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2007 Dignitas Humana Award
Rick Ufford-Chase Receives the 2007 Dignitas Humana Award
(L) Abbot John Klassen, OSB, abbot of Saint John's Abbey (far left), Bill Cahoy, dean of the School of Theology·Seminary (second from right), and Br. Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, president of Saint John's University (far right) present the Dignitas Humana Award to Rick Ufford-Chase (second from left).
(R) Rick Ufford-Chase (center) with Gloria and George Allen, who made the award possible.
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Saint John's School of Theology∙Seminary presents Rick Ufford-Chase with its ninth Dignitas Humana Award at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007, in Saint John's Abbey Church on the campus of Saint John's University.
Following the presentation of the award, Ufford-Chase will give a lecture, "Holy Terror? Faithfulness In a Time of Fear," in the Abbey Church. The program will conclude with a reception in the Great Hall, adjacent to the Abbey Church.
All are welcome to attend the award presentation, lecture and reception.
Ufford-Chase, executive director of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, is a tireless advocate for peace and the alleviation of human exploitation and suffering. For nearly 20 years, he has been a mission worker on the United States-Mexico border; in 1987, Ufford-Chase helped found BorderLinks, the ecumenical, binational organization he directed from 2002-06. BorderLinks brings together people from both sides of the United States-Mexico border to create relationships, foster solidarity and offer experiential education opportunities on issues of global economics, militarization, immigration and popular resistance to oppression and violence. In addition to his work on the border, Ufford-Chase served as moderator of the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) from 2004-06. Since 2003, he and his wife, Kitty, have been Christian Peacemaker Teams reservists.
On his Web site, www.rickuffordchase.com, Ufford-Chase wrote, "I believe that we are called to live as Jesus lived, to risk as Jesus risked, and to care as deeply as Jesus cared"
Students and faculty will be able to engage in conversation with Ufford-Chase during his time on campus from Oct. 16-17. On Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., he will speak at Saint John's Preparatory School. On Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Saint John's School of Theology∙Seminary's Emmaus Hall, he will present a talk, "Christian Vocation in the Heart of the Empire."
The annual Dignitas Humana Award recognizes and encourages the efforts of individuals who do exceptional work on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised. It honors those who exemplify the Judeo-Christian values of service, respect, kindness and compassion in their work to advance the dignity of human persons. Recipients of this award support, advocate for, nurture and protect people on the margins of society in the United States and around the world and inspire others to work for human dignity and justice.
Previous recipients of the Dignitas Humana Award include the Community of Sant'Egidio; Rev. Carl Wilkens; the Taizé Community; S. Helen Prejean, CSJ; Rev. Gregory Boyle, SJ; Jean Vanier; Marva Collins; and Jonathan Kozol.
The Dignitas Humana Award is made possible by the generosity of M. George and Gloria Allen.
Events associated with the award are sponsored by the Saint John's School of Theology∙Seminary, in cooperation with the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, and Catholic Charities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

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While perusing the NOAA website this morning, I came across an interesting article on something we are all to familiar with here on the Central and Northern California Coast: FOG. As much as it is literally a daily part of our lives here, it never ceases to amaze me just how quickly a marine layer can roll in off the Pacific, sit in the valley's and then just as quickly burn off in the heat of the sun.
The article looks at the phonomenon of fog, exaclty what it is costing us and what NOAA is doing to mitigate the loss of life, property and resources from this everyday occurrence. —
Fog… it rolls, it creeps, it pools. It's part of every good horror movie. But while you won't find ghosts or monsters in real fog, it can pose some scary hazards for air, land, and water transportation.
A simple cloud in contact with the ground, fog makes it difficult for ships, trains, cars and planes to see each other. Notable accidents due to fog include the 1945 crash of a B-25 Mitchell into the Empire State Building; the 1956 collision of the ocean liners the SS Andrea Doria and MS Stockholm; the 1977 collisioin of Pam Am and KLM planes at the Tenerife Airport (the worst in aviation history); and the 2008 Interstate 4 70-vehicle pileup [not to mention the infamous 2007 Cosco Busan allision].
Beyond the loss of life and property, fog makes our nation's commerce and transportation systems less efficient. Weather-related crashes cost an average of $42 billion annually in the United States from personal injury, loss of life, and property damage (Lombardo, 2000). The estimated cost of weather-related delay to trucking companies ranges from $2.2 to $3.5 billion annually (DOT, 2007). And each year, $6 billion is lost due to air traffic delays, of which $4.2 billion (70 percent) is attributed to weather (Air Transport Association, 2002).
However, research shows that improved environmental data via an enhanced NOAA GOES satellite imager and sounder would improve the way NOAA sees short-term ice and fog formation and issues dense fog advisories, which would benefit the transportation industry by millions of dollars. NOAA's satellite enables us to provide:
- Improved short-term ice formation and fog condition forecasts (e.g., more than 2 hours notice) exceeds $29 million a year in benefits derived from rerouting efficiencies in the trucking industry (Adams et al., 2004)
- Improved marine forecasts of winds and waves, creating an economic benefit of $95 million a year for commercial shipping, from transit time savings and cargo loss reductions (NOAA, 2004)
- Weather sensing, data fusion, and forecasting services create an economic benefit of $590 million a year from improved travel safety and national delay reduction. Benefits for specific airports include: $16.7 million for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, $25.7 million for Los Angeles International Airport, and $119 million for San Francisco International Airport (Evans et al., 1999)
- Integrated terminal weather system services provide economic benefits of $176 million a year from improved air traffic decision making, reducing gridlock and delays (Alan et al., 2001)
- Regional ocean observing systems, which reduce the risk of maritime accidents, improve search and rescue, etc., may be worth more than $30 million a year to the Gulf of Maine and $300 million a year to all U.S. coasts (Kite-Powell et al., 2005).
NOAA's meteorological data is requested in a wide variety of situations where weather plays a major role in accidents, disasters, or mysteries.
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An air transport company contacted NOAA's National Climatic Data Center to check on the disappearance of one of their light aircraft. The aircraft was lost in foggy conditions over Lake St. Clair after taking off from Port Huron, Michigan. NCDC supplied surface observations to reflect the conditions at the estimated time of the disappearance. It appeared that the aircraft struck a channel marker that sticks up about 20 feet from the surface of the lake.
The U.S. Coast Guard contacted the NCDC to get meteorological data that was used to piece together how two boats collided on the intra coastal waterway of Louisiana. NOAA's Satellite Services Group supplied the Coast Guard with GOES satellite imagery to help determine if fog was a major factor in the accident.
Lawyers commonly request and use NOAA fog, weather, and climate data in a wide variety of court cases to determine the severity of environmental conditions.
Listen to a NOAA public service announcement about navigating in dense fog.
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Hello and welcome to the boards.
