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If you speak English, you probably have a harder time saving money than someone who speaks German.
That's because the language you speak influences your money habits, according to a Yale study published this year. In The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets, behavioral economist M. Keith Chen writes:
"Languages differ in whether or not they require speakers to grammatically mark future events. For example, a German speaker predicting rain can naturally do so in the present tense, saying: Morgen regnet es which translates to 'It rains tomorrow.' In contrast, English would require the use of a future marker like 'will' or 'is going to,' as in: 'It will rain tomorrow.' In this way, English requires speakers to encode a distinction between present and future events, while German does not. Could this characteristic of language influence speakers' intertemporal choices?"
Chen found that it does. "After scouring many data sets with millions of records on individual household savings behavior — along with a number of peculiar health performance metrics like grip strength and walking speed — I find that languages that oblige speakers to grammatically separate the future from the present lead them to invest less in the future," he writes. "Surprisingly, this effect persists even after controlling for a speaker's education, income, family structure and religion."
That means those who speak "future-less" languages, like German and Mandarin, often come out ahead. Financially, speakers of future-less languages are 31 percent more likely to have saved in any given year and have accumulated 39 percent more wealth by retirement.
Speakers of future-less languages are also:
- 24% less likely to smoke
- 29% more likely to be physically active
- and 13% less likely to be medically obese
For a fun overview of the study's findings, check out this video, which was created by eBay Deals:
Connecting to our future selves
"This study demonstrates how language can influence our understanding of time, and how this can impact spending and saving behavior," says Julie Ewald from eBay Deals, which created the video. "This correlation can show people that in order to change their saving habits, they may have to change their mindset to 'the future is now' instead of 'I always have more time.'"
But changing that mindset is a lot harder that it seems, and a 2010 study in the Journal of Consumer Research may explain why. According to the researchers, our willingness to give up short-term rewards to benefit our future self depends on how connected we feel to our future self. "When we think of saving money for the future, the person we think of can seem different from the person we are now," explains Science Daily. "People have trouble sacrificing in the present for that stranger in the future."
For instance, in the study, the researchers asked study participants to evaluate how connected and similar they felt to their future selves. Three weeks later, they were then given a choice: they could have a smaller gift card right away, or they could wait for a larger-value gift card. The result? The people who felt more connected to their future selves were willing to wait for the higher-value card, while the people who felt less connected to their future selves were less patient, choosing the lower-value card.
And speaking a futured language makes a person less connected to their future self, says Chen. "[If you speak a futured language], every time you discuss the future, or any kind of a future event, grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present and treat it as if it's something viscerally different," Chen said in his TEDTalk. "Now suppose that that visceral difference makes you subtly dissociate the future from the present every time you speak. If that's true and it makes the future feel like something more distant and more different from the present, that's going to make it harder to save. If, on the other hand, you speak a futureless language, the present and the future, you speak about them identically. If that subtly nudges you to feel about them identically, that's going to make it easier to save."
So what's an English-speaker to do?
One thought is that imagining your future self could help you connect with your future self, helping you to save more money. Close your eyes and imagine yourself in one year, five years, 10 years. What are you doing? Where do you live? Where do you work? Think about how your future self might be similar to your present self. For instance, my future self is still a writer and still enjoys baking and travel. Thinking about those probable similarities helps me connect who I am today with who I'll be one day.
Another idea for connecting to your future self comes from Chris Bailey at A Year of Productivity: "Send an email to your future self. Seriously, do it. FutureMe.org lets you send an email to yourself in the future at a date you specify. A great way to bridge the gap between your present and future selves is to tell your future self how your current actions will make your future self better. Here's a letter I sent."
Personally, I do feel disconnected from my future self. The rare times that I do think about her, it's like she's a different person altogether. (A person who's really got it together, by the way. Future April presorts her laundry and effortlessly throws dinner parties for 12.) Even though I've learned how to save and spend within my means, I can see how connecting with my future self might make saving money something I want to do, instead of something I do because I'm supposed to do it. And if I feel less "deprived," maybe I'll be motivated to save even more.
Do you ever imagine your future self? Do you think imagining your future self would motivate you to save more?
Author: April Dykman
As a freelance writer, editor, and blogger, April Dykman specialized in personal finance, real estate, and entrepreneurship topics. Her work has been featured on MSNBC, Fox Business, Forbes, MoneyBuilder, Yahoo! Finance, Lifehacker, and The Consumerist. Now she does direct response copywriting but, in her free time, April is a wannabe chef, a diehard Italophile, and a recovering yogi.


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Pasadena is an invitingly walkable community and features a smart, streamlined transit system. Shuttles, buses, and light rail can take you anywhere in the city and to landmarks in the greater Los Angeles area. And don't forget four regional airports service visitors to Pasadena daily. Get around Pasadena and neighboring areas trouble-free, thanks to transit options.
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From downtown Los Angeles, take 110 freeway north.
From the south, take 5 north to 605 north to 210 west.
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Beginning in 2004, the Hubble Space Telescope has observed a spot in the sky known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) many times. The extremely deep and detailed cumulative exposure reveals some of the faintest objects ever detected, some of which turn out also to be among the most distant galaxies known. Studying this set of images has allowed astronomers to understand the scale, structure, and development of the universe much more completely and precisely.
The first set of deep HUDF images were made with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2004. The addition of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to Hubble's complement of instruments in 2009 extended the reach of the HUDF beyond visible light, farther into the infrared, to reveal even more distant galaxies. Due to the expansion of the universe, distant objects appear redder because they are moving away from us faster than closer objects. The most distant objects are red-shifted so much that they cannot be detected at all in visible light, but appear only at infrared wavelengths.
