CULTURAL QA04-2022-04 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Ifyou have bought a new house, what would you do with your old house? A1 Gopalkrishna Vishwanath Theonly Real investment I have trusted in my life is Real Estate20h I will not say what I would do.I will tell you what I actually did. I had three houses in my life after living for 11 years in various rentedhouses. The first house of my own was a four-bedroom, three-bathroom two-storiedhouse built in 1985 in JP Nagar Bengaluru, and I lived there for 20 years andbrought up my children till they became adults and left to lead their ownlives. The previous generation in my family also lived in this house along withus and they passed on. The house then became too big for the two of us afterthe children left and maintenance became a problem. We were also growing old. I then bought a compact 3 bedroom apartment about 4 km away and movedthere and remodeled my house by breaking the inner walls and creating largeropen spaces and built one more hall on the second floor and converted it into an office andran my startup from this remodeled and renovated house while I lived in myapartment 4 km away. After I retired even the three-bedroom apartment became too big for usand there was no further reason for us to live in Bengaluru and suffer noise,air pollution, traffic, and high living costs. We bought a compact two-bedroom apartment in a retirementhome in Devanahalli and moved out of Bengaluru after living there for 44 years.I rented out my home office to another software company who occupied it for 7years. I found various tenants for my 3 bedroom apartment and the rents from myhome office and my apartment were my major source of income for the last 4years. During Covid, when work from home became common the software companyvacated my premises. My tenant occupying my apartment also vacated when hebought an apartment of his own. For some months I had no rental income. Both the premises were vacant. I consulted my children who had settled abroad and had becomeAmerican/British citizens and confirmed that they would not be needing thesepremises at all in their lifetime. With their approval, I sold both my home office and myapartment and invested in Govt Bonds, mutual funds, and bank fixeddeposits, and I now earnmore than what I used to get as rental income. A house is not just for living. It is also an investment and is inflation-proof.With each passing year, its rental value increases and so does its resalevalue. Investing in themwas one of my best financial decisions. I now own only my apartment in the retirement home in Devanahalli, whereI am living and I hope that this will be my last permanent address on thisplanet. The next address will be at the feet of the Lord above and God does notcharge any rent. Q2 Whatwould happen if our bones were as hard as diamonds? A2 Ken Saladin Textbookauthor and professor emeritus23h That would not be good. It is important that one’s bones be flexible—able to bend a little inresponse to stress, even in ordinary walking and running. They alsomust be able to change shape in response to use and disuse over the course of alifetime. Furthermore,the body must be able to dissolve bone to remove minerals from storage whenthey’re needed for other purposes in the body such as nerve andmuscle activity and glandular secretion. Some of the important roles of boneare exchanging calcium and phosphate with the blood and buffering the blood pH.There are certain bone cells—osteoclasts and osteoblasts—specialized forreabsorbing and depositing bone. Ultra-hard, rigid bonescouldn’t perform the multiple necessary roles that our skeleton plays and would actually constitute a less durableskeleton than the protein–mineral composite it’s actually made of. Q3 Shouldurad dal be taken in a small quantity? Why? A3 Bhuvana Rameshwar Smartcook, not hardworking 12h Urad dhal is part of south Indian cuisine but it should be had only in smaller proportionscompared to tuvar dhal (yellow gram), rice and wheat. Idly and dosa have only 1/4 or lesser than that of dhal to rice ratio.Urad is found in vadas which are deep fried. So here it is well cooked in oil. Otherwise it difficultto digest and causes indigestion, gastritis and flatulence. Manypeople complaining of chest pain have been rushed to hospitals thus. Manyconfuse this with heart attack and stress themselves. Some say urad dhal consumptionin large volumes causes gout or uric acid accumulation and formation in the joints and kidney stone andgall stones. Another thing our elders tell is that those who consume a lot of urad land with deafness.They say ear problems get aggravated by too many urad vadas. Q4 Howoften should you wash your bedroom sheets? A4 Gopala Krishnan, formerAssistant General Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom(1966-2004)Answered just now Covid 19 strength has reduced and states like Maharashtra has removed theban like