Whole Tangerine Orange Bundt Cakes: moist and tender bundts made from tangerine oranges puree and coconut flour.
Good news : in the month of October last year, I have received heirloom tangerines. Grown up at the coast, not chemically treated, the fruits are pure pleasure these days, right ?
We used them for breakfasts with cereals and I thought how good it would be to use them for Whole Tangerine Orange Bundt Cakes to be published after winter holidays. Since I was aware they will not last that long, I decided to make an experiment with boiling the tangerine oranges in October and bake the cake in February. Namely, this bundts' recipe require tangerines to be boiled, cooled and chopped until reduced to thick pulpa. So, I made pulpa and stored it in freezer for three months to bake bundts in February if pulpa will taste as it should. For 1 ½ cup of pulpa, it takes six tangerine oranges exactly.
One day before baking I have taken the pulpa out of the freezer to thaw naturally over night. Also, I prepared one bundt pan of 3 ½ cups volume and six small ones.
Since everything was ready on Saturday morning, I started to rock the pots and bowls. Morning coffee aside, swallowed now and then, who could ask for more ?
My son was still sleeping, me baking in pyjamas, tangerine orange flavours released … Heaven !
Put 6 tangerine oranges into medium sized pot and add cold water to cover all the fruits.
Wash the tangerines and put them into the medium sized pot and cover with cold water and boil for two minutes again. Drain the fruits.
Butter and flour the baking dish: I used one bundt dish (3 ½ cups volume) and six small ones.
Put the whole tangerines into the blender and blend until you get smooth pulpa. Leave aside.
Now take the medium sized bowl and mix eggs, sugar, butter and coconut flour. Add pulpa, flour and baking powder. Mix well.
Pour the mixture to fill 2/3 of dishes and bake. For small bundts you bake for 22 minutes. Bigger one needs 32 minutes.
To make sure baking is done, insert a toothpick in the middle. If it comes out clean, the cake is done.
While the bunds are baking, prepare the syrup: in a small pot, gently melt sugar in the juice you get by squeezing 4 tangerines.
Add orange zest into the syrup.
When the bundts are baked, leave them aside for 2 – 3 minutes and then take them out and return into the baking dish. That way you make sure they do not stick to the sides of a baking dish.
When returned to the baking dish, cover them with syrup to get moist bundts. I added two table spoons to the small ones and poured the rest over the bigger one.
Take out, dust with icing sugar if you like and serve.
24 Responses to "Whole Tangerine Orange Bundt Cakes"
Your post has my undivided attention, citrus sweets are a personal favorite! What a stellar dessert, so much tangerine to enjoy!
Beautiful! And I love the use of whole tangerine in the batter.
Hello Angie ! Glad you love using whole fruits as well ! Thank you so much !
I love citrus cakes, just so different from the usual taste of cakes. Looks very tasty and inviting!
Welcome Andre ! Thank you so much for commenting !
Thank you Katherine ! Agree completely ! Enjoy the weekend !
These look so good. Just to make sure…..the tangerines are NOT peeled, correct?
You are right; not peeled and it gives much more flavour to the dessert. Make sure to wash them intensively if you use store bought ones. I hope you will love the taste once you make them 🙂 Would be very happy if you let me know if you like the bundt cakes. Thank you !
This is such a unique recipe. I have honestly never tried tangerine cake before but I do like citrus cakes so why not? I am just hoping to do a good job in making this. Is it necessary to not peel tangerine?
This looks super delicious. Can't wait to dig in!
Hello Corrie. Yes, I recommend to boil whole tangerines. That way pulpa brings so much of flavours in to the bundts once baked. I am positive you will enjoy it. Thank you for stopping by !
Isn't this cake the ultimate treat recipe?! My mouth is watering right now and I can't wait to give this cake a try!
This cake sounds luscious – I just love citrus in a cake. (Or, really, any dessert ☺). But this recipe is so special, as you've put so much into it. I may try it with some of those large mandarins, hopefully they are still in season. Beautiful cakes and photos, too!
How very kind of you Laura 🙂 Thank you so much !
So true ! What is left afterwards is sweetness and beautiful citrus flavours' bundt cakes ! Thank you so much for commenting !
Love, love, love these tangerine orange bundt cakes. I love anything bundt but these look so moist. I have only made pancakes with coconut flour so looking forward to making something different with it and this is a great recipe to do so.
These look fantastic and sound so delicious!


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As a long line of her Love Island co-stars and other Instagram influencers remain in Dubai, Olivia took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday from her Manchester home to criticise them for claiming they are working abroad.
Olivia's video comes as it was revealed that travellers returning to the UK from the UAE will have to quarantine following a 52 per cent surge in the number of COVID -19 cases there – an undoubted shock for the influencer-packed city.
Had enough: Love Island star Olivia Attwood has hit out at her Influencer pals for claiming they are 'working hard' in sunnier climes during the global pandemic
Celebrating the first sunny day in her home city in weeks, Olivia joked she would have to go on holiday to shoot content for her 1.9m Instagram followers because of the lack of good weather.
'Being an influencer is actually really hard and I can't create content for you guys here, so I am going to have to go on holiday but don't worry I will keep referring to it as 'work,' the tongue-in-cheek video began.
Later, Olivia elaborated, telling her followers: 'Oh my god I sound like an actual hater. Do you know what it is right, it's just this meme that's been going around which is making influencers, and it's not all of them it's only a few, look so bad.'
'It's the constant "I'm working, not on holiday" shout. There is a difference from being able to earn money wherever you are are to being there for work,' the star pointed out.
Abroad: As a long line of her Love Island co-stars and other Instagram influencers remain in Dubai, Olivia took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday from her Manchester home (pictured fellow Love Islander Laura Anderson who is currently in Dubai)
Olivia explained that she has never pretended a holiday with her footballer fiancé Bradley Dack is a work trip, saying: 'Whenever I go on holiday I'll post content which I can monetise. I'm still on holiday. I don't go "Oh me and Brad have had the most amazing week in Portugal but don't worry I was flat out working". You just sound so stupid.'
Olivia did admit she would be tempted to escape the gloomy UK weather and the ongoing lockdowns at some point though, explaining: 'And on top of that you've got the ones going "Oh we're all in this together, this is our struggle". No it's not. You're on holiday and to be fair I don't f**king blame you.'
'If this goes on for another six months I'm not going to say that I wouldn't potentially be tempted to take a trip, because I probably f**king would.'
