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TesT & MeasureMenT Improved Radiation Meter Counter for alpha, beta and gamma radiation By Burkhard Kainka (Germany) all that's required to measure radiation is a simple PIn photodiode and a suitable preamplifier circuit. We present here an optimised preamplifier and a microcontroller-based counter. The microcontroller takes care of measuring time and pulse rate, displaying the result in counts per minute. The device we describe can be used with allowing a more detailed investigation of a comparator, and which generates output different sensors to measure gamma and the characteristics of a sample. The optional pulses that can be heard directly or pro- alpha radiation. It is particularly suitable for PC-based software displays the energy spec- cessed further. The amplifier uses a BF245B long-term measurements and for examin- trum, permitting a very detailed analysis to JFeT at its input followed by an opamp cir- ing weakly radioactive samples. The pho- be carried out. cuit, providing an overall voltage gain of todiode has a smaller sensitive area than a 30 000. at the output it delivers pulses with Geiger-Müller tube and so has a lower back- Preamplifier an amplitude of up to 200 mV with a pulse ground count rate, which in turn means that In the June 2011 issue of elektor we width of around 0.5 ms, which can be ren- the radiation from a small sample is easier described experiments using a BPW34 dered audible without further processing or to detect against the background. photodiode as a detector for gamma radia- which can be used to drive a counter. tion [1]. Only simple experiments could be The circuit (see Figure 1) can use sev- a further advantage of a semiconduc- carried out as the pulses from the detector eral photodiodes in parallel at its input. tor sensor is that is offers the possibility are very short. Here we look at an improved On the one hand, this increases the pulse of measuring the energy of each particle, preamplifier design, which avoids the use of rate; unfortunately, this advantage is on Elektor products and services • Printed circuit board: # 110538-1 • Kit (components and circuit board): # 110538-71 • PDF layout: free download at [2] • FT232R USB/Serial Bridge: # 110553-91 • Software and firmware: free download at [2] (file # 110538-11) 20 11-2011 elektor TesT & MeasureMenT Features • Measures alpha, beta and gamma radiation • Threshold configurable in software from the PC • Simple construction using standard components • Two different types of sensor can be used • PC connection using Elektor FT232R USB/Serial bridge the other hand offset by BF245B's source resistor, more or less inde- the gate of the JFeT being pulled to ground the reduced amplitude pendent of the supply voltage. If a BF245C through a 20 MΩ resistance. of the sensor's output is used, this voltage will be higher; in the due to its increased total case of a BF245a, lower. This voltage level The counter capacitance. is a suitable operating point for the opamp. The pulse counter is constructed using an The JFeT input offers good signal-to-noise The capacitance of the photodiode drops aTmega88 and a two-line LCD. The power ratio and a high input impedance. a DC as the voltage across it increases, and so it supply voltage of 9 V to 12 V is taken via D1 level of about 2 V or 3 V appears across the is operated at the full supply voltage, with (for reverse polarity protection) to voltage R1 R2 R11 1M 1k 100R C1 C6 C7 100n D1 T1 100u 100u BPW34 IC1 = LM358N BF245 3 8 3 K2 1 5 IC1.A 2 R6 7 COUNTER 2 C4 IC1.B 6 R8 330k C5 R14 4 47p 330k 1 47p GND 10M R3 R4 R5 R7 4k7 10k 10M 10k C2 C3 100n 100n +5V IC2 LCD1 D2 7805 K8 1N4004 2 C9 7 20 1 21 VCC AVCC 100n AREF 9V IC4 VCC VSS DB0 DB1 DB2 DB3 DB4 DB5 DB6 DB7 R/W VO RS 1 A C E PC6(RESET/PCINT14) K1 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 L+ L- 3 PC5(ADC5/SCL/PCINT13) 27 2 COUNTER PC4(ADC4/SDA/PCINT12) 26 PC3(ADC3/PCINT11) 5R6 1 GND C8 25 2 PC2(ADC2/PCINT10) PD0(RXD/PCINT16) 24 3 R13 PC1(ADC1/PCINT9) PD1(TXD/PCINT17) 10u ATMEGA88 23 4 K4 PC0(ADC0/PCINT8) PD2(INT0/PCINT18) 2 5 PD3(INT1/OC2B/PCINT19) 1 19 6 PB5(SCK/PCINT5) PD4(T0/XCK/PCINT20) K6 18 11 OUT PB4(MISO/PCINT4) PD5(T1/OC0B/PCINT21) 1 3 5 17 12 PB3(MOSI/OC2A/PCINT3) PD6(AIN0/OC0A/PCINT22) S1 16 13 PB2(SS/OC1B/PCINT2) PD7(AIN1/PCINT23) 15 PB1(OC1A/PCINT1) 2 4 6 14 PB0(ICP1/CLKO/PCINT0) ZERO ISP R10 R9 R12 K7 GND XTAL1 XTAL2 AGND K3 1 470R 470R 100R RXD 8 9 10 22 +5V K5 TXD LED1 GND Backlight 2 Elektor BOB SPK 110538 - 11 Figure 1. Circuit diagram of the preamplifier and microcontroller board. elektor 11-2011 21 TesT & MeasureMenT COMPONENT LIST Resistors Semiconductors r1 = 1MΩ D1 = BPW34 r2 = 1kΩ D2 = 1n4001 r3,r14 = 10MΩ D3 = LeD, 5mm, green r4 = 4.7kΩ IC1 = aTmega88Pa-Pu (atmel), programmed r5, r7 = 10kΩ IC2 = LM358n r6,r8 = 330kΩ IC3 = 78L05 sound starts to get annoying. r9,r10 = 470Ω T1 = BF245B The unprocessed signal is also taken to con- r11,r12 = 100Ω r13 = 5.6Ω Miscellaneous nector