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The Minimoa
Origins of the Minimoa.
During the Rhön Contest of 1921 much interest was shown in a flying wing called "Weltensegler" designed by Dr. Wenk. It was gull-winged with swept-back tips and was much more externally braced. For a not certainly established reason, the "Weltensegler" broke up (a wing tip folding first), while flying out from the slope after launch.It was aid that it, had met the gusts of the first cloud lift ever encountered by a glider pilot. Its pilot, Wilhelm Leusch, was killed.
Dr. Wenk was working at Edmund Schneider's firm in Grunau during 1929 When the great "Moazagotl" sailplane was being designed and built. Known as the Grunau 7, it still had the "Weltensegler" wing, increased greatly in span and externally braced, but only with struts. To bring the wingtips clear of the ground they were shoulder mounted. It was said that the 20m span wings were never left with their tips unsupported in a hangar This was the true ancestor of the Minimoa. Built during 1931 and 1932, it made a great impression at the 14th Rhön Contest in 1933. In the 1934 ccntest it made the first glider flight of over 300 kms by flying 352 kms to Gorlitz on the first day. Pilot was, of course, Wolf Hirth. During the 1937 International Contest the "Moazagotl", flown by Ludwig Hofmann gained second place behind Dittmar and the Fafnir2 "Sao Paulo". Thus the "Minimoa", which means Mini Moazagotl, had a truly famous ancestor.
The Name "Moazagotl"
What this means is not certain, but it is said that many years ago there was a farmer who, as he set at his plough, spent much time gazing at the sky and the clouds. People said that the clouds had a special meaning for him, especially the long stationary cloud that formed across a south wind. The farmer was called Gottlief Motz (the name Gottlief means God Love) or in Silesian dialect, "der Moatza Gottl" The long stationary cloud was, of course, the lenticular which formed in the lee of the Giant Mountains (Riesengebirge) near Grunau.The Minimoa (meaning "Mini Moazagotl")
In 1939 Wolf Hirth moved from Grunau to the Stuttgart area, which was where his family came from. Here, he and Martin Schempp set up the
firm of the Sport-flugzeubau Schempp-Hirth at Göppingen. During 1935 alone, the new firm produced three types, the Göppingen 1 Wolf, the Göppingen 2, an updated, enclosed version of the Grunau 8 two-seater, and the Göppingen 3 "Minimoa". Both Göppingen 1 and Göppingen 3 were finally so successful that more than 100 were built of each type.
It was felt that the "Moazagotl" had been too large for ease of handling on the ground and in the air and so the Minimoa was made smaller to improve these defects. Dr. Wenk'.s wing was now much cleaned up and cantilevered.
The Design Philosophy.
The Minimoa was to be so strong that it could be modified to the following versions:
The Minimoa's Wings
The severely dihedralled and swept-back wings were to ensure good lateral and pitch stability. The stability was so positive that the Minimoa would turn itself in clouds. Cloud flying and cross-countries were in 1935 being tried by more and more pilots. Height records set up in many countries was evidence that Minimoas could cloud fly with success. However, it is the writer's impression that if a Minimoa wanted to fly itself, then,if it did get into trouble in cloud, might it not be harder for the pilot to rectify it? This was the case in the 1938 Rhön Contest, when three out of the seven aircraft, which broke up in clouds, were Minimoas.
Minimum depth, flat underside wing profiles were chosen so that wing profile drag would not increase severely with higher speeds. The Minimoa was supposed to have a useful cross country speed range of up to 110kph. The performance and handling does not deteriorate with increased wing loading as was evidenced by Jan Scott's currently airworthy Minimoa in America having an empty weight of 650 lbs, which is more than that of some Kranich two-seaters. Minimoas are supposed to weigh 500lbs empty!
Minimoa Versions.
Although there seem to have been many slight alterations, we have, for simplification, divided them into the six versions described below.
1) 1939. Three shoulder wing prototypes
Werk Nr. 6. D-Göppinger Industrie (on left). Delivered 1.8.35 in time for Rhön Contest with a hanging control column. Owned by DLV Göppingen. To Japan in late 1935.
Werk Nr. 11. With landing wheel and a normal control column. Delivered 17.11.35. to Japan.
Werk Nr. 14. Delivered 3.4.36. As Werk Nr. 11 to Valentin Popescu, Rumania. Registered YR-AVP and probably painted blue / white
It seems that at least one, if not all, of the prototypes were fitted with split trailing edge flaps to assist the landings.
2) The 2nd version of Minimoa was a mid-wing version with a Rudder of increased area and a fixed tailplane with moving elevator. The first of them, Wrk Nr. 20 was delivered on 9.5.36 with split trailing edge flaps. Registered later as D-Stadt Neckargemünd and later in 1937 with 'NSFK. markings D-14-790. It broke up in cloud on 5.3.38 during the Rhön Contest and its pilot, Günther Lemm, was killed. It is not known how many were built. If, D-Chemnitz 3 (or D-Argentina and is presently registered as CC-PIA in Chile's Santiago Museo Aeronautico), Werk Mr. 32 and delivered on 29.7.36, is the later version Minimoa, then not more than 12 were built. Some of these 12 Werk Nrs. may have been allocated to Wolfs, which were in mass-production at the time. The early version of Minimoa is still with us in the form of HB-232 (Werner von Arx) and the famous Kielcraft Minimoa model kit, which was on sale from 1945.
3) This was the definitive version and was produced in great quantity with improved underneath shape to avoid damage from contact with the ground. Wing upper surface drag spoilers were fitted. All Minimoas between Werk Nr. 312, delivered 11-8-39, were roughly in this form. (These Werk Nrs. are only approximate)
4) Minimoa Mo 2a (1937) - Two seat Version
Registered as D-15-923, this was a the only two seater glider to be built from the initial requirement for two. The second seat was built between the wings, behind the main wing spar and the fuselage deepened to give more rear cockpit room. The nose was lengthened for adjustment of C.of G. The fuselage was 0.26 m. longer than the standard Minimoa. This glider took part in the 1937 Rhön Contest (but had to be abandoned because its pilot, Hirth, had pains in his injured leg), and later visited England behind a Klemm 26. Minimoa pilots were Hanna Reitsch and Eva Schmidt, while Hirth flew the Klemm towplane. A full set of documentation for this version can be found on this dedicated page on this site
5) Minimoa 38 (1938)
had a reduced structure weight and cambering of underside of wing profiles to reduce the minimum sinking speed.
6) Minimoa-39.
Werk Nr. 315, first flight 6.6.39. It had an altered wing plan, greatly increased fin and rudder areas, an altered fuselage, fin and rudder side forms. Only one was built due to the outbreak of war.
In all versions of the Minimoa, the landing wheel was optional. In late 1938 and 1939, Minimoas were built with (or were modified with) the first DFS airbrakes and then Schempp Hirth (Hütter or Göppingen System) terminal velocity restricting airbrakes. Mass balances were to be installed to the leading edges, and base of rudders to prevent a possible rudder flutter at 200 kph. This was presumably for NSFK aerobatics. Some Minimoas already exported were never modified, as their owners did not think it necessary.
Between 9th May 1936 and June 1939, 110 Minimoas and 100 Wolfs were built and followed later by 120 Goeviers, by the Sportflugzeugbau. The claim that the Minimoa was the first mass produced glider we think is doubtful, as 100 Rhönsperbers, 220 Rhönbussards, 65 Rhönadlers as well as hundreds of Grunau built since 1935.
Building the Minimoa.
