they are in tanzania. they play like children outside. and my son was raised in tanzania. he did also, but i see so many of the people i know in the u.s. and europe who are just as you described, kids do not play out in the wild. >> host: you just mentioned the roots & shoots program. tell me more about that. that the global program. designed to, what, get kids to invest in nature? >> guest: it's a bit more than that. it's a symbolic name. if you imagine a small sea, let's take an acorn. we all know in a court is going to go into a bigger tree. and when it starts to grow, there are these little starts of roots & shoots and looks so me, and yet the life force in that seat is such that to reach the water, those roots can work through boulders and eventually push them aside. that little chute to reach the sunlight can work through crevices and a brick wall and eventually knock it down. so if we take the boulders in the wall to represent all the ills that we humans have inflicted on the planet, environmentally and socially, this is hope. hundreds and thousands of young people

she -- from tanzania.se to highlight an ongoing but little known crime against humanity in east africa where heebs with albanism where they're butchered and their bodies sold. rural villages harvest the lungs because a single limb can sell for as much as $10,000, a king's ransom in rural tanzania. she is one of the few survivors from these horrific attacks. she told me her story through an interpreter when we met recently. one night in october, 2008, when she was asleep with her toddler, a group of machete wielding men in her village broke into her home and attacked her. they cut off both of her arm where she screamed and shielded her young son from the blows. it was six long hours after the attack before she, five months pregnant, was able to receive medical treatment. in the end she also lost her unborn child. but she survived and she's now relaying her story here in america in the hopes that these brutal crimes against people with ahbanism will come to an end. she came to the united states thanks to my

up a windmill at the interface between two tribal areas in the north tanzania. of course, we had no idea of what conflict mitigation or resolution was an conflicts arose between these two ethnic groups over who would control the windmill. so they solved the problems their own way. they took it down. and the local people took the windmill down that way the results are than everybody was equal again. that's not a method that i think we want to recommend for the future, but that is a catastrophic outcome when conflicts are not understood and addressed. could we get to more questions and comments? >> e4 you do, if i get talk about this issue about the war holes and so forth. i think it's an example of a more general issue about bringing development type activities into post-conflict environments. the only thing i would add is that i don't think that there's anything inherent about the house conflict environments that suggests you should try to do the best practices that are talked about embedded in here. .. up -- >> gilbert arenas thought it was a joke. nba commissi

i did not purpose because we don't read movie reviews that tell us whether the action is used in tanzania, you know, had a crappy service card. that may be a really great issue for someone to write about and i would like them to. i think it's great when the dining section rights was about all these issues. but the job i was asked to do within those 950 words, was talk about how much pleasure a restaurant delivered. if i hit pause menu item by menu item to it i would with the ethics of it i wouldn't have been doing the job i was supposed to do. >> would someone who was a vegetarian or a deacon be able to do that job? >> i don't think so because sadly i'm a big advocate for ever i. there aren't enough -- there aren't enough of those restaurant in the city and i don't think the majority of people in the city are vegetarian pics i don't think you have a restaurant critic who was immediately kind of deleting records of the restaurants are not intense of the restauranrestaurant and recorders of every menu. i think that's what i think i occasionally mention this not mr. nx explicit way but in an

, condemning their murder and mutilation and calling for swift action by her country and that of tanzania. i yield back. .7 c16 c1 is recognized. >> madam speaker, i rise today to honor barbara stotlet, a teacher as gatewood elementary school. at a recent white house ceremony, she was awarded the presidential award for mathematics and science teaching. the nation's highest honor for teaching in those fields. she's one of only two minnesota educators to receive such an honor. she used her cutting edge teaching methods and passion in the classroom to develop each students' potential for 20 years, even earning a minnesota teacher of the year award. barbara's participation in the improvement of educational programs in the school as well as the entire district ranges from instrumental classroom development to writing mathematical standards for minnesota. for her development of innovative teaching strategies, her work to promote the key areas of math and science, and selfless commitment to an important profession, i'm honored to recognize her before this body. i yield back. the speaker pro tem

further progress in countries that are on their way to becoming regional anchors of stability, like tanzania we pursue development for the same reasons -- to improve lives, fight poverty, expand rights and opportunities, strengthen communities, secure democratic institutions and governance, and in doing so, to a advance global stability, improve our own security, and project our values and leadership in the world. a new mindset means a new commitment to results. development is a long-term endeavor. change seldom happens overnight. to keep moving in the right direction, we must evaluate our progress and have the courage to rethink our strategies if we fall short. we must not simply tally the >> -- tally the dollars that we spend or the number programs that we run, but measure the lasting changes that these dollars and programs help achieve. and we must share the proof of our progress with the public. the elementary school teacher in detroit trying to send her kids to college or the firefighter in houston working hard to support his family are funding our work. they deserve to know that when w

laughter] the department put up a windmill that the interface between two tribal areas in northern tanzania. of course, we had no idea of conflict mitigation for resolution and what it was. conflicts arose between these ethnic groups over who would control the wind mill. they saw the problem their own way. they took it down. the local people took the wind mill down. this is not a method that we would like to recommend for the future. i would call that a catastrophic outcome when conflicts are not understood and addressed. could we get more questions and comments? >> if i could add, on this issue, a good example of a general issue of bringing development activities in these environments, the only thing that i would add, there is nothing inherent about those posed conflict environments that do not suggest you should do the best you can talk about. it begins with a good assessment and an awareness and commitment to what is the general principle. if you are concerned that it might raise risks, do not do it. do not build the windmill in the first place. but it is possible, generally, if you invo

further progress in countries that are on their way to becoming regional anchors of stability, like tanzania, we pursue development for the same reasons -- to improve lives, fight poverty, expand rights and opportunities, strengthen communities, secure democratic institutions and governance, and in doing so, to a advance global stability, improve our own security, and project our values and leadership in the world. a new mindset means a new commitment to results. development is a long-term endeavor. change seldom happens overnight. to keep moving in the right direction, we must evaluate our progress and have the courage to rethink our strategies if we fall short. we must not simply tally the >> -- tally the dollars that we spend or the number programs that we run, but measure the lasting changes that these dollars and programs help achieve. and we must share the proof of our progress with the public. the elementary school teacher in detroit trying to send her kids to college or the firefighter in houston working hard to support his family are funding our work. they deserve to know that when

further progress in countries that are on their way to becoming regional anchors of stability, like tanzania, we pursue development for the same reasons -- to improve lives, fight poverty, expand rights and opportunities, strengthen communities, secure democratic institutions and governance, and in doing so, to a advance global stability, improve our own security, and project our values and leadership in the world. a new mindset means a new commitment to results. development is a long-term endeavor. change seldom happens overnight. to keep moving in the right direction, we must evaluate our progress and have the courage to rethink our strategies if we fall short. we must not simply tally the >> -- tally the dollars that we spend or the number programs that we run, but measure the lasting changes that these dollars and programs help achieve. and we must share the proof of our progress with the public. the elementary school teacher in detroit trying to send her kids to college or the firefighter in houston working hard to support his family are funding our work. they deserve to know that when