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Hero Emblems
—January 19, 2015— In this iOS match-3 RPG hybrid, you control a group of heroes out to save their kingdom, provided they can deal with (debateably) handsome demons and their cowardly but greedy priestess. With some unexpected cleverness and challenge thanks to the way different match formations unlock different skills, Hero Emblems is colourful, light-hearted fun that's also surprisingly strategic.
—January 13, 2015— Send your heroes on bold quests to reap crafting materials for you... and then sell them in your shop in this mercantile mélange of elements from several different genres, free for Android and still being added to with new content!
Boomerang Chang
—January 12, 2015— How long can you last against an endless tide of enemies when your own weapon can be deadly to you in this simple but also simply addictive arcade game from Michel Gerard? Toss your boomerang and leap to avoid it and attack enemies behind you, but it's only a matter of time...
Choice of Robots
—January 6, 2015— Available as a paid browser game, a download, or in your pocket for your mobile device, this meaty, smart text adventure takes you through thirty years of your own life as a fledgling roboticist, where your every decision can drastically change the world around you. Both philosophical and funny when it needs to be, Choice of Robots offers a massive amount of replay value, and a whole lot of food for thought.
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
—January 2, 2015— Harebrained Schemes improves on their hit indie strategy RPG with a return to the magic and cyberpunk world all chummers know and love. You and your friend Monika were supposed to be on a simple job, but suddenly you find yourself with a big target on your back, and tasked with leading a group of veterans who neither know nor trust you... but maybe you can change all that, and save the world, too.
—December 25, 2014— Another physics tumbledrop puzzle where the grumpy purples must be pushed off the screen! Changes shapes to cause physics chaos, time your clicks just right, and gather up those stars to grant a land free of angry looking shapes.
Platform Panic
—December 23, 2014— Also available for iOS and Android, Nitrome's retro platformer has plenty of action as classic heroes have been abducted and it's up to you to unlock them all through randomized sets of levels.
Alpinist Escape
—December 20, 2014— You and your friends go skiing and discover a cabin. As you walk in, you hear the door lock behind you, and then presumably the giggles and snorts of your friends as they run off into the cold darkness that is the winter night. Long story short you need some new friends. but if you enjoy solving puzzles and escaping then they are the most thoughtful friends on the earth, because that is exactly what you need to do.
Bertram Fiddle: Episode 1: A Dreadly Business
—December 18, 2014— Help Fiddle track down Geoff the Murderer while navigating a charmingly absurd Victorian London. With a cast of quirky characters, and great art and music, this point-and-click adventure will quickly draw you in.
Bloons Monkey City
—December 17, 2014— In Bloons Monkey City you go behind the scenes to train, upgrade, and build a city for your monkey army to inhabit all while working toward one goal: Retake your land from the evil Bloons. Use your tower defense skills to fight back the enemy all while managing your town in order to grow your forces.
—December 13, 2014— Everyone needs a healthy dose of adorableness. And these sweet little robots provide that and more; a great mental workout in the form of a simple yet engaging sliding block puzzle game.
Rogue Legend
—December 11, 2014— Fantasy farming meets Minecraft-style building and action RPG in this rough but promising game made in just two months. Plant crops, care for livestock, fight monsters, and build your home block by block!
Bubble Dreams
—December 4, 2014— Free for iOS and Android, Chompy takes you through a whopping 250 levels of classic match-3 bubble popping puzzle gameplay.
Two Dots
—December 3, 2014— It's time for this lovely couple's getaway to see the wonders of the world. Connect dots on each level to reach the objective, letting the couple travel deeper and farther in this mobile puzzle game.
One More Line
—December 1, 2014— How long can you last in this simple yet addictive one-touch arcade game as you rocket down the endless corridor, latching onto and swinging from node to node while you leave a colourful trail behind you?
Let There Be Life
—November 28, 2014— Need a game to help you unwind from the daily grind? Escape to your zen place as you build trees and preserve flowers in this beautiful and relaxing game available for Android or iOS.
Mercurial Story
—November 25, 2014— In this puzzle platformer, the main character struggles with uncontrollable mood swings represented by mirrored worlds on each level. While some may find the implication of abuse too much to get past, Mercurial Story is still obviously intended to provide an optimistic look if you can survive to the end.
Crossy Road
—November 21, 2014— Endless arcade action meets classic Frogger style gameplay in this free iOS game where you control a series of hapless unlockable creatures trying to cross some very busy and very deadly roads and rapids. With a sense of humor and vibrant voxel graphics, it's both charming and hard to put down.
Kingdom Rush Origins
—November 20, 2014— Ironhide Games is back for more with the third installment in their wildly popular realtime strategy/tower defense game series available for iOS and Android. As gorgeous and charming as you'd expect, Origins doesn't do much to shake up the established formula, but with new enemies, locations, heroes, and more, it's everything fans enjoy with a high coat of polish.
Sweet Drmzzz
—November 19, 2014— Bart Bonte brings us another fun point-and-click puzzle game in his signature style. Tap your way through a dreamscape of colorful worms in an interstellar adventure that will keep you on your toes.
Black Tower Enigma
—November 18, 2014— Help Wigo rescue his wife at the top of a magical tower in this short but sweet game for iOS and Android. The only way to advance is solving whatever riddle and puzzle is thrown his way. Are you clever enough to reunite the lovers?
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
—November 13, 2014— Mere months after the release of the original beloved and terrifying game comes a bigger, meaner sequel, though it mostly feels like a more complete game than the first. With new animatronics, new mechanics, and a whole lot of jump scares and unsettling scenes, can you survive your new night shift?
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—November 13, 2014— Available in your browser or free for iOS and Android, Martin Kool serves up a simple and simply lovely little puzzle game for fans of logic, smart gameplay, and beautiful, clean design.
Glorkian Warrior: The Trials of Glork
—November 12, 2014— A James Kolchaka/Pixeljam joint production, Glorkian Warrior: The Trials of Glork gives you just the right mix of retro-shooter action, platform stomping, and Saturday morning cartoon. Its difficulty is definitely old-school, but it's bright, bouncy, mindless, and completely unashamed of it, making for fun sci-fi shenanigans.
Slush Tile Rush
—November 6, 2014— Also available for Android, this frenetic clickfest of tile-matching goodness. Make matches by clicking on matching tiles to deal damage against your opponent before they can knock you out!


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Daytona Preseason Thunder: Day 1
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The first day of this year's Preseason Thunder test session at Daytona International Speedway was the unofficial start to the 2012 Sprint Cup Series season.
A pair of sessions comprised the opening day of the three-day gathering as teams took their first opportunity to get on track in anticipation of the new campaign.
Jeff Gordon led the way in the morning's single car session with a lap of 192.773 mph with Paul Menard, Kurt Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Juan Pablo Montoya rounding out the fast five.
Danica PatrickDanica Patrick, who in addition to her full-time Nationwide Series ride with JR Motorsports will make 10 Sprint Cup starts including the Daytona 500, was able to break into the top 10 with the eighth-fastest speed of the session.
"Well, today is just run on our own and seeing how fast we can get the car to go," Patrick said. "And then I think tomorrow we'll work on bump drafting. And I heard Tony (Stewart) say he's going to let someone else go do it first with the new rear spoiler and spring. So that's fine with me. I said I think I want to be the one getting pushed so that I don't want to be the one that takes out my boss. That would be bad. I said you can push me first."
The afternoon was spent with a drafting session and was the first real test of NASCAR's new rule package for Daytona that includes changes to the engine cooling system, a smaller spoiler and a larger restrictor plate.
The modifications were made in hopes of breaking up the two car tandem draft that has become prevalent at both Daytona and Talladega. A number of drivers again paired up for most of Thursday's afternoon runs.
Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Joey Logano were clocked at 202.402 mph during one run as the duo used the nose to tail drafting style that has become the new norm in plate racing.
However, Busch isn't sure just how long drivers will be able to stay in the two-car formation because of the new rules package.
"We don't know right now," he said. We think it's going to impact it quite a bit. We used to be able to figure it out how we could push and keep pushing for a run. Now, I think it's going to be all the way back to where you're only going to have maybe a lap or two."
Clint BowyerThe only incident of the day came when new Michael Waltrip Racing drivers Clint Bowyer and Mark Martin were practicing the two-car draft.
"We were just practicing the tandem and were going to practice the switch and in course of making the switch I turned Clint around," Martin said. "I learned a lesson and Clint is an incredible driver. He saved it out of the wall and I'm glad he's still got a car to test with."
NASCAR will increase the size of restrictor plates 15/16th of an inch as well as limit the grille opening by one inch on each side for Friday.
"It's going to be wild," Edwards said after he was informed of the changes. "I'm all for higher speeds, less grip and make the cars harder to drive."
With a majority of today's sessions being single car runs the sanctioning body will be looking for more pack drafting to take place tomorrow.
"We'll gather our information, and we've talked to a few already, and they know it's in the best interest of everyone to get out there in larger groups, so the message will be coming down to them soon," said NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton. "So that's why we have a three-day test. Generally the first day always kind of goes like this."
NASCAR also announced that they will ban multi-radio communication, which commonly has occured in the past restrictor-plate races, starting at Daytona.
"The teams will still have the ability to talk amongst themselves," Sprint Cup series director John Darby said. "If Chad Knaus wants to talk to Steve Letarte or Alan Gustafson, they'll have the ability to do that. The only thing the new rule controls is the actual car-to-car communication, which for the most part doesn't happen. It's not like we're taking away a tool that's commonly in use. It basically affects four races, so by putting the rule in play, it'll just make these four more like the other 34 that we run, 33."
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Daytona Preseason Thunder: Day 2
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR Preseason Thunder testing continued on Friday at Daytona International Speedway and speeds continued to increase.
Teams again participated in a pair of sessions with the morning runs featuring more single car efforts as well as tandem drafting.
Preseason ThunderMichael Waltrip Racing teammates Clint Bowyer and Martin Truex Jr. led the way in the first session, each posting a lap of 204.722 mph in the draft together.
"It's just different ways of pushing and stuff like that," Bowyer explained. "You can obviously go faster straight in line, but you can't do it very long. I was just trying to see how long I could do it and we're down here to learn -- that helps NASCAR figure out what they need to do to make the appropriate actions. We have another meeting at lunch and we'll see what that entails."
NASCAR encouraged drivers to pack draft in the afternoon session in order to gauge how the new rule packages would impact speeds and handling in a large group of cars.
Jeff Gordon, who has had one of the strongest cars in single car runs, enjoyed his time running in a large pack, especially when he wasn't pushing another car.
Preseason Thunder"I wish more than anything that we couldn't push at all, because gosh, I had so much fun out there today in those big packs when we weren't pushing," said Gordon, who posted the fourth best speed in the draft at 205.747 mph. "You can pass and the cars are moving around a little bit and kind of just reminds me of the good old days.
"Pretty happy with all the hard work that has gone into coming down here and preparation for Daytona. So excited about this whole year, really, and having a great car here at the test."
Only four drivers opted not to participate drafting in large groups, including Jimmie Johnson.
"We don't want to take any chances with this car," Johnson said. "It's way too fast. We don't need it on a hook."
Kurt Busch and Regan Smith paired up to turn a blistering set of laps with Busch topping the test with a lap of 206.058 mph.
After the day was complete, NASCAR announced a change in the restrictor plate for Saturday's session that will see the size return to 29/32nds, which was in use on Thursday. There will also be a modification to the grille to make the opening more horizontal and a reduction in radiator pressures for the final day of the test.
"We're going to continue to work on aero packages and plate sizes and all types of things from now until the day we sign back in here at Daytona," said Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton.
Preseason ThunderBusch, who is making his debut at the test with Phoenix Racing, has thus far enjoyed the experience of working with his new team at the test after ending his tenure at Penske Racing.
"It's been a lot of fun to work with a small group of guys and thrash on just getting the car to the hauler to get the hauler down here on time, " Busch said. "Just how everybody on the team is just walking on cloud nine right now with the excitement, with the way that we've been running so far on track, especially in the single car runs, with where we did our mock up qualifying run, it put us second on the board as far as guys with the fastest laps this morning in single car runs.
"So just a ton of excitement, and the way the guys are together on this, it's going to be they're looking at me to grow and to learn, and I'm looking at them to grow and to learn, so it's going to be a lot of fun this year."
While Busch and team owner James Finch work on cementing their relationship in hopes of putting together a solid season for the one-car operation there is still talk regarding the tumultuous departure by the driver from Penske Racing.
Richard Petty said during Thursday's announcement to introduce Smithfield Foods as the new sponsor for Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Ford that Busch wasn't an option for the team because the company wasn't interested in aligning with his personality.
Busch was taken aback by the comment and said he felt he had several options for 2012 including with RPM.
"Talking with King, it was weird to hear his comments yesterday because he was ready to throw me in the car and we would have been down the road," Busch said. "But the contracts just didn't align on where they were and where I wanted to be, and so I talked with Finch, made the deal happen. But also talked with Waltrip Racing. I went to meet with Richard Childress at his winery and talk shop."
Busch believes the discussions that took place in the off season and ultimately led to his joining Phoenix Racing could play a role in determining his future down the line.
But for now he's focused on running for Finch's organization.
"Just the doors that were opened during this off season to talk to people, yes, 2012 is going to be a unique year for somebody such as myself," Busch said. "But to take a step back for me personally and look at all of this, this is what I need. And all along we're going to keep our eyes on the prize in 2013."
The final day of Preseason Thunder will kick off tomorrow at 9 a.m. (ET).
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Daytona Preseason Thunder: Day 3
The 2012 edition of NASCAR Preseason Thunder testing at Daytona International Speedway came to a close Saturday with a pair of practice sessions.
Preseason ThunderNASCAR continued to tweak with the rule package to find the right balance to bring back to Daytona for Speedweeks next month. Teams used the same size restrictor plate that was in play for Thursday's opening session after testing with a bigger plate on Friday.
Overall NASCAR officials were pleased with the feedback and and data acquired during the three days in Daytona.
"As everybody knows, we've been shrinking plates, growing plates and working on different parts of the cooling system, and the goal was to see what our limits were," said vice president of competition Robin Pemberton. "As you've seen over the three days, got big on a plate, now we think we're honed in on where we need to come back and start Speedweeks."
After Kurt Busch topped the 206 mph mark in Friday's drafting sessions, teams were more around the 200 mph mark Saturday with the smaller plate. Pemberton says that's a very comfortable speed to work with going forward.
Preseason Thunder"We've been over 200 for a couple of years now during the races," he said. "You know, we feel anything can happen, but we feel comfortable. We've done a lot of work in the wind tunnels, and I think if you saw the little contact today, cars stayed on the ground pretty good, knock on wood.
"But you know, at some point in time you drew a line, whether it was 200, whether it was just something to keep in mind and keep us in check. But right now I think we feel pretty good about it."
Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne led the way in Saturday's morning session, each turning a lap of 201.545 mph. Kurt Busch, Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the first five.
The afternoon session again featuring stints of pack racing with 15-20 car groups turning laps.
Preseason ThunderWhether or not pack racing will be back in full when February rolls around or if the two-car tandem draft remains in vogue is still a question.
