You know things aren't going well for Hillary Clinton when even The Daily Show, an institution of the left, is coming after her. Last week, Trevor Noah, who hosts the show, decided to lay out the case against Clinton in a surprisingly reasonable and incisive manner. And he didn't just softball his analysis.
Noah directly criticized Clinton for protecting sexual predators while effectively punishing victims. On the Left, this is commonly referred to as "victim blaming" and among Hillary's campaign advisors it's referred to as "strategy." I'm of course kidding, they would never admit it aloud. But this is the reality of Hillary's actions.
Opioids are a major problem in this country and few politicians or public figures have adequately addressed it — with the exception of President Trump, who has declared it a public health emergency. There have been various efforts in some states to try and curb opioid use, but it's still an enormous issue throughout much of the country. Eric Bolling, a former Fox News commentator, recently detailed just how terrible the opioid epidemic has been for him personally.
We recently covered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposing George Soros's attempt to thwart deportations of asylum seekers from Israel. Netanyahu is not known for pulling punches, and Soros isn't used to politicians calling him out — most would rather benefit directly or indirectly from the billionaire's money.
Israel has joined with a somewhat unexpected ally in the last two years to defeat the Islamic State militants. That ally is the Egyptian military, and the joint operations are being conducted to remove militants from Egyptian land in the Sinai Desert. Although it seems like an unlikely alliance, it actually makes a lot of sense.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California is the quintessential political hack. As the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, he is the primary deliverer of talking points, and he's developed a tenuous relationship with the truth. Early in 2017, Schiff stated that he had definitive evidence of Trump or his campaign directly colluding with Russians. Shockingly… he never produced the evidence.
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King thinks he's discovered the key to the FISA warrant scandal that's been brewing over the last month or so. We now know that Loretta Lynch, the former Attorney General, was signing off on FISA warrants. Remember, Lynch met with Bill Clinton on a tarmac in Arizona while Hillary was under investigation. Furthermore, Obama was knowingly sending emails to Hillary's unsecured email address, and he had good reason to want the inquiry into the matter dissolved.


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Alec Baldwin Says Trump Supporters are to Blame for the 'Near Moral Collapse of this Country'
Alec Baldwin Says Trump Supporters are to Blame for the 'Near Moral Collapse of this Country'
Actor Alec Baldwin lashed out at supporters of Donald Trump on Tuesday, accusing the president's fans of causing the "near moral collapse of this country."
In a series of tweets posted from the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation's Twitter account, Baldwin directed a tirade against Trump voters for a supposed "desecration" of American ideals.
"American democracy has always been a struggle between the misaligned protections of specific freedoms and a raging, at times intoxicating, 12 cylinder economy. It demanded vigilant/consistent regulation, compassion for the disenfranchised, and the periodic display of a necessary sacrifice that allowed for the long term health of our society at the expense of short term whims," he tweeted.
"The desecration of those ideals and the near moral collapse of this country falls squarely in the lap of Trump's supporters, as opposed to Trump himself, who is merely what psychology labels the 'objective negative function,' " Baldwin continued.
1- American democracy has always been a struggle between the misaligned protections of specific freedoms and a raging, at times intoxicating, 12 cylinder economy.
It demanded vigilant/consistent regulation, compassion for the disenfranchised, and…
— HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 13, 2020
2- …and the periodic display of a necessary sacrifice that allowed for the long term health of our society at the expense of short term whims.
The desecration of those ideals and the near moral collapse of this country falls squarely in the lap of Trump's supporters, as opposed
3- …as opposed to Trump himself, who is merely what psychology labels the "objective negative function." Like fire, floods and earthquakes, it destroys, and only destroys, by its very nature. Without prejudice.
It is Trump voters, particularly those who would re-elect him…
4- …who bear the blame.
For the undeniable and colossal destruction of everything that matters to us as Americans that cannot be merely monetized.
The actor is known for his portrayal of Trump as an inept, corrupt leader on "Saturday Night Live" as well as for his vocal opposition to the president himself.
"I made him as two-dimensional as I believe he deserves to be made. And we've certainly vulgarized it from time to time, beyond certain limitations. But it's essentially us repeating back what he says, and just holding up a mirror to what he says and does," Baldwin said of his impersonation in April of 2019.

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Herbert Hamele has been working 30 years in the field of sustainable tourism and regional development in Europe. In the 80's he started with studies and model projects related to e.g. youth travel or German consumers' demand for environmentally friendly tourism. In 1993 he founded and since then chairs the European network for sustainable tourism development ECOTRANS. Beside research, teaching and consulting activities he is managing the DestiNet knowledge networking portal on sustainable and responsible tourism, developed and hosted by ECOTRANS in partnership with the European Environment Agency EEA, UNWTO and UNEP. To provide transparency in sustainable tourism certification and to facilitate market access he administrates and publishes on the DestiNet Market Place the global list of more than 200 voluntary certificates and awards and the global map of certified and awarded tourism.


BREAKING NEWS: Animal welfare organisation Animals Asia will convert a bear bile farm in Nanning, China, into a sanctuary following an unprecedented request by the farm to rescue and care for its 130 bears.
Handsome Kollo has been at our Vietnam sanctuary since 2010. At the time he was suffering from cataracts in both his eyes rendering him completely blind, but visiting opthalmologists were able to restore his sight.
A group of 34 Chinese students commemorated the nation's traditional Tomb Sweeping Day at Animals Asia's China Bear Rescue Centre (CBRC) in memory of the sanctuary's former residents.
In the second part of our look at bear diets we focus on how caring for food-led animals can mean a tricky balancing act for their keepers.
Summer looks like it's finally arriving in the north of Vietnam which means the bears in our Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre are about to start using the pool a whole lot more.
The Vietnamese government's acceptance of proposals to crack down on illegal dog trafficking has sparked public debate played out in the country's media.
For 14 years Ti Map has eaten little more than rice gruel and family leftovers, but that is about to change.
The rescue of Ti Map, the last bile farmed moon bear in Binh Thuan province, south of Vietnam is settling in to Animals Asia's Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre after his rescue concluded on Friday.


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Privatize the CIA
http://www.michaelrubin.org/1029/privatize-the-cia
Twice this past week, on January 23 and 25, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held hearings on intelligence reform. Topics included the remaining 9/11 Commission recommendations and efforts both to facilitate information-sharing across the U.S. government's 16 intelligence agencies and to increase the number of operatives and linguists.
The committee's schedule suggests Sen. Jay Rockefeller will use his new majority status and chairmanship to increase oversight and press the Bush administration on matters ranging from CIA rendition programs to the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance programs. Oversight should be welcome, but neither it nor the 9/11 Commission's recommendations will be enough to rectify the quality of U.S. intelligence analysis.
In a seminal article in the Economist in 1955, historian C. Northcote Parkinson described the behavior of bureaucracies. First, he observed, any "official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and [second,] officials make work for each other." He used the British admiralty to illustrate his case. Between 1914 and 1928, its commissioned ships declined two-thirds. Over the same period of time, the number of officials managing them almost doubled.
As John Negroponte prepares to move from the directorship of National Intelligence to Foggy Bottom, it is clear that his legacy falls far short of real reform. He hired 1,500 employees for his new office, but missed recruitment targets for both operatives and analysts.
This is failure. As both the Iranian nuclear drive and al Qaeda's declared war on the United States continue, the nation needs spies to peer where satellites cannot and men on the ground to hear conversations that take place in caves rather than on cell phones. The failure to recruit and retain quality linguists is also a scandal. While Rockefeller criticizes wiretap procedures, the true outrage is the failure of the intelligence and law enforcement communities to put the products of such surveillance to use. On July 27, 2005, Glenn Fine, inspector general for the U.S. Department of Justice, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Federal Bureau of Investigation backlog of counterterrorism and counterintelligence audio surveillance awaiting translation had grown from almost 25,000 hours on December 31, 2003, to more than 38,000 hours on March 31, 2005. Department of Justice sources say the problem has not diminished.
While the number of spies and linguists may be a critical metric for gauging U.S. capabilities, access to raw material does not itself correlate with quality analysis. Here, the intelligence community falls short. Take Larry Johnson, a former CIA and State Department analyst to whom the CIA awarded two Exceptional Performance commendations. On July 10, 2001, Johnson penned a New York Times op-ed entitled "The Declining Terrorist Threat." As Mohamed Atta and the other 9/11 hijackers conducted dry runs for their attack, and despite Osama bin Laden's 1998 declaration of war on the United States, Johnson argued that Americans were not primary targets of terrorism. He blamed concern about Islamist terrorism on "24-hour broadcast news operations too eager to find a dramatic story line."
While Johnson is just one public example, the poor quality of the CIA's analytical products is an open secret among intelligence consumers. Reports circulated to the State Department, Pentagon, Treasury Department, National Security Council, and the White House are seldom more analytical or detailed than published newspaper accounts.
The reasons for poor analysis are multifold. The initial premise of a closed analytical shop segregated from policy was to maintain a bank of first-rate social scientists to prevent surprise and predict events. But social science has never lived up to its promise. The Soviet Union's collapse and 9/11 are just two prominent instances of the CIA's failure to predict. While it has become fashionable to scapegoat Iraqi National Congress head Ahmad Chalabi for faulty intelligence about Iraqi weapons, and thereby exculpate the CIA's perhaps $30 billion intelligence operation, the preponderance of Langley's analysis suggested Iraq was permeated with chemical and biological munitions.
Nor did Langley ever attract top academics. Many specialists shy away from government careers. In practice--unbelievable as it may seem--travel and regional experience disqualify applicants during the security clearance process. Those with native fluency in languages like Arabic, Persian, or Pashtun seldom pass CIA vetting. While Langley recruits Mormons returning from missions with linguistic ability, most intelligence hires are book smart but experience poor.
