CULTURAL QA07-2022-21 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Why do people use a ceiling fan withan air conditioner if the roof is too hot due to the Sun? A1 Gopala Krishnan, Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004) Just now >From the questionit is not clear the type of roofing. Mostly nowadays roofing >is RCC. If it isany other type, false ceiling is provided at about 10 feet >height. When the roofing is too hot, itis absorbed to the side walls. Hence >side walls will also be hot. While the AC is switched ON, the cool air coming >is absorbed to the wallalso. Unless walls too become somewhat cool, the cool >air will not be felt bythe persons occupying. A fancirculating air, when switched ON, circulates the air in the room. Hence coolair coming from Air condition unit is circulated, of course more the hot air inthe top of the room and mingle with cool air from the AC unit and the room becomes cooler. If at all room is not very hot, still the cool air iscirculated if the AC unit is not in the centre of room wall. Q2 How does AC power provide power whenit's just shifting back and forth? Don't you need to have current going in onedirection? A2 Loring Chien, electrical engineerand audiophile for 45 years Updated Jul 5 The voltage goespositive and negative. The current follows(with ordinary resistance) and is positive and negative at the same times. Power is Voltagetimes current. During the positivevoltage cycle, power is positive (positive x positive = positive product ofpower) During the negativevoltage cycle, power is also positive (negative x negative = positive productof power). Thus you see thatat any given instant power is zero or positive all the time, and power is whatgets work done. On the average over time, power will always be positive. For a light bulb,for instance you have net positive heat and positive light. They don’t cancelout. My note- Our eyes cannot perceive a light isswitched ON and OFF more than 24 times in a second. The alternating current inIndia is 50 cycles, which means the light bulb is switched OFF and ON 50 times in a second. But our eyessee it as permanently glowing because of the above phenomina. Q3 What caused early humans to travelthousands of miles to migrate to distant places all over the world? Were theyrunning away from something? A3 Claire Jordan, Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Mon Theirin-laws (I’m assuming you mean running away). Seriously, the advancing lineof human settlement generally only moved a few miles per generation iiirc, so it was probably just peoplewanting to set up their own family home, “If webuild a house on the other side of the valley your sister can still visit usbut we won’t have to listen to her yakking 24/7”, over and over for thousandsof years. MY note- One ofthe many answers I enjoyed by Claire Jordan. Inlaw’s issue is in foreigncountries also!!!I Q4 How many states in India have youvisited? A4 Nagarajan Srinivas, India is mycountry, and all Indians my brothers and sisters Sat Well I was born inTamil Nadu and have lived the major portion of my life in the state. I’dvisited the following Indian states, mostly for brief periods. Karnataka : Visited Mangalore several times whenone of my close friends was working in the Medical college there as a faculty.Visiting Bangalore often now since my son is residing there. Also visitedCoorg, Talacauvery, Shravana Belagola, Belur-Halebid, Sringeri, Udupi, Kollur,Dharmasthala as a tourist. Andhra Pradesh / Telengana : Visited Hyderabadabout 4 decades ago when the state was not bifurcated. Visited Tirupati not infrequentlyas Lord Balaji is considered our family deity. Kerala: Visited Thiruvananthapuram nearly 4decades back. Also Ernakulam/ Kochi about two decades back where one of my close relatives usedto stay. Maharashtra : Stayed in Pune for a total of twomonths (one month each time) to undergo my bank’s training programme at theirStaff College situated at Koregaon Park, and visited Osho’s Ashram there. Alsovisited Mumbai forattending sundry training programmes, and Lonavala as a pleasuretrip once. In Mumbai visited India Gate/ Elephanta Caves and Mahalakshmi /Siddhi Vinayak temples. Delhi : Visited three / four times en route to tours ofNorthern India / Himalayas. Stayed for over a week some five years back when myson had temporarily relocated to Delhi. Seen almost all the places of interestin and around Delhi including the son-et-lumiere show at the Red Fort. Uttar Pradesh /Uttarakhand : Visited Agra, Mathura,Hardwar, Rishikesh et al. as tourist a couple of decades back. Punjab: Visited Amritsar Golden Temple, WaghaBorder as tourist just less than a decades back. Himachal Pradesh: Visited Shimla around a coupleof decades back. Jammu and Kashmir : Visited Khatra (Vaishno Devi),Srinagar, Gulmarg, Pahalgam etc. as tourist just less than a decade back. Bihar /Jharkhand : Lived for nearly five years in asmall town adjoining Jamshedpur and visited Ranchi 2 or 3 times over 25 yearsago- all due to the exigencies of my service in the bank. West Bengal : Visited Kolkata once to meet a friendwhile working in a border town of then