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Even as the scramjet-powered X-51A Waverider ran out of fuel at 64,000 ft., sending the high-speed demonstrator hurtling into the Pacific to end the program's final flight on May 1, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)-led team already knew it had made hypersonic history.
In the 6 min. it took the diminutive vehicle to travel at up to Mach 5.1 over 230 nm to its watery grave, the X-51A program smashed every time and distance record for sustained, air-breathing hypersonic flight. The achievement means that nine years after starting the program, and two years after first flight, the X-51A team has finally proved the viability of a free-flying, scramjet-powered, endothermically fueled vehicle.
Now, as the business of data analysis begins, hypersonic planners are turning to what comes next. Although the X-51A success marks a first step to the potential use of hypersonic propulsion for long-range reconnaissance, transport and even the first air-breathing stage of a space-access system, the near-term application will be a missile. Initial follow-on steps will therefore be guided primarily by the requirements of the Air Force's high-speed weapon development road map and support of the High Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW), which is expected to be demonstrated at a baseline level around 2020. Theoretically, given this timescale, such a weapon could be available by the mid-2020s.
However, as history shows, the road to hypersonic development is littered with the remains of failed efforts and abandoned projects. Given recent test flops ranging from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (Darpa) HTV-2 and the Hypersonics Flight Demonstration (HyFly) vehicles to back-to-back failures of the X-51A in 2011 and 2012, the success of the May 1 flight could not have come at a better time for hypersonic propulsion.
"It kind of nudges the rock over the hill," says AFRL X-51A program manager Charlie Brink. He notes that in the build-up to the test, "I started to see the tipping point was getting pretty close. The warfighter was starting to see the potential use of it and, with this test, the science and technology leadership is starting to get the message." Joseph Vogel, director of hypersonics at Boeing Phantom Works and program manager for the Boeing-built X-51, says, "we realized we cracked the problem when we flew the vehicle [the first time in May 2010], and to get credit we needed to have real success—and that was this mission."
Guided by results from the X-51A, Brink says researchers have a hit list of potential enhancements and improvements that will be used to develop the concept into a tactically relevant hypersonic weapon. The baseline speed and approximate size of the X-51A will continue to form the model for the HSSW, which will be compatible with the B-2A internal weapon bay and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Testifying to Congress in April, Deputy Assistant Air Force Secretary David Walker said, "it will also include a tactically compliant engine start capability and launch from a relevant altitude. The flight demonstration will be the first tactically relevant demonstration of Mach 5.0 plus air-breathing missile technology."
"We foresee scramjet technology could be brought to bear to propel a light vehicle like X-51 in size anywhere between Mach 5 and 6 against targets 500 to 600 nm away within 10-12 min. It brings a whole set of responsiveness for the warfighter," says Brink. The vehicle's operational altitude of 60,000-80,000 ft. "brings in a new aspect of survivability," he adds.
"The next step is to marry scramjet propulsion with sensors, and logistically supportable fuel," Brink says. In place of JP-7, a special jet fuel with a high flash point originally used by the SR-71, he says studies will evaluate if an HSSW could use RP1, RP2 or the denser jet fuel JP-10. "But how much endothermic capability does it have?" he asks. Further work will also explore the use of pyrotechnic cartridges to cold-start the scramjet in place of ethylene, building on recent wind-tunnel tests at NASA Langley Research Center.
Engine improvements are also being studied by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, says program manager George Thum. "This [SJX61-2] architecture was frozen in time, so the future is simplification. We are starting to apply jet and rocket-engine heritage to make it more product-like. The full authority digital engine control (Fadec) is a prime example of the things that are being simplified." The X-51A used a relatively bulky F119 engine Fadec, but a future HSSW controller could be a simpler processor card integrated with the fuel pump, adds Brink. A future engine is also likely to be controlled more smoothly with a feedback loop linking pressure sensors around the isolator position with the fuel pumps.
As the Air Force expects advanced munitions such as the HSSW to be operating in contested environments in which the GPS signal is either degraded or perhaps even denied, an array of new guidance technologies are being explored. According to Walker, these include "technologies that expand upon our current anti-jam GPS navigation capabilities and novel technical approaches to navigation such as optic-field flow techniques and multisensor fusion." Brink adds that "if you want to guide over enemy territory, you want some sort of sensor up-front."
Brink, Vogel and other X-51A team members from partners Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Darpa, NASA, Navair and the Air Force's 412th Test Wing, witnessed the flight from a mission control room at the Kirk Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, Calif. "It was pretty nail-biting, with a lot of tension," says Vogel. Adding to the drama, the takeoff of the B-52H mothership carrying the X-51A was delayed owing to fog at the Navy installation at Point Mugu, Calif., the control center for the range over which the vehicle was tested.
The B-52H finally lifted off from Edwards with the demonstrator and its Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) booster mounted under the port wing.
The flight crew, commanded by Maj. Andrew Murphy, was also dealing with the limitations of a minimum fuel load that was needed to lighten the bomber sufficiently to transport it to the launch point at 50,000 ft. "They had literally one shot to be on condition and pointed in the right direction to get the green light," says Lt. Col. Timothy Jorris, director of the 412 Test Wing, Hypersonics Combined Test Force.
On reaching the launch point south of the Channel Islands and northwest of San Nicholas island, the X-51A was dropped at Mach 0.8. The Atacms ignited and propelled the entire 25-ft.-long stack—including the booster, inter-stage and X-51A cruiser—for 29 sec. until it reached 63,000 ft. and Mach 4.9. The cruiser separated and coasted to Mach 4.8 before the scramjet was started using ethylene. The scramjet then transitioned to JP-7 hydrocarbon fuel, successfully overcoming the point at which the second flight failed in June 2011, when "we unstarted the engine and we lost control of inlet dynamics," says Brink. The X-51A flew for another 210 sec. under scramjet power, climbing to 64,000 ft. with a constant dynamic pressure (q) trajectory of 2,200-2,350 lb. per square foot. Peak acceleration was over 0.2g, notes Brink.