"If I had to guess right now and they lined us up to race I'd say that you'd see a pack for most of the day," said Denny Hamlin. "You're going to see breakaways here and there but I think that for the most part the pack can run fast enough to keep up with the two-car tandem. The two-car tandem will get out there a little bit but I think that if you get a big enough pack with 20 or 30 cars they will eat up a tandem pretty quick."
That session was not without its incidents with Jeff Burton getting involved in a spin for a second straight day this time after making contact with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Juan Pablo Montoya.
Preseason Thunder"I'm not sure what happened," said a frustrated Burton. "I'll have to look at it. But believe it or not with all of this, we had a pretty good test down here."
Gordon led the way again in the afternoon session with a lap of 200.562 mph. AJ Allmendinger, Brad Keselowski, Kahne and Hamlin rounding out the top five.
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Speeds top 200 mph at Daytona test session
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NASCAR is making gains toward breaking up the two-car tandem racing that has taken over at Daytona and Talladega, but the fix sent speeds soaring over 200 mph Friday in a test session.
Kurt Busch posted the fastest lap of the day at 206.058 mph, but was being pushed around Daytona International Speedway in a two-car tandem by Regan Smith. Kyle Busch was clocked at 205.813 while pack racing.
NASCAR has traditionally shied away from the 200 mph mark, and four-time series champion Jeff Gordon said he approached series officials about the speeds because he was certain the cars would be slowed. He said he was surprised when NASCAR indicated it was comfortable over 200 mph.
It's embedded in our minds we can't go out there over 200 mph in race conditions, he said. Somehow it's become accepted and I think that's a good thing. It's very comfortable. It's extremely comfortable.
But it's unclear what the racing will actually look like when the season opens with the Daytona 500 - NASCAR's version of the Super Bowl - on Feb. 26.
Fans are clear that they want pack racing at Daytona and Talladega, NASCAR's two biggest and fastest tracks. Drivers figured out about three years ago that hooking up in two-car tandems was the fastest way around the track, and the style evolved so quickly, NASCAR couldn't stop it.
The end result was a two-car hookup in which the trailing driver was pushing the lead car around the track. Only one spotter worked for both cars, as the pushing driver was unable to see anything ahead. Overheating issues forced the cars to swap positions every few laps, and that maneuver added an element of danger because separating slowed the two cars dramatically.
NASCAR Chairman Brian France vowed to move away from the two-car tandems in November, and a series of aerodynamic rules changes have done just that.
NASCAR also banned driver-to-driver communications over their scanners.
It's all part of a continuous process, that could go all the way up to race day. NASCAR has changed specifications during each of the first two days of testing, and officials summoned the drivers to a Friday meeting during the lunch break to strongly urge them to pack race during the afternoon session. Based on the data gleaned from the two drafting sessions, NASCAR made yet another series of technical changes that will be applied Saturday in the final day of testing.
Last year, NASCAR made changes during actual Speedweeks in an effort to break up the tandems. More changes were made before the other three restrictor-plate races on the schedule, too.
Earlier Friday, NASCAR President Mike Helton indicated speeds will likely be much different when teams return for the Daytona 500.
(Speed) is one of those things that we have to kind of monitor, Helton said. ``It is a test, so we may be a little bit more lenient at a test than we would be on race weekend. But we'll see how everything settles out and what kind of rules package we come back with ... 204 is OK for a test. It's OK for now.
But we'll have to take back everything we learn and then make a decision after that.
But Sprint Cup Series director John Darby said after the drafting sessions that the final product will likely be right around the 200 mph mark.
We'll still be over 200 mph. We'd like to stay as close to that mark as we can, said Darby, adding that NASCAR's confidence of keeping cars from going airborne at those speed has improved through wind tunnel testing.
If we were to put a target mark, it would be right around 200, which the drivers like, the excitement level of 200 mph is always present for the fans.
The drivers seemed comfortable over 200 mph, and most were thankful to run in packs again. Gordon said it was just reminds me of the good `ol days.
But, most of the drivers admitted the two-car tandem will never go away completely.
Everybody was really having a good time, and trying to get everything they could out of it before we went back to pushing around each other, said Dale Earnhardt Jr., who pushed teammate Jimmie Johnson to a win at Talladega last year.
Maybe, just maybe, you don't have to be in a two-car tandem to stay with the lead pack. The two-car tandem is probably the preferred way to go as far as speed. But maybe you don't have to do it for 500 miles. Maybe you can just kind of save your car, save the tail and the nose of your car and yourself.
That might be the way to go just to get through the race, and be there at the end. But that tandem stuff is what is going to win the race.
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Good to see the cards back on the track again. It would be better though if I had my Fantasy winnings from last season though
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Two alleged firearm dealers, arrested in connection with the rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case, were on Tuesday remanded in police custody till January 28 by a local court here.
Manish Nagori and Vikas Khandelwal, accused of involvement in criminal conspiracy part of the murder, were produced before Judicial Magistrate First Class A B Shaikh with a prosecution plea for 14-day custody for interrogation.
They were taken into custody by Pune police yesterday from a Thane jail where they were lodged in a separate case.
The duo told the court they had nothing to do with the murder and their counsel claimed his clients were offered Rs 25 lakh by Maharashtra ATS to confess their involvement in the crime.
The remand plea was opposed by the defence counsel who contended the duo was being made "scapegoats" due to political pressure on police to crack the widely publicised case.
Public Prosecutor Mahadeo Paul submitted custodial interrogation of the accused was necessary to trace the motorbike used in committing the crime by unidentified gunmen, who shot dead Dabholkar on August 20, 2013 on a city bridge.
"We want to find out the motive behind this crime," he argued.
The prosecution claimed Nagori and Khandelwal were engaged in illegal sale of firearms, and according to the ballistic report, one of the pistols recovered from them (7.65 caliber) matched with the bullets lodged in Dabholkar's body.
Refuting the prosecution contention, defence counsel B A Aloor told the court the accused, who were lodged in the Thane Jail in an extortion case, had already been interrogated by Maharashtra ATS and police for 52 days but they failed to establish their link with the sensational murder.
Both the accused were arrested by Thane police on the same day when the noted social activist was shot dead here.
Later, ATS sleuths, along with Pune police, had interrogated them to find out if they were involved in the crime but no arrests were made then.
Defence counsel Aloor alleged Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria had offered Rs 25 lakh to the accused during their interrogation in Thane in order to obtain a confessional statement from them in the case, even though Nagori and Khandelwal were not present in Pune on the day of crime.
When contracted, a top ATS officer rubbished the allegation levelled against the anti-terror agency.
Stating that investigating agencies had miserably failed to crack the case that had sent shock waves in the country, the defence counsel alleged Maharashtra Home Minister (R R Patil) had asked police to solve the case "by hook or crook" in view of the mounting pressure from all quarters.
Both Nagori and Khandelwal, when asked by the Magistrate to make a statement, repeated the allegation that they had been offered Rs 25 lakh to confess their involvement in the Dabholkar murder by ATS under duress.
Nagori told the Magistrate they had been subjected to all kinds of investigations, including lie detector test, but the investigators could not find anything to link them to the crime.
"We have nothing to do with the Dabholkar case. Our arrests have been made under political pressure. Let public know about the findings of narco test," the accused told the court, adding while in jail they were subjected to torture and "third degree" treatment by police to extract confession.
Investigating Officer Assistant Police Commissioner, Rajendra Bhamre, while seeking police custody for the accused, said it was necessary to know from them about the bike used by Dabholkar's assailants and also their accomplices in the case.
The Magistrate, after hearing both sides, remanded the duo to police custody till January 28.


