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Hollywood's GameStop blitz: Brett Ratner to produce movie about WallStreetBets founder
A GameStop store in St. Louis. Several movies are in the works about the stock market mania and the people behind it.
(Jeff Roberson / Associated Press)
By Ryan FaughnderStaff Writer
Feb. 4, 2021 2:01 PM PT
GameStop's stock may be down 90% from its 52-week high last week, but Hollywood's desire to bet on movies about recent market mania and the people behind it is reaching new highs.
RatPac Entertainment, the production company of filmmaker Brett Ratner, has acquired the rights to make a movie based on the life of Jaime Rogozinski, founder of the online WallStreetBets forum credited with stoking a rise in stocks including the struggling video game retailer GameStop and cinema chain AMC Entertainment.
Ratner, known for movies including "Rush Hour," was in 2017 accused by multiple women of sexual harassment or misconduct in a Los Angeles Times report detailing the claims.
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Ratner "categorically" denied the women's accounts. He declined to comment for this story through a representative.
Financial terms were not disclosed for the deal, which also includes television, documentary and podcasts to be financed by RatPac, as well as the rights to Rogozinski's book, "WallStreetBets: How Boomers Made the World's Biggest Casino for Millennials," published in January 2020.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the deal.
Rogozinski, a 39-year-old fintech worker based in Mexico City, launched WallStreetBets in 2012 but was pushed out as a moderator of its Reddit forum last year.
The often vulgar band of meme-sharing day traders became famous after promoting and piling into GameStop's stock in an effort to squeeze hedge funds that had shorted the money-losing bricks-and-mortar retailer. The stock flew to a peak of $483 a share, up more than 1,700% from the beginning of the year. GameStop on Thursday fell $38.91, or 42%, to $53.50.
Shares of AMC and Blackberry also soared last week, though they too subsequently dropped.
Interest in Rogozinski's story reached a point where he was "bombarded" with inquiries from people wanting to do film, television and documentary deals, including amateurs as well as big names, Rogozinski said in an interview.
"If this had been the only thing taking place in my life, I would've been a little star-struck," said Rogozinski, who said he has traded texts with YouTube phenom Logan Paul during the craze. "But I became very quickly immune to it."
Ratner's company is the latest Hollywood player looking to dramatize the Wall Street shakeup, which has been portrayed as a David-and-Goliath story in which retail traders at least momentarily got the better of institutional investors. Netflix has been in talks with "The Hurt Locker" writer-producer Mark Boal to develop a GameStop project. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios purchased the rights to a forthcoming Ben Mezrich book about the saga.
RatPac Entertainment had a first-look deal with movie studio Warner Bros., which was ended in November 2017 after The Times published the accounts of six women who made allegations against Ratner. The women accused Ratner of a range of harassment and misconduct that allegedly took place in private homes, on movie sets or at industry events, The Times reported.
Another company — RatPac-Dune Entertainment, started by Ratner, Australian billionaire James Packer and later Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — had a financing deal with Warner Bros. that the studio declined to renew in 2018.
Rogozinski said he had no qualms about working with Ratner and cited his track record as a successful filmmaker as a major reason for doing the deal. The pact was hashed out quickly, over about three days, Rogozinski said.
"I don't know nearly enough to form an opinion," Rogozinski said of the accusations against Ratner. "All I know is that [Ratner has] been incredibly good at what he's done."
As detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal profile, Rogozinski was blasted by some members of the WallStreetBets forum when he began to purge some offensive content that permeated the feeds, which has included homophobic slurs and racist language. His actions, as well as his promotion of his book, spawned a heavy backlash that led to him being removed as a moderator. He also told the Journal he'd been recently attacked online by angry investors.
"I'm not new to being painted in a certain way," he told The Times. "I've had a lot of things lobbed my way. Some are true, some are false, some are misleading. I'm not as upset about it as someone who may not have been through it before would be."
Rogozinski said he expects the movie to take a more expansive view of dynamics that led to the WallStreetBets revolt, rather than focusing on just the GameStop story. He sees parallels with finance movies including "The Big Short," "Margin Call" and the Enron documentary "The Smartest Men in the Room," which highlighted systemic problems with the financial system.
"It's not a movie about me; it's about this movement, this phenomenon," he said. "What we're seeing on Wall Street now is an important movement. They're exposing the weaknesses in the system. It was clearly never built to withstand retail traders coming in en masse. ... There have been little cracks before, but this one has put it front and center. People need to realize the integrity of the system needs to be updated."
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Ryan Faughnder is a film business reporter for the Los Angeles Times' Company Town and the host of the entertainment business newsletter The Wide Shot. Faughnder writes about Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Co., and has covered such major stories as the Sony hack. An alumnus of USC's Annenberg School and UC Santa Barbara, he previously wrote for the Los Angeles Business Journal and Bloomberg News.
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Seagate touts fastest desktop drive and slimmest 2TB backup drive
The LaCie 1TB Chromé desktop drive can ingest two hours of 4K video in just over one minute
Lucas Mearian (Computerworld (US)) 05 January, 2016 19:01
Seagate and its LaCie subsidiary today announced at CES a new line of backup hard drives, in both desktop and mobile form factors, that sport up to 8TB of capacity.
Seagate's new Backup Plus Ultra Slim is the company's thinnest mobile backup hard drive to date, offering either 1TB or 2TB of capacity in a 9.6mm (3/8-in) thick aluminum case.
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Seagate's LaCie subsidiary also announced the 1TB Chromé desktop drive, which is based on solid-state drive (SSD) technology, and features USB 3.1 Gen 2 technology (up to 10Gbps throughput), and USB-C connectivity. The drive is also compatible with standard USB 3.0 (Type-A) ports, thanks to the included adapter cable.
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Avian Influenza Notice - updated September 6, 2022
The Avian Influenza Risk Level in Alberta is still RED.
Alberta currently has several municipalities experiencing avian influenza outbreaks in poultry operations. This includes Strathcona County.
There is an extremely low risk to human health and no risk to food safety. The disease can be spread to farmed flocks during wild bird migratory season. Wild birds, especially waterfowl, are natural reservoirs of influenza viruses. They are not normally affected by the disease, but can still transmit it to domestic birds.
What should you do if you suspect your flock may have HPAI?
Contact your flock veterinarian and/or
The Office of the Chief Provincial Veterinarian (OCPV): 1-780-427-3448
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is managed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Alberta Agriculture Forestry and Rural Economic Development. HPAI is a reportable disease, so if you suspect or confirm a case in your flock, you must report it to the provincial and federal authorities.
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This month, Orszag has been trying to wield a different sort of influence around Washington. The avid runner lauched the OMB Pedometer Challenge, an effort to help his co-workers in the federal government burn off extra calories. Federal employees who volunteer to wear pedometers and out-step the OMB director have a chance to win prizes, including free lunches and a "happy healthy hour" for the winning team. "When you measure something and have a competition surrounding it," Orszag explained in a White House video, "it creates a strong incentive to do more of it." Better health, he added, may be the "ultimate prize."


