Sunday, December 30, 2007

Benazir Bhutto assasination

Yesterday, Benazir Bhutto - the former prime minister of Pakistan, who was running for the post again - was killed at a political rally.She is the first woman PM in an Islamic state - was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi when a gunman shot her in the neck and set off a bomb. At least 20 other people died in the attack and several more were injured. ... It was the second suicide attack against her in recent months and came amid a wave of bombings targeting security and government officials.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

ManaBadi - Teaching Telugu for Children .... why?

ManaBadi is SiliconAndhras Dream, now a successful story, with lot of dedicated and passionate teachers - ManaBadi is a program in Bay Area which has Telugu Curriculum programmes for kids, actually for all those who cannot read, write Telugu language.
We are teaching Telugu Language classes to our kids, this is a 4 year,very organized curriculum taught by committed passionate volunteers from Telugu community, certified by Telugu University.

What am i doing there? i am a volunteer teacher myself at Fremont, California, i also help out the admin team, curriculum team and website development team for ManaBadi in whatever way i can.

i say to myself why? bcoz i am mother myself, after couple of years passed and if i look back and say to myself why Ramya(my little one) is not speaking, writing in telugu, the question might come back to me ... what have u done? the question is ...it is not what is required ...u have to give more than that

i say to myself why? i feel the personal satisfaction being part of such a good team.

i analyzed the problem, it is not kids, it is not with parents not teaching telugu at home but bcoz we do not have the environment for kids where they are motivated to speak themselves with a liking for the language.

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward

who is going to motivate them? who takes it as a responsibility?

I think everyone whether they are a parent or not, take responsibility of giving language to kids in what ever way they can..

There is a english saying, 'IT TAKES THE WHOLE VILLAGETO RAISE A CHILD'.

With my busy schedule, i always say to myself this is important stuff and i need to give more time for kids ...

Here are my postings for My class ManaBadi Fremont South J3
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manabadi_fremont_j3/

If you are in bay area, like to help out manaBadi in any form contact me...
- Madhuri Chopurala

Maa Pelli Pallaki posted in SiliconAndhra SujanaRanjani

SiliconAndhra has posted "Maa Pelli Pallaki" in Dec 2007 under SujanaRanjanimonthly edition.

follow the link
http://www.siliconandhra.org/nextgen/sujanaranjani.html

Click on "Maa Pelli Pallaki" button

or this is the direct link
http://www.siliconandhra.org/nextgen/sujanaranjani/december2007/maapellipallaki.html

Sorry one thing though - you need to be able to read Telugu for this one.

- Madhuri Chopurala

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Car Pool - Ethical sense

Car pool is not opted by many …Is it bcoz mainly convenience or humans cannot(forgot to??) coordinate effectively with each other?

Even though we all know carpool is better, u can see there is only one lane for carpoolers and many lanes …. Even Traffic jam they do not mind.

Hope to see all car pool lanes and only one lane for those who want to drive themselves and the speed should be 50 in that lane…

Madhuri Chopurala

Artificial Intelligence - Robots in daily life

for safety, security, entertainment, science, research, computing..

robots serving food(i guess i need to tip them properly), cooking food???, driving for us
can robots replace humans?????


I do not think so ....


robots cannot analyse effectively it is going to be humans edge

Indian dancers will remain for long, there is no beauty when robot does the Indian dances(bharat natyam, kuchipudi .....sure.... bcoz... as emotions play a major role

will in future there will be inter-robotical skills a topic to discuss? like interpersonal skills for humans?


will there will career goals for robots ?

Madhuri Chopurala

RFID (Radio frenquency identification) Technology

....really cool technology, RFID solutions using RFID(Radio frenquency identification) Technology offers a better understanding of inventory and product replenishment, event tracking. Insights on inventory movement, point-of-sale(POS), Data Analysis on supplier, retailer chain data.
GTIN, product trackingOut of stock / availability Ghost /Phantom inventory, promotion solutions. Consumer Packaged Goods(CPG) companies use On shelf (out of stock) management and promotion management systems.