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There is no question US forces have done an excellent job of restoring the semblance of law and order to many parts of Baghdad, but the very success of such operations only adds new problems. Fighting has ended in Sadri City but resident feel trapped and uncertain as walls go up and checkpoints established to monitor traffic. Unfortunately, walls and checkpoints only add to the sense of being harassed in one's own city. As a resident, Abu Ali, put it: "Because of this wall.. this wall of misery, we are living in a prison.. like being in a ghetto." Although there is no armed conflict now going on, it is still clear the Mahdi army is alive and well armed. Residents know they can not antagonize these insurgents who may one day be completely in charge of Baghdad, particularly if Americans leave.
An urban area containing a wall and numerous checkpoints makes for difficulty in trying to move around, a problem compounded by lack of adequate transportation. People have a tendency to ignore and past and focus on today. In Baghdad today, American forces are responsible for walls and checkpoints and the almost certain minor issues that arise when civilians and military interact.

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So, after reading the Canadian accident report, it seems that the Concordia was quite vulnerable to knockdown, even with its reduced sailplan. It really is scary to learn that a "mere" 30-ish knots of wind would have been enough to endanger the ship, and that what hit it may not have even been a full-scale microburst. Had I been crew on the ship, unless I'd been told otherwise, I would never have thought it would be in danger from garden-variety squalls. It seems that a lot of 35-footers might have better stability.
Additionally, the owners had been negligent about updating contact info for the ship, contributing to delays in the search effort. And the ship was traveling near squalls with lots of vulnerable doors open. And they had the bad luck to have most of their comm gear on the side that went down.
The only way to win this one is to become a super zealous safety nut.
1) keep the cabin hatch closed and bin boards in while sailing.
2) PFDs and EPRBs even while sitting at dock
3) keep the VHF set to weather during the entire trip, make sure squelch s set just a trifle too high
4) Obsess about keeping a lookout and analyze every cloud
5) Practice MOB drills endlessly
6) review in boring detail Pan Pan and MayDay procedures
7) practice many times dousing the sails and tieing down everything in event of squall
She will soon be lecturing you about taking it easy
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Human errors are sited. I am still reading the report.
Hi Jack... we just finished watching the doc ourselves, (we PVRd it last night too)
I thought it was well done - and poignantly told the human side of the story. The obvious emotion and concern on the part of the crew (esp the Capt. and the two mates) was powerful stuff.
The Brazilian S&R doesn't come out of it too well (though that is just one side of the story) - at first deciding the EPIRB was a false alarm, and then, after Canadian efforts resulted in a couple of freighters diverting for a 10 hour successful rescue, taking credit by unnecessarily (and against the skipper's wishes) transferring students to a navy vessel for a "rescue photo-op" in Rio.
A remarkable story, though, that all 64 souls survived, got into rafts, and were ultimately rescued. We were enroute to the Caribbean when it occurred and never did see any news reports on it at the time.
Also interesting that 16 of the students involved returned to their new ship on it's first voyage out of Norway.
Only in Canada
CBC has released a one-hour documentary on the sinking of the Concordia. It was aired last night. I PVRed it and just watched it. It is available online, but only in Canada.
Abandon Ship: The Sinking of the SV Concordia - Doc Zone | CBC-TV
Maybe other nationals could pressure a broadcaster to show it.
Abandon Ship: The Sinking of the SV Concordia recounts the events of February 17, 2010 when a freak weather phenomenon called a microburst hit the tall ship causing her to capsize with 64 souls aboard. With her Captain below deck, no way to send a distress call and only four life rafts, the crew barely escaped. As the rafts drifted from the floating debris, the survivors had no idea if any one knew they were alive or would ever come to rescue them.
"For a few hours I experienced my worst fear: that I had lost my daughter. I imagined her funeral, her empty room, her last moments. I imagined the horrible time in Canadian history that this would be, a modern day Titanic, a black mark for 64 families… forever. In those dark moments you pray, you hope, you beg. And for all of us those prayers were answered."
This is a particularly personal story for the Director Dianne Carruthers-Wood as her daughter Natasha was aboard the ship at sinking.
The SV Concordia was a floating high school. She was home to hundreds of students over the years who never in a million years thought she would sink.
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Tall ships versus small
Tall ships are built very differently than cruising sailboats. I may over-simplify, but the naval architecture fans can fill in the details and provide a more accurate answer to follow-up on my speculating.
Most modern blue-water and even typical production monohull cruising sailboats have a good righting moment that will help the boat pop back up from a knockdown, thanks to deep fin keels with heavy lead or iron ballast.
Old time sailing ships, however, relied on their beam and mass (and perhaps relatively less powerful sail plans or the ability to actually remove the upper masts and sails before entering an area of expected heavy weather) for capsize resistance, and didn't have deep, heavy metal keels to provide righting moment in the event of a severe knockdown. Often, their ballast consisted of loose rocks that could be dumped overboard in order to make more room for cargo. A great fear in the olden days was cargo, ballast, or cannons escaping confinement and battering the ship's hull from the inside. A more modern tall ship designed to train young people would presumably have some form of fixed internal ballast, but it still wouldn't likely have the sort of righting moment of a deep-keel boat cruising sailboat.
There are also other differences, notably in the complexity of the rigging on a sailing cruiser versus a tall ship. The skipper and crew on a small cruiser can often pop the sheets out of a clutch or cam, dump the traveler, and even roll up a roller-furling headsail, within seconds, to relieve excess wind loads. Good cruising and racing skippers are always alert and ready to ease lines immediately. But on a tall ship with a skeleton professional crew and students or guests whose safety must be maintained, the loads are heavy, and the rig by comparison is extraordinarily complex and inefficient to handle. Reefing or dousing all of those sails would take an extremely long time -- far too long if the tall ship has already been hit by an unexpected microburst. In general, a tall ship could probably work only a few sails at a time especially in severe conditions.
There may be other differences in terms of the relative strength and margins of the rigging, windage, speed of maneuvering and ability to maneuver to reduce loads, difficulty of tacking square riggers especially in heavy air, etc., but someone more expert can discuss these.
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It sure was for the students on board.
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I know some students from Calgary who had sailed on her.
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Not the biggest deal.
But I guess within the scope of the universe, there can only be one biggest deal; maybe the big bang.
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posted at 7:36 pm on September 3, 2012 by Dafydd ab Hugh
Sorry for the tardiness of this post (it's sooo last month now!), but it's spent quite a long holiday in "pending" purgatory. With some modifications, I remain hopeful it will finally be posted. (And if it doesn't, you'll never know it, will you?)
Several people have bashed
yesterday's [actually, six days ago now] convention speech by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey; I name no names, but you know who you are. (Yes, I'm talking to you, Chris Wallace, and you too, Juan Williams!) The argument is that Christie spent too much time talking about ideas, philosophy, the future, and his ample self, and not much time at all savaging Barack "You didn't build that" Obama or buttering up the actual nominee (official now), Willard Mitt Romney.
