Today, the Oakville Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the Keep Ontario Working (KOW) Coalition released two major reports that broadly capture the challenges associated with Bill 148 and the concerns of the employer community. The first report is the final economic impact analysis of Bill 148 by the Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis' (CANCEA), which was peer-reviewed by Professor Morley Gunderson of the University of Toronto.
CANCEA's analysis reveals that if Government were to do nothing other than implement the minimum wage increase over five years instead of in the next 15 months, jobs at risk would decrease by 74 per cent in the first two years.
The Keep Ontario Working Coalition and CANCEA released interim findings of this Analysis in August, ahead of final amendments being submitted for first reading of the legislation. To date, CANCEA's work remains the only peer-reviewed economic analysis of Bill 148. In having been reviewed by Morley Gunderson, the work has benefited from one of the leading economists in Canada, who the Ontario Government has turned to on multiple occasions, such as during the Changing Workplaces Review which became the foundation for Bill 148.
In addition, the Keep Ontario Working coalition released a second report, The Flip Side of "Fair", which showcases testimonials from employers and outline how they will be impacted by the legislation. The report gives a voice to those businesses who have felt excluded from the committee process and policy discussion around this legislation. The testimonials all share a common theme, that the minimum wage increase and labour reforms will have serious consequences for their business and their communities.
Slow down implementation to avoid unintended consequences and protect Ontario's jobs, communities and our most vulnerable.
The Keep Ontario Working Coalition (KOW) is a broad-spectrum group of business sector representatives concerned with sound public policy to help produce jobs and grow Ontario. For more information please visit www.keepontarioworking.ca.


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Does Trevor Hoffman really belong in the Hall of Fame?
By Rob Neyer | FoxSports
In the latest Hall of Fame balloting, only two players were actually elected: Ken Griffey and Mike Piazza. But to my surprise, three other candidates did exceptionally well: Jeff Bagwell cleared 70 percent, Tim Raines nearly did, and first-timer Trevor Hoffman topped 67 percent.
Now, this practically guarantees that all three will eventually be elected. Especially considering that Ivan Rodriguez is probably the only outstanding candidate who joins the ballot next year.*
* Yes, some will argue that Manny Ramirez is an outstanding candidate, but I'll be shocked if he gets any significant support. Others will argue for Vladimir Guerrero, and he will fare significantly better than Ramirez. But just looking at the numbers, I don't see much to separate him from Gary Sheffield, Larry Walker or poor Jimmy Edmonds. Guerrero's only separator are his AL MVP Award and three other top-four finishes. I'm not a big fan of justifying one BBWAA vote with other BBWAA votes. But it does happen. And Guerrero might grab a few ballot slots that would otherwise have gone to Bagwell or Raines or Hoffman.
Does that mean that Bagwell and Raines and Hoffman all get elected next time? Bagwell and Raines, yes. Bagwell because he came so close this year, and Raines because it's his last shot.
Hoffman, though? Ivan Rodriguez might matter, but then again he probably will not. Historically, the BBWAAs almost never elected four candidates at once, but this should happen more often as more and more voters are willing (and eager!) to use all 10 slots on their ballots.
Still, what's less interesting than the question of whether or not Hoffman will be elected -- since it's clear that he will, and probably soon -- is whether he should be elected.
Now, by one standard he's overwhelmingly qualified: $aves. Not counting Dennis Eckersley, there are four relief pitchers in the Hall of Fame and Hoffman's got way more saves than any of them. He's also got 211 more than Eckersley. Hoffman's No. 2 on the all-time list with 601 saves, and he's got 123 more saves than the No. 3 man (Lee Smith).
Honestly, I think those last two saves Hoffman got -- it took him a month to get those last two saves, as his entire last season was basically a disaster -- actually made a huge difference, as 601 just looks more impressive than 599, even if there's obviously no substantive difference between those numbers. Ken Macha just kept pitching Hoffman, and that got him over the hump. And maybe into the Hall of Fame.
But again, does he "deserve" it?
Well, there's definitely an argument here about value. Hoffman finished his career with about 28 Wins Above Replacement, largely because he also finished with only 1,089 1/3 innings. Meanwhile, Mike Mussina finished with 83 WAR and 3,562 2/3 innings.
Apples and oranges. Still, does it really make any sense for Hoffman to receive 296 votes for the Hall of Fame, and Mussina just 189?
As Bill James points out, "For Hoffman to be more valuable than Mussina, he has to be three to four times more valuable per inning pitched."
Does that seem likely to you? It doesn't seem likely to me. I do believe that WAR probably does undervalue closers, because of course they are generally pitching higher-leverage innings than starting pitchers.
Bill brings up this point, and also the point that we've not settled on great definitions of "replacement level" for relievers relative to starters. Then there's the notion that the Hall of Fame has never really been about value -- not in a particularly quantifiable way, anyway -- but rather about excellence. Bill:
I don't think you can, either. Or rather, I don't think you should. I don't know anyone who thinks you should. Or rather, I probably do but I haven't dragged that embarrassing fact out of them yet.
What I would say about closers is that whether the Hall of Fame would be better without closers is entirely an academic argument at this point, since there are closers in the Hall of Fame, and there will be more. But considering how many pitchers could probably be excellent closers if given the chance -- I would guess the current number runs into the dozens, at least -- I'm uneasy with the notion of electing pitchers who just happened to have been lucky enough to get anointed early enough in their careers (and in fairness, also stayed healthy enough to rack up hundreds of saves).
Given what we know about the value of closers now -- and acknowledging that we'll only learn more and more in the coming years -- I would say the bar for closers should be extraordinarily high, and predicated hardly at all upon their saves. I wouldn't vote Lee Smith or Billy Wagner or Trevor Hoffman, reserving my affection for just one: Mariano Rivera, who's got 18 seasons of true excellence ... plus another two full "seasons" in October of excellence-plus.
I don't think that's where the bar is. The bar should be lower than the greatest closer who ever lived. But it should be higher than Trevor Hoffman and his 601 $aves.

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One of my favorite albums turned six this week.
While that may not seem particularly significant, let me elaborate.
I associate different seasons of my life based on what music I listen to. My experiences, emotions, the important lessons I learned. Pushing "PLAY" is like a floodgate of memories; with each song that spills out of my phone's speakers, I think back to who I was and what I was feeling then.
This album takes me back to my sophomore year of college. To working on a group project for my Psychology class with three other girls on the ground floor of the library while this album played in the background. To crying at two AM when the boy I considered my best friend abruptly cut me out of his life for his girlfriend. To long walks to class, and a concert stalled by a severe lightning storm that I attended with my cousin.
That time in my life feels so foreign to me now. Almost as if I'm watching it on a movie projector. In black and white.
I'm a different person. I've grown and changed a lot. I've realized important things that I didn't then.
But in many ways, I'm still the same. I still feel the same emotions listening to this album now. I still miss laughing with those three other girls on the ground floor of that library. I still miss talking to that boy about music.
And I think that's okay. The memories don't always die, but they're not so painful. There's a nostalgia and a yearning there, but also the acknowledgement that the past can't be reclaimed from six years lived.
Because now, I have a new album on repeat. And memories of texting with a new friend about it. Of going to a concert together and dancing until our feet hurt. Of living so in the moment that it feels like the ground will never crumble out from underneath us again.
And it's been beautiful. And awesome. And I don't want it to end.
I hope in a few more years, I'll be singing along to another new album in a stadium full of thousands of people. I hope I'll be texting with this friend again to ask, "what do you think of this album?!" I hope I'll have new music to connect with this particular period in my life.
And I hope that then I might have grown that much more and learned that many more lessons I can write down and reflect on on a Sunday morning two or so years later.


The Korda Longshank X Hook is light, very strong, very sharp and just the job for hooking carp. Korda says "The long straight point will catch hold in the carp's mouth faster than any other hook". So there you have it. Trust Korda to be your hook supplier.
Korda Longshank X hooks are supplied in packs of 10.


Cleaning air ducts is your business. Particularly at the start of summer and the start of winter, your business picks up. To manage your business properly, you need to manage your customer sand your employees effectively. To do this, it doesn't require a lot of paperwork all over your office. What it does require is the proper software.
Air duct cleaning software can help you stay organized, integrate your accounting software in with your customer management software and provide you with a single program to use.
Your company is likely producing quotes for potential customers all the time. How often are you following up on these? If you're not, or you're not doing it consistently, you could be losing potential customers. You need to log the estimates and ensure you're following up on each and every one. This will ensure you know what your closing ratio is and improving upon it regularly.
When you manage your customers, you can improve customer satisfaction. As you please one customer, they will recommend you to friends and family. Before long, you're gaining more customers for your business.
The saying of "work smarter, not harder" is always applicable. With the right software, you can follow this great advance easier. You can manage your employees better. your technicians may be driving all over the city, bypassing other drivers because of poor and mismanaged routes.
With the dispatch board of ServiceCEO Office Edition, you can plug in the schedules of your technicians and map where your customers are located. You can then drag and drop everyone into place to avoid them driving back and forth, wasting both gas and labor. This will lead to higher productivity and an improved bottom line. This was one of our most requested features for those in the air duct industry.
The best way to achieve a better bottom line is to spend less time and less money. When everything is integrated into a single software platform, you eliminate the need to enter the same information over and over again. Once you set up a customer, you can manage their data and send them invoices from ServiceCEO Office Edition. You can also manage employee information in the same database.
With ServiceCEO Office Edition, you take control of your business. You eliminate a lot of paperwork and ensure everyone is working smarter.


The Snow Queen, it continues to be a story that has a special spot in my heart. I love the concept of a friendship so deep, and so pure, that nothing can keep them apart. I've also always loved the fact that this is the type of story where a girl rescues a boy, rather than the other way around! So, it's no surprise that I was so eager to read this graphic novel take on this beloved story.
Sadly, I didn't love it as much as I wanted to. While the bones of the story are intact, and the characters are still all true to themselves, I felt like this version zipped along too quickly to really bring out the aspects of the story that I love. The lack of time makes it so that the story is a more watered down version, and you really don't get the epic feel of Gerda's journey. I feel like this was additionally hampered by the simplicity of the illustrations in this book. The Snow Queen leaves so much space for gorgeous panels, filled with icy backdrops and epic journeys. It all just felt too flat to me, and left a bit disappointed.
For staying true to the story I love, I'm willing to give three stars. I just wanted more.


