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The main entry points to St Dunstan's College are Nursery (age 3+), Reception (age 4+), Year 3 (age 7+), Year 7 (age 11+), Year 9 (age 13+) and Sixth Form (16+ post GCSE).
Admission to the College is competitive at all levels and depends on academic ability and the demonstration of potential. There is no formal assessment for admission to the Nursery. Our entry processes are specially designed to help children show us what they can do and we always take great care to put candidates at ease, so that they can perform to the best of their ability.
Occasional places do become available in other year groups, so do contact us if you are considering a change of school, or you are moving into the area mid-way through the school year. We are particularly used to accepting and working with international re-locations, with families who are either moving back to the UK or who are considering an education in the UK for their child. The diverse and international make-up of our College community makes us particularly attractive to families in this situation.
We accept registrations for our Nursery from birth, and early registration is advised. Children are then considered for entry to the Nursery provided they have reached the age of 3 by the start of the Michaelmas Term.
There is no formal assessment of the children for admittance but entry to the Nursery will involve a parent and child interview, which takes place 12 months prior to entry. Places are allocated shortly afterwards to children on the basis that the Nursery is a precursor to a Reception class at St Dunstan's College.
If you have any further questions concerning your child joining our Nursery, please email Mrs Rosemary Scard firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone her on 020 8516 7225.
Click here for the Nursery registration form.
Our 4+ assessments for September 2016 entry will take place on Saturday 7 November 2015. Deadline for submission of registration forms is Friday, 9 October 2015.
Our entry process is specially designed to help the children show us what they can do and everything is undertaken in a thoughtful, caring and friendly manner. During the assessment we ask children to:
The children will also be assessed in small groups to assess social skills. Parents of successful candidates will be invited for an interview during November and offer letters will be sent out in December.
If you have any further questions concerning your child joining us in Reception, please email Mrs Rosemary Scard email@example.com or telephone her on 020 8516 7225.
Click here for the Reception registration forms.
Entry into Years 3 to 6 involves an assessment of the child's academic achievement and potential, an evaluation of their social skills and consideration of school reports. Year 3 group assessments take place in January prior to entry and focuses on numeracy, literacy and social skills.
January assessment date for 7+ entry in 2016 is Monday, 11 January 2016.
Assessments for other year groups are arranged throughout the year and include Mathematics, English, reasoning and social skills.
If you have any further questions concerning your child joining us in Years 3 to 6, please email Mrs Rosemary Scard email@example.com or telephone her on 020 8516 7225.
Click here for the Prep registration form.
Entry to Years 7 to 10 in the Senior School is based on entrance examinations, interview, school reports and a reference from current Headteacher.
Registration for entry in September 2017 must be made by 16.00 on Wednesday 30 November 2016. Once you have registered your child, an acknowledgement letter with further information on the Entrance Examination will be sent to you.
If you have requested a place on the Examination Preparation Scheme by ticking the box on the back of the registration form and paying the £100 for the scheme, an ackowledgement letter with further details will be sent to you.
The Entrance Examination for September 2016 entry takes place on Wednesday 11 January 2017. Candidates come into the College for a day and sit tests in English, Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning and Abstract Reasoning. (Click here for the English specimen paper & here for the Mathematics specimen paper).
We expect girls and boys to be achieving mostly Level 5 in National Curriculum English and Mathematics, and the papers we set reflect the work contained in Levels 4 to 6.
Successful candidates will then be invited for an interview. Those who have shown a high level of academic ability will be interviewed for our Academic Scholarships. Those who have not performed well enough to be considered for interview will receive a letter to that effect in the days following the examinations.
The St Dunstan's College 11+ Examination Preparation Scheme runs across three Saturday mornings in late November and early December and is open to children who have registered for a Year 7 place and are entered for our entrance examination.
Registration for entry in September 2017 must be made by 16.00 on Wednesday 30 November 2016. Candidates will sit our own examination in English, Mathematics and Verbal Reasoning, and may be invited to attend an interview. Entrance examinations for 13+ entry will take place on Wednesday 11 January 2017.
If you have any queries regarding your child joining us in the Senior School please contact the Senior School Admissions Office on email@example.com or call 020 8516 7226.
Click here for the Senior School registration form.
Candidates for the Sixth Form will need at least seven A* - B grades at GCSE with at least an A grade in subjects they wish to continue studying at A Level.
Once registered, candidates are invited for examinations followed by interviews with the Head of Sixth Form and Heads of Departments from some of their chosen subjects. Examinations will take place on Saturday 12 November 2016.
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 31 October 2016.
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I'll Have Another takes aim at Preakness win
BALTIMORE No one is loving the run up to Saturday's Preakness more than Doug O'Neill.
The trainer of Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another has spent nearly two weeks in Baltimore, hanging with Ravens coach John Harbaugh, throwing out the first ball at an Orioles game, and hammering away at Maryland crabs for the first time. He also huddled with Secretariat's jockey Ron Turcotte about racing strategy, held daily news briefings at the stakes barn and was forthcoming when asked about his history of violations for giving his horses improper drugs.
Through it all, O'Neill and his crew are enjoying the moment in their own California free-wheeling style .
"It's been a blast. Incredible. We've taken advantage of it, and done some cool things," O'Neill said Friday morning, wearing a Preakness cap signed by area school children. "They just really rolled out the red carpet for us. Obviously, it's a lot of fun when your horse is doing as good as he is."
I'll Have Another has been doing just fine since catching the speedy Bodemeister in the final 100 yards to win the Derby by 1 1/2 lengths two weeks ago.
"He looks fantastic. Great energy," O'Neill said. "He's maintained his beautiful, long stride. We're just very happy with each day that goes by."
Life can become a whole lot happier for O'Neill if I'll Have Another wins the Preakness. A victory over 8-5 morning-line favorite Bodemeister and nine other rivals would set up a Triple Crown attempt three weeks later in the Belmont Stakes.
It's been 34 years since Affirmed swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont and became the 11th Triple Crown champion. Since then, 11 horses have won the first two legs only to come up short in the Belmont. The most recent try came in 2008, when Big Brown was pulled up around the turn for home and finished last.
O'Neill isn't even bothered that I'll Have Another is the 5-2 second choice behind the horse he defeated. He noted this is his first Preakness while Bodemeister's trainer Bob Baffert has won the race five times in 11 tries.
"I totally respect that. I just hope anyone who bets Bodemeister is regretting it Saturday night," O'Neill said earlier in the week.
Baffert, meanwhile, has been singing the praises of his colt, who set a blistering pace in the Derby, but was unable to fend off I'll Have Another. After watching him gallop at Churchill Downs earlier in the week, Baffert gave a thumb's up and had Bodemeister shipped to Pimlico Race Course.
