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Who has been PAID?

Labels: Bourne High School, Business, Health, Market research, Online Surveys, Paid Dues, Paid survey, United States |

Who has been PAID?

Buddha's Advice to Calm a Disturbed Mind

Labels: art, Buddha, Buddhism, Bullock cart, Business, Gautama Buddha, Lake, Religion and Spirituality |

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers.. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, "I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there."

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, "How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!"

So he came back and told Buddha, "The water in there is very muddy. I don't think it is fit to drink." After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake.

This time too he found that the lake was muddy. He returned and informed Buddha about the same. After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back. The disciple reached the lake to find the lake absolutely clean and clear with pure water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.

Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said," See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be.... and the mud settled down on its own - and you got clear water. Your mind is also like that! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don't have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.

How you want to wait for BUS...?

Labels: Austfonna, Bus, Bus Stop, Business, Operators, Public transport, Singapore, Svalbard, Transportation and Logistics, Urban Transport |

Viewers,

This seems really awesome, how to wait for a BUS at Bus Stop. It is quite creative. I will add few more images soon.

Source: Binscorner.com

New "Scratched Glasses" Give Perfect Vision

Labels: Business, Engraving, Glasses, Jewelry, Light, Normal lens, Shopping, Wedding |

Bifocals and trifocals allow people with limited vision to see objects at varying distances, but only by refocusing on the object from a different vantage. A scientist named Zeev Zalevsky responded to this problem by developing a lens that allows the user to focus on any distance out from 33 centimeters.

It involves engraving the surface of a standard lens with a grid of 25 near-circular structures each 2 millimetres across and containing two concentric rings. The engraved rings are just a few hundred micrometres wide and a micrometre deep. “The exact number and size of the sets will change from one lens to another,” depending on its size and shape, says Zalevsky.

The rings shift the phase of the light waves passing through the lens, leading to patterns of both constructive and destructive interference. Using a computer model to calculate how changes in the diameter and position of the rings alter the pattern, Zalevsky came up with a design that creates a channel of constructive interference perpendicular to the lens through each of the 25 structures. Within these channels, light from both near and distant objects is in perfect focus.

“It results in an axial channel of focused light, not a single focal spot,” Zalevsky says. “If the retina is positioned anywhere along this channel, it will always see objects in focus.”

World’s Oldest Brand (124-year-old)

Labels: Business, Food, Golden syrup, Guinness Book of Records, Guinness World Records, Shopping, Sweeteners, World record |

Lyle’s Golden Syrup has been named as Britain’s oldest brand, with its green and gold packaging having remained almost unchanged since 1885. The Guinness Book of Records gave the breakfast and teatime sweetener, whose tins bear the image of a lion and a biblical quotation, the prized honour.

GOLD

Labels: Auction, Banyuwangi, Business, Christie's, East Java, Indonesia, London, Yves Klein |

A Christie's employee looks at a creation "Relief Eponge" by Yves Klein on display at the auction house in London , Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. The gold sponge relief creation is to be auctioned at the "Post-war and Contemporary" sale on Feb. 11 with an estimated price of 5.7 to 8 million euros (US $8.2 to 11.4 million).

An illegal miner pans for gold at the mountain of Tumpang Pitu in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia on November 21, 2009.

A perfect brick of Gold.

Geological Wonders: Hell Gate

Labels: Arkansas, Business, Chesapeake Energy, Derweze, Energy, United States, United States Geological Survey, Uzbekistan |

Called by locals The Door to Hell, this place in Uzbekistan is situated near the small town of Darvaz. When geologists were drilling for gas, 35 years ago, they suddenly found an underground cavern that was so big, all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas, so they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it has been burning. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite.