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Het hek is helemaal van de dam nu. Wat velen al wisten maar discreet behandelden, is nu op grote schaal naar buiten gebracht op de voorpagina van De Standaard en in het VRT radionieuws. Enkele links: het artikel - 10 jaar wanpraktijken - VRT-radiobericht - ingescande documenten.

Ik heb een sterk vermoeden dat er in de loop van de week meer boven water komt.

The Airport - Lindbergh Terminal light rail station is on the Hiawatha Line in the Twin Cities region of U.S. state of Minnesota. It is the only underground station on the Hiawatha Line, and is located 70 feet (20 meters) below ground level under the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) Transit Center. The twelfth stop southbound, it is a center-platform station and is typically accessed by escalator or elevator. Service began at the site when the second phase of the Hiawatha Line opened on December 4, 2004.

The Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport serves about 34 million passengers annually and is one of the main hubs of Northwest Airlines. Because of this, the Lindbergh Terminal Station is one of the most important on the line. The Hiawatha line creates a direct connection between the airport, downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America.

The location of this station directly below a major airport makes it unique. The tunnel and the station both had to be carefully designed to meet Federal Aviation Administration safety requirements. Passengers can access this station from the Transit Center, which is reached by either taking a people-mover (called a "tram" locally) from the ground-transportation level of the main terminal, or by exiting from the skyway security checkpoint.

This station was excavated after the two main tunnel tubes were constructed with a tunnel boring machine (though cut and cover was used near the ends of the tunnels). During the excavation of the tunnels, a buried river valley was encountered a few hundred feet south south of the station. The walls of the station are painted to look like an outcrop of Saint Peter Sandstone through which the tunnels have been bored. A large installation on the ceiling of this station is meant to look like an aircraft wing.

Lindbergh Station is largely unheated, but maintains a temperature of roughly 50–60°F throughout the year because of its underground location. Small spot heaters are available (as they are at all Hiawatha Line stations).

Notable places nearby

• Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport

External links

• Airport - Lindbergh Terminal Station

Tien fantastische dagen zijn in een hels tempo gepasseerd. Na de Dag van de lege portemonees van gisteren is ook deze editie van de Gentse Feesten aan haar einde gekomen. Ik vond 't alvast dik in orde, heb mij beestig goed geamuseerd. Jammer dat ik een paar keer heb moeten overslaan wegens oververmoeidheid en een zieke vriendin, nietemin was't een beestige tijd. Op naar volgend jaar!

Bloedige islamitische rechtspraak, een analyse waarom Iran homo's ophangt.
De-gou-tant gewoon. Zijn dit mensen of beesten? Ik ben echt enorm verontwaardigd dat mensen tot zoiets in staat zijn.

En om welke reden? Godsdienst? Ik dacht dat de islam een boodschap van vrede was, met respect voor elkaar. En dan gisteren in het nieuws: een doodleuke aankondiging dat steeds meer mensen zich tot de islam bekeren zonder ook maar

Career
Awarded:	25 January 1963
Laid down:	25 January 1965
Launched:	6 August 1966
Commissioned:	1 September 1967
Fate:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	NS San Diego, California
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9521 tons light, 17252 tons full, 7731 tons dead
Length:	173.7 meters (570 feet) overall, 167 meters (548 feet) waterline
Beam:	30.4 meters (100 feet) extreme, 25.6 meters (84 feet) waterline
Draft:	7 meters (23 feet) maximum, 7 meters (23 feet) limit
Complement:	61 officers, 600 men

USS Dubuque (LPD-8), a Cleveland-class amphibious transport dock, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Dubuque, Iowa. Her keel was laid down on 25 January 1965 by Ingalls Shipbuilding. She was launched on 6 August 1966 and commissioned on 1 September 1967 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. In November 1967, the ship arrived at its first homeport of San Diego, California after transiting the Panama Canal.

From 1968 until 1975, Dubuque made five Western Pacific deployments that saw extensive duty in Vietnam. In a highly publicized event in October 1968, the ship returned 14 repatriated prisoners of war to North Vietnam. From 1969 until 1971 the ship conducted ten "Keystone Cardinal" troop lifts to Okinawa as part of the "Vietnamization" of the war. From February to June of 1973 the ship operated helicopters that conducted naval mine clearance operations in Haiphong Harbor as part of Operation Clean Sweep. In April 1975 the ship participated in the evacuation of Saigon and the rescue of refugees fleeing South Vietnam.

On 15 August 1985 Dubuque departed San Diego for its new homeport of Sasebo, Japan. The ship arrived in Sasebo on 4 September 1985 to join the Seventh Fleet Overseas Family Residency Program. Since joining the Seventh Fleet, the primary mission of the ship was to support the US Marine Corps in the Western Pacific.

Official ribbons as of March 3, 2002

In May 1988 Dubuque deployed to the Persian Gulf and served as the control ship for mine sweeping operations to protect US-flagged tankers during the Iran-Iraq War. For its participation in this operation the ship was awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation. In 1989 the ship participated in the contingency operation to evacuate American personnel from the Philippines during a failed coup attempt.

Immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Dubuque received tasking in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Shield. The ship functioned as the leading element of Amphibious Ready Group Bravo, which transported Marine Regimental Landing Team Four to Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia during the critical early stages of the multi-national build up.

Need information from 1992 to present.

On 30 July 1999, Dubuque was relieved by USS Juneau (LPD-10) as part of the forward-deployed naval forces. Since that date she has been once again homeported in San Diego, California.

From June to September of 1999 Dubuque participated in the first SHIP-SWAP with her sister-ship USS Juneau (LPD-10), where each ship's crew remained in their original home ports, allowing Dubuque to return to the homeport of San Diego.

Dubuque has received three Battle Efficiency Awards and participated in countless amphibious exercises and operations throughout the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans.

See USS Dubuque for other ships of this name.

External links

• USS Dubuque official website

• nvr.navy.mil: USS Dubuque
• navsource.org: USS Dubuque
• navysite.de: USS Dubuque