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Rochester Area Foundation rep discusses networking possibilities with Chatfield group
By Gretchen Mensink Lovejoy
Tuesday, March 04, 2014 3:18 AM
Ann Fahy-Gust, of the Rochester Area Foundation, speaks to attendees at a meeting held to discuss how the foundation's financial branch could assist Chatfield residents. GRETCHEN MENSINK LOVEJOY/CHATFIELD NEWS
Rochester Area Foundation Donor and Grant Services manager Ann Fahy-Gust spoke to a gathering of people at Chatfield United Methodist Church (CUMC) last Thursday afternoon. She told the group about the formation of the Rochester Area Foundation's (RAF) Rochester Community Finance (RCF) community development financial institution (CDFI), a seven-county collaborative that includes Olmsted, Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Goodhue, Wabasha and Winona counties. She explained that she and the institution are striving to create a network of nonprofit organizations that can be accessed by both the organizations themselves and the individuals they serve, particularly people in need of housing.
"Because of the limits that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae place on their loans, it makes it very difficult for some low- and middle-income people to get loans to buy houses," said Fahy-Gust, "and they may have great credit, but they may be short the $5,000 to $10,000 to get a loan, and we can partner with local banks to get them the money they need through low- and lower-interest rate loans. All studies say that when you get people into their own homes, they do better, their kids do better because they have the stability of not moving place to place, and that makes the community better."
Fahy-Gust outlined that a CDFI provides financial services to underserved markets, has a primary mission of community development, is accountable to the community and is a non-governmental entity certified by the United States Treasury.
She pointed out the CDFI has received a grant of $100,000 to launch its operations and the hope is to build a fund of $600,000, which she noted is a relatively small amount in comparison to neighboring CDFIs located on the state's borders.
"We're working with other organizations to start our capitalization, and we're confident we can start with $600,000. It's not big, but I'd rather be little, tiny, but effective," she added.
Fahy-Gust observed that the RCF's name might change in the future, given that it will eventually serve people in all seven counties after networking with those counties' respective organizations is established. The RCF wishes to have overt ties to the Rochester Area Foundation's mission, which encompasses philanthropy, grant-making and community leadership.
RCF satisfies two tenets of RAF's mission - grant-making and community leadership. She stated its board hopes to have "only four products to include nonprofit loans and gap loans for non-First Homes home buyers," or people who don't qualify for the First Homes home loan program.
The RCF also plans to attain its own 501(c)3 nonprofit status over the next year, as it currently operates under RAF's nonprofit status.
Fahy-Gust explained the infrastructure RCF is working to establish would include banks, grants, economic development authorities and other CDFIs arranging to borrow low-interest loans and then offer them to home buyers at a slightly higher rate. These entities would also likely offer non-traditional loans such as a one-year loan to assist a buyer in making a home purchase, generating revenue from those purchases through interest payments and fees to create sustainability. This would impact the communities in which people buy homes and allow the CDFI to increase its capacity for loan-making and to hire staff to perpetuate RCF.
While the RCF's focus will be primarily on home ownership, its networking system will also allow members of organizations to collaborate to meet needs of people in communities.
Fahy-Gust commented, "When you see organizations come together with similar resources, they can do so much more."
Chatfield's Help Our Neighbors (HON) senior citizen assistance program director, Sue Awes, agreed, but also pointed out that resources for counties such as Fillmore are few because the county is primarily rural.
Discussion turned to how to extend services to residents of rural counties - namely, how to reach beyond Rochester - as Awes cited she is a Goodhue County resident working in Fillmore County and has found it is very difficult to convince nonprofit organizations to take action in rural areas simply because the residents are not centrally located.
Fahy-Gust acknowledged that nonprofit organizations tend to locate in cities and concentrate on specialized populations because it is easier to do so, but that RCF will be working to engage organizations and schools.
Awes said, "It would be great if you're going to other counties, especially Fillmore, because we don't have a lot of access to resources. If you could provide networking systems that could share talents we could utilize in-kind and not have to write a grant, we could start networking and connecting ourselves to small nonprofit organizations, because if we have to write grants, it usually cuts into our bottom lines. A lot of us down here could benefit...."
The Rev. Debra Collum of Chatfield United Methodist church concurred, welcoming the prospect of networking opportunities.
Fahy-Gust shared that RCF will be working on a marketing plan, building a prospectus for investors and hiring staff in the coming months. She invited attendees to provide contact information so they can be included and encouraged them to invite others to participate in upcoming meetings, which will most likely be held at CUMC or another Chatfield venue since it is centrally located.
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"This is a group of young people who have a common interest, but who also serve the school and community," explained Tri-M adviser Judith Fischer. "The Tri-M Society is active in many fundraising ventures – sponsoring food drives, giving over $5000 in scholarships in the past three years, and partnering with East Islip's For the Kids Foundation in constructing the newest courtyard."
