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Clearing The Air
India's Pollution Regulators Are Ineffective Due to a Lack of Expertise, Resources: Report
Image Credit: Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi via Facebook
India's pollution control boards are plagued by overwork, understaffing, low accountability and motivation, as well as poor understanding of the pollution control policies they are in charge of enforcing, concludes a new report by the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, a Delhi-based non-profit, and the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the WHO, nine out of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in India. Moreover, 15 cities in India have also made it to Greenpeace's list of the 20 most polluted cities in the world. Globally, India also has the most infant deaths due to air pollution. And it isn't just a matter of rankings: 16.8 lakh people in India died of long-term exposure to outdoor and household air pollution in 2019.
The report relied on extensive interviews with officials at state pollution control boards, bureaucrats, academics, and environmentalists across Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada, Goa, and Mumbai for its findings.
The researchers found that despite an expansion in the scope and scale of the work that pollution control boards do, there has been no corresponding expansion in their budgets and workforce, leaving them overworked and understaffed. The study also noted a shortage of staff with subject-matter expertise compared to the number of administrative and other employees.
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Some of the shortage of expert staff is found at the highest levels. Many boards' leadership teams comprise civil servants, who lack background in science, health, or environmental studies. Further, the study notes interviewees from the boards had little expertise in monitoring pollution data — a critical aspect of board responsibility. Board workers also had a limited understanding of the health effects of pollution, with some interviewees saying that "air pollution is not an alarm bell for us yet" and air "standards are meant for Europeans, not Indians." This lack of purpose also played a role in diminishing the boards' motivation and accountability.
Moreover, due to the boards not being empowered enough, their directives are often perceived as bureaucratic hurdles and often left unimplemented — with departments in other domains not perceiving them as bodies essential to the protection of human health and the environment. This informs how boards seem themselves, too: "…pollution control boards reportedly perceive themselves as technical advisors instead of regulatory bodies," Santosh Harish, a fellow at the Delhi-based think-tank Centre for Policy Research, told IndiaSpend, adding that it becomes an issue in cases where "coordinated action [between different agencies and departments] is essential to make progress."
Even a decade after India established its own National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to establish minimum acceptable levels for ambient air quality, most regions in India have failed to meet them.
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"While interventions that strengthen the legislative framework… are welcome, they will be as ineffective like all previous efforts unless the regulatory bodies that enable their implementation are strengthened with the technical and financial resources needed," said Bhargav Krishna, an expert with Public Health Foundation of India and co-author of the study.
To remedy the issues plaguing the boards, the report suggests mobilizing more financial and human resources to ensure smooth functioning, implementing measures to compile and monitor data more effectively, and engaging stakeholders with different areas of expertise like health to "help regulators in supplementing their own knowledge gaps regarding the health effects, and potentially lead to joint work with both epidemiological and regulatory relevance."
"No country has achieved broad-based economic development without investing in the health and well-being of its citizens, and addressing key environmental risk factors forms part of this investment … effective and coordinated policymaking across domains, enshrined in a culture of accountability will ensure that future generations will not have to deal with the persistent threat of ambient air pollution," the study concluded.
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Following our week of writings on Allison Joseph, we are devoting a series of blog entries this week to poet and scholar Evie Shockley. I've been reading and writing about Evie's most recent volume the new black for a number of months now, trying to develop a notebook on her work. I'm still making new discoveries about her work, but I have recognized a few distinct qualities in book and writing style.
For one, her knowledge of the tradition of African American literature is often apparent in her poetry as we sometimes see direct references to a range of literary and cultural texts. Evie is in fact a scholar and professor of literature at Rutgers University. Consequently, there's a self-awareness about black literature and African American cultural studies that permeate her work.
Evie also demonstrates an interest in visual aesthetics in her poems. She ventures well beyond the left margin at times arranging her words in different ways across the page. In some instances, she even presents the words of her poems in ways that correspond to particular shapes. Her words in the poem "x marks the spot"," for example, are arranged in the shape of a large X.
This week, my crew and I will take a look at some of the poems in the new black as we continue developing our notebook on the poetry of Evie Shockley.


"Is Facebook Stealing Our Freedom?"
Large Archive of Hannah Arendt's Papers Digitized by the Library of Congress.
Open Assistant from Andrew Vavrek: a decentralized open source personal assistant.
It is able to engage in conversations and complete an increasing amount of tasks using vocal commands.
So... Into a demo of "Stella", indeed a free and open source virtual assistant aimed at everyone!
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Canned food brand Ayam has French roots, made food for the rich in the region
It can easily be mistaken for something of local or regional origin.
Joshua Lee | July 14, 2017 @ 12:20 pm
Canned sardines, onion slices, a dash of lime, all mixed in the can's tomato sauce – hands up if this was the way you ate (or still eat) canned sardines.
Chances are, you grew up eating canned sardines from Ayam Brand.
And chances are, you might think that the company was founded by someone in the region because Ayam ("chicken" in Malay). But no.
Alfred Clouet
Ayam Brand was actually started by Frenchman Alfred Clouet (say: clue-way) in 1892 as a means of supplying food to the colonial administration in British Malaya.
Interestingly, Clouet's original business idea was to sell luxury perfume and cosmetics imported from Paris. It is unclear how he transitioned into the canned foods business.
This is him.
Alfred Clouet. Image adapted via YouTube.
At that time, canned foods were a luxury that only the rich could afford. Because not many had access to refrigeration in the late 19th century, canned foods were a way to preserve food and ensure freshness – aside from buying them at your local market.
The original logo for Clouet's canned products featured a rooster (a symbol of excellence in France) and his name.
Adapted via YouTube.
The name we're all familiar with today – Ayam Brand – came along after the locals called it, quite literally, the brand with a chicken.
While Clouet started out selling an assortment of canned foods (including mushrooms, and peas), people responded extremely well to his canned sardines.
Clouet's canned peas. Adapted via YouTube.
Over the years, Ayam Brand became synonymous with that familiar taste of canned sardines. In a stroke of genius, Clouet, incorporated the 'Ayam' nickname into his brand, making it the household name we know today.
Top photo adapted from YouTube screengrabs
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Hello my lovely followers. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday. Today I would love to share with everyone a guest post written by author Belle Whittington. I was asked to read her new book, Cicada and while I do not have the time right now Belle and I decided she would write up a guest post for my readers. She would also like offer my readers ONE free e-book as a giveaway. Very cool! Cicada sounds like amazing book and I am sure the winner will love it. I hope everyone will enjoy this post and learn more about the new young adult author, Belle Whittington and her new book.
Most of my early writings were stories with a twist of science fiction…even my earliest poems. I remember sitting on the dam of a neighbor's pond around the time I was eleven, writing a story about space travel. In fact, I still have that little handwritten story. It's still bound in the same yellow notebook that I put it in way back in the sixth grade!
Growing up in Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas, afforded me summers full of adventure with my friends. I call on those adventures and memories a great deal for my YA stories. Cicada has a lot of the energy of those childhood adventures spun throughout. One of them is something that actually happened to me when I was thirteen years old. I was on one of my adventures in the woods with my dog, Dusty. We made our way through the woods to a neighboring pasture and crawled through the barbed wire fence. When we got to the top of one of the rolling hills in the grassy field, I realized I was standing in the middle of a giant circle imprinted in the pasture grass. No one had ever told me about crop circles at that time in my life, so I just thought it was an odd occurrence that there was a strange circle in the tall grass. Now that circle is forever memorialized in a YA novel, Cicada!
Nowadays, I work at a day job in higher education and spin my tales during those off hours that I'm not working on assignments for my English classes at University of Houston, where I'm earning my degree in hopes of teaching English at the college level one day.
You can find me online at these locations. I'd love for you to stop by!
As a student of literature, Belle is earning her degree in English at the University of Houston. She hopes to teach literature at the college level some day.
I hope everyone enjoyed the guest post from author Belle Whittington and loved learning more about herself and her book. So Here is the fun part - The Giveaway! =D Belle has agreed to give away a free e-book copy of her new book to 1 LUCKY reader of my blog. So please enter and have fun! Good luck to everyone!
Oh my, what a beautiful cover! Would love to read this.
I had never heard of this book, but love the cover and the description. Please enter me and good luck to everyone.
Love the premise and the gorgeous cover!!
Many warm thanks to everyone for stopping by to read my guest post and enter the giveaway! I wish everyone the Happiest of New Years!
What a nice post! I haven't heard of this before but it sounds great!


