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- Introduction
- Principles of operation
- Reactor design and components
- Types of reactors
- Reactor safety
- The nuclear fuel cycle
- History of reactor development
Nuclear reactor, any of a class of devices that can initiate and control a self-sustaining series of nuclear fissions. Nuclear reactors are used as research tools, as systems for producing radioactive isotopes, and most prominently as energy sources for nuclear power plants.
Principles of operation
Nuclear reactors operate on the principle of nuclear fission, the process in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into two smaller fragments. The nuclear fragments are in very excited states and emit neutrons, other subatomic particles, and photons. The emitted neutrons may then cause new fissions, which in turn yield more neutrons, and so forth. Such a continuous self-sustaining series of fissions constitutes a fission chain reaction. A large amount of energy is released in this process, and this energy is the basis of nuclear power systems.
In an atomic bomb the chain reaction is designed to increase in intensity until much of the material has fissioned. This increase is very rapid and produces the extremely prompt, tremendously energetic explosions characteristic of such bombs. In a nuclear reactor the chain reaction is maintained at a controlled, nearly constant level. Nuclear reactors are so designed that they cannot explode like atomic bombs.
Most of the energy of fission—approximately 85 percent of it—is released within a very short time after the process has occurred. The remainder of the energy produced as a result of a fission event comes from the radioactive decay of fission products, which are fission fragments after they have emitted neutrons. Radioactive decay is the process by which an atom reaches a more stable state; the decay process continues even after fissioning has ceased, and its energy must be dealt with in any proper reactor design.
Chain reaction and criticality
The course of a chain reaction is determined by the probability that a neutron released in fission will cause a subsequent fission. If the neutron population in a reactor decreases over a given period of time, the rate of fission will decrease and ultimately drop to zero. In this case the reactor will be in what is known as a subcritical state. If over the course of time the neutron population is sustained at a constant rate, the fission rate will remain steady, and the reactor will be in what is called a critical state. Finally, if the neutron population increases over time, the fission rate and power will increase, and the reactor will be in a supercritical state.
Before a reactor is started up, the neutron population is near zero. During reactor start-up, operators remove control rods from the core in order to promote fissioning in the reactor core, effectively putting the reactor temporarily into a supercritical state. When the reactor approaches its nominal power level, the operators partially reinsert the control rods, balancing out the neutron population over time. At this point the reactor is maintained in a critical state, or what is known as steady-state operation. When a reactor is to be shut down, operators fully insert the control rods, inhibiting fission from occurring and forcing the reactor to go into a subcritical state.
Reactor control
A commonly used parameter in the nuclear industry is reactivity, which is a measure of the state of a reactor in relation to where it would be if it were in a critical state. Reactivity is positive when a reactor is supercritical, zero at criticality, and negative when the reactor is subcritical. Reactivity may be controlled in various ways: by adding or removing fuel, by altering the ratio of neutrons that leak out of the system to those that are kept in the system, or by changing the amount of absorber that competes with the fuel for neutrons. In the latter method the neutron population in the reactor is controlled by varying the absorbers, which are commonly in the form of movable control rods (though in a less commonly used design, operators can change the concentration of absorber in the reactor coolant). Changes of neutron leakage, on the other hand, are often automatic. For example, an increase of power will cause a reactor's coolant to reduce in density and possibly boil. This decrease in coolant density will increase neutron leakage out of the system and thus reduce reactivity—a process known as negative-reactivity feedback. Neutron leakage and other mechanisms of negative-reactivity feedback are vital aspects of safe reactor design.
A typical fission interaction takes place on the order of one picosecond (10−12 second). This extremely fast rate does not allow enough time for a reactor operator to observe the system's state and respond appropriately. Fortunately, reactor control is aided by the presence of so-called delayed neutrons, which are neutrons emitted by fission products some time after fission has occurred. The concentration of delayed neutrons at any one time (more commonly referred to as the effective delayed neutron fraction) is less than 1 percent of all neutrons in the reactor. However, even this small percentage is sufficient to facilitate the monitoring and control of changes in the system and to regulate an operating reactor safely.
Fissile and fertile materials
All heavy nuclides have the ability to fission when in an excited state, but only a few fission readily and consistently when struck by slow (low-energy) neutrons. Such species of atoms are called fissile. The most prominently utilized fissile nuclides in the nuclear industry are uranium-233 (233U), uranium-235 (235U), plutonium-239 (239Pu), and plutonium-241 (241Pu). Of these, only uranium-235 occurs in a usable amount in nature—though its presence in natural uranium is only some 0.7204 percent by weight, necessitating a lengthy and expensive enrichment process to generate a usable reactor fuel (see below Nuclear fuel cycle).
As an alternative to processing and enriching uranium-235, it is possible to go through the process of generating quantities of other fissile nuclides that are not as prevalent as uranium-235. Prominent sources of these nuclides are thorium-232 (232Th), uranium-238 (238U), and plutonium-240 (240Pu), which are known as fertile materials owing to their ability to transform into fissile materials. For example, thorium-232, the predominant isotope of natural thorium, can be used to generate uranium-233 through a process known as neutron capture. When a nucleus of thorium-232 absorbs, or "captures," a neutron, it becomes thorium-233, whose half-life is approximately 21.83 minutes. After that time the nuclide decays through electron emission to protactinium-233, whose half-life is 26.967 days. The protactinium-233 nuclide in turn decays through electron emission to yield uranium-233.
Neutron capture may also be used to create quantities of plutonium-239 from uranium-238, the principal constituent of naturally occurring uranium. Absorption of a neutron in the uranium-238 nucleus yields uranium-239, which decays after 23.47 minutes through electron emission into neptunium-239 and ultimately, after 2.356 days, into plutonium-239.
If desired, plutonium-241 may be generated directly through neutron capture in plutonium-240, following the formula 240Pu + 1n = 241Pu.
A power reactor contains both fissile and fertile materials. The fertile materials partially replace fissile materials that are destroyed by fission, thus permitting the reactor to run longer before the amount of fissile material decreases to the point where criticality is no longer manageable. Plutonium-240 is particularly found to build up in reactors after long periods of operation, as it has a longer half-life than all its parent nuclides.
Heat removal
A significant portion of the energy of fission is converted to heat the instant that the fission reaction breaks the initial target nucleus into fission fragments. The bulk of this energy is deposited in the fuel, and a coolant is required to remove the heat in order to maintain a balanced system (and also to transfer the heat energy to the power-generating plant). The most common coolant is water, though any fluid can be used. Heavy water (deuterium oxide), air, carbon dioxide, helium, liquid sodium, sodium-potassium alloy (called NaK), molten salts, and hydrocarbons have all been used in reactors or reactor experiments.
Some research reactors are operated at very low power and have no need for a dedicated cooling system; in such units the small amount of generated heat is removed by conduction and convection to the environment. Very high power reactors, on the other hand, must have extremely sophisticated cooling systems to remove heat quickly and reliably; otherwise, the heat will build up in the reactor fuel and melt it. Indeed, most reactors operate on the principle that their fuel cannot be allowed to melt; therefore, the systems designed to cool the fuel must operate sufficiently under both normal and abnormal conditions. Systems that enable sufficient cooling during all credible abnormal conditions in nuclear power plants are referred to as emergency core-cooling systems.AD!!!!
