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Deadly collision of wild birds with Jets and Airplanes
Even if birds are much smaller than aircraft, a mid-air collision with them can lead to very unexpected consequences. Just look what damage the planes get in collisions with birds. But it is of course the birds that suffer most and die
Does NRI mean: Never to Return to India...
A typical conversation with a visiting NRI.
Self: Hi! Home for a holiday? Are you going back.or?
NRI: YesyesI am going back as soon as possible.
Self: Butyour parents are here. There are also many new malls now where you can get everything you want. It's even cheaper than in the US, Europe or Canada or Australia.
NRI: Yes.things are real cheap here in Indiaproducts are very goodthe malls are also very good.restaurants are excellent. Butthe roads and the traffic are so terribleI can't wait to get back.
Self: YesI agreebutthat's only one relatively small factorsurely you can adjust and put up with that. The situation would improve once the Metro is operational.
NRI: NoNo. Why should I put up with the traffic and the crowds and the garbage? Why should I adjust? It's impossible.
Self: OKlets change the subject. How are your parents? I heard your mother had some health problem. Is she ok now?
NRI: Oh yeahshe's ok! Doctors have given her some medicines. Dad is there to take care of her.
Self: But he is old how will he manage? Besides, both will be missing all of you so much. Loneliness is terrible. That itself can lead to so many diseases.
NRI: He'll manage. He has to adjust, I guess.
Self: OK.how is life in America? What do you eat at home?. The usual Idlis, Dosas Upma etc. that you like so much? Indian food, particularly South Indian food is considered the healthiest! It contains all essential nutrients in a very balanced way.
NRI: Wellnonot really. We normally eat cereals for breakfaststraight from boxes. I carry sandwiches for lunch or eat some salad at the cafeteria (everything is so expensive). For dinner we take out some food stored in the freezer and heat it in the microwaveand that's it. Its difficult to cook every day, you knowso we cook once a week and store it in the freezer.
Self: But that's not healthy. Also, eating packaged & processed food every day could lead to many diseases. We read about this every day.
NRI: Oh no problem. We adjust. We sometimes eat meat to make up for the proteins.
Self: But you are traditionally a vegetarian, I thought. Vegetarianism is considered a better option for general health, animal rights and for spiritual reasons. and many westerners are now becoming vegetarians. Sowhy have you switched to non-veg?
NRI: Wellits no big deal really. One has to adjust.
Self: It must be cold where you live.you have lived all your life in warm South India.
NRI: Yesits terribly cold out there with months of snowbut we have central heating. We don't go out muchbut its...ok. We learn to adjust.
Self: How is your wife? Does she also work? What about the children?
NRI: Of course! She has to work! We can't manage with one person working. We have mortgages to pay. We both leave our home at 8 am and are back at 6 pm. We have only one child who comes from school and stays alone till we come home. He watches TV and eats something from the freezer. Some of our friends are even opting not to have any childrenso that they could save all the trouble. God!.Children are such a responsibility!
Self: Yesthat they certainly are.
NRI: Children are also very expensive. Their clothes, food, eating out, vacationsbuying new stuff every few months just to keep up with their peers in schoolits terrible!
Self: So how do you manage? What about the culture? The sexual freedom, pornography, homosexuality and so on? Aren't you worried about these adverse influences on your children?
NRI: No one bothers about all that. Its part of life. If my son adopts that lifestylethat's ok with me. We need to adjust and get on with life.
Self: I understand that due to the recession and its aftermath there is a subtle antagonism towards foreigners and immigrants. Is that true?
NRI: Wellyeahsometimes you do sense a mild discrimination and bigotry. Recently in fact, someone shouted out an abuse at my wife when she was out shopping. Someone at school called out รข€˜Paki go home' to my son. But these things are rare because by and large, we keep to ourselves. We rarely interact with the whites or the other immigrants. Even they prefer to keep to themselves. We have our own small Indian groups with whom we socialize. Sosuch racist incidents are kept to the minimum. We adjust and learn to manage.
Self : What about entertainment? Do you get Indian TV channels and programs? Do you eat out often?
