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The devastation over the last year due to natural disasters across the globe has been horrifying and heart-breaking. Long the domain of government agencies, relief often came slowly. Luckily, the advent of social media has brought about a swift change in the velocity and volume of relief as individuals, their networks, and entire communities can now act almost immediately to donate time, resources and goods.
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The Top 100 at Ramsey County LibraryEver wonder who the most popular author is at Ramsey County Library? Any guesses? I bet almost everybody guessed right ... it's James Patterson! From Detective Alex Cross to the Women's Murder Club and many, many more, Patterson definitely has sheer volume on his side. Who else is really, really popular at our library? Check out the list below for a quick refresher on our bestsellers--and a reminder of old favorite authors who you might have forgotten about. Hey, they might have a new book out that you haven't read yet! Without further ado, here's the list of: The Top 100 Authors at Ramsey County Library from August 2013... Read More »


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WARREN, Ohio - An ordinance change proposal in the city could increase false alarm fees for businesses.
Councilman Vincent Flask, police and fire chairman, called a council meeting for 4 p.m. Tuesday to discuss the changes to the ordinance dealing with false alarms.
Under the current city ordinance, home owners and businesses pay a $60 connection fee for the alarm system, a $36 per year service fee and a $25 penalty for each false alarm after the third false alarm.
The change to the ordinance would increase the fee for businesses to $25 for the second false alarm, $50 for the third false alarm and $75 for every false alarm thereafter.
False alarms, as defined in the ordinance, are alarms that result from a malfunction in the alarm system rather than an actual emergency.
Flask says the purpose of the ordinance change is to curtail the amount of false alarms the city receives because of alarm owners that do not fix the alarm malfunction right away.
He reports that 85 percent of the city's 3,500 calls are false alarms.
Councilwoman Helen Rucker says the problem right now is that police have not billed for the false alarm fees in the past, and now the problem has gotten out of hand.
"All we need is someone to do the billing and I believe it can be done in house," she says.
Flask says they have looked at different departments in the city that could possibly take on the billing load, but ultimately the decision of enforcement is up to the police who say it's too much for their department to handle.
Rucker worries the increased fee is going to cause city residents and businesses more just so an outside consulting company can be brought in.
Rucker hopes to find out at Tuesday evening's meeting what other plans the police department has researched.
"If they're going to increase the fee, they have to justify why," she says.
Rucker also worries that an outside billing agency is going to cost the city's elderly residents who don't understand their alarm system and how to turn it off in the event of a false alarm.
"It's not a problem for the police officer to check on seniors," Rucker says.
It's expected that the ordinance will be put up for a vote at the April 10 council meeting.


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How To: Bargain When Buying Used Furniture
The grim outlook of the economy calls for pinching and saving where ever possible. But while in many parts of the world you can talk the price down on almost anything, around here there's a time and a place for haggling.
Like when buying used furniture, for instance. We were at the Alameda Antiques Fair this weekend, which is a great place to bargain. Here are some things we learned:
• Notice any flaws in the piece. If you want a discount, pointing out any problems will usually help your case.
• Be reasonable. Some say it helps to start off with a low figure, but don't go out of control. Ask too little and the dealer won't take you seriously.
• Walk away. If your heart isn't 100% set on the item, check back later, like at the end of the selling day. Oftentimes people are willing to unload their goods at a cheaper price, simply because they'd rather not have to haul it back with them.
• Be willing to compromise. The whole point of haggling is finding a price that both parties can agree upon. If you love the piece, sometimes you got to just let that extra $20 go.
Of course we welcome any other tips, if you've got 'em. This weekend we walked away from a $225 Danish MCM dining table in great condition, only to come to our senses later and find it was gone... so we know we could still learn a thing or two!
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Don't ask, "will you take less?"
Duh. The seller would like to get as much as possible, but most are willing to haggle a little. If you're haggling though, don't act like an amateur and ask the seller to come down in price before you make an offer. That's just rude.
If you love it but think it's priced to high, make a truly reasonable offer and be prepared to meet 1/2 way. E.g, asking price for an item that retails for $1000 is $300, you offer $225.... be prepared to pay $250-270. For cryin' out loud, it's already 70% off retail and you love it!
