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By David Kubiak, May 27, 2004:
The 9/11 truth community and our democracy are facing a critical season. The Kean Commission's public hearings have ended with a whimper – and unuttered concern about issues like the 67 "routine scrambles" that characterized our air defense and FAA/NORAD collaboration the year before June, '01, or the $100,000 wired to the hijackers in August by Pakistan intelligence, or the three different air war games being coincidentally held on 9/11, or the stupefying repetition of the myth: "Planes as missiles?! Who could have imagined?" The point is that the next few months will decide what, if any, September 11th truth will ever be revealed for many years to come.
The 9/11 community and our democracy are facing a critical season. The Commission's public hearings have ended with a whimper – and unuttered concern about loud issues like the 67 "routine scrambles" that characterized our air defense and FAA/NORAD collaboration the year before June, '01, and the $100,000 wired to the hijackers in August by Pakistan intelligence, and the three different air war games being coincidentally held on 9/11, and the stupefying repetition of "Planes as missiles?!? Who could have guessed?" surprise, and, well, you get the drift.
The point is that the next six months will decide what, if any, September 11th truth will ever be revealed for many years to come.
Worst Case Scenario (and current odds-on favorite in Vegas and DC)
The final 9/11 Commission hearing and lingering questions quickly fell… Continue reading
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Sibel Edmonds and Daniel Ellsberg, July 14, 2004 transcribed (as best I could) from audio at: http://www.kathymcmahon.utvinternet.com/mrn/Sibel-Edmonds.htm
Sibel Edmonds: Many people out there, either within the Congress or with the Commission, their attitude is, they don't want to know the truth. It's like see no evil, hear no evil, as long as you don't hear it or see it, you're safe. So I wanted to find out, Who wants to hear the truth?
Because we're not talking about issues that have to do with somebody was incompetent and they missed [?the single calls?], we are looking at much deeper issues that in certain cases things were prevented from being pursued.
For example, I can talk about parts that I know about, and that is the list of witnesses, the special agents, okay? be it with the fbi or atf, and other translators who have come to us, to me, to family members, and their names and their contact information had been given to 9/11 Commission, and we can establish that these people were never contacted.
And more people come forward — which we have been having people coming forward, not into public, but to me — and they say, "OK I have information" — where do you take these people? You can't take them to 9/11 commission. You can't take them to the Congress, they don't do anything. And you can't take them to Inspector General's Office, they're not independent. And my report hasn't… Continue reading
Defining existential politics.
by Byron Belitsos
With the inauguration of George W. Bush for a second term, we enter a nightmare phase of American history, a descent into the era of what might be called "deep politics."
In this short essay I reach out for an expanded definition of a phrase first coined by the distinguished author Peter Dale Scott. In Deep Politics and the Death of JFK1, Scott refers to the "underlying continuities of deep politics" displayed by the apparent convergence of the covert interests of military, rightwing, intelligence agency, and organized crime conspirators that coalesced in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Veteran journalist Jim Marrs points in a similar direction with his Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, as does the Oliver Stone movie based in part on that book. Marrs then works out the implications in later books, including Rule by Secrecy and Inside Job2, an expose of US government collusion with the 9/11 plot. Big-picture writers like Scott, Marrs, and investigative journalist Mike Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon3, have succeeded in synthesizing a growing body of evidence that support the notion that America now inhabits a surreal realm of deep politics, where amoral, Machiavellian, covert action directs (or conditions) the agenda of the overt world, and cover stories are spun by self-deceived politicians, "pundits," and mainstream media.
Meanwhile, the truth and the facts about the black-budget world of covert action migrates to isolated ghettos inhabited by independent… Continue reading
Judicial Watch Investigation Uncovers FBI Documents Concerning Bin Laden Family and Post-9/11 Flights
Judicial Watch Press Release
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a September 24, 2003 declassified "Secret" FBI report obtained by Judicial Watch, the FBI invoked Exemption 6 under FOIA law on behalf of bin Laden, which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons in "personnel and medical files and similar files" when the disclosure of such information "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." (5 U.S.C. ? 552(b)(6) (2000))
Before invoking privacy protections for Osama bin Laden under Exemption 6, the FBI should have conducted a balancing "test" of the public's right to disclosure against the individual's right to privacy. Many of the references in the redacted documents cite publicly available news articles from sources such as The Washington Post and Associated Press. Based on its analysis of the news stories cited in the FBI report, Judicial Watch was able to determine that bin Laden's name was redacted from the document, including newspaper headlines in the footnoted citations.
"It is dumbfounding that the United States government has placed a higher priority on the supposed… Continue reading
by Tom Engelhardt
Tom Dispatch
June 2, 2005
Remember the Cheney/Rumsfeld/PNAC call for this militant metastasis in 2000? Or their realistic complaint that this "transformation" would take forever "absent a cataclysmic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor"? Or that Darth Cheney still holds 433,333 stock options in Halliburton, which is making more money off this imperial oil grab than any firm on earth? Map the bases, chart the profits, connect the dots. – Ed.
The last few weeks have been base-heavy ones in the news. The Pentagon's provisional Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list, the first in a decade, was published to domestic screams of pain. It represents, according to the Washington Post, "a sweeping plan to close or reduce forces at 62 major bases and nearly 800 minor facilities" in the United States. The military is to be reorganized at home around huge, multi-force "hub bases" from which the Pentagon, in the fashion of a corporate conglomerate, hopes to "reap economies of scale." This was front-page news for days as politicians and communities from Connecticut (the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton) and New Jersey (Fort Monmouth) to South Dakota (Ellsworth Air Force Base) cried bloody murder over the potential loss of jobs and threatened to fight to the death to prevent their specific base or set of bases (but not anyone else's) from closing – after all, those workers had been the most productive and patriotic around. These closings – and their potentially devastating effects on communities – were a reminder (though seldom dealt with that way in the media) of just how deeply the Pentagon has dug itself into the infrastructure of our nation.…Continue reading
By Sibel Edmonds
Over four years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama Bin Laden. This asset/informant was previously a high-level intelligence officer in Iran in charge of intelligence from Afghanistan. Through his contacts in Afghanistan he received information that: 1) Osama Bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack in the United States targeting 4-5 major cities, 2) the attack was going to involve airplanes, 3) some of the individuals in charge of carrying out this attack were already in place in the United States, 4) the attack was going to be carried out soon, in a few months. The agents who received this information reported it to their superior, Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism, Thomas Frields, at the FBI Washington Field Office, by filing "302" forms, and the translator, Mr. Behrooz Sarshar, translated and documented this information. No action was taken by the Special Agent in Charge, Thomas Frields, and after 9/11 the agents and the translators were told to 'keep quiet' regarding this issue. The translator who was present during the session with the FBI informant, Mr. Behrooz Sarshar, reported this incident to Director Mueller in writing, and later to the Department of Justice Inspector General. The press reported this incident, and in fact the… Continue reading
So this is how the US government does business!
