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The invention relates a device for measuring the relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in a radioactive package (16), having:
a source of photons (10) for irradiating the package,
at least one delayed neutron detector (18) able to deliver counting signals for neutrons emitted by the package,
means (22, 30) of acquiring counting signals, able to establish a decrease over time in the neutrons emitted, characteristic of the radioactive package,
calculation means (32) for comparing the decay characteristic of the radioactive package with the respective characteristic decays of uranium and plutonium and for establishing relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in the package.
1. A method of measuring relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in a body (16, 116), including the following steps:
a) irradiating the body with photons whose energy is sufficient to cause photofission of actinide elements,
b) counting the number of delayed neutrons emitted per unit time by fission products induced in the said body in response to the irradiation,
c) establishing a time decay function (500) of the number of neutrons ne(t) emitted, characteristic of the actinide composition of the said body,
d) comparing the time decay ne(t) characteristic of the actinide composition of the said body (116), with time decays (501, 502) of emission of delayed neutrons nu(t), np(t) characteristic respectively of uranium and plutonium, in order to establish the relative proportions of these elements in the body.
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1. Technical field
The present invention relates a method and device for measuring the relative proportions of plutonium and uranium in a body.
It applies notably to the differentiation of plutonium and uranium contained in large packages of radioactive waste. Large package means concreted waste barrels with a diameter of around one meter or more, or metallic containers whose volumes can be as much as several cubic meters.
It is in fact important, during the storage of radioactive waste, to know the nature and activity of the radioemitters and in particular of the actinides, that is to say essentially uranium and plutonium.
2. Prior Art
The known methods of determining the actinide content of a body can be classified into two categories. In fact the so-called �destructive� methods are distinguished from the so-called �non-destructive� methods.
When destructive methods are used, samples are taken by cutting the package of radioactive material. The samples taken are then analysed using different analysis techniques, amongst which chemical analysis, X-ray fluorescence, gamma spectrometry or neutron activation can be mentioned, for example.
The methods mentioned above are applicable only to samples with a small volume, from a few cubic centimeters to a few liters. They are therefore ineffective for non-destructive measurements of radioactive waste packages of large size.
Amongst the methods of determining the actinide content known as non-destructive, there are also two sub-categories comprising respectively the active non-destructive methods and the passive non-destructive methods.
The passive non-destructive methods are essentially methods of spectrometry of the gamma radiation emitted by the body, counting the neutrons emitted during the spontaneous fission of the actinides contained in the body, or calorimetry.
The method of gamma spectrometry of the radiation emitted is also applicable only to homogeneous samples of small size. This is because counting the neutrons emitted during the spontaneous fission of the actinides in larger samples requires sophisticated equipment, notably for being free of the influence of neutrons coming from sources other than the spontaneous fission of the body to be measured.
The calorimetry method makes it possible to evaluate the total quantity of heat released in a radioactive body, such as a package of waste. It does not however make it possible to determine the type of disintegration which gives rise to the heat.
Finally, active non-destructive methods are known for determining the actinide content of a body. These methods are said to be active because they use a radiation source known as interrogating radiation, external to the radioactive body.
Amongst these active non-destructive methods, there are the measurements of attenuation and the measurements of emitted radiation.
Measurements of attenuation, such as gamma measurement or tomography, measure the attenuation of an external radiation passing through the radio package to be examined. The measurements of emitted radiation, on the other hand, measure a radiation coming from the package itself and caused by an external interrogation radiation. The latter measurements are well adapted to an examination of packages of radioactive waste of large size such as concrete containers. However, the active non-destructive methods known at the present time make it possible only to determine the total quantity of actinides present in a package, without any distinction with regard to their nature or composition. In particular, they do not make it possible to differentiate the uranium from the plutonium contained in the body or radioactive package examined.
The aim of the present invention is an analysis method and device which does not have the limitations mentioned above.
Another obvious aim is to propose a non-destructive measuring method and device which make it possible to differentiate uranium and plutonium in radioactive waste packages.
In order to achieve these aims, the object of the invention is more precisely a method of measuring relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in a body, including the following steps:
a) irradiating the body with photons whose energy is sufficient to cause photofission of actinide elements,
b) counting the number of delayed neutrons emitted per unit time by fission products induced in the said body in response to the irradiation,
c) establishing a time decay function of the number of neutrons ne(t) emitted, characteristic of the actinide composition of the said body,
d) comparing the time decay ne(t) characteristic of the actinide composition of the said body, with time decays of emission of delayed neutrons nu(t), np(t) characteristic respectively of uranium and plutonium, in order to establish the relative proportions of these elements in the body.