I say that's all a bunch of hogwarts. That criticism tells me only that Messrs. Wally and Willy utterly fail to understand the extraordinary and irreversible change wrought, not by tea partiers (they are only one manifestation of the movement), but by the popular front for liberty that coalesced on February 19th, 2009 — just thirty days after President B.O. was anointed, adored, and installed upon the Hog-Butcher Throne.
On that day, CNBC business editor Rick Santelli denounced the Obamic scheme to refinance defaulted mortgages. George W. Bush had pushed through Congress a plan to re-value the "troubled assets," mostly mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) that banks were holding as reserves, but whose values were a complete mystery, even to the banks themselves. But Obama radically altered that sensible plan in favor of a populist, Progressivist scheme to reward something-for-nothing borrowers for buying far more house than they could afford, and taking out mortgages they couldn't possibly repay.
Santelli exploded on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (how apt!), railing against the loss of liberty, individuality, personal responsibility, truth, justice, and the American way. To whoops and cheers among the CME traders, he even called for them to hurl those debased and valueless MBSs into the Chicago River, à la the Boston Tea Party.
Santelli didn't start the fire; individual flickers, flare-ups, and hot spots had hissed and spit over the previous decade. But on that day of freedom, he pulled together all these slow-burning fuses and bound them into a true popular front for liberty, independence, Capitalism, and Americanism. He sparked a simultaneous explosion of revulsion at crony capitalism (its other name is "Liberal Fascism") and an explosive determination to rebuild America — not via yet another radical socioeconomic "revolution;" more like a religious revival, restoring what the United States had been missing since some time before the "Progressivist" era of anti-Constitution, anti-Founding Father Woodrow Wilson. Americans began to crave more liberty and less government.
Since then, tea-party movements have erupted in every state of the Union. They seized control of the Republican Party in the 2010 midterm elections (and particularly in the primaries that preceded the general), and now the popular front for liberty looms large to take the country itself by storm on November 6th.
Personally, I love this movement; it's just what has been lacking in all previous attempts (including Reagan's) to roll back socialism and Progressivism and return to individual liberty, self sufficiency, and honest Capitalism that Alexis De Tocqueville extolled in Democracy in America.
I have writ rhapsodies in red about the popular front for liberty stretching back to February 20th, 2010 (almost on the anniversary of Santelli's revivalist rant), encompassing nineteen blogposts since then (
see below [voluminous links excised to prevent being returned to the penalty box]). But those critics of Christie's speech — did you think I'd forgotten the subject? — have fallen into the trap of "same as it ever was." They cannot break free of the red meat, attack dog paradigm of twentieth-century campaigns.
Wally and Willy pooh-pooh the Christie speech because he didn't rake Obama over the barbecue pit personally, by name; Christie didn't run down his policies, peculiarities, and pomposities; his diction, gait and sartorial sense; his patterns of pronunciation, prandial pleasures, haircut hilarities, taste in tobacco; his earballs and earmarks, and every word he has ever uttered, including "and", "of", and most especially his very favorite word: "I". (There's no "we" in "narcissism"!)
The speech crickets want to make this contest, every contest, a clash of titanic personalities. They don't understand that this crucial election is not a choice of chumps; it's a long-overdue Armageddon of axioms and ideas.
Christie very ably (and subtlely!) articulates the ideology of the popular front for liberty: self-reliance, traditional American virtues, American exceptionalism, Capitalism, limited government (limited in size, scope, and especially reach), balanced budgets, low taxes, and even lower spending.
He did not need to throw Obama under the Romney campaign bus. Christie stakes his argument on the moral clarity of tea-party ideas and ideology.
Over the past few months, Barack Obama's character-assassination squads have spent hundreds of millions of dollars (quite literally) portraying Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Republicans in general as bigots, racists, one-percenter plutocrats, and homophobes; bitter-clingers, furiously waging a war against all women; a war driven by rage, impotence, misogyny, and seething hatred.
Many undecided voters must have tuned into the Republican National Convention with trepidation, wondering if they would see howling jackals slavering over their raw meat and bloody petrodollars. After all, that's what the President of the Untied States warned them they would see.
So the last thing in the world we need at this convention is an angry, denunciatory speech attacking Barack Obama. It would play right into his clenched fist.
The time for that raw anger has come, and it has gone. Now is the time for up-tempo, upbeat speeches of hope — real hope founded on a workable plan to defibrillate the economy and jumpstart the job market — and change… change back to what has made America unique ever since its founding: We are the only country in the world founded on the basis of a capitalist economy and an ideology of individual liberty, utterly unlike the mass, interest-group, faux "liberté" of the French Revolution, which perverted the very idea of true liberty.
Liberty can only apply to individuals, not marching mobs; that true liberty is what has made us the greatest nation that has ever existed, not only in power but the most moral national as well; whence comes our powerhouse economy (even today), and why we have universally, if sometimes grudgingly, been accepted as the last resort of conscience against tyranny in the world.
But the advance of liberty is occasion for joy, not ugly rage: The speeches at the RNC must be uniformly positive, futurist, and Reaganesque.
If they are, Americans will be stunned by the chasm between what they're watching on the screen, and the vile distortion and caricature they were sold by the Democrats. Voters will finally perceive how they have been lied to and disrespected by Obama and all the president's men. Barack Obama will bear the brunt of that backlash, and the election will become a referendum between Reaganesque and Nixonesque.
That will be the tipping point, where a narrow victory for Romney, without coattails, turns into an utter rout of Progressivism — with a firm mandate for the popular front for liberty.
Chris Christie's speech may not be the "same as it ever was," "usual suspects," red-meat affair that liberal Democrat Juan Williams hoped to see; instead, it is an extremely effective "new way" argument for the twenty-first century. It carries the virtue that even folks who like the Big Stick as a person can nevertheless reject his ideas in the ballot box. With clear conscience and no lingering taint of racism, voters can punch the chad for a return to the Constitution-based politics of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
To which I can only say, about bloody time!
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Legislative and executive branch economists met Friday to update the economic estimate. It will form the basis of a state revenue estimate they'll make on Dec. 13, which Gov. Rick Scott will use for his budget recommendations to the Legislature next year.
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my female has been great since i got her bus pass.
bad idea -- fraud "train her to use public transport if you can (you would need a harness with a handle for that), " you can not , should not disguise your dog as a seeing eye / guide dog , especially a dog that has issues that will reflect on the real working guide dog or dog-in-training
It might help if I explain part of my problem. In the past I've always raised pups by letting then explore and letting them be independant. Unfortunately I made mistakes with this one and her temperament didn't suit that approach and so I didn't show her that when she's anxious or if she feels under attack (even when I know she isn't) I will be there to protect her, I basically hung her out to dry.
