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Dimé
[aka Dime, Dima, Dimme]
Classification: Afro-Asiatic
Dime, Dima, Dimme
Afro-Asiatic, Omotic, South Omotic
ORTHOGRAPHY
Information from: "Africa" ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
Ethiopia;
Information from: "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Dime language of Ethiopia" (13) . Siebert, Ralph (2002) SIL International
"Dime consider themselves as being 'a
dying nation.'"
"Dime people use their language in all areas of daily life [...] language use seems stable."
Scripts (Writing system)
North Omo administrative region
Information from: "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia" (11) . Aklilu, Yilma and Siebert, Ralph (2002) SIL International
Information from: "1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results at Country Level" . Central Statistical Office
Information from: "The World Atlas of Language Structures" . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
6.16666666667,36.25
5.9548,36.2988
SOURCE: "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Dime language of Ethiopia" (13) . Siebert, Ralph (2002) SIL International
SOURCE: "The World Atlas of Language Structures" . , Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
SOURCE: "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia" (11) . Aklilu, Yilma and Siebert, Ralph (2002) SIL International
SOURCE: "1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results at Country Level" . Central Statistical Office
SOURCE: "Africa" ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
SIL electronic survey reports (SILESR), #2002-043 2002 Sociolinguistic survey report on the Dime language of Ethiopia 13 Earlier version appeared 1995 as "A survey of the Dimé language" in «SLLE (Survey of little-known languages of Ethiopia) linguistic reports», v. 31. SIL International Siebert, Ralph Siebert, Ralph. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Survey Report On the Dime Language of Ethiopia." 13. SIL International. EBALL ~2,000 1995 1000-9999 Amharic "Dime people use their language in all areas of daily life [...] language use seems stable." Threatened (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available) "Dime consider themselves as being 'a dying nation.'" 11 North Omo administrative region
0199255911 2005 The World Atlas of Language Structures Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer Oxford University Press New York 2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press. 6.16666666667,36.25
SIL electronic survey reports (SILESR), #2002-029 2002 Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia 11 Earlier version appeared 1995 as "Survey of Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi" in «SLLE (Survey of little-known languages of Ethiopia) linguistic reports», v. 25. SIL International pt. 1 Aklilu, Yilma and Siebert, Ralph Aklilu, Yilma and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi Languages of Ethiopia." pt. 1: 11. SIL International. EBALL 2,218
16 2009 Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009) M. Paul Lewis SIL International Dallas, TX http://www.ethnologue.com/ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.) ll_pub 6,197 6,500 1994 1000-9999 Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) Ethiopia;
3rd 2010 Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger UNESCO Publishing Paris http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas Christopher Moseley (ed.) Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.) ll_pub 6,501 1000-9999 Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) 5.9548,36.2988
1998 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results at Country Level Reproduced online by Hudson, 2006 Central Statistical Office 1 Addis Ababa Office of Population and Housing Census Commission https://www.msu.edu/~hudson/Ethlgslist.htm 1998. "1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, Results At Country Level." 1: Central Statistical Office. Online: https://www.msu.edu/~hudson/Ethlgslist.htm. 6189 6,501 1994 1000-9999 Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
World Oral Literature Project http://www.oralliterature.org "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org. 6,501 1000-9999 Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
9780700711970 2007 Africa Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages Christopher Moseley Routledge 7 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and F. K. Erhard Voeltz. 2007. "Africa." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. Routledge. ~5,000 1000-9999 Amharic, Aari Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 0 |
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When Satan took Jesus to the top of the temple and told him to jump, he tempted the Son of God to test his Father; to get God to prove his sonship in a spectacular, unmistakable way for all Jerusalem to see. His Father had already publicly announced his sonship (Luke 3:22), but there was a real temptation here, after a physically exhausting, mind-numbing 40-day trek through the wilderness, to secure a more dazzling testimony.
But this was more than a temptation to gain recognition among peers. At the root of this particular temptation, Satan hoped that Jesus would grasp at a premature vindication. Rather than walk the path of the cross to the irrefutable vindication of resurrection and final judgement, Satan pressed Jesus to get justice here and now. "If you are the Son of God," Satan nudged, "then get your Father to prove it." Bypass rejection and all that relational trouble and show everyone who you really are. It may even enhance your ministry.
But Jesus, suffering but steadfast, resisted the devil's schemes: "You shall not put the Lord to the test" (Luke 4:12). The Son saw through the temptation and recognized that requiring his Father to re-issue his heavenly pronouncement through a pointless but spectacular miracle would be nothing less than unbelief. Jesus knew his vindication would come later.
Satan will also tempt us to grasp for our vindication now, rather than waiting for God to vindicate us in the resurrection and final judgment. There are many ways this temptation may manifest itself. We may be tempted to retaliate for wrongs committed against us or to find ultimate hope in legal judgments made in our favor. But there is an unexpected way Satan may wield his craftiness against us: he may tempt us to grasp for our future vindication as we practice apologetics.
If you care at all about Scripture and truth, you will often find yourself wearied by how vigorous and how often and how thorough the attacks against your faith continue to be. We live and work within an intellectual setting that undermines the very possibility of universal religious truth. We find ourselves situated within a cultural narrative that makes a plain reading of Genesis sound like nonsense and doctrines like the resurrection appear as little more than interesting mythology. So much for biblical Christianity.
As we offer the gospel to unbelievers in this setting, we may be tempted vindicate ourselves by proving beyond a shadow of anyone's doubt that the Bible is true, that Christ is real, and that our faith is not in vain. We don't want to be bested in an argument or be made to look like a fool. We want it to be clear to everyone that we are right.
If this desire for immediate vindication grows, we will become angry at our opponents when they present a compelling argument. We might be tempted to twist the evidence for Christianity and make claims that aren't even true for the sake of winning a debate. We might misrepresent certain opposing positions for the sake of the gospel or retreat to personally attacking unbelievers. If we yield to the temptation to get our vindication now, we will do whatever we can to acquire it, even if it means lying about the truth. Our enemy is crafty indeed.
How do we overcome this temptation? The same way that Jesus did: by faith. Specifically, by constantly reminding our hearts that there is coming a day when the whole world—every person who has ever lived—will see that what Scripture says is true as God vindicates those who believed in Christ. Our Father will show everyone that his people were right to trust in Jesus and believe the Bible as His inerrant Word.
Think of it: What would have happened if Jesus had jumped from the temple and landed safely on the ground? Like with the best, most well-reasoned apologetic argument, some people may have been stunned into silence for a time, but a few days, maybe even a few hours later, life would go back to normal and unbelief would seep back into the small vacuum created by this brief spectacle of a man flying from the top of a temple. No miracle but the resurrection could finally vindicate Jesus, and no unassailable apologetic argument can finally vindicate us. If we look to apologetics for final vindication, we will be ever frustrated and liable to temptation.
God's vindication of his people won't come until the resurrection and the final judgement. Until then, we are called to give an answer about the hope that is in us with gentleness and reverence (1 Pet 3:13-17), to answer the fool according to his folly (Prov 24:5) (or, depending on the circumstances, refrain from answering the fool [Prov 24:4]), and tear down walls of unbelief with Scripture, wisdom, and solid argumentation. But we must remember that in this fallen world, our message will always be foolishness to those who are perishing (1 Cor 1:18) and our commitment to Christ and his Word will appear well-intentioned but uninformed at best, demonic at worst (Matt 10:25). Someday, however, God will prove once and for all that his promise was true: "Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame" (Rom 10:11). Amen. Come Lord Jesus. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 3 |
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Posted by Taylor Clayton | October 19, 2015 | 0 comments
Penn State Races Past Indiana
No. 5 Penn State women's volleyball team swept past Indiana on Friday in three straight sets (25-18, 25-15, 25-14).
The win puts Penn State back on track for the next AVCA coaches poll standings after dropping from No. 3 to No. 5 after the loss to Northwestern last week.
Senior super star Megan Courtney was not in the lineup for Friday's game after being taken out of the Northwestern game with an apparent injury.
Sophomore Simone Lee took Courtney's spot at the top of the offense with 10 kills. Redshirt senior Aiyana Whitney and freshman Nia Reed came in second with six kills each. Along with Reed's career-high kill performance, she added on a career-high two blocks.
Freshman Keeton Holcomb led the defense with 15 digs and Whitney led the blocking game with a career-high eight blocks.
Overall, Indiana was no match for Penn State but it gave the Nittany Lions a chance to put some new faces on the court.
Senior Lara Caraway tallied a career-high eight digs in her first collegiate start at Penn State and senior Kendall Pierce added eight digs on defense.
The Nittany Lions made half the amount of hitting errors as the Hoosiers and had a team total of 12 blocks compared to Indiana's total of three.
The win makes it the ninth time Penn State has defeated Indiana in a row over the past nine match ups. And it makes for the fourteenth victory this season to be won in sweep-style.
Friday evening was also military appreciation night, so after the match Penn State hosted a sitting volleyball match featuring the men's team in tribute to service members.
Stay tuned for the next blog post recapping Saturday's game against Purdue and a look at what lies ahead for the Nittany Lions. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 5 |
Phalauda är en ort i Indien. Den ligger i distriktet Meerut och delstaten Uttar Pradesh, i den norra delen av landet, km nordost om huvudstaden New Delhi. Phalauda ligger meter över havet och antalet invånare är .
Terrängen runt Phalauda är mycket platt. Runt Phalauda är det tätbefolkat, med invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Mawāna, km sydost om Phalauda. Trakten runt Phalauda består till största delen av jordbruksmark.
Klimatet i området är fuktigt och subtropiskt. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är °C. Den varmaste månaden är juni, då medeltemperaturen är °C, och den kallaste är januari, med °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är augusti, med i genomsnitt mm nederbörd, och den torraste är november, med mm nederbörd.
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The public tai chi class is known as the 'open class'. Anyone can come to lessons and join the school if they want to.
People are taught relative to their own ability level. There is a syllabus in place, DVDs for home study, a reading list and additional training opportunities.
Everyone has the opportunity to make progress at a pace that suits their own attitude, commitments, interest and lifestyle.
Traditionally, tai chi was never taught in public classes. The Art was considered to be too advanced, too precious, too esoteric and too difficult.
In feudal era China sharing was not encouraged. With fierce rivalry between villages, individuals, kung fu schools and states, nobody was eager to share what they knew.
The notion of 'inner' and 'outer' schools is derived from how old fashioned Asian houses operated.
Visitors were only permitted to enter certain, limited spaces within the house. They saw only what the host wanted them to see, what they felt was appropriate. This usually wasn't much.
This is exactly like a drawing room in Western history. A drawing room was where visitors were entertained.
Deeper within the house the family resided. Their rooms, eating and living space were never seen by visitors.
To enter deeper into an Asian house was seen as being 'inside the door'. No longer treated as an outsider/visitor/guest/stranger.
It was considered to be an honour to be permitted access to the more intimate areas of the host's abode.
Historically all tai chi lessons took place inside the door. The teacher rigorously screened new students and kept the school numbers low. Anyone who failed to work hard was denied tuition.
This is how things were for centuries.
In the 20th Century tai chi was taught more widely.
What is really being taught publicly?
This is an interesting question. In most classes the sad truth is not much. So-called tai chi lessons are often just slow motion movement and very little substance.
If a student is just looking for a relaxing night out, then this is probably just fine for them. After all, it is far better than just watching TV.
What are we teaching publicly?
As much as we can. However, this is sorely limited by the lesson duration (2 hours) and the amount of training/study the student undertakes between classes.
No matter how keen we are to share every secret of the Art, 2 hours isn't very long at all. And we can't make anyone train at home.
Most students simply don't put in the necessary time or effort. The sad part is that we're not talking about several hours training every day. Just as much as is needed.
What can you teach to people who don't study?
Not much. A person who doesn't invest in additional study has a very limited idea of what tai chi constitutes; therefore any new information lacks context and relevance.
How the individual approaches a tai chi class, what they expect to find and whether or not they like the experience will largely be shaped by their mental representation of tai chi.
When a student doesn't study between lessons, deeper knowledge simply has no significance to their practice.
Peter Southwood maintained that tai chi can only be taught relative to each individual's degree of interest.
e.g. a student may profess great enthusiasm but refrain from reading the required books or engaging in daily practice. What can the instructor do? Nothing. It is beyond their control.
The student themselves decides what level they can be taught. For most students the public lessons are quite adequate. They like the idea of something deeper but lack the requisite commitment.
Why don't people go deeper?
By the time many people reach their thirties they're in The Dead Zone. This is a stage of life where complacency and laziness predominate.
No longer fired up to find a partner or a good job, the individual stagnates. Their sense of zeal, passion and enthusiasm dulls and they slide gradually towards 40.
This happens to a lot of people - male and female. It can be hard to break the habit of apathy. There's always many good reasons to procrastinate.
Somehow the fight is over and the person has forgotten the joys of hardship, uncertainty and struggle. The mundanity of everyday life has replaced the hope/lust for adventure.
Throughout the world, tai chi people still join inner schools. They want more than the public class can offer.
Instead of being 1 student in a class of 30 they want closer tuition, more attention, deeper knowledge and better skills.
The individual understands that their own conduct makes this possible and therefore avidly reads the recommended books, studies daily and works hard.
Being 'inside the door' involves a more informal relationship with your teacher. Conversation is freer. The student is disinclined to waste time with specious opinions concerning the Art.
They want the 'good oil', the power of tai chi. They know full well that the teacher cannot imbue it and seek instead to supplement their own studies with direct transmission.
Rather than feel like an outsider, the student enjoys a relaxed, comfortable relationship with their instructor.
What does the indoor student get?
Their everyday experience of life is altered. The student feels acutely alive and alert; energy-filled and passionate. There is a sense of ease.
No struggling, grunting or groaning, no pain in the back or the knees. The body responds instantly to the dictates of the mind. They feel spontaneous and free.
Nimble-footed, with strength, agility, fluid movement and sustained concentration, the student experiences a more immediate, vibrant reality.
One aim of tai chi is for the student to become a 'real human'. A 'real human' is simply somebody who is fully conscious. It does not involve the acquisition of superpowers.
An indoor student shares this quest for new skills, insights, knowledge, wisdom... and the opportunity to see the world differently.
The indoor student gets to walk the same path as the Ancients once did. To study what the Ancients once explored, to penetrate the mysteries and embrace continuous, on-going change.
Secrecy, rumours of great power and deliberate obfuscation led to tai chi being regarded with considerable fear and superstition.
Consequently no one trains to counter-act them. The skills being trained in taijiquan are not the same as those being practiced by mainstream martial arts.
The Ancient Taoist teachings that were incorporated into taijiquan are no longer well known. Modern people seldom investigate spiritual matters. Taoism is often only encountered by the fringe 'seeker'.
The recommended books will expand your consciousness, increase your awareness, develop a more flexible mind and make you receptive to unforeseen possibilities.
The Old Ways are not easily understood or quickly learned. But they are very powerful and effective. Taijiquan employs Taoist insights and principles.
The teachings are counter-intuitive, puzzling and cryptic. They cannot be explained using words. In order to understand, you must do. The indoor student needs tenacity and resolve.
Tai chi is filled will odd little phrases or instructions that have little significance to a beginner. These apparently vague references and riddles are signs and pointers to the Way.
Were you to read The Tai Chi Classics or Zen and the Tao books, the cryptic statements and stories might not seem to have any obvious bearing on the martial art itself.
By challenging existing modes of thought, dropping long-held opinions and acquiring new skills the body must grow new brain tissue to cope with the demands of change.
Indoor students get the opportunity to have in-depth discussions with the instructor concerning Taoism, Zen, martial theory and practice, applications, principles and biomechanics.
Sifu Waller welcomes any earnest application for indoor tuition and will endeavour to provide as many additional learning opportunities as possible.
This is how he learned taijiquan, and it led eventually onto lineage.
An indoor student needs to think about what they want to focus on, what interests them and how best to gain additional tuition. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 8 |
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As promising news on a mRNA-based vaccine candidate buoyed the nation Monday, researchers and volunteers in Rochester continue their work with cautious optimism.
Interim preliminary analysis of data from a coronavirus vaccine study, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, that the vaccine is 90 percent effective in preventing an infection. The analysis was conducted by an external, independent data-monitoring committee from the Phase III clinical study, which so far has enrolled more than 40,000 subjects from diverse backgrounds.
For the interim analysis, the committee evaluated 94 COVID-positive cases, finding that protection from the virus is achieved 28 days after the initial vaccination, which has a two-dose schedule. Officials did not report any serious safety concerns.
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"While we need to keep in mind that the study is ongoing and this is a preliminary analysis, the data is very encouraging," says Edward Walsh M.D., a professor in the URMC Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases. "We need to continue the process of rigorous analysis of this and other potential vaccines to ensure they are safe and effective, and this will take time. However, I think it is safe to say that, if these findings hold up, we can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel."
Walsh and colleague Ann Falsey M.D. have been leading the local arm of the Pfizer/BioNTech study. Falsey is co-director of the URMC Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit. Both are members of the Infectious Disease Unit at Rochester General Hospital.
Rochester has played a role in the testing of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine since May, when the first human studies were launched. Technologies used in the development of the vaccine can trace their origins to decades of infectious disease research conducted at URMC, officials say.
Walsh and Falsey documented results of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine that demonstrated the safety of the BNT162b2 vaccine candidate and its capability of stimulating an immune response during the Phase I clinical trial, which studied four variations of the vaccine.
BNT162b2 was chosen to move to Phase III in July. Local volunteers, enrolled through URMC and RRH, were among the first in the country to get a vaccine dose in Phase III.
URMC's work with Pfizer stems from its research on improving the efficacy of vaccines and developing new vaccines against Hib, a bacterium that causes meningitis and pneumonia, and HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer, officials say. The investigation on the Hib vaccine resulted in Praxis Biologics, a startup long touted as a success story here. Praxis became Wyeth Lederle Vaccines and, eventually, a part of Pfizer. When Wyeth acquired Praxis, several scientists chose to continue their careers with that company.
The team at Pfizer continued to collaborate with researchers in Rochester and subsequent technological and scientific advances made by URMC researchers studying RSV, a respiratory virus, and seasonal coronaviruses contributed to the COVID-19 vaccine currently being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, URMC says.
Pfizer and BioNTech plan to continue to gather safety data and submit information to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The pharmaceutical giant expects to produce up to 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion in 2021.
Other vaccine candidates continue to move through trials and milestones as well. Yesterday, Eli Lilly shipped the first 88,000 doses of its investigational COVID-19 vaccine candidate to a national distributor. The company's move follows an FDA emergency use authorization for the therapy.
Lilly's Bamlanivimab is authorized for COVID-positive patients who are 12 years of age and older, roughly 88 pounds in weight, and at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and hospitalization. This includes those who are 65 years of age or older, or who have certain chronic medical conditions. Bamlanivimab continues to be evaluated for safety and efficacy.
Ann Falsey
At URMC, participants are being enrolled to study the AstraZeneca and University of Oxford vaccine hopeful. Trials of the vaccine, which were briefly suspended in September due to a patient illness, have since resumed. The medical center is expected to join other vaccine evaluations as well.
Falsey, who is a national coordinating investigator for the AstraZeneca vaccine study, says it is necessary to press forward with studies of other potential candidates.
"Given the challenges and logistics of vaccine distribution on a global scale, we will require multiple effective vaccines and we are incredibly grateful to the thousands of people in our area who have stepped forward to participate in vaccine research," she says.
Smriti Jacob is Rochester Beacon managing editor. All coronavirus articles are collected here.
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Restaurants are implementing innovative technologies and adjusting their business models to enhance the customer experience, strengthen sales and margins, and improve operational efficiency. Some of these innovations involve technology enhancements to point-of-sale (POS) systems, new cloud-based technologies, and an ever-increasing number of third parties that interact with customers. New business relationships and processes can create security gaps, alter access to sensitive data, or cause shifts in cyber risk liability exposures.
The days of calling a restaurant for reservations may soon be over. Customers now have real-time visibility into table availability and can book a reservation with one click on their mobile devices. Restaurants are heavily dependent on reservation apps to remain front and center with customers and satisfy a key logistical need—increasing traffic and managing table-turns.
Additionally, the on-demand nature of customer preferences has given rise to new services, such as food delivery, that were previously limited to specific niche segments of the market. In many cases, restaurant reservation and delivery platforms are not integrated with a company's point-of-sales system. Restaurants access data through companies that provide these platforms and may not have knowledge of how their data is securely stored, segregated, and transmitted.
These third parties also may be sharing or storing your sensitive data with other third parties unbeknownst to you, which creates new vulnerabilities and entry points for cyberattacks and requires greater vigilance to protect key customer data.
The payment processing industry is continuously evolving with consumers demanding more convenient and flexible options. This shift incorporates an innovation-driven ecosystem consisting of processing terminals, new mobile technology, and credit card companies. Each generation of payment technology—from the traditional magnetic stripe cards, to chip cards, to various derivations of mobile contactless methods—has provided significant business benefits. But it also introduces new cyber risks.
Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) cards are viewed as a step to decrease credit card fraud. The ability to accept EMV cards, however, does not come cheaply as they require new terminals capable of reading the embedded chips. But restaurants must also consider the cyber risks of not upgrading.
Much like the EMV standard, innovations in payment technologies should be viewed as another step along the payment security infrastructure. Therefore, strengthening resiliency to cyber breaches associated with new payment technologies can be essential to business continuity.
Recent cyberattacks suggest that restaurants may be prime targets for criminals and others looking to cause irreparable damage to companies through the exploitation of sensitive data. The use of new technologies, and the fact that restaurant companies process millions of credit card transactions annually, increases susceptibility. The core issue is that a greater number of third parties are handling an increasing amount of sensitive data. Recent high-profile cyber breaches only highlight the urgency for restaurant companies to contend with cyber risks to protect their customers, brand, and operations.
Secure.Vigilant.Resilient. is Deloitte's three-course approach to controlling cyber risk. Companies should build a core security foundation by establishing controls and processes around their most sensitive assets, including staying current with technology vendor patch updates.
With respect to being vigilant, companies must maintain awareness of how threats are evolving and be able to detect malicious or unauthorized activities. To that end, many organizations are making use of Security Information Event Monitoring (SIEM) technologies to provide insights on threat activity and support monitoring and advanced detection capabilities that focus on critical business processes.
Being resilient is the ability to return to normal operations quickly to reduce the impact of cyberattacks and breaches. This means having the capacity to rapidly analyze situations; execute business continuity and recovery plans; and interact effectively with customers, media, legal counsel, law enforcement, and industry peers. Leadership must be equipped to take quick and decisive action, even when faced with an incident it may not be fully prepared for. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 10 |
Q: Support for fallback sources with Tag Helper Currently asp-fallback-test-class only works with singular classes:
<link href="https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/bootstrap/3.3.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"
asp-fallback-href="~/lib/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css"
asp-fallback-test-class="hidden"
asp-fallback-test-property="visibility"
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How can I test files with multiple selectors? For examples:
*
*dataTables.bootstrap.css has at bare minimum two selectors chained together like table.dataTable { ... } but no standalone .dataTable class.
*Similarly with skin-red.css, there are only descendant selectors like .skin-red .main-header .navbar { ... } and again no standalone .skin-red class.
There is also a workaround:
Probably the best way around this is to fork, add a test class (like .skin-red-fallback-test { ... }) within the individual file, then make a PR for whichever particular library one might be using.
But I don't know what he meant by making a PR. Could someone explain for me please?
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The 30th president of the United States of America who was mostly remembered for being a man of few words, which earn him the nickname Silent Cal.
He was a farmer, school teacher, and local store clerk. He achieved national recognition for his handling of the Boston Police Strike of 1919.
He held a record number of presidential press conferences for the time, totaling 520.
His father, John Calvin Coolidge Sr., served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1872 until 1878. He was married to Grace Coolidge from 1905 until his death in 1933.
His legacy as a small-government conservative came into question after he left office, but gained a renewed respect under Ronald Reagan, who shared many of Coolidge's values. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 12 |
'He can break open a match' – Louis van Gaal reveals he tried to sign this Bundesliga star for Manchester United
Photo: Alex Livesey/Getty Images
Louis van Gaal has revealed that he tried to sign Sadio Mane when he was in charge at Manchester United.
The Senegal forward, who was ruled out of the 2022 World Cup with a knee injury on the eve of the tournament, instead joined Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool in 2016.
"'I wanted him when I was the manager at Man Utd," Van Gaal said, lumping praise on the Bayern Munich forward during a press conference.
"I chased him at the time. I am a fan of Mane. He can break open a match and I would say Senegal will really miss him."
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After Barney beat me to Cars 3, I when to see The Dark Tower. His comment on me going to see this movie was exactly this: "It's going to be TERRIBLE." It wasn't though. As the movie starts, you are reminded how Stephen King's novel adaptations are – a dark movie with someone "crazy" because they have dreams or visions. Nonetheless, this movie does a fantastic job at keeping you at the edge of your seat the entire hour and a half, except for one cheap trick that gets you entirely out of the movie… I seriously don't get why screenwriters think it's a good idea to pause all the action and put cliché dialogue between the two characters, so disappointing.
Matthew McConaughey did a wonderful job at playing the bad guy in this movie. It even disturbs you how good he is sometimes (Barney says the only thing disturbing is knowing that Death drives a Lincoln). What I liked most about the movie is that it makes you think and listen, they cut out moments where someone like me would try to predict what will happen (i.e "She going to die, she going to die!!") and it leaves you hanging, adding to the suspense. The film answers most of the questions through different parts of the movie, but there are still some things that could be explained better, so just be ready to be a bit confused.
Overall, it's a great movie because you feel tense the entire time as the action sequences keep coming at you… I don't know if they tuned up the AC during a scene in the movie, but you can feel the forest breeze and mist at some point, very cool. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 14 |
Any amount can be donated for any purpose…it's not necessary to completely fund an item. Click any blue link to open a donation form – the form allows applying your donation to one of the items below or to be used as needed by the conference committee. Donated items for the Auction should be sent to: Kayse Whitaker, 619 William St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007.. Amounts shown below are estimates.
Welcome & Conference Materials Bags, etc ($2500) $879 needed. $100 donated by Maryellen Tabor in memory of Benson Asher Lynch. $771 raised and donated by Daisy Brooks in memory of Eva Brooks, Stacy VanHerreweghe & Karson Friedmeyer. $100 donated by Alger Davis in memory of Joseph August Gettys, IV. $25 donated by Renee Richie in memory of Michelle Richie. $25 donated by Avril Lail in memory of Everett Reese Thomas Lail. $100 donated by John Carey in memory of Morganne Dye.
Name tags and lanyards Generously donated by SOFT of Utah.
Gifts for SOFT Children $250 $250 generously donated by Terre Krotzer's "Thirty-one" fundraiser.
Welcome Dinner Decorations – $1000 Welcome Dinner angels generously donated by the VanHerrewegbhe family in memory of Stacy VanHerreweghe.
Sibling Outing T-Shirts Generously donated by the VanHerreweghe family in memory of Stacy VanHerreweghe.
Saturday Picnic: Food, Tent, Facility and Activities – $6623 $2000 donated by the SOFT Seattle Conference Committee. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 15 |
Mercedes-Benz- AMG has been popular in the tuning world, the C63 particularly. The car is said to have been the eye of tuning companies. Like now, the first-rate tuning company, McChip reveals a new kit for the C63 called "Stage 3" while the Merlin-based company, MEC Design also released their own version.
The €10,000 kit by McChip consists of a new and excellently improved engine is 583 PS and has 692 Nm of torque. The horsepower has been raised from 451 to 575 raising the top speed to 193 mph. The AMG ECU were replaced by McChip ECU and installed with a Cargraphic exhaust system. Owners may want to have a matte black 19-inch alloy rims from Michelin, but this will cost another €7,474.
The new kit takes some time to install so you'll have to leave your precious car to them for 3 days.
Meanwhile, MEC Design upgraded the front bumper with a lower lip or optional LED Lighting in carbon finish. Using the same material, the rear bumper diffuser and rear spoiler has been changed as well. Other carbon trimmings are found on the seat shells, center console, sports steering wheel and door panels.
The wheel is pumped up with a tire size of 235/30 ZR 20 and mecxtremeIII 9x20, in 3mm spacers front and 7mm rear. A stainless steel exhaust has been added to 6.3 liter engine. Finally, the company boasts of giving the Mercedes AMG C63 a max speed of 250kph by reprogramming the ECU. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 16 |
Bell's double in 10th gives Pirates 5-game sweep of Brewers
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Posted: Jul 15, 2018 6:12 PM CST
PITTSBURGH (AP) — One late-inning rally wasn't enough for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Trailing and down to their final out on two occasions, the Pirates managed a 7-6 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers that gave them the first five-game sweep in the majors in nearly a dozen years.
With two men on and two outs in the 10th inning and a steady rain turning into a downpour, Josh Bell made solid contact on a pitch from Dan Jennings (3-3). The crack of the bat was followed closely by bolt of lightning from the clouds as Bell left the batter's box.
The ball got past center fielder Lorenzo Cain and bounced all the way to the wall, scoring Gregory Polanco easily from third. The relay throw beat Colin Moran to the plate but skipped off the pitcher's mound and through the legs of catcher Erik Kratz, giving Pittsburgh an improbable victory.
Bell had gained a tactical advantage when earlier in the at-bat, Jennings had a slider slip out of his hand that nearly went for a wild pitch. With the tying run on third, Bell didn't think Jennings would risk throwing it again.
"I was just dead-red heater," Bell said. "I got it and I put a good swing on it."
The blown save was the first of the season for Jennings. An inning earlier, regular closer Corey Knebel blew his second of the season. After loading the bases with no outs, Knebel got Jordy Mercer to ground into a double play that scored one run, but then pinch-hitter David Freese hit a two-out triple off the right-field wall to tie the game.
"We just didn't make pitches," Brewers manger Craig Counsell said. "That cost us."
The Pirates' five-game sweep is the first in the majors since August 18-21, 2006, when the Yankees took five straight from Boston. It's the first five-game sweep for Pittsburgh since 1996. The Pirates head into the break as winners of six straight and eight of their last nine.
"Just a lot of wins all over the place for a lot of different guys and the team," manager Clint Hurdle said. "Twice to come back against one of the best bullpens in the game, the fight in the club, the fight all over the place, a really fun way to end it in the pouring rain."
Brett Phillips drove in four runs, including an RBI single in the 10th off Pirates reliever Tanner Anderson (1-0). The win was Anderson's first in the majors in his second appearance. Both Phillips and Anderson had been recalled from Triple-A before the game.
Phillips hit a bases-loaded triple in the eighth off Pirates starter Joe Musgrove to give the Brewers a three-run lead. Starling Marte had an RBI single in the eighth for Pittsburgh.
Musgrove threw a career-high 106 pitches over his 7 2/3 innings. He allowed five runs on seven hits, walked four and struck out five.
Milwaukee starter Jhoulys Chacin allowed one hit in 5 1/3 innings, but his throwing error allowed Musgrove to reach base ahead of Corey Dickerson's homer, which was the only damage against him.
Travis Shaw hit his 18th homer of the season in the second.
Brewers: C Manny Pina (left biceps strain) and OF Ryan Braun (back strain) will be eligible to return from the disabled list after the All-Star break.
Pirates: 2B Josh Harrison left the game with left hamstring discomfort. He pulled up running out a ground ball in the fifth inning. ... There is "concern" that C Francisco Cervelli (post-concussive symptoms) might have to move out from behind the plate, general manager Neal Huntington said. Cervelli went on the seven-day disabled list Saturday without a timetable for his return.
Brewers: Have not announced a starter for Friday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. With the activation of LHPs Wade Miley and Brent Suter from the disabled list this week, Milwaukee has six starters on the active roster.
Pirates: RHP Jameson Taillon (6-7, 3.91 ERA) is scheduled to start the second half at Cincinnati on Friday. Taillon held opponents to a .196 average over his last two starts.
A Michigan woman says a passenger assaulted her as she slept on a Spirit Airlines flight
60 hour light snow event starts Wednesday evening
Milwaukee Police Chief Morales holds listening session
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Cirkulær argumentation (også kendt som paradoksal tankegang eller cirkulær logik) er en logisk fejlslutning hvor personen der argumenterer begynder argumentationen med hvad de vil nå frem til (A er sandt fordi B er sandt; B er sandt fordi A er sandt), som for eksempel:
A. Biblen er sand, da den er Guds ord.
B. Guds ord er sandt; det står i Biblen.
Et sådant argument kaldes også en cirkelslutning eller petitio principii.
En anden måde at anskue et cirkulært argument på er at erkende, at begge sider af argumentet i bund og grund udtrykker det samme, som for eksempel:
Alle elsker Louise, fordi hun er så populær.
Logisk set kan cirkulær argumentation anses som gyldig, fordi hvis præmisserne er gyldige må konklusionen også være det. I praksis er dette dog ikke tilfældet, som det ses i dette eksempel:
Wellington ligger i New Zealand
Derfor ligger Wellington i New Zealand
Selv om argumentet er deduktivt gyldigt, så formår det ikke at bevise at Wellington ligger i New Zealand, da der ikke er noget bevismateriale som er særskilt fra konklusionen.
Cirkulære argumenter kan føre til uløselige paradokser. Et almindeligt kendt paradoks er hønen og ægget, der forsøger at finde ud af hvilken af de to, der kom først:
Alle høns er udruget af et æg.
Alle æg lægges af høns.
Men alle høns er udruget...
Et sådant paradoks kan ikke løses, med mindre der tilgår nye oplysninger, der kan hjælpe argumentationen videre.
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Rock on the Range: May 20, 21 & 22, 2016 @MAPFRE Stadium, Columbus, OH.
By Aaron Tyler on December 1, 2015
Rock On The Range–the largest and most-acclaimed rock festival in the United States–celebrates its 10th Anniversary May 20, 21 & 22, 2016 at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, OH. The incredible lineup features the legendary Red Hot Chili Peppers, hard rock titans Disturbed (who have returned after a 4-year hiatus), and rock icon/filmmaker Rob Zombie topping a lineup that's packed with rock royalty such as Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, Megadeth, At The Drive-In, Lamb Of God, Sixx:A.M., Hellyeah, and Pennywise, along with the genre's hottest developing artists.
With three days of music on three stages, sets from rock's favorite comedians in the Rolling Rock Comedy Tent, The Music Experience, new art installations, and unique onsite activities, Rock On The Range sets the standard for American rock festivals.Tickets for Rock On The Range have sold out in advance for three years in a row, with a monumental 120,000 in attendance over the three days of the 2015 festival. Die-hard fans annually travel from all 50 states and around the globe to Columbus for this festival, making it the largest of its kind in North America.
The current band lineup for Rock On The Range–fueled by Monster Energy–is as follows: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, Megadeth, At The Drive-In, Lamb Of God, Sixx:A.M., Hellyeah, Pennywise, Bullet For My Valentine, Steel Panther, Ghost, Wolfmother, Death From Above 1979, Machine Gun Kelly, Clutch, The Struts, Sevendust, Pop Evil, Asking Alexandria, Parkway Drive, Trivium, Between The Buried & Me, P.O.D., Saint Asonia, Issues, Highly Suspect, The Sword, Tiger Army, Sick Puppies, New Years Day, Aranda, Wilson, Enter Shikari, Butcher Babies, Texas Hippie Coalition, Red Sun Rising, Memphis May Fire, Lacey Sturm, Turbowolf, We Came As Romans, Miss May I, Crown The Empire, Jelly Roll, Avatar, Code Orange, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Monster Truck, Glorious Sons, Wild Throne, Cane Hill, and Citizen Zero, with more to be announced.
Rock On The Range specially priced weekend presale tickets are available now. Visit the ROTR Facebook and Twitter pages for a password to purchase these tickets (Weekend Field GA: $199.50 + fees, Weekend Stadium GA: $99.50 + fees). Layaway Packages, VIP tickets, Camping, Hotel Packages, and Weekend Stadium GA Ticket 4-Packs ($349 + fees) are also available for purchase atwww.RockOnTheRange.com.
Regularly priced General Admission tickets for America's premier hard rock festival go on sale Friday, December 4 at 10:00 AM ET at the MAPFRE Stadium Box Office, Ticketmaster outlets, andwww.RockOnTheRange.com.
Tickets will be priced as follows:
Weekend Field General Admission: $219.50 + fees
Weekend Stadium General Admission: $139.50 + fees
A limited number of discounted tickets are also available for active military through Rock On The Range partner GovX.
Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 VIP Lounge upgrades will be available to all Field ticket purchasers, while supplies last. Upgrades include access to the newly located VIP Tent with LED screens, seating areas, heating/air conditioning, premium cash bar, free WiFi, access to charging stations and lockers, dedicated VIP bathroom, and early entrance to the festival. VIP Lounge upgrades will also include easier access and private walkway to the Monster Energy Main Stage area from the VIP Tent.
Monster Energy returns to Rock On The Range as the main stage sponsor and will be on site conducting giveaways, hosting Monster Energy artist signings, and sampling Monster Energy Drink.
Download the Rock On The Range mobile app (available for FREE via iTunes and Google Play) for festival information and band performance times.
Rock On The Range is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, AEG Live, and MAPFRE Stadium.
Rock On The Range is supported by great sponsors including: Monster Energy, Jack Daniel's, Zippo, The Music Experience (formerly known as Crazy Dave's) and Bud Light.
Website: www.RockOnTheRange.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rockontherange
Twitter: www.twitter.com/rockontherange
Announce Video: http://bit.ly/ROTR16sm
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He spent most of the 80's arguing that The Smiths weren't depressing; the 90's that Radiohead weren't whingeing; the noughties that The Libertines could hold a tune and the tenties being excited by Fontaines DC bringing new life to guitar music. He also danced very badly to Talking Heads and New Order in the 80's, chilled to Air and nodded along to Massive Attack in the 90's and noughties, shared his midlife crisis with The National in the tenties and is in awe that Nick Cave still releases classic album after classic album.
Every Friday afternoon for two hours, Andrew plays his favourite music and any requests that gets past his rigorous music snobbery test.
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A cooperation agreement between the Fund of Development of the Centre for development and commercialization of new technologies (the Skolkovo Foundation) and the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan was signed on July 12, 2012 within the III International Exhibition of Industry and Innovation INNOPROM-2012 at the conference hall of the international exhibition center Expo.
The agreement was signed by the vice-president of Skolkovo Stanislav Naumov and the Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Bashkortostan Eugene Mavrin. Main purpose of the agreement is the promotion of scientific and technical developments in the Republic of Bashkortostan in accordance with Skolkovo areas of activities and bringing them to commercialization. The agreement also presupposes the creation of new jobs in high-tech sector of the economy based on research and educational institutions, innovation centers and industrial enterprises of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The signatories to the agreement noted the need for innovation growing points formation of the economy of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the willingness to cooperate closely.
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Get your dose of Vitamin C with writer Banana Yoshimoto
"The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me."
Banana Yoshimoto has stolen my heart. Ever since a copy of Kitchen, the novel which made her a Japanese national treasure, turned up in our house, I have been entranced by her simple, perfectly placed prose, her warmth, her touches of the supernatural, the way she layers tiny details to light up the page; snow falling, the moon behind the trees, the smell of food.
And of course there is her name. Sadly it's not the one she was born with, rather, she is named Mahoko, but chose her pen name based on her love of banana flowers. She likes Banana as it is both 'cute' and 'androgynous', and it certainly adds a touch of the kitsch and surreal to her works.
Yoshimoto's debut, Kitchen, features a young woman, Mikage, recovering from the death of her beloved grandmother and gradually forming a close bond with florist Yuichi. It sold like hot cakes in her home country, leading to a phenomenon the press called 'Bananamania'.
Like many of her works, Kitchen revolves around the transformative power of relationships and people coming to terms with traumas in their past. Her characters undertake redemptive journeys, teach themselves to cook, become therapists, take up running, as they try to heal themselves from the wounds life has inflicted on them.
"There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants… That's where it starts."
Another defining feature of her work is her familiarity with the spirit world, as if it is as casual a fact of life as the furniture in one's house, or a member of the family. Uncanny dreams often feature in her tales, and she has said she finds artistic inspiration from her own dreams. Her characters have premonitions, or nocturnal conversations with the dead.
As her young characters confront the ghosts of their past and come to understand the world and the good things in it, you are drawn along and feel that you share the insight that they gain. For an elegant, life-affirming read, come and join Banana Yoshimoto in her warm Kitchen.
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"We're a farmer's market that's rain or shine," Richard said. "Whether that means it's physically raining in Lafayette or any other way you can interpret it ... we'll be here."
Paul Lyles, who sets up at the market every week with vegetables from his Up To Grow Good farm in Cottonport, said this was his first time back in Lafayette since Thursday's shooting.
"Everything's business as usual," Lyles said. "This event reinforces the strength and backbone of this community, but I wouldn't expect anything else."
And as patrons walked from tent to tent along the shaded pathway weaving through the market it seemed Lyles was right.
"You wouldn't be able to tell just coming here today what happened a few days ago," said Aaron Garcia, who frequents the market often.
"It's a testament to the strength of everyone who lives here and how we're able to come together and think positively," Garcia's girlfriend, Maureen Doucet, added.
Still, not everyone at the market took the "moving on" approach.
Melodie McMath, who usually spends her Saturday mornings making juices and smoothies for Emerge — An Artisan Juicery, decided to set up a different booth this week.
"This week I felt compelled to provide a healing place of a different capacity," McMath said. "Usually we focus on physical healing with juices, but this week I felt the community needed more emotional healing."
Instead of juices, there were blessings. In place of smoothies, hugs.
Hugs, she said, that were at least 10 seconds long.
"This lone gunman didn't feel like he had a community, and that's what inspires the kind of action he took," McMath said. "So for the community to come out and embrace everyone and giving out love, connecting, making eye contact and giving a simple 'hello' reminds us that we're all on this earth together."
These simple acts of kindness, she said, is what helps the community heal.
"If we stop focusing on the negative and focus on the positive the negative will naturally start to subside," McMath said.
It was for this reason, Richard said, the market carried on as usual.
"Being the community staple we are, we didn't even think twice about if we would open," Richard said.
"This is something in Lafayette that people look forward to, and something that makes us the strong community we are so it's all that more important that we're here this week — to give people a place to come together."
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Little Squirrel Books – The home of nutty, fictional goodness.
Welcome to Little Squirrel Books, the home of author Lori Janeski, and all her little furry friends. Take a look around, and be sure to stay for a healthy dose of Science Fiction goodness headed your way! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 24 |
The smashing first arc of Marvel's best new series comes to a climax as the battle between H.A.M.M.E.R., HYDRA, rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and the Howling Commandos begins! This is the first shot in a war that will result in the establishment of a new global power structure...and who's caught in the middle? You guessed it: Nick Fury and his team of Caterpillars. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 25 |
Q: What's the difference when using numeric literal in termination expression of a for statement? Why does this piece of code:
String value = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter x"); //Input = 100
int x = Integer.parseInt(value);
double result = 1;
for (int i = 1; i <= x; i++) //used variable "x" here
{
result += (x * 1.0) / fact(i);
x *= x;
}
public static int fact(int n) {
int fact = 1;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
fact *= i;
}
return fact;
}
work differently from this one?
String value = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter x"); //Input = 100
int x = Integer.parseInt(value);
double result = 1;
for (int i = 1; i <= 100; i++) //and here I used the value "100"
{
result += (x * 1.0) / fact(i);
x *= x;
}
public static int fact(int n) {
int fact = 1;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
fact *= i;
}
return fact;
}
The only change that I made was using the value 100 instead of using the variable x in my termination expression!
When I run the first code, I get:
9.479341033333334E7
However, for the second one I always get
NaN
Why?