As a result, the products of the intelligence community lack both cultural nuance and a feel for personalities. Too many analysts assume that Iranian officials approach diplomacy with the sincerity of their U.S. counterparts; they cannot imagine the prospect that seminary-trained clerics practice religiously sanctioned dissimulation. Hence, many intelligence professionals at the time believed that Iranian president Mohammad Khatami was sincere in his calls for a dialogue of civilizations; now it is apparent that he pursued Iran's covert nuclear program with the same energy as his successor. When European leaders and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright relaxed sanctions and offered an olive branch to Tehran, the Islamic Republic used the resulting hard currency influx to upgrade Iran's military and fuel its covert nuclear program.
Cubicle isolation is also apparent to anyone who knows the people about whom dossiers are compiled. When writing biographies of Iraqi politicians, CIA analysts commonly erred on such basic information as the languages they spoke, let alone their predilections or personalities.
Extreme compartmentalization also reduces the chances for sound comparative analysis. As the CIA has grown, its analysts' areas of responsibility have narrowed. Expertise in arcane subjects should be welcome, but if it comes at the expense of comparative analysis, much can be lost. Analysis of Iranian nuclear capabilities, for example, should not be separated from study of the North Korean ballistic missile program or Pakistani weapons design. Nor should Iran area specialists be segregated from al Qaeda analysts. Rogue regimes and terrorists do not always compartmentalize relationships as neatly as does the U.S. bureaucracy.
The CIA does have many good analysts, but the organizational prioritization of group-think and seniority strangles them. Bureaucratic interests dominate. As reports filter up through multiple levels, officials insert trap-door statements to assert the opposite of any conclusion so that if the report's thrust is wrong, the agency can be absolved of responsibility. A single sentence questioning Saddam's weapons programs, for example, might be buried on page 17 of a report otherwise declaring their existence.
As former CIA operative Reuel Marc Gerecht points out, the formulaic assumption that any watershed event is five-to-ten years away is both the product of caution and a way to avoid acknowledging ignorance. Repeated statements that Iran is five-to-ten years away from autonomous nuclear capability, for example, have become the 21st-century equivalent of the Ten-Year Rule that left Great Britain scrambling to meet the challenge of a resurgent Germany prior to World War II.
Secrecy protects shoddy analysis. Langley may oust analysts for security reasons, but, like any government body, it seldom purges mediocrity. While intelligence analysts conflate questioning with politicization, the desire to avoid inquiry is often a sign of lack of confidence. Analysts who publish openly and under their own names must, for the sake of their reputations, produce solid work or else they will hemorrhage credibility and jeopardize their employment. Too often, though, intelligence briefers cannot answer basic questions. When queries are followed by requests to see raw intelligence, the source material does not always support the proffered conclusions. Intelligence professionals should be able and willing to defend their products.
It is this phenomenon that was at the root of tension between the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and the Defense Department's Iraq policy shop. The forthcoming report of an investigation by the Pentagon's Office of Inspector General into the Office of Special Plans will absolve the unit of charges that it produced its own intelligence--it did not--but the report may criticize the office for questioning too much the products it received from Langley. But to move toward a standard of blind acceptance of intelligence would be both dangerous and wrong.
The traditional value of intelligence products was to provide a baseline of neutral expertise, but the era of an apolitical Langley is over. In November 2005, W. Patrick Lang, former defense intelligence officer for the Middle East, South Asia, and counterterrorism, told the American Prospect of CIA analysts' attempts to hurt the White House prior to the 2004 election. "Of course they were leaking," he said. "They told me about it at the time. They thought it was funny. They'd say things like, 'This last thing that came out, surely people will pay attention to that. They won't reelect this man [President Bush].'" Intelligence analysts should not participate in policymaking. Their frequent and as-yet-unplugged leaks may win some short-term policy battles for Langley, but such illegalities have badly damaged trust. To suggest the Directorate of Intelligence is policy-neutral is risible.
So what is the solution? Washington's inclination is always to expand hiring. But that will constrain rather than improve analysis. Today, the CIA's analytical wing is the ultimate expression of Parkinson's Law, rather than a generator of accurate explanation or prediction. Rather than expand, the government should privatize much of its analysis.
Privatization works. Already, Beltway firms like SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton operate streamlined intelligence shops. Their analysts hold the highest security clearances. So do many think-tank scholars and some university academics. Many private-sector analysts have language abilities and experience their government counterparts lack.
Freeing analysts from some government rules and regulations could improve their products. Not only would it enable outside-of-the-box thinking, but it could also improve access. U.S. government personnel visiting Beirut, let alone Baghdad, must adhere to embassy regulations stipulating intrusive security for travel outside compound walls. Non-government employees roam free--or at least set their own rules for security.
Privatization would improve productivity. It can take the CIA hierarchy weeks to sign off on an analyst's report and release it to intelligence consumers across the U.S. government. Private companies react faster. Competition might also expedite exploitation of several million pages of documents seized in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A decade ago, the CIA curtailed its subscriber-based circulation of foreign newspapers and media broadcasts in translation, partly for financial reasons and partly out of misdirected hand-wringing that such products might violate even North Korean and Iranian intellectual property rights. Today, the Open Source Center, the office within the CIA that translates published material, still withholds much of its product from the public. Getting this into the hands of a wider pool of analysts would be in the national interest, even if the analysts offered differing interpretations.