I don't need judged or at this stage advised on what I should of done, believe me I have gone over the last year a million times. I too have always been told not to praise fear and just remove her from the situation. However much I understand this I appreciate what the other poster has said about getting down on her level. I really struggle putting myself between her bad an off lead dog coming towards us. When she's barking and lunging she is really strong. I know I've to try and keep her under threshold but we don't have dog parks in Scotland so off lead dogs are a part of every walk. I don't have a choice in that.
As I said before. I appreciate all advice. I am working hard to help her but her confidence in me is something that really needs extra help.
Thanks again. Lots of food for thought.x
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as her biological mother would have done. Parks, towns, different streets, train her to use public transport if you can
Trust and confidence doesn't happen overnight, it's a process just like a human relationship. The dog regardless of age associates good things with their human pack: food, shelter, companionship, etc just to name a few
Firstly you can build a dog's confidence by A) do you best to never put them in positions to fail. So if she doesn't like dogs in her face, refrain from taking her into pet stores, dog parks, etc where she will have to face those things at a close distance. Start where she is comfortable, whether is be 5', 50' or 500' and start your work there. B) Always work at projecting confidence and peace no matter what, dogs are very adapt at reading us so if you're uncertain and nervous they will pick up on that and that can add to their own personal stress they may be feeling. Don't coddle the fear by stroking or baby talking them, step in between them and the object of fear and then either freeze there to allow them to investigate it at a safe distance (if it's inanimate and the dog isn't showing signs of extreme stress like trembling, drooling, teeth chattering, etc) or if it's something moving and they've showing signs of avoidance slowly move away keeping yourself in front of the dog.
My poodle is very fearful, she's from a BYB and from day one I have seen her struggle with fear and lack of confidence. I knew she would never be able to be in a class setting or play group so I started with little things. I didn't coddle her by carrying her everywhere, I kept her on the ground once she finished her shots and allowed her to explore at her own pace. If she was behind me I didn't make a big deal about it, I just either stayed still and acted like nothing was wrong or casually walked away. If a dog went to sniff her and she was showing avoidance I would crouch beside her and block the dog from getting close, either by petting the dog and keeping it's attention on me or gently pushing it away and blocking. I rewarded any confident behaviour I saw, if she avoided a fire hydrant and then the next walk went by it without a sideways glance I rewarded. Remember that even a glance towards a object of fear can be a good sign, that means they're not in total avoidance mode.
I have done my absolute best to never ever force her into something she was showing true avoidance. I've been very fortunate that I have a good vet and groomer that have paired with me that show nothing but kindness and compassion for her. They allow me to stay with her and will step back and take a break if asked to, it's a great tool to have. Life isn't perfect and mistakes will happen, forgive yourself and the dog and move forward and don't dwell on the negative, look for the positive no matter how little and strive to encourage it.
Something I found very helpful was showing her that things weren't scary. So if there was something, let's use a fire hydrant for example and she was showing mild to medium avoidance I would give her extra leash so she had space to move if needed and I would walk straight up to the fire hydrant confidently. I would touch, slap, talk to, even sit beside the object and physically show that it was ok to be around. If she followed me, even a step I would toss a treat and praise her. If she came even closer and came to my feet or into my lap if I was sitting I would treat and praise as well. Not a huge party but a warm "good girl" with a pat and treat. Same thing for other dogs, if I saw the other dog was calm and friendly I would ask the owner for permission to come up and I would give Jazzy space but I would approach and pet the other dog talking quietly to the dog or owner, showing her that the dog was safe to approach. I never forced her to approach but showed her through actions that many dogs are safe
As she aged she became more confident in me, she ran to me if she needed reassurance rather then run away. I don't think she'll ever be a normal confident dog but she's learned through years now of experience that I will protect her from everything I can and she can come to me if she needs help. She knows I will fix the situation by either removing her or defending her from whatever is bugging her. That took months to grow, but it's worth the wait and every tear to see her approaching situations that she cowered at before with a raised head and wagging tail. Those moments are my reward
Can you tell us more about when you believe these problems started?
That's awesome that you are training with her, keep it up.
I would recommend letting her just hang out with you, tag a long when you run errands. Go hiking, casual walks, explore together. Give her a job. I started "help me" when my boy was a pup...he knows that means hold or carry something for me.
I'm not sure the issues she's having with other dogs but I would stay away from dog parks (not even sure if you go). Only allow her around trusted dogs. Put other dogs on hold for now & continue to work on bonding
what ? "Then, you should know that it is typical to young females to exibit fear and agression, it will go away naturally when she's 3, bolder and physically stronger"
really bad idea " stroking her whenever she is frightened" promotes exactly what you do not want
bad idea -- fraud "train her to use public transport if you can (you would need a harness with a handle for that), " you can not , should not disguise your dog as a seeing eye / guide dog , especially a dog that has issues that will reflect on the real working guide dog or dog-in-training
this makes no sense "muscular mass is a clue to gaining confidence
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Thank you so much. You've given me some brilliant advice and ideas to work on.
I'm really struggling with getting her to heal. She'll do it if I have her ball or a treat but as soon as they're removed so is her attention on me. I've read lots of posts about people with reactive dogs getting their dogs to heal and that keeps the dog focused on the owner and not the approaching dog so I know I have to work on it but I've a long way to go.
Thanks for the advice.
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"Trust", or so called "bond" starts to form a bridge from the very first day you bring your puppy home. First of all define yourself to your dog. This image has its stages: first of all - you are a foster parent to your puppy, a protector, stroking her whenever she is frightened, calming her down. Avoid pushing her if she is. Crouch to her level if you see she exhibits it and remain in this position until unknown dog with his owner dissapears, bringing yourself to her level would mean to her that you two are together and do not intend to run away. If she barks agressively, her hairs on the end - ask her to lay down, dogs calm down faster in sitting or down position. And, the most important - turn your back to the object of fear, never stare in that direction, show her that it is something to ignore.
Show her that you are a strong powerful and experienced foster parent by taking her to new places, as her biological mother would have done. Parks, towns, different streets, train her to use public transport if you can (you would need a harness with a handle for that), visit places where she can see different dogs during your walk, in this sense their number is important. But don't stop, it would be better to be on the move all the time, ignore all. It is always recommended to stay with a group of friends over first 2 years and train your dog to ignore any unknown. She should learn to heel perfectly, pay attention to the command "Heel", not to that dog she is scared of, thus she learns to pay attention to your voice rather than to the object of fear.
Then, you should know that it is typical to young females to exibit fear and agression, it will go away naturally when she's 3, bolder and physically stronger. Help her as her leader of the pack to gain bodily weight due to good appetite after hard physical and intellectual exercise, her physical development and muscular mass is a clue to gaining confidence.
