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An accident at 9:30 a.m. on Highway 512 west of Quitman claimed the life of reserve Clarke County Deputy Robert Goodwin.
According to Sheriff Todd Kemp, Goodwin was overseeing inmates who were picking up trash when he was struck by a pickup truck. At the time of the accident, Kemp said Goodwin was loading trash bags onto the back of his truck.
Goodwin had retired from Burlington and since 1992 had worked part time as a reserve deputy for Clarke County and was currently also working as a part-time police officer for the town of Enterprise.
Sheriff Kemp said the department's inmate trash pickup initiative just began this week and this was only Goodwin's second day on the job.
"He loved law enforcement. He loved people. He loved this county. He loved this community. Robert was a fine man and he will surely be missed by me especially, because he was my friend," Kemp said.
The sheriff said charges are not expected to be filed in the case. The Mississippi Highway Patrol is handling the investigation.

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US golfer and tournament host Tiger Woods(C) poses for photos with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (R) and entertainer Jessica Simpson during opening ceremonies on July 1, 2009 at the AT&T National golf tournament hosted by Tiger Woods at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland.
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From what I hear, I think I've had better luck than most people. I am getting about 50 visits a day from my pixel ads, which is actually quite a drop off.... I was getting about 200-300 visits per day early last month, but that was before the page had filled up as much as it has. I think one of the things I did right was position my ad out in the open, far separated from other ads. A lot of people try to cram their ads in the upper right hand corner, and, frankly, I think they get lost up there.
That said, I suspect that this fad is crested and I don't particularly recommend pixed advertising as a means of building traffic.
I thought about doing something similar, only turning pixels into tattoo ink. I get the entire Trail of Tears tattoo I want, plus quite a bit of extra cash, people get links from the site and they get to pay for my pain. ;)
From some of the people that I've talked to, the traffic was pretty good early on, but the conversion rate was terrible. Now, the traffic has fallen off, but conversion rates have climbed. Might have something to do with having to search through all those pixels to find an appealing link.
Original ideas still seem to be worth something. Over half a million examples of proof eh?
Perhaps, but perhaps some curiosity seeker sees an ad of decent pixel count, and this turns out to be the talk of the town of s/he, or blogged heavily, etc. thus becoming a fairly inexpensive tidbit of viral marketing. While neither building or playing this particular pixel paradise is my cup of tea, it does have an inherent modicum of charm and simplicity.
Of course, I hope that the people buying pixels don't assume that those pixels will flow PageRank. :)
So, does that mean that PR is only passed through text links and not image links? Brad Fallon, a SEO guy, says that it is passed through image links. Is he wrong?
No, he's not wrong - it just means that PR isn't passed through these particular image links (from the million Dollar Homepage.
Google basically doesn't like people selling links and therefore sometimes takes such links out of the equation as far as PR and ranking goes.
I can think of worse backlinks to pay for.
I'd aslo think that, due to Matt Cutt's remark, this site has probably been flaged and had some human intervention applied to it.
It's not that I don't think that google knows which links they are giving value to, it's that I don't think that the backlinks they show have much if any meaning. Links are the backbone of their algo. Why would they give useful data to SEOs?
I dont see much benifit in it, May be Alex (Owner of Million Dollar) has earned a lot, but i dont think people are going to buy pixels on everysite.
I made few sites but i dont understand one thing, why people are running towards this concept?
A lot of things people do, like exclusively hunt for links PR 4 or above, are done without understanding why. They only know that others are doing it and they follow along. That kind of thinking creates opportunity for others, I guess.
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My square went up yesterday, and so far it looks like I shoulda spent my check on steaks. But I'll give it another month before deciding if I'd buy more pixels for fun.
So is the little green bar! ;)
SEO benefit debate aside, I don't think there's anything silly about it - as someone said previously, the site will have an insane ROI. Fair play to the (original) guy who set it up IMO.
To the person who builds it? No, that fad has peaked.
To the people who buy the link? No ROI. Zero. It's like buying Sea Monkeys and you realize it's just brine shrimp.
After you drop your dough on the pixels you realize it's just a link farm with zero traffic. Just use your head and think about it.
The idea that you can generate any kind of ROI from this is wishful thinking. Just use your head and think it through. This site isn't viral. People are not emailing this to each other. There is no traffic, much less targeted useful traffic.
I totally agree that the clones that are popping up are pretty daft, but the original concept / implementation worked well and the ROI for that site will be insane. The others just idiots trying to jump on the bandwagon.
The concept is simple enough to be viral but has a limited lifespan (in that the success can't be replicated with the same model) but the lifespan is such that it is fad-esque.
I still think the concept has merit in terms of orginality - typically the copycats just replicate instead of innovating.
For example, this might be an interesting way for a site to host a links page - a links wall instead. OK maybe not *all* sites, but it might appeal to certain types of people.
It's viral enough - having ongoing discussions on WebmasterWorld, SEW, TW...
What value does a trickle of SEO traffic have to someone advertising their travel affiliate site?
It's like a nude beach full of dirty old men with binoculars.
There's no action there.
A trickle of SEO traffic it may be, but it is all site owners (or largely site owners anyway) - not just that, a lot will have a fairly substantial disposable income. All those hosting and casino advertisers didn't come from mainstream press coverage.
If I was conducting a SEO / viral campaign for MDH, I'd consider the subsequent press coverage, 1330 IBLs, PR7, blog and forum coverage and 700k+ pixels sold a success.


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E3 2008: Themes Will Be Compatible With New Dashboard
Written Wednesday, July 16, 2008 By Jason Debelyak
One of the biggest questions pertaining to the new Dashboard update is whether or not themes and gamerpics will be able to be carried over to the new look. Avatars seem to be taking the place of gamerpics, although they could possibly play a role on the blade system of the Guide button, only time will tell. However, we did get word from Gamerscoreblog that it has been confirmed that all existing themes will be able to be used on the new Xbox Dashboard. Pictures are included in the link as well, so you'll be able to see for yourself what it should look like. That's certainly good news, and it makes the Dashboard look a lot better than the plain color on the whole thing. More details should emerge over the next couple months before the update launches, and we'll be sure to bring you every possible detail as soon as we get word.


