On February 21, 2006, MEMRITV released a clip featuring an interview with Arab-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan on Al-Jazeera TV. During the interview, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli accused Sultan of being a "heretic" for attacking current aspects of Islamic society.
THE CLIP HAS NOW BEEN VIEWED OVER ONE MILLION TIMES ON MEMRITV.ORG.
The following are excerpts from an interview with Wafa Sultan that aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 21, 2006. It is followed by excerpts from a debate in which she participated, in a talk show that aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 26, 2005.
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Wafa Sultan: "The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete."
Host: "I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?"
Wafa Sultan: "Yes, that is what I mean."
Host: "Who came up with the concept of a clash of civilizations? Was it not Samuel Huntington? It was not bin Laden. I would like to discuss this issue, if you don't mind..."
Wafa Sultan: "The Muslims are the ones who began using this expression. The Muslims are the ones who began the clash of civilizations. The Prophet of Islam said: 'I was ordered to fight the people until they believe in Allah and His Messenger.' When the Muslims divided the people into Muslims and non-Muslims, and called to fight the others until they believe in what they themselves believe, they started this clash, and began this war. In order to stop this war, they must reexamine their Islamic books and curricula, which are full of calls for takfir and fighting the infidels.
"My colleague has said that he never offends other people's beliefs. What civilization on the face of this earth allows him to call other people by names that they did not choose for themselves? Once, he calls them Ahl Al-Dhimma; another time he calls them the 'People of the Book'; and yet another time he compares them to apes and pigs, or he calls the Christians 'those who incur Allah's wrath.' Who told you that they are 'People of the Book?' They are not the People of the Book, they are people of many books. All the useful scientific books that you have today are theirs, the fruit of their free and creative thinking. What gives you the right to call them 'those who incur Allah's wrath,' or 'those who have gone astray,' and then come here and say that your religion commands you to refrain from offending the beliefs of others?"
"I am not a Christian, a Muslim, or a Jew. I am a secular human being. I do not believe in the supernatural, but I respect others' right to believe in it."
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: "Are you a heretic?"
Wafa Sultan: "You can say whatever you like. I am a secular human being who does not believe in the supernatural..."
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Khouli: "If you are a heretic, there is no point in rebuking you, since you have blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran..."
Wafa Sultan: "These are personal matters that do not concern you."
"Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs."
"The Jews have come from the tragedy [of the Holocaust], and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. Fifteen million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them."
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Wafa Sultan: "Why does a young Muslim man, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up? How and why does he blow himself up in a bus full of innocent passengers?
"In our countries, religion is the sole source of education, and is the only spring from which that terrorist drank until his thirst was quenched. He was not born a terrorist, and did not become a terrorist overnight. Islamic teachings played a role in weaving his ideological fabric, thread by thread, and did not allow other sources - I am referring to scientific sources - to play a role. It was these teachings that distorted this terrorist and killed his humanity. It was not [the terrorist] who distorted the religious teachings and misunderstood them, as some ignorant people claim.
"When you recite to a child still in his early years the verse 'They will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off,' - regardless of this verse's interpretation, and regardless of the reasons it was conveyed or its time - you have made the first step towards creating a great terrorist..."
Bin Muhammad: "The guest from America asked how a young man could blow up a bus. If only she had asked how a president could blow up a peaceful nation in Iraq. How does a president help the arch-killer of occupied Palestine? Why doesn't she ask where Hitler was brought up - Hitler, who murdered 50 million innocent people? Why doesn't she ask where the people who dropped two atom bombs on Japan were educated? Who killed three million innocent Vietnamese? Who annihilated the Indians? Who has maintained imperialism to this day? Who waged the Spanish civil war, which exacted a toll of 600,000 in 36 months? Why don't we ask these questions? Who has over 15,000 nuclear warheads - Muslims or the non-Muslims? The Muslims or the Americans? The Muslims or the Europeans? We want an answer. Where was Bush educated - if education is really what makes a person a criminal?..."
Wafa Sultan: "Murder is terrorism regardless of time or place, but when it is committed as a decree from Allah, this is another matter..."
"The Crusader wars about which the professor is talking - these wars came after the Islamic religious teachings, and as a response to these teachings. This is the law of action and reaction. The Islamic religious teachings have incited to the rejection of the other, to the denial of the other, and to the killing of the other. Have they not incited to the killing of Jews and Christians? If we had heard that a tribe in a distant corner of China has a holy book and religious teachings calling to kill Muslims - would the Muslims stand idly by in the face of such teachings?
"Why doesn't he talk about the Muslim conquests that preceded all the wars he is talking about? Why doesn't he mention that when Tariq bin Ziyyad entered Andalusia with his armies, he said to his people: 'The sea is behind you, and the enemy is in front?' How can you storm a peaceful country, and consider all its peaceful inhabitants to be your enemies, merely because you have the right to spread your religion? Should the religion be spread by the sword and through fighting?..."
Bin Muhammad: "Who invented slavery in recent centuries? Who colonized the other - us or them? Did Algeria colonize France, or vice versa? Did Egypt colonize England, or vice versa? We are the victims..."
"I am not saying that killing innocent people is nice. I say that all innocent people should be protected. But at the same time, we must start with the innocent among the Muslims. There are millions of innocent people among us, while the innocent among you - and innocent they are - number only dozens, hundreds, or thousands, at the most..."
Wafa Sultan: "Can you explain to me the killing of 100,000 children, women, and men in Algeria, using the most abominable killing methods? Can you explain to me the killing of 15,000 Syrian civilians? Can you explain to me the abominable crime in the military artillery school in Aleppo? Can you explain the crime in Al-Asbaqiya neighborhood of Damascus, Syria? Can you explain the attack of the terrorists on the peaceful village of Al-Kisheh in Upper Egypt, and the massacre of 21 Coptic peasants? Can you explain to me what is going on in Indonesia, Turkey, and Egypt, even though these are Islamic countries which opposed the American intervention in Iraq, and which don't have armies in Iraq, yet were not spared by the terrorists? Can you explain these phenomena, which took place in Arab countries? Was all this revenge on America or Israel? Or were they merely to satisfy bestial wild instincts aroused in them by religious teachings, which incite to rejection of the other, to the killing of the other, and to the denial of the other. When Saddam Hussein buried 300,000 Shi'ites and Kurds alive, we did not hear a single Muslim protesting. Your silence served to acknowledge the legitimacy of these killings, didn't it?..."
"What do you want from me? To speak evil of American society? I've never said that America is the eternal city of Plato, but I did say it was the eternal city of Wafa Sultan. The idealism of American society was enough to allow me to realize my humanity. I came to this country with fear."
Bin Muhammad: "Along with the Indians? Along with the Indians? What was left of the Indians? What do you have to say about the Indians?"
Wafa Sultan: "Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. America was founded in 1776, approximately 300 years later. You cannot blame America - as a constitution, a regime, and a state - for killing the Indians."


