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On Dec 21, 2014, Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the City of Newark’s Office of Community Engagement hosted a free Toy Distribution for Newark children at the CityPlex 12 Theater.
The City partnered with CityPlex 12 and G-Wiz Entertainment to collect and donate new, unwrapped toys. Children also had the opportunity to take pictures with Santa Claus.
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Nymphaea is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. Some taxa occur as introduced species where they are not native, and some are weeds. Plants of the genus are known commonly as water lilies, or waterlilies in the United Kingdom. The genus name is from the Greek νυμφαία, nymphaia and the Latin nymphaea, which mean "water lily" and were inspired by the nymphs of Greek and Latin mythology.
Description
Water lilies are aquatic rhizomatous herbaceous perennials, sometimes with stolons as well. The stem is angular and erect. The leaves grow from the rhizome on long petioles (stalk that attaches the leaf blade to the stem). Floating round leaves of waterlily grow up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) across. The disc-shaped leaf blades are notched and split to the stem in a V-shape at the centre, and are often purple underneath. Most of them float on the surface of the water. The leaves have smooth or spine-toothed edges, and they can be rounded or pointed.
The flowers rise out of the water or float on the surface, opening during the day or at night. Many species of Nymphaea display protogynous flowering. The temporal separation of these female and male phases is physically reinforced by flower opening and closing, so the first flower opening displays female pistil and then closes at the end of the female phase, and reopens with male stamens. Each has at least eight petals in shades of white, pink, blue, or yellow. Many stamens are at the center. Water lily flowers are entomophilous, meaning they are pollinated by insects, often beetles. The fruit is berry-like and borne on a curving or coiling peduncle. The plant reproduces by root tubers and seeds.
Taxonomy
This is one of several genera of plants known commonly as lotuses. It is not related to the legume genus Lotus or the East Asian and South Asian lotuses of genus Nelumbo. It is closely related to Nuphar lotuses, however. In Nymphaea, the petals are much larger than the sepals, whereas in Nuphar, the petals are much smaller. The process of fruit maturation also differs, with Nymphaea fruit sinking below the water level immediately after the flower closes, and Nuphar fruit remaining above the surface.[citation needed]
Subgenera
Anecphya
Brachyceras
Confluentes
Hydrocallis
Lotos
Nymphaea:
section Chamaenymphaea
section Nymphaea
section Xanthantha
Species
As of January 2024, there are 65 accepted species by Plants of the World Online:
Nymphaea abhayana A.Chowdhury & M.Chowdhury
Nymphaea alba L.
Nymphaea alexii S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
Nymphaea amazonum Mart. & Zucc.
Nymphaea ampla (Salisb.) DC.
Nymphaea atrans S.W.L.Jacobs
Nymphaea belophylla Trickett
Nymphaea × borealis E.G.Camus
Nymphaea caatingae C.T.Lima & Giul.
Nymphaea candida C.Presl
Nymphaea carpentariae S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
Nymphaea conardii Wiersema
Nymphaea × daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny
Nymphaea dimorpha I.M.Turner
Nymphaea divaricata Hutch.
Nymphaea elegans Hook.
Nymphaea elleniae S.W.L.Jacobs
Nymphaea francae C.T.Lima & Giul.
Nymphaea gardneriana Planch.
Nymphaea georginae S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
Nymphaea gigantea Hook.
Nymphaea glandulifera Rodschied
Nymphaea gracilis Zucc.
Nymphaea guineensis Schumach. & Thonn.
Nymphaea harleyi C.T.Lima & Giul.
Nymphaea hastifolia Domin
Nymphaea heudelotii Planch.
Nymphaea immutabilis S.W.L.Jacobs
Nymphaea jacobsii Hellq.
Nymphaea jamesoniana Planch.
Nymphaea kakaduensis Hellq., A.Leu & M.L.Moody
Nymphaea kimberleyensis (S.W.L.Jacobs) S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
Nymphaea lasiophylla Mart. & Zucc.
Nymphaea leibergii (Morong) Rydb.
Nymphaea lingulata Wiersema
Nymphaea loriana Wiersema, Hellq. & Borsch
Nymphaea lotus L.
Nymphaea lukei S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
Nymphaea macrosperma Merr. & L.M.Perry
Nymphaea maculata Schumach. & Thonn.
Nymphaea manipurensis Asharani & Biseshwori
Nymphaea mexicana Zucc.
Nymphaea micrantha Guill. & Perr.
Nymphaea noelae S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
Nymphaea nouchali Burm.f.
Nymphaea novogranatensis Wiersema
Nymphaea odorata Aiton
Nymphaea ondinea Löhne, Wiersema & Borsch
Nymphaea oxypetala Planch.
Nymphaea paganuccii C.T.Lima & Giul.
Nymphaea pedersenii (Wiersema) C.T.Lima & Giul.
Nymphaea potamophila Wiersema
Nymphaea prolifera Wiersema
Nymphaea pubescens Willd.
Nymphaea pulchella DC.
Nymphaea rapinii C.T.Lima & Giul.