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text: An-Noor - سورة النور - ( The Light ) - Read Quran القران الكريم in English translation by Yusuf Ali Live Stream from Makkah and Madina | Quran Teacher New | Listen Quran Online | Read Quran Online in Uthmani Script | FREE Dictionary The Quran 1. Al-Fatiha [7]2. Al-Baqara [286]3. Aal-e-Imran [200]4. An-Nisa [176]5. Al-Maeda [120]6. Al-Anaam [165]7. Al-Araf [206]8. Al-Anfal [75]9. At-Taubah [129]10. Yunus [109]11. Hud [123]12. Yusuf [111]13. Ar-Rad [43]14. Ibrahim [52]15. Al-Hijr [99]16. An-Nahl [128]17. Al-Isra [111]18. Al-Kahf [110]19. Maryam [98]20. Taha [135]21. Al-Anbiya [112]22. Al-Hajj [78]23. Al-Mumenoon [118]24. An-Noor [64]25. Al-Furqan [77]26. Ash-Shuara [227]27. An-Naml [93]28. Al-Qasas [88]29. Al-Ankaboot [69]30. Ar-Room [60]31. Luqman [34]32. As-Sajda [30]33. Al-Ahzab [73]34. Saba [54]35. Fatir [45]36. Ya Seen [83]37. As-Saaffat [182]38. Sad [88]39. Az-Zumar [75]40. Ghafir [85]41. Fussilat [54]42. Ash-Shura [53]43. Az-Zukhruf [89]44. Ad-Dukhan [59]45. Al-Jathiya [37]46. Al-Ahqaf [35]47. Muhammad [38]48. Al-Fath [29]49. Al-Hujraat [18]50. Qaf [45]51. Adh-Dhariyat [60]52. At-tur [49]53. An-Najm [62]54. Al-Qamar [55]55. Ar-Rahman [78]56. Al-Waqia [96]57. Al-Hadid [29]58. Al-Mujadila [22]59. Al-Hashr [24]60. Al-Mumtahana [13]61. As-Saff [14]62. Al-Jumua [11]63. Al-Munafiqoon [11]64. At-Taghabun [18]65. At-Talaq [12]66. At-Tahrim [12]67. Al-Mulk [30]68. Al-Qalam [52]69. Al-Haaqqa [52]70. Al-Maarij [44]71. Nooh [28]72. Al-Jinn [28]73. Al-Muzzammil [20]74. Al-Muddathir [56]75. Al-Qiyama [40]76. Al-Insan [31]77. Al-Mursalat [50]78. An-Naba [40]79. An-Naziat [46]80. Abasa [42]81. At-Takwir [29]82. AL-Infitar [19]83. Al-Mutaffifin [36]84. Al-Inshiqaq [25]85. Al-Burooj [22]86. At-Tariq [17]87. Al-Ala [19]88. Al-Ghashiya [26]89. Al-Fajr [30]90. Al-Balad [20]91. Ash-Shams [15]92. Al-Lail [21]93. Ad-Dhuha [11]94. Al-Inshirah [8]95. At-Tin [8]96. Al-Alaq [19]97. Al-Qadr [5]98. Al-Bayyina [8]99. Al-Zalzala [8]100. Al-Adiyat [11]101. 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An-Nas [6]in Arabic (simple script)Arabic (Uthmani style 1)Arabic (Uthmani style 2)Arabic imagesAbdullah Yusuf Ali - EnglishMuhammad Habib Shakir - EnglishMuhammad Pickthal - EnglishMohsin Khan - EnglishSaheeh International - EnglishTransliteration - EnglishUrdu (Ahmed Ali)Urdu (Jalandhry)Farsi (Hussain Ansarian)French (Muhammad Hamidullah)Spanish (Julio Cortes)IndonesianMalayGerman (Bubenheim & Elyas)Russian (Elmir Kuliev)Bosnian (Besim Korkut)Dutch (Dr. Salomo Keyzer)Italian (Hamza Roberto Piccardo)Portuguese (Prof. Samir El-Hayek)Arabic Tafsir (Jalal ad-Din)Arabic Tafsir (King Fahad Quran Complex) Show Arabic Text Show All Translations An-Noor | 64 verses | The Light | Recitation | Topics | Uthmani Script | Tafsir | Words | Quran Teacher سورة النور Sura #24 | Madina 1A sura which We have sent down and which We have ordained in it have We sent down Clear Signs, in order that ye may receive admonition. 2The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment. 3Let no man guilty of adultery or fornication marry and but a woman similarly guilty, or an Unbeliever: nor let any but such a man or an Unbeliever marry such a woman: to the Believers such a thing is forbidden. 4And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors;- 5Unless they repent thereafter and mend (their conduct); for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. 6And for those who launch a charge against their spouses, and have (in support) no evidence but their own,- their solitary evidence (can be received) if they bear witness four times (with an oath) by Allah that they are solemnly telling the truth; 7And the fifth (oath) (should be) that they solemnly invoke the curse of Allah on themselves if they tell a lie. 8But it would avert the punishment from the wife, if she bears witness four times (with an oath) By Allah, that (her husband) is telling a lie; 9And the fifth (oath) should be that she solemnly invokes the wrath of Allah on herself if (her accuser) is telling the truth. 10If it were not for Allah's grace and mercy on you, and that Allah is Oft-Returning, full of Wisdom,- (Ye would be ruined indeed). 11Those who brought forward the lie are a body among yourselves: think it not to be an evil to you; On the contrary it is good for you: to every man among them (will come the punishment) of the sin that he earned, and to him who took on himself the lead among them, will be a penalty grievous. 12Why did not the believers - men and women - when ye heard of the affair,- put the best construction on it in their own minds and say, "This (charge) is an obvious lie"? 13Why did they not bring four witnesses to prove it? When they have not brought the witnesses, such men, in the sight of Allah, (stand forth) themselves as liars! 14Were it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, in this world and the Hereafter, a grievous penalty would have seized you in that ye rushed glibly into this affair. 15Behold, ye received it on your tongues, and said out of your mouths things of which ye had no knowledge; and ye thought it to be a light matter, while it was most serious in the sight of Allah. 16And why did ye not, when ye heard it, say? - "It is not right of us to speak of this: Glory to Allah! this is a most serious slander!" 17Allah doth admonish you, that ye may never repeat such (conduct), if ye are (true) Believers. 18And Allah makes the Signs plain to you: for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom. 19Those who love (to see) scandal published broadcast among the Believers, will have a grievous Penalty in this life and in the Hereafter: Allah knows, and ye know not. 20Were it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, and that Allah is full of kindness and mercy, (ye would be ruined indeed). 21O ye who believe! follow not Satan's footsteps: if any will follow the footsteps of Satan, he will (but) command what is shameful and wrong: and were it not for the grace and mercy of Allah on you, not one of you would ever have been pure: but Allah doth purify whom He pleases: and Allah is One Who hears and knows (all things). 22Let not those among you who are endued with grace and amplitude of means resolve by oath against helping their kinsmen, those in want, and those who have left their homes in Allah's cause: let them forgive and overlook, do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. 23Those who slander chaste women, indiscreet but believing, are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter: for them is a grievous Penalty,- 24On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them as to their actions. 25On that Day Allah will pay them back (all) their just dues, and they will realise that Allah is the (very) Truth, that makes all things manifest. 26Women impure are for men impure, and men impure for women impure and women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity: these are not affected by what people say: for them there is forgiveness, and a provision honourable. 27O ye who believe! enter not houses other than your own, until ye have asked permission and saluted those in them: that is best for you, in order that ye may heed (what is seemly). 28If ye find no one in the house, enter not until permission is given to you: if ye are asked to go back, go back: that makes for greater purity for yourselves: and Allah knows well all that ye do. 29It is no fault on your part to enter houses not used for living in, which serve some (other) use for you: And Allah has knowledge of what ye reveal and what ye conceal. 30Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And Allah is well acquainted with all that they do. 31And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye Believers! turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss. 32Marry those among you who are single, or the virtuous ones among yourselves, male or female: if they are in poverty, Allah will give them means out of His grace: for Allah encompasseth all, and he knoweth all things. 33Let those who find not the wherewithal for marriage keep themselves chaste, until Allah gives them means out of His grace. And if any of your slaves ask for a deed in writing (to enable them to earn their freedom for a certain sum), give them such a deed if ye know any good in them: yea, give them something yourselves out of the means which Allah has given to you. But force not your maids to prostitution when they desire chastity, in order that ye may make a gain in the goods of this life. But if anyone compels them, yet, after such compulsion, is Allah, Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (to them), 34We have already sent down to you verses making things clear, an illustration from (the story of) people who passed away before you, and an admonition for those who fear (Allah). 35Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things. 36(Lit is such a Light) in houses, which Allah hath permitted to be raised to honour; for the celebration, in them, of His name: In them is He glorified in the mornings and in the evenings, (again and again),- 37By men whom neither traffic nor merchandise can divert from the Remembrance of Allah, nor from regular Prayer, nor from the practice of regular Charity: Their (only) fear is for the Day when hearts and eyes will be transformed (in a world wholly new),- 38That Allah may reward them according to the best of their deeds, and add even more for them out of His Grace: for Allah doth provide for those whom He will, without measure. 