But she promised never to deceive her followers. 'I just feel like it's giving a whole load of people a bad reputation when actually some people have just gone away and put their hands up and been like "yeah I'm on holiday".'
Rant: 'It's the constant "I'm working, not on holiday" shout. There is a difference from being able to earn money wherever you are are to being there for work,' the star pointed out
Sunnier climes: Olivia didn't name any specific influencers but told her followers that 'in the last 24 hours, people have legit been on their Stories going "you don't know how hard it is to be an Influencer"' (pictured Love Island star Amber Gill who is currently in Dubai)
'So many of my friends and family members are away and I'm just like you do you. Nothing about the way they've handled it has really triggered me but then some things in the last 24 hours, people legit on their Stories going "you don't know how hard it is to be an Influencer".'
'People are losing their family members daily, people can't pay their rent, people's life-long businesses are crumbling around them and you're on your Stories on the beach telling us we don't know how hard it is.'
Touching on her own experiences over the past year, the blonde continued: 'I'm not saying my pandemic has been a genuine struggle, I still have a roof over my head'.
'If I decide to bail out of this s**tshow in a few months. don't all hate on me. I'm not gonna say I'm never going away again, but I won't be telling you I'm going for work, I'm just gonna be honest.'
Tough: Olivia did admit she would be tempted to escape the gloomy UK weather and the ongoing lockdowns at some point though, declaring: I don't f**king blame you' (pictured Love Island star Francesca Allen who is currently in Dubai)
It was revealed this week that travellers returning to the UK from the UAE will have to quarantine following a 52 per cent surge in the number of COVID -19 cases there.
New rules will require international travellers to come back negative after a PCR test before arriving in England. The rules will come into force from Friday.
From 4am on January 15, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane – including UK nationals – will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country.
They will need to present proof of a negative test result – using a PCR test or on some occasions a LAMP or lateral flow test – to their carrier on boarding while the UK Border Force will conduct spot checks on arrivals.
At home: Olivia has remained at the Manchester home she shares with her footballer fiancé Bradley Dack, but has admitted it's been a struggle to shoot content for Instagram in the UK
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'Scandal' Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: "Say Hello to My Little Friend"
By Judy Berman
It's Weiner time! Yes, as fans who paid attention to this week's promos were anticipating, "Say Hello to My Little Friend" finds the Gladiators defending Richard Meyers, a married senator who's been sending explicit text messages to a young woman named Desiree. Of course, since Scandal always has to up the ante, the man operating under the nom de sext Redwood Johnson isn't just cheating on his wife; he's on trial for Desiree's murder.
Maybe it's because of the ripped-from-the-headlines story or maybe I just like seeing Professor Lasky of Saved by the Bell: The College Years fame get work, but I was more drawn in to this week's client story than the previous episode's hostage situation. We got some pithy dialogue — "Slut-shame the dead girl? All aboard" — that also highlighted one of Shonda Rhimes' favorite themes: the way women, and especially young women, can lose both their lives and their dignity as collateral damage of the Washington power structure. There was a well executed, if not totally surprising, twist that revealed Meyers' wife, Shelly, as the true killer. And there's a good bit left unsaid between Olivia and Shelly about smart, powerful women subsuming their own ambitions to those of even more powerful men; in fact, I'd go so far as to say that their connection explains why Liv doesn't discover Shelly's lying until she hears it from Professor — er, Richard.
It's also good news that we're finally making progress in the ongoing tale of Fitz's covered-up military scandal — although, as I may have mentioned in early recaps, I still find this storyline a bit dry for a season-long arc. This week, Fitz reads about Pete Foster's death in the newspaper and pulls some strings to give the man Huck murdered a solemn military funeral at Arlington, which he very suspiciously attends. Hilariously, Cyrus only learns that this has taken place when James bustles into his office, waving a gravedigger's Instagram photo in his face.
Meanwhile, on the heels of telling Liv, "Your father would slit your throat and drink your blood if it would help the republic," Jake — and all intrigue surrounding B613 — has been banished from her life. In fact, she seems to go into full Rowan-mind-control mode, saying things like, "I've never heard of you" and insisting that she needs to become the perfect, unquestioning daughter again.
Obviously, this doesn't last long. Jake's next move is to track down Huck, but in an encounter that finds each waving a gun in the other's face, the latter refuses to team up in taking down Rowan. Well, for a while. After Jake spies on Cyrus and Rowan, he returns to Olivia's office with Foster's file and the news that he's listed as the pilot on a mission that none other than President Fitz actually flew. Now Huck is on board — but, you know, because it's Huck, he's scarily on board and his brain is working like a computer and he's poring over Jake's audio of the conversation between Cy and Papa Pope. What doesn't add up here — what has been bothering me for a few weeks, actually — is why time in the Hole and as part of B613 in general left Huck an antisocial shell of a man, while Jake came back from all that isolation and all those beatings with his mind entirely intact.
This is a whole lot of exposition (characters seemed to be talking even more quickly than usual this week, to fit in all the information that needed to be relayed), but the episode ends with a nice cliffhanger: here's Fitz marching into Rowan's office for a confrontation. If that's not a sign that this season is about to heat up, well, there's also the fact that Liv and Jake are swapping spit again — at least, they are until the president calls. It's starting to feel like he and Rowan share a spooky knack for interrupting these two with a well-timed phone call, and it's disappointing because I'm beginning to wonder if Jake isn't a much better guy for Olivia Pope than Fitz. Although, of course, it's not likely that Scandal will let go of its protagonist's on-again-off-again romance with the president that easily.
Before we go further into the plot, I want to take a moment to say that I'm interested in the developing story of Olivia's fall from her pedestal. The Gladiators make repeated mentions of how tight money is at Pope and Associates; in fact, that's the whole reason the firm takes on Meyers as a client. And there's a heartbreaking moment woven in where Liv watches news anchors pontificate about her: "This is a woman who used to command a lot of respect in this town." Now, apparently, her public profile has been reduced to a "punchline." If Season 3's overarching plot is going to be about Fitz, Jake, Rowan, and Operation Remington, then it seems like its underlying theme will be Liv's quest to not only free herself from her father's influence, but also rehabilitate her own image.
As for interpersonal Gladiator issues, we saw Huck confessing his "whiskey" relapse at an AA meeting, as Quinn looked on — and was eventually discovered. (This was really a big week for the camera panning to the side to reveal that someone is listening in on a private conversation.) Her fascination with his assassin past and addiction to killing is getting really fucking scary, frankly, and he's right to call her out on it: "You're not worried; you're interested," he says. "Stop while you still can." I'm getting a little bit sick of the Huck psychodrama — this seems like ground we've already covered — but I wouldn't be opposed to a shift in focus that gets deeper into what Quinn finds so attractive about all this pathology and carnage.
