Sharon Carlson appreciates the faith-based exchange between Salem Lutheran Church in Fremont and a congregation in Costa Rica.

Since that exchange began 10 years ago, members from Salem have visited Costa Rica.

And people from the Central American church have visited Fremont.

The result has been a faith-growing experience for Salem members and their sister congregation at Sola Fe Lutheran Church.

Now, members of Salem are planning another trip in 2015 with hopes of bringing students from Costa Rica to Nebraska in 2016.

The goal is to help Sola Fe in its mission to reach out to young people with the life-changing Gospel and help give them tools to carve out a better future for themselves.

Sola Fe Lutheran is in a barrio in San Sebastian. Most residents of this barrio are Nicaraguans who left their country to escape the Sandinista government and poverty.

Theyve come to Costa Rica in hopes of a better life.

Salem has sought to help in various ways.

Our purpose is to help spread the word of God among persons in the barrio and to provide mentorship to them in leadership for worship, the finances of a church and the conducting of Sunday schools and youth groups, Carlson said. Salems goal is to help them develop a church that can become a greater influence in this area due to the availability of drugs and other negative influences on the children and youth of Sola Fe.

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Patna, Mar 14 : ICICI Academy for Skills (ICICI Academy) on Friday announced the launch of a centre in Patna, to provide vocational training to the youth from the economically weaker sections and help them earn a sustainable livelihood.

The centre will offer courses in four disciplines - electrical & home appliance repair, refrigeration & air conditioning repair, pumps & motor repair and retail cafe operations.

ICICI Academy has formalised the content of the courses for electrical & home appliance repair, refrigeration & air conditioning repair, pumps & motor repair and retail cafe operations with knowledge partners namely, Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd., Blue Star Ltd., Crompton Greaves Ltd. and Cafe Coffee Day respectively.

The centre in Patna offers residential facilities for the students enrolled in these courses.

ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth (ICICI Foundation) started the ICICI Academy in line with its plan to promote inclusive growth. ICICI Academy aims to train 5,000 youth at nine training centres across the country in the first year of operation.

Announcing the launch, Nimesh Shah, MD & CEO, ICICI Prudential AMC said: "The ICICI Group, through its CSR and business initiatives, has worked towards building a social infrastructure that can help every person engage in productive and remunerative economic activity. The ICICI Academy has been set up as an extension of this belief wherein, we will look towards developing vocational skills in youth to help them earn a sustainable livelihood. We hope that the skills learned through this academy will equip individuals to play an important role in driving India's growth story in the coming decades."

Over the past five years, the ICICI Group and ICICI Foundation's CSR philosophy has been focusing on four key areas namely primary healthcare, elementary education, skill development for sustainable livelihood and financial inclusion, enabling people to participate in the economic opportunities arising in India. These initiatives have impacted the lives of more than 10 million people across the country.

After launching its maiden centre in Jaipur in October 2013, ICICI Academy launched centres in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Coimbatore and Narsobawadi (Maharashtra). Guwahati Centre of the Academy is being launched next week.

In addition to the training offered at the centres, ICICI Academy provides uniforms, meals and all relevant course material to the students. Each centre also has a library for the students to use.

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By TERRY COLLINS and SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press

A fire burned in a building under construction in San Francisco's China Basin on March 12, 2014. (Courtesy KGO-TV)

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco fire investigators on Wednesday were looking into whether welding work was to blame for a massive blaze that barreled through an apartment building construction site, threatening nearby buildings, prompting evacuations and forcing officials to call in about half the city's on-duty firefighters to prevent its spread.

As fire crews doused hotspots in the charred remains of the block-long apartment complex, city officials said they narrowly avoided a catastrophe in an up-and-coming neighborhood near the San Francisco Giants ballpark.

"I think we're very lucky that the fire didn't jump anymore," Mayor Ed Lee said.

The exact cause of the fire -- one of the city's largest in recent years -- was under investigation. But fire officials were looking into preliminary reports that workers were doing torch work at the site shortly before the fire was reported around 5 p.m. Tuesday, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said.

The five-alarm fire created a plume of black smoke that was visible for miles and led to the evacuation of nearby buildings, as about 150 firefighters were called in to contain it. One of the walls of the burning building collapsed about an hour after the fire began.

"We were hoping that we could contain it as quickly as possible," said firefighter Stephen Maguire, whose crew was among the first to arrive at the scene.

Firefighters had to take a defensive stance because the building was leaning in some areas, he said.

The blaze cracked windows on an apartment building, Strata at Mission Bay, across the street and sent an ember onto the roof of a University of California, San Francisco building in the neighborhood. It also briefly spread to scaffolding at another building under construction, Maguire said.

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Q. I have a two-story home in the Pittsburgh area that was built in 1998. In 2012, we had a new roof installed after a severe hailstorm. In December 2012, when I went into the attic to get my Christmas decorations, I noticed the entire roof on one side was damp, black and covered with mold.

I had the contractor who built the home and replaced the roof take a look at it. He acknowledged there was a humidity problem and said he believed there was too much insulation in the eaves and it should be lifted up with baffles and some removed as well. I also complained (which I had done before) that the bathroom exhaust fans should have never been vented into the attic. He told me they would correct it, vent them outside and spray the mold.

He wanted to install two power vent fans in the roof, but the entire roof has a ridge vent and a vented opening on each side of the house. I did some research myself and told him I felt there should be soffit vents for the ridge vent to work properly and that power fans usually do not work with ridge vents, so I was totally against them.

I suggested raising the insulation from the eaves and removing some, and adding soffit vents for the ridge vent to properly work. The response was: I think that may fix it. He also said he didnt believe the bathroom fans were the problem, but I maintain they are.

I have not yet been able to get them back to correct the issues, even though I was assured it would be corrected prior to this winter.

We had a freeze/thaw last week and obviously my attic was extremely damp and wet and smelled from moisture. The last two days we were 7 to 8 degrees below zero. I had a major ice buildup on the roofing nails, underside of the roof and attic walls. It is now thawing and water is dripping into a bedroom, into the attic and through the siding outside on the second floor of the home.

This has been going on since December 2012. In September 2013, the contractor told me it would be fixed before it got cold, but I am still waiting. I am to the point where I want someone else to fix the problem.

I have contacted my insurance company today and am waiting for the claims adjuster to call me, and I may sue the contractor as well.

Any suggestions on how to correct this before I am replacing the entire top of my house? Any suggestions on finding someone in my area who is an expert on attic humidity and really knows how to fix it? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

A. There should not be any insulation in cold eaves; it can get soaking wet if ice dams form and water leaks inside the soffits, and if there are soffit vents, the insulation blocks them. The insulation should be removed and there should be full-width baffles in each rafter bay to keep an open-air space between the soffit vents and the ridge vent. There should be full-length soffit vents and no gable vents or power vents. Air circulation between soffit and ridge vents occurs naturally by thermodynamics.

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