NRI: Indian channels are usually pay channels and very expensive. Sowe don't have them. We manage with the local english programs. We do see Indian movies sometimes. They are expensive and you need to drive for an hour to get to the cinema hall. Sowe don't do it very often. Eating out is very expensive. Indian food is even more expensive.
Self: Where do you live in the US and do you own a house?
NRI: We live in a locality with lot of Hispanics, Koreans and Chinese. We have bought a house on mortgage recently. Its not very big actually. Just a two bedroom twin home of about 800 sq ft. Unfortunately prices have dropped recently. But we like it.
Self: But you have a fairly big home in India...
NRI: Yesbut.what have I got in India? Nothing!
Self: What do you do if one of you is ill? Do any neighbors help?
NRI: Actuallyone of my neighbors is a Korean man who lives with his girlfriend. On the other side are twoer.homosexual men. We have to help ourselves most of the time. Our Indian friends live some distance away.and no one will help if we are ill. Everyone is so busy with their own work.
Self: What sort of work do you do in the US? Is it some highly specialized cutting edge work. for which you cannot get a job in India?
NRI: Actually.I am a software engineer. I had a good job till recently, but I got laid off and had a terrible three months. I have recently been called for an interview for a temporary contract position. I may get it. Things are looking goodyeah.I am ok!
Self: But you would be able to get a very goodhighly paying job in India. India's booming with a very high rate of growth!
NRI: YesI know. I'll probably get a much better salary than what I get in the US and maybe I'll be able to save much more too butit's so difficult to adjust to the traffic and the crowds in Indiayou know. Its impossible to come back.
Self: OK then. goodbye and good luck!
(I think to myself as I say goodbye)Yeah.. right! You can adjust to packaged food and poor health, small dark wooden home, heavy mortgages, terrible weather conditions, lack of family, lonely parents, bad cultural environment, racial abuse, loss of dignity & self respect, job insecurity and even your basic principles but you can't adjust to simple traffic conditions in India!
Self: Hi! Home for a holiday? Are you going back.or?
NRI: YesyesI am going back as soon as possible.
Self: Butyour parents are here. There are also many new malls now where you can get everything you want. It's even cheaper than in the US, Europe or Canada or Australia.
NRI: Yes.things are real cheap here in Indiaproducts are very goodthe malls are also very good.restaurants are excellent. Butthe roads and the traffic are so terribleI can't wait to get back.
Self: YesI agreebutthat's only one relatively small factorsurely you can adjust and put up with that. The situation would improve once the Metro is operational.
NRI: NoNo. Why should I put up with the traffic and the crowds and the garbage? Why should I adjust? It's impossible.
Self: OKlets change the subject. How are your parents? I heard your mother had some health problem. Is she ok now?
NRI: Oh yeahshe's ok! Doctors have given her some medicines. Dad is there to take care of her.
Self: But he is old how will he manage? Besides, both will be missing all of you so much. Loneliness is terrible. That itself can lead to so many diseases.
NRI: He'll manage. He has to adjust, I guess.
Self: OK.how is life in America? What do you eat at home?. The usual Idlis, Dosas Upma etc. that you like so much? Indian food, particularly South Indian food is considered the healthiest! It contains all essential nutrients in a very balanced way.
NRI: Wellnonot really. We normally eat cereals for breakfaststraight from boxes. I carry sandwiches for lunch or eat some salad at the cafeteria (everything is so expensive). For dinner we take out some food stored in the freezer and heat it in the microwaveand that's it. Its difficult to cook every day, you knowso we cook once a week and store it in the freezer.
Self: But that's not healthy. Also, eating packaged & processed food every day could lead to many diseases. We read about this every day.
NRI: Oh no problem. We adjust. We sometimes eat meat to make up for the proteins.
Self: But you are traditionally a vegetarian, I thought. Vegetarianism is considered a better option for general health, animal rights and for spiritual reasons. and many westerners are now becoming vegetarians. Sowhy have you switched to non-veg?
NRI: Wellits no big deal really. One has to adjust.
Self: It must be cold where you live.you have lived all your life in warm South India.
NRI: Yesits terribly cold out there with months of snowbut we have central heating. We don't go out muchbut its...ok. We learn to adjust.