Expanding the pool of professionals who hold security clearances would have auxiliary benefit. Not only would it enable more opinion and debate without the costs of salary and pension; but, in the long term, it would also erode the clearance lag. Even with "expedite" orders, whoever wins the presidency in 2008 will have to wait 15 months to staff the National Security Council with new faces unless they already hold clearances. At present, the CIA spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to screen and train analysts who may leave government service after only a couple of years. Making it easier for the U.S. government to employ such people would increase return on investment.
There would be drawbacks to more privatization--security and counterintelligence problems would expand--but the risks need not be excessive. Even State Department student interns receive top-secret clearances. Access to government products should still require background checks, security clearance, and the incumbent oaths to protect the material. The FBI and other relevant agencies should nevertheless expand counterintelligence checks. Dissemination of sensitive compartmentalized information like signals and communications intercepts should, of course, remain subject to the presence of adequate facilities to handle and protect the information.
Some outside scholars might also cherry-pick data. But then government intelligence analysts do so now. While data are open to interpretation, competition exposes bad methodology, and ultimately quality shines through. Individual authorship promotes accountability.
Would the CIA's analytical wing disappear? No. But it should shrink, as the pool of outside experts expands. Much of the money allocated for the analytical wing would be better applied to the Directorates of Operations and Science & Technology. Langley and its consumers might maintain yellow pages of analysts by expertise and repositories of finished products. Congressmen could call on individuals to explain their reports or even have multiple specialists debate interpretations. It is not uncommon in, say, the Pentagon for senior leaders to host closed debates among academics and analysts. One thing is certain, though. With threats multiplying, bloat and a culture of job security over performance will neither protect the United States nor promote the serious thinking needed to help it face new challenges.
Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, was a staff adviser for Iran and Iraq in the office of the secretary of defense between 2002 and 2004.


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Op-Ed: Rainy day reflections on France's looming power vacuum
By Michael Cosgrove Oct 30, 2010 in Politics
The failure of Socialism to adapt to the modern world and the real prospect of its eventual disappearance would be of no importance if it weren't for the fact that there is nothing to replace it as an effective fail-safe against political extremism.
It's Saturday morning and it's raining outside under a dark and dreary sky. Most of the country is covered in clouds and the French are at home, uncomfortably aware that summer is over and that tonight sees the clocks go back an hour to winter time. The darker months are nearing, the streets are deserted and there's a bleak and eerily silent feel to it all.
It strikes me that the weather metaphor could be applied to the country's political and social issues. The pension reform has been voted and the burnt-out cars from the riots have been cleared away, the strikers who blocked petrol refineries and prevented people from getting to work have gone back to work themselves, public transport is back to normal, the smashed windows in looted shops have been repaired and the piles of rotting rubbish have been cleared away. The riots and protests are over, their instigators defeated and licking their wounds.
Indignation at the government's treatment of the Roma has turned into general indifference as the planes transporting them back to their countries of origin roar down runways at Roissy airport and take off, unnoticed. The country's massive debt is under crisis management and the opposition doesn't have a word to say on the government's policies now that the financial crisis has faded into the past, along with the bitter recriminations about whose fault it was.
There's a bleak and eerily silent feel to all this too.
The current situation could be seen as representing a victory for the political right – and it is in a way of course – but it is also indicative of a deeper malaise.
The chaos has subsided, but the political terrain is now barren. It has become clear that France's opposition Socialists, Communists and other left-wing parties have not offered any alternatives to current government policies. Indeed they haven't held presidential power since Mitterand and have forgotten what it's like to run a government too. Opposition tactics consisting of noisy full-frontal opposition to everything and without offering alternatives have not persuaded the French public that they are a government-in-waiting. On the contrary, although polls show President Sarkozy at his lowest popularity level ever, they also show even deeper dissatisfaction with potential Socialist alternative candidates.
As is the case all over Europe, Socialism is in full retreat in France, its tired and unbendingly dogmatic principles in tatters, its dreams shattered. The frenzied last-ditch radicalization of Socialism in an attempt to put it back on the political map has only alienated it even more from the people.
Socialism is in the middle of a deep crisis, and, ominously, Socialists themselves are beginning to predict its possible demise. Consider these sad words from a well-known French Socialist militant; "Discredited, bruised and battered, confused and powerless…such is the image of our party today."
She said that in the context of a plea for Socialists to rally around Ségolène Royal, the highly controversial losing candidate in the last presidential election. The problem is though that Royal herself has said on several occasions that if things continue as they are now, the Socialist party might do better to consider, or have no alternative to, auto-dissolution. And she is not the only Socialist to have uttered those dreaded words, to have raised the specter of the end of Socialism in France, as is happening elsewhere.
