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American Geography and Geographers
Toward Geographical Science
Geoffrey J. Martin
The most authoritative study to date on the origin and formation of American Geography by its leading historian.
Exhaustively researched and documented from primary sources.
An invaluable resource to understand the animating issues of American Geography, and those scientists and leaders who originated, promoted, and defended them.
Informed by research in over 150 archives in the United States and internationally.
Enriched by the author 's long-standing professional relations with leaders in American Geography.
Author is the official archivist of the Association of American Geographers, an archive he co-founded nearly 30 years ago.
The rise of American geography as a distinctive science in the United States straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, extending from the post-Civil war period to 1970. American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographic Science is the first book to thoroughly and richly explicate this history. Its author, Geoffrey J. Martin, the foremost historian on the subject and official archivist of the Association of American Geographers, amassed a wealth of primary sources from archives worldwide, which enable him to chart the evolution of American geography with unprecedented detail and context. From the initial influence of the German school to the emergence of Geography as a unique discipline in American universities and thereafter, Martin clarifies the what, how and when of each advancement. Expansive discussion of the arguments made, controversies ignited and research voyages move hand in hand with the principals who originated and animated them: Davis, Jefferson, Huntington, Bowman, Johnson,, Sauer, Hartshorne, and many more. From their grasp of local, regional, global and cultural phenomena, geographers also played pivotal roles in world historical events, including the two world wars and their treaties, as the US became the dominant global power.
American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science is a conclusive study of the birth and maturation of the science. It will be of interest to geographers, teachers and students of geography, and all those compelled by the story of American Geography and those who founded and developed it.
Abbreviations for Archival Sources
American and German Geography circa 1820's to 1919
Geography and the American Normal School
Toward the Emergence of Geography in the Universities
The Physiographic Provinces
The Study of Geographical Regions
Commercial and Economic Geography
Environmentalism and Its Varieties
The Quest for Definition c. 1870-1919
World War I: Geographers and the Path to War
World War I: Geographers and the Path to Peace
The Millionth Map of Hispanic America
The Science of Settlement: Studies of the Pioneer Fringe
The Ecological Tradition in American Geography: A Perspective
The Emergence of a Political Geography
The Nature of Geography and Perspective on the Nature of Geography
Geography, Geographers, and World War II
The AAG and the ASPG: Schism and Rapprochement
The Quest for Definition Continued c. 1920-1970
Earliest Known (U.S.) College/University Courses of Their Kind
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Geoffrey J. Martin, Distinguished Professor and Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University
Geoffrey J. Martin is the foremost historian of American Geography and official archivist of the Association of American Geographers, a position he has held for nearly 30 years. He holds these academic distinctions: Connecticut State University Professor, Distinguished Professor, and Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University. Professional awards include "Honors " and recipient of the J.K. Wright Award, both given by the Association of American Geographers. He has been a Yale Visiting Scholar, and Association of American Geographers Regional Councilor, Visiting Scientist GDR, and has given seminars and addresses at more than 30 major universities in the US, UK, Denmark, the former East Germany, India, Japan, Serbia, and Sweden. His previous book with OUP, All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas, has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Malaysian and Hindi throughout its four editions. Geographers.
"This encyclopaedic work is the product of a lifetime's archival research and reflection on the emergence in the US of geography as a modern university discipline. This book takes its place immediately as the most comprehensive analysis of a national tradition of geographical enquiry in the English language and an indispensable work of historical reference." - Robert J. Mayhew, Times Higher Education Supplement, 'What Are You Reading?'
"...unparalleled in the scope and depth of its research and in its meticulous exposition of the evolution of geography in the United States through the 1970s. Basing the volume on archival materials, Geoffrey Martin masterfully explains not only what American geographers did, but also why they chose the paths they took. The letters upon which the volume relies enable Martin to enter the minds of our predecessors in ways that histories based on secondary sources cannot. By tracing interpersonal connections among domestic geographers, and with overseas colleagues (especially in Germany and France), Martin sheds new light on the intellectual and structural foundations of American geography. American Geography and Geographers is a landmark volume that will be read by all who aspire to understand American geography's present and its future." - Ronald F. Abler, Immediate Past President, International Geographical Union
"...a monumental and magisterial work, exhaustively researched and documented, judiciously presented and extremely important as evidence of the foundation from which the discipline arose and evolved. Like Hartshorne's Nature of Geography many decades ago, this will become a milestone in the record of the field, and it will engender productive debate for decades to come." - Harm De Blij, John A. Hannah Professor Geography, Michigan State University
"Geoffrey Martin has been a contributor to the history of American geography for more than half a century. Beginning with a trilogy of works on William Morris Davis' most important students, Martin's work has consistently informed our understanding of that history. Martin's publications are grounded in his unrivalled knowledge of the germane manuscript sources both in the U.S. and abroad. In this volume he traces the rise of American professional geography in the context both of its American roots and of contemporary developments in Britain and Europe. This landmark study will be a resource for teachers and students of the discipline for years to come, and an important first reference for scholars seeking to expand the breadth and depth of the field." - William A. Koelsch, Emeritus Professor of History and Geography, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
"I found this book fascinating for a number of reasons. First, it portrays a geography, or a range of geographies, up to the 1960s when I undertook my undergraduate geography studies. Whilst I was then introduced to a range of geographers, many writings were indeed from United States geographers. The reading of this book reacquainted me with many of these geographers and added to my understanding of the nature and contexts of their approaches to geography. This book has also put in context many changes that have occurred to geography after the 1960s and which are, arguably, a reaction to the often very different geographies from the first half of the twentieth century." - Geoffrey Paterson South Caulfield, Victoria
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Twitter Improves Trending Topic Algorithm: Bye Bye, Bieber!
By Ben Parr 2010-05-14 18:32:52 UTC
Twitter has updated the algorithm behind its popular Trending Topics feature, changing the focus from the most discussed items to what is "most breaking" and "immediately popular."
Twitter confirmed to Mashable that on Wednesday it made updates to improve the relevancy of trending topics. In the past, trending topics were dominated by consistently popular items (e.g. Justin Bieber) with little regard as to what was "hot" at any given moment.
Here's how Twitter explained the new changes in an update to the Help section:
"The new algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help people discover the 'most breaking' breaking news from across the world. (We had previously built in this 'emergent' algorithm for all local trends, described below.) We think that trending topics which capture the hottest emerging trends and topics of discussion on Twitter are the most interesting."
Twitter quickly goes on to say that the algorithm is a "work in progress" — a.k.a. it's not going to weed out every random trending topic or catch all breaking news. The company also makes it clear that the algorithm doesn't block any topics from trending. This is essentially a response to the countless Justin Bieber fans complaining that Bieber is no longer a trending topic.
The move is a good one, but one the company should have made long ago. The value of trending topics has dropped for many over the last few years. Perhaps this change will make them relevant again.
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Pont de l'Europe, estación de Saint-Lazare es un cuadro del pintor francés Claude Monet. Data del año 1877 y se trata de un óleo que mide 64 cm de alto por 81 cm de ancho. Actualmente se encuentra en el Museo Marmottan-Monet de París, Francia.

Monet pintó varias series, esto es, cuadros que, teniendo el mismo objeto, diferían entre sí por mostrarlo con distintas condiciones de iluminación, representándolos en diversos estados. Se ha señalado como posible fuente de inspiración de estas series el arte japonés.

La serie sobre la estación de Saint-Lazare en París es la primera de ellas. Monet mostró siete variaciones sobre este tema en la exposición de los impresionistas de 1877, entre ellas este Pont de l'Europe.

El humo del ferrocarril resulta un atractivo soporte de la luz. El humo y la luz del cielo se unen, extendiéndose, «como un velo de seda sobre la banal estación y las fachadas de las casas».

