly happened and why the stonewalling and why blaming (the) YouTube video for two weeks," he said. "The reason we need to get to the bottom of this is so we can prevent something like this from happening again."

Ryan and Romney have been using the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to criticize Obama's overall foreign policy record.

"The Benghazi thing would be a tragedy in and of itself if it was an isolated incident," Ryan said on WTMJ. "The problem is it's not simply an isolated incident but a picture of a broader story of the absolute unraveling of the Obama administration's foreign policy. Go around the world and you see policy failure after policy failure, and that is something that they just can't defend."

Obama insisted information was shared with the American people as it came in. The attack is under investigation, Obama said, and "the picture eventually gets filled in."

"What happens, during the course of a presidency, is that the government is a big operation and any given time something screws up," Obama said on "The Daily Show." ''And you make sure that you find out what's broken and you fix it."

Asked if the White House had become aware of the CIA cable and when, spokesman Tommy Vietor declined comment "on what, if true, would be an internal and classified CIA cable."

Obama did not mention the attacks during a raucous rally at George Mason University in Washington's northern Virginia suburbs. Instead, the president debuted a new routine riffing on the "you might be a redneck" stylings of comedian Jeff Foxworthy to poke at Romney.

Obama's version warned how "you might have Romnesia," characterized by shifting positions on a variety of issues. "Here's the good news," the president said with a smile, "Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions."

Romney was headed to Daytona Beach, Fla., for a Friday night rally with Ryan. The GOP nominee made a play for moderate voters in a new ad that featured video of him at the first presidential debate talking about how he would bring the political parties together to help the economy.

While they were focused on southern battlegrounds, NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls released Thursday showed Obama retaining his lead over Romney in Iowa and Wisconsin, two Midwestern battlegrounds. Obama's campaign circulated a memo highlighting the president's strength during the early voting period in Ohio, where Romney has largely staked his hopes of winning the White House.

But both were keeping relatively light public schedules before a weekend devoted to preparing for their third and final presidential debate, set for Monday in Boca Raton, Fla. After the event in Virginia, Obama was heading for the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland to prepare; Romney planned preparations in Delray Beach, Fla.

Meanwhile, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington against the Commission on Presidential Debates for excluding him from the debates.

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Associated Press writer Frederic Frommer contributed to this report.

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Al-Qaida suicide raid kills 14 Yemeni soldiers

SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? Suspected al-Qaida suicide bombers disguised in military uniforms stormed into an army base in southern Yemen on Friday, killing 14 soldiers and wounding more than 20, Yemeni officials said.

The dawn assault on the coastal base in Abyan province involved four suicide bombers in an army pick-up truck laden with explosives and a gunbattle with soldiers who were caught sleeping.

The attack highlights the increasingly brazen tactics used by militants in this impoverished Arab Peninsula country and the many challenges Yemen's new leadership faces as it struggles, with U.S. help, to route militants and bring security to the nation.

Washington considers Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemeni branch of the network is known, to be the group's most dangerous offshoot, and holds it responsible for several failed attacks on U.S. territory.

The Abyan attack came a day after suspected U.S. drone strikes killed at least seven al-Qaida-linked militants in the same area in the south. It also followed a recent visit to Abyan by Yemen's Defense Minister Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, which was meant to showcase the military's strength in a province where the group last year controlled entire cities and towns.

In June, Yemeni troops backed by U.S. airpower and advisers drove al-Qaida militants out of southern cities and into mountain refuges. Earlier, the militants had seized large swaths of territory in Abyan during a security vacuum left by last year's uprising against the country's longtime authoritarian leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh. They also seized thousands of firearms, as well as tanks and armored vehicles in raids on arms depots and barracks.

Military officials said Friday's attack started when four bombers, dressed in military uniforms, drove the pickup to the base and opened fire on its guards, killing two.

Three of the attackers then jumped out of the pickup and started shooting at soldiers who had rushed out, awakened by the gunfire, the officials said. The fourth bomber rammed the explosives-laden vehicle into a group of soldiers and blew it up. The other three attackers were killed as their suicide vests detonated during the shootout with the soldiers.

The officials said the attackers apparently wanted to assassinate the base commander but never got close to his quarters. The head of the military police on the base was among those killed in the attack, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.

Yemeni security officials, meanwhile, said they believe militants have a hit list of officials on the new government that came to power earlier this year. They expressed fears that al-Qaida has also infiltrated military ranks and has informants who report on military movements. The security officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Saleh, Yemen's former president, was toppled in the country's uprising ? the fourth longtime Arab ruler to fall as a result of the Arab Spring. But constant friction between Saleh's remaining supporters and those of his former deputy who is now president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, have added to the volatile mix.

