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Courtney Reagor puts life back into arranging fruit – and other odd things
We've all done still-life at some point in our pasts, whether at school or unintentionally arranging your fruit bowl in an aesthetic manner. But Courtney Reagor has pimped out still life and this is because she is influenced by "organic shapes, patterns and colour as well as their contrast with man-made objects." She creates colourful, delectable scenes of everything from bags of potatoes, cacti and an alien head. This girl sure knows how to arrange a collection of things and make them look tasty. This doesn't mean I'm going to eat an alien head anytime soon though.


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I feel that both Australian and other international industries in general undervalue the enormous amount of pride, dedication, intelligence and forward thinking our Australian breeders capture in their breeding programmes.
Australia is one of the luckiest countries in the world having access to one of the greatest gene pools and genetics. This, combined with a climate and demographic that provides not only a huge diverse range of Genus to work with but in some cases allows quicker breeding results than many other countries around the world. Australian breeders are recognised as some of the best in the field and royalty incomes have been flowing for many breeders with many plants being firmly established as bread and butter varieties around the globe for years.
If we as an industry under-value this unique opportunity given to us how is the consumer going to really value and appreciate what is behind that new release plants in their local Garden Centre and retailer. We all need to understand the process and what goes into a new plant variety before we can truly appreciate what dedication is needed to achieve such varieties. This will therefore be the tool that is needed to raise the profile of not only the new release plants but the necessity of our breeding fraternity. Our industry as a whole needs to utilize this opportunity to show off just how unique, sophisticated and intelligent we really are, thus raising the profile for all of us.
As an industry we can all benefit from the enormous dedication our plant breeders give to developing new varieties. The ultimate return is commanding higher prices for such new varieties. I see a real opportunity for wholesalers and retailers and, in turn, breeders to demand premium prices for new plants as they are launched onto the market. Raising prices is always a sensitive subject for any industry but particularly for horticulture. However, we repeatedly undervalue ourselves and the research and development of new plant varieties. This must be appreciated and then valued by us before the consumers will truly appreciate our own plant inventors. I see new plant varieties as the perfect tool to raise the bar on prices. That said, we all must be on the same page to make this happen.
Once we all have an appreciation of what's behind the breeding process, and just how long it can take to develop a new variety, it's only then that royalties which are added to these varieties or what could also be known as 'new plant inventions', can be understood and recognised as an absolute essential ingredient to further enhance and develop this side of our industry. We need to look at royalties as the inventor's back-pay for years of dedication and an encouragement to further develop new varieties long into the future so we can all benefit from their fruits of labour.
Most breeders are passionate plant people with a fantastic outlook on life and our industry. They work, breathe and live it to the maximum. It's the ultimate addictive natural drug and high that they can't get a de-tox programme or remedy for. They're a unique part of a larger wheel but really they're more than that, they're the life blood of what we as an industry have to offer, for not only our own domestic market but for the international markets and reputation.
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The Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone national park is famed for its clockwork eruptions – every 90 minutes, on average. Now a secret chamber has been found in the rocks beneath the geyser, radically changing our understanding of how it erupts.
In the early 1990s, researchers lowered a camera into Old Faithful's throat and, 7 metres down, saw a "choke-point" less than 10 centimetres wide. Below that was a cavern about the size of a small car. But the camera couldn't go deeper than 14 metres because of the violent churn of boiling fluids.
Now Jean Vandemeulebrouck of the University of Savoie in Le Bourget du Lac, France, and colleagues have analysed seismic data collected in the 1990s. Using a modern acoustic technique more commonly used to locate whales or submarines, they analysed the noise of the popping bubbles inside the geyser – captured in the seismic record – to reveal a 60-cubic-metre cavern 15 metres down, and off to the geyser's side.
This side cavity acts as a compressible reservoir, making the water in the smaller main vent bob up and down like a spring. The oscillations affect the water pressure and help the geyser to boil in the early stages of eruption.
The side cavern "totally changes our perspective of the physics of how geysers work", says Shaul Hurwitz, a hydrologist with the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, who hopes the innovative acoustic technique can be applied to visualising the insides of volcanoes as well as geysers.
Journal reference: Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/k63
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By JANE COLLINS
For Starkville Daily News
Frankie Williamson of Maben won $30 in the drawing at the Maben Farmers' Market August 12. He had made purchases from the Noxapater Catering and Cake Decorating lady, Leola Mason, and also from a new vendor, Kerry Williams' Salsa. Frankie had three chances to win from the $15 plus that he spent while there. Had he been present at the time of the drawing, 9:30 a.m., he would have taken home $50.00, but he said he had to get back to his work on a truck, and that's where he was when we called his cell phone to tell him that he had won the drawing. In fact, he was under a truck working when he got the news and hopped in his vehicle and returned to the market to have his picture taken with the check. He says that he is very happy that Maben has started this Farmers' Market on Fridays from 7 - 10 a.m. He has a small truck garden himself and plans to make it even larger so he can participate in the market as a vendor next year. The Maben Farmers' Market welcomes new vendors every week and encourages local farmers to participate in the future.Leola Mason has been coming to the market every week since we began. She brings beautiful cakes (red velvet, caramel, and fresh apple), delicious pies (sweet potato, coconut, chocolate and caramel cream) and fried pies (apple and peach). This week she brought a huge cheese ball that folks at the bank or other businesses in town enjoy at break time with crackers, but this week she sold out at the market. Mrs. Mason began coming to Maben about five years ago when she was asked by a local citizen, Nellie Blade, to be a vendor at our annual festival, Maben Day in the Park. She developed a clientele and has been coming every other week on Friday since then. When the Farmers' Market began, she was one of the first vendors to sign up.