On Friday, Baffert said his colt is coming into the race in great shape, but knows the Derby winner is the horse to beat.
"He's a good horse. He's won all three of his races this year against a strong group of California horses," Baffert said, referring to I'll Have Another. "I respect the Derby winner. I come here hoping I can turn the tables this time and get it done."
The Preakness is a sixteenth-of-a-mile shorter than the Derby, about equal the distance to the wire in the Derby where Bodemeister lost the lead.
"He just has to run that Derby race back," Bodemeister's jockey Mike Smith said. "If he runs his race like that, we'll be in good shape to get the job done."
The second leg of the Triple Crown could turn into a two-horse race, with Bodemeister breaking for the lead from the No. 7 post, and I'll Have Another - in the No. 9 gate - trying to stay close until jockey Mario Gutierrez determines when to make his move.

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B) Based on the result of part A, is it justified for three significant-digit precision to assume the trajectory is unaffected by the magnetic field? Explain.


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My captain (male, 6 feet) and I (female, 5'4 1/2")) are tracking our combined team weight (although I was not eager to jump on the body fat scale after New Year's Eve festivities!). Our combined weigh-in today is 290 pounds. Our tandem weighs approximately 39 pounds (loaded with racks, water bottle cages).
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Career Development: Resumes, Personal Branding, and More
Mr. Andrew Kohls, Career Development Coordinator
This lecture will discuss developing a career model to best fit the group's needs. We will cover the basics of resume writing and discuss how to integrate past experiences to highlight strengths and transferable skills. This lecture will also discuss personal branding in the context of social media, networking, and other online platforms. The lecture may also be adapted to include interviewing preparation or an overview of K-State's Career and Employment Services' resources.
Careers in Interior Design: It's More Than You Think
Dr. Migette Kaup, Associate Professor of Apparel, Textile, & Design
The profession of Interior Design provides a diverse range of career opportunities for people with the right education. The qualifications of professionals in the field, however, are commonly misunderstood. This presentation will discuss interior design as a distinctive and recognizable profession, the educational standards that are considered as minimum preparation for professional status, and the changing legal requirements in many states that regulate practice. For students who are considering Interior Design education, this presentation will help them to seek out the educational program that best suits their interests and will debunk the myths commonly associated with interior designers.
Dreams, Imagination, and Creativity: Tickets to a Successful Career
Dr. Bernard Franklin, Special Assistant to the Vice President of Student Life, New Student Services
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Geology - Its Impact on Society and Exciting Careers
Dr. Don Von Bergen, Department Head of Arts, Sciences and Business at K-State Salina
This is the only planet all of us will ever live on. Almost everything we consume comes out of the earth and most of what we dispose of goes back into the earth. This lecture will explain what geology is and what a geologist does. It will look at the huge impact geology makes on our lives and how dependent upon geology we are to sustain our standard of living. From earthquakes to Tsunamis, from gas we use in our cars to getting rid of our trash, from finding clean drinking water to uncovering prehistoric dinosaur bones, geology plays a critical role. A brief overview of the many exciting careers in geology will also be examined. The format of the talk is an interactive power point slide show. Questions and discussion are encouraged. No prior knowledge is needed. The talk can be adapted to any age group. The topic of ENERGY, coal, oil, oil shale, nuclear, wind power, ethanol, can be integrated into the lecture if requested.
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Never Stop Ascending: The Importance of an Education in Engineering
Mr. Dave F. Hoffman, Recruitment Coordinator for College of Engineering
With the total amount of STEM-related (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers set to increase by 19% over the next ten years, the concept of an encompassing and comprehensive education within engineering has become a top priority for high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation. "Never Stop Ascending" looks to engage future engineers by focusing on important educational aspects and attributes, consistent qualities in successful engineers, leadership opportunities, and career spotlights on those who make an impact while using their engineering education.
Opportunities in Food Science
Dr. Curtis Kastner,Director, Food Science Institute
Learn about the professional opportunities in Food Science along with the educational opportunities offered at K-State. In addition, discover the program areas at the Food Science Institute.
Outside the Box: A Look at the Profession of Landscape Architecture
Ms. Jessica Canfield, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Too often the work of landscape architects goes unrecognized or is widely misunderstood. Yet the work of landscape architects surrounds our daily lives, from parks to playgrounds, streetscapes to plazas, and green roofs to gardens. Landscape architects transform spaces into places—for recreation, for relaxation, for entertainment, and for learning and delight. Landscape architects are not only concerned for the health, safety, and welfare of people, but for the environment and its natural resources as well. This presentation highlights some of the world's most cutting-edge designed landscapes, while also defining what 21st century landscape architecture entails.
Soil: At the Nexus of Food Security, Climate and Sustainability
Dr. Chuck Rice, University Distinguished Professor of Soil Microbiology
Food production needs to double to meet a global population of 9 billion. Meeting future food needs puts stress on soil resources and requires new ways of plant production and managing soils. Climate poses another challenge in meeting food security. Food security, water availability and quality, and climate change are some of the greatest challenges facing our society. Meeting these challenges must be balanced with the sustainability of soil. This will require changing soil and water management practices, increasing nutrient and water use efficiencies, in addition to developing more productive crop genotypes and improved crop management strategies. Clearly, stress on soil resources through land use change could become entangled with food security. Plant production systems should be guided by two principles, productivity and resource efficiency, to protect soil resources and ecosystems. To achieve these two principles and have any success of meeting the growing food demands, plant-soil systems must intensify and diversify. Intensification of the plant production system should consider multiple crops, reduction in tillage intensity, and increase nutrient and water use efficiency. Diversification should consider annual and perennial plants and multiple uses across the landscape. To meet food demands while maintaining soils will require novel thinking.
Using Science to Work with Animals: Career Opportunities
Dr. Barry Bradford, Associate Professor of Animal Science and Industry
The number of pets in the U.S. continues to increase at dramatic rate, and the population of students entering college with an interest in a career working with animals is also on the rise. Most of these students, though, have little idea that there are professionals other than veterinarians who apply science to the goal of raising healthy animals. The goal of this presentation will be to give students a broader perspective of the many science-based careers options that exist for animal lovers.


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The MAX14589E/MAX14594E high-density, double-pole/double-throw (DPDT) analog switches feature Beyond-the-Rails™ signal capability that allows signals from -5.5V to +5.5V to pass without distortion even when the power supply is below the signal range. The low RON resistance (0.2Ω) makes the devices ideal for low-distortion switching, such as audio. [source: maxim-ic.com]
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CAST Players presents "An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe." CONTRIBUTED IMAGE
The CAST Players will feature three shows about historical figures, with the first debuting Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 18 and 19.