Also on the personal relationships front, we see some "will they or won't they" action from Abby and David again this week. In the end, she sends him a naughty pic in cheeky tribute to the sexting case (that he happened to prosecute) just before showing up at his door. There's not much suspense or even much of a thrill here… but hey, they're cute, and it's nice to see someone on this show happy.
And finally, did you think I'd forgotten about Lisa Kudrow? Well, after four recaps, you should know me better than that. I was simply saving the best for last. "Say Hello to My Little Friend" introduced us to Kudrow's Josephine Marcus, a Democratic congresswoman and vocal critic of Fitz's affair. In a hilarious moment she doesn't realize is being recorded, Mellie reads this lady like one of RuPaul's Drag Race contestants, and the "trailer trash" comments get out — earning Mellie headlines like "Worst Lady" and upping Marcus' profile to the point where Cyrus fears she's popular enough to run against Fitz. This means Cy is immediately on the case, sending a staffer to dig up dirt in Josephine's home town. (He returns with nothing and Cy doesn't seem bothered, so… to be continued!) As excited as I am about Kudrow's recurring role, we didn't get to see as much of her as I would have liked this week. Fans of Lisa, please join me in crossing my fingers that she'll take center stage in the episodes to come.


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The leading British weekly magazine The Spectator has an excellent Lifestyle section and this recently cast a discerning over a unique Swiss music festival that took place successfully in the midst of the Live Event lockdown.
'We talked a lot about going the same way as most other festivals and cancelling, but we thought this would be just too sad. If we could do something we needed to try at least' said Michel May, one of the organisers of the annual Palp festival, a collection of food, culture and music which takes place every year over the Swiss summer.
A big attraction of Palp is one of the festivals within the festival – Rocklette, a combination of rock music and Raclette cheese.
'We didn't sleep much in the run up,' said Michel.
'US bands started having to cancel straight away and the list of countries which need to quarantine keeps changing, so we've been walking a thin line.'
Just a week before the festival started Spain was added to the list and Michel was left with another slot to fill.
Highlights from the 2019 Palp Festival capture the alpine, open-air vibe that made it more straightforward for organisers to work around the clock
Festival-goers were asked to register and enter their contact details, and organisers deliberately scaled down the event this year. To aid the track and trace, tickets were only sold online as well.
'We limited crowd sizes to 600 and split them into two separate groups of 300, with separate entrances, double the amount of bars and staff, and staff from each side of the divide don't mix during the festival.'
The Spectator asked how they keep the two groups apart.
'We use the same fences they have here for the sheep and cattle.'
Swiss broadcaster RTS filmed the making of Raclette in 1965 when farmers still milked their herd by hand and began preparing the cheese on the hillside
For London metal band Orange Goblin, the coronavirus has seen them on the bill twice, rather than once. Partly to help limit crowd sizes, partly to help fill the line-up.
'This was our very first show since December 19 last year', singer Ben Wade told The Spectator. 'It's our 25th anniversary year and we had big plans so seeing everything wiped out by Covid has been hard to take. Even the soundcheck here has been an incredible buzz, just to feel the volume again.
'It's been fantastic to see people's faces in the audience and see them enjoying themselves. It's been a year of so much uncertainty and confusion regarding live music I think everybody just wanted to let off some steam, I know we certainly did.'
Orange Goblin played two different venues, one just down from the dam, the other higher up in the alpine pass of Col du Lein.
'The air was a bit thinner up there, but it was a beautiful setting right up in the mountains with lots of mountain bike trails, people hiking, cable cars. It was typically alpine, with cows and goats wearing bells.
'I think following this year's experience. it's a festival that's going to gain a bit of notoriety across Europe now. The number of people in the industry who have seen the photos, and said "where was that you were playing, I'd love to play there, the setting was so beautiful."'
Rocklette certainly has a big advantage over other festivals when it comes to staying afloat during the pandemic, namely having the alps as a venue. But I don't think that was the only key to its success. Also on its side was the ability to adapt and have a different vision of what a festival looks like.
The compromises it made also had some upshots. Limiting crowd numbers and having multiple performances gave fans the chance to have a more intimate musical experience, while the layout of venues made social distancing natural, encouraging people to take a step back and enjoy the music in a different way.
The next chapter of the Palp Festival takes place later this month, with tickets still available here.
Billed as, 'A tropical creation, an exciting dreamlike visit to a forest within a town, a wild labyrinth in the suburbs: come and kick back in an enormous ephemeral greenhouse in the heart of the Morand distillery, the canton's most iconic distillery.'
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'It was great, all the events completely sold out. That made for a really good atmosphere. We had people that were partying and going crazy and people who sat back and watched from further away. The venues we'd picked allowed it to work well. We even had the police that came on Saturday to check the protection plan and they said that it was great.'
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Coach House in Old Cleeve (Somerset) is an ideal spot to base yourself for exploring and enjoying the Quantock Hills, the Brendon Hills and Exmoor National Park. It's also not far from the coast at Blue Anchor and the West Somerset Steam Railway runs nearby too! Sorry, no children under 14 years.
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The Coach House is a modernised characterful, well-equipped self-catering holiday cottage in the quaint village of Old Cleeve.  Originally housing the coachman and his family, it has been tastefully updated and extended.
A great place to unwind, the peaceful village of Old Cleeve is away from the main roads yet the location is ideal for exploring and enjoying the Exmoor National Park, Dunster Castle, the Quantock Hills and the Brendon Hills. Perfect for cyclists, walkers or exploring by car.  It's just over a mile from the beach at Blue Anchor and the West Somerset Steam Railway runs nearby too.  Set in a bright, elevated position, the views from the shared grounds of the surrounding countryside, the Bristol Channel and Wales beyond are outstanding.
The cottage is very well appointed with a sitting room, spacious kitchen and dining room.  The stairs from the main entrance hallway lead to the first floor landing which serves two double bedrooms, both of which can be made up as twin beds or super-king size.  There is a shower room with toilet and hand basin.  Also there is a large walk-in wardrobe area.
Sleeps 4 people in two bedrooms,
Both bedrooms can be made up super-king size or twin beds
Upstairs WC with large shower enclosure (no bath)
£100 cash deposit to be paid upon arrival, this deposit will be returned at the end of your stay, providing there are no breakages or damage.
