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18/03/2021 - 18/03/2021 Projects
The project "Support to fisherwomen for sustainable access to fishery resources in the most vulnerable areas of Morocco" was launched Thursday, March 18 in Rabat, by the Department of Maritime Fisheries and the United Nations Entity for the gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN Women)
This project, which lasts for one year, is the object of a partnership between the Department of Maritime Fisheries - Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests -, UN Women and the Representation of the Food Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Morocco. It receives financial support of US $ 356,509.00 from the Government of Japan.
Its objective is to contribute to the economic empowerment of women shore-based fisherwomen to become economic actors in their territory (Casablanca-Settat, Marrakech-Safi and Souss-Massa), while meeting their needs for better access to food security and optimized management of fishery resources.
Through capacity building and access to modern technologies, this project will benefit nearly 650 women fishermen. The project is part of the program for the economic empowerment of women and the enhancement of women's work in the fisheries sector, in which the Department of Maritime Fisheries has been involved since the 2000s, said on this occasion, the Secretary General of the Department of Fisheries, Zakia Driouich.
It is also in line with the High Directives of HM King Mohammed VI and the orientations of the integrated national program for the economic empowerment of women and girls by 2030 (Morocco-Attamkine), noted Ms. Driouich, adding that this project aims to strengthen the empowerment and economic position of women in the fishing sector while improving their working and living conditions in rural areas. For her part, the Representative of the UN Women Morocco Office, Leila Rhiwi, noted that globally, countries that have succeeded in significantly reducing gender inequalities are located at high levels of economic performance and human development.
Paid work is one of the foundations of substantive equality for women, Rhiwi said, especially when it is compatible with a division of responsibilities between women and men and when it leaves women enough time to have recreation and training, among others.
The project launched today focuses specifically on women workers in the fishing sector, an area where women's economic activity is even more precarious, she noted, adding that cooperatives in this sector activity is not sufficiently profitable and able to provide fisherwomen with a decent and regular income, continued Ms. Rhiwi.
"These needs that we have identified in the project that we are launching today will be reinforced as part of a value chain approach adapted to the context of the intervention areas, ranging from the production of raw materials to the marketing and distribution of finished products, through the processing and upgrading of products, added Ms. Rhiwi.
For her part, the FAO Representative in Morocco, Florence Rolle, said that this is an "excellent action" given that the fishing sector plays a very important role in Morocco, especially for food security.
"Women play a crucial role in the fishing sector but their work is not always recognized", she lamented, adding that the FAO technical agency intervenes in the fisheries and aquaculture sector on capacity building. The Japanese Ambassador to Morocco, Takashi Shinozuka, for his part, indicated that this project is aimed at a category that has been influenced by the repercussions of the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, noting that this project aims in particular to strengthen the capacities of women and enable them to have access to modern technologies.
"We are happy to be able to bring one more stone to the construction of the Morocco of tomorrow in accordance with the vision of HM King Mohammed VI", he said. This event, chaired by Ms. Driouich and Ms. Rhiwi, was an opportunity to present the main areas of intervention of the project as well as the modalities of multi-stakeholder strategic partnerships with all stakeholders.


