Since its independence in 1961, Kuwait has served as a unique example in the Gulf because it has a semi-parliamentary governing system, relatively free press, and vibrant civil society. This brief reflects on the question of pluralism and inclusion in Kuwait by examining two recent examples of gender politics: a Friday sermon aired and circulated to all mosques in Kuwait on March 23, 2018, and a billboard campaign with the slogan “My hijab [headscarf] makes my life beautiful” that was funded by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
I analyze the ramifications of both events and the government’s and public’s responses to them. In doing so, I also offer an overview of how far Kuwait has come in recent years with regard to integrating women in the socio-religious sphere. This entails an assessment of the impact of societal traditions and religion as they relate to women’s issues in Kuwaiti society.
As a reflection of Kuwait’s socioreligious diversity, the 1962 constitution embraced modernity and democracy while simultaneously adhering to Arab identity and Islamic teachings. Yet women's socioreligious rights lagged significantly behind until recent years. In 2005, Kuwaiti women succeeded in amending the electoral law, thereby winning the right to vote and run for office. Despite securing women’s political rights via legislation, the issue remains a contested one. Conservatives still regard women’s status in socio-religious spheres as private and sensitive. For them, women’s rights are subject to the law of God and family/tribal traditions. In this view, it is the family who determines the limitations of women’s socio-religious spheres. Thus, many Kuwaiti women still find themselves constrained by their families or male guardians (e.g., husbands, fathers, or brothers). The roots of this controversy date back to the constitutional debates of 1962.
In debates surrounding the 1962 constitution, a clear division was apparent between conservatives and liberals that remains to this day. Conservatives believe that democracy and Western ideals undermine Islamic sharia, which they consider the one and only source of legislation. Conversely, liberal voices and reformists endorse the foundations of a constitutional state and embrace representative democracy in which the people are the source of all powers. Both conservative and liberal factions are represented in the government and civil society, and they continue to struggle for a Kuwait that follows their partisan ideals. The following two cases explore the dynamics of this conflict as they relate to gender politics and pluralism in recent years.
The Friday Sermon: Sufoor Controversy
The Friday sermon, delivered on March 23, 2018, focused on the presumed risks and detrimental impact of atheism on youth and society. Friday sermons in Kuwait are unified and authorized by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. Each week, all mosques across the country deliver the same sermon. The sermon on March 23 described women’s freedom and spiritual/self-development courses as forms of “atheistic intellectual terrorism”1 and asserted that such courses were subverting Kuwaiti society in violation of Islamic teachings.
The tone of the sermon was severely critical. It warned prayer-goers of the destructive consequences of women’s freedom, claiming that it would “deprive [them] of [their] Islamic traditions,” along with values such as chastity, virtue, timidity, and a conservative dress code (i.e., wearing the veil). The sermon argued that the demands of sufoor (uncovered women) for the freedom to choose their clothing amounted to blasphemy and indecency.2
The sermon sparked an immediate controversy in Kuwait, precisely along the conservative versus liberal lines set out above. The situation went viral, igniting a tinderbox of opinion. Three days later, Karima Mohammad Karam, an ordinary Kuwaiti woman, took the initiative and protested outside the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, with a protest sign that stated:
Because I am a sufoor woman and do not wear the veil, I denounce what came in the Friday sermon dated 23.03.2018, published on the website of the Ministry of Awqaf. The sermon linked indecency, immorality and the lack of female chastity and timidity to sufoor women; and stated that women who do not wear the veil are practicing the infidel’s traditions. I consider this statement an insult to all women who decide not to wear the hijab. Therefore, I call on the Ministry of Awqaf to apologize.3
Karam’s sign concisely summarized the two conflicting viewpoints in Kuwait. Her stance represented liberal voices supporting Kuwait as a constitutional civil state, while the Friday sermon represented the conservative position, which considers women’s freedom a violation of Islamic sharia.
Image 1 — Karima Karam Protesting Outside the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs
The Women’s Cultural and Social Society (WCSS)—established in 1963 and one of Kuwait’s first civil society organizations to specialize in women’s issues—responded similarly. It urged all NGOs and civil society representatives to sign a petition at a public event on April 16, 2018. At the rally, the WCSS was joined by lawmakers, academics, and activists, all of whom marked their objections to the sermon and its implications for women’s rights. Protestors argued that Kuwait is a constitutional, democratic, and civil state, and that attacks on women’s rights do not align with how the country defines itself.
The WCSS event urged the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs to apologize to all women, adopt a much more moderate tone, and file charges against the officials responsible for drafting the sermon. The organization claimed that the sermon ran contrary to Article 30 of the Kuwaiti constitution, which guarantees personal liberty for all.4 Moreover, to increase public awareness of women’s rights, the WCSS launched two campaigns in Arabic across all social media outlets. The first campaign asserted that sufoor is not an act of indecency and that women have the freedom to choose what they wear in public, including the veil. The second denounced any form of male guardianship over women,5 reminding its audience that Kuwait is a civil state.