Thus the invention is essentially based on the photon activation of the actinides and on the measurement of decrease over time in the number of delayed neutrons.
Unlike neutron activation, which suffers from the short travel of the neutrons in materials containing hydrogen, such as concrete or bitumen, photon activation, used in the method of the invention, proves particularly adapted to waste packages of large size. The attenuation of the photons, notably of the photons with an energy greater than 10 MeV, is in fact low.
Moreover, the detection and counting of delayed fission neutrons has, compared with the counting of prompt neutrons, the advantage of freeing the measurement from the reactions on the nuclei of the matrix containing the radioactive waste. These reactions are in fact added to the phenomenon of photofission of the actinide nuclei during the photon activation.
The prompt neutrons are emitted during fission, and therefore during the gamma irradiation pulse period. The gamma photons also give rise to neutrons, through the neutron-gamma (n, γ) reaction induced in the different elements. It is not possible to make a distinction between the prompt fission neutrons and the neutrons originating from the neutron-gamma (n, γ) reactions.
The photonuclear reaction of the photons on the actinide nuclei takes place in two steps contained within an interval of time of around one picosecond. A photon is first of all absorbed by the nucleus. The absorbed energy then causes the emission of a photon or one or more particles. When the absorbed energy is greater than the fission threshold of the nucleus it causes on the other hand the fission of the latter.
The effective cross section of absorption of a photon by the atomic nucleus varies with the energy of the photon. For a photon whose energy is less than approximately 6 MeV, very narrow absorption resonances are observed, with a width of approximately 1 eV. On the other hand, for photons with energies greater than 10 MeV, a very broad absorption resonance of several MeV is observed. The absorption resonance energy for photons is respectively 12.26 MeV and 12.24 MeV for uranium 238 and plutonium 239.
The energy of the photons used for irradiating the radioactive body is chosen so as to be sufficient to cause photofission of the actinide elements. In particular, it is chosen so as to be greater than the is photofission threshold, which is situated at approximately 6 MeV. It is preferably chosen so as to be greater than 10 MeV and close to the absorption resonance energy.
The radioactive body is preferably irradiated for a sufficiently long irradiation time to accumulate a sufficient number of fission products and consequently to obtain a significant emission of delayed neutrons. However, it is not necessary to prolong the irradiation unnecessarily. Thus the irradiation time is preferably chosen so as to be around the mean period of the delayed neutrons, that is to say around 10 to 20 seconds, for example.
After the irradiation of the radioactive body to be examined, a counting of the neutrons is effected, preferably in a multiscale mode. The multiscale mode consists of counting the number of neutrons detected in successive intervals of time with a unit width dt. The number of neutrons counted in each interval of time is recorded. The total measuring time ΔTm is such that ΔTm=Ndt where N is the number of time intervals.
The irradiation and counting steps can if necessary be repeated several times.
A following step of the method consists of establishing, according to the counting, a time decay in the neutrons emitted, characteristic of the fissile material. The time decay can be represented in the form of a curve.
This step can include calculations for correction of the relative abundance of the groups of delayed neutrons according to the experimental conditions and notably the irradiation conditions. The corrections are described below briefly.
It should be stated that, for all the fissile elements, the delayed neutrons are classified into six groups according to their decay periods. The values of these six periods are practically constant for all the fissile elements. On the other hand, the relative abundance of each group varies from one isotope to another. Table 1 gives the relative abundances and periods for uranium 238 and plutonium 239.
The change over time in the number of delayed neutrons emitted by (pure) uranium 238 and (pure) plutonium 239 can be calculated easily, from the data in table 1.
This number is calculated in accordance with the formula:
where βk is the relative abundance of the group k of neutrons and λk is the decay constant for the group k.
The relative abundances of the different groups of delayed neutrons correspond to the values at radioactive equilibrium, that is to say quantities accumulated after a very long irradiation, of a duration at least equal to several times the longest period of the group, that is to say at least 5 to 10 minutes.
However, according to a particular aspect of the invention, it is possible to irradiate the radioactive body either continuously or by means of a train of photon pulses.