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About the Book
An intimate look at the founders—George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison—and thewomen who played essential roles in their lives
With his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, notedhistorian Thomas Fleming examines the relationships between theFounding Fathers and the women who were at the center of theirlives. They were the mothers who powerfully shaped their sons'visions of domestic life, from hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien, Hamilton's mother. Lovers and wives played even more critical roles. We learn of the youthful Washington's tortured love for the coquettish Sarah Fairfax, a close friend's wife; of Franklin's two "wives," one in London and one in Philadelphia; of how lonely, deeply unhappy Abigail kept home and family togetherfor years on end during Adams's long absences; of Hamilton's adulterous betrayal of his wife and their eventual reconciliation; of how the brilliant Madison, jilted by a flirtatious fifteen-year-old, went on to marry the effervescent Dolley, who helped make this shy man into a popular president. Jefferson's controversial relationshipwith Sally Hemings is also examined, reinterpreting where his heart truly lay.
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"Thomas Fleming is one of our most interesting scholars of the Revolutionary period, and in his insightful latest work he does not disappoint. Focusing on the wives and women of the founding fathers, Intimate Lives is thoroughly fresh, frequently fun, at times touching, and always fascinating. A significant achievement." — Jay Winik, author of The Great Upheaval and April 1865
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We have seen this before with Kanders and gang.OK, that was strike 2 - question is; is there anyone there that can figure out how to make a deal.All of this would explain some of the few very high 6-figure volume days in the fall last year.OK, having said all that - the big question is - did Kanders pull the plug in this quarter, that is within the last week or so, or did he do so last quarter.For the big 349,000 volume day we saw last week, was that new activity or someone speculating that Kanders will complete what was started last fall.Here is a link to PR.http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Clarus-Announces-2009-bw-262066325.html?x=0&.v=1
$1.6MM "transaction cost" in the 4th quarter, professional fees, accounting, documentation. I would like to know who received the $1.6MM. If it was largely an unrelated third party like an investment bank, it is about right. If they paid themselves or a related company, that would make up for some of the expense savings. Just a question, don't have any specific information one way or the other.
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Photo: Chavez Jr. vs. Vera Official Scorecards
By Francisco Salazar
StubHub Center, Carson, California - At a catch-weight of 173-pounds, former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (47-1-1, 32KOs) returned from over a year of inactivity, had weight struggles where the contract weight had to be raised to nearly light heavyweight on Wednesday, and won a controversial ten round unanimous decision over Bryan Vera (23-7, 14KOs). The scores were 96-94, 97-93 and 98-92 - which led to a lot of boos from the pro-Mexican crowd which turned out to support Chavez.
it's sickening seeing these round by round scores -- one judge actually gave Jr. the 10th, 11th and 12th rounds -- all 3 of them! -- despite the fact that he basically was out of gas and backpedaled most of…Comment by HanzGruber on 09-29-2013
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if we are going to have such obvious bribery, then why not make it an official part of the buildup and actually allow both teams to bid for the judges. that way we know how much it takes to buy…Comment by nycsmooth on 09-29-2013
worse than NV...Caiz's card really strange...a no experience judge gets this fight cuz her father's a ref & she shows her inability...Comment by PETUFF on 09-29-2013
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Trying to explore the exciting world of widgets but I get the "No Sidebars Defined - You are seeing this message because the theme you are currently using isn't widget-aware..."
However, I'm toggling between the Default theme and K2, which are obviously widget-aware. Clearly, somethings off about my install, but I'd rather not start from scratch. Any suggestions?


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HARPER WOODS, Mich. (AP) -- Police say they have a suspect in custody more than a month after an outbreak of gunfire at a suburban Detroit mall left two men hospitalized and sent panicked shoppers fleeing to exits.
Harper Woods Deputy Chief Jim Burke says in a statement Friday that U.S. Marshals arrested a male suspect. Burke says charges could be brought over the weekend.
Burke says police are looking into the possibility that a second person may have been involved in the shooting. Additional information wasn't immediately released.
Police said a dispute between two rival groups of teens escalated into gunfire Nov. 27 when members of one group opened fire inside Eastland Mall.


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Old Stuff I Bought
Brad needed a desk lamp, so I went hunting at an antique shop last weekend. Finds!
I got this '50s desk lamp with the original fiberglass(?) shades. The lights bend to shine wherever you want, and you can turn on each bulb individually or both at once. When we got home, I considered stealing it for my own desk because I wasn't sure Brad understood the lamp like I did. Then he got agitated when I moved it to my desk to take this photo, even though he had not yet plugged it in. So he gets to keep it.
Bakelite salt and pepper shakers. You press that button on the top, and it moves this little plug at the bottom to dispense. It dispenses a lot of salt, which is delicious.
Ugly '70s purse! So divine.
Also, I bought another architectural vintage hat without a specific plan of where I'll wear it. I'm like a cat lady, but with hats. Except hats don't eat your face when you die alone in your apartment. So that's an upside.
Great Ideas Tuesday
Fridaaay! Links
OK Go's Upside Down and Inside Out video filmed in zero gravity. The best part is when Damian Kulash says "YEAH! WOO!" at the end. I wish they'd kept the sound.
Brownie Cake is one of those Pinterest ideas that's still possible for the plebes.
Great quote on silence by Rothko.
Apparently people are still freaking about Beyoncé's part of the Super Bowl halftime. I do not get it. When those breathtaking girls step from behind her all Black-Panthered out and put their fists in the air? Full body chills. YYYYYESS, LADIES! Yes. (1:40-1:55)
Let's all live in giant pom poms.
If you like phone games, our family is into Neko Atsume, "Kitty Collector" right now.
Do you know about piglet squids? The ocean is so cool.
Recommended: YSL's watercolor nail polish in Rose Splash. It makes your nails look super healthy, requires no talent to apply, and when it chips you just swipe on another layer. Pricey, but I'll use the whole bottle. You can see it on my thumb in yesterday's book photo.
A Valentine's Day appropriate mall joke.
So worth it to watch this whole thing:
I want all of my history delivered like this from now on.
Ozzy is almost ten months old, and he's all about the cobra pose.