Image 2 — Signing the Petition at the Women's Cultural and Social Society
During this controversy, the government remained mostly silent. The only reaction came from officials at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, who flatly (and inaccurately) rejected the idea that the sermon had been against sufoor women. Fahad Amadi, the undersecretary at the ministry, stated, “It is totally untrue that the Friday sermon would accuse unveiled women of indecency.” Amadi insisted that the sermon only concerned the dangers of atheism and was not about whether women should wear the hijab. He did, however, acknowledge the ministry’s desire for women to abide by sharia law, perform prayers, give alms (zakat), fast, undertake the hajj (pilgrimage), and adhere to the Islamic dress code.6
The fallout from the Friday sermon amply demonstrated the divisions in Kuwaiti society. Many conservative voices applauded both the sermon itself and the response of the ministry. These conservatives regarded it as the government’s responsibility to discipline all those who do not abide by Islamic teachings, including unveiled women. Their opponents, meanwhile, utilized platforms in the printed press, social media, and civil society to condemn both the sermon as well as the government for approving it.
proving it. The implications of this controversy run deeper than women’s freedom and the veil; they deal with the fundamental question of Kuwait’s identity, its socio-religious sphere, and who the key actors are on this issue (i.e., individuals, family, or the government). In this particular case, the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs acted as if it was the guardian of Kuwaiti society, appearing to overstep its constitutional bounds in so doing. The Kuwaiti constitution embraces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Kuwait ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in September 1994. The recent actions of the government, through the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, completely contradicted these precedents.
My Hijab Makes My Life Beautiful
Another recent incident involving gender politics in Kuwait included a hijab campaign that was adopted and approved by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, the same department that authorized the Friday sermon. Some consider these two cases as part of an organized campaign by conservative voices at the ministry; others believe it to be a mere coincidence.
In early April 2018, the ministry sponsored a highly visible billboard campaign encouraging women to wear the hijab. Featuring a painting of a covered woman and the phrase “My hijab makes my life beautiful,” the billboard was originally launched in the al-Jahra governorate, with a plan to expand the campaign to the remainder of Kuwait soon afterwards. The campaign sparked further controversy between conservatives and liberals. Those who considered Kuwait a constitutional and civil state were infuriated by what they viewed as another government-sponsored attempt to violate the rights and freedom of women, while advocates of preserving Kuwait’s Islamic identity at a time of growing calls for liberalism and secularism were delighted.
Image 3 — Billboard With the Slogan "My Hijab Makes My Life Beautiful"
Safa al-Hashem, the only female representative in the Kuwaiti National Assembly, was among the campaign’s sharpest critics. She described it as “strange and unacceptable in a civil country where the constitution guarantees personal freedom. […] The country requires a campaign to strengthen national unity and dismiss all sorts of discrimination.”7 Al-Hashem raised parliamentary questions to the Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, who sought further detail about the campaign’s organizers, its sources of funding, and whether the ministry had conducted a feasibility study to determine the beneficiaries.
Yet another MP, Faisal Al-Kandari, was hugely supportive of the campaign. He reminded opponents that Kuwait is an Islamic state that expects people to respect Islamic traditions and culture, including wearing the hijab. Al-Kandari argued that the campaign embraced Islamic principles, particularly for the younger generation.8
Another social activist, Aroub al-Rifai, also spoke up in support: “As an Islamic country, Kuwait has a Ministry in charge of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. It carries out its work and activities using public funds to promote Islamic values and practices, such as: (1) Prayers, by looking after the mosques; (2) Pilgrimage, by supervising hajj travel agents; (3) Advocating fasting, zakat and wearing the hijab through awareness campaigns; (4) Encouraging the recital and study of the Quran.” Al-Rifai finished her statement by posing a question to opponents: “Why are they agitated when the Ministry proceeds with its real work and responsibilities?”9
Overall, the hijab campaign received more public attention than the Friday sermon, and it once more divided Kuwaiti public opinion. Supporters were accused of backwardness; opponents, who believed in the freedom of choice for women to wear what they wish, were described as secularists and atheists. Moreover, the campaign again politicized the status of women in a country whose laws do not discriminate between women wearing the veil or otherwise. The ministry appeared to overreach its legal and constitutional bounds and in doing so, underscored the continued confusion in Kuwait, a supposedly pluralistic society that combines Western and Islamic laws.
Image 4 — Alrifai's Tweet Supporting the Hijab Campaign
Reflections and Implications
The Friday sermon and the hijab campaign were not isolated incidents. They offer key insights into the present state of Kuwaiti political pluralism. In 2005, female suffrage was granted after more than four decades of struggle by women, with conservative voices in the Kuwaiti parliament rejecting it as late as August and November 1999.10 Similarly, the 1996 gender segregation law (implemented at Kuwait University since May 2004) sparked nationwide controversy.
The problem, at its core, is not the difference of viewpoints between liberals and conservatives over public policy, which is absolutely normal in any pluralistic society. Instead, the problem is far more complex and deep rooted. The conflict between the state’s religion and civil governing system emanates from Kuwait’s 1962 constitution, and it continues to reverberate across the small emirate’s politics and society. Article 2 of the constitution states, “The religion of the State is Islam, and Islamic Sharia shall be a main source of legislation.” Yet Article 6 notes, “The system of Government in Kuwait shall be democratic, under which sovereignty resides in the people, the source of all powers. Sovereignty shall be exercised in the manner specified in this constitution.”11
According to the records of the Constituent Council,12 which had responsibility for drafting and ratifying Kuwait’s first constitution, debates over the newly independent state’s religion were the most intensive among the fully 32 sessions of the Council and 23 sessions of the Constitution Committee. From the start, conservative members stated their profound reservations, focusing their concerns on whether sharia would be stipulated as a or the main source of legislation. The former would grant legislators the flexibility of adopting other civil laws; the latter would restrict them to sharia only. Although the former was ultimately agreed upon and inserted into the fledgling constitution, conservative efforts to amend the sharia clause have continued ever since.