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Arte de paisajes
Museo Marmottan-Monet
Cuadros de Francia de los años 1870
Cuadros de 1877
Francia en 1877
Obras de arte en París

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507th Parachute Infantry Regiment veterans return to Normandy in July 2002 to dedicate a monument to their regiment.
Capt. Bob Rae recounts his role in the battle for LaFière causeway while revisiting the site in July 2002. Rae, who appears in D-Day: Down to Earth, died in September 2003.
The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment Memorial was dedicated July 23, 2002 in Amfreville, France.


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Judge Ann Power SC, Presiding Judge of the Constitutional Court Chamber of the Kosovo Specialist Chamber and former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Damen Naval Contracts OSI for German F126 Programme
Comprehensive IBMS and ECPINS
OSI Maritime Systems (OSI) has been selected by Damen Naval to provide a comprehensive navigation suite to the German Navy's F126 programme, the company announced on 6 October. The contract includes Integrated Bridge Management Systems (IBMS) for the frigates and land-based test and training sites.
ECPINS, which powers all the solutions, forms the heart of OSI's IMO type-approved Integrated Navigation System – MSC 252(83), and is the leading WECDIS among NATO and allied navies, representing over 35 years of continuous development. Already 80% compliant to STANAG 4564 Edition 3, ECPINS is on a funded development track to full compliance.
"The German Navy [is] our 24th customer and [will be able to] experience the exceptional capabilities of OSI's Warship IBMS and WECDIS systems," observed Ken Kirkpatrick, President and CEO. "More so, the system design will share the same commonality, scalability, and ECPINS navigation performance with that of other NATO and allied customers."
The ECPINS family consists of versions for surface vessels, submarines, and high-speed small craft, enabling fleet commonality, interoperability, and reduced maintenance and training costs. In addition, ECPINS and OSI's IBMS underlying technology allows for integration into an array of other warship systems. As part of this programme, the IBMS will be integrated into the Thales TACTICOS Management System and provide the Position Navigation and Time (PNT) for all the F126 systems and networks.
Jim Davison, VP Business Development, added "ECPINS is ideally suited to the German Navy because ECPINS pilotage features are all based upon the Royal Navy BR45 Navigation series and are employed by the majority of NATO and close allied navies. In addition, ECPINS also provides powerful operational benefits, such as a military-grade chart engine, advanced automatic Pool of Errors, GNSS Denied, and Tactical Data Sharing between Surface ships and small craft ECPINS".
As a result of OSI's growing regional customer base and commitment to service, the company is extending its support hub in the UK. Over 40 programme managers, system engineers and maintenance experts will support its client navies in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Also, OSI is finalising arrangements for German local industrial participation for the F126 and other German Navy programmes.
A rendering of the bridge of the German Navy's F126-class frigates. (Image: OSI)


If Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's educational vision outlined in his State of the City address this week were to materialize, the community colleges of the City University of New York would become virtually the only community colleges in the country without open admissions.
Under open admissions, anyone with a high school diploma or equivalent may enter a community college. New York City's 6 community colleges, and the 1,200 across the nation, are organized around the mission of serving the broad educational needs of their communities. They offer a kind of educational second chance, including technical and vocational programs as well as liberal arts, to a student body that is typically older and more part time than in traditional four-year colleges.
Many students, professors, politicians and trustees, including the CUNY board's chairwoman, rejected the Mayor's proposal and predicted that it would not be enacted.
''We have to take these students and see what we can do with them,'' she said.
Assemblyman Edward C. Sullivan, a Manhattan Democrat who is chairman of the Assembly's Higher Education Committee, pledged to do ''everything I can'' to fight the Mayor's proposal. ''It would be disastrous for the city of New York,'' said Mr. Sullivan, who has scheduled a hearing on CUNY's future for Jan. 29.
Even if the Mayor seems unlikely to win support for ending 28 years of open admissions at CUNY, he touched a more politically popular note in calling for higher standards, a theme some City University officials and trustees were quick to embrace and that reflects directions in which the board is already moving.
Satish K. Babbar, one of Mr. Giuliani's five appointees to the 17-member board, also threw his vote behind the Mayor. ''It may be a bitter pill to swallow at this time, but we are looking to raise standards, and I'm for it,'' he said.
But the board, with 10 Pataki appointees, 5 mayoral appointees, a student member and a nonvoting faculty representative, is clearly divided. What troubles some trustees and educators is that while it is easy to bar students who do not do well, it is more difficult to find ways to keep such students in school and help them learn to read and write and think critically -- particularly students who have done poorly during their high school years or who work full time while they attend school.
The biggest challenge for many community college professors is to find ways to keep such students engaged so they will become more skilled and better educated, rather than to dump them when they do not measure up.
CUNY's trustees have long faced this tension. For example, the university's teacher education programs, which are being pressed to show that their students can do better passing state licensing examinations, are moving to raise their own admissions standards but also to improve the courses they offer.
Several trustees warned that CUNY should not set higher barriers than other colleges do.