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Q: How to make ranges in a big dataframe? I want to go through a folder and want to check to which timezone each file in the folder belong to. To that I have a csv file
ip1         ip2           timezone
0           16777215          0
16777216    16777471       +10:00
16777472    16778239       +08:00
16778240    16779263       +11:00
16779264    16781311       +08:00
16781312    16785407       +09:00
...

When the particular ip_number is between ip1 and ip2, the correlated timezone is in the third column.
df = pd.read_csv('IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB11.csv', parse_dates=True)

path="Testordner"
os.chdir(path)
result = [i for i in glob.glob('*.{}'.format("csv"))]
os.chdir("..")
for i in result:
    df2 = pd.read_csv("twiceaweek/"+i, parse_dates=True)
    w1,x1,y1,z1=i.split('.')
    w=int(w1)
    x=int(x1)
    y=int(y1)
    ip_number= 16777216*w + 65536*x + 256*y+1

I have no idea how to range the numbers between ip1 and ip2 and how to merge the ip_number of each file to them and get my timezone. Do you have any ideas?

A: You want qcut:
thresholds = list(df['ip1']) + [df['ip2'].iloc[-1]]

# test:
ips = df[['ip1', 'ip2']].mean(axis=1).astype(int)

# bucketing
buckets = pd.cut(ips, thresholds,
                 right=True,
                 include_lowest=True,
                 labels=False)

# get the labels:
df['timezone'].values[buckets]

Output:
array(['0', '+10:00', '+08:00', '+11:00', '+08:00', '+09:00'],
  dtype=object)

A: You can use merge_asof. It allows to find the last index less than the search value, which is what you need. So to find the timezone when you have found the ip number, use:
tmp = pd.merge_asof(pd.DataFrame([ip_number], columns=['ip']), df, left_on=['ip'],
      right_on=['ip1'])
tmp = tmp[tmp.ip2>ip_number]
if len(tmp) > 0:
    tz = tmp.at[0, 'timezone']
else:
    tz = ''       # not found

Alternatively, you can use searchsorted:
ix = df['ip2'].searchsorted([ip_number], 'right')[0]
if ix == len(df) or df.at[ix, 'ip1']>ip_number:
    tz = ''        # not found:
else:
    tz = df.at[ix, 'timezone']

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An Open Question
joelklepper Policy/Law/Regulation, Reform February 16, 2011 February 15, 2011 3 Minutes
JIM HUFFORD
When Jonathan Cohn looks at the legal challenges to the ACA, he doesn't see judicial restraint:
What bothers me (well, one of the things that bothers me) is that so many critics of the Affordable Care Act act as if it is the individual mandate itself, not their interpretation of the constitution, that represents a radical break with the past. I just don't see that and neither, apparently, do a lot of other people who follow the law more closely than I do.
This bothers me, too. But I'm also bothered that so many ACA supporters cannot see its critics' legal arguments as anything other than "a radical break with the past." Virtually no one is willing to admit that the other side's position is reasonable. Which is fine. Law, like war, is politics by other means, and all that. It's just that, in this case, there are reasonable legal arguments on both sides, and I don't think any of them are a radical assault on the Constitution. (Cohn at least admits it's possible to make an "honest" argument that the ACA is unconstitutional.)
Striking down the individual mandate will certainly have a radical effect on healthcare reform. But the effect on constitutional law will be modest. It will not sweep away the post-New Deal paradigm of constitutional jurisprudence or "unravel the fabric of modern American government." It will be a rather small tweak of Commerce Clause doctrine which will affect precisely one statute in the entire U.S. Code and will do so in a way that would be laughably easy to avoid in future legislation by acting explicitly under the taxing power. (Political control of Congress is another matter.)
And on the other hand, if the mandate is upheld under the Commerce Clause and/or Necessary and Proper Clause, the Court will strengthen and clarify a doctrine that is, yes, radically different than that which held sway 100 years ago, but only minutely different from what we've had for the last 70 years or so. We will be protected from the dread broccoli mandate just as we are today: by the political process. Nothing in the Constitution prevents Congress from enacting a tax scheme consisting of massive transfers of wealth to broccoli consumers at the expense of those who are "inactive" in the broccoli market.
It's in the meta-narratives that the debate gets so distorted. But I can and do see why people think the individual mandate is a radical break with history. Because it's different! That is, understood as an exercise of the power to regulate commerce—rather than the power to tax—the mandate is quite unlike anything else the federal government does. It's a lot like stuff you'd expect to figure into your taxes and a little bit like draft registration or maybe militia readiness in 1792 or whatever. But constitutional law is highly compartmentalized, and none of those comparisons carries over to the Commerce Clause context. In that context, the federal government has never before imposed affirmative obligations upon people not already engaged in the regulated market or related activity in some way. (It is not a given that, because everyone needs healthcare, they will thereby enter or affect the relevant market in the relevant sense.) More plainly, Congress has never before used its commerce power to make just about everybody do something. Quibble if you want, but my point is not that the mandate is unconstitutional because it's different, but only that the mandate is in fact different.
Whether or not the individual mandate is a valid exercise of the power to regulate interstate commerce is, in the end, an open question.
Jim Hufford is a lawyer living in the San Francisco Bay area.
Jonathan Cohn
PPACA
Published February 16, 2011 February 15, 2011
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Background: There has been an increased trend towards the legalisation of medicinal and recreational cannabis use worldwide. This has been controversial as the long-term effects of frequent cannabis use on the brain are still poorly understood. Methods: In this study, we investigated whether the legal stat of cannabis in the United States of America (USA) is associated with problematic cannabis use and impulsivity in 329 frequent cannabis users. The data were collected in 2015 and were analysed in 2017. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from Monash University in 2015. Results: The results indicated that participants' problematic cannabis use and impulsivity was not different whether they resided in states where cannabis is legal for medical and/or recreational use or prohibited. Limitations: The present study is a cross-sectional design, making it difficult to infer causality and establish whether cannabis use is a cause, consequence, or correlate of altered impulsivity. Conclusion: Our study supports the notion that frequent cannabis use is associated with impulsive behaviours, whilst, conversely, we did not find an association between US state legalisation and problematic cannabis use or impulsivity.


