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17. The subway expanded quickly by 1926. |
18. By 1939, plans were already drawn up to expand public transit. |
19. In 1948, a number of new lines were added. |
20. In 1967, the USSR commissioned a map of the greater New York area. |
21. By 1971, the subway was huge. |
22. NASA took a satellite photo of NYC in 2002. |
23. In 2006, NYC matched multiple states combined in population. |
24. NYC in 2010 was a melting pot, though still surprisingly segregated. |
Red is white, blue is black, green is Asian, orange is Hispanic, gray is other, and each dot is 25 people. |
25. In 2011, someone made a map of NYC based on Twitter and Flickr information. |
Orange dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both. |
26. The latest form of the subway in 2013. |
27. And now, we all have Google Maps. |
The Fujifilm X-S1, which Pocket-lint had a brief fling with over in Vegas at CES, has hit UK shops, priced up at £699. |
The Fujifilm X-S1 is a bridge camera that features a Fujinon 26x optical zoom lens and the same EXR sensor technology as the brand's X10 compact. |
The fixed lens offers a range of 24-624mm (35mm equivalent), and a maximum aperture of f/2.8. Couple this with Fujifilm’s proprietary Intelligent Digital Zoom and you're apparently looking at a doubled focal range without a drop in picture quality. That means that it is possible to zoom up to a boasted 1,248mm. |
The sensor is of a 12-megapixel EXR CMOS variety, while the EXR processor and the X-S1 is also capable of Full HD video capture, at 30fps and stereo sound recording as well. Around the back, the camera sports a 3-inch LCD screen, with 460k dot resolution, and there's also a 0.47-inch electronic viewfinder with 1.44 mil... |
When we took it for a spin over in Nevada we were impressed. The manual zoom lens is very cool, the viewfinder helps take superzooming to new levels and we have no doubt that image quality will be sublime. At almost £700 it is more expensive than a Nikon D5100 kit though. |
The Fujifilm X-S1 is available now - stay tuned to Pocket-lint for a full review soon. |
The Senate Finance Committee has voted in favor of the Baucus health care reform bill by a margin of 14-9. All Republicans on the committee voted no except for Olympia Snowe. |
Is this bill all that I want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? Far from it. But when history calls, history calls. |
My vote today, is my vote today. It doesn’t forecast what it will be tomorrow. |
After all, history might change its mind tomorrow. |
JOHN adds: I think history got a wrong number. |
According to officials, first responders found 37-year-old Ray Rose with a gunshot wound to the head. |
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - We have new information as police release more details involving a homicide on 18th and Wabash Avenue. |
We now know Clarence Bell, Jr. is facing charges of murder and obstruction of justice. |
He is currently in the Vigo County Jail without bond. |
He's due in court on Thursday morning. |
Terre Haute Police say he's behind the death of 37-year-old Ray G. Rose. Police say Rose did not have a permanent address, though he does have family from the Terre Haute area. |
Autopsy results revealed Rose was shot in the head. |
Officials confirmed the victim's identity in a press conference on Wednesday. |
Police say a criminal mischief report was filed shortly before Rose's body was discovered. Police say detectives found this out after returning to 18th and Wabash to look for the suspect. |
Assistant Chief Shawn Keen said it was reported that a man matching Rose's description damaged a parked vehicle on South 16th Street. |
A witness reported the man took off east into an alley, toward the scene at 18th and Wabash. |
Officials said the witness notified Bell that it was his car that was damaged, as well as the direction where the man took off to. |
Police say that led to them getting a warrant to search Bell's home. |
"After executing a search warrant for video surveillance and based on the totality of the circumstances...detectives worked with the Vigo County Prosecutor's Office in applying for an arrest warrant...and that warrant was for Clarence Bell on a charge of murder," Keen said. |
The prosecutor's office confirmed Bell was arrested earlier in the day on Wednesday, which is one week from the date of the homicide. |
Keen said delays in obtaining surveillance video took them about five days. |
"In our area, some of the businesses have corporate offices that are many states away," Keen said, "So attempting to execute search warrants or subpoenas in other states delays the delivery the video. That's what happened in this case." |
Police do not believe there was a threat to the public in this investigation. |
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- While their names may not be familiar to many investors, there were some stock mutual-funds that delivered stellar returns over the past year. |
Among the seven best-performing funds in the 12 months to July 31, none are from the 25 largest mutual-fund companies and none of the funds has more than $700 million in assets, according to data from Morningstar Inc. |
Despite the market downturn that saw the Standard & Poor's 500 Index lose 22.1% of its value, the seven funds, all of which invest in long-only securities and are mostly invested in stocks, have seen double digit returns over the period. Six of the funds use value strategies, while four have concentrated portfolios and... |
The figures suggest that investors should take note of smaller funds, if nothing else than for their ability to be more flexible in challenging markets. |