The middle school's Tri-M Society also sponsored the third annual East Islip Idol last October, spurring musical participation from throughout the entire student body. Tri-M students voted to donate 50 cents per ticket sold to support middle school athletics. This resulted in a $536 donation to the school's sports program, presented at the most recent Board of Education meeting. "Fellow Tri-M adviser Concetta Stevens and I were very proud of the Tri-M members for their willingness to reach out to the student athletes," added Fischer. The organization's next project will be awarding a summer music study scholarship this spring.
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Dell's buyout talks with Quest Software have ended, and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is not poised to buy Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT), according to Reuters. Quest Software, which develops IT management and virtualization software, has been in play since at least March 2012. So what's next for the two companies? Here are some clues from The VAR Guy.
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I was astonished by John Conti's Living column "Pedestrian areas are worth all the 'fuss'" (April 7 and TribLIVE.com) about creating such areas Downtown. Look up Philadelphia's Chestnut Street Transitway and find out what a disaster it was to take traffic off a downtown city street.
When people can't drive up to a store to purchase or load items, stores that actually sell things go out of business. You wind up with blighted blocks of boarded-up storefronts, drugstores, fast-food franchises and not much else. When there's no traffic, people feel creepy about walking — especially at night — so they stay home or go somewhere else to spend money.
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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common primary brain tumor in adults, is almost never curable with the current standard treatment consisting of surgical resection, irradiation and temozolomide. The prognosis remains poor despite undisputable advances in the understanding of this tumor's molecular biology and pathophysiology, which unfortunately has so far failed to translate into a meaningful clinical benefit. Dysregulation and a resulting prominent pathophysiological role of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have been identified in several different malignant tumor entities, GBM among them. The EGFR is overexpressed in about 40% of GBM cases, and half of these coexpress a mutant, constitutively activated subtype, EGFRvIII. Unfortunately, recent trials studying with therapeutic approaches targeted against the EGFR and EGFRvIII have failed to meet expectations, with only a minority of patients responding despite evidence of good
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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
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On a spring day in 2004, executives from Verizon Communications Inc. politely informed a board meeting of Telus Corp. in Vancouver that they'd had a change of heart: Their company was done with Canada.
As corporate breakups go, it was an amicable one. The American giant's 20-per-cent ownership stake in Telus had served both companies well. The CEOs were allies; then-Verizon boss Ivan Seidenberg was known to join Telus's Darren Entwistle on conference calls with analysts, just to show his support.
But Mr. Seidenberg had better things to do with the money that was locked up in his friend's company. The Canadian telecom market was getting bigger, with the rollout of faster networks and new smartphones, but the U.S was growing more quickly and was more lucrative. For Verizon, home was where the action was and where investment was needed. Months later, it completed its sale of Telus shares for $2.2-billion.
Nine years later, Verizon is looking hard at Canada again – and the circumstances couldn't be any more different.
If the U.S. company returns to the market, it would be as a potential aggressor – a threat to the dominance, or at least the profits, of Canada's three wireless giants: Telus, BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc.
Verizon's overtures to buy up small and struggling wireless companies like Wind Mobile and Mobilicity take advantage of a new rule that allows foreigners to acquire telcos with less than 10-per-cent market share. If the deals come to fruition, it could mark one of the biggest shifts Canadian telecom has seen in decades.
With a $700-million (Canadian) preliminary bid to buy Wind, exploratory talks with Mobilicity, and an opening to bid in an upcoming auction of wireless spectrum, Verizon is angling to be more than just a passive investor this time around. It wants to be a player.
Two crucial things have happened in order to attract the company's interest. The U.S. market has reached a saturation point, with cellphone adoption at more than 100 per cent, meaning there is more than one handset for every adult in the country. Canada, at about 80 per cent, still has some growth left.
The bigger change has come in Ottawa, where the Conservative government has bet political capital on a policy of bringing new competition into the wireless sector, and has gradually warmed to the idea of allowing a large foreign telecom company set up shop.
Having opened up the wireless sector to new competition about five years ago, only to see ambitious upstart companies like Wind, Mobilicity and Public Mobile fail miserably against the Big Three, the government wants to see a viable fourth player in every region more than ever.
If Verizon does set up shop in Canada, it will disrupt the wireless sector like never before – adding the most deep-pocketed competitor the sector has ever seen. But Ottawa may not necessarily get the outcome it so desperately covets: lower prices for consumers. Because as Canada's phone companies know well, and as Verizon has shown in the U.S., you don't get to the top of your industry by engaging in price wars, and by giving away the service at bargain-basement rates. In wireless, profits are a long-term game.
Trojan horse or white knight?
Based in New York, Verizon is a product of the wave of consolidation that swept through the U.S. telecom sector in the late 1990s.
Formed through a merger between two of the oldest and largest American phone companies, Bell Atlantic Corp and GTE Corp., Verizon made its debut in mid-2000 as the main rival to AT&T and Sprint in the battle for U.S. cellphone subscribers.
The name itself means nothing – it is a linguistic mash-up dreamed up by marketers who wanted to combine the optimism conjured by the word "horizon" with the reliability implied by the word "veritas," the Latin word for truth.