A: The difference between the two snippets is this:
for (int i = 1; i <= x; i++) {
vs.
for (int i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
In the first case, x gets much larger every time! Eventually, it will stop when x overflows and becomes 0, which will be much sooner than in the second case. For an explanation as to why this results in 0 instead of some other random number, see: Why does this multiplication integer overflow result in zero?
In the second case, when i = 34, fact(n) will return 0, so the double division is (0 * 1.0) /0 which results in NaN. Any double, when added to NaN, becomes NaN, which is why the second snippet results in NaN. See: In Java, what does NaN mean?
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A Royal Disaster
Claiming Carter
Aced
Once Upon A Dare
Once Upon a Power Play
Seducing the Fireman
Milestones, Missteps, and Misconceptions
Jennifer Bonds
Brazen, Enemies to Lovers, Office Romance, Once Upon A Dare, One Night Stand, Sexy
Today marks the release of my first contemporary romance novel, Once Upon a Dare. I am so excited to share Cole and Olivia's story with the world and hope the tale delivers on the promise of sizzling chemistry that Brazen readers have come to expect. It's a pretty tall order, but Cole and Olivia's 'I-hate-you-but-I-can't-keep-my-hands-off-you' tension brings the heat.
From first draft to final draft, the journey has been a wild ride, filled with the three M's. Milestones (deadlines, deadlines, deadlines), missteps (plot holes, anyone?), and yes, even a few misconceptions (writing romance is easy- or so I'm told). This story has been two years in the making and now that it's finally polished and ready for the world, there's really only one thing left to say.
THANK YOU! Thank you to my family, my friends, my editor. Thank you for helping me along the way, whether it was providing critiques, a much needed laugh, or a shoulder to lean on. I couldn't have done it without your love and support. I love you all to pieces and someday I'm going to figure out how to show you just how much I appreciate you. But for now, humble words will have to do.
To celebrate the biggest milestone of all, release day, Once Upon a Dare is touring the blogosphere with a pretty sexy giveaway!
Royally Engaged
Waverly Wildcats
Cover Reveal: A Royal Disaster
CLAIMING CARTER IS LIVE!
Turning Up the Heat: Brazen & Scorched Giveaway!
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I'm a single mom that has two kids under the age of 5 and is living in a bad area. My kids were playing out back and found a needle from someone that dropped it by the playground. I have fought sleep to stay awake to perfect my kids. My house has been broken into and my door has been kicked down still hasn't been fixed by the apartment management and leaks water every time it rains. My apartment is smelling like mold or mildew.
I can't do this anymore. I'm not able to work due to no vehicle or the ability to function correctly with feeling sick and tired AL the time. I feel the lack of maintenance is eventually going to kill myself and my family.
I have no hot water, no food and no family to ask for support. Please I beg you I need help. This is my last chance to get a better life for my kids and me. I need help getting into a new place I rather be in Wichita Kansas than this town. I recently got put into jail for domestic battery, my ex broke into my kid's bedroom window and they I defend myself and had proof on my phone from him saying he was going to do what it takes to make my life hell for leaving him. They still took me to jail and he was let go free to go home.
I'm not facing jail time the 17 because I can't come up with the fine money to pay off. I'm so exhausted and close to giving up. I got no kind of support and there are bed bugs that eating me and my kid alive I have them staying with their dad but there is no healthier than my current position. I have no clue what to do and I can't fight anymore. Please help me get back on my feet and a better place to read raise my kids. Thank you so much. Here is my number. Please give me a chance to regain hope and ill pray for help. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 28 |
Energy prices: here's what UK government can do to cut household bills
According to the boss of the UK's biggest energy supplier, Centrica, high gas and electricity prices could last for two years. With many already unnerved by the fact that the average UK energy bill is set to rise in April by about 50% to nearly Pound 2,000, this has further fuelled fears of a cost of living catastrophe in 2022 for millions of poorer households.
It is hard to find a definitive explanation for this situation from government ministers or industry leaders which goes beyond "global conditions". But the truth is that recent domestic energy policies, and how the UK responded to international conditions, have also played their part.
For example, while it was still a member of the EU, the UK should have strongly opposed increasing dependence upon gas from Russia. Currently, the energy giant Gazprom provides around 40% of Europe's requirements, a proportion likely to increase if the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany is given the go-ahead to be used. Apart from the geopolitical concerns of giving so much leverage to Vladimir Putin, it surely makes economic common sense not to be over reliant on just one supplier.
After the closure of its biggest gas storage facility, the UK was at least wise enough to have increased the volume of imports of liquefied natural gas (mostly from Qatar) as well as pipeline deliveries from Norwegian gas fields. But there are local measures to be considered too.
For example, the government should be taking a stronger position on developing the Cambo oil field off the Shetland Islands. Facing political pressure, Shell pulled out of the project at the end of 2021, while the largest investor is reportedly getting cold feet. This could mean leaving the production of an estimated 53.5 billion cubic feet of gas undeveloped, not to mention 180 million barrels of oil.
This is a missed opportunity to source oil and gas where it is needed rather than using energy to transport it across the globe. It also represents a significant loss to the broader UK economy, where tax revenues from the offshore oil sector have fallen in the last year to Pound 250 million. In 2015 the figure was Pound 500 million.
There are also 150,000 people working in the UK offshore sector, for which Cambo might have secured jobs. And while we would all like to reduce our carbon emissions, the reality is that the world will continue to consume around 100 million barrels of oil every day for a long time to come.
Why is it preferable to encourage international companies to source oil off Angola or Malaysia? If it is going to be used in the UK, it is better to produce it in the UK, creating jobs and boosting tax revenues.
The same applies to the UK's large shale gas reserve potential, which is being foreclosed over concerns about earthquakes.
And while the UK cannot set the international wholesale price of natural gas, there are domestic policy changes which could significantly mitigate the current situation.
Misplaced subsidies
To address higher retail prices for gas and electricity, numerous commentators have been making the point that Ofgem, the energy regulator, could reduce or eliminate the green levies and network charges being used in support of renewable generation. According to Ofgem, nearly half the consumer energy bill comprises network costs and environmental costs, while less than 30% is the wholesale price of energy.
As my recent research shows, the burden of supporting renewable energy falls disproportionately on lower income households. (This is not just a problem in the UK, but in every country encouraging renewable energy with various subsidies.)
In effect, wealthy people living in a large detached home with a heat pump and solar panels are being subsidised in consuming renewable energy by low-income families living in rented accommodation.
Support for investment in renewable energy needs to be changed, moving the burden from consumers to investors. Currently, with the network providing connection to the grid plus energy sources to back up intermittent output, renewable investors have a free ride. Levies which fund this should not be included in household energy bills when investors could easily absorb the cost without it acting as a deterrent.
On the subject of bills, cutting VAT on fuel would be useful, but the benefits would not be large. As for the recently floated idea of a windfall tax on offshore oil, this is not a solution. Taking away profits whenever prices happen to increase is a guaranteed way of discouraging price-reducing production.
For the time being, the UK now has the worst of both worlds: a misguided attempt to combine competition between energy retailers with price caps on what consumers pay for their bills. Instead it should either let prices be determined by markets and provide help to those in fuel poverty, or regulate the price, guaranteeing a return to energy retailers. Not a mix of the two. So although the UK cannot determine the global price for energy, the government still has plenty of options which it could use to improve the situation for millions of struggling bill payers.
Author: Lawrence Haar - Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Brighton | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 29 |
Witness The Amazing Dolphin Show At Dubai Creek!
Interact with nature's wonders and indulge in a natural spree with this captivating tour of the Dubai Dolphinarium. Visit this magnificent abode to experience Asia's only Dubai Dolphin and Seal show in all its might.
The Dubai Dolphinarium is home to Asia's rarest tropical species of fishes, dolphins and birds. Every year, millions of tourists visit the Dubai Dolphinarium to catch a glimpse of nature's most beauteous wonders.
This location is no lesser than a dreamland for nature lovers, bird watchers and fish fanatics. Located in a vast and fully equipped set-up, the Dubai Dolphinarium is an excellent view for the eyes and a treat for the mind and soul.
You will be amazed to witness the beauty of Mother Nature and its dreamy flora and fauna, once you visit here. Our delightful dolphins and playful seals will be more than happy to have you as a guest! The Dubai Dolphinarium is visited by thousands of visitors every day. You will not only be delighted but also amazed to witness our talented mammals perform for you. Watch them while they indulge in some singing and dancing as well as incredible acrobatics. They will also show you how they paint and juggle with objects happily!
The Dubai Dolphin and Seal show offers its visitors with two differently exotic set of shows. While the first dolphin show takes place at 11 am in the morning, the next show takes place between 3 to 6 pm. Apart from their Dolphin show, they also present a magical show called the Illusion show which will shock you to the core!
The Dubai Dolphinarium is home to a hundred species of birds, all of whom come from the world's most exotic and far-off regions. As our guest, you can also choose to be a part of this natural action as birds love to play and interact with the audiences while they perform! You will surely feel like you are in an adventure-filled natural abode when you get to watch birds chirping as they fly overhead!
Moreover, if you wish to witness how the dolphins live their life in the water, you can swim and frolic with them in the water, while they will show you their amazing tricks and activities just by your side. Swim with the happy dolphins while they greet you with their flappy little fins and their innocent smiles.
The Dubai Dolphinarium is full of learning and fun-filled experiencesr for kids and entertaining activities for adults too!
So, what are you waiting for? We invite you to be a part of this natural and fun filled fiesta at the Dubai Dolphinarium!
Explore The Capital Of UAE!
Experience The World's Fastest Roller Coaster! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 30 |
Thistle launches coffee bar chain
Upmarket hotel chain Thistle Hotels is hoping to capitalise on the burgeoning coffee bar market with the launch of a new coffee bar and deli concept called CoMotion, which could become a standalone franchise operation.
Thistle has launched a pilot in its Marble Arch hotel and hopes to open three more hotel outlets later in the year. The company will look at developing the concept beyond hotels if the bars are successful.
Stefan Breg, Thistle's food and beverage director and former Grand Met executive, says: "The concept has huge potential. CoMotion is a fusion of New York deli with an Italian café and was borne out of a need for a speedy and flexible format."
The coffee bar market has grown so dramatically in the past few years that it has attracted the fast food giant McDonald's.
It bought London-based coffee bar chain Aroma for about £10m in March this year.
Some analysts expect the market to continue its rapid growth and see the 300 or so coffee bars expand to as many as 1,500 outlets.
Other competitors in the coffee bar market include Starbucks, which bought the Seattle Coffee Company last year, and the Whitbread-owned Costa Coffee.
Thistle Hotels owns 24 hotels in the capital and 36 four-star properties across the country.
Archive Retail | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 31 |
Q: ReactJS npm start Failed to compile npm start
*
*[email protected]
*[email protected]
*react-three-renderer
App.js
import React3 from 'react-three-renderer';
import * as THREE from 'three';
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
Warnings
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of ajv@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of react@^15.4.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of react-dom@^15.4.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of three@^0.83.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of react@~15.6.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of react-dom@~15.6.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of three@~0.86.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
node scripts/start.js
Starting the development server...
Failed to compile.
./node_modules/react-three-renderer/lib/React3CompositeComponentWrapper.js
Module not found: Can't resolve 'react-dom/lib/ReactCompositeComponent' in '/Users/ernekyan/react-app/project/node_modules/react-three-renderer/lib'
Can someone give me advice?
A: You could try npm install again to see if all packages are installed.
Othwerwise you could look at adding the packages yourself by running npm install <package> -D (automatically saved to package.json)
Or look at the provided solution here: npm WARN ... requires a peer of ... but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself as auto installing peerDependencies was removed from npm v3+.
More information: https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.0.0
#6930 (#6565) peerDependencies no longer cause anything to be implicitly installed. Instead, npm will now warn if a packages peerDependencies are missing, but it's up to the consumer of the module (i.e. you) to ensure the peers get installed / are included in package.json as direct dependencies or devDependencies of your package.
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Vigil in memory of Fritznel Richard :: Open the borders! Status For All!
Sunday, January 15th, 3:30-5pm In front of the Immigration and Refugee Board; Complexe Guy-Favreau (métro Place d'Armes) FB event Twitter We invite you to a vigil honoring the memory of Fritznel Richard, a migrant from Haiti whose body was found…
No Borders, No detentions, Solidarity
We Repeat, Borders Kill, CBSA Negligence Kills: We denounce the death of migrants detained at the Detention Center in Surrey, BC, and at Roxham Road
Friday January 6th, 2023
We are, once again, infuriated and saddened to learn of the death of two migrants within a period of two weeks. The death on Christmas Day of a person detained by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) at the Surrey's…
10 Nov. Regularisation Programme for Undocumented Migrants: Webinar to Understand the Issues
Monday November 7th, 2022
Alors que le gouvernement fédéral prévoit un programme de régularisation massive des sans-papiers au Canada, Solidarité Sans Frontières organise un webinaire et propose un nouveau document de mise en contexte pour comprendre les enjeux.
Nearly 1,000 Educators Join Call for Full Regularization in Canada
Nov. 7, 2022 – As federal cabinet prepares to decide on the parameters of the upcoming regularization program for undocumented migrants, nearly 1,000 educators from across the country have sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Fraser. The…
Sunday November 6th, 2022
Undocumented Migrants in Canada Download the pdf. People become undocumented because of the failures of immigration policy. There is no access to permanent residency for most low-wage migrants in Canada, and only 60% of refugee claimants are accepted. Almost all…
Day of Action in Quebec for the Regularisation of Undocumented Migrants
Thursday November 3rd, 2022
Nous nous rassemblons pour exiger un programme de régularisation véritablement inclusif au Canada et au Québec. Il y a un grand nombre de personnes qui vivent au Canada sans statut, c'est-à-dire sans un permis valide pour être au Canada. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 33 |
Politicians can't ignore their faith
Fr Raymond De Souza
Yesterday's Vatican document on the obligation of Catholic politicians to oppose legal recognition of homosexual unions can be summarized in one sentence: You can't believe two contradictory things at the same time.
Father Raymond De Souza
The teaching of the Catholic Church � along with the unanimous moral tradition taught for millennia by all major religions � is unquestionably clear. Homosexual acts are immoral, and therefore, as yesterday's document stated, cannot be recognized as the basis for "marriage, which is holy." Anyone who believes this � and faithful Catholics presumably do � therefore cannot be part of an effort to promote legal approbation of homosexual unions.
Many Catholic politicians in Canada are doing just that � including the Prime Minister, his presumptive successor and the Justice Minister. They have explained that their legislative views and their religious faith are two separate things.
Two questions arise: Is this approach in fact possible? And is it morally coherent? The Church � and basic logic � answer no to both.
Is it possible to separate one's legislative views from one's religious faith? Take the venerable Tommy Douglas for example. A Christian clergyman and founder of the CCF (forerunner of today's NDP), his religious faith was the principal animating factor of his political campaigns for an expanded welfare state. Was he imposing his religious faith on others by voting for health care or social assistance programs? To have told Tommy Douglas to separate his religious faith from his political program would have struck him as absurd. The same would apply to innumerable campaigns for human rights or social justice that were animated by religious faith � suffice it to mention the celebrated anti-slavery campaign of William Wilberforce in 19th-century Britain.
More fundamentally, if a politician is a serious person, his religious faith will inform his entire worldview. How exactly does he then separate this from his public policy decisions? Would it be possible for an MP to separate his biblically motivated concern for the stewardship of creation from his vote on an environmental bill? And if he were to somehow ignore his convictions on those things most important to him, what basis would there be for a decision? To remove religiously grounded convictions from policy-making is to move a giant step toward raw political power as the only determinant of public policy.
Despite that danger, that approach is advocated by many Catholic politicians in different political parties. Can one do so and remain morally coherent?
The Vatican document said that "the scope of the civil law is certainly more limited than the moral law." A Catholic is obligated to attend Mass every Sunday; the civil law does not address such questions. So not every religious prescription should be written into law. There are religious matters on which the civil law is and should remain silent. The Apostles Creed should not be in the Constitution.
Yet what happens when the civil law is in conflict with the moral law? Martin Luther King, Jr., in his famous 1963 Letter from a Birmingham City Jail, gave the ancient answer a modern voice. He was encouraging white pastors to give political expression to the Christian brotherhood they professed in faith. A politician cannot profess something as wrong according to his conscience, and then promote it in his legislative acts. To do so is simply to say that he is both in favour and against the same thing at the same time. It is morally incoherent. In contrast, the Vatican document reminds Christians that they are obligated "in every occasion, [to] give witness to the whole moral truth."
The Vatican's document has been widely described as a "directive" to Catholic politicians. And while the Vatican does issue what it calls "Instructions" from time to time, yesterday's document bore the more unusual title "Considerations." It would be patronizing to "instruct" Catholics to not act in self-contradictory ways; instead Catholic politicians are invited to "consider" what it means for their own integrity to drive a wedge between their beliefs and their acts. The Church respects the political vocation too much to accept the moral dodge that beliefs are "personal" while legislation is "public." All human acts are personal and therefore bear moral scrutiny. The only thing which a politician can separate himself from by such formulations is his personal integrity.
The Catholic temptation to adjust one's moral compass to the prevailing political conditions is an ancient one. Often the cost of integrity has been martyrdom. It is the courageous choice always available to the honest believer. And a choice always has to be made � between what one professes to be true and what the demands of a particular political situation may be. Yesterday's Vatican document clarifies � as have Canada's Catholic bishops over the past weeks � that you can't choose contradictory things at the same time. Something has to give.
A Post headline writer summarized the situation yesterday: Martin Puts His Faith Second. Just so.
Father Raymond J. De Souza, "Politicians can't ignore their faith." National Post, (Canada) 1 August, 2003.
Reprinted with permission of the National Post.
Father Raymond J. de Souza is currently assigned to Our Lady of Lourdes parish as a curate, and as a chaplain to Newman House at Queen's University.
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Hi, my name is Stella Cox I'm a fully qualified Beauty Therapist specialising in troubled nails and skin analysis. I have been working in the beauty industry for over 25 years. Along side my business I also am an Educator and Assessor for a leading nail company. I'm based in Eastwood, Leigh on sea, Essex. I'm fully insured and work to a high standard.
I consistently update my knowledge in all the beauty areas. Bringing the client up to date methods for the treatments I offer, helping you look and feel like a million dollars.
Products used at Beauty by Stella include Bio Sculpture Gel, Evo by Bio Sculpture, Matis Skincare, SiennaX Spray Tan, Lash Perfect, Hi Brow, Airbase Make-up and Lycon. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 35 |
Legal Products
Assist Consultants Inc.
B-408365.2 Aug 02, 2013
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Assist Consultants Inc., of Kabul, Afghanistan, protests the evaluation of its proposal submitted in response to Request for Proposals (RFP) No. W56KJD-13-R-0008, issued by the Department of the Army for supply and delivery of petroleum fuel products to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) sites throughout Afghanistan. Assist argues that the agency improperly found that its proposal was technically unacceptable, and therefore ineligible for award.
We deny the protest.
Matter of: Assist Consultants Inc.
File: B-408365.2
Faron McFarland, Assist Consultants Inc., for the protester.
Maj. Samuel E. Gregory, and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army,
for the agency.
Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably found that the protester's proposal failed to comply with a mandatory technical requirement.
The RFP anticipated the award of multiple indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts, under which fixed-price delivery orders would be competed. RFP at 5-6. The ordering period for the ID/IQ contracts was expected to be from June 1, 2013, through December 31, 2014.
Evaluation Factors
The RFP indentified the following evaluation factors: (1) price, (2) technical capability, and (3) past performance. Id. § M.1(c). The technical capability factor had three subfactors: (1) fuel fleet requirements, (2) quality control plan, and (3) vetting plan. Id. To receive consideration for award, proposals had to achieve a rating of no less than acceptable for the technical capability factor. Id. § M.1(c).
The RFP stated that all proposals would be evaluated for responsiveness to the solicitation and completeness with regard to price. Id. § M.1(d). The government would rank offerors by price, from lowest to highest, and then, beginning with the lowest-priced, responsive offeror, the agency would evaluate the proposal for technical and past performance acceptability. Id. If a proposal was found to be technically acceptable, and was evaluated as either acceptable or neutral in past performance, that offeror would be selected as an awardee. Id.
As relevant here, under Factor 2, technical capability, the RFP stated that a proposal would be evaluated "to determine the extent it demonstrates a comprehensive and complete capability to perform the work described in the solicitation" and that "[o]fferors must be responsive to all of the requirements in the solicitation, and provide sufficient information to allow evaluation of the proposals." Id. § M.3(b)(i). The solicitation also stated that the technical proposal "must be succinct, specific, detailed, and complete" and "must clearly demonstrate that the offeror has a thorough understanding of the requirement." Id. § M.3(b)(ii). Offerors were further advised that "[g]eneral statements that offerors understand the factors and can or will comply with the requirements of the solicitation will be considered inadequate" and that "[s]tatements to the effect that offeror understands, can or will comply with the solicitation . . . will be considered unacceptable." Id. § M.3(b)(iii).
The RFP stated that to be considered technically acceptable, "offerors must be considered technically acceptable in all technical areas (Subfactors 1-3)." Id. § M.3(b)(v). Under subfactor 2 of the technical capability factor, quality control plan, the RFP stated that "[t]he quality control plan shall include detailed procedures to identify, mitigate and prevent defective commodities" and that "[d]efective commodities include, but are not limited to: failure to deliver on requested date and/or time, delivery of the incorrect quantity of fuel, delivery of the wrong type of fuel, or delivery of fuel that does not meet the quality standards identified in the [Statement of Work]." Id. § M.3(b)(1).
To receive a pass rating under this subfactor, an offeror's quality control plan was required to pass all of the elements listed in the RFP's evaluation criteria. Specifically, the RFP included the following standard which contained the specific elements, as relevant here, required to pass the quality control plan subfactor:
Pass: Without restating the requirement, the offeror must submit a plan that details all of the following:
1. Provide sample fuel testing documents from all refineries where fuel will be purchased for this contract. See Section 4.1 of the SOW [Statement of Work] for specifics.
Fail: The Offeror's plan fails to provide any one of the elements required to "pass."
Evaluation and award
The Army received proposals from 87 offerors, including Assist, and evaluated all of the proposals for responsiveness. AR, Tab 16, Source Selection Decision Document (SSDD) at 10. A total of 44 proposals, including Assist's, were considered responsive. Id. at 14. The agency ranked the 44 proposals from lowest to highest based upon their proposed price[1] and then evaluated them for technical acceptability. Id. The agency found 9 of the proposals technically acceptable, and the remaining 35, including Assist's, technically unacceptable. Id. at 16. The Army deemed all nine of the technically acceptable offers acceptable or neutral in past performance, and found that all nine offerors were responsible. Id. at 18-19. The agency awarded multiple award contracts to these nine offerors. Id. at 20.
On May 18, 2013, the agency notified Assist that its proposal was rated technically unacceptable. AR, Tab 17, Unsuccessful Offeror Notice (May 18, 2013) at 1. Assist requested a debriefing, which it received on May 22. The debriefing stated that Assist's proposal was found technically unacceptable under two of the RFP's technical capability subfactors: quality control plan and vetting plan. AR, Tab 18, Debrief Letter (May 22, 2013) at 1. In particular, Assist's proposal failed two of the mandatory elements required for the quality control plan, and one of the mandatory elements required for the vetting plan, which the debrief letter explained as follows:
Failed Subfactor 2.1
Comments: No documents provided, Proposal does not provide fuel testing documents from all refineries where fuel will be purchased.
Comments: While the vendor does speak on non-conforming product or service (pg 25), it deals with vendor long-term actions. No discussion is pointed toward replacement or remediation of the off spec fuel within the required 24 hour period.
Comments: No discussion on reinvestigation procedures and timeframes.
This protest followed.
Assist argues that the Army unreasonably found its proposal unacceptable with regard to the RFP's following three mandatory elements: (1) the requirement under subfactor 2 to provide fuel testing documents; (2) the requirement under subfactor 2 to provide a written step-by-step plan to remedy a rejected fuel delivery within 24 hours; and (3) the requirement under subfactor 3 to discuss procedures regarding periodic reinvestigations of employees to ensure no criminal misconduct or suspected insurgent activity. For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal as unacceptable for failing to provide the required fuel testing documents under subfactor 2. Because offerors were required to receive a pass rating for each mandatory element to be considered for award, we need not address the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal as failing to provide either the written plan to remedy rejected fuel deliveries, or the discussion of its procedures regarding periodic reinvestigations of employees.
The evaluation of an offeror's proposal is a matter within the agency's discretion. IPlus, Inc., B-298020, B-298020.2, June 5, 2006, 2006 CPD ¶ 90 at 7, 13. A protester's mere disagreement with the agency's judgment in its determination of the relative merit of competing proposals does not establish that the evaluation was unreasonable. VT Griffin Servs., Inc., B-299869.2, Nov. 10, 2008, 2008 CPD ¶ 219 at 4. In reviewing a protest against an agency's evaluation of proposals, our Office will not reevaluate proposals but instead will examine the record to determine whether the agency's judgment was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria and applicable procurement statutes and regulations. See Shumaker Trucking & Excavating Contractors, Inc., B-290732, Sept. 25, 2002, 2002 CPD ¶ 169 at 3.
Assist contends that the Army unreasonably found its proposal unacceptable for failing to include sample fuel testing documents. To receive a pass rating under subfactor 2, an offeror's quality control plan was required to "pass" all of the elements listed in the RFP's evaluation criteria. One of the mandatory elements listed under subfactor 2 required that offerors submit a plan that detailed the following:
Provide sample fuel testing documents from all refineries where fuel will be purchased for this contract. See Section 4.1 of the SOW for specifics.
RFP § M.3(b)(1).
The agency found Assist's proposal unacceptable under subfactor 2 because its quality control plan did not include sample fuel testing documents from all refineries where fuel will be purchased for the contract. See AR, Tab 13, Technical Evaluator No. 1 Form, at 4 ("Proposal does not provide fuel testing documents from all refineries where fuel will be purchased."); Tab 14, Technical Evaluator No. 2 Form, at 4 ("No documents provided."); Tab 15, Technical Evaluator No. 3 Form, at 4 ("Fail--not provided."); Tab 16, SSDD, at 32 ("Fail--not provided.").
Assist concedes that it did not provide any sample fuel testing documents with its proposal. Comments at 1 ("Assist does not deny that its proposal lacked [sample fuel testing documents]."). The protester contends, however, that the RFP did not require that offerors provide such documents in their proposal, and instead asserts that the RFP required only that offerors submit a plan that set forth "procedures to identify, mitigate and prevent defective commodities." Comments at 5.
Where a protester and agency disagree over the meaning of solicitation language, we will resolve the matter by reading the solicitation as a whole and in a manner that gives effect to all of its provisions; to be reasonable, and therefore valid, an interpretation must be consistent with the solicitation when read as a whole and in a reasonable manner. Alluviam LLC, B-297280, Dec. 15, 2005, 2005 CPD ¶ 223 at 2; Fox Dev. Corp., B-287118.2, Aug. 3, 2001, 2001 CPD ¶ 140 at 2.
In support of its interpretation, the protester relies on a sentence in the RFP concerning sample fuel testing documents which directs offerors to "[s]ee Section 4.1 of the SOW for specifics." RFP § M.3(b)(1). Assist argues that under Section 4.1, an offeror's obligation to provide quality control documents during performance is left solely to the agency's discretion, and therefore, the RFP required only that an offeror's quality control plan identify "procedures" for providing such documentation during performance, if ever requested, and that Assist's quality control plan identified the procedures it would use during performance to comply with the requirements of SOW Section 4.1.[2] Comments at 5.
We conclude that the agency's interpretation of the RFP was reasonable, and that the protester's differing interpretation is not reasonable. As discussed above, to "pass" subfactor 2, the RFP required that offerors "[p]rovide sample fuel testing documents from all refineries where fuel will be purchased for this contract." RFP § M.3(b)(1). The RFP also stated that any plan that "fails to provide any one of the elements required to 'pass,'" including the requirement to provide sample fuel testing documents, will "fail" the subfactor. Id. Finally, the RFP stated that "offerors must be considered technically acceptable in all [subfactors]" to be considered technically acceptable overall. Id. § M.3(b). We think the RFP clearly advised that the agency would evaluate whether offerors submitted sample fuel testing documents as one of the mandatory elements required for acceptability under subfactor 2.
With regard to the RFP's reference to Section 4.1 of the SOW, while the pertinent portion of Section 4.1 discusses, among other things, that fuel testing documents must be provided upon request during contract performance,[3] this reference does not negate the RFP's requirement that offerors must provide sample fuel testing documents as part of their proposed quality control plans. Absent an express exception to the unequivocal requirement that offerors must provide sample fuel testing documents from all refineries where fuel will be purchased for this contract, there was no reasonable basis for Assist to ignore the requirement or interpret the requirement more loosely. See LS3 Inc., B-401948.11, July 21, 2010, 2010 CPD ¶ 168 at 2-3; SNAP, Inc., B-402746, July 16, 2010, 2010 CPD ¶ 165 at 3. In sum, the protester's interpretation is contrary to the clear terms of the RFP, and thus, unreasonable.[4]
Alternatively, Assist argues that interpreting the RFP as requiring offerors to provide sample fuel testing documents with their quality control plans evidences a latent ambiguity, of which it became aware only after its proposal was rejected. This argument is without merit. As discussed above, we find that the agency's reading of the RFP was the only reasonable one; in other words, the RFP was not ambiguous. LS3 Inc., supra, at 2-3. In any event, even if we agreed that the provision requiring submission of the documents was ambiguous, any ambiguity was patent, i.e., clear or obvious on the face of the RFP, rather than latent. Since any alleged ambiguity regarding these provisions was apparent on the face of the RFP itself, a protest on this ground was required to be filed prior to the submission of proposals. Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.2(a)(1); U.S. Facilities, Inc., B-293029, B-293029.2, Jan. 16, 2004, 2004 CPD ¶ 17 at 10. For this reason, even if we were to conclude that the solicitation requirements regarding sample fuel testing documents were ambiguous, Assist cannot now timely challenge this matter.
The protest is denied.
Susan A. Poling
[1] Assist's proposal was ranked the fifth lowest-priced. Id. at 15.
[2] Assist also argues that it was unreasonable for the RFP to require offerors to provide sample documents, without defining the form and content of the documents, when technical acceptability is being evaluated on a pass/fail basis. To the extent the protester contends that the solicitation was flawed, this argument is untimely. Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.2(a)(1) (2013) (Protests based upon alleged improprieties in a solicitation which are apparent prior to the time set for receipt of initial proposals shall be filed prior to the time set for receipt of initial proposals).
[3] Section 4.1 states, as relevant here: "The contractor shall deliver the [fuel] products free of liquid and solid contaminates, sand, dirt, sediment and 'free' water in accordance with [stated applicable] standards. . . . In addition, batch quality control documents from the refinery where the fuel was purchased must be provided to the U.S. Government upon request." RFP, SOW § 4.1.1.
[4] The protester also contends that its interpretation is reasonable because the agency found other offerors' proposals technically unacceptable for failing to include sample fuel testing documents, which means that these offerors "interpreted the Solicitation with respect to the quality control plan the same way as Assist and shared the same fate." Comments at 6-7. The protester's assumption about the other offerors, however, is unavailing. The record does not show that the other offerors shared Assist's interpretation of the RFP's requirements, and more importantly, the fact remains that Assist's interpretation contradicts the plain language of the RFP.
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Royal Albert Hall to celebrate 150 years of music with a host of stars
The Royal Albert Hall will be celebrating its 150th anniversary with a raft of musical shows – despite the inevitable challenges thrown up by the coronavirus pandemic.
The iconic building – which was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871 – has survived two World Wars, but it's fair to say that COVID-19 may be the historic venue's biggest challenge yet, forcing it to close its doors to the public during lockdown.
A programme of events including major new commissions, headline shows and historic community events will begin on 29 March 2021 – exactly 150 years on from its opening – and extend into 2022.
Image: Members of the Women's Institute outside the hall in 1971
Highlights include a special birthday concert, led by multi award-winning Bond composer David Arnold.
The year-long collaboration will involve hundreds of local schoolchildren, community members and the Chelsea Pensioners.
Swan Lake choreographer Matthew Bourne will stage The Car Man – his contemporary take on Bizet's well-known opera Carmen.
Image: The Royal Albert Hall has come through two World Wars, now it facing up to the challenges of a pandemic
Bourne told Sky News: "I've never actually had my company perform here before, so I'm absolutely thrilled.
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"This venue means so much to me. I always think of the Albert Hall as not just the most iconic venue in London, but the country… so to be performing something that's never been seen before here, on a larger, expanded, spectacular stage is really incredible."
He says they are doubling the cast and the orchestra, and they will also be expanding the stage into the arena: "We're going to have a sort of a roadway across the arena to the stage… right through the audience."
Image: Matthew Bourne is known for contemporary takes on traditional works – pictured Swan Lake
Multi award-winning composer and musician Nitin Sawhney will curate a week-long festival celebrating the lives and contributions of immigrants over the last 150 years.
Other artists helping the venue to celebrate its birthday include Patti Smith, KT Tunstall, Gregory Porter, Nile Rodgers and Alfie Boe.
There will also be the big reveal of the completed restoration of the hall's historic facade, following four years of painstaking work.
The venue's chief executive, Craig Hassall, told Sky News: "All the scaffolding has gone, the horrible Portakabins have gone. She's absolutely gleaming on the outside. Our teams have been working really hard behind the scenes and done an amazing job and the whole hall looks better than I've ever seen it before. It's as though it just opened its doors."
Image: Multi award-winning composer and musician Nitin Sawhney
He said there was a point early on in the pandemic when he feared the hall would never open again, but he's feeling much more confident and optimistic now.
"Since its opening, this extraordinary venue has borne witness to, and played a central part in, seismic cultural and social change," he said.
"The interests, manners and social mores of the people may have changed, but this beautiful building and what it represents remains the same a century-and-a-half later: a meeting place, a reflection of contemporary Britain, and a home for exhilarating live performance and events of international significance."
Paying tribute to her great-great-grandfather in a commemorative anniversary book, The Queen says: "I have been Patron of the Royal Albert Hall since 1953, and my family and I have enjoyed many events including the annual Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance, the Centenary of the Women's Institute, and even my 92nd Birthday celebration.
"As it embarks on its next 150 years, I hope that the Royal Albert Hall will continue to thrive, and that many more people will have the opportunity to make their own memories of this wonderful building".
Queen Victoria named the hall in memory of her husband, Prince Albert, with the aim of creating a venue that would democratise and promote the arts and sciences.
Christmas celebrations at the hall will kick off with carols – albeit with a smaller audience than normal – on 9 December, led by the Royal Choral Society, which has performed there every year since 1872. Services will also be streamed live.
A full line-up of planned anniversary events can be found on the Royal Albert Hall website.
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For many years I went on like this, knitting, quilting, and baking myself out of despair. My house got neater, our menu more interesting, and I involved my kids in more creative projects than I might otherwise have. We made seasonal decorations, baked holiday cookies, went on nature walks, all recorded and documented with my cheap digital camera on my less-than-perfect blog.
And then a couple of years ago I stopped reading the Perfectly Perfect blogs and started reading a different kind of online journal entirely—long-distance hiking blogs.
The kids were older and less interested in projects, political changes turned my job from dreary to nightmarish, and I could no longer hold my depression at bay by knitting a hat or painting a chair. My husband and I had hiked the 500-mile Colorado Trail when we first started dating and at the time I envisioned a life of travel and adventure. We had taken the kids hiking and camping over the years, but now I was ready to do something big. I would quit my job and the five of us would hike the Colorado Trail together, exactly 20 years after my husband and I first made the trek.
My domestic skills came in handy as I prepared for the trip—I sewed sleeping quilts and made waterproof pack covers and stuff sacks for our gear. I planned meals for 42 days that would involve no cooking, to save the weight of a stove, fuel, and cookware. I looked forward to the six weeks free of food preparation and housework almost as much as I did to the stunning vistas and wildflowers. This hike would be amazing.
And it was amazing. We spent a six weeks hiking among some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. We saw moose and bighorn sheep and elk and pikas and weasels. We spent days above tree line, with views of mountains beyond mountains in every direction, the ground carpeted in flowers of every color. We breathed clean mountain air and drank from crystal clear streams. Our kids developed skills and self-confidence and a camaraderie they never would have found in daily life.
I never tired of the changing scenery, but toward the end of the trip the repetitive tasks—setting up and taking down camp every day, loading and unloading packs, washing the five bowls from which we ate our cold food—began to feel as tedious as repetitive tasks at home. My feet hurt and my body ached. I was physically ready to be done hiking, but not mentally ready to return to daily life.
We got home the day before school started and I spent that first frantic day last-minute back-to-school shopping and ferrying kids to sports and friends' houses. The next day, home alone, I found myself restless and unable to settle down. Our house-sitters had left the house neat, but not exactly clean. A summer's worth of pollen dusted every surface. Spiders and their webs lurked in the corners. Grit stuck to my feet when I walked barefoot across the floor.
I decided to clean one room in the house, choosing the upstairs bathroom, usually the last room to get attention. I cleaned it as if a guest was coming, wiping dust from the shelves and windowsill, washing the light fixture, mopping the floor. As I worked I found that cleaning the bathroom is not nearly as unpleasant as the anticipation of cleaning the bathroom.
It's now been a month since we completed our hike, three weeks since we returned home. I've been putting off cleaning the bathroom again. I feel a bit like the astronaut who returns from the moon and says, "Now what?" My kids are back to their old bickering selves. Cooking and cleaning feel every bit as repetitive and tedious as they did three months ago. I've picked up and put down my knitting needles and sewing projects. Now that my inner self has had a little taste of the wild, it won't easily be domesticated again.
Andrea Lani's essays about family and nature have appeared in Orion, Northern Woodlands, and Brain, Child, among other publications. She's working on a book about her two hikes on the Colorado Trail and the environmental and social changes that have taken place in the intervening 20 years. She blogs about her imperfect days at www.remainsofday.blogspot.com. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 41 |
For a native English speaker learning French, one of the sharpest thorns in the flesh (after the wretched verbs, of course) is the question of gender – is a noun masculine or feminine. Many's the time my students, making a good fist of conversing in French, suddenly stop, look up to the ceiling, down to the floor, frown and grimace, causing the flow to stop and all because they are unsure of the gender of a word.
The first thing to understand is that it doesn't matter a tuppenny damn if you get it wrong. It is far more important to keep the conversation flowing. The question of gender is a nonsense: the same word can be masc or fem with different meanings (vase, livre, tour); some words are one gender in the singular and the other in the plural (délice, amour) and some can be masc or fem (clope = fag, ciggie).
Have you ever thought that an English pupil learning French nouns for homework has twice as much work to do as his French counterpart who doesn't have gender to worry about.
When I was learning French, I remembered gender (and other things) by what I think is called 'association'. Before I give you some examples, I want to point out that some could be considered sexist and I don't want to be trolled and vilified by affronted women. I know the roles of men and women are blurred, and quite rightly so, but it wasn't like it when I was alive.
Vase (f) = mud. Women wear mud packs.
Make your own up but whatever you do, don't assign a gender to a word on the strength of its being a 'man' or 'woman' thing. Remember! Knickers, bra, petticoat as well as more intimate lady parts are masculine; while shirt, tie, prostate and Adam's apple are feminine.
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They also condemned the abbe Brottier, Lavilleheurnois, Dunan, the ex-minister of police, Cochon, the ex-agent of the police Dossonville, generals Miranda and Morgan; the journalist, Suard; the ex-conventionalist, Mailhe; and the commandant, Ramel. A few of the proscribed succeeded in evading the decree of exile; Carnot was among the number.
M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet - History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
On his way back from Oxbridge he paid a visit to his uncle in London; but the old gentleman received him with very cold looks, and would scarcely give him his forefinger to shake. He called a second time, but Morgan, the valet, said his master was from home. Pen came back to Fairoaks, and to his books and to his idleness, and loneliness and despair.
William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis
Back again to the ethical standard of those old, hard-riding, hard-drinking, hard-swearing days on the range, the refinements of his education submerged, and not one regret for the slip. Morgan did not realize in that moment of surrender to the primitive desires which clamored within him how badly he was wrenched and mauled.
George W. (George Washington) Ogden - Trail's End
Into this group of patriot leaders came also Daniel Morgan of Virginia. Little is known of the early life of this remarkable man. He would rarely say anything about his family. It is believed that he was born of obscure Welsh people, in New Jersey, about the year 1737. At seventeen, Morgan could barely read and write.
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Although Major Pendennis was as much surprised at this intelligence regarding his servant, as if he had heard that Morgan was a disguised Marquis, about to throw off his mask and assume his seat in the House of Peers; and although he was of course indignant at the audacity of the fellow who had dared to grow rich under his nose, and without his cognisance; yet he had a natural admiration for every man who represented money and success, and found himself respecting Morgan, and being rather afraid of that worthy, as the truth began to dawn upon him.
"I'd go if we was fifty to one. We'd 'a' got him, too, if it hadn't been for Miss Messiter. 'Twas a chance we ain't likely to get again for a year." "It wasn't your fault you didn't kill him, Mr. Morgan," she said, looking hard at him. "You may be interested to know that your last shot missed him only about six inches, and me about four." "I didn't know who you were," he sullenly defended.
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And right as Arthur was on horseback there came a damosel from Morgan le Fay, and brought unto Sir Arthur a sword like unto Excalibur, and the scabbard, and said unto Arthur, Morgan le Fay sendeth here your sword for great love. And he thanked her, and weened it had been so, but she was false, for the sword and the scabbard was counterfeit, and brittle, and false.
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In that second of hesitant delay, that breath of portentous bluff, Morgan had read Peden to the roots. A man who had it in him to shoot did not stop at anybody's word when he was that far along the way. "Clear this place and lock it up!" Morgan repeated. The temperature of the crowded hall seemed to fall forty degrees in the second or two Morgan stood pushing his rifle against Peden's breastbone.
So of course it was a foregone conclusion that he should win the girl that his younger brother, among others, adored to distraction. "His family hoped that his love for his young wife would change him for the better. But there was something tamelessly wild in Richard Hynds. He would have done very well, very well indeed, in the Golden Hind with Drake, or in the Jesus with Morgan.
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Joe Morgan Fat Joe to the river-front and the construction squad was already hustling in their direction, even before Steve, with that slow smile tugging at his lips, had finished assuring her that it was never necessary to summon Joe into the presence of an attractive member of the opposite sex. He came without being called.
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\section{Introduction}\label{introduction}
\subsection{Main theorems}
A complex space $X$ is \emph{Brody hyperbolic} if there is no non-constant holomorphic map $\gamma:\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}\to X$. The first result in this paper is the affirmative answer to a conjecture by by Viehweg-Zuo \cite[Question 0.2]{VZ03} on the Brody hyperbolicity of moduli spaces for polarized manifolds with semi-ample canonical sheaf.
\begin{thmx}[Brody hyperbolicity of moduli spaces]\label{VZ question}
Consider the moduli functor $\mathscr{P}_h$ of polarized manifolds with semi-ample canonical sheaf introduced by Viehweg \cite[\S 7.6]{Vie95}, where $h$ is the Hilbert polynomial associated to the polarization $\mathscr{H}$. Assume that for some quasi-projective manifold $V$ there exists
a smooth family $(f_U:U\to V,\mathscr{H})\in \mathscr{P}_h(V)$ for which the induced moduli map $\varphi_U:V\to P_h$
is quasi-finite over its image, where $P_h$ denotes to be the quasi-projective\footnote{The quasi-projectivity of $P_h$ was proved by Viehweg in \cite{Vie95}.} coarse moduli scheme for $\mathscr{P}_h$. Then the base space $V$ is Brody hyperbolic.