An operating reactor is a powerful source of radiation, since fission and subsequent radioactive decay produce neutrons and gamma rays, both of which are highly penetrating radiations. A reactor must have specifically designed shielding around it to absorb and reflect this radiation in order to protect technicians and other reactor personnel from exposure. In a popular class of research reactors known as "swimming pools," this shielding is provided by placing the reactor in a large, deep pool of water. In other kinds of reactors, the shield consists of a thick concrete structure around the reactor system referred to as the biological shield. The shield also may contain heavy metals, such as lead or steel, for more effective absorption of gamma rays, and heavy aggregates may be used in the concrete itself for the same purpose.
Critical concentration and size
Not every arrangement of material containing fissile fuel can be brought to criticality. Even if a reactor was designed such that no neutrons could leak out, a critical concentration of fissile material would have to be present in order to bring the reactor to a critical state. Otherwise, absorption of neutrons by other constituents of the reactor might dominate and inhibit a sustained chain fission reaction. Similarly, even where there is a high-enough concentration for criticality, the reactor must occupy an appropriate volume and be of a prescribed geometric form, or else more neutrons will leak out than are created through fission. This requirement imposes a limit on the minimum critical volume and critical mass within a reactor.
Although the only useful fissile material in nature, uranium-235, is found in natural uranium, there are only a few combinations and arrangements of this and other materials that enable a reactor to maintain a critical state for a period of time. To increase the range of feasible reactor designs, enriched uranium is often used. Most of today's power reactors employ enriched uranium fuel in which the percentage of uranium-235 has been increased to between 3 and 5 percent, approximately five and a half times the concentration in natural uranium. Large plants for enriching uranium exist in several countries; indeed, enrichment has become a commercial enterprise (see below Enrichment).
Thermal, intermediate, and fast reactors
Reactors are conveniently classified according to the typical energies of the neutrons that cause fission. Neutrons emanating in fission are very energetic; their average energy is around two million electron volts (MeV), nearly 80 million times the energy of atoms in ordinary matter at room temperature. As neutrons scatter or collide with nuclei in a reactor, they lose energy. This action is referred to as down-scattering. The choice of reactor materials and of fissile material concentrations determines the rate at which neutrons are slowed through down-scattering before causing fission.
In a thermal reactor, most neutrons down-scatter in the moderator material before interacting with a fissile material. Down-scattering events take place until the neutrons have reached thermal equilibrium with the reactor at energies of a few hundredths of an electron volt. Neutrons lose energy most efficiently by colliding with light atoms such as hydrogen (mass 1), deuterium (mass 2), beryllium (mass 9), and carbon (mass 12). For this reason, materials that contain atoms of these elements—water, heavy water, beryllium metal and oxide, and graphite—are deliberately incorporated into a thermal reactor and are known as moderators. Since water and heavy water also can function as coolants, they perform a dual purpose in thermal reactors. (See below Coolants and moderators.)
One disadvantage of thermal reactors is that at low energies uranium-235 and plutonium-239 not only can be fissioned by thermal (or slow) neutrons but also can capture neutrons without undergoing fission. Neutron capture transforms these nuclides into, respectively, uranium-236 and plutonium-240, which are not fissile. The probability of neutron capture is much lower at higher energy levels than at thermal energies. To achieve higher energy levels and promote fission over neutron capture, a reactor can be built to operate without a moderator. Depending on the number of scattering events that take place with heavier atoms before fission occurs, the typical fission-causing neutrons may have energies in the range of 0.5 electron volt to thousands of electron volts (intermediate reactors) or several hundred thousand electron volts (fast reactors). Such reactors require higher concentrations of fissile material to reach criticality than do reactor designs that operate at thermal energy levels; however, they are more efficient at converting fertile material to fissile material. Fast reactors can be designed to produce more than one new fissile atom for each fissile atom destroyed. Such reactors are referred to as breeder reactors. Breeder reactors may become important if world demand for nuclear power turns out to be long-term and if access to naturally available sources of fissile material becomes limited.
Reactor design and components
There are a large number of ways in which a nuclear reactor may be designed and constructed; many types have been experimentally realized. Over the years, nuclear engineers have developed reactors with solid and liquid fuels, thick- and no-reflectors, forced cooling circuits and natural conduction or convection heat-removal systems, and so on. Most reactors, however, have certain basic components.
All reactors have a core, a central region that contains the fuel, fuel cladding, coolant, and (where separate from the latter) moderator. The fission energy in a nuclear reactor is produced in the core.
The fuel is usually heterogeneous—i.e., it consists of elements containing fissile material along with a diluent. This diluting agent may be fertile material or simply material that has good mechanical and chemical properties and does not readily absorb neutrons. All diluents act as a matrix in which the fissile material can stably reside through its operable life. In solid fuels, the diluted fissile material is enclosed in a cladding—a substance that isolates the fuel from the coolant and minimizes the likelihood that radioactive fission products will be released. Cladding is often referred to as a reactor's first fission product barrier, as it is the first barrier that fissile material contacts after nuclear fission.
Fuel types
A reactor's fuel must conform to the integral design of the reactor as well as the mechanisms that drive its operations. Following are brief descriptions of the fuel materials and configurations used in the most important types of nuclear reactors, which are described in greater detail in Types of reactors.
The light-water reactor (LWR), which is the most widely used variety for commercial power generation in the world, employs a fuel consisting of pellets of sintered uranium dioxide loaded into cladding tubes of zirconium alloy or some other advanced cladding material. The tubes, called pins or rods, measure approximately 1 cm (less than half an inch) in diameter and roughly 3 to 4 metres (10 to 13 feet) in length. The tubes are bundled together into a fuel assembly, with the pins arranged in a square lattice. The uranium used in the fuel is 3 to 5 percent enriched. Since light (ordinary) water, used in LWRs as both the coolant and the moderator, tends to absorb more neutrons than other moderators do, such enrichment is crucial.
The CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor, which is the principal type of heavy-water reactor, uses natural uranium compacted into pellets. These pellets are inserted in long tubes and arranged in a lattice. A CANDU reactor fuel assembly measures approximately 1 metre (almost 40 inches) in length. Several assemblies are arranged end-to-end within a channel inside the reactor core. The use of heavy water rather than light water as the moderator enhances the scattering of neutrons rather than their capture, thereby increasing the probability of fission with the fuel material.
In one version of the high-temperature graphite reactor, the fuel is constructed of small spherical particles, or microspheres, containing uranium dioxide at the centre with concentric shells of carbon, silicon carbide, and carbon around them. These shells serve as localized cladding for each fuel sphere. The particles are then mixed with graphite and encased in a macroscopic graphite cladding.
In a sodium-cooled fast reactor, commonly called a liquid-metal reactor (LMR), the fuel consists of uranium dioxide or uranium-plutonium dioxide pellets (French design) or of uranium-plutonium-zirconium metal alloy pins (U.S. design) in steel cladding.
The most common type of fuel used in research reactors consists of plates of a uranium-aluminum alloy with an aluminum cladding. The uranium is enriched to slightly less than 20 percent, while silicon and aluminum are included in the "meat" of the plate to serve as the diluent and fuel matrix. Although aluminum has a lower melting point than other cladding materials, the flat plate design maintains a low fuel temperature, as the plates are often barely more than 1.25 mm thick. A common variety of research reactor known as TRIGA (from training, research, and isotope-production reactors–General Atomic) employs a fuel of mixed uranium and zirconium hydride, often doped with small concentrations of erbium and the whole clad in stainless steel.AD!!!!