K4 via C8. This can be wired to a BnC s1 = pushbutton, 1 make contact socket for to allow, for example, connection Capacitors K1–K8 = pinheader, e.g. Te-Connectivity type of an oscilloscope. alternatively, an audio C1,C2,C3,C9 = 100nF 3-826926-6 amplifier can be connected, in which case C4,C5 = 47pF LCD1 = DeM16217, elektor shop # 030451-72 particles of different energies will be distin- C6,C7 = 100µF 16V C8 = 10µF 16V guishable by their sounds. Printed circuit board The printed circuit board for the project 110538-1 K6 (Figure 2) comes in two sections. The sen- V1.22 sor board can be separated from the main (c) Elektor part and connected using a three-core ISP C9 SPK R10 cable. This allows the sensor to be mounted more easily in a light-tight enclosure. K5 IC1 ATMEGA88 R9 D3 The LCD and pushbutton are mounted on K8 the reverse of the board; all other compo- C8 nents are mounted on the top side. sen- K4 9V I O D2 - R13 R12 OUT sor D1 can be mounted on whichever side IC3 of the board is more convenient, bearing in mind how the unit will subsequently be K1 Backlight mounted in its enclosure. 1 K3 The circuit is best tested first without the sensor diode fitted. The output of the 1 (c) Elektor C3 opamp circuit should be a mid-level DC R4 IC2 C2 Sensor T1 R14 K2 R11 32 1 C5 voltage, and the input should be so sensi- C4 R2 D1 R1 tive that even moving a finger near it will R7 R8 R3 C1 C6 R6 trigger the counter. R5 C7 110538-2 V1.21 The sensor can now be mounted: Figure 3 shows it mounted on the reverse of the board. The sensitive area of the device is Figure 2. Printed circuit boards for the radiation meter. then under the lower right side of the board. It is important to ensure that the BPW34 photodiode is fully shielded from incident light and that the circuit area around the regulator IC2, a 78L05, which generates the level and any incoming pulses that exceed diode is carefully screened. During con- 5 V supply for the microcontroller and the this level by at least a preset amount are struction fit a small piece of black insulating sensor circuit. There is an IsP connector on counted. Button s1 starts a new measure- tape under the photodiode: this will block the board to make software updates easy ment without resetting the stored quies- light that might otherwise pass through the and there is a further connector to which cent level: this lets you first set the quies- not-quite-opaque printed circuit board. Fig- a serial interface can be attached to allow cent level with the sensor not pointing at ure 4 shows the component side of the pop- transfer of data and settings to and from the the sample of interest, and then start the ulated prototype board. PC (K7). The rXD and TXD signals on this measurement proper with the sensor in aluminium foil can be used to screen the connector are at TTL levels and compatible position. area around the photodiode, on both sides with the FT232r usB serial bridge breakout any pulse that is counted also results in a of the board. The foil should be connected board ('BOB') published in the september visible indication on the LeD and on output to ground. This will give good shielding 2011 issue of Elektor. K5, where a small loudspeaker can be con- against both light and interference that The sensor amplifier is attached at connec- nected for an audible indication. any loud- could otherwise lead to false counts. Fur- tor K1. Its output signal, which is super- speaker with an impedance of between 8 Ω ther pieces of insulating tape can be used imposed on a quiescent DC level, is taken and 32 Ω can be used, although it is a good under the aluminium foil to prevent shorts directly to the aDC0 analogue input of idea to wire it in series with a volume con- to the rest of the circuit. The foil should be the microcontroller. at start-up the micro- trol (a 1 kΩ potentiometer with a logarith- fitted tightly over the photodiode, as other- controller determines the quiescent DC mic taper) in case after a while the ticking wise it is possible accidentally to construct 22 11-2011 elektor TesT & MeasureMenT Figure 3. Components mounted Figure 4. Component side of the boards. on the reverse of the circuit boards. a condenser microphone, with the counter active sample. Place a sample, for example through. However, we can replace the responding to loud noises! The connection of a suitable mineral, directly in front of the BPW34 with a BPX61, with the glass win- to the foil can be made, for example, using sensor. any gamma radiation emitted by dow removed. The photodiode itself is now a bolt with two washers. the sample will give rise to pulses clearly vis- completely exposed and alpha particles can We can now test the operation of the board ible above the background noise level. each now be detected, resulting in signals with with the photodiode in its light-tight enclo- pulse whose amplitude exceeds a certain an amplitude some ten times greater than sure. a DC level of about 2 V to 3 V should level will be counted. The