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Download Ez School Bus Locator-Parent apk 1.2 free for Android smartphone
Posted by LateraLogics Innovations in Transportation | July 23, 2015 | 14 Comments
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'Ez School Bus Locator' is an innovative twin-app solution that:
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- Supports both non-Internet phones and smartphones to get the location details of the bus, and the availability information of the child (in the bus)
This app comprises two modules - 'Ez School Bus Locator-Parent' and 'Ez School Bus Locator-Attender'. Both these modules work together and need to be downloaded separately from the Google Play Store.
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Schools who want to use the Ez School Bus Locator mobile app solution need to generate QR Codes for each student (one time process) to store his/her parent's mobile number and the Student ID. A free custom QR Code Generator tool that we have developed (using Visual Basic programming) for you is available for free download. Please use this (tool) for generating QR Codes for your students.
Download Link: https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B8EluThc_O12MWFlVW9zNVJ2Tm8&export=download
In case you want to generate QR Codes on your own, use the free QR Code Generator tool available at http://createqrcode.appspot.com/. However, follow the format below:
PN=(Parent Phone Number)]SID={Student ID}]
'Ez School Bus Locator' app solution, developed by Arjun - a seventh grade school student from Velammal Vidyashram School in Surapet, Chennai, India - helped him win the first prize (K-8 Category) in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) App Inventor App Contest held in December 2012. The judges praised this app as 'one of the most creative and well thought out apps of any age group in the contest'!
Below are a few other achievements that Arjun has to his credits (as of December 2014) apart from the one mentioned above:
- First-Prize winner in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s 'App Inventor Bug Finding Contest' conducted worldwide in 2013
- Winner of the 'National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement' (for Computer Technology) instituted by the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of India, for 2014
'Ez School Bus Locator' app is brought to you by LateraLogics, a Chennai-based technology start-up founded by Arjun.
Some of the other popular apps from LateraLogics include:
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- 'iRobot' - an innovative remote-control app to control Lego Mindstorms NXT robots in the most intuitive ways
- 'Scribbly' - an intuitive app that lets you scribble your feelings and express yourself in the most natural way to the world through your mail, messenger, or social media network
Here are the links to a few articles featuring Arjun and his achievements:
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- Deccan Chronicle: http://goo.gl/E3vdiz
- Entrepreneur India Magazine: http://goo.gl/zEUCsS
- Economic Times: http://goo.gl/Vijriq
- Youth Incorporated Magazine: http://goo.gl/aYz1vY
- India Today (Aspire) Magazine: http://goo.gl/xsdz5k
- Insight Walk: http://goo.gl/DpQH4k
- YourStory: http://goo.gl/azJv6q
- NDTV HEADS UP show: http://goo.gl/Ji9sBj
- Entrepreneur India Magazine: http://goo.gl/TcEMp7
Please check www.LateraLogics.com for more information.
For a white-labelled 'Bus and Passenger Locator' app solution (customized version) for your school, college, or company, please write to [email protected]
Whats new
- Minor fixes
LateraLogics Innovations part of our Transportation and have average installs from 1000 to 5000. Last Update July 23, 2015. Google play rating is 85.6522. Current verison is 1.2. Actual size 1.9 MB.
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Nalini Nagaraj
I tried typing the numbers but it isn't working. Pls fix it
Hemant Mangal
Not working on Android L
Parithi Sarathi
A well try arjun
Nirmal Periasamy
Ez SchoolBusLocator - Parent Great Idea, Arjun - LateraLogics!!! This app is a real necessity for all parents who have their kids commuting by school buses. Works perfectly (as explained in the app web page and your company site). Thanks a lot for making it available FREE of cost to the world. That's a kind gesture indeed!!! Congratulations! Look forward to seeing more such creative solutions from you.
ganesh ajith
Good Arjun very good though and very good concept then more App find I bless for you
Recommend by me ! Arjun has done realy a great job !
varshan jothikumar
super arjun is a boy living in chennaiand studing in vellamal 8standard.
govardhan chary
Good keep it up how can we use this app
S Srinivasan
Good app its a very good app .. I love it
s a harsha
Good job my friend
Daisy Morales
This sucks This sh*t don't work please fix this yo
Pranav Kumar
Great Arjun its so great.. awesome app
Nicole Troxell
Who knows the buses phone number? Really? Crappy app
vignesh vicky
Awesome It was a great app arjun


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Chicago gangster, Diamond Joe Esposito, who owned a cottage at Bass Lake, was shot and killed in a gangland slaying in the Windy City. He had his hand in bootlegging and prostitution. He was killed on this date in 1928.
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iglesia ni kristo rallies, prosecution rests #cj trial
day 25. synchronicity: the iglesia ni kristo, known to be pro-corona (chief defense counsel cuevas is an INK member), holds a humongous rally in luneta and many more simultaneous rallies nationwide, this as the chief prosecutor in the senate impeachment court surprises with the announcement that the prosecution is "dropping" 5 articles of impeachment, having presented, he believes, sufficient evidence to convict chief justice corona on articles 2, 3, and 7.
the co-incidence is hard to shrug off. on the surface, nothing seems to connect the two events, but beneath the surface, who knows what kind of strings were pulled by what hands towards what end.
tupaz could have announced it tomorrow, but no, he had to do it today, as the rally rolled off, quietly, massively. but what about the invitation they had sent justice sereno just this morning? oh, but she's not likely to defy the feb 14 resolution on judicial privilege, given midas marquez's afternoon statement that all sc personnel are bound by it.
hmm. not that i can blame sereno. di bale sana kung the case against corona is solid, but it's not. what would happen to sereno if corona were acquitted in the end? too big a risk.
o baka naman it's as simple a matter of having no witnesses to prove articles 1, 4, 5, 6, and 8. or maybe they have witnesses, but the kind that defense counsel cuevas and / or senator-judge miriam would again make mincemeat of?
but acc to dean tony la vina on anc with lynda jumilla, witnesses are not needed for the dropped articles, which are not "evidence-based", rather they call for "assertions of judgment." hmm. maybe tupaz et al don't feel up to asserting anything after being outclassed by cuevas, not to speak of miriam.
of course there is also the allegedly sagging public interest, on the one hand, and some pro-corona catholic bishops nagging for an end to the trial, on the other.
this brings me back to the iglesia ni kristo's grand gatherings nationwide — i bet it made the catholic bishops and archbishops sort of nervous, if not envious. kaya ba nilang magtawag ng ganyang klaseng rally, halimbawa, against the RH bill? i doubt it very much.
catholics are quite divided, fragmented, on many issues. iglesia members, in contrast, are quite united spiritually and politically. in elections they vote as one. perhaps the rally reminded the congressmen-prosecutors of the 2013 elections, and reality kicked in?
just wondering.