The vehicle accelerated to Mach 5.1 from Mach 4.8 and was still accelerating "when the tank ran dry," says Vogel. "We staged the fuel in flight and were halfway through the second staging and going well when we ran out of fuel," Brink adds. The initial start sequence involves spraying fuel toward the aft end of the combustor to ensure the shock train from the combusting fuel-air mix is not pushed out of the inlet, causing an "unstart." As the speed builds, the fuel is injected further forward to match the changing pressure profile in the inlet and to generate a greater rise in thrust. This had not been possible with the first flight, which was cut short when the vehicle suffered a nozzle leak 65 sec. into the flight.
With the May 1 flight, "we were able to not only have the initial spray sequence, but in flight but we saw signs of acceleration out of the vehicle when we staged it. That was to me the one little check-mark we didn't get out of the first flight," says Brink.
The X-51A was originally aimed at testing in excess of Mach 6, but none of them exceeded Mach 5.1. Brink says early in the flight-test program, "we had a real long discussion of flight time versus the Mach 6 number, and the consensus was it was more important to show we could control the engine acceleration and fly it on out, run it dry and control it at hypersonic speed. I'm not saying we shot for 5.1. We thought it might be in the mid-Mach 5 range, but we found changes to inlet geometry [which was changed to a stiffer columbium-based alloy] made the wedge much thicker. Plus there were changes to cowling to incorporate the fourth engine. So we knew we had added drag counts."
Following engine shutdown, the unpowered vehicle was commanded to perform various "parameter identification" maneuvers to characterize its aerodynamic handling and controllability. Three sets of data were collected at decreasing Mach numbers as part of evaluations which will help pave the way for future hypersonic testing and see "what it takes to contain and safely contain these vehicles," says Jorris. This testing takes place during the unpowered phase of the flight because "we understood the engine parameters. Now we have to understand the vehicle itself, so with the engine off we can isolate the pure aerodynamic phenomenon." The vehicle's response to specific pitch, roll and yaw inputs will be compared to pre-test predictions made by NASA Langley.
Testing was monitored until telemetry was lost at 20,000 ft., which was caused by loss-of-signal dropout between radar-tracking and telemetry-monitoring sites at Point Mugu and Vandenberg AFB. However a U.S. Navy NP-3D relay aircraft positioned down range was still receiving signals from the vehicle. "We believe we'll get more data all the way down to splashdown, but we still need to reduce that data," says Brink. "We got all the data we wanted—we were ecstatic with the results."


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An interesting trend is developing with some of the most noteworthy emerging markets ETFs this quarter. As Barron's reports, the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO) has lost $200 million in assets.
There is no need to cry for VWO. It is still the largest emerging markets ETF with $56 billion in assets. What makes the departure, albeit small, of assets from VWO is that the rival iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (NYSE: EEM) has picked up $2.2 billion in investor cash this quarter, Barron's reported, citing XTF.com data.
EEM long ago lost the title of largest emerging markets ETF to VWO based primarily on the expense ratios of the two funds. VWO charges just 0.2 percent per year while EEM charges 0.67 percent. So on a percentage for the quarter, EEM has added an impressive six percent to its assets under management total and the fund is now resting near $39 billion.
More impressive on a percentage basis has been another emerging markets ETF that is quickly becoming known for its asset-gathering acumen. That fund is the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Minimum Volatility Index Fund (NYSE: EEMV).
No, the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Minimum Volatility Index Fund cannot compete with EEM in dollar terms, but the former has added 10.2 percent to its AUM total since October 16. While EEMV is too large to accurately be deemed "anonymous" or "overlooked," it does not garner mainstream attention on par with that of EEM or VWO.
Arguably, that is problematic on some level EEMV has some secret weapons in its favor that may make the better bet than EEM or VWO. Namely, EEMV has sharply outperformed its larger rivals with an expense ratio of just 0.25 percent.
Said another way, by paying five extra basis points for EEMV over VWO, investors have been treated to nearly 600 basis points in additional alpha this year. EEMV also delivers on its low volatility promise. The ETF's year-to-date volatility is 15.5 percent compared to 19.9 percent for VWO and 20.4 percent for EEM.
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Patch 3.3 & Firefighter
As you probably know Patch 3.3 has hit the PTR, and we have a new set of patch notes and undocumented changes to look over. It's not surprising to me that the patch notes are fairly brief. Reportedly Patch 3.3 is the final chapter in Wrath of the Lich King and I would hope that they have the classes pretty much where they want them by now. That said there are a couple of things to discuss.
Icecrown Citadel - Obviously the new raid instance and 5man dungeon are the primary features of the new patch. Not much is known about the raid, but Blizzard has released some information regarding the 5man. You can find it here.
It sounds pretty cool from the limited information provided, but I do have one question. I really want to know how the fight against Arthas will play out at the end of Halls of Reflection. Obviously we can't kill him because that will be done in the raid, but I hope they have a better explanation than, "HoR was just a set back," like they did with Kael.
That said, I don't have a problem with them recycling bosses in this way as long as it fits the story, and provides a play opportunity that wasn't widely available before. To illustrate the difference, lets look at two examples.
Kael'thas is an example of good recycling. The Tempest Keep version of Kael is a very fun and difficult fight that few players saw let alone complete. Making a 5 man version of the fight made sense from a lore perspective because you made a strong boss weaker and therefore vulnerable to a 5man group. Plus, it allowed the majority of players that couldn't see him in the raid to get a taste of one of the best TBC fights. This one made sense from a lot of angles.
Anub'arak is an example of bad recycling. They took a heroic boss that a majority of raiders had already seen, scaled him up a bit and made him a raid boss with little explanation. This move didn't expose players to content they hadn't seen before because Anub'arak was already widely available, and from a lore perspective it feels like Blizzard thought, "We need someone to end the raid with. How about Anub?"
Hopefully the two versions of Arthas will be more like Kael and less like Anub.
Pet Avoidance - Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players. - Sounds like a PvE buff and PvP nerf. It makes sense to me. Raid Boss AoE hits a lot harder than player AoE. You want the pets to survive in raid, but to be killable by players. Its not that big of a deal but nice for us.