Today is Dr. Seuss dress up day in my daughters kindergarten class. She decided that she would dress up as Cindy Lou Who.
We had a plan for her hair. It was going to be great. But after I fixed it up-and when she saw me laughing and then her dad and brothers- she figured the kids in her class would too. She changed her mind pretty quickly about her hair. I insisted everyone was going to look pretty silly. Oh well.
My masterpiece. She looks a little less than thrilled.
Pigtails with polka dot bows and a candy cane on top. Happy. Just the way I like it.
Spring break begins today after school and we could NOT be more thrilled.
Zoo, arboretum, downtown... Donuts, gelato, McDonalds... These are on the list of things to do.
I'm just hoping they sleep in. I can dream, right?


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Suspected Cathedral City Gang Member Faces Attempted Murder in Shooting
A 19-year-old man was scheduled to be arraigned Monday on attempted murder and other charges stemming from a shooting in Cathedral City that police say involved some of the same suspected gang members accused in another shooting hours before that left a man dead and his 11-year-old daughter wounded.
Ethan Bravo, of Cathedral City, was arrested April 1 for allegedly firing several shots at an occupied home in the 33300 block of Wishing Well Trail on March 24 about 2 a.m., according to Cathedral City Police Department Cmdr. Paul Herrera.
The investigation into that shooting yielded "witnesses and physical evidence" that connected back to another shooting reported seven hours before, less than three miles away, police said.
Bravo is not specifically charged in connection with that shooting, which was reported on March 23 about 6:40 p.m. in the 29000 block of Avenida La Vista.
Police said a shooter approached the front door of a house and began firing as 43-year-old Ruben Hernandez stood in the doorway and his daughter stood nearby. Hernandez died at the scene, and paramedics took his wounded daughter to a hospital. Police said then that her vital signs were stable, but an update on her condition was unavailable.
Hernandez was "not involved in criminal activity," according to police.
The Riverside County District Attorney's Office on April 1 filed charges against four men ages 18 to 23, who are accused of being members of the same Cathedral City-based gang involved in both shootings.
Only two of the four men had been arrested as of Monday morning — Bravo and Jose Sanchez-Casas, who previously pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. He's accused of being the getaway driver in the first shooting.
Bravo is charged with attempted murder in connection with the second shooting, with sentence-enhancements for allegedly using a firearm in the commission of a felony and committing a felony for the benefit of a criminal street gang. He is also charged with possessing prescription pills for sale.
Bravo, who was out on bail at the time of his arrest on an unrelated weapons charge, was scheduled to make his initial court appearance Monday afternoon at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. He's being held at the Indio jail, with bail set at $1 million.
The other two suspects remain on the lam, and are possibly together, police say.
Indio resident Gabriel Hernandez, 22, is accused of firing the shots that killed the Cathedral City father and wounded his daughter. The trio share a last name but are not related, police said. Hernandez was also out on bail in the same unrelated weapons case as Bravo.
Joel Casas, 18, of Cathedral City, who is Jose's brother, is being sought on suspicion of being an accessory to murder. Police declined to provide specifics on his alleged connection to Hernandez's killing.
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This is it: DH Box is officially launching. The Digital GC is presenting an evening of short talks from various CUNY Graduate Center digital initiatives today, May 12 — starting off with DH Box.
Not much, so far. But we intend it to be a portable, customized linux environment for Digital Humanities learners that can rely on incredibly inexpensive technology. All you really need is a computer that runs Linux (and a monitor and keyboard, of course!) — but the platform that excites us most is the Raspberry Pi, a tiny computer that sells for just $35. Imagine a collection of DH tools, pre-installed and configured, and a set of texts for users to interrogate — all on a portable and inexpensive device.
That's a quote from our first blog post — and it illustrates the most drastic change to our project. DH Box's founder, Stephen Zweibel, had originally envisioned DH Box as being scripts that, when run, installed common DH applications (think Omeka, MALLET, NLTK) onto the user's system; additionally, DH Box could be shipped as its suite of tools pre-installed on the light and portable Raspberry Pi computer.
As DH Box developed, it took a shift in platform, moving away from the issue of dealing with the idiosyncrasies of each individual's system, to hosting instances of a virtual computer that any user could launch.
This was a vast and visible shift. But, despite not being as drastic, many other project elements developed in the journey from DH Box's inception to its official launch.
Our first step was figuring out how to communicate with each other.
We needed a space to organize our materials and our tasks. We chose Google Drive as a central document repository, given each of us uses Gmail. To manage tasks, we initially chose Asana – but eventually went with GitHub's Issues utility, given we were already using GitHub to host our code.
Documentation became an increasingly important aspect of our project as the platform became solidified.
One aspect of DH Box that we all consider important is its potential for lowering barriers to engagement with DH tools – part of lowering that barrier involves making a tool like DH Box, with a fairly technical back-end, comprehensible to all users through clear documentation.
DH Box started making its work visible with this very blog – then developed a Twitter account (a popular gathering place for those interested in DH) and a website.
Our Outreach coordinator, Cailean, thought carefully about what information would be presented on all of these mediums throughout the project. Additionally, a number of presentations were done on DH Box to introduce it to potential user communities.
Once DH Box had enough of an interface – online documentation, a website for users, etc. – it was time to see how uninitiated users would react to it and where they might get stuck.
This aspect of the project was critical — not only did it lead to important iterations and additions to our website and documentation, but solidified us narrowing our focus for our launch to academic communities.
These were large topics that DH Box had to approach during its development up to the time it launched. It was a large undertaking for a team of graduate students, requiring devoted developers, an outreach coordinator, and a project manager — as well as advisers.
We leave this summary of our process for DH-ers working on projects such as ours as an idea of what might be required to undertake it. But, DH Box's story isn't over. Keep following along for insight into how a project such as DH Box is sustained after launch!
This entry was posted in Blog and tagged dhpraxis on May 12, 2014 by Harlan Kellaway.


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Frequentò l'Accademia di San Luca a Roma dove fu attivo dal 1776 al 1787 prima di trasferirsi a Napoli dove ricoprì  importanti incarichi sia sotto i Borboni di Napoli, sia per i napoleonidi.

Ritrasse molti personaggi illustri della sua epoca su monete e cammei, tra cui lord William Hamilton e sua moglie lady Emma Hamilton, il principe reale d'Inghilterra Augusto Federico, duca di Sussex, Gioacchino Murat e altri.

Dal 1804 è stato direttore della Zecca di Napoli, direttore della Scuola di incisione delle gemme e dal 1808 del Laboratorio delle Pietre Dure di Napoli, istituito da Carlo di Borbone nel 1738.

Giuseppe Bonaparte, Re di Napoli e di Spagna lo nominò Cavaliere della Legione d'Onore e membro permanente della Reale Accademia di Belle Arti, Antichità e Archeologia.

Nel 1829 Ferdinando II lo nominò Direttore della Zecca Reale, membro anziano della Reale Accademia Borbonica e Cavaliere di Francesco I.

Partecipò alla decorazione della Cappella Palatina dell'appartamento reale di Palermo, ma il suo lavoro è rimasto incompiuto per la sopravvenuta morte nel 1833.

È considerato tra i più grandi incisori di gemme del suo secolo, così come il suo maestro lo fu del secolo precedente.

Napoli gli ha dedicato una strada.

