This Review contains major "Churn Rate"- related terms, short phrases and links grouped together in the form of Encyclopedia article.
Churn rate is a term used to describe the number of regular customers that who stop using a supplier over a given time period, usually a year.
The churn rate is an estimate of the number of subscribers who will not renew.
So it was no surprise that Sprint's churn rate was flat with the first quarter at 2.1%.
Nextel had the lowest churn rate (i.e., the percentage of customers that leave for another carrier) in the business.
The most interesting figures are in our Churn Rate.
These numbers referred to only the company's prepaid business, not the overall churn rate.
The above information uses material from Configure-to-order and is licensed under the Churn rate.
The GSM monthly average churn rate was 2.68% in the first half of this year.
It's the total churn rate for the quarter, not a monthly rate that you should magically multiply by 3 to get a total rate for the quarter.
Netflix increased its earnings expectations for the next quarter and lowered the monthly subscriber churn rate from 4.9-5.4 percent to 4.7-5 percent.
The nation-s largest carrier also continued to reduce its churn rate, pushing it down to 1.7 percent overall with a postpaid churn rate of 1.5 percent.
As applied to a customer base, churn rate is the proportion of customers who leave a vendor, supplier or service during a given time period.
Churn rate, as applied to a customer base, refers to the proportion of contractual customers or subscribers who leave a supplier during a given time period.
Meaning of churn rate computer term.
Computer term of churn rate in the Computing Dictionary.
Churn rate is not available in the general English dictionary and thesaurus.
In some business contexts, churn rate also refers to high employee turnover within a company.
For example, with a large churn rate it may be impossible to index file locations, making some files inaccessible even though peers have them available.
Churn Rate The percentage of subscribers to a service that discontinue their subscription to that service in a given time period.
In its broadest sense, churn rate is a measure of the number of individuals or items moving into or out of a collection over a specific period of time.
Within a peer-to-peer network, the churn rate refers to the number of peers leaving the system during a given period-usually an hour, rather than a year.
It is possible to overstate the churn rate, as when a consumer drops the service but then restarts it within the same year.
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Where Am I Going
CD (Item 57035) Philips (UK), 1967 — Condition: New Copy
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Philips (label)
Vocalists (CD, LP)
Rock (CD, LP)
One of the greatest of all Dusty Springfield albums – a gem of a record that mixes British pop, soul, and some very groovy orchestrations! The whole session has that kind of soaring, soulful bounce that Dusty had on her best records – but which was possibly never done nearly as well as on this one! Backings are conducted by Alan Tew, Peter Night, Arthur Greenslade, and Wally Stott – Brit Easy giants all of them – and tracks include sublime gems like "Bring Him Back", "Don't Let Me Lost This Dream", "I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face", "Sunny", "Welcome Home", and "Broken Blossoms". CD features 3 bonus tracks too – "Don't Forget About Me", "Time After Time", and "I've Got A Good Thing". © 1996-2019, Dusty Groove, Inc.
We realize that there are many different interpretations of the standard grades used for pre-owned vinyl record albums & CD, so we thought we'd offer you the ones that we are working with, so you have an idea what we mean when we give the grade for a non-new item on our pages.
Used Vinyl Grades
Below are stated conditions for a used vinyl records at Dusty Groove. Grading for the cover should be assumed to be near (within a "+" or "-") the grading for the vinyl. If there is significant divergence from the condition of the vinyl, or specific flaws, these will be noted in the comments section of the item. However, please be aware that since the emphasis of this site is towards the music listener, our main concern is with the vinyl of any used item we sell. Additionally, all of our records are graded visually; considering the volume of used vinyl we handle, it is impossible for us to listen to each record. If we spot any significant flaws, we make every attempt to listen through them and note how they play.
The following grading conditions apply to the vinyl component of an album or single:
This is what it says, that the record is still held fast in shrink-wrap. We tend to be pretty suspicious about these things, so if the shrink-wrap doesn't look original, or if the record seems to have undergone some damage over time, we'll probably take it out of the wrapper to ensure that it's in good shape — which is why we don't have more of these. In some cases the shrink-wrap may be torn in spots, but if it's not possible the record has been taken out and played, the record will still qualify as "Sealed".
Dusty Groove does not use the grades of Near Mint (or Mint, for that matter) because in our experience, we find that no records ever qualify for such a high grade. Even sealed records tend to have one or two slight faults, enough to usually qualify them for a grade of NM- or lower. We've often found that records which are clearly unplayed will have a slight amount of surface noise, especially in quieter recordings.
Near Mint - (minus)
Black vinyl that may show a slight amount of dust or dirt.
Should still be very shiny under a light, even with slight amount of dust on surface.
One or two small marks that would make an otherwise near perfect record slightly less so. These marks cannot be too deep, and should only be surface marks that won't affect play, but might detract from the looks.
May have some flaws and discoloration in the vinyl, but only those that would be intrinsic to the pressing. These should disappear when the record is tilted under the light, and will only show up when looking straight at the record. (Buddah and ABC pressings from the 70's are a good example of this.)
May have some slight marks from aging of the paper sleeve on the vinyl.
Possible minor surface noise when played.
Very Good + (plus)
Vinyl should be very clean, but can have less luster than near mint.
Should still shine under a light, but one or two marks may show up when tilted.
Can have a few small marks that may show up easily, but which do not affect play at all. Most marks of this quality will disappear when the record is tilted, and will not be felt with the back of a fingernail.
This is the kind of record that will play "near mint", but which will have some signs of use (although not major ones).
May have slight surface noise when played.
Vinyl can have some dirt, but nothing major.
May not shine under light, but should still be pretty clean, and not too dirty.
May have a number of marks (5 to 10 at most), and obvious signs of play, but never a big cluster of them, or any major mark that would be very deep. Most marks should still not click under a fingernail.
May not look near perfect, but should play fairly well, with slight surface noise, and the occasional click in part of a song, but never throughout a whole song or more.
This is clearly a copy that was played by someone a number of times, but which could also be a good "play copy" for someone new.
Very Good - (minus)
Vinyl may be dirty, and can lack a fair amount of luster.
Vinyl can have a number of marks, either in clusters or smaller amounts, but deeper.
This is the kind of record that you'd buy to play, but not because it looked that great. Still, the flaws should be mostly cosmetic, with nothing too deep that would ruin the overall record.
Examples include a record that has been kept for a while in a cover without the paper sleeve, or heavily played by a previous owner and has some marks across the surface. The record should play okay, though probably with surface noise.
Good + (plus)
Vinyl may be dirty, or have one outstanding flaw, such as a light residue, which could be difficult to clean.
May have marks on all parts, too many to qualify as Very Good-, or several deeper marks, but the record should still be ok for play without skips.
In general, this is a record that was played a fair amount, and handled without care. A typical example may be a record which has been heavily played by a DJ, and carries marks from slip cueing. Depending on the quality of the vinyl, may play with surface noise throughout.
A record that you'd buy to play, cheap, but which you wouldn't buy for collecting.
Will have marks across all parts of the playing surface, and will most likely play with surface noise throughout. May have some other significant flaws, such as residue, or a track that skips.
In most cases, a poor quality copy of a very difficult to find record.
This is a grade we rarely use, as we try not to sell records in very bad condition, though in some rare cases we will list a record in such bad shape that it does not conform to the standards above. A "Fair" record will have enough marks or significant flaws that it does not even qualify as "Good", but is a copy you might consider for playing, if you're willing to put up with noise and/or flaws. An example might be a recording with surface noise so heavy that it is equal to the volume of the music. For records listed as "Fair", we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
Like "Fair", we rarely list records in this condition, as they represent the extreme low end of spectrum. These records typically have multiple serious problems, and we offer them as "relics" or "objects" only — for those who want to at least have a copy of a record, even if it is not really worthy of play, perhaps for the cover alone. For these records, we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
Additional Marks & Notes
If something is noteworthy, we try to note it in the comments — especially if it is an oddity that is the only wrong thing about the record. This might include, but isn't limited to, warped records, tracks that skip, cover damage or wear as noted above, or strictly cosmetic flaws.
Used CD Grade
We have only one grade for non-new CDs at Dusty Groove — "Used CD". This grade is somewhat all-encompassing, but we choose it because we try to offer Used CDs in the best shape possible. All of our Used CDs are guaranteed to play without skipping or flaws. If you purchase a Used CD from Dusty Groove, you have 1 week to play it to determine that it plays correctly — and if it does not, then you may return it for a full refund.
With our Used CDs, you can expect the disc to be free of all but the lightest of surface marks — clean, and not dirty at all. You can also expect the case to be clean (we often change the cases ourselves — putting fresh cases on Used CDs we handle) — and you can expect the booklet to be in good shape, unless noted otherwise. We will list any specific details/defects underneath the item — so look for notes on cutout marks in the case, stamps on the barcode, or details like that.
Everything's Coming Up Dusty (plus bonus cuts)
Mercury (UK), Mid 60s. New Copy
CD...$6.99
A sparkling set of early work from the great Dusty Springfield – one of those fantastic records in which the singer almost seems to be working in a style that's equal parts soul and pop, even in the years before she recorded in Memphis and Muscle Shoals! There's a strong influence here from ... CD
Blossom Dearie/Bobby Jaspar
Adorable Blossom Dearie (3CD set)
El (UK), Late 50s. New Copy 3CD
CD...$18.99
A great look at the earliest years of the lovely Blossom Dearie – and a set that also features a surprising amount of work from reedman Bobby Jaspar, who was making big waves on the Paris jazz scene at the same time the young Blossom was living in France! CD1 features the pair together ... CD
Heart Of A Woman/Feelings (with bonus tracks)
Columbia/Real Gone, Mid 70s. New Copy 2CD
CD...$18.99 19.99
Sweetly soaring mid 70s work from Johnny Mathis - a pair of classic albums plus bonus tracks in a 2CD set! The voice of Johnny Mathis meets the soulful arrangements of Paul Riser and HB Barnum on Heart Of A Woman – all wrapped up with Johnny Bristol production! Johnny's tender voice, the ... CD
Sheila Jordan
Portrait Of Sheila
Blue Note (Japan), 1962. New Copy
CD...$14.99 (CD...$5.99)
One of the only two vocal jazz albums that the Blue Note label recorded back in the day – and a haunting batch of tracks from a young Sheila Jordan! The style here is quite different than that of Jordan's later, more experimental records – and this early session shows her as an ... CD
Ms Jazz
Groove Merchant/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1973. New Copy
Always-hip work from the great Carmen McRae – a singer who moved way past standard jazz during the second half of the 60s – to a point where she was really handling a great range of material by the start of the 70s! Carmen's voice was always great, but there's a really special quality ... CD
Anthony Newley/Peter Sellers/Mandy Rice-Davies/Miss X
Fool Britannia/Scandal/Stop The World I Want To Off
El (UK), Early 60s. New Copy 2 CDs
CD...$3.99 13.99
A great look at the wit of England in the years before the rise of Monty Python – a special early 60s time when new ways of lampooning society were really coming into play, sometimes finding their only outlet on the musical stage! As part of that legacy, the set features two important early ... CD
Annie Ross
Annie Ross Sings A Handful Of Songs (plus Gasser/Cranks/bonus tracks)
Ember/El (UK), 1964. New Copy 2CD
CD...$3.99 13.99 (LP...$14.99)
An overstuffed package of work from Annie Ross – one that features a few key albums, plus some rare bonus tracks too! First up is A Handful Of Songs – which has Ross recording as a solo act back in England after leaving her famous group with Dave Lambert and John Hendricks! The style ... CD
Cilla/In My Life (with bonus tracks)
Parlophone/SFE (UK), 1965/1974. New Copy 2CD
Two key albums from England's legendary Cilla Black – back to back in a single set, and with 26 bonus tracks too! First up is the amazing 1965 debut, Cilla – a record that maybe draws even more heavily on American soul music than some of Dusty Springfield's early work – all given ... CD
Helen Merrill In Tokyo
King (Japan), 1963. New Copy
A rare Japanese session from vocalist Helen Merrill – one of a few key 60s recordings she cut on the Tokyo scene, after initial fame in the US! The album features a great small group arranged by drummer Takeshi Inomata, played by a combo that includes alto, baritone, and trumpet – all ... CD
Dakota Staton
Ms Soul
A 70s set from the great Dakota Staton – but done with a lean, jazzy vibe that really gets back to the spirit of some of her earlier recordings! The group's a small combo, with the great Norman Simmons on piano – always a great accompanist for a jazz singer, and working here with ... CD
Columbia Groovy Songbirds
Columbia (Japan), Mid 60s. New Copy
A totally wonderful little collection – one that looks at obscure singles issued by Columbia Records in the 60s – all by female singers with a strong dose of jazz in their style, but often working here in groovier modes too! Some cuts are rare numbers by artists who issued albums on ... CD
Caterina Valente/Alaide Costa/Maysa/Dolores Duran
Women Of Bossa Nova Vol 1 (Bossa Classica/Joia Moderna/Tom Jobim For Maysa/Dolores Duran & Her Interpreters)
El (UK), Early 60s. New Copy 2CD
A very cool collection of female bossa nova records – one that really goes way past the usual! First up is Bossa Classica by Caterina Valente – a German singer by birth, but one who was really open to new styles from around the world – including lots of jazz, Latin, and Brazilian ... CD