Their first production in this line up will be about the father of American horror, Edgar Allen Poe. This award winning one man show depicts the tortured life, troubled loves and mysterious death of this classic author.
"An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe" will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19. Tickets are $12 for this show only, or $30 if you pan on seeing the whole series. Performances will be at the Beaumont Women's Club Community Center located at 306 E. Sixth Street in Beaumont.
This series will also feature "An Evening with Harry S. Truman," Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 25 and 26, and "Memoirs of a Madam" on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1 and 2.
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"Beauty is just kind of an accident. Beauty is just a happenstance. Beauty is the remainders of being a painter."
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"When I was four or five I can remember my father sitting me in his lap and saying, "Carrie, you are the equal to anybody, black, brown, green, yellow. You are their equal and you can do anything." To have that sort of human spirit, to be brought up with that, set me very early in life on a really good path, always looking for the best in humankind. It didn't matter if you were white or black or Chinese or Mexican. What mattered was that you were a good person."
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Topeka (WIBW) --- Two years ago, it appeared that Vershon Moore may never touch a football again. It turns out that "never again" lasted just 24 months.
Moore returned to the Washburn football team this month, after serving the last 2 years in jail following a guilty plea for robbing a bank in August, 2011.
Craig Schurig answered questions from reporters on Tuesday evening. "The biggest thing for myself, our athletics department, and the university is giving him a second chance. We feel like he deserves a second chance and he's a really good kid and we hope it's successful."
Schurig also realizes that his decision to reinstate Moore won't be universally applauded. "Everyone has a right to their opinion, that's what makes this country great. We feel like we know Vershon and the fact that we feel very positive that he's gonna make a great effort to make this second chance really work."
Moore currently sits in 8th place in the Washburn rushing ranks, all time. He will have 2 years to play for the Ichabods.
"It's a benefit that he is a very good player, but it's more the way he is inside; the type of person he is; I think we all believe in that more than his ability out here."
Moore was not made available for comment.


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The guest accommodations are all mini suites with a refrigerator, a microwave and a coffeemaker. Ground floor rooms have a patio onto the courtyard, while the second floor rooms have a balcony. These rooms feature either a king or two queen beds. The nightly rate includes a continental breakfast, free airport shuttle service and fresh fruit and popcorn available in the lobby.
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A man trying to help a driver who crashed on the Grimesland Bridge spoke to WITN about the bizarre ordeal, that almost cost him his life.
Tuan Luong Tran says he left his job, as a nail technician, Tuesday night to check on other stores. At the Grimesland Bridge in Pitt County he saw a car that crashed into the guard rail of the bridge. Luong Tran says the man inside, 36-year-old Jonathan Kremkau, was struggling to get out. Luong Tran says he got out to help, heard gunshots, and realized the man in the car was shooting at him. Bullets hit his door and windshield.
"95% of the time, I actually pull over to help people it doesn't matter what time of day it is, if you have your hazards on i most likely gonna pull over now this changed my outlook on that, i could have lost my life," said Luong Tran.
Kremkau has been hospitalized and charged with assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill.


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Police tell WAVY.com they have made an arrest after a woman said she was sexually assaulted at a Cape Charles park last week.
Police tell WAVY.com they have made an arrest after a woman said she was sexually assaulted at a Cape Charles park last week.
The Midtown Tunnel was closed for almost an hour after a head-on collision Friday afternoon.
It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but Susan G Komen Tidewater wants you to know breast cancer isn't a month.
A retired Sailor lost on a scratcher ticket but still won $100,000 in a Virginia Lottery promotion.
State Police recovered two guns and arrested three men after an early morning shooting on Interstate 264 in Virginia Beach.
Animal Control Officers in Hampton responded to an alleged vicious dog attack Friday morning around 10 a.m.
Texas Southern University on lock down after two students were shot by unknown shooter.
Drone spotted illegally thrown by a man early friday.
There was an electrical failure that caused a utility box to burst into flames Friday afternoon.
Cast members from FOX reality show open up about their quest and how the show is going.
From squash spaghetti to squash soup, Chef Larry Adler shows viewers how to turn the intimidating fruit into something special.
Have a blast this weekend at the 3rd Annual Battle of the Beers.
Bill Cosby continues to lose honorary awards. Baylor being the latest.
Only $5 will get your dog or cat a rabies booster at the Norfolk Health Center on Saturday, October 10.
Police say the same suspect was involved with the October 9 and December 23, 2014 robberies of the store in 1400 block of Holland Road.
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LEVYNA announces collaboration with Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History on the series of experiments on the emotional mechanisms at play in the adaptation of religions.
LEVYNA researchers are lecturing at this year's Ethnographic Field School in Mauritius
The Anatomy of Religion document all three parts now available with English subtitles in the archive of Czech television
"Explaining Vampirism: Two Divergent Attractors of Dead Human Concepts" by Vladimír Bahna, now published by Journal of Cognition and Culture.
"Lost in the Rhythm: Effects of Rhythm on Subsequent Interpersonal Coordination" now available in Cognitive Science.
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In today's competitive higher education market, colleges and universities must prove the value of the degrees they bestow to graduates each year. Traditional measures, such as graduation rates, grade point averages, and cohort default rates, have become only a few of the ways colleges and universities are evaluated. Students and their parents want to be assured that their investment in a college education will pay off in the form of a self-sustaining and financially-secure career path.
In a climate of declining state funding, Oregon higher ed policy leaders needed to bring in more resources while taking some of the burden off students. That's why three of the state's universities are breaking off from the Oregon University System. Effective July 1, Oregon State University, Portland State University and the University of Oregon will have their own boards.
Does autism run in families? Can children with autism grow up to live independently? These questions were part of a survey that tested University of California, Riverside faculty and students' knowledge of autism spectrum disorder to help guide the support of these students through their college years. More than 1,000 people were quizzed on the prevalence, causes and signs of ASD in the largest known higher ed autism awareness survey.
With so many students depending on community college as their best—and sometimes only—option for higher education, it's time for community colleges to get their fair share of education funds. While these schools enroll 53 percent of all undergraduate students at public institutions, they receive only about 25 percent of the federal funding available.
At Armstrong Atlantic State University, the business and finance department created a policy in 2011 that covers how to establish any revenue-producing activity.
Such activity is defined as that which generates revenue from the sale of products or services provided by the university or university employees.
Prior to establishing an account for this activity, a department must take the following steps:
When it comes to nontuition payments, college and university officials want the best of both worlds, says Daryl Robinson, director of higher education product development and strategy for Nelnet Business Solutions.