Since Hadi's government offensive drove al-Qaida from southern towns and cities, militants have sought refuge in mountain areas and have retaliated with assassinations of top security officials. They have also staged deadly suicide bombings targeting the military and civilian militias working alongside the army.

One of the worst attacks against the Yemeni army took place on May 21, when a suicide bomber ? who turned out to be a son of a colonel ? blew himself up in the middle of a military rehearsal in the capital, Sanaa, killing around 100 soldiers.

A month later, an al-Qaida suicide bomber detonated his explosives among a crowd of Yemeni police cadets, killing at least 10.

In March, al-Qaida militants launched a surprise pre-dawn attack on a southern base while troops slept, killing 185 troops and capturing 73. The fighters sprayed tents where soldiers had been sleeping with gunfire. They dumped their bodies in the desert, some beheaded, and paraded dozens of captured soldiers through a nearby town.

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Most dangerous jobs: Farming, fishing, forestry - Stuff

Some people parachute jump from 128,097 feet without a scratch - others go farming and fishing for their extreme sports, often with painful and sometimes deadly results.

Sprains and strains are the standout cause of work-related injury claims to the Accident Compensation Corporation, at 44 per cent of the total, with cuts at 15 per cent and bruises next in line.

And the most risky sectors to work in are fishing and farming, with claim rates at more than double the national average. And in those sectors it is almost always men hurting themselves - with 79 per cent of claims by men.

The agriculture, forestry and fishing sector suffered 15 deaths last year leading to ACC claims, the highest of any sector.

A Federated Farmers spokesman said farming was an "extreme" occupation with people often out in bad weather dealing with livestock, when most people were safely inside.

Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs. More than 7 per cent of the 7000 workers are injured each year - nearly twice the percentage for the nearest sector (mining and quarrying). Between 2001 and 2011, 33 fishermen were killed doing their job.

Earlier this year, the fishing industry brought in a new action plan to reduce injuries and deaths in the sector.

Overall, about one in 10 workers suffered an injury at work last year that led to an ACC claim, according to Statistics New Zealand.

But the overall level of claims has been steadily falling in the past decade. In 2002, there were 143 claims for every 1000 workers. In 2011 it was down to 97 for every 1000 fulltime equivalent workers.

A health and safety co-ordinator for the EPMU, Fritz Drissner, said the union welcomed any drop in accident rates, but some sectors such as manufacturing had been in decline with fewer jobs, which may explain some of the trend to lower claims.

Manufacturing was a problem area for accidents, especially where people were working with machinery. There were also accidents where people worked with moving equipment outside in all weathers.

"Anything that moves has the potential to kill people," Drissner said.

A lot of employers also tried to prevent claims rather than injuries, by encouraging workers to say their accident happened at home.

"Workers are encouraged not to report them as work injuries," he said, and faced grief from the boss if they did.

Drissner said employers were trying to keep down their ACC levies, but taxpayers footed the bill. He admitted the evidence was only anecdotal - nobody wanted to admit to lying to their doctor.

THE NUMBERS

In 2011, there were 187,900 claims for work-related injuries made by 169,400 people.

Agriculture and fishery workers made the most claims, with a rate of 211 per 1000 fulltime workers.

Total claims:

Manufacturing: 28,900

Construction: 21,300

Farming, forestry and fishing: 19,900

Work deaths: Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 1; Construction: 12; Financial and insurance services: 12

Source: Statistics NZ

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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Vote-by-mail fail? Experts register concern

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Electronic voting machines were widely installed after the 2000 presidential election, but the potential for glitches has sparked controversy. Click on the image for an interactive graphic explaining how voting systems work.

By Alan Boyle

The good news about voting technology is that the upgrades put into place since the controversial 2000 presidential election have made ballot tallies twice as accurate as they were?? but the bad news is that the rise of early vote-by-mail systems could erode those gains.

That's the assessment from the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, which has been monitoring voting technology and election administration nationwide for nearly a dozen years ??ever since the "hanging-chad" debacle of the Bush vs. Gore election. Coming less than three weeks before this year's Election Day, the project's latest report includes some recommendations that could improve the election process in as little as two years.

But first, project co-director Charles Stewart III, a political science professor at MIT, wants to celebrate the good news.

"Voter registration is gradually getting better," he told me. "Voting machines are clearly better. This is a voting-technology feel-good story. We're getting the voter registration process into the 20th century, if not the 21st century."