I'm not recruiting, advertising, or spamming these boards
Just trying to grow an online community I'm part of. RPoverIP,
or Roleplay Enforced Mudding. The system uses generated dice,
a character sheet just like that of the classic WhiteWolf books, and
is run by Storytellers. There aren't random monsters, but detailed
environments in which to set your PC and interact with other PCs, who
are roleplayers and dedicated gamers just like you. If its hard for you to
find a group in your area, I highly suggest trying VistaNights out. There aren't a ton of glompy commands to memorize, and I'll give total instructions on how to connect, make a character, and join in the RP almost instantly.
For people already accustomed to having to roleplay over text online, Connect dune.net port 9666.
First: Download a mud/mush client. I use GMud, but I'm told SimpleMu is excellent as well. You can even use plain old telent (Run:telnet from your start button) to play.
Connect: Connect to dune.net Port: 9666, the command or way to do this is different for the different mud clients, but still simple.
You'll be asked for a character name and password, and like that you're in the game, ready to start making your character. The creation room is usually host to a few other players, and almost always a storyteller to get you started. Just follow their directions and you're good to go.
Apply: Next, you'll have to register at the forums, and read the creation guidelines (There are specific topics for each class) Then, just fill out the little application, write a small history for your character, and then submit. A Storyteller will get right with you with any adjustments or questions, finish filling in your sheet, and boom: You're ready to roleplay with other gamers in the world of darkness. If you have some time on your hands, I highly recommend at least checking it out.
Hello and welcome to the boards.
Thoth-Amon, Lord of the Underworld and the Undead
Once you know what the magician knows, it's not magick. It's a 'tool of Creation'. -Archmagus H.H.
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. - Meridjet
Not spamming? Noooooo why would we think that?
My only issue with this is you can do the exact same thing on WoD's official site. What makes yours better?
Small community dedicated to roleplay by the system, open to pretty much any action you're character would make (Vying for Princehood, Raising a lowly Mortal up to be a Childe) and aside from your poses, there's no freeform peeing contests, as everything's by the dice and aided by the staff and Storytellers. Its completely different and far more driven than just post and roll browser RP.
Perhaps you aren't familiar with White Wolf's site. They have the exact same thing you're talking about. Volunteer storytellers who divvy up XP for "official scenes", you store your character sheet on their server, and they have a dice roller everyone can see, you can play any of the monster types if you so choose... I'm not sure what a freeform peeing contest is... but I'm not seeing any advantage to your site over the official WoD site.
Very well said Korhal not to mention a great group of people there as well I highly recommend it.
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Mexican woman farm laborer picking tomatoes in a California field, 1938. These were the very same circumstances and times that Esperanza lived and worked in as a child.
Credit: Image courtesy of American Memory at the Library of Congress.
When she is a young girl learning with difficulty to crochet, her grandmother unravels all of Esperanza's rows and tells her, "Do not be afraid to start over." Although she does not realize it at the time, this advice will become Esperanza's guiding principle as she learns to confront some of life's harsher realities.
Pam Muñoz Ryan was inspired to write Esperanza Rising by the stories she heard as a child from her grandmother, Esperanza Ortega Muñoz. Set in the early 1930s, twenty years after the Mexican Revolution and during the Great Depression, Esperanza Rising tells the story of a young Mexican girl's courage and resourcefulness when at the tender age of thirteen she finds herself living in a strange new world. Esperanza, whose name means "hope" in Spanish, is born to a world of pampered comfort and privilege on a large and successful ranch. But when her father is killed by bandits, she and her mother are eventually forced to flee their life of privilege and travel to the United States where they survive as best they can as migrant farm laborers. When her mother falls ill with Valley Fever, Esperanza learns the value of family and friends. She finds ways to care for her mother and cope with the difficulties of making a new home, rising again like the mythical phoenix in the stories her grandmother told her when she was a child.
In this lesson students will explore some of the contrasts that Esperanza experiences when she suddenly falls from her lofty perch as the darling child of a wealthy landowner surrounded by family and servants to become a servant herself among an extended family of immigrant farm workers. The lesson will also look behind the story at the historical, social, and cultural circumstances that help to account for the great contrasts and contradictions that Esperanza discovers when she comes to the United States. And, finally, the lesson will invite students to contemplate some of the changes that Esperanza undergoes as she confronts herself and her circumstances and grows from a pampered child into a resourceful and responsible young woman.
A Spanish-language edition Esperanza Renace is also available.
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to
On one important level Esperanza Rising is a heart warming story of a young girl who learns the importance of love and sacrifice for family and friends, but on another level it is also a lesson in the cultural as well as personal struggles that poor families, especially immigrants and farm laborers, must experience.
The novel begins with Esperanza as a child of six in 1924, then jumps ahead six years to the eve of her thirteenth birthday. An EDSITEment feature, The Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-2010, has some excellent background on The Mexican Revolution. Although the Revolution officially ended with the proclamation of the new Constitution of 1917, fighting continued until 1920, and instances of lawlessness and revolutionary activity lingered with the assassinations of Zapata in 1919, of Carranza, the first President elected after the proclamation of the new Constitution, in 1920, and of Pancho Villa in 1923. At the time of the story, bandits, some of them former revolutionaries, were still active, especially against the large landowners like Esperanza's family. This historical background lends depth and richness to the plot and setting as well as the characters.
The novel is set on a large ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico, which a decade earlier had been a center of revolutionary activity, and in migrant labor camps near Arvin, California.
The opening chapters of the book introduce students to the class divides in early 20th-century Mexico, which, like similar distinctions in the United States, were based not only on social class and education but on economics and ethnicity. In the early decades of the 20th century there was great discontent among Mexicans over the distribution of land and wealth as well as over participation in Mexican politics. The EDSITEment-reviewed Getty Museum website online exhibition on "Mexico from Empire to Revolution" includes photographs and background information on the lives of ordinary people in the time of the revolution.
Although the Revolution of 1910 brought political reform, some remained unsatisfied with the results. Pam Muñoz Ryan mentions at least two occasions when bandits attack the ranch owned by Esperanza's family, and it was bandits who killed her father, Sixto Ortega, and set the story of Esperanza's immigration to the United States in motion. These bandits, sometimes former revolutionaries, continued to carry out raids against the large landowners many years after the revolution. And even though Esperanza's father is generous and has given land to his campesinos, or field workers, there are still those who remember the revolution and the great resentment over the unfair distribution of land and the divide between the rich and the poor. During and after the Mexican Revolution many Mexicans who could not find work immigrated to the U.S. where they often became migrant farm laborers on the large farms of California.
Esperanza Rising is also set in the midst of the Great Depression that affected much of the world in the 1930s. The website for the another PBS documentary, Surviving the Dustbowl, has helpful background on The Great Depression and other events leading to the enormous internal migration of American farm families from the dustbowl of the American Midwest. These displaced families were the Okies made famous by John Steinbeck in his Grapes of Wrath and also referred to in Esperanza Rising. The Dustbowl website includes a timeline of related historical events.