Cash from the New York Federal Reserve is loaded on to C-130s and shipped to Bagdad — to the tune of $12 billion since the start of the US occupation of Iraq in March 2003.
The money originally came from Iraqi oil sales under Saddam and was held in trust under the rules of the UN oil sales program. Now it is handed out to Iraqi and US government contractors in the form of cash. Or "candy," as Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) puts it.
In the end, $8.8 billion can no longer be accounted for. And the Pentagon acknowledges Halliburton "requested that information in the audits be withheld" from the Congressional subpoena, "including allegations that the firm had spent too much money in purchasing fuel."
"By law, contractors can request that the government withhold any proprietary information from release."
Interesting law, when corporations can decide information about their public contracts is proprietary.
But anyway, it's all just "pocket change," says an e-mail circulating at the Fed.
(See article: "Worries Raised on Handling of Funds in Iraq," Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2005.)
And who can argue with that?
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Recall Donald Rumsfeld chose the date of September 10, 2001 to announce that a Pentagon audit, ordered by Undersecretary Dov Zakheim and conducted by a Halliburton subsidiary, had discovered that the Defense Department can no longer account for $2.3 trillion in past transactions. (Note: You are not hallucinating: two… Continue reading
by Kristen Breitweiser
December 19, 2005
Recently, President Bush has admitted to carrying out surveillance on U.S. citizens in the interest of national security. He unabashedly admits to doing it. He offers no apologies. With his bellicose swagger, he once again uses 9/11 as his justification for breaking our constitutional laws. The President's justification of 9/11 to carry out such surveillance begs a closer examination.
President Bush should be stopped in his tracks with regard to his use of 9/11 scare tactics to circumvent constitutional laws that are meant to protect U.S. citizens. His justification for doing so — the inability to conduct surveillance on the 9/11 hijackers — is a red herring. History will bear out the truth — our intelligence agencies held a treasure trove of intelligence on the 9/11 hijackers, intelligence that was gathered through their initially unencumbered surveillance. President Bush should busy himself by investigating why that information was then stymied and not capitalized upon to stop the 9/11 attacks.
MOUSSAOUI, FISA, and FBI SURVEILLANCE — MISUNDERSTANDING #1:
When it comes to the FBI and Zaccarias Moussaoui, one must understand that the FBI met all evidentiary standards to both apply for and be granted a FISA warrant. The information the FBI had to support their FISA request was two files on Moussaoui that were given to the FBI by the French and British intelligence services. Inexplicably, FBI lawyers and supervisors at FBI HQ "misunderstood" the evidentiary standards needed to apply for and receive a FISA… Continue reading
The 9/11 Commission made "dramatic changes" to its final report to omit information about the role of Pakistan, according to The Friday Times, a Pakistani weekly. After learning that the report would contain damaging revelations, the Pakistani government dispatched lobbyists to Washington to influence the 9/11 Commission, and may have even paid bribes to Commission members or their staff, the weekly says, citing an official at the Pakistani Foreign Office. "The disclosure sheds doubt on the integrity and honesty of the members of the 9/11 Inquiry Commission and above all on the authenticity of the information in their final report," according to one source cited by the weekly.
The story was picked up yesterday by The Telegraph of Calcutta, India and is now shooting around the blogosphere. We cannot vouch for its veracity, but we can guess at the sort of information that both the US and the Pakistani government might have wanted to omit from The 9/11 Commission Report:
For example, prior to Sept. 11 the chief of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI allegedly approved a $100,000 wire transfer to a certain Mohamed Atta. Yet the same ISI chief, Mahmud Ahmed, was in Washington for a working visit to his counterparts in the US government for more than a week prior to Sept. 11. On the morning of 9/11 itself, he was having breakfast at the Capitol with the future congressional investigators of the September 11th events. These alleged investigators, Porter Goss and Bob Graham, somehow failed… Continue reading
Mar 30, 2006:
Lost in last week's hubbub over the media breakthroughs for 9/11 truth was the latest twist in the Sibel Edmonds saga. The FBI whistleblower last Thursday filed a court motion demanding that the federal judge hearing her First Amendment case be recused for deliberately hiding his financial background.
The judge, Reggie Walton, is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, on allegations that Libby leaked the name of a CIA operative to the media. Edmonds is seeking to show Judge Walton is in violation of federal law (The Ethics in Government Act) because of his refusal to meet financial disclosure provisions.
A few months after September 11th, the FBI hired Edmonds as a translator for Farsi and Turkish. She says she discovered that documents already translated (and suppressed) prior to 9/11 had contained details of a pending attack on the US with airplanes. In addition, one of her colleagues attempted to recruit her as a spy for a Turkish lobbying group. When she spoke out about these experiences – and other finds suggesting corruption, money laundering and drug deals at the top levels of the US government – she was fired. Attorney General John Ashcroft slapped Edmonds with a gag order under the seldom-used State Secrets Act. In the most bizarre and Orwellian twist, Ashcroft "retroactively classified" many of the statements Edmonds had already made. This included information published in the press prior to the gag… Continue reading
by Derek Rose
New York Daily News
The feds bungled a key opportunity to possibly nix the 9/11 terror plot, it was reported yesterday.
An Arabic-speaking FBI agent had requested information about a Jan. 5, 2000, Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia, but the CIA never turned it over, The New Yorker reported.
The ambitious FBI detective, Ali Soufan, was so upset when he eventually got the information – after 9/11 – that he vomited.
Soufan, who had been investigating the 2000 attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole that killed 17 sailors, realized the two plots were linked.
"And if the CIA had not withheld information from him he likely would have drawn the connection months before Sept. 11," The New Yorker reported. The intelligence Soufan had sought showed that a one-legged jihadi named Khallad – a key Al Qaeda lieutenant linked to the Cole bombing – had attended the Malaysia meeting where the Sept. 11 plot was hatched.
According to the magazine, the CIA also learned in March 2000 that Al Qaeda operative Nawaf Alhazmi was in the United States, but the CIA never alerted the FBI. Alhazmi ended up on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon.
The CIA may not have told the FBI about Alhazmi and another Qaeda operative, Khalid… Continue reading
By Bernard Weiner, Co-Editor The Crisis Papers
August 29, 2006
The imminent fifth anniversary of 9/11 provides the proper moment for a good, ol'-fashioned sum-up of the past half-decade under CheneyBush, especially because so much has happened in the past 12-months:
The Bush Administration's Katrina debacle, Iraq being sucked deeper into the civil-war vortex, Afghanistan turning once again into a major war theater, more and more military leaders speaking out about the disaster that is CheneyBush foreign policy, the defection of so many moderate conservatives from their GOP home, the plummeting of Bush's popularity to not much more than his fundamentalist base, the revelation that Bush&Co. have been spying on citizens' phone calls and emails without court warrants, the indictment of CheneyBush's chief aide Scooter Libby for obstruction of justice in the case of the White House's outing of a covert CIA agent, the "rendering" of detainees abroad for extreme torturing, etc. etc.