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Release Date: December 1st, 2020
MPAA Rating: Parental Guidance Suggested
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook
Review Date December 11th, 2020 by Matthew Hartman
One of the greatest martial arts films of all time, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon earns another release on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Sony in a new SteelBook set. These are the same 4K UHD and standard Blu-ray discs as previously released, but now with new disc art and the elegant SteelBook case. If you didn't already own these discs or are a SteelBook hunter, this is a classy release that'll look great on the shelf. Highly Recommended
Two-Disc UHD Combo Pack
UHD-100 Triple-Layer Disc / BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc
Mandarin: Dolby Atmos
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1, Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1, Russian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, English SDH, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Traditional), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish
• Audio Commentaries
• Retrospective Documentary
• Featurettes
• Music Videos
• Trailer
Movie Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
From our original 2016 4K UHD Blu-ray review:
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a lyrical blend of myth, romance, generational strife, melodrama, and fabulous displays of martial arts prowess. The movie was deliberately designed as a fusion of Eastern and Western storytelling traditions, both literary and cinematic. Its themes of repressed emotions and unrequited love are taken straight from the Jane Austen playbook. The director often describes it as, "Sense and Sensibility with kung-fu." The secret to its success is the skillful balance it strikes between such disparate parts. It is neither a straight action movie nor a straight art film. By blending these genres together, the film rises above them and pushes forth into something newer and better. This is a tremendously entertaining and stimulating movie, invigorated with the power and potential of cinema."
When I first upgraded my setup to 4K UHD Blu-ray, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was one of the first discs I bought. I had recently purchased Sony's "Mastered In 4K" series disc, so I wasn't craving another purchase, but I had to see what this movie could offer with HDR - and I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. This film hit theaters the last year I worked my local movie theater and I devoured it through endless viewings during breaks or before/after my shifts.
I already had a nice love for kung-fu/wuxia movies thanks to a well-stocked local mom and pop shop - Jet Li was a favorite and I cherished my tapes of Once Upon A Time in China - but this one floored me. The action was intense and the characters were fully realized in a way I hadn't really felt in a companion film before. I was also amazed at the number of people that would crowd into each screening with near sell-out showings almost every day. Back then we had actual genuine film prints to work with and we had to stretch the two we had between four screens. I was amazed that many people would sit down for a movie with subtitles. We'd get the odd complaint from some folks about having to "read" the movie, but those were relatively few and far between.
To this day, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a favorite. Once Tan Dun and Yo-Yo Ma's music starts, it's impossible for me to stop watching this movie. Every frame is a painting beautifully rendered on film. Every character is rich and with purpose and never wasted. Ang Lee was and remains an amazing filmmaker. While he may be more interested at the moment of pushing the boundaries of video cinema, he still crafts impressively intricate stories. I look forward to the day he's able to master his love for new technology and his knack for human storytelling. Until then, I'll be watching this one a few more times.
Vital Disc Stats: The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon takes another stab at 4K UHD Blu-ray with a new deluxe SteelBook release from Sony. Including the same 4K UHD disc and 1080p Blu-ray, the only new offering for this set is the SteelBook artwork. Everything is exactly the same - when I tested this disc it immediately triggered the time stamp on my player asking if I wanted to continue from where I left off previously. The included digital code is Movies Anywhere compatible and unlocks the full 4K streaming version.
"The classic wuxia drama lands gracefully on Ultra HD Blu-ray, soaring through the skies with poise and elegance thanks to a strong HEVC H.265 encode in HDR10. Unfortunately, the results don't quite deliver the mortal blow to its Blu-ray counterpart as fans and early adopters would have preferred. But, on the flip side, the presentation, created from a brand-new 4K remaster of the original elements, offers some notable improvements worth admiring. Granted, they are minor and very subtle, making the overall quality comparable to the new BD, but the improvements are there nonetheless.
The picture is slightly sharper with more visible details and textures in buildings, clothing, and wooden furniture, and the faces of the cast come with better lifelike complexions. Worth noting, however, is that the filmmakers shot with a deliberately soft focus. This means several slightly blurry moments are to be expected, but thankfully, the photography is not so terrible as to ruin its appreciation. On the other hand, the color palette doesn't look much brighter, which may have much to do with the intentional cinematography. But primaries remain nicely saturated with secondary hues benefitting the most from the jump to 4K. Various earth tones and yellows are rich and glowing, giving the video a nice glow during many of the contrasting color schemes."
N/A Stars out of 5
"Like the video, Ang Lee's gorgeous film has also been upgraded to a Dolby Atmos soundtrack, presumably taken from the same new remaster of the camera negatives. On the whole, the original sound design ascends to the object-based format with great results, offering several appreciable improvements.
Granted, there isn't a whole lot going on action-wise since much of the focus remains on the conversations and character interactions, but ambient effects occasionally bleed into the ceiling speakers with discrete effectiveness. The last half hour provides the film's most aurally impressive moments. While Li Mu Bai fights Jen Yu in the bamboo forest, the wind blows, and leaves distinctly rustle above the listening area. Later, when the two confront each other again, rain is heard pouring all around and overhead, and the sound of water trickling into the cave echoes everywhere and from up high, creating a satisfying dome-like soundfield."
There aren't any new bonus features for this SteelBook release. Everything available was offered in the previous release.
Anniversary Edition Introduction (HD, 1 min)
A Retrospective (HD, 82 min)
Making of (HD, 19 min)
A Conversation with Michelle Yeoh (HD, 14 min)
Music Videos (SD)
Deleted Scenes (HD, 8 min) — Six excised scenes with English subtitles.
Photo Gallery (HD)
Moments (HD) — Four collections of specific scenes for quick access.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon remains one of the best films ever made. Ang Lee brought together the best elements of wuxia action films and western storytelling structure and created a masterful hybrid that is not only action-packed and visually stunning but emotionally resonant and fulfilling. In time for the film's 20th anniversary, Sony is reissuing the same set of 4K UHD Blu-ray + Blu-ray discs with new SteelBook packaging. Unless you're a SteelBook hunter, the packaging alone may not warrant a purchase, but if you're new to the 4K format and need to add this to the collection, this is a terrific set. Highly Recommended.