By way of example, the photons can be delivered in the form of a train of macropulses of duration dt, with a frequency of repetition fr. After a number N of pulses, the radiation is stopped, and the delayed neutrons are counted. If the duration of irradiation is short, radioactive equilibrium is not achieved and the relative abundances are different from those of equilibrium. Hereinafter, an example of calculation of corrections is set out by way of example.
The total number of fissions nf induced in the irradiated sample, by a macropulse, is equal to:
where Φ is the photon flow, Σf is the effective cross section of photofission, and dt the macropulse duration.
On this number, a fraction νd of delayed neutrons is emitted. The number nk,o of delayed neutrons in the group k (k=1 . . . 6) is equal to:
where βk is the relative abundance of the group k.
The number of precursors (parent radioactive elements of the delayed neutron emitter), created during a macropulse i, which remain at the end of a sequence of N pulses, is:
λk being the radioactive constant of the group k, and tr being the repetition period of the macropulses.
The total number of precursors in the group k, at the end of irradiation, is:
Expression (2) standardised to 1 delayed neutron (nfvd=1) gives:
The sum in expression (4) is reduced as follows:
αk=λktr, where Sk is the correction factor of the number of neutrons in the group k.
The sum in expression (6) is the sum of a geometric series. Calculation gives:
Introducing (5) and (7) into (6) gives:
The values of βk,o must be standardised, so that their sum is equal to 1:
For calculating the decay of the delayed neutrons, taking account of the irradiation conditions, it is necessary to replace the value βk, in the formula
indicated previously, by the value βkSk.
An example of the corrected values for uranium 238 is given in Table 2. The experimental conditions used in the calculation of the corrections are as follows:
duration of a macropulse dt=2.5 μs,
frequency of repetition fr=100 Hz,
irradiation by a series of N=1500 macropulses (irradiation time 15 sec).
When the time decay of the delayed fission neutrons from the fissile material is established, it is compared with the characteristic decay of the neutrons nu(t) and np(t) of pure uranium and plutonium. The characteristic decay of the neutrons of pure uranium and plutonium can be determined experimentally, or calculated directly, for example with the data in Table 1.
According to a particular aspect of the invention, it is possible to determine coefficients a and b such that: ne(t)=anu(t)+bnp(t), the coefficients a and b indicating the relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in the radioactive body.
The coefficients a and b can be determined, for example, by a so-called least squares method set out briefly below.
The decrease in the number of delayed neutrons emitted by the uranium, corrected according to the experimental conditions, is given by the following formula, already explained:
The number of neutrons emitted by the plutonium is given by the similar formula:
In these formulae the indices u and p of the parameters refer respectively to uranium and plutonium
The total number of neutrons emitted by the mixture is given by the formula:
During measurement, the width of the counting interval is Δt and the number of intervals is equal to m. The total counting time is therefore equal to:
The number of pulses accumulated in an interval i is:
The number of neutrons counted in an interval of time i, during the multiscale counting, is designated by Cei.
The values of a and b are sought, which fulfil the condition:
where ci is defined by formula (4).
This equation, in matrix form, is written generally in the form:
where M, X and Y are the matrices defined as followed:
The values of Mi,1, Mi,2 and Yi are standardised as follows:
The solution of equation (5b) is:
From the parameters a and b determined by formula (8), the uranium content τu is calculated:
and that of plutonium τp:
The invention also relates a device for measuring relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in a radioactive package.
The device has:
a source of activation photons for irradiating a radioactive package,
at least one neutron detector, placed in the vicinity of an area for receiving the package, able to deliver counting signals for neutrons emitted by the package,
means of acquiring the counting signals, able to establish a decrease over time in the number of neutrons emitted, characteristic of the radioactive package,
calculation means for comparing the characteristic decay of the radioactive package with the respective characteristic decays of pure uranium and plutonium and in order to establish relative proportions of uranium and plutonium in the package.
The acquisition means and the calculation means can be produced for example in the form of an electronic acquisition card, connected to a microcomputer, with an appropriate calculation program.
According to a particular embodiment of the device, the photon source can include an electron accelerator provided with a Bremsstrahlung target.
According to a preferred implementation, the device can have from 4 to 7 neutron detectors disposed around the area for receiving the radioactive waste package.
The arrangement of the detectors and other characteristics and advantages of the invention will emerge more clearly from the description which follows, with reference to the figures of the accompanying drawings. This description is given by way of purely illustrative and non-limitative example.
