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Smoke fills the air in the badly damaged town of Yamada, Japan, in Iwate prefecture one day after the earthquake and tsunami.
Japan quake live blog: 'We're in an emergency, please help us'
An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan early Friday, triggering tsunamis that sent a wave filled with boats and houses toward land. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on how the quake hit Japan and generated a Pacific-wide tsunami.
[10:30 p.m. ET, 12:30 p.m. Tokyo] The 15-member Chinese rescue team is bound for the quake-hit region in Japan. The team's main task was to search for survivors, Yin Guanghui, deputy director of the China Earthquake Administration, said. The members of the Chinese International Search and Rescue are bringing four tons of materials and equipments for search and rescue as well as power supply and telecommunication services, Yin said.
[10:20 p.m. ET, 12:20 p.m. Tokyo] The death toll has climbed to 763. There are 639 missing and 1419 injured, according to Japan's national police agency.
[9:54 p.m. ET, 11:54 a.m. Tokyo] A meltdown may have occurred at at least one nuclear power reactor in Japan, the country's chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said Sunday.
He also said that authorities are concerned over the possibility of another meltdown at a second reactor.
"We do believe that there is a possibility that meltdown has occurred. It is inside the reactor. We can't see. However, we are assuming that a meltdown has occurred," he said of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility. "And with reactor No. 3, we are also assuming that the possibility of a meltdown as we carry out measures."
Edano's comments confirm an earlier report from an official with Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, who said, "we see the possibility of a meltdown."
A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release. However, Toshihiro Bannai, director of the agency's international affairs office, expressed confidence that efforts to control the crisis would be successful.
[9:35 p.m. ET, 11:35 a.m. Tokyo] A woman trapped in a secure building in downtown Sendai made a tearful plea to the world for help.
"Somehow, we can hang in there, I hope. We don't have any electric, water, gas... but please, help the people who lost their homes and the people on top of the buildings asking for help," Yasue Schumaker told CNN.
"We need foreign countries' help," she said, choking back tears. "We're in an emergency, please help us."
At least 49 countries and the European Union have offered relief to Japan, and supplies and personnel are on the way.
Schumaker, a resident of Hawaii originally from Sendai, had been visiting her hometown to care for her ailing mother.
Schumaker said people were too afraid to leave the building and no one knew when to expect help. Outside, she said she saw people sleeping in cars, perhaps reluctant to leave the safety of their vehicles for the cold weather.
[9:10 p.m. ET, 11:10 a.m. Tokyo] The U.S. State Department will on send a consular support team into the Sendai area near the earthquake's epicenter on Sunday, while adding personnel to the U.S. Tokyo embassy in an effort to aid American citizens. Ten U.S. Naval ships are bound for Japan carrying humanitarian aid and emergency crews in effort to aid in disaster relief, Anthony Falvo, a U.S. Navy Public Affairs Officer, said.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, along with a guided-missile cruiser and destroyer ship, arrived off Japan's coast Sunday morning to support Japanese forces in disaster relief operations, the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement.
[8:47 p.m. ET, 10:47 a.m. Tokyo] A state of emergency has been declared for three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Roughly 180,000 people who live within 10 to 20 kilometers of the Daiichi plant are being evacuated.
[7:40 p.m. ET, 9:40 a.m. Tokyo] Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday that another reactor of its Fukushima nuclear power plants had lost its cooling functions, Kyodo News reports. The utility supplier notified the government Sunday morning that the No. 3 reactor at the No. 1 Fukushima plant had lost the ability to cool the reactor core. The reactor is now in the process of releasing radioactive steam, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said, according to Kyodo News.
It was the sixth reactor overall at the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 plants to undergo cooling failure since the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan on Friday.
[6:45 p.m. ET, 8:45 a.m. Tokyo] 15 more people in the vicinity of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear power plants have been exposed to radioactivity, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency has confirmed, according to Kyodo News.
[6:34 p.m. ET, 8:34 a.m. Tokyo] An aftershock was just felt in Sendai, CNN staff in Japan reports, the latest in a series of aftershocks to rock the quake zone since Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami.
"People here in Japan are quite used to earthquakes," CNN's Anna Coren said. "The concern is more quakes, more aftershocks could cause more tsunamis. That's what people are worried about."
Since the initial earthquake, there have been 250 aftershocks above 5.0 and almost 50 above 6.0, CNN's Chad Meyers said.
[6:30 p.m. ET, 8:30 a.m. Tokyo] There is currently no evidence of a nuclear meltdown at one of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear power reactors in northern Japan, Japan's ambassador to the United States said.
"There was a concern about this reactor. We have confirmed that there was a blowup but it was not a blowup of reactor nor container. It was a blowup of the outer building so there was no leakage of the radioactive material," Ichiro Fujisaki told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"We are now trying to cope with the situation by putting salt water into the reactor," he said. "There are some other issues with other reactors as well, which need also injection of water or taking out vapor because of increasing pressure into the container and we are now working on it."
When asked if there may be a nuclear meltdown, Fujisaki said, "we do not see any evidence of that at this time."
Engineers have been unable to get close enough to the core to know what's going on, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency told CNN Sunday. He based his conclusion on the fact that they measured radioactive cesium and radioactive iodine in the air Saturday night.
[5:48 p.m. ET, 7:48 a.m. Tokyo] A meltdown may be under way at one of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear power reactors, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency told CNN Sunday.
A meltdown is a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, with a potential for widespread radiation release. However, Toshiro Bannai, director of the agency's international affairs office, expressed confidence that efforts to control the crisis would prove successful.
Meanwhile, a second reactor at the same facility failed shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said, according to TV Asahi. The power company said it was having difficulty cooling the reactor and may need to release radioactive steam in order to relieve pressure.
[5:10 p.m. ET, 7:10 a.m. Tokyo] Six canine disaster search teams trained have been deployed to Japan as part of Los Angeles County Task Force 2, Search Dog Foundation said Saturday. The 72-member team was mobilized by USAID and is being sent into the disaster zone along with Virginia Task Force 2. Per USAID, some 75 tons of rescue supplies and equipment for each Task Force are being delivered to the devastated region via military transport. Once on the ground, the job of SDF's teams will be to comb the wreckage in search of live victims.
[4:57 p.m. ET, 6:57 a.m. Tokyo] Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea were closed on Saturday to carry out emergency safety checks, Kyodo News reports. The operator said the closure will probably last about 10 days. In Tokyo's Akihabara district, the operator of AKB Theater, a concert hall for exclusive use by all-girl pop idol group AKB48, said the same day the facility will be closed until Tuesday for a similar reason.
[4:48 p.m. ET, 6:48 a.m. Tokyo] The lights were turned off Saturday night at some of the best known landmarks in major Japanese cities after trouble at a Fukushima nuclear plant caused by Friday's massive earthquake prompted calls for electricity savings, Kyodo News reported.
The operator of Tokyo Tower said the move also reflects an intention to express condolences for the victims of the earthquake. Similar decisions were taken with regard to the Tsutenkaku Tower in Osaka, Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo and Bay Bridge in Yokohama, all of which are usually lit up at night, Kyodo reported.