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NLJ News and Notes
Defining What The New Leaf Journal Is
NLJ News and NotesVictor V. GurboDecember 28, 2022
What Is The New Leaf Journal?
A Facebook Comment, an Existential Crisis
Holding Attention in the Information Age
What The New Leaf Journal Is
Feedback is Always Welcome
While I would love to claim all the credit for The New Leaf Journal, I must confess that my co-editor, Nicholas Ferrell, has done most of the heavy lifting while I have toiled away with my music and other assorted shenanigans. In addition to writing and editing, he has worked on technical issues relating to the site's design and smooth running. While I am happy with the work we have done on The New Leaf Journal in the first month, I find myself faced with an issue of importance: I'm not quite sure how to explain what The New Leaf Journal is to potential visitors. In this little post, I will recount my latest efforts with Nick to craft a compelling answer to that question.
Photo taken by N.A. Ferrell at the Naval Cemetery Landscape in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on May 31, 2019. Edited for publication by V. Gurbo. For some reason, however, he reversed the image. Closer than the upside down version. Perhaps the next version we use will be un-flipped and un-reversed.
Nick cannot market the site on Facebook. This is because he is an anti-social, anti-Facebook, contrarian curmudgeon. Thus, I shouldered the burden of creating a Facebook page for the site and serving as its administrator. While I am excited about The New Leaf Journal, being put in a lead position to sell the site caused a bit of a crisis. How do we explain the site to new potential visitors?
On Wednesday, May 27, I noticed an interesting comment on our Facebook page. Essentially, while the commenter expressed general support for our doing something creative, the commenter expressed uncertainty about what exactly we had created.
The Facebook comment got at something that has been haunting me since early in the project: is merely describing The New Leaf Journal as being something to the effect of a variety website for meaningful content too vague a concept to be successful? It has always been difficult to capture and hold peoples' attention. But in the age of click bait, best of lists, and slideshow presentations, I would argue that it has become even more difficult in recent years.
As some of you may know, I am a song-writer who works in a traditional, verbose, American style. Given my sensibilities, I have watched in horror as social media and video upload sites have relentlessly reduced the maximum length of content to miniscule levels such as sixty seconds (Instagram) or fifteen seconds (TikTok). My copy of Moby Dick is 580 pages long. Bob Dylan's Desolation Row is eleven minutes and 21 seconds – with some of his live performances crossing the 45-minute mark. Is there a place today for long books which require careful attention? Can a song hold contemporary listeners' attention for 11 minutes? Relatedly, could Melville or Dylan adapt to the constrained, hyper-visual formats demanded by platform such as Instagram and TikTok?
I have pondered whether the art of building a long narrative is a dying one. There is a beauty in building something – taking a reader, listener, or viewer with you – and watching them leave the experience fulfilled. How does someone who is committed to telling a story or examining something meaningful in-depth compete in a world of search-optimized lists and rapid-fire clicks? Should one soldier on and adapt to the popular platforms of the moment? Can it be done without losing the essential timelessness of great stories? Is there a middle ground? For me as an artist, these are existential questions that I have no good answer to. But for now, I digress.
Returning to the Issue at Hand
Facebook allots us 250 characters to describe The New Leaf Journal. The astute comment we received on Facebook raised an interesting, and momentarily disturbing, question: What is our site, succinctly? If we cannot explain that in a boiled-down way, potential readers will gravitate toward sites that can make their purpose immediately clear.
Defining the Site
I quickly forwarded the comment to Nick, and we discussed and debated the topic well into the night. Enlisting the tactics of Don Draper from Mad Men, I presented Nick with a series of questions, trying to lead him to an answer. However, unlike Don Draper, I did not have the answer, so I was looking for him to offer one. Accordingly, our conversation devolved to petty bickering, name-calling, and personal insults – as often happens with friends.
Eventually, Nick presented a new about The New Leaf Journal outline that I found resolved my concerns. Today, he turned that outline into a new About The New Leaf Journal page on the website – accessible here and from our header menu and side-bar. From this About, I created a synopsis to use on our Facebook page:
The New Leaf Journal is an online magazine for meaningful fresh content in areas including creative writing, culture, music, art, literature, history, current affairs, aesthetics, and the good life. Follow us for content that is worth your time.
Below, I will quote several full excerpts from our new About The New Leaf Journal page.
[The New Leaf Journal] presents creative writing content and musings from our editors and writers. You will also find many articles about society and culture, music, arts, literature, and current affairs."
Why should you follow us?
Because our writers and editors post content in a wide range of areas, we believe that The New Leaf Journal has something to offer to all readers and content consumers. Among our articles, you will find challenging essays, creative works, informative discourses, and breezy musings.
Is the content part of a coherent whole?
The New Leaf Journal's tag-line – 'Where the leaves are perennially virid' – highlights the common fiber that holds our content together. Whether one writer contemplates the good life in today's world, or another examines in detail the history of a folk song, we will always work to create meaningful fresh posts.
Thank you for reading, and I hope our new site description offers a better idea about our project. I welcome all suggestions, comments, and feedback at The New Leaf Journal Facebook page.
Update (August 6, 2021): The best place to send feedback is our Guestbook.
Question About Copying .odt into WordPress by Nicholas A. Ferrell September 24, 2022
Find Every New Leaf Journal Article On One Page by Nicholas A. Ferrell January 10, 2022
Joining the 700 (Article) Club by Nicholas A. Ferrell November 2, 2022
Introducing The New Leaf Journal Guestbook by Nicholas A. Ferrell June 27, 2020
A New Sitemap for Humans by Nicholas A. Ferrell May 13, 2022
The New Leaf Journal Newsletter by Nicholas A. Ferrell July 3, 2020
Introducing Leaflets by Nicholas A. Ferrell April 2, 2022
No "Newsletter" Folders in WordPress by Nicholas A. Ferrell January 2, 2023
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NewsGood News
Mom whose overdose photo went viral celebrates 3 years of sobriety in photo shoot with son
By: Katie Kindelan, Good Morning America
Ali Elizabeth Photography and Key Words Co.
Erika Hurt poses with her 3-year-old son Parker in a photo to celebrate her three-year sobriety anniversary.
Erika Hurt describes reaching rock bottom in 2016 when a photo released by police went viral showing her overdosed on heroin in the driver's seat of a car with her 10-month-old son in the backseat.
Hurt had to be revived using two doses of Narcan -- a nasal spray that can help reverse an opioid overdose -- when first responders in Hope, Indiana, found her. She was on probation when the overdose happened and was sentenced to six months in a locked-down rehabilitation program.
Two days into her stay at the rehab program, Hurt said she saw the photo of herself air on TV during the local news. Police released the photo to the media at the time in hopes of "trying to shine a light on what was happening in terms of heroin overdoses," Hope Town Marshal Matthew Tallent told "GMA."
Now, three years later, new photos of Hurt and her son Parker are going viral -- pics that show them together and happy and marking three years of sobriety for Hurt.
"I hope people see how low my bottom was and that they know if their bottom is not that far from mine, that they can come back too," Hurt, 28, told " Good Morning America ." "I just think it's really cool because I feel even more planted and stable in my recovery [today]."
For Hurt, who started using pain pills at age 15, it was "humiliating" to see herself as the poster child for addiction.
The photo though is now what Hurt credits with propelling her forward to recovery and helping her maintain her sobriety for three years.
"I definitely have [the photo] imprinted in my mind," she said. "I use it to remind myself that that's where my addiction is going to take me if I do relapse."
Hurt said she's also motivated by Parker, who, she remembers, wouldn't interact with her during twice-weekly visits to see his mom while she was away at rehab.
"We didn't have a bond, and that was really sad," said Hurt, who was sober during her pregnancy but then relapsed two months after she gave birth. "I was physically there for my son but I was not mentally there for him and I missed all of his first milestones."
"That was ultimately my turning point, when I decided truly want to be sober and be in my son's life," she added. "Now we're inseparable pretty much. He's a mama's boy."
Hurt, who works full time and has full-time custody of Parker, said their close bond is the reason she wanted to include Parker in the photo shoot to celebrate her sobriety.
She is holding a sign that says "Narcan saved my life" in the photos because she wanted to give people "a different picture" of how a life can turn out after an overdose.
Ali Elizabeth Photography and Key Words Co.Erika Hurt poses with her 3-year-old son Parker in a photo to celebrate her three-year sobriety anniversary.While Hurt for the past three years has looked at the photo of herself overdosed every year on her sobriety date, she said she thinks the new photos of herself and Parker will be the photos she now looks to for motivation.
This Halloween, she took Parker trick-or-treating at the police station in Hope, where they saw Tallent, the police chief who released the photo of an overdosed Hurt.
"I'm so happy that Erika has continued her sobriety and has her wonderful little boy who is growing up," he said. "To see her in that light, as a doting mother, is just a great thing and I'm happy that she stayed sober."


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\section{Introduction}
One of the most mysterious discoveries of modern cosmology is
related to late time acceleration of universe
\cite{Riess:1998cb,Perlmutter:1998np}. For past one decade or so,
extensive efforts have been made to understand the underlying
reason of this phenomenon (for a recent review see
\cite{Li:2011sd}). According to the standard lore
, the
acceleration is caused by an exotic form of matter with large
negative pressure called dark energy. The cosmological constant
and a variety of scalar field systems as representative of dark
energy are consistent with observations. Though some of the scalar
field systems with generic features, such as tracker solutions,
are attractive but nevertheless they do not address the conceptual
problems associated with cosmological constant.

There exist an alternative thinking which advocates the need for a
paradigm shift, namely, that gravity is modified at large scales
which might give rise to late time acceleration \cite{Clifton:2011jh}. We know that
gravity is modified at small scales and thus it is quite plausible
that modification also cures at large distance where it has not been
varied directly. As for the small scale corrections, no deviations
from Einstein's theory have been yet detected; perhaps we need to
probe still higher energies to observe these effects. However,
situation is quite different challenging at large scales. Indeed,
Einstein's theory is consistent with observations to a high accuracy
at solar scales thereby telling us that any modification to gravity
should be confronted with tough constraints posed by solar physics.
Secondly, as for the late time acceleration, the modification should
also be distinguished from cosmological constant.