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Milo is doing his homework as sloppily as possible and drawing outside of the lines.
Nic: "Come on, Milo you can do better than that. You draw like a 3 year old kid."
Milo: "That's just my style."
Felix as we are driving on the highway: "The other cars are going slower than us because they don't know where their hyper speed button is, right mom?"
Milo: "At school Emma is always following me because she is in love with me."
Nic: "Aww that's sweet."
Milo: "No, its not! She loves me."
Nic: "Yes, what's wrong with that?"
Milo: "But she is way too young to get married!"
Nic after carrying Felix's motorcycle toy for a few minutes: "Felix, can you please hold your own toy."
Felix: "But I look awesome without holding anything though."
Kids Chats Spring 2016
Milo's reading is getting better by the day, but sometimes it is still hard for him to grasp the meaning of what he reads while he is focusing so hard on pronouncing letters. Even after he has "read" a sentence, he sometimes asks for me to read it again so that he can understand the thing as a whole. Well, the other day he definitely got the meaning of what he read when this happened:
Milo reads about sharks. The book says: "About ten people get killed by sharks every year. But every year people kill thousands of sharks." Milo immediately breaks down sobbing all over the book and crying hysterically about the poor sharks.
After kids going "mom", "mom", "mom" every two minutes for hours on end, I ask of them: "Guys, can you just for 5 minutes find something to do by yourself and don't constantly say mommy mommy mommy.
Milo: "Okay, Nicola."
Milo and me having a discussion about a dinosaur movie:
Milo: "Mom, there are no real dinosaurs, right?"
Nic: "There used to be real dinosaurs, but not anymore."
Milo: "But the dinosaurs in the movie are not real dinosaurs, right?"
Nic: "There were real dinosaurs a long time ago, but the ones in the movie are not really real."
Milo: "I know that, the real ones are just featured in the movie. Wait, how do I know what featured means?"
Felix hears the echo of his yelling: "Did you hear that guys? My mouth is somewhere else."
Milo Chats Winter 2015
Hi guys, what's up. Anybody still here? I know it's been awfully quiet on this blog lately and that's mainly because you know why. Time. Who has time anymore for this stuff? Actually, it's mostly because I have successfully met my goal last year to relax more and do less. Instead of doing home projects, I've drastically upped my TV watching and book reading and going out going. That was a nice change, but this year I'm ready to turn the creative juices back on and hopefully get a good mix of everything going. For a start, here are some of the conversations you've missed:
The other day I discovered my first white hair and showed it to Milo. His first immediate reaction: "I'll be really sad when you die." Later on: "Can I see your old hair again?"
One night I was trying to motivate the kids to put their PJs on as fast as possible so that we would have more time to read. Usually that works by making it a race. So I started putting my PJs on and said to Milo: "Come on, Milo, faster or I'm gonna win."
Milo: "It's not a race mom."
Me: "Really? But what if it is a race and I'm winning?"
Milo: "But it's not a race."
Me: "How do you know it's not a race?" (Fully expecting to win this argument)
Milo: "Well, because you didn't say ready-set-go and started without me." (Can't argue with that)
One night while doing homework, Milo decided that he could connect all the individual letters in a word to each other, so he was practically spontaneously writing in cursive. Lincoln said:" Wow, Milo, how did you learn that? You are writing in cursive, that's a dying form of writing."
Later on Felix asked Milo what he was writing and Milo replied: "This is how the old people write before they are almost dead."
Even later Milo asked me: "Mommy, can you show me how to write a dead b again."
So, Felix's language brain area must have just expanded exponentially, because all of a sudden he is talking in full sentences and is now an official contributor to this popular blog category.
Felix sees a QR code and asks: "Is this minecraft?"
Felix sees a little duckling: "Aww, so cute!" Then he sees two ducklings: "Aww, two so cutes."
Milo comes in from school: "Mom, you have to come out and see this. Felix is leaking chicken nuggets out of his mouth." What I did see when I looked, was a Felix covered in his vomit.
Milo Chats July 2014
Holy crap, it's been a while since anyone's been seen on this lonely old blog. Aside from busy life, I have been trying to be more lazy on my evenings and have taken on reading books again and going to bed early. Not such a bad thing I have to say. But every now and then I should still try to throw in a few of these shorties. Here is an example of Milo's logic.
"Mommy, Felix wants to take my money, but I don't want him to have it because he will put it in his mouth and die. And that would be sad, then we wouldn't have any baby anymore. Like my friend, he doesn't have any baby brothers. Maybe they all died."
After I explained to him that sometimes people stop making babies and babies all grow up to be big kids he suggested: "So maybe when Felix is 10 you can put him back in your belly and have a big baby."
Milo Chats Spring 2014
Hello again. As Milo is approaching the big 4, his language skills and reasoning improves drastically, so these gems are getting rarer and are replaced with amazingly logical and knowledgeable statements. We'll get to those too. In the mean time, here are some of the recent out takes:
Imagine this with Milo singing in the bath tub: "I don't have a car wash. But I will. Have one. I will have a car wash. Yahoo."
Nic: "Milo, don't pull that shower hose out of the wall."
Milo: "But please can I do it? I will say sorry."
Milo: "This is my pillow store."
Linc" "How much does this pillow cost?"
Milo: "5 million Dollars."
Linc: "I don't have that much money. How much is the other one?"
Milo: "This one costs 1 inches."
Milo Chats January 2014
Apparently this winter's theme was getting quantities figured out and little dude is developing some attitude. Enjoy these:
Milo: "Mommy, we only have threety-three minutes."
Milo: "Tony stark has a lot of money. But I have a lot of money too. I even have a lotter than him. A million and ten."
Milo: "I have 96 toys. No, I even have 5, because that's a lot."
Milo: "I have a lotter yogurt than you."
Milo: "I have dark eyes because I can see in the dark."
Milo pretending not to hear me.
Linc: "Milo, did you just hear what Mommy said?"
Milo: "Yes."
Linc: "What did she say?"
Milo: "I just know what she said, just trust me."