threshold level those produced by gamma rays. The same appear at its output. This serves to check can be adjusted later in the software. If you sensor amplifier can be used, but it must Measuring radiation using a common-or-garden photodiode that there is indeed no light falling on the do not have a suitable sample to hand, all now be separated from the counter board photodiode: if the operating point of the you need to do is wait: after a few minutes and mounted in its own light-tight screened circuit is too high, this means that some at the most a cosmic ray will impinge on the box. The sample to be examined must be light is probably getting in. When every- sensor and be counted (see Figure 5, Fig- placed inside the box next to the sensor, thing appears to be working satisfactorily, ure 6 and Figure 7). as even one layer of aluminium foil is thick it should be possible to use an oscilloscope enough to impede alpha particles. to observe background noise with an ampli- Alpha particles a small abrasive disc mounted in a hobby tude of around 5 mVpp. The BPW34 comes in a plastic package drill can be used to remove the glass win- The unit can now be tested with a radio- which is too thick to allow alpha particles dow from the BPX61. The job has to be done Figure. Measuring the background count Figure 6. an individual pulse. Figure 7. Background noise and the rate: 0.33 pulses per minute is normal. desired signal. elektor 11-2011 23 TesT & MeasureMenT Listing 1: Averaging readings and setting M = M + 1 the trigger threshold Count = N Count = Count / M Readeeprom L , 1 Locate 2 , 10 If L = 255 Then L = 10 Lcd Count U = 0 Lcd " " For N = 1 To 1000 End If D = Getadc(0) Locate 1 , 10 U = U + D Lcd N Next N Locate 2 , 1 U = U / 1000 Lcd M Um = U Lcd ":" U0 = Um + L Lcd S N = 0 Lcd " " Listing 2: Listing 4: Detecting a pulse Processing the received energy values Do Private Sub Timer1_Timer() Max = U0 While INBUFFER() > 0 Do d = READBYTE() D = Getadc(0) bin(d) = bin(d) + 1 Loop Until D > U0 Wend Figure 8. screening. Portb.0 = 1 For n = 1 To 255 Portb.1 = 1 x1 = 2 * n If D > Max Then Max = D x2 = 2 * n + 2 reasonably easy to understand. The output Do y1 = 200 - bin(n) voltage from the preamplifier in the qui- D = Getadc(0) y2 = 200 - bin(n + 1) escent state is about 2 V, on top of which If D > Max Then Max = D If y1 > 255 Then y1 = 255 we see the sensor pulses. In order to count Loop Until D < U0 If y2 > 255 Then y2 = 255 these pulses we need to use some kind of N = N + 1 Picture1.Line (x1, y1)- comparator, and the aTmega is fast enough Max = Max - Um (x2, y2) to do this job in software. at start-up the If Max > 255 Then Max = Next n unit computes an average background sig- 255 End Sub nal level by averaging 1000 readings (see Print Chr(max); Listing 1). The averaged value u is then Portb.0 = 0 increased by a trigger threshold increment Portb.1 = 0 Listing 5: L to produce a threshold u0 which gives Loop Setting the trigger threshold adequate margin over background noise Private Sub Command2_Click() for reliable counting. l = HScroll1.Value During the measurement itself (Listing 2) Listing 3: SENDBYTE l the output of the software comparator Timer processing and LCD output End Sub is also used to drive digital output ports Tim1_isr: PortB.0 and PortB.1. an LeD is connected to Timer1 = -7812 Private Sub Command4_Click() pin B.0 to give a brief flash of light for every S = S + 1 l = 100 + HScroll1.Value pulse detected. an small loudspeaker can If S = 60 Then SENDBYTE l be connected to B.1 with a resistor or a vol- S = 0 End Sub ume control potentiometer in series. The maximum level achieved by each pulse is also measured and output as a single byte over the serial interface, to which a PC can extremely carefully as any damage to the peaks, up to 2 V, corresponding to alpha be connected. This single-byte format is diode itself or to its bonding wires spells particles. smaller peaks can also be seen: chosen so that no extra time is wasted in doom for the device. a lidded tin makes a the BPX61 is, like the BPW34, sensitive to data transmission. as a consequence the good screened enclosure (Figure 8). The gamma rays too. Hence we can discriminate maximum pulse height that can be reported metal must be connected to signal ground between the two types of radiation on the is 1.25 V, which corresponds to a byte value so that it provides electrical shielding as well basis of the pulse amplitude. of 255. Pulses of greater amplitude than this as screening from ambient light. The lid must are clipped to the maximum value. of course be fitted before any readings can Firmware The display continuously shows the current be taken. The firmware is available for free download counter value, updated once per second The oscilloscope shows high-amplitude at [2]. It is written in BasCOM-aVr and is (Listing 3). accompanying this on the lower 24 11-2011 elektor TesT & MeasureMenT Figure 9. The alpha spectrum of a sample Figure 10. Gamma radiation: pitchblende Figure 11. Beta