The aforementioned requirements are difficult to satisfy
consistently in f(R) theories of gravity. These theories are
equivalent to GR plus a scalar degree of freedom whose potential is
uniquely constructed from space time  curvature $R$ \cite{DeFelice:2010aj}. The scalar
degree of freedom should mimic quintessence and should hide its
detection at small scales {\it \`a la chameleon} \cite{Khoury:2003aq}.

 The investigations show that the generic $f(R)$ models either reduce to GR plus cosmological
 constant \cite{Thongkool:2009js} or has a $\phi$MDE instead of a standard matter epoch \cite{Amendola:2006we} or hit curvature singularity \cite{Frolov:2008uf} or give
 rise an ugly fine tuning \cite{Faraoni:2011pm} which is the price one has to pay for implementing the
 chameleon mechanism. One might try to remedy these theories
 by complementing them by quadratic curvature corrections \cite{Appleby:2009uf}. However,
 as demonstrated by Lam Hui et al \cite{Hui:2009kc}, theories based upon chameleon
 mechanism lead to a violation of equivalence principal of the order
 of one.

 In view of the aforesaid, we need to look for an alternative
 mechanism of mass screening. The Vainshtein mechanism \cite{Vainshtein:1972sx} is the one
 which gives rise to mass screening: Any modification of gravity
 in the neighborhood of a massive body within a radius dubbed
 Vainshtein radius are switched off kinematically. The mechanism
 was invented to address the discontinuity problem \cite{vanDam:1970vg,Zakharov:1970cc} of massive
 gravity {\it \`a la } Pauli-Fierz \cite{Fierz:1939ix}. In this theory, the zero helicity
 graviton mode $\phi$  is coupled to the stress of energy momentum tensor
 gives rise to serious violations of local gravity constraints
 in the limit of vanishing mass of graviton. Vainshtein pointed out
 that non-linear effects become crucial in this case. The non-linear derivative term added to Pauli-Fierz
 Lagrangian was shown to implement the mass screening thereby
 removing the problem of discontinuity.

 It is interesting to note that the non-linear term
 naturally arises in DGP model \cite{Dvali:2000hr} in the decoupling limit \cite{Luty:2003vm} such that Vainshtein mechanism is in built in the theory. The scalar degree of freedom obeys Galilean
 symmetry in flat space time and is free from ghosts is called {\it
 Galileon} \cite{Nicolis:2008in}. There exist higher order Galileon Lagrangians
in flat and curved space-time \cite{Deffayet:2009wt}. The higher order Lagrangian are
necessary for realizing the late time de-Siter solution \cite{Gannouji:2010au}. The Galileon model appears as a particluar case of the Horndeski action defined in 1974 \cite{Horndeski}. The action has gained some new attention this year, see \cite{Deffayet:2009mn} for more details.

We should also mention that Galileons are deeply related to massive
 gravity \cite{deRham:2010ik} and Dirac-Born-Infeld systems \cite{deRham:2010eu,RenauxPetel:2011dv} in the framework of higher
dimensional theories \cite{Hinterbichler:2010xn,VanAcoleyen:2011mj,Goon:2011qf,Burrage:2011bt}. The spherically symmetric solution is studied in \cite{Kaloper:2011qc}.

In this paper, we consider dimensional reduction of Gauss-Bonnet
gravity \cite{Amendola:2005cr} and look for the possibility of mass screening in the
model. We also investigate causal structure of flat spherically
symmetric and homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds.

\section{Gauss-Bonnet gravity and its Kaluza-Klein reduction}

We shall consider the following action in $D+N$ dimensions,

\begin{equation}
\mathcal{S}=\int {{\rm d} ^{D+N}\rm{x}}\sqrt{-g^{(D+N)}} \left(R+\alpha R_{\rm GB}\right)
\end{equation}

which is the simplest non trivial form of Lovelock theory.\\

In order to simplify the analysis, we use the metric anzatz,

\begin{equation}
\rm{ds}^2=g_{\mu\nu}\rm{dx}^\mu\rm{dx}^\nu+e^{\pi}\gamma_{ij}\rm{dx}^i\rm{dx}^j
\end{equation}

where the Greek letters run form $0$ to $D-1$ and the Latin
characters from $D$ to $D+N-1$. The scalar field $\pi$ appearing in
the  metric plays the role of the size of the extra dimensions and depends on the first $D$ coordinates. It
acquires  a non trivial character in case the volume of the
compactified dimensions becomes a variable.

Following a standard prescription for dimensional reduction on a
compact flat space,  we get

\begin{align}
\label{actionD}
& \mathcal{S}=\int {{\rm d} ^{D}\rm{x}}\sqrt{-g^{(D)}} e^{N\pi/2} \Bigl[
R^{(D)}+d_1(\partial \pi)^2+\alpha\Bigl(R_{\rm GB}^{(D)}\nonumber\\
& \hspace{1cm} +d_2G_{\mu\nu}\pi^{;\mu}\pi^{;\nu}+
d_3 (\partial \pi)^4+d_4 (\partial \pi)^2\Box \pi\Bigr)\Bigr]
\end{align}

with
\begin{align}
d_1&=\frac{N(N-1)}{4}\\
d_2&=-N(N-1)\\
d_3&=-\frac{N(N-1)^2(N-2)}{16}\\
d_4&=-\frac{N(N-1)(N-2)}{4}
\end{align}

It should be noticed that the reduced action does not depend on $D$-coefficients.\\

It is interesting to observe that the action in $D+1$ dimensions
reduces to the same form as the original one with a global
factor.

\begin{equation} \mathcal{S}=\int {{\rm d} ^{D}\rm x}\sqrt{-g^{(D)}}~
e^{\pi/2}\left[R+\alpha R_{\rm GB}\right] \label{action3} \end{equation}

Next, we perform a conformal transformation (in $D$-dimensions) for
transforming the action (\ref{actionD}) to a convenient form. After
rescaling the fields

\begin{equation}
g_{\mu\nu}\rightarrow \tilde{g}_{\mu\nu}=e^{N\pi/(D-2)}g_{\mu\nu},~~\pi \rightarrow \pm \sqrt{\frac{2(D-2)}{N(D+N-2)}}~\pi
\end{equation}

and carrying out integrations by parts, we obtain,

\begin{align}
&  \mathcal{S}=\int {{\rm d} ^{D}\rm x}\sqrt{-g^{(D)}}\Bigl[R^{(D)}-\frac{1}{2}(\partial \pi)^2+\alpha ~ e^{\beta_D\pi} \Bigl(R_{\rm GB}\nonumber\\
&  \hspace{1cm} +b_1 G_{\mu\nu}\pi^{;\mu}\pi^{;\nu}
+b_2(\partial \pi)^2\Box\pi
+b_3\left(\partial \pi\right)^4\Bigr)\Bigr]\nonumber\\
&  \hspace{1cm} +\mathcal{S}_m[e^{-\beta_D\pi}g_{\mu\nu};\psi_m]
\label{action4}
 \end{align}

where we defined

\begin{align}
b_1&=2\frac{D-2}{D+N-2}\left(1+N\frac{D-4}{(D-2)^2}\right)\\
b_2&=\pm\sqrt{\frac{2}{N}}\left(\frac{D-2}{D+N-2}\right)^{3/2}\left(\frac{N^2}{(D-2)^2}-1\right)\\
b_3&=-\frac{N^2(D-4)+DN(D-2)-2(D-2)^2}{4N(D-2)(D+N-2)}\\
\beta_D &=\pm \sqrt{\frac{2N}{(D-2)(D+N-2)}}
\end{align}

and $\mathcal{S}_m$ is the matter action with matter fields $\psi_m$.\\

We drop in the action the tilde and terms that are total
derivatives. We  notice that the conformal transformation gives the
action an explicit dependance on the dimension $D$.

In $4$-dimensions, the action reduces to

\begin{align}
\label{eq:action}
&  \mathcal{S}=\frac{1}{2}\int {{\rm d} ^{4}\rm x}\sqrt{-g} \Bigl[R-\frac{1}{2}(\partial \pi)^2
+\alpha  e^{\beta\pi} \Bigl(R_{\rm GB}\nonumber\\
&  \hspace{1cm} +c_1G_{\mu\nu}\pi^{;\mu}\pi^{;\nu}+c_2(\partial \pi)^2\Box\pi+c_3\left(\partial \pi\right)^4\Bigr)\Bigr]\nonumber\\
&  \hspace{1cm} +\mathcal{S}_m[e^{-\beta \pi}g_{\mu\nu};\psi_m]
\end{align}

with
\begin{align}
\beta\equiv \beta_4 &=\pm \sqrt{\frac{N}{N+2}},\\
c_1&=\frac{4}{N+2},\\
c_2&=\frac{N-2}{N}\beta,\\
c_3&=-\frac{N-1}{N(N+2)}.
 \end{align}
In what follows, we shall investigate the dynamics based upon the
action (\ref{eq:action}).