Nymphaea rubra Roxb. ex Andrews
Nymphaea rudgeana G.Mey.
Nymphaea siamensis Puripany.
Nymphaea stuhlmannii (Engl.) Schweinf. & Gilg
Nymphaea sulphurea Gilg
Nymphaea × sundvikii Hiitonen
Nymphaea tenuinervia Casp.
Nymphaea tetragona Georgi
Nymphaea thermarum Eb.Fisch.
Nymphaea × thiona D.B.Ward
Nymphaea vanildae C.T.Lima & Giul.
Nymphaea vaporalis S.W.L.Jacobs & Hellq.
Nymphaea violacea Lehm.
Fossil species
†Nymphaea brongniartii (Caspary) Saporta[8]
Cultivation
Water lilies are not only decorative, but also provide useful shade which helps reduce the growth of algae in ponds and lakes.Many of the water lilies familiar in water gardening are hybrids and cultivars. These cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:
'Escarboucle'
'Escarboucle' (orange-red)
'Gladstoniana' (double white flowers with prominent yellow stamens)
'Gonnère' (double white scented flowers)
'James Brydon;' (cupped rose-red flowers)
'Marliacea Chromatella' (pale yellow flowers)
'Pygmaea Helvola' (miniature, with cupped fragrant yellow flowers)
Uses:
All water lilies are poisonous and contain an alkaloid called nupharin in almost all of their parts, with the exception of the seeds and in some species, the tubers.
The European species contain large amounts of nupharin, and are considered inedible. The amount of nupharin in the leaves and stalks appears to vary seasonally in European species.
In some species, the rhizomes and tubers are eaten after boiling has neutralised the nupharin.
The tubers of a number of Australian, Asian and African species are completely edible, during the dry season some consist almost entirely of starch.
The Ancient Egyptians ate them boiled.
In India, it has mostly been eaten as a famine food or as a medicinal (both cooked), but in one area the dried rhizomes were pounded into a sort of bread, and the tubers are often eaten in the floodplains.
In Vietnam, the rhizomes were eaten roasted.
In Sri Lanka it was formerly eaten as a type of medicine and its price was too high to serve as a normal meal, but in the 1940s or earlier some villagers began to grow water lilies in the paddy fields left uncultivated during the monsoon season (Yala season), and the price dropped. The tubers are called manel here and eaten boiled and in curries.
The tubers of all occurring species were eaten in West Africa and Madagascar (where they are called tantamon for blue and laze-laze for white), usually boiled or roasted.
In West Africa, usage varied between cultures, in the Upper Guinea the rhizomes were only considered famine foods - here the tubers were either roasted in ashes, or dried and ground into a flour. The Buduma people ate the seeds and rhizomes. Some tribes ate the rhizomes raw. The Hausa people of Ghana, Nigeria and the people of Southern Sudan used the tubers of Nymphaea lotus, the seeds (inside the tubers) are locally referred to as ‘gunsi’ in Ghana. They are ground into flour.
In China the tubers were eaten cooked.
The plants were also said to be eaten in the Philippines. In the 1950s there were no records of leaves or flowers being eaten.
In a North American species, the boiled young leaves and unopened flower buds are said to be edible. The seeds, high in starch, protein, and oil, may be popped, parched, or ground into flour. Potato-like tubers can be collected from the species N. tuberosa (=N. odorata).
The tubers of Nymphaea gigantea of Australia were roasted by certain tribes, these turn the colour blue when boiled, the tubers of other species were also roasted elsewhere on that continent.
Water lilies were said to have been a major food source for a certain tribe of indigenous Australians in 1930, with the flowers and stems eaten raw, while the "roots and seedpods" were cooked either on an open fire or in a ground oven.
The Ancient Egyptians used the water lilies of the Nile as cultural symbols. Since 1580 it has become popular in the English language to apply the Latin word lotus, originally used to designate a tree, to the water lilies growing in Egypt, and much later the word was used to translate words in Indian texts. The lotus motif is a frequent feature of temple column architecture. In Egypt, the lotus, rising from the bottom mud to unfold its petals to the sun, suggested the glory of the sun's own emergence from the primaeval slime. It was a metaphor of creation. It was a symbol of the fertility gods and goddesses as well as a symbol of the upper Nile as the giver of life.
The flowers of the blue Egyptian water lily (N. caerulea) open in the morning and close at dusk, while those of the white water lily (N. lotus) open at night and close in the morning. Egyptians found this symbolic of the separation of deities and of death and the afterlife. Remains of both flowers have been found in the burial tomb of Ramesses II.
A Roman belief existed that drinking a liquid of crushed Nymphaea in vinegar for 10 consecutive days turned a boy into a eunuch.
The Nymphaea, which is also called Nilufar in Persian, can be seen in many reliefs of the Achaemenid period (552 BC) such as the statue of Anahita in the Persepolis. Lotus flower was included in Kaveh the blacksmith's Derafsh and later as the flag of the Sasanian Empire Derafsh Kaviani. Today, it is known as the symbol of Iranians Solar Hijri Calendar.
