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Simona Halep routs Serena Williams
SINGAPORE -- Serena Williams was routed 6-0, 6-2 by Simona Halep at the WTA Finals on Wednesday in one of the most one-sided losses of the 18-time Grand Slam champion's career.
The last time Williams managed to win only two games in a WTA Tour or Grand Slam match was in 1998 when she was 16.
"'Embarrassing' describes the way I played today," Williams said. "Very embarrassing."
The loss in the round-robin match snapped Williams' 16-match winning streak at the year-end championships, where she is the two-time defending champion.
Williams lost dropped a 6-0 set to Anabel Medina Garrigues at Madrid in 2013.
"My forehand was off today," Williams said. "It's obviously gone on an early vacation. My serve was at best at the 10-and-under division of juniors."
The fourth-ranked Halep had never before beaten a player ranked in the top 3. In her previous two matches against Williams, both last year, the Romanian had won a total of seven games.
For a player who was ranked No. 47 two years ago, Wednesday's win over No. 1 Williams represented a new career high.
"It was my best match of my life," Halep said. "I played unbelievable shots. It means a lot this match. At an important time I played really well, and after today my confidence will be more high."
Halep, runner-up at this year's French Open, beat Eugenie Bouchard in her opening match and moves to 2-0 in the Red Group. Williams slips to 1-1 and will face Bouchard next.
Ana Ivanovic beat Bouchard in Wednesday's other game, winning 6-1, 6-3. Ivanovic is 1-1 and Bouchard fell to 0-2.
Williams' defeat jeopardized her chances of finishing the year as the top-ranked player. Had she won Wednesday, the only way she could have lost the No. 1 spot is if Maria Sharapova won the title.
Now, just reaching the final may be enough for the Russian, depending on the result of Williams' match against Bouchard on Thursday.
Halep has been careful not to raise her sights too high at this tournament. She remained cautious even after two dominant victories.
Williams saluted Halep in a tweet after the match.
"I have confidence I can get to the semifinals," Halep said. "First I have to forget this day, but it will be hard to forget. I am so happy."
Williams served six double-faults in the opening set and had 36 unforced errors -- three times Halep's total. But the key to the result was the performance on break points. Both players had six: Williams took none of them while Halep converted five.
Williams was surprised by Halep's performance, saying "she has never played like this before."
"To be frankly honest, I am looking forward to our next meeting because she is going to make me go home, train hard and particularly train for her," Williams said.
Ivanovic had lost both her previous matches against Bouchard, at Wimbledon last year and this year's Australian Open quarterfinal. However she cruised through the first set, winning all but two points when getting her first serve into play.
At the end of the set, Bouchard's coach Nick Saviano had to give his charge a pep talk, urging her to show more enthusiasm and fight, and the Canadian responded with a much more competitive showing in the second frame.
The key moment arrived in the seventh game, when Bouchard saved five break points but double faulted on the sixth, handing Ivanovic the break. The Serb went on to take the victory that put her back in the running for a semifinal berth.
In Thursday's matches in the White Group,Caroline Wozniackimeets Agnieszka Radwanska in a clash of two players who won their opening matches, while Sharapova faces Petra Kvitova.
Halep Routs Serena
Simona Halep beat Serena Williams 6-0, 6-2 at the WTA Finals on Wednesday.
Serena: 'It Was Embarrassing'
Serena Williams talks about what went wrong with her game during her loss to Simona Halep at the WTA Finals on Wednesday.
Halep On Shocking Serena
Simona Halep talks about her win over Serena Williams at the WTA Finals on Wednesday.
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A service boat carrying workers back to shore from a platform off Seal Beach, Calif.
to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, announcing the state will file a lawsuit against the Trump Administration if it moves forward with current plans to expand offshore drilling.
Ferguson said he thinks the draft offshore drilling plan is illegal. For starters, he said, the Trump administration has excluded Florida from the drilling plan while not providing the same consideration to other states.
Tribal representatives said the drilling plan would threaten their treaty rights and ability to harvest fish.
Gina James, a Quinault Indian Nation business council member, said the nation has 30 miles of undeveloped coastline on the Pacific Coast.
"We have traditionally gathered there for thousands of years. We have a huge razor clam harvest, and we have one of the largest Dungeness crab fisheries out of any tribe in the whole West Coast," James said.
A spill would threaten all that, she added.
It would also threaten coastal birds, said Crystal Dingler, the mayor of Ocean Shores, Washington. The city was the first in the state to pass a resolution against the Trump proposal.
In 1988, a barge spilled 225 gallons of oil near Grays Harbor, Washington. Dingler said people brought thousands of birds to her city's convention center, most of which died.
She doesn't want that to happen again.
The drilling proposal has seen widespread opposition. A bipartisan group of congressional delegates recently sent a letter to Zinke, opposing the plan.
Inslee said no companies have expressed an interest in the state's limited offshore reserves.
It's been 50 years since anyone has drilled off Washington's coast, where oil and gas reserves are unproven. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says there may be around 810 million barrels of oil and gas off the Northwest's coast.
The bureau postponed a public meeting in Tacoma about the offshore drilling proposal on Monday. Another public meeting is schedule for Tuesday in Salem.


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5 Super Spicy Curries that Aren't for the Faint-Hearted
When it comes to Indian cuisine, everyone has a different preference as to what makes the 'perfect curry'. Whilst some might like it hot, others do not! If you are feeling slightly more adventurous, however, there are certain spicy curries you should indulge in. But, be careful: they aren't for the faint-hearted!
From London to Dubai, Bangkok to Brunswick, you can find an Indian restaurant just about anywhere these days. Bombay Mahal in Brunswick, Maine has been serving up some of India's most hearty curries for over 30 years.
Here, Bombay Mahal share five super spicy curries that aren't for the faint-hearted:
1. Jalfrezi
Originating in Bengal, the Jalfrezi is a curry that was created as a 'leftovers' dish. It consists of a spice-filled curry fried with a mixture of herbs. The chili makes the taste of the curry fresh but also extremely hot!
2. Vindaloo
A fiery favorite, the Vinadloo has become known for its high content of chili powder, making it one of the hottest curries available. Originating in Portugal, it started out as a much simpler dish but through adaptation soon became the spicy dish we know today. Vindaloo sauce is typically made up of onions, curry paste, coconut milk, vinegar, ginger, jalapenos, chili powder and garlic.
3. Phall
The Phall currently holds the title of 'the hottest curry dish you can get your hands on'. Originating in the UK, the foundation of the dish is dried chili in order to maximise the heat. A tomato-based thick curry, the Phall includes ginger and optionally fennel seeds. This one is certainly not for the faint-hearted!
4. Bhuna
Characterized by a thick, intense coating sauce with a well-spiced heat, the Bhuna is another spicy curry to add to your list! A great way to begin experimenting with hotter dishes, Bhunas feature fragrant spices such as turmeric, chili powder, cumin and ginger.
5. Madras
Another dish that may be too hot to handle for most is the Madras. Often, people opt for adding yoghurt to their Madras curry to take away some of the heat! Said to originate from the south of India, this curry is bursting with flavour...and spice!
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The Nestene Consciousness is one of the oldest known life forms in the galaxy. It is an octopoid like lifeform of unknown appearance with tentacles, in the third Doctor episode Spearhead From Space – 1970. The Nestene consciousness travelled to Earth via means of hitching a ride in a spherical plastic asteroid.
The Nestene itself is pretty immobile as a creature, apart from being able to attack lifeforms which get close enough with its tentacles. It does however, possess an ability to affect plastic objects and bring them to life and control them via a hive mind inference.
Having taken over a nearby toy factory, (handy!) the Nestene was along with some human slaves create plastic humanoid lifeforms as foot soldiers, dubbed the Auton's (after the toy factory – Auto Plastics).
The Auton's take on the appearance of mannequin's, which means they can hide in plain sight in shop windows – perfectly immobile.
However, when the Nestene orders them, they come to life and attempt to take over the Earth – by killing humans with their concealed built in flipdown hand lazers, which can kill or completely vapourize.
The Third Doctor was able to thwart the Auton's by destroying the Nestene which was controlling them, ending its contact with the Auton units and paralysing them.
The Auton's returned in Terror Of The Auton's – 1971 being aided in a return to Earth by a first appearance of the Master – (Roger Delgado). The Master, using one of the plastic sphere's (in which the Nestene came to Earth in Spearhead From Space – 1970) to animate random plastic objects to kill people.
The Auton's use everything from their usual Mannequin forms, (this time in the guise of a popular fictional Ice Cream character) – a telephone extension cord which strangles the Doctor, a range of plastic daffodil's which fire suffocating gas, a Chuckie style doll which kills and a couch which eats someone!
The Master is also attempting to use a deep space satellite dish, to signal to the spacefaring Nestene Conciousness, which is controlling the new Auton attack. The Doctor eventually manages to use the satellite array to push the Nestene Consciousness into deep space, breaking contact with the Auton's on Earth.
The Autons and the Nestene only made two appearances in the show but are still fondly remembered, as one of the more memorable monsters in Doctor Who.