I'll get to the annual list in a moment. But first let's step back and take a deeper overview. Buckle your seat belts, here we go.
Whatever you may think of 9/11, and the extent of involvement of Bush&Co., it's crystal-clear that the events of that tragic day were and continue to be used as an excuse for a wide variety of immoral and illegal actions by the CheneyBush Administration. The radical agenda that was barely on the public's horizon five years ago has since become all too evident, both domestically and in terms of foreign/military policy, which is why so many traditional conservatives are abandoning the extremism of the Republican Party.…Continue reading
October 10, 2006
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – An anti-Castro militant now in a Texas jail warned the CIA months before the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according to a newly released U.S. government document.
The document shows that Luis Posada Carriles – who had worked for the CIA but was cut off by the agency earlier that year – was secretly telling the CIA that his fellow far-right Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro's communist government were plotting to bring down a commercial jet.
The document does not say what the CIA did with Posada's tip. A CIA spokesman said he had no comment on Monday, a federal holiday.
The CIA had extensive contacts with anti-Castro militants and trained some of them, but has denied involvement in the bombing.
The documents were posted online Thursday by the National Security Archive, an independent research institute at George Washington University that seeks to declassify government files through the Freedom of Information Act.
The Cubana Airlines plane, on a flight from Venezuela to Cuba, blew up shortly after taking off from a stopover in Barbados on Oct. 6, 1976, killing all 73 aboard, including Cuba's Olympic fencing team.
The bombing remains an open wound in Cuba. Weeping relatives of the victims met in a Havana cemetery on Friday, the 30th anniversary of the bombing. They demanded that Posada – who is now 78 and in a Texas detention… Continue reading
by Sid Shniad
The Hidden History of 9-11-2001
Research in Political Economy
2006 Volume 23.
Ed. by Paul Zarembka
Governments have long found it useful to manufacture rationale for pursuing war and repression. The sinking of the Battleship Maine at the outset of the Spanish-American-Cuba War is the classic example. When President Harry Truman wanted to offer assistance to anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey in 1947, Republican senator Arthur Vandenburg promised his support if Truman would "scare the hell out of the American people." In 1962, the Pentagon mounted Operation Northwoods, a plan involving false-flag actions, state-sponsored terrorism and the hijacking of planes on U.S. and Cuban soil designed to generate American public support for an invasion of Cuba. Then there was the case of the distraught young Iraqi woman testifying before U.S. Congressional hearings in the run-up to Gulf War I about babies being tossed out of incubators by Saddam Hussein's soldiers.
The essays included in The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 lead to the conclusion that the attack on the World Trade Center may have been the biggest false-flag operation of them all. This 2006 issue of Research in Political Economy examines different aspects of 9-11, which, taken together, provide a serious challenge to those who dismiss the possibility that a government-based conspiracy was behind the events of 9-11.
The first section of the journal debunks the information provided by the U.S. government about the number and identity of the hijackers. Following that, other authors provide evidence indicating that it was impossible for the burning jet fuel from the planes to have caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers; that a series of military war games taking place on 9-11 caused confusion in military circles and prevented normal emergency response operations to kick in; and that the insider trading in the shares of the airlines that were hijacked that day lays open the possibility that huge sums were made by people who were aware in advance of what was coming.…Continue reading
Congressman Denied Access To Post-Attack Continuity Plans
Newhouse News Service
Washington – Constituents called Rep. Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.
As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents.
On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED.
"I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio said.
Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why.
"We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio said. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee."
Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive." Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot… Continue reading
By Jeremy Grant in Washington
Published: August 14 2007 00:06
The US government is on a 'burning platform' of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country's top government inspector has warned.
David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country's future in a report that lays out what he called "chilling long-term simulations".
These include "dramatic" tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.
Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were "striking similarities" between America's current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including "declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government".
"Sound familiar?" Mr Walker said. "In my view, it's time to learn from history and take steps to ensure the American Republic is the first to stand the test of time."
Mr Walker's views carry weight because he is a non-partisan figure in charge of the Government Accountability Office, often described as the investigative arm of the US Congress.
While most of its studies are commissioned by legislators, about 10 per cent – such as the one containing his latest warnings – are initiated by the comptroller general himself.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Walker said he had… Continue reading
Thursday, August 16, 2007
By now, you have probably heard that the government has been training ministers to convince their congregations to submit to government authority in the event of a martial law crackdown, based upon Romans 13 (see also this).
Fundamentalist Christians argue that Romans 13 states that Christians must submit to government authority, since the government is divinely empowered and sustained. This is actually the argument which Adolph Hitler used in order to convince the German churches to follow him and his policies.
However, Romans 13 does not teach subservience. Rather, as explained by a Baptist minister, Romans 13 actually says something very different:
"Paul … said, 'Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.' Meaning, our obedience to civil authority is more than just 'because they said so.' It is also a matter of conscience. This means we must think and reason for ourselves regarding the justness and rightness of our government's laws. Obedience is not automatic or robotic. It is a result of both rational deliberation and moral approbation.
Therefore, there are times when civil authority may need to be resisted. Either governmental abuse of power or the violation of conscience (or both) could precipitate civil disobedience."
The Bible therefore requires that Christians resist imposition of martial law based upon false pretenses or upon an abuse of power.
Similarly, Romans 13 teaches that any government that is a "terror to good works" is acting beyond its… Continue reading
Astute readers have brought some virtual outrage to our attention in the last few days, which we're passing on here, in hopes it will be of help to you in making decisions about virtual privacy and safety, and as yet more evidence that the practice of censoring 'inconvenient' truth is alive and well right here in the good ol' USofA. These readers reported that an internet search for 911truth.org, using Google's search engine, no longer finds 911truth.org in the results!
Intrepid researchers that we are, we tried this for ourselves and, indeed, they're right! Go ahead…try it. Enter "911truth.org" in a Google search bar and you'll find, currently, the first entry in response is some unheard of site based in the country Nauru. (Nauru?, we asked ourselves, wondering how we could possibly have missed that in geography class. Wikipedia helped with that oversight. Ah, but, of course! It's that 8.1 square mile phosphate rock island in Micronesia, whose government "has resorted to unusual measures to obtain income." Briefly a tax haven and money laundering center, Nauru now houses a detention center for Australian asylum seekers.) Well, then–that explains it, eh?
So then, the site with the greatest number of hits which most closely matches the search string "911truth.org" is … not … 911truth.org? In fact, the main (index) page of 911truth.org isn't even in the list generated by a Google search for '911truth.org'! A page from our site linking to the Chicago conference we hosted in June 2006 shows up.… Continue reading

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Feds to restore cuts in mineral payments to states
August 27, 2013 at 7:16 am in The Dickinson Press
BILLINGS, Mont. Dozens of states will receive an estimated total of $110 million in mineral leasing payments from the federal government following a dispute over automatic spending cuts that drew a backlash from lawmakers in the West. Continue Reading


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The Nairobi all share firmed 0.11 points to close at 124.47. The all share is +31.214% in 2013 and 3.45% below its multi year closing high from May 22 .
