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Perhaps the most famous proof of all times is Euclid's geometric proof (Tropfke 1921ab; Tietze 1965, p. 19), although it is neither the simplest nor the most obvious. Euclid's proof used the figure below, which is sometimes known variously as the bride's chair, peacock tail, or windmill. The philosopher Schopenhauer has described this proof as a "brilliant piece of perversity" (Schopenhauer 1977; Gardner 1984, p. 153).





   

Shearing these triangles gives two more equivalent triangles



Therefore,



http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2012, 08:24:56 PM
pagtutok nako nila, isig lingiway, hahaha!  aw, sila bay mangamrasay, lalim ba.

He he, basin  morag iring nga irong boang ang expression...

http://www.toxel.com/


Creative illustrations by New York based artist Ji Lee show the meaning of different words.

The goal was to create visual representation of a word, using only the letters that are contained within the word itself.

Bangkiyod in action...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M83O7gCFVNI#

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2012, 08:13:37 PM
wa pa ko makakita ani.  mora diay ni tingalig ikaw nga galakaw, bai hubs.

Ang kalainan kay mubo ra kog ikog...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2012, 08:11:58 PM
kaila ko ani.  wa lang ko kahibawo sa ngan.  now i'm half-educated.

Sureness ko nga abi nimo black ants...

by Prashanth
on July 17th, 2012
http://www.bytecolumn.com





An elevator has become indispensible now-a-days. What with high-rise buildings and numerous skyscrapers. We do spend a lot of time in elevators and it tends to become a bit boring. Here are some ways to spend your time effectively, lighten up your mood and entertain yourself during the process.

Stand silent and motionless in the corner facing the wall without getting off.

When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act as if you’re embarrassed when they open themselves.

Stare At another passenger for a while. Then announce in horror: “You’re one of THEM” â€" and back away slowly.

Meow occasionally.

Say “Ding” at each floor.

Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.

Try to make personal calls on the emergency phone.

When there’s only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder, then pretend it wasn’t you.

Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.

Hold the doors open and say you’re waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say “Hi Greg, How’s your day been?”

Pretend you’re a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.

Swat at flies that don’t exist.

Ask if you can push the button for other people but push the wrong ones.

Solar comes as an ideal solution to such a small population (1,411 people) and low power demand, which means the country will go from 0 percent to more than 90 percent renewable electricity in one fell swoop. The government estimates the solar system will prevent 12,000 tonnes (13,228 tons) of carbon dioxide from going into the atmosphere over the life of the project. For backup during long spells of cloudiness, coconut oil-powered generators will supply power and recharge the battery bank.

Many Pacific Island nations depend on fossil fuels for energy and are vulnerable to international price fluctuations. In some cases, the cost of importing fuel is higher than all export earnings combined. Tokelau burns around 200 liters (53 US gallons) of fuel every day and spends about NZ$1 million (US$0.81 million) per year shipping in the stuff. Currently, Tokelau’s population has 15 to 18 hours per day of electricity.

When the system goes live in late September after a commissioning ceremony, the Tokelau population will be at the leading edge of climate change mitigation efforts and on its way to energy independence.

In order to turn sunlight into electricity, Tokelau will activate 4,032 solar panels, 392 inverters and 1,344 batteries. The solar system will be spread across Tokelau’s three atolls - Fakaofo, Nukunonu, and Atafu. Special attention has been paid to the resilience and longevity of the materials due the faster wear and tear caused by the harsh tropical and marine weather conditions, besides the corrosiveness of the salty air. PowerSmart, a New Zealand-based company, is designing and installing the project, which will include one photovoltaic (PV) mini grid on each atoll.

Besides the environmental benefits, the NZ$7 million (US$5.66 million) New Zealand is investing in the project makes logistical sense as well. Because there are no flights, all transportation is done by water. The ship that covers the route to and from Samoa needs to anchor outside the reefs, from where passengers and goods are taken to shore on a landing barge.