I have noticed many times that intensive training builds the strongest bond with the dog. Sometimes dogs start loving a trainer more than their owner (if the handler is a trainer) only because that one teaches them something new, engages their intellect and directs their energy.
By looking at the photograph, I can say you have a very beautiful female. Good luck!
Building trust and confidence
I'm working on my 15mth GSD bitch'sAttachment 168089 reactivity to other dogs. I firmly believe that part of her problem is that she lacks confidence in herself and trust and confidence in me; we can almost pin point exactly when and why her problems started.
Anyway, how do I build up her trust in me? We do basic training and obedience, play games etc but I'm a bit stumped as to how I can show her she can trust me. Any suggestions?
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I had been quizzing a friend of mine ( Collector2 on the Mercs site) about the harness because he thought it looked familiar. Since he's a diver we had, of course, been looking at the SCUBA and then at his suggestion of it being more likely the SCBA tank frame harnesses. I had thought last night that I had found an auction with the right harness and got him to add more pics of the frame ( here: MSA Self Contained Breathing Apparatus' SCBA w EXTRAS | eBay ) but then my friend, for reasons unknown, had the epiphany of the sissy bar.
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Henry's reputation at Arsenal is such that he was immortalised with a statue outside Emirates Stadium ahead of the Club's 125th anniversary celebrations.
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|WebSphere configuration management practices are common items of conversation that comes up when I am talking with users about IBM Workload Deployer (formerly WebSphere CloudBurst). This conversation can take on so many different avenues that it is hard to capture all of them in a short blog post. So, for the sake of this post, let's consider two facets of WebSphere configuration management. The first facet is addressing the need to consistently arrive at the same configuration across multiple deployments of a given WebSphere environment. The second facet involves managing the configuration of a deployed environment over time to protect against living drift. What is the best way to tackle these two challenges? Well, it comes down to picking the right tool for the job.
|When it comes to ensuring consistency of initial WebSphere configuration from deployment to deployment, there is really no better means than patterns-based deployments enabled by IBM Workload Deployer. Whether you are using a virtual system or virtual application pattern, the bottom line is that you are representing your middleware application environments as a single, directly deployable unit. When you need to stand that environment up, you simply deploy the pattern. The deployment encapsulates the installation, configuration, and integration of the environment, and your applications if you so choose. The benefit of this approach is that once you get your pattern nailed down, you can be extremely confident that the initial configuration of your environments is extremely consistent from deploy to deploy. Basically, no more bad deployments because someone forgot to run configuration step 33 out of 100!
|Because we talk about the benefits of consistency provided by our IBM Workload Deployer patterns, users often ask what IBM Workload Deployer does in terms of configuration governance for deployed environments. In other words, they ask how IBM Workload Deployer helps them to track configuration changes or compare the configuration of a deployed environment to a known good one. The honest answer is that this is a bit beyond the functional domain of the appliance. While IBM Workload Deployer does allow you to manage the deployed environment (apply fixes, update deployed applications, snapshot, etc.), it does not layer some of the common configuration governance concerns on top of that. However, there is a good reason why the appliance does not focus on that. It's because Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere does!
|If you find yourself wanting to actively track configuration changes, periodically (and automatically at specified intervals) compare configuration changes to a 'golden' baseline, import configurations of a known good environment, apply common configuration across a number of cells, then the capabilities of RAFW would likely be of interest to you. It can do all this and give you an incredible toolbox of out-of-the-box application deployment and configuration capabilities for WebSphere environments. In my mind, for those that spend a good deal of time dealing with WebSphere configuration, whether it be deploying applications, configuring containers, or debugging inadvertent changes, an examination of RAFW functionality is a must.
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Historically, the positioning of Dell versus its two major competitors for high-value enterprise business, particularly where it involved complex services and the ability to deliver deeply integrated infrastructure and management stacks, has been as sort of an also ran. Competitors looked at Dell as a price spoiler and a channel for standard storage and networking offerings from its partners, not as a potential threat to the high-ground of being able to deliver complex integrated infrastructure solutions.
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April 2012 marks the University of Rochester's second annual LGBTQI Awareness Month. To commemorate the month, we're celebrating LGBTQI activists by featuring women whose work and bravery helped change society, one step at a time.
Evelyn Hooker (1907-1966) was a psychologist whose path-breaking study argued and gave evidence that homosexuality was not a mental disorder (as it had been widely-described during that time), but a variance of human sexuality. Hooker's study, first published in 1957 in the Journal of Projective Techniques, served as a foundation for most political and philosophical work dealing with LGBTQ rights. Her work was integral in the successful removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Hooker was awarded the APA's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in the Public Interest in 1991.
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Marsha P. Johnson (1944-1992) was a transgender LGBTQ rights activist and a popular figure in the New York City art scene from the 1960s through the 1990s. She was a leader in clashes with the police amid the Stonewall Riots in 1969, and a co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR). When a judge asked Johnson what the "P" in her name stood for, she replied "Pay It No Mind." The statement became her signature phrase. Johnson was photographed for an Andy Warhol series and interviewed by Allen Young for his book Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation.
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|All you need is something the shape of the windlace over the top of the door. Whatever you use has to stand out a little bit so that the headliner material can be pushed under. It would help to have teeth to hold the fabric.
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Thanks Dan. You have confirmed my suspicion that I am missing these "grip strips" . Looks like I will have to either "locate" some replacements or fabricate something that will work. Looking at the link you posted , gave me some ideas of what I need. If I do fabricate something new, I'll take photos that may be able to help someone else. Thanks again.
|The windlace is attached first, and the headliner retainers bump up to the windlace. There should be a headliner retainer strip that screws into the area above the doors and rear windows. The headliner is tucked up under those strips which have teeth to hold the cloth in place. Look at this thread and you will see what I mean. The first and last pictures in the first post show the headliner retaining strips. http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/head...al-146600.html This car is a '55 Town Sedan. The interior was done with fabric original to the car.
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|Universiteit Leiden
|Latin: Academia Lugduno-Batava
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|Libertatis Praesidium (Latin)
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|Bastion of Freedom
|Public research university
|8 February 1575[1]
|€588 million (2016)[2]
|Prof. Carel Stolker
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|24,270 (2014)[3]
|Leiden and The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Dutch: Universiteit Leiden), located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands.[9] The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The Dutch Royal Family and Leiden University still have a close relationship; Queens Juliana and Beatrix and King Willem-Alexander are former students.