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As the story escalated Wednesday evening, Kasa and I spoke over the phone. "Every team asked, 'Do you have a girlfriend?' 'Do you have a wife?' 'Do you have children?' " he said. "Maybe a couple guys kinda joked at the fact of, like, 'What's your situation with girls?' But it was kind of a joke. I did not feel uncomfortable."
Kasa said he wasn't certain which teams' representatives asked those questions. He said he was most concerned that his remarks were being "blown way out of proportion," adding, "I really just kind of want to squash it and move on."
But you can be sure that the NFL and the NFLPA will try to get the names of those teams from Kasa, and once they do, they should significantly fine any team that engaged in that kind of questioning. If it ends up being all 32 teams, so be it.
"Like all employers, our teams are expected to follow applicable federal, state and local employment laws," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello e-mailed. "It is league policy to neither consider nor inquire about sexual orientation in the hiring process. In addition, there are specific protections in our collective bargaining agreement with the players that prohibit discrimination against any player, including on the basis of sexual orientation.
"We will look into the report on the questioning of Nick Kasa at the Scouting Combine," Aiello continued. "Any team or employee that inquires about impermissible subjects or makes an employment decision based on such factors is subject to league discipline."
DeMaurice Smith, the NFLPA executive director, couldn't have said it better himself.
"I know that the NFL agrees that these types of questions violate the law, our CBA (collective bargaining agreement) and player rights," Smith said in an e-mailed statement. "I hope that they will seek out information as to what teams have engaged in this type of discrimination and we should then discuss appropriate discipline."
It appears that NFL teams are ultra-concerned about the sexuality of their prospective draft choices this year in the wake of the Manti Te'o fake dead girlfriend hoax. It's no secret that observers have wondered if Te'o is gay; Katie Couric asked exactly that on her TV show last month. He said he is not. For Couric to ask is fine; she isn't a prospective employer of Te'o's. NFL teams are another story entirely.
It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that some in the NFL are unaware of what the rest of the nation is up to. The Kasa story opens a window into a league that looks to be outdated, close-minded and intolerant -- just as the nation is becoming less so by the day.


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Man shot dead in West Belfast
The victim is believed to have been shot in the chest in front of children, in a republic area of west Belfast
14 February 2018, 8:44am
A man in his late 20s has been shot dead in a republic area of west Belfast.
Raymond Johnston was shot in the chest with a shotgun shortly before 20:00 GMT on Tuesday.
The victim was fatally injured in a shotgun blast at a house on the Poleglass estate.
It is believed the man was shot in the chest as he opened the door of the property at around 8pm, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. He is believed to have been shot in front of two children.
Local councillor Brian Headon of the SDLP said the entire community was in total shock over the murder. Councillor Headon said: "These are scenes that we thought we had left far behind us."
He continued: "Those responsible for this monstrous criminal act must be caught and they must be brought to justice. There is no room in this city or in this society for those intent on murder and mayhem and who will commit the most heinous crimes.
"I'm calling on anyone with information to please come forward to police. These thugs cannot be allowed to bully this strong community into silence. They cannot dominate us, we cannot let them."
Tim Attwood, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor, said the family and residents had been left "paralysed with fear".
"Those who think they can take the lives of others into their own hands are wrong," he added.
Sinn Féin councillor Stephen Magennis said people in the area were "stunned and outraged" by the "brutal killing".
"I have spoken to some of the victim's family and friends and they are obviously devastated and in a state of shock," he added.
"There can be absolutely no justification for this murder which was carried out in the most brutal fashion."
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The Witcher game series has been one of the most critically acclaimed franchises in recent years. Its developer, CDProjekt RED, seems to have set up to bring quality back to the role-playing genre. They took 4 long years to make the last part of the Witcher trilogy, and this continuation of their previous hit, Witcher 2: The Assassins of Kings, is totally worth it.
Witcher 3 is fashionably open-world, meaning that the playing, controlling the titular Witcher, Geralt, is free to explore several large areas of the fantasy world. No, it is not just one big map, but several, yet the game can still be considered open-world due to the size and scale of every region. Wherever you go, you will find new sights to see and things to do. Witcher 3 has been cured from the plague of open-world games - boring content. its quests are well-written, diverse and not repetitive, unlike some of the most praised examples of the genre like Skyrim. Every monster-slaying contract (in the usual Witcher fashion) is unique and requires almost artistic approach. Flexible and abundant character development system helps you make the witcher you need, from magic specialist to swordplay master. Action mechanics have been updated, following fan complaints, and now combat feels fluid and satisfactory.
The game is heavily story-driven, which is reflected in almost every quest being connected to the story and the characters, at the same time being completely optional. However, if you want, you can forget all about the story and go about discovering new places on the map, sailing, hunting, picking herbs, playing cards or becoming the fist-fighting champion. The amount and the quality of content in the game is so stunning, no comparison can be made to any recent games.
The main quests and the story is typically brilliant. CDProjekt once again delivers clever dialogue, compelling characters and the atmosphere which is spot on when you compare it to the source material. The characters are fully voiced, the scale of events is epic, and the twists and turns will leave no one bored. it would be a crime to reveal the details, as one must try it to enjoy it.
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To conclude, it's only fitting to say that if you like good role-playing games, you not just should buy Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, but you downright must do it.