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Estimation of Mortality and Hospital Admissions Attributed to Criteria Air Pollutants in Tehran Metropolis, Iran (2013–2016)
Category: Air Pollution and Health Effects
Volume: 17 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 2474-2481
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2017.04.0128
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Mostafa Hadei1, Philip K. Hopke2,3, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari4, Maryam Yarahmadi5, Abbas Shahsavani 6,7, Mohammad Reza Alipour7
1 Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran
2 Center for Air Resources Engineering and Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA
3 Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
4 Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5 Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
6 Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
7 Environmental and Occupational Hazards Control Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Pollutants' concentrations in the third year were lower than the first year.
The health impacts attributed to PM10 have increased in the third year.
The health impacts of PM2.5, O3, NO2, and SO2 have decreased in the third year.
PM2.5 and PM10 have shown the highest number of deaths.
Health impact assessments are useful for governmental authorities and decision-makers to determine the need for action and address potential public health problems arising from exposure to air pollution. The present study was conducted to assess the short-term health impacts of ambient air pollution in Tehran using the AirQ 2.2.3 model for March 2013–March 2016. Hourly concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, O3, NO2 and SO2 were acquired from the Department of Environment (DOE) and Tehran Air Quality Control Company (TAQCC). Air pollution data was validated according to the USEPA criteria, and only valid monitoring stations for each of the three years were entered to the AirQ 2.2.3 model. The pollutant concentrations were lower in the March 2015 March 2016 period compared to the previous years. The three-year average (± standard deviation) of PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations were 80.21 (± 34.21) and 39.17 (± 17.26) µg m–3, respectively. The three-year averages (± standard deviation) for ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and sulphur dioxide (SO2) were 54.88 (± 24.15), 103.97 (± 25.88) and 39.84 (± 11.17) µg m–3, respectively. The total estimated number of deaths attributed to PM10, PM2.5, O3, NO2 and SO2 over these three years were 4192, 4336, 1363, 2830, and 1216, respectively. The health impacts attributed to all pollutants except for PM10 were estimated to decrease in 2016, compared to the prior years. However, the air quality in Tehran still poses significant risks to public health. In conclusion, urgent efforts are needed such as mandating the replacing of old and poorly functioning vehicles from the roadways in order to reduce the health burden that air pollution is currently imposing on this city.
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Kevin Durant makes excuses for no-calls against LeBron James on Christmas Day
Kevin Durant makes excuses for no-calls against LeBron James on Christmas Day[Image by YouTube screencap / NBA]
Durant had a lot to say about people who called him out for his late-game fouls.
by Shawn Lealos (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
December 25, 2017 at 8:52 PM December 25, 2017 at 8:52 PM
The Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers on Christmas Day but there were a lot of fans who questioned the methods of Warriors star Kevin Durant down the line at the end of the game. During critical moments in the fourth quarter, Durant fouled LeBron James at least two times but never got called for the fouls. After the Warriors beat the Cavaliers, 99-92, reporters questioned him about getting away with the fouls and Kevin shook off the complaints while insulting anyone who saw the fouls against LeBron.
Kevin Durant calls out fans
After the game, Kevin Durant admitted that he heard Cleveland Cavaliers players trying to convince officials to eject Durant for his technical fouls.
However, Kevin said that the Cavaliers didn't really want him out of the game because they didn't want to win that way. Durant also said it is part of the rules but he didn't really believe they were serious.
Durant then attacked any fans who thought that the referees should have called the fouls that he committed against LeBron James in the fourth quarter. His exact words were "keep that s--t on Twitter." Durant claimed he thought it was "clean" and then said that fans who wanted him ejected probably played games at the "24 Hour Fitness" and would complain if anyone called fouls on them if they did the same thing.
The Kevin Durant fouls
The first of the two Kevin Durant fouls that referees ignored came when he hip-checked LeBron James and sent him to the ground.
This really upset LeBron but Durant wasn't finished yet. James took Kevin off the dribble and Durant fouled him with an initial reach and then fouled him again when LeBron went for the layup. The referees ignored both calls and that led to the Cleveland Cavaliers loss.
Interestingly, Kevin Durant was caught by cameras claiming that LeBron James was "too big" for Durant to get the foul.
After the game, Kevin then accused the Cleveland Cavaliers of trying to get him tossed but he said they failed in that plan and lost the game as a result.
The technicals were very different than the instance with Kevin Durant fouling LeBron James at the end of the game. The technicals came when Jose Calderon fouled Durant. The referee actually called the foul on that occasion but then Durant bumped Calderon with the ball and the referee blew the second whistle.
Despite Durant's dirty play, the referees once again gave him the benefit of the doubt. That would have been a second technical but color commentator Jeff Van Gundy said that officials would refuse to eject Durant. Kevin Durant agreed.
"Hell nah. They're not tossing me in the first quarter," he told ESPN. "They're not tossing me in the first quarter over a little bump."
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Shawn Lealos is a freelance writer. Shawn received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Film Studies. He has worked as a journalist for over 20 years, first in the world of print journalism before moving to online media as the world changed.
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Will this tide ever turn?
On November 10, 2014 November 10, 2014 By Michael KirkeIn Culture Matters
Here is some common – and moral – sense from Peter Hitchens in the Mail Online. Why are there so few like him, ready to stand up against the corrupt forces of hedonism which are swamping our societies?
The mystery of sex education is that parents put up with it at all. It began about 50 years ago, on the pretext that it would reduce unmarried teen pregnancies and sexual diseases. Every time these problems got worse, the answer was more sex education, more explicit than before.
Since then, unmarried pregnancies have become pretty much normal, and sexual diseases – and the 'use' of pornography – are an epidemic.
It is only thanks to frantic free handouts of 'morning after' pills and an abortion massacre that the number of teenage mothers has finally begun to level off after decades in which it zoomed upwards across the graph paper.
In a normal, reasonable society, a failure as big as this would cause a change of mind. Not here.
If you try to question sex education, you are screamed at by fanatics. This is because it isn't, and never has been, what it claims to be. Sex education is propaganda for the permissive society. It was invented by the communist George Lukacs, schools commissar during the insane Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, to debauch the morals of Christian schoolgirls.
It works by breaking taboos and by portraying actions as normal that would once have been seen as wrong. Last week we learned that the Government has officially endorsed material which says sex at 13, 'for those of similar age and developmental ability', is normal.
This is, no doubt, a point of view. In a free society, people are entitled to hold it, even if it is rather creepy. But do you want your child's school to endorse it? And how does it square with our incessant frenzied panic about child sex abuse?
If we are so keen on the innocence of the young – and I very much think we should be – then surely this sort of radical propaganda is deeply dangerous. We do not give schools this huge power over the minds of the young for such a purpose.
How odd it is that we teach 13-year-olds to go forth and multiply, but can't somehow teach them their times tables. Shouldn't it be the other way round?
And this might serve as a footnote to Hitchens' piece. It was reported in the current issue of The Week.
Doctors have been urged to look out for children whose health may be suffering as a result of sexting or revenge porn, reports The Sunday Times. GPs have previously been warned that children who seem withdrawn, or who complain of mysterious stomach pains or headaches, may be being bullied or abused. Now, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has advised its members to be aware that the growing practice of circulating sexual images online can be similarly harmful, and that even very young children are being affected. "Children and young people today are facing unprecedented pressures at a younger and younger age," said Dr Maureen Baker, chair of the RCGP. Research by the NSPCC found that 20% of 11 and 12-year-olds who are active on social media report being upset on a daily basis by trolling, cyberbullying and/or sexual imagery.
Of course we can expect plenty of outraged idiots to come forward and tell us that the is no connection between the kind of exposure which is going on in classrooms and this phenomenon.
Child abusePeter Hitchenssex education
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On a clear and calm day,there are nice hiking courses for good walkers and beginners which we would like to recommend. For example, walking along the halfway course of Lake Ashi (15km), climbing Mt.Komagatake (1300m) and Mt.Kami (1,400m), hiking from Hakone Yumoto to Lake Ashi(10km), getting the panorama view of Mt.Fuji from Mt.Kintoki(1200m).
It was a nice sunny morning, and 4 of us met at Hakone Station at 9:30. I think Hiking to Mt. Kintoki (Mt.Kintoki (金時山) is 1213 meters in height and the highest peak of the outer rim of the Hakone crater) is one of the most popular courses in Hakone area because of the spectacular views (Mt. Fuji, Lake Ashi, South Alps, Yatsugatake) and Onsen (hot spring). We took a bus from Hakoneyumoto station to Sengoku for about an 30 mins for 1300 yen, and started to hike from Kintoki Jinja Guchi. Mt. Kintoki is a great hike, as well as a culturally important mountain. It is the legendary home of Kintaro, a magical boy. There are many trails to access the mountain, and some of them can be pretty challenging. Additionally, there is a bus pass offered by the Hakone Tozan bus that covers all of the bus stops with access to the mountain.
It was interesting that Lake Ashi was tiny and unrecognisable at the beginning, but it became bigger and bigger as we climbed higher. There were some rocky places with chains/ropes, but still easy to hike for most people. After an hour and half of the hike, we finally reached the summit of Mt. Kintoki.


Returned to blogging after a long break. It's been raining and gazing at it from my indoors is the only acceptable thing about this season for me, given the fact that I live in Mumbai. The muggy days, they don't lift my spirits be it indoors or outdoors. Life seemed to be jammed and world-weariness was ripping me apart. But come what may I never let my curiosity sink. I keep seeking change and have always been open to new horizons. Every year I spend summers at my ancestral home in Mangalore. For the most part of summers, the place is abuzz with annual celebrations at the temples and homes. I hail from a family that is always upbeat to keep up with traditions and rituals. I have unceasingly wondered, why are the folks dead set on following these traditions and rituals? I remember reading eminent writer Shyam Manohar say, "Traditions are not to be preserved nor are they to be deliberately broken. They are to be reformed by making unknown known." May be my clan was doing just that, making the unknown known. Getting back to my downpour blues, I was just looking forward to find some cheerfulness and motivation to muddle through my day to day grind. Finding myself off the path I realised that it was my chance to build my own trail and walk over it. With the onset of festive seasons the mood changed favorably. I happened to be at my cousins place for 'Rakshabandhan', to celebrate the brother-sister bonding more so my family bonding. This is something I accept without kicking up a fuss, I am never let down. Being there with the brood, discussing big and small things in life was much of a soul lifting experience. Somehow it showed in the highly desired 'Hygge' into my life. It occurred to me that traditions are noteworthy. They link the folks and give them a sense of being part of an extensive lineage. Beliefs and ideals of a clan can be metamorphosed into effective channels to initiate enduring and expressive traditions. They need not be imposing with long drawn preparations. All that counts is the aura and vivacity one invests into making it happen. Traditions let the hoi polloi bred into an everyday existence, get hang of the occurences that handed out to them an individuality and a virtue sufficient to renounce the unwanted. It is then, amongst the jostling hordes of emotions the right one finds pride of place. Cheer cannot be hunted for, outside of self nor can be bought. It comes about when thoughts are clearer and souls are lighter. I have set myself on to that path, an odyssey of the obscure to the obvious.