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Covid and workers in Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Garment workers fight! (original in German: Wildcat – May 2020)
You don't need to know much about Bangladesh to understand that the Corona crisis will lead to extreme conditions locally. The virus came into the country through returning migrant workers, most likely from Italy. The health system is hardly prepared for health crises like this: there are only 1,170 intensive care beds for 170 million Bangladeshis. At the end of April, as far as can be estimated, there are still relatively few people who are ill or dead, but the trend is rising. Millions of people are already suffering from the economic effects. Garment exports have collapsed, and in general most businesses and shops have closed. Thousands of workers in Europe are not earning money to send back, and in Bangladesh many are stuck with confirmed visas and cannot leave the country to take up work.1
"Because of the pandemic, we can't get a new job or leave our homes, which we can't pay rent for anymore."
For many, the lockdown means the loss of their income. According to a study by an NGO, the income of households which depend on what is officially classified as poverty wages fell by about 71 percent compared to February. On average, these households now spend 25 percent less on food. Sharply rising food prices reduce the amount of food people can afford to buy even further. In concrete terms, a normal rickshaw driver in February could still afford to buy the ingredients for six to seven portions of a (very) simple rice dish for four people from his daily income. By mid-April, it was not even two whole portions.2 In addition, by April 13 only four percent of the population had received any financial or material support at all.
"What's the point of respecting the lockdown if you can't eat?"
In Dhaka, hundreds of people protested several times in April for the distribution of food in their neighbourhoods. The aid measures put in place by the government, a significant amount of 8.9 billion dollars, are barely reaching the poor and the slums: the aid packages distributed by the army and NGOs are only a drop in the ocean. Most of the aid from the government or from NGOs is provided through money transfers, for which you need a mobile phone with credit (which many people cannot pay in the crisis) and a mobile phone connected bank account, which hardly anyone has. There are also frequent protests for the recognition as 'essential workers', for whom the government finances health insurance. Recently, customs officials have been campaigning to be included on this list. The biggest and most important protests so far have come from seamstresses in the garment industry. Like almost all workers, they face a double threat: the virus and the crisis that threatens their jobs.
The first factories closed at the beginning of March because orders were cancelled due to the government imposed closure of shops and department stores in the target countries and many large clothing companies such as Walmart, H&M and Primark refused to accept or pay for goods already produced. These are orders worth 3.17 billion dollars or one billion garments in 1,150 factories with 2.3 million workers (as of April 24). When there was an outcry by western media at the end of March, some large retailers were forced to promise to at least pay for the goods already produced and in production. But the losses are still massive, and many entrepreneurs have not passed these funds on to the workers.3
On March 26, most factories were then closed by government order until April 4. Many workers went to the countryside to save money. Although the government extended the lockdown, export factories with open orders were allowed to resume production. This led to a chaotic mass return of workers to the factory districts. Because large parts of the local transport network had been closed down, they came on foot, on bicycles and rickshaws, with horrendous costs for the individual workers. They came back under pressure from the employers, and fear for their jobs also played a role. But the main issue was the outstanding wages for the past months; in some factories not even the February wage had been paid in full. In view of the mass return journeys of workers required to re-start production, all factories were closed again with the threat of punishment if they did not adhere.4
"Stop the blackmailing by the bosses."
The workers were now back in the cities – and of course, after the forced closure of the factory, the outstanding wages were not paid. At least 36 large export factories used the labour law in order to classify the closure as a 'natural calamity': according to this law the workers are then only entitled to 50 percent of wages and bonuses (and even that only for 45 days per year!). When work is resumed, the old employment contract continues to apply and the workers retain their previous wage level.
The pressure to fight back was great: after a survey of 88 seamstresses in all wage brackets at the beginning of April, 15 percent were broke and had to ask shops to give them credit, the rest only had cash for 16 days. One third reduced their purchase of food, 70 percent stopped sending money home, paying their rent or interest. 43 percent of those surveyed no longer have any money to buy mobile phone credit.
Without being restricted by the quarantine rules (which workers in cramped housing conditions with far too few sanitary facilities cannot comply with anyway), they organised protests in front of the factories, which frequently brought up to 20,000 people onto the streets from April 12. Usually between several hundred and a few thousand people gather in front of factories and call for the payment of wages and the withdrawal of the legal 'natural calamity' classification. The protests clearly showed the fighting experience of the last few years. Almost never do workers from one factory remain alone; there are always workers from other factories who join in. The workers from smaller factories especially become more visible.
Nevertheless, the current protests have a different character than in recent years. Obviously they are not strikes, but the composition is also different because there are fewer residents from the neighbourhood who had previously taken part in garment workers' mobilisations. Often the protests blockade main streets and highways as a strategic tool. And they are more strongly accompanied by direct negotiations with the entrepreneurs, which are usually conducted indirectly by the local police or politicians. The protests are very orderly, even if sometimes a window or door is destroyed, they are actually peaceful. On the other hand, the police also rely more strongly on de-escalation than usual, after two workers ran in front of a truck in a panic during a tear gas operation in a protest on April 6 and died. Often the workers of many factories protested together, in Gazipur they came from at least 25 factories, in Ashulia from over 12 factories.
"Why do you give money to the employers and not to us?"
The protests were partially successful: 1200 factories paid the outstanding wages until April 15. The same day the government reacted with carrot and stick; at the same time as it made employers pay wages under threat of punishment, it also immediately provided loans to them worth 590 million dollars. By about April 20, over 96 percent of the 2.5 million workers in the certified export factories had received their wages. But no one knows how many of the remaining almost two million workers have not yet received their wages. By the beginning of May, the workers of at least 517 factories had not received their March wages.
Many people who have been laid off have not yet been taken back, in which case the workers are paid only half their wages, if at all. For this reason, the second half of April was also marked by protests for full wage payment and reinstatement or withdrawal of factory closures. However, these protests were much smaller (at their height, a few thousand per protest), partly because many workers went back to the countryside after having receiving their wages.
Bangladesh keeps on working
At the end of April, the lockdown was relaxed, the garment factories began to start up again, and by April 30 production was running in at least 2,000 factories. The main concern of the employers is to complete orders already in production, which they do not want to lose because the fashion companies might see this it as breach of contract. Although the bosses had promised to re-start production using only local workers, by the beginning of April many workers had made the arduous return journey from their villages, driven by the worry of missing out on the April wage which contains a significant annual bonus payment. Strong protests in the last days of April demanded full payment of wages despite the fact that the factories had been standing still for many days during April. At present, the workers seem to be less able to assert themselves on this point. The government decided that layoffs should be reversed and only 60 percent of the wages should be paid if no work was done. This would be a setback for the workers. The employers' associations warned their members directly that they should not be pushed by the workers to pay the full April wage.
Other industries also increased production again: on April 26, for example, eight of nine jute factories in the Khulna region opened. In total, 30,000 workers are employed in these factories. Agriculture and passenger transport are also supposed to resume.
Corona as an accelerator of the crisis
Representatives of NGOs and trade unions (which are often de facto NGOs because of their small membership and their dependence on foreign funding) try to use the situation politically to persuade the government to establish a welfare state. In doing so they serve their own interests: more widespread use of bank accounts, more microcredit, more influence of trade unions on politics…
In a country like Bangladesh, where a quarter of the population lives below the official poverty line and where there are more than ten million day labourers and a great many informal workers, such a life-threatening crisis can hardly be ignored. Nevertheless, it is questionable whether there will be welfare state measures, and certainly not without strong workers' struggles. Even before the pandemic, the economy was in an acute crisis: exports had fallen, as had the profits in agriculture. Prices for state goods had risen, but wholesale prices had hardly risen at all, and the productivity gains of the 'green revolution' of recent decades were long gone. Remittances from migrant workers abroad have also been declining for some time.5
The crisis is particularly evident in the garment industry: the loss of sales in 2020 is already estimated at six billion dollars, and this after the severe crisis year of 2019. For years there has been an unbroken global trend here. Workers are fighting for higher wages, and yet brand and retail groups pay less for finished textiles.6
After the accumulation of catastrophes such as the collapse of the Rana Plaza, every trading company had to join some initiative to improve factory conditions because of the great public pressure in the West (especially in Europe). Most of these associations are not legally binding, but the big European ones like the 'Bangladesh Accord' are. This has given rise to a new industry. Almost no month goes by without some fake 'auditor' visiting the factory to inspect it. However, the conditions in Asian factories have indeed improved steadily in recent years.