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\section{Introduction}

The internal structure of neutron stars (NSs) is one of the most enigmatic subjects of nuclear astrophysics. The latest observation of the neutron-star merger  --  associated with gravitational wave  detection by Advanced LIGO/Virgo -- in August 2017 revealed details on the mass and radius of neutron star determination.
The event is known as
GW170817 \cite{TheLIGOScientific:2017qsa}.
The estimations coming from this event have imposed constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter by simultaneous determination of mass and radius of the newly born star. However, precise mass measurements without any information about stellar radius come from rotating neutron stars.
A neutron star of mass $1.97 \pm 0.04 ~M_\odot$ (PSR J1614-2230) \cite{Demorest:2010bx} and $2.01 \pm 0.04
~M_\odot$ (PSR J0348-0432) \cite{Antoniadis:2013pzd} has been reported in a binary system with a white dwarf.
In 2018, a pulsar with mass $2.27 \pm 0.17 ~M_\odot$ (PSR J2215-5135) was identified using the Fermi Large Area
Telescope (Fermi LAT) by spectral line analysis \cite{Linares:2018ppq}.
A feasible way to obtain maximum masses of neutron stars larger than two solar masses is to retain
befittingly stiff EOS.
However, the typical stiff EOS makes stars less compact
\cite{Oertel:2016bki}
which would be in contradiction to the radius estimation coming from GW170817. The typical soft EOS gives a relatively smaller radius but may never reach a mass above 2 $M_\odot$.
In order to reconcile those two opposite tendencies, we propose a model giving an EOS that is soft at low
densities (slightly above $n_0$) and stiff at higher densities relevant to the inner part of the NS core.
{This may be achieved by the standard relativistic mean field (RMF) model, which includes only four
meson fields ($\sigma, \omega, \rho, \delta$) with Yukawa coupling to nucleons, extended with proper meson-meson interaction.
The RMF model with such crossing terms for mesons was proposed in recent decades. For instance, the vector-scalar crossing term -- without $\delta$ meson -- was considered in Ref.~\cite{Mueller:1996pm}. The model with
 $\delta$ meson and vector-vector crossing term was analyzed in Ref.~\cite{Bunta:2004ej}.}
In this paper, we investigate the neutron star properties in the framework of such a model, which includes the scalar-scalar meson crossing term, which means $\sigma$ to $\delta$ meson coupling. Modification of this type was recently proposed and analyzed in the context of nuclear symmetry energy properties (see Refs.~\cite{Zabari:2019ukk,Zabari:2019clk}).
The inclusion of such types of interactions leads to supersoft symmetry energy behavior and its slope values that are consistent with most recent studies of nuclear matter properties. In this work, we show results for the neutron stars that utterly conform to the mass and radius constraints coming from not only LIGO/Virgo, but also from the recent results of the NICER observatory.

\section{Model}
The base of the RMF theory gives an adequate Lagrangian, which includes nucleons interacting through the exchange of four mesons: two isoscalar mesons,
 $\sigma$ and $\omega$ and two isovector mesons, $\rho$ and $\delta$.
In this work, we use the Lagrangian already proposed in Ref.~\cite{Kubis:1997ew}, but it is also enriched with yet another kind of meson-meson interaction, i.e. the
 $\sigma$-$\delta$ meson crossing term \cite{Zabari:2019ukk}.
Thus, the Lagrangian density $\mathcal{L}$ for nucleon and meson fields is the following
\begin{widetext}
\begin{align} \label{lagrangian}
\begin{split}
\mathcal{L}& =
\frac{1}{2}\left(\partial_\mu\sigma\partial^\mu\sigma-m_\sigma^2\sigma^2\right) -
\frac{1}{4}\left(\partial_\mu\omega_\nu-\partial_\nu\omega_\mu\right)\left(\partial^\mu\omega^\nu-\partial^\nu\omega^\mu\right)+\frac{1}{2}m_\omega^2\omega_\mu\omega^\mu  -
\frac{1}{4}\left(\partial_\mu{\vec{\rho}}_\nu-\partial_\nu{\vec{\rho}}_\mu\right)\left(\partial^\mu{\vec{\rho}}^\nu-\partial^\nu{\vec{\rho}}^\mu\right)+ \frac{1}{2}m_\rho^2{\vec{\rho}}_\mu{\vec{\rho}}^\mu
\\
 &+\frac{1}{2}\partial_\mu\vec{\delta}\partial^\mu\vec{\delta}-\frac{1}{2}m_\delta^2{\vec{\delta}}^2+\bar{\psi}\left(i\partial_\mu\gamma^\mu-m\right)\psi+g_\sigma\sigma\bar{\psi}\psi -g_\omega\omega_\mu\bar{\psi}\gamma^\mu\psi - \frac{1}{2}g_{\rho}\vec{\rho}_{\mu}\bar{\psi}\gamma^\mu\vec{\tau}\psi+g_\delta\vec{\delta}\bar{\psi}\vec{\tau}\psi-U(\sigma) +{\cal L}_{\sigma \delta},
\end{split}
\end{align}
\end{widetext}
where $m$ is the nucleon mass, $m_i$ are meson masses and $g_i$ are coupling constants for nucleons to
the corresponding mesons: $i\!=\!\sigma, \omega, \rho$ and $\delta$
respectively. The $U(\sigma)$ is the self-interaction of the $\sigma$ meson.
Due to the inclusion of
 $\sigma$-$\delta$ meson interaction, the corresponding part $ {\cal L}_{\sigma \delta}$ is added to the Lagrangian.
It represents the $\sigma\textrm{-}\delta$ interaction and takes the form
\begin{equation}
  {\cal L}_{\sigma \delta} = -\tilde{g}_{\alpha} \sigma^{\alpha} \vec{\delta}^2
  \label{cross}
\end{equation}
where the $\alpha$ exponent distinguishes between two types of meson-meson interactions: $\alpha=1$ for linear and $\alpha=2$ for
quadratic ones,
where $\delta$ denotes the mean value of the third component of the  $\vec{\delta} $ field.
In the framework of RMF, for the considered model, there are seven free model parameters represented by the
following coupling constants: four constants for nucleon-meson couplings $C_i = g_i/m_i ~ i=\sigma, \omega, \rho, \delta$,
 two constants $b, c$ for $\sigma$ meson self-interaction (in potential $U(\sigma)$), and one for the $\sigma$-$\delta$ crossing term
  $\tilde{g}_\alpha$.
In the model parametrization, it is more convenient to use
$g_\alpha = \displaystyle\frac{\tilde{g}_\alpha}{4 g_\sigma^\alpha g_\delta^2}$ instead of $\tilde{g}_\alpha$.
Then, the additional contribution to the total energy density of matter coming from the $\sigma$-$\delta$ crossing term
is
\begin{equation}
\epsilon_{\sigma \delta} = g_\alpha \sigma^\alpha \delta^2.
\label{cross-term}
\end{equation}
 For more details, we refer to Ref.~\cite{Zabari:2019ukk}.
 The isoscalar sector consists of $C_\sigma$, $C_\omega$, $b$, and $c$ coupling constants, which values are attained
 to reproduce the symmetric nuclear matter. In our calculations, we adopt the saturation point density
  $n_0 = 0.16 ~\rm fm^{-3}$, the binding energy $B=-16 ~\rm  MeV$ and the compressibility $K(n_0)=230 ~\rm MeV$.

