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The role of complex modelling in climate science
When climate models first emerged some 40 years ago, it was unclear whether anything useful could be obtained from the necessarily crude representations of climate processes contained within them. But in the subsequent four decades, the early successes in prediction and understanding have been replicated many times, and climate models have emerged as a dominant tool in discussing past, present and future climate change. I will discuss the history of climate modelling, the 'philosophy' of model development and the new challenges posed by the onset of 'big data'.
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Dr. Gavin Schmidt is the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and works on the simulation of climate in the past, present and possible futures. He was the author with Joshua Wolfe of "Climate Change: Picturing the Science "in 2009, and in 2011 was the inaugural recipient of the AGU Climate Communications Prize. He is a fellow of the AGU and AAAS. His 2014 TED Talk (in Vancouver) has been viewed over a million times.


In a culture marked by gender neutrality, The Hubs has spent the last few years searching for tools to help him guide our four boys toward Biblical manhood...toward leadership...toward bold faith.
Frustrated by the lack of available resources, he felt called to create a ministry designed to come along side and equip fathers to be able to pass the torch...to challenge the next generation of men to live dangerous lives for Christ.
It's been months since the seed of 2 Timothy 1:14 was planted in his heart. After many hours of planning and preparing, The Hubs is almost ready to draw the curtain...to unveil the "good treasure" he has been guarding.
Until then, take a quick peek.
You're sure to hear more about Truth Guards in the coming months, but for now, be sure to check out the website which launches today!
Thank you for passing it along. I hope your son will join the ranks in a few years!
This sounds great. I have three boys and we're just starting to look into something like this. My oldest just turned seven. I would be really curious to hear your husbands thoughts on what was lacking from programs like Trail Life. Or maybe a better question is... How is Truth Guards different? I love what's on the website so far and will be following closely! Thanks for being so willing to blaze a new trial.
The two obvious differences between what we are hoping to do with Truth Guards and what we see in Trail Life are...we don't just want to provide a "boy scout alternative" where boys are dropped off and taught by one or two men. We want to provide support for Fathers to teach their own sons. All boys must attend meetings with their fathers. Also, while Trail Life seems to be Christian based, there isn't a strong Spiritual Growth component to it. It is more like an adventure club that has a Biblical World view. We feel like the Spiritual training that a father passes on to his son should be foundational and is even more important than the other two components found in most boys adventure clubs...life skills and physical fitness.
What a fantastic ministry, Jamie! My two boys are only 2 years old and 6 weeks old, so it'll be awhile before they're ready to join the ranks. However, I follow your blog regularly and have just 'liked' your Facebook page recently as well, so I'll be following along on this adventure! Quick question for you...will there be specific guides or instructions (for lack of a better word, 'curriculum') that the men will use with their sons? I'm just curious for dads who are 'baby Christians' themselves and would need strong guidance in their teaching. Thanks and God bless!
The club books will have a "Spiritual Growth" section for the fathers and sons to complete together.
Great your writing.This section offers an outline of the vision of manhood and womanhood exhibited in this book with fitting outline reactions to the most well-known protests. Since each push to answer one inquiry (on this or any essential issue) sires new inquiries, the rundown of inquiries here is not thorough. Regardless, we would like to give enough trajectories that perusers can track the flight of our plan to its selected focus on: the great of the congregation, worldwide mission, and the eminence of God.Thanks all!!
Hi Jamie, is Truth Guards still a thing? I just heard about it on an old episode of Pam Barnhill's podcast and it sounds fantastic.
No. We have discontinued the national groups for insurance reasons. There are other organizations like ALERT or Trail Life that might be worth looking into.


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If you wish to make a Spanish will, or seeking advice on the benefits of creating one, or looking for guidance as to whether you need to change your existing Spanish will in light of the EU legislation introduced in August 2015, the following information drafted by our specialist Spanish inheritance lawyers at Giambrone should assist you.
Why should I create a Spanish will?
If you are a UK resident, but own property in Spain, it is good practice to have a will in Spain for numerous reasons.
The most important of these reasons is that it will make dealing with your estate in Spain much more straightforward for your beneficiaries. Whilst you can deal with your Spanish assets through a will made in the UK, it is always advisable to do so via Spanish wills. This is because should your estate be handled by a Spanish abogado (lawyer) who is not familiar with English law, and in particular, if the will incorporates trusts or non-standard clauses, which they often do, it could lead to delays and additional costs whilst additional, specialist cross-border assistance is sought.
Another very good reason to create a Spanish will is that it has the potential to significantly reduce the tax liabilities of your beneficiaries. There is no standard structure for making such arrangements, however, there are numerous options which can be discussed with you by an expert Spanish inheritance lawyer.
Having a will drafted in the UK for your English assets and a will drafted by a Spanish inheritance lawyer for your Spanish assets brings clarity and avoids confusion, as well as also avoiding the delay that having to refer back and forth to both countries will bring and the process will be far smoother.
A key point to note is that if there are two wills that they do not contradict or revoke each other. Informing your Spanish inheritance lawyer and your UK will solicitor of the fact that you intend to have two wills drafted for the respective countries in which your assets are situated is vital.
What law applies to my Spanish will if I am a UK resident?
For UK residents, Spanish wills can be governed by the laws of England and Wales. EU inheritance legislation drafted in 2015 has enacted legislation that causes EU citizens who are residents of Spain to be subject to Spanish succession law, regardless of their nationality, unless they specifically state in their will that they wish for the succession law of their own country to apply. The Spanish law of compulsory heirs dictates that set percentages of an estate must be left to children and the spouse. This is different to the law in the UK that allows the testator to leave their estate to whoever they wish.
If you have already made a will in Spain and are a resident there, but do not have Spanish nationality, then it is most important to take advice regarding your will if you wish your estate to be dealt with under the laws of England and Wales, you will have to specifically state that you wish your country's own laws of succession to apply, so that you are able to leave your assets to the people of your choice.
What are the differences between Spanish wills and UK wills?
In the UK a will is either made through a solicitor, a will writer or, albeit inadvisably, using a 'home will kit'. There is no requirement for the will to be signed in front of an official such as a Notary or Court official. However, the will must be signed in front of two witnesses who must actually observe the will being signed. If the witnesses are also benefactors of the will their claim is void as you can receive any benefit from an estate if you have also been a witness to the signature. In the case of "do-it-yourself" wills it, unfortunately, can and does lead to legal issues where a will turns out to be non-compliant with the law or incorrectly executed.