The Okies were as desperate for work as the Mexican farm laborers and their growing numbers were creating a labor glut in California. Farmers and growers were able to take advantage of this situation and reduce labor costs, paying lower wages and providing only the bare minimum in the way of accommodations. Some of the farm laborers attempted to form a union and encourage other laborers to strike for better working conditions and higher wages. In time the U.S. Government stepped in and attempted to force repatriation of many of the Mexican farm laborers, some of whom were born in the U.S. or had become citizens. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service conducted raids and deported many thousands of Mexican laborers and their families. Photos of the Great Depression are available on the EDSITEment-reviewed American Memory website at the Library of Congress. Another photo essay on the Great Depression is on the EDSITEment-reviewed Modern American Poetry site.
Among the many hardships that Esperanza and her mother experience is the very difficult case of Valley Fever that Ramona, Esperanza's mother, catches after the dust storm. Although medical care is expensive for Esperanza, it is available in the county hospital. You can learn more about this disease, Coccidioidomycosis, from Medline Plus on the National Institutes of Health website.
This lesson assumes that students have already been asked to read Esperanza Rising, and although some of the activities could begin while they are reading, the fourth activity requires knowledge of the entire novel.
Prior to assigning activities
After students have read at least the first three or four chapters of Esperanza Rising, ask them to imagine what Esperanza's life was like as the pampered child of a wealthy landowner. The goal of this activity is to introduce students to some elements of Mexican culture from the novel, but also to emphasize some of the stark contrasts between Esperanza's privileged position early in the story and her later experiences. Students should also begin to understand the various social and class distinctions as well as the economic divisions between Esperanza's immediate family and their servants and farm workers.
To introduce some of these important differences ask students to take part in a short dramatic sketch reenacting Esperanza's birthday party. You may want to begin by asking your class to locate Aguascalientes on a map of Mexico such as this one on the EDSITEment-reviewed National Geographic website. Then ask them to imagine what it would have been like to be Esperanza on her birthday? This activity could take the form of a short play that the students write in which they assume the roles of the family and farm workers and friends from the area celebrating Esperanza's birthday, the one prior to the family tragedy.
Ask students to use details from the novel to create a birthday celebration for Esperanza. Encourage them to mention food, games, gifts, and the birthday song, as well as the parts played by the family, friends, and servants. The Texas State Library has online audio files of Las Mañanitas, the Birthday Song. Before they begin ask them to discuss and answer the following questions.
When they have written and performed their play, ask students to discuss what they have learned about Esperanza and her family from the birthday party? Try to get them to notice and comment on any cultural differences that occur to them, such as the absence of a birthday cake and the relatively small number of children Esperanza's own age.
After students have looked at the web resources and have read at least the first six chapters of the book, through "Los Melones" (cantaloupes), ask them to imagine what it would have been like for Esperanza and her mother to decide to leave their family's ranch and travel to California. The goal of this second activity is to encourage students to appreciate some of the jarring dislocations that Esperanza and her mother, Ramona, and grandmother experience after the death of Esperanza's father, Sixto Ortega. Their family tragedy is made worse by the greed and cruelty of Esperanza's uncles, Tío Marco and Tío Luis, who force Ramona to decide whether to marry her brother-in-law Luis and stay on in Aguascalientes, along with all the hardships that would bring, or to take her daughter and flee with her former servants Alfonzo and Hortensia and their son Miguel and begin a new life in what for them will be a strange new country.
In preparation for this activity, students will benefit from reviewing some of the following web resources. You can assign some of this as homework, using the EDSITEment LaunchPad, but you may want to introduce some of the many photographs on these sites, not all of which will be relevant to Esperanza Rising, in class. A good place to start is by asking students to return to Aguascalientes on a map of Mexico, such as the one on the National Geographic website; then ask them to find Mexicali, the railroad terminus on the California border, and Los Angeles and Arvin (which is not named but is near Bakersfield) on the National Geographic map of California. This should help them to appreciate the great distance that Esperanza and her mother must travel (and that Miguel will have to travel later in the story to bring Esperanza's grandmother Abuelita to join them in California).
There is some helpful background information on the history of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and its aftermath on the Mexico for Kids website on the EDSITEment-reviewed Latin American Network Information Center. Students can also learn more about the lives of ordinary people like those in the story and look at a collection of photographs on the "Mexico from Empire to Revolution" on the EDSITEment-reviewed website of the Getty Museum.
This activity, which encourages critical thinking and analysis, can be assigned individually or to small work groups. Ask students to make lists of the pros and cons to help them understand what was at stake for Ramona and Esperanza when they had to decide whether to stay in Aguascalientes or flee to California. Encourage them to think about what the consequences might be for each decision. Students may also want to trace the route of the trip to the United States on a map. As they work on the assignment they will be asked to consider the following questions:
When they have finished answering these questions and making their lists, assemble the entire class for an opportunity to compare their lists and to discuss Ramona's decision. Most students will very likely conclude that Ramona made the right decision, but if some conclude she should have stayed and married her husband's brother, Tío Luis, that will provide the basis for a better discussion. If none of the students favor Ramona's staying, be sure that their discussion fully acknowledges the numerous hardships of leaving home and of the journey itself, as well as the natural reluctance to face an uncertain future in a new country. The goal is to help students appreciate the difficulty of such a decision and to understand the hoped for rewards as well as the hardships. A good way to add depth to this discussion is to ask if anyone in the class has had to make such a journey or knows someone, perhaps in their own families, who have done so.
What would it be like to be a migrant farm worker in the 1930s? When students have nearly completed their reading of the novel, at least through the chapter titled "Los Esparagos" (asparaguses), they will be ready for the third activity in this lesson. One goal of this activity is to encourage students to appreciate the many hardships and difficulties that Esperanza encounters and eventually overcomes in her new home. But another related goal is to introduce some of the historical background that Pam Muñoz Ryan uses to add depth and detail to her story.
Once again, in preparation for this activity, you can go over the web resources in class or ask students to review some of them on their own using the EDSITEment LaunchPad. The online resources for the PBS documentary "Surviving the Dustbowl" provides information about The Great Depression and the migration of the Okies as well as a timeline of related historical events. Oakland Museum of California, host of the EDSITEment-reviewed California Gold Rush site, also has resources and photos related to Mexican and Mexican American migrant laborers. Another photo essay on the Great Depression is on the EDSITEment-reviewed Modern American Poetry website. The EDSITEment-reviewed New Deal Network also has a photo library of images from farm labor camps and migrant labor camps. Not all of these photos will be appropriate to the story of Esperanza, so you may want to select a few examples of families of migrant workers and photographs of farm labor camps for viewing by the class as part of the preparation for this activity.
The Library of Congress American Memory website also has audio recordings of interviews made in 1940 and 1941 at migrant work camps in California. An interview with Augustus Martinez and two with Jose Flores discuss work in the fields and life in the camps as well as labor issues and discrimination against Mexicans. Each interview lasts approximately eight to ten minutes.