Twelve years ago, the presidential election's outcome was plunged into doubt due to Florida's poorly designed butterfly ballot. The controversy?sparked a Supreme Court ruling that decided the election, as well as a multimillion-dollar federal program to upgrade voting technology. Back then, the "residual vote"?? that is, the discrepancy between votes cast and votes counted?? was 2 percent nationwide. That number dropped to 1 percent by 2006, thanks in large part to the replacement of punch-card and lever systems with more reliable systems.

For a while, all-electronic voting systems flourished ? but after a series of scandals, election officials have been gravitating toward optical-scan machines and paper ballots, which measure up as the most reliable voting systems that are out there.

Due to these upgrades, Stewart said the possibility of a Florida-style situation "is much lower now than it was 12 years ago."

Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests talk about future investments in technology to streamline voting.

Now the bad news...
Even as the report celebrates those gains, it raises concerns about another voting trend: the growing popularity of no-excuse-needed absentee voting, also known as early voting by mail. Oregon and Washington state have gone to a strictly vote-by-mail system. In seven other states (Colorado, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia), more than half of all ballots were cast before Election Day in 2008 ? with many of them sent in the mail.

The report says that election officials should discourage no-excuse-needed absentee voting and "resist pressures to expand all-mail elections."

Why are the experts so down on the uptrend? A long-running study in California has shown that the residual vote rate for absentee ballots is 2.2 percent for presidential races, and even higher for other races and propositions. That's worse than the average in 2000. "The improvement we've gotten by having better voting machines in the precincts may be given back by having more and more people voting at home," Stewart said.

The reasons behind the high error rates include potentially confusing instructions for filling out the ballot, plus the fact that there's no opportunity to catch improperly filled-out ballots at the polling place and give the voter a chance to make corrections. Even the mailing process can play a role: Stewart referred to demonstrations showing that pencil marks can become smudged when the ballot is folded, put in an envelope and run through a postal processing machine. (Note to self: Use ballpoint pen to fill out ballot.)

If you want to cast your vote early and make sure that it counts, it's better to do it in person at an early voting site than to mail it in, Stewart said.?

A solution for voter ID?
This year's report also addresses the controversy over voter identification at polling places. Republicans generally favor more stringent ID requirements, such as showing a government-issued photo ID; Democrats generally voice concern that such measures suppress the vote. The?report notes that the "debate over voter identification and associated claims of election fraud may become one of the most important issues of the 2012 presidential election."

To balance those concerns, Stewart and his colleagues suggest shifting the burden for identification from the voter to the state. Each state could match up its voter registration database with photos from driver's licenses and other photo-ID databases to create "electronic pollbooks." Pollworkers could confirm a voter's identity by checking the photo that's in the pollbook. If the voter doesn't already have a photo ID on file with the state, a picture could be taken at the polling place and associated with a voter's affidavit of identity for future reference.

"Exactly the system we're talking about hasn't been done, but I think the technology for this is just a stutter step away," Stewart said. The report says such a system could be implemented in some states by 2014, and in most others by 2016.

The MIT-Caltech group also recommends that election officials conduct routine post-election audits to gauge how well they're doing, and use the results to guide corrective actions for future elections. Some activists might want to go so far as to hold up the certification of election results until audits are completed, but "right now just getting localities to do the audits is the first hurdle," Stewart said.

The report acknowledges that some of the recommendations may raise privacy issues for lawmakers to consider at the federal and state level. "You have to think seriously about these tradeoffs," Stewart said.

How about Internet voting?
For now, the concerns about computer security are too great to allow for widespread voting via the Internet, the report says. Some states let military personnel submit their absentee ballots online, or via e-mail or fax. But it's more common for states to let voters obtain a blank ballot over the Internet but require them to submit the filled-in ballot via postal mail.

"The official word [in the report] is that there shouldn't be completed ballots transmitted electronically until the security issues are dealt with," Stewart said. "We also think there should be further research into the security of Internet voting?? and if those security issues do get solved, then it might be a different kettle of fish."

What should a faraway voter do? If you're in the military or living overseas, check the Federal Voting Assistance Program's Voting Assistance Guide?to find out about the options for receiving and sending in your ballot.