A Syrian terra-cotta plaque from the 14th–13th centuries BC shows the goddess Asherah holding two lotus blossoms. An ivory panel from the 9th-8th centuries BC shows the god Horus seated on a lotus blossom, flanked by two cherubs.
There is a Polish poem by 19th-century poet Juliusz Słowacki in which the rhizomes are eaten.
The French Impressionist painter Claude Monet is known for his many paintings of water lilies in the pond in his garden at Giverny.
N. nouchali is the national flower of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Water lilies are also used as ritual narcotics. According to one source, this topic "was the subject of a lecture by William Emboden given at Nash Hall of the Harvard Botanical Museum on the morning of April 6, 1979".
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Women Rewarded Solar Lights for Adult Literacy
Solar Lantern Distribution To Adult Women PEP TANDOALLAHYAR Oct12th, 2017
Pakistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. The general understanding of literacy in Pakistan is the ability to read and write and unluckily, millions of people in Pakistan are dispossessed of even this. The situation seems even worse when we look into the urban-rural divide. In rural Sindh, women are most deprived of education due to cultural customs which has created gender inequality and has deprived women to have a voice in the society. Through Adult Literacy Education, Primary Education project PEP is on to change that.
Female Adult Literacy program was initiated in 2016. At present PEP is running 26 Female Adult Literacy (FAL) Centers with 316 Female Adult Literacy members (Adult Students) in different areas of rural Sindh as follows,
Khipro48
Mirpurkhas47
Khawaja Goth7
Tando Allahyar80
Tando Ghulam Ali134
There are 6 area officers and 1 WEP coordinator for the implementing and monitoring of the adult literacy program.
As a gesture of appreciation Pervaiz Lodhie President and founder LEDtronics Inc. offered a special gift of a Solar Powered LED Solar Light to the 316 student and 7 program officers.
Funding for the solar lights was provided by one of gentleman from USA. His name is not mentioned here on his advice.
First distribution ceremony was held on Thursday October 12, 2017 in Shaleemabad, Achaar Khaskeli & Shanti Nagar ALCs located in Tando Allahyar districts.
Lt. Gen (Retd.) Syed Perwaiz Shahid a renowned educationist was chief guest for the event.
Ms. Lillian Charles Program Manager PEP and other team members from PEP were present in the event.
During the ceremony 72 female students received solar lanterns. PEP will organize another event in Hyderabad for the distribution of remaining solar lights in November 2017.
The goats given to a beneficiary 2 months ago (January 2013), in Referendum Estate, Nyamlel. Adeso/Tugela Ridley
Sessile oak is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to the UK and most of Europe. Native to the British Isles and to much of western, central and eastern Europe. In Britain it tends to have a more westerly and upland distribution than pedunculate oak but the natural distribution has been much influenced by plantations in previous centuries. Sessile oak can grow up to 20-40m tall. As oaks mature they form a broad and spreading crown with sturdy branches beneath. The leaves are lobed with long leaf stalk. The leaf lobes are shallow. Their open canopy enables light to penetrate through to the woodland floor, allowing bluebells and primroses to grow below, and their smooth and silvery brown bark becomes rugged and deeply fissured with age. The sessile oak is so-named because, unlike the English, or pedunculate oak, its acorns are not carried on stalks (peduncles) but directly on the outer twigs (sessile). It is monoecious, meaning male and female flowers are found on the same tree. Male flowers are green catkins and female flowers are inconspicuous clusters of bracts (modified leaves), which resemble red flower buds. After pollination by wind, female flowers develop into a shiny seed held in a scaly wooden cup, commonly known as an acorn. Young acorns are green, maturing to brown before they fall. Sessile oak is cold hardy and generally windfirm, but can be damaged by late spring frosts. A species of intermediate shade tolerance which can grow well on mineral soils of poor or medium nutrient status. Will tolerate slightly drier soils than pedunculate oak and is not suited to compacted or wet soils. Whether sessile or pedunculate, oak trees support more wildlife than any other native trees. They provide a habitat for more than 280 species of insect, which provides food for birds and other predators. The bark also provides a habitat for mosses, lichens and liverworts, and deadwood cavities for nesting birds and roosting bats. The acorns are eaten by a number of birds and mammals including the jay, badger and red squirrel. What was considered to be the oldest oak tree in the UK was a sessile oak, the Pontfadog Oak. This grew near Chirk in North Wales. It was understood to be over 1,200 years old, an age that was due to regular pollarding for much of its life. The hollow trunk had a girth of 12.9 metres (42 ft 5 in). It was lost in April 2013 when it blew down in high winds. The greyish bark of the Sessile Oak was used in the tanning industry which produced leather. ===Information sourced from=== ift.tt/QX8x0c ift.tt/1XtubPi... ift.tt/2rAiJt4... ift.tt/2p0lC15... ===Scientific classification=== Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Fagales Family: Fagaceae Genus: Quercus Section: Quercus Species: Q. petraea Binomial name Quercus petraea
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