[3:37 p.m. ET, 5:37 a.m. Tokyo] Japanese authorities have informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that the explosion at Unit 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant occurred outside the primary containment vessel, not inside, the agency said Saturday. The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), has confirmed that the integrity of the primary containment vessel remains intact.
As a countermeasure to limit damage to the reactor core, TEPCO proposed that sea water mixed with boron be injected into the primary containment vessel. This measure was approved by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the injection procedure began at 8:20 p.m. local Japan time, the agency said. Japan has reported that four workers at Fukushima Daiichi were injured by the explosion, the IAEA said.
[3:17 p.m. ET, 5:17 a.m. Tokyo] The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent two officials with expertise in boiling water nuclear reactors to Japan as part of USAID team.
[2:56 p.m. ET, 4:46 a.m. Tokyo] - There have been no reports of U.S. citizens killed or injured in Japan in the wake of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, according to the U.S. State Department statement. The U.S. State Department will send a consular support team on Sunday into the Sendai area near the earthquake's epicenter, while adding personnel to the U.S. Tokyo embassy in an effort to aid American citizens.
The National Weather Service on Saturday cancelled tsunami advisories for the immediate coastal areas of central and southern California, while warning residents of continued tidal surges in harbors across the region.
[1:20 p.m. ET, 3:20 a.m. Tokyo] Authorities have begun radiation exposure testing around Fukushima prefecture where three people - randomly selected out of a group of 90 - have tested positive for radiation poisoning, according to Japan's government broadcaster, NHK.
[1:14 p.m. ET, 3:14 a.m. Tokyo] Long lines persisted at food stores and at the pump as concern grew in Tokyo that food and fuel shortages may arise in the aftermath of the earthquake.
[1:10 p.m. ET, 3:10 a.m. Tokyo] Gas sales in Tokyo were being limited to 20 liters (5.3 gallons) per car.
[1:04 p.m. ET, 3:04 a.m. Tokyo] Missionaries in Japan serving the U.S.-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have all been accounted for and are considered safe, the church said Saturday.
[12:27 p.m. ET, 2:27 a.m. Tokyo] Two hundred-fifteen Chinese tour groups visiting Japan have been confirmed as safe, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the country's National Tourism Administration. More than 4,500 Chinese tourists were in Japan at the time of the quake and tsunami, the agency reported.
[11:49 a.m. ET, 1:49 a.m. Tokyo] Japan public broadcaster NHK reported the country's Defense Ministry had sent a unit that specializes in dealing with radioactive contamination to a command post near the stricken plant.
[11:48 a.m. ET, 1:48 a.m. Tokyo] The British government will dispatch a team of 59 fire service search and rescue specialists, two rescue dogs and a medical support team to join the international relief effort in Japan. They will take up to 11 tons of specialist rescue equipment, including heavy lifting and cutting equipment to save the lives of people who are trapped in the debris.
[10:51 a.m. ET, 12:51 a.m. Tokyo] About 50,000 Japan Self-Defense Force personnel were being deployed Saturday in quake and tsunami relief efforts, according to a Kyodo report in The Japan Times. Japan's Defense Ministry said 190 aircraft and 25 ships were involved in the effort, according to the report.
[10:23 a.m. ET, 12:23 a.m. Tokyo] In Shiroishi, a town near the area hardest hit by the quake, two SH-60 helicopters from U.S. Naval Air Facility Atsugi delivered 1,500 pounds of rice and bread donated by people in Ebina, southeast of Tokyo, the U.S. 7th Fleet, said in a statement Saturday.
[10:03 a.m. ET, 12:03 a.m. Tokyo] Japan's government has ordered the evacuation of residents within 20 kilometers of one nuclear power plant and within 10 kilometers of a second. More than 83,000 people live within 10 kilometers of the two plants, according to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
[9:48 a.m. ET, 11:48 p.m. Tokyo] Tokyo Electric Power Company warned Saturday that many areas could experience blackouts as quake and tsunami damage has forced power plants to shut down and put a strain on electrical supplies, the Japan Times reported. As of noon Saturday Japan time, 5.1 million households were without power, according to the report.
[9:04 a.m. ET, 11:04 p.m. Tokyo] An estimated 6.4-magnitude earthquake has hit near the east coast of Honshu - the latest in a series of aftershocks striking on and around Japan's largest island in the past 24 hours. The aftershock occurred at 10:15 p.m. and just 82 kilometers (about 50 miles) from Fukushima, where officials are assessing a nuclear reactor damaged by Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
[8:49 a.m. ET, 10:49 p.m. Tokyo] The walls of a concrete building surrounding the reactor container at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant collapsed in an explosion, but the reactor and its containment system were not damaged, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.
[8:37 a.m. ET, 10:37 p.m. Tokyo] About 9,500 people are unaccounted for in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture , officials said Saturday, according to Kyodo News Service. The figure is more than half of the population of 17,000 in the town on the Pacific coast, they said.
[8:35 a.m. ET, 10:35 p.m. Tokyo] Japanese authorities are making plans to distribute stable iodine, a treatment to prevent radiation poisoning, to residents near two damaged nuclear plants, the International Atomic Energy Agency says.
[8:03 a.m. ET, 10:03 p.m. Tokyo] An explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant was not caused by damage to the nuclear reactor but by a pumping system that failed as crews tried to bring the reactor's temperature down, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Saturday.
The next step for workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant will be to flood the reactor containment structure with sea water to bring the reactor's temperature down to safe levels, he said. The effort is expected to take two days.
Radiation levels have fallen since the explosion and there is no immediate danger, Edano said.
[8:01 a.m. ET, 10:01 p.m. Tokyo] U.S. Marine Corps cargo aircraft and helicopters were being dispatched from bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to mainland Japan to help in quake and tsunami relief efforts, the III Marine Expeditionary Force said in a statement.
[7:54 a.m. ET, 9:54 p.m. Tokyo] Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the natural disaster that struck his country Friday "unprecedented" and said the quake caused a bigger tsunami than expected. Kan said that "we'd first like to focus on saving lives and secondly the comfort of the evacuees" and "there will be many resources that will be needed for this evacuation process."
[7:24 a.m. ET, 9:24 p.m. Tokyo] Dozens of aftershocks from Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake jolted Japan on Saturday. Four of Saturday's temblors were of magnitude 6.0 or above, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
[7:07 a.m. ET, 9:07 p.m. Tokyo] Fires were burning at more than 200 locations in 12 prefectures after Friday's earthquake and tsunami, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported, citing the nation's Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
[6:54 a.m. ET, 8:54 p.m. Tokyo] The explosion at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant was not caused by the nuclear reactor but by "water vapor that was part of the cooling process," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Saturday. He said no harmful gases had been emitted by the explosion.
[6:44 a.m. ET, 8:44 p.m. Tokyo] Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan confirms that the evacuation area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been increased to 20 kilometers. But no one has been harmed by radiation, he says.
[6:23 a.m. ET, 8:23 p.m. Tokyo] No people were visible Saturday in the streets of Minamisoma, Japan, a city whose population on Friday had been 70,000. All that was left of many structures were their foundations. Only concrete and steel buildings appeared to have withstood the wash.