In 1935, because of the pressure of work on the firm, which was building the Wolf and the Gö 22, it was necessary to build the Minimoa's major components, i.e. wing and fuselage, in two different firms, which were some distance apart, in order to quickly complete the first Minimoa for that year's Rhön Contest. Herr Faber, who later became a Messerschmitt engineer, was chosen by Martin Schempp to build the fuselage, while the very complicated Dr. Wenk wing was built by the Sportflugzeubau. The wing, which was probably the most difficult to build of any aircraft, had to have its main spar gulled and swept back. The spar was built in one piece, ungulled. This half-finished product was sawn along its length and then, at the gull point soaked with water and bent. The two parts of the spar were then glued together again to give the Minimoa wing its characteristic seagull appearance. Thus its sweep-back occurs outboard of the gull. The very distance of the Faber firm from the Sportflugzeubau gave problems when it came to mating the wings with the fuselage of the first Minimoa. The ailerons of the prototype were given differential for maximum efficiency when having to counteract the positive roll stability of the gulled wings. Differential ailerons for gliders in 1935 were something new. The fuselage was to be fitted with an optional braked landing wheel. The new Göppingen sailplanes were the first to be fitted with landing wheels in Europe, after Wolf Hirth and Martin Schempp had seen them on American sailplanes during their visit there with sailplanes in 1930.
The first Minimoa was finished without a wheel and with a hanging control column. This was off centered so that it was not in front of the pilot's face. The hanging "stick" was to give Wolf Hirth more freedom of movement with it, because of his wooden leg. The top half of his head was fitted into the leading edge Of the wing. While the shoulder wing gave excellent ground clearance, the pilot's visibility was not good. The first Minimoa was bought for the Göppingen glider pilots by a group of that town's businessmen (and thus had "Göppinger Industrie" written along its fuselage sides). However, the glider pilots had to wait more than a year, until September 1936, for their Minimoa as Wolf Hirth took the prototype and the second prototype, with normal positioned control column, on his famous Japanese expedition from September until the end of 1935.
While Wolf Hirth was away in Japan, Reinhold Seeger with Dr. Wenk's support, redesigned the Minimoa as a midwing sailplane. The wing was set 200 mm lower. From the fourth Minimoa, the first real production aircraft, the Minimoa was built with a midwing.
The Minimoa's Performace
1935 As previously mentioned, the first Minimoa was finished with some difficulty and was taken to the Rhön Contest one week early. Hirth had bad luck on the first day when, because the Minimoa was not fitted with the approved pattern of cable release, it was not allowed to start. On this day, Hofmann flew his Rhönsperber 296 miles (almost 500 kms). However, some days later, Hirth flew the Minimoa 420 kms to Zablings in Czechoslovakia. The next best distance on that day was 330 kms. We are unable to state what distance the Minimoa flew on the day that four pilots flew independently 502 kms to Brno in Czechoslovakia; a new world's distance record. However, Hirth was later able to do a very difficult out and return to the Ochsenberg (which, incidentally, he had also been able to do during the previous year with the
Moazagotl). It was quite clear after the contest that the Minimoa design had possibilities,
1936 That year's Rhön Contest had still and hot weather, which favoured the new second prototype Mü 13a "Atalante", which won. Wolfgang Späte flew the only Minimoa in the contest, which was not famous for long distance flying. Späte's Minimoa was D-Chaminitz 3, which, on the 25th November was delivered to Hans Ott in the Argentine aboard the Zeppelin "Hindenberg". This machine was registered before it was exported as D-Argentina. This machine still exists as CC-PIA in Chile's Santiago Museum, Museo Aeronautico. This is a wheel-less late 1936 type Minimoa. It seems to be fitted with upper wing surface drag spoilers only and this clone suggests that it is an early Minimoa.
1937 During this year, Minimoas had better successes. D-11-94 was flown into third place in the Wasserkuppe International Contest (which some call the first World Chanpionships). He was behind the Moazagotl flown by Hofmann, and the Fafnir 2 "Sao Paulo" flown by Dittmar. It is interesting to note that, after seven contest days, Späte's total cross country kms was 919kms against Dittmar's 1057kms and his points were 1325 against Dittmar's 1662. It was the last great contest showing of the wonderful sailplanes Sao Paulo and Moazagotl. D-11-94, delivered on 25.9.36 as Werk Nr. 55, almost certainly was one of the first, if not the first of the definitive production type Minimoas which was not substantially altered until mid 1939.
Whereas only one Minimoa had been entered in the International contest, no less than six were entered in the 1937 National Contest. One of these was the Minimoa two-seater, flown by Hirth Knoth. Pilots flying them were Haase, Philipp, Blech, Knöpfle and Nein, and at least the first four were very good pilots. The final results of the 1937 contest revealed the Mü 10 two-seater with Ludwig Karch and Zimmermann in first place and the Kranich 2, flown by Bräutigam and Steinert in 2nd place. This no doubt caused considereble thoughts as to whether two brains, and energies, were not better than one for contest flying. To make sure this could not happen again, two-seaters were made to fly in a different class during the next two Rhön contests. Third was Beck in a Mü 13 and fourth was Ernst Günther Haase in a Minimoa. On 25th July, three Minimoas flown by Haase, Ruhnke and Philipp won the day's goal flight prize. On 26th July, Blech won the height prize with his Minimoa and on 1st August, Haase won the distance prize. The First Goal Flight contest took place in 1937. This was won by Heinz Huth in a Condor, but Minimoas took 4th, 8th, 9th and 18th places. Erwin Kraft flew the Minimoa which achieved 4th place. It was during 1937 that Späte obtained a best speed to fly between thermals calculator, which he tried out in the Minimoa D-11-94. This calculator may have helped him to win the 1938 Rhön Contest flying the very overweight Reiher V.1. However, it must be mentioned that although the best speed to fly calculator indicated that he should do 90 mph (150kms) between moderate thermals, it may not have been the whole secret. The Mü 13d flown by Kurt Schmidt came second and, in fact, was often leading, and the Mü 13 was the slowest sailplane in the contest! However, this best speed to fly calculator was later tried out with success during the 1950 World Championships in Sweden and almost won, flying in the Weihe currently owned by Andrew Coates. It is now in general use, fitted to ASI's in almost all of today's high performance sailplanes.
1938 In that year's Rhön Contest, which was the most remarkable of them all, no less than 15 Minimoas were among the 55 single-seaters and eight two-seaters. To start with, during the 2-week contest, the lift was very poor, but then the weather steadily improved and improved until it ended with tremendous cumulonimbus development leading to thunderstorms. Sailplanes were flown to the furthest frontiers and often had to throw their height away, for crossing the frontiers (except the Dutch one) were forbidden because of the political situation. It was said that "Germany is not now big enough for its pilots (because it had recently become smaller) and now there was only room for them to go upwards". It was left unsaid that probably the next thing would be to increase the territory of the Reich to give them more room.
The furthest frontiers were certainly achieved by Minimoas, one of them crossing into Holland, and seven flying 300 kms in one day. However., these were not the best distances flown during the contest. It was for height flights towards the end of the two weeks that Minimoas are specially remembered.
Vertical cumulus development increased as the high pressure system deepened and, as the system started to break up, ever larger thunderstorms appeared. Sailplanes were flown into the clouds with the intention of gaining great heights before being taken away on distance. Realising the dangers, the contest organisers announced that they would award no points for height. Nevertheless, the temptation for pilots to gain as much height as possible before setting off on distance was great, simply because in these conditions the sources of lift are often far apart. The sailplanes were not at that time fitted with oxygen, radio or electrically driven cloud-flying instruments. The pilots had to rely on externally mounted venturis, air-driven artificial horizons and Turn and Banks, which could stop working in rain and ice. Without oxygen and with these instruments, it is incredible now to learn that there were 70 height climbs to above 3,000 metres and that heights of 6, 7 and 8,000 metres were also reached. Pilots had desperate battles against turbulence, ice and hail and lack of oxygen and often landed with their sailplanes riddled with hail holes.