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Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Two is out now as a free content update on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The Open PC Beta for Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One will launch on January 25, 2018.
Elite: Dangerous is coming to PlayStation 4 on June 27th.
We got our hands on the PlayStation 4 version of Elite Dangerous at PAX East this weekend. This is a combat training mission from the game.
A player on the Xbox One proves we're not alone in the galaxy. The Thargoids are out there.
Frontier's critically acclaimed massively multiplayer space epic Elite Dangerous lands on PS4 in 2017.
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Season Two Elite Dangerous: Horizons, which gives all players access to Elite Dangerous, is OUT NOW!
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Here's Elite: Dangerous's new Close Quarters Combat mode. Zip around structures and fly through tunnels to out maneuver your enemies in this dog-fighting arena mode.
This week we get Elite Dangerous on Xbox One, Disgaea 5 Alliance of Vengeance, Civilization Beyond Earth, Rock Band 4, Transformers Devastation and Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection.
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David Braben joins Cam Robinson on the E3 2014 stage to demo Elite: Dangerous from our live stage show!
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What to Do When Your iPhone Cannot Verify Server Identity?
What if you need to send an urgent email but only stuck on seeing "cannot verify server identity" message? If you have come across such a situation, you are not alone. Many other iPhone users have got frustrated seeing such notification. Well, if you need to know how to fix this issue, read on!
We all use a lot of emails for various purposes in our day-to-day lives these days. Many of us use our iPhones to send and receive both official and personal emails. In fact, the combination of iPhone and email make a superb communication tool that makes our lives convenient. However, in certain cases, technical faults can take place and prevent you from communicating smoothly. "iPhone Cannot verify server identity" is one of those common issues you may experience at some point. It is needless to mention how annoying this issue could be when you badly need to send an email. The notification "cannot verify server identity" appears in the form of a popup message.
From this point onwards, let's learn the possible fixes if your iPhone cannot verify server security. For iPhone Stuck On Verifying Update, Verification Failed on iPhone issues, please click to find out the best solutions as well.
After noticing the popup message that displays your iPhone cannot verify server identity, try a device restart. In fact, that can be a basic but very effective solution you can try. A restart can solve many of the glitches associated with your iOS devices. If your iPhone cannot verify server identify because of a minor glitch, you can easily overcome it by restarting.
To perform a restart on your iPhone, you should follow the steps mentioned below.
Press and hold the power button of the device until you see a slider. This slider appears at the top of the display.
After seeing the slider, you should drag it using the finger towards the right side of the screen. That should turn off your iPhone easily.
Now that you have turned off your device, you should wait for about a minute or so. Then, press the power button of the device and hold it for a couple of seconds.
You will be able to see the Apple logo on the screen once the device starts again. Release the power button.
You can now check if you can open the mail app and send an email.
If you see that there is something wrong with your email, you should try restarting the mail app itself. If the issue is a minor one, restarting the app can solve it in most of the cases. Although this's not a surefire way to fix your email, it doesn't hurt to close and open an app. If it was a software crash, in particular, the issue might go away with an app restart.
To close the Mail app, you should double click on the home button first. Now, you will be able to see that the app switcher is opened. You can navigate to the mail app and swipe it away to close it. If it doesn't appear any longer on your screen, you have closed it successfully.
You can then reopen the Mail app on your iPhone simply by tapping on it. Check if you can send an email now.
Another basic method you can try to fix this issue is removing and adding your email address. As per this specific method, you will have to delete the email address from the app and re-enter it. By doing so, you will be able to reset the identity certificate of the email. But you shouldn't worry at all. Just because you delete an email account from your email app, you don't lose any of the emails. Your actual email account will remain unharmed.
In order to get an email account deleted from your iPhone, you can go to the Settings app. Then, you should go to the Accounts & Passwords. After that, you should go to the Accounts and find the email account that makes some trouble now. Then, you should tap on the account and tap on the red color button labeled "Delete Account". This button is located at the bottom of the screen. You can then tap on "Delete Account" when prompted with confirmation alert.
Now the respective account is removed from the Mail app. At the completion of this process, you should reenter the same email account. To do this, go to Settings app once again and tap on Accounts & Passwords. Then, go to Add Account option. You can then select the email service you are using an provide the required information.
If any of the above options doesn't fix your issue related to email, try this option. By resetting the Settings app, you can see that all the configurations of the device are gone. Since many of the software issues are hard to track down, resetting helps a lot. After performing a reset, you will be able to see that your device performs without any potential glitches.
You can try this method to fix if your iPhone cannot verify server identity of your email.
Here's how to reset all the settings.
Open the "Settings" app and go to General option.
Then, find the option labeled Reset and then go to Reset All Settings.
If you have provided a passcode or a restrictions passcode, you should enter them when prompted.
After performing the above step, you can tap on the option called "Reset All Settings". This option will be displayed in the form of an alert. It is found at the bottom of the screen.
After all those steps mentioned above, you will be able to use your mail app once again. You can try sending a test email to one of your friends or send one to yourself. If you ever come across the issue "iPhone cannot verify server identity", you can try the options above.
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As you may have already witnessed, failing to send an email at a crucial time is really frustrating. When it comes to an issue like "Cannot verify server identity iOS 12", you badly need to fix it. Otherwise, sending an email or receiving your important emails can be a nightmare for you.
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\section{Introduction}

Iron-based superconductors display rich phase diagrams with spin-density wave (SDW) \cite{Nature453-899,EPL83-27006}, orbital order \cite{PRL103-267001,PRB84-064435}, nematicity \cite{science329-824,nphys11-959,PRB92-085109} and superconductivity \cite{JACS130-3296,Nature453-761,PRL101-206404}. These competing or coexisting phases arise from the interplay among charge, spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom of iron-based compounds. In the early stage it had already realized that the multi-orbital characters of band structures and orbital ordering in many different families of iron pnictides and chalcogenides \cite{nmat10-932,RMP85-849,PRL100-237003,PRL102-247001,NJP11-025021,PRL102-126401,PRL104-216405,PRL110-146402,RPB92-184512}, and the orbital selective Mott physics was also suggested in some iron-based compounds \cite{PRL102-126401,PRL110-146402}, however, our understand to the roles of orbital degree of freedom seem to be no more than that. The key roles of orbital degree of freedom on superconducting (SC) pairing interactions, pairing symmetry, and phase diagrams in these different iron-based superconductors seem to be far from understood or revealed.

The parent compound LaFeAsO possesses a stripe antiferromagnetic (SAFM) ground state associated with a weak $xz$ orbital order in the low-temperature phase, and exhibits an orthorhombic to tetragonal structural phase transition upon doping or increasing temperature. Once substituting O with F, such an SAFM is gradually suppressed and an SC dome emerges in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$ \cite{JACS130-3296}. While for hydrogen doping, recent experiments demonstrated that the phase diagram shows two SC domes accompanied with bipartite magnetic parent phases in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$, as seen the AF1-SC1-SC2-AF2 phase diagram in Refs. \cite{ncomms3-943,nphys10-300}. The neutron diffraction experiment showed that the second magnetic parent phase lies around $x$=0.5 in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$. This novel parent phase also shows SAFM order except that Fe spin has a large magnetic moment of $\sim$1.21 $\mu_{B}$, in comparison with $\sim$0.63 $\mu_{B}$ in LaFeAsO. Moreover, it possesses an unusual orthorhombic lattice distortion accompanied by the instability of As atoms which are away from the center of the Fe square lattice in the low-temperature phase. These unusual phenomena demonstrate that the orbital physics in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ could be different from LaFeAsO. One naturally arises a question whether the two SC domes in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ is particular? Detailed analysis to recent experimental data shows that some other iron-based compounds also have two distinct AFM/SC phases, demonstrating that such two SC domes may be a general phenomenon in various iron-based SC families.

