CULTURAL QA03-2022-15 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 What is the reasonableRPM of a washing machine? A1 Washing Machinexpert Answered Oct 24, 2020 If you wash delicateclothes, the spin cycle should be 300–500 RPM. And if you are washing Thickeritems like jeans, curtains then spin cycle should be 1000 RPM. 2ND ANSWER- Teodoro Cervantes-Leon, Occupational Therapist,Christian Answered Aug 31, 2017 Assuming you are referringto water extraction in a spin cycle, the highest RPMs are in the 1000 to 1400range. At some pointhigher RPMs wrinkle some fabrics, so the higher spin speed may notbe desirable for heavy cotton denim, for example. The effectiveness of the RPMis also impacted by the diameter of the drum/basket. 3RD ANSWER -Abhinav, Well my mentor played a role of game changer in mylife.Answered Oct 16, 2020 It is a bit simple that the higher the RPM will be faster the drying time will be of the washingmachine so if you will ask me I would suggest you go with a washing machinethat has the RPM of 800 above. 4TH ANSWER - Gopala Krishnan, former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now I have read all the threeanswers and reasoning given for different RPM. I have one point to add. This isrelated to quantity ofclothes and RPM. The machine will vibrate and move irrespective ofRPM, if the quantity of clothes are either less or more. My experience withSamsung front load machine. I am fromChennai, India. Q2 Why is sea salt betterthan salt that’s mined from the ground? What about Himalayan salt? Does thelower oxygen in the mountains make the salt better? A2 Vern Shellman Long time interest in science. Sat Salt mined from the ground issea salt. It’s what’s left of a sea the dried up millions of years ago and gotburied. Because itcosts pennies per ton, it’s main use is to spread it on roads to melt ice.They could get a lot more for it if they sold it as gourmet salt. I’m notsaying that crude salt,whether it comes from the ground or the ocean, might not taste different due toother salts and minerals that are in it. Whether it tastes anybetter on food is matter of opinion though. Q3 What are the benefits ofa well-designed kitchen? A3 Gopala Krishnan, former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now I am writing from Chennai,India. A well designed kitchen will be very convenient to work, 100% safe forworking, and give good appearance and things kept in a convenient manner. Recently I had been to Kerala, it has been made compulsory to keep LPGcylinder outside and not inside the interior designed cup boards below cooking platform.This is a safety point. Another safety point is to keep refrigerator at a defineddistance away from cooking oven or outside kitchen. A third point is not toprovide shelves above the cooking platform. A fourth point is to providerubber sheet wheremixer, grinder etc electric appliances are provided. Some women wearfoot wear while using electrical appliances. It is a welcome feature. Q4 Why are trees painted redand white in India? A4 Rohit Virmani I Love Arts Fri You must have often seenthat the trees along roadsides are painted white and red. This method of painting thebottom of the trees is quite old. But, why they are painted? a) To indicate they are under protection cover. The trees cannot be harvestednor can be chopped off. They are under the protection of forestry department. b) They are painted red and white so that, these trees can be easily seen inthe darkness of the night. c) To avoid termites and insects. Paint acts as an insect resistant. That isthe reason why the paint only covers the bottom half of tree trunks, a portionwhich the insects can climb. d) Paint increases the lifespan of the trees. Cracks occur in the trees due towhich the trees start becoming weak and the paint helps in binding. Well, these are the realreasons why trees are painted red and white. I had always assumed it was a representation of the Indian flag:Red(orange), white and the tree itself green! Q5 I live in the US. How doI take care of my parents back in India? A5 Mrs Lili Basu Biswas Experience in family affairs Mar 1 Millions of Indian children face same issue. They lives far away fromtheir aged parents. Unable to take care of them. And they feels guilty forthat. Either they have to sacrifice their career which would affect their andtheir children future or they had to left their aged parents helplessly andsuffer in guilt for rest of the life. In such situation, it's best to hire good care taker to take care fot24X7 of parents. But be aware before appoint any such person orfamily. Now a days aged people are main target for criminals. So appoint anyonefrom your trusted source. Check proper background verification. Regular talk with them if possible twice in a day on phone . At least visit them oncea year. Spend good amount