A will drafted under the laws of England & Wales once signed and witnessed is not entered on any central register. They are frequently stored at the office of the solicitor who drafted the will, or at your bank together with other important documentation such as the title deeds to your property. Or they may even be kept at home or with a relative. There is an obvious problem with leaving a will with a relative in that should the will be lost, or the solicitor moves away or ceases trading, tracing the document could prove a challenge.
Things are different in Spain. Spanish wills,in most cases, are signed in front of a Notary, who will take responsibility for making sure they are legally compliant. Once signed, the Notary submits the information to a central registry of wills, which is located at the Spanish Ministry of Justice in Madrid. The signed will never leaves the office of the Notary and if the Notary leaves the area, retires or dies, it is passed to a succeeding Notary in the same locale for safekeeping ensuring that when the testator dies, a certified copy of the will can easily be obtained from the Notary's office.
A further difference between Spanish wills and English & Welsh wills is that in Spain, it is not necessary to name an executor to be responsible for administering your estate,as it is in England and Wales If you wish to do so, you can. Keep in mind that your executor(s) will be carrying out their responsibilities in Spain and according to Spanish law, so at very least they will need to speak fluent Spanish.
What are the different types of Spanish wills?
In total there are three different types of Spanish wills.
The first is an 'open will'. This is the most common type. Whilst it is not a requirement to have the will drawn up by a lawyer it is always advisable, particularly if you do not understand the Spanish language well enough to be satisfied that it reflects your wishes. Spanish inheritance lawyers will provide you with a copy in your native language for your review before proceeding to the signing stage. Once you are happy with the will, an appointment will be made for you to sign it in front of a Notary and three witnesses, who will also sign.
The second type of Spanish will is a 'closed will'. The contents of such a will remain secret. A Spanish lawyer will need to draft it to ensure its compliance with Spanish law; you are then required to take the document to a Notary, who seals it into an envelope and signs the envelope, along with two witnesses.
Both open and closed wills are filed by the Notary on the general registry of wills in Madrid, and copies kept at the office of the Notary.
The last type of Spanish will is known as a 'holographic will'. This is a hand-written or verbally made will. If you are writing it, you must ensure that there is absolute clarity in the terms of your will with no question mark over your wishes, you then sign and date it on each page. There is no need for a visit to the Notary, or for witnesses to sign a holographic will. It is up to you whether to voluntarily lodge the will with the general registry, although of course,it is advisable. When you die, the will has to be authenticated by a judge who will call for your closest relatives to verify your handwriting, which can cause delays in administering the estate. If you are making a holographic will verbally, you will need to do so in front of five witnesses, who must then testify as to wishes to a Notary, who goes on to draw up a written will, which will then be certified.
What would happen if I died without a will in Spain?
Another reason to make Spanish wills is that if you die without one (intestate), then your Spanish assets may be automatically disposed in line with Spanish inheritance law, and the compulsory heirs' law that we have already discussed may apply.
Giambrone Spanish inheritance lawyers: All the expert guidance you need when making a will in Spain
Spanish laws are notably complex, and even when you have a degree of fluency with the language, the legal terminology and processes that vary from those in the UK can be confusing. Expert advice is essential, and you will find this amongst the specialist Spanish wills solicitors at Giambrone. With offices in Spain and the UK, we are well placed to assist you in your native language. We are wholly focused on ensuring your interests are safeguarded. Giambrone is well-regarded for technical knowledge of the law around Spanish laws of succession and inheritance matters.
For further information about Spanish wills and other inheritance issues please click here

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Five reasons why Joe Biden faces a world far different from before Trump
By Tony BurmanContributing Columnist
Sat., Nov. 28, 2020timer4 min. read
All Hail, People of the World: this is what American political competence is supposed to look like.
And yes, it has been quite a while, hasn't it?
The impressive cabinet and senior policy choices announced this week by U.S. president-elect Joe Biden are intended to reshape America's role in the world in a post-Donald Trump era. But even if they don't guarantee an actual "third term" of Barack Obama's presidency — as Biden himself insists — the links to those earlier days are deep.
All of Biden's key selections so far are veterans of the Obama years and most of them are already very well-known by many foreign leaders and diplomats. So unlike their counterparts in the widely disliked Trump team, none of them will be expected to steal the cutlery or lick their plates after dinner during their international visits.
Instead, they will bask in the glow of a genuine political honeymoon as much of the international community celebrates that the U.S. appears to have regained its sanity, at least temporarily.
But like all honeymoons, it won't last. It's not as if a Rip Van Winkle, waking suddenly after four years of chaos and disruption, can rediscover a world that resembles the one before.
The challenge ahead for U.S. foreign policy in the wake of the Trump years will be enormous, and the Biden group is too smart not to realize that.
As they must know, the genie can't be put back into the bottle, and here are five reasons why:
1. The U.S. is much weaker.
The damage inflicted on the United States by the Trump presidency is virtually incalculable. By the time he leaves office in January, more than 400,000 Americans will be dead from the pandemic. The economy is in shambles and the key democratic institutions — such as the legal system, news media and public service — have been savaged. The country is also horribly polarized, with the majority of Republicans believing Trump's nonsense that the election was stolen from him. That is the America over which a new President Biden will preside.
2. The world is much different.
Since 2016, the American reputation in the world has declined dramatically. Rather than being seen as "the shining city on the hill" — as Ronald Reagan once described it — the U.S. is now viewed by many as a failed state. In many parts of the world, the dictators of China and Russia — Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin — are now "more trusted" than the U.S. president. Even the fabled U.S. medical system is now viewed by many with disbelief as its horrific pandemic death toll climbs.
3. Europe is more divided.
In many western capitals, there was delight at Biden's election since Trump's abuse of America's traditional allies was unrelenting. But there are divisions in Europe about how close an embrace there should be to the Americans now. France's president, Emmanuel Macron, is pushing for European "strategic autonomy" that would be more independent in military and industrial terms. Germany, in contrast, wants to resume the close relations of the past. The question is how trustworthy the United States is anymore.