More recently, several experiments revealed that LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O exists a different AF1-SC1-AF2-SC2 phase diagram \cite{JPSJ83-023707,JPSJ83-083702,PRB90-064504}. Also in K$_{1-x}$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_{2}$, a second SC phase re-emerges under high pressure \cite{nature483-67}. In KFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$, a second SC phase is also found accompanied with a collapsed tetragonal phase under high pressure \cite{PRB91-060508}. In addition, two SC domes are also observed in the K-doped FeSe thin films grown on SiC substrate \cite{PRL116-157001}. And in the intercalated FeSe \cite{Sci.Rep.5-9477}, the high pressure also could lead to two SC domes, similar to K$_{1-x}$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_{2}$. On the other hand, the pressure can induce a new AFM parent phase in pure FeSe \cite{PRB93-094505}. The more recent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment showed that there also exist two SC domes and a second orthorhombic phase in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$ \cite{CPL32-107401}. More and more bipartite AFM/SC phases have been found in various iron-based compounds, however, the nature of the second AFM/SC phase still remains unclear.

In this Letter, we aim to clarify the origin of the bipartite AFM/SC phases in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$, LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O, and KFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ compounds. For this purpose, we first study the electronic, magnetic and SC properties of LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ using the {\it first-principles} method, projected Wannier functions, the random phase approximation (RPA) and mean-field approximation based on five-orbital Hubbard models. We find that quasi-degenerate $xy$/$xz$/$yz$ orbitals drive the emergence of the second magnetic parent phase, and the in-plane isotropic $xy$-orbital dominates an orbital-selective SC pairing state in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$. While in LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O, one of the quasi-degenerate orbitlas, {\it i.e. } in-plane isotropic $3z^{2}-r^{2}$ orbital, is responsible for the second magnetic parent phase. In KFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$, a quasi-degenerate $xz$/$yz$/$xy$ orbital instability leads to a structural phase transition from a tetragonal phase into a collapsed tetragonal (CT) phase under pressure. Therefore we propose that the quasi-degenerate orbitals play key roles in the emergence of the second AFM phase and the active isotropic orbital controls the second SC phase, leading to the two SC domes in the phase diagrams of these iron pnictides and chalcogenides.

Fig.~\ref{pd1} schematically displays the phase diagram of LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ according to the recent experiments \cite{ncomms3-943,nphys10-300,PRB91-064509} and our numerical calculations and analysis. We find that the degenerate $xz$/$yz$ orbitals dominate the AF1 phase at $x$$\sim$0 and the SC1 phase, while the quasi-degenerate $xy$/$xz$/$yz$ orbitals dominate the AF2 phase at $x$$\sim$0.5 and the SC2 phase, respectively.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\hspace*{-2mm}
\centering
\includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip=true, width=1.0 \columnwidth]{Fig1.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Schematic phase diagram of LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$. Different orbital configurations are displayed in the first and second AFM/SC phases.}
\label{pd1}
\end{figure}
In unveiling the different orbital physics in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$, we first study the electronic structures of two parent phases LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at $x$=0 and 0.5, respectively. With the help of the projected Wannier function technique, the five-orbital tight-binding model $H_{0}$ is constructed. The orbital-resolved band structures are displayed in Fig.~\ref{bs} (a) and (b). It is clearly showed that besides the $xz$/$yz$ orbitals, the $xy$ orbital also contributes considerable weight near Fermi level ($E_{F}$) at $x$=0.5, different from that at $x$=0. For comparison, the crystal field splittings, {\it i.e.} on-site energies of Fe-3$d$ orbitals in two compounds can be seen in Supplemental Material \cite{suppl} and Ref. \cite{PRL101-087004}.

The most obvious multi-orbital feature of LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at $x$=0.5 is that the three $t_{2g}$ orbitals, $xz$/$yz$ and $xy$, have nearly identical on-site energies, thus are almost degenerate. We call these three orbitals {\it quasi-degeneracy}, since the bandwidths of these three orbitals in LaFeAsO$_{0.5}$H$_{0.5}$ are clearly distinguished with $W_{xz/yz}>W_{xy}$.
The anion-height instability, which was recently suggested to be responsible for the AF2 phase \cite{PRL112-187001}, is in fact a natural consequence of the orbital quasi-degeneracy; according to the Jahn-Teller effect, these quasi-degenerate orbitals are unstable, resulting in the lattice distortion at low temperatures. On the other hand, due to different orbital components and weights in the two parent phases with $x$=0 and 0.5, a single rigid-band tight-binding model could not describe the entire $T$-$x$ phase diagram. Thus to depict the low-energy physics in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$, we have to adopt two sets of different tight-binding parameters at $x$=0 for AF1 and SC1 phases, and at $x$=0.5 for AF2 and SC2 phases, respectively.
\begin{figure}[htbp]\centering
\includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip=true, width=1.0 \columnwidth]{Fig2.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Orbital-resolved band structures of the five-orbital tight-binding model for (a) LaFeAsO, (b) LaFeAsO$_{0.5}$H$_{0.5}$, (c) LaFeAs$_{0.5}$P$_{0.5}$O and (d) LaFePO.}
\label{bs}
\end{figure}

In order to explore the role of Fermi surface nesting and the possible magnetic instability in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at $x$=0.5, we study the dynamical spin susceptibility within RPA. The bare spin susceptibility is given by the formula \cite{NJP11-025016,RPP74-124508,RMP84-1383}
\begin{eqnarray}
  \chi_{0}^{l_{1}l_{2}l_{3}l_{4}}(q, i\omega)&=&-\frac{1}{N}\sum_{\substack{\vec{k},\mu\nu}}
  \frac{a_{\nu}^{l_{4}}(\mathbf{k})a_{\nu}^{l_{2},*}(\mathbf{k})a_{\mu}^{l_{1}}(\mathbf{k+q})a_{\mu}^{l_{3},*}(\mathbf{k+q})}
  {\omega+\varepsilon_{\mu}(\vec{k}+\vec{q})-\varepsilon_{\nu}(\vec{k})+i\eta} \nonumber \\
  &&\times[f(\varepsilon_{\mu}(\vec{k}+\vec{q}))-f(\varepsilon_{\nu}(\vec{k}))]
  \label{eq-chi0}
\end{eqnarray}
The RPA susceptibility is expressed as
\begin{eqnarray}
  \chi_{c(s)}^{RPA}(\mathbf{q}, i\omega) &=& \chi_{0}(\mathbf{q},i\omega)[\mathbb{I}\pm\Gamma_{c(s)}\chi_{0}(\mathbf{q},i\omega)]^{-1},
\end{eqnarray}
where $\chi_{0}$ is the bare susceptibility defined in Eq.~\ref{eq-chi0}, and the nonzero components of the matrices $\Gamma_{c}$ and $\Gamma_{s}$ are given as $(\Gamma_{c})_{aa,aa}=U$, $(\Gamma_{c})_{aa,bb}=2U'-J_{H}$, $(\Gamma_{c})_{ab,ab}=-U'+2J_{H}$, $(\Gamma_{c})_{ab,ba}=J_{H}$ and $(\Gamma_{s})_{aa,aa}=U$, $(\Gamma_{s})_{aa,bb}=J_{H}$, $(\Gamma_{s})_{ab,ab}=U'$, $(\Gamma_{s})_{ab,ba}=J_{H}$ with orbitals $a\neq b$.
It is found that the peaks of the dynamical spin susceptibility appear at $Q\sim$($\pi$, $\pi/3$), rather than ($\pi$, 0), implying that the nesting scenario fails in LaFeAsO$_{0.5}$H$_{0.5}$. This is due to the absence of the hole pocket at $\Gamma$ point like K$_{1-x}$Fe$_{2-y}$Se$_{2}$ \cite{PRL106-187001}, in contrast to that in LaFeAsO \cite{suppl,PRB88-041106,PRB93-195148}.