Nature's Grace - now procs from non-periodic spell criticals. (Old - All spell criticals) - I'm a little confused at what this means. When I first read it I thought it was a tool tip change so Blizzard won't get a lot of complaints about Moonfire DoT crits not procing Nature's Grace. Allison Roberts over at WoW.com thinks it will also prevent Hurricane and Starfall from procing Nature's Grace. (source MMO-Champion)
We will have to test it on the PTR, but I still think my original interpretation was correct. I just don't see why Hurricane and Starfall procing Nature's Grace would be a big deal. However, if Allison is correct its not a big deal. Nature's Grace will still be up 75-90% of the time.
EDIT: Erdluf, and the EJ forums make some good points I had forgotten. Hurricane doesn't proc Nature's Grace currently. The damage from Starfall has two pieces. The splash damage is AoE damage and does not currently proc NG. The damage from the stars is direct damage and should still be able to proc NG. Of course it will need to be tested to be 100% sure, but this is very likely just a tooltip change.
Genesis - now increases the damage and healing done by your periodic spell damage and healing effects. (Old - All periodic damage) - This really is a just tooltip change to clarify that this talent won't buff Feral DPS.
Mimiron hard mode is done.
I don't normally report on individual boss kills anymore, but this is one of the special ones that is likely to stand out for me. I love the fight but LoE's attempts on him were very frustrating. First off, we lost a lot of our core raiders right as we started doing him. This forced us to take a bit of a step back and not put as much time on him as I would like. It even lead to a misunderstanding that caused me to cuss out one of my guild leaders (sorry Sev). After we finally started to put some serious work into it our attempts always seemed to be one step forward and 2 steps back. Countless times we would have 5-10% enrage wipes and then not be able to get to phase 4 for 3 or 4 attempts in a row. It was very frustrating to constantly see such progress followed by such failure.
It really all goes back to my post about the Illusion of Success. Though we were getting to phase 4 every 4 or 5 attempts we were still having big issues with phase 3 and killing it fast enough. It took all of those failures to figure out how best to coordinate when and were to drop the head. In the end we killed him with only 30 minutes left in our raid, and it gave me that warm tingly feeling that only a few bosses can give.
Great job guys.
(Edited by Flamedor)
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- Kring said...
At the end of the 5 man, the lich king will morph into Mal'Ganis and port out. That would be something new and innovative. :-D
- October 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Actually, Hurricane crits already don't give NG. Neither do crits from Starfall 'splash' damage.
I certainly hope crits from the big Starfall stars keep proccing NG.
- October 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- lissanna said...
I'm still seeing NG procs with starfall on the PTR, SO it looks like just a tooltip clarification so people won't think moonfire & rejuv crits should proc it...
- October 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Is ArthAs.
But good points anyway :)
- October 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Actually the trees being able to die from player AOE is a huge issue, they'll be two shot.
- October 4, 2009 at 3:13 AM
- Lilly said...
GZ of Firefighter :) And I totally agree it's one of those few bosses that gives this good feeling nowadays. I was lucky enough to down him just before ToC hm hit ... and that's very fortunate since new hard modes letf us recently no time for Ulduar.
Anyway, since the race is generally over on my server (Anub down by the other polish guild and we just started learning him) we are taking it easy and coming back to Uldu to finish the dragon achi. Yesterday we killed Freya 3D (god, she is so easymode with ToC gear ... but actually it's good since most of our guild didn't have a chance to practice this encounter much). Hope we find some more time for Yogg+1 soonish.
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Dave Rose, Tiffara Steward win Most Courageous honors
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association named both men's and
women's winners of the Most Courageous Award for the first time
this season, with the men's honor going to Brigham Young coach Dave
Rose and the women's to Farmingdale State point guard Tiffara
Rose nearly lost his life last June to pancreatic cancer – a form of cancer that few beat – but was back on the recruiting circuit the following month and is back coaching a BYU team that had won all but one of its games through mid-January.
The 4-foot-6 Steward is believed to be the smallest player in college-basketball history. She was born three months premature, weighing just 2 1/2 pounds and measuring eight inches, and she underwent three surgeries by the time she was 3 years old. S he has been a starter and team captain the past two seasons at Farmingdale State, a Division III school on Long Island, N.Y., though she is blind in her right eye, has over a 50-percent hearing loss, has one leg that is shorter than the other and battles severe scoliosis.
After becoming severely ill while on a flight to Las Vegas for a family reunion, according to a story by Andy Katz on espn.com, Rose was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
When the plane landed, Rose was removed from by emergency medical personnel.
Rose was vomiting blood by the time he reached a Spring Valley area hospital. The tumor and lower part of his pancreas were removed during emergency surgery.
Rose met with his team a few days after being released from his six-day stay in the hospital, much skinnier and his hair turned gray.
His players fasted for one day, praying for their coach.
By July 22, Rose was even allowed to recruit in Las Vegas.
Rose was declared cancer-free last September, making him of the few to beat the deadly disease. He must continue to receive scans every six months for the next two years and, if he clears those, every year after that.
"I'm honored to be chosen," Rose said. "I feel extremely fortunate to overcome the situation I had this past summer. I'm so grateful to the staff at Spring Valley Hospital in Las Vegas and the Huntsman Medical Center in Salt Lake City for their care.
"There's so much uncertainty when cancer strikes. But, I had great family support and our players and coaches were unbelievable throughout this entire ordeal. This group of players will always be special to me."
Through mid-January, Rose's Cougars were 16-1 and had risen to No. 19 in the AP poll.
Steward's teammates didn't know she suffered from any disabilities until after she joined the team.
One of her corneas had never developed, leaving her blind in one eye.
Her left leg is shorter than her right.
Some vertebrae didn't develop.
She is missing a rib.
Steward also figured she was too short to play college basketball, according to a report by ABC News. She planned to study business at Syracuse. Then she got a call from the coaches at Farmingdale.
"The decision was kind of easy," she told ABC. "I get to go to school and basketball? And it was cheaper, too. I was like, 'Yeah, jackpot!'"
Steward also is the recipient of The V Foundation Comeback Award and the Women's Sports Foundation's Wilma Rudolph Courage Award.