If you love it and can't afford it although it's reasonably priced, offer what you truly can afford. If the seller won't budge, walk away or find more money.
As a frequent craigslist seller, I hate it when people try to nickel-and-dime over something that's already priced so cheap it's practically free (under $50), or worse, when they offer half or less. My answer to "will you take less?" is always, "make an offer and I'll consider it." I sold some chairs recently for $175, and I was asking $200. I felt like I got a fair price, and the buyer felt like they left with enough to buy dinner, too. On the other hand, I was offered $100 for something I'd priced at $300. No way. In this case, I can afford to sit on it until the right buyer comes along. They always do!
Above all else, be polite. It is possible to negotiate pricing politely, but far too many people don't even try.
When quoted a price, a well-timed, subtle wince might help, but a snotty comment like "you're kidding, right?" will not.
Oh, and don't be pushy. This should be obvious, but there are still people who don't understand how important it is to not come across as trying to rip off the seller.
I agree with both posts: be reasonable and be polite. If you go down 10-20% of the asking price most sellers will be prepared to go down in price a bit.
Good advice all--but the seller needs to be polite, too. I once offered $20 for something priced at $25 at a "antique" (flea) market, and the seller was so rude to me I didn't buy the lovely but poorly framed embroidery. If he had been not even nice but neutral, I would have scrounged up the extra five dollars.


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Welcome! Summer 2014
From the Director: Sixty Years of Oral History at Berkeley
Two-Thousand Fourteen is proving to be a milestone year for oral history at Berkeley. Not only does it mark sixty years since the founding of the oral history office in the Bancroft Library, the office also is in the process of retiring our long-held name, the Regional Oral History Office, in favor of the more appropriate "Oral History Center of the Bancroft Library." You can read more about the name change – and exciting news about a new endowment – below, but first let's look back.
The Oral History Center celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, and with the name change it gives us a chance to reflect back on its many accomplishments. A field that had its roots in Hubert Howe Bancroft's dictations series of oral history interviews with 19th century early West coast setters, was solidified under the legendary leadership of Willa Baum starting in 1954.
Today, the Oral History Center is one of four research units of the Bancroft Library and continues to produce interviews in a wide array of major subject areas ranging from politics and government and arts and culture, to science, medicine and technology.
We have conducted all told more than 4,000 oral histories encompassing tens of thousands of interview hours, nearly all of the interviews accessible online. And access it people do. Our Web site is the Library's busiest, responsible for more than 200,000 visits annually. Our interviews are regularly used as primary source material for books, magazine articles, stage productions, radio programs, and film documentaries, not to mention academic dissertations and theses. From Ansel Adams and Alice B. Toklas, to Dave Brubeck, Dorothea Lange, and Warren Hellman; from the steelworkers who produced the Bay Bridge to the legions of pioneering women who became Rosie the Riveters during World War II in the East Bay, it's extremely difficult for any listener or reader to pick a favorite from among the many remarkable citizens we have interviewed for our collections.
Perhaps the real favorite will come from one of our future works of public service, for we have plans for even greater contributions in coming months and years. So stay tuned. May the next 60 years of the Oral History Center be just as fruitful as the first.
Neil Henry
Director, Regional Oral History Office
Welcome! Spring 2014
Jay Michael enjoyed an exemplary career in public administration, rising to become the University of California's chief lobbyist in Sacramento during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. In that capacity Michael successfully built up an influential statewide grassroots citizen group to support the university's mandate, and perhaps most notably fought hard to protect the mission, independence, and finances of the university at a time when it was under fierce attack from many different corners, including from Governor Ronald Reagan.
But it was perhaps what Michael didn't do that says the most about the important ethical and political role he played in the university's modern history. Pressured in 1972 by Assembly Ways and Means Committee chairman Willie Brown to admit the unqualified son of a political crony to medical school at UCSF, Michael refused, even in the face of a bald-faced threat by Brown to remove $10 million from the university's budget.
Once Michael and UCSF officials officially denied Brown's request, the chairman followed through on his threat and proposed a $10 million budget cut in the state assembly, which the university could hardly afford.