Observing the same field repeatedly adds exposure to reveal fainter objects but the longer time span of data also increases the chance of detecting a supernova. Supernovae are extremely violent explosions of single stars resulting in a flash of light bright enough to outshine an entire galaxy of hundreds of billion stars. Although a supernova is relatively rare in any one galaxy, so many galaxies appear in the HUDF that several supernovae have been seen in this small part of the sky in the time that Hubble has been observing. A particular type of Supernova, known as Type Ia is especially important because their intrinsic brightnesses are all nearly equal. Since a more distant source of light will appear dimmer than a nearer object of the same brightness, the observed brightness of a Type Ia supernova tells us its distance.
Observations of many supernovae have allowed astronomers to refine their understanding of the universe's structure. Recently, these studies have revealed the existence of a mysterious force causing the universe to expand ever faster, a phenomenon now known as "dark energy."
This Hubble image combines numerous exposures made in visible and infrared light with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and near infrared with the Wide Field Camera 3 infrared channel (WFC3/IR). ACS images from blue and yellow-green filters are shown in blue, ACS red and near infrared in green, and WFC3 infrared in red.
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Look for a Colorado gardener's take on the book "Founding Gardeners," a fisheye view of a garden frog, and more in the weeks to come.
In the meantime, here's a question for Digging In readers for starters: Is anyone growing those crazy grafted tomato plants? I saw them for sale back in April in Territorial Seed's catalog this spring, and was sorely tempted, but it was still cold outside and I had a little lie-down and the obssession ebbed. Territorial grafted those fussy, flavorful heirloom tomato plants, such as Brandywine and San Marzano, onto bulletproof rootstock. They even offered plants with TWO varieties on one plant — Koralik and Legend was one combo; Sungold and Sweet Million was another.
If you've planted one of these babies, sound off and tell us how it's working as summer progresses. Better yet, send photos!
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Frequently Asked Questions about Transfer.
1. What
does transfer mean?
2. What is the relationship between community colleges and the university?
3. What is articulation?
4. What is the difference between the California State University and the University of California?
5. What is the difference between a semester and a quarter?
6. Which CCSF courses transfer to a university?
7. How many units do I need to transfer?
8. If I earn an Associate degree (AA or AS), will I be prepared to transfer? Do I need an AA/AS degree to transfer?
9. Is there a maximum number of units that I can transfer?
10. What if I take more than 70 transferable units?
11. What is the minimum grade point average (GPA) required for transfer admission?
12. What is a competitive GPA for transfer?
13. What is General Education (GE)?
14. What is CSU-GE?
14a. What courses do I need to complete before I transfer to a CSU?
15. What is IGETC?
15a. What courses do I need to complete before I transfer to a UC?
16. What is a major?
17. What is an impacted or selective major?
18. Do I have to declare a major and can I change it after I transfer?
19. How do I choose a major?
20. How do I find out what classes to take to prepare for my major?
21. What is a minor?
22. How do I find out about the transfer requirements of any particular school?
23. Will my high school grades and SAT scores count when I transfer?
24. What is the best school for my major? How can I find the best schools?
25. What is a Transfer Admission Agreement (TAG)?
26. What are my chances of being admitted to a UC? How do I increase my chances?
27. When do I apply to transfer and what if I missed a deadline?
28. Are there advantages to starting your college career at a community college rather than the four year school?
29. Are community college students as successful at the University as students who started at the University as a freshman?
30. Do credit/no credit grades transfer? Do "D" grades or "W's"?
31. I have attended another college, how do I know if these courses transfer?
1. What does transfer mean?
The term "transfer" describes a student's academic advancement from a community college to a university. Transfer means that you begin your bachelor's degree at a community college and complete it at a university.
2. What is the relationship between community colleges and the university?
Universities offer both lower division (freshman and sophomore) and upper division (junior and senior) coursework. Community colleges offer lower division courses only. The university accepts certain community college courses as comparable to courses that are required for freshman and sophomore students at the university through a process called articulation. In that way, community college courses become transferable and are counted toward the requirements to graduate from the university with a bachelor's degree.
3. What is articulation?
Articulation is the process of evaluating courses to determine whether coursework completed at one institution (e.g. a community college) will meet the requirements at another institution (e.g. a university) for the purposes of admission, transferable units, general education or major preparation. It is this process that ensures that the classes you take at CCSF will be credited toward your bachelor's degree requirements when you enter a university. Articulation agreements are formal documents that describe which coursework is accepted. Some articulation agreements are "course-to-course agreements", meaning that they show a specific course from one institution and the comparable specific course from another. Other articulation agreements are "major agreements", meaning that they show a set of courses that are acceptable to fulfill an entire requirement for major preparation. All segments of the public higher education system in California---the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California--have agreed to have a single repository for articulation agreements between the community colleges and the universities. That repository is the ASSIST web site, which you will find under our "Quick Links" on our homepage.
4. What is the difference between the California State University
and the University of California?
The California State University (CSU) system of higher education in California grants the most bachelor degrees. It is considered the more practical, career-oriented of the two systems. There are 23 CSU campuses. The University of California (UC) system is considered more of a research institution. The UC grants professional and doctorate degrees as well as bachelor and master degrees. It is considered the more theoretical in approach of the two systems. There are ten UC campuses (though one is a professional school only).
5. What is the difference between a semester and a quarter?
Each academic institution operates according to an academic calendar, with terms marking the beginning and end of each session of classes. A semester is a calendar that divides the academic year into 15 - 17 week terms. There are generally two semesters per academic year: Fall (beginning in August or September) and Spring (beginning in January). Some semester-based schools also offer a Summer session that is shorter than a regular semester and is not a part of the regular academic year. A quarter is the other most common type of academic term. Each quarter is 10 weeks in length and there are usually three quarters in an academic year: Fall (beginning in September), Winter (beginning in January), and Spring (beginning in March). A few quarter-based schools offer a forth Summer Quarter, but it is not considered an official term in the academic year. CCSF is on the semester calendar.
