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Thriving food services and a shift to a more protein-based diet contribute to the high demand for Australian red meat in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines Australia, the largest exporter of red meat to the country, sees the Philippines as a prominent market in Southeast Asia despite an anticipated slowdown in global exports of Australian red meat this year as farmers rebuild their herd.
The thriving food service scene in the Philippines and the shift to a more protein-based, rather than a starch-based, diet as purchasing power rises, are expected to keep demand high, the Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) said in a news briefing Thursday, February 12.
The MLA is an organization that provides marketing and research and development services for Australia's cattle, sheep, and goat producers
The enforcement of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) in 2015 that eventually lowered to zero tariffs on beef and lamb exports is also contributing to sustained high demand for Australian red meat in the country.
Fast urbanization and expansion of the financially-empowered middle class is also fueling protein consumption, MLA noted.
High demand for red meat
More local restaurants are now offering a wide range of meat options, taking advantage of Australias capacity to supply red meat for every type of requirement from restaurant grade cuts, to hamburger patties and corned beef for manufacturing companies, MLA country manager Peter Paul Perez said.
Although price remains a main consideration for Filipinos, consumers are also placing emphasis on quality. Perez noted that Australian beef is well known from its traceability traits. Traceability is an instrument to assure food quality, particularly safety, in agri-food chains worldwide.
The industry also remains free from animal diseases.
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Red Rocks head to Seattle to continue undefeated season
By Holli Joyce
February 13th, 2015 @ 2:01pm
SALT LAKE CITYThe third-ranked Utah gymnastics team heads to the Pacific Northwest on Saturday to compete against 17th-ranked Washington. While the Utes are 47-0-2 all-time against the Huskies and 12-0-2 in Seattle, the Red Rocks arent focusing on their past domination.
Its another good test for us on the road, said co-head coach Megan Marsden. Washington is an improved team this year and I think it will take a really good meet by us. Im sure they will come guns blazing.
The two ties in the series occurred at the Alaska Airlines Arena, the most recent being the last time Utah (7-0, 3-0 Pac-12) competed in Seattle during the 2012-2013 season. Washingtons (5-3, 1-2 Pac-12) final gymnast on floor, Aliza Vaccher, received a 9.925 for the tie. In 2001, the last Husky needed a 10.0 and got it.
A tie is not what the Utes are looking for this weekend. The team seeks to continue their undefeated season but knows Washington will provide a competitive meet.
"It's another good test for us on the road," said co-head coach. Washington is an improved team this year and I think it will take a really good meet by us. I'm sure they will come guns blazing." -Megan Marsden
If we have to count a fall somewhere, I think it could be tough, Marsden said.
In routines without a fall, Utah is 117-120. The team hasn't had a fall in the last two meets and has yet to have one count. Eight gymnasts have hit every routine Wilson (20-20), Dabritz (19-19), Kari Lee (13-13), Breanna Hughes (8-8), Tiffani Lewis (7-7), Kailah Delaney (6-6), Kassandra Lopez (5-5) and Maddy Stover (5-5).
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FAYETTEVILLE -- A proposed red dirt pit won't be opened west of Fayetteville after the Washington County Quorum Court's vote Thursday.
The Quorum Court denied an appeal from Benny Holtzclaw and his associates, who want to mine red dirt used for road and building construction off of Harmon Road west of Fayetteville. County planners denied the preliminary permit for the project in November.
Only Joe Patterson, Republican of District 5 in the county's northeast, voted for the project. Joel Maxwell, Republican of Siloam Springs, abstained.
About 50 people living near the project's intended site attended the meeting, most of them opposed to the project. The back-and-forth last four hours and pitted property rights against public safety.
Holtzclaw, who heads Holtzclaw Excavating, said he intends to flatten a 9-acre hill of the dirt on land owned by Mark Rich. The site is less than a mile north of West Wedington Drive. The project would improve the land and fulfill a growing need for red dirt in the area, he and his supporters said.
"You guys are sitting on our red dirt right now," Holtzclaw said, referring to the county courthouse. "There's just a great need for this."