Please note, no children under 14 years of age.  Sorry, no pets allowed.
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The property will be ready from 4 pm on the day of your arrival.  Please depart by 10 am on the last day of your stay. Please leave the property clean and tidy so that we can guarantee it will be ready on time for our next guests.
Coach House is available for week-long bookings, or short breaks (minimum three nights) are available at other times.
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Modern and well-equipped kitchen.
Appliances: Oven and induction hob; Microwave, Fridge/Freezer, Dishwasher, Washing Machine.
Other kitchen equipment includes toaster, kettle, cookware, saucepans, a variety of kitchen utensils, cutlery, crockery and glasses.
Lounge with gas fire;  dining room.
A television (with free-sat) is provided in the living room and wireless broadband is available throughout the property.
Wifi, electricity and heating costs are included in the price of your accommodation. Coach House has gas central heating.
Bed linen, duvets, blankets and towels are provided for your convenience.  Please bring your own beach towels if you wish to take towels with you on day trips.
A small amount of tea, coffee, sugar, milk and biscuits are provided to ensure you can have a hot drink as soon as you arrive. The cottage is equipped with saucepans and crockery, salt and pepper mills, cleaning materials and toilet rolls.
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Coach House is situated within the grounds of the owners large Edwardian House (which offers 4 star B&B).  There are two other holiday cottages on the same site (The Pippins sleeps 2 and The Bramleys sleeps 4).  There is a small enclosed patio/courtyard area (with table and bench) to the rear of the Coach House.  The guests are also welcome to make use of the shared gardens which enjoy seating areas with stunning views across Exmoor and the surrounding countryside to the coast at Blue Anchor Bay and to Wales beyond.
There is parking for up to two cars in the drive beside the Coach House.
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Coach House is situated on the edge of the village of Old Cleeve, which is a charming little village.  Blue Anchor is a short distance and a pubs, which provide food and two cafés.  Washford is also not far in other direction  that has 2 pubs that serve food, and has a small sho...p and Post Office, a little further on is Williton, with two small supermarkets, Post Office, butchers, hardware shop, and some pubs, restaurants and take-aways.  In the opposite direction is the charming medieval village of Dunster, just off the A39.  Dunster  Castle is well worth a visit for sight-seeing as well as shopping and has many restaurants, tea rooms and pubs serving food.  Minehead is the main town West Somerset and is approximately 6 miles from  Here you will find the larger supermarkets and petrol stations (Tesco and Morrisons are both situated on the outskirts of the town and have long opening hours), most major high street banks with cash machines, plus a range of other shops throughout the town.
'Cleeve' means cliff or hill; the village was once simply called Cleeve but became known as Old Cleeve to differentiate between nearby site of Cleeve Abbey in Washford, which was a monastery founded in the late 12th century as a house for monks. Today Cleeve Abbey is looked after by English Heritage and is open to the public; it is one of the best-preserved medieval Cistercian monastic sites in Britain. The parish church sited in the village of Old Cleeve also dates from the 12th century and has been awarded Grade I listed status.
The West Somerset Railway is a steam operated heritage railway and runs very near to Old Cleeve, passing over Black Monkey Bridge, which was built around 1860. Old Cleeve was also near the route of the West Somerset Mineral Railway which ran from the ironstone mines in the Brendon Hills to the port of Watchet on the Bristol Channel.
Between Old Cleeve and Watchet is Cleeve Hill a site of Special Scientific Interest as it contains two species of plant which are nationally rare in Great Britain, Nit-grass (Gastridium ventricosum) and Rough Marsh-mallow (Althaea hirsuta).
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Donde mi resultado de esta consulta me trae todos los registros ya que asi lo tengo, ahora lo que quiero es, que me muestre el resultado de la consulta donde sume los valores de la 3era columna (18 y 1,  153 y 1, 62 y 1 ) cuando las referencias sean iguales.

Algo asi quiero obtener.

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Critical Zone Science Comes of Age
The developing field, which unites Earth scientists to examine the planet's surface as a single, unified entity, is unraveling the complex, interconnected processes that support life on Earth.
by P. Waldron 24 September 2020 22 November 2021
The critical zone extends from the canopy to groundwater. Pictured here is Sequoia Gate in Mariposa Grove of Yosemite National Park in California. Credit: iStock.com/demerzel21
Studying the Critical Zone
Critical Agents of Change at Earth's Surface
Life Teems Below the Surface
Linking Critical Zone Water Storage and Ecosystems
Soil Signals Tell of Landscape Disturbances
Demystifying Critical Zone Science to Make It More Inclusive
Next Steps for the Critical Zone
It's time for a critical zone coming out party.
The critical zone—Earth's thin living skin, which spans from the top of the canopy to the bottom of the groundwater—is still unfamiliar to many scientists.
More than a concept, it's an interdisciplinary endeavor that draws on multiple fields to piece together the complicated interactions between water, air, life, rock, and soil that support terrestrial life. By understanding and modeling these relationships and how they evolve, scientists can predict how human activities threaten these necessary, life-sustaining systems.
Critical zone science began almost 2 decades ago and developed in the United States through a network of observatories funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Now, as a new generation is applying critical zone science to novel questions and sites, the discipline has finally come of age.
The Birth of a New Field
Gail Ashley, a professor emerita at Rutgers University, first coined the term critical zone in a prophetically titled 1998 abstract for the Geological Society of America meeting, "Where Are We Headed?" "I called it the critical zone because it's critical for life," she said. "Also, it's critical to know more about it because of the potential for damaging it."
A sedimentary geologist, Ashley spent most of her career reconstructing the ancient paleo–critical zone of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, one of the richest paleoanthropology sites in the world. Her team uncovered evidence of wetlands and freshwater springs that likely supported hominins living at the site more than a million years ago.
The concept of critical zone science gained traction through a 2001 National Academies report, to which Ashley contributed, that recommended the creation of natural observatories for studying the critical zone.
Susan Brantley, a geochemist at Pennsylvania State University, was a driving force in developing critical zone research in the United States. "In the early 2000s, hydrology was funded separately from geochemistry, was funded separately from geomorphology," said Brantley. "A lot of us were starting to talk about how we…should be looking at the Earth's surface as one thing and bringing all those subdisciplines together." In 2003, Brantley led a team that hosted workshops, wrote white papers, and held town halls at national and international meetings to recruit Earth scientists interested in how biological, physical, and chemical processes shape Earth's surface.