6. Which CCSF courses transfer to a university?
CCSF has over 1800 transferable courses to the CSU, and over 1400 transferable courses to UC. Students can check if a course is transferable by referring to the CCSF Catalog or by going to www.assist.org
7. How many units do I need to transfer?
You will achieve full junior standing when you have completed 60 transferable semester units. If you wish to transfer as a lower division student, the university will consider your high school record in determining whether to admit you. The University of California requires 60 UC-transferable semester units for upper division transfer. UC campuses currently are not accepting students as lower division transfers. The California State University currently grants junior standing at 60 semester units. CSU campuses currently are not accepting lower division transfers. Independent and out-of-state universities often accept students with fewer than 60 semester units and will require out-of-state tuition. Please check the online catalog for the specific university to which you want to transfer for their requirements. A CCSF transfer counselor can assist you with that.
8. If I earn an Associate degree (A.A./A.S.), will I be prepared to
transfer? Do I need this degree to transfer?
Generally, meeting the requirements for an Associate degree will not prepare you for transfer admissions. Not all courses that are counted toward an Associate degree are accepted for transfer, and General Education requirements differ as well. (See question 13, "What is General Education (GE)" below.) However, it is possible to earn a CCSF Associate degree by completing 60 Associate degree units and fulfilling all of the GE requirements for transfer. You do not need an A.A. or A.S. degree to transfer. The A.A./A.S. degree is not required or considered as an admissions requirement. Many students choose to obtain an A.A./A.S. degree prior to transferring for personal or professional reasons. The program of study for the A.A./A.S. degree can overlap with the lower division preparation for transfer. Privates, out-of-state and international schools vary. If your objective is to transfer, be sure to seek the advice of a Transfer Counselor for the appropriate program of study.
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9. Is there a maximum number of units that I can transfer?
California public universities will count a maximum of 70 community college units toward the total number of units you need to complete for a bachelor's degree. Independent and out-of-state institutions vary in their limits and you should check their catalog or web site for information. Different limits may apply if you have already attended a "four-year" institution and you should meet with a counselor right away.
10. What if I take more than 70 transferable units?
The 70-unit limit applies only to the number of units that will be counted toward graduation and does not apply to courses. The university will grant subject credit for course content needed to satisfy requirements for general education or major preparation, even if they do not count the units for all of your courses toward graduation.
11. What is the minimum grade point average (GPA) required for
transfer admission?
The minimum GPA accepted for transfer to the CSU is 2.0 for California residents, 2.0 for non-residents. The CSU has designated some highly popular majors or campuses as impacted or high demand, for which higher GPAs and/or minimum course completion are required. The minimum GPA accepted for transfer to the UC is 2.4 for California residents, 2.8 for non-residents. UC campuses have designated some highly popular majors as selective, for which students have to meet competitive selection criteria (higher GPAs and minimum course completion requirements) to be admitted. Grade point averages necessary for transfer to independent and out-of-state universities vary. Consult the institution's printed or online catalog.
12. What is a competitive GPA for transfer?
Grade point averages necessary to compete for admission to impacted or selective programs vary from year to year, depending on the pool of applicants for any given academic year. Generally, a GPA of 3.0 is considered competitive, though even higher GPAs may be required to gain admission to majors and campuses for which the most students apply. A CCSF transfer counselor can tell you whether that is the case for the major or campus of your choice.
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13. What is General Education (GE)?
General Education is a set of courses through which you will become broadly educated by taking classes that cover a wide range of disciplines. GE courses are usually introductory in nature and provide you with fundamental knowledge in English, mathematics, the arts and humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences. You will complete the majority of GE coursework needed to receive a bachelor's degree while you are lower division (freshman/sophomore) student at a community college. After transferring to a university with upper division (junior/senior) status, you will be required to take only a few GE courses, so you can focus on your major. For example, you will be required to complete at least 48 units of GE to graduate from a CSU, 39 of which are completed at the lower division level. The GE unit requirements for independent and out-of-state institutions vary, but the ratio of lower division to upper division is similar. GE courses are divided into subject areas and GE patterns and describe the number of courses that you must take in each subject area to meet total GE requirements. Each institution has its own GE (sometimes called breadth or core) pattern. There are also GE patterns that are accepted by the entire CSU and/or UC systems for transfer to any campus in that system.
14. What is CSU-GE?
The CSU-GE is the pattern of coursework accepted to meet the GE requirements for a bachelor's degree at any CSU campus. An advising guide that shows the subject areas and the CCSF courses that count to fulfill area requirements is available. CSU-GE is one way for you to complete the lower division GE requirements for a bachelor's degree from the CSU at CCSF prior to transfer. Completing the entire CSU-GE pattern is not a requirement for admission. However, the CSU requires that students complete most of their lower division GE before transfer. There is an upper division GE requirement of at least 9 units to graduate from a CSU. It is not possible to complete all of the GE needed to receive a bachelor's degree from a CSU at a community college.
14a. What courses do I need to complete before I transfer to
a CSU?
In order to transfer to a CSU at an upper-division level the following minimum requirements must be done for admission purposes only: have completed 60 transferable units, have a minimum 2.0 (2.0 for non-residents)* transferable GPA. Also have at least 30 units of G.E. (these are part of the total 60 units) completed with grades of "C" or better. The 30 units of G.E must include one from each area: A1: Oral Communication, A2: Written Communication, A3: Critical Thinking and B4: Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning on the CSU GE Requirements sheet. * Impacted/Selective majors may require a higher GPA.
