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Latino racism
With the vigorous revival of racism in the form of Critical Race Theory, the Left have legitimated all sorts of racism. So we should not be surprised that Latinos have jumped onto the bandwagon. Racists have always given their racism some sort of respectable gloss but in any guise it is always obnoxious. There are all sorts of people in any race so it it the individual who should be the focus of attention
In a leaked tape, three members of the all-Democrat (plus one independent) Los Angeles City Council, along with a labor leader—all Latino—used racist, homophobic, anti-white, anti-Asian, and even anti-Mexican slurs as they plotted to redistrict the city council to increase "Latino power."
LA is approximately 50% Latino, but Latinos control "just" 30% of the 15 council seats. For the party of diversity, inclusion, and equality, this is a problem. Worse, blacks, though less than 10% of the population, occupy 20% of the council seats. The three black council members preside over districts that are either majority Latino or where they make up the largest plurality. How dare Latino voters vote for black politicians!
Leading the parade of invectives was since-resigned City Council President Nury Martinez, herself a daughter of Mexican immigrants and whose rise in city politics was aided by a black mentor politician. Martinez—who has called former President Donald Trump "racist"—and the others directed much of their wrath against a fellow councilmember, Mike Bonin, a white man with an adopted black child.
They accused Bonin, whom Martinez said "thinks he's f—ing black," of using his black child as an "accessory." Councilman Kevin de Leon said Bonin treated the child like a "Louis Vuitton bag" and Martinez described the boy as being "like a monkey." As for Bonin, a gay man, Martinez called him "a little b—-."
De Leon also took a swipe at both neighboring Orange County and the Los Angeles Times. He said Latinos need not fear "those crazies in Orange County who are pro-Trump. It's the white liberals. It's the L.A. Times."
Another white man, the Los Angeles city controller, came under attack, as did the white colleagues on the council. Martinez said, "You need to go talk to that white guy [the city controller]. It's not us. It's the white members on this council that will motherf— you in a heartbeat."
Martinez also attacked Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, but not for his soft-on-crime policies that many point to as a major cause of the rise in violent crime. About Gascon, Martinez said, "F— that guy … He's with the blacks." Apparently to Martinez, Gascon's policies, which allow bad guys to remain on the streets where they disproportionately shoot and kill blacks, is being "with the blacks."
In a discussion about whether immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, are part of Los Angeles' Koreatown, Martinez said: "I see a lot of little short dark people. … I was like, I don't know where these people are from, I don't know what village they came [from], how they got here. They're ugly."
As for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's President Ron Herrera, he publicly supports black candidates for council, but on the tape says, "My goal in life is to get the three of you elected. We're like the little Latino caucus of our own." If this means diminishing black political power to do so, well, so be it.
In the hourlong meeting, the four uttered not one word about the city's record-setting crime and homelessness. They said nothing about the poor urban K-12 government schools or about the city's declining population, caused in part by the lack of housing affordability for the working and middle classes.
As for these liberals' quest to increase "Latino power," this raises a few questions. What is the left-wing Latino position on homelessness that differs from the position of the left-wing non-Latinos on City Council? What is the left-wing Latino position on reversing the population loss? What is the Latino position on crime, something that 77% of city residents say they are concerned about? What is the Latino position, compared to their non-Latino liberal colleagues, on how and why test scores of government schools in California are near the bottom when compared to other states, with the scores of Angelenos lower than the California state average?
Martinez and Herrera have resigned, while the two other council members, Gil Cedillo and de Leon, have been stripped of their committee assignments but have resisted calls for their resignation. Cedillo, however, lost his reelection bid, and his term ends in December. Tough to pin this on "white supremacy." Was this the LA City Council or a KKK meeting?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/10/20/the-race-obsessed-la-city-council/
By JR on Monday, October 31, 2022
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This blog is written solely by John Ray, who has a Ph.D. degree in psychology and 200+ papers published in the academic journals of the social sciences. It does occasionally comment on issues in psychology but is mainly aimed at giving a conservative psychologist's view on a broad range of topics. There are very few conservative psychologists.
The blog originated in Australia and many (but not most) posts discuss Australian matters. Australians have an unusually good awareness of events outside their own country. Australian newspapers feature news from Britain and the USA not as an afterthought but as a major part of their coverage. So Australians do tend to have a truly Western heart, which is the reason behind the old name for this blog. So events in Australia, Britain and the USA all feature frequently here, plus occasional coverage of other places, particularly Israel.
A primer in American politics for non-Americans:
SCOTUS is the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the land
The "GOP" stands for "Grand Old Party" and refers to the Republican party. The GOP is at present center/Right, while the Democrats have been undergoing a steady drift Leftwards and now have policies similar to mainstream European Leftist parties.
The ideological identity of both parties has however been very fluid -- almost reversing itself over time. In the mid 19th century, the GOP was the party of big government and concern for minorities while the Democrats advertised themselves as "The party of the white man" -- an orientation that lasted into the mid 20th century in the South. The Democrats are still obsessed with race but have now flipped into support for discrimination AGAINST whites.
Was Pope Urban VIII the first Warmist? Below we see him refusing to look through Galileo's telescope. People tend to refuse to consider evidence— if what they might discover contradicts what they believe.
Calibrated in whole degrees. Larger graph here
Climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson said. "The warming we have had the last 100 years is so small that if we didn't have meteorologists and climatologists to measure it we wouldn't have noticed it at all."
The term "Fascism" is mostly used by the Left as a brainless term of abuse. But when they do make a serious attempt to define it, they produce very complex and elaborate definitions -- e.g. here and here. In fact, Fascism is simply extreme socialism plus nationalism. But great gyrations are needed to avoid mentioning the first part of that recipe, of course.
Two examples of Leftist racism below (much more here and here):
Beatrice Webb, a founder of the London School of Economics and the Fabian Society, and married to a Labour MP, mused in 1922 on whether when English children were "dying from lack of milk", one should extend "the charitable impulse" to Russian and Chinese children who, if saved this year, might anyway die next. Besides, she continued, there was "the larger question of whether those races are desirable inhabitants" and "obviously" one wouldn't "spend one's available income" on "a Central African negro".
Hugh Dalton, offered the Colonial Office during Attlee's 1945-51 Labour government, turned it down because "I had a horrid vision of pullulating, poverty stricken, diseased nigger communities, for whom one can do nothing in the short run and who, the more one tries to help them, are querulous and ungrateful."
Defensible and indefensible usages of the term "racism"
The book, The authoritarian personality, authored by T.W. Adorno et al. in 1950, has been massively popular among psychologists. It claims that a set of ideas that were popular in the "Progressive"-dominated America of the prewar era were "authoritarian". Leftist regimes always are authoritarian so that claim was not a big problem. What was quite amazing however is that Adorno et al. identified such ideas as "conservative". They were in fact simply popular ideas of the day but ones that had been most heavily promoted by the Left right up until the then-recent WWII. See here for details of prewar "Progressive" thinking.
R.I.P. Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet deposed a law-defying Marxist President at the express and desperate invitation of the Chilean parliament. He pioneered the free-market reforms which Reagan and Thatcher later unleashed to world-changing effect. That he used far-Leftist methods to suppress far-Leftist violence is reasonable if not ideal. The Leftist view that they should have a monopoly of violence and that others should follow the law is a total absurdity which shows only that their hate overcomes their reason
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a war criminal. Both British and American codebreakers had cracked the Japanese naval code so FDR knew what was coming at Pearl Harbor. But for his own political reasons he warned no-one there. So responsibility for the civilian and military deaths at Pearl Harbor lies with FDR as well as with the Japanese. The huge firepower available at Pearl Harbor, both aboard ship and on land, could have largely neutered the attack. Can you imagine 8 battleships and various lesser craft firing all their AA batteries as the Japanese came in? The Japanese naval airforce would have been annihilated and the war would have been over before it began.
FDR prolonged the Depression. He certainly didn't cure it.
WWII did NOT end the Great Depression. It just concealed it. It in fact made living standards worse
Joe McCarthy was eventually proved right after the fall of the Soviet Union. To accuse anyone of McCarthyism is to accuse them of accuracy!
The KKK was intimately associated with the Democratic party. They ATTACKED Republicans!
People who mention differences in black vs. white IQ are these days almost universally howled down and subjected to the most extreme abuse. I am a psychometrician, however, so I feel obliged to defend the scientific truth of the matter:
The average African adult has about the same IQ as an average white 11-year-old and African Americans (who are partly white in ancestry) average out at a mental age of 14. The American Psychological Association is generally Left-leaning but it is the world's most prestigious body of academic psychologists. And even they have had to concede that sort of gap (one SD) in black vs. white average IQ. 11-year olds can do a lot of things but they also have their limits and there are times when such limits need to be allowed for.
America's uncivil war was caused by trade protectionism. The slavery issue was just camouflage, as Abraham Lincoln himself admitted. See also here
Did William Zantzinger kill poor Hattie Carroll?
Did Bismarck predict where WWI would start or was it just a "free" translation by Churchill?
Leftist psychologists have an amusingly simplistic conception of military organizations and military men. They seem to base it on occasions they have seen troops marching together on parade rather than any real knowledge of military men and the military life. They think that military men are "rigid" -- automatons who are unable to adjust to new challenges or think for themselves. What is incomprehensible to them is that being kadaver gehorsam (to use the extreme Prussian term for following orders) actually requires great flexibility -- enough flexibility to put your own ideas and wishes aside and do something very difficult. Ask any soldier if all commands are easy to obey.
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The Elders' or Leaders' Meeting (the council within a congregation or group of congregations) consists of the minister and those who are called to share with the minister in oversight. It is responsible for building up the congregation in faith and love, sustaining its members in hope, and leading them into a fuller participation in Christ's mission in the world.
After a lengthy process of research and discernment, the Church Council has established four teams to help it empower the day-to-day activities of the congregation and its ministry groups as we live out the Church's vision of The Whole of Creation Reconciled and Renewed.
An overview of the role of each team is available here.
I love the people of QUC. I know most of them by name. I am interested in the church as a whole and have a 27+ year history here. I think it is important as a church that our council has a balance of those who understand where we have come from and some younger people with enthusiasm and fresh ideas. I am actively involved in a wide range of the activities of our church including the Hungry Souls men's breakfast and Bible study and plenty of other activities and events.