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February 29, 2012 at 3:58 am
Cmon guys.. Open up your eyes.. Iglesia Ni Cristo is not a religion. It's a fucking FRATERNITY! When will the people see this? It's not a spiritual organization at all. It's a group of people bounded together for a certain cause to which they get different kinds of benefits from. All it teaches is G.M.R.C. which we can learn in elementary. Good Manners and Right Conduct.. That's all folks! That's all they teach. For God sake, this is not a genuine faith. It hinders the politics in the country. It dictates its members who to vote for. This is a scary opponent. They have connections to the police and high ranking officials. If you fight with one of its members, they become one against you…
May 29, 2012 at 11:59 pm
i agree with u gurman.. never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups..
February 29, 2012 at 10:10 am
INK is a religious CULT, a Filipino concoction of Islamic prophesy where Manalo is the eminent prophet in place of Mohammad Ali. It practices faith through good works which leads to hell because salvation is thru man made-effort and not through the LOVING GRACE of God. Its really a Fraternity of Anti-Christ.
February 29, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Hi Kat,
I admire you being radical on some issues but maybe on this particular matter, you ask first some members of the INC before you conclude that it is really a "Rally"?
First of all, we are doing this almost monthly in a smaller scale in our churches. It was just recently we want it to have it on a bigger scale so more people can listen to the words of God. The people who attended to what you call "Rally" (which we call it GEM) is not all INCs. It came from different sects of this country which is the main purpose of the event.
Just to clarify to you as well the real meaning of the event, it is our way of sharing the words of God. Before you consider putting a political malice to the event as a sync of your theories, maybe better to really check the real story first. Have you seen any political personality allowed to speak in front of the crowd just like any other church's events?
For the commenter Gurman, you are welcome to our smaller bible study event near to your place which I am sure there is. Before you speak your mind, you must know and be very knowledgable to the thing you are talking about.
February 29, 2012 at 2:56 pm
To Mr. Jeff Decena
You are a member of INC. Of course you will defend your cult. Try going out of the box and look at the bigger picture. INC is nothing but a group of ministers with its followers claiming to be preaching God's gospels when in fact they are the ones going against. Jesus Christ preached of caring not only for your neighbor but also to your enemies. That was a different level of thinking. What INC does is accumulate members then take care of them by giving some form of benefits. They get the loyalty of their members. Cmon man.. Don't lie. You yourself has gotten some of these benefits. As to me having a Bible study, modesty aside Mr. Decena but I was already studying the Bible when I was an adolescent. I even need not do that cause I'm not a Christian and yet I studied it. All of the 66 books whether its the New Testament of the 12 disciples of Christ or the Old Testament of Moses were studied thoroughly already. And believe me my friend, your INC does NOT fall in any way Jesus Christ was preaching about his church. Your church is a money making machine who uses Christ's name in vain. With that money you accumulate from your members, you people buy political and police power. You falsely guarantee your members about salvation. YOU MONOPOLIZE SALVATION AS IF YOU ARE THE ONLY CHOSEN ONES. hehehe Cmon Mr. Decena.. Wake up from the truth. Do you accept this rubbish? If you accept that then you are a one big moron. I'm sorry to say that but you are deliberately closing your eyes from the truth. IT'S A ONE BIG LIE PERPETRATED BY THE WELL-PAID MINISTERS OF MANALO. Salvation is for everybody. It's not bestowed thru the religion you are a part to but of your own actions in your lifetime. Manalo is not a special child of Christ that Jesus will send him for monopolizing salvation. Ha! I bet he's nothing, not even deserving to be a sweeper in the kingdom of God. His family made a fortune through utilizing God's name. Mr. Decena, look around you. Don't be a part of this peer pressure. You have your own mind. Don't let the ministers control you. Life is short my friend. Don't waste it by being a member of a cult who fools people with the use of Christ's words. I'm now the one encouraging you to study the Bible rather than you inviting me to your Bible study. Study it by yourself. You will see. INC is just a concoction of Manalo's. It was never part of the Full Gospel of Christ. See it for yourself. They are just interpreting it according to what they want it to come out for their benefit. Your religion is actually destroying Christ's name which is unforgivable for him.
February 29, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Mr Gurman,
Sorry Angela for OT:
Cult? You are neither a Christian or anything else that God knows. I pity you my friend. You can come to our congregation for your won good.
You say, "YOU MONOPOLIZE SALVATION AS IF YOU ARE THE ONLY CHOSEN ONES." if this is true, we would not have shared it to others and keep it to ourselves. Why bother in the heat of the sun, and invite people to listen to these teachings? We do it because we want you to join us in the man's salvation.
"Salvation is for everybody" — tell me, I know you know this since you said since adulthood you are reading the bible.. During the olden times, why is it only "Israel" considered the only chosen ones? Why is it before that, God save only the family of Noah during the great flood? Why is it only Lot's family saved when God perished all the people in Sodom and Gomorrah? And in Jesus Christ time, check Acts 20:28. Then you will know everything. I hope as well that you will be enlightened. You can come and very much welcome my friend in our congregation.
I do not mean harm to you. I am just enlightening you the things that you should know.Feel free to approach any member of the church. =) Have a good day my friend.
February 29, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Like I said I don't need any congregation for my enlightenment. I can seek my own enlightenment. That is the teaching of Buddha. It's only your own self that will bring you to nirvana. But that's a higher level of thinking that your cult will never ever reach. You are a worldly organization. You have no right to meddle or interfere with politics but you still do for your benefit. How many times should I tell you that your founder and its family are the ones which benefited so much with the birth of INC. Manalo is a fake! The rest is up to you.
February 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Oh I got confused on radikalchic and this blog. Sorry about that.
I and most of our brothers and sisters are in one theme this year, "Massive propagation of the faith". Every year, we have themes as a guide for the members on their faith. But due to the upcoming centennial celebration on July 2014, we have a theme that runs from last year until the 2014. So just a hint, there will be more larger scale propagation of the faith as the centennial is nearing. Also, just an FYI we are building a big event Coliseum in Bulacan which will hold a more massive event on the 2014 (including members from around the globe). These are just some of the things you will be seeing doing by the church. And, if in any case any political scene is happening on that same time, at least you will say that it is just a coincidence because it is already scheduled. We welcome everybody to carefully examine our faith and not judge based on what you see only.