15. What is IGETC?
IGETC (pronounced eye-get-see) stands for Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum. It is a course pattern that community college students can use to satisfy lower division GE requirements for either the CSU or the UC. Completion of IGETC may not be a requirement for admission to the CSU or UC. IGETC is one option for students preparing to transfer. CSU students can use each campus' GE pattern or the CSU-GE pattern (see above). UC students can use the GE pattern for their campus, or complete an IGETC. A few independent California universities also accept IGETC as fulfillment of their lower division GE. If you have questions about which GE pattern to use, see your CCSF transfer counselor. For some high unit majors, the IGETC is not recommended.
15a. What courses do I need to complete before I transfer to
a UC?
In order to transfer to an UC at an upper-division level the following minimum requirements must be done for admission purposes only: have completed 60 transferable units, have a minimum transferable GPA of 2.4 (2.8 for non- residents); have completed 2 transferable English Composition courses with a "C" or better, one transferable math with a "C" or better, and 4 classes from 2 of the following areas, Arts & Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Physical & Biological Sciences.
16. What is a major?
A major is a program of coursework in a subject area or discipline that leads to a degree. Your major is the primary area of study in which you will develop the greatest depth of knowledge. The university faculty that teaches in the department of your major will determine the unit and subject area requirements you must meet to be granted your degree.
17. What is an impacted or selective major?
Impacted or selective majors are those for which the university receives many more applications for admission than the campus can accommodate. Impacted is also an official designation by the CSU system that allows the department that offers a major to require a higher GPA or specific major preparation as a way to reduce the pool of applicants to those who are best prepared to enter the major. Selective is a term used by the UC to describe majors for which the same conditions exist and for which the university imposes the same kind of selection criteria (GPA and major preparation) to screen for the most qualified applicants.
18. Do I have to declare a major and can I change it after I transfer?
You will need to indicate a major when you apply to the university. Some majors that are selective or impacted will have you apply as a pre-major. Upon completion of prerequisites, you would petition the department for admission. Some majors require very little such preparation, while other majors require many courses. It is important to choose a major early and find out about the preparation that you will need to be admitted to your major. For example, the UC requires that students complete most, if not all, of their major preparation before transfer.
The ability to change a major completely depends on the rules governing major changes at the college or university that you will be attending. Don't assume this is easy to do. In some majors that are impacted, changing your major is discouraged once you arrive at the university.
19. How do I choose a major?
The very best way to choose your major is by participating in a career exploration process or internship. You are probably becoming educated in order to enjoy a prosperous and interesting life and your work will a big part of that life. Along the way to discovering what you want to do with your time and energy, you will get information about the education you need to have in order to do it. That is your major. Some students also use a sampling method that involves taking GE courses in a number of disciplines to determine which one interests them most. One disadvantage of this method is that it can take a long time for such a process of elimination. Certainly, if you use this method, it is important to learn what you might do with your major and decide whether any of the possibilities appeal to you.
20. How do I find out what classes to take to prepare for my major?
Nearly all CSU and UC campuses provide information about articulation by major at www.assist.org. In addition, CCSF has articulation agreements with many private universities within California and selected private and public colleges and universities nationwide. These agreements can be found at http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/ccsf/en/employee-services/office-of-instruction/ccsf_articulation/Other_Colleges/articulation_withccsf.html
21. What is a minor?
A minor is a secondary focus of study that you may choose to augment your major for career purposes, for graduate education, or simply out of interest. Most minors require 18-24 units to complete. Minors are only available for some majors and not all schools offer minors.
22. How do I find out about the transfer requirements of any
particular school?
Information for transfer students is published in the catalog (either printed or online) of any institution. The Transfer Counseling Center has an extensive library of catalogs and supplementary material that is sent to us from universities all over the country. Transfer Counseling Center staff is available to assist you in locating and using these resources. In addition, a number of universities send representatives to the annual Transfer Day event that is held in September. Some of those representatives also visit CCSF on a regular basis to meet with students individually.
23. Will my high school grades and SAT scores count when I transfer?
The UC and CSU system do not require high school grades and test scores when a student transfers as a junior, 60 or more transferable units. However, independent/private schools may consider these as factors in their admissions process.
24. What is the best school for my major? How can I find the best schools?
A common resource is this website - US News & World Report. Note: going to the "best" school or the "highest ranking" relates more to students going into graduate studies or professional studies programs.
However, if ranking is important to you, be sure to know the particular factors used in generating the rankings because they define "best" and their definition may not be yours. Talk with faculty here who teach courses related to your selected major to get their ideas about the best schools. Visit universities and talk with the faculty and teaching assistants from the department offering your major of choice.
25. What is a Transfer Admission Agreement (TAG)?
A TAG is a contract written prior to the application filing date. A TAG guarantees your admission to a participating UC campus. CCSF has Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) agreements with UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, Palo Alto University, University of the Pacific, and American University of Paris. While criteria vary for each campus, this is a great opportunity for CCSF students to ensure transfer to the one of these great universities.
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26. What are my chances of being admitted to a UC? How do I
increase my chances?
If you meet the eligibility requirements, there is a place for you at one of the UC campuses. California community college transfer students receive first priority over other transfer applicants to UC, including applicants from four-year institutions and the University's own inter-campus transfers.
Your chances for admissions to the University of California increase significantly when you apply to several campuses. 90% of students who apply to four or more UC campuses are accepted. Completing major preparation coursework while at CCSF can also make you a more competitive applicant.
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27. When do I apply to transfer and what if I missed a deadline?
This depends on the deadlines given by the institution you are applying to, and the term for which you are applying. But, find out this information early so you can be ready to apply when the time comes. Generally, you apply one full academic year before you are ready to enroll. You will be applying to transfer well before you have all your requirements completed. The Transfer offers CSU and UC application workshops to help with the application process.
