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Environment
Interior complains about hog farm OK near Buffalo
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by Leslie Newell Peacock
on Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:11 PM
The U.S. Department of the Interior is not happy about the hog farm permit issued upstream of the Buffalo National River and has written the U.S.D.A. Farm Service Agency's state office, criticizing its Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact as "weak."
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality issued a permit to C&H Hog Farm last August to operate a 670-acre farm with two barns able to hold 6,503 head of swine about five miles from a tributary of Big Creek near Mount Judea. The hog waste is to be spread on the farm. The Ozark Society has begun a petition drive to halt the farm; the Baxter Bulletin reported yesterday that it had 3,630 signatures so far.
Interior charges that the agency "did not follow its own regulations in developing the EA, particularly related to the communication standard," and details 45 problems with the EA. Among them:
The Farm Service Agency cover sheet "indicates the National Park Service (NPS) is a cooperating agency. Since we never received word of the document, this is clearly in error." The Farm Service EA says the farm will be 478.93 acres, but the farm's management plan says waste will be applied to 630 acres. The FSA numbers the hogs on the farm at only 2,500. Interior notes that says the waste field is within the foraging range of the gray bat, which is endangered. And so forth. Read the letter, signed by Buffalo National River Superintendent Kevin G. Cheri, here.
Tags: Big Creek, Buffalo National River, Farm Service Agency, C&H Hog Farm
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Hog farm on Big Creek
March 4, 2013
Defenders of the Buffalo River are up in arms over a permit that the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has issued to C&H Hog Farm, under construction on a tributary of Big Creek, which feeds into the Buffalo. /more/
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Talk about a baptism by fire: On the first day of Lauren Colegrove's journalism internship at Catholic News Service in Rome, the pope announced his resignation.
The Villanova University junior thought she'd spend her first day filling out paperwork and undergoing orientation. Instead, she ran over to the Vatican Press Office to attend a news conference and later conducted interviews in St. Peter's Square.
"It's pretty hard to have a more exciting first day of work than that," Colegrove said in an email interview.
Colegrove, originally from Tampa, Fla., is among four Villanova University students working this semester at the Vatican. It's an already uncommon internship that has taken on a whole new dimension with the historic departure of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of his successor, Pope Francis.
Previous interns from Villanova, a private Catholic university near Philadelphia, have shot videos for the Vatican's YouTube channel, created 360-degree virtual tours of the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica, and performed research that led to the first papal tweet in December.
"Not every tourist can walk up and say, 'I'd like to go behind the wall of the Vatican and check out what's happening,'" said Villanova computer science professor Robert Beck, who helps select the students who go abroad. "The interns are given the ability to do that."
In addition to Colegrove's reporting, the university this year has a computer science student working on a Vatican mobile app at the Internet Office of the Holy See and two other students interning at the Pontifical Council for Social Communication.
The council administers the Vatican's main news portal, www.news.va, and its companion Facebook page. Communications interns Danielle McMonagle and Sean Hudgins have been creating and curating content for the latter website since last month, including taking photos of Benedict's last audience in St. Peter's Square.
"It was one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced, not only as an intern but just in general being there with thousands of people from all over the world," McMonagle, a junior from Moorestown, N.J., wrote in an email.
Thaddeus Jones, a council official and the interns' supervisor, said the world moves so quickly that "it's more important than ever" to draw on students' knowledge of multimedia and digital social platforms to help the church communicate in the 21st century.
But with the breaking news of Benedict's departure, subsequent conclave and the selection of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new pope on Wednesday, there is less time for students to research emerging technologies and strategies, as previous interns have done, he said.
"It's kind of like all hands on deck right now, rather than study trends and things," Jones said in a phone interview.
Villanova's program started in 2003 with computer science students working in the Vatican's Internet Office to help modernize the church. By 2008, communications students were being placed at the Pontifical Council for Social Communication.
Last semester, intern Andrew Jadick helped the church prepare for a tweeting pope by researching how other major world figures use their Twitter accounts. Jadick was among those who stood by Benedict on Dec. 12 when he tweeted for the first time, and got to shake the pontiff's hand.
After Benedict stepped down Feb. 28, the church deleted, but archived, all his tweets ? the account read "Sede Vacante," or "Seat Vacant" until Wednesday. Jadick hopes the new pope will also take advantage of Twitter, because a social media presence can help Catholics feel more connected to their leader, he said.
"It would be a shame if he doesn't want to use it," said Jadick, who is now back on campus.
Meanwhile, McMonagle expects to be very busy in the coming days gathering content and public reaction to the momentous election of Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first to be chosen from the Americas.