All turned out well however when several senators, supported by Governor Reagan, who had heard about Brown's punitive action, successfully pushed to restore the funding in the budget package.
The episode proved yet another lesson in the hard reality of bare-knuckled politics that Michael grew expert in over his 40 year career, even earning Michael's grudging respect for Brown.
"He's the brightest legislator I ever met, for sure," Michael recalls recently in a spirited eight hour oral history about his colorful life and times in Sacramento. "Not only was he bright, he was street smart and shrewd, tough. If I really wanted a big, important job done, I'd go to Willie Brown. He really was tough."
Throughout out this oral history, Michael's passion and idealism and his unwavering belief in the University of California as an engine for human betterment shines through. Michael explains how he built a grassroots coalition known as the "key contact system" of University supporters throughout the state, and the day-to-day work lobbyists do in cobbling together political backers and legislative support. He also recounts numerous humorous experiences he had working with many storied leaders in Sacramento from Jesse Unruh and Brown to Reagan.
But perhaps most importantly the Michael oral history stands as a fine example of the finest riches ROHO holds for scholars, journalists, and the general public. In our various research interview series, from University history, and Community History, to Social Movements, Arts and Literature, and Food and Wine, we give interview subjects the time and space to reflect upon and recount the most seminal moments in their lives. We're proud that Jay Michael is joining our archives.
Neil Henry
Director, Regional Oral History Office
Welcome! Winter 2013
As we wrap up another year at ROHO, I realize how much we have to be thankful for – amazing new oral history projects in the works, and equally amazing new oral historians on our staff in Shanna Farrell and Paul Burnett. Our commitment to maintaining ROHO's international reputation for excellence remains strong, as does our energy level for collecting the finest interviews on record. What's perhaps most remarkable about our work at ROHO is that we are doing all this with scant state funding. Our work is largely funded by government contracts, and foundation and corporate grants. This means that our efforts are largely spent on oral history projects that have already been funded.
We would much rather have the freedom to choose our projects more on the basis of need and objective merit and less shackled by the pressures of fund raising.
For this reason we are embarking on a major funding drive aimed at eventually endowing each of our 10 project series. Such endowments would allow our historians to plan better and determine with great care who should be interviewed and what topics, trends, and developments should be covered.
That's our long range goal.
In the shorter term, we will continue to welcome private donations to support special projects and our general expenses. That's the chief reason we are so elated by the recent $100,000 gift bestowed to us by Barclay and Sharon Simpson. This funding will go toward a research and development project aimed at greatly enhancing our digital platform, allowing for robust search tools for researchers, journalists and the general public, and a state-of-the-art online presence for our archives.
All of this naturally leads to my pitch to you: Please give to ROHO this year. Your donation will go directly to supporting our operational needs and maintaining the high level of quality work we have been conducting for the past 60 years.
Your friendship means the world to all of us. Thank you so much in advance. Here's hoping you enjoy a wonderful holiday season.
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Welcome! Fall 2013
The Omega Boys Club
Oral History Project
When Joseph Marshall, Jr. started his teaching career in the San Francisco public schools in the early 1980s, he was appalled at what he found – high rates of truancy and drop outs, poor performance of students who did attend, and with the growing crack epidemic, many young people turning to lives of crime, or worst yet, being gunned down in the streets.
So Marshall and an equally concerned fellow teacher, Jack Jacqua, decided to do something about it. They formed an organization in the city's gritty Bay View Hunter's Point neighborhood where disadvantaged young people could find safe haven from the streets, and under Marshall's and Jacqua's tutelage, refocus their lives toward academic achievement.
It took immense work, and an even greater degree of dedication, but 26 years later their brainchild, the Omega Boys Club, has become a national model as a social service and education program. It has sent more than 200 at-risk young people on to earn college degrees, more than 50 to earn graduate degrees, and many others are today leading productive and fruitful lives in fields ranging from health care to education, long removed from the broken streets of their desperate childhoods.
Today, the Club, operating on an annual budget of $1.5 million from foundation grants and private donors, annually sponsors more than 40 disadvantaged Bay Area high school graduates with college scholarships, and has earned Marshall national recognition as a $500,000 MacArthur "Genius" grant winner.