The Nairobi NSE20 firmed 7.37 points to close at 4821.50. The Nairobi NSE20 is +16.646% in 2013 and 4.155% below its April 2013 and more than five year closing high.
Equity turnover 1.656b versus 628.089m. BAT traded 2.12% of its shares worth 1.219b shillings and rallied 2.31% to close at 575.00.
EABL released its full year earnings before the opening bell Friday morning. This is a big headline event as EABL represents a material piece of the Securities Exchange's market capitalisation.
EABL had already issued a profits warning on July 30 and the price had declined 11.337% since that date through Friday and I think had priced in the news. EABL firmed 0.983% to close at 308.00 and was trading session highs of 311.00 +1.97% at the finish line. EABL traded 201,500 shares worth 62.146m. EABL reported an eye popping +276% year on year reserve spirits acceleration.
Commercial and Services
Kenya Airways firmed 0.53% to close at 9.45 and traded 202,000 shares. Kenya Airways retreated 5.82% August 1 through August 16 and has subsequently rebounded +6.179% since then. This resilient price action leads me to the view that even an unforeseen event such as the JKIA Fire is priced in.
Safaricom eased 0.63% to close at 7.90 and traded 3.248m shares.
LongHorn Kenya was the biggest loser at the Securities Exchange yesterday and Longhorn retreated by the daily limit of 10% to close at 13.05 and traded 88,500 shares. ScanGroup firmed 0.7246% to close at 69.50 and traded 527,300 shares.
Kenya Commercial Bank firmed 0.56% to regain its record closing high of 45.00 and already reached on two separate occasions in August. Kenya Commercial Bank was trading at 45.25 +1.12% at the finish line.
Standard Chartered released first half 2013 earnings after the closing Bell Thursday. Standard Chartered reported that H1 profit before tax expanded +0.59% to 6.539013b, H1 profit after tax declined -4.795% .Standard Chartered closed unchanged at 294.00 and traded 58,900 shares.
Equity Bank closed unchanged at 34.50 and traded 1.441m shares. Barclays Bank eased 0.2857% to close at 17.45 and traded 4.351m shares.
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KenolKobil reported its H1 2013 earnings where H1 sales were slashed 37.13% to 65.274760b versus 103.825177b previously.
In the previous reporting period KenolKobil had incurred foreign exchange losses of [4.247272b].KenolKobil eked out an H1 2013 PBT of 199.086m versus a loss of 5.68b.
This is a creditable performance in the circumstances. KenolKobil firmed 1.183% to close at 8.55 but was trading at session highs of 8.95 +5.92% at the finish line. Eveready was the biggest gainer at the exchange and bounced 3.64% higher to close at 2.85 and traded 38,600 shares.


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BMW Shows Demonstration Mono-Fuel Version of the Hydrogen 7; Next Engine Version Will Use Charging for 2-3X Increase in Power Density
31 March 2008
BMW introduced a new mono-fuel version of its Hydrogen 7 vehicle at the 2008 National Hydrogen Association Conference in Sacramento, CA today. The BMW Hydrogen 7 mono-fuel is a demonstration production vehicle, not a prototype, and was created to showcase the zero CO2 and low emissions potential and feasibility of a dedicated hydrogen internal combustion engine (ICE).
Based on the BMW Hydrogen 7 bi-fuel version (gasoline and hydrogen) (earlier post), the BMW Hydrogen 7 mono-fuel is equipped with a 6.0-liter V12 internal combustion engine (ICE) which has been engineered to run exclusively on hydrogen. The hydrogen storage system in the mono-fuel version is the same as in the bi-fuel version: a cryogenic tank that holds approximately 8 kg (17.6 lbs) of liquid hydrogen.
The hydrogen engine uses fully variable VALVETRONIC valve management and variable double-VANOS camshaft control. Hydrogen is delivered with a hydrogen supply pipe integrated in intake manifold. Under full load, the engine runs under stoichiometric conditions: a complete balance of oxygen and hydrogen (lambda = 1). This mixture ratio also provides the highest level of performance and output on low emissions in the hydrogen mode.
Although unlike fossil fuels, the combustion of hydrogen generates neither hydrocarbons (HC) nor carbon monoxide (CO), it does produce NOx at high combustion temperatures. To reduce NOx, the Hydrogen 7's engine runs with a lean burn under partial load (lambda > 2). The lean burn keeps temperatures in the combustion process are relatively low, keeping NOx emissions to a minimum.
Such a lean burn mode can be maintained throughout a particularly wide range of operation in the engine control map. And since hydrogen offers particularly broad ignition limits and burns at a fast rate, only a small amount of fuel is required in the mixture to generate a high level of efficiency, according to BMW. As the engine moves to a richer burn to boost engine output (reaching a max of lambda = 1), the engine management system helps to reduce the engine-out NOx. Remaining NOx is handled by a regular three-way catalyst.
Compared with the bi-fuel version, this vehicle achieves lower emissions, and slightly increased engine performance, reduced consumption and greater hydrogen range (140 miles versus 125 miles).
The Hydrogen 7's V12 mono-fuel ICE produces no CO2 and near-zero emissions, as recent testing by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), confirmed. ANL conducted emission tests on BMW Hydrogen 7 mono-fuel vehicles in early March 2008.
The mono-fuel Hydrogen 7 will also appear at the upcoming 2008 SAE World Congress in Detroit, MI (14 - 17 April). BMW and ANL will hold a joint press conference about the results of the emission testing at the event.
Next steps. The next step for BMW, which is maintaining its focus on the hydrogen combustion engine as a solution for almost zero emission vehicles, is to develop a charged version of the engine. According to Tobias Brunner of BMW, who also discussed BMW's approaches to hydrogen storage at the NHA conference, shifting to a charged engine with about 8-10 bar of pressure will increase the power density of the hydrogen engine by between two to three times: from a density of 33 kW/liter in the current mono-fuel V-12 to a density of between 70-90 kW/liter in the future engine.
The charged engine will be applied in a smaller vehicle than the 7 Series model, and will likely be paired with a cryo-compressed hydrogen storage system (CcH2), assuming development and proof-of-concept work on those systems proceeds according to plan.
Cryo-compression is one of the approaches being pursued to increase the gravimetric and volumetric storage capacities of compressed gas tanks from their current levels. At fixed pressure and volume, gas tank volumetric capacity increases as the tank temperature decreases. Cooling a tank from room temperature to liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K) will increase its volumetric capacity by a factor of four, although system volumetric capacity will be less than this due to the increased volume required for the cooling system.
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Chilled hydrogen! Yes, that's the ticket!