Leiden University has seven faculties, over 50 departments and enjoys an outstanding international reputation. In 2013 Leiden was the highest ranked university in the Netherlands in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, where it was rated as the 64th best university worldwide and 61-70 for international reputation. Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked Leiden University as the 70th best university worldwide.[10] The Times Higher Education World University Rankings consistently rank Leiden University as the best university in Continental Europe for Arts and Humanities. The University is associated with ten leaders and Prime Ministers of the Netherlands including the current Prime Minister Mark Rutte, nine foreign leaders, among them the 6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams, a Secretary General of NATO, a President of the International Court of Justice, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and sixteen recipients of the Nobel Prize (including renowned physicists Albert Einstein[11][12] and Enrico Fermi). The university came into particular prominence during the Dutch Golden Age, when scholars from around Europe were attracted to the Dutch Republic due to its climate of intellectual tolerance and Leiden's international reputation. During this time Leiden was home to such figures as René Descartes, Rembrandt, Christiaan Huygens, Hugo Grotius, Baruch Spinoza and Baron d'Holbach. The university is a member of the Coimbra Group, the Europaeum and the League of European Research Universities. Leiden University houses more than 40 national and international research institutes.
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In 1575, the emerging Dutch Republic did not have any universities in its northern heartland. The only other university in the Habsburg Netherlands was the University of Leuven in southern Leuven, firmly under Spanish control. The scientific renaissance had begun to highlight the importance of academic study, so Prince William founded the first Dutch university in Leiden, to give the Northern Netherlands an institution that could educate its citizens for religious purposes, but also to give the country and its government educated men in other fields.[13] It is said the choice fell on Leiden as a reward for the heroic defence of Leiden against Spanish attacks in the previous year. Ironically, the name of Philip II of Spain, William's adversary, appears on the official foundation certificate, as he was still the de jure count of Holland. Philip II replied by forbidding any subject to study in Leiden. Originally located in the convent of St Barbara, the university moved to the Faliede Bagijn Church in 1577 (now the location of the University museum) and in 1581 to the convent of the White Nuns, a site which it still occupies, though the original building was destroyed by fire in 1616.[13]
The presence within half a century of the date of its foundation of such scholars as Justus Lipsius, Joseph Scaliger, Franciscus Gomarus, Hugo Grotius, Jacobus Arminius, Daniel Heinsius and Gerhard Johann Vossius, rapidly made Leiden university into a highly regarded institution that attracted students from across Europe in the 17th century.[14] Renowned philosopher Baruch Spinoza was based close to Leiden during this period and interacted with numerous scholars at the university. The learning and reputation of Jacobus Gronovius, Herman Boerhaave, Tiberius Hemsterhuis and David Ruhnken, among others, enabled Leiden to maintain its reputation for excellence down to the end of the 18th century.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Leiden University again became one of Europe's leading universities.[15] At the world's first university low-temperature laboratory, professor Heike Kamerlingh Onnes achieved temperatures of only one degree above absolute zero of −273 degrees Celsius. In 1908 he was also the first to succeed in liquifying helium and can be credited with the discovery of the superconductivity in metals.
Kamerlingh Onnes was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913. Three other professors received the Nobel Prize for their research performed at Universiteit Leiden: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman received the Nobel Prize for their pioneering work in the field of optical and electronic phenomena, and the physiologist Willem Einthoven for his invention of the string galvanometer, which among other things, enabled the development of electrocardiography.
These Nobel prize winners, but also the physicists Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi and Paul Ehrenfest, the Arabist and Islam expert Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, the law expert Cornelis van Vollenhoven and historian Johan Huizinga, were among those who pushed the university into a place of international prominence during the 1920s and 1930s. In 2005 the manuscript of Einstein on the quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas (the Einstein-Bose condensation) was discovered in one of Leiden's libraries.[16]
At present, Leiden has a firmly established international position among the top research institutes in many fields, including the natural sciences, medicine, social and behavioural sciences, law, arts and letters. Of the seventy-seven Spinozapremie (the highest scientific award of The Netherlands), nineteen were granted to professors of the Universiteit Leiden. Literary historian Frits van Oostrom was the first professor of Leiden to be granted the Spinoza award for his work on developing the NLCM centre (Dutch literature and culture in the Middle Ages) into a top research centre. Other Spinozapremie winners are linguists Frederik Kortlandt and Pieter Muysken, mathematician Hendrik Lenstra, physicists Carlo Beenakker, Jan Zaanen and Dirk Bouwmeester, astromers Ewine van Dishoeck, Marijn Franx and Alexander Tielens, transplantation biologist Els Goulmy, clinical epidemiologist Frits Rosendaal, pedagogue Marinus van IJzendoorn, archeologists Wil Roebroeks and Corinne Hofman, neurologist Michel Ferrari, classicist Ineke Sluiter, social psychologist Naomi Ellemers, statistician Aad van der Vaart.[17] Among other leading professors are Wim Blockmans, professor of Medieval History, and Willem Adelaar, professor of Amerindian Languages.
The portraits of many famous professors since the earliest days hang in the university aula, one of the most memorable places, as Niebuhr called it, in the history of science.
The University Library, which has more than 5.2 million books and fifty thousand journals, also has a number of internationally renowned special collections of western and oriental manuscripts, printed books, archives, prints, drawings, photographs, maps, and atlases. It houses the largest collections worldwide on Indonesia and the Caribbean. Scholars from all over the world visit Leiden University Library, the oldest in the Netherlands. The research activities of the Scaliger Institute focus on these special collections and concentrate particularly on the various aspects of the transmission of knowledge and ideas through texts and images from antiquity to the present day.
Among the institutions affiliated with the university are The KITLV or Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (founded in 1851), the observatory 1633; the natural history museum, with a very complete anatomical cabinet; the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities), with specially valuable Egyptian and Indian departments; a museum of Dutch antiquities from the earliest times; and three ethnographical museums, of which the nucleus was Philipp Franz von Siebold's Japanese collections. The anatomical and pathological laboratories of the university are modern, and the museums of geology and mineralogy have been restored.
The Hortus Botanicus (botanical garden) is the oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands, and one of the oldest in the world. Plants from all over the world have been carefully cultivated here by experts for more than four centuries. The Clusius garden (a reconstruction), the 18th century Orangery with its monumental tub plants, the rare collection of historical trees hundreds of years old, the Japanese Siebold Memorial Museum symbolising the historical link between East and West, the tropical greenhouses with their world class plant collections, and the central square and Conservatory exhibiting exotic plants from South Africa and southern Europe.
Research at Leiden is well developed. There are many university research institutes and Leiden participates in over forty nationwide research schools, twelve of which being located in the heart of Leiden. In 2012 Leiden entered into a strategic alliance with Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam in order for the universities to increase the quality of their research and teaching. The university is also the unofficial home of the Bilderberg Group, a meeting of high-level political and economic figures from North America and Europe. In the past hundred years rare honorary degrees have been granted to figures such as Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela.