More about voting technology:

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In addition to Stewart, the principal authors of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project's report are Caltech's R. Michael Alvarez, Harvard's Stephen Ansolabehere, the University of Utah's Thad E. Hall, Caltech's Jonathan Katz and MIT's Ronald L. Rivest. The report was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Voting Technology Project has also been supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's?Facebook page, following?@b0yle on Twitter?and adding the?Cosmic Log page?to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out?"The Case for Pluto,"?my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

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Reference and Education: Forensic Science: The Basics

With a large number of criminal investigation shows on TV such as CSI, Criminal Minds and Bones, many people have become fascinated with the forensic science profession. Many do not realize, however, the hard work and dedication that this position requires. Not only is this field extremely competitive, but organizations that work with people in this field look to hire only the best. With that being said, the educational requirements are beginning to get stricter as more and more people are trying to break into the field.

The forensic science field, otherwise known as forensics, includes the use of an extensive range of sciences in order to answer questions that the legal system has, usually regarding a crime of some sort. The legal system turns to them for help with identifying and convicting criminals. It their examinations and findings of forensic data that regularly verifies whether or not the suspects in a crime are guilt or innocent. Their responsibilities include observing the information and evidence of a crime and writing down their findings in order to provide a statement of their discoveries to a court of law. Other tasks include performing physical and chemical investigations on criminal evidence provided by some type of law enforcement organization which can be found at the scene of a crime, on a victim, in some cases, both. People in the forensic science field use an assortment of problem-solving techniques, mathematical ideologies, intricate tools, and microscopic probing methods to clarify the particulars of each part of evidence from a case.

There are a number of different positions that someone in the forensic field can have. Some work in strictly in laboratories testing all the evidence that was found, while others work directly at the scene of the crime in order to collect their analysis. Focuses of the area include clinical work, research, communication, computer sciences and much more. Some people in forensics chose not to specialize in a specific area, but would rather be considered a generalist. Most that choose this option are involved in a number of different tasks involving forensics or are involved in a new or rare forensic area of expertise.

Most people that are in the forensic profession work directly with the law enforcement run by city, county or state governments. If people are lucky enough, they can also work for several federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Secret Service; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; the U.S. Postal Service; Health and Human Services; and the Criminal Intelligence Agency. Additionally, forensic scientists may be employed by other organizations outside of the government. They may chose to work in private forensic labs, medical examiners offices, hospitals, toxicology labs, medical examiner or coroner offices, colleges and universities, or as independent consultants.

People in forensics have a tough occupation and in order to stay current on all the new technology and methods, they are often encouraged to take a path of higher education. Unfortunately, the education and training requirements are different for every forensic position and for every state, but almost everyone in the forensic profession has earned at least a bachelors' degree. Many chose to earn their bachelors' degree in biology, chemistry or physical anthropology if their college of choice does not offer a forensic science program. An important factor that people interested in the forensic science fields should know is that the title of the degree they earn is not nearly as important as the courses they take throughout their education. Prospective forensic scientists should take college courses that give them experience in a lab and technological setting, such as biology, chemistry, physics, quantitative analysis, toxicology, computer sciences, psychology, criminal justice courses and statistics.

Depending on the forensic position someone is looking for; they may also be required to further their education by enrolling in a graduate program. Most graduate programs are more specific and will include different divisions of forensic science; therefore, this is the time when most students decide what to specialize in. Many programs allow students to focus on areas such as forensic archeology, forensic pathology, or body identification. Many times, labs require a person to get a masters degree for advanced positions in the forensic field such as a lab technician leader or supervisor, or someone who specializes in DNA analysis or ballistics. Most positions only require a masters' degree; however, people who are interested in teaching should continue on to earn their PhD. Also, everyone in the forensic field are expected to continuously update their training in order to maintain their various certifications and to keep current with all of the new tools, technology and techniques used in the field.

And now, higher education institutions have made it even easier for people to earn a degree in forensic science. A number of schools have created online degree programs that allow students to earn their associates, bachelors or masters degree without having to ever step foot on a college campus. Online programs allow students to complete their work on their own time, which is great for those people who have a full time job, or a family and do not have time to attend class through a traditional college setting. Online programs also benefit students who live in areas that do not have a college nearby. Students could possibly earn their degree from a college that is all the way across the country, if they wanted. That means that students have more options for deciding what degree program is right for them and will give them the best quality education for their specialty. Also, many times online degree programs cost less than a traditional degree program and take less time to complete.

Public Service Degrees has recognized that many people desire the opportunity to go back to school, so we have teamed up with a number of regionally accredited colleges all across the country to help those people reach their goal. All of the programs we offer are 100% online and are offered by colleges that are known for their quality education. Public Service Degrees has several programs specifically for people interested in forensic science, such as a BA Social and Criminal Justice-Forensics or an MBA in Criminal Justice.

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