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These tires are my go-to clinchers for most situations. You can really feel the high tpi when cornering as they roll very smoothly. Good traction in dirt, grass, and loose gravel without being too slow on hardpack or solid surfaces. I just wish I could get them in a size bigger than 30mm.
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Swapped out some other tires for these. Used them in a few races on Mud, Gravel, sand, and grass. The traction is great. Cornering is great. Mounted them as tubeless on stans crest wheels and held air great.
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I've raced a full season on these tires. For something that has the reputation of being the go-to mud clincher for cyclocross they don't hook up that well in the mud. Initially grip isn't too bad but they pack up easily and won't self-clean. In dry corners and conditions these tires do not inspire confidence. The shoulder blocks aren't aggressive enough and a slide out is likely if you really push it.
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What is there left to say about this tire? It's superb.
Awesome traction in almost every conceivable condition. They excel in the mud (see pic). Quite light too.
I've run these with and without tubes (using a Stan's tubeless kit). They work well at all different pressures. I found 34 good for everything New England can throw at you (I weigh 165).
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Athletic Director/VP for Athletics Bob Reasso '73 has announced the hiring of Chris Wood as the universities first Men's and Women's Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Head Coach. Wood will start the Pfeiffer program from scratch with the Falcons beginning competition in the 2014-15 season.
"We couldn't be more excited to add Chris to our athletic department," said Reasso. "It's an exciting time for Pfeiffer as we add four sports and we are very happy to bring in a coach of Chris' caliber to lead those programs. I had the pleasure of working with Chris at Husson University where he did a brilliant job of building both the Cross Country and Track programs."
Wood most previously served ran the Track and Field and Cross Country programs for over two seasons at Husson University in Bangor, Maine. Under Reasso at Husson, Wood increased his roster size in his two years and was responsible for coaching jumps, javelin and sprints/hurdles. He also designed and implemented a comprehensive Sports Performance program for 18 athletic teams. He guided the women's cross country team to the North Atlantic Conference Championship in 2011 and 2012 and was the Runner Up in 2013.
Prior to his time at Husson, Wood was the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator and Assistant Track and Field Coach at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA from 2007-2011. Wood oversaw the operations of the fitness center and created an online interface for student athletes to get exercise program information. He coached combined events, javelin, and jumps, while also teaching five courses.
Wood also spent time at LaSalle University as the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach. Wood spent 2003-2005 at Temple University where he was promoted from a Graduate Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach to the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for Olympic Sports.
"First and foremost, I'd like to say thank you to the Pfeiffer University Administration for making this position a reality," said Wood. "My family and I are truly thankful for this great opportunity. This position is going to be great for many reasons. Among them is the new energy in the athletic department, the chance to share my talents with a University that has potential for real growth, and of course, the opportunity to start a program in a region that allows for year-round running."
Wood graduated from Temple with a Masters of Education and earned his Bachelor of Exercise Science from the University of Puget Sound. He has eight strength and conditioning certifications and was named the North Atlantic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2012. His duties will begin on January 2.
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Jake Krolick enters his first season at Pfeiffer as the Assistant Cross Country and Track coach.
Most recently, Krolick served in the same position at his alma mater Edinboro University for the 2013 season. At Edinboro, he planned fundraisers, observed budgets plans and did practice planning as well as recruiting. Edinboro's men and women finished second in the 2013 PSAC Cross Country meet and each program finished in the top 15 in the Division II NCAA Nationals.
Krolick ran Cross Country for four years and competed for three seasons in Track and Field for the Fighting Scots. He was named to the All-PSAC and All-Atlantic region in 2011 and was a three-time Academic All-American. Krolick competed three times at the NCAA Division II Cross Country nationals and his highest finish was 72nd.
Following his time at Edinboro, he spent a season at Adams State in Colorado where he ran one season of track and field.
Krolick graduated with a 3.61 GPA with a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Mathematics Education and worked on his master's in Exercise Science at Adams St.
Natasha JanesGraduate Assistant Coach
Natasha Janes enters her first season with the Falcons.
Janes is a graduate from Campbellsville University where she earned a bachelor's in Psychology and finished with a 3.5 grade point average. Following graduation, Janes attended Graduate School at the University of Louisville.
Athletically, Janes earned Academic All-Conference honors for Track and Cross Country from 2010-2013. She was part of the 2013 MSC Conference Champions and earned the Campbellsville Champions of Character Award.
In 2014, Janes worked with Fast Start Athletics where she planned and hosted events to help teach children about the sport of running. She also helped her college coach plan practices and organize recruiting visits from 2009-2011.
Dustin StewartGraduate Assistant Coach
Dustin Stewart enters his first season with the Falcons.
Stewart was a four year Cross Country and Track athlete at Belmont Abbey where he was a decathlete. Some of his career highlights include: a 3rd place finish in the 800-meter at the Conference Carolinas Indoor Championship, a 2nd place finish in the 1500-meter at the Conference Carolinas outdoor meet in 2013 and a 7th place finish in the high jump in 2014. Dustin has a passion for the sprint events and will work primarily with this group, while assisting in the field events.

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Tuttle Named to NCBWA's Preseason All-Region Third Team
January 30, 2013
PEMBROKE, N.C. - Pfeiffer University's Bryan Tuttle was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers (NCBWA) Preseason Southeast Region Third-Team announced on Wednesday afternoon. Tuttle anchored the Falcons pitching staff in 2012 compiling a 7-3 record in 13 starts with a 2.73 earned run average. Tuttle would fan a team-high 83 batter in just over 82 innings of work.
