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Q: Android custom toolbar theme not being applied I have an app that uses a custom Toolbar style. Previously, it applied the theme correctly, but after a recent update of Android Studio, it has stopped working correctly.
The theme.xml is defined like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <style name="OurTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
        <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/ButtonAppTheme</item>
        <item name="android:imageButtonStyle">@style/ImageButtonAppTheme</item>
        <item name="android:listSeparatorTextViewStyle">@style/BlueListSeparatorTextViewStyle</item>
        <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>

        <!-- colorPrimary is used for the default action bar background -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/action_bar_color</item>

        <!-- colorPrimaryDark is used for the status bar -->
        <!--<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/my_awesome_darker_color</item>-->

        <!-- colorAccent is used as the default value for colorControlActivated
             which is used to tint widgets -->
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/btn_accent_color</item>
    </style>

    <!-- Application theme. -->
    <style name="OurTheme" parent="OurTheme.Base">
        <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
        <item name="android:listSeparatorTextViewStyle">@style/BlueListSeparatorTextViewStyle</item>
        <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Our styles.xml contains:
<!-- ActionBar styles ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar -->
    <style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
    </style>

    <!-- ActionBar title text -->
    <style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/actionbar_text</item>
    </style>

actionbar_text is defined in our colors.xml:
<color name="actionbar_text">#ffffffff</color>

Finally, our custom toolbar layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" />

Previously, this worked and our app had white text in its custom toolbar. It now defaults to black everywhere in the app and the only method I have found that can change the color of the toolbar title text (other than doing it in code) is to change the toolbar layout to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:titleTextAppearance="@style/MyActionBarTitleText"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" />

Note that now I am specifically telling the actionbar to use MyActionBarTitleText style.
I have also tried to specifically tell it to use the custom theme here as well, by changing the "app:theme" to:
app:theme="@style/MyActionBar"

but this hasn't helped.
I'm afraid I'm at a loss. I know the base theme works as I can change the background colour, but using the actionBarStyle item simply refuses to work.
This has also affected text layouts and justifications to some of our custom button layouts as well and I can't figure out why it has stopped working. Does anyone have any suggestions?

A: It's very late but answering it.
Create a custom theme for your toolbar and set android:background
<style name="ToolbarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
       <item name="android:background">@color/blue</item> // change your color here and add other attributes
</style>

Now apply this theme to your toolbar in XML like:
style="@style/ToolbarStyle"

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Post by Swirls » November 18 19, 12:30 pm
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The Australian Baseball League announced on Monday morning that Minnesota Twins prospect Ryan Costello was found dead in his New Zealand hotel room over the weekend. He was 23.
According to the ABL, "preliminary indications" suggest that Costello died of natural causes.
Costello had been in New Zealand for just a week before he died. He was there to play for the Auckland Tuatara, the only New Zealand team in the ABL. Costello's death was discovered after he failed to show up for practice on Monday morning.
"The Tuatara would like to express their deepest condolences to Ryan's family back home in the United States and to the whole Minnesota Twins organization," the Tuatara said in a statement. "Support is being offered to the Tuatara players, who are naturally devastated at the moment."
Costello, a Weathersfield, Conn. native, was picked by the Seattle Mariners in the 31st round of the 2017 draft. He played third base, first base, and outfield positions, and was a Midwest League All-Star in 2018. Not long after that All-Star appearance, Costello and pitcher Chase De Jong were traded to the Twins in exchange for pitcher Zach Duke. Later that season, Costello hit a three-run home run that helped his team, the Fort Myers Miracle, win the 2018 Florida State League Championship.
In 2019 Costello began the season with Single-A Fort Myers before earning a promotion to the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos. Over three seasons and 280 games in the minors, Costello hit .256/.361/.468 with 43 home runs and 54 doubles.
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Your draft would be easier to read - and easier to transfer to the mainlist should it become good enough - if you used the templates shown here. For example, you need to bold and capitalise things like 'Object Class:'.
Subject is to be contained 10 m x 10 m x 10 m cell of 4 in.
You should refer to your SCP object by their SCP number (or holding name, in this case) 'SCP-XXXX'. Also what is a cell that is 10m on each side with 4 inches of what? The Foundation doesn't use inches anyway (it would be cms in this case), but you don't explain what it's for.
Roof is to be made of 10 in.
Again, The Foundation doesn't use inches. I also believe you're trying to say the roof should have a depth of 10 inches (25cms).
Plexiglas to allow subject to see sky.
You have a lot of sentence fragments in this document. That means your sentences are incomplete. For example, this one should be more like 'The roof should have an area of Plexiglas [dimensions here] to allow SCP-XXXX to see the sky.' However, this addition should be for containment reasons, not for the comfort of your SCP object. If it doesn't need a Plexiglas window, it doesn't get a Plexiglas window just because it would be nice for them.
Subject emotional distress must be monitored at all times to keep cooperation high and outbursts low. Subject is to be given a book of choice every 4 days.
Again, sentence fragments that need to be rewritten. Also, is emotional distress part of the anomalous effects, hence why an eye has to be kept on it, or is it, again, just because you don't like the idea of your SCP object being distressed? Additionally with the books - I would reword that to say 'SCP-XXXX is to be given a pre-approved book every 4 days, on a rotating basis'.
Subject is exactly 1.79 meters tall, arms approx 0.93 meters long.
Are the exact measurements needed? It's okay to say 'approximately'. You should only really use exact measurements when it comes to things that may change size.
Subject has 4 eyes of 2 sets which sit on top of which another, subject has no ability to dilate pupils instead closing the top eyes in light and bottom in dark.
This could do with rewriting for clarity and removal of the word 'subject' in favour of 'SCP-XXXX'. Additionally, I can't imagine at all what this thing looks like. Is it humanoid? Is it a random blob? Does it have a consistent shape? I have no idea from these descriptions what this thing is.
Capital letter, 'Subject', though still SCP-XXXX should be used.
Subject is primarily a slightly opaque white though rarely when in distress turn an opaque dark brown in which subject turns hard as well testing the composition of this material in this sate reveals it is entirely lignin though shows no other similar properties to wood.
This is a run on sentence that needs to be changed into two or three separate (but complete) sentences. It's very clumsy to read write now. I would change the sentence to describe the colour change, put in a full stop, make a new sentence describing when it turns hard and the fact it has similar properties to wood.
Plus, you have some typos - 'state', and I don't know what 'lignin' is, but it's not a word recognised by myself or my ever so helpful spell check.
Subjects diet consists of vegetables, and various types of cooked meats,subjects refuses raw meat when subject is fed cured venison morale improves greatly.
You need an apostrophe in 'subject's'. I don't think it's needed to say that it refuses raw meat. Saying that it is omnivorous (meaning it can/will eat both vegetation and meat) is fine, adding the 'cured venison' thing if it is important to containment and testing. If it's just a 'treat', then it shouldn't be included - The Foundation isn't a hotel making gourmet meals for guests.
Subject shows knowledge of 79 SCPs 16 being highly classified ones being only directly available to the 05 Council, Subject has never been exposed to any other SCPS before.
This seems very random, and it seems like you're trying to have a chance to cross-link to more popular SCP articles than have your article stand on its own as it should. This sentence also needs rewriting for clarity, and to be split into two sentences.
Subject was brought to attention when MTF Lambda 4 was on recover of SCP-███ when one member noticed a small opaque white object traversing the land through his binoculars.
'SCP-XXXX was discovered when Mobile Task Force Lambda-4 was recovering SCP-BLANK when one team member noticed SCP-XXXX moving across nearby land'. I'm unsure if MTF Lambda-4 would capture this SCP object, however.
It was reported to 05-█ and were ordered to capture it and SCP-███.
And who were ordered to capture it? You forgot a subject there.
Now, you go straight from capture to behaviour. This document reads all over the place. You really should describe behaviour after describing appearance, as this makes more sense, and how it was captured is not as important as its anomalous properties.
Subject when touched will pull The human who touched it in and sit for 5 minutes after that the human will be ejected out clean though will display properties of Subject sharing voice, behavior and memories with subject.
Another run-on sentence that needs to be split into two and rewritten for clarity. You also don't need a capital letter for 'the', here, nor 'subject'. You didn't mention before that SCP-XXXX has the ability to talk or make memories - that's important behaviour to note.
Though the human will be hostile and want to break only the left femur of and other humans in the room except humans who fit similar descriptions of the human who touched subject, such as crimes, face, and relatives said human when touching them will cause the similar human to convulse and share same properties as original human.
This whole paragraph just makes no sense at all. I'm not being rude, but is English not your first language? Have you taken any classes in writing articles like this, at least at a highschool level? Things like 'want to break only the left femur' make zero sense for whatever you're trying to say.
Subject's knowledge has proven useful for some scenarios, because subject has intense knowledge of 79 SCPs he can predict the most likely outcome of a breach.
Knowledge does not equal predictive abilities.
When asked how it hears subject says he feel the vibrations in his body and can translate that to sound. Subject -1 (humans who touched it) when apprehended and made immobile will fall into cardiac arrest which cannot be brought back from, except one instance of a subject with a heart murmur.
It needs a lot of work. A whole overhaul in terms of making sentences complete and make sense. Is there someone like a teacher you can sit down with to give you a hand with understanding what mistakes you've made and how to fix them?
Thank you for the help I think i covered it all.
Just glancing over it (sorry - headache, so I can't give a huge amount of feedback), you still have some SPAG issues. You also need to insert gaps in between each paragraph to make it easier to read. On my skim, I noticed you still had sentence fragments, sentences where you don't indicate an article, and, additionally, sometimes just sentences that don't make any sense in the way they're currently written.
Do you have a teacher, parent, or friend you could sit down with to give you a hand with these sort of issues? They're hard to point out over a computer and would be easier to explain face-to-face.
Hi again I think covered most of the sentence fragments and problems with origin of things.