Also, just to tell everybody frankly, we do not need any media mileage on the event (if we can tell that to the PH media). We actually want our event/s in private always so that the event will be solemn. But just as what I have stated, we want to hold events in larger scale before the centennial so more people can listen. Doin' this cannot help other people think of what we are really doing.
So I think it is best to get an insider first to get all the facts and not only create own self made conspiracy theories. But it is good you get my attention. Which should be the main reason of writing any blogs, to get readers. =)
March 1, 2012 at 9:19 am
The Iglesia ni Cristo ni Manalo is leading its members to the deepest chambers of Hell by teaching that Christ is no more than a man, that Manalo is an angel, and that the Iglesia saves and not Christ.
March 1, 2012 at 8:58 pm
well for sure inc can control the government 101
% because of their unity so many soldiers and police and high ranking officers who are members of inc.but will not do so because its not their business…
May 25, 2012 at 11:54 am
yes, aldrin your correct personal salvation is the very important to them……………….
May 30, 2012 at 12:07 am
right on, aldrin!
March 1, 2012 at 9:05 pm
The Biblical Non-Exclusivity of Salvation for Christians alone was revealed when JC died and visited a place called HADES to claim LOST souls who died before JC came but repented and acknowledged the saving grace of God to mankind. Therefore, its not true that you need to belong to INK, Roman Catholic, Anglican or Protestant churches or even to any religion (Judaism,Buddhism, or Hindusim)as a condition "sine qua non" to secure your "Eternal life".
btw, Angela was correct in using "rally" to describe this event since it was REALLY a "prayer rally" concocted to synchronize with the sympathy on Corona"s impeachment case just like the sympaphysers of Erap came out with the National Day of Prayer for Reconciliation during the Impeachment of Pres. Erap.
March 9, 2012 at 11:34 pm
to all anti-inc,
I looked at the positive side of what religion could give to a person. And that is a respect I give to all religions.
It's good that islam is not ridiculed here, else their brotherhood will hunt you to death.
Give respect though you are not willing to give in order for us to live in peace with many religions.


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|Mar 26, 1974
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|May 15, 1972
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|May 15, 1972
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|J Price, I Lesk
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|Motorola Inc
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|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (12), Classifications (29)
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United States Patent Price et al.
SEMICONDUCTOR STRAIN GAGE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME James B. Price, Phoenix; Israel A. Lesk, Scottsdale, both of Ariz.
Assignee: Motorola, Inc., Franklin Park, 111.
Filed: May 15, 1972 Appl. No.: 253,081
US. Cl 29/583, 29/580, 29/610, 29/23.35
Int. Cl B01] 17/00 Field of Search 29/580, 583, 578, 576, 29/610 SG, 594,595, 25.35; 73/88.5 SD
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 7/1967 Hall 29/577 11/1967 Wilner 73/885 SD 2/1968 Mayer et al 29/583 l/l97O Hollander et a1, 73/885 SD amara'ama Primary Examiner-W. C. Tupman Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Vincent J. Rauner; Henry Olsen [57] ABSTRACT A piezoresistive semiconductor strain gage for transforming mechanical stress into a changed resistance of the semiconductor and therefore a changed electrical current therethrough representative of the amount of stress is described. Also described is a method of fabricating the strain gage that is reliable and results in each produced strain gage having the characteristics of all of the others. The strain gage is comprised of a piezoresistive silicon body having enlarged ends. A KOH etch is made in each end and an epitaxial layer is therein. THEREIN. The epitaxial layer is of the same conductivity type as the piezoresistive silicon but is much more heavily doped to provide low resistance paths to solderable contacts connected to the epitaxi ally grown material. The combination of enlarged ends and reduced center provides stress amplification, re sulting in a greater sensitivity of the strain gage.
8 Claims, 13 Drawing Figures PATENTEnmRzsmm 37 37 sum 1 or 2 I Y//////// ////////f//////' SEMICONDUCTOR STRAIN GAGE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention This invention pertains to transducers used to transform mechanical motion or stress into changes in electrical current representative of the amplitude of the mechanical motion or stress. More specifically, this invention relates to piezoresistive semiconductive material which changes resistance in response to a mechanical deformation.
2. Description of the Prior Art The physics of piezoresistive semiconductive material is well documented in the prior art. For example, monocrystalline silicon has been extensively tested. A meaningful measure of the ability of the selected material to change resistance in response to a mechanical force is known as the gage factor." The gage factor is defined as the fractional change in resistance per unit strain. It is mathematically defined as follows:
R is the initial resistance L is the initial length dR is the change in electrical resistance dL is the change in length Wire strain gages were very common prior to the discovery of properties of piezoresistive semiconductive material. The wire strain gages showed negligible conductivity modulation because of applied forces. Nevertheless, they have been the cornerstone of the strain gage technology over the years. The sensitivity exhibited by wire strain gages is much smaller than that of piezo-resistive silicon, for example. Piezoresistive silicon may be many order of magnitude more sensitive than wire strain gages. The following table sets out the gage factor for the various types of semiconductive material and the crystallographic orientation of that material.
TABLE 1 Material Carrier Type Orientation GF Si P II I I75 Si N II I -5 Si N I00 -l33 Si P 100 5 Ge N III I57 Ge P III I02 InSb P I00 45 lnSb N 100 74 The maximum gage factor occurs in the [I I l] direction of Ptype silicon of resistivity greater than 1.0 ohm centimeter. It has further been determined that maximization of GP also maximizes the temperature coefficient of GP and does not minimize the non-linearity in applied stress. These effects on GF require various tradeoffs.
Uniform fabrication of piezoresistive semiconductor devices has been difficult to achieve. The applicants unique method of fabrication solves this problem, yielding gages whose characteristics are very uniform from one to another.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A piezoresistive monocrystalline silicon wafer cut along the [100] crystallographic plane and being of an N conductivity type is the material selected in the preferred embodiment of this invention. It is selected over P conductivity type silicon cut along the [1 I 1] crystallographic plane even though the latter material exhibits a higher GF. This selection is made because in the unique method of fabrication it has been determined that potassium hydroxide (KOI-I) is very good for the etching steps. Silicon cut along the [111] plane does not lend itself nicely to etching by KOH. On the other hand, silicon cut along the plane is readily etched by KOI-I and the etch is easily controlled.