FIG. 1 is a simplified schematic representation of a device according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a horizontal section of a particular installation of the device of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a transverse section of the installation in FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 depicts theoretical and experimental decay curves for pure uranium and plutonium.
FIG. 5 depicts the theoretical decay curves for uranium and plutonium and an experimental decay curve for a sample containing both uranium and plutonium.
FIG. 1 shows an experimental device according to the invention.
The device has a source of gamma activation photons indicated with the reference 10. The source of gamma photons has an electron accelerator 12 in front of which a so-called �Bremsstrahlung� target 14 is disposed. The target generally consists of a heavy metal. This is for example a sheet of tantalum with a thickness of 1.95 mm or a sheet of tungsten with a thickness of 1.7 mm.
The target converts the energy of the electrons of 15 to 16 MeV, for example, coming from the accelerator 12, into gamma photons.
The gamma photons, represented by arrows, are directed to a sample 16 or a package of radioactive material to be analysed. The sample contains actinides which, under the effect of the protons, undergo fission, and emit neutrons.
The reference 18 indicates a neutron detector unit placed close to the sample 16 in order to detect the delayed neutrons emitted by the sample.
The detector unit 18 has several detectors, filled with helium 3 and surrounded by a moderator made of polyethylene for example. All the detectors and the moderator are covered with a layer of cadmium or other thermal neutron absorbent. This layer serves essentially to decrease the background measuring noise due to neutrons generated, for example, in the neighbouring walls of the room in which the device is installed (not shown).
The detectors in the unit 18 are biased using a high-voltage source 20.
The detector unit 18 is connected with an acquisition chain 22 comprising essentially a current to voltage converter circuit 24, a shaping circuit 26 and a discriminator 28. Thus the pulses coming from the detector unit are amplified and shaped before being directed to an acquisition and counting card 30 connected to an analyser 32.
The counting card 30 and analyser 32 form part, for example, of a microcomputer 34.
An arrow 36 indicates a link between the electron accelerator 12 and the counting card 30 in order to transmit a starting signal indicating the start of the irradiation of the sample 18.
FIG. 2 shows, in horizontal section, an installation for differentiating the uranium and plutonium in a package of radioactive waste.
The package of waste 116 is disposed in an enclosure 150. More precisely, the package is placed at the centre of a reception area 152 surrounded, for example, by seven neutron detector units 118 uniformly distributed around this area.
The enclosure 150 has an opening through which the package can be irradiated by a source of gamma photons 110. The source comprises an electron accelerator 112 and a Bremsstrahlung target 114 of the type already described with reference to FIG. 1.
The acquisition chain and the signal processing means, like the power supply sources of the detector units 118, are not depicted in FIG. 2 for reasons of simplification.
It can be noted that the function of the enclosure 150 is to protect the package and detectors from the influence of neutrons generated outside the reception area 152, for example in the walls of the installation room and any neighbouring objects.
The enclosure 150 incorporates a moderating material. According to a particular embodiment, all or some of the neutron detectors can be included within the walls of the enclosure 150.
FIG. 3, which is a transverse section of the installation, shows that the package of waste 116 can be disposed on a rotary table 156, at the centre of the reception area 152.
The rotary table 156, set in rotation during the irradiation and during the measurement, makes it possible to obtain even irradiation and measurements of the radioactive waste package.
FIG. 4 shows curves depicting the characteristic decays of pure uranium and plutonium. In FIG. 4, the number of neutrons counted is entered on the Y-axis on a logarithmic scale, whilst the time, measured in seconds, is indicated on the X-axis.
The curves 401 and 402 are theoretical decay curves, respectively of uranium and plutonium. The curves 403 and 404 are experimental decay curves respectively for uranium and plutonium, established in an experimental device as described previously.
In order to effect the measurements of the curves 403 and 404, the samples of uranium and plutonium are irradiated with a train of macropulses of gamma photons each with a duration of 2.5 μs and at a frequency of 100 Hz. The number of macropulses is 1,500, which corresponds to a total duration of irradiation of 15 seconds.
The countings of the neutrons for the curves in FIG. 4 are integrated over intervals of 6 seconds.
It should be stated that the parameters defined in the above two paragraphs relate a particular implementation and have no limitative character.
In FIG. 5, the curve 500 indicates the characteristic decay of a sample formed by a mixture of 87% uranium and 13% plutonium.