Tuttle and the Falcons open up the 2013 season on Friday at #13 Catawba taking on the Indians twice over the weekend. Pfeiffer will also battle #17 Tusculum on Saturday.
C – Geno Escalante (Mount Olive)
1B – Brian Yeung (Wingate)
2B – Andre Rodriguez (Lincoln Mem'l)
3B – Cade Stallings (Tusculum)
SS – Mike Mercurio (Mount Olive)
OF – Ethan Satterfield (Catawba)
OF – Zach Bricknell (Young Harris)
OF – Champ Stuart (Brevard)
DH – Cody Maas (Georgia College)
UT – R.J. Dennard (Armstrong Atlantic)
SP – Spencer Jordan (Francis Marion)
SP – Ethan Bader (Armstrong Atlantic)
SP – Matt Dillon (Mount Olive)
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2B – Allen Staton (North Greenville)
3B – Jermaine Berry (Mount Olive)
SS – Michael Hughey (Limestone)
OF – Braden Reitano (Mount Olive)
OF – Brett Moreland (Flagler)
OF – Ryan Lewis (Columbus State)
DH – Garrett Furr (Catawba)
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SP – Taylor Rakes (Tusculum)
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OF – Will Huff (Erskine)
OF – Curt Fuqua (Lincoln Memorial)
OF – David Atwood (Young Harris)
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Joint Chiefs to crack down on military IT stovepipes
Monday - 12/17/2012, 5:45am EST
The military's Joint Chiefs of Staff are debuting a new process for identifying and developing new technology capabilities. Among its main objectives —: stop the military services from duplicating one another's work.
As the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps gradually shift their IT enterprises into a more homogenous framework that the Pentagon refers to as the Joint Information Environment, they'll be complying with a revamped process for determining joint military capabilities and they'll have to comply with common standards.
In exchange, the Pentagon will give them a bit of a heads-up on who's supposed to do what before they start building their budgets, rather than afterward, a senior DoD official said Friday.
The military services' technology programs are the subject of a syndrome public sector IT critics point to frequently — government organizations buying or building the same thing to serve the same mission, only slightly differently, because of different needs or what are perceived as different needs.
Martin Westphal, the Joint Staff's vice director for command, control, communications and computers, said one example of the phenomenon is the Global Combat Support System. The Army, Air Force, Defense Information Systems Agency and Marine Corps all have their own variants of the enterprise resource planning system.
Problems affect battlefield, back offices
But Westphal told an industry audience at an AFCEA Northern Virginia luncheon Friday that the problem is not limited to ERPs, nor is it particularly new. He confronted a life-and-death example when he was a commander of marines in the first Gulf War.
Martin Westphal, vice director for command, control, communications and computers, Joint Chiefs of Staff
"In 1991, I almost took out a Kuwaiti battalion that crossed my front during the battle of Khafji because we couldn't exchange blue force tracking data. Folks, we still have that problem today," he said. "That's a sin. We have to do better."
Westphal said the problem is not a failure of technology. It's one of procedure, like the way the military so far has employed concepts like DOTMLPF (Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel and Facilities) to inform joint military needs.
"It's how we're directed to do business, and because one military department says, 'We're going to treat this information as secret,' and another one says 'No, it's really unclassified,' we build different systems to be able to handle information that that particular military department needs," he said. "As such, we cannot share that information cross-boundary in combat. We have got to do better."
The directorate Westphal works in is the newest on the Joint Staff, born out of the ashes of the recently disestablished U.S. Joint Forces Command. The newly re-established J-6, in military staff terms, has several responsibilities. But Westphal said "doing better" with respect to joint military IT is chief among them.
"Technology will enable us to do this, it's the cultural shifts that are required. This has been briefed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and they are all on board," he said. "Now the question is middle management. That's where the iron majors and colonels and GS-14s and 15s live, but we're getting there. This is being top-down driven."
Common system architectures will be enforced
The redesigned process the Joint Staff now is using for determining which uniformed services should provide which capabilities to the entire military includes the notion that since IT capabilities are going to be used as part of a joint, and probably coalition force, in any future conflict, jointness needs to be built in before a system is developed. DoD will enforce common system architectures across the department, rather than letting each service develop its own.
"Now we are doing joint from inception, architecturally, instead of at endgame where we try to use baling wire, spit and bubble gum to make a system work that is now joint," he said. "It adds to the complexity, the latency, the vulnerability, the security issues, everything. That's what's changing."
Also changing is the information the individual military services will have available to them at the time they begin planning their programs and budgets for an upcoming fiscal year. Westphal said DoD's Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) now will tell military components precisely what the Joint Force will need from them before they begin building their budgets, rather than at the end.
"The services spend an inordinate amount of time developing their budget plans. If we roll in at endgame and say, 'Oops, sorry, we're going to break your glass,' that's not the way to do business," he said. "How much latency does that add to the process? How much inaccuracy does that add to the process? Our objective from a portfolio management standpoint is to get ahead of the bow wave. Our objective is to be able to tell them what we need from a joint C4 and cyber capability perspective. If they don't agree with us, that's fine, but it gives them plenty of time to develop and mitigate alternative solutions and courses of action to meet the need. It also enables the services, through the architectures, to see how each of them support each other and how dependent they are on each other. And it lets us test a system once not multiple times."