Inside the industry though, Verizon is known simply as Big Red, a nod to the colour of its logo and its sheer size. At last count, Verizon Wireless had nearly 99 million wireless subscribers, which is roughly a 34-per-cent share of the U.S. market, ahead of AT&T and Sprint.
Verizon Wireless – a joint operation that is 55 per cent owned by the parent company and 45 per cent by Vodafone Group PLC of Britain – is the jewel of an operation that also sells Internet, television and home phone service. The wireless business operates the largest 4G LTE network (which stands for fourth-generation, long-term evolution) in the U.S., putting it at the forefront of the smartphone revolution.
The company has expanded through acquisitions in the U.S. and has built its name on the reliability of its wireless services.
Last year, it rolled out a "Share Everything Plan," a strategy that has since been copied by Canadian carriers. The idea is to allow subscribers to share large amounts of data among multiple devices, including smartphones and tablets. For example, a family with two smartphones and one tablet can eat up four gigabytes of data a month, and talk as long as they want, for $160 a month before taxes and other surcharges. The strategy is not necessarily revolutionary, but it is aggressive, and it has resulted in lower customer turnover – something every wireless company fights for.Report Typo/Error
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In spite of crowd trouble marring the promotion's first card, Lockdown MMA will return on October 13th. Show promoter, Will Burke discusses the problems at the aforementioned event and what is to look forward to next month.
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|Death toll at the end of the Sri Lankan conflict was 30,000 to 40,000 - GORDON WEISS
Even before the war between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan Government came to an abrupt end in May last year, serious allegations of war crimes were flying thick and fast between both sides. Dateline reporter, Ginny Stein, recently travelled to Sri Lanka and to New York to test the claims of the survivors of that very, very vicious conflict.REPORTER: Ginny Stein
Sri Lanka's national day is being celebrated in New York. Amidst the polite chit-chat at this diplomatic soiree on Park Avenue, there is also a barely contained note of triumph. It's almost a year ago that the Sri Lankan Government finally defeated the Tamil Tigers, or LTTE - the separatist militants it had been fighting for almost three decades. Leading the celebrations is dual Australian/Sri Lankan citizen Ambassador Palitha Kohona. He cut his diplomatic teeth working for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs, but is now Sri Lanka's representative to the UN.
PALITHA KOHONA, SRI LANKA'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UN: It's a new beginning for Sri Lanka because we've ended the conflict and we've had an election where a president has been elected with an overwhelming majority, so now it's a question of moving on with life, rebuilding the country.
But not everyone in the international community is as keen to move on. Concerns about war crimes are being raised at the highest levels of the UN and hard questions are being asked about the government's conduct.
PHILIP ALSTON, UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS: It suggests a determination to simply wipe out as many people as possible and not to follow the rules of international humanitarian law.
PALITHA KOHONA: I think it's ridiculous to suggest that somehow the Sri Lankan Government did something to the LTTE which has to be accounted for.
This is the man credited with crushing the Tamil Tigers - General Sarath Fonseka. He's currently under house arrest, but last month General Fonseka was here, in the Tamil-dominated north of the country, for a political rally. Fonseka was making a run for the presidency against the incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse.
GENERAL SARATH FONSEKA (Translation): Looking at this area now, the civilians are happy and free. When I see the change in people's lives, I feel very happy.
He lost the election, and two weeks ago, Fonseka was arrested on military charges which included engaging in politics before he'd resigned as chief of the army. During the bitter election campaign Fonseka had dropped a bombshell of his own, accusing his former political masters of committing war crimes.
DR PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU, CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES: If you look at the recent controversy over remarks that Sarath Fonseka made and then hastily retracted in a press conference, and the government's reaction to it, now they're saying that, "No, Sarath Fonseka never said that there were war crimes committed, and there were no war crimes committed." Now, this confuses everyone.
Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu is a political analyst in the capital, Colombo. Today he's attending a candlelight vigil for a journalist slain in broad daylight just over a year ago on a busy street. His assassins remain at large.
DR PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU: The death of Lasantha Wickramatunga is something that people remember as a particularly horrible seminal event in the stifling of dissent in this country.
More than 30 journalists fled the country during the war's final months, others have been abducted or jailed. Dr Saravanamuttu believes that intimidation and closing off the war zone to all outsiders made this a hidden war.
DR PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU: No independent actors were allowed in to come up with independent, impartial reports. There was no question of verification. So now we have to wait for IDPs to get over their trauma and begin to talk, and again, they will be contested.
This man is one of those IDPs, or internally displaced persons. He doesn't want to be identified, so I'll call him Ambalan. He says he and his wife left their home in August last year.
'AMBALAN', EYE WITNESS: We have to just move from that area in order to save us from the shelling and firing, and we stayed in that place with the intention that it will be over in one or two days, or within one week. But it continued. So we have to move constantly in order to save our lives.
As the frontline swept eastwards, Ambalan and his wife ended up in the tiny enclave where the Tigers made their last stand and where hundreds of thousands were pinned down. Foreign aid sources say the government denied Red Cross requests for larger, more frequent evacuations so Ambalan's family waited to flee via the only ferry.