To further understand the AF2 parent phase, we also investigate the magnetic ground state properties of LaFeAsO$_{0.5}$H$_{0.5}$ by the {\it first-principles} electronic structures calculations. We find that a stable magnetic ground state is SAFM, in agreement with the neutron diffraction experiment \cite{nphys10-300}.
Based on the total energy differences among different magnetic configurations and fitting by the $J_{1a}$-$J_{1b}$-$J_{2}$ Heisenberg model, we estimate the spin exchange parameters: $J_{1a}$=7.8 meV/$s^{2}$, $J_{1b}$=4.7 meV/$s^{2}$, and $J_{2}$=31.4 meV/$s^{2}$ in LaFeAsO$_{0.5}$H$_{0.5}$. The next nearest-nearest-neighbor (N.N.N.) coupling $J_{2}$ is much larger than the N.N. spin couplings $J_{1a}$ and $J_{1b}$, very different from other iron-based compounds. This strong magnetic anisotropy indicates the possible existence of strong orbital order, which we will show in the following.

To explore the interplays among the charge, spin and orbital degrees of freedom including the electronic correlation in AF1 and AF2 parent phases, we consider the five-orbital Hubbard models $H=H_{0}+H_{I}$ for $x$=0 and for $x$=0.5, respectively, to investigate the electronic and magnetic properties. Within the mean-filed approximation, we define the order parameters $n_{\alpha}$ and $m_{\alpha}$ with $\alpha$=$xz$, $yz$, $xy$, $x^{2}-y^{2}$ and 3$z^{2}-r^{2}$ as
\begin{eqnarray}
 n_{\alpha}=\sum_{\substack{k,\sigma}}\langle c_{k,\alpha,\sigma}^{\dag}c_{k,\alpha,\sigma} \rangle, m_{\alpha}=\sum_{\substack{k,\sigma}}\sigma\langle c_{k+\mathbf{Q},\alpha,\sigma}^{\dag}c_{k,\alpha,\sigma} \rangle
\end{eqnarray}
where $\mathbf{Q}$ is magnetic vector and $\sigma$=$\pm$1. Then we can obtain the magnetic moment $m=\sum_{\alpha}m_{\alpha}$ and total particle number $n=\sum_{\alpha}n_{\alpha}$ through the self-consistently calculations.

We determine the magnetic ground state at the mean-field level through considering the following magnetic vectors $\mathbf{Q}$ including (0, 0), ($\pi$, 0), ($\pi$, $\pi$), ($\pi$, $\pi$/3) and (2$\pi$/3, 0). The consequence is that the SAFM phase with $\mathbf{Q}$=($\pi$, 0) is the most stable, in consistent with our preceding LDA data and the experimental results \cite{nphys10-300}. The dependence of the orbital occupancies and magnetic moments on Coulomb interaction $U$ are shown in Fig.~\ref{oomm} (a) for $x$=0 and Fig.~\ref{oomm} (b) for $x$=0.5, respectively. It is obviously found that in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at $x$=0.5 the orbital polarization occurs in three orbitals when the system enters into the second magnetic parent phase. The original quasi-degenerate three orbitals with almost equal particle number undergo a significant reconstruction, resulting in a slight polarization $n_{o1}=n_{xz}-n_{yz}$ ($n_{xz}<n_{yz}$) but a very large one $n_{o2}=n_{xy}-(n_{xz}+n_{yz})/2$. The large $n_{o2}$ indicates a strong $xy$ ferro-orbital order compared with the weak $xz$-orbital order, as seen the inset of Fig.~\ref{pd1}. The strong $xy$ ferro-orbital order thus leads to a very large N.N. spin exchange parameter $J_{2}$, which explains the strong anisotropy between $J_{1}$ and $J_{2}$ \cite{PRL113-027002}. Therefore, the orbital order scenario involved with three quasi-degenerate orbitals in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ ($x$=0.5) is significantly different from the weak orbital order in LaFeAsO.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\hspace*{-2mm}
\centering
\includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip=true, width=0.85 \columnwidth]{Fig3.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Orbital occupancies and magnetic moments dependence on Coulomb interaction $U$ within the five-orbital Hubbard model for (a) LaFeAsO and (b) LaFeAsO$_{0.5}$H$_{0.5}$ with parameter $J_{H}$=0.1$U$.}
\label{oomm}
\end{figure}

From Fig.~\ref{oomm} (b), one notices that in LaFeAsO$_{0.5}$H$_{0.5}$, when $U>U_{c}$$\sim$1.6 eV, $n_{xy}$=$n_{xy\uparrow}+n_{xy\downarrow}$$\sim$1 and $m_{xy}$=$n_{xy\uparrow}-n_{xy\downarrow}$$\sim$1, indicating $n_{xy\uparrow}\sim$1 and $n_{xy\downarrow}\sim$0, {\it i.e.} the spin-up channel of $xy$ orbital is almost fulfilled. This demonstrates that an orbital-selective Mott phase (OSMP) occurs with the insulating $xy$ orbital and the metallic $xz$ and $yz$ orbitals, as seen the sketch of the OSMP \cite{suppl}. The insulating $xy$ orbital exhibits strong ordering with respect to $xz/yz$ orbitals, similar to manganites and other transition-metal oxides. This OSMP accompanied by a strong orbital order contributes to the second AFM parent phase at $x$=0.5.

To look into the emergence of the second SC phase SC2, we investigate the dependence of orbital order parameters on doping $x$ within the five-orbital Hubbard model of LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at 0.5 \cite{suppl}. These two orbital ordering parameters show a competing behavior: the $xz$-orbital weight increases while the $xy$-orbital weight decreases when $x$ varies from 0.5 to 0.35, favoring a paramagnetic metallic phase and the emergence of SC2 around $x$$<$0.5 end. Out of expectation, when $x$$>$0.5, the $xy$-orbital weight becomes more large, consistent with the experimental observation \cite{nphys10-300,PRB91-064509}. These results explain why the SC2 phase appears at the left end of AF2 phase in the phase diagram of LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$.

In analyzing the SC pairing properties of the SC2 phase, we calculate the pairing vertex arising from the exchange of spin and orbital fluctuations using RPA. The singlet orbital vertex function $\Gamma_{\alpha\beta\mu\nu}$ is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
  \Gamma_{\alpha\beta\mu\nu}(\mathbf{k},\mathbf{k'},\omega)=[\frac{3}{2}U^{s}\chi_{s}^{RPA}(\mathbf{k-k'}, \omega)U^{s}+\frac{1}{2}U^{s} \nonumber\\
  -\frac{1}{2}U^{c}\chi_{c}^{RPA}(\mathbf{k-k'},\omega)U^{c}+\frac{1}{2}U^{c}]_{\alpha\beta\mu\nu}.
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{figure}[htbp]\centering
\includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip=true, angle=0, width=1.0 \columnwidth]{Fig4.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Orbital pairing vertices along high symmetric directions for (a) LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at $x$=0.125 with $U$=1.4 and $J_{H}$=0.1$U$, and (b) LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at $x$=0.35 with $U$=0.8 and $J_{H}$=0.1$U$. Orbital index 1 refers to $xz$, 2 to $yz$, and 3 to $xy$ orbital, respectively.}
\label{opv}
\end{figure}
The dominant orbital pairing vertices for LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$ at $x$=0.125 and $x$=0.35 are shown in Fig.~\ref{opv}. It is found that in SC1 phase, the $yz$-orbital dominates the pairing vertex around ($\pi$, 0), while the $xy$-orbital in SC2 phase, implying an orbital-selective pairing state observed by a recent ARPES experiment in iron chalcogenides \cite{ncomms6-7777}. It reveals that the in-plane anisotropic $xz$/$yz$ orbitals in Fe square plane are dominant in SC1 phase, but the in-plane isotropic $xy$ orbital is in SC2 phase. Therefore the orbital fluctuations due to the three quasi-degenerate orbitals also strongly contribute to the SC2 phase.