Quick turnaround for planning documents
Westphal acknowledged big gaps and delays in capability in the past have often been the fault of the Pentagon, not the military services themselves. For example, a joint tactical radio platform known as JTRS, which was supposed to serve ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, was held up by a requirements document dating back to 2002. A Pentagon re-examination of that wish list eventually found the requirements were way out of date and the military instead bought a product line industry had been developing on its own.
But he insists that process has changed.
"No longer can folks point to the capability development process and say, 'It's your fault,'" he said. "We are now turning documents around in four-to-six weeks. A lot of it has to do with the architectural data so we can focus on specific gaps, whether it's a hardware fix, a software fix, whatever, from a joint perspective. So instead of doing an analysis of alternatives that would last two or three years and cost millions of dollars, we're using architectural assessments and analysis and looking at specific, iterative gaps, focusing in on them and doing quick studies that take 60 or 90 days."
That change in behavior from the Pentagon, Westphal said, is not an option. If delays in military capability haven't been enough of a change agent, he thinks budget pressure will.
"I don't know if this is going to be a cliff, I don't know if it's going to be foothills, I don't know if it's going to be a gentle slope, but the bottom line is, if you look at history, innovation only occurs when we don't have resources and we've got to use our heads," he said. "Industry's leading, and we're adopting best business practices and institutionalizing them."
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Washington, DC –August 22, 2012—Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has been named a Milestones in Microbiology site by the American Society for Microbiology. This ASM program recognizes institutions and the scientists who worked there that have made significant contributions toward advancing the science of microbiology. A ceremony unveiling the plaque that will mark the site will be held on Friday, August 24th, at 5 pm at Grace Auditorium during the CSHL meeting on Bacteria, Archaea, and Phages.
Since its opening in 1890, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has significantly advanced the science of microbiology through its research and education programs. "An intensive summer course on bacterial viruses (or phage) begun at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1945 resulted in advances in bacterial and phage research that led to our understanding of what genes are and how they are expressed, and ultimately germinated the field of molecular biology," according to Stanley Maloy, a Past President of ASM who will make the presentation of a commemorative plaque.
"In addition, each summer Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory held meetings that facilitated the enthusiastic exchange of new discoveries and ideas in the rapidly growing field of molecular biology, stimulated largely by microbial geneticists. These discoveries have influenced every aspect of microbiology." Maloy says.
The phage course continued for many years and by the mid-1970s had evolved into a course on Advanced Bacterial Genetics that taught new generations of scientists how to use new genetic tools that fertilized the biotechnology industry. Research at the Laboratory has always been associated with major trends in biology: Darwinian evolution, classical genetics, penicillin production, the use of microbes as model organisms to explore fundamental life processes, and the development of molecular biology techniques. The advanced courses and meetings that are still held here make the Laboratory a mecca for microbiologists.
In recognition of all these contributions, the American Society for Microbiology is pleased to designate Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory a Milestones in Microbiology site. By placing explanatory plaques at these sites, ASM hopes to increase professional and public recognition of the significance of the science of microbiology.
Previously designated Milestones in Microbiology are the Waksman Laboratory at Rutgers University; Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, California; the site of the University of Pennsylvania Laboratory of Hygiene; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology. CSHL is ranked number one in the world by Thomson Reuters for impact of its research in molecular biology and genetics. The Laboratory has been home to eight Nobel Prize winners. Today, CSHL's multidisciplinary scientific community is more than 360 scientists strong and its Meetings & Courses program hosts more than 12,500 scientists from around the world each year to its Long Island campus and its China center. Tens of thousands more benefit from the research, reviews, and ideas published in journals and books distributed internationally by CSHL Press. The Laboratory's education arm also includes a graduate school and programs for undergraduates as well as middle and high school students and teachers. CSHL is a private, not-for-profit institution on the north shore of Long Island. For more information, visit www.cshl.edu<http://www.cshl.edu/.
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Men's Volleyball Remains Perfect in League Play with 3-1 Win over Limestone
February 15, 2012
MISENHEIMER, N.C. Pfeiffer University hit just under .300 at .297 while holding Limestone College to hitting at a .110 clip during a 3-1 (25-18, 23-25, 25-21, 25-20) victory in NCAA I Conference Carolinas mens volleyball action inside the Merner Gym on Wednesday night. The Falcons run their winning streak to six-straight improving to 6-1 on the year, remaining perfect in league play at 4-0. The Saints see their brief two-game win streak come to an end dropping to 5-3, 2-1.
Back-to-back kills early on by David Specian (Loxahatchee, FL) and Caleb Brophy (Mission Viejo, CA) jump started Pfeiffer to an eventual 9-3 lead in set one. Limestone would get to within three at 16-13 on a kill from Derek Daley (Reading, PA) and Falcon error before Konstantin Weise (Berlin, GERMANY) and Quentin Moore (Richmond, VA) put down kills for a 19-13 advantage. Three Limestone errors would aid the Falcons late as the hosts took a 25-18 set one win.
Set two came down to the end as Pfeiffer held a 20-17 lead after another Brophy kill and attack error by the Saints. Leading 22-19, Curtis Van Grinsven (Canyon Country, CA) would bring it to 22-20 on one of his five kills before Limestones blocking delivered three-straight solo blocks to swing the momentum 23-22 in favor of the Saints. James Dorr (Spokane, WA), Daley and Scott Warren (Manhattan Beach, CA) each came up with huge stuffs as Dorr would later put down the decisive kill to even the match at one apiece.