By Antonio Pasolini
14:34 July 30, 2012
http://www.gizmag.com/





Adopting renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power is a great way to reduce emissions and produce energy locally. In places like remote Pacific islands, however, those benefits are potentially a key to independence. For that reason Tokelau, a 10 sq. km. (3.86 sq. mi) island nation that lies around 500 km (311 mi) north of Samoa and which is a territory of New Zealand, is about to ditch diesel as a source of electricity and switch to solar power.

Uptight people who cannot laugh at themselves are doomed to be unhappy.

The benefits of the GiraDora go beyond turning laundry from a ghastly ordeal into a simple chore. The GiraDora is self-contained and requires no electricity. Not only is the GiraDora much more efficient than hand washing and saves many hours of time, it’s more comfortable to use and less wearing on the back, arms and hands. The foot pedal also leaves the operator’s hands free for other activities. Whole loads can be washed at once and it can be carried to the water source or used indoors in bad weather. The spin dry function improves the health of the family, especially children, by reducing exposure to mold and mildew. In addition, the machine is a chance for women to make money because the time saved doing the family’s clothes means that they can take in other people’s washing.

Cabunoc and You have presented the device at several conferences and were awarded an NCIIA E-Team grant of $19,500 to help in bringing it to market. They hope to complete field testing in Peru in a year with 50 machines and begin selling them in South America within three years before moving on to India. Their final goal is to have one million users of the machines.

Human-powered washing machines are not a new idea, but the challenge here was to design a one that's cheap, portable and easy to use, yet gets the clothes clean and relatively dry. After working with models based on sink plungers, salad spinners and the like, the pair came up with what looks like a picnic cooler crossed with a top-loading washing machine. Mechanically, it’s really very simple, which isn’t surprising because the final design was developed on the spot back in Cerro Verde.

GiraDora is a plastic tub tall enough to sit on. In fact, it’s designed to be operated while sitting on it to keep it stable. Inside, there’s a second tub like that in a conventional washer mounted on a center post. The post is connected to a pedal on the base of the tub. The machine is filled with clothes, water and soap and the lid put back. The operator then sits on the tub and repeatedly presses down on the pedal with her foot. This works the mechanism that agitates, cleans and rinses the clothes. When the clothes are clean, a stopcock in the base is opened and the pedal worked again. Now the washer becomes a spin drier and the clothes can be hung up to complete drying in a reasonable time. The cost of the machine is about US$40.

Cabunoc and You were in Cerra Verde as part of the Safe Agua Peru program. The purpose of the visit was to come up with ways to help locals deal with water-related problems. There, women had to trek miles to collect water and haul it home by the bucket load before washing their clothes one piece of a time. This can take up to six hours and needs to be done as many as five times a week, outside and in all weather with hands constantly plunged in basins of cold, soapy water. Clothes can take as long as three weeks to dry in the winter and often end up rotting and mildewed.

GiraDora is Cabunoc and You’s solution.

Pedal-powered washer could make a big difference in developing nations
By David Szondy
00:23 August 2, 2012
http://www.gizmag.com/


In the developed world, we forget that there was once a time when washday meant “day” rather than “toss it in the machine and come back in 20 minutes.” In many parts of the world without access to electricity and clean water, that time is still now. Design students Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You of the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles visited the the slums of Cerro Verde, Peru. There they saw women spending days on end hauling water and washing clothes by hand and they came up with a solution. They created the GiraDora, a foot-pedal washing machine that’s inexpensive and portable.

For many around the world who have no access to running water or electricity, the use of an electrically-powered washing machine and dryer is not an option. That leaves millions of families with tedious, long hours of gathering water by foot, hand-washing and air-drying laundry, while risking the development of health problems.

Working in concert with a South American NGO and the Safe Agua Peru project, Los Angeles-based design students Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You created the GiraDora, a compact foot-powered washing machine that drastically reduces the time needed to hand-wash laundry.