"Dr. King once said you don't need a PhD to serve," Marshall said, summing up his career during an 8-hour oral history of his life and times I conducted last summer. "People ask me why you do what you do, and there's this song by a group called Take Six that's called "Nothing But Love." And that's pretty much it. Yeah, that's the reason." That deep seated belief in the promise of Bay Area at-risk young people has given rise to hundreds of Omega Club alumni like Andre Aikens, who once dealt drugs in inner-city Oakland and today, after earning a Math degree from Morris Brown University in Atlanta, and teaching in the San Francisco public schools, is a top administrator at the Boys Club, leading a new generation to follow his example. There's also Dr. Janelle Tate, a podiatrist and Tuskgegee University graduate working in Southern California, and Michael Hughes, who perhaps made the biggest leap from a life as a young offender incarcerated in Juvenile Hall, to the Omega Club, to an education degree from Morehouse College. Today, Hughes teaches education at San Francisco State University.
This semester I am teaching a Media Studies undergraduate seminar, "Telling Life Stories: Interviewing for Oral History," in which my 15 Berkeley students are learning interviewing skills in preparation for conducting oral histories of the remarkable lives of Aikens, Tate, Hughes and other leading Omega alumni. My hope is to pursue two goals – to tell an inspiring story about the club and inner city San Francisco, and produce a teaching vehicle to spur Cal students to know more about oral history.
Call it the best of two worlds.
Neil Henry
Director, Regional Oral History Office
Welcome! Summer 2013
Oral History and News Interviewing: A Study in Contrast
People who know Barclay Simpson are aware of his many accomplishments. An entrepreneur and innovator, Simpson founded one of the world's most successful engineering firms from his boyhood Oakland home. The company, Simpson Manufacturing, is a maker of structural connectors used in housing and commercial construction that over the past half century have become the industry standard around the world.
An art dealer and collector, Simpson has donated generously to numerous Bay Area organizations, from UC Berkeley, to the California Shakespeare Theater, to early childhood education programs in public schools in the East Bay and around the country.
What few people know about Simpson however – and which I learned while interviewing him for an oral history, my first for ROHO – was this: That he once turned down Warren Buffett, when the billionaire financier made inquiries about buying Simpson's company, saying "I'll never sell. Never!"
That as an elected public official serving on the BART Board of Directors in the 1970s and 1980s he almost singlehandedly was responsible for engineering an agreement that led to the extension of the rail system to San Francisco International Airport.
And that while the 92 year-old philanthropist says his family will be well provided for when he passes, he is leaving by far the majority of his wealth to the foundation he started, the Put Something Back Fund, to continue funding to improve inner city education and opportunity for generations to come.
After more than three decades as a professional journalist, who has conducted innumerable interviews around the world, I found the oral history process a refreshing change. In daily journalism, interviews are typically tightly focused on seeking specific answers to specific questions in order to fill out a news narrative which must be written on a tight deadline. It's for this reason that daily journalism is often described as "history's first rough draft," a draft which can be marred at times by errors and inaccuracies committed under time pressure.
By contrast, the oral history process is defined by the collection of immense quantities of raw material, which may be reaped in a much more relaxed setting amid largely open-ended questioning, freed from deadline pressure, and leading to novel revelations such as the ones by Simpson that perhaps might not have been shared in a news interview setting.
You also come to know the subject better, and if you're lucky, to get to like him or her a great deal. Such was the case between me and Simpson, a man whose deep seated inquisitiveness was on display throughout the interview process.
At one point, when I asked him about his religious and spiritual beliefs, he responded by asking me what my faith was. At another point, when I inquired about the origins of his progressive racial attitudes, he suddenly paused, looked up at me, and while the camera rolled, said, "You must have had some interesting racial experiences in your coming of age, Neil, didn't you"?
To which I could only reply, "Yes, Barc, but I'm the one asking the questions here!"
Neil Henry
Director, Regional Oral History Office
Welcome! Spring 2013
Charting ROHO's Future
Last year at about this time my old friend and journalism school faculty colleague, University Librarian Tom Leonard, asked me to undertake a study of the Regional Oral History Office, its past and present, and issue recommendations for its future at a time of transition.
Thus began my immersion in a topic that was amazingly rich and intellectually dynamic.