Brantley and her colleagues proposed various sites for laboratories dedicated to the study of the critical zone, and in 2006, NSF put out the call for interdisciplinary watershed-scale projects that would "advance our understanding of the integration and coupling of Earth surface processes as mediated by the presence and flux of fresh water." The Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs), the first long-term sites supported by NSF's Directorate for Geosciences, were born.
Data: The Language of Science
In 2007, NSF awarded 5-year grants to establish three CZOs, all, coincidentally, in forest watersheds. Brantley was a co–principal investigator at the Susquehanna Shale Hills site, an eastern forest on weathering shale bedrock in central Pennsylvania. Sites in California's southern Sierra Nevada and one in the Colorado Rockies also received funding. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided funding for three more observatories, with a wider variety of river basins. Finally, in 2013, the number of CZOs grew to nine, with the closure of one site and four additions. Long-term funding was critical for understanding how the critical zone functions normally and how it responds to disturbances, like fires or floods.
It took a few years for collaborators from different fields to understand each other's science enough that they could help each other out, "and then we really began to be able to do truly interdisciplinary science."
"One of the challenges early on was just finding a vocabulary," said Timothy White, a geologist at Penn State University and the national office director of the CZOs. It took a few years, he said, for collaborators from different fields to understand each other's science enough that they could help each other out, "and then we really began to be able to do truly interdisciplinary science."
"From the beginning, it was also about data, how to collect all of these data," said NSF program director Enriqueta Barrera, who nurtured the program from its infancy.
Ultimately, data and new technologies became common tongues in critical zone science. Advanced techniques in isotope geochemistry helped scientists track the movement of elements through the critical zone, estimate the size of fluxes, and calculate the speed of chemical processes on timescales ranging from minutes to millennia. Through remote sensors, researchers monitored weather, soil moisture and temperature, sap flow, and snow depths from the comfort of their labs. Using lidar, they mapped changes to the landscape from planes. The bounty of data were integrated into numerous geochemical, hydrological, and climate models.
Other countries began to replicate the CZO system. In collaboration with CZO scientists, researchers have established observatories around the world, on every continent except Antarctica. In the United States, the Department of Energy modeled some long-term monitoring sites after CZOs, and many critical zone scientists worked independent of the observatories.
How Far Can You Push the Critical Zone?
Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory field manager Erin Stacy conducts measurements of water and carbon fluxes at the Providence Creek eddy covariance flux tower in 2015. Credit: Roger Bales
Since the field's inception, critical zone scientists have shown how altering Earth's surface and vegetation leads to subsurface impacts—changing water flow, minerals, and microbial life at surprising depths. Subsurface imaging and drilling have also shown considerable belowground variation and the ways in which that alteration influences surface conditions. These discoveries opened the door to more applied research and better land management practices.
For example, critical zone studies in California let researchers predict how much deep water, stored in pores in weathered bedrock, is available to forests during droughts. Scientists at the Southern Sierra and Eel River CZOs reported the amounts of root-accessible moisture available from year to year, which sustained plant life during the severe 2011–2015 drought. Nearly 150 million trees succumbed to the drought, mainly in the southern Sierra Nevada. These die-offs were a direct result of the gradual depletion of the root-accessible moisture by overstocked forests—caused by long-term fire suppression—according to research by Roger Bales, a hydrologist at the University of California, Merced, and colleagues at the Southern Sierra CZO.
Now Bales is making recommendations to the U.S. Forest Service and other land managers based on this work. "We can provide metrics that tell you where the forest is likely to suffer drought stress," said Bales, "based not just on precipitation and temperature, which is what traditional drought indices do, but also factoring in over-year storage provided by long-term bedrock weathering."
In the Midwest, at the trio of agricultural sites in the Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota, researchers showed that industrial farming has changed the prairie landscape from one of transformation into one dominated by transport. The prairie ecosystem that evolved after glaciers from the last ice age receded functioned primarily by cycling nutrients in place and holding water in soil and groundwater (transformation). But with industrial farming, added fertilizer is partially taken up and harvested as grain, and the rest is transported away by water through altered surface pathways and subsurface drainage, ultimately fueling algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.
"There is a direct link between what we are finding from how these critical zones function and what we can do better in terms of ecosystem services," said Praveen Kumar, a hydrologist at the University of Illinois and head of the Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO.
Growing the Critical Zone Community
A crucial outcome from the development of the CZOs is a new generation of Earth scientists trained to think within a multidisciplinary framework. As of 2018, the CZOs had trained more than 300 graduate students and more than 100 postdocs. At least 40 have gone on to become assistant professors.
Critical zone science is "this ability to get people to bring in different data sets and different mindsets and perspectives to really challenge the data about what we're seeing."
One former trainee is Pamela Sullivan, an ecohydrologist at Oregon State University. As a postdoc at the Shale Hills CZO, she used monitoring wells to study a series of weathering processes that occurred as water flowed across the small catchment. Now she studies how factors like plant roots, bedrock fracture networks, or a shift from snow to rain alter soil structure and subsurface water flow, to better inform climate models. Working in a multidisciplinary team at the CZO was a "transformative experience," said Sullivan. "It's this ability to get people to bring in different data sets and different mindsets and perspectives to really challenge the data about what we're seeing."
Sullivan acknowledges, however, that some have felt left out of critical zone science because they were not affiliated with an observatory. To encourage collaboration, she serves as a co–principal investigator on a Critical Zone Research Coordination Network focused on synthesizing data and models to investigate the evolution of the critical zone and how it will respond to future human impacts. The group facilitates networking to advance research within the community.
As critical zone science expands, researchers say the field has finally matured, although "it's not an exaggeration to think of the critical zone as a new science," said William Dietrich, head of the Eel River CZO. "Once you see the thing, you can't walk away from it…. I think the critical zone is here to stay."
The End of the Observatory Era?
Despite, or perhaps because of, the success of the CZO program, NSF will conclude its funding of the program in 2021. NSF program director Richard Yuretich is spearheading a new program that focuses on testing principles across a cluster of sites instead of comprehensive studies at a single observatory. Ideally, the data—aided by high-performance computing—will be integrated into comprehensive models of critical zone processes across diverse environments. The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc. (CUAHSI), a nonprofit that supports interdisciplinary water science, will serve as the critical zone hub. CUAHSI and collaborators will coordinate activities among the clusters, support training and synthesis activities, and provide cyberinfrastructure for collaborative modeling and for sharing and archiving data.