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Access to education isn't a privilege, it's a basic human right – Mzwandile inspires a new generation of learners.
Raised by his aunt and uncle after his parents passed away at a young age, Mzwandile Harmans attended a poor school in Cala, the heart of the rural Eastern Cape. It was his matric year; but with limited resources at Masikhuthale Public Secondary school, the pass rate was low and the learning environment less than ideal for conscientious learners.
Then one day a teacher came round to talk about Engen's Maths and Science Schools (EMSS) programme, and everything changed for this talented young man who was determined to realise his full potential.
Making the long round trip every weekend to attend the programme saw a steady improvement in Mzwandile's maths, chemistry, and physics marks, so much so that he was awarded a full Engen scholarship to study Chemical Engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT).
Mzwandile later impressed with his tertiary studies and after two-years was offered a one-year internship at the Engen Refinery in Durban, which he passed with distinction. On graduating from CPUT, he landed a two-year employment contract with Engen, as part of the company's graduate development programme.
Chwayita Mareka, Engen's Head of Human Resources, says the company's investment in young talent has focused on the Maths and Science Saturday Schools because they understand the bigger country agenda.
"As Engen, we try and play our part in helping to develop South African's talent pool, as there is a scarcity of Science, Maths and Engineering skills. We offer bursaries for students to go to universities in these fields and we look after them, especially if they are from disadvantaged communities," says Mareka.
"Later, they come into Engen as graduate trainees as part of our graduate development programme wherein we assign them a mentor that exposes them to the real business," she adds.
Mzwandile's journey is just one of many inspirational Engen stories that will be shared as part of a new TV series that aims to create a positive narrative around South Africa's success stories. The SA INC. TV series which launches on 7 April is a partnership between Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), Brand South Africa and producers, Regency Global.
To watch Mzwandile's story please visit the website: https://regency.global/engen/ and the following hashtags: #JourneyWithEngen #BusinessBelieves #SAINC #humanrightsday #awesomesouthafrica #sustainability #livesouthafrica #weheartsa.
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Hello everyone, welcome. Today I am going to scratch the surface of something that can help your writing. Disclaimer, this post contains affiliate links.
Have you ever noticed that when you are reading a story or watching a TV show something just clicks in it, and even though part of you feels like it is rubbish, something is just working for you? I get that when reading stories or watching stuff that has a modern setting, but that links back to the past in some way. Stargate SG1, the TV show, does this in that the antagonists style themselves as deities whose advanced technology looks archaic. The Vampire Diaries TV show (and presumably books) have a contemporary story with a plot thread set in the past. The Katharine Kerr Deverry series of books is a High Fantasy Series set in one period, that frequently loops back to the previous incarnations of the main characters.
It occurs to me that I have nostalgia, or even romantic notions, related to the past. The reasons why aren't really important, only that it is true. Nostalgia is the reason I watched three seasons of the Vampire Diaries before becoming utterly bored. Nostalgia is (one of) the reason(s) I am on my third complete run through of my Stargate SG1 DVDs.
For me, a link to the past is appealing as a plot device. The plot tugs on my emotions, overriding sense (not necessarily in a bad way) and gives me a pleasurable experience in consumption of the media. Nostalgia is the ally of the Writer against my resistance.
It is an ally any writer can make use of. The theory is simple, and should be something a writer is doing anyway. It is part of your audience research. Who are your audience? What do they like? What do they have fond memories of?
More importantly can you legitimately get any of that into your plot?
Ask yourself, who is your audience and what do they hanker for?
For me, it is what I perceive to be simpler times. Even the romanticised version.
For others it could be romance itself, the story that clearly has a happy ending.
Maybe it is having a character (not necessarily protagonist) that shares common values that your readers can relate to.
I am very much aware that this post may appear vague. I consider it a starting point, as I do not know who your audience is. Let's have a chat in the comments.
I like what you say about the 'click' in films or shows that keeps you watching, even if everyone around you is worried for your mental health when you tell them that Babylon 5 was good.