After students have reviewed the web resources and finished reading a sufficient portion of the novel, divide the class once again into small work groups and ask each group to choose a subject for a short dramatic scene describing some activity from a day in the life of a farm laborer or a member of a farm laborer's family. These scenes should be based on their reading of Esperanza Rising as well as their background research. Some students may want to take the roles of union organizers who visit with the others and try to persuade them to join the union and strike. Others may describe a shopping trip at the Japanese grocery or preparing a meal after a day in the fields. While the class works on their dramatizations based on the novel, ask them to consider some of the following questions:
When they have completed their dramatic scenes, let the students share them with the assembled class. They can either read them or act them out. The goal is to get students to identify with the hard work and living conditions, but also with the camaraderie among the laborers and their families. Ask the students what they have learned about the difficulties of Esperanza's life in California and the ways she has had to adapt to her new role and her new home.
While the previous activities have been directed at the setting and historical context of Esperanza Rising, the goal of this activity is to focus student attention on the literary qualities of the novel as well as the larger themes and the lessons learned by Esperanza from her experiences. Once again it may be more productive to divide the class into small work groups. Ask each group to make a chart on which they list the parts of the story, the setting, the characters, themes, symbols, imagery, etc. Then ask them to create an outline of the plot of the story. Use the story worksheet in the EDSITEment LaunchPad for this activity. Students should be encouraged to begin by asking and answering some of these questions:
When each group is finished, ask them to compare results with one another. It is likely that each group will see the story in slightly different ways, but as they compare their worksheets, they should begin to see how Pam Muñoz Ryan uses the various elements of the story to make some larger points about the importance of family and friendship and courage and strength of character. Some students may have difficulty identifying symbols and images. Try to get them to notice the way that the author uses the names of fruits and vegetables in the titles of the story's chapters. Ask them to identify all of the objects that seem to have special meaning for Esperanza or one of the other characters.
This activity is a good preliminary to the discussion questions and writing assignments in the assessment section of this lesson. If the class has completed reading the entire novel before beginning this lesson, this activity could be used as the first activity in preparation for the others.
Here are some discussion questions that can also be used as writing assignments:
Although there is a Spanish language edition of this book, some teachers may also want to ask students reading the English language version to learn some of the Spanish words used in the story. As they read Esperanza Rising, ask students to make a list of all the Spanish words they encounter along with the English equivalents. Encourage students to look up the definitions in a Spanish-English dictionary or online. When they have finished their reading, ask them to compare their lists. If there are Spanish-speaking students in the class, ask them to comment on the Spanish words and discuss the similarities and differences between the Spanish and English equivalents that Pam Muñoz Ryan provides. For example, campesinos is translated as field worker, the root of the word is campo, or field. Vaqueros are cowboys, vaca is the Spanish word for cow. Quinceañeras, which Pam Muñoz Ryan refers to as the "presentation party" held on a girl's fifteenth birthday derives from the Spanish quince años, literally fifteen years. There are many Spanish words in the novel, from the very common and familiar ones, such as gracias, thank you; de nada you're welcome, buena suerte, good luck; dulces, sweets; to more complex words, such as una palanca, a lever, meaning some kind of "connection" which Miguel says he would need to get a job on the railroad in Mexico. Pam Muñoz Ryan also uses the Spanish names of various fruits and vegetables as chapter titles, to mark the progress of the story and the passing of time with the seasons of the harvests.
If there is time, especially if you team teach with someone in social studies, you may want to introduce the story "We didn't go to el Norte to gather flowers," told by Don Miguel Gutiérrez in May, 1992, one of the oral histories collected by the Mexican Migration Project, a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed Latin American Network Information Center. The similarities and differences in this true story of a Mexican migrant worker and his family may help place Esperanza Rising in an even more contemporary context. This story is one of several told by recent immigrants in both Spanish and English.
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Learning that she was HIV+ and that her husband had hidden the truth of his condition from her was a double shock for Florence, who lives in Liberia's capital Monrovia. But with support from WFP, she has turned her life around and is hopeful about her family's future.
MONROVIA -- Florence, 39, didn't know she was HIV+ until two years after her husband's death. He died of AIDS, but never told her what his illness was or that she too had probably contracted the virus.
She only discovered she was HIV+ after she had started a new life with another man and was pregnant with his child. She went to the hospital in Monrovia for routine tests and was told the news.
"I was sad and angry, if I had known I could have protected myself," she says in an interview at the Redemption Hospital in the Liberian capital.
It took a while to accept the situation. But because she is a strong woman, Florence gradually overcame the shocks. Food assistance, delivered through the HIV unit at the Redemption hospital, played a crucial role.
"When I was pregnant I came here to get my treatment and I got food from WFP. I still get food from WFP to help with the drugs. The drugs are strong and having the right food helps me fight the disease," she says.
Thanks to the food and the medication, which she takes religiously, Florence is able to work support her six children. She sells soft drinks.
Recently, she has started to do volunteer work, helping fellow Liberians who find themselves in similar situations as she did.
Florence is part of a team working out of Redemption Hospital. She and other HIV/AIDS patients go out into the local community to talk about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. They share their own stories and encourage people to get tested. On Fridays they run a support workshop with 4 other volunteers at the hospital.
"I do that for my family. I was very sad when I was diagnosed but now I can see a future without HIV/AIDS, and I have put it behind me."
She has had her children tested for HIV and they are negative.
The medical staff coordinating Florence's volunteer team say HIV/AIDS cases in the hospital are increasing for adults, but they suggest this is because there is more awareness about it and people are talking about HIV/AIDS more.
The work done by Florence and her fellow volunteers is good, they say, as it makes people see that it's OK to talk about their situation and that there is a solution.


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The Real Jets Controversy
The New York Jets probably aren't going to win the Super Bowl this season. This is pessimistic, perhaps harsh, but someone's got to be a sober realist around here. The Jets are currently 5-7, and when one assesses this record, the only mystery is how this tormented team actually won itself five games. The Jets have lost spectacularly more than once this year, in a manner that has made one question not just their preparedness as football players, but as human beings leaving the house. They fell 34-0 at home versus San Francisco; 30-9 versus wobbly Miami; and 49-19 in a Thanksgiving home rout to New England that climaxed with quarterback Mark Sanchez colliding with the rear end of one of his linemen and fumbling. After that contest, the franchise's most recognizable fan, Fireman Ed, resigned from his unofficial role as booster, claiming the atmosphere at Jets games was too hostile. This was a little bit like resigning from a fish restaurant because it was serving fish.
On Sunday, the Jets defeated the remaining feathers of the Arizona Cardinals, a club that began its season 4-0, but has not won since September. The final score was 7-6. Somehow, the game was less thrilling than the score. The "news," if there was news, was the Jets sitting Sanchez in favor of third-stringer Greg McElroy, who was pushed into the understudy role because of an injury to usual second-stringer Tim Tebow. McElroy led the Jets on their only scoring drive, concluding in a one-yard touchdown pass, and finished the afternoon throwing 5 of 7 passes for 29 yards, with no turnovers. Not flashy. But not a disaster.
