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Centre Park Christmas House Tour returns next…
Centre Park Christmas House Tour returns next weekend
See late Victorian and early 20th Century architecture and stunning Christmas décor during the Centre Park Historic District's Christmas House Tour.
By Reading Eagle | news@readingeagle.com |
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Centre Park Historic District's Christmas House Tour, featuring 11 historic properties, returns next weekend.
This year's festivities will include the Moonlight House Tour featuring a catered cocktail party at a private residence on Saturday and a self-guided House Tour with optional brunch next Sunday. The tour will be the final event in celebration of the Centre Park Historic District's 40th anniversary.
The weekend begins with the VIP Moonlight Christmas House Tour on Saturday at 5 p.m. This limited-admission event allows visitors the opportunity to view residences when they are glowing with holiday spirit and the entire neighborhood is alive with light. Groups of 15-20 are treated to a customized tour led by local Centre Park residents with special insights and historical perspective of neighborhood and properties the tours pass by. Inside each property, guests meet with the homeowners to ask any questions they may have about their style and inspiration. After the tour, ticket holders will attend an exclusive cocktail party at a private residence along the tour.
The Christmas House Tour and Champagne Brunch follows on Sunday starting at 11 a.m., with owners, residents and neighborhood organizations opening their doors to the public to display late Victorian and early 20th Century architecture and stunning Christmas décor.
Tour-goers can start the day with a Champagne Brunch at the Inn at Centre Park. Diners have the option of several seating times: 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. A limited amount of brunch/combo tickets will be available the day of the event, so attendees are strongly encouraged to reserve in advance.
In addition to homes, visitors may also tour the Charles Evans Cemetery, Berks History Center, Calvary United Church of Christ and Stirling Guest Hotel, which are all decorated for the season.
The Centre Park Historic District Headquarters also will be fully decorated for visitors to the Artifacts Bank, where tourists can peruse a large inventory of architectural salvage. Also, at this location will be a Holiday Gift Market. Included in the ticket price, holiday refreshments will be available here as well.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.centreparkhistoricdistrict.org or by calling 610-375-7860. This event is rain or shine and advance tickets are non-refundable. Tickets cost $75 for the VIP Moonlight House Tour, $70 for the Champagne Brunch/Christmas House Tour Combo, $45 for Champagne Brunch only, and $30 in advance and $35 day of tour for the Christmas House Tour. Tickets will be available in the ticket tent located in Centre Park on the 700 block of Centre Avenue.
Free parking is available at First Energy Stadium, with free shuttle service to Centre Park.
All proceeds benefit the Centre Park Historic District Inc. whose mission is "To Promote Architectural Preservation and Enhance Neighborhood Living." These funds support District-funded neighborhood beautification projects and free neighborhood events all aimed to better the quality of life in Centre Park and the City of Reading.
This year's event is sponsored by our 40th Anniversary Celebration Corporate and Foundation Sponsors including Penske; Tompkins VIST Bank; Palange, Endres and Marks, PC, Attorneys at Law and Essig Plumbing and Heating.


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Download E-books Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule (American Encounters/Global Interactions) PDF
By Michel Gobat
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, financial, cultural, and diplomatic heritage to research the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention of their nation from the heyday of take place future within the mid–nineteenth century in the course of the U.S. profession of 1912–33. Drawing on wide learn in Nicaraguan and U.S. records, Gobat money owed for 2 seeming paradoxes that experience lengthy eluded historians of Latin the United States: that Nicaraguans so strongly embraced U.S. political, monetary, and cultural kinds to shield their very own nationality opposed to U.S. imposition and that the country's wealthiest and so much Americanized elites have been reworked from prime supporters of U.S. imperial rule into a few of its maximum opponents.
Gobat focuses totally on the reactions of the elites to Americanization, as the energy and identification of those Nicaraguans have been the main considerably laid low with U.S. imperial rule. He describes their adoption of elements of "the American lifestyle" within the mid–nineteenth century as strategic instead of wholesale. Chronicling the U.S. career of 1912–33, he argues that the anti-American flip of Nicaragua's such a lot Americanized oligarchs stemmed principally from the efforts of U.S. bankers, marines, and missionaries to unfold their very own model of the yank dream. partly, the oligarchs' reversal mirrored their agony over the Twenties upward thrust of Protestantism, the "modern woman," and different "vices of modernity" emanating from the us. however it additionally spoke back to the accidental ways in which U.S. modernization efforts enabled peasants to weaken landlord strength. Gobat demonstrates that the U.S. career so profoundly affected Nicaragua that it helped engender the Sandino uprising of 1927–33, the Somoza dictatorship of 1936–79, and the Sandinista Revolution of 1979–90.
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White Paper highlights community input to date – find out what we've heard!
How does all this input fit together? The newly released White Paper, White Paper #2, describes and synthesizes findings from The I-81 Challenge Public Participation Program from its inception through the Fall of 2011. While input has certainly been varied from person to person, common visions and themes have begun to emerge.
If you'd like to take a closer look at what we've heard, you can download White Paper #2 on The I-81 Challenge website.


