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TUESDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Good news for seniors: Your decision-making skills may be as quick and sharp as college students, researchers report.
Their accumulated data suggests that older people who remain mentally healthy are potentially as capable as younger people when it comes to thinking fast without making mistakes.
Ratcliff and his colleagues report their findings in the current online issue of Child Development.
"Many people think that it is just natural for older people's brains to slow down as they age, but we're finding that isn't always true," study co-author Roger Ratcliff, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University, said in a journal news release. "At least in some situations, 70-year-olds may have response times similar to those of 25-year olds."
The researchers analyzed the results of word accuracy and symbol-based cognitive (thinking) testing among very young children (as young as the second grade). They found that response time in decision-making starts out more slowly and less accurately in children compared with adults, but goes on to improve by the time people reach college age.
"Younger children are not able to make as good of use of the information they are presented, so they are less accurate," Ratcliff explained. "That improves as they mature."
Ratcliff's group also pointed to prior research involving the same type of cognitive testing conducted among three age groups: college-aged students, adults aged 60 to 74, and adults aged 75 to 90.
In that instance, the results suggested that while accuracy was comparable across age groups, college students tended to respond more quickly than seniors.
But, when the seniors were actively prodded to respond more quickly, they proved capable of doing so --- just as speedily as those in their 20s.
While noting that some aspects of mental processing do suffer with age (such as "associative memory"), the team concluded that getting old does not necessarily mean losing one's ability to think fast and well.
"The older view was that all cognitive processes decline at the same rate as people age," Ratcliff said. "We're finding that there isn't such a uniform decline. There are some things that older people do nearly as well as young people."
More information
There's more on how the brain changes with age at the University of Southern California.
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The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has joined California fire investigators searching for arsonists torching cars at the height of arson season: New Year's. More cars burned Saturday morning.
New Year's is high time for serial arsonists, research shows, and Hollywood firefighters are seeing that phenomenon first hand as they chase potential copy-catters who continued to set cars ablaze Saturday morning.
Skip to next paragraphSince Thursday, suspected arsonists have set at least 30 car fires in a compact area of densely-developed Hollywood and West Hollywood, including around the famed Laurel Canyon area, where a car parked in front of a home once occupied by the late Doors' frontman Jim Morrison burned Friday morning, setting part of the home aflame.
Police say they have two people in custody, but the fire-setting continued Saturday morning.
Fire officials said the fires could be the work of a serial arsonist or a copycat culprit traveling between scenes on a motorcycle or even a bicycle. Saturday's fires came even as the fire department urged locals to keep their eyes open and stay vigilant.
So far, investigators have scant evidence to go on, as the perpetrators have for the most part appeared to have avoided video surveillance cameras. A $35,000 reward has been posted to entice residents with information about the fires to come forward.
While no one has been hurt, several homes and carports have sustained serious damage, raising the alarm at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which has sent agents to Hollywood.
Arson studies show that the majority of arson fires are set by thrill-seeking youths, even as the number of arson cases in larger US cities declined by 13 percent from 2010 through the first half of 2011, according to the newest FBI crime statistics. The numbers of arson fires historically goes up as a new year beckons, according to the US Fire Administration.
Given its long history of destructive wildfires, California is well-positioned to track arsonists. It has spearheaded the implementation of a national arson registry, similar to the sex offender registry, to track people convicted on arson charges after they're released.
Amid news that the car-burning rampage continued Saturday morning, Angelenos fervently debated what kind of perpetrators could be setting the fires. Some have speculated it's the work of homeless street people, while others have suggested eco-terrorism.
?I'm not even sure how it would be possible for a single individual to cover the area with a car ? it has to be two or more people working together,? suggested Los Angeles Times reader Adrianna Belle on the newspaper's website. ?These fires also seem too low-rent for the environmental terrorists, who, like most terrorists, want the most bang for their buck. If they ever blow [stuff] up, it's usually something big, like an entire dealer's lot filled with cars. Really, though, it's most likely one deranged individual with?a jones for setting fires. Even if they wanted help to stop a compulsion, where would they go??