4. The issues are more difficult.
Biden will move quickly on the more obvious global issues. The U.S. will rejoin the Paris climate treaty, the World Health Organization and UNESCO and it will revive the nuclear agreement with Iran. But it will take considerable resolve to solve other issues. There is the need for the U.S. to end its role in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, to make sense of the farcical Trump approach to North and South Korea, and to deal with Russia. And the list goes on.
5. China is more powerful.
There is no country that has benefited more from the disastrous Trump years than China. Although the U.S. president and his acolytes were bellicose in their anti-China rhetoric, their actions accomplished nothing — except to strengthen China's position. By weakening western alliances, abandoning America's traditional allies in Asia and withdrawing the U.S. from any effective global engagement, Trump allowed the Chinese government to increase its power abroad and smother human rights and democracy in its own country. China, therefore, is far more of a dangerous rival to the U.S. than it was when Trump took over.
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It may be months before America's role in the world under a new Biden administration becomes clear, but it will certainly not be enough to simply be different from Trump.
Biden needs to resolve the debate within his own party about which direction he should take the country. Should it be cautious and low-key as Obama's approach was? Or should it be more groundbreaking and aggressive — and encourage fresh new thinking?
The pressure will soon be on the new U.S. president because when Biden looks over his shoulder, he knows what he will see.
Donald Trump has no apparent desire to leave the political stage just yet. He knows that several of Biden's appointees helped push for the very policies — such as trade deals, international treaties and foreign wars — that fuelled Trump's political rise in the first place.
In the days ahead, Trump will not only oppose the new Biden administration. He will do everything in his power to destroy it.
This will happen in the full view of a wary international community wondering as much as ever who will ultimately win this vicious American civil war.
Tony Burman, formerly head of CBC News and Al Jazeera English, is a freelance contributing foreign affairs columnist for the Star. He is based in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @TonyBurman
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Dark Lord of Derkholm Describes Chesney's Tourism
For some people, May and June are the season to watch Game of Thrones. However, for others, May and June are the season of both graduation and of planning summer vacation. Diana Wynne Jones is known primarily for being a fantastic writer of fantasy fiction, especially for Howl's Moving Castle. However, she wrote a two book series set in a fantasy world where she ably critiques both tourism and academia. The Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin, despite being published in 1998 and 2000 respectively, both still have trenchant critiques. Unfortunately, despite it being May and graduation time, the first book deals with the tourism, rather than the academia. But let us begin anyway with Mr. Chesney's impact on the world.
Spoilers for The Dark Lord of Derkholm.
The Dark Lord of Derkholm begins with Querida, the Chancellor of the Wizard University, hosting a meeting. She plans to overthrow Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties. She consults the oracles. They tell her to install is Dark Lord the first person she sees and as Wizard Guide the second person she sees. That's Derk, a wizard interested in genetics and his teenaged son Blake. Derk, his wife Mara, their human children Shona and Blake, and their griffin children, Kit, Calette, Lydda, Don, and Elda, rise to the occasion.
Derk runs around organizing battles, and trying to raise a demon (he fails). However, a dragon comes to their home to swear fealty to the Dark Lord and burns Derk. The healer sends Derk into a coma, leaving Blade, Shona, Kit and the other griffins to handle all the remaining preparations. Lydda flies over the entire continent. Elda helps her mother with the role of the Glamorous Enchantress. Kit, Blade, and Shona organize the Dark Lord's army, full of convicts from Mr. Chesney's world. The soldiers run, and Barnabas puts the camps in the wrong place.
Blade goes and runs his own Pilgrim Party. Shona goes with him. Shona falls in love with Geoffry, an expendable. They go to Mara's house, where she gives lessons on the impact of the tours. Eventually Blade gets them lost. Blade finds a mine run by escaped soldiers and Barnabas. He captures Blade and sends him to die in the coliseum. Derk blocks the pilgrims from returning to their world. Kit and the dragon rescue him and bring him home. Everything converges on Derkholm, and Mr. Chesney forces his way through. Reville steals the paperweight where he kept the demon that gave him power. The gods manifest and entrust the world to Querida and Derk's children.
The Way Mr. Chesney Devours the World
Dragons, Dwarves, Elves, and Demons, Oh My!
One of the common themes of Mr. Chesney's exploitation of the world is the way he treats the magical creatures. From the very beginning Jones seeds this. " 'These are the protests of the elves and the dragons. … Both put it rather obscurely,' Querida confessed. 'I think the Elvenking is talking about blackmail and the dragons seem to be bewailing the shrinking of their hoards of treasure, but both of them seem to be talking about their birthrate too," (6). We later find out that this is true. Chesney lured away a prince of the elves, and then kept him by force, so that all the Elves needed to obey him.
Eldreth (the captured elf) was forced to do an analysis of how much gold that dragons needed. But he could only make a guess, leading to their slow starvation, because dragons feed by sleeping on gold. To ensure dragons only got the gold he gave them (one cup every five years), he began to tithe the dwarves. While driving the soldiers, they encountered a pack of dwarves, bringing tithes to Chesney. He simultaneously starves the dragons, gains wealth for himself, and convinces the dwarves they should tithe.
Most egregious is his treatment of demons. The mine that Barnabas runs for Chesney mines just earth. But even the earth in this world is magic, and demons eat magic. Like the dragons, Chesney starves them. And like the elves, he took captive one of their own. The demon that pops up throughout the novel, says at the end. "I can't eat this one, the demon told her. The demon in his pocket prevents me. It is my mate, and he keeps it half starved." (506). He kidnapped a demon, starves it, and uses it to gain power over this world.
The Exploitation of People Through Music, Magic, and Sensuality
At the beginning of the novel, Shona is about to leave for bardic college, but when the news about Derk being chosen arrives, she stays home. She doesn't learn that the bards withdrew their support for the Pilgrim Parties. The reason that they gave is that the tours regard bards as expendable, and don't want to lose more musicians.
Beyond that utter disregard for life, the treatment of wizards by the tours is awful. Although there are a few exceptions, most wizards wind up working for the tours, and only for the tours. They recover during the off-season, maybe teach a class on how to guide a tour at the University, but their life revolves around them. Chesney requires that all wizards wear beards and robes and carry staffs. He dictates all their lives, down to the things they can wear.