39But the Unbelievers,- their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts, which the man parched with thirst mistakes for water; until when he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing: But he finds Allah (ever) with him, and Allah will pay him his account: and Allah is swift in taking account. 40Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light! 41Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises all beings in the heavens and on earth do celebrate, and the birds (of the air) with wings outspread? Each one knows its own (mode of) prayer and praise. And Allah knows well all that they do. 42Yea, to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; and to Allah is the final goal (of all). 43Seest thou not that Allah makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a heap? - then wilt thou see rain issue forth from their midst. And He sends down from the sky mountain masses (of clouds) wherein is hail: He strikes therewith whom He pleases and He turns it away from whom He pleases, the vivid flash of His lightning well-nigh blinds the sight. 44It is Allah Who alternates the Night and the Day: verily in these things is an instructive example for those who have vision! 45And Allah has created every animal from water: of them there are some that creep on their bellies; some that walk on two legs; and some that walk on four. Allah creates what He wills for verily Allah has power over all things. 46We have indeed sent down signs that make things manifest: and Allah guides whom He wills to a way that is straight. 47They say, "We believe in Allah and in the messenger, and we obey": but even after that, some of them turn away: they are not (really) Believers. 48When they are summoned to Allah and His messenger, in order that He may judge between them, behold some of them decline (to come). 49But if the right is on their side, they come to him with all submission. 50Is it that there is a disease in their hearts? or do they doubt, or are they in fear, that Allah and His Messenger will deal unjustly with them? Nay, it is they themselves who do wrong. 51The answer of the Believers, when summoned to Allah and His Messenger, in order that He may judge between them, is no other than this: they say, "We hear and we obey": it is such as these that will attain felicity. 52It is such as obey Allah and His Messenger, and fear Allah and do right, that will win (in the end), 53They swear their strongest oaths by Allah that, if only thou wouldst command them, they would leave (their homes). Say: "Swear ye not; Obedience is (more) reasonable; verily, Allah is well acquainted with all that ye do." 54Say: "Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger: but if ye turn away, he is only responsible for the duty placed on him and ye for that placed on you. If ye obey him, ye shall be on right guidance. The Messenger's duty is only to preach the clear (Message). 55Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion - the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change (their state), after the fear in which they (lived), to one of security and peace: 'They will worship Me (alone) and not associate aught with Me. 'If any do reject Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked. 56So establish regular Prayer and give regular Charity; and obey the Messenger; that ye may receive mercy. 57Never think thou that the Unbelievers are going to frustrate (Allah's Plan) on earth: their abode is the Fire,- and it is indeed an evil refuge! 58O ye who believe! let those whom your right hands possess, and the (children) among you who have not come of age ask your permission (before they come to your presence), on three occasions: before morning prayer; the while ye doff your clothes for the noonday heat; and after the late-night prayer: these are your three times of undress: outside those times it is not wrong for you or for them to move about attending to each other: Thus does Allah make clear the Signs to you: for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom. 59But when the children among you come of age, let them (also) ask for permission, as do those senior to them (in age): Thus does Allah make clear His Signs to you: for Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom. 60Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage,- there is no blame on them if they lay aside their (outer) garments, provided they make not a wanton display of their beauty: but it is best for them to be modest: and Allah is One Who sees and knows all things. 61It is no fault in the blind nor in one born lame, nor in one afflicted with illness, nor in yourselves, that ye should eat in your own houses, or those of your fathers, or your mothers, or your brothers, or your sisters, or your father's brothers or your father's sisters, or your mother's brothers, or your mother's sisters, or in houses of which the keys are in your possession, or in the house of a sincere friend of yours: there is no blame on you, whether ye eat in company or separately. But if ye enter houses, salute each other - a greeting of blessing and purity as from Allah. Thus does Allah make clear the signs to you: that ye may understand. 62Only those are believers, who believe in Allah and His Messenger: when they are with him on a matter requiring collective action, they do not depart until they have asked for his leave; those who ask for thy leave are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger; so when they ask for thy leave, for some business of theirs, give leave to those of them whom thou wilt, and ask Allah for their forgiveness: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. 63Deem not the summons of the Messenger among yourselves like the summons of one of you to another: Allah doth know those of you who slip away under shelter of some excuse: then let those beware who withstand the Messenger's order, lest some trial befall them, or a grievous penalty be inflicted on them. 64Be quite sure that to Allah doth belong whatever is in the heavens and on earth. 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MercyMe and Martina McBride also will highlight the 'exceptional lineup' for 2014 festival's Sunset Concert Series.Comments
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The failure of data leak protection was a big issue for agencies before WikiLeaks, but now there is even more reason to push for greater data leak protection.
Edward Amoroso, the senior vice president and chief security officer at AT&T, said the cybersecurity industry has been pushing for more data leak protection in the past couple of years.
Amoroso is the author of "Cyber Attacks: Protecting National Infrastructure."
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Chirstening cake with 3D Teddy bear
This is a 3 Tiered Christening cake with a 3D Teddy bear on top.
The Bear is vanilla buttercake and the tiers are different mudcakes, choc, marble and caramel.
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ELIZABETH SARLES Elizabeth A. Thompson Sarles, 74, a retired medical technologist, of Las Vegas, passed away Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at Creekside Hospice, after a long battle with congestive heart failure and
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. She was born July 21, 1938, in Englewood, N.J., and was a 41-year resident of Nevada. Elizabeth graduated high school in Pleasantville, N.Y., in 1956, and from Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., in 1960, with a degree in science. She trained as a clinical laboratory medical technologist at St. Jude's Hospital in Fullerton, Calif. She worked as a clinical laboratory medical technologist at the Fraunspital in Basel, Switzerland for one and a half years, returning to Pleasantville, in the spring of 1964. She married Peter G. Sarles, of Bedford Hills, N.Y., Aug. 21, 1965. She worked as a supervisor of the Serology Department at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Elizabeth moved to Las Vegas in the fall of 1971, where she worked for APL/Quest Diagnostics as a hematology/blood bank supervisor. She retired in 1986 to become a full-time volunteer care taker of Potosi Pines Methodist Church Camp. Elizabeth and Peter returned to the Las Vegas valley in 1993. For several years, she was a delegate to the Bi-Annual International Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists. She was an active master gardener with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Services for 15 years. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her parents, Priscilla A. Johnson and Harlan M. Thompson. She is survived by her husband, of 47 years, Peter G. Sarles; sisters, Carol DeCoster of Foster, R.I. and Martha Nester of Seattle; brother, Alan Thompson of Waukesha, Wis.; and several nieces and nephews. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Community Lutheran Church, 3720 E. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89121. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Community Lutheran Church.