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UGA Official on Conference Expansion: "Nobody in the administration is thrilled about it"
By DawgOutWest Jul 23, 2021, 10:29pm EDT
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Oklahoma and Texas heading to the SEC is looking increasingly likely by the hour, but that doesn't mean all is nirvana within the athletic offices of schools throughout the conference.
As we reported here on Wednesday evening, discussions have been happening between the SEC office and the two Big 12 schools since late last year. As is so often the case in college athletics, it appears the deal was almost done by the time the backdoor dealings became public knowledge.
Much has been made about Texas A&M's feelings on the potential addition. Athletic Director Ross Bjork spent Wednesday afternoon on a media blitz, making it clear to everyone in Hoover that he didn't want the league to add another team from Texas.
The SEC's members have had a gentleman's agreement for years that the conference wouldn't add a team in a state that one of the league's institutions already resided in. Well, not anymore.
Said an SEC source to Dawg Sports, "The last time around it was about opening up new states and metropolitan areas for television deals. This time it's about cumulative eyeballs." In the era of streaming, brands like the Longhorns and Sooners are a massive coup to the league.
A high-ranking official at the University of Georgia, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Dawg Sports that the school understands that, but they don't necessarily like it. "It will never be public knowledge because the school will present a united front with the rest of the conference, but nobody in the administration is really excited about this."
When you think about it, can you blame them? The addition of Oklahoma and Texas means the realignment of divisions or the breaking of the schedule into pods. The likely outcome of that for Georgia is either facing Alabama every season or losing its annual matchup with rival Auburn.
There are plenty of alumni and boosters who would be upset by either of those things happening. New UGA Athletic Director Josh Brooks is likely facing one of those realities. Those are the type of things that can hang over an administrator's tenure, never to be let go of by certain fans.
Less than eight months into his tenure, Brooks would probably prefer to not be faced with this dilemma. Despite that, Georgia won't show the slightest hint of displeasure publicly.
"Another round of expansion was inevitable, and this cements the SEC as the premier league in college sports for decades to come. OU and Texas are the biggest brands that Sankey could have gotten, and you don't fight this type of money or ruin a relationship with the league office" said another high-ranking UGA source.
That Georgia has it good right now is not lost on the UGA brass. "You beat Florida every year and you're basically guaranteed a spot in Atlanta. Now the path to the league title game gets tougher, and you have two more premier brands that can tell recruits they play in the SEC," said the source.
Did the UGA administration or any of the other schools in the league ever consider trying to scuttle these things behind the scenes? "Hell no. You can't look weak in public. Series were scheduled with Oklahoma and Texas already, but the way this likely changes in-conference scheduling puts us in a lose-lose situation. Despite that, the only thing that could stop this now is the playoff not expanding. Once this starts it might not stop. At this point, I wouldn't be shocked to see the league turn into a 20-team conference at some point."
While the source admittedly didn't know how Georgia and other SEC power players would ultimately react if the CFP suddenly looked like it would stay at 4 teams instead of 12, they did make an interesting point. "The only difference between Georgia and Clemson or Ohio State over the last few years has been that Georgia has to play the eventual national champion in its conference championship game instead of the playoff. If that road got harder and there weren't increased slots to accommodate more SEC teams, then I think you'd have more than just A&M crying foul."
For now it looks like the College Football Playoff is set to expand, and with it, the SEC. I have no intel to say that anything is happening behind the scenes to stop this impending round of realignment from happening, but if we've learned anything this week it's that things can look one way right up until they don't.