 {The presence of scalar mesons $\sigma $ and $\delta$ modifies the effective nucleon mass in the following way:
  \begin{align}
 \label{meff-proton}
m_p^\ast=m-g_\sigma\bar{\sigma}-g_\delta{\bar{\delta}}_3 ,\\
\label{meff-neutron}
m_n^\ast=m-g_\sigma\bar{\sigma}+g_\delta{\bar{\delta}}_3 .
\end{align}
For symmetric matter, they are equal to each other $m^* \equiv  m_p^*=m_n^*$ as the $\delta$ mean field is zero.
Experiments give some estimation of the effective nucleon mass at the saturation point $m^*(n_0)$. The commonly accepted value, coming from
isoscalar giant quadrupole resonances, is $m^*(n_0)/m = 0.8 \pm 0.1$,  \cite{Li:2018lpy}. Our model predicts the effective nucleon mass at $n_0$ to be 0.73, which is still a reasonable value.
One must remember that the effective masses expressed by Eqs.~(\ref{meff-proton} and \ref{meff-neutron}) are the Dirac masses and that they differ slightly from the other definitions of effective masses (nonrelativistic ones) usually used to fit the experimental data.}

 The stiffness of the EOS is mainly controlled by the constant $C_\sigma$. Here we adopt it to be $11 ~\rm fm^2$
 which gives sufficiently stiff EOS that is compatible with observations of PSR J2215-5135 and PSR J0740-6620.

 { The setting of couplings in the isovector sector,  $C_\rho$, $C_\delta$, and $g_\alpha$ requires deeper discussion.
 These three constants are fitted to two observables: the symmetry energy
 at saturation $S_2(n_0) = 30$ MeV and the symmetry energy slope
 $L= 3n_0 \frac{dS_2}{dn}|_{n_0}$. Thus, one of them remains free.
 Recent experimental data suggest a rather low slope in the range between
 40 and 80 MeV. Such low values are obtained thanks to the introduction of the $\sigma$-$\delta$ crossing term Eq. (\ref{cross}).
 Without the crossing term, the value of slope $L$ is greater than 90 MeV, which was already noted in Ref.~
 \cite{Liu:2001iz}. The
 required lower values of $L$ may be achieved if and only if ${g}_\alpha$ takes negative values.
  The value of $g_\alpha$ cannot be too large;
 typically, it should be at the order of $10^{-3}$ (for both linear and quadratic types of coupling); otherwise one obtains
 the effective mass with pathological behavior (discontinuities or negative mass). In this work, we focus on the quadratic
 model ($\alpha=2$). Conclusively, we adopt $g_2=-0.004$. Such
 setting of $\sigma$-$\delta$ coupling allows for control of the slope $L$ in the range between 40 and 80 MeV by changing
 the other constant from the isovector sector, i.e.
 $C_\delta$. To summarize, we obtained a family of models with different symmetry energy slopes, controlled by the $C_\delta$  coupling constant, maneuvering its values from 1 to 3.8 $\rm fm^2$.

The symmetry energy as a function of density for these models is shown in Fig.~\ref{Esymplot}. The value of the slope $L$ at the saturation point has dramatic consequences for symmetry energy behavior at higher densities. The symmetry energy bends strongly and may even become negative. Such negative values of $S_2$ lead to instability of charge fluctuations
\cite{Kubis:2006kb} and finally result in the phase separation. The phase transition and the construction of the two-phase system are presented in detail in the next section.}
 %
\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{Esym.pdf}
\caption{Symmetry energy as a function of density for models with different $L$.}
\label{Esymplot}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