"A disability shouldn't be able to stop you from doing what you like or you love or you just want to do," she said. "Either you can try it and hopefully succeed in it. I mean, if you don't, then try again."
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Almost one month after Reese Witherspoon's arrest for disorderly conduct in Atlanta (when she and her husband Jim Toth were pulled over on suspicion of DUI), the A-lister opted out of her brown bombshell hair color, swapping it for a lighter set of locks. She was only brunette in the first place for a role in her new movie, "The Good Lie."
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How Does The Penalty For 'Content Theft' Match Up With Similar 'Crimes'?
from the insanity-made-clear deptWe've discussed, for years, how copyright maximalists have continually played with and twisted the language to make infringement sound much, much worse. For years, of course, they liked to just call it "piracy," though in the last few years, they've sometimes shied away from that word, complaining that it made it seem glamorous. More recently, it seems they've been focused on calling it "content theft," somehow believing that that's more likely to get a reaction.
Of course, as we've also pointed out time and time again copying is not theft, and the two are exceptionally different:
Under the "theft" conception of copyright law, what, exactly, is the deprivation when someone makes illegal copies? It really boils down to just one thing: money. Copyright infringement – renamed copyright theft — deprives the copyright holder of some of his or her expected profit from exploiting the copyright.Okay, so if we grant them their premise, and then compare it to similar cases where people don't pay the requested fee, but still get the "benefit," then what is the punishment in those other cases? Bridges notices that there appears to be one... um... outlier in the group:
What are other, similar kinds of "theft" by depriving someone of expected money? Failure of a tenant to pay the agreed rent to a landlord is one. Parking in a parking space without putting money in the meter is another. Jumping the turnstile to ride on a subway without paying the fare is a third. (And, of course, failure of a studio or record label to pay artists or actors the promised contractual royalties for their work on a record or film is a fourth. But something tells me the studios and labels sponsoring the current bills won't go near that topic. The bills don't include rogue studios and labels in their scope.)
How do the civil damages or penalties for the different types of such "theft" compare? Failure to pay expected money under a contract doesn't trigger a penalty: contract law usually says that a party can recover the money she expected but not punitive damages or attorneys fees (unless parties have specifically bargained to pay attorneys fees for a breach). Failure to pay rent usually requires payment of rent to cure the default. Failure to put money in the parking meter prompts a ticket for $60. In New York City, failure to pay the $2.50 subway fare results in a maximum fine of $100.What if we work backwards, and see how the law might punish those other, similar, infractions with a damages system similar to copyright:
Copyright "theft" is a very different story. Copyright infringement statutory damages in civil litigation can be as high as $150,000 for infringement of a single work. Yes, a single work such as a single song with an iTunes download value of $1. A copyright holder can claim such statutory damages without needing to prove a single penny of damage or loss. Think such sky-high damages aren't realistic? Think again. In the RIAA's case against single mother Jammie Thomas, a jury awarded $1,500,000 for the download of 24 songs, with no proof that she had transmitted songs to others. The federal judge thought that was ridiculous and reduced the total award to $54,000 – and the RIAA and MPAA are now arguing strenuously on appeal that the jury verdict should return to the original figure, $62,500 per downloaded song.
If we take copyright law's maximum-penalty-to-price ratio as applied to an illegal download, and apply that same penalty-to-price ratio to the New York subway, the maximum penalty for jumping that turnstile and avoiding the $2.50 fare would be $375,000 instead of $100. Copyright industries are on to a really good thing under current law. One could say it's a steal.And yet the industry claims that copyright laws are too weak currently? That seems difficult to square with reality.
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WASHINGTON — The Afghanistan war can be won without Pakistan's army moving against militants in North Waziristan, the No. 2 American general for the war effort said Tuesday. The comment by Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez publicly signaled that the United States is resigned to the idea that Islamabad will not take on that terrorist haven militarily.
Rodriguez stopped short of recommending more U.S. strikes in the border region, which has been under assault from a well-known but unacknowledged U.S. bombing campaign carried out largely by CIA drones. He agreed, however, that there would have to be "some plan, some way, and some effect to decrease the impact of the safe haven," including greater efforts by the U.S. and Afghans on the Afghanistan side of the border.Story: Bomber kills Kandahar deputy governor
The United States has pressed Pakistan repeatedly to mount an offensive in North Waziristan, a region that Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called the "epicenter of terrorism" where militants gather to plan attacks that they then carry out across the border in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden and his principal leaders are believed to be hiding in that region.
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The father of Pacific castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga said he was told his long-lost son vanished on a fishing trip but he didn't have the heart to break the news to his ailing wife.
'Doable without' Pakistan
We need them to do more, we're going to encourage them to do more," Rodriguez said, speaking about Pakistan. "But I think it's still doable without them decreasing what they've being doing the past year, which is significant." He said if Pakistan goes "into every place but North Waziristan, that would be significant and really helpful to us."
Pakistan's leaders have repeatedly insisted that their military is stretched thin by its operations against militants in other border regions as well as continuing flood relief efforts and a long-standing presence along the border with India.
Speaking to Pentagon reporters, Rodriguez said U.S., Afghan and Pakistani forces must continue to coordinate attacks against militants along the border, as broader efforts continue to secure major provinces around the country, and turn security over to the Afghanistan forces.
He predicted that Taliban fighters will attempt in coming months to reassert themselves by focusing more on assassinating Afghan political leaders in order to undermine support for the government.PhotoBlog: A bird's eye view of southern Afghanistan
He said he believes that after a winter lull, the Taliban will bring on a new strategy in the spring that probably will include what he called assassination hit teams. Similar efforts in the past, he said, focused on Afghans or lower rank-and-file militants who are now working with the Americans.
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"There's a hierarchy of the most committed to the least committed," said Rodriguez, "and they have been going after the people who were part of their efforts before, but who are on the lower scale, who are trying to turn over and support their government."
President Barack Obama last year ordered a buildup of U.S. troops with the promise that they would start leaving the country in July.
Defense officials have been careful not to say how many forces can be pulled out, or provide any timeline, saying it will be based on conditions in Afghanistan.