As far as is known, seven sailplanes broke up and among them were three Minimoas. These were flown by Helmuth Knöpfle who, on 3rd August, tried to reduce speed in cloud through pulling the stick back. As his Minimoa went even faster, he deduced that he must be upside down. After it came apart, his parachute descent was a nightmare as the lift took him upwards again three times. Recovering in hospital after having been dragged through hedges by the wind, he vowed that he would fly again. The other gliders, a Kranich 2 (8000 m), 2 Horten 3s, the Hannover AFH.4, and two Minimoas, all broke up on 5th August. The pilots, Lemm in a Minimoa 36, Blech in a Horten 3, and Schulz in the AFH.4, were killed. The other Minimoa to break up was flown by Steinert. Only after dusk was it learnt that the greatest height of all had been achieved by the 39 year old Lufthansa Captain Brechsel. He was the oldest competitor and was taking part in a contest for the first time. For the previous ten years, he had been making scheduled night flights to London. In a Minimoa, he managed to reach 6,687 metres above release point and was able to leave the cloud to land in almost complete darkness on the airfield of Marburg at 19.28 hours. His absolute height achieved was 8,100 m. It was the world's height record for the next nine years.
During the Rhön Contest, Minimoas took 3rd, 7th, 8th, 13th, 16th and 17th places. These were flown by: Treuter, Haase, Beck, Lemm and Fick respectively, out of 54 competitors. Drechsel came 23rd. They had broken the world's height record twice. (Fick having broken it first). Drechsel's Minimoa was registered D-3-607.
1939 - The Final Record
We have previously stated that very long flights from the Wesserkuppe were now impossible owing to the political situation, so that German pilots had now little possibility of breaking the Soviet 1937 world record of 635 kms which had broken the 1935 German world distance record of 504kms. Furthermore, the Russians increased this record to 749 kms in 1939. Nevertheless, on 24th May 1939, Eric Vergens flew a 523kms from Trebbin (near Berlin) to Tienfenried. This was became the new German National Distance record and was, for many years, the longest flight carried out within the German frontiers.
1939 - Rhön Contest
This contest was also very successful, but among the 41 single seaters entered, were only four Minimoa 38s. These were only able to achieve 26th, 30th, 34th and 39th places, flown by Schubert, Mössinger, Hauck and Henning. We can only suggest that they were 'not flown by the very best Rhön Contest pilots, who were all flying Reihers, Condor 3s, Weihes and the Berlin B.6 etc. Although the Minimoa 39 was entered to be flown by Beck, it does not seem to have taken part, (its registration was D-15-1122), and Beck flew a Mü 13d.
This is as it must have been in 1935, rather primitive by today's refined standards. However, if it is primitive, it is basically very sound. The wings are simply he!d on to the fuselage by two tapered main spar pins and one trailing edge spar pin. These are secured in position by distance pieces and nuts and an extractor is almost certainly needed to get them out. Ailerons and dive brakes are connected with pins within the wing/fuselage gap. The tailplane is lowered on to three pins, which stick up vertically from the rear fuselage. This is secured by nuts, which are prevented from turning by thin strips of metal which have the shapes of the nuts cut in them. As these strips of metal are secured together at their centres, the nuts cannot turn. The rudder is lowered on after the tailplane and is located on the extremities of a rudder hinge, which is in fact secured to the stern post of the fuselage. There is one rudder hinge point on the stern post so that the rudder is secured at three points, two of them being its operating horn.
The wings are enormous beside the fuselage, which is the size of that of a Ka 6. The very size and weight of the wings, compared with the size and weight of the other major components seems to suggest that they might have started off in life as a flying wing (Weltensegler). However, the aircraft is very well built and the surfaces are true after all these years, when compared with those of other old gliders. By today's standards, rigging and derigging takes a long time but, before the war, it was acceptable. Peter Selinger mentions in his book "Segelflugzeuge" 'Rigging is so simply thought out that three men can comfortably do it in 20 mins. Once (Erwin) Kraft had to land in a contest (probably the 1937 Goal Flight Contest) only 20kms from the Wasserkuppe. Derigging and rigging his machine, his team took such a short time that, from the time of his first take off, until his second launch, only one hour and eight minutes were needed'.
Flying a Minimoa
This is basically a pleasant experience and we must emphasize that ailerons, elevator and rudder are not exactly balanced. The ailerons have very little power to overcome the inherent, very exaggerated, lateral stability caused by the pronounced gulled wings. Therefore, to reverse a turn takes time. The elevator is without a trim tab and it is recommended that for take offs, the aerotowing speed should be much less than 60 knots, as at this speed full stick forward and full aileron is quite an effort for the pilot. The Schempp Hirth dive brakes are so efficient that they bring the machine down like a lift. It is the writer's opinion that less effective airbrakes are quite good enough for a Minimoa. The Minimoa will climb in thermals as well as any other glider. At normal flying speeds, elevator, rudder and ailerons are not heavy to use but the effort needed to put a Minimoa into a turn, and to take it out again, is rather more than that needed when flying other sailplanes of that time. After practice this becomes easier, but one does admire the pre-war efforts of Minimoa pilots. The Germans have claimed that its max. L/D of 1:26 is achieved at 85kph. After flying 3 Minimoas it is the writer's opinion that this is more likely to have been at 60-65kph.
A Note on the Hirth Family
Wolf's father, Helmuth, had been one of Germany's foremost power pilots before 1914 and among other great flights, he had flown a "Taube" 500kms from Berlin to Vienna in 1912. His brother, Albert, produced the famous Hirth engines, which powered the Klemm and Bücker aircraft, etc.
The Minimoa's rudder mass-balance
P. A. Wills received the following letter from the Sportflugzeugbau Schempp Hirth, signed by Martin Schempp, dated April 19th, 1939.
"The sailplane 'Minimoa' is apt to flutter at extremely high speeds (around 200kph). Therefore the German Air Ministry is asking that all Minimoas are equipped with a balancing weight at the rudder. We enclose a drawing of that weight and how it is built in to the rudder nose".
C. Wills still has the original letter and drawings should anyone wish to have copies in order to get official clearance to remove the weight in order to obtain a more favourable C. of A. and thus more cockpit load.
Exported Minimoas
1st and 2nd Prototypes. Werk Nrs. 6 and 11 to Japan. The 1st prototype was delivered 1.8.35, with the hanging control column and without landing wheel, whilst the 2nd prototype was delivered 17.11.35.
3rd Prototype and 2nd prototype with normal control column and landing wheel. Werk Nr. 14. Delivered on 3-4-36. to Valentin Popescu of Rumania, registered YR-AVP.
Werk Nr. 32 D-Chemnitz 3 then registered D-Argentina. W. Späte 1936 Rhön Contest. Delivered 29-11-36. Taken to Argentina on board LZ "Hindenberg" for Hans Ott.
Werk Nr. 56. Delivered 21.11.36. for Richard DuPont, USA. N.16293 who gained US distance and height records with it. Today, it is in the Nat. Soaring Museum Elmira.
Werk Nr. 124. G 1306. To Lewin Derringer USA, delivered 30.4.37.