particle measurements of pitchblende. behind a piece of aluminium foil. from a potassium chloride sample. line of the display is the total time elapsed ure 9). The higher energy values are due readings over a long period using the BPX61 since the beginning of the measurement, to alpha particles: because of the relatively and a small sample of potassium chloride. shown in minutes and seconds. at the end thick sample used these tend to lose a lot Ordinary potassium chloride contains a of each full minute the program calculates of their energy on their way to the sensor, small percentage of radioactive potas- the count rate in pulses per minute. and so no sharp energy lines are seen with sium-40. some 90 % of the disintegrations The sensitivity of the unit depends chiefly this sample. When looking only at gamma produce beta particles with energies of up on the threshold setting for the compara- rays using the BPW34 the higher energy to 1.3 MeV; the other 10 % produce gamma tor. This is initially set at ten a/D conversion levels are empty; when alpha particles quanta with energies of 1.5 MeV. The beta steps above the quiescent level, but the are detected they usually have an energy spectrum shows a characteristic falling-off value can be modified if desired using the beyond the range of the display, which in energy up to a clearly-visible maximum Measuring background radiation serial interface. a threshold of three steps accounts for the sharp peak seen at the value, while the gamma spectrum takes has proved a good compromise, giving reli- maximum energy value. the form of a sharp line. The result is the able pulse counting while still being above Listing 4 shows the main timer routine. In full spectrum shown in Figure 11, demon- the background noise level. To change the this routine all the bytes found in the input strating that the photodiode is capable of threshold simply send a single byte to the buffer are read in and processed. For each detecting alpha, beta and gamma radiation. unit over the serial port. Values of up to 100 byte one element of the array 'bin' is incre- (110538) are used immediately as the new threshold mented and then the results are displayed Internet Links value. If you wish to store the new threshold graphically. [1] www.elektor.com/110372 as the default value in the microcontroller's The program also allows the trigger thresh- eePrOM, add 100 to the value before send- old to be set to any value from 2 to 100. The [2] www.elektor.com/110538 ing it. In this case the new setting does value can be used immediately or stored in not take immediate effect. so, for exam- eePrOM (Listing 5). ple, sending the byte value 103 will set the alpha particles can easily be filtered out, for threshold after the next reset to three. example by placing a piece of aluminium foil Kit of parts in front of the 'naked' BPX61. Doing this a kit of parts is available for this project, PC software considerably reduces the energy spectrum containing the printed circuit board and The Visual Basic program alphaGamma obtained from a sample of pitchblende all components including a pre-pro- (available for free download at [2]) receives (Figure 10). grammed microcontroller. a suitable incoming bytes over the serial port and Beta particles also produce measurable sig- display can also be purchased. Prices counts them in 255 bins. after a while col- nals. The pulse amplitude they produce is and further information can be obtained lecting these values it becomes apparent generally similar to that which results from from the web pages accompanying this which energy levels are particularly com- gamma radiation, and it is therefore difficult article at [2] and in the 'shop' pages at mon in the incident radiation. The energy to distinguish between the two. To test for the back of this issue. spectrum is plotted in a simple graph (Fig- beta particle sensitivity it is possible to take elektor 11-2011 25
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NFL Homophobia Revealed: Football Is a 'Man's-Man Game'
The league's remarks about Michael Sam aren't just anti-gay; they are employment discrimination.
If the quality cited as reason to discriminate was something else—say, race—such comments would likely open the NFL up to a serious lawsuit.
If ever there was a perfect example of how employment discrimination against gay people operates on a day-to-day basis—and why Congress needs to outlaw such discrimination—the National Football League just provided it.
Following SEC Defensive Player of the Year Michael Sam's announcement that he is gay, the league issued an official statement saying: "We admire Michael Sam's honesty and courage. Michael is a football player. Any player with ability and determination can succeed in the NFL. We look forward to welcoming and supporting Michael Sam in 2014."
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The Mitt Romney campaign released a new ad suggesting what day one of a Romney presidency would be like.