The Socialist party is already looking shaky and is far from being in a position to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 elections. They have organized primaries in order to choose a candidate in a desperate effort (ironically) inspired by the American system to avoid the awful in-fighting which marred their last candidate selection process. This initiative is already in trouble however, with bitching being the name of the game and no general policy outlines anywhere to be seen. The party seems quite simply incapable of coming up with unified policies adapted to the modern world.
In other words, things are looking very bad for French Socialism. But if you dislike Socialism, I wouldn't be jumping for joy and wishing for its disappearance if I were you. Because if Socialism fails totally, there will be no credible democratic alternative to the slightly right-of-center governments that have slowly increased in frequency in France and in Europe as a whole. But the need for healthy and effective opposition will remain.
Not convinced? Well try this. If that kind of a power vacuum happens and there is no democratic opposition party to fill it, France will leave itself wide open to another form of opposition, a form of opposition much less palatable than Socialism here has ever been.
That opposition is called extreme right-wing nationalism. France's fascist National Front party is basing its 2012 campaign along anti-globalization lines with strong relents of xenophobia and a visceral objection to anything foreign, with Anglo-Saxon countries and immigration at the top of the list. Polls are already predicting a larger National Front vote in 2012, and it is strongly suspected that at least some of this vote will come from angry and disappointed Communists and Socialists.
France is currently like a battlefield upon which a lull has occurred in the fighting. But the people are still angry, still bitter, about policies they do not agree with and their frustration with not having an effective opposition party to channel their demands in a democratic way will not simply disappear if the Socialist party refuses to reform itself and implodes. They will turn to the only alternative - the National Front - in increasing numbers, as they are doing elsewhere in Europe.
The end of Socialism? Don't ask for it, you might just get it. And that would be much more depressing than mere dark clouds on a dull and rainy day.
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Q: How to see json from RestRequest object? I have RestRequest that I format to Json and add and send toSerialize which works just fine. I just want to retrieve the generated json from restRequest object. How can I accomplish that? I searched inside the class and I found no way to see the body.
thanks
[DataContract]
public class ToSerialize
{
    [DataMember]
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        var request = new RestRequest("/someresource", Method.POST);
        request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
        var toSerialize = new ToSerialize();
        toSerialize.someField = "hey";
        request.AddBody(toSerialize);
        var response = client.Execute(request);

A: You might be looking on the wrong object.
The body comes back on the response object under the property Content.
Link to the interface:
https://github.com/restsharp/RestSharp/blob/master/RestSharp/IRestResponse.cs#L38

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Joe Exter
(1978-12-19) December 19, 1978 (age 40)
Cranston, Rhode Island, USA
5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
183 lb (83 kg; 13 st 1 lb)
Played for
undrafted
Joe Exter (born December 19, 1978) is a retired American ice hockey goaltender. He is famous for playing two seasons with the ECHL's Wheeling Nailers several months after being in a coma due to an on-ice collision.[1]
4 Retirement
Exter started his career with the Erie Otters, where he split time with former Edmonton Oilers draft pick Patrick Dovigi and former Los Angeles Kings draft pick Steve Valiquette. He played eleven games, going 0-4-0 with a 4.13 GAA. After a year with the Waterloo Black Hawks of the USHL where he shared duties with two other goalies, Exter moved on to Merrimack College of Hockey East. Exter started more than twenty-five games in each of his three seasons with Merrimack College, compiling a 31-47-8 record.
On March 8, 2003, Exter and Boston College forward Patrick Eaves were racing for an open puck with about six minutes left in the game. Exter and Eaves collided, with Eaves' left hip striking Exter in the head. The resulting hit knocked Exter's helmet from his head. As Exter's head hit the ice, he was knocked unconscious and blood began to pour from both of his ears. Paramedics on standby for the game and trainers from both Merrimack and Boston college treated Exter and immobilized him before removing him from the ice and transporting him to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.[2] Upon admission, Exter was in a critical condition and was put in a medically induced coma for ten days, and doctors suggested that he retire from hockey. After ten days, Exter was taken off sedatives and started to acknowledge questions by a series of blinks. In less than three weeks, Exter was moved to Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, where he re-learned to speak and to swallow. A week later, Exter was released to his Cranston home.[3] Exter would later say that he did not blame Eaves for the hit, and that the incident was "a hockey play.[1]"
Exter completed a series of rehabilitation tests within a week of therapy and decided that he was still could play hockey. By August, he was training on Merrimack's ice. Despite the numerous weeks of training and therapy, Exter received minimal interest from scouts. He would receive an offer from Pittsburgh Penguins scout Greg Malone, who had been scouting Exter prior to his accident. Exter eventually signed with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the Penguins' AHL affiliate, on December 24, 2003, and was immediately assigned to the Penguins' ECHL affiliate in Wheeling.[4]
In his rookie season, Exter went 8-2-0 in 15 games and led the team with a .924 save percentage. Since Exter played more than ten games in his rookie season, this activated a clause in his contract that required the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to re-sign Exter for the following season.[4]
During the 2004-05 season (which coincided with the NHL lockout), Exter shared goaltending duties with Pittsburgh Penguins draft picks Dany Sabourin and Andy Chiodo. Coincidentally, Ben Eaves, brother of Patrick Eaves and also a Penguins draft pick, was also a member of the 2004-05 Nailers. Exter finished the season 10-13-2 with a career-high four shutouts.