[6:18 a.m. ET, 8:18 p.m. Tokyo] Authorities extended the evacuation area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to 20 kilometers, Kyodo News Agency reported.
[6:11 a.m. ET, 8:11 p.m. Tokyo] The roof of a reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant collapsed following an explosion around 3:30 p.m. (1:30 a.m. ET), Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported, citing Tokyo Electric Power Company.
[5:59 a.m. ET, 7:59 p.m. Tokyo] The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist reports.
[5:17 a.m. ET, 7:17 p.m. Tokyo] Friday's earthquake and tsunami crippled cooling systems at two Japanese nuclear power plants and workers were working Saturday to contain temperatures.
"This is a situation that has the potential for a nuclear catastrophe. It's basically a race against time, because what has happened is that plant operators have not been able to cool down the core of at least two reactors," said Robert Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington.
[4:47 a.m. ET, 6:47 p.m. Tokyo] At least seven homes sustained substantial tsunami damage on Hawaii's Big Island, including one that was pulled into a bay. Hotels in Kailua-Kona also reported damage. CNN affiliate KHON has a full report.
[4:22 a.m. ET, 6:22 p.m. Tokyo] The Tokyo Electric Company said four workers were injured in an explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. NHK said the injured workers were in the process of cooling a nuclear reactor at the plant by injecting water into its core.
[3:46 a.m. ET, 5:46 p.m. Tokyo] Rescuers plucked dazed survivors from collapsed homes, muddy waters and raging fires Saturday, a day after a powerful earthquake tore through Japan and unleashed waves that swallowed entire towns along the coast.
More than 900 were killed and about 700 others were missing Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported. The number is expected to go up as rescuers reach more hard-hit areas.
The 8.9-magnitude quake was centered about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from Sendai, a farming and fishing region battling to stay ahead following decades of brain drain from its youth moving to the capital of Tokyo.
[3:08 a.m. ET, 5:08 p.m. Tokyo] An explosion has been reported near a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported, citing the country's nuclear and industrial safety agency.
[2:19 a.m. ET, 4:19 p.m. Tokyo] A small amount of radioactive Cesium has escaped into the air surrounding a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Agency said.
The agency said there was a strong possibility that this was caused by the melting of a fuel rod, adding that plant engineers were continuing to cool the fuel rods by pumping water around the rods.
[2:17 a.m. ET, 4:17 p.m. Tokyo] Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Saturday that the death toll after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami is more than 900, with about 700 others reported missing.
Earlier Saturday the nation's Kyodo News News Agency, citing police, reported that the death toll was 433, with at least 784 missing.
The official death toll is likely to rise as authorities continue rescue and relief efforts in the worst-hit areas.
[2:00 a.m. ET, 9:00 p.m. Hawaii] Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie signed a "State of Disaster Proclamation" after the tsunami caused millions of dollars or damages as it swept through the islands. The proclamation will allow Hawaii to get federal funds to help rebuild, the governor said in a statement.
[12:00 a.m. ET, 2:00 p.m. Tokyo] The death toll from the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan rose to 433, the nation's Kyodo News reported Saturday. At least 784 are missing, Kyodo said, citing police.
[11:01 p.m. ET, 1:01 p.m. Tokyo] At least 398 people are dead and 805 are missing after the massive earthquake in Japan, the Kyodo News Agency reported Saturday. Earlier, the news agency said the death toll from the massive earthquake would likely surpass 1,000.
[10:01 p.m. ET, 12:01 p.m. Tokyo] As rescue crews continue to account for the damage caused by the country's largest earthquake on record, people in Japan on Saturday are struggling to contact loved ones near the hardest hit areas.
Lucy Craft, a freelance correspondent in Tokyo, has a teenage son at a high school near the epicenter in Sendai, northeast of Tokyo. More than 18 hours after the quake, she hadn't been able to make contact.
"The phone lines are still down... I haven't been able to get in touch with him by cell phone, I haven't been able to contact anybody there. I have his teacher's phone number," Craft said Saturday morning in Tokyo. "It's a very upsetting situation, as you can imagine."
[10:32 p.m. ET, 12:32 p.m. Tokyo] Residents of northern Japan streamed south from their earthquake-stricken hometowns Saturday, crowding stores in search of vital supplies as rescue teams worked north toward the historic quake's epicenter.
Roads and buildings showed cracks as far away as 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Sendai, the closest city to the epicenter. One man told CNN the scene in towns hit by the quake and the resulting tsunami was "unimaginable."
Shoppers were polite but tense as they sought food, water and gasoline from stores where shelves were quickly emptied and pumps soon ran dry.
Post by: Journalist Craig Johnson and CNN's Emanuella Grinberg and Brad Lendon
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Explosion at 3:36 PM JT
March 12, 2011 at 4:03 am | Report abuse |
The world is ending!
Alright people quite speaking for God. Very few people can speak for him. You got to have proper authority and knowledge of God's will. Yes sometimes sins of people allow God to let disasters such as this happen but most of the time it just part of life and God is testing in our resolve to be best people we can be and see how we deal with it. So quite wasting your time commenting about it and worrying selfishly about yourself. True worshipers of God go out help those who can't help themselves. We are God's hands . I like to thank those praying for all God's children and also doing something about it by donating to agencies tasked to help those in need to these dire situations. As faith takes action.
Poor TV is crazy. Go to bed.
Both nuclear reactors in Fukushima now have a 10 km evacuation zone around them.
Shakes head at all this "God-talk". This is about a real physical calamity for millions of people. Get real, peeps. This isn't a platform for pushing your religious beliefs, which are purely 'beliefs' anyway. For heaven's sake, stop trying to use this massive disaster to pontificate and push your save-the-world religious agendas.
Pigsty
There will no be 2012 event. You people are
Stupid you keep believing the bible but actually the bible states the past not the future.
atolitea
wmv but a video of exact explosion of Fukushima nuclear palnt #1 Mar 12 2011 15:36JST NTV WEB http://j.mp/hLf24S
A comment to those who don't believe in God what till the day you get to the other side. You will be sorry you didn't. Yea a lot people give religion a bad name. But most of God's children do fairly good job especially when comes to disasters seem to pull the human family together and bring out for most part the best of us. Hope springs eternal when we can care for our fellow man despite of our differences. Love is about sacrifice and God is seeing if we can do so. As God so loved his children that he gave his only begotten Son to be Savior for his children. Whether you believe and don't believe that is reality that is truth. Those who do believe that hope is true and gives them peace despite the disasters that occur in life. It allows them to carry on knowing there is better tomorrow and peace in their souls.
Well said Ken. Hope more & more people open their eyes & ears and listen to what God is trying to tell us. We should pray for some of the people in this forum – strange disbelieving ones!!
NIce post Ken
Awrang
This is the actions and deeds of the people who do not believe on Almighty Allah (SWT)and his messenger and judgment day... please, read the holy-quran and understand the truth... the reality is there
Moron!