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Amish Sugar Cream Pie
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 1 hr
Sweet and creamy, this rich Amish pie may have a slightly softer texture than the typical custard pies you are used to. It also has a bit of a unique flavor, which almost tastes like brown sugar.
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- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Combine ingredients thoroughly using whisk.
- Pour into pie shell.
- Bake at 425°F for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 325°F, and bake for 45-55 minutes more, wrapping edges of pie crust with foil, if necessary, to prevent excessive browning (pie will appear slightly soft in center when done).
- Cool and refrigerate completely before cutting (it will firm up a little more as it sits).
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This pie is like eating candy. Very rich and just plain good. Mine boiled over at 40 minutes in the oven. Next time I'll use a deeper pie plate. There will deffinately be a next time!
Flavorwise - Wonderful! Creamy, soft, smooth and sweet. I only used 1/4 cup sugar for the filling.
Shapewise - The filling stated in this recipe doesn't really fill up a 9 inch pie shell. I was very happy to choose Graham Cracker pie shell for this recipe because the remaining edge could be easily removed.

Next time I make this pie, will try with 2 cups heavy cream and 1/4 cup flour. Overall, this is a great recipe! Thanks for posting.
Excellent ... reminds me of my childhood in Indiana. I used pumpkin pie spice on the top.


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S. George had been asked to appear in connection with a cheating case; judge posts matter to January 17
With city police commissioner, S. George, failing to turn up before the Madras High Court on Friday in a case relating to alleged cheating, the judge has posted the matter for January 17.
Justice A. Arumughaswamy had directed the city police head to appear on Friday to inform the court about the status of the case.
The case is related to a petition by D. Sridhar of Ekkaduthangal, who said that he had preferred a complaint with the commissioner in April 2005 about Rajamani and other directors of a company who were refusing to sell him a piece of land even though he had made payments to the company on various dates.
Hence, Mr. Sridhar said it was a case of cheating and breach of trust. Justice Arumughaswamy had said that considering the facts and circumstances, it was clear that the sale deed had not been executed and repeatedly, the officer concerned had filed negative final reports in spite of the High Court's directions.
When the matter came up, the judge asked whether action had been taken against the erring police officials. He also wanted to know whether the police commissioner would be appearing before the court.
Joint commissioner of police, central crime branch, S.N. Seshasai, was present. Advocate-general, A. Navaneethakrishnan, replied that the commissioner was conducting a meeting.
The judge said that action should be taken against the officials concerned. The AG said appropriate action would be taken.
Justice Arumughaswamy also asked as to what the difficulty was in the commissioner's appearing before the court. He later adjourned the matter to January 17.
The judge also asked why the joint commissioner had not come to the court in uniform. When told he was in the crime branch, the judge said the JC should come in uniform and then say he was attached to the crime unit.
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WILKES-BARRE - Two witnesses called to testify by Luzerne County prosecutors Wednesday said Joshua Carlos Ovalles fired shots in the air.
They said they did not see Ovalles, 19, aim and fire a pistol at Vaughn Kemp outside 174 S. Grant St., Wilkes-Barre, where a party was being held.
Kemp died from multiple gunshot wounds, testified Luzerne County Deputy Coroner Dan Hughes, who noted the death as a homicide.
Despite the lack of eyewitnesses, District Judge Martin Kane said prosecutors established a case against Ovalles sending an open count of criminal homicide to Luzerne County Court.
A teenage boy and Ramon Duval, 22, who both needed interpreters, said they were at the party on July 6 into July 7 when Ovalles fired rounds into the air. The boy said he was inside the house and looked out the window after hearing gunfire. Duvall said he ran when he heard the gunshots and did not know if Kemp had ran away as well.
The boy and Duval were the only witnesses called to testify by assistant district attorneys Mamie Phillips and Mary Hanlon Mirabito.
Ovalles' attorney, Peter Moses, said the case has "many holes" and pledged to defend his client at trial.


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PLM Sea of Dreams Afterparty feat. Michal Menert, Eliot Lipp + PLM crew at 1015 Folsom San Francisco 12/30 [NYE Warm-Up]
This shouldn't exactly come as a surprise, but San Francisco likes to get pretty rowdy when it comes to celebrating New Year's Eve. With this year's fateful final day landing on a Wednesday, the City is ready to go out with a bang, as it always does, in a week-long extravaganza of debauchery and awesome music. While we don't know where we'll be celebrating the New Year just yet, we're even more excited for the night before New Year's Eve when the fine folks at Euphonic Conceptions will invite the Pretty Lights Music crew to take over 1015 Folsom for an epic Sea of Dreams after-party.
Tuesday, December 30 is destined to be one hell of a NYE warm-up. Pretty Lights Music OG and Colorado bass music mastermind Michal Menert will bring his talents to 1015 Folsom alongside his fellow Pretty Lights Music crew members Eliot Lipp, SuperVision, and Paul Basic. Joining the PLM crew will be young East Coast music maker SuperVision and the always amazing Late Night Radio. Local favorites Dailon and Boac Jackson are among the support acts. The funk is strong with this one. Music will be in multiple rooms with killer sound systems and will go until 4 a.m., an increasingly rare late-night treat in San Francisco.


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In 1930, the Jewish Community Center of St. Paul (JCC)—originally called the Jewish Education Center (JEC)—began the work it continues in the twenty-first century: providing for the educational, social, cultural, and recreational lives of Jewish youth and St. Paul families.
A marked rise in public anti-Semitism in the 1930s spurred a group of Jewish leaders in the Twin Cities and Duluth to form the Anti-Defamation Council of Minnesota in 1938. In the 1950s the focus of the council shifted from defensive actions to teaching campaigns. These efforts aimed to fight ignorance and improve social relations. The renamed Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas continues this mission in the twenty-first century.
In the late nineteenth century, some of the Jewish immigrants who had originally settled in the Twin Ports of Duluth-Superior saw economic opportunity in the nearby Iron Range of northern Minnesota. From the 1890s through the 1920s they founded retail and service businesses in the region's booming mining towns. Though small in numbers and relatively isolated, Iron Range Jews supported a vibrant communal life through the 1980s, when hard times on the Range led to a general depopulation.
Orthodox Jews founded the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children in North Minneapolis in 1918. Their concern was Jewish children who were cared for in non-Jewish foster homes. The founders felt that such children would become estranged from their religion and culture. The Sheltering Home functioned as a Jewish institution through the early 1960s.
Nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants brought to Minnesota long-standing religious traditions of aiding the poor and needy. Beginning in the 1870s, German-Jewish immigrants, followed by Jews from Eastern Europe, founded an array of charitable and philanthropic groups. Women were the prime movers, though men held directors' roles.
Organized youth camping became popular in the late nineteenth century against the backdrop of the Progressive Era. In Minnesota and across the U.S., reformers believed that offering fresh-air vacations to poor children living in crowded cities would contribute to public health. Another motive was Americanizing the children of immigrants. The earliest Jewish camps pursued the same goals, with one addition: teaching the Jewish faith.
John Albert Johnson was Minnesota's first governor born in the state, its first governor to serve a full term in the current State Capitol, and its first governor to die in office, making him one of the state's most notable leaders.