A substrate of monocrystalline, piezoresistive silicon provides the basic material for fabrication of the strain gage. As mentioned above, it is of N conductivity type and is out along the [100] crystallographic plane. A selection can of course be made from any of the materials set out in the table above. Briefly, a pair of holes is etched using a KOI-I etchant and the holes are backfilled by epitaxially growing silicon of the N conductivity type therein. The epitaxial growth is heavily doped to provide a low resistance path.
The manufacturing technique anticipates the fabrication of many of the strain gages on one substrate. To enable the alignment of a mask to form very many of the gages on a single substrate, a sirtl etch is performed which outlines the junction between the piezoresistive substrate and the epitaxially grown regions. The visible junctions permit accurate alignment of the mask.
Another etching step is performed between the backfilled holes, this second etch being less in depth than the first described etch. A beam is formed which is considerably smaller in cross-sectional area than its ends which hold the epitaxially grown material.
A third etch, deeper than the first, is made to outline the form of the finished gage.
The electrical contacts are installed and the substrate is lapped from the bottom side to a point where the gages are of a desired total thickness.
In the preferred embodiment, the gages are designed for use within an animal bloodstream, therefore an isothermal environment exists. Consideration for temperature changes becomes minimal. Blood pressure exerts a force on the gage, thus changing the current flow through it.
It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a device for insertion into a living animal bloodstream for blood pressure measurement.
It is another object of this invention to provide a piezo-resistive semiconductor strain gage that is very reliable, whose characteristics when reproduced remain constant.
It is still another object of this invention to provide a method of fabricating piezoresistive semiconductor strain gages that is highly accurate and economical.
These and other objects will be made more clear in the detailed description that follows.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a finished strain gage.
FIG. 2 is a top view of the finished strain gage. FIG. 3 is a side elevation of the finished strain gage.
FIG. 4 is a section view taken along the line 4-4 of FIG. 2.
FIGS. 5a 5: are cross-sectional views of the strain gage through the steps of the fabrication.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION FIG. 1 illustrates a strain gage having a beam 11 with enlarged ends 12. Within the enlarged ends 12 are shown terminal regions 13 to which are attached electrical contacts 14.
FIG. 2 is a top view of the finished gage 10 showing a typical overall dimension of the beam 11 and its ends 12 as 75 mils. The dimension of the cross-section is shown as 25 mils.
FIG. 3 is a side elevation of the gage 10 showing a length of the beam 11 as 10 mils and a total thickness of the device, exclusive of the contacts 14, as 3 mils.
FIG. 4, taken through the center of the gage 10 on line 4-4 shows the width of the beam 11 as 5 mils.
A typical application for this gage is for measuring blood pressure within a blood vessel of a living animal. The dimensions noted above make it clear that the gage is ideally suited for such an application.
The need for low cost mass production, yielding consistent results is obvious. Referring now to FIG. 5a, the process steps will be described.
The preferred embodiment utilizes a piezoresistive N conductivity type silicon, substrate 20. Substrate 20 is appropriately dimensioned by lapping and polishing. A silicon nitride (Si N layer 22 is deposited on bottom surface which is presently the top surface of substrate 20. Substrate is doped with an appropriate impurity at a desired concentration to cause it to have a gage factor of approximately l33 as indicated in Table 1. The use of Si N as a protective layer enables the etching steps, to be described, to be carried on freely without regard to the protected surface 15 because of the resistance to the etchant by the layer 22.
can be made through any number of well known techniques and is not limited to a thermal growth.
FIG. 50 illustrates substrate 20 after having had apertures 23 etched into it. The silicon etching step in this preferred embodiment is performed with potassium hydroxide (KOI-I). A photo-resist material is placed on layer 21 and hardened by selective light exposure, a well known technique. An Si0 etchant etches through the Si0 protective layer. The remaining photoresist material is removed and the wafers are cleaned for KOI-I silicon etching. In the preferred embodiment, the depth of silicon etch prior to growth is approximately 80 microns.
FIG. 5d shows terminal regions 13 having been epitaxially grown in apertures 23. As part of the epitaxial growth, a dopant is introduced in heavy concentration so that the terminal region 13 is of N+ conductivity type, with very low resistivity.
FIG. 5e illustrates another point in the fabrication of the gage 10. The terminal regions 13 have been lapped and polished along with the top surface 16 of substrate 20. A sirtl etch has also been made which enables the positioning of a mask over substrate 20 for subsequent operations by reason of the etch producing a visible mark at the junction between terminal regions 13 and substrate 20. Si0, layer 26 is then thermally formed.
FIG. 5f illustrates a selective KOH etch to form channel 27 performed in the same manner as the KOI-I etch described above with reference to FIG. 5c. In this preferred embodiment, the depth of the etched channel 27 prior to growth is approximately 45 microns.
FIG. 5g illustrates the process after the remaining Si0, layer 26 has been stripped away. Si0 layer 28 is shown having been formed over surface 16 and within the etched channel 27.
A third KOI-I etch is performed to form the gage as shown in FIG. 5h. Material adjacent the beam 11 and its enlarged ends 12 is etched away to a prescribed depth of approximately 70 microns in this preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 5h as channel 29.
FIG. 5i illustrates a finished gage 10 after having had electrical contacts 14 formed on terminal regions 13. The formation of electrical contacts 14 is a well known art. It is accomplished by selectively removing Si0 layer 28 and then evaporating aluminum. The aluminum is removed, except for the desired electrical contact area. 'Then chromium, copper and gold are evaporated through a mask onto the aluminum. Finally,
a mixture of tin and lead is deposited, forming a solderable electrical connector.
After the contacts 14 have been installed, the substrate 20, containing many substantially finished gages 10 has adhesive wax applied to its top surface and is then attached by the wax to a lapping plate. A well known lapping and polishing technique is used to remove material, including layer 22 to the third etch dimension, releasingthe gages. Then, the gages are removed from the lapping plate.
The preferred embodiment as herein described is now ready for placement within a catheter. The catheter protects the gage from blood and body fluids but must be able to transmit the blood pressure force to the gage. A changing current through the gage is representative of the blood pressure being measured.
Those skilled in the art are aware that this invention has many uses other than for measuring blood pressure.