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Downing Street opens door to U-turn on onshore wind ban
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Downing Street opened the door to a U-turn on onshore wind farms after Labour said it would support Tory rebels who want to end a ban on them.
On Thursday, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss both signed a backbench amendment to the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill, one of the Prime Minister's flagship reforms.
The amendment has already been signed by more than 30 MPs and looks set to attract more when Parliament returns on Monday.
Labour has said it would back the amendment – putting the Government on course to a humiliating defeat.
'We will consider all amendments'
Asked about the threatened rebellion, a Downing Street spokeswoman said the amendment would be looked at.
"We will consider all amendments and set out our position in the usual way," she said.
"The PM has been clear throughout that we want to support more renewables, for them to come online and the focus remains on building more wind turbines offshore in order to boost our energy security."
Mr Johnson and Ms Truss made their first major interventions since leaving Downing Street on Thursday, when they signed the amendment to demand an end to the ban on new onshore wind farms.
It came just days after Mr Sunak's government was derailed by a separate Tory revolt on the same legislation.
The Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill is designed to speed up house building, which is crucial to Mr Sunak's growth agenda.
But on Tuesday night, more than 50 Conservative MPs rebelled against the section of the bill that imposes centrally dictated house building targets – forcing the Prime Minister to delay the votes until Dec.
That revolt risked the prospect of Mr Sunak only being able to get the measure through with Labour support.
Rebellion looks even more serious
The latest rebellion looks set to be even more serious, because the fact that Labour supports it means it is far more likely to result in a defeat for the Government.
A Labour source said that they would support the amendment but indicated that they are concerned it does not go far enough in levelling the playing field between onshore wind and other infrastructure.
The amendment was laid by Simon Clarke, who was levelling-up secretary under Ms Truss.
It demands that present Levelling-Up Secretary Michael Gove revises the National Planning Policy Framework to allow councils to grant new onshore wind applications.
The amendment would also force the Town and Country Planning Act to be amended to allow the installation of "new onshore wind sites not previously used for generating wind energy or for repowering existing onshore wind applications".
'Especially Boris and Liz'
Mr Clarke said: "I'm very grateful to all the colleagues from right across the Conservative Party who have put their names to this amendment, and especially Boris and Liz.
"Onshore wind is the cheapest form of energy generation open to us and is right for both our energy security and the environment.
"My amendment means it would only be possible for this to proceed where there is express community consent, with no right of appeal for developers if a council says no.
"I am strongly of the view that we should seize the moment – not least because a future Labour government wouldn't include equivalent community consent protection were they to scrap the current ban, as they undoubtedly would."
Mr Johnson signed the pro-onshore wind amendment, even though he supported the ban, which has been in place since 2015, during his three years in office.
Ms Truss said she wanted to end the ban when she was in Number 10, because she believes the energy crisis means Britain needs more energy independence.
40,000 school staff sign up in fortnight to join strike action, says union boss
The Government should be 'worried' about the influx of members ahead of walkouts, NEU leader Kevin Courtney said.
Katy Perry said she 'gained a sister' as she gushes over her fiancé Orlando Bloom's ex-wife Miranda Kerr
Perry spoke about her close bond with Kerr during a gala event over the weekend
Royal warrant-holder Hunter Boot races to secure working capital
Hunter Boot, the royal warrant-holding footwear manufacturer, is racing to secure millions of pounds of working capital as it progresses parallel talks about a sale. Sky News has learnt that Hunter's owners have received several proposals from parties including Gordon Brothers, a specialist in financing often-troubled retailers, to provide around £8m in financing to the business. One insider suggested that Hunter faced a funding crisis unless it could secure the new working capital in the near term, although a person close to the company insisted on Monday: "There isn't a scenario where the business runs out of money."
Ukraine War: At least three people killed in Russian shelling of Kherson
The attack carried out on Sunday hit many facilities, including a hospital, a post office, bus station and residential buildings
Informed consent for antidepressants
Letter: Dr John Read says people should be told of potential negative effects when these drugs are first offered to them
Meet the UK's youngest daredevil competing in national motocross races
River Mathias, four, started riding motorbikes before he could even walk and now races against children twice his age
Tyre Nichols – updates: Kamala Harris to attend funeral as seven Memphis officers suspended after beating
Horrifying footage shows 29-year-old Black man beaten by Memphis officers
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In DR Congo, a stage built for the Pope's visit collapses: 'It's a disgrace'
Pope Francis is expected in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, from January 31 to February 3. But a platform stage where he was supposed to speak collapsed in the Martyrs Stadium on January 30. Repairs were launched the same day, but some Congolese consider this episode a "shame" for their country. Pope Francis' visit is the first by a pontiff to the Democratic Republic of Congo since that of John Paul II in 1985. But the incident that occurred in the Martyrs Stadium in K
People hurt after two crashes close A449 carriageway
Long queues of traffic built up after the crash
Four videos, 56 minutes, seven Memphis police officers, one deadly arrest: What the Tyre Nichols footage shows
Nearly an hour of footage showing Memphis police officers pepper spray, baton, punch, kick and tase Tyre Nichols helped bring swift murder charges. Bevan Hurley explains the horror captured in four separate videos
Ukraine war a 'massive wakeup call' for British Army, say veterans and experts
Rishi Suna has come under fire from veterans and members of his own party after a US general said the army could no longer defend the UK
Eva Green: Actress tells High Court she did not expect to have WhatsApp messages 'exposed' during lawsuit hearing
Hollywood star Eva Green has admitted it has been "very humiliating" to hear her private WhatsApp messages read out at the High Court, where she is suing a production company over a sci-fi film project that was dropped. The 42-year-old French actress had been due to play the lead role in A Patriot, appearing alongside Charles Dance and Helen Hunt, but the production was cancelled in October 2019. Green, best known for starring in Casino Royale alongside Daniel Craig, has filed a lawsuit against producers White Lantern Film, claiming she is still entitled to her fee of $1m (about £810,000) despite the project collapsing.


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Harvest Moon GBC 2 (牧場物語GB2, Bokujō Monogatari GB2) est un jeu vidéo de rôle et de simulation de vie développé par Victor Interactive Software et édité par Natsume, sorti en 1999 sur Game Boy Color.

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Jun-04 [News] 【For students, faculty and staff members of NU】 Issuance of Library Card for Gifu University Library As a result of the corporate integration, the Gifu University Library is available for students, faculty and staff members of Nagoya University now. The issuance procedure for Gifu University Library Card will start from June 4, 2020 (Thursday). https://lws.nul.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/en/central-lib/200604-en https://lws.nul.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/@@site-logo/logo.png
As a result of the corporate integration, the Gifu University Library is available for students, faculty and staff members of Nagoya University now. The issuance procedure for Gifu University Library Card will start from June 4, 2020 (Thursday).
In April 2020, Nagoya University and Gifu University became member universities of the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System through corporate integration.
Consequently, the Gifu University Library (Central Library and Medical Library) is available now for students, faculty and staff members of Nagoya University under the same conditions as students, faculty and staff members of Gifu University (except for some services).
The procedure of issuing the library card for Gifu University Library will start from June 4, 2020 (Thursday).
After confirming the following procedures, please apply at the Nagoya University Library (Central Library, Medical Library (excluding the Library of Health Sciences)).
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Q: Eloquent access list of models via models A User has many Auktion and Gebot.
A Gebot belongs to one Auktion and one User
I want to fetch all Auktion where the User also has a Gebot
Something like:
Auth::user()->gebote->auktionen->orderBy('end_time');

The orderBy() should be executed on the Auktionen retreived via Gebot, which is not possible because the relationship between Auktion and Gebot is one-to-many:
  **Gebot Model**
  public function auktion()
  {
    return $this->belongsTo('App\Auktion');
  }

  public function user()
  {
    return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
  }

  **Auktion Model**
  public function gebote()
  {
    return $this->hasMany('App\Gebot', 'auktion_id');
  }

  public function user()
  {
    return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
  }

What is the proper relationshsip setup and query to achieve this?
EDIT:
My current approach is this
                @foreach (Auth::user()->gebote as $gebot)
                <?php $auktion = $gebot->auktion;
                if($auktion->anzeigentyp_id == 2)
                    continue; ?>
                @include('shop/row')
                @endforeach

which is not very clean as I am fetching all entries first and I can't orderBy()

A: Use whereHas() which will filter your relation by it's subrelation. Auktion must have relation smth like hasMany() to gebots
$userId = Auth::user()->getKey();
App\Auktion::whereHas('gebot', function ($query) use($userId) {
    //here you need to filter gebots which belongs to user
    $query->where('user_id', $userId);
})->orderBy('end_time')->get();

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\section{Introduction}

The physics of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems
is, despite decades of research, far from being fully understood.
Apart from a few exactly solvable models, even their ground state properties
are a subject of ongoing discussions, see, e.g., \cite{L04,YJNIHY03}.
Even more challenging is the investigation of non-equilibrium
properties of those interacting many-body systems.

In the limit of infinite dimensions, the Dynamical Mean-field Theory (DMFT)
has been successfully applied to various problems such as the Mott-Hubbard
transition \cite{RZK92,RKZ94,GK92,GKKR96,AGPTW10,AGPTW11} or the non-equilibrium dynamics in Mott insulators \cite{EKW09,ATE14,EKW10,WTE12,CWE14,FT06}
by mapping the system to an effective single site (i.e., zero-dimensional)
problem.

Furthermore, one-dimensional strongly interacting systems have been studied
by employing exact diagonalization, see, e.g., \cite{K16,LHS88,KLA07,KTEG08,RB04},
time-dependent Density Matrix Renomalization Group variational techniques (t-DMRG),
see, e.g., \cite{DKSV04,S11,WF04}, or Jordan-Wigner transformations \cite{JW28,LP75,BO01,BKOSV04}.
Moreover, exact analytical solutions were used to study non-equilibrium
dynamics \cite{D05} and ground state properties.
However, the findings for one-dimensional systems cannot be
easily transferred to higher dimensions.
For example, thermalization in higher dimensions is very different
from thermalization in one dimension since for the latter
the energy re-distribution cannot occur via two-body collisions
(due to energy and momenta conservation).

For strongly interacting systems in higher dimensions,
the methods described above run into difficulties.
For example, the generalization of t-DMRG to higher dimensions
(such as tensor networks) is limited by the exponential scaling
with the system width \cite{CV09}, especially if correlations spread
across the system.
For a very similar reason (exponential scaling of Hilbert space),
the method of exact diagonalization is limited to
small system sizes \cite{K16}.
On the other hand, the DMFT is only well understood in the limit of infinite
dimensions and, due to the mapping to an effective single-site problem, does
not capture energy and momentum transfer of quasi-particles or long-range correlations
\cite{WEFWBH18}.

In order to bridge this gap,
we established over the last years a perturbative hierarchical method which
is valid for large coordination numbers $Z\gg1$.
This method allows for a systematic study of non-equilibrium properties in
strongly interacting systems in large (but finite) dimensions \cite{NS10,QNS12,QKNS14,KNQS14,NQS14,NQS16,QS19,QS19a}.