Both the Friday sermon and hijab campaign are merely the latest examples highlighting the profound contradictions between the civil and religious characteristics of the Kuwaiti political system. How can civil law successfully coexist alongside sharia in a supposed democracy? Are conservatives—who insist that Kuwait is a religious state, with sharia mandated by the constitution—in the right? Or are the liberals—who defend civic principles, reject any form of guardianship over women’s rights, and point towards the articles in the constitution that state Kuwait is a democracy that guarantees personal freedom—right?
These questions, centered on the tensions between modernity and tradition, democracy and sharia, and politics and religion, continue to reverberate across Kuwaiti society. The two recent examples described in this brief confirm that neither the citizenry nor the government can fully determine the answers.
More specifically, the answer to the key question of how Kuwait has evolved in recent years in terms of integrating women in socioreligious spheres is deeply dispiriting. That there are still so many ongoing challenges more than half a century after the constitution was ratified highlights Kuwait’s continued lack of seriousness in taking real steps to fully integrate women into its socioreligious spheres. Both the Friday sermon and the hijab campaign amply demonstrate that far too many still treat women, both with and without the veil, as objects, not as partners, for much needed reform and change.
1. To access the full March 23 sermon, see “Friday Sermon,” Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, March 23, 2018, http://masajed.gov.kw/Content/DepartmentContent.aspx?ContentID=6213.
2. “Friday Sermon.”
3. “Karima Karam Protests against the Sermon of Sufoor Woman,” Al-Qabas News, March 26, 2018, https://alqabas.com/516884/.
4. Women’s Cultural and Social Society, press release, March 29, 2018, http://wcsskw.org/?p=1240.
5. The concept of ‘guardianship’ in Islamic law involves legal responsibility and care over minors and women. However, the campaign launched by the WCSS used the term metaphorically to highlight that Kuwaiti society refuses all forms of control and guardianship, which conservatives seek to enforce through direct and indirect channels.
6. For more on the statements of Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs officials, see “A Kuwaiti Woman protests against the Friday Sermon and Amadi Responds: We Did Not Accuse the Sufoor Women,” Al-Anba, March 27, 2018, http://www.alanba.com.kw/ar/kuwait-news/821620/27-03-2018.
7. “MP Al-Hashem Remarks on Hijab Triggers Controversy,” Kuwait Times, April 12, 2018, http://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/mp-al-hashem-remarks-on-hijabtriggers-controversy.
8. For Safa al-Hashem’s tweet and others, see “Hijab and Personal Freedom…A Parliamentary Dispute in Kuwait,” Al-Hurra, April 11, 2018, https://www.alhurra.com/a/kuwait-hijab-contoversy/431416.html.
9. Aroub al-Rifai set out her views on Twitter: Aroub al-Rifai (@AroubAlRifai), Twitter, April 12, 2018, https://twitter.com/AroubAlRifai/status/984350754772267008.
10. For more on women’s suffrage in Kuwait, see Tahani AlTerkait, “The Constitutional and Conceptual Underpinnings of Kuwait’s System of Government” (PhD diss., University of Durham, 2017), 180-182, http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12552/.
11. The Constitution of the State of Kuwait, November 11,1962, http://d.kna.kw/sms/pdf/En_Dostoor.pdf.
12. Records of the Constituent Council, 2014, http://d.kna.kw/sms/pdf/mahadher1st.pdf.
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“One Main, House of Pain.”
That’s what inmates have called the most dangerous wing of what is considered the most dangerous facility on Rikers, the juvenile-detention building known as the Robert N. Davoren Center, or RNDC. The place is a kind of sick mirror image of a freshman dorm in college. Everyone here is between the ages of 16 and 18, and instead of SAT scores and high-school transcripts, these teenagers have commissary accounts and public defenders. The vast majority are minorities from broken homes in public housing, awaiting robbery and murder charges. They have all the ordinary problems of youth: impaired judgment, poor impulse control, and invincibility complexes, distorted and amplified by hard life on the streets. Within the facility, the power dynamics are akin to those in Lord of the Flies, but, as these are teenagers, often even more perverse. They go to war over items like Pop-Tarts and cookies, arm themselves with toothbrushes sharpened into daggers, and send one another to the hospital. This juvenile jail is a gateway to the state prison system and also where the adult selves of these young people are being formed.
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How do we want to live? Should we lean towards a turbulent metropolitan life with an all-inclusive advantage, or should we favor the composed suburban life with sufficient services? What if architects and urbanists were able to implement some of these all-inclusive services into disregarded areas of the suburbs? In the latest installment of PLANE—SITE’s short video series of the Time-Space-Existence exhibition, Louise Braverman Architect, a New York-based firm, explores the utopic and dynamic vision of the future of suburbs, and how Hyperloop technology could breathe a new life into these often overlooked places.