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Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke
I've been watching the original Star Trek series for the first time, and this book is nothing like it. That's not a swipe at either the show or the book. I'm just fascinated by the different ways to approach to the same theme. Both stories revolve around spaceships and their crews exploring alien worlds and technologies. But while Star Trek uses science fiction setups to illustrate human failings and strengths, Rendezvous With Rama is almost entirely focused on the science itself.
In the book, an alien craft, by all appearances empty, passes through our solar system, seemingly by chance, and a crew of experienced astronauts enter it to see what they can see. They dub it Rama because Clarke loves Hindu culture and is tired of seeing everything named after Greek and Roman myths. Rama is a cylinder a hundred kilometers long, twenty kilometers wide. The rotation along its axis creates a weak gravity on the perimeter. The ocean at its center is a band of water that wraps all the way around, like the band on a cigar, except it's on the inside. Clarke thought hard about how a crew might land on and move about a cylindrical world. While Star Trek equips its crew with transporters, hover shuttles, and warp drives that are essentially magic, this book makes you appreciate the thought, planning, and physical exertion required in space exploration where the laws of the universe cannot be tamed with a mere button press.
You can rely on Clarke to get the science right. Even an alien construct must obey the laws of nature, and he does a great job of explaining how they apply to the inside of a rotating cylinder. Gravity along the axis is zero, but it gradually increases as you reach the curving outer wall. The varying gravity plays a huge part to determining how the crew navigates the alien craft, which they do mostly on foot. They solve several problems using math alone, and you feel Clarke it's having fun setting himself challenges and figuring how the night be met using real technology instead of the miracles that Star Trek puts at its crew's everyday disposal.
This book and Star Trek handle characterization quite differently. At the heart of Trek is the trio of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. McCoy is the hot tempered, emotional type; Spock is pure logic; and Kirk is there to bridge the two. How they react to each week's adventure can reflect a full spectrum of human feelings. The astronauts in Rendezvous with Rama are pretty flat. We get the main hobbies or scraps of background on a few, but there is certainly no emotional arc for any of them. Not that Trek actually allows its characters to grow much before reverting back to default for the next episode, but it does at least let them see some change between the opening and closing credits. The crew exploring Rama are all pretty levelheaded, intelligent, logical folks. Which, to be honest, is what the crew of a spaceship should be. The in-fighting on the Enterprise gets a bit childish at times. But none of the astronauts exploring Rama stand out in memory. To be fair, the characters are not the stars of the book. The book's strength is the wonderment of the alien ship. Clarke does a great job in hooking the reader and keeping you fully engaged as Rama slowly awakens from dormancy and begins to reveal its secrets.
There are some interesting bits of world-building sprinkled throughout. Rather than task humans with menial, repetitive tasks such as cleaning or cooking, those jobs are handled by intellect-boosted chimpanzees, called Simps in the novel. Not much is done with this idea, except to say, isn't that neat?, but it does give the impression that humanity has become so enlightened and sciency that non-degree jobs are below everyone's intellectual pay grade. Also in the future, many of our sexual hangups have been loosened. With humanity now spread across several planets and moons, polygamy is completely acceptable for men and women. Hey, an astronaut's life requires millions of miles of commute, so having a family on several astral bodies certainly makes it easier to find a home, and a dalliance in between worlds is nothing to get uptight about. It's nice to see so many women in command positions. Star Trek pushed the envelope as much as it could by giving non-white men high rankings, but women, including Lieutenant Uhura, were still portrayed as emotional dependents, fixated on their looks and age. In this book, though, several women are on the high council that oversee the mission to Rama, representing not only authority but also the pinnacle in their field of knowledge. Race or nationality is never mentioned--as should be expected with a world government and zero national borders--but we do see last names from various ethnic groups. There's even a little religion thrown in. For the most part, the future has dispensed with it, but there are still a couple of non-zealous, peaceful sects still holding on, though they have built a more scientific explanation into their view of God.
This book doesn't have to stand against Star Trek, nor should I really use either as a yardstick for the other. But they do present two different approaches to the subject of space exploration. Star Trek wonders how interacting with new lifeforms and new technologies will change us. Will it empower us? Inspire us? Corrupt us? Rendezvous with Rama contemplates the exploration itself. Will we rise to the challenge of reaching and understanding another species? Will we choose to capture it or allow it to go its own course? The pursuit of knowledge is inherently good, and given enough time, all our caveman instincts will burn away and leave a refined, nearly infallible intellect. A recurring theme of Clarke's is that other civilizations have traveled that path before and will help us to follow. Is the spacecraft Rama a beacon for humanity? That's left unanswered, but the final page announces pretty clearly there will be a sequel. Even without a follow-up and with many questions left hanging, this book is fantastic. Clarke leaves us enough room to guess at our own explanations for the mysteries of Rama, enough fuel to fire our imaginations and keep our minds lit. That's really what science fiction does best. It doesn't give us answers. It gives us questions and enough encouragement and insight to seek solutions on our own.
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Q: XCode 3.2.6 Interface Builder Not Connecting In interface builder my outlets and ibactions won't connect. They simply won't show up, like it doesn't exist.
Here is my code:

@interface RootViewController : UIViewController {
 IBOutlet UILabel *time;

}
-(IBAction)changetime;

In Interface Builder the only two connections there are is:

*

*view

*searchDisplayController.
Please Help!

A: Had the same issue. Make sure you save (Shortcut: Ctrl+S) your .h before opening your .xib file.


On the back CD cover, "Guilt" and "Manipulator" are swapped, track 4 "Flesh + Blood" is not listed at all (and skipped in the track numbering), as are the last two tracks, "Big Switch" and "Go [ Screwdriver Mix ]". The titles for each of the skipped tracks comes from www.batteryinflux.com, which clarifies these track names, while changing others. For instance http:\www:wasted@time.com/anger becomes http://www.wasted_time.com/anger.


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I recently saw Norwegian Wood. This has to be one of the best movies I've ever seen. The plot (which I won't give away too much of here) centers around how two college-aged kids come to terms with the unexpected suicide of a classmate (the girl's boyfriend and the boy's best friend). The events take place with the leftist political protests of the late 60s going on in the background. Most of the key characters have a clear existentialist directness about them. The sound track's both beautiful and haunting, and the film (which was made by Tran Anh Hung, the Vietnamese/French director who made The Scent of Green Papaya) visually makes heavy use of burning deep greens and melancholy blues. If cinemas would only show more films like this--I'd go to the cinema every weekend.
No amount of dinkering will fix the U.S. system as long as politicians aren't willing to take on the vested interests--the crooks who fleece all of us who must use the health system. The only way the system will work is if we have fixed prices for services. This has been the solution everywhere else in the world and it works.
Hopefully, this is a trend. I came across two articles today--one claiming that a Dutch entrepreneur plans to begin sending humans on a one-way trip to Mars in 2023, and another claiming that NASA plans to send humans on a one-way mission in a large and slower ship. If we're ever going to live on and colonize other planets, this sort of bold thinking is sorely needed.
The recent Chosun Ilbo report that former Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Ri Yong Ho and his bodyguards had a firefight with soldiers accompanying Korean People's Army General Politburo Director Choe Ryong Hae when Choe went to dismiss Ri is quite alarming if true. Choe has climbed quickly in the North Korean military ranks in recent years.
BEIJING (The Borowitz Report) – After a brutal week in which he was booed by the NAACP and grilled by the media, Republican presidential choice Mitt Romney got some support from an unlikely place today: Beijing.
Manufacturing workers from across China flooded downtown Beijing to show their gratitude for Mr. Romney's robust record of job creation in China while at the helm of the private equity firm Bain Capital.
While Mr. Romney's feats of outsourcing have taken a political toll at home, they have made him a national hero in China, according to workers like Qiu Huang, who attended the rally.
But the Chinese worker was surprised to learn that Mr. Romney had spent the better part of the week denying that he still worked at Bain during the company's frenzy of outsourcing jobs to China.
I just finished Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. While I generally love Russian literature, I must confess that this wasn't my favorite. As the title suggests, the short novel is partly a reflection on generational differences. The most memorable character, Bazarov, is a nihilist who seeks to radically challenge all views. Part of my difficulty warming to the book probably stems from the cultural and language gap. The significance of much of the interaction between upper-class Russians from the period is lost on me, and the translator clearly had a hard time conveying all the plays on words and use of dialect to mark social standing. In the end, I still prefer the iconoclastic characters in Camus' The Stranger, in Zorba the Greek, and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The characters in those three books were more fleshed out and sparked deeper philosophical reflections.
I recently read Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. Dawkins presents a cogent argument against religion in general (primarily with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in mind). Unlike many books written for a general readership, Dawkins refers to a wide scope of relevant scholarship, citing and discussing particular studies in a number of cases. The book's a must read for anybody interested in understanding the atheist position.
A few days ago, I watched Woody Allen's latest film--To Rome with Love. The film is a grand farce, of a very fractured sort, featuring great star power and the beautiful backdrop of Rome. The film didn't strike me as funny. If I hadn't seen it in the theater with other people and had been watching it at home on TV, I definitely wouldn't have survived to the end. This is something of a disappointment after Midnight in Paris.
The first statement's an explicit statement of conservative orthodoxy. Of course, if you can't challenge fixed beliefs and the beliefs of the older generation, you pretty much can't have science or learning of any type. The next time I review a paper for a peer-reviewed journal, I'll have to try that one--"I don't think the paper should be published since it challenges our fixed beliefs and doesn't accord with what we all believed to be true three decades ago."
I recently watched Prometheus and would recommend it. Much in the movie is left unexplained, but the basic idea for the story (the existential question of what it would mean to create new life forms or to be a created life form) is intriguing. The film's a cross between sci-fi flick and horror film. I personally wish they would have had less focus on the horror element so that they could have filled in more of the sci-fi element. I also watched Another Earth--a much more low-budget film that adopts the unlikely premise that another Earth (with all the same people on it) shows up in Earth's orbit. For those hoping for a rich sci-fi experience, this can't be recommended since less than a minute of the entire film shows anything from the other planet (which isn't that interesting after all, since it resembles our own planet in every detail). The only effect used in the entire film is the Earth that's superimposed on the sky. That said, the film is very watchable, if not a bit melancholy.