Planners denied the permit last year for a variety of reasons, including safety and compatibility with the surrounding area. The planners and opponents took particular issue with the private road that would be used by the trucks carrying away the dirt. It intersects with Harmon just north of a curve that would prevent the trucks and northbound traffic from seeing each other at a safe distance, they said.
Many worried this blindness could prove fatal for teens, school bus drivers and others coming down the 45-mph zone, which also slopes downward toward the intersection in question.
"Ninety percent of the people here tonight have no objection to Mark Rich mining his land," said Dick Johnson, who said he has lived nearby for 40 years. "We don't complain about much. We just want our people safe."
Mike Kelly, an engineer working for Holtzclaw, said the road's speed limit should be lowered because of its slope and shape, which would make the intersection safer. Several other dirt pits and a rock quarry sit within a short distance as well, he said.
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Story highlights The current drought is bad, but it's no megadrought NASA: If greenhouse gas emissions don't drastically drop, the nation's West faces droughts that could last decades
No precedent even in the past 1,000 years.
The feared droughts would cover most of the western half of the United States -- the Central Plains and the Southwest.
Those regions have suffered severe drought in recent years. But it doesn't compare in the slightest to the 'megadroughts' likely to hit them before the century is over due to global warming.
These will be epochal, worthy of a chapter in Earth's natural history.
Even if emissions drop moderately, droughts in those regions will get much worse than they are now, NASA said.
The space agency's study conjures visions of the sun scorching cracked earth that is baked dry of moisture for feet below the surface, across vast landscapes, for decades. Great lake reservoirs could dwindle to ponds, leaving cities to ration water to residents who haven't fled east.
"Our projections for what we are seeing is that, with climate change, many of these types of droughts will likely last for 20, 30, even 40 years," said NASA climate scientist Ben Cook.
That's worse and longer than the historic Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when "black blizzards" -- towering, blustery dust walls -- buried Southern Plains homes, buggies and barns in dirt dunes.
The Dust Bowl drought in the 1930s: Dust blows up dunes at Oklahoma farm.
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When it's finished, NASA's new rocket will be a beast. Taller than the Statue of Liberty, with the same amount of thrust as 13,400 locomotive engines and able to carry 154,000 pounds of payload, the same, as the space agency points out, as 12 elephants.
In an effort to show the progress of the new rocket, called the Space Launch System, NASA released a video showing crews building the rocket. And it also added a scene from a 2011 test of one of the three boosters giving an impressive display of its fire power at a Utah test range. Laying on its side, the rocket ignited with a concussive blast, then blasted a gush of fire out its tail at Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound. The great plume of smoke could be seen for miles.
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NASA tests what it says are the most powerful solid rocket boosters ever built, which will be necessary for future missions to asteroids and to Mars on NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). (NASA's Marshall Center via YouTube)
Officials intend to use SLS to launch the new Orion space capsule on deep space missions, including to Mars. Orion recently went through an important test--flying on an unmanned 41/2-hour mission that sent a spacecraft designed for humans farther than any has gone in more than 40 years.
But while NASA heralds the SLS as the "world's most powerful rocket," it also has some powerful critics. Members of Congress have taken aim at the program, which is still in development and isnt expected to have its first test flight for another several years. (The recent Orion mission was aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket built by the United Launch Alliance.)
After its first test flight in 2018 originally planned for 2017 but delayed because of funding issues SLS is then expected to perform its first manned flight in 2021.
But after that flight, future mission destinations remain uncertain, the GAO has said.
And at a recent Congressional hearing, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said it could cost at least $10billion to develop this monstrous rocket project and called it a mistake.
Marco Caceres, a senior space analyst with the Teal Group, has also raised questions about the program.
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There is no precedent in contemporary weather records for the kinds of droughts facing the country's West, if greenhouse gas emissions stay on course, a NASA study said.
No precedent even in the past 1,000 years.
The feared droughts would cover most of the western half of the United States -- the Central Plains and the Southwest.