Suburbs are often thought of as family-oriented, characterless places. Ironically, the majority of citizens choose to live and raise families in the suburbs instead of the city, regardless of how advanced urban areas are. Architect Louise Braverman believes that implementing the Hyperloop technology into suburbs will develop “aesthetically delightful, digitally driven, pluralist communities.” Her exhibition offers a glimpse of what the future of suburbs could look like.
Hyperloop is a new transportation system that uses the speed of airplanes in ground-level travel. This high-speed vehicle has already been proposed by US entrepreneur Elon Musk and Britain’s Sir Richard Branson, who claims that Hyperloop will be “the future of one big, important part of travel.” Branson’s proposed Virgin Hyperloop One is expected to have a top speed of more than 670 mph.
Braverman urges “all those who are creating the Hyperloop transportation to also think about the people who will be using this technology, how they want to live, where they want to live, and how their needs will be met along the way.” We can’t help but raise the question upon ourselves: is this how we want to live?
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Police: Two dead, including gunman, in workplace shooting
A current or former employee shot one person to death and wounded three others before apparently killing himself at a rail car plant in Virginia early Tuesday, authorities said.
Officers responded to a report of an active shooter just after 6 a.m. at FreightCar America, said Roanoke Police Chief Tim Jones.
Two people, including the shooter, were found dead at the facility, Jones said. Three others with gun-related injuries were taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. One patient was in serious condition, and the other two were in fair and good condition, respectively, the hospital said in a statement.
Jones said police believe the man had once worked for or was still an employee of the facility. Authorities have not identified him or the victims.
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Raman Spectrum of beta-Carotene Using Laser Lines from Green (514.5 nm) to Near-Infrared (1064 nm): Implications for the Characterization of Conjugated Polyenes
Volume 53, Number 1 (Jan. 1999) Page 86-91
Parker, Stewart F.; Tavender, Susan M.; Dixon, N. Michael; Herman, Henryk; Williams, Kenneth P.J.; Maddams, William F.
We have studied the Raman spectrum of beta-carotene using excitation wavelengths from visible (514.5 nm) to near-infrared (1064 nm). Qualitatively, the spectrum appears independent of the choice of excitation wavelength, although this is not true in detail; in particular, the ratio of the intensities of the upsilon C-C and upsilon C = C fundamentals to their overtones and combinations varies with the excitation wavelength. The inelastic neutron scattering spectrum shows no evidence for unusual dynamics in this system, and the UV/vis/NIR spectrum shows that there are no allowed electronic transitions from the ground state beyond ~ 700 nm. These observations provide strong evidence for the existence of a different mechanism for the enhancement of the bands. Indirect evidence suggests that, with these longer excitation wavelengths, the intensities of the upsilon C-C and upsilon C = C peaks are at least two orders of magnitude smaller than those from resonance enhancement with the use of excitation into the visible absorption bands. The implications for the characterization of polyenes in polymers are discussed.


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Our newest evaluate paper is by Christian Damgaard and Kathryn Irvine with reference to analyzing plant cowl knowledge. Learn extra about their paper beneath.
Plant cowl is a measure of the two-dimensional projection of plant species onto the floor and is probably the most generally used measure of plant abundance. There are quite a few historic and present plant ecological investigations and monitoring applications the place plant cowl has been measured by visible estimation in small plots or utilizing the pin-point technique.
The collected plant cowl knowledge has typically been analyzed with commonplace statistical strategies with out taking the sometimes noticed spatial aggregation of plant species under consideration. This apply has been continued inside the plant ecological neighborhood though a extra suited statistical technique utilizing the beta distribution has been prompt within the literature for greater than sixty years.
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one can greatest mannequin visually estimated ordinal plant cowl knowledge with out utilizing the midpoint values of the ordinal intervals.
it turns into doable to review spatial aggregation as an ecological phenomenon by analyzing plot primarily based plant cowl knowledge by estimating a parameter that represents the diploma of spatial aggregation.
completely different strategies of measuring plant cowl could also be analyzed in a standard beta distribution framework as a way to synthesize info throughout research or time-series.
Christian Damgaard (Aarhus College, Denmark) and Kathryn Irvine (U.S. Geological Survey, USA)
Learn the total paper on the journal web site: Utilizing the beta distribution to analyse plant cowl knowledge.
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Biden's support for electric vehicles and the U.S. automakers planning to build them may not bode well for the union workers who helped elect him — because the looming transition is likely to cost industry jobs.
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In remarks Monday, Biden reiterated promises to spend billions to back new clean energy technology, to create as many as a million jobs producing electric vehicles, and to finance new infrastructure supporting them. That includes plans to build out electric charging stations, to invest in development and to give consumers incentives to buy electric.
"Our plan will create good-paying union jobs, in manufacturing, building the vehicles, products, technologies that we're going to need for the future to compete with the rest of the world," he said after a virtual meeting with business and labor leaders that included
But automakers' anticipation of investment and stability in
Biden's tone and focus on policy and partnership struck a markedly different chord from the current administration, and likely will be welcomed by many in the auto industry, said Sam Abuelsamid, principal analyst at Guidehouse Insights: "I think he will be perceived largely with a sigh of relief."