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As Mercedes considers dropping the appeal, Toto Wolff sends Verstappen a 'private text.'
Toto Wolff, Mercedes' CEO, is said to have texted Red Bull driver Max Verstappen to congratulate him on his World Championship victory at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Wolff, who owns a 30% stake in the German constructor, was probably more taken aback by the events at the Yas Marina Circuit than anyone else.
Verstappen, 24, won his first championship in dramatic fashion, taking advantage of a late safety car and some dubious decisions by Michael Masi to pass Lewis Hamilton on the final lap.
The Mercedes garage was enraged by Masi's decision to allow the five lapped cars between Hamilton and Verstappen to overtake the safety car on the final lap of the race.
Following the decision, Wolff said on the radio, "You need to reinstate the lap before, that's not right," before Masi retorted, "It's called a motor race - we went car racing."
While Red Bull CEO Christian Horner celebrated Verstappen's victory, a shell-shocked Wolff refused to speak to the media because he couldn't believe what he had just seen.
Mercedes immediately protested two incidents that occurred near the end of the race, but the FIA dismissed both claims.
Later, the dominant constructor announced their intention to appeal one of those decisions, but it now appears they will drop that appeal for the sake of the sport.
In a new development, Wolff appears to have conceded the world title race to Verstappen after reportedly sending him a text message congratulating him on his victory.
"Max Verstappen told me that Toto Wolff, the Mercedes boss, had sent him a text message, congratulating him on being World Champion and saying that he fully deserved it, so make of that what you will," Sky Sports News presenter Craig Slater claims.
"I haven't heard anything from Mercedes regarding their decision not to participate in the protest."
Mercedes was given 96 hours to file a new appeal, but it appears that they are now willing to accept the decision of the Abu Dhabi decider.
If that's the case, Verstappen will be crowned Formula One champion for the first time on Thursday at the FIA's prize-giving ceremony.


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Budmail 420 Launches Unique Cannabis Advent Calendar
Budmail 420 announced that they have launched a cannabis advent calendar in Canada.
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TORONTO, Nov. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Heard of wine advent calendars, or chocolate ones, or even beer versions? Now, thanks to Budmail 420, customers can get their very own cannabis advent calendar in Canada.
Calendars feature 20 days of edibles, pre-rolls, grams of flower, and four days of cannabis accessories. Each one of those wonderful little goodies is tucked inside of a reusable cardboard box and marked as you countdown to Christmas.
"The company has seen the success of unique advent calendars in other industries," said Dylan Fawcett, President and CEO of Budmail 420. "This was a way that we could provide customers with a fun and engaging gift that they can enjoy for an entire month! I am looking forward to hearing from customers on how they like the surprises and different products."
Each box is filled with $250 worth of cannabis products and costs $265 before taxes. "These beautiful boxes are being filled by a partner dispensary with high quality products with a different product each day. Should you purchase a second box, will have the same great value but the products per day will be different than what is in the first box," said Fawcett.
Budmail 420 is working with dispensary partners to fill their regular edition of customized weed subscription boxes. Currently, the advent box is only available in Canada, but the Budmail 420 team is working to expand the service area and provide subscription boxes where legal to anyone interested.
The supply of the weed advent calendars is limited this year, so be sure to purchase yours today at Budmail 420. Delivery will take place the last week of November so that customers can enjoy on December 1st.
About Budmail 420
Budmail 420, founded in 2003, is a cannabis subscription service that operates in North America. The company allows customers to choose between four boxes; Puff (can include flower, pre-rolls, and vapes), Edible, CBD (can be topicals, flower, vapes, edibles), and sampler (a bit of everything). The box can be customized to meet each customers preference along with one of our favorite accessories, and $10 off your next purchase at the dispensary that is featured.
Dylan Fawcett
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Q: Even weighted codewords and puncturing My question is below:

Prove that if a binary $(n,M,d)$-code exists for which $d$ is even, then a binary $(n,M,d)$-code exists for which each codeword has even weight.

(Hint: Do some puncturing and extending.)

A: Breaking this down to individual steps. Assume that $d=2t$ is an even integer.
Assume that an $(n,M,d)$ code $C$ exists.

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*Show that puncturing the last bit from the words of $C$, you get a code $C'$ with parameters $(n-1,M,d')$, where $d'\ge d-1$. Actually we could puncture any bit, but let's be specific. Also we fully expect to have $d'=d-1$, but can't tell for sure, and don't care.

*Let us append each word of $C'$ by adding an extra bit chosen in such a way that the weight of the word is even. Call the resulting code $C^+$. Show that $C^*$ has parameters $(n,M,d^*)$, where $d^*\ge d'\ge 2t-1.$ Observe that all the words of $C^*$ have an even weight.

*Show that the minimum distance of $C^*$ must be an even number. Conclude that $d^*\ge d$.

Observe that we did not assume linearity at any step.

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In Sweden we now celebrate the midsummer tomorrow, maybe some British people do to? How ever we wish all members and followers from all countries a great midsummer weekend with this beautiful picture from the Swedish archipelago. If you want to know more about our Swedish midsummer celebration, check out this video (in English). More skiing related content will follow after the weekend.


New Zealanders know the sophoras, or kōwhais, by the copious yellow flowers which appear in spring. These are attractive to a number of native birds because of the honey they contain. Our heathen sparrows have yet to discover the pleasures of Kōwhai, but the variety Sophora microphylla 'Sun King' produces an unmissable show at this time of year. It's evergreen, hardy, can be trained against a sunny wall or fence, or simply be left to form an open shrub.
Thank you for causing me to think and check out different plants. This is gorgeous. I can't grow it here but I love being able to learn about it and see its beautiful flowers.