Now there is pressure on Jets head coach Rex Ryan to make a decision about the team's quarterbacking future, as if there's great urgency to the matter. The Jets have four games left, and they're all against misery—Jacksonville, Tennessee, San Diego and Buffalo. If you look closely at the AFC playoff picture, and then drink half a bottle of spiced rum, you can come up with the hypothesis that if the Jets win their four remaining games, they could squeak into the postseason. I guess. That kind of thing happens from time to time, like cats winning the lottery.
The more likely scenario is that the Jets do not qualify for the playoffs, for the second consecutive year. Most reasonable fans reached this conclusion long ago, and so the current fascination with the Jets quarterback situation resembles someone tinkering with the engine of a car that's sitting up on concrete blocks. Does this matter? What are the stakes? If the Jets indeed have a quarterback controversy, it's a low-grade controversy. This is not San Francisco, where a bona fide Super Bowl contender is wrestling between a pair of talented, distinct choices.
For the Jets, the big issue, of course, is what Sunday's surrender means for Sanchez, a quarterback who managed to lead his team to consecutive AFC title games, but appears to be regressing. Sanchez has been victimized by poor protection and injuries to offensive weapons, and his confidence appears shaken. The Jets may have undermined Sanchez with their off-season maneuvering to get Tim Tebow, but it's also true that Tebow has been, at best, a meek threat to Sanchez's long-term security. The job has been Sanchez's to lose, and versus the Cardinals, he lost it—not to Tebow, but the other dude.
If McElroy rises and Sanchez fades in this shrinking season, it's hard not to wonder what becomes of this club as constructed. Not long ago, Ryan and the Jets were such entertaining arrivistes—talking loud and playing loud, reveling in the attention this city will lavish upon a noisy target. But there was always a risk that the act would grow old, and that's the burden that has overwhelmed this imperfect club. Whoever plays quarterback next Sunday will provide a pleasant distraction. But the real controversy is Jets vs. Jets—and whether or not this team needs to go back and start all over again.
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Recognizing the value of a strong safety culture is an important aspect of our work in Olin Hall and beyond.
To promote awareness of safety actions, attitudes, and behaviors, the safety committee organized the 1st Annual CBE Safety Olinpics as an educational and entertaining initiative to promote a strong safety culture within the department.
The committee (which includes lab safety officers from all research groups and representatives from Cornell's Environmental Health and Safety Office) organized a number of engaging safety disciplines including 'first responder' CPR training, waste disposal, and personal protective equipment (PPE).
"The graduate students spent significant time planning the Safety Olinpics to include safety and compliance topics that will stay with them while at Cornell and beyond. This was an impressive event and we were excited to be invited to participate," said Brenda Coolbaugh, Chemical Hygiene Officer.
The event kicked-off with a talk from Dan Vaughn about 'Value-based safety culture'. The closing ceremony was marked by a departmental mixer which included a jeopardy-style safety quiz and the award ceremony for winning teams. The event was made possible by the generous support of external sponsors including Corning Inc. and VWR.
Cornell EHS safety specialist Alan Bitar commented, "I was impressed with the high level of engagement among the graduate students while they were creating activities for the Safety Olinpics. Also, as a safety instructor, I was delighted to witness them having fun while leading the activities on the day of the event."
Overall, the inaugural CBE Safety Olinpics was a great success and the organizers are eagerly preparing for the 2017 event.


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Summerlander wrote:This something you call God... Do you believe it exists objectively (separate from your mind)? If so, why? And is this something intelligent and the Creator of all there is?
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1. Yes it is separate because I had no influence over what happened in real life.
2. Don't understand all creation so disputing its' responsibility for that to me is useless. Because you plant seed doesn't mean you are responsible for it's growth even if you water it later. Was it present or has greater knowledge about the beginning of the cosmos. I'd be surprised if it didn't.
So in fairness why do you feel God can't exist? As a scientist I am curious.


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Even the most Zen among us has to get a little agitated at airport security checkpoints these days. The reason: It seems the rules are different every time. Take the subject of iPads, for instance. Can we leave them in our carry-ons or not? Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes it's no.
When you're traveling with kids, this anxiety is heightened. On one level, you're concerned for their well-being; with scanners and cops everywhere, you certainly don't want them to freak. On another level, the complexity of managing logistics increases tenfold; on family trips you're not only keeping tabs of your own stuff, you're monitoring your kids' stuff too.
With all of this in mind, here's a little-known tidbit that should make things easier: When you're traveling domestically with kids under the age of 18, the kids don't need IDs. Period.
I learned this the hard way, while traveling from San Francisco to Los Angeles with my 3.5-year-old daughter last weekend. We approached the security checkpoint at Terminal 2 inside San Francisco International Airport, and the blue-shirted TSA agent practically snarfed his coffee when I handed him L's passport.
"You know you don't need this, right?" he said.
I had no idea what he was talking about, so I just sort of groaned quizzically in response.
"Her passport," he reiterated, sounding irritated at me for not having a clue. "She's under 18. You don't need ID for kids who are traveling with you if they're under 18."
Because I've been misinformed at checkpoints before, I didn't believe him. So I went to the TSA web site. And found a page that said: "Adult passengers (18 and over) are required to show a U.S. federal or state-issued photo ID in order to be allowed to go through the checkpoint and onto their flight."
Just to be safe, I called the TSA. And a spokesperson said the same thing. (As did this USA Today article.)
To be clear, if you're traveling internationally, all travelers still need passports. But for domestic travel, kids don't need anything. The TSA spokesperson did note that it's always a good idea to bring a copy of something that proves your child's age—the aforementioned passport, a birth certificate, or (if you're from a state where kids can drive before they're 18), a license.
In terms of the actual documents, however, rest easier; next time you're flying within the U.S., it's OK to leave them home.


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On the 50th anniversary of the OECD, we examine the unique work the organisation
performs in regulating and rationalising governments' use of export credits in support
of exports, jobs, economic growth and national interests more broadly. This work is
part of a global post war effort to emphasise multilateral co operation and sound
economic policies to promote co operation, efficiency and prosperity rather than destructive
competition, controversy and conflict.
OECD export credits work is one of the basic building blocks of the ever growing structure of global trade agreements that aim to maintain open and efficient markets. The objective is to eliminate subsidies and unfair practices in the economic competition that forms the foundation of a healthy and dynamic global economy. The elimination of official financing subsidies in global trade is only a part of the broader trade policy agenda, but it is a vital part, and has been delegated to the OECD by the WTO. Since financing is the life blood of trade flows, specialised OECD housed work allows trade to flow efficiently for aircraft and other capital goods while other trade policy work and litigation continue at the WTO.
The export credits work at the OECD is described in this collection of essays. However it is about much more than the series of agreements described herein. It is more fundamentally about the governments and their people - policy makers and experts - who gather at the OECD to build collectively a system of export credits disciplines that is fair, transparent, adaptable and effective. It is therefore as much about people and ideas as anything else. The export credit secretariat pictured above represents only the latest in a long line of OECD staff committed to facilitate and advise this work.