But that's just the male wizards. They can be wizard guides and the Dark Lord. But not female wizards. The only role for them is the Glamorous Enchantress. She's a magical femme fatale, and Querida conspires that Mara be picked. It's all glamor and misdirection and 'seduction'. But the fact that women are only good for sex and sensuality shows Chesney's lack of belief that women wizards, that women, amount to anything.
The root of all these problems comes from Chesney's lack of belief and constriction of people's agency. The bards have no agency on the tours, so they can die. The wizards become restricted, male and female. Chesney says it at the end of the book. "He's not real life. None of these people are. … If they didn't happen to be under contract to me, they'd be nothing—just rough types" (506). They might as well be automotons in his view.
The Price of the Tours
Each individual Pilgrim Party kills "an average of two hundred of our citizens each" (62). For 125 parties, that comes to 2,000 dead every year. But the horror doesn't stop there. One of the recurring secondary characters is the Horselady, who breeds horses and supplies the parties.
She is furious about the tours. "So many of my horses got killed last year that I had trouble meeting my quota for this year. I've had to send out some of the breeding stock. And that means fewer foals next year" (292). The death toll expands to animals, where multiple parties worth of horses die in the first weeks. It wrecks both the ecosystem and the horse economy. Add to that Chesney's bountiful hand with fines for not complying and it becomes ruinous.
Good farmland gets destroyed as well, with Pilgrims trampling over farms. The battles only make things worse, to the point where Derk moves a battle to protect a particularly fertile cropland. Damage like this (if not checked) could lead to famine. Inn keepers even mention that there isn't enough grain to brew beer in their complaints to Querida.
Blade spends a sleepless night trying to figure out how much Chesney makes from the tours. People have to sell their houses to pay for the tickets. On top of that comes insurance, and the bribes paid to make people 'expendable', or set to be killed during the tour. Then comes the gold that the dwarves pay in tithes. It "came out with so many naughts on the end that Blade thought he must have multiplied it all by 1,000 by mistake." (364). That doesn't even account for the illegal mines and Chesney's fines. He makes a killing on the tours, with no benefits coming to the world he exploits.
How People Responded to Chesney's World
The Devaluation of Women Wizards
We've alluded to Chesney's sexism previously, but the Glamorous Enchantress and the lack of work for women wizards only scratches the surface. He calls Shona a slave girl when he appears at Derkholm for the initial tour meeting. Other women work as actual slaves in the area that parallels the Middle East – harem slaves. Who wear wispy clothing, and are subservient to men. This can probably be put down to Mr. Chesney's prejudices.
But, when those prejudices belong to the most powerful man in the world, who's run it for thirty years? Then those prejudices trickle down. We see that in how the male wizards treat the female ones. "Normally during tourtime the place [university] would be abuzz with female wizards, who usually took this opportunity to use the equipment" (261). The implications are that female wizards don't have the opportunity to use the equipment while men are there. This boils down to sexism, pure and simple, not just caused by Chesney, because he's not a presence during not-tourtime, but because his beliefs filtered down, just like coffee and cotton filtered into this world.
Querida even does this in some manner, in her treatment of Mara. Mara agreed to work with her on stopping the tours. But Querida took that opportunity to separate her from Derk, who she felt unworthy of Mara, because of her past relationship with Mara's father. "And I'm afraid I put a spell on Mara, to make her decide to leave you." (487). Admittedly she reverses it when she sees Derk's grief for Kit and Blade. But she still removed Mara's agency in choosing her own partner, showing her absorption of Chesney's sexism, even as one who would unseat him.
Costamaret and the Coliseum
People become what the people in power say they are. Nothing shows this better than the Coliseum in Costamaret. Originally imported for the tours, to make Costamaret an exotic place, the scene where Kit and Blade are trapped there is one of the most horrifying in the series.
"This is Costamaret here, where we love to watch a proper fight. And we love the Pilgrim Parties for bringing us the idea. Of course we've improved on it. Got contests you'd never dream of." (466).
They promise people will be free if they kill a certain number of opponents. But they keep raising the number, bathing people in blood until they are killed. The tours started it, but they continued it, turned it into a black market event. Barnabas sent Blade here to die, and they captured Kit after he was injured in one of the battles and assumed dead.
But the tours brought many evils to this world, not just the coliseums and gladiator fights. This, or things like this has to happen somewhere else in the world. Everyone can't hate Mr. Chesney. Some people love him and laud him, like Costamaret does. It shows how Chesney continues to shape this world beyond the damage of the tours.
The Addictiveness of Battles Between Good and Evil
This problem composes Kit's entire character arc. One of the climactic parts of Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties is the battle between the forces of Good and the forces of Evil. From the very beginning, Kit takes charge of organizing the battles, of scheduling attacks and retreats. During Blade's first battle, he thinks. "Another funny thing, he thought as he whisked [translocated away]. I'm hating this battle as much as I'm enjoying it." (327). Immediately afterwards, he finds that the so-called-fanatics behaving as if they are actually fanatical. It troubles him, and he tries to avoid subsequent battles.
Kit doesn't avoid them. Later, when half the battles are over, Derk thinks. "Their own side was smaller too, but this was because people had been killed. Kit called this natural wastage. Derk wished he wouldn't." (416). In that same battle, the soldiers shoot down Kit, and he appears to die. He reappears in the coliseum with Blade, as the opponent he's meant to fight. He explains how he was saved from his 'death' and was told. "I really had to learn that killing people wasn't a game." (477). Kit dealt with the battles by viewing it as a game. He played the role he was given so deeply he couldn't see outside of it.
Geoffrey, Sukie, and Querida, the Good of Tourism, and Fixing the Effects
Geoffrey and Sukie reveal their connection to Mr. Chesney in the climax. Geoffrey is Chesney's stepson, who he wanted dead to avoid splitting Sukie's (Chesney's daughter's) inheritance. Chesney sent him on the tour to get him killed, and listed him as expendable. While they are related to the greatest villain of the piece, their reactions to this world show the good in tourism.
From the very beginning, Geoffrey treats Shona as a sentient human being, and falls in love with her on that basis. He also manages the world he's in capably and with aplomb. He accepts their norms and customs. Sukie learns this, eventually. Initially she annoys Blade with her constant flirting and insensitive comments. "Oh, Wizard, is it true that a special magic happens when a wizard kisses you?" (371). For a pre-pubescent boy, even disguised as an adult, that would be irksome. But by the end of the story she falls in love with Reville, a thief, and makes some valuable contributions. But she still had to learn it.