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Climate conflict: Warmer world could be more violent
Using data from nine East African countries, researchers found that warmer temperatures triggered more conflicts.
If climate change predictions turn out to be true, some parts of the world could become more violent, according to a new study released today.
"The relationship between temperature and conflict shows that much warmer-than-normal temperatures raise the risk of violence," the authors write in the study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study was led by John O'Loughlin, a professor of geography at the University of Colorado. It was done in concert with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
This study is not trying to draw parallels to how violence escalates in some urban areas in the summer due to heat, reports O'Loughlin. This is about how warmer temperatures cause stresses on crops and grasslands, forcing people to fight with their neighbors for food and other resources.
O'Loughlin and his team examined the influence of temperature and precipitation on the risk of violent conflict in nine East African countries between 1990 and 2009, and found that increased precipitation dampened the risk of violence, whereas very hot temperatures raised it.
As precipitation increases, then the conflict risk goes down dramatically, the study found, as there is more rain for the crops and grasslands.
The nine countries studied were all in the horn of Africa: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. Data was used involving a total of 16,000 conflicts in those countries.
O'Loughlin acknowledges that social, economic and political factors all play a huge role as well, of course, and that much more research into the subject will be necessary. "Sweeping generalizations have undermined a genuine understanding of any climate–conflict link," he notes in the study.
His team is already working on studying how climate affects violence in all of sub-Saharan Africa.
O'Loughlin says that "we should expect to see more of these kinds of wars, with climate as the triggering factor."


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Ways to Stretch Your Gluten-Free Food Budget
Chances are good that you don't have a limitless food budget, and you may be shocked at the cost of gluten-free groceries when you set out on your first solo trip to the grocery store, especially if you plan to purchase specialty gluten-free items such as bread and crackers. Here are some tips for wise spending when shopping for gluten-free groceries:
Plan your meals for the week before you go. Know what you need and use what you buy. This tip alone can save you a bundle!
Pair recipes that use similar ingredients. If using half a chicken or half a jar of pasta sauce, find a recipe that calls for the rest of that ingredient tomorrow.
Reclaim food that's a little past its prime. For example, turn stale gluten-free crackers and bread into something else:
Make croutons by buttering the bread, cutting it into cubes, and broiling it until it's very crispy. Store the croutons in the freezer and throw them in a salad anytime.
Pulverize the bread in a blender or food processor to make breadcrumbs to use as coatings, fillers in meatballs or meatloaf, or casserole toppings. Add extra seasoning for Italian or Cajun versions.
Use cracker crumbs as a coating for baked or fried chicken or pork chops.
Buy naturally gluten-free foods. Buy things that don't have a label listing a ton of ingredients. Think fresh meats, dairy, fruit and veggies, and eggs.
Buy national brands. A food doesn't need to be a specialty product to be gluten-free. Some examples of foods that are gluten-free and may not be labeled as such are tortilla chips, potato chips, popcorn, corn tortillas, many mainstream soups and sauces, hot dogs, and more.
A quick search on company websites or a good gluten-free shopping guide or app can point you to gluten-free products. Among the large companies that offer gluten-free options — and that issue coupons — are Betty Crocker, Boar's Head, General Mills, Zatarains, Kraft, Frito Lay, Chex Cereals, Progresso, and Heinz.
Become a fan. Many companies let you in on special deals and coupons if you're their fan on Facebook.
Use grocery store and grocery website loyalty programs. Join the store or site program for coupons, specials, and free shipping.
Use daily deal sites. Buy discounted vouchers for gluten-free food through Groupon-like sites such as http://glutenfreedeals.com and www.glutenfreesaver.com.
Explore ethnic groceries. Some people swear by Asian stores for cheap rice and rice noodles.
Buy nonfood items at nonfood stores. Save a bundle by getting things like shampoo, cleaning supplies, makeup, and toothpaste at a discount store like Target or Walmart or even a dollar store instead of the grocery store, where prices for these items are probably higher.


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Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century (2010)Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
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U.S. farmers are under pressure to satisfy multiple demands, such as to produce more crops, pollute less, fulfill consumer preferences, pay fair wages, and make a living—all with increasingly scarce natural resources such as land and water. To evolve farming systems that meet all of these demands, national agricultural policy, research programs, and food markets need to shift away from emphasizing low costs and high production exclusively and develop a more holistic perspective of how farms provide benefits to society. This report recommends reaching this goal through two parallel efforts: an incremental approach, in which the development of sustainable agricultural techniques will be continued and expanded; and a transformative approach, in which multiple research areas will be brought together to design farming systems that balance the competing demands from the outset.
USDA science agencies recently joined the National Research Council, Farm Foundation, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, and Organic Farming Research Foundation in a symposium to discuss implementing the recommendations of the report. Slide presentations and audio recordings are available here.
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- Although market, policy, and other institutional contexts are important drivers of U.S. agriculture, the decisions made by individual farmers about which farming techniques to use are complex. Efforts to promote adoption of farming practices and systems to improve sustainability will require a better understanding of how new approaches address the specific goals and objectives of diverse farm operators.
- Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa face very different challenges than farmers in the United States, but despite these differences, the concepts of sustainability and broad approaches presented in this report are relevant to farms in sub-Saharan Africa. The committee offers several recommendations for strategic planning that could allow Africa to reduce or avoid many of the difficulties the United States has faced in meeting the sustainability goals by selecting from the suite of successful and promising integrative approaches.
- On-farm experimentation has inspired much of the innovative practices and approaches for improving sustainability. The report recommends "participatory research," in which farmers work with scientists in development, extension, and outreach processes to identify effective new farming methods and to encourage the adoption of those methods.
- Over the last two decades, research has led to the development and adoption of many agricultural practices designed to improve various aspects of sustainability. Progress made so far has not been enough to meet all the multiple challenges simultaneously, in part because not all farmers have adopted the best practices identified by researchers, and in part because most research has focused on relatively narrow goals, with less emphasis on understanding how all the components of a farming system relate to each other.