The prolific architect Clarence H. Johnston left a built legacy unmatched in Minnesota. He designed scores of mansions and stately houses, mostly in St. Paul, as well as dozens of academic buildings, churches, schools, sports palaces, prisons, hospitals, and asylums.
The K.J. Taralseth Company building is a physical reminder of the early commercial development of Warren. After moving from a brick store that was destroyed by fire in 1910, Ralph Taralseth built a new store that reflected the company's success. The new building carried a mixed product line for which the company became known. It also provided space for the professional services and fraternal organizations forming in and around Warren.
Oliver Hudson Kelley was a "book farmer," a man who had learned what he knew about agriculture from reading rather than from direct experience. In 1867, he helped found the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the nation's largest agricultural fraternity.
Trustbuster, Senator, Secretary of State, Nobel Laureate, and World Court judge, Frank Kellogg rose from a small farm in Olmsted County to being the highest-ranking diplomat in the United States. He is remembered as one of the authors of the 1928 Pact of Paris, a multi-lateral treaty that renounced aggressive war as a matter of national policy.
Kenesseth Israel (Assembly of Israel) is the oldest Orthodox Jewish congregation in Minnesota. Founded in 1891, it was the first congregation on Minneapolis' North Side.
Minnesota's southeastern counties held a commanding position during the second half of the nineteenth century, considered the state's King Wheat era. In these decades, many farmers throughout the state grew wheat in preference to all other crops.
KleinBank is the largest family-owned state bank in Minnesota with assets worth over $1.4 billion in 2012. There are nineteen locations throughout Minnesota, including: Buffalo, Chanhassen, Cologne, Coon Rapids, Maple Grove, Norwood Young America, Otsego, St. Bonifacius, and Victoria.
The Knights of Labor shaped business and political policy in Minnesota communities in the late nineteenth century by working with the Farmers' Alliance and advocating for shorter work days, equal pay for women, child labor laws, and cooperation between workers.
A small, committed group of Jewish immigrants raised the funds needed to build the Labor Lyceum at 1426 Sixth Avenue North in Minneapolis in 1915. The two-story brick and stucco building was a hub for radical Jewish cultural, political, and social activities for the next thirty-five years.
From early inns and boarding houses to the magnificent eight-hundred-room Hotel Lafayette, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, Lake Minnetonka was transformed into one of the resort capitals of America. In the 1870s and 1880s, tourists from across the nation came to stay at the resort hotels that prospered on the shores of one of Minnesota's most famous lakes.
Winnibigoshish, Leech Lake, and Pokegama Falls Dams were built in the Mississippi Headwaters during the late 19th century. These structures preceded the construction of the Headwaters reservoir system and played key roles in flood prevention and river control during the 20th century.
Expert Essay: Associate professor of history Jeff Kolnick looks at agriculture through several lenses and offers his view on its overall impact on Minnesota, past and present.
Liang May Seen was the first woman of Chinese descent to live in Minnesota. After escaping from a brothel in San Francisco, Liang learned English, married, and moved to Minneapolis, where she was a leader in the Chinese immigrant community until her death in 1946.
In 1880, two Minneapolis businessmen built the Lincoln Flouring Mill in Anoka, Minnesota. The Lincoln Mill became one the largest country flour mills in the state, surviving until 1939 in spite of catastrophes like the Anoka fire of 1884.
"Reform!" was the rallying cry of late nineteenth-century America, and John Lind was in the vanguard. His election as the fourteenth governor of Minnesota and the first non-Republican governor of the state in decades heralded a new progressive era.
The R.W. Lindholm Service Station in Cloquet was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Completed in 1958, it was the only building concept ever constructed from Wright's utopian vision of a model American community called Broadacre City.
The Czechs that came to Roseau County beginning in the 1890s were some of the first European Americans to homestead on land in northwest Minnesota. Czech fraternal lodges were created in America by immigrants to promote their welfare, maintain cultural traditions, and satisfy social needs. Lodge Boleslav Jablonsky was one such lodge.
Charles Morgridge Loring is known as the "Father of Minneapolis Parks." As the first president of the Minneapolis park board, he was the one most responsible for acquiring the city's lakes and their shorelines as parks. Loring Park near downtown Minneapolis is named for him.
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Feeding San Diego's hungry children
This month, the Walmart Foundation also provided more than $250,000 to help ensure San Diego children will have much-needed meals this summer. This grant has already allowed San Diego city programming to expand its summer meals to 5,700 lunches and over 6,400 snacks, with expectations to increase these numbers. San Diego Unified School District expects to serve more than 150,000 lunches and snacks at 36 community sites with the capability of serving hot food and offering meals to adults.
By working with local partners, nonprofits, schools and corporations like Walmart, we are going to beat the summer heat by putting food in our kids' mouths and hope in their lives.
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Young is president of the San Diego City Council and represents the 4th Council District, including the communities from Oak Park to Paradise Hills and from Mt. Hope to Lomita Village.


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Orchids are a family of Monocotyledons. They have, like other Monocots, a single seedling leaf and their floral parts in threes. Orchids are one of the largest families of flowering plants, challenging the daisy or sunflower family, the Asteraceae (Compositae), for the title of the largest of all families. Currently there are known to be 25,000 species of orchids and estimates, based on the current rate at which new species are being discovered and described, suggest that the number may reach 30,000.
Orchids are a cosmopolitan family found all the way from within the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego and the islands south of Australia. They are absent only from open water and from true deserts.
The smallest orchid is thought to be
Bulbophyllum minutissimum
which is 3-4 mm tall, but may other orchids approach it in size. The largest orchids are probably vanillas which are lianas that reach into the crowns of rain-forests trees and may be 20m or more in length. Some tropical orchids also form very large clumps on rocks or in trees.
Grammatophyllum speciosum
plants of several hundred kg have been reported from South-east Asia.
Some orchids live on the ground while others grow perched on trees or rocks. Vanilla and some of its allies scramble up shrubs and trees or are lianas that grow up forest trees, using its roots for support.
What then unites these diverse plants into the family called the Orchidaceae? The distinctive features of orchids which separate them from other flowering plants lie primarily in their flowers.
Orchid Structure
The Flower Orchid flowers are simple in structure and yet highly modified from the more typical monocotyledon flower as exemplified by a
, to which orchids are very distantly allied. These characteristically have their floral parts arranged in threes or multiples of three. Orchids are no exception. This can most easily be seen in the two outer whorls of the flower. Let us take, as an example, the common Asian and Pacific Island orchid
Phaius tankervilleae
, which is similar in general floral structure to the majority of orchids. Its floral parts are situated at the apex of the
which itself can be seen to be tripartite in cross section. The outermost whorl of the flower is the calyx which consists of three
which are petal-like and coloured yellow with a red stripe in the middle. The two lateral sepals differ slightly from the third, called the
median sepal
. In some orchids, such as dendrobiums and bulbophyllums, the
lateral sepals
form at the base a more or less conical chin called a
The corolla of P.
comprises three
which are brightly coloured. The two lateral petals, resembling the dorsal sepal in colouration and shape, are uppermost in the flower and differ markedly from the third petal which lies at the bottom of the flower. The third petal, called the
), is highly modified, 3-lobed and with a short spur or nectary at the base. The spur can be longer or more sack-like in other orchids and can contain callosities (ridges or keels) that are diagnostic for some species. In some orchids the upper surface of the lip may be adorned with a callus of raised ridges or lamellae or tufts or areas of hairs or glands. The lip is an important adaptation of the orchid to facilitate cross pollination. It can be imagined as a brightly coloured flag to attract potential and specific pollinators which are then guided towards the pollen and stigmatic surface by the form of the callus. The lip, therefore, can be supposed to act as a landing platform and the callus structure as a guidance system for the pollinator.