However, Querida's task shows the damage that appropriative tourism does. At the end, the gods show up to stop Chesney. Anscher says to Querida.
"We give the wizard Querida the task of making this world into its own place. … At least another forty years,' said Anscher. Querida, assured by this of a very long life, sat up straight and seemed much less frail. 'And, as the Oracles warned you,' Anscher said, 'it will not be east. Slaves have to learn freedom. But we give you the children of Wizards Derk and Mara to help you in this" (512).
Jones balances the good that can come from tourism with that damage that it does. The forty years Querida needs to fix this world make that point clearly.
Parallels to Real-Life Tourism in Disney, Hawai'i, and Iceland
Barring the magic, everything that happens in The Dark Lord of Derkholm can be paralleled in the real world. Disney first. Like Chesney's worldwide theme park, Disney is expensive for the visitors, almost ruinously so. In the inverse of the expendables, Disney never lets anyone die on their property, paying doctors to declare time of death only once off the 'Happiest Place on Earth'. Akin to Kit's peril, the role that the employees play is more important than the employee themselves as people. The financial and communicative inequality also shows in last year's union battle.
This article does a fantastic job of describing the damage exploitative tourism did and does to Hawai'i. Of particular note, is the exoticism and eroticism of the Hula Girl. We see shades of this in how Chesney treats women, and in Sukie's attraction to the wizardly Blade. The idea of this world as exotic also probably inspires a good deal of the interest. It makes the Hawai'ian people into commodities.
With Iceland, tourism is now the largest part of their GDP. In much the same way, most of the world works for the Pilgrim Parties because of Chesney's demon. The problems it causes people are also similar. The rise of tourism priced people out of being able to buy homes and food, and the potential for starvation if enough farmland is harmed parallels that. Damage to the landscape with the delicate mosses and graffiti also shows in the forty years required for Querida to fix the world.
Despite writing over twenty years ago, Diana Wynne Jones managed to tell a story of the lasting damages of tourism. Especially tourism that exploits the people either working or living in the land where you journey. It's sobering. But Jones manages to tell an engaging story of people working together to reclaim their agency from the corporation that had it. Chesney loses in the end, and that's a good message to carry away from this book. It's a message we should carry on our travels both this upcoming summer and in the future. Wonder what damage tourism does to the land and the people. Then see what you can do to mitigate that.
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Tommy Bond
Thomas Ross Bond (September 16, 1926 – September 24, 2005) was an American actor. Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedies (first as "Tommy" and later as "Butch"). Also, he is noted for being the first actor to appear onscreen as "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen, having portrayed the character in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).
For the Major League Baseball player, see Tommy Bond (baseball).
Tommy Bond in 2001.
Thomas Ross Bond
(1926-09-16)September 16, 1926
September 24, 2005(2005-09-24) (aged 79)
Early years and Our Gang
Born in Dallas, Texas, Bond got his start in 1931 at the age of five when a talent scout for Hal Roach studios approached him as he was leaving a Dallas cinema[1] with his mother. The scout asked him if he would like to act in films because he "had a great face" and set up an appointment with Hal Roach in Los Angeles. Hal Roach was gathering new talent for his popular Our Gang comedies. Bond's grandmother Jane Quin Sauter volunteered to drive the boy to L.A. by motor car. This occurred in the spring of 1931, in the depth of the Great Depression. It proved to be a grueling journey, punctuated by flash floods and encounters with tarantulas, on mostly dirt roads from Dallas to L.A.
Bond was hired at Hal Roach Studios for the Our Gang series in the summer of 1931 to begin work that upcoming fall, at around the same time as George "Spanky" McFarland was hired. Bond worked in Our Gang for two years, alternately appearing as a supporting character and a background actor. His speaking roles increased by 1934, including his most substantive role to this point as the gang's band conductor in Mike Fright. In late 1934, Bond left the series and returned to public school, still earning periodic bit parts in Hollywood productions.
After leaving the gang for the first time, Bond also worked as a voice actor, most notably in several of Tex Avery's Merrie Melodies cartoons for Warner Bros. His best known voice role was as the speaking voice of "Owl Jolson" in Tex Avery's 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon, I Love to Singa.
Bond returned to Our Gang on a recurring basis late in 1936, when Roach hired him to play "Butch", the neighborhood bully. In one short, his mother called him "Tommy", apparently indicating that "Butch" was a nickname. Bond's first short as Butch was Glove Taps. Besides filling the role of the archetypal Our Gang bully, the Butch character also regularly competed with meek Alfalfa (Carl Switzer) for the affections of his sweetheart Darla (Darla Hood). While in Our Gang, Bond appeared in a number of outside films, such as those featuring fellow Hal Roach Studios comedians Charley Chase and Laurel and Hardy.
As Butch, Bond remained with Our Gang an additional three years, staying with the series when it moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1938. His final Our Gang short, Bubbling Troubles, was released in 1940; Bond continued to work in other MGM productions following his departure from Our Gang. In total, Tommy Bond appeared in 27 Our Gang shorts - 13 as "Tommy" and 14 as "Butch".
After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Bond returned to acting, and appeared in two Gas House Kids features alongside former on-screen rival Carl Switzer. In the late 1940s, Bond became the first actor to portray cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in two Superman film serials: Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).[1] He also appeared as Joey Pepper in several installments of the Five Little Peppers serial.
In 1951, Bond graduated from college and quit acting, but remained in show business in the areas of television directing and production, and worked with individuals such as Norman Lear, George Schlatter, and many others. He worked at Metromedia owned Channel 11, KTTV (now owned and operated by Fox) in Los Angeles from the 1950s to the early 1970s. He then went to work for Capital Cities Communications' CBS affiliate Channel 30 KFSN (now owned and operated and affiliated with ABC) in Fresno from the early 1970s to 1991. Tommy also worked as a prop manager on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
During the 1960s Bond was an active member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in North Hollywood where a number of his Hollywood friends and colleagues attended. Together, they were instrumental in the production and presentation of the annual Christmas Pageant presented on the grounds of Emmanuel's school Laurel Hall. The production, which involved a cast of several hundred, a chariot and horses from Spahn's Movie Ranch, numerous other animals and professional Hollywood sets and lighting, was presented each year during the Christmas season for several weeks leading up to Christmas. Grandstand style bleachers were installed that seated about 1000 guests. Highlights of the pageant included a horse-driven chariot and Roman soldiers on horseback riding through the gates of Bethlehem to proclaim the census requiring Jews to register in their hometowns. Bond was instrumental in arranging for the production to be filmed and aired on Metromedia owned Channel 11, KTTV in about 1965.