Applications past the filing deadline are accepted on a campus-by-campus basis. Universities determine a specific number of transfer admissions and when that number is reached, admission is closed. The more popular universities easily fill their admissions quota with applicants filing on time. Other universities continue to take applicants past the filing period/deadline.
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28. Are there advantages to starting your college career at a
community college rather than the four year school?
Yes, there are several important advantages. The community colleges are much less expensive, and often have smaller class sizes than the four-year schools. Also, it is often easier to get into the university of your choice at the junior level than it is to get in at the freshman level directly out of high school.
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29. Are community college students as successful at the University
as students who started at the University as a freshman?
Yes, our transfer students, on average, do as well as and in some cases better than, students who started as freshmen at the four-year schools. According Community College League of California, 55% of CSU graduates and 28% of UC graduates began their college years at a community college - and, upon transferring to either four-year institution, obtained GPAs equal to, or better than, "native" UC or CSU students.
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30. Do credit/no credit grades transfer? Do "D" grades or "W's"?
In some classes you can choose the Credit/No Credit (CR/NC) grading option rather than a letter grade. The deadline to notify your instructor that you prefer the CR/NC grade option is on the semester calendar in the schedule of classes. Grades of CR and NC are not factored into your GPA. A CR is a passing grade indicating satisfactory completion of course requirements. A NC grade is not a passing grade but will not hurt your GPA. This grading option is not intended for courses required by your major. "D" grades received in transferable coursework are included in a student's transferable GPA. In most cases, W's are not a focus of admission decisions unless there is an excessive number of W's over a longer course of time.
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31. I have attended another college, how do I know if these
courses transfer?
A Transfer Center counselor can help with an unofficial examination of domestic transcripts. Students need to make an appointment and bring in all transcripts (unofficial copies are okay).
Caution: The final responsibility for a successful transfer program
rests with the student. This information changes frequently and can
impact your admission to the university. It is highly advised that
you meet periodically with counselors at City College AND advisors
at the university to confirm your choice of classes and educational plan.
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Truth About Khloe Kardashian Dating Her Sisters' Partners
February 26th, 2020
Kim Kardashian was born in Los Angeles on October 21, 1980, the second child of Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner, following Kourtney Kardashian. Her parents went on to welcome Khloe Kardashian and Robert Kardashian, Jr. before divorcing in 1991. Jenner later married Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner, with whom she had Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Robert Kardashian, an attorney who worked on the O.J. Simpson murder case, died in 2003 from esophageal cancer.
Kardashian first made a name for herself in the pop culture world in 2007 through her leaked sex tape with then-boyfriend Ray J, with whom she filmed the explicit footage several years prior. The family, however, parlayed the attention into the E! series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," which debuted later that year, documenting the clan's day-to-day lives.
The series went on to spawn several spinoffs, including "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami," "Kourtney and Kim Take New York," and "Kourtney and Khloe Take The Hamptons." Kardashian soon became a magazine fixture, posing for "Playboy" and a number of other outlets, and competed on "Dancing with the Stars." The star has also appeared in a number of other television shows and movies, including "90210," "30 Rock," and "Disaster Movie."
While Kardashian has expanded her empire to include boutiques, clothing and makeup lines, books, and the "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" app, she remains best known for her highly publicized love life. Following a failed marriage to music producer Damon Thomas when she was 19, she wed basketball player Kris Humphries in 2010. Kardashian, however, famously filed for divorce just 72 days later, though the proceedings dragged on for more than a year.
Kardashian next embarked on a relationship with rapper Kanye West, and gave birth to their daughter, North, in 2013. The couple married in a lavish wedding in Florence in 2014, which was documented on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians." In 2015, Kardashian and West welcomed their second child, a son, Saint.
On October 2, 2016, Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. Five gun-yielding men, dressed as police officers, stormed into Kardashian's apartment and proceeded to bound and gag her, before stealing $10 million worth of jewelry. As the robbery unfolded, her husband West was performing at The Meadows Music and Arts Festival in Queens, New York. During his performance of "Heartless," the rapper was notified of the situation and rushed off stage. Three months after the robbery, Kardashian returned to social media after a brief hiatus. The terrifying ordeal was later covered in depth on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians."
Kardashian is slated to appear in "Ocean's Eight" later this year.
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The next wave of innovation in craft beer canning
If you are looking for the poster beer for how far canned craft beer has come, consider the latest offering from Upslope Brewing Co.
The second in a limited series of specialty beers, Barrel Aged Brown Ale is rich and complex, the result of four months aging in Maryland-style rye whiskey barrels from small-batch Denver distillery Leopold Bros.
The 19.2 ounce can is tall, sleek and elegantly designed in silver and white with a dash of Upslope maroon. Nothing like a tallboy of swill.
Brewery co-founder Matt Cutter envisions his creation being stored in cellars and enjoyed months and even years from now as it matures and gains character. That's right — a canned beer you can age.
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Is it lights out for optical?
Blue lasers and other technical advances are pushing optical disks to 30GB soon, with more than 100GB in site.
|Here comes holographic
It's an interesting conundrum. The people who measure for SLA compliance are the same people being held accountable for them. Most experts say, however, that the system works if both the user side and the storage side are working towards the common goal of driving down costs. For example, if storage services operate on a chargeback basis, storage managers are probably working towards specific cost cutting goals. It's therefore in their best interest to meet the SLAs, says Mark Friedman, the vice president of storage technology at DataCore in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. "You enforce SLAs best at the level of the cash register," he says.
If the need for Blu-ray sometimes seems far fetched, holographic storage has risen to the level of science fiction. Since the 1970s, the notion of holographic storage has been tantalizing: Instead of having a single laser burn bits into a recording layer, two lasers could create a holographic 3-D image of data, which in theory could result in much higher capacity and faster read performance. But the stumbling blocks--particularly the search for a suitable storage medium--have been huge.