\end{thmx}
A complex space $X$ is called \emph{pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolic}, if $X$ is hyperbolic modulo a proper Zariski closed subset $\Delta\subsetneq X$, that is, the Kobayashi pseudo distance $d_X:X\times X\to [0,+\infty[$ of
$X$ satisfies that $d_X(p,q)>0$ for every pair of distinct points $p,q\in X$ not both contained in $\Delta$.
In particular, $X$ is \emph{pseudo Brody hyperbolic}: any non-constant holomorphic map $\gamma:\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}\to X$ has image $\gamma(\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N})\subset \Delta$. When such $\Delta$ is an empty set, this definition reduces to the usual definition of \emph{Kobayashi
hyperbolicity}, and the Kobayashi pseudo distance $d_{ X}$ is a distance.
In this paper we indeed prove a stronger result than \cref{VZ question}.
\begin{thmx}\label{Deng}
Let $f_U:U\to V$ be a smooth projective morphism between complex quasi-projective manifolds with connected fibers. Assume that the general fiber of $f_U$ has semi-ample canonical bundle, and $f_U$ is of maximal variation, that is, the general fiber of $f_U$ can only be birational to at most countably many other
fibers. Then the base space $V$ is pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolic.
\end{thmx}
As a byproduct, we reduce the pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolicity of varieties to the existence of certain negatively curved Higgs bundles (which we call \emph{Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles} in \cref{def:VZ}). This provides a main building block for our recent work \cite{Den19} on the hyperbolicity of bases of log Calabi-Yau pairs
Another aim of the paper is to prove affirmatively a
folklore conjecture on the \emph{Kobayashi hyperbolicity} for moduli spaces of minimal projective manifolds of general type, which can be thought of as an analytic refinement of \cref{VZ question} in the case that fibers have big and nef canonical bundle.
\begin{thmx}\label{main}
Let \( f_U:U\to V \) be a smooth projective family of minimal projective manifolds of general type over a quasi-projective manifold $V$. Assume that $f_U$ is \emph{effectively parametrized},
that is, the Kodaira-Spencer map
\begin{align}\label{KS}
\rho_y: \mathscr{T}_{V,y}\to H^1(U_y, \mathscr{T}_{U_y})
\end{align}
is injective for each point \(y\in V \),
where $\mathscr{T}_{U_y}$ denotes the tangent bundle of the fiber $U_y:=f_U^{-1}(y)$.
Then the base space \(V\) is Kobayashi hyperbolic.
\end{thmx}
\subsection{Previous related results}
\cref{Deng} is closely related to the \emph{Viehweg hyperbolicity conjecture}: let $f_U:U\to V$ be a maximally variational smooth projective family of projective manifolds with semi-ample canonical bundle over a quasi-projective manifold $V$, then the base $V$ must be of log-general type. In the series of works \cite{VZ01,VZ02,VZ03}, Viehweg-Zuo constructed in a first step a big subsheaf of symmetric log differential forms of the base (so-called \emph{Viehweg-Zuo sheaves}). Built on this result, Viehweg hyperbolicity conjecture was shown by Kebekus-Kov\'acs \cite{KK08a,KK08b,KK10} when $V$ is a surface or threefold, by Patakfalvi \cite{Pat12} when $V$ is compact or admits a non-uniruled compactification, and it was completely solved by Campana-P\u{a}un \cite{CP15}, in which they proved a vast generalization of
the famous generic semipositivity result of Miyaoka (see also \cite{CP15b,CP16,Schn17} for other different proofs). More recently, using deep theory of Hodge modules, Popa-Schnell \cite{PS17} constructed Viehweg-Zuo
sheaves on the base space $V$ of the smooth family $f_U:U\to V$ of projective manifolds whose geometric generic fiber admits a good minimal model. Combining this with the aforementioned theorem of Campana-P\u{a}un, they proved that such
base space $V$ is of log general type. Therefore, \cref{Deng} is predicted by a famous conjecture of Lang (cf. \cite[Chapter VIII. Conjecture 1.4]{Lan91}), which stipulates that a complex quasi-projective manifold
is pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolic if and only if it is of log general type. To our knowledge, Lang's conjecture is by now known for the trivial case of curves, for general hypersurface $X$ in the complex projective space $\mathbb{C}P^n$ of high degrees \cite{Bro17,Dem18,Siu15} as well as their complements $\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N} P^n\setminus X$ \cite{BD19}, for projective manifolds whose universal cover carries a bounded strictly plurisubharmonic
function \cite{DB18}, for quotients of bounded (symmetric) domains \cite{Rou16,CRT19,CDG19}, and for subvarieties on abelian varieties \cite{Yam18}. \cref{Deng} therefore provides some new evidences for Lang's conjecture.
\cref{VZ question} was first proved by Viehweg-Zuo \cite[Theorem 0.1]{VZ03} for moduli spaces of \emph{canonically polarized} manifolds. Combining the approaches by Viehweg-Zuo \cite{VZ03} with those by Popa-Schnell \cite{PS17}, very recently, Popa-Taji-Wu \cite[Theorem 1.1]{PTW18} proved \cref{VZ question} for moduli spaces of \emph{polarized} manifolds with big and semi-ample canonical bundles. As we will see below, our work owes a lot to the general strategies and techniques in their work \cite{VZ03,PTW18}.
The Kobayashi hyperbolicity of moduli spaces $\mathcal{M}_g$ of
compact Riemann surfaces of genus $g\geqslant 2$ has long been known to us by the work of Royden and Wolpert \cite{Roy74,Wol86}. The first important breakthrough on higher dimensional generalizations was made by To-Yeung \cite{TY14}, in which they proved Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the base $V$ considered in \cref{main} when the canonical bundle \(K_{U_y}\) of each fiber $U_y:=f^{-1}_U(y)$ of $f_U:U\to V$ is further assumed to be ample (see also \cite{BPW17,Sch17} for alternative proofs).
Differently from the approaches in \cite{VZ03,PTW18}, their strategy is to study the curvature of the generalized Weil-Petersson metric for families of canonically polarized manifolds, along the approaches initiated by Siu \cite{Siu86} and later developed by Schumacher \cite{Sch12}. For the smooth family of Calabi-Yau manifolds (resp. orbifolds),
Berndtsson-P\u{a}un-Wang \cite{BPW17} and Schumacher \cite{Sch17} (resp. To-Yeung \cite{TY18}) proved the Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the base once this family is assumed to be effectively parametrized.
Recently, Lu, Sun, Zuo and the author \cite{DLSZ} proved a big Picard type theorem for moduli spaces of polarized manifolds with semi-ample canonical sheaf. A crucial step of the proof relies on the \enquote*{generic local Torelli-type theorem} in \cref{mainvz}. \cref{mainvz} also inspired us a lot in our more recent work \cite{Den20} on the big Picard theorem for varieties admitting variation of Hodge structures.
\subsection{Strategy of the proof}
For the smooth family $f_U:U\to V$ of canonically polarized manifolds with maximal variation, Viehweg-Zuo \cite{VZ03}
constructed certain negatively twisted Higgs bundles (which we call \emph{Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles} in \cref{def:VZ}) \((\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta}):=(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-q,q},\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n} \vvmathbb{1}\otimes\theta_{n-q,q}) \), over some smooth projective compactification $Y$ of a certain birational model $\tilde{V}$ of $V$, where \(\mathscr{L}\) is some big and nef line bundle on \(Y\), and $\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}E^{n-q,q},\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\theta_{n-q,q}\big)$ is a Higgs bundle induced by a polarized variation of Hodge structure defined over a Zariski open set of $\tilde{V}$. In a recent paper \cite{PTW18}, Popa-Taji-Wu introduced several new inputs to develop Viehweg-Zuo's strategy in \cite{VZ03}, which enables them to construct those Higgs bundles on base spaces of smooth families whose geometric generic fiber admits a good minimal model (see also \cref{thm:existence} for a weaker statement as well as a slightly different proof following the original construction by Viehweg-Zuo). As we will see in the main content, the Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles (VZ Higgs bundles for short) are the crucial tools in proving our main results.
When each fibers $U_y:=f_U^{-1}(y)$ of the smooth family $f_U:U\to V$ considered in \cref{Deng} have ample or big and nef canonical bundles, let us briefly recall the general strategies in proving the \emph{pseudo Brody hyperbolicity} of $V$ in \cite{VZ03,PTW18}. A certain sub-Higgs bundle $(\mathscr{F},\eta)$ of \((\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta}) \) with log poles contained in the divisor $D:=Y\setminus \tilde{V}$ gives rise to a morphism
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:iterate}
\tau_{\gamma,k}: \mathscr{T}_\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}^{\otimes k}\to \gamma^*(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k})
\end{eqnarray}
for any entire curve \(\gamma:\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}\to \tilde{V} \). If \(\gamma:\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}\to \tilde{V} \) is Zariski dense, by the Kodaira-Nakano vanishing (when $K_{U_y}$ is ample) and Bogomolov-Sommese vanishing theorems (when $K_{U_y}$ is big and nef),
one can verify that \(\tau_{\gamma,1}(\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N})\not\equiv 0 \). Hence there is some $m>0$ (depending on $\gamma$) so that $\tau_{\gamma,m}$ factors through $\gamma^*(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes N^{n-m,m})$, where $N^{n-m,m}$ is the kernel of the Higgs field $\theta_m:E^{n-m,m}\to E^{n-m-1,m+1}\otimes \Omega_Y(\log D)$. Applying Zuo's theorem \cite{Zuo00} on the negativity of $N^{n-m,m}$, a certain positively curved metric for $\mathscr{L}$ can produce a singular hermitian metric on \(\mathscr{T}_\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N} \) with the \emph{Gaussian curvature} bounded from above by a negative constant, which contradicts with the (Demailly's) Ahlfors-Schwarz lemma \cite[Lemma 3.2]{Dem97}. However, this approach did not provide enough information for the Kobayashi pseudo distance of the base $V$. Moreover, the use of vanishing theorem cannot show \(\tau_{\gamma,1}(\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N})\not\equiv 0 \) when fibers of $f_U:U\to V$ is not minimal manifolds of general type.
One of the main results in the present paper is to apply the VZ Higgs bundle to construct a (possibly degenerate) Finsler metric $F$ on some birational model $\tilde{V}$ of the base $V$, whose holomorphic sectional curvature is bounded above by a negative constant (say \emph{negatively curved Finsler metric} in \cref{negatively curved}). A bimeromorphic criteria for pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolicity in \cref{pseudo Kobayashi} states that,
the base is pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolic if $F$ is \emph{positively definite} over a Zariski dense open set. Let us now briefly explain our idea of the constructions. By factorizing through some sub-Higgs sheaf $ (\mathscr{F},\eta) \subseteq (\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ with logarithmic poles \emph{only} along the boundary divisor $D:=Y\setminus \tilde{V}$, one can define a morphism for any \(k=1,\ldots,n \):
\begin{eqnarray}\label{intro: iterated Kodaira}
\tau_k: {\rm Sym}^k \mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D) \rightarrow \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k},
\end{eqnarray}
where $\mathscr{L}$ is some big line bundle over $Y$ equipped with a \emph{positively curved} singular hermitian metric $h_\mathscr{L}$. Then for each \(k\), the hermitian metric $h_k$ on \(\tilde{\mathscr{E}}_k:=\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}\) induced by the Hodge metric as well as $h_\mathscr{L}$ (see \cref{singular metric} for details) will give rise to a Finsler metric \(F_k\) on \(\mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D)\) by taking the $k$-th root of the pull-back $\tau_k^*h_k$. However, the holomorphic sectional curvature of \(F_k\) might not be negatively curved.
Inspired by the aforementioned work of Schumacher, To-Yeung and Berndtsson-P\u{a}un-Wang \cite{Sch12,Sch17,TY14,BPW17} on the curvature computations of generalized Weil-Petersson metric for families of canonically polarized manifolds, we define a convex sum of Finsler metrics
\begin{eqnarray} \label{eq:Finsler convex}
F:=(\sum_{k=1}^{n}{\alpha_k}F^2_k)^{1/2} \quad \mbox{with} \ \alpha_1, \dots,\alpha_n\in \mathbb{R}^+
\end{eqnarray}
on \(\mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D) \), to offset the unwanted positive terms in the curvature \(\Theta_{\tilde{\mathscr{E}}_k} \) by negative contributions from
the \(\Theta_{\tilde{\mathscr{E}}_{k+1} }\) (the last order term was \(\Theta_{\tilde{\mathscr{E}}_{n} }\) is always semi-negative by the Griffiths curvature formula). We proved in \cref{uniform} that for proper \(\alpha_1, \dots,\alpha_n>0\), the holomorphic sectional curvature of \(F\) is negative and bounded away from zero. To summarize, we establish an \emph{algorithm} for the construction of Finsler metrics via VZ Higgs bundles.
To prove \cref{Deng}, we first note that the VZ Higgs bundles over some birational model $\tilde{V}$ of the base space $V$ were constructed by Popa-Taji-Wu in their elaborate work \cite{PTW18}. Let $Y$ be some smooth projective compactification $\tilde{V}$ with simple normal crossing boundary $D:=Y\setminus \tilde{V}$. By our construction of negatively curved Finsler metric $F$ defined in \eqref{eq:Finsler convex} via VZ Higgs bundles, to show that $F$ is \emph{positively definite} over some Zariski open set, it suffices to prove that $\tau_1:\mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D)\to \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1}$ defined in \eqref{intro: iterated Kodaira} is \emph{generically injective} (which we call \emph{generic local Torelli} for VZ Higgs bundles in \cref{sec:VZ}).
This was proved in \cref{mainvz}, by using the degeneration of Hodge metric and the curvature properties of Hodge bundles. In particular, we show that the generic injectivity of $\tau_1$ is indeed an intrinsic feature of all VZ Higgs bundles (not related to the Kodaira dimension of fibers of $f$!). By a standard inductive argument in \cite{VZ03,PTW18}, one can easily show that \cref{Deng} implies \cref{VZ question}.
Now we will explain the strategy to prove \cref{main}. Note that the VZ Higgs bundles are only constructed over some birational model $\tilde{V}$ of $V$, which is not Kobayashi hyperbolic in general.
This motivates us first to establish a \emph{bimeromorphic criteria for Kobayashi hyperbolicity} in \cref{bimeromorphic}.
Based on this criteria, in order to apply the VZ Higgs bundles
to prove the Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the base $V$ in \cref{main},
it suffices to show that
\begin{enumerate}[label=($\spadesuit$),leftmargin=0.6cm]
\item \label{several blow}for any given point $y$ on the base $V$, there exists a VZ Higgs bundle $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ constructed over some birational model $\nu:\tilde{V}\to V$, such that \(\nu^{-1}:V\dashrightarrow \tilde{V}\) is defined at \(y\).
\end{enumerate}
\begin{enumerate}[label=($\clubsuit$),leftmargin=0.6cm]
\item \label{condition:Finsler}The negatively curved Finsler metric $F$ on $\tilde{V}$ defined in \eqref{eq:Finsler convex} induced by the above VZ Higgs bundle $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ is positively definite at the point $\nu^{-1}(y)$.
\end{enumerate}
Roughly speaking, the idea is to produce an abundant supply of \emph{fine} VZ Higgs bundles to construct sufficiently many negatively curved Finsler metrics, which are obstructions to the degeneracy of Kobayashi pseudo distance $d_V$ of $V$.
This is much more demanding than the Brody hyperbolicity and Viewheg hyperbolicity of $V$, which can be shown by the existence of \emph{only one} VZ Higgs bundle on an arbitrary birational model of $V$, as mentioned in \cite{VZ02,VZ03,PS17,PTW18}.
Let us briefly explain how we achieve both \ref{several blow} and \ref{condition:Finsler}.
As far as we see in \cite{VZ03,PTW18}, in their construction of VZ Higgs bundles, one has to blow-up the base for several times (indeed twice). Recall that the basic setup in \cite{VZ03,PTW18} is the following: after passing to some smooth birational model ${f}_{\tilde{U}}:\tilde{U}=U\times_V{\tilde{V}}\to \tilde{V}$ of $f_U:U\to V$, one can find a smooth projective compactification $f:X\to Y$ of $ \tilde{U}^r\to \tilde{V}$
\begin{align}\label{semistable}
\xymatrix{
U^r \ar[d] &\tilde{U}^r \ar[l]_{\stackrel{{\rm bir}}{\sim}} \ar[d] \ar[r]^\subseteq &X \ar[d]^{f} \\
V &\tilde{V}\ar[l]^-{\nu}_{\stackrel{{\rm bir}}{\sim}} \ar[r]^\subseteq &Y}
\end{align}
so that there exists (at least) one hypersurface
\begin{align}\label{eq: smooth hypersurface}
H \in \big\lvert \ell K_{X/Y}-\ell f^*\mathscr{L}\big\lvert \quad {\rm for\ some} \quad \ell\gg 0
\end{align}
which is \emph{transverse} to the general fibers of $f$. Here \(\mathscr{L} \) is some big and nef line bundle over \(Y\), and $ {U}^r:= {U}\times_{ {V}}\times \cdots\times_{ {V}} {U}$ (resp. $\tilde{U}^r$) is the $r$-fold fiber product of $f_{{U}}: {U}\to {V}$ (resp. $f_{\tilde{U}}:\tilde{U}\to \tilde{V}$). The VZ Higgs bundle is indeed the logarithmic Higgs bundles associated
to the Hodge filtration of an auxiliary variation of polarized Hodge structures
constructed by taking the middle dimensional relative de Rham cohomlogy on
the cyclic cover of $X$ ramified along $H$.
In order to find such $H$ in \eqref{eq: smooth hypersurface}, a crucial step in \cite{VZ03,PTW18} is the use of
\emph{weakly semi-stable reduction} by Abramovich-Karu \cite{AK00} so that, after changing the birational model $U\to V$ by performing certain (uncontrollable) base change $\tilde{U}:=U\times_V\tilde{V}\to \tilde{V}$, one can find a ``good" compactification $X\to Y$ of $\tilde{U}^r\to \tilde{V}$ and a finite dominant morphism $W\to Y$ from a smooth projective manifold $W$ such that the base change $X\times_YW\to W$ is birational to a \emph{mild morphism} $Z\to W$, which is in particular flat with reduced fibers (even fonctorial under fiber products).
For our goal \ref{several blow}, we need a more refined control of the \emph{alteration for the base} in the weakly semistable reduction \cite[Theorem 0.3]{AK00}, which remains unknown at the moment. {Fortunately, as was suggested to us and proved in \Cref{appendix} by Abramovich, using moduli of Alexeev stable maps one can establish a \emph{$\mathbb{Q}$-mild reduction} for the family $U\to V$ in place of the \emph{mild reduction} in \cite{VZ03}, so that we can also find a ``good" compactification $X\to Y$ of $U^r\to V$ without passing the birational models $ \tilde{V}\to V$ as in \eqref{semistable}. This is the main theme of \Cref{appendix}.}
Even if we can apply $\mathbb{Q}$-mild reduction to avoid the first blow-up of the base as in \cite{VZ03,PTW18}, the second blow-up is in general inevitable. Indeed, the \emph{discriminant} of the new family $Z_H\to Y\supset V$ obtained by taking the cyclic cover along $H$ in \eqref{eq: smooth hypersurface} is in general not normal crossing.
One thus has to blow-up this discriminant locus of $Z_H\to Y$ to make it normal crossing as in \cite{PTW18}. Therefore, to assure \ref{several blow}, it then suffices to show that there exists a compactification $ {f}: {X}\to {Y}$ of the smooth family $U^r\to V$ so that for some sufficiently ample line bundle $\mathscr{A}$ over $Y$,
\begin{equation}\label{eq:enough ample}
f_*(mK_{ {X}/ {Y}})\otimes \mathscr{A}^{-m} \mbox{ is globally generated over $V$ for some $m\gg 0$.}\tag{$\ast$}
\end{equation}
Indeed, for any given point $y\in V$, by \eqref{eq:enough ample} one can find $H$ transverse to the fiber $X_y:=f^{-1}(y)$, and thus the new family $Z_H\to Y$ will be smooth over an open set containing $y$.
To the bests of our knowledge, \eqref{eq:enough ample} was only known to us when the moduli is canonically polarized \cite[Proposition 3.4]{VZ02}. \cref{sec:positivity} is devoted to the proof of \eqref{eq:enough ample} for the family $U\to V$ in \cref{main} (see \cref{desired global} below). This in turn achieves \ref{several blow}.
To achieve \ref{condition:Finsler}, our idea is to take \emph{different cyclic coverings} by \enquote*{moving} $H$ in \eqref{eq: smooth hypersurface}, to produce different \enquote*{fine} VZ Higgs bundles. For any given point \(y\in V\), by \ref{several blow}, one can take a birational model $\nu:\tilde{V}\to V$ so that $\nu$ is isomorphic at $y$, and there exists a VZ Higgs bundle $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ on the normal crossing compactification $Y\supset \tilde{V}$.
To prove that the induced negatively curved Finsler metric $F$ is positively definite at $\tilde{y}:=\nu^{-1}(y)$, by our definition of \(F\) in \eqref{eq:Finsler convex}, it suffices to show that
\(\tau_1 \) defined in \eqref{intro: iterated Kodaira} is \emph{injective} at \(\tilde{y}\) in the sense of $\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}$-linear map between complex vector spaces
\[
\tau_{1,\tilde{y}}:\mathscr{T}_{\tilde{V},\tilde{y}}\xrightarrow{\simeq} \mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log D)_{\tilde{y}}\xrightarrow{\rho_{\tilde{y}}}H^1(X_{\tilde{y}}, \mathscr{T}_{X_{\tilde{y}}}) \xrightarrow{\varphi_{\tilde{y}}} \tilde{\mathscr{E}}_{1,\tilde{y}}.
\]
As we will see in \cref{construction}, when $H$ in \eqref{eq: smooth hypersurface} is properly chosen (indeed being transverse to the fiber $X_y$) which is ensured by \eqref{eq:enough ample}, $\varphi_{\tilde{y}}$ is injective at ${\tilde{y}}$. Hence $\tau_{1,\tilde{y}}$ is injective by our assumption of \emph{effective parametrization} (hence $\rho_{\tilde{y}}$ is injective) in \cref{main}. This is our strategy to prove \cref{main}.
\subsection*{Acknowledgments}
This paper is the merger of my previous two articles \cite{Den18,Den18b} with slight improvements. It owes a lot to the celebrated work \cite{VZ02,VZ03,PTW18}, to which I express my gratitudes.
I would like to sincerely thank Professors Dan Abramovich, S\'ebastien Boucksom, H{\aa}kan Samuelsson Kalm, Kalle Karu, Mihai P\u{a}un, Mihnea Popa, Georg Schumacher, J\"org Winkelmann, Chenyang Xu, Xiaokui Yang, Kang Zuo, and Olivier Benoists, Junyan Cao, Chen Jiang, Ruiran Sun, Lei Wu, Jian Xiao for answering my questions and very fruitful discussions. I thank in particular Junyan Cao and Lei Wu for their careful reading of the early draft of the paper and numerous suggestions. I am particularly grateful to Professor Dan Abramovich for suggesting the $\mathbb{Q}$-mild reduction, and writing \Cref{appendix} which provides a crucial step for the present paper.
I thank Professors Damian Brotbek and Jean-Pierre Demailly for their encouragements and supports. Lastly, I thank the referee for his careful reading of the paper and his suggestions on rewriting the paper completely.
\section*{Notations and conventions.}
Throughout this article we will work over the complex number field $\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}$.
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0.4cm]
\item An algebraic fiber space\footnote{Here we follow the definition in \cite{Mor85}.} (or fibration for short) $f:X\to Y$ is a surjective projective morphism between projective manifolds with connected geometric fibers.
Any $\mathbb{Q}$-divisor $E$ in $X$ is said to be $f$-exceptional if $f(E)$ is an algebraic variety of codimension at least two in $Y$.
\item We say that a morphism $f_U:U\to V$ is a \emph{smooth family} if $f_U$ is a surjective smooth projective morphism with connected fibers between quasi-projective varieties.
\item For any surjective morphism $Y'\to Y$, and the algebraic fiber space $f:X\to Y$, we denote by $(X\times_YY')^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$ the (unique) irreducible component (say the \emph{main component}) of $X\times_Y Y'$ which dominates $Y'$.
\item Let $\mu:X'\to X$ be a birational morphism from a projective manifold $X'$ to a singular variety $X$. $\mu$ is called a \emph{strong desingularization} if $\mu^{-1}(X^{\rm reg})\to X^{\rm reg}$ is an isomorphism. Here $X^{\rm reg}$ denotes to be the smooth locus of $X$.
\item For any birational morphism $\mu:X'\to X$, the \emph{exceptional locus} is the inverse image of the smallest closed set of $X$ outside of which $\mu$ is an isomorphism, and denoted by ${\rm Ex}(\mu)$.
\item Denote by $X^r:=X\times_{Y} \cdots\times_{Y} X$ the $r$-fold fiber product of the fibration \(f:X\to Y\), $(X^r)^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$ the \emph{main component} of $X^r$ dominating $Y$, and $X^{(r)}$ a \emph{strong desingularization} of $(X^r)^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$.
\item For any quasi-projective manifold $Y$, a Zariski open subset $Y_0\subset Y$ is called a \emph{big open set} of $Y$ if and only if ${\rm codim}_{Y\setminus Y_0}(Y)\geqslant 2$.
\item A singular hermitian metric $h$ on the line bundle $L$ is said to be \emph{positively curved} if the curvature current $\Theta_h(L)\geqslant 0$.
\end{itemize}
\section{Brody hyperbolicity of the base}\label{Higgs}
To begin with, let us introduce the definition of \emph{Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles} over quasi-projective manifolds in an abstract way following \cite{VZ03,PTW18}. Then we prove a generic local Torelli for VZ Higgs bundles. We will show that based on the previous work by Viehweg-Zuo and Popa-Taji-Wu, this generic local Torelli theorem suffices to prove \cref{VZ question}.
\subsection{Abstract Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles}\label{sec:VZ}
The definition we present below follows from the formulation in \cite{VZ02,VZ03} and \cite[Proposition 2.7]{PTW18}.
\begin{dfn}[Abstract Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles]\label{def:VZ}
Let $V$ be a quasi-projective manifold, and let $Y\supset V$ be a projective compactification of $V$ with the boundary $D:=Y\setminus V$ simple normal crossing. A \emph{Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundle on $V$} is a logarithmic Higgs bundle $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ over $Y$ consisting of the following data:
\begin{thmlist}
\item a divisor $S$ on $Y$ so that $D+S$ is simple normal crossing,
\item \label{VZ big} a big and nef line bundle $\mathscr{L}$ over $Y$ with $\mathbf{B}_+(\mathscr{L})\subset D\cup S $,
\item a Higgs bundle $( {\mathscr{E}}, {\theta}):=\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}E^{n-q,q},\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\theta_{n-q,q}\big)$ induced by the lower canonical extension of a polarized VHS defined over $Y\setminus (D\cup S)$,
\item a sub-Higgs sheaf $(\mathscr{F},\eta)\subset (\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$,
\end{thmlist}
which satisfy the following properties.
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=0.5cm]
\item The Higgs bundle $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta}):=(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes {\mathscr{E}},\vvmathbb{1}\otimes {\theta})$. In particular, $\tilde{\theta}:\tilde{\mathscr{E}}\to \tilde{\mathscr{E}}\otimes \Omega_{Y}\big(\log (D+S)\big)$, and $\tilde{\theta}\wedge\tilde{\theta}=0$.
\item The sub-Higgs sheaf $(\mathscr{F},\eta)$ has log poles only on the boundary $D$, that is, $\eta:\mathscr{F}\to \mathscr{F}\otimes\Omega_{Y}(\log D)$.
\item \label{contain trivial}Write $\tilde{\mathscr{E}}_k:=\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}$, and denote by $\mathscr{F}_k:=\tilde{\mathscr{E}}_k\cap \mathscr{F}$. Then the first stage $\mathscr{F}_0$ of $\mathscr{F}$ is an \emph{effective line bundle}. In other words, there exists a non-trivial morphism $\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y\to \mathscr{F}_0$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{dfn}
As shown in \cite{VZ02}, by iterating $\eta$ for $k$-times, we obtain
$$
\mathscr{F}_0\xrightarrow{\overbrace{\eta\circ\cdots\circ \eta}^{k\, \text{times}}} \mathscr{F}_k\otimes \big(\Omega_Y(\log D)\big)^{\otimes k}.
$$
Since $\eta\wedge\eta =0$, the above morphism factors through $ \mathscr{F}_k\otimes {\rm Sym}^k\Omega_Y(\log D)$, and by \eqref{contain trivial} one thus obtains
$$
\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y\to \mathscr{F}_0\to \mathscr{F}_k\otimes {\rm Sym}^k\Omega_Y(\log D)\to \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}\otimes {\rm Sym}^k\Omega_Y(\log D).
$$
Equivalently, we have a morphism
\begin{align}\label{iterated Kodaira2}
\tau_k: {\rm Sym}^k \mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D)\rightarrow \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}.
\end{align}
It was proven in \cite[Corollary 4.5]{VZ02} that $\tau_1$ is always non-trivial.
We say that a VZ Higgs bundle satisfies the \emph{generic local Torelli} if $\tau_1:\mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D)\to \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1}$ in \eqref{iterated Kodaira2} is generically injective. As we will see in \cref{constructionvz}, in \cref{mainvz} we prove that the generic local Torelli holds for any VZ Higgs bundles.
\subsection{A quick tour on Viehweg-Zuo's construction}\label{sec:existence}
For the smooth family $U\to V$ in \cref{Deng,VZ question}, it was shown in \cite{VZ02} and \cite[Proposition 2.7]{PTW18} that there is a VZ Higgs bundle over some birational model $\tilde{V}$ of $V$. Indeed, using the deep theory of mixed Hodge modules, Popa-Taji-Wu \cite{PTW18} can even construct VZ Higgs bundles over the bases of maximal variational smooth families whose geometric generic fiber admits a good minimal model. Since we need to study the precise loci where $\tau_1$ is injective in the proof of \cref{main}, in this subsection we recollect Viehweg-Zuo's construction on VZ Higgs bundles over the base space $V$ (up to a birational model and a projective compactification) in \cref{Deng}. We refer the readers to see \cite{VZ02} and \cite{PTW18} for more details. In \cref{construction}, we show how to refine this construction to prove \cref{main}. Let us mention that we do not clarify any originality for this subsection.
\begin{thm}\label{thm:existence}
Let $U\to V$ be the smooth family in \cref{Deng}. Then after replacing $V$ by a birational model $\tilde{V}$, there is a smooth compactification $Y\supset \tilde{V}$ and a VZ Higgs bundle over $\tilde{V}$.
\end{thm}
\begin{proof}
By \cite{VZ03,PTW18}, one can take a birational morphism $\nu:\tilde{V}\to V$ and a smooth compactification $f:X\to Y$ of $U^r\times_V\tilde{V}\to \tilde{V}$
so that there exists a hypersurface
\begin{align}\label{eq:cyclic}
H\in |\ell\Omega_{X/Y}^n(\log \Delta)-\ell f^*\mathscr{L}+\ell E|,\quad n:=\dim X-\dim Y
\end{align}
with $\mathscr{L}$ a big and nef line bundle over $Y$
satisfying that
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=0.6cm]
\item the complement $D:=Y\setminus \tilde{V}$ is simple normal crossing.
\item \label{enu:smooth}The hypersurface $H$ is smooth over some Zariski open set $V_0\subset \tilde{V}$ with $D+S:=Y\setminus V_0$ simple normal crossing.
\item The divisor $E$ is effective and $f$-exceptional divisor with $f(E)\cap V_0=\varnothing$.
\item The augmented base locus $\mathbf{B}_+(\mathscr{L})\cap V_0=\varnothing$.
\end{enumerate}
Here we denote by $\Delta:=f^{-1}(D)$ so that $(X,\Delta)\to (Y,D)$ is a log morphism. Within this basic setup, let us first recall two Higgs bundles in the theorem following \cite[\S 4]{VZ02}.
Leaving out a codimension two subvariety of
${Y}$ supported on $D+S$, we assume that
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0.6cm]
\item the morphism $f$ is flat, and $E$ in \eqref{eq:cyclic} disappears.
\item The divisor $D+S$ is smooth. Moreover, both $\Delta $ and $\Sigma=f^{-1}S$ are relative normal crossing.
\end{itemize}
Set $\mathcal{L}:=\Omega_{X/Y}^n(\log \Delta)$.
Let $\delta:W \to X$ be a blow-up of $X$ with centers in $\Delta+\Sigma$ such that $\delta^*(H+\Delta+\Sigma)$ is a normal crossing divisor. One thus obtains a
cyclic covering of $\delta^*H$, by taking the $\ell$-th root out of
$\delta^*H$. Let $Z$
to be
a strong desingularization of this covering, which is smooth over $V_0$ by \eqref{enu:smooth}. We denote the compositions by $h:W\to Y$ and $g:Z\to Y$, whose restrictions to
$V_0$ are both smooth. Write $\Pi:=g^{-1}(S\cup D)$ which can be assumed to be normal crossing. Leaving out codimension two subvariety supported $D+S$ further, we assume that $h$ and $g$ are also flat, and both $\delta^*(H+\Delta+\Sigma)$ and $\Pi$ are relative normal crossing.
Set
$$
F^{n-q,q}:= R^qh_*\Big(\delta^*\big(\Omega_{X/Y}^{n-q}(\log \Delta)\big)\otimes \delta^*\mathcal{L}^{-1}\otimes \mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_W\big(\lfloor \frac{\delta^*H}{\ell} \rfloor\big)\Big) / {\rm torsion}.
$$
It was shown in \cite[\S 4]{VZ02} that there exists a natural edge
morphism
\begin{align}\label{eq:edge}
\tau_{n-q,q}: F^{n-q,q}\to F^{n-q-1,q+1}\otimes \Omega_Y(\log D),
\end{align}
which gives rise to the first Higgs bundle $\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}F^{n-q,q},\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\tau_{n-q,q}\big)$ defined over a big open set of $Y$ containing $V_0$.
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Write $Z_0:=Z\setminus \Pi$.
Then the local system
$ R^n g_*\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}_{\upharpoonright Z_0}$
extends to a locally
free sheaf $\mathcal{V}$
on
$Y$ (here $Y$ is projective rather than the big open set!) equipped with the logarithmic connection
$$
\nabla:\mathcal{V}\to \mathcal{V}\otimes \Omega_Y\big(\log (D+S)\big),
$$
whose eigenvalues of the residues lie in $[0,1)$ (the so-called \emph{lower canonical extension}).
By Schmid's \emph{nilpotent orbit theorem} \cite{Sch73}, the Hodge filtration of $ R^n g_*\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}_{\upharpoonright Z_0}$ extends to a filtration $\mathcal{V}:=\fc^0\supset \fc^1\supset \cdots\supset \fc^{n}$ of \emph{subbundles} so that their graded sheaves $E^{n-q,q}:=\fc^{n-q}/\fc^{n-q+1}$
are also {locally free}, and there exists
$$
\theta_{n-q,q}:E^{n-q,q}\to E^{n-q-1,q+1}\otimes \Omega_{Y}(\log D+S).
$$
This defines the second Higgs bundle
$
\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}E^{n-q,q},\theta_{n-q,q}\big)
$.
As observed in \cite{VZ02,VZ03}, $E^{n-q,q}=R^qg_*\Omega^{n-q}_{Z/Y}(\log \Pi)
$ over a big open set of $Y$ by the theorem of Steenbrink \cite{Ste77,Zuc84}. By the construction of the cyclic cover $Z$, this in turn implies the following commutative diagram over a big open set of $Y$:
\begin{align}\label{dia:two Higgs relation}
\xymatrixcolsep{4.3pc}\xymatrix{
\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-q,q} \ar[r]^-{\vvmathbb{1}\otimes \theta_{n-q,q}} & \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-q-1,q+1}\otimes \Omega_Y\big(\log (D+S)\big) \\
F^{n-q,q} \ar[u]^{\rho_{n-q,q}} \ar[r]^-{ \tau_{n-q,q}} & F^{n-q-1,q+1}\otimes \Omega_Y(\log D) \ar[u]_{\rho_{n-q-1,q+1}\otimes \iota}}
\end{align}
as shown in \cite[Lemma 6.2]{VZ03} (cf. also \cite[Lemma 4.4]{VZ02}).
Note that all the objects are defined on a big open set of $Y$ except for $
\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}E^{n-q,q},\theta_{n-q,q}\big)
$, which are defined on the whole $Y$. Following \cite[\S 6]{VZ03}, for every $q=0,\ldots, n$, we define $F^{n-q,q}$ to be
the reflexive hull, and the morphisms
$\tau_{n-q,q}$ and $\rho_{n-q,q}$ extend naturally.
To conclude that $\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-q,q},\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\vvmathbb{1}\otimes {\theta}_{n-q,q}\big)$ is a VZ Higgs bundle as in \cref{def:VZ}, we have to introduce a sub-Higgs sheaf with log poles supported on $D$. Write $\tilde{\theta}_{n-q,q}:=\vvmathbb{1}\otimes\theta_{n-q,q}$ for short. Following \cite[Corollary 4.5]{VZ02} (cf. also \cite{PTW18}), for each $q=0,\ldots,n$, we define a coherent torsion-free sheaf $\mathscr{F}_q:=\rho_{n-q,q}(F^{n-q,q})\subset E^{n-q,q}$ .
By $F^{n,0}\supset \mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y$, $\mathscr{F}_0\supset \mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y$. By \eqref{eq:edge} and \eqref{dia:two Higgs relation}, one has
$$
\tilde{\theta}_{n-q,q}:\mathscr{F}_q\to \mathscr{F}_{q+1}\otimes \Omega_{Y}(\log D),
$$
and let us by $\eta_{q}$ the restriction of $\tilde{\theta}_{n-q,q}$ to $\mathscr{F}_q$. Then $(\mathscr{F},\eta):=\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\mathscr{F}_q,\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\eta_{q}\big)$ is a sub-Higgs bundle of $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta}):=\big(\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-q,q},\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\tilde{\theta}_{n-q,q}\big)$.
\end{proof}
\subsection{Proper metrics for logarithmic Higgs bundles}
We adopt the same notations as \cref{def:VZ} in the rest of \cref{Higgs}. As is well-known, $\mathscr{E}$ can be endowed with the Hodge metric \(h\) induced by the polarization, which may blow-up around the simple normal crossing boundary \(D+S\). However, according to the work of Schmid, Cattani-Schmid-Kaplan and Kashiwara \cite{Sch73,CKS86,Kas85}, $h$ has \emph{mild singularities} (at most logarithmic singularities), and as proved in \cite[\S 7]{VZ03} (for unipotent monodromies) and \cite[\S 3]{PTW18} (for quasi-unipotent monodromies), one can take a proper singular metric \(g_\alpha\) on \(\mathscr{L}\) such that the induced singular hermitian metric \(g_\alpha^{-1}\otimes h \) on \(\tilde{\mathscr{E}}:=\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes \mathscr{E}\) is locally bounded from above. Before we summarize the above-mentioned results in \cite[\S 3]{PTW18}, we introduce some notations in \emph{loc. cit.}
Write the simple normal crossing divisor \(D=D_1+\cdots+D_k \) and \(S=S_1+\cdots+S_\ell \). Let \(f_{D_i}\in H^0\big(Y,\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y(D_i)\big)\) and \(f_{S_i}\in H^0\big(Y,\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y(S_i)\big)\) be the canonical section defining \(D_i\) and \(S_i\). We fix smooth hermitian metrics \(g_{D_i}\) and \(g_{S_i}\) on \(\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y(D_i)\) and \(\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y(S_i)\). Set
\[
r_{D_i}:=- \log \lVert f_{D_i}\rVert^2_{g_{D_i}}, \quad r_{S_i}:=- \log \lVert f_{S_i}\rVert^2_{g_{S_i}},
\]
and define
\[
r_D:=\prod_{i=1}^{k}r_{D_i}, \quad r_S:=\prod_{i=1}^{\ell}r_{S_i}.
\]
Let $g$ be a singular hermitian metric with analytic singularities of the big and nef line bundle \(\mathscr{L}\) such that \(g\) is smooth on $Y\setminus \mathbf{B}_+(\mathscr{L})\supset Y\setminus D\cup S$, and the curvature current
$
\sqrt{-1}\Theta_{g}(\mathscr{L})\geqslant \omega
$
for some smooth K\"ahler form \(\omega \) on $Y$. For \(\alpha\in \mathbb{N}\), define
\[
g_\alpha:=g\cdot (r_D\cdot r_S)^\alpha
\]
The following proposition is a slight variant of \cite[Lemma 3.1, Corollary 3.4]{PTW18}.\noindent
\begin{proposition}[\!\protect{\cite{PTW18}}]\label{singular metric}
When \(\alpha\gg 0 \), after rescaling \(f_{D_i} \) and \(f_{S_i}\), there exists a continuous, positively definite hermitian form \(\omega_\alpha\) on \(\mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log {D}) \) such that
\begin{thmlist}
\item\label{estimate} over $V_0:=Y\setminus D\cup S$, the curvature form
\[
\sqrt{-1}\Theta_{g_\alpha}(\mathscr{L})_{\upharpoonright V_0} \geqslant r_D^{-2}\cdot \omega_{\alpha\upharpoonright V_0}.
\]
\item \label{bounded} The singular hermitian metric \(h_g^\alpha:=g_\alpha^{-1}\otimes h \) on \(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes \mathscr{E}\) is locally bounded on \(Y\), and smooth outside \((D+S) \). Moreover, \(h_g^\alpha\) is degenerate on \(D+S \).
\item \label{new bound} The singular hermitian metric \(r_D^2h_g^\alpha \) on \(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes \mathscr{E}\) is also locally bounded on \(Y\). \qed
\end{thmlist}
\end{proposition}
\begin{rem}
It follows from \cref{singular metric} that both \(h_g^\alpha\) and \(r_D^2h_g^\alpha \) can be seen as Finsler metrics on \(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes \mathscr{E}\) which are degenerate on \({\rm Supp}(D+S) \), and positively definite on \(V_0\).
\end{rem}
Although the last statement of \cref{bounded} is not explicitly stated in \cite{PTW18}, it can be easily seen from the proof of \cite[Corollary 3.4]{PTW18}. \cref{singular metric} mainly relies on the asymptotic behavior of the Hodge metric for \emph{lower canonical extension} of a variation of Hodge structure (cf. \cref{Hodge metric} below) when the monodromy around the boundaries are only quasi-unipotent.
\begin{thm}[\!\protect{\cite[Lemma 3.2]{PTW18}}]\label{Hodge metric}
Let $\mathcal{H}=\fc^0\supset \fc^1\supset \cdots\supset \fc^N\supset 0$ be a variation of Hodge structures defined over $(\Delta^*)^p\times \Delta^q$, where $\Delta$ (resp. $\Delta^*$) is the (resp. punctured) unit disk. Consider the lower canonical extension $^l\fc^\bullet$ over $\Delta^{p+q}\supset (\Delta^*)^p\times \Delta^q$, and denote by $(\mathscr{E},\theta)$ the associated Higgs bundle. Then for any holomorphic section $s\in \Gamma(U,\mathscr{E})$, where $U\subsetneq \Delta^{p+q}$ is a relatively compact open set containing the origin, one has the following norm estimate
\begin{align}\label{eq:norm}
|s|_{\rm hod}\leqslant C \big((-\log |t_1|)\cdot (-\log |t_2|)\cdots (-\log |t_p|)\big)^\alpha,
\end{align}
where $\alpha$ is some positive constant independent of $s$, and $t=(t_1,\ldots,t_{p+q})$ denotes to be the coordinates of $\Delta^{p+q}$.
