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mates through online forums. “For most classes there would be like a discussion board. We’d post introductions so we could actually talk to each other a bit, to make it more social. Some people have their picture on it,� he said. Sommermann had to physically travel to the Los Altos Hills campus to take exams — “some of them, not all of them� — and also to participate in a week-long program called Pass the Torch, during which he learned how to tutor fellow students. His stellar performance at Foothill earned him the President’s Medal, the college’s highest academic honor, as well as admission to UC campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Riverside and San Diego. He chose Cal because it’s not too far from Mendocino and because, he said, “I’ve always kind of wanted to go to Berkeley.� Though he loved his online classes, Sommermann said he can understand the view of skeptics of online learning. “I’ve heard people say you can’t learn the same way online as you can in person, or that it’s easier or something, which I can’t really tell you because I haven’t taken the actual class in person. “Personally I loved (online classes) ... but I could see why
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are supposed to deduct the weight of the container, but large companies such as Whole Foods do know the law and can get sloppy, he said. Whole Foods spokeswoman Beth Krauss said the company takes its obligations to its customers “very seriously, and we strive to ensure accuracy and transparency in everything we do.� “We cooperated with the city
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someone might say otherwise. College has always had this really traditional aura — it seems caught up in a traditional culture and they wouldn’t be so accepting of online classes. “I’m definitely looking forward to going to Berkeley where I can actually be there.� From its first graduating class of 37 students in 1960 Foothill has grown to serve some 14,000
students each quarter. This year’s graduates include 520 earning associate in arts degrees and 355 for associate in science degrees. An additional 61 students will graduate under a new program in collaboration with the California State University system that guarantees admission to CSU with junior standing. Email Chris Kenrick at ckenrick@paweekly.com
attorneys throughout the process, and based on a review of our own records and a sampling of inspection reports from various city and county inspectors throughout California, our pricing on weighed and measured items was accurate 98 percent of the time. While we realize that human error is always possible, we will continue to refine and implement additional processes to minimize such errors going forward,� she said in an email. Santa Clara County performs routine inspections for scale and
pricing inaccuracies, and various products are tested to determine if adequate tare weight — the weight of the empty container — is taken off the product, Toy said.
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