of time with them. At old age people feels more sickdue to feel of loneliness. Your call would refresh their mind. Despite havingthousands of people around us at urban areas, people often feel lonelinessbecause no one care for us. People do not have time to talk with you. If youtry to talk with them regularly then they feels offended. Aged people feelsthis more than young people. Due to this many aged people like to live in their native village at oldages. In villages people used to take care of each other. People has timeand intention to talk each other. So aged people does not feels loneliness. Thenatural environment in villages also much much better. Pollution is much lessor no pollution in those villages which are far away from cities. Many aged people like to live in Ashram and spend their rest of the lifein religious environment. So if you can contact any such ashram then alsoit's good. For these even if you haveto spend some extra money then you should not hesitate about it. Agree or not, but youget your USA’s opportunity because of years of efforts and spending by yourparents. Now it's time to return backtheir sacrifice. So do not hesitate for money. Remember your parents also did not hesitate for money tobuild your career. By this way you can developan culture and example for your children too. When you would be old then yourchildren would try to do same. Q6 Is the Mahabharata bookwritten by Swami Jagdishwaranand authentic? A6 Bhvitavya Arya Studied at Mahabharata (Hindu epic)4m Yes Jagdish ji Mahabharatthe most authentic out of all the Mahabharata in today's time, because there isno miracle in it.And they removed all interpolation like Draupadi had 5husbands: and Krishna had 16000 thousands wives so That's why I think thisMahabharata is more authentic than the bori ce If you read this Mahabharata,then all doubts you have on Mahabharata will be clear. Q7 Why do administrativeworkers like IAS officers have white towels on their chairs? A7 D D Rishi Former IRS | Advocate | LL. M.,Ph.D. (Law) | Sat Having a towel on the chair has been a symbol of one's official status. Not only the towel, size ofthe table, no. of chairs, sofa, coat stand, and size of the room etc. allsignify the rank and status of an officer. The colour of towel is white so that the officer may knowif it is clean. Otherwise, lazy staff may not bother to change it for months! Q8 What is water tankcleaning as opposed to doing it without anyone else's help? A8 Gopala Krishnan, former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now I recollect an incidentwatched in TV a few months ago in a soap. One police sub inspector decided toclean his fibre body overhead tank. While leaning and cleaning, he fell into fibre tank andnot able to move at all. The fibre tank had to cut open to take the police SIfrom it. Though it is a legend it is a true fact. Let working peopleexpert in any tank cleaning do the work. Youngsters may be able toclean themselves, but may not be as neat as a workman do. Let them do their joband let us pay them and help them in the lively hood. While constructing my homein Chennai, quoting an incident of an aged person (60) falling into overheadtank built with bricks and RCC, my engineer refused even to provide a step to peep in to the tank.Workers used a metallic ladder to get in to the tank. I request/ advise alearnt cleaner do the job of overhead tank cleaning. 2nd answer Anish MittalAnswered May 29, 2021 I recently got my watertanks cleaned by GDWATER CONSULT. They provided us with the best professional tankcleaning services at reasonable prices. It was a mechanized tank cleaningprocess, including cleaning the outer tank body and the insides with completelysanitized instruments. Theyare specialized in all types of tank cleaning services whether it'soverhead or underground they have covered it all. They even provide industrialand commercial tank cleaning services. Q9 Is it safe to catch a seasnake? A9 Abraham Sukumar Studied at Madras Medical College, Chennai Updated19h Sea snakes are very venomous. Most belong to the elapid family of cobras,kraits, and mambas. They are more venomous than land snakes except for theAustralian taipan. There is a reason for this. All snakes are carnivorous. Venomous snakes have an advantage overnon-venomous snakes in securing prey. This is how a cobra catches a rat for ameal. It stealthy approaches the rat and bites it once injecting the venom. Therat escapes after the bite. It runs and soon when the venom starts acting slowsdown and dies. The cobra follows the scent, finds the dead victim, and swallowsit whole.The sea snake does not enjoy that luxury. No way can it follow thefish it had bitten in the sea. The fish must die almost immediately after it isbitten for the sea snake to have its meal. Sea snakes have hence evolved withmore potent