Brookgate has announced two lettings at 30 Station Road, a 22,500 sq ft office block at the heart of CB1, the new city quarter based around Cambridge railway station.
The deals mean that the three-storey building is now fully let following Birketts' move to 22 Station Road, Brookgate's recently completed office development.
Education charity Raspberry Pi Foundation has agreed a five-year lease on a 7,060 sq ft suite on the second floor. The organisation specialises in teaching computer programming to children and adults using a tiny and affordable computer.
They will be joined by JA Kemp, a law firm specialising in trade marks and patenting, which will occupy a 1,675 sq ft suite also on the second floor.
Ranked in tier 1 by The Legal 500, JA Kemp is one of the largest UK and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firms, with offices in London, Oxford and Munich. The firm boasts over 60 science and technology graduates including at least 25 PhDs. It covers all areas of science & technology.
Other occupiers at 30 Station Road include Alert Me, Cambridge University and Stone King. The businesses form part of a major business district at CB1 which also features a cluster of leading companies including Microsoft, Deloitte, Thales and Mott MacDonald.
A spokesperson for Brookgate said: "Raspberry Pi Foundation and JA Kemp are a fantastic addition to the vibrant business community at CB1.
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Home News Banditry: Angry Villagers Drop Dead Body At Zamfara Govt. House
Banditry: Angry Villagers Drop Dead Body At Zamfara Govt. House
Over 100 villagers from Jirrawa community in Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara on Saturday besieged Government House, Gusau with a dead body alleged to have been killed by bandits earlier in the day in the village.
Spokespersons of the community, Muntari Abdullahi and Muhammadu Sani told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the bandits invaded the village around 10 am and shot sporadically in the air.
"We later realized that they have already killed Shafiu Inusa on his farm while he was trying to apply fertilizer on his plants after the rains of last night," Abdullahi narrated.
He said the deceased was just recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted on him when the bandits attacked the village four months ago during which Shafiu's father was murdered.
"It is exactly four months now when his (Shafiu) father was killed in a similar attack because the wives of the old man are completing their four months stay at home as mandated by Islam.
"We gathered from his farm neighbor and brother that initially, one of the bandits appeared before them saying anyone who knows he is guilty should run and who is not should stay.
"Shafiu refused to run and when the others numbering over a hundred arrived, they opened fire and killed him instantly, this is his remains that we brought here for the governor to see and know that this peace initiative is not working for us," he said.
On his part, Sani said: "These criminals have always passed by our village without any threat or harassment until the last few months.
"So far, they have attacked us more than eight times and have killed many people.
"Even while on our way to Gusau today, we received a phone call that they also killed one Bala Danrabi, a vigilante leader who has always fought the bandits," he said.
Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Usman Nagogo expressed shock over the attack but told NAN that such occurrences are expected during conflict resolution.
"I can confidently assure you that the peace initiative by Gov. Bello Matawalle which I lead in the state is working as can be seen in the release of kidnap victims and the repentance of several bandits, but that does not mean that the hardened criminals are no longer there, they are the ones that will perpetuate this now.
"I am in constant contact with bandits groups in all the bushes and our discussions have been positive leading to the peace we are now enjoying.
"On this Jirrawa issue, I have spoken with my contacts around the area and the repentant bandits promised to meet tomorrow and fish out the perpetrators of this latest attack and hand the culprits over to me; this is in the spirit of the partnership we are now enjoying," he said.
The CP, however, said that there would not be any firepower against the bandits for now because of the ongoing peace initiative but that the command would await the outcome of the meeting to be held tomorrow by the repentant bandits.
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Q: How to detect the 2D images using ARKit and RealityKit I want to detect the 2D images using ARKit and RealityKit. I don't want to use SceneKit because many implementations based on RealityKit. I couldn't find any examples detecting images on RealityKit. I referred https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/detecting_images_in_an_ar_experience sample code from apple. It uses Scenekit and ARSCNViewDelegate
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arConfiguration.isLightEstimationEnabled = true
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if let referenceImages = ARReferenceImage.referenceImages(inGroupNamed: "sanitzer", bundle: nil) {
    arConfiguration.maximumNumberOfTrackedImages = 1
    arConfiguration.detectionImages = referenceImages
}
self.session.run(arConfiguration, options: [.resetTracking, .removeExistingAnchors])

I have implemented ARSessionDelegate but not able to detect image?
func session(_ session: ARSession, didAdd anchors: [ARAnchor]) {
    //how to capture image anchor?
}
func session(_ session: ARSession, didUpdate anchors: [ARAnchor]) {
    //how to capture image anchor?
}

Apple has implemented ARSCNViewDelegate capture the detected images. What is the equivalent delegate for ARSCNViewDelegate in RealityKit? How to detect ARImageAnchor?

