Burlington

Today was a busy day in Burlington. Had our Breakfast in Ramada Inn and quickly went to Times News. It was interesting to check out that the same set of problem in print industry. Being overshadowed by electronic media, rising expenses and diminishing ad-qoutes. Roselle and Michelle gave us lot us time in explaining their functioning. A brief of our expereince so far was printed in their daily spreadsheet which can be checked at
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/ghosh_24127___article.html/rotary_group.html
Then we went to Almanac County Hospital and visited their oncology dept. There was a hospitologist there called Nivedita Pandey who is from Delhi who became our guide.
After having a lunch in Sidetrack with Burlington Rotary Club members, we had a good visit of Elon University. They say its competing Duke University in this part. We had a hour long question answer session with a group of students of the University whose one of the area of study is India. It appeared they got influenced by Freedman's 'The World is Flat'. I guess Milton now has serious competition. It was interesting to explain the American students the causes and reasons of india being a preferred outsourcing hub or what they say as we r stealing their jobs. I remember my countrymen in Adityapur who cry the same way against China. Is it 'Survival of the Fittest'. I believe Darwin was right. And now probably is the time for the wheel to turn.

How could you end the day after such gruelling without a beer tasting session. In fact we ended up with having a session at Red Oak Brewery followed by a wild session at the 'Hooters'. Skinpy girls, lot of shrimps and legs and good fresh draught beer. Burlington was special. Marc and Susan was special. We had a mongolean buffet dinner where you get to actually choose from a wide array of sauces and spices. I always thought chinese food only contains vinegar and soya sauce!
Goodnight. Tomorrow is easter saturday and we move to High Point.