Bihar now Jharkhand, but could not coverany places of interest. Odisha : Lived for six months in a small town not faraway from Rourkela over four decades back, and had visited Puri. Andhaman & Nicobar Islands (UT) : Visited for abouta week and covered Port Blair and the near by places of interest. Surfing/snorkelling in various beaches, and the son-et-lumiere at the Cellular Jailwere some unforgettable experiences. Considering the economic and logistical constraintsof an earlier era, I think this coverage still can be considered a fairly wideone. I owe most of my trips to my Bank as I could enjoy some exotictours under the LTC facility available to the bank employees. Q5 Is it good to oil hair before orafter shampoo? A5 Smytten, India's Largest ProductTrial & Discovery Platform Jun 17 Oiling of the hair is an age-old tradition the benefitsof which have been spoken about by both experts and the common folk. The usual procedure is to oil your hairbefore washing it and the reason for this is to ensure the oil issoaked into your hair shaft to help seal the fragile inner layer, making itless likely to get water-logged and therefore less likely to get damaged orbreak. Another reason isfor the scalp and hair to lock in enough moisture to be able to handle theeffects of the strong chemicals that come with hair-wash shampoos and ensureyour hair doesn’t dry out and become frizzy post-wash. Having said that,there are a few things you must keep in mind while oiling your hair pre-wash: Do not use too much oil on your scalp as excess oilmay block your hair follicles and this could lead the way to various fungalinfections and a generally unhealthy scalp. ***Never apply oil on a wet scalp as oil and water donot mix and this will result in the applied oil not being absorbed andsubsequent build-up. *** It doesnot mean applying hairoil- after bath andwiping water using towel and applying hairoil. Avoid using excessive amounts of shampoo to getrid of the oiliness. Doing so not only negates the effect of the pre-washoiling process but also ends up stripping the hair of its natural oils. Follow-through of the above pointers can assureyou of a great hair-oiling experience that results in healthy and lustroushair. And if you’re looking for hair oils that’ll best suit the results you aimto achieve, download our app (here)and check out the extensive range of hairoils. Happy oiling! Q6 Canyou tell about living bridges? A6 Kathleen Pennell's Posts, Posted by JoMburu Jul 15 There is a tribe in India that has learned to make livingbridges out of ficus tree roots. The bridgestake 15-30 years to complete. Mature bridges stretch 15 to 250 feet over deeprivers and gorges, and can bear impressive loads—upwards of 35 people at atime. Design life up to 500 years. This is so magicalto me. I can’t imagine that being my walk to school every day I would probably have been late enjoyingthe amazing creativity and scenery. Q7 What brings blood sugar down? A7 Mike Ramon, Male Nurse(1994–present) Updated Jul 13 About hypoglycemia Hypoglycemia(hypo) is a phenomenon where you have a low blood sugar level or a widelyfluctuating blood sugar level. It mainly occurs as a resultof diabetes mellitus. Patients often speak of a 'hiccup'. The oppositeof hypoglycemia is hyperglycemia (hyperglycemia), in which you have toomuch sugar in your blood. Blood sugar level All the sugars weeat are converted to glucose, or sugar, in the blood. The level of sugar in the bloodrises with food and falls with physical or mental exertion. There aretwo hormones involved in blood sugar balance, namely insulin and glucagon. Insulin ensures that excess sugarsafter eating are stored in the liver and muscles.Glucagon helps releasesugar back after exercise and puts it back into the bloodstream.Together they must ensure that your blood sugar level remains approximatelyconstant, ie between 4.0 and 8.0 mmol/l. In diabetes, your pancreas doesn't makeenough insulin or your body doesn't respond enough to insulin, causing your blood sugar to be toohigh. Inhypoglycemia, your pancreas or a tumor makes too much insulin, causing yourblood sugar to fluctuate too much or too low. In diabetics usinginsulin, there is relatively too much active insulin at the time, either due todosing errors or, for example, eating too little or expending too muchenergy (exercising). Hypoglycemia inpeople without insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is not accepted by allphysicians as a condition. Forexample, if no other condition is demonstrated and/or no measured blood sugarvalue is too low. Cause of hypoglycemia There can beseveral causes of hypoglycemia. For example, hypoglycemia can be caused by: Too much insulinor too little food intake, in an insulin-dependent diabetic. Too little food, asin anorexia nervosa. drug use.Haloperidol, salicylates, quinine, among others. Wrong diet. Thepregnancy. Hormonal disorders. Insulin-producing tumors. Extremely overweight. Presence of toxic substances. After gastrointestinal operations where spills mayoccur, for example during bypass construction. High birth weight newborns may developtemporary hypoglycemia after birth