In the third, each team went back-and-forth early on until a kill by David Frazee (West Palm Beach, FL) put the Falcons up 8-7 as the hosts would not fall behind for the rest of the set. Three miscues by the Falcons midway through the frame would keep Limestone hanging around until a Specian ace would help deliver the final blow leading to an 18-15 advantage. Frazee and Weise would pick up the sets final kills for Pfeiffer putting them up in the match 2-1.
Trailing 18-17 in the fourth, Moore would deliver his final kill of the night to tie it 18-18 before a string of three-straight Limestone attack errors led to a 22-19 Pfeiffer lead. Three points away from the match, Weise would deliver a monster kill in front of Brophys final put down before ending the match on an ace down the line to help keep the Falcons perfect in league play.
Moore led all attackers with a match-high 15 kills hitting .393 in the win while Frazee had the best hitting percentage of the night with a match-best .636 mark (8-1-11). Specian assisted 50 times in the four-setter while Brophy and Moore each ended with a match-high nine digs.
Limestone was led by Warren and Kevin Harts (Menifee, CA) nine kills while Andrew Pile (Macungie, PA) handed out 26 assists. The Saints did out-block the Falcons 14-9 on the night while being hampered overall by 43 errors.
Pfeiffer will remain in league play on Saturday traveling to Lees-McRae for a Conference Carolinas matchup with the Bobcats. The action will begin at 2:00 p.m. with live stats and video being available through http://www.gofalconsports.com.


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- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
My cumulative GPA, thus far:
Can I count the classes I took from Prof. CowboyNeal?
Not trying hard enough... (Score:5, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24, 2013 @03:21PM (#42682693)
If your GPA is 4.0 or above, you're not taking classes which are difficult enough. I graduated with a PhD in Chemistry, and my undergrad and post-grad GPAs were both weighted down slightly by purposely taking insanely difficult classes. Those people around me with 4.0 GPAs were more interested in that silly number than learning material, and wouldn't take certain classes if they didn't think they could get an A.
Of course, at your school(s) YMMV.
Re:Not trying hard enough... (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, if your GPA is above 4.0, then it is fake. I can't run faster than the fastest person...even if I am the fastest person. The mere suggestion of such a thing makes it look silly and I have to discard it.
It is a big red flag, which would force me to go to the University and ask them for best score of everyone that took the same curriculum. Then I need to estimate what a perfect score would be. All of this defeats the purpose of a GPA.
Look! I ran a 9.3 sec 100m dash! I got 1.5 sec off for running 110m instead!
Re:Not trying hard enough... (Score:4, Funny)by isopropanol (1936936) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:29PM (#42684049) JournalIn Canada some schools do GPA on a 10 point scale (a+=10, a=9...)... Get a 4.0 two semesters in a row without extenuating circumstances and they're kicking you out.
And I regularly got GPA between 1.0 and 1.5. Of course, here in Europe, at least in some countries, we count it in the opposite direction.
I've never attended a school or college that recognized a grade point higher than 4.0. I've had teachers who'd write "A+" on something if they thought it was really outstanding, but it still got recorded as "4.0" when my grade was calculated.
I have yet to score better than 10.0 in the gymnastics floor exercise at the Olympics, or bowl a score higher than 300, either.
Re: Not trying hard enough... (Score:3, Insightful)
It's a damned 5 point scale you goob. They were introducing them when I was leaving high school and some schools have adopted them both at the secondary and post-secondary level.
Most grad students in the program I was in averaged around a 3.5 which according to the department head was about right. You should be getting Bs in grad school whether you want to or not. Really in grad school the arguments between As and Bs can get granular based on literally a fistful of points. I lost
Actually, there were several courses I took in college where I scored a 4.1. Average score was 3.5, though.
Scales above 4.0 (Score:4, Interesting)
In my high school, AP (Advanced Placement) courses were on a 5 point scale, not a 4 point scale; A = 5, B=3.75, C=2.5, etc. So even with a couple of Bs over the years, As in 3 AP classes brought my high school GPA to 4.05 .
I just don't know how to average in those 'unsatisfactory' grades for handwriting & behavior from kindergarden and grade school.
I'm going to throw out a bullshit here. Even at the most difficult of under graduate colleges you're still going to have people capable of maintaining a 4.0 throughout there college career while taking difficult courses. You're going to know multiple people with perfect SAT/ACT scores and you'll invariably know one or two who can pull off a 4.0 regardless of course load.
Re:Not trying hard enough... (Score:5, Funny)
If your GPA is 4.0 or above, you're not taking classes which are difficult enough. I graduated with a PhD in Chemistry, and my undergrad and post-grad GPAs were both weighted down slightly by purposely taking insanely difficult classes. Those people around me with 4.0 GPAs were more interested in that silly number than learning material, and wouldn't take certain classes if they didn't think they could get an A.
Of course, at your school(s) YMMV.
I would have done better than 3.72 if it weren't for that ill-considered Piano I class.
Think about it - a programming student sitting at a keyboard, spending weeks trying to find the CTRL, ALT and SHIFT keys.
Re:Not trying hard enough... (Score:5, Funny)
I would have done better than 3.72 if it weren't for that ill-considered Piano I class.
Think about it - a programming student sitting at a keyboard, spending weeks trying to find the CTRL, ALT and SHIFT keys.
I found your problem. On the piano, those are pedals.
So, if piano == computer, what's an organ - the King of Instruments?
Disclaimer: I play the organ, lots more chording and "modifier keys" than any piano!
Posted with no Karma Bonus to avoid the consistent "Overrated" the trolls keep stinging me with recently.