Coolants and moderators
A variety of substances, including light water, heavy water, air, carbon dioxide, helium, liquid sodium, liquid sodium-potassium alloy, and hydrocarbons (oils), have been used as coolants. Such substances are, in general, good conductors of heat, and they serve to carry the thermal energy produced by fission from the fuel and through the integral system, finally either venting the heat directly to the atmosphere (in the case of research reactors) or transporting it to the steam-generating equipment of the nuclear power plant (in the case of power reactors).
In many cases, the same substance functions as both coolant and moderator, as in the case of light and heavy water. The moderator slows the fast (high-energy) neutrons emitted during fission to energies at which they are more likely to induce fission. In doing so, the moderator helps initiate and sustain a fission chain reaction.
A reflector is a region of unfueled material surrounding the core. Its function is to scatter neutrons that leak from the core, thereby returning some of them back into the core. This design feature allows for a smaller core size. In addition, reflectors "smooth out" the power density by utilizing neutrons that would otherwise leak out through fissioning within fuel material located near the core's outer region.
The reflector is particularly important in research reactors, since it is the region in which much of the experimental apparatus is located. In some research reactor designs, reflectors are located inside the core as central islands in which high neutron intensities can be achieved for experimental purposes.
In most types of power reactors, a reflector is less important; this is due to the reactor's large size, which reduces the proportion of neutrons that may leak from the core region. The liquid-metal reactor represents a special case. Most sodium-cooled reactors are deliberately built to allow a large fraction of their neutrons—those not needed to maintain the chain reaction—to leak from the core. These neutrons are valuable because they can produce new fissile material if they are absorbed by fertile material. Thus, fertile material—generally depleted uranium or its dioxide—is placed around the core to catch the leaking neutrons. Such an absorbing reflector is referred to as a blanket or a breeding blanket.
Reactor control elements
All reactors need unique elements for control. Although control can be achieved by varying parameters within the coolant circuit or by varying the amount of absorber dissolved in the coolant or moderator, by far the most common method utilizes absorbing assemblies—namely, control rods or, in some cases, blades. Typically a reactor is equipped with three types of rods for different purposes: (1) safety rods for starting up and shutting down the reactor, (2) regulating rods for adjusting the reactor's power rate, and (3) shim rods for compensating for changes in reactivity as fuel is depleted by fission and neutron capture.
The most important function of the safety rods is to shut down the reactor, either when such a shutdown is scheduled or in case of a real or suspected emergency. These rods contain enough absorber to terminate a chain reaction under any conceivable condition. They are withdrawn before fuel is loaded and remain available in case a loading error requires their action. After the fuel is loaded, the rods are inserted, to be withdrawn again when the reactor is ready for operation. The mechanism by which they are moved is designed to be fail-safe in the sense that if there is a mechanical failure, the safety rods will fall by gravity or some other safe means into the core. In some cases, moreover, the safety rods have an automatic feature, such as a fuse, which releases them by virtue of physical effects independent of electronic signals.
Regulating rods are deliberately designed to affect reactivity only by a small degree. It is assumed that at some time the rods might be totally withdrawn by mistake, and the idea is to keep the added reactivity in such cases well within sensible limits. A well-designed regulating rod will add so little reactivity when it is removed that the delayed neutrons (see above Reactor control) will continue to control the rate of power increase.
Shim rods are designed to compensate for the effects of burnup (i.e., energy production). Reactivity changes resulting from burnup can be large, but they occur slowly over periods of days to years, as compared with the seconds-to-minutes range over which safety actions and routine regulation take place. Therefore, shim rods may control a significant amount of reactivity, but they will work optimally only when constraints are imposed on their speed of movement. A common way in which shims are operated is by inserting or removing them as regulating rods reach the end of their most useful position range. When this happens, shim rods are moved so that the regulating rods can be reset.
The functions of shim and safety rods are sometimes combined in rods that have low rates of withdrawal but that can be rapidly inserted. This is usually done when the effect of burnup decreases reactivity. The rods are only partially inserted at the outset of operation. However, in the event that the system must be shut down as quickly as possible, the reactor operator may "scram" the reactor, fully dropping the control rods into the core and immediately sending the reactor into a subcritical state. (The expression "scram" is said to stand for "safety control rod axe man," a reference to ad-hoc emergency preparations made for the earliest nuclear reactor.)
The amount of shim control required can be reduced by the use of a burnable "poison." This is a neutron-absorbing material, such as boron or gadolinium, that burns off faster than the fissile material does over the lifetime of the core. At the beginning of operation, the inclusion of a burnable poison regulates the extra reactivity that has been built into the fuel to compensate for the amount of fuel consumed. At the end of an operating period, the absorbing material is often completely transformed through neutron capture.
Some boiling-water reactors utilize cruciform (T-shaped) control blades as the neutron-absorbing control mechanism. Because a number of these reactor vessels are designed with internal components above the core region, the control blades are inserted from below the core. Control blades operate on the same principle as control rods. However, since they are inserted upward into the core, they cannot use gravity to fall into place and put the reactor into a subcritical state in the event of a loss of power or some other abnormal condition. For this reason, control blades are connected to hydraulic drives that force compressed air into the mechanism upon initiation, injecting the control blades into the core.
Structural components
The structural components of a reactor hold the system together and permit it to function as a useful energy source. The most important structural component in a nuclear power plant is usually the reactor vessel. In both the light-water reactor and the high-temperature gas-controlled reactor (HTGR), a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is utilized so that the coolant is contained and operated under conditions appropriate for power generation—namely, elevated temperature and pressure. Within the reactor vessel are a number of structural elements: grids for holding the reactor core and solid reflectors, control-rod guide tubes, internal thermal hydraulic components (e.g., pumps or steam circulators) in some cases, instrument tubes, and components of safety systems.
Coolant system
The function of a power reactor installation is to extract as much heat of nuclear fission as possible and convert it to useful power, generally electricity. The coolant system plays a pivotal role in performing this function. A coolant fluid enters the core at low temperature and exits at a higher temperature after collecting the fission energy. This higher-temperature fluid is then directed to conventional thermodynamic components where the heat is converted into electric power. In most light-water, heavy-water, and gas-cooled power reactors, the coolant is maintained at high pressure. Sodium and organic coolants operate at atmospheric pressure.
Research reactors have very simple heat-removal systems, as their primary purpose is to perform research and not generate power. In research reactors, coolant is run through the reactor, and the heat that is removed is transferred to ambient air or to water without going through a power cycle. In research reactors of the lowest power, running at only a few kilowatts, this may involve simple heat exchange to tap water or to a pool of water cooled by ambient air. During operation at higher power levels, the heat is usually removed by means of a small natural-draft cooling tower.AD!!!!
Containment system
Reactors are designed with the expectation that they will operate safely without releasing radioactivity to their surroundings. It is, however, recognized that accidents can occur. An approach using multiple fission product barriers has been adopted to deal with such accidents. These barriers are, successively, the fuel cladding, the reactor vessel, and the shielding. As a final barrier, the reactor is housed in a containment structure, often simply referred to as the containment.