because they have not yet properly regulatedtheir diet. Symptoms of hypoglycemia Hypoglycemia isaccompanied by a long list of symptoms. To get too low a blood sugar level, your blood sugarlevel must, of course, drop. This goes pretty fast, but there arethree stages to distinguish: beginning, middle, and end. Each stage has its ownsymptoms and complaints. In the early stages, when your blood sugar levelsbegin to drop, you may experience the following: sweating_ nervousness _ shaking. Extreme hunger and nausea. Dizziness and headache. Disturbedvision. A racing heartbeat. If your blood sugardrops even lower (middle stage), you may also experience the following physicaland psychological symptoms in addition to the above symptoms: Problemswith your concentration. Confusion andirritability. Difficultyspeaking. Trouble staying still andwalking. muscle spasms. If your blood sugarlevel drops too low (end stage), it can cause: seizures. Lossof consciousness and coma. stroke If hypoglycemia isvery severe, it can even kill you. My note- I haveadded this QA for the reason Hypoglycemia (Blood sugar dropping) is more serious than blood sugar levelincreasing. Duringjourneys it is possible to get blood sugar level lower, hencemake sure glucose or sugar is ready in hand. Better reduce thequantity of insulin injections considerably, take coffee/teawith sugar Q8 Which is better to wash lemon orlime with to get rid of bacteria and wax on them, salt water or vinegar? A8 Ken Saladin, Always LearningSomething New (1949–present)Jul 2 Neither of thosewould be very good for wax. Vinegar and salt water are aqueous solutions,whereas wax ishydrophobic—it doesn’t dissolve in water. That’s why water beads upon waxed fruits like this; vinegar or salt wouldn’t change that. If I were all thatconcerned with what the produce venders used to make fruits a little moreshiny, and I thought it was a wax or oil, I’d use a mild soap like dishdetergent, and of course rinse thoroughly before cutting or peeling the fruit.But I’m not that concerned. We just spray our fruits from the store with lukewarm water. The originalspray-on coating to make fruit look glossy, patented in 1922, was a mixture ofwax and kerosene! Nowadays,though, the fruit wax is a mixture of sugar cane, beeswax, carnauba, andresins. Why Fruit Has a Fake Wax Coating But even beforethat patent, growers and vendors had been coating fruits and vegetable with waxand other material for centuries. In the 19thcentury, Americans preserved the food in their pantries by coating it withgelatin, salt, or sugar. Fruit was preserved by soaking it in baths of brandy —a precursor toBrogdex’s patented kerosene method. In 16th-century England, people used amethod called larding : Coatings of fatkept water and mold off stored food. A hundred years before that, the Japaneseused yuba, an edible film made by boiling soy milk, to coat their foods forstorage. The soft tofu skin ensured food quality and appearance, just as a thinlayer of resin does for our produce today. And even earlier, in the 12th and13th centuries, citrus farmers in Southern China packed their oranges andlemons in wooden boxes before filling the boxes with wax. Protected fromspoilage, dehydration, and insect damage, the wax-covered fruit would thenferment over the long trip north before arriving as a delicacy on the emperor’stable. [same source] And it’s not just fruit. Such coatings are also appliedto nuts, candies, meat, fish, cheese, and cereals. Q9 How did Gujaratis alone become superrich compared to other Indians in the Indian democracy? A9 Bala Senthil Kumar As required 9mo We have to understand Gujaratis as a global phenomenon. There are manytraits that separate them from people of other states in India. This is bothcultural and social. Here are my observations and anecdotal points. True sense of community - Anywhere in theworld, Gujaratis form well networked communities in which they look after eachother. When I was new in Los Angeles, I accidentally met one Gujarati youngman, who asked me if I played cricket. I said yes, and he asked me to come andplay with them on the weekend. He took my number and sure enough he called meon Saturday to ensure I’d be coming. I went and it was a regular affair on aschool ground, entire families gathering to play games and have some fun, thewhole day basically. I did not know it was a pot luck and I did not take anyfood, but they brushed all that away, and we played. I really enjoyed thecompany and the food and it became a regular weekend activity for me! But whatwas amazing was that right at the end of the playing time, one of them broughtseveral copies of a small chit of paper with everybody’s name and number on it,every boy and girl I had been introduced to, and my name was on it! I’m noGujarati but I got invited to every occasion in every home! Naturally I becameclose to many of them and saw how they operate. It’s all about mutually helpingin any way we can. I was asked if I wanted part time employment, or if anybodyhad come from India like a student or something and needed some extra cash.They would facilitate that sort of thing, and I made a few