Bell Labs, one of the world's premier research facilities, worked on holographic storage for 10 years. In early 2001, Lucent--Bell Labs' new parent company--spun off InPhase Technologies, whose research team included scientists responsible for 20 patents on holographic storage. By that time, researchers had at their disposal new laser technology developed for DVD and improved CMOS sensors used in digital cameras--the latter vital for reading embedded holographic images. In April 2002, InPhase demonstrated Tapestry, a write-once holographic recording system targeting the professional video industry.
Just like the first holographic system developed in the 1960s, Tapestry relies on a single laser beam split in two: a reference beam and a signal beam. With Tapestry, the signal beam passes through a modulator that works like a transmissive LCD screen. The modulated signal beam becomes a projected laser image of data, so that when the two beams reconverge in the recording medium, the resulting interference pattern creates a 3-D image that traverses the entire thickness of the material. To read data, the reference beam passes through the recording medium at various angles, enabling a CMOS sensor on the other side of the disc to capture multiple data views of a single physical segment.
Special multiplexing techniques involved in writing and reading holographic images were only part of Tapestry's breakthrough technology. The largest single advance is the photopolymer recording medium, which displays high photosensitivity plus the highest dynamic range of any holographic material--not to mention the ability to be manufactured into a CD-sized disc that's durable and cheap.
The Tapestry prototype encodes its photopolymer discs with a succession of 1.3Mb holographic images, yielding a recording medium that can hold 100GB and be read at a high transfer rate of 20MB/s. Seek times, although not disclosed, are estimated to be quite slow--hence the initial target of video applications, where sequential streaming rather than random access is the name of the game. InPhase--which believes it will be shipping Tapestry in volume in 2004--also plans a rewritable version, although no timeframe has been set. InPhase will undoubtedly develop holographic systems for more generalized applications, but the company is wise to target a suitable vertical market first, particularly with so much R&D to amortize.
The first optical drive bearing Nakamura's blue laser technology--dubbed Blu-ray--should arrive in the summer of 2003, courtesy of the CO-based optical storage technology pioneer, Plasmon. The drive's ultra density optical (UDO) discs--measuring the same diameter and thickness as DVDs--promise to hold 30GB. But how deep into the enterprise will this dramatic advancement penetrate? That remains an open question.
The problem is simple: There's a general lack of interest in optical technology among IT managers. "Optical has just lost so much ground," says Gartner Group analyst, Mary Craig. "The optical jukebox market has been declining on the unit level for seven consecutive years." The reason is twofold: On one hand, IDE arrays deliver a much higher performance than optical at a slightly higher cost. On the other hand, tape delivers a much higher capacity at an extremely low price. Optical is getting squeezed between the two. And with the addition of relatively inexpensive serial ATA drives, the squeeze is getting even tighter.
The pressure is on for optical technologists to deliver new, cost-effective, high-performance products as soon as possible. For example, by 2007, Plasmon expects to ship a UDO unit that spins two-sided, 120GB discs with a cost per gigabyte of only 50 cents. After 30 years of promises, an alternative technology known as holographic storage may actually arrive as soon as 2004, serving up 100GB discs out of the gate.
These developments may be welcome, but very likely concomitant advances in RAID and tape will continue to relegate optical to archiving e-mail, checks images, storing transaction records, medical images and other items requiring long-term storage and occasional retrieval. In fact, Enron and WorldCom may be the best thing that's ever happened to optical in quite a long time, because corporations face new pressures to store critical information in formats that can't be tampered with. In the enterprise, the whizzy new Blu-ray and holographic technology will probably be consigned to the mundane--but necessary--task of helping companies meet regulatory requirements.
MO is dead--long live UDO
Currently, magnetic optical (MO) stands as the most successful optical technology in the enterprise. First introduced in the late 1980s, MO is the iron-clad storage medium of choice, with a 30-year shelf life, the ability to withstand a million rewrites and a casing that shields the CD-size disc from dust and scratches. Hewlett-Packard and Plasmon dominate the MO market, with HP looking at licensing Plasmon's UDO technology.
But MO has "hit the wall," according to Gartner's Craig. She says current MO technology can't get beyond the maximum capacity of 9.1GB per cartridge--some of the priciest gigabytes that you'll find anywhere.
With UDO, Plasmon will initially target the MO market, drastically lowering cost while maintaining reliability. Unlike MO, which uses a combination of laser and magnetic storage technology, UDO employs phase change technology similar to that found in ordinary CD-RW drives: A pulsing laser burns dull spots in a reflective crystalline layer, which can be restored to its original reflectivity (i.e., erased) with a beam of lesser intensity. An advantage of phase change over MO is that it supports true write-once capability, which is necessary to meet certain regulatory requirements.
Blue lasers operate at a wavelength of 405 nanometers (nm), enabling them to produce a smaller focal point than the 650 nm red lasers that burn DVDs. That means more data can be packed into tracks and the tracks themselves can be closer together.
Damon Ujvarosy, VP of engineering for Plasmon, faces several challenges in rolling out the first UDO drive. To keep the price of the drive reasonable--and to hit Plasmon's cost per GB target of $2--he still relies on existing technology. For example, for the laser, he chose a lens with a numerical aperture (NA) of .7, rather than the .85 NA stipulated by consumer electronics companies that developed the Blu-ray spec. The lower NA results in a slightly larger focal point, but eliminates the need for spherical aberration correction. This is a lens technology demanded for consumer Blu-ray that has "not really been developed yet," says Ujvarosy.
Another problem lies in the detectors that read laser discs. "Silicon detectors classically are very good at detecting red," says Ujvarosy, "but their responsivity falls off a cliff as you get down around the blue violet region." With such low signal levels, a preamp with extremely low noise characteristics is essential. In addition, the disc surface needs to be free of smudges and dust--which is why Plasmon will be opting for an MO-style protective casing.