On the one hand, they're expressing the need to centralize the accounting of revenue generated by departments across campus. On the other hand, there's the realization this effort is often best handled by those individual departments.
From the sale of tickets to athletic or performing arts events, to housing and parking fees and fines, as well as merchandise sales and event sponsorships, there are myriad alternative sources of revenue coming in to various departments on a given campus throughout the year.
Upon deciding that a more uniform approach was required when it came to the nontuition revenue being generated by departments across campus, The University of Alabama officials established policies designed to regain control of what had been, up to that point, highly decentralized.
Segmented into three areas—revenue-generating operations, credit card operations, and eCommerce ventures—the policies centralized the oversight and handling of funds within the student receivables office.
It won't quite be describable as a MOOC at first. But that's one direction that Georgia Tech's College of Computing can imagine going with its soon-to-be-rolled-out online master's program, which will start as a pilot in January.
The program has received national attention in part because of a $2 million investment from AT&T—and because Georgia Tech is charging only $6,600 in tuition, compared to $45,000 that traditional master's students from out-of-state would pay.
Online education providers say university and college clients considering developing MOOCs as a long-term strategy need to think about the economies of scale gained and how long courses can last before the content gets out of date.
An increasing number of colleges and universities are offering MOOCs, but few have crunched the numbers to determine whether these online courses can succeed as a business proposition. Where return-on-investment conversations are happening, they generally aren't leading to comprehensive analysis.
Some institutions, however, are paving the way in their attempts to analyze the potential of MOOCs as a business model.
Delivering student services as important as tutoring, disability assistance, and advising is especially vital at LDS Business College, an open-enrollment school whose student body often faces hardships.
Yet the offices and departments that delivered those services were located all across campus, making it difficult to ensure that students made it to where they needed to go when they had multiple issues to be addressed.
Not so long ago, students at LDS Business College in Salt Lake City whose semester grade-point averages fell below a certain level were placed on academic probation. But it did very little to get them the help they needed.
Most college students have a need for academic or financial aid counseling at some point during their college career, whether to get help with course selection or to sort through GI Bill paperwork. Any of the 600 students at Wayland Baptist University's Phoenix campus in need of this help used to have to spend a fair amount of time just setting up such a meeting.
With funding cuts threatening research and other projects, some institutions hoping to promote innovation are following the trend of raising money through social networking.


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Reds, Pirates hit 10 HRs before game is suspended
CINCINNATI (AP) — Ryan Ludwick had never experienced anything quite like this rainy night.
"Nope, not in 35 years," the Cincinnati Reds outfielder said. "Well, make that 30. I started playing baseball when I was 5."
No matter how long he plays, he'll have a new reference point for weirdness. And the game's not even over yet.
Neil Walker and Gaby Sanchez hit back-to-back homers twice, and the Pirates and Reds hit 10 homers in all before rain forced a suspension after six innings with the score tied 7-all on Monday night.
The shocking slugfest will resume Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the top of the seventh inning. Conditions are expected to be drier but much colder.
Not that the weather seems to matter much when these two rivals get together.
"I've never seen anything like that," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "The way we got started, one team going in front of the other with home runs. I've seen a lot of home runs hit, but not in those conditions. You wouldn't imagine they would carry that far."
Pittsburgh hit six solo shots and Cincinnati had four homers, most of them into a heavy rain. Already, it's the most homers in a major league game since 2006 and the most combined homers for a game in Great American Ball Park's 12-year history.
Pittsburgh had three sets of back-to-back homers, only the third time that's happened in major league history.
The game was suspended following a 1-hour, 38-minute delay, the second time in less than a year that a game was suspended in Cincinnati. The Reds and Phillies were scoreless last April 16 in the middle of the ninth inning when play was halted because of rain, and Cincinnati won 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth the following day.
The Ohio River rivals were known more for trading hit-by-pitches last season. The Pirates and Reds plunked each other 28 times — most in the majors — while nailing down the two NL wild-card spots.
Their first matchup of 2014 was more swing-away than get-out-of-the-way. Ten of the 17 combined hits so far have cleared the wall. All but one of the 14 runs has come on a homer.
"It wouldn't be a Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game without some drama," Walker said.
Pittsburgh went back-to-back three times. Walker and Sanchez did it in the second inning off Homer Bailey and again in the sixth off J.J. Hoover. Starling Marte and Travis Snider teamed up in the fifth against Bailey.
It was only the third time in major league history that a team had three sets of back-to-back homers in a game, according to STATS. The others: Cincinnati against the Braves in 1956, and Boston against the Yankees in 1977.
"I certainly wouldn't think that I would find my way attached to a home run record," Walker said. "The game's not even over yet, so I don't know how to express what's going on. But that's pretty cool."
Both teams had a chance to take a lead with the rain coming down heavier and the field getting muddier. The starters and bullpens failed to hold on.
Wandy Rodriguez gave up Joey Votto's two-out homer in the bottom of the fifth inning, putting Cincinnati up 6-5. The umpires inspected the infield, called for dry dirt and decided to continue.
Walker and Sanchez connected again off Hoover for a 7-6 lead in the sixth. It was only the second time that two Pirates went back-to-back twice in a game, according to STATS. Toby Atwell and Jerry Lynch also did it against the Reds on April 27, 1954.


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After performing an extensive review and analysis of the Bachelor of Applied Science in Orthotics & Prosthetics (ORTHO-BAS) degree program, St. Petersburg College, in January 2016, decided to close this program and not accept any new students. This was not an easy decision, nor entered into lightly. Many factors were taken into consideration, including rising enrollment in the college's associate program and declining enrollment in the bachelor's program. Both enrollment shifts are tied to degree requirement changes instituted in 2012 by the National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education, which changed the requirements for a practitioner from a bachelor's degree to a master's degree. SPC remains committed to our students currently enrolled in the BAS Orthotics & Prosthetics program, and they will have the opportunity to continue and complete their bachelor's degree.
We offer courses for current licensed professionals and certificates those wanting to get into the field of orthotics and prosthetics such as orthotic fitter, mastectomy fitter and pedorthist. See our full course descriptions.
The Key West Citizen covered SPC's annual research trek to the Florida Keys with the Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge, designed to test new prosthetics and establish baseline measurements for their efficiency and versatility.
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Program Director Arlene Gillis is coordinating the effort with Florida State University, which partners with SPC to offer a master's in industrial engineering, with a specialization in the management of orthotics and prosthetics.