For information, the theoretical decay curves for uranium and plutonium are also entered. These curves are indicated with the references 501 and 502.
A comparison of the characteristic decay of the mixture with those of pure uranium and plutonium establishes, in accordance with the invention, the following proportions:
uranium content a=92%,
plutonium content b=8%.
It can be noted that, after approximately 50 seconds, the experimental points are close to the background noise level. Thus, for calculating the uranium and plutonium contents only the first 15 intervals are retained.
It is thus clear that, by virtue of the method of the invention, the proportions of uranium and plutonium in a radioactive waste package can be known with a precision of around �10%.
Better information still can be obtained by taking particular steps for reducing the background noise of the measurement.
For example, the object to be examined and the package can be placed in an enclosure whose walls have at least two layers of moderator separated by a layer of cadmium. This further reduces the influence of neutrons generated outside the package.
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MDL Handbook webpage
Awhile in the making, Andy Kopra, Jan Jordan, et al. have written a handbook for the Material Definition Language.
For those of you not familiar with MDL, you can find the main page describing it here.
Any software, such as mental ray 3.13 and Iray will be able to exchange materials using MDL and render identically. Software integrating mental ray, Iray, or MDL itself will also be able to use and render these materials, Allegorithmic is a noted partner.
Take a look at the MDL Handbook page for more information on using, creating, and integrating MDL.
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mental ray Progressive Rendering and AO Acceleration
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The Official mental ray Blog "Inside mental ray" has just posted an example of Ambient Occlusion (AO) rendered progressively using GPU acceleration in mental ray. This is a great example of ongoing improvements and scene examples using the correct API for features like progressive rendering.
This is also a good way to see further development in GPU acceleration and where it would be useful for scene rendering and look development.
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As previously posted, a prototype of the new GI scheme for mental ray was included with Maya 2015.
To be clear what a prototype is, this section from Wikipedia best describes this phase of the feature:
Prototype software is often referred to as alpha grade, meaning it is the first version to run. Often only a few functions are implemented, the primary focus of the alpha is to have a functional base code on to which features may be added. Once alpha grade software has most of the required features integrated into it, it becomes beta software for testing of the entire software and to adjust the program to respond correctly during situations unforeseen during development.
Often the end users may not be able to provide a complete set of application objectives, detailed input, processing, or output requirements in the initial stage. After the user evaluation, another prototype will be built based on feedback from users, and again the cycle returns to customer evaluation. The cycle starts by listening to the user, followed by building or revising a mock-up, and letting the user test the mock-up, then back.
As such there are some limitations to know about in this prototype:
- Motion blur not supported
- Lens shaders not supported
- Hair is tessellated
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- Specular interaction currently handled by Final Gather
Since the completed feature is expected to become the replacement solution I suspect these limitations will be removed over time.
Below is an example image rendered with the new GI. The main interior is taken from the Architecture Classroom found at
IDST [site appears to be gone]. Other modern mental ray features being used are:
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- Light Importance Sampling (improving the result of the lighting and simplifying tuning of the scene to a single slider/value)
Also, I am not using portal lights or the Environment Light (Native IBL). Instead I am allowing the new GI to sample the environment without casting more shadow rays and speeding up the render. This also means simplified setup for interiors where you can use the new technique (and a GPU) to power through a scene and render quickly. The brute force nature of the technique will provide you with crisp indirect shadows.
The image below renders in 18 minutes at 1080HD using a K6000. (All of the following renders and time were rendered at 1080HD before resizing to better fit the webpage at 720HD)
Provided by NVIDIA ARC is a simple mel script to enable the GI features in Maya 2015. After loading the script simply run:
The controls are pretty self-explanatory and only expose the main controls for quality. The controls may change in the future:
- Enable – override using the new GI instead of Final Gather (Be sure other features are off, like IP or Photons or they may run unnecessarily)
- Use GPU – this uses the GPU to accelerate the process. The result is identical regardless of mode but the CPU is much slower. Currently CPU usage is less than 100% Also note that CPU usage might be less than 100% using the GPU if using a slow card or high settings. This is because the CPU is waiting on the tile from the GPU. This requires recent graphics drivers and an NVIDIA graphics card (GTX or Quadro)
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- Override FG (Final gather) Globals – The new GI can take its settings from legacy FG settings including ray depth (bounces) which is still set in Final Gather trace depth.