Plasmon will offer both read-write and WORM versions of its first UDO drive, which will deliver transfer rates as high as 8MB/s along with a 25 ms access time. The company conservatively estimates that its WORM discs will have a 50-year shelf life.
Stumbling over DVD
Plasmon hopes UDO's relatively low cost will help the technology sell beyond MO customers, extending perhaps as far as near-line enterprise storage. But UDO isn't intended for consumers. That distinction belongs to the forthcoming Blu-ray drives planned by such consumer electronics giants as Phillips, Pioneer, JVC, Toshiba, Sony, Matsushita, Hitachi, Sharp, and others. The first consumer Blu-ray devices should hit the market by 2004, offering a 27GB capacity per disc and a 36Mb/s transfer rate.
With CD and DVD technology, mass production for consumers drove down the cost of components first and enterprise products debuted later. But most observers agree Blu-ray will take three to four years--perhaps longer--to gain popularity among consumers. Why? For one thing, neither recordable nor rewritable DVD has caught on yet among consumers or enterprise buyers, posting a lackluster $169.6 million in sales for 2001. In the consumer space, DVD+RW (DVD plus rewritable) appears to have the best shot, thanks to support for low-cost 4.7GB DVD+RW and DVD-R discs that work in most standard DVD players. DVD-RW (DVD-rewritable) drives cost more than DVD+RW drives and burn discs compatible with fewer DVD players.
But neither DVD+RW nor DVD-RW is on the horizon for enterprise optical. In the enterprise data center, the next most popular optical device after the MO drive is still the 12-inch WORM drive. CD-R has gained some traction but the insurgent technology today is DVD-R, which provides a low-cost alternative to the 12-inch WORM. Pioneer originally developed DVD-R for the desktop, and has been selling its 720 disc, $16,000 DVM-7000 jukebox to enterprises since 1999.
Paul Meyhoefer, the director of sales and marketing for Pioneer USA, Long Beach, CA, doesn't have Blu-ray on his enterprise roadmap yet. "The reason DVD-R is where it is today--both in media costs and in drive pricing and capabilities--is because it was driven by the consumer market," says Meyhoefer. "And if I look at Blu-ray, it's not going to be really driven by the consumer market." Without those economies of scale to drive down the cost of components, Meyhoefer believes the price of Blu-ray will stay high for some time.
Meyhoefer's assertion contradicts common wisdom, which suggests Blu-ray's 27GB capacity is being driven by demand among high-end consumers to fit an entire HDTV movie on a single disc. Blu-ray discs will have the room for that, says Meyhoefer, but don't expect to see a Blu-ray HDTV player in Circuit City anytime soon.
|How ultra-dense optical compares
Ultra-dense optical disks can store more data by creating smaller pits. That's done in two ways: by using shorter wavelength light and focusing it in a smaller beam than either CD or DVD allows. The numerical aperture number is related to the size of the spot the beam can create--the larger the number, the smaller the spot--and therefore, the more densely data can be packed.
Seeing the light
The resistance to optical in the enterprise seems to be growing, rather than diminishing. JVC national sales manager Doug Arnold, who sells both DVD-R and DVD-RAM jukeboxes, puts it bluntly: "Unfortunately, tape and RAID really have a stranglehold on the enterprise space."
The pace of change in magnetic solutions, even tape, makes optical seem pale by comparison. "Tape is going to 400GB in a year or so," notes Gartner's Mary Craig. "To speed up and have a better appearance of performance, they'll use a RAID front end." In addition, sophisticated tape management systems offered by vendors as StorageTek are improving not only the efficiency of backup, but also the reliability of data recovery.
Bryan Bruton, CTO and founder of online archiving service Scan-Direct Inc., Carrollton, TX, employs optical primarily for clients bound by regulatory requirements. But Bruton uses optical only when he has to, partly because the cost of IDE RAID has already fallen close to that of his DVD-R storage--$7,200 per TB vs. $5,800 per TB. Figure in the added labor to maintain DVD-R, says Bruton, and the delta is more like $500. In a year, he expects it to be a wash. Moreover, his Pioneer DVM-7000 jukeboxes take up roughly three times the physical space per TB as the latest RAID systems.
Optical is a prime example of fascinating technology that doesn't necessarily yield the best solution. As Bruton says, "If you've got to have something non-modifiable, optical is the only choice out there." But for almost any other application, magnetic trumps optical every time--and given ever-increasing hard disk and tape capacities, that dominance isn't likely to change anytime soon, despite advances in optical technology. When asked what would make optical more attractive to him, Bruton quickly replies: "They need to bring the price down."


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Motorcyclists injured in 3 separate crashes
Motorcyclists in Dane County arrested on OWI charges
MADISON, Wis. — Four motorcyclists were injured in three separate crashes Saturday in southern Wisconsin.
Dane County sheriff's deputies and Sun Prairie EMS crews responded to two separate crashes involving motorcycles in the Town of Bristol.
The first crash occurred at about 4 p.m. and involved a man going southbound on County Highway N who lost control of his motorcycle as he was slowing to make a turn onto Muller Road.
The driver, Daniel G. McIntosh, 56, of Sun Prairie, was transported to the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison for injuries sustained in the crash. Sheriff's officials said he was also arrested on a charge of first-offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and cited for failure to maintain control.
Sheriff's officials said the second crash occurred a short while later as Casey J. Ehlers, 25, of Sun Prairie, was driving a miniature motorcycle in front of his home. Ehlers drove up from the ditch and onto the paved surface of Vinburn Road, where he subsequently lost control of his vehicle and slid across the roadway, sheriff's officials said.
Ehlers was transported by Med Flight to UW Hospital for injuries to his head and arms. Ehlers was arrested on a charge of third-offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and cited for failure to maintain control, according to a Dane County Sheriff's Department news release.
