Ganesha Chaturthi
By Pravin Kotian, Ph.D.
(Republished from September, 2009)
Birmingham, AL Ganesha Chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. Ganesha Chaturthi or "Vinayak Chaturthi" is one of the major traditional holiest festivals of Hindus. Lord Ganesha happens to be one of the most popular deities and everyone seems to be in love with this cute, pot-bellied elephant god. The occasion sees pious worships to Lord Ganesha, who is widely worshipped as the supreme god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. The deity is also believed to be the remover of all obstacles and is also famous for being a trickster and for his profound sense of humor.
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Meditation for toddlers? - Deepak Chopra
Source: CNN
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Abhinav Bindra, India
July 26, 2010
“World Class 2012 in partnership with the British Council bring you the stories of the schools where the dreams begin.
Abhinav is the World and Olympic champion in the 10 metre air rifle event.
The gold Abhinav achieved in Beijing 2008 was India’s first ever individual Olympic Gold medal and catapulted him to fame across India.”
Read the full story on BBC news!
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Capitol Hill Day Success
July 19, 2010
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Federal Advocacy intern, Sumeet Singh
http://abouthomelessness.blogspot.com
Every year, Capitol Hill Day offers a time for advocates of ending homelessness to sit down with their Senators and Representatives and discuss pressing and pertinent issues regarding homelessness. In doing so, it also provides another great opportunity – a chance for these passionate advocates to come together and have their voices heard. This year, those voices were heard as loudly as ever before – advocates from 40 states and Guam held over 215 meetings with Congressional offices, and the results are still pouring in! With every additional meeting, the value and effectiveness of Hill Day 2010 increase that much more. We’ll do a follow-up blog post in a few weeks once we have finalized all of the results. In its decades-long existence, Hill Day’s track record of spreading knowledge, creating awareness, and igniting political movement clearly demonstrates just how powerful a tool it has been.
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Funding For Public Transit In Alabama: Alternatives To The Gas Tax
By:
Sumeet R. Singh
Junior, Birmingham Southern College
Edited By:
Adam R. Snyder
Executive Director, Conservation Alabama Foundation
Issues related to oil and gas have bred a great deal of dissent at all levels – domestically, nationally, and internationally. Unfortunately, lost in the vast sea of extensive studies and exhaustive discourse about the issue of gas is the vital link fuel currently has to infrastructure. Although it may ostensibly seem that concerns about fuel’s price, its environmental impact, and relations with its foreign suppliers are most pressing, these fears have no place if America’s infrastructure – particularly the infrastructure within many of her states – continues to deteriorate.
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Vedic Mathematics
By Dr. Narayana Bhat
Introduction
“The so called Vedic Mathematics is neither Vedic nor Mathematics”, says my good friend and a well-known mathematician Prof. S. G. Dani. That is the pedantic view. Nonetheless, it is believed that the strategies provided by Vedic mathematics are creative and useful, and could potentially be applied in a number of ways to advanced calculus and linear algebra, most notably within the education system.
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Health Insurance: Decisions, Decisions
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