\section{Field equations of motion}

The field equations one derives from the action (\ref{eq:action}) are

\begin{align}
\label{EM}
& \Box \pi+\alpha e^{\beta\pi} K=\beta T,\\
\label{EM2}
& G_{\mu\nu}-\frac{1}{2}\left(\pi_{;\mu}\pi_{;\nu}-\frac{1}{2}g_{\mu\nu}(\partial \pi)^2\right)+\alpha e^{\beta \pi}\Sigma_{\mu\nu}= T_{\mu\nu}.
\end{align}

with

\begin{align}
K&=
\beta R_{\rm GB}
-c_1 G_{\mu\nu}\left(\beta\pi^{;\mu}\pi^{;\nu}+2\pi^{;\mu\nu}\right)
-4c_3(\partial \pi)^2\Box\pi\nonumber\\
&+4\left(\beta c_2-2c_3\right)\pi^{;\mu\nu}\pi_{;\mu}\pi_{;\nu}
+\beta\left(\beta c_2-3c_3\right)(\partial\pi)^4
\nonumber\\
&-2c_2\left[(\Box\pi)^2
-\pi^{;\mu\nu}\pi_{;\mu\nu}
-R_{\mu\nu}\pi^{;\mu}\pi^{;\nu}\right],\\
{\Sigma}_{\mu\nu}&=
-2\left(\beta\pi^{;\rho\sigma}+(\beta^2+\frac{c_1}{4} )
\pi^{;\rho}\pi^{;\sigma}\right)\Bigl[2R_{\rho\mu\nu\sigma}+2\Bigl(g_{\mu\nu}R_{\rho\sigma}\nonumber\\
&+R_{\mu\nu}g_{\rho\sigma}-2g_{\rho(\mu}R_{\nu)\sigma}\Bigr)+R(g_{\rho\mu}g_{\sigma\nu}-g_{\rho\sigma}g_{\mu\nu})\Bigr]
\nonumber\\
&+\frac{1}{2}g_{\mu\nu}\left(\beta c_2-c_3\right)(\partial\pi)^4
+\left(2c_3-\beta c_2\right)(\partial\pi)^2\pi_{;\mu}\pi_{;\nu}
\nonumber\\
&+\left(c_2-\frac{\beta}{2}c_1\right)\Bigl[\pi_{;\mu}\pi_{;\nu}\Box \pi
-2\pi^{;\sigma}\pi_{;\sigma(\mu}\pi_{;\nu)}\Bigr.\nonumber\\
&
\Bigl.
+g_{\mu\nu}\pi^{;\rho}\pi_{;\rho\sigma}\pi^{;\sigma}\Bigr]
+c_1\Bigl[
\pi_{;\mu\rho}\pi^{;\rho}_{~\nu}
-\pi_{;\mu\nu}\Box\pi
+\frac{1}{2}G_{\mu\nu}(\partial\pi)^2\nonumber\\
&+\frac{1}{2}g_{\mu\nu}\left((\Box\pi)^2-\pi_{;\rho\sigma}\pi^{;\rho\sigma}\right)
+\frac{\beta}{2}(\partial\pi)^2\Bigl(g_{\mu\nu}\Box\pi-\pi_{;\mu\nu}\Bigr) \Bigr].
\end{align}

In the analysis to follow, we shall focus on equations of motion
(\ref{EM}) to study mass screening induced by non-linear terms in a
simple tractable background.
\section{Mass screening $-$ Vainshtein mechanism}

In order to investigate the effects of the non linear terms in the
action, we shall study the model
in a flat spherically symmetric background. \\
In this case, the theory reduces to a special case of KGB
\cite{Deffayet:2010qz} coupled to matter,

\begin{equation}
\mathcal{S}=\frac{1}{2}\int {{\rm d} ^{4}\rm x} \left[K(\pi,X)+G(\pi,X)\Box\pi\right]+\mathcal{S}_m[e^{-\beta \pi}g_{\mu\nu};\psi_m]
\end{equation}

with

\begin{align}
&K(\pi,X)=X-4\alpha\frac{N-1}{N(N+2)}e^{\beta\pi}X^2\\
&G(\pi,X)=-2\alpha\beta\frac{N-2}{N}e^{\beta\pi}X,~\text{and}~X=-\frac{(\partial\pi)^2}{2}
\end{align}

And the special case of $N=2$ gives rise to K-essence.

The equation of motion is

\begin{align}
&\pi''+2\frac{\pi'}{r}+\alpha e^{\beta\pi}\frac{\pi'}{N(2+N)r^2}\Bigl[
8(N-1)r\pi'^2\nonumber\\
&\hspace{1cm}+(N^2+N-3)r^2\pi'(\beta \pi'^2+4\pi'')\nonumber\\
&\hspace{1cm}-4\beta(N^2-4)(\pi'+2r\pi'')\Bigr]=-\beta \rho
\end{align}

where $'$ represents the derivative with respect to r.\\
If we integrate this equation from $r=0$ to a distance outside the
body in the case of $\alpha=0$, we have $\pi'=-\frac{\beta
r_s}{r^2}$ (where $r_s$ is the Schwarzschild radius $r=2G M$) and the fifth force is of the order of the gravitational
force, \begin{align}
\left|\frac{\mathcal{F}_\pi}{\mathcal{F}_g}\right|=\frac{\beta
r^2}{r_s}|\pi'|=\frac{N}{N+2} \simeq 1\end{align}

Let us note that we have two different values of $\beta$; it
is easy to see that if we change $\beta \rightarrow -\beta$ the action remains unchanged provided that,
 $\pi \rightarrow -\pi$. Therefore the fifth force is invariant
 under the change of sign of $\beta$.\\

Unfortunately we can not get analytical solutions in case  $\alpha
\neq 0$.  However,  we can have derive asymptotic solutions at large
and short distances.

At large distances, we observed that the solution is trivial. This
solution should change as we approach the source of matter because
of the effect of the non linear terms. Therefore these corrections
to the asymptotic solutions become crucial when we enter  the
Vainshtein radius.

We define this scale as the radius where a perturbation of this
trivial solution becomes important. It is easy to show that the
Vaishtein radius can be approximated by

\begin{align}
\text{For $N=2$,  } R_V^4\simeq \alpha r_s^2\\
\text{For $\forall$ $N\neq 2$,  } R_V^3\simeq \alpha r_s
\end{align}

In case,  $\sqrt \alpha$ is of the order of the Hubble scale
$(\tilde \alpha\equiv H_0^2 \alpha=1)$, we have for $N=1$ $R_V\simeq
10^2 $pc and $R_V\simeq 2.10^{-2}$pc for $N=2$, which is in perfect
agreement with the Fig.\ref{fig:LGC}, where we considered the Sun as
the central body.

In the Fig.\ref{fig:LGC}, we show that for $N=1$ and $N=2$ there is
  a screening effect at distances smaller that the Vainshtein radius.
 For dimensions larger than $2$, the evolution of the fifth force
 versus the radial coordinate is the same as in case of $N=1$. In fact
 for $N=2$ we don't have
the G-Essence term\footnote{The extra term in the Lagrangian
compared to K-Essence: $G(\pi,X)$} which gives an additional effect
to the screening mechanism as it can be seen in the
Fig.\ref{fig:LGC}.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=.7]{LGC_1.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=.7]{LGC_2.eps}
\caption{(Top):The ratio of the fifth force and the gravitational force versus the distance from the source in parsecs, for $N=1$.
In the numerics we considered $r_s\equiv r_s$(Sun) and $\bar \alpha\equiv H_0^2\alpha$.
(Bottom):The same evolution for $N=2$. The fifth force is negligeable at small distances compared to the gravitational force.}
\label{fig:LGC}
\end{figure}

We also find from  numerical analysis, that for the solution to
be continuous, we need for $N\leq 2$ in case of $\alpha>0$ and $\alpha<0$ for $N>2$.\\

It was shown in \cite{Amendola:2007ni} that we have extremely tight bounds on
the parameters of the model, but as we saw, if we consider the full-action without
any approximation on the non-linear terms, we have a Vainshtein mechanism which
allows the coupling $\alpha$ to take large values.

\section{Stability of solutions}

We consider the test field approximation where we expand the field
$\pi\rightarrow \pi+\phi$ and neglecting the back reaction on the
metric. The equation for the scalar field ($\phi$) in the first
order are given by,

\begin{equation}
\label{effective}
G^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}\phi_{;\mu\nu}+V^{\mu}\phi_{;\mu}+M\phi=0
\end{equation}

where the induced metric is

\begin{equation}
G^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}=A g^{\mu\nu}+B\pi^{;\mu} \pi^{;\nu} +C \pi^{;\mu\nu}
\end{equation}

with

\begin{align}
A&=1+\frac{4\alpha}{N} e^{\beta \pi}\left(\frac{N-1}{N+2}\pi'^2-\beta(N-2)\left(\pi''+\frac{2}{r}\pi'\right) \right)\nonumber\\
B&=4 \frac{N^2-2}{N(N+2)}\alpha e^{\beta \pi}\nonumber \\
C&=4\beta\frac{N-2}{N}\alpha e^{\beta \pi}
\end{align}

The field equation admits a well-posed initial value-formulation locally if the
effective metric $G^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}$ is Lorentzian.

The equation (\ref{effective}) can be expanded as

\begin{equation}
\label{effective2}
G^{00}_{\text{eff}}\partial_t^2\phi
+G^{11}_{\text{eff}}\partial_r^2\phi
+G^{22}_{\text{eff}}r^2\partial_\Omega^2 \phi
+\text{~first derivatives of }\phi+\cdots =0
\end{equation}

where $\partial_\Omega^2 \phi$ is the angular part of the Laplacian.

This equation is Lorentzian with a signature (-,+,+,+), if we
have $G^{00}_{\text{eff}}<0$, $G^{11}_{\text{eff}}>0$ and $G^{22}_{\text{eff}}>0$.

These conditions are exactly the same as  the ghost free condition
and the stability
of the Laplacian used in the literature.\\

In fact the equation (\ref{effective2}) can be derived from the action

\begin{equation}
\delta^2 S=\int -\frac{1}{2}G^{00}_{\text{eff}}\left[\left(\partial_t\phi\right)^2-c_r^2\left(\partial_r\phi\right)^2-c_\Omega^2\left(\partial_\Omega\phi\right)^2\right]{\rm d}^4 x
\end{equation}

where

\begin{align}
c_r^2&=-\frac{G^{11}_{\text{eff}}}{G^{00}_{\text{eff}}} =1+\frac{B}{A}\pi'^2+\frac{C}{A}\pi''\\
c_\Omega^2 &=-r^2\frac{G^{22}_{\text{eff}}}{G^{00}_{\text{eff}}}=1+\frac{C}{rA}\pi'
\end{align}

The ghost condition fixes the
 sign of $G^{00}_{\text{eff}}<0$ and $G^{11}_{\text{eff}}>0$ and $G^{22}_{\text{eff}}>0$ via
 the positivity of the sound speed $c_r^2>0$, $c_\Omega^2>0$( also know as the stability of the Laplacian).\\

When the non linear terms ($\alpha$-terms) are dominant, we can
reduce the evolution equation for the scalar field to

\begin{align}
&N=2,~~2\pi'+3r\pi''=0 \Rightarrow \pi'\propto r^{-2/3},\\
&N\neq 2,~~\pi'+2 r \pi''=0 \Rightarrow \pi' \propto r^{-1/2}.
\end{align}

Thus it becomes easy to estimate the sound speed at small distances,

\begin{align}
&N=2,~~c_r^2=3,~~c_\Omega^2 =1\\
&N\neq 2,~~c_r^2=4/3,~~c_\Omega^2 =1/3.
\end{align}

The propagation of the perturbation of the scalar field is therefore
superluminal in the radial direction $c_r^2>1$ at small distances.
However, we shall demonstrate  in the next section for the special
case $N=2$ that the superluminal does not implies a non causal
propagation of the perturbations. It is in fact just a redefinition
of the maximum sound speed via a larger light cone structure of the
space time compared to the Minkowsky space.