All within the intent and scope of this invention, gas pressure and mechanical vibration might be measured with this sensor. The gage, of course, is not limited to the approximate dimensions herein noted.
We claim:
1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor strain gage, starting with a monocrystalline semiconductor substrate cut along a prescribed crystallographic plane and having a prescribed impurity content to yield a desired gage factor, comprising the steps of:
a. etching at least one pair of holes to a first depth than the first depth, between the pair of conductive ends to form a member therebetween having a reduced cross-sectional area;
d. etching to a third depth from the top surface, greater than the first depth, around the conductive ends and the flexing member to form the outline of the gage;
e. forming an electrical contact on each of the conductive ends; and
f. removing material from the bottom side of the substrate until a desired thickness of gage remains.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the monocrystalline substrate is comprised of N conductivity type silicon cut along the 100 crystallographic plane and the epitaxial growth is comprised of N conductivity type silicon more heavily doped then the substrate.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the monocrystalline substrate is comprised of N conductivity'type silicon cut along the 110 crystallographic plane and the epitaxial growth is comprised of N conductivity type silicon, more heavily doped than the substrate.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein each of the etching steps is accomplished through the use of KOH as an etchant.
5. The method of claim 4 further comprising, before the step of etching to a first depth, the step of depositing silicon nitride on the bottom surface of the substrate.
6. The method of claim 5 further comprising, after the step of growing epitaxial monocrystalline semiconductive material, the steps of:
g. polishing the top surface of the substrate to smooth the epitaxial growth; and
h. sirtl etching the top surface of the substrate to 8. The method of claim 7 wherein the step of removing material from thevbottom side of the substrate further comprises:
g. i. applying an adhesive wax to the top surface of a plate;
ii. contacting the waxed top surface of the'plate with the substrate causing adhesion between the plate and the substrate; and
iii. lapping and polishing from the bottom surface of the substrate until a desired thickness of gage is reached.
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|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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The difference in importance between this and the other Mountain View is so vast that I'm inclined to just put this one at Mountain View, California and disambig at the top - the other one is a bedroom community of Martinez not even marked on most maps. Stan 17:03, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Works for me. -mhr 17:51, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Well, after 457 days with no argument, I moved them. :-) Nohat 05:25, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Hee hee, how time flies! Stan 13:08, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Can you please change the location to include Mountain View as is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula. Interesting that Los Altos is posted that way with no water really engulfing it at all, which would preclude it from being on the S End of the Peninsula. The definition of a peninsula is the following :A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus. You want to give an exact and correct presentation and representation of where Mountain View is.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/peninsula#ixzz19xJLMYAP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 07:42, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- The source doesn't prove Mountain View is part of the peninsula. It really isn't. It's due south of the southern edge of the bay. Is there any official source that establishes that Mountain View is geographically considered part of the San Francisco Peninsula? I would suggest removing that reference until a source is provided. —Torc. (Talk.) 23:47, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
What's the history of the name Mountain View? Why is the town called that way? Does it refer to any mountain(s)?
- yes, the Santa Cruz Mountains. Nohat 00:19, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Given that the place takes its name from the view of the mountains, could someone please put a picture on this page that shows that view. It seems important because, as the article says, that's how the place gets its name. ProductBox (talk) 09:27, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Huff House[edit]
Never heard of it myself. With the "its for sale" sign on the linked page I'm wondering. . . John (Jwy)
Unless this section gets beefed up, I think what is there should be removed. Its more a current events thing than an encyclopedia item, don't you think? John (Jwy) 18:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- I would be more than happy to beef it up. What do you think it needs? Links to Voice articles? No problem; anyone can get those. Scans of MVWSD handouts showing the chart of enrollment in total, and broken down by lunch assistance category? I hve some from last month; will do. --James S. 04:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- You seem to misunderstand me. I'm not looking for more current events. My problem with the section is that it is currently about a single school shutting down. If we have a school section, I would expect it to describe the schools system - for example, some metrics of how good it is (% going on to college, that kind of thing), some history of the system, etc. That's what an encyclopedia should have. As it stands, it appears to be a protest of the school closing. John (Jwy) 06:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- The best predictor of how good schools are is the student-teacher ratio, which I have added. This predicts public school student performance in college better than absolute and relative teacher salaries, student economic background, or any combination thereof. Today's current event is tomorrow's history. --James S. 19:38, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Assuming it costs $100,000 to hire a teacher and staff a classroom, the $690,000 which Google is paying for Slater will only go about a fifth of the way towards being able to reduce class sizes to Palo Alto Unified levels. 184.108.40.206 04:49, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- Also, by leasing Slater, there aren't enough extra classrooms to significantly reduce class size anymore. All of the wealthy families who were going to Slater are probably going to want to flee to private schools, too. --James S. 18:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
It would take about $15 million per year to get the student/teacher ratio down to the 14.4 of nearby Juana Briones Elementary, the best in Palo Alto. One would think, since the implementation of the Joint Powers Agreement between the City, school districts, and the Shoreline Regional Authority (or whatever the business park property tax-levying organization is called these days) that it would be easy, and you would think that the voters of Mountain View would want property values commensurate with such a low ratio, but not a peep. Here is the rest of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties' districts for comparison:
|District name
|FTE student/teacher ratio
(Source: NCES, 2003-4) --James S. 22:10, 27 March 2006 (UTC) December 10 2007 I have several problems with the schools section of this article. While the information is strictly, factually correct, it is taken out of context and not well-supported. An example is the author's declaration that "white flight" is the sole cause of the district's declining enrollment. I would like to see a citation showing this unequivocally, with something besides statistics showing the demographic makeup of the school district over time. This change could be due to higher birth rates among one population with declining birthrates in another; it could be due to the fact that during the "boom" years rental housing was too expensive for low-income families to afford, and that after the "bust" more low-income families moved in. There's nothing to support that statement. Another issue is the link showing school API scores. It is from 1999. Not very relevant in 2007. Another example is the comparison of class sizes between PAUSD and MVWSD. This reduces a very complex problem (California Education Funding) to an overly-simplistic statement. To sum up, the information is incomplete and somewhat cherry-picked to show one point of view.
