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Collins '21 Examines Evolution of Literature's Female Protagonist
Emerson Grant
Kelly Collins '21
While many students have a summer reading list, few probably have as hefty of a list as Kelly Collins '21, who spends most of each day reading and analyzing fiction.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Twilight, Collins is pursing an Emerson research project in which she reads through popular children's, young adult, and adult literature to track the evolution of the young adult genre. More specifically, she hopes to chart the rise of the modern young adult heroine, who she describes as the "female character that everyone loves."
For her research, Collins reads novels and criticism, analyzes passages where an author gives a character personality traits or where a character shows personal strength, and interviews authors such as Lois Lowry and Patricia C. Wrede. Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature Suzanne Taylor, Collins' advisor, has helped Collins develop her reading list and arrange the author interviews. Ultimately, Collins will use her resources to produce a paper that synthesizes her various findings.
About Kelly Collins '21
Major: Creative Writing
Hometown: Kingston, NH
High School: The Derryfield School
read about other student research projects
A creative writing major, Collins first had the idea for her project while struggling with her own writing. She felt that, in writing female characters, she kept getting stuck in the stereotype of the "sassy, sarcastic, good-at-everything character" that she had grown up reading about. This then led her to question how the female protagonist has changed in literature throughout the past couple centuries, having gone from the simple, "lackluster" character to the "strong," "intelligent" character prevalent today.
As Collins' advisor, Taylor emphasized that there is minimal scholarly work on young adult fiction, which makes Collins' research all the more necessary. She said, "In showing how heroines like Katniss are part of the same literary tradition as characters like Hardy's Tess, Kelly provides a convincing argument for why scholars need to pay attention to YA fiction. In other words, Kelly's project is making an important contribution to current discussions about how we might expand and diversify the literary canon."
Collins said that "the main goal of [the project] is to see what goes into making a diverse, interesting female character." Through her research, she plans to gain a better understanding of how heroines figure into the young adult genre.
Taylor also noted that Collins' analysis of texts and criticism, combined with the interviews Collins conducts, is a unique mix of literary and sociological work. As such, Collins project helps in "breaking down the barrier between scholar and author."
Collins aspires to work in publishing and editing, "keeping books alive." In tune with her Emerson project and creative interests, she said that she would ideally focus on young adult literature.
Overall, Collins expressed that she enjoys her research project and that she sees it bolstering her academic and creative endeavors.
Collins is one of 200 Hamilton students who are conducting summer research or completing an internship supported by the College.


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1) so the bigger the chamber the more power u will get?
2)if i have a 2 1/2 foot barrel, 1/2 width...how big would my chamber have to be for the best preformance? and how far would it shoot horizontally on a football feld?
Last edited by neilman88 on Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
1) Basically, but obviously you should keep the ratios in mind because you could have a 4"x20' chamber and a 1"x1' barrel and since the ratio is so far off your ammo wouldnt go anywhere. Know that I think about the flame would go farther then the projectile.
2) Go to burntlatke.com and use his caculator. I could give you a guestamation of how big it should but I would rather help you turn into self suffeciant (that word is freakin hard to spell) spudgunner.
Nice double post Please use the edit button. Its called a C:B ratio (chamber: barrel) So I dont know where you got the third number from. Your c:b ratio should be about 1:1 or 1.5:1. You can toy around with ratios a little bit like thought 6:1 or 1:6 those numbers wouldnt be good.
? so it should be around 1.5...?
EDIT:u said 1.1 is good right? cause i messed around and i got that? is that good?
However, because you are limmeted to a total launcher length, and preformance return on volume invested is deminishing (1:1 -> 2:1 gives a biger improvment than 2:1 -> 3:1), there is an optimum trade-off between long barrel and long chamber. This is an elusive number, dependent on many things; chamber diametr:barrel diameter ratio, fuel, how you figure it out... and is still a tenative branch of study.
... nevermind, I see you are limmeted by barrel length. Just make a big chamber.
2) as big as possible - make the best use of that punny 3' barrel!
awesome thx man so 1:1 is good right? so how good would it be?
so witha a 3ft barrel/9.5'' length, 1 1/2'' width chamber and a ratio of 1:1 its gonna be the best it can be with that chamber size?
Your 3' long, .5" diameter barrel with your 9.5" long, 1.5" diameter chamber will give you a ratio of about 2.4:1... acctually, this is probably fairly close to optimum for a 3:1 diameter ratio, if you are seaking max power/overall length.
As a courtousy, could you spend the extra milliseconds and capitalize your letters, and spell out thanks? I spend hundreds of seconds on my posts, which I have posted over and over to previous newbs, just to help you; you can spend a few extra seconds to make your posts look nice. A bit of thought would be nice too - some of your posts are... elesive.
Also, why does your barrel have to be 3'?
and im saying how good would it be...like as in PSI or FPS?
...and this is also the first time you have said .75"; re-read you origional post, and you'll find that it says "1/2 width".
I'm going to assume it was a typo (or bad wording) origionaly, in which case - with the bigger diameter barrel, it will indeed give you a 1:1 ratio.
Anyway, you are going about it 'wrong' - unless your bigest chunk of 1.5" pipe is 9.5" long, that is.
As to power, I'm not really a combustion person, but I'll run some numbers here. Using the GGDT, I find that a marble (6.7 grams?) will be accelerated to a velocity of about 350 feet/sec (I used 45 psi as the pressure). Oddly, it also wants you to make your chamber about 18" long... a bit longer than I was figuring, and possibly wrong - but 14" isn't a bad idea. The benifit is only about 15 feet/sec anyway.
EDIT:yes i did say 1/2'' sorry for changing on a dime,where did u get that GGDT?
Really, spread the news: Google is good.
Anyway, it's acctually for pnematic (air-powered) cannons. It can be used to give a (very) rough estimate of combustion preformance.
The acctualy diameter of the barrel doesn't matter in the consideration chamber:barrel ratio, and acctually... 1" isn't overly large bore.
They are right in a way. If you extend your barrel until it is long enough to give you a 1:1 ratio, it will indeed be more powerfull - you have more barrel in which to accelarate the projectile. Does that make sence yet?!