The Politics of the Keystone XL Pipeline
President Barack Hussein Obama, in order to extend the payroll tax cut he favored, was forced to make a decision regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline by February 21, 2012. Legislation, passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate, required that the Keystone XL Pipeline go forward unless Obama declared that it was not in the national interest. Obama did that Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Then, in an amazing display of chutzpah, he blamed Republicans for forcing him to make the decision. He says that Republicans "forced his hand" to make the decision. Obama said, "I'm disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision…."
Representative Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said: "Canada is going to develop this no matter what, and that oil is either going to come to the United States or it's going to go to a place like China. We want it here."
After announcing his decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline that killed 20,000 jobs, Obama went to DisneyWorld to promote tourism jobs. Ironic? With Cinderella's castle as his backdrop, Obama said: "America is open for business." He then went up to NYC, to Manhattan, for campaign fundraisers, charging up to $38,500 per partier. On the same day he killed the Keystone project, Obama released his first campaign ad of 2012, highlighting his record on energy jobs. Even more ironically, the ad touted his ethics record. And as the outrage over the Solyndra scandal (and others) grows, Obama had the nerve to sprinkle his inaugural campaign spot with solar panels.
And here are reactions from Democrats about Obama's Keystone XL Pipeline decision:
Keystone XL Pipeline Rejected
Obama announced that he will deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and blamed Republicans for imposing a "rushed and arbitrary deadline" which he said did not give officials enough time. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the "arbitrary deadline" made an adequate review "virtually impossible." Obama said that his decision was not based on the "merits" of the plan, but on the forced timeline. "As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline's impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment,†Obama said. "As a result, the Secretary of State has recommended that the application be denied. And after reviewing the State Department's report, I agree." But the State Department has been reviewing the initial proposal for three years.
Conservative and Industry Reaction To Cancellation
Jack N. Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said: "How can you say you are for jobs and reject the largest shovel-ready project in America today? Mr. President, what are you thinking?" Kevin Book, an energy analyst at Clearview Energy Partners, said that even an approval in 2013 could still have "important implications for North American supply" because it would establish a six- or seven-year process for approval of pipelines that cross national borders. US Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Thomas Donohue said: "This political decision offers hard evidence that creating jobs is not a high priority for this administration." He continued, "By placing politics over policy, the Obama administration is sacrificing tens of thousands of good-paying American jobs in the short term, and many more than that in the long term."
Keystone's rejection will "sell American energy security to the Chinese," a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said on January 18, 2012, that President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to create jobs by rejecting a plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said: "Keystone was an obvious choice: everybody in Washington says they want more American jobs now. Well, here's the single largest shovel-ready project in America – ready to go… The labor unions like it. Democrats want it. It strengthens our national security by decreasing the amount of oil we get from unfriendly countries. And it wouldn't cost the taxpayers a dime. The only thing standing between thousands of American workers, and the good jobs this project will provide is President Obama.â€
Environmentalist Reaction To Cancellation
Environmental advocates, disappointed with his failure to achieve climate change legislation, and his decision to delay new smog standards, have made it clear that approval of the pipeline would weaken enthusiasm for Obama's re-election bid. Some liberal donors even threatened to stop donations to Obama's re-election campaign to protest the project, which they say would transport "dirty oil" that requires huge amounts of energy to extract.
Bill McKibben, a Vermont writer and environmentalist, said that the victory [Keystone XL Pipeline rejection] is a tribute to people who set aside their natural cynicism about the possibility of change, instead went to jail, wrote public comments, surrounded the White House shoulder to shoulder five deep. They managed to bring reality to the forefront, and that reality – the leaky pipeline, the oil destined for export, the carbon overload from the tar sands – managed to trump, for now, the bottomless pockets of the fossil fuel industry.
Union Reaction To Cancellation
If he rejects the pipeline, Obama risks losing support from organized labor, a key part of the Democratic base, for thwarting thousands of jobs. Brent Bookers, director of construction at the Laborers' International Union of North America, said: "For many members of the Laborers, this project is not just a pipeline, it is a lifeline. Too many hard-working Americans are out of work, and the Keystone XL pipeline will change that dire situation for thousands of them."
LaborUnionReport.com weighed in on the Keystone XL Pipeline controversy, vowing not to forget Obama's betrayal of killing 20,000 jobs. The web site continued, "For more than three years, the State Department has conducted its "transparent, thorough, and rigorous review." However, apparently, the Obama Administration believed that three years wasn't enough to be transparent, thorough, or rigorous enough." Christopher Helman, in Forbes, said: "In the process of selecting the proposed route, TransCanada plotted and studied 14 different pipeline paths and submitted 10,000 pages of environmental studies. They've already studied this thing to death."