"If you're a $40 billion large-cap value fund, it's very difficult -- and not very wise -- to make huge sector and asset shifts," said Russ Kinnel, director of mutual-fund research at Morningstar. "In a 12-month period like the one we just had, willingness to go to cash and to hop around [buying stocks] is key." |
The biggest fund of the top performers was the $674 million Yacktman Fund YACKX, -0.05% a large-cap value fund that returned 11.9% over the past year. |
"When the market started to tank, we shifted into more volatile stocks," said Don Yacktman, value manager of the fund and also of another of the top-performers, Yacktman Focused YAFFX, -0.20% which was up 17.6%. "It was a scary period, but that's how we create value." |
Among the volatile stocks that Yacktman bought were media giant Viacom Inc. VIA, -1.06% and automobile finance company AmeriCredit Corp. ACF, +0.00% Viacom is down 10% in the past 12 months but up 25% in 2009, while shares of AmeriCredit have risen 80.1% in the past year. |
Yacktman also held -- and still owns -- defensive stocks such as Coca-Cola Co. KO, +0.42% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +1.31% Coca-Cola is up 11.9% this year while Microsoft is up 22.3%, though both are down roughly 7% in the past 12 months. |
Yacktman said his approach is to look at stocks as if they were bonds, judging their appeal on expected rates of return, good management and solid business models. He said he stays away from cyclical industries with high fixed assets, such as airlines, autos and steel. |
Yacktman Fund has annualized 10-year returns of 8.5%, while the returns at Yacktman Focused over the period are 8.3% a year. |
Intrepid Small Cap Fund ICMAX, -0.65% also a value fund, was another that took advantage of the plunging market. |
"We avoided the excesses of the market from 2005 to mid-2008, and had very mundane, boring companies," said Eric Cinnamond, manager of the fund. "But we then took on more balance sheet and cyclical risk in the decline; as the market troughed we got very aggressive" |
In October, the fund had 27% of its assets in cash, but by March, it was fully invested in the market. While the fund had avoided energy stocks until October, 23% of its holdings were in energy by March. One purchase, Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. PTEN, -0.71% the largest land driller in the U.S., is up about 25% this year... |
Cinnamond said today his cash holdings have increased again, up to 19%. |
"We're not finding many discounts," he said. |
Another top performer over the duration of the market crash, and subsequent rally, was Catalyst Value Fund CTVAX, -0.33% which was up 22%. The fund, which has just $10 million in assets, is concentrated, holding just 38 stocks. Yacktman Focused holds 32 stocks and Yacktman Fund has 37 stocks. |
"[Too much] diversification is a kind of ignorance," said Yacktman, one that betrays a manager's lack of confidence in predicting stock performance. |
The most concentrated fund among the best performers was Appleseed Fund APPLX, +0.08% a socially responsible fund which, as of June 30, held 20 stocks. The fund returned 12.4% in the 12 months to July 31. |
"It's a question of how close you want to hug an index," said Josh Strauss, co-manager of the fund. "We believe the top performers are concentrated." |
Roughly one-third of the fund is in health-care, specifically drug companies. Strauss said that though the fund doesn't invest based on sectors, its drug holdings reflect the fact that "valuations are at rock-bottom levels, even lower than 1993 to 1994, when another Democratic President was trying to reform health-care... |
Strauss said that the fund was overweight financials in the fourth quarter of 2008, but stayed away from the banks and insurers whose share prices collapsed. Among the financials, and a stock that the fund still holds, was Annaly Capital Management Inc. NLY, +0.10% a mortgage real estate investment trust that invests i... |
The only other funds with double digit returns for the 12 months to July 31 were Reynolds Blue Chip Growth Fund RBCGX, -0.04% and Rydex/SGI Small Cap Value Fund SSUAX, -0.46% Monteagle Informed Investor Growth Fund MIIFX, +0.00% which returned 32.8%, was also in Morningstar's screen for diversified U.S. stock funds, bu... |
Former Kennard-Dale wrestling standout and four-time PIAA champion Chance Marsteller made his Oklahoma State debut Saturday morning at Iowa's Kinnick Stadium in a battle between top four programs in the Grapple on the Gridiron in front of 42,287 fans, an NCAA dual-meet record. |
With the No. 1-ranked Cowboys down, 10-3, Marsteller made his debut at 157 pounds, facing Hawkeye Edwin Cooper Jr. Marsteller struck early, taking down Cooper and getting four back points to take a 6-0 lead. Marsteller maintained his lead throughout despite facing several stalling warnings and a near disqualification t... |
The match can be seen Sunday at 6 p.m. on the Big Ten Network immediately following Coppin State at Iowa men's basketball. |
SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - British police have identified more than 200 witnesses and are looking at more than 240 pieces of evidence in their investigation into a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Saturday. |
Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since Sunday, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury. |
“The two victims remain in hospital and they’re critical but stable,” Rudd told reporters after chairing a meeting of the government’s Cobra security committee. |