'AMBALAN': On this day I had the chance to send my mother and my wife through the ship, but on the morning, at the time we heard a big noise. And immediately we saw people were screaming and crying. And at that time I was told that some people died where my wife stayed.
Ambalan found his wife among the 15 dead - her jewellery, damaged by the shrapnel that killed her, is all he has to remember her by. He believes the attack came from the army's direction. It's impossible to verify his story, but there are many others like it.
This is a video which supporters of the Tamil Tigers say shows an army assault on a hospital in a designated no-fire zone. It includes the audio of a purported phone call with the Red Cross coordinator for the area.
WOMAN (OVER PHONE): The patients, the medical staff have left the hospital because they are not safe there anymore.
Tamils say 9 people were killed here and 15 wounded. But according to the Sri Lankan Defence Force, this edited video released a few days later shows the hospital was untouched.
REPORTER: Hospitals. Were they targeted?
PALITHA KOHONA: There was only one hospital that anybody had ever marked on a map in that whole area and we have got pictures to show that hospital was never targeted.
REPORTER: Those pictures, I have seen those, that video was edited.
PALITHA KOHONA: If a hospital had to be shelled, Ginny, I know the way we took out LTTE officers, their camps, with such clinical precision - if we wanted to do that to a hospital we could have done that also. Why do a half-hearted job if you wanted to really finish it off?
It's impossible to know what actually happened, but this wasn't the only hospital to allegedly come under fire.
GOBI KRISHNA: I know for sure once in Puthukkudiyiuppu Hospital, the hospital itself was bombed. Luckily, if I was five minutes earlier, I would not be talking to you today.
For the past 2.5 years, he was a volunteer with a Tamil charity – an organisation the Sri Lankan Government accuses of being a front for the Tami Tigers. Krishna's now back home in Australia, but was inside the war zone as refugees moved from one safe zone to another.
GOBI KRISHNA: The government announces "Go to these towns," in the radio. Sometimes it put leaflets from air to "go to this no-fire zone, and you'll be safe." But you go there and settle, in two, three days time, they will start shelling that area then people have to move.
Krishna's experience backs what many foreign aid organisations believe was a deliberate strategy to sweep hundreds of thousands of Tamils across the country. And he claims that not only were safe zones attacked, but that controversial weapons were also used.
GOBI KRISHNA: Cluster bombing - the bombs coming in clusters - and I also, after bombing I have seen also at least four times there are white fumes coming. Very intense thick, white fumes. And they say that is phosphorus chemical bombs. But I have seen with my eyes that white fumes.
REPORTER: In your view, were war crimes committed?
GOBI KRISHNA: For sure - I think, you ask people to go to a safe zone and nothing will happen, and bombing that - I think that's a war crime in my way of thinking. And hospitals have been bombed, I have seen that. I thought that's war crime.
REPORTER: Were war crimes committed?
PALITHA KOHONA: Now, this is a difficult question to answer because nobody really knows whether war crimes were committed. There is no evidence. There are suggestions, there are allegations but beyond that there's nothing concrete.
In the last desperate stages of the war, relief organisations estimated 300,000 people were hemmed into a narrow war zone. The government insisted the number was just 70,000 and restricted food and medical supplies accordingly.
GOBI KRISHNA: Definitely I was weak, because I had lost 25 kilos during this time.
REPORTER: Were people getting enough food?
GOBI KRISHNA: No way.
REPORTER: Were you hungry?
HUSBAND EYE WITNESS: Yah, yah. Because we couldn't get enough flour, we couldn't get enough rice, and equally we couldn't get enough vegetables or fish or meat, or anything for cooking.
PALITHA KOHONA: How could that allegation be made? For 27 years, during 27 years of conflict the Sri Lankan Government actually fed every single person in the north.
GORDON WEISS, FORMER UN SPOKESMAN: We were trying to deliver humanitarian aid consistently inside the siege zone and we were consistently stonewalled at various levels.
REPORTER: Were they starving the people out? Was that what was going on?
GORDON WEISS: Yes. That's what happens in sieges.
Gordon Weiss is an Australian who was the UN's spokesman in Sri Lanka during the war. He was engaged in daily tussles with the Sri Lankan authorities.
GORDON WEISS: The Sri Lankan Government was masterful at controlling information and in refuting information. So if we take forward a piece of information about people being killed and then the government responds firstly by denouncing it publicly and secondly by calling in people to the Foreign Ministry, and browbeating them and threatening them with expulsion, now that sort of pressure every day, it's extremely difficult for people to operate in those circumstances.
So difficult, in fact, that two months ago when Gordon Weiss's work visa expired, he decided not just to leave, but to quit the UN. On his way to the airport to leave Sri Lanka for good, Weiss was clearly frustrated.
GORDON WEISS: It was a secret war, but, you know, the war is over and that leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
As the fighting raged on, the government maintained no civilians were being killed and that no heavy weapons were being used.