Werk Nr. 141. Later ZS-GAB. Transvaal Pioneer Gliding Club, Alberton Johannesburg ... from 6.5.51 at Capetown. B. Crome was killed in it on 19.4.59 near Capetown. South African Distance Record - Werner Kunz and Nat. Height record - Heini von Michaelis
Werk Nr. 158 Delivered 17.3.38 - to Philip Wills, England, who broke National Distance and Height Records with it. (209 miles and 10,540 ft. and on 1st July 1939 at 14,170ft.). These Minimoa flights gave P.A. Wills the first British Gold C and as the requirements were achieved before the 1938 Rhön Contest, where 20 Gold Cs were won, it was the 33rd in the world. BGA 338, in 1946 G-ALLZ - to Iceland in 1950 as TF-SOM. Now destroyed by snow and fire but some parts may remain.
Werk Nr. 184 Built in 1938. D-8064 - HB-626 and now N.2664. Owned, after the war by Steiner in Germany, Derindinger in Switzerland and is now owned by Jan Scott, Scott Air Park, Lovettsville, Virginia 22080, USA. Currently Airworthy.
Werk Nr. 205 Delivered Feb. 1939 to Philip Brown, England. BGA 388. Sold before the war to USA as N.18163. Currently owned by Joe Jackson, Russia Corners, North of Utica, New York, USA. Awaiting restoration.
Werk Nr. 206 F-CABL (1966 F-CRPY). 1955 Pont Saint Vincent. 1966 Moulins. Delivered 1938.
Werk Nr. 705 Date of f`irst flight - 24.5.30. Seen on Saltzburg Max Glane Airfield in 1962, airworthy. OE-0230. Today it is stored with the Göppingen Collection on Göppingen Betzgenriet Airfield.
Where are they now?
After 1945, there was a redistribution of Minimoas, four being in France and two more going to England after 1968. Georg Brütting in his book "Die Berühmtesten Segelglugzeuge" mentions that in 1951, no less than 7 Minimoas came out of hiding, when the ban on gliding was lifted in Germany.
However, as it stands now (Dec 1983) the Minimoa situation is as follows:
In Museums:
In the Museo Aeronautico, Santiago, Chile, is rigged on exhibition CC-PIA. A photo reveals this as being a late 1936 production Minimoa without landing wheel, with wing fuselage fairings going round top and bottom surfaces of wing roots. Although the photo is not clear, it seems probable that this Mininoa is fitted with upper wing surface drag spoilers only. There is no rudder mass balance. We believe that it was D-Chemnitz 3 ... i.e. D-Argentina ... i.e. Werk Nr. 20 delivered 29.7.36.
Göppingen Collection:
OE-0230. Standard late production Minimoa with Schempp Hirth airbrakes and mass balanced rudder. Not airworthy Transparent doped fabric.
Airworthy Minimoas:
HB-282. Built in Switzerland by Hans Wullschleger. As it seems to have been first registered in 1939, we suggest that it may have taken him since 1936 to build it, using the drawings of` the old type of less dihedral, midwing, less rudder area, drawings of a Minimoa, the first of which was delivered
on 9.5.36. (D-Stadt Neckargemünd). HB-282 never fitted with split trailing edge flops. was seriously damaged during a Swiss wartime National Contest (1941?). As there was no petrol, the gliders had to be taken up t he. mountain on a cog wheel railway and launched down a narrow wooden trough by means of basically a bungee rope with a weight on the end of it, which was pushed over a cliff. The gliders were dispatched with an axe cutting through the tail securing rope, when the bungee had reached the correct tension. The gliders were dispatched like arrows and the Minimoa may have been launched into cloud which was below it. It ended up broken at the bottom of a cliff. HB-282 was repaired over many
years and now has Schempp Hirth airbrakes as well as a fine blown canopy, We are very lucky that one of the very early type of Minimoa is still with us and airworthy. The owner is Warner von Arx, 4125 Riehen/Basel, Rhieinallee 51, Switzerland.
D-1163. This was brought back from Montargis, France, to Germany in 1971 by the efforts of Rainer Willeke who bought it for a crate of beer. lt had been the 4th of four Minimoas operating in France after 1945. Rainer Willeke and Paul Serries formed the Müinster Oldtimer Club to restore and fly it. Worship foreman, Max Müller, restored D-1163 in time for it to fly at the VGC's first International Rally at Husbands Bosworth in 1973. It has been flying at almost all our International Rallies since and is a popular participant at West German Air Displays. It is about to have the first General Overhaul since its restoration. It is fitted with the rotating open type DFS Air Brakes (similar to those of Weihes). We believe that Minimoas were fitted with these before they were Schempp Hirth Airbrakes. One of the owners of D-1163 is Paul Serries, Agnes Miegel Strasse 1, 44 Münster St., Mauritz, West Germany.
BGA 1738. This was brought to England in the late 1960s having been used by the RAF in Germany. It is thought to have been built in 1937 purely because, during its restoration, signs could be seen of upper wing surface drag spoilers. As it has wing root fairings on both upper and lower wing root surfaces, it is possible with only a lower main wing fuselage pin installed to lower both wing tips to the ground during rigging and derigging. It is thought that this too might indicate that it is an earlier Minimoa. BGA 1738 was superbly restored for John Coxon by Southern Aero Services Ltd., Lasham, and received its first British C. of A. in August 1972 in time to take part in the 50th Anniversary of the first British Gliding Meeting at Itford Hill, of 1922. The owner of this superb Minimoa is John Coxon, "Penfound", Stane Street, Pulborough, Sussex.
BGA 1639. Currently being restored at the London Gliding Club. (Dec. 1983). - Werk Nr. 378. Received its first British C. of A. in March 1972 after it had been imported airworthy from Holland in 1970, where it had been registered PH-390. PH-390 had been in original form with canopy etc. Its C. of A. expired in January 1979 due to glue failure in a wing tip. The wing/fuselage fairing extends only over the upper surface of wing roots, therefore the wingtip can NOT be lowered to the ground during rigging or de-rigging. It was felt that this might indicate a later production Minimoa. Both BGA 1738 and BGA 1639 are fitted with Schempp Hirth speed restricting dive brakes. The owner of BGA 1639 is Francis Russell, 48 Pasture Road, Letchworth, SG6 3LS.
N.2664B. This Minimoa is airworthy having formerly belonged to Harold Palmer. It must be an early production Minimoa as it is fitted only with upper wing surface lift spoilers. Due to its perfect finish it weighs 650 ibs empty but this does not affect its performance or handling in the air. Owner is Jan Scott, Scott Air Park, Lovettsville, Virginia, USA.
Two more Minimoa are in the USA, one at the National Soaring Museum Elmira, the other is kept by Joe Jackson in New York, The last two are not airworthy.
The total count as of December 1983 is 4 Minimoas airworthy in Switzerland, West Germany, England and the USA. Two are awaiting restoration in England and the USA. Three more are in Museums in Chile, Germany, and the USA. The total number of Minimoas is therefore 9.
Wing Profiles for the basic Minimoa were:
· Inner. Goettingen 681
· Half Span. Goettingen 693
· Wing tips, as well as tailplane Symmetrical.
C. Wills of the VGC can supply more drawings of the Minimoa 36 should anyone require them. The most convenient size for these is A-4.
Note: The Minimoa was not the only sailplane which had a wing developed from that of a flying wing. Another was the RRG Falke (Slingsby Falcon) series, which had a wing developed from the Lippisch "Storch". The "Marabu" was another but this had to have a tailplane added on orders from a technical committee.