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Winner 17/18 — Jury Statement:
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have become ubiquitous in our everyday lives. But we know we are only seeing the beginning of how powerful algorithms will change the way we work, live, and potentially think. As the current debates rages on the ethics of AI and how to teach machines with un-biased training sets, the designer Isaac Sanchez looks two steps ahead and speculates how machines will communicate with each other once they have surpassed the intelligence of humankind. In his proposal, their language is still accessible to humans. Obviously, machines communicate through the exchange of electronic signals, and in a dystopian world, there will be no need for them to use visual language that could be understood by any human being. Sanchez takes us on a journey into the future, where machines can travel through the earth's orbit to find energy, and his work makes us wonder: What role will humankind play? Can we learn from a future vision to make the right decisions today? Sanchez succeeds in developing a visual system based on digital primitives, geometric shapes, and pixel-like structures to address simple concepts to complex issues. His approach is coherent yet playful through the combination of syntactic rules and targeted aesthetic interventions. He creates a clean and yet intriguing notation system based on simple forms that remind of the subtle aesthetics that informed the development of Latin script and its proportions more than 2,000 years ago.
Today, artificial intelligence is applied within many professional disciplines, despite still being in its infancy. Unlike past innovations in machines that mindlessly fulfilled repetitive tasks, today's robots are equipped with machine learning, which is adaptive and can change course in order to achieve a desired outcome—in some cases, even generating its own language. The technology is being pursued with the expectation that AI will one day be fully integrated within our lives, but with the knowledge that one day AI may well surpass us in both complexity and intelligence. This concept comprises 45 symbols for AIs to communicate with each other and the accompanying civilization. It is a directory of terminology re-imagined to suit transmitting AIs. The imaginary system of symbols is ready to be used in an advanced civilization deep into the future that might entirely depend on successful communication between AIs. This civilization has moved past inhabiting a natural planetary body and even expanded into the depths of space in search of energy sources.
Isaac Sanchez is a graphic designer and a Houstonian through and though. Creativity runs in his family and is manifested in different ways. His first attempt at design was when he got a hold of the Adobe Creative Suite in middle school. From then on Graphic design became his creative outlet as he did pro bono work for family and friends. His current interest are brand identity development, motion graphics, and compositing. He will graduate the University of Houston Graphic Design Program in the spring of 2018.
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Shih Min-chi (, born September 1914) was a Chinese agriculture expert and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography
Originally from Panyu County in Guangdong, Shih attended Zhixin high school and then studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Guanzhou and the Peking University College of Agriculture. She subsequently worked in the Nanjing Central Agricultural Laboratory, the Cornell University Research Institute and as a technician in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, eventually becoming a professor at Sun Yat-sen University. She also served as headteacher of Jianru Middle School and chair of Aiqun and Dafu primary schools.

She became a member of the central committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry and served as executive director of Guangdong Provincial Farmers' Association. In the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, 18 seats were elected by agricultural organisations, two of which were reserved for women. Shih was one of the two elected, becoming one of the first group of women in the Legislative Yuan. She subsequently relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War.

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Rams try to shake MNF loss, move on to Cardinals
Nov 27, 2019 at 4:04p ET
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams are coming off a lopsided loss in a game they'd like to forget. The Arizona Cardinals can relate — they'd like to forget a big chunk of their first 11 games of the season.
The NFC West rivals meet Sunday, trying to get their seasons back on track.
The Rams (6-5) are still in the playoff hunt despite losing to Baltimore 45-6 on Monday night. The Cardinals (3-7-1) are coming off their bye week and trying to halt a four-game losing streak.
Arizona first-year coach Kliff Kingsbury said he doesn't expect the Rams to have another bad night.
"They're a prideful group. They were in the Super Bowl 10 months ago," Kingsbury said. "We'll get their best shot. We know they can play a lot better than that. They had an off night and we expect to get their best shot; we'll have to play our best game to hang in there."
The Cardinals have been fine on offense for much of the season. Kyler Murray has already set franchise rookie records with 2,703 yards passing and 254 completions. Arizona's also much healthier at running back with Kenyan Drake, David Johnson and Chase Edmonds all available.
The problem is on defense. The Cardinals are giving up 297.5 yards passing per game, which ranks last in the NFL.
"It's important to show improvement over these last five games," Kingsbury said. "We can't change what happened in the past, and that's what we've talked about. Let's just be better. There are a lot of different way to improve that and we're working towards that."
Rams coach Sean McVay said he was glad his team had a short week so it could quickly move on to the Cardinals and not dwell on the Ravens loss.
"The one thing that we've got to do a much better job of are the things that take no talent," McVay said. "We can't have 12 men on the field, we can't continue to beat ourselves with these pre-snap penalties. We've got to make sure that we're utilizing the fundamentals and the techniques."
GOFF'S RUT
Jared Goff has been powerless to stop the Rams' miserable offensive run since their bye week. Over the past three games, the fourth-year quarterback completed 61.5% of his passes for 209 yards per game, but threw five interceptions and no touchdown passes during the month. The quarterback — who is due an NFL-record $110 million guaranteed in a contract extension that doesn't even begin until 2021 — sits near the bottom of the league in several statistical categories.
McVay and the Rams insist they aren't worried about him. Goff did make several impressive throws against the Ravens when given enough time, but he hasn't been a difference maker. "Coaches, players, we're all a part of this," McVay said. "It's not just Jared. It's a collaboration of the unit, and that's why football is the greatest team sport there is."
COACHING CONNECTION
Kingsbury said he considered taking a consulting job on McVay's staff last season after being fired by Texas Tech. Instead, he was briefly the offensive coordinator at USC before being hired as Cardinals head coach. Kingsbury said he's known McVay for several years and has always admired his coaching ability. He met him through a friend who played in the now-defunct UFL: "He told me, 'This guy is going to be a star in coaching' and I'm like 'Yeah, right.' He was like the tight ends coach for the Orlando Tuskers. I'm like 'Good luck, buddy.' But he was right."
DEFENSIVE RAMS
After getting shredded by Lamar Jackson, the Rams defense must get right back to work against another quarterback who can cause problems with his arm or his legs. Los Angeles is hoping its ineptitude against the Ravens is a blip and not a pattern, and there's reason to believe the Rams are right: They hadn't played an embarrassing game since a loss to Tampa Bay two months ago, and they still rank squarely in the middle of the NFL pack in most statistical categories — even after giving up 480 yards to Baltimore.
PLENTY OF TARGETS
The Rams' wealth of quality pass catchers could be a problem for the Cards' secondary if Goff gets enough time to throw. Despite their recent offensive struggles, the Rams already have four receivers with 400 yards apiece: Cooper Kupp (880), Robert Woods (663), Brandin Cooks (434) and tight end Gerald Everett (408). LA is only the third team since 1950 to accomplish that feat in four consecutive seasons, joining the 1989-92 Houston Oilers and the 2013-16 New Orleans Saints.
SCORING POINTS, GIVING UP POINTS
Arizona has scored at least 25 points six times since Week 5, which is the most in the NFL. The problem is the Cardinals can't stop anybody. They've given up at least 21 points in every game this season and at least 28 points in every game of their current four-game losing streak.