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Kate Middleton 'At War' With Queen Elizabeth II: Report
By Rebecka Schumann @RebeckaSchumann
The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is rumored to be feuding with her royal grandmother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II.
According to Life & Style magazine's July 14 feature "Tormented by the Queen," Middleton, 32, is constantly in conflict with the 88-year-old British monarch, most recently over her plans to move baby Prince George, the third-in-line to the throne, out of London.
While Middleton and the queen put on a happy face for public events, insiders insist that they have been privately feuding ever since her wedding to Prince William in April 2011. "She feels very embarrassed by Kate," said an insider who claims that Her Majesty picks on everything about the duchess from her clothing choices to her "excessive spending" and most recently, her parenting decisions. "She feels like she still acts like a commoner," added the source.
While previous arguments occurred only behind palace doors, sources claim that the royals are now "at war," so much so that Middleton has moved both Prince William, 32, and Prince George, 11 months, out of their newly renovated Kensington Palace apartment in London into their country home. "They're basing themselves at Amner Hall in Norfolk," confirmed a source.
While it is unknown just how long the young family will retreat to the country, insiders suggest that the queen is not pleased by Middleton's relocation. "Kate's breaking all the rules, and it's sent shockwaves through the palace," a supposed insider told the magazine. "The queen feels its important for William, Kate and George to be based in London, but Kate is completely going against her wishes."
Despite Middleton keeping her distance, currently residing more than two hours from Buckingham Palace, one source predicts worse yet to come. "Some of Kate's behavior mirrors Diana's behavior and personality traits as well, and the queen doesn't like it at all," said a source. "It's going to lead to even more problems between these two powerful women."
While it remains to be seen whether she will openly break with the palace like William's late mother, one thing can be certain. Middleton is not backing down anytime soon. "Kate will always put William and George's needs before the needs of the queen," said a source. "Always."
Middleton was last photographed attending the Wimbledon tennis championships near London on Wednesday. Just weeks before Prince George's first birthday July 22, multiple outlets are reporting that she is pregnant with her second (and in some cases, third) child with Prince William.
Kate Middleton, Prince William Trying For Baby No. 2?

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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro}

Nonperturbative Hamiltonian approaches to quantum field
theories~\cite{LFreview,Vary} in more than two dimensions require regularization.
The standard approach to regularization of non-Abelian
gauge theories is dimensional regularization~\cite{dimreg}, but this is
inherently perturbative.  For Abelian theories,
Pauli--Villars (PV) regularization has proven useful~\cite{TwoPhoton,ArbGauge}.
However, the ordinary PV regularization of non-Abelian theories fails.
Gauge invariance is violated, blocking any hope of BRST invariance,
which confounds proofs of renormalizability~\cite{BRST}.
To implement a PV regularization~\cite{BRSTPVQCD}, we repair gauge invariance
and then break it properly with a gauge-fixing term.  Ghost
fields~\cite{FaddeevPopov} are added to build a BRST invariance.

The causes of gauge non-invariance in ordinary PV
regularization are the PV gluon mass, the non-degenerate
PV quark masses, and the PV-index changing currents for
null interactions.  A mass is acceptable for PV photons
in an Abelian theory~\cite{MassiveVector}, but the approach
used does not generalize to non-Abelian theories.  Null
interactions (meaning interactions that involve only
null combinations of positive and negative metric fields)
are necessary to provide the subtractions that regulate
theory.  So, how can one restore gauge invariance?

The Higgs mechanism is, of course, one possible approach,
but investigations of this invariably found only
null combinations of gluon fields to be massless, rather
than a massless physical gluon.  There is, however, another
mechanism for generating masses~\cite{Stueckelberg,Stueckelberg2,Marnelius:1997rx}, by
coupling the PV gluons and PV quarks to a PV scalar,
with all removed from the spectrum in
the infinite-mass limit.  The mixing of currents can be
overcome by extension of the gauge transformation to
include mixing PV fields; the original gauge transformation
is obtained when the fields are removed from the spectrum.
The construction is done is such a way as to facilitate
quantization in an arbitrary covariant gauge, as has
been done previously for QED~\cite{ArbGauge}.  The
remaining gauge invariance can be tested by studying
the dependence of physical quantities on the gauge-fixing
parameter.

In the remainder of this paper, we present the PV-regulated
Lagrangian term by term, along with the extended gauge
transformation and the BRST transformations.  We then
discuss light-front quantization in an arbitrary covariant gauge
and the light-front coupled-cluster method~\cite{LFCClett} for solution of
the Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem in Fock space.