The OECD's motto on its 50th anniversary is "Better Policies for Better Lives." This reminds us that in the end, it is policies that are at the centre of human well being. And export credits work is about promoting these better policies by developing "smart rules" that open markets and maintain a level playing field and by bringing people and governments together to this end.
Strategic Overview2 chapters available
Evolution of smart rules6 chapters available
Forum of views19 chapters available
The global financial crisis3 chapters available
Greener export credits5 chapters available
Civil aircraft4 chapters available
Concessional and non-concessional export credits2 chapters available
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By Caleb Barron
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Christine Flores is an outlier. The senior from San Antonio is not cut from the same cloth as Hall of Fame post players Bill Russell, Rebecca Lobo, Patrick Ewing and countless others who played with angry eyebrows and forearm shivers. But that hasn't stopped her from becoming one of the most productive "bigs" in the Big 12.
Assuming Flores stays healthy, she will soon break the University of Missouri's single season block record -- a ho-hum five-block effort against Oklahoma already vaulted her to the top of the school's career list. Her production in 2011-2012 has been consistently exceptional (18.7 PPG, 7.7 RPG, 3.5 BPG). In early December, she became the first Tiger to record a triple-double (25 points, 14 rebounds, 10 blocks against Eastern Illinois) in 17 years, even if she didn't know it until after the game.
"When I went into the media room, [the media] made it sound like I didn't get it," Flores said. "Later on in the interview they asked how it felt to get the triple-double. I was like, 'Wait, I got it?'"
Playing the game oblivious to the numbers and pressures of her surroundings is a trademark of Flores'. Unlike the laundry list of post players that intimidate on the court, she has replaced the scowl for the smile.
"I don't want to play because I have to or because I'm doing it for somebody or something," Flores said. "I'm doing it for myself and I want to have fun with it."
Off-the-court and on, Flores is always having a good time. She credits her parents for developing an infectious joy that stems from allowing her the freedom to choose her own activities; Flores didn't start playing basketball until fifth grade, despite her advanced height. Her teammates and roommate, Tori Niemann, says the laughter never stops in "The Pound" (tenant-appointed nickname for their apartment due to a love of furry, four-legged animals). Still, Flores recognizes a need to become more intense on the court. Missouri Head Coach Robin Pingeton agrees.
"I know [smiling] means a lot to her, but just her understanding the perception, body language, all this stuff that goes with that," Pingeton said. "That was a little bit of a process because old habits die hard."
The process has been truly embraced by Flores in the year and a half she has been coached by Pingeton. The senior forward says Pingeton and her coaching staff "whipped her life around" when they got to Columbia. She attributes the life lessons instilled into each practice as key cultivators of her intangibles.
"I just focused on basketball," Flores said. "That's what I thought I was here for. They changed my mind that yeah, basketball is what I'm here for but it's the degree that matters."
Pingeton notes the team's transition hasn't always been easy.
"We've had a lot of tough love conversations over the past year and a half," Pingeton said.
Paired with her infectious smile and penchant to keep the glass half full, Flores could be poised for a post-basketball career in making a positive impact. She has admitted to already thinking about motivation speaking or teaching the game of basketball to kids.
Or perhaps both.
Just as Flores differs in approach to the game she also differs in heritage. She is Mexican American, an ethnicity that is rarely represented in basketball. Not only did Flores end up loving the sport, she also was blessed with the genetics to thrive. She calls growing to 6'3" "lucky." In the near future, she plans on paying it forward.
"There are Mexican children out there who don't have the greatest lifestyle and I've seen it," Flores said.
Flores sees basketball as an opportunity to live a healthy lifestyle. She has the athletic background, cultural understanding and outgoing personality, to teach the sport to a specific community of people.
"It's a really big cliche, but when you play sports it takes out a lot of excess energy and anger," Flores said. "If you have [built-up engergy], you can spend your time wisely doing that in any sport."
Flores and her teammates know they are spending their energy rebuilding MU's women's basketball program. Although they haven't had as much success as they'd like, they sense the coaching staff is starting to turn things around. It's simply up to the team to put forth the effort. Keep working, keep driving, keep giving their very best each time on the court.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has begun telling Americans the Nov. 6 election comes down to which candidate would be better for their families. He's trying to personalize the choice voters are making between him and President Barack Obama.
Campaigning in Nevada, Romney said the election isn't just about big ideas but also is about "your family."
He described tough situations facing seniors, families with children and the unemployed. At one point, Romney asked audience members to raise their hands to say if they experienced situations he had just outlined.
The remarks were a departure from Romney's typical campaign speeches, which usually have a broader focus.
After the speech, Romney headed for his second campaign stop of the day, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.


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This story is part of the Planet Money T-shirt project.
Jeff Steinberg had a maroon and white lacrosse jersey that he wore for years. It said "Denver Lacrosse" on the front and had his number, 5, on the back.
Then, one day, he cleaned out his closet and took the shirt to a Goodwill store in Miami. He figured that was the end of it. But some months after that, Steinberg found himself in Sierra Leone for work. He was walking down the street, and he saw a guy selling ice cream and cold drinks, wearing a Denver Lacrosse jersey.
"I thought, 'Wow, this is pretty crazy,' " Steinberg says. Then he looked at the back of the shirt — and saw the number 5. His number. Steinberg tried to talk to the guy about the shirt, but he didn't speak much English and they couldn't really communicate.
"I spent a lot of time thinking about that over the following days," Steinberg says. "It was just beyond me how it could have gotten there."
It turns out the epic voyage of Steinberg's jersey — from a used clothes bin in the U.S. to sub-Saharan Africa — is actually really common. Lots of U.S. shirts (including, it seems safe to say, lots of Planet Money T-shirts) will eventually make the trip.
Charities like Goodwill sell or give away some of the used clothes they get. But a lot of the clothes get sold, packed in bales and sent across the ocean in a container ship. The U.S. exports over a billion pounds of used clothing every year — and much of that winds up in used clothing markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
We recently visited the giant Gikombo Market in central Nairobi. There's a whole section for denim, and another for bras. We, of course, headed for the street of T-shirts, where vendors lay out their wares on horse carts. The shirts have been washed, ironed and carefully folded. It's more like Gap than Goodwill — if Gap had a very strange product line.
Just to pick at random from one cart: There's a fundraising T-shirt for a cancer charity, a shirt from a weightlifting competition in southern Montana and a shirt marking "Jennifer's Bat Mitzvah" in November 1993.
Margaret Wanjiku, a T-shirt vendor from western Kenya, has come to this market to restock her supply. What's written on the T-shirt is often not that important to her customers, she says. She's looking more at the condition of the shirt — the "smartness."
Like many vendors here, Wanjiku stays away from shirts that are extra-large, because those are too big for almost all of her customers. But there is at least one guy in Nairobi looking for extra-large shirts.
Francis Mungai cuts up XL shirts with scissors and, working with a seamstress, turns them into slimmer, smaller shirts.