Do you have four arms, six fingers on each hand, and large, strong, prehensile toes? I adore organ music but that's how I visualize organists (I mean, four manuals? And how many stops?)
No, but I am a freak of nature and sometimes I wish I had a dozen tentacles in exchange for my legs...
ps six manuals, four octaves of pedals, two expression pedals, four different beat expression / pause switches (operated by knees and feet), and programmable (in a manner of speaking), layerable, instruments - from real pianos wired up and slung on stage to cymbals and drums to traditional pipes, all playing and layered together DIFFERENTLY on each manual.. at the end of a bar or other convenient point i ca
This question is ill defined. It is unclear which endpoints of the above intervals are exclusive and which are inclusive.
I still very vividly remember an article in the student newspaper from my undergraduate days (math bachelors in 1978, masters in 1980). The article listed the average grade given by each department. These ranged from a 3.6 from the department of education to around a 2.0 for both math and chemistry. All sorts of things go into this (e.g., every major had a math requirement and a lot of lucrative careers required taking more than a few chemistry classes to get the entry degree).but still an average grade
What the fuck is a GPA? (Score:4, Insightful)
Obvious option missing. For that ignored minority who doesn't belong to the Mighty US of A.
Then don't answer, jerk. I haven't been in a university classroom since 1995-- do I complain that the poll doesn't include options for my last performance review?
Then don't answer, jerk. I haven't been in a university classroom since 1995-- do I complain that the poll doesn't include options for my last performance review?
How does one translate "You are doing a really spectacular, awesome job and are savings the company hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, and we are keeping you at the same pay rate with no cost of living adjustment" translate to the 4.0 scale?
It's a relatively irrelevant number that is assigned to you by the school system you attend. I chose under 2.0, because that's where I was 20 years ago.
I left college after a month because I worked in the computer lab, and had an epiphany - "Holy shit, I have 2 years of garbage classes to take before I start my 'computer classes' at the same level at these people. Oh hell no."
A GPA is mostly good for people who don't know what to do with their lives in High School, so they attend another school. The
Re:What the fuck is a GPA? (Score:5, Funny)by 93 Escort Wagon (326346) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:49PM (#42683679)
German Pale Ale. Duh.
German Pale Ale. Duh.
I thought most german beer styles were lagers?
I thought most german beer styles were lagers?
If most are lagers (Pilsners), what are the rest?
Logic on a geek site better I expect to see.
But what is being measured then? Is it consumption, I wonder? Or could it be Graphics Processing Alu's?
Also, at my university, our GPA was out of 10. Something along the lines of A+ = 10, A = 9, A- = 8, B+ = 7, B = 6, C+ = 5, C= 4, D+ = 3, D = 2, E = 1, F = 0. The problem as I see it with the GPA (both systems, is that the marks aren't linear with the percentage mark. If you get a C mark which corresponds to 60%, you only get 4/10, So even a few bad marks can greatly reduce your GPA. If you get a B in every class, you end up with a 6.0 GPA out of 10, which most people would interpret as 60%, but your actu
Obvious option missing. For that ignored minority who doesn't belong to the Mighty US of A.
Isn't it enough that we allow resumes to be called CVs on slashdot even though nobody in the U.S. has ever called it a CV?
Oh slashdot, why so angry..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(education)#United_States [wikipedia.org]
Option seven is for you.
GPA Explaination Link (Score:4, Informative)by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24, 2013 @03:45PM (#42682965)
Here's a link for the curious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_the_United_States#Grade_point_average [wikipedia.org]
Posted anon to avoid karma whoring.
Voters are liars! (Score:5, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24, 2013 @03:47PM (#42682979)
This poll has the most obvious false answer rate of all Slashdot polls. Nearly half of the respondents are averaging 3.0 or more? This is just not credible or believable for this site. This is "News for Nerds", it's impossible for it to be this high.
We all know the actual Girls Per Annum rate here is somewhere between 0.1 and -1.
all the readers are above average
We all know the actual Girls Per Annum rate here is somewhere between 0.1 and -1.
I'm gay, you insensitive breeder, er clod!
I was always too busy programming to worry about school. I've always felt school was the greatest setback of my entire life.
Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)by Dynedain (141758) <slashdot2.anthonymclin@com> on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:03PM (#42683147) Homepage
I graduated from my university over ten years ago, and even in my chosen major, GPA had very little impact on hiring.
Now, my GPA is meaningless as my hiring potential is based on my work experience and portfolio. Plus cumulative GPA going all the way back to elementary school, even if possible to calculate, only shows how good I was at being a student, not how good I am at learning, or how adept I will be in the workplace.
I'll second this. GPA has significance while you're in school, and perhaps when you are going for your first job after graduating. After that, your job performance and work experience are all anyone really looks at.
I graduated from my university over ten years ago, and even in my chosen major, GPA had very little impact on hiring.
Now, my GPA is meaningless as my hiring potential is based on my work experience and portfolio. Plus cumulative GPA going all the way back to elementary school, even if possible to calculate, only shows how good I was at being a student, not how good I am at learning, or how adept I will be in the workplace.
Actually, GPA measures how well you do at being evaluated by academics in a program or in an overall sense. I know some piss-poor students that got good grades because they kissed up to the professor/teacher. They were dumb as rocks and could not apply the knowledge they had just "learned".
I am firmly in the missing option boat with "Who cares". The number only means something when you're in school, and even then it shouldn't because you should be polishing your own stone not trying to keep up with the Jone
You argued my point.