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Fugitive Nathan Jacobson, a friend of Harper, you decide
Fugitive businessman with Tory ties arrested in Toronto
By John Nichol
Fugitive Nathan Jacobson, whose ties to the federal Conservatives made him the subject of recent Question Period queries from opposition benches, was arrested at his home in Toronto Thursday afternoon.
The Winnipeg-born businessman had his bail denied in Toronto court Friday and remains in Toronto's West Detention Centre awaiting another appearance Oct. 31.
U.S. Justice authorities in San Diego had told CBC they were upset that no Canadian law enforcement agencies had responded to their July 30 warrant for his arrest when Jacobson failed to attend court after pleading guilty to money laundering.
With others, Jacobson had set up an online pharmacy known as Affpower, based in Costa Rica, that sold drugs to Americans without prescriptions from 2004 to 2006. The 58-year-old was originally charged with several counts of fraud, money laundering and the distribution and dispensing of controlled substances, but he co-operated with authorities and pleaded guilty in 2008 to laundering $46 million in drug payments.
He was expected to serve a four-year sentence, but failed to show up at pre-sentencing.
An international red notice — a warrant issued for a flight risk — was certified this week by a Canadian judge for the sometime philanthropist who made millions selling GMproducts and setting up gas stations in post-Soviet Russia.
U.S. District Attorney Philip Halpern of San Diego would not comment on the arrest because the matter is before "judicial processes."
Claimed he was friends with Baird, Kenney
Calls by CBC on Friday to his three lawyers, his wife and business partner were not returned.
In recent years, Jacobson had spent much time in the corridors of power, both in Israel and Canada, and in March a smiling Jacobson was photographed between both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a reception in Ottawa. Jacobson claimed to have worked on the 2008 campaign for the Tories and was also considered a friend of cabinet ministers Jason Kenney and John Baird.
But when challenged earlier this year on their relationship to Jacobson, both ministers said they were oblivious to Jacobson's legal problems.
Jacobson himself had initiated a lawsuit against Conservative MP Mark Adler last fall for what he claims was a $265,000 loan. Adler, in court documents, denies that amount changed hands, and said what was given to him was a gift from Jacobson to expand his Economic Club of Canada to the United States.
Besides donating more than $10,000 to the Conservative Party in recent years, Jacobson was prominent in his philanthropy within the Jewish community. Source
Who's the man between the prime ministers?
By Michael Harri
Stephen Harper, Nathan Jacobson, Benjamin Netanyahu
Whatever the relationship between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Nathan Jacobson, the high-flying Canadian businessman now a fugitive from U.S. justice, one thing is certain: they certainly didn't just run into each other at a "community event" as the PMO claims.
Jacobson had an intimate relationship with several senior Harper cabinet ministers, paid off a CSIS agent while doing business in Russia, and apparently finessed a secret settlement out of the Canadian government under the Liberal administration of Jean Chretien even though the government denied ruining Jacobson's business interests abroad.
Notwithstanding the Harper PMO's ludicrous official line that "the prime minister may have met with Mr. Jacobson at a community event, as he meets thousands of Canadians from all walks of life each year," perhaps they would be good enough explain this: who is the man standing between the prime ministers of Canada and Israel and how did he make his way into the inner sanctums of the current government?
For a prime minister who has lived through the murky departure of Arthur Porter, his handpicked chair of the Security and Intelligence Review Committee, and who also hired convicted felon Bruce Carson as a senior policy analyst and troubleshooter, it is a momentous question.
Porter left office under a cloud after his dealings in Africa with an arms dealer were revealed, and now faces a police investigation from his days at the McGill Hospital Health Centre and a billion-dollar contract the hospital awarded to disgraced Canadian engineering firm SNC Lavalin Group Inc.
Carson was a lawyer who had been jailed and disbarred for multiple counts of fraud, a criminal past that, according to his own lawyer, was fully disclosed to the government during a security check before joining the inner circle of the PM's staff.
And so, to Nathan Jacobson: For a man with a devastating secret, the Winnipeg-born businessman lived like a male version of Cinderella – until the legal clock struck midnight.
He was rich, powerful, funny, generous, and very well-connected. The Jewish community never had a more dedicated son. Well known for his philanthropy, Jacobson and his wife Lindi were staunch backers of Israel. After high school in Winnipeg, Jacobson spent six years in the Israeli Defense Forces.
The couple were major sponsors of an event in September 2007 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the "re-unification of Jerusalem." Jacobson was also a sponsor of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football club, a franchise that Gerald Schwartz of Onex Corporation once considered buying. (It was ultimately acquired by two Russian oligarchs in December 2007. Ironically, they were associated with the Russian defence corporation Rosoboronexport, Syria's top weapons supplier.)
In October, 2010, when the Royal Winnipeg Ballet celebrated its 70th anniversary with performances in Israel, two of the major funders of the tour were Gerald Schwartz and Nathan Jacobson.
Even Jacobson's anonymous philanthropy sometimes drew attention. A visitor to his ancestral home, Pavolitch in western Ukraine, admired how the Jewish cemetery there had been restored and noted the local talk about the modest benefactor whose name doesn't appear at the site. "The renovations were done there a couple of years ago by a guy named Nathan Jacobson…"
The blogger posted photos of the restored graveyard on the internet. On the chain-link fence around the burial ground was a sign that read, "The cemetery is renovated by descendants of the Jews buried here, in their blessed memory." The blogger got this response from a native son of Winnipeg who knew Jacobson from childhood days: "He's about 10 years older than me and grew up around the corner … Nathan is an apparently successful international-man-of-mystery kind of guy."
Not badly said.
The blogger posted photos of the restored graveyard on the internet. On the chain-link fence around the burial ground was a sign…
Jacobson's business acumen and philanthropy made him legendary in both Canada and Israel. He was honoured at the 38th Annual Sports dinner in Winnipeg on June 23, 2010. "Nathan lives in Herzylia, Israel and is the current International Ambassador of Jerusalem," a local paper gushed. Eleven hundred people attended the event, including the Israeli ambassador who flew in to the evening.
There were glowing profiles in the Winnipeg Jewish Review, a favorable notice in the Jewish National Fund of Canada newsletter, and praise in newspapers like the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz for his entrepreneurial brilliance.
Jacobson was busy in the world of the boardroom too, holding positions on the Jewish National Fund, Meir Hospital and the Ukrainian Jewish Congress. He also sat on the Board of Tel Aviv University and personally funded two faculty recruitment chairs at TAU, bringing over young researchers from Toronto. One of his fellow board members was Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate and, according to Forbes, the 12th richest person in America.
The two men shared the same working-class roots as descendants of immigrants from the Ukraine and both were self-made tycoons. The businessmen have given generously to a variety of charitable causes and shown unwavering loyalty to the staunch right-wing policies of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and to neo-conservative causes in their own countries.
Adelson, for example, has worked ceaselessly to have convicted spy Jonathan Pollard released from a U.S. prison, lobbied Washington to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and championed former GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich after he declared the Palestinians to be an "invented people."
In the current U.S. election, Adelson has promised "limitless" funding to defeat the Democrats. He may be the only political donor in history to have given $10 million to political activists who also happen to be billionaires themselves. Charles and David Koch, the recipients of the contribution, and whose own companies have annual revenues of $100 billion and estimated personal net worths of more than $30 billion each, have dedicated the donation to taking down Barack Obama through their action committee, Americans for Prosperity.
If Romney and the GOP couldn't imagine a better supporter than Sheldon Adelson, Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party would have trouble finding a more dedicated backer than Nathan Jacobson.
Jacobson not only shared their conservative ideology, but put his money where his political heart was; from 2007 to 2011, he made the maximum donation to the party, and also gave to several individual Conservative riding associations.
The love did not go unrequited. Jacobson was a fixture at major events involving senior Harper cabinet ministers.
In May 2009, he was master of ceremonies for the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel, an event that took place in the West Block of Parliament. He introduced the keynote speaker – Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney.