Containment design principles
The containment basically consists of the reactor building, which is designed and tested to prevent elevated levels of radioactivity that might be released from the fuel cladding, the reactor vessel, and the shielding from escaping to the environment. To meet this purpose, the containment structure must be at least nominally airtight. In practice, it must be able to maintain its integrity under circumstances of a drastic nature, such as accidents in which most of the contents of the reactor core are released to the building. It has to withstand pressure buildups and damage from debris propelled by an energy burst within the reactor, and it must pass appropriate tests to demonstrate that it will not leak more than a small fraction of its contents over a period of several days, even when its internal pressure is well above that of the surrounding air. The containment building also must protect components located inside it from external forces such as tsunamis, tornadoes, and airplane crashes.
The most common form of containment building is a cylindrical structure with a spherical dome, which is characteristic of LWR systems. This structure is much more typical of nuclear plants than the large cooling tower that is often used as a symbol for nuclear power. (It should be noted that cooling towers are found at large modern coal- and oil-fired power stations as well.)
Reactors other than those of the LWR type also have containment structures, though they vary in shape and construction. When it can be justified that major pressure buildups are not to be expected, the containment may be any functional form of airtight structure. In the United States and a number of other countries around the world, containment structures are required for all commercial power reactors and all high-power research reactors. In general, low-power research reactors are exempt, on the basis of the common assumption that an accident in such systems will not lead to a widespread release of radioactivity. In the United States, reactors operated by the Department of Energy and by the armed services are also exempt, a matter that has caused considerable controversy. Some of these have containment structures, whereas others do not.
Containment systems and major nuclear accidents
The concept of the containment originated in the United States during the 1950s and was generally accepted throughout much of the world. The Soviet-bloc countries, however, did not concur with this view, and when containment was added to Soviet reactor designs, it was generally not up to Western standards. For example, during the Chernobyl accident of 1986 in Ukraine, the power station's Unit 4, which suffered a catastrophic explosive accident and fire, had an internal structure that could withstand the loss of function of only a single pressure tube. Though the structure was called a containment, this was a misnomer by Western standards, and the structure would more suitably be referred to as a confinement.
Severe tests of Western-style containment systems occurred during the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979 and the Fukushima accident in Japan in 2011. At Three Mile Island Unit 2, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a stoppage of core cooling resulted in the destruction, including partial melting, of the entire core and the release of a large part of its radioactivity to the enclosure around the reactor—that is, the containment. In spite of a hydrogen deflagration that also occurred during the accident, the containment structure prevented all but a very small amount of radioactivity from entering the environment and is credited with having prevented a major radioactive release and its consequences.
At the Fukushima Daiichi ("Number One") plant in northeastern Honshu, Japan, a loss of main and backup power after an earthquake and tsunami led to a partial meltdown of fuel rods in three reactors. Melted material bored small holes in the lower head of two reactor pressure vessels; one of these was punctured again by an explosion. Radioactive water was soon discovered to have leaked into the ocean through cracks in the foundation of the containment. Within a few weeks, the cracks had been sealed, and within six months the reactors had been stabilized to the point where workers could begin to enter the containment. Despite a catastrophic sequence of natural events that led to the accident, the fission product barriers served their design purpose and kept all but a small amount of fission products from entering the environment.


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La P'tite Framboise
Port Washington's French Bistro is considered amongst the best on Long Island.
Brunch, Lunch, and Dinner
La P'tite Framboise is proud to offer French cuisine at an exceptional level for lunch, brunch, and dinner. Take a look at our menus and make reservations online. We look forward to serving you.

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Mill, Greenwich, Friday
is one fiesta that says summer like no other. Take the day
off of work and kick off your Friday near Salem tubing on
the Battenkill after 11 AM. Dry off and dig out the cooler
for a nice picnic lunch in the sun followed by rock in the
afternoon. The show will get underway around 3 PM, featuring
solo accordionist extraordinaire Harry Pyle, the precision
rock of Fruitless Attempts at Glory, the supercute duo Kickstand
Love, Skull Division, and Importante el Serioso. The booty
movement inspired by Blue Water Tribes hiphop and the Mathematicians
electro-rock warrant the drive alone. After the musics done,
folks will hunker down to watch Friday the 13th, appropriately
enough, and camp out for the night. There are rumors of wiffleball
and smores as well. Attendees are encouraged to bring along
food and camping equipment, though the kids want you to leave
the booze and drugs at home. For helpful directions, follow
the links to the mill at www.pinkhearse.com. (Aug. 13,
11 AM, www.pinkhearse.com)
Burns Sisters
Lena, Friday
the saying goes, the family that plays together stays together.
The three Burns SistersMarie, Annie and Jeanniehave been
singing together professionally for 18 years. They come from
a family of 14 children; the whole crew could have started
their own choir. Apparently, they still like each other. Theyve
recorded half a dozen albums, worked with Springsteen sidemen
and operated their own record label. (All three have performed
as solo artists, too.) The New York born-and-based trio have
earned a solid local following with their multi-instrumental,
acoustic-based approach to folk, country, rock and pop. Oh,
and those harmoniesone suspects that the folks really
come out for their clear-as-mountain-stream, bluegrass-derived
vocal stylings. (Aug. 13, 7 PM, $16, $14, 47 Phila St.,
Saratoga Springs, 583-0022)
six guys who have roots ranging from Delmar to Israel, Cobble
Hillbillies are a bluegrass outfit based in Brooklyn. The
sextet have quickly made a name for themsleves as warm, energetic
performers who absolutley love creating and playing their
music. According to mbus.com, though the guys have been playing
around Manhattan and Brooklyn for less than a year, they have
become the highest-drawing bluegrass act in the city. Thats
pretty impressive. The band are currently in the process of
recording their first album, but you can listen to some roguh
cuts on their Web site, www.cobblehillbil lies.com. At the
show at Valentines tomorrow (Friday), the Cobble Hillbillies
will be sandwiched between Matt Loiacono, wholl open the
show, and local indie-Americana group knotworking, wholl
headline. (Aug. 13, 9 PM, $5, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany,
on Stilts
Tavern, Saturday
duo Hector on Stilts moved to Lenox, Mass., three years ago,
and immediately began turning heads with their Latin-inflected
folk-pop songs and posterworthy good looks, but their voices
deserve the attention above all other things. The harmonies
are so natural, sweet and airtight, one would think the pair
had known each other their entire lives. OK, they kinda haveJeb
and Clayton Colwell are cousins, and theyve been making music
together on and off since high school. Their first album,
Pretty Please, was a live, in- studio affair, capturing
the Colwell boys in all their harmonic glory, with just two
microphones and no overdubs. Their newer material has moved
steadily toward a more rock sound, and shows a significant
growth in their songwriting talents. To push things forward,
theyve been recording and performing with a drummer as of
late; Jason Schultz of the Suggestions will play the role
at Saturdays Lark Tavern show. Area troubadour Rob Skane
will open. (Aug. 14, 10 PM, $3, 463 Madison Ave., Albany,
MoCA, North Adams, Mass., Saturday
rock & roll really is deador if not totally dead, moribund
at least. Or maybe the increasing corporate control over the
distribution of music is just choking out the good stuff and
going whole hog on the lowest-common-denominator/highest-profit-margin
garbage. Or maybe were now officially old. Theres got to
be some dramatic explanation for the fact that recently weve
become kinda excited about (gulp) cabaret. And Stews performance
at MASS MoCA sounds right up our street: Stew got his start
in L.A., working the R&B circuit and then fronting the
notoriously named rock band the Negro Problem, before headed
to New York for a stint as an avant-noise practitioner. Then
it was off to Europe, specifically Berlin, where he joined
an community of artists and squatters. Eventually he headed
back to LaLa Land, where he began incorporating his varied
experiences among the worlds demimonde into sung/acted dramatic
narratives relating, according to The New York Times
Jon Pareles, human weaknesses and all the fascinating
trouble they can cause. (Aug. 15, 8 PM, $16, 1040 MASS
MoCA Way, 413-662-2111)
Horse Music Hall, Saturday; Club Helsinki, Sunday
record is my life, says 19-year-old Nellie McKay (pronounced
MacKaye, as in Ian, fromoh, never mind) of her critically-lauded
debut album, and what a life it must have been so far. Get
Away From Me, whose title slyly plays on the title of
Norah Jones Come Away With Me, is an ambitious double
album (this is not a typo) that could only have come from
the mind of someone not-too-far-removed from their high school
days. The versatile, eclectic youngster signed to Sony after
stirring things up on Manhattans club circuit, mainly because
her musical-trick bag holds equal amounts of Eminem and Bob
Marley, Doris Day and Ella Fitzgerald. Not to mention McKays
lyrics, which make her sound mature beyond her years one minute
(I Wanna Get Married), vunerable and full of late-teen angst
the next (Change the World). There are two chances to catch
Nellie McKay this weekend: Shell play the Iron Horse in Northampton
on Saturday, then head an hour west to Great Barringtons
Club Helsinki on Sunday. (Iron Horse: Aug. 14, 7 PM, $15,
20 Center St., Northampton, Mass., 413-584-0610; Club Helsinki:
Aug. 15, 8:30 PM, $18, 284 Main St., Great Barrington, Mass.,
Throwing Muses/Breeders/Belly member Tanya
Donnelly comes to the Iron Horse in Northampton,
Mass., tonight (Thursday) to promote her latest
release, beautysleep; Rachel Goswell
(of Mojave 3) opens with songs from her solo debut,
Waves Are Universal (7 PM, $15, 413-584-0610).