\section{A Pauli--Villars Regulated Lagrangian}

For the purposes of discussion, we divide the PV-regulated Lagrangian
into four terms
\begin{equation}
{\cal L}={\cal L}_{\rm massless}+{\cal L}_{\rm gluon}
           +{\cal L}_{\rm quark}+{\cal L}_{\rm ghost}.
\end{equation}
Here ${\cal L}_{\rm massless}$ is a gauge-invariant Lagrangian
for massless gluons and quarks, with null interactions;
${\cal L}_{\rm gluon}$ is the mass and gauge-fixing term
for gluons and auxiliary scalars;
${\cal L}_{\rm quark}$ is the mass term for quarks; and
${\cal L}_{\rm ghost}$ is the Faddeev-Popov ghost term.
The first is given by
\begin{equation}
{\cal L}_{\rm massless}=-\frac14\sum_k r_k F_{ak}^{\mu\nu} F_{ak\mu\nu}
  +\sum_i s_i \bar\psi_i i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu \psi_i
   +g\sum_{ijk}\beta_i \beta_j \xi_k \bar\psi_i\gamma^\mu T_a A_{ak\mu}\psi_j,
\end{equation}
where the field tensor is
\begin{equation}
F_{ak}^{\mu\nu}=\partial^\mu A_{ak}^\nu-\partial^\nu A_{ak}^\mu
      -r_k \xi_k gf_{abc}\sum_{lm}\xi_l\xi_m A_{bl}^\mu A_{cm}^\nu.
\end{equation}
The indices are $k$ for (PV) gluons and $i$, $j$ for (PV) quarks,
with values of zero for the physical fields.
The gauge transformations of the fields are
\begin{equation}
A_{ak}^\mu \longrightarrow  A_{ak}^\mu+\partial^\mu\Lambda_{ak}
+r_k\xi_k g f_{abc}\Lambda_b A_c^\mu,
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\psi_i \longrightarrow \psi_i+ig s_i\beta_i T_a\Lambda_a \psi,
\end{equation}
with $\Lambda_a\equiv\sum_k\xi_k\Lambda_{ak}$ and $[T_a,T_b]=if_{abc}T_c$.

The regularization is provided by the null field combinations:
\begin{equation}
A_a^\mu\equiv \sum_k \xi_k A_{ak}^\mu, \;\;
\psi\equiv \sum_i \beta_i \psi_i,
\end{equation}
with $\sum_k r_k \xi_k^2=0$ and $\sum_i s_i \beta_i^2=0$.
Here $r_k$ and $s_i$ equal $\pm1$ ({\em e.g.} $(-1)^k$ and $(-1)^i$),
$A_a^\mu$ is Abelian, and $\psi$ is gauge invariant.
With these definitions, this term of the Lagrangian can be written as
\begin{equation} \label{eq:Lbasenull}
{\cal L}_{\rm massless}=-\frac14\sum_k r_k(\partial^\mu A_{ak}^\nu-\partial^\nu A_{ak}^\mu)^2
                  +gf_{abc} \partial^\mu A_a^\nu A_{b\mu} A_{c\nu}
                   +\sum_is_i\bar\psi_i i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu\psi_i
                  +g\bar\psi\gamma^\mu T_a A_{a\mu}\psi.
\end{equation}
The free terms are those for fields with metrics $r_k$ and $s_i$,
and the interaction terms involve only null fields.
The four-gluon interaction is implicit in the infinite-PV-mass limit
through a contraction of two three-gluon interactions.

The null field combinations provide the necessary two PV subtractions
to regulate any loop.  For example, consider a loop with vertices from
interactions of the form $g\bar\psi\gamma^\mu T_a A_{a\mu}\psi$.
Assume that there is one gluon contraction and one quark
contraction to form the loop.  The contraction of the $k$th gluon
field yields the metric signature $r_k$ and contraction of the $i$th
quark field, $s_i$.  The coupling coefficients are selected as
$\xi_k$, $\xi'_k$, $\beta_i$, and $\beta'_i$.  The loop contribution
then contains the factors $r_k \xi_k \xi'_k$ and $s_i \beta_i \beta'_i$.
These factors provide the two subtractions, because on their own they
sum to zero

The gluon mass and gauge-fixing term is
\begin{equation}
{\cal L}_{\rm gluon}=\frac12\sum_k r_k \left(\mu_k A_{ak}^\mu-\partial^\mu\phi_{ak}\right)^2
   -\frac{\zeta}{2}\sum_k r_k \left(\partial_\mu A_{ak}^\mu +\frac{\mu_k}{\zeta}\phi_{ak}\right)^2.
\end{equation}
The first term is gauge-invariant, and the second, gauge-fixing.
The scalar fields $\phi_{ak}$ obey the gauge transformation
\begin{equation}
\phi_{ak} \longrightarrow \phi_{ak}+\mu_k \Lambda_{ak}
    +\mu_k r_k \xi_k g f_{abc} \int^x \!\!\!\! dx'_\mu \Lambda_b(x') A_{c}^\mu(x').
\end{equation}
The line integral allows the derivative to transform as
\begin{equation}
\partial^\mu\phi_{ak} \longrightarrow \partial^\mu\phi_{ak}+\mu_k \partial^\mu\Lambda_{ak}
    +\mu_k r_k \xi_k g f_{abc} \Lambda_b A_{c}^\mu.
\end{equation}
This part of the Lagrangian can be reduced to the form
\begin{equation} \label{eq:Lgreduced}
{\cal L}_{\rm gluon}=\frac12\sum_k r_k \mu_k^2 \left(A_{ak}^\mu\right)^2
           -\frac{\zeta}{2}\sum_k r_k \left(\partial_\mu A_{ak}^\mu\right)^2
   +\frac12\sum_k r_k\left[\left(\partial_\mu\phi_{ak}\right)^2
                                  -\frac{\mu_k^2}{\zeta}\phi_{ak}^2\right],
\end{equation}
where the gluon mass $\mu_k$ is explicit and the scalar is given a mass
$\mu_k/\sqrt\zeta$ and inherits the metric $r_k$.  This is a
non-Abelian extension of a Stueckelberg
mechanism~\cite{Stueckelberg,Stueckelberg2,Marnelius:1997rx}.

The quark mass term is
\begin{equation}
{\cal L}_{\rm quark}=\sum_i s_i m_i (\bar\psi_i+ig\frac{s_i\beta_i}{\mu_{\rm PV}}\widetilde\phi_a \bar\psi T_a)
                 (\psi_i-ig\frac{s_i\beta_i}{\mu_{\rm PV}}\widetilde\phi_a T_a\psi),
\end{equation}
with the combination
\begin{equation}
\widetilde\phi_a\equiv\sum_k \xi_k\frac{\mu_{\rm PV}}{\mu_k}\phi_{ak}
\end{equation}
made null by the additional constraint $\sum_k r_k \frac{\xi_k^2}{\mu_k^2}=0$
and with $\mu_{\rm PV}\equiv \max_k \mu_k$.
The gauge transformation of the combination is Abelian:
\begin{equation}
\widetilde\phi_a \longrightarrow \widetilde\phi_a+\mu_{\rm PV}\Lambda_a.
\end{equation}

To make all couplings null, we define
\begin{equation}
\widetilde\psi=\sum_i \beta_i \frac{m_i}{m_{\rm PV}}\psi_i,
\end{equation}
with $m_{\rm PV}\equiv\max_i m_i$,
and impose the constraints $\sum_i s_i m_i^2 \beta_i^2=0$ and
$\sum_i s_i m_i \beta_i^2=0$.  The second constraint makes
$\widetilde\psi$ and $\psi$ mutually null, to allow couplings
between these combinations, and cancels the quartic coupling term.
The quark mass term then simplifies to
\begin{equation} \label{eq:Lq}
{\cal L}_{\rm quark}=-\sum_i s_i m_i \bar\psi_i\psi_i
            -ig \frac{m_{\rm PV}}{\mu_{\rm PV}}\left[\bar\psi T_a \widetilde\phi_a\widetilde\psi
                                             -\bar{\widetilde\psi} T_a \widetilde\phi_a\psi \right]
\end{equation}