 \section{Phase separation}

As mentioned above, we use the quadratic model, as it was found that
 in this model family with quadratic coupling, the phase transition at the low-density region emerges and leads to
 the softening of the EOS, which is a characteristic property of phase heterogeneity.
 {The EOS softening is already signaled by the flattening of the density dependence of the energy per baryon,
 which is seen in Fig.~\ref{enparplot}}.
 %
\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{enpar.pdf}
\caption{Energy per baryon in dense matter for different models. Thick and thin black lines correspond to matter in $\beta$-equilibrium and pure neutron matter, respectively. The gray line represents the symmetric matter.}
\label{enparplot}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
  For a given nuclear model, we build the EOS of nuclear matter in $\beta$-equilibrium. The chemical potentials of each
 particle species satisfy the $\beta$-equilibrium equality
\begin{equation}
\mu_e = \mu_\mu = \mu_n -\mu_p ,
\end{equation}
where $n$, $p$, $e$, and $\mu$ stand for neutrons, protons, electrons and muons respectively.
 In order to control the slope value $L$, we manipulate the constant
 $C_\delta$ while $g_\alpha$  is fixed as it is shown in Table~\ref{tab-ns}
- the higher the $C_\delta$ the lower value of the slope.
 %
\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{phase-coex35.pdf}
\caption{
Phase coexistence diagram for the model with quadratic interaction and $C_\delta^2 = 3.5~ \rm fm^2$.
 The thick line is the binodal curve with marked points being in chemical and mechanical equilibrium. The gray area denotes unstable phases -- the spinodal region.}
\label{pt35}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
 Analysis reveals the occurrence of phase transition for high enough $C_\delta$.
Indeed, such models appear to have negative values of incompressibility $K_\mu$, which signals a split into a two-phase system for the densities where $K_\mu<0$ emerges. The quantity
\begin{equation}
  K_\mu = \left( \frac{\partial P}{\partial n} \right) _\mu
\end{equation}
represents incompressibility under constant chemical potential of charge ($\mu \equiv \mu_e =\mu_\mu$).
It is the proper quantity to determine the region where the system ceases to be stable against charge
fluctuations and must split into two phases with opposite charge densities
  \cite{Kubis:2006kb}.
 The coexistence of those two phases occurs when their pressures and chemical potentials for particles being present in both phases are equal to each other:
\begin{eqnarray}
  P(n^I,x^I) &= &P(n^{II},x^{II}) \nonumber \\
  \mu_i(n^I,x^I)& =& \mu_i(n^{II},x^{II})~~~,~i=n,p,e.
 \label{gibbs}
\end{eqnarray}
These equations, called Gibbs conditions, ensure the mechanical and chemical equilibrium between phases. They lead to what is called Gibbs construction, which is shown on the proton fraction versus density diagram,
Fig.~\ref{pt35}.
 The spinodal region, marked with a gray area, represents the points where incompressibility is negative.
 No stable phase arises therein. The Gibbs conditions Eqs.~(\ref{gibbs})
 are fulfilled for pairs of points for which $\mu_p$ and $\mu_n$-contours intersect
on the $n\!-\!x$ space.
These points form the curve called the binodal line.
In Fig.\ref{pt35}, the line labeled $x_{neutr}$ represents the locally neutral phase.
 Above that line, all phases are positive ($n_q>0$); below it, they are negative ($n_q<0$).
Global charge neutrality assures that only points for phases with opposite charge may coexist in the real system.
Those two phases have different proton abundances, $x^I$ and $x^{II}$ as shown in Fig.~\ref{xplots}. Phase I always has a smaller proton fraction and is more dilute $n^I < n^{II}$. With increasing mean density of the system, it disappears in favor of the phase II, and its proton fraction becomes very low. For the model with
the lowest $L$, the phase I at some density becomes the pure neutron matter, $x^I =0$, which is clearly visible in the fourth panel of Fig.~\ref{xplots}.
The global neutrality of the system determines the volume proportion between phases expressed
by the equation
\begin{equation}
  w(n_p^{I}-n_e^{I}-n_\mu^{I}) + (1-w)(n_p^{II}-n_e^{II}-n_\mu^{II}) =0 ,
  \label{charge-neutr}
\end{equation}
where $w$ is the volume fraction occupied by the  phase I: $w = V^{I}/(V^{I}+V^{II})$.
The Gibbs conditions Eq. (\ref{gibbs}) and global charge neutrality Eq. (\ref{charge-neutr})
allow for finding the region of phase space where two separated phases occur and uniquely
determine the equation of state, i.e. the pressure-versus-energy-density relation, $P(\varepsilon)$.
\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{xplots.pdf}
\caption{The proton fraction in different models (the types of lines correspond to the different $L$). The gray region indicates the system with two phases with two different proton fractions.}
\label{xplots}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
 It is worth noting that the phase separation appears for the quadratic interaction model with the most plausible
 value of slope $L$. For the presented model with $C_\delta^2=3.5~\rm \rm fm^2$ and $\alpha=2$, the slope is $L=55.4$ MeV.
 However, even lower values might be obtained for higher $C_\delta^2$ .
 %
\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{eos+sound.pdf}
\caption{The EOS and speed of sound for four different $C_\delta^2$ couplings. Corresponding symmetry energy slopes $L$ are
 given in the legend.}
\label{eossound}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
The phase separation usually leads to the softening of the EOS in comparison to the one-phase system.
This phenomenon is clearly visible in Fig. \ref{eossound} (upper panel), which shows a set of EOSs for different nuclear models. The phase separation dramatically changes the slope of the $P(\rho)$ relation for the coupling
$C_\delta^2$ exceeding $3.0~ \rm fm^2$, which corresponds to the slope $L$ being smaller than 68 MeV.
The derivative of the pressure with respect to density determines the sound velocity in the matter
\begin{equation}
 v_s = \sqrt{\frac{\partial P}{\partial \rho}}  ~.
\end{equation}
In the lower panel of Fig. \ref{eossound}, the sound speed is shown in a moderate range of densities.
 The sudden decrease of $v_s$ corresponds to the phase transition region within which the speed of sound drops to around $10^{-3} c$.