Cool stuff my friends are doing
Lisa Congdon is having a book tour to celebrate her book, The Joy of Swimming: A Celebration of Our Love for Getting in the Water. Mai is a featured swimmer!
Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim was on the very first panel I moderated about blogging, which was hosted at the very first Blogher. Anyway, Pim's San Francisco restaurant, Kin Khao, just got its first Michelin star! Yeeeeah.
Happy Valentine's weekend, everyone. Please acquire a heart shaped box of chocolate in your own honor.
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
The best parts of The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brené Brown:
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others." – Pema Chödrön
One of the greatest (and least discussed) barriers to compassion practice is the fear of setting boundaries and holding people accountable… This research has taught me that if we really want to practice compassion, we have to start by setting boundaries and holding people accountable for their behavior.
If we don't follow through with appropriate consequences, people learn to dismiss our requests — even if they sound like threats or ultimatums.
The key is to separate people from their behaviors — to address what they're doing, not who they are… That's where we get into trouble. When we talk ourselves into disliking someone so we're more comfortable holding them accountable, we're priming ourselves for the shame and blame game.
When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe we are worthy of love and belonging.
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it.
Guilt = I did something bad.
Shame = I am bad.
Life paralysis refers to all of the opportunities we miss because we're too afraid to put anything out in the world that could be imperfect.
Perfectionism is addictive because when we invariably do experience shame, judgment, and blame, we often believe it's because we weren't perfect enough.
Martin Luther King Jr. described power as the ability to affect change.
The Greek word for joy is chairo… "the good mood of the soul."
The more entrenched and reactive we are about an issue, the more we need to investigate our responses.
Sidewalk Editorial Cartoon
In my recently gentrified neighborhood, a young, bearded white guy blocks the path. His stance is wide, his feet planted, phone affixed to his ear. He folds his arms.
At his back a blind black man approaches, tapping his cane. Hearing the other man's voice, he pauses uncertainly, tries one direction, then the next, and finally inches around him.
The white guy never notices.
Valentine's Basics: Gifts for Him
He has everything he needs. But for Valentine's Day, you want him to have a little more. Some simple gifts to let him know he's loved.
I Like Your Face Mug, $14
Best delivered first thing in the morning with fresh-brewed coffee inside.
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed, $12
Maybe give this to him the day before Valentine's Day. He's not gonna look up for a few hours.
Men's Cotton House Slippers, $17
Slippers that keep his toes warm, but don't make his feet sweat. Key.
Calvin Klein Modal Boxer Briefs, $23
Sexier than silk boxers with hearts all over them. Plus he might actually wear them.
He buys you lingerie, you buy him top-shelf booze. Both of you so selfless.
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Just look at this scratch circle etched in the sand by a piece of grass. via kottke
It's Black History Month. For weeks, I've been thinking about this story of a gift one mother gave her daughter when they were separated by slavery.
Let's go to the Seven Tea Cup Waterfalls
in Patagonia, Argentina. Update: These are actually in California! But apparently are only accessible if you use climbing ropes. Video of a couple guys climbing down the falls.
I bought a quivering hat.
"Two young men died in the Ural mountains as they pulled the pin from a hand grenade to take a selfie, which remained as evidence of the circumstances of their deaths."
I went kind of deep on the Wikipedia list of selfie-related injuries and deaths.
This pizza phone cover goes with this one that looks a little like very classy weed.
I'm not usually (ever) into nail art, but Glass Nails? Dang.
And speaking of nails, I was rapt for this Cal Sunday article on what it's like to be a hand model, "Hired Hand."
Concepcion Picciotto died recently, after keeping a peace vigil by the White House for 30 years. This is one of those "who's the crazy one, her or society" stories.


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Caltech scientists have developed a gene therapy that helps the brain replace its nerve-cell-protecting myelin sheaths—and the cells that produce those sheaths—when they are destroyed by diseases like multiple sclerosis and by spinal-cord injuries. Myelin ensures that nerve cells can send signals quickly and efficiently.
By studying jets of plasma in the lab, Caltech researchers discovered a surprising phenomenon that may be important for understanding how solar flares occur and for developing nuclear fusion as an energy source. Solar flares are bursts of energy from the sun that launch chunks of plasma that can damage orbiting satellites and cause the northern and southern lights on Earth.
Caltech planetary scientists provided a new explanation for why the "man in the moon" faces Earth. Their research indicates that the "man"—an illusion caused by dark-colored volcanic plains—faces us because of the rate at which the moon's spin rate slowed before becoming locked in its current orientation, even though the odds favored the moon's other, more mountainous side.
In studying brain activity and behavior, Caltech biologists and social scientists learned that the more someone is afraid of loss, the worse they will perform on a given task—and that, the more loss-averse they are, the more likely it is that their performance will peak at a level far below their actual capacity.
NASA's NuSTAR telescope, a Caltech-led and -designed mission to explore the high-energy X-ray universe and to uncover the secrets of black holes, of remnants of dead stars, of energetic cosmic explosions, and even of the sun, was launched on June 13. The instrument is the most powerful high-energy X-ray telescope ever developed and will produce images that are 10 times sharper than any that have been taken before at these energies.
This summer's likely discovery of the long-sought and highly elusive Higgs boson, the fundamental particle that is thought to endow elementary particles with mass, was made possible in part by contributions from a large contingent of Caltech researchers. They have worked on this problem with colleagues around the globe for decades, building experiments, designing detectors to measure particles ever more precisely, and inventing communication systems and data storage and transfer networks to share information among thousands of physicists worldwide.
Researchers at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a new kind of amplifier that can be used for everything from exploring the cosmos to examining the quantum world. This new device operates at a frequency range more than 10 times wider than that of other similar kinds of devices, can amplify strong signals without distortion, and introduces the lowest amount of unavoidable noise.
Caltech bioengineers partnered with researchers at Harvard University to build a freely moving artificial jellyfish from scratch. The researchers fashioned the jellyfish from silicon and muscle cells into what they've dubbed Medusoid; in the lab, the scientists were able to replicate some of the jellyfish's key mechanical functions, such as swimming and creating feeding currents. The work will help improve researchers' understanding of tissues and how they work, and may inform future efforts in tissue engineering and the design of pumps for the human heart.