SPC's Orthotics and Prosthetics program will receive a $2 million federal workforce training grant to expand and improve the delivery of orthotics and prosthetics career education. The college will join a consortium led by Century College tasked with increasing the number of trained, certified health care workers with expertise in orthotics and prosthetics.Read our news story »
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SPC's research on underwater prosthetics in the Florida Keys with the Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge was recently detailed in O&P Business News. Check out previous press coverage of the trip and hear from SPC graduate Michael L. McCauley in his own words:
SPC has launched the Orthotics and Prosthetics Comprehensive Innovation Center thanks to funding from the 2013 Florida Legislative session. Through the center, SPC will offer new certificates and degrees in Orthotics and Prosthetics and increase the number of highly qualified graduates who can enter the field. A local community news outlet even noted SPC is "blazing a trail" in the field now.
Since 2005, SPC has been a national leader in developing and providing Orthotics and Prosthetics training through its $11-million J.E. Hanger College of Orthotics and Prosthetics. This expanding allied health field involves evaluating, fabricating and custom fitting artificial limbs and orthopedic braces to help rehabilitate patients with disabling conditions. Demand for these professionals is increasing, as are the educational requirements.
Extensive laboratory experiences are necessary in O&P education to master the computerized planning process, materials fabrication and professional patient skills. The O&P building has 5,151 square feet of actual lab space and another 3,443 of lab support space (CAD, machining, lamination, plaster room, thermal forming, mill/lathe, material testing, etc.).
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Since its inception, the O&P program has partnered with J.E. Hanger Corp., one of the largest providers of orthotic and prosthetic services in the U.S. The J.E. Hanger Corp. is a long-standing benefactor of the program and partners with SPC on educational, clinical and material management activities.
Other partnership opportunities exist in research, enhancement and development of products and materials, including:
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Contact Arlene Gillis, Program Director at 341-4151
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A white-sand beach, full-service cafe and comfy rooms are key features for Priceline guests staying at Days Hotel Thunderbird Beach Resort.
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The 180 rooms at this beachfront resort each feature cable TV with HBO, a mini-fridge and a coffeemaker. Select accommodations also have a kitchenette and/or a balcony with an ocean view. Non-smoking options are available. There's also an expansive sandy beach, a hot tub, a children's pool, a fitness center, a beauty salon, a gift shop and free shuttle service to area attractions, including South Beach. The retro Thunderbird Cafe serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. A Tiki bar on the beach is the place for cocktails. Parking is available for a fee.
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Days Hotel Thunderbird Beach Resort is located five miles from I-95 at Exit 16. The resort is three miles from Oleta River State Park, known for its stellar off-road biking trails, fishing and canoe and kayak rentals. The awe-inspiring Ancient Spanish Monastery is within four miles away; Bal Harbour Shops, home to some 100 world-class jewelry and fashion boutiques like Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton, are within five miles from the hotel, and South Beach's way-cool Art Deco Historic District is within 12 miles away. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is 12 miles from the property; Miami International Airport is 20 miles away.
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Priceline guests speak highly of Days Hotel Thunderbird Beach Resort's "great-looking lobby" and "amazing location" along the white sands of Sunny Isles Beach.
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Upon check-in photo identification and a credit card are required. All special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
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March 27, 2016
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March 27, 2016
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The location was good. you can go walking and find stuff to eat. The rooms are good size but the air condition was not working properly. I stay in the room because I have a beach view, out they need more cleaning
The rooms are good size but the air condition was not working properly. I stay in the room because I have a beach view, out they need more cleaning
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March 1, 2016
March 1, 2016
The only thing I liked about the hotel is the area people are rude at the hotel I have paid in full and she argued with me telling me I did not find me she realize I was right and she was very disappointed
Very disappointed with the staff she did not believe me that I had paid in full argued with me and then realized she was wrong and I was right very disappointed asked for help and nobody wanted to help
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September 11, 2015
September 11, 2015
The Staff.
The price of parking and the added price for use of the resort.
Dennis from Fresh Meadows, NY
August 25, 2015
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August 25, 2015
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Location to the beach...Stores across the street(like CVS,Bakery,etc), Bus stops near by. Concierges were nice to me and gave me good advice and great directions.Unfortunately, they are overlooked and not too many people tip them. Kitchen,balcony A+
Microwave is an extra charge and weak internet signal in the room but given the price and location, I don't expect everything perfect. all in all it is a great value hotel...
Coy from Long Island City, NY
August 9, 2015
August 9, 2015
The location is great for access to the beach. There's also a pool and a bar that is closer to the pool.
The room that I received needed some serious renovations. It was very dated. The elevator was slow and service at check in was terrible.
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July 30, 2015
July 30, 2015
The hotel location was great. The hotel lobby was very nice the rooms just need to be updated and have a AC per room not just one controlling the entire building. The restaraunt wasn't bad the 2 bars are great. For the price you can't beat it.
Just older and AC needs to be per room. The employees could be very loud at times, and the hotel has very very very thin walls you hear everything.
Claudia from Westmister, CO
July 27, 2015
July 27, 2015
The location.
The outdated furniture, appliances, bedding and curtains. The old shower and old dirty tile. Cockroaches were everywhere, the cubanas were $10 per day. That should have been covered by the $13 resort fee...this is no resort!!!.rude Russian workers.
Jose from Orlando, FL
July 21, 2015
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July 21, 2015
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Is close to the beach .
Paul from Lyndora, PA
July 20, 2015
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July 20, 2015
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rude staff. noisy all hours of the night. too many hoodlums staying there.
no parking.
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July 18, 2015
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The location and restaurant were good.
I saw a cockroach in my room.
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By John Kovach
CANFIELD — It was a successful season finale Saturday afternoon for the East High football program, which also makes the outlook bright for next year.
The Panthers enjoyed strong offensive and defensive performances to roll past arch-rival and turnover-plagued Chaney, 34-6, at Canfield High stadium in a battle between the only two Youngstown city schools.
Quarterback Shawn Haywood and wide receiver Michael Thomas combined to contribute to 22 of the team's 34 points to lead the East victory, and both players are juniors and will be back next season.
And also on a happy note: East senior tackle Kendall Peterson, who has played the line since he was a sophomore, was inserted into the backfield late in the game to give him a chance to score his first career TD, and he did so — wearing a teammate's jersey to make the tally legal.
Haywood threw three touchdown passes to Thomas covering 9, 18 and 33 yards, and Haywood also tossed a pair of conversion passes, as East (3-7) opened a 14-6 halftime lead and scored three more times in the second half to completely dominate Chaney for their third straight win over the Cowboys (1-9).
Chaney, however, still leads in the series between the two city schools, 40-30-4.
Haywood completed 14 of 26 passes for 242 yards, while Thomas had six catches for 162 yards.