The result is based on their field research in a slum of 30,000 located in a water-poor area outside of Lima, where the duo found that up to six hours per day -- three to five times a week -- were used to wash clothes. -- http://www.treehugger.com/

GiraDora is the world's first human-powered washer and spin dryer designed specifically for people living on $4-10 per day to increase efficiency and improve the experience of hand-washing clothes. Its innovative design combats several health problems such as chronic lower back pain, tenosynovitis, and respiratory problems such as Asthma associated with mold. It also allows the user to begin to break the cycle of poverty by providing income generating solutions.

Designed by Alex Cabunoc, Product Design Student, Art Center College of Design,
Torrance, CA, USA

http://www.behance.net/CabunocDesign

Nganong wa man lagi nay bundo where the body is supposed to be?

Bahalag suholan...

"Bantay! Imo ganing tuhikon akong tintin..."


Bwahaha! 

Crossdresser diay? Aw, samot kapraktikal...

Brayt...

Kini kaha, naughty or nice?

Karate master diay? Yataps ang pabuangbuang nga rapists ani kon maohon...

Bwahaha! 

Sure nga naa pay uban nga wa mahibaw-i o wa pa mabuhati og estorya...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2012, 05:29:44 PM
as it is mora ra siyag hubag nga wa pa kabuto.

He he, gikan kang nitan-aw sa imong sampot?

Hi Raqz, long time no read! Busy lately?

Kahibawo ko nga goryon ug putyokan ra ang imong nahibaw-an, kay mao man na sila ang common sa parte sa Tsayna nga imong gigikanan...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2012, 04:22:41 PM
unsa man nang kiyot ug bangkiyod?  explain yourself!  maayo hinoon ning anhi ta ma-educate dinhin sa tb, puslan man.  so what kun gikan sa pluto ang uban nato nga lahi ug species.

Bangkiyod: synonym, baliala; in English, pied fantail; scientific name, Rhipidura javanica; familiar to humans kay, kusog mopakiaykiay sa taas niyang ikog






Kiyot: synonym, kijot ; in English, stingless bee; scientific name, Trigona biroi [there are other species]; familiar to humans kay, they are wont to make hives in cracks and crannies of wooden houses and sheds



T. carbonaria at hive entrance nga lungag sa bungbong

Naa man guy uban nga naglibog unsaon paggasto sa kwarta mao nga naa puy motabang nila...

Hmm, wa ba kahay kasangkayan nato diri...

Di ba kaha magkarambola ning tulo ron...

Bwahaha! 

He he, diay 3 ka TB members nga di kapugong sa ilang pagbati...

Maayong pagkapiyapi...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2012, 01:47:08 PM
hehe, i must admit i'm more educated about beauties and beasts rather than birds and bees.

Kon Bisaya version aning bees and birds, kahibawo kog gamay, basta lang specific species, namely: kiyot ug bangkiyod...

Aw, abi nakog for senior citizens, sama ani niya:

1 “Let There Be Light”





This lister is not a creationist. The Universe and all its contents were not created in 6 days, and as the great Lewis Black explains, if anyone challenges you on that, hold up a fossil and say, “Fossil.” Then throw it at them.

It seems easiest to interpret God’s command as the Big Bang, since that is thought of as being an instant occurrence, from which the four forces of the Universe diverged from a single, infinitely small point. So what did it look like before? The Bible’s beginning is the most famous depiction, by far, of what we think of now as the Big Bang. It has been depicted many times in films, educational programs, etc., as a massive burst of light in all colors, quickly forming into galaxies, stars, later planets and such.

But it would not have made any noise, since before the Big Bang, there was no medium through which the sound could travel. And yet, sound cannot travel through space as it is. So it may be that the creation of light never made a sound.