"To have the opportunity to work as an intern here at the Vatican was already an honor," McMonagle said, "but to be doing so now at this historic time is simply incredible."
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Western Digital has announced plans to invest tens of millions in enterprise solid state storage company Skyera. The investment is part of Skyera's Series B round of funding and Western Digital says Western Digital Capital co-invested in the $51 million round as part of the 'strategic relationship' between the two companies. WD says this relationship will include the joint development of new technology but did not say what this new tech might be.
"One of our primary goals in developing strategic relationships with technology innovators in the broader storage ecosystem is to enable customers to develop highly optimized storage solutions that meet their changing data management needs," said Steve Milligan, president and chief executive officer, Western Digital.
"We see companies like Skyera as offering a dramatic improvement over traditional approaches to emerging storage challenges. We will continue to support innovation by collaborating with customers and partners, and investing in companies who are addressing today?s most exciting storage opportunities."
Western Digital is one of the largest HDD manufacturers in the world but the company no doubt wants to make sure it has a nice solid entry into the SSD market, too. For Skyera, the money mean the company can pour more funding into engineering as well as more mundane but equally necessary parts of the business (like marketing).
"The backing of Western Digital has enabled us to ramp our business across marketing, sales and engineering which has been instrumental in creating the industry?s most innovative solid-state solution," said Radoslav Danilak, chief executive officer of Skyera. "With our skyHawk family of enterprise solid-state storage systems we are witnessing the next era of solid-state storage and I strongly believe that having a close working relationship with Western Digital, the world?s top disk drive vendor, is invaluable as we set out to reshape the storage landscape."
This isn't Western Digital's first investment in Skyera, either. According to WD, it previously funded Skyera as its initial outside investor.
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Not sure what to do with your old wood floors?? Instead of replacing them give them a face lift with a little paint.? I am loving these ideas from homedit.com
We all know that adding a fresh coat of paint is one of the least expensive ways to brighten our homes but this time, it is not on the walls but on the floor. Now you are wondering how possible it is to paint wood floors. It is very much possible. It is a type of home improvement that was in vogue several years back but with the introduction of the carpets and clear finishes, people involuntarily forgot about it. Wood floors painting has staged a dramatic comeback and has really come to stay.
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Depending on your preference or lifestyle, you can go for geometric patterns, clean stripes, bright colors, muted neutrals, weathered and worn rustic appeal or even varnished or shiny surfaced flooring. Through any of these options, you will be able to add a unique dimension and character to the interiors of your home.
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With colorful and large checks, combined with muted colors, you will be able to lighten up the interiors of your home and make it welcoming and warm for guests and members of the household alike. It works well in hallways, front entries, dining rooms and laundry rooms.
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With this type of flooring, you can use glossy paints to achieve maximum impact. You can add more drama to the project by decoratively painting the accents and trimmings around the entire wood floor. This painting technique is for those who love the weathered and worn rustic appeal. In painting the wood floor, the original look of the wood is retained. It blends with even modern or eclectic decor of varied colors and designs.
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Wood floors are known to bring in warmth and ambiance to every home but when the wood gets old, it loses its shine and makes your home look and feel dull. Instead of sanding and refinishing, it is less expensive to paint the floors. This way, you are able to return that sleek and clean look your home is known for without spending a fortune. Yes, whether you choose to go for bright colors or muted neutrals, stripes or checks and varnished or shiny surface, painting your floor has a lot to offer you as a homeowner.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Olympic gold medalistGabrielle Douglas, not yet 18, will publish her second memoir next month, publisher Zondervan said on Tuesday.
Douglas, 17, a gold medal winner at the 2012 Summer Olympics in both team and individual all-around gymnastics competition, will publish "Raising the Bar", a follow-up to her 2012 best-selling memoir "Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith", on April 30, the publishers said in a release.
Zondervan is a division of HarperCollins that specializes in Christian-oriented books.
The book will offer a behind-the-scenes look into Douglas' life, including color photos, personal stories and details on the athlete's present-day life - from walking red carpets and appearing on TV shows such as "The Vampire Diaries" while also making time for friends, family and training.
"'Raising the Bar' explores what it's like to be an everyday teen with a not-so-everyday life," Zondervan said.
Douglas, who began training at age 6 and became the Virginia State Champion just 2 years later, made history last year when she became the first U.S. gymnast to take home a team and an individual gold medal in the same games. She was first African-American to win the individual gold.
Since the 2012 London Olympics thrust the young gymnast into the public eye, Douglas has appeared at the Democratic National Convention, the MTV Video Awards, on the cover of Time magazine and on special edition boxes of corn flake cereal, along with her gold medal.
(Reporting by Chris Michaud; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and Richard Chang)