- Samples Per Pixel - this is the number of samples per pixel (Anti-aliasing) taken per pixel. This also acts as a multiplier of Rays. This number should be a square of another number: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, etc.
- Rays – Your primary control for quality. This is a brute force technique (at filter 0) where this number of rays is shot per pixel multiplied by samples per pixel above.
Below are some examples of altering the settings.
Increasing the samples per pixel, keeping everything else the same (filter set to 0):
Increasing the rays parameter, all else is the same (filter is set to 0):
The filter parameter is improved from previous ways of filtering/interpolating GI results. As a convenience the measurement is in pixels. You should find this easier to smooth more quickly and easily than other methods. It also has a negligible impact on render time unlike increasing interpolation with Final Gather. In fact, less variance should improve render times since Unified Sampling works less to solve the image. Keep in mind that increasing values will blur indirect shadowing details.
Open this in a new window to see the changes as they are subtle, blending away the noise. Please pardon the gif compression.
Another example of the improved smoothing filter:
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Agreed.It's good we can all have a laugh about this now we knows he's safe and ok. Worrying for a while though!
Fair enough. And I get that some people might come to expect a certain kind of role from a certain actor they associate with a certain thing. But that might be exactly why he is looking to play a very different thing.I heard he's playing a very colorful villian.
A very nasty shade of purple?
I kind of hope they dial his story back a bit for the show. My wife hasn't readAlias, but she knows generally what happened, and she said she won't watch Tennant in that role. I wonder, if they do follow the comic storyline with him, will he lose some of his female fans?
It depends on the fans, I suppose. While I certainly respect someone choosing to not want to watch a storyline with that sort of content, if they don't want that in their evening's entertainment. I get that. So I could get where there may be Tennant fans who might not want to watch him in this material.
But as far as this losing him fans, I think that would be an overreaction. Acting is acting. If the material is handled well, and is not exploitative, then fans of a actor should not punish the actor they like for playing a despicable person. Or for being in something they don't want to see. It's acting, not endorsement. And acting shouldn't always be about playing characters that people like, or want to be. Nor is playing sweethearts a compact with your fans that you will always play more good guys. I think fans of an actor should be able to make that separation.
I don't think I explained it very well. I brought it up because my wife (along with millions of other women) thinks he's adorable. Not only does she not want to watch that type of content, she doesn't want to ruin her image of Tennant as the Doctor by associating him in any way with the type of character he'll be playing inJessica Jones. And it's not about him playing a bad guy, but playing someone who does that specific thing.
Consciously, she knows he is an actor, etc., etc., but if she sees him perform the heinous things the character does in the comic, that image will stick with her and taint her enjoyment of watching him as the Doctor, logic be damned. It's the "I can't unsee what I just saw" sort of thing. It's not about punishing the actor, it's just not being able to enjoy his work in the same way. That's just the way she is, and I doubt she's the only person like that. And I would guess that most Tennant fans will be going into the show not knowing anything about the Alias comic and what his role will entail. They'll probably be expecting a Tom Hiddleston type of performance, not... that.


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How to introduce my cats to new cat?
I adopted a "hard to place" cat from a shelter I volunteer at about three weeks ago. She was moody and aggressive (to people who wanted to look at her or touch her) and I brought her home and put her in a room by herself and she is a very sweet girl. We've only had one altercation since I brought her home. She does not like other cats. Even though she lived at the shelter for almost 2 years in a room filled with 10-20 other cats with new cats constantly being introduced to the room. I currently have 7 other cats (3 are fosters) in my house. there is plenty of room for them but of course if I let the new cat out EVERYONE wants to stalk her or try to make friends etc.
Mostly I let her out by herself and lock my other 7 cats in my bedroom (they mostly sleep during this time) or I will leave my "lazy" cats out and let the new cat because I know they won't bother her. Well it turns out when I thought I had 3 "lazy" cats, I only have one. My eldest female (8 yrs) could care less about the new cat and only wants in the room I keep her in so she can sample her food. Everyone else is very curious. One of my 6 mth old kittens (she is a tortie) just marches right up to the new cat and wants to make friends. My new cat does not growl at her (the only one she doesn't growl at) so that is encouraging. But my 1 year old "baby" is very upset (she is a dilute tortie) at once again being upstaged and stalks the new cat merciously. So I try to let her explore the house by herself. Have done this for a week and a half but I need to start introducing her to the other cats so she is comfortable. Right now if she is confronted with one of them she will get on something high and watch the other cat. If they come too close she will growl or swat.