A: In ARKit/RealityKit project use the following code for session() instance methods:
import ARKit
import RealityKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, ARSessionDelegate {

    func session(_ session: ARSession, didUpdate anchors: [ARAnchor]) {

        guard let imageAnchor = anchors.first as? ARImageAnchor,
              let _ = imageAnchor.referenceImage.name
        else { return }

        let anchor = AnchorEntity(anchor: imageAnchor)

        // Add Model Entity to anchor
        anchor.addChild(model)

        arView.scene.anchors.append(anchor)
    }

    override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillAppear(animated)

        arView.session.delegate = self
        resetTrackingConfig()
    }

    func resetTrackingConfig() {

        guard let refImg = ARReferenceImage.referenceImages(inGroupNamed: "Sub",
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        else { return }

        let config = ARWorldTrackingConfiguration()
        config.detectionImages = refImg
        config.maximumNumberOfTrackedImages = 1

        let options = [ARSession.RunOptions.removeExistingAnchors,
                       ARSession.RunOptions.resetTracking]

        arView.session.run(config, options: ARSession.RunOptions(options))
    }
}

And take into consideration – a folder for reference images (in .png or .jpg format) must have an extension .arresourcegroup.

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Embattled State Police Nominee Gets Democratic Support
State Sen. Vincent Hughes supports Marcus Brown's nomination.
By Joel Mathis·	 3/26/2015, 6:36 a.m.
State Sen. Vincent Hughes has thrown his support behind Gov. Tom Wolf's embattled nominee to lead the Pennsylvania State Police.
Hughes endorsed Marcus Brown Wednesday, after reports that Brown had received a racist letter opposing his candidacy for the job. Opponents have complained that, as acting director of the agency, Brown has worn the state police uniform even though he didn't graduate from the agency's academy. Brown's predecessor typically wore a suit on the job.
PennLive reports:
Hughes, the Democratic Appropriations chairman, sent Gov. Tom Wolf a letter Wednesday in support his nomination of Col Marcus Brown. In a press conference, Hughes' made a correlation between the racist letter to Brown and the Pennsylvania State Police's lack of racial diversity.
Hughes made it clear that he did not know who delivered the letter, which included a racial slur, or if the person who did it was associated with the state police in any way. Hughes called the letter "reprehensible" and said it "does not represent where we need to be going in the 21st Century."
But Brown may still have much to overcome. Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman has already said that Brown has show questionable judgement and may not receive confirmation.
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IPO Underwriter Goldman Sachs Boosts Its Twitter Target 41% To $65
Alex Wilhelm	7 years
Goldman Sachs boosted its share price target this morning for Twitter, a company that it helped go public as its lead underwriter. Goldman raised its price target a whopping 41.3 percent to $65 from a prior estimate of $46.
That change sent Twitter up as much as 4 percent today, to a share price of around $59. Twitter's stock has been incredibly volatile of late, bouncing as much as 5 percent on a daily basis, as investors come to terms with its rich valuation ahead of its first earnings report as a public company.
There is much dissension as to just what Twitter's real value is, and whether it's reflected in its share price. The bearish case on Twitter's stock is simple to understand. As Morgan Stanley's Scott Devitt pointed out earlier this month when he downgraded the stock, Twitter's multiples when compared to market analogues are quite rich. Devitt has a price target on Twitter of $33.
As we've noted previously, Twitter investors are betting that its first earnings report as a public firm will be a corker, showing large revenue growth, and potentially improving margins that could point to future profitability.
In its first S-1 filing, Twitter indicated that it could go public for as little as $17 per share. That compares to its current price of nearly $60. The gap between the two explains the position of both the bull and the bear succinctly.
What I think is without doubt is that Twitter's shares are incredibly at risk for a sharp correction if the company fails to best expectations in its calendar fourth quarter. Twitter will report the results of that period in early February.
With revenues of $168.6 million in its third quarter, analysts currently expect Twitter to deliver $216.53 million in revenue and a sharply smaller $0.03 per share loss in the fourth quarter, according to Yahoo Finance. If Twitter only meets those marks, and shows in-line user expansion, investors could begin to doubt that it will grow at a pace worthy of valuing it more highly than its traditional rivals. If you would like a textbook case of a company once valued at implied high revenue growth rates, Groupon is a decent precedent.
That Goldman raised its Twitter target is perhaps not too surprising. But also important to note is the mere $5 gap between the new target price and the company's current share price. A five-buck delta ain't much heading into your freshman earnings report.
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The first part 'Immigration' covers immigration and refugees, including immigration operations, immigration to Canada, refugee programs, settlement programs for newcomers, visits to Canada, rules for working and studying in Canada, and enformcement. The second part, 'Citizenship' is a guide to the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship and to the process of becoming a Canadian... A civil surgeon is a US physician authorized by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to perform official immigration medical examinations required for the adjustment of status after arrival in the United States (the process of becoming a permanent US resident).
Anybody between the ages of 18-54 years at the time of applying is qualified to take the citizenship test. The test is used to determine if one has enough knowledge of Canada and the privileges that come with being a citizen.... You Have Options to Return to Canada. If you have been denied entry into Canada, it is important you deal with the situation properly. If you have a criminal record like a DUI or something even more serious a Canadian Border Service Officer may deny you entry to Canada.