I interviewed numerous leaders of other oral history programs around America, in addition to current and former ROHO staffers, and learned quite quickly how widely admired the Berkeley program was and how deeply beloved it was by people who worked there.
I learned that ROHO, nearing its 60th birthday, was the second oldest oral history program in America, after Columbia, and that its legendary director, Willa Baum, helped establish oral history as a field of research. I listened to many ROHO oral histories, from those compiled of Ansel Adams and Dave Brubeck, to major projects like Kaiser Permanente and Rosie the Riveter. I also learned how widely used ROHO's archives were, judging by the hundreds of re-publication requests the Bancroft's librarians receive each year from researchers seeking to use ROHO's materials.
My recommendations to Tom and Bancroft Library Director Elaine Tennant were simple: Keep ROHO strong, keep its staffers fulfilled and productive in their work, and find ways to gain greater financial support for its mission.
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Performance comparison membase vs memcached
I am evaluating membase as a potential distributed persistence cache in our project. I am new to both memcached and membase. I wrote a simple performance test using spymemcached that does a series of gets, puts(sets) and deletes while varying the number of concurrent threads and size of the objects that are being saved, read and than deleted. All threads are sharing the same MemcachedClient instance. I ran this test against a single memcached node and than against a single membase node (with membase default bucket). Both were using 3GB or memory (out of 6GB available on that PC). I was expecting to see membase performing almost as fast as memcached, but for some reason the numbers I am seeing for membase are significantly lower comparing to memcache.
See the charts below.
Please tell me if I am doing something wrong or misunderstanding something, thank you.
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The series on the charts represent test cases with the different amount of concurrent threads: 1, 2, ..., 256.
Nikolay, can you share your spymemcached configuration and version?
MemcachedClient client = new MemcachedClient(Arrays.asList(address));
Can you give me a bit more on how you're creating the Arrays.asList(address)? Specifically, what does the "address" look like?
InetSocketAddress address = new InetSocketAddress(server, port);
MemcachedClient client = new MemcachedClient(Arrays.asList(address));
port is 11211
Yes, that is what I thought. What's going on underneath is that you're talking to Moxi on port 11211 and it is then rehashing the key and proxying the request to (likely) another server. This introduces an extra network hop and will significantly reduce your performance.
Take a look at this page for a description on how to configure spymemcached not to go through Moxi: http://www.couchbase.org/products/sdk/membase-java
There are no other nodes. There is only one.
However I tried to connect to the Membase using the following code:
client = new MemcachedClient(Arrays.asList(new URI("http://harold:8091/pools")), "default", null, null);
Now I am getting a lot of cache misses. It seems the more concurrent threads I use to retrieve the data, the more misses I get, while there should be none.
I checked a few keys that spymemcached reported missing (returned null) using telnet and all of them were there on Membase.
Just to be clear, I do not mix set and get operations. I set 100K pre-generated keys/values using one set of threads and then after they finish, I retrieve them back using another set of threads.
That "should" be working fine. What version of spymemcached are you using? We just released 2.7.1 so it might make sense to upgrade to that.
There are a variety of things within the Java client itself that can cause these sorts of issues, mostly involving overwhelming the heap with requests before they get serviced by the server.
I'm asking one of our spymemcached engineers to take a look and help here as well.
The test you're running isn't necessarily wrong, but it's also not very close to a typical deployment. The way spymemcached works, there is an IO thread which will manage connections to the (typically multiple) servers. The IO operations against the different connections is done with asynch calls, so that IO thread can get quite a bit of concurrency from the underlying system.
In micro-benchmarks, that IO thread can become a point of contention. If you're running more threads doing the same operations in a tight loop, it'll get busier.
Now, I wouldn't expect misses, but if you're using lots of threads or using asynchronous calls, I may expect some timeouts due to just the increase in work all contending for the same connection, managed by the same thread. There is a default 2.5 second timeout for operations. I'm guessing that you're counting timeouts as misses. If you can post your code somewhere, this might help me explain the misses.
I'm guessing that each thread might be in a tight loop. With most deployments, you're not running 256 threads doing work in a tight loop with only one Membase server (which actually means one connection). While there may be a lot of threads, say in an application server, they're doing something with the data being returned and participating in a much slower HTTP conversation with some other clients.