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Shadow treasurer
"People deserve to know how much or how little the mining tax has raised and we call on the Treasurer to come out today and tell people," Senator Cormann said in Perth on Monday. "If he refuses to come out and reveal that information, we call on the Greens and the independents to join the Coalition in forcing the government to release that information to the Parliament when we go back to Canberra in a couple of weeks time."
The returns to the Australian Taxation Office on the MRRT are protected by privacy provisions to avoid any hint as to companies' expected profits, meaning the release of any information to the Treasurer from that department could be unlawful, according to Schedule 1 of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.
Companies will disclose their payments and tax liabilities as part of their regular reporting to investors.
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Mr Barnett said the resources industry was worried that the tax would be expanded to cover commodities other than iron ore and coal.
Greens leader
"We need to plug the loopholes in the mining tax so that we do have the money to increase Newstart, to fund the Gonski review into education, to fund Denticare," Ms Milne said.
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SABMiller announces resignation of Barry Axcell as Group Chief Brewer, effective end of July; Axcell to be succeeded by Katherine Smart
February 8, 2012
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– SABMiller plc announces that Professor Barry Axcell, Group Chief Brewer, will retire from the company at the end of July 2012 after almost 35 years of service with the company.
Barry will be succeeded by Professor Katherine Smart as Group Chief Brewer effective 1 June 2012. Katherine is the current SABMiller Professor of Brewing Science and the Head of the School of Biosciences at The University of Nottingham.
Katherine, a well-respected academic, has held this post for seven years and founded Brewing Science at the University offering research programs in malting, yeast genomics, fermentation and flavour. Barry Axcell and Katherine also developed the MSc in Brewing Science.
Katherine has presented to the UK Houses of Parliament, is a scientific advisor to several global companies and has edited a number of books on Brewing Yeast. She has been awarded several awards for research including the Institute of Brewing and Distilling Cambridge Prize. Katherine previously held the appointment of post-Doctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Tony van Kralingen Director: Supply Chain and Human Resources SABMiller Plc commented: "I would like to use this opportunity to express my personal appreciation to Barry Axcell who retires after almost 35 years of distinguished and exceptional service. Barry has instilled a culture of Brewing excellence at SABMiller and his passion and professionalism serves as a role model for all brewers. I am pleased that Barry has agreed to continue to provide consulting services to SABMiller.
"In Katherine, we are fortunate to gain an outstanding talent. She has a wealth of experience and shares our passion for operational excellence and brewing beers of exceptional quality. Over the last seven years we have built a valuable relationship with her and the University of Nottingham which has helped keep us at the forefront of brewing innovation and technology. "
Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham said: "Katherine's contribution whilst at Nottingham has been exceptional. Her expertise, vision and overall involvement in the University community have been pivotal in establishing Nottingham as a centre of excellence in Brewing Science. She has our warmest congratulations as she embarks on this new role, in which I am sure she will be an outstanding success. Her move cements further our innovative strategic partnership with SABMiller"
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SABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers with brewing interests and distribution agreements across six continents. The group's wide portfolio of brands includes premium international beers such as Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Miller Genuine Draft and Grolsch, as well as leading local brands such as Aguila, Castle, Miller Lite, Snow and Tyskie. SABMiller is also one of the world's largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products.
In the year ended 31 March 2010, the group reported US$3,803 million adjusted pre-tax profit and group revenue of US$26,350 million. SABMiller plc is listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges.
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The entire Godfather saga gets a beautiful restoration. Also: Sex and the City: The Movie hits DVD after a successful summer run at the box office.
The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration
Out of the darkness comes … at least two masterpieces out of three.
Back story: Original cinematographer Gordon Willis, the master of darkness, also worked on this superb spiff-up. Primary work went to I and II, which were in rockier shape. Finally seeing the first film replicate its opening-day look is the highest-octane nostalgia. And it isn't exclusively darkness: Indoor/outdoor contrast at the wedding is striking, and note the dramatic shade of Marlon Brando's lapel rose against the artful murk of his study. (For all we know, the Corleones never dusted or cleaned up Peter Clemenza's spaghetti sauce.) Outstanding Blu-ray.
Extras, extras: Goodies galore include a fine new featurette about director Francis Coppola's battles with contentious studio suits who even balked at his casting.
The New York Yankees' Essential Games of Yankee Stadium
Two of six complete games selected by fans are on previous sets. But how is it that Reggie Jackson's three taters (final game, 1977 World Series) and those spectacular late-game blasts from 2001's Series Game 4 aren't essential?
Back story: The others — and remember that few games before the mid-'70s exist — are Chris Chambliss' walk-off playoff homer that crushed the Royals in '76; the 15-inning playoff (Game 2) vs. the Mariners in '95; the '96 Series wrap vs. the Braves; the playoff finale (or "Aaron Boone game") in 2003 vs. the Red Sox.
Extras, extras: Just a few are Ron Guidry whiffing 18 Angels in 1978; Derek Jeter's box-seat dive in 2004; and the one I've been waiting for: Thurman Munson's game-winning homer vs. the Royals in Game 3 of the '78 playoffs.
Here's director Abel Gance's view of World War I, a subject he knew firsthand, before his world-renowned 1927 Napoleon. Mangled over the years, the film is now handsomely reconstructed.
Back story: What if war dead returned to see if their sacrifice had been rewarded? Gance's 165-minute epic works toward this point, but much of it is a love triangle, complicated by marriage. Not uncommon to silent films, the actors are too old for their roles, but note how sympathetic Gance makes the brutish husband (Séverin-Mars). Spotty, yet powerful.
Extras, extras: Two shorts from 1915-16; essay by historian Kevin Brownlow; another advancing the case that J'Accuse influenced Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway.
Sex and the City: The Movie
Like a box of Dots, it is what it is, but how many successful comedies have there ever been that run 140 minutes or more? Summer's financially lucrative viewing marathon, critically drubbed by many fans of the TV show, isn't one of them, and Kristin Davis' mortifying diarrhea scene is hard to defend. Roger Ebert's minority assertion that the mostly maligned new version of The Women is better than City, relatively speaking, is dead-on, though that's splitting hairs.
La Ronde
Internationally revered by all but rube state censorship boards in '50s America, director Max Ophuls' visually elegant comedy has a prostitute bedding a soldier who beds a maid who beds a social superior who … well, eventually, it's back to the prostitute. Happily, she's played by Simone Signoret opposite co-stars who include European cinema powerhouses Danielle Darrieux, Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes), Daniel Gelin and French heartthrob Gerard Philippe nine years before his death at 36. Remade appallingly in 1964 as the Jane Fonda-Roger Vadim Circle of Love.
Less pointed though more coherent than George Clooney's Burn After Reading, this tepidly pleasant football romance, which, bizarrely, was released the opening week of baseball season, never exudes much reason for being. Clooney (jock) and Renee Zellweger (newshound) attractively toy with romance against neat 1920s period detail, but bland John Krasinski brings little to the game.
More highlights
•The Search for Mengele (***, 1985, First Run Features, unrated, $25): Auschwitz "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele escaped after the war and hopscotched to three South American countries and, ironically, lived incognito in racially mixed populations. This is a talking-heads documentary, but the heads — including a disapproving son — knew Mengele.
•The Anderson Tapes (***, 1971, Sony, PG, $20): Sean Connery plots to heist the entire posh East Side Manhattan apartment building of his high-maintenance squeeze Dyan Cannon, oblivious to audio spies. Sidney Lumet's renowned New York movie is a lark but never overplays its hand. And any movie where Kiss Me Deadly's Ralph Meeker and Saturday Night Live's Garrett Morris interact rates a couple bonus points.