Factory operators were able to compensate for the double burden, wage increases and improvement of the (structural) working conditions, by expanding production – but a limit seems to have been reached here. This hits factory operators in Bangladesh particularly hard: in contrast to other countries, the infrastructure is worse, the political situation more chaotic and the industry is particularly focused on producing garments cheaply according to prescribed patterns. There are hardly any opportunities to increase income by developing the patterns, taking on more work relating to quality management, direct marketing, or joining forces with other manufacturers. In addition, the competition in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar benefit much more from investments and orders from China. Because the EU, the main buyer of clothing from Bangladesh, allowed free trade with Vietnam in 2019, clothing exports fell for the first time, and in the second half of the year there was a wave of factory closures. This development is now being accelerated by Corona.
The situation is similar at other garment producing locations: in Myanmar, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, hundreds of factories have also closed due to cancelled orders, and protests are also developing here. Overall, the consequences are difficult to assess at present. According to estimates, global fashion brands' sales are expected to fall by 30 percent this year. In any case, it is clear that the recent garment workers' victories in world market factories in Asia is endangered by the crisis. In recent decades, they have fought for a better standard of living and in doing so have brought about an alignment of international production conditions, even if their wages are still a good deal below European wages. They will not be able to maintain these successes without strong (international) struggles.
Update: 22nd of May 2020
Since the completion of the article, the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh has spread significantly. Officially, there are now a total of 432 people who have died and 30,205 who have been infected. The virus has also broken out in the Rohingya refugee camp. There are reports of infected factory workers and reports that people who have tested positive want to escape the quarantine in the city by returning quickly to the countryside. On top of this, there is now a storm, parts of Bangladesh have been devastated by 'super cyclone' Amphan.
In this situation, living conditions continue to deteriorate: more and more city dwellers slip into poverty. According to an NGO, almost all female migrant workers interviewed have had no income since the start of the lockdown. 90 percent of these women worked in the informal sector, 70 percent of them were the main earner in their household. And even among the relatively well-off garment workers, household income fell by an average of 50 percent.
No wonder then that the struggles of the garment workers continue. Their focus is on the full payment of the April wage, which is traditionally higher due to the inclusion of annual bonuses. The payment of unpaid wages for March and the issue of factory closures are also still being fought over. Workers of 120 factories have still not been paid their March wages, at least 420 factories have not resumed production due to a lack of orders (of which about 100 are permanently closed). Circa 500000 of the over four million garment workers are affected by these closures.
The protests on the streets have grown larger again, and the police are increasingly trying to end them by force, including with tear gas. Workers from several factories have come together, sometimes the entire industrial area has too. In some cases thousands of workers were on the streets. These protests were also joined by others living in those industrial areas. Since many factories have re-opened, disputes on the shop-floor have flared up again: short strikes, short occupations by sit-in blockades, protests marches through the factories… The employers' associations warn of an increase in sabotage.
We don't know yet whether the struggles will be successful is not. It is difficult to estimate the results so far. At least a thousand employers have stated in a survey that they are not in a position to make any payment before Eid. As a result, the fighting intensified again last week, involving tens of thousands of workers. This led to a confusing mixture of promises, advances, payment of part of the wages and full wages. In about 3,000 factories at least half of the April wage was paid. Nevertheless, many workers did not receive their wages before the upcoming Eid al Fitr.
Clothing industry in comparison
There are at least 35 million garment workers worldwide, probably considerably more. Many of them work in small workshops, in the informal economy or in the cottage industry. Here, conditions are not directly controlled by the minimum wages they earn, but indirectly by changes in social wage levels.
In the following, however, we will deal with the wages of workers in factories that produce primarily for the world market. The official minimum wages are the lower limits here; in real terms most workers earn considerably more, especially with overtime. The exception is Turkey, where in recent years between 250,000 and 400,000 Syrian refugees have been working in the garment industry, often without work permits. According to surveys of workers, even these workers earn the minimum wage on average, but most women (who are probably in the minority among Syrian garment workers) earn less than the minimum wage. Turkish workers, however, earn more than the minimum wage.7
Workers: Six million
Lower wage limit: 2013: 1 450 RMB; 2019: 2 200 RMB (286 Euro)
Exports: 158 billion euros
Lower wage limit: 2013: INR 4 334; 2019: INR 8 609 (105 euros)
Exports: 17 billion euros
Workers: Four Million
Lower wage limit: 2013: 5 300 Taka; 2019 8 000 Taka (87 Euro)
Workers: Two million
Lower wage limit: 2013: TLR 505-1 280; 2019: TLR 2 030 (261 euros)
Workers: 1.5 million
Lower wage limit: 2013 72 Euro, 2019 163 Euro
Workers: 7 50 000
Lower wage limit: 2013: 70 euros, 2019: 168 euros
Exports: 6.5 billion euros
Workers: 400 000
Lower wage limit: 400 euros (black, migrant)- 1 300 euros (tariff)
Exports: 16.5 billion euros
Lower wage limit: 2013: 70 euros, 2019: 93 euros
Workers: 30 000
Lower wage limit: 2013: 129 euros; 2019: 261 euros
Lower wage limit: 2019: 1 800 euros gross
1 The more than one million Rohingya who had fled Myanmar to Bangladesh are also in dire straits. The government has decided to completely seal off their refugee camp to protect it from the virus. An outbreak there would be completely uncontrollable. There is only an emergency supply of food and the most necessary medical measures. This supply is carried out a very small number of helpers (one fifth the (wo)manpower of what would normally be necessary), who are strictly controlled for the virus. The quality of life in the camp has drastically deteriorated as a result of these measures.
2 Many of the figures quoted in this article come from studies produced by NGOs or consulting firms on behalf of NGOs. Many are in some way connected to BRAC, the "largest NGO in the world". BRAC owns one of the largest banking institutions in Bangladesh, which in turn owns bKash, the most important provider of mobile bank accounts. Other major investors in bKash are the Gates Foundation and Ali Pay. These NGOs are using their influence in the Corona crisis to expand their business model, e.g. by repeatedly complaining about the lack of mobile bank accounts and suggesting that aid measures should be implemented mainly through these accounts.
3 Clothing companies have been hit very hard by the crisis, whether Primark, Adidas, H&M, etc. They have cancelled orders and tried to take steps similar to those taken by their suppliers: not paying store rents, short-time work, announcing layoffs. The refusal to pay shop rents especially was not well received and Adidas and others had to row back after harsh public criticism. While H&M agreed to pay the textiles already produced fairly quickly, Primark believed it could get away with its usual method: setting up a relief fund without making any concrete promises. But after even Primark's parent company had come under heavy criticism, the payment was promised on April 20. Since Primark does not sell online, the company has been hit harder than the other brands, with a loss of sales of 746 million euros per month.
4 It is not currently possible to estimate the real number of dismissed workers. Initially, the media reported figures of up to one million. However, the media equated dismissed and unpaid workers. In at least 938 factories workers were laid off, either because of company bankruptcies or closures due to 'natural calamity'.
5 Over 12 million Bangladeshis work abroad, 80 percent in the Middle East. It is estimated that remittances will fall to 14 billion dollars in 2020 from 18 billion in 2019, making it the second most important foreign trade factor after the textile industry.
6 In Wildcat 97, we described in detail the struggles until mid-2014 and described the direct effects of the Rana Plaza disaster. In recent years, increasing repression has become more and more apparent. After a large wave of strikes in 2016 was ended by repression without any visible results, there were relatively few strikes in the two years after (Wildcat 102). At the beginning of 2019 a wave of strikes, which was large, but weaker than the one in 2013, pushed through a relatively small minimum wage increase (Wildcat 103).
7 One important source of information are the reports by the Clean Clothes Campaign. In the past, it often prioritised scandalisation of conditions over accuracy and sometimes reported minimum wages as being lower than they actually were; today the organisation's materials are of very good quality and often backed up with data from worker surveys.
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A quick have a look at the older Greek clothes permits people today to don't forget the previous generation so they can have a fantastic sense at the present and the future. Greek civilization is a subject which was learned deeply that Greek culture is regarded as as an incredible one of the ancient history. Based on that the topic of the Greek clothes also gets most significant.
The leftovers which include carvings, graves, wreckages from the ancient Greece cities and villages have been examined to know the day-by-day life of the Greeks. Normally the Greek costumes had been produced of light weight and just straightforward materials due to their hot climate.
The distinct generations inside the Greek history was reflected by their signs left on the Greek clothes. The climate too had its mark, as some Greek costumes in the course of winter were cloaked. Shoes or slippers made of light weight leather also a part of the ancient Greek costumes which commonly employed on outdoors.
Commonly the diapers produced of canvas were the babies' costume. the cloth covered around the waist were the costumes of the older children's.
The women's costumes include the lengthy coats along with the conventional Greek robe. It looks shorter and mostly embroidered which was worn over the coat. These are the standard clothes worn by the Greeks for centuries. As a matter of reality, the ancient Greeks had been surely concerned about the convenient and simplicity of their costumes though studying about the Greek costumes.
A group of revelers with ancient Greek costumes gathered and went door to door dancing and singing songs in the course of the festival seasons. Mostly those costumes reflect the forms of humans or animals. For a fantastic celebration of the history of the Halloween, these revelers would wear varieties of their Greek costumes produced up of distinct parts of the animals. Occasionally these wear up's were disguises hardly for a person who aware of their relationship with the ancient Greek civilization.
Probably the most considerable part of the ancient Greek costumes is their wedding dresses. As a matter of fact, the ancient Greek wedding themes had been chosen by most of the men and women these days. Particularly, they wanted to be reflecting the preferable ancient Greek styles in their wedding gowns. They hardly worked out to get the perfect look of the costumes of ancient Greek weddings. To fulfill the total appearance, the wedding dress is worn with the ancient Greek style sandals or shoes. Usually the everlasting beauty of the ancient Greek styles and the ancient Greek carvings are the two main issues which inspire the styles for customizing the Greek apparels.