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Palo Alto Weekly
News - August 30, 2019
Can city's big plans for Ventura be saved?
Amid changing conditions and facing a funding deadline, Palo Alto planning director warns of 'painful conversations ahead' for neighborhood stakeholders
by Gennady Sheyner
Kirsten Flynn knows what an "uncoordinated area plan" looks like.
Flynn, an interior designer who moved to the Ventura neighborhood in Palo Alto nearly three decades ago, said she sees it all around her neighborhood: The once-industrial area is today a mishmash of decades-old homes, brand-new apartment buildings and startup workspaces. Instead of vibrancy, it's characterized by deficits of parkspace, attention from City Hall and joy.
Part of the frustration has to do with the neighborhood's basic location and inaccessibility. The always-busy El Camino Real creates a boundary on one side of the neighborhood; Page Mill Road flanks it on another; and the Caltrain tracks hem in the neighborhood along a third side. In the middle, there is a commercial campus anchored by Fry's Electronics and several smaller businesses.
The area has seen plenty of change, and not necessarily for the better. New commercial developments along El Camino and Page Mill have added traffic to the notoriously congested intersection of the two prominent commute routes. The intersection, Flynn notes, already boasts the worst-possible rating for traffic quality ("F"), and it's getting worse.
Along Park Boulevard, which parallels the train tracks, commercial buildings are rising, with glassy facades, plazas and roof gardens. Employees riding bicyclists and scooters swerve past orange cones or come to a stop to let the latest construction crane or cement truck pass.
The bike boulevard along Park is one of the area's most prized assets, Flynn said. But even this asset is being is compromised by new developments, including a recently constructed residential complex with driveways dumping cars out onto the bike lane, she added.
"We keep doing this piecemeal, one-project-at-a-time plan approval, and each one is a missed opportunity to make a more strategic project," Flynn said.
She is hardly the only resident who sees much to be desired in her neighborhood. City Manager Ed Shikada alluded to Ventura residents' relative pessimism at a March meeting, which brought a standing-room-only crowd of about 100 people to the Ventura Community Center. According to the most recent National Citizens Survey, an annual poll of residents, the southern section of town including Ventura, Barron Park, Charleston Meadows, Monroe Park, Green Acres, Greater Miranda, Esther Clark Park and Palo Alto Hills has "pretty consistently reflected a perception of being at the lower end of the spectrum," Shikada said.
Those residents see their city as a less desirable place to visit, to retire in and to get around than their counterparts in other parts of the city. While 73% of respondents from this area rated the "overall quality of life" in Palo Alto as "good" or "excellent," this is well below the roughly 88% of respondents in the two areas that cover downtown (the citywide rate is 84%).
The North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan (NVCAP) effort, which the City Council endorsed to great fanfare in November 2017, aims to change that. While council members rarely see eye-to-eye on issues of growth and change, they were unanimous in accepting $638,000 in grant funds to jump-start the planning process for the 60-acre area bounded by El Camino, Page Mill, the train tracks and Lambert Avenue. In approving the grant, then-Councilman Eric Filseth channelled the popular sentiment when he cited the maxim, "Don't turn down free money and don't turn down free food," just before the vote.
In another positive sign, The Sobrato Organization, which owns the Fry's site at 340 Portage Ave., kicked in about $250,000 to pay for an environmental analysis and cover the grant's requirement for matching funds. The company scuttled a prior effort in 2015 to create a concept plan for Ventura, and its financial contribution and participation on a new North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan Working Group, which is charged with steering the planning, signaled to the community that change might actually be possible.
That feeling of hope persisted through the working group's March meeting at Ventura Community Center, where residents talked about their desire to see more affordable housing, bus services, retail, rooftop gardens, and less traffic and office construction. Several said they want to see more nature and advocated for removing the concrete channel in Matadero Creek and restoring it to its natural state — an option that the council agreed to consider.
Angela Dellaporte, a teacher who lives in Ventura and is part of the 11-member working group, told the council that a recent survey of the neighborhood showed that most people want to see housing, particularly for teachers, nurses and middle-income families.
"They also want to see some housing go to low-income families; they want to see a reduction in traffic ... and they want to see a lot of green space — accessible and welcoming to the public," Dellaporte told the council at the March meeting.
Before the council directed staff to perform further analysis on the Ventura site, Vice Mayor Adrian Fine cited the simmering frustrations of neighborhood residents and suggested that help is on the way.
"Hopefully, this meeting is the first step toward addressing that," Fine said at the March meeting.
And then there were hurdles
Things took a turn in the spring.
In their April meetings, frustrated members of the working group proposed a list of reforms, including election of co-chairs, creation of subcommittees and a potentially unreachable goal of getting to a consensus.
Around the same time, the city's historic consultant, Page & Turnbull, found that the Fry's building is actually a historic structure because of its status as a former cannery — the city's largest employer in the first half of the 20th century — a finding that could compromise the parcel as the city's most promising site for new housing.
Also in April, one working group member, Rebecca Parker-Mankey, found herself in hot water — and national headlines — after she berated a man in a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat inside a Starbucks on California Avenue. Parker-Mankey, an advocate for more housing and amenities for teenagers, abruptly resigned from the group.
Over the summer, city planners sparred with the consultant Perkins+Will over the expanding scope of the planning process. And earlier this month, city planners released a report indicating that Sobrato isn't interested in redeveloping the Fry's site, at least in the near term.
"Without willing property owners, the plan will be unable to realize the council's project goals," the report states.
The fresh onslaught of obstacles, delays and contract amendments has dampened the enthusiasm of city leaders and created fissures in the once-united council. It is also threatening to cripple the Ventura planning process and undermine the city Comprehensive Plan's vision for the area as "a walkable neighborhood with multi-family housing, ground-floor retail, a public park, creek improvements and an interconnected street grid."
The council's frustrations and divisions were on display during its Aug. 19 discussion of the Ventura plan, where some council members advocated for injecting more money into the process and others tried to hold the line against the rising costs, even if it means that the council and the working group won't get the kind of analysis they have hoped for.
The meeting concluded with a suddenly ambivalent council wondering whether the Ventura process can still be saved. Fine and Councilwoman Liz Kniss both advocated for staying on course and adding more than $367,000 to the Perkins+Will contract. Both noted that stopping now would require the city to return the $325,000 in grant funding that the city has already received out of the $638,000.
Their proposal barely carried, with the council voting 4-3 to expand the budget and extend the timeline by 11 months. Filseth and council members Alison Cormack and Greg Tanaka voted against the motion, saying they are uncomfortable adding significant city funds for the plan, now that its process is wobblier and its goals murkier.
Tanaka posited that "there won't be much to show after all this money is spent." Cormack's enthusiasm was similarly curbed. Sobrato's reluctance to redevelop has removed some of the urgency from the process, she said.
"I understand we committed to doing this in the Comprehensive Plan and we probably need to keep going. But it's not clear to me it will achieve the things many people in the community have been hoping for in the medium run."
Fine countered that the $367,000 budget addition is "not a huge amount compared to other items we regularly spend money on." The plan, he said, is something that the council has been promising to the Ventura community for more than 20 years.
"I think it's a reasonable investment," Fine said.
The council's Aug. 19 discussion marked a turning point for the process, which is now shifting from an open-ended discussion of all the possibilities for the site to a more focused debate about what's actually possible, given the economic realities.
This will include debating how much height and density the city should offer to developers to make residential development economically viable. It will invariably include a lively discussion about whether it's best to preserve cannery founder Thomas Foon Chew's legacy by retaining the 1918 building or to redevelop the site to include, say, workforce housing — an amenity that, coincidentally, Chew provided for Bayside Canning Company's employees.
And with Fry's confirming this week its plans to leave in January (see sidebar), when its latest five-year lease expires, the council and the community now find themselves staring at two potentially unappealing options: revisiting the city's traditional opposition to big-box stores or allowing the 60,000-square-foot retail building to sit empty for an extended period of time.
While Fry's departure will deprive the city of some valuable sales-tax revenue, it could have the unexpected benefit of adding fresh urgency to the planning process, much in the same way that the departure of Palo Alto Medical Foundation sparked the effort to forge a new vision for the downtown area south of Forest Avenue.
City Planning Director Jonathan Lait, who is leading the Ventura planning process, alluded to the hard work ahead on Aug. 21, when he told the working group to brace for some "uncomfortable conversations" about the costs that the community is willing to pay to get the amenities it seeks.
Lait acknowledged that the prospect of losing the cannery building might be "upsetting" to many but said staff plans to explore that scenario, as well as consider other sites where the city can add housing instead.
"You can't get to where we want to go without having those painful conversations," Lait said.
It all revolves around Fry's
The council's surprise at Sobrato's position not to redevelop the Fry's site is itself somewhat surprising.
The company, which purchased the property in 2011, has never proposed building housing there. In July 2018, shortly before the Ventura process took off, Tim Steele of Sobrato told the Weekly that while the company is happy to participate in the vision process, the Fry's site is functioning just fine from an economic perspective.
"We have a viable building that is producing income and is operating well," Steele said in 2018. The Sobrato Organization declined to comment for this story, noting that it doesn't currently have a plan for the site.
Steele also indicated at that bringing new retail or constructing significant housing at 340 Portage would be tough to achieve under existing regulations. Retail, he said, is particularly challenging, with stores closing all over the country, partly because of e-commerce. The site's lack of visibility from major corridors complicates things further.
The site is currently zoned RM-30, which allows 30 units of housing per acre, and it is subject to a 35-foot height limit. Steele indicated in 2018 that those zoning restrictions make the prospect of replacing the Fry's building with a residential complex economically infeasible.
"I think what we're going to have to consider is intensification of the site to make it economically viable," Steele said.
Housing, he said, can potentially be added to complement other types of uses, such as offices.
"But to say we're going to take this income stream and do away with it and put in much more capital to get the same income stream — it's the economics of that challenge," Steele said.
Given the hurdles to building housing at 340 Portage and the low likelihood of a redevelopment at the Fry's site in the near future, city staff and the working group are increasingly emphasizing the long-term nature of the vision. Lait said at the Aug. 21 meeting that the document intends to apply "15 to 20 years out," when the economic conditions may be different.
Gail Price, a former city planner and council member who serves on the working group, also stressed the long-term potential of the planning process in an Aug. 15 letter to the council. She wrote that she is concerned that the accelerating debate over the historic significance of the Fry's building can become a "premature 'firestorm' that could impact the intensity of needed discussion of all other vision and planning elements of the NVCAP."
She also wrote that she was "dismayed" that the discussion has not so far considered ways neighborhoods elsewhere are evolving to become more sustainable.
"I do not feel traditional approaches and expectations are sufficient for this area. I trust that the various alternatives developed will incorporate these (sustainability) ideas," wrote Price, who previously has advocated for sustainable city planning that reduces greenhouse-gas emissions and addresses climate change.
One area that the community discussion will inevitably consider is zone changes. Lait said it's important to explore potential incentives that the city can offer to Sobrato to motivate it to remove a building where it currently makes $8 per square foot in rent. Some of the options, including allowing more density and height, are almost certain to be controversial, he acknowledged. Even so, it's important for the council and the community to "at least know what we want and what we don't want," Lait said.
At the same time, Lait and the working group are looking at ways to address members' frustrations with the process. At the April meeting, several members complained that they are not getting the information they need to make their discussions meaningful. Flynn and Dellaporte proposed a series of changes, including the establishment of subcommittees focused on specific areas (hydrology, transportation, historical preservation, etc.).
Resident Terry Holzemer, a proponent of preserving the Fry's building and a member of the working group, suggested that the timeline for the planning process should be extended, even if it requires more funding.
"If we create a plan that the community is not behind, if we create a plan that people have problems with or issues with, you'll have much bigger issues than losing $650,000. I think you'll lose trust of the public and you don't want that either," Holzemer said.
Some of the group's proposals are slowly picking up traction. At the Aug. 21 meeting, Lait agreed to let the group elect co-chairs to help facilitate communication between the working group, staff and consultants (which it will do at its next meeting, on Sept. 24). Staff was also open to working group members meeting in informal subcommittees focused on particular areas of interest, provided groups have fewer than six people.
Lait also acknowledged that it has taken staff too long to provide the working group with actual redevelopment scenarios on which they can provide feedback — an exercise that the group will be wrestling with in the coming months.
"We've come to the conclusion that we need to give you something to respond to," Lait said. "We're not looking to hit the nail with the hammer on the first go, but we want to give you the bookends."
Making the process work
Whether the Ventura plan succeeds could have repercussions far beyond the 60-acre planning area. For years, Fine and other council members have long advocated for the creation of more "area plans" — a planning tool that allows residents, businesses and city leaders to rethink the zoning for a section of the city where they want to spur change. The tool has been widely used in surrounding communities, with Mountain View recently adopting "precise plans" for the San Antonio Road area and North Bayshore and now preparing another one for the East Whisman area (the city's website lists two dozen such plans in total).
But in Palo Alto, where city leaders often take pride in "the process," the tool has, at best, a mixed record of success. Council members often tout the South of Forest Area Plan (SOFA) — a two-phase, multi-year planning effort that transformed a section of downtown in the wake of Palo Alto Medical Foundation's relocation — as the ideal planning process, one that should be replicated in Ventura to the extent possible.
That, however, is looking increasingly impossible, given the many constraints of the current planning process. The SOFA plan was driven by an actual development proposal (the Medical Foundation's move to its new campus near Town & Country Village) and, as such, carried a sense of urgency. Even so, the process stretched for more than six years, with the council launching it in September 1997 and adopting the second phase of SOFA in November 2003.
The Ventura process is progressing on a far more expedited schedule. The $638,000 grant that the council voted to accept in November 2017 commits the city to completion of the plan within two years, unless Caltrans authorizes an extension. The two-year timeframe, according to a staff report released this month, "influenced the scope of work, deliverables and expectations to complete the project within this schedule."
These limitations are already causing pressure. Since March, council members and working group members have been requesting far more information than has been provided. The council requested evaluation of new requirements for below-market-rate housing and "workforce housing," as well as options for ensuring current residents are able to stay and new regulations on office size.
Members of the working group requested a "market feasibility study," detailed zoning maps and additional information about hydrology, vegetation public safety, utilities, cultural and historical resources.
The growing scope of the exercise tested the relationship between city planners and Perkins+Will, according to Lait. He told the council last week that the tensions appear to have been resolved, with the city proposing a contract extension and the consultant removing about $60,000 from its earlier request.