The same month, Jacobson and Kenney appeared at a private party with Ezra Levant, an event attended by the who's who of conservative journalists, columnists, and bloggers. The guests included Mark Steyn, Stephen Taylor, who would be appointed a director at the National Citizens Coalition on December 7, 2010; Kevin Libin, who published the controversial Danish cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammed while at the Western Standard; Sun Media's Brian Lilley; and National Post columnist Father Raymond de Souza. One of the pictures posted on the internet by an attendee of the event shows Nathan Jacobson with his arm around a smiling Father de Souza.
When then Transport minister John Baird travelled to Israel in March 2010 to examine airport security methods (principally behavioral analysis to identify human threats), Nathan Jacobson was photographed with Baird at Israel's holiest site, the Western Wall.
On November 4, 2012 the Mount Carmel dinner will be held in Toronto at the Fairmont Hotel hosted by the Canadian Friends of the University of Haifa. Immigration Minister Kenney is scheduled to receive an honorary degree that night. The campaign chair for the event was to have been Nathan Jacobson.
That was before an extraordinary disclosure by the U.S. Department of Justice put an end, perhaps temporarily, to Jacobson's life at the pinnacle of business and political elites in two countries. Though his troubles had been brewing for some time, the official date of his exit from the corridors of business and political power was July 30, 2012.
It was on that day that the millionaire-philanthropist was supposed to appear for sentencing in front of a California judge. He had quietly plead guilty on May 7, 2008 to charges of conspiring to commit money-laundering, including clearing $46 million through his credit card clearing company, RX Payments Ltd.. Judge Irma Gonzalez issued an arrest warrant for the convicted fugitive and Nathan Jacobson, dual citizen of Canada and Israel, went to ground.
The investigation by U.S. authorities had been painstaking, involving special agents from six federal agencies including the DEA, FBI, and the IRS. Their work led to a 313-count indictment against 18 people on July 27, 2007. The individuals, including doctors and businessmen, were all involved to varying degrees with Affpower, an internet-based prescription pharmaceutical business.
The delay in sentencing Jacobson after his guilty plea following multiple charges of fraud, money laundering, and the distribution and dispensing of a controlled substance through an on-line pharmacy, is a familiar story. Jacobson made a deal with U.S. prosecutors. In exchange for his cooperation in the continuing criminal investigation of Affpower, Jacobson's file was sealed — for six years as things turned out.
He had, in fact, been indicted in 2006, pleading guilty two years later. Over the next several years, he continued his career in the business and political stratosphere. No one apparently knew he had been fined $4.5 million for his part in the scheme, or that he could be looking at a possible 20-year stint in prison when he finally had to stand in front of an America judge for sentencing.
After his guilty plea was made public, the exits began to clog with friends, contacts, and business partners who didn't know much about Jacobson's dealings or history and who reduced their relationships with him to distant associations, or, as in the case of the PMO, chance acquaintanceship.
According to his office, Foreign affairs minister John Baird knew Jacobson, but didn't know about his legal transgressions. Nor did the minister meet with Jacobson during an official trip to Myanmar in 2012. Jacobson was reportedly traveling in Asia, possibly Myanmar, when the indictment against him was unsealed.
Jacobson's is reported to have had a connection with Myanmar Access, a company that was created in 2012 to develop business opportunities in the former Burma. The company was based in the same city, Yangon, that Baird travelled to in 2012 after Canada decided to open an embassy in the third most corrupt nation on earth. (On a list of 182 nations, only North Korea and Somalia are considered more corrupt.) Baird told Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, "We would love to play a bigger role in development and trade and commerce," an objective Nathan Jacobson would have heartily seconded.
Treasury Board President Tony Clement's office said that the minister knew Jacobson, but had no idea of his U.S. conviction before July 30, 2012 or the activities that led to it.
Former business associate Alan Bell said in a telephone interview from Toronto that he knew nothing about Jacobson's American legal problems.
Stephen Harper's Director of Communications did not return calls for this piece. But this is what Andrew MacDougall told Postmedia's Stephen Maher, the journalist who broke the Jacobson money-laundering story: "I understand the prime minister may have met with Mr. Jacobson at a community event, as he meets thousands of Canadians from all walks of life each year."
It was intended to be an official response, but it was more like the PMO's debut in stand-up comedy – unless you believe someone gets their picture taken between the prime ministers of Canada and Israel on a particularly significant day by running into them at a political barbecue.
Netanyahu's appearance in Ottawa in 2010 was the first official visit to Canada by an Israeli PM since 1993. Relations between the two countries had been strained in 1997 after the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, used forged Canadian passports in an assassination attempt against Khaled Meshal, a political official of Hamas. Canada recalled its ambassador over the affair.
The murder weapon the agents tried to use was a fast-acting nerve gas. President Bill Clinton was outraged and insisted that Israel turn over the antidote to the lethal poison after the Israeli agents were arrested. Netanyahu, who had approved the operation, complied. He later apologized for the dismal incident.
According to Haaretz, Netanyahu turned to renowned American propagandist Arthur Finkelstein after the disastrously botched Mossad assassination attempt. Netanyahu escaped a police investigation into allegedly sharing classified information with a a foreign national, because of lack of evidence. Finkelstein was widely credited with being the architect of Netanyahu's first win as PM in 1996 when the hardliner defeated the moderate Shimon Peres.
The day of the photograph in Canada with Jacobson, Harper and Netanyahu, May 30th 2010, was noteworthy in another way. At 10 pm eastern, 4 a.m. Gaza time, Israeli commandos dropped down from a helicopter onto a Turkish aid ship 60 kilometers out to sea in international waters and killed nine people onboard in the ensuing confrontation.
It touched off a major international incident and caused the cancellation of a visit between the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed that the commandos, armed with automatic weapons, acted in "self-defense" against aid-workers brandishing clubs and knives after their vessel was boarded. The government of Turkey called it a gross breach of international law.
Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC) annual ACTION party in Toronto in March 2010. (Left to right) Bernie Farber, Nathan Jacobson and then Transport Minister John Baird. Photo: Mitchel Raphael
Despite the ghosts of both the near and distant past, Netanyahu's visit to Canada went off briliantly. He gave a rousing speech at the Ricoh Coliseum at the CNE grounds in Toronto on Sunday, May 30th at the opening ceremony of Walk With Israel, an event to raise money for educational and social projects in Israel. The visit moved to Ottawa, and Jacobson's photo with the two PMs happened the same day.
No one in the Harper government, including Canada's foreign minister (Baird personally met Netanyahu at the Ottawa Airport on May 30, 2010), had apparently read the Israeli newspapers just three days before that power picture was taken.
If they had, they would have known that Haaretz had run a story about a police complaint focusing on PayGea, a Canadian company that entered the Israeli market in 2008. That was the year that Nathan Jacobson entered his guilty plea on money-laundering charges and also the year he moved to Israel. PayGea was controlled by Jacobson. It provided on-line services similar to Paypal Inc., but specialized in clearing payments for medicines, legal soft pornography and gambling sites.
The police complaint had its origins in irregularities at a subsidiary of Israel Discount Bank (IDB).The chairman of the bank had been removed in 2009 after Globes, an Israeli business publication published in Hebrew, unearthed "anomalies in the clearing of credit card transactions on the internet at ICC-Cal", a subsidiary of IDB.
Visa International levied a heavy fine against ICC-Cal for deviations from rules governing electronic commerce. The subsidiary then cut ties with the problematic clearing companies. A substantial portion of those problems were related to PayGea, the company owned by Nathan Jacobson, although the formal police complaint was sworn out against the former CEO of ICC-Cal.
On April 2, 2012, Jacobson's on-line clearing company halted its Israeli operations without warning, leaving behind debts running into the millions of shekels. As one of Paygea's creditors told Globes, "One morning they were simply gone."
And so was Jacobson.
A full three months before senior members of the Harper government, including John Baird and Jason Kenney, said they learned of Jacobson's dark side with the unsealing of his U.S. indictment, Paygea was an open scandal in Israel – a country in which both ministers had more than a passing interest and excellent contacts.
But even if Harper cabinet ministers and the PMO didn't read the papers, they could have learned a lot about the man posing between the two prime ministers by looking into a lawsuit launched by Jacobson against the Attorney-General of Canada and various members of CSIS, Export Development Canada (EDC), and the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), when the Liberals were in power. John LeCarre would have found the legal twists and turns novelistic.