Bond retired from television in 1991. In his latter years he lived in the Fresno and Madera Ranchos area, and served as a spokesman for a number of Our Gang-related materials. Bond published his autobiography, Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang/The Little Rascals, with the help of Fresno teacher, film historian and co-author Ron Genini, in 1994. Tommy's son, Thomas R. Bond II "Butch, Jr.", who is a film and television producer, worked with his father in their family production company, the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. The senior Bond also hosted The Rascals, a documentary on the life and times of the Little Rascals.
Throughout his lifetime, Bond appeared in 73 films, was a charter member of the Screen Actors Guild, joining in 1937, and worked with many Hollywood stars in the years of 1933 to 1951, including James Stewart, Eleanor Powell, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan, and Eddie Cantor among many others.
In 2004, a monument was dedicated at Hollywood and Vine commemorating the first movie made in Hollywood, made by the precursor to Bond's company, American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Less than a year later, the 2.8 ton monument was stolen in April, 2005. Bond felt because of the monument's size, it had to have been an "inside job." Bond was so upset, he swore that the company would never shoot any project in the district of Hollywood. Bond said "The Hollywood I grew up in used to be a wonderful and magical place, with great folks. Now it is somewhere I would never want to be."
Bond died on September 24, 2005,[1] at age 79 due to complications from heart disease in Northridge, California. He is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
1934 Kid Millions Little Boy in Ice Cream Number Uncredited
1935 The Marriage Bargain Jimmy Sparks
1935 The Calling of Dan Matthews Tommy Uncredited
1936 Next Time We Love Pesky Kid Uncredited
1936 The Return of Jimmy Valentine Listener Uncredited
1936 Silly Billies Student Uncredited
1936 Counterfeit Dicky Uncredited
1936 Libeled Lady Waif Uncredited
1937 Champagne Waltz Otto, Singing Student Uncredited
1937 Married Before Breakfast Baglipp's Kid Uncredited
1937 Hideaway Oscar Peterson
1937 Rosalie Mickey Uncredited
1938 City Streets Tommy Francis Devlin
1938 Block-Heads Neighbor's Son Uncredited
1939 Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Joey Pepper
1940 Five Little Peppers at Home
1940 Out West with the Peppers
1940 Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940 A Little Bit of Heaven Jerry
1941 Adventure in Washington Peewee Haynes
1941 New York Town Willie Uncredited
1943 This Land Is Mine Pug-nosed School Bully Uncredited
1944 Man from Frisco Russ Kennedy
1945 Twice Blessed Horace
1945 The Beautiful Cheat Jimmy
1947 Gas House Kids Go West Chimp
1947 Gas House Kids in Hollywood
1948 Big Town Scandal Waldo 'Dum Dum' Riggs
1948 Superman Jimmy Olsen Serial
1949 The Lucky Stiff Newsboy Uncredited
1949 Any Number Can Play Mike Uncredited
1949 Intruder in the Dust Minor Role Uncredited
1949 Tokyo Joe Fingerprint Sergeant Uncredited
1949 Battleground Runner Uncredited
1950 Atom Man vs. Superman Jimmy Olsen Serial
1951 Hot Rod Jack Blodgett
1951 Call Me Mister Little Soldier Uncredited
1951 Bedtime for Bonzo Student Reading Newspaper Uncredited
1971 The Love Machine Stagehand Uncredited
2004 Bob's Night Out Crazy Neighbor (final film role)
Lentz, Harris M., III (2008). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2005: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. ISBN 9780786452101. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
Bond, Tommy, w. Genini, Ron (1994). Darn Right It's Butch: Memories of Our Gang/The Little Rascals. Delaware: Morgan Press. ISBN 0-9630976-5-2.
Dye, David. Child and Youth Actors: Filmography of Their Entire Careers, 1914-1985. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988, pp. 23–24.
Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 153.
Tommy Bond on IMDb
Tommy Bond at AllMovie
Biography on filmsofthegoldenage.com
American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
Tommy 'Butch' Bond at Find a Grave
Our Gang / Little Rascals
When the Wind Blows (1930)
Hi'-Neighbor! (1934)
For Pete's Sake! (1934)
The First Round-Up (1934)
Honky Donkey (1934)
Mike Fright (1934)
Washee Ironee (1934)
Mama's Little Pirate (1934)
Anniversary Trouble (1935)
Beginner's Luck (1935)
Teacher's Beau (1935)
Sprucin' Up (1935)
Little Papa (1935)
Little Sinner (1935)
Our Gang Follies of 1936 (1935)
The Lucky Corner (1936)
Second Childhood (1936)
General Spanky (1936)
The Little Rascals (1994)
The Little Rascals Save the Day (2014)
The Little Rascals Christmas Special (1979)
The Little Rascals (1982-1984)


Use the Smartboard with this interactive activity on balancing equations. An equation is a math sentence that says two things are equal. Also, learn how to use related facts to solve for a missing variable. A variable is an unknown amount.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Reflection;
using Jasily.ComponentModel.Editor.Conditions;
using Jasily.Extensions.System.Collections.Generic;
using Jasily.Extensions.System.Reflection;

namespace Jasily.ComponentModel.Editor
{
    internal class PropertyMapper
    {
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        static PropertyMapper()
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Orthopaedic clinic fined
The Healthcare Commission has secured the conviction of Orthopaedic and Spine Specialty Clinic Ltd, a company which runs an orthopaedic hospital in Peterborough, and Mr Ahmed Shair, an orthopaedic surgeon and sole director of the company which owns the hospital.
On Wednesday 9 July at Peterborough Magistrates' Court in Cambridgeshire, the company was fined under the Care Standards Act 2000 for breaching the conditions of its registration as a healthcare provider.