Rosanne and Greg Thinnes operate Gregory Farms near Eupora. They have discovered the Maben market and have come with their 50¢-a-pound tomatoes for several weeks now. Friday there was the threat of rain in the area and so they arrived expecting to be rained out, but the market was in full swing and they quickly set up their spot to sell out of the back of their truck under the trees. Greg says that the biggest crop they grow is three varieties of blackberries, but by the time our market got under way on July 1, the blackberries were just about played out and the tomatoes were coming on. The couple sincerely wants to give back to the communities near their home and price their tomatoes reasonably because they have such a large crop. The tomatoes are in several stages of ripeness from green to just right for a tomato sandwich. They plan to be back at the market every week until the tomatoes run out.
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When they arrive at USD for Sunday's Charger Girls auditions, the cheerleader hopefuls will be pumped, primed and itching for a piece of the NFL spotlight. And like everyone else in San Diego, they will be mostly in the dark about what it really means to be a San Diego Charger Girl.
"Oh my gosh, the workload. I had no idea," said Lisa Simmons, who spent three seasons with the C.G. team before becoming its director in 2005. "The thing that surprises people the most about the girls is that this is not their full-time job. We have a saying that being a Charger Girl is a part-time job and a full-time commitment."
While the Chargers remains stuck in lockout mode, the Charger Girls season is going on as scheduled. And what does it take to be one of the 28 women chosen to wear the uniform? The official dance-team requirements include being 18 years old, having a means of transportation and a flexible schedule. And while there are no height or weight requirements, the expanse of skin revealed by the uniform is a body-type requirement unto itself.
Then there is the matter of the two evening rehearsals every week, which in May through August are supplemented with monthly Saturday workouts that last about 10 hours. And the 300 or so personal-appearance opportunities every year. All on top of college classes and/or day jobs.
So if you ask team members about the biggest challenge of a job that demands they look like models, perform like athletes and schmooze like politicians, it should come as no surprise that they answer like CEOs.
"You have to be very good at time management," said Tiffany, an Orange County math and dance teacher who — like all of the Charger Girls — goes by her first name only. (Their ages are under wraps, too.) "It's an honor to do this, but it's a responsibility to make sure you can handle it all."
On the perks side, they are paid $75 for each home game performance (they don't travel with the football team) and are compensated for some promotional appearances. They also receive a portion of the sales from the annual Charger Girls calendar. On the good-karma side, the group works extensively with organizations like the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Children's Hospital.
Then there are the games, which involve multiple dance routines, much TV exposure and a whole lot of San Diego love.
"My best experience so far was when we came out of the (stadium) tunnel for the first game last year and I was the first one out on the field," said Melissa, whose severe hearing impairment did not stop her from auditioning six times before being chosen for the team. "We came out of the tunnel and I could see the fireworks and all the screaming fans. It was unreal. You can't prepare for that."
On the flip side are the job hazards, which the girls are too polite (and politic) to complain about. Like the disgruntled fans who use them as an outlet for their football-related grievances. Or the besotted fans who turn into space-invading goofballs in their presence. Or the nosy fans who assume they are dating the football players, which their no-fraternization policy forbids them to do. Or the creepy fans for whom the no-last-names policy was probably created.


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Since becoming a mom, and especially since starting this blog, I have paid particular attention to new breastfeeding research. After all, my training is in nutrition, and breast milk is one of the most interesting foods around. Plus, I'm currently lactating and still breastfeeding my daughter a few times per day, so it's on my mind.
When I look back at the papers that I have covered and those that I find on other blogs and media outlets, I notice that many focus on how breastfeeding improves outcomes in babies.
But I also notice that when I blog about breastfeeding research, I have to spend a big chunk of the piece talking about the limitations of the study. Breastfeeding research – at least when conducted in humans – will always have big limitations that require disclaiming and explaining. The problem is that it is impossible to randomize breastfeeding trials or to "blind" the subjects to feeding type. It is difficult to know, despite the fanciest statistical methods, if it is breast milk that makes those babies thinner, smarter, stronger, cry more, etc, or if there are other factors at play in this complex thing called human life. Sometimes, by the time I've listed the problems with interpreting a breastfeeding study, I wonder if these findings were actually meaningful, and I'm sure my readers feel the same way.
Elsewhere around the Internet (not so much on my blog), I often see comments to this effect on articles about the latest research on the benefits of breastfeeding:
"Another useless study. Obviously we mammals were meant to feed our babies breast milk. I don't know why scientists waste their time and our money with this stuff."
Why bother doing more research on outcomes associated with breastfeeding? It is pretty clear that breastfeeding is a great way to feed an infant. Maybe it is time to stop oohing and awing over breast milk.
There is something to this. I think we see a lot of papers published that report on the benefits of breast milk just because this is a hot topic now. These data are often pulled from a larger epidemiological data set. A positive association is found between breastfeeding and some good outcome, and the authors throw it together to make a separate paper. It is accepted for publication in part because breastfeeding promotion is a public health priority now. I'd be willing to bet that there are lots of researchers out there that have checked for an association between breastfeeding and an outcome in their data set, found none (or even a negative one they can't explain), and not bothered to write up a paper or had their paper rejected because a non-association is just not that exciting.
Still, I do think that these observational studies can have some value. One that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago found an association between exclusive bottle-feeding, whether formula or expressed breast milk, and increased weight gain in infants. There were LOTS of limitations to this study. However, I thought that the data raised an interesting question: Can we modify the way we bottle-feed babies such that growth in bottle and breastfed babies starts to look more similar? At the very least, it is something for us to think about, and it could also inspire a hypothesis for a future study, one that could ultimately improve the way we feed babies. Regardless, not all papers can be groundbreaking. Most add to a body of evidence over time. Some are flukes, which we realize when they can't be replicated. But all ideas have to start somewhere, and in science, they start with observation. The problem is not as much in the research (scientists are usually all too willing to point out the limitations of their work) as it is in the media's spin of stories to make them seem urgently relevant to the parenting public.