\section{Special case of $N=2$}

In the particular case of $N=2$ where an emergent geometry is
present (see \cite{Babichev:2007dw} for more details), we have

\begin{equation}
c_r^2=\frac{1-3\alpha X e^{\beta\pi}}{1-\alpha X e^{\beta\pi}}
\end{equation}

Hence as soon as the non linear  $(\alpha)$ term becomes dominant,
we have $c_r^2 \propto 3$.

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=.7]{cr2_1.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=.7]{cr2_2.eps}
\caption{(Top): The radial sound speed versus the distance in parsecs for $N=1$, (Bottom): The same figure for $N=2$}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=.7]{crO_1.eps}
\caption{The angular sound speed versus the radial distance in parsecs for $N=1$}
\end{figure}

The non linear terms which are necessary for local constraints
create automatically a superluminal propagation. This behavior is
present in models involving Galileons and their extensions \cite{Nicolis:2008in,Andrews:2010km,Goon:2010xh}.

 We should, however, emphasize that we do not have this
propagation in the Mikowski space-time
but in an extended structure of space-time because of the non linear terms.\\
In fact, in the special case of $N=2$, the model reduces to a
particular K-essence; therefore by performing a conformal
transformation we have,

\begin{equation}
\tilde{G}^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}=\frac{1}{K_{,X}^2c_r} G^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}
\end{equation}

We can rewrite the equation for perturbations as \cite{Babichev:2007dw}

\begin{equation}
\tilde{G}^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}D_{\mu}D_{\nu}\phi-M^2_{\text{eff}}\phi=0
\end{equation}

where $D_\mu$ is the covariant derivative associated to the effective metric $\tilde{G}^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}$.

and

\begin{equation}
M_{\text{eff}}^2=-\frac{\alpha}{K_{,X}^2c_r}\left(\frac{3}{4}X^2-\beta X \Box \pi+\beta \pi^\mu\pi_{\mu\nu}\pi^\nu\right)e^{\beta\pi}
\end{equation}

We  notice the difference with \cite{Babichev:2007dw} where the
scalar field was time dependant \footnote{In fact, if $\pi\equiv
\pi(t)$, the sound speed in an homogenous and isotropic Universe is
$c_s^2=(1-2X \frac{K_{,XX}}{K_{,x}} )^{-1}$ but in the case where
$\pi\equiv \pi(r)$ the sound speed in the radial direction is
$c_r^2=1+2X \frac{K_{,XX}}{K_{,x}}$.}.

It is also interesting to note that the mass term is null when
$\alpha \rightarrow \infty$.

Therefore the emergent geometry defined by the metric
$\tilde{G}^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}$ defines a new structure of the
space-time, the light cone is larger than the standard one if and
only if $\frac{K_{,XX}}{K_{,X}}<0$. In the limit where the non
linear terms are dominant, we have
$\frac{K_{,XX}}{K_{,X}}=-\frac{2}{\pi'^2}<0$.

We emphasize also that this new structure of the spacetime is stably
causal. In fact the Minkowski time could define a future directed
timelike vector field,

\begin{equation}
\tilde{G}^{\mu\nu}_{\text{eff}}\partial_{\mu}t\partial_{\nu}t=-\frac{1}{K_{,X}c_{r}}
\end{equation}

which is negative as soon as the hyperbolicity conditions are satisfied.\\
Therefore no CCCs (Causal Closed Curves) can exist.

The superluminal propagation does not create any causal
inconsistencies. In fact the perturbations of the scalar field do
not propagate in the Minkowski space-time but rather in some form of
"aether" because of the presence of the background field $\pi(r)$.
The maximum of the speed of the field is just a redefinition of the
speed of light in this new space-time. The causal structure is not
changed, in the sense that we do not have CCCs in this case.

\section{Background cosmological dynamics}

We concentrate on spatially flat
Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universes with  scale
factor $a(t)$,

\begin{equation}
{\rm d s}^2=-{\rm d t}^2+a^2 {\rm d \textbf x}^2
\end{equation}

\begin{align}
\label{eq:F1}
\ddot\pi+3H\dot\pi-\alpha e^{\beta\pi}K&=\beta\rho,\\
\label{eq:F2}
3H^2-\frac{1}{4}\dot\pi^2-\alpha e^{\beta\pi}\Sigma^{0}_{~0}&=\rho,\\
\label{eq:F3}
3H^2+2\dot H+\frac{1}{4}\dot\pi^2-\alpha e^{\beta\pi}\Sigma^{1}_{~1}&=0.
\end{align}

The following equations are obtained

\begin{align}
&\Sigma^{0}_{~0}=
-12\beta H^3\dot\pi
+\frac{9}{2}c_1H^2\dot\pi^2
-\frac{c_2}{2}\dot\pi^3\left(\beta\dot\pi-6H\right)\nonumber\\
&\hspace{1cm}+\frac{3}{2}c_3\dot\pi^4,\\
&\Sigma^{1}_{~1}=
-4\left[(\beta \ddot\pi+\beta^2\dot\pi^2+2\beta H\dot\pi)H^2+2\beta H\dot H\dot\pi \right]\nonumber\\
&\hspace{1cm}+\frac{1}{2}c_1\dot\pi\left[\dot\pi(2\dot H+3H^2+2\beta H\dot\pi)+4H\ddot\pi\right]\nonumber\\
&\hspace{1cm}+\frac{1}{2}c_2\dot\pi^2(2\ddot\pi+\beta\dot\pi^2)
-\frac{1}{2}c_3\dot\pi^4,\\
&K=24\beta H^2(H^2+\dot H)
-3c_1\bigl[H^2(\beta\dot\pi^2+2\ddot\pi+6H\dot\pi)\nonumber\\
&\hspace{1cm}+4H\dot H\dot\pi \Bigr]
+c_2\dot\pi\Bigl[\dot\pi(4\beta\ddot\pi+\beta^2\dot\pi^2-6\dot H-18H^2)\nonumber\\
&\hspace{1cm}-12H\ddot\pi\Bigr]
-3c_3\dot\pi^2\left[\beta\dot\pi^2+4H\dot\pi+4\ddot\pi\right].
\end{align}

where $H\equiv \frac{\dot a}{a}$ is the Hubble rate while a dot
stands for a derivative with respect to the cosmic time $t$.

\section{Stability conditions in an FLRW Universe}

In order to derive the stability conditions of the theory in the
context of an isotropic and homogeneous Universe, we study  linear
perturbation in a FLRW background. We consider the following metric

\begin{align}
&{\rm d s}^2=-\left(1+2\alpha\right){\rm d t}^2-a\beta_{,i}{\rm d t} {\rm d x}^i\nonumber\\
&\hspace{.8cm}+a^2\left[\delta_{ij}(1+2\psi)+2\gamma_{;ij}+2h_{ij}\right]{\rm d x}^i{\rm d x}^j.
\end{align}

where $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\psi$ and $\gamma$ are scalar metric perturbations,
and $h_{ij}$ is the traceless and divergence-free tensor perturbations.

We did not considered vector perturbations in the line element because of the absence of an anisotropic fluid.\\

\subsection{Scalar perturbations}

For scalar perturbations, we can neglect the matter contributions at late times, and it was noticed in
 that the calculations simplify if we  work in the uniform-field gauge $\delta\pi=0$ \cite{Hwang:1999gf}.\\

Therefore we can show that the action at the second order can be written in the following form

\begin{equation}
\delta^2 S=\frac{1}{2}\int {\rm d x}^3 {\rm d t}a^3 Q^{(s)}\left[\dot\psi^2-\frac{c_s^{2(s)}}{a^2}(\partial_i \psi)^2\right]
\end{equation}

where
\begin{align}
   & Q^{(s)} = \frac{\dot\pi^2
       +6\frac{\left(Q^{(s)}_{a}\right)^2}{2
       +Q^{(s)}_{b}}+2Q^{(s)}_{c}}
       {\left(H+\frac{Q^{(s)}_{a}}{2
       +Q^{(s)}_{b}}\right)^{2}},
   \nonumber \\
   & c_s^{2(s)} = 1 + 2\frac{Q^{(s)}_{d}
       +\frac{Q^{(s)}_{a}Q^{(s)}_{e}}{2
       +Q^{(s)}_{b}}-\left(\frac{
       Q^{(s)}_{a}}{2+Q^{(s)}_{b}}\right)^2 Q^{(s)}_{f}}
       {\frac{\dot\pi^2}{2}+3\frac{\left(
       Q^{(s)}_{a}\right)^2}{2+Q^{(s)}_{b}}+Q^{(s)}_{c}}.
   \label{e:s_scalar}
\end{align}

where we defined

\begin{align}
& Q^{(s)}_{a} = \alpha \left[ 4 \beta H^2 - 2 c_1 \dot \pi H
    - c_2 \dot \pi^2 \right]\dot \pi e^{\beta\pi},\\
& Q^{(s)}_{b} = \alpha\left[ 8 \beta H - c_1 \dot \pi \right]\dot \pi e^{\beta\pi},\\
& Q^{(s)}_{c} = \alpha \left[ 3 c_1 H^2 + 2 c_2 \dot \pi \left( 3 H
    - \beta \dot \pi \right) + 6 c_3 \dot \pi^2 \right] \dot \pi^2 e^{\beta\pi},\\
& Q^{(s)}_{d} = \alpha \Big[c_1 \dot H + c_2 \left( \beta \dot \pi^2
    + \ddot \pi - \dot \pi H \right)- 2 c_3 \dot \pi^2 \Big] \dot \pi^2 e^{\beta\pi},\\
& Q^{(s)}_{e} = \alpha \Big[ 8 \beta \dot H - c_1
    \left( \beta \dot \pi^2 + 2 \ddot \pi- 2 \dot \pi H \right)
    + 2 c_2 \dot \pi^2 \Big]\dot \pi e^{\beta\pi},\\
& Q^{(s)}_{f} = \alpha \left[ 4 \left( \beta \ddot \pi+\beta^2\dot\pi^2 -\beta \dot \pi H
    \right)+ c_1 \dot \pi^2 \right] e^{\beta\pi}.
\end{align}

We recover the results derived in \cite{Cartier:2001is}, see also \cite{Kobayashi:2011nu} for a generalization of the model in the context of inflation.\\

The ghost condition fixes the sign of $Q^{(s)}>0$, and also the
positivity condition of the sound speed fixes $c_s^{(s)}>0$. As we
mentioned before that hyperbolicity of equations of motion implies
that we have a well posed Cauchy problem (at least locally).