\end{thm}
Let us mention that the estimates of Hodge metric for \emph{upper canonical extension} were obtained by Peters \cite{Pet84} in one variable, and by Catanese-Kawamata \cite{CK17} in several variables, based on the work \cite{Sch73,CKS86}. We provide a slightly different proof of \cref{Hodge metric} for completeness sake, following closely the approaches in \cite{Pet84,CK17}.
\begin{proof}[Proof of \cref{Hodge metric}]
The fundamental group $\pi_1\big((\Delta^*)^p\times \Delta^q\big)$ is generated by elements
$\gamma_1,\ldots,\gamma_p$, where $\gamma_j$ may be identified with the counter-clockwise generator of the
fundamental group of the $j$-th copy of $\Delta^*$
in $(\Delta^*)^p$. Set $T_j$ to be the
monodromy transformation with respect to $\gamma_j$, which pairwise commute and are known to be
quasi-unipotent; that is, for any multivalued section $\underline{v}(t_1,\ldots,t_{p+q})$ of $\mathcal{H}$, one has
$$
\underline{v}(t_1,\ldots,e^{2\pi i}t_j,\ldots,t_{p+q})=T_j\cdot \underline{v}(t_1,\ldots,t_{p+q})
$$
and $[T_j,T_k]=0$ for any $j,k=1,\ldots,p$. Set
$
T_j=D_j\cdot U_j
$
to be the (unique) Jordan-Chevally decomposition, so that $D_j$ diagonalizable and $U_j$ is unipotent with $[D_j,U_j]=0$. Since $T_j$ is quasi-unipotent by the theorem of Borel, all the eigenvalues of $D_j$ are thus the roots of unity.
Set $N_j:=\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{k>0}(I-U_j)^k/k$. If $D_j={\rm diag.}(d_{j\ell})$ then we set $S_j={\rm diag.}(\lambda_{j\ell})$ with $\lambda_{j\ell}\in (-2\pi i,0]$ and $\exp(\lambda_{j\ell})=d_{j\ell}$. Since $[T_j,T_k]=0$, Jordan-Chevally decomposition implies that
\begin{align}\label{commutative}
[S_j,S_k]=[S_j,N_k]=[N_j,N_k]=0.
\end{align}
Fix a point $t_0\in (\Delta^*)^p\times \Delta^q$, and take a basis $v_1,\ldots,v_r\in V_{t_0}$ so that $S_1,\ldots,S_p$ are simultaneously diagonal, that is, one has
\begin{align}\label{eigenvalue}
S_j(v_\ell)=\lambda_{j\ell}.
\end{align}
Let us define $\underline{v}_1(t),\ldots,\underline{v}_r(t)$ to be the induced multivalued flat sections. Then
$$
e_j(t):=\exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}(S_i+N_i)\cdot \log t_i \big)\underline{v}_j(t)
$$
is single-valued and forms a basis of holomorphic sections for the lower canonical extension $^l \mathcal{H}$.
Recall that $d_{j\ell}$ are all roots of unity. One thus can take a positive integer $m$ so that $m_{j\ell}:=-{m\lambda_{j\ell}}/{2\pi i}$ are all \emph{non-negative integers}. Equivalently, each $T_j^m$ is unipotent. Define a ramified cover
\begin{align*}
\pi: \Delta^{p+q}&\to \Delta^{p+q}\\
(w_1,\ldots,w_{p+q}) &\mapsto (w_1^m,\ldots,w^m_{p},w_{p+1},\ldots,w_{p+q})
\end{align*}
and set $\pi'$ to be the restriction of $\pi$ to $(\Delta^*)^p\times \Delta^q$. Then $\pi'^*\fc^{\bullet}$ is a variation of Hodge structure on $(\Delta^*)^p\times \Delta^q$ with unipotent monodromy, and we define $^c{\pi'^*\mathcal{H}}$ the canonical extension of $\pi'^*\mathcal{H}$. Set $\underline{u}_j(w)=\pi'^*\underline{v}_j$ which are multivalued sections for the local system $\pi'^*\mathcal{H}$. Then
$$
\underline{u}_j(w_1,\ldots,e^{2\pi i}w_j,\ldots,w_{p+q})=T_j^m\cdot \underline{u}_j(w_1,\ldots, w_{p+q}).
$$
Define
\begin{align}\label{basis}
\tilde{e}_j(w):=\exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}mN_i\cdot \log w_i \big)\underline{u}_j(w)
\end{align}
which forms a basis of $^c\pi'^*\mathcal{H}$. Based on the work of \cite{Sch73,CKS86}, it was shown in \cite[Claim 7.8]{VZ03} that one has the upper bound of norms
\begin{align}\label{norm}
|\tilde{e}_j(w)|_{\rm hod}\leqslant C_0 \big((-\log |w_1|)\cdot (-\log |w_2|)\cdots (-\log |w_p|)\big)^\alpha
\end{align}
for some positive constants $C_0$ and $\alpha$.
One the other hand, we have
\begin{align*}
\pi'^*e_j(w)&=\exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}(S_i+N_i)\cdot \log w^m_i \big)\pi'^*\underline{v}_j (w) \\
&\stackrel{\eqref{commutative}}{=}\exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}mN_i\cdot \log w_i \big)\cdot \exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}mS_i\log w_i \big) \pi'^*\underline{v}_j (w)\\
&\stackrel{\eqref{eigenvalue}}{=}\exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}mN_i\cdot \log w_i \big)\cdot \exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}m\lambda_{ij}\log w_i \big) \pi'^*\underline{v}_j (w)\\
&=\prod_{i=1}^{p}w_i^{m_{ij}}\cdot \exp\big(-\frac{1}{2\pi i}\sum_{i=1}^{p}mN_i\cdot \log w_i \big)\cdot \underline{u}_j (w)\\
&\stackrel{\eqref{basis}}{=}\prod_{i=1}^{p}w_i^{m_{ij}}\cdot \tilde{e}_j(w).
\end{align*}
By the definition of lower canonical extension, $m_{ij}$ are all non-negative integers, and thus
\begin{align*}
\pi'^*|e_j|_{\rm hod}(w)&=|\pi'^*e_j(w)|_{\rm hod}= \prod_{i=1}^{p}|w_i|^{m_{ij}}|\tilde{e}_j(w)|_{\rm hod}\\
&\stackrel{\eqref{norm}}{\leqslant} C_0 \big((-\log |w_1|)\cdot (-\log |w_2|)\cdots (-\log |w_p|)\big)^\alpha.
\end{align*}
Hence
$$
|e_j|_{\rm hod}(t)\leqslant \frac{C_0}{m^p} \big((-\log |t_1|)\cdot (-\log |t_2|)\cdots (-\log |t_p|)\big)^\alpha.
$$
Note that $^l\mathcal{H}\stackrel{\mathscr{C}^\infty}{\simeq}\mathscr{E}$. Therefore, for any holomorphic section $s\in \Gamma(U,\mathscr{E})$, there exist smooth functions $f_1,\ldots,f_r\in \mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}(U)$ so that $s=\sum_{j=1}^{r}f_je_j$. This shows the estimate \eqref{eq:norm}.
\end{proof}
\begin{rem}
For the Hodge metric of upper canonical extension, one makes the choice that $\lambda_{j\ell}\in [0,2\pi i)$ instead of $\lambda_{j\ell}\in (-2\pi i,0]$ in the proof of \cref{Hodge metric}. Then the same computation as above can easily show that
$$
|e_j|_{\rm hod}(t)\leqslant \prod_{i=1}^{p}|t_i|^{-\frac{\lambda_{ij}}{2\pi i}} \frac{C}{m^p} \big((-\log |t_1|)\cdot (-\log |t_2|)\cdots (-\log |t_p|)\big)^\alpha,
$$
which were obtained in \cite{CK17}.
\end{rem}
\subsection{A generic local Torelli for VZ Higgs bundle}\label{constructionvz}
In this section we prove that the generic local Torelli holds for any VZ Higgs bundle, which is a crucial step in the proofs of \cref{Deng,VZ question}.
\begin{thmx}[Generic local Torelli]\label{mainvz}
For the abstract Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles defined in \cref{def:VZ}, the morphism $\tau_1:\mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D)\to \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1}$ defined in \eqref{iterated Kodaira2} is generically injective.
\end{thmx}
\begin{proof}[Proof of \cref{mainvz}]
By \cref{def:VZ}, the non-zero morphism $\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y\to \mathscr{F}_0\to \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n,0}$ induces a global section $s\in H^0(Y, \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n,0})$,
which is \emph{generically} non-vanishing over $V_0:=Y\setminus D\cup S$. Set
\begin{align}\label{set}
V_1:=\{y\in V_0 \mid s(y)\neq 0 \}
\end{align}
which is a non-empty Zariski open set of $V_0$. For the first stage of VZ Higgs bundle $\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n,0}$, we equip it with a singular metric $h_g^\alpha:=g_\alpha^{-1}\otimes h$ as in \cref{singular metric}, so that \cref{estimate,bounded} are satisfied. Note that $h_g^\alpha$ is smooth over $V_0$. Let us denote $D'$ to be the $(1,0)$-part of its Chern connection over $V_0$, and $\Theta_0$ to be its curvature form. Then by the Griffiths curvature formula of Hodge bundles (see \cite{GT84}), over $V_0$ we have
\begin{align}\nonumber
\Theta_0 &=- \Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_{\alpha}}\otimes \vvmathbb{1}+\vvmathbb{1}\otimes \Theta_{h}(E^{n,0})\\\nonumber
&=- \Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_{\alpha}}\otimes \vvmathbb{1}-\vvmathbb{1}\otimes ({\theta}_{n,0}^*\wedge {\theta}_{n,0})\\\label{eq:Hodge bundle2}
&=- \Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_{\alpha}}\otimes \vvmathbb{1}- \tilde{\theta}_{n,0}^*\wedge \tilde{\theta}_{n,0},
\end{align}
where we set \(\tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}:=\vvmathbb{1}\otimes \theta_{n-k,k} : \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}\rightarrow \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k-1,k+1}\otimes \Omega_{Y}\big(\log (D+S)\big) \), and define $\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}^*$ to be the adjoint of $\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}$ with respect to the metric $h_g^\alpha$. Hence over $V_1$ one has
\begin{align} \nonumber
-\sqrt{-1}\d \bar{\partial}\log |s|_{h_g^\alpha}^2&= \frac{\big\{ \sqrt{-1}\Theta_0(s),s\big\}_{h_g^\alpha}}{| s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}}+\frac{\sqrt{-1}\{D's,s \}_{h_g^\alpha}\wedge \{s,D's \}_{h_g^\alpha}}{|s|_{h_g^\alpha}^4}-\frac{\sqrt{-1}\{D's,D's \}_{h_g^\alpha}}{|s|_{h_g^\alpha}^2} \\\label{eq:crucial}
& \leqslant \frac{\big\{ \sqrt{-1}\Theta_0(s),s\big\}_{h_g^\alpha}}{| s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}}
\end{align}
thanks to the Lagrange's inequality
$$\sqrt{-1}|s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}\cdot \{D's,D's \}_{h_g^\alpha}\geqslant \sqrt{-1}\{D's,s\}_{h_g^\alpha}\wedge \{s,D's \}_{h_g^\alpha}.$$
Putting \eqref{eq:Hodge bundle2} to \eqref{eq:crucial}, over $V_1$ one has
\begin{align} \label{eq:final}
\sqrt{-1}\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}-\sqrt{-1}\d \bar{\partial}\log |s|_{h_g^\alpha}^2 \leqslant -\frac{\big\{ \sqrt{-1}\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}^*\wedge \tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s),s\big\}_{h_g^\alpha}}{| s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}}= \frac{\sqrt{-1}\big\{ \tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s),\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s)\big\}_{h_g^\alpha}}{| s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}}
\end{align}
where $\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s)\in H^0\Big(Y,\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1}\otimes \Omega_{Y}\big(\log (D+S)\big)\Big)$.
By \cref{bounded}, for any $y\in D\cup S$, one has
$$\lim\limits_{y'\in V_0,y'\to y}|s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}(y')=0.$$
Therefore, it follows from the compactness of $Y$ that there exists $y_0\in V_0$ so that $|s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}(y_0)\geqslant |s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}(y)$ for any $y \in V_0$. Hence $|s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}(y_0)>0$, and by \eqref{set}, $y_0\in V_1$. Since $|s|^2_{h_g^\alpha}$ is smooth over $V_0$,
$
\sqrt{-1}\d \bar{\partial}\log |s|_{h_g^\alpha}^2(y_0)
$
is semi-negative. By \cref{estimate}, $ \sqrt{-1}\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}$ is strictly positive at $y_0$. By \eqref{eq:final} and $|s|_h^2(y_0)>0$, we conclude that $\sqrt{-1}\big\{ \tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s),\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s)\big\}_{h_g^\alpha}$ is strictly positive at $y_0$. In particular, for any non-zero $\xi \in \mathscr{T}_{Y,y_0}$, $\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s)(\xi)\neq 0$. For
$$
\tau_1:\mathscr{T}_Y (-\log D )\to \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1}
$$
in \eqref{iterated Kodaira2}, over $V_0$ it is defined by $\tau_1(\xi):=\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(s)(\xi)$, which
is thus \emph{injective at $y_0\in V_1$}. Hence $\tau_1$ is \emph{generically injective}. The theorem is thus proved.
\end{proof}
\begin{rem}
Viehweg-Zuo \cite{VZ02} showed that $\tau_1:\mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D)\to \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1}$ defined in \eqref{iterated Kodaira2} does not vanishing on $V$
using a global argument relying on the Griffiths curvature computation for Hodge metric and the bigness of
direct image sheaves due to Kawamata and Viehweg. Moreover, by the work of Viehweg-Zuo \cite{VZ03} and Popa-Taji-Wu \cite{PTW18}, it has already been known to us that, when fibers in \cref{VZ question} have big and semi-ample canonical bundle, the VZ Higgs bundles constructed in \cref{thm:existence} over the base always satisfy \cref{mainvz}.
\end{rem}
Though \cref{VZ question} follows from our more general result in \cref{Deng}, we are able to prove \cref{VZ question} by directly applying the results by Viehweg-Zuo \cite{VZ03} and Popa-Taji-Wu \cite{PTW18}. Since we need some efforts to prove \cref{Deng}, let us quickly show how to combine their work with \cref{mainvz} to prove \cref{VZ question}.
\begin{proof}[Proof of \cref{VZ question}]
By the stratified arguments of Viehweg-Zuo \cite{VZ03}, it suffices to prove that there cannot exists a Zariski dense entire curve. Assume by contradiction that there exists such $\gamma:\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}\to V$. The existence of VZ Higgs bundle on some birational model $\tilde{V}$ of $V$ is known to us by \cref{thm:existence}. Let $\tilde{\gamma}:\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}\to \tilde{V}$ is the lift of $\gamma$ which is also Zariski dense. In \cite{VZ03,PTW18}, the authors proved that the restriction of $\tau_1$ defined in \eqref{iterated Kodaira2} on $\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}$, say $\tau_1|_{\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}}:\mathscr{T}_{\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}}\to \tilde{\gamma}^*(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1})$, has to vanish identically, or else, they can construct a pseudo hermitian metric on $\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}$ with strictly negative Gaussian curvature, which violates the Ahlfors-Schwarz lemma. By \cref{mainvz}, this cannot happen since $\tilde{\gamma}:\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}\to \tilde{V}$ is Zariski dense. The theorem is proved.
\end{proof}
\section{Pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the base}
In this section we first establish an algorithm to construct Finsler metrics whose holomorphic sectional curvatures are bounded above by a negative constant via VZ Higgs bundles. By our construction and generic local Torelli \cref{mainvz}, those Finsler metrics are positively definite over a Zariski open set, and by the Ahlfors-Schwarz lemma, we prove that a quasi-projective manifold is pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolic once it is equipped with a VZ Higgs bundle, and thus prove \cref{Deng}.
\subsection{Finsler metric and (pseudo) Kobayashi hyperbolicity}\label{sec:Finsler}
Throughout this subsection \(X\) will denote to be a complex manifold of dimension $n$.
\begin{dfn}[Finsler metric]\label{def:Finsler}
Let \(\mathscr{E}\) be a holomorphic vector bundle on $X$. A \emph{Finsler metric}\footnote{This definition is a bit different from the definition in \cite{Kob98}, which requires \emph{convexity} or \emph{triangle inequality}, and the Finsler metric there can be upper-semi continuous.} on \(\mathscr{E}\) is a real non-negative continuous function \(F:\mathscr{E}\to \mathclose[ 0,+\infty\mathopen[ \) such
that
\[F(av) = |a|F(v)\]
for any \(a\in\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N} \) and \(v\in \mathscr{E}\). The Finsler metric\(F\) is \emph{positively definite} at some subset \(S\subset X \) if for any \(x\in S\) and any non-zero vector \(v\in \mathscr{E}_x \), \(F(v)> 0 \).
\end{dfn}
When \(F\) is a Finsler metric on \(\mathscr{T}_X\), we also say that $F$ is a \emph{Finsler metric on $X$}.
Let \(\mathscr{E}\) and \(\mathscr{G}\) be two locally free sheaves on \(X\), and suppose that there is a morphism
\[
\varphi: {\rm Sym}^m\mathscr{E} \to\mathscr{G}
\]
Then for any Finsler metric \(F\) on \(\mathscr{G}\), \(\varphi \) induces a pseudo metric \((\varphi^*F)^{\frac{1}{m}} \) on \(\mathscr{E}\) defined by
\begin{eqnarray}\label{induced metric}
(\varphi^*F)^{\frac{1}{m}}(e):=F\big(\varphi(e^{\otimes m})\big)^{\frac{1}{m}}
\end{eqnarray}
for any \(e\in \mathscr{E} \). It is easy to verify that \( (\varphi^*F)^{\frac{1}{m}}\) is also a Finsler metric on $\mathscr{E}$. Moreover, if over some open set \(U\), \(\varphi \) is an injection as a morphism between vector bundles, and \(F \) is positively definite over \(U\), then \((\varphi^*F)^{\frac{1}{m}} \) is also positively definite over \(U\).
\begin{dfn}\label{def:hyperbolicity}
\begin{thmlist}
\item
The \emph{Kobayashi-Royden infinitesimal pseudo-metric} of $X$
is a length function $\kappa_X:\mathscr{T}_X\to [0,+\infty[$, defined by
\begin{eqnarray}\label{KR}
\kappa_{X}(\xi)=\inf_{\gamma} \big\{ \lambda>0 \mid \exists \gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow X, \gamma(0)=x, \lambda\cdot \gamma'(0)= \xi \big\}
\end{eqnarray}
for any \(x\in X\) and \(\xi\in \mathscr{T}_X \), where \(\mathbb{D} \) denotes the unit disk in \(\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N} \).
\item \label{def:distance} The \emph{Kobayashi pseudo distance} of $X$, denoted by $d_X:X\times X\to [0,+\infty[$, is
$$
d_X(p,q)=\inf_{\ell} \int_{0}^{1}\kappa_X\big(\ell'(\tau)\big)d\tau
$$
for every pair of points $p,q\in X$, where the infimum is taken over all differentiable curves $\ell:[0,1]\to X$ joining $p$
to $q$.
\item \label{def:pseudo}Let $\Delta\subsetneq X$ be a closed subset. A complex manifold $X$ is \emph{Kobayashi hyperbolic modulo $\Delta$} if $d_X(p,q)>0$ for every pair of distinct points $p,q\in X$ not both contained in $\Delta$. When $\Delta$ is an empty set, the manifold $X$ is \emph{Kobayashi
hyperbolic}; when $\Delta$ is proper and Zariski closed, the manifold $X$ is \emph{pseudo Kobayashi
hyperbolic}.
\end{thmlist
\end{dfn}
By definition it is easy to show that if \(X\) is Kobayashi hyperbolic (resp. pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolic), then \(X\) is Brody hyperbolic (resp. algebraically degenerate). Brody's theorem says that when $X$ is compact, $X$ is Kobayashi hyperbolic if it is Brody hyperbolic. However unlike the
case of Kobayashi hyperbolicity, no criteria is known for pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolicity of a compact complex space in terms of entire curves. Moreover, there are many examples of complex (quasi-projective) manifolds which are Brody hyperbolic but not Kobayashi hyperbolic.
For any holomorphic map \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow X \), the Finsler metric \(F\) induces a continuous Hermitian pseudo-metric on \(\mathbb{D} \)
\[
\gamma^*F^2= \sqrt{-1}\lambda(t) dt\wedge d\bar{t},
\]
where \(\lambda(t)\) is a non-negative continuous function on \(\mathbb{D} \). The \emph{Gaussian curvature} \(K_{\gamma^*F^2}\) of the pseudo-metric \(\gamma^*F^2\) is defined to be
\begin{eqnarray}\label{Gauss}
K_{\gamma^*F^2}:=-\frac{1}{\lambda}\frac{\d^2\log \lambda}{\d t {\d}\bar{t}}.
\end{eqnarray}
\begin{dfn}\label{HSC}
Let \(X\) be a complex manifold endowed with a Finsler metric \(F\).
\begin{thmlist}
\item \label{def:sectional}For any \(x\in X \), and \(v\in \mathscr{T}_{X,x} \), let \([v]\) denote the complex line spanned by \(v\). We define the holomorphic sectional curvature \(K_{F,[v]}\) in the direction of \([v] \) by
\[
K_{F,[v]}:= \sup K_{\gamma^*F^2}(0)
\]
where the supremum is taken over all \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow X \) such that \(\gamma(0)=x\) and \([v]\)
is tangent to \(\gamma'(0)\).
\item \label{negatively curved} We say that $F$ is \emph{negatively curved} if there is a
positive constant \(c\) such that \(K_{F,[v]}\leqslant -c\) for all \(v\in \mathscr{T}_{X,x} \) for which \(F(v)>0\).
\item \label{degenerate} A point \(x\in X \) is a \emph{degeneracy point} of \(F\) if \(F(v)=0\) for some
nonzero \(v\in \mathscr{T}_{X,x} \), and the set of such points is denoted by \(\Delta_{F} \)
\end{thmlist}
\end{dfn}
As mentioned in \cref{introduction}, our negatively curved Finsler metrics are only constructed on birational models of the base spaces in \cref{Deng,main}, we thus have to establish bimeromorphic criteria for (pseudo) Kobayashi hyperbolicity to prove the main theorems.
\begin{lem}[Bimeromorphic criteria for pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolicity] \label{pseudo Kobayashi}
Let $\mu:{X}\to Y$ be a bimeromorphic morphism between complex manifolds. If there exists a Finsler metric \(F\) on $X$ which is negatively curved in the sense of \cref{negatively curved}, then \(X\) is Kobayashi hyperbolic modulo \(\Delta_F\), and $Y$ is Kobayashi hyperbolic modulo $\mu\big({\rm Ex}(\mu)\cup \Delta_F\big)$, where ${\rm Ex}(\mu)$ is the exceptional locus of $\mu$. In particular, when $\Delta_F$ is a proper analytic subvariety of $X$, both $X$ and $Y$ are pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolic.
\end{lem}
\begin{proof}
The first statement is a slight variant of \cite[Theorem 3.7.4]{Kob98}. By normalizing $F$ we may assume that $K_F\leqslant -1$. By the Ahlfors-Schwarz lemma, one has
$
F\leqslant \kappa_X.
$
Let $\delta_F:X\times X\to [0,+\infty[$ be the distance
function on $X$ defined by $F$ in a similar way as $d_X$:
$$
\delta_F(p,q):=\inf_{\ell} \int_{0}^{1}F\big(\ell'(\tau)\big)d\tau
$$
for every pair of points $p,q\in X$, where the infimum is taken over all differentiable curves $\ell:[0,1]\to X$ joining $p$
to $q$. Since $F$ is continuous and positively definite over $X\setminus \Delta_F$,
for any $p\in X\setminus \Delta_F$, one has $d_X(p,q)\geqslant \delta_F(p,q)>0$ for any $q\neq p$, which proves the first statement.
Let us denote by \({\rm Hol}(Y,y) \) to be the set of holomorphic maps \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\to Y \) with \(\gamma(0)=y \). Pick any point $y\in U:=Y\setminus \mu\big({\rm Ex}(\mu)\big)$, then there is a unique point \(x \in {X} \) with \(\mu({x})=y \). Hence \(\mu \) induces a bijection between the sets
\[
{\rm Hol}({X},{x})\stackrel{\simeq}{\to} {\rm Hol}(Y,y)
\]
defined by \(\tilde{\gamma}\mapsto \mu\circ \tilde{\gamma} \). Indeed, observe that \(\mu^{-1}:Y\dashrightarrow X\) is a meromorphic map, so is \(\mu^{-1}\circ {\gamma} \) for any \({\gamma}\in {\rm Hol}(Y,y)\). Since \(\dim \mathbb{D}=1 \), the map \(\mu^{-1}\circ {\gamma} \) is moreover holomorphic. It follows from \eqref{KR} that
\begin{eqnarray*}
\kappa_{{X}}({\xi})=\kappa_{{Y}}\big( {\mu_*({\xi})}\big)
\end{eqnarray*}
for any \(\xi\in \mathscr{T}_{{X},{x}} \). Hence one has
$$
\mu^*\kappa_Y|_{\mu^{-1}(U)}=\kappa_X|_{\mu^{-1}(U)}\geqslant F|_{{\mu^{-1}(U)}}.
$$
Let $G:\mathscr{T}_U\to [0,+\infty[$ be the Finsler metric on $U$ so that $\mu^{*}G=F|_{{\mu^{-1}(U)}}$. Then $G$ is continuous and positively definite over $U\setminus \mu(\Delta_F)$, and one has
$$
\kappa_Y|_{U}\geqslant G.
$$
Therefore, for any $y\in Y\setminus \mu\big(\Delta_F\cup {\rm Ex}(\mu)\big)$, one has $d_Y(y,z)>0$ for any $z\neq y$, which proves the second statement. \end{proof}
The above criteria can be refined further to show the Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the complex manifold.
\begin{lem}[Bimeromorphic criteria for Kobayashi hyperbolicity]\label{bimeromorphic}
Let \(X\) be a complex manifold. Assume that for each point \(p\in X \), there is a bimeromorphic morphism \(\mu:\tilde{X}\to X \) with \(\tilde{X}\) equipped with a negatively curved Finsler metric \(F \) such that \(p\notin \mu\big(\Delta_F \cup {\rm Ex}(\mu) \big) \). Then \(X\) is Kobayashi hyperbolic.
\end{lem}
\begin{proof}
It suffices to show that $d_X(p,q)>0$ for every pair of distinct points $p,q\in X$. We take the bimeromorphic morphism \(\mu:\tilde{X}\to X \) in the lemma with respect to $p$. By \cref{pseudo Kobayashi}, $X$ is Kobayashi hyperbolic modulo $\mu\big(\Delta_F \cup {\rm Ex}(\mu) \big)$, which shows that $d_X(p,q)>0$ for any $q\neq p$. The lemma follows.
\end{proof}
\subsection{Curvature formula}\label{sec:curvature}
Let $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ be the VZ Higgs bundles on a quasi-projective manifold $V$ defined in \cref{sec:VZ}.
In the next two subsections, we will construct a negatively curved Finsler metric on \(V\) via $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$. Our main result is the following.
\begin{thm}[Existence of negatively curved Finsler metrics]\label{construction of Finsler}
Same notations as \cref{def:VZ}. Assume that $\tau_{1}$ is injective over a non-empty Zariski open set $V_1\subseteq Y\setminus D\cup S$. Then there exists a Finsler metric \(F\) (see \eqref{Finsler} below) on \(\mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log D) \) such that
\begin{thmlist}
\item \label{choice of open} it is positively definite over \(V_1\).
\item When $F$ is seen as a Finsler metric on \(V=Y\setminus D\), it is negatively curved in the sense of \cref{negatively curved}.
\end{thmlist}
\end{thm}
Let us first construct the desired Finsler metric $F$, and we then proved the curvature property.
By \eqref{iterated Kodaira2}, for each \(k=1,\ldots,n \), there exists
\begin{eqnarray}\label{contain}
\tau_k: {\rm Sym}^k \mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log D) \rightarrow \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}.
\end{eqnarray}
Then it follows from \cref{bounded} that the Finsler metric \(h_g^\alpha \) on \( \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k} \) induces a Finsler metric \(F_k\) on \(\mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D) \) defined as follows: for any \(e\in \mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log D)_y \),
\begin{eqnarray}\label{k-Finsler}
F_k(e):= (\tau_k^*h_g^\alpha)^{\frac{1}{k}}(e) =h_g^\alpha\big(\tau_k(e^{\otimes k})\big)^{\frac{1}{k}}
\end{eqnarray}
For any \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow V \), one has
\begin{align*}
d\gamma:\mathscr{T}_{\mathbb{D}}\to \gamma^*\mathscr{T}_V\hookrightarrow \gamma^*\mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log D)
\end{align*}
and thus the Finsler metric \(F_k\) induces a continuous Hermitian pseudo-metric on \(\mathbb{D} \), denoted by
\begin{eqnarray}\label{seminorm}
\gamma^*F^2_k:=\sqrt{-1}G_k(t) dt\wedge d\bar{t}.
\end{eqnarray}
In general, \(G_k(t)\) may be identically equal to zero for all $k$. However,
if we further assume that \(\gamma(\mathbb{D})\cap V_1\neq \varnothing\), by the assumption in \cref{construction of Finsler} that the restriction of $\tau_1$ to $V_1$ is injective, one has \(G_1(t)\not\equiv 0 \).
Denote by \(\d_t:=\frac{\d}{\d t} \) the canonical vector fields in \( \mathbb{D}\), and \(\bar{\d}_t:=\frac{\d}{\d \bar{t}}\) its conjugate. Set \(C:=\gamma^{-1}(V_1) \), and note that \(\mathbb{D}\setminus C \) is a discrete set in \(\mathbb{D} \).
\begin{lem}\label{curvatureest}
Assume that \(G_k(t)\not\equiv 0 \) for some \( k>1\). Then the \emph{Gaussian curvature} \(K_k\) of the continuous pseudo-hermitian metric \(\gamma^*F_k^2 \) on \(C\) satisfies that
\begin{eqnarray}\label{sectional curvature}
K_k:=-\frac{ \d^2\log G_k}{\d t\d \bar{t}}/G_k\leqslant \frac{1}{k}\Big(-\big(\frac{G_k}{G_{k-1}} \big)^{k-1}+\big(\frac{G_{k+1}}{G_k} \big)^{k+1} \Big)
\end{eqnarray}
over \(C\subset \mathbb{D} \).
\end{lem}
\begin{proof}
For $i=1,\ldots,n$, let us write \(e_i:=\tau_{i}\big(d\gamma (\d_t)^{\otimes i}\big)\), which can be seen as a section of $\gamma^*(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-i,i})$. Then by \eqref{k-Finsler} one observes that
\begin{eqnarray}\label{G_i}
G_i(t)=\lVert e_i\rVert_{h^\alpha_g}^{2/i}.
\end{eqnarray}
Let \(\mathscr{R}_k=\Theta_{h_g^\alpha}(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k})\) be the curvature form of \(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}\) on $V_0:=Y\setminus D\cup S$ induced by the metric \(h_g^\alpha=g_\alpha^{-1}\cdot h\) defined in \cref{bounded}, and let $D'$ be the $(1,0)$-part of the Chern connection $D$ of $(\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k},h_g^\alpha)$. Then for $k=1,\ldots,n$, one has
\begin{align*}
-\sqrt{-1}\d \bar{\partial}\log G_k&= \frac{1}{k}\Big(\frac{\big\{ \sqrt{-1}\mathscr{R}_k(e_k),e_k\big\} _{h_g^\alpha}}{\lVert e_k\rVert^2_{h_g^\alpha}}+\frac{\sqrt{-1}\{D'e_k,e_k \} _{h_g^\alpha}\wedge \{e_k,D'e_k \} _{h_g^\alpha}}{\lVert e_k\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^4}-\frac{\sqrt{-1}\{D'e_k,D'e_k \} _{h_g^\alpha}}{\lVert e_k\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}\Big)\\
& \leqslant \frac{1}{k}\frac{\big\{ \sqrt{-1}\mathscr{R}_k(e_k),e_k\big\} _{h_g^\alpha}}{\lVert e_k\rVert^2_{h_g^\alpha}}
\end{align*}
thanks to the Lagrange's inequality
$$\sqrt{-1}\lVert e_k\rVert^2_{h_g^\alpha}\cdot \{D'e_k,D'e_k \} _{h_g^\alpha}\geqslant \sqrt{-1}\{D'e_k,e_k \} _{h_g^\alpha}\wedge \{e_k,D'e_k \} _{h_g^\alpha}.$$
Hence
\begin{eqnarray}\label{curvature formula}
-\frac{ \d^2\log G_k}{\d t\d \bar{t}}\leqslant \frac{1}{k}\cdot\frac{\big\langle \mathscr{R}_k(e_k)(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t),e_k\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}}{\lVert e_k\rVert^2_{h_g^\alpha}}.
\end{eqnarray}
Recall that for the logarithmic Higgs bundle \((\bigoplus_{k=0}^{n}E^{n-k,k}, \bigoplus_{k=0}^{n}\theta_{n-k,k}) \),
the curvature \(\Theta_k \) on \(E^{n-k,k}_{\upharpoonright V_0} \) induced by the Hodge metric \(h\) is given by
\[
\Theta_k=-\theta_{n-k,k}^*\wedge \theta_{n-k,k}-\theta_{n-k+1,k-1}\wedge \theta^*_{n-k+1,k-1},
\]
where we recall that $\theta_{n-k,k}:E^{n-k,k}\to E^{n-k-1,k+1}\otimes \Omega_{Y}\big(\log (D+S)\big)$.
Set \(\tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}:=\vvmathbb{1}\otimes \theta_{n-k,k} : \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k}\rightarrow \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k-1,k+1}\otimes \Omega_{Y}\big(\log (D+S)\big) \), and one has
\[
\xymatrixcolsep{5pc}\xymatrix{\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k+1,k-1} \ar@/^1pc/[r]^{{\tilde{\theta}_{n-k+1,k-1}(\d_t)}} &\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k,k} \ar@/^1pc/[l]^{\tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k+1,k-1}(\bar{\d}_t)} \ar@/^1pc/[r]^{{\tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}(\d_t)}} & \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-k-1,k+1} \ar@/^1pc/[l]^{\tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k,k}(\bar{\d}_t)} }
\]
where $\tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k,k}$ is the adjoint of $\tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}$ with respect to the metric $h_g^\alpha$ over $Y\setminus D\cup S$. Here we also write $\d_t$ (resp. $\bar{\d}_t$) for $d\gamma(\d_t)$ (resp. ${d\gamma(\bar{\d}_t)}$ ) abusively. Then over $V_0$, we have
\begin{align}\label{eq:Hodge bundle}
\mathscr{R}_k=-\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}\otimes \vvmathbb{1}+\vvmathbb{1}\otimes \Theta_k=-\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}\otimes \vvmathbb{1}-\tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}^*\wedge \tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}-\tilde{\theta}_{n-k+1,k-1}\wedge \tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k+1,k-1}.
\end{align}
By
the definition of $\tau_k$ in \eqref{iterated Kodaira2}, for any $k=2,\ldots,n$ one has
\begin{eqnarray}\label{relation}
e_{k}=\tilde{\theta}_{n-k+1,k-1}(\d_t)(e_{k-1}),
\end{eqnarray}
and we can derive the following curvature formula
\begin{align*}
\langle \mathscr{R}_k(e_k)(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t),e_k\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}&=-\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)\lVert e_k\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2+\\
&\ \ \ \ \big\langle\tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}^*(\bar{\d}_t)\circ \tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}(\d_t)(e_k)-\tilde{\theta}_{n-k+1,k-1}(\d_t)\circ \tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k+1,k-1}(\bar{\d}_t)(e_k),e_k\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}\\
&\leqslant\big\langle\tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}^*(\bar{\d}_t)\circ \tilde{\theta}_{n-k,k}(\d_t)(e_k),e_k\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}\\
&\ \ \ -\big\langle\tilde{\theta}_{n-k+1,k-1}(\d_t)\circ \tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k+1,k-1}(\bar{\d}_t)(e_k),e_k\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}\\
&\stackrel{\eqref{relation}}{=}\lVert e_{k+1}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2-\lVert \tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k+1,k-1}(\bar{\d}_t)(e_k)\rVert^2_{h_g^\alpha}\\
&\leqslant\lVert e_{k+1}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2-\frac{|\big\langle \tilde{\theta}^*_{n-k+1,k-1}(\bar{\d}_t)(e_k),e_{k-1}\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}|^2}{\lVert e_{k-1}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}\quad {(\mbox{Cauchy-Schwarz inequality})} \\
&=\lVert e_{k+1}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2-\frac{|\big\langle e_k,\tilde{\theta}_{n-k+1,k-1}({\d}_t)(e_{k-1})\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}|^2}{\lVert e_{k-1}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2} \\
&\stackrel{\eqref{relation}}{=}\lVert e_{k+1}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2-\frac{\lVert e_{k}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^4}{\lVert e_{k-1}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2} \\
&\stackrel{\eqref{G_i}}{=}G_{k+1}^{k+1}-\frac{G_k^{2k}}{G_{k-1}^{k-1}}
\end{align*}
Putting this into \eqref{curvature formula}, we obtain \eqref{sectional curvature}.
\end{proof}
\begin{rem}\label{Griffiths}
For the final stage $E^{0,n}$ of the Higgs bundle \((\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n} E^{n-q,q},\bigoplus_{q=0}^{n}\theta_{n-q,q}) \). We make the convention that \(G_{n+1}\equiv 0 \). Then the Gaussian curvature for \(G_n\) in \eqref{curvature formula} is always semi-negative, which is similar as the Griffiths curvature formula for Hodge bundles in \cite{GT84}.
\end{rem}
When \(k=1 \), by \eqref{curvature formula} one has
\begin{align*}
-\frac{\d^2\log G_1}{\d t\d \bar{t}}/G_1
&\leqslant \frac{\big\langle \mathscr{R}_1(e_1)(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t),e_1\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}}{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^4}\\
&\stackrel{\eqref{eq:Hodge bundle}}{= } \frac{-\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)}{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}+\\
&\ \ \ \ \frac{\big\langle\tilde{\theta}_{n-1,1}^*(\bar{\d}_t)\circ \tilde{\theta}_{n-1,1}(\d_t)(e_1)-\tilde{\theta}_{n,0}(\d_t)\circ \tilde{\theta}^*_{n,0}(\bar{\d}_t)(e_1),e_1\big\rangle_{h_g^\alpha}}{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^4}\\
&\stackrel{\eqref{relation}}{\leqslant} \frac{-\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2+\lVert e_{2}\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^4}\\
&= \frac{-\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t) }{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}+\big(\frac{G_2}{G_1}\big)^2
\end{align*}
We need the following lemma to control the negative term in the above inequality.
\begin{lem}
When \(\alpha\gg 0 \), there exists a \emph{universal} constant \(c>0\), such that for any \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow V \) with \(\gamma(\mathbb{D})\cap V_0\neq \varnothing\), one has
\[
\frac{\Theta_{\mathscr{L},g_\alpha}(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t) }{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}\geqslant c.
\]
In particular,
\[
-\frac{\d^2\log G_1}{\d t\d \bar{t}}/G_1\leqslant -c+ \big(\frac{G_2}{G_1}\big)^2
\]
\end{lem}
\begin{proof}
By \cref{bounded}, it suffices to prove that
\begin{eqnarray}\label{strict positive}
\frac{\gamma^*\big( r_D^{-2}\cdot \omega_\alpha \big)(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)}{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}\geqslant c.
\end{eqnarray}
Note that
\[
\frac{\gamma^*\big( r_D^{-2}\cdot \omega_\alpha \big)(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)}{\lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}=\frac{\gamma^*\big( \omega_\alpha \big)(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)}{\gamma^*(r_D^{2})\cdot \lVert e_1\rVert_{h_g^\alpha}^2}=\frac{\gamma^*\omega_\alpha(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)}{\gamma^*\tau_1^*( r_D^{2}\cdot h_g^\alpha)(\d_t,\bar{\d}_t)},
\]
where \(\tau_1^*( r_D^{2}\cdot h_g^\alpha) \) is the Finsler metric on \(\mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log D )\) defined by \eqref{induced metric}.
By \cref{new bound}, \(\omega_\alpha \) is a positively definite Hermitian metric on \(\mathscr{T}_{Y}(-\log D )\). Since \(Y\) is compact, there exists a \emph{uniform constant} \(c>0\) such that
\[
\omega_\alpha\geqslant c\tau_1^*( r_D^{2}\cdot h_g^\alpha).
\]
We thus obtained the desired inequality \eqref{strict positive}.
\end{proof}
In summary, we have the following curvature estimate for the Finsler metrics $F_1,\ldots,F_n$ defined in \eqref{k-Finsler}, which is similar as \cite[Lemma 9]{Sch17} for the Weil-Petersson metric.
\begin{proposition}\label{summary}
For any \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow V \) such that \(\gamma(\mathbb{D})\cap V_1\neq \varnothing \). Assume that \(G_k\not\equiv 0 \) for \(k=1,\ldots,q\), and \(G_{q+1}\equiv 0\) (thus \(G_j\equiv 0\) for all \(j>q+1\)). Then \(q\geqslant 1\), and over \(C:=\gamma^{-1}(V_1) \), which is a complement of a discrete set in \(\mathbb{D} \), one has
\begin{align}\label{eq:curvature1}
-\frac{\d^2\log G_1}{\d t\d \bar{t}}/G_1&\leqslant -c+ \big(\frac{G_2}{G_1}\big)^2\\ \label{eq:curvature2}
-\frac{ \d^2\log G_k}{\d t\d \bar{t}}/G_k&\leqslant \frac{1}{k}\Big(-\big(\frac{G_k}{G_{k-1}} \big)^{k-1}+\big(\frac{G_{k+1}}{G_k} \big)^{k+1} \Big) \quad \forall 1<k \leqslant q.
\end{align}
Here the constant \(c>0\) does not depend on the choice of \(\gamma \).
\end{proposition}
\subsection{Construction of the Finsler metric}\label{sec:construction}
By \cref{summary}, we observe that none of the Finsler metrics $F_1,\ldots,F_n$ defined in \eqref{k-Finsler} is negatively curved.