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José Manuel González Ortiz, Cheli, (Lepe, 29 de enero de 1979) es un exfutbolista español.

La mayoría de su carrera la ha disputado en el Recreativo de Huelva. El 31 de agosto de 2009 se confirmó su fichaje por la Unió Esportiva Lleida, de la Segunda División B del fútbol español. Finalizada la temporada, volvió al equipo de su ciudad natal, el San Roque de Lepe, recién ascendido a Segunda División B.

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The hard-Left in America, which is devouring the Democratic Party and filling it with hateful Marxists who seek to bully their way to power, has long targeted the National Rifle Association.
But not because the 147-year-old organization has done anything wrong – at least not in the eyes of most rational people. The NRA was founded by Union Army officers who were disappointed with the lack of marksmanship displayed by their troops during the Civil War; since then the organization has continued its marksmanship mission but also has come to serve as the country's premier gun rights group.
And Left-wing Democrats despise the Second Amendment. So they have made it a mission to destroy the NRA in any way possible.
After all these years, they may have found a way: Starve the NRA to death economically.
As reported by Townhall, the NRA has filed a lawsuit against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), New York State's Superintendent of Financial Services Maria T. Vullo and the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), claiming that the governor, Vullo and officials at DFS pressured banks and insurance companies not to do business with the organization.
"Simply put, Defendants made it clear to banks and insurers that it is bad business in New York to do business with the NRA," says the lawsuit, which was first reported by Rolling Stone magazine.
"As a direct result of this coercion, multiple financial institutions have succumbed to Defendants' demands and entered into consent orders with DFS that compel them to terminate longstanding, beneficial business relationships with the NRA, both in New York and elsewhere," the filing says.
Townhall reported that DFS launched a probe into an NRA insurance product, Carry Guard, even though several other companies offer something very similar. The NRA said that it fashioned Carry Guard after other similar insurance plans specifically to avoid being singled out.
But, according to The Wall Street Journal, anti-NRA regulators in New York banned the insurance program in May anyway because it allegedly 'violated' state law, while imposing a $7 million fine on the insurance broker who set it up.
The NRA program allows policyholders to buy policies that cover legal costs in self-defense shootings. The "NRA Carry Guard" program is still being marketed, according to the program's website, although sales in New York were suspended last fall shortly after the state's Department of Financial Services launched its probe.
The NRA lawsuit claims that its Carry Guard program wasn't DFS' "true focus," as demonstrated by the fact that shortly after it began the investigation dramatically expanded.
"Defendants' goal, from the outset, was to disrupt any and all business arrangements between the NRA and any insurance administrator, broker, or underwriter – indeed, any financial institution," the suit notes.
Chubb Group Holdings, another provider of NRA insurance policies, also had DFS enact a similar content order against them, threatening to fine Chubb $1.3 million if the company participated in any NRA-endorsed program.
The suit also says that the Defendants made it nearly impossible for the NRA to engage in pro-gun advocacy absent basic financial services as well.
This isn't the first time economic warfare has been used by the Left to attack the Second Amendment. The Obama administration used "Operation Choke Point" to shut down gun shops by walling them off from necessary financial services. The Trump administration ended that program a year ago.
Read more about Left-wing assaults against the Second Amendment at SecondAmendment.news.


In this adaptation from Creates's award-winning video-poem, a series of photographs and prose poems of a river's seasonal changes are observed and recorded by means of 80 named varieties of ice, snow, and winter weather in the Newfoundland dialect. These terms are precise, practical, evocative, sonic, and lyrical. Creates's video-poem won the Grand Jury Award at the 2014 Yosemite International Film Festival. Her work will be included in a solo exhibition at Paul Petro Contemporary Art for CONTACT 2015.