For another two-dome compound LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O with the isovalent substitution of phosphorus for arsenic, we briefly discuss its origin of two AFM/SC domes. Fig.~\ref{pd2} shows a sketch of the LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O phase diagram according to the experiments \cite{JPSJ83-023707,JPSJ83-083702,PRB90-064504}. Similar to LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$, we propose that the degenerate $xz$/$yz$-orbitals are dominant in the AF1 and SC1 phases, while an active in-plane isotropic $3z^{2}-r^{2}$ orbital dominates the AF2 and SC2 phases, which is consistent with the experimental observations \cite{JPSJ83-083702}.
\begin{figure}[htbp]\centering
\includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip=true, width=1.0 \columnwidth]{Fig5.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Schematic orbital configurations in the phase diagram of LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O.}
\label{pd2}
\end{figure}
The orbital-resolved band structures are shown in Fig.~\ref{bs} (c) and (d) for LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O at $x$=0 and 0.5, respectively. From Fig.~\ref{bs} (d) it is clearly found that in the AF2 phase, in addition to the degenerate $xz$/$yz$ orbitals, there also exist quasi-degenerate $3z^{2}-r^{2}$/$x^{2}-y^{2}$ orbitals at $x$$\sim$0.5, which could be seen from the crystal field splittings, {\it i.e.} the on-site energy differences, of Fe-3$d$ orbitals \cite{suppl}).

Finally, we also perform similar analysis for KFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ with $n$=5.5 under pressure, and find that the quasi-degenerate character of orbitals occurs when the SC1 or SC2 phase disappears, as seen from the schematic phase diagram in Fig.~\ref{pd3} according to the experimental result in Ref.~\cite{PRB91-060508}. For comparison, the on-site energies of Fe-3$d$ orbitals are given in Supplemental Material \cite{suppl}. The instability of the quasi-degenerate $xz$/$yz$/$xy$ orbitals at about 10 GPa drives a structural phase transition from a tetragonal phase to a CT phase under high pressure up to 15 GPa. The dominant $xy$-orbital character is presented at 10 GPa, but absent at 20 GPa, which is also verified by a recent DFT and dynamical mean-field-theory (DMFT) calculations \cite{PRB91-140503}. In addition, we predict that another quasi-degenerate $xz$/$yz$-$xy$/$3z^{2}-r^{2}$ orbital instability emerges above 30 GPa.
\begin{figure}[htbp]\centering
\includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip=true, width=1.0 \columnwidth]{Fig6.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Schematic orbital configurations in the phase diagram of KFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ under pressure.}
\label{pd3}
\end{figure}

Through the analysis of the above three representative systems, we conclude that the active quasi-degenerate orbitals drive the emergence of the second AFM or SC phase \cite{suppl}. Meanwhile, the orbital physics of the fully degenerate $xz/yz$ orbitals is the dominant scenario in the AF1/SC1 phase \cite{suppl}.
Actually, the doping/substitution (chemical internal pressure) or hydrostatic pressure pushes the in-plane anisotropic $xz/yz$ orbitals with $C$2 symmetry away from $E_{F}$, but it activates the in-plane isotropic $xy$, $x^{2}-y^{2}$ or $3z^{2}-r^{2}$ orbital with $C$4 symmetry in the planar square Fe lattice. Therefore, it is readily understood that the isotropic orbitals emerge around $E_{F}$. The in-plane isotropic orbital would suppress ($\pi$, 0) spin fluctuations, but enhance the ($\pi$, $\pi$) spin fluctuations and orbital fluctuations. Consequently, the orbital fluctuations in the second AF/SC phase play a dominant role, which is supported by a quite recent NMR experiment \cite{arXiv1609.04957}.

In summary, we have shown that in addition to conventional magnetic and superconducting phases in LaFeAsO$_{1-x}$H$_{x}$, LaFeAs$_{1-x}$P$_{x}$O and KFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$, the quasi-degenerate orbitals drive the emergence of the second AFM/SC phases, lead to universal two-dome SC phase in iron pnictides. Due to the orbital modulation, there exist two distinct types of SC phases, one is in-plane anisotropic orbital dominant SC1 phase with low $T_{c}$, the other is in-plane isotropic orbital dominant SC2 phase with high $T_{c}$. Actually, our scenario could be generally extended to the similar two-dome SC phases observed experimentally in iron chalcogenides, such as the FeSe-based compounds under pressure, as well as the heavy fermion superconductors. The understanding of novel orbital-selective magnetic/SC state definitely sheds light on the origin of the two-dome phases in iron-based materials. This suggests that, to search for much higher $T_{c}$ iron-based SC materials, the presence of the active isotropic orbital near $E_{F}$ is an important factor.

This work was supported by the National Sciences Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11574315, 11274310, 11474287 and 11404172. H. Q. Lin acknowledges financial support from NSAF U1530401. Numerical calculations were performed at the Center for Computational Science of CASHIPS and the Beijing Computational Science Research Center.

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But any reform effort would certainly require an expenditure of political capital by lawmakers backing the effort, in the face of claims by opponents that such reforms represented at best an effort to weaken the FCPA, and at worst an attempt to decriminalize bribery. Serious lobbying efforts in favor of the Institute for Legal Reform's proposals quickly commenced, and for a time reception on Capitol Hill seemed almost favorable.
And then came Walmart. Headline: "Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up By Walmart After Top-Level Struggle" (New York Times, online edition, April 21, 2012).
Opponents of FCPA reform were quick to pounce. On April 25, 2012, two members of the House of Representatives (Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Maryland, and Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-California) not only launched a Congressional inquiry into Walmart's role in the bribery case, but openly questioned Walmart's involvement in the Institute for Legal Reform's FCPA reform efforts, writing, in a letter to Chamber President Thomas A. Donohue: "[w]e are concerned about the role that Walmart officials may have played in the Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform. It would appear to be a conflict of interest for Walmart officials to advise on ways to weaken the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at a time when the leadership of the company was apparently aware of corporate conduct that may have violated the law."
The Walmart matter will likely spell the end of any serious efforts at reforming the FCPA in 2012. Nevertheless, proponents note that reform of any major legislation usually takes time, and are continuing to press their case – although in the current U.S. political climate, "time" may be an understatement indeed.