"Our data-hungry analysis often requires more work than what a consultant might experience in other communities," Lait said. "There is a certain amount of responsibility that the consultant has, as well as the city, in managing the project. I'm not sure if either side lived up to their responsibilities in that regard."
While the council generally supported extending the consultant's contract, the 4-3 vote to do so underscored its limited appetite for further delays and expenditures. Filseth, who as mayor in his "State of the City" speech lauded the North Bayshore Specific Plan in Mountain View as a perfect example of successful planning, balked at expanding the budget for the Ventura process.
"There is such a thing as giving a startup too much money," he said at the council's Aug. 19 meeting.
But while Filseth suggested that the city should be able to get a decent plan for $750,000, Alexander Lew, an architect who serves on the city's Architectural Review Board and on the NVCAP Working Group, observed that the North Bayshore Specific Plan cost about $3 million to put together.
"That's a very bold, very ambitious (effort) and a bigger site, but that's an order of magnitude larger than our project budget," Lew said at the Aug. 21 meeting of the working group.
The debate over the Ventura plan is expected to heat up in the coming months, as the menu of planning scenarios begins to crystallize and the working group (and, ultimately, the council) takes on the topics of building heights and density. Already, there are some signs of tension. When Fine suggested at the Aug. 19 meeting the city could consider a commemorative plaque as an option for honoring Thomas Foon Chew's pioneering achievements, Councilwoman Lydia Kou sharply rebuffed the idea, saying that a plaque "does not do justice to my people, who started this thing."
Political disagreements, as much as further cost increases, could easily doom the planning process in the months ahead, if the past is any example. Two planning efforts that the city undertook after SOFA — the California Avenue Concept Plan and the East Meadow Circle/Fabian Way area in south Palo Alto — both involved community meetings, consultants and heated debates. One meeting on the California Avenue plan almost ended in fisticuffs between community members. Each process fizzled after the council panned and summarily shelved the final product.
But even amid the disagreements, Ventura residents have some reasons for optimism. The council last week unanimously signaled its support for a study that would evaluate improvements around Matadero Creek. Lait said the plan will consider three scenarios, one that would restore the creek to a natural state; another that would retain the concrete channel but create various pedestrian and biking amenities around it; and a third that could mix elements of the other two.
In addition, Ventura residents can soon look forward to the long-awaited expansion of Boulware Park, made possible by the city's purchase of an adjacent 0.64-acre parcel formerly owned by AT&T. The council put the finishing touches on the purchase last week, unanimously passing a budget amendment to make the $2.7-million deal possible.
A report from the Administrative Services Department notes that the expansion will allow Boulware Park to "meet the neighborhood park-acreage (requirement) and potentially integrate the street right-of-way between the parcels."
"The property's location proximate to the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan study area also enhances potential connectivity with the Fry's site," the report states.
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Posted by Stop Overdevelopment
a resident of Crescent Park
on Aug 30, 2019 at 1:58 am
No matter how many more consultants, studies, and analyses the city pays for, this will NOT work. North Ventura already has way too much traffic and it's getting worse daily because of all the new office buildings the City has idiotically allowed to go up.
City staff now say we must help developers overcome their reluctance to keep their hugely profitable office buildings, with Sobrato's Fry's site (which is actually mostly offices) being the prime target. But since developers claim they can't make much money by rebuilding, the only way to encourage them is to allow the replacement buildings to be truly monster-sized. But that will make traffic worse yet.
Our city planners have a build-build-build fixation, and when that gives us wretched traffic and an affordable housing shortage, their only solution is to build even more. They never admit this will our make traffic and other problems far worse.
Let's instead say NO to more offices, more traffic, and endless overdevelopment. That's the best solution for Palo Alto.
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Posted by Anon
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
It is odd how, in the past, when zoning-non-conforming businesses existed, there were given a certain amount of time to conform and then shut down. Anybody remember the garage over on Middlefield on the other side from the Mitchell Park library? The garage had to shut down and be converted to high-end housing because it didn't conform to its zoning. (I had my old Chevy serviced there back in the day.) The Fry's site has been zoned RM-30 for a long tme, but, Fry's was temporarily OK because it generated a lot of sales tax revenue. Before Amazon. Now, we find out that the RM-30 housing may never happen, because, the owner doesn't want to. The site is largely office now, and will become more so soon, it sounds like. But, apparently, nothing can be done. Apparently zoning non-conformance isn't always an issue, just, sometimes.
I don't expect PACC to listen, but, on the off chance someone is listening: this town is drowning in cars. Really. Parking. Traffic. As the article states, Page Mill/ECR: "F". We seriously do not need -any- more people commuting in here.
a resident of Evergreen Park
What Palo Alto needs is housing that fits in with north Ventura character, additional parkland, improvements to pedestrian bike circulation, small business that's serves residents and retention of historic assets.
will the city council have the courage to zone for this and amortize out, over a reasonable period of time, big tech firms and allow this to happen ?
Posted by Arthur Keller
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Aug 30, 2019 at 11:22 am
Since the NVCAP planning process will take a while, the landowner should be told to allow Fry's Electronics to stay open until a new plan is approved. The landowner should be strongly discouraged from forcing Fry's to close while there is no new use for the building. Under the retail preservation ordinance, the Fry's space must remain as retail and not become yet more office space. It is viable as retail if Fry's is allowed to stay.
Posted by Resident 1-Adobe Meadows
on Aug 30, 2019 at 12:24 pm
Resident 1-Adobe Meadows is a registered user.
All of your political manuevering. Reality here is that the city does have the authority to either approve or disapprove of what ever the owner wants to do. But the state has already applied pressure for housing. Suggest the city enlist the state legal department to assist on making that happen. You all sound like victims here. If housing is the priority for a large piece of land than housing it will be. Because the state says so.
Posted by Gale Johnson
on Aug 30, 2019 at 1:13 pm
Gale Johnson is a registered user.
@Anon, If you're talking about that quonset hut garage (Manchester's Auto Repair), then that's where I took my car for repairs also, in the 60'to early 70's. Good reliable mechanics. My town has changed so much, and I'm sorry to say for the worse. We've lost all the good mom and pop retail stores. There are many reasons for it, and it's sad, but for PACC and planners to think it can be resurrected is just fantasy. Big box stores and e-commerce have killed it forever. Maximart and Red Johnson's were a couple of stores that I frequented back in the day. I've had a couple of bad shopping experiences at Fry's in the last couple years...looking for a new printer one time and ink another time. I finally went to my local store, Best Buy, (should have gone there in the first place) and found what I needed and checkout was easy and fast.
@Arthur Keller. I don't think retail will be viable in that space once the rental rates are announced. Dead and gone! But let's still hold out hope for housing and no more offices. I'm in favor of zoning changes that might entice developers/builders to actually build housing. If it is so high on our priority list, why would we do anything to discourage it? The housing should have the right mix of the state's mandated criteria for all income levels, Section 8 housing should be part of the plan. Compromises might have to happen for this to become reality, but please listen to my plea...just get it done! I would love to have my gardener, house cleaner, and all those wonderful hard working people who serve me in my favorite restaurants, to be able to live in my town, along with the more educated and skilled workers...teachers, firemen, nurses, policemen, et al. They all make a community.
@Gale Johnson. Some other retail might or might not be viable in that space, but Fry's does not want to leave. So why should they be forced to leave.
Another landowner couldn't get a replacement retail for the Oasis in Menlo Park. But that problem wouldn't have occurred if the Oasis had been allowed to stay.
So the City should do what it takes to allow Fry's to stay open in its current location unless and until there is a plan in place for a replacement that's viable.
Posted by musical
a resident of Palo Verde
>> The intersection ... already boasts the worst-possible rating for traffic quality ("F"),
and it's getting worse.
In striving for superlatives, Palo Alto should try for the first intersection to rate "G".
Posted by CR
a resident of Ventura
It is indeed sad to see all the small stores going out of business. Palo Alto need to find affordable housing for teachers. I work and live in the neighborhood, but most of the teachers have long commute. Our organization has lost lots of hard working professional because of lack of affordable housing for teachers in the area. Teachers cannot afford to pay the prices that these new model apartment or homes are asking for. Google and Facebook are making it very difficult for the regular folks to survive in Palo Alto. Please make it a priority for these folks to live in around Palo Alto. I know many teachers who live pay check to paycheck and have a hard time financial. Children are our future and it only hurting the children to see their favorite teachers leaving the area because of housing. Palo.Alto.has lots of money. It would be nice to see the some.of these Silicone Valley businesses provide or donate some sort of compensation for teachers in their community. Please no more traffic.
on Sep 1, 2019 at 2:44 pm
Posted by Gale Johnson, a resident of Adobe-Meadow
>> @Anon, If you're talking about that quonset hut garage (Manchester's Auto Repair), then that's where I took my car for repairs also, in the 60'to early 70's. Good reliable mechanics.
That is the place-- I had forgotten the name. Back in the late 70's through early 90's, cities, including Palo Alto, were trying to segregate residential and commerce/office. One of the first, locally, to buck that trend was Palo Alto Central at Park and California Ave by the Caltrain station. Nice mixed-use concept, but, an acquaintance had a unit, and, it didn't have enough noise insulation. Now, of course, developers are trying to use "mixed use" to end-around limits on office-space construction. They should be building their office space near Tracy, but, instead, are pretending to build housing here.
Posted by Keep An Open Mind
Since there is direct access from ECR & Park Boulevard, this parcel is PRIME for a number of applications.
Retail stores, office complexes, residential housing, manufacturing...just about anything.
As for the cars, we can never return to 'back in the day' traffic flow.
I know of an investor from overseas who is chomping at the bit to buy this large parcel of land with CASH & his RE agent is anxiously awaiting an opportunity to 'swing the deal' as the sales commission will be enormous.
Posted by Keep An Open Mind, a resident of Ventura
>> I know of an investor from overseas who is chomping at the bit to buy this large parcel of land with CASH & his RE agent is anxiously awaiting an opportunity to 'swing the deal' as the sales commission will be enormous.
Explain to your anxious friend that the value of property is limited by what zoning allows someone to build there. Your friend needs to buy a property with the zoning it needs to accommodate the projected development. No matter how much CASH he has, he can't build whatever he wants on a property that isn't zoned for that use.
Posted by The Mandarin Way
>>Your friend needs to buy a property with the zoning it needs to accommodate the projected development. No matter how much CASH he has, he can't build whatever he wants on a property that isn't zoned for that use.
^^^Current zoning would allow this wealthy investor from overseas to use the parcel for commercial purposes (i.e. a factory or manufacturing site).
Perhaps that is what he has in mind. With the current US-China tariff/embargo, Fry's would be an ideal site to manufacture cheap (or high-tech goods) currently being made in China. HB-1 visas could also be enacted as few Palo Altans would be willing to work for minimum wage or 'under the counter payment'.
Housing for the workers could also be implemented on the land & the rent deducted from their paychecks. That's how it's done in sweatshops & coal mines...with 'company stores' to boot.
The next generation of Stanford MBAs will be studying this throwback concept as a means of ensuring a higher yield/return on employment expenditures.
on Sep 4, 2019 at 8:23 am
We keep seeing comments about Chinese who want to buy and put businesses here. Also noted is use of H1B to start using the sites as rationale for immigration of workers.
What you are looking at is a financial model which directs taxes generated by the property out of the country and the other problem of the gig economy which is side stepping the state and federal taxes. All of these financial models are being addressed in a legislative bill which will prevent the attempts to side step the taxes due that you would expect to see for US employees, including social security and state compensation. We need taxes generated through what is the normal US business model which provides the tax base for what you all think is going to be the free for all services provided by the state and federal government.
So the current political hype is everything is free. That only works if the state has the money. And that money needs to be generated by US companies doing US work with US citizens. All of which have the taxes withheld from their paychecks which is then matched by the US company and forwarded to the respective government entities.
It would be nice if schools taught how programs are funded and how the taxes are generated. There seems to be a void in knowledge here.
Posted by DD
a resident of Mayfield
on Sep 5, 2019 at 12:43 pm
How does the expiration of the Fry's building's nonconforming use exemption (commercial use in residential zoning district RM-30) at the end of 2019 factor into all of this? Doesn't that prevent the property from being used for anything other than multifamily residential? Is City Council going to extend the exemption to allow the continuation of commercial use on the site? If Council doesn't extend the building can't be leased to a commercial tenant, right?
Posted by Zoned multi family
a resident of College Terrace
Zoned multi family is a registered user.
Didn't the council direct staff to amortize out the non-conforming uses on this multi family zoned property with the expiration of the Fry's lease? Why are we even talking about continuing to allow non-conforming uses on a property zoned multi-family? Don't the city manager and planning director have the power to enforce the zoning and not give permission for any new development applications that don't conform to the zoning? Why aren't the city council members reinforcing the zoning? Or do developers have so much influence in city hall and with some council members that they can dictate what will be built regardless of zoning?
I think all of the cards are on the table here. If "the city" does anything other than enforcing a multi-family use for this property then they can expect to see their "political" life end. This is a huge piece of land in a key location that responds to every dictate being imposed by the state and county. And if apartments/condos are built then that increases the property tax level for this overall property to current market value.
And if we are including space for teachers and city staff workers then their salaries are dependent on a healthy tax base. We all know what is required here and are not going to accept some weasel word activity which eliminates all of the total values and check boxes required for this key location.
Look across Park Blvd on the backside of the property - new apartment houses. See - not hard to do is it?
But does that mean the current status quo can continue for an unlimited time? That is the current commercial leases. Can they be renewed indefinitely?
Apparently the city council did amortize the commercial uses on the site to coincide with the expiration of the Fry's lease. However, some years ago a later council majority reversed that decision. Sobrato has powerful friends.
Posted by Katie
a resident of Greenmeadow
Will this just add to the camper parking on El Camino?
Hello - Campers Parked since August 11, 2019 on El Camino - Hazard for kids/adults biking to school, and all drivers on El Camino
Since Aug 11, 2019 4 campers have been parked on El Camino Real, near Maybell Avenue, and kids on bikes can't see around these big 4 campers, VTA and Stanford Marguerite buses drive in two lanes to get around these campers:
3 campers Beige Color, CA plates: License # 5MES671; 1LCX192; 18BES052 and 1 camper Nevada plates: U18A1N. Doesn't Palo Alto have a 72 hour parking limit?
When are our tax dollars going to have these hazard parked campers moved"
on Sep 6, 2019 at 11:53 am
Katie, you can report vehicles that are parked for more than 72 hours and the city will come and place a notice on the windshield that they have 72 hours from that time to move. They will then return 72 hours later to check and if it is still there arrange for it to be towed.
Posted by Zoned multi family, a resident of College Terrace
>> Apparently the city council did amortize the commercial uses on the site to coincide with the expiration of the Fry's lease. However, some years ago a later council majority reversed that decision.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but, the property is still zoned RM-30, right? So, if Sobrato wants to re-develop, it has be RM-30. I'm sure they will want to negotiate at some point. e.g. more, denser units traded for a public benefit like some park land and more low-income housing.