2 The Resurrection





You do not need to believe it to understand the awesomeness of what it means. There are, according to the Bible, only two people who do not suffer the bitterness of death: Enoch and Elijah. The first simply walks with God and is no more. The second is taken to Heaven in a fiery chariot and whirlwind

Jesus actually does die. But he is the only person in the Bible who revives himself. For three days he is dead to the world. This begs the question, where is he during that time? One tradition is that he went to Hell to preach to everyone who had died before him, thus without salvation. This sounds fishy, since no one in his right mind is going to sit in a lake of fire, and they say, “NO! I refuse to change!”

But wherever he was, it remains in the Bible that 3 days later, his spirit returned to his body and he got right back up. Job’s done. A little tidying up, and he goes Home. He defeats death itself by his own supernatural power.

3 Joshua Stops the Sun





Joshua does battle with the Amorites in Gibeon, somewhere north of Jerusalem. Not only does Joshua and his army rout the enemy army, but as they flee the field, God Himself rains down hailstones on them, which kill more of them than the Israelites kill. Ah, the Old Testament. Good, ol’ fashioned wrath-of-God stories.

The fight apparently seemed to Joshua as if it would take so long, given the huge numbers of men, that Joshua entreated the Lord to stop the sun and moon, so the day would last long enough for the Israelites to do their thing. Most importantly, Joshua had arranged his army to attack with the sun at its back. Classic field tactic.

Imagine 12 hours of midday sun, no shadows, and then: it doesn’t go away! 12 more hours of midday sun! And then the next day begins anyway, so: 12 more hours of sun! If this is true, it means Joshua asked the Lord, and the Lord acquiesced to stop the rotation of Earth.

4 Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead





Imagine if you were standing in Bethany, just east of Jerusalem, among the crowd of mourners. Jesus is walking in, and another crowd is following him. But Lazarus has been dead for 4 days. Jesus is too late to heal him.

Yet, he breaks down and weeps. This is traditionally interpreted not as love for Lazarus, since Jesus already knows what he is going to do. He is weeping over the lack of the crowd’s faith in him.

The best part is when Lazarus’s sister, Mary, tells him, “My Lord, he has been dead for 4 days. There will be a bad smell.” Yes, the smell of rot. Jesus isn’t perturbed, but tells her to have the tomb opened.

He commands Lazarus to come out, and he does so, wearing his burial linens. Aside from how unbelievably shocking this must have been for the onlookers, it begs the question, “Where was Lazarus for those 4 days?”

He was a good person, so he didn’t deserve Hell. And you can be sure the question on everyone’s mind was, “What’s Heaven like?”

5 Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand





Ever see a cartoon in which one character is serving dinner to a group of others, and the food from which the servings come never gets smaller, and never looks different? That’s about the best imagining of what Jesus pulled off in this miracle.

It is in all 4 Gospels, so the writers must have considered it important. In Matthew 14:13-21, he feeds 5,000 men, not counting women and children, which might have placed the number at 10,000, maybe more. He has only 5 loaves and 2 fish (7 total), after which, his Disciples collect 12 basketfuls of uneaten leftovers (12).

He does this a second time in Matthew and Mark, feeding 4,000 men, besides women and children, with 7 loaves, a few fish, and collecting 7 basketfuls of leftovers. The number 7 is interpreted as perfection. 12 is the number of the Tribes of Israel.

It certainly would have boggled the mind to anyone watching closely. How did he continue to reproduce the food? There was no description of manna and quail from Heaven. He simply blessed it, broke it, and had his Disciples distribute it.

6 Crossing of the Red Sea






Perhaps the most famous miracle in the Bible. Cecil B. DeMille instilled it in the household imagination with his fine 1956 epic with Charlton Heston. But this depiction is not quite right. The parting occurs immediately in the film, but in the Bible, the Egyptian and Israelite armies oppose each other all day and night, separated by a pillar of fire and smoke.

All that night, a strong east wind, thus blowing into the backs of the armies, forward across the Sea, blows back the water and creates a narrow path, until by dawn, the seafloor is dry ground and the water stands up like walls on both sides.

It would definitely have been an awesome spectacle. The Egyptians were just a tad foolish for following the Israelites down between the walls of water.