Still, concerns loom. Despite new jobs in software development and battery assembly replacing imperiled jobs in traditional manufacturing, analysts and industry insiders say it's likely the transition to EVs will deliver a net job loss — even as Biden and others in the progressive wing of his party have touted the potential for millions of new jobs tied to clean energy.
Evidence of the coming shift is mounting. On Monday, Groupe PSA CEO
"The point is ... how much time you give the industry to adapt to this situation and how much time you give the industry to train people to different jobs or readjust their company to this different reality," Tavares said.
Yet it remains unclear how, and whether, consumer appetite for electric vehicles will strengthen enough to justify spending for the added infrastructure. To date, buyers are demonstrating a clear and growing preference for trucks and SUVs powered by the lowest-priced gasoline in years.
Currently, fully electric vehicles make up less than 2% of
Despite that tiny share of sales, and despite President
A major reason is that they anticipate EVs will be the future of the industry as they work to keep pace with global rivals in
"We're committed to growing the EV market and it's critical to have all key stakeholders at the table — including federal and state policymakers, automakers, labor, environmental groups, auto suppliers and dealers,"
Investments in production, infrastructure
Like many automakers, Biden has his eye on
That includes compelling governments to buy electric vehicles for federal, state and local needs, and creating "significant new targeted incentives" for automakers to transform factories to build electric vehicles. This is part of a plan to spend $400 billion in federal funds to transition the country to clean energy systems.
He's said he would spend an additional $300 billion on research and development and emerging technology, one silo of which will be electric vehicles. All those new electric cars, of course, need a way to consistently stay charged outside of the home in order for people to feel confident buying them.
According to the
It's been a big concern for industry leaders, and Biden spoke to that anxiety at a rally in
In order for widespread EV adoption to be successful, experts agree on the need for a major upgrade to the country's electric infrastructure — a proposition that the UAW and others have described as an opportunity to create new jobs.
"Besides the tax credits, I think where the (Biden) administration can provide the biggest boost to electrification is more investment in the charging infrastructure," said Abuelsamid. "Making charging more accessible to people who rely on street parking, or live in apartments, or things like that — those sorts of moves would also be very beneficial."
Encourage consumers to buy electric
Biden has said he would put more money into that program, which would be a boon to companies like
Still, electric vehicle sales make up just a tiny portion of overall sales nationwide. But
"(Automakers) face the reality of, if they want to compete in
"The auto companies are fairly aligned with the lower carbon future. They've been developing all forms of electrification," from hybrids to fuel cells they plan to roll out in the coming years, Dziczek said. "Having supportive policies at the federal level will be helpful to those plans."
Create 1 million new jobs?
The shift away from gas-powered vehicles has some experts, politicians, industry executives and labor leaders nervous about another wave of dramatic job losses little more than a decade after the Great Recession decimated an already-fragile industry.
Electric vehicles, by some estimates, require as few as half as many parts as gas-consuming cars and take around one-third less time to build. They require less maintenance and are more easily assembled using automated processes. All of these changes could mean fewer jobs in factories, dealerships, engineering firms and more.
However, the shift to EVs will eventually create new jobs in fields such as battery assembly, software engineering and more. The industry finds itself squarely in the center of that shift, and it's unclear how it will pan out for both hourly workers and technical salaried employees.
Biden pledges his plans won't further cut into the industry and instead would create a million new jobs across the industry between suppliers, manufacturers and building the infrastructure necessary to support expansion.
But experts say that's not entirely realistic. The industry currently has around 2.8 million jobs (913,000 in manufacturing and 1.9 million in sales) — adding another million would grow the industry by nearly a third. It's unclear exactly what the net job growth or loss will be from the transition to EVs, but it's clear that electric vehicles will disrupt the industry's workforce.
"I don't expect (auto) sales to explode in the coming four years, so I would be skeptical" of Biden's jobs claims, said Abuelsamid. "And with the shift to electrification, there's going to be some loss of traditional jobs."
"There will be fewer jobs in the plants because frankly it takes fewer workers," Dingell said. "But we need to build batteries here. We will replace jobs that will be lost with green jobs. I'm trying to get everybody at the table so we can find policies that accomplish where we need to go and also protect jobs."
It's an issue on which the UAW has been sounding the alarm. "The auto industry is facing a new shift in technology with the proliferation of electric vehicles," a recent report on EVs by the union says. "This shift is an opportunity to re-invest in
But, it warns: "This opportunity will be lost if EVs or their components are imported or made by low-road suppliers who underpay workers." To prevent this, the union is advocating for a "proactive industrial policy that creates high-quality manufacturing making EVs and their components," including a "comprehensive EV policy that supports consumer purchases and ensures that the EV manufacturing supply chain is in the
The union has called for, among those things, investments in EV infrastructure, training for displaced workers, government incentives that promote domestic production of EVs and EV components, a government procurement commitment, and additional consumer incentives — many of the policies Biden has touted.
The auto industry will look to the Biden administration for a more stable tone and approach to policy, experts say. The Trump years were characterized by erratic messaging, episodic tariff threats, rollbacks of fuel economy standards the automakers didn't seek, and the president at times lashing out at individual companies and executives via Twitter.
"When you're spending billions of dollars on product programs," said Abuelsamid, "one thing you want more than anything else is stability."