Sigh. What a waste of effort.
so if you're going to take all that energy to produce hydrogen (usually from natural gas anyways), why not just make CNG your alt fuel?
seems surprising considering the size of the natural gas industry. don't they realize, they have the hook-up (literally, it goes into everyone's house).
Snore... More Greenwashing from BMW. Coming soon to an advertisement near you!
What is the market for this monstrosity? Too expensive for revheads, too much hassle for the highflyers and no one with a environmental conscience is dumb enough to see this as a green car. It's just about being seen to do something while carrying on with business as usual.
I read a more encouraging article recently quoting a senior BMW insider who said that the company is genuinely considering a full size battery EV with a completely new approach to styling so that aerodynamic coefficient could drop below 0.20. Are they in talks with A123?
So it is to be fueled useing a power source that they control, but atleast it will aid in our country moving from our super dependency of oil. Most of South America's transportaion fuel is made from suger juice and there are other ways of powering our transportation systems like that fuel cell that creates a burnable hydrogen right there on the spote from water, but we are geting there. Be hopefull postive thinking like :][: I am gonna make my own fuel and take some problem solving taskes into my own hands at one point. If you are gonna complian I say dont do it just to hear your own voice get up get out and get something done.
I agree. NG is piped into many homes and adding CNG to fueling stations should not a problem. NG is high octane and many cars already run on it. It is clean and affordable. I guess that it is not advancing the state of the art much to make one, but it is a practical solution.
Hydrogen is teh futur maaeeeen?!! Where do yuo thikn hidrgggeynn cumz from? Monkeys? It comes from earnnnth
I heard bmw gets the hydrogen by squeezing it out if dead babies from china. They have to kill the babies first but I mean the are german. They are good at that kind of thing. I suppose it doesn't help with energy independence either. The 7 only gets 10 miles per dead baby.
Yeah can you imagine a hydrogen powered Prius though? That would get like 30 miles per dead baby
"why not just make CNG your alt fuel?
seems surprising considering the size of the natural gas industry. don't they realize, they have the hook-up (literally, it goes into everyone's house)."
Yes marc, they realize it - and that's why they're NOT doing it. For the P.T.B.s it's all about control, they've got it and they don't want to give it up. Because of their needs in production/handling hydrogen and biofuels must be supplied the same way as gasoline is now - through a system of 'service stations.' Like a junkie needing to feed our addiction we need to keep going back to them for more fuel, hydrogen and biofuels are just them pushing a new drug on us for a better high. With NG coming into our homes we wouldn't need to go to them anymore for an energy fix, it comes to us.
And the idea of filling up at home leads to thoughts of the real solution - electricity. That comes into everybody's home too. And what's more with EVs there's a real possibility of not needing to even have our energy fix come to us because we can actually make electricity ourselves with wind turbines in our backyards and solar panels on our roofs. The Powers That Be really don't want us to think about that kind energy independence.
Energy independence?? That's kinda like personal independence... Not good for group-think or centralized resource bureaucrats. And those CNG/electric utilities don't look a hell of a lot different than P.T.B. - except like a good high-end dealer - they deliver.
"those CNG/electric utilities don't look a hell of a lot different than P.T.B."
Exactly, but this is there the home power wind turbine/solar cell systems come in. THAT'S what they don't want. That and anything which might lead up to it.
@ai_vin: And where do you think those wind turbines and exotic solar cell systems are going to come from? Are you going to design and build them in your basement, or are they going to be supplied by huge multinational corporations? Don't get me wrong, I think that electric dominant vehicles powered by a smart, distributed electricity grid is the ultimate long term solution, but our societies current petroleumdependence is not based on a giant conspiracy, either, but rather, is a problem to which we have all contributed, and are therefore all responsible, to some extent.
Bob I think you're missing the point. Its not so much a giant conspiracy as it is an economic truism; it is much easier for a business to keep an old customer than find a new one. They ALL want us to keep coming back to them for something: check-ups, servicing, refills, replacements, etc. (This is what really killed GM's earlier EV, they didn't need servicing from any GM approved service centre.) The oil companies have just hit the motherload is all - we BURN UP their product.
Solar panels are a onetime buy thing; buy them, install them and you get free energy for the next 20-30+ years. That means you can basicly forget who you bought them from. No company wants that.
This is where the car companies becoming fuel companies comes in. They make money on the original sale of the car and then make money on service to the car and fuel for the car years after. A nice business model.
Right. This was something my father pointed out to me years ago. He was a mechanic for 50yrs and he noticed how cars were getting ever more complex, which meant you needed ever more complex tools to fix them - tools which only the factory supplied. It use to be anybody with a good ear could tune a car, now (if you want to get it through AirCare) you need a computer to tune it.
Back to GMs first EV - it was dead simple and anybody with a voltmeter could keep it running with parts avalible at any retail outlet. The newer EVs are now as complex as they can make them, with special parts that only the manufacturer supplies.
You think a car powered by dead babies is going to save the world? You people make me sick. You should be ashamed of your selves. Ur all going to hell.
Don't mind them 'hell fire,' they were just a couple of "April fools."
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Appearing in "War Machine"Edit
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Only in flashback)
- Parnell Jacobs
- Bethany Cabe
- Eaglestar International
- Davis Harmon (Behind the scenes)
- Norman Osborn
- C. Guzman (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- F. Schneebaum (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- H. "Babykiller" Oracion (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- Luis Augustine (Behind the scenes)
- M. Alvarez (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- R. Belasco (Only appearance; dies)[1]
Other Characters:
- James Rhodes 2.0 (a clone) (First appearance)
- Glenda Sandoval-Jacobs (Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only)
- J. Arana
- Aqiria
- Eaglestar International HQ (Behind the scenes)
- Stark Satellite
- Colorado
- Thunderbolts Mountain
- War Machine Research and Development Facility (First appearance)
- Santo Marco
- Iron Man Armor Model 30 (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Retrofitted Sentinel components
- War Machine Armor
Synopsis for "War Machine"Edit
War Machine is searching for Parnell Jacobs for two reasons: Glenda Jacobs has been taken for ransom and Rhodes needs his assistance to work on the War Machine armor and his new body.
- War Machine appeared last in Iron Man (Volume 4) #35.
- Issue includes a flashback from one year ago when Jim Rhodes first underwent cybernetic conversion. At the time of publication however, the details behind this incident are still unrevealed.
- This issue is reprinted in the trade War Machine: Iron Heart.
- No trivia.
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- Discuss War Machine Vol 2 1 on the forums
- Cover gallery for the War Machine series
- Images from War Machine Vol 2 1
Recommended ReadingEdit
- War Machine (Volume 1) (1994-1996)
- War Machine (Volume 2) (2009-Present)
- U.S. War Machine (2001-2002)
- U.S. War Machine 2.0 (2003)
Links and ReferencesEdit
- War Machine at Wikipedia
- War Machine at Marvel Universe
- War Machine at Marvel Directory
- War Machine (Volume 2) series index at Comicbookdb.com
- War Machine (Volume 2) series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
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gene therapy vs genetic engineering
tell me what is the basic difference between gene therapy and genetic engineering? if there is no any difference between the two then why it is given a separate name? why it is an ethical issue whereas genetic engineering is not?