GORDON WEISS: Now for months, the Secretary General was told by the President "We're not using them, there are no heavy weapons used." When one leader speaks to another you speak in good faith and accept assurances. If you are told a bare-faced lie it's very difficult to work against that.
Weiss says he was under pressure not to add up or publicly declare just how many people had been killed. The UN's official death toll at the end of the conflict was 7,000. Weiss says the real figure could be more than five times that.
GORDON WEISS: I believe that between 10,000 and 40,000 is a reasonable estimate. I think most likely it's somewhere between 30,000 to 40,000.
PALITHA KOHONA: If that number died, I do not know where they were buried, because to bury 40,000 you would have had to have an army of people working day and night, digging graves and putting them in. That certainly did not happen.
One of the few pieces of hard evidence from this war emerged three months after it ended, and sparked immediate international outrage. It's a video showing a naked man, blindfolded and bound, in the final moments of his life.
MAN (Translation): He must have seen it. That's why he turned and looked.
Another seven bodies can be seen already lying in the dirt and there's more gunfire. While, it's impossible to tell if the dead men are Tamil, their executioner appears to be wearing an army uniform. Towards the end of the video, another man is brought to the same spot - and murdered. The footage has prompted an investigation by the UN's Special Rapporteur for Extra-Judicial Killing, Philip Alston.
REPORTER: Does it fit a war crime?
PHILIP ALSTON: Oh, very clearly, because you've got people who had been arrested, they are completely bound and gagged and so on. There is no attempt to escape, they were not armed, that is straight out murder on a significant scale and it's clearly a war crime.
But the video's authenticity was quickly dismissed by the Sri Lankan Government.
PALITHA KOHONA: The government has experts on its side who categorically said this was fabricated. On the other hand, we have Professor Philip Alston's experts saying perhaps not.
PHILIP ALSTON: These technical experts, the highest qualified, all said that accords exactly with what one would expect in a real-life situation. And they came up with a whole range of reasons why it could not have been staged, So every pointer indicates, very strongly, that the video is authentic.
The videotaped killings are not the only incident being investigated by the UN. There was also an international outcry over the death of this man, Puleedevan, and another senior Tamil Tigers leader who attempted to surrender as the conflict ended.
REPORTER: The surrender process the UN did have contact, what contact are you aware of?
GORDON WEISS: I'm aware that the UN was involved in some way, that the Norwegians were involved in some way, that there were independent parties, such as a couple of journalists who had contacts with the LTTE, who were also involved.
One of those journalists was Marie Colvin, a respected foreign correspondent for London's 'Sunday Times'. She says that for several days she was an intermediary in the surrender negotiations, taking phone calls from the Tigers leadership and the UN.
REPORTER: Was there a deal?
PALITHA KOHONA: In my view, there was absolutely no deal. In fact, it would have been impossible to have done a deal at that time.
But by Colvin's account there was a deal, and it involved the highest levels of government. She says the UN Secretary-General's Chief of Staff, Vijay Nambia, told her that he'd been: "assured by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse that Nadesan and Puleedevan would be safe in surrendering." All they had to do was "hoist a white flag high".
PHILIP ALSTON: And the assumption was that they would then be taken into captivity, they would be prisoners of war, whatever.
Instead, they were shot dead. In his hastily retracted remarks during the election campaign, General Fonseka said orders to shoot came from the President's brother, Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapakse.
PHILIP ALSTON: Was there, in fact, an order given that if you capture any of these LTTE fighters you should simply execute them as soon as possible? If there was such an order, then that's a real problem.
There is little doubt that extreme acts were committed by both sides as this bitter conflict drew to an end. Many survivors say the Tamil Tigers forcibly conscripted children in the final weeks. This woman fought to save her son being taken away, but failed.
MANEK FARM REFUGEE (Translation): They wanted the boy to go with them. I said I wouldn't give him up. They grabbed him by the hand. Me and my daughter tried to pull him back. We pulled, It didn't work. Nothing worked. We threw chilli powder. We threw that and beat them. I bashed four or five. After I'd bashed them, they detained me for 15 days.
It was while she was a prisoner of the Tigers that she heard news of her son's fate.
MANEK FARM REFUGEE (Translation): Eight days later, we heard on the radio that he was dead.
Later, in the final weeks of the war she watched as two Tamil Tiger soldiers shot dead a woman who was attempting to flee with her two sons. Other eyewitnesses who had been sheltering at a church, claim the Tigers marched away 600 young people, and that other civilians were used as human shields.
REPORTER: The government and the Tigers, they both have blood on their hands?
'AMBALAN': Yeah, yeah. That is, yes - both were having blood on their hands.
For now, the victors are showing off their spoils. This captured ship south of Colombo is drawing crowds of curious onlookers. According to the army it was waiting to whisk away the Tamil Tigers' leader who's now dead, along with most of his fighters. Sri Lankans are enjoying peace for the first time in decades but it's come at a cost. Their leaders are keen to move on from the past, so the question now is whether the international community has the will to make alleged war criminals pay the price.