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Israel's new law seeks to silence settlement protests
Janine Zacharia
A protester holding a Palestinian flag disrupts a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for David Friedman, the nominee to serve as ambassador to Israel, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 16, 2017. Friedman on Thursday spoke broadly of regretting sharp comments made about American Jews during the presidential campaign, promising to be �respectful and measured� if confirmed. (Al Drago/The New York Times)AL DRAGO/NYT
In early February, Jennifer Gorovitz disembarked at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport at the end of the 14-hour flight from San Francisco International Airport and headed to passport control.
The passport agent peppered the vice president for finance at the New Israel Fund, a nonprofit that awards grants to civil rights groups in Israel, with questions about her visit for a board meeting and what the organization does. "We promote civil society," Gorovitz told him. According to Gorovitz, the agent replied: "Yeah right, civil society for Palestinians."
"I'm not really understanding what's happening here," Gorovitz told the agent after the questions continued for a while. "I'm a former CEO of the San Francisco Jewish Federation; I've advocated for Israel my whole life; I've raised millions of dollars for Israel."
Still, Gorovitz was taken to a separate area and questioned for another 90 minutes when finally, after colleagues intervened on her behalf, she was allowed to enter.
"I was upset," Gorovitz told me. "My whole belief system was turned upside down."
After the incident was reported in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, the New Israel Fund received an apology from the director general of Israel's Population and Immigration Authority.
A few days later, Israel rejected the visa application of a Human Rights Watch researcher, Omar Shakir. Then in early March, the Knesset — Israel's parliament — passed a law blocking activists calling for an international boycott of Israel from gaining entry to the country. Israel's frustration with the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, or BDS, campaign has grown in recent years. And the law, proponents said, was designed to keep out "haters." (The New Israel Fund does not support the movement.)
Israel has turned back ardent critics at the border before. But formalizing a political litmus test for entry shows just how threatened it feels by the boycott campaign and just how far to the right the country has moved.
The law makes no distinction between those who advocate a complete boycott of anything Israeli — academics, wine, technology — and those who support a much narrower boycott of Jewish settlements and the products manufactured there. The latter is designed to pressure Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and enable Palestinian statehood and has wider support, especially among liberal American Jews.
In fact, the law won't lessen international censure. Only an end to the occupation has a shot at doing that, though many Israelis will point to previous Israeli withdrawals from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip and tell you no matter what Israel does, the world will still be against it.
What the law will do is further alienate progressive American Jews already concerned about the direction Israel is headed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's public fondness for President Trump despite the xenophobic and racist tones of his campaign and early policy moves won't make this community feel any more at ease. The March 22 Senate confirmation of U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who personally funded settlements and referred to the liberal American Jewish organization JStreet as "far worse than kapos" (concentration camp prisoners who performed tasks for the Nazis), only heightened the apprehension. At his confirmation hearing, Friedman called his choice of words "hurtful" and said he deeply regretted saying them. Still, JStreet has seen a recent spike in support, including here in the Bay Area.
Israel "can pass whatever law it wants," Ori Nir, spokesman for Americans for Peace Now, told Israel's i24NEWS after the bill passed. "But it should be cognizant of the repercussions. The repercussions here are dissing a huge sector of a very pro-Israel American demographic.''
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Nir described his boss — a woman born in 1948, the year of Israel's founding — as someone who has spent her adult life "fighting for Israel." But because she supports boycotting settlement products, she won't be able to visit Israel.
Israeli officials I spoke to say such concerns are exaggerated and in fact only the most vocal leaders of the BDS campaign will likely be blocked. The Knesset still has to coordinate how the law will be implemented. Most likely if you are a Bay Area resident who "liked" a tweet or Facebook post about the boycott and are planning to visit Israel, you should have no problem.
"I believe the intention of the law is to address … people who are discriminating against Israelis, just because they're Israelis," Israel's consul general in San Francisco Andy David told me, referring to the groups that actively try to block Israelis from participating in academic forums and similar gatherings. "I would say, generally speaking, to Jews in the Bay Area that they're always welcome and they're welcome to criticize Israel if they feel the need to do that."
So the law may be largely symbolic and the Gorovitz incident may have been a mistake — all other New Israel Fund board members traveling from abroad entered the country without impediment. But they also could be a harbinger of more harassment of visitors the current Israeli government deems hostile.
This would be a mistake. Demonizing Americans, particularly American Jews, who love Israel but want an end to settlements and the occupation, makes no sense. If Netanyahu, as he likes to say, really sees himself as the leader of all the Jewish people, he should answer the concerns of this community, rather than seek to silence it. Israel doesn't have friends to spare.
Janine Zacharia, a former Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief, teaches journalism at Stanford University. To comment, submit your letter to the editor at http://bit.ly/SFChronicleletters.