Re: gene therapy vs genetic engineering
Gene therapy is meant to fix a condition (disease state) by affecting target tissues and either turning gene expression on or off; this change is meant to alleviate a condition.
You don't breed and create a new strain or generation of this organism
While Genetic Engineering is more lab based--like using Recombinant DNA technology to permanently change a gene or expression of a gene--creating a new strain; it also includes causing random DNA mutations and isolating mutants (heterozygotes and homozygotes) with a breeding program (look up Reverse Genetics).
You do create a new strain, mutant and it will breed and pass the genes of interest to next generation (unless you get fancy and make it sterile on purpose).
Re: gene therapy vs genetic engineering
nice, you're pretty smart
Re: gene therapy vs genetic engineering
Gene therapy will very likely be marketed and promoted in much the same way chemical medicine. genetic engineering technological advance for not only the success of our species, but also for enhancing the health of our population.
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Apple Maps may not have had the best of starts, but data from ComScore shows that most iPhone users have stuck with the app rather than reinstalling Google Maps. Google Maps lost 23M iPhone users in the US alone in the last year, with similar numbers expected elsewhere.
The figures show that in September this year, 35M iPhone owners used Apple Maps, against just 6M for Google Maps – the latter including around 2M who were using older versions of iOS unable to run Apple Maps.
The story is essentially a simple one: while techier iOS users may choose their own apps, the majority of iPhone owners use the apps that Apple provides. And if you apply that to other services, that may not bode well for technologies like Pandora …
Pandora recently claimed that the launch of iTunes Radio had actually increased its user-base. I don't doubt that's true: pretty much every news story about the launch of iTunes Radio mentioned Pandora along the way, so in the short-term it got a massive PR boost. It also responded by dropping its 40-hour monthly listening limit for free users.
But the Google Maps numbers suggest pretty clearly that when Apple pre-installs software, mass-market owners don't go looking for alternatives. As iOS 7 adoption climbs – and it is, very rapidly indeed – and iTunes Radio gets rolled out to more countries, Apple's app is likely to be the one most users opt for.
'Because it's there' doesn't just apply to mountains, it seems.
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I prefer Apple Maps too.
Well the thing is I downloaded google maps when it became available as a backup, however I have been using apple maps about 3-4 times a week and so far it has not let me down. For me pandora was gone from my phone an hour after I started using itunes radio for one simple reason "music library." Pandora library is a non started if you want to listen to anything other than english, or some spanish songs, iTunes radio however provided me with a bigger library and more language options. As someone who is fluent in 3 languages that sealed it for me.
Damn it, "starter." Where is the edit button?
I try so hard to like Apple Maps. But I can't use an app that constantly leads me to the wrong place, tells me to turn onto a busway, takes me the wrong direction down a one-way street, fails to find the business I'm searching for, etc. Apple Maps is the biggest mistake in the company's history; John Sculley pales in comparison.
when's the last time you actually used it? i've used it all over the east coast and have yet to be steered to a wrong location in the last 6 months. if its a recent development maybe, but if you have the address of the location, its pretty good at finding it and directing me there. business search needs to be improved, but that will come over time. definitely not the worst mistake in the company history….
People need to understand that the Internet (and Apple's customers) comprise the entire world and that on the average tech web site, fully half the visitors and commenters are not US citizens. When you see a comment like this it's usually someone outside of the USA. Answering with "works for me in California" (or the equivalent) misses the point entirely.
I live in Miami. Every single one of the problems I described in my comment (telling me to turn onto a busway, bringing me to an incorrect location, taking me down a one-way street, not finding a business I am searching for) occurred within the last 30 days. I had stopped using Apple Maps when Gmaps was released but I decided to give it another shot when iOS 7 was released. HUGE mistake. I experince an issue almost every time I use Apple Maps. Do you want an app that is "pretty good" at getting you where you need to go, or an app that you can take for granted because it works flawlessly every time?
Well like I said. Business search needs to be improved. Funny you mention Miami, I just used it last week in boca and it gave me correct business listing and proper directions. Orlando it tried to send me down a road that was closed for construction but immediately gave me a proper reroute. Also drove me to the middle of some ranch in Florida for the tough mudder w no issues. And that's just in the past two weeks. I realize its probably no good outside of the USA, I can only speak to my experience. And obviously purchasing maps from third parties vs scouring the world in mini cars w mapping equipment will yield vastly different results. But I can't possibly think of this as THE BIGGEST FAILURE IN APPLE HISTORY.
Good for you. You used the app and it worked a few times. The issue is not that it never works, the issue is that it doesn't work properly every single time. There is no doubt that this is the biggest failure in Apple history! Other than Maps, has Apple EVER publicly apologized for one of its products, posted a page recommending specific third-party alternatives to a service already provided directly by Apple, and then completely reorganized its executive structure to rid itself of the person responsible for the failure? No, it hasn't.
Not for me. I'll stick with Google Maps, thanks anyway.
I love AppleMaps. Never has steered me wrong here in California. My only frustration is no bluetooth sync like Google maps. Google maps pairs with my APP Radio 3 dash and it lowers the volume of my stereo and tells me directions so Im not distracted or miss a turn.
My Apple Maps app runs fine over my Mazda's built-in bluetooth.
I can't imagine who in his right mind would take a half baked product like Apple Maps and trust it, trust it to tell him where to go, no less. The vast majority will be the people who don't know better, although some of the people who are informed enough to make a choice seem to be making the wrong one, based on the comments here. The quality of the maps is sub-par, they're unreliable, and Apple isn't responding to the feedback you provide from the app (I provided the same feedback about a missing street 3 times, as early as a week after iOS 6 came out, and it's still unfixed).
Maybe the source of this difference between the handful of people here reporting how great Apple Maps is and reality is the fact they live in the US, and perhaps even more specifically in California or New York. Guys, you have no idea how bad Apple Maps is outside the US. Perhaps you also don't quite care – but Apple should, as the US is just a small fraction of the worldwide smartphone market. Honestly, losing 23m users in the US doesn't sound like a huge deal to me, given how pervasive iOS is, and I expect to see very different numbers in EMEA.
While Apple's mediocre maps were somewhat amusing in the US, they were (and are) a complete trainwreck in Europe and Asia. So to everyone here who's enjoying Apple Maps – just remember to download Google Maps before you go to your next European vacation or Asian business trip.
BTW, the ComScore research linked here is the wrong one, it's from January 2013. The right one is http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/11/comScore_Reports_September_2013_U.S._Smartphone_Subscriber_Market_Share
I don't like in America. I like in Australia.
