“See the lion dance and prance, Dance and prance, dance and prance. See the lion dance and prance On Chinese New Year’s Day. Hear the firecrackers pop, Pop,pop,pop; pop,pop,pop Hear the firecrackers pop On Chinese New Year’s Day.”

Lights of the Heart: Kelly Steier Candles of tradition hopes lit with moments of sacred prayer for all life’s blessings in the flames of glory. Survival of the faith so many years ago in lands of Biblical proportions of a people sent into the desert to fulfill G-ds prophecy, the miracle of eight nights. Songs and joyous recitations fill our …

Light the first of eight tonight – the farthest candle to the right. Light the first and second, too, when tomorrow’s day is through. Then light three, and then light four – every dusk one candle more Till all eight burn bright and high, honoring a day gone by When the Temple was restored, rescued from the Syrian lord, And …

I’m Milly the Moth, And I fly at night. To call me a butterfly, Would not be right. If you open the window, And put on the light, I might come and see you, One fine summer’s night. ∼ Porter G., Hilda Offen, Pradera, Esme Eve, Alan Jesset, Richard Hooke

When nothing goes right, when days become night, when hope becomes hopeless, when goals get dim, When the dreams you have begin to shatter. When life in front of you seems like a battle And everything begins to rattle, When you get numb about anything that happens to you, When some tries to shatter you Hence, when nothing turns right, …

Shailaputri literally means the daughter (putri) of the mountains (shaila). Variously known as Sati Bhavani, Parvati or Hemavati, the daughter of Hemavana – the king of the Himalayas, she is the first among Navadurgas. Her worship takes place on the first day of Navaratri – the nine divine nights. The embodiment of the power of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, she …

The officer, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, belongs to 2002 batch of Haryana Cadre, who joined the State , in September, 2005, after the completion of training at IGNFA, Dehradun, where he got two medals from President of India for excellence in the training. In the state the officer was deliberately kept without any posting for whole one year despite availability of cadre …

On January 27, 2011, a US citizen claiming to be working as a consultant at the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, and later said to be a CIA operative, killed two armed men in the Pakistani city of Lahore. The identification papers he submitted to the Pakistani police are in the name of Raymond Allen Davis, although initially it was categorically …

Omar Suleiman (born July 2, 1936) is an Egyptian politician and military figure who has been Vice President of Egypt since January 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID), the national intelligence agency, from 1993 to 2011. In his role as Director of EGID, the British Daily Telegraph dubbed him as …

Ralph Upton of the village of Slindon, in West Sussex, south England, was known as the ‘Pumpkin King of Britain’. This market gardener died earlier this year, at 88, and his son Robin Upton took over. The Uptons have been growing pumpkins on their six acre plot for over 40 years, producing over 50 varieties. Slindon is known as the …