Obama's purely ideological decision does not serve the national interest at all. Obama's decision harm – not help – the nation's interests since China will be the likely recipient of the Canadian oil. Additionally his decision will be the destruction of 20,000 union jobs.
For a synopsis of the Keystone XL Pipeline, including several information links, see this link.
His decision harms our relationship with Canada and sends the message that the US is not serious about reducing its dependency on unstable and hostile sources of the oil that we need to power our economy.
But that's just my opinion.
Access to other articles like this one can be found at RWNO, my personal web site.
Yesterday the Obama administration announced he was declining the Keystone XL pipeline application due to the Republicans setting an "unreasonable timeline" of February 21, 2012 for a decision. That George W. Bush, still causing problems for Obama!!! Obama wanted to put it off until after the 2012 elections so he could continue to draw campaign money from both sides. As it is now, he will only get money from the "environmental" nut cases unless the supporters of the pipeline are willing to pay him for a favorable decision after he gets re-elected in November (snicker!!!).
This decision has all the markings of his pledge before the 2008 election to "fundamentally transform" the United States of America. Remember when he said that he would bankrupt the coal companies and that energy prices would "necessarily skyrocket"? Here we are, a chance to keep that campaign pledge to his left wing zealots who want to see America become a Third world hell hole dictatorship. Remember when he closed off all drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, ignored a court order to resume permits, and sent $4 billion to a George Soros invested company in Brazil so we could be "their best customer"?
As Obama once again applies his "laser focus on jobs" we see the prospect of 5,000 immediate jobs, 20,000 jobs over the next few years, and the potential 200,000 long term jobs fizzle in an orgy of pandering to his left-wing base. Of course, there is the magnificent prospect of the unemployment payments that will actually rescue our economy. This came from that paragon of economic brain trusts, Nancy Pelosi. Remember when she said that every dollar of unemployment payments generates $1.87 to the economy? That is very good news indeed. There certainly isn't any sense in losing such an economic boost by providing thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of jobs. We once again see our country being taken down the road to financial ruin by those desiring to rule rather than govern. This is not new as we have seen what the radicals who have taken over the Democrat Party have been doing for several years.
Environmental groups opposed the pipeline saying it could harm the Oglala Reservoir under Nebraska. That is a huge concern to all of us I am sure. There is no doubt this pipeline will do as much damage to the environment as the Alaska Pipeline did to the tundra and the herds of deer, moose, elk and whatever. I have read many stories about the Alaska pipeline and the results of that coming "environmental disaster". If I remember right, and I don't have the stories before me, the herds are thriving because the heat from the pipeline is keeping the grass growing under it without damaging the permafrost. The food being provided by the vegetation in what was a total wasteland in winter, not to mention the heat off the pipes providing warmth for the herds, is actually increasing the numbers of animals.
The big question is what are the Republicans in Congress going to do about this situation? Yesterday we heard Republicans come out and denounce the decision with tough talk and big words, but will they actually do anything to reverse this decision? I have my doubts. As a matter of fact, I will be bold enough to say "No, they won't!!!" The leadership in the Republican Party is so weak and so busy being "civil" and "reaching across the aisle to work with our Democrat friends" that I don't expect them to do any more than they have done with the stimulus, TARP, debt ceiling, etc.
Unless We the People elect true conservatives in November we will continue to lose our freedoms daily. We used to lose a freedom here and there but now we see them disappearing in droves. It seems as if every piece of legislation that comes out, unread of course, takes another freedom away from us.
Obama and members of both political parties in Congress are combining to destroy what was once the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. Our economic security, our physical security, and or liberty are all being taken from us by those who got elected by promising a better life for all Americans. If it isn't already too late November will be the pivotal point of my lifetime. If we don't make drastic changes, assuming Obama allows elections in November, we will lose what is left of our liberty.
We can't just blindly vote for Republicans as they have proven to be unreliable, and as dangerous as Democrats. Only 22 of the 87 freshmen TEA Party members elected to the House of Representatives in 2010 voted against the debt ceiling increase last fall. If we have another freshman class like that in 2012 we are doomed to a lifetime of tyranny. Our future is at stake and the Keystone XL Pipeline permit denial is just one more nail in the coffin of the Republic of the United States of America.
I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.
Bob Russell
Claremore, Oklahoma
January 18, 2011
The phrase "couldn't find their butts with both hands tied behind their backs" comes to mind as I analyze the feat of stupidity undertaken by the leaders of the House and Senate in the Social Security revenue cut proposal (a.k.a. payroll tax holiday).
A news outlet I do not often quote, The New York Times, has an opinion piece that puts it succinctly:
After a long stretch of high unemployment, legislative turmoil and, in turn, slipping public approval, President Obama seemed to regain his political footing this week with the help of House Republicans, whose handling of a standoff over payroll taxes had even leading conservatives accusing them of bungling the politically charged issue.