Abuelsamid says a regulatory framework to guide the auto industry's other big bet — self-driving vehicles — is also much needed: "Now's the time when they need to be having those conversations to understand how you go about setting those standards. ... The industry is going to be looking to
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CHAP. XIX. in original] (Chan. Rer. An act for equalizing the land tax. p. 177.) Preamble.
1. WHEREAS the land tax, as 'at present charged by the commissioners of the several counties, is found to be very unequal, and from experience of the past, it is certain that future valuations of assessments (althouge attended with great expence and delay) will not produce that equality só essentially necessary to the happiness of all the good citizens of this commonwealth: And whereas, by arranging the several coanties whose soil and situation are nearly similar, into districts, a standard value is produced, whereby the accounts of bvėry person within the said districe may be justly re: gulated for all charges on land Ivereafter to be imposed, and a rule established whereby in future the tax'upon landed property may be laid with ease and certainty, and colleeted with all possible equality: Beistenacted,
That the counties within this commonwealth shall be Lands clasek laid off into four districts in manner following that is ed by coun. to say, the counties of Accomack, Norttrampton, Printies, for e. qualizingthe
dess Anne, Norfolk, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Southland tax.
ampton, Sorry, Sussex Prince Georgie, Dinwiddie,
and Queen, Elizabeth City, Hanover, Gloucester, Middlesex. Essex, King William, Caroline, Spotsylvania, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmore, land, King George, Stafford, Prince William, Gooche land, Powhatan, Cumberland, Amelia, and Fairfax, shall compose the first class. The counties of boy down, Fauquier, Culpeper, Orange, Louisa, Fluvauna. Luneyberg Mecklenburg, Prince Edward, Charlotte, Albemarle, Buckingham, Berkeley, Amherst, Cainp. bell, Halifax, Bedford, and Frederick, shall compose the second class. The counties of Pitisxlvania, Henry, Botetoart, Shanandoah, Rockingham, Augusta, Rockbridges and Hampshire, shall-compose the third class. And the counties of Wasbiógion, Montgomery, Greenbrier, Monongalia, Ohio, Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincolo, the fourth class. And John Pendleton, juni Examiners or, and Samuel Jones, gentlemen, are hereby appoint- regulate the ed to examine the returns made of the valuations of the tax by the present year, and to ascertain the average price per assessments. acre of all the lands in each county within the districts aforesaid, and (carrying all-fractions of a penny to the benefit of the revenue) hy comparing the same with the standard or average value of each district herein after declared, shall, and they are hereby empowered, directed, and required, by a just per centage, to apply the difference to the account of every individual within the district, and add to or deduct from the same according ly. And the said examiners shall, before they proceed on the business aforesaid, take the following oath, via, IA B. do solemnly swear that I will to the best of
Their oathi. my skill and judgment, ascertain the true average price per acre of the lands within the several counties of this commonwealth, agreeable to the returns made, and by comparing the same to the standard by law established, will make out a just account of the land tax of every person charged in the said returns agreeable to this act, and transmit the same as by law required. So help me God."':. And each of the said exaininers, for their services herein, shall receive from the treasurer of this
Compensa commonwealth, by warrant from the auditors (whicha tion. upon receipt of the bookséherein after mentioned, they are and shall be empowered to grant) the sam of three huodred pounds. *** * It And be at enacted, That the average or standard Standard tax of the first district is and shall be ter skülings; the ave- of each class rage or standard of the second district is and shall be seven shillings and six pence; the average or standard of the third district five shillings and six pence; and the
average or standard of the fourth district three shilBooks for lings. And that the tax upon land thus equalized may collection, be duly collected, the examiners aforesaid are hereby out, and dis. required to make out a book of the accounts of each posed of. county, and on or before the first day of May next
transmit the same to the commissioners of the fax for each county hereafter to be appointed, who shall grant receipts for the same, add the said county commissioners shall cause a copy of the said book to be delivered to the sheriff, on or before the fifteenth day of the said month, by which the sheriff shall proceed to collect from every person named therein, the súm charged in the said book and no more. And the said examiners are hereby required to make up a separate book, or books, for each class of counties, in which each county shall be separate and distinct, arranging in alphabetical order the charges against every individual in each county, which said books shall be kept in the auditors
office. Commission III. And to prevent loss and confusion in conseers of thetas to be chosen quence of alienations of property, as well as that all for 3
lands within the several counties which now are vacant years.