Following the similar strategies in \cite{TY14,Sch17,BPW17}, we construct a new Finsler metric $F$ (see \eqref{Finsler} below) by defining a convex sum of all \(F_1,\ldots,F_n\), to cancel the positive terms in \eqref{eq:curvature1} and \eqref{eq:curvature2} by negative terms in the next stage. By \cref{Griffiths}, we observe that the highest last order term is always semi-negative. We mainly follow the computations in \cite{Sch17}, and try to make this subsection as self-contained as possible. Let us first recall the following basic inequalities by Schumacher.\noindent
\begin{lem}[\!\protect{\cite[Lemma 8]{Sch12}}]
Let \(V\) be a complex manifold, and let
\(G_1,\ldots,G_n\) be non-negative \(\mathscr{C}^2\) functions on \(V\). Then
\begin{eqnarray}\label{calculus}
\sqrt{-1}\d\bar{\d}\log (\sum_{i=1}^{n}G_i )\geqslant \frac{\sum_{j=1}^{n}G_j\sqrt{-1}\d\bar{\d}\log G_j}{\sum_{i=1}^{n}G_i}
\end{eqnarray}
\end{lem}
\begin{lem}[\!\protect{\cite[Lemma 17]{Sch17}}]
Let \(\alpha_j>0 \) for \(j=1,\ldots,n \). Then for all \(x_j\geqslant 0 \)
\begin{align}\nonumber
&\sum_{j=2}^{n}(\alpha_{j}x_j^{j+1}-\alpha_{j-1}x_j^j )x_{j-1}^2\cdot\ldots\cdot x_1^2\\\label{complicate}
&\geqslant \frac{1}{2}\Bigg(-\frac{\alpha_1^3}{\alpha_2^2}x_1^2+\frac{\alpha_{n-1}^{n-1}}{\alpha_n^{n-2}}x_n^2\cdot\ldots\cdot x_1^2+\sum_{j=2}^{n-1}\bigg(\frac{\alpha_{j-1}^{j-1}}{\alpha_j^{j-2}} -\frac{\alpha_{j}^{j+2}}{\alpha_{j+1}^{j+1}}\bigg)x_j^2\cdot\ldots\cdot x_1^2 \Bigg)
\end{align}
\end{lem}
Set \(x_j=\frac{G_j}{G_{j-1}} \) for \(j=2,\ldots,n \) and \(x_1:=G_1\) where \(G_j\geqslant 0 \) for \(j=1,\ldots,n \). Put them into \eqref{complicate} and we obtain
\begin{align}\nonumber
&\sum_{j=2}^{n}\Big(\alpha_{j}\frac{G_j^{j+1}}{G_{j-1}^{j-1}}-\alpha_{j-1}\frac{G_j^{j}}{G_{j-1}^{j-2}} \Big)\\\label{final}
&\geqslant \frac{1}{2}\Bigg(-\frac{\alpha_1^3}{\alpha_2^2}G_1^2+\frac{\alpha_{n-1}^{n-1}}{\alpha_n^{n-2}}G_n^2+\sum_{j=2}^{n-1}\bigg(\frac{\alpha_{j-1}^{j-1}}{\alpha_j^{j-2}} -\frac{\alpha_{j}^{j+2}}{\alpha_{j+1}^{j+1}}\bigg)G_j^2 \Bigg)
\end{align}
The following technical lemma is crucial in constructing our negatively curved Finsler metric $F$.
\begin{lem}[\!\protect{ \cite[Lemma 10]{Sch17}}]\label{convex sum}
Let \(F_1,\ldots,F_n\) be Finsler metrics on a complex space \(X\), with the holomorphic sectional curvatures denoted by \(K_1,\ldots,K_n\). Then for the Finsler metric \(F:=(F^2_1+\ldots+F^2_n)^{1/2}\), its holomorphic sectional curvature
\begin{eqnarray}\label{sectional}
K_F\leqslant \frac{\sum_{j=1}^{n}K_jF_j^4}{F^4}.
\end{eqnarray}
\end{lem}
\begin{proof}
For any holomorphic map \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow X \), we denote by \(G_1,\ldots,G_n\) the semi-positive functions on \(\mathbb{D} \) such that
\[
\gamma^*F^2_i=\sqrt{-1}G_i dt\wedge d\bar{t}
\]
for \(i=1,\ldots,n\). Then \[\gamma^*F^2=\sqrt{-1}(\sum_{i=1}^{n} {G_i})dt\wedge d\bar{t},\]
and it follows from \eqref{Gauss} that the Gaussian curvature of \(\gamma^*F^2 \)
\begin{eqnarray*}
K_{\gamma^*F^2}&=&-\frac{1}{ \sum_{i=1}^{n} {G_i} }\frac{\d^2\log (\sum_{i=1}^{n} {G_i}) }{\d t {\d}\bar{t}} \\
&\stackrel{\eqref{calculus}}{\leqslant}&-\frac{1}{ (\sum_{i=1}^{n} {G_i})^2 }\sum_{j=1}^{n} {G_j}\frac{\d^2\log {G_j} }{\d t {\d}\bar{t}}\\
&\leqslant&\frac{\sum_{j=1}^{n}K_jG^{2}_j}{(\sum_{i=1}^{n} {G_i})^2}.
\end{eqnarray*}
The lemma follows from \cref{def:sectional}.
\end{proof}
For any \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow V \) with \(C:=\gamma^{-1}(V_1)\neq \varnothing \), we define a Hermitian pseudo-metric \(\sigma:=\sqrt{-1}H(t)dt\wedge d\bar{t}\) on \(\mathbb{D}\) by taking convex sum in the following form
\[H(t):=\sum_{k=1}^{n} {{k\alpha_k}G_k}(t), \] where \(G_k\) is defined in \eqref{seminorm}, and \(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n\in \mathbb{R}^+ \) are some \emph{universal constants} which will be fixed later. Following the similar estimate in \cite[Proposition 11]{Sch17}, one can choose those constants properly such that the Gaussian curvature \(K_\sigma\) of \(\sigma\) is uniformly bounded.
\begin{proposition}\label{uniform}
There exists \emph{universal} constants \(0<\alpha_1\leqslant\ldots\leqslant\alpha_n\) and \(K>0\) (independent of \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\rightarrow V \)) such that the Gaussian curvature
\[
K_{\sigma}\leqslant -K.
\]
on \(C\).
\end{proposition}
\begin{proof}
It follows from \eqref{sectional} that
\[
K_{\sigma}\leqslant \frac{1}{H^2} \sum_{j=1}^{n}j \alpha_j K_jG^{2}_j
\]
and
\[
K_j:=-\frac{ \d^2\log G_j}{\d t\d \bar{t}}/G_j.
\]
By \cref{summary}, one has
\begin{eqnarray*}
K_\sigma&\leqslant& \frac{\alpha_1G^2_1}{H^2}\bigg(-c+ \Big(\frac{G_2}{G_1}\Big)^2\bigg)+\frac{1}{H^2}\sum_{j=2}^{n} \alpha_jG^2_j \bigg(-\Big(\frac{G_j}{G_{j-1}} \Big)^{j-1}+\Big(\frac{G_{j+1}}{G_j} \Big)^{j+1} \bigg)\\
&\leqslant&\frac{1}{H^2}\bigg( -c\alpha_1G_1^2-\sum_{j=2}^{n}\Big(\alpha_j\frac{G_j^{j+1}}{G_{j-1}^{j-1}}-\alpha_{j-1}\frac{G_j^{j}}{G_{j-1}^{j-2}} \Big) \bigg)\\
&\stackrel{\eqref{final}}{\leqslant} & \frac{1}{H^2}\bigg(\Big(-c+\frac{1}{2}\frac{\alpha_1^2}{\alpha_2^2}\Big)\alpha_1G_1^2+\frac{1}{2}\sum_{j=2}^{n-1}\Big(\frac{\alpha_j^{j+2}}{\alpha_{j+1}^{j+1}}-\frac{\alpha_{j-1}^{j-1}}{\alpha_{j}^{j-2}} \Big)G_j^2-\frac{1}{2}\frac{\alpha_{n-1}^{n-1}}{\alpha_n^{n-2}}G_n^2 \bigg)\\
&=:&-\frac{1}{H^2}\sum_{j=1}^{n}\beta_jG_j^2
\end{eqnarray*}
One can take \(\alpha_1=1 \), and choose the further \(\alpha_j>\alpha_{j-1} \) inductively such that \(\min_j \beta_j>0 \). Set \(\beta_0:=\min_j \frac{\beta_j}{(j\alpha_j)^2} \). Then
\begin{eqnarray*}
K_\sigma&\leqslant& -\frac{1}{H^2}\beta_0\sum_{j=1}^{n}(j\alpha_jG_j)^2\\
&\leqslant & -\frac{\beta_0}{nH^2}(\sum_{j=1}^{n}{j\alpha_j}G_j)^2\\
&=&-\frac{\beta_0}{n}=:-K.
\end{eqnarray*}
Note that \(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n \) and \(K\) is universal. The lemma is thus proved.
\end{proof}
It follows from \cref{uniform} and \eqref{Gauss} that one has the following estimate
\begin{eqnarray}\label{subharmonic}
\frac{\d ^2 \log H(t)}{\d t\d \bar{t}}\geqslant KH(t)\geqslant 0
\end{eqnarray}
over the Zariski dense open set \( C\subseteq \mathbb{D} \), and in particular \(\log H(t) \) is a subharmonic function over \(C\). Since \(H(t)\in \mathclose[0,+\infty \mathclose[ \) is continuous (in particular locally bounded from above) over \(\mathbb{D}\), \(\log H(t) \) is a subharmonic function over \(\mathbb{D}\), and the estimate \eqref{subharmonic} holds over the whole \(\mathbb{D} \).
In summary, we construct a \emph{negatively curved Finsler metric} \(F\) on \(Y\setminus D \), defined by
\begin{eqnarray}\label{Finsler}
F:=(\sum_{k=1}^{n}{k\alpha_k}F^2_k)^{1/2},
\end{eqnarray}
where \(F_k\) is defined in \eqref{k-Finsler}, such that \(\gamma^*F^2=\sqrt{-1}H(t)dt\wedge d\bar{t} \) for any \(\gamma:\mathbb{D}\to V \). Since we assume that $\tau_{1}$ is injective over $V_0$, the Finsler metric $F_1$ is positively definite on \(V_0\), and \emph{a fortiori} $F$.
Therefore, we finish the proof of \cref{construction of Finsler}.
\subsection{Proof of \cref{Deng}}
\begin{proof}[Proof of \cref{Deng}]
By \cref{thm:existence}, there is a VZ Higgs bundle over some birational model $\tilde{V}$ of $V$. By \cref{mainvz} and \cref{construction of Finsler}, we can associate this VZ Higgs bundle with a negatively curved Finsler metric which is positively definite over some Zariski dense open set of $\tilde{V}$.
The theorem follows directly from the bimeromorphic criteria for pseudo Kobayashi hyperbolicity in \cref{pseudo Kobayashi}.
\end{proof}
\begin{rem}
Let me mention that Sun and Zuo also have the similar idea in constructing Finsler metric over the base using Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles combining with To-Yeung's method \cite{TY14}.
\end{rem}
\section{Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the base}
In this section we will prove \cref{main}. We first refine Viehweg-Zuo's result on the positivity of direct images. We then apply this result to take different branch covering in the construction of VZ Higgs bundles to prove the Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the base in \cref{main}.
\subsection{Preliminary for positivity of direct images}\label{sec:positivity of direct images}
We first recall a \emph{pluricanonical extension theorem} due to Cao \cite[Theorem 2.10]{Cao16}. Its proof is a combination of the Ohsawa-Takegoshi-Manivel \(L^2\)-extension theorem, with the semi-positivity of \(m\)-relative Bergman metric studied by Berndtsson-P\u{a}un \cite{BP08,BP10} and P\u{a}un-Takayama \cite{PT14}.
\begin{thm}[Pluricanonical $L^2$-extension]\label{extension}
Let \(f:X\rightarrow Y\) be an algebraic fiber space so that the Kodaira dimension of the general fiber is non-negative. Assume that $f$ is smooth over a dense Zariski open set of \(Y_0\subset Y\) so that both $B:=Y\setminus Y_0$ and $f^*B$ are normal crossing. Let \(L\) be any pseudo-effective line bundle $L$ on $X$ equipped with a positively curved singular metric $h_L$ with algebraic singularities satisfying the following property
\begin{thmlist}
\item \label{2} There exists some regular value \(z\in Y \) of \(f\), such that for some \(m\in \mathbb{N} \), all the sections \(H^0\big(X_{z}, (m K_X+L)_{\upharpoonright X_z}\big) \) extends locally near \(z\).
\item \(H^0\big(X_{z}, (m K_{X_z}+L_{\upharpoonright X_z})\otimes \mathscr{J}(h_{L\upharpoonright X_z}^{\frac{1}{m}}) \big)\neq\varnothing \).
\end{thmlist}
Then for any regular value $y$ of $f$ satisfying that
\begin{thmlist}
\item all sections \(H^0\big(X_{y}, m K_{X_y}+L_{\upharpoonright X_y}\big) \) extends locally near \(y\),
\item the metric \(h_{L\upharpoonright X_y} \) is not identically equal to \(+\infty \),
\end{thmlist}
the following restriction map
\begin{equation*}
\begin{tikzcd}
H^0 (X, m K_{X/Y} -m\Delta_f+ L +f^* A_Y) \ar[r,twoheadrightarrow] & H^0 \big(X_y , (m K_{X_y} + L_{\upharpoonright X_y})\otimes \mathscr{J}(h_{L\upharpoonright X_y}^{\frac{1}{m}})\big)
\end{tikzcd}
\end{equation*}
is surjective. Here \(A_Y\) is a \emph{universal} ample line bundle on \(Y\) which does not depend on \(L\), \(f\) and \(m\), and
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:multiplicity}
\Delta_{f}:=\sum_{j}(a_j-1) V_j.
\end{eqnarray}
where the sum is taken over all prime divisors $V_j$ of $f^*B$ with multiplicity $a_j$ and its image $f(V_j)$ a divisor in $Y$.
\end{thm}
We will apply a technical lemma in \cite[Claim 3.5]{CP17} to prove \cref{global generated}. Let us first recall some definitions of singularities of divisors in \cite[Chapter 5.3]{Vie95} in a slightly different language.\begin{dfn}
Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety, and let \(\mathscr{L} \) be a line bundle such that \(H^0(X,\mathscr{L})\neq \varnothing \). One defines
\begin{align}\label{el}
e(\mathscr{L})= {\rm sup}\big\{\frac{1}{c(D)} \mid D\in |\mathscr{L}| {{\rm\ is\ an\ effective\ divisor}} \big\}
\end{align}
where
\[
c(D):= {\rm sup}\{c>0 \mid (X,c\cdot D) {{\rm\ is \ a \ klt\ divisor}}\}
\]
is the \emph{log canonical threshold} of \(D\).
\end{dfn}
Viehweg showed that one can control the lower bound of \(e(\mathscr{L}) \).
\begin{lem}[\!\protect{\cite[Corollary 5.11]{Vie95}}]\label{control}
Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety equipped with a very ample line bundle \(\mathscr{H} \), and let \(\mathscr{L} \) be a line bundle such that \(H^0(X,\mathscr{L})\neq \varnothing \).
\begin{thmlist}
\item Then there is a uniform estimate
\begin{align}\label{lct}
e(\mathscr{L})\leqslant c_1(\mathscr{H})^{\dim X-1 }\cdot c_1(\mathscr{L})+1.
\end{align}\label{equal}
\item Let \(Z:=X\times\cdots\times X \) be the \(r\)-fold product. Then for \(\mathscr{M}:=\bigotimes_{i=1}^{r}{\rm pr}_i^*\mathscr{L} \), one has \(e(\mathscr{M})=e(\mathscr{L}) \).
\end{thmlist}
\end{lem}
Let us recall the following result by Cao-P\u{a}un \cite{CP17}.
\begin{lem}[Cao-P\u{a}un]\label{CP}
Let \(f:X\rightarrow Y\) be an algebraic fiber space so that the Kodaira dimension of the general fiber is non-negative. Assume that $f$ is smooth over a dense Zariski open set of \(Y_0\subset Y\) so that both $B:=Y\setminus Y_0$ and $f^*B$ are normal crossing.
Then there exists some positive integer \(C\geqslant 2\) so that for any \(m\geqslant m_0\) and \(a\in \mathbb{N} \), any \(y\in Y_0 \) and any section
\[
\sigma \in H^0(X_y, amC K_{X_y} ),
\]
there exists a section
\begin{align}\label{eq:Sigma}
\Sigma\in H^0\big(X, f^*A_Y- af^*\det f_*(mK_{X/Y}) +amr_mCK_{X/Y}+ a(P_m+F_m) \big)
\end{align}
whose restriction to the fiber \(X_y\) is equal to \(\sigma^{\otimes r_m} \). Here \(F_m\) and \(P_m \) are effective divisors on \(X\) (independent of \(a\)) such that $F_m$ is $f$-exceptional with \(f(F_m)\subset {\rm Supp}(B) \), \( {\rm Supp}(P_m)\subset {\rm Supp}(\Delta_f)\), \(r_m:={\rm rank} f_*(mK_{X/Y}) \), and \(A_Y\) is the universal ample line bundle on \(Y\) defined in \cref{extension}.
\end{lem}
We recall the definition of \emph{Koll\'ar family of varieties with semi-log canonical singularities} (\emph{slc family} for short).
\begin{dfn}[slc family]
An \emph{slc family} is a flat proper morphism $f:X\to B$ such that:
\begin{thmlist}
\item
each fiber $X_b:=f^{-1}(b)$ is a projective variety with slc singularities.
\item $\omega_{X/B}^{[m]}$
is flat.
\item \label{kollar condition} The family $f:X\to B$ satisfies the \emph{Koll\'ar condition}, which means that, for any $m\in \mathbb{N}$, the reflexive power $\omega_{X/B}^{[m]}$ commutes with
arbitrary base change.
\end{thmlist}
\end{dfn}
To make \cref{kollar condition} precise, for every base change $\tau:B'\to B$, given the induced
morphism $\rho:X'=X\times_{B}B'\to X$ we have that the natural homomorphism
$\rho^*\omega_{X/B}^{[m]}\to \omega_{X'/B'}^{[m]}$
is an isomorphism.
Let us collect the basic properties of slc families, as is well-known to the experts.
\begin{lem}
Let $g:Z\to W$ be a surjective morphism between quasi-projective manifolds with connected fibers, which is birational to an slc family $g':Z'\to W$ whose generic fiber has at most Gorenstein canonical singularities. Then
\begin{thmlist}
\item \label{normal canonical} the total space $Z'$ is normal and has only canonical singularities at worst.
\item \label{KSBA birational}If $\nu:W'\to W$ is a dominant morphism with $W'$ smooth quasi-projective, then $Z'\times_{W}W'\to W'$ is still an slc family whose generic fiber has at most Gorenstein canonical singularities, and is birational to
$(Z\times_{W}W')^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}\to W'$.
\item \label{fiber kollar} Denote by $Z'^r$ the $r$-fold fiber product $Z'\times_{W}\cdots\times_{W}Z'$. Then $g'^r:Z'^r\to W$ is also an slc family whose generic fiber has at most Gorenstein canonical singularities. Moreover, $Z'^r$ is birational to the main component $(Z^r)^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$ of $Z^r$ dominating $W$.
\item \label{KSBA fiber} Let $Z^{(r)}$
be a desingularization of $(Z^r)^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$. Then $(g^{(r)})_*(\ell K_{Z^{(r)}/W})\simeq (g'^r)_*(\ell K_{Z'^{r}/W})$ is reflexive for every sufficiently divisible $\ell>0$.
\end{thmlist}
\end{lem}
\subsection{Positivity of direct images} \label{sec:positivity}
This section is devoted to prove \cref{thm:globalgen} on positivity of direct images, which refines results by Viehweg-Zuo \cite[Proposition 3.4]{VZ02} and \cite[Proposition 4.3]{VZ03}. It will be crucially used to proved \cref{main}.
\begin{thm} \label{thm:globalgen}
Let \(f_0:X_0\rightarrow Y_0\) be a smooth family of projective manifolds of general type.
Assume that for any \(y\in Y_0\), the set of \(z\in Y_0\) with \( X_z \stackrel{{\rm bir}}{\sim} X_y \) is finite.
\begin{thmlist}
\item \label{global generated} For any smooth projective compactification $f:X\to Y$ of \(f_0:X_0\rightarrow Y_0\) and any sufficiently ample line bundle \(A_Y\) over \(Y\), \( f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})^{\star\star} \otimes A_Y^{-1}\) is globally generated over \( Y_0 \) for any \(\ell\gg 0\). In particular, \(f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}) \) is ample with respect to \(Y_0\).
\item \label{enough ample} In the same setting as (\lowerromannumeral{1}), \(\det f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-r_\ell} \) is also globally generated over \(Y_0\) for any \(\ell\gg 0\), where \(r_{\ell}={\rm rank} f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\). In particular, \(\mathbf{B}_+\big(\det f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}) \big)\subset Y\setminus Y_0\).
\item \label{desired global}
For some $r\gg 0$, there exists an algebraic fiber space $f:X\to Y$ compactifying $X_0^r\to Y_0$, so that
$f_*(\ell K_{{X}/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-\ell} $ is globally generated over $Y_0$ for $\ell$ large and divisible enough. Here $X_0^r$ denotes to be the $r$-fold fiber product of $X_0\to Y_0$, and $A_Y$ is some sufficiently ample line bundle over $Y$.
\end{thmlist}
\end{thm}
\begin{proof}
Let us first show that, to prove Claims (\lowerromannumeral{1}) and (\lowerromannumeral{2}), one can assume that both $B:=Y\setminus Y_0$ and $f^*B$ are normal crossing.
For the arbitrary smooth projective compactification $f':X'\to Y'$ of $f_0:X_0\to Y_0$, we take a log resolution $\nu:Y\to Y'$ with centers supported on $Y'\setminus Y_0$ so that $B:=\nu^{-1}(Y'\setminus Y_0)$ is a simple normal crossing divisor. Define $X$ to be strong desingularization of the main component $(X'\times_{Y'}Y)^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$ dominant over $Y$
\begin{align}
\xymatrix{
X \ar[r]\ar[rd]_-{f}& X'\times_{Y'}Y\ar[d] \ar[r] & X'\ar[d]^-{f'} \\
& Y \ar[r]^{\nu} & Y'
}
\end{align}
so that $f^*B$ is normal crossing. By \cite[Lemma 2.5.a]{Vie90}, there is the inclusion
\begin{align}\label{eq:inclusion Vie}
\nu_{*}f_*(mK_{X/Y})\hookrightarrow f'_*(mK_{X'/Y'})
\end{align}
which is an isomorphism over $Y_0$ for each $m\in \mathbb{N}$. Hence for any ample line bundle $A$ over $Y'$, once \( f_*(m K_{X/Y})^{\star\star} \otimes (\nu^*A)^{-1}\) is globally generated over \( \nu^{-1}(Y_0)\simeq Y_0 \) for some $m\geqslant 0$, $f'_*(mK_{X'/Y'})^{\star\star} \otimes A^{-1}$ will be also globally generated over \(Y_0 \). As we will see, Claim (\lowerromannumeral{2}) is a direct consequence of Claim (\lowerromannumeral{1}). This proves the above statement.
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=0cm,itemindent=0.7cm,labelwidth=\itemindent,labelsep=0cm, align=left,label= {\rm (\roman*)},itemsep=0.07cm]
\item Let us fix a sufficiently ample line bundle $A_Y$ on $Y$. Assume that both $B:=Y\setminus Y_0$ and $f^*B$ are normal crossing. It follows from \cite[Theorem 5.2]{Vie90} that one can take some \(b\gg a\gg 0 \), \(\mu\gg m\gg 0 \) and \(s\gg 0 \) such that \(\mathscr{L}:= \det f_*(\mu mK_{X/Y})^{\otimes a}\otimes \det f_*(mK_{X/Y})^{\otimes b} \) is ample over \(Y_0\). In other words, \(\mathbf{B}_+(\mathscr{L})\subset {\rm Supp}(B) \). By the definition of augmented base locus, one can even arrange \(a, b\gg 0 \) such that there exists a singular hermitian metric \( h_1\) of \(\mathscr{L}-4A_Y \) which is smooth over \(Y_0\), and the curvature current \(\sqrt{-1}\Theta_{h_\mathscr{L}}(\mathscr{L})\geqslant \omega \) for some K\"ahler form \(\omega \) in \(Y\).
Denote by \(r_1:={\rm rank} f_*(\mu mK_{X/Y})\) and \(r_2:={\rm rank} f_*(mK_{X/Y})\). It follows from \cref{CP} that for any sections
\[
\sigma_1 \in H^0(X_y, a\mu mC K_{X_y} ), \quad \sigma_2 \in H^0(X_y, b mC K_{X_y} ),
\]
there exists effective divisors \(\Sigma_1 \) and \(\Sigma_2 \) such that
\begin{eqnarray*}
\Sigma_1+a f^*\det f_*(m\mu K_{X/Y})- f^*A_Y \stackrel{{\rm linear}}{\sim} am\mu r_1CK_{X/Y}+ P_1+F_1 \\
\Sigma_2+b f^*\det f_*(m K_{X/Y})- f^*A_Y \stackrel{{\rm linear}}{\sim} bmr_2C K_{X/Y}+ P_2+F_2
\end{eqnarray*}
and
\[
\Sigma_{1\upharpoonright X_y}=\sigma_1^{\otimes r_1}, \quad \Sigma_{2\upharpoonright X_y}=\sigma_2^{\otimes r_2}.
\]
Here $F_i$ is $f$-exceptional with \(f(F_i)\subset {\rm Supp}(B)\), \( {\rm Supp}(P_i)\subset {\rm Supp}(\Delta_f)\) for \(i=1,2\).
Write \(N:=am\mu r_1C+bmr_2C \), \(P:=P_1+P_2\) and \(F:= F_1+F_2\). Fix any $y\in Y_0$. Then the effective divisor \(\Sigma_1 +\Sigma_2 \) induces a singular hermitian metric
\(h_2\) for the line bundle \(L_2:=NK_{X/Y}-f^*\mathscr{L}+2f^*A_Y+P+F\) such that \(h|_{X_y} \) is not identically equal to \(+\infty \), and so is the singular hermitian metric \(h:=f^*h_1\cdot h_2 \) over \(L_0:=L_2+f^*\mathscr{L}-4f^*A_Y=NK_{X/Y} -2f^*A_Y+P+F \).
In particular, when \(\ell \) sufficiently large, the multiplier ideal sheaf \( \mathscr{J} (h_{\upharpoonright X_y}^{\frac{1}{\ell}})=\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_{X_y}\). By Siu's invariance of plurigenera, all the global sections \(H^0\big(X_y,(\ell K_X+L_0)_{\upharpoonright X_y}\big)\simeq H^0\big(X_y, (\ell+N)K_{X_y}\big) \) extends locally, and we thus can apply \cref{extension} to obtain the desired surjectivity
\begin{align}\label{surjectivity}
H^0 \big(X, \ell K_{X/Y} + L_0 -\ell\Delta_f +f^* A_Y\big) \twoheadrightarrow H^0 \big(X_y , (\ell+N) K_{X_y} \big),
\end{align}
Recall that \({\rm Supp}(P)\subset {\rm Supp}(\Delta_f)\). Then $\ell f^*B\geqslant P$ for $\ell\gg 0$, and
one has the inclusion of sheaves
\[
\ell K_{X/Y} + L_0 -\ell \Delta_f +f^* A_Y\hookrightarrow (N+\ell) K_{X/Y} -f^* A_Y +F.
\]
which is an isomorphism over $X_0$ . By \eqref{surjectivity} this implies that the direct image sheaves \( f_*(\ell K_{X/Y} -f^* A_Y+F)\) are globally generated over some Zariski open set \(U_y\subset Y_0\) containing \(y\) for $\ell \gg 0$.
Since \(y\) is an arbitrary point in \(Y_0\), the direct image \( f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}+F ) \otimes A_Y^{-1}\) is globally generated over \(Y_0\) for $\ell \gg 0$ by noetherianity. Recall that $F$ is $f$-exceptional with $f(F)\subset {\rm Supp}(B)$. Then there is an injection
\[
f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}+F ) \otimes A_Y^{-1}\hookrightarrow f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})^{\star\star} \otimes A_Y^{-1}
\]
which is an isomorphism over $Y_0$. Hence \( f_*(\ell K_{X/Y} )^{\star\star} \otimes A_Y^{-1}\) is also globally generated over \(Y_0\).
Hence \(f_*(\ell K_{X/Y} ) \) is ample with respect to \(Y_0\) for $\ell\gg 0$. The first claim follows.
\item The trick to prove the second claim has already appeared in \cite{Den17} in proving a conjecture by Demailly-Peternell-Schneider. We first recall that \(f_*(\ell K_{X/Y} ) \) is locally free outside a codimension 2 analytic subset of $Y$. By the proof of \cref{global generated}, for \(\ell\) sufficiently large and divisible, \(f_*(\ell K_{X/Y} +F)\otimes A_Y^{-1}\) is locally free and generated by global sections over \(Y_0\), where $F$ is some $f$-exceptional effective divisor. Therefore, its determinant \(\det f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}+F )\otimes A_Y^{-r_\ell}\) is also globally generated over \(Y_0\), where \(r_\ell:={\rm rank} f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}) \). Since $F$ is $f$-exceptional and effective, one has
$$
\det f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}+F )\otimes A_Y^{-r_\ell}=\det f_*(\ell K_{X/Y} )\otimes A_Y^{-r_\ell},
$$
and therefore, \(\det f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-r_\ell}\) is also globally generated over \(Y_0\). By the very definition of the augmented base locus $\mathbf{B}_+(\bullet)$ we conclude that
\[\mathbf{B}_+\big(\det f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\big)\subset {\rm Supp}(B) .\]
The second claim is proved.
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\item
We combine the ideas in \cite[Proposition 4.1]{VZ03} as well as the pluricanonical extension techniques in \cref{extension} to prove the result.
By \cref{def: good compactification}, there exists a smooth projective compactification $Y$ of $Y_0$ with $B:=Y\setminus Y_0$ simple normal crossing, a non-singular finite covering $\psi:W\to Y$, and an slc family $g':Z'\to W$, which extends the family $X_0\times_{Y_0}W$.
By \cref{fiber kollar} for any $r\in \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$, the $r$-fold fiber product $g'^r:Z'^r \to W$ is still an slc family, which compactifies the smooth family $X_0^r\times_{Y_0}W\to W_0$, where $W_0:=\psi^{-1}(Y_0)$. Note that $Z'^r$ has canonical singularities.
Take a smooth projective compactification $f:{X}\to Y$ of $X_0^r\to {Y_0}$ so that $f^*B$ is normal crossing. Let ${Z}\to Z'^r$ be a strong desingularization of $Z'^r$, which also resolves this birational map $Z'^r\dashrightarrow (X\times_{Y} W)^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$. Then $ g:{Z}\to W$ is smooth over $W_0:=\psi^{-1}(Y_0)$.
\begin{equation*}
\begin{tikzcd}
{Z} \arrow[r]\arrow[rrr, bend left=20]\arrow[d, " {g}"] & Z'^r \arrow[r,dashrightarrow] \arrow[d, "g'^r"] & X \arrow[d, "f"] & (X\times_{Y} W)^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}} \arrow[l]\arrow[d]\\
W \arrow[r, equal] & W \arrow[r, "\psi"] & Y & W \arrow[l, "\psi"']
\end{tikzcd}
\end{equation*}
Let $\tilde{Z}$ be a strong desingularization of $Z'$, which is thus smooth over $W_0:=\psi^{-1}(Y_0)$.
For the new family $\tilde{g}:\tilde{Z}\to W$, we denote by $\tilde{Z}_0:=\tilde{g}^{-1}(W_0)$. Then $\tilde{Z}_0\to W_0$ is also a smooth family, and any fiber of $Z_w$ with $w\in W_0$ is a projective manifold of general type. By our assumption in the theorem, for any \(w\in W_0\), the set of \(w'\in W_0 \) with \( \tilde{Z}_{w'} \stackrel{{\rm bir}}{\sim} \tilde{Z}_{w} \) is finite as $\psi:W\to Y$ is a finite morphism. We thus can apply \cref{global generated,enough ample} to our new family $\tilde{g}:\tilde{Z}\to W$.
From now on, we will always assume that $\ell\gg 0$ is sufficiently divisible so that $\ell K_{Z'}$ is Cartier.
Let $A_Y$ be a sufficiently ample line bundle over $Y$, so that $A_W:=\psi^*A_Y$ is also \emph{sufficiently ample}. Since $Z'$ has canonical singularity, $\tilde{g}_*(\ell K_{\tilde{Z}/W})=g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W})$. It follows from \cref{enough ample} that, for any $\ell \gg 0$,
the line bundle
\begin{eqnarray} \label{det ample}
\det \tilde{g}_*(\ell K_{\tilde{Z}/W} )\otimes A_W^{-r}=\det g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W})\otimes A_W^{-r}
\end{eqnarray}
is globally generated over $W_0$, where $r:={\rm rank}\ g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W})$ depending on $\ell$. Then there exists a positively-curved singular hermitian metric $h_{\det}$ on the line bundle $\det g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W})\otimes A_W^{-r} $ such that $h_{\det}$ is smooth over $W_0$.
By the base change properties of slc families (see \cite[Proposition 2.12]{BHPS13} and \cite[Lemma 2.6]{KP17}), one has
\begin{align*}
\omega^{[\ell]}_{Z'^r/W} \simeq \bigotimes_{i=1}^r{\rm pr}_i^*\omega^{[\ell]}_{Z'/W},\quad
g'^r_*(\ell K_{Z'^r/W}) \simeq \bigotimes^r g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W}),
\end{align*}
where ${\rm pr}_i:Z'^r\to Z'$ is the $i$-th directional projection map. Hence $\ell K_{Z'^r}$ is Cartier as well, and we have
$$
\bigotimes^r g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W})\simeq g'^r_*(\ell K_{Z'^r/W})= g_*(\ell K_{Z/W}).
$$
By \cref{KSBA fiber}, $g_* (\ell K_{Z /W})$ is reflexive, and we thus have
\begin{align*}
\det g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W}) \to \bigotimes^r g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W}) \simeq g_* (\ell K_{Z/W}),
\end{align*}
which induces a natural effective divisor
\begin{align*}
\Gamma \in \lvert \ell K_{Z/W} - g^* \det g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W}) \rvert
\end{align*}
such that $\Gamma_{ \upharpoonright Z_{w}}\neq 0$ for any (smooth) fiber $Z_w$ with \(w\in W_0\). By \cref{control} for any $w\in W_0$ the log canonical threshold
\begin{align}\label{eq:lct control}
c(\Gamma_{\upharpoonright Z_w})\geqslant \frac{1}{e(\ell K_{Z_w} )}=\frac{1}{e\big( \bigotimes_{i=1}^{r}{\rm pr}^*_i(K_{Z'_w}^{\otimes \ell} )\big)}=\frac{1}{e\big( \ell K_{Z'_w} \big)}\geqslant \frac{1}{\ell\cdot c_1(\mathscr{A})^{d-1}\cdot c_1(K_{Z'_w})+1}\geqslant \frac{2 }{(C-1)\ell}
\end{align}
for some \(C\in \mathbb{N} \) which does not depend on \(\ell\) and $w\in W_0$. Denote by $h$ the singular hermitian metric on
\[\ell K_{Z/W} - g^* \det g'_*(\ell K_{Z'/W}) \] induced by $\Gamma $. By the definition of log canonical threshold, the multiplier ideal sheaf $\mathscr{J}\big(h^{\frac{1}{(C-1)\ell}}_{ \upharpoonright Z_w} \big)=\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_{Z_w}$ for any fiber $Z_w$ with \(w\in W_0\). Let us define a positively-curved singular metric $h_{ \mathscr{F}}$ for the line bundle
$
\mathscr{F}:= \ell K_{Z/W} - r g^* A_W
$
by setting $h_{ \mathscr{F}}:=h\cdot g^*h_{\det}$. Then $\mathscr{J}\big(h^{\frac{1}{(C-1)\ell}}_{\mathscr{F} \upharpoonright Z_w} \big)=\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_{Z_w}$ for any $w\in W_0$.
For any $n\in \mathbb{N}^*$, applying \cref{extension} to $n \mathscr{F}$ we obtain the surjectivity
\begin{align}\label{3:direct image}
H^0\big(Z, (C-1) n\ell K_{Z/W} +n \mathscr{F}+ g^* A_W\big)\twoheadrightarrow H^0\big(Z_w, Cn\ell K_{Z_w} \big)
\end{align}
for all $w\in W_0$. In other words,
\begin{eqnarray*}
g_*\big(C\ell n K_{Z/W} )\otimes A_W^{-(n r-1)}
\end{eqnarray*}
is globally generated over $W_0$ for any $\ell \gg 0$ and any $n\geqslant 1$.
Since \(K_{X_y}\) is big, one thus has
\[
r=r_\ell \sim \ell^d\ \ {\rm as\ } \ \ell \to +\infty
\]
where \(d:=\dim Z_w\geqslant 2 \) (if the fibers of $f$ are curves, one can take a fiber product to replace the original family). Recall that $C$ is a constant which does not depend on $\ell$. One thus can take an \emph{a priori} $\ell\gg 0 $ so that $r\gg C\ell$. In conclusion, for sufficiently large and divisible $m$,
\begin{eqnarray*}
g_*\big(m K_{Z/W} )\otimes A_W^{-2m}= g_*\big(m K_{Z/W} )\otimes \psi^*A_Y^{-2m}
\end{eqnarray*}
is globally generated over $W_0$.
Therefore, we have a morphism
\begin{align}\label{eq: global}
\bigoplus_{i=1}^{N}\psi^*A_Y^{m}\to g_*\big(m K_{Z/W} \big)\otimes \psi^*A_Y^{-m},
\end{align}
which is surjective over $W_0$. On the other hand, by \cite[Lemma 2.5.b]{Vie90}, one has the inclusion
$$
g_*\big(m K_{Z/W} \big) \hookrightarrow \psi^*f_*(mK_{X/Y}),
$$
which is an isomorphism over $W_0$.
\eqref{eq: global} thus induces a morphism
\begin{align} \label{eq:surjective}
\bigoplus_{i=1}^{N}\psi_*\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_W\otimes A_Y^{m}\to \psi_*g_*\big(m K_{Z/W} \big)\otimes A_Y^{-m}\to
\psi_* \psi^*\big(f_*(mK_{X/Y})\big)\otimes A_Y^{-m},
\end{align}
which is surjective over $Y_0$. Note that
that even if $f_*(mK_{X/Y})$ is merely a coherent sheaf, the projection formula $\psi_* \psi^*\big(f_*(mK_{X/Y})\big)=f_*(mK_{X/Y})\big)\otimes \psi_*\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_W$
still holds for $\psi$ is finite (see \cite[Lemma 5.7]{Ara04}).
The trace map
$$
\psi_*\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_W\rightarrow \mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y
$$
splits the natural inclusion $\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_Y\to \psi_*\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_W$, and is thus surjective. Hence \eqref{eq:surjective} gives rise to a morphism \begin{align} \label{eq:surjective2}
\bigoplus_{i=1}^{N}\psi_*\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_W\otimes A_Y^{m}\to \psi_*g_*\big(m K_{Z/W} \big)\otimes A_Y^{-m}\xrightarrow{\Phi} f_*(mK_{X/Y}) \otimes A_Y^{-m},
\end{align}
which is surjective over $Y_0$.
By taking $m$ sufficiently large, we may assume that $\psi_*\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_W\otimes A_Y^{m}$ is generated by its global sections.
Then $f_*(mK_{X/Y}) \otimes A_Y^{-m}$ is globally generated over $Y_0$. We complete the proof.\qedhere
\end{enumerate}
\end{proof}
Let us prove the following Bertini-type result, which will be used in the proof of \cref{cor:main hyper}.
\begin{lem}[A Bertini-type result]\label{Bertini}
Let $f:X\to Y$ be the projective family in \cref{desired global}. Then for any given smooth fiber $X_y$ with $y\in Y_0$, there is $H\in |\ell K_{X/Y}-\ell f^*A_Y|$ so that $H_{\upharpoonright X_y}$ is smooth. In particular, there is a Zariski open neighborhood $V_0\supset y$ so that $H$ is smooth over $V_0$.
\end{lem}
\begin{proof}
By Siu's invariance of plurigenera and Grauert-Grothedieck's \enquote*{cohomology and base change}, we know that
$f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-\ell}$ is locally free on $Y_0$, and the natural map
$$
(f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-\ell})_y\to H^0(X_y,\ell K_{X_y})
$$
is an isomorphism for any $y\in Y_0$. Since $K_{X_y}$ is assumed to be semi-ample, one can take $\ell\gg 0$ so that $|\ell K_{X_y}|$ is base point free. By the Bertini theorem, one can take a section $s\in H^0(X_y,\ell K_{X_y})$ whose zero locus is a smooth hypersurface on $X_y$. By \cref{desired global}, one has the surjection
$$
H^0\big(Y,f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-\ell}\big)\twoheadrightarrow \big(f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-\ell}\big)_y\xrightarrow{\simeq} H^0(X_y,\ell K_{X_y}).
$$
Hence there is
$$\sigma\in H^0(X,\ell K_{X/Y}-\ell f^*A_Y)=H^0\big(Y,f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\otimes A_Y^{-\ell}\big)$$
which extends the section $s$. In other words, for the zero divisor $H=(\sigma=0)$, its restriction to $X_y$ is smooth. Hence there is a Zariski open neighborhood $V_0\supset y$ so that $H$ is smooth over $V_0$. The lemma is proved.
\end{proof}
\begin{rem}
Note that we do not know how to find a hypersurface $H\in |\ell K_{X/Y}-\ell f^*A_Y|$ so that its discriminant locus in $Y$ is normal crossing. We have to blow-up the base $\nu:Y'\to Y$ to achieve this. As $f:X\to Y$ is not flat in general, for the new family
$$
\begin{tikzcd}
X'\arrow[r]\arrow[d,"f'"]&(X\times_YY')^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}\arrow[d]\arrow[r]&X\times_YY'\arrow[r]\arrow[d] &X\arrow[d, "f"]\\
Y'\arrow[r, equal] &Y'\arrow[r, equal] &Y'\arrow[r, "\nu"]& Y
\end{tikzcd}
$$
where $X'$ is a desingularization of $(X\times_YY')^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$, in general
$$
\nu^*f_*(\ell K_{X/Y})\not\subset f'_*(\ell K_{X'/Y'}).
$$
In other words, although the discriminant locus of $\nu^*H\to Y'$ is a simple normal crossing divisor in $Y'$, $\nu^*H$ might not lie at $|\ell K_{X'/Y'}-\ell f'^*\nu^*A_Y|$. We will overcome this problem in \cref{cor:main hyper} at the cost of the appearance of some $f'$-exceptional divisors.
\end{rem}
Since the \emph{$\mathbb{Q}$-mild reduction} in \cref{def: good compactification} holds for any smooth surjective projective morphism with connected fibers and smooth base, it follows from our proof in \cref{desired global} and Kawamata's theorem \cite{Kaw85}, one still has the \emph{generic} global generation as follows.
\begin{thm}\label{thm:Kawamata}
Let $f_U:U\to V$ be a smooth projective morphism between quasi-projective varieties with connected fibers. Assume that the general fiber $F$ of $f_U$ has semi-ample canonical bundle, and $f_U$ is of maximal variation. Then there exists a positive integer $r\gg 0$ and a smooth projective compactification $f:{X}\to Y$ of $U^r\to V$ so that ${f}_*(m K_{{X}/Y})\otimes \mathscr{A}^{-m}$ is globally generated over some Zariski open subset of $V$. Here $U^r\to V$ is the $r$-fold fiber product of $U\to V$, and $\mathscr{A}$ is some ample line bundle on $Y$. \qed
\end{thm}
\subsection{Sufficiently many \enquote*{moving} hypersurfaces}\label{sec:good}
As we have seen in \cref{sec:existence} on the construction of VZ Higgs bundles, one has to apply branch cover trick to construct a negatively twisted Hodge bundle on the compactification of the base, which is well-defined outside a simple normal crossing divisor. This means that the hypersurface $H\in |\ell K_{X/Y}-\ell f^*A_Y|$ in constructing the cyclic cover is smooth over the complement of an SNC divisor of the base. As we discussed in \cref{Bertini}, in general we cannot perform a simple blow-up of the base to achieve this.