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the mess.....and a dead plant.
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ha! just messaged you on Etsy to say "you must be pregnant!" - I'm a real slacker on the blogging stuff but your "likes" on Etsy were a giveaway.
The floors look great, way to go Handyman Matt. Maybe he should quit his day job and do this full time.
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1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, Stunts
Best of the Year List 1940-1949
December 28, 2015 Donovan Montierth	Leave a comment
Here is the list for the Best Movie Stunts for the Decade 1940-1949 as listed in the book, 100 Years of the Best Movie Stunts!
1940: The Mark of Zorro
Not only the second time for Zorro, but the second time for this exact title. Different year, different actors…great stunts. The fencing duel between Tyrone Powers and Basil Rathbone, choreographed by Fred Caverns is just about one of the finest ever put to celluloid.
1941: The Adventures of Captain Marvel
Dave Hardin Sharpe provided the fighting and the flying in this nifty action serial. It's also one of my all time favorite superheros…the original Captain Marvel!
1942: Spy Smasher
It's the era of the Movie Serial, and no-one did it better than this one! It's all out action and adventure with cliff-hangers galore! Carey Loftkin, Kane Richmond and Dave Hardin Sharpe combined to make Spy Smasher a fantastic hit!
1943: The Masked Marvel
Another great action serial. Tom Steele did so many stunts in this, he can even be found to be a bad guy chasing himself, as The Masked Marvel.
1944: Ghost Guns
At this time there were some impressive cowgirls in the movies. Evelyn Finley was one of the toughest. This was a B movie, but she's worth the watch.
1945: Back To Bataan
We all know what a tough guy John Wayne was, especially in his later years. It's fun to see him hit the list for the first time with this entry, a great little war film.
1946: Detour To Danger
This one is just like a film I would have made in college; get a whole bunch of buddies together with a 16mm camera and go film some crazy fight scenes. Harvey Parry and Richard Talmadge get all their stuntman cronies for this one and it's a lot of fun. Not great acting, but great fun.
1947: The Perils of Pauline
Second time on the list, but the funny thing is, this one is a fictionalized account of the making of the first film. Polly Burson provides the stunts in this one and she would go on to some nifty westerns as she was a home-spun cowgirl in her own right.
1948: The Three Musketeers
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Dave Hardin Sharpe makes the list for the 3rd time in one decade (is that a record?) along with Gene Kelly for their work in this film. And WOW, what a supporting cast!
1949: Twelve O'Clock High
This has got to be the largest plane ever crashed by a real person on film and walked away from it. Paul Mantz seemed to do it completely without flinching and as if it was as easy as parking a car.
For more info, find the book 100 Years of the Best Movie Stunts!
Adventures of Captain MarvelBack To BataanBasil RathboneCarey LoftkinDave Hardin SharpeDetour To DangerEvelyn FinleyFred CavensGene KellyGhost GunsHarvey ParryKane RichmondMark of ZorroMasked MarvelMovie StuntsPaul MantzPerils of PaulinePolly BursonRichard TalmadgeSpy SmasherThree MusketeersTom SteeleTwelve O'Clock HighTyrone Powers
1947, Stunts
Polly Burson and The Perils of Pauline
November 8, 2015 Donovan Montierth	Leave a comment
This is the second time this title hits the list, but this one is really just a reference to the previous film, not a sequel to it. This film is a semi-biography on Pearl White (mostly fictional), the actress that played Pauline in the first film. Betty Hutton plays Pearl and Polly Burson is Betty Hutton's stunt double. Staying true to who Pearl White really was (an actress that didn't use stunt doubles) I think it would have been more fitting to just have Polly Burson play Pearl, but to Betty's credit, she does a great job.
Like Evelyn Finley, the Best Movie Stunt winner from 1944, Polly was a true "horse woman", they thought nothing of jumping off horses onto moving trains and stagecoaches, shooting from galloping horses or being dragged through sand and sagebrush. She started out in the rodeo and transferred her skills to the movies.
Polly recalled later, "I was lucky to be able to transfer my stunt skills to the movies, and in 1946 I got a job doubling for Betty Hutton in `Perils of Pauline.' It was so exciting. We filmed in Simi Valley and they had me doing all kinds of stunts, including jumping from a horse onto a train boxcar and then climbing up on top of the moving train and jumping from car to car."
George Marshall, the director, didn't want her to ride up to the boxcar, grab the bar and pull herself onto the train. He wanted her to leap from the horse to the train. Polly explained how the stunt went in the book, Guts And Grace: The Untold Story of Stuntwomen in the Movies, "So I'm up on a hill a couple of blocks away from the train and the railroad tracks," Polly said, "it's straight downhill and I have to judge the time I'll need to get to that first boxcar behind the coal car. I had to get in position to get to it and couldn't be pulling up—that would look phony. I wasn't behind, but I was whipping the horse so I could get to my ladder on the car. And that's timing. I had the best darn horse under me. I hated to admit it, but she was a mare. We were going as fast as we could, I reached the boxcar and went for it—I jumped on to it!"
Polly and her galloping horse seem fused together until she rises up, makes a graceful easy leap away from the horse toward the moving train. As she sails off, her horse keeps racing on with the same unbroken rhythm and Polly lands on the train perfectly.
"I had to stay between cars and shoot back at the Indians that were chasing me," Polly said. "Then I had to crawl up and run along the boxcar into the coal car, down the coal car into the engine room, around the engineer, and up to the cowcatcher. I had to do it three times and I couldn't figure what in the hell was wrong. Later, when I came close by the engineer, it was George Marshall, the director! He said he'd been a frustrated engineer since he was a kid. I said, 'Mr. Marshall, I wish you'd have practiced with somebody else.'"
The Perils of Pauline was directed by George Marshall for Paramount Pictures in Technicolor.
Things to look up (click on item to go to IMDB page):
Polly Burson
The Perils of Pauline
Evelyn Finley
Glossary of film terms as defined by the Wikipedia – Technicolor – is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and then improved over several decades. It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952. Technicolor became known and celebrated for its saturated levels of color, and was used most commonly for filming musicals such as The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain, costume pictures such as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Joan of Arc, and animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia. However, it was also used for less spectacular dramas and comedies, and sometimes even a film noir — such as Leave Her to Heaven or Niagara — was filmed in Technicolor.
"Technicolor" is the trademark for a series of color motion picture processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc.), now a division of Technicolor SA. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914 (incorporated in Maine in 1915) by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott. The "Tech" in the company's name was inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Kalmus received an undergraduate degree and was later an instructor. Technicolor, Inc. was chartered in Delaware in 1921.
Check out our new Book, 100 Years of the Best Movie Stunts!
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Evelyn Finley and Ghost Guns
September 17, 2015 Donovan Montierth	2 Comments
At a time when men were more prominent as stunt performers, even going so far as to double for the female stars of the movies, it's refreshing to come across a true cowgirl who starred in her own films as well as did her own stunts. It's time once again to highlight the heroine and not the hero. Evelyn Finley started out in films as a stunt double and then went on to act in her own roles. She preferred the stunt work, and so later on, went back to doubling in her later pictures.
In Ghost Guns (1944), she starred in the lead role, and also performed her owns stunts, a regular event throughout her early career, and she received high praise for her riding stunts in this movie. She has often been called one of the greatest horseback riders in film history, joining the company of Nell O'Day and Betty Miles. Despite her age, she continued to work in the stunt business, either as an advisor or as an actual stunt performer, into the mid-1980s. Her last film in which she worked as a stunt technical advisor was the 1985 film Silverado, starring Kevin Costner and Scott Glenn.
Here's a great little interview about her times during the making of these moves. Sunset's not the best interviewer, but you definitely get the feeling that she's loved performing and riding. Ghost Guns was directed by Lambert Hillyer for Monogram Pictures.
Things to look up (click on item to go to IMDB page or Website):
Ghost Guns
Lambert Hillyer
Nell O'Day
Betty Miles