Call a designated number with a single click. The phone will begin ringing immediately. There will be no extra screens.
Upload photos to the App CMS or link to popular online photo sharing services to create a photo list or album in your app. Photos pulled from online services refresh each time you open the photo list or album so that your app is always up to date.
Creates, you guessed it, a submenu in your app.
Stores your contact information. This includes information like your address, phone number, e-mail address, and website, as well as your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Users can now call or email you at the click of a button. Users will be shown the route to your address in their smartphone's map application if they click on your address.
Displays a list of questions and answers. The questions are presented in the first screen. Clicking on a question brings you to the next screen with the answer to that question.
Opens a new screen featuring a map with markers designated by you.
Add direct links to webpages. Either launch in app or as a new page.
Allows users to send an e-mail with the click of a button. The building block also allows you to enter a predetermined subject. Clicking on the menu item created by the "Email" block opens an email client on the user's smartphone without going to a different screen first.
Opens a new screen in your app that you can fill with any kind of information you'd like.
Shows a list of products. Once users click on a product they see a new screen with information about the product. Each product can be linked to its own webpage. To sell products from the app add a Checkout block to this app too.
Shows the tweets from a Twitter account of your choosing. The Twitter building block is a great way of keeping in touch with your fans. It allows them to react to your tweets and/or retweet them directly in the app. The Twitters account in question will follow the design settings of your app.
Show a whole list of people. You can also add contact information, descriptions and photos of people in the list. Clicking on one of the people in the list opens a new screen with more information about that person.
Allows users to view an RSS feed in your app. Users of your app will be presented with a list of articles from the chosen RSS feed. Clicking on an article opens a new screen that shows the content of the article. The "More" button takes the user to the article itself via a mobile browser.
Opens a new screen with a list of videos in it. Clicking on one of these videos opens a new screen in which you can play the video.
The Coupons block allows large retailers to small shop owners to discount specials with a coupon in the app. App users can open coupons in the app and redeem them at shops. The coupons can also be set to be available via email. This means users need to enter their email address in order to receive a redeemable coupon.
Show reviews written about your business on Foursquare, Google Reviews or Urbanspoon in your app.
Create a newsfeed from either your blog or create an in app blog using our content management system.
The loyalty card allows large retailers to small shop owners to award credits to loyal customers and offer them redeemable discounts and specials based on these points. Customers will be given a unique QR code that is scannable by the shop owner on his device. Every scan will award the customer a number of credits that will earn them deals determined by the app owner.
Displays PDF documents in the app.
Allows users to contact you using a contact form. You can ask for feedback on your products, or have your customers requesting an appointment from within the app. You can even let clients send you a photo. You can customize the "Thank You" message your clients see after submitting the form.
Show the current weather for a specified location.
Allows you to lock certain content unless the app user meets certain requirements. The block can be unlocked using a password, QR-code, authorization level or GPS location.
This block can be used to let users scan QR Codes from within your app. Based on the information stored in the QR Code the appropriate action will be taken. E.g. When a phone number is present in the QR Code the user will be asked if they want to call the specified phone number.
The QR Scanner will keep track of scanned QR Codes so users can review their scanning history.