GORDON WEISS: Certainly, the evidence is out there. The evidence lies in the testimony of hundreds of thousands of people who survived the siege.
DR PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU: We can't just draw a line under this. We need to really look at it, and ask ourselves the serious, hard questions of how we could do these things to each other. That's the only way that you can heal, unite and move forward.
GEORGE NEGUS: Ginny Stein filming and reporting there. And you may be surprised to know that Sri Lanka's biggest post-war donor has been Australia - $72 million so far, with another $30 million promised.
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On Monday night, Strong played in the Nebraska Class A State Championship game, but saw his team fall to Millard North in one of the more exciting finishes in the game's history, 17-14.
It wasn't due to a lack of effort on the running back's part. Strong rushed for 157 yards on 25 carries, finding the end zone once - comparable numbers to his body of work each game this season. The sophomore finished the year with 1,888 yards on 224 carries, an average of 8.42 ypc.
A player who projects at this point to be a high-offer prospect, Strong has been seen on the sidelines at least twice already for Nebraska home games this season.
Big Red Report's Bryan Munson caught up with the 5-foot-9, 175-pound prospect before his state title game over the weekend.
About being a sophomore and leading his team to state:
"It's big for me to come out here and do what I can for the team," Strong said. "If I can do what I can as a sophomore it's great. But it's not about me. It's a team sport."
"I achieved most of my goals this year just by helping my team get to the championship game."
Working on:
"More weightlifting and in the summer more conditioning. I need more things just to get my body fit. I will be looking to lead my team to a state championship again next year.
"I think that some people will say that we relied on a lot of seniors on our team. I know that our underclassmen have handled their own just like the upper classmen."
Visit to Lincoln:
"I went to see them play Michigan and I saw them play Penn State. They have really nice facilities at Nebraska. I like the fans and I like the environment. I like the offense that they are running too."
"In both of the games that I saw they had to come back to win. Both wins were huge. And Ameer Abdullah, he's a great running back."
Running style:
"I would compare my style to Ameer's. I have been watching him a lot this whole season. He's been progressing a lot since his freshman year and even just this season.
"He does it all on the football field like catch the ball and did returns last year. I can catch the ball and I am on kick returns too. Most of the time they don't kick the ball to me."
Ideal school:
"I am looking at the environment for me to live in for the next four years. I need to get my education on top of playing football."
"I love Nebraska. That's my top school and I have been thinking about going there. I would love to go to Nebraska. They have great running back tradition at Nebraska."
Damon Benning:
"He's one of our coaches. He's been helping me develop my skills. He's helping me be the best that I can be. He's really helping me develop as a player."


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Durham, the Tampa Bay Times' all-Suncoast player of the year, was the only sophomore on the 3A first team. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 21.6 points, 11.5 rebounds and 5.7 blocks to help the Terrapins reach the Class 3A state championship game. He was the only local among the top 15 players in his class.
Gray was a first-team pick in 4A. The 6-foot-4, Texas Tech-bound guard averaged 17.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the state semifinalists.
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Capacitive sensors are the most commonly used devices for the detection of humidity because they are inexpensive and the detection mechanism is very specific for humidity. However, especially for industrial processes, there is a lack of dielectrics that are stable at high temperature (>200 °C) and under harsh conditions. We present a capacitive sensor based on mesoporous silica as the dielectric in a simple sensor design based on pressed silica pellets. Investigation of the structural stability of the porous silica under simulated operating conditions as well as the influence of the pellet production will be shown. Impedance measurements demonstrate the utility of the sensor at both low (90 °C) and high (up to 210 °C) operating temperatures.
Reliable detection of relative humidity in gases is an important issue in numerous fields, including industrial processes, meteorology, and everyday domestic life. Humidity sensors are based on a wide range of working principles and technologies [
However, for many industrial processes a high durability and resistance to harsh environments are of particular importance. For example, industrial branches with high energy saving potential, such as wood drying or textile processing, demand sensors with high tolerance to corrosive/oxidizing species or contaminants with high molecular weight at high temperature (>200 °C). These requirements often exclude the utility of conventional sensor materials [
Mesoporous SBA-15 silica [
Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) was carried out on a "Panalytical X'Pert Pro" diffractometer (filtered Cu-Kα radiation, 40 kV, 40 mA). Nitrogen physisorption was conducted at −196 °C on a Quantachrome Autosorb 6; samples were degassed at 120 °C for 24 h prior to measurement. Specific surface areas were calculated from the adsorption data in the relative pressure interval from 0.05 to 0.2 using the BET method [
A plate-type capacitor geometry was chosen for the capacitance measurements. Pellets of 23 mm diameter were made from mesoporous silica powders by using a MB 100400L hydraulic molding press (Schmidt Maschinentechnik, maximum pressure 1,000 kN). The thickness of the pellets was in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 mm. A pressure of
Humidity measurements were carried out with two different setups. For low-temperature measurements up to 95 °C an environmental chamber (SB22/300/40, Weiss Klimatechnik) was used. Up to this temperature the absolute humidity in the chamber can be regulated from 0 to 98%. For high-temperature measurements a specially designed setup was used (
In both cases, low and high temperature, an impedance analyzer (Solartron Analytical Si 1260) was used to record the changes in capacitance of the sensor at different frequencies. For low-temperature measurements a commercially available digital humidity sensor was used as a reference (Sensirion SHT11 [
The nitrogen physisorption isotherm of the mesoporous SBA-15 silica material [
This is characteristic for materials with uniform, cylindrical mesopores; the isotherm/hysteresis shape is classified by IUPAC as type-IV/H1 [
The periodic order of the mesopores is apparent from the transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image [
As described above, the general principle of a capacitive humidity sensor is based on the humidity-dependent change of the dielectric constant of the porous medium which is located between the adjacent electrodes of the capacitor. This change originates from the physical adsorption of increasing amounts of water in the porous medium with increasing (relative) humidity. As a result, a change in the capacitance (or impedance, respectively) becomes a measureable parameter for humidity.