Monogram Pictures
History of film companies as defined by IMDB: Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, most on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram is considered a leader among the smaller studios sometimes referred to collectively as Poverty Row. The idea behind the studio was that when the Monogram logo appeared on the screen, everyone knew they were in for action and adventure. It is now a division of Allied Artists International.
History of film companies as defined by IMDB: Poverty Row – While some Poverty Row studios came and quickly went after a few releases, others operated on more or less the same terms as—if vastly different scales from—major film studios such as MGM, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures.
The most successful and longest-lived of such lower-tier companies maintained permanent lots (and many standing sets that dedicated moviegoers could frequently recognize from movie to movie), had both cast and crew on long-term contract, and had a more varied output than smaller firms.
Leading studios
From 1919 until its reorganization in 1924, Harry Cohn's CBC Productions (later to become Columbia Pictures) was considered a Poverty Row studio.
Tiffany Pictures was in operation from 1921 through 1932 as both a production company (about 90 films) and a distributor.
Mascot Pictures was formed in 1927 by Nat Levine, and merged into Republic in 1935.
Larry Darmour Productions flourished from 1927 through the 1930s, mainly on the popularity of its Mickey McGuire short film series starring Mickey Rooney. Damour was also the principle producer within Majestic Pictures until 1935.
Monogram Pictures was created in 1931 by the merger of Sono Art-World Wide Pictures with W. Ray Johnston's Rayart. After the attempted 1935 merger of Monogram into Republic, Johnston took Monogram independent again, and in the following decades produced everything from college/teen musicals starring popular swing bands to versions of classics like Oliver Twist and the final films of Kay Francis. It evolved, in relatively good financial condition, into Allied Artists in 1953.
Republic Pictures was organized in 1935 when Herbert J. Yates combined six other established poverty-row companies, Monogram, Mascot, Liberty, Majestic Pictures, Chesterfield, and Invincible with his Consolidated Film Laboratories. Republic began by releasing serial shorts and Westerns with Gene Autry in the 1930s before eventually riding the success of eventual superstar John Wayne and embarking on more ambitious projects, such as 1953's Wayne hit, The Quiet Man.
Grand National Films Inc. was organized in 1936 with some significant talent (James Cagney and director Charles Lamont), but could not survive without its own distribution channel. It folded quickly in 1939, and released about 100 films altogether.
Producers Releasing Corporation emerged in 1939 and lasted until 1946, when it was absorbed into Eagle-Lion Films. PRC presented a steady output of westerns, serials, gangster movies, with occasional high spots, such as Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour, and their 1944 Minstrel Man, nominated for two Academy Awards.
Lower-tier studios
The smallest studios, including Tiffany Pictures, Sam Katzman's Victory, Mascot and Chesterfield often packaged and released films from independent producers, British "quota quickie" films, or borderline exploitation films such as Hitler, Beast of Berlin to supplement their own limited production capacity.
Sometimes the same producers would start a new studio when the old one failed, such as Harry S. Webb and Bernard B. Ray's Reliable Pictures and Metropolitan Pictures.
Some organizations such as Astor Pictures and Realart Pictures began by obtaining the rights to re-release older films from other studios before producing their own films.
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But show + line3d ignores fontsize option.
I'm not sure this is currently possible, at least not at all easily :( With an upgraded jmol it might be. ? Or does someone else have an idea?
and then draw the bounding frame yourself, if you need one.
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The Deyang area, located in the Sichuan Basin in southwest China, was struck hard by an earthquake in 2008. Since then, reconstruction has been carried out at tremendous speed and the urban population has grown exponentially. The city's water supply system cannot meet its rapidly growing water demand.
Groundwater is heavily over-exploited, causing decline of groundwater levels. Studies by Chengdu University show that natural groundwater recharge is insufficient to meet the water demand of the city.
Deyang is not the only city with this problem. Currently, two-thirds of all Chinese cities don't have sufficient water the whole year round. On top of that, cities suffer from severe water pollution caused by rapid development. In China, water scarcity and water pollution cause a loss of 11.2 billion USD in industrial output every year. The cost of the impact of insufficient water quality on health in the country has been estimated at 3.9 billion USD per year.
So what options do you have in an area where groundwater levels decline and where construction of surface water reservoirs is impossible, due to earthquake risks? The answer seems obvious: storing water in the ground.
Starting in 2014, a wetland park was designed and constructed by a Sino-Dutch team*. The park benefits from the technology as introduced in the Amsterdam dune system that forms the main source of drinking water for the city of Amsterdam. This artificial recharge water supply system increases groundwater storage, maintains constant water supply and improves water quality.
The site, situated in a residential area, combines a recreational wetland park, an artificial groundwater recharge site, a drinking water production facility, a public education centre, and a showcase of scientific research.
Water from the Mianyuan River goes through a pre-treatement process, gets filtered by wetlands and percolates the soil through sandbeds. After a travel time of at least 60 days, the purified water is extracted from the soil and pumped to the water supply company for the final treatment process. This way, every day 3 million litres of water is being produced.
Being the first park in China with this multi-functionality, a lot of emphasis is put on information sharing. In the park, visitors learn about the filtering functions of wetlands, as well as about water purification through flocculation and sand infiltration. A large visitor centre explains in detail what happens in the wetland park.
Two weeks ago (September 2016), the park was officially opened and new plans of developing two other similar sites were already presented by the Deyang department. The concept of artificial recharge isn't new. As mentioned, this park was developed based on the concept of the Amsterdam Dune Water machine.
In Amsterdam, artificial recharge has been in operation since 1957. More than 55 years the system is still in place and has been constantly improved and fine-tuned. The philosophy behind the system is based on (1) using groundwater only for storage, removal of pathogens, and for attenuating peaks in water quality; (2) integrating the recharge system within nature restoration goals, and (3) preventing pollution of the water source, which implies quality control in the upper catchment.
The objectives were simple: to stop over-exploitation of the freshwater resources in the dune area, restore ecological conditions, and enhance the recharge capacity to over 65 million m3 per year in order to secure the water supply for the metropolitan region.
Though supplemented by natural dune water, the main source of water is river water from the Lek Canal, situated 55 kilometers away. This river water is pre-treated after which it is transported to the Amsterdam Water Supply Dunes. Once the water has percolated through the shallow groundwater system in the dunes, post-treatment takes place in the production plant.
Artificial recharge can also take place on a much smaller scale. Like in Bangalore, where Mr. Balasubramaniyan built an artificial recharge system around his house. In 1995, he dug a well of 40 feet for his water supply which unfortunately went dry after 6 years. Since 2001 he recharges his well with rainwater from his roof making him independent again from the city water network (watch video).
Another example from India is the innovation called Bhungroo, which is used in saline areas. A Bhungroo is a borehole that is dug to a certain depth in saline groundwater regions so that it reaches a sandy layer between two saline aquifers. During flooding, as occurs in this region during the monsoon rains, the Bhungroo allows the standing waters in the land to be recharged into the sandy layer (watch video).
A third example of recharge in a complete different context can be witnessed in Ethiopia along the road from Hawzen and Freweyni. Here, a former borrow pit for road construction is used to recharge the aquifer with road runoff.
Artificial recharge is a real solution… Across different contexts, different scales and different levels of technology.
* The Sino-Dutch team consists of UNESCO-IHE (lead), World Waternet, MetaMeta, Royal Eijkelkamp, Deyang Department of Housing, urban & Rural Planning and construction, Deyang Department of Water Affairs, Deyang Water Supply Company, Chengdu University of Technology.