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Gucci cruises into the Pitti Palace and funds restoration of its Boboli Gardens
Cultural investments
Image: Boboli Gardens
The Florentine brand returns to its birthplace for a cultural project and their Cruise 2018 show
The story of Gucci began in 1921 in the city of Florence. Soon, the Italian house will strengthen ties to its city of origins, Florence with a partnership with the Uffizi Gallery for the restoration of the historic Boboli Gardens. On top of the funding from the Municipality of Florence, this multi-faceted cultural project "Primavera di Boboli", or 'Spring in the Boboli' is supported by a two million euro contribution from Gucci.
"[Gucci's participation] literally will give new life to the gardens and make them once again Italy's answer to Versailles," remarked Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Gallery. The project encompasses the restoration, preservation and improvement of over 33-hectares of green space that dates back to the 16th century and boasts of unique sculptures, architecture, and landscaping.
Marco Bizzarri, President and CEO of Gucci says, "This collaboration represents a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and sustain Florence's cultural splendour and I would like to thank all the institutions that are involved. Gucci is a global brand with strong roots in Florence. The success we have achieved in recent years through the vision of our Creative Director, Alessandro Michele, is reliant upon the skills, spirit of innovation, passion and abilities of the craftspeople and everyone else who works for the brand in Florence and the surrounding area."
Following the Cruise shows of the past two years that were staged in New York and London respectively, Bizzarri tells us that showing the upcoming collection at the Pitti Palace in the heart of Florence holds special meaning, particularly as Michele is constantly inspired by the city's renaissance masterpieces. Experiencing fashion in the midst of rare treasures—with marvellous European paintings as a backdrop—in the Palatina Gallery of the Pitti Palace will offer guests a true sensory experience that goes beyond the visual.
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Get to Know FHWA's National Transportation Liaisons
The National Transportation Liaisons serve as the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) connection to Federal resource and regulatory agencies, as well as facilitate coordination among these agencies and FHWA. The National Transportation Liaisons contribute expertise and perspectives to inform FHWA initiatives and programs, assist States interested in establishing resource or regulatory agency transportation liaison positions, and support FHWA Transportation Liaison Community of Practice (CoP) activities. These National Transportation Liaison activities involve providing feedback on draft materials, sharing information about liaison programs nationwide, and participating in outreach activities. The National Transportation Liaisons provide agency input on guidance that facilitates environmental streamlining, such as the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) Q&As and the update of the 1988 handbook titled "Applying the Section 404 Permit Process to Federal-aid Highway Projects," better known as the "Red Book."
Field Transportation Liaisons:
Facilitating Environmental Review
of Transportation Projects at the
State Level
Field transportation liaisons help facilitate the environmental and permitting review process for transportation projects by providing technical assistance and coordinating the response of resource and regulatory agencies to State Departments of Transportation (DOTs). They often assist in the transportation planning process by providing their environmental expertise to regional transportation plans or project alternatives. State DOTs may use Federal-aid highway funding to support transportation liaisons under the authority of Federal law codified at 23 United States Code 139(j).
Transportation liaisons provide a range of benefits, including:
Development of streamlined processes and expediting environmental reviews
Input during planning and design to avoid environmentally sensitive areas
More predictable environmental reviews and consultations
Improved communication and coordination between State DOTs and resource and regulatory agencies
Increased access to environmental and regulatory expertise for State DOTs
Transportation Liaisons are employed by the resource or regulatory agency where they serve, but their positions are funded by FHWA. There are currently four staff serving as National Transportation Liaisons:
Lauren Diaz of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Rachel Herbert of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
Catherine Liller of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
Zachary Schulman of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
The National Transportation Liaison at the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) retired last fall after many years of service. The ACHP is in the process of filling the position. FHWA is also currently developing a liaison agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
USACE's National Transportation Liaison Has Strong Connections to the Field
Lauren Diaz, the USACE National Transportation Liaison, has experience in both the public and private sectors. With a background in Marine Science and Policy Affairs, she worked at the county level reviewing permit applications for work in tidal waters and in a field office for the USACE's Jacksonville District reviewing permit applications before becoming the National Transportation Liaison. She also worked as a permitting project manager at a private engineering and design firm prior to joining USACE. As the National Transportation Liaison, Ms. Diaz is an invaluable resource to the field on liaison agreements, guidance issued by the USACE Regulatory Program, and related questions. The USACE Regulatory Program evaluates permit applications for work within waters of the U.S., including the discharge of dredged and fill material. She holds quarterly calls among the USACE field transportation liaisons and hosts an internal SharePoint site that serves as a portal where the field liaisons can share information and communicate with one another. In addition to her interaction with the field liaisons, Ms. Diaz acts as a point of contact when FHWA engages USACE on national issues and implementation of new guidance. Being able to informally discuss FHWA's development of MAP-21 regulations and the development of the proposed rule on defining waters of the U.S. has given Ms. Diaz a better understanding of FHWA's perspective, which informs her work at USACE. She enjoys having the opportunity to interact with professionals all over the nation and learn about different types of projects with diverse issues and points of view.
USEPA's National Transportation Liaison Focuses on Impacts to Water Resources
EPA's National Transportation Liaison, Ms. Herbert, touring the Historic Columbia River Highway—America's oldest scenic highway—outside of Portland, Oregon. (Courtesy of Rachel Herbert)
The USEPA National Transportation Liaison, Rachel Herbert, has a background in Marine Estuarine Environmental Science and Natural Resources Management. She has worked with stakeholders implementing USEPA's Stormwater Program since 2005. Ms. Herbert finds that the key to success in her role is to understand the unique perspectives that FHWA, USEPA, and State DOTs bring to the table and find ways to link the efforts of each agency. She sees herself as a conduit for sharing information and solutions to prevent pollution and impacts to rivers, streams, and lakes. Ms. Herbert also works to coordinate with field transportation liaisons in various programs at USEPA, including Compliance and Enforcement for the National Environmental Policy Act, the Wetlands Program, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program, and the Non-Point Source Program. She identifies opportunities to coordinate with FHWA on interagency efforts, such as the newly announced Watershed Resources Registry, a watershed-based mapping tool collaboratively developed by Maryland resource and transportation agencies. A highlight of Ms. Herbert's collaboration with FHWA was developing the joint FHWA-USEPA webcast series, which highlights the ways in which State DOTs and local agencies are reducing the impact of stormwater in their communities. The webcast series has had over 2,600 attendees to date. Ms. Herbert enjoys finding innovative solutions to prevent pollution and other negative impacts to valuable water resources and sharing them with others.
USFWS's National Transportation Liaison Applies Diverse Experience to Improving Relationships
Catherine Liller, the USFWS National Transportation Liaison, has worked for the agency for over twelve years in various roles in the Environmental Contaminants Program, Listing Program, and Consultation Program, among others. As the National Transportation Liaison, she views her role as one of support to both USFWS biologists and FHWA in working together to achieve common goals. These goals include facilitating process improvements and efficiency and identifying research needs. She acts as the main USFWS point of contact for FHWA when coordinating policies and guidance pertaining to environmental laws and regulations. She also facilitates communication with the USFWS field transportation liaisons to share best practices and new developments in the field of road ecology. In her role as a national coordinator, she helps provide more direct access to State and Federal partners, ensures more lines of communication, and assists in maintaining the connections needed for both agencies to be successful. One prominent experience of Ms. Liller's seven-year tenure as the USFWS National Transportation Liaison was facilitation of a Clean Water Act Section 404(q) Dispute Resolution Process regarding a mitigation bank in New Jersey. Her involvement added support to the USFWS field and regional office and provided a clearer picture on the issues and needs for each party. Open discussions and transparency in the process led to a successful resolution. Ms. Liller has had the opportunity to work across program areas within the USFWS and has made lasting relationships with both USFWS and FHWA personnel.
USCG's National Transportation Liaison Is Increasing Transparency
Mr. Schulman standing in front of the USCG Cutter HEALY at 78 degrees north latitude in the Arctic Ocean. (Courtesy of Zachary Schulman)
Zachary Schulman is the USCG's first National Transportation Liaison, accepting his current role in September 2014 after having worked in the agency for over two years. His background includes international affairs, geography and law, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, the private sector, and the United Nations. As the National Transportation Liaison, he works to improve communications between FHWA and USCG during the bridge permit process at the field and headquarters levels. He connects the right people at USCG field offices to the FHWA personnel seeking information on USCG policies and procedures and vice versa. He is looking forward to traveling to each USCG district office to learn about specific areas of improvement for coordination between USCG and FHWA. Additionally, Mr. Schulman facilitates implementation of the Memorandum of Agreement on research and innovation between USCG and FHWA to help increase transparency and communication in the bridge permit process. Increased coordination between the agencies ensures that important infrastructure projects will be permitted, constructed, and put into service faster and more efficiently.
National Transportation Liaisons Strengthen Interagency Ties
The National Transportation Liaisons serve as invaluable resources to FHWA in terms of building relationships with resource and regulatory agencies, providing interagency perspectives on transportation projects, serving as links to field transportation liaisons, and providing input on guidance that facilitates environmental streamlining.
Having direct links to five Federal agencies that are key partners in the environmental review process for transportation projects helps ensure transparency and open communication between transportation agencies and resource and regulatory agencies. With the establishment of National Transportation Liaison positions, FHWA has strengthened its relationships with the USACE, USEPA, USFWS, USCG, ACHP, and NOAA.
For more information on both the National Transportation Liaisons and field transportation liaisons and other related guidance, please visit FHWA's Transportation Liaison CoP.
Deirdre Remley
Environmental Protection Specialist
Office of Project Development and Environmental Review
Deirdre.Remley@dot.gov
FHWA recently announced the 15 recipients of its 2015 Environmental Excellence Awards (EEAs) on Earth Day. Since 1995, the EEAs have recognized partners, projects, and processes that go beyond environmental compliance and achieve multi-faceted, environmentally sensitive transportation solutions. For more information, click here.
As part of the Eco-Logical Webinar Series, FHWA will present a webinar on May 21 about Vermont's Staying Connected Initiative and building interagency partnerships. The webinar will provide insight about the Staying Connected Initiative, how it relates to the Eco-Logical approach, and the institutional need for relationships and partnerships among the Staying Connected agencies.
Starting in May, FHWA will kick-off its Advancing a Sustainable Highway System Webinar Series. Based on Advancing a Sustainable Highway System: Highlights of FHWA Sustainability Activities, each webinar will focus on one section of the report and will go into detail regarding specific FHWA activities. For more information, click here.
As part of Round 6 of Implementation Assistance Program for the second Strategic Highway Research Program, FHWA will host an informational product webinar on PlanWorks on May 14. PlanWorks is a systematic Web-based resource that supports collaborative decisionmaking to deliver projects that meet environmental, community, and mobility needs. Click here for additional details.
Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration newsletter highlighting current environmental streamlining and stewardship practices from around the country. Click here to subscribe, or call (617) 494-3539 for more information.