. . . Christian trumpeter Phil Driscoll
performs at the Draper Center (formerly Draper
High) in Rotterdam tomorrow (Friday) night (7
PM, free, 857-5886). . . . Also on Friday, John
Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, perhaps Englands
longest-running blues act (closing in on 40 years),
will perform at the Death Starsorry, we meant
the Eggas part of the American Roots and Branches
concert series; Savoy Brown opens (8 PM,
$24, 473-1845). . . . Same night, a little bit
north, and on the other side of the river: Folk-groove
trio Wide Awake will record their show
in the taproom at Browns Brewing Co. in Troy
(9 PM, free, 273-2337). . . . Gavin DeGraw,
whose I Dont Want to Be video has been all
over MTV as of late, plays Northern Lights on
Sunday, along with up-and-comers Toby Lightman
and Marc Broussard (371-0012). . . . Iowa-based
instumental group Marah Mar plays the Fuze
Box this Monday, with a solo set by Kamikaze Heart
Troy Pohl and, from what were told, a
rare acoustic set by Enoch and Dave
(from Rockets and Blue Lights); hang around afterward
for indie-rock dance night (9 PM, $5, 432-4472).
. . . Nostalgia never diesjust ask Thin Lizzy,
whose iconic lead singer Phil Lynott has been
dead for nearly 20 years; the remaining members
will share the SPAC stage with Deep Purple
and Joe Satriani on Tuesday (7:30 PM, $45,
476-1000). . . . Inadvertently working the nostalgia
circuit themselves, Blues Traveler return
to Northern Lights for a show on Tuesday night;
hard-working locals Sirsy handle the opening
duties (7:30 PM, $20, 371-0012).


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November 27, 2015
TORONTO (AP) - The head of Menu Foods says it's still not clear how a material used to make plastic made its way into an ingredient used in the making of recalled pet food.
He says melamine was discovered in Chinese wheat gluten that was provided by a new American supplier. That supply has been discontinued.
The contamination led to a massive pet food recall.
Menu Foods has refused to name the supplier because authorities are still investigating.
FDA officials say it isn't yet clear whether the melamine was the culprit in the deaths and illnesses of hundreds or perhaps thousands of pets.
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Internet in Business mentor Jakob Nielsen responds to the following question from an inc.com user:
I have a keen interest in small-business opportunities on the Web for e-zines and e-publishing in general. Inc.com provides interesting stories about the subject, but I do not understand one aspect: What kind of software is available to establish an e-publishing business?
- I need to publish a weekly newsletter to paying subscribers.
- I need to sell them downloadable material (e-books and e-articles).
- I need a Web site on which to put free information.
- I need to be able to e-tail related material.
- I need a reliable system to manage sales and documents.
Is it possible to buy standardized software on which you canbuild your own business of the kind I describe?
Nielsen responds: I don't know of any standardized software that will support right out of the box the type of Web publishing endeavor you describe. Each of the five components you describe would be fairly easy to do, anda competent e-business developer should be able to integrate a solution for you that mainly relies on existing building blocks. Items 3, 4, and 5 are fairly common these days, although it is rare tohave sales automation software well integrated with a Web site.
The weekly newsletter could be managed through one of the many newsletter services, with the subscription payment handled as a traditionale-commerce transaction that is paid by credit card. Downloadable material for sale can also be handled as an e-commerce transaction, although you may have to modify the system to offer fulfillment through a download rather than the shipment of a physical good. You should look at electronic software distribution (ESD) services because, in my opinion, they arecurrently the most advanced in the area of processing payments for downloads. (Whether the userdownloads software or articles makes no difference.)
Instead of making subscriptions the only way for customers to buy your content, I recommend that you also allow customers to buy individual articles. You may want to consider micropayments because they will encourage browsing and immediate gratification and thus attract new customers. 1ClickCharge is a promising micropayment scheme that is supposed to launch relatively soon and is fairly easy to install on your server. Other micropayment schemes are already operational but, in myopinion, require a lot of work to install.
I would also encourage you to look into an affiliate program to reward other Web sites for sending you business. If youpublish valuable information, other sites in the same field should recommend that their readers buy appropriate content from you. You can encourage them to do so by offering a referral fee. Commission Junction hasa fairly easy way of adding an affiliate program to your site.
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Purdue freshman Ronnie Johnson brings the ball up court against Illinois inside Mackey Arena, in West Lafayette, on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
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In today's "Age of the Consumer" it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to compete, mainly due to the consumers instant access to information wide array of sources that drive purchase decisions faster than ever. From shopping engines and social networks to pricing tools and product recommendations, instant access to these information sources have transformed the shopping landscape making the process for brands to engage and influence purchases incredibly daunting.
Today, according to Dimensional Research, over 90 percent of shoppers rely on independent online reviews of products and services as an instrumental consideration on their path-to-purchase. Through these millions of social consumer discussions emerges a wealth of insight, known as social intelligence, on shopper behaviors, demand moments, decision triggers and influence points. It's this insight that is helping smart brands to identify and understand consumers like never before, including the 'Five Ws' to engage them in their path-to-purchase.
Innovative brands are actively using the discovery of the 'Five Ws' on their shopper and consumers to effectively engage and gain a powerful competitive advantage by ultimately influencing their decision processes.