The university has no central campus; its buildings are spread over the city. Some buildings, like the Gravensteen, are very old, while buildings like Lipsius and Gorlaeus are much more modern. The university is divided into seven major faculties which offer approximately 50 undergraduate degree programmes and over 100 graduate programmes. In recent years the university has also expanded to The Hague which is home to Leiden University College The Hague a liberal arts and sciences college and the departments of Public Administration, International Relations and Politics. It occupies a number of buildings in the historic centre of the city including a college building in Lange Voorhout.
Undergraduate programmes[edit]
Most of the university's departments offer their own degree programme(s). Undergraduate programmes lead to either a B.A., B.Sc. or LL.B. degree. Other degrees, such as the B.Eng. or B.F.A., are not awarded at Leiden University.
- African Languages and Cultures[18]
- Archeology
- Arabic, Persian and Turkish Languages and Cultures[19]
- Art History
- Assyriology
- Astronomy
- Biology[20]
- Biomedical Sciences
- Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences[21]
- Chemistry
- Chinese Languages and Cultures[22]
- Classics
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
- Computer Science
- Criminology
- Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
- Dutch Language and Literature
- Dutch Studies[23]
- Educational Sciences
- Egyptian Languages and Cultures (Egyptology)[24]
- English Language and Culture[25]
- French Language and Culture[26]
- German Language and Culture[27]
- History[28]
- Hebrew and Aramaic Languages and Cultures[29]
- Indian American Studies[30]
- Indology (South and central Asia)[31]
- Indonesian Languages and Cultures[32]
- International Relations and Organisations
- International Studies[33]
- Italian Language and Culture[34]
- Japanese Languages and Cultures[35]
- Korean Languages and Cultures[36]
- Latin American Studies & Spanish[37]
- Law (General Dutch Law track)
- Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Linguistics
- Life Science and Technology
- Literature
- Mathematics
- Medicine (6-year track)
- Molecular Science and Technology
- Near Eastern Studies
- New Persian Languages and Cultures (Turkish)[38]
- Notarial Law
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science[39]
- Public Administration[40]
- Psychology
- Russian Studies[41]
- Slavic Languages and Literatures[42]
- Turkish[43]
- Southeast Asia and Oceania Languages and Cultures
- Tax Law
- Theology
- World Religion Studies
|Medicine / LUMC
|Mathematics and Natural Sciences
|Social and Behavioural sciences
|Governance and Global Affairs
Graduate studies[edit]
Students can choose from a range of graduate programmes. Most of the above-mentioned undergraduate programmes can be continued with either a general or a specialised graduate program. Leiden University offers more than 100 graduate programs leading to either MA, MSc, MPhil, or LLM degrees. The MPhil. is a special research degree and only awarded by selected departments of the university (mostly in the fields of Arts, Social Sciences, Archeology, Philosophy, and Theology). Admission to these programmes is highly selective and primarily aimed at those students opting for an academic career.
Some of the notable graduate programmes are
- Air and Space Law
- Asian Studies
- Bioinformatics
- Chemistry
- Industrial Ecology M.Sc. (track)
- DNA Computing
- Biopharmaceutical Sciences
- European Law[44]
- European and International Business Law
- European Union Studies
- Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences
- Functional Genomics
- History
- ICT in Business and the Public Sector[45]
- Public International Law
- Roman Law
- International Relations and Diplomacy
- International Tax Law[46]
- Islamic Studies[47]
- Life Science and Technology[48]
- Linguistics
- Literary Studies
- Mathematics
- Media Technology[49]
- Nanoscience
- Philosophy of a Specific Discipline
- Toxicology[50]
Doctorate programmes[edit]
In addition, most departments, affiliated (research) institutes or faculties offer doctorate programmes or positions, leading to the PhD degree. Most of the PhD programmes offered by the university are concentrated in several research schools or institutes.
Research schools and affiliated institutes[edit]
Leiden University has more than 50 research and graduate schools and institutes. Some of them are fully affiliated with one faculty of the university, while others are interfaculty institutes or even interuniversity institutes.
|Academy of Creative and Performing Arts]
|African Studies Centre Leiden
|Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)[51]
|Crisis Research Centre[52]
|Centre for Language and Identity
|Centre for Science and Technology Studies
|The Meijers Research Institute
|Research School for Legal Studies
|Centre for Law in the Information Society
|Grotius Centre
|Research Centre for International Legal Studies
|Leiden Graduate School of Science
|Historical Institute
|Leiden University Institute for History
|Huizinga Instituut
|Research Institute and Graduate School for Cultural History
|Institute of Biology Leiden
|International Institute for Asian Studies
|International Institute of Air and Space Law
|Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics
|International Tax Centre (ITC)[53]
|The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research
|Leiden Centre for Molecular BioScience
|Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Programme, Faculty of Science Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Programme, [http://science.leidenuniv.nl/index.php/lead/index/ LEAD]
|Leyden Academy
|Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing[54]
|Leiden Graduate School for Archeology
|Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science[55]
|Leiden Institute for Area Studies
|Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition[56]
|Leiden Institute of Chemistry
|Leiden Institute of Physics
|Leiden Institute for the Study of Religion
|Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
|Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
|Leiden University Medical Centre
|Mathematical Institute of Leiden University
|Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies
|Netherlands Institute of Government
|Netherlands Institute for the Near East
|Netherlands Research School for Astronomy
|N.W. Posthumus Instituut
|Netherlands Research Institute and School for Economic and Social History
|National Research School in Classical Studies
|Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis
|Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History
|Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies
|Pallas Institute for Cultural Disciplines
|Sterrewacht Leiden
|Leiden Astronomical Observatory
|The Europa Institute
|Leiden Law School
|Van Vollenhoven Institute
|Research Institute for Law, Governance and Development
Notable alumni and professors[edit]
- Piet Aalberse, politician
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, theologian
- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States
- Princess Aimée of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven-Söhngen
- Nebahat Albayrak, politician
- Johannes Alberti, theologian
- Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, anatomist
- Alexander, Prince of Orange
- Josette Altmann Borbón, First Lady of Costa Rica 1994–1998[57]
- Princess Anita of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven-van Eijk
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, activist
- János Apáczai Csere, mathematician
- Jacobus Arminius, theologian
- Tobias Asser, Nobel laureate (Peace 1911)
- Jimly Asshiddiqie, 1st Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia
- Touraj Atabaki, academic
- Caspar Barlaeus, theologian
- Johann Bartsch, physician
- Beatrix, Former Queen of the Netherlands
- Kune Biezeveld, theologian
- Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel laureate (Physics 1981)
- Herman Boerhaave, physician
- Bart Bok, astronomer
- Frits Bolkestein, Netherlands Deputy Prime Minister 2005–06
- Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland, philosopher
- Ben Bot, politician
- Alexander Boswell, judge
- Rolf Bremmer, academic
- Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, politician
- Thomas Browne, writer
- Sebald Justinus Brugmans, botanist
- Ian Buruma, writer
- Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana 1969–72
- Ditmir Bushati, Albanian politician
- John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, U.K. Prime Minister 1762–63
- Paulus Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1572–84