It is not every day that someone takes Canada's domestic spy agency to court, but that is exactly what Jacobson did in 1998. The case, which dragged on until 2004, laid out serious allegations about several CSIS agents, including Robert Fluke, who in the mid-90s worked on the Russian Desk of the intelligence agency.
According to Jacobson's statement of claim, he and his company, The West Group Inc., were directed by Fluke to enter into two joint ventures in 1995 and 1996. Jacobson further alleged that Fluke advised him not to "bother with written agreements" because "Fluke would ensure that the parties would comply with obligations."
Two questions come to mind: Why would a CSIS agent be telling a private Canadian businessman in Russia who to do business with? Just as peculiar, why would the businessman comply? Both of these unorthodox business arrangements ended up in court with Jacobson as plaintiff in each case.
One of them, a joint venture with Anatoly Rozenberg and his company Sealand Petroleum, was settled. Jacobson claimed that the settlement was reached after he complied with a request from Robert Fluke to remove all references to CSIS from the lawsuit.
But the second deal, brokering an arrangement to sell Russian medical isotopes to a Toronto company, proved more intractable to settle. Jacobson claimed that he did not name CSIS in his pleadings at the request of Fluke. But when Fluke allegedly asked him to discontinue the lawsuit against the second company, Jacobson refused. Even though Fluke had not been named in the action, his name came up in the discovery process.
According to Jacobson's statement of claim, "During the conversation, Fluke advised that he was aware that it was critical to the success of Jacobson's business to be able to obtain visas so that Russian businessmen could travel to Canada … Fluke also advised Jacobson that he could place a negative report in the central government computer about Jacobson that would scuttle any further visa applications by Jacobson."
Jacobson, who claimed that he was coerced into paying part of the rent on Fluke's condominium and making small presents to the agent's family, continued with his lawsuit against the Toronto company. Immediately after the CSIS agent allegedly suggested he could block visa applications for Jacobson's foreign associates, something strange happened: for the first time in eight years, a routine request for visitors' visas for Russian businessmen interested in coming to Canada and doing business with Jacobson was refused by the Canadian Embassy in Moscow.
According to Jacobson's statement of claim, the responsible embassy officials "refused to issue the visas due to a false, negative report about the plaintiff placed on the Government's computer network system through CSIS by Fluke … the Royal Canadian Mounted Police approved the request for visa clearance … The visa clearance was never granted only due to the conduct on the part of CSIS, and specifically on the part of Fluke."
As a result of the visa denial, one of the Russians involved, Leonid Tarasenko of JSK Nefto-Service, opted to make a deal with a German supplier and Jacobson lost the deal. Even though the two other Russian businessmen involved eventually got their visas, it took months. By then, they too had decided to deal with a German company. Other Russians who were refused visas included the Chairman of the Federal Industrial Bank from Uzbekhistan and the General Director of the Liksar Vodka Company.
Jacobson fixed his business losses at millions of dollars, including the loss of credit lines at the EDC and the CCC totaling $64 million because both agencies were allegedly aware of the damning CSIS report about him. In his lawsuit against the Attorney General of Canada, which included several amended statements of claim as Jacobson gathered new information, his settlement demand went from $5-million in 1998 to $50-million by 2004, and a further $1 million in punitive damages plus legal costs.
Jacobson's lawsuit wasn't restricted to lost contracts. He was also suing over loss of reputation, defamation, and the violation of his rights under Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Jacobson claimed that two companies he had represented in Russia and the Ukraine, Thermo Tech Technologies Inc. and Global Technologies, had decided to appoint him President and director. Before doing so, it was decided to conduct a due-diligence check. The president of Thermo Tech, Owen Anderson, allegedly reported to his management team in September 1998 that a representative of CSIS had advised him against appointing Jacobson because it could create a "scandal".
According to Jacobson's statement of claim, Anderson was told by CSIS that "Jacobson is heavily involved in criminal activities, specifically, narcotics, representing the Russian mafia in Canada, bringing over Russian members of the mafia to Canada – and other criminal activities. Jacobson is under close scrutiny by CSIS who are planning to arrest Jacobson in the near future."
The directors who heard Anderson's report at their 1998 meeting and whose names appeared in Jacobson's statement of claim, initially decided not to give him the executive appointments.
When Jacobson was informed of their decision, he demanded an apology from Anderson and full disclosure of the person at CSIS who had uttered the alleged defamations. Anderson demurred through legal counsel, claiming a "qualified privilege" to the information. But in Jacobson's amended statement of claim in 2003, he said that Anderson changed his story.
"Anderson subsequently advised, as did the Attorney General of Canada, that there were two representatives of CSIS at the meeting with Anderson, Jennifer Joseph and Cherie Henderson. Mr. Anderson is not certain which of these officers made the disparaging remarks about Mr. Jacobson, including a statement that she 'wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole' when asked if she would do business with Jacobson."
Anderson was dropped as a defendant from the lawsuit and replaced by the two CSIS agents, who, oddly enough, were named in a statement of defense by the Crown.
Jacobson had commenced the legal action as a last resort. At the beginning of his visa difficulties in 1997, his lawyers had formally complained to the Attorney General of Canada about the alleged situation. Oddly, there was no reply to his serious complaints. Jacobson claimed that Fluke then told him "that he was aware of the letter [to the AG] and that Jacobson should not waste his time as nothing would be done since CSIS would simply use the excuse that this was a matter of national security and therefore nothing would be done."
Jacobson travelled down another avenue to try to solve his problem with the Canadian government. He took his case to the First Secretary at the Canadian Embassy-Visa Section in Moscow. He asked Douglas Agnew to contact the RCMP Joint Task Force on Eastern European Crime to verify Jacobson's good reputation.
According to Jacobson's statement of claim, "Subsequently, Agnew advised that he had contacted the RCMP and received a positive report about Jacobson. He further indicated, however, he would have to proceed on a case-by-case basis [visa applications] given the fact that there was still this negative report on the system from CSIS. Agnew advised Jacobson that the report contained very damning information about Jacobson."
(Jacobson claimed that Fluke had originally told him that if he dropped his legal action against the Canadian isotope supplier, the alleged CSIS report could be removed from the government's computers in fourteen days, a claim, like all the others, that Fluke denied.)
There was one other critical component to Jacobson's allegations against the Canadian government when he went to court. He claimed that not only had a false report been entered into the government's computer system by CSIS, but that the report had been shared with Russia's Federal Security Service, (FSB), the intelligence successor to the Soviet-era KGB.
This in turn led to a major, and according to Jacobson, damaging investigation into his business activities by Russian authorities. At one time, Jacobson employed 1,800 workers in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus, built eight fuel terminals and 600 gas stations. The impression was being created, falsely and maliciously according to Jacobson, that his company, The West Group Inc., was up to no good.
Jacobson also complained about the toll on his private life caused by the government's stealth attack on his reputation:
"I have had to with visit a psychologist and psychiatrist due to the serious depression I was suffering as a result of these wrongful acts. My relationship with my wife has suffered such severe strain that our relationship almost ended. I have suffered tremendous stigmatization, loss of privacy, incredible stress and anxiety far beyond anything inherent in the failure of an ordinary business arrangement as a result of this conduct on the part of the Government of Canada…"
The Attorney General of Canada responded to Jacobson with a farrago of denial, delay, official secrecy, and legal pettifoggery – including the claim that because the businessman hadn't commenced his action within six months of the alleged damages, he had missed the statutory window to take legal action. The bureaucratic boa constrictor was squeezing tightly around information the plaintiff requested to support his case.
In its statement of defense on behalf of all the defendants, the Attorney General of Canada denied virtually all of Jacobson's allegations with one exception. The AG admitted that his office had not responded to a formal complaint from Jacobson's lawyers in 1997 about the visa refusals and the alleged involvement of CSIS.
The government specifically denied that a "false" report had ever been placed on its computer system by agent Fluke, or that the alleged report had been shared with Russian intelligence. It also denied that the two other CSIS agents named in the action, Joseph and Henderson, had defamed Jacobson to Owen Anderson. The AG went on to raise the issue of security certificates, the legal tool of choice in national security matters to withhold or redact documents, in an attempt to block Jacobson's access to information.