A standard construction~\cite{BailinLove} yields the ghost term~\cite{FaddeevPopov}
\begin{equation} \label{eq:LFP}
{\cal L}_{\rm ghost}=\sum_k r_k \partial_\mu \bar c_{ak}\partial^\mu c_{ak}
                  -\sum_k r_k \frac{\mu_k^2}{\zeta} \bar c_{ak} c_{ak}
            +g f_{abc}\left[\partial_\mu \bar c_a c_b A_c^\mu
                  -\frac{\mu_{\rm PV}^2}{\zeta}\bar{\widetilde c}_a
                       \int^x\!\!\!\! dx'_\mu c_b(x') A_c^\mu(x')\right],
\end{equation}
for ghosts $c_{ak}$ and anti-ghosts $\bar c_{ak}$,
with null combinations defined as
\begin{equation}
c_a\equiv\sum_k\xi_k c_{ak}, \;\;
\bar c_a\equiv\sum_k\xi_k \bar c_{ak}, \;\;
\bar{\widetilde c}_a\equiv\sum_k \xi_k\frac{\mu_k^2}{\mu_{\rm PV}^2}\bar c_{ak}.
\end{equation}
For these to be (mutually) null, we require
$\sum_k r_k \mu_k^2 \xi_k^2=0$ and
$\sum_k r_k \mu_k^4 \xi_k^2=0$.

As a summary of the various constraints, the following need to be satisfied
for for the adjoint fields:
\begin{equation}
\sum_k r_k \xi_k^2=0, \;\;
\sum_k r_k \frac{\xi_k^2}{\mu_k^2}=0, \;\;
\sum_k r_k \mu_k^2 \xi_k^2=0, \;\;
\sum_k r_k \mu_k^4 \xi_k^2=0,
\end{equation}
and for the quark fields:
\begin{equation}
\sum_i s_i \beta_i^2=0,  \;\;
\sum_i s_i m_i^2 \beta_i^2=0, \;\;
\sum_i s_i m_i \beta_i^2=0.
\end{equation}
For the PV masses to be chosen independently, these constraints
require four PV gluons, four PV ghosts and antighosts, five PV
scalars, and three PV quarks.  For pure Yang--Mills theory, the
number of PV scalars is four, with the $k=0$ field dropped and
$\mu_0=0$; the fields $\phi_{a0}$ are used only in splitting the
masses of the PV quarks.  In either case, the number of PV fields
translates to a large, but necessary computational load.

The BRST transformations are
\begin{eqnarray}
\delta A_{ak}^\mu&=&\epsilon\partial^\mu c_{ak}
                      +\epsilon r_k\xi_k g f_{abc}c_b A_c^\mu, \\
\delta \psi_i &=& i\epsilon g s_i \beta_i T_a c_a \psi, \;\;
\delta \bar\psi_i = -i\epsilon g s_i \beta_i \bar\psi T_a c_a, \\
\delta \phi_{ak}&=&\epsilon\mu_k c_{ak} +\epsilon r_k\xi_k \mu_k g f_{abc}
                             \int^x\!\!\!\! dx'_\mu c_b(x') A_c^\mu(x'), \\
\delta \partial^\mu\phi_{ak}&=&\epsilon\mu_k \partial^\mu c_{ak}
                      +\epsilon r_k\xi_k \mu_k g f_{abc} c_b A_c^\mu, \\
\delta \bar c_{ak} & =& -\zeta\epsilon\left(\partial_\mu A_{ak}^\mu+\frac{\mu_k}{\zeta}\phi_{ak}\right), \;\;
\delta c_{ak} = \frac12 \epsilon r_k \xi_k g f_{abc}c_b c_c,
\end{eqnarray}
with $\epsilon$ a real Grassmann constant, for which $\epsilon^2=0$.
For the various null combinations, we then find
\begin{equation}
\delta A_a^\mu = \epsilon\partial^\mu c_a, \;\;
\delta \widetilde\phi_a= \epsilon\mu_{\rm PV}c_a, \;\;
\delta c_a = 0, \;\;
\delta \psi =0, \;\;
\delta \widetilde\psi = 0.
\end{equation}
The full Lagrangian is invariant with respect to these transformations.

\section{Massive vector quantization}

The construction of the Lagrangian makes no reference to a choice
of quantization coordinates; however, the construction was done
in such a way as to keep open the possibility of light-front
quantization in an arbitrary covariant gauge.  To see how this
quantization can take place, consider the case of QED~\cite{ArbGauge}.
The Lagrangian is ${\cal L}=-\frac14 F^2+\frac12\mu A^2-\frac12\zeta(\partial\cdot A)^2$,
which yields the field equation: $(\Box +\mu^2)A_\mu-(1-\zeta)\partial_\mu(\partial\cdot A)=0$.
The light-front Hamiltonian density is
\begin{equation}
{\cal H}={\cal H}|_{\zeta=1}
  +\frac12(1-\zeta)(\partial\cdot A)(\partial\cdot A
                                -2\partial_-A^+-2\partial_\perp\cdot\vec A_\perp),
\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation}
{\cal H}|_{\zeta=1}=\frac12\sum_{\mu=0}^3 \epsilon^\mu
       \left[(\partial_\perp A^\mu)^2+\mu^2 (A^\mu)^2\right]
\end{equation}
and $\epsilon^\mu=(-1,1,1,1)$.  From this we obtain the
light-front Hamiltonian
\begin{equation}
{\cal P}^-=\int d\ub{x}{\cal H}|_{x^+=0}
  =\int d\ub{k} \sum_\lambda \epsilon^\lambda \frac{k_\perp^2+\mu^{(\lambda)2}}{k^+}
                a^{(\lambda)\dagger}(\ub{k})a^{(\lambda)}(\ub{k})
\end{equation}
with $\ub{k}=(k^+,\vec k_\perp)$, $\mu^{(\lambda)}=\mu$ for $\lambda=1,2,3$,
but $\mu^{(0)}=\tilde\mu\equiv\mu/\sqrt{\zeta}$.
The nonzero commutator is
\begin{equation}
[a^{(\lambda)}(\ub{k}),a^{(\lambda')\dagger}(\ub{k}')]
     =\epsilon^\lambda \delta_{\lambda\lambda'}\delta(\ub{k}-\ub{k}').
\end{equation}

The normal-mode expansion for the field is
\begin{equation}
A_\mu(x)=\int\frac{d\ub{k}}{\sqrt{16\pi^2 k^+}}\left\{\sum_{\lambda=1}^3
   e_\mu^{(\lambda)}(\ub{k})\left[ a^{(\lambda)}(\ub{k})e^{-ik\cdot x}
            + a^{(\lambda)\dagger}(\ub{k})e^{ik\cdot x}\right]
    +e_\mu^{(0)}(\ub{k})\left[ a^{(0)}(\ub{k})e^{-i\tilde k\cdot x}
            + a^{(0)\dagger}(\ub{k})e^{i\tilde k\cdot x}\right]\right\},
\end{equation}
with polarization vectors
\begin{equation}
e^{(1,2)}(\ub{k})=(0,2 \hat e_{1,2}\cdot \vec{k}_\perp/k^+,\hat e_{1,2}), \;\;
e^{(3)}(\ub{k})=\frac1\mu((k_\perp^2-\mu^2)/k^+,k^+,\vec k_\perp), \;\;
e^{(0)}(\ub{k})=\tilde k/\mu.
\end{equation}
Here $\ub{\tilde k}=\ub{k}$, $\tilde k^-=(k_\perp^2+\tilde\mu^2)/k^+$,
and $\hat e_{1,2}$ are transverse unit vectors.
These vectors satisfy: $k\cdot e^{(\lambda)}=0$ and
$e^{(\lambda)}\cdot e^{(\lambda')}=-\delta_{\lambda\lambda'}$
for $\lambda,\lambda'=1,2,3$.
The first term in $A_\mu$ satisfies $(\Box +\mu^2)A_\mu=0$ and
$\partial\cdot A=0$.  The $\lambda=0$ term violates each, but the
field equation is satisfied~\cite{Stueckelberg,Coester}.

