CULTURAL QA 07-2022-30 BEING A COMPILATION THEREMAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Are steam locomotives efficient? A1 Ernest W. Adams,Game design consultant,author and professor Jul 21 No, unfortunately. In terms ofturning the energy in the coal into work at the wheels, they're under 10%efficient. They makehuge amounts of heat that is simply wasted. Diesel-electrics are better.Pure electric locomotives are better still, in terms of turning the electricityinto work, but this doesn't take into account the losses where the electricityis generated in the first place, nor transmission losses. It will depend on howthe electricity was generated and how far it had to travel before reaching thelocomotive. Q2 Is it harmful to eat bananas when youhave a cold? A2 Lucia Garcia, Worked at Hospitals Wed Unlike otherseasonal fruits, bananas are available fresh all year round and are delicious,nutritious and affordable. Bananas are not a taboo food for people with cold and cough.Eating bananas is beneficial and harmless to cold and cough patients. Banana is cold innature, and has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, moisteningthe lungs and relieving cough, and moistening the bowels. According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), bananasare helpful in the treatment of colds and coughs. Some nutritionistsbelieve that eatingbananas can increase the number of white blood cells, boost immunity andresistance, and relieve symptoms of colds and coughs. Bananas are rich innutrients. Eating bananas when you have a cold can supplement a variety ofnutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, dietary fiber, and various vitaminsand minerals. Q3 Has Indian Railways' Punjab Mailcompleted 110 years in service? A3 Ankit Barnawal,Former Student at DoonBusiness School, Dehradun (2017–2022)Jun 25 About Punjab Mail The Punjab Mail isa superfast express train in Indian Railways which runs between Firozpur Cantt Junction and MumbaiC.S.M.T. The train operatesas train number 12137 from Mumbai C.S.M.T. to Firozpur Cantt Junction and astrain number 12138 in the reverse direction. The 12137 Punjab Mail departs Mumbai C.S.M.T. at 07:35 pmon daily basis and arrives Firozpur Cantt Junction at 05:10 am on the third dayof commencing of journey. The total travel time is 33 hours 35 minutes. The 12138 PunjabMail departs Firozpur Cantt Junction at 09:45 pm on daily basis and arrivesMumbai C.S.M.T. at 07:35 am on the third day of commencing of journey. Thetotal travel time is 33 hours 50 minutes. The train travels 1,928 kilometers between FirozpurCantt Junction and Mumbai C.S.M.T. The train is hauledby a electric locomotive WAP-7 of KYN shed between Mumbai C.S.M.T. and BathindaJn and a diesel locomotive WDP-4D of LDH shed between Bathinda Jn and FirozpurCantt Jn. Punjab Mail is the oldest train of Central Railways. The Punjab Mail got LHBfied on 01 December, 2021. Coming to the mainquestion whether the Indian Railways 'Punjab Mail' has completed 110 years ofservice ? Yes, the Indian Railways 'Punjab Mail' has completed 110years of service. The train wasstarted on 01 November, 1889between Mumbai VT (now known as Mumbai C.S.M.T.) and Peshawar Cantonment(Presently in Pakistan). In 1934, the train route waschanged owing to different situations and it was made terminated to Firozpur Cantt via Bathinda. The traincompleted 110 years of service on 01 June, 2022. Q4 Why must farmers wake up at 4 AM tomilk the cows? Why not just wait until a more reasonable time, like 8 AM? Won'tthe cows adjust? A4 Pradeep CE,Hungry. Foolish. Tue I am from a ruralpart of southern India, and farmers here usually milk their cows very early, typically beforesunrise. I think it's partly tradition, and partly necessity. People without cowsin rural and semi-rural areas usually buy milk from their neighbours who owncows. The family buyingmilk usually has kids that have to be ready for school around 7am or 8am.They also wake up pretty early, and need their morning coffee around this time.So if you're buyingmilk from your neighbour, you would expect it to be ready by around 6am or6.30am. The farmers usuallyhave multiple cows, so they need to start early to finish milking all of themby 6am or 6.30am. We also have milk co-ops for every locality, and thedaily pick up for these co-ops is pretty early as well.A pick up is when the collected milk from a co-op is sent for furtherprocessing. So the farmers have to make sure they drop off their milk beforethe pickup happens.Consideringall these reasons, almost all farmers milk their cows very early in themorning. Q5 Why do South Indians prefer coconut oilfor everything? A5 Bhuvana Rameshwar, Born and bred a S.Indian 2h Yes I use coconut oil every day.For head, scalp andhair massage. For body massage of babies before weekly hair and bodybath As a moisturiserbefore a hair wash, we soak our hair for an hour before bath. It is anexcellent nourisher for dry lifelesshair As a hair darkenerand strength giver As a bodymoisturiser in dry weather When making banana chips, avial (multi veg dish), pazhampori (sweet banana fritters) For making homemade kajal For home madeorganic soaps But otherwise for daily cooking we, Tamilians , Kannadigas,Andhrites, Pondys use refined sunflower oil, sesame oil, ground nut oil and nowyounger generation uses olive oil. Only people of Kerala (Malayalees) and some coastalKannadigas of Karnataka use coconut oil for all their cooking and for cosmeticpurposes. Q6 Whathappens to the train that runs weekly for the rest of the week? A6 Subhasis Dutta Roy,20 years in Indianrailways (including15 yrs as Loco Pilot)2y Train means anempty rake with a Locomotive. The weekly train runs once a week. Normally onerake used for the weekly train. Suppose a weeklytrain starts on Monday and reach the destination on Tuesday. Then reverseweekly train more often runs on Wednesdays from that station and reach Fridayat originating station. Most of thecase the nameplates change and the empty rake work another train for the restof the week. There is adepartment which organises the total sequence of rake operations of a division.They take care of every rake so that all rakes are properly used. It is thecoaching department. My NOTE- Most of the special trains I have travelledhad very old boggies, heavily charged, with limited stoppage nothing could be availablethrough vendors in the train to eat or drink Q7 What happens to the passengers when aplane is diverted to another place due to bad weather? A7 Arun Visvanathan, Lives in Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India Mon The airline will try and get you an alternative flightto your destination but any additional expenses involved - hotel, food etcwould be on your account. I was on aLufthansa flight to Sao Paolo, Brazil involving via Frankfurt and WashingtonDC. My flight to DC was cancelled because of bad weather in DC so I wasstranded at Frankfurt. I approached the Lufthansa desk and they booked me on aflight the next morning via Newark. Accommodation for the night? “Sorry sir. The airline isnot responsible for an Act of God.” Fortunately, while fiddling on atouch screen, I found that they had a direct flight to Santiago leaving acouple of hours later and was able to get a seat. Q8 What should your blood sugar be afterfasting for 12 hours? A8 Rajinder Bhalla, I am working on OneCure for All Diseases for last 20 years Jul 23 I am 60. My bloodsugar at all times is 90 to 110. Even if I eat 500 gram sweets and check after5 minutes. All these parameters about blood sugar are wrong. Blood sugar beforeany meal should be close to 100. There is no use of taking fasting blood sugar.That is a fraud by pharma industry. Fasting blood sugar does not represent a true picture. When your energylevels drop, liver may have to release glucose few minutes or hour before youwake up. That will give you a wrong picture. Moreover during sleep themetabolic activity drops to 5% of normal metabolic activity. Diabetes is metabolic syndrome. Checking fasting sugaris wrong. Checking fasting sugar 12 hours after fastingis too big a mistake. I have diabeticpatients. I have put one on complete fast without water for 36 hours a numberof times. During such fast doctors say that blood sugar may drop too low andwarn people not to do it. But I tell them todo walk and rest for 16 hours during this fast of 36 hours. They maintain bloodsugar to around 120 all 36 hours. They feel energeticas well. It is not pancreas which regulate blood sugar. It isliver which regulates blood sugar on second to second basis. Pancreas justresponds to high carb intake by releasing insulin. After releasing insulin inblood, liver takes over and regulates blood sugar. In diabetics, theirmetabolic rate is low. Metabolic rate canbe increased by hydration dehydration cycles and walk and rest routines. Moredetails about these are given in my quora profile. Testimonials of thepatients are there on my youtube channel. These are in the form of uneditedmobile recordings of the patients. Each patients recordings run into 10s ofhours starting from first call till he is completely cured. My note- I donot agree for 36 hours fasting, but what is told about fasting bloodsugar is correct, so I included this QA. If a diabetic person takes even 12hours fasting blood sugar will come down to even 30-40which is very dangerous. Q9 What happens if a septic tank has aleak? A9 Gopala Krishnan,Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now The leaking liquid is human waste as urine and motionmixed with water used for cleaning body parts excreting them. A lot of harmfulbacteria has developed on it. The tank has to be cleaned mechanically and sewagedeposited in a place where human habitation is not near by.Or in an isolated area like where human waste from flights is emptied. If leak is permitted not only foul smell, harmful bacteria may createmany HARMFUL deceases. Human waste inisolated areas may not harm much. Before centuries humans used togo to isolated areas for urinating and passing motion where it got dried up.Toilet is most hygienic method for passing human waste like urine and motion. Leaking must not bepermitted. By the time we get bad odour near septic tank, sewageclearing establishments are called for by us NEVER PERMITTING LEAKAGE Q10 Is Litchi harmful if it is takenon an empty stomach? A10 Lucia Garcia, Worked at Hospitals Jul 22 Lychee is atropical fruit native to China that ripens from May to August every year. Lychees are delicious and nutritious, but you should noteat more of them, Especially on an Empty Stomach. Lychees themselvesdo not contain any toxic substances, but lychees are a high-sugar fruit with asugar content of up to 17%. Most of the sugarin lychees is fructose. After fructose enters the human body, it will stimulatethe islet beta cells to secrete a large amount of insulin in a short period oftime. The main function of insulin is to lower blood sugar.Excessive insulin levels in the body can lead to hypoglycemia, resulting indizziness, palpitation, paleness, dizziness, fatigue, arrhythmias and othersymptoms of hypoglycemia. If you eat too muchlychee at one time, especially on an empty stomach, it is easy to causehypoglycemia. It is recommended to eat no more than 10 lychees a day,preferably between meals. All the above QA are from Quora website on 29 -07- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 30-07-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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