Under Section 37.(1) of the Canada Evidence Act "a Minister of the Crown in right of Canada or other official may object to the disclosure of information before a court, person or body with jurisdiction to compel production of information by certifying orally or in writing to the court, person or body that the information should not be disclosed on the grounds of a specified public interest." Jacobson objected to the government's motion and battled on.
The action moved at a snail's pace, with the government opposing Jacobson's multiple amended statements of claim and missing agreed-upon dates for providing documents. Jacobson had this to say about Agent Fluke in a sworn affidavit:
"Mr. Fluke, the former head of the Russian Desk for CSIS, has been suspended from CSIS permanently. Mr. Fluke was charged with accepting a benefit after a nine-month investigation by the RCMP. Mr. Fluke was suspended immediately when the charges were laid in June 1998, and even though the charges were stayed by the Crown Attorney in September 1998, Mr. Fluke was still suspended from his work at CSIS … The charge also indicated that I had provided a benefit to him although I only provided this benefit to him as I was coerced into providing the same, which consisted of providing a portion of the rent for his condominium on a monthly basis and also providing some small inexpensive gifts such as a playpen for his daughter and a mini-stereo…"
Pending the outcome of mediation, the stage was set for a bombshell court case pitting one of Canada's leading businessmen against the domestic spy agency and several crown corporations – all of it to be played out on centre-stage of the Canadian media universe, Toronto.
And then, nearly six years after it had begun, the Jacobson's lawsuit was suddenly dismissed without costs on a motion brought by the plaintiff and agreed to by the defendant. The case was settled out of court, though no record of a settlement could be found on the public accounts either under government departments or lawyers of record.
Jacobson's allegations against CSIS, EDB, and CCC were never established in court, nor were the Attorney General's blanket denials of any wrongdoing that caused harm to Jacobson's business operations. Since CSIS and the other Crown Agencies involved in the action were blameless, Jacobson wasn't entitled to a dime of damages – or so the government argued.
(Justice minister Rob Nicholson's office declined to comment on the settlement, claiming that inquiries should be directed to the lead agency in the matter, CSIS. CSIS spokesperson Tahera Mufti said the terms of the settlement were "confidential" and suggested an alternate source: Jacobson, whose whereabouts has been a matter of speculation.)
Notwithstanding the murkiness in which the lawsuit was resolved, Jacobson got right back to business before the legal dust settled. By May, 2004, they were talking in Israel about the dynamic businessman's latest venture, an online pharmacy called MagenDavidMeds.com. The idea was to sell drugs manufactured in the U.S. or Israel to American consumers at prices up to 70% lower than at the neighborhood pharmacy.
Jacobson's marketing focused on Jewish community media. He personally regarded the new business as a "social and Zionist mission." Many of his elderly customers faced a choice of buying medication, turning down the heat, or going without a hot meal. The whiz kid from Winnipeg was determined to give them another option by becoming a kind of pharmaceutical Robin Hood.
Not everyone was thrilled with his new business. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration frowned on Jacobson's venture, arguing that it couldn't guarantee the safety of the imported drugs and charging that the businessman had simply taken advantage of the "Canadian niche," the price gap between the cost of a particular drug in Canada and the U.S., where pharmaceutical prices are market driven. Pharmaceuticals are the most profitable sector in the U.S. economy and Jacobson was obviously rocking the boat.
And there was another new direction for this Canadian entrepreneur; the security business. Jacobson's long-running battle with the Attorney General of Canada, including his confession that he had made regular payments to a CSIS agent, didn't appear to limit his extraordinary access to some of the most sensitive intelligence issues in Canada.
In March 2006, three months after the Harper government took office, Jacobson was given access to do a four-day, independent security assessment of the oil sands with a team of experts paid for and provided by him. The six-member team included Alan Bell, former British SAS officer and president of Toronto-based Globe Risk Holdings; James G. Liddy, the son of Watergate's Gordon Liddy, and a former leader of the U.S. Navy's Antiterrorism Assessment Team; and Alon Moritiz, an Israeli computer expert.
Bell had already designed security protocols and armed tactical teams for Ontario's nuclear reactors. He wasn't impressed with what he saw: "You can't have a $9-an-hour security guard protecting this kind of asset," he told the Edmonton Journal. With 10 Muskoka-sized lakes full of highly corrosive toxic waste at the oil sands, a breach in one of the containment berms could produce what Jacobson told an Alberta cabinet minister would be "an environmental holocaust."
So how did a businessman with no obvious expertise in security matters gain access to the oil sands with a team that included foreign experts? One potential explanation is Jacobson's own declaration of his board memberships, which included The Mackenzie Institute.
When contacted about Jacobson's involvement in the organization, Editorial Director John Thompson said "I can't comment on that."
The Mackenzie Institute bills itself as an "independent non-profit organization" concerned about political instability and organized violence. The institute's July 2012 newsletter #88 compares the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to the rise of Hitler in Germany. The conservative think tank was founded in 1986 by Maurice Tugwell, a dashing veteran of British intelligence whose missions stretched from Palestine to Northern Ireland over a decades-long career. Tugwell was an expert in the use of propaganda.
Occasionally, the truth got in the way of his spin.
As head of the Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland from 1971 to 1973, he falsely told the BBC that four of the people murdered by Britain's Parachute Regiment in Derry on Bloody Sunday, sometimes known as the Bogside Massacre, were on a list of wanted men from the Irish Republican Army.
They were not. In fact, all 14 of the people killed, as well as the 12 who were wounded that January day in 1972, were unarmed civil rights marchers. Tugwell later apologized for his false statements after the Saville Inquiry, which heard from over 900 witnesses, established the innocence of all the murdered marchers. That finding wiped out the conclusions of an earlier inquiry that had whitewashed the troops' actions and the government's cover-up, a process in which Tugwell's misinformation had played a key part.
According to people who know both the prime minister and the organization, The Mackenzie Institute is well known to Stephen Harper from his time as vice-president and then president of the National Citizens Coalition, (NCC), as well as time spent in elected office.
In the early days of its existence, the fledgling Mackenzie Institute shared office space with the NCC. While he was writing his book about peace through power, Tugwell was given an office within the NCC premises. "That was before Harper's tenure, but he was certainly aware of The Mackenzie Institute. After all, there are only six true conservatives in Canada!", a former NCC employee quipped.
The Mackenzie Institute website has several pictures of the Prime Minister: Stephen Harper in conversation with Mackenzie Institute officials in 2006; a portrait of a smiling prime minister with the Chair of The Mackenzie Institute a month after Harper won his majority government, "subsequent to a briefing to the Prime Minister about the security of Canada's infrastructure". And a 2010 photo of Mackenzie Institute board member Nathan Jacobson, "Nathan enjoying some levity after a meeting with visiting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.
That picture of Jacobson between the two prime ministers disappeared from the Mackenzie Institute web site just prior to the publication of this article.
"The prime minister may have met with Mr. Jacobson at a community event, as he meets thousands of Canadians from all walks of life each year," asserts the PMO?
One picture is worth a thousand press secretaries.
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/09/28/whos-the-man-between-the-prime-ministers/
Nathan Jacobson, Jason Kenney and the representative of Dalton McGuinty at Israel rally in Toronto
The rally at the Canada Christian College. Organized by B'nai Brith, its purpose was to express the protest of those who stand for Israel, against the unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood. Source
Seems to me that the Conservatives, know Nathan Jacobson rather well after all. Seems they are rather close to this man.
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Q: Sorting Generic Array Type List With For Loop in Java I know how to sort generic array type list using build-in methods like .sort() etc. But, I want to sort the list manually using for-loop. Can anyone help me on this method?
Here is my ListClass
package AlgorithmAndDataStructures;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class ListClass<T extends Comparable<T>>{
    private static final int MAX_SIZE_OF_LIST = 100;
    /**
     * This class is having definitions for:-
     * Generic List Class Variables
     * Constructor for Creating Class Objects
     * Method: Adding a Element to the End of List
     * Method: Adding a Element at anywhere/ particular place
     * Method: Checking List is full or not.
     * Method: Checking List is Empty or Not.
     * Method: Displaying All Elements of List
     * Method: Making New Space for new element addition.
     * Method: Sorting a List
     *
     */