The nondynamical components of the fermion fields satisfy the
constraints
\begin{equation} \label{eq:FermionConstraint}
is_i\partial_-\psi_{i-}+e A_-\beta_i\sum_j\psi_{j-}
  =(i\gamma^0\gamma^\perp)
     \left[s_i\partial_\perp \psi_{i+}-ie A_\perp\beta_i\sum_j\psi_{j+}\right]
   -s_i m_i \gamma^0\psi_{i+}.
\end{equation}
When multiplied by $s_i\beta_i$ and summed over $i$,
this becomes
\begin{equation}
i\partial_-\psi_-
  =(i\gamma^0\gamma^\perp)
     \partial_\perp \psi_+
      - \gamma^0\sum_i\beta_i m_i\psi_{i+},
\end{equation}
which is the same constraint as for a free fermion field, in any gauge.
Quantization can then proceed without need of light-cone gauge.

\section{Light-front coupled-cluster method}

Given a field-theoretic light-front Hamiltonian ${\cal P}^-$, we wish
to solve the fundamental eigenvalue problem
${\cal P}^-|\psi\rangle=\frac{M^2+P_\perp^2}{P^+}|\psi\rangle$.
The LFCC method~\cite{LFCClett} is designed to do so in terms of a Fock-state
expansion but without the usual truncation of Fock space.
Instead, write the eigenstate as $|\psi\rangle=\sqrt{Z}e^T|\phi\rangle$.
Here $Z$ controls the normalization, which is fixed as
 $\langle\psi'|\psi\rangle=\delta(\ub{P}'-\ub{P})$.
The ket $|\phi\rangle$ is the valence state, with norm
   $\langle\phi'|\phi\rangle=\delta(\ub{P}'-\ub{P})$.
The operator $T$ contains terms that only increase particle number;
it does, however, conserve the quantum numbers of the full state,
such as $J_z$, light-front momentum $\ub{P}$, and charge.  Because
$p^+$ is always positive, $T$ must include annihilation operators,
and powers of $T$ include contractions.
With construction of the effective Hamiltonian $\ob{{\cal P}-}=e^{-T} {\cal P}^- e^T$
and the definition of a projection $P_v$ onto the valence Fock sector,
we have the coupled system:
\begin{equation}
P_v\ob{{\cal P}^-}|\phi\rangle=\frac{M^2+P_\perp^2}{P^+}|\phi\rangle, \;\;
(1-P_v)\ob{{\cal P}^-}|\phi\rangle=0.
\end{equation}

This is still an infinite system of equations.  The LFCC approximation
is to truncate $T$ at a fixed increase in particle count, but
not truncate the exponential of $T$.  The projection $(1-P_v)$ is
truncated to a consistent set of Fock sectors above the valence sector,
enough to have a finite, but sufficient system of (nonlinear) equations
for the functions in $T$ and in the valence state.
The leading approximation of $T$ for QCD
would include quark $\rightarrow$ quark + gluon,
gluon $\rightarrow$ quark + antiquark, and
gluon $\rightarrow$ gluon + gluon transitions.

The LFCC approach requires no Fock-space truncation and
no sector dependence or spectator dependence of self-energies
or bare parameters.  It is systematically improvable by
adding terms to $T$ and sectors to $(1-P_v)$ with more
constituents.  Various applications have been carried out,
including a heavy-fermion model~\cite{LFCClett},
$\phi^4$ theory~\cite{LFCCphi4}, and QED~\cite{LFCCqed}.

\section{Summary}  \label{sec:summary}

With these tools in place, the time has come for a
concentrated assault on QCD.  The procedure would be
to invoke PV regularization and light-front quantization
in an arbitrary covariant gauge with variable gauge parameter.
Any (numerical) approximation~\cite{Vary,Glazek,Karmanov}
would then be applied to a
finite theory where the continuum limit can be taken
independent of any chosen renormalization scheme.
Fock-space truncation and the resulting uncanceled
divergences can be avoided by using the LFCC method.
The best places to start would be simpler systems in
quenched approximation, such as heavy-quark mesons
and glueballs.  The computational load and effort
are likely comparable to lattice gauge theory;
the large number of PV modes and the discretizations
being the analogs of lattice size and spacing.

\acknowledgments
This work was done in collaboration with S.S. Chabysheva.
Travel to the conference was supported in part by the
University of Minnesota Global Programs \& Strategy Alliance.