In order for the mesoporous silica to serve as the dielectric medium a sensor device had to be fabricated in which a defined amount of silica is placed between adjacent plate-like electrodes. The electrodes must have a defined size and distance to each other. At the same time, the silica needs to be easily accessible to water vapor. These requirements are fulfilled by forming the silica powder into a solid pellet and by applying porous gold layers at both faces of the pellet. These gold layers serve as the capacitor plates. They intrinsically exhibit porosity due to the gas-phase deposition method; their pores are wider than those in the silica pellet (see below) in order to not obstruct the accessibility of the pellet for water vapor, as will be demonstrated in the following.
To check the structural integrity of the porous silica material after being pressed into pellets, some of these pellets were ground in a mortar and the resulting powder was characterized again by N2 physisorption and XRD (data not shown). The results show that the pressure applied in the molding press (20 kN/cm2) does not significantly compromise the mesoporosity and periodic structural order of the sample. The specific surface area and total pore volume are slightly lower than before the molding press (see
Mesoporous silica of the SBA-15 type [
For the preparation of the macroporous gold layers two requirements had to be observed: (i) The layers must be continuous and have a well-defined area for the calculation of the base capacitance. (ii) The layers must exhibit high porosity to allow diffusion of water vapor into (and out of) the dielectric layer. Both requirements can be controlled by varying the thickness of the gold layers. On the one hand only a sufficiently thick layer will be continuous and therefore exhibit defined conductivity as required. On the other hand, if the layers are too thick, then the porosity will naturally be too low. Hence, a compromise had to be found with respect to the gold layer thickness. This was accomplished by conductivity and SEM measurements. For the conductivity measurement the gold layer was contacted at opposite sides with a maximum electrode distance of 21 mm. To minimize the influence of contingent inhomogeneities at the contacts each measurement was repeated after changing the contact points.
In the following, two gold layers with thicknesses of 10 nm and 50 nm, respectively, will be compared exemplarily.
The graph shows the change of capacitance of the sensor prepared with mesoporous silica (top) as well as the results from a SHT11 sensor (bottom) which serves as the reference [
Fluctuations in both signals, especially at 25% rel. humidity, are caused by the adjustment of the climatic chamber. The signal from the silica-based sensor shows a good reliability over the entire measurement period of 24 h. The capacitance shows a strong change of
To point out the above-mentioned influence of the measurement frequency on the sensing results
In the preceding section it was proven that the sensor based on mesoporous silica is suitable for the detection of 0% to 50% relative humidity at a relatively low temperature of 90 °C. For this temperature region other commercial capacitive humidity sensors are available (such as the SHT11 reference sensor), and the silica-based sensor delivers similarly reliable results. Measurements at higher temperatures (e.g., 210 °C) are substantially more challenging, since relative humidity is generally very low at these temperatures; in addition most organic sensor materials are not stable, therefore commercial capacitive humidity sensors are not applicable at high temperatures. The sensor presented here has a high thermal stability which makes it generally eligible for high-temperature applications.
A capacitive sensor design based on a mesoporous silica pellet as the dielectric with macroporous gold layers as electrodes is capable of measuring humidity at low (<90 °C) and high temperatures (up to 210 °C). Measurement frequencies of 200 kHz were found to be suitable to minimize the influence of leak currents caused by ionic surface conductivity. A linear response curve in the high-temperature region (150 °C–210 °C) and a consistent response make the sensor eligible for high-temperature applications such as industrial drying processes. The regular porosity of the mesoporous silica was proven to tolerate long-term treatment comparable to operating conditions and processing during sensor preparation.
We thank Kristin Tropp and Alexandra Laping for their assistance in the preparation of the mesoporous silica.
Schematic drawing (cross section) of the sensor housing used for the capacitance measurements. The mesoporous silica pellet is coated with macroporous gold layers on both faces which serve as the capacitor plates; they are contacted via metal grids.
Scheme of the humidity measurement setup at temperatures above 95 °C. The humidity is controlled by the water bath temperature (see text).