To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the Home Office's annual targets for the removal of illegal migrants for each year since 2010; and how many people were removed because of inadequate documentation in each of those years.
My Department's approach is set out in Sir Philip Rutnam's letter to the Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, dated 14 May 2018 that my Rt Hon Friend the Minister of State for Immigration deposited in the House Library.
We are currently prioritising Caribbean Nationals. The Home Office has been checking records back to 2002 when electronic records began, looking at all removals and deportations of Caribbean nationals aged 45 plus. So far there have been 63 cases identified where Caribbean individuals could have entered the UK before 1973. This means of the total 8000 total deportation and administrative removal records that came up, so far there is a focus on 63, there is something in their record that indicates they could have entered before 1973. Of these, there are 32 Foreign National Offenders and 31 administrative removals.
We are now reviewing each of these cases carefully in more depth - including bringing paper files out of storage if necessary - to determine whether anyone who was protected under the 1971 Act was removed or deported unlawfully. This work will be independently assured. This does not mean that 63 people have been wrongfully removed or deported. It is the number of cases which merit further investigation.


On 29 August 1944 the U.S.S. HAWKBILL left Pearl Harbor to begin her first patrol. She sank a destroyed during her second patrol, and on her third patrol sank 2 submarine chasers and a cargo vessel. The HAWKBILL completed 5 patrols during which she was credited with sinking 5 vessels totalling 7,856 tons. She earned the Navy Unit Commendation during these patrols. On 21 April 1953 the HAWKBILL was transferred to the Netherlands where she served under the name, ZEELEUW.
The U.S.S. Hawkbill (SS 366) marker is on the right.
at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI., 9 January 1944.