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Investigators scrutinising the sale of Siteserv to a company controlled by Denis O'Brien do not plan to call Catherine Murphy TD to give oral evidence following a stand-off with the Social Democrats co-leader.
A commission led by Mr Justice Brian Cregan of the High Court is investigating Siteserv's sale to Mr O'Brien's company, Millington, for €45.54 million in 2012. The State-owned Irish Banking Resolution Corporation (IBRC) then wrote off €110 million in loans to the company.
It is understood the commission has told Ms Murphy, whose claims about the deal in the Dáil in 2015 prompted the inquiry, that she will not be asked to give evidence as she has refused to reveal her sources.
The commission of investigation wrote to Ms Murphy several months ago to say that the 300-page witness statement she had filed was of little evidential value, as it did not disclose the sources of a series of allegations surrounding the deal.
It is believed that the commission intends to hear from up to 40 witnesses during oral hearings that it is holding behind closed doors.
These are expected to run into next year, beyond the end-2017 deadline that had been set for Mr Justice Cregan to file his final report into the Siteserv deal.
The commission was originally supposed to report on the transaction by the end of 2015, but the deadline was subsequently extended twice, to April 2016 and then to the end of this year.
Siteserv was a building services company that launched on the Irish Stock Exchange in 2006. It expanded into other areas, such as laying broadband and television cables, and also moved into the UK.
It was put up for sale in 2012 owing about €150 million to IBRC, which had taken over the debt from Anglo Irish Bank, the rogue lender which had to be wound up following the financial crash.
Almost 99 per cent of Siteserv shareholders backed the sale to Isle of Man-based Millington in April 2012. They received €5 million, while IBRC got €40 million.
Controversy blew up ahead of the sale after French company Altrad said it had told Siteserv it had been willing to pay €60 million for the business.
Siteserv's chief executive, Brian Harvey, said he had received an email and phone call in March 2012 from Ray Nielson, an executive with Belle Group, a British subsidiary of Altrad.
However, Siteserv's board argued that there was no certainty that Altrad's approach would result in a deal, while Millington had made a firm offer.
The company is now part of Actavo, an industrial services group that Mr O'Brien owns, which earned profits of €18 million in 2015.
Siteserv found itself in the spotlight again after Irish Water hired it to install household meters for the Government's controversial plan to introduce domestic water charges.
It emerged in 2015 that a number of Government advisers had expressed concerns about about the sale to Millington. This led to Ms Murphy's Dáil statements.
When the commission's terms of reference were revised in July 2016, the Dáil heard that its work would cost more than €10 million. It had spent €2.4 million by early last September.
The commission said on Thursday that it operated in private and could not comment on individual witnesses.
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Feature: A Movie Through Its Posters — Psycho
Psycho is one of those movies that is known worldwide and still revered as a great piece of horror history. In no way is that more evident than by the sheer extent of foreign movie posters for the flick.
Hitchcock was the "master of suspense" but his movies did not really fall into the horror category before Psycho. The movie was controversial and met with a lot of pushback from the Hayes Office but Hitchcock managed to make compromises –giving up one scandalous aspect to allow another to stay in. The movie nevertheless is well known for Janet Leigh's undergarment outfits at separate instances in the film's start. This part of the film certainly did not escape notice to those individuals who create movie posters worldwide. Six of the posters above feature the scantily clad Leigh, which probably proved a selling point for the flick.
Also prominent in the posters is the horror-stricken face of Anthony Perkins upon discovering a body in his hotel's bathroom. The lead-up scene also was a source of controversy with the short takes assembled to give the impression we are seeing nudity. Including Perkins on the posters in this manner certainly would have lulled the audience into believing his character's innocence, fueling one of the movie's twists.
My favorite of these posters is the German one. It is simple and striking with its bold teal color and large Perkins facade. I love that shot of Perkins, and I think this poster uses it to its greatest effect. Which do you like best?
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Dennis, on October 31, 2012 at 12 said:
But we ARE seeing nudity in "Psycho"! Look in the background during the closeup of Marion's hand grabbing the shower curtain right before she keels over. Hitchcock was a sly dude!
silverscreenings, on October 31, 2012 at 8 said:
These are fascinating. Thanks for putting these together. My fave is the German poster.
Daryll Collins, on November 2, 2012 at 4 said:
I would agree that the German poster is best. Nothing revealed and the seed of thought that Norman Bates/Anthony Perkins has nothing to do with the murders. You have to wonder if Psycho was made in the last 20 or so years, could the general public/media could keep their moths closed about Janet Leigh being offed in the first third of the film. I think not…
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CTCR report addresses marriage and the state
The report follows several requests, in recent years, for the CTCR to address the question of whether or to what extent LCMS clergy should continue to serve as agents of the state in officiating marriages and signing civil marriage licenses.
'Church in a messy world': BOD looks back on pandemic year
Kevin Armbrust
The LCMS Board of Directors met Aug. 26 in St. Louis.
Update from LCMS President Harrison about vaccine mandate
Please study this collection of resources, which provides a summary of what we know about the COVID-19 vaccines, their relation to the issue of abortion, and what we can (and cannot) say about these matters from the Synod's perspective.
LCMS President Harrison: Finnish Parliament member faithfully confesses amid opposition
Hear from Dr. Päivi Räsänen, a Lutheran member of the Finnish Parliament who is facing prosecution for writing on the Christian view of marriage.
Harrison calls Japan Lutheran Church to repentance
At its 2021 convention, the Japan Lutheran Church (JLC) made two decisions that have destroyed the scriptural basis for the longstanding relationship of altar and pulpit fellowship between the LCMS and the JLC.
Three-year Bible reading guide updated
The guide is a collaborative project of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, Lutheran Church—Canada and the North American Lutheran Church.
Three-year schedule of daily Bible readings for 2021 to 2023
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod has joined with the Lutheran Church—Canada and the North American Lutheran Church to compile a three-year plan of daily Bible readings and a year-long series of weekly readings on Martin Luther's approach to the Scriptures.
CTCR provides updated vaccine fact sheet
The fact sheet, titled "The LCMS and COVID-19 Vaccines: Facts and Considerations," was first released in January.
Synod provides facts and counsel on COVID-19 vaccines
On Jan. 21, LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison sent an email to all workers on the Synod roster addressing questions and concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines.
COP navigates ongoing impact of COVID-19
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The LCMS Council of Presidents conducted its fourth meeting of 2020 (its third via Zoom video conference) on Nov. 16–18, with discussion of the pandemic's impact on the church dominating the meeting.
Serina accepts call to CTCR
The Rev. Dr. Richard J. Serina Jr., who will serve as associate executive director of the Commission on Theology and Church Relations, replaces the Rev. Dr. Larry Vogel, who retired earlier this year.
CTCR releases Addendum to 'Communion and Covid-19' opinion
The Addendum is titled, "One little word can fell him: Ten reasons to question whether 'online Communion' is 'truly good, right and salutary.'"
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Racism grounds the identity and security of human life not in the God who alone is our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, but in self. Racism is a sin against the First Commandment because it fails to receive other human beings as gifts from God.
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STUART, JOHN TODD, a Representative from Illinois; born near Lexington, Ky., November 10, 1807; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill.; subsequently became a law partner of Abraham Lincoln; major in the Black Hawk War in 1832; member of the State house of representatives 1832-1836; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; member of the State senate 1848-1852; was the unsuccessful Constitutional-Union candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); resumed the practice of law; died in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., November 28, 1885; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Papers: 1829-1886. 2 1/2 inches. In various collections.
Legal documents, 1829-1864 and 1869 (primarily 1820's-1830's), concerning his work as an attorney and in partnership with Abraham Lincoln, Henry E. Dummer, Benjamin S. Edwards, and others. Also includes an account book, 1869-1886, of Stuart, Edwards & Brown. Photographs. Finding aid in repository.
Papers: In Stuart-Hay family papers, 1817-1892. 5 inches.
Includes his correspondence with family members, which gives an excellent picture of Springfield social life 1830-1870; his correspondence with friends and associates contains numerous references to Lincoln before Lincoln's election and after he went to Washington. Scattered items refer to Stuart's congressional years. Finding aid in repository.
Angle, Paul M., and Robert P. Howard, comps. One Hundred Fifty Years of Law: An Account of the Law Office Which John T. Stuart Founded in Springfield, Illinois, a Century and a Half Ago. Springfield, Ill.: Brown, Hay and Stephens, 1928. Reprint, Springfield, Ill.: Brown, Hay, and Stephens, 1978.
Pratt, Harry E. (Harry Edward). The Repudiation of Lincoln's War Policy in 1862: Stuart-Swett Congressional Campaign. Chicago, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1931.


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A man and a woman were jailed for 12 months by Paphos district court on Friday for the theft of 50 rings from a Polis Chrysochous jewellery store last October.
The two, both European citizens, had gone to the shop pretending to be customers. As the 32 year old woman distracted the shopkeeper, the 37 year old man took 50 rings worth an estimated 20,000 euro from a stand, hid them under his T shirt and exited the shop.
They were were arrested in Polis Chrysochous the following day, close to another jewellery shop which police believe they were targeting.