The shift was unwelcome news to some researchers. "I think it's going to be a great opportunity for the younger generation," said White, "but I think it was a shame that the literally tens of millions of dollars that were invested into the observatory network that we have is mostly being cast aside."
NSF has funded nine critical zone network clusters, which began in September 2020. Many clusters include locations at existing CZOs or long-term field sites with legacy data, but are led by a new wave of early-career scientists. "We have a whole new generation of scientific researchers who now have this in their DNA," said Yuretich. "The new thematic cluster and coordinating hub network is designed to capitalize on these individuals and bring them into the forefront of designing new research in the critical zone."
Now free from the constraints of the observatories, scientists can ask questions that transcend location. Teams are investigating how the coastal critical zone responds to rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion, what big data can reveal about how the critical zone recovers from disturbances, the limits of human interference, and the many functions of dust as it travels from its source in the Rocky Mountains to the deserts of southern Nevada.
Forecasting the Future of Critical Zone Science
In the Chihuahuan Desert, an eddy covariance tower measures the fluxes of water and carbon dioxide be-tween the ecosystem and the atmosphere. Credit: Craig Tweedie
The new program will also help to deepen understanding of critical zone function beyond alpine watersheds. By graduating to a wider variety of environments, the ultimate goal is for researchers to construct more comprehensive models of critical zone processes worldwide.
One new critical zone network team will focus its operations in the Chihuahuan Desert, which receives about 20 centimeters of water each year, mostly during the July monsoon season. Dryland sites like this have been underrepresented in previous critical zone work. Lixin Jin, a geochemist at the University of Texas at El Paso and a former postdoc at the Shale Hills site, leads the project. She is fascinated by the desert environment, despite growing up in frigid Jilin Province, the Minnesota of China. What she discovers with her colleagues, including co–principal investigator and fellow University of Texas at El Paso geochemist Lin Ma, may have important implications for the future of the Chihuahuan and other dryland environments. These cover about 40% of Earth's landmass and support more than 2 billion people.
Unlike tropical or temperate environments, where precipitation leaches minerals from rocks and soil, limited water in the desert concentrates minerals into a cement-like layer called caliche. This water-impermeable layer builds up over thousands of years. "If you poke it with your finger, it's as hard as rock," said Jin. "We're trying to understand how this unique architecture will govern how the ecosystem and water function in the critical zone."
To see whether precipitation reaches the subsurface, the team will drill wells more than 100 meters deep to access El Paso's freshwater source. Despite multiple hydrology studies, the city does not know the size of its reserves or whether surface water is refilling the aquifer. "To be honest, we don't know what happens to the loose water," said Ma. "But some of the water may make it all the way down."
For comparison, the team is looking at younger soils along the Rio Grande, where farmers grow pecans, chilis, and alfalfa. Irrigation from the river carries a lot of minerals, and in less than a century of agriculture, farmlands have already been shown to accumulate salt, which stresses crops. Critical zone researchers will examine how irrigation alters the fate of surface water—whether it enters plants, the atmosphere, or the subsurface—and whether irrigation contaminates drinkable groundwater by mobilizing salt, nutrients, and trace metals.
Jin and her collaborators are also excited to bring a dryland critical zone curriculum to local classrooms and to recruit students from the local Latino population. "Especially in the geology field, or Earth science in general, I just don't think we have good representation of the minority groups," said Jin. "We really want to prepare and train the next generation of scientists."
The ultimate goal of this and other critical zone work is to develop models that transcend the boundaries of individual research sites so we can "Earthcast," or predict how Earth will respond to a changing climate and more intensive land use.
"We have forecast the weather," said Jin. "But can we Earthcast the critical zone?"
—Patricia Waldron (@patriciawaldron), Science Writer
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Refcount tracing and balancing are advanced techniques for tracking down leak of refcounted objects found with BloatView. The first step is to run Firefox with refcount tracing enabled, which produces one or more log files. Refcount tracing logs calls to Addref and Release, preferably for a particular set of classes, including call-stacks in symbolic form (on platforms that support this). Refcount balancing is a follow-up step that analyzes the resulting log to help a developer figure out where refcounting went wrong.
Build with --enable-debug or --enable-logrefcnt.
There are several environment variables that can be used.
First, you select one of three environment variables to choose what kind of logging you want. You almost certainly want XPCOM_MEM_REFCNT_LOG.
NOTE: Due to an issue with the sandbox on Windows (bug 1345568), refcount logging currently requires the MOZ_DISABLE_CONTENT_SANDBOX environment variable to be set.
Setting this environment variable enables refcount tracing. If you set this environment variable to the name of a file, the log will be output to that file. You can also set it to 1 to log to stdout or 2 to log to stderr, but these logs are large and expensive to capture, so you probably don't want to do that. WARNING: you should never use this without XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES and/or XPCOM_MEM_LOG_OBJECTS, because without some filtering the logging will be completely useless due to how slow the browser will run and how large the logs it produces will be.
This environment variable enables logging of additions and releases of objects into nsCOMPtrs. This requires C++ dynamic casts, so it is not supported on all platforms. However, having an nsCOMPtr log and using it in the creation of the balance tree allows AddRef and Release calls that we know are matched to be eliminated from the tree, so it makes it much easier to debug reference count leaks of objects that have a large amount of reference counting traffic.
For platforms that don't have stack-crawl support, XPCOM supports logging at the call site to AddRef/Release using the usual cpp __FILE__ and __LINE__ number macro expansion hackery. This results in slower code, but at least you get some data about where the leaks might be occurring from.
You must also set one or two additional environment variables, XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES and XPCOM_MEM_LOG_OBJECTS, to reduce the set of objects being logged, in order to improve performance to something vaguely tolerable.
This will log the AddRef and Release calls only for instances of nsDocShell while running the browser using mach, to a file refcounts.log. Note that setting XPCOM_MEM_LOG_CLASSES will also list the serial number of each object that leaked in the "bloat log" (that is, the file specified by the XPCOM_MEM_BLOAT_LOG variable; see the BloatView documentation for more details). An object's serial number is simply a unique number, starting at one, that is assigned to the object when it is allocated.
will log stack traces to refcounts.log for the 2nd nsDocShell object that gets allocated, and nothing else.
First you have to figure out which objects leaked. The script tools/rb/find_leakers.py does this. It grovels through the log file, and figures out which objects got allocated (it knows because they were just allocated because they got AddRef()-ed and their refcount became 1). It adds them to a list. When it finds an object that got freed (it knows because its refcount goes to 0), it removes it from the list. Anything left over is leaked.