social distancing and wearing of masks. During Covid 19 active period all bed sheets, bed spreads,pillow covers were washed once a week, applying dettol or similarmaterials during washing. Ifwe wash bed room items once in ten days at least one will feel the freshnessand sleep will be sound. In Chennai etc, summer has already started, onewould not get sleep unless having fresh items and air conditioner switched ON.In many homes AC is switched in day time also in Chennai, India. Q5 Howmany years from now until the world’s oil is depleted? A5 Steven Haddock LL.B.degree, 25 years in litigation, administrative law, collections, bankrupty andprofessional regulation Mar 17 That will never actually happen. However the cost of getting certaintypes of fuel will be more difficult and, as a result, less cost efficient. These are oil sands. There’s lots of oil here. However, extracting theoil from the sand is very intensive. It takes about 1/100th of a barrel of oilto extract light crude from a well in Iraq, but about 1/2 of a barrel of oil toextract synthetic crude from oil sand. This is oil shale. This stuffis everywhere. The Rocky Mountains are full of it. However, most of it is rock.It takes about 10 barrels of oil to get 1 barrel of synthetic crude out of oilshale.Mind you, you can burn oil shale So it’s not about “running out”, its more about “when will oil productionno longer to be able to keep up oil consumption”. And the answer to that questionis “no-one really knows”.It’s definitely going to happen because, as you can see, every oil fieldreaches a peak then starts declining. Here’s what happened to anthracite coal, which is as close to pure carbonas you’re going to find in nature There’s still anthracite beingmined, but mostly we mine bituminous coal (about 90% carbon) and lignite (about75% carbon). Luckily,demand for those dropped as locomotives went to diesel, houses went to fueloil, and steel mills went to natural gas. Q6 Ibooked 4 tickets of train now I want to cancel one of them but the problem isthe ticket I want to cancel is on the name of my friend and I want that seat sowhat can I do? A6 Ankit Barnawal FormerStudent at Doon Business School, Dehradun (2017–2022)5h You booked 4 tickets of train, you want to cancel one ticket but theproblem is the ticket you want to cancel is on the name of your friend and youwant that seat. You can cancel one ticket outof 4 tickets but you cannot cancel the ticket of your name because the ID arebeing checked by the TTE along with the ticket. You need to cancel the ticket of your friendotherwise you will be charged penalty for travelling on others ticket by theTTE. Follow these steps to cancel one ticket out of 4 tickets Step 1: Enter your login credentials using your User ID and Password ofIRCTC using IRCTC Rail Connect. Step 2: After login, enter your 4 digit PIN to login into your IRCTCapplication. Step 3: Now you can see that there are various options, tap on MyBookings among the option. Step 4: At this step, you have to select the ticket which you want tocancel from the booked tickets. Step 5: After selecting the ticket which you want to cancel, tap on threedots at the top right corner of your ticket. Step 6: Now you will see there are various options, tap on Cancel Ticketto cancel your ticket. Step 7: Now you have an option to cancel all passengers ticket or cancelone passenger ticket from that ticket. Here, you have to select only one ticketof your friend out of 4 passenger ticket. Step 8: Now at this step, you have to tap on confirm to cancel yourfriend ticket. Hope you are clear now !!! Q7 Whydo diabetic co-workers often become so combative when you criticize and/orexpress concern over their poor meal choices? A7 Claire Jordan Degree inbiology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper19h a) because you’reintrusive and annoying and it’s none of your damned business, and b)because diabetics often have very unstable bloodsugar, and sometimes actively *need* to eat a lot of carbs in order to get their reading back up to a normalrange. Q8 Whatare the different types of cells? A8 Ken Saladin Formerprofessor of histology (microscopic anatomy)Wed Mostly the same as in a woman, with the exception of the reproductivesystems. If you want more than that, get a book. There are about 200 differentkinds (cell lineages) in a human, and I doubt that anyone here is going to have time or inclination towrite you an essay on that. Q9 Howdid the British Empire fall so quickly? It seems that after World War II, theBritish Empire took a massive blow, and it took another blow after the SuezCrisis. How can an empire that controlled most of the world fall so quickly? A9 Susanna Viljanen Worksat Aalto University Wed It went bankrupt. Already in the early 1900s theBritish government noticed the Empire drained more money than it produced, and already in 1912 there were preliminary plans todismantle it. WWI made the British