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Toyota will Wnveil "GR Yaris" at Tokyo Auto Salon
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Toyota City, Japan, Dec 11, 2019 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota proudly presents the world premiere of the new "GR Yaris" at Tokyo Auto Salon 2020 to be held from January 10-12 in Makuhari Messe, near Tokyo Japan.
GR Yaris Prototype
"GR Yaris" is the second model launched globally from "GR" models, TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's sports car lineup, following last year's return of the legendary Toyota GR Supra*.
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) has been developed people and cars by driving the world's roads, competing in a series of demanding races in a variety of categories. What's more, we reentered the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) in 2017. TGR claimed five wins in the 2018 season and took the manufacturer's title and Driver's and Co-driver's title in the season of 2019.
TGR announces the arrival of an all-new sports car--a car that incorporates all the technologies, knowledge, and experience learned from WRC.
Toyota's president, under his TGR Master Driver code name "Morizo", has just performed the final test of the car, pushing it to its furthermost limits. We are delighted to share the film taken of the test.
In advance of the world premiere at Tokyo Auto Salon, the car will be camouflaged in the signature red-black-and-white TGR colors, and will make its first official dynamic appearance at the Japan TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Festival 2019 on December 15.
Further details of the car's specifications will be announced in due course.
*The name given for marketing activity. The name reported to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is "Supra".
About Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is the global mobility company that introduced the Prius hybrid-electric car in 1997 and the first mass-produced fuel cell sedan, Mirai, in 2014. Headquartered in Toyota City, Japan, Toyota has been making cars since 1937. Today, Toyota proudly employs 370,000 employees in communities around the world. Together, they build around 10 million vehicles per year in 29 countries, from mainstream cars and premium vehicles to mini-vehicles and commercial trucks, and sell them in more than 170 countries under the brands Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. For more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com.
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Hi guys! So happy to be bringing you something a little different today! I'm always talking about leggings, but it's hard to come by the perfect athleisure tops. So today I wanted to share one of the first companies I ever fell in love with. I've been wearing their tops almost exclusively ever since I discovered them a little over a year ago. I'm obsessed with their simple designs and their super soft fabrics. (seriously they are the softest fabrics ever!) Hope you guys love Joah Brown just as much as I do!


Who Would Benefit from Using Reportz and Why?
Every successful digital marketing company, startup and aspiring freelancer knows how important client reporting actually is. If your business has multiple clients, gathering valuable data and KPIs and turning them into vivid and informative reports on a monthly or weekly basis is just as crucial as making those KPIs happen.
But this process of analyzing and assembling metrics, transforming them into weekly reports and sending them out to your many clients can indeed be tiresome and time-consuming. This is exactly why the digital marketplace has lately been flooded with a plethora of newly-developed reporting tools that are able to help you with this often annoying aspect of your business by reducing the time spent on creating arduous reports to mere minutes.
However, not all reporting tools are created equal and with the same focal-point in mind.
Both SuperMetrics and Reportz are highly potent platforms that efficiently cater to their customers and their reporting and metric-tracking needs, and each of these two tools has its own advantages.
SuperMetrics focuses on data analysis perhaps more than it does on client reporting. This platform offers predefined metrics that it then pulls through various sources.
Reportz, on the other hand, has a slightly different approach.
Our unmatched business model and features definitely make Reportz the best-buy option when it comes to reporting tools currently available on the market. Namely, if you decide to become a member of the Reportz community, you will be provided with an unlimited and instant access to each and every feature our tool has to offer the moment you buy your first dashboard.
Plus, you are able to buy as many dashboards as you need according to the current number of your clients, while you can also archive the dashboards you don't need at that particular moment. This option is extremely beneficial and cost-effective as it prevents your company from wasting money on unnecessary dashboards.
IMPORTANT: All our clients gain instant access to all of these cool features as soon as you create your first dashboard.
Reportz has a completely different business model from SuperMetrics, and our pricing plans are generally quite different from those offered by the rest of our competitors. When you take a look at the big picture, our pricing plans are way more pragmatic and cost-effective, especially for those seeking scalability, flexibility and affordability.
To put things into perspective - with Reportz, you will be paying under $7 per dashboard, and you will be able to buy them one by one on a monthly basis according to the current number of your clients.
Some of the crucial tools we currently work with include: Google Analytics, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Serpstat, Rank Ranger, Google Search Console, Instagram, Google Sheets, Facebook Ads, Facebook Social, while our pipeline reads: Linkedin ads, Linkedin Social, Twitter (social + ads), Accuranker, SERanking and WooCommerce.
Unlike some of our biggest competitors, SuperMetrics included, with Reportz you have an instant and free white label option for easier and cost-free branding of your reports.
We at Reportz listen to your every suggestion and work on making sure your every reporting need is satisfied. This is why we created our own Facebook group where you can join the discussion regarding our future plans and give us valuable pointers and suggestions so we can improve our tool even further.
Reportz also has an extensive roadmap so you can have a glimpse into what we are planning to add to our platform in the near future - you can check it out HERE.
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Help children learn how to talk to and listen to God through prayer.
Originally published as part of the Griggs Education Resource Series, Teaching Prayer in the Classroom is designed to help children's teachers and leaders understand the use of prayer in the classroom. This resource provides practical advice and guidance on teaching children (preschool to age 12) about prayer, advice on the various elements of prayer, age-appropriate prayers, and information on different types of prayer.