Due Tuesday: Iron Man; the Oscar-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side; vol. 3 of Jazz Icons and a Smothers Brothers box set
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Chung H, et al., (2012). Gut Immune Maturation Depends on Colonization with a Host-Specific Microbiota. Cell.
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Pamp SJ, et al. (2012) Single-cell sequencing provides clues about the host interactions of segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB). Genome Research, June 22(6):1107-1119.
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Bik EM, et al. (2006) Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach. PNAS 103(3): 732-737.
[Electronic version] [FASTA file with all 1833 clone insert sequences] [FASTA file with the 128 OTU representatives] [OTU table][Supplemental Table 3]
Cummings, et al. (2006) Species- and Strain-Specific Control of a Complex, Flexible Regulon by BordetellaBvgAS. J Bacteriol., 188(5), 1775-85.
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Palmer, et al. (2006) Rapid quantitative profiling of complex microbial populations.Nucleic Acids Res, 34(1), e5.
Bik EM, et al. (2006) Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103(3), 732-7.
Diavatopoulos, et al (2005) Bordetella pertussis, the Causative Agent of Whooping Cough, Evolved from a Distinct, Human-Associated Lineage of B. bronchiseptica. PLoS Pathog., 1(4), e45.
Griffiths, et al. (2005) Genomewide Analysis of the Host Response to Malaria in Kenyan Children. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 191, 1599-1611.
Eckburg, et al. (2005) Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora. Science, 308(5728), 1635-1638.
Cummings C, et al. (2004). Bordetella species are distinguished by patterns of substantial gene loss and host adaptation. J. Bacteriol 186(5):1484-92. [Link to publication] [Supplemental Material]
Belcher CE et al. (2000), The transcriptional responses of respiratory epithelial cells to Bordetella pertussis reveal host defensive and pathogen counter-defensive strategies, PNAS. [Link to publication] [Link to Supplemental]
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I am sorry. You are an acosmic panentheist.<quoted text>
I am not even a monist who sees everything as one in the essence.
One is not the truth.
The ultimate truth is a singular system of unified aspects that're fashioned from the basal field of consciousness-energy via an innate causation.
The nondualist thinks that consciousness is the only reality as in his altered mind states he experiences only differing degrees of awareness, while he ignores or is only partially aware of the basis of the dynamic side of pure existence which is energy.
Consciousness and energy are not one thing but rather they form a unified field in which each is completely involved in the other and each cannot exist without the support of the other.
They're like say the obverse and reverse sides of a coin.
I am a realist who perceives the ultimate reality not as a single entity in which everything is undifferentiated but rather as a unified field of consciousness-energy that leaves behind the residue of pure consciousness when its innate energy component falls silent or when it enters a state of dormancy.
This according to me is the way existence is.
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#47894 Jan 27, 2013
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
#47895 Jan 27, 2013
You are definitely a person that uses 50 dollar words where 5 cent words may be appropriate. Certainly this vocabulary is not how you speak to women when courting? Get a girlfriend. I am entertained by your convoluted thoughts at times and at times think you look for the most complex words you can put together and then do so, but at an alrmingly quick rate. Yes, your vocabulary is very good from what I can tell. Why mix up simple concepts so much as to make them appear complex.
It's easy to make things complicated, much harder to simplify. There is strength in brevity and clarity.
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#47896 Jan 27, 2013
Panentheism (from Greek πᾶν ; (pân) "all"; ἐν (en) "in"; and θεό ς (theós) "God"; "all-in-God") is a belief system which posits that the divine (be it a monotheistic God, polytheistic gods, or an eternal cosmic animating force), interpenetrates every part of nature and timelessly extends beyond it. Panentheism differentiates itself from pantheism, which holds that the divine is synonymous with the universe.[1]
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#47897 Jan 27, 2013
I see you also buy into the notion of stage theories
Kind of a religious application of Piaget
#47898 Jan 27, 2013
For some strange reason, when I read Joel's posts, the following video comes to mind. This has been done under various companies. First time I saw it was Rockwell based, now something else, but still funny. A matter of putting together a lot of complex words but saying very little. Sorry, Joem, you just remind me of this.
#47899 Jan 27, 2013
Joel posted this ... Didn't catch it the first time 'til Beans posted a comment:
J: So, good and bad are dual aspects of the lower nature.
IDGAF: How can you be sure of this? What is good? What is bad? We understand good/bad because of a societal acceptance of these definitions. How do we really know the difference? We are condtioned through what society says is correct, not always by the correct. Just saying ...
J: The individual of discrimination accepts or is naturally inclined to the beneficial and uplifting aspects of nature and gains in the process as he sees his psychology, emotions, body, family life and professional career blooming.
IDGAF: but are these from true discrimination between the good and bad? There are some very troubled people who are the best people that they can be, but still are very troubled. They make good choices, bad things happen to them regardless. Karma? Or just shitty luck? Hard to tell, but I don't see genralizing that making the Good Choice will always bring a blooming life. Sometimes bad shit happens to good people. That's just life.
J: Such an individual will never ruin his gene pool or mar his mind, emotions, body, family life and career by indulging in say cocaine addiction or incest or murder or illegal felling of trees or self-mutilation or suicide or terrorism as these are the negative and degrading aspects of nature or harmful traits of the unregenerate frontal personality.
IDGAF: we can respectfully agree to disagree on this set of comments. Too many good people who make good choices in life and live wonderful lives get caught up in all of the above. Making a statement that being pure of mind, body and spirit will keep away the bad is simply flawed. You may live a perfect life and be overtaken by canceer. You may live a perfect life and get caught up using drugs due to illness. You may be living a perfect life somewhere and get caught up with an extremist group. This can start off totally unintentional. Life is simply not this simple. You can simplify and the simpler you keep it, the less likely bad things may happen to you. One of the challenges in life is overcoming adversity. Life would be too boring if bad things didn't exist.
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#47900 Jan 27, 2013
Once again, awarded Frijole's Seal of Approval
#47901 Jan 27, 2013
Stage theory sounds like life in general. But as I was looking through your link, I started thinking that evolution can be categorized in stage theory, but much, much slower if indeed it exists.
#47902 Jan 27, 2013
These things must be related to dogs. They have dog faces.
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#47903 Jan 27, 2013
The fundamental bias behind most stage theories is that the most developed level is also the highest level - usually occupied by the guy who is creating the theory. I see this is Joel - he assumes that enlightenment happens in stages.
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#47904 Jan 27, 2013
They are cuties, arent they?
#47905 Jan 27, 2013
Yup, might make nice pets like dogs. You'd have to have a nice large pool heheheh
Well, Joel is definitely different. I think we could do the turbo encabulator on Joel's view of life and becoming.
So, I see lots of phylosophy here. What's your background? I've never put much time or thought into general phylosophy, but I have my own crazy thoughts just the same. My background is more on the technical sciences and mathematical.
#47906 Jan 27, 2013
To Joel's credit, he is the king and god of his mind and his little space and time.
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#47907 Jan 27, 2013
He is his very own manifestation
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#47908 Jan 27, 2013
I should charge for that assessment. I used a technical word.
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I work in the physical sciences. But I come from a religious background, and had plenty of schooling in the social sciences and a little in the humanities, and did my stint in the eastern philosophies and new age therapies back when still a lad (Ever notice no one during past life regression discovers that that they used to sweep manure? They are always queens and kings- but I digress).
So I am spread thin, like a dose of sucrose acetate isobutyrate in Gatorade.(you can google that if you are interested or read check out the front page of todays NYtimes).