In this subsection we will overcome this difficulty in applying the methods in \cite[Proposition 4.4]{PTW18}. It will be our basic setup in constructing refined VZ Higgs bundles in \cref{construction}.
\begin{thm}\label{cor:main hyper}
Let $X_0\to Y_0$ be a smooth family of minimal projective manifolds of
general type over a quasi-projective manifold $Y_0$. Suppose that for any \(y\in Y_0\), the set of \(z\in Y_0\) with \( X_z \stackrel{{\rm bir}}{\sim} X_y \) is finite. Let $Y\supset Y_0$ be the smooth compactification in \cref{def: good compactification}. Fix any $y_0\in Y_0$ and some sufficiently ample line bundle $A_Y$ on $Y$. Then there exist a birational morphism $\nu:Y'\to Y$ and a new algebraic fiber space $f':X'\to Y'$ which is smooth over $\nu^{-1}(Y_0)$,
so that for any sufficiently large and divisible $\ell$, one can find a hypersurface
\begin{align}\label{eq:same hypersurface}
H\in |\ell K_{X'/Y'}-\ell (\nu\circ f')^*A_Y+\ell E|
\end{align}
satisfying that
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0.6cm]
\item the divisor $D:=\nu^{-1}(Y\setminus Y_0)$ is simple normal crossing.
\item There exists a reduced divisor $S$ in $ Y'$, so that $D+S$ is simple normal crossing,
and $H\to Y'$ is smooth over $Y'\setminus D\cup S$.
\item The exceptional locus ${\rm Ex}(\nu)\subset {\rm Supp}(D+S)$, and $y_0\notin\nu (D\cup S )$.
\item The divisor $E$ is effective and $f'$-exceptional with $f'(E)\subset {\rm Supp}(D+S)$.
\end{itemize}
Moreover, when $X_0\to Y_0$ is \emph{effectively parametrized} over some open set containing $y_0$, so is the new family $X'\to Y'$.
\end{thm}
\begin{proof}
The proof is a continuation of that of \cref{desired global}, and we adopt the same notations therein. By \eqref{eq:surjective2} and the isomorphism $$H^0(Z, \ell K_{Z/W}-\ell g^*A_W)\simeq H^0\big(Z'^r,\ell K_{Z'^r/W}-\ell (g'^r)^*A_W\big),$$ the morphism $\Phi:\psi_*g_*\big(\ell K_{Z/W} \big)\otimes A_Y^{-\ell}\to f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}) \otimes A_Y^{-\ell}$ in \eqref{eq:surjective2} gives rise to a natural map
\begin{align}\label{eq:upsilon}
\Upsilon:H^0(Z'^r,\ell K_{Z'^r/W}-\ell (g'^r)^*A_W)\to H^0\big(Y,f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}) \otimes A_Y^{-\ell}\big)
\end{align}
whose image $I$ generates $f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}) \otimes A_Y^{-\ell }$ over $Y_0$. Note that $\Upsilon$ is fonctorial in the sense that it does not depend on the choice of the birational model $Z\to Z'^r$. By the base point free theorem, for any $y\in Y_0$, $K_{X_y}$ is semi-ample, and we can assume that $\ell \gg 0$ is sufficiently large and divisible so that $\ell K_{X/Y}$ is relatively semi-ample over $Y_0$. Hence we can take a section
\begin{align}\label{eq:sigma}
\sigma\in H^0\big(Z'^r,\ell K_{Z'^r/W}-\ell (g'^r)^*A_W\big)
\end{align}
so that
the zero divisor of $$\Upsilon(\sigma)\in H^0\big(X, \ell K_{X/Y}-\ell f^*A_Y\big)= H^0\big(Y,f_*(\ell K_{X/Y}) \otimes A_Y^{-\ell}\big),$$ denoted by
$
H_1\in |\ell K_{X^{(r)}/Y}-\ell (f^{(r)})^* A_Y |,
$ is \emph{transverse} to the fiber $X_{y_0}$. Denote by $T$ the \emph{discriminant locus} of $H_1\to Y$, and $B:=Y\setminus Y_0$. Then $y_0\notin T\cup B$. Take a log-resolution $\nu:Y'\to Y$ with centers in $T\cup B$ so that both $D:=\nu^{-1}(B)$ and $D+S:=\nu^{-1}(T\cup B)$ are simple normal crossing. Let $X'$ be a strong desingularization of $(X\times_YY')^{\!\!\text{\textasciitilde}}$, and write $f':X'\to Y'$, which is smooth over $Y_0':=\nu^{-1}(Y_0)$. Set $X_0':=f'^{-1}(Y_0')$. It suffices to show that, there exists a hypersurface $H$ in \eqref{eq:same hypersurface} with $H_{\upharpoonright (\nu\circ f')^{-1}(V)}=H_{1\upharpoonright ( f^{(r)})^{-1}(V)}$, where $V:=Y\setminus S'\cup B \subset Y_0$. Since the birational morphism $\nu$ is isomorphic at $y_0$, we can write $y_0$ as $\nu^{-1}(y_0)$ abusively.
Now we follow the similar arguments in \cite[Proposition 4.4]{PTW18} to prove the existence of $H$ (in which they apply their methods for \emph{mild morphisms}). Let $W'$ be a strong desingularization of $W\times_YY'$ which is finite at $y_0\in Y'$. Write $W'_0:=\nu'^{-1}(W_0)$. By \cref{KSBA birational}, the new family $ Z'':=Z'^r\times_WW'\to W'$ is still an slc family, which compactifies the smooth family $X_0'\times_{Y'_0}W'\to W_0'$. Let $M'$ be a desingularization of $Z''$ so that it resolves the rational maps to $X'$ as well as $Z$.
\begin{eqnarray*}
\xymatrix@!0{
& X \ar[ddd]|{f } |!{[dd];[rrr]}\hole
& && Z \ar[rrr] \ar[lll] \ar[ddd]|{g}|!{[dd];[rrr]}\hole
& && Z'^r\ar[ddd]|{\ g'^r}
\\
&&&&\\
X'\ar|{\!\! \mu}[uur] \ar[ddd]|{f'}
& & & M'\ar[lll]\ar[uur]\ar[ddd]|{h'} \ar[rrr]
& && Z''\ar[ddd]|{g''}\ar|{\ \mu'}[uur]
\\
& Y
& && W \ar[lll]|!{[lu];[ddl]}\hole|{\ \psi} \ar@{=}[rrr]|!{[rru];[ddrr]}\hole
& && W
\\
&&&&\\
Y' \ar[uur]|{\ \nu}
& & & W'\ar[lll]|{\ \psi'} \ar[ruu]|{\ \nu'}\ar@{=}[rrr] &&& W'\ar[uur]|{\ \ \nu'}
}
\end{eqnarray*}
By the properties of slc families, $\mu'^*\omega_{Z'^r/W}^{[\ell]}=\omega_{Z''/W'}^{[\ell]}$, which induces a natural map
\begin{align}\label{eq:pull}
\mu^*: H^0\big(Z'^r,\ell K_{Z'^r/W}-\ell (g'^r)^*A_W\big)\to H^0\big(Z'',\ell K_{Z''/W'}-\ell (\nu'\circ g'')^*A_W\big).
\end{align}
Since both $Z'^r$ and $Z''$ have canonical singularities, one has the following natural morphisms
\begin{align*}
g_*(\ell K_{Z/W}) \simeq (g'^r)_*(\ell K_{Z'^r/W} ), \quad
h'_*(\ell K_{M'/W'})=g''_*(\ell K_{Z''/W'}).
\end{align*}
We can leave out a subvariety of codimension at least two in $Y'$ supported on $D+S$ (which thus avoids $y_0$ by our construction) so that $\psi':W'\to Y'$ becomes a \emph{flat finite} morphism. As discussed at the beginning of the proof, there is also a natural map
\begin{align}\label{eq:upsilon2}
\Upsilon':H^0(Z'',\ell K_{Z''/W'}-\ell (\nu'\circ g'')^*A_W)\to H^0\big(X', \ell K_{X'/Y'} -\ell ( \nu\circ f')^*A_Y\big)
\end{align}
as \eqref{eq:upsilon} by factorizing through $M'$.
Note that for $V:=Y\setminus T\cup B $, $\nu:\nu^{-1}(V)\xrightarrow{\simeq} V$ is also an isomorphism, and thus the restriction of $X\to Y$ to $V$ is isomorphic to that of $X'\to Y'$ to $\nu^{-1}(V)$. Hence by our construction
the restriction of $Z'^r\to W$ to $\psi^{-1}(V)$ is isomorphic to that of $Z''\to W'$ to $(\nu\circ \psi')^{-1}(V)=(\nu'\circ \psi)^{-1}(V)$.
In particular, under the above isomorphism, for the section $\sigma\in H^0\big(Z'^r, \ell K_{Z'^r/W}-\ell (g'^r)^*A_W\big)$ in \eqref{eq:sigma} with $\Upsilon(\sigma)$ defining $H_1$, one has
\begin{align*}
\Upsilon(\sigma)_{\upharpoonright f^{-1}(V)}\simeq \Upsilon'(\mu^*\sigma)_{\upharpoonright (\nu\circ f')^{-1}(V)}.
\end{align*}
where $\mu^*$ and $\Upsilon'$ are defined in \eqref{eq:pull} and \eqref{eq:upsilon2}. Denote by $\tilde{H}$ the zero divisor defined by $$\Upsilon'(\mu^*\sigma)\in H^0\big(X', \ell K_{X'/Y'} -\ell ( \nu\circ f')^*A_Y\big).$$
Recall that $H_1$ is smooth over $V$, then $\tilde{H}$ is also smooth over $\nu^{-1}(V)$.
Note that $\Upsilon'(\mu^*\sigma)\in H^0\big(Y', f'_*(\ell K_{X'/Y'})\otimes \nu^*A_Y^{-\ell}\big)$ is only defined over a big open set of $Y'$ containing $\nu^{-1}(V)$. Hence it extends to a global section
$$s\in H^0(X', \ell K_{X'/Y'} -\ell (\nu\circ f')^*A_Y+\ell E),$$
where $E$ is an $f'$-exceptional effective divisor with $f'(E)\subset {\rm Supp}(D+S)$. Denote by $H$ the hypersurface in $X'$ defined by $s$. Hence $H_{\upharpoonright (\nu\circ f')^{-1}(V)}=\tilde{H}_{\upharpoonright (\nu\circ f')^{-1}(V)}$, which is smooth over $\nu^{-1}(V)=Y'\setminus D\cup S\simeq V\ni y_0$. Note that the property of effective parametrization is invariant under fiber product. The theorem follows.
\end{proof}
\subsection{Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the moduli spaces}\label{construction}
In this subsection, for effectively parametrized smooth family of minimal projective manifolds of general type, we refine the Viehweg-Zuo Higgs bundles in \cref{thm:existence}
so that we can apply \cref{construction of Finsler} and the bimeromorphic criteria for Kobayashi hyperbolicity in \cref{bimeromorphic} to prove \cref{main}.
\begin{thm}\label{Higgs bundle}
Let $U\to V$ be an effectively parametrized smooth family of minimal projective manifolds of general type over the quasi-projective manifold $V$.
Then for any given point $y\in V$, there exists a smooth projective compactification $Y$ for a birational model $\nu:\tilde{V}\to V$, and a VZ Higgs bundle $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})\supset (\mathscr{F},\eta)$ over $Y$
satisfying the following properties:
\begin{thmlist}
\item \label{p1} there is a Zariski open set $V_0$ of $V$ containing $y$ so that $\nu:\nu^{-1}(V_0)\to V_0$ is an isomorphism.
\item \label{p2} Both $D:=Y\setminus \tilde{V}$ and $D+S:=Y\setminus \nu^{-1}(V_0)$ are simple normal crossing divisors in $Y$
\item \label{p3} The Higgs bundle $(\tilde{E},\tilde{\theta})$ has log poles supported on $D\cup S$, that is, $\tilde{\theta}:\tilde{E}\to \tilde{E}\otimes \big(\log (D+S)\big)$.
\item\label{injection} The morphism
\begin{align}\label{Torelli}
\tau_{1}: \mathscr{T}_Y(-\log D)\rightarrow \mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1}
\end{align}
induced by the sub-Higgs sheaf $(\mathscr{F},\eta)$
is injective over $V_0$.
\end{thmlist}
\end{thm}
\begin{proof}
The proof is a continuation of that of \cref{thm:existence}, and we will adopt the same notations.
We first prove that for any \(y\in V\), the set of \(z\in V\) with \( X_z \stackrel{{\rm bir}}{\sim} X_y \) is finite. Take a polarization $\mathscr{H}$ for $U\to V$ with the Hilbert polynomial $h$. Denote by \(\mathscr{P}_h(V) \) the set of such pairs \(( U\to V, \mathscr{H})\), up to isomorphisms and up to fiberwise numerical equivalence for \(\mathscr{H} \). By \cite[Section 7.6]{Vie95}, there exists a coarse quasi-projective moduli scheme \(P_h \) for \(\mathscr{P}_h \), and thus the family induces a morphism \(V\to P_h\). By the assumption that the family \(U\to V \) is effectively parametrized, the induced morphism \(V \to {P}_h \) is quasi-finite, which in turn shows that the set of \(z\in V\) with \( X_z\) isomorphic to \(X_y \) is finite. Note that a projective manifold of general type has finitely many minimal models. Hence the set of \(z\in V'\) with \( X_z \stackrel{{\rm bir}}{\sim} X_y \) is finite as well.
Now we will choose the hypersurface in \eqref{eq:cyclic} carefully so that the cyclic cover construction in \cref{thm:existence} can provide the desired refined VZ Higgs bundle. Let $ Y'\supset V$ be the smooth compactification in \cref{def: good compactification}. By \cref{cor:main hyper}, for any given point $y\in V$ and any sufficiently ample line bundle $\mathscr{A}$ on $Y'$, there exists a birational morphism $\nu:Y\to Y'$ and a new algebraic fiber space $f:X\to Y$ so that
one can find a hypersurface
\begin{align}\label{hyper for cyclic}
H\in |\ell \Omega^n_{X/Y}(\log \Delta)-\ell (\nu\circ f)^*\mathscr{A}+\ell E|,\quad n:=\dim X-\dim Y
\end{align}
satisfying that
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=0.6cm]
\item the inverse image $D:=\nu^{-1}(Y'\setminus V)$ is a simple normal crossing divisor.
\item There exists a reduced divisor $S$ so that $D+S$ is simple normal crossing, and $H\to Y$ is smooth over $V_0:=Y\setminus (D\cup S)$.
\item The restriction $\nu:\nu^{-1}(V_0)\to V_0$ is an isomorphism.
\item The given point $y$ is contained in $V_0$.
\item The divisor $E$ is effective and $f$-exceptional with $f(E)\subset {\rm Supp}(D+S)$.
\item For any $z\in V:=\nu^{-1}(V')$, the canonical bundle of the fiber $X_z:={f}^{-1}(z)$ is big and nef.
\item The restricted family $f^{-1}(V_0)\to V_0$ is smooth and effectively parametrized.
\end{itemize}
Here we set $\Delta:=f^*D$ and $\Sigma:=f^*S$. Write
$\mathscr{L}:=\nu^*\mathscr{A}$. Now we take the cyclic cover with respect to $H$ in \eqref{hyper for cyclic} instead of that in \eqref{eq:cyclic}, and perform the same construction of VZ Higgs $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})\supset (\mathscr{F},\tau)$ bundle as in \cref{thm:existence}. \cref{p1,p2,p3} can be seen directly from the properties of $H$ and the cyclic construction.
\cref{injection} has already appeared in \cite[Proposition 2.11]{PTW18} implicitly, and we give a proof here for the sake of completeness.
Recall that both $Z$ and $H$ are smooth over $V_0$. Denote by $H_0:=H\cap f^{-1}(V_0)$, $f_0:X_0=f^{-1}(V_0)\to V_0$, and $g_0:Z_0=g^{-1}(V_0)\to V_0$. We have
\begin{align} \nonumber
F^{n,0}_{\upharpoonright V_0}&= f_*\big(\Omega^{n}_{X/Y}(\log \Delta)\otimes \mathcal{L}^{-1}\big)_{\upharpoonright V_0}=\mathscr{O}} \def\oce{\mathcal{O}_E} \def\mathcal{X}{\mathcal{X}_{V_0}\\\nonumber
E^{n-1,1}_{\upharpoonright V_0}&= R^1 (g_0)_* ( \Omega^{n-1}_{Z_0/V_0})=R^1 (f_0)_* \big(\Omega^{n-1}_{X_0/V_0}\oplus \bigoplus_{i=1}^{\ell-1} \Omega^{n-1}_{X_0/V_0}(\log H_0)\otimes (K_{X_0/V_0}\otimes f_0^*\mathscr{L}^{-1})^{-i}\big)\\\label{eq333}
F^{n-1,1}_{\upharpoonright V_0}&= R^1 f_*\big(\Omega^{n-1}_{X/Y}(\log \Delta)\otimes \mathcal{L}^{-1}\big)_{\upharpoonright V_0}=R^1 ({f_0})_*\big( \Omega^{n-1}_{X_0/V_0}\otimes K_{X_0/V_0}^{-1} \big)\simeq R^1 ({f_0})_*(\mathscr{T} _{X_0/V_0}).
\end{align}
Hence ${\tau_1}_{\upharpoonright V_0}$ factors through
\begin{align*}
{\tau_1}_{\upharpoonright V_0}: &\mathscr{T}_{V_0}\xrightarrow{\rho} R^1 ({f_0})_*( \mathscr{T} _{X_0/V_0})\xrightarrow{\simeq} R^1 ({f_0})_*\big( \Omega^{n-1}_{X_0/V_0}\otimes K_{X_0/V_0}^{-1} \big) \to \\
& R^1 ({f_0})_*\big( \Omega^{n-1}_{X_0/V_0}(\log H_0)\otimes K_{X_0/V_0}^{-1} \big) \to R^1 (g_0)_* ( \Omega^{n-1}_{Z_0/V_0})\otimes \mathscr{L}^{-1},
\end{align*}
where $\rho$ is the Kodaira-Spencer map. Although the intermediate objects in the above factorization might not be locally free, the induced $\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N}$-linear map by the sheaf morphism \({\tau_1}_{\upharpoonright V_0} \) at the \(z\in V_0\)
\[
\tau_{1,z}:\mathscr{T}_{Y, z}\to (\mathscr{L}^{-1}\otimes E^{n-1,1})_{z}
\]
coincides with the following composition of \(\mathbb{C}} \def\nb{\mathbb{N} \)-linear maps between finite dimensional complex vector spaces
\begin{align}\label{long}
\tau_{1,z}: \mathscr{T}_{Y, z}\xrightarrow{\rho_z}H^1(X_z, \mathscr{T}_{X_z})\xrightarrow{\simeq} H^1(X_z, \Omega^{n-1}_{X_z}\otimes K^{-1}_{X_z})\xrightarrow{j_z}\\\nonumber
H^1\big(X_z, \Omega^{n-1}_{X_z}(\log H_z)\otimes K^{-1}_{X_z}\big)\to H^1\big(Z_z, \Omega^{n-1}_{Z_z}\big).
\end{align}
To prove \cref{injection}, it then suffices to prove that each linear map in \eqref{long} is injective for any $z\in V_0$.
By the effective parametrization assumption, $\rho_z$ is injective.
The map $j_z$ in \eqref{long} is the same as the \(H^1 \)-cohomology map of the short exact sequence
\[0\to K^{-1}_{X_z}\otimes\Omega^{n-1}_{X_z}\to K^{-1}_{X_z}\otimes\Omega^{n-1}_{X_z}(\log H_z)\to K^{-1}_{X_z\upharpoonright H_z}\otimes\Omega^{n-2}_{H_z}\to 0.\]
Observe that $ K_{X_z \upharpoonright H_z}$ is big. Indeed, this follows from that
\[
\operatorname{vol}(K_{ {X}_z\upharpoonright H_z})=c_1(K_{ {X}_z\upharpoonright H_z})^{n-1} =c_1(K_{ {X}_z})^{n-1}\cdot H_z=\ell c_1(K_{ {X}_z})^{n}=\ell \operatorname{vol}(K_{ {X}_z})>0.
\]
Hence $j_z$ injective by the Bogomolov-Sommese vanishing theorem
\[
H^0\big(H_z, K^{-1}_{X_z\upharpoonright H_z}\otimes\Omega^{d-2}_{H_z}\big)=0,
\]
as observed in \cite{PTW18}.
Since \(\psi_z:Z_z\to X_z \) is the cyclic cover obtained by taking the \(\ell \)-th roots out of the smooth hypersurface \(H_z\in |\ell K_{X_z}| \), the morphism \(\psi \) is finite. It follows from the degeneration of the Leray spectral sequence that
\begin{align}\label{Leray}
H^1(Z_{z}, \Omega^{n-1}_{Z_z})\simeq H^1\big(X_z,(\psi_z)_*\Omega^{n-1}_{Z_z} \big)=H^1\big(X_z, \Omega^{n-1}_{X_z} \big)\oplus \bigoplus_{i=1}^{\ell -1} H^1\big(X_z, \Omega^{n-1}_{X_z}(\log H_z)\otimes K_{X_z}^{-i} \big).
\end{align}
The last map in \eqref{long} is therefore injective, for the cohomology group
$H^1\big(X_z, \Omega^{n-1}_{X_z}(\log H_z)\otimes K_{X_z}^{-1} \big)$
is a direct summand of \(H^1(Z_{z}, \Omega^{n-1}_{Z_z})\) by \eqref{Leray}. As a consequence, the composition $\tau_{1,z}$ in \eqref{long} is injective at each point $z\in V_0$. \cref{injection} is thus proved.
\end{proof}
Let us explain how \cref{bimeromorphic,construction of Finsler,Higgs bundle} imply \cref{main}.
\begin{proof}[Proof of \cref{main}]
We first take a smooth compactification $Y\supset V$ as in \cref{def: good compactification},.
By \cref{Higgs bundle}, for any given point $y\in V$, there exists a birational morphism $\nu:Y'\to Y$ which is isomorphic at $y$,
so that $D:=Y'\setminus \nu^{-1}(V)$ is a simple normal crossing divisor, and there exists a VZ Higgs bundle $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ whose log pole $D+S$ avoids $y':=\nu^{-1}(y)$. Moreover, by \cref{injection}, $\tau_1$ is injective at $y'$. Applying \cref{construction of Finsler}, we can associate $(\tilde{\mathscr{E}},\tilde{\theta})$ a Finsler metric \(F\) on \(\mathscr{T}_{Y'}(-D)\) which is positively definite at \(y'\). Moreover, if we think of $F$ as a Finsler metric on $\nu^{-1}(V)$, it is negatively curved in the sense of \cref{negatively curved}.
Hence the base $V$ satisfies the conditions in \cref{bimeromorphic}, and we conclude that \(V\) is Kobayashi hyperbolic.
\end{proof}
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Q: How to determine $\lim \limits_ {n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{31^ { \frac{n}{5} }}{17^{ \frac{n}{2} } }?$ How to compute
$\lim \limits_ {n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{31^ { \frac{n}{5} }}{17^{ \frac{n}{2} } }?$
Wolframalpha gave me the solution $0$ but I dont get how to determine that.
Hope somebody can help.
A: $$\lim \limits_ {n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{31^ { \frac{n}{5} }}{17^{ \frac{n}{2} } } = \lim \limits_ {n \rightarrow \infty} \left(\frac{31^ { \frac{1}{5} }}{17^{ \frac{1}{2} } }\right)^n = \lim \limits_ {n \rightarrow \infty} \left(\frac{{\left(31^2\right)}^ { \frac{1}{10} }}{{\left(17^5\right)}^{ \frac{1}{10} } }\right)^n = \lim \limits_ {n \rightarrow \infty} \left(\frac{{31^2}}{17^5}\right)^{n\over10} = 0 $$
since $\left|\frac{{31^2}}{17^5} \right|< 1$
A: Calculator free estimate:
$$\frac{31^{1/5} }{17^{1/2}}< \frac{32^{1/5} }{16^{1/2}} = \frac{2}{4} = \frac{1}{2}.$$
A: HINT: we have $$961=31^2<17^5=1419857$$
A: $\frac{31^ { \frac{n}{5} }}{17^{ \frac{n}{2} } } = \frac{31^ { \frac{n}{5} }}{31^{ \frac{\log_{31}(17)n}{2} } }= 31^{n(\frac{1}{5}-\frac{\log_{31}(17)}{2})} = 31^{c*n} = b^n$
$\lim \limits_ {n \rightarrow \infty}b^n = \{ 0 \text{ if } 0<b<1; \infty \text{ if } b > 1; 1 \text{ if } b = 1\}$
$c = \frac{1}{5}-\frac{\log_{31}(17)}{2} < 0$ as $31^{2/5} < 17$. So $0< b= 31^c < 1$.
A: HINT:
$$31^2=961<(17^2)^2<17^5$$
$$\implies31^{1/5}<17^{1/2}$$
Now use $\lim_{n\to\infty}c^n\to0$ for $|c|<1$
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When the president or the prime minister — the head of government — are not there, heads of Uzbekistan's regions are almost royals. As there is no text-book clear division of powers at the republican level between an executive, legislature and judiciary, the situation at regional level takes the even more creative forms possible. French Enlightenment political philosopher Baron de Montesquieu's body (let his spirit rest in peace) would create eternal engine by turning in grave for the fact that the country effectively proclaims to be constitutional republic with clear division of powers among its institutions.
Though in paper the above-mentioned division is clear and fundamentally stable, current state of affairs in regions leaves many gaps for the new government to fill. The legacy left by the late head of state seem to provide relative freedom and feeling of immortality for region heads (khakims).
The recent outburst of the Ferghana region khakim — G'aniyev Shukhrat — notorious for his outrageous speeches, caused considerable reaction (though not as big as the one caused by Tashkent city khakim Jahangir Artikhodjaev's speeches) among informed public. In his speech allegedly given in Ferghana, he directed all his anger towards the head of Quva district demanding to "read janazah"[1] to the blogger who reported on recent mass protests of people demanding to provide electricity and natural gas in Quva district[2].
Should this situation happen in more civilized and democratic societies, the head of Ferghana would announce his resignation without a second thought. The situation takes even stranger form, when the mammoths of justice — the General Prosecutors office and the Human Rights Ombudsman — go silent. At the same time when the President takes major steps to provide people a relative assurance on freedom of speech, as creation of Agency of Information and Mass Communications, situation seems to be a little out of hand. But we have what we have and we have nothing to do but wait for the next generation of civil servants to be born and hope they don't catch star fever from their predecessors.
As the Washington Post's slogan goes 'Democracy dies in darkness', and so far the new generation of ambitious bloggers seem to provide that spark to keep the flame burning.
[1] Ṣalāt al-Janāzah (Arabic: صلاة الجنازة) is the Islamic funeral prayer; a part of the Islamic funeral ritual.
[2] https://rus.ozodlik.org/a/30328884.html
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Huntingdon Opens Wanda A. Howard '81 BSU Center
The ribbon has been cut, and the doors are open to the fully refurbished space renamed the Wanda A. Howard '81 Black Student Union Center on the Huntingdon College campus. Howard, a member of the Huntingdon board of trustees and a founding member of the College's Black Student Union 40 years ago, was present for the ceremony, as were dozens of current and former students and college friends, including the BSU's first president, Ida Kay Davis, Class of 1982.
In October 2020, Huntingdon President J. Cameron West announced that the space, located on the ground floor of the YWCA Hut building on campus, would be renovated and renamed for Howard as the College developed a set of goals and objectives as part of Huntingdon's Race and Justice Initiative.
Goodwyn Mills Cawood Opens New Orleans Office, Adds Architects
Montgomery architectural firm Goodwyn Mills Cawood has opened a new office in New Orleans, expanding its footprint along the Gulf Coast; it already has offices in Daphne and Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida. Additionally, it has added two New Orleans-based architects to the office who will help expand its healthcare expertise. Healthcare architect Steve Ritten joins GMC, bringing more than 14 years of experience with a New Orleans architecture firm, where he has led projects including inpatient, emergency, surgical, imaging and nuclear medicine services. Ritten's colleague, Dustin Hartman is also joining GMC.
Two Banks Merge to Become Cadence Bank
Cadence Bancorporation merged into BancorpSouth Bank. The surviving company is named Cadence Bank. BancorpSouth Bank and Cadence Bank will continue operating under their old brands until they finish integrating their systems in late 2022. The company says customers should not see immediate changes and should continue using their current bank cards, checks and other services. Cadence is becoming the sixth largest bank headquartered in its nine-state footprint. It operates in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas.
Fred D. Gray Avenue Naming Ceremony in Montgomery
Montgomery's Jeff Davis Avenue, has been renamed Fred D. Gray Avenue by Mayor Steven L. Reed, the first Black mayor in the city's 200-year history, in honor of famed Civil Rights attorney from the capital city, Fred D. Gray. Originally named for Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the street intersects with Rosa L. Parks Avenue. Mayor Reed and the Montgomery City Council hosted a public ceremony on October 26 to unveil and dedicate the new Fred D. Gray Avenue signage. The ceremony's site is only a few yards from Attorney Gray's childhood home, 705 W. Jeff Davis Avenue, which sits near the corner of Oak Street and Fred D. Gray Avenue (formerly W. Jeff Davis Avenue).
Sam Wootten Joining Cloverdale Playhouse as Artistic Director
As Montgomery's community theatre, nestled in the heart of Old Cloverdale, wraps up its 10th anniversary season of storytelling, the next decade will begin with new leadership. Sam Wootten, a familiar face in the theatre and business communities in Montgomery and beyond, will be making a home with the Playhouse family as its third Artistic Director.
Popular Montgomery Restaurant Expands to The Waters
NYC Gyro is expanding to Pike Road. A third location opened on Thursday, November 4, at The Waters Town Center. NYC Gyro also has brick and mortar locations in downtown Montgomery and near Maxwell AFB, and two food trucks, one of which is contracted to stay on campus at Auburn University.
Economic Development Partnership of Alabama Announces New Board Members
The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA) recently announced the appointment of five members to the Board of Directors. This brings the number of board members to 37. These new directors will bring industry expertise and represent their respective geographies to provide strategic direction and continued growth around EDPA's mission.
They are: Stephanie Bryan, CEO/Chair of Poarch Band of Creek Indians; Macke Mauldin, CEO and President of Bank Independent; John Mazyck, Principal at The Frazer Lanier Company; Ruffner Page, President of McWane, Inc.; James Rane Jr., Founder and CEO of Great Southern Wood Preserving.
Payne Design Architects to Design Federal Courthouse
Payne Design Group Architects in Montgomery has been selected as the Architect of Record to prepare the Bridging Documents Design for the new GSA Federal Courthouse in Huntsville. Three architects and their firms -- David H. Payne, AIA; Fentress Architects' Steve White, AIA; and Lee H. Sims, AIA -- have been working in close harmony to provide the classically inspired structure that Judges Burke, Smith and Coogler have had in mind for the Huntsville community for more than two decades. The final interior spatial layout of the 123,000 square-foot, multilevel building as designed by Payne and his firm meets GSA's program spatial requirements better than any other courthouse project in recent history, and the beautifully illustrated and carefully detailed sections and elevations further developed in the Revit computer program by White and the Fentress team, present clearly and accurately the beauty of the interior and exterior classical details. The design effort of Sims' creativity as illustrated in his original conceptual design, and Payne's and White's skillful maturation of that conceptual design, is an excellent example architects and their firms working together. These collective efforts and the judges' vision will finally come to fruition when construction on the courthouse is completed in early 2024.
Faulkner's College of Health Sciences Begins Phase II Renovations
Phase II renovations of Faulkner's College of Health Sciences began last October and will include a student library, expansion of classroom space, research labs and additional faculty offices. Phase II also includes more than 20,000 square feet of dedicated space for expanding Faulkner's pro bono clinic, which will not only be for speech services, but also for pediatric and adult and occupational and physical therapy services. Renovations are expected to be completed in May 2022. Phase III renovations will include the exterior façade, parking beautification and a pedestrian bridge to connect the two campuses. Classes for the inaugural cohort of 36 students in the PT program began on August 25, 2021.
Faulkner University and Heritage Christian University Sign Agreement for Biblical Studies Graduates
Officials with Faulkner University and Heritage Christian University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will benefit graduates seeking to complete their Ph.D. in Biblical Studies. The agreement would allow Heritage alumni who graduated with a master's degree to pursue a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies at Faulkner. If accepted for admission, they will be eligible for a scholarship.
Caddell Construction Opens New Corporate Office
Montgomery-based Caddell Construction officially opened its fourth corporate office in Jacksonville, Florida, on October 21. A small reception was held onsite with employees, clients and strategic partners in attendance. The new location was a strategic move for the company, according to Executive Vice President Mac Caddell.
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M&T Bank Lends More to Small Business in 2011 and Ranks 6th Nationally in Total U.S. Small Business Administration Loans
Made Most SBA 7(a) Loans in Baltimore, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Rochester, Syracuse, Washington, D.C. and Wilmington
BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2011 -- M&T Bank (NYSE: MTB) ranked as the #1 lender in Baltimore, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Rochester, Syracuse, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington and finished 6th nationally ranked by total loans made through the U.S. Small Business Administration's most popular loan program in the federal fiscal year ended September 30, 2011.
M&T issued 1,227 of the SBA's 7(a) loans for $174.5 million, a 47 percent increase from the $119 million it made in 7(a) loans during the 2010 federal fiscal year. The 7(a) program is the SBA's largest loan program providing operating capital to small business.
"We were able to pump $55 million of additional financing to small business in our markets this year by working with our partners at the SBA, helping those businesses finance their operations and create jobs," said Janet Coletti, senior vice president for business banking at M&T. "Small business is the heart of the economy in most small cities and towns served by M&T and we will continue to look for more ways to lend responsibly to these vital customers."
M&T has been the leading SBA lender in most of its core markets for more than a decade. M&T made 145 SBA 7(a) loans in the New York City District last year, ranking second in total loans. After merging with Wilmington Trust Company earlier this year, M&T now ranks as the top lender within the Delaware SBA District. During the last year, the bank made 35 total loans across all SBA programs within the Delaware District for more than $8 million.
Additional information about M&T's small business products and services can be found at www.mtb.com/business.
M&T Bank, founded in 1856, is one of the top 20 independent commercial bank holding companies in the nation, with $78 billion in assets and 780 branch offices in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Ontario, Canada. Read more about M&T Bank online at www.mtb.com/newsroom.
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Halloween — Your Way
How to make Halloween a scream in a socially distanced world.
Halloween may seem a little sad this year. But for Halloween lovers, COVID-19 safety restrictions doesn't mean the spooky holiday season is cancelled.
"We have received calls and inquiries from many parents on what to do this year," said Lisa K. Cohen, director at Creative Arts & Parties for Kids and owner of the new Play & Parties location (opening Oct. 31) in Orange. "I always look at every challenge as a creative opportunity and this pandemic is no exception. When you think about the essence of Halloween and what gets kids excited to celebrate it, it is dressing up and pretending to be someone or something else and then sharing that experience."
Creativity is the name of the game this Halloween season. It can mean creating a virtual Halloween party for your kids at home, going out to a socially distant event or something else. At the center of it all is a passion for Halloween and the inventiveness of creative minds.
"This challenge has inspired some families to be even more hands-on and involved with their kids' activities," said Cohen. "I would recommend that even the parents and other family members dress up and join in the fun. Find your own inner child and join in. Kids love it when 'their grown-ups' let down and have fun with them."
Creating a Virtual Halloween Party
"Parents can absolutely put together a virtual Halloween party or event," said Cohen. "The host family just needs to have one adult lead the call and keep the structure of the event moving, and yes in order to do this effectively you do need some specific technical things to make it work."
She said some activities for a virtual Halloween party can include:
Dance Party: Kids can show off their costumes and do a freeze dance — where they dance to some fun music like "Thriller," "Ghostbusters" and "Monster Mash," and freeze whenever the music stops. One of the adults can serve as the designated virtual DJ for this one.
Costume Parade: "Each child will have a moment to be highlighted on the Zoom call and strut their stuff for the other Zoomers," said Cohen. One of the more energetic parents can serve as an announcer. "'And now presenting Sophia, who will show us her beautiful princess twirls and curtsies,'" Cohen said.
Interactive Craft: Kids can make a fun, easy craft simultaneously during the call. Just remember that when you send out your invites to make sure each family knows what supplies they need to get in advance. Kids can add googly eyes and stickers to a pumpkin, or decorate a candy bag. "There are endless ideas and craft kits on Amazon, Pinterest, etc.," said Cohen. "Your guests can create the craft together and share the fun results right there on Zoom."
Scavenger Hunts: "This takes a little planning on the parents' part, but it is so easy and super worth [the] fun," Cohen said. The adults hide a few toys and treats in the home — like a plastic pumpkin ball under the couch, or a little toy witch in the kitchen. The host then gives clues for the kids to go scavenge for the items. "Kids love looking for the lost treasures," said Cohen.
Cohen said you can make the party as elaborate or simple as you like.
"A more elaborate virtual Halloween party would include things like virtual backgrounds, possibly inserting a shared movie or video, and incorporating music," she said. "I think that either way, elaborate or simple, you need a structure and someone to keep it moving and interesting for the kids."
Of course, it's also important to stay on top of the technology aspect of a virtual party.
"Make sure your phone or iPad is on a tripod or set the laptop in such a way so you are framed properly," Cohen said. "[Once] that is set up, put a light source behind the phone, laptop or tripod as well as make sure that you have light on you as well. You can use lamps, clamp-on work lights, whatever you have. Pick or create a fun background or cool place in your home to stage your Zoom."
And don't forget to involve your kids in the planning process.
"Sit down with them and make it a fun family project," she said. "Ask them what they would like to do and then brainstorm with them on how to make it happen. Maybe they like puzzles, or quizzes, or treasure hunts. Then figure out how to make this work."
Creating a Look
At the center of any Halloween event or activity is costumes, of course. This year, families can turn their Halloween costumes into a fun DIY project.
"It certainly is going to be a different kind of Halloween this year, but that doesn't mean we need to skip out on the fun of dressing up," said Theresa Casados, assistant store manager at Goodwill of Orange County's Santa Ana store on Fifth Street and Fairview Street. "You likely have a lot of what you need in your home already. Take a look at your closets and put on your 'costumes' hat — there are great pieces for dress-up already in there."
First start by choosing a theme — princess, superhero or something else — and build from there.
"An adult long-sleeve T-shirt doubles great as a cape," she said. "You can then accessorize with newly-purchased masks, costume jewelry or flowers to complete your look."
Casados said she does anticipate the popularity of some specific looks.
"Dia de los Muertos continues to be a popular and fun costume idea year after year," she said. "We are also seeing a lot of people pulling together steampunk costumes — it's a mix of Victorian-era romantics with harsher, industrial pieces that nod to time travel or science fiction. It's fun and funky for some of your older kids. Because we all need some extra magic this year, we are also anticipating a lot of mystical, feel-good costumes such as fairies, princesses, mermaids and dragons."
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She said that to create a steampunk costume, you'll want to look for dark colors, browns, blacks and burgundies, paired with ruffled or detailed tops in white.
"Accessories will really complete this look, so you'll want to add belts, vests, goggles or any jewelry reminiscent of gears or clocks," she said. "Anything velvet will pair well for this theme too — like a velvet sash or fabric belt."
For a mystical and magical fairy or princess, look for bright colors and fun fabrics.
"Anything sparkly or shimmering in effect is wonderful," she said. "If you find a larger size prom dress at a Goodwill store, repurpose that into a smaller size to fit your child — you can cut out fabrics to build a completely new silhouette. It's often easier to create a two-piece look with a skirt and top. A wand can be made from some of this discarded fabric and a paper towel roll, too. Have fun with it. We also love adding fresh flowers into hairdos for these magical characters."
JOANN's Crafted Content Manager Anna Olsen said that the fabric and craft store offers many options for Halloween. The website offers detailed instructions on creating an assortment of costumes and crafts.
"JOANN is a great source for Halloween costume inspiration every year," she said. "We have costume ideas to inspire adults, children and even pets."
Makeup artist Angela Santori said that no matter what the theme, just remember to have fun and also, don't forget to do a skin patch test first.
"I always recommend doing a skin patch test with the makeup to make sure there are no allergies," she said. "All skin reacts differently and also some face paints stain, mainly in the blue and green colors. Just have fun and make it a fun, family activity. Paint each other, everyone can be an artist."
Creating an Environment
When it comes to decorations, options are limitless — but there are some things you can do to turn an ordinary, commercial prop into a unique, pro-level decor item.
Dave Larson — founder of long-running home haunt Pirate's Cave in Orange — utilizes a technique he learned from a friend to improve the look of his props.
"My favorite thing to do with my kids over the years that is creative and is fun for all ages is 'distressing' Halloween decorations," he said. "At the Pirate's Cave in Orange, we have to build most of our own props. Sometimes we buy cheap props and 'age' them to improve the look."
He said that when his kids were young, he embarked on their first Halloween project. He bought some glass bottles with flickering light inside and a wood crate to hold them in.
"The problem was the bottles and the crate looked too new, so something needed to be done," he said. "We learned about the 'dry brush technique' from a friend and have implemented it ever since. You can take any prop and use this method with different variations. It was a fun project for the whole family, even the young ones."
Recently, he applied the technique to some barrels he found at the thrift store.
"The size of them was perfect, but they didn't look spooky or aged," he said.
First they applied a base coat over the whole barrel.
"Think of the base coat as the overall color you want your prop to be — keep it on the lighter side though," he said. "Once that is dry, you select some other colors like a darker black, some white, and some lighter brown."
Pour small half-dollar size pools of the paint into different areas of a pie tin. Then take a brush and briefly dip it into some water, and then into your selected paint. First apply the paint to a piece of cardboard to figure out the right amount to apply to the surface, as well as for some practice.
"The idea with the barrel was to get a faded wood grain look," he said. "The water kind of feathers the paint where [you] don't have such hard lines and creates a spookier look. This is where the experimentation comes in. Try using different colors, mixing the colors. Using sea sponges instead of brushes. Just keep brushing away, but keep in mind that 'less is more.' The great thing about a water-based paint that is slightly watered down, is that if you make a mistake you can wipe that paint off and start again."
He said to keep on the lookout for cheap props to try the technique on.
"Your family will enjoy perfecting your technique [and] will be proud of your final result," he said.
Even with a pandemic, local Halloween events are popping up throughout the county. Businesses and individuals are rising to the challenge and are finding innovative ways to celebrate Halloween while social distancing and adhering to health and safety guidelines. Here are just a few examples:
Urban Legends of Southern California
We're all about the drive-throughs these days and now Halloween is lending itself to an innovative form of the concept. Urban Legends of Southern California is a drive-through Halloween haunt at the OC Fair & Event Center running 24 nights (Wednesday to Sunday evenings) from Oct. 1 through Nov. 1. The 45-minute long immersive experience is inspired by local urban legends and sets out to bring creatures and terrors to life through special effects and live performances, all while guests are safely in their cars. Though there are no age restrictions, the event is recommended for those 13 and over. A special Little Legends Night will be offered for families with children under 13 to enjoy a less scary Halloween experience on Oct. 31 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. | urbanlegendshaunt.com
Knott's Taste of Fall-O-Ween
Sadly, Knott's Scary Farm was cancelled this year and Knott's Berry Farm is still closed (as of printing). But Knott's Berry Farm has developed some fun and innovative food and entertainment opportunities for the community. Knott's Taste of Fall-O-Ween is a family-friendly outdoor food and retail experience celebrating the Halloween season and fall on Fridays through Sundays through Nov. 1. Children and adults can dress up in festive costumes and experience themed food, exclusive event merchandise and an all-new "Into the Fog" art show. With a junior tasting card, young guests will have the chance to take a trip through the fully themed Camp Snoopy Trick-or-Treat Trail. All activities will be conducted with safety and social distancing protocols in place. | knotts.com
(Photo Courtesy of Jessica Peralta/HalloweenEveryNight.com.)