The hierarchical expansion is based on a controlled expansion
of the $n$-point reduced density matrices into correlated parts.
At zeroth order in our expansion, we have the single-site density matrix,
\begin{equation}
\hat{\rho}_\mu=\mathrm{Tr}_{\not{\mu}}\{\hat\rho\}=
\mathcal{O}(Z^0)\,,
\end{equation}
where $\mathrm{Tr}_{\not{\mu}}$ denotes the trace over all lattice sites
but $\mu$.
The correlated part of the two-site density matrix,
\begin{equation}
\hat{\rho}^\mathrm{corr}_{\mu\nu}
=\mathrm{Tr}_{\not{\mu}\not{\nu}}\{\hat\rho\}-\hat{\rho}_\mu \hat{\rho}_\nu
\,,
\end{equation}
is of order $\mathcal{O}(1/Z)$, the three-point correlator
\begin{equation}
\hat{\rho}^\mathrm{corr}_{\mu\nu\lambda}
=\mathrm{Tr}_{\not{\mu}\not{\nu}\not{\lambda}}
\{\hat\rho\}-\hat{\rho}^\mathrm{corr}_{\mu\nu}
\hat{\rho}_\lambda-\hat{\rho}_{\mu\lambda}^\mathrm{corr}
\hat{\rho}_\nu -\hat{\rho}_{\nu\lambda}^\mathrm{corr}
\hat{\rho}_\lambda-\hat{\rho}_\mu \hat{\rho}_\nu \hat{\rho}_\lambda
\end{equation}
is of order $\mathcal{O}(1/Z^2)$, and so on.
The time-evolution of the $n$-point correlations is derived
directly from the von Neumann equations.
With this expansion, we were able to study quenches
across phase boundaries \cite{NS10}, ground state properties and non-equilibrium
dynamics of quantum correlations in the bosonic and fermionic
Hubbard model \cite{QKNS14,KNQS14}.
Although the perturbative scheme is set up for $Z\gg1$, we
found even qualitative agreement with exact diagonalization  in one dimension \cite{KNQS14}.

The derivation of the hierarchy was based on the real-time
evolution of the system's density matrix.
In the following, we shall extend our hierarchical
approach to double-time correlation functions.
As a concrete example, we will apply the method to the Bose-Hubbard model
in the Mott insulating phase.
In section \ref{H} we derive the equations of motion
up to order $\mathcal{O}(1/Z)$.
A general proof of the hierarchy is given in the Appendix.
In section \ref{BHequil}, we show how Green functions and finite
temperature correlation functions are related to the hierarichal equations.
In section \ref{BHnonequil1} we study the non-equilibrium dynamics at finite
temperatures and in section \ref{BHnonequil2} we derive the double-time correlation
functions for a quantum quench of the Bose-Hubbard model.

\section{The Double-Time Hierarchy}\label{H}

The lattice system under consideration is described by the Bose-Hubbard
Hamiltonian ($\hbar=1$)
\begin{align}\label{bosehubbard}
\hat{H}=-\frac{J(t)}{Z}\sum_{\mu,\nu}T_{\mu\nu}\hat{b}^\dagger_\mu\hat{b}_\nu+\sum_\mu \left[\frac{U}{2}\hat{n}_\mu(\hat{n}_\mu-1)-\mu_0
\hat{n}_\mu\right]\,,
\end{align}
where $\hat b_{\mu}^\dagger$ and $\hat b_{\nu}$ are the bosonic creation
and annihilation operators at the lattice sites $\mu$ and $\nu$, respectively.
The time-dependent hopping rate is denoted by $J(t)$, where we have
factored out the coordination number $Z$.
The second term describes the on-site repulsion $U$ with the particle
number operator $\hat n_\mu$ and the chemical potential~$\mu_0$.

The system (\ref{bosehubbard}) can only be solved exactly for a small number of lattice sites.
For large systems one relies on suitable approximation schemes.
As mentioned in the introduction, we shall employ
a hierarchy of correlations for large coordination numbers $Z$.
For arbitrary operators $\hat A_\mu(t)$ and $\hat B_\mu(t)$
we have (see the Appendix)
\begin{align}
\langle \hat A_\mu(t) \hat B_\mu(t')\rangle&=\mathcal{O}(Z^0)\\
\langle \hat A_\mu(t) \hat B_\nu(t')\rangle^\mathrm{corr}&=\langle \hat A_\mu(t) \hat B_\nu(t')\rangle-\langle \hat A_\mu(t)\rangle\langle \hat B_\nu(t')\rangle\nonumber\\
&=\mathcal{O}(1/Z),\, \mathrm{etc.}
\end{align}
We assume the system to be in the Mott insulating phase
(with integer filling)
where the on-site repulsion $U$ dominates over the hopping rate $J$.
To order $\mathcal{O}(Z^0)$, the density matrix of the system
is given by
\begin{align}
\hat{\rho}=\bigotimes_\mu \hat\rho_\mu, \quad
\hat\rho_\mu=\sum_n p_n(t)|n\rangle_\mu \langle n|
\end{align}
with the on-site probabilities $p_n(t)$.
We define the operators $\hat{P}^{n,m}_\mu=|n\rangle_\mu\langle m|$
and find for the on-site expectation values
\begin{align}\label{singlesite}
&i\partial_t\langle \hat{P}^{n,n+1}_\mu(t) \hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\mu(t')\rangle\nonumber\\
&=(U n -\mu_0)\langle \hat{P}^{n,n+1}_\mu(t) \hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\mu(t')\rangle
+\mathcal{O}(1/Z)\,.
\end{align}
The two-site correlation functions with $\mu\neq\nu$
evolve according to
\begin{align}\label{twosite}
&\left(i\partial_t-U n +\mu_0\right)\langle \hat{P}^{n,n+1}_\mu(t)
\hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\nu(t')\rangle^\mathrm{corr}\nonumber\\
=&-\frac{J(t)}{Z}\sum_{\kappa\neq \mu,\nu}T_{\mu\kappa}\sqrt{n+1}[p_n(t)-p_{n+1}(t)]\nonumber\\
&\times \sum_{l=0}^\infty\sqrt{l+1}\langle \hat{P}^{l,l+1}_\kappa(t)\hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\nu(t')\rangle^\mathrm{corr}\nonumber\\
&-\frac{J(t)}{Z}T_{\mu\nu}\sqrt{n+1}[p_n(t)-p_{n+1}(t)]\nonumber\\
&\times \sum_{l=0}^\infty\sqrt{l+1}\langle \hat{P}^{l,l+1}_\nu(t)\hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\nu(t')\rangle+\mathcal{O}(1/Z^2)\,.
\end{align}
In equation (\ref{twosite}) we employed the hierarchy
in order to separate
three-point expectation values,
\begin{align}
&\langle\hat{P}_\mu^{n,n}(t) \hat{P}^{l,l+1}_\kappa(t)
\hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\nu(t')\rangle=\nonumber\\
&p_n(t)\langle\hat{P}^{l,l+1}_\kappa(t)
\hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\nu(t')\rangle^\mathrm{corr}+\mathcal{O}(1/Z^2)\,, \mathrm{etc.}
\end{align}
In the following we shall study only the
evolution up to order $\mathcal{O}(1/Z)$.
Thus we limit our considerations to the linear evolution
of quasi-particle excitations.
All results in this work will be an immediate
consequence of the evolution equations (\ref{singlesite}) and (\ref{twosite}).

Note that the hierarchical expansion can be extended to
arbitrary high orders in $1/Z$, e.g., the interaction
among the quasi-particle excitation can be taken into account \cite{QS19a}.
The proof of whole $1/Z$-hierarchy for double-time
correlation functions involving arbitrary $n$-point
correlations is given in the appendix \ref{PH}.

\section{Double-time expectation values in equilibrium}\label{BHequil}

The hierarchical set of equations for two-time expectation values
induces a hierarchy for double-time Green's functions.
In the following we will use them for the computation
of equilibrium correlation functions in the Bose-Hubbard model at finite temperatures.
A thermal expectation value of an operator $\hat O $ is defined as
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle \hat O\rangle_\mathrm{therm}=\frac{\mathrm{tr}(\hat{O}e^{-\beta\hat{H}})}{\mathrm{tr}
(e^{-\beta\hat{H}})}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\beta=1/k_b T$ is the inverse temperature.
The retarded and advanced Green's functions for
operators $\hat{A}_\mu(t)$ and $\hat{B}_\nu(t')$  are given by \cite{Z60}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{green}
G^r_{A_\mu,B_\nu}(t,t')&=&\langle\langle \hat{A}_\mu(t);\hat{B}_\nu(t')\rangle\rangle^{r}\nonumber\\
&=&-i \Theta(t-t')
\langle[\hat{A}_\mu(t),\hat{B}_\nu(t')]\rangle
\end{eqnarray}
and
\begin{eqnarray}
G^a_{A_\mu,B_\nu}(t,t')&=&\langle\langle \hat{A}_\mu(t);\hat{B}_\nu(t')\rangle\rangle^{a}\nonumber\\
& =&i \Theta(t'-t)
\langle[\hat{A}_\mu(t),\hat{B}_\nu(t')]\rangle\,.
\end{eqnarray}
Both Green functions, although they are subject to different boundary
conditions, obey the same differential equation.
We choose $\hat{A}_\mu=\hat{P}^{n,n+1}_\mu$ and $\hat{B}_\mu=\hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\mu$
and find from equations (\ref{singlesite}) and (\ref{green}) the relation
\begin{align}
&i\partial_t\langle\langle \hat{P}^{n,n+1}_\mu(t); \hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\mu(t')\rangle\rangle
 =\delta(t)\delta_{m,n}(p_n-p_{n+1})\nonumber\\
&+(Un-\mu_0)\langle\langle \hat{P}^{n,n+1}_\mu(t); \hat{P}^{m+1,m}_\mu(t')\rangle\rangle+\mathcal{O}(1/Z)\,.
\end{align}
The on-site probabilities $p_n$ are time-independent since we evaluate
all quantities in a thermal equilibrium state
and the hopping rate $J$ is assumed to be time-independent.
An analogous equation for $\mu\neq\nu$ follows from equation (\ref{twosite}).
Via a Fourier transform w.r.t. space and time, we can turn
the differential equations for the Green functions into  a set of algebraic equations,
\begin{align}
&(\omega-U n+\mu_0 )\langle\langle \hat{P}^{n,n+1}; \hat{P}^{m+1,m}\rangle\rangle_\omega=
\frac{\delta_{m,n}}{2\pi}(p_n-p_{n-1})\,,\label{onsitegreen}\\
&(\omega-U n+\mu_0 )\langle\langle \hat{P}^{n,n+1}; \hat{P}^{m+1,m}\rangle\rangle_{\mathbf{k},\omega}=\nonumber\\
&-JT_\mathbf{k}\sqrt{n+1}(p_n-p_{n+1})\sum_{l=0}^\infty \sqrt{l+1}\nonumber\\
&\times\left[\langle\langle \hat{P}^{l,l+1}; \hat{P}^{m+1,m}\rangle\rangle_{\mathbf{k},\omega}-\langle\langle \hat{P}^{l,l+1}; \hat{P}^{m+1,m}\rangle\rangle_{\omega}\right]\label{twositegreen}\,.
\end{align}