Precious Jesus please help all these broken people Father God have mercy open their hearts to receive Jesus as their Savior and save them with the Blood ofJesus Christ amen. Loving people our prayers with you. Jenny
Lenee
March 12, 2011 at 11:20 pm | Report abuse |
EngineerScott
Global warming cause earthquake ,and the republicans drop education funding.Lord help you if your I phone gets cut off or you have to make a fire with wood ,let alone change a tire .Doomed were all doomed .
everyone...why you all say it like you Got the right answers....you smart Guys out there...you haters also..
let me ask you something..what do you have??...i dont think all of you got anything...
all you all have are words...facts..science... so what...we have the same thing that you have,...we also believe on what you all believe....but let me tell you all something...i fell bad for you people because you dont have what we have...we have faith..we believe on Someone Greater and bigger than life ...we bleieve on One God..but what do you believe????atleast us we Got something we can cling on to...so what if its the end of the world,,, then be it...but were not afraid...let me give u a situation..what if its real,,, what if God is real....and if u and me and everyone dies today...who lose men??...i dont think its me because i have a faith,,and i believe that our souls will be saved..but what about you non believers..all this and that...science this science that...facts this facts that...well i think i actually feel bad for you...becuase you only believe on your selves...and what you see on earth...funny thing is you actually believe on Hell...but makes it hard for you to believe on God.....well, alright ill give you all a benefit of a doubt let say you do also believe that their is a God...but do you really have faith on God himself...or you just know, hear on somepeople, bibles, stories, and etc about Him..well im sorry that doesn't sound like you actually have faith on Him..so im sorry for all of you...why cant you just change all your minds...you might be smart but what happen if you actually die..do you know where your going...so please let us talk more about God...because becoming like you people who only talk about how this and that happen,, science this science that...its just worldly thinking...God is love and it did happened some 2000 years ago that by the name of Jesus was born...and he actually had been proven by science it self...and said this "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." and yeah it is on the bible John14:6...if we are the only ones who believe on that..then where is your way when you die..i personally believe on Jesus and i know my life is for Him...so please allow me to tell you that yours to is for HIm...that is if you believe that He is "your way, your truth and your light".....but you know really thats up to you,, no one can really force you..but He did said He loved you and he wants you to be with Him in heaven....i hope before anything happen to you or to anyone that they already made peace with God....believe whatever you want to believe..believe what ever explination and science all you want...but without God you will be nothing after this life...
Faith is a beautiful thing. I have faith but not in god. I have faith in humanity. I do believe in a higher being but not one that sends people to a fiery pit for not believing in his 'words'. I love my life. It's amazing. My life is great because i made it so. God didn't. So you have no right to say i have nothing, i have family who loves me and Im a good person. Why would a good person go to hell for not believing in something? It doesn't make sense to me. You sit there and you talk like you have all the answers. You don't and neither do I. Instead of hashing at people for not believing in god, you should put all your energy into helping these people all you can. Focus on the real problem. Focus on people who need it, not the people who have nothing to do with god. THIS issue has to do with science. It's about the earth. It's an earthquake for Christ sake. By knowing how the earth is moving, we can predict were this will go next. These people are going through a crisis. this is one of the most devastating things to happen in the past couple of decades. Focus on them.
March 12, 2011 at 10:50 am | Report abuse |
people should move as far away from those nuke plants NOW...they never should have been built in an earthquake zone
They never should have been built period.
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Reception planned for Sherrill's latest novel
R.D. Sherrill will unveil his latest novel Paradise Ranch.
Nearly a year and a half after his last book, R.D. Sherrill will unveil his latest novel "Paradise Ranch" during a release party at Magness Library this Monday in an event the public is urged to attend. It will be held on the second floor of the library from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
"This is the second in the Jack and Ashley detective series," Sherrill said of his latest book which is a continuation of the main characters from "Friday Night Frights" released in 2014. "The advice I've been given by several accomplished authors over the years is to write a series so my readers become attached to the characters. The back and forth between brash and chauvinistic FBI Agent Jack Looper and the introspective and deductive newly minted FBI Agent Ashley Reynolds provides the chemistry for what I believe will be an addictive series."
"Paradise Ranch" picks up six months after "Friday Night Frights" as the two are tasked with solving a murder in the far reaches of southern Arizona. When a woman's body is found outside a cultist compound, the religious sect and its charismatic leader, Elijah Quinn, are immediate suspects. However, with fears of another Waco tragedy looming, the FBI sends the pair in hopes of solving the crime without an armed clash between law enforcement and the cultists. The closer they come to cracking the case, the more dangerous it becomes as someone is determined the case remain unsolved.
"While this is the second of the series, this is also a stand-alone book," Sherrill said. "I think that once people read 'Paradise Ranch,' they will want to go back and read 'Friday Night Frights' to find out the backgrounds of the main characters."
Sherrill has been a crime and courts reporter for the Southern Standard newspaper for 26 years and has won numerous writing awards for his stories and columns. He most recently won first prize from the Tennessee Press Association in humor writing – something he uses to cut the tension in his sometimes tense storylines.
Books will be available for purchase at the Civic Center craft show beginning this Thursday, Nov. 17. Sherrill works exclusively with Amazon and Kindle, both of which also carry his books.

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Exoplanet K2-18 b orbits a red dwarf star and has an extended atmosphere containing at least some water vapor, as seen in this artist's concept. The system also contains another exoplanet sitting closer to the star, but it lies inside of the star's habitable zone
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Astronomers have finally uncovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of its star. The find means that liquid water could also exist on the rocky world's surface, potentially even forming a global ocean.
The discovery, made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, serves as the first detection of water vapor in the atmosphere of such a planet. And because the planet, dubbed K2-18 b, likely sports a temperature similar to Earth, the newfound water vapor makes the world one of the most promising candidates for follow-up studies with next-generation space telescopes.
"This is the only planet right now that we know outside the solar system that has the correct temperature to support water, it has an atmosphere, and it has water in it, making this planet the best candidate for habitability that we know right now," lead author Angelos Tsiaras, an astronomer at University College London, said in a press conference.
Researchers created this enhanced view of Enceladus' south polar region by combining Cassini images taken through infrared, green, and ultraviolet filters. The tiger stripe fractures, the source of the plumes venting gas and dust into space, are prominently visible at center.
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"In the old time Pallas [Athena] heaved on high Sicily, and on huge Enceladus dashed down the isle, which burns with the burning yet of that immortal giant, as he breathes fire underground."
— Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy
Saturn's sixth-largest moon, Enceladus has a diameter of only 310 miles (500 kilometers), and a mass less than 1/50,000 that of Earth. When it comes to places to look for life, however, Enceladus is at the top of the list, and it's right in our cosmic backyard.
A bit ignored at first
English astronomer William Herschel discovered Enceladus in 1789, but it remained an enigma until the Cassini mission began orbiting Saturn in 2004. Prior to Cassini, Enceladus was a bit ignored. We didn't know liquid water could exist that far out in the solar system, so why would anyone be that interested in another boring, dead ball of ice?