The scripts output looks like the following.
The number in parentheses indicates the order in which it was allocated, if you care. Pick one of these pointers for use with Step 2.
Once you've picked an object that leaked, you can use tools/rb/filter-log.pl to filter the log file to drop the call stack for other objects; This process reduces the size of the log file and also improves the performance.
The log file generated on Linux system often lack function names, file names and line numbers. Linux users need to run a script to fix the call stack.
Now that you've the log file fully prepared, you can build a balance tree. This process takes all the stack AddRef() and Release() stack traces and munges them into a call graph. Each node in the graph represents a call site. Each call site has a balance factor, which is positive if more AddRef()s than Release()es have happened at the site, zero if the number of AddRef()s and Release()es are equal, and negative if more Release()es than AddRef()s have happened at the site.
Let's pretend in our toy example that NS_NewFoo() is a factory method that makes a new foo and returns it. DoSomethingWithFooAndReturnItToo() is a method that munges the foo before returning it to main(), the main program.
NS_NewFoo() "leaks" a refcount. This is probably "okay" because it's a factory method that creates an AddRef()-ed object.
main() is back down to leaking one refcount.
So from this, we can deduce that main() is correctly releasing the refcount that it got on the object returned from DoSomethingWithFooAndReturnItToo(), so the leak must be somewhere in that function.
That is, NS_NewFoo() "leaks" a single reference count; this leak is "inherited" by DoSomethingWithFooAndReturnItToo(); but is finally balanced by a Release() in main().
Clearly, this is an iterative and analytical process. Here are some tricks that make it easier.
Check for leaks from smart pointers. If the leak comes from a smart pointer that is logged in the XPCOM_MEM_COMPTR_LOG, then find-comptr-leakers.pl will find the exact stack for you, and you don't have to look at trees.
Ignore balanced trees. The make-tree.pl script accepts an option --ignore-balanced, which tells it not to bother printing out the children of a node whose balance factor is zero. This can help remove some of the clutter from an otherwise noisy tree.
Play Mah Jongg. An unbalanced tree is not necessarily an evil thing. More likely, it indicates that one AddRef() is cancelled by another Release() somewhere else in the code. So the game is to try to match them with one another.
Exclude Functions. To aid in this process, you can create an "excludes file", that lists the name of functions that you want to exclude from the tree building process (presumably because you've matched them). make-tree.pl has an option --exclude [file], where [file] is a newline-separated list of function names that will be excluded from consideration while building the tree. Specifically, any call stack that contains that call site will not contribute to the computation of balance factors in the tree.
The process is the same as instrumenting them for BloatView, because BloatView and refcount tracing share underlying infrastructure.


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Space Transportation Systems
Why is a baby monitor picking up video of the space shuttle?
by Jacob Silverman
Photo courtesy NASA Astronaut Jim Reilly, an STS-117 mission specialist with the crew of space shuttle Atlantis, aids with repairs on the International Space Station. See more NASA pictures.
For several days, astronauts on the International Space Station and Russian and American space administrators have been trying to figure out what's causing some of the station's vital computer systems to fail. Although there's no danger to the astronauts' life-support systems, the failed computers control the thruster system, which controls the station's orientation. The problem may be linked to the recent installation of new solar arrays. Fortunately, while the space shuttle Atlantis is docked with the space station, its thrusters can be used to alter the station's orientation. (The station's orientation is periodically changed so that its solar panels get the maximum possible amount of energy from the sun.)
There are three crew members and seven shuttle astronauts on the station right now. NASA has stated that there's only a very small chance that the station would be evacuated. The current computer failure is unprecedented, but fortunately it's not considered especially dangerous for the lives of the crew or the future of the station.
Back on Earth, a bewildering saga is unfolding in Palatine, Illinois that relates to the problems on the ISS. Natalie Meilinger, a science teacher, owns a baby monitor that has been picking up a live video feed from Atlantis on one of its two channels. A NASA spokeswoman said that Meilinger's baby monitor isn't picking up the feed directly from the space shuttle and that she hadn't heard of a similar occurrence in the past.
The video feed is one of four (three video and one audio) produced by NASA for the public. Space-shuttle fans can watch the feeds, including the one available on Meilinger's baby monitor, on NASA's Web site.
For the Meilingers, the video has made for great entertainment in addition to a little bit of intrigue. Speaking to the Associated Press, Natalie Meilinger said, "I've been addicted to it and keep waiting to see what's next" [Source: CNN].
The baby monitor's manufacturer, Summer Infant, doesn't know the cause of the electronic eavesdropping. However, we were intrigued, so we did a little research. Read on to find out what we think may be causing the baby monitor to be picking up the space shuttle's video feed.
How the International Space Station Works
NASA's Dragonfly Rotorcraft to Explore Saturn's Giant Moon Titan
Can a Helicopter Fly on Mars? NASA Says Yes


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What would Minsky say?
Dimitri Papadimitriou | April 30, 2010
There is nothing lovable about Goldman Sachs, and its recent grilling by the ominously named Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations understandably drew a lot of attention.
We should not, however, obscure the reality. Goldman Sachs is a bank, and except for questions about the Abacus deal, in which it's accused of disclosure failings, Goldman was doing what modern banks do. In collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, it wasn't the biggest player.
So question for Congress isn't whether Goldman did the right thing. The real question is, why on earth were banks allowed to do the things that Goldman was doing?
The late Hyman Minsky had something to say about this. In a paper from 1993, he was clear-eyed about the role of institutions like Goldman:
Essentially these operators have superior knowledge about their customers who need financing. . . and their customers who have a need for outlets in which money can be placed. They turn this private knowledge of the conditions under which funds are desired and the conditions under which funds are available to their own advantage, even as they perform the social function of selecting the investments that the economy makes.
Each of these financial intermediaries, Minsky well knew, "has an agenda of its own: they are not charitable institutions." But they play a crucial role in the most sensitive aspect of capitalism, which is lending. And lending, Minsky said, is capitalism's Achilles heel, a kind of fatal flaw whereby growth breeds instability. continue reading…


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Map of Delos and Icaria islands.
Statue of Artemis at the temple of the goddess (Artemision), Delos island.
Map of Delos and Rineia islands.
Composition of monuments and landscapes at the Cyclades: 1. Streetlet, Myconos. 2. "The house of Dionysos", opulent private house of the second century BCE, named after the mosaic on its floor. 3. Church of the Dormition of the Virgin at Naousa, Paros. 4. View of Hermoupolis, Syros. 5. The Venetian castle at Chora, Naxos. 6. Landscape at Ios.
The Lion's Terrace, Delos.
The "House of Inopos", Delos.
The House of Cleopatra and Dioscurides, Delos.
Topographical map of the archaeological site of Delos.
Landscape on Delos island.
Sanctuary of Apollo, Delos island. 1, 2. View and plan of Doric columns.3. Column pedestal viewed from above. 4. Inscription.
Temple of Apollo, Delos island: Reconstruction, architectural features and plans of elements of the entablature and column.
Stoa of Philip V, Delos island: Plan and reconstruction of columns and triglyphs. Part of inscription reading "ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙ".
Stoa of Philip V, Delos island: View, plans and perpendicular section of architectural features belonging to the entablature and columns.
Plan of columns and decorative features of the Stoa of Antigonus Gonatas at Delos island.
Reconstruction and ceiling plan of parts of the epistyle reliefs at the Stoa of Antigonus Gonatas on Delos island.
1. View and plan of columns at the stoa of the Agora of the Delians, close to the Sacred Port of Delos. 2-12: Details of columns from Delos.
Plan and section of the ancient theatre of Delos with details of the retaining wall. In centre right (to the south of the theatre), plan of cistern and reconstruction of its roof.
1-3. View, reconstruction and plan of the Cave of Heracles on Mount Cynthus, Delos island. 4-9. Architectural features of columns and part of wall surrounding the sanctuary of Zeus and Athena on Mount Cynthus, Delos.
Ancient inscriptions from Delos island.
Ancient Greek inscription from Delos island. 2, 3. Plan and section, possibly of the Prytaneion, Delos island. 4. Fragment of sarcophagus from Delos island.
Funerary steles from Delos island.
Antiquities from Delos island, which the author saw on Syros island.
Funerary steles from Delos island, which the author saw on Syros island.
Funerary stelai from Delos and Myconos islands.
1. Sphinx from Delos which the author saw on Aegina island. 2. Statuettes from Delos.


The Orb is a hand-cast porcelain money bank glazed in a myriad of hi-fire color combinations. Each Orb rests on a cork stopper foot - there is no need to smash it to retrieve your savings. It makes fantastic gift for a newly married couple, a graduate or a child learning to save.


Next on the agenda was an opening press session where Fair organizers and other industry notables were introduced and/or made opening comments to the assembled press corp.
The fair, which is the largest watch and clock fair in China and the third largest international horological fair in the world, includes over 500 watch and clock-related exhibitors occupying over 45,000 sq. ft. of floor space over two very large buildings at the Convention centre (that's over 10,000 sq. ft. larger than last year).
Worthy of note, although I didn't concentrate on that aspect: 2014 was the first time any German company had exhibited. The German exhibitors were all from the BBD Group: Braun, Burgmeister, Elysee, Laco, Nivrel and Zeppelin.
Zhu Shunhua, executive vice president of the Shenzhen Watch and Clock Association, the fair's organizer, said Shenzhen-made watches and clocks account for 60 percent of the country's total market share. Shenzhen is the biggest watch and clock manufacturing center in China, with more than 1,000 clock and watch-making firms that have a total annual production value of 10 billion yuan (US$1.46 billion).
First stop was the exhibit of Polaris Timepiece/Beijixing.
......and I was very pleased to meet again with the president of Polaris/Bejixing, Mr. Zhang Zhao Ji, who I'd found to be great company while in Yantai when we visited the Beijixing/Polaris factory earlier in the month.
Mr. Zhang joined us for our next stop at M.C.H TimeArt to visit with the very friendly CEO and watchmaker of Longio, Mr. Mi Changhong.
I had been looking forward to this next stop since obtaining my very solid and eye-catching Jiusko dive watch.
There was no opportunity this trip to see the Jiusko factory ;-( but the invitation had been generously made to me, so I was grateful at least to be able to drop by and say thanks for the invitation, face to face. When we got there I was introduced to Morgan, whom I'd been told to ask for, and who was expecting me.
I very much wsh my camera-fu had been better on this next shot. It's a cool watch, and I did it no justice at all.
...and we learn that there must be some production connections between Jiusko and the popular Chinese fashion brands Eyki and Kimio. That goes a long way to explaining Jiusko's very modern and style-concious vision.
...and I was fortunate enough to be introduced to Mr. Chen Sichu, Deputy General Manager of Zhuhai Rossini.
...to see Mr. Miao Hong Bo, the General Manager of Beijing Watch Factory (whom I'd metback at the beginning of the month at BJWAF. There's a good interview with Mr. Maio here). Among other things, we had a very complimentary discussion regarding Benjamin Chee's beautiful (Imperial Red) Celadon Imperial watch.
...attended by over 1000 people :-).
...which seems a good place to end this post. All we did next was head back to our hotel rooms, dead tired, to rest up for Day Two!!


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A New Executive Order for Improving Federal Regulation? Deeper and Wider Cost-Benefit Analysis
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper No. 02-4
62 Pages Posted: 26 Mar 2002
See all articles by Robert W. Hahn
Robert W. Hahn
University of Oxford, Smith School; Georgetown University
Harvard Law School; Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
Date Written: March 2002
For over two decades, federal agencies have been required to analyze the benefits and costs of significant regulatory actions and to show that the benefits justify the costs. But the regulatory state continues to suffer from significant problems, including poor priority-setting, unintended adverse side-effects, and, on occasion, high costs for low benefits. In many cases, agencies do not offer an adequate account of either costs or benefits, and hence the commitment to cost-benefit balancing is not implemented in practice. A major current task is to ensure a deeper and wider commitment to cost-benefit analysis, properly understood. We explain how this task might be accomplished and offer a proposed executive order that would move regulation in better directions. In the course of the discussion, we explore a number of pertinent issues, including the actual record of the last two decades, the precautionary principle, the value of prompt letters the role of distributional factors, and the need to incorporate independent agencies within the system of cost-benefit balancing.
JEL Classification: H1, H8, L5, N4
Hahn, Robert W. and Sunstein, Cass R., A New Executive Order for Improving Federal Regulation? Deeper and Wider Cost-Benefit Analysis (March 2002). AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper No. 02-4. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=304203 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.304203
Robert W. Hahn (Contact Author)
University of Oxford, Smith School ( email )
Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
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Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) ( email )