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The red dot indicates the position of the Jocko River spring structure within the Jocko Rivers Provincial Park system. It is illustrated here in close proximity to the Brent meteorite crater (highlighted by the circle) in this Landsat image.
From my vantage point in GOZooM, I took this image of the Jocko River spring looking south west. The "X" illustrates the point on the shore where I will be standing with with my "rockhound" companion Joya (illustrated in an image below). My father and I paddled our canoe into this lake 52 years before this image. The trout were "yummy" !!
The Jocko River spring looking south east. Soundings taken from the lake centre to the entrance documents an underwater crater bowl shape.
The bedrock of Jocko Rivers Provincial Park is within the Tomiko Terrane of the Central Gneiss Belt, in the northwest part of the Ontario Grenville Province. The Mesoproterozoic Tomiko Terrane consists mainly of metamorphosed quartzites and granitic plutons. Most of the park contains clastic siliceous metasediments in the form of arkosic quartz-feldspar gneisses, biotite and hornblende-rich quartz-feldspar gneisses and minor muscovite-quartzfeldspar gneisses. There is gneissic quartz monzonite of the Late Precambrian granitic suite also present within the park. The representation of clastic siliceous metasedimentary gneisses of the Tomiko Terrane is of regional significance (Frey and Duba 2002).
The structure appears to be created in the glacial remains of the Late Wisconsin North American glacial episode, 25,000–12,000 years ago.
Ground exploration video documentation The interesting parts at- :0, :17, :40, :48, 1:04, 1:09.
The Joko River structure is illustrated at the lower right of this Google image. The "markings" superimposed on this Google image are the position reports from my SPOT Satellite Messenger during our exploration canoe trip.
An initial reconnaissance of the area established that immediately surrounding the structure is a very old dense forest with no trails to follow. In order to reach the clear lake within the structure we would have to haul our canoe kilometres through very dense bush and then down a very steep wall (and back again). Instead we decided to canoe to the crater starting from a crossing of the Jocko River over 6 kilometres to the north. The starting point (extreme left of the Google image) is >1 metre higher in altitude than our "crater" destination (extreme right in the image) measured by GPS.
Yours truly with my "rock hound" companion "Joya", taken on the south shore of the structure. Looking over my right shoulder is the position in the sky where I took the aerial image of this structure from GOZooM. The "X" in that aerial image indicates where I am now standing. My father and I paddled our canoe into this lake 52 years before this image. The trout were "yummy" !!
The ~50° slope of the "crater" rim.
I am balancing half way up the "crater" rim and holding a birch branch so it freely hangs vertical. Referencing the vertical branch with the one placed on the rim, the angle is ~50°.
This is a typical view of the crater rim from our canoe in the clear lake in the structure. I noticed that it was relatively high and steep all around the lake (with the exception of the lake output into the Jocko River).
The superimposed labels indicate the positions of the documented depth soundings. The lake bottom profile gleaned from these soundings are documented below.
JOCKO RIVER STRUCTURE PROFILE – represents the underwater profile of the clear lake within the structure.
The positions of the sounding points A – D are illustrated on the Google image above. The plot on the right documents the structure profile from lake bottom to the top edge of the rim.
An impact from a cosmic-velocity bolide. Proof would entail either discovery of meteorite fragments around the structure from the original bolide and/or discovery of impact related geology. The Whitecourt Crater is an example of geological evidence for impact confirmation of a small crater of similar geology.
A metal detector search for meteorites around the south rim of the "crater" concluded with a negative result.