Upon his retirement, Exter became involved in coaching. He started as an assistant coach with American International College during the 2005-06 season.[5] Since 2008, Exter has been involved with both the US U18 and U20 programs, being named the first full-time goaltender coach in program history.[1]
In addition to working with the USA Hockey's National Team Development Program, Exter is also an assistant coach with the Ohio State University ice hockey team,[6] being named to the coaching staff on July 11,[7]
All-Hockey East Rookie Team 2000–01
All-Hockey East Second Team 2002–03
^ a b c "The Top Five freak injuries to goalies in hockey history". hockeyadventure.com. November 5, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
^ "Exter in Serious Condition With Fractured Skull". uscho.com. March 7, 2003. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
^ E.M. Swift (April 21, 2003). "Back On His Feet". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
^ a b Kelley King (March 29, 2004). "Save Of A Lifetime". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
^ Joe Exter Joins AIC Hockey Staff August 9, 2005
^ OhioStateUniversity.com: Joe Exter (Assistant Coach)
^ "Exter Joins Ohio State Hockey Staff". Ohio State Buckeyes. July 11, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
Colin Hemingway Hockey East Three-Stars Award
(Shared With Ben Eaves)
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The five-year constitutional term of incumbent federal government is ending on May 31(today).
This is the first time in Pakistan's history a second consecutive democratic government is completing its constitutional term. Before the government's tenure ends today, PM Abbasi is scheduled to hold farewell meetings with his staff and other officers.
A contingent of Pakistan Armed Forces will present a salute to the PM as he departs from his office later today.


Journal of Ovonic Research Vol. 11, No. 1, January - February 2015, p. 1 - 10 SEM, FTIR AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF COBALT SUBSTITUTED SPINEL FERRITES M. T. FARIDa*, I. AHMADa, S. AMANa, M. KANWALa, G. MURTAZAa, I. ALIa, I. AHMADb , M. ISHFAQa Department of Physics, BahauddinZakariya, University Multan, 60800. Pakistan. Institue of Chemical Sciences, BahauddinZakariya, University Multan, 60800. Pakistan. A series of Gd-substituted Cobalt based ferrites of nominal composition CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 for x= 0.00-0.25 in steps of 0.05 was produced by conventional ceramic technique. The synthesized samples were characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and dielectric measurements. SEM was used to study the morphology of samples. The average grain size of the synthesized samples was found in the range8– 12  m. The dielectric constant, complex dielectric constant and loss tangent of these samples decreased with the increase of Gd-concentration, following the Maxwell–Wagner two-layer model. The reduced dielectric properties make the synthesized materials suitable for high frequency applications. (Received October 22, 2014; Accepted December 20, 2014) Keywords: Gd, Dielectric properties, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, A.C Conductivity, Cobalt Spinel ferrites. 1. Introduction Ferrites are the mixed metal oxides with iron oxide as their main component . Ferrites are important materials on account of their electrical and magnetic properties . Ferrites are preferred in the field of electronics and telecommunication industry because of their novel electrical properties which make them useful in radiofrequency circuits, high quality factors, rod antennas, transformer core, read/write heads for high density digital tapes and other devices. Hence it is important to study their dielectric behavior at different frequencies. The dielectric properties of ferrites are dependent on several factors, such as method of preparation, heat treatment, sintering conditions chemical composition, cation distribution and crystallite size [2, 3]. The ferrites behave as inhomogeneous dielectric materials in which individual high-conducting grains are separated by either air gaps or low-conducting layers. Substitution of rare earth ions into the spinel structure lead to structural distortion which modify the electrical transport properties. Electric and magnetic properties are particularly useful in radio frequency region, due to high resistivity, mechanical hardness and chemical stability . Sattar et al. [5, 6] have studied the electrical and magnetic properties cobalt ferrites doped with different rare earth ions and reported the modification in structural properties due to substitution of rare earth ions. The solid state sintering route of producing these materials requires high sintering temperature, as well as long sintering time. It suffers from other disadvantages like chemical inhomogeneity and hard agglomerates of particles . In this paper, the structural, FTIR and dielectric properties of Cobalt based Gadolinium substituted spinel ferrites have been studied. 2. Experimental 2 The parent oxide materials (99.99% pure) Co3O4, Gd2O3 and Fe2O3 were weighed using electronic balance having an accuracy up to 10-4 grams. The weighed amount of parent oxide materials were mixed homogeneously in an agate mortar by grinding for four hours. Before and after this process the mortar and pestle were rinsed with acetone. This powder was then palletized by using hydraulic pressing machine (PAUL-OTTOWEBER). Each pellet was pressed under the pressure of 30KN/mm2 for about one minute. By using the same procedure the other samples were ground and palletized under the same conditions. In first step, heat treatment of the samples was carried out in a box furnace for about 40 hours at 1250 C and finally sintered at 1300 C for 03 hours in tube furnace. After final heat treatment the samples were furnaced cool. The surface morphology was studied using a Hitachi S4160 scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Samples were coated with carbon prior to SEM analysis. FTIR transmission spectra were taken on Mattson Satellite Infrared Spectrometer from 4000 to 400 cm-1 in order to investigate the nature of the chemical bonds formed. Dielectric properties were studied by using RF impedance/Material analyzer Agilent in the frequency range of 1 MHz–3 GHz. 3. Results and Discussions 3.1 Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) To study the surface morphology of the CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25) ferrites, JEOL JSM-840 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used. Fig. 1a. SEM micrograph of CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.0) ferrites. 