That all changed one year later, when Cassini's magnetometer (think: fancy compass) detected something strange in Saturn's magnetic field near Enceladus. This suggested the moon was active. Subsequent passes by Enceladus revealed four massive fissures — dubbed "tiger stripes" — in a hot spot centered on the south pole. And emanating from those cracks was a massive plume of water vapor and ice grains. Enceladus lost its label of being a dead relic of a bygone era and leaped to center stage as a dynamic world with a subsurface ocean.
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Apache Corporation Releases 2018 Sustainability Report
November 19, 2018 at 5:02 PM EST
HOUSTON, Nov. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apache Corporation (NYSE/Nasdaq: APA) has released its 2018 Sustainability Report. The online report features extensive disclosure of Apache's performance in governance, economics, environmental stewardship, health and safety, workforce development and community engagement. The report is available at www.apachecorp.com/Sustainability.
Apache Corporation (NYSE/Nasdaq: APA) has released its 2018 Sustainability Report. The online report features extensive disclosure of Apache's performance in governance, economics, environmental stewardship, health and safety, workforce development and community engagement. The report is available at www.apachecorp.com/Sustainability.
John J. Christmann IV, Apache's chief executive officer and president, said, "At Apache, we understand that our company's success hinges upon our ability to produce lasting benefits for all stakeholders, including our investors, our employees and the communities in which we operate. To accomplish this, we are building for the future sustainably by investing in innovative operational approaches that deliver environmental, social and financial returns."
Among the highlights, the 2018 report:
Provides increased transparency on Apache's most material sustainability issues - Apache undertook a materiality analysis in 2017 to identify the issues that are most important to our stakeholders. Based on this analysis, the company is already reporting on all the issues stakeholders rank at the highest level of importance. In this report, Apache increased the level of disclosure on many of these topics, including water use and sourcing; water quality and wastewater management; greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy use; sustainability; health, safety and environment (HSE); social issue management; regulation and compliance; and risk management.
Highlights Apache's efforts to foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement - The featured innovation section outlines Apache's efforts to explore and implement new and better technologies and streamline processes companywide. For instance, Apache worked to apply advanced data analytics to enhance our drilling performance results and reduce operational costs; develop innovative ways to recycle and reuse produced water; and improve seismic surveying technology to better locate and unlock oil and gas reserves.
Provides an in-depth update about our work in Alpine High - The report details how Apache is protecting local resources, implementing best management practices and coordinating with key community leaders to ensure the safe and responsible development of its new multidecade resource play, Alpine High.
Addresses stakeholders' most frequently asked questions - The report contains a special section that answers stakeholders' most frequently asked questions. The section provides concise yet thorough answers about how Apache is addressing these issues and points readers to more detailed, related content throughout the report.
The report also highlights Apache's performance in key sustainability areas, including:
Improving health and safety - Since 2013, Apache has reduced safety incidents for employees and contractors by lowering our Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) by 41 percent and Days Away, Restricted or Transferred (DART) rate by 50 percent.
Reducing methane emissions - Apache is on track to meet its goal to reduce methane emissions intensity to 0.36 percent by 2025. In 2017, the company's global methane emissions intensity was 0.43 percent, a 9 percent reduction from 2016.
Using alternatives to fresh water - In 2017, only 2 percent of Apache's water withdrawals were fresh water. Apache uses recycled produced water and nonpotable, brackish groundwater to reduce its use of fresh water.
Benefiting our communities - Apache aims to benefit our communities by hiring and spending locally. In 2017, 97 percent of Apache employees were local nationals, and nearly 30 percent of the company's spending was with local vendors. Apache also contributed $34 million in local taxes assessed upon current company reserves.
The 2018 report was prepared using the Global Reporting Initiative's (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Standards and meets the requirements for a core-level report. GRI is a nonprofit organization that promotes economic, environmental and social sustainability. Its comprehensive sustainability reporting model is widely used around the world. Also consulted were the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), IPIECA's Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting, and Disclosing the Facts 2019.
Apache Corporation is an oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom. Apache posts announcements, operational updates, investor information and press releases on its website, www.apachecorp.com, and on its Media and Investor Center mobile application, which is available for free download from the Apple App Store and the Google's Play store.
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With the holiday season and its associated road accident spike around the corner, short-term insurer MiWay has launched a new feature on their App to help all road users. The Accident Scene feature enables accurate recording of road accident details required to lodge a claim.
Max Huggins, Chief Operating Officer at MiWay says, "The Accident Scene feature is designed to make life easier for all South African road users. Often people are too traumatised immediately after an accident to correctly gather or even recall all the information that they will need later. Crucial information and evidence is often lacking when it comes to filing a police report, insurance claim or Road Accident Fund claim. This feature on the MiWay App is the solution that every road user needs in the event of an accident."
The Accident Scene feature is freely available for MiWay clients.
This feature was inspired by its clients' accident claim experiences. It walks users through the various steps necessary to gather required claims information, including police records, witness details and photos of the accident scene.
"Road accidents are not just confined to minibus taxis and motor vehicles, but also include a relatively high number of pedestrians and cyclists. All road users are at risk and thus the MiWay App provides the assistance that no road user should be without," concludes Huggins.
The MiWay Accident Scene feature assists as follows:
Capture the accident date, location, make of the car/s involved and other necessary details;
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2 new cases of coronavirus reported at Apple's Irish HQ | Cult of Mac
2 new cases of coronavirus reported at Apple's Irish HQ
By Luke Dormehl • 7:00 am, March 13, 2020
This brings total number of cases to at Hollyhill office to three.
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Two more cases of coronavirus have been detected at Apple's Ireland HQ in Hollyhill, County Cork, a report published Friday by Irish news outlet The Echo.
This brings the number of COVID-19 cases reported at the Irish Apple offices to three. The first case was confirmed by Apple on Tuesday.
An email seen by The Echo says that the employee had been feeling unwell since early March. They were then tested and found to have the coronavirus. A number of employees at the Irish HQ have been told to self-isolate to prevent further spread of the novel coronavirus. Apple also carried out a deep clean of all office areas.
The report does not mention what role the employee carries out at Apple. However, it says that Apple has taken the precautionary measure of splitting its Hollyhill facility into sections. Employees working in each of the four buildings are being kept separate from one another. Apple reportedly says that the risk to employees is low. More than 70 cases of COVID-19 have so far been confirmed in Ireland.
Apple is Cork's largest private employer, having had a presence in the area for decades. It is home to Apple's only wholly owned manufacturing facility in the world. This factory builds "made-to-order" iMacs for customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Apple employs more than 5,000 people in Cork.
No cases of coronavirus have yet been confirmed at Apple Park. However, Tim Cook has advised that employees can work from home wherever possible. Apple is also taking measures to cut down the risk of coronavirus spreading at Apple Stores.
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I'm pleased to announce that I've finally wrangled up some help for our first guest post on MUSIC. Ari Rosenfield of Beat Train Productions has put together a super rad cocktail mix for our readers. In honor of his mix, I thought I'd share some food and spirits to enjoy during your cocktail hour. So while you groove to Ari's tunes, enjoy the delicious shots below. Click on photos for links to sources.
My name is Ari Rosenfield. I'm a professional DJ based in Boston Massachusetts, and the owner of Beat Train Productions.