Of course, the really important lactation research is probably happening in laboratories – in petri dishes and in lab animals, not within an epidemiological data set. These studies, the ones that are slowly starting to illuminate what it is about breast milk that makes it so good for babies, may not catch the eyes of bloggers and journalists because the paper titles contain words that we don't understand or the outcomes are more subtle: a small change in cell growth or difference in oligosaccharide composition. It is harder to explain and write about, and we often assume that it will feel less relevant to a reader. I'm guilty of this attitude as well, but I'm trying to change my ways.
Recently, Fearless Formula Feeder posed this question to her readers, many of which are women who have struggled with breastfeeding: what type of breastfeeding research would you like to see? The truth is that if you're breastfeeding and having a good experience with it, you probably love to see these reports on the benefits of breastfeeding. But if you're feeding formula – for whatever reason and no matter how fearlessly – you undoubtedly get tired of these stories, particularly when the studies have the limitations I discussed above. Reading FFF's post, it occurred to me that moms like these are also the most likely to benefit from new breastfeeding research. After all, a better understanding of breast milk will pave the way for better formula. A better understanding of the etiology and risk factors for problems with breastfeeding will pave the way for targeted, specific support for moms who want to breastfeed but struggle to do so. And in fact, the FFF's came up with some really great research questions in the comment thread on that post. Are scientists working on their questions, and we just aren't hearing about it?
One of the major sources of funding for breastfeeding research in this country is the National Institutes of Health. These are taxpayer dollars. Did you know that there is an open-access database where you and I and anyone with access to the Internet can learn how our tax dollars are being spent to support research?
If you're curious, do a search for any health-related topic, and you can learn what NIH-funded researchers are working on today. If a particular grant interests you, you can do a Pubmed search for the Principal Investigator (PI) to see what they've published on that topic in the past, and you can expect to see papers coming from the current grant in the next couple of years.
I did a few quick searches for "breastfeeding" and "infant formula," and I found some really cool studies in the works:
Clinical Epidemiologic and Biologic Studies of Donor Human Milk and Breastfeeding, Tarah T. Colaizy, University of Iowa
Prevention of Overfeeding During Infancy, Kathryn G. Dewey, University of California, Davis (This grant speaks directly to some of the questions that came out of that bottle-feeding and weight gain study I mentioned earlier.)
Mechanisms by which Human Milk Oligosaccharides Protect Against Rotavirus, Sharon M. Donovan, University of Illinois
Structure, Functions, and Genetic Diversity of Oligosaccharides in Milk, Carlito B. Lebrilla, University of California, Davis
Establishing the Vitamin D Requirements During Lactation, Bruce W. Hollis, Medical University of South Carolina
Estrogenicity of Soy Formula, Walter Rogan, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (This grant is targeting many of the questions FFF raised in her post on the recent study comparing development in babies fed soy formula, cow's milk formula, or breast milk.)
Boosting Breastfeeding in Low-Income, Multiethnic Women: A Primary-Care Based RCT, Karen A. Bonuck, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Mediating Factors in the Relationship Between Obesity and Poor Lactation Outcomes, Laurie A. Nommsen-Rivers, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnatti
I can't wait to read the papers that come out of these grants, even though I know they'll all have limitations and create more questions. That's science for you. But seeing many of the questions that I've wondered about myself articulated by scientists and dollars allocated towards answering them gives me renewed enthusiasm for the value of science to humanity and to my life.
What questions do you hope scientists are working on today?


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If you and your family are looking for some fun holiday events in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, there is no better place to be than the Artsfest over Memorial day weekend.
The Artsfest attracts hundreds of different artists and craftsman to the city. Fine art, furniture, jewelry are showcased over the weekend.Not only is there various art on display, the food is great as well! Local food vendors can be found strewn about the festival serving a host of delicious food. Music is also another feature the Artsfest displays. Over the course of the weekend, the event is booked full with the best local talent.
So if you have a day, or even the entire Memorial Day weekend free, stop on by the Artsfest for a family fun event. Whether you come to check out the art, listen to the music, or eat the food, there is something fun for everyone! Don't forget to check out the Kidsfest with special activities for kids of all ages.


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Nairobi — THE conference on revolutionising finance for agriculture value chains held recently in Nairobi has come to an end. Providing finance in agriculture was described as "putting the flesh on the skeleton."
Speaking during the closing ceremony, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU Director, Mr Michael Hailu said the resolutions made by participants is a clear indicator that the conference was a huge success.
"The time for pilot and demonstration farms is over, it is time to replicate the success stories that we heard and scale up," he said. Mr Hailu said apart from the ideas that had overflooded the conference, had a whopping 731 participants hailing from 81 countries, over 50 news articles, 52 blogs covered the event with a readership of over 5,000 people.
Over 11,000 tweets were generated with a readership of 1.68 million people. Mr Hailu said the one thing that had come out very clearly from the meeting was that small holder farmers are business persons who need skills to understand how the financial sector works.
"The conference made it very clear that these two sectors namely agriculture and finance can work together and through this cooperation will revolutionise the industry," he said.
Deputy Governor, Bank of Ghana, Mr Millison Narh said that the conference made it clear that Central Banks needed to promote agriculture and increase institutional development.
Mr Narh said that other suggestions that were directed to the Central Banks and governments is the establishment of collateral registries, credit bureaus and commodity exchanges.
"In order to accrue this desired revolution, there is a need for robust farmer organisations but these need capacity building such that they operate as businesses and therefore can sue and be sued," he cited.
The Deputy Governor stressed that the issue of interest rate regimes which are very contentious to smallholder farmers particularly needs serious consideration. He said that the revolution being sought is within reach, as long as the networks established during the meeting and the lessons learnt from different countries' experiences are utilised effectively.
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Felix Koskei, said that with the global demand for food poised to increase by 5 per cent in the next five years, it was vital to set priorities right to keep the commitment for action.
"At country level, we are in the process of transforming the agriculture and finance corporation and streamline our cooperatives such that they play a greater role of ensuring access to finance opportunities are broadened," he said.
Mr Koskei said that as long as efforts to address interest rates, formulation of tailor made financial products to farmers, the reduction of default risk to farmers, climate change challenges are mitigated and the collateral issue is handled, there is every reason for the revolution to take off.