introductions andsome good happened. They also have a really wide network that can connectacross the country and the world, and they are not looking to unduly benefit ortake advantage of anybody. They genuinely enable. A sense of fairness - Go to Gujarat. You won’t beripped off unfairly by the auto rickshaw drivers. Vadodaraautos will still give you rides for 20 or 30 rupees. Get a service, andyou will see how much they try to please you, the customer. I was printinglarge colour maps for a topographical survey I was involved in, and each print was 200–300 rupees.Same price across all vendors, and similar quality, so no haggling was required.However, each time an order had to be cancelled, or redone, even if it wastechnically my fault, and half the print was done before I realised it, I wasnever charged for that. One of the architects who worked for us was a studentand she got a discount based on her ID card hanging from her neck. Just likethat! Guess how loyal I would be as a customer! A sense of calm - I have seen Gujaratis getting totheir late dinners, with swarming people in busy areas, all open late, butnever once saw a car honking to get someone out of the way. They just wait tillpeople clear. Tensions and tempers I have never seen rise, even in thatsweltering heat of summer. My reading is that it helps people focus on what is necessary. Calmpeople succeed in the long term. A sense of safety around wherever they live - Youcan see “Indian” neighbourhoods with largely Gujaratis in the USA, and they arethe safest neighbourhoods, with each family looking out for the other. I havehad even police officers tell me they don’t really mind kids playing on thestreets, since nobody from those streets complain, and they all stand up foreach other anyway, so they have so little to worry about. Same goes forGujarat. You can see college going girls roaming around on theirscooters well past midnight, going for ice cream, andif she has to walk, a few cars will stop to ask if she wants a ride. No dangerwhatsoever, and very strict law enforcement when it comes to this sort ofthing. End result - confident female children becoming entrepreneurs in theirown right. Open mindedness - Gujaratis won’t dismiss abusiness opportunity because it is new to them, off their regular turf, or insome way strange. They will trust people involved. This trust is an investment,and another Gujarati will respect that and behave accordingly. It is verycommon for one Gujarati to support another in business. They believe onesuccess will lead to another, no matter whose success it is. No pulling oneanother down. Cultural, spiritual and identity consciousness -Whether it is the garba tradition or poojas or clothes, along with the ultramodern, Gujaratis haven’t forgotten their roots and they stay well rooted intheir culture, which provides that inner sanctuary knowing that theirrelationship with the world is on safe ground. People who are confident thatsomebody will have their back because of their identity will function withconfidence in almost all cases. If reputation within the community is on theline, and considered important, the whole community will be successful. Enterprise above employment - Gujaratis seeenterprise as their first choice, not getting a job. Since this is deeplyingrained in them they take risks, fall, rise, fall, rise, and then figure itall out to stay afloat. The entire community understands, appreciates andsupports this, as absolutely normal. Guess what? They produce a lot ofenterprise.All this is no guarantee anybody will become super rich, but thechances are, most people have a good shot of getting fairly rich if they canfunction with the above. Q10 Have you met people outside Tamil Naduwho can speak Tamil fluently? A10 Gopalkrishna Vishwanath, Willingresponder to survey questions Jul 15 I have met Singaporeans and a Sri Lankan who spoke betterTamil than I do. My Tamil is strongly accented andit smells of Malayalam! Iam a Paalakkad Iyer and we speak Palakkad Tamil at home. At the ParksideRetirement home in Devanahalli, where I am now living, a co-resident is a Gujarati (Kutchi) and he speaks goodTamil and quotes lines from the poet Kannadasan’s songs! I feelsmall in front of him. He learned Tamil during his long posting in Tamilnaduduring his younger days. I have met an elderly Sardarji during a train journey andhe surprised me by speaking to me in Tamil during the journey.He was a businessman and his business needed him to travel frequently to TamilNadu and spend extended periods there. Over a period of 2 decades, he learnedto speak Tamil fluently and also learned to read and write albeit a littleslowly. The realsurprise was to know about fellow Quoran, Ben A. Wise of Israel.He has spent long years in India. While Tamilians usually don’t speak Hindi,and North Indians don’t speak Tamil, Ben Wise learned both Tamil and Hindi during his stay of afew years in India. I salute him! All the above QA are from Quora website on 20-07- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 21-07-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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