- Boediono, Vice President of Indonesia
- Archibald Cameron, Jacobite physician
- Hendrik Casimir, physicist
- Carolus Clusius, botanist
- Jacques Cohen, embryologist
- Job Cohen, politician
- Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
- Jodocus Crull, miscellaneous writer
- Petrus Cunaeus, academic
- Janus Henricus Donker Curtius, last Opperhoofd of the Dutch trading post in Japan (1852–1855)
- Baron d'Holbach, philosopher
- Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Netherlands Prime Minister 1918–25, 1929–33
- Michiel Jan de Goeje, orientalist
- Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz, physicist
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, 11th Secretary-General of NATO
- Pieter de la Court, economist
- René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
- Willem de Sitter, physicist
- Gijs de Vries, politician
- Jouke de Vries, academic
- Hendrik de Wit, botanist
- Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1653–72
- Tim de Zeeuw, astronomer
- Nicolaas Diederichs, President of South Africa 1975–78
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist
- Volkert Doeksen, CEO
- Ana Dolidze, lawyer
- Janus Dousa, statesman
- Paul Ehrenfest, physicist
- Willem Einthoven, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1924)
- Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (Physics 1921)
- Simon Episcopius, theologian
- Paul Sophus Epstein, physicist
- Enrico Fermi, Nobel laureate (Physics 1938)
- Henry Fielding, novelist
- Paul Fleming, poet
- Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau
- John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, jurist
- Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
- Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
- Richard D. Gill, professor of mathematical statistics
- Thomas Girdlestone, physician
- Franciscus Gomarus, theologian
- Samuel Goudsmit, physician
- Johann Georg Graevius, academic
- Jacobus Gronovius, academic
- Hugo Grotius, jurist
- W. Stephen Gunter, Associate Dean for Methodist Studies and Research Professor of Evangelism and Wesleyan Studies at Duke Divinity School. The foremost scholar on Arminius
- Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, Vice-President of Indonesia 1973–78
- Jan Hamer, chemist
- Mohammad Hatta, First Vice President of Indonesia
- David Hartley (the Younger), politician
- Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, writer, resistance fighter, RAF pilot
- Daniel Heinsius, scholar
- Tiberius Hemsterhuis, philologist
- Paul Hermann, botanist and physician
- Johannes Hevelius, astronomer and jurist
- Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice
- Johannes Hudde, politician and mathematician
- Johan Huizinga, historian
- Christiaan Huygens, mathematician and physicist
- Constantijn Huygens, Jr., statesman
- Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician
- Maarten Jansen, academic
- Marius Jeuken, theoretical biologist
- Mark Jones, Canadian pastor and theologian
- Ernst de Jonge, lawyer, Olympic rower, resistance fighter
- Stefanie Joosten, actress and model
- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Nobel laureate (Physics 1913)
- Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern, linguist
- Pieter Kooijmans, judge of the International Court of Justice
- Ton Koopman, conductor
- Tjalling Charles Koopmans, Nobel laureate (Economics 1975)
- Hendrik Anthony Kramers, physicist
- Dirk Willem van Krevelen, chemical engineer and scientist
- Abraham Kuijper, theologian and politician (Prime Minister 1901–05)
- Erik Kwakkel, codicologist
- Jona Lendering, historian
- Hendrik Lenstra, mathematician
- Justus Lipsius, philologist
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Nobel laureate (Physics 1902)
- Peter Mair, political scientist
- Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
- Paul-Henri Marron, French Reformed pastor
- Eric Mazur, physicist
- Richard Mead, physician
- Pieter Moree, mathematician
- Victor Muller, CEO
- Jan Hendrik Oort, astronomer
- Ivo Opstelten, politician
- Nathan Paget (1615–79]], Puritan physician
- Peter Simon Pallas, zoologist
- Antonie Pannekoek, astronomer and political theorist
- Senarath Paranavithana, archaeologist and epigraphist
- Thomas Parker, minister and scholar
- Alexander Pechtold, Dutch politician
- Perizonius, scholar
- Phoa Liong Gie, Indonesian jurist, politician and newspaper owner (born 1904)
- Nicolaas Gerard Pierson, Netherlands Prime Minister 1897–1901
- Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud, academic
- Archibald Pitcairne, physician
- Ronald Plasterk, scientist and politician
- Prijono, politician
- Hans Ras, academic
- Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, botanist
- Caspar Reuvens, archaeologist
- John Robinson, Pilgrim Fathers pastor
- Wil Roebroeks, archaeologist
- Olaus Rudbeck, scientist and university rector
- David Ruhnken, scholar
- Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister
- Ali Sastroamidjojo, Prime Minister of Indonesia
- Joseph Justus Scaliger, theologian and scholar
- Henry G. Schermers, jurist
- Edith Schippers, politician
- Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1805–6
- Gerard Schouw, politician
- William Sherard, botanist
- Boudewijn Sirks, academic
- Jan Six, politician
- Willebrord Snell, astronomer
- Rudolph Snellius, mathematician and linguist
- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, orientalist
- Achmad Soebardjo, diplomat
- Soenario, politician
- Soetan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of Indonesia 1945–47
- Myles Standish, military leader
- Jan Steen, painter
- Martinus Theunis Steyn, lawyer, Orange Free State president
- Pieter Steyn, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1749–72
- Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician
- Franciscus Sylvius, physician and scientist
- Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1937)
- Morris Tabaksblat, CEO
- Igor Tamm, Nobel laureate (Physics 1958)
- Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Netherlands Prime Minister 1871–72
- Jan Tinbergen, Nobel laureate (Economics 1969)
- Nikolaas Tinbergen, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1973)
- Isaac Titsingh, surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador (Law 1765)
- Nicolaes Tulp, surgeon and politician
- Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck, linguist and anthropologist
- Coenraad van Beuningen, diplomat
- Armin van Buuren, musician
- Ludolph van Ceulen, mathematician
- Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Netherlands Prime Minister 1877–79
- Johannes van den Driesche, theologian
- Adriaen van der Donck, lawyer
- Lousewies van der Laan, politician
- Max van der Stoel, politician
- Bram van der Stok, aviator
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Nobel laureate (Physics 1910)
- Thomas van Erpe, orientalist
- Melanie Schultz van Haegen, politician
- Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Nobel laureate (Peace 1954)
- Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, Netherlands Prime Minister 1813–14
- Egbert van Kampen, mathematician
- Pieter van Musschenbroek, scientist
- Rembrandt van Rijn, painter
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1901)
- Cornelis van Vollenhoven, academic
- Pieter van Vollenhoven, royalty
- Ronald Venetiaan, Surinam President
- Maxime Verhagen, Netherlands Deputy Prime Minister
- Paul Verhoeven, film director
- Gerard Verschuuren, geneticist
- Gisbertus Voetius, theologian
- Thomas von der Dunk, historian
- Gerhard Johann Vossius, theologian
- Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948
- John Wilkes, politician
- William I, Prince of Orange, royalty
- Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, King of the Netherlands
- Willem Witteveen, legal scholar and politician
- William III of England, King of England 1689–1702
- Pieter Zeeman, Nobel laureate (Physics 1902)
- Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, academic
- Ben Zonneveld, botanist
International acclaim[edit]
In the 2009 THE–QS World University Rankings list the University of Leiden was ranked inside the top 100 for the fourth consecutive year. However, in 2010 it dropped 22 places in the QS World University Rankings[58] to 82nd from its position of 60th in the 2009 THE-QS Rankings (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings). In the 2012 QS World University Rankings Leiden was named in 75th place. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiaotong University, Leiden has been in the top hundred universities worldwide since the table's inception in 2003 and in 2012 was ranked 73rd overall.