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I am writing to respond to Nick Henselmeier's letter of Jan. 28, regarding provincial funding to the University of Saskatchewan.
The University of Saskatchewan is one of the cornerstones of our province. We take pride in the research, academic programs and alumni who have been instrumental in building our province.
This government supports the University of Saskatchewan, which plays a significant role in the Saskatchewan Plan for Growth. Its graduates will be the catalysts for the continuing success of Saskatchewan.
We want people to know that this government has never reduced operating funding; in fact, the University has continued to receive record operating funding. We have increased operating funding since 2007-08 by 46 per cent, to $304.5 million in 2012-13.
We have also provided capital funding for many projects including the Academic Health Science Building. The province has already provided $213 million for the project and the University has been approved to borrow $71.7 million. We will work closely with the University to ensure completion of the building and the renovations that are needed.
The University of Saskatchewan is a symbol of success in our province and we are committed to its long-term sustainability.
Don Morgan - Minister of Advanced Education


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YANKTON, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University volleyball team picked up its second Great Plains Athletic Conference win of the year Thursday night when it swept Mount Marty College 3-0 in Yankton, S.D.
After a close first set that needed extra points, the Tigers settled in and were able to beat the Lancers – who swept Dakota Wesleyan earlier this season in Mitchell – in three sets. DWU won 26-24, 25-20 and 25-17. The Tigers are now 7-26 overall and 2-13 in the GPAC.
Elizabeth Mahsem had a game-high nine kills for the Tigers and Rachel Tinklenberg added eight. Dani Bird, Sammy Fluck and Sarah Kruse each finished with six kills. Bri Jung had 29 assists and seven digs and Maggie Stehly led the defense with 12 digs. Katie Lindow also added seven digs.
Amanda Dirksen led Mount Marty with six kills. Caitlyn Illg had eight assists and six digs and Bailey Kuchta, Dirksen and Kristi Tessmer each had five digs.
The Tigers end the regular season Saturday, Nov. 3, when they travel to Hastings, Neb., to take on No. 5 Hastings College.


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So you've got a Mac, you've got an iPhone, and you really want to start writing some apps. There's tons of documentation available, but the best way to learn a new language and framework is to simply dive right in. All of the documentation and tutorials I ran across when learning to program the iPhone depended a little too much on Interface Builder, which basically sticks a layer of magic between me and what I want to do. Frankly, I like to begin at the bottom and work my way up, which is why this tutorial is going to show you how to create a basic 'Hello World' application programmatically - without the help of a visual designer.
When I pick up any new framework that includes a designer, I like to start out building interfaces in code, because then I get an understanding of what the designer is doing behind the scenes. And honestly, I find Interface Builder about one of the most confusing designers I've ever used.
The first thing you're going to need to do is download and install the iPhone SDK. This is going to give you everything you need in order to build apps - XCode, iPhone Simulator, and Interface Builder. Downloading and installing the SDK is totally free. You'll have to pay \$99 if you want to run the app on a real iPhone or distribute it to the app store. For the purposes of learning, though, the simulator works just fine.
After you've got all that stuff installed, you're ready to start. Start by launching XCode. By default it's installed in the Developer folder.
When you launch XCode you'll be presented with a welcome screen. You can either look through that or just dismiss it, none of it is particularly important. What we need is a new project. Select File > New Project to bring up the project templates.
The Window-Based Application is about as simple as it gets. What this template is going to give is a Window and an application delegate. An application delegate (UIApplicationDelegate) is an object that responds to messages from a UIApplication object. There can be only one UIApplication object, and the project template takes care of creating it for us. When you click Choose, you'll now be prompted for a project name. I named mine "HelloWorld".
Once the project is created, you'll be presented with the XCode interface and all of the files the project template has generated for you.
The important files are main.m, HelloWorldAppDelegate.h, and
HelloWorldAppDelegate.m. The main function is where the single
UIApplication object is created. The function call
takes care of that. You might be wondering, though, how in the world is
HelloWorldAppDelegate hooked up to the UIApplication object? Well,
unfortunately there's still a little magic we can't avoid. The template
created a nib file for us (MainWindow.xib) that takes care of forming
this relationship. You'll just have to take it for granted that the
messages will be passed into our delegate.
Now let's check out the implementation of the delegate,
HelloWorldAppDelegate.m. There are several messages we can get from the
UIApplication object, however the template has already created the one
we care about -
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
// Override point for customization after application launch
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
This function is where we'll be creating our view controller, which will eventually hold our 'Hello World' label object. In order to create a view controller, we need to add another class to our project that subclasses UIViewController. Fortunately, since creating view controllers is a common task, XCode has a template for it. Right mouse click on the Classes folder and choose Add > New File.
When you click Next, you'll be presented with some options. The only
thing you should have to set is the filename. I named mine
HelloWorldViewController. You might notice that the new implementation
file (HelloWorldViewController.m) is full of commented out functions.
View controllers are meant to be used by overriding the base
implementation of various methods. In our case, we want to override
loadView, which is used to manually populate a view controller.
// Implement loadView to create a view hierarchy programmatically,
// without using a nib.
- (void)loadView {
We're getting there. We're almost ready to starting putting something on
the screen. You don't add controls directly to the view controller.
They're added to a
which is a property of the view controller. The view, however, is not
allocated yet, so we're going to start there. We need to create a UIView
object that is the size of our display and set it to the view
view property.
- (void)loadView {
//create a frame that sets the bounds of the view
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
//allocate the view
self.view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
//set the view's background color
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
The first thing I do is create a
object that will act as the bounds for our view. Basically I want the
view positioned at (0, 0) and be the total size of the iPhone display
(320, 480). View controllers have a
view property that needs to be set
to our new UIView object. The last thing I do is simply set the
background color property to white.
All right, now we can actually create a label to hold our "Hello World" text.