Empire thelargest empire which has ever existed in human history - and also the most unprofitable. It was a horrible money pit. Only Jamaica produced profit, Sierra Leoneand South Africa broke even, and all the rest produced deficit. Johnny Q.Taxpayer from Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and other towns paid it all andbenefited nothing but dubious prestige. WWII bankrupted the alreadyweakened Great Britain. It no more could afford upkeeping the Empire. The plan of dismantling the Empire was dugfrom naphthalene, and little by little all former colonies got theirindependence. The living standards in Great Britain (which won the war) andGermany (which lost it and had been bombed into heaps of gravel) in 1946 werenot substantially different, and Britain also had the onus of upkeeping theEmpire. What is amazing is that theBritish Empire dismantled itself so peacefully - no great wars, no great rebellions, no mass murders - and the formercolonies have remained more or less democracies. Q10 Canan Indian individual rely on medical insurance to cover all its medicalexpenses after retirement? A10 Prasanna Bhalerao M. Sc.in Electronics & Physics, Fergusson College, Pune19h Medicalinsurance policies cover hospitalisation and not regular medical expenses, doctor visits/charges, etc. Hospitalisation has to be for atleast one day. But some day care procedures are covered. Prehospitalisation and post hospitalisation may or may not be covered. The illnessitself must be covered (for example, HIV related issues are not covered,cosmetic surgery, many dental treatments are not covered). Hospital must be inthe network. Either hospitalisation must be pre approved or insurance companymust be informed within 24 hours of admission. For the hospital bill, cost of consumables is not coveredbut they may be only 5% of the bill. The medical policy may have sublimits on ICU charges, room rent, etc. All this makes it look like that medical policy is of no use. But don't ever make that mistake. Medical policy is a must especiallyafter retirement. Q11 Doeseveryone in a family require a life insurance? A11 HDFC Life One of India'sleading life insurance companies.1y Life insurance policy is an arrangement between an insured and aninsurer, where the insurer promises to make good the losses of the insured incase of an uncertain event i.e. in our case, death of the individual. Theinsured pays a premium to mitigate this risk. Basically, it is an instrument to cover the contingencyof an uncertain event. The one and the most important benefit of having a life insurance policyis to have a securedfinancial future and maintain the same level of lifestyle even after a humanloss. Life insurance is certainly important to mitigate the risk ofunwarranted death. However, it is important to understand whether everyone inthe family requires a life insurance cover. So, does everyone in yourfamily require life insurance policy? Primarily, anyone who hasdependents and is an income earner needs Life Insurance. Homemakers also offer tremendous economic value toa household. Therefore it is highly recommended that they are covered with alife insurance policy too. Therefore one can purchase life insurance policies for: 1) Family members earning anincome and supporting other financial dependents in the family 2) Home makers - in whose absence one might have to arrange for caretakers. If you have dependents in your family (such as parents, spouse orchildren who are financially dependent on you), then in all such cases a LifeInsurance Policy will financially support your family in case of your death.Here are some of the important points to consider to evaluate the amount ofinsurance cover: 1. Number of dependents2. The kind of lifestyle 3. Cost of children’s education4. Investment requirements 5.Affordability and current level of income Another point to ponder aboutis - what if you don’t have financial dependents? In that case, you may not wish to purchase a life insurance policy orpurchase policies for others in your family. However, if you have plans ofsettling down in the future, you might wish to purchase a life insurance policyfor yourself - as the premium amount would increase as you become older. Onceyou get settled, you can always include your dependents as nominees. Q12 Whydoes bathroom tap water taste different? A12 Paul Marra , Contractor(1978-present)Answered 1h ago All tap water from the samesource should taste the same. There are times when the water from one tap will taste bad. That isoften due to excess pipe sealant that accumulates in the elbows. If the pipe isreally old, that gunk could even contain lead. The fixis…..you guessed it…..new pipes. All the above QA are from Quora website on 03-04- 2022. Quora answersneed not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 04-04-2022 -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1827313766.876796.1649042989353%40mail.yahoo.com.