Over the years, our web design team has developed and refined a range of web design techniques to help businesses achieve their goals online.
Lead-generation strategies are one of the primary web design techniques we use on the web. Leads can be captured online through many avenues: a search engine query, a 'Contact Us' web form, a newsletter signup, or paid search advertising.
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Photography is a broad field, and one of its specializations that many photographers find interesting is wedding photography. As much as the setting is filled with a lot of activity, you might find it a bit challenging especially if you are doing it for the first time. Experts who have experience when it comes to wedding photography are a perfect reference point when things seem difficult.
D. Scott Carruthers has worked as a photographer for over ten years and has helped many young photographers to build their careers. One of his specialties is wedding photography, and he offers his tips to help you have a successful wedding photo shoot.
As many will shy away from wedding photography, it is the best specialty if you understand how to go about the challenges presented before you. One of the reasons people find wedding photography a bit challenging is the fact that too there is too much activity and predictability of events is not possible as constant movement keeps one wondering what move the subject will make next. But this unpredictability is also a blessing in disguise as you could use it to create perfect scenes that are not possible when you do a planned photo shoot. Here are nine tips you should try for amazing wedding photography.
The first step that you should take in wedding photography is to ensure the couple offers their ideas on the kind of photos they would like during the big event. Create a list that enumerates what series of events will be on that day and plan at which points you will need to take photos. You could ask the couple to advice at what moments they feel it would be mandatory for you to shoot, and make sure to keep your timing right so when the perfect moment comes you take photos.
Understanding the progression of events will make it easy to choose the perfect positions for the task of taking the photos, and in addition to ensuring you are prepared to handle the setting, it would be advisable to survey the venue in advance to make it easy to do the photos from the best positions.
Although you might have a list of what the couple wants to be included in the photos, you are also likely to miss one or two things, so you need a family member who should advise you on what to do when things seem off your radar. A family member can work as a director while shooting and will help you to be at the right position at the perfect moment, which again makes your work easier.
You are able to maximize on your skills when you have someone else to help you position yourself well. It can be chaotic at a wedding as everyone is in a celebratory mood, but when you get someone who understands the way the events are planned to take place, you could easily do perfect photos during the wedding.
It is always advisable to make a visit to the venue few days to the event. This is important as it allows you to familiarize with the different spots that are key during the event, and you can create a good map of the spots you will have position yourself to take the photos. Get someone involved in the preparation of the venue who will help by explaining the different areas of the venues where you should expect have key activity.
Getting this information will help you to imagine how the event will proceed and at that point you will understand what you will need to do at particular moments to ensure the photos you take are of the quality the couple desires to see. The weather of the region in which the venue is located might also be harsh than you thought, which means you will need to adjust your tools accordingly to ensure quality is not compromised.
Without adequate preparation, you will find it quite challenging to create the perfect moments you look up to. You need to confirm that all your tools are in good condition and if anything needs repairs it should be done in advance. Additionally, the topography of the venue might demand that you use special tools, which you might have to rent or borrow. Start preparing at least one week to the wedding to pave the way for testing and adjustments that are necessary to guarantee success during the shooting process.
Also, understand that anything might go wrong and to prevent disappointment you should have several of each tool. For example, you need several lenses, at least two cameras, fully charged batteries, and other vital equipment. To hone your skills in preparation for the wedding, schedule a rehearsal session at the venue to familiarize with the environment around.
Working alone might prove an enormous task and chances are you will miss many important occasions that should be documented. The answer to this is to ensure you have another photographer with whom you will share roles or divide the different sections of the venue between each other. It will lift the stress of knowing that important events are happening simultaneously and you cannot be present at both.
You will also have less to worry about as you are assured that there is a high likelihood that what you miss is captured by the other photographer. One could be allocated formal shots as the other person focuses on candid shots. You might also want to take some rest after long hours doing the job and the only replacement you can accept is a qualified photographer, so consider working with another photographer during a wedding.
It is common practice to see a photographer discard photos that are considered not good enough to make it to the album. But this could as well be termed as a mistake in itself there lays some artistic opportunity in photos that are viewed as not good enough. Just keep all the raw images and ensure to sort them later, focusing on some of the things that can be done to the mistakes to produce high quality and dramatic images.
Most images that are seen as mistakes have a dramatic and interesting appeal that you could use to introduce some art in the photos. These shots can be used to add interest at the end of the album, so ensure to keep them as well. You might also learn something from the photos that will help you produce more accurate shots the next time you go about shooting photos at such an event.
Try to put everyone in one shot. For this, you need to be a bit artistic and good at timing so you are able to take photos only when there is a good number of people around one spot. One of the tactics you could use in this case is shooting from an elevated point so you easily get the camera to sweep across a wide area and effectively include everyone. Using camera stands and positioning yourself well will help you achieve this quite effortlessly.
Group shots help to emphasize the events that happened at a particular time and you could help tell the story better by keeping memories of everyone who made it to the event. Ensure you have a good lens to create a picture that when zoomed can show the faces of those included without distorting their real images.
The fact that after visiting the venue you established the weather of the region is friendly does not preempt the possibility of things working against your expectations. You might be prepared for a sunny day but when the day comes things turn out different. While preparing, you should also consider the worst that might happen and prepare accordingly to have this averted.
If the weather turns cloudy, you should understand how to work around the lighting to still do good photos. Don't be discouraged when things turn opposite to what you thought would be the case as this dramatic shift could be used as a solution to producing unique photos.
A mistake that many photographers make while doing wedding photography is ignoring the opinion of the couple regarding what they would like. You should be careful to produce photos that appeal to the needs of the couple as this is their day and the memories you help to preserve will be handed to them.
Sit down with the couple to hear what they have to say about the event and the kind of shots they expect you to do. Take this information and strive to give them what they request for and in this process, you will easily achieve your goals of becoming the wedding photographer everyone wants to hire.
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My first recollection of Our Lady of Guadulpe was in the fourth grade. A group of nuns came to visit our very small Catholic school. I don't remember specifics, but I know that it struck me as special and important because I kept the laminated information and prayer card for decades. Even at that young age, the image of Our Lady in blue and the miraculous account accompanying it stirred up feelings of wonder and awe.
Our Lady chose Juan Diego. He was just a humble man. Why would she choose someone so ordinary? And she didn't appear just once, but three times. I think Juan Diego's first reaction is a great indication of why he was chosen. He did not look at her with skepticism and doubt. In awe of her beauty and presence, Juan Diego quickly took her request for a chapel to the Bishop. The Bishop's reaction reminds me of many of us in modern times. He is skeptical, fearful, and full of uncertainty. Could this actually be real? Is there something wrong with Juan Diego? Is he being tricked? But there was a tiny seed of hope within him.
During Juan Diego's second request, the Bishop asks for a sign. Reminiscent of Thomas' doubting nature, the Bishop wants some proof. Mary, Our Mother, does that and much more. Not only does she lead Juan Diego to blooming roses in the harsh December weather, but also appears on his tilma (or cloak) in the most exquisite and symbolic image that is still with us today, almost 500 years later.
Juan Diego's persistence, faithfulness, and openness really resonates with those of us parenting children with special needs. Initially, we may feel like the bishop and want more information, meet any diagnosis with skepticism, and double-down on our (perception of) control. These are our children and we know them better than anyone. Except for God, that is. This is a sticking point that I often struggle to overcome. How could anyone love my children more than me? How could anyone else know what is best for them? What if things don't look the way I thought they would? And what if the sign isn't as detailed and obvious as the beautiful image on Juan Diego's cloak?
We know it's going to take faith and surrender. We must give up our resistance and inflated egos to become humble, like a simple man in Mexico, a young woman in Nazareth, and so many more. If we can let the Lord do His work, we will be given peace and understanding. Not because everything is how we want it to be, but because we can finally relax in the peace of God.
Even today, pilgrims from around the world travel to see the beautiful image given to Juan Diego by Our Lady. Many crawl on their knees in gratitude for their answered prayers. Our Lady is an intercessor for the marginalized and those who fear they've been forgotten. But you, weary parents, have not been forgotten either. Our Lady will care for us and carry us onward. All we have to do is ask.
Katy Klimczuk is a former reading specialist turned homeschool teacher and children's author. She lives in Michigan with her husband, two children, and two cats. She hopes you find joy and connection through her work. Follow along at https://www.instagram.com/katyklimczuk/.
Recognizing God's Presence In The Midst of Grief, by Kate Anderson