- (void)loadView {
//create a frame that sets the bounds of the view
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
//allocate the view
self.view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
//set the view's background color
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
//set the position of the label
frame = CGRectMake(100, 170, 100, 50);
//allocate the label
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
//set the label's text
label.text = @"Hello World!";
//add the label to the view
[self.view addSubview:label];
//release the label
[label release];
Again, I need to specify where I'd like the label to be, so I create another CGRect object. I then allocate the label and initialize it with the bounds I just created. Next up I set the text to "Hello World!" and add the label to the view. Objective-C uses reference counting to automatically delete objects, so whenever you're done with a reference, you need to call release.
We now have a view controller with a label that will display the text,
"Hello World". Now we need to create an instance of this view controller
and add it to our application. Remember that function,
applicationDidFinishLaunching that I mentioned earlier. That's where
we'll be creating our view controller.
The first thing you're going to have to do it add an import statement at the top of that file (HelloWorldAppDelegate.m) so the compiler can find the declaration of that object.
#import "HelloWorldAppDelegate.h"
#import "HelloWorldViewController.h"
Just add it right under the existing import statement. Now we're ready to create the view controller.
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
//allocate the view controller
self.viewController = [HelloWorldViewController alloc];
//add the view controller's view to the window
[window addSubview:self.viewController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
Just like before, we simply allocate a new
We don't add the view controller directly to the window, rather we add
it's view property to the window. Technically we could create the view
controller locally, but doing so would cause a memory leak. We need to
save a reference to it somewhere so we can clean up the memory at a
later time. I created a property called
viewController to store the
view controller.
Properties are defined in the .h file. Here's my modified HelloWorldAppDelegate.h file.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@class HelloWorldViewController;
@interface HelloWorldAppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate> {
UIWindow *window;
HelloWorldViewController *viewController;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWindow *window;
@property (nonatomic, retain) HelloWorldViewController *viewController;
@class HelloWorldViewController is a forward declaration.
Basically we're telling the compiler a class with this name exists, but
you don't need to worry about its definition right now. In the
@interface section, we declare a member variable to hold our view
controller. Lastly, we use
@property to wrap our member variable with
get and
set functions.
We're almost done. We now need to tell the compiler to actually create
get and
set functions for our new property. We do that back in
the .m file with @synthesize.
@synthesize window;
@synthesize viewController;
You should already see one for the window property. Just stick this one
right underneath it. The very last thing we need to do is release our
reference to the view controller when the
dealloc is called. There
should already be a dealloc function in the .m file. We just need to add
a little to it.
- (void)dealloc {
[viewController release];
[window release];
[super dealloc];
And there you have it. The final HelloWorldAppDelegate implementation file should look like this:
#import "HelloWorldAppDelegate.h"
#import "HelloWorldViewController.h"
@implementation HelloWorldAppDelegate
@synthesize window;
@synthesize viewController;
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
//allocate the view controller
self.viewController = [HelloWorldViewController alloc];
//add the view controller's view to the window
[window addSubview:self.viewController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
- (void)dealloc {
[viewController release];
[window release];
[super dealloc];
We're done. If you build and run the app (Build > Build and Go), you should see something that looks like the image below.
And there you have it. You've learned how to build a simple iPhone application entirely in code. The iPhone is a new platform for us, so as we learn we'll continue to post new tutorials.
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Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad attends a ceremony in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. (The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban)
BEIRUT: Hezbollah slammed Sunday Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati for throwing in the towel, saying the country now faced further paralysis.
Meanwhile, the opposition Future parliamentary bloc reiterated its praise for Mikati, saying his decision was a step toward the reactivation of National Dialogue.
"The resignation was not a surprise to any of us because we had already said, way back during the [government's] formation, that it would only last until the beginning of the elections," Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammad Raad said.
However, the Hezbollah official still criticized Mikati's move to step down, saying the Tripoli lawmaker had run out of ways of preserving security.
"The issue was not about the refusing to extend [the mandate] of an employee at an institution but rather the prime minister exhausted what he was able to offer in terms of maintaining stability in Lebanon," he told a gathering in south Lebanon.
"Or maybe he sensed hurricanes on the horizon and wanted to distance himself from them, given that he is the author of the self-disassociation theory," he said, referring to the country's self-avowed policy of remaining neutral on regional development and crises, particularly in Syrian.
Mikati announced the resignation of his Cabinet Friday, citing fallout in the government over the extension of Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi's mandate as police chief as well as the formation of an elections committee to oversee the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Hezbollah has voiced objections to extending the term of Rifi, who they view as close to former Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Future Movement, which heads the country's opposition.
The resistance party and its allies in the March 8 coalition also oppose the formation of the elections supervisory body, viewing its approval as a step toward holding the elections under the 1960 law.
Raad was also critical of Mikati's justification for throwing in the towel.
"The prime minister, who sought to avoid a paralysis at a security institution, has created a political and security vacuum by resigning," he said.
In a separate speech also Sunday, Hezbollah lawmaker Ali Fayyad warned his rivals in the March 14 coalition not to view the resignation as an opportunity to set conditions, "as that would be a grave mistake that will prevent solutions."
Mikati's resignation also drew the ire of Lebanese Democratic Party Talal Arslan, one of President Bashar Assad's closest allies in Lebanon.
"I will not talk today about the result of the disgusting Cabinet resignation where personal interests were combined with the global game which prove the level of recklessness and short-sighted [thinking] of those who were supposed to be at the level of responsibility in the country," Arslan told visitors.
Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, head of the Future parliamentary bloc, reiterated Sunday his praise of Mikati's decision to step down, describing it as a positive step toward restarting the stalled National Dialogue and the drafting of a new electoral law to govern the upcoming polls.
"The government resigned and paved the way to a return to the Dialogue table but on the basis that the Dialogue's previous decisions are implemented," Siniora told reporters in Sidon, south Lebanon.
He added that decisions made during previous Dialogue sessions should be carried out in order to encourage politicians to continue in the inter-party talks.