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Murder suspect said Nordic heavy metal music made him kill Omar Brown
Cody Lutz reportedly stabbed 90-year-old victim 18 times with a broken dowel rod
MANSFIELD - Cody Lutz, accused of killing 90-year-old Omar Brown, told Mansfield police Det. Dave Scheurer during a taped interview that Nordic heavy metal music he was listening to told him to kill Brown by midnight March 18.
Assistant Prosecutor Brandon Pigg questioned Scheurer on the stand during a preliminary hearing Thursday in Mansfield Municipal Court.
Lutz of Parkview Drive, is charged with aggravated murder, a felony of the first degree. Lutz was arrested in Medina County March 19 as a suspect in the stabbing death of Brown.
Scheurer told the court that Lutz stabbed Brown 18 times the evening of March 18, according to the preliminary autopsy report.
Lutz had a key to Brown's apartment, at 1831 Middle-Bellville Road, Apt. 3, but forced his way in, meeting resistance from a half-inch diameter wooden dowel rod, Scheurer said.
Lutz broke the dowel in half and used it as a weapon to kill Brown, according to Scheurer.
Scheurer said Lutz, during an interview that was taped on both audio and video, told him from the Medina County Sheriff's Office that he stabbed Brown with the broken dowel in the neck and throat area in the kitchen of Brown's apartment and then as a final effort, took the broken dowel and forced it down Brown's throat.
Scheurer said Lutz, 31, told him that he had to kill Brown or Armageddon would occur and last for 1,000 years.
Bond was set on March 21 at $1 million for Lutz and was continued at that amount, Mansfield Municipal Court Judge Jerry Ault said.
Ault said he found probable cause that Lutz committed the crime and bound the case over to the Richland County Grand Jury.
Lutz sat quietly at the defense table on Thursday wearing an orange-and-white jail jumpsuit, with defense attorney Bernie Davis at his side.
Lutz had no prior criminal record, not even a traffic ticket from information gathered about the suspect by authorities, Scheurer said.
Scheurer said when he arrived on the scene of the murder, he interviewed neighbors of Brown and then Brown's son Jeffrey, who said his father, his father's sister and Lutz each had keys to the apartment.
Soon after, someone from the Mansfield police radio room received information from a Medina County Sheriff's Office deputy who had information about a suspect in the murder case.
Scheurer traveled to Medina and during the interview with Lutz, Scheurer said Lutz told him he thought the murder through as he drove to Brown's apartment. He used his key to the apartment and when he pushed on the door, the dowel rod broke.
He had placed the short piece of the dowel rod in his back pocket. He went in and woke up Brown and sat in the living room and talked with Brown. He drank some water. The defendant went back to bed and Lutz went back and woke Brown up again, Scheurer said.
Brown determined Lutz needed something to eat, Scheurer said, and went to the refrigerator and put some food on the counter for Lutz. Lutz said he showed Brown a photograph of a female on his phone and Brown looked at Lutz as if he was confused and Lutz began to stab Brown in the neck and throat area, Scheurer said.
Lutz faces a possible death sentence if convicted, or life in prison without parole, life imprisonment with parole after 20 years, life imprisonment with parole after 25 years, or life imprisonment with parole after 30 years, according to the court.
Lutz also faces a maximum fine of $25,000.
Brown was loved by everyone, said his pastor, Bishop Clendon "J" Parr of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church. "He was someone who was always reaching out."
"He just had his 90th birthday party on Feb. 10. They filled the hall over here," said Parr, who was a close friend of Brown.
Skoog hearing postponed
In an unrelated case, the preliminary hearing of murder suspect Jordan J. Skoog, 28, of Bellville, that had been scheduled for Thursday afternoon was continued to 11 a.m. April 4 in Ault's courtroom.
Skoog is accused of fatally shooting Austin Smiley, a 19-year-old New London man, inside a residence in Mifflin Township on March 20.
Skoog, 28, was charged with murder, a first-degree felony. He was arraigned at 9:45 a.m. March 22 at Mansfield Municipal Court and a $1 million cash bond was set.
His attorney, Bob Whitney, entered a not guilty plea for Skoog last week.