Using the spectral decomposition of operators, it can be shown that
thermal expectation-value of double-time correlation functions and
the Green's functions are related by \cite{Z60}
\begin{align}\label{zub}
\langle
\hat{B}(t)\hat{A}(t')\rangle_\mathrm{therm}=&i\lim_{\epsilon\rightarrow0^+}\int_{-\infty}^\infty
d\omega\frac{e^{i \omega (t-t')}}{e^{\beta \omega}-1}\nonumber \\
\times&\left[\langle\langle \hat{A};\hat{B}\rangle\rangle_{\omega+i\epsilon}-\langle\langle
\hat{A};\hat{B}\rangle\rangle_{\omega-i\epsilon} \right]\,.
\end{align}
The exact relation (\ref{zub}) permits the calculation of time-independent
expectation values ($t=t'$) or double-time expectation values
($t\neq t'$) at finite temperatures.
From equation (\ref{onsitegreen}) we obtain the probabilities for $n$ bosons on a lattice site,
\begin{align}
p_n&=\frac{e^{-\beta\left(\frac{U}{2}n(n-1)-\mu_0 n\right)}}{\sum_{m=0}^\infty
e^{-\beta\left(\frac{U}{2}m(m-1)-\mu_0 m\right)}}\,.\label{thermalpn}
\end{align}

From equation (\ref{twositegreen}) we find after some algebra the two-site correlator in order $1/Z$,
\begin{align}\label{corrbb}
&\langle \hat{b}^\dagger_\mu(t)\hat{b}_\nu(t')\rangle_\mathrm{therm}=
\frac{\mathrm{Tr}\left(e^{-\beta\hat{H}}\hat{b}^\dagger_\mu(t)\hat{b}_\nu(t')\right)}
{\mathrm{Tr}\left(e^{-\beta\hat{H}}\right)}\nonumber\\
=&\frac{1}{ \pi N}\int d\omega\, \mathcal{P}\frac{1}{e^{\beta \omega}-1}\sum_\mathbf{k}\mathrm{Im}\left(\frac{JT_\mathbf{k}G(\omega+i\epsilon)^2}
{1+JT_\mathbf{k}G(\omega+i\epsilon)}\right)\nonumber\\
&\times e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot (\mathbf{x}_\mu-\mathbf{x}_\nu)+i\omega(t-t')}\,,
\end{align}
where we introduced the thermal Green function \cite{NQS16}
\begin{align}
G(\omega)&=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{(n+1)(p_n-p_{n+1})}{\omega-Un+\mu_0}\,.
\end{align}
For a hyper-cubic lattice in $D$ dimensions, the
correlation function (\ref{corrbb}) can be expressed with
modified Bessel functions $I_\alpha(z)$,
\begin{align}
&\langle \hat{b}^\dagger_\mu(t)\hat{b}_\nu(t')\rangle_\mathrm{therm}
=-\frac{1}{\pi}\int d\omega\,\mathcal{P}\frac{1}{e^{\beta \omega}-1} \int_0^\infty ds e^{-s+i\omega(t-t')}\nonumber\\
&\times\mathrm{Im}\left[ G(\omega+i\epsilon) \prod_{j=1}^D
(-1)^{\triangle \mathbf{x}_{\mu\nu}^j}I_{\triangle \mathbf{x}_{\mu\nu}^j}
\left(\frac{J G(\omega+i\epsilon)s}{D}\right)\right]\,,
\end{align}
where $\triangle \mathbf{x}_{\mu\nu}^j=x_{\mu}^j-x_{\nu}^j$
is the $j$-component of the distance between two lattice sites.
$\triangle \mathbf{x}_{\mu\nu}^j$ is always an integer since we rescaled the distances with the lattice constant.

In Fig.~\ref{diagcorrdoubletime} we evaluate the double-time
correlation function for different values of $\beta U$.
The density plots show a temperature-dependent light-cone structure.
For low temperatures it is viable to neglect occupation numbers $n>2$.
The dynamics of the correlation functions w.r.t.
to the time difference $t_-=(t-t')/2$ at unit filling
is determined by the frequencies
\begin{align}\label{partholetherm}
\Omega_\mathbf{k}=&U-J(1-3p_0) T_\mathbf{k}\nonumber\\
&-\sqrt{U^2-6 J(1-3p_0) U T_\mathbf{k}+J^2(1-3p_0)^2T_\mathbf{k}^2}
\end{align}
with $p_0=p_2=1/(2+e^{\beta U/2})$ being the probability to find zero or two particles on a lattice site.
The maximum group velocity, given by
$v^\mathrm{max}=\mathrm{max}_\mathbf{k}|\nabla_\mathbf{k} \Omega_\mathbf{k}|$,
determines the light-cone structure of the correlations.
At zero temperature, the propagation velocity of the
correlations is maximal, see Fig.~\ref{diagcorrdoubletime} (d).
In this limit, only the doublon-holon excitations $\langle P^{10}_\mu(t)P^{12}_\nu(t')\rangle$,
$\langle P^{21}_\mu(t)P^{01}_\nu(t')\rangle$,
$\langle P^{10}_\mu(t)P^{01}_\nu(t')\rangle$,
and
$\langle P^{21}_\mu(t)P^{12}_\nu(t')\rangle$
are relevant.

For finite temperatures, we have $1-3p_0<1$.
According to equation (\ref{partholetherm}), this implies
a shrinking propagation velocity, see Fig.~\ref{diagcorrdoubletime} (c).
If the temperature is increased even further, the
approximation of thermal particle-hole excitations
is not valid anymore since also occupation numbers $n>2$ play a role.
Therefore, the analytical result (\ref{partholetherm})
does not determine the light-cone structure anymore,
see Fig.~\ref{diagcorrdoubletime} (a)~and~(b).

The population of higher excited states is also reflected
in the time-evolution of the correlations at a fixed distance $|x_\mu-x_\nu|$.
At $\beta U=\infty$, only eigen-modes of order $\mathcal{O}(U)$ play a role whereas
for large temperatures the eigen-modes of order $\mathcal{O}(nU)$,~$n>1$
dominate the time-evolution, see Fig.~\ref{ThermalCorrl1}.

\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[width=6.8cm]{ThermalCorrl1.pdf}
\caption{Double-time correlation for $|x_\mu-x_\nu|=\sqrt{2}$ in two dimensions
at different temperatures.
The position of the maximum is shifting with temperature
approximately as $(t_-J)\sim 1/(1-3 p_0)$.
}\label{ThermalCorrl1}
\end{figure}

 \newpage

\begin{widetext}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=17cm]{diagcorrdoubletime.pdf}
\caption{Time-dependence of the two-time correlation functions $|\langle \hat{b}^\dagger(t)\hat{b}(t')\rangle_\mathrm{therm}|^2$
along the diagonal for a lattice in two dimensions for unit filling and $J/U=0.1$.
The parameters are (a) $\beta U=1$, (b) $\beta U=3$, (c) $\beta U=5$, (d) $\beta U=\infty$.
The maximum velocity of the correlations decreases with the temperature
of the thermal ensemble.
When the temperature grows, also highly energetic modes contribute to the dynamics.
The amplitude of the correlations decreases with increasing temperature.
}\label{diagcorrdoubletime}
\end{figure}

\end{widetext}

\section{Equilibration after a quantum quench}\label{BHnonequil1}

In this section we turn to the non-equilibrium dynamics of excitations
in the Bose-Hubbard system after a quantum quench at finite
temperatures from $J=0$
to $J>0$.
The evolution of time-local quantities
can be deduced from double-time hierarchy for $t=t'$
of from the single-time hierarchy in \cite{NS10}.
Afterwards we compare the pre-thermalized expectation
values at $t\rightarrow \infty$ with the corresponding thermal expectation values.

We assume the system to be initially in a
thermal state which is determined by the
density matrix
\begin{align}
\hat{\rho}^\mathrm{in}=\bigotimes_\mu \hat\rho_\mu, \quad
\hat\rho_\mu=\sum_n p_n|n\rangle_\mu \langle n|\,,
\end{align}
where the $p_n$ are given by the thermal distribution (\ref{thermalpn}).
The hopping rate is switched suddenly from $J=0$
to a finite value which is still in the
Mott regime $J<J_\mathrm{crit}$.
The dynamics of the on-site probabilities follow the equations
\begin{align}\label{onsite}
&i\partial_t \langle \hat{P}^{n,n}_\mu\rangle=-\frac{J}{Z}\sum_{\kappa}T_{\mu\kappa}
\sum_m \sqrt{m+1}\\
\times&\bigg[\sqrt{n}\big(\langle \hat{P}_\mu^{n,n-1}\hat{P}_\kappa^{m,m+1}\rangle^\mathrm{corr}
-\langle \hat{P}_\kappa^{m+1,m}\hat{P}_\mu^{n-1,n}\rangle^\mathrm{corr}\big)\nonumber\\
&-\sqrt{n+1}\big(\langle \hat{P}_\mu^{n+1,n}\hat{P}_\kappa^{m,m+1}\rangle^\mathrm{corr}
-\langle \hat{P}_\kappa^{m+1,m}\hat{P}_\mu^{n,n+1}\rangle^\mathrm{corr}\big)\bigg]\nonumber\,,
\end{align}
and the two-point correlations evolve according to
\begin{align}\label{twosites}
&[i\partial_t+U(n-m)]\langle \hat{P}^{n+1,n}_\mu\hat{P}^{m,m+1}_\nu\rangle^\mathrm{corr}\nonumber\\
=-&\frac{J}{Z}\sqrt{n+1}(\langle \hat{P}^{n+1,n+1}_\mu\rangle-\langle \hat{P}^{n,n}_\mu\rangle)\nonumber\\
&\times\sum_{\kappa\neq\mu,\nu}T_{\kappa\mu}
\langle \hat{b}^\dagger_\kappa\hat{P}^{m,m+1}_\nu\rangle^\mathrm{corr}\nonumber\\
-&\frac{J}{Z}\sqrt{m+1}(\langle \hat{P}^{m,m}_\nu\rangle-\langle \hat{P}^{m+1,m+1}_\nu\rangle)\nonumber\\
&\times\sum_{\kappa\neq\mu,\nu}T_{\kappa\nu}
\langle \hat{P}^{n+1,n}_\mu \hat{b}_\kappa\rangle^\mathrm{corr}\nonumber\\
-&\frac{J}{Z}T_{\mu\nu}\sqrt{n+1}\sqrt{m+1}\langle \hat{P}^{n+1,n+1}_\mu\rangle\langle \hat{P}^{m,m}_\nu\rangle\nonumber\\
+&\frac{J}{Z}T_{\mu\nu}\sqrt{n+1}\sqrt{m+1}\langle \hat{P}^{n,n}_\mu\rangle\langle \hat{P}^{m+1,m+1}_\nu\rangle\,.
\end{align}
In the limit of zero temperature, the doublon-holon correlation
functions decouple from correlation functions which involve
occupation numbers $n>2$.
This case has been discussed in references \cite{NS10,QKNS14}.
However, we shall see that a finite temperature alters
the pre-thermalization dynamics.