"The president will call for parliamentary consultations [to name a prime minister-designate to form a new Cabinet] and explore the potential of restarting National Dialogue but [we should] implement what we agreed on previously, including the Baabda Declaration ... and agree on a new electoral law that will govern the elections," he said.
President Michel Sleiman relaunched the National Dialogue committee in June 2012 when rival leaders agreed to the so-called "Baabda Declaration" to keep Lebanon at a distance from turmoil in the region, particularly Syria.
However, the Future Movement suspended its participation in the talks following the October assassination of a top security official and demanded the formation of a "neutral salvation Cabinet" to oversee the polls.
Siniora, who described Mikati's decision to quit as a "sound" one, said inflexibility on the part of the March 8 coalition had led to Friday's announcement.
"When he did not find anyone supporting this stance [concerning Rifi], which is a normal result given the nature of this one-party government that does not represent a big part of the Lebanese ... the resignation was the result of [government's] stubbornness in refusing to find the means to guarantee the continuity of this [security] agency."
He added that Rifi's term could still be extended once and on an exceptional basis via a petition signed by half of the MPs in order to hold a legislative session and approve the appeal.
"In a new government, we could reappoint Rifi to his post given that he would have become a civilian eligible for that," he said.
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Hey everyone!
It's April 11, 2014! I just completed my first playthrough of Persona 4 Golden yesterday. When the game is over it gives you the opportunity to play the game again, carrying a few things over from your previous playthough. Since today is April 11, and the game begins on April 11th, I got the crazy idea to play Persona 4 Golden -- ONE DAY AT A TIME, as the game progresses day by day.
Some days will be short, and some days will be longer. I have limited gaming time (I play my PS Vita on my commute to work) so I'm interested to see if I can do this.
Goals for this playthrough are below:
I hope to get the Golden ending with this playthrough, learn to fish properly, and focus on some of the social links I didn't complete -- I only finished Dojima, Chie, Yukiko, Yosuke, Kanji last time.
I just figured out how to screenshot from the Vita, so I'll put a couple of pictures in each blog entry for proof that I'm on the day by day plan. I hope you enjoy this journey as well!


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"I am taking responsibility and hope I haven't hurt anyone."
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Since its founding, Twitter has grown into a social media juggernaut, and popularity on the service is often used as a benchmark of influence. Companies have also used the service as a way to engage with their customers - offering promotions and other specials.
For basics on how to use the social network, check out The Beginner's Guide to Twitter.
"I am taking responsibility and hope I haven't hurt anyone."
The social network plans on rolling out the feature to all users throughout the day on Monday.
It might be time to rethink that presidential campaign.
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Twitter's new human-curated news service could be called "Moments" when it launches later this year.
For the sixth annual time, Social Media Day was celebrated by thousands of people around the world on June 30. Mashable started Social Media Day in 2010 as a way to reflect and honor the growth of social media and the digital revolution. Now in 2015,...
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An estimated 100,000 tweets are sent every day by 45,000 to 50,000 accounts run by ISIS affiliates and sympathizers.
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Maybe he's trying to raise his Klout score? Greece's prime minister Alexis Tsipras took to Twitter to express his frustration on the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank denying an extension to the bailo...
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Syrian state-run news outlet SANA invited people to share their summer snapshots of the embattled country in an incredibly tone-deaf tweet sent on Monday.
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Sudan: Govt Agrees With UN On Joint Mechanism to Provide Aid in Conflict Zones
Khartoum — The Sudanese government has agreed with the United Nations (UN) on establishing a joint mechanism to coordinate aid efforts in conflict-affected areas, state media reported on Wednesday.
Sudan has for months been under international pressure spearheaded by the UN and the United States (US) to allow humanitarian intervention in rebel-controlled areas of the country's southern states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
The two states have since last year been the scene of conflict between the Sudanese government and rebels who fought as part of the army of neighboring South Sudan which split to form an independent state in July last year.
"Sudan and the UN have agreed to form a joint mechanism to manage coordination between UN agencies and the Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission on providing humanitarian assistance to affected areas," two state media outlets, Sudan News Agency (SUNA) and Sudanese Media Center (SMC), reported.
According to the two agencies, the agreement was reached during a meeting held Thursday between Sudan's social welfare minister, Amira al-Fadil, and representatives of UN agencies in the country, including UNDP representative Ali Hassan Al Zaatari.
The meeting, however, put a caveat that UN agencies must "commit to the directives established by the state in providing humanitarian and development assistance."
Citing security concerns over assistance reaching rebels and fearing a replay of the crisis in the western region of Darfur, Khartoum was initially opposed to any form of international humanitarian intervention in the two states. It even put greater restrictions on the operations of aid groups already existing in the two regions.
As pressure mounted, with the US forcing a delay of an international conference planned to discuss mitigating Khartoum's economic difficulties following the secession of the south, Sudan, however, began to soften its stance but insisted that the role of foreign aid groups must be confined to assisting
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People all over the country just spotted a technology that most have never seen before. It is called the electronic cigarette and it is a tar free, odorless way to enjoy a smoke. It just had its first debut on the David Letterman show tonight when guest Katherine Heigl of the movie knocked up, pulled it out to tell Dave that she used it to quit smoking after all other quit smoking products failed. She took a few drags off of the electronic cigarette and then handed it over to Letterman himself so he could give it a try. He took a few puffs off of the unit and everyone was pretty astonished at what this product could do.
It is a rechargeable electronic smoking device that is just like smoking a real cigarette. Using a tar free and odorless nicotine vapor, we have given smokers the ability to enjoy a different type of smoke, a smoke that does not have many of the downfalls that a real cigarette does." says a spokesperson from Electronic Cigarettes Inc.