Here is a look at how social intelligence is delivering the 'Five Ws' to brands to help them strategically compete in the "Age of the Consumer":
Who to Target: Segmenting shoppers by their interests and activities has long been a focus of brand teams and marketing groups, however, doing so across millions of consumers has been largely impossible until now. Having the capability to analyze millions of shopper and consumer discussions delivers an entirely new dimension of understanding. Below is a personified view of diabetes patients used by a leading brand to deliver specific details on the patients state of mind, needs and approach with the disease. Pharmaceutical companies use this insight to strategically drive aspects ranging from messaging to adoption to treatment compliance with various patient segments.
What to Say: Based on a wide array of social insight analysis and understanding of interest points and resonation aspects, brands can develop highly-specific messaging and feature highlights based on social discussions and sentiment. This can be highly specified on product features and attributes from ranging from packaging, tastes, color, efficacy, price, etc.
Where to Find Them: Identifying the interests and activities of consumers, from their habits to hobbies, is transforming how brands are strategically engaging consumers. It's now possible to understand the activities and interests consumers have around everything from their media consumption to food consumption. Below is an analysis of the activities snack food consumers engage in while consuming a specific brand. This intelligence is used to drive strategic initiatives like media campaign development to effectively target prospective consumers. This insight can get even deeper into specific shows watched, sites visited, apps used, music listened too, books read and food consumed. An illustration can be seen below with the types of beverages consumed with the snack to the right of the diagram.
Why They Buy: Understanding why shoppers buy, or sometimes more importantly, why they don't, is of incredible value to brands once they are exposed to the intelligence. This can be delivered not only for the company's brand but also for their competitors and alternatives in the market. This allows brand teams to gain deep understanding of decision drivers to modify everything from messaging to packaging to channel distribution to promotions and much more.
When to Engage: Detailed insight on when a consumer hits milestones along their consumer journey are also of incredible value to influencing behaviors and driving purchases. Beyond consumer journeys and paths-to-purchase, this intelligence can even delve into specific timing of purchases to help a brand know even when to engage. This illustration displays how time of day influences the purchase decision for a specific snack food type.
Getting to 'How'
These 'Five Ws' ultimately drive the strategic action of how a brand should engage shoppers and consumers. This type of multidimensional insight allows for smarter marketing around everything from packaging and promotions to communications and channels to even feature development.
Getting to the 'how' of consumers decisions, behaviors, actions and engagement via millions of social conversations delivers an unprecedented competitive advange leading actionability which ultimately drive towards strategic impact. It's this process with is revolutioning how brands are able to influence in today's "Age of the Consumer."
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Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1943)
(Sugata Sanshiro). Kurosawa made his directorial debut in 1943, during the height of World War II and at a time when "you weren't allowed to say anything worth saying," as he recalled. "Back then everyone was saying that the Japanese-style film should be as simple as possible; I disagreed and decided that, since I couldn't say anything because of the censors, I would make a really movie-like movie." Concerning a hero's awakening and embrace of a larger ideal (in this case, judo), the film's dazzling cinematic energy is already pure Kurosawa, complete with novel fight scenes (one done entirely in darkness and shadow, another shot on a windswept, grassy mountainside) and a remarkable control of filmic techniques for capturing emotion, space, and time; one montage of a pair of discarded sandals, for instance, conveys the passing of the seasons with an economy that's as simple, and as pure, as a line of poetry. Within these eighty minutes lies the foundation of an entire career.
—Jason Sanders
• Written by Kurosawa, based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita. Photographed by Akira Mimura. With Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Yukiko Todoroki, Akitake Kono. (80 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, B&W, Permission Janus/Criterion Collection)
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Sanshiro Sugata II
Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1945)
(Zoku Sugata Sanshiro). Forced to make a sequel to the successful Sanshiro Sugata, Kurosawa responded with a by-the-numbers account of the further years of our lockjawed, sweetly shy young judo hero (the appealing Susumu Fujita, who had become a major star thanks to the first film). This being a wartime production, Sanshiro warms up by battling some naughty foreigners (first a drunken sailor, then a tall boxer with "Killer" helpfully emblazoned on his flowing robe), but Kurosawa has even more fun introducing the next villains: the brothers Higaki. All long hair and white robes, odd twitches and ominous declarations, the two seem to have been flung out of a Noh play. "What interested me was not the hero but the opponent," Kurosawa noted. Fascinating as an example of Japanese filmmaking during the war years, the film is also revelatory as an example of how Kurosawa could fuel even the basest of tales with moments of pure grandeur.—Jason Sanders
• Written by Kurosawa, based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita. Photographed by Akira Mimura. With Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Yukiko Todoroki, Akitake Kono. (83 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, B&W, Permission Janus/Criterion Collection)
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November 27, 2015
Talladega Superspeedway will repave its track next year for the first time since 1979, and several top drivers say they're looking forward to a smoother ride.
Several drivers have complained about the track in the past, saying the uneven surface takes a toll on springs and other chassis parts and makes the bumper-to-bumper racing even more harrowing.
The track surface had settled in several spots and asphalt patches have raised the surface in other areas.
Track spokeswoman Kristi King said the repaving project will begin after the Aaron's 499, which is set for April 30th.
She said it will be finished before the UAW Ford 500 in the fall.
The makeover will include complete asphalt repaving of the 2.66-mile tri-oval track, the apron and pit road. Track officials would not disclose the estimated cost.
The track opened in 1969 and was resurfaced on two occasions during the next 10 years, but has only been patched since then.
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On today's Let's Talk Knoxville, Karen Overgaard talks with Nate Haveman, a junior at Pella Christian High School. Haveman came to the KNIA KRLS station in Knoxville as part of Pella Christian's Winterim program, which puts high school students in an internship position with area businesses, as well as offers the opportunity to travel abroad. Haveman wants to go into sports broadcasting, so he chose the Knoxville KNIA KRLS station for the chance to shadow Sports Director Cory Houser, as well as other sportscasters at the station.
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During the bank holiday weekend Sands was completely booked and you could hear children's laughter everywhere and see happy guests enjoying their family holiday in Cornwall by the pool or with a game of Golf outside. We had also organised another fantastic holiday entertainment programme for the Whitsun half term including Scuba Dive taster sessions and tennis coaching for kids.
On Tuesday we celebrated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with some special events. Our Hobby Club had made most of the bunting throughout the week and Sands' Restaurant was decorated with matching flags, napkins, plates and more.
In the afternoon children took part in our Royal Fancy Dress competition. The most amazing costumes could be found and you can see a photo of the lucky winner and other contestants below.
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Hello,guys! Its a long time since I wrote this blog, right? Well, Tsuki The Wolf isn't just about wolves, but my pets, animals and yes, my life. Now I'm gonna introduce my cats...
Tiger,Queen Of The House.
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NewerTech announces 300GB RAID drive
updated 01:00 pm EDT, Thu June 26, 2008
NewrTech-Guardian MAXimus
Newertech has announced its Guardian MAXimus RAID-1 Mirror triple interface model. The FireWire 800/400+USB 2.0 drive has two 300GB 10,000RPM drives in a RAID-1 (mirror) for redundant, high-speed storage. The company claims data rates up to 100MB per second and utilizes Western Digital VelociRaptor SATA drives. The MAXimus is ready for Time Machine and geared toward Audio/Video and photo editing, as well as 3D rendering projects. The drive is available immediately for $900 and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 and later (as well as legacy Macs on OS 8.6-9.2), requiring Mac OS X 10.2 and later for FireWire 800 and USB 2.0.