Regarding the Shoreline money--the Shoreline District was set up by the California Legislature at the time the city began developing the park to ensure continued funding for maintenance of Shoreline Lake and park, a regional recreational facility and wildlife preserve. It took many years for an agreement to be worked out between the schools and the city to share some of that revenue. Use of the JPA (Joint Powers Authority) funds are restricted by the city to be used for technology. (Like much public education funding, it came with strings attached.) Mountain View-Los Altos High School district is using this money as seed money for their new multi-media Freestyle High; Mountain View Whisman is using the funds to improve the technology infrastructure, purchase up-to-date computers and software for teachers and students, and train teachers on how to implement technology into the classroom curriculum. The money cannot be used for class-size reduction or any other purpose. There are more problems with this article, but basically I feel this article is very misleading and presents facts taken out of context.Negirl (talk) 19:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Citywide wireless Ethernet[edit]
What kind of card do you need for the new system? 802.11_?—Preceding unsigned comment added by David Jordan (talk • contribs)
- Answered on user's talk page. (John User:Jwy talk) 21:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Telephony history?[edit]
I thought we already have articles on area codes which are quite decent. Do we really need sections on telephone system history in the city pages? What a mess that would make. What do we do next, history of the city's sewer and power systems? This is ridiculous! If we need to mention the history of the telephone system in the mid-Peninsula region, we can always do a "See also" link at the end to 650 area code. --Coolcaesar 05:40, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
I agree, and removed this portion:
- During the 1960s, Mountain View telephone calls were switched by a large Pacific Telephone operated Western Electric Number 5 Crossbar system. This is an electromechanical switch. Two-party service was common in residential areas. Telephone numbers in the 1960s all started with YOrkshire and had five additional digits. These eventually evolved to 96x-xxxx numbers in the mid 1960s. With the roll-out of area codes, Mountain View was in (415). There was permissive dialing to (408). This meant you did not have to dial (408) to call into that area code. In those days, the number plan was constructed so that no office codes or prefixes were duplicated across area codes (408) and (415).
I did leave in a sentence about the area code switch in 1997. --James S. 21:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Does anybody know what the origin of the "YOrkshire" prefix? I would be interested. The Palo Alto wiki has a little discussion about the origin of their DAvenport prefix. I used to play Little League baseball in the 1960s and there was a team sponsored by Yorkshire Cleaners. My team was a Japanese store called Castro City Market, now occupied by Mi Puebla Market, on the corner of Rengstorff and Crisanto. Bobkaku (talk) 22:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Revenue limit vs. basic aid school district funding[edit]
I deleted the mention of revenue limit district and basic aid funding after the comparison to Palo Alto's class size ratio, because these things change from year to year -- Mountain View might not remain a revenue limit district if property values go up, and Palo Alto might not remain a basic aid district if they go down. Plus, those terms were undefined and unlinked, so I think they were more confusing than helpful. 1of3 17:28, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- That is inappropriate. The difference in class size might also disappear with time and you do not seem to be letting up on that because you seem to be latching onto some unfavorable comparision to make at Mountain View's expense. Did you bother to mention the differences in property valuations? No. Did you do any other analysis with the less weathy neighbors such as Sunnyvale or Santa Clara. No. The current class sizes and the current tax structures both apply. Otherwise we just cut the whole section. -- PinkCake 03:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Inappropriate? It is the truth. And, contrary to your insertions, Basic Aid districts aren't so rare in Silicon Valley; in fact the MVLA High School district is one. I've included additional explanatory material about the Shoreline Regional Park Community District, which is the real reason for MVWSD's low budget relative to Palo Alto and Los Altos. 1of3 03:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
OK, there is a fairly new web site that might help us to see what is happening on the ground here. http://www.zillow.com// . Uh, type in downtown zip code, or just http://www.zillow.com/search/Search.htm?citystatezip=94041&mode=browse
Mountain View 94040 $951K South 94041 $922K Downtown 94043 $680K North of commuter rail line
94304 $937K (stanford, so does not really count) 94305 $937K - downtown 94306 $1.1M - south (more single-family houses)
So, the problem is that Mountain View has to carry 94043, which has a lot more townhouses and such. Also, Palo Alto has East Palo Alto cordoned off both by a near fortress-like barriers of Hwy 101 AND they also got the county line to follow 101 at that point, long ago.
I still say that it is not fair to compare class sizes between MV and PA, but I am only looking for fairness and I can wait. The text can stand as it is for now, I am just trying to help us see clearly what is happening on the ground there and I know that, with time, we will both come closer to a deeper mutual agreement on how the text should read. -- PinkCake 17:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
See, Palo Alto does not have its equivalent of 94043 because of two things: Hwy 101 and East Palo Alto. East Palo Alto is a hell-hole of poverty and violence but it is never, ever included in the statistics or the city life of Palo Alto itself, except for the few beggers who dare to venture into the neighborhood. And, since money and space are the driving forces, the black people of East Palo Alto are slowly being driven out of the area by the forces of gentrification anyway, so EPA's days as a hell-hole are numbered. That section called "Whiskey Gulch" is now all business office high-rises full of lawyers and other professionals. The Home Depot at 101 and Willow has launched a full-scale invasion of money into that sector of EPA. While comparing this 101 "sound barrier" to the wall that Isreal is contructing between it and Palestine is not fair, it is instructive to do so because it provides insight into what is happening on the ground there. As long as you do not get offended, I could compare the yuppies who are brave enough to live on the fringes of EPA with Isreali settlers. Remember: I am not talking about absolutes, I am talking about trends here. Space is the limited resource: you cannot make more of it unless you do something crazy like landfill into the bay, only to watch it liquify in an earthquake like it did up in San Francisco in the Loma Prieta EQ. I do not want to hear any backtalk about this comparison: it is flawed, but it is useful if you want further insight into what is really happening on the ground there.
I want to point out one other thing: there was a nice poster you could buy around 1990 of the enter bay of a composite satellite photo of the entire bay area. The thing that struck me about it was how green (i.e. old neighborhoods) that PA had and the sharp boundary of 101 and the lack of green in EPA, but also the greyness of MV and on down south. That contrast is less apparent 15 years on this modern images. My point is: the PA neighborhoods were well-planned and they are older. They are wealthier and have had time to build nice schools. Another little vignette: MV grade schools are completely gutted about every 20 years (each taking their turn) because they are very modular in their design. Me? I grew up back in New York in a place where the schools are made of red bricks and motar and they are designed to last for about a century. Also, I went through stricly the private Roman Cathoilc school system (but the construction of the public schools was similar) It is a different mind-set out here. It seems like the schools out here were all designed by the same architects in a growth spurt of about 20 years as planners "suddenly" realized that the schools had to be built in crash program before available empty spaces were broken up by patchword development. The children go there and I know that they are happy, but I am the son and brother of an architect and, to me, the designs are very monotonous. On the other hand, the local Roman Catholic grade school is very boring in its design (well, the building is still brick, which is nice, but it still has a very back-East institutional feel to it) but at least, in theory, people are unified by that religion thing. Still, I acknowlege that the schools in Palo Alto are superior in almost every way. But when you ask "Why?", you cannot just blame the gov't or something so simple as that.