I have tried leaving the door to her "safe" room open but the other cats are attracted to that and run in there to use her potty, eat her food and lay on her bed. I'm afraid she will associate that as an intrusion so mostly I shut the door. Last night my timid girl (7 yrs old thnks she's a kitten) ran into the bedroom where I keep the new cat. She wanted to meet her (usually she's timid) but for some reason she LOVES the newcomer. She would get as close to her as she could and sniff her and never growl. The new cat growled at her at first but realized she's not intimidating so she just watched her. I left them in the room together for about an hour (kept checking on them and my timid girl never wanted out) they never fought and there was never any growling.
Should I try this with the others as well? My fear is that my new cat is still not totally comfortable roaming my house so any cats she meets outside of her room she may get upset because it is THEIR territory she is meeting them on. One of my other kittens (sweetheart who has never growled at anything in her life) seems to hate the new cat. She growls at her whenever she sees her (she is a dilute tortie too) I've been trying to introduce the new cat to the resident cats one by one. I'm still not sure how it will ever be possible for the entire group to meet her and not freak her out but we will see. Any ideas?
I have found the best way is to just act normally and let everyone do their thing. Monitor the cats and have a squirt bottle with water ready in order to disuade any bad behavior on anyones part. Cats seem to need to be able to spend time learning who is boss. Having one cat put another in its place is normal behavior...just make certain that a fight does not break out by being alert...good luck and kudos to your for fostering.
I have a screen door that I put in the open doorway and let all the animals sniff and look at the new cat through the screen for a while (days, week or 2) ... until the "newness" has worn off some.
This usually helps a lot.
I'd look out for territoriality tendencies. They could come up in the litter box or boxes or in the water and food access points. If the newcomer is intimidated and blocked access to the litter box, he or she may start voiding where prohibited. Once that starts, it could be very hard to reverse. So catch it early if it looks like it's about to happen, and intervene. You will need a lot of vigilance and patience.


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Shrubs for wet, then dry locations
I have been struggling to find which shrubs can handle a high spring water table which reverts to very dry conditions during the rest of the growing season. Apparently there is a rock strata about 5-6 feet down that "swells shut" during the late winter, spring rainy period making the ground pretty soppy but later the water percolates down and away. The surface gets quite hard packed as the spring wears on into summer.
I wanted to put in a shrub border (for birds/bees mostly) punctuated by small flowering trees but have had limited success. What has worked so far are cotoneaster, winterberry, and viburnum opulus- possibly clove currant. What bombed were lilacs and nannyberry. At the lower end (slightly moister) of the gently sloped yard I have elderberries, aronia and hazelnuts doing well near my young spruces.
What other options are there for this waterload feast/famine soil conditions in my midatlantic zone 6?
Some dogwoods need understory conditions...for example Pagoda Dogwood.
I have Ivory Halos in full sun, out in the wide open...they get 12-14 hours of sun.
They get flooded in sring as all the water is pitched over there, but during drought it gets REALLY dry since its fully exposed.
There are varous small serviceberry you can use as well (Regent is one)
I have a redbud in that type of area that does well. Also clethra, willow hakuri nishiki (sp), groundcover forsythia Gold Tide, rhus lo-gro, witchhazel, winterberry, servicebery, fringe tree. This area is so wet early on that I cannot walk in it without sinking.


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It would be nice if cl-user would display unicode input for CJK text. With PCL and On Lisp getting new printings in Japan, it might be beneficial to attract more brain-share from that side of the world. Would this be considered out of cl-user.net's scope?
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Police took a suspect into custody following a standoff in Malibu, which occurred after a high-speed chase. The chase was reportedly prompted by an officer involved shooting.
3 Face Charges In Human Trafficking At OC Motels
Officials Wednesday announced the arrest of three suspects for their alleged involvement in human trafficking, kidnapping and torturing a woman inside of a Westminster motel room.
Vigil In Beverly Hills Remembers 3 Boys Kidnapped And Killed In West Bank
More than 1,000 people came together in the Beth Jacob congregation in Beverly Hills on Tuesday to remember three boys found buried under a pile of rocks near the West Bank town of Halul.
LA-Based Aunt Of Teen Kidnapped In Israel Speaks Out
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