\section{MULTILAYER NEUTRON STARS}

The set of EOSs was constructed for the quadratic model for the $C_\delta^2$ coupling within 1.0 to 3.8 $\rm fm^2$.
The corresponding values of the symmetry energy slope $L$ are from 88.5 to 45.6 MeV.
The proposed nuclear RMF model does not cover the region of very low densities, where the neutron star
 crust is formed. For the crust, the Sly4 model was used \cite{Chabanat:1997un,
 Douchin:2001sv}.
The joining of crustal EOS and the EOS for the core is carried out at the point where their
 pressures and densities are equal. The specific values of crust-core transition densities $n_{c-c}$ for different $L$ are
 shown in Table~\ref{tab-ns}

The structure of a nonrotating NS is obtained by implementing given EOSs into Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff
(TOV) equations
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
&P'(r) = - G\left( \epsilon(r) +P(r) \right) \frac{m(r)+4 \pi r^3 P(r)}{r (r-2G m(r))},\\
&m'(r) = 4 \pi r^2 \epsilon(r),
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where $P$ and $\varepsilon$ are pressure and energy density, and $m(r)$ is the gravitational mass (in units of energy)
confined inside a sphere with radial coordinate $r$.
The TOV equations reveal the nontrivial structure of a star for the EOS with phase transition. The matter in the region of
phase separation resembles the structure of inner crust -- clusters with high-proton fractions immersed in low-proton
environments or pure neutron matter, with solid-state properties. Such a layer is separated from the actual star crust by
a thin layer of homogeneous liquid matter. To conclude, the star includes the four different layers: two solid-like and two
liquid. Figure~\ref{rho-profile} shows the subsequent layers with different properties.
\begin{figure}[b!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{ns-layers.pdf}
\caption{Density profiles for different stellar masses for the model with $L=45.6$~MeV.
 The gray color indicates the solid-like structures.}
\label{rho-profile}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Such a multilayer structure of a neutron star requires further analysis in the context of rotational and vibrational properties. The solid-like internal layer should somehow manifest in the pulsar glitching or precession.

The fundamental relationship between stellar parameters is the mass-radius relationship. The $M\!-\!R$ relationship for various
 $C_\delta$ couplings is presented in Fig.~\ref{MvsR}.

For all considered couplings, the maximum mass is well above $2 ~\rm M_\odot$,
which is consistent with most recent observational data
 \cite{Demorest:2010bx,Antoniadis:2013pzd,Linares:2018ppq}.
In particular, the models with $L$ below 60 MeV are in the best agreement with the most massive pulsar, PSR J0740+6620.
Promising results concerning the NS radii were obtained from
the GW signal coming from the binary NS merger \cite{TheLIGOScientific:2017qsa}.
These results suggest a rather small radius for the star, which indicates soft EOS. However, typical soft EOSs lead to $M_{max}$ lower than those for the most massive PSR. A specific EOS is required to find a balance between these two contradictory facts. It should have different behaviors in different ranges of density. The stiffness of the EOS at higher densities controls the maximum mass of a star, whereas at lower densities (closer to the crust) it refers to the stellar radius.
{ The inclusion of the $\delta$ meson itself (without any crossing terms) makes the EOS slightly stiffer in the broad range of densities and moves both maximum mass and star radii to higher values, as was shown in
Refs.~\cite{Kubis:1998jt,Menezes:2004vr}.}
The results of this work clearly show that the models with scalar-scalar meson interactions make the EOS softer at moderate densities and stiffer at higher densities. This type of EOS comes from a specific form of the symmetry energy being very soft at a lower-density region. This effect is most  visible for the quadratic coupling model with $L$
around 50 MeV. Fattoyev {\em et al.}
 \cite{Fattoyev:2017jql} have already shown that soft symmetry energy is favorable regarding the results of GW170817.
This was concluded from the analysis of the tidal deformability of binary components during the merging. Tidal
deformability is sensitive to the compactness ($M/R$) of a star, and thus it is possible to find the upper bound of the radius
for a given mass.
 Another constraint on stellar radius comes from the threshold mass for the prompt collapse into a black hole after the merging. Bauswein {\em et al.} \cite{Bauswein:2017vtn} inferred that the radius of a star with $M=1.6M_\odot$
cannot be smaller than 10.7 km.
Both upper and lower bounds for the radius are shown in the Fig.~\ref{MvsR}. As one may see, the EOS for all
$L$ are placed within the allowable region. However, the models with $L<60 ~\rm MeV$ have the $M_{max}$ in better agreement with the present constraints from PSR mass measurement.
\begin{figure}[b!]
\begin{center}%
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{MvsR.pdf}
\caption{Mass-radius profiles for various $C_\delta^2$ corresponding to different $L$. The gray bands indicate
 the most massive stars. The horizontal arrows show the upper and lower bounds for stellar radius from GW180718 analysis.
 The rectangles show the NICER results.}
\label{MvsR}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
The mass-radius relation for the EOSs with phase transition shows characteristic bending. For masses smaller than
 $0.5 M_\odot$, the stellar radius decreases with mass. For such low masses, the central density is located in the two-phase region where the EOS is very soft. When the stellar mass is greater, the central density enters into a homogeneous matter region where the EOS becomes much stiffer. Gravitation is no longer able to compress the matter in the core, and the further increase of the star mass causes an increase of the star radius.
At the end of the discussion concerning the mass-radius relation, we should mention the most recent results obtained by the NICER X-ray observatory. The Bayesian analysis of spectral-timing data of PSRJ0030+0451 allowed, for the first time,
for the simultaneous measurement of the stellar mass and radius. The estimations of the NS star radius and mass from the
NICER analysis performed by \cite{Miller2019} and \cite{Riley2019} are indicated in Fig.~\ref{MvsR}.

In this paper, we also show the influence of  $\sigma$-$\delta$ meson interactions on the Urca process in $npe\mu$ matter. The direct Urca (Durca) process plays a crucial role in the cooling history of a neutron star.
Applying the Durca threshold given by Eq. (\ref{urca})
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
&\left( x - \left( (1-x)^{1/3} - x^{1/3} \right)^3 \right)^{2/3} =\\
 &\left( (1-x)^{1/3} -x^{1/3} \right)^2 - \left( \frac{m_\mu}{(3 \pi^2n)^{1/3}} \right)^2~,
\end{split}
\label{urca}
\end{equation}
the $x^{urca}$ and corresponding $n^{urca}$ are found. In Fig.~\ref{MvsR}, the mass of a star with central density exceeding the threshold $n^{urca}$ is indicated by black points.
A recent analysis of the cooling history of transient system MXB 1659-29 \cite{Brown:2017gxd} strongly suggests
the presence of rapid cooling of a neutron star core via Durca.
Direct Urca is only allowed when the symmetry energy increases with density at a sufficiently rapid rate. In our model
family, the symmetry energy dependence shows the opposite trend, as it may even decrease with density
\cite{Zabari:2019ukk}. However, this
behavior changes at some point, and again, the symmetry energy rapidly increases, making the proton fraction sufficiently
large to ensure Durca, as seen in Fig.~\ref{xplots}. That is why the critical stellar masses for Durca (Fig.~\ref{MvsR}) are still within
the typical range of neutron star masses.
\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{DIDRvsM.pdf}
\caption{The crust thickness and crustal moment of inertia as a function of stellar mass for different nuclear models.}
\label{IvsM}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