Whew! That was a long two paragraphs. Anway: you get the idea: PA is more wealthy than MV, it has Stanford professors and whatnot, and so I would expect it would have a better style of living and quality of life, including smaller class size. I would expect this to still be true 50 years from now. THAT is what is Important. -- PinkCake 17:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
According to the table above, Redwood City does slightly better than Palo Alto, and La Honda-Pescadero does a LOT better. I would have thought, on aggregate, that those places would have property values below Mountain View's, although out in La Honda I really have no idea. Indeed, Zillow says Redwood City's median is $889,045 (compared to Mountain View's $808,757 -- zoom out one click to get the whole cities instead of the zip codes) and La Honda's is $764,093 -- so how come they have so much smaller class sizes than Palo Alto and we do? Skadoo23 22:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
I assert a hypothesis that it is the elevating effect of Stanford faculty on the surrounding community. I also assert that companies like HP (well, less so since Carly Fiorina's tenure) and other startups that are staffed or managed by many Stanford grads have an effect as well. Google is in MV, but I expect that it takes decades for the deep effect to take root. I do not know how to prove it, but just use your common sense and I think you will see that there is SOMETHING to my assertion. -- PinkCake 01:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
The cited articles make it clear that Martello and the council never reached an agreement about the date of his disclosure of the affair. I don't agree with the abridgment of the scandal which obscures that fact and deletes the summary of the Metro's investigation of the surrounding facts. 1of3 04:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- I would prefer that we restrict ourselves to strictly legal outcomes, which tend to retain their Importance over longer periods of Time. If Mike got his penis all erect and into Pamela, who was, hopefully, all nice and wet, and they enjoyed it, well... so did a bunch of other people in that area around that time, some of those adulterous as well (with or without the other spouse's permission and blah blah blah. Gosh, this is such a soap opera!). I do not see how this is so Important that it deserves the space it is getting, but I am letting it go.... for now. See what I mean? "Encyclopedic" is supposed to mean that it might still be important ten years from now. And why are you going on about the $740K? It may sound like a lot of money to some readers, but it is less than the price of one single-family home in the downtown area. You should focus on percentages because inflation and whatnot tends to degrade the immediate usefulness of this information over time. If we are going to keep this info around for 100 years, it should be in a format where the future-reader can easily appreciate whether it was a big or a small increase. -- PinkCake 16:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Peoples private lives are just that and should remain so. Adultery, on the other hand, is the breaking of a publicly declare, socially sanctioned and legally recognized bond. It is, in fact, the most egregious bond that can be broken. This is a much worse stain on one's character than breaking other types of legal contracts. If you don't want your relationships to subject to public scrutiny, you should buy a public license ("to give official or legal power to") and a public promise. This should be common sense. I'm a civil libertarian, and no one going to force people to wear a scarlet letter (literally), but by what rights should people enjoy immunity from public scorn? One man's news is another man's gossip, but if the facts are wrong, they have recourse to the courts. If they are a public figure, their character is of paramount importance and anything that blights it should be public knowledge (including adultery).
Don't like it? 1) Don't get married 2) Don't commit adultery 3) Don't get caught!
You are exactly right about the money being dated in the future; Percentages will fail for the same reason (base value will fluctuate); May I suggest using something along the lines of ...$740,000USD[2006] or 740,000[2006,US$]...?
Oh yeah, what I came here for... Why is there such a crappy map? Can't someone just link to the google.map for this city, or something similar. I'm sure google shouldn't be to eager to "cry foul" -oops, colloquial- over "deep linking".
~KC, 2006(US$$$$baby!)
- So, uh, can we come to an agreement that 2-3 months from now, maybe we can knock it down by a few sentences? That is about all I am willing to wait. This is ridiculous. -- PinkCake 04:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
The info in this Scandals section is three-years old now. At the time, it was an interesting current event, but it seems odd to have such a detailed "Scandals" section here when so many other facets of Mountain View have yet to be included. Can we at least cut the length? Urbanic05 08:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. The Mario Ambra misconduct was a much bigger deal and it only gets one brief mention. Martello doesn't need more than that. And the header itself needs to be changed to something less POV. CovenantD 09:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
So can we come to some agreement about changing this section? I'm new to wikipedia and don't want to make a premature edit. 18.104.22.168 01:08, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the "Scandals" section. The information was a current event at the time but, I think, not very notable or encylopedia-worthy. Other cities with much larger political scandals in recent memory (San Jose, for example) do not have a similar section on their main page. If someone feels the information on Mario Ambra or Michael Martello is especially notable, then perhaps a seperate page for these individuals should be created. (Urbanic05 (talk) 19:08, 21 January 2008 (UTC))
- Well they would be notable for WP:ONEEVENT and thus not qualified for their own article. Whereas San Jose's scandals are included in its former mayor's Ron Gonzales#Criticism and controversy because Gonzales is notable for more than just one event. Since it appears to be sourced to reliable news stories, I think this should stay. MB83 (talk) 09:15, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough regarding the seperate page. At the very least, I still think that we should agree to cut this section down if we're not going to get rid of it. The discussion here leans toward doing that. Especially re: Michael Martello. Why do we have an entire paragraph devoted to the City Attorney's affair? (Urbanic05 (talk) 04:13, 24 January 2008 (UTC))
- Cut it down from a paragraph? Ron Gonzales gets five paragraphs, and he wasn't even convicted of anything. MB83 (talk) 16:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
On Ron Gonzales's page, four of those five paragraphs on his "scandals" deal with various political charges against him. Even if he wasn't convicted, he was censured by his council and resigned from multiple committees. It was a big deal for the Mayor of the 10th largest city in the country. Yet, only one sentence deals with his affair.