Those regions have suffered severe drought in recent years. But it doesn't compare in the slightest to the 'megadroughts' likely to hit them before the century is over due to global warming.
These will be epochal, worthy of a chapter in Earth's natural history.
Even if emissions drop moderately, droughts in those regions will get much worse than they are now, NASA said.
The space agency's study conjures visions of the sun scorching cracked earth that is baked dry of moisture for feet below the surface, across vast landscapes, for decades. Great lake reservoirs could dwindle to ponds, leaving cities to ration water to residents who haven't fled east.
"Our projections for what we are seeing is that, with climate change, many of these types of droughts will likely last for 20, 30, even 40 years," said NASA climate scientist Ben Cook.
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Synopsis - Feb 12, 2015 Draft Document - Posted on Feb 12, 2015 General Information Solicitation Number: NNG150000001L Posted Date: Feb 12, 2015 FedBizOpps Posted Date: Feb 12, 2015 Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No Original Response Date: Feb 27, 2015 Current Response Date: Mar 13, 2015 Classification Code: A -- Research and Development NAICS Code: 541712 Contracting Office Address NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.Y, Greenbelt, MD 20771 Description It is anticipated that the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) will issue a solicitation for continued Support of Atmospheric Sciences (SAS) and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO). Currently, SAS and GMAO support is provided under two separate contracts (NNG12HP08C and NNG12HP06C respectively). NASA has reviewed these requirements and found technical symmetry, and therefore intends to combine these small business set-aside efforts and obtain the support by way of one contract. SAS support includes but is not limited to (1) Instrumentation, (2) Data Processing and Analysis, (3) Earth System modeling and Analysis, (4) Documentation and Presentation, (5) Education and Public Outreach, and (6) Mission Science. Specific work elements within the above areas are described as follows: design, develop, test, maintain, calibrate, and operation of sub-orbital instruments for atmospheric and solar observations; processing and analysis of data collected by instruments observing the Earth atmosphere or solar radiation from spacecraft, sub-orbital platforms, or the ground; development, testing, operation, improvement, and documentation of computer models that describe Earth system processes; support project scientists in the formulation, implementation, and operation of satellite missions; support the preparation of research proposals, refereed journal publications, manuscripts for symposia and provide communications of research objectives and results both to the general public and NASA Management in a formal and informal way. GMAO support, which is a key activity within the Earth-Sun Exploration Division, includes the development and use of models and assimilation systems with the goals of advancing satellite data in weather and climate prediction, and using satellite data to advance the U.S. environmental modeling capabilities. NASA/GSFC is hereby soliciting information about potential sources and seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including Small, Small Disadvantaged (SDB), 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Veteran Owned (VOSB), Service Disabled Veteran Owned (SD-VOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small business subcontracting goals for the procurement. The Government reserves the right to consider a Small, 8(a), Woman-owned (WOSB), Service Disabled Veteran (SD-VOSB), or HUBZone business set-aside based on responses hereto. All small disadvantaged business owned firms will need to be certified at the time of proposal submission if the procurement is set-aside. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these sites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Vendors having the capabilities necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements are invited to submit appropriate documentation, literature, brochures, and references. Responses must include the following: name and address of firm, size of business; average annual revenue for past 3 years and number of employees; ownership; whether they are large, or any category of small business*, number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners, prime contractor (if potential sub) or subcontractors (if potential prime); list of customers covering the past five years (highlight relevant work performed, contract numbers, contract type, dollar value of each procurement; and point of contact - address and phone number). This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. All responses shall be submitted to Russellyn R. Hart no later than 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on March 13, 2015. Responses may be e-mailed to russellyn.hart-1@nasa.gov or mailed to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Attn: Russellyn R. Hart, Mail Code 210.5, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771. Please reference NNG15000001L in any response. Any questions regarding this announcement should be directed to the identified point of contact. Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below. Point of Contact Name: Russellyn R Hart Title: Contract Specialist Phone: 301-286-5081 Fax: 301-286-5373 Email: Russellyn.Hart-1@nasa.gov
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