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When they're introducing a new movie, actors often take a moment to pay tribute to the people who helped make it happen — like, you know, their dentists. At least that's what Charlize Theron did at the premiere of her new spy thriller, Atomic Blonde.
"I just want to take a quick moment to thank my dentists," she told a Los Angeles audience as they waited for the film to roll. "I don't even know if they're here, but I just want to say thank you."
Why did the starring actress/producer give a shout-out to her dental team? It seems she trained and fought so hard in the action sequences that she actually cracked two teeth!
"I had severe tooth pain, which I never had in my entire life," Theron told an interviewer from Variety. At first, she thought it was a cavity — but later, she found out it was more serious: One tooth needed a root canal, and the other had to be extracted and replaced with a dental implant — but first, a bone grafting procedure was needed. "I had to put a donor bone in [the jaw] to heal," she noted, "and then I had another surgery to put a metal screw in there."
Although it might sound like the kind of treatment only an action hero would need, bone grafting is now a routine part of many dental implant procedures. The reason is that without a sufficient volume of good-quality bone, implant placement is difficult or impossible. That's because the screw-like implant must be firmly joined with the jawbone, so it can support the replacement tooth.
Fortunately, dentists have a way to help your body build new bone: A relatively small amount of bone material can be placed in the missing tooth's socket in a procedure called bone grafting. This may come from your own body or, more likely, it may be processed bone material from a laboratory. The donor material can be from a human, animal or synthetic source, but because of stringent processing techniques, the material is safe for human use. Once it is put in place your body takes over, using the grafted material as a scaffold on which to build new bone cells. If jawbone volume is insufficient for implants, it can often be restored to a viable point in a few months.
Better yet, when grafting material is placed in the tooth socket immediately after extraction, it can keep most of the bone loss from occurring in the first place, enabling an implant to be placed as soon as possible — even before the end of a movie's shooting schedule.
Will Atomic Blonde prove to be an action-movie classic? Only time will tell. But one thing's for sure: When Charlize Theron walks down the red carpet, she won't have to worry about a gap in her smile.
If you have questions about bone grafting or dental implants, please contact our office or schedule a consultation. You can read more in the Dear Doctor magazine articles "Dental Implant Surgery" and "Immediate Dental Implant."
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You experience a painful toothache that lasts for a few days, but eventually the pain subsides. Since there's no longer any pain, there's no longer anything wrong with the tooth, right?
Maybe not — the toothache may be the result of a decay-induced infection that has developed deep in the pulp of the tooth. The infection inflames both the pulp tissue and the nerves bundled in it (a condition known as pulpitis). Because it occurs in an enclosed space, the pain is even more severe.
Now it's possible for the inflammation to subside and the nerves to heal, which would explain the pain subsiding. But there is another, more likely scenario: the infected pulp tissue can no longer fight the infection and dies. The affected nerves die also, which is why you no longer feel any pain — the dead nerves are no longer transmitting a signal to the brain. The infection, however, is very much alive and continues to advance deeper into the surrounding tissues where it may eventually develop into a painful abscess.
So, how can we determine which of these two scenarios you are actually experiencing? A visit to our office for testing is the surest way to find out. The most common test involves temperature sensation, usually with the application of ice to the affected tooth. If there's no sensation, then that's evidence the nerves in the tooth have died.
If that's the case, it's important then to take steps to stop the infection's advance before it does even more damage. The most likely treatment is a root canal, a procedure that accesses the pulp from the top of the tooth, removes the dead tissue, and then cleans and prepares the root canals for filling. This procedure can usually be performed in our office, but more involved cases may require an endodontist, a specialist in root canals.
In any case, if you experience a severe toothache, please have it examined. And remember — the absence of pain after a toothache doesn't necessarily mean the problem is gone.
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Q: Help in assessing the input mains circuit integrity I've been working on designing a (220-380 VAC) 3/4 wire  phase energy meter and in terms of metrology operation,  things were working very well quite similar in terms of metrology if compared to a commercial unit. Now I'm no expert in mains power electronics circuit design so I opted to integrate an off the shelf AC/DC flyback power supply, which when integrated in the meter worked well in lab conditions. I've followed and implemented the mains Input protection circuit going into PSU which is specified by the PSU manufacturer but to be honest I feel helpless as I have no idea how to calculate/know how and why the values are specified in this stage, I need to be able to know how much energy/ voltage and the where bouts of the circuit operates in a surge, fast transient and ESD situation since I plan on doing a pre-compliance test and one of the tests I'm concerned with is if the input protection fails then I have not backup plan so I would really appreciate if someone would kindly share his insights and knowledge on how to pre-simulate or calculate the values of the input circuit below in order to pass the following test conditions below as well.

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*Schematic of the mains input circuitry with the power Supply

*Test 1

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*Test 2

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*Test 3

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*Some information on the MOV used on each line (230 VAC

My questions :

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*How do you calculate/simulate or choose the correct MOV model/value for the above application to pass the test conditions mentioned above?

*Will the current input stage of the power supply survive the tests mentioned above?

Final Note: I come from an Electronics and Communications background and i have done a reasonable amount of work in low voltage (analog, digital) board designs but I'm no expert in this subject but I'm willing to learn. I know how to simulate how an AC signal going in to a bridge rectifier and analyse the output; you know basic stuff that most of us learned during undergrad, but the (fast transients, etc) on an AC mains situation, I've never worked with such case. I'm having a hard time on how to figure out how to model and simulate the MOV in the simulation programs (LTSpice, Proteus ISIS & TI TINA).

A:
I need to be able to know how much energy/ voltage and the where bouts
of the circuit operates in a surge , fast transient and ESD situation

and

How do you calculate/simulate or choose the correct MOV model/value
for the above application to pass the test conditions mentioned above
?

You need to model the way in which the surges, bursts and ESD are applied to your live and neutral connections. There will be an interface circuit for all three and, these circuits should be locatable on-line. For instance, indirect lightning surge testing is available because I've researched it myself to uncover whether some TVS diodes (that I was planning on using for a particular job) were man-enough to withstand the surges.
So, do some digging and uncover those circuits - they won't be too tricky - you can easily model the waveforms with straight lines ramps of voltage; it doesn't need to be exact - reasonable approximations to the waveforms are good enough but, the important thing to model is the surge/burst/discharge source impedance because this tells you how much current is fed to the protection device when it is protecting.
In my surge example above, I had to deal with surge voltages at a peak of 4,000 volts sourced through a 2 Ω series resistor. In other words, the peak current could be up to 2,000 amps. So, I modelled it and simulated the surge protection circuit and determined how much peak energy I might subject my TVS to. Then I looked at the data sheet for the TVS and worked out whether I had a comfortable enough margin.

if the input protection fails then I have not backup plan

Your only back-up plan is diligence - have you got a comfortable enough margin. I mean; if you don't simulate and get a feel for things then you have no idea whether the protection you fit is anything like suitable so, do the right thing and model each threat in terms of voltage waveform and output impedance and model each protection device to see that you don't exceed the peak energy handling in the data sheet (and add a comfort margin of 1.5).

Will the current Input stage of the Power Supply survive the Tests
mentioned above ?

You can be sure if your modelling and simulation suggest not, then you need to improve things. But, of course, the real test is the lab test. My surge test (EN 61000-4-5) was a pass if that gives you any confidence in things but, I probably spent two solid weeks with a simulator.

A: You have to know the maximum Vrms that the MOV is subject to.
Go to digikey.com pick a MOV that has VAC larger by 20% than Vrms.

When filtering the results in digikey.com, be informed that VAC is the RMS voltage.

See here for example:
https://www.littelfuse.com/~/media/electronics/datasheets/varistors/littelfuse_varistor_ciii_datasheet.pdf.pdf