Based at the picturesque Anderson Park, the Wellington Collegians Senior mens team play in the Rothbury Capital City Premier Mens Competition (RCCPM). The RCCPM is the top level of club cricket in the capital and features teams from Wellington city and the Hutt Valley. The competition offers players the chance to play one-day and two-day cricket as well as mid-week T20 games.
The Senior mens side at Wellington Collegians has helped to produce some of New Zealand's top international and first class cricketers, with the likes of James Franklin (Middlesex), Michael Papps (Wellington Firebirds), Scott khuggelin (Northern Nights) and Trevor Garret (Canterbury Kings), all being members of the Senior side.
Wellington Collegians is a club steeped with history and tradition being the oldest senior club in Wellington. It is this tradition that makes Wellington Collegians Premier mens team an honor and a privilege to play for.


Daedalus, the father of Greek sculpture; supposed to be of the time of Minos and Theseus; employed by Minos to build the Cretan Labyrinth, 6.14.
(adj.), artificial, skillful, cunningly wrought; wily, artful, 7.282.
the Dahae, a Scythian people beyond the Caspian, 8.728.
damnō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
daughter of Acrisius, and mother of Perseus, 7.410.
(adj.), of Danaus, king of Argos; Greek, 3.602; subst., Danaī, ōrum, m., the Greeks, 2.327.
a feast, banquet, 1.210; food, viands, 1.706; flesh of sacrificial victims, 6.225; usually found in the pl., but the gen. pl. is not used.
a son or descendant of Dardanus; Aeneas, 10.545; pl., Dardanidae, ārum (um), the Trojans, 1.560, et al.; adj., Dardanian, Trojan, 2.59.
a daughter or descendant of Dardanus, 2.787.
adj. (Dardanus), Dardanian, Trojan, 5.711; subst., Dardanius, iī, m., the Dardanian; the Trojan, 12.14.
(adj.), Trojan, 5.119; subst., the Dardanian; Aeneas, 4.662; the Trojan, for the nation, 11.287.
Dardanus, son of Jupiter and Electra, father of the Trojan line of kings, and thus progenitor of the Romans, 6.650, et al.
Darēs, ētis (acc. Darēta and Daren), m.
Dares, a Trojan boxer, 5.369.
adj. (Daucus), of Daucus, a Rutulian; Daucian, 10.391.
adj. (Daunus), pertaining to Daunus, father or ancestor of Turnus; Daunian, 12.785.
a mythic king of part of Apulia, father-in-law of Diomedes, and father of Turnus, 10.616.
(prep. with abl.), from, of place, time, source, material, etc., freq.; out of; away from, 6.85; just from, on, 10.478; of 2.78; sprung from, 10.350; by, of, 4.327; according to, after, 1.318; over, upon, 6.502; concerning, for, about, 12.765.
dēbellō, āvī, ātus, 1, a. and n.
to war to the end; to put down by war; subdue, conquer, 5.731.
dēbeō, uī, itus, 2, a.
adj. (dē and habilis), disabled, maimed, crippled, 5.271; feeble, useless, 12.50.
dēbilitō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
dēcēdō, cessī, cessus, 3, n.
to withdraw, go away, depart from, 4.306; stand back, retire, 5.551.
(num. adj. indecl.), ten, 2.198.
dēcernō, crēvī, crētus, 3, a.
to decide, determine, resolve, 4.475; contend, combat, 7.525.
dēcerpō, sī, tus, 3, a.
decet, uit, 2, impers. n.
it is becoming; meet, proper, fitting, 4.597.
dēcīdō, cīdī, cīsus, 3, a.
adj. (decem), the tenth, 9.155.
dēcipiō, cēpī, ceptus, 3, a.
several illustrious Romans of the Decian gens, especially the father and son Decius Mus, one killed in the battle of Vesuvius, B.C. 340, the other in the battle of Sentinum, B.C. 295, 6.824.
dēclārō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
to make clear; to declare, proclaim, 5.246.
dēclīnō, āvī, ātus, 1, a. and n.
to turn down or away; of the eyes, to close in sleep, 4.185.
(adj.), of debased color; of baser metal; vitiated, corrupt, 8.326.
decorō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
adj. (decor), fit, proper, becoming, 5.343; graceful, beautiful, 1.589; adorned, 5.133; shining, 11.194.
dēcurrō, cucurrī or currī, cursus, 3, n. and a.