\subsection{Tensor perturbations}

We can also show that for the tensor perturbations we have

\begin{align}
& {1 \over a^3 Q^{(t)}} \left( a^3 Q^{(t)} \dot{h}^{i}_{j}
     \right)^\cdot - c_s^{(t)} {\Delta \over a^2} h^{i}_{j}
      = {1 \over Q^{(t)}} \delta T^{(t)i}_{~~~~j},
\end{align}
where
\begin{align}
& Q^{(t)} = 2 + \alpha
    \left( 8 \beta H -c_1 \dot{\pi} \right)\dot\pi e^{\beta\pi},\nonumber \\
& c_s^{(t)} = {1 \over Q^{(t)}}
    \left[ 2 + \alpha \left( 8 \left(\beta\ddot{\pi}+\beta^2\dot\pi^2\right) + c_1 \dot{\pi}^2
    \right)e^{\beta\pi} \right].
\end{align}

Similar to the case of scalar perturbations, we have the two
conditions of stability,

 \begin{equation} Q^{(t)}>0,~~~ c_s^{(t)}>0 \end{equation}

\subsection{Cosmology of the model}

In this section we study the cosmology of the model reduced
in $4$-dimensions (\ref{eq:action}). By considering the following variables
\begin{align}
x&=8\alpha H^2 e^{\beta \pi}\,,\\
y&=\frac{\beta}{2}\frac{\dot \pi}{H}
\end{align}
The Friedmann equations (\ref{eq:F1},\ref{eq:F2},\ref{eq:F3}) reduce
to a very simple form which depend only on the 3 variables
$(x,y,\Omega_r)$, and the dimension $N$,  where $\Omega_r$
corresponds to the radiation. The autonomous system does not depend
on the coupling constant $\alpha$. The relevant fixed points are,
the radiation phase $(x,y,\Omega_r)=(0,0,1)$; there is also a point
which corresponds to an accelerated Universe, namely,
$(x,y,\Omega_r)=(-2\frac{(2+N)^2}{N(1+N)},\frac{N}{2+N},0)$, for
which we have $\Omega_m=0$ and $w_{\rm eff}=-\frac{6+N}{6+3N}$. we
recover a de Sitter phase in the case, $N=0$.
 For all values of $N$, this point corresponds to an accelerated phase of the Universe. We did not find a matter
 phase in the model under consideration. The closest fixed point corresponds to $(x,y,\Omega_r)=(0,\frac{N}{2+N},0)$ for which we
 have $\Omega_m=\frac{2(2+N)}{3(2+N)}$ and $w_{\rm eff}=\frac{N}{6+3N}$, in the limit $N\rightarrow
 0$,
 we recover a standard matter phase. We emphasize that between the "matter" phase and the
 accelerated phase $y=\frac{N}{2+N}$ is constant, the system has a tracker solution.\\
Unfortunately the model is not viable because of the absence of a
standard matter phase. It seems that the reduction of the model in
$4$-D is not pertinent at large scales relevant to cosmological
dynamics . In this scenario, cosmology could be studied in
$4+D$-dimensions. On the other hand, it is known that various
possible  reduction schemes from higher to 4-dimensions
 can give rise to a potential term which could give rise to a viable
 cosmology. We defer these investigations  to our future project.

\section{Conclusion and Perspectives}

In this paper we have studied simple extension of General Relativity
in the context of Lovelock theory. We derived the equations of the
reduced theory in $4$ dimensions. We have shown that locally in a
flat spherically symmetric background,  the non linear terms coming
from the Gauss-Bonnet term in higher dimensions induce Vainshtein
mechanism. We found that in $4+2$-dimensions, the Vainshtein radius
can be approximated by, $R_V^4\simeq \alpha r_s^2$ whereas in case
of $4+N$-dimensions by $R_V^3\simeq \alpha r_s$ with $N\neq 2$.
 We have shown that at distances lower than the Vainshtein radius, the fifth force is negligibly small
 compared to the gravitational force.\\
We have investigated the behavior of the scalar field inside the
Vainshtein sphere and  derived stability conditions of the model. We
have reaffirmed that the hyperbolicity of the equations is
equivalent to the ghost condition and the stability of the
Laplacian. We  found that the model has a superluminal propagation
of the perturbation of the scalar field in the flat spherically
symmetric solution. This faster than light solution appears
 as soon as the non linear terms of the model become dominant. We have shown, in the special case
 of $N=2$ that the causality structure of the space time is well defined even in the
 presence of the superluminal propagation. In fact, we shown that the field propagates
  in a space-time which is not anymore the Minkowski one but some kind of "aether"
   because of the presence of the background field $\pi(r)$. This modification of
   the structure of the space-time is related to the domination of
   the non linear terms in the Lagrangian. We observed that the light cone gets
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   in the aether as compared to the case of Minkowski spacetime provided that the stability conditions
   hold thereby demonstrating that no CCCs appears even in the
   presence of the superluminal propagation.\\
Finally in the context of an isotropic and homogeneous Universe, we
derived Friedmann equations for the field and established the
stability conditions in the context of the scalar and tensor
perturbations. We show that the matter phase is absent in
the  model under consideration.

It will be interesting to investigate the cosmological dynamics and
observational constraints on the model under consideration,
in the presence of a potential term, in a separate
publication. It is also important to investigate the model with
general Lovelock terms in simple and non-trivial topology of extra
dimensions. We defer this work to our future investigations.

\section*{ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS}
The work of RG was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund of the JSPS No. 10329

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The first thing that really struck me on first view of the works of Michael Ackerman (b.1967) was that here was an artist who has truly found his own style. In aa age where practically everything has been done & dusted, this is a real find, a jewel in the rough! As a photographer, myself, I was quite literally awestruck by the simplicity with which he has managed to capture such immediacy and, seemingly, genuine emotion in his rather dark and melancholy images. He may paint a picture of the shadow-side of human existence, but where the sensibility that comes to the surface in moments of vulnerability is touchingly revealed. His is, also, not the viewpoint of a mere observer. He has found a way inside that extremely private sphere each one of us builds around ourselves, yet there is no hint of intrusion or exploitation, only a rare quality of real intimacy. However, time is perhaps the most significant element in his personal exploration of these "everyday landscapes"; those fleeting moments which immediately are lost in the past, yet are the very material of our everyday existence. Ackerman, himself, describes an almost obsessive need to photograph; to realise these images as "proofs of one's own feelings" in response to the world around us. Yet, not in the detached manner of reportage or documentary photography, recording life from aside, but fully immersed in it, as a feeling/breathing fibre of the texture itself. His images are capable of evoking a feeling for the universal quality we all possess within our most basic make-up. These strangers seem almost as ghosts, yet possess a presence of character that stays with you. And as I walked down the streets of Rome that night I was suddenly more aware of the presence of those around me and how we were all "interweaving" in some piece of a strange, rich fabric... Maybe Ackerman has no other 'purpose' for his work than to respond to a personal need, but if an artist can influence us by something they have been inspired by, surely this in itself is an additional achievement, even be it on an unconscious level?


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Q: Policy Falsified error in Java Webservice using Weblogic and Layer 7 randomly I have an issue that is in my opinion weird in that it only happens randomly. The error is a policy falsified warning. I am leaning on Layer 7 being the culprit. In the dev environment where certificates are not used, it works 100% of the time. Introducing certs lead to the issue, and in dev we disabled all but one node in web logic and it works 100% of the time. When I enable all the nodes, and enable the certificate with correct keystore and keystore password on the enviornment, I get the error SOMETIMES. I can't explain why, it fails and passes on all three nodes seemingly randomly, and in the Layer 7 audit I see the requests coming in. What could possibly cause this? Here is the message from Layer 7:
    Node           : intssgn1w1
Time           : 20150724 07:16:16.346
Severity       : WARNING
Request Id     : 0000014e65301aff-67c783a
Message        : Message was not processed: Assertion Falsified (600)
Audit Record ID: 4820934462

Event Type     : Message Summary
Client IP      : 10.2.110.226
Service        : correctServiceAddresss/name
Operation      : onboardPerson
Rqst Length    : <Not Saved>
Resp Length    : <Not Saved>
Resp Status    : 0
Resp Time      : 4ms
User ID        : 4799889408
User Name      : cert-user
Auth Method    : HTTPS Client Cert'

On a passing request to the same node/enviornment:
Node           : intssgn1w1
Time           : 20150724 07:10:06.447
Severity       : WARNING
Request Id     : 0000014e65301aff-67c65e5
Message        : Message processed successfully
Audit Record ID: 4820934444

Event Type     : Message Summary
Client IP      : 10.2.110.226
Service        : correctServiceAddresss/name
Operation      : onboardPerson
Rqst Length    : <Not Saved>
Resp Length    : <Not Saved>
Resp Status    : 200
Resp Time      : 1107ms
User ID        : 4799889408
User Name      : cert-user
Auth Method    : HTTPS Client Cert

I have no idea why. If anyone has better experience with Layer 7 or Web logic and can point me in some directions I will follow up on them. Thank you in advance.