#47910 Jan 27, 2013
And what part of unique don't you understand. Unusual, unexpected, unique. The same. You don't like unique? Use a word of your choice. It still stands that those who have religious beliefs similar to you segregate their places of worship by socioeconomic status. It is unusual and unexpected that "religious" people would do so.
#47911 Jan 27, 2013
Nice background. I spent a whole youth working in farms doing a lot of odd stuff like your manure sweeping. Hehehe ... Over time learned a thing here and there and ended up as a pro doing neat stuff.
So, essentially a weighting agent, a stabilizer, a preservative. Brings to mind formaldahyde. The sugar compound that is ...
Joel is definitely a creation of his own. What I'd like to understand is the transformation and path that leads you to where you end up.
For me, initially I didn't believe anything as I was not educated or knowledable at an early age. External influences referred to God. Was sent to Sunday school. Had my own thoughts and lots of questions. Didn't take to the formal training on religion very well. Have spent most years with my own thoughts on what God is and how He works and is there or not. At times I've dabbled into the bible, but I tend to get bored with the stories. Seems to describe a very jelous and needy god. I just don't see it that way. An all powerful God wouldn't need us or care that we worshipped Him. So, I end up where I am today with questions and thoughts that don't necessarily agree with the status quo. I do enjoy asking the questions as I know there are no answers, but am amused by people's responses and at times I see new things.
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STUDY my post below and stop twisting your little mind. It is not clever what you are doing, it is sheer STUPIDITY.
STUDY what follows. Don't open your mouth and reinforce your stupidity.
Let me help you in your attempted explanation. I have copied my post and your response to it. Now in explaining YOUR words do so in its CONTEXT plus define anomaly and fit your definition into your sentence. Let me illustrate it for you.
HughBe---I would have gone to churches where the majority are professionals/business people and YES there are those types of churches.
Eric---It's (unusual or unexpected) of those who believe that Jesus was the Messiah and a member of the Triune.
NOTE the replacement of"an anomaly".
Note--My example MEANS, attending TWO churches is UNEXPECTED and UNUSUAL for someone who believes in the Trinity.
Original words follow, give it a try.
HughBe---I would have gone to churches where the majority are professionals/business people and YES there are those types of churches.
Eric---It's an anomaly of those who believe that Jesus was the Messiah and a member of the Triune.
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Nearly 2,000 Haifa stevedores conducting a costly slow down since Sunday, widened their demands today in defiance of orders of the Histadrut, Israel's Labor Federation, to return to work.
The stevedores began their action, which has left more than 20 vessels waiting to be unloaded in the harbor, in protest against what they claimed were excessive prices for meals. The Histadrut told them to halt their slowdown and permit the issue to be settled through negotiation.
A committee of the dockworkers today broke off contacts with the Histadrut, and demanded that foremen be classified as technicians for wage scales for port workers. Later the workers said they would talk only to a Ministerial committee and would resume work only if such a committee were appointed. Histadrut newspapers warned that the labor federation's position was being endangered by the dockworkers' defiance.


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1. Re: SDDM DDL dependency generation optionsKevinDavis Oct 26, 2012 6:22 PM (in response to ScottK)Related to: {message:id=10649391}
2. Re: SDDM DDL dependency generation optionsKevinDavis Oct 29, 2012 7:13 PM (in response to KevinDavis)In my previous consulting engagements I have had package/type/table dependencies graphs that are far more intricate than:
create or replace function a(b in number) return number deterministic
return b;
create table c
(d number, e as (a(1)));
which fails to be gen'd in the correct order by SDDM.
3. Re: SDDM DDL dependency generation optionsScottK Oct 31, 2012 2:08 PM (in response to KevinDavis)It is a question which comes first the table or the function (chick or egg). Either answer is correct. In your example, the function first. In this one, the table first:
create table foo (a number, b varchar2 (100));
create or replace function get_foo (p_b in foo.b%type) return foo.a%type as
lv_a foo.a%type;
select foo.a into lv_a from foo where foo.b = p_b;
return (lv_a);
exceptions <they all go here>
end get_foo;
I can see the SDDM design team's problem of trying to generate a set of DDL files that keeps both sides of the question/problem happy. The way Oracle Designer generated DDL seemed to be a good solution. All related DDL objects were in the same file, I think it was alphabetic by object name. There was a wrapper .SQL file which called each of the DDL type files. Just getting to this again with SDDM would be an improvement over the current DDL generation model.
4. Re: SDDM DDL dependency generation optionsPhilip Stoyanov-Oracle Nov 1, 2012 7:49 AM (in response to KevinDavis)Kent, Scott,
thanks for examples.
5. Re: SDDM DDL dependency generation optionsPhilip Stoyanov-Oracle Feb 20, 2013 7:19 AM (in response to ScottK)Kent, Scott, Kevin,
again, thanks for the examples. You are welcome to try to break dependencies tracking in DM 3.3 EA2 with new examples.
6. Re: SDDM DDL dependency generation optionsScottK Mar 28, 2013 1:27 AM (in response to Philip Stoyanov-Oracle)Philip,
Form what I am seeing in SDDM 3.3 EA2 and now SDDM 3.3 production, the dependency generation for object types and relational tables is much much better. I like the object types are pre-defined, then the type fully defined. The tables are next and then the object type bodies. Much better. This coupled with the ability to add the keyword FORCE and the DEFAULT NULL for parameters on method definitions goes along ways in being to rapidly cycle through the prototype process.


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LONDON -- The High Court of England has denied NSM Music Ltd.'s appeal of the judgment made against it earlier in the year in favor of the Performing Rights Society for Music because it had no real prospect of success.
PRS, which represents the interests of the creators or publishers of musical works in the UK, challenged NSM's licensing status earlier this year.
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And those who can include those who benefit by the commodification and corporatization of the third world, which in turn exploits those who cannot.
Abu Ghraib couldn't happen; surely American soldiers would not do such things. Those wealthy enough to hire help immigrating to their country would certainly not hurt them. Denial is easy. Denial preserves my pride in my country. My country wouldn't do that. The people of my country wouldn't do that. Americans do that. Immigrants come in illegally to American and are mistreated and beaten and sexually abused by their employers, just as Amy Waldman's article assures us is happening in the Middle East. Some of our soldiers, just like the soldiers of other nations, have done that and will do it again. This is the price of denial, the price of running in the fast track to the point that we are too tired to accept the pain of awareness. If I don't know, it can't be my fault. Not. I read of injustices around the world everyday in both of my newspapers. The information is there. It is our responsibility to love the human race enough to hear the information and to keep the information alive in discourse around us. Refusing to be aware makes us complicit.
Unlike Botero, I chose not to picture the violence. I wanted to remember to be aware of the exploitation with an image that I could live with on my wall.
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Remembering and awareness do not mean that we will have the time in fast tracked lives to take up every cause, to speak out every time speaking out is needed. But it does mean that we remain open to hearing and seeing, that we not shut ourselves off in a comfortable local community that we proceed to take for the whole world itself. Increasingly, the real world is infringing on these local safe places we have reserved for our own privilege.
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'My role is to support teachers'
Teachers say they are worried that an unqualified "Mums' Army" of classroom helpers could be used to undermine the professionalism of their job.
One mother who is a school assistant says she understands their concern, but there should not be conflict in the classroom over the issue.
Sara Rutter is very much a mum - she has four children aged between five and 12 - and for the past year she has been assisting in a primary school in Scarborough, where she previously helped out on a voluntary basis.
"I hate the term Mums' Army," she said.
"But I can see fully why teachers feel like that."
Sara regards herself as part of a system of pupil support.
Her job involves helping just one child who has severe special educational needs.