One recent day he bought an extra-large Motorhead shirt and, in a few minutes, turned it into a slim, custom shirt with a blue collar and canary-yellow sleeves. The Motorhead shirt was imported to Kenya for 15 cents. It was resold and sold again for 45 cents. Then someone got 12 cents to cut it up, 18 cents to tailor it and 14 cents to wash and iron the shirt. Then a vendor bought it for $1.20, with plans to sell it for $2 to $3.
Update: A caption in the slideshow incorrectly referred to a shirt as a Tupac shirt. Thanks to the commenter who pointed it out.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
All last week, we brought you the story of T-shirts commissioned by NPR's Planet Money Team. The story had many chapters, beginning in a cotton field in Mississippi. That cotton was then wound into yarn in Indonesia, sewn in Bangladesh and Colombia. And the finished shirts were shipped back to consumers here in the U.S. But what happens to our shirts when we're done with them?
Today, in our final story from the Planet Money series, The T-shirt Afterlife, we're going to hear from NPR's Gregory Warner and first, David Kestenbaum.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: When Jeff Steinberg was in high school, he played a lot of lacrosse which is why he had this shirt: A maroon and white tank top.
JEFF STEINBERG: Had Denver Lacrosse written on the front with a couple lacrosse sticks crossed. And my number that season was Number 5. So it had Number 5 on the back.
KESTENBAUM: Jeff wore the shirt for years - in the backyard, at the beach. Then one day he cleaned out his closet. We've all done this, worn and loved some piece of clothing and then decided it's time. Jeff took good old Number 5 down to Goodwill. He remembers the place - Miami, SW 146th Street near US 1. Which he thought was the end of things.
But then months later he was in Africa, Sierra Leone for work, walking down the street and he sees this guy selling ice cream and cold drinks, wearing a shirt. It's maroon and, yes, it has lacrosse sticks on it.
STEINBERG: It was Denver Lacrosse one and I thought, wow, this is like pretty crazy. He has this lacrosse jersey from that team.
KESTENBAUM: Then Jeff looked at the back of the shirt. And there was the Number 5 - his number.
STEINBERG: It was really a mindbender.
KESTENBAUM: Jeff tries to explain to the guy, hey, I know this shirt - I think it was mine. But the guy doesn't speak English and they part ways, leaving Jeff to wonder about the very strange journey his shirt must have taken.
STEINBERG: I spent a lot of time...
STEINBERG: ...thinking about that over the following days. It was just sort of beyond me how it could have gotten there.
KESTENBAUM: Well, Jeff, today we have an answer for you. Because it turns out it is not just your shirt. The Planet Money shirts, and a lot of our clothing, will eventually make this epic voyage. The U.S., in fact, is the largest exporter of used clothing in the world - over one billion pounds every year.
What happens is that charities like Goodwill, they just get far more clothes than they can use. So a lot of the clothes get sold in bulk, packed in bales, and sent across the ocean on a containership, where they begin an entire second life. Many of the bales are headed to Africa.
And here's where I'm going to pass things off to Gregory Warner, our correspondent in Kenya.
GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE: I'm in a shed in downtown Nairobi, where some of those bales of clothes end up. This particular shed is a bit bigger than a two-car garage. It's stuffed from the dirt floor to the tin roof with bales. And at the door sits a woman named Jane Ireri. She's got tight blond braids. She's sipping sweet white tea.
WARNER: So I want to describe where you're sitting. I mean, so I found you here. You're sitting on a bench but you're surrounded essentially by, like, 70 bales?
JANET IRERI: Five-twenty bales.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Five hundred and twenty bales.
WARNER: There's 520 bales here?
Turns out she dug a whole sub-basement under her shack, with more than 200,000 pieces of used clothing she shipped in from New Jersey, London, Toronto. And it's all under here.
IRERI: Yeah.
WARNER: Once Jane sells each bale, it heads out the door straight into the biggest market in Nairobi. It's called Gikombo.
WARNER: There's a whole section of street just for denim, another boulevard of bras. We're, of course, on the street of T-shirts where vendors have laid out their wares on horse carts. And these shirts are washed. They're ironed. They're carefully folded. It's more like shopping at The Gap than Goodwill - only, if The Gap had a very strange product line.
Just to pick at random from one cart - there's a fundraising T-shirt for a cancer charity, a promotional shirt for The Not So Newlywed Game. A conventional souvenir shirt from Broadway New York. And, oh my God, Jennifer's Bat Mitzvah, November 20th, 1993. This shirt has been around. It's remarkably good condition though for being 20 years old.
Now, the original owners of these shirts, of course, had some connection to these things. They went to that bat mitzvah. They supported the charity. They visited Broadway at some point. So all these shirts were acquired and valued for reasons that cannot possibly apply here in Kenya.
What are you looking for? You seem like you're looking very closely - very quickly.
MARGARET WANJIKU: (Foreign language spoken)
WARNER: Margaret Wanjiku is a T-shirt vendor from Western Kenya. She's putting T-shirts in yes piles and no piles. She comes here to Gikombo every couple weeks by overnight bus. She buys as much as she can carry back to sell. And so, she told me through a translator, she has to be very careful about what she picks. She's not looking at the writing so much as the condition of the shirt.
WANJIKU: (Through Translator) I'm looking at the smartness of the T-shirt? And so, I'm guided by the quality and the condition of the T-shirt.
WARNER: And what about what's written on it, does that matter?
WANJIKU: (Through Translator) Yeah, I look at the writings because there are some writings that appear abusive and my customers may not like them.
WARNER: Abusive, what do you mean by abusive? For instance, that T-shirt over there says: I'm The Guy You Have To (CENSORED) To Get A Drink Around Here. So this, she would not buy because this is offensive, right? Or is this OK?
WANJIKU: (Foreign language spoken)
WARNER: What did she say?
WANJIKU: This may not be abusive.
WARNER: Not abusive, but it's committed an even worse sin.
WANJIKU: It seems to be so big it may not get a customer.
WARNER: It's size extra large. And here lies the wide gulf between the Western T-shirt market and the African physique. Many of the used shirts that pop out of a bale in Africa simply cannot be sold as is. They fit almost no one here.
Which is where this guy comes in.
FRANCIS MUNGAI: (Foreign language spoken)
WARNER: Francis Mungai commutes to Gikombo market every day from the Kariobangi slum of Nairobi. He carries a pair of scissors. His job, downsizing extra large T-shirts, now in a big pile at his feet. He picks up a faded black T-shirt for the heavy metal band Motorhead.
MUNGAI: (Foreign language spoken)
WARNER: OK. So you cut the sides off and you cut the bottom off.
MUNGAI: (Foreign language spoken)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: You make it a small size, after that...
MUNGAI: Another color.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: And you make another color.
MUNGAI: Another color. Mm-hmm.
WARNER: Oh, you take another color.
The canary yellow sleeves from some other useless extra large - now echoing the yellow fringes of the Motorhead logo. This design choice is made in seconds. And then he hands the sleeves and the shirt to a seamstress named Caroline. She adds two more scraps from two other T-shirts, pale blue accent for the seam, turquoise for the collar.