A: I managed to figure this one out, and for the sake of questions going unanswered for future people with this problem, I hope this helps.
The issue was with the plan.xml file not properly syncing up all of the nodes in Weblogic server. On each deploy, the first node would deploy successfully and the botch the other nodes deploy because of the problems in the plan.xml. Layer 7 had nothing to do with it, only that it gives the same policy falsified generic error.
If you are experiencing this problem, you can verify this will fix by doing the following:
1) access each node on Weblogic server console.
2) In each node access the web service that is throwing the error
NOTE: At this point I was done, the installs on other nodes were corrupt and I got the error pop that would not allow me to enter them
3) Check status of the services are up and running
If you are kicked out like I was, try redeploying. If this does not fix it, but as I said the first node is working, the plan.xml is most likely the culprit.

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Leština () is a municipality and village in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.

Administrative parts
Villages of Doubravice, Dvořiště and Podhořany u Nových Hradů are administrative parts of Leština.

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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Police say they have arrested a man believed to be responsible for a series of indecent assaults in Center City and North Philadelphia.
Two officers on foot patrol encountered 58-year-old Erich Cunningham, who identifies as homeless, at the bottom of the escalator of the SEPTA concourse at 15th Street and JFK Boulevard and stopped him for questioning.
The pair say he matched the description of the man suspected of the physical assaults of four girls and a 30-year-old woman.
Cunningham was taken to the Special Victims Unit where he was questioned and later charged with unlawful contact with a child, indecent assault, simple assault, and harassment.
Capt. Mark Burgmann said the suspect first went after a 16-year-old at 6:30 a.m. as she stood on a subway platform at SEPTA's Walnut-Locust station. She said a man grabbed her hand and tried to make her touch him inappropriately.
From there, he made his way north, groping a 30-year-old woman on the concourse at Suburban Station, then a 12-year-old at 16th and Arch streets.
"At 16th and Vine, the victim's a 15-year-old female," Burgmann said. "She was approached by the offender, who grabbed her buttocks, and she then fled and went to school."
He finally stopped at Broad and Fairmount streets after assaulting a 16-year-old girl at Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue.
Burgmann said investigators got a solid description of the man based on a video police acquired and descriptions from victims and witnesses.
KYW Newsradio's Paul Kurtz and Dan Wing contributed to this story.


1 > Good spaces to congregate: ensuring more and better places to gather.
Gathering spaces act as a vital component of the public realm, at both the neighbourhood level, and in the city core. When designed to be flexible, such spaces allow for a variety of activities: markets, performance, rallies, and the everyday pleasure of meeting friends and people-watching. Vancouver's network of parks, while not evenly distributed across the city, go some way towards meeting this need. But a separate system of core and neighbourhood plazas and squares – "hard-scaped" surfaces (e.g. paved or stone), accessible design, compelling landscaping, opportunities for modest programming and amenities that support public life – would strengthen the city's overall liveability and quality of life, and enhance local identity.
A legible network of plazas and gathering places, of varying shapes and sizes, distributed across each of Vancouver's 22 neighbourhoods. The downtown should have a formal 'heart' – a grand gathering place in which a range of activities can take place year round. At a neighbourhood scale, there should be a series of smaller gathering spaces that reflect the character and needs of each area.
(1) Embolden Downtown Vancouver with the creation of new and renewed public gathering places on the street level of the 800-block of Robson (an expanded Robson Square), the north side of the Art Gallery (also known as Centennial Square), and on part of the former site of Larwill Park (currently the Easy Park parking lot at Georgia and Cambie). The Robson Square 'complex' (including street level and sub- and above-ground areas) is especially well positioned, and ideally proportioned, to fulfil a prominent role as the People's plaza the urban heart of the city.
(2) Ensure a well-defined system of neighbourhood-scale gathering spaces, by enhancing existing plazas and squares and planning for the creation of new spaces. These should include more than the temporary gathering areas created through the reallocation of road space during the summer months. Rather, they should be permanent, well-designed, and vehicle-free… and should function as natural places for the community to come together.
(3) Don't let the riot get in the way of public gatherings. The events of the June 2011 Stanley Cup riot were terrible on many levels. But it is important not to use this event – extremely rare among the many large public gatherings that take place in the city each year – as an excuse to clamp down on big events. Learn from these and other events, develop a layered approach to big gatherings that features additional programming that will occupy crowds, and plan for a measured response to the security needs that may be present. Possible lessons learned? Olympics: a little too much security. Stanley Cup street party: a little more needed.
Activate existing capacity – Not all gathering spaces need to be created anew. Vancouver already has many under-utilized spaces, privately-owned plazas, and property assets that could be used more effectively. Consider modest improvements, a call for community involvement, new strategic partnerships with property owners, and an invitation to develop programming and events to support renewed community spaces.
Where appropriate, plan for capital acquisition. Funding is tight, but this doesn't mean that dollars should not be invested in building our public space assets now.
Inscribe and enact – Ensure that relevant civic policy initiatives – such as the Transportation 2040 Plan update (to be completed in 2012), the Downtown Public Space Plan (timeline TBD), and community planning activities (ongoing) – reflect the goal of enhancing gathering spaces. Specific projects, such as the proposed relocation or refurbishment of the Vancouver Art Gallery, should also reference and support this goal and be viewed through a public space lens.
Crowd-source – The Where's the Square Ideas Competition resulted in a number of ideas for a 'grand gathering place'. Consider sourcing ideas for neighbourhood spaces from neighbourhood residents. Take it to the next level – empower residents as part of the place-making process in areas such as funding, construction, and some general maintenance.
Expand the creation of 'temporary' public spaces – The City's Summer Spaces (Open Streets/Viva Vancouver!) program has provided the opportunity to experiment with a variety of new public space interventions. This program, currently funded on an interim basis, should be made permanent.


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Yesenia of the Samaritan House Medical Clinic with donations from GROW San Mateo gardeners Welcome to GROW San Mateo! The GROW San Mateo project started as a volunteer beautification project and has evolved into a local network of gardeners & backyard fruit foragers who generously donate produce to support the Samaritan House Food Pharmacy. Prior to the COVID pandemic, Food Pharmacy clients were challenged with health issues linked to food consumption - like diabetes, obesity and hypertension. As we've seen, the virus has been disproportionately brutal on people with these health conditions. This goes beyond food insecurity to actual "nutrition" insecurity - a challenge to not only provide a sufficient quantity of food, but to change eating habits. At the Food Pharmacy, nutritious food is a form of treatment. As gardeners, we never grow just the right amount. There's always something to share - maybe not a basketful - but a tomato, a couple of zucchini. The G
Winter Gardening Guide for San Mateo
There's never been a better time to be out in your garden. Think of the COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions as an excuse to get a head start on growing food this winter. And there's rain in the forecast! Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just starting out, we've put some information together to give you growing ideas for the colder months of the year. Click for our Winter Gardening Guide for San Mateo. While the pace of growing has slowed - now's the opportunity to enjoy just being outside - whether that's a backyard plot or an apartment terrace. And if you can, please plant some extra produce to share with folks in the community who could use some extra help. Happy Holidays! -Bill S. Founder, GROW San Mateo
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Do not disturb. Probably not an approach to gardening that immediately comes to mind - but in many ways, doing nothing is actually better for the fertility of your soil. By preserving the "soil food web" and letting the fungi, bacteria and multitude of soil microbes be...your plants will thrive. There are several problems with heavily tilling your soil. First, it's a lot of work. Second, it quickly depletes available nutrients such as nitrogen - requiring the gardener to continually add them back in - which isn't sustainable. Also, tilling the soil releases carbon into the atmosphere - contributing to climate change. There's a better way. What does No Dig Gardening look like? Here's a quick example: As you can see, to plant seeds, you simply poke holes into the compost (in this case, to plant fava bean seeds). Roots from the prior season's plants are left in the ground (cutting off stems right at ground level), providing the soil food web with


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10-year-old Tristan told me that he misses his big sister since she went to college. Can you tell?
In a Day in the Life Family Documentary session, I spend the day with a family, documenting what happens in their natural environment. I love being a silent observer and photographing authentic interactions that happen when they forget about the camera – not staged or contrived, but natural. Which is why I use only the natural light that gently filters through the windows of their home – so that they can see their lives authentically.
I felt so privileged to spend the day with single mom, Anik, and her 5-year-old daughter, Kyra. They truly have their own little world together, and I loved documenting it.
This type of lifestyle session has become so special to me and to those I work with. Children grow up fast. Documenting milestones is important, but taking photographs of daily life allows us to freeze time in a different, meaningful way. By spending the day with a family, I can deliver memories of their lives now: their children's favorite toys, childhood rooms, their life, and commemorate the fun and relaxed moments with their parents at home.
I can't help but wonder if Kyra would remember playing ball in the house … in their Christmas dresses … without this photograph?
I was charmed by Kyra and Anik. They have a gentle relationship, and I think these photographs show the emotional connection between them.
Anik is a Certified Law of Attraction Life Coach and owner of Anik Perspectives. I had the pleasure of taking some photographs for her website, so I am familiar with the work she does — but I loved seeing how she brings some of this home with her. As part of her job, Anik holds retreats, which is not surprising, as their home life in St. Pete feels like a family retreat.
Anik is also a representative for doTerra oils. She and Krya use doTerra essential oils on their feet to help them relax. It was sweet to watch this 5-year-old gently massage the oil into Mom's feet.
Mom has taught her daughter about what oils to use for different purposes, and they each have their favorite scents.
Krya and Anik love crafting together, and making dream catchers has become a hobby recently. When they go on bike rides in the Tampa Bay area, they collect items like feathers, twigs, seed pods, and acorns that they use to make dream catchers.
Kyra has a dream box that her mother bought for her in Utah. In Native American tradition, if you write your dream down, put it in the box, and say your dream out loud each night, it will come true. Kyra placed a note that said "I am Elsa" (from Disney's Frozen) into the box. Then, she hung her dream catcher over her bed for good measure. The next morning, Kyra ran to her mom and announced, "I had a dream that I was Elsa!" She likes to say that her dream came true … in her dreams!
As a photographer, these sessions are important to me because I am able to photograph the connections and feelings that families have now, but aren't able to see. Think about it. When your children are looking through photographs 20 or 30 years from now, they'll see where their memories came from – how you played with them, held them; how you looked at them … how you felt about them.
Doing an at-home documentary session like this one makes me smile, and I feel so thankful that I get to be the photographer who enters their world.
You can watch a highlight video from my day spent with Kyra and Anik here.
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I had the honor of photographing Lauren & Corey in downtown St. Pete to celebrate their engagement! I could tell that they're head over heels in love!
What a perfect way to celebrate their new engagement! I feel honored that Lauren and Corey allowed me to capture this very special time in their lives!
Click here to watch a highlight video of some of my favorite images!
I had the privilege of shooting a lifestyle session with this fun couple, Stacie and Steve, who recently picked up and moved from New York City to St. Petersburg, Florida. Talk about a major lifestyle change!
This photography session was a perfect way to commemorate – and celebrate – their new life together in the Sunshine City!
I have to say, my heart skipped a beat when I saw this adorable courtyard in the historic building where they live. Does it say "Florida lifestyle" or what? It's a perfect place to unwind after a long day, with a nice glass of wine.
"Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different." Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun.
Stacie is owner of Stacie's Cottage Cafe, located at 501 1st Ave North. The atmosphere is cozy, and the food is fantastic. Let me tell you, she makes a mean chicken salad!
The cafe is as cute as she is!
We walked around and explored a little in the western part of downtown St. Pete.
There's a lot of beauty in St. Pete… also some funkiness. Like this art installation, "Face the Jury" located at the St. Petersburg Judicial Center, 545 First Avenue North. The art display was created by Boston artist Douglas Kornfeld in 2006, for Pinellas County's public art program. There are 13 bright red metal chair sculptures that are arranged so that a normal-size defendant's chair faces and looks up to twelve jury chairs that are at least six-feet high and of varying shapes. Fun!
We're already planning the next lifestyle session, at Stacie and Steve's new beach house in St. Pete Beach, which is being renovated. Stay tuned!
9/3/2016 Update: Stacie & Steve are staring in an episode of HGTV's "Beach Front Bargain Hunt: Renovation"! The episode airs on Saturday, September, 10, 2016, at 9:00 p.m. Congratulations, Stacie and Steve! I wish you many happy years and incredible memories in your new home!