One of our main focuses is working with our clients to help create distinctive musical landscapes for their events. Today I'm including with this post, a playlist and music mix from the first half hour of a cocktail hour at a recent wedding in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The couple wanted me to provide music that was retro, hip, and lively. The songs in this mix are a combination of american funk records and songs from European movie and tv soundtracks, from the late 1960's to early 1970's.
Every event I DJ at is unique. This is a mix from a specific event. It's not necessarily a "recommended" playlist (but seriously, do you really not want to incorporate "Superfly" into your wedding).
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What's to become of the Army's high-tech soldier gear?
From "Aliens," to video games, to TV shows, the future of infantry warfare has always been clear: Tomorrow's soldiers will have some kind of cool eyepiece that tells them their locations and those of their compatriots; includes some kind of overall tactical picture; maps; the latest orders or messages; and enhanced vision or a FLIR-type picture. They'll have some kind of awesome gun that shoots around corners, or fires laser beams -- or both. They'll have incredible, lightweight armor and, depending on their units, jet packs.
The actual U.S. Army has tried to get some of these capabilities for its actual soldiers, but the results have been decidedly mixed. As our colleague Christian Lowe found when he tagged along with an Army unit equipped with some "Land Warrior" gadgets, they didn't make the guys feel like Imperial Stormtroopers. Instead, soldiers told Lowe they found their gear bulky, cumbersome, and in some cases, useless. In a few instances, troops liked their better situational awareness and improved abilities to communicate, but mostly, the impression came through that even after years of work, much of the high-tech kit was only half baked.
She went on to say that the Army had set up a so-called "configuration steering board" which is "looking for opportunities to infuse commercial devices and existing government devices into the program." According to the PEO shop, the Defense Acquisition Board decision on the program is pending the CSB's findings.
Which we all know what it will be: Android phones.
That's the way it looks -- as Buzz readers have seen, the Army is really interested in using commercial, off the shelf smartphones to tie soldiers together on tomorrow's battlefields. All the money and time it has spent on propriety, mil-type navigation and comms equipment is gone, but if the Army can piggy-back on what the telecom industry is building on its own, commanders hope they can field their high-tech super-soldiers after all.
Still no jet packs, though -- unless there's an urgent needs request from CentCom very soon.


One of the cool protagonist of Grand Theft Auto V, Is Michael. Below is a a bullet informative fact about Michael. Michael's background is unknown at the moment, but it has been said that he is from somewhere in the East Coast and at some point in his young life he became a bank robber, and through the years he became highly successful at his job. Whilst young Michael somehow ran into an ex-military pilot named Trevor Phillips, who also had a flare for criminal acts and the two became close friends, performing several major heists in the past. Michael then met his future wife, Amanda and had two children, Jimmy and Tracy.
Married to wife Amanda, and has a teenage daughter named Tracy, as well as teenage son Jimmy.
Has an awkward father-son relationship; his kids and wife spend most of his money and is in a bit of a crisis, and is pulled back into crime through this.
Michael is the brains of the protagonist trio. He is a "smooth operator," skilled, and the effective leader.
Michael has a special ability of his own version of bullet time.
Michael also has a fascination with old movies which translates into his own crimes.
During the events of Grand Theft Auto V, Michael retired from his life of crime after making a "sweetheart" deal with the FIB. In the process of that deal, he and his family got rich off of it, now living in a large mansion with several sports cars and a private tennis court and golf course.
But Michael's domestic life is sadly coming to an end. In fact, his wife who now barely tolerates him anymore, spent almost all of his money in the city's finest boutiques. Both his son and daughter have little -if not any- time left for him. Even Trevor had a severe falling out with Michael. This caused a severe rift between the two. Running out ofmoney quickly and tired of being bored and miserable, Michael gets back to the criminal life.
His personal story is how the breakdown of his bought idyllic life pushes a man to breaking point. He is described as a man with everything and nothing to lose both at the same time, and his seemingly blissful existence in San Andreas will be changed forever by the events of GTA V.
The first missions that displays Michael is Pest Control and The Extraction.
During the mission The Extraction, the story starts with Michael resting confortably by his pool in a pair of flap-flops alongside a pool in his mansion in Rockford Hills. Michael's home is shown to be amazingly designed with the draw distance being stunning – Game Informer has stated that they were able to see his private tennis court in a near distance and when they got a look onto the smoggy horizon they were able to see the cityscape of downtown Los Santos. Like stated before, Michael and his wife Amanda aren't getting along and he doesn't have the slightest idea of how to talk with his children. When Michael gets up and walks into his mansion, they meet his daughter Tracy, who Game Informer described "jamming out loudly to a Just Dance-style video game. The quote she gives to him is"It's called exercise – you should try it,"in a flippant way to her father.
After this, Michael crosses paths with Amanda – who is heading out for another shopping spree. When she walks out the front door she shouts, "If you want to know where I am you can check your credit card statements." She hops into herSentinel XS which Michael responds back with "Hey I'm felling lucky! I'll check the hospitals!". With the car gone, Michael then grabs the mountain bike out of the garage and heads out to meet up with Franklin and Trevor. When riding down the neighborhood of Rockford Hills Game Informer stated that there were manicured lawns, sprinkler systems, rolling hills, and plenty high-end luxury cars on the road to make the Grotti dealership look like a "used car lot".
Franklin then arrives and both he and Trevor have a first exposure to each other face-to-face. Trevor is already cautious of the new recruit and makes a hot-headed rant about how Michael is acting like a father-figure to Franklin (even though Michael can't take care of his own childen). After seeing Franklin get taken aback by the rant said by Trevor, Michael tells him that it is okay if he sits this mission out. He then agrees to proceed with the mission as planned. Trevor also agrees to put his faith in Michael's judgement and trust within Franklin and the three make a well-rounded but unconventional team.
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Michael then finds the right office and before things got out of hand, he smashes through the glass and grabs the target holding him hostage with one arm while pointing his gun at the various interrogators reaching for there pistols (Franklin then provides some great covering fire, taking out half of the agents in the room). When Trevor picks up Michael and the target a helicopter chse ensures and if the player choose to play as Michael, he and Franklin take down the last few birds in the sky before returning to the chopper back to the FIB helipad and the mission ends.


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Professor Mazzucato's work on health focuses on both the rate and the direction of the innovation model itself. For all the large sums of public and private money invested in research and development, there are concerns about the pharmaceutical-focused, private, profit and patent-driven model of innovation that currently dominates. Beyond limited success stories based on particular drugs, the current model still fails to meet critical medical needs, secure sufficient therapeutic advance, or offer good value for money. Mazzucato is interested in whether there are realistic alternatives to this innovation model that could achieve better outcomes.
In 2004, Professor Mazzucato and Professor Dosi edited a book, with Cambridge University Press, Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: Pharma-Biotech, that explored the relationship between the way that innovation occurs in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector and the socio-economic dynamics of access to those products. Particular emphasis was placed on the problematic way in which intellectual property rights are being used, increasingly upstream, to block innovation rather than encourage it. As the Economic Director of the ESRC Institute for Innovation Generation and the Life Sciences (Innogen Centre) from 2006 to 2010, she led work trying to link innovation and access issues in multi-disciplinary contexts. With the team of Professor Sebastiao Loureiro at the University of Bahia in Brazil, she coordinated a project with the main objective of joining an understanding of the construction of capabilities in innovation and manufacturing in pharmaceuticals with the construction of 'health system capability' to deliver access to the innovative outputs.