After more than eight years of planning, about 354 million miles of space travel, and seven minutes of terror, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory successfully landed on the Red Planet on August 5. The roving analytical laboratory, named Curiosity, is now using its 10 scientific instruments and 17 cameras to search Mars for environments that either were once—or are now—habitable.
Caltech engineers built a solar-powered toilet that can safely dispose of human waste for just five cents per use per day. The toilet design, which won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinventing the Toilet Challenge, uses the sun to power a reactor that breaks down water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen. The hydrogen can be stored as energy in hydrogen fuel cells.
A Caltech-led team of physicists created the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of an individual molecule. The tool could eventually help doctors to diagnose diseases, and will enable scientists to study viruses, examine the molecular machinery of cells, and better measure nanoparticles and air pollution.
This year, two separate Caltech research groups made key advances in the quest to extract hydrogen from water for energy use. In June, a team of chemical engineers devised a nontoxic, noncorrosive way to split water molecules at relatively low temperatures; this method may prove useful in the application of waste heat to hydrogen production. Then, in September, a group of Caltech chemists identified the mechanism by which some water-splitting catalysts work; their findings should light the way toward the development of cheaper and better catalysts.
In 2012, Caltech faculty and students pursued research into just about every aspect of our world and beyond—from understanding human behavior, to exploring other planets, to developing sustainable waste solutions for the developing world.
In other words, 2012 was another year of discovery at Caltech. Here are a dozen research stories, which were among the most widely read and shared articles from Caltech.edu.
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PASADENA, Calif.—You probably know it as Monday-morning quarterbacking or 20/20 hindsight: failures often look obvious and predictable after the fact—whether it's an interception thrown by a quarterback under pressure, a surgeon's mistake, a slow response to a natural disaster, or friendly fire in the fog of war.
In legal settings, this tendency to underestimate the challenges faced by someone else—called hindsight bias—can lead to unfair judgments, punishing people who made an honest, unavoidable mistake.
"Hindsight bias is fueled by the fact that you weren't there—you didn't see the fog and confusion," says Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Furthermore, hindsight bias exists even if you were there. The bias is strong enough to alter your own memories, giving you an inflated sense that you saw the result coming. "We know a lot about the nature of these types of judgmental biases," he says. "But in the past, they weren't understood well enough to prevent them."
In a new study, recently published online in the journal Psychological Science, a team led by Camerer and Shinsuke Shimojo, the Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology, not only found a way to predict the severity of the bias, but also identified a technique that successfully reduces it—a strategy that could help produce fairer assessments in situations such as medical malpractice suits and reviewing police or military actions.
Hindsight bias likely stems from the fact that when given new information, the brain tends to file away the old data and ignore it, Camerer explains. Once we know the outcome of a decision or event, we can't easily retrieve those old files, so we can't accurately evaluate something after the fact. The wide-ranging influence of hindsight bias has been observed in many previous studies, but research into the underlying mechanisms is difficult because these kinds of judgment are complex.
But by using experimental techniques from behavioral economics and visual psychophysics—the study of how visual stimuli affect perception—the Caltech researchers say they were able to probe more deeply into how hindsight emerges during decision making.
In the study, the researchers gave volunteers a basic visual task: to look for humans in blurry pictures. The visual system is among the most heavily studied parts of the brain, and researchers have developed many techniques and tools to understand it. In particular, the Caltech experiment used eye-tracking methods to monitor where the subjects were looking as they evaluated the photos, giving the researchers a window into the subjects' thought processes.
Subjects were divided into those who would do the task—the "performers"—and those who would judge the performers after the fact—the "evaluators." The performers saw a series of blurry photos and were told to guess which ones had humans in them. The evaluators' job was to estimate how many performers guessed correctly for each picture. To examine hindsight bias, some evaluators were shown clear versions of the photos before they saw the blurry photos—a situation analogous to how a jury in a medical malpractice case would already know the correct diagnosis before seeing the X-ray evidence.
The experiment found clear hindsight bias. Evaluators who had been primed by a clear photo greatly overestimated the percentage of people who would correctly identify the human. In other words, because the evaluators already knew the answer, they thought the task was easier than it really was. Furthermore, the measurements were similar to those from the first study of hindsight bias in 1975, which examined how people evaluated the probabilities of various geopolitical events before and after President Nixon's trip to China and the USSR. The fact that the results between such disparate kinds of studies are so consistent shows that the high-level thinking involved in the earlier study and the low-level processes of visual perception in the new study are connected, the researchers say.
In the second part of the study, the researchers tracked the subjects' eye movements and found that hindsight bias depended on how the performers and evaluators inspected the photos. Evaluators were often looking at different parts of the photos compared to the performers, and when that happened there was more hindsight bias. But when both groups' gazes fell on similar locations on the photos, the evaluators were less biased. Seeing the wandering gazes of the first group as they tried to make sense of the blurry images seemed to allow the evaluators to internalize the first group's struggles. In other words, when the two groups literally saw eye to eye, the evaluators were less biased and gave a more accurate estimate of the first group's success rate.
Based on these results, the researchers suspected that if they could show the evaluators where people in the first group had looked—indicated by dots jiggling on the screen—then perhaps the evaluators' gazes would be drawn there as well, reducing any potential hindsight bias. When they did the experiment, that's exactly what happened.
Other studies have shown that merely telling people that they should be aware of hindsight bias is not effective, Camerer says. Something more tangible—such as dots that draw the evaluators' attention—is needed.
Although the experiments were done in a very specific context, the researchers say that these results may be used to reduce hindsight bias in real-life situations. "We think it's a very promising step toward engineering something useful," Camerer says.
For example, eye-tracking technology could be used to record how doctors evaluate X-ray or MRI images. If a doctor happens to make a mistake, showing eye-tracking data could reduce hindsight bias when determining whether the error was honest and unavoidable or if the doctor was negligent. Lowering the likelihood of hindsight bias, Camerer says, could also decrease defensive medicine, in which doctors perform excessive and costly procedures—or decline doing a procedure altogether—for fear of being sued for malpractice even when they have done nothing wrong.