- Progress on some aspects of sustainability requires moving beyond the field- or farm-level and has to be addressed at the landscape level. For example, managing nutrient runoff from agriculture involves addressing the collective actions of multiple farms in a watershed. New research suggests that the distribution of farm types and activities across whole landscapes could be better designed to achieve improved sustainability on local and regional scales.
- The incremental approach expands and enhances ongoing efforts to improve sustainability on all farms, irrespective of size or farm type. The goal is to identify and develop farming techniques that can improve specific aspects of sustainability, such as new strategies for water conservation, pest management, and novel marketing approaches for increasing farm income, and to accelerate their adoption.
- The report's authoring committee defined sustainability not as any particular end state. Rather, it should be evaluated on the basis of progress towards four goals: (1) producing enough to satisfy human needs; (2) enhancing environmental quality and protecting the natural resource base; (3) being profitable; and (4) increasing the quality of life for farmers, farm workers, and society as a whole. Farm systems also must be flexible enough to adapt to natural and economic stresses as they strive towards the four goals.
- The transformative approach seeks to design farming systems that balance the four goals of sustainability from the outset. These systems might depart significantly from the present-day mainstream of agricultural production in United States, and would require new thinking about farming practices and the natural environment, food markets, and communities in which they are embedded. Multidisciplinary research on aspects of these novel farm systems would be needed to develop a knowledge base to inform future policies and practices.
- To ensure continuous improvement in sustainability of U.S. agriculture, the committee concluded that two parallel and overlapping approaches are needed to improve the overall performance of farms: the incremental approach, and the transformative approach.
- With global populations rising rapidly, U.S. agriculture faces the challenge of producing enough food, feed, and fiber to meet increasing demand in conditions of changing climate and scarce natural resources. Innovative policies and new farming approaches based on a strong scientific foundation are needed to tackle the challenge of increasing production while also meeting environmental, economic, and social goals.


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BRUNSWICK, Maine – A three-goal first period would prove to be the deciding factor as the Polar Bears of Bowdoin College defeated women's hockey by the final of 4-1 Tuesday evening at Watson Arena in a non-conference match-up.
Tuesday's loss dropped the Beacons to 2-4-1 on the season, while the Polar Bears improved to 1-1-0 overall.
Bowdoin got on the scoreboard at the 8:30 mark of the opening period when Mallory Andrews drove home her first goal of the 2012-13 season. Schuyler Nardelli and Ariana Bourge would then make it a three-goal affair as the duo each netted their first goals of the season in the final two minutes of the first period.
After the intermission, Emily Howard (Terryville, Conn.) got the Beacons on the board when she drove home her first power-play tally of the season at the 16:55 mark. Bowdoin responded right back with their fourth goal just over two minutes later to clinch the non-conference win.
Assisting on Karils' goal was Emily LaRosa (Weymouth, Mass.), her first helper of the year. On the day the Beacons total 17 shots, while the host Polar Bears managed a combined 38. Freshman netminder Casey Schaejbe (Arlington, Mass.) made a total of 34 stops for the Beacons, while Tara Connlly combined for 16 saves to earn her first win of the season.
Each team posted a power-play goal in Tuesday's contest, with the Polar Bears finished 1-for-4, while UMB went 1-for-5 overall.
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One senator's climb to 51 votes
For weeks, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's staff has been keeping a large whiteboard whip chart to tally her uphill fight for a military sexual assault measure.
On Friday, her staff made a big change to the chart – and to Gillibrand's momentum: They moved Sen. Rand Paul's name from the "maybe" category into the "yes" column.
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It was a celebratory moment for the New York Democrat in her quest to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command — inching her even closer to the 51 votes she believes she needs to force the biggest change to the modern-day military justice system since its creation in 1950.
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"My goal is to physically approach everyone," Gillibrand said of her strategy in a recent interview with POLITICO. According to the whiteboard hanging in her office, adding Paul gets her within 10 votes of a simple majority.
But the New York Democrat's climb remains steep: She's facing down the full force of the Pentagon's lobbying machine, a Republican-controlled House cool to her idea and a rival bill backed by fellow Democratic Sens. Carl Levin and Claire McCaskill that aims to stamp out military sexual assault without disrupting the chain of command.
Despite media attention to the role that the Senate's women members have played in pushing the issue, McCaskill's effort has proven to be one of the toughest obstacles to Gillibrand's approach. And McCaskill brings a lot of credibility to fight, from her years as a prosecutor handling civilian sexual assault cases in Kansas City.
( Also on POLITICO: Paul, Cruz join Gillibrand push)
Normally that would add up to a looming defeat for Gillibrand, but this fight is unusual for a Senate that often splits on party lines — with Republicans and Democrats and men and women splintered on each side of the issue, creating unusual battle lines and an unpredictable outcome.
And with the added support from tea party favorites like Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who supported Gillibrand's proposal last month during committee action, there's reason to think Gillibrand could yet score an upset victory in the Senate.
As for winning over Paul, that took a bit of work. Gillibrand approached the Kentucky Republican on the Senate floor in July but he was not yet convinced that the Pentagon's current command structure was doing such a bad job.
"Part of me is persuaded by the ideas that maybe people knowing each other too well in the chain of command can make the arguments less objective," Paul said in an interview a few days after first meeting with Gillibrand. "I'm a big believer in fairness and making sure justice comes of it."
But the Kentucky Republican said he wasn't sure where he'd fall after reading an article in The Wall Street Journal showcasing just how difficult it can be to secure convictions.
"I'm also conscious of he said, she said stuff," Paul said. "It's not always easy to make these decisions. So I don't know. I'm thinking about it. I haven't made a complete decision about it."
Gillibrand didn't seal the deal until last Thursday after meeting with Paul and agreeing to some language tweaks that made it clear which military crimes would still be dealt with inside the command chain, including going AWOL and disobeying orders.
"Sen. Paul believes that the vast majority of our service members are honorable and upstanding individuals. In the instance when one is accused of a serious crime, especially one of harassment or assault, the allegation needs to be taken seriously and conflicts of interest should not impact whether a crime is prosecuted properly," Paul spokeswoman Moira Bagley wrote in an email.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee easily defeated Gillibrand's amendment in June, but she believes it will fare better with the full Senate since lawmakers not on the committee might not share some of the same allegiances with the Defense Department.