04/22/2012 Honor Flight Rochester 1st Rochester Honor Flight w/ HOPE participation visited with families waiting for the veterans to arrive, interacting with family members from babies to senior citizens.
FEMA Disaster Recovery, VT 9/11/2011 weekend.
Captain Bruce Clark, KIA Afghanistan, at the Monroe County Intern'l Airport. Were interviewed and taped by a local TV station and also by an AP stringer.
survivors or those currently fighting breast cancer.
06/06/2012 "Fire School" event was for community awareness re: "Fire School" large crowds. We took purple heart basket, filled with candies. The kids enjoyed the dogs.
06/18/2012 - 06/30/2012 HopeAACR travel and desentization training Island Cruise. It was a 90 minute boat ride with many people interacting with Abby.
Jon Baldwin Gayle Sprinkle & Charlie.
07/20/2012 VOAD Case #209 & 211 follow up with VOAD on unmet needs from the house damage from the flooding as a result of tropical storm Lee in the fall of 2011. Visited with resident while home being inspected.
11/21/2012 - 11/24/2012 retirement facility - Spring Lake visiting home town of Point Pleasant Beach.


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class CBCGPRibbonPanel;
class CBCGPRibbonBar;

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{
	friend class CBCGPRibbonBar;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonTab;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonPanel;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonPanelMenuBar;
	friend class CBCGPBaseRibbonElement;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonDialogBar;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonCollector;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonTreeCtrl;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonCustomizationData;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonCustomizeRibbonPage;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonCustomCategory;
	friend class CBCGPRibbonTabsGroup;

	DECLARE_DYNCREATE(CBCGPRibbonCategory)

// Construction
protected:
	CBCGPRibbonCategory();

	CBCGPRibbonCategory (
		CBCGPRibbonBar*	pParenrRibbonBar,
		LPCTSTR			lpszName,
		UINT			uiSmallImagesResID,
		UINT			uiLargeImagesResID,
		CSize			sizeSmallImage = CSize (16, 16),
		CSize			sizeLargeImage = CSize (32, 32));

	// Custom category:
	CBCGPRibbonCategory (CBCGPRibbonBar* pParenrRibbonBar);
	CBCGPRibbonCategory* CreateCustomCopy(CBCGPRibbonBar* pParenrRibbonBar);

	void CommonInit (CBCGPRibbonBar*	pParenrRibbonBar = NULL,
					LPCTSTR				lpszName = NULL,
					UINT				uiSmallImagesResID = 0,
					UINT				uiLargeImagesResID = 0,
					CSize				sizeSmallImage = CSize (0, 0),
					CSize				sizeLargeImage = CSize (0, 0));

// Attributes
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	CBCGPRibbonBar* GetParentRibbonBar () const
	{
		return m_pParenrRibbonBar;
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	CBCGPRibbonPanelMenuBar* GetParentMenuBar () const
	{
		return m_pParentMenuBar;
	}

	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* HitTest (CPoint point, BOOL bCheckPanelCaption = FALSE) const;
	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* HitTestScrollButtons (CPoint point) const;
	int HitTestEx (CPoint point) const;
	CBCGPRibbonPanel* GetPanelFromPoint (CPoint point) const;

	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* GetFirstVisibleElement () const;
	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* GetLastVisibleElement () const;

	CRect GetTabRect () const
	{
		return m_Tab.m_rect;
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	CRect GetRect () const
	{
		return m_rect;
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	CRect GetClientRect() const;	// Rectangle without scroll buttons

	BOOL IsActive () const
	{
		return m_bIsActive;
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	CSize GetImageSize (BOOL bIsLargeImage) const;

	int GetImageCount (BOOL bIsLargeImage) const
	{
		return bIsLargeImage ? m_LargeImages.GetCount () : m_SmallImages.GetCount ();
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	LPCTSTR GetName () const
	{
		return m_strName;
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	CString GetDisplayName (BOOL bCheckForStyle = FALSE) const;

	void SetName (LPCTSTR lpszName);

	DWORD_PTR GetData () const
	{
		return m_dwData;
	}

	void SetData (DWORD_PTR dwData)
	{
		m_dwData = dwData;
	}

	UINT GetContextID () const
	{
		return m_uiContextID;
	}

	void SetTabColor (BCGPRibbonCategoryColor color)
	{
		m_Tab.m_Color = color;
	}

	BCGPRibbonCategoryColor GetTabColor () const
	{
		return m_Tab.m_Color;
	}

	BOOL IsVisible () const
	{
		return m_bIsVisible;
	}

	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* GetDroppedDown ();
	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* GetFocused ();
	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* GetHighlighted ();

	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* GetParentButton () const;

	CBCGPToolBarImages& GetSmallImages ()	{	return m_SmallImages;	}
	CBCGPToolBarImages& GetLargeImages ()	{	return m_LargeImages;	}

	void SetKeys (LPCTSTR lpszKeys);

	BOOL IsOnDialogBar () const
	{
		return m_bOnDialogBar;
	}

	BOOL IsScenicLook () const;

	int GetKey() const { return m_nKey; }

	BOOL IsCustom() const { return m_bIsCustom; }

	BOOL IsPrintPreview() const { return m_bIsPrintPreview; }

	CBCGPRibbonTab* GetTab()
	{
		return &m_Tab;
	}

// Operations
public:
	CBCGPRibbonPanel* AddPanel (LPCTSTR lpszPanelName, HICON hIcon = 0,
		CRuntimeClass* pRTI = NULL, BOOL bAutoDestroyIcon = TRUE,
		int nInsertAt = -1);

	CBCGPRibbonPanel* AddPanel (LPCTSTR lpszPanelName, const CBCGPToolBarImages& icons, int nIconIndex,
		CRuntimeClass* pRTI = NULL, int nInsertAt = -1);

	void SetCollapseOrder (const CArray<int, int>& arCollapseOrder);

	int GetPanelCount () const;
	CBCGPRibbonPanel* GetPanel (int nIndex);

	BOOL RemovePanel (int nIndex, BOOL bDelete = TRUE);

	int GetPanelIndex (const CBCGPRibbonPanel* pPanel) const;

	int GetMaxHeight (CDC* pDC);
	void SetPadding(const CSize& size);

	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* FindByID (UINT uiCmdID, BOOL bVisibleOnly = TRUE, BOOL bNonCustomOnly = TRUE) const;
	CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* FindByData (DWORD_PTR dwData, BOOL bVisibleOnly = TRUE) const;

	CBCGPRibbonPanel* HighlightPanel (CBCGPRibbonPanel* pHLPanel, CPoint point);
	CBCGPRibbonPanel* FindPanelWithElem (const CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* pElement);