Terrance Meyers also scored for East on a 6-yard run, while Oshae Lawrence and Martez Penn caught conversion passes from Haywood.
Meyers and Leon Edwards each had 40 yards rushing on seven and nine carries, respectively.
Chaney's only touchdown was by Stephen Shackleford on a 5-yard run in the second quarter, after East had taken a 14-0 lead.
"They have a tremendous relationship," said East coach Brian Shaner of the chemistry between Haywood and Thomas, who has the speed to break away in the clear to receive a pass.
"Thomas is one of the fastest guys in the state," said Shaner, noting that the receiver is also a state-qualifying track sprinter. "He is hard to cover."
Shaner said Thomas has about 600 receiving yards and nine or 10 touchdowns this season, and is "a great wide receiver."
Shaner also paid tribute to his offensive line, which provided the protection Haywood needed to get off his throws, and his defensive line which created three turnovers that set up three East TDs, and stopped two Chaney threats at the Panthers' 6- and 24-yard lines.
"The highlight of this game was that Kendall Peterson scored the first touchdown of his career," Shaner happily declared.
Peterson, a 5-11, 225-pound tackle who also led East's defense with 18 tackles, including eight solo stops, was given a new jersey number and inserted into the backfield after East had driven to the Chaney 1-yard line late in the game.
Shaner said he wanted to give Peterson a chance to score a TD and fulfill a promise that the coach had made to him when he was a sophomore.
"I told him when he was a sophomore that if he played line for me that I'd give him a chance to play offense and score a TD somewhere or somehow," said Shaner.
The coach called timeout after Thomas was stopped at the 1-yard line on East's last scoring drive so that Peterson could exchange his usual No. 51 jersey for a new No. 34 jersey.
"We carry an extra jersey. State rules say that you cannot wear 50s, 60s or 70s numbers if you are in the backfield," Shaner explained.
I think it is a mistake when the record of wins and losses between Chaney and East is added on to the record of the past match ups between these two teams. In the past it was Chaney vs the East Golden Bears. Today it is the East Panthers. Totally different school and different team. Record keeping should start from the beginning for the East High Panthers. Brian Shaner and his Rayen coaching staff and players should be acknowledged when discussing the games between these two schools today.


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Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in History
by Daniel J. Philippon, University of Virginia
In 1996, Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (New York: Knopf, 1995) won both the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Bancroft Prize. The riveting story of James Fenimore Cooper's father and the town he carved out of the postrevolutionary frontier, William Cooper's Town explores the founding of Cooperstown, New York, by William Cooper and its representation in his son's third novel, The Pioneers (1823). Combining extensive archival research with vivid narration, Taylor charts the rise and fall of one of early America's most intriguing characters, revealing the economic and environmental consequences of land development in the Mohawk Valley and exploring the social and political changes that followed the Revolutionary War. In January of 1997, Taylor and I spoke for nearly an hour during the Bicentennial celebrations at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, where the papers of William Cooper are housed. The following are selected portions of that interview, in which Taylor discusses the genesis and success of William Cooper's Town, reflects on the character of his principal subject, and discusses his methods of researching and writing history.
Jacob Taylor
DP: Let's begin with the enormous success of your latest book. Were you expecting such a positive reaction to your work?
AT: No, I couldn't have predicted this much success for the book, both in terms of winning prizes and also selling copies. It seems to have been successful at those two levels: people who ordinarily don't read much in the way of academic history have enjoyed the book and say they've gotten quite a bit out of it, and then my peers have given me these prizes, which no one could have predicted. I did make an effort to make the book accessible to a broader public. I tried to explain what I was doing as I went along, and I was attentive to the key characters and to developing their personalities and to developing a sense of place and also a sense of plot moving through the book. It does attempt to be a narrative, and I think all of that lowers the threshold for nonacademic readers to get in.
DP: What led you to examine the life and legacy of William Cooper?
AT: Well, I began with James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Pioneers (1823). In the mid-80s, I was teaching for a couple of years at the College of William and Mary, and I taught a course on narrative history and historical fiction. All of the texts I used somehow bore upon the era of the American Revolution. I decided to use The Pioneers, and I just was entranced with the novel, especially with its concerns about environmental history, about the intersection of social structure and political power with how the environment is used and abused. So I wanted to understand the context: where was James Fenimore Cooper in the 1820s? Where was this coming from? The novel is set in the 1790s in upstate New York–frontier America, a place I'm quite dedicated to trying to understand in that particular time. Further reading of literary critics indicated that Cooper was drawing very much on memories of his own childhood in Cooperstown, and especially memories of his father, Judge William Cooper. So this got me quite intrigued, because I had read a little bit about William Cooper, especially a vivid capsule description of him in David Hackett Fisher's The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), and I thought he would be quite an interesting man to know more about.
DP: Did your opinion of William Cooper change during the course of your research?
AT: Well, I suppose I came into it thinking that William Cooper was going to be quite similar to the great landed proprietors I had studied in my first book, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1990). They had been quite powerful and mostly unscrupulous men who had taken advantage of their power. When I started reading about William Cooper, I found two very different ../images in the scholarship. More antiquarian scholarship would celebrate him as the great settlers' friend. He sold them freehold title at cheap prices on good credit, nurtured the settlement, was beloved, founded Cooperstown, and everybody lived happily ever after. The other take, which tends to come more from literary criticism/biography of James Fenimore Cooper, but also from some historians who focus on politics in the 1790s, presented a somewhat different William Cooper. Their Cooper was very hard-driving, tyrannical, and manipulative. He was a great power broker, domineering over his settlers, and therefore some literary scholars would say domineering over his family, in that his domineering presence shaped James Fenimore Cooper, or misshaped James Fenimore Cooper in certain ways. So these were two ../images, and then there was the third image of what I thought a land speculator was about from my previous experience. So does William Cooper come out of door number one, door number two, or door number three?
DP: Which door did you choose?
AT: Well, he comes out of door number four, which is usually what happens when you get into detailed research of a figure that others have only been able to deal with in a more cursory fashion. He ends up being a somewhat different character. He had a very powerful and sincere vision that he wanted to be a father of the people. Now, to want to be a father of the people cuts in a couple of ways. On the one hand, it means that he had to be benevolent and give much to the people. And he did invest a lot of the money he made in cultural and public institutions, building an academy, financing the freemasons in town. For any charitable organization, he was the great contributor; he was an organizer of community life; he did provide his first set of settlers with very attractive terms for land. He did all that stuff. But to be a father also means that at the end of the day you want people to defer to you, to honor you, to obey you, to do what you want. And when settlers over time increasingly became more independent and no longer needed his largesse, or needed his indulgence so much, and increasingly struck out on their own in their political decisions or social decisions, that was powerfully frustrating, because he thought that he should have their undying gratitude.