As technology advances, our activities are being increasingly monitored and recorded, says Daw-An Wu, the first author of the paper and a former postdoctoral scholar at Caltech who now works at the Caltech Brain Imaging Center. But the study shows that having visual records alone doesn't solve the problem of fair and unbiased accountability. "For there to be some fair judgment afterward, you would hope that the other component of reality is also being recorded—which is not just what is seen, but how people look at it," he says.
The Psychological Science paper is titled "Shared Visual Attention Reduces Hindsight Bias." In addition to Camerer, Shimojo, and Wu, the other author is Stephanie Wang, a former postdoctoral scholar at Caltech who is now an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. This research collaboration was initiated and funded by Trilience Research, with additional support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Tamagawa-Caltech Global COE Program, and the CREST program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
PASADENA, Calif.—For speed daters, first impressions are everything. But it's more than just whether someone is hot or not.
Whether or not we like to admit it, we all may make snap judgments about a new face. Perhaps nowhere is this truer than in speed dating, during which people decide on someone's romantic potential in just a few seconds. How they make those decisions, however, is not well understood.
But now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found that people make such speed-dating decisions based on a combination of two different factors that are related to activity in two distinct parts of the brain.
Unsurprisingly, the first factor in determining whether someone gets a lot of date requests is physical attractiveness. The second factor, which may be less obvious, involves people's own individual preferences—how compatible a potential partner may be, for instance.
The study, which is published in the November 7 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, is one of the first to look at what happens in the brain when people make rapid-judgment decisions that carry real social consequences, the researchers say.
"Psychologists have known for some time that people can often make very rapid judgments about others based on limited information, such as appearance," says John O'Doherty, professor of psychology and one of the paper's coauthors. "However, very little has been known about how this might work in real social interactions with real consequences—such as when making decisions about whether to date someone or not. And almost nothing is known about how this type of rapid judgment is made by the brain."
In the study, 39 heterosexual male and female volunteers were placed in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and then shown pictures of potential dates of the opposite sex. They were given four seconds to rate, on a scale from 1 to 4, how much they would want to date that person. After cycling through as many as 90 faces, the participants then rated the faces again—outside the fMRI machine—on attractiveness and likeability on a scale from 1 to 9. Later, the volunteers participated in a real speed-dating event, in which they spent five minutes talking to some of the potential dates they had rated in the fMRI machine. The participants listed those they wanted to see again; if there were any matches, each person in the pair was given the other's contact information.
Perhaps to no one's surprise, the researchers found that the people who were rated as most attractive by consensus were the ones who got the most date requests. Seeing someone who was deemed attractive (and who also ended up with more date requests) was associated with activity in a region of the rater's brain called the paracingulate cortex, a part of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC), which is an important area for cognitive control and decision making. The paracingulate cortex, in particular, has been shown to be active when the brain is comparing options.
This phenomenon was fairly consistent across all participants, says Jeff Cooper, a former postdoctoral scholar in O'Doherty's lab and first author of the paper. In other words, nearly everyone considers physical attraction when judging a potential romantic partner, and that judgment is correlated with activity in the paracingulate cortex.
"But that's not the only thing that's happening," Cooper adds. When some participants saw a person they wanted to date—but who was not rated as very desirable by everyone else—they showed more activation in the rostromedial prefrontal cortex (RMPFC), which is also a part of the DMPFC, but sits farther in front than the paracingulate cortex. The RMPFC has been previously associated with consideration of other people's thoughts, comparisons of oneself to others, and, in particular, perceptions of similarities with others. This suggests that in addition to physical attractiveness, the researchers say, people consider individual compatibility.
While good looks remains the most important factor in determining whether a person gets a date request, a person's likeability—as perceived by other individuals—is also important. For example, likeability serves as a tiebreaker if two people have equal attractiveness ratings. If someone thought a potential date was more likeable than other people did, then that someone was more likely to ask for a date.
"Our work shows for the first time that activity in two parts of the DMPFC may be very important for driving the snapshot judgments that we make all the time about other people," O'Doherty says.
As for the results of the speed-dating event? A few couples were still together six weeks afterward, Cooper says, but the researchers have not followed up. The study was focused on the neural mechanisms behind snap judgments—how those judgments relate to long-term romantic success, he says, is another question.
In addition to Cooper and O'Doherty, the other authors of the Journal of Neuroscience paper are Caltech graduate student Simon Dunne and Teresa Furey of Trinity College Dublin. The title of paper is "Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Mediates Rapid Evaluations Predicting the Outcome of Romantic Interactions." This research was funded by an Irish Research Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Fellowship, the Wellcome Trust, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
This fall, Jennifer Jahner joined Caltech as an assistant professor of English. As an undergraduate, she planned to study environmental science at Western Washington University. But as a lifelong reader, she couldn't elude the lure of literature, and she ended up majoring in English instead, receiving her BA in 1998. Afterward, she spent several years as a book editor before returning to academia as a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she took a seminar on medieval literature—a class that she says changed her life. Discovering a passion for the time period and for studying old, rare manuscripts, she got her MA in 2005 and then went to the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her PhD last spring. Jahner recently answered a few questions about her research and her thoughts on joining Caltech.
What do you study?
I study medieval England and particularly the relationships between legal writing and literary writing. My research looks at the writing, copying, and transmission of political lyrics, which are often short poems that try to tackle very thorny legal and political questions. What I look at are the legal ideas and discourses that these poems engage in, what sorts of manuscripts they are copied in, and what these poems can tell us about how people understood forms of community and legal obligation in the Middle Ages.
What's interesting about these poems?
One of the interesting questions about these poems is that, especially in England, they're anonymous. They survive in all sorts of settings, so they get copied into chronicles and they get copied on the flyleaves of manuscripts. They're in all sorts of languages. They're in English, they're in French, and they're in Latin. They suggest to scholars an educated milieu of readers who could understand those languages but who also were looking for entertainment, so they're propaganda pieces, they're advocating revolution against the king, they're condemning revolution against the king. They're interesting, but we don't know a lot about who wrote them or necessarily why.
How does your research straddle the line between history and literature?
Political poems in particular are interesting works for thinking about the difference between literature and history and how we mark something as literary and something else as historical. In fact, one of the reasons they don't tend to be talked about as much as other medieval texts is because they fall right on that boundary line and aren't actually very comfortable in either category.