	BOOL HasPanel(CBCGPRibbonPanel* pPanel);
	CBCGPRibbonPanel* FindPanelByOriginal(CBCGPRibbonPanel* pOriginal);

	void AddHidden (CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* pElem);

	void GetElements (
		CArray <CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*, CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*>& arElements);

	void GetElementsByID (UINT uiCmdID,
		CArray <CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*, CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*>& arElements);

	void GetElementsByName (LPCTSTR,
		CArray <CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*, CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*>& arElements, DWORD dwFlags = 0);

	void GetVisibleElements (
		CArray <CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*, CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*>& arElements);

	void GetItemIDsList (CList<UINT,UINT>& lstItems, BOOL bHiddenOnly = FALSE) const;

	int GetTextTopLine () const;

	void OnChangeVisualManager();

// Overrides
	virtual void RecalcLayout (CDC* pDC);
	virtual void OnDraw (CDC* pDC);
	virtual void OnCancelMode();
	virtual CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* OnLButtonDown (CPoint point);
	virtual void OnLButtonUp (CPoint point);
	virtual void OnMouseMove (CPoint point);
	virtual void OnUpdateCmdUI (CBCGPRibbonCmdUI* pCmdUI, CFrameWnd* pTarget, BOOL bDisableIfNoHndler);
	virtual BOOL NotifyControlCommand (BOOL bAccelerator, int nNotifyCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

	virtual BOOL OnDrawImage (CDC* pDC, CRect rect,
		CBCGPBaseRibbonElement* pElement, BOOL bIsLargeImage,
		BOOL nImageIndex, BOOL bCenter);

	virtual void CopyFrom (CBCGPRibbonCategory& src);

	virtual void OnDrawMenuBorder (CDC* /*pDC*/, CBCGPRibbonPanelMenuBar* /*pMenuBar*/)	{}

	virtual void OnRTLChanged (BOOL bIsRTL);
	virtual BOOL OnScrollHorz (BOOL bScrollLeft, int nScrollOffset = 0);

	virtual void ReposPanels (CDC* pDC);
	virtual void ReposPanelsVert (CDC* pDC);

	virtual BOOL OnKey (UINT nChar);

	virtual CBCGPRibbonMainPanel* GetMainPanel();

	//Accessibility
	virtual HRESULT get_accParent(IDispatch **ppdispParent);
	virtual HRESULT get_accChildCount(long *pcountChildren);
	virtual HRESULT get_accChild(VARIANT varChild, IDispatch **ppdispChild);
	virtual HRESULT accLocation(long *pxLeft, long *pyTop, long *pcxWidth, long *pcyHeight, VARIANT varChild);
	virtual HRESULT accNavigate(long navDir, VARIANT varStart, VARIANT *pvarEndUpAt);
	virtual HRESULT accHitTest(long xLeft, long yTop, VARIANT *pvarChild);
	virtual CWnd* GetParentWnd () const { return m_pParenrRibbonBar; }
	virtual BOOL OnSetAccData (long lVal);
	virtual BOOL SetACCData (CWnd* pParent, CBCGPAccessibilityData& data);

// Implementation
public:
	virtual ~CBCGPRibbonCategory();

protected:
	void AddPanelInternal(CBCGPRibbonPanel* pPanel, int nInsertAt);

	void SetActive (BOOL bIsActive = TRUE);
	void ShowElements (BOOL bShow = TRUE);

	void ShowFloating (CRect rectFloating);
	void NormalizeFloatingRect (CBCGPRibbonBar* pRibbonBar, CRect& rectCategory);

	void RecalcPanelWidths (CDC* pDC);
	void CleanUpSizes ();
	int GetMinWidth (CDC* pDC);

	BOOL SetPanelsLayout (int nWidth);
	void ResetPanelsLayout ();

	void UpdateScrollButtons ();
	void EnsureVisible (CBCGPRibbonButton* pButton);

	void OnCloseCustomizePage(BOOL bIsOK);

	void SetCustom();
	void AddCustomPanel(CBCGPRibbonPanel* pPanel, int nIndex = -1);
	void ApplyCustomizationData(CBCGPRibbonCustomCategory& customCategory);

	CString										m_strName;
	int											m_nKey;
	BOOL										m_bIsPrintPreview;
	BOOL										m_bIsActive;
	BOOL										m_bIsVisible;
	BOOL										m_bIsCustom;
	BOOL										m_bIsQATOnly;
	BOOL										m_bOnDialogBar;
	CArray<CBCGPRibbonPanel*,CBCGPRibbonPanel*>	m_arPanels;
	CBCGPRibbonBar*								m_pParenrRibbonBar;
	CBCGPRibbonPanelMenuBar*					m_pParentMenuBar;
	BOOL										m_bMouseIsPressed;
	CRect										m_rect;
	CBCGPRibbonTab								m_Tab;
	CBCGPRibbonCategoryScroll					m_ScrollLeft;
	CBCGPRibbonCategoryScroll					m_ScrollRight;
	int											m_nScrollOffset;
	DWORD_PTR									m_dwData;
	UINT										m_uiContextID;
	int											m_nLastCategoryWidth;
	int											m_nLastCategoryOffsetY;
	int											m_nMinWidth;
	CArray<int, int>							m_arCollapseOrder;
	clock_t										m_ActiveTime;
	BOOL										m_bIsNew;
	BOOL										m_bToBeDeleted;

	//----------------------
	// Category image lists:
	//----------------------
	CBCGPToolBarImages		m_SmallImages;
	CBCGPToolBarImages		m_LargeImages;