One thing you may try is giving each thread it's own MemcachedClient object (or have them share s a simple pool of client Objects), which will simulate more connections. This is closer to what a real deployment would look like though will give it more IO threads too.
Also, this is incorrect.
client = new MemcachedClient(Arrays.asList(new URI("http://harold:8091/pools")), "default", null, null);
Should be,
client = new MemcachedClient(Arrays.asList(new URI("http://harold:8091/pools")), "default", "default", "");
for the default bucket with now password. When using these constructors there should never be a null argument.
There are no timeouts, just misses. I start seeing them with just 4 concurrent threads. At the same time, my test works perfectly fine against memcached with over 60K GET operations per second and no misses.
The code you suggested:
client = new MemcachedClient(Arrays.asList(new URI("http://harold:8091/pools")), "default", "default", "");
Fails with NPE in spymemcached 2.7:
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.spy.memcached.vbucket.ConfigurationProviderHTTP.readToString(ConfigurationProviderHTTP.java:270)
at net.spy.memcached.vbucket.ConfigurationProviderHTTP.readPools(ConfigurationProviderHTTP.java:104)
at net.spy.memcached.vbucket.ConfigurationProviderHTTP.getBucketConfiguration(ConfigurationProviderHTTP.java:85)
at net.spy.memcached.MemcachedClient.(MemcachedClient.java:223)
at RemoteCacheTest$MemCache.(RemoteCacheTest.java:263)
at RemoteCacheTest.run(RemoteCacheTest.java:32)
It does not fail if I pass null as username.
I followed Perry's advice and tried version 2.7.1. It works as expected now. No misses. So this must have been a bug in version 2.7


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Some doctors and parents say a gluten-free diet is the key to curing autism. Could diet really be the answer?
FALSE: "Diets don't cure autism," asserts Dr. McGuire. "There is a subset that has significant GI problems whose behavioral symptoms may lessen if their digestive issues can be gotten under control, but they still have the core problems. Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder having many etiologies as to its development. Because of this, a cure is unlikely. Some people have talked about prenatal gene surgery in the future, but with the variety of genes involved and the role of gene/environment interaction, this makes it hard."
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This was just posted on the website for the movie, The Greater Good:
"The following is a list of scientists and physicians who acknowledge that vaccines can and do harm some children and/or have some concern about a vaccine, combinations of vaccines, the vaccine schedule, or an ingredient or ingredients in vaccines....
"It is time for the media to do their job, read the research and talk with the hundreds of doctors and scientists who have expressed concerns. . . .http://www.greatergoodmovie.org/news-views/doctors-and-scientists-with-concerns-about-vaccines/"
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism
There are over 200 independent studies done by well-credentialed experts that raise serious concerns about vaccine side effects shown on The Greater Good website. http://www.greatergoodmovie.org/learn-more/science/
Also see the National Vaccine Information Center http://www.nvic.org/,
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/.
"The Stir is here to help clear up any confusion and questions you may have."
I'm not sure what confusion The Stir was able to clear up. At the same time we're assured that vaccines don't cause autism, we hear that autism's cause is still unknown.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism
"And with 1 in 88 children being diagnosed, it's impossible to ignore."
Actually, the latest rate for autism, is now one in every 50 children and among boys alone, it's one in 31.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism
"Countries around the world have been doing both prospective and retrospective research which have found no link."
Those studies are also the least trustworthy in medicine. "Epidemiological" may sound impressive but in reality they're just population studies that are easily flawed and likely to be manipulated to get the results the researchers want.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism
Tens of thousands of parents everywhere talk about their children who were born healthy and were developing normally until they received certain routine vaccinations. Suddenly they lost learned skills and regressed into autism. Doctors can't explain this but they do have lots of studies---all found to have ties to the vaccine makers---that show no link.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism http://www.ageofautism.com/.
This link shows the dramatic increase in the number of vaccine our children received between 1983 and 2012.
Where is even one study on the cumulative effect of the increasing number of vaccines in the childhood schedule? THERE ISN'T ONE.