They're poetic and they're clearly engaging in the conventions of poetic composition. They have rhyme. They have meter. They use allusions and metaphor. And they're very rich rhetorically. But their subject matter is intrinsically historical. They're talking about people and events that happened. They're talking about battles and political controversies. That means that for literary scholars, they're often thought of as somehow less literary than something that might be entirely invented. For the historians, they are useful to a degree as evidence of what people might have been thinking or talking about around a given event. But precisely because they're poetic and they're taking license with those events, they don't measure up to the standards of a true or trustworthy source.
What excites you about your work?
There's so much about the Middle Ages that we still don't know. There are so many texts that remain to be read, thought about, and edited. I love the fact that my job requires and allows me to look at things that are 600 or 700 years old that were copied out by hand and were bound by hand. I find the strangeness and unfamiliarity of the Middle Ages also really compelling. You can't take for granted any of your own assumptions about what it meant to read things, what it meant to listen to things. It's also just really hard. You have to know dead languages. I like the challenge of it.
What excites you about coming to Caltech?
Caltech is actually a really great place to be a humanist. My work tends to be interdisciplinary and it's really common for medievalists to be interdisciplinary because the period doesn't recognize the same boundaries that we do now. It's great to be at a place like Caltech, where our division is a de facto interdisciplinary department. We're made up of literature scholars, historians, and philosophers. It's an exciting place for me to be, because I get to work really closely in a daily setting with people who are doing different kinds of things from me, that are related in ways that I wouldn't necessarily expect.
The other thing that's great about being here is that it's a mile away from the Huntington Library, which is one of the premier manuscript and rare-book libraries in the world and has a terrific medieval-manuscript collection. I feel like I couldn't have landed in a better place.
Having to read and write so much for your work, do you still get to read for pleasure?
I read now less for fun than I ever have at any point in my life. But I will always have a novel on the bed stand. The reward for getting some project done is to relax with a book.
PASADENA, Calif.—Thanks to better voting technology over the last decade, the country's election process has seen much improvement, according to a new report released today by researchers at Caltech and MIT. However, the report notes, despite this progress, some problems remain.
Spurred by the debacle of hanging chads and other voting problems during the 2000 presidential election, the Voting Technology Project (VTP) was started by Caltech and MIT to bring together researchers from across disciplines to figure out how to improve elections. The VTP issued its first report in 2001.
"Since that report came out and since our project was formed, a lot of progress has been made in improving how American elections are run," says Michael Alvarez, professor of political science at Caltech and codirector of the VTP.
For example, the report found that getting rid of outdated voting machines has caused a drop in the number of votes lost to ballot errors. To assess how many votes are lost in each election due to voting mistakes, the researchers calculate the number of residual votes—or the difference between the number of votes that are counted for a particular office and the total number of votes cast. If there are no voting errors, there should be no residual votes.
In their first report in 2001, the researchers found that older voting technology—like punch cards—led to a high residual vote rate. But their new research now shows that the rate has dropped. In particular, Charles Stewart III, a professor of political science at MIT and the other codirector of the VTP, and his colleagues found that the total number of residual votes decreased from 2 percent in 2000 to 1 percent in 2006 and 2008, meaning that fewer votes were lost due to voting errors. The drop was greater in states that instituted more modern voting technology.
"As we moved away from punch cards, lever machines, and paper ballots and towards optical scan systems and electronic systems that have voter verification, we have seen the voter residual rate plummet," Alvarez says. Voter-verification technology gives voters immediate feedback if they make a mistake—by filling in a circle incorrectly, for example—and a chance to correct their error to ensure that their votes are counted.
In addition, the report urges officials to continue and expand election auditing to study the accuracy of registration and voting procedures. For example, after an election, officials can recount ballots to make sure the electronic ballot counters are accurate. "Postelection ballot auditing is a great idea and states need to continue their efforts to use those election ballot-auditing procedures to increase the amount of confidence and integrity of elections," Alvarez says.
The researchers also describe concern with the rise of absentee and early voting, since voter verification is much harder to do via mail. Unlike with in-person voting, these methods offer no immediate feedback about whether a ballot was filled out correctly or if it got counted at all. Once you put your ballot in the mailbox, it's literally out of your hands.
The report also weighs in on voter-identification laws, which have been proposed in many states and subsequently challenged in court. Proponents say they are necessary to prevent voter fraud while opponents argue that there is little evidence that such fraud exists. Moreover, opponents say, voter identification laws make it much more difficult for people without government-issued IDs to vote. But, the report says, technology may resolve the conflict.
"Technology may help ensure voter authentication while alleviating or mitigating the costs that are imposed on voters by laws requiring state-issued identification," says Jonathan Katz, the Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics and coauthor of the VTP report.
For example, polling places can have access to a database of registered voters that is also linked to the state's database of DMV photos. A voter's identification can then be confirmed without them having to carry a photo ID. For voters who do not have an ID, the polling place can be equipped with a camera to take an ID picture immediately. The photo can then be entered into the database to verify identification in future elections.
Click here to read the complete report and learn more about the VTP.
In addition to Alvarez, Stewart, and Katz, the other authors of the Caltech/MIT VTP report are Stephen Ansolabehere of Harvard, Thad Hall of the University of Utah, and Ronald Rivest of MIT. The report was supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The project has been supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Erik Snowberg—a Caltech professor of economics and political science who is an expert on the relationship between economics and politics—has more than an academic interest in politics: he was an intern for the House Committee on Science in 1998, worked for Ted Kennedy from 1998 to 1999 on immigration issues, and then ran for Cambridge City Council in 1999 when he was an undergraduate at MIT. Despite a record student voter turnout, he lost. After getting bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics, he went off to Stanford to study economic policy, receiving a PhD in business in 2008, the year he joined the Caltech faculty.
With the election just about a month away, Snowberg recently answered a few questions about the presidential election and what we can expect on November 6.
The economy seems to be the major focus of the presidential election this year. How do you see it playing out?
It is not a stretch to say that economics is the issue in every presidential campaign. Certainly in my lifetime, economics seems to have determined every election, with the exception of Bush versus Gore in 2000. While the economy was turning down then, we were still coming off a very long period of growth, and the economic models said that Gore should have won.