The equations (\ref{onsite}) and (\ref{twosites})
are nonlinear due to the back-reaction of the
on-site quantities onto the correlations.
This back-reaction can be neglected since
it is of order $1/Z^2$ and we have
$\langle \hat P^{n,n}_\mu\rangle=P_n=p_n+\mathcal{O}(1/Z)$.
Exploiting the translational symmetry,
we can simplify these equations by a spatial
Fourier transformation
\begin{align}\label{Fourier}
\langle \hat{P}_\mu^{n,n-1} \hat{P}_\nu^{m-1,m}\rangle=\frac{1}{N}\sum_\mathbf{k}f^{n,m}_\mathbf{k}e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot(\mathbf{x}_\mu-\mathbf{x}_\nu)}\,,
\end{align}
where $N$ denotes the number of lattice sites.
Now, the on-site probabilities $P_n=\langle \hat{P}^{n,n}_\mu\rangle $ evolve according to
\begin{align}\label{pn}
i\partial_t  P_n=&-\frac{J}{N}\sum_{\mathbf{k}}T_\mathbf{k}
\sum_m \sqrt{m+1}\nonumber\\
&\times\bigg[\sqrt{n}\big(f_\mathbf{k}^{n,m+1}
-f_\mathbf{k}^{m+1,n}\big)\nonumber\\
&-\sqrt{n+1}\big(f_\mathbf{k}^{n+1,m+1}
-f_\mathbf{k}^{m+1,n+1}\big)\bigg]\,,
\end{align}
whereas for the Fourier components of the correlations
we find
\begin{align}\label{bb}
&[i\partial_t+U(n-m)]f_\mathbf{k}^{n+1,m+1}\nonumber\\
&=-JT_\mathbf{k}\sqrt{n+1}(p_{n+1}-p_n)\sum_{s=0}^\infty
\sqrt{s+1}f_\mathbf{k}^{s+1,m+1}\nonumber\\
&-JT_\mathbf{k}\sqrt{m+1}(p_{m}-p_{m+1})\sum_{s=0}^\infty
\sqrt{s+1}f_\mathbf{k}^{n+1,s+1}\nonumber\\
&-JT_\mathbf{k}\sqrt{m+1}\sqrt{n+1}(p_{n+1}p_m-p_{n}p_{m+1})\,.
\end{align}
We solved the coupled system of equations
in two and three dimensions for various temperatures, see Fig.~\ref{dynamics2D3D}.
The on-site probabilities are oscillating around their initial
thermal value $p_n$.
Especially for high temperatures, the back action of these
quantities onto the correlation functions can indeed be
safely neglected since\linebreak $|P_n(t)-P_n(0)|/P_n(0)\ll1$.

In order to gain some analytical insight
into the equilibration process, we
neglect $p_n$ for $n>2$.
As a consequence, we obtain the particle-hole
symmetry $p_0=p_2$.
When the system is quenched from a thermal state,
the oscillations decrease with
time and the on-site probabilities
approach for $t\rightarrow\infty $
\begin{align}\label{pnequil}
&P_{0/2,\mathrm{equil}}= p_{0}+\frac{1}{N}\sum_\mathbf{k}
\frac{4J^2T_\mathbf{k}^2(1-4p_0+3p_0^2)}{\omega_\mathbf{k}^2}
\end{align}
with
\begin{align}
\omega_\mathbf{k}=&
\sqrt{\big[U^2-6JT_\mathbf{k}(1-3p_0)U+J^2T_\mathbf{k}^2(1-3p_0)^2\big]}\,.
\end{align}
For the lattice-site correlations we for $t\rightarrow\infty $ the asymptotic
expression
\begin{align}\label{correquil}
&\langle \hat{b}^\dagger_\mu\hat{b}_\nu\rangle_\mathrm{equil}=
\frac{1}{N}\sum_\mathbf{k}e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot(\mathbf{x}_\mu-\mathbf{x}_\nu)}
\frac{4JT_\mathbf{k}U(1-4p_0+3p_0^2)}{\omega_\mathbf{k}^2}\,.
\end{align}
Given equations (\ref{pnequil}) and (\ref{correquil}), we conclude that the quench-induced
change of these quantities becomes smaller with increasing
temperature.

From the eigen-modes
we can also estimate the maximum propagation
speed of the expanding correlations.
As before, we can estimate the maximum propagation
velocity from $v^\mathrm{max}=\mathrm{max}_\mathbf{k}|\nabla_\mathbf{k}\Omega_\mathbf{k}|$.
In a hyper-cubic lattice in $D$ dimensions
with small $J/U$ we have
$v^\mathrm{max}=J(3-9p_0)/D$ along the lattice axes
and $v^\mathrm{max}=J(3-9p_0)/\sqrt{D}$ along the diagonals.
As before, the maximum propagation speed becomes smaller
for increasing temperatures, see Fig.~\ref{vmax}.

 \begin{center}
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[width=7.3cm]{vmax}
\caption{The maximum velocity of the correlations after a quantum quench
from $J=0$ to $J/U=0.1$ depends on the temperature of the initial
ensemble.}\label{vmax}
\end{figure}
\end{center}

\begin{widetext}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=18cm]{dynamics2D3D}
\caption{Equilibration dynamics in two and three dimensions.
The amplitude of the oscillations decreases with increasing temperature
of the initial state.
For all initial temperatues, the system prethermalizes faster in three dimensions than it does
in two dimensions.
In our computation, we did not restrict the occupation number.
Nevertheless, we see that also for finite but sufficiently low temperatures, the
particle-hole symmetry is approximately valid.
}\label{dynamics2D3D}
\end{figure}

\end{widetext}

The pre-thermalized state is a quasi-stationary state which is not
necessarily thermal whereas real thermalization occurs on much longer
time-scales \cite{BBS03,BBW04,KWE11}.
However, we can compare the pre-thermalized state
with a corresponding thermal state that has the
same temperature $T$ and filling $\langle \hat{n}_\mu\rangle $.
In order to do so, we compute the asymptotic values
of the on-site probabilities $P_{n,\mathrm{equil}} $ and the correlation functions
$\langle \hat{b}_\mu^\dagger\hat{b}_\nu\rangle_\mathrm{equil}$
from equations (\ref{pn}) and (\ref{bb}) without further approximations.
The thermal correlation $\langle \hat{b}_\mu^\dagger\hat{b}_\nu\rangle_\mathrm{therm}$
can be deduced from equation (\ref{corrbb}).
For the order $\mathcal{O}(1/Z)$-contribution of the $P_{n,\mathrm{therm}} $ we take
the expression from reference \cite{NQS16}.
In this article, we evaluated the partition function
of the Bose-Hubbard system up to $\mathcal{O}(1/Z)$ and derived
various thermal quantities.
Explicitly we have (see equation 21 in \cite{NQS16})
\begin{align}
P_{n,\mathrm{therm}}=&p_n+\frac{1}{N}\sum_\mathbf{k}\sum_{l=-\infty}^{\infty}
\frac{J T_\mathbf{k}}{1+JT_\mathbf{k}G(\omega_l)}\bigg[p_n G(\omega_l)\nonumber\\
&-\frac{(n+1)p_n}{\omega_l -U n+\mu}+\frac{np_n}{\omega_l-U(n-1)+\mu}\nonumber\\
&+\frac{n(p_{n-1}-p_n)}{\beta(\omega_l-U(n-1)+\mu)^2)^2}\nonumber\\
&-\frac{(n+1)(p_n-p_{n+1})}{\beta(\omega_l-U n+\mu)^2}\bigg]
\end{align}
with the bosonic Matsubara modes $\omega_l=2\pi i l/\beta$.

At zero temperature, the values
differ roughly by a factor of 2 which has been
stated elsewhere \cite{MK09}.
For sufficiently low temperatures,
the particle-hole symmetry is valid, $P_0\sim P_2$, which
can be deduced from comparing Fig.~\ref{thermalasym2D3D} (a)
and (b) or Fig.~\ref{thermalasym2D3D} (d) and (e).
The energy which is transferred
by a quench to the system becomes
more and more irrelevant for increasing
temperatures.
Thus, the difference between thermal and pre-thermalized
quantities reduces with growing $T$.
From Fig.~\ref{thermalasym2D3D} (c) and (f) we see
how the increasing temperature diminishes the correlations
between lattice sites.
However, the thermal next neighbor correlation
function has its global maximum at finite $T>0$.