Pirate's Cave Haunt
Pirate's Cave Haunt is a family-friendly home haunt in Orange returning for its 21st year of offering fun scares to the community. The haunt has adjusted to the need for social distancing by creating a unique walk-up yard display. This year guests will learn the origin story of the pirates through a 6-minute multi-screen video presentation synced to lighting effects, props, special effects and live actors. There are more nights open this year to help thin out big crowds. Masks are recommended for attendees. The Pirate's Cave Haunt runs Oct. 24, 25, 30, 31 and Nov. 1 from 7-10 p.m. A $1 donation per person is suggested but not required. | piratescavehaunt.wixsite.com/piratescavehaunt
By Jessica Peralta
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Doc and my mom had some fun last new year's eve (with great music). They decided to give it a try and prepare a "lasagna pizza".
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Event recap: Sina Queyras' MxT launch!
We were thrilled to host the launch of a new collection of poetry, MxT, by Lemon Hound ringleader, infamous tweeter, irascible critic, and much-loved local poet Sina Queyras.
Jason Grimmer, our intrepid events director, started the night off with a warm intro for all of our readers.
Our first poet of the night was Gerald Lampert award-winner Katia Grubisic, who read a quintina for spring and a poem about the infamous stilt flautist who can sometimes be spotted in Jean-Talon metro.
Following Katia was Toronto's Emma Healey, a two-time Irving Layton award winner and contributor to many publications, including Matrix, Joyland, Maisonneuve, Broken Pencil, the National Post, the Toronto Star, Said the Gramophone, the Void, CV2 and Lemon Hound. Emma praised Sina as a "kind and good influence" before reading two very funny and surreal poems about the National Student Loans Service Centre.
Finally, Sina took the stage and said a few very nice words about D&Q being her "home store." She also mentioned that her very pink new book has "no dildos in it," despite looking like "a little 15-year-old's masturbation fantasy."
Then, she read poems. The book's title, MxT, is an equation for "Memory (multiplied by) Time," and loss and pain suffused the works that she read -- though the emotions are filtered through a variety of distancing devices: quotations from a safety manual, partly-erased passages from Homer...
During the question period, someone asked if, given the title of the book, the equation could be considered solved? No, Sina answered: grief expands ad infinitum. Formulas contain it. However, she admitted, she never wants to write a poem about grief again. Other querents asked how long this work has been under construction. Some of it, Sina said, dates from her thesis. Asked about the demands of motherhood, she replied, "There's a reason why women write fragments." Asked about her promotion of conceptual poetry through Lemon Hound, she claimed "lyric conceptualism" as her own field. She is interested in what is "messy, unkempt, unprocessed, raw": "emotional labour, witnessing, and confronting the now."
Energized, we moved into the wine portion of the evening, and then the party moved elsewhere. Thanks again to everyone who came out! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 68 |
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Horror arrives at London Evening Standar by the pen of Matt Watts, supposedly periodist, posh and naive pawn, for whose neoliberal mind is difficult to understand the meaning of gertrification and class struggle.
<< A group of "five stars squatters" has taken over a historic office block yards from Buckinhan Palace. Activist who have entered the former HQ of the Institute of Directors at 123 Pall Mall today vowed to stay "as long as they can". The six-storey, multimillion-pound office block is 700 yards from Buckinham Palace. The squatters moved in last week and have renamed it as the Instutute of Dissidents.
<<At least 40 squatters are hosting workshop, film screenings and soup kitchen for homeless in the "radical space".
"Enjoyed living the luxurious, five-star conditions" as if they were as superficial as him.
"We are not just lesfties and hippies, we are very much upmarket squatters now too" with irony.
"The building was empty so why can't we use it? We are respecting the interior. There will be no graffiti, no drug taking".
"We want to make an statemet that building worrth millions of pounds are not standing empty the hearth of this city where people cannot afford to live and people are desesterate for housing".
<<A red and black flag has been hoisted on a pole outside, and the front is draped with banners proclaming "anti-capitalista" intent.
The activist has used their occupation to launch an attack to the Institute of Directors, claiming it is intersted "only in the needs of the rich".
Designed by scottish archited Alexander Peebles, and built in the 1880 with the money from the explotation of the old colonies. A boring building wich only remarkable feature is "big". The Institute wich representes company directors, handed back the lease on the building and left it last year after an expansion at their new headquarters down road, next to the epicenter of corruption, the City.
"we vacated this building six months ago, but there is a chace there are some old Frederick Hayek or Adams Smith books left behinf so they can learn how to rob as we do" .
Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians. Joint Statement.
It is well known that behind the face of a politician lies the logo of a corporation. For this reason that the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (A.N.A.L.) and Squatter and Homeless Autonomy (S.H.A.) have occupied 123 Pall Mall, which was formerly the Institute of Directors.
The Institute, now a few buildings down the road, functions as a lobby group for business leaders and CEO's who wish to "exercise influence in all areas of social and economic policy". Zero-hour contracts, lower taxes in such a way that inevitably benefits the wealthy, and the erasure of workers' rights are at the centre of the Institutes monetarist ideology. Their website states it plainly.
The building has been renamed the Institute of Dissidents. Dissidents are squatters, rioters, grass-roots journalists, community activists. In our age of mass exploitation and state violence, dissidents are those who resist the hierarchy summarised so crudely by this building's previous owners.
A.N.A.L and S.H.A have opened the building as a radical space used to network anti-capitalist groups and individuals. In particular, we will host Know Your Rights, internet security and squatting workshops, screen the green anarchist documentary EndCiv, and use the cooking facilities in the building for the benefit of local street homeless people.
In their work 'An Introduction to Civil War', the radical collective Tiqqun revokes the lie of government. The State does not mean order, but the continuation of civil war: the rich are waging war against the poor, fascists against immigrant and black communities, PCSOs and their byelaws against squatters and other homeless people.
The opening up of squats and other autonomous zones, such as this at 123 Pall Mall, blows a strike in favour of the oppressed. A.N.A.L. and S.H.A welcome you to the Institute of Dissidents.
Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians A.N.A.L.
LA TARCOTECA Contrainfo: UK: Los nuevos vecinos de la Reina son Anarquista "5-estrellas"
Hurray! for the Institute of Dissenters!
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8th International Brigade Carlos Palomino in Dombass Appeal : International Brigades are Back! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 70 |
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Vietnam's red-hot market welcomed the participation of the brand Fujiaire Malaysia at the ceremony announcing the establishment of Fujiaire Malaysia (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. at the end of November 2018.
In order to promote the co-operation between Vietnam and Malaysia, Fujiaire Air Conditioning Group, established in Japan in 1965 by FUJI Heavy Industries Ltd. and relocated to Malaysia in 1994, decided to make a long-term investment in Vietnam.
Fujiaire has been present in 20 countries, including Australia, Sweden, Germany, India, UAE, South Africa, Iran, Kuwait, China, Brunei, Vietnam, and Indonesia, among others.
Fujiaire Malaysia officially established its representative office in Vietnam in January 2017. After nearly two years, the company officially invested in Vietnam and established Fujiaire Malaysia (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. on December 25, 2018.
"Understanding the trend and habits of customers in using smartphones, Fujiaire's air conditioning products pioneer a functionality through Wi-Fi connectivity. It allows users to control the air conditioning system from anywhere via a smartphone application. In 2019, Fujiaire will launch more products with more features, such as moisturising the skin and products with gold plated anti-corrosion radiators," said Nguyen Ngoc Van, business executive of Fujiaire.
According to Nikkei, the Vietnamese market for cooling systems ranked as Asia's eighth largest in 2011, excluding Japan and China, with about 660,000 units sold. The country surpassed Thailand in 2015, and sales of 1.98 million units in 2016 lifted the nation to the third position behind India and Indonesia.
The Japan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association reported that the global market grew by 2.5 per cent from 2011 to 2016, but surged 34.3 per cent in Asia over the same period, with Vietnamese sales tripling to $1.35 billion.
Other Asian companies are following suit. South Korea's LG Electronics has invested $1.5 billion to raise production by 2028 at its factory in the northern city of Haiphong that makes displays and air conditioners. Japan's Panasonic is increasing output at its Malaysian factory to expand supply to Vietnam.
The air conditioner market in Vietnam is dominated by brands like Daikin, Panasonic, LG, and Samsung.
Daikin and Panasonic each control about 25 per cent of the market, followed by LG, Samsung Electronics of South Korea, and Sweden's Electrolux. Japanese brands are gaining popularity in Vietnam as consumers increasingly value energy efficiency and performance over low prices.
Daikin has a continued sales growth exceeding 30 per cent in Vietnam thanks largely to the release of highly efficient air conditioner models with inverter technology, which controls the speed of the compressor motor so as to continuously regulate the temperature.
With a population of 93 million, among the highest in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Vietnamese air conditioner market is deemed more promising than Malaysia and Thailand, whose markets are reaching maturity. With only about 17 per cent of Vietnamese households owning an air conditioner last year, according to British research firm Euromonitor International, the market is expected to grow further. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 73 |
Film – chorwacki zespół rockowy, nowofalowy założony w 1979 w byłej Jugosławii.
Historia
Zespół założył Jura Stublić, były członek grupy Azra. Pierwszy skład zespołu tworzyli Jura Stublić (wokal), Mladen Jurčić (gitara), Marino Pelajić (gitara basowa) i Branko Hromatko (perkusja). W późniejszym czasie dołączył do zespołu saksofonista Jurij Novoselić, stając się głównym muzycznym inspiratorem grupy. Zespół rozpadł się w 1986 roku. Od 1987 do 1992 roku Stublić występował z formacją pod nazwą Jura Stublić & Film. W latach 90 XX w. zespół Film reaktywowano w pierwotnym składzie.
grupa Film a Polska
Na płycie Yugoton z 2001 r. znajdują się trzy piosenki Filmu z 1981 r.:
Zamisli - jako To była sobota - polski tekst i wykonanie Kasia Nosowska i formacja Yugoton,
Odvedi me iz ovog grada - jako W sercu miasta - polski tekst Olaf Deriglasoff - wyk. Grzegorz Nawrocki i Yugoton,
Neprilagođen - jako 1000 kawałków - polski tekst i wykonanie Olaf Deriglasoff i Yugoton
Dyskografia
Albumy
Novo!Novo!Novo! Još jučer samo na filmu a sada i u vašoj glavi (Helidon, 1981)
Film u Kulušiću (Jugoton, 1981)
Zona sumraka (Jugoton, 1982)
Sva čuda svijeta (Jugoton, 1983)
Signali u noći (Jugoton, 1985)
Sunce sja! (Jugoton, 1987)
Zemlja sreće (Jugoton, 1989)
Hrana za golubove (Croatia Records), 1992)
Sve najbolje (Croatia Records, 2001)
Single
Kad si mlad / Zajedno (Suzy, 1980)
Zamisli život u ritmu muzike za ples / Radio ljubav (Helidon, 1981)
Zona sumraka / Espana (Jugoton, 1982)
Pljačka stoljeća / Zagreb je hladan grad (Jugoton, 1982)
Ti zračiš zrake / Mi nismo sami (Jugoton, 1983)
Boje su u nama / Istina piše ne zidu (Jugoton, 1983)
Kompilacje
Greatest hits Vol. 1 (Croatia Records, 1994)
Greatest hits Vol. 2 (Croatia Records, 1996)
Večne vibracije (HiFi Centar, 1998)
Przypisy
Bibliografia
MALA enciklopedija hrvatske pop i rock glazbe, Pisarić Koraljko;
EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar;
Jugosłowiańskie zespoły rockowe
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Marienplatz (en: Mary's Square, i.e. St. Mary, Our Lady's Square) is a central square in the city centre of Munich, Germany. It has been the city's main square since 1158.Marienplatz was named after the Mariensäule, a Marian column erected in its centre in 1638 to celebrate the end of Swedish occupation. Today the Marienplatz is dominated by the New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) on the north side. The Glockenspiel in the tower of the new city hall was inspired by these tournaments, and draws millions of tourists a year. At the east side Munich's Old City Hall (Altes Rathaus) is located. It's a gothic council hall and ballroom and tower, which have been reconstructed.
The New Town Hall is a town hall at the northern part of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It hosts the city government including the city council, offices of the mayors and part of the administration. In 1874 the municipality had left the Old Town Hall for its new domicile.
The BMW Museum is an automobile museum of BMW history located near the Olympiapark in Munich, Germany. The museum was established in 1973, shortly after the Summer Olympics opened. From 2004 to 2008, it was renovated in connection with the construction of the BMW Welt, directly opposite. The museum reopened on June 21, 2008.
The Nymphenburg Palace is a Baroque palace in Munich, Bavaria, southern Germany. The palace is the main summer residence of the former rulers of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach.
10 Attractions You Must See in Munich
Visit Wall Street, Times Square, Statue of Liberty and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Allianz Arena is a football stadium in Munich, Bavaria, Germany with a 75,000 seating capacity. Widely known for its exterior of inflated ETFE plastic panels, it is the first stadium in the world with a full colour changing exterior. Located at 25 Werner-Heisenberg-Allee at the northern edge of Munich's Schwabing-Freimann borough on the Fröttmaning Heath, it is the second-largest arena in Germany behind Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund.
The Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.It receives about 1.5 million visitors per year.
The Frauenkirche is a church in the Bavarian city of Munich that serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and seat of its Archbishop. It is a landmark and is considered a symbol of the Bavarian capital city. Although called "Münchner Dom" (Munich Cathedral) on its website and URL, the church is always referred to as "Frauenkirche" by locals.
The Old Town Hall, until 1874 the domicile of the municipality, serves today as a building for representative purposes for the city council in Munich. The Old Town Hall bounds the central square Marienplatz on its east side.
BMW Welt (English – BMW World) is a multi-use exhibition center used for meetings and promotional events, and where buyers take delivery of BMW vehicles. It is in district Am Riesenfeld in Munich, Germany, next to the BMW Headquarters and the Olympiapark.
English Garden is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford (Reichsgraf von Rumford), for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. Thompson's successors, Reinhard von Werneck (1757–1842) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823), advisers on the project from its beginning, both extended and improved the park.
Planning Your Munich Visit
What are the top 5 sights I can not miss in Munich?
If you have just 1 Day to visit the Best option is the Downtown, you can start for Marienplatz to visit the and from there walk for Odeonsplatz, to visit the BMW Museum (it's free), viktualienmarket and than the English Garten (there you can walk in direction Prinzregentstrasse to see people surfista in the river) if you have time to drink a beer in Hofbrauhaus.
Free things to do in Munich?
Munich has some of the best museums in the world. There is a lot of history. If that is to much then you should look into some of the local Volksmarch or Peoples Walk. You can get to see local scenery, spend time with local people and enjoy local food and beer at the end. Some of the better things to see are found in some of the towns around Munich.
What kind of clothing is suitable to stay in Munich from June to September?
You need to bring a variety of clothes with you, since there is no typical German summer. Especially during July and August you can expect quite hot periods (up to 30 °C and more) where shorts and T-Shirts are the best clothing (unless of course business attire is required). However I wouldn't bet on these 30 °C. I've experienced summers (or periods during summer) where you had 20 °C if you were lucky. So you should also pack in Jeans and a sweater of some kind. That said, rainshowers are always a possibily and especially on hot days you should be prepared for thunderstorms.
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40. Justin Tuck DE New York Giants 74 overall (3rd round) 2005
Tuck wasn't even on the radar for this list until February 3rd, but after turning Tom Brady's fourth Super Bowl an utter nightmare, he deserved to be mentioned. Of course, putting Tuck here is partially based on potential, because it looks inevitable that the he'll turn into a perennial all-pro.
39. Grady Jackson DT Tampa Bay Buccaneers 193 overall (6th round) 1997
There's a fine line between being fat and being good. Jackson is straddling that line— and it's not pretty.
38. DeMeco Ryans LB Houston Texans 33 overall (2nd round) 2006
The 2006 Defensive Rookie of the Year followed up a season in which he led the NFL in tackles by being named All-Pro in 2007. Not bad for a 236-lb middle linebacker who was thought to be too small to play in the pros.
37. Shaun Phillips LB San Diego Chargers 98 overall (4th round) 2004
Phillips may not be the most famous Shaun in the San Diego linebacking corps, but he has been a huge part of the Chargers defense since joining the team four years ago. He is yet to make a Pro Bowl, but aided pass rushing extraordinaire Shawne Merrimane with 8.5 sacks of his own this past season.
36. Devin Hester KR Chicago Bears 57 overall (2nd round) 2006
Hester was drafted to be a cornerback. He turned out to the most dominant kick returner in NFL history. In his first two seasons, Hester has run back 11 kicks (both punts and kickoffs) to the house. Eventually teams will start to realize that Hester is the only chance the Bears have at scoring and just kick the ball out of bounds, but until then, he remains one of the most dangerous weapons in the league.
35. Mario Williams DE Houston Texans 1 overall (1st round) 2000
On Draft Day 2006, all we heard was how Williams will forever follow in the shadows of future game-changers Reggie Bush and Vince Young. But what a difference a two years makes. After racking up 11 ½ sacks in 2007, Williams was named AP Defensive Lineman of the Year (I didn't know that was an award either) and even got votes for Defensive Player of the Year. Bush, whose longest run of his NFL career is just 22 yards— 16 yards fewer than Williams' fumble recovery touchdown dash— proved that he may never be anything more than an explosive third-down back. Young passed for 9 touchdowns and 17 interceptions and was limited to 395 rushing yards while operating one of the NFL's most anemic offenses. All of the sudden, it appears that Bush and Young are now chasing the legacy of Williams. Hats off to Charlie Casserly for making that pick. And by the way, hats back on to Casserly for resigning immediately after the draft.
34. Logan Mankins G New England Patriots 32 overall (1st round) 2005
New England has had success drafting offensive lineman in all rounds of the draft. Matt Light was a second-round pick in 2001 and Dan Koppen was a fifth-rounder in 2003, so why is Mankins a more impressive pick than those two? Because the Pats invested first-round money in him. If a fifth-round guard doesn't pan out, it's not a big deal. But if a first-round choice fails, then you've wasted a lot of money and the opportunity to draft another very talented player. When Mankins was drafted with the last pick of the first round in '05, everyone had the same reaction…"Who?" With well-known players like USC's Shaun Cody, Oklahoma's Dan Cody, and Tennessee's Kevin Burnett available, it took some Mel Kiper analysis to calm everyone down and convince the world that Mankins was indeed a wise choice. After being named to the Pro Bowl, however, Mankins no longer needs Kiper's backing to prove that he is one of the best offensive lineman in the NFL.
33. Jared Allen DE Kansas City Chiefs 126 overall (4th round) 2004
Allen, who struggled with DUI's early in his career, has cleaned up his life and now gets drunk off sacking the quarterback. He led the league with 15.5 sacks this season and was named to his first Pro Bowl.
32. Rudi Johnson RB Cincinnati Bengals 100 overall (4th round) 2001
Cincinnati didn't miss a beat when Johnson stepped in for Corey Dillon several seasons ago. Rudi's bruising running style seems to have taken its toll, however, as his career appears to have peaked in 2005 when he totaled a franchise-record 1,458 yards and 12 touchdowns.
31. Brandon Marshall
Elvis Dumervil WR
DE Denver Broncos 119 overall (4th round) 2006
126 overall (4th round) 2006
It's rare for a team to find two impact players seven picks apart in the fourth round. The 6-foot-4 230 lb Marshall was low on the draft radar because he went to a small school (UCF), but in 2007 he emerged as one of the top gamebreakers in the NFL, hauling in 102 passes for 1,365 yards and 7 touchdowns. Dumervil, a NCAA-record setter at Louisville, fell on draft boards because of his 5-foot-11 frame. However, he has a 6-foot-7 wingspan and a non-stop motor that has led to 21 sacks in his first two seasons.
30. Frank Gore RB San Francisco 49ers 65 overall (3rd round) 2005
A big-time recruit at Miami (Fl.), the 5-foot-10 workhorse suffered two gory (see what I did there) knee injuries that shortened his college career and hurt his draft stock. People knew Gore could play—he was Big East Freshman of the Year after averaging a whopping 11.3 yards per carry and had beaten out Willis McGahee for the starting job before suffering a torn ACL in his sophomore campaign—but his history of injuries and a 4.68 40-yard dash time scared away potential suitors. The Niners took a small gamble in the third round and it paid off big, as Gore rushed for an NFC-high 1,695 yards in 2006.
29. Marc Bulger QB New Orleans Saints 168 overall (6th round) 2000
It's a shame that the Saints couldn't make room for Bulger. He was cut shortly after the draft and eventually caught on as the Rams No. 3 quarterback. Thanks to injuries to Kurt Warner and Jamie Martin, Bulger got a chance to start in his second season and never looked back. West Virginia's all-time leading passer threw for a league-high 4,301 yards and 24 touchdowns in 2006, was elected to the Pro Bowl twice, and was even named MVP of the meaningless game in 2004.
28. Matt Birk C Minnesota Vikings 173 overall (6th round) 1998
Birk may not be the smartest guy out there, but he makes up for his embarrassing lack of general knowledge with raw strength and technique. He slid on the draft board for two reasons: 1. Teams are reluctant to use a first-day pick on a center and 2. Teams are reluctant to draft a player with such immense off-the-field problems. Luckily for the Vikings, Birk was able to put his shoddy past behind him and become a six-time Pro Bowler.
27. Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila DE Green Bay Packers 150 overall (5th round) 2000
KGB recently surpassed Reggie White as Green Bay's all-time sack leader. Originally dubbed a pure speed rusher, the San Diego State product has developed into a reliable every-down defensive end.
26. Edgerrin James RB Indianapolis Colts 4 overall (1st round) 1999
It's not often than the fourth player chosen in the draft constitutes a "great pick," but this is the case with James. Edge set records at Miami, but until a 299-yard 3-touchdown outburst against UCLA, James didn't take much attention away from Ricky Williams and his chase for the all-time rushing record. Williams was considered the best running back prospect in years, but Bill Polian instead selected James with Williams still on the board. At the time it certainly wasn't the popular pick, but it turned out to be the correct one. Edge led the NFL in rushing his first two years and brought a new dimension to the Indianapolis offense that helped it become the league's dominant attack for James' seven years with the team. Of course, when James demanded a big money deal, Polian let him walk, drafted Joseph Addai, and won the Super Bowl. Nonetheless, the fact that Indy finally got over the hump as soon as James left is a mere coincidence. He has still succeeded in Arizona despite playing behind a sub-par offensive line, and is sure to be a Hall of Famer when his career is over.
25. Antonio Cromartie
Marcus McNeil CB
T San Diego Chargers 19 overall (1st round) 2006
50 overall (2nd round) 2006
A few players away from becoming a serious contender, San Diego took a lot of heat for using a first-round pick on Cromartie, who started just one game in an injury-riddled career at Florida State. Fortunately, Cromartie has lived up to the pressure of being a first-round pick and exceeded all expectations. At 6-foot-2 205 lbs, he is essentially Randy Moss playing defensive back. Cromartie, one of the most athletic cornerbacks to ever play the game, set an NFL-record with a 109.9999-yard missed field-goal return, snagged 10 interceptions, and was named First Team All-Pro in his second season. McNeil unexpectedly was thrust into the starting left tackle spot as a rookie and excelled in the role. He received votes for Rookie of the Year, made the Pro Bowl, and helped lead the Chargers to a 14-2 regular season record.
24. Marion Barber III
Brandon Jacobs RB Dallas Cowboys
New York Giants 109 overall (4th round) 2005
Two of the most physical young running backs in the NFL were back-to-back Day 2 picks in 2005. Barber flew under the radar after sharing carries with Laurence Maroney in college and Jacobs, considered to be a short-yardage specialist coming out of Northern Illinois, fell because teams doubted his ability to be a feature back. Clearly, there aren't many questions about either anymore. Both Barber and Jacobs have developed reputations for punishing defenders early in their careers and have seen their roles expand greatly each season. The best is yet to come for both youngsters.
23. Willis McGahee RB Buffalo Bills 23 overall (1st round) 2003
A possible No. 1 overall pick at the end of the regular season, McGahee's gruesome knee injury in the Fiesta Bowl vs. Ohio State had NFL teams questioning whether he'd ever be able to play again. Somehow, McGahee, with a little help from agent Drew Rosenhaus, convinced several teams that he'd be able to return to his college form. The Bills took a huge risk in spending first-round money on McGahee, who sat out his entire rookie season, but it paid off. He was one of the most consistent tailbacks in the NFL with Buffalo and earned his first Pro Bowl last season with Baltimore.
22. Lance Briggs
Jason Witten LB
TE Chicago Bears
Dallas Cowboys 68 overall (3rd round) 2003
69 overall (3rd round) 2003
Three years after drafting Brian Urlacher out of New Mexico, the Bears scoured the great southwest for another star linebacker, and they found one in Arizona's Lance Briggs. Most teams get top talent high in the first-round, but what separates the average teams from the contenders is the ability to find standouts like Briggs deep in the draft. With that being said, what separates the Bears from the contenders are Rex Grossman, Brian Greise and Kyle Orton. One pick after the Bears nabbed Briggs, the Cowboys found a gem of their own. Witten has emerged as the second best pass-catching tight end in the NFL and responsible for much of the success Tony Romo has enjoyed in his two years as the Dallas starter.
21. Mike Anderson RB Denver Broncos 189 overall (6th round) 2000
The 27-year-old rookie was one of the greatest stories in the last decade of football. Anderson, who was a member of the marching band in high school because the football coaches thought he was too big to play running back, spent four years in the marines before enrolling at Utah, where he teamed with Carolina Panther wide receiver Steve Smith. Anderson came out of nowhere to win the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2000 when starter Terrell Davis went down and Anderson stepped in with 1,500 yards and 15 touchdowns.
20. Mike Vrabel OLB Pittsburgh Steelers 91 overall (3rd round) 1997
If Pittsburgh had held onto Vrabel, he would have undoubtedly landed higher on this list. After four seasons with the Steelers, Vrabel signed with New England, where he anchored three championship defenses and discovered a talent for catching 1-yard touchdown passes.
19. Brian Westbrook RB Philadelphia Eagles 91 overall (3rd round) 2002
The Eagles didn't have to go far to find Westbrook. A graduate of nearby I-AA Villanova University, Westbrook was an unknown to most teams in the draft. He didn't play against top competition in college and because of his size, he wasn't considered to be an every down back. In his five-year career, Westbrook has debunked all of those myths en route to becoming a top-five back in the NFL. His combination of speed, agility, and lower-body power is the closest thing the league has seen to Barry Sanders in years. Now if only Philly could find some receivers…
18. Cato June LB Indianapolis Colts 198 overall (6th round) 2003
A standout at the University of Michigan, June was considered too small at 6-foot 220 lbs to play linebacker in the NFL. His speed and quickness was a perfect fit in the Indianapolis defense, however, as June was voted All-Pro in 2005 and led the Colts with 142 tackles in their 2006 Super Bowl winning season. Though June didn't have nearly as much success in his first season with Tampa Bay after signing as a free agent, his contribution to the Colts Super Bowl run makes him a true draft-day steal.
17. Steve Smith WR Carolina Panthers 74 overall (3rd round) 2001
It wouldn't be outrageous to say that Smith is the best wide receiver in the NFL. Smith led the league in yards and touchdowns a few seasons ago while facing constant triple coverage, and even put up respectable numbers this year despite Jake Delhomme, David Carr, Vinny Testeverde, Matt Moore, Chris Weinke, Steve Buerlien, Rodney Peete, Kerry Collins, and Frank Reich all going down with injuries
16. Tiki Barber
Ronde Barber RB
CB New York Giants
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 36 overall (2nd round) 1997
One will go down as the face of his immensely successful franchise. The other will go down as the running back who foolishly passed up a Super Bowl to take a job with ABC.
15. Marques Colston WR New Orleans Saints 252 overall (7th round) 2006
Everyone expected New Orleans' top young talent to burst out of the gates with 2,240 yards and 19 touchdowns in his first two seasons. But no one expected that young talent to be Colston. For all the hype Reggie Bush has garnered, Colston has been the Saints' most dangerous weapon since '06.
14. Peyton Manning QB Indianapolis Colts 1 overall (1st round) 1998
It's difficult to consider the first pick of a draft to be a "great pick," but in this case, Indianapolis deserves a lot of credit for its choice. At the time, many experts thought Ryan Leaf would turn out to be a better pro than Manning. Leaf was the fast-riser, he was the talk of the football world after a gutsy performance against Michigan in the Rose bowl, and in terms of upside, he was considered to be one of the best quarterback prospects in years. Of course, we all know how that turned out. Bill Polian and the Colts drafted arguably the best quarterback of all-time, and the Chargers settled for Leaf, who turned out to be one of the worst.
13. Al Harris CB Tampa Bay Buccaneers 169 overall (6th round) 1997
Tampa Bay may have drafted Harris, but the Bucs were not patient with the sixth round pick, who has since become one of the league's premier cornerbacks with Philadelphia and Green Bay. Harris has dominated receivers over the years with his physical bump-and-run coverage, and perhaps more importantly, he was the pioneer of the "dreadlocks-flowing-out-of-the-helmet" movement that became intensely popular over the past few years.
12. Donald Driver WR Green Bay Packers 219 overall (7th round) 1999
As comfortable as Brett Favre is with Wrangler, I'm sure he's a million times more comfortable with Driver. Green Bay's electric wide receiver picked up right where Antonio Freeman left off as Favre's go-to target, and ultimately played a large role in the success Favre had at the end of his career.
11. Dwight Freeney DE Indianapolis Colts 11 overall (1st round) 2002
The Colts actually took some heat for drafting Freeney early in the first-round. Though he was dominant at Syracuse, there were questions of how well his undersized frame would translate to the NFL. One Super Bowl, three Pro Bowls, an NFL-sack title, and $72 million dollars later, it's safe to say Freeney has proved to be one of the most dominant pass rushers in the league.
10. Joey Porter OLB Pittsburgh Steelers 73 overall (3rd round) 1999
General managers are often reluctant spend Day 1 picks on small-school players such as Porter, who attended Colorado State, but in this case the gamble paid off big-time for Pittsburgh. Drafted after major-conference linebackers Chris Claiborne, Andy Katzenmoyer, Barry Gardner, Rahim Abdullah, and Johnny Rutlegde, Porter turned out to be the gem of the class. He was a three-time Pro Bowler for the Steelers and was instrumental in their Super Bowl XL victory.
9. Ed Reed FS Baltimore Ravens 24 overall (1st round) 2002
The Ravens built the franchise with late-first round picks from Miami. Baltimore drafted Ray Lewis 25th overall in 1996 and then came away with gem in Reed six years later. The former Hurricane didn't waste much time in making an impact, as he was named All-Pro every season since 2003 and won 2004 NFL Defensive Player of the Year award, when he broke the single-season record for interception return yardage. Reed will likely be the second Baltimore Raven behind Lewis to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
8. Asante Samuel CB New England Patriots 120 overall (4th round) 2003
Samuel highlights the '03 draft that saw the Pats also select Ty Warren, Eugene Wilson, and Dan Koppen. The Central Florida alum was forced into the starting lineup as a rookie when Ty Law and Tyrone Poole went down with injuries. Samuel held onto his starting role the next season and improved every game as he helped lead the Pats to two Super Bowls. He was named All-Pro and voted into the Pro Bowl for the first time this season.
7. Jason Taylor DE Miami Dolphins 73 overall (3rd round) 1997
Taylor, the 2006 Defensive Player of the Year, was considered a project when he was drafted because of his skinny frame and lack of experience against top competition at the University of Akron. Taylor's superior quickness and length have given opposing tackles fits for the past ten years. The former third-round pick's 117 career sacks rank third among all active players.
6. TJ Houshmandzadeh WR Cincinnati Bengals 204 overall (7th round) 2001
Drafting Chad Johnson in the second round was a steal itself, but nabbing his college teammate TJ Houshmanzilla…or is it TJ Whosyourmomma, was an even better pick. While he's played in Johnson' shadow for his entire career, Houshmandzadeh is just beginning to receive his due as one of the top all-around wide receivers in the game. He tied Wes Welker for the 2007 reception lead with 112 en route to his first Pro Bowl.
5. Adalius Thomas LB Baltimore Ravens 186 overall (6th round) 2000
Thomas won a Super Bowl in his rookie season and was named to the Pro bowl in his third year (2003), but didn't officially take over a starting job until 2004. Since then, he has proved to be the most versatile defensive player in the NFL. The 6-foot-2 270 lb Thomas became the only player in league history to play 5 defensive position in one game when he lined up at outside linebacker, middle linebacker, defensive end, safety, and cornerback for the Ravens. Quickly recognized for his unreal combination of size and speed, Thomas became too expensive for Baltimore and signed a free agent contract with New England, where he played an integral role on the first team to start the season 18-0.
4. Bob Sanders SS Indianapolis Colts 44 overall (2nd round) 2004
Without Sanders, Indianapolis' defense yielded an NFL-record 173 yards per game in the 2006 regular season. With him, they gave up only 73 per game en route to winning the Super Bowl. Considered a risky pick because of his lack of height (5-foot-8), Sanders took home the AP Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 and has arguably become the single most valuable player to his team.
3. Hines Ward WR Pittsburgh Steelers 92 overall (3rd round) 1998
Ward embodies the Steelers' hard-working, blue-collar attitude that has made them among the most successful franchises of the past decade. The Steelers' career leader in receptions, yards, and touchdowns does much more than catch passes, however. His value as a downfield blocker and locker-room leader make him a truly special draft-day find.
2. Randy Moss WR Minnesota Vikings 21 overall (1st round) 1998
The Detroit Lions wish they had Matt Millen and his wide receiver fetish for the 1998 draft, when they selected cornerback Terry Fair the pick before Moss came off the board. Moss fell due to character issues, but teams quickly learned that character doesn't exactly matter when you're flying by and jumping over every cornerback thrown at you. Moss is certain to go down as one of the top five wideouts of all-time, if not the best.
1. Tom Brady QB New England Patriots 199 overall (6th round) 2000
What is there to say? Brady is not only the top pick of the last ten years, but arguably the best draft choice in the history of any sport. I'll just leave you with the list of quarterbacks selected ahead of Brady in this draft: Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi, Chris Redman, Tee Martin, Marc Bulger, and Spergon Wynn.
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Please be sure to label all your children's clothing, especially jackets. Now that the weather is changing we are finding several unclaimed jackets around the school. If they are labeled we can easily return them to the rightful owner. If you are missing clothing items, please check the lost and found bin located under the desk outside the PreKII classrooms on the 2nd floor.
We've already received some great looking pumpkins! The Annual Pumpkin Book Festival family project is here. Pick your favorite family book and decorate a small, pie pumpkin to look like one of the characters or the cover of the book. Any craft items can be used to add to the pumpkin, but please do NOT puncture the pumpkin because it will rot quickly. This is an OPTIONAL project for families to do together at home. Decorated pumpkins (along with the book) will be due Monday, October 22nd, for display in the library. Please drop your pumpkin and book off in the library when arriving at school. Be sure your child's name is displayed near the pumpkin. All classes will have the opportunity to take a pumpkin walk to see the creative work! Pumpkins and books will go home on Friday, 10/26.
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Red Ribbon Week The Red Ribbon Week campaign is observed across the nation providing drug awareness and healthy living. This year's slogan is LIFE IS YOUR JOURNEY, TRAVEL DRUG FREE™. We will be recognizing Red Ribbon Week from October 29th-Nov 2nd. That week, students will be allowed to come to school in free dress as long as they are wearing the themed clothing for the day. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, students must wear uniform bottoms and shoes. Any child who does not wish to participate may wear the regular school uniform each day. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 78 |
Q: Docker image fails in CentOS but works on MacOS I'm using the following Dockerfile:
FROM centos
RUN yum -y -q install epel-release && yum -y -q update && yum clean all \
&& yum -y -q install python-pip
COPY requirements.txt /tmp/
RUN pip install -q pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1
Not sure why it does work fine on MacOS using docker 17.09.0-ce but it does not using CentOS with docker 17.11.0-ce-rc3. There is an error in the pip installation, in this example I use pyvmomi but I have a similar error with other packages.
Step 3/3 : RUN pip install pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1
---> Running in 49d94b300e7f
Collecting pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1
Downloading pyvmomi-6.5.0.2017.5-1.tar.gz (252kB)
Collecting requests>=2.3.0 (from pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1)
Downloading requests-2.18.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (88kB)
Collecting six>=1.7.3 (from pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1)
Downloading six-1.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1)
Downloading certifi-2017.11.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (330kB)
Collecting chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1)
Downloading chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133kB)
Collecting idna<2.7,>=2.5 (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1)
Downloading idna-2.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (56kB)
Collecting urllib3<1.23,>=1.21.1 (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi==6.5.0.2017.5.post1)
Downloading urllib3-1.22-py2.py3-none-any.whl (132kB)
Installing collected packages: certifi, chardet, idna, urllib3, requests, six, pyvmomi
Found existing installation: chardet 2.2.1
Uninstalling chardet-2.2.1:
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 326, in run
strip_file_prefix=options.strip_file_prefix,
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 736, in install
requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 742, in uninstall
paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 115, in remove
renames(path, new_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 267, in renames
shutil.move(old, new)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 299, in move
rmtree(src)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 256, in rmtree
onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 254, in rmtree
os.rmdir(path)
OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/chardet'
Any idea why the same image fails to build across different operating systems? Also I tried this using ubuntu as the docker image and works perfect in both.
Thanks.
A: The error is caused by a conflict between the chardet package installed by epel-release
see epel package list and the one required by that specific version of pyvmomi.
Use the OS package version to avoid this conflict i.e. yum -q install python2-pyvmomi
The non-deterministic appearance of this error will be due to changes upstream in package verions in epel-release and those used in pip install
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China's drugmakers will supply nearly 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to countries in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.
Three Chinese firms China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), Sinovac Biotech and CanSino Biologics have made those deals, according to public data compiled by both British analytics firm Airfinity and the Duke Global Health Innovation Centre in the US.
China joined COVAX in October as a self-financing country, which helps the facility aid poorer countries. COVAX, or the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, aims to accelerate the development and production of vaccines through global cooperation and ensure that all countries can obtain them.
Brazil and Indonesia have both received shipments of Sinovac's candidate in recent weeks. Both countries are running phase 3 trials and have yet to approve the vaccine, whose trial data is expected within days.
This month, Egypt accepted its first batch of a COVID-19 vaccine developed under Sinopharm and shipped from the United Arab Emirates, which ran a clinical trial and approved the vaccine on December 9.
Public vaccinations have already been launched in Abu Dhabi, according to UAE local media reports. Health authorities cited 86 percent efficacy in a phase 3 analysis. Another trial site, Bahrain, has also approved the vaccine.
Other countries with agreements for doses developed by Chinese firms include Mexico, Morocco, Chile, Indonesia, Singapore and Turkey. Indonesia leads in quantity, with 125.5 million doses from Sinovac, 60 million from Sinopharm and 20 million from CanSino.
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Hello, naive newbie here. I wonder if you could solve a mystery for me. I have my eye on a domain name...I won't divulge the name if you don't mind, it's commercially sensitive for one of my clients.
Currently, the domain is registered to someone for a year - records show it was registered from 22nd July 2013 and due for renewal on 22nd July 2014.
However, I noticed the domain wasn't working 'page couldn't be found'. Another record said the domain name expired on 22nd January 2014. How can this be when its year is only halfway in from initial registration?
However, I noticed the domain wasn't working 'page couldn't be found'.
a "page not found" message can be for a variety of reasons. The problem can be as simple as entering the domain in the browser bar with/without the www prefix, depending on what is the default setting for the domain.
For most reputable registrars either will do, but for some companies you have to explicitly set that dual purpose. I've seen free hosting that gives you the site with the www prefix, and an advert for the hosting without the www prefix.
Then again, it often means the domain has been pointed at a cheap host, but no site has been built. And there are other reasons why you might get a "page not found". It doesn't mean the domain is dead..
Another record said the domain name expired on 22nd January 2014. How can this be when its year is only halfway in from initial registration?
Some registrars allow people with multiple domains to adjust their payments so that all their domains renew on the same day - so it is possible to have a registration that is for less than a year, but only for the purpose of unifying the payment dates of several domains.
That is the official rule for Joe Public. Then again, if YOU are the registrar, you might bend the rules a bit for your own reasons.
And there is also the possibility that the domain holder surrendered the domain early. If that happened, I would suspect that he was using it for some activity that caused him to get a lot of "cease and desist" emails from someone who owned a trade mark, or similar.
I know this thread is old now but the information is pretty solid from crabfoot.
Another reason for a domain being expired but not available yet is due to the drop period not being finished. If the whois record states it has been deleted or expired and it is not yet available it likely means it is in its drop period that can last about a month and then it will be available. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 82 |
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Xiaomi Mi Note 10 with 108MP camera, 5260mAh battery is coming to India soon
Earlier this month, Xiaomi launched its first smartphone with a 108MP main camera in China, dubbed Mi CC9 Pro. Shortly after its launch in China, the smartphone made its debut as the Mi Note 10 in Europe. Now, Xiaomi has started teasing the launch of the smartphone in India.
Xiaomi India has confirmed in a tweet that a new smartphone with a 108MP camera is coming to the Indian market soon, clearly hinting at the Mi Note 10. If the folks at 91Mobiles are to be believed, the Mi Note 10 will not be only 108MP camera phone that Xiaomi will bring to India soon. The Mi Mix Alpha will apparently be launched in the country as well, although it will only be available in limited quantities.
While the Mi Note 10 may not be a flagship-grade phone, it is still extremely impressive in the camera department. In addition to the 108MP primary sensor with 4-axis OIS, the phone has a 20MP ultra-wide-angle lens, 12MP portrait lens with 2x optical zoom, 5MP telephoto lens with 10x hybrid zoom, and a 2MP macro lens.
The rest of the spec sheet isn't too shabby either. It runs on an 8nm Snapdragon 730G processor, paired with 6GB of RAM and 128GB storage. You also get a large 6.47-inch AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution and an in-display fingerprint sensor. For selfies, the Mi Note 10 has a 32MP camera housed within the waterdrop notch at the top of the display. Battery life is another area where the phone is extremely impressive, thanks to a massive 5,260mAh cell with 30W fast charging. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 83 |
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At BIM House Global Pvt. Ltd professionals such as Architects, Engineers and Construction Project Managers share a common zeal for Building Information Modelling (BIM) and aspire to make a difference in the AEC Industry. We as a team strive with a mission to explore full potential of BIM and add value to the Project life cycle with our BIM services in terms of Time, Cost, Quality and Sustainability. BIM House Global is headquartered in Noida, India and it also operates from Houston in Texas to cater North America region.
Prateek Singhal – Founder and Director
Prateek Singhal is a registered Architect in India and holds a master's degree in Construction Project Management from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi). He has been actively involved with BIM since 2010.
He started his career with Arcop Associates Pvt. Ltd., India as an 'Architect and BIM Manager' helping the organization in implementing BIM. He also worked as 'Manager-BIM & Projects' at Neilsoft Ltd. leading their BIM division for their North India office.
In January 2017, he started an entrepreneurship venture under the name 'BIM House Global Pvt Ltd' with a vision to make the latest construction technologies available to the construction industry and to deliver highest quality services in Building Infrastructure and Management sector using latest technologies. He has been active in academics and has worked as Adjunct Faculty in RICS School of Built Environment, Noida (India) where he used to teach BIM and Building Services to Post-graduate students in Construction Management & Quantity Surveying.