Now, we are in this middle ground where even though the overall level of the economy is awful, the economy has slowly been getting better over the past year. So the economic models we use to try to predict election outcomes based on economic fundamentals say we can't predict who is going to win.
You have studied people's perceptions of the economy and how that is affected by their economic situation. From that perspective, do you have any insights into this election?
I showed that people's perceptions of unemployment were largely grounded in their own experience. So, you can talk all you like about the economy, but that is not really going to change many people's minds; you can say that the economy is really doing great, but people who have many unemployed friends or family members are not going to feel that way. Or, you can say that the economy is doing terribly, but people who just got a big bonus are generally not going to feel that way. So, we are in this place where issues other than the economy might matter, such as the candidates' character.
With the election in the homestretch, there has been a tremendous amount of attention on the candidates' performances in the debates. Can debate performances decide elections?
Very rarely. Generally it has been the case that following a debate, the challenger gains on average two percentage points in the polls, which is not usually enough to be decisive. So it is difficult to tell if debates affect much of anything. The only recent time where a debate might have decisively influenced an election was in 1980 when Carter and Reagan debated about a week before the election. In that debate, Reagan famously asked voters, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" The economy actually had not been doing too badly until Carter brought in Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979. Inflation was fairly out of control at that point, and Volker clamped down on it, which damaged economic growth. So the economy had a downturn in Carter's last six months in office, and Carter paid the price.
In early October, the latest jobs numbers showed that unemployment has dropped below eight percent. While Obama has been claiming that the economy is getting better, Romney has argued that with his business background, he would be doing a much better job steering the economy. How do you see voters responding?
I don't have any particular reason to believe that people would think that a businessman would have any particular expertise in managing the economy. You could equally turn that around and ask, "Why isn't Obama assured of reelection because he is the only one running who has experience managing the entire economy?" It is not clear to me why voters would perceive it one way or another. Romney was in a type of business where the emphasis was not on creating jobs. It was on creating value for shareholders. If people are concerned about job growth, the guy who has a lot of experience making sure that capital gets a better return on investment is not necessarily going to be the guy they are going to choose for president.
Who do you think is going to win?
If I had to put money on it, I'd put money on Obama, based on the improvement in the economy. I have to say, Romney's performance in the first debate was amazing. But in general, surveys find that he has extremely low likeability ratings—lower than any challenger in a long time.
Christopher Columbus made a few mistakes in researching the route to Japan, his first intended destination on his famous 1492 voyage to the Indies. Among the worst: he ignored sound contemporary scholarship on the size of Earth, its continents, and its oceans in favor of estimates made by medieval theologian and cosmographer Pierre D'Ailly, who was born 101 years before Columbus. That error, along with others, shortened Columbus's estimate of the number of miles he should sail by so much that he was already antsy by the time the Bahamas saved him from a punishing lesson—learning how far away the Far East really is from Europe.
Why did Columbus put so much faith in D'Ailly? Perhaps because he stood to gain so much by it, claims Columbus expert and Caltech history professor Nicolás Wey-Gómez, who scrutinized Columbus's handwritten notes in D'Ailly's geographical treatise Imago Mundi. What Wey-Gómez saw in the margins, which Columbus annotated like a most assiduous student, calls into doubt any notion that this most-famous of seafarers sailed the ocean blue for purely exploratory reasons—that is, simply to reach the East by way of the West. In The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies, Wey-Gómez revisits Columbus's attachment to the Imago Mundi, a treatise that was more than eight decades behind the times when Columbus set sail.
Wey-Gómez believes that Columbus saw a way to wealth and power in the application of medieval cosmography to his own travels, because D'Ailly did more than underestimate the longitudinal distance between the Far East and Europe. He also divided the world into polar, temperate, and torrid zones based on latitude and suggested that the characteristics of the people and land at any particular latitude would be the same at that same latitude anywhere on Earth. This was likely encouraging to Columbus, who had seen that the Portuguese commanded a lucrative trade in spices, dark-skinned slaves, and gold in the "torrid zone" in Africa—all of which Europeans took to be found specifically in tropical latitudes. So he headed south as much as west, in the hope of staking a claim to identical tropical "products" for Spain. According to Wey-Gómez's close reading of Columbus's navigational decisions and many other documents, including the discoverer's diary, Columbus aimed to sail south into the torrid zone after he'd reached Japan (which he believed to be much farther south than it is).
"Columbus was instead sorely disappointed," says Wey-Gómez, who is traveling around Columbus's old stomping grounds in Spain with the Caltech Associates this Columbus Day. The explorer found none of the "Indian" spices long coveted in Europe and very little gold in his Indies. The islanders, too, differed markedly in skin color from anyone he had seen in sub-Saharan Africa. Columbus never admitted that he hadn't reached the Far East, despite mounting evidence and a public belief that he had discovered a new continent, but he didn't quite find what he expected in America's tropics. "There seemed to be little relation between the general latitude, temperature, and 'nature' of the lands and peoples he had found in the Caribbean," says Wey-Gómez, "and this spelled trouble for someone attempting to replicate in the Americas Portugal's exploits in Africa."
PASADENA, Calif.—The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has been rated the world's number one university in the 2012–2013 Times Higher Education global ranking of the top 200 universities.
Oxford University, Stanford University, Harvard University, and MIT round out the top five.
"We are pleased to be among the best, and we celebrate the achievements of all our peer institutions," says Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau. "Excellence is achieved over many years and is the result of our focus on extraordinary people. I am proud of our talented faculty, who educate outstanding young people while exploring transformative ideas in an environment that encourages collaboration rather than competition."
Times Higher Education compiled the listing using the same methodology as in last year's survey. Thirteen performance indicators representing research (worth 30 percent of a school's overall ranking score), teaching (30 percent), citations (30 percent), international outlook (which includes the total numbers of international students and faculty and the ratio of scholarly papers with international collaborators, 7.5 percent), and industry income (a measure of innovation, 2.5 percent) make up the data. Included among the measures are a reputation survey of 17,500 academics; institutional, industry, and faculty research income; and an analysis of 50 million scholarly papers to determine the average number of citations per scholarly paper, a measure of research impact.