Self: How is your wife? Does she also work? What about the children?
NRI: Of course! She has to work! We can't manage with one person working. We have mortgages to pay. We both leave our home at 8 am and are back at 6 pm. We have only one child who comes from school and stays alone till we come home. He watches TV and eats something from the freezer. Some of our friends are even opting not to have any childrenso that they could save all the trouble. God!.Children are such a responsibility!
Self: Yesthat they certainly are.
NRI: Children are also very expensive. Their clothes, food, eating out, vacationsbuying new stuff every few months just to keep up with their peers in schoolits terrible!
Self: So how do you manage? What about the culture? The sexual freedom, pornography, homosexuality and so on? Aren't you worried about these adverse influences on your children?
NRI: No one bothers about all that. Its part of life. If my son adopts that lifestylethat's ok with me. We need to adjust and get on with life.
Self: I understand that due to the recession and its aftermath there is a subtle antagonism towards foreigners and immigrants. Is that true?
NRI: Wellyeahsometimes you do sense a mild discrimination and bigotry. Recently in fact, someone shouted out an abuse at my wife when she was out shopping. Someone at school called out รข€˜Paki go home' to my son. But these things are rare because by and large, we keep to ourselves. We rarely interact with the whites or the other immigrants. Even they prefer to keep to themselves. We have our own small Indian groups with whom we socialize. Sosuch racist incidents are kept to the minimum. We adjust and learn to manage.
Self : What about entertainment? Do you get Indian TV channels and programs? Do you eat out often?
NRI: Indian channels are usually pay channels and very expensive. Sowe don't have them. We manage with the local english programs. We do see Indian movies sometimes. They are expensive and you need to drive for an hour to get to the cinema hall. Sowe don't do it very often. Eating out is very expensive. Indian food is even more expensive.
Self: Where do you live in the US and do you own a house?
NRI: We live in a locality with lot of Hispanics, Koreans and Chinese. We have bought a house on mortgage recently. Its not very big actually. Just a two bedroom twin home of about 800 sq ft. Unfortunately prices have dropped recently. But we like it.
Self: But you have a fairly big home in India...
NRI: Yesbut.what have I got in India? Nothing!
Self: What do you do if one of you is ill? Do any neighbors help?
NRI: Actuallyone of my neighbors is a Korean man who lives with his girlfriend. On the other side are twoer.homosexual men. We have to help ourselves most of the time. Our Indian friends live some distance away.and no one will help if we are ill. Everyone is so busy with their own work.
Self: What sort of work do you do in the US? Is it some highly specialized cutting edge work. for which you cannot get a job in India?
NRI: Actually.I am a software engineer. I had a good job till recently, but I got laid off and had a terrible three months. I have recently been called for an interview for a temporary contract position. I may get it. Things are looking goodyeah.I am ok!
Self: But you would be able to get a very goodhighly paying job in India. India's booming with a very high rate of growth!
NRI: YesI know. I'll probably get a much better salary than what I get in the US and maybe I'll be able to save much more too butit's so difficult to adjust to the traffic and the crowds in Indiayou know. Its impossible to come back.
Self: OK then. goodbye and good luck!
(I think to myself as I say goodbye)Yeah.. right! You can adjust to packaged food and poor health, small dark wooden home, heavy mortgages, terrible weather conditions, lack of family, lonely parents, bad cultural environment, racial abuse, loss of dignity & self respect, job insecurity and even your basic principles but you can't adjust to simple traffic conditions in India!
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (French: Statue de la Liberte), officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World, dedicated on October 28, 1886, is a monument commemorating the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, given to the United States by the people of France to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution.
It represents a woman wearing a stola, a radiant crown and sandals, trampling a broken chain, carrying a torch in her raised right hand and a tabula ansata tablet, where the date of the Declaration of Independence JULY IV MDCCLXXVI is inscribed, in her left arm. Standing on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained a U.S. patent for its structure. Maurice Koechlin - chief engineer of Gustave Eiffel's engineering company and designer of the Eiffel Tower - engineered the internal structure. The pedestal was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt. Eugene Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction, and for the adoption of the repousse technique, where a malleable metal is hammered on the reverse side.
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