WARNER: And as Caroline stitches all this together on her Singer machine, it's going to take a minute, so let's just pause to consider the first life of our Motorhead shirt. Assembled, in stages, all over the world, sold perhaps in the United States for top dollar at some show. Worn for years, but eventually discarded maybe on a pile in Goodwill.
The moment that shirt left the United States and got on a ship to Africa, it entered a whole new supply chain but reversed, because now, the finished shirt is the raw material imported to Kenya for 15 cents. Resold and sold again for 45. Someone got 12 cents to cut it up, 18 to tailor it, 14 to wash and iron, finally a vendor bought it for a dollar-20 to hawk it off to its future wearer, who, for just 2 or $3, owns a bespoke artisanal Motorhead shirt whose tag says XL, but fits like a small, with a cheerful blue collar and some rather jaunty yellow sleeves.
I'm Gregory Warner in Nairobi.
KESTENBAUM: And I'm David Kestenbaum, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Mitt Romney finally has it figured out. He knows why he lost. Guess what? It was all President Barack Obama's fault.
Mitt Romney finally has it figured out. He knows why he lost. Guess what? It was all President Barack Obama's fault.
Of course, that's not exactly the way Romney puts it. He puts it in a way that sounds even more silly than that. Or perhaps, depending on your worldview, more tragic.
In a 20-minute afternoon conference call with his major donors and fundraisers eight days after Election Day, Romney blamed his loss on Obama's showering groups with what Romney called "gifts" to various groups of voters, "especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people."
Zounds! As we used to say back in the day when most people received their news on newsprint, stop the presses!
As the sly prefect in the movie "Casablanca" might say, I am shocked, shocked. Thanks to the former Republican presidential candidate, I now realize that Obama openly and shamelessly - Gasp! - offered programs and policies to America's voters that actually would help them to improve their lives. Those Chicago guys will stop at nothing.
"In each case, they were very generous in what they gave to those groups," Romney said.
A simple question came to my mind upon hearing this news about gifts: Where's mine?
Romney was proud to contrast Obama's so-called gift-giving strategy with his own tight-fisted talk about "big issues for the whole country: military strategy, foreign policy, a strong economy, creating jobs and so forth."
"With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest was a big gift," said Romney, who probably never had to take out a college loan in his life.
"Free contraceptives were very big with young, college-aged women," he said.
Sounds like he's been listening too much to Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk show host who called law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" for advocating government-funded contraceptives.
Republicans fume at Democrats for suggesting the Grand Old Party is waging a "war against women," although it's not hard to see where the Dems get that idea.
In that light, I congratulate Sen. Nina Turner, a Cleveland Democrat, for introducing a bill in April that would require men to visit a sex therapist before getting a prescription for erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra.
What's good for the gander should be good for the goose.
"And then, finally," said Romney, "Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents' plan, and that was a big gift to young people."
And, I would add, to many of their parents.
That Obama sure is a clever fellow, giving so many Americans what they want. I wonder why that notion apparently didn't appeal to Romney? Oh, right. It did.
He promised seniors, for example, that he'd restore Obama's $716 billion in Medicare cuts, despite his passionate pleas for cuts in soaring budget deficits.
He also promised that, no matter what measures, he wouldn't touch Medicare and Social Security spending for at least a decade.
Romney looked like Santa Claus to upper-income earners with his promises to protect them from Obama's proposed income tax hikes.
He also promised Wall Street that he would roll back the Dodd-Frank financial regulations that were legislated to rein in the abuses that led to the 2008 financial crash.
Yet, on the campaign trail, Romney referred to none of these offerings as gifts.
Now his post-mortem sour grapes sent even his fellow Republicans, like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, fast-walking away from him. Wise move, gentlemen.
Romney's remarks echo his earlier secretly recorded comments to donors last year in Boca Raton, Fla., about the "47 percent of Americans" who "don't pay taxes," refuse to take responsibility for their lives and will support Obama no matter what.
"I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," he said.
What is it about talking to donors that brings out Romney's inner upper-class twit?
"My job is not to worry about those people," he said.
That's OK. I don't think they're too worried about him, either.
Contact Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Best Places To Go Out Dancing In Bozeman – Top 10 Places to Cut A Rug
What is there to do in a mountain town once the sun sets and the ski lifts stop running? I recommend trying out a delicious local restaurant, then enjoying some beverages and finally, dancing the night away. Where does one go if he or she wants to cut a rug? Here is our top 10 list of best places to dance in Bozeman which crosses all kinds of genres.
Baxter HotelSalsa Dancing – $3 – Wednesdays – 8-11pm
Each Wednesday, the Baxter hotel ballroom hosts Salsa dancing with lessons and open dance. From 8-8:30pm is the beginner course and from 8:30-9pm is the improver lesson and from 9-11pm is open dance.
The ZebraHip-Hop/Rap/Reggie/Electronic – Cover Varies – Thur. Fri. Sat. 10pm-2am
The Zebra is usually the spot for the best Hip-Hop, Rap, Reggie, and Electronic music in Bozeman. The dance floor puts you right next to the performers making you feel part of the show. I would recommend earplugs for anyone wanting to protect their hearing as the shows never disappoint in being loud.
MixersCountry Music – Generally No Cover – Thu. Fri. Sat. 8pm – 2am
Home to one of Bozeman's biggest dance floors, Mixers is a sure place to kick your boots to some good ol' country music. Don't forget to bring your cowboy hat.
MSU SOB BarnSwing Dancing Club – Free – Mondays 8:30-11pm
Come by for a great time swing dancing at the MSU SOB Barn each Monday. It's a great time dancing with all skill levels.
MSU SOB BarnInternational Folk Dancing & Scottish Country Dancing – Free – Tuesdays 7-9:30pm
More dancing at the MSU SOB Barn. Break out your folk dancing shoes and head on down!
MSU SOB BarnMSU Country and Swing Dancing Club – Free – Fridays from 9-12pm
Each Friday, the SOB Barn just behind Roskie dorm fills up with anyone and everyone wanting to get out and dance. The dancing is focused around country and swing dancing and welcomes beginners to experts to join in the open dance.
Bar IX
If you're looking for a place where the college kids get their best 'club' experience in Bozeman, Bar IX is where it's at. Generally pumping chart topping songs remixed by local DJ's, Bar IX is a place you can get lost in a crowded dance floor.
Beall Park Rec CenterArgentine Tango – $8, $5 for students – Tuesdays 7-10pm
Beall Park Rec Center hosts Argentine Tango lessons from 7-8:30pm, practicum is from 8:30-10. Come on by and get your tango on!
Montana Ballet Company – $5 donation – Wednesdays 8-10pmArgentine Tango
There is a guided practica from 8-10pm at the Montana Ballet Company every Wednesday. You can take what you learn on Tuesdays to show off at the Montana Ballet Company. Practice makes perfect!
Gallatin Labor TempleWest Coast Swing – Mondays 6-8pm
Intermediate West Coast Swing dancing is held from 6-6:45pm and beginners from 7-8pm.