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism
CBS News ran this story about Hannah Poling in 2010: Family to Receive $1.5M+ in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award. Are we to believe that vaccines have nothing to do with autism--unless you're Hannah Poling?
Anne Dachel, Media editor: Age of Autism
Thank you, Anne Dachel! :)
I think one fact that is true: We don't know what causes autism and what all may have an effect on causing it! So IMO, it is foolish to throw something out as a cause, at this point.
I do have to laugh at the cases that have won money for 'vaccines causing autism.' Doctors and specialists are quick to assure everyone that it isn't autism, it is just something with autism like symptoms. We don't know what it is - but it looks like autism. HA HA. Sounds like circular reasoning. Vaccines don't cause autism. She got sick from vaccines. It looks like autism, but it can't be. Because we KNOW vaccines don't cause autism.
More studies NEED to be done!


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A year ago, the economic recovery turned out to be a false dawn. This time, however, it's looking like things could keep getting brighter.
The economy has been adding jobs for 17 months in a row, with the pace of hiring accelerating so far this year. Layoffs are abating, the stock market is rising and Europe seems to be patching up its financial problems. There are countervailing trends, to be sure, such as continued gloom in the housing market and incoherent policymaking in Washington. But with every passing month, the damage from a painful downturn heals.
Consumers are slowly growing more confident, but many remain gunshy after a shocking loss of household wealth and premature declarations of a recovery in 2010 and 2011. "People aren't acting in a way that's congruent with an improving economic climate," says Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist for Janney Montgomery Scott. "We're acting as if things are bad and likely to get worse."
It's hard to fault consumers for an enduring bunker mentality. Seismic shifts in the economy are making it harder to get ahead, and more wrenching change may be on the way. But playing it safe can be risky, too, especially if the economy is in a sustained phase of expansion. Missing out on opportunities can be just as punishing as getting blindsided by a recession, with people comfortable taking modest risks vaulting ahead of those armored against every gloomy scenario.
Shocks could still occur, but economists and investing professionals increasingly think that the worst is behind. If you agree, here are a few ways to make sure you're poised to cash in on the recovery:
Be more aggressive in your investing. Since the stock market bottomed out in 2009, it's been on a historic tear, with stock values more than doubling over the last three years. But that's been amidst a tepid recovery, one reason stocks could still have more room to run. Investment bank UBS, for instance, recently predicted that the S&P 500 index will end the year at 1475, which would be 7.5 percent higher than it is now.
Many small investors, however, have pulled their money out of stocks, fearful of another freefall like the one that occurred in 2008 and 2009. It may finally be time to overcome such fears. "If you really want to be ahead of the curve, get out of cash," advises economist Jeffrey Rosen of Briefing Research. "If the economy rebounds, equity prices will go up and profits will go up." As bullish sentiment begins to spread, that alone could boost stock prices, since a lot of money that's sitting on the sidelines would flood into the market, raising demand for stocks.
Luschini advises his clients to abide by the traditional rules of prudent investing: Get into stocks only if you've got a time horizon of five years or longer, buy high-quality shares that pay dividends, and focus on market sectors that have strong growth potential. But he also urges investors to view any recent losses as sunk costs, and to reassure themselves by taking a historical perspective. "We've had oil embargoes, world wars, assassinations," he points out. "The stock market has always found its legs and moved higher."
Stop waiting to buy real estate. Home affordability is the best on record, thanks to falling prices and the Federal Reserve's aggressive efforts to push interest rates down. Yet home sales are tepid, with many buyers spooked by the turmoil of the last five years. That mismatch may represent one of the best buying opportunities of modern times.
Clearly, some people who want to buy a home can't get financing. But others are simply waiting it out, worried that prices may fall further. That makes sense, but a housing bottom isn't going to announce itself in real time. It will only be apparent after the fact, and there are many reasons to believe we may be very close to the bottom right now.
Average home prices have already fallen by more than 30 percent. An improving job market will increase demand for housing, while easing the type of financial pressure that leads to foreclosures. The formation of new households, which is usually a constant when the population is growing, has essentially stalled for four years. "We should see the end of the downturn in housing by end of the year, if not the beginning of next year," says Rosen. "If you're risk-averse today, you're going to be kicking yourself down the road."