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Giocava come guardia. Ha militato nell'ALBA Berlino e nello Skyliners Francoforte.

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Con la  ha disputato i Campionati mondiali del 2002 e due edizioni dei Campionati europei (2001, 2003).

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The County of Namur was not often an independent state, rather under the dominion of other entities like the counties of Hainaut and Flanders or the Duchy of Burgundy.

Succession is from father to son, unless otherwise noted.

Counts

House of Namur

 Robert I (r. 946 – 981)
 Albert I (r. 992 – 1010)
 Robert II (r. 1010 – 1018?)
 Albert II (r. 1018? – 1067)
 Albert III (r. 1067 – 1102)
 Godfrey I (r. 1102 – 1139)
 Henry I the Blind (r. 1139 – 1189)
 Alice, sister of, married Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut

Marquises

House of Flanders

 Baldwin I (r. 1189 – 1195), nephew of
 Philip I (r. 1195 – 1212)
 Yolanda (r.1212 – 1217), sister of, also Empress of the Latin Empire as Yolanda I, married Peter II of Courtenay

House of Courtenay

 Philip II (r. 1217 – 1226)
 Henry II (r. 1226 – 1229), brother of
 Margaret (r. 1229 – 1237), sister of
 Baldwin II (r. 1237 – 1256), brother of, also Emperor of the Latin Empire as Baldwin II

House of Luxembourg

 Henry III (r. 1256 – 1265), grand son of Henry I the Blind. By force.

House of Dampierre

 Guy I (r. 1265 – 1297). Bought the county from his cousin Baldwin II and chased Henry III.
 John I (r. 1297 – 1330)
 John II (r. 1330 – 1335)
 Guy II (r. 1335 – 1336), brother of
 Philip III (r. 1336 – 1337), brother of
 William I (r. 1337 – 1391), brother of
 William II (r. 1391 – 1418)
 John III (r. 1418 – 1421; died 1429), brother of

In 1421, John III sells his estates to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

House of Valois-Burgundy

 1405-1419 : John IV the Fearless
 1419-1467 - Philip IV the Good
 1467-1477 : Charles I the Bold
 1477-1482 : Mary I the Rich, daughter of, married

House of Habsburg

 1493-1519 : Maximilian, husband of, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Maximilian I
 1519-1556 : Charles II, grandson, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Charles V

Charles V proclaimed the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 eternally uniting Namur with the other lordships of the Low Countries in a personal union.  When the Habsburg empire was divided among the heirs of Charles V, the Low Countries, including Namur, went to Philip II of Spain, of the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg.

 1556-1598 : Philip V, also King of Spain as Philip II
 1598-1621 : Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of, married Albert, Archduke of Austria)
 1621-1665 : Philip VI, half brother of, also King of Spain as Philip IV
 1665-1700 : Charles III, also King of Spain as Charles II

Between 1706 and 1714 Namur was invaded by the English and the Dutch during the War of the Spanish Succession.  The fief was claimed by the House of Habsburg and the House of Bourbon.  In 1712 Luxembourg and Namur were ceded to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria by his French allies, but with the end of the war in 1713 with the Treaty of Utrecht Max. Emanuel was restored as Elector of Bavaria.  The Treaty of Utrecht also settled the succession, and the Margraviate of Namur went to the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg, along with the rest of the Spanish Netherlands.

 1714-1740 : Charles IV, great grandson of Philip III
 1740-1780 : Mary II Theresa, daughter of, married Francis I
 1780-1790 : Joseph I, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Joseph II

The title was factually abolished in the aftermath of the French revolution and the annexation of Namur by France in 1795.  Although, the title remained officially claimed by the descendants of Leopold II until the reign of Karl I of Austria.