The "PayPal Mafia" is no mafia at all. It's a diaspora.
That's how David Sacks, former COO of PayPal and current CEO of Yammer, described it. The ominous "they" in this story is eBay, and eBay is is partly responsible for both the success of PayPal and why the founders walked away from it.
Despite astronomical odds, this is what happened when PayPal sold to eBay in the summer of 2002 and the PayPal team members went on to found some of the most important startups — and make some of the most strategic investments — of all time.
The PayPal Mafia — a term that's used with affection and awe in Silicon Valley — is defined as the Mountain View PayPal team either pre-IPO or pre-acquisition, depending on which founding member you ask. While those may seem like vastly different stages in a company's life, it's more like splitting hairs as PayPal's IPO happened only a few months before it was acquired. Former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel estimates the PayPal Mafia to be around 220 people. The PayPal Mafia does not include 700 person customer service operation that was running in Omaha, Nebraska at the time.
For comparison's sake, the Google employee equivalent number would be around 20,000 or 30,000. Of those Google employees, the number of unicorn companies is harder to pinpoint. Thiel estimates that only one to three unicorn companies have been produced, with none close to a $10 billion valuation.
If Google's unicorn companies are estimated at two, that means that PayPal got 3.5 times the result with 1/100 of the people. In other words, PayPal's success rate relative to billion-dollar companies is 350x that of Google.
So, what was in the water at PayPal?
In late 1998, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek founded Confinity (formerly FieldLink, Inc.). Thiel and Levchin met at Stanford University after Thiel gave a guest lecture and the two began to work together on the concept of a digital wallet. The company initially focused on mobile payments sent from Palm Pilots and other PDAs, but a Confinity employee eventually developed a way to send money transfers through email. That service became PayPal in 1999.
After gaining traction and taking its first few steps on the eBay platform, Confinity merged with Elon Musk's X.com, taking the parent company's name. Eventually, after proving its success as a product, the company adopted the name PayPal, Inc. in the summer of 2001.
PayPal's early story was unique in many ways, but especially with respect to the people behind it.
Many of those friendships began at Stanford. Keith Rabois, David O. Sacks, Reid Hoffman, and Ken Howery all attended Stanford around the same time and most were subsequently recruited by Thiel to work for PayPal. Max Levchin recruited some developers and former classmates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well.
What's unique is that the majority of the early PayPal employees, and the PayPal Mafia in general, were all recruited through a friendship network and not by a headhunter. Sacks said that these people were "cut from the same cloth." This, he said, explained how they all had such a strong entrepreneurial focus to begin with.
"It was a very intense environment, so there wasn't a lot of time and energy devoted to thinking about the future; as opposed to making sure our ship didn't sink, and defending the ship," Rabois said.
1. One of the first viral apps: PayPal users were able to send money to someone without an account, forcing them to open an account to claim their money.
3. One of the first companies to offer an embeddable widget: Users could put the PayPal payment logo onto an eBay auction. Embeddable content later became key for YouTube and was a big part of how it grew.
4. One of the first companies to rely on an iterative product strategy: Features were released whenever they were finished, not at the mercy of product cycles.
PayPal also differentiated itself in its company culture. Rabois described the culture as "confrontational" and said that ideas for the company were allowed to rise through informed debate.
Outside management hires were rarely brought in. Instead, employees were promoted from within and often the leading employee of a department became the head of that department. For example, the designers would all report to the lead designer, who was thought of as the best designer. Job candidates with newly-acquired MBAs were often rejected for job positions because they didn't seem flexible enough to handle the iterations.
"I think, in many ways, PayPal was the template for the modern Silicon Valley startup," Sacks said.
For example, the infamous original Facebook developer motto was "move fast and break things," which shows that the concept of agility and an iterative product strategy have permeated startups in the Valley.
While many of these practices may now seem commonplace, it's important to remember how different a place Silicon Valley was roughly 15 years ago. Rabois said that he often interacts with people now who assume that the way Silicon Valley is now is the way that it has always been.
PayPal was definitely a product of the dot-com bubble in some aspects. The company once boasted a burn rate of $10 million dollars a month. However, the way that the PayPal team conducted business and ran their organization was like nothing the Valley had seen before.
Doing things in their own way payed off for the PayPal team as they were able to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in late 2001, later completing the IPO in February 2002. According to PayPal's website the stock rose at more than 54% on the first day and closed at $20.09 a share.
After the IPO, eBay users wore PayPal shirts to an eBay user conference in June 2002 to show the support of PayPal integrating with eBay. One month later, in July 2002, PayPal agreed to sell to eBay and the deal was closed that year.
"I remember sitting in the integration meeting with eBay," Rabois said. "So, this is as we are figuring out how to align the teams and prioritize roadmaps. And the eBay team arrived with a 137-page PowerPoint. And, they proceeded to try to walk David Sacks, and me, and a couple of my colleagues through this PowerPoint slide by slide.
This was the start to PayPal's corporate relationship with eBay, a relationship that began with tension and ultimately ended with disaffection, as almost all of the original PayPal team went back out into the wild to fend for themselves.