"Our carefully crafted common sense proposal written in direct response to the experiences of those who have gone through a system rife with bias and conflict of interest is not a Democratic or Republican idea — – it is just the right idea," Gillibrand plans to say Tuesday at a press conference welcoming Paul to her camp.
The New York Democrat will highlight the "strong and growing bipartisan coalition" to remove the command chain from prosecutions involving military crimes punishable by more than one year of confinement.
Her early targets for the floor included fiscal conservatives like Paul and Cruz, Republicans who have created problems for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the past and could again pressure the rank-and-file members of the GOP conference. Plus, Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Johanns of Nebraska and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are already on board.
Gillibrand has also shored herself up on the far left, picking up backing from the likes of Sen. Barbara Boxer and Chuck Schumer, who could protect her left flank against Armed Services Committee veterans like Levin and McCaskill.
Gillibrand's push now is to secure about 10 more votes. She's keeping to the same pitch that has worked so far, arguing case commanders aren't doing enough to protect male and female service members from sexual assaults and they're not encouraging victims to come forward to report incidents.
She's also casting doubt on military leaders who have promised "zero tolerance" after other sexual assault scandals rocked their respective branches, starting with the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas involving Navy and Marine Corps officers who allegedly assaulted more than 80 women and seven men.
Democratic aides also pointed out the political peril that comes with tagging Gillibrand's opponents — from either party — as part of the "hormone caucus." That's a reference to Georgia GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss's attribution of the assault problem to young men who can't control their impulses.
"Especially with some of the Republicans seeing what happened to Todd Akin, people will be running scared on this," said a Senate Democratic aide working on defense issues, referring to the 2012 Missouri GOP Senate candidate whose campaign sank after he said women rarely get pregnant from "legitimate rape."
Of Gillibrand's bill, the aide added: "I think it could go well north of 51."
But plenty of other senators are staying away.
McCaskill argued that the Senate could still accept an alternative plan that she worked on with Levin, though she acknowledged it has been a tough sell among some of her own colleagues who are confused about who's on what side of the issue.


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Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC Corp (宏達電) could consider a merger with Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment maker Huawei (華為) to survive in the competitive smartphone market, JPMorgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Ltd said yesterday.
"With a hero product [the new HTC One] unable to turn its prospects around, the other game changer could be a merger," JP Morgan analyst Alvin Kwock (郭彥麟) said in a report.
Kwock said a combination of the expertise of Huawei and HTC could create huge synergies, especially for Taoyuan-based HTC, because it would lift HTC's ranking in the smartphone market from the 13th-largest smartphone maker as of the last quarter to the fourth-largest with Huawei.
According to Gartner Inc, Huawei had grabbed nearly 3 percent of global smartphone market share by the end of the first quarter of the year as the world's sixth-largest mobile phone brand, following Samsung Electronics Co's 23.6 percent, Nokia Oyj's 14.8 percent, Apple Inc's 9 percent, LG Electronics Inc's 3.7 percent and ZTE Corp's (中興) 3.4 percent.
Holding less than 2 percent of market share, HTC has been struggling to make a comeback in the Android smartphone market after Samsung adopted aggressive marketing strategies and claimed nearly a quarter of global market share.
"Combining Huawei's China expertise with a brand that has a superior product and consumer experience could boost future growth for the company by bringing complementary expertise in-house," Kwock said.
As Huawei lacks a major consumer brand, but has a large home market, HTC might find it profitable to team up with Huawei because it has excellent products but lacks the right market with a strong demand for high-end smartphones, Kwock said.
Citing HTC's second-quarter operating margin of 1.5 percent, which missed a consensus of between 2.5 percent and 3 percent by brokerages, Kwock said "there is very limited opportunity for HTC to match Samsung's Galaxy S4 price cuts," forecasting that the Taiwanese smartphone vendor, at best, would report flattish sales results for the current quarter.
"We like the new HTC One, but find it hard to find reasons to get involved with the stock as an investment at this time," Kwock said.
JPMorgan reduced its rating for HTC's shares to "underweight" from "overweight," and cut its target price to NT$100 from NT$390 which the brokerage offered on April 13.
HTC's shares closed down 1.03 percent at NT$191.5 in Taipei trading yesterday, underperforming the benchmark TAIEX market, which advanced 0.5 percent.
To boost sales during the second half of the year, HTC yesterday launched a red version of its new One flagship model with Taiwan's third-largest telecoms operator, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co (遠傳電信).
"The new HTC One, with its three different colored metal casings, will become the most beautiful 'mobile scenery' in their daily life," said Jack Tong (董俊良), president of the company's North Asia-Pacific region.
Samsung cut the selling price for its flagship Galaxy S4 model by more than 20 percent within three months of the product's launch in major markets like the US, the UK, India and Hong Kong, but HTC may not be able follow suit because there is limited room for the company to weather price drops with such a low quarterly operating margin, Kwock said.
He admitted that the brokerage had overestimated the One's power for HTC to make a "mini-turnaround" in the short term after the model received widespread positive market reaction.


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British rocker Chris Martin has spoken candidly about his split from Hollywood superstar Gwyneth Paltrow, describing the delicate personal issues which drove the couple apart.
The celebrity couple confirmed they had separated in March, with Paltrow branding the split "conscious uncoupling", and the Coldplay star has now revealed he struggled to "let love in" and "wasn't completely vulnerable", which "caused some problems".
In a frank interview with Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, Martin was asked about the breakdown of his marriage, and he replied, "I wouldn't use the word breakdown, this was more a realisation about trying to grow up, basically… If you can't open yourself up, you can't appreciate the wonder inside. So you can be with someone very wonderful, but because of your own issues you cannot let that be celebrated in the right way…
"What changed for me was – I don't want to go through life being scared of it, being scared of love, being scared of rejection, being scared of failure… Up to a certain point in my life I wasn't completely vulnerable and it caused some problems. If you don't let love really in then you can't really give it back."