She also organized several events bringing together innovation economists, economic historians and industrial economists to think creatively about the way that innovation and inequality co-evolve—and how this relationship has changed over the course of capitalism. The case of the bio-pharmaceutical industry is of particular significance in this respect because it goes beyond inequality in income and wealth to include other fundamental dimensions of well-being like health and 'access' (to innovations).
Mazzucato's work in the biotech and health sector is concerned with both the system failures that lead to problematic outcomes and the dysfunctional relationship between public and private sector actors. Mapping these relationships is the first stage in understanding the dysfunctions in the current health innovation model and in 2015, she organized a workshop on this topic with the Open Society Foundations (OSF).
Her work has also been looking at the feedback between the type of finance that is received in different parts of the innovation chain, and the effect that this has on the direction of innovation. In particular, her work with Bill Lazonick has looked at the increasing financialization of the pharmaceutical sector, with many companies spending an increasing proportion of their net income on share buybacks (to boost stock prices and stock options). The effect that this financialization has on biotech and pharmaceutical companies' ability and willingness to invest in long-run innovation has been a central feature of their joint work. A recent special issue of the British Medical Journal, for which Mazzucato wrote an editorial, highlighted the dysfunctions that can arise from an over-financialized health innovation model.
With OSF, she is now developing a new project focused on the need to redefine the purpose of medical innovation, based on a broader conception of public value, and develop an alternative, mission-oriented approach to medical research. Comparisons will be made between the breadth and depth of public policy in areas related to defense and energy, whereby the final products are bought at negotiated prices, based on the public input.
MISSION-ORIENTED
Mazzucato's work on health innovation is part of a wider project, which aims to develop the mission-oriented policy approach more systematically as a means to address complex societal challenges, and as an engine of more sustainable and inclusive growth. To meet these challenges, and transform societal problems into economic opportunities, there is an urgent need to expand the range of frameworks and tools policy-makers can draw on with confidence.
Her research is developing a new framework that understands the role of the state as shaping and creating markets, not only fixing them. It asks challenging questions about the ways in which public sector investments are currently envisioned, justified and measured, and considers how to build the type of public sector institutions that can welcome the fundamental uncertainty—and hence risk-taking—inherent in the innovation process. Read more about the project here.
How to transform the current profit-led innovation model to be more long-term and 'mission-oriented'?
How to define the 'purpose' of a broader model of health innovation based on public value and human rights?
How can mapping relationships between different innovation actors help in understanding system and outcome failures?
What implications might alternative models of innovation imply for reimagining the roles of public, private and third sector actors?
How do the costs of the current innovation model compare with alternative models?
What lessons can be learned for health from the history of innovation in other sectors, such as defense, where downstream prices are negotiated based on upstream public investment?
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Evidence to the US Senate Forum of the Middle-Class Prosperity Project, convened by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Con. Elijah E. Cumming, including a discussion of pharmaceutical innovation and the key role of public R&D. PDF. Video. Background.
Innogen Policy Brief
Targets to increase R&D intensity to 3% in the EU is a core part of the EC's Lisbon Agenda (2005) which aims to achieve innovation led growth across Europe. Fast growing innovative firms are essential drivers of productivity and economic growth. Yet entrepreneurial small innovative firms do not seem to grow fast enough to drive this innovation led growth (NESTA, 2008). Our study investigates the relationship between innovation and firm growth in an R&D intensive industry, the pharmaceutical industry, to better understand the firm level factors that determine whether innovation efforts pay off in terms of higher growth. If innovative firms do not always grow more, which characteristics allow firms to grow most from their innovative efforts? Can this help us understand the 'productivity paradox' in this industry in which exponential growth in R&D and patenting has not translated into the discovery of many new drugs?
Related Health Academic Books and Journal Articles
Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: Pharma-Biotech
Mazzucato, M. and G. Dosi (Eds. 2006) "Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: Pharma-Biotech", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK ISBN 0-521-85822-4 446 pages
Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the economics of innovation, this volume examines how the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is affected by the dynamics of innovation, institutions, and public policy. It contributes both theoretically and empirically to the increasingly influential Schumpetarian framework in industrial economics, which places innovation at the centre of the analysis of competition. Both quantitative and qualitative studies are included, and this varied perspective adds to the richness of the volume's insights. The contributors explore different ideas regarding the historical evolution of technology in the sector, and how firms and industry structure have co-evolved with innovation dynamics. Important policy questions are considered regarding the future of innovation in this sector and its impact on the economy.
Related Health innovation events and workshops
CASMI/UCL Hospitals BRC medical innovation summit
London, UK – Keynote to Medical Innovation Summit organised by the Centre for the Advancement of Medical Innovation (CASMI) and the UCL Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Event website
Westminster Business Forum
London, United Kingdom – Mazzucato delivered a keynote address at the seminar "The 'Strategy for UK Life Sciences' one year on – challenges for innovation and growth in biomedical and healthcare sciences". The event was chaired by the Rt Hon Paul Goggins MP, with other speakers including George Freeman MP, then Adviser on Life Sciences to Rt Hon David Willetts MP.


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Q: I am not getting the posted input value I created a add task using jquery and javascript but when i type something and click on add task the value is not showing up I tried but it's not working for me though please let me know if it is possible or what I am doing wrong
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var max_fields      = 10;
var wrapper         = $(".task");
var add_button      = $(".add_task");
var a               = document.getElementById('input').value;
document.getElementById("set").innerHTML = a;
var x = 1;
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$(wrapper).on("click",".remove", function(e){
    e.preventDefault(); $(this).parent('div').remove(); x--;
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My html code

<input type="text" value="" name='input' id="input" />
<button class="add_task">Add New Task</button>

A: You need to fetch the value of input inside the click event. Currently you are fetching it on dom ready, at that time it is empty. Then you are using that empty value to create the element.
 $(add_button).click(function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        a = $("#input").val();
        if (x < max_fields) {
            x++; //text box increment
            $(wrapper).append("

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        }
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Fiddle

A: This maybe typing mistake
$(wrapper).on("click",".remove", function(e){
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    e.preventDefault(); $(this).parent('div').remove(); x--;
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FIDDLE

A: Below fragment works fine.
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    e.preventDefault();
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        x++; //text box increment
        var a = document.getElementById('input').value;
        $(wrapper).append("

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Check out the fiddle

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Half term could be very long indeed for grown ups. Hotel Transylvania 2 * has been a hit at the box office, but it's quite terrible.
Kids seem to like Adam Sandler's Dracula and certainly relate to this new iteration in which Drac is trying to bring along the first signs of fangs in his five-year-old, half-human grandson Dennis.