Skripal betrayed dozens of Russian agents to British intelligence before his arrest in Moscow in 2004. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2006, and in 2010 was given refuge in Britain after being exchanged for Russian spies. |
Many in British media and politics have speculated that Russia could have played a part in the attack on Skripal, but Rudd reiterated that it was too early to say who was responsible, and police should be given the time and space to determine the facts. |
The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the incident and accused the British media of whipping up anti-Russian hysteria. |
In Salisbury, normally a quiet city, military vehicles and troops in protective suits and gas masks were seen working at several of the sites associated with the Skripal investigation. |
At an ambulance station a short distance from the city centre, troops in light grey overalls, purple gloves and gas masks covered ambulances with black tarpaulins as they prepared to remove them. |
At the hospital where the Skripals were being treated another team used an army truck to remove a police car. |
The BBC reported late on Saturday that traces of the nerve agent had been found at Zizzi, an Italian restaurant where the Skripals had a meal before they were found unconscious. A police spokesman declined to comment on the report. |
The restaurant, which has been closed to the public since Sunday, was one of the sites being investigated by forensic teams. The BBC, without citing a source, reported that the authorities did not think anyone else who had been there was at risk from the nerve agent. |
Rudd said that Nick Bailey, a police officer who became unwell after taking part in the early response to the attack, remained seriously ill but was talking and engaging with his family. |
Wiltshire Police, the local force, issued a statement on Bailey’s behalf in which he thanked the public for messages of support he had received. |
“He does not consider himself a ‘hero’, he states he was merely doing his job,” the statement said. |
Rudd said more than 250 counter terrorism police, from eight out of Britain’s 11 specialist units, were involved in the investigation, which was proceeding with “speed and professionalism”. |
The military have been providing support since Friday and Rudd said the police would continue to be given all the resources they needed to conduct the investigation. |
There was also a flurry of activity at the cemetery in Salisbury where Skripal’s wife and son are buried, with forensic teams active in several parts of the site. |
Skripal’s son, Alexander, died in July last year at the age of 43. British media reported that he died while in St Petersburg, Russia. Skripal’s wife, Liudmila, died of cancer at 60, in 2012. |
British police have previously said they knew which exact nerve agent was used against Skripal and his daughter, but they have not made that information public. |
The attack has been likened to the assassination of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who died in London in 2006 after drinking green tea laced with radioactive polonium-210. |
A British public inquiry found that Putin had probably ordered Litvinenko’s murder. Britain has named two Russian suspects but Russia has refused to extradite them. |
The Console Wars™ can often seem pretty dumb when you're looking at them from within the sane circle of your home outward onto the dregs of Internet forums. What should be intelligent discussions turn into nasty rivalries and insult-throwing with fans vehemently and blindly defending big corporations. It's all pretty s... |
But fan loyalty is certainly a thing, and it doesn't always have to be so petty. Kotaku reader and TAY contributor Marsh Naylor shares a personal story of the console wars that is a little more real. Check out his full article down below. |
Image credit goes to Marsh, too. |
The Champions Club topped Queens Harbor to win win the Northeast Florida Region March 17 in the Florida State Golf Association's Interclub tournament. The Champions Club team -- consisting of David Palm, Henry Lastrapes, Richard Kuhn, Norm Daccardi, Jeff Cumm, Eric Wood, Bill Hartnett and Ed Fernandez -- advanced to th... |
The team beat Amelia Island Plantation in the opening round. |
Ponte Vedra Beach golfer Hanks Massey finished with a 13-over 157 in the Florida Junior Tour event at Cypress Run Golf Club in Tarpon Springs. Massey had rounds of 74 and 83 in the boys 13-15-year-old age group. He was 16 strokes behind the winner. |
That act may have heralded the end of an era that's been brought to a close by a soured economy. |
After years of trying to stave off newcomers and shield the state's natural beauty from being trampled by the crowds, Oregonians themselves are packing up and moving out for the first time since the pioneers first settled here in the 1840s. |
''Come visit, but don't stay,'' said the late Governor McCall in the 1960s and '70s as hordes of pilgrims made their way to this environmentalists' Mecca. But in 1979, Governor Atiyeh turned around and declared the state ''open for business,'' welcoming both new residents and new commerce. Oregon, a leader of the limit... |
But neither provincialism nor sudden business savvy affected the wave of settlers - until now. It has taken high unemployment and a stubbornly stagnant timber industry to reverse the flow that now finds more people leaving than coming to Oregon. |
Californians, especially, used to migrate to Oregon by the thousands. A tracing of unemployment statistics shows that many unemployed Oregonians are moving to California, which ironically has a higher unemployment rate (12 percent) than Oregon (11.8 percent). |
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