 1790-1792 : Leopold, brother of, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Leopold II
 1792-1835 : Francis II, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Francis II
 1835-1848 : Ferdinand, also Emperor of Austria as Ferdinand I
 1848-1916 : Francis III Joseph, grandson of Francis II, also Emperor of Austria as Francis Joseph I

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Research Suggests "Missing" Bottlenose Dolphins More Likely to Migrate Than Die
As hopes fade of Fungie's return to Dingle, research suggests that "missing" dolphins are more likely to have migrated than died.
Dolphins in the Shannon estuary which were initially presumed to have perished had in fact moved to nearby bays, according to research published by the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG).
The study by Kim Ellen Ludwig of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) found that the "missing" dolphins had "emigrated" to Tralee and Brandon bays in Kerry, south of the Shannon estuary.
The Shannon estuary's population of around 140 dolphins provided a good sample for the study, which Ms Ludwig conducted in collaboration with the IWDG.
The IWDG – a registered charity founded by Dr Simon Berrow in 1990 - has been monitoring the Shannon bottlenose dolphins since 1993. It constitutes the longest running whale or dolphin study in Ireland.
The group recently explored its 27-year old identification dataset to see if it could answer the question as to when to consider a dolphin as "dead" rather than missing.
Dolphins and whales are highly mobile, ranging thousands of kilometres.
Survival of young dolphins or calves is easier to monitor when they are dependent on their mothers for survival and is more difficult when calves are weaned.
The study with Ms Ludwig indicated that survival rate was 95.6% for "well-marked individual dolphins"- which means around 4.4% of adult dolphins die each year.
"For less well-marked individuals, survival increases to 5.8%, due to the higher chance a dolphin is "missed" during surveys," it says.
The IWDG says that Ms Ludwig's work highlights "a really important confounding factor, that of emigration outside the Shannon estuary to adjacent Tralee and Brandon bays".
The dolphins had been presumed dead as these two bays are not routinely sampled during monitoring surveys.
Only by extending their surveys, did the IWDG realise that the dolphins were alive and well, and had extended their range.
Scientists with the IWDG are now recommending that the boundary of the lower river Shannon special area of conservation be extended to protect the important habitats of the bottlenose dolphins.
The group also suggests the area could be designated as a marine protected area as an alternative strategy.
In relation to Fungie, estimated to be 37 years old, the IWDG says that "as the time increases without a sighting and the search effort continues", it is "more likely" that he is dead rather than just simply missing.
However "his legacy will live on for years", it says.
Published in Marine Wildlife
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Fungie's Life in Dingle 'Was Never Going to Last'
"It's better this way, rather than Fungie wash up dead on the shores of Dingle Bay, [that he] just disappear."
That's the message from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group's (IWDG) chief executive as nearly two weeks have passed since Dingle's longtime resident dolphin was last seen in the Co Kerry village.
Writing on the IWDG website, Dr Simon Berrow reminisces about his own encounters with the friendly bottlenose since his own arrival in the West of Ireland in 1988.
And he believes that Fungie has been an inspiration some of the millions who have witnessed him over the years to pursue further interests in marine matters.
But Dr Berrow is also brutally honest about the region's over-reliance on the marine wildlife singleton as a draw for visitors.
"Building an international tourism product on a single dolphin was never going to last," he says. "It was unsustainable."
The IWDG website has more HERE.
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Dingle Hopes Against Hope for Well-Being of Fungie the Dolphin
Everyone in Dingle - and beyond too, in a much wider world of shared joy in his existence - everyone knew that some day, it was going to happen. Some day, the sad but inevitable feeling was going to take hold and gradually be accepted that Fungie, the much–loved Dingle dolphin, has gone - and gone for good not just from Dingle, but from this world of ours.
For 37 years, his life-enchancing and charismatic presence has established a relationship between humans and a cetacean which has been seen elsewhere, but somehow never with the sheer intensity, transcendental delight and very Irish way that Fungi has made possible in Dingle Harbour. No-one who has ever experienced it will ever forget it. But now it may well be that memories are all we'll have, and this new gem of reporting on RTE News from Sean Mac an tSithigh will speak from the heart for everyone who has met Fungie at his wonderful best.
Some wonderfully nostalgic footage of the early days of Fungie here... might give a sense of the affection the local community has for this special dolphin. https://t.co/yKVKMKIGvx
— Seán Mac an tSíthigh (@Buailtin) October 20, 2020
'No News Is Good News' as Hunt for Missing Dolphin Fungie Pauses Amid Poor Weather
Poor weather off the Kerry coast has put on hold the search for Fungie the dolphin who has been missing from his Dingle home for almost a week, according to the Guardian.
Yesterday, Sunday 18 October, RTÉ News reported that divers from Mallow Search and Rescue has joined the search to explore coves around Dingle Harbour amid growing concern for Fungie's wellbeing.
The bottlenose dolphin has been resident in the village harbour since 1983, rarely straying far from its environs — and never for this length of time.
There was an unconfirmed report of a sighting last Thursday, as local fisherman Gary Hand suggested the marine wildlife favourite was feeding with other dolphins further out in Dingle Bay.
That's one of the theories being shared by local boatmen — some of whom also suggest that the solitary Fungie may be in hiding from dolphin pods and whales encroaching on his usual inshore waters.
"There's still hope," said boatman Gary Brosnan. "If Fungie has died there's a good chance we'd have found him in one of the inlets or caves. No news is good news."
Dingle boatmen have a number of theories re Fungie's disappearance:
Theory 1: Fungie has gone out to sea following feed. An easterly wind off the land tends to drive sprat and other feed away from the coast. Possible, but Fungie has never been missing this long. 1/4... pic.twitter.com/gPyhH3KehC
Published in Coastal Notes
'Missing' Fungie Reportedly Resurfaces In Dingle Bay
Reports of the disappearance of Dingle's resident dolphin Fungie this week appear to have been greatly exaggerated, as a cetacean matching his description was spotted by a local fisherman.
Paul Hand tells RTÉ News that he is "one thousand percent certain" the bottlenose dolphin that followed his boat into Dingle Bay yesterday (Thursday 15 October) was Fungie, who has made his home in the Co Kerry village since the early 1980s.
Fungie aroused some concern on Wednesday when he failed to appear as usual in the harbour, with unusual movements said to be "unlike him".
But Hand suggests the dolphin has simply been following boats out into the bay and staying to feed and spend time with a pod of his own kind — following a lonely summer in the absence of the area's usual tourist trade.
Long-Living Fungie The Dolphin Is A Record-Breaker
Dingle's resident dolphin Fungie is one of the longest living solitary cetaceans in the world, according to a new report from wildlife experts.
The second edition of the Lone Rangers report identifies Fungie — who has been a fixture of Dingle in Co Kerry since 1984 — as the longest living solitary cetacean in European waters.
In the global list, Fungie is second only to Jojo, a fellow bottlenose dolphin of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the West Indies who has been dated back to 1980.
"Fungie is a very engaging dolphin who has become an international phenomenon with people travelling from near and far just to catch a sight of this enigmatic marine mammal", said Marine Connection director Margaux Dodds, a co-author of the report.
The Irish Examiner has more on the story HERE.
Fungie The Dolphin Wounded By Propeller Blade
#Fungie - Dingle's resident dolphin Fungie has sustained a significant wound below his dorsal fin, as the Irish Examiner reports.
The deep cut, likely inflicted by a visiting boat's propeller, was noticed yesterday (Friday 3 June) by fans of the popular marine wildlife attraction who's delighted locals and visitors alike in Dingle for more than 30 years.
However, Fungie lovers have been urged not to panic – as the famous bottlenose has healed well from similar injuries before, and has already returned to frolicking with boaters in Dingle Harbour.
Fungie Surprises Seaweed Farmers With Spectacular Leap
#MarineWildlife - A pair of seaweed farmers made a friend off the Kerry coast recently when Dingle's resident dolphin decided to join them for a swim.
Mail Online has some remarkable photos of the moment when Fungie, the 40-year-old cetacean who's lived in Dingle for more than three decades, leapt out of the water alongside David Millard and Mike Murphy's boat as they made their way home from the latter's seaweed farm workplace.
"As he blasted out of the water, we got such a shock as he was so fast, so high and so close to us. The boat is only about 16 foot long and he'd be nearly the same length," said Millard.
Mail Online has more on the story HERE.
Dolphin Visitor Spotted Off Kerry Near Fungie's Waters
#MarineWildlife - Clet the dolphin, previously spotted in West Cork after migrating across the Celtic Sea from France, has moved to the waters off Kerry in close proximity to Dingle's friendly resident Fungie.
As previously covered on Afloat.ie, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) warned curious humans not to get too close to the bottlenose traveller after reports of aggression against swimmers.
But according to Sunday Independent, Fungie himself should have nothing to fear from Clet's visit should the two come into contact, as fighting among dolphins is only likely if competing for a mate.
"Fungie could be 40 to 50 years old at this stage and is unlikely to be interested in mating," said the IWDG's Padraig Whooley.
That's one of the only things experts do know about Fungie, who continues to baffle marine scientists with his general behaviour that's so atypical of his species. Independent.ie has more on the story HERE.
In other cetacean news, the IWDG reports "huge success" in its just-completed expedition to Cape Verde to survey the region's whale activity, recording humpbacks breaching for the first time off Ilhéu Branco in the West African archipelago.
Take A Trip Into Fungie's World With Dingle's Resident Dolphin
#MarineWildlife - Thanks to the Daily Edge for highlighting this wonderful video of probably Ireland's favourite dolphin, posted by longtime Fungie fan Jeannine Massett.
The 15-minute short captures the friendly bottlenose in his more relaxed moods, clicking and whistling at passing boats, snacking on his favourite wild salmon, and simply sailing at peace through the waters off the Dingle Peninsula.
While it's thought by some that he may be an escapee from a British dolphinarium, Fungie's made his home in Dingle for more than three decades now, so he's an Irish dolphin through and through!
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Irvine Is California's Fastest Growing City
By Clarissa Wei
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Irvine is Southern California's fastest growing city, according to new census data. It grew at a pace five times the Southern California average, with its population leaping to nearly 230,000, or 4.2%, from July 2011 and July 2012.
Real estate agents say that the Orange County city's schools are the biggest draw, according to the Los Angeles Times. More growth is expected for Irvine, with its population nearing 300,000 by 2035.
New construction has also continued to increase with more than 1,400 new homes sold last year in Irvine Co. developments. That's up from 774 sold the year before.
Irvine also boasts the lowest violent crime rate of any U.S. city with more than 100,000 people.
Other fast growing cities in Southern California include Corona, with a 2.1% leap and Lake Elsinore at 2.1%. In the Los Angeles County, growth change typically remained under 1% with the exception of Santa Monica, where the population jumped 1.2% between 2011 and 2012.