Buyers trying to time the bottom and buy at the lowest possible price may be focusing on pennies while missing the big picture. If interest rates go up, for instance, that could negate a few thousand dollars you might save on the purchase price of a home. And for anybody buying a house for the right reason—to live in for several years, if not decades—it will make little difference in the future if you buy near the bottom or at the bottom.
Reinvigorate your career. For the last few years, a lot of workers have focused mainly on holding onto their jobs, while putting aside plans to try something entrepreneurial or bust a risky career move. But it might be time to dust off your dreams and think big once again.
Data from the Labor Dept. shows that more people are quitting their jobs, a sign that workers are becoming more confident about new opportunities and finding better work. Executive recruiter Susan Goldberg of New York says that anybody who's been in the same job for three years or longer without gaining any new responsibility ought to start freshening their skills and looking for ways to move up, or move out. A few years ago, needless to say, nobody was hiring. But lately, more opportunities have opened up, and some workers who leave their firms are even startled to get a counteroffer inducing them to stay.
It may also be a safer time for people disenchanted with corporate life to take a chance on an upstart firm. "There's not as much stability in big firms as there used to be," says Goldberg. "Small companies can be more adaptable and more flexible, and make people feel like they're valued more." Now there's a quaint idea: A company that cherishes its workers. If that catches on, good times truly will have returned.
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Notice how almost every single article on the housing market since 2007 has claimed that now or the near future is the bottom?
These authors must have 2nd jobs as real estate agents and bankers. I wish Vegas was taking bets on the accuracy of this article regarding the housing bottom. Betting against that timeframe would be by far the best investment I am aware of at the moment.
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Recovery???? WHAT recovery??? Gas prices are over DOUBLE what they were when Jokebama took office, housing is HALF what it was worth when Jokebama took office, Food prices are climbing every day, the stock market has been artificially inflated by a bunch of left-wing liberals who think that they can report false figures just to get Jokebama re-elected, and the same for unemployment numbers, which are a national JOKE. This is utter crap, spurred on by the bias leftist media. Typical. I am scared I won't have social security and that I will have to work until I am 90 freakin years old!!! Even then I won't have any money to live on, thanks to Jokebama and his so-called "programs". Steal my hard-earned money, you SOB...
RECOVERY??? My *SS!!!!
Republican1, as I read further into your comment....if you are going to live until your 100 then you SHOULD work until you are 90. The social security system was originally set up to retire for 5 to 10 years. We have retirees expecting to use the system for 25+ years, IT CAN NOT SUPPORT YOU FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME!!!!! Your contributions DO NOT equal the amount you are trying to suck out of the system. You cannot ask your children to produce excess money to make the system balance. Walk into a college, as I have at the age of 49 and analyze what needs to be done to produce more income later in life. My parents did not retire until they physically could not benefit society any longer. My best friends parents (age 79 and 81) just retired from federal jobs and are looking for part-time jobs. She runs 4 miles a day because she likes the exercise and she is bored. They have plenty of money but they know they need to benefit society not burden it. They do this for themselves as well as the children(even yours) in the U.S. So forget politics for a second and step up to the plate and change your views. No one owes you a retirement life of luxury....our grandparents and great grandparents worked their arses off to the end.
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LA Weekly, though, has a great post about it:
This is a Gizmodo intern's dream. Girl just figured out how to bag 600,000+ page views with some simple anecdotal fluff — she's well on her way to becoming Intern of the Month. (Also, this isn't the first time stupid boys have called her ugly/ruined her Google results because they were butthurt she didn't like them. Been there, over that.)
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It's Friday, children, time to go outside and play! But not until you finish your links.
* Whoa, horrorshow: Facebook App Imagines Your Life as a Musical
* Just a little freshen up: Last.fm is testing a subtle but tasty redesign [Screenshots]
* Shut DOWN: Twitter Blocks Instagram from 'Find Friends' Feature
* (Hint: The answer is "a lot"): See Just How Much The Internet Is Changing The Music Industry [INFOGRAPHIC]
* WANT: The 1980s Lives On With This 3D Printed Cassette Mixtape
* This popularity of this jam reaches new heights: Choreographed Kites Dance To "Bohemian Rhapsody"