Obama has done absolutely nothing right, yet the GOP leadership is handing him a populist issue upon which he can turn his entire campaign around.
There is no way the GOP and Conservatives can come out of a tax battle smelling like a rose when the Democrats are voting for an increase that the right is willing to vote against. Harry Reid, Barack Obama and their puppet masters have played a masterful gambit and Senate Majority Leader McConnell and House Speaker Boehner bit – hard.
Despite the fact that the Senate passed a bill they knew would not pass the House and got on the first train out of the swamp, the Republicans stayed behind "doing their work" and will have nothing but egg on their faces for it.
The Senate bill offers a two month, 2% tax holiday on payroll social security taxes. The House bill offers the same holiday but over a year's time. The Democrats have to swallow a provision that puts the Keystone XL pipeline on the front burner.
Boehner tried to point out that the House had conferees ready to work out a compromise in joint committee over the differences in the two bills. He just asked that the Senate send their own conferees to join in the discussions so that they could work out a compromise that could be passed by both houses.
Obama came out in a press conference this week and demanded that the full House come back from vacation and vote on the Senate's plan – echoing Reid's commentary (or vice-versa – it's so hard to tell now adays).
Both plans include a push to get a decision made on the Keystone XL pipeline, an extension of unemployment benefits, the Medicare doc-fix and a payroll tax holiday – so what's the problem?
The fight isn't over whether or not a tax cut should happen, the fight has been over how to pay for it and what to include with it.
The Senate's 2-month version includes full unemployment benefit extensions at current levels. The House plan cuts the length of jobless benefits from 99 weeks to 79 weeks and requires beneficiaries without a high school diploma to seek education in order to continue receiving benefits.
A better play for the Republicans would have been to agree to the two month extension no strings attached. Then in February when we're still talking about it, mention that the GOP gave something in December, the DNC gave nothing – just as they have for the last 3 years. The democrats are all take and no give – no compromise.
Boehner and McConnell are getting played and played well. If they continue with their ill-thought strategies, it will not be long before neither are leaders of much of anything.
The US House of Representatives passed on Tuesday (December 13, 2011), despite a White House veto threat, a bill that had in it two key components: (1) it would force work to begin on the 1,700-mile-long Keystone XL oil pipeline, and (2) it would keep 160 million workers from seeing their payroll tax go up on January 1, 2012, from this year's 4.2% back to 6.2%. The bill ignores Democrat proposals to place a surtax on people earning more than $1 million annually to offset the payroll tax non-increase. Other bill provisions include renewal of expiring extra benefits for long-term jobless people, and stop a cut in doctors' Medicare reimbursements. Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, "It was dead before it got to the Senate. The Senate will not pass it."
Labor unions (Keystone XL pipeline supporters) and environmentalists (pipeline opponents) are both very big Obama supporters. On Thursday, November 10, 2011, Obama dodged a sensitive situation by deferring the decision on extending TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline. Obama punted. He delayed the decision on the pipeline by supporting the State Department's move to "seek additional information about the Keystone XL Pipeline proposal." Obama cited a need for studies of how the pipeline could avoid harming fragile lands in Nebraska when he announced in November, 2011, that work would be delayed until after the 2012 elections. The GOP bill would give the president 60 days to act or the needed work permit would be automatically granted.
Proponents of the pipeline say work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, proposed to run from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to Texas oil refineries, would create 20,000 jobs and add $20 billion to the US economy. Additionally, local businesses along the pipeline route will benefit from the 118,000 spin-off jobs the pipeline will create through increased business for local goods and service providers. Opponents say the real figure is more like 5,000 to 6,000 jobs. "This is a stick in the eye [for Democrats]," said House Democrat Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
House Republicans and dozens of House Democrats united to pass a bill in July, 2011, that would have kept the pipeline on schedule, but that bill died in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Now that the Keyustone XL pipeline has been linked with a position Democrats favor, they are outraged. Steny Hoyer said that Republicans' efforts to force a vote on the pipeline by attaching it to legislation that would extend the payroll tax cuts enacted last year was a partisan tactic that would insert a "controversial" issue into a bill it has nothing to do with. Said Hoyer, "I don't think it has any analogy to anything other than a clear, politically motivated effort to make this a controversial bill, which would appeal to some of their most conservative members who don't give one whit about compromise."
So now with the House passage of a bill attaching the pipeline to Democrat favored issues will force the Senate, and Obama since Democrat senators will do his bidding, to "get off the dime" and let Americans know where he stands.
But that's just my opinion.
President of the Constriction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO Mark Ayers seemed to support the Republican approach to growing jobs in a Tuesday press release.
Mr. Ayers first expressed that the AFL-CIO unions disagree with Obama's delay of the Keystone XL pipeline. His statement says that the unions "have been steadfast supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that is truly 'shovel-ready' and a privately funded endeavor that would put significant numbers of American skilled craft professionals back to work under a project agreement that ensures safe and efficient construction."