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Q: FTP connection through PHP always ask for username & password So I have an FTP server with bulk of large files (mostly satellite imagery data). I am building a system with PHP to serve users to download the files. The system can show the list of files in FTP server, so they can download the files. Typically, the list is not from the FTP server, I stored the list in the database.
For FTP connection, I have stored the details (ftp user, ftp password, and ftp server) in a config file. So here I don't want user input anything, just click the download button, and get the files.
The flow of my system is:

*

*Check if the requested data is available.

*If available, then do FTP connection with ftp_connect

*If connection succeed, then login to FTP using ftp_login

*Insert new record to the log table in the database.

*Redirect user to the requested file using PHP header('Location:')

*Close the FTP connection

It works actually!
But it always asks for FTP username and password for every user download requests.
So what is wrong? Or is there any better approach?
Edit:
Here is the code in download.php:
    <?php
    include "config.php";
    include "query_user.php";
    include "function.php";

    $data_id = $_GET['data_id'];

    $user_id = $query_user['user_id'];

    $query = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT count(*) as jumlah, data_url FROM lord_data WHERE data_id='".$data_id."'");
    $query_data = mysqli_fetch_array($query);

    if($query_data['jumlah'] > 0){
        $name= $query_data['data_url'];
        set_time_limit(20);
        $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server, 21, 10);
        if($conn_id){
            $conn_login = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
            $query = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO lord_download_log (user_id, data_id) VALUES ('$user_id', '$data_id')");
            header('Location: ftp://'.$ftp_server.'/foldername/'.$name.'');
            // close the connection
            ftp_close($conn_id);
        }else{
            $ftp_server = "172.xx.xx.xx";
            $change_ip = ftp_connect($ftp_server, 21, 10);
            if($change_ip){
                $conn_login = ftp_login($change_ip, $ftp_user_name,        $ftp_user_pass);
                $query = mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO lord_download_log (user_id, data_id) VALUES ('$user_id', '$data_id')");
                header('Location: ftp://'.$ftp_server.'/foldername/'.$name.'');
                // close the connection
                ftp_close($change_ip);
            }else{
                echo "Couldn't establish a connection.";
            }
        }

    }else{
        echo "<script>alert('Download failed! Data is not available');document.location='index.php?p=data_download';</script>";
    }
    ?>

A: You need to download file with ftp_get method rather than redirecting user to the file location.
Use following code to get file from FTP and force user to download it:
$server_file = "/path/to/server/file";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$local_file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'download_');
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)) {
  $quoted = sprintf('"%s"', addcslashes(basename($local_file), '"\\'));
  $size   = filesize($local_file);

  header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
  header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
  header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $quoted);
  header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
  header('Connection: Keep-Alive');
  header('Expires: 0');
  header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
  header('Pragma: public');
  header('Content-Length: ' . $size);
}
ftp_close($conn_id);

A: @dileep-kumar It works now!
I change the code as follows:
<?php
include 'config.php';
// connect and login to FTP server
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server, 21, 10);
$login = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// turn passive mode on
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);

if($login){
    $chdir = ftp_chdir($conn_id, "lisatstor01");
    $local_file = "local.zip";
    $server_file = "LA3_2016-10-19_Lumajang.zip";

    // download server file
    if (ftp_nb_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY))
      {
          $quoted = sprintf('"%s"', addcslashes(basename($local_file), '"\\'));
          $size   = filesize($local_file);

          header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
          header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
          header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $quoted);
          header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
          header('Connection: Keep-Alive');
          header('Expires: 0');
          header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
          header('Pragma: public');
          header('Content-Length: ' . $size);

        echo "Successfully written to $local_file.";
      }
    else
      {
      echo "Error downloading $server_file.";
    }
}else{
    echo "login failed";
}
// close connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>

I change the directory where the files are located. I use ftp_nb_get instead of simple ftp_get.
The file is downloaded. But it is damaged/corrupted.


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US Embassy to Remove Eligibility of Visa Applicants with Fake Papers
Home News US Embassy to Remove Eligibility of Visa Applicants with Fake Papers
By Princess Althoma Brima News Philippine Visa 23rd August 2019
The United States (US) Embassy in Manila cautioned eager visa applicants in the Philippines to be wary of transacting public documents with "expediters" and "fixers" for their visa applications, as they may permanently lose eligibility to travel to the US.
"There is no secret formula" in the visa application process, the US Embassy's Fraud Prevention Manager Leon Gendin declared during the agency's 14th media event, on Thursday, August 15, raising awareness on the agency's re-introduction of the "Walang Sikreto" anti-fraud campaign.
"Beware of using the services of expediters who would offer to get your birth certificates and marriage certificates quicker than it normally would. We've seen instances where those expediters and those fixers would often provide fake documents with or without the knowledge of the applicant," Fraud Prevention Manager Gendin told the media.
"We do also see cases where the applicants are providing artificially issued or fake death/birth certificates, for example, to support their applications and that's something we take very seriously," he added.
According to the embassy, its success rate in recognizing fraudulent visa applications is "high." The agency said it achieved this through a cooperative effort among the embassy's foreign and local consular offices including the meticulous verification of all claims and documentation authenticity; its consular officers are "well-trained" in classifying fraud.
In 2018, a total of 929 student visas, 32,123 immigrant visas, 5,919 fiancé/e visas, and at least 204,137 non-immigrant visas, including the B1/B2 visa for temporary travel, were issued by the US embassy in the Philippines.
In the same year, at least 2,672 passport and visa fraud cases were investigated.
While this number is relatively small, the US embassy insists its extreme vigilance in its campaign against visa fraud.
"Philippine visa applicants are actually very good visa applicants. Our goal with the Walang Sikreto campaign is to make sure that those applicants know that our process is easy, transparent, and universal," Visa Chief and Deputy Consul General Kimberly Christine Kelly said.
"We don't require any applicant coaching. We look at the application, we interview them based on their application and their purpose of travel and probably make the determination if they qualify for that US visa under the law," she said.
Fraud Prevention Manager Gendin resolved that ultimately, the applicants are "responsible for their visa application" and concluded that the "consequences of fraudulent actions or any attempt of it could be heavy and severe and may result in permanent ineligibility for that applicant to travel to the United States."
For more information on the US Embassy's updated fraud warning advisories and anti-fraud tips for visa applicants, please read and follow the instructions here.
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Would you like your desktop PC or notebook with your Windows 10 OS to run faster? If you are a gamer, surely you will feel very disturbed if the cool-playing game, but suddenly your PC slows down so the game becomes lag and unresponsive.
Maybe we can help you a little with the following 5 tips that can easily speed up your Windows 10 PC.
One of the reasons your PC runs so slow is because of the number of programs running in the background when Windows is running. Stop these programs, then your PC will breathe with relief as the load will decrease.
To disable these programs you can do so through Task Manager. To run Task Manager you just have to press Ctrl + Shift + Esc or right-click on the bottom of the screen and select Task Manager.
Select the Startup tab, then the list of programs will appear, after this, you will be able to choose what programs you want disabled or not. You will still be able to reactivate programs that have been disabled if the program is important to run at Startup.
From this window, we can also see whether there is a suspicious program that runs during Windows Startup if it feels suspicious you can disable it first. Or if you are in doubt about the program you can search it Online by right click and select Search Online.
Windows 10 has a very interesting User Interface and is adorned with an abundance of animation and visual effects. Although the function of this is spoiling your eyes, but not they do not use a bit of resource from your PC so that your PC becomes slow.
It's easy to disable them, you just type "sysdm.cpl" in the Windows Search Bar 10 then a System Properties window will appear immediately. Click the Advanced tab and select Settings in the Performance column. You will see a Performance Options window that lists the visual effects and animations that are active on your Windows.
Windows 10 has a useful app that only a few people call Windows Troubleshooter. To run this application you can simply type troubleshooting on the Search Box and click Troubleshooting Control Panel, then click Run "Maintenance Task" in the "System and Security" section. A "Troubleshoot and help prevent computer problems" window will appear.
The program will search for files and shortcuts that you do not use, identify performance issues and other problems with the PC, report them to you and fix the problem. You may get a notification of "Try troubleshooting as an administrator." If you have access to it then the troubleshooter will run the repair with Administrator privileges, once completed you will probably be able to feel your PC faster than ever.
There is a program in Windows 10 that is able to provide detailed reports about your PC performance called Performance Monitor. In addition to providing reports, the program also provides suggestions for improvements to the performance issues.
To get the report you simply type "perfmon / report" on the Search Box and press the "Enter" key. Resource and Performance Monitor will appear and start collecting various information from your PC. This process can take more than 60 seconds, depending on your PC specification.
After the process is complete, you will get a very complete report. It's good first you look at the "Warning" which is a big problem from your PC like problems in Windows OS and drivers.
In addition, you also get detailed reports on the use of hardware such as CPU, Memory, and others. The program will also provide suggestions whether you should upgrade RAM or other hardware from the generated reports.
Sometimes the biggest factor of PC performance issues is from external factors like adware and bloatware. Adware and bloatware itself often come from your PC manufacturer especially for notebooks that have been installed directly from the manufacturer. You may be amazed how fast your PC will perform if there is no bloatware and adware.
You can take advantage of Windows Defender's built-in security program to remove bloatware and adware or use other programs that are specifically assigned to handle this issue like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
The program you can get for free but on the paid version of this program can provide always-on protection so you do not need to run a scan manually.
So that's how to speed up your PC with Windows operating system 10. Broadly speaking these tips and tricks you can use also in Windows 8.1.