In today's news, conspiracy theories abound. Jean Levi has an interesting article arguing the China's terracotta army is actually fake. In another piece of news of the bizarre, Pakistan has apparently imprisoned the doctor who helped the U.S. located Osama bin Laden.
In the end, some people simply refuse to take into consideration the findings of science, preferring to trust in emotional outbursts by the talking heads sponsored by corporations that have every reason to be biased.
For the eight students at a California high school with the same last name-Nguyen- it was obvious their wallet-size snapshots would be sharing the same yearbook page. So instead of exerting their individuality with the standard Grateful Dead quote and a prom-worthy up-do, they decided to join forces for the ultimate prank. Alexandra, Angela, Angelica, Elizabeth, Emily, Isabella, Madeline and Vi Nguyen all wore the same black off-shoulder dresses and the same hairstyles. Then they went for the win. Eschewing the optional yearbook one-liner under each of their photos, they divided up two sentences that made fellow students and administrators think twice before making any stereotypical assumptions. Altogether, the words under the Nguyen girls' eight pictures read: "We know what you're thinking and no we're not related." "Not to brag or anything, but I came up with this," Isabella Nguyen, one of the eight girls commented on her own Facebook page.
Since when did we need a supermajority to pass laws?
WaPo has a good article about the constitutionality of the filibuster. The article makes a very good case that the current use of the filibuster was never intended by the writers of the Constitution.
Do you still believe in science? Well, you're a terrorist.
According to the Heartland Institute, people who put their trust in science instead of trusting oil companies to guide environmental policy are "terrorists." Normally, I would make some snarky comment at this point, but this is just so over-the-top stupid that I'm momentarily struck speechless. I'm especially shocked that people would bother to take on "global warming" at this point, since it's a well-established explanandum (a set of facts to be accounted for by a theory). Clearly, if people all over the globe read their thermometers and the mercury is, on average, a little higher, the Earth is warming. I don't quite get what the rabid right angle is here. Is the argument supposed to be that scientists and lowly weather station bureaucrats all over the globe have secretly conspired to add a few degrees to their measurements (all the while, ensuring that they do so in a plausible way that would agree with weather models)? This is enough to send any sensible person into a coprolalic frenzy. The idea is so blatantly ludicrous that it would be rejected as a conspiracy plot for a third-rate spy novel. I suppose we'll be seeing more and more of this sort of idiocy if the Republicans gain power.
I really think the Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot with their assault on women's rights. I just can't believe that this demographic of white males pulled right out of a smoke-filled room in Mad Men, represents a winning combination at the polls. Of course, we'll rapidly stop hearing about all these "moral" issues after the Republic race is decided. Nevertheless, it's a reminder of how backward-thinking the party has become.
The tragedy of the healthcare issue in the U.S. is that we can't simply be up-front about it and pay the "mandate" out of taxes. This would eliminate insurance companies, which currently all demand their own pound of flesh, and get the debate focused on the key issues of costs and services. If the U.S. could do that, I'd actually be supportive of incentives for people to stay healthy (and extra costs for people who decide to pursue unhealthy lifestyles).
The problem isn't excessive greed. If you took the greed out of Wall Street all you'd have left is pavement. The problem is endemic abuse of power and trust.


The Bio-pic Dr. Tatya Lahane, Biopic : Angaar Power is within will release on 12th January throughout Maharashtra. The film is produced & directed by Virag Madhumalati Wankhede. Virag is B.E. Civil and multiple Guinness World Records holder. Actor Makrand Anaspure has played the lead role of Dr. Lahane in this film, while Alka Kubal is in the role of his mother Smt. Anjanabai. Dr. Nishigandha Wad has played the role of Dr. Ragini Parekh, and Bharat Ganeshpure and Ramesh Dev have played a special role in this film.


When most Tennessee residents are injured on the job, they have the right to seek workers' compensation benefits. But do undocumented workers have equal rights to workers' compensation benefits after work injuries?
The Nashville workers' compensation attorneys at Ponce Law explain that a recent court ruling states the answer to that question is yes—undocumented workers have rights to the same scale of work comp benefits as documented workers.
Reports indicate a Davidson County Chancery Court judge issued the ruling earlier this week after hearing the case of Carlos Martinez, a 39-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala. The man was using a lawnmower when he slipped and fell. He was then struck by the machine's blades and suffered serious injuries to his arms. Brian Dunigan, a senior attorney at Ponce Law, represented Mr. Martinez on the case.
Due to the victim's status as an undocumented worker, The Tennessean explains that he was facing a cap on the amount of workers' compensation benefits he could receive for his injuries. But Chancellor Russell T. Perkins ruled the law unconstitutional because it attempted to preempt federal immigration law.
As a result of the ruling, Martinez was awarded about $30,000 in wage loss damages.
A spokesman for the Tennessee Attorney General's office stated that the office was reviewing the outcome of the case and what their next steps may be.
At Ponce Law, we believe every worker deserves fair treatment and compensation after a work injury, and our Nashville personal injury lawyers are pleased with the results of this recent ruling.


Cm Breyer classic MOW. Airbrushed,pastelled, haired and handpainted to metallic palomino Morgan stallion with four socks, bellyspot and blaze.
Black with sabino. Haired, airbrushed and handpainted ColletA Frieasian horse.
Liver chestnut flaxen sabino Danish WB( Hannover x Oldenburg) stallion. Four white socks, blaze and white hairs under the belly. Airbrushed, pastelled and hand painted on acryls.
Black sabino. Pigmented and handpainted.
Breyer G2 ASB mare to bay roan stallion.
Airbrushed and handpainted. Mohair haired.
Cm Breyer traditional Weather Girl Partly Cloudy. Airbrushed, haired and handpainted to chestnut going gray NSH mare.
little cm, painted and haired to gray arabian mare with two socks and snip .