Two other parameters describe neutron star properties associated with their crust: the crust thickness
 $\Delta R$ and the crustal fraction of the total moment of inertia $\Delta I/I$. These parameters have particular significance due to the possibility of their reliable observational evaluation from thermal relaxation of the crust and pulsar glitches \cite{Lattimer:2006xb}.
A glitch phenomenon is a sudden increase in rotational frequencies that many pulsars exhibit. The analysis of these two parameters, based on the
average rate of angular momentum transfer between the superfluid component and the crust \cite{Link:1999ca}
 allows for estimating a star's crustal moment of inertia compared to its total moment of inertia.
Thus, the glitching phenomenon confirms that the crust-core transition is of particular importance. The more recent study of cumulative angular momentum transfer of the Vela Pulsar
 \cite{Andersson:2012iu} points out that crust
should encompass more than $1.6 \%$ of the total moment of inertia.
{In the approximation of the slow rotation, the total moment of inertia $I$ and its crustal fraction $\Delta I$ may be expressed by the properties of nonrotating configuration described by the TOV equations, as was extensively discussed by
Ravenhall and Pethick \cite{ravenhall1994}. Here we applied the formulas numbered (11) and (16) in their work.}
The results are shown in Figure \ref{IvsM}.
\begin{table}
  \caption{Basic neutron star properties for the quadratic model family}
\label{tab-ns}
\begin{tabular}{|p{2cm}|p{1cm}|p{1cm}|p{1cm}|p{1cm}|}
\hline
 $C_{\delta }^2~\rm [fm^{2}]$ & 1.0 & 3.0 & 3.5 & 3.8 \\
 \hline
 $L~\text{[MeV]}$ & 88.5 & 68.1 & 55.4 & 45.6 \\
 \hline\hline
 $M_{\max }/M_\odot$ & 2.18 & 2.25 & 2.27 & 2.34 \\
 \hline
 $R_{\max }~\rm [km]$ & 11.23 & 11.51 & 11.61 & 11.71 \\
 \hline
 $n_c^{\max }~\rm [fm^{-3}]$ & 1.001 & 0.932 & 0.896 & 0.865 \\
 \hline\hline
 $n_{\text{urca}}~\rm [fm^{-3}]$ & 0.315 & 0.358 & 0.364 & 0.360 \\
 \hline
 $M_{\text{urca}}/M_\odot$ & 1.07 & 1.16 & 1.22 & 1.29 \\
 \hline\hline
 $n_{c-c}$ & 0.0700 & 0.0648 & 0.0608 & 0.0577\\
 \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
A promising method for simultaneous measurement of neutron star mass and radius are based on observations of the
quiescent mode in the low-mass x-ray binaries (LMXBs) \cite{Ozel:2008kb}.
Precise measurement of $M$ and $R$ is still out of reach, as the uncertainties for both of these quantities are quite
significant. However, combined results from many observed LMXBs show an interesting tendency: that observed stellar radius
increases with mass \cite{Ozel:2016oaf}.
This type of relationship between radius and mass is typical for the EOS, being soft in the low-density region and becoming stiffer
at higher densities. Such an EOS is achieved in our model for low values of the symmetry energy slope  $L$ (see Fig.~\ref{MvsR}).

\section{SUMMARY}

In this work, we showed the neutron star properties obtained in the framework of the recently proposed RMF model of nuclear interactions where the scalar mesons crossing term was applied \cite{Zabari:2019ukk}. Thanks to this new type of coupling, the symmetry energy slope $L$ may reach sufficiently low values, as suggested by the results of terrestrial experiments concerning heavy-ion collisions. Simultaneously, the model leads to the neutron stars which properties are in agreement with the most recent observational data concerning the NS masses and radii. Although less persuasive, the cooling data suggest that fast cooling by direct Urca cycle is present in neutron stars. Typically, low values of symmetry energy block the Durca cycle by the low proton abundance in the NS core. It therefore calls into question the presence of fast cooling. However, the proposed model has interesting properties that, despite the low symmetry energy slope, can still achieve a proton fraction sufficiently large to ensure the presence of the Durca for stars with typical masses.

An additional outcome of the scalar meson couplings leads to phase separation in the outer part of the NS core. One may expect that nuclear matter with separated phases will acquire solid-state properties. The presence of such secondary crust in the NS interior would have interesting implications requiring further analysis.

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Egizi, a senior attack from Westwood, Mass., had a career weekend to lead the Spiders to a perfect 2-0 start to A-10 play. She scored four goals in Thursday night's win over crosstown rival VCU, while also collecting five ground balls, winning five draw controls and causing two turnovers. She then scored a career-high eight goals and assisted one other for a career-high nine points in Saturday's 19-11 win at Duquesne. Egizi also won eight draw controls on the day to hit the 200 career draw control mark, becoming just the third Spider to achieve the feat, and moved into second in program history with 207 career draws. She rounded out her impressive stat line with two ground balls and a caused turnover.
Semkiw made 23 saves in a pair of wins last week for the Patriots. The sophomore from Frederick, Md., made 11 saves in a 25-11 victory at George Washington on Thursday in the Atlantic 10 opener. She allowed just three goals over the last 39 minutes and also collected three ground balls. Then on Saturday, she made 12 saves in a 12-11 victory at La Salle. She allowed just three goals in the second half. She ranks second in the conference with 99 saves. She also ranks fourth in the A-10 in goals against average (9.15) and fifth in save percentage (.529).
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