	//---------------------------------
	// Category elements (non-visible):
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	CArray<CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*, CBCGPBaseRibbonElement*>	m_arElements;
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15 Publications Patents Members Institutions
with Child Health--determinants as keyword
Child survival: a narrow objective.
Sooch, S S Sharma, T D
Published in Health for the millions
While a community's prevailing infant mortality rate is a fairly reliable indicator of overall health status, such data are difficult to obtain on a regular basis. Maternal and neonatal mortality rates may therefore instead be used. It has been observed that deaths which occur during the prenatal or neonatal period are due to factors during pregnan...
Sibling rivalry and the gender gap: evidence from child health outcomes in Ghana.
Garg, A Morduch, J
Published in Journal of population economics
"When capital and labor markets are imperfect, choice sets narrow, and parents must choose how to ration available funds and time between their children. One consequence is that children become rivals for household resources. In economies with pro-male bias, such rivalries can yield gains to having relatively more sisters than brothers. Using a ric...
Effects of infant feeding practices and birth spacing on infant and child survival: a reassessment from retrospective an...
Kuate Defo, B
Published in Journal of biosocial science
This study examines the effects of breast feeding practices and birth spacing on infant and child survival in Cameroon. Data were obtained from the 1978 Cameroon World Fertility Survey (CWFS) and YICMS. Controls included maternal and child health conditions at or around the birth, recurrent illnesses of mothers and children, and accessibility to an...
A one-year community study of under-fives in rural Ethiopia: health and behavioural determinants of morbidity.
Muhe, L Byass, P Freij, L Sandström, A Wall, S
Published in Public health
In southern central Ethiopia, weekly interviews with mothers of 1315 children aged 0-5 years over a period of one year were conducted so public health workers could analyze child health and nutritional and obstetric determinants of the under-five population in the Butajira Rural Health Project. 99.4% of the children were breast fed at birth. By age...
Quality time: how parents' schooling affects child health through its interaction with childcare time in Bangladesh.
Bishai, D
Published in Health economics
Data from the 1978 Intrafamily Food Distribution and Feeding Practices Survey conducted in the Matlab, Bangladesh, and 1982 census data from the Matlab were applied to a health production model to study the mechanism by which parental education influences child health. The purpose was to determine whether time spent in child care by the educated pa...
Children's health in the developing world: much remains to be done.
Yunes, J Chelala, C Blaistein, N
Published in World health forum
Despite improvements in infant mortality, 500,000 infants die every year in the Americas. In Costa Rica, child mortality dropped from 68/1000 live births in 1970 to 20/1000 in 1980 as a result of improved hygiene and nutrition, immunization, and treatment. In most other countries of the Americas, infant mortality rates have declined substantially m...
Institutional contexts and mortality: the case of Peru.
Andes, N
Published in Sociological focus
Increasingly, attention is being given to institutional contexts to explain differential demographic and health outcomes. Regional inequality in terms of economic development, social institutions, and health services leads to regional disparities in health outcomes, especially infant mortality. The author uses linked data from population and econom...
Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height.
Thomas, D Strauss, J
Published in Journal of development economics
A Brazilian household survey, ENDEF, in 1974-75 and the 1974 Informacoes Basicas Municipais (IBM) provided data for the analysis of the impact of community services and infrastructure and household characteristics on the logarithm of child height, standardized for age and gender. The sample was comprised of 36,974 children stratified by residential...
Kerala: a unique model of development.
Kannan, K P Thankappan, K R Ramankutty, V Aravindan, K P
This article capsules health in terms of morbidity, mortality, and maternal and child health; sex ratios, and population density in Kerala state in India from a more expanded report. Kerala state is known for its highly literate and female literate, and poor income population, but its well advanced state of demographic transition. There is a declin...
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Long Take: What do Jamie Dimon and Yifan He (Red Date Tech) accuse of being a Ponzi, and Why?
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Today we are diving into the following topics:
Summary: The top banker in the US and the person managing the build out of China's Blockchain Services Network are both in the news calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. We don't like it. So we spend some time addressing the rhetorical point — answering the Marxian criticism about the lack of labor, and the Capitalist criticism about the lack of value. We also highlight the launch of the Universal Digital Payments Network from Red Date, and the work of JP Morgan Onyx — both of whom rely on variations of the Ethereum codebase.
Topics: CBDCs, payments, capital markets, crypto, politics, privacy
Tags: JP Morgan, Red Date Technology, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Quorum, Hyperledger Besu
We welcome discussion and your feedback on these topics — leave a note for us in the comments.
Long Take
Wagging the finger
We are going to let the esteemed speakers speak for themselves.
Jamie Dimon (see source here):
"Bitcoin itself is a hyped-up fraud, it's a pet rock," said Dimon, adding that it's different from blockchain technology. "Blockchain is a technology ledger system that we use to move information… we use it to move money. So that is a ledger that we think will be deployable."
Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC
"Bitcoin itself is a hyped-up fraud," says @jpmorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. "Crypto is a decentralized Ponzi scheme…It's a pet rock."
11:45 AM ∙ Jan 19, 2023
"I called it a decentralized ponzi scheme. The hype around this thing has been extraordinary," he said. "Crypto itself doesn't do anything."
Thrilling analysis!
But we have one more for you.
Yifan He, CEO of Red Date Technology, the "tech firm" developing China's Blockchain Service Network (BSN) had written an article in the People's Daily Online paper with the following gems.
Among the top 100 richest people in the world, at least 90 have publicly expressed their "bad-mouthed" attitude towards virtual currencies, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and "stock god" Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett believes that the only certain thing about virtual currency is that "it will not generate any value". He publicly stated that "Bitcoin is rat poison and must be kept away." And his old partner Charlie Munger even bluntly said that investing in Bitcoin is an "evil and stupid" thing.
"What exactly is virtual currency?" As far as its essence is concerned, the author believes that virtual currency is undoubtedly the largest Ponzi scheme in human history…
The so-called "equity" of the equity-based Ponzi scheme is completely unrelated to any actual assets and productive labor, so it does not have any actual value. It can be considered that its distance from the real society is infinite, which means that its The risk is close to infinite.
Comparing several basic characteristics of virtual currency, it is not difficult to find that it is very consistent with the equity-based Ponzi scheme.
Or this quote in Cointelegraph.
Currently, all unregulated cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin are Ponzi schemes based on my understanding, just different risk levels based on the market caps and number of users," He said in a statement to Cointelegraph on Monday.
The BSN chair added that he had not had any cryptocurrency wallet or related assets ever: "I don't touch them and won't touch them in the future even if they become regulated because I don't consider that they have any value whatsoever."
Look, it is totally fair to look at the world and ask whether what is going on is real grift. We've certainly made our mistakes in analyzing Olympus DAO, FTX, and all sorts of derivative projects. Maybe everyone is wrong?
Maybe the whole thing indeed is an illusion, a collective hallucination into which we put our faith and get magic in return? That wouldn't be out of character for the human race. Maybe crypto is just the techno-cyborg religion on the way to displace the belief systems of the world's spiritual chassis? We believe in Nakamoto consensus! We think that money is the Borganism goo!
The Marxist Critique
We love that Marxist part in the quote about not incorporating any labor from the real economy. We even sort of agree, and have talked about the Web3 economy being the most important growth vector for the space. Remember that in Marxian economics, goods are created through honest labor plus some capitalist exploitation surplus value.
So, you know, we should really pay attention to whether there's any labor going on. Like, is anyone doing stuff? Anyone toiling in the coal mines of crypto protocols to bring us that surplus to protocol monopolists?
When you look at open source developer contribution to various decentralized protocols, there's at least 25,000 people actively committing labor to building these things out. But you know, maybe their labor doesn't count because they are dirty anarchist hippies?
Ok, how about the hundreds of thousands of developers using Infura and Alchemy to connect into nodes and write novel software that executes on computational blockchains? Or what about those who download Web3 developer libraries over a million times?
That sort of looks like labor, doesn't it.
So our BSN network friends should be satisfied on an economic basis, we hope.
The Markets Critique
As for Jamie Dimon, we hope that as the CEO of one of the largest banks on the planet, he believes in capitalism.