Two pellets (23 mm in diameter) of mesoporous silica coated with gold layers of 10 nm (left) 50 nm (right) thickness.
Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) images of the gold layers on mesoporous silica pellets; the layers have a thickness of 10 nm (left) and 50 nm (right), respectively.
Change of capacitance of a sensor based on mesoporous silica (top) upon changes in the relative humidity between 0% and 50% at 90 °C and at a measurement frequency of 200 kHz. The 'rel. humidity' (bottom) is measured by a SHT11 reference sensor [
Results obtained from the same measurement conditions as in
Change of capacitance of a sensor based on mesoporous silica
Porosity parameters of mesoporous silica.
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|after storing at 220 °C
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University of Birmingham Sport's (UBSport) judo team turned out in a wide range of weight categories for the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) individual competition over March 17-18, picking up two silvers medals.
Chris Gann and Annie Smith took the glory with both of them picking up silver medals for the under 81kg low and under 70kg low categories respectively.
The over 78kg high grade division saw a fourth place finish, while Andrew Foster and Luke Norman progressed well into the knockout stages.
Captain Fia Barnes spoke after the event saying, 'Everyone fought really hard today. We had a few unlucky draws; our boys fought amazingly well.'
She added, 'Annie Smith fought with all her heart, some of the fights went on for the full five minutes but she just kept going, and was very tired by the end of it.'
In the team event Birmingham failed to achieve much success, with the men losing to eventual champions Anglia Ruskin and Nottingham but beating Aberdeen. The women's team also struggled and went down in all three of their pool matches.
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The Garfield County commissioners will send a letter to state air pollution regulators today arguing that local oil and gas operators shouldn't be subject to the same requirements for finding and patching methane leaks as operators working on the more populous and polluted Front Range.
The letter comes in response to new rules proposed last fall by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper meant to reduce emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas and global warming contributor — during the extraction and transport of natural gas.
Burning natural gas releases less carbon dioxide than burning coal or oil, but some research suggests that methane leaks in the natural gas production chain may at least partly cancel out that fuel's carbon advantage.
The commissioners' letter argues that the county is now in compliance with federal air quality rules, and that emissions of several key pollutants have actually fallen in the county since the natural gas boom peaked in 2008. Therefore, the letter states, Garfield County should face less stringent methane leak regulations than the nine counties on Colorado's Front Range where concentrations of some pollutants exceed federal standards.
"There are no locations in Colorado outside of the Northern Front Range and Denver Metropolitan Area non-attainment area (NAA) that fail to meet EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards," reads the letter. Rather than a "one size fits all" set of regulations, the letter suggests, "… a flexible science-based set of rules could equally, or perhaps more optimally and effectively, achieve stated emission control goals …"
The proposed rules would be the first of their kind in the nation. They would require companies to check frequently for methane leaks in their storage tanks, pipelines and production equipment, repair them quickly and keep detailed records of their work, among other provisions. They would apply to both new and existing gas wells, requiring some companies to install new equipment in order to comply.
The rules were drafted in partnership with three large natural gas companies — Encana, Noble and Anadarko — along with the environmental group Environmental Defense Fund. But they have aroused opposition from many smaller gas companies and some public officials in jurisdictions not troubled by the air pollution problems plaguing the Front Range.
Representatives of the oil and gas industry voiced concerns about the new rules at a special Garfield County commissioners meeting held on Wednesday to finalize the letter to the state.
David Ludlam, director of the West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association, argued that most wells in Garfield County are rural ones that already are operating at a loss, and burdening them with more regulatory requirements could harm the bottom lines of local gas companies.
"On the Front Range, you have really big wells in an [air pollution] non-attainment area, and within the municipal boundaries of this non-attainment area," Ludlam said.
On the Western Slope, by contrast, "Many of our locations are 50 miles from the nearest house and 100 miles from the nearest town," he added.
Commissioner Tom Jankovsky expressed sympathy for Ludlam's position and advocated for a more varied set of rules across Colorado.
"I think monthly inspections and probably six-month inspections don't work in Garfield County," he said. "If you put more cost onto our operators, you will start losing operators and losing jobs."
Roughly 20 members of local environmental groups also attended the meeting to argue that Garfield County shouldn't fight the proposed state rules.
Peggy Tibbets, a Silt resident who writes a blog called "From the Styx" that's often critical of oil and gas development, disputed the assertion that air quality throughout Garfield County is currently pristine. She also questioned why the county didn't maintain an air quality monitoring station in Silt.
"We are surrounded by oil and gas to the north, east, south and west … everyone in my family suffers from allergies all year round," Tibbets said, showing the commissioners bottles of oxygen, nasal spray and other respiratory aids that she claims to use daily to help her breathe. "The pollution burns our eyes, ears, nose and throat."
The state Air Pollution Control Division will hold a hearing on the proposed methane rules from Feb. 19-21 in Aurora, and Garfield County has teamed up with Rio Blanco, Moffat, Mesa and Montezuma counties to participate in the hearing process.