Take a look here as well:
Varistors in three phase application

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Q: R: Extract and plot confidence intervals from a lmer object using ggplot I am trying to use lmer function from lme4 package to estimate differences between two response curves from a control and treatment responses over time, leaving Subjects as random effect. Here the data:
> df
   Day Subject    Levels   Response
1   10    A001   Control 0.19672131
2   10    A002 Treatment 0.16830515
3   10    A003   Control 0.21355398
4   10    A004   Control 0.18644068
5   10    A005 Treatment 0.17231538
6   10    A007 Treatment 0.18448729
7   11    A001   Control 0.23774081
8   11    A002 Treatment 0.25000000
9   11    A003   Control 0.17288616
10  11    A004   Control 0.25843209
11  11    A005 Treatment 0.29505507
12  11    A007 Treatment 0.27315358
13  12    A001   Control 0.37851189
14  12    A002 Treatment 0.39753941
15  12    A003   Control 0.30925738
16  12    A004   Control 0.45247148
17  12    A005 Treatment 0.37485050
18  12    A007 Treatment 0.41668477
19  13    A001   Control 0.47589286
20  13    A002 Treatment 0.48965316
21  13    A003   Control 0.46696617
22  13    A004   Control 0.50611299
23  13    A005 Treatment 0.41968785
24  13    A007 Treatment 0.51708049
25  14    A001   Control 0.58793970
26  14    A002 Treatment 0.45247189
27  14    A003   Control 0.43121189
28  14    A004   Control 0.56663276
29  14    A005 Treatment 0.37929057
30  14    A007 Treatment 0.46441606
31  15    A001   Control 0.44310684
32  15    A002 Treatment 0.38066676
33  15    A003   Control 0.32576304
34  15    A004   Control 0.39422772
35  15    A005 Treatment 0.28628568
36  15    A007 Treatment 0.34023209
37  16    A001   Control 0.25967359
38  16    A002 Treatment 0.20789686
39  16    A003   Control 0.23629368
40  16    A004   Control 0.22833444
41  16    A005 Treatment 0.24163539
42  16    A007 Treatment 0.21100646
43  17    A001   Control 0.17009653
44  17    A002 Treatment 0.13781610
45  17    A003   Control 0.19149637
46  17    A004   Control 0.21317316
47  17    A005 Treatment 0.17746651
48  17    A007 Treatment 0.15096285
49  18    A001   Control 0.15408115
50  18    A002 Treatment 0.16038546
51  18    A003   Control 0.18361628
52  18    A004   Control 0.18867523
53  18    A005 Treatment 0.20131984
54  18    A007 Treatment 0.19504027
55  19    A001   Control 0.21285064
56  19    A002 Treatment 0.19435679
57  19    A003   Control 0.23979739
58  19    A004   Control 0.24010952
59  19    A005 Treatment 0.20209201
60  19    A007 Treatment 0.25806452
61  20    A001   Control 0.23613019
62  20    A002 Treatment 0.20014232
63  20    A003   Control 0.26122983
64  20    A004   Control 0.26375544
65  20    A005 Treatment 0.17656201
66  20    A007 Treatment 0.22391777
67  21    A001   Control 0.20523904
68  21    A002 Treatment 0.18967355
69  21    A003   Control 0.22878808
70  21    A004   Control 0.26186233
71  21    A005 Treatment 0.18644467
72  21    A007 Treatment 0.18347698
73  22    A001   Control 0.19849361
74  22    A002 Treatment 0.16430202
75  22    A003   Control 0.23331322
76  22    A004   Control 0.25791045
77  22    A005 Treatment 0.18159936
78  22    A007 Treatment 0.17076203
79  23    A001   Control 0.17558492
80  23    A002 Treatment 0.12551814
81  23    A003   Control 0.21406131
82  23    A004   Control 0.22028128
83  23    A005 Treatment 0.17529323
84  23    A007 Treatment 0.14576150
85  24    A001   Control 0.15733775
86  24    A002 Treatment 0.12099877
87  24    A003   Control 0.22833499
88  24    A004   Control 0.15324628
89  24    A005 Treatment 0.15217124
90  24    A007 Treatment 0.09604689

Now I try to fit a 6th order polynomial with a base model with no categorical variables, one to assess the intercept and one to assess the interaction between terms
library(lme4)

model.base=lmer(Response ~ poly(Day, 6, raw=FALSE)+(Day | Subject), df)
model.1=lmer(Response ~ poly(Day, 6, raw=FALSE)+Levels+(Day | Subject), df)
model.2=lmer(Response ~ poly(Day, 6, raw=FALSE)*Levels+(Day | Subject), df)

Then I use anova function to assess the model improvement
> anova(model.base,model.1,model.2)
refitting model(s) with ML (instead of REML)
Data: df
Models:
model.base: Response ~ poly(Day, 6, raw = FALSE) + (Day | Subject)
model.1: Response ~ poly(Day, 6, raw = FALSE) + Levels + (Day | Subject)
model.2: Response ~ poly(Day, 6, raw = FALSE) * Levels + (Day | Subject)
           Df     AIC     BIC logLik deviance   Chisq Chi Df Pr(>Chisq)
model.base 11 -302.85 -275.35 162.42  -324.85
model.1    12 -309.60 -279.61 166.80  -333.60  8.7579      1   0.003083 **
model.2    18 -313.00 -268.00 174.50  -349.00 15.3978      6   0.017378 *
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Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

and now my question is how can I plot the fitted data from the model and their confidence interval around the fitted lines similar to this example in ggplot
ggplot(df, aes(Day, Response, color = Levels)) +
  geom_point()+
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(seq(10,26,2)), limits = c(9.5,26.5))+
  stat_smooth(method="lm", se=TRUE,
              formula=y ~ poly(x, 6, raw=FALSE))

So far I have tried confint, effects and lsmeans packages to extract the confidence intervals, being unsuccessful.
Do you have any idea how this could be done?

A: The plot shows the prediction interval when only varying poly(x, 6, raw = FALSE). If you want to replicate this using lme4 you can use the following (I use the sleepstudy data for reproducabilaty).
library(lme4)
library(merTools)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

df_new <- sleepstudy %>% filter(Subject %in% c(309, 332))
fit <- lmer(Reaction ~ Days + ( 1 | Subject), sleepstudy)
pred <- cbind(df_new, predictInterval(fit, df_new))

ggplot(pred) +
  geom_line(aes(Days, fit, fill = Subject)) +
  geom_ribbon(aes(Days, ymin = lwr, ymax = upr, fill = Subject), alpha = .2) +
  geom_point(aes(Days, y = Reaction, color = Subject))

Note that these datapoints are the same as that was trained on. You could create new datapoints by altering only the Days (or in your case Day) variable.


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I'm okay after the crash on Friday. I don't think Cody had much control after we got together.
Thanks Rose for racing with us! It's been an honor to race with you and be able to be out there while you game with your grand nephew, I think that's awesome.
Good to see you are on decent terms still after the wreck Ell. I don't think it was intentional.
Good sportsmanship, Elliott. Proud of you for not taking that crash personally. Good luck out there tonight everyone.
Great news guys, I will be attending the race tonight. Ell, Jess n sis, you guys get the leadership duties off this time. Tomorrow's race however, I may not be able to attend..
Once again, we didn't have a winner from the KKE but I do have shout outs for top drivers: Todd, Kali, Chris S. and Hellz. Also Sheela, be a little more careful getting off the track next time, that was a unnecessary crash that took out the top drivers. I'm not mad but don't do it again. Thank you.
See you guys tomorrow night at Bristol.
had a hard time getting off track with all that traffic! sorry about that everyone it won't happen again!!
The truck race was a real mess too. Only like 13 drivers finished?
Heard about the truck race. What a mess at the end of that thing but then that's the nature of short track runs.
Typical Bristol LoL and I also don't blame Cody for being pissed tonight. Kev totally spun out in front of him and took his chance of winning away.
I don't blame him for being upset either! It really did look intentional, Cody didn't even hit him to start that up.
Great race last night at Darlington last night everyone. We didn't have a winner from KKE but I do have shout outs: Lemmy, Pidgey, Sheela and Magika.
See you guys tonight at Richmond.
Thanks for the shout out king dad. I just couldn't quite catch the leader.
Some races are like that mate. Vladie had it goin on out there Friday night good for the former champer.
I really need to turn my luck around out there. Running out of time!
Ya will Auntie Jess just go strong from now on ya never know.
He sure did. Some days you're just a tad bit short.
Kudos to the race winner Feely. Kept it close but not close enough mates.
We didn't have a winner in KKE Friday night but I do have shout outs for top 10 drivers: Chris S., Elliott, Danny and Pooks.
See you guys Saturday night for the truck race in Dover. 8 races left after Saturday concludes in trucks, eye on the prize.
That prize be mine, biatches. I can pull this off.
Nice truck race tonight guys. Congrats to Mikey bro on his 2nd win of the year, also shout outs for Magika, Jessica, Paul and Tay Tay.
See you guys Friday night at Dover and Saturday night for trucks at Talladega.
The race for the lead is becoming very interesting.. it usually isn't this close this late..
It's been really interesting! Also noticed that some drivers are really inconsistent this year.
No crap. Two or three people have missed 8 races this year, that's really strange.
I really should of had a win Friday night or at least a top 5. I was there!