With the electronic cigarette from Electronic Cigarettes Inc. you can choose your flavor, your level of nicotine, and even the style/color of the unit. Instead of tobacco, the ecigarette uses cartridges filled with a liquid nicotine solution that is vaporized instead of burned. Since there is no smell, it does not bother others, it does not ruin your clothes, or your furniture. It will never create any ashes, it does not leave behind nasty cigarette butts, smoke stained fingers, or bad breath. It never has to be lit, instead it just works when you activate it. Using a micro-sensor inside of the unit, it knows when a user is smoking and creates the vapor accordingly. The tip also lights up red, just like a real cigarette, everytime the unit is puffed.
The product has seen rapid growth throughout the United States since its arrival in early 2000. Smokers every day are making the switch from conventional cigarettes to the electronic cigarette because they are impressed by the innovation, the quality, and how it is just like smoking a real cigarette. People have been using them to smoke anywhere, including places that have banned traditional cigarettes. The product is gaining major momentum and has developed a huge following.
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I've decided to do a little year-end housecleaning and remove three of my ebooks from my shelves.
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Gundersen Joins Other Wis. Hospitals In New Medical Partnership
It's not a merger, but Gundersen and five other major hospitals in Wisconsin have become partners in a new medical group...
Gundersen C-E-O Jeff Thompson is also the chair of the group that includes Aurora, Theda Care, and U-W Health. Thompson says the idea behind the collaboration is to share ideas for improving health care and becoming more efficient:
The six medical groups represented provide access to 90 per cent of Wisconsin's population. Mayo and Franciscan in La Crosse have not been included in the partnership at this time.


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September 3, 2014
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In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, nail tech Lorena Marquez shows how to create handmade acrylic stones for nail art.
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In this video from the NAILS Troubleshooter series, Light Elegance educator Loni Preato shows how to embed holographic embellishments during an acrylic service.
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In keeping with this holiday season, skilled nail tech and team Odyssey competitor Tammi Merritt shows how she uses pieces of broken Christmas ornaments to make shimmering and sparkling nail enhancements.
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Embedding is the practice of encasing something decorative, like a flower or a rhinestone, between layers of acrylic or gel; usually the item is set into not-yet-cured enhancement product, allowed to dry, then capped with a clear layer of the enhancement product that can be buffed to a see-through shine. The possibilities are endless for what a nail technician can "embed" in nail enhancements.
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Farmers who used weedkillers were more than twice as likely to be treated for depression than farmers who didn't use the chemicals in a new study from France.
Whether the weedkillers are causing depression "is not clear," said Marc Weisskopf, the study's lead author and an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. "But (the result) suggests we should not be ignoring herbicides just because they're targeting plants.".
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The United Nations Women on Friday at the YWCA new hall in Freetown handed over office equipment to the Women Caucus Platform (WCP).
A representative of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs, Charles Vandi, said the closing of the Women Situation Room is the beginning moment of the WCP. His ministry, he said, is working hard to have the Gender Equality Bill enacted into law and that they are also advocating for women to play a key role in the political governance of the state as well as working towards the elimination of violence against women and children.
Guest of honour, Dr. Josephine Odera -Regional Director of UN Women, said the women of Sierra Leone fought very hard to bring peace to the country, adding that UN Women has applied more efforts in bringing women together.
"The Women Situation Room is now moving on to Women Caucus Platform. This time we want to see Sierra Leone grow," she said.
Dr. Oderanoted that within the next five years women of Sierra Leone should be able to achieve 50% representation in parliament to strengthen their capacity.
Receiving the equipment on behalf of the caucus, Rosaline McCarthy thanked the UN Women for their continued support, noting that the organization had been with them from Women Situation Room up to its transformation to Women Caucus Platform.


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Chattanooga Mocs volleyball team announced its 2014 schedule Wednesday afternoon. The season features two tournaments at Maclellan Gym, 16 Southern Conference matches and 15 home-matches.
"I think we've put together a challenging preseason schedule, we've added another home tournament and then we have two new programs entering the conference this season," Head Coach Travis Filar said. "I believe this may be one of our most exciting and testing schedules we've had."
The Mocs open the season August 29 in Houston, Texas at the Houston Marriott Westchase Classic hosted by Houston Baptist University. While in the Lone Star State, UTC takes on Houston Baptist, Northern Arizona and 2012 Conference USA champion Tulsa. The Hurricanes were also 2013 C-USA Tournament semi-finalists.
Chattanooga returns to the Scenic City Sept. 2 for its first match at Maclellan Gym for a Tuesday night match with Kennesaw State. The first of three mid-week matchups, UTC visits UAB Sept. 9 and Austin Peay Sept. 16.
"I wanted some mid-week matches and I think we added some tough teams to the schedule," Filar said. "I have close relationships with those coaches and they aren't far drives. And I believe Kennesaw State and Austin Peay are from conference a lot like the SoCon. They should help us prepare for what conference play is going to be like."
The Bulldog Invitational in Athens, Ga., Sept. 5-6 is next on Chattanooga's calendar. The Mocs face off against Georgia, the College of Charleston and Belmont before returning home to host back-to-back tournaments.
The Mocs host the Chattanooga Classic Sept. 12-13 and the Scenic City Showdown Sept. 19-20. It marks the first time since 1987 that UTC has hosted two volleyball tournaments in the same season.
"Hosting two tournaments gives us extra home matches," Filar said. "It gives us more opportunities to play in front of our fans and play in our home environment. It gives us more chances to represent our program and host a number of schools. And the timing of these tournaments allows us to play at home for a very long stretch."
The Chattanooga Classic features six matches. Murray State, Mississippi Valley State and Wright State visit Maclellan Gym for the weekend and will each face the Mocs. Wright State gets its shot Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. while Sept. 13 has UTC taking on Mississippi Valley at 12:30 p.m. and Murray State at 7 p.m.
The Scenic City Showdown totes six matches, as well, with Chattanooga scheduled for three. The Mocs are set to take on Stetson at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 and wrap up the following day with South Carolina State and UT-Martin at 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., respectively.
Both invitational are also sponsored by Hampton Inn & Suites of Downtown Chattanooga.