Thanks to the government's policy of "inclusion" there are many more such children in ordinary classrooms these days.
"Personally, my main role is to support the child," she said.
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She has a degree, in drama and the media, and hopes eventually to train as a teacher.
But her view is that classroom or teaching assistants are very much assistants.
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"I know there's a move to say that we are a threat to teachers but that's not the issue.
"Teachers do need support - but it is only support, and I think as classroom assistants we are aware of that.
"We are not trained to do their job therefore we don't do their job."
She is emphatic that everything she does is under the strict direction of a qualified teacher.
"I don't move without the teacher's say-so," she said. "I wouldn't be supporting her if I did anything else."
But equally she is not much taken with the idea of assistants' being used to lighten teachers' workloads by doing such things as photocopying and cleaning paint pots.
She thinks any potential for conflict can be resolved through communication, as the government seeks to expands the number of assistants in England's schools.
"Teachers and classroom assistants have been thrown into this and we need to work together and support each other - rather than feel undermined on either side."
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Interview with Jonny Blair from Don't stop living
This week we you'll find out the story about Jonny's experience in Romania. He's the fourth person who said yes to our interview for the project "Travel Blogger In Romania".
Born in Northern Ireland, Jonny Blair is the author of Don't stop living for almost 9 years. He visited Romania for 3 weeks and blog about it. We are so excited to see what he said, so let's get started:
1. How long have you been traveling?
Hard question to answer and depends on what way you look at it. First trip without my parents was in 1991 so 24 years. First lived abroad in 2003 so 12 years. First visited all 7 continents in 2010 and still on the move as we speak. In general I've travelled for most of my adult life.
2. Are you a backpacker/long term traveler/business traveler/live and work abroad?
I'm all of those. I have backpacked for months on end, I have been a long term traveller for a while. I have also travelled with work on many ocassions and have lived and worked abroad in quite a few places.
3. How many countries have you been to?
Again, it's up for debate. Officially I've visited 108, though if you count disputed countries and regions, it would be 121.
4. Quick fire questions:
Favorite season? – Football season
Beach or mountain? – Beach
Urban or rural? – Urban
Next destination on your list? – Yorkshire, Manchester and Gloucester in England and also the unknown Empire of Adammia
5. How did Romania finds its way to your list of destinations?
I got a cheap flight to Bucharest and was also there for football.
6. Expectation Vs Realityin Romania.
It exceeded my expectations. I stayed for 3 weeks, originally planned just a week there.
7. How was your experience with the traditional Romanian food?
I loved it.
8. How did Romanian people seem to you?
The girls are especially friendly. The guys take a bit more effort to talk to and there are some odd guys there, but overall, I have lots of time for Romanians.
9. Regarding this, did you make any friendsin Romania? Do you keep in touch with anybody from Romania?
Yes, I made lots of friends there in Brasov and Bucharest. I was in the north too, but didn't keep touch with the people I met there. It was very fast.
10. Do you have any funny travel stories from Romania?
Yes, I always have funny stories! I partied with a tour company on the train from Chisinau to Bucharest, it was crazy night train and didn't sleep. I had a few pub crawls in Bucharest and Brasov. I got naked at the hill at the top of Brasov, admiring the view in peace.
11. Did you convince anyone to travel to Romania?
Yes, two friends of mine also visited.
12. Which is the less pleasant experience in Romania?
Perhaps just the tramps on the streets and too many dogs on the streets in some parts of it!
13. Could you live in Romania?
Yes, I could easily live there.
14. Do you have any pieces of advice or tips for aspiring travelers?
Head to the north of Romania and tour Sucevita, Suceava, Cacica, Marginea and Moldovita. It's marvellous. Stay in the old town of Bucharest. It was fantastic.
Do you believe in vampires?
Yes, I do. I'm from Northern Ireland and I believe Bram Stoker was Irish, so we'll go along with what he wrote.


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Embarkation: Vancouver
We arrived early and there was a special lane to register for suites and no line. There was a line for latitudes and everyone else. But one we got past the registration, the ship was not ready for boarding, so we had to wait for customs. We were supposed to be escorted to our room, but that didn't happen. I'm not sure why. One of our bags was delayed because they hold any bag they think has alcohol in it. That was annoying as I had to wait in long line to retrieve my bag. It wasn't alcohol.
The room was really nice. It was the same as the courtyard suites on deck 14 but at a fraction More of the cost. I thought I had access to the courtyard deck and in fact, my key card worked giving me access. When I saw the courtyard, I was disappointed. The pool was too small for swim and the courtyard was small and humid. There were kids running around the place and they were noisy. Now I was happy that I did not get the courtyard. So we went back to our room which had a living room, dining area, and balcony on one side, and the bedroom and bath on the other side. There was a larger bath with a TV over it, a separate shower with 6 body sprays, hand held spray, and rain shower head. The bath and shower both had large windows with a direct view of the ocean. Who needed the courtyard.
On our next NCL cruise, we booked the Owners Suite which includes the courtyard. But the owners suite will be worth it where I don't care if I use the courtyard or not.
We used room service Cagney's for breakfast and lunch. For lunch, we found the shrimp cocktail (appetiser) and berry desert to sufficient. We skipped the main dish. We used the freestyle restaurants for dinner each day. We went to Cagney's twice and enjoyed the Asian restaurants including sushi twice. My first prime rib was overdone, so they brought me another one that was perfect. I teased about how a I was ready to order another meal or my $25 fee and they were ready to bring me another. One I paid the fee, I could eat as much as I wanted. The food was great. I was surprised to find they charged for bottled water and juice. The brochure only said alcohol soda's. I drink ice tea and was not charged extra for that.
I was surprised to find the butler did not receive a portion of the tip that was automatically paid. So be prepared. I misread the special at the SPA for a massage. By the time I paid for my massage, facial, and the manicure and pedicure my wife and I had, I had spent a lot at the Spa. They got me. But I had a good time.
I found some great 14KT gold earrings for my wife that were overpriced. I suspect I paid about the right price at the 50% off sale the first full day on the ship. I can't believe anyone would buy it after the sale ended.
I enjoyed the cruise experience. I wasn't surprised by the sales tactics. I enjoyed the suite and never felt like there were too many people on the ship. I look forward to taking another cruise on NCL, though I will avoid the Spa because it was overpriced. Less
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This deluxe suite was great. Once I got passed the colors, the cabin was roomy. It had plenty of room for our clothes. The bathroom with separate bath, shower, toilet, etc was great. I really liked the body sprays in the shower. The children's area of the cabin would have been great for kids with a separate bath and sleeping area. The coffee machine was one that I've got to have. We had four flat screen TV's. It was priced right. The deluxe cabin has the perfect price point. You don't pay for the courtyard but you have the same as the courtyard villa's.Read All Family Penthouse with Balcony (SC) Reviews >>
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There is an error on this page - it states "The Reptilian Technician manned the weapons and tranporter system aboard Dolim's ship when the weapon was launched. He disabled the Enterprise and was able to beam Hoshi aboard their ship so she could help decode the Xindi launch codes. (ENT: "Countdown")".
There are two officers aboard Dolim's ship, one who disables Enterprise and another who operates the transporter. Which one is the Technician, played by Paul Dean? Also, the information comes from "The Council", not "Countdown". --Defiant 12:00, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
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They are the same person, both are said to have confronted commander Dolim and both were then killed.– The preceding unsigned comment was added by 188.8.131.52 (talk).
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Do Xindi-reptilians always produce other xindi-reptilians? Asking for Dolim's daughter and grandson. --LauraCC (talk) 18:32, December 31, 2016 (UTC)