Here in Mountain View, all charges against Martello misusing City funds were cleared. So in essence, we have a long paragaph on Mountain View's page about the City Attorney's marital affair. This strikes me as odd. If we were to really describe Mountain View's "scandals" in a balanced way, the amount of text devoted to ex-Mayor Ambra versus Martello would be reversed given there importance to the community's recent political history. But rather than embellish Ambra's story, I'd lean in favor of cutting down Martello's. Anyway, I was just trying to move this along after reading the way the three years of discussion on this secion was leaning. (Urbanic05 (talk) 19:07, 26 January 2008 (UTC))
Library circulation[edit]
1.4 million items per year works out to more than 11 items per minute, solid, during business hours. Even when they are really busy, they aren't nearly that busy, and most of the time they aren't really busy. However the number apparently checks out with city publications. Can it be right? 22.214.171.124 03:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
The library is open 64 hours per week (not counting holidays) according to the hours on the page you linked to. (1436978item/yr)/(60min/hr*64hr/wk*52wk/yr)=7.2items/minute. That's less than 11, but still pretty high. Maybe the bookmobile helps boost those numbers and maybe renewals count as a second borrowing event. The site says there are 850559 visitors per year. It is probably not hard to sustain an average of 1.7 items/visitor. 18.104.22.168 00:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Message at the Top of the Page[edit]
At the top of the page, there is a message that reads For other places called "Mountain View", see Mountain View. I motion to delete this because Mountain View does not redirect to this page, but rather to a Mountain View disambiguation article. The only way someone would get to this article internally would be to type in Mountain View, California on the address bar, and then they wouldn't be looking for any other Mountain View. I motion to delete, but as always, comments appreciated. BlackBear 19:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- Well, one of those "Other places called 'Mountain View'" is in California. (It's even in the same metropolitan area; see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California.) It's comparatively insignificant (which is why this one gets the "Mountain View, California" title) but it's possible someone might come looking for it. This way they can find it. So I think we should keep the link. -- Why Not A Duck 02:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Corporate residents[edit]
What's this Jajah company added a few days ago? Are we supposed to list every single company in Mountain View like Mountain View Lock and Key or Clarke's? The Jajah article is written like an advertisement. My vote is that they're not any more significant than dozens of other high tech or low tech companies and they're just trying to spam. 184.108.40.206 05:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps the section should be retitled "Notable Corporate Residence" with guidelines of having had a significant impact on the city - either by city development or by size of workforce. I'll throw out a strawman on size of workforce at 500 employees on-site in Mountain View. (yes, I agree the Jajah seems like an advert and I support its removal)Toddstreat1 20:35, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
This is in response to a recent wholesale removal of many companies based in Mountain View. Perhaps the editor was not familiar with them personally but that does not seem to be a valid criteria. I don't have an issue trimming the list but if a company is truly not notable perhaps having their page removed would be more constructive if it is not truly deserved. Why Friendfeed included but not Eye-Fi? They're neighbors, roughly about the same size and more or less equally notable depending on how that is measured. Just an example, I don't work at either but familiar with both. If I were a visitor to the Mountain View page, more than likely I would be relocating to the area, visiting, or looking for employers in the city. Striking these companies from the list seems counter intuitive and more harmful than good from a user perspective. Jack's daddy (talk) 06:53, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
An anonymous user has gone and cleaned out many of the corporate residents again. I started this discussion so it could be addressed in advance rather than be arbitrary. Personally I could care less if one or several of the companies on the list are not worthy to be mentioned for one reason or another. I would however like to have a dialog as to the purpose and behind the edit. As I stated above, I feel that an inclusive list is more useful to the Wikipedia user who is likely trying to find out more about the city. Local editors can't know for sure what information a reader from out of town may be seeking. I'm stating, until someone engages me in dialog my intention to reverse the edit. Jack's daddy (talk) 04:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
I want to add that the changes I was reversing were from July 17 and I was not intentionally trying to overwrite any subsequent edits. Since it was the second time this individual has made such wholesale changes arbitrarily, I wanted to return things to normalcy as much as possible. Happy to address on a case by case basis but feel the editor has ulterior motive and multiple changes disguises intent. Jack's daddy (talk) 05:17, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Here we go again, arbitrary changes to the corporate residents section without prior discussion. I'm pretty new and just getting the hang of this but struggling with the basis for notability. The editor removed a business with 200 employees because it did not have a dedicated page while leaving others with less than 50 simply because the page created wasn't hotly contested. Argument is to to create a page to avoid red link, there has to be a better way. I would the company page and have thought about doing so but we all know that a newbie creating a company page has virtually zero chance of making it stick. So to that end, the editor has just created incentive for a business to create their own page. I actually returned to this page as a valued resource for finding major employers in Mountain View and now see that value diminished. Pondering next move. Jack's daddy (talk) 17:49, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
- To keep with the guidelines, I am thinking of "verifiability, not truth". In that case, if we can cross-reference the corporate resident with either the Chamber of Commerce or City Hall, then maybe that can be our criteria for notability in the article. What do you think? - Alvincura (talk) 20:47, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
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As far as I know, Adobe's headquarters situated in San Jose... Stansult (talk) 04:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Government - Mayor Vandalism[edit]
As of 2-27-09 at 12:00 AM PST, the mayor is listed as:
- Mayor Alan Tuan
I believe that this part has been vandalized because I personally know Alan Tuan, and Alan Tuan is a high school student! Sorry, I do not remember the current Mayor of Mountain View.
Jimtran93 (talk) 08:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- fixed. http://www.mountainview.gov/city_council/council_roster/mayor_abe_koga.asp (John User:Jwy talk) 15:44, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
different Numbers here and on the official Website about Demography[edit]
I found different Numbers her and on http://www.ci.mtnview.ca.us/services/learn_about_our_city/demographics.asp . Are the numbers here old? witch are right?
--Torwart (talk) 23:23, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Shoreline Regional Park Community[edit]
Can we have more background on the Shoreline Regional Park Community? I've seen newspaper stories that say that it was created under state law but is not a revitalization district. However, can anyone cite which state law created this district? 188.8.131.52 (talk) 17:53, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
There's no material on the revitalization of the city's Castro Street downtown. Does anyone have some good sources to start with? Kortoso (talk) 22:12, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
State senator needs updating[edit]
Under "State and federal legislators" Jerry Hill is now representing the 13th Senate District not Elaine Alquist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 17:38, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
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For some reason, there are lists of "what borders Mountain View" in two places in this article - in the opening paragraph and under Geography. This should be cleaned up. JGriffithSV (talk) 18:12, 23 August 2016 (UTC)