...only shows how good I was at being a student, not how good I am at learning...
Back in my day (Score:5, Informative)by dosun88888 (265953) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:12PM (#42683249) Homepage
There was no such thing as "Over 4.0," even if you took AP classes.
There was no such thing as "Over 4.0," even if you took AP classes. I think that in my school, you got something like
In my highschool we got an extra
I think the valedictorian was around 4.8 over their high shcool career. as I recall the only difference between that and the salutatorian was one extra honors class.
Some places had 4.5 as an A+ and 4.0 as an A.
I used to get grades from 0-100, which made far more sense than some arbitrary letter scheme, as all of my tests and papers were graded between 0 and 100. There's something of a mapping back to the letters there too, but it falls off at the end (65 is a D, with no D- as anything under 65 is failing).
There was no such thing as "Over 4.0," even if you took AP classes.
Sure there was; but it was Above Top Secret. Only those who truly gave 110% were allowed in on it. Then somebody had to go and spill the beans.
Question: Why isn't this a perfect bell curve? Have scores in universities crept up that much?
Re:Bell Curve (Score:4, Insightful)
Why isn't this a perfect bell curve?
Because stupid people don't generally get involved in the kinds of activities that would lead one to reading
Re:Bell Curve (Score:4, Interesting)Because bell curves are and always have been an idiotic way to grade. If I'm hiring someone, I don't care how well they did in relation to their classmates. I care about whether or not they learned their material.
by degeneratemonkey (1405019) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:31PM (#42684077)All told, my GPA in high school averaged out to just under 3.0. Getting my undergraduate degree, I netted an average 2.4 GPA.
As far as predictive performance metrics go, GPA is largely meaningless. It only seems to bear significance when there are no other suitable means by which to judge a candidate, or when candidates are being filtered by incompetent HR personnel.
When starting my career, I had trouble getting past the latter. My solution was to omit academic experience altogether from my resume and focus instead on private software projects and contract work. That did the trick.
Nowadays, I do list my degree, but do not include a GPA figure. Nobody's bothered to ask about it and they have no problem giving me money in exchange for engineering services.
by degeneratemonkey (1405019) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:35PM (#42684121)An addendum regarding the meaninglessness of GPA as a performance metric: I'm speaking only from anecdotal evidence, which is of course just as good as hard data.
I have observed a stronger correlation between high GPA and manipulative capacity than I have observed between high GPA and productive capacity.
An addendum regarding the meaninglessness of GPA as a performance metric: I'm speaking only from anecdotal evidence, which is of course just as good as hard data.
I consider myself to be pretty smart, but my GPA was only about 3.2 or thereabouts. I was in the top 13% GPA-wise, but I felt like I perform better than that. However, I didn't actually TRY very hard in college. I mostly pursued what I found interesting, and involved myself in leadership in IEEE and Tau Beta Pi (that is an Honor Society, not a fr
I've done the same thing. Nobody seems to care about GPA in our business. They care about your code.
Never bothered looking at GPA when reading resumes. People like to flaunt their GPAs when it's over a 3.5, but I've seen far too many high 3s (with a "computer science" degree) that couldn't even tell me the difference between an array and a linked list.
The face-to-face interview was far more important. It was easy to weed bad candidates out, and a good pseudocode-writing assignment usually separated the silicon from the gold.
My GPA is way more than 4. It probably has something to do with the fact that in Denmark, the scale goes from -3 to 12.
Given the demographics of this site, I think this should really be more of a log scale than the linear that we have now; I'd be much more interested to see how that "3.5-4.0" range breaks down than to see, as expected for a nerd site, that fewer and fewer people got mediocre of poor grades. My grades at the HS, AA, and BA levels were all in that range, yet I consider my HS grades (3.7) mediocre, my AA grades (4.0) stellar, and my BA grades (3.9) good enough.
Also, "4.0" simpliciter should be an option, for t
GPA is a insane concept. Insofar very US american
I've never swore on Slashdot before, oh goodness me. But seriously. Fuck GPA.
I was just like lots of you here; I excelled in high school because it was easy. Never did any homework, slept through class, and aced the tests. Next came undergrad: something I was horribly unprepared for. I panicked, started abusing certain substances to deal with anxiety, stopped going to class, and barely limped across the finish line to get a non-honours degree with a transcript pretty enough to use as toilet paper. Eight years and a fair bit of perspective later, I went back to school to get an MA. By this time I had figured out how to game the system and get top grades without really studying all that much. What's my point? GPA measures nothing except a) how easy the material is, or b) how hard you work, or c) how immature you are, or d) how much pot you're smoking, or e) none of the above.
In the working world, I prove my worth every single day by what I produce, and I think I'm pretty damn good at what I do. If my boss had asked to see my transcript in my interview, I wouldn't have had a chance in hell of getting this position.
Fuck GPA. I'm now in a position where I can review potential hires. Going to school at any level teaches you something about life (good and bad), and if you managed to graduate, then I'll judge you equally with the next guy or gal who graduated regardless of what school it was or what marks you may or may not have achieved. If the rest of your CV speaks to experience and creativity, then I'll give you an interview and see what kind of person you are. No way I'm judging you by your marks. There are just too many variables.
The GPA system isn't condusive to learning (Score:4, Informative)by Eightbitgnosis (1571875) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @09:32PM (#42686527) HomepageA class may have the same name and number on a transcript, but that class is completely different depending on who is teaching it.