to run down, hasten down, 2.41; descend, 5.610; run completely round, 11.189; sail over, sweep over, 5.212.
dēcutiō, cussī, cussus, 3, a.
dēdīgnor, ātus sum, 1, dep. a.
to deem unworthy, disdain, scorn, refuse, 4.536.
dēdūcō, dūxī, ductus, 3, a.
to lead, draw, bring down; of ships, to launch, 3.71; lead, conduct, 2.800; carry away, 6.397.
dēfendō, ī, fēnsus (pass. inf. dēfendier, 8.493), 3, a.
dēferō, tulī, lātus, ferre, irreg. a.
to carry or bring down or away; bear, convey, 4.226; conduct, lead, 5.730; to report, 4.299.
dēficiō, fēcī, fectus, pass. (dē and faciō), dēfit, fierī, 3, n. and a.
to make off from; free one's self from; desert, leave, forsake, 6.196; fail, be wanting, 2.505; be exhausted, fail; give way, sink, 6.354; faint, 4.689; to be broken down, prostrated, sick at heart, 11.231; to be depressed, discouraged, 12.2; (pass.), dēfit, fierī, to be wanting.
dēfīgō, fīxī, fīxus, 3, a.
to fasten or fix down or in; the object on or in which, in the dat., or in the abl., with or without a prep.; fix, direct, 1.226; p., dēfīxus, downcast, 6.156.
dēflectō, flexī, flexus, 3, a.
dēfleō, flēvī, flētus, 2, a. and n.
to weep much; weep over, bewail, bemoan, lament, 6.220.
dēfluō, fluxī, fluxus, 3, n.
to flow down; sail down, 8.549; alight, descend, 11.501; fall, descend, 1.404.
dēfodiō, fōdī, fossus, 3, a.
to dig down; sink deep; bury.
dēfōrmō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
to disfigure, 10.844; clothe in mourning, sadden, darken, 12.805.
dēfringō, frēgī, frāctus, 3, a.
dēfungor, fūnctus sum, 3, dep. n.
to complete, finish a duty, etc.; go through with, 6.83; to have done with, 6.306; used absolutely; to get through, fulfill one's destiny or course, 9.98.
adj. (dē and genus), degenerate, 2.549; of base descent, 4.13.
dēgustō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
to taste of; touch, graze, 12.376.
(adv.), from this place; from this time; thereupon, then, 1.131.
to gape, yawn, 1.106; stand open, open, 6.52.
dēiciō, iēcī, iectus, 3, a.
(adv.), from that place (rarely) or time; then, thereupon, 5.321; now, immediately, 4.561; next, still, 9.781.
a nymph in the train of Juno, 1.72.
a name of the Cumaean Sibyl, daughter of Glaucus and priestess of Apollo and Diana, 6.36.
a son of Priam, who became the husband of Helen after the death of Paris, 6.495.
dēlābor, lāpsus sum, 3, dep. n.
to glide, slip, or fall down; descend, 3.238; fall in with or upon, 2.377.
dēleō, ēvī, ētus, 2, a.
to destroy, 9.248; slaughter, 11.898.
dēlībō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
dēligō, lēgī, lēctus, 3, a.
dēlitēscō, dēlituī, 3, inc. n.
adj. (Dēlos), of Delos; Delian, an epithet of Apollo, who was born in Delos, 3.162.
an island in the midst of the Cyclades in the Aegean, where Latona gave birth to Apollo and Diana, 4.144.
delphīn, īnis, and delphīnus, ī, m.
a dolphin, 3.428, et al.
dēlūdō, lūsī, lūsus, 3, a.
to deceive, mock, delude, 6.344.
(adj.), out of one's mind, insane, foolish, mad, blind, 4.107; subst., fool, 11.399.
dēmergō, mersī, mersus, 3, a.
dēmetō, messuī, messus, 3, a.
to reap; clip, break off, pluck, 11.68.
dēmittō, mīsī, missus, 3, a.
to send down, 1.297; shed, 6.455; let down into, receive, admit, (of the mind or the senses), 4.428; consign, condemn, 2.85; convey, conduct, 5.29; transmit, hand down, 1.288; dēmittere mentem, to lose heart, sink into despair, 12.609.
dēmō, dēmpsī, dēmptus, 3, a.
an Arcadian follower of Pallas, 10.413.
a Greek slain by Aeneas in battle, 5.260.
a Trojan slain by Camilla, 11.675.
dēmoror, ātus sum, 1, dep. a. and n.
to linger, protract, 2.648; detain, 3.481; wait for, await, 10.30.
(adv.), at last, at length, finally, 2.70, 295.
a tooth, 3.664; the fluke of an anchor, 6.3.
dēnseō, ēre, and dēnsō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
(adj.), thick, dense, crowded, compact, in close array, serried, 2.383; frequent, 5.459.
dēnūntiō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.
to announce emphatically; declare, foretell, 3.366.