DP: How does he deal with that frustration?
AT: Well, it frustrated him that there was a high population turnover in the new settlements. As the settlements grew larger, they were increasingly formed of people who had not been there in the hard, early days when William Cooper had really been critical to the settlers' well-being. And the newcomers were impatient with having to defer to him and to pretend that he was their political father. And Cooper was frustrated with them that they did not understand his vision. So he did then try to exercise power, and did try to dictate to people, but it didn't work. It was an abject failure. During his political career he was much attacked and criticized, often by people who had enjoyed his good favor for a long time and then turned on him. So I see him more as an afflicted rather than an afflicting person, as never having as much power as he dreams he might have, and being powerfully frustrated by this gap between his very limited, real power and his very grandiose vision of what he would like to be. His tragedy comes out of that gap. So I end up with a fellow who's much less in control of himself, of his community, of his own family, than the versions that previously were out there. He's somebody struggling to live up to an ideal that he's not capable of achieving, that perhaps no one is capable of living up to. His own humble origins, lack of education, and rough manners all inhibit his exercising the aristocratic power he can imagine enjoying.
DP: What do you most want general readers to take away from William Cooper's Town?
AT: Well, because it's 427 pages long I could never settle on one message. But I'll take two stabs at this, and these are still quite broad. One is the connection between the aspects of life that ordinarily historians study–for very good reasons–in isolation from one another, the connections of environmental to political to social to cultural history. I tried to weave back and forth between these and to show that they're not separate categories, but that the actual, lived experience of people in the early republic involved all of this, and certain developments in one realm had ramifications for all of the realms. The second thing is to demystify the early republic, for which I think the public has a certain bored reverence. There are these stock, boring, perfectly noble "Founding Fathers," who had everything all worked out, and if we could only understand what they were about, and followed their will here in our own troubled, chaotic, divided times, we'd have everything just right. And that's nonsense. The people who lived in that generation that we're talking about even said so. John Adams was appalled by reading the histories that were already coming out at that time making demigods out of the Founding Fathers. But John Adams more than most understood how divided, how fractured, how flawed they were as human beings. They were fascinating, powerful, important, compelling people, but they had their full range of foibles and flaws as well. They had violent disagreements with each other, and they were not able to impose their will, or their vision, on society. They were very much of their society, of their context, which was a divided, conflicted society with its own problems.
DP: Certainly as much as, if not more than, our own.
AT: Exactly. We have a quite different set of problems, but much of what we've inherited in terms of problems, as well as institutions that work well for us, come from them–from decisions they made, or neglected to make, or could not make in their own time. So to understand this place in our political history in its fuller complexity is I hope something that people will get out of the book.
DP: In the introduction to William Cooper's Town, you say you have written a hybrid of three usually distinct genres: biography, social history, and literary analysis. Did you encounter any trouble balancing these perspectives?
AT: Well, pretty early on I knew I wanted to do all three, but truth be told I'm coming at it from a historian's perspective. I read a whole lot more history than literary criticism, although I tried to read quite a bit, especially everything I knew of that bore upon James Fenimore Cooper and The Pioneers. At the end of the day, it's a historian's book rather than primarily a literary critic's book, but it's certainly got more of an engagement with literature than is common for a history. It has more than just an additional set of information that a historian can draw upon. I do try to engage in what a literary critic does as best I can, which has made the book different, and I think that is one of the reasons that many historians consider this to be a book that stretches in ways that are new.
DP: You credit the philosopher David Carr and the environmental historian William Cronon as helping you to recognize that "narratives have power because they are woven into life, not simply imposed upon a chaotic experience after the fact." Could you expand on this statement, which you say is your fundamental premise for the book?
AT: Well, I'm reacting against a certain element that's found especially in literary criticism, but also in cultural criticism more broadly, which has taken as one of its missions essentially to take apart history, to say that history is an ideological construct imposed upon a chaotic, so-called "reality," which doesn't have any coherence. And so any attempt to put coherence on it is freighted with the ideological baggage of the historian, and the historian is ordinarily in the service of power, the current arrangement of power in the society. Now I have absolutely no argument that that has happened, and people who are engaged in this sort of literary or cultural criticism have done a very good job of identifying particular examples of this. But I have a bit of a problem with the jump that is then made to say that this is the way history always is, always will be. So William Cooper's Town was very much an attempt to say "no." Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps I'm deluded and naive, but I don't think that my particular book is meant to perpetuate the existing power structure. At least overtly what I think I'm doing is being like Toto in The Wizard of Oz, who unveils the curtains and shows who's operating the devices. I'm showing what's going on in the society of the early republic in order to demystify some of it. And I think it's possible for history to do that. So I'm a bit impatient with people who are willing, in my view, just to concede history to those people who want to maintain the power structure. History, I think, is much more neutral than that. It can be used to reaffirm the power structure, but it can also be used to expose it, and people ought not to deny that possibility. I found helpful David Carr's book, Time, Narrative, and History (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986), which said that human existence is not perfectly chaotic. It has patterns to it, although those patterns cannot be fixed. They are fluid and change, but it's sort of like the current in a river. It's eddying, but there's a certain pattern to it. This is the same sort of observation people make in chaos theory. There is pattern to chaos.
DP: Barbara Tuchman talks about a similar concept in Practicing History (New York: Knopf, 1981).
AT: Right. And N. Catherine Hayles has a very wonderful book, Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990), about chaos theory and its applications in literature and also in science. So I think that in our culture there is an emerging alternative to this notion that narration is a false coherence imposed on a chaotic reality. Yes, human existence has not had the patterns we've often assumed that it did, often because the power structure wanted us to see only certain patterns that were self-serving. But it nonetheless has a pattern, and there is a new opportunity to see what those patterns are. And those patterns, I think, are produced primarily by the capacity people have to narrate to themselves and to others who they are and what they're doing. They're getting these stories in part from what they hear around them, but they're also working with these stories. Everyone has a story to tell of their own life and their own experience. But most people, in order to be taken as normal, will shape their stories in terms of what they think another wants to hear, just as I'm doing right now. I'm shaping this in ways which I'm hoping are going to communicate to you and to others who are going to end up reading this. I'm not just speaking randomly and chaotically. I'm speaking in patterned ways which I think are going to serve the interests of the reader and also my own interests in describing my work.
DP: We thank you for doing that.