Take for instance a math class. Some teachers allow notes, give extra credit for showing up, and extra credit on their tests. Yet other teachers do not allow any of that. In the former case a C+ effort can yield a B+, while the in the latter a B+ effort may only yield a C+. The second student may have even learned more than the first one, but the second student made the mistake of taking the harder teacher.
It's this reason students get on ratemyprofessor.com and systematically choose the easiest classes. If students take the harder teachers, even if they learn more, they're punished in their GPAs for doing so.
Is if your 3-4 GPA as most people are responding is actually useful, who cares if your major is basket weaving and your applying for bio-medicine
I recently received my pure math degree from UCSD with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 . After getting work that doesn't pay the best, I'm interested in attempting an engineering masters degree. Anyone with similar experience got any advice for a lowly failed mathematician?
Since GPA is calculated different in different countries I wouldn't be happy with anything other than "above 4" . I live in the Netherlands. We calculate GPA from 0.0 to 10.0. [wikipedia.org]
By the way: Cumulative? So if I assume US scale, select anything but "above 4" (or the last 2) and have 8 subjects doesn't that mean I have at maximum an average GPA of 0.5? That sucks.
I have a "gpa" Below 2.0 an proud of it. (Score:4, Informative)
However, being in Germany, that means my grades are very good. Anything above a 4.0 is failing,
grades A, B, C, D, F
grade average 0-4.
Just to make things easier.
The problem is that the standards and the GPA valuation has changed in the last 20 years. I've heard that the new limit is not 4.0 but higher than that, something akin to 6.0 being the max. So if I look at the standards set when I went to school I would have to say 3.5 or higher.
I have no idea what factors are used to determine GPA numbers today and what the highest number may be, so based on the poll today, I'd have to respond, "I transcend GPA".


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Kent State University at Stark recently announced the recipient and finalists of the 2009-10 Distinguished Teaching Award and the recipient of the Award of Distinction. These honors were presented during the Spring 2010 Commencement.
"Kent State Stark takes great pride in our outstanding faculty, particularly exemplified by this year's group that was nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award and Award of Distinction," says Interim Dean Ruth Capasso. "They are instructors who are consistently praised by students for their knowledge, commitment to student learning and passion for teaching."
This year's recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award, a tribute which is presented to full-time Kent State Stark professors, is Daniel Castaneda, Ph.D., an assistant professor of modern and classical language studies. A resident of Canton and employed at the campus since fall 2007, his most recent position was as a spanish graduate teaching assistant for West Virginia University, Morgantown, where he received two master's in secondary education and foreign languages and a doctorate degree in technology education. His bachelor's degree in education was earned at Universidad de Piura (Piura, Peru). At Kent State Stark, he instructs courses in elementary and intermediate Spanish, Spanish grammar and composition and Spanish reading and conversation. In addition, Castaneda is the faculty advisor to the Spanish Club.
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Draft Status-The importance of a dominant safety cannot be stressed enough in this league. Every great defense has a player in the back 4 who can dictate the game on some level. There aren't these type of players in every draft, so Berry will be coveted early in the first round. Probably the top 10 picks. This is of course assuming his shoulder checks out clean, but even if not, he won't fall far.
Final Analysis-Aside from Ndamukong Suh, Berry is the best defensive player in the country and in this upcoming draft. His impact on opposing offenses will be noticeable early, and his ability to elevate his play will make whatever defense he's playing on, look even better. Berry is sort of a mad scientist mix of skills that make him so valuable in today's NFL. Berry is going to blow people away this offseason who haven't gotten to see him play and by next April, the Berry hype machine will be full speed ahead.
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WinStar Farm and Twin Creeks Racing Stables' Constitution used his early speed to decisive effect in Saturday's 6TH race at Gulfstream Park, an entry-level allowance brimming with well-regarded Triple Crown nominees. Controlling the pace throughout, the Todd Pletcher pupil pulled 3 1/4 lengths clear to give jockey Javier Castellano his fourth win on the card, and remain perfect in two starts.
Trainer Todd Pletcher is expecting to take the wraps off of Havana in the $200,000 Swale next Saturday at Gulfstream Park. The son of Dunkirk has not raced since finishing a game second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on November 2.
Set to make his three-year-old debut on March 1 in the Grade 3, $500,000 Gotham is Team D Stable's In Trouble, who was two-for-two as a juvenile including a 2 1/4-length victory in the Futurity in September at Belmont Park. The 1 1/16-mile Gotham will be the Tiz Wonderful colt's first start beyond six furlongs, having broken his maiden going 5 1/2 furlongs on August 10 at Saratoga Race Course.
A few days removed from Monday's Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park, trainer Cody Autrey was happy with how his two horses came out of the Grade 3 race but is charting different courses for his Smarty Jones winner Tanzanite Cat and opening weekend maiden winner Paganol.
Tanzanite Cat finished fifth after setting the early pace in the 1 1/16-mile Southwest, while Paganol ran 10th of 12.
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And so it begins. Everything to this point on the Kentucky Derby trail has been prelude, like the first two or three rounds of a championship fight where the boxers jab and feint but don't throw anything with conviction because they're just testing each other, gauging each other's power, monitoring each other's speed and getting a feel for the ring. But then the fight suddenly begins in earnest, and from that moment forward every round and every punch matter.
The highly regarded Top Billing will test stakes company for the first time Saturday in the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Listed at 7-2 on the morning line, the stretch-running colt drew post 12 in the 13-horse field, but trainer Shug McGaughey isn't overly concerned about the post position in the 1 1/16-mile test.