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Snail mail, as it is derisively called, has been losing ground to e-mail, texting and social media for years. And the financial troubles of the United States Postal Service (USPS), in part due to the coming of the Internet age, are impacting what used to be one of the most stable jobs in the nation: that of the postal worker.
Between 2006 and 2010, first class mail declined 20 percent, according to Brian McCoy, a USPS representative who addressed a capacity crowd at the Tucson Convention Center on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Although "business mail" (AKA "junk mail") volume held steady, and USPS package deliveries increased during the same time period, the first class mail decline is ominous because first class "pays the bills," McCoy reported.
McCoy has the unenviable job of holding public hearings across the country in towns and cities -- like Tucson -- that are slated to lose their mail processing facilities and the accompanying good-paying postal jobs. As more than 500 Tucsonans listened to McCoy's presentation and waited to voice their opinions at the open mike, protesters from Jobs with Justice, Occupy Tucson, and the local postal workers' union chanted, waived signs and signed petitions outside.
According to McCoy, the postal service is in such dire financial straits that it needs a "$10 billion solution" to keep going. Baring an unforeseen miracle, plant closures, lay-offs and service changes in cities such as Tucson are inevitable.
The postal service currently has nearly 500 mail processing centers across the country; this level of capacity has been necessary to keep the gold standard of 24-hour delivery for local first class mail -- the financial mainstay of the postal service.
USPS proposes to cut the number of facilities from 487 to 252 and reduce the workforce through lay-offs and attrition; the Tucson mail processing plant is one that could be closed. This dramatic reduction in capacity would result in trucking local mail to regional processing centers and trucking it back for distribution. Of course, transporting mail between cities for processing will mean the " disappearance of 24-hour local mail delivery for most Americans, including Tucsonans, whose mail would be shipped to Phoenix for processing and back to Tucson for delivery. Under the USPS plan for "radical network realignment" the new standard for first class local mail delivery will be two to three days.
McCoy told skeptical Tucsonans that reducing the number of underutilized processing plants and, thus, allowing the remaining facilities to operate 20 hours per day, will make the postal service more competitive. Snail mail is already losing ground to its electronic competition because of its relative "speed"; it is not clear how doubling or tripling the turnaround time for first class mail will make the USPS more competitive in the Internet age. The future cost of fuel to transport thousands of pieces of mail from cities of origin to regional processing centers and back again is a huge unknown.
Several local Democratic Party politicians attended the public hearing in support of Tucson's postal workers, including Congressman Raul Grijalva and newly elected Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, who received enthusiastic applause from attendees. It is unclear exactly how many jobs would be lost in Tucson if the mail processing center closes. According to the Arizona Daily Star, 147 postal jobs would be eliminated, but the direct impact to the local economy would be in the neighborhood of 288 jobs; in the pre-event publicity, protest organizers -- including union leaders -- estimated the local job loss to be closer to 400. Nationwide, the plant closures would result in loss of 35,000 postal worker jobs.
During the two-hour public comment period, Grijalva said that there are other strategies that the USPS could use to improve its financial state, instead of resorting to plant closures, lay-offs and reductions in service. Grijalva suggested that the 2006 Congressional mandate requiring the USPS to prepay retirement funds be changed and that the postal service seek more competitive practices.
Thanks to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, the USPS is required to pre-pay billions of dollars per year into its employee retirement fund. In June 2011, the postal service temporarily stopped those payments, but this had no impact on employees' retirement because the postal service had a $6.9 billion surplus in the Federal Employee Retirement System.
That's right. According to the Washington Post, the postal service lost $5.1 billion in the same time period that it a $6.9 billion surplus in its retirement fund.
Where does the postal service go from here? For the next few months, McCoy and his colleagues will continue to make their case from city to city--extolling the virtues of plant consolidations and bearing the insults of angry residents who will lose their jobs and/or see reductions in services. The stated goal is to reduce mail processing payroll by 20 percent, according to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe.
Pamela Powers Hannley is a Tucson-based writer and political activist. If you would like to contribute as a citizen journalist to The Huffington Post's coverage of American political life, please contact us at www.offthebus.org.
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