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Romanian Embassy In Chisinau Receives Thousands Of Citizenship Requests Daily – Foreign Ministry
The number of requests for Romanian citizenship submitted to the Romanian embassy in the Republic of Moldova has increased to several thousand per day, the Romanian Foreign Ministry told MEDIAFAX Friday.
The Foreign Ministry said the Romanian embassy in Moldovan capital Chisinau is an intermediary between the citizen and the Ministry of Justice and Citizen Liberties, the only institution able to grant Romanian citizenship. The Foreign Ministry pointed out that Government Emergency Ordinance 36/2009, amending and completing the law of Romanian citizenship, "institutes a series of procedural facilities as regards regaining citizenship." These facilities are not destined for people form a certain area, but offer a more flexible procedure to former Romanian citizens who live in any other country.
Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu said in late April that there can be no question of granting Romanian citizenship en masse to Moldovan citizens, but that there will be an individual evaluation. "We will not give out passports for hundreds of thousands of people. There will be an individual evaluation and the first decisions about this will be taken after five-six months, according to procedure," the Minister said.
The Romanian Government recently simplified these procedures for Moldovan citizens. The maximum term for the evaluation of a file has been reduced from six to five months. Also, the right to request citizenship has been extended to third degree descendants.
President Traian Basescu had stated earlier that 800,000 citizens of the Republic of Moldova had requested to regain Romanian citizenship.