Seven years since Imawildandcrazyguy ran fourth in the Kentucky Derby and sixth in the Belmont Stakes, trainer Bill Kaplan is eyeing a return to the Triple Crown trail.
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General a Rod made a favorable impression when capturing the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Derby on January 1 and the performance has become more noteworthy in pursuing weeks.
Although the son of Roman Ruler is set to go to post in Saturday's Grade 2 Fountain of Youth without a race since his New Year's Day triumph, his first stakes win was flattered by runner-up Wildcat Red's 4 3/4-length romp in the Grade 3 Hutcheson on February 1.
A winner on both grass and Polytrack, We Miss Artie goes after his first dirt victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park.
Trained by Todd Pletcher for owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey, We Miss Artie is by Artie Schiller, a multiple graded stakes winner on grass including the 2005 Breeders' Cup Mile.
It is said that "one man's feast is another man's famine," and so it was Wednesday when Gore Range Stable's Emmett Park suddenly became part of the field for Saturday's Grade 2, $400,000 Risen Star at Fair Grounds.
Owners and trainers of horses being pointed toward the 140th running of the $1 million-guaranteed Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade I) on Friday, May 2 at Churchill Downs Racetrack ("CDRT") face an early nomination deadline of Saturday, Feb. 22 to make their horses eligible to compete in the 2014 renewal America's premier race for 3-year-old fillies scheduled for Friday, May 2.
Promising three-year-old filly Fiftyshadesofgold lived up to her star billing last Saturday night at Sam Houston by winning the Two Altazano Stakes in effortless fashion.
The top two finishers from the Southwest at Oaklawn Park, Tapiture and Strong Mandate, figure to be heard from again and Bayern emerged as a possible star on the West Coast with a striking allowance victory last week.
Lecomte winner Vicar's in Trouble is expected to break from post 13 in Saturday's $400,000 Risen Star at Fair Grounds following the reported defection of Grade 1 winner Bond Holder from the 1 1/16-mile race.
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Last week, we told you about our massive dog fighting bust that spanned multiple states and resulted in the removal of 367 dogs and puppies. We gave you an inside look with our on-the-scene video, and now we have a first-person account from the rescue. Below is a guest blog by Tim Rickey, Vice President of the ASPCA's Field Investigations & Response Team, reflecting on what he found during the raid and the terrible fate of dog fighting victims.
When I first walked on the property, I stared across the yard and saw more than 100 dogs, most of them tied to heavy log chains, anchored to dilapidated dog houses. The dogs ranged from old to young, living on a worn dirt ring that likely had seen generations of dogs come and go to a sad fate.
Most were chained nose-to-nose to their neighbors to ensure continuous arousal.
I first thought of what a grim fate many of these dogs would have met without our intervention that day. But as I looked at a young, weeks-old puppy with one glance, and an aging, 10-year-old senior with another, my thoughts quickly turned to the long, lonely and painful journey of a fighting dog's life.
This cycle begins with being chained at such an early age with little to no positive human or animal interaction. The burden continues with heavy chains, often with additional weights, to drag around their entire lives. The constant noise, arousal and anxiousness push them towards aggression to or from their yard mates. If they don't respond, their life may end quickly, but if they do, they have sealed their fate of a long, torturous life.
Their only reprieve from the chain is death or brief release to be tested against another dog, eventually going back to the chain with little attention to their wounds. What follows is weeks of intense training and significant human interaction with the person who will commit the ultimate betrayal and force them into a barbaric battle for entertainment and profit. If they survive, they go back again to the chain: A vicious cycle that could go on for years until these dogs finally have no value or fight left in them and are discarded.
Our responders are still on the ground, so please stay tuned to aspcarescue.org for more news to come. Follow the conversation on Twitter using hashtag #367rescue.
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These "individuals" should all be euthanized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have owned pitbulls for more than 25 years, what a priviledge. They are awesome dogs especially with our 9 year old son.
There is a special place in Hell for people who do this. . .
I don't understand how people can be so heartless and have no soul. Every time I read a story about pit bulls, whether it is about dog fighting or not, I think of my 2 at home. It absolutely breaks my heart to think that people can be like this. Thank goodness for the ASPCA for the work that they do to rescue these innocence, helpless dogs. No animal deserves to be treated like this. Animals were not put on this earth for us to use and abuse. The people who did this should have the same punishment done to them that they put these dogs through. I hope all of these dogs get a wonderful 2nd chance at a good life. They all deserve one.
I think these horrible people should be chained outside as a punishment for the torture these cowards put these dogs through.
We have to keep working to make penalties stiffer and making the public aware of the horrible lives these dogs have. The stigma of pits is so negative, they dont realize what wonderful dogs they are, how they love in a way that is so different than most dogs. My Apple is a rescue and I use her as an ambassador for pitbull, showing people that they are loving and well behaved with the right owners.
I think these horrible people should be chained outside as a punishment for the torture these cowards put these dogs through.
I cannot comprehend how people (I use that term loosley) can actually live with themselves whilst doing this to these dogs whose only ambition it is, is to show love and affection to us. A dog will be faithful to the end no matter how bad he/she is treated.
It actually infuriates me how people call it a sport.
I have always had a dog until 5 years ago when I had to make the hardest decision in my life. I would have given anything not to make it however she gave me 10 absolutely great years and was my faithful companion. She asked for nothing but gave everything.
In my opinion the people that are responsible for these actions should be chained up to feel what it is like. Then see how much they enjoy it.
Thank you thank you thank you! You wonderful brave people!