Martin also reveals he has been struggling both personally and professionally over the last few years: "About two years ago I was a mess really because I can't enjoy the thing that we are good at (the band) and I can't enjoy the great things around me because I'm burdened by this. I've got to not blame anyone else and make some changes."
However, the singer insists the band's new album, Ghost Stories, allowed him to be honest about his personal issues using music as an outlet, adding, "What Ghost Story means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point… I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way. I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids, or illness. You have to really not run away from that stuff. Life throws these colorful challenges at you; what we decided to do on Ghost Stories was to really be honest about it and say, this is what's been happening."
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British rocker Chris Martin has spoken candidly about his split from Hollywood superstar Gwyneth Paltrow, describing the delicate personal issues which drove the couple apart.


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Playing a day after learning that its coach, Mark Kessler, was fired for undisclosed reasons, the San Ramon Valley High football team advanced to the second round of the North Coast Section Division I playoffs Saturday with a 42-24 win over San Leandro at Burrell Field.
Kessler was replaced by Wolves offensive coordinator Aaron Becker, who served as interim coach for the game against 11th-seeded San Leandro (6-5).
In the game, Matt Winaker's 70-yard touchdown pass to Wade Wilson to begin the second half broke a 21-21 tie and sent the visiting Wolves on the path to victory. The play was one of five touchdown passes thrown by Winaker, who finished with 324 yards through the air.
Marcus de la Peña was the main force on the ground for the Wolves (7-4) with 96 yards rushing and one touchdown.
The No. 6-seeded Wolves (7-4) will play at No. 3 California in the quarterfinals next Saturday. San Ramon Valley finished second to California in the East Bay Athletic League this season with a 5-1 record.
"They had some ups and downs in the game, but they competed, they competed hard," Becker said. "They wanted to play one more week, and now they get that opportunity."
San Ramon Valley players learned of the coaching change during a team meeting Friday after school, sources said. No further details or reasons for Kessler's dismissal were available as of Saturday evening. Reached at Saturday's game, San Ramon Valley athletic director John Raynor would not comment further on the firing.
Kessler did not return a message seeking comment. A post Saturday from his Twitter account read, "Go Wolves, adversity is like the wind, sometimes in your face, and sometimes at your back: but always blowing!"
San Leandro (6-5) tried to take control early on its home field as a 2-yard run by O'Brien Younger gave the Pirates a 7-0 lead with 3:30 seconds left in the first quarter. But the Wolves always had an answer.
De la Peña's 1-yard run tied the game with 41 second left in the quarter. Each team added two more touchdowns in the second quarter, though the Wolves never led until Winaker connected with Wilson on the first scrimmage play of the second half.
"We just did what we did all season," Winaker said, "That's rally together as a group and keep fighting through adversity."
Stephen Johnson threw for 186 yards for San Leandro, but was hurt late in the first half and played only on his team's first offensive series in the second.
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With the climate changing and the world's population expected to rise in the coming decades, supplying a hungry planet with food and fiber will become more of a challenge. By some estimates, food production will have to increase by up to 70 percent to feed the world over the next 40 years. Perhaps no resource is more critical to meeting that challenge than water.
How essential is water to agriculture? An estimated 17 percent of all harvested U.S. cropland is irrigated, accounting for about 56.6 million acres. Worldwide, more than 40 percent of the world's food is grown on irrigated land, including the majority of high-market-value crops, such as fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
There is no doubt that drought is a continuing threat. At the peak of last summer's record drought, more than 2,255 counties in 39 states were declared disaster areas, prompting U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to make $30 million in emergency funds available to struggling crop and livestock producers. By some estimates, the drought affected more than three-quarters of the nation's corn and soybean crops. Economic losses are shared by livestock producers, who are forced to pay more for feed made with corn and other grains.
At the Agricultural Research Service, our drought-related research is based on the belief that if we understand the effects of drought on crops and habitats, we will be better equipped to address them. This issue highlights some of that research. There is an article in this issue, "Irrigation Wastewater: Waste Not, Want Not," about research at the ARS Water Reuse and Remediation Research Unit in Riverside, California, to help growers tap into irrigation water that drains off crop fields in California's San Joaquin Valley and reuse it to grow forage for livestock.
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ARS scientists are also using molecular tools at more than a dozen locations to identify genes in cotton, soybeans, wheat, and other crops that play key roles in determining drought tolerance. Their approaches range from using high-throughput phenotyping under drought conditions to DNA marker-assisted breeding techniques. Using molecular tools, researchers at the ARS Coastal Plains Soil, Water, and Plant Research Center in Florence, South Carolina, have discovered a family of genes in cotton that code for aquaporin proteins that function in plants as water-transport systems. Along with others discovered by the group, these genes are good candidates for improving cotton water-use efficiency.
ARS researchers in Ithaca, New York; College Station, Texas; and other locations are scanning the genomes of corn, wheat, and other crops, searching for genes that will prove useful in developing varieties with deeper roots and other traits that will help them grow with less water and under higher temperatures. At the ARS Soybean and Nitrogen Fixation Research Laboratory in Raleigh, North Carolina, scientists have developed and released the first-ever drought-tolerant soybean, which carries a gene that allows it to wilt more slowly than a normal soybean. Under drought conditions, slow-wilting types yield about 4 to 8 bushels per acre more than normal varieties and also show good yield potential when rain falls.
After many years of exploiting existing diversity within the genus Phaseolus (beans), ARS researchers in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, have been able to combine genes for resistance to heat, drought, and disease and have released two high-yielding, stress-tolerant black bean varieties; two heat-tolerant kidney bean lines; and rust-resistant, heat-tolerant common bean lines.
Many experts say the 2012 drought was a harbinger of future problems and should be considered a call to action. Drought is expected to become more common, forcing farmers and ranchers to spend more time, energy, and resources trying to raise crops and livestock on drier soils with less water. Our goal is to help growers maximize the potential of every drop of water available so that they can continue to produce the kind of bounty we have come to expect in our supermarkets and neighborhood stores.
Mark Walbridge
ARS National Program Leader
Water Quality and Management
Beltsville, Maryland
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