Have you ever thrown the last of your milkshake out the car window, only to have it splat on the windshield of the car behind you? OK, imagine doing that with liquified human remains, in space, where there are no windshield wipers. Or gas stations with handy squeegee things. What happens next? You might get a really irritated comms call from the next ship in line, who are, incidentally, also about to hit you.
Theme and incidental music written and performed by John Faley.


Most entrepreneurs have common personality traits that include self-efficacy, innovativeness and need for achievement. I can spot them in a crowd and see them coming a mile away. Yet, when there's an opportunity to 'sell' it is often met with silence or an overflow of words that are quite the contrary. The Entrepreneurial Sell: Tools and Techniques Every Start Ups Needs for Success book is far more than sales techniques; it's about mastering the skill of selling. Don't sell yourself short; if you're a novice I offer tips to overcome your hesitation and find a sales approach that works with your personal and professional style.
Whether it's with your family and friends, potential customers, your team or investors, understanding the dynamics and specific techniques of selling is the single most important key to the success of your business. I wrote The Entrepreneurial Sell: Tools and Techniques Every Start Ups Needs for Success as an essential tool for aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups to navigate the shifting business environment. Entrepreneurial selling is the powerful framework that supports every stage of the entrepreneurial process.
There has never been a better time in history to be an entrepreneur. The barrier to starting your own business has never been lower, people of all ages are starting businesses, and even those in traditional work settings have begun to think and act like entrepreneurs.
I dedicate this book to the life and memory of my mom, Thelma Mayberry Arnold, who was my true hero. She showed me by example that I could be whatever I wanted to be if I worked hard, invested in myself through education and kept God in my life. Her unconditional love and support has followed me every day and provided such peace, joy and love. I miss her intensely but I know she is still watching over me and whispering words of strength and encouragement. I have been so blessed to be her daughter and I will forever be grateful for our love and time together. For every time she gently asked, "how is the book going," I can now proudly answer, it's done!
In The Entrepreneurial Sell: Tools and Techniques Every Start Up Needs to Succeed, noted entrepreneur, business executive and entrepreneurship professor Cheryl Mayberry McKissack shares the essential inside information every entrepreneur needs in order to found and grow a new venture, with special emphasis on the most critical skill every entrepreneur must master: selling. Whether it's with your family and friends, potential customers, your team, or investors, understanding the dynamics and specific techniques of selling is the single most important key to the success of your business.
Mayberry McKissack's book covers far more than sales techniques. She begins with a discussion of entrepreneurial character traits and spirit. She analyzes how to choose a business type, how to define a product, and how to analyze your customers and use digital marketing and research to create a feedback loop to grow your venture. She also offers guidance for business lines that entrepreneurs would be wise to avoid.
The core of the book is a master class in entrepreneurial selling. From the earliest days of pitching your idea to those around you, to developing your elevator pitch, to understanding various investor options and how to sell to each, this book will help every entrepreneur better understand various sales techniques—and when it's appropriate to use each one.
Throughout the book are case studies of successful entrepreneurs and start-ups. Founders tell us in their own words what the keys to their success were, and what they wish they had known when they were first starting out. Mayberry McKissack shares lessons learned from her own start-up experiences, as well as those in larger, more established companies within which she played an entrepreneurial role.
Anyone can be an entrepreneur today. But not everyone will be successful. Increase the odds your business will thrive, by mastering the lessons of The Entrepreneurial Sell.
From the Foreword, by Professor Steven Rogers of Harvard Business School: "Very few books, if any, address both the diagnostic and practical aspect of entrepreneurship. None links those aspects to the critical role of selling. The book will be one that students and entrepreneurs alike will wonder how they ever did without."


Having a voice and data cabling infrastructure that exceeds your competition, is something that's pretty vital for the success of a company in our generation, given that it is something that directly affects the performance of their workers, by providing smooth internet connection and connection between other devices in a network. It is apparent that if you want your business to succeed, it is only evident that the least you could do is find the best professional to provide you with a great voice and data cabling services. What makes it even more imperative to find the best contractor, is the fact that hiring the wrong contractor could bring enormous problems instead of giving you a boost in your operations.
Of course, hiring a contractor to provide you with voice and data cabling service, whether you're moving, upgrading your existing cabling or installing an entirely new network, would require you to take into account several things to ensure that you'll be able to tackle it with the right way. There's no doubt that arduous processes would be involved in your decision-making process and that there would certainly be challenges, making it important to heed the tips provided in this page.
In any service, even technical ones like voice and data cabling – experience can play a huge role in the outcome of their service and as such, you should make sure that the one you'll hire for the job comes with plenty of experience doing this kind of service. It is best to scrutinize what exact points of experiences they could share with you, in order for you to clearly see whether they'll be able to handle the job at hand or not.
It would also pay a lot of advantage for you and the company, if you prepare firsthand, what exactly it is you need to be done for the network of your business, as this can be used during your interview with potential companies or contractors to hire. It is important to note that no matter how great a contractor is, they could only exert their best capabilities if they know exactly what you need, which is why it is important to plan before discussing it with them so you'll be able to relay information with no problems to worry about.
Since the channel or the network is something that will be used in your company for times to come, it would be nice if you partner up with a reliable contractor company, who could provide the voice and data cabling on top of providing long-term partnership for training your future employees to use the system or the network.


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Q: Adding an image to list view vb.net I have a list view with fixed and dynamic items. I intend to print it as a receipt for payment validation
This is how I am adding the fixed items
Dim ListItem As ListViewItem
ListItem = ListView1.Items.Add("ST PAUL'S SECONDARY SCHOOL")
Dim logo As ListViewItem
logo = ListView1.Items.Add(Image.FromFile("1.png"))

My problem is that the line for adding the image is giving me the following error

Error  BC30518 Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'Add' can be called with these arguments: 'Public Overridable Overloads Function Add(text As String) As ListViewItem': Value of type 'Image' cannot be converted to 'String'. 'Public Overridable Overloads Function Add(value As ListViewItem) As ListViewItem': Value of type 'Image' cannot be converted to 'ListViewItem'. SchoolManager C:\Users\MASENO\Source\Repos\SchoolManager\SchoolManager\Pay Fees.vb  18  Active

I have tried this code to add the image from resources but it is not adding any image and displaying no error
      Dim il = New ImageList()
    il.Images.Add("1", My.Resources.barlogo)
    ListView1.LargeImageList = il
    ListItem.ImageKey = "1"

What could I be doing wrong and how can I rectify it?