AT: And there's a certain pattern to the questions you're asking. There are certain assumptions embedded in them that you and I are sharing here. We're understanding–I think we're understanding–each other. And so I think this understanding gives shape to how people behave. They anticipate where they going, who they are, who these other people are they're dealing with, and then they pursue patterns in their lives that come out of these stories that are both inherited and which they're creating–or I should say recreating as they live them, and as they live them always in new circumstances intersecting with other people who are trying to live out their own stories that they're telling themselves.
DP: One of the few criticisms of the stories you tell in your books has been their overabundance of detail. How would you characterize the role of detail in your work?
AT: Well, I would say it's essential. That's what I do. You know, the devil's in the details. But I also think getting some sort of visual take on the past fascinates me, trying to get a mind's-eye vision of these people and this place. And I work this out by writing it. And so for that reason there's a very high level of detail in there. When I read other historians' work, I often have a sense of disappointment that there is insufficient detail, that there's insufficient appeal to the mind's eye. Too much is taken for granted. I'm not saying that of all historians, but most histories do not have the level of detail that I would like to read, and so I'm writing very much the sort of books that I would like to read in the assumption that there are many people out there who would like to read this kind of history. But it's not to everybody's taste. People who like a strong central argument reiterated throughout the whole text–they're going to find that wanting in my work. It's a weakness, but it's a choice I've made. There are multiple arguments that I'm trying to weave together in the course of a book rather than one central argument, although I think I did a bit better job in this book than in the previous one of ultimately emphasizing one of the arguments that I'm working through in the book, so that it is there in every chapter.
DP: Managing this level of detail must have taxed your resources at times. What are your work habits? What advice would you have for someone attempting to handle a similar task?
AT: Oh, I think I'm sort of a negative example. Certainly I had to work very long hours at this. I'm not a night worker. I think most people in this business are much more night workers than I am. I'm more of a day worker. I have to get up fairly early in the morning, get going, then work just as long as I can. I actually enjoy doing that, but about seven o'clock or so I hit a wall, and that's it. I can't do any more. In the midst of it, it was pretty much a seven-day-a-week preoccupation, but it was a preoccupation I thoroughly enjoyed. It was such a detective hunt to try to find these bits and pieces of information and try to stitch them into a whole that I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think in part it's because I was defining the project in ways that were meant to produce a book that would be interesting to read, and therefore it was a book that would be interesting for me to try to figure out as I went along.
DP: So that distant goal was what kept you going during the difficult days of writing?
AT: Well, when that's your goal, the actual travel, the actual journey is also pleasurable. Not just because I think, "Okay, I'm going to have fun once it's done; therefore, I'm going to suffer now." It's figuring out who William Cooper was, figuring out who Elizabeth Cooper was, figuring out what role Hannah Cooper's death had in the subsequent collapse of the family fortunes. Those sorts of questions were quite intriguing to me. I wanted to know the answers, and finding out the clues along the way became quite compelling. Now, somebody else who works in a different way, who thinks in a different way, might take on a more abstract topic, such as the transformation of Calvinism in eighteenth-century America. That's not something that would get me up every morning–reading an immense number of sermons from the late eighteenth century and figuring out how the nuances changed. There are people who can do that wonderfully well. I can't, because I just couldn't sustain the interest in doing that. Which is not to put that work down at all. I'm very impressed with people who can do that kind of work. But I can't. So I've tried to avoid taking on projects that would not sustain my interest day after day after day.
DP: What's your next project?
AT: Well, I have two next projects. One of them is to write a history of colonial America for a five-volume series to be put out by Penguin, and that will be–by definition–a synthetic work. I can't do the original research for that. The second project is more specialized. It's going to be with Knopf again. It will be about the emergence of distinct political societies in what had been British North America, but which became partitioned by the American Revolution into the American Republic and into the revived British Empire in Canada. And so it will be about people on both sides of this border, their relationships, and their notions about what the revolution should mean.
DP: How has your life changed since you won the Pulitzer Prize?
AT: Well, people ask to interview me, which they never did before. I get invited to give many more public addresses than before. I get invited to write two books, and people offer you better advances for your books than before. It's quite striking what the difference a prize or a couple of prizes–especially the Pulitzer–will do to people's perception of who you are and what your capabilities are. I don't think I'm any better or smarter a historian than I was the day before the Pulitzer, but it just puts you on a lot of other people's radar screens, puts a certain certification on you that you didn't have before.
DP: You've enjoyed it?
AT: Of course, I'm glad this has all happened to me. But there's no training school to deal with this increased attention, and it comes pretty fast. You're trying to figure out what you can and cannot do. So the danger is that you go from not being in much demand and therefore having the habit of saying "yes" to almost every request, because that is how you develop your career, to a point where too many things are coming your way at once, and you need to learn sometimes to say "no," which has been an adjustment that I have not fully made.
DP: Well, thank you for saying yes to this interview.
AT: It's been a pleasure.
Alan Taylor is Professor of History at the University of California at Davis. Daniel J. Philippon is completing his Ph.D in English at the University of Virginia.


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Thursday, Sep 23
A SLICE OF THE HIGHLANDS PIZZA TOUR 2010! Who makes the best Pizza in the Highlands? You decide! Third annual silent auction fundraiser with a totally new twist! Along with our Charitable Partner, Gilda's Club Louisville, the Original Highlands Neighborhood Association is happy to announce "A Slice of the Highlands," a compelling pizza competition and silent auction event. Our aim is to raise awareness and funds for both organizations and to put on a whimsical, yet competitive, event that draws neighborhood participation and goodwill. We are grateful for our appetizer, beer, and wine sponsors, Valu Market, Kentucky Ale, and The Wine Market, respectively. In addition to the pizza restaurants already on board, the planning committee invites any and all pizza restaurants in The Highlands to participate. Awards will be given for People's Choice as well as Critic's Choice. Pizza competitors currently include Bearno's, Famous BoomBozz, Papalinos NY Pizzeria, Spinelli's, and ZA's! More may be added. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Ticket purchase will include pizza from all the pizza competitors, beer and wine, dessert, live music, the right to vote for your favorite pizza and access to our silent auction. The event will be held on Thursday, September 23, 2010 from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at The Church of The Advent, 901 Baxter Avenue. For more information and ticket sales, or to donate an item for auction, please go to our website www.sliceofthehighlands.com or contact Andi Hannan at (502) 235-4368. Come eat and drink with your friends and neighbors, bid on wonderful items at the silent auction, support worthwhile organizations, and help us decide… Who makes the best Pizza in the Highlands?
Date & Time:
Thursday, September 23, 2010 -
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Contact Information
- Church of the Advent
- 901 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, KY 40204
- 502-235-4368
Event Time
- Thursday 23rd, September 2010
- $25
- in advance, $30 at the door