7 Balaam and his Talking Donkey





This lister will never be able to read this passage, from Numbers 22:21, without hearing Eddie Murphy’s voice. Balaam may be the biggest goof in the Bible. He tries to curse the Israelites 3 times, and 3 times God changes his curses to blessings.

But this is after he has a vision of an angel standing in the road. Actually his donkey sees it first, and refuses to go near it. Donkeys are quite smart, and this story is written quite accurately to that end. Three times the donkey refuses and three times Balaam beats her.

“Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, ‘What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?’

Balaam answered the donkey, ‘You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.’

The donkey said to Balaam, ‘Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?’

‘No,’ he said.

Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.

The angel of the LORD asked him, ‘Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me. The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared her.’”

Imagine sitting on the roadside and seeing this all happen. Only the donkey, and then Balaam, can see the angel. But the donkey plainly opens her mouth and speaks Hebrew! With proper grammar!

Priceless.

8 Jesus Walks on Water





It is one of his most famous miracles, and yet it didn’t seem to serve a great purpose, like #5. Jesus seems to be showing off. Yet, he does it to show his Disciples that they can do anything, if only they will believe in themselves as his Disciples.

A recent list of magic tricks included a stunt like this. But the walker stepped very carefully across a pool (apparently). Imagine seeing a man walking nonchalantly 3 miles across the northern tip of the Sea of Galilee at night, and arriving at his Disciples’ boat just before they reach the other shore.

What does it feel like to step on water and not go through the meniscus? Did his feet get wet?

9 Ten Plagues of Egypt





This one has been subjected to scientific analyses. The interesting part is that the first plague is blood. The Nile runs red, and all the fish die. This could have been red toxic algae (red tide), or a volcanic eruption depositing red-colored earth and silt into the water.

Once the fish die, the frogs, leaving the dirty water, would die on land. Then the flies would increase terribly to feed on the frog carcasses. Then the livestock would die from fly-bites (anthrax, malaria, etc.). Anthrax transmits from cattle to human in the form of boils and sores. Then fiery hail, perhaps from the volcano eruption. Then locusts descend to feast on whatever crops are left after the hailstorm destroys them. Then darkness, perhaps via eclipse or the locusts themselves.

The death of the firstborn is not easy to explain, but the oldest child of a family, at that time, was given first choice of food, which by then, would certainly all have been diseased.

Or it could have been completely supernatural. Either way, it would have been a great show.

10 Jesus Exorcises Legion





Remember The Exorcist? Scary, right? The priests have to go through a whole litany of just the right stuff to say, in order to irritate the demon until it leaves. It can take months.

Not if you have faith, of which Jesus had quite a lot. This particular demon-possessed man can still be explained as a possible mental illness, probably schizophrenia, as he calls himself, “Legion, for we are many.”

Never mind that, for he/they are immediately terrified of the Son of God, who simply tells them to leave the man. They beg to enter a nearby herd of pigs, and Jesus permits this. The herd goes insane and swarms off a hillside into the sea, all drowning.

The most awesome part is that the demon-possessed man is described as running wild in the hills, screaming madly, breaking the chains with which people tried to bind him, cutting himself with stones. The confrontation with Jesus would definitely be a must-see.

according to Listverse
by FlameHorse


The Bible is full of tales of amazing miracles â€" both the old and the new testaments have them. Most Westerners are familiar with these miracles â€" whether they have had a religious upbringing or not. This list looks at ten of the more amazing miracles described in the Bible.

Andam ug tagana pud kaayong mobadlong ang iro (ug ang iyang amo)...

Quote from: islander on August 05, 2012, 02:03:30 PM
morag iyang gisundog ang facial expression sa tulukibon nga iyang nakit-an.

Bwahaha! Islander knows, whereof she speaks! Hmm, naa ba kaha diay siyay dentata...

Kadtong way helmet, ibalhog sa prisohan; kini siya, ibalhog sa mental hospital...

No.

He he, gikan nakainom galing...

Bwahaha!