"It was my first return in 32 years to a Greek island. I had happy memories of dusty donkeys, sparkling coves and hot sun"
A family holiday is a balancing act. My husband and I needed bringing back from the brink of exhaustion, serious relaxation, a little pampering. Our sons, aged seven and four, needed an outlet for their titanic reserves of energy. And snorkels.
We chose Crete. It was my first return in 32 years to a Greek island. I had happy memories of dusty donkeys, sparkling coves and hot sun. I booked three diverse villas in the hope that one would offer us the Greek family-holiday magic of my youth.
Weary from work, we began with the pampering option – four nights at Daios Cove Luxury Resort & Villas, near Ayios Nikolaos in the north-east of the island.
It oozes sophistication. You glide to your villa in a silent electric buggy, driven by a beautiful member of staff. Once there, you are greeted with a lengthy pillow menu and a choice of mango, violet or vanilla fragrances to be fed into the air conditioning. And Château Margaux (at €1,800/£1,485) on room service, should you want it.
We were staying in one of the 40 resort villas, with a private infinity pool, set into a rocky, steep-sided cove dotted with olive trees. It was James Bond glamorous: architecturally edgy, beautifully designed spaces, with highly professional service and superior buffets at a choice of restaurants. My only criticism was that our villa pool was cool to the point of cold and too deep for children, with a gap between the edge and the plunging hillside which we had to block with a sunlounger.
The children slept on a sofa bed in the top half of the villa, with their own bathroom, while we were down steep hardwood stairs in the spacious master suite. I pictured my four-year-old piling down headfirst in the dark at night. I needn't have worried – they slept like logs. I was the one who needed to relax.
What a difference an hour and a half of being rubbed down with Cretan olive oil by a man called Alex makes. While my husband took the children and their complimentary buckets and spades to the private beach to build sandcastles, I headed for the peerless Daios spa. I went in hot and flustered and emerged swanlike and serene.
A further transformation occurred that night. My husband lives by two unbreakable rules: never do Greek dancing, and never join a conga. Greek night at the Taverna restaurant had him break both rules, as a pretty Greek lady beckoned him to his feet. The children sat cross-legged on the floor, clapping in time.
Daios Cove had set us up for a wonderful holiday. But the bills for such levels of luxury start to rack up, and it was time to move on. There was an island out there to explore.
We headed west in our hire car, past Heraklion and Rethimnon, watching the landscape become ever more verdant. Turning off the main road, past an olive oil factory and up steep tracks to the village of Maza, we discovered our second villa.
The owner is Giorgos (known as Jorgo), the local fire chief. A warm, hearty man, he arrived on a digger to install the hot-water tank and solar panels. "Service," he nodded – and it was every bit as charming as the slick professionalism at Daios Cove. Jorgo has built and restored several holiday houses in the area in his own rustic style, decorating them with ancient farming tools and local pottery.
We ate that night at Kostas Kafenio, the village taverna. Seated under tumbling bougainvillea opposite a tiny chapel, watching our boys charge around with local children, we knew at once this was a gem. Kostas came out to greet us before we had got out of the car – white vest, arms wide, ruffling the boys' hair. We ate what he told us to (there is no menu): the freshest Greek salad, green beans stewed in onion and tomatoes from the village allotment, egg and red pepper tart, barbecued pork chops and souvlaki and watermelon, washed down with local white wine and home-made raki. Three generations of a family from Kent sat at a neighbouring table, and ate there every night, as did we pretty much. They had been to Maza three times in six years – it was starting to become clear why. This was a timeless slice of Crete.
By day, we wandered in vineyards and olive groves near the hamlet of Samonas in the White Mountains behind Aptera. Here we stumbled on the "monumental" olive trees – some thought to be 3,000 years old – with trunk circumferences in excess of 12 metres. The recession was never far from locals' thoughts, and there was a feeling that returning to the land, to grow and nurture, brought them a sense of comfort. Jorgo gave us a litre of his finest olive oil and some home-made wine as a leaving gift.
Our final villa was a little farther west, in the ancient village of Aptera. Susanna 's House was stone-walled, authentic and traditional, with balconies and arches, draped in roses and jasmine. My youngest was fascinated by the pomegranate tree in the garden, visiting it daily. Views over the piercingly blue Souda Bay were further enhanced by the aerial acrobatics of swifts dive-bombing the pool. Behind us lay the White Mountains. The friendly owners were Manolis, a curator at the museum of archaeology in Chania, and his English wife, Susanna .
We shared a pool with the neighbouring villa, which was occupied by a family with two teenage girls. Taking our noisy, splashy, snorkel-clad boys to the pool while they read quietly on sunloungers felt a little uncomfortable. We ended up escaping our own beautiful pool and villa, but discovering much more of this extraordinary island.
During the last few days of the holiday Crete opened like a flower, revealing its spectacular Imbros and Samaria gorges – which we vowed to explore when the boys were older – the dramatic western coastline and the ancient treasures at Aptera. It was a holiday of three wonderful villas, but it was the island itself that surprised us most.
Ryanair (ryanair.com) flies from London Stansted to Chania from £111 return. EasyJet (easyjet.com) flies to Chania from Gatwick, from £157 return.
Sovereign Luxury Travel (0843 770 4526; sovereign.com) is offering a saving of up to £899 per couple on a week at the five-star Daios Cove Luxury Resort & Villas with prices from £1,199 per person. The price includes one free night, a complimentary upgrade to half board, €100 (£82) resort credit per booking, an online discount, return flights from London Gatwick with easyJet, airport lounge access, private transfers and seven nights in a deluxe sea-view room, based on a May 16 departure.
Maza Cottage, through Villas Crete Holidays (villascreteholidays.com), sleeps four and costs from €600-€1,300 (£495-£1,070) per week, depending on the season.
Susanna's, through Pure Crete (01444 880404; purecrete.com), costs from £1,134 per week, accommodation only. Prices including return flights from Gatwick to Chania start at £688 per adult and £588 per child, based on a family of four sharing.
Kostas Kafernion , Maza offers home-cooked, traditional Cretan dishes, from meltingly tender beef stifado to courgette pies. The ultimate family taverna.
Elpis restaurant in the village of Plaka, the setting for the film Zorba the Greek, has delicious "grandma's bread", with tomato and garlic dip. Monkey bars and kids' play area too.
Cretan Corner in Aptera is run by Nikos and his English wife, Sue. Fantastic Greek dancing nights, authentic Cretan food, such as "mountain greens", rabbit stifado and snails in rosemary and garlic. Plus books for kids.
The War Museum at Askifou, en route to Hora Sfakia, commemorates the Battle of Crete. It has an astonishing collection of Allied and German equipment, perfectly preserved in the dry heat and lovingly curated by the Hatzidakis family.
The ruins at Aptera include a fifth-century BC Greek temple and a Roman bath complex. An amphitheatre is being excavated – a fascinating discovery.
Lake Kournas, the most southerly freshwater lake in Europe. Feed bread to the turtles from the pier and have a drink at the Pallios Millos restaurant in the village of Argiroupolis, surrounded by natural springs.
Beaches at Almiridha for calm, warm, shallow waters and golden sand. Go, as the Greeks do, after 4pm when the sun is less fierce.
The boutiques in Daios Cove. If you have forgotten to pack your swimming trunks, don't buy a pair for €60 (£50). You will still feel the pain of this months on.
Tholos restaurant in Chania. A beautiful setting, but disappointing food – frozen peas and sweetcorn I can get at home, thank you. Don't eat harbourside, just enjoy a drink and the view of the Venetian-built port.
Pure avocado oil – for €8 (£6.60) this is a bargain essential oil for the face.
Crete on the Road: the Best Driving Tours around West and Central Crete by Frankie Miles. Frankie is the rep for Villas Crete Holidays and very knowledgable about this part of the island.