3 Fig. 1b. SEM micrograph of CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.05) ferrites. Fig. 1c. SEM micrograph of CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.10) ferrites. 4 Fig. 1d. SEM micrograph of CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.15) ferrites. Fig. 1e. SEM micrograph of CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.20) ferrites. Fig. 1f. SEM micrograph of CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.25) ferrites. SEM images of all the ferrite samples are shown in figures.1a–1f, reflecting inhomogeneous grain size distribution, well packed and are almost crack free. Few agglomerates however in the composition x= 0.15 were observed. The appearance of these agglomerates may be attributed to sintering process as a result of chemical reaction. Magnetic forces or even relatively weak Vander Waals bonds might be responsible to hold these agglomerates together . The uniqueness of these agglomerates can be maintained under quite insistent forces. By using the Line-intercept method, average grain size was measured from SEM micrographs . With average grain size falling in the range of 8– 12  m, they decrease with the increase substitution of Gadolinium element. The mobility of grain boundaries play a vital role in grain growth therefore presence of Gadolinium ions near or at the grain boundaries confines the grain boundary movement subsequently the grain size decreases with increasing Gadolinium substitution . 5 3.2 FT-IR Spectroscopy The IR spectra show the bands arising from inter atomic vibrations. The structural changes brought about by the metal ions strongly influenced the lattice vibrations. The lattice vibrations also depend on the cations mass, the cation oxygen and the bonding force. Fig. 2. FTIR Spectra CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.15) ferrites. Figure 2 shows the representative room temperature FTIR spectrum of for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.15) ferrites. The representative spectrum of these ferrites obtained at room temperature manifest absorption peaks located at about 420, 432.1, 442.9, 549.3, 755.9, 1076.8, 1141.0, 1254.7, 1304.4, 1601.9, 1726.4, in the range of 400–4000 cm-1. The inset indicates two absorption bands which is a common feature of all ferrites . The two main absorption bands corresponding to the stretching vibration of the tetrahedral and octahedral sites are around 550 and 400 cm-1, respectively . In figure 2, the bands observed 420, 432, 442 cm-1assigned to octahedral group complexeswhile the band 549 cm-1 attributed to the tetrahedral group complexes. The tetrahedral bands are shifted from lower bands to higher bands i.e., 520–558 cm-1 , that can be ascribed to the shifting of Fe 3+ ions towards oxygen ion on the tetrahedral site which decreases Fe3+–O2 distances. The band at 1076.8 cm-1 is attributed to the formation of Co substituted spinel ferrites . The band at 1652.1 cm1 is ascribed to the presence of absorbed water (H–O–H) . 6 3.3 Dielectric properties 3.3.1 Compositional Effect on Electrical Permittivity The plot graphs of (εo) versus log frequency for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25) ferrites at room temperature are shown in figure 4. It is concluded from the figure 4, that εo decrease with the increase of Gadolinium concentration. And results show that the electronic exchange between Fe2+ and Fe3+ in local displacements, determining the polarization of charges in these spinel ferrites. Thus, it is the number of Fe2+ ions on octahedral sites that play a prominent role in the process of conduction and dielectric polarization. Due to larger ionic radius, Gd3+ ions occupy octahedral sites . The concentration of Fe3+ ions at B-sites decreases as the concentration of Gadolinium increases up to x = 0.10. At x > 0.10, εo and complex dielectric constant decrease remarkable with increasing concentration of Gadolinium. It is due to depicting concentration of iron ions at B-sites which play an important role in dielectric polarization due to the presence of secondary phase. The electron transfer between ferrous and ferric ions will be slowed down i.e. the polarization decreases. Consequently, dielectric (εo) decrease with Gadolinium contents . Dielectric Constant Fig. 3. Dielectric Loss vs Gd-Concentration (x) for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 ferrites (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25). 120 x=0. 00 x=0. 05 x=0. 10 100 80 60 40 20 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 log f (Hz) Fig. 4. Dielectric Constant vs log f (Hz) for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 ferrites (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25). 7 3.3.2. Effect of frequency on dielectric and complex dielectric constant Complex Dielectric Constant Variations of the real (ε/) and imaginary (ε//) parts of the dielectric constant versus log frequency(Hz) for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 ferrites at room temperature for all the samples are plotted in figures 5 and 6. From plots it can be seen that both real and imaginary parts of dielectric constants decrease as the frequency increases. The values of both ε/ and ε// are high at low frequency and then decreases rapidly with the increase in frequency for all the compositions which is a general trend for all the ferrite samples . This behavior depicts the dispersion due to Maxwell Wagner type interfacial polarization in agreement with Koop's phenomenological theory [18, 19]. 