I have used Apple Maps all over the world – Hong Kong, Australia, America, and South Africa – I have had very very issues with it. In the start, there were problems, lately, it is on par with the inbuilt navigation of my car so whatever delusions you have that it's a complete train wreck in Asia is in accurate.
As much as I love Apple as a whole, when I am in a city anywhere in the world and need to get from point A to point B, I fire up Google Maps. The interface is much worse than Apple Maps, but the search finds what I'm looking for the first time — Apple's search fails quite often — and the directions get me to where I need to go.
I do believe a lot of people just use preinstalled apps by convention. They get a new device, they want to use it as a GPS and see that it comes such functionality of the vendor and they just use it by convention. If it works they have little-to-no reason go searching for an alternative (and I'm sure not everyone has been unfortunate to have been provided with incorrect directions)
I'm not saying that's the only reason anyone uses Apple Maps, but I do believe that's a large contributor.
Personally I prefer Google Maps overall. The navigation voice is easier on my ears, i'm more accustomed to the interface (both the UI and literally browsing maps), and, most importantly, I trust Google's mapping data more than Apple's. Google has been doing this for a lot longer so I expect them to have more data and with higher accuracy, I've never been provided with incorrect directions, never had trouble looking up an address. Apple Maps have given me incorrect driving directions multiple times and failed to locate an address in a foreign country multiple times. Each time Google Maps succeeded at the same task.
Admittedly these issues all occurred before iOS 7 released and Apple Maps may have gotten more accurate (I've used it once since updating to iOS 7). But like the reason I suspect for many people use Apple Maps, I continue to use Google Maps because it works just fine for me, and again, I trust Google's mapping data more than I do Apple's. I have no compelling reason to switch.
One potential advantage I see for Apple Maps as an iPhone and iPad user is its integration with your contacts. That's cool if you're don't really use Google's services but it's not game changer because you save "Places" in any Google Maps interface and they will sync with the iOS app so you can create the same effect.
Sadly, Apple Maps is still very poor outside of US. In Ireland for instance it's very outdated. They also don't seem to pay much attention to user reports.
I believe this is only because you cannot set default applications on iOS, unless you Jailbreak. So of course the built in apps will get more use. Every time you click on an address Apple Maps opens. The question should have been which maps program do you prefer.
Imagine how many people would use it if it had accurate information outside of the USA and if it had transit and walking information as well as just cars.
I also use Apple Maps most of the time. On a couple of occasions I had to rely on Google Maps for an address discrepancy, but I'm sure these issues will eventually go away.
I still use Google Maps as it's still bad up here in Canada…yea it's been semi improved from launch, but used it not to long ago and still had wrong places or directions,.
I keep on trying to use apple maps but each time it ends up disappointing me. I live in nyc and apple maps just can't find places. I mean if I spelt it 100% correct or knew the address it would, but I rely on guessing the spelling of bar names, that my friends tell me to meet at, and google maps can guess what I'm looking for.
Then there is the fact that apple maps can't actually get me there with public transit… yet.
Lastly, I rely on using my phone with one hand. For all of Apple's preaching about how the iPhone is designed for one handed use, you'd think they'd have a solution for zooming out of their maps app. Google maps does and it's really nice to use. The funny part is I thought of google's zoom out implementation and even wrote it to apple feedback before the new google maps came out. Guess they don't care.
I'd much prefer using an integrated solution. Google maps wants me to sign in and doesn't integrate with my contacts. It also constantly forgets my current search but that outweighs the other stuff. So I guess I'll keep trying.
Waze is superior to either Apple Maps or Google Maps. Simplicity of use (e.g. vastly easier to add in favorites) combined with crowd-sourcing of traffic/hazards/cops/etc. make it a much better GPS than the competition. I've tried the others, and Waze is superior to all.
I'd say yes to this with one exception: searching for local businesses. When I search and switch to the map view in Waze it always zooms so far out and then zooming back in is difficult because the process is pretty janky. Beyond that I think Waze is far better than any other option available.
I don't see how anyone can say Apple maps was a mistake. Even as ticked off as I was about it happening (which was much worse when it was in beta and google maps wasn't out yet) It was the right move for apple and in another year or two it will be pretty good. Especially with more people adding data.
I really don't think this was any of apple's fault either. Google wanted what happened. They wanted to make an app that forced you to log in to google to access your recents and contact's address. They want to keep collecting as much data on you as they can. And now they can. Even if it's smaller percentage they'd rather this than apple using the data only.
I would have probably used Google Maps just out of familiarity but they are so outdated in my area it isn't even funny. Not sure when they did their flyover but it wasn't in the last 8 years or so.
I've tried Apple maps lately but the street data is still over 2 years out of date (and I've noted the discrepancies using the "feedback" option in the app several times) here in Utah. If it's this bad where I know the area what is it like in all of the other areas I travel to? Also, I've found that Siri is pretty bad at guessing things. Two recent examples:
1. I asked for directions to a restaurant that I know was close to my hotel but I couldn't remember how to get to it so I asked Siri which proceeded to give me directions to another restaurant with the same name that was an hour away.
2. I asked for directions to an address and rather than giving me options or directions to the closest location of that address it proceeded to try and take me to that address in a city that was an hour away.
I really like my iPhone but some of this is just too egregious to consider using it until they're fixed.
Because it's better.
I always somehow liked Apple maps, but Google maps has always been better, I think.
My wife and I tried both apps in our holidays in Sicily and both showed us the right way most of the time. If we were looking for a restaurant or smaller village, though, Apple maps often did not find anything. In Google maps you type in a few letters and it finds the right place.
Once we were looking for a small town nearby and Apple maps only showed us two places which had the name of the town in it, but were far away, not the town itself.
There many places in Italy called "piazza della repubblica" but google maps first searches for a place NEAR you with that name and not for one a 1000km away. I could go on…
While Apple maps may have improved with iOS 7 (except for the road sings they got rid of…they were cool), the search function is almost unusable because often it does not find anything. Not only in Italy but Germany as well. So for me it's sadly no real alternative for Google maps.
And I always thought the Tomtom material on which apple maps is based was supposed to be so good…
Funnily enough the agriturismo (holiday farm) where we stayed did only exist in Google maps, Apple maps/tomtom couldn't find it. There was a couple from the Netherlands, who used a Tomotom navigation device, and they couldn't find the farm either, so that the owner had to pick them up from some distant place in the middle of the night…
I honestly tried to like Google Maps, but EVERY TIME I use it, I end up no where near the correct destination. The second I use Apple Maps it takes me to where I want to go.
I've tried to use Apple's maps, but either they don't have the Point of Interest (POI) I want, or it's located in the wrong place. Google has couple a couple of addresses slightly wrong — and when I've sent them feedback they've corrected them! I tried giving Apple an update and I don't think they ever corrected anything. I think Apple's POIs are YEARS behind Googles. I do wish I didn't have to copy and paste addresses from my contacts and from Yelp listings though. Using Apple Maps would be easier if it worked nearly as well for me as Google.