 \newpage

\begin{widetext}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=17cm]{thermalasym2D3D}
\caption{After a quantum quench at a temperature $T $, the occupation probabilities and the correlation functions approach a prethermalized value (red curves).
This is compared with the corresponding thermal expressions (black curves).
For low temperatures, the onsite-quantities differ roughly by a factor of 2.
The difference between prethermalized and thermal
values diminishes with increasing temperatures.
Note that deviations from the particle-hole symmetry at high temperatures are larger
in three dimensions (see (d) and (e)) than in two dimensions (see (d) and (e)).
In (c) and (f) we depict the temperature-dependence of the prethermalized and thermal expectation values of the next neighbour correlations $\langle \hat{b}_\mu^\dagger\hat{b}_\nu\rangle$.
Note that the thermal correlation function has its global maximum at $T>0$.
}\label{thermalasym2D3D}
 \end{figure}

\end{widetext}
\section{Quantum quench and Double-time correlations}\label{BHnonequil2}

A quantum quench changes also the light-cone structure of the double-time correlation functions.
We assume that before the quantum quench the system is in an equilibrium
state with a finite hopping rate $J_-$.
At time $t=0$, the hopping rate is quenched to a value
$J_+<J_\mathrm{crit}$.
For simplicity, we restrict our considerations
to zero temperature.
Analogous to equation (\ref{Fourier}) we define the
Fourier transform of the two-time correlations
\begin{align}
\langle \hat{P}_\mu^{n,n-1}(t) \hat{P}_\nu^{m-1,m}(t')\rangle=\frac{1}{N}\sum_\mathbf{k}f^{n,m}_\mathbf{k}(t,t')e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot(\mathbf{x}_\mu-\mathbf{x}_\nu)}\,.
\end{align}
The dynamics of the correlation functions follows directly from equation (\ref{twosite})
and a corresponding relation which takes into account the time-evolution w.r.t.~variable $t'$.
Neglecting the back-reaction onto the on-site probabilities, the Fourier coefficients
evolve up to order $1/Z$ according to
\begin{align}\label{odet1}
i\partial_t f^{11}_\mathbf{k}&= -J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{11}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{21})-J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}\,,\\
i\partial_t f^{12}_\mathbf{k}&= -J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{12}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{22})\,,\\
i\partial_t f^{21}_\mathbf{k}&= \sqrt{2}J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{11}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{21})-U f_\mathbf{k}^{21}+\sqrt{2}J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}\,,\\
i\partial_t f^{22}_\mathbf{k}&= \sqrt{2}J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{12}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{22})-U f_\mathbf{k}^{22}\,,
\end{align}
and
\begin{align}\label{odet2}
i\partial_{t'} f^{11}_\mathbf{k}&= J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{11}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{12})+J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}\,,\\
i\partial_{t'} f^{12}_\mathbf{k}&= -\sqrt{2}J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{11}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{12})+U f_\mathbf{k}^{12}-\sqrt{2}J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}\,,\\
i\partial_{t'} f^{21}_\mathbf{k}&= J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{21}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{22})\,,\\
i\partial_{t'} f^{22}_\mathbf{k}&= -\sqrt{2}J^\pm T_\mathbf{k}(f_\mathbf{k}^{21}+\sqrt{2}f_\mathbf{k}^{22})+U f_\mathbf{k}^{22}
\,.
\end{align}
For $t,t'<0$, the correlation functions can be immediately obtained from the ground state
correlations at $J=J_-$ \cite{QKNS14}.
Due to the quantum quench, the correlation function is not anymore homogeneous in
time but depends on the relative time $t_-=(t-t')/2$
and on the central time $t_+=(t+t')/2$.
For $t_+ \pm t_-<0$ and $t_+ \pm t_->0$ we find correlations before and after the hopping quench, respectively.
Correlations between an creation (annihilation) of a
particle before the quench and an annihilation (creation)
of particle can be obtained for $t_+ + t_-<0$ and
$t_+ - t_->0$ ($t_+ + t_->0$ and
$t_+ - t_-<0$).

The light-cone structure is primarily determined by three different velocities.
For $t,t'<0$, the maximum velocity $v^\mathrm{max}_{--}=\mathrm{max}_\mathbf{k}|\nabla_\mathbf{k} \Omega^{--}_\mathbf{k}|$ can be estimated from
\begin{align}
\Omega_\mathbf{k}^{--}=U-J_-T_\mathbf{k}-\sqrt{U^2-6 J_- UT_\mathbf{k}+(J_-T_\mathbf{k})^2}\,.
\end{align}
For $t>0$ and $t'<0$ or $t<0 $ and $ t'>0$, the spread is determined by
both hopping rates $J_-$ and $J_+$.
Thus we have the eigen-modes
\begin{align}
\Omega_\mathbf{k}^{+-}=&\frac{1}{2}\left(U-J_-T_\mathbf{k}-\sqrt{U^2-6 J_- UT_\mathbf{k}+(J_-T_\mathbf{k})^2}\right)\nonumber\\
+&\frac{1}{2}\left(U-J_+T_\mathbf{k}-\sqrt{U^2-6 J_+ UT_\mathbf{k}+(J_+T_\mathbf{k})^2}\right)\,.
\end{align}
from which one can obtain $v^\mathrm{max}_{+-}=\mathrm{max}_\mathbf{k}|\nabla_\mathbf{k} \Omega^{+-}_\mathbf{k}|$.
Finally, if $t,t'>0$, the spread of correlations is dominantly determined by $J_+$.
Here the maximum velocity $v^\mathrm{max}_{++}=\mathrm{max}_\mathbf{k}|\nabla_\mathbf{k} \Omega^{++}_\mathbf{k}|$
can be derived from
\begin{align}
\Omega_\mathbf{k}^{++}=U-J_+T_\mathbf{k}-\sqrt{U^2-6 J_+ UT_\mathbf{k}+(J_+T_\mathbf{k})^2}\,.
\end{align}
The kink in the light-cone structure due to the quantum quench
is illustrated in Fig.~\ref{doubletimecorr}.
The complete light-cone structure for the double-time correlators
in arbitrary dimensions is evaluated in appendix \ref{doubtime}.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{doubletime}
\caption{Double-time correlation function $\langle \hat{b}^\dagger_\mu (t)\hat{b}_\nu (t')\rangle_{T=0}$
in one dimension for a quench at $t=0$ from $J_-/U=0.05$ to $J_+/U=0.15$.
(a): $t_+U=100$, the lightcone has a kink at $t_-=t_+$ where the maximum velocity
changes from $v^\mathrm{max}_{++}\approx0.40$ to $v^\mathrm{max}_{+-}\approx0.24$.
(b): $t_+U=-100$, the lightcone has a kink at $t_-=-t_+$ where the maximum velocity
changes from $v^\mathrm{max}_{--}\approx 0.10$ to $v^\mathrm{max}_{+-}\approx0.24$.
}\label{doubletimecorr}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions}

We studied equilibrium properties and non-equilibrium
dynamics of the Bose-Hubbard model in the Mott insulating phase.
To this end, we extended the hierarchy for large coordination
numbers $Z$ presented in \cite{NS10} to a hierarchy for double-time
correlation functions.

This enabled us to derive thermal correlation functions
and we studied the spread of two-time correlation functions at
finite initial temperatures, see Figs.~\ref{diagcorrdoubletime} and \ref{ThermalCorrl1}.
We restricted our considerations to first order in $1/Z$ which
governs the free quasi-particle evolution.
As usual, the effective light-cone structure was obtained via a
saddle-point approximation.

As we demonstrated above, the dynamics of strongly interacting
quantum many-body systems and their thermal properties can be
both accessed within our approach.
The phenomenon of pre-thermalization after a quantum quench
was generalized from $T=0$ \cite{QKNS14} to finite temperatures,
see Figs.~\ref{dynamics2D3D} and \ref{vmax}.
Note that the dynamical equations in order $\mathcal{O}(1/Z)$
cover only the short-time evolution of the excitations.
In order to include the long-time evolution which
is determined by quasi-particle scattering,
also higher order correlations have to be taken into account.
For real thermalization processes, for example, one has to
evaluate the hierarichal equations up to order
$\mathcal{O}(1/Z^3)$ in order to obtain a Boltzmann equation
\cite{QS19a}.

Apart from these theoretical investigations, our approach can
also be applied in order to interpret experimental results.
Since the double-time hierarchy induces a Green function
hierarchy, the latter can used for the interpretation of
pump-probe experiments \cite{}.
An excitation which is created by a pump beam at time $t$
and measured by a probe beam at time $t'$ is naturally
described in terms of the lesser Green functions \cite{ATE14,FMSSD17,FKP17}.
Moreover, the Green function hierarchy allows for a controlled
perturbative calculation of the self-energy or the
susceptibility of strongly correlated systems.

As an outlook, the study of out-of-time-correlators (OTOC),
a common measure for quantum chaos, should be feasible within our approach \cite{LO69,MSS16}.
In this context one has to extend the double-time hierarchy of correlations to
a hierarchy of multi-time correlations.
This should be possible in complete analogy to the approach
presented in this work and will be the subject of further studies.

\acknowledgments

This work was funded by DFG, grant \# 278162697 (SFB 1242) and 398912239.