The MAXimus includes a $200 retail value software package of ProSoft Engineering Data Backup 3, NovaStor NovaBACKUP, and Intech SpeedTools Utilities.
The drive features a 16MB drive cache and they attach via a custom Oxford 924 Based Bridge Solution with two FireWire 800 ports, one FireWire 400 port and one USB 2.0 port (backward compatible with USB 1.1). The two mirrored 300GB drives, each offering up to 1.4 million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure), allow the Guardian MAXimus to exceed enterprise-class standards for reliability.
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I'm a female currently in the market for my first snowboard. I've been boarding for about 7 or so years. But I would still consider myself to be an intermediate/beginner. I've been renting my whole life. It's finally time for me to get my own board!
So obviously I've only been riding rental camber boards. But I know that I want a rocker board. Or at least a board with some rocker.
I'm goofy. As far as my skills level goes, I can get myself down the mountain, but on heelside alone. My toeside is pretty bad. I'm working on improving so I can start carving. Another part of it is I get scared of catching an edge. Partly because I don't wear a helmet (I will from now on) and partly because my rentals never feel comfortable. My boots and/or bindings never feel secure. When I switch to toe, my right heel always feels like it's going to fall out!
I don't plan on going to the park anytime soon. Probably looking for an all mountain board. Also looking to grow with my board. A true twin board is a plus too, seeing that I can ride both goofy and regular. But tend to stick to goofy because I'm just so used to it. I typically board only in the East coast mainly.
Here are the boards I'm looking at. I'm tired of going back a forth on this and I just need advice!
Ride OMG
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Ride Rapture
Burton Deja Vu
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Hillview Peak Condo
Kingsford Hillview Peak is a luxurious condominium located in the quiet enclave of Hillview Avenue, well surrounded by natural reserves. Residents can relax in scenic green spots, with the development nestled between Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Bukit Batok Town Park, Dairy Farm Nature Park and the Central Catchment Nature Reserve.
Kingsford Hillview Peak offers a unique combination where it offers easy accessibility, awesome views, premium fittings and great convenience to daily amenities. The development offers efficient, flexible layouts and high ceiling of 3.6 metres. Right next door is HillV2, a 550,000 sq ft, shopping mall with full-serviced retailer The Marketplace by Cold Storage and many restaurants that will provide a great dining experience.
The upcoming Hillview MRT station along the Downtown Line 2, is only 200 metres when completed in 2015, connecting residents to the Central Business District and Marina Bay area. It is also well-connected to major expressways like the BKE and PIE. Junction 10, West Mall and the Jurong Lake District, which is slated to be Singapore's next big leisure and business destination, are also within close proximity.
Hillview Peak Condo Details
Kingsford Development Pte Ltd
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What Do You Need To Know about Lacey Garage Door Repair?
Much like any other mechanism in your home that operates through the use of moving parts, a garage door is essential to the day to day life of a Lacey resident. As time wears on and your garage door starts to wear down and show signs of overuse, it becomes important to call a garage door repair specialist in Lacey, WA, so that your door can continue to operate at its full capacity. Don't wait for your garage door to break down completely, garage door repair Lacey, WA has never been more accessible.
Sometimes, all a door needs are some small repairs. That's why Lacey residents should be sure to have their garage doors checked on a regular basis. By calling a garage door repair expert, Lacey, WA citizens can rest assured, knowing their garage door has been properly maintained.
If you let a small problem fester until it becomes a larger issue, what once was a minuscule repair bill becomes much larger, especially if it becomes necessary to have your door replaced.
While your garage door's problems may seem small and easily fixable on your own, unless you have experience in this field, it is best to call a garage door repair Lacey, WA tech to fix the problem for you. Many times, a homeowner can believe they've fixed the problem, when in reality, all they have done is make it worse or done nothing to fix it.
Garage door repair Lacey, WA is crucial, as your garage door is the most prominent entrance in your home. If your garage door becomes compromised, Lacey residents leave themselves, their families and their valuables vulnerable to criminal behavior. This is especially true in cases where the garage has been built as an addition to the actual home itself.
If it's not the criminals trying to steal your belongings, the animals that can get into your house are even more dangerous. Waking up to insects and vermin in your garage is unpleasant to say the least. These pests can bring bacteria and germs into your home that could be potentially life threatening, making your garage door all the more vital.
A garage door repair service Lacey, WA will get your garage door up to date with all of the latest equipment. Make sure your garage door stays equipped with state of the art technology and be able to come and go without worrying about the shape your door is in.
Lacey residents, have you been noticing a change in your garage door's performance? Do not hesitate to call a garage door repair Lacey, WA and nip this problem in the bud. Be sure to call now and make an appointment to have your garage door inspected. It may be the most important call you can make.


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Doctor Peter Khamvongsa perform Botox injections and Dysport injections in his Women's Health Center in Miami.
Botox® and Dysport® injections are one of the most common cosmetic enhancements used today in relation to anti-aging, wrinkles, crow's feet, frown lines, and many other age related facial changes.
Botox® and Dysport® are medicines that relax muscles by inhibiting the secretion of acetylcholine needed for muscle contraction. It has been used for the past (25) years to treat such medical conditions as cervical dystonia, TMJ, and other neuromuscular disorders.
As you grow older your skin becomes less elastic due to the loss of collagen and reduced vascularization of tissues. Wrinkles (rhytids) occur when certain muscles become more dominant and the skin does not have the ability to be as elastic in response to these muscle contractions. In addition, muscles become constrictive and naturally form creases and rhytid. Dynamic rhytids (not a crease of the skin) can be eliminated or lessened by relaxing the dominant muscle as it competes against either an inferior muscle or in constricting skin elasticity. This is why certain patients of differing ages start to form wrinkles at different times as compared to other individuals.
Because muscles of the face are relatively small, it is necessary to introduce the medicine by injection so that the exact placement and the effect is achieved. By introducing the medicine into the exact muscle group responsible for the wrinkling, various aesthetic enhancements can be obtained in addition to elimination of the rhytids. Wrinkles of the forehead, crows feet, frown lines, and eyebrow shaping is easily achieved. Other specialty injections for gummy smiles, dimpled chin, bunny lines, vertical lip lines, and sad smile can be performed with Botox® and Dysport®.
Botox® and Dysport® are safe drugs that has a long history of use. You will see the rejuvenating effects and visible reduction of wrinkles and be happy with a younger looking you! Depending upon your own metabolism and receiving regular treatments it can last for (3) months or longer. Individualized Botox and Dysport treatments created specially for you, in our Miami clinic, are painless and take particular attention not to cause bruising and look natural.


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November 29, 2015
A once forgotten Pike County cemetery linked to the Hatfields and McCoys feud has been cleared and open to the public.
It is where Frank Phillips and his wife Nancy McCoy Hatfield Phillips are buried.
Officials cleared a road up to the cemetery in hopes it will be added to the historical registers and it will also give Hatfield McCoy tourists another place to visit.
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Friday.
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Not all of the students in the Next Step UW program, which is for young people with developmental disabilities, thought their effort would be successful when they first talked about starting their own business making hand-tied blankets and beaded key chains and bookmarks called Spirit Lincs.
"I was a little skeptical about it at first," said 21-year-old Alec Konvalinka, who didn't think people would buy the products. "But now I think it's a good idea."
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Solving Brainstorming's Loudmouth Problem
The most dominant person in a group likely won't have the best ideas. So how can you get everyone to be creative?