Mr Ahmed Shair, a director of the company, was also fined on the basis that the breaches of the conditions of registration were committed with his consent or connivance, or attributable to his neglect.
The company's hospital – the Orthopaedic and Spine Specialist Hospital in Bretton, Peterborough – provides treatment for people with orthopaedic and spinal conditions.
Under its conditions of registration, the hospital is required to have an in-patient physiotherapy service provided by a suitably qualified, skilled and experienced physiotherapist for all those patients who properly require post-operative physiotherapy. It is also a condition of the hospital's registration that no patients under the age of 18 be admitted or consulted in the outpatient department. Mr Shair and the company Orthopaedics and Spine Specialty Clinic Ltd were found guilty of breaching both of these conditions.
The magistrates convicted Orthopaedic and Spine Specialty Clinic Ltd and imposed a fine of £5000 and ordered it pay £10,000 towards the Commission's costs.
The magistrates also sentenced Mr Ahmed Shair to a conditional discharge of 18 months and ordered him pay £5000 towards the Commission's costs.
The magistrates considered the financial status of both Mr Shair and the company and ordered the payment of the costs and fines to be paid within 14 days.
In October 2006, information was received about the Orthopaedic and Spine Specialist Hospital which alerted the Healthcare Commission to breaches of the conditions of its registration.
Nigel Ellis, Head of Investigations at the Healthcare Commission, said: "As a regulator, our number one priority is the protection and safety of patients. That's why the Government requires those carrying out certain procedures to be registered with us, and to meet the requirements of their registration. Those establishments wishing to treat children or persons under the age of 18 must demonstrate that they have the infrastructure in place to meet the specific needs of those patients. It is also important that people undergoing orthopaedic surgery receive the right level of physiotherapy support. That is why when conditions were breached the Healthcare Commission took action against this hospital on behalf of the safety and welfare of patients.
"Patients have a responsibility for their own safety too. We publish reports following the inspections and assurance assessments we carry out on registered providers. The public can make use of these reports to inform their choices. All reports are published on our website."
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Find out what's going on in and around the park throughout the year and keep up to date with the latest events.
Our sports team are delighted to announce that from Friday 26th April, we will be running Coram's Kickers, our a first football programme for children aged 3 to 4 years.
Coram's Kickers will run weekly from 11am-12pm in the Band Hall and the first 6 weeks are free of charge. Following this 6 week period, these sessions will continue to run at a cost of £5 per session and each child will receive a free Coram's Kickers t-shirt!
Unfortunately, spaces are limited so if you would like to sign your child/children up, please email [email protected] to register. Places will be given on a first come first served basis.
Brownies (ages 7-10) and Guides (ages 10-14) are based here at Coram's Fields, so if you live nearby- this is a great opportunity for girls to go along to camps, holidays, day trips and sleepovers. They get together with their friends at regular meetings where they learn new hobbies, get creative, explore other cultures and have outdoor adventures. Older girls can challenge themselves and do new and different activities.
Parents can register their child here or for more information please email [email protected] .
8th Holborn Scout Group is a mixed youth organisation with a membership of more than 100 young people aged 6 to 14, supported by a team of volunteer leaders and assistants and based at Coram's Fields. They have a Beaver Scout Colony for ages 6-8, a Cub Scout Pack for ages 8-10 and a Scout Troop for ages 10-14. Scouting exists to actively engage and support young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society. The programme varies with age, so we slowly build up to advanced camps, expeditions and adventurous activities. For information about how your child can join, please click here.
JEMS Tuition provide personalised and high quality tutoring in Maths, English and Science for young people aged 6-16 years. Their Holborn Centre is based in our very own Youth Centre on Saturdays and is staffed by qualified teachers and tutors who seek to instill the love and enthusiasm they hold for teaching and learning.
This tutoring service is ideal for students excelling at school or requiring extra help. They set and mark homework every week and teach topics in line with the national curriculum. They can even help with difficult homework too.
Book a free assessment here or call 07455592117.


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WORK PLAN OF THE NARKOMTSVETMET SIN'TSZYSNOLOVO CONCESSION FOR 1941
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The Narkomtsvetmet (People's Commissariat of Nonferrous Metallurgy) outlines the work plan for the Sin'tszyanolovo concession in 1941, including exploration work for tin and tungsten in the Bortala River basin and conducting a geological survey and prospecting for mineral deposits in the Altai, Kashgar, Ghulja, and Hotan districts.
"Work Plan of the Narkomtsvetmet Sin'tszysnolovo Concession for 1941," March 07, 1941, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, RGASPI f.17 op.162 d.32 , l.150-154. Obtained by Jamil Hasanli and translated by Gary Goldberg. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/121883
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to point 141 (OP) Politburo Minutes Nº 28
(approved by the USSR SNK and VKP(b) on 7 March 1941)
The geological work of the Special Expedition of Glavnikel'olovo in Western China (the province of Xinjiang) has established signs of tin both in alluvial deposits and in primary deposits. However, the industrial importance of the deposits which have been found have not been clarified. The deposits of the region of the Bortala River have the most reliable signs of tin and tungsten deposits of all the tin deposits found.
Based on this, the tasks of the work of the Sin'tszyanolovo concession in 1941 are:
a) the organization of geological work to explore for tin and the minerals associated with it in unexplored regions of Xinjiang;
b) searching for tin and tungsten deposits of the Bortala region;
c) the organization of the mining of tin and tungsten concentrate in sectors which have produced favorable results in content and reserves;
d) the detailed search for beryllium in the Altai District, and
e) the organization of the pilot mining of beryllium in the Altai.
The calculation of the reserves of tin, tungsten, and beryllium and the commercial value of the deposits of these metals will be the result of all the work.
The following is the work plan for 1941 to accomplish these tasks.
A. Exploration work for tin and tungsten in the Bortala River basin.
1. The exploration of alluvial deposits in the valley of the Bortala River between the village of Shofan' and the mouth of the Kozhurty river in an area of 80 km2.
2. The exploration of alluvial depots in the valley of the Urtak-Sary River between the Motta and Zengin-Kunde Rivers in an area of 20 km2.
3. The exploration of alluvial depots in the valley of the Kustay River from the mouth of the Ishki-Bulak River downstream in an area of one km2.