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Last week, I decided to be proactive & deal with my soon-to-expire drivers license. Brother told me what Tom had told him – waiting in line FOR-ever at the Galletti NV-DMV is over-rated… so he told me about the NV-DMV Commercial license renewal place thingy on E. Greg. Evidently, the word on the street is that the Commercial Drivers License place also does REGULAR license renewals for Rubes like me. Even better, Brother had spent a total of 15 minutes in the place & finished all the business one could ever want to finish. Ahhh. Sounds like my kind of place.
Found it. And let's just say it was a leettlle bit busier that when Tom & Brother had been there. Waiting room had 10 people in it, (which I know is still less than Galletti on an average day,) so I went to the cool, "Take A Number" station, pulled Lucky 403, & found a seat. And waited.
I hadn't brought any of my normal time passers with me (books, chocolate, portable coffee, or wasser mit kohlensäure) so I went into introspection mode, which unfortunately lasted only about 37 seconds. Done with that, so I decided to look around the room & 'observe' the other individuals that were sharing the space that I had mistakenly assumed would be empty.
I watched from the corner of my eye as their communication became more animated – it became apparent that the woman was scared… she had to take a vision test for her license renewal, & it was obvious she didn't think she'd pass it. The anxiousness & worry became more pronounced as she got closer to her turn at the vision-apparatus. The man touched her arm gently & made "Shushing" noises… not the "be quiet" ones, but the kind you make to comfort a crying baby.
Her body stiffened when her number was called; she sat in the chair in front of the machine, & he sat next to her, his hand on her back. She took the test & passed. She was relieved. Now to get the picture for the new license.
They walked together to the area where the new pictures would be taken – she was self-conscious – I saw her look disapprovingly at herself, her clothes, & run her fingers through her hair – the signs of sadness, not wanting to get her picture taken.
The eyes that had been downcast, preoccupied, & self-conscious glimmered & sparkled with the confidence that comes from being loved by someone, that comes by choosing to believe that what you've just heard is the God's honest truth. She sat & smiled for her picture, then arose, took the man's hand, & they walked out together.
I'm not pregnant, but I'm nesting. Went through the pantry with theBean. Swept it. Through away stuff with shelf life that ended in 2007. Truly.
Today, I decided to tackle the freezer, since theBean was headed for Shift #2 on the day. Went through the freeze-dried foods, the unwrapped icy-treats, & other stuff that one finds in the freezer. Then, I came across some Drumsticks. You know, that incredible tasty ice-cream treat that sits on a sugar cone, covered with quik-dry chocolate & peanuts?
Well, what I found were the 'heads' of the drumsticks. Turns out, the cones had all be eaten, & some kind soul had placed the drumstick heads back into the freezer for anyone that might want the leftovers.
Went to the Hand Dr. for I-Doey. Got the stitches out. Looks good – like he'll be able to start in with his summer weights & football stuff tomorrow – just no contact drills for the next 3 weeks, at which time more X-Rays will be taken to check on the progress of young I-Doey's finger.
We're hoping, praying & believing for a complete recovery, without any of the finger-hypersensitivity that the Dr. said might be a possibility. Here's to healing. Woohoo!
According to my 2 oldest children, I may be showing signs of getting smarter. Or at least being smarter than they thought I was. I will update you on any more progress I make.
I'm ecstatic – the book re-release that I've been waiting for is finally here… Jerry Cook's classic, Love, Acceptance, & Forgiveness: Being Christian in a Non-Christian World came out last week. This has been one of the books that has most formed my outlook on life, the Church, & my view of God.
If you have never read it, by all means, get a copy & do so. If you have, get the re-release today. It is the classic you remember that has been brought up to date & made even better… its even got a 'study guide' included in the back.
Thinking about how thankful I am that the Bible doesn't need to be updated.
I believe that we're on the brink of something large. A fundamental shift in the way we live, work together, & carry out life. Not trying to come up with the Next Big Thing, but rather trying to cooperate with what I believe are the doors that are opening in front of us.
New ways of doing my job – new roles, with other things not happening any more. Trusting that God has provided & will provide for what comes next. Thankful I don't have to have all the answers, but just do my part. And encourage others to do the same. Wherever they are. Cryptic enough?
I think I'll go eat some more chocolate off the Drumstick heads.
I'd like to ask a favor of you – reader of this blog, the readers that I know, the blog-lurkers that I don't… even the random person that stumbled across this page in a chance Google search or 'go to next blog' moment.
And the times, they are a-changin'. Again.
Big changes are afoot in the greater organization I & our church family are apart of… What's happening seems to be a realignment.
This should make life over the next few months a bit interesting.


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PARTYNEXTDOOR: Joy
September 29, 2016 / Nicola Lyon
I heard this song on a recent trip to Los Angeles in an Uber, and yelled rather excitedly to the driver "Is this Devendra Banhart?!". Both the driver and my fellow passenger cast me rather blank expressions, explaining no, it was PARTYNEXTDOOR, DUH...
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Whitney: Light Upon the Lake
June 07, 2016 / Darren Bonilla
8:13 am; Tuesday in San Francisco's East Bay. Despite the considerably cooler breeze of the morning, I still find myself melting alongside a cup of iced coffee. The culprit: Whitney's gem of an album, Light Upon the Lake. While their time together has been relatively brief, talking about the band is like describing a longtime crush -- easy on the eyes, a voice that can make you blush, and an inherent ability to romanticize the most cumbersome of exchanges...
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Ryley Walker: The Halfwit In Me
Ryley Walker's sound is one that epitomizes the ideas we view as foundational. It brims with an ambling quality, driven by adventure that constantly reveals facets of its jazzy-folk core. The dazzling arrangements always seems to be occurring as organically as the scenes we find grounded in nature while the end result never falls short of mystic musical inspiration.
categories / Acoustic, chill, experimental, Folk, Freak Folk, Indie, Jam, Psychedelic, singer-songwriter, Travel, Vocalists
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Her: A Change Is Gonna Come
I've had Her on my mind lately. She circles my thoughts like a needle caught in the groove of my favorite record. But this is not about a girl. I mean Her... the band...
categories / Ambient, Art-Rock, bedroom soul, Blues, chill, Dance, Electronic, Experimental, Indie, R & B, singer-songwriter, Soul, Vocalists, World
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Clair Rosengren : I Know
March 16, 2016 / Darren Bonilla
One thing that's obvious is the fact that not enough people are talking about Clair Rosengren; a saint of tender love songs delivered via the aching authenticity of the female voice and a lone guitar. Equally alarming is the lack of taps on the shoulder I've received in regards to Stevie, producer and DJ of the Groove On brand, who we'll explore further in our next Not So New News. For now we have a collaboration from the two dubbed "I Know", and it is notably worth your time...
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February 06, 2016 / Darren Bonilla
Yes to Whitney. All Whitney everything. The Chicago-based band of brothers, figuratively speaking, rose from remnants of Smith Westerns who took their sound to a place of honey-sweet heartbreak. Their songwriting gushes with an authenticity and wholesomeness whose magnetism will capture anything drifting about it's orbit. While the boys have announced a string of European dates this month, we'll be basking in the melancholy bayou-soul that is "No Woman" until we can catch them stateside...
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Party Nails: No Pressure
Sifting through e-mails this morning I was gifted one of those, "Who are you and where did you come from?", moments that I always look for. Well folks, this is Party Nails and she comes from Los Angeles...
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GUM: Glamorous Damage
Jay Watson is one distinguished dude. Allocating efforts between Tame Impala and POND, he has garnered the privilege of working with innovators of the time because he is one himself. For these other more established projects, expectations based on previous work can sometimes hinder the impressions of new material, but Glamorous Damage operates outside that realm...
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Vulfpeck: Wait for the Moment
While the influx of quality tunes has been anything but lacking lately, it seems like the perfect morning to throw it back to one of our favorites with some Not So New News.
Vulfpeck is self-described as a "post-geographic rhythm section formed in Southeast Michigan." Featuring Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Gross, and Joe Dart at it's core, the group began as studio musicians at Vulf Records before relocating to Los Angeles, CA...
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[Event Recap] Beach Goth 4
Photo by Drew Bandy
In times as peculiar as those spent those spent at Beach Goth, a fleeting sense of predictability should come as no surprise. Fueled by an eclectic mash of sandy-toed beach rockers, funk phenoms, hip-hop icons, and Pauly Shore... the latest installment served as the most sizable and chaotic to date...
categories / Acoustic, alternative, ambient, Americana, Art-Rock, bedroom soul, blues, chill, Dance, Disco, Dream Pop, dream rock, electronic, Ethereal, Events, experimental, Festivals, Folk, Freak Folk, Foreign, Funk, Garage, Grunge, Hard Rock, Hazy Pop, Hip Hop, Indie, Instrumental, Jangle Pop, Jam, Jazz, live reviews, Lo-Fi, Not So New News, Photo diary, post-rock, post-hardcore, Punk, Psychedelic, R & B, Retro, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, soul, Surf Rock, Surf-pop, Travel, Vocalists
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October 07, 2015 / Nicola Lyon
I'm not a 'morning person', I personally function best as the sun begins to set. On those rare occasions when I do get up and am fully alive in the mornings - I think I will in future be reaching for one album in particular - even if it's just to put a smug smile across my face for being so incredibly topical...
categories / chill, Fuzz, Garage, indie, Jangle Pop, lo-fi, rock, Surf Rock
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KAMAU (ofTheHue-Men): Jusfayu (Ft. No Wyld)
October 01, 2015 / Darren Bonilla
Well, here we are bundling up for yet another Fall and thanking the universe we were too lazy to stow our coats too far from reach. Falling in line with the changing seasons, my musical preference has turned a new leaf in favor of the (personally) less explored world of hip-hop, and I have KAMAU (of the Huemen) to thank...
categories / chill, Hip Hop, Indie, Dance, Electronic, Soul, Travel, Vocalists
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Astronauts, Etc: Rocket Man (Ft. Toro y Moi)
September 19, 2015 / Darren Bonilla
Taking liberties with a classic such as Elton John's "Rocket Man" would present astronomical standards for any simple man, but Anthony Ferraro (aka Astronauts, Etc.) has managed to launch the tune into a distant funky nebula...
categories / bedroom soul, chill, Dream Pop, Funk, Groove, Indie, R & B, singer-songwriter, Soul, synth-pop, Vocalists
tags / Astronauts etc., Toro Y Moi, Elton John, Rocket Man, Mind Out Wandering, Hit City USA, Oakland, Los Angeles, collaboration
Crepes: Size Of Your Town
Blowing in from Melbourne (as many of my current favorites are) while also cozying up with Deaf Ambitions, Crepes lay down tunes as soft and breezy as they come. Their latest effort has the boys taking a seat in front of the old black-and-whites for the steadily strolling piano ballad titled, "Size Of Your Town"...
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tags / Crepes, Size of Your Town, Melbourne, Deaf Ambitions
Honne: Over Lover EP
While hailing from East London, HONNE have managed to find a home in the hearts of all their listeners since debuting in 2014. Marrying the accessibility of dance music with thought-provoking lyrical love-bombs, the duo have forged a winning combination that adds depth to the pool of electronic R&B artists...
categories / bedroom soul, chill, Dance, Electronic, Indie, R & B, singer-songwriter, Soul, synth-pop, Vocalists
tags / Honne, Over Lover EP, Tatemae Records, London, UK, Japan


In 1978, Bishop Andrew & Pastor Viveca Merritt founded the Straight Gate International Church and the world for Jesus Christ. Services were held at 14726 Joy Rd., in a storefront building with just three members - Reverend Merritt, Viveca, and their daughter, Rachelle. From three members then, to eight church moves, and thousands of past and present members today, Straight Gate is standing firm as a family-based ministry located in the heart of Detroit - Where Jesus Makes Families Whole.
This documentary showcases 40 years of the faithfulness of an Almighty God. Let these memories, stories, and testimonies speak to the grace and love of Jesus Christ, which never runs dry. And let them also speak to the guarantee that as Associate Pastors, Jonathan and David Merritt, grow in ministry, the same Word given to Bishop Andrew Merritt, 40 years ago, will sustain the Straight Gate International Church.