According to Sacks, eBay made no real effort to keep the founders around. eBay liked the product, but they had no need for this rag-tag crew of Silicon Valley "misfits," and the PayPal team felt it from the start.
If they knew that it wasn't going to work out, then why did they sell to eBay in the first place?
They sold the company because they felt like they had to.
Sacks said that, at the time when PayPal sold to eBay, roughly two-thirds of PayPal's transactions were happening on eBay. PayPal was winning the battle, but they were in a fragile position. That's part of what pushed the PayPal team to innovate in the ways that they did.
PayPal was put to the test and, as a result, it had to adapt. eBay was big and slow, so PayPal had to be small and nimble. This is where iterative design came into play. PayPal had to be inventive, throwing away processes and features that didn't work, while at the same time adjusting its approach to find out what did work. PayPal couldn't compete with eBay's scale or resources, so it had to win with speed and agility.
But, the same company that was instrumental in forcing PayPal to define its process, ended up pushing the PayPal Mafia away.
The Silicon Valley misfits had cracked the code. They had built, iterated, and scaled a product to a $1.5 billion acquisition, but it wasn't enough.
"There's always a degree to which a lot of very successful entrepreneurs both think they can do great things, but also have a sense that people don't think they can and that they have to prove it. You have, sort of, both a superiority and inferiority complex at the same time," Thiel said.
Of course, there was this crazy back and forth dynamic with eBay, partly fueled by the idea that PayPal would never be able to reach its full potential as a standalone company — but the fact of the matter is that this group of innovators had built a successful product and were all but forced to walk away from it. As an entrepreneur, what do you do when you are forced to walk away from something you built?
"With PayPal, you essentially had this mass exodus of highly entrepreneurial people who had learned all these techniques, that were very innovative, that could make a new product explode, at a time when everybody else had given up," Sacks said.
The PayPal Mafia is often referred to as a "network" of people, but Thiel is hesitant to describe what PayPal achieved as the work of a network.
"I prefer the word friendship to networks, and I think the critical piece was that some incredibly deep friendships were forged. I think that is what's very underrated in our world today," Thiel said.
Part of what PayPal's culture was rebelling against was transactional work relationships. By developing and maintaining actual friendships, the PayPal Mafia was able to remain invested in one another's success and committed to seeing each other change the world.
Their success is due to the fact that they didn't give up on consumer technology and they didn't give up on Silicon Valley. Thiel recalls that in 2002 to 2004, the conversations in Silicon Valley were centered around the idea that technology was dead and that investors and entrepreneurs should focus their efforts elsewhere. This led to what Thiel called a "collective amnesia" where investors began to look back to tenants of the old economy such as banking and housing; which left the technology sector wide open for investors at the time.
"If you show up and no one else is there, that's a pretty good place to be," Thiel said.
As Rabois noted, would-be entrepreneurs didn't have a lot of options at the time.
"One of the key elements was that in 2003, which is when we all became free agents after the acquisition, there was basically nobody in Silicon Valley that believed there was going to be a future of consumer technology.
It's not just the money that members of the PayPal Mafia put into new startups, it was the advice they gave that helped shape the next generations of startups. It's why so much of the Valley looks now like PayPal looked fourteen years ago — because these men passed these ideas along that have now come to pass as conventional wisdom.
Ideas that were once passed on from an original member of PayPal to a mentored startup or portfolio company are now being evangelized by new founders as they have risen to prominence or taken to mentoring their own flock of new companies.
When it comes down to it, there were too many factors that went into PayPal's success for any one piece to be pulled out and held accountable.
Thiel said that in most companies, people tend to learn the wrong lessons. For example, if you were in a startup that failed in the 1990s, the lesson was that it was impossible, and that you needed to set your sights on something smaller and easier to execute.
Conversely, if you were a part of a company where everything works perfectly well, like Google or Microsoft, the lesson was that it was too easy, which might contribute to why these companies haven't produced the volume or caliber of companies that we have seen come from PayPal. Entrepreneurs coming from these types of companies underestimate how difficult it is to build a company.
"At this point Silicon Valley has become this magnet for talent from all over the US and all over the world. New York had that position for a quarter of a century, from say 1982 to 2007 or 2008. So, there is a way in which I think Silicon Valley is replacing New York as the place where people try to achieve great things, and I actually think that's a very healthy shift," Thiel said.
According to Thiel, what the US needs to do is go back to the future — to look at the future as something we're building and not something that will happen regardless.
Silicon Valley, now more than ever, represents this attempt to go back to the future, this return to technology. That's why the PayPal story resonates more now than it did in 2007.
Keith Rabois – "The most important piece of advice is to choose an opportunity based upon people you'll learn the most from," Rabois said. According to Rabois, he quotes something that he learned from Thiel almost every day.
Peter Thiel – "The very important lesson that was learned was that starting a great company is neither easy nor impossible, it is somewhere in between. It's really hard, but doable," Thiel said.
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