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Multibillion-Dollar Fake Cryptocurrency OneCoin Leader Arrested
by Ike Obudulu Posted on March 12th, 2019
US Federal agents arrested Konstantin Ignatov, the top leader of an international pyramid scheme that stole billions from investors through the marketing of a fraudulent cryptocurrency called OneCoin.
Konstantin Ignatov was arrested on wire fraud charges at Los Angeles International Airport, the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York said.
Ignatov and his sister Ruja Ignatova – the founder and original leader of OneCoin – were indicted with charges of wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering offenses. Ruja Ignatova remains at large.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman said the siblings created a multibillion-dollar "cryptocurrency" company based completely on lies and deceit. "They promised big returns and minimal risk, but, as alleged, this business was a pyramid scheme based on smoke and mirrors more than zeros and ones. Investors were victimized while the defendants got rich, he added.
New York County District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. accused them of compromising the integrity of New York's financial system and defrauding investors in billions.
OneCoin Ltd. was co-founded in 2014 by Ignatova in Bulgarian capital Sofia.
She served as the top leader of the company until her disappearance in October 2017. Ignatov rose to OneCoin's top leadership position by mid-2018.
OneCoin Ltd. operates as a multi-level marketing network through which members receive commissions for recruiting others to purchase cryptocurrency packages. The OneCoin member network had such a rapid growth that it claimed to have more than 3 million members worldwide, including victims in New York. OneCoin continues to operate to this day, U.S. prosecutors say.
Victims sent funds online to One Coin-controlled bank accounts to purchase OneCoin packages. Investigation shows that, between the fourth quarter of 2014 and the third quarter of 2016 alone, OneCoin Ltd. generated EUR3.353 billion ($3.783 billion) in sales revenue and earned "profits" of EUR2.232 billion ($2.517 billion).
The promoters of the crypto currency claimed that the value of a OneCoin has steadily grown from EUR0.50 ($0.56) to approximately EUR29.95 (33.78) per coin, as of January 2019.
OneCoin Ltd. has claimed to have a private "blockchain," or a digital ledger identifying OneCoins and recording historical transactions, which was found to be false on investigation.
The investigation has revealed that the co-founders had maintained an "exit strategy" to defraud the investors. The first option that Ignatova listed in one email she sent to her brother was, "Take the money and run and blame someone else for this . . . ."
IGNATOVA, 38, of Sofia, Bulgaria, is charged with one count each of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years sentence, and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. IGNATOVA remains at large.
IGNATOV, 33, of Sofia, Bulgaria, is charged by Complaint with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
SCOTT, 50, of Coral Gables, Florida, is charged by Indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.


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Tony Piccione has been actively involved in Florida Real Estate since 1981 and has closed thousands of properties. He is a second generation realtor and his father founded Gold Coast Schools of Real Estate. He owned Hercules Real Estate in the late 1980's to early 1990's. He is an industry veteran with his focus on helping seniors with their retirement living in The Villages. He has helped over 500 "Villagers" successfully transition into their retirement. His experience over the last 10 years with Village Sales and his affiliation with The Village community makes it easier to buy with the bonus of experiencing the "fun" of living here. Tony will be there to show you around the town and what makes The Villages a great place to retire.
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Elaine began selling real estate in the 1980's focusing on the Silver Spring Shores area with Hercules homes of Florida. She later continued selling residential real estate in Phoenix Arizona and in 2018, moved to The Villages, Florida where she found her true calling dealing with seniors and helping their dreams come true. She specializes in helping seniors find a retirement home and getting to know the people that they will be living and playing with for the rest of their lives. Elaine Holmes is a professional with gentle mannerisms that will comfort you when making this transition into retirement.
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I am a Miami born Floridian born on September 15, 1971. I graduated from Miramar High School in 1991. I moved to Marion County to raise my children in 1993. I've been in the Marine business with my father for the past 30 years. We repair, buy and sell boats and I currently hold a Mariners Captain License. I have worked part time bar tending and as a waiter. For fun, I enjoy fishing, scuba diving and lifting weights. I am a very determined individual and work hard to achieve my goals. I don't believe in failure. I am outspoken, very well to get along with and I service my customers needs with the utmost respect. My professional customer service skills brings business to our shop.
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Daily Skimm: COVID-19: Remdesivir, the Economy, and Frontline Action Figures
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A major study is raising hopes about one drug's ability to fight COVID-19.
Remdesivir. Yesterday, early results from a study on more than 1,000 hospitalized patients found that it sped up recovery by an average of four days. It's unclear if the antiviral drug can prevent deaths. Still, Dr. Anthony Fauci compared its potential impact to the first drug to treat HIV. And said the drug will set a new "standard of care" for coronavirus treatment. The FDA hasn't approved it yet. But it's reportedly on track to give the drug an emergency use authorization. And is in talks with its maker – Gilead Sciences – to get it to patients ASAP. But some are hesitant.
Like who?
Like WHO. The World Health Organization erred on the side of caution and declined to comment on the study's results until it gets more info. Meanwhile, a separate study in China found the drug didn't help. But researchers said the trial was stopped early as the outbreak there slowed and they couldn't enroll enough patients. And it's not the first COVID-19 treatment to face some questions.
Go on...
Enter anti-malarial drugs, like hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. President Trump's talked up using the drugs for COVID-19, and asked the FDA to fast-track its testing last month. But there's been debate around its effectiveness and safety, and doctors worry it does more harm than good. Last week, the FDA issued a warning against using these drugs outside of hospitals or clinical trials after reports of death and serious heart problems surfaced.
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The race to find a treatment for COVID-19 is on. And some are hopeful about remdesivir. But with countless lives at stake, some are urging caution.AND ALSO...THIS
AND ALSO...THIS
Who's still got explaining to do…
Former VP Joe Biden. He's facing growing pressure to address a former staffer's sexual assault allegation. Last year, Tara Reade was part of a group of women who accused Biden of inappropriate touching. Last month, she expanded on the allegation, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in the '90s. Biden's campaign called the allegation "false" – but women's rights advocates reportedly want him personally to issue a statement.
The latest: This week, two people came forward to corroborate elements of Reade's claims. And an old "Larry King Live" ep resurfaced in which Reade says her mom called in anonymously to discuss the situation.
In his corner: Some prominent Dems. That includes several thought to be in the running for Biden's VP pick, like Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Stacey Abrams. As Abrams said, "I believe Joe Biden."
What's yelling 'timber'…
The Commerce Dept. Yesterday, it said GDP dropped 4.8% in the first quarter – the steepest drop since the Great Recession. Reminder: GDP is the total value of things made and services provided in a certain time frame. Think of it as a country's economic report card. Until recently, the US was in its longest economic expansion ever recorded. But with stay-at-home orders grinding businesses to a halt, GDP's been struggling. Next quarter could be worse, with some analysts anticipating a 38% drop. If that happens, we're officially in recession territory.
Psst...see what a recession could mean for your wallet – and how you can prep – here.
What's hitting its expiration date...
Federal social distancing guidelines. Back in March, President Trump announced the 30-day guidelines, which included staying home, avoiding nonessential travel and large gatherings, and advising states to close bars and restaurants. They expire today. This comes as many states' stay-at-home orders have recently expired or are set to expire in the coming weeks. Here's what to expect as economies reopen.
What Ross Geller would lose it over...
Spinosaurus. For years, paleontologists have dug into the question of whether this 14,000-pound big boy was able to swim. Now, a new study says 'yup, it's a Schwimmer.' Scientists found a fossilized tail two years ago in Morocco that indicates the dino hunted underwater. Dun dun.
...Oh and just when you think your inner kid couldn't be happier, introducing frontline action figures.
When we could all use a hot girl summer right about now...
Beyoncé has entered the chat.
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Try clearing the cache from the Launcher. That resolved a lot of my lock ups while loading into a battle.
In your main WorldofWarplanes directory you should have a file called wgc_api.exe. That will open a launcher program that lets you launch any installed WG game. If you click the arrow next to the play button you will get the option to launch the game and clear the cache. That has resolved my hanger issues and occasional hanging when launching into a battle.
Handy for Tanks and Ships too. Also note the "safe mode" option for when you're trying to pin down if an issue is mod-related.