"We're excited to have Hampton Inn & Suites of Downtown Chattanooga onboard for these tournaments," said Filar. "The visiting teams will be staying right in the heart of the city and will really get to experience Chattanooga while they are here. They can eat in downtown and check out some of the other sights – like the Tennessee Aquarium and the Riverfront."
The SoCon regular season begins Sept. 26 with UTC hosting Samford at 6 p.m. Newly-added East Tennessee State comes to town the following day for a 3 p.m. conference match.
The conference slate continues for two more weekends before the Mocs make their first trip to Macon, Ga., to face another new member of the SoCon – Mercer. UTC and the Bears square off just south of Atlanta Oct. 11 at 4 p.m.
The Mocs wrap up the regular season at home Nov. 15 against Furman at 6 p.m. before visiting Greensboro, N.C., Nov. 22-24 for the Southern Conference Championships.
The full schedule is now available on the GoMocs volleyball schedule page. Tournament central pages for both the Chattanooga Classic and Scenic City Showdown will soon be available on the volleyball homepage, as well.


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The 46-year-old is alleged to have been advised to attend the High Court in Glasgow on November 23, 2012 to give evidence.
He is accused of failing to attend, "fleeing" to avoid being a witness and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Voudouri, from Bridge of Allan, Stirling, also faces a charge of failing to appear at a court date on November 30, 2012.
He appeared in private yesterday at Glasgow Sheriff Court,made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
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Indianapolis expert explains organic lawn care
After obtaining a master's degree in agronomy, Terry Jungels started his lawn care career traveling the country constructing golf courses. In 1989, he opted to plant himself in Indianapolis and he and co-owner Mark Cavin started TLC Total Lawn Care.
Is organic lawn care always the best option for a healthy, environmentally friendly lawn?
Jungels: When we use organic lawn care, we see less disease pressures on the lawn and more microbial activity, which means the lawn is healthier. But, when a customer wants to go with organic lawn care, we have to match their expectations with what the results will be.
Most people perceive that a green lawn is a healthy lawn. Here in Central Indiana, we have mostly cool-season grasses that go dormant, turning brown during the hot summer months. Artificial practices such as watering keep it green through the hot season.
With an organic method, you have to accept that your lawn is not going to be as green. You can have a healthy brown or less-than-green lawn, but you have to come to terms with it.
There are also fewer organic products available and most lack the high nitrogen levels traditional fertilizers have, so you don't have the same "greening up" you get with traditional products. You also have to apply organic products more often and they tend to cost about 30 percent more.
We use a lot of integrated pest management, which means targeting certain lawn areas that are subject to pressure from weeds or insects by using specific pesticides or herbicides, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach with a single mixture of chemicals.
Fertilization is just one aspect of a good lawn. You also have to have good cultural practices before you worry about doing anything involving chemistry.
In the long run, we want to use fewer chemical products on the lawn. We try to get people to change the way they practice lawn care so customers can provide a good environment where their turf can effectively utilize the products we apply.
For instance, we recommend clients control weeds by mowing their grass at a height of about 3-1/2 inches so the turf can shade weeds out. Keeping lawn mower blades sharp is important, too. A dull blade will fray the tip of the grass, making it easier for diseases to enter.
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Set Theory
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Congruent Triangles
Congruent Polygons
Congruency Proofs
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Similarity Proofs
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Rules Postulates Theorems
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Congruency is used often in proving statements in geometry. These geometric proofs can vary in complexity from simple statements such as an angle being congruent to itself to more advanced concepts. The basic idea behind doing a proof in geometry is to start with a given statement and using various rules of geometry in a logical sequence to prove a concluding statement. Each rule is a link in the chain of logic that connects the given statement to the conclusion.
When doing a two-column proof, the statement is placed in the left hand column while the rule justifying the statement is placed in the right hand column. Many proofs using congruency are used to show that geometric figures such as triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons are congruent.
Proof Involving Three Angles
The following proof shows that two angles are congruent when each is adjacent and supplementary to one of two given congruent angles the other of which is included as a part.
Given that CAB DAE.
Prove that DAB CAE.
Proof Involving A Transversal With Three Parallel Lines
When two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, the corresponding angles as well as the alternate interior and exterior angles are congruent.
This can be extended to three parallel lines.
Given: j || k and k || l (j, k and l parallel to each other), transversal m
Prove: 1 4
Since congruency is transitive, it is a possible to combine steps 6 and 7 into one substitution leaving the final statement as 1 4.
Geometry Proofs For Congruent Triangles
When doing congruency proofs for triangles the three main congruency postulates are used, namely, the SSS, SAS and ASA postulates.
AAS or Angle - Angle - Side can be used indirectly using the sum of angles in a triangle property.
SSS Postulate
Showing that three sides of one triangle are congruent to another proves that both triangles are congruent.
Given: AB CD and E is a midpoint for AD and BC.
Prove: ABE CED
Since ABE CED are vertical angles and therefore congruent, it is also possible to use the SAS postulate.
SAS Postulate
When using SAS it is important to remember that the angle is included between two sides of the triangle. For this reason the letters SAS and ASA are written in exact order to indicate the corresponding parts being compared. It is also important to distinguish from SSA which does not prove triangles to be congruent.
Given: BC CD and AC BD
Prove: ABE ACD
ASA Postulate
If two angles with an included side is congruent to the corresponding two angles and included side of another triangle then the two triangles are congruent.
Given: A F, AC DF and EDA BCF, line m.
Prove: ABC ACD
AAS Theorem
Given: A F, B D, BC DE
Prove: ABC DEF
Midsegment Theorem
A midsegment of a triangle is parallel to the side not including the any of the endpoints and is half the length of that side.
Given: ABC, midsegment DE
Prove: DE || BC, DE = 1/2BC
Isosceles Triangle Theorem
If two sides of a triangle are congruent, then the angles opposite these sides are congruent.
This proof involves a correspondence of ABC ↔ ACB as if there were two separate isosceles triangles.
Given: ABC , AB AC
Prove: B C
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