and may hereafter be taken up, or which may not have been valued by the county commissioners for the present year, may be charged with a just and proper tax; Be it enacted, That the court of each county within this commonwealth shall, at their sessions in the months of March or April, nominate and appoint two fit per: sons to execute the office of commissioners of the tax within the same, who shall remain in office three years from the time of tlaeir appointment, which said commissioners, before they enter upon the duties of their office, 'shall before the court of the said county, take
the following oath, to wit: "I A. B. do solemnly swear Their gath. (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will diligent en
quiry make of all lands within the county, which trave not heretofore been valued, and a just valuation there. of make, agreeable to that of other lands of equal quality and situation within the said county; also of all alienations or partitions which may be made, and in all other matters and things discharge the duties of my office agreeable to law, with diligence and imparcialiAnd the said newly pa
ty, to the best of my skilt and judgment. So help me God.!! And in case of the death, refusal, or disability Their duty to act, of the said commissioners, or either of them, lienations or the county court as aforesaid shall, at any time, ap- partitions. point others in their place. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, in all cases of alienations op partition within their said county, from the time of delivery to the sheriff of the book for collection in any one year, to the same time in the next succeeding year, to go upon the land so alienated or divided, and valu. ing the same at a price equal to other lands in the said county similar in soil and situation, shall give a credit to the person disposing of the same, and charge the purchaser or receiver with the tax payable thereon, and in like manner in cases where lands have not been lieretofore valued, or where lands which now are va cant and may hereafter be taken up, the said county Also, in cas. commissioners shall, and they hereby are required es of lands 10 value the same, and charge the owner thereof not before
valued, or with the tax in manner aforesaid. county. commissioners shall annually, within two tented. months after delivery to the sheriff of the book or list for collection, make return to the auditors office of all alterations in the county book by addition, alienation, or partition as aforesaid, that corresponding en tries may be made in the book for each coupty kept at the said office, and shall make such additions or alteratioos in the list or book by them to be delivered for the collection of the current year. The said commissioners shall also, and they are hereby required to correct
former erupon application and full proof to them made, to correct all errors which may have been made by the former commissioners, either with respect to the quantity of land or to the ownership thereof, and eharge or give credit for the same; and for every entry of alteration ar alienation, the said commissioners may demand and receive the sum of five shillings. IV. And to enable the county commissioners to make
Lists of con full and just valuations and returns as aforesaid, Be it
veyinces & enacted, That the clerk of the general court shall, on partitions to or before the first day of May in every year; trans, be furnished mit, and the clerk of the county court deliver, to the
commission. said commissioners, a list of all conveyances or parti- ers; tions within the preceding year in the respective courts admitted to record, certifying the quantity and sitaation
of the landiŝo conveyed, & if the purchaser or seller shall not before the said first day of May, have satisfied the
said commissioners as to the just value of the land, the C! we same shall be charged as land of the best quality in the
sáid county; and in eases of land whichi may now be vacanty the register of the land office shall, and he is hereby required to transmit, on or before the first day af April, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eightyfour to the commissioners of each countv-a list of all grants issued from his office, or made out for vacancies within the said county. since the finst day of Januarytast, and in like manner ber
fote the first day of April mzeach suceeeding year, À nd lists of of all grants issued or made out within the year pres All patents. ceding, to be by them valued and charged as afare
said, for which valuation they shall be paid by the Det publie, at the rate of two shillings and six pence for *** every hundred acres contained in the said grant; and
in cases of partition, by will or inheritance, the same fee may be demanded frons the persoon entitled to such partition as where the same is done by conveyance."
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been made since the valuations of the present year, or enations and partitions to may be made before the first day of May next; Be it be valued. enacted, That the said county commissioners shall,
and they are hereby authorised and required, to value all such alienations or partitions, and charge the own
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book or list annually, to be delivered to the sheriff, apd for delivering the same; and the sum of eight pounds for the return to the auditors-office, of such alterations or additions as may annually take place witbin the county; the fees chargeable to the public shall be paid by the treasurer on the auditors warrants
at tire time of making the annual return to the audiPenalties on ters-office as aforesaid. The said examiners failidge to various of perform the services by this act required, shall forfeit gers, for her and pay the spoof two thousand pounds eache the y.
register of the land oftice shall forfeit and pay, for > every offence, the sum of fifty pounds; the county
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Co-ownership of data is a workplace trend that promises positive results relevant to insurers
Workforce data has an impact on every person in the business. It follows that insurers should consult their employees when defining and following good data practice. This is not only an ethically sound approach, but it encourages employee buy-in.
Seventy percent of the employees we surveyed said that if employers were to collect their data, they would appreciate more control over that data in return. For this to work, workplace data needs to be approached strategically and intentionally. As I covered in my previous post in this series, sound data management begins at the top.
Who is in the room when it comes to data decision-making?
The number of businesses that co-create data policies in partnership with their employees remains low, with only 29 percent of the leaders we surveyed saying that they currently do so.
This is a missed opportunity, as businesses have much to gain by involving employees in the creation of new technologies and consulting them on decisions regarding how data is collected and used.
Why should insurers co-create data strategy with employees?
The use of workforce data is an exciting new paradigm for insurers. Executed correctly, it can not only motivate employees but also support growth. There are several reasons why the co-creation of data is so important.
- It helps avoid unintended behavioral changes. For example, an insurance firm that monitored production quantity noticed that the quality of work began to plummet. If employees had been involved in defining the fields of data from the outset, these would have had a strategic context and meaning. The employees would have understood that the intention was not to increase quantity while sacrificing quality.
- Co-creation creates willingness to share data. If employee benefits are designed as part of the data collection processes, there would be more incentive for employees to take part.
- Eighty-one percent of the employees we surveyed said that they were optimistic that workplace data would benefit their career and personal development. This is arguably one of the most beneficial consequences of data tracking. Those businesses that use workforce data as a productivity enhancing tool exclusively will miss out on its power to help employees learn, grow and reach their full potential.