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 x = 0.00 x = 0.05 x = 0.10 x = 0.15 x = 0.20 x = 0.25 2 3 4 5 6 7 log f ( Hz) Fig. 5. Complex Dielectric Constant vs log f (Hz) for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 ferrites (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25). Tangent Loss 2.5 2 x = 0.00 1.5 x = 0.05 1 x = 0.10 0.5 x = 0.15 x = 0.20 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 x = 0.25 log f (Hz) Fig. 6. Tangent Loss vs log f (Hz) for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 ferrites (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25). The phenomenon of electron exchange between Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions give rise to local displacement of charges in the direction of an applied electric field, which subsequently determines the polarization. The polarization decreases substantially with increase in frequency and reaches a constant value due to the fact that beyond a certain frequency of external field, the electron exchange between Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions cannot follow the alternating field [18, 20-22]. At lower frequency region both interfacial and dipolar polarization play their role where as at high frequency region only the electronic polarization contributes in hopping process. Moreover, the higher values of dielectric constant observed at lower frequencies, may be due to the 8 predominance of species like Fe2+ ions, due to which interfacial dislocation piles-up oxygen vacancies and grain boundary defects etc. The decrease in both  / and ε// with frequency is due to the fact that any species contributing to polarizability are bound to show the lagging behind the applied field at higher frequencies [23-25]. At high frequency, several resonance peaks which are the characteristics of real dielectrics appeared due to undamped dipoles . As for achieving the maximum in dielectric loss of material, condition is;  max  1 (1) Here max  2f max . Relaxation time  is the jumping probability per unit time 'p' for the ionic/interfacial /electronic polarization as;  1  max = 2P (2) Eq. (2) depicts that the Debye relaxation process occurs when the rate of hopping of electrons from Fe2+ to Fe3+ is almost equal to the applied ac frequency and this phenomenon is known as ferromagnetic resonance . Moreover if an ion has got two equilibrium states A and B with the sample potential energies and separated by some potential barrier, the probability of jumping for both the ions stands same. The frequency at which ion changes its position at either side is called its natural frequency. So when both the natural and external applied field frequencies become equal, then maximum electrical energy is transferred to the oscillating ions subsequently there is an increase in power loss. It results to the occurrence of resonance phenomenon and eventually the formation of resonance peaks [26, 28, 29]. 3.3.3. Dielectric Loss Tangent The variation of dielectric loss tangent (tan  ) with frequency for mixed CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25) ferrites is shown in figure. 6. It is clear from the figure 6, that tan  decreases with increasing frequency. When the frequency of the applied ac electric field is much smaller than hopping frequency of electrons between Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions at adjacent octahedral sites, the electrons follow the field and hence the loss is maximum. At higher frequencies of the applied electric field, the hopping frequency of the electron exchange between Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions cannot follow the applied field beyond certain critical frequency and the loss is minimum [30,31].At low frequency (tan  ) is high and decreases rapidly at high frequency in accordance with Koops phenomenological theory. Therefore, it is expected that energy loss is high at low frequency region while it is low at high frequency region [21,22]. 3.3.4. AC Conductivity The variation in ac conductivity (σac) of all the samples at room temperature of mixed CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25) ferrites was observed. The ac conductivity data is tabulated by using equation σac = 2πfεoD (3) Here ''f'' is the frequency and ''D'' is the Loss co-efficient. It is seen that ac conductivity of all the samples have same increasing trend at low frequency region however dispersion behavior is exhibited at higher range of frequencies. Both Maxwell–Wagner model and Koops phenomenological theory reveals that ferrite materials consist of conducting grains separated by resistive thin layers of grain boundaries. As conduction processes is related to the dielectric polarization so almost a plane and similar region is observed for all the samples due to affected grain boundaries with high resistance at low frequency region. On the other hand at higher 9 frequency region, grain effect and increasing trend of hopping of charge carriers Fe2+-Fe3+at adjacent octahedral sites play a vital role thereby increasing conductivity [32,33]. AC Conductivity 0.035 0.03 0.025 0.02 0.015 0.01 0.005 0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 Gd-Concentration (x) Fig. 7. AC Conductivity (  -cm)-1vs Gd-Concentration (x) for CoGd2xFe2-2xO4 ferrites (x = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25). The increase in conductivity vs Gd-content is shown in Figure 7, depicts the fact that magnitude of the electronic exchange depends on the concentration of Fe3+/Fe2+ ion pairs located at B-sites [34,35].It is observed from the plots that with the substitution of Gadolinium ac conductivity increases gradually. It increases by the substitution of Rare Earth element from x = 0.00 to 0.25. Maximum value of ac conductivity is achieved for x = 0.25. The increase in conductivity can also be attributed to decrease in porosity. 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