A: Use an ImageList to hold your image, then apply it to the ListView by key.
' your code
Dim ListItem As ListViewItem
ListItem = ListView1.Items.Add("ST PAUL'S SECONDARY SCHOOL")
' new code
Dim il = new ImageList()
il.Images.Add("1", Image.FromFile("1.png"))
ListView1.LargeImageList = il
ListItem.ImageKey = "1"


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Top 5 US Athletes in the History of Pan American Games
Miguel Ernesto, 4 years ago 0 4 min read 50
The United States has played the leading role in the history of Pan-American Games. That country has won 15 of the 16 editions of the most important sports event of the continent and its athletes have taken back home the impressive figure of 4,173 medals, 1,861 of which are golden. In over six decades of victories, handpicking only five names is quite a hard task, but Panamerican World has taken the challenge of making this Top 5 list of North American sports legends.
Abraham Grossfeld. Gymnastics
This gymnast ranks second on the historic list of top medalists, with 21 medals, only one less than another athlete: Cuban Erick Lopez.
Grossfeld competed in three Pan-American Games: Mexico, 1955, Chicago, 1959 and Sao Paulo, 1963. He won at least one medal in each of those editions, in different modes; although he shined on the horizontal bar as he won the three events.
Besides the eight titles in conventional modes [Floor Exercise (1), Rings (2), Horizontal Bar (3) and Team Competition (3)], Grossfeld also stood out in team competitions that are no longer included in the program, where he got another six crowns.
Grossfeld participated in two Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956 and Rome, 1960. After his retirement, he became coach of the US Olympic team, for both women and men. With this responsibility he attended another five editions of the Games.
Lones Wigger. Shooting
Lones Wigger is a shooting legend in the United States. This retired Army Colonel competed in four Olympic events (1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980) where he won three medals (two gold medals and one silver). In Pan-American Games his enviable shooting skill caught everybody's eye since Sao Paulo, in 1963, where he conquered his first title, as a member of the US team of small-bore carbine.
Throughout twenty years, Wigger shined in the Pan-American Games. He said goodbye in Caracas, 1983, when he was 46 years old. It was an impressive farewell as he added three gold medals to his record (he won with the large-bore carbine, 3×40 meters, individual and teams, and the team large-bore carbine). In six Pan-American incursions, Wigger collected 18 medals, 13 of which were gold.
Terry Schroeder. Water Polo
Terry Schroeder is a legend of water polo. His superb physique, which had him making headlines because of his 2-meter height, positioned him as the leader of his team, thus winning three Pan-American titles, between 1979 and 1987.
Throughout that time, the United States always defeated Cuba in the game for the crown. In the Havana edition, 1991, everybody was surprised as the Cuban team left behind the North American one in the last game and stopped Schroeder from winning his fourth gold medal.
This polo player also stood out in Olympic Games, where he got two silver medals, in Los Angeles, 1984, and Seoul, 1988. He later coached the national team for Beijing 2008, when he was defeated by Hungary. This athlete also participated in London, 2012.
In 1999, Terry Schroeder was included in the Water Polo Hall of Fame in the United States.
Dorothy Richardson. Softball
"Dot" Richardson is described as one of the best softball players of all times in the United States. With her country's national team she won five medals in Pan-American Games, and she still stands as the athlete with the highest number of medals obtained in collective sports in the history of these sports events.
Richardson made her Pan-American debut in San Juan, 1979, where she won her first title. Four years later, in the duel for the gold, Canada defeated the United States; but, afterwards, the US team recovered control and Richardson added three new crowns to the list, in the editions of Indianapolis, 1987, Mar del Plata, 1995, and Winnipeg, 1999.
Richardson was also brilliant in the Olympic Games. When this sport made its debut, in Atlanta 1996, she batted a homerun in the decisive game, against China, which took her team to the victory. Richardson also competed in Sidney, where the United States held the crown.
Richardson was extolled in the Softball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Denise Parker. Archery
Denise Parker was described as the best archer of the United States over the last two decades of the 20th century. She made her international debut in Indianapolis Pan-American Games, 1987, when she was only 13 years old. That lefty girl surprised everybody as she won the individual event.
In her second Pan-American performance, in Havana, Denise — who was already an experienced archer with an Olympic medal won in Seoul, 1988 — prevailed in the individual competition and took the title back home. She also ranked 1st in 30, 60 and 70 meters (these modes are no longer included in the program of the Pan-American Games).
Parker was the Pan-American queen of archery until Winnipeg, 1999. In five editions of the Games, she conquered 15 medals: 12 gold medals, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. On the list of athletes with more Pan-American medals, Parker ranks second, right behind Joanne Malar.
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Q: Errors within form not displaying in view I am trying to display errors in my view when a form is not submitted correctly. I have a validation set in my model for location to be present and in my form I am using the errors method to try and display the errors in my view. Below is my code. The validation is working, because I get a rails error when location is nil, it's just not displaying the msg as html.
model
class Destination < ActiveRecord::Base
    validates :location, presence: true
end

form new.html.erb
<%= form_for @destination do |f| %>
    <% if @destination.errors.any? %>
            <% @destination.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>

<%= msg %>

            <% end %>
    <% end %>

    <%= f.label :location %>
    <%= f.text_field :location %>

    <%= f.submit %>
<% end %>

controller
def create
        @destination = Destination.new(destination_params)

        if @destination.save!
            redirect_to destinations_path
        else
            render new_path
        end
    end

    private

    def destination_params
        params.require(:destination).permit(:location, :description)
    end
end

A: @destination.save! will throw error in case of unsuccessful saving. To get to the render new_path line you have to do just @destination.save.

A: @destination.save! will raise an error if not successful.
@destination.save will return true or false.

A: @destination.save! will throw an error. You have to do something like;
if @destination.save # returns true if successfully saved else false
  redirect_to destinations_path
else
  flash[:errors] = @destination.error_messages # Display errors in view
  render new_path
end

HTH.