The following is an overview of the THE-QS Rankings, from 2011 onward as Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings, and Academic Ranking of World Universities from 2003 up to 2016:
|Rank (Change)
|63 ( 15)
|136 ( 5)
|72 ( 9)
|90 ( 46)
|72 ()
|84 ( 6)
|71 ( 1)
|64 ( 20)
|76 ( 5)
|60 ( 4)
|72 ( 4)
|82 ( 22)[60]
|70 ( 2)
|88 ( 6)
|124 ( 42)[61]
|65 ( 5)
|75 ( 13)
|79 ( 45)[62]
|73 ( 8)
|74 ( 1)
|64 ( 15)[63]
|74 ( 1)
|75 ( 1)
|67 ( 3)[64]
|77 ( 3)
|95 ( 20)
|64 ( 3)[65]
|82 ( 5)
|102 ( 7)
|67 ( 3)[66]
An overview of the QS World University Rankings by subjects:
|Rank (Change)
|Modern Languages
|28 ()
|20 ( 9)
|23 ( 3)
|34 ( 1)
|26 ( 3)
|51 ()
|28 ()
|9 ( 11)
|23 ()
|23 ( 11)
|29 ( 3)
|51 ()
|10 ( 18)
|21 ( 12)
|24 ( 1)
|25 ( 2)
|28 ( 1)
|45 ( 6)
|9 ( 1)
|17 ( 2)
|17 ( 4)
|32 ( 8)
|26 ( 1)
|51 ( 23)
|51 ( 6)
See also[edit]
- Leiden University College The Hague
- List of early modern universities in Europe
- List of rectores magnifici of Leiden University
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Further reading[edit]
- Otterspeer, Willem (2008). The Bastion of Liberty. Leiden University Today and Yesterday. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-8728-030-7. Online version: The Bastion of Liberty - (Open Access)
- Willem Otterspeer: Good, gratifying and renowned. A concise history of Leiden University. Transl. by John R.J. Eyck. Leiden, 2015. ISBN 978-90-8728-235-6
- Th. Lunsingh Scheurleer & G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes (ed.) (1975). Leiden University in the seventeenth century: an exchange of learning. ISBN 90-04-04267-9.
- Heinz Schneppen: Niederländische Universitäten und deutsches Geistesleben. Von der Gründung der Universität Leiden bis ins späte 18. Jahrhundert, Münster 1960. Neue Münstersche Beiträge zur Geschichtsforschung Bd. 6
External links[edit]
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Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2013
"Be the pop star you want to be," might have been Gaultier's mantra as he romped through a platinum disc–worthy greatest hits collection, showcasing his looks on models made over as his favorite singers of his own golden era, many of whom have been associated with his designs in a significant way through the years, from Madonna with her conical bra and raunchy underwear as outerwear to the androgyny of Annie Lennox in her man-tailored pantsuits.
As the dry ice cleared and multicolored arc lights illuminated Gaultier's runway, they revealed a tableau of dancers (gymnastically choreographed by Blanca Li and frozen in a pose taken from the Jean-Paul Goude cover of Grace Jones's 1985 Island Life album) on rock concert stadium scaffolding, signaling a collection that was "an homage to all the pop stars of the eighties who have influenced fashion and my fashion with their look," as the designer announced in his program notes. Gaultier had clearly had a lot of fun casting the show and thanks to hair and makeup stars Guido Palau and Stephane Marais's chameleon makeovers, Hannelore Knuts with a russet crew cut made a perfect Annie Lennox, a dreadlocked Karlie Kloss was an uncanny Boy George (Culture Club era), and Joan Smalls channeled a coolly elegant Sade.
But beneath the theatrics there were some of the best clothes that Gaultier has shown on his ready-to-wear runway in a while. Grace Jones inspired the precision-cut black tuxedo pantsuits that opened the show, with jackets that maintained their form even with a surgeon's horizontal cut across the chest providing a subtle flash of the bodysuits beneath. Boy George influenced the drifting Japanese print kimonos and flowing palazzo pants, whilst Jane Birkin's insouciant, mannish style was captured in a traditional trench coat with its back made of translucent organza. Ziggy Stardust–era David Bowie (the sound track, of course, was his 1980 "Fashion") brought out metallicized leather, Flash Gordon shoulders, and glitter platforms, and Abba offered up some brightly colored satin baseball jackets over matching romper suits. The Material Girl (to, naturally, the song "Vogue") was, of course, a vehicle to showcase Gaultier's corset-boned tailoring, and fishnet sweatshirts shrugged over structured brassieres. And Gaultier's own playful foray into pop—1989's "Aow Tou Dou Zat"—inspired a series of crochet pieces in the matelot stripes that are his personal signature. A star finale turn from The Queen of Chinatown herself—the inimitable and ageless Amanda Lear—brought this fun romp to an uproarious close.


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Take a frame, cut 4 inches. in the middle out of the topbar ,then make or cut another topbar so that it fits under the upper topbar and between the frame ends. This will give you a 4 in. gap to lay your queen cage with the screen up on top of the frame,you can place this frame under the hole of the inner cover.This way all you have to do to see if she has been released is raise the lid and look through the inner cover hole without disturbing the bees and eliminates the candy end up or down argument. :-D A long gone beekeeper friend of mine showed me this and i use it when making up nuc's or requeening.I'm sure it's not new, maybe someone out there knows how to show a picture of it. Jack
Kathyp, That's also a way to do it, but when you remove the queen cage you may have to remove the burr comb from the empty space between the frames
Robo, i don't think that would be a good idea (direct release) with queens costing $24.00 to 26.00 this year. Unless you have deep pockets. :-D Jack
use Michael Palmer's method.