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11. Gyokugan: The Windows to the Soul
In the early periods of Japanese art history, eyes were simply carved into the wood (and then painted). This way of depicting a sculpted eye is called chougan (彫眼), and examples of this can be seen in many temples throughout Japan. However, when visiting a temple with carvings that have crystal eyes, it is impossible to ignore the intimacy of the statuary's pensive gaze or piercing glare. This style of eye-crafting is called gyokugan (玉眼). I always marveled at this technique for eye treatment, but simply studying them at arm's length wasn't enough for me to understand what was actually happening. I started to research the history behind these wonderful innovations, and learned enough to try my own hand at replicating the process.
Left: The so-called Seated Scribe. Painted limestone, eyes inlaid with rock crystal in copper, 4th of 5th dynasty of Egypt, 2600–2350 BC (museum) or 2620-2500 BC, late 27th-26th century BC: Photo Public Domain. Middle: Archaeological Museum, Athens - Bronze portrait - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 11 2009. Right: Phto by David Bilbrey
Historically, several cultures have come up with some very ingenious solutions for how to bring more life to the eyes of their sculptures. Ancient greeks would assemble eyes from copper, glass and/or shell, and anchor them from the inside of a hollow bronze head. The Egyptians combined materials of alabaster, rock crystal & copper, and inserted them from the outside of the face to bring vitality to their sculptures and busts. The Chinese would position small obsidian beads in the center of the eyes, (a technique which was sometimes also seen in Japan during the Asuka and Nara periods (combined 538-974)). In the late Heian period (974-1185), however, a new process for infusing a startlingly realistic quality into the eyes of sculpture elevated Japanese Buddhist statuary to new heights.
In 1151, an Amida Triad in the Chougakuji was the first in Japan to employ gyokugan. The technology behind this craft can simply and casually be described as an eyeball sandwich. The būshi of the Chougakuji's Amida group carved rock crystal into a lens, painted the inside with a pupil & iris, backed it with paper, and then inserted it into an uchiguri (hollowed-out) head. The result was revolutionary. Made more famous by the Kei school about 30 years later, this technique became the sculpting standard which further set Japanese butsuzo apart from what was happening with the rest of the world.
Let's take a closer look at what is going on here, using a working model I made many years ago.
Left: Twenty-Eight Attendants (Basu Sennin) Sanjusangendo. Sanjusangendo, Kyoto, Japan 1933 奈良帝室博物館 volume on Japanese sculpture. Date: 18 March 2012. Author: Nara National Museum 奈良帝室博物館 (Showa 8 - 1933). Photo: Public domain. Right: photo by David Bilbrey.
Forcing a piece of rock crystal to become another shape is exceedingly difficult, especially without the aid of power tools. Before shaping the crystal, the type of eye needs to be determined: will these be the eyes of a wrathful Fudo Myo-o or Kongorikishi? or a meditating Buddha? An animal, perhaps? For this model, I used a whetstone to manually shave the crystal into a narrow 'almond' shape, using the Sanjusangendo's Basu-Sennin for inspiration. 1500 grit sandpaper was used to "polish" the crystal.
It can be very difficult to bevel the edges of the wood in such a way that will snugly accept the lens, without the socket being too large or leaving visible gaps after insertion. There is a lot of trial and error involved here; when carving a cavity in the back of the eye socket for the crystal, it is best to exercise extreme patience in order to not remove too much material too quickly, as the wood also becomes very thin and fragile, particularly in the corners.
The backside of the lens is painted with black for the pupil, and the iris can either be painted or backed with foil. Here, I used fingernail polish for "paint".
The crystal lens with the pupil & iris is inserted into the carved socket from the back. Note that the back of this lens is flat; often, gyokyan were concave, resulting in a spoon-shaped crystal, which reduced visual distortion. In ancient times, paper was the choice of material to pad the back of the eye, and red-dyed paper was sometimes pressed into the corners to simulate the blood flow.
A wooden backer and pegs hold the layered components firmly in place from the backside. The end result is a strikingly realistic portrayal of a wet, light-reflecting eye.
In re-creating the authentic gyokugan process several times over the years, I am convinced that shaping the crystal lenses, though a seemingly simple task, must have been performed by workshop apprentices, as the time investment would just be too demanding for a master busshi to undertake. With a #7 on the MOH scale of hardness, a rock crystal is exceptionally time-consuming to carve. Therefore, I had often wondered if the lens was created before the sockets were carved, or was it the other way around? I am convinced both the lens-shaping and socket carving was a collaborative effort between two or more individuals, with the final touches left to the master busshi for shaping the wooden socket to accept the final gyokugan lenses from the inside.
*Please note that because I have never been formally educated in regards to historical gyokugan production, my conclusions are theoretical and based on experiences in attempting to faithfully replicate the process according to my own research on the subject.
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The Raiders finally have a home for their games in the 2019 season as they have negotiated a new deal with the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum after their bid to play at Oracle Park in San Francisco was strongly rebuffed. But it's their home for the 2020 season (if all goes as planned) that's been really drawing attention.
And rightfully so, as we've already seen that the Raiders' new stadium in Las Vegas is going to be pretty epic. (Not quite Los Angeles Rams new stadium epic, but still, pretty freaking cool.)
The team originally had hoped to move into their new digs in 2019, but that isn't going to happen. In fact, their new target of 2020 might not even happen as their new deal with the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum includes a team option for 2020 in case their new stadium in Las Vegas still isn't ready by then.
The #Raiders agreement with the Coliseum Authority is for 2019, but it also includes a team option for 2020 if their Vegas stadium isn't ready, sources say. The steps should be: Board meeting Friday or Tuesday. Then city council. Then final approval by the March league meetings.
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Raiders head coach Jon Gruden recently took a tour of the still under-contruction stadium in Vegas and came away very impressed, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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Schwäbisch Confidential
Maultaschen
En buntes Gschmisch an Hergottsbscheißerle. Or, for all those who don't come from Schwabenland:
variations on the Maultasche!
One of the most beloved Swabian specialities, Maultaschen are a product of the season of Lent – that's when many Christians follow the tradition of eschewing meat from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Our ever-inventive countrymen and -women thus decided to put one over on the man upstairs to get their protein, which is where the rather rustic alternative term Herrgottsbscheißerle comes from. Another legend holds that Protestant refugees brought Maultaschen to Swabia from northern Italy so they wouldn't miss the ravioli of their homeland. If true, this would lend further credence to the belief that life round here really is la dolce vita.
Meanwhile, there seem to be as many origin stories of Maultaschen as there are different ways to enjoy them. Whether in broth, covered in glazed onions, or sliced up and fried with eggs, true Swabians are sure to have their own personal favourite.
(serves four)
For the dough
3 Tbsp. vegetable oil
125 ml lukewarm water
1 kg beef mince
1 day-old bread roll
1 bunch parsley
1 kg fresh spinach
For Maultaschen with eggs, add the following:
More butter oil
For the glazed onions
Butter oil
Step I
To make the dough, put all the ingredients in a bowl and knead them into a consistent mass. (Quick tip: Adding the oil will give the dough the elastic quality you want.) Then leave it to rest for about half an hour.
Step II
In the meantime, peel the garlic and onions and chop them up fine for the filling. Wash the spinach and soak the bread roll in cold water. In a large pot, sautée the garlic and onions until glassy, then throw in the spinach and let it wilt. Once this is done, remove the spinach, squeeze out the liquid and chop into small pieces. Give the parsley a good rinsing, shake it off, and chop the leaves up fine. Put some of the parsley to the side to serve as a garnish later. Take the bread roll out of the water, squeeze it out, and tear it into small pieces. Put the spinach, onions, and garlic in a bowl, then add in the mince, eggs, bread, and chopped parsley and knead the whole mess thoroughly with your hands. Add salt and pepper to taste. Finally, let the filling sit for about 10 minutes.
Step III
Roll out the dough on a flour-covered surface before cutting it into small rectangles. Place a tablespoon of filling on one half of each rectangle
and fold the other half over to cover it. Press on the top – first gently to squeeze the air out, and then more firmly around the edges to make a seal. In a large pot, bring some strong meat broth to a boil and then leave it to simmer. Slide the Maultaschen into the broth and wait until they
start floating on the surface – that's how you'll know they're done. Serve them up in bowls of broth and garnish with parsley, or put a dollop
of glazed onions on each one. For the version with egg: Remove the Maultaschen from the broth and let the excess liquid drip away. Cut them into slices and place them in a pan with butter oil. Pour in three beaten eggs, then stir everything constantly until the eggs have reached the desired consistency. Glazed onions go well with any of these variants. Simply peel an onion and cut it into thin strips. Heat up some butter oil in a small pan and sweat the onions at medium heat until golden brown. Garnish your Maultaschen with a spoon or two, depending on your preference.
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NoMad New York
Stop and linger a while, wanderer...
To have the fortune of staying at NoMad New York is to be spoiled for choice. Or you could just give yourself enough time to savour its various bars, fireplace, atrium, and library! Every last part of the hotel invites you to while away the hours – ideally in the company of a Monkey and Tonic, of course. Before we get ahead of ourselves, however, let's start at the beginning. The No...
Vienna Calling
Today's entry: the Josef Cocktail Bar
© Josef Bar
Near the centre of Vienna, the Josef Cocktail Bar serves up innovative, contemporary creations and fine spirits in a Baroque atmosphere synonymous with the Austrian capital. It's not all powdered wigs and harpsichords, however; this locale's décor also includes many appointments Andrea Hörzer and Philipp M. Ernst inherited from their grandfathers. As you may have already guessed, the forebears of the bar's two owners were also how it go...
Dead Rabbit
From gang wars to outstanding cocktails
To hear them tell it, when Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon set out for the land of opportunity – New York, to be exact – they had stardust in their eyes and little more than a rucksack full of dreams. Just six years later, they made their primary aspiration come true in bringing the Dead Rabbit to life. This bar, which has garnered numerous awards and accolades (including as the World's Best Bar ...
Arthur Orlans
Haute Monkey couture
© Arthur Orlans
Welcome to the wunderbar Arthur Orlans in Brussels! This is actually less an insider tip than it is a heartfelt plea: Get yourself to Belgium and pay this extraordinary locale a visit! We promise you'll be astonished as well. With plenty of attention to detail, Francesco Ravo and his team have turned an old-fashioned house into a one-of-a-kind cocktail bar. It's both traditional and tailor-made (so to speak), and the ...