Our Fall blog hop continues today over at Michael's blog, Inspired by Charm. He's shared a yummy butter pecan cupcake recipe and you'll definitely want to swing over to his place to read all about it!
I'm re-sharing one of my mother-in-law's delicious cold-weather recipes here today too, because I know my readership has probably changed a lot since the first time I posted it several years ago.
Start by pouring one can of kidney beans, one can of corn, one can of pinto beans, two cans of petite diced tomatoes, and one can of Rotel diced tomatoes & green chiles into a large pot or dutch oven. Once they're all in, begin cooking the vegetables on medium heat.
Simmer the soup for 30 minutes (with the lid on, stirring occasionally), and that's it!
Place corn, pinto beans, kidney beans, diced tomatoes and Rotel tomatoes in a large pot or dutch oven and begin cooking on medium heat.
Place ground beef in a skillet, sprinkle with garlic salt, and cook until no longer pink.
Drain meat using a colander, then return it to your skillet.
Add taco seasoning mix and Ranch seasoning mix to the ground beef, and mix well.
Add ground beef mixture to the vegetable pot and simmer (with the lid on, stirring occasionally) for 30 minutes.
Serve with tortilla chips or corn chips. Optional toppings: shredded cheese, onions, or sour cream.
I make almost that exact recipe in the crockpot but I use chicken. I LOVE it. I add sour cream to the top when I have it as well. It freezes well and is sooooo good! Now I am hungry and it is only breakfast time!
Looks amazing,and with the cool temperatures coming it will be a great addition to my winter recipes.
Carmen, I googled it, and there are recipes on Food.com and Allrecipes.com if you want to look at them. Hope this helps!
This recipe sounds delicious and very easy! I'll pin it for my files! Thanks Layla and Katie!
I love her recipes. Can't wait to try this. Thank You!
In Texas we make this mostly with chicken (from a rotisserie) and crushed tortilla chips to add body to the soup. We leave out the seasoning packets and just use a good quantity of chili powder (more than you might think). Another dirty little secret to make it extra special: add Velveeta toward the end and let it melt gently into the whole pot. You can change it up with black beans, ranch style beans (my fave) or an assortment that makes it colorful. But the tortilla chips and Velveeta are must haves here!


Kalmar Nyckel was one of America's pioneering colonial ships, a gun-armed merchant vessel leading an expedition that founded the colony of New Sweden in the Delaware Valley. A world power in the 1600s, Sweden established Fort Christina in present-day Delaware, the first permanent European settlement in the valley. Kalmar Nyckel made four roundtrip crossings of the Atlantic between 1637 and 1645, more than any other vessel of its era. Later, it served as a warship for the Swedish navy. The faithful reproduction sailing today is the official tall ship of Delaware. From April to November she sails from her home port in Wilmington and visits ports-of-call along the eastern seaboard from Virginia to New England.


Public speaking throws up many fears and challenges for all of us. As part of one of our public speaking courses, High Impact Presentations, we have been surveying various participants over the last four years about the things they most want to improve in public speaking.
The most common request, from both Japanese and English speakers, was to "be clear when presenting". But, what do the respondents mean by clear?
Those surveyed want to get their message across to the audience, and for it to be easy to follow. They also want to have some impact from their efforts to get up in front of others and speak.
This is not easy, mainly because we keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. There are some common errors that kill our ability to communicate with the audience. Here are some critical tips to make sure that situation never occurs.
First, we should decide the purpose of the talk.
For example, is it to entertain, so listeners conclude the event feeling warm and fuzzy about us and our organisation? Is it to convince or impress on them that our organisation is reliable and trustworthy? Is it to persuade or inspire them to take some action that we are recommending? Is it to inform them of some recent data or information that is relevant to their industry?
We need to be crystal clear about what we are trying to do with our talk, before we worry about its design, production and delivery.
Second, we need to thoroughly investigate beforehand exactly to whom we will be talking. For example, what is the generation mix, age demographic and proportion of males and females? Are they experts, amateurs, dilettantes, critics, supporters, potential clients or someone else?
We need to pitch our talk at the right level for the audience; no dumbing down of the exceedingly well informed, insulting them at every turn.
We do not want to dwell in acronym heaven or be a specialist jargon snob, baffling the punters completely. We need to gauge our listeners' level of comprehension and make sure we are talking to them at their level of expertise.
Third, we should rehearse our talk before we give it. This may sound straightforward, but hardly anyone does so. In sales we always advise, "Never practice on the client". Presenters should heed the same sage advice.
If we prepare the talk in writing, we may find the cadence is different when we say the words out loud, compared with when we read them on the page. We also may find we have misjudged the time completely and the talk is too long or too short. We need to start singling out key words we want to hit harder than others for emphasis.
Fourth, get the mechanics of delivery right. The message cannot stand alone. The quality of the content is not enough and the supreme value of the data is insufficient if people cannot hear you. While physically they can hear you are speaking, when content and delivery are not in harmony, only 7% of the message is actually getting through to the audience. That is a shockingly low number.
When the content of the message is not congruent with the way you deliver it, we get distracted by the speaker's dress, body language and tone of voice.
For example, if I said, "I am really excited about this technology" in a barely audible, monotone voice that was lacking energy and was delivered while I looked down at the lectern—and not at my audience—with a bored, unhappy expression, only 7% of people would get the message.
Many speakers make the task hard for themselves because they do not address the audience. They look at their notes, the screen, the floor or the ceiling; anywhere, but at that sea of expectant faces scrutinising them.
Engage your audience by using eye contact. Keeping each person's gaze for around six seconds makes the eye contact meaningful, without it becoming intrusive.
Moreover, get your face involved in the delivery. If the topic is good news, then smile. If you suggest doubt, have a quizzical expression. If the information is surprising, have a look of wonder.
Throw in some gestures to add power to the words, but do not maintain the same gesture for longer than 15 seconds. Utilise your palms, so they can be seen by the audience. Do not hide them behind your back. Neither should you lock them up protecting your groin, or keep them hidden away in your pockets.
A gesture made too low may not be seen by some members of the audience, so make your gesture zone between chest and head height.
When we know why, and to whom, we are speaking, and get voice, face and hands working in unison to add strength to what we are saying, we will get 100% of the audience absorbing our message.