But all the best things about the first movie – particularly Steve Buscemi's Wayne Werewolf – have been sidelined. The hotel for ghouls concept has been jettisoned and they've opened up to humans
You do get Mel Brooks as the voice of Grandpa Vlad, but it's sadly unfunny and just makes you pine for the days of Young Frankenstein.


AuntieMaim.com "relaunch" is gearing up!
Whether you call it really early or really late, we've been rabidly Spring cleaning around here, and the new look for the website is almost done. Just a bit of tidying left to go, and then the world can see the end result of all our labor! Here's the best bit: I will be able to post news updates on the fly while on location at all of the convention events I attend in support of Grimmie!
Massive thanks goes to our new Webmaster for setting up the framework (and doing most of the hard work) to make the relaunch a success! Also, I want to thank Mark at the hosting spot for fixing a few behind-the-scenes issues where permissions and settings beyond our grasp had to be tweaked.
If all goes well, we will be ready to make the big switch soon! Hope you all enjoy the new look!


A recent advertisement for Lockheed products claimed that if William the Conqueror had not had technological superiority when he invaded England in 1066, "this very ad might have been written in Anglo-Saxon". What's wrong with this picture? Two things: First, all living languages are always changing, so the Old English spoken by William's adversaries would be greatly different from Modern English even if there had been no Norman conquest. (Just try to read the 14th-century Middle English of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales without special training and you'll see how ordinary wear and tear can transform a language even when there are no dramatic military reversals to complicate things.) And second, although the aftereffects of William's adventure did bring a flood of French loanwords into English, English remained, and remains, a Germanic language: The bulk of the basic vocabulary and the bulk of the grammar are as Germanic as they ever were. The English population never did switch to French, the language of the conquerors; instead, the Norman French eventually switched to English.
Other Germanic languages include Dutch, German, Icelandic, Swedish, and more. All of them arose from a single language, called Proto-Germanic by linguists, which was spoken over 2500 years ago. Proto-Germanic was never written down, but its existence and much of its vocabulary and structure can be confidently inferred from the many systematic correspondences in words and grammatical structures shared by its descendants.
The break-up of Proto-Germanic happened when subgroups of the original speech community became separated: 500 to 1000 years of independent changes first produced divergent dialects, and then these became separate languages. The same thing happened to Latin after the Romans spread it over large parts of Europe; it split into dialects that turned into the modern Romance languages, among them French, Spanish, and Italian. Latin and Proto-Germanic were also related. Their ancestor, and the ancestor of many other languages of Europe, India, and points in between, was Proto-Indo-European, the parent of one of the world's most widespread language families.
Everyone speaks at least one language, and probably most people in the world speak more than one. Even Americans, most of whom speak only English, usually know more than one dialect. Certainly no one talks exactly the same way at all times: You are unlikely to speak to your boss in the style (or vocabulary) that you'd use in talking to the idiot who just rammed your car from behind. All dialects start with the same system, and their partly independent histories leave different parts of the parent system intact. This gives rise to some of the most persistent myths about language, such as the claim that the people of Appalachia speak pure Elizabethan English. Non-Appalachians notice features of Shakespeare's English that have been preserved in Appalachia but lost in (for instance) Standard English, but only Appalachian fans of Shakespeare would be likely to notice the features of Shakespeare's English that have been preserved in Standard English but lost in the Appalachian dialect.
Grammatical constructions also change. A passage in the Old English Lord's Prayer reads, in literal translation, 'not lead thou us into temptation', in sharp contrast to Modern English 'don't lead us into temptation'. Nowadays, 'not' must follow an auxiliary verb 'do' (often contracted to 'don't'), there is no pronoun subject in the sentence, and if there were one it would be 'you'--'thou' has entirely disappeared from the modern language.
Last but not least, sounds change. Everyone realizes this, in a way, when dialect variation causes communication breakdown. If you go into a Chicago store and ask for 'sacks' in an East Coast accent you may get socks instead, and Bostonians sometimes have trouble understanding Alabamans even when both are using Standard English grammar. People are usually surprised, though, to discover that sound change is highly regular: if a sound 'x' changes to a sound 'y' in one word, 'x' will change to 'y' in comparable contexts in every word it appears in. As a result, the form of a word often reveals part of its history. Consider French 'coup' and English 'coup': They look alike, sound alike, and have similar meanings, but they can't both have been inherited independently from the same Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word, because the sound [k] doesn't come from the same PIE source in French and English. PIE (and, later, Latin) [k] did give rise to French [k], but original PIE [k] ended up as [h] in English. So there are pairs of words inherited from PIE in which French [k] corresponds to English [h], e.g. French 'coeur' and English 'heart', or French 'canevas' and English 'hemp'; but the reason the English words 'coup' and 'canvas' look like their French counterparts is that they were borrowed into English from French.
Language change inevitably leads to variation, and variation within a speech community often leads to social valuation of particular features as 'good' or 'bad'. 'Good' variants are typically believed to be characterized by logical superiority or venerability, or both; 'bad' variants must then be illogical and/or recent inventions by the vulgar.
But neither logic nor great age plays a significant role in the labeling of variants. Consider 'ain't', which may be the English word most despised by schoolteachers and pundits. Far from being illogical or recent, 'ain't' is a legitimate phonological descendant of 'amn't', which was the original contraction of 'am not'. It isn't clear how 'ain't' fell into disrepute, but once there, it left an awkward gap in the system of negative contractions: We have "You're going, aren't you?", "She's going, isn't she?", and so on, but surely no real person actually says "I'm going, am I not?". Instead, people say "I'm going, aren't I?", in part because they have been taught to avoid 'ain't' like the plague; and here logic shudders, because while "You are going, She is going," etc., are fine, "I are going" is impossible for native speakers of English. The point of this example is not to urge rehabilitation of ain't'—legislating language change is generally a losing proposition—but to illustrate the linguistically arbitrary nature of social valuation of the results of language change.
Trask, R. L. 1994. Language change. London and New York: Routledge.
Hock, Hans Henrich, and Brian D. Joseph. 1996. An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Romaine, Suzanne. 1994.Language in society: An introduction to sociolinguistics.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Weinreich, Uriel. 1953. Languages in contact. The Hague: Mouton (repr. in 1968).


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Item: MBOX-99726 - Type: Craft Dies.
Works well with other dies in the collection for extended 3D forest, Also works on stepper cards side panels, gate cards, and any smaller panels I want to get that woodsy impression. It has a fairytale appeal as build a scene with this off to the side of a much larger focal image die cut castles. Smaller peek perfect for smaller sentiments an greeting that would otherwise float in larger empty spaced frame, so no need for additional tags or banners if I so choose. Cool.
This is the smallest of the set. I use birds and small animals usually in front of the larger dies. This has a smaller opening than the other dies. Works a the very last trees deep in the forest.
This die is great for layering with the Timberland/Wildwood/Grove/Sapling Collage dies to create a multi-dimensional focal point on your card.
I was very disappointed when I got this die cut, it is way too small, I should have read the details better to see it is only 2 inches wide. I was thinking I could use it on a guy card to frame a deer grazing in the grass or something along those lines but it is too small to use for anything. My fault, I should have paid more attention to the description, lesson learned.