That's exactly what Republicans have been saying. The XL pipeline is a jobs and revenue producing monster that needs to be let loose – only Obama stands in the way.
The union executive did have one point of contention – he didn't like the fact that Republicans put the pipeline in as a part of the Middle Class tax relief and Job Creation Act of 2011. In the bill, unemployment insurance is extended, but only if Obama allows the pipeline to pass. The unions are clearly worried that Obama will choose politics and party over the good of the nation.
The union solution? Ayers demands that, "President Obama should immediately grant a presidential permit for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, and congressional Republicans should craft and pass a 'clean' unemployment insurance extension."
The President has so-far been reluctant to concede any ground or negotiate on any point. It is unlikely that Mr. Ayers' proposal stands a chance – although, it doesn't sound a whole lot different than the Republican jobs bill .. does it?
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How much more proof does President Obama need that his "green jihad" is a failure? The greatest problem is that it has failed on two fronts. First, he and his administration have subsidized and/or granted loan guarantees to green energy projects regardless of feasibility. Second, he has all but shut down fossil energy production and exploration.
Through its Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee program, it has backed loans for "green energy" projects for $35.9 billion of taxpayer dollars. Obama's DOE has a less than stellar record so far. And much of the "stimulus" money earmarked for green energy projects went to companies outside the U.S.
So the question is, "Why does Obama continue, through the DOE, to hand out loan guarantees?" Well, as DJ Redman, in his article about the Federal Financing Bank (FFB), says, "…politicians are stuffing their campaign coffers, crony-capitalists, union bed-pals, friends, and relatives wallets, through mafia-style influence peddling." And from this source (also provided by DJ Redman), we find that the FFB is giving out billions of dollars in loans to White House pet projects often at interest rates below 1%. So green energy projects are nothing more than for recipients to have money to contribute to favorite politicians. From this source, we find that the Obama administration was motivated by politics in its decisions on green energy loans, and that many of the loan recipients were donors or bundlers for Obama and Democrats. Peter Schweizer, author of the book, Throw Them All Out, wrote that at least 10 members of Obama's finance committee and more than a dozen of his campaign bundlers took money from administration loan programs. Schweizer said that he believes that many of those who were chosen to receive loan guarantees, were picked almost solely for their success in raising money for the Obama campaign. There can be little doubt that DJ Redman is correct.
Two recent incidences characterize Obama's fossil energy policy: the Keystone XL Pipeline (non)decision and the canceling of a major mineral lease in the Wayne (Ohio) National Forest (WNF).
This source provides information about the Keystone XL Pipeline, and this source provides information about Obama "passing the buck" on the pipeline decision. Ultimately the oil will be sold to China, who is investing heavily in the Canada oil production industry. The green energy environmentalists care nothing for inexpensive American energy, American jobs, or American national security.
President Obama's Department of Agriculture (DOA) has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a 2006 mineral lease auction for WNF. The cancellation was taken in deference to environmentalists on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The WNF study, the DOA says, "will focus solely on how it could affect forest land and not how it could affect groundwater."
Obama made this decision in spite of the fact that it will delay 200,000 jobs, and that WNF already has about 1,300 oil and natural gas wells. One suspects that Obama took this action out of anger at Ohio. This cancellation comes just days after Ohio citizens voted to reject key provisions of Obamacare.
His foreign policy closely follows his energy policy. It can be described in one sentence: punish your friends (Canada, Israel, Poland, Mexico, etc.) and reward your enemies (Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc.). And he particularly "has it in" for Canada, starting (in 2009) a trade war.
But that's just my opinion.


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Neighborhood: Downtown
Cuisines: German/Austrian, Grocery Store/Market, Breakfast, Deli/Quick Bites
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Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Nearby Metro Stops: McPherson Square, Metro Center
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This deli/market/cafe acts as the entrance to the fancier Cafe Mozart restaurant. While the deli has only a few tables and doesn't have the ambiance of the restaurant, it does have beer steins lining the shelves. And you can get hot meals to go, buy fresh deli meats, or shop at the German-stocked market.
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Christina Aguilera: Pregnant and Nude for 'V'By: Kimberly Ripley - August 2, 2014
Christina Aguilera recently posed nude for V magazine–sharing her burgeoning pregnant body for all its readers to see. The Voice mentor is expecting her second child–her first with fiance Matt Rutler. Aguilera and ex-husband Jordan Bratman have one son together–six-year-old Max.
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"As a woman, I'm proud to embrace my body through all stages of life, staying fearless and confident in surrendering to the unknowns the future has in store," the 33-year-old told the mag.
Aguilera contacted photographer Brian Bowen Smith and asked for the spread.
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