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Women's Basketball Ranked Third in Preseason Poll
31 Oct 2018 3 Nov 2018 ~ The Critograph
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Head Coach Abby Pyzik giving the team a pep talk during a team timeout against Washington and Lee last season. Photo retrieved from the Lynchburg Sports website.
The Old Dominion Athletic Conference coaches released their annual pre-season poll on Thursday, October 25, and the University of Lynchburg women's basketball team was ranked third as they head of their 2018-19 season. The Lynchburg women's basketball team, with 122 points, was one of only four teams in the conference to reach over 100 points in votes.
By bringing back two starters, senior guard/forward Alex Allen and sophomore guard Maggie Quarles, the team is looking to use their youth to propel them to the top of the conference. Quarles said, "Being ranked third in the preseason poll speaks volumes about the culture of the program. Though we are a young and less experienced team [than in previous years], we have an incredible amount of talent and drive that has the potential to carry us extremely far this season."
Since the team met in August, the players have been working hard to prepare themselves for the season; specifically, they have been going to bootcamps twice a week, playing in games against each other, and doing shoot around on a daily basis.
Quarles said, "We have worked so hard from the last game this past spring to now, and are so excited to get back on the floor with each other. We have been focusing on our team chemistry and connecting as one unit in preparation for our first game, but I could not be more excited to go out and play with my favorite people in the world. Lynchburg women's basketball truly is a family!"
Allen noted, "As far as the ranking goes, I would say that we were put in third because of our culture. We have had an extremely strong winning culture with 20 or more wins a season for the past three seasons and that is something we look to continue. We have a young team this year but that doesn't change what we are ultimately working towards. Right now, we are working on getting our chemistry down and focusing on how we can be more solid as a team. We're really excited for our first game coming up soon and can't wait to show everyone how hard we have been working."
The women's basketball team with have their first game on Saturday, November 10 at 12 p.m. at the Wayne Proffitt Court in the Turner Gymnasium.
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Dryland Farmers And Climate Change
By TheHindu on 17 Jun 2015 | read
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A combined effort to deal with climate uncertainty, land degradation, and water scarcity is needed.
This year, the global community was alarmed by the prospects of global warming and climate change when the former United States Vice President Al Gore's movie, The Inconvenient Truth, won the Academy Award. The movie sparked debates, but more importantly, brought global attention to the issue of climate change.
At the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), we believe climate change will make dryland agriculture even more risk-prone especially in the developing world. Thus, for farmers struggling under the burden of cultivating land under the ever-present threat of drought, floods, mid-season dry spells, land degradation, and water scarcity, such problems associated with climate change will have to be answered more frequently.
Unless the livelihoods and resource base of such vulnerable rural communities can be made more resilient, coping with climate change may be next to impossible for poor dryland farming communities. Working over decades with poor farmers in the drylands of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, ICRISAT's research shows that a combined effort to deal with current climate uncertainty, land degradation, and water scarcity is the only way by which the resilience of these communities can be brought about.
With improved tools becoming available in studying climate uncertainty, it has now become possible for decision-makers and investors to formulate a development agenda integrating short, medium, and long-term timeframes. Short-term seasonal forecasting enables farmers and other stakeholders to plan more effectively and fine-tune their strategies for the coming season. Medium-term understanding enables them to predict the impact and profitability of improved agricultural practices. Long-term understanding helps them predict the likely impact of climate change on rain-fed farming systems, and their future development and productivity.
This integrated climate risk assessment and management framework is fundamental to ICRISAT's collaborative research on managing climatic uncertainty and adapting to climate change. This will enable investors (governments, donors, researchers or farmers) to understand better the risks and opportunities and get greater returns from more diversified and targeted investments.
Overcoming land degradation
Land degradation, which is a persistent problem in the drylands of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, can be further worsened by climate change. ICRISAT has been working with partners for years on combating land degradation in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The following are some of ICRISAT's effective interventions:
Desert Margins Programme: Working with five other Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and other partners, it is a collaborative initiative among nine African countries — Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. This programme is guided by the principle that desertification in areas bordering deserts can be avoided and reversed by enhancing the resilience and biodiversity of the agro-ecosystem; and improving farmers' livelihoods through more productive, profitable, and stable land management.
Fertilizer microdosing: Research has shown that poor soil fertility is a major food production constraint across much of the West African Sahel. When plants are malnourished, their roots cannot collect enough rainwater. Microdosing is the practice of providing the growing crop with the appropriate quantity of fertilizer at the right time. Microdosing is a technique that enables farmers to measure the right amount of fertilizers in the caps of soft drink or beer bottles and placing these along with the seed. This innovative technique has reintroduced fertilizer use in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
Drylands Eco-Farm: An innovative trees-crops-livestock system for rain-fed crop production, it involves intercropping fast-growing trees with annual crops. Also included in the system are livestock that are appropriate for the agro-ecosystem. Profits from the eco-farms are three to five times higher than the current farming systems.
Increasing water scarcity
In agricultural research, water is often considered in two distinct categories. "Green water" represents the moisture contained in the soil profile from rain or irrigation, whereas "blue water" accounts for the run-off from rain or irrigation and contained in water bodies such as dams, rivers, lake, and aquifers. Climate change is expected to make some regions of the globe even drier — that is, make water even scarcer.
Lack of water is also the cause of major food crisis, like the one experienced in Niger because of drought in 2005. This type of crisis is a "green water" crisis, and is usually an extreme consequence of an erratic rainfall pattern in the semi-arid tropics. It is rendered more acute with current climate change trends, where soil moisture limits yield and eventually reduces food supply. Green water scarcity can be compensated by blue water if irrigation facilities and water are available. Unfortunately, given the limited volume of blue water available, the scope for increasing the area already under irrigation is limited. Agriculture in these areas will likely remain rain-fed.
At ICRISAT, we work to promote rain-fed agriculture in the drylands, and generate innovations that ensure food security and income generation, adapted to the limited green water availability, and capable of coping with extreme climatic conditions. Our research, which focusses on integrated genetic and natural resource management (using conventional and biotechnology-assisted crop improvement along with soil and water management), has been working to optimise both blue and green water, so that the dryland farmers can increase agricultural productivity.
ICRISAT's watershed development programme, which has become a model for up-scaling in India, China, Vietnam, and Thailand, has optimised the conservation and use of blue water. While run-off water is harvested through small water conservation structures, the optimal utilisation of this resource is ensured through suitable crop rotation.
Working on generating more crop per drop of green water comes naturally for ICRISAT since its mandate crops are those that grow in the drylands — pearl millet, sorghum, chickpea, pigeonpea, and groundnut. These crops have built-in capacities to grow in water scarce environments. However, ICRISAT's continuing research efforts are to breed improved varieties and hybrids that can cope with lesser water availability.
Whenever climate change in a longer timeframe is discussed, there are global debates whether the changes in average temperatures, water availability, and crop growing conditions will actually occur or whether the claims are exaggerated.
Even while this debate continues, farmers in the drylands of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa face the day-to-day reality of climate uncertainty, land degradation, and water scarcity.
ICRISAT's research empowers these farmers to meet present day uncertainties. Armed with the ability to deal with present day realities, the farmers of the drylands will find it easier to deal with future climate change, when it happens.
(The writer is Director-General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics [ICRISAT], headquartered at Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh.)
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