One problem with people is that they're loud.
As Leigh Thompson notes in Fortune, in your standard four-person group, two people will do 62% of the talking, while in a six-person group, three people will do 70% of the talking.
This "uneven communication problem," the Kellogg professor and Creative Conspiracy author observes, springs from a particularly extroversive form of unmindfulness.
The dominant people think the meetings are egalitarian. They lack self-awareness. And this portends a negative spiral, she notes:
The dominant people begin to feel that the silent people are unprepared or simply don't have any opinions, so they dominate more; similarly, the quiet folks feel that it is futile to try to be heard, so they stop trying.
As we've learned before, the loudest person isn't the one with the best ideas. What we need then, Thompson says, is to skillfully neutralize the too-dominant people and encourage the too-submissive people.
Enter: brainwriting
You already know brainstorming, which has (appropriately) caught some heat. Brainstorming's function is to generate buckets of ideas, but as Thompson's research suggests, the aperture of that idea creation gets contracted by overly dominant and submissive personalities.
The key, then, is to circumvent that ever-befuddling interplay between introverts and extroverts. One way to do that is with the written word. Thompson calls it brainwriting—"the simultaneous written generation of ideas."
Over at Inc., the Build team breaks the process into three steps:
1) Just one sentence
At the beginning of the session, everybody has a stack of small index cards in front of them. Set a timer. Then each person writes one idea or solution on each card—beware the paragraph.
2) Focus on the idea, not the author
Then, after said timer goes off, gather the cards anonymously. Then stick them to a wall or a whiteboard—free of any guessing at or confessing of authorship.
"A shy person, a new person, a young person, they don't have to worry that they're going to get interrupted," Thompson told HBR. "When I do brain writing, I have two rules, no guessing and no confessions. So I don't want anybody to sign their name on a card. That's the no confessions. And when we tap the cards on the wall or thumb tack them on the wall, I don't want anyone guessing who said what."
3) Make a blind vote
Then, finally, you can vote for whatever idea (on whatever tiny index card) by marking it with a sticker. Everybody gets the same limited number of stickers, allowing the best ideas to rise to the top.
"It should really be a meritocracy of ideas," Thompson says. "In other words, I shouldn't be voting for the CMO's idea; I should be voting for an idea that I really think is going to be exciting for our company or organization."
In this way, the uneven communication problem gets evened out. The spiral—having been written out, stuck on a wall, and stickered—goes upward.
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The most important point is that you allow for brainwriting first. That said, being able to recognize handwriting is a potential problem. Consider using Teamput (http://www.teamput.com), a cloud-based sticky-note app that integrates brainwriting, voting, and collaboration. You can toggle names on/off so nobody will be able to identify the person attached to an idea when voting.
Except that the ideas written on a card can be identifiable by handwriting (or lack thereof). Better to transfer it to a digital slide or other uniform, homogeneous format before voting on it's merit.
More important than having ones handwriting being known is that going directly to a vote (or 'mult-ivote') misses an important step and that is 'sharing intelligence.' What I mean here is that having two intermediary steps between idea generation and voting may serve better decision-making. Here me out. First, helping the group to determine 3 - 5 criteria (i.e. supports our strategic goal, will significantly impact all stakeholders positively, etc.) as to what might make a choice better than another may help to focus the group towards a better choice. Second, having a robust discussion as a large group (going round-robin) to discuss which choices meet the criteria the best has the chance of clarifying what people wrote as well as raise the intelligence level of those who have limited understanding of the choices and their impact. Following this, having the vote as Drake pointed out would be the final step. Food for thought for enhancing ultimate buy-in.


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Soaring like an eagle on the gentle zephyrs of a Southside summer, it was as though an egotistical hot rod jet jockey appeared out of nowhere, flashed across my path, and sent me into a tailspin.The president of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful armed forces ever assembled, the guy with his finger on the mother of all buttons informed me that I am a sinner. Yikes! I had no idea. Mind you, he didn't call me on the phone or send an email. He said categorically of the entire human race, "We are all sinners." George, pal, buddy, don't you think you might be drifting a wee bit beyond the bailiwick assigned you by the Supreme Court? I know you believe it as much as you are capable of forming an opinion about anything prior to input from your handlers or direction from public opinion polls. But perhaps a little "don't ask, don't tell" regarding your increasingly frightening religiosity may be in order. (By the by, how ennobling it is for our country to have its president finally take responsibility for his State of the Union speech following the outcry of an American public appalled at its leader's refusal to accept responsibility. A moral beacon, indeed!) But I digress. Fully aware the application of critical thought to a faith-based assertion is illogical, I am nonetheless compelled to do so because I am fundamentally a thinking being. "We are all sinners." At some point in his life Bush is said to have had a religious epiphany. Following this his commitment of faith led him to accept he was born a sinner. As far as I'm concerned, that's his business n "don't ask, don't tell." He made it my business when he, the president of the United States, proclaimed, "We are all sinners." It is the nature of the faithful to believe whatever is presented as truth by their various shepherds but I am a citizen of the United States, not some sheep obliged by a commitment of faith to accept such an egregious proposition by a political leader. In asserting I am a sinner Bush made it clear his rationality is subordinate to his religiosity. He believes that the religious cannon to which he is committed applies to me by virtue of his commitment. If Bush believes in demons (and it is entirely possible he does) does this mean I am actually subject to demonic possession? This is dangerous stuff from a man with his responsibility. As Bush's worldview is admittedly faith based should we not tremble at the president's efforts to destroy the separation of church and state? I have made no leap or commitment of faith. I repudiate the faith-based assertion there are immutable moral laws. There is no such thing as sin, original or otherwise. As to why someone would acquiesce to such a position I cannot say, but as I am not out to convert anyone I feel comfortable asserting, "To each his own." Would that our president were clear-eyed enough to appreciate the rationality of this position. Original sin is not innate to the human experience. Hence the need for a commitment of faith. Bush's remark is as absurdly self-absorbed as the recent proclamation by the Vatican that, "No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman." The relationship of original sin to the human spiritual experience is analogous to that of a social contract to the spontaneous chemistry responsible for enduring love. What human presumption, aside from the self-aggrandizing act of faith, might allow a rational man to assert that his commitment of faith renders his belief system applicable to all? Nature tells us whom we love, not religious bureaucrats who represent but one of a multitude of religions whose manifold moralities are in turn collectively ignored by those whose spirituality dismisses the need for an act of faith altogether. (While it is clear I support the right of all American citizens to partake of the rights and protections afforded by governmental licensing I urge those of us who would set America on a course determined by rationalism rather than religious presumptuousness and fanaticism to avoid getting sucked into this issue at this time. We must pick our battles wisely and being diverted by the same-sex marriage issue plays directly into the hands of the religious right and the Republican Party.) America must have a president who bases his decisions on critical thought and not fantastical and arbitrary perspectives dependant upon a passionate act of faith for the illusion of coherence. R.H. Joseph is a longtime employee of the News Daily. His column appears on Wednesdays. He may be reached at (770) 478-5753, ext. 252, or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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S&P 500 Index at Inflection Points
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Note: If you were to use intraday peak and trough you get a number closer to 57% drop on S&P500 (recall the SPX 666 marker)
The chart showing % needed to recover losses and return to market peak after the jump . . .
This chart should be instructive for new investors and traders — the recovery from losses is not symmetrical:
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