    // Declaring Array and Variables
    private T[] listArray;
    private int totalElements;

    // Constructor For ListClass
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public ListClass(int listSize) { // entered by the user on runtime
        totalElements = 0;
        listArray = (T[]) new Object[listSize];
    }

    // Method For Adding an Element
    public boolean addElement(T newElement)
    {
        boolean isElementAdded = true;
        if(!isListFull()) {
            listArray[totalElements] = newElement;
            totalElements++;
        }
        else
            System.out.println("Sorry, the list is full so, new element can not be added.");
            isElementAdded = false;
        return isElementAdded;
    }

    // length = totalElements
    // Method for Adding/Inserting Element in any Particular Place
    public boolean addSpecific(int newLocation, T newElement) {
        boolean elementAdded = true;
        if (!isListFull() && (newLocation >= 1) && (newLocation <= totalElements +1) )
        {
            newSpace(newLocation);
            listArray[newLocation -1] = newElement;
            totalElements++;
            }
        else {
            elementAdded = false;
        }
        return elementAdded;
    }

    // Method for Displaying The List Elements
        public void displayListElement() {
            if(isListEmpty())
            {
                System.out.println("Sorry, there is no element in the List!");
            }
            else
            {
            for(int elements = 0; elements < totalElements; elements++  ) {
                System.out.println((listArray[elements]));
            }
            System.out.println("All elements has been displayed!");

            }
        }

    // Method for Checking if List is Empty or Number of elements = 0
    public boolean isListEmpty() {
        return totalElements == 0;
    }
    // Method for Checking is List is full or not.
    public boolean isListFull()
    {
        return totalElements == MAX_SIZE_OF_LIST;
    }

    private void newSpace( int newLocation)
    {
        // assert is a method predefined; indicator for index number
    assert (newLocation >=1) && (newLocation <= totalElements +1);
    int newIndicator = newLocation -1;
    int lastIndicator = totalElements -1;
    /**
     * For Shifting Elements to Next Indexes
     */
    for ( int sign = lastIndicator; sign >= newIndicator; sign--)
    listArray[sign +1] = listArray[sign];
    }
    // Removing / Deleting All Elements of Generic List of Type Array

    // Build in Method for sorting
    public void sort() {
        Arrays.sort(listArray, 0, totalElements);
    }

}

In the end of class, you can see there is a build in method to sort. It is working fine. But, I want to use for-loop.
Here is my driver program too.
package AlgorithmAndDataStructures;

public class DriverListClass {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        ListClass<Integer> listObjectInt = new ListClass<Integer>(10);
        listObjectInt.addElement(12);
        listObjectInt.addElement(17);
        listObjectInt.addElement(90);
        listObjectInt.addElement(53);
        listObjectInt.addSpecific(3, 56);
        listObjectInt.displayListElement();
        listObjectInt.sort();
        listObjectInt.displayListElement();

        // String List
        ListClass<String> listObjectStr = new ListClass<String>(4);
        listObjectStr.addElement("Suman");
        listObjectStr.addElement("Armaan");
        listObjectStr.addElement("Atif");
        listObjectStr.addElement("Tauseef");
        listObjectStr.displayListElement();
    }

}

UPDATED SORT METHOD IN ListClass
// Bubble Sort
    public void bubbleSort(T[] list)  {
        int n = list.length - 1;
        while (n != 0) {
        int i;
            for ( i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            if (( list[i]).compareTo(list[i + 1]) > 0)  {
                T temp = list[i];
                list[i] = list[i + 1];
                list[i + 1] = temp;
                }

            }
        n= i-1;
        }
    }

Now, I am confused in the driver program on how to call it?
listObjectInt.bubbleSort(WHAT_SHOULD_BE_HERE?);

Looking forward to a good help! Thanks!

A: There are many sorting algorithms you can use to do this (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm for a list of some of the more common ones). One of the simplest is a bubble sort which uses a for loop wrapped in a while loop.
I'll give you some pseudo-code for it - it should be relatively straightforward to convert to code.
while not sorted
    for each element in the list after the first one
        if the element is larger than the previous one
            swap the element with the previous one

A: I think your teacher asked you to do is similar to Bubble Sort or Selection sort,and in your test ,if genericType is String ,the sort method is Incorrect.
if you  require generic sort,you can Implement Comparable.(not for-loop)
this is correct if genericType  is Interger:
 public void sort() {
    //Arrays.sort(listArray, 0, totalElements);
    for(int i = 0 ;i<totalElements;i++){
        for(int j=0;j<totalElements-i-1;j++){
            System.out.println(i+"+"+j);
            if((int)listArray[j]>(int)listArray[j+1]){
                T temp = (T) listArray[j];
                listArray[j] = (T) listArray[j+1];
                listArray[j + 1] = temp;
            }
        }
    }
}

My English is very poor,I am not sure if this is what exactly you want..

A: Make your type T extends Comparable and use the compareTo method of your objects

A: You CANT compare two objects without any information about them. It must implement some interface. You can create your own interface for that?

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