Prof. Anil Sawhney – Mentor and Advisor
Anil Sawhney is an engineer, technologist and entrepreneur working in the construction sector for over 25 years. He is currently working as Director of The Infrastructure Sector with RICS in Greater Boston Area. He has a rich mix of industry, academic, research, and consulting experience gathered working in India, Canada, USA, Australia and the UK. Based on his research and consulting experience, Anil spun-off Housing Innovation, LLC and BuildFlow, LLC; two companies engaged in providing innovative solutions to the housing industry in Arizona. Dr Sawhney is well published with over 100 publications in refereed technical journals and conferences. Two noteworthy publications in the area of BIM are:
1) Sawhney, A., Khanzode, A., and Tiwari, S. (2017) "Building Information Modelling for Project Managers" RICS, 2017
2) Sawhney, A. (2014) "International BIM implementation guide (1st edition)", RICS, 2014, ISBN 978 1 78321 077 0 available. Anil is Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) of the UK. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 84 |
I went to my town's school board meeting to discuss the situation with our school's teachers being removed based on allegations that teachers provided improper coaching to a small number of students. It was the first time I had ever attended such a meeting and apparently it was unusually crowded. Many people showed up to demonstrate or speak out to support their teachers. The meeting started with tenure and congratulatory announcements to various faculty, including the retirement of our district's wonderful Youth Advocate, Mrs. Low.
When my son first started fourth grade I was not impressed. I'm not easily impressed.
But as the days and weeks passed I realized how creative and dedicated his teacher was. I grew more and more impressed by her ability to engage her class with fun, new ways to learn. She kept introducing different ways to teach her class in incredibly imaginative ways that surpassed anything I've seen before from a teacher. Throughout the year she kept us informed of every day's events.
Eventually I felt like we were her biggest fans. We felt that she loved our son and that we, as parents, had a very special relationship with her.
When she was reassigned we realized that we were not alone. Apparently she had cultivated this relationship with practically her entire class. I heard stories from all over - from her current class and classes prior - about how much she helped children strive, overcome obstacles and thoroughly enjoy learning. As the state tests approached I was amazed when I read how stressed everyone seemed to be. All the media was a buzz about how stressed students, parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, etc. were.
Meanwhile her class seemed to take it all in stride. They seemed prepared and just glad to get a break from homework for the week. She had managed to guide them without inducing the stress that seemed to proliferate everywhere else.
The allegations against her are that she improperly coached a small number of students. It makes me wonder "why would she do such a thing?" If she did - and that's a big if - were her intentions benign, or selfish?
If she made an innocent mistake, born out of a desire to help a child she had been helping for 8 months, is removing such a talented teacher the correct response? Does that best serve the community? What message does it send to the children of Rye?
On the other hand, does anyone really think she coached a child out of some selfish motivation? We all know that state test results have a significant impact on teacher evaluations. They also have a significant impact on school evaluations. They also have a significant impact on district evaluations.
Does anyone think that a teacher would help a student for some personal gain? After all, how much does a teacher have to gain from one child's test results? Not as much as a principal has to gain. Not as much as a district has to gain.
And whose decision was it to have the teachers' proctor their own tests? Who made this decision in spite of all the news of corruption surrounding state tests? Does it really matter that the state does not mandate that teachers don't proctor their own tests? A simple teacher swap could have potentially mitigated this entire fiasco.
But the decision was made to have teachers proctor their tests. And if there was any wrong doing, then whoever made that decision is also culpable, and will eventually have to be investigated.
But I don't believe there was any wrong doing. Certainly nothing worth reassigning such rare, talented teachers.
The state exams have obviously presented a lot of bumps in the road and a lot learning opportunities.
Rather than exacerbate this awful situation and pursue *everyone* who may have been at fault, I hope we can learn from our mistakes and move on in a way that is best for everyone, especially next year's students.
In a few years, when my daughter is old enough, I want her to be in Mrs. Mehler's class.
It was very emotional for me, but not nearly as emotional as what some of the other parent's brought to the meeting. Many parents spoke in depth about the quality of the teacher's in question. Many parents expressed their frustration with the way the situation was communicated to them and their children. Many parents were upset with the manner in which their children were questioned as part of the investigation - parents were misled as to the reason for the questioning and their presence was left optional. Parents talked about how their teacher had helped them overcome a variety of challenges, both academic and personal. Parents talked about how the way the situation was handled left their children in a much worse state, with many left feeling responsible for their teacher being fired. Some people without children in the schools felt compelled to step up to the podium and reprimand the board for their handling of the situation.
Personally I'm not that concerned with the children being questioned, even though I do think there was problems with the way the questioning was handled. I understand that parents and principals question students all the time, and the school was not able to disclose the reason for the questions, and waiting for parents to make themselves available could prevent the school from getting answers as quickly as possible while the tests were still fresh in the children's minds.
All along the superintendent insisted that they adhering to mandated processes and were following best practices. However, when Mrs. Garcia, the principal, questioned the children she did not record the conversations. She only took hand written notes. The only witness she brought with her was a board member who is retiring from the position at the end of this term. So we will never have any evidence of how, exactly the questions were asked, and what exactly were the answers.For instance, did the principal ask "did your teacher help you with the state exams?" Did the children answer "yes" meaning that their teacher had been helping them all year? We'll never know.
The superintendent, Dr. Alvarez, responding to accusations that the children were told for days that their teacher was sick, stated that his understanding is that when the principal came to the classes she read a prepared statement that explained that the teacher had been reassigned. However, all these parent's children claimed that she said their teacher was sick.
The superintendent was under the impression that the classes were provided with a single substitute teacher on the first day their teacher was reassigned who maintained a steady curriculum. However, my son's class had a total of six substitute teachers and it was weeks before anything resembling regular schoolwork resumed.
I hope the board took note of these disparities and strongly consider the accuracy of their information. Unfortunately the principal was not there to address them.
Update: On June 25, 2013 we returned to the school board to advocate for our teachers again and try to reach some conclusion. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 85 |
Q: Change title of the Ant Design table depending on state value I need a bit of help here, In an Ant Design table, I need the title of a table should change depending on the state value. In the given sandbox example the column title surname should change to Second Name where the switch in on, else it should show surname only.
Reference: https://codesandbox.io/s/purple-sun-1rtz1?file=/index.js
Thank you.
A: You can change title based on surNameShow
render() {
const { dataSource, surNameShow } = this.state;
const columns = this.columns;
// check and set title here
// If you want to change the second column you can use index 1, if you want it to be dynamic just loop through columns array update column you desire
if (surNameShow) {
columns[1].title = "Second Name";
} else {
columns[1].title = "Surname";
}
return (
<div>
<p className="mr-3"> Change Surname to Second Name</p>
<Switch onChange={() => this.handleChnage()} />
<Table
bordered
dataSource={dataSource}
columns={columns}
pagination={false}
/>
</div>
);
}
Codesandbox demo
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History of Liverpool Empire
By Shiona Walker
Liverpool Empire has quite a few royal connections. Not only built on the site of The Prince of Wales Theatre & Opera House (royalty's all in the name, right?), it's played host to Queenie, her prince, and is one of only seven locations to proudly present the Royal Variety show. Going along with this plummy theme, you can't actually see the stage from the Royal Boxes - a bizarre twist that makes you really wonder at its architects, who also managed to design the whole thing back in 1925 without factoring in every audience's need for a drinks bar. But for all this, Liverpool Empire is still closely rooted in its community and surroundings, welcoming thousands of locals year on year. And if you don't believe us, believe Merseyside's own Les Dennis, who's quoted at the bottom of this very lovely fun-fact-filled infographic.
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Excire Inc Wins Best Software Plugin!
This year's Lucie Technical Awards involved 140 nominations in 27 different categories ranging from cameras, to drones to lenses, bags, lighting, and software, to name a few. It was an exciting evening made even more special by Excire Inc. receiving the award for best software plugin.
The Lucie Technical Awards honor large and small companies, as well as the individuals who have advanced the photographic industry in a given year. The Lucie Foundation is a not-for-profit, charitable organization with sister organization, The International Photography Awards, both supporting the annual programming of the foundation.
If you haven't checked out Excire Search Pro, why not take it out for your own test drive and find out what all the buzz is about. It's a FREE thirty-day trial followed by a special offer extended from the recent Photokina show at just $99. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 89 |
Australian Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has labelled the behaviour of NBN Co under the former Labor government as detached from the reality of the rollout and having a culture where bad news was buried.
Under the leadership of former NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley and Labor Communications Ministers Conroy and Albanese, the company charged with rolling out the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia created a rigid, hierarchical culture of rules and blame that left it in diabolical shape, Malcolm Turnbull told a Fairfax infrastructure conference on Thursday.
The communications minister said that three weeks after appointing former Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski as executive chairman of NBN Co in 2013, Switkowski said the culture was worse than Telstra, and more akin to that found when Telstra was fully government owned and still called Telecom Australia, or even part of the Postmaster-General's Department.
"Now that is not an exaggeration. How that happened, it's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen in my business career," Turnbull said. "There was a glee club culture there, and of course if you are in the glee club, you can't be a member if you've got bad news.
"This was one of the things that we had to change, and we have changed it now."
Turnbull said it was obvious that NBN Co's projections were overly optimistic and unrealistic, and it was not long before the company was "mugged by reality", citing NBN Co saying prior to the 2013 election that the average cost to connect a premises with fibre was, on average, between AU$2,200 and AU$2,500.
"[It was] completely and utterly untrue, untrue," the minister said. "The real cost ... we've built a lot of this, we've built hundreds and hundreds of thousands of these, so the NBN Co actually knows what it costs to connect premises with fibre -- the real cost is AU$3,600, and that's before you add in another AU$700 for the capitalised cost of the Telstra pits and pipes.
"That's a big delta, a very big delta. How can you get it so wrong? I think a bit part of it was this glee club culture."
In separate comments made to ABC radio on Thursday morning, NBN CEO Bill Morrow confirmed that the company had spent AU$100,000 to drill through 300 metres of rock to connect three houses in Queensland.
"This is what makes part of this complex. Not every home is the same in order to get them connected to a broadband network, and some are going to be very expensive, and others are going to be moderately so," Morrow said.
"This is the vulnerability that we have, that if you take a major adjustment to the plan, it could cost the taxpayers quite a bit of money."
Yesterday, NBN Co announced that it had restructured its contract model to place greater emphasis on contractor performance, and had signed a set of five contracts with Downer, Transfield, Visionstream, Fulton Hogan, and WBHO for deploying the NBN to 4 million premises.
Missing from the list of contractors was Telstra, which said it had decided to remove itself from the tender process based on a "commercial assessment", but Morrow expects the company to gain work in the future.
"We're using them in a variety of different ways, they did participate in the tender process and for the reasons that they choose, they pulled out of it in the end and they are not listed in this round. However, we do expect them to be a part of the build going forward," he said.
"When we looked at the market rates, trying to get the best value for the taxpayers, Telstra felt that that was something that they didn't want to participate any further in, and they pulled out."
Telstra said it is continuing to deliver on the AU$390 million planning and design contract signed with NBN Co late last year to incorporate the use of copper-based technologies in the rollout.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced on Thursday that it had accepted NBN Co's long-term revenue constraint methodology for the 2013-14 financial year.
"The ACCC is satisfied that NBN Co's proposal meets the expenditure criteria set out in the Special Access Undertaking (SAU)," ACCC Commissioner Cristina Cifuentes said in a statement.
Optus said in its submission (PDF) to the ACCC that the current SAU did not take into account the new so-called multi-technology mix of the NBN -- which uses hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC), fibre to the node, and fibre to the basement, as well as the existing fibre to the premises -- and instead, the SAU stated that fibre to the premises would be deployed to 93 percent of Australia households. The company also said that NBN's compliance was less rigorous than that imposed on other telcos, and recommended the ACCC make NBN comply with the Telecommunications Industry Regulatory Accounting Framework. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 90 |
Storytelling is an ancient tradition that has existed for eons; its origins lost in the swirling mists of time but its intricate threads still intrinsically woven into every culture of this world. Were the scenes from the first story verbally described in a homely alcove set deep inside a cave, offering protection from the elements and the frightening unknowns of the night? Were they enthusiastically performed around a glowing fire in a ceremony to appease the ancestral spirits resident in the starry night sky? Were they meticulously depicted on the rough walls of ancient caves? Did the tradition of storytelling develop as a crucial aspect in the passing on of learned knowledge, not only between ancient compatriots but down through the generations as a way of ensuring the survival of age-old traditions and beliefs? Throughout history my family has been meticulous at keeping written records of their life stories, offering their descendants a glimpse into the by-gone eras of the past and allowing a fragment of my ancestors to continue on through the ages. Nowadays relating a story can offer comfort in a difficult situation, entertain through the embellished nature of tall tales and fables, and strengthen an argument or opinion or, in my case, be used as a bargaining chip to convince me the bedtimes of childhood were for my own good.
The mere mention of a journey into the enchanted world of dragons and giants, pirates and pixies would make the long drawn-out episode of coaxing me out of the pool less frustrating for my parents, stories being my favourite part of the daily bedtime ritual. Even though the mystical creatures depicted on the colourful pages of storybooks easily captivated my overactive imagination, my absolute favourite story was not fiction at all but a real-life tale filled with its own brand of enchantment and picked up over the years from overheard conversations, forming out of the mists of speculation. It's hard to pinpoint the very first time that I ever heard this story; I have just always been aware of its existence and because my grandfather was an unassuming man and not one for grandstanding, it wasn't until I asked him directly that he sat down and described to me the events of that summer. It must have left a substantial impression as it is one of the defining moments that ignited my passion for nature and directed me onto the path of my chosen field of study.
Set in the cool waters of Fish Hoek Bay (forming part of the greater False Bay region of Cape Town) during the lazy summer days of 1953 my Grandfather had the unique experience of encountering and interacting with two bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates), aptly although slightly unoriginally, named "Fish" and "Hoek". My interest in the story was recently reaffirmed when a maroon, and slightly dishevelled, attaché case was unceremoniously dumped on my desk with a suggestion from my dad that the contents would help combat the writer's block that has annoyingly been plaguing me. The contents turned out to be a time capsule of family history; documents dating back centuries and describing the life of our Scottish ancestors in some far-flung castle, newspaper articles detailing the rise and remarkable moments of my great-uncle's relationship with the equine star, "Sea Cottage", and a handful of very special photographs that re-energised my cranky old brain, stirring up the beginnings of an exciting idea.
Over the next few days I immersed myself in the carefully folded, yellowing pages of the accompanying articles that were nestled in amongst news items outlining a very detailed program for the Coronation, the placements of warships in our country's ports, a supposedly outrageous price hike demanded by Nepalese porters traipsing Western luggage through the once forbidden territory (1953 being the year that Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary first summited Mount Everest) and next to an alarming advert for Anadin, described as being for "women's 'special' problems"! One article that did grab my attention was titled "Her 'eyes' will roam the decks" and referred to a golden Labrador named Sheena being the first dog allowed to roam the decks of MV Carnarvon Castle in the capacity of a guide dog. She was only the second of her kind in South Africa and provided support to a Mrs Evans who was returning from England after undergoing training with Sheena. This was a key event in the establishment of the first guide-dog training school here in South Africa… what is most astonishing is that this occurred only 63 years ago!
Over the unknown sea they sail with daring heart and they have beheld the unseen deeps and by their arts have mapped out the measures of the sea, men more than human. In tiny barks they wander obsequious to the stormy winds, their minds ever on the surging waves; always they scan the dark clouds and ever tremble at the blackening tract of sea; no shelter have they from the raging winds nor any defence against the rain nor bulwark against summer heat. Moreover, they shudder at the terrors awful to behold of the grim sea, even the Sea-monsters which encounter them when they traverse the secret places of the deep. No hounds guide the fishers on their seaward path – for the tracks of the swimming tribes are unseen – nor do they see where the fish will encounter them and come within range of capture; for not by one path does the fish travel.
The Sea-monsters mighty of limb and huge, the wonders of the sea, heavy with strength invincible, a terror for the eyes to behold and ever armed with deadly rage – many of these there be that roam the spacious seas, where are the unmapped prospects of Poseidon, but few of them come nigh the shore, those only whose weight the beaches can bear and whom the salt water does not fail.
While humans are a terrestrial species, there are some of us that feel an inherent connection to the ocean, are drawn to its energy and are driven to explore its depths. This limitless curiosity enticed my grandfather into the water that summer's day in 1953; the ocean offering up an incredible encounter that very few people have ever had the chance of experiencing. This insatiable thirst for knowledge of underwater exploration was first sparked at the tender age of thirteen when he received a pair of goggles, introducing him to the wonders of the underwater world and leading him to studiously research the exploits of Captain Jacque-Yves Cousteau, Hans Hass, Captain Phillippe Talliez of the French Navy, Bernard Gorsky and Philippe Diole. By the age of twenty-four he was an accomplished diver, putting him in the ideal position to study the two "visitors from the deep".
He describes the appearance of the dolphins at Fish Hoek as "so sudden that before one realised, they were swimming amongst the bathers". While it was not the first time that dolphins had visited the bay, an annual occurrence during the summer months, it was the first time that a pair were seen to break away from the pod and lazily swim in the shallows amongst people. The "slow and gentle" manner in which they moved between the swimmers was one of the many aspects of their behaviour that stood out to him, so much so that he wondered, and later enquired, whether or not they were a previously captive pair. In his neatly sloping script, he describes the high speed acrobatic demonstrations that these two displayed out beyond the backline; "cutting through the water at terrific speeds and leaping clear out of the water as they chased each other about like two young pups let loose in a field".
In his notes my grandfather uses the terms "dolphin" and "porpoise" interchangeably, even seeking clarification from the curator at Marine Studios in Florida. A distinction between these two cetacean groups had yet to be defined in 1953, FG Wood responding with a short note, From Pig Fish to Porpoise, in which he outlines the confusion surrounding the terminology. Wood stated that classification within Delphinidae was a hotly debated topic between the American and European zoologists of that time; Europeans citing the small size, blunt head and spade-shaped teeth as defining features of a porpoise and therefore ejecting them from the family. In an effort to clarify the distinction between the two groups, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2014) currently makes use of the following criteria in concert to define a porpoise; spade-shaped teeth, absence of a beak, triangular dorsal fin, compact and portly body shape and the fact that porpoises tend to be less acrobatic and communicative and more sexually aggressive than dolphins. After much debate, it was confirmed that the two creatures frequenting the shallows at Fish Hoek were a pair of bottlenose dolphins, my grandfather's copious notes, detailing their appearance, assisting in their ultimate identification. In addition he noted that one of the pair, he assumed a male, had "many large scars on its body especially along its sides, the dorsal fin shows evidence of many teeth marks and the trailing edge of its tail has a 'V' shaped piece of flesh missing".
The gentle nature of these fascinating creatures intrigued my grandfather so much so that he "decided to attempt to make contact and observe them more closely". His first encounter with these "visitors from the deep" occurred approximately 100 m offshore after spotting the pod in the middle of the bay one Saturday afternoon. Equipped with a mask, snorkel and flippers he slid into the water off Jager's Walk and made his way out into the bay. With visibility limited to between six and eight metres, he dived down to 8 m and clapped his hands together in order to create pressure waves while simultaneously making noises with his nose. After approximately four minutes he spotted the familiar sight of two dorsal fins intermittently breaking the surface while making, with some urgency, a beeline towards his position. He states that when the fins were approximately 30 m away from him he dived below the surface and waited with "trepidation and excitement in the eerie silence" which surrounded him for his first encounter with the dolphins in their environment. He later describes the moment that he spotted the creatures appearing out of the inky gloom, silently gliding towards him as he gently floated to the surface, as "one of the most moving and memorable experiences" that he had ever had. The pair approached him and at approximately 4 m away they parted and slowly circled him, examining him for several minutes as he lay on the surface. As they slowly advanced towards him they made and held eye contact, giving my grandfather the "incredible sensation that some sort of communication was trying to take place".
A few days after their initial encounter, the dolphins were spotted "lazily swimming amongst a group of bathers in the shallows" and as an experiment my grandfather entered the water approximately 50 m from their location and swam out beyond the surf. He repeated the clapping procedure of the previous encounter and watched as the pair broke away from their game and headed in his direction. He observed that when the dolphins finally reached him, they again circled him although appearing to do so in a more relaxed manner than previously, approaching to within an arm's length. He decided then to reach out and touch one of them. His outstretched fingers made contact with the side of the dolphin, just below its dorsal fin, and to his astonishment the animal stopped moving, quietly lying next to him on the surface while he rubbed his hand along the length of its body. Reflecting on the moment he felt that the dolphin enjoyed the sensation as it rolled over onto its back and allowed him to gently scratch its chest and sides, running his hand over its head, beak and dorsal fin. My grandfather describes the body of the animal as being "very smooth and firm to the touch, it was also beautifully streamlined". He and these two "visitors from the deep" lay in the calm, cool waters off Fish Hoek Beach for at least ten minutes, as he did so becoming aware of a series of high-pitched squeaks and clicks that could be heard once he submerged his head.
I almost missed an exam to take these photographs of bottlenose dolphins off Shark Rock Pier!
Regarding the possibility that they detect objects by means of a sonar mechanism, this is still a moot question. A psychologist at one of our universities has found that certain sounds made by porpoises fulfil the requirements for an echo-ranging system, and my own observations of captive porpoises also suggest that they may use sounds for detecting or even investigating submerged objects, but no one yet has definitely demonstrated that they do.
Over the past sixty years our understanding of cetacean communication has greatly increased, among other discoveries we have found that dolphins do in fact possess excellent eyesight both under and above the water's surface as well as utilising echolocation. Coincidently, Cousteau was one of the first people to investigate and document echolocation resulting in his book, The Silent World, which was first published on 3 February 1953. It is puzzling that this pioneering information was not mentioned in Wood's letter to my grandfather in June of the same year.
My grandfather's encounters continued on for many months, the dolphins becoming so used to his presence that they even allowed him, on several occasions, to hang on to their dorsal fins while they towed him through the water at a brisk pace for distances of up to 10 m. He made a note of keeping well clear of their powerful tails. It was reported in the Cape Argus (28 March 1953) that at one point my grandfather climbed on to the back of the male while in the shallows and dived down with it to the sea floor where it lay quiet still. He then wrapped both arms around its chest but was not quite able to interlock his fingers as its body was too large. The article goes on to describe how the dolphin blows "great bubbles out of its blowhole, shutting its eyes with a sort of ecstasy when tickled". The distinct behaviour of one particular encounter with one of the pair puzzled my grandfather and subsequently intrigued me. One evening after work he spotted the pair in the bay, one swimming in the shallows with people while the other investigated an outcrop of rocks. He swam out to where he had spotted the latter individual and dived below the surface spotting the dolphin approximately 4.5 m down on the sea floor and engaging with what he first thought to be seaweed. As he approached the dolphin he observed it "opening and closing its jaws, exposing its many jagged teeth", immediately stopping him in his tracks. He describes feeling decidedly uncomfortable and preparing to leave when the dolphin slowly turned, gliding towards him, revealing not a piece of seaweed but a large octopus squirming about on the sea floor. After being subjected to close-quarter scrutiny by the dolphin, it suddenly circled back to complete its meal uninterrupted leaving my grandfather feeling uneasy and questioning its behaviour. Was the dolphin warning my grandfather off from a dangerous situation or did the animal view him as competition for his prey?
Once in position I called the dolphins by clapping my hands together while the watertight camera floated next to me. From the surface I could see the dolphins approaching, just before they reached me I dived below the surface and waited camera at the ready as they appeared before me. I took several photographs as they circled and floated beside me in the water. It was difficult to be sure that I had in fact photographed the dolphins as I had no means of using the view finder of the camera effectively under the prevailing circumstances.
After waiting a couple of days for the processing to be completed, he was ecstatic with the results especially when the difficult conditions were taken into account. And so began the correspondence. My grandfather's encounters with "Fish" and "Hoek" were first publicly documented in an article that appeared in the Cape Times (7 March 1953), which was followed closely by an article in Johannesburg edition of the Sunday Times (8 March 1953). Both articles follow a similar thread by outlining key encounters between him and the dolphins. The Sunday Times however includes an interesting comment that the Fish Hoek Town Council would be approaching the Cape Administrator in an attempt to legally provide protection for the dolphins. Although protection was only achieved in South Africa in 1973 under the legislation stipulated in the Sea Fisheries Act; "protect dolphins from killing, capture and harassment" in the then Cape Province, South Africa's regulations to protect cetaceans remain amongst the strictest in the world. In 1991 we became the first country to protect the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), a threatened species still being hunted in numerous countries worldwide. On 28 March 1953 the Cape Argus printed an article, Tickle a Porpoise and it Purrs, the title itself of a scientifically questionable nature. The article was headed by one of my grandfather's underwater photographs but with an alarming twist. Not only did the newspaper print the photograph upside down but, using a pencil, the dolphin's eye was redefined to better suit the new orientation while its beak was split in two to form an open mouth! It has to be considered that this was probably the first photograph most people in South Africa had seen of a dolphin, never mind one underwater.
On 27 May 1953 my grandfather received a response from Die Afrikaanse Kinderensiklopedie stating that while they were fascinated with the unique photograph sent to them of the dolphin, they expressed regret at not being able to include it in their encyclopaedia as it would not have "reproduced good enough" for publication. A similar response was received three years later from the Assistant Editor, PB Brown, of Popular Photography Magazine based in London. While they also regretted not being able to print the photograph, they described it as "most unusual" and "a class apart from the usual type of readers' picture" while also congratulating my grandfather on his "enterprise in waterproofing" his camera and "attempting such a subject".
Four years after his encounters with "Fish" and "Hoek" my grandfather received an Aerogramme from Antony Alpers; a biographer, journalist and mythologist from Christchurch in New Zealand. Alpers was completing a book about dolphins, the writing of which was prompted by the episode of a friendly dolphin that frequented the Hokianga Harbour the previous year. During his research for the project, Alpers was in contact with Marine Studios and in particular the curator, Wood, who sent Alpers a copy of my grandfather's 1953 letter detailing his encounters. In his book Alpers lays claim to the fact that the episode in Hokianga Harbour was the first well known incident since Pliny in the 2nd century that a wild dolphin interacted with people in such a relaxed nature. Due to the fact that my grandfather's encounters did not receive worldwide coverage, Alpers could let this statement stand and merely mention "Fish" and "Hoek" in his book's forward. Either way, this story remains very special to me; reading his words and studying his photographs has instilled in me once again the importance of our oceans and further strengthened my intense fascination with their wonders.
After the photographic encounter with the dolphins, I spent many happy hours swimming together with my friends in the sheltered waters of our bay, by now the pair were popularly named "Fish" and "Hoek". As our holiday season drew to a close with fewer bathers frequenting the beach, so did the appearance of the dolphins become less frequent eventually our dolphin friends disappeared, never to appear again at our beach at Fish Hoek in False Bay. Although a close lookout for these dolphins was maintained over the years no reports were ever made of any further incidents of this nature occurring.
It is therefore easy to believe that nights spent sleeping over at my grandparents' were marked by a deep sleep filled with vivid dreams; a vibrant mix of mystic beings and genuine creatures, the distinguishing line between fact and fiction becoming a fuzzy blur.
The Dolphins both rejoice in the echoing shores and dwell in the deep seas, and there is no sea without Dolphins; for Poseidon loves them exceedingly… (Oppian).
Thank you to Brian Solwandle, from the Cape Argus archives in Cape Town, who introduced me to microfilm and helped me track down the original article.
ALPERS A. 1960. A Book of Dolphins. John Murray: London.
SIVEWRIGHT DJ. 1996. Close Encounter with Dolphins in Fish Hoek Bay – 1953.
Absolutely wonderful Sally, gave me goosebumps! You can be proud of your Grandfather.
Fantastic Sally! – I've been waiting a long time for this to be recorded – I love how you've woven it into a story – I can "hear" my Dad narrating the bits you've included – great work! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 91 |
This report describes the evolution of China's domestic climate-change policy over the period 1988-2011, using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to explore the policy change. Policy development has been gradual, with the most notable change occurring in 2007, when the National Climate Change Programme elevated climate change to a national policy issue. Within the climate-change policy subsystem there emerged an advocacy coalition - the Climate Change Advocacy Coalition - urging that climate change should be taken into consideration in relevant policies. The ACF points to socioeconomic development and the Climate Change Advocacy Coalition's policy-oriented learning as explanations for the development of climate-change policy in China. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 92 |
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
namespace TreeCollections
{
// ReSharper disable once UnusedTypeParameter
public abstract partial class MutableEntityTreeNode<TNode, TId, TItem>
{
private void SetErrorsAfterAddingThis()
{
SetSiblingErrors();
if (CheckOptions.HasFlag(ErrorCheckOptions.CyclicIdDuplicates))
{
SetCyclicIdErrors();
}
if (IdentityTrackingIsTreeScope)
{
SetTreeScopeIdErrors();
}
}
private void SetErrorsAfterMovingThis()
{
SetSiblingErrors();
if (CheckOptions.HasFlag(ErrorCheckOptions.CyclicIdDuplicates))
{
SetCyclicIdErrorsForEach();
}
if (IdentityTrackingIsTreeScope)
{
SetTreeScopeIdErrorsForEach();
}
}
private void SetSiblingErrors()
{
TNode[] siblings = null;
if (CheckOptions.HasFlag(ErrorCheckOptions.SiblingIdDuplicates))
{
siblings = SelectSiblings().ToArray();
var existingIdMatch = siblings.FirstOrDefault(HasSameIdentityAs);
if (existingIdMatch != null)
{
Error |= IdentityError.SiblingIdDuplicate;
existingIdMatch.Error |= IdentityError.SiblingIdDuplicate;
}
}
if (!CheckOptions.HasFlag(ErrorCheckOptions.SiblingAliasDuplicates)) return;
siblings = siblings ?? SelectSiblings().ToArray();
var existingAliasMatch = siblings.FirstOrDefault(HasSameAliasAs);
if (existingAliasMatch != null)
{
Error |= IdentityError.SiblingAliasDuplicate;
existingAliasMatch.Error |= IdentityError.SiblingAliasDuplicate;
}
}
private void SetCyclicIdErrorsForEach()
{
this.ForEach(n => n.SetCyclicIdErrors());
}
private void SetCyclicIdErrors()
{
var existingMatch =
SelectAncestorsUpward()
.FirstOrDefault(HasSameIdentityAs);
if (existingMatch == null) return;
Error |= IdentityError.CyclicIdDuplicate;
existingMatch.Error |= IdentityError.CyclicIdDuplicate;
}
private void SetTreeScopeIdErrorsForEach()
{
// TODO: could optimize
this.ForEach(n => n.SetTreeScopeIdErrors());
}
private void SetTreeScopeIdErrors()
{
if (!TreeIdMap.Contains(Id))
{
TreeIdMap.Add(Id);
return;
}
var duplicates = Root.Where(n => n.HasEquivalentId(Id));
duplicates.ForEach(dup => dup.Error |= IdentityError.TreeScopeIdDuplicate);
}
private void UpdateErrorsBeforeDetachingThis()
{
if (CheckOptions.HasFlag(ErrorCheckOptions.CyclicIdDuplicates))
{
UpdateCyclicIdErrorsBeforeDetachingThis();
}
if (CheckOptions.HasFlag(ErrorCheckOptions.SiblingAliasDuplicates) &&
Error.HasFlag(IdentityError.SiblingAliasDuplicate))
{
UpdateSiblingAliasErrorsBeforeDetachingThis();
}
if (CheckOptions.HasFlag(ErrorCheckOptions.SiblingIdDuplicates) &&
Error.HasFlag(IdentityError.SiblingIdDuplicate))
{
UpdateSiblingIdErrorsBeforeDetachingThis();
}
if (IdentityTrackingIsTreeScope)
{
UpdateTreeScopeIdErrorsBeforeDetachingThis();
}
}
private void UpdateCyclicIdErrorsBeforeDetachingThis()
{
var nodesWithCycles = SelectDescendants().Where(n => n.Error.HasFlag(IdentityError.CyclicIdDuplicate));
foreach (var node in nodesWithCycles)
{
var path = node.SelectPathUpward().ToArray();
// TODO: could optimize
var duplicatesAboveThis = path.Where(n => n.Level < Level && node.HasSameIdentityAs(n)).ToArray();
var containedDuplicates = path.Where(n => n.Level >= Level && node.HasSameIdentityAs(n)).ToArray();
if (duplicatesAboveThis.Length == 1)
{
duplicatesAboveThis[0].Error &= ~IdentityError.CyclicIdDuplicate;
}
if (containedDuplicates.Length == 1)
{
node.Error &= ~IdentityError.CyclicIdDuplicate;
}
}
}
private void UpdateSiblingIdErrorsBeforeDetachingThis()
{
Error &= ~IdentityError.SiblingIdDuplicate;
var siblingDuplicates = SelectSiblings().Where(HasSameIdentityAs).ToArray();
if (siblingDuplicates.Length == 1)
{
siblingDuplicates[0].Error &= ~IdentityError.SiblingIdDuplicate;
}
}
private void UpdateSiblingAliasErrorsBeforeDetachingThis()
{
Error &= ~IdentityError.SiblingAliasDuplicate;
var siblingDuplicates = SelectSiblings().Where(HasSameAliasAs).ToArray();
if (siblingDuplicates.Length == 1)
{
siblingDuplicates[0].Error &= ~IdentityError.SiblingAliasDuplicate;
}
}
private void UpdateTreeScopeIdErrorsBeforeDetachingThis()
{
var treeIdGroups = Root.ToLookup(n => n.Id);
foreach (var grp in treeIdGroups)
{
var id = grp.Key;
var enumerated = grp.ToArray();
var insiders = enumerated.Where(n => n.Equals(This) || n.IsDescendantOf(This)).ToArray();
if (insiders.Length == 0) continue;
if (enumerated.Length == insiders.Length)
{
TreeIdMap.Remove(id);
continue;
}
var outsiders = enumerated.Except(insiders).ToArray();
if (outsiders.Length == 1)
{
outsiders[0].Error &= ~IdentityError.TreeScopeIdDuplicate;
}
if (insiders.Length == 1)
{
insiders[0].Error &= ~IdentityError.TreeScopeIdDuplicate;
}
}
TreeIdMap = new HashSet<TId>(Definition.IdEqualityComparer);
this.Select(n => n.Id).ForEach(id => TreeIdMap.Add(id));
}
}
}
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Cytochrome c6
Structural and kinetic studies of imidazole binding to two members of the cytochrome c6 family reveal an important role for a conserved heme pocket residue
Badri S. Rajagopal, Michael T. Wilson, Derek S. Bendall, Christopher J. Howe and Jonathan A.R. Worrall[1]
is a member of the class I family of c-type cytochromes with a distinctive and a . They function in the photosynthetic electron transport chain of cyanobacteria where they shuttle an electron from the cytochrome b6f complex to photosystem I. Structures of numerous cytochrome c6 proteins have been determined and all have the . In the present work we have solved the structure of the Q51V site-directed variant of Phormidium laminosum cytochrome c6. This project is part of a study that is aimed at gaining insight into protein factors which modulate the heme mid-point redox potential in the cytochrome c6 family. The Q51V variant has been shown to tune over 100 mV of heme redox potential, which for a single heme pocket mutation is very significant and has consequences for function.
The Q51V structure confirms that the has the same side-chain orientation in the heme pocket as found in other cytochrome c6 proteins, that naturally have a Val at this position. The significance of this structure is that the and an . Two other structures of imidazole cyt c-adducts have been reported, but neither appear to undergo the . Both protein and heme structural changes are observed, with the later centered on a accompanied by the and the .
Protein (un)folding studies on cytochrome c have revealed that (un)folding involves structural units called 'foldons'. The regions in the Q51V imidazole-adduct where structural changes occur map well to the two foldons predicted to unfold first in cytochrome c. Thus , leading to the formation of an early unfolding intermediate that is stabilised by , enabling it to be captured in the crystalline form.
↑ Rajagopal BS, Wilson MT, Bendall DS, Howe CJ, Worrall JA. Structural and kinetic studies of imidazole binding to two members of the cytochrome c (6) family reveal an important role for a conserved heme pocket residue. J Biol Inorg Chem. 2011 Jan 26. PMID:21267610 doi:10.1007/s00775-011-0758-y | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 94 |
Aric Chen steps down from founding Lead Curator role at M+
By Jonathan Hilburg (@jhilburg) • August 28, 2018
Aric Chen is stepping down from M+, a Hong Kong institution he helped found. (Courtesy West Kowloon Cultural District)
Architecture curator and former AN columnist Aric Chen has stepped down from his role as the lead curator for design and Architecture at M+ in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District and has taken on the title of curator-at-large at the museum. In addition to M+, Chen will be focusing on other curatorial projects as well as teaching, including guest curating the 2018 Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum, from his new base in Shanghai.
M+, first proposed in 2007 but currently without a permanent home, is focused mainly on the visual culture of Asia, in a global context, throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The museum's collection includes a wide variety of pieces including paintings, architectural models, furniture, digital art, performance art, and more.
Updated rendering of the new M+ building. (Courtesy Herzog & de Meuron)
Following an international design competition in 2013, Herzog & de Meuron were chosen to design M+'s permanent home in West Kowloon. The 700,000-square-foot waterfront museum will resemble a ceramic-and-glass-clad, upside down "T" once complete and will hold over 180,000 square feet of exhibition space, performance spaces, cafes, offices, three theaters, and a rooftop terrace. Construction has been fraught with delays, and there have been fears of cost overruns as the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority fired its main contractor earlier this month. While construction has been put on pause for six weeks as the authority searches for a replacement, the managing body has maintained that the museum will still open in 2020 as previously promised.
Chen, who had served as M+'s lead curator since 2012, oversaw the formation of the museum's design and architecture department and its acquisitions. He also led the establishment of the department's programming and curatorial team.
Chen also served as the first creative director for Beijing Design Week from 2010 to 2012. His online exhibition NEONSIGNS.HK, an interactive catalog of Hong Kong's vibrant neon sign ecosystem, won Chen praise when it was released in 2013, and it won a Webby. Chen's most recent book, Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Furniture, is available now.
Jonathan Hilburg (@jhilburg)
Web Editor, The Architect's Newspaper
Aric Chen China Herzog & de Meuron Hong Kong M+
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Julie Smith-Clementi and Frank Clementi launch independent design firm Smith-Clementi | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 95 |
During the Spring Racing Carnival we will get to witness some of the finest horses, as well as our highly talented jockeys and trainers at metropolitan and country tracks around Victoria. We've complied a list of established stars on and off the track for you to keep an eye out for this Spring Racing Carnival.
A popular eight-year-old who rolled back the years with some superb performances during the autumn months.
Humidor ran Winx mightily close in last year's Ladbrokes Cox Plate, and will be aiming to go one better in the 2018 renewal of Australasia's weight-for-age championship.
Kings Will Dream looks to be one of the most upwardly mobile horses in Darren Weir's stable, which is saying something.
Trainer Mick Price has very high hopes for this Kiwi import, who races in the colours of Rupert Legh.
The darling of Australian racing is bidding to achieve what no other horse has managed in the history of the W.S. Cox Plate – to win Australasia's weight-for-age championship 4 times.
The son of Lonhro made an impressive reappearance in the Group 2 Missile Stakes, hitting the line hard to finish a head behind Pierata, having been held up in the run-in.
The precocious colt delivered a first Group 1 success for his regular partner Jordan Childs, son of legendary jockey Greg, when running away with this year's Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Stakes.
The man affectionately known as 'Willo' secured his sixth Victorian metro jockeys' championship with a trademark late season surge.
With some headline rides for both the Darren Weir & Godolphin stables over the carnival, it would surprise nobody if this young star of the jockey ranks were to add to his tally of 11 G1s.
Mark's calm and considered riding style has earned him the respect of several leading trainers, most notably Darren Weir, who will entrust him with many of his stable stars this spring.
One of the hardest-working jockeys in the weighing room, Linda Meech traversed the length and breadth of the state to rack up 124 wins last season.
He seems to get better with age, consistently producing a series of masterful rides to remind the world of his talents two decades after he first joined the competitive jockey ranks.
The Godolphin stable has hit a rich vein of form in the build-up to the Spring Racing Carnival, and head trainer James Cummings will be very keen to maintain that momentum over the next 3 months.
Chris Waller again topped the list of Group 1-winning trainers last season, thanks in no small part to his stable star Winx.
Mick Price enjoyed one of the most successful seasons of his career in 2017/18, and the trainer looks well placed to continue that run with a strong team of emerging stars in his Caulfield stable.
Another record-breaking season saw Berriwillock's most famous son retain the title of Victoria's leading trainer.
The first lady of Australian racing and her co-trainer Adrian Bott were the dominant force during last year's Melbourne Cup Carnival, taking out 4 races including the Group 1 VRC Oaks with filly Pinot.
It was another hugely successful season for the powerful Lindsay Park stable in 2017/18, highlighted by victory for Boom Time in the Caulfield Cup. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 96 |
God and the Quest for Authenticity in Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant
Doctoral Dissertation
Though personal authenticity is an organizing ideal of late-modern Western societies, it also is a site of some of our most contentious disagreements, lacks coherence in many of its formulations, is not fully understood in all of its implications, and is often unidentified in its function as a marker of social distinction. There is a need for conceptual clarification and deeper historical understanding of the ideal of authenticity. Scholarship on authenticity has argued that it was birthed by nineteenth-century Romanticism and popularized in the counter-culture movements of the 1960's. On this understanding, authenticity is distinct from previous moral ideals, especially rationalist ones, exemplified by Immanuel Kant's notion of autonomy. But pre-romantic moral rationalism was itself motivated by an ideal of authenticity. Authenticity is not a deviation from the ideal of rational autonomy. On the contrary, rational autonomy is one of a long series of attempts to generate philosophical and religious programs which meet the requirements of authenticity understood as a norm of validity applicable across diverse but analogous domains, such as aesthetics, metaphysics, semantics, and ethics.
This study analyzes the concept of authenticity as it appears in the writings of Kant and his contemporary, Moses Mendelssohn. Their writings reveal the religious shape of the ideal of authenticity in two religious traditions and illustrate how authenticity as a moral ideal is best understood as an attempt to overcome religious and philosophical idols. Both Mendelssohn and Kant rely on the Pauline distinction between the spirit and the letter as a shorthand for the distinction between the authentic and the idolatrous. Both retain a place for 'the letter,' which mitigates the rigorous demands of authenticity, but they configure the relationship between spirit and letter differently, in ways that track with broader commitments about the relationship between signs and meanings, body and soul, and historical and natural religion. The study concludes by observing how authenticity can be used as a tool for social exclusion and intolerance, while pointing toward the possibility of constructing more inclusive conceptions of authenticity by retrieving the best insights of the past from authors such as Mendelssohn and Kant.
James W. Haring
Gerald P. McKenny, Research Director
Cyril O'Regan, Committee Member
Neil Arner, Committee Member
Jean Porter, Committee Member
Tzvi Novick, Committee Member
PHD-THEO
authenticity, Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, the spirit-letter antithesis, idolatry, Critique of Pure Reason, Jerusalem
University of Notre DameCollege of Arts and LettersTheology
HaringJW122020D.pdf 2.58 MB application/pdf Public | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 97 |
Our April Mission is to support the healthcare center in Ahuas, Honduras. The hospital was founded in 1946 and survives because of financial support and volunteers from the United States. Rick Nelson is the administrator of the clinic. He grew up in Sturgeon Bay and was the former director of Door County Habitat for Humanity. Please consider donating to this worthwhile cause. For more information including photos "Click Here". | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 98 |
Monday - "Put a CAP on Drugs" Day - Students and staff wear hats to school.
Tuesday - Be On a "Drug-Free Team" Day - Students and staff wear favorite team attire to school.
Wednesday - "You're Too Bright for Drugs" Day - Students and staff wear neon clothes to school.
Thursday - "Sock-it to Drugs" Day - Students and staff wear wacky socks to school.
Friday - "Wear ALL Red" Day - Students and staff wear all red to school. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 99 |