Neither motorcyclist was wearing a helmet, according to sheriff's officials.
In Green County, sheriff's deputies responded at about 12 p.m. Saturday to County Highway J at County Highway H in the Township of York, New Glarus, for a report of a crash.
Green County sheriff's officials said an investigation determined that Jeremie J. Dippel, 38, of Fredonia, Wis., and Brad James Duggan, 38, of Marion, Iowa, were driving individual motorcycles in a large group of motorcycles traveling south bound on County Highway J approaching County Highway H.
Dippel, who was in front of Duggan, did not realize the group was going to turn eastbound on Highway H. Dippel then attempted to slow his motorcycle to make the turn onto Highway H when he lost control of the cycle on a patch of gravel in the intersection and skidded into the path of Duggan's motorcycle, according to a Green County Sheriff's Department news release.
Dippel then collided with Duggan, causing both motorcycles to overturn. Dippel and Duggan were partially ejected from their motorcycles, according to sheriff's officials.
Duggan suffered an injury which required transport to a hospital. Dippel suffered injuries but declined medical attention, authorities said. Both operators were wearing helmets at time of the crash.


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Creating and running apps on your robot using Android
Tony Pratkanis, a Bay Area high school student, has spent the past several summers at Willow Garage developing various capabilities for robotics. This past summer, he worked on deploying an Android applications platform for ROS-enabled robots. Tony developed a GUI interface, for example, that runs on an Android operating system, and lets users launch robot demos and utilities from the tablet, not the robot's command-line interface. In the past, users had to set up a computer, and then log into the robot, such as the PR2, and enter commands at a command-line interface to manage ROS applications.
With the applications platform, a user selects the robot in the GUI, and then the application to run. Users can also install or manage other applications. This provides a standard for launching demos and utilities on the robot side, as well as on the client interface. In some cases, the GUI supports different types of robot, such as the PR2 and the TurtleBot.
View the video to see how Tony managed the PR2 from a tablet, and used other features of the applications platform.
We hope that the applications platform makes it easier to share demos and utilities with ROS robots. For more info, visit the ROS wiki page.


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Puzzle of the Day – A Pile of Kittens
Let's make this day cuteness day. How and why? Well, to be honest, this decision was inspired by our pick for the Puzzle of the Day section: A Pile of Kittens. You can't possibly be immune to the amount of cuteness in the picture. These kittens come in all shapes, sizes and even moods. There's Curious Kitty, Sad Kitty, Lonely Kitty, Sleepy Kitty and Playful Kitty. And there are other members of the troop who need to be found and assembled as well. Made by Sunsout, this eco-friendly jigsaw puzzle is a 1000 pieces monument of cuteness, with a size of 26"x26". If you're a fan of the furry domestic felines, you'll find assembling the puzzle even more entertaining, as you can try to figure out what breeds of cats are featured in the picture. Can you spot a British Short Hair? How about a Siamese? Or a Maine Coon? A Scottish Fold, perhaps? How about that paw on the right? Could it belong to a Burmese cat? There's no way you won't enjoy this beautiful puzzle, designed to bring a smile upon your face and joy and serenity in your heart. These cute and fluffy little creatures will simply make your day, even if you are not a cat lover. And when we say your day, we actually mean your week, or even your month. Do not forget, it is a 1000 pieces puzzle we're talking about, and unless you're a professional jigsaw puzzle assembler, it's going to take a while until you put the paws where they belong.


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The interchangeable tips make it easy to replace the tip of every layer of the coaxial needle in order to be able to adapt different diameters. The assembly is done with a simple screwdriver, supplied as standard, thanks to a proprietary connection of very high precision with the base, which makes it possible to achieve stable and repeatable geometries. All the tips are made of AISI 316 stainless steel and are laser welded for maximum cleanliness and precision. Customized tips can be created upon request with diameters and lengths differing from those listed in this catalog.
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Wisconsin Court Records
This entry was originally written by Dawn M. Knauft and Carol L. Maki in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The Northwest Ordinance provided a flexible framework of government that operated in the region until the Wisconsin Territory was formed in 1836. Government control over the area of Wisconsin was, however, minimal during the territorial periods. Civil law at the wilderness outposts of Prairie du Chien and Green Bay was difficult, if not impossible. Travel was dangerous, literate citizens were few and far between, and the upper Mississippi fur-trading frontier seemed somewhat capable of governing itself.
Beginning in the 1820s justices of the peace were appointed. Early records from Green Bay's justices of the peace can be found in the Grignon, Lawe, and Porlier Papers (1712'1884) at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Lewis Cass, who had been appointed governor of Michigan Territory in 1813, began making county divisions and announcing civil offices in 1818. The justice courts dealt with minor civil cases of $20 or less. County courts covered civil cases not to exceed $1,000 and noncapital criminal cases. The state supreme court, meeting annually in Detroit, had jurisdiction for larger civil cases, appeals from lower courts, and capital criminal cases. In the winter of 1822'23, a separate circuit court was established for the three western counties of Michigan Territory. The new court was, in effect, a supreme court. It was not given a title, however, and was generally called an 'additional court.' Native Americans accused of crimes were not included in the jurisdiction of the court unless a white person was involved.
When Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the judicial system included a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, and justice of the peace courts, which were retained when statehood was attained in 1848. There were territorial courts in Green Bay, Prairie du Chien, and Mineral Point.
County Government in Wisconsin, vol. 2 (Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Records Survey, 1942), explains the creation, structure, and function of courts in Wisconsin. Probate and related files can be found in the county courts, while criminal and civil cases are in the circuit courts. Old court records are generally still located in the county's courthouse or may be found at the appropriate Area Research Center of the Wisconsin Historical Society.


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