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George Soros Slams Eastern European Countries for Rejecting Illegal Alien Muslim Freeloaders and Jihadists
Walid Shoebat November 10, 2015
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused Soros, who was born in Hungary, of deliberately facilitating (and probably funding) the invasion of millions of Muslims, in order to destroy the sovereignty of EU nations. "This invasion is driven both by human traffickers and far left wing activists who support anything that weakens the nation-state," Orban said.
George Soros Demands EU Accept 1 Million Refugees (Costing €15 Billion) Per Year For Foreseeable Future http://t.co/Poma2dL0uu
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 27, 2015
Breitbart: Billionaire investor George Soros has confirmed he wants to bring down Europe's borders, following the accusation made last week by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Soros has now issued an email statement to Bloomberg Business, claiming his foundations help "uphold European values," while Mr. Oban's actions in strengthening the Hungarian border and stopping a huge migrant influx "undermine those values."
"His plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle," Mr. Soros added. "Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle."
George Soros is a firm backer of transnational bodies such as the European Union, and his Open Society Foundation (OSF) provides assistance for pro-migration activists. He is well-known for his support for "progressive" causes, such as the Centre for American Progress, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.
The OSF website explains: "We believe that migration and asylum policy should be grounded in economic and demographic realities, not driven by temporary political considerations or popular misconceptions."
Mr. Orban said in an interview last month that immigration and multiculturalism are endangering Europe's "Christian roots" and creating "parallel societies." Europeans, he said, should "stick to our Christian values" and "Europe can be saved," but only if they "take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe."
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Walid Shoebat is a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was converted to Christianity, and author of the book, God's War on Terror.


This week we come to the last Sunday after Pentecost, before we launch into Advent next Sunday. But today's Gospel, instead of anticipating the season that is about to begin, provides us with a reminder from last spring. Rather than peering forward to the purple of Advent, the Gospel reading looks backwards across the whole long green season after Pentecost, back past the seven white weeks of Eastertide, to the purple of Lent. Here we are six weeks from Christmas and it might as well be Good Friday, as far as the Gospel is concerned.
For there is Jesus, standing before Pilate, answering his cross-examination with the full knowledge that his disciples are powerless to defend him, that his own people will cry out for his death, and that the colonial agent of the Roman emperor will soon hand him over to the executioner.
Not from this world ? The old translation reads "not of this world." And I'm glad the current translators made this change, because if you didn't know any better, when you heard "not of this world" you might think Jesus was saying he was from another planet, that the Gospel was like the strange stories you see in the National Inquirer: "Space aliens from other worlds are here and working for the government in New Mexico." File that one with the stories about Elvis still being alive!
For surely Jesus doesn't mean anything like that when he says his kingdom is not from this world. He isn't saying he is from another world, any more than that his rising from the dead is simply a matter of someone still being alive whom everyone thought was dead, like Elvis. The Gospel is not the stuff of tabloids; it is not something to be glanced over as you stand at the checkout in the supermarket; the eternal Gospel is the message of salvation.
So what does Jesus mean when he says that his kingdom is not from this world? What he means is that his authority, his right to rule, doesn't come from the world, but from God. Jesus' kingship is not from the world but toand over the world — and his kingship comes from God.
Look at the language in the reading from Daniel: the one "like a human being," — and here I think the translators of the have done us a huge disservice by no longer using the evocative phrase, "Son of Man" — this "human being" comes to the Ancient One and he receives "dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed." Jesus, whom the church identified with the Son of Man in Daniel's vision, derives his authority from God. He isn't the King of kings because the kings or the people of the world elected him, or because the people of the world obey him, or because the people of the world follow him. His kingship isn't from the people of this or any other world, from their obedience or their approval or their support.
Because that's the kind of kingship that can be taken away: when the people don't want to follow such earthly kings, history shows us they quickly get rid of them. One needs only look to the recent reversal of power in our own Congress to see how easily those in positions of worldly power, depending on worldly support, can slip from their thrones — or in this case, committee chairs — in a day.
And even real kings — who in their day thought that their power came as a matter of divine right — are also uneasy in their seats when the economic or political system they govern gets beyond their control. And that can do more than simply force an abdication! When the French got tired of Louis XVI, they chopped off his head. When the Soviets triumphed over the Czar, they wiped out his whole family, gunned down in a moment of horror in a crowded little room. What goes round comes round, though, for how long ago was it that the statues of Lenin were pulled from their pedestals, and smashed to bits? And dare I add to this list the similarly toppled image of Saddam Hussein, a man who likened himself to Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, reduced to hiding in a spider hole and now condemned to death — more like the unhappy Belshazzar than Nebuchadnezzar. The world, you see, is fickle! It weighs kings in the balance and finds them wanting. Those who are kings or dictators from this world can lose their kingdoms in a single night, and the handwriting on the wall is spelled out against them in letters high and broad, and it doesn't take a Daniel to understand their meaning.
But Jesus' kingship is different. It doesn't rest on the power of the people, on popularity or approval ratings. Jesus' kingship is eternal. For Jesus' kingship comes from God. It is not a kingdom from this world, but a kingdom from heaven. Jesus is the king of salvation, who is to rule the world, whether the people follow him or not.
On this last Sunday of the church year, we celebrate the fact that Christ is king whether we, or his disciples, or the Jewish authorities, or Pilate, or the Romans or anybody else anywhere wants him to be king or not. His kingship is not from the world, it is not from us, or from anyone else in this world — on the contrary, his kingship is over the world and over us and over everybody and everywhere else — not just on this world, but all the worlds and suns and stars of space. His kingship was over the Jewish authorities who saw him as a blasphemer, and over the Romans who saw him as an insurrectionist. And he is over us whether we obey his lordly rule or not.
That is the reason Good Friday rings in our ears: because nowhere is the kingship of Christ more clearly seen than on the cross. For here, though stripped of every quality that might adorn a human king, the kingship of Jesus is undiminished. It doesn't matter that his followers have abandoned him; it doesn't matter that his own people have betrayed him and stand there cursing him; it doesn't matter that the Roman power-brokers have him nailed as a common criminal, and have added insult to injury by posting a mocking notice that this miserable specimen is the best king the Jews can come up with.
The irony is that Pilate's mocking joke was on Pilate as much as on the temple authorities: Jesus was and is the King — not only of the Jews but of Pilate too — the King reigning from the cross, a throne more precious than the golden thrones of tyrants, and infinitely more lasting than a rule based upon the tastes and desires of an electorate.
Now, you might be thinking, Wait a minute. Isn't what happened to Jesus like what happened to Louis XVI, or to the Czar. You might even go so far as to observe that Jesus was tried and sentenced to death, and so was Saddam Hussein. And it is certainly true that all of these worldly leaders were stripped of the worldly trappings of majesty, and were killed or are awaiting death.
But, my friends, there is a difference — a difference that matters in a deeper way than we could conceive, if we didn't already know it. The kingship of those worldly rulers really was from this world— and their death is the end of their story. When their worldly power — power derived from worldly sources — and their life, is taken away, they have nothing left.
And what about us? What are we to do in the meantime, before his coming in great glory to judge and rule the world? Well, we have a kind of kingship too. It says so in the passage from Revelation we heard this morning: we have been made kings and priests to serve the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And we know now what it means to be made a king and servant after the image of Christ. It doesn't mean a lovely golden crown upon your brow. It doesn't mean a comfortable seat on a throne. It doesn't mean standing on a pedestal. It means taking up the cross, the sign of Christ's kingship, a kingship not from this world, but a kingship that lasts for ever in spite of all this world has done to reject it.
We, you and I, have been made kings and priests — and servants — in the likeness of Christ crucified. And we have been given our orders — serve the Lord! — take up your cross! It is the sign of the great Servant King, who will come to judge and rule the world.


In the Abstract, "Compared with the control group (n=8), Fangjing decoction effectively shortened escape latency and duration of FS and decreased the frequency of FS in rats (n=8)" should read "Compared with the control group (n=8), Fangjing decoction effectively prolonged the latency but shortened the duration of FS in rats (n=8)".
In the 'Methods' section under Drug preparation and animal treatment, "The escape latency of seizure" should read "The latency of seizure". The penultimate sentence "In addition, seizure frequency was also detected" should be removed.
To study the effect of Fangjing decoction on the degree of convulsion in rats with FS, we firstly contrasted the latency and duration of seizures. The time to seizure onset, also described as the latency, was increased significantly in FS rat compared with the control group, but it was further prolonged in FS + FJD group (Figure 1A; P<0.05). The duration of seizure was long in FS rat model, but it was shortened by Fangjing decoction in FS + FJD group (Figure 1B; P<0.05). However, the SC79 treatment in FS + FJD group promoted the recurrence of FS in rats since the latency was reduced and duration of seizure was notably prolonged (Figure 1A and B, P<0.05). Taken together, Fangjing decoction could effectively prolong the latency and shorten the duration of FS, indicating its efficacy in alleviating seizure.
(A) The latency of FS during 5 days in the control group, FS group, FS group treated with 5 g/kg physiological saline (FS + PS), FS group treated with 5 g/kg Fangjing decoction (FS + FJD) and FS group treated with 5 g/kg FJD and 300 nM Akt specific activator, SC79 (FS + FJD + SC79). (B) The duration of FS during 5 days in the above subgroups; n=8 in each group. *P<0.05 vs. the control group; #P<0.05 vs. the FS + PS group; &P<0.05 vs. the FS + FJD group.
4. The corrected Figure 1 and its legend are presented in this correction.
5. In the 'Discussion' section, "In the present study, our findings revealed that Fangjing Decoction administration significantly reduced the escape latency, the duration and the frequency of FS in an FS rat model" should read "In the present study, our findings revealed that Fangjing decoction administration significantly prolonged the latency and shortened the duration of FS in a FS rat model".
Furthermore, "In this paper, we utilized rat FS model to explore the neuroprotective mechanism of Fangjing Decoction, and found that Fangjing Decoction administration could shorten the escape latency and the duration of recurrence of FS, decline the frequency of outbreaks and lessen the degree of FS" should read "In this paper, we utilized rat FS models to explore the neuroprotective mechanism of Fangjing decoction, and found that Fangjing decoction administration could prolong the latency and shorten the duration of FS".