Greetings from Europe. I know nobody who uses Apple maps here. Maybe some dumb sheep who can't install apps but I avoid such people. So everyone I know uses google maps.
I bought my RMBP, iPad Air, and iPhone 5s primarily because of Apple's Eco System. It makes sense that unless there is a compelling reason not too one is going to use Apple's map and other Apple software products. I can look up directions on my Mac and send the results to my iPad or iPhone. You can't do that with Google maps. There absolutely nothing wrong with Google maps. The same can be said about Apple maps. Both are equal in my opinion. That said Apple maps wins out.
If this is true, that explains why everyone I know with an iPhone is either lost right now or always late!
Apple Maps are absolutely great. They just need to work more on the crappy satellite images.
Not the case for me.
I do like the integration of Apple Maps to iOS but Google maps has been FAR more accurate in my experience and I live in Los Angeles!
Apple maps still needs some work especially when it comes to anything outside of the U.S. (no surprise there, sadly…)
BUT, it has certainly gotten much better than when it was first released.
i still use Google Maps instead of Apple Maps because i ride a bus, and google maps offers a great way to see when is my bus coming…
so basically iOS has been adopted by morons? Apple maps in the UK is an absolute joke.
I won't delete Google Maps but I almost never use it and tucked it away in an Extras folder (along with GPS Drive Motion X). Apple Maps is such an elegant experience that I just find myself going to it more often. Full-screen access (no persistent search bar), cleaner, more colorful UI and the night mode is really simple but really slick. It just "feels" better than Google which looks dated and bland by comparison. I still like and appreciate street view but I don't miss it.
This is definitely a symptom of iOS 7. Before iOS 7 I almost always used Google Maps but now that Siri sounds more human (remarkably still not as crisp or realistic as Google's voice guidance) I prefer using Apple's Map app. And the good news is Apple Maps will only get better. Once they include transit information and resolve some of the international issues they'll pose an even greater threat to Google Maps.
So where exactly is this data: "The figures show that in September this year, 35M iPhone owners used Apple Maps, against just 6M for Google Maps – the latter including around 2M who were using older versions of iOS unable to run Apple Maps."
It's certainly not in the Comscore page you linked to.
Came in to ask the exact same question. I mean, I don't mind fifty-odd comments bashing Google Maps, or Apple Maps, or what have you, but where did these figures come from? I tried using ComScore tags to find a newer post that would at least hint at this data, but there's nothing. The 'Google Maps' tag only returns one post – the very one the article's linking to – dating back to January 2013.
On an iPHone, don't you have to go through extra steps if you want to do Google Maps? I thought I read that the Apple maps are automatically default and you cannot change it
That's surprising. Google Maps is awesome.
In 12 months the back end work of Apple will surpass Google's decade lead. Count on it.
"The figures show that in September this year, 35M iPhone owners USED Apple Maps, against just 6M for Google Maps"
how did they come up with this statistic? what does USE mean? the comments in the thread keep stating, that they get wrong directions, when using apple maps. some state missing businesses…
i believe a whole lot of people use apple maps to just find out where a city is, where a country is or the distance between two places.
and for this, apple maps is good enough.
I never ask anything or anyone for directions… I am a dude. But my wife… my wife… she would use Apple Maps. She's the smart one.
Plain and Simple, I have three buildings on the same street. With Google maps I could tell you what part of the building my iphone or iPad were in. With Apple Maps, They show up almost a block away from their actual location.


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DOE Raises Hydrogen Cost Target
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has raised the target it has set for the end-user cost of hydrogen to $2.00–$3.00 per gallon of gasoline equivalent (gge) (delivered, untaxed, in 2005 dollars, by 2015).
The prior target of $1.50/gge (delivered, untaxed, in 2001 dollars, by 2010), was developed in 2002, and was based on hydrogen produced from distributed natural gas reforming.
The rationale is that hydrogen should cost no more than gasoline on an equivalent energy basis. Since one kilogram of hydrogen contains approximately the same energy as one gallon of gasoline, the hydrogen cost goal was set at $1.50/kg (or $1.50/gge) to be equivalent to the untaxed cost of gasoline.
The new hydrogen cost goal of $2.00–3.00/gge is independent of the pathway used to produce and to deliver hydrogen. In addition, the new methodology factors in the energy efficiency of the gasoline hybrid vehicle and the fuel cell vehicle on a cost-per-mile basis.
The cost goal was derived using the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) fuel-efficiency improvement factors and the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) "High A" scenario gasoline price projection for 2015.
The scenarios are from the EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2005. In the high A world oil price case, the lower 48 crude oil price is projected to be $33.65 per barrel in 2010 and $38.84 per barrel in 2025.
In the High A case, the US economy is more vulnerable to limited oil supplies from foreign sources due to the increasing world and U.S. oil demand, resulting in higher oil prices.
According to the DOE, this case is more representative of the economic and energy security environment in which hydrogen must compete.
There are several interesting things about this announcement. First is that by essentially doubling the target price, the DOE has brought it much closer to being achievable by hydrogen producers. (Current pricing is around $5.00–$6.00 gge.)
It also is a recognition that rising oil prices bring hydrogen closer to being cost-competitive in the market.
Second is the pathway-independence. Environmental considerations aside, if the supply of hydrogen was linked only to the supply of natural gas, costs would inexorably rise as the price of natural gas rises. Some research (earlier post) has projected that natural gas reforming will move from being the lowest-cost production method currently to the most expensive by around 2025. (Chart to right, Click to enlarge.)
The decoupling of pricing from the steam methane reforming of natural gas acknowledges the possibility that the crossover in cost will happen much sooner (and also recognizes the amount of research that is flowing into different mechanisms for hydrogen production.
Third is the embrace of the High A scenario—the high oil price scenario. While from the point of view of developing a market-competitive price for hydrogen, high oil prices work well (rising prices "lower the bar", so to speak), it's also an acceptance, from a planning point of view, that the prices of oil and oil products are not coming back down.
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Here in the UK, you can pay 90p per litre for gasoline, almost $6 / US gallon. Does this mean hydrogen is already competitive in Europe?
Only if the government is willing to give up all its tax revenue.
Compare the operating costs for the Tango at http://www.commutercars.com. Compute what it would cost you at your electric rates. How much more competitive would it be today?
(Oh, since Commuter Cars doesn't state this outright, you might want to figure 250 watt-hours per mile or about 155 Wh/km as the energy input at the battery charger.)
THIS DOE ANNOUNCEMENT AUTHORIZED BY KARL ROVE AND EXXON MOBIL CORP, "where Bottom Line royalties dictate human resource policy"
>>Only if the government is willing to give up all its tax revenue.<<
Good point, E-P. Thank you. Here in the UK, they might just do that - or, at least, collect the tax another way, ie by a per-mile charge, varied according to location and time of day.
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