- Co-creation addresses algorithm bias. Algorithm bias needs to be continually considered by including teams of different genders, ethnicities and backgrounds in discussions around data. That way, no one worldview is reflected in the system. If fact, employees should be encouraged to question the algorithm to ensure its evolution and integrity.
In conclusion, with the right motives and associated process, the tracking of workplace data can be beneficial for employees. In my next piece, and the final post in this series, I will define a series of questions that will assist you in evaluating the status of organizational tracking in your business. In the meantime, if you would like to get started on an Organizational DNA strategy for your business, contact me.
To read further on Organizational DNA, download the Accenture Strategy report, ‘Putting Trust to Work. Decoding Organizational DNA: Trust, Data and Unlocking Value in the Digital Workplace’ here.

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Amitech builds epoxy-coated storage tanks
The epoxy technology was developed by CST Industries in the U.S. and will be used by Amitech to build storage tanks in Brazil.
Amitech (Ipena, Brazil), manufacturer of fiberglass reinforced polyester pipes, announced on Jan. 26 that it has begun to supply epoxy-coated steel tanks to the Brazilian market. Manufactured in the U.S. by CST Industries Inc. (Kansas City, Kan.), the tanks broaden the alternatives offered by Amitech for water and sewer applications. "Generally, water main projects encompass the use of both pipes and tanks, that's why we decided to add this product to our portfolio", explains Flavio Martal, commercial manager at Amitech.
Compared to the usual welded steel models, Amitech's tanks are notable because of their easy assembly. "Because they're screwed, welding specialized works aren't necessary," said Martal. Another strength is the longer useful life assured by the internal epoxy coating, Amitech said.
Compared to the concrete reservoirs, the main benefit is the installation quickness. "With identical sizes, our tanks are assembled with 1/3 of the time", says Marτal. The user may also disassemble the screwed tanks and install them at another place, investing only in the construction of a new concrete base. "And, if necessary to increase the storage capacity, you may just lift the reservoir height installing new epoxy-coated steel panels."
Because it's self-supported and uses a light aluminum ceiling, the tank does not need central sustaining columns, which reduces the project's total cost. In addition to that, the sole equipment used to assemble the tank is a simple torque screwdriver connected to a hydraulic compressor.
Amitech expects to build 15 to 20 reservoirs in 2009. The company says it will next add water, sewer and industrial effluent networks recovery by non-destructive methods to Amitech's portfolio.


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Can be combined with any elektromechanical actuator that provides an F-contact or a potential-free contact in the CLOSED position.
The stroke can be set to 18 or 36mm. by DIP-switches.
The ZVK-Lock is equipped with a built-in sequence controller:
When the sash gets a signal to open automatically, the ZVK-LOCK will first unlock the mechanical fitting (takes max. and 7.5 seconds with a stroke of 36mm), then the connected actuator will open the sash.
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Stalled by the construction of the new Lake Champlain Bridge, a Port Henry marina project is gearing up to move forward.
The Adirondack Park Agency approved a series of variances last January, clearing the way for the renovation and expansion of Velez Marina on Lake Champlain. The project, which local officials consider vital to future economic development, was put on hold, however, while the arch for the new bridge was constructed at the site.
With the new bridge complete, the marina project is now scheduled to begin in the spring.
“I’ll be excited to see that project begin and be completed,” Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava said. “It’s a critical piece of real estate for both the village of Port Henry and the town of Moriah.
“We’re one of the few communities to have two marinas on Lake Champlain,” he added. “That can only be a good thing to attract people to our town.”
Lakefront development is the key to Moriah’s economic future, the supervisor said.
“We all know the lakefront is the key to our future,” Scozzafava said. “We’re excited about this project. That property is a key to the economic future of the community.”
Velez Marine occupies 1,255 feet of Lake Champlain shoreline in Port Henry, just north of the state Department of Environmental Conservation boat launch.
The site is currently in decline, but owner Rick Dolliver has plans to build 30,000 square feet of breakwater to create 94 new boat slips.
The project will add a new two-lane boat launch ramp, boat-hauling and maintenance facilities and a pump-out station.
“This is something the community has been hoping would happen for as long as I can remember,” Scozzafava said. “It’s great news.”
Moriah and Port Henry have two municipal campgrounds on the lake, a state boat launch, a pier and public marinas.
“There aren’t many communities that can boast as many public amenities as Port Henry can,” Scozzafava said.
The supervisor noted the marina project will be completed entirely with private money.
“The beauty is that this is all private money going into this,” he said. “This is an investment from the private sector, which is very refreshing to see for a change.”
The marina was a staging area this past year for Flatiron Construction, which built the new Lake Champlain Bridge. Flatiron used the marina to construct the bridge arch, which was then floated on barges to the bridge site.
The 402-foot arch weighed 1.8 million pounds. Barges took the arch two miles from the marina to the bridge site, where it was lifted into place by cranes. The trip took several hours.


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Actor Hrithik Roshan, whose latest offering “Bang Bang!” minted Rs 27.54 crore on it’s release day, is proud to break his own box office record.
His last film “Krrish 3” amassed Rs 25.5 crore on its opening day.
“That is so cool. Opening higher than a franchise film like ‘Krrish 3’ and beating my own record is one way to realise my own growth and strength. But after that, it’s not about me, I’m just glad I’ve been able to entertain my audience,” Hrithik said in a statement.
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