The central part of the orchid flower shows the greatest modifications to the basic monocotyledon pattern. The major evolutionary forces at work in orchids have been reduction in the number of floral parts and fusion of the male and female organs into a single structure. The fused organ in the centre of an orchid flower is called the
. In this species, and in most Pacific island orchids, a single anther lies at the apex of the column. The pollen in the anther is not powdery as in most plants, but is borne in eight discrete masses, called
(single pollinium). The pollinia are attached to a sticky mass called a
. In other species the number of pollinia may be two, four or rarely six and these are attached to the viscidium either directly or by a stalk called a
in most epiphytic orchids and a
in most terrestrial ones.
, the receptive surface on which pollen alights and germinates, is also positioned on the column in the centre of the orchid flower, on its ventral surface. The stigma is a sticky lobed depression situated below and behind the anther in most orchids, but in some terrestrial genera such as
the stigma is bilobed with the receptive surfaces at the apex of each lobe. In many species the pollen masses are transferred to the stigmatic surface by a modified lobe of the stigma called the
. This is developed in P.
as a projecting flap that catches the pollen masses as the pollinator passes beneath on its way out of the flower.
An interesting feature of the development of most orchid flowers is the phenomenon of
. In bud, the lip lies uppermost in the flower while the column lies lowermost. In species with a pendent inflorescence the lip will, therefore, naturally lie lowermost in the flower when it opens. However, this would not be the case in the many species with erect inflorescences, such as P.
. Here the opening of the flower would naturally lead to the lip assuming a place at the top of the flower above the column. In most species this is not the case, and the lip is lowermost in the flower. This position is achieved by means of a twisting of the flower stalk or ovary through 180 degrees as the bud develops. This twisting is termed resupination.
The Inflorescence
Orchids carry their flowers in a variety of ways. Even within the same genus different species have different ways of presenting the flowers. Most orchids in the Pacific Islands have inflorescences bearing two or more flowers, usually borne on a more or less elongate floral axis comprising a stalk called the
and a portion bearing the flowers, the
. In P.
the flowers are borne in an elongate erect
which is unbranched with the flowers arranged in a lax spiral around the rhachis. In a raceme the individual flowers are attached to the floral axis by a stalk called the
. In some species pedicels are virtually absent and the flowers sessile on the axis; such inflorescences are termed a
We find some interesting variations on the multi-flowered inflorescence. In several species the flowers are borne all facing to the same side of the rhachis, this being called a secund inflorescence. The most spectacular group, however, are those in which the rhachis is so contracted that the flowers all appear to come from the top of the flower stalk in an umbel, with the inflorescence rather resembling the head of a daisy. Branching inflorescences with many flowers are found in some orchids and are termed
. In many species the flowers are borne one-at-a-time either sessile or on a shorter or longer stalks.
The Orchid Plant
The vegetative features of orchids are, if anything, more variable than their floral ones. This is scarcely surprising when the variety of habitats in which orchids are found is considered. Orchids grow in almost every situation: on the permanently moist floor of the lowland tropical rain forest; in the uppermost branches of tall forest trees where heavy rainfall is followed by scorching sun for hours on end; on rocks; and in the grassy areas found on landslips and roadsides. The major adaptations seen in orchid vegetative morphology allow them to withstand adverse environmental conditions, in particular, the problems of water conservation on a daily and seasonal basis.
That tropical orchids might suffer from periodic water deficits is not immediately obvious. However, rainfall is not continuous; even the wettest habitats and in many places in the tropics the rainfall patterns are markedly seasonal. Furthermore, most tropical orchids are epiphytic, growing on the trunks, branches and twigs of the trees, or lithophytic on rocks. In these situations water run-off is rapid, and the orchids will dry quickly in the sunshine that follows the rain. Many orchids have marked adaptations of one or more organs which allow them to survive these periodic droughts. Some of these adaptations are as dramatic as those encountered in the Cactaceae. The stem can develop into a water-storage organ. This is so common in tropical orchids that the resulting structure has been given a technical name, a
. In
the pseudobulbs comprise several internodes while in
they are of one internode only. Pseudobulbs are also found in many terrestrial orchids and can grow either above the ground as in
or underground as in
Many terrestrial orchids, such as
Orchis, Ophrys
, lack pseudobulbs and have underground tubers which survive drought. The new growth grows from one end of the tuber in suitable conditions. In others such as jewel orchids and the creeping lady's tresses,
the stems are succulent but not swollen. The horizontal stem or
creeps along the ground in the leaf litter, and erect shoots bearing the leaves are sent up periodically.
The leaf is another organ that has undergone dramatic modification in the orchids. Fleshy or leathery leaves with restricted stomata, such as those of
species, are common.
A number of orchids have no green leaves. In some epiphytic orchids, such as
Chiloschista Dendrophylax
, the leaves have been reduced to scales and photosynthesis takes place in the flattened green roots.
Some terrestrial orchids, such as the Eurasian ghost orchid
Epipogium aphyllum
, are leafless and lack chlorophyll altogether. They are called saprophytes or
. Lacking chlorophyll, they cannot photosynthesize and must obtain all of their nutrition from the mycorrhizal fungus with which they are associated.
Orchid species with green leaves with which to photosynthesise are termed autotrophic. The terrestrial species usually have leaves of a much thinner texture than their epiphytic cousins. In lowland forest, the perpetually moist atmosphere and lack of direct sunlight means that such leaves are not vulnerable to drought. Some of the terrestrial species of the forest floor have beautifully marked leaves. In
Goodyera, Zeuxine, Erythrodes
and their relatives, the leaves can range from green to deep purple or black and may be mottled or reticulately veined with silver.
The roots themselves are much modified in most epiphytic orchids. They provide both attachment to the substrate and also uptake of water and nutrients in a periodically dry environment. The roots have an actively growing tip; the older parts are covered by an envelope of dead empty cells called a
. The velamen protects the inner conductive tissue of the roots and may also aid the uptake of moisture from the atmosphere, acting almost as blotting paper for the orchid.
Life in the tropics can be inhospitable even for orchids. In those regions with a more marked seasonality conditions may be positively hostile for orchids at certain times of the year. Even tropical forests can have periods of relative drought where the orchids have to survive days or even weeks without rain. In these conditions, tropical orchids without water-storage capabilities in their stems or leaves can drop their leaves and survive on the moisture stored in their roots which are protected by their cover of velamen.
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A 28-year-old man is accused of burglarizing several vehicles last week in Southampton County.
A 28-year-old man is accused of burglarizing several vehicles last week in Southampton County.
Deputies are investigating a violent home invasion in New Kent County and say the act may not have been random.
A swimming advisory was issued Thursday for Hilton Park Beach in Newport News.
This week's Pet Pal is Foxy. She's a 6-year-old cattle dog mix who is sweet, outgoing, and loves people.
We were in the kitchen Thursday with Dana Howell and Charles Jackson from Kosama of Virginia Beach.
Every year we inevitably hear about a backyard pool drowning or unfortunate accident in or around the water.
RPM Dance in Suffolk stopped by The Hampton Roads Show studio Thursday to talk about how they've brought a Broadway classic to the Suffolk C…
Dr. Michael Higgins from Tidewater Orthopaedic talked about hip replacement and who would be a good candidate for it.
Amy Volk with Simplified Living was on the show Thursday to help us manage our space.
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A North Carolina House committee has approved legalizing medicinal oil made from a marijuana plant to treat epilepsy.
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President Barack Obama is sending up to 300 military advisers to help Iraqi forces stem violent sectarian fighting.
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