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When God reveals you prefer whiteness: A response to Gaye Clark by Sean Palmer
Most white Americans believe whiteness is normal and preferable. America's cultural myth is that Caucasians from European descent are the heroes of the American story. It's what made America great and what some believe will make America great again.
How to raise confident multiracial children by Chantilly Pantino.
While our nation is increasingly diverse, there are still factors that can leave kids feeling less than confident about their heritage and wondering where they fit in. This can cause them to feel marginalized on both sides or like they have to identify with one ethnicity over the other.
The conservative, Christian case for working women by Jonathan Merritt.
"All women are called to have influence—cultural influence outside of the private sphere of the home," Beaty said. "It wouldn't necessarily have to be a career track, but certainly all Christians, including all Christian women, are called to have cultural influence outside the home."
About those "20 minutes of action": 20 things we'd better tell our sons right now about being real men by Ann Voskamp
Because a Stanford doesn't begin with alcohol and it doesn't begin with partying kids with inflated egos and it doesn't begin with 20 minutes of not using your head but your hormones.
It begins with a woman like me bringing home a man-child in her arms, one mama unwrapping that blanket and what it means to raise up a man.
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What we can learn from the only white kid on this high school step team by Rachel Pieh Jones
The dance begins. The boys stomp and clap and tumble and flip through the air in an intense and relentless rhythm. Within seconds, the students are on their feet, cheering. They focus on Emmaus and at the end of the performance — when the team points him out and calls him their nickname, "White Chocolate" — the students go nuts shouting and clapping for their classmate.
Picking up the trash of white supremacy by Abby Norman
Essentially white communities are asking black people to live an experience that is set up to be far more difficult for them, and succeed by white standards. AND THEN we are asking them to re-live and explain it all over again in front of us so that we will believe them. Sometimes we don't. Sometimes we don't believe them. And the astounding thing is how many times black women are willing to risk it to help their white sisters understand. But that isn't their job.
Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local by Taiye Salasi
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Things I'm doing before going to hell by John Pavlovitz
I'm doing them because my deepest faith convictions tell me to try and make this place more like however I believe Heaven to be, and that this will bring justice and mercy along with it.
White savior barbie nails it by Rachel Pieh Jones
Perhaps the lesson of White Savior Barbie is that there is nothing wrong with service or with enjoying another culture but it needs to be done with integrity. Let's be qualified and well trained for the work we do. Develop authentic relationships based on more than great photo ops. Educate ourselves. Be wary of quick clichés like, "I fell in love with Africa the moment I got off the plane." Be learners.
Pakistani Muslim villagers are building a church for their Christian neighbors by Relevant Magazine
The BBC has reported from a village in Pakistan where Christians and Muslims are refusing to engage in violence, and instead, live side-by-side in real community.
Angels to block Westboro Baptist Church's protest at Orland memorial by Beth Spotswood
Angels really do exist — at least in Orlando. When the reviled hate group Westboro Baptist Church announced that it would be picketing the funerals of the victims of the Orlando gay bar shooting tragedy, a group of actors decided to fight back in a decidedly heavenly way.
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A good man justifies a wicked deed: Grudem on Trump by John Mark N. Reynolds
Manifestly men of goodwill can disagree, but they should not, because Donald J. Trump is uniquely unsuited for the most powerful job on the planet. He is morally unfit, unqualified, and advocating for him stains any person who does so.
Donald Trump and the Violence to Come by Peter Binart
"The United States is headed toward a confrontation, the likes of which it has not seen since 1968, between leftist activists, who believe in physical disruption as a means of drawing attention to injustice, and a candidate eager to forcibly put down that disruption in order to make himself look tough."
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To the White church who did not pray for the black man on Sunday
But Sunday, if you did not pray for the black man right alongside the police man, you missed the heart of God. If a black man had sat in your midst and heard you pray only for the police man and the police man's family, but not the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the decades of innocent black men killed by police men, I would not have blamed him for standing and shouting out in the middle of your prayer, "What the hell about me?! Do you care about me at all?!" And I would not have blamed him if he stormed out of your sanctuary and wept on your steps, desperate because he found no sanctuary in your midst.
Onward through the fog: Practicing faith when you can't see where you're going
"Onward through the fog," our program director would tell us as we struggled to understand the broken dynamics shaping the community around us. It's a phrase I've lived ever since. In fact, fog has become one of my go-to analogies for understanding the liminal spaces of life—those thresholds in life when there's not yet a clear answer.
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Only at the most rarefied level of fame do stars attain first-name- only recognition, and not many viewers are going to tune into Sheridan (ITV, Sunday, 9pm) expecting to see the life and adventures of the much-missed theatre critic son of Robert Morley. Starting out from the rank and file of television bit-part players – catching particular attention in The Royle Family and Gavin & Stacey – Sheridan Smith has taken an ever upward trajectory until now she occupies a place on the showbiz pantheon unmatched by any other British star today.
a switchback ride between glitz and glamour and turbulence and tragedy.
Whether the fearsome Sheridan Morley would have given his namesake a withering or gushing notice we'll never know: but it'll be rave reviews all the way from her millions of fans.


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Former world No. 1 Luke Donald is looking to capture his first major title (Getty Images).
British Open 2013: And the winner is......
If anyone tells you they know who's going to win this year's British Open Championship, and proffers betting advice, walk away. For they are both foolish and dangerous. That's not to say there are no educated guesses, but there lies no certainty here at Muirfield.
This is a course that, ever since the last decade of the 19th Century, has pretty much outlined the best player of the era. From Harry Vardon and James Braid to Walter Hagen and Henry Cotton. Not forgetting Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson as well as Nick Faldo (twice) and Ernie Els. So history suggests a class player.
However history here also suggests that Muirfield can sometimes be the first to identify that class.
Vardon won the first of his six Opens here, Player's first major of nine came on these links, Nicklaus's debut Open Championship too. More recently, Faldo's 1987 Muirfield Open was the first of his six career majors. FULL POST
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