venom than land snakes. Now to answer the questionwhich is not about how venomous sea snakes are but is it safe to catch seasnakes. I know of snakecatchers, but they catch land snakes. If there are sea snake catchers, intheory their profession must rank at the top in the list of the world’s mostdangerous professions. But sea snakes are not aggressive and rarely bite. Swimmer do not encounter seasnakes which occur in tropical coastal waters. Occasionally sea snakes findthemselves entangled in fisherman’s nets. They are handled without concern by local fishermen who unravel andthrow them back into the water without getting bitten. During my post-qualificationtraining period as a surgeon, I was assistant to a surgeon in the GovernmentRoyapettah Hospital in Madras. That hospital is close to the beach andfishermen in need of emergency attention often come to the casualty department.I have not attended on a case of sea snake bite but the casualty medicalofficer narrated the following incident. A fisherman was bitten in the hand when he was removing asea snake from his net. The casualty doctor had called the dutyphysician to see the case. Asthere was no sign of poisoning the patient was kept under observation anddischarged later. The wound was dressed but no antivenin wasinjected. In India the polyvalent antivenin used in snake bite victims hasspecific antidotes to four of the common venomous land snakes of India, thecobra, krait, Russel’s viper and saw-scaled viper. There is no antidote to sea snake venom in that mix.The extreme rarity of sea snake venomisation must be the reason for this. Unlike land snakes seasnakes are reluctant to bite. Maybe when outside their environment sea snakes even when they bite do sowithout injecting venom. This is mere speculation. More work needsto be done on the habits of sea snakes. Till then handle sea snakes with theoutmost caution. UPDATE: Dr Ahamed Unni whenhe was an internee in Thanjavur Medical College in 1985 has seen a fishermanbrought from the coastal town of Nagapattinam who was bitten by a sea snake. He seems to have had severe bodypain from myotoxicity. He died within 2 hours of admission. Specificantivenin for sea snake venom was not available Q10 Why didpost-graduation become mandatory for every MBBS graduate? A10 Thirak Vaishnav Student at GMERS Medical College, Junagadh(2018–present) Sat My grandma needed a Cataractsurgery. We consulted an ophthalmologist. My grandpa had blockage in arteries of his heart. We went to acardiothoracic surgeon. As a child, I wasalways sick. It was either asthma/allergies/fever/ bad stomach etc. My momalways took me to a pediatrician. My mom had uterine cysts afew years back. She was in immense pain, gynecologist was her savior. My brother broke his arm twice, orthopedicsurgeon repaired his arm. I got a furuncle on my earpiercing. Ent specialized treated it. I had sub acute stomach ache a few months back. It was gastritis asdiagnosed and treated by the physician. The point being, everyone is super smart thesedays. There are literally lakhs of MBBS doctors pass out. So, the valueautomatically decreases. We need specialists for every organ, forevery minor thing. Our gynec faculty once said,“unless you are the best in your field, you won't survive the cut throatcompetition. So aim for being the best and not stay with the rest.” Q11 If evolution istrue then why are humans so physically inferior to our Ape ancestors? (This isa serious question and is not intended to start a religious Quora battle) A11 Claire Jordan Feb 10 We’re not physically inferior - we just evolved for a differentspeciliasation. It’s the same difference as between a leopard anda cheetah - leopards evolved for strength and climbing skill and ambushpredation, and cheetahs evolved for speed and for chase predation. You can’t really have both -that’s why racehorses are much lighter-built than draught horses. Humans are the ape that specialised for swift running, long-distanceendurance and manual dexterity. Q12 Why does my stoolfloat on water and right upper abdomen burning sensation foamy urine reportsshow acidic stools? A12 Cassandra Hayes Fri Your poop may appear foamy if there's too much fat or mucus in your stool. Mucus can look like foamor be found with foam in stool. Some mucus is normal. It helps you pass thefeces and protects your intestines. Lactose Intolerance is a deficiency of thedigestive enzyme B-galactosidase (Lactase) in the human intestine and a meal containing the cow's milkdisaccharide sugar lactose (galactose bound to glucose) will induce frothydiarrhoea, flatulence and abdominal cramps. All the above QA are from Quora website on 14-03- 2022. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on15-03-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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