4. The exploration of alluvial depots in the valley of the Sary-Burek River in an area of 1.6 km2.
5. The exploration of alluvial depots in the valley of the Turgun River in an area of 1.2 km2.
6. The exploration of primary tin and tungsten deposits in [the following] sectors: Chekerty, Chogan-Kel'dy, Turgun, Sary-Burek, and Kustay.
The start of the exploration work is 1 April 1941.
The departure from Moscow of the engineering and technical workers of the Bortala geological exploration group is to be accomplished by 20 March 1941.
Establish the following amount of exploration work for primary and alluvial deposits of tin and tungsten in the Bortala River basin:
Total for 1941
the sinking of pits
running meters
the sinking of boreholes
the sinking of trenches and small pits in primary deposits
a) without demolition work
b) with demolition work
taking slot samples
Submit ideas about the possibility of organizing pilot mining of the tin and tungsten concentrate by August 1 1941 on the basis of the results of the exploratory work conducted in April and May.
Process the geological and the exploratory materials in the 4th quarter of 1941, along with the field work, and by 1 January 1942 compile a preliminary production report with a calculation of the reserves and the commercial value of the reserves of tin and tungsten.
B. The Geological Survey and Prospecting for Deposits of Tin and Other Metals
1. The geological survey and prospecting for primary and alluvial tin and tungsten deposits along both sides of the Bortala River on a scale of 1:100000.
2. Detailed prospecting of primary and alluvial tin and tungsten deposits in the region of the Chekerty, Chogan-Kel'dy, Sary-Burek, and Turgun River on a scale of 1:25000.
The start of work of the Bortala exploration group is 1 May 1941.
The departure of the engineering and technical workers from Moscow is to be completed by 10 April 1941.
The following is the volume of the exploration work:
Survey and prospecting for tin on a scale of 1:100000
Detailed prospecting for deposits of tin on a scale of 1:25000
In the 4th quarter of 1941 process the geological materials and provide the commercial value of the region and the further direction of the geological exploration work.
C. The Geological Survey and Prospecting for Deposits of Tin and Other Minerals in Altai District
1. The geological strip survey and prospecting for deposits of tin and other minerals on a scale of 1:200000 in the region of the Urungu and Kaby Rivers and Kanas Lake [Ka-na-si hu].
2. The geological survey and the prospecting for deposits of tin and other minerals on a scale of 1:100000 in the region of the Kran and Ku-Irtsis Rivers.
3. The geological survey and prospecting on a scale of 1:10000 in the region of the Koktokay deposit of beryllium.
The start of field work is 1 May 1941.
The departure of the engineering and technical workers of the Altai geological exploration group from Moscow is to be completed by 10 April 1941.
The following is the volume of the exploration work for Altai:
Geological survey work on a scale of 1:20000
Geological survey work on a scale of 1:100000
Taking bulk samples
Taking placer samples
Sinking of pits for alluvial deposits
Taking and processing trommel samples
As a result of the exploratory work give:
a) a geological commercial value of the region explored for tin, tungsten, molybdenum, beryllium, and other minerals, and
b) a detailed assessment of the Koktokay region for beryllium.
D. The Geological Survey and Prospecting for Deposits of Tin and Other Minerals in the Ghulja [Yining], Kashgar [Kashi], and Hotan [Hetian] Districts
The start of field work of the Hotan, Yarkant [Shache], Kashgar, and Dzinkhoy [sic] geological exploratory groups is 1 June 1941.
The departure of the engineering and technical workers of these groups from Moscow is to be completed by 25 April 1941.
Taking placer pan samples
As a result of the exploratory work done draw up a geological map and give the commercial value of the regions explored for tin, tungsten, and other minerals.
E. The Exploration of the Koktokay [Keketuohai] Beryllium Deposit
1. The survey of four beryllium veins in the region of the village of Koktokay and the lower course of the Dzhetty River, with survey work to begin on 1 May 1941.
The departure of the engineering and technical workers of the Koktokay exploratory group from Moscow is to be completed by 1 April 1941.
Establish the following volume of exploratory work at the Koktokay beryllium deposit:
Sinking of entrances, crosscuts, and galleries
Sinking of pits
Sinking of trenches and clearing
Bulk samples
100 [SIC]
As a result of the survey work provide 10,000 tons of total reserves of beryllium, of which 1,000 tons are of industrial grades.
Process the geological and the exploratory materials in the 4th quarter of 1941 along with the survey work, and by 1 February 1942 compile a report with a calculation of the reserves and the commercial value of the reserves of the Koktokay beryllium deposit.
2. The pilot mining of beryllium at the Koktokay deposit.
The start of mining work 15 May 1941
The following is the amount of open-pit exploitation work:
Amount of the mined mass removed
With an accepted beryllium content in the rock mass of 2.5% the probable quantity of beryllium (with a content of 9% of beryllium oxide)
Determine the prime cost of a ton of concentrate on the basis of the pilot mining and provide a conclusion about the industrial and economic advisability of exploiting the deposit.
F. Topographic Work
1. A topographic survey in the basin of the Bortala River in the sectors of the prospecting and exploration work.
The start of the work is 1 April 1941.
The departure of the engineering and technical workers of the topographic group from Moscow is to be accomplished by 15 March 1941.
Establish the following amount of topographic work (in square kilometers):
Topographic survey on a scale of
1:25000
2. The topographic survey in the Altai District in the sectors of the prospecting and exploration work with the following amount (in square kilometers):
The start of the work is 15 April 1941.
G. Office and Laboratory Work
1. The chemical analyses for tin, tungsten, bismuth, molybdenum, and other metals, the analyses of the alluvial sand from the alluvial ore, and the compiling of the topographical and geological maps by work region is to be done in the process of the work.
2. The drafting of the report on the exploration and prospecting work for 1941 is to be done in the 4th quarter of 1941. Submit the report in January 1942 for the approval of the Narkomtsvetmet.
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Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)--History
Mines and mineral resources--Soviet Union
Locations discussed
China and the Soviet Union in Xinjiang, 1934-1949
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Concerning the Sin'tszyanolovo Concession in Xinjiang
RGASPI f.17 op.162 d.32 , l.150-154. Obtained by Jamil Hasanli and translated by Gary Goldberg.
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