In addition to placing first overall in this year's survey, Caltech came out on top in the teaching indicator as well as in subject-specific rankings for engineering and technology and for the physical sciences.
"Caltech held on to the world's number one spot with a strong performance across all of our key performance indicators," says Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. "In a very competitive year, when Caltech's key rivals for the top position reported increased research income, Caltech actually managed to widen the gap with the two universities in second place this year—Stanford University and the University of Oxford. This is an extraordinary performance."
Data for the Times Higher Education's World University Rankings were provided by Thomson Reuters from its Global Institutional Profiles Project, an ongoing, multistage process to collect and validate factual data about academic institutional performance across a variety of aspects and multiple disciplines.
The Times Higher Education site has the full list of the world's top 400 schools and all of the performance indicators.


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Ex-Gay Activists: Gays Oppressing Ex-Gays Just As Nazis Persecuted Jews
Three speakers at August's pitiful Ex-Gay Pride rally recently appeared on a podcast, Deeper Waters, to explain how ex-gays in America like themselves are just like the Jews living under Nazi Germany. Deeper Waters hosted PFOX's Greg Quinlan, Douglas McIntyre of Homosexuals Anonymous and Grace Harley, who says she is ex-transgender.
"The Lord brought to me the Jewish Holocaust in my prayer time and it brought tears to my eyes, because He said, 'as the Jewish people were being victimized, demonized, demonized to the point that all the Germans and all the people started believing and accepting it, guess what folks? That's happening here in America," Harley said, with Quinlan in agreement. "Ex-gay people like myself — we are being so demonized and hated and this is your God they're hating."
"Jesus did not walk into one voting booth and pull the lever for the current administration," Harley exclaimed.
Later in the program, McIntyre also compared the plight of ex-gays to that of Jews under Nazism: "I took a tour of the Holocaust Museum and I went through the early years and looked at exactly the same techniques of lying, suppression and propaganda were exercised there as are being played out today, almost word for word."
Quinlan likened the impact of the gay rights movement, which he described as demonic, to the wreckage of a tornado hitting a town. "We have lost our country," he lamented.
"We have something they will never have, we have a victorious Christ, all they have is a defeated Devil," Quinlan said. "We can win this but we have to take back our culture."
Harley claimed that many gay people who are "determined to go to Hell with their father, they are literally determined to go with Satan, and realize there are a lot of homosexuals that are in the occult."
Moments later, Harvey said that Obama has "homosexual orientation tendencies," proving that we are in the Last Days: "The spirit will not dwell with us too much longer because we truly are in the End Times. Any time you have the head of a country with homosexual orientation tendencies, and I say that because Jesus said, 'if you look at a woman with lust you have committed adultery,' if you have the heart of the homosexual in your heart and your mind then you are without even committing the act, you are there. We have countries, or America—it's devastating what's going on."
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It's in the top ten for highest cost recovery ratio (55%). It's the second best out of ten among express routes for subsidy per passenger ($2.20).
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Operating revenues = fares + advertising
In this case, I don't think they attribute advertising revenues to individual bus lines, so it's just fares.
Fare ($2.50) + Subsidy ($2.20) = $4.70 total cost per passenger.
$2.50 is just under 55% of $4.70 (probably the little extra is advertising). The fare per passenger is not quite $3.00 because of the effects of transfers and passes.
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So she got snookered into paying 10 bucks to get to Falls Church with a 30 minute metro ride to Mt. P where I live, instead of a 3 dollar ride to L'Enfant and a 12 minute green line ride to my neighborhood. She said they were openly misleading and dishonest. Was the first I'd heard of it. Anyone else hear of that happening?
For all of those acres, it seems like there should be many more TOD units involved in this... seems unnecessarily low-density for an area accessible to Metro.
Basically what's happening in Montgomery County in a nutshell is that the planners and County Council are starting to get what should be done. However, political realities prevent them from going all the way. The dominant political constituency in the county has a viewpoint with regards to mobility and land use that is very 20th century. Progess will be slow for now except in places like Wheaton and Silver Spring that are off of that core constituency's radar and therefore irrelevant in their view. It's a process that's only beginning.
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We seem to get several new members from the Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW) area of Texas. We of course welcome y'all and want to see each of you succeed in your pursuits.
One of the common questions I've noticed is "...where are some hunting spots around the Metroplex?" Being a newbie myself, I know getting started and learning how to investigate and find new spots can be one of the hardest endeavors.
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These images from Google Earth are dated 6/12/2011 and 8/2/2012, so conditions may have changed since these images were made. Therefore, some areas may now be fenced off or access may be limited. Also, some of these areas are/were very easy to access, while others require a bit of effort (creek beds, etc.). Keep in mind that you should never cross fences without permission and that any situation can become a dangerous one. Please use all necessary common sense and caution anytime you're exploring.
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B - Inspiration Point - a look-out point overlooking Lake Worth and NASFWJRB - Carswell. You can hike down the bluffs (there are several trails) and hike to the spillway of Lake Worth. Google Earth identifies this as Kiamichi Formation (Kki), however, danwoehr has updated this to probable Goodland formation.
C - Intersection of Riverside Drive and Lancaster. Google Earth identifies this as Ft. Worth Limestone/Duck Creek Formations (undivided) (Kfd). The outcrops are on both the east and west side of Riverside Drive.
The fence shown in the Lancaster-Riverside West Street View image is currently not there (as of May, 2013).
D - Benbrook Spillway. Google Earth identifies this as Grayson / Mainstreet (Kgm), however, danwoehr has updated this to probable Goodland formation.
E - A small roadcut on Highway 10 - east of the Bell Helicopter plant. Google Earth identifies this as Grayson / Mainstreet (Kgm). This roadcut is on the north side of Hwy 10. There are possibly some other outcrops on the south side of Hwy 10, just across the street, at the base of some electric line towers.
F - Creek at the south entrance to DFW airport. Google Earth identifies this as Eagle Ford (Kef). You'll need to be careful in this creek because some of it becomes property of DFW airport and they don't take kindly to intruders.
As I've said, this should be used only as a guide to help new members get started. There is no substitute to doing your own research and exploration. There is no greater satisfaction than performing your own research, investigation and exploration and coming up with your own secret spot that produces fossils that you admire.
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